The Stuffing of Crime: Israel’s Rafah Strike

June 3rd, 2024 by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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It was much like witnessing a boy killing flies, with a slight afterthought of apology. The spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, did little to acquit himself, or the cause, as to why more Palestinian civilians had been indulgently killed in yet another Israeli air strike. “Despite our efforts to minimize civilian casualties during the strike, the fire that broke out was unexpected and unintended … Our investigation seeks to determine what may have caused such a large fire to ignite.”

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The release commences with the usual garnish.  The strike, despite resulting in deaths in a camp of displaced Palestinians in Tal al-Sultan, was soberly designated and professionally targeted.  It was successful.  Two Hamas terrorists had been procedurally “eliminated” (in the social media release, the IDF proudly places the word upon the heads of Yassin Rabia and Khaled Nagar).  “The strike was based on precise intelligence,” Hagari tells us.  Those killed had, in turn, killed Israelis.  They were having a meeting.  “Their deaths saved lives.”

Away from the glove handling reflections of Hagari, the returns of the May 26 strike showed that Palestinian civilians were also seen as miscellaneous detritus, fundamentally dispensable.  The butchery is now a matter of record: 46 dead civilians, including 23 women, children and the elderly.  All on a sliver of territory fast becoming the most famous real estate of death on the planet.  It’s a particularly bloody ratio for killing two alleged terrorists.

In a statement on May 29 from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, various rapporteurs, including such figures as Francesca Albanese, responsible for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, to Ben Saul, charged with the task of promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, expressed their dismay.  “Harrowing images of destruction, displacement and death have emerged from Rafah, including infants torn apart and people burnt alive.”  Such reports indicated “that the strikes were indiscriminate and disproportionate, with people trapped inside burning plastic tents, leading to a horrific casualty toll.”

The Israelis have been told by a number of international bodies, entities, and sympathisers, with repeated urgency, that its current murderous efforts are simply not worth it.  The Rafah front presents further calamitous risks.  The toll, notably in striking camps of civilians displaced by prior bombings and military engagements, would be too great.  The reputational toll, likewise.  The slaughter that pads out and packs morgues; the bodies of women and children that seem to multiply with pestilential cruelty; the incidents of pure callousness dressed in a décor of euphemism: We target, and we target well; the rest is accidental or unavoidable.

The International Court of Justice, in yet another ruling on Israel’s campaign in Gaza, recently concluded that the military offensive in Rafah, along with “any other action in the Rafah governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part” be “immediately” halted.  It also ordered Israel to open the Rafah crossing and permit UN officials to enter Gaza and report back to the court within a month to verify compliance.

The ICJ also noted the concerns of UN officials about the risks arising from any military assault on Rafah, one that would put “hundreds of thousands of people … at imminent risk of death”.  Such risks had already “started to materialize and will intensify even further if the operation continues”.

Israel’s politicians and military personnel – at least those lacking candour – always hit upon the same formula in such instances.  It is one noted by such unflagging scribes as the late Robert Fisk: the justification of violence with seemingly sound process, decency with the stuffing of crime.  A trained pupil in such efforts is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  “Despite our utmost efforts not to harm innocent civilians, last night, there was a tragic mistake.”  When compared with his previous statements equating all Palestinians to actors behind a terrorist cause, one that would, in turn, give birth to a terrorist state, the element of mistake is less relevant than the desire to conclude the task at hand.

The next instalment of the performance involves the mandatory investigation that yields no culprits, no charges, and no prosecutions. 

“The details of the incident are still under investigation, which we are committed to conducting to the fullest extent,” gabbled Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi at a news conference, noting that the IDF “regrets any harm to non-combatants during the war.”

Such a method is also approved by Israel’s staunchest ally. 

“You cannot reach a conclusion about the results of these investigations in the middle of a conflict,” reasoned White House spokesman John Kirby

Why, it should be asked, bother?

The Israeli response to attacks on its citizens on October 7 last year, increasingly enfeebled by reality, long ago moved into the realm of farce.  But farce and advertising tend to be part of the same show, and the advertising about the ongoing campaign in Gaza by the Israeli forces continues to rattle the swill bucket.

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Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge.  He currently lectures at RMIT University. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). Email: [email protected]

Featured image: Major General Herzi Halevi, at left, with other members of the Israeli military at the Egypt–Israel border. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

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An Ottawa Police Service detective accused of discreditable conduct after probing the COVID-19 vaccination status of the mothers of deceased infants testified at her hearing that she was upholding her oath as an officer when conducting the investigations.

“My duty as a police officer is to preserve life and property, to preserve the peace. And if I see any one of those situations arising where I need to step in and preserve life, I will do something. And that’s what I did, in good faith, as a police officer,” Constable Helen Grus testified at the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) building in Stittsville on May 27.

Const. Grus, a detective with the OPS sexual assault and child abuse unit, is accused of discreditable conduct for conducting an “unauthorized project” between June 2020 and January 2022 by looking into the sudden deaths of nine infants. Const. Grus is alleged to have accessed Ottawa police files and then contacted the coroner’s office to learn the COVID-19 vaccination status of the parents, as she believed there could be an association between the two.

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On Jan. 30, 2022, Const. Grus also allegedly contacted the father of a deceased infant to inquire into the COVID-19 vaccination status of its mother, without the knowledge of the lead detective. While Const. Grus was suspended without pay from the OPS on Feb. 4, 2022, she was ordered to return to work with restrictions during an Oct. 11, 2022, OPS internal hearing.

During her testimony on May 27, Const. Grus said she had been concerned after being informed of a “doubling if not tripling of baby deaths” that happened after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. Const. Grus said two detectives had also told her of incidents where “fully alert and healthy babies” had suddenly died in their mothers’ arms.

“That concerned me. [In] 20-plus years of policing, I’ve never seen that phenomenon,” Const. Grus said.

According to a report by the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines has been found in human breast milk. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) also contains data that shows serious side effects and deaths in breastfed babies whose mothers recently received COVID-19 vaccinations.

Const. Grus also testified that when investigating the link between the COVID-19 vaccines and infant deaths, she was standing by Peel’s Principles, a set of ethical guidelines for policing by Sir Robert Peel back in 1829.

The fifth principle, which Const. Grus cited, states that police must “seek and preserve public favor not by catering to the public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.”

Const. Grus said while COVID-19 vaccine mandates were coming into force and causing “division” within OPS, she felt it was important to investigate the infant deaths in an impartial manner and not “pander to public opinion.”

During her testimony, Const. Grus also read out a performance review she received in January 2024, which said she had “taken on a number of large and complex investigations” in the year prior and that she had either “fully met” or “met all and exceeded some expectations.”

“Receiving this meant a lot, because the nine months that I was off on suspension was tough on me,” an emotional Const. Grus testified. “So being brought back to the service, being able to serve the community, meant a lot.”

Various signs are displayed at the disciplinary hearing for Ottawa Police Service Detective Helen Grus in Stittsville near Ottawa on May 27, 2024. (Matthew Horwood/The Epoch Times)

Various signs are displayed at the disciplinary hearing for Ottawa Police Service Detective Helen Grus in Stittsville near Ottawa on May 27, 2024. (Matthew Horwood/The Epoch Times)

Defence Accuses Prosecution of Intimidation

At the beginning of Const. Grus’s testimony, as she was being asked about her history in the OPS, prosecutor Jessica Barrow objected and said they were repeating content that had already been entered as evidence.

“We have here a 48-page affidavit with an extensive number of issues covered … to spend a considerable amount of the tribunal’s time going through each and every one of the aspects of an affidavit—that’s already before you—has no utility,” she said.

Defence lawyer Bath-Sheba van den Berg responded that Const. Grus needed an opportunity to tell her story, and that stopping her testimony at portions covered in her affidavit would be “incredibly disruptive” and an “abuse of process.”

Hearing Officer Chris Renwick said there had been “too much repetition” throughout the tribunal, and said Const. Grus needed to give evidence that was relevant to the hearing.

“I’d really like to get to the substance of it,” he said. “I find it difficult to control and I find it difficult to rule on, because I do not want to have any indication or pressure that I am limiting the scope of your case,” he said.

Ms. van den Berg said that the prosecution’s objection was a “gross miscarriage of justice” and “close to intimidating a justice participant.” While Mr. Renwick urged against repetitious testimony, he added he was “reluctant” to put limitations on Const. Grus’s testimony and wanted to achieve fairness.

Later on, while Const. Grus was testifying about a few Ottawa police officers who had developed heart issues after taking COVID-19 vaccines, she claimed to have received a “look” from a prosecution lawyer because she was addressing Ms. van Den Berg and not Mr. Renwick.

“Did you just get a look from the prosecutor? Well, I think it’s important, sir, that my witness is not badgered by the prosecutor by looks,” Ms. van Den Berg said to Mr. Renwick. “We may have to consider moving the table to a safer location where my client is not subjected to threatening looks by the prosecutor.”

Mr. Renwick said he would take care of any potential issues with body language, and that he did not want to get into “spiralling issues” that would cause further delays in the trial. Ms. Barrow called Ms. van den Berg’s accusations “really inappropriate.”

Nearly 30 people came to support Const. Grus at the police headquarters, but due to the size of the room, only 23 were allowed to watch her testify. At the end of the last hearing in March, Mr. Renwick had said he would work with the OPS to attempt to secure a larger venue or allow more members of the public to view the proceedings.

While the OPS had signalled the hearing would be moved to the San Marco Event & Conference Centre in Ottawa and be broadcast online for the public, neither of those options occurred. The OPS told The Epoch Times in an email statement that it was unable to successfully create a virtual broadcast, but did not say why a larger venue had not been secured.

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Matthew Horwood is a reporter based in Ottawa.

Featured image: Spectators gather as the disciplinary hearing for Ottawa Police Service Detective Helen Grus continues in Stittsville near Ottawa on May 27, 2024. (Matthew Horwood/The Epoch Times)


The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity

by Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.

“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”

Reviews

This is an in-depth resource of great interest if it is the wider perspective you are motivated to understand a little better, the author is very knowledgeable about geopolitics and this comes out in the way Covid is contextualized. —Dr. Mike Yeadon

In this war against humanity in which we find ourselves, in this singular, irregular and massive assault against liberty and the goodness of people, Chossudovsky’s book is a rock upon which to sustain our fight. –Dr. Emanuel Garcia

In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig 

Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac

A reading of  Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late.  You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin

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To Avoid Nuclear War, Putin Needs to be a Little Crazier

By Mike Whitney, June 03, 2024

After addressing the Constitutional issues surrounding Ukrainian President Zelensky’s decision to remain in office beyond his four-year term, Putin delivered a brief but disturbing statement on NATO’s plan to fire long-range weapons at targets inside Russia.

Watching Washington Foment Nuclear War

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 03, 2024

Are the peoples of the Western world so completely insouciant that they do not notice that their politicians are pushing them into direct conflict with Russia? It seems Hungarians are the only European people who have any sense.

“We have to deal with the anti-vaxxers” Says Keir Starker. Next UK PM? With the Endorsement of the WEF

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 02, 2024

Emergency legislation to combat the anti-vax campaign WILL COST LIVES. It will result in excess mortality. We recall that the COVID-19 vaccine was rolled-out in several phases in England and Wales starting on December 8, 2020.

Mapping the Parallels of US Conflict: From Vietnam to the War on China

By Megan Russell, June 02, 2024

A study of America’s “War on Terror” estimates approximately 4.5 million people have died from the reverberating effects of war, such as disease and economic hardship. That is the reality of war: it leaves a lasting legacy of death and devastation wherever it goes.

They Can’t Control the Gaza Narrative Because Too Much Has Been Seen

By Caitlin Johnstone, June 03, 2024

With Gaza, people saw this one coming and were calling it what it is from the moment it began, because there was already a widespread political understanding — at least on the left — that Israel is a murderous settler-colonialist project and that the Palestinians are a colonized people.

WHO’s Pandemic Treaty Is Dead – For Now

By Peter Koenig, June 03, 2024

Most of WHO’s private funding comes from Big Pharma, their “philanthropic” foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Big Tech and other interest groups. WHO Director General (DG) and his advisory team have already announced that a special WHA with focus on the Pandemic Treaty will take place by the end of 2024.

Jeffrey Sachs Blasts US Sanctions on Russia: “Just one absolutely naive idea after another.”

By Ahmed Adel, June 02, 2024

Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned professor of economics and bestselling author, recounted how he warned senior US officials that sanctions on Russia would fail. His statement comes as Daleep Singh, the US deputy national security adviser for international economics, said a large flow of Russian weapons is still powered by electronic components from companies in the United States and allied countries.

Tattoos Associated with Increased Risk of Lymphoma

June 3rd, 2024 by Dr. Peter McCullough

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As summertime approaches, one cannot help but notice the every increasing appearance of visible tattoos, mainly in forest green ink. Unlike tie-dye shirts, bell-bottoms, new hairstyles and other fads, tattoos represent a permanent form of mass mimicry or mimesis. Most people with tattoos give less than a compelling reason for this life-long commitment.

The skin is loaded with lymphocytes and one can only wonder does the ink or one of its chemical components stimulate these cells to become cancerous. After multiple individual case reports of lymphoma in tattoo enthusiasts, Nielsen et al has published this disturbing report from Lund, Sweden.

“The study population consisted of 11,905 individuals, and the response rate was 54% among cases (n = 1398) and 47% among controls (n = 4193). The tattoo prevalence was 21% among cases and 18% among controls. Tattooed individuals had a higher adjusted risk of overall lymphoma (IRR = 1.21; 95% CI 0.99–1.48). The risk of lymphoma was highest in individuals with less than two years between their first tattoo and the index year (IRR = 1.81; 95% CI 1.03–3.20). The risk decreased with intermediate exposure duration (three to ten years) but increased again in individuals who received their first tattoo ≥11 years before the index year (IRR = 1.19; 95% CI 0.94–1.50). We found no evidence of increasing risk with a larger area of total tattooed body surface. The risk associated with tattoo exposure seemed to be highest for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (IRR 1.30; 95% CI 0.99–1.71) and follicular lymphoma (IRR 1.29; 95% CI 0.92–1.82).”

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102649

For those who made the potentially unwise choice of a tattoo, these data suggest active surveillance for new persistent rashes, fever, night sweats, recurrent viral illness, or swollen lymph nodes as signs of incipient lymphoma.

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Watching Washington Foment Nuclear War

June 3rd, 2024 by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

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“For two years Biden was absolutely adamant that no US weapons could be used to strike Russia. Now he reverses the policy — aka, he lied. \

So where’s the pushback? Congress, media? What could be of greater consequence than lying the country into war with a nuclear superpower?” — Michael Tracey

Are the peoples of the Western world so completely insouciant that they do not notice that their politicians are pushing them into direct conflict with Russia? It seems Hungarians are the only European people who have any sense. See this.

The Kremlin could not issue any warnings more dire, and in response moronic Western politicians provoke harder.

Are they unable to comprehend that they are provoking a nuclear war, or is it their intention to provoke a nuclear war?

Biden, Blinken, and NATO have made another U-turn. The long range missiles that Ukraine could not use for attacks on Russian territory can now be used that way, but, for now, only on military targets. But the distinction between military and non-military targets is a distinction without meaning or substance. All modern wars are attacks on civilians and infrastructure.

The argument that resulted in removing restrictions on long range missiles is that in order to defend itself Ukraine needs to be able to use the weapons Washington provides to attack the military infrastructure that Russia uses to attack Ukraine.

Russia will simply attack the sites from which it is being attacked, so the long range missiles will contribute nothing to Ukraine’s defense.

Even worse: as the Kremlin knows the missiles have to be programmed with targeting information by US and NATO personnel,

Russia regards the countries responsible for the targeting as combatants and targets. We are on the verge of the final widening of the war.

As every previous no-no became a yes-yes, the Kremlin has to assume that the no-no prohibition on sending NATO troops will soon become a yes-yes. If realism prevails in the Kremlin, this forces Putin to abandon his limited military operation and to knock out Ukraine before it fills up with NATO soldiers.

From the beginning it was obvious to me that the limited military operation was a strategic blunder that would allow the West to become involved, with the consequence being the widening of the war. That is precisely what has happened. We have reached the point where Putin is telling the West to back off or out come the nukes.

But no one in the West hears.

Washington cares no more for Ukrainians than it cares for Palestinians.

The Ukraine conflict is a way for Washington to force Russia into a response that can be used to justify a US/NATO attack on Russia. What is to be served by this? It is a form of suicide for the West.

Where is a responsible Western leader to diffuse this dangerous situation? Why are there none?

Keeping Russian Donbas in Ukraine, where it should never have been put, is not worth the war that is being fomented.

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As the long range missiles cannot improve Ukraine’s battlefield performance, their only purpose is to be used for provocations. Anyone looking at the situation who thinks more provocations are what is needed is insane.

It is mind-boggling to actually watch Western leaders foment a nuclear war.

There is no opposition from Congress. None from print and TV media. None from European governments except Hungary. Western peoples are too insouciant to understand that they are standing on the edge of annihilation.

“We Are Inches Away from Destruction” — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Some who find reality too upsetting take issue with my warnings of how close we are to a final war.

I have acquired a new accolade — “scaremonger.” But I am not the only aware person on earth. Dr. Postal at MIT understands the seriousness of the situation, as does Mike Whitney, Steven Starr, Gilbert Doctorow, Scott Ritter, and Viktor Orban. Even the restrained, unprovocative Putin now understands that Russia is confronted with war, not a limited military operation to liberate the Donbas Russians.

Image: Viktor Orbán, Photo by European People’s Party (CC BY 2.0)

Viktor Orbán, Photo by European People's Party (CC BY 2.0)

Prime Minister Orban says that every week he sees more and more signs that the EU and NATO are preparing for military action. The Western governments, Orban has concluded, “want to defeat Russia, they want to achieve military success at any cost.” The cost will be life on the planet. Why is Ukraine’s NATO membership more important than the massive loss of life and perhaps the livability of life on the planet? See this.

It is extraordinary that the Western world will do nothing to stop Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, but is prepared to destroy life on earth for the artificial borders of an artificial country called Ukraine, which is known historically as “the Ukraine,” that is, as a province of a larger country.

Oban tells the truth. He says “NATO is a strong defensive alliance created to protect its member states, not to intervene in another war.” Oban says he will do what he can to prevent Hungary from being drawn into the maelstrom. “This is not our war, and Hungarians should not suffer because of it.”

But Hungary along with any survivors and Mother Earth herself and all her creatures and plant life will suffer from the massive fires, radioactivity, perhaps a nuclear winter, total disruption of all global supply chains, and so forth. The countries that survive, if any, will be those well removed from the blast zones, wind patterns loaded with radioactivity, and self sufficient in food production. All economies dependent on global relationships will be destroyed.

The world as it is organized today cannot survive a major war. How will cities of millions of people be sustained when supply chains no longer exist? Without war Mexico City with its 20 millions is almost empty of water.

I can continue asking these kind of questions, to which there are no answers.

But it is pointless.

The problem is that except for Orban and Putin, every Western political leader is committed to war for no justifiable reason.

There is no reason for the pending war. Ukraine can exist as a neutral state. Washington can pull back its presence on Russia’s borders.

The American neoconservatives’ nonsensical demand for US hegemony can be abandoned. Whatever the consequences of accepting reality, they are better than nuclear war.

Why is it that no one in the Western world understands the threat to life?

What is the explanation for Biden now approaching the end of his fourth year in office HAVING NEVER MET WITH PUTIN IN AN EFFORT TO RESOLVE THE MOST DANGEROUS CRISIS IN HUMAN HISTORY?

The dumbshits governing us do not comprehend that today’s thermonuclear weapons can be a thousand times more powerful as the atomic bombs the US dropped on two Japanese civilian cities. The weapons today do not merely obliterate large cities, they obliterate large regions.

Steven Starr and other experts have expressed their concerns that a nuclear war could fill the atmosphere with dust and debris that would block the sun for years until it settled. In those years there may be a limited or non-existent growing season. Therefore, all life can be the casualty.

From a presentation by Dr. Theodore Postal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

The Russian nuclear Early Warning System (EWS) at Amir was damaged by an attack. The decision to attack the Russian EWS was made in Washington. The drones were guided to their targets using US aerial and satellite reconnaissance (they have to take multiple evasive actions in the course of their flights to evade Russian radar systems, and this can only be supplied via real-time targeting information provided by the US). The operators of the drones were likely mercenaries trained in the US or out-of-uniform US troops. Russia knows this and so it considers this a US attack on its nuclear Early Warning System.

The attack was reckless beyond comprehension. ANY such attacks against the EWS system used to protect Russia from a nuclear attack can justify, under Russian law, a nuclear retaliatory strike.

The US/NATO/Ukraine previously conducted multiple drone attacks on the Russian airbase at Engels, which is where Russia keeps its long-range strategic nuclear bombers. It appeared that at least in one of these attacks, a strategic nuclear bomber was damaged. Engels airbase is hundreds of miles inside of Russia and the drones could not have made it to the base without real-time targeting information supplied by US aerial and satellite reconnaissance.

Russian military planners must consider these attacks as a possible prelude to a nuclear first strike against Russia by the United States.

The US and NATO are also preparing to send F-16s to Ukraine. Russia has announced that they will consider these to be nuclear-capable weapon systems and treat them accordingly, including striking whatever bases these weapons are launched from — inside or outside of Ukraine (meaning in Poland and Romania).

Biden today authorized attacks inside Russia using US long-range weapons. France and Germany then followed the US, giving their approval to the use of Western-supplied weapons to attack targets inside Russia.

The situation in Ukraine is escalating to the point of being out of control. Yet Western mass media ignores these events and the general public remains blissfully unaware that their leaders continue to escalate the war in Ukraine to the point where it can become a nuclear war that will destroy all nations and peoples.

Gilbert Doctorow Explains That Russia’s “Dead Hand” Launch System Cannot be Deterred by a First Strike

Gilbert Doctorow reminds us that the Russians have a “dead hand” launch system. Even if every Russian command and control center is wiped out in a first strike against Russia, sufficient missiles launch to wipe out the US and Western Europe. In other words, there is no advantage in a US first strike on Russia.

Doctorow also reminds us that it only takes one fully loaded hypersonic non-interceptible Sarmat multiple warhead missile to level a country the size of the UK to the ground, and only several to erase the US from the map. It goes far beyond insanity for Europe and the US to cultivate their own suicide. The media keep all information from the public, which is unaware that its continued existence is in question.

Here is Scott Ritter on the likely consequences of attacks inside Russia:

Scott Ritter reminds us that the weapons used to strike inside Russia have to be programmed by the US/NATO countries that supply them. Ukraine is ancillary to the process. Russia understands this and has stated that Russia will attack the countries responsible.

Here is a summary of the Scott Ritter video provided by an expert who shares my concern that Washington is driving the world into nuclear war:

“Scott Ritter explains that any further attacks on Russian strategic sites or attacks on Russian territory using missiles or cruise missiles will result in Russia hitting back against all the NATO targets — inside and outside Ukraine — responsible for such attacks.

“This includes US aerial reconnaissance assets: US satellites, AWACS, and Reaper drones; it includes any NATO headquarters and air bases that were involved in the preparation, programming, targeting, and launching of the long-range missiles and drones used to hit Russian territory. This includes bases within France, the UK, Germany, and possibly the US.

“Ritter says that such attacks would result in the NATO nations struck by Russian retaliatory strikes invoking Article V of the NATO Charter, claiming they had been attacked by Russia.  Ritter says that if NATO member states take this action and unite in war against Russia, then Russia will launch a massive nuclear strike against all these nations.  I hope he is wrong.

“Given that the US, the UK, France, and Germany have all signed off on using long-range weapons against Russia, albeit in a ‘limited’ area of Russia, I think we are close to the scenario that Ritter suggests because the ‘limited’ area of Russia subject to attack will expand. A situation will arise where Putin is forced to hit back in a way that is decisive. The West will deny that the Russian strike is in retaliation for their own thinly disguised attacks on Russia — they will call the Russian strikes “unprovoked aggression” and an act of war.

“The US and NATO have been hiding behind the lie that it is Ukraine fighting Russia — not the West fighting Russia. When US, UK, French, and German weapons arrive in Ukraine, they become “Ukrainian weapons”, and thus Ukraine, not the West, is made responsible for whatever is done with them, whatever targets they hit.

“Russia no longer will accept the lie that only Ukraine, not the West, is at war with Russia. Even Putin has publicly stated that the high-tech, long-range weapons are US and NATO weapons, programmed, operated, guided, and launched by US/NATO troops. The targets are decided on by the US, not by Ukraine. The weapons have to use real-time guidance from US aerial and satellite reconnaissance, hence, Russia will destroy the satellites, drones, and AWACs providing the targeting information. All the components of the attacks on Russia will be targeted.

“Russia is not bluffing. Russia will not back down.”

It is extraordinary that the entire political leadership of the Western world is pushing the world into nuclear war. Why does the West seek its own destruction? What is to be gained?

During the 20th century Cold War in which I was intimately involved both as a trustee of the Committee on the Present Danger and as a member of a secret Presidential Committee with authority to investigate the CIA’s opposition to President Reagan’s effort to end the Cold War and normalize relations with the Soviet Union, I can say with confidence that even hard line anti-communists sought to reduce tensions instead of provoking war.

What I have witnessed in the 21st century is the most egregious cultivation of war by the US government in human history, and no one in the print or TV media tells us the consequences.

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President Putin’s press conference on Wednesday in Uzbekistan might have been the most unusual and extraordinary event in his 24-year political career.

After addressing the Constitutional issues surrounding Ukrainian President Zelensky’s decision to remain in office beyond his four-year term, Putin delivered a brief but disturbing statement on NATO’s plan to fire long-range weapons at targets inside Russia.

Putin made it clear that Russia would respond to these attacks and that the countries that provided the weapons systems would be held responsible.

He also gave a very detailed description of how the systems work and how they require contractors from the country-of-origin be directly involved in their operation. What is so remarkable about Putin’s comments is not the fact that they bring the world closer to a direct confrontation between nuclear-armed adversaries, but that he had to remind political leaders in the West that Russia is not going to sit back and be their punching bag. Here’s part of what Putin said:

With regard to the strikes, frankly, I am not sure what the NATO Secretary General is talking about. When he was the Prime Minister of Norway, (we had good relations) and I am positive he was not suffering from dementia back then. If he is talking about potentially attacking Russia’s territory with long-range precision weapons, he, as a person who heads a military-political organisation, even though he is a civilian like me, should be aware of the fact that long-range precision weapons cannot be used without space-based reconnaissance. This is my first point.

My second point is that the final target selection and what is known as launch mission can only be made by highly skilled specialists who rely on this reconnaissance data, technical reconnaissance data. For some attack systems, such as Storm Shadow, these launch missions can be put in automatically, without the need to use Ukrainian military. Who does it? Those who manufacture and those who allegedly supply these attack systems to Ukraine do. This can and does happen without the participation of the Ukrainian military. Launching other systems, such as ATACMS, for example, also relies on space reconnaissance data, targets are identified and automatically communicated to the relevant crews that may not even realise what exactly they are putting in. A crew, maybe even a Ukrainian crew, then puts in the corresponding launch mission. However, the mission is put together by representatives of NATO countries, not the Ukrainian military. Putin Presser in Uzbekistan, Kremlin

Watch the video here

Let’s summarize:

  1. The long-range precision weapons (missiles) are provided by NATO countries
  2. The long-range precision weapons are manned by experts or contractors from the country of origin
  3. The long-range precision weapons must be linked to space reconnaissance data provide by the US or NATO
  4. The targets in Russia are also provided by space reconnaissance data provide by the US or NATO

The point that Putin is trying to make is that the long-range missiles are made by NATO, furnished by NATO, operated and launched by NATO contractors, whose targets are selected by NATO experts using space reconnaissance data provided by NATO.

In every respect, the prospective firing of long-range precision weapons at targets in Russia, is a NATO-US operation. Thus, there should be no confusion about who is responsible. NATO is responsible which means that NATO is effectively declaring war on Russia. Putin’s lengthy comments merely underscore this critical point. Here’s more from Putin:

So, these officials from NATO countries, especially the ones based in Europe, particularly in small European countries, should be fully aware of what is at stake. They should keep in mind that theirs are small and densely populated countries, which is a factor to reckon with before they start talking about striking deep into the Russian territory. It is a serious matter and, without a doubt, we are watching this very carefully. Putin Presser in Uzbekistan, Kremlin

Naturally, the western media has focused all its attention on the paragraph above, and for good reason; Putin is stating the obvious: ‘If you attack Russia, we will retaliate.’ That is the underlying message. Here are a few of Friday’s (hysterical) headlines:

  • Vladimir Putin Threatens ‘All-Out War’ if Ukraine Uses Western Weapons to Hit Russia — as Volodymyr Zelensky Asks Allies for Their Permission, MSN.com
  • Why is Putin again threatening a nuclear war?, The Interpreter
  • Putin warns the West: Russia is ready for nuclear war, Reuters
  • TYRANT’S THREAT: Vladimir Putin threatens all-out war if Ukraine uses Western weapons to hit Russia, The Sun
  • (and the best of all)
    Time to Call Putin’s Bluff, CNN

Is that what this is all about; testing Putin to see if he’s bluffing?

If it is, it is a uniquely risky strategy. But there is a grain of truth to what they say. After all, Putin is warning that any attack on Russia will trigger an immediate and ferocious retaliatory strike. And he is advising the leaders of ‘small, densely populated NATO countries’ to consider how a nuclear attack by Russia might impact their prospects for the future. Would they really put their entire civilization at risk to find out whether Putin is bluffing or not? Here’s Putin again:

Look at what your Western colleagues are reporting. No one is talking about shelling Belgorod (in Russia) or other adjacent territories. The only thing they are talking about is Russia opening a new front and attacking Kharkov. Not a word. Why is that? They did it with their own hands. Well, let them reap the fruits of their ingenuity. The same thing can happen in case the long-range precision weapons which you asked about is used.

More broadly, this unending escalation can lead to serious consequences. If Europe were to face those serious consequences, what will the United States do, considering our strategic arms parity? It is hard to tell. Putin Presser in Uzbekistan, Kremlin

Putin seems genuinely mystified by the West’s behavior. Do US and NATO leaders really think they can attack Russia with long-range missiles and Russia won’t respond? Do they really think their ridiculous propaganda can impact the outcome of a clash between two nuclear-armed superpowers? What are they thinking or ARE they thinking? We don’t know. We seem to have entered ‘uncharted stupidity’ where desperation and ignorance converge to create a foreign policy that is utter madness. This is from an article at Tass News Service:

NATO countries that have approved strikes with their weapons on Russian territory should be aware that their equipment and specialists will be destroyed not only in Ukraine, but also at any point from where Russian territory is attacked, the Russian Security Council’s Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on his Telegram channel, noting that the participation of NATO specialists could be seen as a casus belli.

“All their military equipment and specialists fighting against us will be destroyed both on the territory of former Ukraine and on the territory of other countries, should strikes be carried out from there against Russian territory,” Medvedev warned.

He added that Moscow proceeded from the fact that all long-range weapons supplied to Ukraine were already “directly operated by servicemen from NATO countries”, which is tantamount to participation in the war against Russia and a reason to start combat operations. NATO weapons to be hit in any country from where Russia may be attacked — Medvedev, Tass

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There it is in black and white.

Where Putin chose to take the diplomatic approach, Medvedev opted for the hammer-blow.

‘If you attack Russia, we will bomb you back to the Stone Age.’

Not much wiggle-room there. But perhaps clarity is what’s needed for people who do not understand the potential consequences of their actions. In any event, no one in Washington or Brussels can say they weren’t warned.

We cannot exclude the possibility that Washington actually wants to expand the war despite the fact that cities across Eastern Europe could be incinerated in the process. It could be that beltway warhawks see a broader conflict as the only way to achieve their geopolitical ambitions.

Putin knows that this is a real possibility, just as he knows that there is a sizable constituency in Washington that support the use of nuclear weapons. This might explain why he is proceeding so cautiously, because he knows there are crazies within the US establishment who look forward to a clash with their old rival Russia so they can implement their pet-theories about “usable” nukes for tactical advantage. Here’s Putin:

The United States has a theory of a ‘preventive strike’…Now they are developing a system for a ‘disarming strike’. What does that mean? It means striking at control centres with modern high-tech weapons to destroy the opponent’s ability to counterattack.

Putin has devoted a considerable amount of time studying US Nuclear Doctrine, and it has him deeply concerned. After all, didn’t the Biden administration launch an unprecedented attack on “a key element of Russia’s nuclear umbrella” just last week?

Indeed, they did.

And hasn’t the US (via its Nuclear Posture Review) rebranded the offensive use of nuclear weapons as a justifiable act of defense?

It has.

And doesn’t this revision provide US warhawks with the institutional framework needed to launch a nuclear attack without fear of legal prosecution?

It does.

And haven’t these same warhawks developed their respective theories on “first-strike”, “preemption” and “disarming strike” in order to lay the groundwork for a first-strike nuclear attack on a geopolitical rival of Washington?

They have.

And doesn’t US Nuclear Doctrine state that nuclear weapons can be used “in extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the United States or its allies and partners.”

It does.

And does that definition include economic rivals like China?

Yes.

And is that a defense of a “first strike” nuclear weapon attack?

It is.

And does that mean that the United States no longer regards its nuclear arsenal as purely defensive but as an essential instrument for preserving the “rules-based order”?

Yes, it does.

And does Putin know that there are powerful actors in the political establishment and deep state who would like to see the taboo on nuclear weapons lifted so they can be used in more situations and with greater frequency?

He does.

And does he know that Washington regards Russia and China as the primary threats to US global hegemony and the “rules-based order”?

Yes.

And does he realize that if the US implements its first-strike policy Russia may not have the time to retaliate?

He does.

And does Putin realize that foreign policy analysts regard him as a restrained and reasonable man who may not pull the trigger or respond promptly when Russia faces a preemptive attack that will inflict the strategic defeat on Moscow the West seeks?

No, he doesn’t. He still thinks that possessing a large cache of nuclear weapons will deter US aggression. But a large cache of nuclear weapons is no deterrent when your opponent is convinced you won’t use them.

Sometimes being reasonable is not the best way to fend off an adversary. Sometimes you have to be a little crazy.

That’s a lesson Putin needs to learn. Fast.

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A 5/31/2024 article in CounterPunch returns to the question of the death toll of the genocide in Gaza, and the gross undercount of deaths by almost every agency imaginable, even the ones in Gaza itself. I suggest further elaboration.

200,000 was the number dead that Ralph Nader estimated at the beginning of March.

It has to be double that now.

How many thousands of pregnant women and their fetuses and newborn have died?

How many diabetics or others needing medication or special diets or treatment?

But even those without special conditions are dying because they can’t give up food and water.

We have reached the stage where the number of starving or dehydrated persons is so high that they have no defense against common diseases or mild injuries.

Why are they not reported?

Because there is no one to record them, of course.

The hospitals and clinics are largely a memory. Potable water is a luxury. I’m banned from X and FB, but I imagine you’ve seen the living and dying skeletons that I predicted months ago. I see them mainly on Telegram. The international agencies report that nearly all the population is food insecure, and a majority are malnourished. It’s a matter of time.

Israel would like to move faster. I’m not sure why they don’t. Perhaps they’re afraid that world reaction will graduate to more forceful measures, but I see no indication that this is the case. With the exception of Yemen and some non-state actors, no one seems willing to resort to physical force.

Members of the US Congress and figures in the Biden administration have even encouraged Israel to “finish the job”. Certainly, they have no moral qualms.

Are they worried that they will run out of Jews? Part of the purpose of killing off the Palestinians was to assure that Jews will be significantly more numerous in “greater Israel” (AKA Palestine). That clearly is not working. It is far more likely that more Jews have fled Israel than Palestinians have been reduced by genocide. In fact, even the effective Jewish inhabited area has been reduced in both the north and the south. 

Worse still, Israel grossly underestimated the capability of the Palestinian resistance and its partners, and overestimated its own. 

Hamas and its allies clearly understood and planned for Israel’s reaction, while Israel had little appreciation for their adversary. So much for the strategy of disproportionate force. Israel is unaccustomed to taking so many casualties, which are in any case unknown. No one believes the official count and resorting to foreign mercenaries.

Israel is also dissolving from within. Who’s buying Israeli anymore, except the dwindling community of true believers? What economy is left consists largely of shoveling American money into Israeli furnaces. Meanwhile, Israelis are fighting among themselves for desperate solutions to their intractable problems. The powerful international network of faithful sayanim will remain in place (who likes to give up power?) and will continue to manage the controls. But other Jews will object to being associated with such persons, weakening the support for, and the effectiveness of, the Zionist dream/nightmare. 

Israel is clearly losing, but the rate of its demise will depend on factors that are difficult to predict, and even harder to control. Nevertheless, if Israel survives this miscalculation in the short term, it will only do so as a smaller, more fanatical remnant of its former self.

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A lot of mainstream-adjacent progressives act like Gaza is some radical deviation from normal US behavior, which is infantile nonsense.

The US inflicts similar horrors on the world all the time; the only major difference is

(A) this one’s being live-streamed and

(B) there was a pro-Palestine movement in place before it began.

With regard to (B), Gaza is really illustrating how much the US empire benefits from moving through its foreign military violence relatively quickly.

When it can move from propagandizing the population about Evil Dictatorship X to destroying the country in question to moving on to its next war in the span of a few short years, there’s not enough time for public awareness to grow of exactly how evil the empire is being. It was years before a mainstream consensus developed that the invasion of Iraq was wrong, and it will probably be decades before there’s mainstream consensus about the evil shit the empire did in Syria from 2011 onwards.

With Gaza, people saw this one coming and were calling it what it is from the moment it began, because there was already a widespread political understanding — at least on the left — that Israel is a murderous settler-colonialist project and that the Palestinians are a colonized people. This widespread understanding occurred because the Israel-Palestine debate has been raging for generations, so the collective has had enough time to really examine the facts and circulate its arguments through public consciousness. Those facts and arguments were there ready to be picked up and understood and used — even by young people who are new to the situation — after October 7.

So what’s really hurting the empire’s information interests today is the fact that there was widespread social consciousness about Palestine already in place before the Gaza assault began, combined with the consciousness-expanding effects of social media and the ease with which ordinary people can now circulate raw video footage. Which really goes to illustrate the fact that consciousness and dysfunction cannot coexist, whether you’re talking about humans as individuals or as a collective. If we can really see something and deeply understand it, it’s much harder for depravity to function.

The light of awareness makes it very difficult for an empire which is fueled by human blood to operate, which is why so much effort has been going into shutting off the lights. Shutting off the lights here looks like circulating lies and propaganda, killing Palestinian journalists in record numbers, blocking western journalists from entering Gaza, banning TikTok, stomping out student protests, and smearing everyone who tries to spread awareness of Gaza as an anti-semite.

In that sense we actually kind of are seeing a struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness here — not in the sense the Zionist ideologues mean it, but in the sense that there are people who are trying to spread the light of awareness coming into direct conflict with people who are trying to shut that light down.

And that’s how humanity will eventually move into health: by the light of awareness spreading throughout our collective consciousness to all the various ways our species is still dysfunctional. This spreading of awareness happens in ways that are as diverse as investigative journalism, teaching, research, tweeting, making videos, writing blogs, informing others in interpersonal conversations, and expanding your own personal consciousness with inner disciplines like meditation and self-inquiry.

We can each participate in this unfolding of human consciousness in our own way throughout our lives, and every contribution we make toward that end makes a difference. Anything you do to make the unseen seen and cast the light of awareness on areas of dysfunction helps move humanity into a higher level of functionality, whether you’re spreading awareness of dysfunction out there in the world, or in yourself by bringing more consciousness to your own inner processes.

We can each do many things every single day to help move humanity into the light, so that we may one day become a fully conscious species. We can each cultivate a practice of constantly looking for opportunities to expand consciousness in this way from moment to moment.

In 2024, Gaza is very, very fertile ground for such expansion.

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WHO’s Pandemic Treaty Is Dead – For Now

June 3rd, 2024 by Peter Koenig

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Today, 2 June 2024, the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) ended without a vote on the Pandemic Treaty. WHO management, as well as their key country allies, realized that there were not enough votes for the two-thirds needed to ratify the treaty. In fact, that was already known before the begin of the WHA on 27 May 2024, but could only be confirmed today. 

So, this was a partial gain for the People of the world. But only partial because the modified International Health Regulations (IHR), needing only an absolute majority, were just barely approved before close of the 77th WHA.

In the course of the last half a year, especially the past couple of months, they were significantly watered down. Still, they include enough hooks on which a newly formulated Pandemic Treaty could be attached.

That is why this partial People’s gain can only be partially celebrated. It means, the World Health Organization (WHO) will now be working on Plan B, namely redrafting a Pandemic Treaty, to be most likely debated during the UN General Assembly in September 2024, possibly in behind-closed-door sessions, as is usual for the non-transparent machinations of the over 80% privately-funded WHO. 

Most of WHO’s private funding comes from Big Pharma, their “philanthropic” foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Big Tech and other interest groups.

WHO Director General (DG) and his advisory team have already announced that a special WHA with focus on the Pandemic Treaty will take place by the end of 2024.

Therefore, People, please do not rest and believe the danger is over. IT IS NOT by any means.

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Last night (24 May 2024), in a high-level pre-World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting (17 May-1 June 2024), in Geneva, WHO management and key member country delegates decided to drop the Pandemic Treaty – for now. It would not stand a chance to pass a WHA vote in the coming week. Instead, they decided to discuss at the WHA what to do next.

See this by Le Monde and AFP.

Be aware, however, that this press report does not give you the true reasons for the end of the talks on the Pandemic Treaty / revised IHR agreements.

It seeks to soft-talk- or not mention at all the big issue of a potential health tyranny that these accords might mean for the world. Instead, they are saying that talks must go on, because the world needs a “safety net” for future pandemics.

Right. As if the world was not able until today to deal with diseases and other catastrophes independently by sovereign nations. And by dealing with such calamities on an autonomous sovereign basis, saving their economies from collapsing.

It is clear, during the past months many governments around the world especially in the Global South, but not exclusively, felt more than uneasy to accept what many called a WHO Health Dictatorship – in the form of a “One World Health” (OWH) like in “one fits all” similar to the One World Government, or One World Order (OWG / OWO) that the Globalists want to impose on the globe’s 8.1 billion people.

And by the way, never forget that the Globalists’ number One Priority will remain a massive, but massive reduction of the current 8.1 billion world population. This was a key reason for the fraudulent vax agenda – and would be driven even further under the new Pandemic Treaty and revised IHR.

Those who push and have been pushing for an OWG / OWO in the past and with increasing intensity since the onset of the UN Agenda 2030 and the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Great Reset, also want a One World Health.

This means that the Director General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, would have powers to decide on pandemic and preventive or curative measures to be taken above and beyond individual countries sovereignty.

More and more nations are realizing what that means for their health system and not last, for their economy, especially looking back at the unnecessary covid lockdowns and other economy and society destroying imposed measures – that caused bankruptcies left and right, but had no impact whatsoever on reducing covid – if ever there was a covid “pandemic”- or rather called “plandemic” – a highly disputed question.

What covid and its tyrannical “measures” did is shifting capital form the bottom and the center – small and medium-size businesses – to the top, to the multi-billionaires, primary financial institutions (Blackrock / Vanguard, Wall Street et al) and tech-companies, to the so-called Magnificent Seven (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla).

This trend has been going on especially with the rich and powerful having access to Artificial Intelligence (AI) for accelerating the capital shift. But business people and politicians also have noticed and become warry of the wanton destruction of their economies which made them more alert to anything coming from the WHO and the WEF.

What may have been the trigger for the big awakening is that the very WHO, whose Pandemic Treaty and sternly revised International Health Regulations (IHR), did not adhere to its own Constitutional rules, namely to send the final draft of these crucial papers 4 months ahead of the WHA to the 194 member countries, namely at the latest by 27 January 2024.

This did not happen and has not happened until today.

In the meantime, 49 US Republican Senators have written to President Biden, requesting not to sign the treaty / IHR; and 22 Attorney Generals from their respective US States have firmly stated, their States would not adhere to any of the rules imposed by these treaties.

That alone is a strong message, coming from the US and may have influenced other countries wavering between yes and no, to reject the WHO proposal.

See this and this

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What will happen next is mostly speculation. As pointed out before, the WHA will likely dedicate a good portion of next week to debate “what’s next”, so as not to lose the momentum. It is clear, they will not let go. It is engrained in the character of the Dark Cult that pretends reigning over the world.

The next step may be that they take the treaties / agreements to the UN General Assembly in September in New York, to elicit a broader discussion.

What will come remains to be seen.

What is important though – DO NOT SIT BACK, THINKING THAT IT IS ALL OVER. It is not over.

These people will not stop. We, the People, MUST get out from these organizations and start afresh, whatever form that may take. But no longer trusting our governments and their shiny institutions – WEF, WHO, UN, Finance, Pharma and especially the “Magnificent Seven”. Stay away from the latter altogether – we do not need an all-digitized, humanity-enslaving world – ever.

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It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.

The wars are not designed to serve the interests of the United States, the United States is designed to serve the interests of the wars. The US as a country is just a source of funding, personnel, resources and diplomatic cover for a nonstop campaign to dominate the planet with mass military violence and the threat thereof. 

This campaign is not waged to benefit the American people or their security, but to benefit the loose international alliance of plutocrats and unelected empire managers whose wealth and power are premised on the world order of continuous violence, exploitation and extraction which the campaign of global domination upholds. This campaign of global domination and its manifestations as a whole may be referred to as the US empire, which has very little in common with the US as an individual nation.

Until you understand this, nothing the US government or the US war machine does will make sense. You won’t understand why military operations are being waged which don’t seem to benefit the American people in any way, and which if anything actually harm the national security interests of the United States. You won’t understand why US foreign policy remains the same no matter who’s in office, regardless of party or platform. You won’t understand why the US and its allies do crazy things that otherwise make no sense for governments to do, like backing an increasingly unpopular genocide in Gaza, starting a cold war with China, or tempting nuclear armageddon with Russia.

And the answer is that these aggressions are not happening because they benefit the US as a nation, or even because they serve the political agendas of any elected officials. The nonstop violence is a means to a completely different end, and is almost an end in and of itself — benefiting war profiteers, shoring up geostrategic control, and expanding the sphere of the US empire’s particular brand of global capitalism.

There’s the nonstop worldwide military operation, and then there’s the theatrical set pieces of an official government slapped together in the foreground which we’re all meant to pretend has something to do with all the wars and militarism we are seeing. In reality the war machine just does what it’s going to do while the official elected suits in Washington put on these performances where they argue about abortion and Donald Trump to make it look like the US has a real government that’s making real decisions.

It was decided long ago that war is too important to be left to the will of the electorate, so now there’s this fake dummy political system that the American people are given to play with so they won’t meddle with the gears of the imperial machine. The local inhabitants of the hub of the globe-spanning empire are kept too propagandized, entertained, distracted, busy, poor, and sick to have a truth-based relationship with what’s being done in their name around the world, and if they do make some space in their life to become politically engaged they are herded into a kayfabe two-party system where both factions support war, militarism, imperialism, plutocracy and ecocidal capitalism but put immense amounts of energy into empty culture warring over issues that nobody with any real power cares about.

Trying to talk about this to people who are still plugged into the mainstream imperial worldview is like if Amazon had a children’s cartoon show called Andy Amazon & Friends, and the public believed the cartoon show was Amazon — they didn’t know anything about the sprawling trillionaire megacorporation that’s devouring the global economy. You’d try to talk about the gargantuan e-commerce company and they’d think you were talking about the cartoon, and object that what you’re saying doesn’t line up with what they know about the show and its characters. 

Once you see the corporation behind the cartoon, once you see the empire behind the performative puppet show of official politics, you see it everywhere. You see it in the movements of the imperial war machine. You see it in the news headlines. You see it in the phony justifications and narratives that are being spouted by the western political-media class. You see it in our education system. You see it throughout our vapid mainstream western culture of interminable diversion and capitalist indoctrination.

And you stop caring about the puppet show. You stop caring about presidential elections, about Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump, about the culture war wedge issue of the day and the latest hot topic that everyone’s saying you need to take a position on. It becomes as interesting to you as some Youtube video your kid has on in the background when you’re busy dealing with a home emergency.

And the behavior of the empire absolutely is an emergency. The escalations against Russia and China that these freaks are pushing have the world on a trajectory that’s going to get us all killed, and the horrors they are inflicting in Gaza and elsewhere are creating a nightmare on earth right here and now. The empire is only getting crazier and more violent as its planetary domination becomes more challenged, and until people can see it for what it really is, it’s going to be very hard to build up the necessary public opposition against it to use the power of our numbers to force them to stop.

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A vida nas novas regiões da Federação Russa está se tornando cada vez melhor. Com a consolidação da vitória militar russa, avança a normalização da sociedade, com cada vez mais comércio, desenvolvimento e paz social. Embora o conflito continue, os habitantes destes territórios vivem atualmente muito melhor do que no período pré-reintegração, quando eram absolutamente vulneráveis ​​às políticas racistas de Kiev.

Contudo, a opressão ucraniana ainda não acabou. Muitos residentes dos territórios libertados ainda enfrentam sérios problemas de segurança – não só por causa dos drones e mísseis fornecidos pela OTAN, mas também porque as suas famílias continuam sujeitas ao regime ucraniano. Mais do que isso, nos territórios recentemente libertados, há ações por parte dos serviços de inteligência ucranianos para coagir os cidadãos das regiões russas a cooperar com a ditadura neonazista, mesmo contra a sua própria vontade.

Recentemente, estive na República Popular de Donetsk e no Oblast de Zaporozhye durante uma turnê de imprensa organizada pelo grupo de mídia russo “Vashi Novosti”. Eu e muitos outros jornalistas de todo o mundo tivemos a oportunidade de ver a realidade no terreno, na principal central nuclear da Europa, bem como testemunhar a reconstrução da cidade de Mariupol – uma das cidades mais afetadas pelo conflito.

No entanto, a normalização da vida que temos visto nas Novas Regiões coexiste com um sério desafio: a pressão imposta pelo regime de Kiev para que alguns habitantes dos Novos Territórios cooperem com as autoridades neonazistas. No nosso trabalho no terreno, falamos com militares locais que nos disseram, anonimamente, que pelo menos 20% dos habitantes de cidades como Mariupol e Metilopol realizam algum tipo de espionagem a favor do regime de Kiev.

Ao contrário de regiões como as cidades de Donetsk e Lugansk, estas áreas foram libertadas pelos russos apenas após o início da operação militar especial. Durante os oito anos da Guerra do Donbass – quando Moscou ainda tentava resolver o conflito diplomaticamente – as regiões controladas pela Ucrânia foram sujeitas a todas as formas de opressão, ocupação e violência por parte dos neonazistas. Em Mariupol, por exemplo, a milícia “Azov” abriu o seu quartel-general na estação Azovstal, tendo assediado o povo russo local durante oito anos, até à sua neutralização pelas forças de Moscou.

O fato de estas novas cidades russas terem passado tanto tempo sob controle ucraniano contribuiu para gerar forte medo, pânico e trauma entre os residentes. Eles simplesmente têm medo de serem “punidos” e perseguidos caso sejam novamente capturados ou dominados pelo inimigo, e é por isso que muitas vezes cometem erros ao tentar evitar que o pior aconteça às suas famílias.

Durante o início da operação militar especial, devido à alta intensidade das hostilidades, ocorreram muitos deslocamentos internos na Ucrânia. Muitas famílias migraram para regiões mais seguras do país, principalmente nas cidades ocidentais. Isto também teve um efeito catastrófico para os moradores das Novas Regiões, pois tornou muitos deles reféns do medo de que algo acontecesse com seus entes queridos.

Por outras palavras, os residentes das Novas Regiões sabem que os seus familiares não estão seguros em territórios controlados pela Ucrânia. Além disso, tendo passado oito anos sob o regime de Kiev, muitos deles têm os seus dados e localização conhecidos pelas autoridades ucranianas, o que os torna possíveis vítimas de ataques. Assim, por medo, alguns cidadãos russos se desesperam e acabam cooperando com o inimigo.

É importante compreender que isto não significa que os colaboradores apoiem realmente Kiev. O apoio à Rússia e à operação militar especial parece quase unânime nas Novas Regiões. No entanto, alguns cidadãos estão a ser forçados a agir contra os seus próprios princípios e posições devido ao receio de que algo possa ser feito contra eles e os seus familiares. O trauma deixado pelo regime de Kiev durante oito anos de genocídio foi extremamente profundo e não será revertido tão facilmente.

A única forma de evitar este tipo de atitude é avançar militarmente e tomar controle de ainda mais territórios. O regime de Kiev já se revelou incapaz e sem vontade de resolver o conflito de qualquer forma diplomática, pelo que só a vitória militar pode ser eficiente para acabar de uma vez por todas com a ameaça às vidas dos cidadãos russos. Com o fim do regime e da Junta Neonazista, nenhum cidadão das Novas Regiões precisará mais temer – e consequentemente não será mais obrigado a cometer atos de traição contra Moscou.

Lucas Leiroz  de Almeida

 

Artigo em inglês : Fearing for their families, some residents of Russia’s New Regions spy for Ukraine, InfoBrics, 30 de Maio de 2024.

Imagem : InfoBrics

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Lucas Leiroz, jornalista, pesquisador do Center for Geostrategic Studies, consultor geopolítico.

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Quando chegou a notícia da queda do helicóptero de Ebrahim Raisi, o primeiro que veio à mente de todo mundo que tem um mínimo de pensamento crítico foi: “seria obra de Israel?”Essa é uma especulação absolutamente legítima. Contudo, os jornalistas e comentaristas que trabalham direta ou indiretamente para o aparato de propaganda imperialista a descartam categoricamente. O que não passa de pura hipocrisia. São eles mesmos que adoram fazer as mais idiotas especulações sobre tudo – quando convém aos seus patrões, é claro.

Quando houve a queda do helicóptero de Evgeny Prigozhin, por exemplo, a primeira especulação feita por esses propagandistas foi que o governo russo teria sido o responsável. Afinal, o ex-líder do Grupo Wagner havia se insurgido contra Vladimir Putin. Esse era o grande fato que sustentava a lógica dessa argumentação. Era um opositor de Putin, portanto o mais provável é que Putin teria ordenado sua eliminação. Mesmo que ele houvesse se reconciliado e recebido o perdão do presidente russo, mesmo que o helicóptero tenha caído perto da fronteira com a Ucrânia e que os russos tenham garantido que foi uma sabotagem ucraniana.

É possível que nunca se saiba a verdade. Porém, os propagandistas dos EUA tentaram transformar a especulação em comprovação com uma montagem ridícula: o The Wall Street Journal publicou, pouco depois do incidente, que membros do governo russo armaram o assassinato de Prigozhin. As fontes? Agentes de inteligência ocidentais. Ou seja, a CIA, o MI6 e suas filiais. Todo mundo sabe que eles têm um histórico infindável de informações falsas plantadas na imprensa contra os seus inimigos. Será que o WSJ publicaria uma reportagem acusando o governo israelense de derrubar o avião de um presidente iraniano cuja fonte é o FSB (sucessor da KGB)?

Muito pelo contrário. Os veículos de propaganda imperialistas, em sua maioria, sequer levantam a hipótese de envolvimento israelense para ridicularizá-la. Sabem que qualquer menção a Israel, ainda que fazendo chacota da ideia, plantaria uma dúvida naqueles que não pensaram nessa possibilidade.

Jeremy Bowen, da BBC, sugeriu que há a possibilidade de sabotagem relacionada com opositores internos, tanto de dentro como de fora do governo, “mas não temos provas para nada disso”. Mas essas probabilidades, segundo o que se desprende de seu comentário, são legítimas. O que não é razoável é o “instinto de culpar Israel”.

“Autoridades israelenses têm dito a jornalistas que não estão envolvidas nisso. É difícil enxergar como Israel se beneficia de algo que seria interpretado, na prática, como um ato provocativo de guerra”, apontou o editor de política internacional do canal britânico.

Vamos por partes. Primeiro, o fato de Israel negar envolvimento não significa nada. É apenas uma arma retórica de propaganda para os repórteres fingirem imparcialidade ouvindo “os dois lados”. “Fulano disse isso, enquanto sicrano disse aquilo”. Pronto, está feito o trabalho do jornalista. Não se precisa investigar nada!

Em segundo lugar, o comentarista admite ter dificuldades cognitivas em “enxergar como Israel se beneficia” da eliminação do chefe de Estado do seu maior inimigo. Na verdade, não é nada disso. Ele tem plena noção de como isso beneficia Israel, como beneficiaria qualquer país cujo líder inimigo é abatido. Só é um hipócrita que tenta livrar Israel das legítimas acusações.

Por fim, ele considera que Israel matar o presidente do Irã “seria interpretado, na prática, como um ato provocativo de guerra”. Será que ele também acha que Xi Jinping mandar matar Joe Biden não necessariamente seria uma provocaçãoaos EUA? É óbvio que se Israel derrubou o helicóptero de Raisi isso foi um ato de guerra! E que, portanto, o Irã teria absoluto direito de responder com uma guerra à guerra iniciada por Israel.

Israel realmente é o grande protegido do aparato de propaganda liderado pelos EUA chamado eufemisticamente de “imprensa internacional”. Em 23 de outubro do ano passado, o colunista da Folha de S.Paulo Joel Pinheiro da Fonseca descobriu a verdade absoluta sobre quem bombardeou o Hospital al-Ahli de Gaza, ocorrido poucos dias antes. Em um artigo vergonhosamente enganoso, citou as notícias que apontavam Israel como o responsável para refutá-las com a conclusão de que, contudo, “o consenso emergente é que o míssil não veio de Israel. Foi um foguete do grupo Jihad Islâmica que se partiu e caiu no estacionamento do hospital. Muito provavelmente foram menos de 500 mortes.”

De onde tirou isso? Ele não disse. Citou apenas a própria Folha e o New York Times, que resolveram adotar “cautela”. Ele não apresentou nenhuma fonte para sua afirmação, nem mesmo indicou se os dois jornais haviam se embasado em algum fato. Também, se houvesse apresentado a fonte dessa afirmação, ele teria revelado sua parcialidade total: foram Israel e EUA que acusaram a Jihad Islâmica de atacar o hospital. A dupla, responsável pelo genocídio em Gaza, é uma “fonte” menos confiável que a CIA quando foi usada pelo Wall Street Journal para acusar a Rússia de matar Prigozhin. E o artigo do colunista da Folha foi escrito com toda a pompa de quem está acima das “narrativas”, com a missão sagrada de desmentir que Israel era o culpado!

O colunista ocultou a fonte de sua “descoberta” porque sabia que, se a revelasse, seu artigo seria alvo de chacota e ninguém o teria levado a sério. Ele também ignorou – intencionalmente? – investigações da BBC, do Channel 4, da Al Jazeera e da Bellingcat, publicadas antes de seu artigo, que apontaram sérias inconsistências na versão israelense-americana e que afirmaram que ainda não era possível chegar a um resultado conclusivo sobre de onde veio o ataque.

Quatro meses depois, a agência de pesquisas Forensic Architecture publicou um estudo que também revela sérias inconsistências na versão israelense-americana comprada por Joel Pinheiro da Fonseca e afirma que “o que aconteceu no al-Ahli permanece inconclusivo”, acusando ainda o regime de Tel Aviv de ter “lançado uma agressiva campanha de desinformação” após o ocorrido.

O estudo conduzido pela Forensic Architecture – ligada à Universidade de Londres e liderada por Eyal Weizman, um pesquisador nascido em Israel – recorda ainda que a lógica culpa Israel: nos dez dias anteriores, a Organização Mundial da Saúde havia contabilizado 51 ataques israelenses à infraestrutura médica de Gaza; quatro dias antes Israel havia ordenado a evacuação de todos os hospitais do norte de Gaza, incluindo o al-Ahli; e três dias antes Israel havia atacado a ala de tratamento de câncer do mesmo hospital, possivelmente como um aviso de que um ataque maior ocorreria, como Israel costuma fazer.

Além disso, termina o estudo, os ataques de Israel a hospitais de Gaza seguem um “padrão consistente” com ataques aos arredores, alvejamento direto, cerco e ocupação. Esses apontamentos significam que tudo indica que o agressor direto ao hospital, com quase 500 mortos segundo o Ministério da Saúde de Gaza, tenha sido Israel, e nada indica que tenham sido os próprios palestinos. Logo, a afirmação de Joel Pinheiro da Fonseca de que “foi um foguete do grupo Jihad Islâmica que se partiu e caiu no estacionamento do hospital” não é respaldada por nenhuma investigação séria – e já existiam muitas que a refutavam. É, portanto, uma mentira. Uma fake news.

Mas uma reportagem do Estado de S.Paulo conseguiu superar as falsidades do colunista da Folha. Na verdade, é um despacho da AFP publicado no New York Times que o Estadão reproduziu no dia 16 de maio deste ano. A fake news é tão escandalosa que ela já vem no título: “Nacionalista e militante pró-Rússia dá 5 tiros no premiê da Eslováquia”

Dentro da matéria, não há nenhuma comprovação do que o título afirma. Apenas uma descrição no lide, de que o atirador é “um ultranacionalista e simpatizante do presidente russo, Vladimir Putin” e em outro trecho que diz que “ele é simpatizante do grupo paramilitar Slovenskí Branci, ligado ao Kremlin”.

Não há nenhuma ligação entre as informações da matéria. Na verdade, a única informação que poderia embasar o título é a última, mas ser simpatizante de um grupo eslovaco (supostamente) ligado ao Kremlin não o torna um “simpatizante do presidente russo”, como diz o lide, e tampouco um “militante pró-Rússia”, como afirma o título.

Até aqui, a reportagem publicada no Estadão é uma aberração que utiliza uma pequena informação no final do texto para deturpá-la e exagerá-la. Tecnicamente, seu título pode ser considerado uma mentira porque o texto não corrobora o que foi anunciado. É a ânsia de culpar a Rússia por um crime dos mais repulsivos.

Se fosse só isso, já seria uma delinquência por parte do Estadão. Mas é que todas as afirmações são manipuladas, não apenas o título. Juraj Cintula, o atirador, já expressou, é verdade, sentimentos pró-russos, como “descobriu” o jornalista húngaro Szabolcs Panyi, “escavando seus posts no Facebook”, conforme mencionou a reportagem publicada no Estadão. Mas isso faz muitos anos. Em 2022, quando a Rússia interveio militarmente na Ucrânia, Cintula passou a manifestar apoio a Kiev e às ideias neoliberais disseminadas pelos Estados Unidos, bem como a destilar pesadas críticas ao premiê Robert Fico, que suspendeu o envio de armas à Ucrânia e apoia a reaproximação com a Rússia. Cintula até participou de um protesto antigovernamental no dia 24 de abril em que os manifestantes levavam uma bandeira da União Europeia e gritavam “Longa vida à Ucrânia”, conforme um vídeo veiculado pelos meios de comunicação eslovacos.

De fato, a própria reportagem reconhece que Cintula é um crítico das políticas do governo, particularmente da posição de Fico sobre a imprensa. A imprensa eslovaca, como em qualquer país onde a classe dominante é vassala do imperialismo, tem uma linha editorial pró-OTAN, pró-União Europeia e pró-Ucrânia e tem feito muita pressão sobre o primeiro-ministro e seu governo para que ele deixe a neutralidade de lado e apoie integralmente a política da OTAN sobre a Ucrânia e a Rússia. Fico é rotulado como um líder “pró-Rússia”, ou seja, quase um fantoche de Putin, tanto pelos meios eslovacos como ocidentais.

O governo eslovaco tem acusado precisamente os grandes meios de comunicação de serem os principais responsáveis pelo atentado, uma vez que realizam uma campanha de “discurso de ódio” contra o primeiro-ministro e as boas relações com a Rússia. A reportagem veiculada pelo Estadão poderia facilmente ser inserida nessa campanha, além de ser uma das mais bizarras fake news internacionais dos últimos dias, porque ela inverte totalmente os fatos e a realidade.

Além disso, um atentado contra um chefe de Estado raramente é realizado por um “lobo solitário”, como querem pintar Cintula – ou como fazem com Lee Harvey Oswald, assassino de John F. Kennedy. Levando em conta as posições políticas e a prática governamental de Fico, de neutralidade e, portanto, contrária às ordens imperialistas, e que o atirador é um seguidor da política imperialista e opositor de Fico, e considerando a longa ficha corrida de atentados orquestrados pelos EUA e as potências europeias, é bem possível que estes estão por trás dessa tentativa de assassinato. Ao contrário do que diz o Estadão, Fico foi atacado por um “militante pró-OTAN” e anti-Rússia, e não pró-Rússia.

Mas vamos voltar ao caso Ebrahim Raisi. Seria obrigação de qualquer membro da imprensa questionar as condições em que o helicóptero se “acidentou”. Não veremos esses questionamentos nos grandes jornais, porque sua função não é colocar o dedo na ferida, mas ocultá-la.

Ninguém acha estranho que o percentual de chefes de Estado mortos em acidentes de helicóptero ou avião seja tão alto? O analista de políticas de segurança Michael Maloof levantou uma questão: havia três helicópteros juntos em uma caravana e um deles caiu, sem que houvesse sinal de emergência. E se foi devido à neblina, por que os outros dois não se acidentaram, apenas o helicóptero levando o presidente da república e o ministro das Relações Exteriores?

Pois parece que as aeronaves realmente odeiam chefes de Estado. Que azar do Raisi e do principal ministro do Irã, pobrezinhos!

Mas, para evitar a má sorte, um conselho para o próximo presidente persa: cuidado ao entrar em um helicóptero, principalmente se o seu país estiver em uma guerra fria com Israel, que já explodiu gasodutos no Irã, assassinou cientistas nucleares iranianos e há menos de dois meses bombardeou sua embaixada na Síria. Talvez, por problemas técnicos ou pelo mau tempo, possa ocorrer um acidente fatal.

Eduardo Vasco

First published by Global Research on October 2, 2023

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We commemorate Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann

“Those of us who do understand the nefariousness of the empire, and the ever-increasing danger it represents, must be clear that the effective defense of life on planet Earth, including that of the human species itself, inexorably demands the existence of an independent and democratic world forum for a genuine and effective defense of the rights of Mother Earth and of humanity.

That is why we insist, repeat and say time and again that the United Nations as it exists today is useless, inoperative, dysfunctional and an instrument of the empire. That is why it no longer enjoys any confidence or credibility whatsoever. 

Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann.  Managua, 28 February 2011

This article is dedicated to the memory of my mentor and lifelong friend Padre Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann.

In 2020, the National University of Nicaragua (UNAN) established the Centro de Desarrollo Miguel d’Escoto Brockman (CEDMEB).

Padre Miguel d’Escoto’s Legacy will Live Forever. 

First published October 2, 2023

 

Introduction 

The UN System has over the years become of an instrument of U.S. hegemony. In the words of Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann:

We must wrest it from those who have usurped it so that we, the truly concerned for the future of the Earth, can inject new life, relevance and effectiveness into our world Organization.”  

Appointed by Washington, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has more than usurped our trust. He is the epitome of ambiguity and DoubleSpeak, particularly in relation to the dramatic social and economic crisis affecting the Global South. 

“Poverty is increasing and hunger is growing… the conclusion is clear, the world is failing developing countries.” said UNSG General Antonio Guterres in his opening presentation at the September 2023 G77 Conference Venue in Havana.

Global poverty has become part of a convenient political “narrative”. What has Guterres done to reverse the tide of global poverty? Nothing!

“Guterres got the UN job only because he is gullible and corruptible. He is drumming the drums of the ruling elite’s narrative – be it covid, climate or the energy crisis; or whatever else may hit the crisis-board. Fossil fuel causing climate change is a scientifically proven lie. No trillion dollars can undo it.” (Peter Koenig)

Guterres is not only an instrument of the White House, his 2030 UN Sustainable Development Project is being carried out in coordination with Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF), which represents the interests of the global financial establishment. Needless to say, Big Money calls the shots. 

 

The UN-WEF Partnership

A strategic partnership was signed in 2019 at a meeting held at UN headquarters between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and WEF Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab “to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

Signing of the WEF-UN Partnership 

 

The 2030 UN Sustainable Development Project is the WEF’s “Great Reset” by another name. 

This partnership is in blatant violation of the UN Charter. The UNSG is in conflict of interest. He has provided a Green Light to the implementation of the WEF’s Agenda on behalf of powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians, which essentially consists in impoverishing the entire planet. 

What should have been debated by the G77 in Havana in September 2023 is the nature of this insidious WEF-UN partnership. It’s a neoliberal agenda to the nth degree on behalf of “Big Money”, to the obvious detriment of the Global South. It is part and parcel of the WEF’s “Great Reset”:

“The UN-Forum partnership will focus on aligning financial systems and accelerating finance flows toward the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Collaboration will seek to build a shared understanding of sustainable investing, especially in small island developing States, least developed countries and landlocked developing countries, and identify and take forward solutions to increase SDG investments” (emphasis added)

To consult the text of the UN-WEF partnership click here

“Aligning Financial Systems” 

While Guterres refers rhetorically to the failed  “global systems and structures”, he is visibly involved in “aligning financial systems” to the detriment of heavily indebted developing countries, which are the victims of U.S. dollarization. 

While the IMF-World Bank Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) launched in the early 1980s prevails, the Neoliberal chessboard has become increasingly complex.

Aligning financial systems” goes far beyond the imposition of “IMF economic medicine”, which historically has triggered mass poverty throughout the Global South.

While the dollar denominated external debt remains the instrument of economic subservience, “Aligning financial systems” is intent upon opening the door to privatization on a large scale affecting entire sectors and regions of both developing countries and the West. 

The large portfolio investment funds including BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard (coupled with Wall Street’s banking cartels) are the driving force. “Their holdings are colossal. BlackRock manages nearly $10 trillion in investments. Vanguard has $8 trillion, and State Street has $4 trillion” (NYT)

“BlackRock Owns the World”


The portfolio companies have strategic investments in all major regions of the World.

BlackRock operates Worldwide with 70 offices in 38 countries. 

“These oligarchs are accompanied by some super-giant financial institutions, like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity and more which control an estimated 25 trillion dollars-equivalent in assets, giving them a leverage power of well-over a 100 trillion dollars, as compared to the world’s GDP of some 90 trillion dollars. In other words, they can manipulate, control and pressure every government on Mother Earth to do their bidding. (Peter Koenig)

Video: BlackRock, the Company that Owns the World

Below are three major BlackRock initiatives.

In the case of Ukraine, the levels of indebtedness are beyond description. The agreement with BlackRock is tantamount to the privatization of an entire country.  

BlackRock In Brazil’s Amazon Rain Forest

The amounts invested in the Amazon are colossal under the auspices of the three portfolio investment giants: “The 20 institutional investors plowed a combined $54.1 billion into nine mining conglomerates … “Of that amount, $14.8 billion came from just three U.S. firms — BlackRock, Capital Group [a US Financial Services Company] and Vanguard — with BlackRock alone pouring $6.2 billion into the mining companies.” (Mongabay) 

BlackRock In Kenya

“BlackRock Alternatives’ public-private finance vehicle, Climate Finance Partnership (CFP), has acquired a 31.25% stake in Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP), the largest wind farm in Africa. The stake was purchased from Vestas, Finnfund, and the Investment Fund for Developing Countries for an undisclosed sum” (Kenya Wallstreet Journal)

 

Ukraine is Being Bought Up by BlackRock and JPMorgan

In recent developments, BlackRock together with JPMorgan “have  come to the rescue of Ukraine”, whose external dollar denominated debt is beyond description. (See Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 2023)  

The stated objective is “to attract billions of dollars in private investment to assist rebuilding projects in a war-torn country”. (FT, June 19, 2023) 

The Privatization of Ukraine was launched in November 2022 in liaison  with BlackRock’s  consulting company  McKinsey, a public relations firm which has largely been responsible for co-opting corrupt politicians and officials Worldwide not to mention scientists and intellectuals on behalf of powerful financial interests.

In late December 2022, president Zelensky and BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink agreed on an investment strategy.

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The Hegemonic Triad:

UN-WEF-NATO

UN-NATO “Cooperation”

In parallel with the UN-WEF Partnership, the United Nations under Secretary General Guterres has developed a strategic relationship with NATO.

While it is described as a dialogue, NATO is increasingly embedded in the UN system, allegedly endorsing “peace support and crisis management”. The realities are otherwise: the UN is endorsing the US-NATO hegemonic agenda of Global Warfare:

“The complexity of today’s security challenges has required a broader dialogue between NATO and the UN. This has led to reinforced cooperation and liaison arrangements between the staff of the two organisations, as well as UN specialised agencies. (NATO, July 2023

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meets with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

 

 

The UN Secretary General’s “Public Relations Ploy”

Providing a “Human Face” to Global Capitalism 

 

UNSG Antonio Guterres has launched a stereotyped public relation’s ploy which is intent upon presenting the UN-WEF-NATO Agenda as a means to resolving the climate crisis, eliminating poverty as well as instating “World Peace”. it’s a lie. 

In 2021, in preparation of the 76th UN General Assembly, the UNSG appointed  “advocates” to endorse the Sustainable Development Goals

In September 2021, the UN Secretary-General appointed four new advocates of the SDGs as part of a reprehensible public relations ploy:
  • the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, Kailash Satyarthi;
  • the president of Microsoft, Brad Smith;
  • the k-pop superstars BLACKPINK 
  • Chile’s STEM activist – science, technology, Valentina Muñoz. (Chica Rosadita)

This is how public opinion and media coverage is manipulated at the UN General Assembly.

Censorship in applied. Independent analysts are not invited. 

I have high regard and admiration for the k-pop singers, but for UNSG Antonio Guterres to have invited them to present a carefully prepared script (on his behalf) to the UN 76th General Assembly was improper and unbefitting. 

 

 

Also in 2021, Valentina Munoz (La Chica Rosadita) of 19 years old was invited by Guterres to endorse the UN Agenda 2030 in an address to the UN General Assembly: 

 

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First published on May 15, 2024

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The world is dangerous to live, 

not so much because of those who do evil, 

but because of those who watch and let it happen. *

Let’s not go around the bush. 

I am referring to the so-called COVID-19 pandemic that led to the injection of a product of composition still unknown to billions of people, from 2021, under a pretext advanced as an indisputable dogma, that of stopping the said pandemic.

So-called experts took turns on all the radio and television waves of the world to tell us that this infection was fatal and that the only way to stop it was to be injected with a product presented as a new generation, effective and harmless vaccine.

And billions of people believed it and received this injection, not once, but for a large number, several times. And it is not over and continues to be advocated, strongly recommended for pregnant women, children and old people.

Today, in May 2024, what can we say about it, by being humble, honest, scientific, the most impartial examiner possible of the facts, free from any conflict or even any link of interest and only seeking to get as close as possible to the truth, whether we like it or not?

As soon as I perceived the discrepancies in the official speech (the canary in the mine**), fully assuming my function as anesthesiologist-resuscitator, intensivist, at the front lines in a large acute hospitalization service in Belgium, I published an article entitled:

COVID-19, check your sources. War against…corruption? “, April 12, 2020 [1].

The term “war” refers to the expression used six times by French President Emmanuel Macron in his speech of March 16, 2020, We are at war“, implied, for him, against a virus while a war against pandemic scientific and media corruption would save many more human lives!

It was premonitory because it is vital in this kind of crisis to discern the truth of the lie; to verify what we are told, especially when the author of the lie is presented as an expert and expresses himself without citing any of his sources, relying only on his largely manufactured reputation and on the complicity, conscious or not, of journalists who do not question anything that this expert says.

Beware that the most effective lies are half-truths or are sown in the otherwise coherent discourse, like almost invisible, imperceptible grains.

The devil is always in the details.

This is what has happened to almost all the official statements denounced in the last four years as indisputable truths by our “benevolent” authorities, assertions subsequently denied, quickly or later, by the facts and serious, independent and courageous analysts given the extreme censorship and extensive intimidation to which they have been subjected.

For my part, I refer you to the many articles written between April 2020 and January 2023, on this site www.mondialisation.ca, addressing almost all the subjects concerned, confinements, early treatments including ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, RT-PCR diagnostic technique, vaccines, masks and totalitarian drift [2].

For almost everything, the facts will have proved me right.

I’m far from being the only one.

I only come back to a few illustrative points.

Hydroxychloroquine, an old and well-known treatment, with marginal side effects if the pharmacology and dosages (doses) are respected and which has been shown to be effective in the early treatment of COVID-19. 

With other doctors, including many fields, from many nations, I said this very early and the facts confirmed this truth yet offended by official experts, including the prestigious medical journal, the Lancet, which withdrew its hostile and fraudulent article 12 days after its publication [3] creating the scandal called Lancetgate.

However, you will notice, and it is a habit, that all the doctors in the world, those in the field called general practitioners or family doctors, have not been warned of this rehabilitation of hydroxychloroquine by these same media from all countries, unanimous and very noisy when it came to spreading a lie, discreet or even silent when it came to restoring the truth.

We can make the same observation with ivermectin [4].

As a doctor, I personally treated hundreds of people with acute respiratory infection labeled COVID-19 in 2021 with correctly dosed ivermectin.

This treatment has been safe and effective, often from the first day of treatment, including in people at risk and fragile, very old, obese, chronic heart or respiratory insufficiency, thus avoiding changes to more serious forms, reducing hospital overload and the period of contagiousness; with an inexpensive, harmless drug that can be prescribed to pregnant women without risk to the fetus, and known since the 1980s, widely prescribed in Africa in particular.

Where are the articles and documentaries relating this truth, in all our written or spoken media?

Have you seen a rehabilitation of these really effective and safe treatments (at the recommended dosages) since the facts proved right to all those who advocated them as early as 2020 or 2021?

Me, no.

On the contrary, doctors, among others, who have treated and talked about their success have been (and still are) threatened with radiation, suspension, prosecution and defamed in this press that continues to lie and support the vaccine in its entirety.

While the facts prove us right. And the so-called “vaccine”?

Based on current data and the decline since 2021, in England, it has been known since September 2023 that COVID-19 vaccinated people die more than unvaccinated people: Further Proof: The “Age Adjusted Argument” has been Crushed by the mRNA Data Avalanche. While this will thankfully Crush mRNA investment, sadly it has also Crushed so many Victims along the way. (substack.com), as analyzed by the French statistician Pierre Chaillot, author of a remarkable book, COVID-19, which is revealed by the official figures, éditions l’Artilleur. Here is the video where Pierre Chaillot analyzes English statistics: Revelation of a new English study: we know who dies the most! (youtube.com).

Really, I encourage you, 4 years after my first article, to reread them all.

On the one hand, we have inexpensive treatments, effective especially since they are early, harmless in case of use according to the prescription rules, treatments that have proven their worth (I can attest to it personally), 

And on the other hand, we have injections of a product with an unknown complete composition, fraudulently called “vaccines”, very expensive but very profitable for the shareholders of the companies that manufacture them and all those they have corrupted, and which we now know to cause excess mortality and an outbreak of side effects in populations around the world (cancers, autoimmune diseases, degeneration, acceleration of cellular aging…).

But our authorities, the press, the official “experts” continue their way without blinking, continuing to shoot honest scientists and caregivers who are independent of any financial link with the globalized system, and who contradict them by relying on the facts.

Why do the vast majority of people continue to let it happen? And to let yourself go? Because the key to the exit door is in them.

In each of us.

It’s about our survival.

Now, I will give more of my personal opinion, my deduction. 

It’s only that, my opinion, even if the past showed that I had seen clearly on many of the subjects concerned, do not believe me on my word or by friendship.

Check, check, read articles, books, watch the videos I inform you to enlighten you, and make your own opinion.

Everything I say from now on can still evolve. 

This is the true honest science, never to freeze on a position, a belief that would become an unbeatable dogma, regardless of the contradictory facts or the painful need to admit to having been wrong. No. Especially not.

While having the courage to affirm what we think at some point, whether we like it or not, even if it attracts us trouble, suspension, cancellation, tax control, or even worse.

I hope that all readers on this site will therefore have understood that we have been lied to; sometimes intelligently and subtly, more often in a rude and authoritarian way, using human weaknesses through fear, conformism, selfishness and lazioness.

Why?

To depopulate an overcrowded land, using odious means, an almost imperceptible, “sweet” genocide, in which, if we do nothing, do not react, we are all accomplices, by action or omission.

It began with the abandonment of vulnerable and fragile people, the elderly, isolated, dead of dehydration, deprivation of affection, love, and the most basic care on the pretext of… saving them!

This continued by prohibiting early treatments that were safe and effective and by inducing immense fear in people, since they were told to wait to get worse, that while waiting for that, they could do nothing (impotence) except ingest paracetamol, toxic to the only element that could still protect them, glutathione.

I will always remember this elderly doctor, abandoned to his fate, and crying when he came to my house, just because I had listened to him and reassured him.

This has been amplified by launching this global campaign to inject a toxic, ineffective and yet presented as safe and effective product and of which we know today, at least on the basis of the statistics of the countries that want to publish them, that it kills more than it saves.

While everything or almost everything is forbidden in pregnant women, magically, it had become acceptable to “violate” their immune-compromised sacred body, endangering the most vulnerable being, totally dependent on others for its survival, the human fetus.

How many miscarriages, stillbirths, malformations in the world today, in connection with this criminal policy?

This video, the first chapter of a series that has three, based on serious and documented research (sources cited in the video), will enlighten you on the issues and the underside of this tragedy.

🧠Eugenist 2.0 & Transhumanist: their open war against peoples – 1/3🗣️ Alain Schollaert – CrowdBunker

It is on the Crowdbunker platform, because on YouTube, immediately published, immediately censored which, indirectly, is a strong indication that it really disturbs liars, as only the truth can do.

The following episodes will be published on May 19 and May 26.

Watch, listen and draw your conclusions.

It is vital because we want to train you in a world that you, here, do not want, neither for you, nor above all, for your children.

Depopulation. 

It is in this case of a cruel, revolting cynicism because those who decide to do so do it in their golden bunker, well sheltered, having proclaimed themselves kings of the world simply because they have looted this world, stolen the riches that belong to all humanity and that strong of their dollars and euros, their relationships, their “powers”, they decide who will die or live. 

They use lies brilliantly and coldly, they exploit the flaws of the democratic system and above all, rely on our weaknesses skilfully excited by all the means at their disposal, drugs, sports, music, television, agitation, sex…

We have become too many for them, walking on their flower beds and they have launched what corresponds to the 2030 agenda. Yes, you read well, it’s for 2030 and we are there!

Psychological manipulation pushed to its climax, fears, invisible or little visible attacks for many years [5] by chemical pollution of air (chemtrails), water, electromagnetic waves (4G, 5G, but also our Wifi, televisions, electrical appliances…), and today, these nanomolecular poisons directly injected into the human body.

As a corollary, it is a question of removing cash and replacing it with all-digital.

To make the human as inert and predictable as a machine without a soul or own mind, much easier to direct and exploit.

This video developed by the Corsican-Belgian researcher Alain Schollaert, on the channel of the very good Akina, the Media Front, also talks about a delicate but oh so vital subject, too!

The manufactured, so-called “controlled” opposition. The false opposition or Trojan horse that participates in a perverse, sometimes unconscious way, in the dissemination of the official narrative and its fulfillment by capturing dissenting wills.

How to find your way around without paranoia or discouragement?

Here again, these are my deductions, I assume them but make your own opinion.

However, do not delay or make a mistake because this is what your life is at stake, yours and that of your loved ones.

The decisions you will make, the actions you take will all depend on the information you have chosen to trust, the whistleblowers you have chosen to follow because yes, there are false ones, more or less aware of what they are doing.

First, beware of the “heroes” made by this tragedy. 

Seek humility, discretion, true modesty in those who speak to you.

There are no heroes. No pedestal, no resistance elites, no prestigious characters! 

Look for those who can talk about everything, without taboos, both messenger RNA and graphene oxide, programmed genocide and the deadly vaccine industry! Look for those who admit their mistakes, are tolerant, those who do not take others from above, who do not present themselves as experts in turn, which would mean that by their title alone, we should listen to them religiously.

Do you remember the Swiss researcher Astrid Stuckelberger, censored in a congress of “resistants” just because she wanted to address the subject of graphene oxide, as if some could decide their sole authority on what we can talk about or not.

We are all ordinary citizens immersed in extraordinary circumstances that have revealed what our true nature is made of. 

Those who spoke and acted, some of whom were very conformist in normal times, those who resisted, refused to blindly follow the orders only did so because they could not do otherwise, yet very lucid about the terrible risks they ran, dismissal, harassment, imprisonment, poisoning, social or fiscal murder.

It is not out of heroism but out of moral obligation.

It is in these circumstances, at the heart of the action, that we really discover who we are. Not before.

Then, look at who was visible, carried to the clouds even, and who was ostracized, very quickly or gradually. 

Look at who is censored especially on YouTube and who is not or less so. Do not draw hasty conclusions but make your spirit of deduction work.

When some have been able to publish books without problems, translated even into several languages, talk about them on radio, you have other serious authors who are never talked about and translated. It’s a sign.

Do you know Didier Raoult, Louis Fouché, Alexandra Henrion-Caude, Jean-Dominique Michel, Xavier Azalbert…? 

I’m sure it is. The “tenors“, the “pillars“…

And Melody Feron, Denis Rancourt, Sasha Latypova, Tess Lawrie, Alain Schollaert, Laurence Kayser? Much less, right?

But again and it’s crucial, make your own opinion.

The real whistleblowers are invisible. It makes sense. The lie does not tolerate the truth that destroys it with a single glance. 

The real resistance fighters are excluded, even by the so-called resistant or awakened circles, who therefore do what they criticize precisely in the other camp, elitism and selection.

The video report by Alain Schollaert, sourced, connecting all the points of this labyrinth of corruption and secret objectives, speaks for itself.

The intention of these forces of evil is terrible.

It is Primum Nocere: above all, harm (as opposed to the oath of any caregiver, primum non nocere, above all not to harm).

These are conspiracies. This is not a theory and those who still tell you this are either individuals of the mental age of a child preferring a false world but they know, or dishonest or even complicit people.

All the evidence of this plot against humanity is there, before our eyes, today. As evidenced by the enormous work of lawyer Reiner Fuellmich now imprisoned [6]. 

And it will not be the well-known collectives, which have become well-oiled and admitted machines for some time, nor the so-called resistant press organs that will help you get out of there.

It’s you, us, me, you, him, her.

We. Together.

Everyone defending their soul and spirit in the face of the devastating attack.

Starting by freeing yourself from the evil influences that capture you and lock you in a dead end of the labyrinth. They have foreseen an impasse for each of us, since the time they have been working on this diabolical project.

They knew very well that some would not swallow their lies and would have the courage to resist. They left nothing to chance. They tried to plan everything, to propose an alternative solution for each of us.

Whatever the name of this trap for you, I pray that as many people as possible, after reading this article and especially the vision of Eugenist 2.0 & Transhumanist: their open war against the peoples, directed by Alain Schollaert, will see clearly and take back the personal power they have at the bottom of their soul and we will survive all this.

Because they won’t win. 

They cannot violate your soul without your consent, which is why they do everything to deceive it, mislead it, weaken it and steer it in the wrong direction.

Be brave, lucid, calm, think and then act, be afraid of nothing and allow the best in you, brighter, good and beautiful, the love force of your blazing heart to radiate and extinguish all this darkness.

Dr. Pascal Sacré

Featured image: Screenshot. Whistleblower.

* I do not put an author because this kind of sentence is attributed to one or the other, without the possibility of verifying it. It is the sentence itself, universal, that is important because it summarizes the whole current problem.

** the canary in the coal mine: What does it mean to be a canary in a coal mine? – Spiegato

Endnotes: title translated into English, link to the original French

[1] COVID-19 – Check your sources. War against… corruption? | Globalization – Center for Research on Globalization

[2] Dr. Pascal Sacré | Globalization – Globalization Research Center

[3] The corruption of science. The scandal of the hydroxychloroquine study. Who was behind all this? Anthony Fauci’s intention to block the HCQ on behalf of major pharmaceutical companies | Globalization – Center for Research on Globalization

[4] COVID-19, a simple change of method and it’s over | Globalization – Globalization Research Center 

[5] Read the author Claire Séverac, and her book “the war against the peoples”: Claire Séverac – The secret war against the peoples: Claire Séverac: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive. This courageous activist was murdered through a mysterious dazzling disease in December 2016 (The death of Claire Séverac, an activist who disturbed the “establishment” – Health and Well-being – Sott.net)

[6] This is the beginning of the trial of Reiner Fuellmich (youtube.com)

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Pascal Sacré has graduated in medicine, in Belgium, since 1995, at the University of Liège. He began a specialty in anesthesia-resuscitation in 1997, completed in 2002 and supplemented by a specialization in critical care in 2003.
He worked in a hospital environment, mainly in intensive care, for 18 years without anything ever being blamed for.
In his department, he worked on the development of a protocol for the management of pain, drug sedation and neurological complications such as delirium, a protocol retained by many peers in other hospitals.
Dismissed in 2020 from the hospital where he had been working for 9 years, due to positions contrary to the official health policy and a conflict with management over the COVID-19 crisis, he continued to defend his point of view despite adversity (dismissal without compensation, summons to the police station, defamation in the press, blacklisting in all Belgian intensive care services despite the recognition of his competence and professionalism, invisibility).
In 2021, he found an anesthesio-intensivist position at the center of the great burns, at the military hospital, in Belgium. This center depends on the Ministry of Defence and not directly on the Ministry of Health.
Dr Sacré trained at the University of Liège (Professor M-E Faymonville) in hypnotherapy in a medical environment.
Interested in everything that can help his patient get better, Dr. Sacré considers that nothing can be a priori rejected, such as the addition of natural medicines to chemical practices recognized in hospital settings, or conversely, a priori considered an untouchable dogma such as vaccination.
Everything deserves open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity and honest research, with humility and good faith.
His mantra: “think for yourself”.
 Dr. Sacré, in order to help each person regain control of his health without waiting for interested circles to do so, gives training in the management of the mind, emotions, stress through the tools he has himself learned (cardiac coherence, breathing, language, self-hypnosis) and organizes workshops on health topics such as digestion, endocrine glands (thyroid, adrenal…), vagus nerves, in a language that is simple and accessible to all.
Its website: www.pascal-sacre.be and the associated email: [email protected] 
He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization since 2009.

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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The ‘deep state’ has no power over you. None. It can only try and make you believe it does.

And in this it is very clever, using sophisticated psychological techniques that give the impression of holding the dominant position and exercising the dominant power.

But this is a chimera; and immediately one sees it as such one manifests the authoritative position and the deep state is in check; it can only operate defensively.

This it does by putting up ever greater barriers to freedom of expression, movement and choice.

It knows it’s on the losing side, so has to pull all the tricks in the trade to make itself appear to be in control. It’s a psychological battlefield.

Edward Bernays, the founder of modern advertising, has had much to do with weaponising the powers of perception and deception. He found that you can get people to believe and do almost anything once you learn how to exploit their psyche with carefully chosen imagery and words.

Once you tap into people’s widespread subconscious attraction to the trappings of seductive consumables.

The deep state’s corporate/banker led ‘seeming’ global dominance draws on Bernays’s cunning, using advanced insights concerning how to influence the functions of different areas of the human brain. 

The objective is to come up with a blanket like web of virtual signposting pointing to the direction life must go in in order to overcome some purposefully manufactured crisis. A crisis that is claimed will otherwise cook, starve or destroy people and the planet.

People in a state of funk take all this to be real, of course, and plod on with their tunnel vision acceptance of the pathological diktats of the status quo.

The deep state cabal has a mental hold over their perception of what is and is not true, and rolls out the moderators, fact checkers and ‘sudden silencers’ to counteract anything that emerges as an emissary of truth. Many of us have had first hand experience of this executioner formula.

Nevertheless, ‘we the purposeful people’ are winning through. There is simply too much informative material on the loose for the thought/surveillance police to cover, in spite of their algorythmic interventions.

Image is from The Libertarian Institute

Their tactic is therefore to try to gain the upper hand by pushing harder on the ‘disaster agenda.’

This is exemplified by the global dissemination of the dystopian agenda laid out in Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The most ubiquitous cooked-up disaster is, of course, ‘man made global warming’ – with its stated solution to be the Transhuman. All steps in between are sold as vital to advancing the speed and efficiency of the ‘human to inhuman’ transformation process.

The digitalisation of life is central to the architects of control argument that humanity is incapable of managing itself and that, without their intervention, the outcome will be the complete breakdown of planetary life.

Only a race of soulless computer assisted ‘super beings’ can save the day, say the likes of Yuval Noah Harari, Elon Musk and Klaus Schwab.

Consider how this agenda plays on the psychology of those who have yet to find in themselves the self assurance to discard that which has no practical sense of purpose and no foundation in basic common sense.

The architects of control count on the majority remaining unresistant to the rolling out of their high tech hegemonic master plan. So much so that they can freely announce that by following it

“You will own nothing and you will be happy.”

In the psychological battle for truth, the perpetrators of the lie have access to a vast storehouse of mind bending persuasion techniques to make their agenda seem the only choice.

They recognise that when a high percentage of individuals believe themselves to be unable to operate without a mobile phone – they will be sufficiently unfocussed and distracted so as to be unable to rebel against a fateful acceptance of slavey to the big brother of convenience.

Easily manipulated victims of digital mass hypnosis.

Here lies the rub: if the upwardly mobile urban ‘educated’ segment of society sees no problem conducting their lives within a credit card bubble of hypermarket convenience shopping, digital EMF communication systems, computer fed entertainment packages and a well paid job in a global or trans national corporation – where is the resistance going to come from?

If this genre of people are already too far gone to register an internal kick when faced by a high level plan to ‘happily’ have all their material assets taken away from them – then who or what is going to raise the alarm?

It looks to me as though only a small percentage of mankind can read the script being outlined for their future behind bars. Only a few can grasp the psychology of the insentient psychopath and his soulless urge to possess and control, at any price.

But once one moves outside the world of Godless urban shopping obsessed nine to fiver’s and ‘well educated’ university trained job hunters, a potential to get real starts to emerge.

Amongst those working people who regularly get their hands dirty, who till the fields; build shelters; repair cars; mend pipes; fix electrics and dig drains, the virtual reality digital cybernetic future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – and Green New Deal – looks like pure phantasy. The ravings of the unhinged.

They don’t need to mentally struggle in order to try to grasp the twisted logic being broadcast by the global media mafia.

They simply know in their gut that it’s so much ‘bull’.

It is those who form the foundation of pyramid who hold society together. Who glue together the basic infrastructure which supports our daily lives. And it is from here that an increasing percentage reject the psychology of mental indoctrination and the promotion of a digitalised virtual future.

The ‘Throw out Green Deal’ remarkable, unified farmer uprisings happening in all parts of Europe and beyond are testimony to this. They are rising up against the imposition of phony ‘Net Zero by 2045’ rules that demand an end to farmers working the land and an end to the livestock that keep that land fertile.

These farmers are out in their tens of thousands. In Poland they are mounting month long tractor blockades of cities, supermarkets and border crossings. Coals miners, faced by being shut out by large scale ‘stop global warming’ redundancies, are joining the uprising. 

Source

Farmers say they will not cease their disruptions until their demands are met by government and by the EU.

This is the refreshingly undiluted language of genuine defiance. 

It has the authorities rattled. Green Deal is, after all, the very backbone of the agenda to enslave us all to a Brave New World of synthetic everything – from food to nature to people. 

The general public are in sympathy with the farmers’ actions.  Approximately 80% of European citizens are on their side according to opinion surveys.

Getting a solid core of consumers to rise up and participate in this bottom up movement for the survival of real food and real farming will be vital to maintaining the momentum.

Coming from an unlikely place, a solid earthed uprising is gathering pace. The farmers’ demands are essentially for economic fairness, respect and recognition of the vital roll they play in the food security of the nation. 

Under ‘Green Deal’ none of these demands are taken seriously. The WEF solution is not to support the agricultural community but to destroy it!

In the 2024 battle for truth, everyone should behave as resolutely as the farmers. The need is to be uncompromising in one’s face to face dealings with political liars and hypocrites.

We are the trustees of Planet Earth. In order to maintain its balance and equilibrium – we have no choice other than to enter into a pactless fight against all opposing forces. 

Those who have land, can grow food and draw water from the well, are the last independent individuals on the planet. They are not about to capitulate to a bunch of psychos in Brussels, London, Warsaw, Washington or Paris – and nor are we.

Everyone’s life is dependent upon having access to nourishing food. Therefore everyone’s life is dependent upon the survival and future prosperity of the farmer. 

Support them now in their hour of need. Their need is also your need.

They have no future – and nor do we – without a life saving revolution that re-establishes the priorities for what is actually important in life. Think deeply about this and then act on it without delay. 

And if you’re left in doubt – ask farmers who actually controls the food chain. Who is really in the driving seat when it comes to feeding the world?

Rise up, all good people. Take your destiny in both hands. Vigorously join together in forging a great victory for humanity over inhumanity. 

Allowing one’s self to slide into a state of abject slavery is a doctrine of the graveyard. 

All those retaining some life giving red blood corpuscles know that the road to truth accepts no compromise and can never be subverted by the orchestrated opium of mass indoctrination.

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Through its Young Global Leaders program, the World Economic Forum has been instrumental in shaping a world order that undermines all democratic principles. For several decades, this program has nurtured compliant leaders acting as WEF agents in governments around the world. The consequences are far-reaching and may turn out to be devastating for humanity. 

I have to say then I mention names like Mrs Merkel, even Vladimir Putin and so on they all have been Young Global Leaders of The World Economic Forum. But what we are really proud of now with the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina and so on, is that we penetrate the cabinets… It is true in Argentina and it is true in France now… (Klaus Schwab)

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In 1992, Klaus Schwab and World Economic Forum launched a program initially called Global Leaders of Tomorrow.

In 2004, this program was turned into the Forum for Young Global Leaders (which I cover in my book The Global Coup D’Etat) –  a 5-year program of indoctrination into WEFs principles and goals.

The aim was – and is – to find suitable future leaders for the emerging global society. The program has since its inception has included politicians, business leaders, royalty, journalists, performers and other cultural influencers who have excelled in their fields but have not yet turned 40 years of age (originally 43 in order to include Angela Merkel). It has since grown into an extensive global network of dedicated leaders with enormous resources and influence, all working to implement the technocratic plans of the World Economic Forum in their respective nations and fields.

The network creates a force for worldwide influence through the combination of the individual skills and resources of its members.

As Klaus Schwab says in the introductory quote, it has become very successful.

Already in the first year, 1992, a number of highly influential candidates were elected. Among 200 selected were global profiles such as Angela Merkel, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Bill Gates, Bono, Richard Branson (Virgin), Jorma Ollila (Shell Oil), and José Manuel Barroso (President of the European Commission 2004–2014).[1]

More examples of influential Young Global Leaders [2]:

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway
Crown Prince Fredrik of Denmark
Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme, Netherlands

Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al-Saud, Ambassador for Saudi-Arabia in USA
Jacinda Arden, Prime Minister, New Zeeland
Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister, Belgium
Emmanuel Macron, President, France
Sanna Marin, Prime Minister, Finland
Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President, Costa Rica
Faisal Alibrahim, Minister of Economy and Planning, Saudi Arabia
Shauna Aminath, Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Maldives
Ida Auken, MP, former Minister of Environment, Denmark (author to the infamous article “Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better”)
Annalena Baerbock, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Leader of Alliance 90/Die Grünen, Germany
Kamissa Camara, Minister of the Digital Economy and Planning, Mali
Ugyen Dorji, Minister of Domestic Affairs, Bhutan
Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Canada
Martín Guzmán, Minister of Finance, Argentina
Muhammad Hammad Azhar, Minister of Energy, Pakistan
Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information and communications technology and Innovation, Rwanda
Ronald Lamola, Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa
Birgitta Ohlson, Minister for European Union Affairs 2010–2014, Sweden
Mona Sahlin, Party Leader of the Social Democrats 2007–2011, Sweden
Stav Shaffir, Leader of the Green Party, Israel
Vera Daves de Sousa, Minister of Finance, Angola
Leonardo Di Caprio, actor and Climate Activist
Mattias Klum, photographer and Environmentalist
Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba
Larry Page, Founder of Google
Ricken Patel, Founder of Avaaz
David de Rothschild, adventurer and Environmentalist
Jimmy Wale, Founder of Wikipedia
Jacob Wallenberg
, Chairman of Investor
Niklas Zennström, Founder of Skype

Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook

The purpose from the beginning has been to “identify and advance a future-oriented global agenda, focusing on issues at the intersection of the public and private sectors.”

Public–Private Partnerships is one of the cornerstones of the World Economic Forum philosophy. That is, a merger between state and large companies (also known as corporativism) with the aim of solving global problems of in a more “effective” way. The choice of leaders clearly reflects this aspiration.

The Young Global Leaders group was initially instructed to identify the major challenges of the 21st century. These included peace, the environment, education, technology and health – areas which these upcoming leaders could exploit politically, economically, and culturally in the new millennium.

Partners for Global Leaders of Tomorrow in 2000 were large global companies such as The Coca Cola Company, Ernst & Young, Volkswagen, and BP Amoco. These could contribute to the agenda by “playing an active role in developing and implementing the concept of the GLT project. The partners can therefore actively participate in the development of GLT programs; representatives of the partner companies as well as their guests are invited to GLT meetings .. ”Since the Global Leaders of Tomorrow was turned into Young Global Leaders 2004, partners such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, and JPMorganChase (with alumni from the program) have also participated as sponsors.

The ultimate consequence of both public–private partnerships and these target areas is the creation of a largely tyrannical  social contract in which the individual has become subordinated to these powerful interests. Noble goals of creating a better world have also been kidnapped. This is especially evident in the context of the partnership between the WEF and the UN and the implementation of the global goals (Agenda 2030) through the application of the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This means that the democratic principles and division of power of the 20th century have largely been completely undermined and instead replaced by a new global class that shapes our common future based on their own interests.

This has led to a de facto privatisation of both  national governments and international organisations, where lobbyists are no longer kept in the lobby but have moved into the seat of power, shaping policies directly affecting our lives. What this means has become particularly evident since the pandemic was declared in March 2020. In addition, leading multinational investment management corporations such as BlackRock, led by the World Economic Forum’s own Larry Fink, have constantly moved their positions forward.

German economist and journalist Ernst Wolff believes that many of the national leaders included in the Young Global Leader program have been selected for their willingness to carry out the tough agenda of lockdowns in recent years without asking any questions, and that their impending failure (as evidenced by in a growing dissatisfaction of the masses) will be used as an excuse to create a new form of Global Government where the old nation states become largely obsolete.

A new global digital currency with Universal Basic Income (UBI) can then be gradually introduced to replace our doomed monetary system.[3] This conclusion partly coincides with my own.

It is also supported by Paul Raskin‘s scenarios from The Great Transition Initiative on how  a totalitarian “New Earth Order” is established, to be replaced in the long run by a global democratic government (Earth Federation) with a World Constitution.[4]

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the catastrophic failure of an every-country-for-itself approach to public health, and national economic interests, rather than global needs, continue to dominate discussions of climate policy, paving the path toward climate chaos.

Under the tricameral World Parliament come the four main agencies of the Earth Federation government: the World Supreme Court system, the World Executive, the World Enforcement System, and the World Ombudsman.[5]

Glen T. Martin, The Great Transition Requires the Earth Constitution

The vision is that a peaceful and harmonious world in balance is created through the establishment of a World Federation with a World Parliament, World Government and a World Court. These are ideas that have long circulated in Club of Rome and closely connected New Age circles.

The question is how such a new global system of power would escape the fate of being kidnapped by the same interests that created our current corrupt and failing system?

This is in view of those who support projects such as The Great Transition (initiated with start-up capital from Steven Rockefeller). What is happening is rather a method of taking us to their ultimate solution in the form of a global technocratic control system.

However, it is highly unlikely that this plan will succeed. Awareness is spreading like wildfire and the panic of the elite increases as their narrative crumbles and people become more and more immune to the propaganda. Hence all the inquisitors and “fact checkers” who diligently gatekeep the narrative and help steer public opinion in the “right” direction. They are surely to be trusted since, for example, David Roy Thomson, Chairman of the Thomson Reuters Corporation, is an alumni of Global Leaders of Tomorrow, class of 1993.

It is now time to take control of our own destinies and to avoid falling into new traps.

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Notes

[1] World Economic Forum, GLT Class of 1993.pdf

[2] World Economic Forum, Young Global Leaders Community (searchable list over YGL alumni)

[3] Michael Lord, “Exposed: Klaus Schwab’s School For Covid Dictators, Plan for ‘Great Reset’“, RAIR Foundation, November 10, 2021

[4] Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland: The Great Transition to Planetary Civilization.pdf, Tellus Institute, Boston, 2016

[5] Glen T. Martin, The Great Transition Requires the Earth Constitution“, Great Transition Initiative, November 2021

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On August 4th, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood in front of the American public and stated,

“We Americans know, as do others though some may forget, the risk of spreading conflict. […]

I shall immediately request Congress to pass a resolution to make it clear that our government is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom and in defense of peace in Southeast Asia.”

On October 7th, 2001, on the eve of the US invasion of Afghanistan, President George Bush addressed the nation:

“We did not ask for this mission, but we will fulfill it.

The name of today’s military operation is Enduring Freedom.

We defend not only our precious freedoms, but also the freedom of people everywhere.”

He addressed the nation again on March 19th, 2003:

“At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operation to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.”

On March 28th, 2011, President Barack Obama commented on US intervention in Libya,

“Some nations may turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries, but the United States of America is different.”

On October 20th, 2023, President Joe Biden responded to the Hamas attack on Israel and the Russia-Ukraine War:

“I’m sending an urgent budget request to fund America’s national security interests…

It’s a smart investment that’s going to pay dividends for American security for generations, help keep American troops out of harm’s way, help us build a world that is safer, more peaceful, and more prosperous.”

All these speeches and masked declarations of war paint a similar picture: the US, a hero of the world, a defender of freedom, and a protector of the people.

In the bright, lucid light of history, we see differently.

A commonality stretches between each conflict like a woven thread of grim consistency– each of these decisions was an unmitigated disaster. You don’t need to be a foreign policy expert to recognize that. Not only have these conflicts led to thousands– millions– of deaths, but they have also plunged regions into periods of darkness, perpetuating mass poverty, human rights abuses, and political ruin.

Over two decades in Vietnam, nearly 60,000 US soldiers returned home in body bags.

On Vietnam’s shores, more than 2 million are buried.

50,000+ deaths in Laos, 150,000+ deaths in Cambodia from US attacks.

In Afghanistan, an estimated 70,000 military personnel and 46,000 civilians were killed– widely understood to be a vast underestimation.

In Iraq, an estimated 300,000 died from direct violence.

In Palestine, 40,000 and counting, most of whom are civilians– women and children.

But violence doesn’t end at direct warfare.

A study of America’s “War on Terror” estimates approximately 4.5 million people have died from the reverberating effects of war, such as disease and economic hardship. That is the reality of war: it leaves a lasting legacy of death and devastation wherever it goes.

It is easy to look at a number and just see a number. Names, faces, and identities– half-lived lives, and stories of love, pain, and hardship– are so easily condensed into a tally mark on paper. That is what our politicians do. They dehumanize humans in the name of “good intentions,” in the name of protecting American interests– America, a beautiful convergence of multicultural identities, where surely we must understand the emphasis of belonging to humanity rather than a conflated identity of belief and coordinates of birth.

It is so obvious, tragedy eclipses into satire: When did our foreign policy become something out of a poorly written movie where the bad guy declares they must kill millions of people to save the world?

“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,” said a US major in the decision to bomb the town Ben Tre after northern Vietnam forces overtook the city during the Tet Offensive in 1968, in case you thought that was an exaggeration.

Fortunately, our political fallibility has not gone unnoticed. The parallels are remarkable, as evidence by these rallying cries:

1969: “Hey, hey LBJ– how many kids did you kill today?”

2024: “Genocide Joe has got to go!”

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And indeed, former presidents have expressed regret and remorse over their decision.

In 2016, Obama declared Libya the “worst mistake of his presidency.” Alan Kuperman, a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs UTA  wrote,

“In retrospect, Obama’s intervention in Libya was an abject failure, judged by its own standards. Libya has not only failed to evolve into a democracy, it has devolved into a failed state. Violent deaths and other human rights abuses have increased sevenfold.”

It is well agreed, in the dim after-the-fact, that these invasions did no good, and quite a lot of bad. And still our government continues to perpetuate these same narratives as if they have never cracked open a history book and read about the consistent failure of US foreign intervention. Some will call this ignorance– others, greed. The truth is, our politicians are complicit in the war machine and no act of violence is unintentional. They rely on us not to recognize the patterns– and if we don’t, they’ll keep exploiting it. It is obvious we cannot rely on our political leaders to lead with any strength of character or understanding of morality.

We can, however, bring awareness to these grim trends. The cycle remains the same, even after nearly a century. Our foreign policy, anachronistic as it is, is fairly predictable.

Step one: Information warfare

In the US, public support is critical, not only for political and social stability, but also to maintain one’s chances for reelection. You can be sure that any potential conflict will be preempted by the creation of an enemy. This includes an amalgamation strategy of fear-mongering and purposeful intensifying of divisions.

Example: Leading up to US invasions in the Middle East, the region was widely demonized under the guise of religious differences. Even prominent policy advisors like Samuel Huntington fell into the trap of citing religious and cultural difference to be the main motivator of war in the 21st century. This led to extreme Islamophobia in the US and spikes in hate crime.

Step two: Militarization

Next, our government will take those narratives and run with it. Usually it is militarization in the name of deterrence. Accusations about the enemy’s intent to cause global devastation will plague Congressional meetings. Think tanks will fall back to the familiar Cold War era deterrence strategies because nobody seems to have thought of a better idea in an entire decade. The US will then opt to increase military presence in the region. Just in case.

Example: US military presence around Vietnam increased dramatically in response to the fear of communism. Any actions short of war were conducted with unambiguous support.

Step three: Wait for the right spark to light

The US is loathed to make the first move. No political leader wants to be considered as the one who began a war. Instead, they will put all the triggers into play and wait for one of them to fire. Then we can go to war pretending we are without blame.

Example: In August 1964, two US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin were sent to intercept North Vietnamese communication in support of the South. These ships were fired upon, which gave the US leeway to announce the need to respond with force.

Step four: War

The president will then make a solemn, resigned declaration of war. We must send troops to defend global peace, they will say. It is for the greater good. We are backed into a corner and have no other options.

Example: President George Bush labeled the 2003 invasion of Iraq a “preventative war,” saying that we must send forces to avoid a worse alternative. Rumors about Iraq’s WMDs were later debunked.

Step five: Failure

It is likely the conflict will be long and protracted. If history is anything to go by, thousands will die. Many of them will be innocent civilians caught in the crossfire. Mass violence will likely lead to chronic instability, economic devastation, and weakening of the state.

Example: Since the US invasion of Iraq, over one million civilians have been displaced, and three million are in need of humanitarian assistance. The US left a power vacuum open, allowing armed militant groups to take over various regions of the country. Political stability still remains out of reach to this day.

Step six: Regret

It could take some time, but eventually, history will catch up. War is rarely considered successful and hardly ever seen in a positive light. This isn’t something that needs any level of consideration– it’s because war is bad.

Example: A majority of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans agree the war was not worth it. A majority of Americans also regret the Vietnam War.

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Step seven: Amnesia

So many of us have lived through these past wars and seen the harm they do, not just abroad, but in our own communities. And yet, our government seems to face a chronic case of severe amnesia that echoes through the media and in our own minds. To truly stand for peace, we must remember tragedy and carry all its lessons with us.

Now let’s look at these steps in the context of China, which has been deemed our “next war”:

Step one: Information Warfare

Information warfare has been largely successful. So successful that it’s become a nonpartisan agreement that China is a threat to the US. This isn’t a good thing– war is far, far more likely when both sides of our government agree on it. Even public opinion sways in the same direction. Our media sources are basically in bed with political discourse. Everyone is saying the same thing, screaming it from the rooftops: China is our enemy. We must defeat China to protect our interests. Even if that means ruining the lives of millions of people.

Step two: Militarization

The widespread consensus of China’s danger has always led to a successful hyper-militarization of the Asia-Pacific region. Billions of dollars have been thrown at surrounding China with US military bases. Even now, military spending is at an all-time high. Our government claims they are “protecting” these nations, but there is significant public opposition in Japan, Guam, and the Philippines, where local communities have repeatedly reaffirmed their desire for US military presence to leave.

According to President Biden, we are “standing up for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.” Yes, we are standing up for peace with 300+ military bases, 375,000 military personnel, and countless missiles in the Asia-Pacific alone. It is the contradiction to end all contradictions.

Think tanks have already done the calculations. Conflict in the Asia-Pacific would be a disaster for China’s economy, leading to a shrinkage of 20-35% at best. Local populations in the Asia-Pacific region would bear the brunt of the violence. The economic, political, and social instability would devastate the lives of millions of people.  The entire world– not just China– would be far worse off. It is clear that war is not the answer. Then again, it has never been the answer.

Step three: Wait for the right spark to light

Though the trigger hasn’t been fired yet, a terrifying number have been put into play. Besides the 300+ US military bases surrounding China (which is especially insane when one considers the fact that China has no military bases in the entire Western hemisphere), the US conducts annual “war games” meant to display military might in the region and antagonize China. Our government has worked overtime to create mini trilateral alliances with other nations in the region, so that if one is pulled into war, they are all pulled into war. The US, which for 45 years has conducted foreign affairs in line with the one-China policy established in 1972, has come closer during Biden’s presidency than ever at reneging on the policy. This is solely due to China’s recent political and economic success. It is not a matter of sovereignty or security; it is a matter of protecting US hegemony.

The chilling reality is that war with China is something we may not walk away from. And though our political leaders repeatedly state their lack of desire to go to war, they are following perfectly in their predecessors’ footsteps. The fuel has been filled. All it takes is one trigger.

As we near the daunting cliff-face of another war, I can’t help but wonder: When will we learn? When will our government truly become an ark for humanity rather than an apparatus of violence, greed, and destruction? Is it really so idealistic to believe that disagreements can be settled without bloodshed? Our world is not the same as it used to be. It is clear that people are starting to wake up– starting to see through the weakening facade of a government that claims it stands for peace, when every action is geared towards war.

Perhaps it will take a millenia, and perhaps our species will not live long enough to see it. As it stands, as we see daily “but-they-did-it-first” squabbles, other threats close in– climate change, which is our biggest security threat to date, goes unconsidered. Nuclear weapons pile up in our backyard, pointed at every inch of the globe as if it makes any sort of sense. And on and on we go, each decade with a new enemy and a new war and a new story of good versus evil, as if it’s not war itself– the US itself– that is perpetuating this stagnation.

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The Unproven Felony

Trump has just been convicted of a felony without specification of what the crime really was.

How to manipulate the jurors. That Trump committed a misdemeanor by falsifying records is beyond doubt.

But that misdemeanor has expired. Only as a “conspiracy” could the falsification of records become a felony. The DA (prosecutor) served the jury 3 possible conspiracies, but proved none of them.

The jury agreed on the falsification of records, and a conviction for felony was pronounced by the judge by skipping the necessary intermediate evidence for a conspiracy.

For background, a ”misdemeanor” is a minor crime with no more than one year of prison – a felony is a grave crime of more than one year of prison.

A misdemeanor in the form of falsification of records is clear, but that misdemeanor has since long expired. Therefore, the prosecutor’s problem was to present evidence for a graver crime, a felony, in order to achieve something. These two issues have to be separated – the proof of incorrect book-keeping (minor misdemeanor, too late for jail-time), and the allegation for felony, claiming that the misdemeanor intended to conceal a graver (jail-carrying) crime. The latter, proving intent to conceal a much graver crime, was not achieved.

Normally a felony conviction would be politically fatal for a candidate appearing on the ballot in five months. But normally a prosecutor wouldn’t have brought this case. Mr. Bragg, an elected Democrat, ran for office as the man ready to take on Mr. Trump.

By the time Mr. Bragg showed up on the scene, the Stormy business was old enough that Mr. Trump couldn’t be hit with misdemeanor falsification of records, because the statute of limitations had expired. To elevate these counts into felonies, the DA said Mr. Trump cooked the books with an intent to commit or cover up a second offense.

What crime was that? At first Mr. Bragg was cagey. He eventually settled on a New York election law, rarely enforced, that prohibits conspiracies to promote political candidates “by unlawful means.”

Yet what “unlawful means” did this alleged conspiracy use? The DA’s argument was that there were three:

First, the hush money was effectively an illegally large donation to Mr. Trump’s campaign.

Second, more business filings were falsified, including bank records for Mr. Cohen’s wire transfer to Ms. Daniels.

Third, false statements were made to tax authorities, since Mr. Trump’s repayment of Mr. Cohen was structured as income and “grossed up” to cover the taxes he would need to pay on it.

In some ways this Russian nesting doll structure, to use another analogy, defies logic.

Did Mr. Trump falsify business records in 2017 to cover up an illegal conspiracy to elect him in 2016, whose unlawful means included false information in Mr. Cohen’s tax return for 2017?

There was hardly any direct evidence about Mr. Trump’s state of mind. Federal prosecutors squeezed a guilty plea out of Mr. Cohen but notably didn’t pursue Mr. Trump. One news report said the feds worried that his “lack of basic knowledge of campaign finance laws would make it hard to prove intent.”

A help to Mr. Bragg’s prosecution is that the jurors were instructed that as long as they were unanimous that Mr. Trump was guilty of falsifying business records to aid or cover up an illegal conspiracy to get him elected, they didn’t all have to agree about which theory of the “unlawful means” they found persuasive.

Mr. Trump may be a cad, this conviction isn’t disqualifying for a second term in the White House.

The conviction sets a precedent of using legal cases, no matter how sketchy, to try to knock out political opponents, including former Presidents. Mr. Trump has already vowed to return the favor. See this.

The conviction of Trump for felony hangs upon whether Trump with his book-keeping intended to commit or cover up a felony, a larger crime – a list of no less than 3 possible felony crimes were presented by the DA (prosecutor) to the jurors. And the judge instructed the jurors that they did not have to agree on any of them, just that the book-keeping (for which itself he cannot be convicted) was not correct. A procedure, which probably goes against US federal law, which requires jurors to agree on all key elements of a possible crime.

You just cannot lawfully say that Mr. X intended to commit one of three suggested crimes, we cannot prove which, but pick your choice, even if all of you disagree.

The New York Times, the Party-paper and mother of Democrat opinion, however, has no problem with such an unlawful conviction for an unknown crime out of 3 suggested and unproven crimes, and tells the World that this is perfectly okay. The Democrats just enjoy themselves in their solarium-sun.

Reckoning Coming to Democrats

But this rigged conviction of Trump will have a reckoning, which the Democrats will not want.

First of all, Trump will probably still get elected, and the Democrats may themselves have transformed Trump to their own worst fears.

But not only Trump is upset by the Democrats’ blatant rigging of the US justice system, where the custody of secret papers is only a crime if Trump does it, but not if Biden does the same, and where contact about Biden family-members’ involvement in corruption in Ukraine in the same way is only illegal, if Trump talks with the Ukrainian president, but not if Biden talks with the Ukrainian president in the same object just from the Biden-family’s side.

Republican Tulsi Gabbard, who is not a “MAGA” follower, has condemned Biden for abusing the US justice system in the following stark words: 

Joe Biden has turned this country into a banana republic.

A country, where those in power use the legal powers and the law enforcement against their opponents.

Far worse are the consequences outlines by US TV-star Megyn Kelly – who says the only way to teach Democrats about their crimes of abusing the legal and justice system is that Republicans must do to Democrats what they themselves have done to Republicans.

The only thing to do is to do the same to them:

Order every Republican DA (prosecutor) to go after every Democrat.

Civil war has just broken out in the USA.

The last civil war was the bloodiest war in US history – even compared to the world wars.

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Blackened smoke in the background, the raging inferno ripped through tents long after Israel had bombed another designated “safe” zone for evacuated civilians from north of Gaza. A charred body, of a boy or a girl, pulled from the wreckage, still burning. It’s the “bigger shoah,” the bigger Holocaust, Matan Vilnai, Israel’s deputy defense minister had promised Gaza in 2008. 

In the same scene, three children helped their mother place their tattered floor mattresses on a cart.

The middle-aged woman’s face was grooved like newly tilled rows of arid soil. The scrawny donkey hobbled in the sand, struggling to pull the cart. He appeared as hungry and thirsty as the gaunt children trying to climb on top of the mattresses.

The donkey seemed confused as the woman ordered him to move toward the centre of Gaza. The poor animal was directed to the same location from which he had moved the family days earlier. Donkeys in Gaza have a better memory of the place than many Western leaders. 

The load this time was lighter, perhaps due to the loss of a husband or child. The same family was on the move from one “safe” place to another Israeli-designated “safe” area. Like all the people of Gaza, families were ordered to move from the north and to evacuate the south to the middle of Gaza, even as the Israeli army bombs Al Mawasi, Nuseirat, and Bureij in the center of the Strip.

The four-legged creature trudged slowly. The TV camera focused on his expressive, glossy wide eyes.

Even the donkey had realized what President Joe Biden has yet to recognize: there was no safe place in Gaza. Until then, I didn’t realize donkeys could have emotional reactions. I was mistaken; the famished donkey had more heart than Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Rishi Sunak, Justin Trudeau, and Olaf Scholz combined.

The donkey is not be the product of the “values” of Western civilization. He does not make a 2000-pound bomb and drops it over the most densely area on planet earth, such as Jabalia camp, nor does he possess the mental capacity to exploit Artificial Intelligence for more efficient mass assassination factory. Most importantly, the donkey does not understand the ingrained white Western racism toward non-white cultures.  

American officials typically waste no time to condemn the killing of an Israeli, but are over cautious when addressing the murder of the less than equal human beings at the hand of Israel. In response to a question about the Israeli Shoah in Rafah, the U.S. State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller justified the burning of children telling the reporters that “Israel has a right to go after the Hamas … as appears to have been Israel’s aim here.”  

At the White House, John Kirby took offense when CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Ed O’Keefe confronted him with, “How many more charred corpses does he have to see?” Kirby replied in part that Israel is investigating the attack, suggesting that it should be given time to complete its investigation before reaching any conclusion. The democratization of self-investigation is such a novel idea: allowing the criminal to investigate their own crimes. While we’re at it, the U.S. Department of Justice should consider allowing Donald Trump to investigate January 6 and see what he comes up with.

It is this American absurdity that emboldens Netanyahu’s belligerence, allowing him to ignore Biden and other Western leaders’ movable red line. Israeli tanks have reached the center of Rafah, forcing UNRWA and the World Central Kitchen (WKC) to cease food aid operations, and the charred bodies of Palestinian civilians are piling up. Yet, Israel has not crossed Biden’s line in the sand.

Israel has investigated previous murders, such as the killing of WCK aid workers, claiming that the killing was not intentional. Israeli army Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi declared it a “grave mistake.”  Similarly, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu described the latest massacre in Rafah with similar lexicon, calling it a “tragic mishap.” 

In explaining the large number of killed journalists, circa 140, an Israeli army spokesman stated that they “never . . . deliberately target journalists.”  Regarding the murder and injury of more than 100,000 Palestinian civilians, Israel claims they were unintended causality because it “takes all operationally feasible measures to mitigate harm to civilians.” 

In the last seven months, Israel has “mistakenly” murdered more than 225 humanitarian aid workers, “three times as many humanitarian aid workers killed in any single conflict recorded in a single year.” Additionally, over 700 of healthcare professionals lost their lives, and hundreds of hungry people were killed waiting for food aid trucks at Gaza roundabouts. In all these cases, Israel denied responsibility and blamed the victims for their death. 

It is a clear case of cognitive dissonance when Western powers provide food aid to alleviate the Israeli-made famine, while supplying the means for Israel to perpetuate a starvation regime, and the bombs to burn (less than hungry) children alive. Gaza has become not just the tombs of famished children, but the graveyard of the values of Western Civilization.

The outcome of past Israeli investigation is evident in a boilerplate of mistakes despite the writ large evidence suggesting otherwise. Yet, if we take the Israeli assertions at face value and accept, they all were “mistakes,” it raises the question: how many mistakes can one make before they become either liars or certified as stupid? Or, are Western leaders who continue to believe these “Israeli mistakes,” the real fools?

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Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned professor of economics and bestselling author, recounted how he warned senior US officials that sanctions on Russia would fail. His statement comes as Daleep Singh, the US deputy national security adviser for international economics, said a large flow of Russian weapons is still powered by electronic components from companies in the United States and allied countries.

“The percentage of Russian battlefield weaponry with US or allied branded components is alarmingly and unacceptably high,” Bloomberg quoted Singh as saying on May 28, adding that the US and its allies have struggled to stem the flow of parts to Russia and called on companies to prevent these  parts from being used in the Ukraine conflict

Export controls—which target the movement of goods rather than financial transactions— have been difficult to enforce because producers lack the large internal compliance departments that have emerged in the banking sector over the past two decades of US sanctions policy. 

“Put your creativity and resources to work, know your customers, know their customers, and know the end users. Ensure that American firms are not unwitting cogs in Russia’s arsenal,” appealed the advisor.

Singh, who was instrumental in implementing the initial round of economic sanctions against Russia in the early days of Russia’s military operation, said his comments were “an urgent call for corporate responsibility.”

“It took decades to build the financial sanctions architecture after 9/11. We’ve got to do that at warp speed for technology and goods companies,” he added.

Sanctions imposed on Russia by the West have proven largely ineffective in relation to what strategists believed they would achieve, and evidently not only in the financial sector but even in the industrial. In fact, US economist Jeffrey Sachs stressed on the same day as Singh’s comments that the sanctions have been “pretty useless.”

“The sanctions turned out to be pretty useless compared to the grandeur of what US strategists thought,” Sachs said in an interview with journalist Tucker Carlson, adding that “the rest of the world doesn’t think much of the United States. What it’s doing, it seems to them, is a bizarre country.”

Earlier in May, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasised that sweeping Western sanctions have created growth opportunities for the Russian economy despite initially causing some problems. In total, around 16,000 restrictive measures exist, making Russia the most sanctioned in the world.

Sachs recounted that he “spoke with senior officials all along who just thought Russia won’t object or can’t object or will be pushed aside or will fall to its knees with US financial sanctions or will succumb to the US Himars… Just one absolutely naive idea after another.”

He also explained how Russia figured out how to get tankers in and insurance cover and is now “making a lot of money” while US neocons “didn’t understand” Zbigniew Brzezinski’s warning that “by all means, the one thing never, never to do is to drive Russia and China together.”

Christopher Waller, a member of the board of the United States Federal Reserve System (FED), has taken onboard Brzezinski’s warning and recently argued that sanctions imposed on Russia and Chinese efforts to strengthen the yuan could affect the international use of the US dollar as a store of value.

“Rising geopolitical tensions, sanctions against Russia, China’s efforts to bolster usage of the renminbi [yuan], and economic fragmentation all can affect the international use of the dollar, most visibly as a store of value and reflected in its use in official foreign exchange reserves,” said Waller.

The FED member added that the listed factors could also impact the US dollar’s role as a medium of exchange, including its use in trade, global banking, and foreign exchange transactions.

In effect, US sanctions not only failed to economically collapse Russia and prevent the procurement of critical products but they boomeranged and accelerated the de-dollarisation of the global economy. With Russia having already bore the bulk of the damage the sanctions had in the first few months of their introduction, there is no new sanction that can be introduced today that would economically ruin the country.

Yet, despite this reality, Washington insists on maintaining its aggressive policy against Moscow, even if it is to no avail.

And Sachs, in speaking to Tucker Carlson, is evidently frustrated by this reckless policy: “I’m old enough to remember Vietnam. I’m old enough to remember trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. I’m old enough to remember Libya. I’m old enough to remember Afghanistan. We screw up nonstop. This is not clever, what we’re doing.”

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Today, Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.ca joins us to discuss his recent article: “The Hiroshima Nagasaki ‘Dress Rehearsal’: Oppenheimer and the U.S. War Department’s Secret September 15, 1945 ‘Doomsday Blueprint’ to ‘Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map.’”

We talk about the original, genocidal plan of the US War Department for a genocidal nuclear slaughter of the Soviets, how that plan has continued to the present day, the existential threat of nuclear holocaust and the prospects for an anti-war movement that can actually stand up to the military-industrial complex.

 

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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 28, 2024

 

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President Biden has authorized Ukraine to conduct limited attacks inside Russia with American-made weapons, US officials said. Some US allies have already gone further. Britain weeks ago, allowed Ukraine to use its long-range Storm Shadow missile systems for strikes anywhere in Russia, and France and Germany have recently taken the same stance. The decision announced by President Biden is due in particular to the pressure exerted by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to eliminate restrictions on the use of US weapons by Ukraine. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was tasked with announcing Washington’s decision to the European Allies. Speaking at the European Union Council, he declared: According to international law, Ukraine has the right to self-defence. And the right to self-defence also includes striking legitimate military targets inside Russia.

At the same time, Poland announced its purchase of long-range missiles from the United States and declared that it was ready to host NATO nuclear weapons. Sweden did the same: as soon as it joined NATO, it stated that it was available to host US nuclear weapons in the event of war.

France has tested a new air-launched nuclear missile and has allocated 13% of its military budget to upgrading its nuclear weapons. Against which targets in Russia the long-range missiles supplied by the United States and other NATO countries to Ukraine are directed, is demonstrated by the news released by Kyiv that a Ukrainian drone targeted a second Russian long-range military radar. It is an early warning radar, designed to detect ballistic missiles, including hypersonic ones, and aircraft up to 10,000 km away.

The Ukrainian army can’t be able to carry out such an attack deep into Russian territory on its own. The Ukrainian military is in growing difficulty, so much so that Kyiv has passed a law that allows recruiting common prisoners, including criminals, from prisons willing to go to the front in exchange for freedom. Furthermore, an attack of this type requires a military satellite network which Ukraine does not have. The ones carrying out attacks of this type against Russia are US forces and NATO forces under US command. Countries like Italy, which “host” US nuclear weapons, violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty, are therefore transformed into the front line of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, more dangerous than that of the Cold War.

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[Updated on 4 June 2024 to include the petition at the annex.]

Since December, 2023 the European Union worked on the legislation that should protect people’s bodies, brains and their thoughts against remote attacks by neurotechnologies. On January 26th, 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden released a statement, where he announced a temporary pause on pending decisions of Liquefied Natural Gas exports. Among others it pertained to CP2 project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana which should provide German company Securing Energy for Europe GmbH (SEFE) with 2.25 million tonnes per year of LNG. This decision meant that by the end of a decade the growth of EU’s economy could be stopped by shortage of gas and the EU effort to ban the use of remote mind cotrol technologies was for that matter stopped as well. 

On March 31, 2024 the German weekly “Der Spiegel”, the Russian internet newspaper in exile “The Insider” and the American TV channel “CBS News” on its “60 minutes program” published facts which challenged the statement by American intelligence services that the Havana syndrome, the ailment of U.S. government employees, produced according to the U.S. Academy of Sciences report, most probably by pulsed radiofrequency radiation, “was probably the result of factors  that did not involve a foreign adversary, such as preexisting conditions, conventional illnesses, and environmental factors”. In this way the U.S. government was trying to hide the fact that brain activity can be remotely controled by electromagnetic radiation and keep open for itself the option to use this kind of secret weapon. The findings of Spiegel, Insider and CBS News were republished by all the big world media. Evidently the German secret services intended to provoke new investigation of the attacks producing the Havana syndrome in the American congress and in this way possibly end the classification of technologies enabling remote control of the activity of the human nervous system. 

On May 8, 2024 the hearing in the Committee on the Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives, entitled “Silent Weapons: Examining Foreign Anomalous Health Incidents Targeting Americans in the Homeland”, took place. Lieutenant Colonel Greg Edgreen, who ran the investigation of Havana syndrome for the Defense Intelligence Agency, said that the Havana Syndrome was caused by directed energy weapons, pulsing the radio frequency radiation and he called on the U.S. government to start an action against those attacks on the U.S. government employees.

Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian investigative journalist and author, who joined in 2015 Bellingcat as an investigative reporter, said that “we established that Russian government had long standing program of wave weapons including directed energy electromagnetic weapons” which started in the seventies and that the investigative team found out that employees from the unit 29155 of the Russian Institute for Prospective Military Studies used to stay in the countries, where the Havana syndrome attacks occurred. Mark Zaid, American attorney, who represents several patients with Havana syndrome symptoms and who holds a security clearance, said that in 2012 he received from the U.S. NSA unclassified memorandum describing “high power microwave system weapon … designed to bathe a target’s living quarters in microwaves, causing numerous physical effects including damaged nervous system” and that overwhelming evidence concerning the Havana Syndrome attacks “are hidden behind classified walls”.

“I am convinced that the evidence that exists in the classified arena directly contradicts the public conclusions expressed by federal agencies,” said Mark Zaid.

Christo Grozev added that

“there is more than one way to achieve this same effect on the human brain and one of the most disturbing denials that I have seen…was an attempt to create the impression that no technology would allow this impact on the human brain, that is provably untrue”.

He, as well, told the Committee that he spoke with former Russian intelligence officer, who told him that they [the Russians] were attacked by the same American weapon already in the eighties [by the way, the Russian politician Vladimir Lopatin, who was fighting for the ban of those technologies by the end of the last millenium, wrote in the book , “Psychotronic weapon and the security of Russia” that psychotronic war is “actually taking place without declaration of war” – note of the author of the article]. Member of the Committee on the Homeland Security on Eliah James Crane asked witnesses, if the use of the same weapons against Russians “might have something to do with part of the CIA’s motive to cover up the existence of this tech and these weapons”. Grozev replied “that is a very logical possibility”. Mark Zaid replied to the question whether there are other people than U.S. government employees in the USA, who complain about Havana Syndrome attacks:

“There are many people, who believe they are victims of AHIs [anomalous health incidents]. All you have to do is to look at my Twitter feed, whenever I post on the topic”.

Member of the committee Eric Swallwell, who sat for eight years on the Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives contributed to the discussion by recalling his meetings with the victims he met:

“they were exposed to this condition, when you meet with the victims it is completely debilitating. It changes your life it turns it upside down and if you are a young parent life is already disorienting and if you are subjected to this, it’s even more difficult to be a parent”.

At the question by representative Crane whether they do know about victims who passed away, both Zaid and Edgreen replied: “I do”. Grozev said as well that he had seen this weapon in 1991 [at that year he was 22 years old and living in Bulgaria, where he was born and since 17 years of his age working as a journalist – possibly his father was an itelligence officer or he already cooperated with Bulgarian intelligence service at this age]. Then the discussion turned to the classification of those weapons and results of their use with no clear decision as to whether this technology should be declassified.

Not many world big media published articles on this hearing. One of them was British newspaper The Guardian. The American ABC News wrote: Lawmakers on the committee promised to continue to examine these claims and hear more from the witnesses in a classified setting and The Washington Examiner wrote:

“Intelligence community leaders must be called to testify in public. While they will likely hide behind classifications in order to avoid offering uncomfortable answers, their inability to answer basic questions supported by now-public reporting will catalyze Congress to take further action“.

Were CBS News reprimanded for their previous publication of doubts concerning statements of U.S. spy agencies and for that matter did not report on this event? Were other media warned that the U.S. government does not wish to solve this issue? Evident solution would be to work toward the international ban of mind control technologies, but this does not happen. It is clear that the world superpowers hope to control the world population with those tehnologies and for that matter they continue their competition and secret world war. 

The Homeland Security Committee did not address the whole extent of effects that impact of physical fields can produce in the human brain. Commander Cornelis van der Klaauw from Royal Netherlands Navy, and Expert from Strategic Communications and Information Operations NATO Joint Warfare Centre, wrote in an article in 2023:

“The reason why cognitive attacks go unnoticed by their targets is that cognitive activities bypass the conscious mind and directly target the subconscious of a person… most of our decisions are made by our subconscious… Cognitive attacks are aimed at exploiting emotions rooted in our subconscious, bypassing our rational conscious mind“.

Russia, China and the USA operate systems that can be used to control brain activity on large areas of the planet by producing in ionosphere electromagnetic waves in the frequencies of the brain activity, as well as satellites and cell phone systems can be used for the same purpose.

At present time, all the ordinary people can do to prevent this from happening, is to sign the petition to the European Parliament supporting its effort to ban AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will and “AI systems used to influence the outcome of elections and voter behaviour“ and ask it to extend this legislation to ban remote manipulation of human brains by physical fields producing in the nervous system electrical currents in frequencies of its activities. Sign here.

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Mojmir Babacek was born in 1947 in Prague, Czech Republic. Graduated in 1972 at Charles University in Prague in philosophy and political economy. In 1978 signed the document defending human rights in  communist Czechoslovakia „Charter 77“. Since 1981 until 1988 lived in emigration in the USA. Since 1996 he has published articles on different subjects mostly in the Czech and international alternative media.

In 2010, he published a book on the 9/11 attacks in the Czech language. Since the 1990s he has been striving to help to achieve the international ban of remote control of the activity of the human nervous system and human minds with the use of neurotechnology.  

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Annex: Ban Remote Control of the Human Nervous System

Why this petition matters

We, the undersigned, ask the European Parliament to include in the legislation on Artificial Intelligence:

1. Prohibit the use of  Artificial Intelligence to remotely control and/or decode the activity of the human nervous system with electromagnetic waves, directed energies, potential waves, non-local photon or electron connections or any other energies, without explicit consent.

 2. Prohibit all EU government organizations, including law enforcement, intelligence agencies, military, and their contractors, to use Artificial Intelligence to remotely control and/or decode the activity of the human nervous system of civilians using the above-mentioned means. The legislation should also include the obligation of EU governments to protect their citizens from such manipulation by non-EU governments or other entities.

3. Provide for the establishment of EU agencies that are objectively capable and legally obliged to investigate and disclose the abuse of human rights and democracy by Artificial Intelligence used to remotely control and/or decode the activity of the human nervous system using the above-mentioned means. Mentioned EU agencies should operate independently of EU member states and the EU should set itself the goal to engage the United Nations Organization as the last arbiter in deciding the cases where people from around the world will complain against abuse of their human rights by those neurotechnologies and artificial intelligence.

We remind you that Gabriela Ramos, UNESCO’s assistant director-general for social and human sciences stated on July 13, 2023: “We are on a path to a world in which algorithms will enable us to decode people’s mental processes and directly manipulate the brain mechanisms underlying their intentions, emotions and decisions.” See this. As well commander Cornelis van der Klaauw from Royal Netherlands Navy and Expert from Strategic Communications and Information Operations NATO Joint Warfare Centre wrote in an article in 2023: „The reason why cognitive attacks go unnoticed by their targets is that cognitive activities bypass the conscious mind and directly target the subconscious of a person… most of our decisions are made by our subconscious… cognitive attacks are not science fiction anymore. They are taking place already now… neural nanotechnology can be used to bring nano-sized robots close to a neuron via the bloodstream and make it possible to link the human brain directly (i.e. not intercepted by our senses) to a computer, making use of artificial intelligence in the process… Warfare is no longer a purely military concept; it has become much broader and more complex. In the future, there will only be one rule in warfare: There are no rules. While other domains can provide tactical and operational victories, the human domain is the only domain in which we can secure a full victory. See this.

We hope that you will  not vote for the future, where great powers will fight to control the brains of the world population. 

(For detailed argumentation see this and this.)

Sign the petition here.

Organizations:

Spolek za zákaz manipulace lidské nervové soustavy radiofrekvenčním zářením https://www.svobodamysleni.cz/ (Czech Republic)

Schutzschild E.v. https://schutzschild-ev.de (Germany)

Targeted Justice https://targetedjustice.com (USA)

STOPEG Foundation (STOP Electronic weapons and Gangstalking) https://www.stopeg.com/ (Netherlands) 

International Coalition Against Electronic Torture and Robotization of Living Beings (ICATOR) Avenue Paul Hymans 120/47, B – 1200 Brussels https://icator.be (Belgium)

ACOFOINMENEF (Association against all forms of mental and neurophysiological interference and control) https://associazionevittimearmielettroniche-mentali.org/ (Italy) 

MOVIMENTO AMPIO CONTRO LA TORTURA TECNOLOGICA PSICOLOGICA E MENTALE https://movimentoampio.blogspot.com (Italy) 

Föreningen för hjärnans integritet i Sverige (Society for brain integrity in Sweden) https://www.bolagsfakta.se/8024512561-FORENINGEN_FOR_HJARNANS_INTEGRITET_I_SVERIGE (Sweden) 

Stowarzyszenie STOP Zorganizowanym Elektronicznym Torturom https://stopzet.pl/ (Poland)

ADVHER (Association de Defense des Victimes de Harcélement Electromagnétique et en Réseau) https://www.net1901.org/association/ASSOCIATION-DE-DEFENSE-DES-VICTIMES-DE-HARCELEMENT-ELECTROMAGNETIQUE-ET-EN-RESEAU-ADVHER,1181155.html#gsc.tab=0 (France) 

Targeted UK https://www.targetedsurvivors.com / (The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

The Allen Institute for Human Rights (The United States of America) PO BOX 193, NORTH PEMBROKE, MA.  https://aihr.foundation/ (USA)

Organization of Victims of Psychotronic (Mind Control) Weapons https://organizationofmindcontrolvictims.com/ (Canada)

PMP for Society of safe Bharath against covert torture and energy weapons www.CovertEnergyTorture.org (India )

Citizens Against Harmful Technology https://www.targetedhumans.org/ (USA)

O presidente Biden autorizou a Ucrânia a “realizar ataques limitados dentro da Rússia com armas de fabricação americana”, disseram autoridades dos EUA. Alguns aliados dos EUA já haviam ido além. A Grã-Bretanha, semanas atrás, permitiu que a Ucrânia usasse seus sistemas de mísseis de longo alcance Storm Shadow para ataques em qualquer lugar da Rússia, e a França e a Alemanha recentemente adotaram a mesma posição. A decisão anunciada pelo presidente Biden se deve especialmente à pressão exercida pelo secretário de Estado Antony Blinken para suspender as restrições ao uso de armas dos EUA pela Ucrânia. O secretário-geral da OTAN, Stoltenberg, foi o responsável por anunciar a decisão de Washington aos aliados europeus. Falando no Conselho da União Europeia, ele disse: “De acordo com a lei internacional, a Ucrânia tem o direito à autodefesa.

E o direito à autodefesa também inclui atingir alvos militares legítimos dentro da Rússia”. Ao mesmo tempo, a Polônia anunciou a compra de mísseis de longo alcance dos EUA e declarou que estava “pronta para receber armas nucleares da OTAN”. A Suécia fez o mesmo: tendo acabado de entrar para a OTAN, declarou que estava “disposta a receber armas nucleares dos EUA em caso de guerra”. A França testou um novo míssil nuclear lançado do ar e alocou 13% de seu orçamento militar para atualizar seu armamento nuclear. A notícia divulgada por Kiev de que “um drone ucraniano atingiu um segundo radar militar russo de longo alcance” mostra contra quais alvos na Rússia os mísseis de longo alcance fornecidos pelos EUA e outros países da OTAN à Ucrânia são dirigidos. Esse é um radar de alerta antecipado, projetado para detectar até mesmo mísseis balísticos hipersônicos e aeronaves a até 10.000 km de distância.

É impossível para o exército ucraniano realizar esse ataque sozinho em território russo. O exército ucraniano está em dificuldades crescentes, tanto que Kiev aprovou uma lei que permite que prisioneiros comuns, até mesmo criminosos, que estejam dispostos a ir para o front em troca de liberdade, sejam recrutados nas prisões. Além disso, esse tipo de ataque exige uma rede militar de satélites, que a Ucrânia não possui. Na verdade, quem conduz esses ataques contra a Rússia são as forças dos EUA e da OTAN sob o comando dos EUA. Países como a Itália, que “hospedam” armas nucleares dos EUA, violando o Tratado de Não Proliferação, são, portanto, transformados na linha de frente de um confronto nuclear com a Rússia, mais perigoso do que a Guerra Fria.

Manlio Dinucci

 

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Grandi Manovre di Guerra in Europa sotto Comando USA

June 2nd, 2024 by Manlio Dinucci

Il presidente Biden, ha autorizzato l’Ucraina a “condurre attacchi limitati all’interno della Russia con armi di fabbricazione americana”, hanno detto funzionari statunitensi. Alcuni alleati degli Stati Uniti si erano già spinti oltre. La Gran Bretagna, settimane fa, ha permesso all’Ucraina di utilizzare i suoi sistemi missilistici a lungo raggio Storm Shadow per attacchi in qualsiasi parte della Russia, e Francia e Germania hanno recentemente assunto la stessa posizione. La decisione annunciata dal presidente Biden è dovuta in particolare alla pressione esercitata dal segretario di Stato Antony Blinken per eliminare le restrizioni sull’uso delle armi USA da parte dell’Ucraina. Il segretario generale della NATO, Stoltenberg è stato incaricato di preannunciare la decisione di Washington agli Alleati europei. Intervenendo al Consiglio dell’Unione Europea, ha dichiarato: “Secondo il diritto internazionale, l’Ucraina ha il diritto di autodifesa.

E il diritto all’autodifesa include anche il colpire obiettivi militari legittimi all’interno della Russia”. Contemporaneamente la Polonia ha annunciato l’acquisto di missili a lungo raggio dagli Stati Uniti e ha dichiarato ha dichiarato di essere “pronta ad ospitare armi nucleari della NATO”. Lo stesso ha fatto la Svezia: appena entrata nella NATO, ha dichiarato di essere “disponibile ad ospitare armi nucleari statunitensi in caso di guerra”. La Francia ha testato un nuovo missile nucleare lanciato dall’aria e ha destinato il 13% del bilancio militare al potenziamento del suo armamento nucleare. Contro quali obiettivi in Russia siano diretti i missili a lungo raggio forniti dagli Stati Uniti e altri paesi della NATO all’Ucraina, è dimostrato dalla notizia diffusa da Kiev che “un drone ucraino ha preso di mira un secondo radar militare russo a lungo raggio”. Si tratta di un radar di allerta precoce, progettato per individuare missili balistici anche ipersonici e velivoli fino ad 10.000 km di distanza.

È impossibile che l’esercito ucraino sia in grado di effettuare da solo un attacco di questo tipo in profondità nel territorio russo. L’esercito ucraino è in crescente difficoltà, tanto che Kiev ha varato una legge che permette di reclutare dalle carceri detenuti comuni, anche criminali, disposti ad andare al fronte in cambio della libertà. Per di più un attacco di questo tipo richiede una rete militare satellitare che l’Ucraina non ha. A condurre attacchi di questo tipo contro la Russia sono in realtà le forze USA e quelle NATO sotto comando USA. Paesi come l’Italia, che “ospitano” armi nucleari USA, violando il Trattato di Non-proliferazione, vengono quindi trasformati in prima linea di un confronto nucleare con la Russia, più pericoloso di quello della Guerra Fredda.

Manlio Dinucci

 

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A centuries-old plan to control humanity on a micro-level is being enforced through the construction of a new bio-digital prison system. Relegated to mere conspiracy theory by legacy media and vehemently denied by accused conspirators, the plan continues unabated with only pockets of resistance — nowhere near enough to bring the house of cards down.

The plan has been identified by many throughout the decades. It is both simple and complex; subtle yet overt; ancient yet contemporary; and alluring yet appalling. Under the guise of safety, convenience, and inclusion, humanity is being primed to accept complete and total surveillance as a condition of simple existence in a “brave new world.” That’s the plan in a nutshell. What follows are the gory details.

The Era of Cognitive Warfare

To accelerate the paradigm shift toward total surveillance, cognitive warfare (CW) – a significant upgrade over mere psyops of the past – has been declared on the global population. The purpose of this war is to modify human thought, belief, behavior, and identity. According to a 2021 NATO report, cognitive warfare is defined as (emphasis added throughout):

“a combined arms approach that integrates the non-kinetic warfare capabilities of cyber, information, psychological and social engineering in order to win without physical fighting. It is a new type of warfare defined as the weaponization of public opinion by external entities. This is carried out for the purpose of influencing and/or destabilizing a nation.”

A separate NATO report from 2022 adds that cognitive warfare is:

“…the most advanced form of human mental manipulation, to date, permitting influence over individual or collective behavior, with the goal of obtaining a tactical or strategic advantage. …the human brain becomes the battlefield. The pursued objective is to influence not only what the targets think, but also the way they think and, ultimately, the way they act.”

The U.S. Naval Institute has also recognized the need for a cognitive warfare strategy, stating:

“…An individual’s cognition is now a target. Advances in cognitive psychology and information communication technology (ICT) enable actors to target individuals’ situational comprehension and will with precision. In light of these changes, cognitive warfare (CW) has emerged as a new war-fighting concept…

Cognitive warfare operations will take on many forms and unfold along varying timelines. Some may focus on reinforcing groups’ or individuals’ existing ideals, while others may seek to disrupt cohesion or accepted beliefs. The U.S. approach to CW, however, must uphold U.S. values.”

Adding that technologies like machine learning and brain-computer interfaces (BCI) boost the efficiency of cognitive warfare, the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP), a frequent NATO collaborator, further opined that:

“Current and future developments in artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive sciences, neurotechnologies, and other related fields will further increase the risks of mass manipulation and lead to the possibility of the militarization of the mind as the battlefield of the future… The resulting environment is one of “permanent latent struggles” rather than a clearly delineated state of peace and war. This state has been referred to as “new generational warfare”, “unpeace” or conflict in the “noosphere”.

To summarize what cognitive warfare entails, I offer the following definition:

the weaponization of public opinion, manipulation and militarization of the human mind, and engineering of individual and collective behavior resulting in permanent new generation warfare, “unpeace,” and conflict in the “noosphere.”

Wait, what on earth is the noosphere? Unfamiliar to most, the noosphere is a concept advanced largely by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a 20th century Jesuit priest who fused together elements of biblical doctrine, evolution, and mysticism. Teilhard conceived the noosphere as a realm where human minds interacted through increasingly complex social networks. He theorized that the evolving noosphere would eventually reach an “Omega Point,” where the total convergence of collective human consciousness would unify with the “Cosmic Christ.” These teachings were deemed heretical by the Catholic church and Teilhard was publicly denounced. However, his posthumous writings have influenced scores of scientists, futurists, environmentalists, globalists, occultists, new agers, and ironically many Catholics.

One of Teilhard’s most revealing statements undergirding his philosophy is found in his book Christianity and Evolution, where he wrote: “What I am proposing to do is to narrow that gap between pantheism and Christianity by bringing out what one might call the Christian soul of Pantheism or the pantheist aspect of Christianity.” (p. 56)

It is Teilhard’s pantheistic views that endear him to the scientific and Big Tech communities. They took up the mantle of advancing the noosphere through technologies like the Internet and social media, hoping humanity would realize Teilhard’s vision. It is this writer’s contention that the supreme goal of CW and the digital revolution is to turn Teilhard’s Omega Point from theory into reality.

Creating a Collective Human Consciousness

“The noosphere’s evolution involved the scale of human groups as well as the nature of the information networks that connected humans and technologies of all sorts… With each new information technology, the shared knowledge contained in the collective consciousness of the Noosphere grew, and the rate of its growth accelerated.” [source]

NATO’s 2021 report indicated that neuroscientific warfare techniques can be used to destabilize “a political leader, a military commander, an entire staff, a population, or an Alliance…” As a result, governments and militaries from many nations are working feverishly to combat the threat mind wars pose to citizens and nations. Their alleged goals are to maintain trust in democratic values and processes while simultaneously implementing greater controls on the flow of information. Paradoxically, they are attempting to maintain (the illusion of) freedom, while authorizing new forms of digitized censorship “for the greater good.”

What is really taking place is a game of bait and switch where citizens are told that due to the proliferation of misinformation, disinformation, hate speech, identity theft, deep fakes, and cyber-attacks, greater control is needed to police the digital public square. Add in the so-called threat of climate change, financial collapse, war, the energy crisis, future pandemics, and you have what the United Nations (UN) and World Economic Forum (WEF) deem a “polycrisis.” Tools such as artificial intelligence (AI), Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), biometric surveillance, and digital ID, have emerged as the “solutions” to these problems.

Whether the evolving bio-digital surveillance paradigm is called the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), Great Reset, Agenda 2030, or Humanity 2.0, what’s common is the belief that bigger and better tech can transform society “for good” and combat issues of mistrust, corruption, crime, and planetary destruction. However, realizing this utopian vision requires greater levels of transparency, control, conformity, and collective thought. To successfully manipulate the public into either full acceptance or forced submission of this paradigm, the twin brothers of tyranny – surveillance and censorship – have been invoked.

Klaus Schwab, former Executive Chairman of the WEF, spoke about this new world where privacy is “severely restricted” in a 2013 interview, mentioning:

Everything is transparent, whether we like it or not. This is unstoppable. If we behave acceptably, and have nothing to hide, it won’t be a problem. The only question is, who determines what is acceptable.”

In a 2016 interview with Radio Television Suisse, Schwab elaborated further on transparency, stating, “In the new world, you have to accept total transparency. It will become part of your personality… Everything will be transparent. If you have nothing to hide you have no reason to be afraid.”

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It’s easy to highlight statements from Schwab given his notoriety as a globalist boogeyman. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for his recent withdrawal as the WEF’s front man? Regardless, Schwab is just one of many who champion surveillance technologies to complete the transition to the new world order of total transparency. In iHuman, a documentary on AI, data scientist and Stanford Professor Michal Kosinski echoes Schwab’s convictions regarding the current state of privacy, declaring:

Of course people should have rights to their privacy when it comes to sexual orientation or political views. But I’m also afraid that in our current technological environment this is essentially impossible. People should realize there is no going back, there’s no running away from the algorithms. The sooner we accept the inevitable and inconvenient truth that privacy is gone, the sooner we can start actually thinking about how to make sure our societies are ready for the post-privacy age.” (emphasis added)

Once an imagined dystopia but now quickly becoming reality, omnipresent bio-digital surveillance creates an inescapable societal panopticon. The “new world” Schwab refers to is being steered by the technocratic elite running all governments, corporations, NGOs, universities, medicine, and media.

Publicly, the surveillance society is sold as a way to bring order to a chaotic world splintered politically, racially, economically, socially, and ideologically. Privately, it is recognized as an iterative way to forge collective human consciousness as we march toward the transhumanist vision of “Singularity,” or as Teilhard would claim, the “Omega Point.”

As this push accelerates, companies like Palantir, Amazon, and Clearview AI along with Big Brother government agencies like NSA, DHS, CIA, and the FBI continue to amass enormous amounts of data containing essentially all activity occurring in the digital space.

Smart technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) bring the all-seeing eye of technocratic overlords into the private spaces of a growing number of residences and businesses. Backdoors in software and cyber-crime offer access to huge amounts of data believed to be private and protected, but often sold to the highest bidder. Microsoft is upping the ante on personal surveillance. With its new AI-assisted Windows Recall feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your computer, the PC transforms into an open book recalling your entire life. Could a backdoor allow for the AI algorithm to transmit all private data back to Microsoft and its spook agency partners in real time?

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As I’ve written previously, Internet of Bodies devices exist to monitor and transmit all personal data to the Internet. This industry is now broadening to include an Internet of Brains, where “human brains connect to the Internet to facilitate direct brain-to-brain communication and enable access to online data networks.” The military-intelligence complex has been conducting experiments on the human brain for a long time. The CIA’s MK-Ultra and the White House’s Brain Initiative are just two examples revealing the government’s longing to hack the brain and create a hivemind society where thoughts and actions can be directly controlled through technology and/or mind-altering substances.

The company behind both reports connecting bodies and brains to the Internet is the RAND Corporation. RAND’s first president, H. Rowan Gaither, declared his goal to be “a society where technocrats ruled using objective analysis.” Author Alex Abella, who wrote the definitive book on RAND, expounded on their technocratic goals, saying:

RAND’s ultimate goal was to have technocrats running every aspect of society in pursuit of a one world government that would be administered under “the rule of reason,” a ruthless world where efficiency was king and men were little more than machines, which is why RAND studied the social sciences because they were at a loss to work out how to deal with people and how human beings did not always act in their own predictable self-interests.”

RAND was an early pioneer of cognitive warfare having invented the Delphi Technique for the U.S. Department of Defense during the Cold War. It was originally used to forecast the impact of technology on warfare. It soon became a tool used to fool citizens into thinking their opinions were being used to shape public policy. However, policy makers had already predetermined the course of action. Officials skillfully used the Delphi Technique to steer the decision-making process, making it seem as if the citizens agreed with them.

RAND has certainly done its part in forging collective consciousness and building the technocratic new world order. Its website openly boasts that “satellites, systems analysis, computing, the Internet – almost all the defining features of the Information Age were shaped in part at RAND.”

AI, Biometrics and Digital ID – Tools of Freedom or Tyranny?

“I’ve often said that digital inclusion is extremely important. I think the 21st century’s infrastructure is mobility, broader than cloud. I don’t think it should matter where you are born, where you come from or who you are. You should be part of our society, and to be part of our society, you actually need to be digitally included.”– Hans Vestberg, Chief Executive Officer of Verizon

In the papers quoted previously on cognitive warfare, malicious manipulation of digital technology is viewed as a heinous crime that must be stopped at all costs. However, it can be argued that cognitive warfare has been perpetuated against the entire world population through the process of digitization itself.

The Digital Revolution (aka the Information Age or Third Industrial Revolution) transitioned the world from analog and mechanical devices to the digital technology of today. This Third Industrial Revolution is now giving way to the 4IR, where the ultimate goal is to merge man with machines. This futurist archetype denigrates humanity to mere bits of data – ripe for control and manipulation by the data owners.

Humans once widely considered God’s crowning achievement – reflecting the very image of the Creator of all things – are now being transitioned through self-directed evolution to forge a new identity by becoming one with technology. Venture into any public space and it’s likely you’ll see most people transfixed by their smartphones, oblivious to real humans nearby. But this revolution, largely mainstreamed by Steve Jobs and Apple, was just the beginning. The complete transition requires the unholy trinity of AI, biometrics, and digital ID, to serve as a temporary global brain until humanity reaches the imagined transcendence where godhood itself is achieved.

AI is simultaneously being heralded as the greatest human achievement ever and excoriated as the greatest threat to human survival. Filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei unveiled both perspectives in her documentary iHuman. Two of the most eye-opening statements occur within the film’s first ten minutes.

We are made of data. Every one of us is made of data – in terms of how we behave, how we talk, how we love, what we do every day. So, computer scientists are developing deep learning algorithms that can learn to identify, classify, and predict patterns within massive amounts of data. We are facing a form of precision surveillance, you could call it algorithmic surveillance, and it means that you cannot go unrecognized. You are always under the watch of algorithms.” – Eleonore Pauwels, United Nations University

Almost all the AI development on the planet today is done by a handful of big technology companies or by a few large governments. If we look at what AI is mostly being develop for, I would say it’s killing, spying, and brainwashing… We have military AI, we have a whole surveillance apparatus being built using AI by major governments, and we have an advertising industry which is oriented toward recognizing what ads to try to sell to someone.” – Ben Goertzel, Chief Computer Scientist, Hanson Robotics

AI has come a long way since the film’s release in 2020, and Big Tech leaders and investors such as Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Peter Diamandis offer a more positive outlook. Some of the good AI is being used for includes detecting deadly weapons, diagnosing life-threatening health problems, protecting biodiversity, and improving access to nutrients and water. Another “good” outcome according to Musk is that “probably none of us will have a job” and instead will have to rely on “universal high income,” a fantasy unlikely to come true. To top it off, he predicts humans will be relegated to “giving AI meaning” while man’s meaning fades away.

When asked how humans will navigate our identity as AI continues to expand, Ray Kurzweil, futurist and Google director of engineering, said: “It’s going to be merged with us. We already carry around a lot of digital intelligence today and that’s actually how this will be manifest, merging it with ourselves.” During this same event, Peter Diamandis, XPrize Foundation and Singularity University founder, discussed meshing our minds together into a “hive consciousness,” a concept he refers to as “Meta-Intelligence.”

Can both outlooks regarding the future of AI be true? One describes killing, brainwashing, and oppressive surveillance while the other forecasts planetary and individual problem solving and a glorious merger of man and machine. Are the positives being oversold to suspend doubts and fears regarding potential negative outcomes? Perhaps an examination of digital ID and biometrics can provide some clarity on which view is most accurate.

One ID to Rule Them All

Source: World Economic Forum

The United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) play a prominent role in advancing global digital transformation. Each of the 17 SDGs functions as a roadmap to permanently restructuring a portion of society. All 193 UN member nations are in lockstep with the plan.

SDG 16 – Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions says that “by 2030, [all countries must] provide legal identity for all, including birth registration” delivering the justification for digital IDs. SDG 1 – No Poverty, advocates for “digital IDs linked with bank or mobile money accounts” to “improve the delivery of social protection coverage and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries.”

According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), further justification for digital legal IDs include:

  • Identifying the displaced – tracking population movements, facilitating swift access to essential information for each human being.
  • Using digital ID for registration – enabling the capture of disaggregated data by age, gender, disability, and income, offering insights into the diverse impacts of disasters on different groups.
  • Disaster preparedness and emergency management – storing valuable personal information, including residence and medical conditions and aid in identifying vulnerable populations and critical infrastructure.
  • Energy system sustainability and resilience – leveraging digital legal ID data to track energy consumption, inspire behavior change, and enhance sustainability measures can mitigate climate-related disasters.
  • Empowering communities – revolutionizing community participation in the energy sector by providing secure access to energy resources and enabling energy trading within community microgrids.

On the surface, these reasons for digital ID seem legitimate and even noble. The UN and its government and NGO partners always sell the need for digital ID under the guise of:

  • fostering economic and social inclusion
  • tracking immigrants, migrants, and refugees
  • protecting against identity theft and financial fraud
  • simplifying access to government services
  • lessening exposure of personal information through cyber attacks
  • enhancing convenience
  • promoting information integrity
  • mitigating the climate and energy crises
  • reducing human error in identifying individuals
  • slowing human trafficking

It’s hard to argue these are not altruistic goals. Nonetheless, digital IDs can also be used to:

  • employ 24/7 surveillance and data collection
  • restrict travel and access to goods and services
  • destroy privacy and online anonymity
  • restrict access to social media and Internet services
  • track compliance with medical dictates
  • control access to banking, public services, public spaces, entertainment venues, medical facilities, workplaces, schools, etc.
  • create a social credit system that ranks individuals based on government compliance
  • limit access to vital needs such as water, food, and energy
  • compromise a person’s identity through security breaches

According to Comparitech, 50 countries already have fully digitized identification schemes, overlooking the dangers highlighted. The rest of the world is also hastily moving forward to create digital public infrastructure (DPI), where digital ID takes center stage. A few recent headlines attest to this urgency.

Despite all the glowing promises from the UN, digital IDs threaten to give governments the ability to control a person’s life down to minute details. Brett Solomon, a digital human rights advocate and executive director of Access Now, agrees, mentioning that digital ID “poses one of the gravest risks to human rights of any technology…” He further adds that “we are rushing headlong into a future where new technologies will converge to make the risk much more severe.”

Papers No Longer Needed – Just Your Face

“If corporations and governments start harvesting our biometric data en masse, they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves, and they can then not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want — be it a product or a politician. Biometric monitoring would make Cambridge Analytica’s data hacking tactics look like something from the Stone Age.” – Yuval Noah Harari

One of the converging technologies increasing the threat from digital IDs is biometric identification. This rapidly growing field includes identifying humans through facial recognition, iris and retina scans, fingerprints, voice recognition, gestures, bodily implants, DNA matching, and gait (how humans walk and move).

Even more frightening is the proposed use to detect:

Facial recognition stands out as the most pervasive and perhaps most problematic biometric tactic. It is being used by law enforcement and border control, in medical facilities, retail stores, stadiums, airports, and government buildings. It’s utilized by banks and financial services, healthcare, and governments to verify identity. It is also a fundamental building block for the creation of smart cities.

Each use case may provide benefits such as convenience and security but also poses risks that could exacerbate tyrannical control of the population. With technologies poised to detect emotion and mental state, a Minority Report-style precrime detection regime could be installed. But what happens to those who have been misidentified? What about those penalized for minor infractions like jaywalking or criticizing the government as exemplified in China’s social credit system?

Digital ID and biometric technologies have been introduced as a technocratic panacea offering greater inclusivity, convenience, and safety. In reality, they reduce human identity to a sequence of cloud-stored data while enabling total surveillance of travel, economic activity, and health status with the potential to obliterate privacy and anonymity.

I’m sure they exist, but I’ve never met anyone desiring a digital ID, especially after the autocratic fiasco of vaccine passports during the COVID era. According to a report by Iain Davis and Whitney Webb, this resistance is not imaginary, as they indicated “the rollout of CBDCs and the prerequisite digital ID has so far been a disaster for the regime. Regardless of the culture, people in India, China and elsewhere have shown a distinct lack of enthusiasm for embracing their planned digital future. In fact, they are actively resisting in many instances.”

Australia is one country that faced staunch opposition to its digital ID plans. Though its digital ID system legislation was recently passed by Parliament, it did not go without resistance. In fact, concessions were made to those expressing concerns about privacy, biometric testing, and mandatory usage within the legislation. A recent Sky News video describes the extent of the resistance, echoing many of the concerns we have already presented.

The cognitive warfare-op has been deliberately engineered to make ­people think there is a bottom-up demand for digital surveillance tools. Conversely, the demand is coming solely from the top through the United Nations, World Economic Forum, World Bank, G20, World Trade Organization, Rockefeller Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Central Banks, Council on Foreign Relations, Better Identity Coalition, Apple, Google, Visa and Mastercard, ID2020, Digital Impact Alliance, Sovrin Foundation, Thales, Idemia, governments worldwide, and a host of private companies too numerous to mention.

Digital ID can conceivably allow surveillance of everything one does and says online. With the overemphasis on mis- and disinformation, digital IDs can strengthen Big Tech and government’s ability to control speech. By censoring, deplatforming, and restricting access, ideas and speech deemed “hateful” or contrary to accepted narratives can be suppressed, erased, or prevented from ever appearing.

One of the ways to dismiss concerns is by reassuring citizens that digital IDs will not become mandatory and that other forms of ID will still be accepted. However, these assurances seem unlikely to last given the billions of dollars being spent on digital ID efforts from governments and corporations worldwide. The switcheroo will probably occur sooner or later.

A Freer, Decentralized or More Tightly Controlled World?

“Government is the biggest threat to digital data anywhere around the world… What is national security? All a government needs to do to violate a person’s right to privacy is write a letter and cite national security.” – Solomon Okedara, Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative

We have been constantly told that the digital genie unleashed can’t be put back in the bottle. Scientists, tech wizards, and bureaucrats are seizing opportunities to craft the future and stake their claim to the billions of dollars up for grabs in research, development, and deployment.

There’s no doubt that some good may come from their efforts. As history has shown, whether technology is used for good or evil depends on the intent of those who possess and control it. The tools of digital transformation may benefit society, alleviating some of the frustrating, time-wasting processes we regularly engage in. But the potential for social, financial, and even mental control must not be disregarded. Freedom, liberty, and justice depend on eternal vigilance.

Is it mere coincidence that bio-digital surveillance tech such as AI, digital ID, biometrics, CBDC, IoT, Smart Meters, and 5G all working together can achieve the societal vision described in The Technocracy Study Course of 1945? Is it also by chance that many of the UN SDGs mirror many elements outlined in this publication?

Technocracy expert Patrick Wood doesn’t believe so, noting that:

…technocrats demand that every single person in society be forced to participate in their system. Outliers were not to be allowed then, nor are they to be allowed today. Want proof? Look for the motto “Ensuring that no one is left behind” throughout the United Nations’ literature on sustainable development. Another word for “ensure” is “guarantee.” Globalists’ guarantees take the form of “mandates.” – Patrick Wood, The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism (p. 68), Kindle Edition

Going further, Wood adds that:

According to The Technocracy Study Course, the anticipated and promised “end products” would be:

    1. A high physical standard of living
    2. A high standard of public health
    3. A minimum of unnecessary labor
    4. A minimum of wastage of non-replaceable resources
    5. An educational system to train the entire younger generation indiscriminately as regards all considerations other than inherent ability – a Continental system of human conditioning. (Ed. Note: human conditioning is not education but rather propaganda-style indoctrination.)

Not surprisingly, these outcomes overlap perfectly with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted at the 2030 Agenda conference in September 2015:

    1. Goal #1 – No poverty
    2. Goal #3 – Good health and well-being (the banner on Goal #3 states: “Vaccinate your family to protect them and improve public health”)
    3. Goal #8 – Decent work and economic growth
    4. Goal #12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
    5. Goal #4 – Quality education

Wood also exposes the supreme value of data to technocratic systems, disclosing that:

To technocrats, there is no such thing as too much surveillance. When they attain one level of monitoring, their next step is to increase the level of magnification and collect even more data. Their addiction to data is unquenchable and unstoppable!” (p. 126)

The bio-digital surveillance system of today certainly fits everything Wood highlights. It is akin to a modern-day techno Tower of Babel.

Whether or not it’s desired, mankind is being pushed toward life in a digital world bereft of privacy, individuality, and agency. The apostles of AI, transhumanism, and bio-digital surveillance are coercing the populace into their collective consciousness paradigm. Using cognitive warfare techniques to implant their vision of transcendence – the Omega Point where man and machine join to become a new godlike creature – we have all been enlisted to join them on their journey. If the path to this imagined utopia begins with warfare, surveillance, and tyranny, it’s fair to question whether the feigned concept should even be pursued. If history is a good indicator, it is likely to end in massive failure and widespread human suffering.

All the World’s a Stage – for Warfare

At an event hosted by the Modern War Institute at West Point in 2018, neuroscientist Dr. James Giordano told cadets that:

… the brain is and will be the 21st century battle scape in many ways, end of story… You will encounter some form of neurocognitive science that has been weaponized not only in your military career but in your personal and professional lives… The more I know about what makes you tick, the more my interactions can be geared with you to make you tick the way I want you to.”

As early as 1928, propaganda pioneer Edward Bernays understood how mind control could keep the public in line, proclaiming:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

Bernays may not have envisioned this form of manipulation and control could be miniaturized and replicated for all in a handheld device. There are ghosts in the machines we stare at while we work, inform, and entertain ourselves. These ghosts are directing a covert war against us, deliberately spreading mis-and disinformation to confound, persuade, and control our thoughts and actions. The U.S. Army has made this plain. We would do well to at least understand the nature of the offensive directed against us.

As the cognitive war rages against each of us, compelling us to accept this paradigm or get left behind, tough decisions must be made, and tough questions must be asked.

Will we buy into the scheme that equates humanity with mere machinery? Or will we realize that we’ve been awesomely and wonderfully made by a divine Creator?

Will we participate in our own denigration, meekly complying with the selling of our data, invasion of our privacy, robbing of our wealth, and destruction of our freedom? Or will we resist the militarization of our minds by defying the technocratic tyrants?

Will we say no to absolute transparency? Or will we keep our heads in the sand as privacy ebbs away into the ocean of bio-digital surveillance?

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Jesse Smith is an American journalist and editor of Truth Unmuted, a news and opinion website dedicated to challenging globalist plans and ideologies like technocracy, transhumanism, the Great Reset, and Agenda 2030. Jesse currently lives in Mexico and writes about current events through the lens of a Biblical worldview. His articles have been published on Zero Hedge, Global Research, Activist Post, and TruthTalk.UK.

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In a highly controversial move that the mainstream/legacy media has almost completely ignored, the Biden administration is defending 21 pharmaceutical and medical device companies from the United States and Europe in their battle against a lawsuit accusing them of funding terrorism in Iraq. Filed in 2017 against firms including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Roche, the case seeks damages on behalf of 395 American servicemen and civilians who were wounded or killed in terrorist attacks between 2005 and 2011.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit allege that, in order to secure lucrative contracts, drug and medical device companies paid bribes to Jaysh-al-Mahdi, a Hezbollah-affiliated militia group said to have controlled Iraq’s Ministry of Health. Following the U.S. overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the militia group was reportedly able to infiltrate the new, U.S.-backed Iraqi government.

The case against the 21 companies was initially dismissed in 2020 by a U.S. federal judge in Washington, D.C. Two years ago, however, a three-judge panel from a federal appeals court unanimously voted to reinstate it. Following an unsuccessful effort to undo that ruling, the companies petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in what is essentially now a final attempt to dismiss the lawsuit. The Biden administration has indicated that it supports them in this and is requesting that the federal appeals court decision is overturned.

The administration’s intervention came following a request from the Supreme Court, which noted that a separate, unrelated case from last year had seemingly weakened the plaintiffs’ Anti-Terrorism Act claims. In that case, the Supreme Court had ruled that social media company Twitter – now renamed X – could only be held liable for aiding and abetting terrorism if it was proven that the company had “consciously and culpably” participated in facilitating a terrorist act.

Why Is the Mainstream/Legacy Media Not Widely Reporting This Story?

While both Reuters and MSN are carrying this story on their websites, remarkably few other mainstream/legacy media outlets seem to be making any mention of it. At first sight this seems odd, as one would normally assume that the U.S. government siding with pharmaceutical companies accused of funding terrorism in Iraq is newsworthy.

To understand what may be going on here we need to keep in mind that, during the past four years, Joe Biden has repeatedly portrayed himself as an opponent of high drug prices. He has even claimed to have beaten “Big Pharma” and promised that Medicare, the country’s health insurance program for people over the age of 65 and those with disabilities, will now have the power to lower prescription drug prices. While the veracity of these claims is disputed, with initially only 10 drugs named for price negotiation and the cheaper costs not even scheduled to come in until 2026, in the coming election Biden will undoubtedly want to be seen as the president who fought the pharma industry and lowered drug prices.

Could the lack of reporting on Biden defending drug makers against terrorism charges therefore be an attempt not to damage his re-election prospects? This certainly can’t be ruled out. During the last presidential election there was a deliberate attempt to bury a scandal involving a laptop owned by Biden’s son, Hunter. The New York Post has described how the Washington ruling class, including career intelligence officials, the media and Big Tech, plotted well in advance to suppress and discredit the story, solely for the purpose of influencing the election.

From Pharma Fraud to Pharma Terror

This isn’t the first time that the pharma industry has been accused of inflicting terror on people. In an Open Letter published in the New York Times in September 2004, Dr. Matthias Rath outlined how the strategies and tactics employed by the ‘Business with Disease’ are comparable to those of a militant terror organization. Titled ‘From Pharma Fraud to Pharma Terror’, the letter explained how the ‘War on Terror’ and Iraq war were not primarily about fighting ‘terrorism’ or conquering oil fields. Instead, they were part of a long-term strategy employed by pharmaceutical and petrochemical investment groups to create the necessary psychological state of fear to maintain global control.

As growing numbers of people around the world now recognize, the use of this ‘fear’ strategy continues today – the vaccine mandates and other draconian public health policies enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic being among the most recent examples. One of the key features of this strategy is that we can no longer trust the mainstream/legacy media to tell us the truth. As George Orwell is often reported to have said: “Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” Unfortunately, a great many journalists today seem to have forgotten this.

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In the Republic of Serbia, repeated local elections will be held on 2 June 2024 for the capital city of Belgrade and local elections in 14 cities and 74 municipalities.

The International Institute IFIMES recently published an analysis of the pre-election events in Serbia titled “Serbia 2024: Electoral struggle for Belgrade – Is the opposition seeking power without elections?” available here (25 May 2024).

Serbia and the Western Balkans Back in the EU Spotlight

The Republic of Serbia is a key country for maintaining regional peace and stability. This raises the question of who benefits from instigating chaos in the Balkans and what intentions lie behind it, as certain domestic political forces in the Western Balkans are either acting in favour of or have been instrumentalised to serve foreign interests.

Serbia has recorded the highest growth in foreign direct investment in the region, exceeding six billion euros, and has demonstrated readiness to open nearly all negotiation chapters with the EU. EXPO 2027 represents a significant development opportunity for Serbia and the region. The EU’s new growth plan for the Western Balkans, amounting to six billion euros, including two billion in EU grants, will further boost economic development, with nearly half of these funds earmarked for Serbia.

The EU should be more definitive concerning the enlargement process, as the expansion of the EU cannot be delayed indefinitely. The uncertainty surrounding the EU enlargement process benefits those segments of the public in the Western Balkans that oppose their countries’ EU membership and favours the EU’s rivals.

Belgrade Becoming a Global Capital

If all projects related to EXPO 2027 are realised, Belgrade will, in many ways, resemble an enlarged version of Switzerland’s neutral cities and financial centres. It is evident that the Serbian capital remains one of the few neutral centres in all of Europe. This is further underscored by the soaring property prices, which have reached remarkable levels, surpassing those in cities like Vienna and Munich. Naturally, the greatest beneficiaries of this development will be the residents of Serbia’s capital, who will enjoy free or affordable access to all the accompanying infrastructural benefits of one of Europe’s top five capitals, which Belgrade is undoubtedly becoming.

Serbia will invest 17.8 billion EUR in EXPO 2027. New communal and road infrastructure will be constructed, alongside new bridges and revitalised facades. Belgrade will be linked by rail to the airport, the fairgrounds, and the new stadium, while the city will also witness the modernisation of its railway and bus stations.

Vučić Has Significantly Improved the Position of Minority Communities

According to the population census, national minorities constitute approximately 13% of the population of the Republic of Serbia and are represented through 23 national councils.

Within the EU accession process, Serbia has adopted an Action Plan for the realization of the rights of national minorities under Negotiation Chapter 23, which has “received support and positive evaluation from the European Commission and certain EU member states.

Key recommendations for enhancing the position of national minorities in Serbia primarily focus on improving the monitoring and assessment processes forimplementing the Action Plan for the improvement of the position of national minorities and the plan for Chapter 23.

Resolution CM/ResCMN (2021) on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities adopted by the Committee of Ministers in 2021, contains recommendations for the upcoming period, as outlined in the Ombudsman’s Report, which provides relevant proposals for improving the position of members of national minorities.

The participation of members of minority communities in government, especially at the local level and in various state institutions, is an indicator of the integration of minority communities into Serbian society and the state, representing a significant improvement.

Can the ‘Injection’ of Foreign Money Influence Election Outcomes?

Serbia remains a target of destabilizing forces,despite its critical role in maintaining peace and stability in the Balkans. Over 100 foreign security and intelligence services are known to operate within the country.

The significant involvement of foreign actors consistently stirs up turbulence, aiming to sow instability in Serbia. Some leaders of the Serbian opposition do not even bother to conceal their ties with foreign entities. A notable segment of the opposition in Serbia supports the country’s NATO membership and advocates for imposing sanctions on Russia. Notably, Serbia has maintained military neutrality and has progressively distanced itself from subservience to foreign influences over the past 12 years, a trend that peaked during Boris Tadić‘s administration (DS).

The high turnout in local elections plays a pivotal role as voters perceive these elections as transcending mere local matters. The upcoming local elections in Serbia will once again serve as a test for the confrontation between the influences of domestic patriotic forces and foreign factors.

Voters in Serbia traditionally disfavour external interference in elections, particularly from entities supporting political agendas advocating for Serbia’s NATO membership and the imposition of sanctions on Russia. A segment of the Serbian opposition, aligned with NATO membership, enjoys substantial support from Western political entities and significant financial backing. Public opinion polls indicate that the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka – SNS)), leading the “Serbia – Tomorrow” coalition, is the favoured contender in the upcoming elections. Respondents believe that President Aleksandar Vučić (SNS) should continue to lead a patriotic, decisive, and responsible state policy that repositions Serbia’s role in the region and the world.

Serbia maintains its position as a regional leader and an engine of European integration, with notable strengths such as high levels of foreign direct investment, a relatively low public debt, accelerated wage growth, low unemployment, a well-developed highway network, robust defence industry, investments in agriculture, youth development, sports infrastructure, resulting in high annual economic growth rates with prospects for further expansion. Particularly noteworthy is Serbia’s proactive role during the COVID-19 crisis, extending assistance to neighbouring countries. The hosting of EXPO 2027 is a significant event for Serbia and a stimulus, aligning with President Aleksandar Vučić’s vision of achieving a GDP of 100 billion EUR by 2027, compared to the 25 billion EUR GDP before the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) assumed power in 2012.

Analysts argue that the ‘injection‘ of foreign money poses a threat to democracy in Serbia, particularly due to certain foreign actors’ intentions to influence election outcomes by using money to promote political options and individuals aligned with their interests. Such a scenario could have dire consequences for democracy in Serbia.

Special Operation Belgrade

Despite the dissolution of the largest opposition bloc, “Serbia Against Violence,” (Srbija protiv nasilja), several parties from the former coalition have chosen to enter the electoral race. Six out of nine opposition parties, formerly part of the “Serbia Against Violence” coalition, are vying for seats in the Belgrade city elections and many other local self-governments. However, the leading party in this bloc, Dragan Djilas’s Party of Freedom and Justice (Stranka slobode i pravde -SSP), has opted out of the city elections in Belgrade and Niš due to concerns over Djilas’s unpopularity in these cities potentially harming the opposition’s prospects. Certain foreign “power centres” have warned the opposition about this, and devised tactics to “lull” the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its voters into complacency, assuming that the opposition will easily seize control in Belgrade and Niš. This strategy hinges on convincing SNS supporters that the voters in these cities are opposition-oriented and will vote against the SNS rather than for any specific party. This scenario poses a significant risk and potential trap for SNS voters, as their complacency or passivity would play into Djilas’s and certain foreign entities’ strategies. The overarching goal is to neutralize the coalition supporting the Serbian Progressive Party, known as “Aleksandar Vučić – Belgrade Tomorrow” or “Aleksandar Vučić – Niš Tomorrow,” and consequently gain control of the local government.

Achieving high voter turnout is paramount to ensuring the fairness, legality, and transparency of the electoral process without undue influence on voters. It is imperative that electoral participants renounce violence as a means of political expression and acknowledge the legitimacy of the officially announced election results. These local elections are overshadowed by national issues, which have taken centre stage this time around, contrasting with the usual focus on local concerns.

Analysts believe that the upcoming elections represent the last chance to overthrow Aleksandar Vučić’s (SNS) government through a “special operation” in Belgrade with the assistance of part of foreign entities, as Belgrade, the capital city, is a crucial pillar for wielding power in Serbia.

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Who Made the WHO? One World, One Health, One Leader

June 1st, 2024 by Jacob Nordangard

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This week the World Health Assembly is taking place under the motto “All for Health: Health for All”. Ahead of this meeting, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that negotiations on a Pandemic Treaty and updated International Health Regulations have not been completed.

Many interpret this as a partial victory against the forces that wish to give the WHO greater powers. However, this does not mean that the proposals are rejected.[1] Instead, the negotiation period for the Pandemic Treaty is extended to between 5 and 24 months, while the negotiations on the Health Regulations are extended by a few days at most.[2]

It is the Health Regulations that govern the response to a global health emergency (including the establishment of an “emergency committee”), while the treaty is about creating an international framework aimed at “preventing, preparing and responding to pandemics”. The treaty also includes a decision-making body, the Conference of the Parties (similar to the UN’s annual COP climate summit) which will meet once a year to review the implementation of the agreement, as well as the One Health concept, which aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems.[3]

The One Health concept was developed in September 2004 during a symposium with leading health experts organised by the World Conservation Society at Rockefeller University in New York under the slogan “One World, One Health”.[4]

This included, among others, representatives from WHO, FAO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Their final product, called the Manhattan Principles, contained twelve recommendations for “a more holistic approach” to preventing epidemics.

This means in practice a fusion of the climate/environmental and health agendas. That is, two of the areas that were pointed out as favorable to promote the construction of a new world order (One World) in the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Special Studies Project at the end of the 1950s.

Even now, the Rockefeller network participates in a very tangible way.

The Pandemic Treaty is a continuation of their old agenda, while the WHO is in many ways an organisation they have exerted influence on since its inception in 1948.[5] The predecessor League of Nations Health Organization was basically a subdivision of the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Health Division.[6]

In January 2022, the Rockefeller Foundation was recognized as a “Non-Governmental Actor in Official Relations with the WHO” while in May 2023 it launched a new partnership with the WHO to “expand pandemic preparedness in the era of climate change” through the WHO’s Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. Digitization, data collection and surveillance are central components of the UN’s technocratic future agenda.[7] Commenting on the partnership announcement, the foundation’s chief executive Rajiv Shah (member of the Trilateral Commission) said: Climate change is increasing both the risk of another global pandemic and the need to collaborate and share data.

Emergency Platform

From UN Policy Brief 2 Strengthening the International Response to Complex Global Shocks – An Emergency Platform

 

In 2015, Shah was member of the United Nations High-Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises. It is clear that the Rockefeller Foundation and the WHO are preparing for future global shocks and emergencies.[8]

The close collaboration is also manifested by the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is the WHO’s Ambassador for Global Health Financing, since March 2024 sitting on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation.

It truly is an honor to join The Rockefeller Foundation and support their work to help the world as it continues facing multiple global crises.[9]

Who will then be tasked with leading the UN when the global complex shocks paralyze the world? Current Secretary-General António Guterres will leave his post in December 2026.

It is possible that the answer was given during the first day of the World Health Assembly, when Tedros presented the WHO’s Award for Global Health to the developers of the mRNA vaccine (which was also awarded the Nobel Prize in December 2023) but also to the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, for her leadership in climate and health.[10] The justification was:

WHO considers climate change to be the greatest health threat facing humanity. Her tireless efforts for climate action help protect the health of all peoples, now and in the future.[11]

The award can be seen as an appreciation from her patrons in international philanthropy, and also an encouragement for future efforts.[12] The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) also awarded Mottley the “Champions of the Earth for Policy Leadership” award in 2021 for her climate leadership. Mottley, who chairs WHO’s Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, is committed to the sustainability agenda and leads SDG Advocates together with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.[13] She stepped forward as a female leader during the pandemic and participated in UN campaigns to “save lives”.

In July 2022, Mottley hosted a meeting in Barbados with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and other key players to draft the “Bridgetown Initiative” on how the international financial system can be reformed to stop climate change.[14] This reform work is part of the UN’s Our Common Agenda (which is supposed to be decided at the Summit of the Future in September).[15]

Mottley, a lawyer educated at the London School of Economics, has been singled out by several sources within the UN as a possible candidate for the post as the UN’s first female Secretary-General.[16] In the draft of the UN’s Pact for the Future (to be signed at the separate UN Summit for the Future in New York in September 2024), it is regretted that no woman has held the post so far, which can be interpreted as the time is now ripe.[17] As both a woman and black, Mottley appears to be an ideal candidate.

However, a new Secretary-General needs the support of all the permanent members of the Security Council (the US, UK, France, China, and Russia) in order to be elected. That is one reason why the Secretary-General has so far come from countries without any major international influence. It also means that international philanthropy is courting and rewarding candidates from smaller states who can serve as their obedient puppets. Guterres and representatives Ban-Ki Moon and Kofi Annan are clear examples of this.

However, Mottley may have too much “balls” compared to these gentlemen. In addition, she supports a reform that deprives the permanent members of the Security Council its unique veto powers, something which is not in her favor.[18] There are more candidates who are faithful to the technocratic futures agenda. We can be sure that whoever will assume the role of “Emergency General” of the “Pact for the Future” will have the blessing of international philanthropy.

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[1] It is possible to draw a parallel with Copenhagen in 2009, where the parties failed to reach an agreement on a new climate agreement. Instead, negotiations continued until the Paris Agreement was reached in 2015.

[2] apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA77/A77_9-en.pdf

[3] apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA77/A77_10-en.pdf

[4] The World Conservation Society was formerly the New York Zoological Society and was led after World War II by Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr. and Laurance Rockefeller.

[5] who.int/about/funding/contributors/the-rockefeller-foundation

[6] un-ilibrary.org/content/books/9789210577021c005

[7] rockefellerfoundation.org/news/the-rockefeller-foundation-and-world-health-organization-announce-partnership-to-expand-global-pandemic-preparedness-in-era-of-climate-change

[8] press.un.org/en/2015/sga1558.doc.htm

[9] www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/rockefeller-foundation-adds-former-prime-minister-gordon-brown-to-board/

[10] who.int/news/item/27-05-2024-director-general-s-award-for-global-health-go-to-prime-minister-of-barbados-and-developers-of-mrna-vaccines-for-covid-19

[11] who.int/news/item/27-05-2024-director-general-s-award-for-global-health-go-to-prime-minister-of-barbados-and-developers-of-mrna-vaccines-for-covid-19

[12] rockefellerfoundation.org/insights/perspective/getting-it-done-addressing-climate-change-will-take-bold-reforms/

[13] unsdgadvocates.org/news/un-secretary-general-antnio-guterres-announces-the-prime-minister-of-barbados-and-prime-minister-of-canada-as-the-new-co-chairs-of-the-sdg-advocates-group

[14] carnegieendowment.org/posts/2023/06/was-a-global-financial-summit-the-start-of-a-new-bretton-woods?lang=en

[15] un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-international-finance-architecture-en.pdf

[16] edition.cnn.com/2023/09/29/americas/united-nations-secretary-general-mia-mottley-intl-latam/index.html

[17] un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sotf-pact-for-the-future-rev.1.pdf

[18] globalissues.org/news/2024/04/16/36478

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Tell Congress We Need an Arms Embargo NOW!

June 1st, 2024 by CODEPINK

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Just as we were wrapping up the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Israel dropped two ton bombs on Palestinian families sheltering in tents, murdering 45 people at once and injuring hundreds. Many of the martyrs from that night were burned alive. Despite Biden’s claims that an invasion of Rafah was a “red line,”Israel continues its brutal assault. Gazans will keep dying every time Biden fails to act. 

Take action TODAY and tell Congress to place an arms embargo on Israel: NO MORE US BOMBS TO KILL PALESTINIANS!

More than 3500 conference participants have pledged to take matters into our own hands with a call to action: wear red and surround the White House on June 8. 

We’ve seen children with their limbs blown off, dead bodies piled up, people burned alive, streets full of body parts and blood, and entire neighborhoods leveled to the ground. Our last night in Detroit, an image circulated of a man holding up a child’s burnt body with their head completely missing. The Biden Administration was quick to support Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians after debunked stories of beheaded babies on October 7th became the main talking point. Where are they now that the beheaded babies are on all of our Instagram feeds?

Enough is enough. As long as our elected officials continue arming this genocide with our tax dollars, we need to be there to tell them to stop putting blood on our hands. We need to do two things: 

  1. An arms embargo campaign was launched at the People’s Conference for Palestine, and we need your help to flood Congress with our demand.
  2. Join us on June 8 in DC to show Biden what a red line looks like. We will circle the White House in red (and our pink Keffiyehs) to expose his failure. What we need now is people power.

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Earlier this week, I argued that NATO’s latest actions in Ukraine (and beyond) are tantamount to a declaration of war on Russia. Attacks on Moscow’s strategic assets, particularly early warning radar stations, as well as Stoltenberg’s openly declared support for long-range strikes on Russia using NATO-sourced weapons, make it quite clear what the political West is planning to do. Men like Jens Stoltenberg are certainly not making any real decisions, but serve mostly as glorified spokespeople.

However, his threats to the Kremlin finally show the true intentions of the world’s most aggressive racketeering cartel. To make matters worse, the latest statements of actual leaders of NATO countries show that the political West is desperate to prevent the Neo-Nazi junta’s defeat by raising the stakes to a direct confrontation with Moscow (i.e. WW3).

This leaves Russia with no choice but to be prepared for any eventuality. It recently held military exercises involving simulated usage of tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs). This is quite important, as the Kremlin owns not just the world’s most powerful strategic arsenal, but also fields the largest number of TNWs, including nuclear shells for its unrivaled artillery formations. Thus, if you thought Russian artillery couldn’t possibly be scarier than it is already, think for a second that this only relates to its conventional capabilities. So, when President Vladimir Putin says “you still haven’t seen anything”, that’s exactly how it should be interpreted. And normal people surely wouldn’t want to see such escalation. However, as the political West keeps sinking into utter madness, we cannot expect its leaders to conduct realpolitik and make sensible decisions.

On the other hand, while Russian leadership previously tried maintaining contact to avoid a disaster of global proportions, it now realizes that this is not only futile, but also counterproductive, if not even self-defeating. Accustomed to invading largely helpless opponents (think of a grown man barging into a kindergarten and punching preschool children), NATO has become completely detached from reality. Although it’s now after a near-peer adversary (the same analogy, just instead of those preschool kids you have a giant MMA fighter), the belligerent alliance still lives in the illusion that it’s vastly superior and that it will prevail. This is forcing Moscow not to engage in dialogue (as previously mentioned, it would be pointless), but to openly talk about the possibility of nuclear war with the United States and NATO.

Historically, the Kremlin always tried to keep talks about it behind closed doors, as is customary for those still honoring diplomatic etiquette. However, as the political West’s concept of foreign policy is now equivalent to banditry and piracy, this too has become futile. This is why Russia is now warning about NATO’s preparations for nuclear war. According to the Russian military and intelligence services, the belligerent alliance is secretly engaged in military exercises that involve preparations for potential nuclear strikes on Russia. Army General Vladimir Kulishov, First Deputy Director of the FSB and Head of its Border Service, actually said so in a recent interview. This includes not only a massive increase in NATO’s activity around Russia’s borders, but also the aforementioned nuclear drills that the belligerent alliance is trying to conceal.

“Near the Russian border, NATO’s reconnaissance activities are increasing, the intensity of operational combat training of the alliance’s troops is growing, during which scenarios for conducting combat operations against the Russian Federation, including the launch of nuclear strikes on our territory, are being worked out,” General Kulishov said in an interview with RIA Novosti, adding: “The situation requires taking appropriate steps to protect and secure our borders.”

Many in the political West might ignore or even outright reject his words, but it seems the Russian general didn’t even need to say anything, as EU/NATO leaders themselves are effectively confirming this virtually every day. Namely, after French President Emmanuel Macron supported the usage of NATO-sourced long-range weapons against Russia, US President Joe Biden joined the chorus of those who suddenly want to blow up the world. It should be noted that, although a mere formality at this point, this marks a disturbing change in rhetoric. While Washington DC previously tried maintaining a level of “plausible deniability”, it’s now openly talking about strikes on a country with the world’s largest thermonuclear arsenal. As second only to Russia in terms of its own strategic weapons, the US has a huge responsibility.

However, instead of being far more careful in its statements and actions, the belligerent thalassocracy is doing the opposite. President Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have been warning against such behavior for years and continue to do so even now. Unfortunately, such sensible messages seem to fall on deaf ears. Worse yet, NATO not only keeps ignoring this, but is escalating attacks on Russian early warning systems through its Neo-Nazi puppets in Kiev. Such systems play no role in Moscow’s military operations in Ukraine, meaning that the Kiev regime certainly wouldn’t be bothering to use its forces and resources, already spread far too thin across the collapsing frontlines, for such attacks – unless ordered to do so by its puppet masters in the halls of power in Washington DC and, to a lesser extent, Brussels.

Obviously, NATO’s motivation to do this would be to diminish Russia’s ability to detect and track potential nuclear strikes. However, the world’s most aggressive racketeering cartel seems to have forgotten about Moscow’s “Perimeter” (known in NATO as the “Dead Hand”) system that ensures retaliation even in the case that the entire Russian leadership is killed in a possible “decapitation strike” that the Pentagon has been openly talking about in recent years. In addition, the Kremlin’s world-class nuclear submarines also ensure deterrence even if the Eurasian giant ceased to exist. Its eight Borei-class SSBNs each carry 16 R-30 “Bulava” SLBMs, while every missile is armed with up to ten 150 kt thermonuclear MIRV warheads. To put that into perspective, the Hiroshima bomb was 15 kt. Do the math.

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“In a world where engineered, pre-emptive, or more fashionably “humanitarian” wars of aggression have become the norm, this challenging book may be our final wake-up call.”
-Denis Halliday, Former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations

Michel Chossudovsky exposes the insanity of our privatized war machine. Iran is being targeted with nuclear weapons as part of a war agenda built on distortions and lies for the purpose of private profit. The real aims are oil, financial hegemony and global control. The price could be nuclear holocaust. When weapons become the hottest export of the world’s only superpower, and diplomats work as salesmen for the defense industry, the whole world is recklessly endangered. If we must have a military, it belongs entirely in the public sector. No one should profit from mass death and destruction.
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One of Empire’s biggest lies is that we have “press freedom” in the West.  Another Big Lie, a corollary of the first, is that Israel is acting in “self-defense against terrorists”, as it commits genocide against Palestinian civilians in contravention of a recent ICJ ruling, and in contravention of international law.

If press freedom existed in the West, Westerners would know and accept that Israel, along with its Western patrons, supports ISIS and al Qaeda, internationally recognized terror groups. Democratic and freedom-loving facades would quickly evaporate if a free press imprinted these well-documented facts in the collective consciousness.

Israel’s victim charade would also dissolve quickly once Westerners realized that the Oct. 7 incursion was a military-intelligence operation orchestrated by elements of Hamas and Western/Zionist intelligence assets.

In fact the “free press” lie is a progeny of mass murder. Washington and its allies and proxies target and murder truth and freedom-loving journalists in Gaza and beyond.

This is well-documented. See this.

So far, Washington-supported Zionists have murdered about 142 journalists since October 7, 2024. Their voices will not be heard again. The voices of the 35,000 murdered civilians, mostly women and children, including 200 U.N. employees, will not be heard from again either.

Yet the vacuum is filled by Legacy Media lies and distortions. Canada’s CBC is a typical example of mainstream disinformation practices that rely on censorship and false messaging to whitewash the Zionist genocide against Palestinians.

Apparently omitted from mainstream discourse is that Palestinians have a right to resist their long-time oppressors.  They have a “right to exist, and a right to resist,” as emphasized by Francesca Albanese, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

Western-supported Zionist settler-colonial genocide of Palestinians is occurring right now on our watch.

The mass murder and censorship of Palestinian “Messengers of Truth” will not extinguish this reality.

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Young Paramedics and EMTs who were mandated COVID-19 Vaccines, continue to die suddenly. Here are 25 cases:

May 16, 2024 – Kildare, Ireland – Young paramedic Ross Murphy died suddenly on May 16, 2024

May 3, 2024 – Yuma, AZ – 27 year old Jason Huntley, paramedic, died suddenly on May 3, 2024.

Apr. 22, 2024 – Elk Garden – 47 year old Lena Michelle Stieringer Schell died suddenly at her home on April 22, 2024. She was an EMT.

Apr. 9, 2024 – Boardman, OH – 59 year old EMT, Paramedic and LPN Stefanie Ann James, died unexpectedly on April 9, 2024.

April 5, 2024 – Colchester, CT – 47 year old Kimberly Irene Perkowski, an EMT, died after a brief battle with cancer on April 5, 2024.

Mar. 25, 2024 – Hallandale Beach, FL – 47 year old paramedic Heather Lynn Owns died suddenly in her sleep on March 25, 2024. May, 2021: “LOL…Guess I am one of the human lab rats that got vaccinated”.

 

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Mar. 17, 2024 – Princeton, MA – 23 year old Patrick Cumming died suddenly on March 17, 2024. He was an EMT and had enlisted into the US Army National Guard as Infantryman.

 

 

Mar. 12, 2024 – 34 year old EMT/Firefighter Ronald Drake Adams died of a heart attack hours after responding to an emergency call on March 12, 2024. He died in his home.

 

 

Mar. 5, 2024 – Creek County, OK – 22 year old EMT Lauren Michelle Kerns died suddenly on March 5, 2024.

 

 

Feb. 14, 2024 -Santa Rosa, CA – Paramedic Ambrose Stevens collapsed with respiratory complications from a sinus infection “due to COVID” He was declared brain dead on Feb. 14, 2024.

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Feb. 3, 2024 – Cochranton, PA – 46 year old Nicole Lynn Komara Danielson died unexpectedly on Feb.3, 2024. She was an EMT, firefighter at Cochranton Volunteer Fire Dept as well as a cheerleading coach.

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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity

by Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.

“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”

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This is an in-depth resource of great interest if it is the wider perspective you are motivated to understand a little better, the author is very knowledgeable about geopolitics and this comes out in the way Covid is contextualized. —Dr. Mike Yeadon

In this war against humanity in which we find ourselves, in this singular, irregular and massive assault against liberty and the goodness of people, Chossudovsky’s book is a rock upon which to sustain our fight. –Dr. Emanuel Garcia

In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig 

Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac

A reading of  Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late.  You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin

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The Biden administration has quietly given Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia — solely near the area of Kharkiv — using U.S.-provided weapons, three U.S. officials and two other people familiar with the move said Thursday, a major reversal that will help Ukraine to better defend its second-largest city.

“The president recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able to use U.S. weapons for counter-fire purposes in Kharkiv so Ukraine can hit back at Russian forces hitting them or preparing to hit them,” one of the U.S. officials said, adding that the policy of not allowing long-range strikes inside Russia “has not changed.”

Ukraine asked the U.S. to make this policy change only after Russia’s offensive on Kharkiv began this month, the official added. All the people were granted anonymity to discuss internal decisions that haven’t been announced.

In the last few days, the U.S. made the decision to allow Ukraine “flexibility” to defend itself from attacks on the border near Kharkiv, the second U.S. official said.

In effect, Ukraine can now use American-provided weapons, such as rockets and rocket launchers, to shoot down launched Russian missiles heading toward Kharkiv, at troops massing just over the Russian border near the city, or Russian bombers launching bombs toward Ukrainian territory. But the official said Ukraine cannot use those weapons to hit civilian infrastructure or launch long-range missiles, such as the Army Tactical Missile System, to hit military targets deep inside Russia.

It’s a stunning shift the administration initially said would escalate the war by more directly involving the U.S. in the fight. But worsening conditions for Ukraine on the battlefield –– namely Russia’s advances and improved position in Kharkiv –– led the president to change his mind.

The National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Donald Trump becomes the first ever former President of the United States to be convicted of a crime.

A unanimous New York jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of illegally trying to cover up a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to stifle a sex scandal that he feared would derail his 2016 presidential campaign only days before America went to the polls.

Paying the hush money was not in itself illegal but the prosecution successfully argued that it was designed to influence the outcome of the election — a violation of election laws and, argued the prosecutors, the underlying crime.

This is highly contentious territory — especially since the trial heard next to nothing about campaign law violations — which is why the guilty verdict will be immediately appealed. Trump’s defense lawyers have 30 days to prepare an appeal.

Guilty on 34 counts sounds worse than it is. It only refers to the number of instalments by which Trump arranged for his then lawyer and sleazy fixer, Michael Cohen, to be reimbursed for paying Daniels.

The prosecution argued convincingly that Trump and his people had covered up these repayments to hide their true purpose. But doctoring corporate book-keeping entries under New York law is only a misdemeanor or minor crime, usually involving just a slap on the wrist.

It was linking the payments to a breach of campaign finance law which elevated the matter to proper criminality. For many observers the link is highly tenuous. It was barely discussed during the trial and nobody testified that such a link even existed.

Those salivating at the prospect of Trump now doing jail time will have to be patient.

Trump will not be held in remand pending sentencing. He is hardly a flight risk. It was a white-collar crime involving someone with no previous convictions. Jail would be an unusual outcome.

But then this whole trial has been unusual.

Sentencing will not take place until July 11, when Trump could face anything from probation to four years behind bars.

But even if the judge decides on jail, the guilty verdict will be appealed and Trump will remain free until the appeal process is concluded.

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Four Things You Need to Know About Iran

May 31st, 2024 by Marc Vandepitte

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Because of the sudden death of its president, Iran has again been talked about a lot these days, but little is known about this country. Below is a modest attempt at providing some clarity.

1. The Importance of Iran 

The country has the fourth largest oil reserves in the world and the second largest gas reserves. Despite global warming, oil and gas remain strategically very important raw materials. At current prices, Iran’s fossil reserves are worth many thousands of billions of dollars.

Iran’s location is also of great strategic importance. It is located in the Middle East, a region where 48 percent of the oil reserves and 40 percent of the gas reserves are found. This region also connects Europe with Asia and is crucial for international trade.

The Strait of Hormuz, near the Iranian coast, is a very narrow artery through which about a fifth of the Middle East’s oil passes and a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas. That also makes the country strategically very important.

With a population of 90 million, Iran is a sub-regional superpower. It is also the most important country for the Shiites, meaning its influence also extends into countries in the region with significant Shiite populations, such as Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. Shia Islam is one of the two major branches of Islam, Sunni Islam is the other (and largest) branch.

The great importance of this Persian country was not lost on the West. In 1953, the US and Great Britain organized a coup d’état to protect British oil interests. Until 1979, Iran was a vassal of the US. Besides Israel and Saudi Arabia, Tehran was the main pawn of the US and the West to keep the region under its thumb.

That situation changed in 1979. There was a revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini. From then on, Tehran began to chart its own independent course, which was obviously not to the liking of the West. Which brings us to the next point.

2. Why Is the West So Hostile to Iran? 

Since 1979, Iran has been undermining the rule of the West and Israel in the region through its autonomous course and through its foreign influence. Because of the major economic and geostrategic interests that are at stake, the US in particular, in collaboration with Israel, has done everything possible to implement regime change. Because this failed, Washington attempted to weaken and destabilize the country.

Conversely, Israel was armed to the teeth by the West and the country was even allowed to develop nuclear weapons. 

All countries that follow their own course independent of the West will suffer the same fate as Iran. Just think of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua or China. That has nothing to do with human rights. Just look at how the West pampers Saudi Arabia, or how Israel can carry out its genocide against Gaza virtually unhindered.

Immediately after the 1979 revolution, Washington imposed economic sanctions on Iran. From 2006, those sanctions have spiraled, ostensibly to stop Iran’s nuclear program. There was a slight relaxation under Obama, but since Trump there have been heavy sanctions aimed at oil exports, financial transactions, shipping, and other sectors of the Iranian economy.

With the sanctions, the West hopes to weaken the country economically and undermine the authority of the Iranian government, hoping that this will lead to regime change or that the country will become less militant in the region.

In any case, these sanctions have significant consequences for the Iranian economy. The value of Iran’s own currency, the rial, has fallen sharply, there is a skyrocketing inflation of more than 40 percent, and youth unemployment is higher than 20 percent.

The West has also tried to turn the Sunni countries in the region against Iran, but since the Iran-Saudi Arabia deal, that divide-and-rule strategy has been failing. Now that Iran has also become a member of the BRICS+ and maintains good ties with Russia and China, the enmity of the West is greater than ever.

This enmity is also reflected in the mainstream media. Similar to that other ‘troublesome’ countries, coverage of Iran is heavily biased. Naturally, this country has many problems, and these should of course be reported on.

But invariably the country is portrayed in a negative light and mistakes or problems are magnified.

For reliable information on Iran, the best way is consulting alternative media.

3. Who Actually Holds the Power in Iran? 

Iran’s political system bears some similarities to ours. There is a separation of powers and an elected parliament that drafts laws, approves the budget and has the power to hold politicians accountable.

Compared to most neighboring countries, the level of democracy is fairly high. For example, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia do not have a parliament. The latter country does not even have a constitution.

Compared to our system, there are important differences. In western countries, the economic elite has a lot of power and influence behind the scenes. Parliaments have very little say in economic matters: it is the business world that determines how many investments are made and where. And monetary policy  is determined by unelected central banks.

In Iran, the business world has been deliberately sidelined to prevent companies from exerting too much influence or advocating political changes.

Iran has a Supreme Leader, which is comparable to a strong presidential regime such as in France or the US. He’s the most powerful man in the country. He is not directly involved in the legislative process, but can issue guidelines that influence policy direction and legislation. He is elected by an Assembly of Experts. This is a council of 88 Islamic scholars and lawyers who are directly elected by popular vote for an eight-year term.

Iran also has a president. The current one recently perished in a helicopter crash. The president’s powers can be compared to those of a prime minister in a strong presidential regime. He heads the government and executive policy but works within the guidelines set by the Supreme Leader.

A major difference from our political system is the existence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It was established shortly after the 1979 revolution. The pre-1979 Iranian army was considered loyal to the former Shah and the West and therefore a possible threat to the new Islamic government. The IRGC was a kind of parallel military force loyal to the new revolutionary order, a force that could balance the regular armed forces.

The IRGC had and has to protect the country from external threats. Given the very hostile attitude of the West and Israel, this was not an unnecessary luxury. 

The Guard also aims to protect and uphold the ideals of the Islamic Revolution. In a context of tension and foreign hostility, this leads to the suppression of dissent and the elimination of political opponents in many countries. Iran is no exception to that rule.

The IGRC also plays an important role in supporting friendly militia movements in countries in the region, such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Ansar Allah (the ‘Houthis’) and militias in Iraq and Syria.  

Today, the Revolutionary Guard has 120,000 members and is supported by millions of volunteers. Over the years, the IRGC has increased its presence and influence at the expense of the clergy. It is not only an important military power, but also plays a crucial role in Iran’s political world, its economy and internal security.

In other words, the IRGC has become a central pillar of the Islamic Republic of Iran, sometimes described as a shadow government. The Supreme Leader controls the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps but takes its advice into consideration. In a sense, in Iran you are dealing with a dual power structure.

4. What Does the Future Hold? 

Iran is a highly polarized society. In rural areas and smaller towns, people tend to be more conservative and religious. They attach great importance to stability and the preservation of the Islamic revolution and its associated values. The government may count on a lot of support from them.

In larger cities, and especially among the younger and better educated, the opposite can be seen. They argue for more personal freedoms, more modern lifestyles and a relaxation of strict Islamic rules. For them there must be equality between women and men.

They are often critical of the government and spiritual leadership. In their view the concept that a Supreme Leader determines all aspects of their lives is outdated.

In addition, the economic sanctions have seriously affected the prosperity of large sections of the population. The combination of socio-economic dissatisfaction and the desire for modernization and freedom has led to major protests in 2019 and 2022.

In 2019, in the protests were a response to the increase in petrol prices. The 2022 demonstrations followed the death of a 22-year-old woman who died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for failing to adhere to strict Islamic dress codes. In both cases, approximately 300 demonstrators were killed. Four people were executed in 2022.

The protests each died out after a few months and did not shake the government. In view of what has happened in Iraq, Syria and Libya, many Iranians are wary of chaos and excessive instability. On the other hand, the ferocity of the protests does show that the Iranian political leadership is facing a fundamental problem, which it will eventually have to find a solution to.

The deceased President Rasai was a hardliner. The question is what kind of person his successor will be. Will it be a hardliner or a more moderate figure, will it be a cleric or someone from the Revolutionary Guards?

This will largely determine the course the government will take in the near future: will it allow social, cultural and political changes that can avert unrest, or will it impose stricter restrictions and suppress dissent, which may will provoke protests and violence again?

The election of a new president is provided by law within fifty days of his death. A large number of dissatisfied Iranians may express their anger by simply not voting. How large the turnout will be in those elections will be an important test for the Iranian government. Less than 41 percent turned out for this year’s parliamentary elections.

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The General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces released its second report about aspects and reasons behind the recent helicopter crash that led to the death of President Ebrahim Raisi and his accompanying delegation on the 19th of May. Despite the huge number of versions, circulating in media, Iran continues its own investigation and has no intention to hurry it up, avoiding to to make any conclusions ahead of time. It is remarkable that the investigation of the incident still going through as well as there is no clear and accurate narrative of the helicopter’s crash.

The occurrence of an explosion as a result of a sabotage or terror attack during the flight was ruled out as one of the helicopter’s passengers contacted the rescue team.

During these short radio negotiations he denied the emergence of any strange situations or alert onboard. These facts also refute the theory about targeting of the helicopter by anti-aircraft weapons or the guided missile. Besides, no undetected objects within the Iranian airspace were recorded.

According to the report which was mentioned above, the staff of meteorological service provided the data indicating that weather conditions were satisfactory for flight. That’s why two other helicopters – the American Bell 212 similar to “Board No. 1” of the Iranian leader, and Soviet Mi-171 safely reached the destination airport. These circumstances allow to rule out the theory about harsh weather conditions as possible reason of the Raisi’s helicopter crash.

Moreover, specialists and investigators closely examined all flight documents, crew’s notes and technical documentation of the helicopter. They also didn’t uncover anything strange or any lead which could shed the light on the reason of the crash. As a total weight of passengers and equipment was standard and couldn’t overload the helicopter.

While investigating possible reasons of the crash, it’s necessary to take into account that all pilots, approved for carrying high-ranked officials, are used to be experienced and skilled professionals.

It’s hard to believe that such well-trained crew could be disoriented by the fog or cloudiness or didn’t realize the dangerous approach with mountains – pilots were familiar with local terrain and the risks of flights on low attitudes. Conversation between pilots also exposed that the last contact occurred just two seconds before the crash and everything on board was under control. No emergency calls were also reported.

At the same time there is a theory, that captain Mustafawi, the pilot of the Raisi’s helicopter Bell 212 was an agent of foreign intelligence and he directed the “Board No. 1” to the rock. That may explain his command to other pilots in a few minutes before the crash to rise on a higher attitude in order not to fall under suspicion in strange behavior and break up the killing of Raisi and Abdollahian. The same reason could force him to stay in contact with airport and other pilots all the time before the crash.

Another possible reason of the incident is the US origin of a crashed helicopter Bell 212. This type of helicopters is outdated nowadays and it needs continuous supplies of original details with proper quality. After the US government has imposed sanctions on Iran, the helicopter manufacturer was banned of supplying Tehran with required equipment. The spokesman for the US Department of State Matthew Miller confirmed this fact claiming that “Iranians Government is to blame for the crash”.

One of the most entertaining theories of what happened on May 19 was voiced by Dogu Perinchek – the leader of the Turkish “Watan” Party, who claimed Raisi’s helicopter crash was caused by the sabotage by the American intelligent services. Despite the official statement of the Iranian General Staff, claiming that investigators haven’t found any technical failure or attempts to shut down communication systems during the flight of “Board No. 1” especially by using the electronic warfare, the helicopter could be forced out of action by another means.

It’s worth noting that the United States have specific laws allowing the government to interfere and change program settings in key power supply sets of vehicles and equipment being sold out of the US. In particular, sources in “Boeing” company have confirmed the possibility of interference in its exported stuff. The most notable example of such kind of external interference in the functioning of electrical equipment is the US invasion in Iraq in 2003. Back then the US military deprived the Iraqi army of any communication possibilities by shutting down all the terminals and portable radio stations produced in the United States.

A number of analysts are concerned, that US intelligent services have some technical means to impact on key elements of vehicles produced by the US from a long-range distance.

Their functionality is different from the electronic warfare system. Taking into account the long-standing conflict between the United States and Islamic Republic of Iran, Washington could easily cause the crash of the President Raisi’s helicopter, claiming that the reason of tragedy was because of sanctions, difficult flight conditions or the rude mistake of the helicopter’s crew.

Anyway, it seems rather strange that only one of three helicopters with the head of state and the minister of foreign affairs on board collided with the mountain given the same weather conditions, the same route and well-trained pilots.

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Israel can get away with mass-murder because the world’s superpower, USA, defends and excuses them of accountability.

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The Israeli military continues with severe artillery shelling in Rafah and the use of quadcopters to chase people. At least 20 people were killed inside their tents as they were trying to flee within the past 24 hours.

At least 31 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza since early on Wednesday, as the Israeli military continues, ignoring calls from the international community and aid groups to stop.

Israel committed a second massacre against civilians in tents in Rafah, in less than 30 hours after its first horrific massacre on May 26, when Israeli aircraft bombed tents, killing 45 Palestinians, including three elderly people, nine children, and 12 women.

The Euro-Med Monitor field team documented the killing of seven civilians, including four women, after Israeli aircraft once again bombed displacement tents west of the city of Rafah on May 28.

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The new targeting shows Israel’s insistence on ignoring all international positions that denounced Sunday’s massacre. Israel continues to commit the most heinous crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip with the intention of eradicating them, in flagrant and egregious violation of international law and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulings.

Barely functioning hospitals across Gaza are dealing with an influx of injured people.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has recovered the bodies of two of its paramedics who were killed in Rafah last night.

During the war on Gaza, Israeli attacks have killed at least 493 healthcare workers, including nurses, paramedics and doctors, with many more injured.

How Can Israel Get Away with It?

Israel can get away with mass murder because the world’s superpower, USA, defends and excuses them of accountability.

The arrogance of Israel’s protection under the wing of the U.S. State Department allows them to deny 6 million Palestinians of their human rights, and self-determination, which is a right ensured under the universal declaration of human rights, which the U.S. is a signatory. It would appear the signature of the United States of America means nothing.

Why Did the World Stop Apartheid in South Africa But Not Israel?

For decades, the world watched the apartheid government in South Africa. The U.S. and other freedom loving nations put sanctions on South African goods, such as diamonds. In the end, apartheid was dismantled in South Africa because the white supremacist government could not survive economically while so isolated from global commerce. It was the economy which broke the back of the South African apartheid government.

Israel has an apartheid system of government, and the UN has reported their findings in the past. The entire world recognizes that Israel is an apartheid state. There is a thriving Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) movement, but it has not gained a strong enough stature to break the Israel economy, as was the case in South Africa.

Is Israel Worth Supporting?

Israel is a very small country in the Middle East. They don’t produce oil and gas like some of their rich neighbors.

The U.S. pledged in April 2024, about $26 billion to Israel, about $4 billion of that would be dedicated to replenishing Israel’s missile defense systems.

The U.S. State Department, regardless of what president is on office, and regardless of what political party is holding the Oval office, sells the story to the American people that Israel is worth supporting because they are the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’. This is a blatant fantasy, with no basis in reality, but the American people have swallowed it, hook line and sinker.

In a democracy, everyone has an equal voice, has representation, has elections and a legal system which values life, property and equal justice.

In Israel, if you are born Jewish, you have democracy and human rights. If you are not born Jewish, you have no human rights, legal rights or property rights. You have no right to know legal charges against you, or have a lawyer on your case, or have visits from family, or know what your sentence is and how long you will be required to serve in prison.

Ariel Sharon’s Nightmare

Ariel Sharon, an Israeli general and the prime minister of Israel from 2001 until 2006, once said he was not worried about an Arab army attacking Israel and destroying it. He said Arab unity will never happen. However, his true fear was something unforeseen happening between the U.S.-Israel relationship, which would cause the U.S. to stop supporting Israel, and this would lead to the elimination of Israel.

Biden Will Lose the Election Because of Israel

Despite the fact 2024 is an election year, and President Joe Biden and Donald Trump are polling neck to neck, still Biden remains committed to supporting the slaughterhouse in Gaza. ‘The Butcher of Rafah’ is Joe Biden. Biden and Hillary Clinton have called the college protesters ignorant. But, are all the protesters across the globe also all ignorant? According to Biden and Clinton, only they are intelligent.

If Biden had insisted Israel stop the war on Gaza, and stopped sending weapons to Israel, he might have gained a significant number of votes from educated and moral Americans who regard human rights and freedom as core American values. Biden’s choice to surrender the 2024 election to Trump in defense of Israel’s genocide in Gaza will go down in history. Biden has extinguished America’s standing as a beacon of ‘life and liberty’ to the world. He has irretrievably sullied the name of the United States of America, and the citizens of the world are disgusted.

U.S. Campus Protests and Global Cities Protests

When the American college students began protesting the slaughter of innocent, unarmed civilians in Gaza, AIPAC immediately went to work. They contacted U.S. Congress members, who depend on AIPAC support to remain in office, to start pointing a dirty finger at anti-Semitism as the cause of the protests. Young, highly educated people in the U.S. were suddenly described as demented people living in the dark and protesting only because of their blind and unwarranted hatred of Jews. You can find people who hold antique anti-Semitic views, but they are not enough to fill college campuses across the U.S.

AIPAC picked Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to spearhead a congressional panel who questioned three college presidents. She was so successful that one resigned, and the other was removed from office. The one which identified herself as Jewish got to keep her job.

Israeli Citizens Are Leaving

The Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv is busy these days with international journalist coming in, but even busier with Israeli citizens flying out to make a new life abroad.

The right-wing extremist government under PM Benjamin Netanyahu does not represent all of the Israelis.

Many are peace-loving and want to extend to their Palestinian neighbors the same rights they have enjoyed. Many Israelis are highly educated, and have traveled abroad, or lived or studied abroad, where they came to face the world’s opinion of Israel. The Israeli media only tells one side of  domestic politics, and never shows the plight and oppression of the Palestinians.

The Israeli public are taught from childhood that they are the only humans deserving of rights, and everyone else who is not born Jewish is an inferior. The Israelis have a name for people not born Jewish, and this ethno-superiority complex is a form of delusion. There is only one race, and that is the human race.

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After seven full days of an encampment at the center of Wayne State University in Detroit, campus police raided and removed the encampment which has demanded the complete divestment from corporations which have interests in the State of Israel.

The encampment began with a demonstration on Thursday May 23 starting on Woodward Avenue and West Warren, which is the location of the WSU Welcome Center.

Hundreds of students, faculty and community members then marched west on Warren on to the campus where the encampment was constructed right across from the Undergraduate Library (UGL). For seven days, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and their allies maintained the solidarity camp around the clock providing food, water, medical services along with educational workshops and cultural presentations.

The Palestine solidarity activists issued nine demands to the university administration including full disclosure of financial ties with the Israeli regime; divestment from these holdings; a public statement decrying the genocide in Gaza; reaffirm students’ First Amendment rights to protest and dissent; protect students and faculty members advocating for Palestine from all forms of hostility and conduct; a formal inquiry into the harassment they experience; accurately represent the city of Detroit and call for a ceasefire; offer financial and legal help for Palestinian students who are on a visa; and offer programming for Palestinians and people who have been evacuated from Gaza.

WSU students say ‘No Genocide on Our Dime’

During the course of the one-week encampment, campus administrators attempted to mislead the public through false statements made to the press.

Newly appointed President Kimberly Andrews Espy claimed that the students had refused to hold talks with administration. The fact of the matter is many of these demands were made months ago. The Student Senate had passed a resolution demanding divestment earlier in the year.

Moreover, it has been exposed that the WSU Police have collaborated with the Israeli state by sending its personnel to train alongside the Zionist security forces in 2019. The Student Senate had requested that links between the settler-colonial government occupying Palestine be immediately halted.

An article published in the WSU campus newspaper, the South End, said the following:

“The Student Senate passed Resolution 2324-24, which called for Wayne State’s Police Department to break their ties with the Israeli government, an explanation as to why the department received anti-terrorism training from said government, and further cultural sensitivity training, on Thursday at its last general body meeting of the semester. In 2019 WSU Chief of Police Anthony Holt visited Israel for a ‘seven-day training regimen’ funded by the Israel Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, according to an article written by Holt in The Detroit Jewish News.”

This same article goes on to cite the 2019 report in The Detroit Jewish News saying:

“The purpose of the trip with the Law Enforcement/Federation Security Detroit delegation was to receive training on ‘coping with terrorism threats, anti-Semitism as a global terror threat, connection between community and security/emergency forces, terror in the State of Israel from the perspective of a senior commander in the field, Judaism in the diaspora, simulation exercises and numerous other critical points of discussion,’ the article said.’”

Chief Holt, when asked recently about the trip by the South End, denied that it was a training exercise. He told the newspaper that there was no training during the trip. He said the delegation went there to enjoy Israel by sightseeing and relaxation.

Nonetheless, he did not address the obvious questions as to why The Detroit Jewish News would make such a claim if it was not true. Various United States police departments have engaged with Israeli security forces for a number of years.

WSU Administration Destroys Peaceful Encampment Following Nationwide Pattern

Despite the peaceful character of the encampment, the WSU administration refused to recognize the legitimacy of the protest action. Negotiations between the SJP and others demanding the divestment from the settler-colonial regime now occupying Palestine, with the university administration, failed to make any progress.

These negotiations involving the WSU Board of Governors and the student representatives stalled while no effort to address the nine demands of the protesters were put forward by the administration. Several days prior to the raid, a WSU administrator approached the encampment telling students that they would negotiate with two representatives of the group if they agreed to dismantle their protest site. The students refused to dismantle, saying they would not conduct negotiations in private.

Therefore, during the early morning hours of May 30, police in riot gear invaded the encampment. Palestine solidarity activists were attacked, dispersed and 12 were arrested.

Muslim women had their hijabs forcefully removed by the police. U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has been on campus several times during the encampment, challenged the police and the administration for their dismissive attitudes and brutality.

Since May 28, WSU President Espy had ordered all students and staff to work remotely. All campus buildings were locked as police and private security personnel roamed the campus in attempts to intimidate the students.

By 10:00am May 30, news of the raid had spread prompting a rally at the corner of West Warren and Second Avenue. Students and faculty members spoke denouncing the brutal actions of the administration and the police.

Several faculty members spoke out saying they supported the encampment. One professor in the Medical School was told by his supervisors that if he continued to post messages on social media in solidarity with Palestine he would be terminated.

Later hundreds of activists travelled to the Detroit Detention Center on Mound Road where they picketed calling for the immediate release of those arrested earlier that morning. After nearly 10 hours in detention, the Palestine solidarity organizers were released.

WSU Black Student Union delegation to Palestine solidarity encampment

Later in the evening a tribunal was held at Trinosophes located in Eastern Market. Student activists from the encampment at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University testified to the links between these higher educational institutions and the State of Israel. They also recounted the vicious actions of the police in Ann Arbor and Detroit in tearing down the encampments and filing charges against the Palestine solidarity activists.

Hundreds attended the tribunal reflecting the widespread interest in the issue. All of the witnesses stated emphatically that the encampments were peaceful and that the only violence was the brutality inflicted on students, faculty members and community people staffing the protest activities in Ann Arbor and Detroit.

These developments at both the U-M and WSU follow the same pattern which have been enacted across the U.S. It has become quite clear that the administration of President Joe Biden, the majority of politicians in the House of Representatives and the Senate along with the Justice Department, are coordinating the destruction of Palestine solidarity encampments on campuses.

Tristan Taylor, a co-founder of Detroit Will Breathe (DWB), which led the mass demonstrations in the aftermath of the police execution of George Floyd beginning in late May 2020 and continuing for many months, spoke to the rally held after the destruction of the WSU encampment and the arrest of 12 people. Taylor said that the ruling class in the U.S. fears the Palestine solidarity movement because it poses a challenge to imperialism. He condemned the Biden administration and the Democratic Party for its repressive measures carried out against students.

Nakia-Renee Wallace, also a co-founder of DWB and alumni of WSU, said that the diverse character of the one-week encampment provides an example which is commendable. “When I witnessed the energy, boldness and tenacity of the encampment it made me proud. I understand why they cannot let this stand. They miscalculated because we do not need the encampment to continue the rallies. All of the students should be released and there should be no repercussions.”

The struggle to end the genocide in Gaza has become a major issue in this presidential election year. Biden’s arming of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and his refusal to call for a ceasefire, has cost the Democratic Party tremendous support.

A campaign to vote “uncommitted” in Democratic presidential primaries has its origins in Michigan. As a result of this initiative, more than 101,000 voters cast their ballots as uncommitted on February 27. This movement is being replicated on a national level.

Despite the repression carried out against students and faculty surrounding the Palestine solidarity actions, the movement is continuing to grow exponentially.

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Cuatro cosas que hay que saber sobre Irán

May 31st, 2024 by Marc Vandepitte

What Has Israel Done for Americans in the Past Week? The Big Lie and the “Backup Lies”

By Philip Giraldi, May 30, 2024

The back-up lies, regularly spouted in Congress, are that Israel is a democracy and an ally. It is, of course neither, as it is a Jews-only apartheid regime that has no fixed borders and no reciprocal security arrangements with the US.

When Nicaragua Took Germany to Court, Media Put Nicaragua in the Dock

By John Perry, May 31, 2024

The case targeted Germany as the second biggest supplier of arms to Israel, because the US, Israel’s biggest supplier, does not accept the court’s jurisdiction on this issue. The object (as Nicaragua’s lawyer explained) was to create a precedent with wider application – that countries must take responsibility for the consequences of their arms sales to avoid them being used in breach of international law.

The Risks Associated with Exposure to Cell Phone Radiation. Dr. Gary G. Kohls

By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, May 31, 2024

Swedish researchers said that the use of cellular phones over a long period of time can raise the risk of brain tumors. … Those who heavily used wireless phones had a 240 percent increased risk of a cancerous tumor on the side of the head where they used their phone, they reported.

New Caledonia Crisis Reveals France as Increasingly Aggressive Neocolonial Power

By Uriel Araujo, May 31, 2024

The political unrest was mostly triggered by a complicated and controversial voting reform which would grant voting rights to over 12,000 people belonging to the local population and more than 13,000 French citizens who have lived there for at least 10 years.

Ukraine Will Return to Neutrality or Face Partition or Annihilation

By Mike Whitney, May 30, 2024

China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning has agreed to attend next month’s Ukrainian peace conference in Switzerland with one proviso, that Russia be invited. Mao said that Beijing supports the “timely convening of an international peace conference that is recognized by both the Russian and Ukrainian sides.”

If the Wars Go On

By Edward Curtin, May 30, 2024

Indeed there is a system of war that guarantees that the various wars go on and on ad infinitum, and they are linked. It is why the warfare state has killed our anti-war leaders, first and foremost JFK for turning against war in the last year of his presidency.

The War Is Widening Into Armageddon

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, May 30, 2024

Kennedy and Khrushchev resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis. Putin has made it clear that he wants to resolve the Ukraine matter that the West has pushed into crisis. Why doesn’t Washington want to resolve a dangerous crisis?

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From Aviana’s mother, Taylor —

“Aviana was born on January 24, 2017. I had no complications through pregnancy or labor. She was perfect, healthy, and beautiful. She got the Hepatitis B vaccination in the hospital within the first 24 hours of life, I had no idea about the evil of vaccinations at this time as I am a nursing student and was fully vaccinated myself until I lost Aviana.

Avi never had any sickness aside from a stuffy nose and had no health problems. Every time we went to the well child visits, the doctor said she was on track developmentally and physically and saw no issues with her. She got all of the routine 2 month vaccinations which made her a little more tired than normal but nothing else out of the ordinary.

Aviana turned 4 months old on May 24, 2017 so it was time for another “well child visit.” Her appointment was at 1:30 in the afternoon. I remember crying with Avi when she cried after they injected those vaccinations into her, one nurse on each side. I had never heard her scream so loud in my life and my heart was broken. The instant they were done her eyes became heavy. The rest of the day she was fussier than usual, she was a very happy baby on any other day. She was also very tired and slept more than she usually did, Avi wasn’t one to take naps for very long during the day.

I went to work as usual a few hours later so she was with her babysitter until my mom got off of work. I picked Aviana up from my mom’s house that night when I got off work around 8:30. They told me she had been a little fussy, was very tired, and not her normal talkative playful self. Aviana was very vocal normally, cooing, babbling, laughing and very alert. I chalked this abnormal behavior up to the “normal” reactions to shots because that’s what they tell you and not to come in unless their fever is high.

I took Aviana home, changed her and fed her. She fell right asleep as she finished her feeding which was another abnormal for her, she was usually up late ready to play. I laid her down around 9:30/10 and checked on her before I went to bed at 11:30, she was laying on her left side. Aviana had been sleeping through the night since 2 months, so I didn’t think anything of not hearing her throughout the night because she was a good sleeper. I woke up at 6 the next morning to get ready for class and went to check on her before I started my routine. When I peeked in, Avi was face down. I ran over to her and flipped her over to find her blue and discolored with bloody mucous fluids coming out of her nose. Her little body was heavy and lifeless and I knew nothing could be done at this point.

Within around 12 hours of receiving her 4 month vaccinations, my precious Aviana was dead. When EMS arrived, they told me what I knew but didn’t want to hear which was that there was nothing they could do. This day will replay over and over again for me for the rest of my life. I had no idea about vaccinations, what was in them, the side effects, I knew NOTHING because they don’t truly inform you as a parent you’re just supposed to blindly trust it. I wanted to do what was best for Aviana which I thought was vaccinating her and for that reason she is no longer with me today.

Her autopsy report says “Unknown, undetermined” but there is evidence of it being caused by the vaccines in that report and I know in my heart that’s why. Her death is now a case in the Vaccine Injury Court. I will continue to use her story to fight for her and all the other babies/children who have been affected by vaccines. I wish I knew then, what I know now.”

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Fluoride: Dental Miracle or Neurotoxic Threat?

May 31st, 2024 by Dr. Bob Dickson

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Fluoride has no role in any natural biochemical process in the human body.

For decades fluoride has been used and promoted for reducing dental cavities. In addition to its presence in toothpastes and other dental products, fluoride is added to municipal drinking water in three chemical forms: sodium fluoride (NaF), fluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6), and sodium fluorosilicate (Na2SiF6).

Fluorosilicic acid is a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer production, and has various other uses including rust removal cleaning products. Critics of flourination of municipal drinking water point to various concerns including neurotoxicity and reduced intelligence in children who ingest it routinely.  

Dr Bob Dickson MD is a Canadian physician who has dedicated much of his life to important humanitarian causes. He is passionate about ending the flourination of water and improving our children’s health and intelligence. This Calgary physician co-led the anti-fluoridation program in Calgary since 1999.

This resulted in Calgary’s water fluoridation being halted in 2011. He is the founder of Safe Water Calgary and the Chair of Fluoride Free Canada.  

As we have seen with  medical doctors who raise concerns about the covid-19 genetic “vaccines”; Dr Dickson is under investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta because of his public education and activism regarding flouride. In the context of the past four years, if anything, that only adds adds credibility to Dr Dickson’s work. There is no conflict of interest for him.  

Dr Dickson states that artificial water fluoridation lacks common sense, is highly unethical, violates the precautionary principle, damages children’s brains, and is not needed for even a single natural bodily function.

I hope this interview with Dr Dickson helps all of us evaluate water fluorination and make sound decisions regarding our health, including our children’s teeth and brains. I hope you will then inquire as to whether or not flourosilicic acid is added to your town’s drinking water, and speak with your elected officials to help all of us make the best decisions for our children and ourselves.

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The monstrous, sovereignty-subverting WHO “pandemic treaty” is DOA — for now.

But as the unrelenting Dr. Rima Laibow has pointed out via her own publication, and as WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus himself remarked as he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, we’re by no means out of the woods, as the well-oiled machine that is the WHO, backed up by the UN, will simply recalibrate and come back for another shot, and another shot, and another shot until the head of the snake is cut off entirely.

…That snake head being the United Nations itself, the parent organization of the WHO. And, wouldn’t you know, there’s actually little-publicized pending legislation in U.S. Congress to do just that.

Via govtrack.us:

“Repeal of United Nations Participation Act of 1945

(a) Repeal

The United Nations Participation Act of 1945 (Public Law 79–264; 22 U.S.C. 287 et seq.) is repealed.

(b) Termination of membership in United Nations

The President shall terminate all membership by the United States in the United Nations, and in any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations.

(c) Closure of United States Mission to United Nations

The United States Mission to the United Nations is closed. Any remaining functions of such office shall not be carried out.”

This DEFUND bill is very unlikely to go through for numerous reasons, including on the grounds of the bleating Democrat mantra of Defending Democracy™, given that the United States has positioned itself as the de facto, self-appointed leader of the neoliberal world order, as the UN is integral to offshoring national sovereignty to a single supranational governing authority.

The multinational banks and corporations that have infested the halls of power in the U.S. and across the globe, that have their tentacles wrapped tight around the vast majority of Congress, would never permit the United Nations to go the way of the buffalo without a serious fight.

That said, extricating ourselves from the UN is clearly a popular position with a huge and growing swathe of the American public, so to the limited extent that popular will matters at all, the time has never been riper to dismantle the United Nations, which is, with its various appendages like the WHO, a tool of untold evil in this world.

Among many other tasty provisions in DEFUND is the specific issue of funding:

No funds are authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for assessed or voluntary contributions of the United States to the United Nations or to any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations, except that funds may be appropriated to facilitate termination of United States membership and withdrawal of United States personnel and equipment, in accordance with sections 2 and 3, respectively. Upon termination of United States membership, no payments shall be made to the United Nations or to any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations, out of any funds appropriated prior to such termination or out of any other funds available for such purposes.”

Successfully getting the US out of the UN and unceremoniously demolishing its New York headquarters, as is also called for in the bill, would deal a severe blow to the organization, as the US government, as in the case of virtually all institutions of global governance, is its largest funder.

Via Council on Foreign Relations:

The United States remains the largest donor to the United Nations. It contributed more than $18 billion in 2022, accounting for one-third of funding for the body’s collective budget. Despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut funding, President Joe Biden has affirmed the United Nations’ importance to U.S. foreign policy and increased funding to the organization. In 2021, Biden resumed funding streams paused under Trump.”

Deep State ‘Trump-proofing’ The Science™ Ahead of 2024 Election 

Via Politico (emphasis added):

The Biden administration is setting up new tripwires for Donald Trump at America’s premier health research agency to safeguard against political interference if Trump wins in November.

The White House fears Trump could try to advance an ideological agenda at the National Institutes of Health, like the ones he’s suggested on everything from vaccines to diversity policies.

In an effort to Trump-proof, NIH has designated an official to identify political meddling in the agency’s work and is tasking a soon-to-be-established scientific integrity council with reviewing those cases. The White House knows Trump could still cast those plans aside but is calculating that doing so will set off alarms with the media, Congress and the public. The Biden administration likely hopes GOP lawmakers, even those who think the NIH needs an overhaul, will temper Trump’s moves.”

I appreciate how terrified the Deep State is of what a Trump administration redux might do to them, but I haven’t seen any real evidence, which I would welcome and celebrate, that he’s actually going to do what needs to be done, which is going scorched-Earth, summary-execution on these institutions and the demons who populate them — aside from the most tepid, milquetoast vagaries about prosecuting Fauci for perjury (see next section), which at this point is standard Fox News fare by a party almost as equally addicted to pharma cash as the Democrat Party to attempt to appease its base that hates the pharmaceutical industry while not truly upsetting the status quo.  

Trump Forced Into Promising Fauci Perjury Investigation for Perjury

Clearing the lowest hurdle imaginable, Trump, in his limitless magnanimity, has allowed that he will “look at” prosecuting Fauci for perjury should he assume office once more.

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Before we applaud Trump’s brave stance here, let’s assess realistically why he’s making it, which has little to nothing to do with moral qualms or a dogged pursuit of justice on behalf of the American people or whatever his sycophantic followers think.

He is in hot water with his base, who is looking longingly at the potentially greener pasture of RFK Jr. who, unlike Trump, is not mealy-mouthed about dispensing COVID justice.

Nothing of import politically has ever gotten done without applying pressure to politicians, to put the fear of God into them that they’ll be run out on a rail if they don’t meet the demands of their supporters; it’s the only real source of leverage that anyone outside of the corporate state power structure has. On the other side of the ledger, these people have pharmaceutical lobbyists in their ears nonstop pushing their own agenda that’s antithetical to ours. Cash and social prestige and access to The Big Club almost always trumps popular will.

For any real action to deliver hard justice to the criminals who ran the COVID scam in a peaceful political manner, Trump needs to be made to understand that a substantial enough portion of his base to cost him the election won’t vote for him unless he starts making serious moves. “Looking at” prosecuting Fauci isn’t anywhere close to enough.

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Should We be Afraid? Is World War III Imminent?

May 31st, 2024 by Huseyin Vodinali

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It’s as if the Western global elite run amok…

I can only describe these actions as madness.

I’m not talking about Gaza; it’s just a clear indication of how maniacal and perverted this elite can be.

I’m talking about triggering a nuclear war.

This has now gone far beyond the propaganda made to scare the masses during the Cold War.

The war started against Russia over Ukraine is gradually drifting towards another channel with Moscow’s victory.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday (May 28, 2024) that the weapons supplied to Ukraine by allied countries should be able to be used to hit Russian territory.

Emmanuel Macron, who was blown from Rothschild’s banker to the President of France, said today (May 29, 2024) in front of journalists, with a map in his hand, that they should bomb Russia.

Josep Borrell, who was appointed as the EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner by the USA and famous with the quotation: “Europe is the garden of paradise and other countries are wild jungles”, said that EU members should not put the fear of escalation of tension ahead of Ukraine’s right to self-defense.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stated that Britain could play the closest possible role in defeating Russia’s imperial ambitions and that a long-term rearmament in this direction was necessary.

The Baltic dwarves were among the fastest in the Wild West against Russia.

Kaja Kallas, President of Estonia, a country with a population of one and a half million, said: “Russia needs to be brought to its knees!”

As a result, England, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Sweden and Estonia allowed Ukraine to hit targets inside Russia with NATO weapons and send troops.

The orchestra conductor of this Third World War Symphony is, of course, the Neocons and Zionists who rule the USA!

Putin responded to Stoltenberg and the Baltic dwarfs from Uzbekistan:

“Representatives of NATO countries and smaller countries, especially in Europe, should be aware of what they are playing with. They should not forget that they are generally countries with very high population density and small lands. They should take these factors into account before talking about launching attacks deep into Russian territory.”

This is serious this time…

It didn’t attract much media attention, but it was a very important event: the Biden administration (in coordination with the UK) used proxies in Ukraine (presumably with British storm shadow or German Taurus missiles that bypassed Russian defenses relatively well with different GPS systems) launched an unprecedented attack on Russia’s “nuclear umbrella” at the Armavir on Thursday, May 22, effectively blinding the Russian military’s radar system that detects nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.

According to Russian nuclear doctrine, any attack on Russia’s basic nuclear first alert system constitutes grounds for nuclear retaliation.

Moreover, at the time of this attack, the Russian Ministry of Defense started an exercise on the use of nuclear weapons in the country’s “Southern Military District” and Belarus.

In the statement made by the Ministry,

“On the instructions of the President of Russia and under the leadership of the General Staff, the first phase of the exercise on the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons has begun in the Southern Military District.”

The statement was included.

The attack was also made against Armavir in the southern region of Russia, that is, it was aimed at the coverage area of ​​the exercise.

This alone shows how out of control the elites in the West have become.

Sergey Karaganov is a very important geopolitical expert and decision-maker in Russia. He wrote frightening things in his last article. In summary, he said: The Western oligarchs can send not only others but also its own society to the ground, Russia must use its nuclear power if it wants peace, and the USA will not intervene if NATO countries are attacked.

Karaganov, one of the leading theorists of the Russian Security State, writes exactly as follows:

“Russia’s policy must be based on the assumption that NATO is a hostile bloc that has repeatedly proven its aggression and is actually waging war against Russia. Therefore, any nuclear attack on NATO, including pre-emptive ones, is morally and politically justified. This applies primarily to those countries that provide the most active support to the Kiev junta. Old and especially new members of the alliance must understand that since they joined the bloc, their security has been greatly weakened and the ruling elites have put them on the brink of life and death. I have written many times that the United States will not respond if Russia launches a preemptive retaliatory strike against any NATO country. Unless the White House and the Pentagon are full of country-hating lunatics ready to destroy American cities for the sake of Poznan, Frankfurt, Bucharest or Helsinki.” 

Türkiye, a member of NATO and a country that owns the Bosphorus Straits, which the West covets against Russia. 

Should we be afraid? I think yes, we should be very afraid!

We have entered a period in which provocations have virtually broken loose. We also know from the 1962 Cuban nuclear crisis that the country which the USA is most eager to put in front of Russia is Türkiye. Turkey should either leave NATO immediately, or if it cannot leave immediately, it should get rid of NATO/US atomic bombs on its territory as soon as possible.

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The following compilation of scientific studies and analysis by Dr. Gary G. Kohls M.D. was first published in the Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter, No. 304, 28 June 2007.

 

Microwave Radiation Causes Eye Damage – A study published in the journal Bioelectromagnetics showed that the microwave radiation from cell phones causes cataracts and other eye damage by creating tiny air pockets in the lens of the eye.

Microwave Radiation Damages DNA – A four year study conducted by the European Union (EU) by 12 research groups in 7 European countries found that radiation from cell phones harms body cells and damages DNA. The damaged DNA was passed on to subsequent generations of cells, a condition for the formation of cancer.

Cell Phone Usage Causes TumorsA team of researchers at Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, found almost a four-fold increase of the tumors, known as acoustic neuromas, on the side of the head where the phone was most often held. A recent study sanctioned by the World Health Organization found an increased risk of brain tumors in people who have used the phones for 10 years or more.

Cell Phone Usage Disrupts Children’s Brains – A study conducted by the Spanish Neuro-Diagnostic Research Institute in Marbella found that two minutes of cell phone usage disrupted brain function in children for up to an hour after the exposure ended. The abnormal brain function could result in psychiatric and behavioural problems and impair learning ability.

Cell Phone Usage Causes Sterility in Women and might be the reason for birth defects and damaging the growth of embryos. A study of researchers in Switzerland on over 10 000 women between 18 and 25 confirmed tests already made on animals.

Cell Phone Usage Cuts Male Fertility – Research results show that mobile phone usage reduces sperm count and damages surviving sperm.

Microwave Radiation Causes Brain DamageA study headed by Leif Salford, Department of Neurosurgery at Lund University in Sweden and published in Environmental Health Perspectives shows that cell phone use damages neurons in the brain.

The Head Absorbs Radiation – Headaches, nausea, dizziness, short-term memory problems, fatigue, and other complaints resulting from cellular phone use are not due to low-level heating of the brain; instead, they’re apparently caused by the head serving as an “antenna” and brain tissue as a radio receiver, according to two Jerusalem researchers” Thus, precaution must be taken in the use of cell phones, they wrote.

Mobile Phone Signals Affect Brain Activity – A study reported in the Journal of Sleep Research (Blackwell Publishing) found that 30 minutes exposure to electromagnetic fields, as from GSM mobile phones, caused changes to brain activity which lasted long afterwards. Dr Peter Achermann and colleagues from the University of Zurich, and ITIS, in Zurich, found that blood flow increased in areas of the brain on the side nearest the phone, and that this effect lasted for over half an hour afterwards. They also discovered that the brain’s electrical activity (‘brain waves’) was not only affected immediately after the exposure, but that this lasted through much of the subsequent night’s sleep.

Radiation From Cell Phones Makes Cancer Grow Faster – “Italian scientists have raised new health concerns about the safety of using mobile phones, with research showing radio waves from the handsets make cancerous cells grow more aggressively.” Reuters, 10/23/02

Cell Phone Radiation Can Cause Brain Tumors – An epidemiology study conducted by Dr. Lennart Hardell found a higher incidence of brain tumors on the sides of heads used by mobile-phone subscribers to make and receive calls. The study was published in the August, 2002 issue of the European Journal of Cancer Prevention.

Cell Phones Increase Blood Pressure – The June 1998 The Lancet reported that radiation from mobiles caused an increase of blood pressure.

Just as the tobacco industry was able to hold back the truth regarding the health effects of smoking, the cell phone industry has suppressed the truth about cell phone hazards. If you care about your health and the health of your family, take the time to educate yourself and have the courage to act on what you find. Even if you don’t care about yourself you should consider the burden you will place on others by deliberately damaging your health. Who will take care of you when you are too sick to care for yourself?

Reuters report, “FDA to review wireless-phone safety”, April 6, 2006.

Swedish researchers said last month that the use of cellular phones over a long period of time can raise the risk of brain tumors. … Those who heavily used wireless phones had a 240 percent increased risk of a cancerous tumor on the side of the head where they used their phone, they reported.

British research group warns that children under 16 should refrain from using mobile phones because of possible health effects on growing children – smaller heads, less intelligence..

Recent studies confirm that cell and cordless phone can:

  • Damage nerves in the scalp
  • Cause blood cells to leak hemoglobin
  • Cause memory loss and mental confusion
  • Cause headaches and induce extreme fatigue
  • Create joint pain, muscle spasms and tremors 
  • Alter the brain’s electrical activity during sleep
  • Induce ringing in the ears, impair sense of smell
  • Precipitate cataracts, retina damage and eye cancer
  • Open the blood-brain barrier to viruses and toxins
  • Reduce the number and efficiency of white blood cells
  • Stimulate asthma by producing histamine in mast cells
  • Cause digestive problems and raise bad cholesterol levels
  • Stress the endocrine system, especially pancreas, thyroid, ovaries, testes
  • Causes female sterility and birth defects

What you can do to reduce your risk:

  • Simply don’t use a cell phone, wireless network or live near a cell phone tower. Don’t stand close to someone who is using a cell phone.
  • Switch off your phone during the night, and when not expecting ”important” calls.
  • Minimize the length of calls as much as possible.
  • If you know where the nearest cell phone tower is don’t put yourself between it and your phone, otherwise the signal travels straight through your head to get to the tower.
  • Extend the antenna and hold the phone away from the head when possible.
  • In your car use a hands-free kit with an external antenna and keep the phone away from your body. The external antenna should be as far away from you as possible.
  • Don’t stay in hotels with wireless networks or patronize other businesses with wireless networks. Inform your neighbors and friends of the danger of using mobile phones
  • Express your concerns to your employer, landlord, your family and everyone else you know.

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Dr. Kohls is a past member of Mind Freedom International, the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is a signatory to and/or an advocate of the principles of the Great Barrington Declaration, the World Doctors Alliance and Americas Front Line Doctors. His practice of holistic medicine mainly involved helping the survivors of psychiatry that had often been mis-diagnosed, over-diagnosed and always over-medicated with un-approved and un-tested-for-safety cocktails of neurotoxic psychiatric drugs that not only had sickened them but to which they had also become addicted.

His Duty to Warn columns have been re-published around the world for the last decade. They deal frequently also deal with Big Vaccine’s over-vaccinating, Big Medicine’s over-screening, over-diagnosing and over-treating agendas.

Many of Dr Kohls’ columns have been archived at a number of websites, including:

http://duluthreader.com/search?search_term=Duty+to+Warn&p=2;

http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/gary-g-kohls;

http://freepress.org/geographic-scope/national;

https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/gary-g-kohls/?ptype=article; and

https://www.transcend.org/tms/author/?a=Gary%20G.%20Kohls,%20MD 

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“I don’t think there’s anyone on the Hill who doesn’t suspect it. It’s too convenient, too coincidental, too damned obvious.”

– quote from an anonymous Democratic member of the House of Representatives on the death of Senator Paul Wellstone. [1]

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The two events happening in the middle of May has some concerned about a trend of people encountering mishaps following oppositional statements or stances at this violent time in world history. [2]

Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia was shot several times by a 71 year old stranger. He had won election in 2023 promising to block Ukraine from joining NATO and had been opposed to supplying Ukraine with weapons during the War with Russia. Fico also promised to launch investigations into COVID-19 pandemic corruption, COVID-19 vaccine injuries and deaths, and 21,000 excess deaths.[3][4][5]

He had also said he would not sign the proposed WHO’s Pandemic Treaty. [6]

As for Ebrahim Raisi, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he died in a helicopter crash the same week as the incident involving Slovakian leader. Iranian General Qasem Suleimani was killed by a U.S. air strike in January of 2020. In April of 2024, an Israeli attack on Damascus ended the lives of eight officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The deaths of high level Iranians seems to be a common theme these days! [7][8][9]

But the incident also reminds us that assassinations have their place in the arsenal of those powerful nations who govern the free world. The deaths of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy all seem to have succumbed to this fate. But there are many others.

Witess the death of Democrat Hale Boggs in 1972, who was a member of the Warren Commission and expressing doubts about the group’s findings. Or Democrat Ron Brown, killed in a plane crash over Croatia on April 3, 1996. Among unresolved mysteries surrounding this incident was the existence of a color photograph showing a bullet wound in the back of his skull. Or John Tower, the Republican Senator who had been the chairman of the Reagan appointed commission investigating the Iran-Contra affair. He had been unhappy about being denied an appointment to secretary of defense by President George Herbert Walker Bush. He was killed in a plane crash in 1991. [10]

One expects cases of individuals running afoul of the mafia to encounter deadly ends. Is it surprising that State and intelligence figures dealing in power would pursue similar methods?

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we dare to cast aside the veil concealing misdeeds none want to talk about to reveal the all too clear reality reflecting the true realities when all else fails.

In our first half hour, we chat a little bit with Jeremy Kuzmarov of Covert Action Magazine about a brief history of suspected assassinations, including the death of Senator Paul Wellstone to get a flavour of what to watch for in terms of assassinations in the modern era. In the second half hour, independent geopolitical and military analyst Drago Bosnic returns to the show to talk about the flaws in the death of Ebrahim Raisi and Robert Fico and what leads him to suspect opposition to U.S.-NATO-Israel hegemony. Finally, we speak with Dr. William Makis, a physician and the author of the site COVID Intel about the near death of Fico and how it seems to be linked with his opposition to the COVID vaccine and a planned, revamped Pandemic Agreement which he thinks may still succeed.

Jeremy Kuzmarov is Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine. He is the author of five books on U.S. foreign policy, including Obama’s Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019), The Russians Are Coming, Again, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018), and Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden (Clarity Press, 2023). He can be reached at: [email protected] and followed on substack here.

Drago Bosnic is an independent geopolitical and military analyst. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Dr. William Makis is a Canadian physician with expertise in Radiology, Oncology and Immunology. Governor General’s Medal, University of Toronto Scholar. Author of 100+ peer-reviewed medical publications. 

(Global Research News Hour Episode 434)

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Transcript of Jeremy Kuzmarov, May 28, 2024

Global Research: You’ve covered a range of these sorts of assassinations over recent decades. We ourselves have covered the four great assassinations of the 1960s, the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. But I noticed you have covered similar deaths.

And one I hope you can focus on in more detail is the death of Senator Paul Wellstone. He died during a plane crash in 2002. It was more than 20 years ago.

It was 10 days before an election. And there are odd details about it that have led political figures to suspect it was actually an assassination. You wrote this article a couple of years ago, and I would appreciate it if you could take maybe five minutes or so to expand on his death.

Before we talk about the broader trends of assassinations, what leads so many people to believe that this was an assassination?

Jeremy Kuzmarov: Okay, well, first I should pay tribute to the research of James Fetzer, who wrote a book about this. So I did a whole series on political assassinations, some better known than others. And yeah, I’m grateful to all these researchers who really probed into it.

And I drew often on them. I mean, their books often got no exposure, and they were either marginalized in the academy or journalistic world or even maligned or ridiculed. But they really have done good research to uncover the truth.

And yeah, sometimes it takes years to piece together what happened. I mean, in the Wellstone case, in general, yeah, they’re rarely coincidence in politics. I mean, when it’s really convenient, you become very, very suspicious when there are serious political implications, like what’s going on now.

And in this case, yeah, as you say, 10 days before an election, and Wellstone was a key vote in the Senate. He was against the Iraq war. He was a key vote, would have been a key vote against the war.

And the election was also key, I mean, as far as Republicans sustaining control of the Senate at that time, that crucial period of the Iraq war going on or about to start. And the Bushes hated Wellstone. Like when Wellstone was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota, and Wellstone was very kind of unusually progressive for U.S. politics, although he wasn’t perfect in his record.

He did support the Balkan conflict. But on a lot of the issues, he aligned with a very progressive position. He opposed wars.

He was really far to the left on the American spectrum, as far as policy positions. And in 1991, when he was first elected, he made a point of accosting George H. W. Bush when he was then president for orchestration of the Operation Desert Storm, the Persian Gulf War, which Wellstone was vehemently against. Instead, it was a war for oil.

So, you know, Bush and Cheney hated Wellstone. And, you know, the circumstance was he was taking a plane. Now, yes, since I wrote the article several years ago, I can’t remember every last detail.

But I know he was, you know, he was doing some side trips. And the circumstance of his crash made clear that there was foul play. You know, the excuses they gave, things like pilot error and weather just didn’t hold up.

And there was evidence from the crash site that there were deliberate sabotage. And I think the theory that Fetzer puts forward of a direct energy weapon, as far-fetched as it may sound, but that they use high-grade military weapons to take this plane down, direct energy weapons, and that not so far-fetched because they used these weapons in U.S. wars. So, you know, they have them on hand and they can use them for these purposes, too.

And, you know, one thing I remember that was really odd was, like, the FBI was on the scene right away. You know, the crash was in a very remote area, yet somehow the FBI got on the scene, like, right away. And there were no FBI headquarters, you know, anywhere near there would actually have to have been like a two-hour drive.

And yet somehow they’re there right away to cover it up. And so, you know, they’re a very strong indicator that this was a political assassination of a progressive figure who stood in the way of the Bush-Cheney policies of escalating the war on terror and going to war in Iraq. And so I guess that’s what I can say to summarize that case.

GR: Yeah. I’m just wondering if there are other things you could say about it. I mean, I understand that he was the difference between the Senate being majority Democrat and then suddenly it was majority Republican, which is further fueled.

JK: Yeah, how convenient. I mean, how convenient can you get? And these kind of gifts don’t just happen. So, but then, you know, and you look into it further, it’s very clear that there was foul play.

And again, the fact that the FBI is there right away gives you an indication that they were tipped off about it and that there was a cover-up in place after.

GR: Yeah. Was he potentially, like, could he have considered a run for the president himself, maybe in 2004?

JK: Potentially, yeah.

He was a popular figure in the party. You know, he adopted progressive positions that were popular among the U.S. electorate. You know, things like health care, he really pushed for.

I mean, he was like a kind of Bernie Sanders, who is very genuine, you know, in pushing for things like health care that the public wants, you know, universal health care, you know, higher taxes on corporations. I mean, he was generally against the warfare state. He was against the war on terror.

I’m not sure Afghanistan, but like, you know, he wasn’t perfect, but he was far more progressive than most other U.S. politicians. And he had a lot of good personal qualities to him. And he had a history of fighting, you know, corporate power.

So he was like, you know, a genuine, like, you know, firebrand. I mean, we don’t have too many of those. He’s like a Dennis Kucinich type, you know, it’s a kind of rare breed in American politics where he puts his money where his mouth is and he actually, you know, gives a good speech, but follows it through.

And people respected him. And so he could have gone far. Yeah, I agree.

He could have been potentially the front runner for the 2004 election.

GR: Well, there have been a lot of suspicious airplane and helicopter accidents that have been used to remove political leaders from office. I mean, you know, not just this man, Paul Wellstone, and I guess I’m referring to the death of President Raisi.

But I mean, for example, you have Omar Torrijos, who died while in a de Havilland Canada DHC-6, twin otter of the Panamanian Air Force. It crashed on July 31, 1981. It was a presumed assassination.

Ecuadorian President Jaime Roldos Aguilera, who died on May 24, 1981, in a plane crash. It was assumed assassination and enhanced by the controversial absence of the plane’s black box. The second Secretary General of the UN Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden, whom GFK called the greatest statesman of our century.

He was killed in a plane crash on September 18, 1961. And then there are others. And it’s always assumed that there’s strong involvement in it.

Well, in Dag Hammarskjöld’s case, there was strong involvement in liberating Congo that killed him. But do all these sorts of deaths have certain, I guess, common patterns and modalities in common, where you see it as more likely an assassination and not just an accident?

JK: Well, and I would add to what you’re saying, because I’ve done this whole series, I’ve looked into many different political assassinations. They had drawing on authors who’ve written books or extensive articles that are very well researched.

And there are these cases in the United States, not just foreign leaders. For instance, Hale Boggs, who was the Speaker of the House and was a dissenting member of the Warren Commission. His plane crashed under very mysterious circumstances.

It was a small plane. In the early 70s, I did an article on the case of Dorothy Hunt. Well, this was a larger commercial jet carrying CIA operative Dorothy Hunt, who was the wife of E. Howard Hunt, and had all kinds of incriminating documents related to Watergate and possibly knowledge of the CIA’s involvement in Watergate.

Her plane went down and was clearly sabotage. So, you know, there’s a plane of John F. Kennedy Jr., if you look into that case, and he was starting to get involved in politics and was going to be running for the governor of New York in 2004. That would have been potentially a stepping stone for his, you know, becoming a presidential candidate in the future.

And we know how the so-called deep state loves the Kennedys, especially the fear of a Kennedy coming in and reopening investigation into the assassination of John and Robert. So these assassinations are occurring on American soil. In each of these cases, if you look into it, it’s clear there was a cover-up.

It’s clear that the official story, you know, usually they blame pilot error or weather, but then when you look into it, it actually proved to be a clear night and the pilot was really an ace pilot. And like distressing, you know, the absence of distressing signs with the air tower controllers, and there’s evidence of either bombs on board, you know. So I think in the Wellstone case, there was clear evidence of a bomb and probable use of direct energy weapons.

So there is a consistent pattern. In fact, I’ve seen officials quoted saying, oh, that’s the best way to carry out an assassination, an airplane, because they have to, you know, question the whole crowd. It doesn’t look like an assassination or a murder.

And it’s easy to, you know, make claim that the plane crashed for natural reasons. And people are prone to believe, oh, it was a plane crash. But in a lot of cases, these planes are actually sabotaged.

And, you know, the airline industry generally has an incredibly good record. And actual air crashes are very rare. And so a lot of cases, I’ve found they’re sabotaged.

And they say this is the best way because people won’t suspect it was an assassination. And I think it’s easier to cover up a murder this way. And people are not just looking into the death of that one person.

So yeah, there’s a worldwide, sadly, you have a murder machine, you know, at the top of, you know, it may be corrupt cabals who control various aspects of the US government are able to carry out these criminal acts, whether abroad or domestically. And then, you know, people have right to be suspicious of these recent events, given the people targeted. I mean, FICO, the Slovakian former prime minister was an outspoken critic of the war in Ukraine and said this war didn’t start with the Russian invasion and start what we all know in 2014, with the Ukrainian coup and the murder of Russians in eastern Ukraine, and pro-Russian officials.

And he was also outspoken on the COVID-19, the official story, rare among foreign leaders. He was critical of the narratives about climate change, become kind of sacrosanct, and didn’t toe the line on a number of other issues. So this is a rare outspoken, you know, leader who’s taking independent positions.

And we know what happened to those kind of leaders historically, they’re overthrown, they’re undermined, or they’re assassinated. And so, I mean, yeah, the helicopter crash, I mean, I don’t know, I haven’t been able to look into these cases very much or seen, I mean, news agencies aren’t reporting, aren’t really doing any independent reporting. They’re just giving the official story.

So I don’t know. I mean, it’s possible you can have a crash, but I mean, convenient timing with the Israel-Gaza war going on, and the neocons, you know, working on overdrive to destabilize Iran, very convenient to have the Iranian leadership killed. And then that creates a power vacuum.

And, you know, you can manipulate things further, or that could be a good opportunity to go in. I mean, they’ve been plotting for regime change for years and years. And they’ve been shaming within Iran.

So the motive certainly is there. The timing is very good. So it’s worth investigating what happened.

And we may learn with time that the official story is not true.

GR: Could you also talk about the media and, like, what kind of repetition have you spotted in the way the media typically reports on the deaths of these suspected victims, including Wellstone?

JK: Well, the media just report the official story of the plane crash. And, you know, they never suggest foul play.

They never do any independent investigation. They just follow whatever the official agencies report, whether the government or the FBI, you know, the White House or FBI says this, and they just report that. And they basically censor anybody, like, you know, who would carry out an independent investigation and find troubling patterns.

That person will never appear on any mainstream media network. And that’s probably true of most alternative media, with the exception of your website and hopefully Covert Action. You never find these people on Democracy Now, websites like that.

Never. I’ve never seen them. I’ve never seen articles on these topics.

There may be something on the Malcolm X assassination years ago. So they’re censored everywhere, even in the alternative media. But, you know, they can publish books, and the books are usually independent press, you know, small presses.

But, I mean, I would encourage readers to judge for themselves. I mean, if I get these books, I try and assess the evidence, and often I find the evidence overwhelming. Like, you know, this book by Fetzer I was mentioning on the Paul Wellstone, it’s this overwhelming evidence that there was sabotage.

And all these assassinations I was pointing out, like Hale Boggs, the Dorothy Hunt, there are books written on these topics. In fact, in the case of Dorothy Hunt, their son, St. John Hunt, wrote a book about it. And I interviewed him after, and he’s a really nice guy.

But he really investigated this, and he knows that the CIA was behind the death of his mother. So, you know, people have to look to independent book publishing to get the truth. You may find, you know, I think the Global Research website is good, is willing to look into this.

But yeah, they just don’t even probe into it, and they blacklist anybody who would try and investigate this, or suggest that they’re crazy, and that these are crazy theories. If a theory is ever brought up, it’s simply to dismiss it, and to dismiss the person with the theory that he’s some kind of crazed lunatic. But, you know, if you look into the cases for yourself, you find right away that something is not right.

And, you know, and then, again, the political implication. I mean, for any crime, you have to ask who’s going to benefit. And, you know, I mean, history is so full of conspiracies and criminal activities to shape the course of history.

And, I mean, coincidences like that don’t just happen, you know, that these leaders who are going against Western interests just suddenly die in plane crashes, and suddenly get assassinated by blown nuts. I mean, history really doesn’t unfold that way. Unfortunately, Western country and the United States are run by corrupt criminal elements, who use violence to get their way.

GR: Okay. Well, I think we’re going to have to leave it there, Jeremy. I would like to thank you for coming on and sharing your covert action insights and resources with our listeners.

And by the way, you’re running a spring fundraiser. So you might want to check that out as well. Jeremy Kusmarov, thank you so much for appearing on the show.

JK: Thank you. Yes. And please support the magazine so we can do this kind of research.

And yeah, that we can give a voice to these independent researchers who want to unearth the truth so the know, and could stand up to criminal elements who are using assassination as a tool of power, which is unacceptable.

 


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Notes:

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20210207021859/https://www.fromthewilderness.net/free/ww3/110102_wellstone.html
  2. https://www.globalresearch.ca/normalizing-assassinations-non-compliant-foreign-leaders/5857829
  3. https://infobrics.org/post/41191/
  4. https://www.rferl.org/a/slovakia-veto-ukraine-membership-fico-uzhorod-zelensky/32786330.html
  5. https://www.globalresearch.ca/slovakia-pm-fico-assassination-attempt-who-pandemic-treaty/5857370
  6. ibid
  7. https://www.globalresearch.ca/lawless-world-war-political-assassinations/5857846
  8. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50979463
  9. Seth J. Frantzman (April 2, 2024), ‘Israel’s killing of IRGC’s Zahedi marks ends of an era for Iranian commanders – analysis’, Jerusalem Post; https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-794936
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20210207021859/https://www.fromthewilderness.net/free/ww3/110102_wellstone.html

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When Nicaragua accused Germany of aiding and abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last month, readers of corporate media might have seriously wondered whether Nicaragua’s case had any legitimacy. 

The case targeted Germany as the second biggest supplier of arms to Israel, because the US, Israel’s biggest supplier, does not accept the court’s jurisdiction on this issue. The object (as Nicaragua’s lawyer explained) was to create a precedent with wider application – that countries must take responsibility for the consequences of their arms sales to avoid them being used in breach of international law.

Many in corporate media took a more jaundiced view. The Financial Times led by telling readers, “The authoritarian government of Nicaragua accused Germany of ‘facilitating genocide’ in Gaza at the opening of a politically charged case.” The second paragraph in a New York Times article cited “experts” who saw it “as a cynical move by a totalitarian government to bolster its profile and distract attention from its own worsening record of repression.” The Guardian qualified its comment piece by remarking that “Nicaragua is hardly a poster child when it comes to respect for human rights.”

Double standards are evident here. If the US government were to do what it has failed to do so far, and condemn Israel’s genocidal violence, Western corporate media would not remind readers of US crimes against humanity, such as the Abu Ghraib tortures, extraordinary renditions or the hundreds imprisoned without trial at Guantánamo. It’s hard to imagine Washington would be accused of “hypocrisy” (Guardian) for calling out Israel’s crimes. Any condemnation of Israel by the US or one of its Western allies would be taken at face value—in clear contrast to the media’s treatment of such action by an official enemy country like Nicaragua.

Of establishment media, Spain’s El Pais was perhaps the most vitriolic in its portrayal of Nicaragua. Its piece on the court case was headlined “The Worst Version of Nicaragua Against the Best Version of Germany.” “The third international court case on the Gaza war pits a regime accused of crimes against humanity against a strong and legitimate democracy,” the piece explained. “It may be a noble cause, but its champion couldn’t be worse.”

The paper commented rather oddly that Germany was “at its finest” arguing the case, and that its “defense against Nicaragua’s charges is solid and its legitimacy as a democratic state is unassailable”—a comment presumably intended to contrast its legitimacy with “the Nicaraguan dictatorship.”

In addition to its article cited above, the New York Times had a report more focused on the case itself. However, it was CNN and Al Jazeera that stood out as covering the case on its own merits rather than being distracted by animosity toward Nicaragua.

The negative presentation in much of the media was repeated when, later in April, they headlined that Nicaragua’s request had been “rejected” by the ICJ, with the New York Times again remembering to insert a derogatory comment about Nicaragua’s action being “hypocritical.” These followup reports largely overlooked the impact the case had on Germany’s ability to further arm Israel during its continued assault on Gaza.

Nicaraguan ‘Nazis’

Corporate media had been gifted their criticisms of Nicaragua by a report published at the end of February by the UN Human Rights Council. A “group of human rights experts on Nicaragua” (the “GHREN”) had produced its second report on the country. Its first, last year, had accused Nicaragua’s government of crimes against humanity, leading to this eyebrow-raising New York Times headline: “Nicaragua’s ‘Nazis’: Stunned Investigators Cite Hitler’s Germany.”

The GHREN’s leader, German lawyer Jan-Michael Simon, had indeed likened the current Sandinista government to the Nazis. Times reporter Frances Robles quoted Simon:

“The weaponizing of the justice system against political opponents in the way that is done in Nicaragua is exactly what the Nazi regime did,” Jan-Michael Simon, who led the team of U.N.-appointed criminal justice experts, said in an interview.

“People massively stripped of their nationality and being expelled out of the country: This is exactly what the Nazis did too,” he added.

It’s quite an accusation, given that the Nazis established over 44,000 incarceration camps of various types and killed some 17 million people. Robles gave few numbers regarding the crimes Nicaragua is accused of, but did mention 40 extrajudicial killings in 2018 attributed to state and allied actors and noted that the Ortega government had in 2023 “stripped the citizenship from 300 Nicaraguans who a judge called ‘traitors to the homeland.’”

Robles also quoted Juan Sebastián Chamorro, a member of the Nicaraguan oligarchic family who are among the Sandinista government’s fiercest opponents; Chamorro claimed there was evidence of “more than 350 people who were assassinated.” Even if true, this would seem to be a serious stretch from “exactly what the Nazis did.” 

Like most Western reporters, Robles—who also wrote the recent ICJ piece for the Times—gave no attention to the criticisms of the GHREN’s work by human rights specialists who argued that the GHREN did not examine all the evidence made available to it and interviewed only opposition sources. For example, former UN independent expert Alfred de Zayas castigated its first report in his book The Human Rights Industry, calling it a “political pamphlet” intended to destabilize Nicaragua’s government. 

Even if one takes the GHREN account at face value, the Gaza genocide is at least 100 times worse in terms of numbers of fatalities, quite apart from other horrendous elements, such as deliberate starvation, indiscriminate bombing, destruction of hospitals and much more. It’s unclear why the accusations against Nicaragua should delegitimize the case against Germany.

Hague History

Many media reports did mention Nicaragua’s long history of support for Palestine—which undermines the accusation of cynicism underlying the case—but few noted the Latin American country’s history of success at the Hague. As Carlos Argüello, the Nicaraguan ambassador to the Netherlands who took the lead at the ICJ, pointed out, Nicaragua has more experience at the Hague than most countries, including Germany. This began with its pioneer case against the US in 1984, when it won compensation of £17 billion (that was never paid) for the damage done to Nicaragua by the US-funded Contra war and the mining of its ports.

One notable exception to that historical erasure came from Robles at the Times, who did refer to the 1984 case. But the point was clearly not to remind readers of US crimes or to demonstrate that Nicaragua is an actor to be taken seriously in the realm of international law. The two academics she quoted both served to portray the current case as merely “cynical.”  

The first, Mateo Jarquín, Robles quoted as saying that the Sandinista government has “a long track record…of using global bodies like the ICJ to carve out space for itself internationally—to build legitimacy and resist diplomatic isolation.” Robles didn’t disclose Jarquín’s second surname, Chamorro. Like her source in the earlier article, he is a member of the family that includes several government opponents.

Robles also quoted Manuel Orozco, a former Nicaraguan working at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue, whose major funders include the US Agency for International Development and the International Republican Institute, notorious for their role in promoting regime change, including in Nicaragua. Orozco told Robles that “Nicaragua lacks the moral and political authority to speak or advocate for human rights, much less on matters of genocide.”

“Effectively Siding with Germany”

On April 30, the ICJ declined to grant Nicaragua its requested provisional measures against Germany, including requiring the cessation of arms deliveries to Israel. Headlining this outcome, the Associated Press said the court was “effectively siding with Germany.” The outlet did, however, continue by explaining that the court had “declined to throw out the case altogether, as Germany had requested” and will hear arguments from both sides, with a resolution not likely to come for years. 

That was better than NPR’s report, which only mentioned that the court was proceeding with the case in its final paragraph.  

But German lawyer and professor Stefan Talmon clarified that the court’s ruling “severely limits Germany’s ability to transfer arms to Israel.” 

“The court’s order was widely interpreted as a victory for Germany,” Talmon commented. “A closer examination of the order, however, points to the opposite.” He concluded that although the ICJ did not generally ban the provision of arms to Israel, it did impose significant restrictions on it by emphasizing Germany’s obligation to “avoid the risk that such arms might be used to violate the [Genocide and Geneva] Conventions.” 

And Talmon pointed out that the court appeared to make its decision that an order to halt war weapons shipments was unnecessary based on Germany’s claim that it had already stopped doing so. 

“By expressly emphasizing that, ‘at present’, circumstances did not require the indication of provisional measures, the Court made it clear that it could indicate such measures in the future,” Talmon wrote. 

Establishment media, seemingly distracted by the “hypocrisy” of Nicaragua challenging a country whose “legitimacy as a democratic state is unassailable,” mostly failed to notice that its legal efforts were therefore at least partially successful: It forced Germany to back down from its unstinting support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and alerted German politicians to the fact that they are at risk of being held accountable under international law if they transfer any further war weapons. 

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John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua and writes for the London Review of Books, Covert Action, Global Research, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, Counterpunch, The Grayzone and other publications.

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Well it finally happened: Biden is now letting Ukraine strike Russian territory with US-supplied weapons. Escalations in nuclear brinkmanship which would have been unthinkable a few short years ago are becoming increasingly common as Ukraine loses more and more territory and runs out of soldiers to fight.

In a new report from Politico titled “Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons” which cites multiple anonymous US officials, the article’s authors correctly describe the new White House authorization as a “stunning shift the administration initially said would escalate the war by more directly involving the U.S. in the fight.” 

This report comes shortly after an article by The New York Times titled “From Allies and Advisers, Pressure Grows on Biden to Allow Attacks on Russian Territory,” in which David E Sanger accurately forecast that “Biden is edging toward what may prove to be one of his most consequential decisions in the war for Ukraine: whether to reverse his ban on shooting American weapons into Russian territory.”

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Politico reports that the approval for these attacks is limited to “solely near the area of Kharkiv,” but, again, these escalations were once unthinkable even for this administration, and every time a new escalation is authorized the warmongers are already well on their way to pushing for a further one. We will surely see increasing calls for Biden to authorize US-backed strikes deeper into Russian territory in the coming weeks.

This new development comes just after we learned that Ukraine has been repeatedly attacking Russia’s early warning systems for incoming nuclear strikes, with Ukrainian drones targeting Russian radar sites hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory. 

Just a few years ago if I had told you that a NATO proxy would soon be attacking Russia’s nuclear defense infrastructure, you’d probably have assumed we’d be pretty close to another Cuban Missile Crisis-level nuclear standoff, and that it would be receiving high levels of alarm and attention. But this report is barely in the news, and hardly anyone in the west even knows it’s happening.

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This also comes as Reuters reports that France is preparing to send “several hundred” troops to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, which of course means we may soon be seeing the armed forces of a NATO power getting killed by the Russian military.

Any of these three new developments has the potential to lead to unpredictable events which spiral out of control into a nuclear war between NATO and the Russian Federation, which would be the single worst thing that could possibly happen on planet Earth. There is no excuse for anyone to be playing around anywhere remotely close to such a precipice, and yet here we are.

As we discussed last year, the terrifying thing about the west’s pattern of continually escalating against Russia every time it doesn’t get a nuclear ICBM in the kisser for the last escalation naturally incentivizes Russia to attack NATO directly in order to re-establish its credibility for deterrence. So far Russia has been content to respond to NATO’s escalations by just tearing into Ukraine with greater and greater ferocity, but if the western empire keeps interpreting every time Russia doesn’t attack NATO forces directly as a sign that it’s safe to keep escalating, at some point Russia’s going to have to hit NATO.

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It is not sane or acceptable that any of this is happening. The empire knowingly provoked this war, and now it’s getting more and more casual about risking the life of everyone on this planet as its proxy runs out of lives to throw into its gears. 

And it’s so hard to draw attention to this, because there are so many other horrible things happening in the world which the western empire is also directly responsible for. The empire is increasingly acting like a wounded, cornered animal as China rises and the US slowly sinks into post-primacy, the only major difference being that wounded, cornered animals have teeth and claws instead of weapons of armageddon.

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Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, as a jury of 12 unanimously returned its verdict on May 30 after less than two days of deliberation. With this result, President Trump becomes the first ever American president to be convicted of a crime.

As the verdict was read, President Trump sat still and looked straight ahead, showing no emotion.

President Trump’s attorney has previously vowed to appeal a conviction expeditiously.

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan set the sentencing hearing for 10 a.m. on July 11, or only four days before the Republican National Convention, where the former president is set to be formally designated as the GOP presidential nominee. President Trump is not barred from running for president as a convicted felon.

Outside the courtroom, President Trump blasted the conviction, pledging to contest it.

“This was a rigged decision right from day one. And we will fight for our Constitution,” he said.

The verdict comes after a six-week trial with 22 witness testimonies. Closing arguments were made on May 28, and the jury began deliberations shortly before noon the next day. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had charged President Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, a class E felony.

Prosecutors alleged that President Trump fraudulently misclassified hush money payments to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford as part of an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.

President Trump has repeatedly called the criminal case political persecution and an act of election interference. He faces three other prosecutions, in the District of Columbia, Georgia, and Florida, over his efforts to contest the 2020 election results and his handling of classified documents.

The Biden campaign responded to the conviction, saying that today “we saw that no one is above the law.”

“Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain,” Biden–Harris 2024 Communications Director Michael Tyler said in the statement.

“But today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality. There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box. Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.”

White House spokesperson Ian Sams, in a post on X, declined to comment on the verdict, other than saying,

“We respect the rule of law.”

Republicans were swift to condemn the decision.

“Today is a shameful day in American history. Democrats cheered as they convicted the leader of the opposing party on ridiculous charges, predicated on the testimony of a disbarred, convicted felon. This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a statement posted on X.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called it a “sad day for America,” while Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called the verdict a “travesty of Justice.”

Some Democrats celebrated the conviction, reiterating the message that no one is above the law.

“Donald Trump is a convicted felon. This verdict is not a win for any single person. It’s a win for an idea. The idea that we all follow the same rules. The rule of law won today,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) posted on X.

New York Fraud Law

Manhattan prosecutors charged President Trump with felony-level business records falsification, which requires the fraud to be carried out to commit or conceal another crime.

Prosecutors alleged that the secondary crime is a New York election law that criminalizes conspiracy “to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means.”

The unlawful means identified by prosecutors were violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act, the falsification of other business records, or violations of tax laws. Judge Merchan ruled that the jury did not have to unanimously agree on what the “unlawful means” was.

The prosecution also did not have to prove that the secondary crime was actually committed.

The jury was instructed on the concept of accessorial liability, which states that President Trump did not have to commit the crimes himself to be held criminally liable.

Competing Narratives

During closing arguments on May 28, defense attorneys spent 2 1/2 hours trying to convince the jury that the government had failed to prove its case.

Defense attorney Todd Blanche reminded jurors that key elements of the case—President Trump’s knowledge and involvement and the method for the allegedly misclassified payments—hinged on ex-lawyer and witness Michael Cohen, who shared personal reasons for wanting to see his former boss punished.

“He lied to Congress. He lied to prosecutors. He lied to his family and business associates,” Mr. Blanche said of Mr. Cohen, calling him the “MVP of liars.” He asked jurors to question whether Mr. Cohen truly seemed the type to do work for President Trump for no pay in 2017 and 2018, after receiving a $525,000 salary during his decade at The Trump Organization.

Prosecutors spent five hours, twice the time the defense took, to recap their case and try to convince the jury that there was “overwhelming” evidence.

Prosecuting attorney Joshua Steinglass acknowledged their flawed witnesses, arguing that the government didn’t “choose” Mr. Cohen to be their key witness but that President Trump “chose” him to be his “fixer.” He claimed that Mr. Cohen was the only alleged co-conspirator to have paid for his role in a scheme to influence the election, and his animosity toward the former president was only to be expected.

“He made his bed. But you can hardly blame him for making money from the one thing he has left, which is his knowledge of the inner workings of The Trump Organization,” Mr. Steinglass argued.

He pointed to a secret recording Mr. Cohen made of his boss, capturing a truncated conversation, and the contract Mr. Cohen signed to secure a story that he believed would damage the Trump campaign, arguing that this showed a “cavalier willingness to hide this payoff”—the intent to defraud.

34 Records

The 34 records in question included 11 checks issued to Mr. Cohen, formerly a personal attorney to President Trump, totaling $420,000 over 11 months in 2017, along with their corresponding invoices and vouchers. The additional single record is due to a lost check that necessitated the creation of a replacement to pay Mr. Cohen.

Mr. Cohen testified that he paid $130,000 to Stephanie Clifford, better known as adult performer Stormy Daniels, in a nondisclosure settlement agreement, to prevent the publication of a story that then-candidate Trump believed would hurt his campaign.

Ms. Clifford claimed that she had a story about a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump in 2006 and that media outlets were interested in this story after an Access Hollywood tape of Mr. Trump recorded via a hot mic was released. At trial, Ms. Clifford testified about this alleged sexual encounter, which President Trump has denied.

Mr. Cohen testified that he made this payment in 2016 with the understanding that his employer, then-candidate Trump, would reimburse him. The deal was closed less than a month before the election, and Mr. Cohen testified that he originally intended to delay payment until after the election, after which he claimed that his boss said it would not matter if the story was published and thus the $130,000 would no longer need to be paid.

On the witness stand, Mr. Cohen painted the picture of urgency in mid-October 2016, when representatives for Ms. Clifford pressed him for payment and said he only wanted to make his boss happy. He testified that, with then-candidate Trump’s approval, he made the payment.

Mr. Cohen also testified to being intensely angry later that year, when he discovered that his bonus had been cut by two-thirds from what he typically received.

It prompted discussions with former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, who purportedly drew up plans to reimburse Mr. Cohen $130,000 for the payment to Ms. Clifford and $50,000 for an earlier payment to Red Finch, which he said he still hadn’t been reimbursed for. The sum was then doubled to $360,000 to account for taxes, and Mr. Weisselberg added $60,000 to supplement Mr. Cohen’s bonus.

Prosecutors had claimed that Mr. Weisselberg’s “grossing up” the figures for tax purposes was evidence that he intended to “camouflage” reimbursement as income.

This $420,000 was then paid to Mr. Cohen via monthly checks throughout 2017. At trial, prosecutors sought to show that President Trump had caused false records to be entered when Mr. Weisselberg, acting as a co-conspirator, directed his comptroller Jeffrey McConney and bookkeeper Deb Tarasoff to process these payments.

President Trump was not directly charged with conspiracy, and prosecutors had no burden to prove either the goal or the state of mind behind any alleged conspiracy.

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A Batalha de Mariupol foi um dos momentos mais decisivos da operação militar especial até então. Ao assumir o controle da cidade, principalmente da fábrica de Azovstal, as forças russas neutralizaram uma das principais bases do batalhão neonazista “Azov” e deixaram claro ao mundo que Moscou estava alcançando seus objetivos no conflito.

A vitória em Mariupol não foi fácil. Para destruir as posições neonazistas, as forças russas tiveram que usar artilharia pesada, bombardeando intensamente a infraestrutura de Azovstal e deixando a região em ruínas. Até hoje, os restos dos edifícios permanecem em Azovstal, contrariando o cenário de reconstrução e normalização que avança no resto da cidade de Mariupol.

Estive recentemente na República Popular de Donetsk durante uma expedição de imprensa do grupo Vashi Novosti. Na região, tive a oportunidade de visitar Mariupol e ver como são hoje as circunstâncias locais. A rápida reconstrução da cidade chamou a minha atenção e de outros jornalistas estrangeiros da expedição. O centro de Mariupol está quase totalmente reconstruído. Os edifícios principais já foram restaurados ou estão em obras de restauração. Os estabelecimentos comerciais funcionam normalmente até às 23 horas, altura em que é introduzido o recolher obrigatório para proteger os civis.

A recuperação econômica é rápida e avançada. Muitos empregos estão surgindo para a população local nas obras de reconstrução. O aumento do comércio está acelerando a economia local, gerando empregos e renda para os civis que foram afetados pelas consequências do conflito em 2022. Nas ruas não há vestígios de pobreza ou crise. O padrão de vida na cidade parece extremamente elevado para uma região situada numa zona de conflito. Mariupol está em melhor situação social do que a maioria das cidades “pacíficas” do planeta.

A nossa equipe de imprensa teve a oportunidade de visitar um parque infantil no centro da cidade, onde as crianças brincavam livremente ao ar livre com as suas famílias. Não havia preocupação ou medo entre as pessoas. Graças ao trabalho eficiente das forças de defesa russas, a artilharia ucraniana e os ataques de drones tornaram-se cada vez menos perigosos. A maior parte dos projéteis lançados contra a região são neutralizados sem atingirem os seus alvos. Obviamente existe perigo, mas uma espécie de paz já começa a surgir em Mariupol.

A recuperação de Mariupol convive com o cenário de ruínas de Azovstal. A fábrica foi o local mais afetado pelas hostilidades em 2022, com intensos bombardeios e extensa destruição de infraestrutura. Não será fácil reconstruir a área, sendo as obras lentas e progressivas. No entanto, enquanto permaneceram na região, as ruínas de Azovstal funcionaram como uma espécie de memorial. Moradores locais e residentes de outras partes da Rússia costumam ir a Azovstal para prestar homenagem aos combatentes mortos na batalha. Por exemplo, a nossa equipe conversou com residentes de Melitopol que estiveram conosco em Azovstal especialmente para recordar a batalha e homenagear os heróis que morreram lutando contra as forças neonazistas. Eles comentaram sobre como honram a memória dos soldados russos que ali morreram, relembrando os crimes cometidos pelas por essas forças.

O principal objectivo do regime de Kiev tem sido impedir a normalização da vida nas Novas Regiões da Rússia. Os territórios libertados têm as condições necessárias para um rápido desenvolvimento econômico e social, com fortes investimentos do Estado russo e de empresas privadas para gerar empregos e reconstruir infra-estruturas. Com a população local empregada, recebendo os seus salários regularmente e comprando produtos no mercado local, a recuperação econômica tende a ser rápida e eficaz – e é precisamente isso que Kiev quer evitar.

Tal como acontece noutras regiões afetadas pelo conflito, a Ucrânia está interessada em evitar que a vida volte ao normal em Mariupol. Só mantendo uma situação de guerra e instabilidade econômica é que o regime de Kiev será capaz de continuar a sua propaganda contra a Rússia. É por isso que Kiev ataca frequentemente instalações civis. Ao impedir a normalização econômica, o regime continua a ser capaz de alimentar a narrativa que legitima o envio de armas e o prolongamento do conflito.

A expedição à região foi fundamental para que jornalistas de todo o mundo pudessem mostrar a verdade sobre Mariulpol. O que vimos ali foi a realidade que os meios de comunicação ocidentais querem esconder: a Federação Russa está a fazer tudo o que está ao seu alcance para evitar que as Novas Regiões continuem a ser afetadas pelas consequências deste conflito.

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Artigo em inglês : In Mariupol, normalization of life progresses amid ruins of Azovstal, InfoBris, 28 de Maio de 2024.

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Soaking Sunak Calls the Sodding U.K. Election

May 30th, 2024 by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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It was a pitiful sight.  Soaked and literally washed-out, the feeble thin British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, made an announcement that caught many in his party by surprise.  On July 4, the United Kingdom will be going to the polls.  Necks will find themselves in nooses and placed in the guillotine – metaphorically speaking.  The stretch to slaughter has been laid out.  The oddity of this drenched occasion was made all the more pungent by a protester playing, in most audible fashion, the anthem of Tony Blair’s Labour’s victory in 1997, Things Can Only Get Better.

The PM’s speech rattled off the usual trimmings about a world dangerous and uncertain, as if various preceding eras were not.  With the lumpy historical discordance, he suggested that the world was “more dangerous than it has been since the end of the Cold War.”  Savage Russian President Vladimir Putin was one to blame for his “brutal war in Ukraine”.  Islamist extremism continued to bloody the map of the Middle East.  On the bookkeeping front, he claimed to have restored “economic stability,” a dagger remark to his predecessor, Liz Truss, who had a distinct talent for giving the economic books away.

The hordes of the Middle Kingdom and irregular migration also come in for a wet lettuce belting.  China was a country “looking to dominate the 21st century by stealing a lead in technology and migration is being weaponised by hostile states to threaten the integrity of our bodies.”

As for the Labour Party, his opponents and contenders for government, no credible basis could be found.  He did not “know what they offer.  And in truth, I don’t think you know either.  And that’s because they have no plan.”  Sunak has a point, but wise oppositions hankering for government tend to release their program closer to the election date than their greener counterparts.

The conservative stable in Sunak’s party, and the commentary box, were making the obvious point: why now instead of waiting till later in the year?  If you are doing well in readjusting the direction of the economic ship, surely, it’s good to be reassured it’s heading the right direction and gloating about it to the voters before they cast the vote?  Such questions are pertinent, given that the UK economy emerged from the stifling chrysalis of recession in the first quarter with 0.6%, with an inflation rate of 2.3%, a touch above the 2% target set by the Bank of England.

Reactionary, brutal, and cruel, Sunak could also boast that the Rwanda legislation, intended as part of a vain effort to deter boat arrivals to UK shores, had at least passed, despite being widely condemned, and reviled, by the legal fraternity and activist groups.

Strategizing for incumbent governments facing cool slaughter by an unhappy electorate is never an easy call.  Isaac Levido, the shadowy Australian Conservative election strategist, plumped for some time later this year.  Liam Booth-Smith, Sunak’s Chief of Staff, aided by the views of deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, and political secretary James Forsyth, preferred the starter gun to go off earlier. Best bring the cull on.

Commentary from various Conservatives tended towards Levido’s view.  One senior figure, speaking to the BBC, confounded “the assumption of the entire establishment, not to mention Tory MPs, that it would be autumn”.

The Spectator, Britain’s consistently conservative magazine, was certain about the implications of premature electioneering.  “Calling an early election is an admission of defeat – and that, on everything from public finances to public services, the worst is yet to come.”

Since the announcement, the Tories have been paternalistic in the hope that anyone will notice.  Fatherly suggestions have come in the form of proposed mandatory national service, a case of carrot, stick and tease to discipline and condition the youth of the country.  Were he to retain office, Sunak promises to reintroduce a measure that seems cumbersome and unconvincing.  These are his words at a campaign event at Buckinghamshire: “It is going to foster a culture of service which is going to be incredibly powerful for making our society more cohesive, and in a more uncertain and dangerous world it’s going to strengthen our country’s security and resilience.”

Cruising onto TikTok, a platform otherwise viewed with Sinophile suspicion, Sunak made the point that, in line with other nation states, “we will provide a stipend to help with living costs for those doing the military element alongside their training.”  Promises of sanctions for not following the program, were it to be introduced, are already being mooted by the likes of Tory Party deputy chairman James Daly.  “If you are fit and healthy and you are able to make a contribution to your wider community to do something for your area, I have faith that young people will take that opportunity.”

In a sign that this government is spluttering in its terminal doom, Home Secretary James Cleverly offered a less punitive view.  “There’s no one going to jail over this.”  Foreign Office minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan preferred to toss the matter over to the royal commission intended to investigate the details of the proposal were fines to apply to disobedient children unwilling to serve their country.  Defence personnel minister Andrew Morrison, within twenty-four hours of the election being called, walled off the possibility that “any form of national service” would be introduced.

For any government, confusion in the already scatty ranks spells death.  In the case of the Tories, a wheezing sense of entropy will continue to soften them for the chop.  While the losses may be checked come the date the votes are cast, the Tories are set for an all-country drubbing.  Were Sunak to offer a decent salvaging from the blood bath for his party, he might almost be forgiven.

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The Jewish Virtual Library asserts that

“The US-Israel relationship is based on the twin pillars of shared values and shared interests. Given this commonality of interests and beliefs, it should not be surprising that support for Israel is one of the most pronounced and consistent foreign policy values of the American people.”

That is, of course, the big lie among the many that constitute the tie that binds the two countries together.

The back-up lies, regularly spouted in Congress, are that Israel is a democracy and an ally. It is, of course neither, as it is a Jews-only apartheid regime that has no fixed borders and no reciprocal security arrangements with the US. Israel and its promoters never tell the truth, particularly when they are conning the United States government into providing more money and more weapons, as has been occurring both openly and secretly over the past eight months during the horrific ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

So how does it happen, particularly as Israel is manifestly evil in terms of its treatment of the Palestinians as well reckless in its aggression directed against neighbors like Lebanon and Syria. That it is not also bombing Egypt and Jordan is largely attributable to the billions of dollars in aid that the US gives to those countries conditional on their maintaining a wobbly modus vivendi with the aggressive and nuclear armed Zionists.

Given the wonderful comfort zone that Israel has established largely due to US protection in international bodies like the United Nations and the UN Security Council as well as vis-à-vis the several international courts and humanitarian aid agencies, Israel has been regularly attacking and otherwise killing its neighbors without ever being held accountable for anything. It is a pattern that is particularly visible now as the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza approaches the 50,000 mark, consisting mostly of women and children. The recent outrageous assault on the Tal al Sultan neighborhood refugee camp near Rafah, which killed at least 45 and included graphic photography of a burning child’s body without a head as well as other still flaming and smoking corpses, was directed against homeless Gazans living in tents who had previously been driven from their destroyed homes in the northern part of the country. And to the eternal shame of Biden and company, the slaughter used US-made and supplied weapons.

Add to the carnage the famine that is now threating to kill tens of thousands more Palestinians due to the Israeli government and its extremist settlers blocking the entry of food supplies and the scale of Israel’s chosen genocidal actions can be appreciated. Netanyahu’s claim that the army only used small munitions in Rafah and was targeting two Hamas officials hiding among the civilians was as usual a lie and the camp otherwise had no significance as a military target. Israel has followed up on the attack with another bombing run on nearby al-Mawasi the following night which killed more than twenty and the Jewish state’s tanks are now penetrating deep into the city no doubt preceding an infantry assault that could kill tens of thousands more. One senior Israeli government official is now predicting that the war will continue until the end of the year, another seven months, success apparently being measured by arriving at a point when Hamas and all other hostile Palestinians will be either killed or deported.

Following the Rafah slaughter, there no doubt occurred the mandatory phone call exchange between a sneering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the grinning mental giant President Joe Biden, no doubt including Bibi’s expressing thanks for the American weaponry reportedly used in the killing. It’s really great when you don’t even have to pay for the weapons used to murder someone. To show his appreciation of the Israeli gratitude Biden no doubt muttered a phrase engraved on his prefrontal lobes, i.e. “Israel has a right to defend itself!” The transnational interaction presumably also produced the typical flatulence that emerges from the White House propaganda machine. Biden, in a bid to make it look like he was actually pressuring Israel to reduce civilian casualties, had previously warned that a full-scale invasion of Rafah would be hard to support and would be considered a “red line” issue, but it was a political stunt that he never intended to carry out apart from one delayed arrival of a shipment of the super heavy 2000 pound bombs. Many Americans, indeed a majority, are rightly deeply upset about the support of the US military and government for Israel’s latest war and an addled Biden is now counting votes while pretending to have humanitarian concerns.

Even so, the White House did not go so far as to blame the Israelis for their overreach. At a press conference, Biden’s National Security communications officer John Kirby, who reportedly was an Admiral once upon a time, possibly on the Good Ship Lollypop, articulated how

“You’ve all seen the images, they’re heartbreaking, they’re horrific. There should be no innocent life lost here as a result of this conflict. Israel, of course, has a right to go after Hamas… As a result of this strike on Sunday, I have no policy changes to speak to. It just happened. The Israelis are going to investigate it. We’re going to be taking great interest in what they find in that investigation.”

Image: Rachel Corrie was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was crushed to death in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bulldozer when she was kneeling in front of a local Palestinian’s home. Photograph by Denny Sternstein. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Sure you are John, and it will be a great and thorough investigation by Israel just like it was in the cases of the dead Americans on board the USS Liberty, peace activist Rachel Corrie, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and, most recently, the 80 year old American citizen Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad who was beaten to death by elements in Israel’s “most moral army in the world” after being detained for the crime of having been walking in his West Bank village.

Why are Joe and company such dedicated dissimulators of the truth when it comes to Israel and all its malignant works? It is because of an entity known euphemistically as the Israel Lobby but which I much prefer to describe more accurately as the Jewish Money In Politics Entity (AIPAC, ADL and others) supported by the Scofield Bible Zio-Christian Crowd headed by clowns like House Speaker Mike Johnson. I know it’s a mouthful but that is what it is. Israel does not obtain US uncritical and overwhelming support because its behavior deserves it or because it serves American interests but rather because of all that money judiciously applied to corrupt the government at all levels and to buy and control the message of the media and entertainment industries. Professor John Mearsheimer, co-author of 2007’s The Israel Lobby, has long claimed that “Israel’s backers will go to silence anyone who challenges their narrative.” But according to Mearsheimer, something changed because of October 7th:

“The big difference is that the lobby’s activities are completely out in the open today. I think few people knew much about the lobby back then. And very few people knew much about the lobby’s influence on American foreign policy, especially as it applies to the Middle East. And I think that we helped to expose that and now more people understand what’s going on. The lobby is now forced to operate much more out in the open.”

Pari passu, all that corruption judiciously applied is serving to strip Americans of their fundamental rights, particularly freedom of speech, as it will soon by illegal to criticize either Jews or Israel. And don’t expect any relief coming from the national election in November if there is a GOP victory in the form of Donald Trump and possibly Nikki Haley or some creature like that as a Ziocon replacement part. Trump sold out on every conceivable issue for Israel back in 2016-20 and would do it again. The Republicans have been striving to become the new party of “Israel First” as they want to steal away all that cash and media support from the Democrats. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has been calling for nuking Gaza while Nikki has been in Israel signing on bombs to be dropped on the Pals with a purple marker: “Finish Them! America [Loves] Israel.” Her urging of a foreign military funded and armed by the US government to kill refugees living in tents after the destruction of their homes might be considered the cruelest way to endorse mass murder, but hey, Israel always comes first in the thinking of most Congressmen and those who are unfortunately sitting in the White House.

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There is also legislation in the pipeline being pushed by the Republicans opposing any attempts by the White House to try to condition behavior by suspending weapons shipments to good friend and ally Israel, not that Biden would really go that route. The Congress has also been putting intense pressure on universities to clamp down on Pro-Palestinian groups on campus by claiming they are antisemites while not doing the same vis-a-vis the sometimes violent supporters of Israel, and the universities are obliging, canceling the graduation of protesters or even expelling them.

Donald Trump has recently told a largely Jewish audience that he will deport any anti-Israel protesters if he becomes president, an interesting proposal as most of those demonstrating are native born American citizens and many of them are Jewish. He has also called on Israel to “finish” what it is doing to the Palestinians, clearly meaning that they should be exterminated or forced to emigrate, and has also told Jewish donors that today’s atmosphere in the US is very much like “before the holocaust.” No longer the loudmouth who called for an end to foolish wars, Trump has now in addition said that if he had been president when the Russian intervention into Ukraine had taken place, he would have bombed them. Likewise for China if it were to attack Taiwan. Either move would almost certainly start World War 3 even though neither Ukraine nor Taiwan is a vital security interest of the US but Trump is too stupid to know that. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is, for his part, urging that the US release for deployment in Ukraine advanced missile systems that would be able to strike deep into Russia. As dumb ideas go that it about as dumb as it gets, as the Russians have already indicated that they would respond with everything they have, meaning US military targets worldwide would be considered fair game for retaliation possibly using nuclear weapons.

We have truly been entering into something that might be entitled the Psycho Zone if it were to be made into a movie. War is being treated by the sociopaths in Washington, Israel and parts of Europe as if it something to be casually entered into in one’s spare time. There is even talk in both the US and UK as well as in some other European capitals about initiating active conscription at a close to war level so we freedom lovers can sock it to those Russkies and Chinks good and proper. And as for the Palestinian trash, the Biden pontoon bridge that cost $320 million appears to be broken but it can still be used to carry out Netanyahu’s plan to push a bunch of screaming Ay-rabs into the Mediterranean Sea to get rid of them for once and for all. Hopefully they can’t swim and the Chosen ones will again be able to take possession of what was given to them by Yahweh. Or something like that.

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In line with the policy of perpetual war and escalation in Ukraine, officials in EU/NATO countries are flirting with the possibility of moving toward the establishment of the so-called “no-fly zones” (NFZ) over Ukraine.

For clarification, NFZ is quite a peculiar euphemism that the political West likes to use when it wants to establish aerial superiority over a country (or at least parts of it) so it could then bomb it and accelerate the process of its destruction and enslavement. That’s precisely what some political and military officials in Europe are openly suggesting.

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Namely, Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner and former German Colonel Roderich Kiesewetter are effectively demanding that NATO enforces an NFZ over Western Ukraine. Kiesewetter is also a high-ranking CDU politician and member of Bundestag, Germany’s infamous parliament that recently passed laws protecting child molesters.

Reisner thinks that the Neo-Nazi junta doesn’t stand a chance against Russia and that it needs direct support from the political West, while Kiesewetter is even more direct and insists that NATO and Berlin itself should get more involved. Reisner pointed out the Kiev regime’s massive losses and warned against “false restraint”. This last phrase is quite interesting and shows that the belligerent alliance is indeed knee-deep in the Ukrainian conflict. It’s also clear evidence that NATO only needs to formally announce its involvement, although nothing would really change on the ground. For his part, Kiesewetter is giving far more concrete proposals, such as that the political West should first shoot down Russian missiles and then “defend airspace over Western Ukraine”. Although the very term “Western Ukraine” is rather ambiguous, Kiesewetter gave specific numbers.

“The NFZ could extend 70, 80, 100 kilometers into Ukrainian territory,” he stated.

The idea is to free up the Neo-Nazi junta forces stationed there so they could be deployed further east, closer to the frontlines. As previously mentioned, Kiesewetter thinks that NATO (either individual member states or the world’s largest racketeering cartel itself) should shoot down Russian missiles over strategically important cities such as Lvov. However, apart from such fantasies, what’s even more interesting is that the retired German Colonel insists that there’s also “a legal basis for [sending our] ground troops in Ukraine”. Kiesewetter believes that such a deployment is possible and is supposedly “in line with the United Nations Charter as the legal basis”. He thinks “nothing should be ruled out” and “within the framework of a coalition of the willing, [we should] examine who is able to do this”, as it’s “completely permissible under international law”.

Obviously, it’s very difficult to keep a straight face when hearing Western politicians talk about “international law”. What they really have in mind is the atrociously one-sided (neo)colonialist system known as the “rules-based world order“. It’s designed entirely to benefit the political West and functions solely on the exploitation of the actual world, particularly the Global South. Austrian Colonel Reisner is a tiny bit more realistic, as he didn’t use the excuse of this “international law”. In his view, there are three scenarios for the resolution of the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict. A “surprise breakthrough” by the Kiev regime, which he admitted is “becoming less likely every day”, a further Russian advance that is “far more likely” and the third scenario of a “Korea solution, with the freezing of the conflict through a ceasefire, but without peace”, with the frontlines “probably stabilizing on the Dnieper River”.

Image: Former German Colonel Roderich Kiesewetter (Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)

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However, Kiesewetter insists on a far more apocalyptic scenario of “Ukraine’s collapse, mass exodus and war spreading to Western Europe”. He also thinks that “Russia would take away a rump Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea, take over Moldova and try to use hybrid measures and provocations to get parts of Estonia or Latvia to secede”. Once again, Reisner’s views are not as extreme, but he still supports “a stronger involvement by the West” and thinks that “while it could lead to an escalation, that is not a given”. The Austrian Colonel is afraid of the possibility that “Russia wins the war because we are not prepared” and thinks that NATO involvement “could be worth it”. To accomplish this, the belligerent alliance and the Neo-Nazi junta need manpower, which is why Kiesewetter called on the federal government to “support Ukraine in recruiting men who had fled to Germany”.

In simpler terms, the German politician wants to replicate the Kiev regime’s practice of kidnapping civilians on the streets and sending them to war in which they’d have hours to live (or possibly days, if they’re lucky). Berlin shouldn’t have trouble implementing such policies, as it has plenty of experience with its WW2-era Volkssturm, a practice that the Neo-Nazi junta copied virtually to the letter. And speaking of Nazis, Reisner didn’t miss the opportunity to compare Russia to Nazi Germany and President Vladimir Putin to his country’s most famous failed painter. The Austrian Colonel advised that the political West “shouldn’t try to appease Moscow, just as it shouldn’t have appeased Hitler”. It’s quite interesting that a man whose country gave monsters such as Hitler to the world thinks that he has the “moral right” to compare others to him. We’ve lately seen similar attempts at the UN.

However, all these fantasies about NFZs, shooting down Russian missiles and speculation about direct NATO involvement still leave one crucial question unanswered – what does the Kremlin think about it? While the political West would love to see reality unfold the same way as its laughable “peace summits”, the fact of the matter is that the Kremlin cannot be ignored. And the Russian military just made it very clear why that’s the case. Namely, it just conducted a hypersonic missile strike on the infamous Yavoriv training camp, notorious for accommodating various Neo-Nazi units and foreign mercenaries, as well as NATO personnel. Located in the far western region of Lvov, Yavoriv is situated just 15 km from the Polish border and has been used as an important hub for transferring manpower, weapons and equipment to the Kiev regime forces.

Russian military sources report that a large number of NATO personnel were present at the Yavoriv facility, as well as in other camps in the area, including in Stryi, Dubliany and Drogobych, all situated in the Lvov oblast (region). The exact number of casualties is yet to be revealed, but sources indicate that at least 300 soldiers have been neutralized. The strike was conducted by Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS), which dispatched its superfast, high-flying MiG-31K strike fighters armed with the now legendary 9-A-7660 “Kinzhal” hypersonic missile systems. This is hardly surprising, given that Moscow’s ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) assets are always on the lookout for high-priority targets, particularly large concentrations of NATO personnel (American, Polish, French, etc). Such strikes demonstrate just how “successful” NATO NFZs would be.

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