À medida que surgem dados oficiais dos governos na Europa e nos EUA acerca do número alarmante de mortes e com paralisias permanentes, bem como outros efeitos colaterais graves das vacinas experimentais de mRNA, está a ficar claro que nos pedem para sermos cobaias humanas num experimento que poderia alterar a estrutura do gene humano e até muito pior. Enquanto os media convencionais ignoram dados alarmantes, incluindo a morte de incontáveis jovens vítimas saudáveis, a política da vacina corona está a ser promovida por Washington e Bruxelas junto com a OMS e o Cartel de Vacinas com toda a compaixão de uma “oferta da máfia que você não pode recusar”.

O alarmante relatório da EMA

Em 8 de Maio, a Agência Europeia de Medicamentos (EMA), uma agência da União Europeia (UE) responsável pela avaliação e supervisão de produtos médicos, usando o banco de dados EudraVigilance que colecta notificações de suspeitas de efeitos colaterais de medicamentos, incluindo vacinas, publicou um relatório que mal foi mencionado nos grandes media.

Até 8 de Maio de 2021, eles haviam registado 10.570 mortes e 405.259 lesionados após injecções de quatro vacinas experimentais do COVID-19 : COVID-19 mRNA VACINA da MODERNA (CX-024414); VACINA DE ARNm COVID-19 da PFIZER-BIONTECH; COVID-19 VACCINE da ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19); e Janssen COVID-19 VACCINE da Johnson & Johnson (AD26.COV2.S).

Uma análise pormenorizada de cada vacina apresenta os seguintes resultados:

A vacina com edição do gene do mRNA da Pfizer-BioNTech resultou nas maiores fatalidades – 5.368 mortes e 170.528 feridos ou quase 50% do total para todos os quatro.

A vacina de mRNA da Moderna foi a segunda com 2.865 mortes e 22.985 feridos. Ou seja, as duas únicas vacinas experimentais de mRNA com manipulação genética, Pfizer-BioNTech e Moderna, foram responsáveis por 8.233 mortes do total de 10.570 mortes registadas. Isso representa 78% de todas as mortes causadas pelas quatro vacinas actualmente em uso na UE.

E entre os efeitos colaterais graves ou lesões registadas pela EMA, para as duas vacinas de mRNA que focamos neste artigo, para a vacina “experimental” da Pfizer, a maioria das lesões relatadas incluiu doenças do sangue e do sistema linfático, incluindo mortes; distúrbios cardíacos, incluindo mortes; distúrbios músculo-esqueléticos e dos tecidos conjuntivos; distúrbios respiratórios, torácicos e mediastinais e distúrbios vasculares.

Para a vacina de mRNA da Moderna, as lesões mais graves ou as causas de morte incluíram doenças do sangue e do sistema linfático; distúrbios cardíacos; distúrbios músculo-esqueléticos e dos tecidos conjuntivos; distúrbios do sistema nervoso central . Observe que essas são apenas as lesões mais graves relacionadas a essas duas vacinas de mRNA geneticamente manipuladas. A EMA também observa acreditar-se que apenas uma pequena percentagem das mortes reais por vacinas ou efeitos colaterais graves, talvez apenas 1% a 10%, são relatados por várias razões. Oficialmente, mais de 10.000 pessoas morreram após receber as vacinas contra o coronavírus desde Janeiro de 2021 na UE. Esse é um número assustador de mortes relacionadas à vacina, mesmo que os números verdadeiros sejam muito maiores.

CDC também

Até mesmo os Centros de Controle de Doenças dos EUA (CDC), uma agência notoriamente política e corrupta com laços lucrativos com fabricantes de vacinas, no seu Sistema de Notificação de Eventos Adversos de Vacinas (VAERS), mostra um total de 193.000 “eventos adversos”, incluindo 4.057 mortes, 2.475 deficiências permanentes, 25.603 visitas ao pronto-socorro e 11.572 hospitalizações após injecções [contra o] COVID-19 entre 14 de Dezembro de 2020 e 14 de Maio de 2021. Isso incluiu as duas vacinas de mRNA, Pfizer e Moderna, e a vacina J&J Janssen, muito menos predominante. Das mortes relatadas, 38% ocorreram em pessoas que adoeceram dentro de 48 horas após serem vacinadas. O número oficial de mortes relacionadas à vacina nos EUA é maior em apenas 5 meses do que todas as mortes relacionadas à vacina nos últimos 20 anos combinados. Mesmo assim, os grandes media mundiais e o governo dos Estados Unidos praticamente enterram os factos alarmantes .

Cerca de 96% dos resultados fatais foram das vacinas Pfizer e Moderna, as duas variantes financiadas e promovidas pela Fundação Gates e o NIAID de Tony Fauci com a tecnologia genética experimental de mRNA.

Além disso, o Dr. Tony Fauci, o secretário de vacinas da Administração Biden dos EUA e seu Centro de Pesquisa de Vacinas NIAID co-projectaram a vacina da mRNA Moderna e deram à Moderna e à Pfizer US$6 mil milhões para produzi-la. Isso também é um conflito de interesses flagrante, já que Fauci e seu NIAID têm permissão para se beneficiar financeiramente de seus ganhos com patentes na vacina sob uma curiosa lei dos EUA . O NIAID desenvolveu as proteínas de pico (spike) do coronavírus para o desenvolvimento de vacinas de mRNA da SARS-CoV-2 usando o dinheiro do contribuinte. Eles licenciaram-na para a Moderna e a Pfizer.

“Nunca visto na natureza…”

Num sentido trágico, a experiência com reacções às duas sem precedentes vacinas experimentais de mRNA desde o seu lançamento a uma também sem precedentes “velocidade relâmpago” quando o governo dos Estados Unidos a pediu, só agora começa a ser vista, em testes reais com cobaias humanas. Poucos percebem que as duas vacinas de mRNA usam manipulações genéticas que nunca antes foram utilizadas em humanos. E sob a cobertura da urgência, autoridades de saúde dos EUA e da UE dispensaram os testes normais em animais e nem mesmo aprovaram a sua segurança, mas deram uma “autorização de uso de emergência”. Além disso, os fabricantes de vacinas ficaram isentos de danos de litigação a 100%.

O público em geral foi tranquilizado sobre a segurança das vacinas quando a Pfizer e a Moderna publicaram relatórios de 94% e 95% de “eficácia” das mesmas. Fauci do NIAID foi rápido a classificar isto como “extraordinário” em Novembro de 2020, e muitíssimo rápido a aproveitar-se do preço das acções da Pfizer e Moderna.

Peter Doshi, Editor Associado do British Medical Journal apontou uma enorme falha nos relatórios dos mais de 90% de eficácia para as vacinas da Moderna e da Pfizer. Ele observou que as percentagens são relativas, em relação ao pequeno grupo seleccionado de teste de jovens saudáveis, e não absolutas como na vida real. Na vida real, queremos saber a eficácia da vacina entre a grande generalidade da população.

Doshi aponta o facto de que a Pfizer excluiu mais de 3400 “casos suspeitos de COVID-19” que não foram incluídos na análise provisória. Além disso, os indivíduos “em ambos os testes da Moderna e da Pfizer foram considerados positivos para o SARS-CoV-1 – (o vírus asiático de 2003 da SARS), apesar da infecção anterior ser motivo de exclusão”, observa Doshi. Ambas as empresas se recusaram a divulgar seus dados primários.

Os cientistas empregados pela Pfizer fizeram seus testes. Em suma, 95% é o que a Pfizer ou a Moderna afirmam. Disseram-nos: “Confiem em nós”. Uma estimativa mais realista da verdadeira eficácia das duas vacinas para o público em geral, usando dados fornecidos pelos fabricantes de vacinas ao FDA, mostra que a vacina Moderna no momento da análise provisória demonstrou uma redução de risco absoluto de 1,1%, ao passo que na da Pfizer a redução do risco absoluto da vacina foi de 0,7%. Isso é muito pouco.

Peter Hotez, reitor da Escola Nacional de Medicina Tropical do Baylor College of Medicine, em Houston, diz: “O ideal é que uma vacina antiviral faça duas coisas … Primeiro, reduza a probabilidade de você ficar gravemente doente e ir para o hospital e, segundo, previna a infecção e, portanto, interrompa a transmissão da doença”. Como observa Doshi, nenhum dos estudos foi “concebido para detectar uma redução em qualquer resultado grave, como internamentos hospitalares, uso de terapia intensiva ou mortes. Nem as vacinas estão a ser estudadas para determinar se podem interromper a transmissão do vírus”. O responsável médico chefe da Moderna até admitiu que “O nosso ensaio não demonstrará a prevenção da transmissão”.

Possíveis efeitos das vacinas de mRNA

Num importante novo estudo recém-publicado no International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research,a Dra. Stephanie Seneff, cientista sénior do Laboratório de Ciência da Computação e Inteligência Artificial do MIT, e o Dr. Greg Nigh, especialista em oncologia naturopática, analisam em pormenor as possíveis vias pelas quais as vacinas experimentais de mRNA da Pfizer e Moderna poderiam estar a causar tais efeitos adversos nos vacinados. Primeiro, eles apontam que as vacinas editadas por genes da Pfizer e da Moderna são altamente instáveis: “Ambas são administradas por meio de injecção muscular e ambas requerem armazenamento ultracongelado para evitar que o RNA se parta. Isso se verifica porque, ao contrário do DNA de fita dupla, que é muito estável, os produtos de RNA de fita simples podem ser danificados ou ficarem impotentes em temperaturas elevadas e devem ser mantidos extremamente frios a fim de reter a sua eficácia potencial . ” A Pfizer recomenda 70° Celsius negativos.

Os autores apontam que, a fim de evitar que o mRNA se decomponha antes que possa produzir proteína, os dois fabricantes de vacinas substituem a metil-pseudouridina para estabilizar o RNA contra a degradação, permitindo que sobreviva o tempo suficiente para produzir quantidades adequadas de antígeno protéico. O problema que eles apontam é que, “Esta forma de mRNA entregue na vacina nunca é vista na natureza e, portanto, tem potencial para consequências desconhecidas… a manipulação do código da vida pode levar a efeitos negativos completamente imprevistos, potencialmente a longo prazo ou mesmo permanente “.

Adjuvantes PEG e choque anafilático

Por várias razões para evitar o uso de adjuvantes de alumínio para aumentar a resposta anticorpo, ambas as vacinas mRNA usam polietileno glicol, ou PEG, como adjuvante. Isto tem consequências. Os autores destacam: “…ambas as vacinas mRNA actualmente implantadas contra COVID-19 utilizam nanopartículas à base de lipídios como veículos de entrega. A carga de mRNA é colocada dentro de um invólucro composto de lipídios sintéticos e colesterol, junto com PEG a fim de estabilizar a molécula de mRNA contra a degradação “.

O PEG demonstrou produzir choque anafilático ou reacções alérgicas graves. Em estudos de vacinas anteriores sem mRNA, as reacções de choque anafilático ocorreram em 2 casos por milhão de vacinações. Com as vacinas mRNA, o monitoramento inicial revelou que “a anafilaxia ocorreu a uma taxa de 247 por milhão de vacinações. Isto é mais de 21 vezes maior do que o relatado inicialmente pelo CDC. A segunda exposição à injecção pode causar um número ainda maior de reacções anafiláticas”. Um estudo observou: “PEG é um alergenio ‘oculto’ de alto risco, geralmente insuspeito, e pode causar reacções alérgicas frequentes devido à re-exposição inadvertida“. Entre tais reacções estão incluídos o colapso cardiovascular com risco de vida.

Isso está longe de constituir a totalidade dos riscos não declarados das vacinas experimentais mRNA contra o coronavírus.

Aumento dependente de anticorpos

O aumento dependente de anticorpos (ADE) é um fenómeno imunológico. Seneff e Nigh observam que “o ADE é um caso especial do que pode acontecer quando níveis baixos e não neutralizantes de … anticorpos contra um vírus estão presentes no momento da infecção. Esses anticorpos podem estar presentes devido a … vacinação anterior contra o vírus…” Os autores sugerem que, no caso das vacinas mRNA da Pfizer e da Moderna, “os anticorpos não neutralizantes formam complexos imunes com antígenos virais para provocar secreção excessiva de citocinas pró-inflamatórias, e, em casos extremos, uma tempestade de citocinas causando dano generalizado ao tecido local “.

Para ser claro, normalmente as citocinas fazem parte da resposta imunológica do corpo à infecção. Mas sua liberação súbita em grandes quantidades, uma tempestade de citocinas, pode causar falência de órgãos de vários sistemas e morte. Nosso sistema imunológico inato sofre uma liberação descontrolada e excessiva das moléculas sinalizadoras pró-inflamatórias chamadas citocinas.

Os autores acrescentam que “anticorpos pré-existentes, induzidos por vacinação prévia, contribuem para danos pulmonares graves por SARS-CoV em macacos…” Outro estudo citado mostra que a gama muito mais diversificada de exposições anteriores a coronavírus, como a gripe sazonal experimentada pelos idosos, pode predispô-los a ADE após a exposição ao SARS-CoV-2″. Isto é uma possível explicação para a alta incidência de mortes pós-vacinação de mRNA entre idosos.

Os fabricantes de vacinas têm uma maneira inteligente de negar a toxicidade de suas vacinas mRNA. Como afirmam Seneff e Nigh, “não é possível distinguir uma manifestação de doença ADE de uma verdadeira infecção viral não ADE”. Mas fazem o destaque revelador: “A esta luz, é importante reconhecer que, quando doenças e mortes ocorrem logo após a vacinação com uma vacina mRNA, nunca se pode determinar definitivamente, mesmo com uma investigação completa, que a reacção da vacina não foi uma causa próxima “.

Os autores apontam vários outros pontos alarmantes, incluindo o surgimento de doenças auto-imunes, como a doença celíaca, uma doença do sistema digestivo que danifica o intestino delgado e interfere na absorção de nutrientes dos alimentos. Também a síndrome de Guillain-Barré (GBS) que causa fraqueza muscular progressiva e paralisia. Além disso, a trombocitopenia imune (ITP) em que uma pessoa tem níveis anormalmente baixos de plaquetas – as células que ajudam o sangue a coagular – pode ocorrer após a vacinação “por meio da migração de células imunes que transportam uma carga de nanopartículas mRNA através do sistema linfático para o baço… ITP aparece inicialmente como petéquias ou púrpura na pele e / ou sangramento das superfícies mucosas. Tem um alto risco de morte por hemorragia e derrame “.

Estes exemplos são indicativos do facto de estarmos literalmente a expor a raça humana – por meio de vacinas mRNA editadas por genes experimentais não testados – a perigos incalculáveis que no fim podem exceder em muito qualquer risco potencial de dano a partir de algo que tem sido chamado de SARS-Cov-2. Longe da tão apregoada substância milagrosa proclamada pela OMS, Gates, Fauci e outros, as vacinas da Pfizer, da Moderna e outras mRNA possíveis claramente possuem consequências imprevistas potencialmente trágicas e até catastróficas. Não é de admirar que alguns críticos acreditem que seja um veículo disfarçado para a eugenia humana.

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The Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) defines and promotes Women’s Rights in a broader anti-war context which confronts the tenets of US imperialism. 

From the outset in 1979 of what was designated as the Soviet-Afghan War, the CIA provided covert support to both Al Qaeda and the Taliban, with the unspoken mandate to undermine women’s rights as well as destroy the very foundations of Afghanistan as a progressive secular nation state. 

The US-NATO invasion on October 7, 2001 was based an an outright lie, namely that Afghanistan had attacked America on September 11, 2001. 

The derogation of women’s rights in Afghanistan was the direct result of  Washington’s diabolical military and intelligence agenda, the intent of which was to  transform Afghanistan into an Islamic proxy state. 

The war against Afghanistan has extended over a period of more than forty years. 

March 8, 2023, Women’s Day.

Our thoughts are with RAWA and the people of Afghanistan in their long-standing battle against US imperialism.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, March 8, 2023

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As a disclaimer I want to make clear I am not here attempting to exonerate Putin, simply to shine a light on western hypocrisies and double standards, rendered invisible by MSM reporting.

The so-called “civilisation” of the West lingers in the degenerate mentality of the Cold War, the world mere inches and one bad decision away from nuclear apocalypse.

On Thursday 24th February 2022, the Russian army invaded Ukraine, leading to rapid internal destabilization and massive loss of life. Reflections on the war by Western commentators, on the advancing power of the Russian army, is, unfortunately, rapt in thrall of NATO, who have a history of waging illegal wars with illegal tactics, to serve the protection and advancement of US geopolitical interests. Reported primarily on TV broadcasts and in news media, the war is couched as a sin of the Russian government and the deliberate provocations of NATO within Russia’s sphere of influence leading up to the invasion are not accounted for.

The main casualty in war is truth. For though reporting feigns neutrality and objectivity, a facade carefully crafted by the politico-media class, a vast bias consists in their work: they are loyal to the imperial west and united against the powers of the east, which pose an existential threat to US hegemony in their pursuit of a multipolar world order. According to their reporting, when the west makes wars it is legitimate, just and couched in glory, but when the conflict comes from US geopolitical rivals, it is degenerate and obscene. How does an ostensibly educated, civilised public react to such institutional duplicity?

For in war the state at once conjures an image of itself as an arbiter of moral action and still, behind the facade, entirely lacks in decency. The recoil of some citizens from the supposed allure of western intervention the world around is denounced in a media arbitrated, public struggle session, in which conscientious objectors are categorised as having sympathy with the enemy, not passing the test of loyalty to the empire. Thus, we can describe the televising of war and the media modulation of the master narrative as malicious media. Through accidents of the broadcasters some images and footages from the war are verifiably false, such as a viral clip showing a news report in which a man moves around inside a body bag, amongst a sea of body bags on display for the telly.

The quickest and easiest way to create a manageable consensus of support for war in the western homelands is to create orderly narratives out of the confusion and commotion of conflict and repeat them (repetition being a technique for hypnosis.) Noting that one can call Putin as culpable as NATO for use of propaganda, it is nonetheless the case that he learned these tactics from the west, who pioneered them.

We have leaders who are exactly the same, who pursue the same selfish agendas to get more power at the expense of democracy and who manipulate us to make us hate and fear other human beings with whom we have common cause, while creating the illusion of separateness, “othering.” We are speeding to the precipice of nuclear war, echoing the reactionary jingoism of the cold war. We are inches away from the realization of a nuclear apocalypse, bought upon us by, at best, irresponsible, at worst, lethal, sabre-rattling. Condemning war seems to be a task too far for ostensibly progressive politicians, who have voted to increase funds to spend on militarization of Ukraine. In such circumstances, genuine, authentic progressivism appears a distant fantasy.

Many decades of western interventionism has offered the world nothing but forced assimilation into a gray, neurotic, totalitarian neoliberal world order.

It is obvious the US is questing for world domination, but it’s a fact considered inapposite to state due to sensitivities about the crimes of the third Reich. Nonetheless the US caliphate has globalised the social structure of feudalism – defined by social conditions of vassalage – and the rule of America and the belief in freedom have come to be irreconcilable.

People of goodwill who object to the US “forever war” project are ostracised as dangerous extremists, while neoconservative fundamentalists and megalomaniacs who endorse droning weddings and killing journalists are portrayed as rational and sensible, such is the lens of distortion.

The fundamental dilemma is this: who are the villains at whom criticism and legal retribution should be aimed?

Surely, all states who use lethal military force on innocent civilians. The moral international community surely does not include America, as much as it wouldn’t include Putin. The constituency collectively striving for peace and humanitarianism through multilateral cooperation consists mainly of conscientious states in the global south who have long suffered for colonialism and imperialism.

Television reporting of war, often repeating bellicose rhetoric, creates between news consumers a shared understanding of a given conflict, an understanding, however, rooted in illusion and deception.

Invoking this problematic consensus of understanding, politicians claim to have a mandate for and support for military action. As spectators upon wars our perceptions are necessarily filtered through a master narrative prism, the mainstream media – that filters out the brutal truth, deliberately constructing our awareness in such a way as to lead us to be biased towards one side.

Ever since the first, globalised wars of modern imperialism, news reporting on war has kept company with falsity.

To observe war through the medium of mainstream media is to yield to wilful deception, seeing as media elites, as class allies of the warmongering elites, shape the master narratives through which human beings perceive the world.

The facts of the strategic realities and equal culpability in wars are obscured or manipulated to serve an agenda. The media elects itself as the superior arbiter of what is right and real, and, being one of the only sources of and authority on information for issues that extend beyond one’s self and experience, they have a monopoly over perception. Corporate ownership and governance of news by way of conglomerates emancipated media from its mission to serve and inform the public and so was hewn its role of servitude to the agendas of the ruling class.

The main profile of western masses – both individually and collectively – during wartime is that of spectators, consumers of spectacle. There is a rapidly increasing flow of information about war and its agonies, information that hasn’t been audited to eliminate bias.

Being  a  spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more  than a century and a half’s worth of those professional, specialized atrocity  tourists  known as journalists. Wars are now also living room sights and sounds. Information  about what is happening elsewhere, called “news,” features conflict and violence— “If it bleeds, it leads” runs the venerable guideline  of  tabloids and  twentyfour-hour  headline  news  shows, to which the response is compassion, or indignation, or titilation, or approval, as  each misery heaves into view. How to respond to the steadily  increasing flow  of  information about the agonies of war was  already  an issue in the late nineteenth century.

The main mass delusion propagated to prepare the west for a proxy conflict with Russia was Russiagate, a confabulation of the US establishment which prepped us to become reliable engines of Russophobia. The same dynamic of putrid racist ideological hegemony observed by Edward Said in Orientalism is the same in the triangulation of the Russian “threat.” An illusory hierarchy of civilizational integrity, supposedly distinguishing the superior “free” world from the seemingly inferior “barbaric,” is invoked by politicians and media. It is nothing short of the alienation of humanity from itself.

At one time there was a dynamic, unified international movement to abolish war, which connected civil rights, pacifist movements in the imperial core with third world liberation movements. The flame of hope of this mass rebellion was crushed by the assassination of its leaders in the west and in the development of CIA backed coups in rebellious third world countries, turned into loyal client states. Contemporary war is mostly the result of the existence of global markets, because the internal logic of markets – the profit motive – necessitates expansion into new territories, mostly with force, whilst also being a project of shadowy, powerful intelligence agencies established to illegally safeguard capitalism at a time a unified American left was toppling monopolies and was threatening to do so to banks.

Ultimately, war is a killing machine, massacre scaled up, the industrialisation of murder, actively lobbied for by a lucrative weapons industry, and so it would be wise to pause, hesitate and take a critical, dispassionate consideration of the facts before pledging our loyalty to a side on the basis of self-evidently doctored reporting.

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In case you missed it. Every health authority in the world should be warning the public about this. The paper was published Sept 21, 2022.

Summary 

COVID-19 vaccines – An Australian Review was published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature on Sept 21, 2022.

Here’s the two sentences from the paper that everyone should read:

A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases per million and more non-Covid deaths per million than are associated with COVID-19 [43].

An abundance of studies has shown that the mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous.

Other key insights from the paper

Figure 1. “Not safe or effective”

If you don’t have time to read the entire paper, here are some of the highlights.

Here are some other direct quotes from the paper:

1. COVID-19 vaccines cause more side effects than any other vaccine
2. Not only does spike protein produce unwanted side effects, but mRNA and nanoparticles do as well.
3. Never in vaccine history have we seen 1011 case studies showing side effects of a vaccine (See this).
4. Again, it is inconceivable why it would be impossible to go through the study data in a few months, when it took the CDC less than 4 weeks to give the injections emergency use authorization – unless you want to entertain the idea that the study data were never actually read and scrutinised, a frightening perspective.
5. The official public message is that the mRNA vaccines are safe. However, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the medicine and therapeutic regulatory agency of the Australian Government, states quite clearly on their website that the large-scale trials are still progressing and no full data package has been received from any company.
6. The mRNA vaccines were supposed to remain at the injection site and be taken up by the lymphatic system. This assumption proved to be wrong. During an autopsy of a vaccinated person that had died after mRNA vaccination it was found that the vaccine disperses rapidly from the injection site and can be found in nearly all parts of the body [1]. … Research has shown that such nanoparticles can cross the blood-brain barrier and the blood-placenta barrier.
7. Despite not being able to prove a causal link with vaccines, as no autopsies were performed, they still believed that a link with vaccination is possible and further analysis is warranted.
8. In summary, it is unknown where exactly the vaccine travels once it is injected, and how much spike protein is produced in which (and how many) cells.
9. The S1 subunit of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein when injected into transgenic mice overexpressing human ACE-2 caused a COVID-19 like response. It was further shown that the spike protein S1 subunit, when added to red blood cells in vitro, could induce clotting.
10. The authors found consistent alteration of gene expression following vaccinationin many different immune cell types.
11. Seneff et al (2022) describe another mechanism by which the mRNA vaccines could interfere with DNA repair.
12. It is an amazing fact that natural immunity is completely disregarded by health authorities around the world. We know from SARSCoV-1 that natural immunity is durable and persists for at least 12-17 years [17]. Immunologists have suggested that immunity to SARS-Cov-2 is no different
13. Immunity induced by COVID infection is robust and long lasting.
14. mRNA vaccines seem to suppress interferon responses. A literature review by Cardozo and Veazev [26] concluded that COVID-19 vaccines could potentially worsen COVID-19 disease.
15. Natural immunity is still not accepted as proof of immunity in Australia.
16. A study at the University of California followed up on infections in the workforce after 76% had been fully vaccinated with mRNA vaccines by March 2021 and 86.7% by July 2021. In July 2021 75.2% of the fully vaccinated workforce had symptomatic COVID.
17. Acharya et al. (2021) and Riemersma et al. (2021) both showed that the vaccinated have very high viral loads similar to the unvaccinated and are therefore as infectious.
18. Brown et al. (2021) and Servelitta et al (2021) suggested that vaccinated people with symptomatic infection by variants, such as Delta, are as infectious as symptomatic unvaccinated cases and will contribute to the spread of COVID even in highly vaccinated communities.
19. Countries with higher vaccination rates have also higher caseloads. It was shown that the median of new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people was largely similar to the percent of the fully vaccinated population.
20. Multiple recent studies have indicated that the vaccinated are more likely to be infected with Omicron than the unvaccinated. A study by Kirsch (2021) from Denmark suggests that people who received the mRNA vaccines are up to eight times more likely to develop Omicron than those who did not [40]. This and a later study by Kirsch (2022a) conclude that the more one vaccinates, the more one becomes susceptible to COVID-19 infection [41].
21. This has to be seen in context with the small risk of dying from COVID-19… The chances of someone under 18 years old dying from COVID is near 0%. Those that die usually have severe underlying medical conditions. It is estimated that children are seven times more at risk to die from influenza than from COVID-19. [Editor’s note: so why do colleges mandate the COVID vaccine instead of the influenza vaccine?]

OK, the paper is 18 pages long and those were just excerpts from the first 3 pages. Get the picture?

Excerpts from the conclusion 

1. Never in Vaccine history have 57 leading scientists and policy experts released a report questioning the safety and efficacy of a vaccine. They not only questioned the safety of the current Covid-19 injections, but were calling for an immediate end to all vaccination. Many doctors and scientists around the world have voiced similar misgivings and warned of consequences due to long-term side effects. Yet there is no discussion or even mention of studies that do not follow the narrativeon safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccination.
2. Medical experts that have questioned the safety of these vaccines have been attacked and demonized, called conspiracy theorists and have been threatened to be de-registered if they go against the narrative. Alternative treatments were prohibited and people who never practised medicine are telling experienced doctors how to do their job. AHPRA is doing the same here in Australia to the detriment and in ignorance of science.

The final paragraph sums it up

As scientists we put up hypotheses and test them using experiments. If a hypothesis is proven to be true according to current knowledge it might still change over time when new evidence comes to light. Hence, sharing and accumulating knowledge is the most important part of science. The question arises when and why this process of science has been changed. No discussion of new knowledge disputing the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines is allowed. Who gave bureaucrats the means to destroy the fundaments of science and tell scientists not to argue the science?

Is this paper right?

I was very impressed with this paper. The authors were very thorough.

The paper has been in public view since September 21, 2022 which is more than enough time for scientists to question it.

As far as I am aware, there have not been any mistakes that have been called out that would change the statements or the conclusions of the paper.

How do you resolve conflicts in scientific papers?

Of course, there have been many papers saying the COVID vaccines are life-saving.

Published papers are often completely wrong.

One of my all-time favorites is the Barda paper published in the NEJM because it was used at an ACIP meeting where they showed Figure 3. When I saw that it showed that the vaccine dramatically cut your risk of pulmonary embolism, I couldn’t believe that anyone took this paper seriously.

Let’s be clear: there is no possible mechanism of action that can reduce your risk of pulmonary embolism.

In the X-factor analysis I published long ago, the reporting rate of pulmonary embolism was 954 times higher than baseline. There is no way that can happen if the vaccines reduce the rates of pulmonary embolism.

The CDC itself knows that “pulmonary embolism” has triggered a “safety signal” in VAERS, but they never investigated it. The rates of pulmonary embolism with the COVID vaccines are off-the-charts compared with any other vaccine.

Pulmonary embolism was just one of over 700 safety signals in VAERS reported by the CDC in a FOIA request. They never bothered to warn the public about any of these safety signals (including “death”) because they didn’t want to create vaccine hesitancy.

Generally, review articles are considered the most definitive papers. So when papers disagree, we can often turn to the review articles for guidance since these papers look to resolve conflicting evidence.

The current paper was a review paper!

So we have to ask: is there a more comprehensive paper that reviewed the same body of literature which came to the opposite conclusion?

There was a Cochrane review that appeared after this paper (in Dec 2022) entitled Efficacy and safety of COVID‐19 vaccines. But it was simply a review of the randomized trials and, unlike the current paper, it did not review any of the adverse event data outside of the main trials. Nor did it question the quality of the trials.

If you restrict your view to just the trial data and ignore all the evidence of tampering, the vaccines look good. It is absolutely stunning how the Cochrane review completely missed all the anomalies with the trials, isn’t it? See these two articles: Adverse events in Pfizer trial may have been underreported by 8X or more and Pfizer Phase 3 clinical trial fraud allegations that should be immediately investigated by the FDA. They didn’t even mention that in the limitations sections that they basically assumed that the drug companies were honest and that they decided to ignore all the obvious data that the trials were gamed. Evidence of gaming has been in full public view for a long time. Cochrane ignored it.

However, the Cochrane review noted that “There is insufficient evidence regarding deaths between vaccines and placebo (mainly because the number of deaths was low).”

In short, even in the view of the most supportive paper, there is no evidence that the vaccines did anything to reduce mortality.

Furthermore, there were more deaths in the vaccine group than the placebo group in the Pfizer trial. There were 4X as many cardiac deaths in the treatment group. How do we know for sure that none of those deaths were caused by the vaccine? Has any health official anywhere in the world asked Pfizer to show us the histopathology that was done on the people who died in their trial that proves that the vaccine didn’t kill anyone in the treatment group? Of course not. When I asked Pfizer for that data, they ghosted me.

Since there is not a more recent, comprehensive review paper, then the precautionary principle of medicine suggests that this paper should be controlling until such time as it is shown to be incorrect.

That’s how science is supposed to work.

Every health authority in the world should inform the public about this study NOW 

Unless they can cite a newer, more comprehensive review paper which reached the opposite conclusion, every health authority (including the CDC) should let everyone know about this paper.

I’m sure they will all do this immediately, right? Just like they let the public know about the benefits of maintaining normal levels of Vitamin D.

If you have inadequate levels of vitamin D, you can reduce your risk of getting COVID substantially by fixing the deficiency.

The public health authorities did a stellar job of getting the word out on that one, didn’t they? I didn’t see a single public announcement. Did you?

Dr. Joe Mercola has been talking about Vitamin D for COVID for years. This is why he’s listed as the #1 misinformation spreader on the White House’s Disinformation Dozen list.

I know a top scientist at the CDC (who is also an MD and MPH) who wanted the CDC to study vitamin D. She sent over 750 emails on the subject. She was ignored every time by her superiors. After 10 years at the agency, she is fed up; she is leaving the CDC next month.

My tweet about the paper 

Here’s my tweet about it.

ICYMI from paper in peer-reviewed literature: "An abundance of studies has shown that the mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous."

Every health authority (including the CDC) should let everyone know this new finding.https://t.co/afafLCU5ZI

— Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) March 3, 2023

The mainstream media has no responsibility to report this 

Unlike public health officials, the mainstream media has no public duty to report this.

In fact, the mainstream media will make sure NOBODY finds out about this review paper.

They will keep promoting the false narratives from the government no matter how many people are killed and no matter what the peer-reviewed science says. Nobody wants to lose their job over this!

About the journal 

Clinical & Experimental Immunology is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering clinical and translational immunology. The editor-in-chief is Leonie Taams. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Immunology, of which it is the official journal.

Other reviews of this paper 

See Peter’s tweet:

Turni and Lefringhausen, Univ Queensland, comprehensive review concludes not safe for human use and more disturbing remarks on bias in the literature against any data or analysis not aligned with the false narrative. Cites our Bruno paper May 2021, 57 authors 17 countries. pic.twitter.com/1MbuG8MUiq

— Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™ (@P_McCulloughMD) September 24, 2022

Will anyone apologize?

There will be no apologies because science just doesn’t matter anymore.

What do you think?

Summary 

It’s now in the peer-reviewed scientific literature:

The mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous.

All of us misinformation spreaders were right after all.

What a surprise.

Don’t expect any apologies though. They will continue to defend the vaccines because otherwise they’ll look bad for recommending them in the first place.

So the public health officials, the mainstream medical community, and the mainstream media will all ignore this paper.

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When President Biden nominated Victoria Nuland as Undersecretary of State, CODEPINK feminists objected to her nomination out of concern she would bring pain and heartache to mothers and daughters as she fomented war in their midst. Instead of promoting diplomacy, Nuland lights matches wherever she meddles, agitating for war in Afghanistan, and now Ukraine.

If feminists remain silent or support this Bush-era neocon simply because she is a woman, Victoria Nuland might just burn down the world in a nuclear fire.

With drones already attacking the Crimean peninsula and long range US rockets on the way, Nuland’s push to cross another one of Putin’s red lines only ensures more death, destruction and ecocide in Ukraine.

For the women of Ukraine, the illegal Russian invasion-which Nuland provoked over the years with NATO expansion — has led to heightened sex trafficking and increased gender violence. According to the United Nations and relief organizations, this includes not only rape as a weapon of war, but “intimate partner violence and sexual harassment. “ With Ukraine under martial law and men aged 18–60 forced to the front lines, young women refugees-often unaccompanied-are vulnerable to abuse at border crossings.

The fact that Nuland was given a diplomatic job in the Biden administration in the first place never ceases to amaze because her record reads like a war criminal’s rap sheet.

Nuland served as Vice President Dick Cheney’s deputy national security adviser from 2003–2005, during the illegal US invasion and occupation of Iraq, a painful chapter in US history that left over a million Iraqis dead and thousands of US soldiers in body bags.

In 2005, Nuland became ambassador to NATO, where she lobbied Europe to participate in the disastrous U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. In persuading other governments the US could win that war, she sold a lie across Europe to prolong a near 20-year occupation that left Afghanistan broke, with six million children and adults at risk of starvation.

In May 2013, Nuland was nominated to act as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, where she was supposed to employ diplomacy in relations with Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet states.

Instead, Nuland and the White House hurled $5 billion taxpayer dollars at Ukraine to overthrow its democratically elected President and engineer a transition government to privatize Ukraine and prepare for war with Russia. After Nuland passed out pastries during the Maidan coup, before President Viktor Yanukovych fled under a hail of bullets, Nuland was caught in a scandal involving a leaked phone call.

On the phone with US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, Nuland was secretly recorded saying “F .. the EU” if the European Union did not approve of her choices to run Ukraine’s transition government. The West gasped at her use of profanity. The more egregious profanity, however, was her insistence on manipulating the political affairs of another country to provoke Russia.

Nuland has repeatedly stated that she wants to destabilize other regions in Russia’s nuclear neighborhood: Belarus and Kazakhstan, because they are too friendly with Russia. What critics say she really wants is regime change in Russia, a country of 193 million people, 150 different ethnic minorities and 6,000 nuclear weapons.

What could go wrong?

Nuland’s mission to sacrifice Ukrainian lives to take back Crimea-annexed by Russia after the 2014 coup-could drag other European nations onto the battlefield to start World War III.

On this International Women’s Day, President Biden would be well-advised to fire Victoria Nuland and hire a diplomat who embraces a feminist foreign policy centered around peace.

Sign our petition urging President Biden to fire Victoria Nuland and hire a diplomat with a people-centered approach to security and peace.

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The G20 meeting in Bali became a failure, because the US insisted on bringing in discussions about war, guilt, pointing fingers into the G20 final communiqué. At the recent G20 Finance and Foreign Ministers meetings in India, the meetings were not only a failure, but a complete catastrophe. Not even a joint statement of any kind could be agreed upon among the G20 ministers. Dark for G20. Dark for India.

The USA is trying to hijack the G20 for hegemonic purposes – and the negative efforts of the US have sadly led to a catastrophe for the G20 in India. During an interview with Global Strategic & Defense News, the Indian scholar Dr. Preeti Sharma demonstrates how India is actually doing a very good job to solidify the work of the G20. And India is actively broadening the scope of institutions participating in this beyond the ministers. India is also doing a good work of seeking to involve the broader developing World (which must include Africa).  

So India is doing a good job at preparing G20 – but India has not prevented the US from ramming and splitting the G20 which the US is determined to do. India tries to keep everybody together, which is commendable. But Indian politeness can also be a hindrance for India to speak up openly against what the US is doing against the G20.

The USA is steering the G20 directly towards an enormous train-accident at the G20 heads of states meeting 9-10 September 2023 in Delhi. Any international train-wreck in Delhi in September will have negative effect not only on the G20, but also on India’s image. Sad, but true. India therefore needs to think very hard already now in advance about HOW to deal with and preempt the US efforts to split G20 before the big meeting of G20 heads of states 9-10 September 2023.

Dr. Preeti Sharma in her exposition also does a good job to show that G20 was never about military or global power politics. This is an important reminder today, where the US is trying to do exactly that.

Maybe India should use her authority as chairman of G20 to make it clear to all members of G20 (incl. the USA), that the G20 is NOT and never was about geopolitical issues. G20 is about cooperation – not an arena to strive for hegemony. India is a powerful country, and India has a chance now to demonstrate her international power and standing. Perhaps India should try to get the majority of G20 on board to that before the heads of state meeting in September 2023. If India succeeds in doing so, the majority of G20 will signal to the US that they beforehand reject any US attempts to hijack the G20 before the next heads of state meeting. There simply must be some basic agreements about what can and cannot be discussed before the G20 in September – or else no meeting.

What I propose will do a double favor. It will save the G20 – and India will clearly manifest herself as a global leader speaking on basis of basic values with the aim of keeping international discussions on a constructive path. 

Doing what I propose here will of course mean that India will create a row – especially with the USA. But budging now will only make things worse with an almost certain international humiliation for India at G20 in September 2023. Better for India to do the big talk now, take the unavoidable tough talk with the USA here and now. Doing so now instead of putting the head into the bush will give the waves time to calm, and any scratches happening today will be preferable to a damaging train-wreck for India and the G20 at the heads of state meeting in Sept. 2023. And if the US continues to insist on blowing up the G20 completely, then better it happens bit-by-bit over the next months, and not when the cameras transmit it live from Delhi to all the World in September.

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Some years ago, I had an engaging discussion with one of my very insightful students of Philosophy in my university.  She asked me whether Islam has provisions for women’s rights and gender equity and if it has, why is it that Muslim countries are apparently anti-women in their cultural expressions as proven in the way mainstream mass media portray the customs and traditions of these Muslim countries. This perceptive question of my student deserved a candid and thorough response.

The question is actually two pronged; first, it asked whether Islam has anything to offer for gender fairness specifically to the womenry. My categorical answer to this query is a resounding “Yes!”  In this article, I will extensively demonstrate why I responded affirmatively to the first part of the query by quoting pertinent provisions provided by the Qur-an for the emancipation of women.  Likewise, I will endeavor to effectively respond to the second part of my student’s question: assuming that there are Islamic provisions for women’s rights, why are Islamic countries apparently perceived by Western mainstream media and by non-Muslims as anti-women?

Western Mainstream Media Must Not Equate the Cultural Patterns Prevalent in So-Called Muslim Countries as Necessarily Islamic

Firstly, it should be made clear to us that the so-called “Islamic culture” prevalent in many “Islamic countries” may not be truly and authentically Islamic. This may sound ironic, but this assertion is assuredly true!  Upon their conversion to Islam, these countries may still have carried with them unnecessary baggage of pre-Islamic customs and traditions that are not only un-Islamic but may even be outright anti-Islamic. Hermeneutically speaking, these pre-Islamic cultural expressions and idiosyncrasies persisting in so-called Islamic countries may even inform or misinform, dictate and influence the aforesaid societies’ understanding of Islam. For instance, although the Maranaws of southern Philippines are nominally referred to as Muslims, it does not follow that their customary laws on revenge-killing (i.e., rido) are Islamic; and although the Bangladeshi population is predominantly Muslim, it does not mean that their traditions or customs regarding dowry is Islamic.  My point is this: there must be clear delineation in identifying what is a culture-bound custom and what is truly an Islamic provision as found in the Qur-an. This is the crux of the problem of the Western media’s bias against Islam; when it judges Islam, it tends to haphazardly label the cultural patterns of Muslim countries as Islamic cultural patterns without investigating whether or not these patterns have any warrant in the Qur-anic revelation.

At this stage of my discussion, let me say that the canons of the Qur-an are the normative and regulative authority by which one should base one’s judgment on whether a particular custom is Islamic since the Qur-an is the pristine source of the Muslim Shariah (Divine Law) from which a given conduct is determined as either “Islamic” or “un-Islamic”.  It is imperative that we stop judging Islam as “anti-women” by simply basing this judgment on our observations of the cultures of these so-called Muslim countries.  Only by going back to the authoritative standard of Islam, which is the Qur-an, can we see that far from being anti-women, genuine Islam contains sufficient provisions for gender fairness and equity.

Western Mainstream Media’s Portrayal of Islam May Not Necessarily Be the Accurate Picture of Reality and May Unduly Condition Our Prejudices Against Islam

Some people may say; “But pictures do not lie!  Muslim women crouching behind thick veils are powerless to assert their rights in an Islamic country.” Let me say that pictures seemingly cannot lie but they can be outright selective and partial in their portrayal of things and events because they are shot at angles based on slanted or sometimes twisted frames of focus chosen by the person taking the pictures; for whatever purpose the pictures may serve him or her. Likewise, news reports can be selective, slanted, twisted, skewed and downright unfair.

How can one judge Islam and the Muslim World when one has only a limited angle or a twisted spectacle from which one bases one’s judgment? Islam is both a universal and cosmopolitan way of life since Islam embraces plurality and diversity of cultures. The geographical, cultural and racial terrains of Islam’s domains are very diverse indeed! Islam’s realm stretches from the archipelagic Southeast Asia to the Indian Subcontinent; from the Afghanistan highlands to the Iranian steppes; from the well-watered lands of Tigris and Euphrates to the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula; from the heart of the Nile to the wastelands of African Sahara and from thence to Turkey, Albania, Bosnia in Eastern Europe and up to the various Central Asian Turkic republics.

Presently, Islam is the fastest growing religion in Great Britain, Continental Europe and the United States.  It is indeed stupefying to take into account all these cultural diversities found in the world of Islam; for instance, an Indian Muslim is culturally different from a Bulgarian Muslim as a Malaysian Muslim is culturally different from an Algerian adherent of Islam.

I am not minimizing the fact that there are so-called Muslim countries that discriminate and oppress women. I think we should denounce these countries which in their patriarchalism, oppress and marginalize women. However, what is important is take into account the cosmopolitan, pluralistic and diverse world of Islam when making generalized adverse judgments on Islam as a Weltanschauung (worldview).

By showing this great diversity, I venture to say that it is indeed unfair for the Western media to hastily judge Islam without taking into consideration this overall picture of Islam’s cosmopolitan pluralism. It is the media’s solemn duty in the name of fairness to exhaust all angles of representation in as far as Islamic diversity is concerned before the media ventures to ascribe undesirable judgments on Islam and Muslims.

Western Mainstream Media must be Aware that Present Interpretations of Islamic Precepts or Principles Implemented in “Islamic Countries” May Be Misinterpretations or Misunderstanding of the Original Qur-anic Intents and Purposes

The third point that I would like to raise in response to the first part of my student’s query is this: there are interpretations of Islamic principles that are accepted as normative in a particular “Islamic” country that may well be a misinterpretation of the Qur-anic intents and purposes as envisioned by the Prophet of Islam.  What I mean by this is that there are Qur-anic verses that are interpreted in terms of rigid anti-women cultural patterns prevalent among Islamic countries which upon closer scrutiny are in fact misrepresentations of the egalitarian intents of the Prophet Muhammad.  Let us take the issue of hijab as an example. Hijab/hijb is an Arabic word which means to cover, to conceal, to put things in privacy. When used in relation to Islamic adab (ethics), hijab means modesty, propriety and prudence in one’s dealings with the opposite sex (Cf. Al-Qamus al Arabiyyah al Misriyyah [Cairo Concise Arab Dictionary]. Cairo: al Maktabah Dar’ul Ilmiyyah, in the entry, Hijab.). Presently, in Islamic countries, hijab is unanimously taken to mean the literal veiling of women as in actual veiling from head to foot. However, in the original contextuality of the Qur-anic pronouncement, hijab essentially refers to the virtue of modesty in ones’ dealings with the opposite sex; a command which according to Maulana Muhammad Ali, an eminent Qur-anic exegete and translator, is not only limited to women but to men as well. (Maulana Muhammad Ali, Commentary on the Holy Qur’an., pp. 132-133.).

Maulana Muhammad Ali points out that the mandate for hijab does not primarily refer to the rigidified custom of veiling or seclusion (purdah) nor is its implementation limited to female believers only; hijab is a moral call to sexual modesty, prudence, and moderation aimed at all Muslims, men and women alike. The egalitarian basis of hijab, a gender-neutral mandate is found in the Qur-an; however, it is the interpretation or implementation of the “hijab principle” among Muslim countries that is misleading faulty and anti-women.

Now, let us look at the Qur-anic text exhorting for hijab and let us pay attention to the intent and purpose of this specific Qur-anic text:

Say to the believing men that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that is purer for them. Allah is aware of what they do. Say to the believing women that they cast down their looks, and guard their private parts and not display their ornaments as what appears thereof; and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms (Surah Nur:30, 31).

Notice that in these verses, the command for hijab is given to both Muslim men and women.  The verses exhort “believing men” as well as “believing women” the virtues of modesty and sexual propriety in their dealings with each other. In the course of time however, the exhortation to modesty mutates itself into a set of rigid commandments pertaining to inflexible dress codes governing women alone, i.e., wearing of thick chador (veil) that covers a woman’s face down to her ankles. What is very disturbing in this interpretation is that the dress-code implementation is not applied to nor enforced on the “believing men” who are likewise required to observe hijab as stated in the above-mentioned verse. In so-called Islamic societies, the interpretation of the Qur-anic verse is skewedly and arbitrarily implemented with extreme rigidity solely on the “believing women.” This situation is a sorry example of misinterpreting the spirit and the egalitarian intention of the Qur-an and of the Prophet of Islam.

It is in the spirit of Islamic modesty for women to dress modestly and to wear a simple head-veil that adequately covers her body, in the same way that males are to wear prudent clothing for modesty’s sake. Both are required by the Qur-an to manifest reserve and modesty in their conduct with each other. But to discomfort women by unnecessarily insisting that they cover their whole faces, thereby impeding their movements, is altogether a strange matter which is against the very purpose of the egalitarian exhortation of the Qur-an for hijab. A simple veil on the head for the woman and a simple fez for the man, together with modest clothing for both, adequately fulfill the Qur-anic exhortation for hijab; but to go beyond this simplified and uncomplicated exhortation is already an excessive and unwarranted burden which the Prophet did not impose upon Muslim women!

Maulana Muhammad Ali strongly emphasized that the ethical imperative for hijab does not in any way mean hampering the movement nor does it mean inconveniencing the life of the womenry. To forcefully bring home this historical fact, a direct quote from Maulana Muhammad Ali is appropriate. The Maulana says:

As regards the seclusion of women, the Qur-an never prohibited women from going out of their houses for their needs. In the time of the Prophet, women went regularly to mosques, and said their prayers along with men, standing on separate row. They also joined their husbands in the labour of the field; they even went with the army to the field of battle, and looked after the wounded, removing them from the field if necessary, and helped fighting-men in many other ways. They could even fight the enemy in an emergency. No occupation was prohibited to them, and they could do any work they chose. (Maulana Muhammad Ali, Introduction to the Study of the Holy Qur-an, op.cit., p. 132.).

Therefore the directive for hijab does not mean seclusion of women from public affairs (purdah) as practiced in some so-called Muslim countries. Women during the time when the Prophet of Islam was still alive and even during the periods of the Rightly Guided Caliphs of Sunni Islam were very active in the public life of the Muslim Ummah (faith-community).

A concrete example to prove this point is the fact that the wife of the Prophet, Hazrat Aishah Siddiqah was a teacher of Islamic sciences to both male and female Companions. Hazrat Aishah Siddiqah was considered to be the very first mufti (legal luminary) of Islam from whose legal, ethical and spiritual directives the Holy Companions derive rulings for the Ummah after the Holy Prophet’s demise. Fatima Mernissi, The Forgotten Queens of Islam, Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1993; pp. 66-69.). It must be plainly pointed-out that the Holy Companions, in consulting a women jurisprudent par excellence, namely Hazrat Aishah, concerning legal rulings and theological opinions in the affairs of the Islamic community simply followed the Prophet’s command found in the hadith sharif (Prophetic tradition):

“Learn your religion from Aishah, my Humeyra (the fair-one). Listen to her words like a bee attending to his beehive.” (See: Abdelhalim Abu Shaka, The Emancipation of Woman at the Time of the Prophet, Los Angeles: Muslim Women’s League, 1990; pp. 150-152; quoting from thehadith sharif, Fazail-e-Sayyidatina Aishah Siddiqah [Exemplary Virtues of our Lady Aishah Siddiqah].).

Understanding Islam According to the Qur-an and the Intention of the Prophet:  the Basis for Genuine Gender Equity and the Remedy against the Islamophobia of Western Mainstream Media

As of this juncture, let it be said that the essential ethical intention of the Holy Qur-an is to provide social equity and equal rights for both men and women. The Qur’an clearly showed the Prophet Muhammad’s unmistakable intention of treating women as equal with men by mentioning both men and women in many verses in the Qur-an. For instance, the Qur-an says:

And the believers, men and women are friends of one another. They enjoin good and forbid evil and keep up prayer and pay the poor rate, and obey Allah and His Messenger. As for these, Allah will have mercy on them. Surely Allah is Mighty, Wise (Surah Bara’at:19).

The abovementioned verse clearly articulates equity between the male and female gender in that the Qur’an considers women and men as protectors (waliy-yun) to each other; both men and women are required to do pious acts as proofs of their essential equity and their intrinsic value as human persons.

Another proof of the intrinsic equity between male and female gender is the fact that men and women have their innate autonomy as persons of free volition to follow or not to follow divine commands. In the discourse of the Qur-an, both males and females are tasked with ethical and spiritual responsibilities and in the Hereafter, both will be given just requital of their deeds without taking into consideration their gender differences. The Qur-an explicitly declares the following verses:

Whoever does evil, he is requited only with the like of it; and whoever does good, whether male or female, and he is a believer, these shall enter the Garden, to be given therein sustenance without measure (Surah Mu’min: 40).

Whoever does good, whether male or female, and he is a believer, We will certainly make him live a happy life, and We will certainly give them their reward for the best of what they did (Surah Nahl:97).

Men shall have the benefit of what they earn and women shall have the benefit of what they earn (Surah Nisa:32).

The eminent commentator of the Holy Qur-an, Maulana Muhammad Ali, noted that the Qur-anpractically manifests ontological equity between males and females in its pages. The Holy Qur-an declares that there is no difference between men and women and both can reach the highest divine station if they practice righteous deeds. (See the Maulana’s commentary of Ahl Imran:195, Nisa:124, Nahl:97).

A Call for Societal Advocacy and Engendered Activism: Towards a Genuine Islamic Understanding of Gender Equity according to the Gender Egalitarian Intention of the Prophet Muhammad

Given the unequivocal commitment of the Holy Qur-an for the intrinsic equity between men and women, why is the Islamic Ummah (faith-community) lagging behind in acknowledging gender equity? Why is it that all we see around are the pitiful conditions of the womenry happening in so-called Muslim countries? Let me begin answering this question by quoting a prophetic saying or hadith sharif of the Prophet Muhammad.

The Holy Prophet was reported to have said that;

 …the guilt of the oppressor is not lesser than the guilt of the oppressed.  The oppressor is certain to be punished severely due to his injustice and cruelties committed towards the oppressed (sic). But the oppressed is likewise accountable for not exerting his utmost to fight against oppression… Similarly, ignorance is a great sin and an appeal to be excused from the law on account of ignorance is unacceptable (sic). (Amjad Soharwardi, Hazrat Baba Jilani our Master: A Humble Servant of the Blessed Prophet. Chittagong, Bangladesh: Panja Pir Pustak, n.d., p. 78.).

Based on the abovementioned Prophetic Tradition (hadith sharif), ignorance can be a cause of oppression. Ignorance of the real teachings of Islam, specifically ignorance of the Qur-an in its textual and historical contexts can lead to oppression and those who are ignorant of their rights as given in the Qur-an are the ones likely to be oppressed. This important point strongly calls for Muslims to know intimately their religion and likewise exhorts non-Muslims to sympathetically understand and seriously research the historical contextualities of Islamic practices as found in the Qur-an.

It is outright unfair for Western mainstream media to blame Islam for the misconduct of its adherents in the same manner that it is wrong to blame the whole of Christianity for the cruelty and bloody excesses of medieval papism or for the barbarism of the Catholic Counter-Reformation that produced the blood-thirsty Spanish Inquisition. On the other hand, while it is justified to claim that Western media, cultural patterns among Muslim countries, and faulty interpretations of the Qur-an wrongly shape our views on Islam and women, this claim should not be used as a flimsy excuse for both Muslims and non-Muslims to absolve themselves from their responsibilities and culpabilities. It is indeed high-time now for all of us to break these chains of ignorance and oppression by empowering ourselves to seriously study, research and ascertain what the pristine normative source of Islam, i.e., the Qur-an itself has to say about women. We, likewise, have a duty to inform others who are ignorant of these liberative provisions on the equal rights of women as found in the Qur-an.

Furthermore, Muslims in particular need to zealously endeavor to implement the egalitarian teachings of the Prophet, right were they are, i.e., in their own immediate cultural milieu. They need to be reminded that the social teachings of Islam are clear on this matter: viz, oppression and ignorance go hand in hand, hence in order to fight oppression, it is incumbent to first empower oneself with knowledge. Therefore, our advocacy for women’s emancipation and gender equity should be global, all-inclusive and educative, since it is not Muslim women alone but women in general who are enslaved by sexist prejudices, patriarchal oppressions, and chauvinist discriminations.

It is already a cliché to say that knowledge is power, but I feel that we need to be reminded of this fact, time and again.

We also need to be reminded that evading our responsibility to correct erroneous notions made by Western mainstream media about Islam and women is a manifestation of weakness and cowardice. My student’s perceptive query that prompted me to write this article was indeed a preliminary but vital step in the right direction—religious dialogue towards gender sensitivity. Yes, Muslims and Christians, or any persons of goodwill for that matter, can respect, cherish and celebrate their creedal differences while cooperating in the lofty goal to free women from the bondage of chauvinism, sexism, machismo and gender inequity.

The issue of gender fairness can indeed be a cooperative venture towards human understanding, international amity and global solidarity among peoples of the world whatever their religions and beliefs may be. Let us cooperate with each other to make this advocacy for women’s empowerment a living reality in our midst.

Professor Henry Francis B. Espiritu is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines (UP), Cebu City. His research interests include Islamic Studies particularly Sunni (Hanafi) jurisprudence, Islamic feminist discourses, the writings of Imam Al-Ghazali and Turkish Sufism. You may freely contact him at his email address: [email protected].

Professor Henry Espiritu is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)

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February 6, 2023, the World Health Organization released a report by the director-general on the WHO’s review of amendments to the international health regulations (IHR). The IHR is what empowers the WHO to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)

The proposed IHR amendments establish a global biosecurity architecture involving health surveillance, reporting and management — and we the public have no say in the matter

The amendments will be ready for adoption at the World Health Assembly in May 2024. A simple majority is required for the amendments to be adopted, after which they’ll come into force in 12 months

The second attempt to seize global control is through an international pandemic treaty with the WHO. The treaty would grant the WHO the sole power to make decisions relating to global biosecurity, including but not limited to the implementation of a global vaccine passport/digital identity, mandatory vaccinations, travel restrictions and standardized medical care

The treaty will supersede the laws of member states, including the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Republican senators have introduced a bill that would require a Senate supermajority to approve the WHO treaty, but even this may not be enough. We need Congress to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO altogether and stop funding of the WHO

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In the Children’s Health Defense video above, aired February 11, 2023, host Dr. Meryl Nass interviews investigative journalist James Corbett about the global biosecurity agenda, the World Health Organization’s mishandling of global pandemics, and the two parallel processes currently underway that will effectively create a One World Government of unelected bureaucrats under the guise of global biosecurity. In a nutshell, the WHO is being installed as a de facto governing body for the global Deep State.

Attack No. 1 — International Health Regulation Amendments

As reported by Nass, February 6, 2023, the WHO released a report by the director-general on the WHO’s review of amendments to the international health regulations (IHR). The IHR, adopted in 2005, is what empowers the WHO to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).¹

This is a special legal category that allows the WHO to initiate certain contracts and procedures, including drug and vaccine contracts. While the IHR already grants the WHO exceptional power over global health policy, under the current rules, member states must voluntarily consent to the WHO’s recommendations.

Under the new amendments, however, the WHO would be able to declare a PHEIC in a member state over the objection of that state, and failure to adhere to the WHO’s dictates in such a situation could have severe economic consequences.

As a whole, the proposed IHR amendments establish a global biosecurity architecture involving health surveillance, reporting and management — and we the public have no say in the matter.

We have no official avenue for providing feedback to the World Health Assembly, even though the amendments will give the WHO unprecedented power to restrict our rights and freedoms in the name of biosecurity. There’s not even a publicly available list of who the delegates are or who will vote on the amendments.

All we currently know is that the amendments will be ready for adoption at the World Health Assembly in May 2024.² A simple majority is required for the amendments to be adopted, after which they’ll come into force in 12 months. Member nations that disagree with the amendments have only 10 months to file a rejection or reservation.

Important IHR Amendments

While more than 300 amendments to the IHR have been proposed,³ and there’s no telling which will stay and which will be tossed out, certain ones that are currently up for review are more crucial than others. Here are a few of the most egregious:

Once the amendments are adopted by the World Health Assembly, nations will have only a limited time — six months — to reject them. Any nation which hasn’t officially rejected the amendments will then be legally bound by them, and any attempt to reject them after the six-month grace period will be null and void.

Attack No. 2 — The WHO Pandemic Treaty

The IHR amendments are just one part of the globalist cabal’s two-pronged attempt to create the foundation for a One World Government of unelected globalists. The second attempt to seize global control is through an international pandemic treaty with the WHO.

Right now, it looks like the WHO Pandemic Treaty may also be ratified at the World Health Assembly in May 2024, if it gets the two-thirds majority it needs to pass.^8,9 The WHO is seeking permanent and unilateral power to make pandemic decisions for the world, and the proposed treaty is the vehicle that would allow this.

It will grant the WHO the sole power to make decisions relating to global biosecurity, including but not limited to the implementation of a global vaccine passport/digital identity, mandatory vaccinations, travel restrictions and standardized medical care. Importantly, the treaty will supersede the laws of member states, including the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The WHO Is Corrupt and Inept

Even if centralizing biosecurity were a good idea, which it’s not, the WHO would not be at the top of the list of organizations to be charged with this task, seeing how its “curriculum vitae” is a long list of failures and scandalous conflicts of interest.

For example, the WHO didn’t publicly admit SARS-CoV-2 was airborne until the end of December 2021, yet scientists knew the virus was airborne within weeks of the pandemic being declared. The WHO also ignored early advice about airborne transmission.

The fact that the WHO has installed Dr. Jeremy Farrar, former head of the Wellcome Trust, as its chief scientist is yet another sign that the WHO’s health recommendations will be far from trustworthy. As previously reported, Farrar was one of the key figures in the coordinated cover-up of the origin of SARS-CoV-2,¹⁰ along with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Overall, the WHO is woefully unqualified to make health decisions for the whole world. But with this treaty in place, member nations will be subject to the WHO’s dictates even if citizens have rejected such plans using local democratic processes. In short, every country that signs onto the WHO’s pandemic treaty will voluntarily give up its sovereignty and the bodily autonomy of all its citizens to one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet.

As noted by Francis Boyle, a bioweapons expert and professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law:¹¹

“Both [the IHR amendments and the treaty] are fatally dangerous. Either one or both would set up a worldwide medical police state under the control of the WHO, and in particular WHO Director-General Tedros.

If either one or both of these go through, Tedros or his successor will be able to issue orders that will go all the way down the pipe to your primary care physicians.”

The Pandemic Treaty Is Based on a Flawed Premise

Aside from the fact that this treaty will eradicate the national sovereignty of member states, a core problem is that it simply cannot work. The whole premise behind this pandemic treaty is that “shared threat requires shared response,” but a given threat is almost never equally shared across regions.

Take COVID-19 for example. Not only is the risk of COVID not the same for people in New York City and the outback of Australia, it’s not even the same for all the people in those areas, as COVID is highly dependent on age and underlying health conditions.

The WHO insists that the remedy is the same for everyone everywhere, yet the risks vary widely from nation to nation, region to region, person to person. They intend to eliminate individualized medicine and provide blanket rulings for how a given threat is to be addressed, and this can only result in needless suffering — not to mention the loss of individual freedom.

The Long-Term Plan: One-Size-Fits-All Health Care

Eventually, the WHO will probably implement a universal or “authoritarian” health care system worldwide, as part of The Great Reset. While a WHO-based universal health care system is not currently being discussed, there’s every reason to suspect that this is part of the plan.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has previously stated that his “central priority” as director-general is to push the world toward universal health coverage.¹²

And, considering the WHO changed its definition of “pandemic” to “a worldwide epidemic of a disease,”¹³ without the original specificity of severe illness that causes high morbidity,^14,15 just about anything could be made to fit the pandemic criterion. As mentioned above, some of the IHR amendments also further broaden the scope of the situations in which a public health emergency might be applied.

Sustainable Goals Will Fall Under the WHO’s Purview

The WHO’s “One Health surveillance” initiative, which is part of the pandemic treaty, also signals where this is really headed. As explained by The Epoch Times:¹⁶

“One Health is a concept that has been embraced by the United Nations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Bank, and other global organizations.

‘The term originally meant a way of seeing human and animal health as linked — they sometimes are — so that you could improve human health by acting more broadly,’ [public health physician and former WHO epidemic policy staffer David] Bell said.

‘It has become hijacked and now is used to claim that all human activities, and all issues within the biosphere, affect health, and are therefore within Public Health’s remit.

So public health can be deemed to include climate, or racism, or fisheries management, and this is being used to claim that addressing carbon emissions is a health issue and therefore a health ’emergency.'”

Redefining Human Rights

The pandemic treaty is also redefining human rights into a set of collective rights that are centered on public health. The Epoch Times continues:¹⁷

“The accord presents human rights as ‘health equity, through resolute action on social, environmental, cultural, political and economic determinants of health.’

In line with that concept, countries such as Austria went so far as to criminalize the refusal to take the COVID vaccine. Within the United States, places that included New York City mandated vaccine passports for access to public spaces, dividing its residents into a privileged vaccinated class and a second-tier unvaccinated class.

However, others see human rights not in terms of collective health but rather as individual rights, including such things as personal sovereignty, the ability of individuals to make their own choices, the right of people to have a voice in medical decisions that affect them, free speech, and freedom of movement and assembly.

Following World War II and the state-control ideologies of fascism, national socialism, and communism, ‘it was realized that there has to be a fundamental understanding that individuals are sovereign,’ Bell said.

Human rights declarations after the war emphasized that, even during times of crisis, ‘we are born with rights, we’re all equal, and those rights are inviolable. That is being very much watered down or wiped away in order to do this [treaty].'”

The Gateway to Global Totalitarianism

It’s important to realize that the WHO’s pandemic treaty will radically alter the global power structure and strip you of some of your most basic rights and freedoms. It’s a direct attack on the sovereignty of its member states, as well as a direct attack on your bodily autonomy.

The treaty is basically the gateway to a global, top-down totalitarian regime where human rights as we understand them will no longer exist. Biosecurity will be the justification for an international vaccine passport, which the G20 just signed on to, and that passport will also be your digital identification.

That digital ID, in turn, will be tied to your social credit score, personal carbon footprint tracker, medical records, educational records, work records, social media presence, purchase records, your bank accounts and a programmable central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Once all these pieces are fully connected, you’ll be in a digital prison, and the ruling cabal — whether officially a one world government by then or not — will have total control over your life from cradle to grave.

The WHO’s pandemic treaty is what sets off this chain of events, as it will have the power to implement vaccine passports globally once the treaty is signed. The WHO will also have the power to mandate vaccines, standardize medical care and issue travel restrictions.

Can US Constitution Be Circumvented?

As reported by The Epoch Times,¹⁸ there’s great confusion about whether or not the U.S. government can bind the country to treaties and agreements without the consent of the Senate (as required under the Constitution), and whether international accords can circumvent or supersede the Constitution.

As currently written, there’s no doubt both the IHR amendments and the pandemic treaty are intended to nullify the U.S. Constitution, as the U.S. would have to comply with the WHO’s recommendations, even if such recommendations violate Constitutional rights. The Epoch Times reports:¹⁹

“The zero draft concedes that, per international law, treaties between countries must be ratified by national legislatures, thus respecting the right of their citizens to consent.

However, the draft also includes a clause that the accord will go into effect on a ‘provisional’ basis as soon as it’s signed by delegates to the WHO and would, therefore, be legally binding on members without being ratified by legislatures.

‘Whoever drafted this clause knew as much about U.S. constitutional law and international law as I did, and deliberately drafted it to circumvent the power of the Senate to give its advice and consent to treaties, to provisionally bring it into force immediately upon signature,’ Boyle said.

In addition, ‘the Biden administration will take the position that this is an international executive agreement that the president can conclude of his own accord without approval by Congress and is binding on the United States of America, including all state and local democratically elected officials, governors, attorney generals, and health officials’ …

Increasingly, the Biden administration is looking toward international agreements to do what it can’t achieve through Congress.

Most recently, having failed to increase corporate taxes in Congress, the Biden administration entered into an international agreement with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)²⁰ to set minimum tax levels on all corporations within signatory countries.

While Republican lawmakers said the agreement has ‘no path forward’ toward approval as a treaty, provisions written into the agreement allow foreign countries to tax U.S.-based corporate profits as a punitive measure if senators don’t approve it.”

Senators Introduce Bill to Require Senate Approval

Fortunately, the U.S. Senate is not entirely clueless about the ramifications of this treaty, and 17 Republican senators, led by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have introduced a bill to thwart the WHO’s power grab.²¹

The “No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act,”²² introduced February 15, 2023, would require a Senate supermajority (two-thirds or 67 senators) to pass the pandemic treaty.

Additional sponsors of the bill include Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn.; John Barrasso, R-Wyo.; Mike Lee, R-Utah; Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; Rick Scott, R-Fla.; John Hoeven, R-N.D.; Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Mike Braun, R-Ind.; Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.; Roger Marshall, R-Kan.; and Katie Britt, R-Ala.

Congress Must Withdraw US From the WHO

However, according to Boyle,²³ an expert on international laws and treaties, even this bill might not be enough to protect us were President Biden to sign the treaty. The reason for this, Boyle explains, is because the treaty is written “specifically to circumvent the Senate-approval process.”

A far more effective strategy, he says, would be for Congress to withhold its annual contributions to the WHO — and then withdraw the U.S. from the WHO altogether. I believe it may be worth supporting all of these strategies. So, please, contact your representatives and urge them to support the No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act,” to withhold funding for the WHO and, ultimately, support U.S. withdrawal from the WHO.

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Notes

¹ CDC International Health Regulations

^{2, 3, 6, 7, 8} Opinion Juris February 27, 2023

^4, 5 RW Malone Substack May 17, 2022

^{9, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19} Epoch Times February 27, 2023

¹⁰ Husseini Substack February 21, 2023

¹² National Review June 14, 2017

¹³ Wayback Machine, WHO Pandemic Preparedness captured September 2, 2009 (PDF)

¹⁴ The BMJ 2010;340:c2912

¹⁵ Wayback Machine, WHO Pandemic Preparedness captured May 1, 2009 (PDF)

²⁰ Epoch Times February 4, 2023

^21, 23 Epoch Times February 21, 2023

²² No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act

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“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.”—Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

There was a time when the census was just a head count.

That is no longer the case.

The American Community Survey (ACS), sent to about 3.5 million homes every year, is the byproduct of a government that believes it has the right to know all of your personal business.

If you haven’t already received an ACS, it’s just a matter of time.

A far cry from the traditional census, which is limited to ascertaining the number of persons living in each dwelling, their ages and ethnicities, the ownership of the dwelling and telephone numbers, the ACS contains some of the most detailed and intrusive questions ever put forth in a census questionnaire.

At 28 pages (with an additional 16-page instruction packet), these questions concern matters that the government simply has no business knowing, including questions relating to respondents’ bathing habits, home utility costs, fertility, marital history, work commute, mortgage, and health insurance, among other highly personal and private matters.

For instance, the ACS asks how many persons live in your home, along with their names and detailed information about them such as their relationship to you, marital status, race and their physical, mental and emotional problems, etc. The survey also asks how many bedrooms and bathrooms you have in your house, along with the fuel used to heat your home, the cost of electricity, what type of mortgage you have and monthly mortgage payments, property taxes and so on.

And then the survey drills down even deeper.

The survey demands to know how many days you were sick last year, how many automobiles you own and the number of miles driven, whether you have trouble getting up the stairs, and what time you leave for work every morning, along with highly detailed inquiries about your financial affairs. And the survey demands that you violate the privacy of others by supplying the names and addresses of your friends, relatives and employer.

The questionnaire also demands that you give other information on the people in your home, such as their educational levels, how many years of school were completed, what languages they speak and when they last worked at a job, among other things.

Individuals who receive the ACS must complete it or be subject to monetary penalties.

Although no reports have surfaced of individuals actually being penalized for refusing to answer the survey, the potential fines that can be levied for refusing to participate in the ACS are staggering. For every question not answered, there is a $100 fine. And for every intentionally false response to a question, the fine is $500. Therefore, if a person representing a two-person household refused to fill out any questions or simply answered nonsensically, the total fines could range from upwards of $10,000 and $50,000 for noncompliance.

While some of the ACS’ questions may seem fairly routine, the real danger is in not knowing why the information is needed, how it will be used by the government or with whom it will be shared.

In an age when the government has significant technological resources at its disposal to not only carry out warrantless surveillance on American citizens but also to harvest and mine that data for its own dubious purposes, whether it be crime-mapping or profiling based on whatever criteria the government wants to use to target and segregate the populace, the potential for abuse is grave.

As such, the ACS qualifies as a government program whose purpose, while sold to the public as routine and benign, raises significant constitutional concerns.

The Rutherford Institute has received hundreds of inquiries from individuals who have received the ACS and are not comfortable sharing such private, intimate details with the government or are unsettled by the aggressive tactics utilized by Census Bureau agents seeking to compel responses to ACS questions.

The following Q&A is provided as a resource to those who want to better understand their rights in respect to the ACS.

Q:  What kind of questions are contained in the ACS?

A:  The ACS contains questions that go far beyond typical census questions about the number of individuals within the household and their age, race, and sex. The survey combines intrusive questions with highly detailed inquiries about your financial affairs. Furthermore, the questionnaire also demands that recipients provide information about their family and other  people in their home, such as their educational levels, how many years of school were completed, what languages they speak, when they last worked at a job, and when occupants of your home are away from the house.

Q:  How will this information be used?

A:  The Census Bureau states that information from this survey is used to assist a wide variety of entities, from federal, state and local governments to private corporations, nonprofit organizations, researchers and public advocacy groups. The Bureau lists 35 different categories of questions on its website and offers an explanation on how the information is to be used.  For 12 of those categories, the information is used to assist private corporations.  For another 22, the information is used to aid advocacy groups, and in nine of those cases, the Census Bureau states that the responses will be used by advocacy groups to “advocate for policies that benefit their groups,” including advocacy based on age, race, sex, and marital status. Thus, information obtained through the ACS is not simply used to inform government policy in a neutral manner, but is also being provided to private actors for the purpose of promoting corporate and/or political agendas.

One concern raised by the Brookings Institute is the use of ACS information by law enforcement for  “crime mapping,” a surveillance tool used to predict crime and preemptively target certain neighborhoods for policing. It is “most effective” when “analysts can see the relationship between various types of criminal incidents (e.g., homicides, drug dealing) and neighborhood characteristics (risk factors such as poverty, population density, and vacant housing), pinpoint where crimes are most likely to occur (hot spots), and focus police resources accordingly.” The Brookings Institute notes that because the ACS provides data every year, rather than every ten years, crime mapping is more effective and cheaper.

Q:  Are my responses kept confidential?

A:  While the Census Bureau claims that an individual’s information will be kept strictly confidential, it does require a recipient to put their name on the survey, ostensibly for the purpose of asking follow-up questions in the event of missing or incomplete answers. This means your answers could be linked to you even if it is forbidden by law to share your individual responses.

Q:  Am I required by law to fully complete the American Community Survey?

A:  Federal law makes it mandatory to answer all questions on the ACS. A refusal to answer any question on the ACS or giving an intentionally false answer is a federal offense. The Census Bureau also maintains that responding to the ACS is mandatory and that recipients are legally obligated to answer all questions.

Q:  Is there a penalty for refusing to answer American Community Survey questions?

A:  The law requiring answers to the ACS also provides that a person who fails to answer “shall be fined not more than $100.” The actual fine for a refusal to complete the ACS could be much greater because a failure to respond to certain ACS questions could be considered a separate offense subject to the $100 fine.

Q:  Has the government prosecuted persons for refusing to answer the American Community Survey?

A:  While The Rutherford Institute has been made aware of Census Bureau agents engaging in harassing tactics and threatening behavior, to date, we are unaware of the Census Bureau having levied any financial penalties for non-compliance with the ACS. However, a refusal to answer the survey violates the letter of the law and a prosecution might be brought if the government decides to adopt a policy to do so.

Q:  How does the Census Bureau typically ensure that people complete the survey?

A:  Those who do not answer the ACS risk repeated overtures—by mail, by phone and in person—from Census Bureau employees seeking to compel a response. Typically, the Census Bureau will telephone those who do not respond to the survey and may visit their homes to coerce the targets to respond.

The Census Bureau boasts a 97% response rate to the survey via these methods, but critics argue this constitutes harassment. One recipient who did complete the survey but whose answers were misplaced by the Census Bureau wrote about his experience. First, a Census Bureau employee left a note at his apartment asking him to contact her. When he did, the employee asked him to allow her into his home. When he refused, the employee “turned up twice unannounced at my apartment, demanding entry, and warning me of the fines I would face if I didn’t cooperate.” Only after he filed a complaint with the Census Bureau did the agency realize he had actually completed the survey, thus ending its attempts to enter his home.

Q:  Is this an unconstitutional invasion of privacy?

A:  There are significant and legitimate questions concerning the authority of the government to require, under threat of prosecution and penalty, that persons answer questions posed by the ACS. The ACS is not part of the enumeration required by Article I of the Constitution, and that constitutional provision only applies to a census for purposes of counting the number of people in each state. As noted, the ACS seeks much more information than the number of persons in a household.

In other contexts, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that citizens have no obligation to answer questions posed by the government and are free to refuse to do so. This same principle could apply to questions posed by ACS agents.  However, because the government has not brought a prosecution for a refusal to respond to the ACS, the question of a person’s right to refuse has not yet been decided by a court.

Q:  What are my options for objecting to the ACS survey as an intrusion on my Fourth Amendment rights?

A:  If you receive notice that you have been targeted to respond to the ACS and you desire to assert your right of privacy, you can voice those objections and your intent not to respond to the ACS by writing a letter to the Census Bureau. The Rutherford Institute has developed a form letter that you may use in standing up against the government’s attempt to force you to disclose personal information.

If you are contacted by Census Bureau employees, either by telephone or in person, demanding your response, you can assert your rights by politely, but firmly, informing the employee that you believe the ACS is an improper invasion of your privacy, that you do not intend to respond and that they should not attempt to contact you again. Be sure to document any interactions you have with Bureau representatives for your own files.

If you believe you are being unduly harassed by a Census Bureau employee, either by telephone or in person, it is in your best interest to carefully document the time, place and manner of the incidents and file a complaint with the U.S. Census Bureau.

Remember, nothing is ever as simple or as straightforward as the government claims.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, any attempt by the government to encroach upon the citizenry’s privacy rights or establish a system by which the populace can be targeted, tracked and singled out must be met with extreme caution.

While government agents can approach, speak to and even question citizens without violating the Fourth Amendment, Americans should jealously guard what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis referred to as the constitutional “right to be let alone.”

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March 8, 2023, International Women’s Day

This article was first published two years ago on the 8th of March 2021.

Today on international Women’s Day 2023, we express our solidarity.Our thoughts are with the people of Palestine and the women of Palestine who are in the forefront of the struggle against the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. 

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“To our colleagues, to Palestinian students and those around the world, from the heart of the Zionist prisons. On the occasion of 8th of March, we long for freedom, justice and equality for all women of the world, including students, inside and outside the prison cells. Our battle is united, as we are all fighting oppression on the basis of gender, fighting class exploitation and fascist colonialism and foremost among which is the occupation on our land.

To our female university colleagues, who are at the front lines of the battle for change, our confidence is in your struggle and resistance that illuminates the sky of our homeland and lights the road for freedom. For all Palestinian women, we believe that our social struggle is an inherent part of the struggle of our people, and for the liberation of land and people, we sacrifice, struggle and bring forth strugglers.” – Bir Zeit University student prisoners, Layan Kayed, Elia Abu Hijleh, Ruba Assi, Shatha Tawil, Damon prison, Mount Carmel, 8 March 2021

“On this 8 March, humanity exposed to the devastation of the Corona pandemic on the one hand, and the regime of tyranny, racism and colonialism on the other hand. A thousand greetings to every voice that resists injustice and oppression. May women remain at the forefront of this resistance, and 8 March stand as a symbol of liberation!” – Khalida Jarrar, imprisoned Palestinian leader, feminist and rights advocate, Damon prison, Mount Carmel 7 March 2021

As we commemorate International Working Women’s Day around the world this 8 March, there are 35 Palestinian women in Israeli jails, representing all facets of Palestinian society: students, activists, organizers, parliamentarians, journalists, health workers, mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, strugglers, freedom fighters. Palestinian women have always been at the center of the liberation movement through all aspects of struggle and have led within the prisoners’ movement, organizing hunger strikes and standing on the front lines of struggle even behind bars.

On International Working Women’s Day, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the leading role of Palestinian women in struggle and urges the immediate release of all Palestinian women prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons.

Palestinian women prisoners include 11 mothers, six injured women and three jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. They include Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian parliamentarian, feminist, leftist and advocate for Palestinian political prisoners, sentenced to two years in Israeli prison for her public political activities just days prior to International Women’s Day; Khitam Saafin, President of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, jailed without charge or trial, her administrative detention renewed for another four months; Bushra al-Tawil, Palestinian journalist and activist whose detention without charge or trial was also renewed for another four months on 7 March 2021.

They include Palestinian students, like Layan Kayed, Elia Abu Hijleh, Ruba Assi and Shata Tawil of Bir Zeit University. Hundreds of Palestinian students are routinely detained by the Israeli occupation, especially those who are part of student organizations involved with campus political life. At Bir Zeit University alone, approximately 74 students were detained by occupation soldiers during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Palestinian women prisoners are among 5,000 total political prisoners, but Palestinian women are broadly affected by the mass incarceration of Palestinian men as well. Palestinian women are the mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, lovers and friends of Palestinian male prisoners. They make homes for themselves and their children, denied access to their husbands and fathers. They lead the movement outside prison to highlight the names, faces, voices and stories of all Palestinian prisoners struggling for liberation.

Since 1948 and before, from the earliest days of the Palestinian national liberation movement, Palestinian women have been expelled from their homes and targeted for repression on multiple levels, their very capacity to reproduce and raise their children labeled as an unacceptable threat to the racist settler-colonial project of Zionism. Since 1967 alone, around 10,000 Palestinian women have been jailed by the Israeli occupation for their political activity and involvement in the Palestinian resistance, including Palestinian women in Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian women holding Israeli citizenship in occupied Palestine ’48. Palestinian women in exile and diaspora have been denied their right to return to Palestine for over 72 years yet continue to struggle, facing political repression, criminalization, deportation and imprisonment.

Palestinian women prisoners are routinely subjected to torture and ill-treatment by Israeli occupation forces, from the moment they are detained — often in violent night raids — and throughout the interrogation process, including beatings, insults, threats, aggressive body searches and sexually explicit harassment. Within Israeli prisons, the official state policy of “worsening the conditions” of Palestinian prisoners has particularly targeted Palestinian women, denied family visits or even phone calls, subjected to intense surveillance that violates their privacy, denied education and held in dangerous and unhealthy conditions. They are transported in the “bosta,” a metal vehicle where women are shackled on a long, circituous trip that takes hours longer than a direct route and often denied access to sanitary facilities.

Damon prison, itself formerly a stable for animals, is located in occupied Palestine ’48 — in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and making it even more difficult for Palestinian women’s family members to visit them. All visits are subjected to an arbitrary permit regime which is often obstructed by the Israeli occupation regime.

However, Palestinian women behind bars continue to resist and to lead. In April 1970, Palestinian women prisoners at Neve Tirza prison launched one of the first collective hunger strikes of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement when they refused food for nine days. They demanded access to women’s sanitary supplies as well as an end to beatings and solitary confinement. Palestinian women have been consistently involved in general hunger strikes and protest actions, including strikes led by women prisoners in 1985, 2004 and 2019 that inspired global women’s solidarity. Despite the denial of formal education by the Israeli colonial regime, Palestinian women prisoners have developed revolutionary education for all prisoners, expanding their knowledge and commitment to struggle.

Palestinian women prisoners are not alone; they struggle alongside fellow women political prisoners in the Philippines, Turkey, India, Egypt and around the world. And their imprisonment is also international: it is funded, backed and supported by the diplomatic, military, economic and political backing given to Israel by the imperialist powers, including the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and the European Union states. Palestinian women also confront the role of the Palestinian Authority’s “security cooperation” regime under Oslo and the normalization politics and repressive attacks of reactionary Arab regimes.

Despite all attempts of the Zionist regime to isolate them from the global movement for the liberation of women and humanity through imprisonment and repression, Palestinian women continue to organize and struggle from behind bars, in the streets and fields of occupied Palestine, and everywhere in exile in diaspora, seeking return and liberation. On International Women’s Day 2021, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the movement of Palestinian women and their leadership in the ongoing and daily struggle for national and social liberation.

We urge women’s organizations, student organizations and people of conscience everywhere to raise their voices and act in solidarity with Palestinian women, and Palestinian women prisoners, targeted by the Israeli occupation – including by building the movement for the boycott of Israel, its institutions and complicit corporations like HP, Puma, Teva Pharmaceuticals and G4S. The Israeli occupation wants to continue its colonization of Palestine unchecked by isolating and detaining the leaders of the Palestinian people’s movement. Now is the time to act and urge their immediate release and the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Take Action!

1. Join the Campaign to Free Palestinian Students! Over 325 organizations have already signed on to the campaign to take action to free imprisoned Palestinian students. Get involved at freepalestinianstudents.org.

2. Organize protests, demonstrations creative actions. Ad hacks, postering and other outdoor actions – especially near an Israeli embassy or consulate – can draw a significant amount of attention to the Palestinian women prisoners and the Palestinian cause at this critical time.

3. Build the boycott of Israel! Join the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Highlight the complicity of corporations like Hewlett-Packard and the continuing involvement of G4S in Israeli policing and prisons. Build a campaign to boycott Israeli goods, impose a military embargo on Israel, or organize around the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

Resources on Palestinian women prisoners

We recommend the following resources for more information on Palestinian women prisoners:

• Khalida Jarrar speaks out on women prisoners’ struggle as Ramallah protest urges their liberation, November 2020

• Famed musician Roger Waters joins campaign to #FreeKhitamSaafin with unique musical contribution, November 2020

• Steadfastness and resistance: Palestinian women prisoners confront repression, Charlotte Kates, March 2020
• International Women’s Day … 43 Palestinian Women in Detention, March 2020, Addameer

• Khalida Jarrar: New Video and Resources, April 2020, Samidoun

• Nahla Abdo, From Captive Revolution to Grand Gaza Prison: https://plutopress.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/from-captive-revolution-to-grand-gaza-prison/

• Nahla Abdo’s book, Captive Revolution: https://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745334936&%3C/)

• “For the Love of Palestine:” New booklet highlights stories of Palestinian women prisoners – November 2016, Prison, Labor and Academic Delegation to Palestine

• Sahar Francis, Gendered Violence in Israeli Detention, Journal of Palestine Studies, summer 2017

• Remembering Therese Halasa, Palestinian revolutionary: Rima Tannous’ prison story – Samidoun, March 2020. With reprint of historical account of Palestinian freed prisoner Rima Tannous

• Soraya Antonius, Prisoners for Palestine: A List of Women Political Prisoners – Journal of Palestine Studies, 1980

• Addameer, Occupied Lives: The Imprisonment of Palestinian Women and Girls: http://www.addameer.org/publications/occupied-lives-imprisonment-palestinian-women-and-girls

• Leena Jawabreh, Facing imprisonment in Israeli Jails: A Palestinian Woman’s Testimony: http://samidoun.net/2013/09/facing-imprisonment-in-israeli-jails-a-palestinian-womans-testimony-by-leena-jawabreh/

• Film, Women in Struggle, Dir: Buthaina Canaan Khoury, 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Va7-cNxf8

• Film, Tell Your Tale, Little Bird, Dir: Arab Loutfi, 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdkoxBjKM1Q

• The Struggle of Palestinian Women (PLO, 1975): http://www.palestinianconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/PLO-PalestinianWomen.pdf

• International Women’s Day and the General Union of Palestinian Women, PFLP Bulletin, April 1982: http://www.palestinianconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WomensDay-PFLPBulletin-April1982.pdf

• Palestinian Women Develop Their Struggle through Democratic Revolutionary Resolutions, September 1974, PFLP Bulletin: http://www.palestinianconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WomensDay-PFLPBulletin-13-SepOct74.pdf

• Women’s Struggle in Occupied Palestine, Democratic Palestine, May 1984: http://www.palestinianconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WomensStruggle-DemocraticPal-Mar1984.pdf

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The human immune system is designed to recognize foreign invaders (microbes, other substances) attack, kill, and then clear the debris away. For that reason, we must be sure that our bodies recognize our own cells as “protected” and the foreign ones as targets. For the first time, mRNA (Pfizer, Moderna) and adenoviral DNA (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccines install the genetic code for our bodies to make a deadly foreign protein with the aspiration that our immune system would not only respond and protect us, but also form live saving immunity from SARS-CoV-2. We have come to learn this was the drug development miscalculation of all time. Production of a foreign protein in the human body has turned out to be a disaster as illustrated by Polykretis et al in a recent paper. Here are some of the reasons why: 1) each cell that takes up the vaccine expresses the protein in the cell surface initiating autoimmune attack, 2) the tissue distribution appears to be wide involving organs where this attack could be lethal (heart, brain, bone marrow, etc.), 3) both the genetic material and the Spike protein are long lasting (months to years) which is long enough to cause an autoimmune syndrome which may be permanent.

Polykretis, P.; Donzelli, A.; Lindsay, J.C.; Wiseman, D.; Kyriakopoulos, A.M.; Mörz, M.; Bellavite, P.; Fukushima, M.; Seneff, S.; McCullough, P.A. Autoimmune Inflammatory Reactions Triggered by the COVID-19 Genetic Vaccines in Terminally Differentiated Tissues. Preprints 2023, 2023030140. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0140.v1.

Polykretis elaborates: “ Strong histological evidence from biopsies and autopsies have demonstrated that the vaccine-derived spike protein was synthesized in terminally differentiated tissues (Baumeier et al., 2022; Schwab et al., 2022; Mörz, 2022). Baumeier et al. detected the vaccine-derived spike protein on the cardiomyocytes of 9 out of 15 patients with clinical suspicion of myocarditis (which were negatively tested for SARS-CoV-2), proving that the viral protein has been synthesized in the heart tissue and suggesting an autoimmune response due to vaccination (Baumeier et al., 2022). Schwab et al. describe the histopathological findings from standardized autopsies performed on 25 people who had passed away unexpectedly and within 20 days from vaccination (none of the deceased persons had SARS-CoV-2 infection prior to vaccination) (Schwab et al., 2022). Both the aforementioned studies support the idea that vaccine-induced myocardial inflammation was a consequence of excessive T-lymphocytic infiltration, predominantly CD4+ T-cells, which are the main drivers of autoimmunological myocardial injury. Mörz described the expression of the vaccine-derived spike protein in the brain and the heart of a patient who developed multifocal necrotizing encephalitis upon vaccination with BNT162b2 (Mörz, 2022). Immunohistochemistry also revealed the expression of the vaccine-encoded spike protein in the vesicular keratinocytes and the endothelial cells in the dermis (Yamamoto et al., 2022).”

Despite having a long development pathway driven by the US Military DARPA in the ADEPT P3 Program announced in 2012, genetic vaccines have been poorly conceived by contractors without careful consideration of the biological ramifications of autoimmunity. To make matters worse, they were rushed through human clinical development by Operation Warp Speed and were too widely deployed, with 92% of the US population injected at least once according to the CDC. As a result, we have nearly the entire US population at risk for or with some subclinical manifestation of autoimmunity.

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At this point, the best course is to remove the COVID-19 vaccines from human use as I have testified in the US Senate on December 7, 2022. The medical community needs to pick up the pieces with a giant research effort on vaccine injury pathophysiology with a major focus on autoimmunity.

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Women’s rights in the Middle East and Central Asia are intimately related to U.S. led “humanitarian wars”. 

The derogation of women’s rights in Afghanistan was the direct result of  Washington’s diabolical military and intelligence agenda, the intent of which was to  transform Afghanistan into an Islamic proxy state. 

What the images presented below suggest is that US interventionism was largely geared towards destroying the secular state and at the same token undermining the rights of women.

This was instrumented by closing down public schools and replacing them with koranic schools. 

Education in Afghanistan in the years preceding the Soviet-Afghan war was largely secular.  The number of  CIA sponsored religious schools (madrasahs) increased from 2,500 in 1980 to over 39,000.

USAID generously financed the process of religious indoctrination, largely to secure the demise of secular institutions. Confirmed by the Washington Post:

… AID officials said in interviews that they left the Islamic materials intact because they feared Afghan educators would reject books lacking a strong dose of Muslim thought. The agency removed its logo and any mention of the U.S. government from the religious texts, AID spokeswoman Kathryn Stratos said.

“It’s not AID’s policy to support religious instruction,” Stratos said. “But we went ahead with this project because the primary purpose . . . is to educate children, which is predominantly a secular activity.”

… Published in the dominant Afghan languages of Dari and Pashtun, the textbooks were developed in the early 1980s under an AID grant to the University of Nebraska -Omaha and its Center for Afghanistan Studies. The agency spent $ 51 million on the university’s education programs in Afghanistan from 1984 to 1994.” (Washington Post, 23 March 2002, emphasis added) 

Michel Chossudovsky, GR Editor, March 8, 2023

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Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been attacked by the US Empire and its allies. 

These countries had something very important in common: They all had secular nationalist sovereign governments with long established ties with the former Soviet Union, which is one of the reasons why the US has long planned to destroy them and turn them into client states.

They had an all inclusive society that respected and protected religious and ethnic minorities and women’s rights. Their economies were necessarily state controlled in order to protect against predatory western corporations that have destroyed and still are destroying national economies around the world in the name of the so-called free trade and open market policies.

After nearly four decades of war, death and destruction, it is now difficult to imagine Afghanistan before its tragic recent history. Up until the so-called “Soviet-Afghan war” which commenced in 1979,  the country was indeed a secular country with a nationalist government and long proud history, where people lived their normal lives in peace. Contrary to current perception, women then had access to university education and pursued varied professional careers like their counterparts in any other twentieth century modern country.

Women in Afghanistan were not always under house arrest and forbidden by law to leave their homes unchaperoned by a male relative. Once upon a time in pre-Taliban days Afghan women had access to professional careers, university-level education, shops selling non-traditional clothing, public transportation, and public spaces, all of which they happily navigated freely and without supervision.

According to a US State Department report from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 2001:

Prior to the rise of the Taliban, women in Afghanistan were protected under law and increasingly afforded rights in Afghan society. Women received the right to vote in the 1920s; and as early as the 1960s, the Afghan constitution provided for equality for women. There was a mood of tolerance and openness as the country began moving toward democracy.

Women were making important contributions to national development. In 1977, women comprised over 15% of Afghanistan’s highest legislative body. It is estimated that by the early 1990s, 70% of schoolteachers, 50% of government workers and university students, and 40% of doctors in Kabul were women.

Afghan women had been active in humanitarian relief organizations until the Taliban imposed severe restrictions on their ability to work. These professional women provide a pool of talent and expertise that will be needed in the reconstruction of post-Taliban Afghanistan.

Even under Hamid Karzai’s government, with the recently approved Code of Conduct for women, all of the women shown in these photographs, taken in the ‘50s, ‘60s, and early ‘70s, could not be faulted with improper behavior, according to clerics and government officials.

A record store in Kabul

A co-ed biology class at Kabul University 

Afghan university students, 1967. Photo credit: Dr. Bill Podlich, Retronaut 

Public transporation in Kabul 

University students, early 1970s

Women working in one of the labs at the Vaccine Research Center

Mothers and children playing at a city park—without male chaperones

Queen Soraya reigned in Afghanistan with her husband King Amanullah Khan from 1919 to 1929. She would be slut-shamed or worse for wearing this dress in modern Afghanistan.

Young People Who Suffered Blood Clots and Amputations After COVID-19 Vaccination Are Being Lied to, and Media Uses Them to Lie to Us

By Dr. William Makis, March 07, 2023

There is a heartbreaking, tragic story that is promoted by mainstream media every few months, and that is the story of 20 year old Florida model Claire Bridges who lost both legs due to what they tell us was “COVID-19”.

US Foreign Policy Goes “Woke”?

By Philip Giraldi, March 07, 2023

It is generally observed that imperial powers like the United States frequently interfere in foreign governments in support of economic or hard political reasons. To be sure, Washington has refined the process so it can plausibly deny that it is interfering at all, that the change is spontaneous and comes from the people and institutions in the country that is being targeted for change.

Standing Together – Resisting the New Normal

By Colin Todhunter, March 07, 2023

The US wanted Russia to attack Ukraine. So says Robert H Wade, professor of Global Political Economy at the London School of Economics. And then it brought in its wide-ranging sanctions regime in response. According to renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the US subsequently blew up the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

Russian Aerospace Forces Failing in Ukraine? Moscow’s “State of the Art” Su-57 Aircraft

By Drago Bosnic, March 07, 2023

Even before the start of Moscow’s counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe, Russia and its military were often denigrated and underestimated by the mainstream propaganda machine. This decades-old (or should we say centuries) practice has escalated dramatically since February 24 last year.

The Heinous Instrumentalization of Human Rights Against Nicaragua

By Stephen Sefton, March 07, 2023

Last week saw the advance release of a summary of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s still-pending detailed report on Nicaragua. The report supposedly results from an investigation by a group of experts of “all alleged human rights violations and abuses committed in Nicaragua since April 2018.”

In a Compromised Media Environment, Western Intelligence Agencies Escalate NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine Unchallenged

By Stavroula Pabst, March 07, 2023

As winter bites, the current NATO proxy war that has raged for almost a year shows no signs of stopping, with November 2022 reports quietly admitting that roughly 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or wounded in action. Millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes, and those who remain face conscription, power outages, and a lack of other basic resources.

Why Republicans Blew Their Big Opportunity to Win in 2024

By Eric Zuesse, March 07, 2023

The Republicans could have called Ukraine “Biden’s war,” or “the Democrats’ war,” but instead voted for it themselves, and so turned it into America’s war — the war by the billionaires of both of this one-party-state’s nominal two political Parties (the Parties of both Democratic billionaires and Republican billionaires).

Dr. Bassma Kodmani Died in Paris, and Syria Left in Ruins

By Steven Sahiounie, March 07, 2023

Dr. Bassma Kodmani died March 2, 2023, in Paris, where she had lived most of her life. She was a Franco-Syrian activist who played a large role in the destruction of Syria beginning in 2011.

COVID Propaganda Roundup: The Lies, Distortions and Abuses

By Ben Bartee, March 07, 2023

COVID Propaganda Roundup: The latest updates on the “new normal” – chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class. Things have been getting hot and heavy on the COVID front recently. Without further ado, let’s get into it.

Wanting War Over Taiwan: Australia’s Gang of Five

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 08, 2023

Diligently, obediently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, a number of Australian media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with a country that has never been a natural, historical enemy, nor sought to be.

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Two days ago I wrote about pilots and fight attendants suffering cardiac arrests in-flight and then dying suddenly (click here).

One of my readers kindly wrote in the comments section about a very recent incident on a Virgin Australia flight. This is that incident and now we have more information.

“Virgin Australia flight from Adelaide to Perth was forced to make an emergency landing after the First Officer reportedly suffered a heart attack just 30 minutes after departure. (click here)

The incident occurred on March 3, 2023, and resulted in the Airbus A320 being forced to return to Adelaide, where emergency responders were waiting to transport the sick pilot to the hospital.

The First Officer became incapacitated after suffering a heart attack. The Captain of the flight declared an emergency and successfully landed the aircraft around 70 minutes later.”

Aero Inside reports:

“A VARA Virgin Australia Regional Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration VH-VNB performing flight VA-717 from Adelaide, SA to Perth, WA (Australia), was enroute at FL320 about 240nm westnorthwest of Adelaide about 30 minutes into the flight when the first officer suffered a heart attack and became incapacitated. The captain declared PAN PAN and returned the aircraft to Adelaide for a safe landing on runway 23 about 70 minutes later.” (click here)

Here is additional information (thank you to @AirBo55):

Mainstream media pushing for one pilot in cockpit…

Why airplanes might soon have just one pilot (CNN) (click here)

Airlines want you to get comfortable with flying without a co-pilot. Pilots—and fliers—are not convinced (Fortune) (click here)

Airlines are lobbying for a change to federal regulations that could put one pilot in the cockpit (CBS News) (click here)

Airlines Move To Have One Pilot, Not Two, In Cost-Cutting Solution (Forbes) (click here)

“In a move to save costs and ease staff shortages, many countries are asking the UN body that controls global aviation safety rules, to move to a one-pilot model in commercial flights, instead of two.”

My Take…

As I’ve written before, I fear that we are getting closer and closer to a major airline crash due to pilot and or co-pilot incapacitation, as a result of COVID-19 vaccine injuries.

In the meantime, the mainstream media are aggressively pushing the concept of only one fully COVID-19 vaccinated pilot in the cockpit. Almost as if they want a major airline crash to take place. Would such an incident bring about a crackdown on flying in general? To fight climate change? And for our safety, of course?

I am currently working on a substack about small plane crashes and helicopter crashes in the past year where there was no obvious evidence of mechanical problems. As you can imagine, there are many of them.

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Diligently, obediently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, a number of Australian media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with a country that has never been a natural, historical enemy, nor sought to be.  But as Australia remains the satellite of a Sino-suspicious US imperium, its officials and their dutiful advocates in the press seem obligated to pave the way for conflict.

The latest example of this came in articles run in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne.  The premise is already clear from the columnists, Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott.  Australia faces a “Red Alert”, and, to that end, needs a warring fan club.  Not since the domino theory bewitched strategists and confused military planners have Australians witnessed this: a series of articles featuring a gang of five with one purpose: to render the Australian public so witless as to reject any peaceful accommodation.

First, the provocative colouring for the article, “How a conflict over Taiwan could swiftly reach our shores.”  The Australian continent is shown bathed in a sea of red. Various military bases and facilities are outlined.  For good measure, there is a picture of Australian soldiers firing an artillery piece in “military exercises in 2018 at Shoalwater Bay, Queensland.”

Then, the blistering opening lines of terror.  “Within 72 hours of a conflict breaking out over Taiwan, Chinese missile bombardments and devastating cyberattacks on Australia would begin. For the first time since World War II, the mainland would be under attack.”  The authors already anticipate a good complement of US troops to occupy the Australian north, some 150,000 “seeking refuge from the immediate conflict zone.”

The Red Alert panellists, anointed as “defence experts”, brim with such scenarios.  All, as they state in a joint communique, agree on one thing: “Australia has many vulnerabilities.  It has long and exposed connections to the rest of the world – sea, air and undersea – yet is incapable of protecting them.”

Leading the gang of five is Peter Jennings, who has had an unshakeable red-under-the-bed fantasy for years.  A former deputy secretary for strategy in the Australian Defence Department, and steering the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) for a decade (that’s Canberra’s revolving door for you), Jennings is adamant and steely.  “As I think of a conflict over Taiwan, what I’m thinking about is something that very quickly grows in scale and location.”

There is no reason at all why such a growth in scale or location should happen, but this is not the purpose of the exercise.  The point of the Red Alert fantasy is to neutralise the significance of Australia’s natural boundaries – some of the most formidable on the planet – and dismiss them in any conflict with Beijing.  “Distance is no longer equivalent to safety from our strategic perspective,” ponders Jennings.

Jennings inadvertently reveals the case against war, which can only be an encouragement to activists and officials keen to reverse the trend of turning Australia into a US imperial outpost of naval and military bases that would be used in any Taiwan conflict.  “If China wants to seriously go after Taiwan in any military sense, the only way they can really contemplate quick success is to pre-emptively attack those assets that might be a threat to them.  That means Pine Gap goes.”  Pine Gap remains that misnamed joint US-Australian signals facility that has facilitated illegal drone strikes in foreign territories most Australian politicians would fail to find on a map.

Oddly enough, the columnists then suggest that Jennings is breaking the “powerful unwritten rule in Australia” which involves not mentioning war.  This is fabulous nonsense, given the trumpeting and screeching for conflict that has come from ASPI for some years now.

Lavina Lee, another Red Alert panellist, is also into the business of softening the Australian public for war, or at least “the possibility that we might go to war, and what would happen either way.  We should talk about what we would look like if we win and what it would look like if we lose.”  And what about peace, a word finding its way into Canberra’s garbage tip of taboo words?

Australia’s former chief scientist, Alan Finkel, dolls out his own catastrophic scenario.  “Airlines in particular can be taken down very, very easily.”  He goes on to suggest that the challenges to electricity will be more resistant, as “most of our generators are not that sophisticated in terms of cyber.  They will be [more sophisticated] five to 10 years from now.  Things like the telephone network and airlines are very obvious targets.”

Retired army major-general Mick Ryan makes his contribution by wishing Australia to be readied for war.  In a message common to most military officers, the civilians should really do more about giving his brethren more cash.  “Like most other Western militaries, we believe in the cult of the offensive, so we have underinvested in defensive capabilities.”  He also fears that any war over Taiwan would “involve strikes on US bases, on fuel and munition holdings, ships across the region, including our own country potentially”.

Lesley Seebeck, former head of the Australian National University’s Cyber Institute, completes the crew of five, and laments the “state of our critical infrastructure” that has just been left to lie.  “There is no sense of investing for the future.”  Perversely enough, Seebeck’s view reads amusingly when considered alongside Finkel, who points out that more sophisticated cyber-infrastructure in the future, rather than clunkier systems with greater redundancies, would actually make Australia more vulnerable.  Sometimes, it pays to keep the old.

A few things are worth noting in this frothy mix of fantabulation and establishment fire breathing.  In the quest to gather such a panel, no effort has been made to consult the expertise of a China hand.  That lobby, able to provide a more nuanced, less heavy-footed approach, is being shunned, their advice exorcised in any effort to encourage war.

Bizarrely, the panellists offer an increasingly popular non-sequitur that has creeped into the warmonger’s manual: Would Australia’s leaders, in war, pass the Zelensky test?  This somehow implies that the Ukraine conflict offers salient lessons over a war over Taiwan, an absurd comparison that muddled strategists are fond of making.

Most of all, Beijing’s own actual intentions over Taiwan are to be avoided.  The presumption in ASPI-land is that a war is imminent, and that Beijing would want to go to war over the island as a matter of course.  China’s President Xi Jinping’s main advisor on the subject, veteran ideologue Wang Huning, suggests an approach at odds with such thinking.

The Red Alert exercise has drawn necessary and important criticism.  Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating did not mince his words in a fuming column for Pearls and Irritations.  “Today’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age front page stories on Australia’s supposed war risk with China represents the most egregious and provocative news presentation of any newspaper I have witnessed in over fifty years of active public life.”  One might even go further back than that.  The war times are coming, and as are those gangs seeking to encourage them.

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A few days ago, on March 2, 2023, Kyedae Shymko, a 21 year old Japanese-Canadian Twitch streamer with 2.2 million followers (and 1 million on Twitter), announced that she was diagnosed with cancer – Acute Myeloid Leukemia (click here)

Shockingly, cases like this are skyrocketing recently among children and young adults, and even more shocking is the rapid progression of disease in some of these cases.

Kavieriona White, 11 year old girl died two days after leukemia diagnosis (Feb.16, 2023)

Also, a few days ago, 11 year old Kavieriona died suddenly after being diagnosed with Leukemia just a few days prior (click here)

It started when she was sent home from school with a fever. A few days later she was found unresponsive, rushed to hospital where she was diagnosed with leukemia and she died two days later.

“The blood disease was leukemia. The doctor informed me it was treatable and curable but the main problem was the brain bleeds”

Julia Chavez, 13 year old girl died hours after leukemia diagnosis (Feb.13, 2023)

“A 13-year-old girl from Georgia died hours after she was diagnosed with leukemia when she went to the ER with a headache and ear infection.” (click here)

“she had bleeding in her brain, lungs, stomach’ and throughout her body.”

‘We never knew she had it,’ Jenna told the news outlet. ‘She never had more than a sniffle and she’s never been hospitalized for anything since she was born.’

Evan Fishel, age 21, died 4 days after leukemia diagnosis (Feb.10, 2023)

A young artist diagnosed with Leukemia (Feb.24, 2023)

A young artist who goes by the name “Justin Tine” on Twitter announced on Feb.24, 2023 he has aggressive leukemia and may not proceed with chemo (click here)

High School football player Emmett Brooks

Why the rapid progression?

Leukemia tends to be aggressive, however, it’s extremely unusual to have sudden death occur days or hours after diagnosis and initial presentation. Why are these highly aggressive cases happening with such frequency now?

The elephant in the room is this question: are these leukemias being caused by COVID-19 mRNA vaccines?

21 year old Kyedae was COVID-19 vaccinated (travel, events requiring proof of vaccination, her fiancee TenZ was fully vaccinated). (click here)(click here)

21 year old Evan Fishel was COVID-19 vaccinated due to mandate by his University.

High School footballer Emmett Brooks was presumed COVID-19 vaccinated.

For the others, COVID-19 vaccine status is unknown.

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines deliver LNPs with mRNA to the bone marrow

It is no secret that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines deliver a substantial amount of LNPs to the bone marrow.

And yes, Moderna has boasted about their ability to deliver mRNA to the bone marrow, causing “long term modulation of all hematopoietic lineages” (click here):

Leukemia is a broad term for cancers of the body’s blood-forming tissues, including the bone marrow and the lymphatic system. Leukemia usually involves the white blood cells. In people with leukemia, the bone marrow produces an excessive amount of abnormal white blood cells, which don’t function properly (click here).

The fact that Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines deliver a large payload of LNPs filled with mRNA to the bone marrow, is a very serious concern.

How many doctors informed their patients that their COVID-19 mRNA vaccines will be getting into their bone marrow where they will be producing the SARS-CoV2 spike protein with unpredictable consequences? That would be part of informed consent, which no COVID-19 vaccinated person received.

Leukemia and COVID-19 mRNA vaccines

A woman in her 60s was diagnosed with a rare Leukemia 6 days after 1st dose of Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (click here).

Authors found that the Moderna mRNA activated her immune system TLR-3 receptors, which then activated IL-6/STAT3 pathway which then caused her leukemia.

“novel mRNA vaccines were modified to dampen RNA-mediated TLR-3 activation”

“However, even modified mRNA vaccines activate innate immunity via TLR-3. We confirmed TLR-3 activation…our data suggest that the mRNA-1273 activates (innate) immune cells via TLR to secrete IL-6”

In this case, the Moderna mRNA did the opposite of what it was designed to do (dampen TLRs to bypass the innate immune system so the mRNA doesn’t get immediately destroyed), instead it unpredictably activated immune receptors that caused a leukemia in this unfortunate patient.

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines destroy the bone marrow

There are numerous reports of bone marrow suppression (click here) or severe immune aplastic anemia after mRNA vaccination (click here).

Aplastic anemia is a rare form of bone marrow failure, when your bone marrow stops producing new blood cells. The condition leaves you fatigued and more prone to infections and uncontrolled bleeding.

Severe aplastic anemia caused by Pfizer mRNA vaccine can require stem cell transplantation (click here).

Interestingly Pfizer mRNA vaccine can not only cause relapse in patients who previously had aplastic anemia, but Pfizer mRNA can cause “de novo” cases of aplastic anemia, or “acquired aplastic anemia” (click here)

“our observation demonstrates for the first time in literature in a substantial number of patients in stable hematologic remission a risk for relapse of AA in timed context to COVID-19 vaccination”

“all relapsed patients were vaccinated with the mRNA-based vaccine Comirnaty®”

“out data highlight the risk for contracting aplastic anemia as a potential complication following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 (vaccine-related adverse event).”

My Take…

These cases of sudden onset aggressive leukemia are frightening. Some of these tragic cases show extremely rapid progression where the time from initial presentation and diagnosis to sudden death is a matter of a few days or even hours, as in the case of Julia Chavez.

I am deeply concerned about the ability of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines to accumulate in the bone marrow in significant amounts.

This is not being disclosed by doctors to patients who are being COVID-19 vaccinated and thus there is no discussion of the serious risks of bone marrow damage, bone marrow suppression, aplastic anemia or leukemia, that is posed by COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

Where there is no discussion of well known and potentially life-threatening risks, there is no possibility for proper informed consent.

I fear that we are only starting to see some of the consequences of Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines with LNPs filled with mRNA being delivered to the bone marrow.

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Amid incessant NATO aggression and escalation of hostilities within Russia, now also including US-backed Kiev regime terrorists targeting schoolchildren, Moscow has started revamping the doctrinal approach to the use of its strategic arsenal. Rather curiously, the new document, published by the “Military Thought” magazine run by the Russian Ministry of Defense, attracted little attention in Western media. It should be noted that such changes are made only once in several decades or even longer. The strategic posturing of countries, particularly superpowers, is usually “set in stone”, meaning that changes are prompted only by major events of historical proportions.

It was only a week ago that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia is suspending its participation in the New START arms control treaty. Putin cited continuous, blatant US and NATO violations of the agreement as the primary reason for the decision. With the treaty becoming a mere formality, Russia is not bound to honor it anymore, as this would undermine its own strategic security. With that in mind, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) started implementing new ways to deter any possible direct US/NATO attacks on Russia, particularly as the belligerent thalassocracy has repeatedly floated the idea of “decapitation strikes” on Moscow in the last several months.

The authors of the document are Deputy Commander of the RVSN Igor Fazletdinov and retired Colonel Vladimir Lumpov. They argue that the US is on a collision course with Russia, as Washington DC and its vassals are becoming increasingly aggressive due to their political elites’ frustration with the loss of the “sole superpower” status.

With America seeing Moscow as the main culprit for this, it plans on defeating Russia in a “single blow”, thus eliminating the main obstacle to total US global dominance. Fazletdinov and Lumpov argue that Washington DC plans to defeat Russia in a “strategic (global) multi-sphere operation”, the primary goal of which will be the elimination of its strategic arsenal.

“[The US believes] this goal is only achievable in the event of an instantaneous nuclear strike against the RVSN or at least with the deployment of ABM [anti-ballistic missile] systems around Russia. The US plan is to destroy at least 65-70% of Russian strategic nuclear forces as part of its Prompt Global Strike concept, with the rest eliminated by American ABM systems. The US would then launch an all-out nuclear attack on the Russian Federation in order to destroy it,” authors warn, further adding: “We aim to repel a potential [US] nuclear strike, preserve our own nuclear capabilities, suppress the deployed US missile defense systems and cause unacceptable damage in case of [US/NATO] aggression.”

Russia certainly has the capability to almost instantly change its strategic doctrine.

Unlike its NATO rivals (including the US itself), Moscow leads the world in several key military technologies, which also include at least a dozen operational hypersonic weapons deployed over the last 5-10 years.

And indeed, in early December President Putin stated Russia could adopt a US-style concept of preemptive strikes. The program mentioned by Russian military experts, called PGS (Prompt Global Strike), is a US attempt to develop a capability that enables it to attack enemy strategic targets with precision-guided weapons anywhere in the world within just one hour. Still, the US is yet to deploy a weapon that can achieve that.

On the other hand, with the Mach 12-capable “Kinzhal” air-launched hypersonic missile carried by modified MiG-31K/I interceptors and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers, the Mach 28-capable “Avangard” HGV (hypersonic glide vehicle) deployed on various ICBMs and the Mach 9-capable scramjet-powered “Zircon” hypersonic cruise missile deployed on naval (both submarines and surface ships) and (soon) on land platforms, Russia is the only country on the planet with the capability to immediately implement such a program. And yet, Moscow still refrains from going ahead with such plans, although its justification for this would hold much better than that of the US.

The authors further emphasize “the need to make sure the US was perfectly aware of the impossibility of the complete destruction of our strategic capabilities and the inevitability of a crushing retaliatory nuclear strike”.

However, the problem with this is that the establishment in Washington DC has become so detached from reality that they believe the Kiev regime has the capacity to not only “push Russia back from Donbass”, but also “retake Crimea”, despite relevant reports on the Neo-Nazi junta’s staggering losses. It can hardly be expected from them to be aware of Russia’s wholly undeniable capability to obliterate the continental US in minutes.

American policymakers take advice from former high-ranking generals and officers who somehow managed to lose a war against outnumbered and outgunned AK-wielding insurgents in sandals while wasting trillions of dollars and deploying hundreds of thousands of troops during the two decades of continuous NATO aggression in Afghanistan. This is without taking into account the technological disparity which was so overwhelmingly on the side of the aggressors that it can quite literally be measured in centuries rather than decades. Still, delusions and living in parallel reality seem to be a given for the warmongers at the Pentagon.

In addition, considering the fact that Afghanistan became more peaceful and safer after the US and NATO have been soundly defeated and driven out of the country devastated by decades of incessant conflict, this clearly implies that being able to militarily beat the political West is of utmost importance for the safety of any given country.

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COVID Propaganda Roundup: The latest updates on the “new normal” – chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class.

Things have been getting hot and heavy on the COVID front recently. Without further ado, let’s get into it.

The Science™ concludes immunity from natural infection ‘at least as high, if not higher’ than mRNA shots

Via NBC News:

“Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with what’s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine.

Infection-acquired immunity cut the risk of hospitalization and death from a Covid reinfection by 88% for at least 10 months, the study found.”

It’s about two years too late.

Where are the social media bans for all the mainstream media outlets that pushed COVID misinformation to the contrary? For instance, Medical News Today, one among many, claimed on February 5, 2021 that “COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are around five times more effective at preventing hospitalization than a previous infection.”

I got my Facebook and Medium accounts permanently suspended for telling the truth about COVID mRNA gene therapies’ efficacy or lack thereof. When will Medical News Today get theirs for lying?

And what about the lying government agencies that are totally bought by Big Pharma? The CDC still at this late date – recommends COVID vaxxes for everyone regardless of prior infection:

“COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for everyone ages 6 months and older in the United States for the prevention of COVID-19. There is currently no FDA-approved or FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than age 6 months.”

Judge: ‘Public Safety Outweighs Personal Vaccination Choice’

Via PBS:

“A person’s choice to decline vaccinations does not outweigh public health and safety requirements in medical settings, a federal judge ruled in a Montana case.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy last week permanently blocked a section of law the state said was meant to prevent employers — including many health care facilities — from discriminating against workers by requiring them to be vaccinated against communicable diseases, including COVID-19.”

Donald Molloy needs to be disbarred.

There is no justification for COVID vaxx mandates in the name of “public safety” because they do not stop transmission — as a Pfizer executive herself admitted recently.

Donald Molloy’s morally bankrupt ruling – like all morally bankrupt corporate media – is brought to you by Big Pharma.

This is your brain on Pfizer:

COVID Warlord Fauci makes $100K per speech

COVID Warlord Fauci — who should consider himself fortunate if he were to wind down his golden years rotting in a prison cell — is instead getting rich. He is currently making $50-100K per speech sharing all the wisdom he accrued over decades of presiding over the biomedical-industrial complex.

Never forget their rage filled hysteria against the unvaccinated. pic.twitter.com/SAQvapZvjY

— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾🎗 (@Partisangirl) January 13, 2023

Allowing this demonic goblin not only to roam free but to add to his ill-gotten fortune is an affront to decency.

US Department of Energy concludes COVID lab leak theory ‘likely’

Just a short year ago, one got his social media accounts suspended for speculating that COVID emerged from the biolab called Wuhan Institute of Virology that specifically studied bat coronaviruses.

Now that the US Department of Energy finally got around to weighing in, one wonders if the tide has shifted.

Via Wall Street Journal:

“The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research.

The Energy Department made its judgment with “low confidence,” according to people who have read the classified report.

The FBI previously came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with “moderate confidence” and still holds to this view.”

Woody Harrelson drops truth bomb on SNL, immediately smeared as ‘anti-vaxxer’

Woody went off-script for his SNL monologue, to the horror of the twelve libs who still watch SNL.

Woody Harrelson's monologue! pic.twitter.com/FAEcBDnIKu

— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) February 26, 2023

“The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs — and keep taking them — over and over.” -Woody Harrelson

The smear machine jumpstarted immediately. Via Rolling Stone, “Woody Harrelson Spreads Anti-Vax Conspiracies During ‘SNL’ Monologue”:

“The Oscar-nominated actor, who first won over audiences on Cheers, is a 9/11 truther who’s shared a number of conspiracy theories during the Covid pandemic…

And so, during his rambling SNL monologue Saturday night, an apparently under the influence Harrelson continued along these lines. After a winding story about smoking weed — shouting-out his pot shop in West Hollywood, The Woods, and claiming his manager, Jeremy, transported weed from the LA shop to New York for him — Harrelson went into a spiel about the pandemic.”

The media’s reaction proves that Harrelson’s comments weren’t a joke.

Study: Ugly people likelier to mask than attractive peers

Via Frontiers in Psychology:

“Self-perceived attractiveness has significant effects on mask-wearing intention via mask attractiveness belief in the post-pandemic of COVID-19. Our findings suggest that mask-wearing can shift from being a self-protection measure during the COVID-19 pandemic to a self-presentation tactic in the post-pandemic era.”

If you’ve seen the libbed-out freaks who still mask in Trader Joe’s or whatever, this checks out.

WHO investigates bird flu outbreak in Cambodia

Via NBC:

“The World Health Organization said Friday that it is investigating two human cases of bird flu in Cambodia, after an 11-year-old girl died this week and her father also tested positive for the H5N1 strain.

An outbreak of bird flu first observed in 2021 has been circulating around the world, including in the United States, where nearly 58.5 million birds from commercial and backyard flocks have been wiped out since last February, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”

I’ve speculated elsewhere that the US government might be conducting gain-of-function research on avian flu in any of its numerous biolabs scattered around the world to serve as the next engineered bioweapon terror.

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The author makes certain statements which are not explicitly corroborated by David Ignatius. (see article below).  Ignatius acknowledges that Blinken  “has begun planning for an eventual postwar military balance”.

He also refers to “A demilitarized status”.

The article also mentions a News Interview at the State Department.

The statements attributed by the author to Blinken remain to be confirmed.

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David Ignatius (lead image, left) has been a career-long mouthpiece for the US State Department. He has just been called in by the current Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) to convey an urgent new message to President Vladimir Putin, the Security Council,  and the General Staff in Moscow.

For the first time since the special military operation began last year, the war party in Washington is offering terms of concession to Russia’s security objectives explicitly and directly, without the Ukrainians in the way.

The terms Blinken has told Ignatius to print appeared in the January 25 edition of the Washington Post.

The territorial concessions Blinken is tabling include Crimea, the Donbass, and the Zaporozhye,  Kherson “land bridge that connects Crimea and Russia”. West of the Dnieper River, north around Kharkov, and south around Odessa and Nikolaev, Blinken has tabled for the first time US acceptance of “a demilitarized status” for the Ukraine.  [This is not explicitly addressed in the Ignatius’ article]

Also, US agreement to  restrict the deployment of HIMARS, US and NATO infantry fighting vehicles, and the Abrams and Leopard tanks  to a point in western Ukraine from which they can “manoeuvre…as a deterrent against future Russian attacks.”

This is an offer for a tradeoff –  partition through a demilitarized zone (DMZ) in the east of the Ukraine in exchange for a halt to the planned Russian offensive destroying the fortifications, rail hubs, troop cantonments,  and airfields in the west, between the Polish and Romanian borders, Kiev and Lvov, and an outcome Blinken proposes for both sides to call “a just and durable peace that upholds Ukraine’s territorial integrity”.

Also in the proposed Blinken deal there is the offer of a direct US-Russian agreement on “an eventual postwar military balance”; “no World War III”; and no Ukrainian membership of NATO with “security guarantees similar to NATO’s Article 5.”

Blinken has also told the Washington Post to announce the US will respect “Putin’s tripwire for nuclear escalation”, and accept the Russian “reserve force includ[ing] strategic bombers, certain precision-guided weapons and, of course, tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.”

President Putin has offered a hint of the Russian reply he discussed with the Stavka and the Security Council last week.

Putin told a meeting with university students on Wednesday, hours after Blinken’s publication.

“I think that people like you,” the president said, “most clearly and most accurately understand the need for what Russia is now doing to support our citizens in these territories, including Lugansk, Donetsk, the Donbass area as a whole, and Kherson and Zaporozhye. The goal, as I have explained many times, is primarily to protect the people and Russia from the threats that they are trying to create for us in our own historical territories that are adjacent to us. We cannot allow this. So, it is extremely important when young people like you defend the interests of their small and large Motherland with arms in their hands and do so consciously.”

Read on, very carefully, understanding that nothing a US official says, least of all through the mouths of Blinken, Ignatius, and the Washington Post is trusted by the Russians; and understanding that what Putin and the Stavka say they mean by Russia’s “adjacent historical territories” and the “small and large Motherland” has been quite clear.

Follow what Blinken told Ignatius to print, before Putin issued his reply. The propaganda terms have been highlighted in bold to mean the opposite — the public positions from which Blinken is trying to retreat and keep face.

Blinken ponders the post-Ukraine-war order

By David Ignatius, January 25, 2023

The Biden administration, convinced that Vladimir Putin has failed in his attempt to erase Ukraine, has begun planning for an eventual postwar military balance that will help Kyiv deter any repetition of Russia’s brutal invasion.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined his strategy for the Ukrainian endgame and postwar deterrence during an interview on Monday at the State Department. The conversation offered an unusual exploration of some of the trickiest issues surrounding resolution of a Ukraine conflict that has threatened the global order.

Blinken explicitly commended Germany’s military backing for Ukraine at a time when Berlin is getting hammered by some other NATO allies for not providing Leopard tanks quickly to Kyiv. “Nobody would have predicted the extent of Germany’s military support” when the war began, Blinken said. “This is a sea change we should recognize.”

He also underlined President Biden’s determination to avoid direct military conflict with Russia, even as U.S. weapons help pulverize Putin’s invasion force. “Biden has always been emphatic that one of his requirements in Ukraine is that there be no World War III,” Blinken said.

Russia’s colossal failure to achieve its military goals, Blinken believes, should now spur the United States and its allies to begin thinking about the shape of postwar Ukraine — and how to create a just and durable peace that upholds Ukraine’s territorial integrity and allows it to deter and, if necessary, defend against any future aggression. In other words, Russia should not be able to rest, regroup and reattack.

Blinken’s deterrence framework is somewhat different from last year’s discussions with Kyiv about security guarantees similar to NATO’s Article 5. Rather than such a formal treaty pledge, some U.S. officials increasingly believe the key is to give Ukraine the tools it needs to defend itself. Security will be ensured by potent weapons systems — especially armor and air defense — along with a strong, noncorrupt economy and membership in the European Union.

The Pentagon’s current stress on providing Kyiv with weapons and training for maneuver warfare reflects this long-term goal of deterrence. “The importance of maneuver weapons isn’t just to give Ukraine strength now to regain territory but as a deterrent against future Russian attacks,” explained a State Department official familiar with Blinken’s thinking. “Maneuver is the future.”

The conversation with Blinken offered some hints about the intense discussions that have gone on for months within the administration about how the war in Ukraine can be ended and future peace maintained. The administration’s standard formula is that all decisions must ultimately be made by Ukraine, and Blinken reiterated that line. He also backs Ukraine’s desire for significant battlefield gains this year. But the State Department, Pentagon and National Security Council are also thinking ahead.

Crimea is a particular point of discussion. There is a widespread view in Washington and Kyiv that regaining Crimea by military force may be impossible. Any Ukrainian military advances this year in Zaporizhzhia oblast, the land bridge that connects Crimea and Russia, could threaten Russian control. But an all-out Ukrainian campaign to seize the Crimean Peninsula is unrealistic, many U.S. and Ukrainian officials believe. That’s partly because Putin has indicated that an assault on Crimea would be a tripwire for nuclear escalation.

The administration shares Ukraine’s insistence that Crimea, which was seized by Russia in 2014, must eventually be returned. But in the short run, what’s crucial for Kyiv is that Crimea no longer serve as a base for attacks against Ukraine. One formula that interests me would be a demilitarized status, with questions of final political control deferred. Ukrainian officials told me last year that they had discussed such possibilities with the administration.

As Blinken weighs options in Ukraine, he has been less worried about escalation risks than some observers. That’s partly because he believes Russia is checked by NATO’s overwhelming power. “Putin continues to hold some things in reserve because of his misplaced fear that NATO might attack Russia,” explained the official familiar with Blinken’s thinking. This Russian reserve force includes strategic bombers, certain precision-guided weapons and, of course, tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.

Blinken’s refusal to criticize Germany on the issue of releasing Leopard tanks illustrates what has been more than a year of alliance management to keep the pro-Ukraine coalition from fracturing. Blinken has logged hundreds of hours — on the phone, in video meetings and in trips abroad — to keep this coalition intact.

This cohesiveness will become even more important as the Ukraine war moves toward an endgame. This year, Ukraine and its allies will keep fighting to expel Russian invaders. But as in the final years of World War II, planning has already begun for the postwar order — and construction of a system of military and political alliances that can restore and maintain the peace that Russia shattered.

Click to follow Putin’s remarks in the official Kremlin translation.

Highlighted in bold type in Blinken’s text is the phrase, “a strong, noncorrupt economy and membership in the European Union”. This is Blinken’s message to the Kremlin that the  US wants to preserve Ukraine’s agricultural economy, its grain export ports, and the trade terms agreed with the European Union before the war. It is also Blinken’s acknowledgement that  Vladimir Zelensky’s  move early this week to force the resignations and dismissals of senior officials means the US is calling the shots in Kiev and Lvov.

Nothing is revealed in Blinken’s offer “for the Ukrainian endgame and postwar deterrence” of how, and who on the US and Russian sides, to negotiate directly on the particulars. Instead,  there is the hint that if the Russians agree to trust the Americans and delay the planned offensive, and if they allow the rail lines to remain open between Poland and Lvov, the Americans will reciprocate by keeping the Abrams and Leopard tank deliveries in verifiable laagers west of Kiev.

As Russian officials have been making clear for months, no US terms of agreement can be trusted on paper, and nothing at all which Blinken says.  A well-informed independent military analyst comments on the Russian options:

“The best response is continue the special military operation, destroy the Ukrainian military in their present pockets,  complete de-electrification and destruction of the logistics, then either take everything east of the Dnieper or establish a de facto DMZ,  including Kharkov. Blinken and the others cannot be trusted to follow through if they think they have a chance to stall for time. The Ukrainian Nazis are conspicuously absent from this proposal – and they remain to be dealt with. We know there will be no end to trouble if the Russian de-nazification objective against them stops now.”

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Dr. Bassma Kodmani died March 2, 2023, in Paris, where she had lived most of her life. She was a Franco-Syrian activist who played a large role in the destruction of Syria beginning in 2011.

Kodmani was born in Damascus in 1958, but at age 10 her family left Syria.  Her memories of Syria would have been limited to recollections of relatives, birthday parties, and holidays with friends and family in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Her adult world was Paris, France, and there she was a much respected and successful academic and intellectual. Kodmani held a Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences-Po in Paris and was awarded the Légion d’Honneur of France as Chevalier in 2012.

In 2011, she became Head of Foreign Relations and spokesperson with the Syrian National Council, which she had co-founded, but resigned from in 2012 after the Muslim Brotherhood targeted her for ouster from the opposition group. Kodmani, Burhan Ghalioun, and others resigned in 2012 citing that the Muslim Brotherhood had usurped power in the group.

When several members of the council resigned they cited the overwhelming influence of the Muslim Brotherhood as a reason for their decision. “The Brotherhood took the whole council,” departing council member Walid al-Bunni told the New York Times. “We became like extras.”

The Muslim Brotherhood is a Radical Islamic terrorist group that is banned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Syria. They hold the same political platform as ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other terrorist groups. They are not banned in the US and were a tool used by US President Obama in his US-NATO attack on Libya, Egypt, and Syria.

Burhan Ghalioun is a French-Syrian professor of sociology at the Université de Paris III Sorbonne University in Paris and the first chairman of the Syrian opposition Transitional National Council. He was named chairman on 29 August 2011.

In June 2012, while Kodmani was still with the Syrian National Council, they held a meeting in Istanbul which was attended by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. She was well aware that the majority of Syrians living in Syria were not supportive of the opposition movement abroad.

“There are still many inside Syria who are not convinced that there can be a transition that would not make the situation worse for them – their families, their group, their location,” said Clinton. She was right.  The average Syrian was not in favor of chopping off the heads of their neighbors just because they were from a different religion or sect. Syria was a secular country and most wanted to remain so.  The rejection of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood is what defeated the Syrian opposition which was funded by the US, EU, NATO, Qatar, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.

Syrian women in Damascus today would have almost nothing in common with Kodmani other than some shared DNA. When a child’s candy bar had cost 50 Syrian Lira in 2011, but now costs 4,000, could Kodmani have been able to share what Syrian women lived in her experiment to bring democracy to Syria at the end of the barrel of a gun?

Kodmani was a French woman of Syrian ancestry.  She understood the history of Syria from textbooks, not from life.  She lived the Syrian experience secondhandedly by long distance. She longed to bring her western political culture to her ancestral home, but never considered if the Syrians living in Syria wanted her version of life, or if they could afford the destruction of an armed revolution.  She insisted on imposing her personal view of utopia on a population far removed from her culture.

One of the many organizations Kodmani was a co-founder of, was the NGO in Paris, ‘Initiative for a New Syria”. If her goal was to create a ‘new’ Syria, she did succeed.  The new Syria of today is poorer, sitting in ruins in many areas, and unable to begin any repairs other than sweeping up.  In her new Syria, the middle class is the new poor, and the former poor are destitute and starving. Kodmani’s new Syria has 30 minutes of electricity at three intervals per day. The new Syria has medical equipment sitting idle for repair in hospitals due to the US-EU sanctions which prevent western companies from selling products to Syria.  The humanitarian exemption is timely and costly and prevents most companies from taking the chance to fill a Syrian order.

Kodmani claimed that Syrian propaganda was created to blame inhuman conditions in Syria on US and EU sanctions.  She claimed the sanctions were only hurting the Syrian government, and never the Syrian people.

Richard N. Haass is an American political writer, but perhaps Kodmani never read his work. In 1998 he wrote “Economic sanctions: too much of a bad thing.”  Haass explained that US sanctions are not effective at big goals like a ‘regime change’.  He wrote that the sanctions end up hurting innocent civilians and are immoral and unethical.

After the fighting ended in Homs, Aleppo, and Damascus countryside, buildings and factories were left in ruins.  It wouldn’t be the Syrian government who would rebuild all of that.  Syrians who are private citizens, and who have the financial resources to be able to rebuild, are prevented from ordering supplies from abroad.  When you need wood, that needs to be ordered from Sweden or Norway, as Syria does not have domestic lumber resources.  US-EU lumber companies will not sell to any private person in Syria. Even if you could find one company abroad willing to sell you rebuilding supplies, how will the Syrian buyer send them the payment? The US-EU sanctions prevent any Syrian bank from wiring money abroad. Maybe the Syrian customer could travel to the company abroad and hand them the money? No, that is impossible because western countries have closed their embassies in Syria and even after traveling to Lebanon to a European embassy it will result in the denial of a visa to travel abroad.

In March 2021, Kodmani wrote an article concerning humanitarian aid in Syria.  She bemoaned the fact that there had been no credible negotiations to end the Syrian crisis for 10 years. The US and its allies were content to allow the Syrian people to continue to suffer with no plan to bring their suffering to an end. This was the goal of the Idlib occupation by terrorists, who would have been arrested in Washington or Paris, but in Syria were being fed and clothed by the UN and other western humanitarian agencies. The US and EU have a Syrian policy called ‘status quo’.  The policy was to keep humanitarian aid trucks delivering supplies to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly called Jibhat al-Nusra, the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria. The aid has been hijacked and sold by the leader of the terrorists, Muhammed al-Julani.

Kodmani wrote, “Humanitarian aid serves as a substitute for diplomacy and as moral compensation but, if mismanaged, it may well turn into a self-defeating strategy.” In the article, she explains that the aid going to Idlib is received by a small community.

However, the vast majority of Syrians live where no western humanitarian aid will ever be delivered because of sanctions. This unfairness is a form of collective punishment on the Syrian people imposed by the US and EU.

When I asked a Syrian woman if she knew Bassma Kodmani, she replied, “You mean the French lady?”  I answered yes, and told her she had died in Paris.  The Syrian woman replied, “May God have mercy on her soul.”

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High-ranking Biden foreign policy officials including USAID Administrator Samantha Power and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried observed the first anniversary of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. There, on February 25, 2023, they rallied alongside a band of Beltway-based Ukrainian activists dedicated to honoring and fundraising for ultra-nationalists and war criminals. The demonstrators demanded that the US send F-16 fighter jets to Kiev and “punish Russia” by any means necessary.

Power’s USAID promoted the event with a media advisory that redirected visitors to the rally’s principal organizer, an NGO called US Ukrainian Activists. This was one of two Ukrainian diaspora groups that organized the rally which have openly supported far-right elements in Ukraine since the US-backed Maidan coup in 2014.

US Ukrainian Activists was founded by Nadiya Shaporynska, an avowed supporter of neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist militias like the Azov Battalion, whom she has branded “heroic defenders of Ukraine.” Shaporynska’s fundraising efforts on behalf of extremists groups which were at one point blacklisted by the US Department of Defense have been prolific and very public.

In a video tweeted by Power the day before the rally, Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, is seen giving the USAID Administrator a tour of a local Ukrainian institution. Markarova points to a portrait of a woman on a wall and informs Power she is “Nadiya [Shaporynska], a tireless activist here in DC.”

The incredible Ukrainian spirit of bravery and resilience was palpable this weekend at the Lincoln Memorial where I had the chance to join Ambassador @OMarkarova, members of the Ukrainian American community and so many others to mark one year of the war in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/V5dYHXJJRP

— Samantha Power (@PowerUSAID) February 27, 2023

Power and Sahporynska would become officially acquainted the following day, as pro-proxy war demonstrators descended on Washington DC’s National Mall.

Top Biden foreign policy officials join defenders of Nazis at Lincoln Memorial

The rally would have been unremarkable if it were not for it being the anniversary of the invasion and for the big names on the speaker roster.

Power was joined by Karen Donfried, the Biden Administration’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Donfried spent close to 20 years working at the American and German government-funded German Marshall Fund think tank, departing as its president to work at the White House in 2021. Other notable speakers included Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova; District of Columbia Secretary of State Kimberly Bassett; Mark Ordan, chair of the Board of Directors at the US Chamber of Commerce, and the European Union’s Ambassador to the United States, Stavros Lambrinidis.

Appearing on stage alongside these officials was Paul Grod, president of the Ukrainian World Congress. Grod has made a career out of defending the legacy of Nazi collaborators, having once petitioned the Canadian government to officially recognize the genocidal Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, or OUN, as ‘designated resistance fighters.” This designation would have funneled Canadian tax dollars directly into the pension accounts of Nazi collaborators.

In 2010, Grod honored the legacy of the Waffen SS Galicia, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists as heroes who fought “for the freedom of their ancestral Ukrainian homeland.” These groups were driving forces behind the genocide in Eastern Europe during World War Two.

Grod’s Ukrainian World Congress hosted the February 25 pro-proxy war rally through its affiliate the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. His group has declared Stepan Bandera, the Nazi collaborator whose forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war, as “the undisputed symbol of Ukraine’s lengthy and tragic struggle for independence.”

Following a series of speeches denouncing Russia and demanding more arms shipments from Washington, demonstrators embarked from the Lincoln Memorial, chanting “Russia is a terrorist state” as they made their way to the White House. Next, the marchers swarmed the Russian Ambassador’s residence in Washington DC to bark indignant condemnations at its facade.

Shaporynska mutters “Thank you USA for supporting Ukraine” into a megaphone as she leads the crowd to the White House.

Leading the march after emceeing the rally was Nadiya Shaporynska, the founder of the US Ukrainian Activists NGO and one of America’s leading fundraisers for neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist militias back in her native Ukraine.

DC pro-proxy war rally led by enthusiastic promoter of Nazi battalions

In 2014, after the US helped install a nationalist pro-NATO government in Kiev, Shaporynska helped found a pressure group called United Help for Ukraine. Among the organization’s first moves was a protest outside the offices of the now-shuttered RT America newsroom. The following year, Shaporynska founded US Ukrainian Activists, which hosted the February 25 pro-proxy war rally in DC alongside United Help for Ukraine.

Shaporynska’s Facebook posts over the years reveal her enthusiastic support and fundraising for avowedly fascist Ukrainian militias including Right Sektor and its leader Dymtro Yarosh; the Azov Battalion, the Aidar Battalion, and former Donbas Battalion commander Semen Semenchenko.

In September 2022, Shaporynska held a protest outside of the White House with the wives of Azov fighters that had been captured by Russia. Around the same time, Shaporynska and her US Ukrainian Activists NGO were openly fundraising for the fascist militia, whom they called “heroic defenders of Ukraine.”

Shaporynska and her activist colleagues were raising money for the Azov Battalion when it was under the leadership of Andriy Biletsky, who outlined the group’s mission as follows: “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans].”

Under the auspices of United Help for Ukraine, Shaporynska helped organize a charity concert for the Azov and Aidar Battalions. That same year, Shaporynska and her colleagues posted photographs while clad in the colors of the neo-Nazi Ukrainian Right Sektor movement. They wrote that they were the “Washington DC Right Sector Branch” and that they “support” its leader Dmytro Yarosh.

Yarosh led Right Sector from 2013 to 2015, vowing to lead the “de-Russification” of Ukraine through an armed struggle. He is an avowed follower of the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.

Right Sektor’s red and black motif is a direct reference to the color guard of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B).

Yet Azov and Right Sektor aren’t the only groups of fascists and war criminals with Shaporynska and company’s full support.

Months after the pro-Azov event, Shaporynska threw yet another “charity concert” with the Georgian warlord Mamuka Mamulashvili, who now commands the Georgian National Legion foreign mercenary group. Mamulashvili was listed as US Ukraine Activists’ guest of honor.

In April 2022, Mamulashvili vowed to execute Russian prisoners of war, a war crime which his militia has committed on video in Ukraine. The warlord would meet with Shaporynska again in 2017 during one of his many junkets to Washington’s Capitol Hill.

Nadiya Shaporynska and Mamuka Mamulashvili in 2017.

The activists behind US Ukrainian Activists and United Help for Ukraine have made no apparent effort to conceal their full-fledged support for Ukraine’s most extremist factions. United Help for Ukraine has even described its co-founder, Tanya Aldave, as a “true banderite,” – in other words, an admirer of the Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Bandera. Today, Aldave’s Linkedin bio lists her as an attorney for the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

These avowedly nationalist activists appear constantly in photos posted to social media alongside Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, indicating a close working relationship. And as the February 25 pro-proxy war rally revealed, they have also forged an alliance with top level Biden administration foreign policy hands like Samantha Power.

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There are so many ways that the Republican Party could have turned America’s political contests into a crushing defeat of Democrats in 2022 and especially in the upcoming 2024 races, but they chose instead to do what their mega-donors want them to do, which is to extend into the future the permanent-warfare U.S. economy that has poured trillions of U.S. taxpayer dollars into destroying Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and now especially into destroying Ukraine, and thereby making the investors in corporations such as Lockheed Martin and ExxonMobil even richer than they were before, while the broad masses of the American people become even more indebted than they were before — and this increased debt is without even including into the actual total debt, from these wars, their Government’s consequently swelling debt-burden, the soaring federal deficits, which their children will need to pay, all of this debt having been created in order to transfer those trillions of dollars, from the public, into the rapidly rising wealth of the one-in-ten-thousand super-rich net beneficiaries of America’s permanent-warfare U.S. economy.

The Republicans could have called Ukraine “Biden’s war,” or “the Democrats’ war,” but instead voted for it themselves, and so turned it into America’s war — the war by the billionaires of both of this one-party-state’s nominal two political Parties (the Parties of both Democratic billionaires and Republican billionaires).

Ukraine, like Syria, and like Yemen, was Obama’s war (he started it in 2011-2014), and because Hillary Clinton was even more of a neoconservative than Obama was, Trump became our President who would get us out of those U.S.-created wars; and, because Trump instead installed people such as John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, who were even more neoconservative than Obama’s team had been, we got Biden as President in 2020, who continues the worst policies of both Obama and Trump.

Trump kept waffling about what his policies would be on Ukraine, but Biden is no different than the super-neocon Hillary Clinton would have been; and, so, Americans who refused to vote for either Hillary or Trump in 2016, ended up getting in 2020 Hillary’s policies under the name of Joe Biden — and, yet, still, the Republicans in Congress continued to vote for the permanent-war policies, and they failed to call Ukraine, and Syria, and the other U.S.-fed wars, “the Democratic Party’s wars.” No, their billionaires wouldn’t allow them to disengage from these sanctions, and coups, and invasions: America was to continue to be ‘fighting for democracy and human rights’ around the world while spending on ‘national defense’ (against nations that posed no danger to us — such as Ukraine, and Iraq, and Syria, and Iran) as much money each and every year as all of the 200 other nations in the world collectively spend on the their militaries.

Do America’s 900 military bases in foreign countries add anything to the safety of the American people? Where does all that money actually go?

Someone posted online his brief spoken summary of the past few decades of what America’s ‘fight for freedom and democracy’ around the world has actually been doing. It opens with his describing his response on 24 February 2022 when he first heard about Russia’s invading Ukraine that day, and felt — and still feels — that this invasion was “long overdue”:

His historical account there is entirely truthful, though it is spoken much too fast, as-if he were instructed to keep it under six minutes.

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Поводом притисака ЕУ/САД  да Србија, убрзано, корак по корак, призна једнострано илегално отцепљење Косова и Метохије Београдски форум за свет равноправних подсећа на следеће:

Једнострано отцепљење Приштине резултат је агресије НАТО извршене пре 24 године. Циљ оружане агресије је био доминација на Балкану, као део стратегије ширења НATO на Исток и припрема конфронтације са Русијом. Циљ продужене агресије чији је израз ултиматум да Србија призна тзв. Косово је исти – формализовање отимања Покрајине силом, супротстављање Србије Русији и Кини и припрема глобалног обрачуна.

Оружана агресија је окончана преговорима, а преговори усвајањем Резолуције СБ УН 1244 којом се, поред осталог, гарантује суверенитет и територијални интегритет Србије (СРЈ) а за Покрајину Косово и Метохија предвиђа широка аутономија у оквиру Србије (СРЈ).

Резолуција 1244 СБ УН је документ највеће правне снаге у светском правном поретку који обавезује сваку од 193 чланице УН, без изузетка и временског ограничења. Та одлука је даље на снази и нико, осим СБ УН, нема права да је укине, измени или прекрши наметањем другачијег решења. Србија има животни интерес да се ова Резолуција испоштује и до краја спроведе.

„Предлог Споразума о путу нормализације између Косова и Србије“, објављен на сајту Европске уније 27. фебруара 2023. од увода до последњег, 11. члана, представља грубо кршење Резолуције СБ УН 1244, принципа међународног права и Устава Србије. Настојања ЕУ према Србији као старој, европској држави, чланици УН и других међународних организација, да је претњама и уценама, принуде да прихвати изједначавање у правима и обавезама са њеном Аутономном Покрајином под привременим мандатом УН, представља јединствен пример у новијој историји бахатог и волунтаристичког понашања, нарушавања суверенитета и територијалног интегритета, злоупотребе мандата Генералне скупштине УН и преседан са тешко предвидивим последицама по мир и безбедност на Балкану и у Европи.

Од Србије се захтева да сама смањи своју Уставом утврђену, међународно признату државну територију са којом је постала чланица ОУН, ОЕБС и свих других међународних организација и да је пренесе криминално наметнутој творевини (чланови 2. и 4).

«Предлог Споразума» је пун контрадикторних одредаба и формалне симетрије од којих је свака на штету виталних интереса Србије. Творци су «Странама» оставили простор да свака на свој начин уверава јавност да је победила. Ако би се «Предлог Споразума» прихватио, потпуно је јасно да би у сваком спору пресуђивали ЕУ/САД, као што је јасно да би то, као и досад, увек било на штету Србије.

Речено је да “Предлог Споразума” није потписан, али је остало нејасно да ли је усмено прихваћен или није, о чему круже различите информације и тумачења која уносе пометњу у јавности. У таквој ситуацији је чудна сагласност свих учесника да преговарају о примени “Предлог Споразума” који није потписан, за који није потврђено да је прихваћен, који није објављен ни у једној институцији или службеном гласилу у Србији. Такав однос је неспојив са судбоносним значајем питања.

Србија и српски народ су суочени са покушајем историјске подвале ЕУ/САД. Излаз није у прихватању подвале под изговором да се морају сачувати мир и перспективе напретка и бољег живота. Неправедно, преваром и претњама наметнуто  решење у функцији глобалне конфронтације, може бити све друго осим допринос миру, развоју и бољем животу. Нужан је отклон од свих планова и прогноза који су и даље засновани на тезама о крају историје, и настојање да се Србија трајно одрекне трајних животних интереса зарад малих примамљивих понуда и користи.

ЕУ је показала своје право лице и 2013. принудивши Србију да повуче своје државне институције, укључујући полицију и судство, са севера Покрајине у замену за обећање успостављања ЗСО. Шта се дешава на северу Покрајине након тога, посебно шта је остало од обећања НАТО да тамо неће дозволити улазак ничијих дугих цеви, познато је: на делу су не само дуге цеви већ војне базе, отимање земље и пуна милитаризација! Десет година касније ЕУ/САД поново обећавају ЗСО, али у пакету – “и примена `Предлога Споразума ЕУ` и ЗСО по уставу тзв. Косова”. Толико о поштовању потписаног. На крају, може се поново десити – само примена “Предлога споразума ЕУ”! Али, добићемо гаранције! Чије?! Оних који су их увек давали и никада испоштовали?!

Обећавање инвестиција и донација уколико се Србија одрекне својих државних права на делу своје државне територије, свог достојанства и идентитета, пример је агресивности оживљеног неоколонијалног, неорасистичког менталитета и лицемерја за које смо веровали да су давно предати историји.

Ово време има историјски значај. Оно захтева да се Србија инспирише својим највећим дометима у најтежим историјским прекретницама, да се врати самопоштовању, општеприхваћеним принципима, Уставу и Резолуцији СБ УН 1244 као јединим поузданим ослонцима. Да се не мири са менталитетом подређености, зависности и немоћи који јој се потура. Да више поштује сопствене људске, научне, културне, духовне, привредне, геополитичке и природне потенцијале. И да не преговара о питањима која ограничавају њен суверенитет и територијални интегритет у пакету са страним бенефицијама, поготову не у страху од губитка нечијег милосрђа. Колико год било, оно се никад неће ни приближити износу штете од злочиначког «Милосрдног анђела».

И у односима са ЕУ треба сви да се руководимо начелом да су Србији други потребни онолико колико је Србија њима потребна, а не да у име «реализма» добровољно прихватамо заразу синдромом мање вредности. Време је да више и одговорније водимо рачуна о ономе шта су Србија и српски народ преживели кроз историју, од кога и да је неколонијални менталитет незајажљив. У наш однос према ЕУ и Западу уопште, морамо заувек уградити осећај – шта је Србија дала Европи подносећи милионске људске жртве за које се још нико није извинио. Ако нас потцењују, ако нас уцењују, као што чине, то је добрим делом због тога што ми сами себе потцењујемо.

Не смемо се ослонити на обећања и гаранције оних који су нас најчешће изневеравали.

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As winter bites, the current NATO proxy war that has raged for almost a year shows no signs of stopping, with November 2022 reports quietly admitting that roughly 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or wounded in action. Millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes, and those who remain face conscription, power outages, and a lack of other basic resources. Meanwhile, the conflict has strained supply chains and energy access internationally, leading to sky-high inflation of basic items and slashed living standards, especially in Europe.

But perhaps “proxy war” is now a misnomer: officials are planning for long-term, hot conflict, and US leaders have even said they’re ready to “fight to the last person” in Ukraine. On 25 January, German Foreign Defense Minister Annalena Baerbock openly stated “We are fighting a war against Russia.” And a US official quoted by the Washington Post explained M1 Abrams tanks set aside for Ukraine are “probably not for the near fight,” and “are not likely to arrive for many months, if not years.” Recent statements from US officials, further, indicate that the US may help Ukraine strike Crimea, which would effectively constitute an attack on Russian soil, likely triggering significant retaliation.

But a major force carrying the world on a runaway train to war — the western intelligence community — remains little discussed, despite evidence it has sparked much of the ongoing war escalations.

From the Kerch Bridge explosion to the Nord Stream pipelines’ sabotage, a growing body of evidence reveals Western intelligence organizations, especially US and British intelligence communities, are playing key roles in sparking and escalating NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine.

A corporatized media sphere, including significant intelligence and elite ties to mainstream media institutions, however, mean intelligence actions, and the war’s true gravity, are kept out of public scrutiny at a time when anti-war movements are critically weak. As a result, the intelligence community can continue operations uninhibited, perhaps even sparking a hot war.

Western Meddling and Intelligence Operations in Ukraine Before and During the Current Conflict

Image: Half a million tons of methane rise from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline. Photo: Swedish Coast Guard

Recent events indicate western intelligence is behind significant conflict escalations before and during the war in Ukraine, with incidents including, but not limited to, the Kerch Bridge attack, likely the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, and, as recent reporting from journalist and former US special operations officer Jack Murphy reveals, the CIA’s collaborations with a European NATO ally’s intelligence forces to conduct ongoing sabotages within Russia’s borders.

Even the New York Times has acknowledged major intelligence operations throughout the war, reporting in June 2022 that a “secretive operation involving U.S. Special Operations forces hints at the scale of the effort to assist Ukraine’s still outgunned military.”

But the West has meddled in Ukrainian affairs long before 2022. In fact, CIA documents declassified in 2016 reveal proof of intelligence involvement in Ukraine dating back to at least 1953. The CIA’s Codename: AERODYNAMIC, for example, was established “to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes.” And CAPACHO, an AERODYNAMIC affiliate project, is described by author Amit Bagaria as a psychological warfare operation, where CIA operatives organized and participated in Ukrainian study groups and publications, then distributed materials en masse to Ukrainian civilians, libraries, newspapers and cultural institutions to encourage nationalism and strengthen anti-Soviet sentiment and resistance. The intelligence operations, which TeleSUR English reported had been executed to destabilize and “nazify” Ukraine, continued into the 1970s.

Decades later, the United States played a major role in Ukraine’s 2014 western-backed coup, which replaced democratically elected Viktor Yanukovich with Petro Poroshenko, whose Washington-influenced government set Russia and Ukraine on a path for collision as Ukraine subsequently sought out NATO membership, one of Russia’s diplomatic “red lines.”

Mainstream western media portrayed the Maidan uprisings as a spontaneous mass movement towards alignment with Europe. While some protests arose organically, they posed an opportune time for Washington to facilitate Yanukovich’s ousting from power and form a government of their choosing through various covert efforts.

The late Robert Parry observed in late February 2014, for example, that the US intelligence proxy National Endowment of Democracy’s (NED) whopping 65 projects in Ukraine could serve as a “shadow structure” for Americans to influence the country’s decisions, or even whip up unrest. And former US Agent Scott Rickard told Russia Today in 2014 that US foreign aid agencies flooded about 5 billion USD into groups protesting the Ukrainian government during the Maidan protests.

United States Senators Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and John McCain (R-Arizona) even went to Ukraine to attend the Maidan protests, with McCain telling CNN that “What we’re trying to do is try to bring about a peaceful transition…This is a grassroots revolution here.” Infamously, US Official Victoria Nuland’s call revealing plans for a “transition” in Ukraine, and who would be part of a possible new Ukrainian government, was also leaked.

Setting the stage for today’s war, the 2014 coup and its aftermath gave the US ample opportunities to expand influence in Ukraine while boosting the Eastern European country’s military capacities. As TJ Coles reported for The Grayzone, the Ukraine component of the US State Department and Pentagon Global Security Contingency Fund (GSCF), founded in the coup’s wake, provided “tens of millions of dollars-worth” towards the Ukraine Ministry of Defense, National Guard, and especially the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces “in developing tactical and institutional capabilities that are compatible with Western models,” according to the US State Department.

Paving the way for greater conflict, President Barack Obama also authorized covert measures to plant “cyber weapons” in Russia that could be “detonated” in case of conflict escalation. While the Obama Administration could only authorize the measures, which were up to the Trump Administration to subsequently execute, ongoing sabotages as per Jack Murphy’s reporting suggest their likely success.

Since the war’s beginning, moreover, major intelligence operations are ongoing. As The Grayzone reported in October 2022, documents obtained showed British intelligence plans to blow up the Kerch Bridge, the bridge connecting Russia and Crimea, about six months before Ukraine did so in a suicide bombing apparently overseen by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence services. Kit Klarenberg later reported in The Grayzone that, according to documents obtained in 2022, UK intelligence is training Ukrainian soldiers to form a “partisan” army with plans to attack premeditated targets in Crimea.

And now, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh’s bombshell scoop claims US Navy divers, in a covert operation carried out by the US in collaboration with Norway’s Secret Service and Navy, planted remotely triggered explosives at the Nord Stream pipelines under the cover of NATO BALTOPS 22 exercises.

Hersh’s reports came out after months of media radio silence on Nord Stream. But even before his scoop dropped, it was clear the US had incentives to carry out the pipeline attacks. United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Nord Stream’s end was “a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy, and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs,” which “offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come.” And President Biden even suggested in early 2022 that “If Russia invades … then there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2 ….We will bring an end to it.”

Further, Jack Murphy’s reporting on intelligence-backed sabotage networks in Russia elucidates the depth of pre-planning against Russia. According to Murphy, the intelligence-established sabotage framework in Russia is “years in the making” and inhibits the country’s supply lines. A former CIA officer he interviewed, moreover, said the sabotages are especially damaging because they create a perceived Russian inability to control the country’s basic matters. As Murphy reports, the sabotages apparently explain or otherwise contribute to recent and mysterious incidents in Russia, such as damages to fuel depots, bridges and power plants, all ongoing since Russia’s Special Operation began early last year.

Finally, the AP missile story in November 2022, which incorrectly reported a Russian missile hit Poland, was based on incorrect information from anonymous US intelligence. The moment that led Zelensky to call for further conflict escalation forces skepticism about whether intelligence was looking to stir the pot.

While certainly incomplete, the breadth of known intelligence participation in Ukrainian affairs before and during the current war paints a picture of significant involvement able to drive both public opinion and the course of the war.

The Revolving Door Between Media, Intelligence, and the Elite

Western intelligence communities have carried out significant operations in and around Ukraine for years. Due to the lack of mainstream reporting on the subject, however, few are aware of the phenomenon even as dangerous conflict escalates, meaning the organizations can work without scrutiny.

While striking, the lack of media interest in western intelligence operations, in Ukraine and in general, is unsurprising considering the relationship media and intelligence communities enjoy. The relationship’s full extent remains unknown to the public, but hints at deep ties between the two entities frequently emerge.

Of course, the revolving door between the US media, elite and government is a visible phenomenon, with Jen Psaki, Kayleigh McEnany, and now Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders all receiving high-tier cable news positions after stints as White House Press Secretary. The same goes for prominent US intelligence community members, where former CIA director John Brennan is now an NBC senior national security and intelligence analyst, and Former Director of National Intelligence of the United States James Clapper is a CNN national security analyst.

On an international level, as journalist Jordan Schachtel revealed early this year, heads and higher-ups of major publications and media corporations, including the New York Times, NBC Universal and TIME Magazine were slated to attend the elite, invite-only Davos forum that took place earlier this winter. They did not attend to cover the event, but rather as participants.

Further, the recently-released Twitter files show how US government and intelligence have extensively curated the public’s understanding of major current events, such as the coronavirus crisis, Russiagate, and the current conflict in Ukraine, through social media content. In the case of Russiagate, for example, the files reveal US government officials fabricated and pressured Twitter to accept phony Russiagate narratives, including the lie that Russian bots propagated the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag in 2018. Twitter’s public silence on the matter allowed Russiagate narratives to circulate throughout mainstream media, priming the public for the anti-Russian hysteria that now dominates coverage of the current war.

While the Twitter files come with significant limitations due to the opaque, limited purview of their release and the corporate nature of and defense contractor ties twitter and its current CEO, Elon Musk, embody and enjoy, the released materials elucidate significant government and intelligence interference with the news feeds that millions scroll through every-day.

The United States government- and intelligence-adjacent organizations, further, have played significant roles in funding and shaping media institutions in the US and internationally. As Alan MacLeod notes in Mintpress News, the United States Embassy and CIA front group National Endowment for Democracy (NED) have funded a multitude of media organizations in the United States and elsewhere, including fact-checking organizations like VoxCheck, the Poynter Institute, and StopFake. Billionaire oligarch and Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar, furthermore, is known for funding a number of media publications and organizations, such as The Intercept until early 2023, as well as, as Alex Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal report for Mintpress News, funding a number of pro-regime change networks and fostering partnerships with CIA front-groups.

As Kit Klarenberg reports in his 2022 Substack piece “Anatomy of a Coup: How CIA Front Laid Foundations for Ukraine War,” similar phenomena are ongoing in Ukraine’s media sphere. For example, Omidyar, the NED, the US Embassy in Ukraine, in addition to USAID, have all funded Ukrainian media network Hromadske, which Klarenberg emphasizes played a key role in the coup’s success due to its fast growth and adept ability to disingenuously depict the Maidan protests as organic and representative of the larger populations’ political sentiments. The network was founded in late 2013 as the Maidan demonstrations began.

And attempts to report on intelligence operations only reveal more about the intelligence community-media relationship. In his article outlining intelligence-executed sabotages in Russia, for example, Jack Murphy admits he had to self-publish his work, explaining that other publication attempts entailed unethical work practices and even intelligence sabotage, where a senior CIA official “leaked a story to the New York Times to undermine his piece.”

At the end of his article, Murphy opines that the current state of journalist-intelligence relationships has hampered critical reporting, leaving the public completely unaware of ongoing intelligence activities contributing to escalating hostilities. Here, he criticizes the media industry for prioritizing its intelligence community relationships over the public’s need to know:

“….Journalists can lack the circumspection to examine how their organizations come to mimic the institutions of power that they claim to speak truth to. At some point the equities they build with the intelligence community and military commands become more important than informing the public.

Indeed, the Russian government knows perfectly well who is sponsoring these sabotage strikes. Moreover, the intelligence community wants them to know. The only party left in the dark is the public at large, left unaware of the shadow war taking place behind the scenes.”

The Impact

Unfortunately, intelligence ties to our media and major institutions leave major aspects of the current conflict opaque, just as they have obstructed the public’s understanding of previous conflicts they’ve contributed to. As a result, the anti-war movement remains critically weak despite today’s acute crisis.

Even as the world teeters towards possible nuclear war, the mass demonstrations and resistance present against the Iraq war two decades ago, which brought out the largest coordinated protests in history, are now almost nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, European anti-war and anti-NATO protests, when they do take place, occur with little media coverage.

No prominent US politician in office currently supports an anti-war position, and Congress almost unilaterally voted in favor of sending 40 billion USD in assistance to Ukraine in May 2022, with those opposing it largely doing so in order to investigate whether it was a reasonable use of taxpayer funds. And Democrats quickly withdrew a lackluster letter calling to prioritize diplomatic efforts in the Ukraine conflict in late 2022 after significant establishment blowback.

The moment is ripe for abuse from American officials, who openly admit to meddling in other countries’ affairs. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States Victoria Nuland, for example, even boasted recently that “we are working closely with the Belarusian opposition.” Recent Financial Times pieces, moreover, highlighted the United States’ efforts to prepare for war with China, including a leaked memo where General Mike Minihan, head of US Air Mobility Command, admitted, “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”

Without change, the current conflict could easily escalate into a hot war amongst the superpowers — some, including French historian Emmanuel Todd, argue we’ve already entered World War III. In the meantime, millions of Ukrainians, who have been reduced to cannon fodder in the West’s deadly war against Russia, are suffering with little recourse or chance at diplomacy.

Although poor media coverage of the war and mass censorship has hindered an anti-war movement thus far, previous roadblocks cannot get in the way of calls for diplomacy before it’s too late. The West’s hunger for conflict is insatiable: without mass public resistance, it seems little short of inevitable that the world could be submerged in a large-scale and deadly war.

The time for an anti-war movement, and an anti-war movement that recognizes and condemns the reckless actions of western intelligence agencies, is now.

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When people think of the great attack on humanity, they often refer to 9.11, the start of the Iraq war, the COVID-19 operation, or the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But perhaps the deadliest attack on humanity is that of the “silent weapon” for a “quiet war” the smart phone. This weapon is aimed at the intellectual classes as a means of destroying their minds from within.

I have watched how the smart phone, combined with social media, has degraded the capacity of citizens to think for themselves over the last decade. This attack by the multinational corporations on our minds is far more dangerous than any bombing or shooting for it renders us passive, like GHB (gamma hydroxybutyric acid) (the date- rape drug) prone to exploitation and destruction.

The smart phone was launched in full force around 2009. I do not doubt that it had its positive aspects, and I was eventually forced to use one myself. Now you cannot travel without one in many parts of the world, and increasingly governments require them in order to be recognized as a citizen. There is a sinister plan behind all of this, the great dumbing down, we call it.

The passivity and openness to suggestion that exposure to the smart phone induces is best described as a “procedure of conditioning,” to use the term of the German philosopher Günther Anders.

Anders wrote about a previous bid for totalitarian rule that was remarkably successfully, and never completely ended,

“Massenregie im Stile Hitlers erübrigt sich: Will man den Menschen zu einem Niemand machen (sogar stolz darauf, ein Niemand zu sein), dann braucht man ihn nicht mehr in Massenfluten zu ertränken; nicht mehr in einen, aus Masse massiv hergestellten, Bau einzubetonieren. Keine Entprägung, keine Entmachtung des Menschen als Menschen ist erfolgreicher als diejenige, die die Freiheit der Persönlichkeit und das Recht der Individualität scheinbar wahrt. Findet die Prozedur des „conditioning” bei jedermann gesondert statt: im Gehäuse des Einzelnen, in der Einsamkeit, in den Millionen Einsamkeiten, dann gelingt sie noch einmal so gut. Da die Behandlung sich als „fun” gibt; da sie dem Opfer nicht verrät, daß sie ihm Opfer abfordert; da sie ihm den Wahn seiner Privatheit, mindestens seines Privatraums, beläßt, bleibt sie vollkommen diskret.”

(Günther Anders, Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, Beck, München 1961, p. 104)

Here’s the English translation:

“The stage-managing of masses that Hitler specialized in has become superfluous: if one wants to transform a man into a nobody (and even make him proud to be a nobody), it is no longer necessary to drown him in a mass, or to bury him in a cement construction mass-produced by masses. No depersonalization, no loss of the ability to be a man is more effective than the one that apparently preserves the freedom of the personality and the rights of the individual. If the procedure of conditioning takes place in a special way in the home of every person—in the individual home, in isolation, in millions of isolated units—the result will be perfect. The treatment is absolutely discreet, since it is presented as fun, the victim is not told that he must make any sacrifices and he is left with the illusion of his privacy or, at least, of his private space.”

Below is my article on the smart phone from the Korea Times published in 2018. I softened up my criticism at the time to reach a broader audience.

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“Imagine Korea without smartphones”

By Emanuel Pastreich, Korea Times, December 2, 2018

When I make this suggestion, the response I receive from Koreans is one of intense fascination. But the assumption they make is that I am going to describe a futuristic “smart city” in which we no longer will use smart phones because information will be projected on to our eyeglasses, or our retinas, or perhaps relayed directly to our brain via an implanted chip.

But I mean exactly what I say. The unrelenting takeover of our brains and of our society by the smartphone is taking an ominous turn.

Each day I watch almost every person on the subway lost in their smartphones, and increasingly lacking empathy for those around them as a result. They are mesmerized by video games; they flip quickly past photographs of chocolate cakes and cafe lattes, or fashionable dresses and shoes, or watch humorous short videos.

Few are reading careful investigative reporting, let alone books, that address the serious issues of our time. Nor are they debating with each other about how Korea will respond to the crisis of climate change, the risk of a nuclear arms race (or nuclear war) between the United States, Russia and China. Most media reporting is being dumbed down, treated as a form of entertainment, not a duty to inform the public.

Few people are sufficiently focused these days even to comprehend the complex geopolitical issues of the day, let alone the content of the bills pending in the National Assembly.

We are watching a precipitous decline in political awareness and of commitment to common goals in South Korea. And I fear that the smartphone, along with the spread of a social media that encourages impulsive and unfocused responses, is playing a significant role in this tragedy.

What do those smartphones do? We are told that smartphones make our lives more convenient and give us access to infinite amounts of information. IT experts are programming smartphones to be even more responsive to our needs and to offer even more features to make our lives more comfortable.

But Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains” presents extensive scientific evidence that the internet as a whole, and smartphones in particular, are in fact reprogramming our brains, encouraging the neurons to develop lasting patterns for firing that encourage quick responses but that make contemplation and deep thought difficult.

Over time, we are creating a citizenship through that technology that is incapable of grasping an impending crisis and unable or unwilling to propose and implement solutions.

If smartphones are reprogramming our brains so that we are drawn to immediate gratification, but lose our capacity for deeper contemplation, for achieving an integrated understanding of the complexity of human society, and of nature, what will become of us?

But consumption, not understanding, let alone wisdom, is the name of the game for smartphones.

In the case of the worsening quality of the air in Korea, I observe a disturbing passivity, and also a painful failure of citizens to identity the complex factors involved. Even highly educated people seem not to have thought carefully about the exact factors behind the emissions of fine dust in Korea, and in China, and how that pollution is linked to the deregulation of industry, or to their behavior as consumers.

That is to say those phenomena in society have been broken down into discrete elements, like postings on Facebook, and that no overarching vision of complex trends is ever formed in the mind.

We float from one stimulating story to the next, like a butterfly flitting from one nectar-laden flower to another. We come away from our online readings with a vague sense that something is wrong, but with no deep understanding of what exactly the problem is, how it relates to our actions, and no game plan for how to solve it.

There is a powerful argument to be made that certain technologies that can alter how we perceive the world should be limited in their use if there is reason to believe they affect the core of the democratic process. Democracy is not about voting so much as the ability to understand complex changes in society, in the economy and in politics over time.

Without such an ability to think for ourselves, we will slip into an increasingly nightmare world, although we may never notice what happened.

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Emanuel Pastreich served as the president of the Asia Institute, a think tank with offices in Washington DC, Seoul, Tokyo and Hanoi. Pastreich also serves as director general of the Institute for Future Urban Environments. Pastreich declared his candidacy for president of the United States as an independent in February, 2020.

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Last week saw the advance release of a summary of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s still-pending detailed report on Nicaragua. The report supposedly results from an investigation by a group of experts of “all alleged human rights violations and abuses committed in Nicaragua since April 2018.” This procedure and the document so far presented confirm in the most categorical way possible that the United Nations human rights system is complicit in the terrorism of the countries of the West against nations and peoples who resist their will, in this case Nicaragua.

The increasingly blatant development of this reality has been clear since the war against Yugoslavia in 1999 to the wars against the legitimate governments of Libya, Ivory Coast and Syria in 2011. Also in this same period there has been an intensification of the genocidal blockade against Cuba and numerous genocidal attacks by Israel against the Palestinian people. These wars and blockades have been accompanied by the extension of sanctions against North Korea and intense illegal coercive measures against Iran and other countries. In Latin America, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has managed to overcome a ruthless offensive of infrastructure sabotage, outright theft of its national patrimony and sadistic trade and financial warfare waged by the United States and its allied countries.

In all these aggressions and campaigns of terrorism, the Western human rights industry has been complicit in one way or another. The height of their complicity in the terrorism of the Western ruling classes against the majority world has been their blatant collaboration in the offensive of the NATO countries, using the fascist government of Ukraine, against Russia and the Russian-speaking population of Donbass. This reality now includes the infamous instrumentalization of human rights as a tool to slander and attack the government of Nicaragua and to cover up the terrorism organized in 2018 by the governments of the United States and its allies in the European Union against the Nicaraguan people.

The United Nations system itself, in this case its Office on Drugs and Organized Crime, defines terrorism as:

• the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

• the conduct of premeditated violent acts or the threat of violence perpetrated by members of an organized group, designed to create fear in an adversary or specific segment of society

• the deliberate creation and exploitation of fear through violence or the threat of violence in the pursuit of political change

• the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion or intimidation.

• illegitimate use of force to achieve a political objective by targeting innocent people

All these criteria fully apply to the failed coup attempt of 2018. It is notorious in Nicaragua that Paolo Abrao of the IACHR affirmed to our authorities in 2018 that its mandate did not cover criminal acts. However, when the Nicaraguan State did apply its national laws against Western supported terrorist criminals, the IACHR, the UN and their NGO cronies demanded freedom for those convicted, claiming they were “political prisoners”. The same irrational and contorted logic is applied in this latest UN report, in clear violation of its obligation to respect Nicaragua’s national sovereignty.

In fact, the terrorist criminals were prosecuted according to numerous laws of the Republic of Nicaragua, Law 147, General Law on Non Profit Legal Entities ; Law 919, Law on Sovereign Security ; Law 977, Law against the Laundering of Assets, Funding of Terrorism, and Funding of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction; Law 996, Amnesty Law; Law 1040, Law Regulating Foreign Agents; and Law 1055, Law in Defence of the People’s Right to Independence, Sovereignty and Self-Determination for Peace.

Furthermore as well as these crimes, other offenses of which the people concerned were convicted involved crimes set out in Nicaragua’s Criminal Code, such as financial crimes and fraud including: misappropriation and improper retention (Codigo Penal article 238), laundering of money, goods and assets (Codigo Penal article 282), abusive management (Codigo Penal article 278) and ideological falsehood (Codigo Penal article 285) or else treasonous criminal conduct (Codigo Penal Articles 410 and 412).

However, as well as violating one way or another this body of national laws, the 2018 coup promoters also violated numerous norms of international law, for eample, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism,and International Convention against the Taking of Hostages. But the report of the Human Rights Council’s group of experts on Nicaragua completely ignores this body of international law which is directly relevant to the actions of the failed coup instigators from April 2018 onwards, criminally financed by the United States and its European allied governments.

So the Human Rights Council report not only violates Nicaragua’s national sovereignty. It also tramples on international law promoted by the United Nations system itself and ignores the criteria of that same system regarding terrorism. It even ignores its own terms of reference to investigate “all alleged human rights violations and abuses committed in Nicaragua since April 2018.” It failed to take into account repeated past submissions on the part of the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of Nicaragua since April 2018 to the OAS and UN human rights system. But they complain in their report with astonishing chutzpah that the Nicaraguan government did not respond to their requests for information.

The report also fails to take into account the countless reports in Nicaragua’s local media at the time of the violent events provoked by the coup promoting opposition in Nicaragua from April 18, 2018 onwards. Aside from the massive amount of material available in Spanish that disproves its false conclusions, the UN panel of experts has also ignored a substantial body of material both documental and audiovisual in English that demonstrates the complete lack of impartiality of the expert group’s report. None of this is new.

As many people have commented, the UN has long served as an obedient tool for the political objectives of the United States and its allies. And it is not just that Western governments with impunity fail to comply with international norms promoted by the UN, in fact they act deliberately to violate them. As the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation has commented in relation to Ukraine, “Not once in the last eight years since the reunification of Crimea with Russia have the West or the UN human rights mechanisms condemned the illegal and inhumane actions of the Ukrainian authorities, who have imposed a water, energy, transport, food and humanitarian blockade on the peninsula.”

And Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, adds “International and European human rights organizations pay no attention to this, and turn a blind eye to any violation of human rights when it comes to ethnic Russians. This is how the Russophobia we have been talking about for some time now manifests itself.”

Since the defeat of the violent phase of their coup attempt in Nicaragua on July 2018, the U.S. ruling classes and their allied countries in the European Union have continued seeking to advance their regime change agenda in Nicaragua. This latest spurious UN report signals a new phase in imperialist harassment against Nicaragua and its people. As might be expected, Nicaragua has made a dignified response in defense of its national sovereignty by declaring to the UN Human Rights Council on March 3rd this year:

“We demand that this organization reassume the principles for which it was created, which is to encourage real, equal and effective protection of Human Rights for all, without distinction or discrimination, within the framework of respect for our identity, our dignity, our idiosyncrasy and moreover, our sovereignty. It is necessary that this forum empowers itself with its responsibilities, recognizing and respecting the right of the peoples of the world to make their own decisions and to live in Peace, with Sovereignty and Humane Consideration.”

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Stephen Sefton, renowned author and political analyst based in northern Nicaragua, is actively involved in community development work focussing on education and health care. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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The Chief Executive of the twelfth largest oil producer – Sultan Al Jaber of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) – has been appointed as president of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) COP28, the biggest climate change conference that will take place in November, 2023 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

In brief, the leadership of a Climate Conference that should deliver on ways to create a fossil-free future is in the hands of the representative of one of the top 15 corporations most responsible for carbon emissions globally. Like any other oil company, ADNOC’s very reason for existence is to profit off of the very product that has sent global greenhouse gas emissions soaring and spurred a global climate emergency.

In fact, ADNOC Drilling under ADNOC Groups reported a rise of 33 percent in 2022 net profit with a projection of record net profit in 2023 fueled by further oil and gas expansion plans. And now at least 12 employees of ADNOC have been given organizing roles for COP28. That means this year the global climate negotiations will literally be run by the fossil fuel industry.

Fierce criticism has arisen from all over the world and in particular from climate activists that have been long fighting for a fossil fuel free climate COP. In reaction to this appointment, more than 450 climate and human rights organizations wrote a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres and Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC condemning the appointment of Al Jaber as COP28 President.

The thin argument presented for the appointment of Al Jaber is his involvement in renewables as chairman of Masdar, a “clean-energy innovator” investing in renewables. But that alone does not compare to the evidence on the negative role and powerful influence of the fossil fuel industry in the climate talks.

The fossil fuel industry has completely co-opted climate policy from the inside out. The most offensive illustration of this co-option and corporate capture of climate talks is the current reality that someone like Al Jaber will preside over a crucial session of climate negotiations at such a time when complete and equitable phase out of fossil fuels is a critical and immediate action needed to protect the planet.

And this is not happening for the first time!

More than 630 fossil fuel industry lobbyists participated in COP27 last year at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt and 18 out of 20 COP27 sponsors were either directly partnered with or are linked to the fossil fuel industry.

This ongoing 30-year experiment of allowing the largest polluters, their financiers, and polluter governments to undermine a meaningful global response to climate change has delivered predictably poor and unacceptable results.

Several reports last year including this report by the UN Environmental Programme showed that the world will miss the target set in the Paris Agreement by world leaders to limit global warming below 1.5℃.

So, what’s the solution?

It’s time for international climate policy to finally be protected from polluting interests, and this is the reason many are proposing a concrete drawing from other UN precedents to systematically weed out this undue interference.

The UN Secretary General has recently equated the fossil fuel industry’s modus operandi as “inconsistent with human survival,” also agreeing that “those responsible [for climate deceit] must be held to account.’

A concrete Accountability Framework should be implemented by the UNFCCC drawing from other UN precedents to systematically weed out this undue interference.

Parties to the UNFCCC have to change the course of how climate talks are moving and provide immediate and clear signs of deep structural changes that can lead to just transition. Governments across the world should be actively protecting climate action from being written, bankrolled, and weakened by polluting interests.

Rather, it’s (past) time to implement real, proven, and people-centered solutions and hold polluting corporations liable for their decades-long deception and deceit. These are not new ideas. These are not even radical ideas. They are necessary ones.

The indigenous peoples, peasants, women and frontline communities who face and suffer the serious consequences of the impacts of climate change, together with the social groups of the world that have a real interest in curbing the emissions of greenhouse gasses, demand that the decision makers implement the necessary changes in order to ensure that appropriate measures are adopted by the world and governments at COP28 to prevent the collapse of the planet.

If these necessary measures are not rectified and implemented immediately, it is world leaders and the decision makers who would be mainly responsible for the collapse of our planet. For us it is clear, Sultan Al Jaber does not have the moral or ethical rectitude to lead and deliver on a COP28 that is for the peoples.

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Even before the start of Moscow’s counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe, Russia and its military were often denigrated and underestimated by the mainstream propaganda machine. This decades-old (or should we say centuries) practice has escalated dramatically since February 24 last year. The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) are particularly targeted, being presented as a supposed “failure” despite obliterating most of the Kiev regime’s air force in mere weeks. This is also illustrated by the Neo-Nazi junta’s desperate pleas and so-called “begmanding” to get fighter jets from NATO, including the US-made F-16, despite even the Ukrainian pilots themselves knowing they are vastly inferior to their own Soviet-era Su-27s.

Russian VKS dominates the skies over Ukraine with its state-of-the-art Su-35S and superfast, high-flying MiG-31. However, what caught the attention of NATO is the usage of Moscow’s next-generation Su-57, a platform that has essentially transcended the notion of so-called “fifth generation” aircraft. Being at the forefront of Russia’s investment in aviation technology, the jet is one of the world’s most advanced aircraft. Bristling with sensors, new advanced technologies and using the latest missiles and bombs, Su-57 can truly be defined as an “overkill” against the vastly outmatched Kiev regime’s air force. Its most important mission so far has been SEAD (suppression of enemy air defenses), most likely using Kh-59MK2 and Kh-31 cruise missiles, in addition to using its advanced electronic warfare capabilities.

However, it should be noted that aircraft such as the Su-25 attack/CAS (close air support), Su-30 multirole and Su-34 strike jets are the “bread and butter” of Russian VKS operations in Ukraine, conducting the vast majority of missions. These have been at the center of a targeted mainstream propaganda machine campaign, aiming to underestimate their performance and capabilities. And yet, the UK Ministry of Defense is rather unconvinced, as it has “expressed concern” with Moscow’s capabilities. Back in early January, the UK MoD confirmed the reports that Russian jets have managed to shoot down Kiev regime aircraft from ranges exceeding 200 kilometers, including with platforms such as the Su-57.

The “Felon’s” (NATO reporting name for Su-57) sensor suite of six AESA (active electronically scanned array) radars and advanced IRST (infrared search and track) systems allow it to simultaneously track more targets over extreme ranges than any other fighter jet in the world. And while the VKS operates only a dozen serial Su-57s, these have been a major force multiplier. The UK military is rather worried that “Felon’s” numbers have more than tripled since 2021 and are further expected to swell to 24 aircraft this year. Combined with the Su-35S and MiG-31, the Su-57 is a deadly challenge for NATO, according to the aforementioned January 2023 assessment by UK MoD that reported the fighters were “launching long-range air-to-surface and air-to-air missiles into Ukraine since at least June 2022”.

The range of the missiles used by the aforementioned Russian fighter jets is considered a dangerous challenge for their NATO rivals. This is particularly true when it comes to the unrivaled R-37M hypersonic air-to-air missile with its staggering maximum engagement range of 400km. It is precisely this missile that was most likely used in the record-breaking 217 km shoot-down, fired by either Su-35S or Su-57. Other UK outlets, such as The Conversation, have also reported that the UK military confirmed this in mid-February, stating that “the Russian MiG-31 and Su-57 operating the R-37M long-range hypersonic missile have engaged Ukrainian aircraft at a range of over 200 km from the safety of Russian airspace”, reluctantly admitting just how hopelessly outclassed the Kiev regime forces are.

The performance of the Su-57 is of particular concern for NATO. Its usage in Ukraine already made it the first and only next-generation fighter jet to engage in high-intensity operations. Of course, unless we count the decisive victory of the US Air Force F-22 “Raptor” over a Chinese weather balloon. However, in all seriousness, the USAF has operated fifth-generation aircraft for nearly 18 years, but it has never used them against advanced adversaries, as its aggression against the world is nearly always conducted against mostly helpless opponents. Although the Su-57 was also delayed for several years before it entered service, the Russian military used this time to ensure that the jet was as close to full readiness as it could possibly be, which is further reinforced by its combat use in Syria years before it was officially inducted.

Engaging and easily neutralizing formidable targets such as the Su-27, which, as previously mentioned, far exceeds the capabilities of US-made F-16 fighters, is a clear indicator of just how dangerous Russian jets are. In the case of Su-57, it also shows that the jet is not limited to an initial operating capability (IOC), despite its small numbers and having been inducted into service only 2 years ago. This stands in stark contrast to the best US/NATO jets, such as the F-22, which took years to reach IOC. This lasted for nearly five years before “Raptor” reached FOC (full operational capability). The case of the F-35 is even worse, as the troubled jet is yet to reach even IOC despite being in service for almost eight years now and nearly a quarter of a century since it made its first flight.

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The US wanted Russia to attack Ukraine. So says Robert H Wade, professor of Global Political Economy at the London School of Economics. And then it brought in its wide-ranging sanctions regime in response. According to renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the US subsequently blew up the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

The result is that Europeans are experiencing an energy crisis, and Germany in particular faces deindustrialisation. The Ukraine situation is not just a NATO proxy war with Russia. It is also a trade and energy war inflicted by the US on Europe.

Although the impact of the war is acutely felt by Europe, inflation continues to increase across the Western countries, including the US, and their economies are in crisis.

While the sanctions and war are having an inflationary impact, they serve as convenient cover for the effects of a massive increase in ‘quantitative easing’ that occurred in late 2019 and in 2020. The US Federal Reserve created almost a fifth of all US dollars ever created in 2020. According to economist Professor Richard Werner, central banks around the world also pumped more money into their economies during this period. He concludes that central banks are largely responsible for the inflation we now see.

Financial markets were collapsing in October 2019, and the crisis reached a head in February 2020 with a massive crash. Prior to COVID and then under cover of this bogus public health crisis, trillions of dollars were pumped into the economy and lockdowns were imposed to prevent an immediate hyperinflation shock. The global economy was shut down.

Much of the inflation currently being experienced is a result of this. COVID lockdowns were not a cause of economic collapse. They were a symptom of it. A temporary band aid for an imploding neoliberalism that now requires a radical restructuring of economies and societies.

And that restructuring is brutal. Neoliberalism has been on life support for some time and has resorted to various strategies (expansion consumer credit, speculative finance, debt, etc) to keep it alive. But these strategies have to a large extent run their course.

In response, we are witnessing a controlled demolition of large parts of the economy and a shift towards authoritarian governance to deal with the growing resentment and dissent that governments fully expect. While lockdowns can be regarded as extraordinary monetary policy measures for addressing short-term inflation risk, they also did much to accelerate the restructuring of economies, not least by closing down small independent businesses.

The effects of the current sanctions regime on Russia may be regarded as an extension of this restructuring. We must not assume that the people implementing the sanction policies were too ignorant to see what the outcome would be for the Western economies.

So, for ordinary people, what’s the end game?

Soaring inflation means your money will lose value. Your savings could evaporate. And rising interest rates will intensify hardship – both for ordinary people and for businesses. Increased interest rates in a debt-ridden economy could well precipitate economic collapse.

Enter central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). It seems likely that these will eventually be brought in as part of a new monetary system. When people have lost almost everything (the WEF mantra – own nothing and be happy), many might well be desperate enough to want a (programmable) digital universal basic income from the government.

But this – in the longer term – would lead to a digital prison: your carbon credit score and social credit score linked to your ability to use your digital currency, your freedom of movement and so on.

The fiat currency system is dying. De-dollarisation is now underway and the US’s longstanding partner – Saudi Arabia – is turning to China and accepting non-dollar payment for oil.

The world is increasingly trading in currencies other than the US dollar. Global US hegemony rests on the dollar being the world reserve currency. This is coming to an end.

What CBDCs will base their value on remains to be seen. A return to a gold standard perhaps. But the strategy appears to involve a process of economic restructuring (or demolition) leading to the impoverishment of populations then the rollout of CBDCs.

COVID was an accelerator that saw entire populations cajoled into submission thanks to a crisis narrative. Integral to the plan is the eventual imposition of digital IDs.

Whether it is immigration, war, food shortages, fear of pandemics, potential cyberattacks, climate emergency or some other crisis narrative, one way or another, circumstances will be manipulated to engineer the introduction of digital IDs – precursors to CBDC servitude. A servitude linked to ‘smart’ city surveillance technology, net zero ideology and 15-minute de facto lockdown cities.

Can this be prevented? What can ordinary people do?

We can, for instance, grow our own food (if we have access to land), use farmer markets, boycott the retail giants and cashless stores, use cash whenever possible, create our own credit unions and so on. But to act in unison, it is essential that we come together and do not feel isolated in a world in which division is encouraged.

Many instinctively knew from the start that there was something seriously amiss with the COVID narrative and the lockdowns. But the vast majority of people – at least at the beginning of the COVID exercise – went along with the narrative. Dissenters tended to feel isolated and came together online. As the weeks passed, they began to attend protests in person.

At these gatherings – the speeches aside – it felt uplifting simply to be in the company of like-minded people. But after the protests, many returned home and were again surrounded by friends, family and colleagues who still kept faith in the narrative and the relentless media propaganda.

COVID might have receded into the background at this point, but the end goal is clear. That’s why it remains important to continue to stand together – in person, in solidarity. From small acorns, movements grow.

With this in mind, Fifi Rose, who helped initiate the A Stand In The Park movement in the UK, describes as a non-hierarchal people’s collective of autonomous groups, tells an inspiring story on a recent edition of the Locked & Loaded podcast with Rick Munn on TNT radio.

The podcast shows how one man’s resistance – which involved standing alone in a Sydney park for weeks on end – helped create a growing global movement based on face-to-face interaction.

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Renowned author Colin Todhunter specialises in development, food and agriculture. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) in Montreal.

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved (documented in ‘Gates to a Global Empire‘ by Navdanya International), whether through buying up huge tracts of farmland, promoting a much-heralded (but failed) ‘green revolution’ for Africa, pushing biosynthetic food and genetic engineering technologies or more generally facilitating the aims of the mega agri-food corporations.

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Dear President Biden,

My name is Olivia DiNucci and I am the anti-war activist who interrupted your dinner in DC the other night. You, the most powerful man in the world, were sitting right in front of me. Normal people like me don’t often have access to people like you and I couldn’t resist addressing you knowing we are in such a pivotal moment in history, one year after the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine. I know that it was President Putin’s decision to illegally and inhumanely invade Ukraine but I believe you have the power to initiate peace talks between him and President Zelensky to end this war and to stop the bloodshed. The continued escalation of this war has real consequences.

Knowing that people are dying and will continue to die because of endless wars, I asked you to push for negotiations over further escalation in Ukraine. The continuation of this war only means more death and destruction for the people and communities of Ukraine, those in the Global South, and the world at large. The war has plunged the country into chaos and instability and the threat of nuclear war is terrifying to young people like me.

Since my disruption, China’s president Xi has offered up a peace plan. President Lula de Silva of Brazil and other countries’ leaders are intensifying their push for diplomacy and negotiations as well. The U.S. must also push for peace instead of endlessly supplying weapons to prolong the devastating conflict. Human beings do not “win” in war, instead the weapons manufacturers and military contractors do. In fact, they profit from war and have monetary incentive to make politicians like you believe they’re “necessary” to national security. Those companies, like Lockheed Martin, also happened to donate to your presidential campaign and receive over half of the nearly one trillion dollar Pentagon budget you just signed a few months ago.

As the devastating war enters its second year, the escalation of weapons and propaganda is turning the conflict into a forever war. War and conflict ends with some sort of negotiated settlement. The question is: how many more deaths does it take before you use your power to initiate peace talks? The more weapons you send or fund will only create less stabilization in Ukraine and its neighbors. US escalations have real consequences. And now, more than a fourth of Ukrainaians are displaced (largely women and children), homes have crumbled, farmlands which feed communities have been poisoned, families have been torn apart. We need peace now.

The war in Ukraine has had a devastating effect on the entire world, especially the Global South.  Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the populations who face famine and extreme hunger the longer the war lasts. If you didn’t like me disrupting your dinner, imagine what it’s like for the millions of people of the global south whose dinners are constantly disrupted by war.

I also asked that you remove Cuba from the State sponsor of terrorists list. The current economic blockade we impose on Cubans is another form of war. Another costly form of war that you could end now. The whole world agrees: sanctions only hurt poor and working class families in Cuba.

I was kicked out of the restaurant before I could demand you stop funding and arming Israel’s occupation of Palestine, urged you to stop supporting Saudi Arabia’s slaughter in Yemen, reminded you of the devastation happening in Ohio, demanded you address the needs of the unhoused who were outside the door of the restaurant, take serious action towards the world’s common enemy, the climate crisis in which the Pentagon is the largest institutional polluter. The list could go on and on.

The world is at a crossroads. At this moment in history, we have the ability to choose between peace and war – between stability and chaos and addressing the needs of true national security: healthcare, housing, education and climate justice. We must pursue what is right, not what is easy; we must pursue what benefits people, not war-profiteers. I don’t feel ashamed for disrupting your dinner and wish the people had more access to you. People are dying and you hold the power to end much of the death and destruction of people and the planet.

I encourage every person who may be reading this: if you find yourselves in the same room as members of the ruling class, ask them the hard questions. To the warmongers: why do you think young people do not deserve a future free from war? To the corporations from the weapons manufacturers to the fossil fuel industry: why do you continue to make a killing off of killing? We demand answers to these questions even if it does briefly disrupt someone’s fancy dinner.

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There is a heartbreaking, tragic story that is promoted by mainstream media every few months, and that is the story of 20 year old Florida model Claire Bridges who lost both legs due to what they tell us was “COVID-19”.

Published on Mar.5, 2023, CNN’s article reads: “She flatlined three times, lost both legs and had a failing heart. Yet she told doctors she’s ‘the luckiest person on this planet’.” (click here)

“In January 2022, Bridges was a 20-year-old model with her own apartment and a part-time job as a bartender in St. Petersburg, Florida. She was a vegan and “exceptionally healthy,” according to her mother.”

“When she caught Covid-19 that month, no one expected her to be hospitalized. She was fully vaccinated and boosted.”

But Bridges had been born with a common genetic heart defect…whether due to her heart or another unknown reason, COVID-19 hit Bridges hard.

“Extreme fatigue, cold sweats — progressively every single day it would get harder to try to eat or drink anything,” she recalled. “Then one day my mom found me unresponsive and rushed me to the hospital. I flatlined three times that night.”

“Diagnosed with myocarditis, rhabdomyolysis, mild pneumonia, cyanosis and acidosis – Claire was placed on dialysis to help her failing kidneys. The damage to her body, however, resulted in poor circulation to her lower limbs, leading to amputation.” (click here)

Beyond the CNN propaganda…

It’s important to cut through the thick CNN propaganda and BS.

We have a perfectly healthy 20 year old young woman who took 3 COVID-19 vaccines she didn’t need, which probably severely damaged her immune system, caused myocarditis, blood clots and other internal organ damage, and when she fell ill with a flu or other respiratory illness, her already vaccine-injured body fell apart, her post-vaccine myocarditis put her into three cardiac arrests, she developed blood clots and her ordeal resulted in both of her legs requiring amputation.

In other words, this is a story of COVID-19 vaccine injury, from beginning to end.

How many unvaccinated 20 year olds had their legs amputated after catching COVID-19? If COVID-19 jabs were protective against hospitalization and 3 jabs failed to protect Claire, there should be thousands of unvaccinated 20 year olds with amputations due to COVID-19, who had no “protection” from COVID-19 vaccines.

THERE ARE NONE. If there were, the media would have eagerly told us. COVID-19 doesn’t do this to healthy 20-year olds, but COVID-19 vaccines do. CNN doesn’t tell us which 3 COVID-19 jabs she had. AstraZeneca and J&J were pulled off the market due to blood clots. Both Pfizer and Moderna have caused 1000s of cases of blood clots. These cases are in VAERS, Eudravigilance, and everywhere you look on social media:

All COVID-19 vaccines cause blood clots

Shortly after the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, 1000s of blood clot related injuries were being reported in VAERS, Eudravigilance, and UK Yellow Card. This was a report of blood clot related events as of May 14, 2021 by Josh Guetzkow:

Denials by Pharmaceutical representatives…

Fraudulent Reuters “Fact Checks”…

The fact that Claire Bridges case has a Reuters “Fact Check” is a big red flag. I have extensive experience with Reuters, I spoke with several of their reporters and they deliberately released several completely fraudulent fact checks about my work exposing the dangers of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

My Take…

Claire has gone through an absolute nightmare. It is very probable that she is a victim of COVID-19 vaccine injuries, and not COVID-19. There are thousands of victims just like her. AstraZeneca and J&J were pulled off the market due to blood clots but Pfizer & Moderna also cause blood clots and to a very similar degree.

To this day, Pfizer and Moderna deny that their COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause blood clots, and their victims are being ignored by doctors.

Any mainstream media story that blames blood clots on COVID-19 instead of COVID-19 vaccines is abusing vaccine injury victims and blatantly lying to the rest of us. Considering this is CNN, this is not surprising in the least.

When it comes to mainstream media and COVID-19 topics, the truth is almost always the exact opposite of what they report. The fact that they give so much exposure to Claire’s story, shows how desperately they are trying to deflect our attention from the ugly truth.

Re-watch the video above, this time in the context of a COVID-19 vaccine injured victim. It feels completely different, because the pharmaceutical companies knew from the very beginning, that their products were causing these injuries. They just didn’t care and neither did any doctor or politician who pushed the vaccines.

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RAWA communiqué on Universal Human Rights Day, Dec.10, 2007.

The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of “bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people”. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the fate of our people, the US government first of all considers her own political and economic interests and has empowered and equipped the most traitorous, anti-democratic, misogynist and corrupt fundamentalist gangs in Afghanistan.

In the past few years, for a thousand times the lies of US claims in the so-called “War on terror” were uncovered. By relying on the criminal bands of the Northern Alliance, the US made a game of values like democracy, human rights, women’s rights etc. thus disgracing our mournful nation. The US created a government from those people responsible for massacres in Pul-e-Charkhi, Dasht-e-Chamtala, Kapisa, Karala, Dasht-e-Lieli, 65,000 Kabulis and tens of mass graves across the country. Now the US tries to include infamous killers like Mullah Omer and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar into the government, which will be another big hypocrisy in the “war against terror”.

The reinstatement of the Northern Alliance to power crushed the hopes of our people for freedom and prosperity into desperation and proved that for the Bush administration, defeating terrorism so that our people can be happy, have no significance at all. The US administration plays a funny anti-Taliban game and pretends that a super power is unable to defeat a small, marginalized and medieval-minded gang which is actually her own product. But our people found by experience in the past few years that the US doesn’t want to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, because then they will have no excuse to stay in Afghanistan and work towards the realization of its economical, political and strategic interests in the region.

After about seven years, there is no peace, human rights, democracy and reconstruction in Afghanistan. On the contrary, the destitution and suffering of our people has doubled everyday. Our people, and even our unfortunate children, fall victim to the Jehadis’ infighting (Baghlan incident), the Taliban’s untargeted blasts and the US/NATO’s non-stop bombardments. The Northern Alliance blood-suckers, who are part of Karzai’s team and have key government posts, continue to be the main and the most serious obstacle towards the establishment of peace and democracy in Afghanistan. The existence of tens of illegal private security companies run by these mafia bands are enough to realize their sinister intentions and the danger they pose.

Human rights violations, crime, and corruption have reached their peak, so much so that Mr. Karzai is forced to make friendly pleas to the ministers and members of the parliament, asking them to “keep some limits”! Accusations about women being raped in prisons were so numerous that even a pro-warlord woman in the parliament had no choice but to acknowledge them.

Rabbani, Khalili, Massoud, Sayyaf, Fahim, Ismael and other criminals for the sake of being “ISI” and “VEVAK” agents could become “leaders” in the early 90’s, invited their god-father General Hamid Gul of ISI to become their army chief. But today they raise anti-Pakistan slogans to hide their corruption and wrong-doings. In this act they even go further and abuse Pakistani people. But they never talk about the dirty act of Pakistan in creating fundamentalist bands and imposing them on our people. More importantly, they keep silent about the wider, more devastating and more active meddling of the brutal Iranian regime in Afghanistan through its cultural and media agents. Pro-Iranian regime politicians and intellectuals are as much traitorous to democracy and human rights as the intellectuals and politicians who, from an ethnocentric and reactionary point of view, call the barbarism and terror of Taliban a “national armed resistance,” and shamelessly defend them.

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) has announced a number of times that when the legislative, administrative and judicial bodies are ruled by drug-lords and warlords or their Talibi, Gulbudini, Parchami and Khalqi accomplices, they will never do anything positive for our deprived people. Rather these bodies will act as a mechanism to continue the ongoing crime, drug-trade and looting by these mafia bands to become richer.

If the US government replaces Karzai with a new puppet, even if he is not from among the Jehadi criminals, it will be just a deception of our people and an attempt to put the responsibilities of today’s tragedies on the shoulders of a single person. Such a move will have no positive outcome for our nation. Only a president who rely on people and come to power through a fair election, free from any kind of dependence or dealings with the fundamentalists, would be ideal for Afghan people.

Instead of defeating Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Gulbuddini terrorists and disarming the Northern Alliance, the foreign troops are creating confusion among the people of the world. We believe that if these troops leave Afghanistan, our people will not feel any kind of vacuum but rather will become more free and come out of their current puzzlement and doubts. In such a situation, they will face the Taliban and Northern Alliance without their “national” mask, and rise to fight with these terrorist enemies. Neither the US nor any other power wants to release Afghan people from the fetters of the fundamentalists. Afghanistan’s freedom can be achieved by Afghan people themselves. Relying on one enemy to defeat another is a wrong policy which has just tightened the grip of the Northern Alliance and their masters on the neck of our nation.

By publishing the book “Some Documents of the Bloody and Traitorous Jehadi Years”, RAWA has taken another small step in unmasking and prosecuting the war criminals of the past three decades. But we will not stop here. In the face of continuous threats by the terrorists sitting in the parliament and the government, we will not be intimidated and despite the passivity and compromises of intellectuals in this regard, we are determined that with the help of justice-loving people and organizations of Afghanistan and around the world, will work to push the war criminals into a court of justice and reclaim billions of dollars worth of national assets from them. Only then the eyes of our grief-stricken people may no longer burn endlessly for justice and democracy.

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77 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War.

Today, as the world celebrates the 77th anniversary of this victory, why not think very seriously about finally winning that war once and for all?

If you’re confused by this statement, then you might want to sit down and take a deep breath before reading on. Within the next 12 minutes, you will likely discover a disturbing fact which may frighten you a little bit: The allies never actually won World War II…

Now please don’t get me wrong. I am eternally thankful for the immortal souls who gave their lives to put down the fascist machine during those bleak years… but the fact is that a certain something wasn’t resolved on the 9th of May, 1945 which has a lot to do with the slow re-emergence of a new form of fascism during the second half of the 20th century and the renewed danger of a global dictatorship which the world faces again today.

It is my contention that it is only when we find the courage to really look at this problem with sober eyes, that we will be able to truly honor our courageous forebears who devoted their lives to winning a peace for their children, grandchildren and humanity more broadly.

The Ugly Truth of WWII

I’ll stop beating around the bush now and just say it: Adolph Hitler or Benito Mussolini were never “their own men”.

The machines they led were never fully under their sovereign control and the financing they used as fuel in their effort to dominate the world did not come from the Banks of Italy or Germany. The technologies they used in petrochemicals, rubber, and computing didn’t come from Germany or Italy, and the governing scientific ideology of eugenics that drove so many of the horrors of Germany’s racial purification practices never originated in the minds of German thinkers or from German institutions.

Were it not for a powerful network of financiers and industrialists of the 1920s-1940s with names such as Rockefeller, Warburg, Montague Norman, Osborn, Morgan, Harriman or Dulles, then it can safely be said that fascism would never have been possible as a “solution” to the economic woes of the post-WWI order. To prove this point, let us take the strange case of Prescott Bush as a useful entry point.

The patriarch of the same Bush dynasty that gave the world two disastrous American presidents made a name for himself funding Nazism alongside his business partners Averell Harrimen and Averell’s younger brother E. Roland Harriman (the latter who was to recruit Prescott to Skull and Bones while both were studying at Yale).

Not only did Prescott, acting as director of Brown Brothers Harriman, provide valuable loans to keep the bankrupt Nazi party afloat during Hitler’s loss of support in 1932 when the German population voted into office the anti-Fascist General Kurt von Schleicher as Chancellor, but was even found guilty for “trading with the enemy” as director of Union Banking Corporation in 1942!

That’s right! Eleven months after America entered WWII, the Federal Government naturally conducted an investigation of all Nazi banking operations in the USA and wondered why Prescott continued to direct a bank which was so deeply enmeshed with Fritz Thyssen’s Bank voor Handel en Scheepvart of the Netherlands. Thyssen for those who are unaware is the German industrial magnate famous for writing the book “I Paid Hitler”. The bank itself was tied to a German combine called Steel Works of the German Steel Trust which controlled 50.8% of Nazi Germany’s pig iron, 41.4% of its universal plate, 38.5% of its galvanized steel, 45.5% of its pipes and 35% of its explosives. Under Vesting Order 248, the U.S. federal government seized all of Prescott’s properties on October 22, 1942.

The U.S.-German Steel combine was only one small part of a broader operation as Rockefeller’s Standard Oil had created a new international cartel alongside IG Farben (the fourth largest company in the world) in 1929 under the Young Plan.

Owen Young was a JP Morgan asset who headed General Electric and instituted a German debt repayment plan in 1928 that gave rise to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and consolidated an international cartel of industrialists and financiers on behalf of the City of London and Wall Street.

The largest of these cartels saw Henry Ford’s German operations merging with IG Farben, Dupont industries, Britain’s Shell and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. The 1928 cartel agreement also made it possible for Standard Oil to pass off all patents and technologies for the creation of synthetic gasoline from coal to IG Farben thus allowing Germany to rise from producing merely 300 000 tons of natural petroleum in 1934 to an incredible 6.5 million tons (85% of its total) during WWII! Had this patent/technology transfer not taken place, it is a fact that the modern mechanized warfare that characterized WWII could never have occurred.

Two years before the Young Plan began, JP Morgan had already given a $100 million loan to Mussolini’s newly established fascist regime in Italy- with Democratic Party kingmaker Thomas Lamont playing the role of Prescott Bush in Wall Street’s Italian operation. It wasn’t only JP Morgan who loved Mussolini’s brand of corporate fascism, but Time Magazine’s Henry Luce unapologetically gushed over Il Duce putting Mussolini on the cover of Time eight times between 1923 and 1943 while relentlessly promoting fascism as the “economic miracle solution for America” (which he also did in his other two magazines Fortune and Life).

Many desperate Americans, still traumatized from the long and painful depression begun in 1929, had increasingly embraced the poisonous idea that an American fascism would put food on the table and finally help them find work.

A few words should be said of Brown Brothers Harriman.

Bush’s Nazi bank itself was the product of an earlier 1931 merger which took place between Montagu Norman’s family bank (Brown Brothers) and Harriman, Bush and Co. Montague Norman was the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944, leader of the Anglo-German Fellowship Trust and controller of Germany’s Hjalmar Schacht (Reichsbank president from 1923-1930 and Minister of Economy from 1934-1937). Norman was also the primary controller of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) from its creation in 1930 throughout the entirety of WWII.

The Central Bank of Central Banks

Although the BIS was established under the Young Plan and nominally steered by Schacht as a mechanism for debt repayments from WWI, the Swiss-based “Central Bank of Central Banks” was the key mechanism for international financiers to fund the Nazi machine.

The fact that the BIS was under the total control of Montagu Norman was revealed by Dutch Central Banker Johan Beyen who said “Norman’s prestige was overwhelming. As the apostle of central bank cooperation, he made the central banker into a kind of arch-priest of monetary religion. The BIS was, in fact, his creation.”

The founding members of the Board included the private central banks of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium as well as a coterie of 3 private American banks (JP Morgan, First National of Chicago, and First National of New York). The three American banks merged after the war and are today known as Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase.

In its founding constitution, the BIS, its directors and staff were given immunity from all sovereign national laws and not even authorities in Switzerland were permitted to enter its premises.

This story was conveyed powerfully in the 2013 book Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World.

A Word on Eugenics

Nazi support in the build up to, and during WWII didn’t end with finance and industrial might, but extended to the governing scientific ideology of the Third Reich: Eugenics (aka: the science of Social Darwinism as developed by Thomas Huxley’s X Club associate Herbert Spencer and Darwin’s cousin sir Francis Galton decades earlier). In 1932, New York hosted the Third Eugenics Conference co-sponsored by William Draper Jr (JP Morgan banker, head of General Motors and leading figure of Dillon Read and co) and the Harriman family. This conference brought together leading eugenicists from around the world who came to study America’s successful application of eugenics laws which had begun in 1907 under the enthusiastic patronage of Theodore Roosevelt. Hiding behind the respectable veneer of “science” these high priests of science discussed the new age of “directed evolution of man” which would soon be made possible under a global scientific dictatorship.

Speaking at the conference, leading British Fascist Fairfield Osborn said that eugenics:

“aids and encourages the survival and multiplication of the fittest; indirectly, it would check and discourage the multiplication of the unfitted. As to the latter, in the United States alone, it is widely recognized that there are millions of people who are acting as dragnets or sheet anchors on the progress of the ship of state…While some highly competent people are unemployed, the mass of unemployment is among the less competent, who are first selected for suspension, while the few highly competent people are retained because they are still indispensable. In nature, these less-fitted individuals would gradually disappear, but in civilization, we are keeping them in the community in the hopes that in brighter days, they may all find employment. This is only another instance of humane civilization going directly against the order of nature and encouraging the survival of the un-fittest”.

The dark days of the great depression were good years for bigotry and ignorance as eugenics laws were applied to two Canadian provinces, and widely spread across Europe and America with 30 U.S. states applying eugenics laws to sterilize the unfit. The Rockefeller Foundation went on to fund German eugenics and most specifically the rising star of human improvement Joseph Mengele.

The Nazi Frankenstein Monster is Aborted

Describing his January 29, 1935 meeting with Hitler, Round Table controller Lord Lothian quoted the Fuhrer’s vision for Aryan co-direction of the New World Order saying:

“Germany, England, France, Italy, America and Scandinavia … should arrive at some agreement whereby they would prevent their nationals from assisting in the industrializing of countries such as China, and India. It is suicidal to promote the establishment in the agricultural countries of Asia of manufacturing industries”

While it is obvious that much more can be said on the topic, the Fascist machine didn’t fully behave the way the Dr. Frankensteins in London wished, as Hitler began to realize that his powerful military machine gave Germany the power to lead the New World Order rather than play second fiddle as mere enforcers on behalf of their Anglo masters in Britain. While many London and Wall Street oligarchs were willing to adapt to this new reality, a decision was made to abort the plan, and try to fight another day.

To accomplish this, a scandal was concocted to justify the abdication of pro-Nazi King Edward VIII in 1936 and an appeasing Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was replaced with Winston Churchill in 1940. While Sir Winston was a life long racist, eugenicist and even Mussolini-admirer, he was first and foremost a devout British Imperialist and as such would fight tooth and nail to save the prestige of the Empire if it were threatened. Which he did.

The Fascists vs Franklin Roosevelt

Within America itself, the pro-fascist Wall Street establishment had been loosing a war that began the day anti-fascist President Franklin Roosevelt was elected in 1932. Not only had their attempted February 1933 assassination failed, their 1934 coup d’etat plans were also thwarted by a patriotic General named Smedley Butler.

To make matters worse, their efforts to keep America out of the war in the hopes of co-leading the New World Order alongside Germany, France and Italy was also falling apart. As I outlined in my recent article How to Crush a Bankers’ Dictatorship, between 1933-1939, FDR had imposed sweeping reforms on the banking sector, thwarted a major attempt to create a global Bankers’ dictatorship under the Bank of International Settlements, and mobilized a broad recovery under the New Deal.

By 1941, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor polarized the American psyche so deeply that resisting America’s entry into WWII as Wall Street’s American Liberty League had been doing up until then, became political suicide. Wall Street’s corporatist organizations were called out by FDR during a powerful 1938 speech as the president reminded the Congress of the true nature of fascism:

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power… Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing. This concentration is seriously impairing the economic effectiveness of private enterprise as a way of providing employment for labor and capital and as a way of assuring a more equitable distribution of income and earnings among the people of the nation as a whole.”

While America’s entry into WWII proved a decisive factor in the destruction of the fascist machine, the dream shared by Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Wallace and many of FDR’s closest allies across America, Canada, Europe, China and Russia for a world governed by large-scale development, and win-win cooperation did not come to pass.

Even though FDR’s ally Harry Dexter White led in the fight to shut down the Bank of International Settlements during the July 1944 Bretton Woods conference, the passage of White’s resolutions to dissolve BIS and audit its books were never put into action.

While White, who was to become the first head of the IMF, defended FDR’s program to create a new anti-imperial system of finance, Fabian Society leader, and devout eugenicist John Maynard Keynes defended the Bank and pushed instead to redefine the post-war system around a one world currency called the Bancor, controlled by the Bank of England and BIS.

The Fascist Resurgence in the Post-War World

By the end of 1945, the Truman Doctrine and Anglo-American “special relationship” replaced  FDR’s anti-colonial vision, while an anti-communist witch hunt turned America into a fascist police state under FBI surveillance. Everyone friendly to Russia was targeted for destruction and the first to feel that targeting were FDR’s close allies Henry Wallace and Harry Dexter White, whose untimely 1948 death while campaigning for Wallace’s presidential bid put an end to anti-colonialists running the IMF.

In the decades after WWII, those same financiers who brought the world fascism went straight back to work infiltrating FDR’s Bretton Woods Institutions such as the IMF and World Bank, turning them from tools of development, into tools of enslavement. This process was fully exposed in the 2004 book Confessions of an Economic Hit man by John Perkins.

The European banking houses representing the old nobility of the empire continued through this reconquering of the west without punishment. By 1971, the man whom Perkins exposed as the chief economic hit man George Schultz, orchestrated the removal of the U.S. dollar from the Gold-reserve, fixed exchange rate system director of the Office of Management of Budget and in the same year, the Rothschild Inter-Alpha Group of banks was created to usher in a new age of globalization. This 1971 floating of the dollar ushered in a new paradigm of consumerism, post-industrialism, and de-regulation which transformed the once productive western nations into speculative “post-truth” basket cases convinced that casino principles, bubbles and windmills were substitutes for agro-industrial economic practices.

So here we are in 2022 celebrating victory over fascism.

The children and grandchildren of those heroes of 1945 now find themselves attached to the biggest financial collapse in history with $1.5 quadrillion of fictitious capital ripe to explode under a new global hyperinflation akin to that which destroyed Weimar in 1923, but this time global. The Bank of International Settlements that should have been dissolved in 1945 today controls the Financial Stability Board and thus regulates the world derivatives trade which has become the weapon of mass destruction that has been triggered to unleash more chaos upon the world than Hitler could have ever dreamed.

Is the anti-fascist spirit of Franklin Roosevelt alive in the form of modern anti-imperialism including Russia and China and a growing array of nations united under the umbrella of the New Deal of the 21st Century which has come to be called the “Belt and Road Initiative”.

And thus a chance still exists today to take the types of emergency actions needed at this moment of existential crisis and finally accomplish what FDR had always intended: to win World War II.

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Einführung in Thematik

Fürst Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921), russischer Politikwissenschaftler, Humangeograph und Philosoph, beobachtete sowohl die Natur als auch die Naturwesen und bezog seine Erkenntnisse auf den Menschen. In seinem wissenschaftlichen Werk “Gegenseitige Hilfe in der Tier- und Menschenwelt“ schreibt er, dass im Tierreich nicht nur der“Kampf ums Überleben“, sondern auch das Prinzip der „Gegenseitigen Hilfe“ wirksam ist und dass diejenigen Lebewesen, die dieses Prinzip umsetzen, länger überleben (1).

Die naturwissenschaftliche Tiefen-Psychologie basiert auf diesen Erkenntnissen. Demnach ist der Mensch ein naturgegeben soziales Wesen, das auf die Gemeinschaft seiner Mitmenschen ausgerichtetet ist und eine Neigung zum Guten besitzt. Vor diesem Menschen muss man keine Angst haben.

Geschätzte Mitbürger, in den letzten Tagen machte ich Erlebnisse, die ein Umdenken zur Folge hatten. Im persönlichen Kontakt mit alten Freunden wurde mir stärker vor Augen geführt als bisher, dass die Politiker im Namen der Gesellschaft mit ihren „dringend notwendigen“ politischen Entscheidungen und ihren medial-politischen Manipulationen sowie der permanenten Dauerberieselung der Bevölkerung mit Mahnungen und Warnungen die Bürger nicht nur stark verunsichern und irritieren, sondern sie krank machen.

Eine liebe Nachbarin, die meine Frau und ich längere Zeit nicht gesehen hatten, ist so stark abgemagert, dass wir erschrocken sind. Erst nach einer Weile erzählte sie beschämt, dass Mitte des Monats von der kleinen Alters-Rente kein Geld mehr übrig sei für ein nahrhaftes Essen.

Ein alter Freund, der eine ordentliche Professur im entfernten Ausland angeboten bekam, antwortete auf die Frage, ob er seine alten Freunde in der Heimat vergessen hätte, daß dem nicht so sei, dass er aber nicht mehr wisse, „wo ihm der Kopf stünde“, weil seine Ehefrau, die er zusammen mit den Kindern in der Heimat zurücklassen musste, schwer erkrankt sei. Des weiteren fand eine gute Freundin, die nach einigen Jahrzehnten plötzlich ihr Modegeschäft räumen musste, in ihrem Auto ganz verwirrt den Rückwärtsgang nicht mehr.

Zu guter Letzt stieß ich auf die Veröffentlichung einer wissenschaftlich-medizinischen Fachgesellschaft, der „Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde e. V. (DGPPN). Unter der Überschrift „Basisdaten zu psychischen Erkrankungen in Deutschland“, heißt es aufgrund einer Momentaufnahme vom Januar 2023:

„In Deutschland sind jedes Jahr etwa 27,9 Prozent der erwachsenen Bevölkerung von einer psychischen Erkrankung betroffen. Das entspricht rund 17,8 Millionen betroffene Personen, (…). Zu den häufigsten Erkrankungen zählen Angststörungen (15,4 Prozent), gefolgt von affektiven Störungen (9,8 Prozent, unipolare Depression allein 8,2 Prozent) und Störungen  durch Alkohol- oder Medikamentenkonsum (5,7 Prozent).“ (2)

Leider versuchen viele Kollegen, verunsicherte Ratsuchende mit der jeweils bestehenden Gesellschaft auszusöhnen, anstatt auch das soziale und kulturelle Problem in den therapeutischen Prozess mit einzubeziehen. Diese würden dann erfahren, dass ihre individuellen Probleme nicht nur in der persönlichen Geschichte wurzeln, sondern vielmehr in einer inhumanen Gesellschaft und Kultur.

Doch die „gegenseitige Hilfe“ erweist sich als „Einladung“ und „Angebot“ als ein Weg, den Mitmenschen „unter die Arme zu greifen“ – und durch die Hilfleleistung auch selbst zu gesunden. Die Menschen, denen die Unterstützung angeboten wird, erfahren in dieser Situation, dass auch die Helfenden Probleme haben, die von den eigenen nicht gänzlich verschieden sind.

Überall kommt es auf den Gemeinsinn an, auf das Gefühl der Zusammengehörigkeit, des Miteinanderseins. Das Geschenk der Evolution besteht im sittlichen Bewußtsein des Einzelnen, in der Einsicht in die Verantwortung aller gegenüber allen.

Zur Bedeutung der Aufklärung

Die Zukunft unserer Kultur hängt nach wie vor davon ab, ob es genügend Aufklärer geben wird, die imstande sind, den breiten Volksmassen jene Voruteile zu nehmen, die der ideologische Hintergrund der Menschheitskatastrophen sind. Mehr denn je sind wir darauf angewiesen, dass „freie Geister“ uns lehren, was Wahrheit und was Lüge ist.

Dabei hat der Intellektuelle eine große Verantwortung, denn seine Pflicht wäre es, für die anderen Menschen zu denken. Einige unter ihnen befürchten jedoch, dass sie als Intellektuelle unter sich bleiben würden, nur zueinander sprächen und die Masse der Bevölkerung gar nicht erreichten.

Deshalb wäre es für alle „Aufklärer“ wichtig, sich zusätzlich zur Aufklärung mit den Mitmenschen zusammenzusetzten, sie in aller Ruhe anzuhören und zu versuchen, sich in ihre Probleme einzufühlen.

Oder wie es Alfred Adler, der Begründer der Individualpsychologie, ausdrückte:

„Mit den Augen eines anderen sehen, mit den Ohren eines anderen hören, mit dem Herzen eines anderen fühlen.“ (3)

Gemeinsam findet man in der Regel einen menschlichen (psychologischen) Weg heraus aus dem Labyrinth der Zukunftsängste. Und das vor allem dann, wenn das Hilfsangebot eine freundliche Einladung und ein zwangloses Angebot ist, wie man die gegenwärtige Situation zufriedenstellend bewältigen kann und dadurch besser lebt.

Bereits vor meinem „Umdenken“ hatte ich mit einem Zitat von Bertolt Brecht den Aufruf verfaßt: „Wenn Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht“. Aus Gewissensgründen dem Staat den Gehorsam verweigern. Politiker sind nur die sichtbaren Schachfiguren der wirklichen Herrscher der Welt.“

Begonnen hatte ich den Artikel mit den Worten: „Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen (Shakespeare). Doch diejenigen, die sich der Gefahr des Neo-Faschismis‘, der Gefahr des „pharmazeutischen Verbrechens des Jahrhunderts“ (CHD) und des drohenden Weltkriegs bewusst sind, werden der Aufforderung Bertolt Brechts und derjenigen des deutschen Regime-Kritikers Wolfgang Borchert in seinem 1947 verfassten Manifest „Dann gibt es nur eines: Sag NEIN!“ bereitwillig zustimmen.

Aber die Bewunderung großer Vorbilder, die dem Staat aus Gewissensgründen den Gehorsam verweigerten und mit ihrem selbstlosen Handeln nicht nur das Recht und die Freiheit in den eigenen Ländern schützten, reicht nicht aus, um die sehr beunruhigende Situation in der Welt zu verändern: Jeder von uns muss selbst aktiv werden.“

Da es sich bei dem geplanten Artikel wieder um eine Aufforderung an die bereits problembeladenen Mitmenschen handelte, nahm ich nach meinem „Umdenken“ Abstand von dieser Idee.

Peter Kropotkin

Abschließend eine psychologische Stellungnahme des humanistisch gesinnten russischen Anarchisten und Revolutionärs Fürst Peter Kropotkin:

„Ein Mensch, dem die Fähigkeit, sich mit seiner Umgebung zu identifizieren anerzogen ist, ein Mensch, der sich selbst seines Herzens, seines Willens bewusst ist, stellt seine Fähigkeiten frei in den Dienst der Anderen, ohne in dieser oder einer anderen Welt dafür eine Belohnung zu erwarten. Vor allem besitzt er die Fähigkeit, die Gefühle anderer zu begreifen, sie mitzuerleben. Dies genügt. Er teilt mit den Anderen Freud und Leid. Er hilft ihnen, die schweren Zeiten ihres Lebens zu ertragen. Er fühlt seine Kräfte und verbraucht großmütig seine Fähigkeiten, andere zu lieben, andere zu begeistern, in ihnen den Glauben an eine bessere Zukunft zu wecken und sie zum Kampf für diese Zukunft hinzureißen. Welches Schiksal ihn auch erreicht, er nimmt es nicht als Leid, sondern als Erfüllung seines Lebens, das er nicht gegen ein pflichtloses Vegetieren eintauschen möchte, er zieht eventuell Gefahren einem kampf- und inhaltslosen Leben vor.“ (4)

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Dr. Rudolf Lothar Hänsel ist Schul-Rektor, Erziehungswissenschaftler (Dr. paed.) und Psychologe (Dipl.-Psych.). Nach seinen Universitätsstudien wurde er wissenschaftlicher Lehrer (Professor) in der Erwachsenenbildung: unter anderem Leiter eines freien Schul-Modell-Versuchs und Fortbildner bayerischer Beratungslehrkräfte und Schulpsychologen. Als Pensionär arbeitete er als Psychotherapeut in eigener Praxis. Bei einer Öffentlichen Anhörung zur Jugendkriminalität im Europa-Parlament war er Berichterstatter für Deutschland. In seinen Büchern und Fachartikeln fordert er eine bewusste ethisch-moralische Werteerziehung sowie eine Erziehung zu Gemeinsinn und Frieden. Für seine Verdienste um Serbien bekam er 2021 von den Universitäten Belgrad und Novi Sad den Republik-Preis „Kapitän Misa Anastasijevic“ verliehen.

Er schreibt regelmäßig für Global Research.

Noten

(1) Kropotkin, Peter (1908). Gegenseitige Hilfe in der Tier- und Menschenwelt. Leipzig

(2) https://de.rt.com/meinung/164099-studie-rund-ein-drittel-der-erwachsenen-deutschen-psychisch-erkrankt/

(3) Adler, Alfred (1928). Kurze Bemerkungen über Vernunft, Intelligenz und Schwachsinn. In: Internationale Zeitschrift für Insividualpsychologie Nr. 6. S. 267-273, S. 267

(4) Zitiert nach: Grasenack, Moritz (Hrsg.). (2005). Die liberetäre Psychotherapie von Friedrich Liebling. Eine Einführung in seine Großgruppentherapie anhand wortgetreuer Abschriften von Therapiesitzungen. Lich / Hessen, S. 45

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Introduction to the topic

Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921), Russian political scientist, human geographer and philosopher, observed both nature and natural beings and related his findings to human beings. In his scientific work “Mutual Aid in the Animal and Human World”, he writes that in the animal kingdom not only the “struggle for survival” but also the principle of “mutual aid” is effective and that those living beings who implement this principle survive longer (1).

Scientific depth psychology is based on these findings. According to this, man is a naturally social being who is oriented towards the community of his fellow human beings and has a tendency towards good. There is no need to be afraid of this human being.

Dear fellow citizens, in the last few days I have had experiences that have led to a change in thinking. In personal contact with old friends, it became more apparent to me than before that politicians, in the name of society, with their “urgently necessary” political decisions and their media-political manipulations, as well as the permanent constant sprinkling of the population with admonitions and warnings, not only greatly unsettle and irritate the citizens, but also make them ill.

A dear neighbour, whom my wife and I had not seen for a long time, became so emaciated that we were shocked. Only after a while did she tell us, ashamed, that in the middle of the month there was no money left from her small old-age pension for a nutritious meal.

An old friend who had been offered a full professorship in a distant foreign country replied to the question whether he had forgotten his old friends back home that this was not the case, but that he no longer knew “where his head would be” because his wife, whom he had to leave behind in the homeland together with the children, was seriously ill. Furthermore, a good friend, who suddenly had to vacate her fashion shop after several decades, could no longer find the reverse gear in her car, completely confused.

Last but not least, I came across the publication of a scientific medical society, the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde e. V. (DGPPN). Under the heading “Basic data on mental illnesses in Germany”, it says, based on a snapshot from January 2023:

“In Germany, about 27.9 percent of the adult population is affected by a mental illness every year. This corresponds to around 17.8 million affected persons, (…). The most common disorders include anxiety disorders (15.4 per cent), followed by affective disorders (9.8 per cent, unipolar depression alone 8.2 per cent) and disorders caused by alcohol or drug use (5.7 per cent).” (2)

Unfortunately, many colleagues try to reconcile insecure counselling seekers with the respective existing society instead of also including the social and cultural problem in the therapeutic process. They would then learn that their individual problems are not only rooted in their personal history, but rather in an inhumane society and culture.

But “mutual aid” turns out to be an “invitation” and an “offer” as a way to “help” one’s fellow human beings – and, by helping them, to become healthy oneself. In this situation, the people who are offered support learn that those who help them also have problems that are not entirely different from their own.

Everywhere it comes down to a sense of community, a feeling of belonging, of being together. The gift of evolution consists in the moral awareness of the individual, in the insight into the responsibility of all towards all.

On the importance of enlightenment

The future of our culture still depends on whether there will be enough enlightened people who are capable of removing from the broad masses of people those prejudices which are the ideological background of the catastrophes of humanity. More than ever, we are dependent on “free spirits” to teach us what is truth and what is a lie.

In this, intellectuals have a great responsibility, because their duty would be to think for other people. However, some among them fear that as intellectuals they would remain among themselves, speaking only to each other and not reaching the mass of the population at all.

Therefore, it would be important for all “enlighteners”, in addition to enlightenment, to sit down with fellow human beings, to listen to them calmly and to try to empathise with their problems.

Or as Alfred Adler, the founder of individual psychology, put it:

“See with another’s eyes, hear with another’s ears, feel with another’s heart.” (3)

Together, one usually finds a human (psychological) way out of the labyrinth of fears about the future. And this is especially true when the offer of help is a friendly invitation and an informal offer of how to manage the present situation satisfactorily and thereby live better.

Even before my “rethinking”, I had made the appeal with a quote from Bertolt Brecht: “When injustice becomes right, resistance becomes a duty”. For reasons of conscience, refuse to obey the state. Politicians are only the visible pawns of the real rulers of the world.”

I had started the article by saying, “Time is out of joint (Shakespeare). But those who are aware of the danger of neo-fascism, the danger of the “pharmaceutical crime of the century” (CHD) and the threat of world war will readily agree with Bertolt Brecht’s injunction and that of the German regime critic Wolfgang Borchert in his 1947 manifesto “Then there is only one thing: Say NO!”.

But the admiration of great role models who refused to obey the state for reasons of conscience and with their selfless actions not only protected law and freedom in their own countries is not enough to change the very worrying situation in the world: Each of us must take action ourselves.”

Since the planned article was again a call to action to fellow human beings who were already burdened with problems, I refrained from this idea after my “rethinking”.

Peter Kropotkin

Finally, a psychological statement by the humanist-minded Russian anarchist and revolutionary Prince Peter Kropotkin:

“A man to whom the ability to identify with his surroundings is inbred, a man who is himself conscious of his heart, of his will, places his faculties freely at the service of others, without expecting any reward for them in this or any other world. Above all, he possesses the ability to understand the feelings of others, to experience them. This is enough. He shares joys and sorrows with others. He helps them to bear the difficult times of their lives. He feels his strength and generously uses up his abilities to love others, to inspire others, to awaken in them the belief in a better future and to inspire them to fight for this future. Whatever misfortune reaches him, he takes it not as suffering but as the fulfilment of his life, which he does not wish to exchange for a dutiful vegetation; he may prefer dangers to a life devoid of struggle and content.” (4)

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Notes 

(1) Kropotkin, Peter (1908). Mutual aid in the animal and human world. Leipzig

(2) https://de.rt.com/meinung/164099-studie-rund-ein-drittel-der-erwachsenen-deutschen-psychisch-erkrankt/

(3) Adler, Alfred (1928). Brief Remarks on Reason, Intelligence and Feeblemindedness. In: International Journal of Individual Psychology No. 6. pp. 267-273, p. 267.

(4) Quoted from: Grasenack, Moritz (ed.). (2005). The Liberetarian Psychotherapy of Friedrich Liebling. An introduction to his large group therapy based on verbatim transcripts of therapy sessions. Lich / Hesse, p. 45

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If there is one committee within the hallowed, marbled halls of the United States Senate, one historic committee that has maintained its devotion to the rule of law, that Committee struggles today for its survival as an exemplar of judicial excellence.  That one source of democratic principles and values consistent with a principled legal standard and the US Constitution would be the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Upon ratification of the US Constitution in 1789,  Article III established the judicial power of the US vested in one Supreme Court and such “inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”   The Judiciary Act of 1789 signed into law by President George Washington organized the Federal Court system into a three tiered structure with Appellate Circuit Courts and District Courts and one Supreme Court defining each jurisdiction to include lifetime appointments.

As validation, it is useful to note that our most famed and esteemed anti-Federalist Founders Thomas Jefferson and James Madison opposed establishment of a proposed Federal judiciary as potentially leading to tyranny by investing too much power in mere mortal Judges to define what was constitutional or not.

One of Senate’s oldest, most influential and prestigious, the Judiciary Committee was established in 1816 with one of its major tasks to process Presidential judicial nominees through the committee hearing and approval process to final floor approval by a simple one-vote majority.  Lifetime compensation for Federal District Courts appointments earn  $232,000/year while Appellate Circuit Court Judges, one step away from the Supreme Court, earn $246,000/year with an Associate S.Ct Judge at $285,000 as of 2023.

Once it became clear that Republicans failed to take control of the Senate, the Biden Administration’s assault on the Senate Judiciary Committee achieved a new threshold of frenzy in its attempt to fill the Federal bench with unqualified applicants as they destroy the United States Constitution.  While Committee website quote from its Chair Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill): ‘The confirmation of highly qualified judges is one of the great shared successes of President’s Biden and Senate Democrats” is little more than a cruel hoax, the self serving maxim is no longer relevant or accurate in its portrayal of the Committee since the 2022 election.  In fact, quite the opposite is true.

Anyone believing that partisan gibberish has not yet experienced the embarrassing spectacle of transmogrification as Democratic zealots rubber stamp every incompetent, mediocre nominee – no matter its gross lack of judicial philosophy or moral guidelines on their way to the most significant judicial appointments in the country.  Since 2022 election, the Administration’s quality of nominees has reached a new bottom-of-the-barrel with White House favoring diversity-hire applicants who meet the cultural Marxist test rather than an elevated legal standard of knowledge and experience.

Since the Biden Presidency, 152 Article III applicants have been nominated with 107 approved as of February 23, 2023 thereby achieving almost a 75% approval rating.  There are currently twenty two nominees awaiting Senate approval, most of whom were narrowly approved by the Judiciary Committee with some quisling Republican Members voting with the Democrats.

In what should be required viewing for every American citizen, an “Epic Rant”  aka Ode to Nominating a Ham Sandwich by Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) brilliantly acknowledges the depth of how thoroughly the Democrats have embraced the destruction and destabilization of a 230 year old Federal judiciary system committed to preservation of our Constitutional Republic:

“…what I cannot understand over the last two years is that every Democratic member of this Committee has voted for every single Biden judicial nominee one hundred percent without failing and I will say on the Senate floor that every Democrat Senator has voted for every Biden nominee.  Not a single Democrat in the US Senate has mustered the courage to vote No on a single nominee…when we recently had a Republican President and majority in this body, and there were many of us said, on a particular nominee, that this is not a good nominee; we are not going to support this nominee, the White House withdrew the nomination.” 2/09/2023

On February 2, Sen. Lindsay Graham (SC) assumed the role of ‘ranking member’ on Judiciary due to term limit rules set by the Senate Republican Conference.  As Graham votes more often with the Democrats in both the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor, it may be difficult to understand how the ranking Committee Republican who votes against his own party in favor  of  the ‘woke’ Marxist-leaning Democrats is able to function as a true representative  of the committee which he is supposed to lead.

On February 9^th, twenty four Federal District and Circuit Judge nominees, leftover from the 117^th Session of Congress, were awaiting approval by the full Judiciary Committee.   While the full Committee is split 11 Democrats and 10 Republicans, thirteen applicants were approved on a strict party-line vote 11 – 10 while the remaining nominees were approved with Sen. Lindsay Graham (SC) and other defectors voting with the Democrats.

The nomination of Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Katanji Brown Jackson, is worth noting as it set the tone for how inferior and defiled candidates are routinely hustled through the Judiciary Committee process.

Approved by the Committee on a 11 – 11 vote in April 2022, it was the first time in modern history when a S.Ct. nominee failed to receive a plurality in the committee; thus requiring a discharge petition to allow her nomination to go to the Senate floor.  Once on the Senate floor, Jackson was approved by the full Senate 53 – 47 with three Republicans (Senators Collins (Maine), Murkowski (Alaska) and Romney (Utah) voting with the Democrats.  If the Republican trio, which routinely vote as Democrats, had voted with the Republican caucus, Jackson would have received another tie vote 50 – 50 as Vice President Kamala Harris was needed to break the tie in order to approve Jackson’s nomination to the highest Court in the country.

This example of how Republicans undermine their own party and its partisan principles is replete throughout the Committee process while Biden has not yet recommended one Federal judge candidate that has earned a solid recommendation with full Committee support.

Jackson’s appointment was not the elevated experience one expects of a lifetime Supreme Court seat or any Federal judicial appointment but rather significantly lowered the bar for judicial requirements so that the remainder of Biden’s nominees are living up to the dumbed-down quality necessary for Democrats to successfully complete their shameful legislative assignment.  As deficient candidates are allowed to dominate the Federal Court system, the quality of Court decisions will fail to meet the highest Constitutional threshold.

In addition, the Democratic majority has proposed to eliminate the ‘blue slip’ option which has been part of the Committee process for a century.  By submitting the Blue Slip on any specific home-grown judicial nominee, that Senator is indicating support for that nominee; or by withholding the Blue Slip, that nominee does not have the support of its home town Senator.  Democrats oppose the use of the Blue Slips because it inhibits their ability to nominate substandard candidates who are devoted to upheaval of the Federal judicial system so that each and every mediocre candidate can be approved without serious challenge by Republican members of the Committee.

Due to space limitations, here is a partial list of recent Judiciary Committee hearings with Biden nominees that Republican Senators have interrogated, many of whom were unqualified to be sent to the Senate floor.  It may be noted that many of these nominees exhibit little – no preparation and have been coached with frequent dodging of their answers:  “I have not had the opportunity,,,,” or ‘I was acting as an advocate” or “thank you Senator for asking that question.”  Of all twenty one Judiciary Committee Senators, only Senators Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Josh Hawley (Mo..) and Ted Cruz ( Texas) are looking at 2024 re-election.  Their loss would be a devastating setback for what remains of our Constitutional Republic.

• Senator Marsha Blackburn’s (Tenn.) classic inquiry of  Katanji Brown Jackson. What is a woman?
• Senator Blackburn re Blue Slip input into judicial nominations
• Sen. Blackburn interview with AG Garland
• Sen. Blackburn confronts Judge who released child’s murderer
• Sen. Blackburn brilliant support of the Second Amendment
• Sen. Blackburn re Judicial Activism
• Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) interview re nominee  religious convictions
• Sen. Hawley re nominee political activism and unfamiliar responses
• Sen. Hawley unable to support this nomination re new approach on criminal cases
• Sen. Hawley re AG memo re school district/parental rights
• Sen. Hawley with S.Ct Candidate Katanji Brown Jackson re child pornography sentencing
• Sen. Hawley w/nominee re partial birth abortion and pregnancy resources clinics
• Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and the Blue Slip hypocrisy
• Sen. Cruz Do you support racial discrimination?
• Sen. Cruz re Freeman; refusal to answer question about death penalty
• Sen. Cruz inquires about Constitutionality of voter id laws and gender id bathrooms
• Sen. Cruz on political activism campaign
• Sen. Cruz Biden nominees represent radical and extremists
• Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) re child victim anonymity exposed
• Sen Lee re prosecutorial discretion based on social justice
• Sen. Mike Lee w/AG Garland
• Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) discussion with multi nominees about abortion and black babies
• Sen. John Kennedy (La..) legal interviews with multiple nominees
• Sen. John Kennedy with nominees about Christian coalition, legal knowledge, Constitutional questions
• Sen. Kennedy w/Circuit Court Judge re racial quotas

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Following the January mobilization to protest the removal from office of Peru’s Indigenous President Pedro Castillo, unofficial reports indicate continuing resistance to the Dina Boluarte assumed Presidency.

The Boluarte government is backed by an extreme right Parliament and the country’s military.

As well as the U.S. and Canada alone among countries of the Americas. It represents the multinational corporate resource stripping interests (in Peru this includes China’s copper mining and U.S. gold mining) – of an elite.

The Boluarte government has murdered over sixty protesters, placed roadblocks throughout the country and regions under emergency law.

Castillo is in prison without habeas corpus or trial.

Large protests fueled by Indigenous groups from the countryside have gathered repeatedly in Lima and other cities. Demands of the people are largely ignored. The basic problem is that Parliament has consistently fought elected President Pedro Castillo’s attempts to nationalize portions of the country’s resources and protect the environment itself from destruction by corporate resource interests.

Boluarte’s attempts to increase government control of the press and her willingness to use the military and martial law against nonviolent protest, are normalized by the authorities and international press.

Trade unions have backed the protests. 80% percent of the people are now said to be against the Boluarte government. While the protest movement has remained clearly nonviolent, its protesters are labeled “terrorists;” resistance is increasingly cast as moving toward a civil war. As financial news assures us roads to the mines are opening again, a genocide warning continues.

Meanwhile Democracy Now ! reports that in Guatemala the Indigenous movement’s candidates for Presidency, Thelma Cabrera and running mate Jordán  Rojas, have been barred from running. The likely winner of the election will be Zury Ríos, daughter of Ríos Montt, former dictator convicted of genocide against Indigenous villagers. His conviction was overturned by a court of the privileged.

One remembers as well the illegal removal from office of Indigenous President Evo Morales in Bolivia. Is it that democratically elected Indigenous leaders will not be allowed by the elites ? Or is this a problem for the North American corporate boardrooms? Or the U.S. State Department?

Pedro Castillo is an Indigenous leader who won a very narrow election victory over Keiko Fujimori.

He now sits in prison under threat of a 31 year sentence for corruption, which gives her right wing political machinery (often charged with corruption) an immense victory, quite outside the parameters of any democracy.

Her father, Alberto Fujimori, the convicted war criminal, was considered groomed for political office and supported by the U.S.. Now with U.S. and Canadian approval, Dina Boluarte and the right wing Parliament are proceeding without popular mandate. They represent the foreign interests which sustain Peru’s elite. Under Fujimori the war criminal, authorities remained in power through military atrocities.

The mechanism of a genocide could be considered inherent in Alberto Fujimori’s militarization of the country to contain Shining Path. The army and police were largely Indigenous or mestizo, often trained out of a brutal poverty to survival.

The Shining Path which continued a generational struggle for the peoples of Peru, was largely Indigenous, mestizo, trade unionist, socialist, and Maoist.

The smaller allied movement of Tupac Amaru was Marxist-Leninist. The U.S. still lists Shining Path as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization,” while Canada lists it in Spanish, Sendero Luminoso, as a terrorist entity.

At least 70,000 conflict deaths occurred under Alberto Fujimori; these were accompanied by government programs of birth control which included the sterilization often without informed consent of as many as 300,000 Indigenous women and over 20,000 Indigenous men. The programs were applications of birth prevention programs initiated by the U.N. and groups within the U.S..

The instigation of a civil war by government oppression of a victim group until it’s forced to fight to survive, becomes a tactic of genocide. There is some risk that this is the purpose of Boluarte and the Parliament’s takeover of the democracy. The people’s protests were met with military force when there were no reports of Peru’s protest movement defending itself with arms.

What defenses do the people have against international financial interests supported by countries of origin such as Canada and the U.S. ? The peoples of North America have no desire to see the Indigenous peoples of the Americas enslaved or wiped out. Unless we aspire to join the elite, what happens to the Indigenous peoples simply precedes what happens to the rest of us.

The colonial controls once applied by overt military actions are now covert. In the Guatemala genocide trial of Ríos Montt responsibility for atrocities by U.S. trained and advised troops was limited to Guatemalans. In El Salvador responsibility for the murder of five Jesuits and their house keeper was limited to El Salvador’s army despite training and support by the U.S.. Tracing the training of atrocity units throughout the Americas has often led to the U.S. misnamed School of the Americas (now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation). Occasionally there is a slip in the blood trail, as in Honduras where a U.S. West Point graduate was in 2021 convicted in the death squad murder of the environmental activist Berta Isabel Cáceras. What defenses do the people have?

The viability of the U.N. Convention on Genocide is in question due to the long lasting, intensifying evidence of genocide by the government of Israel against Palestinians and Gazans: faced with ongoing atrocities the powerful nations have done nothing. Under the alchemy of corporate perception management, Russia’s stated attempt to protect its minorities in several regions of the Ukraine, and to counter the neo-Nazi ideology which threatened their survival, became “Putin’s war of aggression.” Despite global condemnation of Myanmar the Rohingya remain alive mostly in refugee camps while the issue of genocide is argued by paid attorneys in court. And to mention again Guatemala’s army which provably inflicted a genocide on a portion of Guatemala’s Indigenous population under Ríos Montt, Ríos Montt avoided punishment. With impunity the elite would offer the world his daughter as the country’s next president.

Despite several attempts Peru has not yet been able to call former President Fujimori to account for genocide. This weakens the people’s defenses against genocide. Internationally the covenants and conventions of international law are politicized and undermined by corporate agendas which advance their own interests. The U.N. has avoided forming an international peace keeping force to assure peoples of the world some protection against atrocities.

The best remaining protection against genocide may be the uncompromised outrage of people in all countries, and the commitment of “never again” made as real as possible by each.

In this instance the most helpful protector for the Peruvian people may be President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico who stands by Pedro Castillo, finds Dina Boluarte spurious, and lambastes the stripping of Peru’s resources by Peru’s elite and foreign interests. He publicly recognizes the mechanism of resource stripping as an agenda of liberal governments.

Mexico holds relatively approachable laws against genocide. State signatories to the Genocide Convention might gather and record each crime against the victim people. Genocide has no statute of limitations. Because resource stripping destroys the land’s ability to sustain its people, and results ultimately in displacement and death of the people, those profiting from resource stripping should be registered by the U.N., tracked, and eventually prosecuted. Under an objective application of the law governments and individual politicians allowing profits from the attempted genocide of a people would be complicit and should be sanctioned and eventually prosecuted.

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Switzerland, a neutral country, is considering committing not only a crime against her own „legendary“ Constitutional neutrality but also against humanity, by possibly delivering weapons, tanks, indirectly to a country at war.

The German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorious, as well as Economy Minister, Robert Habeck, asked the Swiss Federal Councilor in charge of Defense, Ms. Viola Amherd, to find an elegant way without hurting Swiss neutrality, to sell part of the 96 Swiss Army’s older model Leopard II tanks, currently in reserve, to sell them back to Germany, possibly to the builder, Rheinmetall.

It’s good for business and if we disguise it well enough, we can do it, was the going Swiss argument.

And yes, the Swiss Defense Minister found a way. It’s easy, she says. Parliament simply has to declare the „old“ tanks as being out of order, ready for being  scrapped – meaning declared unusable – and bingo, the Swiss saved their Constitution. Sure. But not their moral, or ethics.

Now we just have to “lobby” the Parliament to do the right voting, the Minister implies.

Who cares. It’s good for business. Business and maximizing profits are always number one for most of the Swiss, for politicians, as well as corporate giants – and of course, including the Swiss banking system. It’s almost enshrined in the Swiss Constitution.

Apropos – the Swiss Constitution has been suspended. As of 2014 Switzerland is no longer a republic, a so-called “democracy” with a valid Constitution, the umbrella for law-making in the country – Switzerland has been registered in Brussels with the EU (of all places) as a corporation.

Yes, you read right, a corporation. No longer a nation with a constitutional justice system. Swiss justice is based on “rules-based-order” – the all-and-nothing meaning term of the neocon countries-turned-corporate tyrannies. This is true also for France, Germany South Africa, the United States – and many more, almost all, if not all the so-called western world, or Global North.

Most citizens have no clue. This has been done in highest secrecy.

See below by Dr. Astrid Stueckelberger. At about min. 8 into the video, she talks about the “corporatization” of Switzerland and other countries.

Back to Ukraine – In addition to totally fake and false reporting on the Ukraine war, if a Swiss online paper dares to quote Ukraine, „There are many more Russians than we have ammunition… “– and this rather in a positive sense, without any moral contra, then there is something fundamentally wrong, Not just with the media, but with the Swiss moral standards and value system. Such statements are openly promoting killing.

The example is given by the Swiss Federal Council. In the same vein as the media invite to kill, the Swiss Federal Council in general, and in particular, the Swiss Defense Minister doesn’t seem to understand or to care that every delivery of arms, in this case Leopard tanks, to replace those of a third party which has “given” them to Ukraine to kill Russians, is as if Switzerland would send their outranked Leopard II’s – still killing machines – directly to Ukraine. Everything else is a smoke screen, a fraud and betrayal of the people.

It is hard to understand that the Swiss could even consider this request from Germany. The straightforward, honest, and morally ethical reply would have been – NO, NEIN,  No way.

It’s a madhouse, where we live and how we live. And Switzerland is not alone. By far. The saddest part is that most people don’t even realize to what extent their minds have been twisted and brainwashed by high-tech sophisticated media-manipulation. See this.

In our “new” perverted reality, good is bad and bad is good.

Or to quote George Orwell’s “1984”, “War is Peace and Peace is War”.

The Swiss Defense Minister, as well as so many others in the Global West have adopted this doctrine.

They are all delivering arms no end to Ukraine to kill Russians. That’s the goal. To defeat Russia, to fracture Russia, to get a hold of Russia’s enormous resources. They all know very well, they will never defeat Russia. But they kill people, mostly Ukrainians and Russians in this endless, horrendous war, plus, making profit from the arms sales.

Why does Switzerland in the name of the European Union, and the United States, betray her neutrality, her people?

A recent US Department of Defense (DOD) study revealed what most every educated western politician already suspected, no more than about 30% of all the weaponry sent to Ukraine is actually used at the front. The rest goes straight to the black-market – and will end up in what the west calls “terrorists”. – The West is knowingly arming terrorists that are eventually terrorize their people? – So, it seems.

Looks like what is important – keep appearances. Keep “make-believe” – it’s good to kill, the evil-evil Russians. No truth, no background, no history – nothing. That’s the West, and Switzerland joins them wholeheartedly. Because if they would give you the background the truth of what really has been going on – maybe people’s brains would break loose from the indoctrination principles.

What in the case of Germany – Switzerland is especially worrying, is Germany’s unrestricted boldness and disrespect: In January / February this year, the Security Commission of the Swiss Parliament has rejected a similar demand to return 30 of the 96 Swiss “reserve” Leopard II tanks to Germany. Now Germany comes again? – Did they sense that the Swiss moral standards may have shifted?

There is still hope that the Swiss Parliament this time too may safe Switzerland’s integrity by rejecting the German demand, or the demand of anybody to deliver arms – directly or indirectly into the Ukraine, or any war zone in the world.

By keeping their moral standards high, Switzerland could maybe retake their role as mediator, or at least honor her erstwhile neutrality – and maybe become an example for other countries to follow their own sovereign decisions, and not those of a coercing transatlantic wannabe empire and its Brussels-based vassal.

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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and  co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).

Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.

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In the past, I have expressed my opinions on many subjects concerning the World Economy:

• Climate Change, Deforestation, Desertification,
• Population Control,
• Abject Poverty,
• Cleaning up our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Streams, and Creeks,
• Human Slavery,
• Over-fishing of our Oceans, Recycling of Plastics,
• Basic Education for all of humanity,
• Restoring Trust, Honesty, Respect and the rule of law for all peoples of the earth,
• Stop killing wild animals for profit, 
• Stop invading countries for their resources and negotiate fairly,
• Eliminating World Hunger
• Potable water for all living things on Earth to name a few. 

These are truly noble goals that we are going to have to achieve.  We also have to stop monopolies and merger mania.  We cannot allow a small percentage of the population to control all of humanity.

When it comes to population control, 95% of the world’s population is concentrated on just 10% of the world’s land.  This is not a problem.

When it comes to climate change, well the climate is changing all the time.  It is we humans that are the biggest threat to the climate.

We have to stop deforestation, desertification, using our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Streams, and Creeks as garbage dumps.  It is estimated that our oceans produce 50% to 80% of our Oxygen by way of photosynthesis.

We need to stop burying our garbage.  We need to incinerate the remaining garbage with state of the art incinerators.

We need to stop building nuclear plants near the ocean on earthquake fault zones.

We need to stop Deep-sea drilling in our Oceans just to name a few.

We need to educate humans from K to 12 as to how fragile our world really is.

Here is a small example:  Eradicating the wolves in Yellowstone Park from 1872 to 1925 changed the environment and climate in that area.  Bringing back the wolves in 1995 put nature back in balance in that area.  We need to bring the world back into balance with nature.

If we wish to survive as a species on this planet we will most definitely have to address the majority of the above concerns.

After reading the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development it is hard to fault the goals put forward.  It is unfortunate that all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals cannot be achieved due to the fact that the world is too complicated and humans are a very competitive species.  There are some people that are very competitive and extremely wealthy that have nefarious ideas concerning how our world should be run.  These people have to be controlled.

Agenda 21, Absolute ZERO, Welcome Leap, The First 1000 days, Canada’s Bio Digital Convergence, is a whole other thing.

It seems to be a different idea.  The phrase:  You will Own Nothing And Be Happy does not sound good to me.

Question:  Who will own everything?   

It appears that Covid-19 was used as a narrow window of opportunity to bring in the Great Reset.

This was a poor and harmful approach to countless millions of people all over the world.  There was a better way to try and achieve the above 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Now we have the Absolute ZERO goal that is also flawed.

Stating that we have to eliminate C02 is laughable.

Our atmosphere contains 21% Oxygen, 78% Nitrogen and 1% other rare gases like Argon, Helium, Xenon, Neon, Krypton, H2O and CO2.

CO2 makes up 0.04% of our atmosphere.

So I ask you is CO2 and Nitrogen a serious concern?   Nitrogen is lighter than air.

There is talk in the mainstream media of billions of tons of carbon somewhere.

CO2 is a gas molecule / compound that is made up one atom of Carbon and two atoms of Oxygen.

Are we to believe that somehow the Carbon and Oxygen are being separated from the CO2 gas molecule?

We can compress the CO2 into a cylinder and the gas will have weight.  We can liquify the CO2 and it will have weight.   The Pfizer BioNTech  mRNA Gene Therapy injection has to be stored at -95 degrees F.   To do this the vials are stored in dry ice which is CO2.  When the dry ice evaporates it releases the CO2 back into the atmosphere.   This does not seem to be a concern.   CO2 is essential to life on this planet.  The Boreal Forest is similar to the Oceans when it comes to photosynthesis.

WEF’s Yuval Noah Harari is no doubt a deep thinker.

I have watched many of his videos.

He warned us about the dangers of the technology we have today when he spoke at Davos.  He also eluded to the fact that in the future we will combine humans with machines.

He stated that the God gene is not necessary in humans and that we can become our own Gods.  This is very concerning to me.

I would ask Yuval when he looks into his husband’s eyes does he see just atoms, elements, molecules and compounds or does he see something else; a loving soul or spirit.  I see a loving soul / spirit when I look into my wife’s eyes.  I see the same thing when I look into my children’s and grand children’s eyes.  If we become transhumant where will all the new innovation come from?

Will AI be able to take over a humans brain?  To this day we do not understand the complexities of the human brain.  AI was developed by humans with brains that are still developing, albeit slower than a glazier pace however they are still evolving.   There is an old saying:  DON’T MESS WITH NATURE.

There appears to be a goal to break the G7 Nations and have them behave like Mainland China with facial recognition, contact tracing, social credit scores, digital ID chips, population control through AI, and 5-6 G technology.

What we are talking about here is freedom.  You cannot take away the perception of freedom that the G7 population has had for over 77 years.  The masses have to feel that they are free and they have to be free.  All world advancement did not come from the elite.  It came from the masses.  Think of all the music that we enjoy.  Think of the person working out of their house on an invention that can change the world for the better.   AI will not do this for us.

What is happening in Canada where I live, there seems to be a movement towards total control of the Canadian population.  You know, 15 minute cities and where Governments join with primary dealers and multi-national corporations to benefit themselves negating their moral responsibility to the 99 percent.

Think of the WEF,  Great Rest,  Stakeholder Capitalism and The fourth Industrial Revolution.  Of course you have been told not to talk about this.  This will not go over well with the masses.  All through history, this idea has never been successful.

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First published on February 9, 2023, in the immediate wake of the earthquake

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The following text is a translation of Peter Koenig’s article. Our thanks to Hurseda Haber media for the translation into Turkish.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Is This An Act of Terror?

By Peter Koenig, March 05, 2023

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Bu yazının yazıldığı sırada, Türkiye-Suriye Depremi’nin, Çevresel Modifikasyon Teknikleri tarafından tetiklenen bir Terör Eylemi olduğuna dair şüpheler seslendiriliyor, ancak ortada somut kanıtlar yok. Yukarıdaki iddialar ispatlanmayı bekliyor.

Türkiye Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’a göre, “Türkiye’deki yıkıcı depremden 13 milyondan fazla insan etkilendi.”

“Deprem çok büyük hasara neden oldu. Sadece ülkemizin değil, tüm dünya tarihinin en büyük felaketiydi” diyen Erdoğan, televizyonlara açıklamalarda bulundu.

“Tarihimizin en acı günlerini yaşıyoruz. Merkez üssü Kahramanmaraş’a bağlı Pazarcık ve Elbistan’da olan iki güçlü deprem, [Gaziantep şehri yakınlarında] on ilde büyük çaplı hasara yol açtı. Bu topraklarda yaklaşık 13,5 milyon vatandaşımız etkilendi” dedi.

6 Şubat 2023 Pazartesi sabahı 4 civarında, 7,8 büyüklüğünde büyük bir deprem Türkiye’nin güneydoğusunu ve Suriye’yi salladı. US Geological Survey’e göre depremin merkez üssü, Suriye sınırına 100 km uzaklıkta büyük bir şehir ve eyalet başkenti olan Gaziantep’e yaklaşık 30 km (2,1 milyon nüfus) mesafedeki Pazarcık’tı.

Deprem yaklaşık 18 km derinliğindeydi.

9 Saat sonra bir başka deprem daha meydana geldi. Bu kez Elbistan Kahramanmaraş’ta ve 7,6 büyüklüğündeydi.

Devasa bir terör eylemi mi?

Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan, bunun dünyanın gelmiş geçmiş en büyük felaketlerinden biri olduğu konusunda haklıysa -ki haklı da görünüyor- savaşlar bir yana, bu bir terör eylemi midir?

Türkiye bu kadar yıkıcı bir tepkiye yol açacak ne yaptı. Ve kim tarafından yapıldı?

ABD mi? NATO mu, komuta söz konusu olduğunda aynı zamanda Washington ve Pentagon mu?

Doğu ile batı arasındaki stratejik coğrafi konumu nedeniyle NATO’nun kilit bir üyesi ve ağırlığı olan Türkiye’nin son zamanlarda yaptıkları, NATO müttefiklerinin gazabını uyandırmış olabilir.

Öncelik sırasına göre değildir:

1 – Türkiye, Rusya ile bir NATO üyesi için “düşmanla birlik olmak” gibi anlaşılan bir ittifaka girdi. Bir NATO düşmanı ile böyle bir ortaklık, gerçekten de Batı için mutlak bir yasak yoldur.

2 – Bu ittifak kapsamında Türkiye, ABD’nin Patriot sistemi yerine Rusya’dan S-400 Hava Savunma sistemini almaya karar verdi. Patriot (Hedef Önleme için Aşamalı Dizi İzleme Radarı anlamına gelir), karadan havaya bir füze ve anti-balistik sistemdir. NATO’nun hava savunma sistemidir. Bunun yerine, Türkiye’nin daha sofistike, daha hassas ve etkili Rus S-400 kararı, Rusya ile ittifakının güçlü bir omurgasını oluşturuyor.

3 – Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan, 2017’de S-400 için Başkan Putin ile 2,5 milyar ABD doları değerinde bir anlaşmaya aracılık etti. S-400 füze bataryalarının ilk teslimatları 2019’da geldi.

4 – S-400 sisteminin NATO ittifakı ve Amerika’nın en pahalı silah platformu F-35 için risk oluşturduğu söyleniyor. Türkiye, o sırada Başkan Trump tarafından, özellikle de Türk Lirasının yabancıların manipüle ettiği bir devalüasyonla – Türkiye ekonomisi üzerinde yıkıcı bir etkisi olan – ciddi bir şekilde yaptırıma maruz kalmıştı. Washington’ın bir NATO üyesini uygunsuz davranıştan dolayı “cezalandırması” alışılmadık, neredeyse duyulmamış bir durum.

5 – ABD savaş gemisi USS Nitze’nin Türk kontrolündeki İstanbul Boğazı’ndan Karadeniz’e girmesi yasaklandı. USNI News’e göre, bir ABD destroyeri olan ABD savaş gemisi USS Nitze, 2023 Şubatının başlarında Karadeniz yakınlarında faaliyet gösterirken görüldü. Putin’in Ukrayna’yı işgalinin başlamasından bu yana bir ABD savaş gemisinin Rusya’ya en yakın konumda olduğu söyleniyor.

6 – 3 Şubat’ta Nitze, İstanbul Boğazı’nın alt ucunda, Türkiye’de bir liman uğrak yerine giderken görüldü. Boğazdan geçen son ABD savaş gemisi, 15 Aralık 2021’de Karadeniz’den ayrılan USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) olmuştu.

7 – Şubat 2022’de Türkiye, Karadeniz’de ulusal limanı olmayan tüm gemiler için Akdeniz’den Karadeniz’e Boğaz geçişini kapattı. Bu, ABD savaş gemilerinin Akdeniz’den İstanbul Boğazı’ndan Karadeniz’e geçmesine izin verilmediği anlamına gelir; buradan Rusya, USS Nitze gibi ABD muhriplerinden gelen seyir füzelerine karşı savunmasız olabilir. Bu arada Nitze, Marmara Denizi’ndeki Gölcük Deniz Üssü’ne bir liman ziyareti planladı.

8 – Doğu ile Batı arasında, önemli bir ayrım çizgisi olarak İstanbul Boğazı ile kilit bir NATO ülkesi olan Türkiye, NATO müttefiki için kritik bir stratejik geçidi kapatıyor. Bu iyi görülmeyebilir Washington tarafından.

9 – Türkiye – Suriye yakınlaşması, kesinlikle Washington’un istediği bir şey değil. Arab Center Washington DC tarafından bildirildiği üzere bu bir dizi bölgesel sürprizdeki (Suudi Arabistan Çin ve Rusya yakınlaşması mesela) en son gelişme.

10 – Türkiye Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın Suriye Devlet Başkanı Beşar Esad’la yakınlaşmaya olan ilgisi, hassas iç ve bölgesel dengeleme hareketindeki son fasıl. Türkiye’nin dostları ve düşmanları, özellikle ABD, bu gelişmenin nasıl sonuçlanabileceği konusunda sıkıntılı bir çabalama içinde. Yakınlaşma, eğer başarılı olursa, Erdoğan’a belki de yaklaşan Türkiye seçimlerinin ötesinde net bir avantaj sağlayacak ve Kuzey Suriye’deki iç ve bölgesel dinamikleri daha da karmaşık hale getirecektir.

11 – ABD’nin Suriye’den kovulmasını Rusya’nın Suriye’ye müdahalesini hatırlıyor musunuz? Başkan Beşar Esad’ın talebi üzerine – Eylül 2015’ten 2017’nin sonuna kadar çoğunlukla hava kuvvetleri müdahalesi yapan Rus ordusu, Washington’un Suriye’den tam olmasa da önemli ölçüde çekilmesinden büyük ölçüde sorumluydu. 2017’de “görev tamamlandığında” Rus muharebe birlikleri geri çekildi, ancak Rusya Kuzey Suriye’de nominal bir askeri polis varlığını sürdürüyor.

12 – Türkiye’nin Bombası – birkaç gün önce İsveç’i NATO üyesi olarak reddetmesi, bardağı taşıran son damla oldu. Yeni bir ülkenin NATO üyesi olabilmesi için TÜM NATO ülkelerinin yeni adayı onaylaması gerekir.

13- İsveç, Türkiye’nin bazı şartlarını yerine getiremeyeceğini söylüyor. Bunların arasında Türkiye’nin, İsveç’in Erdoğan’ın baş düşmanları olan terör örgütü PKK üyelerini desteklediği yönündeki suçlamaları da var.

14 – Bir Türk Kriz Grubuna göre, 1984’ten beri PKK ile Türk hükümeti arasındaki çatışmalarda yaklaşık 30.000 ila 40.000 kişinin öldüğü tahmin ediliyor.

15 – Türkiye’nin İsveç’i NATO üyesi olarak reddetmesinde belki de Rusya’nın bazı çıkarları söz konusuydu. İsveç ile Rusya arasında barış hüküm sürse de, 1809’dan beri iki ülke, diğer komşularıyla durumun aksine hiçbir zaman yakın bir ilişki kuramadı. Bu, özellikle mevcut İsveç Hükümeti için geçerlidir.

14 Mayıs 2023 Türkiye Genel Seçimleri

Depremin zamanlaması bir planın parçası olsaydı, 14 Mayıs 2023’teki genel seçimlere mükemmel bir şekilde uyardı. Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan ve partisi Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AK Parti) şu anda popülerlik anketlerinde iyi durumda değil.

Depremin sonuçlarıyla nasıl başa çıkacağına bağlı olarak, kendisi ve Partisi onay puanları kazanabilir veya kaybedebilir. Genellikle, “doğal” afetler, herhangi bir sorumluluk taşıyıp taşımadıklarına bakılmaksızın, mevcut hükümetler için iyiye işaret değildir.

Her halükarda, yeni seçimler yeni “fırsatlar” getirir. Bu arada, çoğu analist için hiçbir seçimin gerçekten “demokratik” olmadığı açıktır – dünyada Anglosaxon batı imparatorluğunun belirleyici etkisinin – uygulanmadığı hiçbir seçim yoktur.

Erdoğan’ı bir ABD yardakçısıyla değiştirmek, Türkiye’yi Rusya ile ittifakın olmadığı, -artık “düşmanla uyumanın” olmadığı-, arzu edilen tamamen itaatkar bir NATO ülkesi haline getirebilir.

Türkiye’nin İsveç’in NATO üyelik adaylığını reddetmesinden sadece birkaç gün sonra, büyük, ölümcül ve yıkıcı bir depremin Türkiye’yi vurması, Suriye’yi ve hatta Kıbrıs ve Lübnan’ı ciddi şekilde etkilemesi tesadüf mü?

Deprem bir terör saldırısının sonucu mu? Kanıt yok

Daha önce de ‘yapay depremler’ gündeme gelmişti. Örneğin, Haiti’nin başkenti Port-au-Prince açıklarında 12 Ocak 2010’da meydana gelen depremin, büyük ölçüde Karayip Denizi kıyılarında bulunan devasa petrol rezervlerinin daha kolay erişilebilir ve sömürülebilir olması için yapılan su altı/yer altı patlamalarından kaynaklandığından şüpheleniliyor.

F. William Engdahl, Jeo-fizikçilerin Haiti ve açıklarında büyük petrol ve mineral yatakları olabileceğini öne sürdüğünü söylüyor.

ABD Hava Kuvvetlerinin meteorolojik savaşı

ABD Hava Kuvvetleri belgesi AF 2025 Nihai Raporuna göre hava durumu değişikliği, “düşmanı yenmek veya zorlamak için çok çeşitli olası seçenekler sunar”:

“Hava değişikliği iç ve dış güvenliğin bir parçası haline gelecek ve tek taraflı yapılabilecek… Saldırı ve savunma uygulamaları olabilir ve hatta caydırıcılık amaçlı kullanılabilir. Yeryüzünde yağış, sis ve fırtına oluşturma veya uzay havasını değiştirme yeteneği… ve yapay hava üretiminin tümü, entegre bir [askeri] teknolojiler dizisinin parçasıdır.”

ABD Hava Kuvvetleri Tarafından Hazırlanan Çalışma: “Kuvvet Çarpanı Olarak Hava Durumu, 2025’te Hava Durumuna Sahip Olmak, Ağustos 1996”

Yüksek Frekans Aktif Auroral Araştırma Programı (HAARP)

ABD Hava Kuvvetlerinin “Hava Harbi”, 1990’ların başında geliştirilen Yüksek Frekanslı Aktif Auroral Araştırma Programı (HAARP) ile ilgilidir.

HAARP (2011, 2014) ile ilgili bilimsel bir rapor (HAL Id: hal-01082992), iyonosferin modüle edilmiş HF (yüksek frekans) ısıtmasıyla üretilen yüksek güçlü ELF radyasyonunun Depremlere, Siklonlara ve bölgesel ısınmaya neden olabileceğini açıklıyor.

Fran De Aquino Maranhao’nun makalesi, bilimsel bulguları şu şekilde özetledi:

“HAARP şu anda [2014], [proje Alaska, Gakona’da kapatıldı ve 2014’te devredildi] iyonosferde son derece düşük frekanslı (ELF) elektromanyetik radyasyon üretmek için kullanılan en önemli tesis. Bu ELF radyasyonunu üretmek için HAARP vericisi, ELF’de modüle edilmiş güçlü bir yüksek frekanslı (HF) dalga demeti yayar.

Bu HF ısıtması, D bölgesi iyonosferindeki elektronların sıcaklığını modüle eder ve modüle edilmiş iletkenliğe ve daha sonra modülasyon frekansında yayılan zamanla değişen bir akıma yol açar. Son zamanlarda, HAARP HF vericisi, 2,5 Hz frekansta modüle edilmiş 3,6 GW etkili yayılan güçle çalıştı. Mevcut HAARP ısıtıcısı gibi HF iyonosferik ısıtıcılar tarafından üretilen yüksek güçlü ELF radyasyonunun Depremlere, Siklonlara ve güçlü yerel ısınmaya neden olabileceği gösterilmiştir.

HAARP programını geliştirmek için kullanılan patentler, E-Systems yan kuruluşu aracılığıyla Raytheon’a aittir.

2014 yılında Alaska, Gakona’daki Yüksek Frekanslı Aktif Auroral Araştırma Programı’nın (HAARP) başka bir yer için kapatılmasıyla, Pentagon’un Savunma İleri Araştırma Projeleri Ajansı’nın (DARPA) büyük kısmı gizli olan ENMOD araştırmasına aktif olarak dahil olduğu belirtilmelidir. Şu linke bakınız.

Bu yazının yazıldığı sırada, Türkiye-Suriye Depremi’nin, Çevresel Modifikasyon Teknikleri tarafından tetiklenen bir Terör Eylemi olduğuna dair şüpheler seslendiriliyor, ancak ortada somut kanıtlar yok.

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Four questions for Claudia von Werlhof about war and patriarchy, the world war against Mother Earth and the technical possibilities of triggering earthquakes. With thoughts from Rosalie Bertell’s last essay.

The earthquake in Turkey and Syria has once again hit enemies of the US. It is now being debated whether the earthquake was triggered technically – light phenomena observed by officials and the previous closure of some authorities are possible indications of this. But the fact-checkers deny it. Who are you supposed to believe – if you’re not a physicist?

Rosalie Bertell, the so-called environmental nun, was an American environmental scientist and winner of the Right Livelihood Award – a renowned personality. 23 years ago she wrote the book “Planet Earth. The Latest Weapon of War”, in which she denounces, among other things, exactly this possibility and practice: The military use of technologies that can control and trigger the weather, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Rosalie Bertell died in 2012. But she has a successor: Claudia von Werlhof, professor emeritus for political science and women’s studies in Innsbruck, critic of patriarchy and author of numerous books, became Bertell’s “deputy in the German-speaking world”. In the phone call, she answers four questions – I insert statements from Rosalie Bertell in between.

Yes: it is theoretically possible that the Turkish earthquake, terrible as it is, was triggered artificially. But you can’t prove it.

Zeitpunkt: You’re a feminist, Rosalie Bertell was a biometrician – how did you get together?

Claudia von Werlhof: After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, I heard that it might have been artificially generated. I then got involved, studied the facts and also commented publicly on them – and was attacked from all sides for it. Rosalie Bertell then wrote to me and confirmed that it might have been an artificially created earthquake. I then read her book “Planet Earth. The Latest Weapon of War” and went to hell with it. Thereupon, together with others, I founded the ” Planetary Movement for Mother Earth”.We had the book translated into German and published it. In the meantime, it is now in its 5th edition.

In 1946, the General Electric Company discovered that by dropping dry ice in a cold room, you could “create” ice crystals similar to those in clouds. Within months of this discovery, dry ice was being dropped from airplanes into cumulus clouds, converting the water droplets into ice crystals that then fell to Earth like snow. By 1950, industry researchers had discovered that silver iodide had the same effect. The era of weather control had begun. (Rosalie Bertell) (The sections in the boxes are from the last text by Rosalie Bertell: «Slowly Wrecking Our Planet» )

CvW: I later met Rosalie personally in Bonn at the 30th anniversary of the Right Livelihood Award, the Alternative Nobel Prize. She received the prize in 1986 for her first book on the effects of low-level radioactivity. From then until her death we worked together. For her, our “Critical Theory of Patriarchy ” was a new explanatory approach. With this approach, we explain the overall picture of why weapons are being developed at all that affect the entire planet. Why does somebody want to get the planet under control and turn it into a weapon? – I have dealt with the reasons for this in my work. But I wasn’t sure in which ways that could even be realized. And it is still the case today that most people do not understand that, how and why, for example, earthquakes are artificially caused.

In the race to the moon in early 1958, both US and USSR cosmonauts discovered the Van Allen Belt, a magnetic belt that protects the Earth from the destructive charged particles of the solar wind. Between August and September 1958, as part of Project Argus, the US Navy detonated three nuclear fission bombs 480 km (300 miles) over the South Atlantic in the lower Van Allen Belt. The US Atomic Energy Agency called it “the greatest scientific experiment ever undertaken” (Baldwin). The “experiment” had a worldwide impact and created new artificial polar lights. The long-term effects of this incredible destruction, which took place before the protective function of the Van Allen Belt was understood, have never been elucidated. In 1962 this “big” experiment was carried out on September 9th. A larger experiment was repeated shortly thereafter over the Pacific as part of Project Starfish. (…)  Later, the USSR undertook similar planetary “experiments” and created three new radiation belts between 7000 and 13000 km (4300 and 8100 miles) above the Earth. (…) The United Nations General Assembly was so alarmed by these activities that on December 10, 1976 it passed a Convention prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques. (Rosalie Bertell) (…)

Zeitpunkt: Do you think that the earthquake in Turkey was also artificially triggered?

CvW: Rosalie always said that in individual cases it is difficult to separate the military geo-experiments from the real shaking of the planet. But knowledge about such possibilities has been acailable since 1976 at the latest, through the ENMOD Convention, the UN’s Environmental Modification Convention. All these techniques have already been listed in it – up to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, weather changes of all kinds. Some of these techniques were used in the Vietnam War. The technical basis for this comes from Nicola Tesla. When he died in 1943 his material was immediately absorbed – from East and West – and then used for new inventions. There are numerous official patents that you can read about. This is not something that is fabricated, it’s just military technology and therefore partly secret. The technology has been developed and used already for 70-80 years, among others. Rosalie always said that new wars always come with new weapons. That military technology is always several decades ahead of what the public knows,and that environmental weapons will be part of the new wars.

HAARP currently has 180 towers, although it began operating in 1994 in a modular form with a network of 48 towers. There is reason to believe that HAARP can be further expanded to 384 or 720 cell towers. This powerful synchronized transformer is accompanied by a series of SuperDarns (Dual Auroral Radar Network) that continuously monitor the effects of HAARP manipulations on the Earth’s ionosphere at the Earth’s surface. (Rosalie Bertell)

Zeitpunkt: I’ll read you two statements in the ARD fact checker on the subject : According to Oliver Heidbach, head of the working group Analysis and Modeling of Tectonic Stresses at the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ), it is not possible to trigger earthquakes with radio waves. “Radio waves with the high frequencies in the megahertz and gigahertz range in the earth’s crust cannot cause any movement in the rock and therefore cannot cause any changes in voltage.” Rather, earthquakes like the one in Turkey and Syria are triggered when a critical mechanical stress in the earth’s crust is exceeded.

Yuri Shprits, head of the Space Physics and Space Weather section at the GFZ, is “firmly convinced that modifications of the ionosphere caused by HAARP cannot cause earthquakes”. In addition, triggering an earthquake would require gigantic amounts of energy that HAARP could not generate. “In addition, it would be impossible to transfer the energy from the ionosphere to different places on earth.”

CVW: This is the typical scientific anti-explanation. It reflects an old world view according to which matter is inert. But you know the phenomenon of a bridge over which a military squad is marching in step. You can collapse the bridge – and that is the principle of pulsed energies. As a scientist, Nicola Tesla, who lived between 1856 and 1943, set in motion a new scientific world view. He defined matter through its electromagnetic properties. He himself has produced earthquakes around his house through the use of electromagnetic vibrations. These vibrations are everywhere. He amplified them until the energy released created an earthquake that nearly destroyed his own home. Tesla made our modern world possible in the first place. All electronics could not have been introduced without his natural science. Our whole world is a Tesla world. But its importance to military technologies is still declared untrue because Tesla is not officially taught. The HAARP system is also based on his work.

The HAARP facility (US Army and Navy High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) in Alaska was powered by gas-fired power plants. Each of the facility’s antennas produced over 1 million watts and pulsed into the same location in the ionosphere. There the energy condenses like a lens, and from there you can direct a directed beam back to Earth. Wherever it arrives, it causes great damage. Rosalie said it acts like a gun barrel shooting down at the earth.

The Haarp facility was handed over to the university in 2015. I think they supposedly shut it down because you could see what was happening there on the Internet. For example, before the Haiti earthquake, you could see that the facility was in increased use. This verifiability of the system was a disadvantage for them. But there are 2-3 more dozens of similar plants worldwide.

According to Rosalie, there are two phenomena that can be used to infer an artificially triggered earthquake: one is certain cloud formations that show that certain waves with high energy are traveling in the atmosphere. The other feature are flashes of light in the sky, similar to brief rainbows called plasma strikes, which occur when energies from the ionosphere heat up the atmosphere. And that has been observed in several earthquakes, for example in China.

Much of what the Turks have now said corresponds to this. Turkish officials have said there was a light effect just before the earthquake. They also said that Americans with portable radar systems were in the area and are to be blamed for it.

So – yes: it is theoretically possible that the Turkish earthquake, terrible as it is, was triggered artificially. But you can’t prove it.

It now seems possible to “manage” the jet stream that defines the boundary between warm and cool air in geographic regions, or to manipulate the large vapor flows that carry rain from the tropics to temperate zones, causing droughts or floods. Natural events or instabilities such as monsoons, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. in the atmosphere can be amplified by “energizing”. Injecting oil into tectonic faults or creating artificial earth vibrations with electromagnetic pulses can trigger earthquakes. (Rosalie Bertell)

Zeitpunkt: Could the weather weapons be responsible for climate change?

CVW: Yes, of couse. Climate is the wrong word anyway. Climate is a worldwide system dependent on the sun and the position in the solar system. Climate cannot be changed. You can change the weather. With existing technology, you can change the weather continuously. Due to the northward shift of the jet stream, it becomes hot in the northern hemisphere and, with the southward shift, ice cold there even in summer. Then there is the dying of the ozone layer: this is the layer that envelops the earth and intercepts the electromagnetic waves coming from the sun. Despite the agreement to ban CFC gases, the ozone layer is still severely depleted. New holes have been added, also over the North Pole and the entire northern hemisphere. As a result, the radiation hits the ground pure and directly, it changes the DNA of the plants, destroys plankton and the harvest. This is a result of radioactive contamination, most recently from Fukushima, and weather technologies and space travel. But this is not discussed publicly.

The US Air Force wrote a report in 1996 entitled “Owning the Weather in 2025 “. It states: “By 2025, the US Aerospace Forces can control the weather by harnessing new technologies and directing the development of those technologies towards warfare applications. Such an ability offers the warfighter tools to shape the battlefield in a way never before possible.” 2025 – that’s two years away. These are not secrets, they are available on the Internet. We have published a book that will soon be released in German. it is called «Global WAR-NING!» – so not «Global Warming». In it we are warning that Geoengineering is destroying us, the earth and humanity. Not CO2 is to blame for the so-called climate change, but geo-engineering. We are in a state of a world war, Ukraine is just a part of it. The weather manipulations are part of a world war against the earth as a planet, in order to gain control over the earth as a macro living being.

Zeitpunkt: I have a hard time believing this. After all, who can be interested in destroying us ourselves?

CvW: That is exactly the problem. Destruction is always presented as an improvement. What is there by nature – the earth, its living beings, the people, women, animals, plants – has somehow never been considered good enough in patriarchy. It is supposed to be improved, remodeled and transformed. All technical progress is based on this ideology. And my theory is that Mother Nature, the feminine force that creates life, was rejected by the men who formed the patriarchal civilization. For they themselves have claimed the power of creation. All natural processes should therefore be technically replaced, and that is presented as improvement. Improvement is always preceded by destruction. Because it is considered better to have the earth under control than to let it go through its own organic processes.

Soon all the raw materials on earth will be used up. The current industrial society is to be rebuilt, the goal is population reduction. Because we don’t have enough coltan for 8 billion cell phone owners. And neither does all the rest. The remaining people are to be integrated into a completely different technical formation. The integration of humans into this Megamachine is the project of transhumanism. In this scenario people will no longer be born naturally, but manufactured through synthetic biology and genetic engineering. Transhumanism means to “improve” humans. It’s a horror cabinet, but you can read about it with Yuval Noah Harari, Klaus Schwab’s advisor. If the women don’t wake up soon – and others hopefully as well – we will simply be lost.

Earth has already become a “research victim” of militarism and it is time to stop geoengineering as a cruel farce and crime against life itself.

Should we leave the healing of our earth in the hands of those who have shown the most utter neglect of her well-being for more than 65 years? Should we throw away this glorious planet like we throw away cheap plastic jewelry?

It is time to honor and protect planet earth as indigenous people have done for thousands of years.

We must acknowledge that our philosophy of life is flawed because it has led us into this crisis. It is time to question patriarchy, which implies domination of all living things, and crude capitalism, which requires excessive military force to protect its greedy accumulation of natural resources. We urgently need a critical plan for a smarter, more feminine and more humane future. There is a great need to take a sober look at our global lifestyle, philosophy and social planning so that people, all life and planet earth may enjoy a long and fruitful era of peace and prosperity.

Our sun still has about four to five billion years to bless us with its energy – we shouldn’t waste it. (Rosalie Bertell)

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Rosalie Bertell (1929-2012) was an American scientist, author, biometric environmental activist, and Catholic nun. Since 1970 she has worked in the field of environmental health. She was a nun of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, where she is best known for her work in ionizing radiation.

Claudia von Werlhof is a sociologist and political scientist. She held the first professorship for women’s studies in Austria, based at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck. She is considered a co-founder of women’s research in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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The Syrian Foreign Ministry on 5 March strongly condemned the illegal visit of US Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to an undisclosed base in Syria’s northeast a day earlier.

The foreign ministry stressed that the visit is a flagrant violation of Syria’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and unity.

A source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said,

“Syria strongly condemns the illegal visit of the US Chief of Staff to an illegal US military base in northeastern Syria, and affirms that it is a flagrant violation of the sovereignty, the sanctity of its lands and unity,” according to RT.

“Syria calls on the US administration to immediately stop its systematic and continuous violations of international law and stop its support for separatist armed militias … and Syria affirms that these US practices will not deviate it from its approach to combating terrorism and preserving its sovereignty, security, and stability,” the source added.

The top US general visited Syria on Saturday allegedly to assess efforts to prevent a resurgence of ISIS and to review safeguards for US forces against attacks, including from drones flown by Iran-backed militias, Reuters reported.

Some 1,000 American troops continue to support allied Arab and Kurdish militias from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the region.

According to Al-Monitor, Milley’s visit to Syria signals the Biden administration’s seriousness about keeping troops in the country in support of the SDF.

The visit happened shortly after US representative Matt Gaetz introduced legislation to end the US occupation of Syria, saying,

“Congress has never authorized the use of military force in Syria,” adding, “The United States is currently not in a war with or against Syria, so why are we conducting dangerous military operations there?”

The official reason for the US to remain in Syria and fight ISIS is also questioned by government officials, who claim that the US military is supporting ISIS and using the presence of the armed group as a pretext for maintaining its occupation and looting Syrian oil along with other valuable resources.

According to eyewitness reports from the countryside of Al-Yarubiyah in the Hasakah governorate, on 27 February, US troops transported at least 34 tankers filled with stolen Syrian oil through the illegal Al-Mahmoudiya border crossing to their bases in Iraq.

In August of last year, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the losses incurred by the country’s oil and gas sector as a result of US actions amounted to $107 billion since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011.

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“We are not typical Catholics,” explains Yamil Ríos of the Saint Paul the Apostle Christian Base Community in Managua. “Because we don’t have a priest here, thanks be to God.” Around the room parishioners chuckle on their folding chairs which are set up in a half circle. At the front of the room, musicians shift their instruments, gearing up for another upbeat number.

In today’s Nicaragua, there is a rupture between the Catholic hierarchy and its abandoned base. The politicized official church has long collaborated with U.S. imperialism and, as a consequence, is losing the community of faith comprised of the poor and working people of Nicaragua.

Christian Base Communities with a preferential option for the poor

Christian Base Communities in Nicaragua, like St. Paul the Apostle, flourished during the insurrection in the 1970s and after the 1979 overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. This bloody dictatorship was supported by the Catholic Church hierarchy during its almost 45 years of rule. These communities were places where lay people led liberation theology bible studies, celebrated mass and helped their neighbors.

Unlike Cuba, the Nicaraguan revolution was never secular. Nicaragua’s Revolution was so influenced by liberation theology that in the 1980s there was a popular saying: “Between Christianity and revolution there is no contradiction.” Foreign minister Father Miguel d’Escoto, a Maryknoll priest, often said: “You can’t be a follower of Jesus and not be a revolutionary.”

Father Miguel was not the only priest in government. At that time, several others were also at the cabinet level working to improve the lives of the poor majority. But they were not the priests of the Church hierarchy, which was openly opposed to the Sandinista Revolution. Pope John Paul II himself came to Nicaragua to chastise the priests in government, and the Vatican later censored them.

Thanks to relentless antagonism from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, few faith communities like St. Paul the Apostle are still active in Nicaragua today.

“This community is a lay community in the sense that we are the ones who carry out our own religious rites. We don’t consider that those who are ordained – priests – are above us or have more power or more authority,” explains community member Eduardo Valdez.

“In the early 1990s after the Sandinista party was defeated at the polls, the Catholic hierarchy didn’t look favorably on communities like ours,” Valdez continues, “due to our belief in the preferential option for the poor. They wanted to impose silence on us, they wanted us to quit singing our songs of commitment, and there was a time of conflict and rupture with the priests. Since 1994 we have not had a priest; so we are lay people, women and men, who carry out our own religious celebrations.”

At the community’s Sunday service, three women sit at the central table and lead mass with prayers and readings from the Bible in an order familiar to Catholics everywhere. When it’s time for the homily, however, the floor is opened to the parishioners. The mic is passed around as young and old – and mostly women – give their interpretation of the gospel as it relates to them and their lives in their working class neighborhood of Managua. When it’s time for communion, the lay women explicitly invite everyone to take communion, no matter what religious tradition they come from. “Everyone is welcome,” they insist.

The musicians strike up a song from the Nicaraguan Peasants Mass. “Let’s go to the Lord’s cornfield,” they sing. “Jesus Christ invites us to his harvest of love, the corn shines in the light of the sun, let’s go to the cornfield of communion.” In place of communion wafers are delicious traditional corn cookies. After everyone has taken communion, the basket of leftover cookies is passed around and everyone munches on more.

Rupture of Nicaraguans from the Catholic hierarchy

While the St. Paul the Apostle Community is the oldest such community in the country, tracing its roots back to the 1960s, its members are not by any means the only faithful to break with the traditional Catholic Church.   Recent polls show that only 37% of Nicaraguans today identify as Catholics, as opposed to 94% in the mid-90s and 50% only a few years ago. What has caused this recent rupture?

During the U.S.-led coup attempt in 2018, violent criminals held the entire country hostage for months through thousands of road blocks which, in addition to crippling the country’s economy and causing the loss of thousands of jobs, were centers of terrible violence.

Although the U.S. was funding the attempted ousting of Nicaragua’s democratically elected Sandinista government, the Catholic Church hierarchy in Nicaragua was instigating it. In several cities around the country, priests called for violence from the pulpit. Some actually initiated violence, including in Ciudad Sandino where a parish priest was seen encouraging the burning of the Sandinista party headquarters and the looting of the social security offices.

At the “roadblocks of death,” Sandinista supporters were identified, beaten, raped, tortured and murdered – with priests watching and sometimes participating in the horrifying violence. Video evidence shows priests storing weapons in churches, beating people, dousing people in gasoline, and directing gangs to disappear bodies. Parishioners saw what the priests did with their own eyes, and unsurprisingly, have turned away from the Church as a result.

Bishop Rolando Álvarez

“What happened here in the Nicaraguan Catholic Church was really horrible,” says peasant farmer Benjamín Cabrera of Ciudad Sandino. “Because the messages that the priests give during mass are just full of hate…Father Rolando Álvarez, what an onslaught, how he expresses himself, how he turns on the people, how he sickens the hearts of the people.”

Former bishop of Matagalpa and Estelí, Álvarez is one of the most reviled figures in the Nicaraguan church, known for his offensive rhetoric, openly calling for violence from the pulpit and directing violence in 2018. In the town of Chagüitillo, during mass at the church that the people themselves had raised the money for and built with their own hands, Álvarez asked who in the congregation was Sandinista. When all the Sandinistas raised their hands, he pointed to the door and said, “Get out of my church.”

Since 2016 radio stations and tv channels in Matagalpa run by Álvarez received US funding channeled for undermining the government. Despite government warnings that these activities were in violation of the law and status as religious media, he never ceased his destabilizing efforts even after 2018. Eventually, seven radio stations and two TV channels were closed for legal violations in 2022 by Telcor, the entity that regulates communications.

Alvarez ignored invitations to dialogue and he and colleagues barricaded themselves into cathedral in Matagalpa for several days. Last August, Álvarez’ was placed under house arrest and investigated for a series of crimes, including undermining national integrity, promoting hatred and violence via information and communication technologies, aggravated obstruction of state functions, and contempt of authority. Recently, the Nicaraguan government approved deporting Álvarez, along with 222 convicted traitors, to the U.S.

Álvarez refused to board the plane to the U.S. without first speaking to the Nicaraguan bishops. He also demanded that the 11 priests and seminarians who had already boarded – co-conspirators of his who had already been convicted of crimes – deplane to speak with him. Because the decision to deport Álvarez was made by the Nicaraguan government and had nothing to do with the Church, his demands were refused.

Alvarez was told he could choose to board the plane or not; he chose to remain in Nicaragua. Much to his surprise, Álvarez was not brought back to his home to continue house arrest, but was sent straight to La Modelo prison. He was tried and convicted later that week and sentenced to 26 years in prison for his crimes.

People keep their faith, but few go to church

“I don’t know what happened to the Church,” Cabrera throws his hands up. “It hurts me because I’ve always been a Catholic, I was a Delegate of the Word. But how can I now support these priests? How could I look at them? The Church has fallen. People keep their faith, but few go to church…Maybe where you’re from they tell a different story, but that’s not true. If you go out and ask people, ‘What happened to the Church?’ The story that we’re telling you, you will hear it from a lot of other people too. The church was one of the primary bases of the coup.”

In light of the actions of hatred and violence of its priests in Nicaragua, a country where 77% of the population support the Sandinista government, perhaps the Church should be less surprised by its empty pews.

Unlike the shrinking Catholic Church, Pentecostal protestant churches continue to grow – a recent outdoor vigil in the northern border town of Somotillo drew a crowd of thousands. The popularity of personal over institutionalized religion is growing: people praying and worshipping in their homes and lay communities, continuing their faith in what Edwin Sánchez calls a “close and quality relationship with [God rather than] a hollow and distant one.”

Today, Nicaragua remains a profoundly spiritual country with thriving religious communities, but they are not the religious communities that the traditional church would like to see. Their existence challenges the very foundations of the Church and it is therefore unsurprising that they draw the ire of its priests.

“A real option for the poor can’t be purely spiritual, just an empty concept where the poor continue being poor and miserable,” explains Valdez of the St. Paul the Apostle Community. “That option for the poor has political implications, it has implications for power. It means that we the poor have to access power to make that option a reality, and we see the hand of God in that political struggle, in the liberation of the people. That is why we are Sandinistas. We are a Sandinista and anti-imperialist community because of our faith.”

As Father Miguel d’Escoto said, “You cannot be a follower of Jesus if you are not a revolutionary, and that, inevitably, implies being a recalcitrant anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist.”

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As I have explained correctly in a number of articles, there was NO RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE.  It was, as Putin said, an operation limited to ejecting Ukrainian and neo-Nazi forces out of Donbass, historically, like Crimea, a part of Russia herself and populated with ethnic Russians. 

These historically Russian territories were transferred for political and administrative reasons from Russia to Ukraine by Soviet officials.  As Ukraine itself was historically part of Russia for centuries, and as both were part of the USSR along with Georgia and Central Asia, the transfer was understood as adjustment of state boundaries as in the US within the same country. 

Ukraine did not exist as an independent country until about 30 years ago when the USSR was broken up.  So the claim that Donbass and Crimea are part of Ukraine has been true for about 30 years, whereas they have been a part of Russia along with Ukraine for centuries.

Putin had no choice.  The Minsk Agreement that he had devised, to which Ukraine agreed and Germany and France agreed to enforce, kept Donbass in Ukraine and gave the people semi-autonomy in order to protect them from abuse by Ukraine.  Both the German and French leaders who signed the agreement recently admitted that they used the Minsk Agreement to deceive Putin while the US and NATO built and equipped a large Ukrainian army capable of conquering the two self-declared independent republics in Donbass.  When Putin saw the large Ukrainian armed force ready to invade Donbass, part of which was already occupied by Ukrainian armed forces and neo-Nazi militias, he realized that he had been deceived by the West and had no other option but force to protect the Donbass Russians.

Eviction of Ukraine military forces from Donbass was his only aim.

This eviction has depended not on the Russian Army but on a private para-military force known as the Wagner Group and on the militias of the two Donbass independent republics.  Belatedly, Putin mobilized some Russian Army forces, but has not committed them to the conflict.  Instead, he continues to rely on the Wagner Group and Donbass militias to evict the US/NATO trained and equipped Ukrainians forces.

As I have made clear in many columns, Putin’s approach was a military blunder.  He played completely into Washington’s hands.  As the fighting is in territory occupied by ethnic Russian people, Putin handicapped his limited forces with strict rules against the use of highly destructive weapons in civilian areas.  The consequence has been a war that is a slow step-by-step process.  No Blitzkrieg. Russian restraint has been misinterpreted by the West as Russian inability.

The consequence of this and Putin’s go-slow-war is that Putin gave Washington/NATO confidence and enormous time to get involved in the conflict to Russia’s disadvantage. Ukrainians now have more effective and longer range weapons, intelligence on Russian positions, and targeting information on Russian positions. Considering the incremental  ways Washington gets into wars, boots on the ground will eventually result. 

Recently, the power behind the Washington War Scene, neoconservative hate-Russia-at-all-cost Victoria Nuland, Undersecretary of State, has committed Washington to the liberation of Crimea.  This seems impossible. The Ukrainians would have to break through the Russian forces in southern Ukraine in order to reach Crimea, the site of the Russian Black Sea Naval Base.  The Kremlin would never accept the loss of their warm water port even if it meant nuclear war.

In other words, Washington is insane. Nuland’s words demonstrate the insanity:

“We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes. Ukraine is fighting for the return of all of its land within its international borders. We are supporting them, including in preparing a next hard push to regain their territory…Crimea must be—at a minimum, at a minimum—demilitarized.”

Demilitarized is short-hand for no Black Sea Russian Naval Base.

Insouciant American policymakers and clearly the insane Nuland do not recognize that their arrogant hubris is a declaration of nuclear war.

The Asia Times believes that Nuland has won the argument.

The Biden regime has announced a new long-range weapons program for Ukraine, is sending mobile bridging equipment that is only useful for a Ukrainian offensive against Russian forces in Crimea, and is reconsidering the ban of F-16s for Ukraine. 

Thus the conflict is spinning out of control. 

Still Putin sits on his butt, doing nothing.  Is Putin going to wait until the entire armaments of the West are in Ukraine to be used to kill Russians?

What is preventing Putin from using sufficient force to end this conflict before it spins into nuclear war?  Does Putin want the nuclear war that will result from the continuation of the conflict?  Why does Putin refuse to use the conventional force that would quickly end the conflict?

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For months, MSM and Western diplomatic talking heads are howling about how the military operation of ‘big bad Russia’ against the ‘peaceful and democratic’ Kiev regime is undermining the global food security.

In the shadows of this propaganda campaign, the so-called civilized world has in fact troubled food supplies to non-Western countries and even some European states in an attempt to cut off Russia and its new territories from the global food market.

The documentary below shines the light of truth on the situation behind the ongoing global food war.

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For the first time in the century of US warfare against Russia, a sitting US president has requested and received a formal ceasefire and safe conduct pledge (propusk) from the Kremlin in order for him to visit a third country.

President Vladimir Putin signed his authorization for the pass before it was transmitted to the Oval Office in Washington last Friday morning,  according to the New York Times, “when the president gathered with a handful of top advisers in the Oval Office and consulted with others by phone.”

The newspaper also reported the Russian terms required Biden’s signed undertaking in advance that no US military or civilian aircraft would enter Ukrainian airspace during the 24-hour duration of the safe conduct pass. The New York Times confirmed this detail, claiming “American military planes were spotted hovering in eastern Poland near the border during the trip, but officials said they never entered Ukrainian airspace out of concern that it would be taken as the sort of direct American intervention that Mr. Biden has avoided.”

CBS News has reported the National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, as confirming the application to the Kremlin and the receipt of the reply several hours before Biden agreed to make his trip to the Ukraine.

“’We did notify the Russians that President Biden would be traveling to Kyiv,’ Sullivan told CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes. ‘We did so some hours before his departure for deconfliction purposes. And because of the sensitive nature of those communications, I won’t get into how they responded or what the precise nature of our message was, but I can confirm that we provided that notification.’”

This is the first time White House officials have publicly confirmed accepting Putin’s word on a diplomatic, military, or security issue.

Biden responded in Kiev with a personal attack on Putin: “Putin thought Ukraine was weak and the West was divided,” Biden said. “He thought he could outlast us.  I don’t think he’s thinking that right now.  God knows what he’s thinking, but I don’t think he’s thinking that.  But he’s just been plain wrong.  Plain wrong. And one year later, the evidence is right here in this room.  We stand here together.”

The record of the White House-Kremlin exchange for Biden’s propusk also reveals Putin’s willingness to accept Biden’s word. But four days later on February 21, in his speech to the Federal Assembly, Putin declared:  “The concepts of honour, trust, and decency are not for them…[nor] of [their] total, unprincipled lies.”

The Russian press has not reported the Putin propusk. But there is speculation in Moscow the clash of public statements and the contradiction between them and the private safe conduct agreement are a sign of secret negotiations on armistice terms  between the Americans and Russians, which Biden also promised Putin to put to Ukrainian officials in Kiev.

Last Friday, February 17, Putin was busy in meetings with the Belarus President, Alexander Lukashenko, which were held at the Novo-Ogarevo residence outside Moscow. The Kremlin communiqué, issued at 15:15 – that was 07:15 Washington time – did not refer to the war.

Until CBS broadcast Sullivan’s admissions on the evening of February 20, the White House had successfully deceived the New York Times, Washington Post and the mainstream Anglo-American media into reporting Biden’s trip to Kiev as a surprise — “a show of defiance of Moscow quickly beamed around the world”,  and “an audacious move meant to demonstrate American resolve to help Ukraine defeat the Russian forces”.

Peter Baker, one of the New York Times reporters Seymour Hersh endorsed last week as “bright”, published  the claim that “for much of the past year, in fact, most of the people around the president resisted any urge to go, on the assumption that it was too risky. But nearly a year after the Russian invasion, with Ukrainian troops faring far better than anyone expected at the start and other American and European leaders having made the trip, Mr. Biden and his team gambled that he could get in and out safely.”

Baker and his newspaper had missed the fact, and also the significance, that Biden had asked, Putin had agreed, to assure the US president’s security, removing thereby what Baker and his newspaper called their gamble.

The New York Times published this photograph of the empty blue sky above Biden and Zelensky in Kiev, claiming in the text: “The White House was so intent on keeping the secret that it lied to reporters back in Washington. About four hours after Mr. Biden crossed the border into Ukraine, his office back in Washington issued a public schedule falsely stating that the president was still in the nation’s capital and not planning to leave for Europe until Monday evening.”   Baker’s report concluded with the newspaper’s notice on how it had verified his reporting of the secret Biden had asked Putin to keep. And he still has.

Also fooled into publishing false propaganda of Biden’s trip to Kiev were The Times of London, owned by Rupert Murdoch, and the Financial Times, owned by the Nikkei Corporation of Tokyo.

The London Times has not retracted or clarified its surprise: https://www.thetimes.co.uk

According to Financial Times reporters in Kiev, Warsaw and Riga, Latvia, “US President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday in a show of American commitment… On a trip shrouded by secrecy for security reasons…the visit resembled previous US presidents’ clandestine wartime trips to Iraq and Afghanistan — but was more daring since US troops were not on the ground to help provide support.” Source: https://www.ft.com/

The Washington Post ignored the Kiev trip except to claim that during Biden’s visit, he and Zelensky “walked the city streets as an air raid siren blared.”

The Post omitted to republish the video clip of the two men walking, Biden displaying a neurologically symptomatic foot shuffle and Zelensky warning him against tripping as they approached a low curb step:

Source: https://www.ft.com/

A week earlier, according to the Post on February 16, the president’s doctor, former US Army colonel  and long-time Biden physician  Kevin O’Connor, announced that following his clinical examination of the president: “O’Connor said Biden underwent an ‘extremely detailed neurologic exam’ that did not find any signs of neurological disorders such as stroke, multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease.”

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A flying instructor died in-flight after suffering a cardiac arrest, but his co-pilot thought he was fooling around (click here).

According to a newly published safety report on the incident, the pilot thought the instructor was pretending to be asleep as the pair flew a circuit near Blackpool Airport in Lancashire, England, on June 29, 2022.

Shortly after takeoff, the instructor’s head rolled back. The pilot knew the 57-year-old instructor well and thought he was just pretending to take a nap. However, when he landed the plane and his co-pilot was still resting on his shoulder and not responding, he realized something was amiss (click here).

A post-mortem examination concluded that the instructor died from acute cardiac failure. He had passed a medical four months earlier. The report found there was no indication that the instructor was unwell.

“People who had spoken to him on the morning of the incident said he was his normal cheerful self and there were no indications that he was feeling unwell,” the report said.

American Eagle (Envoy) pilot, age 54, died in-flight after departure from Chicago O’Hare (Nov.2022)

An American Eagle flight 3556 operated by Envoy Air from Chicago to Columbus returned to O’Hare airport on November 20, 2022, after the captain passed out and became incapacitated not long after departure (click here).

Data shows that the flight was only 10 minutes from take-off when the situation arose. The captain in training was subsequently declared dead at the hospital.

Envoy did not comment on the cause of the medical emergency. The Air Line Pilots Association, the union which represents Envoy’s pilots, didn’t comment (click here)

One story reported that the 54 year old pilot, Patrick Ford, had a COVID-19 booster shot 2 days prior, and was feeling “lightheaded and dizzy” during take-off (click here).

Ikar Airlines Boeing pilot died in-flight across Russia (Sep.2022)

A pilot died suddenly during a flight between the Russian cities of Novokuznetsk and St.Petersburg on Sunday (Sep.18, 2022), officials told state-run media (click here)

Authorities told RIA Novosti that the unnamed pilot, identified as a flight commander, felt sick during the trip. The commander died before medical attention could be given to the pilot, officials said. Ikar Airlines is also known as Pegas Fly.

The cause of death of the pilot has not been revealed.

Citilink Indonesia Flight pilot, age 48, died after landing plane (July 2022)

Citilink Indonesia flight – an Airbus A320 carrying more than 100 passengers – had departed from Surabaya’s international airport in East Java province and was headed to Ujung Pandang city in South Sulawesi province on July 21, 2022 (click here)

The pilot, 48 year old Boy Awalia, suffered a health emergency 15 minutes after take-off and was forced to return to the airport before being rushed to a hospital where he later died (click here).

The airline said it had conducted health checks prior to the flight for all crew on duty and that they were “declared fit or airworthy,” according to a statement from Dewa Kadek Rai, the president director of PT Citilink Indonesia.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot, age 44, died in-flight after massive heart attack (Aug.2021)

Capt Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, a pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, who suffered a massive heart attack while in command of a Muscat-Dhaka flight on August 30, 2021, died in an Indian hospital. He was 44.

Quaiyum was piloting a flight carrying 124 passengers. After he took ill, the plane was taken over by the co-pilot (click here).

Air Albania flight attendant, age 24, died suddenly in-flight after plane landed in the UK (Dec.2022)

Greta Dyrmishi, 24, a cabin crew member for Air Albania, was travelling from Tirana, the Albanian capital, to Essex in the UK, on December 21, 2022 when she suddenly fainted after the plane landed. Paramedics provided CPR but she died (click here).

A post-mortem found that the 24-year-old had died from sudden adult death syndrome (SADS).

A statement issued by Air Albania at the time of the flight attendant’s death said: “On December 21, after disembarking the passengers from our flight to London, one of our cabin crew Greta Dyrmishi had a heart attack.

“Even after all medical assistance was provided immediately, we still lost her.”

Gulf Air Flight attendant died from heart attack in-flight (Nov.2022)

Air steward Yasser Saleh Al Yazidi fell ill after the seven and a half hour Gulf Air flight took off from Bahrain en route to Paris (click here).

The pilots were forced to make an emergency landing just a few hours into the journey, in Erbil, Iraq. They had reached 34,000 feet in the air when the crew member suffered the heart attack, the director of Erbil airport said.

Despite the crew member being taken to hospital immediately after landing, Yasser was pronounced dead on arrival.

My take…

Notice how many in-flight pilot cardiac arrests and deaths there have been in the second half of 2022, as well as flight attendant deaths.

There have also been a number of unusual helicopter crashes in Canada in 2022.

I fear that we are inching closer to a major airline disaster in 2023, as a result of injuries being suffered by COVID-19 vaccinated pilots.

It is important to note that these are not the only cases of pilots having cardiac arrests in-flight resulting in a crash, as I am aware of other incidents that have not been properly reported in the media.

I have also been in touch with pilots who are deeply concerned about the COVID-19 vaccine injuries that are currently being suffered by their pilot colleagues and what this means for the safety of air travel going forward.

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In general, practically all reports on Nicaragua by international human rights institutions and organizations fail to check information supporting false claims, omit facts inconvenient to their findings and claim a commitment to transparency even while failing to engage adequately rival versions of events. They make highly selective use of sources and systematically avoid genuinely independent corroboration of accusations by seeking to verify accounts only with sources suffering from these self-same failings. This latest report for the UN Council for Human Rights shares these irremediable defects.

It is worth pointing out that in an interview in June 2021, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada complained,

“We see that the High Commissioner for Human Rights is always reporting in a distorted way, without objectivity, and although we have constantly sent our reports, she ignores what Nicaragua informs her and stays with what the United States says, which is to accuse and use lies and falsehoods against Nicaragua.”

This latest report by a team with a long record of association with the Organization of American States and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, confirms Foreign Minister Moncada’s remarks. The expert group assertion that it sought to engage with the Nicaraguan authorities is entirely in bad faith given the repeated failure of their predecessors to make fair use of substantial material presented by the Nicaraguan government to both the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to the OAS Inter-American Commission for Human Rights. This material was presumably available to the expert group had they chosen to ask for it.

Poll from early 2023 showing public sentiment about respect for basic rights un Nicaragua

It is worth pointing out that in an interview in June 2021, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada complained,

“We see that the High Commissioner for Human Rights is always reporting in a distorted way, without objectivity, and although we have constantly sent our reports, she ignores what Nicaragua informs her and stays with what the United States says, which is to accuse and use lies and falsehoods against Nicaragua.”

In fact, The report continues the double standard generally applied by North American and European human rights institutions and organizations. They invent or grossly exaggerate concerns about Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela and other countries targeted by the US ruling classes and their NATO country counterparts. But they downplay, minimize and even ignore serious concerns about US allies like Chile or Colombia and others, including the United States itself.

One fundamentally important issue is that the available report constantly refers to what it calls “an extended report” without making that supposedly more detailed report generally available. This disingenuous ploy makes it impossible for independent researchers to appraise and evaluate the detail of the available report’s unsubstantiated accusations. It also lays the UN Human Rights Council open to the accusation that they have deliberately published the available report so as to prejudice world opinion in advance against Nicaragua. Thus, most world opinion will then be uninterested in or highly resistant to any honest examination of information that may or may not eventually be made public in what the expert group call their “extended report”.

The available report:

• falsely claims that the initial protests on April 19^th, 20^th and 21^st 2018 did not involve well organized extremely violent attacks by hundreds of often well armed opposition activists
• fails to offer a credible explanation of how, between April 18^th and July 17^th 2018, 400 police officers suffered gunshot wounds, 22 officers were killed and how over 60 Sandinista supporters were killed with many hundreds injured
• omits testimony from the many hundreds of victims of opposition violence and abuse
• repeats without reliable independent corroboration accusations and claims from supporters and members of Nicaragua’s US government financed political opposition and non-governmental organizations

• omits credible reports and reliable testimony contradicting those false accusations
• suppresses evidence repeatedly presented by the Nicaraguan authorities contradicting those false accusations
• evades the authors’ duty to take note of competing versions of the events on which they are reporting and explain why they discount or dismiss those versions

The report makes many false accusations:

• the demonstrations from April 18^th 2018 onwards were peaceful but were attacked by police
• the police and armed sandinista supporters committed extrajudicial murder of dozens of people
• the health ministry ordered health workers not to attend to wounded opposition supporters
• the Institute for Legal Medicine discriminated against relatives of opposition victims of the violence and denied them service
• opposition supporters suffered arbitrary arrest and were denied due process
• Nicaragua has provoked a refugee crisis in Costa Rica
• marches and demonstrations are banned (in fact, the authorities have applied prior long standing rules requiring a commitment by the organizers of marches and demonstrations to ensure indemnity  for any damage or destruction caused during the event)

The report makes innumerable omissions of evidence contradicting their claims for which the bloc of contrary evidence is overwhelming. This link contains  just some examples of innumerable relevant reports and interviews. Perhaps, the most serious omission in the expert group report is any reference to the attacks by hundreds of opposition supporters over April 19^th, 20^th and 21^st including the use of firearms and molotov cocktails in Managua, León, Masaya, Chinandega, Jinotepe, Diriamba, Granada, Estelí and elsewhere which were extensively reported at the time in local media. Likewise the report omits mentioning the  well documented armed attacks on police stations in Masaya, Jinotepe, Nagarote, Mulukuku, Morrito, El Cuapa, El Coral, El Morrito and Puerto Príncipe, among others.

A further notable omission is any discussion of how the expert group’s report of events in 2018 explains the massive economic damages and losses suffered as a direct result of the opposition violence during their failed coup attempt. Damage to state institutions and municipalities totaled U$206.5 million. 53 buildings were destroyed, 203 buildings were damaged. 1,416 vehicles and large machines were damaged or destroyed. 18,165 items of office machinery and equipment were damaged, destroyed or stolen. 18 government institutions, municipal authorities and 3 universities reported damage and destruction to sites of cultural heritage. The expert group report completely omits this information, although it is readily available in government statements and media reports.

Anyone familiar with Nicaragua, or who follows in good faith reporting by national and international media on the country, will be aware of this information and its respective sources. But the expert group report, like all the previous US and European human rights reports on Nicaragua, appears to have limited its research almost entirely to sources overtly supporting Nicaragua’s violent coup promoting opposition, funded by the United States government or the European Union and its respective governments. All these sources overwhelmingly support not only the promoters of the terrorism enacted during the 2018 failed coup attempt but also these same people’s subsequent efforts to continue destabilizing Nicaragua’s economy and overthrow its elected government.

Similarly, the scandalous false accusations of systematic torture and ill treatment of prisoners are contradicted by repeated opinion polls indicating the Nicaraguan population’s faith and confidence in the country’s institutions and overwhelming support for the government. The regionally respected M&R polling company has the best record of prediction with regard to Nicaragua of any of the local or regional opinion poll companies in Central America. M&R has produced a series of polls many of which are available at this link and which make nonsense of the UN expert group’s false allegations.

The same is true of repeated election results since 2018, namely, the regional Caribbean elections of March 2019, the national elections of 2021 and the local municipal elections of 2022. The FSLN won all those elections involving high voter participation with strong majorities and a consistent pattern of support for the opposition political parties running a few points over 30%. That pattern has persisted in all the elections held since 2011. Thus, both the most accurate regional polling company and the Nicaraguan people themselves repeatedly demonstrate overwhelming support for their government, implicitly contradicting the outrageous allegations of the UN Group of experts portraying Nicaragua as a repressive dictatorship.

A constant theme in the Expert Group’s report is the claim that the Nicaraguan government has “instrumentalized” the country’s legal system for political purposes to attack legitimate political opposition. In fact, Nicaragua’s authorities have simply applied the law to prosecute criminals responsible for organizing, funding or carrying out acts of terrorism, as documented in many of the accompanying links. The expert group itself has politicized and weaponized the UN human rights system so as to attack Nicaragua.

Essentially, on Nicaragua or any other country targeted by the Western ruling classes and the governments they own, the question is who to believe. On one side the United States, its allies and their powerful instritutional, media, academic and NGO apparatus suggest that Nicaragua is a failed state dictatorship whose authorities are ruthless and sadistic and enjoy very little popular support. On the other hand every available real world social and economic indicator indicates that Nicaragua has a successful developing economy and an optimistic society with a government that enjoys overwhelming popular support. Now, this false UN report will be used to justify economic and trade measures to damage Nicaragua’s economy and its people’s well being, just as similar false reports to the UN Council for Human Rights have been used in the past, seeking to destroy other countries, from Libya to Syria and Venezuela, and even the Russian Federation.

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Pedro Castillo was president of Peru from July 2021 to December 2022, in his last presidential act, he tried to dissolve the Peruvian congress and establish a new government to get out of the intransigence and governmental paralysis in which the country found itself due to the US-empowered congress.

Castillo had survived three impeachment attempts by the Peruvian congress in only 18 months. The congress had approved in extraordinary session a motion of censure against then-President Castillo for moral incapacity, shortly after he announced the dissolution of the chamber and the calling of new legislative elections. As a result, Castillo called a provisional assembly to draft a new constitution, suspending the constant congressional attacks in the form of fraudulent impeachment trials. However, the Peruvian Constitutional Court qualified Castillo’s actions as an attempted coup d’état and he was arrested and detained by the national police.

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In the last several days, media published reports on the supposed Serbian arms deliveries to the Kiev regime. Images of the artillery munitions were circulated, showing that the weapons in question were indeed made in Serbia. Due to a combination of several factors, including miscommunication, misinformation and disinformation, much of it intentional, Serbia was presented as an accomplice of the Neo-Nazi junta and its nearly decade-long war of aggression on former Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population. However, the question remains, how did Serbian-made rockets end up in the hands of the Kiev regime forces?

The reports on alleged arms deliveries to the Neo-Nazi junta caused outrage not just in the country, but also resulted in the feeling of disappointment among many Russians, as they don’t expect such a hostile act from a country they consider an ally. The controversy reached the Kremlin as well, prompting a reaction from the Russian Foreign Ministry. Its spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed “deepest concern” about the reports. “We are following this story,” Zakharova stated, adding that the possible arming of the Neo-Nazi junta represented a “serious question for Serbian-Russian relations”. Such reactions are hardly unexpected considering the gravity of the issue, which (if true) would indicate Belgrade’s backstab against Moscow, its oldest and most important historical ally.

The rockets in question are the 122-mm G-2000 with a range of 40 km, approximately double that of the original munitions for the BM-21 “Grad” MLRS (multiple launch rocket system). The Kiev regime forces received 3,500 rockets and to cause further friction between Moscow and Belgrade, the Neo-Nazi junta claimed that the rockets were purchased from the Serbian enterprise Krusik through a Canadian intermediary. Adding fuel to the fire, Kirill Budanov, head of the infamous GUR (Kiev regime main military intelligence directorate), also claimed that Serbia supposedly “refused to send weapons and equipment to Russia despite Moscow’s expectations of support”.

During an interview with Voice of America, Budanov stated that Serbia allegedly “refused to transfer weapons to Russia, leaving President Vladimir Putin with limited options to replenish its stockpiles”. However, such requests or negotiations never took place between Russia and Serbia, making the claims about the supposed intentional transfer of weapons to Kiev even more questionable. Belgrade was quick to denounce the reports, insisting that it never exported rockets or any weapons to either side in the conflict. In addition, the likelihood of Russia needing weapons from Serbia is quite low, especially given the massive scale of Moscow’s production capacity, far exceeding that of Serbia.

“It’s a blatant lie. Serbia did not send weapons to anyone… …We have sold no munitions or other weapons to either Ukraine or Russia,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stated, adding: “They say that we exported [weapons] through Turkey. Knowing well that some of the products could end up on either side of the conflict, we added a clause that prohibits Turkey from re-exporting our munitions. What else could we do?”

The Serbian Defense Ministry stated Belgrade had asked Turkish agencies that are suspected of having given a green light to resales to clarify the matter and ensure compliance with its rules. The aforementioned Serbian defense enterprise Krusik also denied reports that it sold enhanced MLRS rockets to the Kiev regime. The munitions in question were originally provided to Turkey, based on a contract that predates the Russian special military operation. What actually happened is that Ankara legally purchased 122 mm rockets from Serbia for its T-122 “Sakarya” MLRS systems.

As per the norms and rules of international law, the information on the deal is public, with the producer dictating the conditions that should be met before the deal can be finalized. One of the prerequisites is the “prohibition of re-export of purchased weapons to third countries”. This means that if Turkey legally bought rockets and declared itself the end user, it violated both the contract and international law by reselling the aforementioned rockets to a third party (in this case the Kiev regime). Worse yet, the Serbian side insisted on an additional clause that explicitly states the rockets are “exclusively for the needs of the defense industry of the Republic of Turkey”.

The Turkish company Arca Savunma Sanayi Ticaret legally transported the munitions from Serbia to Turkey, but then illegally flew them to Slovakia, from where the rockets were sent to Ukraine. Ankara also used forged documentation containing false information, presenting itself as the producer and the Kiev regime as the end user. Belgrade could certainly press charges against those involved, as this could have certainly affected both its reputation and its relationship with Moscow. However, it can hardly be expected that the so-called “international institutions” will have an impartial approach to the issue, particularly considering the ample support they are providing to the Kiev regime.

The initial reports caused a lot of controversy, both in Serbia and Russia. The Serbian people, overwhelmingly pro-Russian, have been pressuring the government in Belgrade to keep maintaining close ties with Moscow. This comes at a time of nearly direct confrontation between the political West and Russia, with the former exerting enormous pressure on Serbian authorities to cut ties with the Eurasian giant and impose sanctions. This has essentially paralyzed Belgrade, as refusing to comply with Western demands runs the risk of a NATO-backed destabilization of Serbia (including through potential coups). On the other hand, not taking into account public opinion is virtually political suicide for the ruling parties.

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Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited US forces occupying northeastern Syria on Saturday, 4 March, allegedly to assess efforts to prevent a resurgence of ISIS and to review safeguards for US forces against attacks, including from drones flown by Iran-backed militias, Reuters has reported.

Some 1,000 American troops continue to support allied Arab and Kurdish militias from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the region.

Milley, whose term as chairman of the joint chiefs ends in September, met with the commander of the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS, Army Maj. Gen. Matthew McFarlane, and reviewed security measures from an undisclosed base in Syria’s northeast.

According to Al-Monitor, Milley’s visit to Syria signals the Biden administration’s seriousness about keeping troops in the country in support of the SDF.

“We’re committed to maintaining our force presence in support of the enduring defeat of ISIS,” the Pentagon’s top Middle East policy official, Dana Stroul, told reporters last week.

“This is a mission that has the full support of the Secretary of Defense,” Stroul said.

Syria analyst Jennifer Cafarella of the Institute for the Study of War noted the importance of continuing the US military occupation in northeastern Syria. She observed in 2017 that “Whether Washington chooses to admit it or not, the US now has direct influence over the vast majority of Syria’s most productive oil fields,” and that the territorial gains of the SDF “are Syrian national treasures that when added up amount to brute geopolitical power for the US.”

Despite US claims that it is committed to the defeat of ISIS, Al-Monitor notes that “Nearly four years after the [ISIS] defeat on the battlefield, some 10,000 suspected fighters from the group remain in makeshift prisons under SDF control, with not even a hint of international political will to establish war crimes tribunals on the horizon.”

US planners previously welcomed the growth of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. An August 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report had made clear that Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and al-Qaeda were the driving forces of the US and Gulf-backed insurgency against the Syrian government, and that the US and its regional allies supported the establishment of a “Salafist principality” in eastern Syria as part of the effort to topple Assad and divide the country.

For 18 months after the declaration of the so-called Caliphate, US planners took no action against ISIS, allowing the group to threaten both Baghdad and Damascus.

Milley’s visit comes just over a week after US Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) introduced a war powers bill that would force the Biden administration to withdraw US troops from Syria. The bill is unlikely to clear the House, but a previous measure issued in 2021 gained some bipartisan support.

Introduced on Wednesday, 22 February, the legislation would require US President Joe Biden to remove all US forces from Syria within 15 days after the legislation is signed into law.

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The scene is unforgettable and unforgivable: an elected official, the deputy prime minister of Australia, cutting loose about a fish species introduced into the country by his ancestors, and demanding their annihilation.  During the near-lunatic display by Barnaby Joyce, even his own colleagues betrayed embarrassment and alarm at the full-throated shrieks of “carp, carp”.  With crazed eyes and crimson face, Joyce went on to assure fellow parliamentarians that viral weapons will be deployed against the common carp, otherwise known as Cyprinus carpio.  The cannonade of ecological warfare had been announced, though preparations for the war had long been in progress.

In 2017, the Sydney Morning Herald ran a piece befitting the great terror pieces that fret and agitate at the unknown and unseen.  “Today no one really knows how many are in the rivers of our eastern states and particularly the Murray-Darling, but if you were to say 10 million, few aquatic scientists would contradict you.”

The carp is inherently consumable, traditional in a number of cuisines, and central to a number of religious rites.  But in Australia, the murderous kill comes before sound and sensible management, vengeful destruction before the understanding.  As with every species introduced into the vulnerable space of Australian ecology, thuggish retribution for one’s failings is a default position, the cover for human error and incompetence.  Often, that retribution is of a colossal, industrial scale, marked by poisoning or viral delivery, connived in by the scientific and political establishment.

The language used to demonise the relevant species never strays far from hyperbole.  Federal MP Gavin Pearce stated a few examples in a 2020 speech gloating about Tasmania being “on the verge of eradicating” the common carp.  “They are described as water wreckers, resource hogs or trash fish.”  In 1994, we find a reference by the Victorian National Parks Association that the fish were biblical dangers akin to “underwater rabbits”.  Given that rabbits in Australia have themselves been the subject of experimental torture, liquidation and extirpation for just being rabbits, this was a revealing point.

The wording from the current National Carp Control Plan is less colloquial but no less contemptuous of the fish.  “Carp have major negative impacts on water quality and the amenity value of our freshwater environments.  Carp also have a devastating impact on biodiversity and have decimated native fish populations in many areas since they first became established as a major pest in the wild in the 1960s.”  And whose fault, pray, is that?

The NCCP, comprising 11 national and international institutions, 40 research scientists and work spanning six years is “the largest feasibility assessment of a biological control agent in Australia.”  The premise is unmistakable: the use of biological warfare against a loathed animal.  While nation states and their human representatives officially shun chemical and biological agents as scourges of humanity, scientists and officials in Australia relish the prospective deployment of Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (carp virus).

The decision as to whether such an agent will be used, and to what extent, will fall to the various governments in Australia.  Committees such as the Environment and Invasives Committee, the National Biosecurity Committee and the Agriculture Senior Officials’ Committee, are all involved in giving advice.  “The Australian and state and territory agriculture ministers will be the ultimate decision makers on whether to proceed further with the biological release program following a formal review of the NCCP.”

Such levels of lunacy have been called out, though few critics can be found in Australia.  In 2017, University of East Anglia researchers Jackie Lighten and Cock van Oosterhout warned that the herpes virus proposal was of an “irreversible and high-risk” nature, and could have “serious ecological, environmental, and economic ramifications.”  While biocontrol measures had been successfully used to target certain terrestrial vertebrates, “the biocontrol of large, highly fecund aquatic animals such as carp adds novel risks.”  It was also pointed out that the NCCP had omitted salient areas of work in reaching its findings.

In subsequent work on the subject, researchers have argued that the release of the Koi Herpesvirus would be an exercise in futility in curbing the numbers of the common carp. In time, the creature would develop resistance, seeing a comprehensive recovery of numbers.  “KHV will rarely result in prolonged reductions or population extinctions,” write Kate Mintram, van Oosterhout and Lighten in the Journal of Applied Ecology.  “Crucially, realistic scenarios result in a rapidly rebounding population of resistant individuals.”  The authors go on to state that, “A high probability of population extinction is only met when carp fecundity is reduced to 1% of biological observations.”

As Lighten opined in 2020, “Releasing KHV carries significant risks to human and ecosystem health, which likely outweigh the benefits and we have previously urged further detailed research to avoid an unnecessary ecological catastrophe.”  Even in the face of industrial slaughter and biological warfare, this remarkable fish continues to outwit and prevail.

In place of adopting this devastating, daft solution, there are other options: Why not eat and use a species otherwise considered a pest?  A chef interviewed on the 7.30 Report was sensibly focused on the gastronomic properties of the common carp, noting that celebrities such as Serbia’s Novak Djokovic eat it with relish.  But that selling point is unlikely to fly in the face of the megadeath industry that propels Australia’s often calamitous environmental policies.

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The makeshift dam designed to prevent toxic water contamination in East Palestine, Ohio following the toxic train derailment, has failed and overflowed. Mainstream media reports that “heavy rain” caused the water to overflow near East Palestine’s city park, causing more concern among residents.

Many residents are already ill from the initial toxins released into the air and waterways after a train carrying said toxins derailed in early February. Some have taken to Twitter and other social media outlets to express their concerns that the media continues to brush off.

From our organizer in East Palestine: the dam constructed to hold back toxic waste has broken after today’s heavy rain and the area is flooding.

Safe homes and independent testing NOW. pic.twitter.com/H5fBJTZMvl

— River Valley Organizing (@RiverValleyOrg) March 4, 2023

Mary McCarron, a public information officer for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, tells Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 the large pool was a containment dam that “was actually part of mitigation work surrounding the storm.” WTAE4, an ABC News affiliate, further reported that McCarron also said no visible waste was released into nearby streams.

“This water is not coming from the derailment site,” Thomas A. Crosson, senior director of strategic communications with Norfolk Southern said. “We have purposely dammed this area to raise water levels to allow for aeration. In heavy rain events, those waters can rise and is not a reason for concern.”

Residents feel otherwise.

Eric Cozza tells 19 News Cleveland that he’s frightened to think about what this new threat could mean, “I fear that now the chemical is in the ground, it’s going to leach towards the water ducts, our aquifer for drinking water. I’m concerned that the park is now contaminated. Kids won’t be able to play there or walk through there on their way to school.”

Cozza’s family has already been diagnosed by a doctor with chemical irritation or rashes on their skin, with the overflow of water Cozza says the odor of chemicals is back in the air again, “I have fear, I’ve had fear and now this just put the anxiety over the top.”

BREAKING: A temporary dam erected by Norfolk Southern in #EastPalestineOH —with contaminated water—is overflowing AGAIN where Leslie Run and Sulphur Run creeks meet. There are 5 water wells in close proximity drawing from groundwater. This is at edge of East Palestine City Park. pic.twitter.com/1IKoPfBnmJ

— Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) March 4, 2023

The city potable water table is shown below in BLUE: it’s less than 100 yards from where Leslie Run and Sulphur Run merge. The water table is less than 18 feet below ground.

I have zero question that it is absolutely compromised. #EastPalestine #EastPalestineOH pic.twitter.com/GTktBtGrP4

— Frank Castiglione (@CastiglioneFrnk) March 4, 2023

The bad news just keeps rolling in for Ohio as well. Another Norfolk Southern train derailed in Springfield yesterday. Nearby residents were asked to shelter in place after a Norfolk Southern train derailed near a highway in the Springfield, Ohio, area on Saturday.

Norfolk Southern confirmed in a statement to CBS News that 20 cars of a 212-car train derailed. The railway company said there were no hazardous materials aboard the train, and there were no reported injuries.

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The European (EEA and non-EEA countries) database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, verified by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and they are now reporting 50,663 fatalities, and 5,315,063 injuries following injections of EMA-authorized  experimental COVID-19 shots as of February 25, 2023.

• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (ELASOMERAN)
• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA ORIGINAL/OMICRON BA.1 (ELASOMERAN, IMELASOMERAN)
• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA ORIGINAL/OMICRON BA.4-5 (ELASOMERAN, DAVESOMERAN)
• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH (TOZINAMERAN)
• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH ORIGINAL/OMICRON BA.1 (TOZINAMERAN, RILTOZINAMERAN)
• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH ORIGINAL/OMICRON BA.4-5 (TOZINAMERAN, FAMTOZINAMERAN)
• COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19)
• COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S)
• COVID-19 VACCINE NOVAVAX (NVX-COV2373)
• COVID-19 VACCINE VALNEVA
• COVID-19 VACCINE VIDPREVTYN BETA

A Health Impact News subscriber in Europe ran the reports for each of the COVID-19 shots we are including here. It is a lot of work to tabulate each reaction with injuries and fatalities, since there is no place on the EudraVigilance system we have found that tabulates all the results.[1]

While the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Europe is decreasing, our analysis determined that the Pfizer mRNA boosters for OMICRON BA.4-5 variants, and the Moderna mRNA boosters for OMICRON BA.4-5 variants, are causing a significantly higher percentage of fatalities among the cases reported than the original COVID-19 shots.

Here is a breakdown of the “reaction groups” where the fatalities have been recorded.

How were so many millions of people worldwide convinced to take an experimental “vaccine” that has now caused millions of deaths and injuries worldwide?

This was the largest propaganda campaign in the history of the human race, using FEAR to intimidate people into agreeing to be injected with a bioweapon, or in many cases, coerced.

WE MUST NEVER FORGET!

This is from checkur6 on Bitchute, who puts some faces onto these cold, hard statistics, as young people continued to “die suddenly” through February, 2023.

Please do not allow your heart to become callous. Watch every minute of this video and the young people and children who are now dead, and allow yourself to weep for humanity, as I did when I watched this.

Click here to watch the video.

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Since the publication of this article, famine has been spearheaded by the engineered hike in price of grain coupled with debt conditionalities imposed on African countries by the IMF-World Bank which have led to a curtailment of grain imports. 

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There has been a deteriorating situation within various African states related to the impact of drought and the consequent lack of food for hundreds of millions of people.

These events on the continent cannot be analyzed separately from the broader international economic and security crises which has impacted the ability of the existing global markets to provide adequate food to the peoples of the world.

The acute shortages of food in various regions across Africa have not yet reached the officially designated category of a famine. However, if food assistance is not provided soon, estimates from the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) suggest that tens of millions of people will be on the verge of starvation.

WFP officials indicate that their efforts to address the current crisis, particularly in East Africa, would require an additional $192 million to provide the necessary food to prevent hunger. In comparison to what is being provided to the war in Ukraine along with the massive tax breaks and subsidies to multinational corporations, $192 million pales in comparison.

Any worsening of the food crisis in Africa could easily create further destabilization and displacement extending far beyond the continent. Since the Pentagon-NATO war against Libya during 2011, the consequent social disruptions continue up until today.

In Ethiopia, the previous administration of President Donald Trump sought to undermine the sovereignty of the Horn of Africa state by fueling tensions with Egypt which is stalling the full operational capacity of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the largest power generation facility in the region. The rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) initiated a war against the central Ethiopian government in Addis Ababa at the aegis of Washington and its allies in Cairo and Khartoum in November 2020. Although the TPLF has been driven back into its provincial stronghold in the north of the country, the subsequent humanitarian crisis has been politicized by Washington and the EU member-states.

Somalia has been subject to direct Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and State Department interference for many years. Despite the presence of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), which is heavily trained and funded by Washington and the EU, the Biden administration announced earlier in the year that it would redeploy 700 U.S. troops to Somalia.

Nonetheless, Somalia is once again a focal point of food deficits which border on the brink of famine. All of the deliberate involvement by the western capitalist states has not been able to bring peace and stability to the country.

Africa famine early warning system (Source: Abayomi Azikiwe)

South Sudan is the newest recognized state by the United Nations and the AU. Since its independence in 2011, there have been several internal conflicts between the contending political forces inside the country. The U.S., Britain and the State of Israel all backed the partitioning of the Republic of Sudan. Consequently, these entities must accept their substantial responsibility for the turmoil now in existence in South Sudan.

Surprisingly enough, the Biden administration has suspended aid to South Sudan. The government in the capital of Juba has made a direct appeal to Washington to resume aid shipments into the country. See this.

Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic the overall global economic systems have been severely disrupted. Even in the Western European and North American industrial states, there has been a precipitous hike in food, energy, transportation and housing costs. The leading capitalist governments including the United States have failed to institute measures which could sustain the working class and oppressed living in these countries.

For example, the administration of President Joe Biden has not threatened to impose price controls on essential commodities and services in order to provide assistance to the impoverished masses. Social programs such as school breakfasts and lunches are being terminated due to lack of funding. At the same time, at least $55 billion in military and other aid is being sent to Ukraine in order to prolong a proxy war against the Russian Federation. These military and capitalist economic priorities are hampering the ability of people across the world to meet their food and energy needs.

East Africa Has Become the Epicenter of the Threat of Famine

In the East African nations of Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan, a convergence of drought, supply chain problems which began at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, internal conflict and the unprecedented sanctions against the Russian Federation by the European Union (EU) and the U.S., is imperiling greater numbers of people on a weekly basis. The response of the President Joe Biden White House has been delayed and inadequate while the lack of food and medical attention is reaching critical levels. (See this)

While announcing additional funding for humanitarian relief by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Biden administration has cloaked its stated commitments by blaming Russia for the food crisis in developing countries. Yet the U.S. has engineered the Ukraine crisis through a series of foreign policy maneuvers dating back to 2014 when the-then government of President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown by the administration of President Barack Obama. Moreover, pressure has continued on the Ukrainian government to not negotiate a ceasefire with Moscow. (See this)

In a press release from USAID, it claims:

“Today the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced nearly $55 million in additional food-security assistance to Ethiopia. Ethiopia is currently experiencing increased food insecurity due to higher food and fertilizer prices, which have been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. USAID will utilize this new funding to help Ethiopians overcome the current food crisis and to build further resilience to prevent and respond to food-related shocks in the future.”

However, to what extent is this aid being pledged to Ethiopia will indeed go towards stabilizing the country as opposed to providing support and coordination to the TPLF and other rebel groupings seeking to overthrow the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed? Just several months earlier, a Congressional bill was withdrawn that called for the imposition of harsh sanctions against Ethiopia. At present, Addis Ababa has been suspended from participation in the Africa Growth and Opportunities (AGOA) program as a direct result of the foreign policy of the Biden administration. (See this)

With specific reference to Ethiopia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on July 19 that:

“Four consecutive failed rainy seasons have brought on severe drought in Ethiopia’s lowland regions of Afar, Oromia, the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ (SNNPR) and Somali regions. Water wells have dried up and millions of livestock have died, resulting in mass displacement…. ‘This climate-induced crisis is a malnutrition crisis for children and not just in Ethiopia but across Africa,’ said [Manuel] Fontaine (UNICEF Director for Emergency Operations).

‘While UNICEF and partners are already on the ground providing lifesaving nutritional support for severely malnourished children, USAID’s recent $200 million contribution to UNICEF globally is a timely game changer and we are very grateful. This funding will significantly scale up our nutrition response across the world. ’The ripple effect of the war in Ukraine is also set to tip more families in Africa over the edge and will exacerbate food insecurity with increasing fuel prices and reduced availability of wheat imports. Ethiopia imports 67 per cent of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine.’”

Ethiopia along with other African states conduct extensive trade with Russia in the agricultural sectors. The sanctions imposed by Washington are undoubtedly exacerbating the economic uncertainty and food crisis. Obviously, the AU member-states are not in favor of the proxy war waged by Washington and Wall Street against Russia. The reconvening of the Russia-Africa Summit in November and December of this year is a strong indication that the continent is seeking ways to avoid the devastating impact of U.S. militarist policies in Eastern Europe.

The only medium and long-term solutions to the problems of climate change, drought, food deficits and famine is a dramatic shift in the international relations of production and distribution of wealth around the globe. An expanding majority of the working and oppressed peoples are demanding the redistribution of the world’s resources and wealth which can only result in the further weakening of imperialism.

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