Standing Together – Resisting the New Normal

March 7th, 2023 by Colin Todhunter

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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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East Palestine’s “Containment Dam” Overflows

By Mac Slavo, March 06, 2023

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.

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”.

Biden Administration Targets Senate Judiciary for Constitutional Demise

By Renee Parsons, March 06, 2023

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.

Peru and the People’s Defenses

By J. B. Gerald, March 06, 2023

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.

Switzerland: Insanity – Leopards to Germany

By Peter Koenig, March 06, 2023

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.

Our World and How We Behave in It.

By Dave McGowan, March 06, 2023

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.

Was the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria Man-made?

By Prof. Claudia von Werlhof and Zeitpunkt, March 06, 2023

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?

Syria Condemns Illegal Visit of Top US General. Biden Wants to Keep Troops in Country

By The Cradle, March 06, 2023

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.

Documentary: Embarrassing Truth Behind the Global Food War

By South Front, March 06, 2023

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.

Africa’s Food Crisis Caused by the West. 278 Million Africans— One in Five —Are Facing Hunger

By Asad Ismi, March 06, 2023

While the COP 27 environmental summit ended without significant achievements, Africa is in the grip of its worst food crisis ever, driven by a perfect storm of climate crisis conditions— drought and floods—along with raging armed conflicts and spiraling grain import prices.

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Sorry to Bother You But People Are Dying!

March 7th, 2023 by Olivia DiNucci

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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.

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(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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(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 9th, twenty four Federal District and Circuit Judge nominees, leftover from the 117th 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.

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Peru and the People’s Defenses

March 6th, 2023 by J. B. Gerald

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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: Insanity – Leopards to Germany

March 6th, 2023 by Peter Koenig

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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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Our World and How We Behave in It.

March 6th, 2023 by Dave McGowan

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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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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.

Yukarıdaki iddialar ispatlanmayı bekliyor.

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Was the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria Man-made?

March 6th, 2023 by Prof. Claudia von Werlhof

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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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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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Each one-hour episode focuses on recent testimonies by Holocaust survivors and their descendants who discuss comparisons between the early repressive stages under the Nazi regime that culminated in the Holocaust and global COVID-19 policies.

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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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While the COP 27 environmental summit ended without significant achievements, Africa is in the grip of its worst food crisis ever, driven by a perfect storm of climate crisis conditions— drought and floods—along with raging armed conflicts and spiraling grain import prices.

A record 278 million Africans— one in five—are facing hunger. The number of East Africans in this predicament has gone up by 60% in 2021 alone and it has gone up by 40% in West Africa.

Countries in Africa make up only 3% of the emissions responsible for the climate crisis “but suffer more than any other region from its impact,” according to Joe Bavier, Abdi Sheikh, Michael Ovaska and Aditi Bhandari in Reuters.

Western countries are the biggest polluters, on a per capita basis—especially the U.S. and Canada—yet they have externalized the effects of their environmental destruction on people who are amongst the poorest in the world.

Sixteen of the 20 countries that are most vulnerable to the climate crisis are in Africa. Western intervention is also behind many of the armed conflicts in Africa.

As Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire, told me,

“the failure of the Western capitalist states to take responsibility for the current disproportionate impact of climate change is another form of rationalizing the continuation of the neo-colonial arrangements [for Africa], which have been in existence since the 1960s.”

In short, the climate crisis is another form of neo-colonialism. Particularly disgraceful is the fact that rich Western countries promised $100 billion per year to developing countries in climate damage funds in 2009 and have failed to deliver.

As Omolade Adunbi, a professor of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan and expert on environmental politics puts it:

“The effect of climate change on many communities in Africa cannot be overemphasized. Times without number, we have seen how the major polluters, who are mainly countries of the Global North—such as the United States and Canada—and corporations based in these countries continue to treat the issue of climate change with kid gloves.”

COP conferences are more performative than anything.

“The annual COPs have literally become a jamboree where promises that are never kept are made,” says Adunbi. “If you check the agreements reached every year at these COP meetings, there is a form of similitude in them, which is an indication that there is no movement towards rectifying the damage done to the environment by these corporate polluters and the countries that enable them. The consequences of inaction have been increasing weather patterns that cause drought and flood in many African countries.”

According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), “Violent conflict remains the primary driver of acute hunger [in Africa and other areas].”

Since the 1980s the United States has fueled 12 wars on the continent through arms transfers and military training, as well as proxy invasions and direct invasions.

These wars include the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Libya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Angola, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville and Nigeria. The U.S. has given military assistance to 51 out of 54 African countries.

“When there is conflict, it becomes practically impossible for farmers to produce food needed to sustain the population. There
is a clear correlation between the many conflicts ongoing in Africa, food scarcity, drought and climate change,” explains Adunbi.

According to William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy in Washington D.C. and co-author of the 2000 report Deadly Legacy: U.S. Arms to Africa and the Congo War, the U.S. sent $1.5 billion dollars in arms and training to Africa during the Cold War years (1950–89) and this “set the stage for the current round [post-2000] of conflicts in the region.

“The military skills and equipment supplied by the U.S. are still being used by combatants in these wars,” Hartung says.

As Deadly Legacy notes, “many of the top U.S. clients of the Cold War-Liberia, Somalia, Sudan and DRC” became riven by violence, instability and economic collapse during the 1990s—and still are. Post-2000, U.S. arms transfers to Africa and training programs for its armies have increased, along with invasions.

The DRC and Libya have been the countries most destabilized by U.S. military intervention in Africa. The U.S. instigated the invasion of the DRC by its proxies Rwanda and Uganda in 1996 and 1998, and the subsequent slaughter of more than seven million Congolese has devastated the country.

Washington’s goal was to plunder the mineral riches of the Congo through the proxy use of Rwanda’s and Uganda’s troops. These two states withdrew their forces from the Congo in 2003, but continued looting its minerals through their puppet militias.

“The U.S. has financed and given overall direction to the worst genocide since World War II,” says Glen Ford, editor of the Black Agenda Report, the leading website on U.S. policy towards Africa.

“Since 1996, Washington has drenched Congo’s eastern provinces in the blood of over six million people. The governments of Rwanda and Uganda, the direct perpetrators of this holocaust, are in every sense of the word agents of U.S. foreign policy, who operate with impunity under the imperial umbrella.”

It is no surprise that, according to the WFP, “DRC is one of the largest hunger crises in the world. Hunger and conflict fuel one another, with armed conflict and widespread displacement prevailing for the past 25 years.” Between January and June 2023, 26.4 million people could become acutely food insecure.

In Libya, the U.S. attacked the country, in collaboration with Canada and other NATO members in 2011. The invasion destroyed Libya, which was the richest country in Africa, and spread wars and insurgencies to several African states.

In Mali, Islamic fundamentalists—armed with weapons from Muammar Gaddafi’s (Libya’s leader whom NATO overthrew) looted arsenal and from NATO’s own extensive distribution of weaponry to Gaddafi’s opponents—attacked the government in 2012, starting a civil war that continues today.

According to the Food Security Cluster (a project of the WFP and FAO), “Mali is facing an unprecedented food crisis, exceeding the last peak in 2013/2014 at the beginning of the crisis. From October to December 2021, nearly 1.2 million people were known to be in need of emergency food assistance, almost three times higher than the year before.”

“The result of the invasion [of Libya] has been a disaster,” Conn Hallinan told me. He has been a columnist with Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Washington D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies. Hallinan has written on foreign affairs for 50 years and retired in September 2021.

“The massive weapon caches of Gaddafi fuel insurgents and terrorists throughout Africa. And insurgents in the trans-Sahel [an area comprising nine African countries] are using those weapons to overthrow governments or ignite civil wars,” says Hallinan.

The government of Chad, one of the Sahel countries embroiled in a civil war, declared a food emergency in June 2022. The majority of its population suffers from malnutrition.

The steep 23.9% increase in African food prices in 2022 is usually attributed to the Russia-Ukraine War by the mainstream press, but the question that should be asked is: why do African countries need to import grain from Russia, Ukraine and other countries?

This is due to the debilitation of African agriculture, mainly caused by structural adjustment programs imposed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on most African countries that cut official subsidies to farmers and enforce the import of grains and the export of cash crops.

These three policies—cutting official subsidies to farmers, enforcing the import of grains and the export of cash crops—have been undermining food security in Africa since the 1980s.

The global food system, dominated by Western multinational corporations, has “squeezed out small farm holders in many countries of the Global South. Nowhere is this more applicable than African countries,” according to Adunbi.

“The neoliberal practices of asking African countries to discontinue subsidy regimes have a more devastating impact on farmers who are not able to access credits to support their farming business. The irony of it all is that multinationals enjoy huge subsidies from countries of the Global North, whereas small farm holdings in Africa do not enjoy the same benefits.

“Where credit facilities are made available to farmers in Africa, stringent conditions impair their ability to access such facilities. This amounts to a double standard, whereby Africans are constantly being blamed for problems that are not of their own creation.

“The second thing to note is that the current food insecurity is, most times, blamed on the Africans, whereas the real issue is the lack of a level playing field for the farmers who had to endure a form of double jeopardy—squeezed by their government and multinational corporations.”

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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 19th, 20th and 21st 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 18th and July 17th 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 18th 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 19th, 20th and 21st 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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Modus Operandi of Peruvian Lawfare

March 6th, 2023 by Miguel Santos García

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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.

In the strategy for maintaining hegemonic control over what the United States still considers its neocolonial provinces, there is a technique, a series of doctrinal practices that make legal warfare viable to neutralize regional independence and delegitimize governments that do not align with US interests in the New Cold War. The Peruvian congress holds political power while the Peruvian oligarchy wields economic power and the mass media, which empowers legal and information warfare as part of an integral Hybrid War. Andrew Korybko called these regional dynamics Operation Condor 2.0, instead of rigid military coups, regime change is promoted by the law itself, under the allegation that the objective is to protect the rule of law. The power of the legislature and the judiciary of Peru sharpens more acutely as it becomes more complex within the geopolitical calculation of the New Cold War due to the global systemic transition to multipolarity, where the US and its vassals strive to slow down indefinitely this global transition and if possible reverse it.

Going back to July 2021, Castillo became the president of Peru with more than 50% of the votes, and the National Jury of Elections – which oversees the electoral processes – declared Pedro Castillo, the candidate of Peru Libre, the winner, after a recount of votes from the second round of the election with weeks of challenges and legal battles. Keiko Fujimori’s original allegation of fraud served to stall the results of the election, thus Castillo had to wait more than a month to be sworn in, signaling how his government’s always on the defensive, even since the election campaign, and in the end, he was not allowed to govern. Similarly, the Peruvian press has sought to create divisions within the PPNPL movement to weaken it and thus dismantle and/or co-opt it more easily.

It was in the media and social networks where K. Fujimori and her party promoted the idea of fraud, an allegation that was denied by the Peruvian electoral body just on the eve of Pedro Castillo’s victory. Since the goal is to externally provoke asymmetrical conflicts predicated on sabotaging concrete geo-economic interests, the info-war was woven into the Hybrid War against Castillo’s government from the beginning by a significant variety of national, regional, and international media that regulate and promote the ideological/legal matrix through lawfare. Those who executed the arrest of President Castillo Terrones acted in close coordination with the nation’s prosecutor Patricia Vargas, with the supreme judge Juan Carlos Checkley Soria who along with the magistrate captain Cesar San Martin Castro coordinated with the leaders of Congress especially the president of Congress Jose Zapata.

This Hybrid War coup d’etat has been executed from the same legislative branch and the judicial branch of Peru, which have been hacked and co-opted so to speak by the US government and its multiple agencies and departments that make such penetration and neo-colonization viable. Castillo failed to regroup the popular force without succeeding in deepening and implementing changes to the Peruvian legal-political system to break with the status quo by relying on the incipient popular movement that generated his election. Lawfare works under the pretext of the fight against corruption and the defense of democracy is promoting flawed judicial processes that do not withstand the slightest legal scrutiny. Castillo wanted to stabilize the country within an intense Hybrid War with information warfare that increased the potency of lawfare.

Dina Boluarte as the current president is facing several demonstrations demanding her resignation, which thus far have left 60 people dead and thousands injured. The coup d’état against the government of Pedro Castillo was executed with clear US support from the US Southern Command and the US State Department itself. The Peruvian police have used brute force, using live ammunition, to deal with the protests demanding the closure of congress and the resignation of Boluarte. The strong repression suffered by the Peruvian people is explained by the persistence of the National Security Doctrine policies guiding the Peruvian Security Forces. In addition to receiving regular intelligence and training from the Pentagon, US officers are frequently incorporated into the Peruvian military. The link between US and Peru militaries is strong, indicating they continually conduct joint exercises and training, leaving the entire Peruvian chain of command interpenetrated by the US Southern Command.

The subsequent years of the government of Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto, who was President of Peru from 1990 to 2000, have been characterized by an evident imbalance between the republican branches of government, being in turn coupled to U.S. control devices. If Fujimori embodied neocolonialism by concentrating power in the executive branch proxies, in this post-Fujimori era it is the congress that now embodies tyranny.

While the Fujimoristas are not the only proxy Peruvian supporters of the US in the South American country, they are certainly the most powerful and serve as a nexus between the US and the smaller US proxies there. Fujimorism went from being mere remnants of a dominant network shaken by the imprisonment of the leading figure of Alberto Fujimori back in early 2000 to a movement that together with his daughter Keiko Fujimori, has become a force of their own, heirs to the regional military-oligarch legacy now reformulated and updated to the times of legal warfare as part of a comprehensive US Hybrid War against regional sovereignty.

Hybrid War had already been declared against Castillo long before he took office and even before he was a candidate. In the colonial provinces of the US and its Billion Dollar allies in the Americas, Hybrid Warfare is the norm. Castillo’s position within the PPNPL was never solid enough as a mere candidate welcomed by the party, he would not count on unconditional support from all. The PPNPL had to deal with the rest of the parties joining an unofficial alliance within Fujimorism reaching more than the 2/3 required to approve a vacancy process.

Since 2011, Peru has had eight different presidents, the last of which was Dina Boluarte who assumed the presidency after the dismissal of Pedro Castillo. Peru has had an unprecedented amount of presidents in the last ten years from Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), Martin Vizcarra (2018-2020), to finally Manuel Merino (2020) just before Castillo. However, Fujimorism, as the prominent US-proxy network in that country, is not limited to systemically enabling fraudulent vacancy appeals but has crafted significant changes in the judicial landscape, like the change to the Law on the Rights of Participation and Citizen Control that forces any referendum on constitutional reform to be called by order of Congress.

The U.S. ambassador to Peru since 2020, Lisa Kenna, is a veteran CIA agent and was among the first to recognize the interim government of Dina Boluarte, the current president of Peru. She met suspiciously with the Minister of Defense of the Andean country just one day before the coup d’état through imprisonment without trial of the president. Castillo’s inability to appoint a cabinet that shares his vision of government is very striking, given that the appointments of Miguel Angel Rodriguez Mackay and Cesar Landa to Foreign Minister bring with them too much history of ties to the US-Peruvian joint legal and Hybrid Warfare matrix.

The pro-US proxies swarm in the legislative branch, the judicial branch, and all over the mass media managed to neutralize the democratic mandate of the Peruvian people. The systemic attacks through the legal system plus their control of perception through info-warfare subtracted internal cohesion in the Legislative Chamber, fragmenting and isolating the PPNPL. The mechanical practice of lawfare from the point of view of a proxy agent legislator translates into putting into practice all the tools of parliamentary filibustering to block any advance made by Castillo and the PPNPL overall, forcing and ensnaring them to deal with legislature lawfare. The fragmentation of the Peruvian political landscape limits its capacity for political action, since although many political observers in the country can identify threats to its Democratic Security, as a State they do not have the sufficient political will to articulate the structures and personnel necessary to deal with these threats in a coherent manner.

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March 6th, 2023 by Drago Bosnic

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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.

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.”

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.

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

by Michel Chossudovsky

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

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

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First published on July 20, 2022

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. 

M. C. GR Editor

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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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Before COVID-19 myocarditis was rare and always alerted cardiologists to future risks of two outcomes: 1) heart failure, 2) arrythmias (ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation) leading to cardiopulmonary arrest.

Buchan and colleagues reported 77 Canadian teenagers age 12-17 who needlessly suffered myopericarditis after the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. Sixty six percent occurred after dose #2 and only 7% had prior COVID-19, so the vaccine was to blame in the vast majority of cases. Hospitalization occurred in 44% and their were no deaths. These cases occurred in 2020-2021 and there is no mention of follow-up or risk of future cardiac arrest.

Buchan SA, Alley S, Seo CY, et al. Myocarditis or Pericarditis Events After BNT162b2 Vaccination in Individuals Aged 12 to 17 Years in Ontario, Canada. JAMA Pediatr. Published online February 27, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.6166

The most common question I receive from concerned and regretful parents is “will my child be OK after getting through myopericarditis?” Buchan and colleagues have the answer in their data and Canadians deserve to know how those 77 kids are doing now two years later.

Ethical research should be responsive to public needs in the setting of a pandemic crisis.

The COVID-19 vaccines have caused record injuries, disabilities, and death. Let’s hope medical researchers holding data on vaccine injuries publish longer term outcomes soon so physicians can accurately prognosticate for this now common form of cardiac injury.

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Buchan SA, Alley S, Seo CY, et al. Myocarditis or Pericarditis Events After BNT162b2 Vaccination in Individuals Aged 12 to 17 Years in Ontario, Canada. JAMA Pediatr. Published online February 27, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.6166

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

by Michel Chossudovsky

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

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

ISBN: 978-0-9879389-3-0,  Year: 2022,  PDF Ebook,  Pages: 164, 15 Chapters

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First Child Death Due to Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Compensated. Taiwanese Girl 5-11 Years Old Died After Second Pfizer Jab. Government Awarded $115,000 to Family

By Dr. William Makis, March 05, 2023

This story is important in light of my recent report on 96 Canadian children who died suddenly or unexpectedly in the past 3 months (click here). While there have been many stories of child deaths due to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, this is the first one that involves government compensation.

Western Duplicity and the War in Ukraine

By Mark Taliano, March 06, 2023

The war in Ukraine is not about democracy, freedom,  human rights, or Ukrainian peoples. It is about the destruction of all of the above, and the main perpetrators are the usual suspects:  Washington and the West.

Why Biden Snubbed China’s Ukraine Peace Plan

By Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd, and Wei Yu, March 05, 2023

There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.” “Not rational” is how Biden described the plan that calls for de-escalation toward a ceasefire, respect for national sovereignty, establishment of humanitarian corridors and resumption of peace talks.

Video: Ukraine, Russia, NATO and Nord Stream: Mike Adams interviews Scott Ritter

By Scott Ritter and Mike Adams, March 05, 2023

Ritter’s take on the current situation is that Ukraine’s leadership (Zelensky) is hopelessly corrupt and deeply infested with Nazis and murderers who issue hit lists of journalists to execute. Ritter himself has now achieved the No. 1 top position on one such list that’s run by the Zelensky government. (Yes, the Zelensky regime quite literally runs a kill list that targets journalists.)

Heirs of Rosalie Bertell? Her Significance for a Women’s Movement, in View of Today’s “New War Against All Life and Mother Earth Herself”

By Prof. Claudia von Werlhof, March 04, 2023

You may be astonished or even shocked by my following presentation, as it may seem very unusual to you or even rather radical. The reason for this is the different perspective from which I am speaking now: I am no longer arguing from a merely human point of view. The human or social point of view is the usual one in modern times of anthropocentrism, which includes women and their views as well.

Twenty Years After the Start of the War in Iraq, People Around the World Are Still Raging Against the War Machine

By Michael Welch, Rep Tulsi Gabbard, Colonel Ann Wright, and Jimmy Dore, March 04, 2023

In late February, turn-outs at rallies against funding the war in Ukraine, seen by many as a proxy war on Russia by the U.S. and NATO were not as huge as the demonstrations against the Iraq War. They are still significant however, especially considering the way the protests and the participants are completely either ignored or pilloried by Mainstream media personalities.

US Ambassador to China: “We’re the Leader” of the Indo-Pacific

By Caitlin Johnstone, March 03, 2023

A recent US Chamber of Commerce InSTEP program hosted three empire managers to talk about Washington’s top three enemies, with the US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns discussing the PRC, the odious Victoria Nuland discussing Russia, and the US ambassador to Israel Tom Nides talking about Iran.

‘I’ve already lived under Stalin!’ Anti-government Protests Spread Across Israel

By Gilad Meiri, March 03, 2023

As Wednesday marked a huge day for protests all over the country decrying the judicial reform, Holon is the latest city to join the list of local municipalities where people, waving flags and chanting aloud, are taking to the streets by the thousands.

How the President of Peru Was “Removed” by “Outside Forces”. WEF’s Klaus Schwab at His Best

By Peter Koenig, March 03, 2023

Castillo’s government presented Congress with 76 legislation proposals to take back some of the privatized government properties. They were all rejected. He also wanted to create a Peruvian flag independent airline, building and enlarging three airports – all were blocked.

US Exceptionalism and the Wars in Syria and Ukraine

By Rick Sterling, March 03, 2023

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, influential neoconservatives said it was time for US interests and priorities to be dominant. There was only one superpower. This was to be  a New American Century with no challengers. This perspective went from being a fringe element to increasingly influential.

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Western Duplicity and the War in Ukraine

March 6th, 2023 by Mark Taliano

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The war in Ukraine is not about democracy, freedom,  human rights, or Ukrainian peoples.

It is about the destruction of all of the above, and the main perpetrators are the usual suspects:  Washington and the West.

It is the West and its agencies, that revived and emboldened nazism in Ukraine since the end of WW2. (1)

It is Washington that conducted a blatant and violent coup against the democratically-elected Ukrainian government in 2014, thus destoying democracy and freedom and even the pretense of democracy and freedom for all of Ukraine at that moment and for years to come. (2)

The on-going coup brought nazism to the forefront and institutionalized this hideous ideology of exceptionalism and intolerance in its military, its police, its government and its culture. Hatred of all things Russian is taught and imbued from an early age. Today, Ukraine celebrates a national holiday that memorializes nazi-collabrator villains, in particular Stepan Bandera. (3)

Since 2014, nazism and intolerance have manifested themselves widely and were foundational to Kiev’s military bombardment of Russian speaking civilian areas in what has accurately been described as a genocide, especially since ethnic cleansing of anything Russian was the observed strategy. (4)

Peace failed because the West had no intention of honoring Peace Agreements.  Former German Chancellor Merkel, Former Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, and former French President Francois Hollande all admitted that the Minsk Accords were used to buy time and to build up Ukraine’s miitary to NATO standards. (5)

And so Russia initiated a Special Military Operation ostensibly to protect Russian speaking peoples and Russian nationals from Kiev’s unceasing bombardments. But also to ensure that Ukraine remains neutral, that it be denazified and demilitarized. (6)

A country such as Russia that lost as many as 27 million people to the nazi invasion during WW2 is justified in pre-empting a proven aggressive nazi-state on its borders, especially since U.S Secretary of State James Baker promised Mikail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, with the reunification of Germany, that NATO would not expand “one inch eastward.” (7)

And now the carnage of war is unimagineable, with Ukraine’s military “burn rate” far in excess of Russia’s and prospects for peace not likely since the West, including Canada, insists on supplying Ukraine with billions in weapons, with the apparent goals of using war to fight to “the last Ukrainian” and to “bleed Russia”. (8)

Canada’s “support for Ukraine” in terms of training and weapons prolongs the suffering and raises the death toll for all Ukrainians. The support translates into support for nazism and Western imperialism. (9)

Democracy and freedom and human rights are all crushed beneath the war lies and the war carnage.  Millions of lives are dislocated and destroyed because armchair Western warmongers think of themselves as “exceptional”.

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Notes

(1) Gerald Sussman, “Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy.” 12 September, 2022, Covert Action Magazine, (Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy | CovertAction Magazine) Accessed 4 March, 2023.

(2) Kit Klarenberg, “Anatomy of a Coup: How CIA Front Laid Foundations for Ukraine War.” 1 July, 2022. (Anatomy of a Coup: How CIA Front Laid Foundations for Ukraine War (substack.com) ) Accessed 4 March, 2023.

(3) Brian Berletic, “Ukraine Nazism” (Ukraine Nazism/ By Brian Berletic ) marktaliano.net, 04 March, 2023 ( Ukraine Nazism/ By Brian Berletic ) Accessed 04 March, 2023

(4) “Eva Bartlett describes the unspeakable genocide in Ukraine FULL INTERVIEW”, Redacted Conversations, “Eva Bartlett describes the unspeakable genocide in Ukraine FULL INTERVIEW” 27 September, 2022, marktaliano.net (Eva Bartlett describes the unspeakable genocide in Ukraine FULL INTERVIEW ) Accessed 04 March, 2023.

(5) Mark Taliano, “The West Seeks War Not Peace.” Global Research, 30 November, 2022. (The West Seeks War, Not Peace – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization) Accessed 04 March, 2023.

(6) John Mearsheimer, “Prof. John Mearsheimer on Russia’s Special Military Operation.” . marktaliano.net . 16 May, 2022, (Prof. John Mearsheimer on Russia’s Special Military Operation ) Accessed 04 March, 2023.

(7) Ben Norton, “US, UK, France promised USSR not to expand NATO east of Germany, newly discovered document proves.” Geopolitical Economy Report, 20 February, 2022. (US, UK, France promised USSR not to expand NATO east of Germany, newly discovered document proves – Geopolitical Economy Report) Accessed 03 March, 2023.

See also : NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard. “Not One Inch Eastward”. What Was Agreed Between the Soviets and the West in 1990? – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

(8) Yves Engler, “Understanding the Logic of Canada Giving $2.26 Billion in Arms to Ukraine.” Global Research, 02 March, 2023. (Understanding the Logic of Canada Giving $2.26 Billion in Arms to Ukraine – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization) Accessed 02 March, 2023.

(9)  “Canada denies training Ukrainian Neo-Nazis.” RT, 11 April, 2022. ( Canada denies training Ukrainian Neo-Nazis — RT World News ) Accessed 03 April, 2022.


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The Seeds Of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming

March 6th, 2023 by Dr. Vandana Shiva

This article was originally published in April 2013

In recent developments, Monsanto and Bayer have merged into a powerful cartel which controls not only what we eat but also politicians, scientists and journalists.

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Monsanto’s talk of ‘technology’ tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed where genetic engineering is a means to control seed,

“Monsanto is an agricultural company.

We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world produce more while conserving more.”

“Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives.”

These are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from the company’s growing control over cotton seed supply — 95 per cent of India’s cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto.

Control over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of farmers.

Monsanto’s concentrated control over the seed sector in India as well as across the world is very worrying. This is what connects farmers’ suicides in India to Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser in Canada, to Monsanto vs Bowman in the US, and to farmers in Brazil suing Monsanto for $2.2 billion for unfair collection of royalty.

Through patents on seed, Monsanto has become the “Life Lord” of our planet, collecting rents for life’s renewal from farmers, the original breeders.

Patents on seed are illegitimate because putting a toxic gene into a plant cell is not “creating” or “inventing” a plant. These are seeds of deception — the deception that Monsanto is the creator of seeds and life; the deception that while Monsanto sues farmers and traps them in debt, it pretends to be working for farmers’ welfare, and the deception that GMOs feed the world. GMOs are failing to control pests and weeds, and have instead led to the emergence of superpests and superweeds.

The entry of Monsanto in the Indian seed sector was made possible with a 1988 Seed Policy imposed by the World Bank, requiring the Government of India to deregulate the seed sector. Five things changed with Monsanto’s entry: First, Indian companies were locked into joint-ventures and licensing arrangements, and concentration over the seed sector increased. Second, seed which had been the farmers’ common resource became the “intellectual property” of Monsanto, for which it started collecting royalties, thus raising the costs of seed. Third, open pollinated cotton seeds were displaced by hybrids, including GMO hybrids. A renewable resource became a non-renewable, patented commodity. Fourth, cotton which had earlier been grown as a mixture with food crops now had to be grown as a monoculture, with higher vulnerability to pests, disease, drought and crop failure. Fifth, Monsanto started to subvert India’s regulatory processes and, in fact, started to use public resources to push its non-renewable hybrids and GMOs through so-called public-private partnerships (PPP).

In 1995, Monsanto introduced its Bt technology in India through a joint-venture with the Indian company Mahyco. In 1997-98, Monsanto started open field trials of its GMO Bt cotton illegally and announced that it would be selling the seeds commercially the following year. India has rules for regulating GMOs since 1989, under the Environment Protection Act. It is mandatory to get approval from the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee under the ministry of environment for GMO trials. The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology sued Monsanto in the Supreme Court of India and Monsanto could not start the commercial sales of its Bt cotton seeds until 2002.
And, after the damning report of India’s parliamentary committee on Bt crops in August 2012, the panel of technical experts appointed by the Supreme Court recommended a 10-year moratorium on field trials of all GM food and termination of all ongoing trials of transgenic crops.

But it had changed Indian agriculture already.

Monsanto’s seed monopolies, the destruction of alternatives, the collection of superprofits in the form of royalties, and the increasing vulnerability of monocultures has created a context for debt, suicides and agrarian distress which is driving the farmers’ suicide epidemic in India. This systemic control has been intensified with Bt cotton. That is why most suicides are in the cotton belt.

An internal advisory by the agricultural ministry of India in January 2012 had this to say to the cotton-growing states in India — “Cotton farmers are in a deep crisis since shifting to Bt cotton. The spate of farmer suicides in 2011-12 has been particularly severe among Bt cotton farmers.”

The highest acreage of Bt cotton is in Maharashtra and this is also where the highest farmer suicides are. Suicides increased after Bt cotton was introduced — Monsanto’s royalty extraction, and the high costs of seed and chemicals have created a debt trap. According to Government of India data, nearly 75 per cent rural debt is due to purchase inputs. As Monsanto’s profits grow, farmers’ debt grows. It is in this systemic sense that Monsanto’s seeds are seeds of suicide.

The ultimate seeds of suicide is Monsanto’s patented technology to create sterile seeds. (Called “Terminator technology” by the media, sterile seed technology is a type of Gene Use Restriction Technology, GRUT, in which seed produced by a crop will not grow — crops will not produce viable offspring seeds or will produce viable seeds with specific genes switched off.) The Convention on Biological Diversity has banned its use, otherwise Monsanto would be collecting even higher profits from seed.

Monsanto’s talk of “technology” tries to hide its real objectives of ownership and control over seed where genetic engineering is just a means to control seed and the food system through patents and intellectual property rights.

A Monsanto representative admitted that they were “the patient’s diagnostician, and physician all in one” in writing the patents on life-forms, from micro-organisms to plants, in the TRIPS’ agreement of WTO. Stopping farmers from saving seeds and exercising their seed sovereignty was the main objective. Monsanto is now extending its patents to conventionally bred seed, as in the case of broccoli and capsicum, or the low gluten wheat it had pirated from India which we challenged as a biopiracy case in the European Patent office.

That is why we have started Fibres of Freedom in the heart of Monsanto’s Bt cotton/suicide belt in Vidharba. We have created community seed banks with indigenous seeds and helped farmers go organic. No GMO seeds, no debt, no suicides.

Vandana Shiva is a philosopher, environmental activist, and eco feminist.Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She is the founder of Navdanya http://www.navdanya.org/ 

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The Battle for Our Grasslands and Livestock

March 6th, 2023 by Viv Forbes

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Grasslands and arable land cover just 10% of Earth’s surface but (with the oceans) they produce all of our food and fibre. But the productivity and health of our grasslands, farms and livestock are under threat from global warming alarmists and green preservationists.

We are afflicted by climate crazies and methane madness. It is poor public policy that condones restrictions on grazing operations, or taxes on grazing animals, based on disputed theories that claim that bodily emissions from farm animals will cause dangerous global warming.

New Zealand was the first cattle country to propose a “livestock fart tax”. Four hundred farmers then drove 20 tractors to the Parliament in Wellington waving placards and banners saying “STOP THE FART TAX”. The proposal was laughed out of Parliament. But the war on farmers and livestock continues.

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Ruminants such as sheep, cattle and goats cannot make long-term additions to the gases in the atmosphere – they just recycle atmospheric carbon and nitrogen nutrients in a cycle-of-life that has operated for millennia.

Grazing ruminant animals with their emission products have always been part of healthy grasslands. Only when large numbers of animals are fed artificially and confined on the one patch of land do pollution problems appear.

Many otherwise genuine environmentalists are assisting the destruction of grasslands with their native pastures and endangered grass birds. Blinded by their love for the trees, they neglect the grasses, legumes, herbs and livestock that provide their food. In Australia they pass laws to protect weedy eucalypts invading the grasslands but ignore the valuable and declining Mitchell grass that once dominated Australia’s treeless plains.

Grasslands are also under threat from cultivation for biofuel crops, from subsidised carbon credit forests and from the remorseless encroachment of fire-prone government reserves and pest havens.

Trying to control atmospheric carbon-bearing gases with taxes is futile and anti-life. Even if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere doubled, or more, the climate effect if any, is probably beneficial (warmer at night and near the poles and with more moisture in the atmosphere). More importantly, all life on Earth already benefits from the additional CO2 plant nutrient in the atmosphere, and would benefit even more were CO2 levels to double.

Nitrogen is the most abundant natural gas in the atmosphere, inhaled in every breath and an essential component of all protein. Grazing livestock merely recycle a few compounds of nitrogen, all of which either return to the atmosphere or provide valuable nitrogen fertilisers for the plants they graze on.

We also have the modern methane madness. Mobs of grazing ruminants have been roaming the grasslands since cave-man days. Methane has also been seeping from marshes, bubbling out of oceans, leaking from coal seams and oil seeps and being released in huge quantities from volcanoes. So what more can a few domestic cows and sheep do to affect this? Methane from domestic ruminants is a non-problem.

It is a foolish and costly fantasy to believe that Earth’s climate can be controlled by passing laws, imposing taxes, attempting to manipulate the bodily emissions of farm animals or trying to prevent farmers from clearing woody weeds invading their pastures.

The Clexit (ClimateExit) Coalition, comprising over 190 representatives from 26 countries, has formed the Clexit Grassland Protection Group with eleven representatives from six big grazing countries.

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The US Congress last tried to grapple with what the country’s ballooning security services were up to nearly half a century ago.

In 1975, the Church Committee managed to take a fleeting, if far from complete, snapshot of the netherworld in which agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and National Security Agency (NSA) operate. 

In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, the congressional committee and other related investigations found that the country’s intelligence services had sweeping surveillance powers and were involved in a raft of illegal or unconstitutional acts.

They were covertly subverting and assassinating foreign leaders. They had coopted hundreds of journalists and many media outlets around the world to promote false narratives. They spied on and infiltrated political and civil rights groups. And they manipulated the public discourse to protect and expand their powers.

Senator Frank Church himself warned that the might of the intelligence community could at any moment “be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything … There would be no place to hide.”

Since then, the technological possibilities to invade privacy have dramatically increased, and the reach of the intelligence agencies, especially after 9/11, has moved on in ways Church could never have foreseen.

This is why establishing a new Church Committee is long overdue. And finally, in the most controversial of circumstances and for the most partisan of reasons, some sort of revival may finally be about to happen.

A protracted battle last month within the Republican Party to elect Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker of the House of Representatives forced him to cave to the demands of his party’s right wing. Not least, he agreed to set up a committee on what is being called the “weaponisation” of the federal government.

It held its first meeting last week. The panel said its task would be to look at “the politicization of the FBI and DOJ and attacks on American civil liberties”.

Earlier, in a speech to the House on the new committee, Republican Representative Dan Bishop said it was time to cut out the “rot” in the federal government: “We’re putting the deep state on notice. We’re coming for you.”

Democrats are already decrying the committee as a tool that will be wielded in the interests of Donald Trump and his supporters, saying the Republican right wants to discredit the security services and suggest malfeasance in the treatment of the former president.

Snowballing powers

But while the committee will almost certainly end up being used to settle political scores, it may still manage to shed light on some of the terrifying new powers the security services have accrued since the Church Committee’s report.

The degree to which those powers have snowballed should be obvious to all. Documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden a decade ago showed illegal mass surveillance at home and abroad by the NSA. And Julian Assange’s transparency organisation Wikileaks published dossiers not only revealing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, but a huge global hacking programme by the CIA.

Notably, in what may be a sign of the power of the security agencies to inflict retribution on those challenging their might, both Assange and Snowden have suffered dire consequences.

Snowden has been forced into exile in Russia, one of the few jurisdictions where he cannot be extradited to the US and locked away. Assange has been jailed as US authorities seek his extradition, so he can be disappeared into a maximum-security prison for the rest of his life.

Now, in an unlikely turn of events, a billionaire has opened another window on covert manipulations by the security services – this time in relation to social media platforms and the US electoral process. The key players this time are the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), set up by former President George W Bush’s administration in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

After he bought the social network Twitter last year, Elon Musk gave a handful of independent journalists access to its corporate archives. In a continuing series of investigations named the Twitter Files, published as long threads on the platform, these journalists have been making sense of what was going on under Twitter’s previous owners.

The bottom line is that, after Trump’s election, US security agencies – aided by political pressure, especially from the Democratic Party – aggressively wormed their way into Twitter’s decision-making processes. Other major social media platforms appear to have made similar arrangements.

A ‘nothingburger’?

The Twitter Files suggest a rapidly emerging but hidden partnership between state intelligence services, Silicon Valley, and traditional media, to manipulate the national conversation in the US – as well as much of the rest of the world.

The parties in this alliance justify to each other their meddling in US politics – concealed from public view – as a necessary response to the rapid rise of a new populism. Trump and his supporters had come to dominate the Republican Party, and a populist left headed by Senator Bernie Sanders had made limited inroads into the Democratic Party.

Social media attracted particular concern from the security services because it was seen as the vehicle that had unleashed this wave of popular discontent. According to a report in the Intercept, one FBI official remarked last year that “subversive information on social media could undermine support for the US government”.

The national security state, it seems, viewed an alliance with the Big Tech private sector as an opportunity to protect the old guard of politics, particularly in the Democratic Party. Figures such as President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were seen as a safe pair of hands, positioned to preserve the legitimacy of a turbo-charged, neoliberal capitalism, and the forever wars that have been the lifeblood of the intelligence community.

This partnership has served all sides well. Silicon Valley has been the career of choice for many liberals who believe that progress is best pursued through technological means that depend on social stability and political consensus. Populism and the polarisation it engenders naturally discomfort them.

And both the security services and more centrist politicians in the Republican and Democratic parties understand that they are in the firing line in populist politics for decades-long failures: a growing polarisation of wealth between rich and poor, a creaking US economy, depleted or non-existent welfare services, the ability of the rich to buy political influence, the constant loss of treasure and life in seemingly pointless wars fought in far-off lands, and a media that rarely addresses the concerns of ordinary people.

Rather than focusing on the real causes of growing anger and anti-establishment sentiment, the security services offered politicians and Silicon Valley a more comforting and convenient narrative. The populists – on the right and left – were not articulating a frustration with a failing US political and economic system. They were working to sow social discontent to advance the interests of Russia.

Or as the minutes of a DHS meeting last March recorded, the new focus was on curbing “subversive data utilized to drive a wedge between the populace and the government”.

This strategy reached its zenith with “Russiagate”, years of evidence-free hysteria promoted by the intelligence community and the Democratic Party. The central claim was that Trump was only able to defeat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election because of collusion with Moscow, and Russian influence operations through social media.

As in a game of whack-a-mole, any signs of misconduct or criminality by the security services, or systemic failures by the US political class, were now knocked down as “Russian disinformation”.

Snowden’s exile to Russia – the only choice left to him – was used to discredit his whistleblowing on the NSA. And the disclosures by Assange and Wikileaks of war crimes and lawbreaking by the intelligence community were effectively negated by a supposed collusion with “Russian hackers” in revealing corruption in the Democratic Party during the 2016 election.

In practice, claims of “Russian disinformation” simply served to further polarise US politics.

The key issues raised by the Twitter Files – of deep-state collusion with the tech and media industries, election meddling, and narrative manipulation and deflection – have been subsumed within, and obscured by, political partisanship.

Interest in the Twitter Files has been largely confined to the right. In knee-jerk fashion, Democrats have mostly dismissed the revelations as a “nothingburger”.

Climate of fear

Perhaps coincidentally, Musk has found himself transformed since his takeover of Twitter from a darling of liberals – for his Tesla electric cars – into a near-pariah. In October, the Biden administration denied reports that it was considering a national security review of his businesses in the face of Musk’s “increasingly Russia-friendly stance”. His status as the world’s richest man has rapidly collapsed alongside his reputation.

The irony is that the same security agencies that whipped up the “Russiagate” hysteria are now exposed in the Twitter Files as perpetrating the very interference of which they accused Moscow.

During the 2016 presidential election, Russia was said to have colluded with Trump and assisted him by weaponising social media to sow discord and manipulate the US electorate. A subsequent official inquiry by Robert Mueller failed to stand up those allegations.

Instead, I believe the Twitter Files indicate that it was not Russia but the FBI, DHS and CIA – the very agencies arguing that Russia threatened political order in the US – that were aggressively and clandestinely seeking to influence American public opinion.

The Twitter Files suggest that it is the US security state, much more than Russia, that poses the real menace to US democracy. The climate of fear these agencies fuelled over supposed “Russian disinformation” not only swayed public opinion, but gave the intelligence community even greater leverage over social media networks and further licence to accumulate greater powers.

State actors are increasingly in charge of deciding who is allowed to be heard on social media – even Trump was banned while president – and what can be said. Those decisions are often taken not to prevent a crime or enforce laws, or even for the public good, but to tightly control political discourse to marginalise serious criticism of the establishment.

The fact that the collusion between social media platforms and these agencies has taken place in secret is itself an indication of the nefarious nature of what’s been going on.

Hidden pressure

The Twitter Files open a window on a phenomenon that appears to have been playing out across all social networks.

Traditionally, liberals have defended social media’s use of censorship on the grounds that these platforms are private companies that can do as they please. Their behaviour supposedly does not constitute a violation of First Amendment protections of free speech.

The reality exposed by the Twitter Files, however, is that the networks have often been responding to hidden pressure, either directly from the federal government or via its intelligence agencies, in restricting what can be said. As the Files have repeatedly noted, Twitter, like other social media, has come to function less as a private company and more as “a kind of subsidiary of the FBI”.

In 2017, at the height of the Russiagate panic, the FBI set up a Foreign Influence Task Force whose numbers soon swelled to 80 agents. Its ostensible job was to liaise with the various networks to stop alleged foreign interference in elections.

Twitter executives were soon meeting and communicating with senior FBI officials on a regular basis, while receiving an endless stream of demands for content takedowns to prevent “Russian disinformation”. The CIA appears to have attended meetings too, under the moniker of OGA or “other government agency”. Although the task force’s remit was foreign influence, it reportedly became a “conduit for mountains of domestic moderation requests, from state governments, even local police”.

Under growing pressure behind the scenes from the intelligence services, and in public from politicians, the social networks reportedly started to draw up secret blacklists, aided by information from the security services, to limit the reach of accounts or stop topics trending. The effects were often hard to miss, with Trump declaring he would investigate the practice in 2018.

In response, Twitter executives publicly denied that they practised “shadow banning” – a term for when posts or accounts are made difficult or impossible to find. In fact, Twitter had simply invented a different phrase for the exact same regime of speech suppression. They called it “visibility filtering”.

Such censorship was used not only against suspected bot accounts, or those peddling obvious misinformation. Even eminent public figures who had authority to speak on a topic were secretly targeted if they challenged key establishment narratives.

Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya, for example, suffered from “visibility filtering” during the Covid-19 pandemic after he criticised lockdowns for inflicting harm on children. He was put on a “trends blacklist”.

Amid recent mass layoffs at Twitter, Middle East Eye was unable to contact the company for comment on these and other allegations made in the Twitter Files. The CIA had not replied by publication time, while the FBI sent a response stating: “The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements … As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers.”

Other leading doctors who questioned government orthodoxy have also been sidelined by Twitter, the Files found, often under direct pressure from the White House or vaccine company lobbyists.

But the highest-profile casualty of the Twitter censorship regime was Trump himself. He was banned on 8 January 2021, even though staff reportedly agreed behind the scenes that they could not base such a decision on any direct violation of their rules.

Russian ‘influence’

The fallout from Russiagate drew Twitter more deeply into the embrace of the security services. In early 2018, a Republican representative, Devin Nunes, submitted a classified memo to the House Intelligence Committee detailing alleged abuses by the FBI in surveilling a figure connected to Trump.

The FBI allegedly relied on the so-called Steele dossier, which had been partly financed by Clinton and the Democratic Party but was initially presented by the media as an independent, intelligence-led inquiry verifying collusion between Trump’s team and Moscow.

News of the memo provoked a storm on social media among Trump supporters, fuelling a viral hashtag: #ReleaseTheMemo. Nunes’s allegations were verified nearly two years later by a Department of Justice inquiry. Nonetheless, at the time, Democratic politicians and the media rushed to ridicule the memo, characterising any demand for its publication as a “Russian influence operation”.

The heat was dialled up on Big Tech. Twitter’s own investigations could not pinpoint any Russian involvement, suggesting that the hashtagwas trending organically, driven by VITs – Very Important Tweeters.

But Twitter executives were in no mood for a fight. Rather than take on the Democratic Party – and most likely behind it the FBI, concerned by the memo’s revelations – Twitter followed “a slavish pattern of not challenging Russia claims on the record”, noted Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists who worked on the Twitter Files.

Soon, Russia was being blamed by major media outlets for any embarrassing hashtag that went viral, such as #SchumerShutdown, #ParklandShooting and #GunControlNow. As the campaign of Russiagate claims intensified, Twitter came under ever-greater pressure for action. In 2017, it manually examined some 2,700 accounts flagged as potentially suspicious. The vast majority were cleared. Twitter suspended 22 as possible Russian accounts, while a further 179 were found to have “possible links” to those accounts.

Democratic politicians were incensed, apparently relying on intelligence sources to support their claim that social media was overrun with Russian bots. Twitter responded by setting up a “Russia task force” to investigate further, but again found no evidence of a Russian influence campaign. All it identified were a few lone-wolf posters spending limited money on ads.

Nonetheless, Twitter was plunged into a PR crisis, with politicians and establishment media accusing it of inertia. Congress threatened draconian legislation that would starve Twitter of advertising revenue. Twitter’s inability to find Russian influence accounts led to an indictment from Politico: “Twitter deleted data potentially crucial to Russia probes.” Twitter’s original investigation of the 2,700 accounts fuelled outlandish claims in the media that a “new network” of Russian bots had been discovered.

In the midst of this firestorm, Twitter suddenly changed tack, publicly stating that it would remove content “at our sole discretion” – but in truth it was far worse than that. As Taibbi reported in one of the Twitter Files, it was as the company decided privately to “off-board” anything “identified by the U.S. intelligence community as a state-sponsored entity conducting cyber operations”.

Twitter increasingly found itself besieged. A Twitter File released last month argues that a prominent online lobby called Hamilton 68 – with ties to the intelligence community – perpetrated “a scam” about Russian disinformation.

The site elicited endless headlines in the US media after indicating it had uncovered a Russian influence campaign on social media, involving hundreds of users. Media outlets published these claims as proof that the social networks were overrun with Russian bots. Hamilton 68’s staff were even invited to testify before senior congressional politicians.

Despite this furore, however, Hamilton 68 never made public the list of bots it said it had unearthed. Internal Twitter investigations revealed that almost all of those on the list were ordinary users. 

The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), which hosted Hamilton 68 and its successor Hamilton 2.0, issued a “fact sheet” in response to the Twitter Files denying the allegations, and suggesting that its data had been “consistently misunderstood or misrepresented” by the media and lawmakers, despite “extensive efforts to correct misconceptions at the time”. The ASD noted that it never suggested all the bots were Russian, but it was monitoring some that might have been.

Notably, Hamilton 68 was headed by a former senior FBI official. Twitter executives did not publicly stand up to the media pile-on, and found themselves given the brush-off when they tried to raise their concerns privately with reporters.

FBI ‘belly button’

In a sign of how close the relationship between the FBI and Twitter had grown, Twitter recruited as legal counsel James Baker, the FBI’s former top lawyer. Baker had been one of the central figures in the efforts to paint a picture – again now discredited – of collusion between Trump and Moscow.

Plenty of others who left the FBI headed straight to Twitter. They included Dawn Burton, the former deputy chief of staff to FBI head James Comey, who initiated the Russiagate investigation. She became Twitter’s director of strategy in 2019.

Similar ties existed with the British security services. Twitter recruited Gordon MacMillan as its top editorial adviser on the Middle East. It was a part-time post, as he was serving at the same time in the British military’s psychological warfare unit, the 77th Brigade.

By 2020, as the pandemic unfolded, other government agencies saw their chance to wage a parallel campaign against Twitter focused on China’s supposed efforts to spread Covid-19 disinformation. An intelligence arm of the State Department, the Global Engagement Center, using federal government data, alleged that 250,000 Twitter accounts were amplifying “Chinese propaganda”, once again to sow disorder. Those accounts included the Canadian military and CNN.

Emails between Twitter executives show that they had their own views about what the campaign hoped to achieve. State Department officials wanted to “insert themselves” into the consortium of agencies, such as the FBI and DHS, that were allowed to take down Twitter content.

It is telling that Twitter argued against State Department inclusion – and in terms that contrasted strongly with their approach to the FBI and DHS. State was viewed by executives as more “political” and “Trumpy”.

In the end, it was suggested that the FBI would serve as the “belly button” through which Silicon Valley would keep other government agencies informed. The result, according to the Files, was that Twitter “was taking requests from every conceivable government body”, and often in bulk. The platform almost never said no to requests to delete accounts accused of being Russian bots.

As Twitter grew more supine, even senior US politicians tried to get in on the act. Adam Schiff, then head of the House Intelligence Committee, asked for a journalist he did not like to be deplatformed. Though Twitter was reluctant to accede to such requests, it “deamplified” some accounts.

As the 2020 election drew near, the flow of security-service demands became a deluge that threatened to overwhelm Twitter. Many were unrelated to foreign influence – the FBI task force’s ostensible purpose. Instead, the submissions often appear to have concerned domestic accounts. They rarely detailed law-breaking or terror threats, presumably the FBI’s main area of interest, but focused instead on much less-well-defined violations of Twitter’s “terms of service”.

Often, accounts faced “digital execution” not because what was said was verifiably disinformation, but because tweets crossed political red lines: by noting a neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine, or being too sympathetic to Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro or Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Laptop revelations

Once embedded in Big Tech, the security services reportedly used their powers to covertly shape the national conversation around the 2020 presidential election.

Perhaps the biggest single disclosure so far – confirming suspicions on the right – is that social media and state security agencies played a role in suppressing the so-called Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before the 2020 election.

In the run-up to the vote, the FBI task force prepared the ground by claiming to Silicon Valley executives that Russia would try to “dump” hacked information to damage the Democratic candidate for president, Biden. This was supposedly a rerun of the 2016 election, when publication of internal emails from the Democratic Party harmed the then-candidate, Hillary Clinton.

After Trump’s election, much of the Russiagate narrative grew out of evidence-free claims by the security services that those embarrassing emails, indicating political corruption among the Democratic Party leadership, were hacked by Russia.

Evidence suggesting a different explanation – that the emails were leaked by a disgruntled insider – was widely ignored. The furore provoked by the story obscured the fact that the emails, and their damning revelations about the Democratic Party, were all too real.

Based on the warnings from the intelligence community, social media platforms hurriedly blocked the Hunter Biden laptop story, which alleged problematic ties between the Biden family and foreign officials in Ukraine. Joe Biden’s officials denied any wrongdoing by the then-presidential candidate, while Hunter himself was evasive about whether the laptop belonged to him. The story, which was broken by the right-wing New York Post, was immediately declared a Russian influence operation by dozens of former intelligence officials.

But in truth, the FBI knew nearly a year before the story became public that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden and that the information it contained was not likely forged or hacked. A Delaware computer store owner asked by Hunter Biden to repair his laptop had reported his concerns to the FBI. The agency had even subpoenaed the device.

This chain of events raises questions over whether the FBI decided to pre-empt the impacts of the laptop story, which threatened Joe Biden’s electoral chances in 2020, before the right-wing press could publish. It appears that they manipulated the media, including social networks, into assuming that any story harming Biden before the election was Russian disinformation.

Big Tech had other reasons at the time to believe the story was likely true. The New York Post had carried out the usual verification checks. Other reporters soon confirmed that the information had come from Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Nonetheless, Twitter hurriedly accepted the claim that the story violated its policy against publishing hacked material, echoing the FBI’s claim that it was Russian disinformation. Others, such as Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, accepted the FBI’s claims on trust too, as he later admitted.

The social networks took the unprecedented step of blocking attempts to share the story on their platforms, which might have impacted the outcome of the 2020 election – something viewed by much of the Republican right as a crime against democracy, and by many Democratic Party supporters as an unfortunate necessity to defend the democratic order.

Psychological warfare

The collusion between social media platforms and the US security state over Russiagate was no aberration. According to the Files, Twitter gave the Pentagon special dispensation, in violation of its own policies, to set up accounts to carry out “online psychological influence ops”.

Twitter assisted the military in “whitelisting” 52 fake Arabic-language accounts to “amplify certain messages”. These accounts promoted US military objectives in the Middle East, including messages attacking Iran, supporting the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and claiming that US drone strikes hit only terrorists.

By May 2020, Twitter had detected dozens more accounts the Pentagon had not disclosed that tweeted in Russian and Arabic on topics such as Syria and the Islamic State. According to Lee Fang, one of the journalists who worked on the Twitter Files: “Many emails from throughout 2020 show that high-level Twitter executives were well aware of [the Department of Defense’s] vast network of fake accounts & covert propaganda and did not suspend the accounts.”

Other research has exposed an extensive Pentagon propaganda network on other social media apps, such as Facebook and Telegram.

Twitter’s indulgence of these covert Pentagon accounts contrasts strongly with its handling of media and individuals accused of being affiliated with countries considered by the US government as enemy states. They are prominently labelled as such, including western dissident journalists and academics alleged to have worked with Russian, Chinese, Iranian or Venezuelan outlets.

According to research by the media watchdog group FAIR, Twitter continues to conceal the state affiliations of accounts funded by the US government, including those advancing its propaganda aims in Ukraine and elsewhere. FAIR could find no examples of accounts identifiedas “United States state-affiliated media”, nor any labelled as such in Britain or Canada.

The group concluded: “Twitter enables US propaganda outlets to maintain the pretense of independence on the platform, a tacit endorsement of US soft power and influence operations … Twitter is serving as an active participant in an ongoing information war.”

Thick pall of secrecy

After the Twitter Files began dropping in December, the FBI responded not by addressing the veracity of the documents, but by playing the same game as before. It accused the journalists involved of spreading “conspiracy theories” and “misinformation” intended to “discredit the agency”.

Hillary Clinton, the doyenne of the Democratic Party establishment, continues to blame Russian disinformation for her country’s woes.

The truth is that both the security services and the political establishment have far too much invested in their current, secret arrangements with the social networks to agree to change.

And the pressure to do so is not likely to increase while the US continues to lurch from crisis to crisis: from the “war on terror”, to the Trump presidency, to the Covid-19 pandemic, to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. All of these crises – in their different ways, it should be noted – are the legacy of policy decisions taken by the very same actors now rebuffing scrutiny and oversight.

These crises provide the pretext not only for inaction but for ever-closer, tighter policing of the digital public square by the state – and not transparently, but under a thick pall of secrecy.

As Church warned nearly half a century ago, the biggest threat the US faces is the possibility that its security agencies will turn their enormous powers inwards, against the American public. And that process is exactly what the Twitter Files document.

They show that the intelligence community has come to redefine its primary role – protecting the American public from foreign threats – to include the American public itself as part of that threat.

In 2021, one of the Biden administration’s first priorities was to unveil a National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. It described the loss of faith in government and extreme polarisation as “fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation often channeled through social media platforms”.

The rise in dissatisfaction among the US citizenry is not the fault of a failed political leadership or an overweening deep state, it seems. Instead, that same failed establishment views the popular backlash – and electoral discontent – in self-serving terms only, as proof of foreign meddling.

In the Twitter Files, Musk has thrown open a small window to show a little of what has been going on behind closed doors. But even that window will shut again soon enough. And then the dark will return – unless the public demands its right to know more.

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Globalization and Russia-Africa Relations

March 5th, 2023 by Fyodor Lukyanov

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Below is an insightful interview conducted by Kester Kenn Klomegah with Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director at the Valdai Discussion Club, and Editor of Russia’s Global Affairs journal, focused largely on Russia and Africa relations, and a few aspects of the emerging new world order.

Here are the interview excerpts.

Kester Kenn Klomegah (KKK): During late October Valdai gathering, Vladimir Putin’s speech underscored the fact that Russia was looking for its Soviet-era allies and “non-Western friends” for creating a new world order. What are the implications, from historical perspectives, relating to Africa?

Fyodor Lukyanov (FL): The role of Africa in international affairs is growing, no one can deny it. Russian credit record in relationship with Africa is not easy – from very tight contacts in the decolonization era and period when African countries were building their statehood through the bumpy road in 1990s when Russia suffered a huge economic and geopolitical setback and was forced to the emergency survival to the slow, but steady re-establishment of ties in 21st century. It should be noted that renaissance of Russian interest vis-à-vis Africa started much earlier than Russia – West relations collapsed due to Ukrainian war. And it was result of the realization that Africa will be increasingly important in decades to come.

As far as the Russian vision of the world order is concerned, it should be a polycentric and pretty complicated constellation of countries or group of countries (regional groupings) with a permanently shifting balance and steady work on adjustment of different interests. Not easy, but a vaccine against anybody’s hegemony and opportunity to be flexible in pursuing own needs. Africa as a big group of countries with interests which are both intertwining and contradicting can serve both as a model of the future global picture and a strong unit in this world, if needed. Notwithstanding all that, Africa has its own strengths and weaknesses based on history, but the balance is positive in this new world. Most of potential success depends on African countries themselves and their ability to build up relations with outside powers on rational and calculated basis.

KKK: Soviet Union, of course, enormously supported Africa’s liberation struggle to attain political independence in the 60s. African leaders are looking for external players with funds to invest, transform its economy. What could be Russia’s role, in practical terms, to fight what is frequently referred to as “neocolonialism” in Africa?

FL: Unlike former colonial powers and to some extent China, it is quite clear that Russia doesn’t envisage an exclusive or an ultimately leading role in Africa. There are no political disadvantages associated with Russian relations with Africa. The practical input could be huge, in case Russia will make its homework. Russian resources to invest massively are not comparable with what China or Western states can do. But, Russia has a lot of services which are on the highest international level, while much more cost effective, and they can be offered to African partners. Russia has, for example, developed one of the best systems of digital state services in the world, Russian tax authorities are better equipped with modern technology than most of developed countries. Russian experience in raw material sector is unique, as many technological solutions are independent from other great powers, which is getting more and more important now. As I said, Russian problem is to complete its homework – to list all we can offer and manage those offers in a transparent way, and understandable for partners. It will be done soon, because now it gets very vital for Russian development.

KKK: Do you think Russia is much critical about United States and European Union’s hegemony in Africa? How can we interpret African elites feeling (after the first 2019 summit) about Russia’s renewed economic interests in Africa?

FL: Russia is much critical about the US hegemony where ever it exists, Africa is not an exemption. Russian economic and political focus on Africa is obvious, and skills to implement it in the contemporary way acceptable for partners will increase now.

KKK: What are your views about Russia’s public outreach diplomacy with Africa? How would you evaluate Russia’s engagement, particularly in sustainable development in Africa?

FL: Russia was not very advanced in the diplomatic outreach to Africa until certain moment, situation started to improve in 2010s, now we have entered a new stage. Minister Sergey Lavrov’s activity all over the continent is very telling. As for sustainable development, this concept is a product of a particular political period, I would call it an advanced liberal globalization. This period is over, we are moving towards something else. Frankly, I don’t believe that Russia will be much interested in current circumstances to be part of international efforts to promote sustainable development as understood by international organizations and bureaucracy. But Russia will certainly be eager to work together with particular countries on particular projects.

KKK: Geopolitical confrontation, rivalry and competition in Africa. For now, Russia has too many initiatives and bilateral agreements with African countries. What are your suggestions here for strengthening Russia and African relations especially in the economic directions?

FL: You are right, optimization is needed. Less projects and initiatives, more practical outcome. That is what I mentioned earlier as a necessity to do homework. Combination of very well calibrated regional initiatives and bilateral projects where Russia has clear competitive advantage – be it technology, security or food – should be priorities. And they should be numbered, not endless. Africa is certainly not the main topic for BRICS agenda, those countries prefer to focus on global issues, where they don’t have any major differences (if any), while regional level is more controversial. Anyway there is no intention to build unified front against US and EU. BRICS is by default not confrontational, there is no goal to counterwork the West, rather to bypass it.

In Africa, each BRICS member will have its own agenda, no coordination expected. But then, Africa is represented in BRICS by South Africa. And I would suggest that it would be natural task for South Africa to promote African agenda in this group. Of course, each BRICS state has it own hierarchy of interests, this is normal. But as BRICS aspires greater international role and Africa is growing in significance as an essential part of the world, I see field for common interests. As far as confrontation with the West is concerned, there is no such goal for most of BRICS countries indeed. But if we look at international trends and the speed with which the previous international system collapses and overall competition spreads, I would not be so sure to predict how international situation and stance of BRICS will evolve in years to come.

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This story is important in light of my recent report on 96 Canadian children who died suddenly or unexpectedly in the past 3 months (click here).

While there have been many stories of child deaths due to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, this is the first one that involves government compensation.

Taiwan awards compensation to 9 COVID vaccine deaths

Taiwan News published this story on Feb.27, 2023 (click here).

One of the 9 compensated families was a girl aged 5 to 11, who died of fulminant myocarditis after receiving her 2nd shot of Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.

The girl lost consciousness 3 days after receiving her 2nd Pfizer vaccine, and a cardiac ultrasound scan showed preserved systolic function, suggesting fulminant myocarditis.

A forensic autopsy found lymphocytic infiltration within her myocardial fibers. Considering the sequence of events, the committee agreed to offer the girl’s family the highest compensation amount for an adverse reaction after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine: NT$3.5 million (USD $114,829).

Another news source suggests she fell into a coma after her 2nd Pfizer vaccine and had an ultrasound scan just before she died (click here)

Her pathology findings are consistent with the James Gill paper called “Autopsy Histopathologic Cardiac Findings in 2 Adolescents Following the Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose” which describes 2 teenage boys who died with 3-4 days after receiving 2nd dose of Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (click here):

Vietnam: 5 children died after Pfizer mRNA vaccine: 

After Vietnam started vaccinating with Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on Nov.23, 2021, within two weeks, 5 children were dead and 120 hospitalized (click here)

  • 17 yo girl (Trieu Phong, vaxxed Dec.2, died Dec.9, 2021) (click here)
  • 15 yo boy (Son La, vaxxed Dec.4, died Dec.6, 2021) (click here)
  • 12 yo boy (Binh Phuoc, vaxxed Nov.29, died Nov.30, 2021) (click here)
  • 16 yo boy (Bac Giang, vaxxed Nov.24, died Nov.28, 2021) (click here)
  • 14 yo girl (Hanoi, vaxxed Nov.27, died Nov.28, 2021) (click here)
  • Vietnam suspends Pfizer batch after 120 children hospitalized (click here)

USA: Many children died after Pfizer mRNA vaccine:

  • Michigan: 13 yo boy died in his sleep 3 days after 2nd vaccine dose (click here)
  • California: 9 yo girl died 2 weeks after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)
  • California: 16 yo boy died 3 weeks after 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)
  • Colorado: 15 yo boy died 2 days after Pfizer (click here)
  • 16 yo Ernesto Ramirez Jr died 5 days after Pfizer (click here)
  • Two US teens died within 3-4 days of 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)
  • Washington: 7 yo boy died 13 days after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)

Canada

  • 17 yo Sean Hartman died (Sep.27, 2021), 33 days after Pfizer (click here)

Other Countries:

  • Ireland: 14 yo boy died 3 weeks after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)
  • New Zealand: teen died weeks after Pfizer dose (click here)
  • Malaysia: 13 yo boy died 18 days after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)
  • Barbados: 14 yo boy died 90 min after 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)
  • Guyana: 13 yo boy died 2hr after 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)
  • Brazil: teen died after Pfizer (click here)

My Take…

This is the first case in the world that I am aware of, involving government compensation of a child death due to Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.

When Canadian doctors who pushed mRNA vaccines attack me on the 96 Canadian children who died suddenly in the past 3 months, they do it for a reason. They want to maintain a false reality where COVID-19 vaccines are safe in children and have not killed any children. But in reality, mRNA is neither safe nor effective in children.

They don’t want people to remember that many children died in the US after taking Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, or that 5 kids died in Vietnam within 2 weeks of their Pfizer vaccine rollout. You will rarely hear any of these stories now.

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

by Michel Chossudovsky

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

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

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Wars: The Cancelled History

March 5th, 2023 by Manlio Dinucci

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On her visit to New Delhi, Italian Premier Meloni declared “the Russian aggression against Ukraine” is a “provocation at the heart of the UN Charter” and undermined “the rules-based international order”, concluding that “we cannot submit to the law of the fittest”. In this way, the history of the events that led to the current critical situation is erased. We reconstruct it in this episode of Grandangolo, in its essential features:

1. NATO was born from the Bomb.

2. Yugoslavia: the founding war of the new NATO

3. NATO’s expansion eastward toward Russia

4. US and NATO attack and invade Afghanistan and Iraq

5. NATO demolishes the Libyan state

6. US/NATO leadership in the coup in Ukraine

7. The aircraft carrier Italia on the war front

8. USA AND NATO tear up the Treaties and deploy new nuclear weapons in Europe 

The moment when the Cold War ended with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union in 1991 was fundamental.

The United States took the opportunity to unleash the first post-Cold War conflict in the Gulf, in which the main NATO countries took part, including Italy. At the same time, NATO moves to expand eastward toward Russia.

The first step is the demolition of the Yugoslav Federation, which the United States and the European NATO powers began in 1990.

The war, called “Operation Allied Force”, started on March 24, 1999.

While demolishing the Yugoslav Federation with war, NATO began to expand eastward. This despite Washington having assured USSR, President Mikhail Gorbachev, that “NATO will not extend an inch eastward.”

In twenty years, NATO expanded from 16 to 30 countries. With the forthcoming entry of Sweden and Finland, it will expand to 32 countries increasingly close to Russia. Three other countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina (formerly part of Yugoslavia), Georgia, and Ukraine (formerly part of the USSR) – are candidates to join NATO.

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The CIA, through its long-time and trusted propaganda unit, RFR/RL (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), reported on the Bryansk attack by an heir of the Russian Liberation Army, the Russian Volunteer Corps. The Russian Liberation Army was a Nazi collaborationist formation during WWII organized by Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, or SS (Gestapo).

The Russian Volunteer Corps “uses symbols of the Russian Liberation Army…  which is typical for Russian neo-Nazis,” according to Antifascist Europe. The group “includes Russians from the Azov regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard and the Right Sector Ukrainian Volunteer Corps.”

“The ultimate programme is to overthrow the Putin regime and establish a new, truly faithful and decent power in Russia that will not engage in acts of aggression and wage local wars but will peacefully co-exist with the rest of the world, focusing more on domestic rather than foreign policy”.

This declaration does not differ substantially from that issued by USG war chieftain, Lloyd Austin, who said Russia must be “weakened.” In other words, the USG is on the same page as a group of neo-nazi terrorists attacking and killing civilians in Russia. This shouldn’t be surprising, considering the degree the CIA collaborated with Nazis.

RFR/RL did mention the Nazi connection, and relied on the propaganda outfit Bellingcat (receives money from USG and intelligence agencies), “which has researched right-wing extremist groups, described the Volunteer Corps as ‘a unit… made up primarily of anti-Putin, anti-Kremlin, Russian far-right figures active in Ukraine.’”

According to former Deputy of the State Duma, Ilya Ponomarev, a Russian “partisan” group, the National Republican Army, is responsible for the assassination of Darya Dugina on 20 August. Darya was the daughter of the political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, a supporter of Vladimir Putin.

The Zelenskyy government, via its state-controlled propaganda media, said the Russian Volunteer Corps, the Freedom Legion, and the National Republican Army signed a declaration of cooperation in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, in August. The Freedom Legion, or Freedom of Russia Legion, was organized with the help of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency.

The SBU worked closely with C14, the former youth wing of the ultranationalist political party Svoboda, and other neo-nazi groups in Ukraine. C14 was notorious for attacks on Romani camps, in participation with other neo-nazi groups (Karpatska Sich, Right Sector, and Traditsii i Poryadok).

In addition, the SBU is used to initiate criminal proceedings against political opponents. According to Valery Yehoshina, writing for RFE/RL, “there are friendly satellite organizations in the orbit of security forces [preferring] even more radical actions,” including assassination, kidnapping, and torture of political opposition.

Max Blumenthal writes,

The Ukrainian SBU security services has served as the enforcement arm of the officially authorized campaign of repression. With training from the CIA and close coordination with Ukraine’s state-backed neo-Nazi paramilitaries, the SBU has spent the past weeks [from April, 2022] filling its vast archipelago of torture dungeons with political dissidents. (Emphasis added.)

In short, the government of Ukraine, its security service, and associated nazi groups and paramilitaries are actively involved in terror attacks and murdering civilians in Russia proper.

Andriy Yusov, of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, “appeared to endorse any sort of cross-border attack,” and declared in the wake of the attack on Russian civilians, “Perhaps Russians are beginning to wake up, realize something, and take some concrete steps.”

Yusov and his boss, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, are suffering from a cognitive grand mal seizure.

Russians understand the terror attacks inside their country are conducted by Nazis, the heirs of the SS and its Einsatzgruppen, a paramilitary death squad that killed Russians, Jews, Romani, and partisans in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and Russia during WWII.

The Russian people, unlike Americans and many Europeans, remember the sacrifices made in the “Great Patriotic War” (WWII) as it fought against Nazi Germany and its collaborationists in Ukraine and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

Indeed, as Yusov said, the Russian people are waking up—not to a threat by Putin, but rather that posed by Nazi executioners crossing the border to kill them, as Hitler’s Nazis did during Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941, the largest land offensive in human history.

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India’s Education Market: The Next Neo-Colonial Frontier

March 5th, 2023 by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues that have largely remained aspirational.  It was timed to coincide with G20 talks in New Delhi, which has seen a flurry of contentious meetings traversing security, economics and education, all taking place in the shadow of the Ukraine War.

A starring outcome of the various discussions was an agreement between Canberra and New Delhi to ensure the mutual recognition of qualifications.  On March 3, the Australian Minister for Education, Jason Clare, stated in a media release that the Mechanism for the Mutual Recognition of Qualifications was “India’s most comprehensive education agreement of its type with another country.”

Such a mechanism would ensure that Indian students attaining a degree from an Australian university would have it recognised should they wish to continue higher education in India.  The release continues to optimistically extol the merits of the mechanism, which would open “a world of possibilities to develop flexible and innovative partnerships between the two countries.”  Minister Clare and his counterpart Shri Dharmendra Pradhan also reaffirmed their wish to establish an Australia India Working Group on Transnational Partnerships.

A number of memoranda of understanding, totalling 11 in all, were also signed, stressing bilateral cooperation between India and Australia in a number of fields, including law and bio-innovation.

“The developments today,” announced the Indian Ministry of Education with certain effusion, “will create more opportunities for two-way mobility of students and professionals for the purpose of education and employment, and pave the way for making education the biggest enabler in taking India-Australia bilateral relationship to greater heights and shared aspirations.”

The public relations front was also busy with fanfare.  Brian Schmidt, Nobel laureate and vice-chancellor of the Australian National University, met students and officials at Sri Venkateswara College of the University of Delhi.  His polite welcome was shaded by the more raucous one given to former Australian test cricketer Adam Gilchrist, who acts as the University of Wollongong’s global brand ambassador. For such institutions, brands come before brains.

Gilchrist’s presence was unsurprising, given the zeal with which the university he represents is pursuing a base in India.  (The added point here is that Indians are utterly bonkers for cricket.)  The soft power of cricketing appeal has been twinned with the hard corporate agenda.  In July 2022, a Letter of Intent was signed between the University of Wollongong and the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City).  According to the university, the intention is “to establish a location for teaching, research and industry engagement in GIFT City within a partnership or a stand-alone basis.”  This will further supplement pre-existing research collaborations in a number of fields, including 3D bioprinting, transportation and advanced medicine.

These events have served to show how starry-eyed education apparatchiks in Australia are increasingly looking to India as an alternative to China.  Earlier this year, applications for student visas from India exceeded those from China.

What will eventuate from this round robin chat fest is hard to tell.  The modern university behaves much as a colonial enterprise, with all its failings and brute drawbacks.  In certain practices, they resemble the VOC or British East India Company.  The guns and ammunition might have been abandoned but the residual ruthless mercantilism remains.

This takes the form of International Branch Campuses (IBCs), a booming neo-colonial favourite of universities from the United States, UK, Australia and a number of EU member states.  Between 2002 and 2006, the number of IBCs grew from 18 to 82.  By 2009, that number had swollen to 162.  In some part, the move into the global education market, with its emphasis on academic capitalism, was encouraged by declines in domestic government funding.  But it also betrayed a lazy myopia on the part of university managers.

Vice-chancellors, equipped with the powers of petty despotism, resemble functionaries in the service of capital, and not always good capital at that.  They continue to embrace the plundering model of the rich student market, hoping to reap the rewards of the developing world spouting cliches about mutual advantage and “world class” education.  If China falls out of favour, another market will take its place.

Deakin University’s vice-chancellor, Iain Martin, gives us a sense of this attitude.  India had “250 million people between the ages of 18 and 26 and an overcrowded, overly stressed domestic education system.”  Alas, standalone institutions from the outside were hard to establish as things stood.  Thankfully, “the government has realised it needs to work with others outside India to open up educational opportunities.”

As the Australian Financial Review reports, “the sound of billions of dollars in tuition fees from a new generation of Indian students who are not just keen to study here, but to stay on to work and gain permanent residency, is pure happiness to the ears of vice-chancellors.”

The welfare of such students, however, is quite a different thing.  Those who tend to represent cash cows are rarely taken seriously, except for their cash.  The quality of what they receive is less significant than what they provide to university coffers.  This works both ways, whether through the IBCs, or in the metropole where the main university campus is located.  The treatment meted out to international students by Australian universities during the pandemic was nothing short of atrocious, characterised by callousness regarding the delivery of courses and uneven support schemes.

Another area of educational importance is also being neglected in these latest negotiations.  India’s officials and policy makers have expressed considerable interest in the role of vocational education.  (This was touched on in the Australia India Future Skills initiative announced in March 2022 by the previous government.)  A number of Australian universities are what are termed “dual sector” entities, straddling both tertiary and vocational. But its conspicuous absence on this occasion suggests that Australian universities, and some of their counterparts, are hoping for the easy cash-filled options.

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China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis

March 5th, 2023 by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The following document released by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 24th 2023 has been in the object of analysis as well a response and rebuttal by the Biden administration.

It should be mentioned that’s the publication of this important document pertaining to Ukraine was preceded by the release on February 20th, 2023 of a broader and more detailed text entitled US Hegemony and Its Perils

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1. Respecting the sovereignty of all countries. Universally recognized international law, including the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, must be strictly observed. The sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all countries must be effectively upheld. All countries, big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor, are equal members of the international community. All parties should jointly uphold the basic norms governing international relations and defend international fairness and justice. Equal and uniform application of international law should be promoted, while double standards must be rejected.

2. Abandoning the Cold War mentality. The security of a country should not be pursued at the expense of others. The security of a region should not be achieved by strengthening or expanding military blocs. The legitimate security interests and concerns of all countries must be taken seriously and addressed properly. There is no simple solution to a complex issue. All parties should, following the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security and bearing in mind the long-term peace and stability of the world, help forge a balanced, effective and sustainable European security architecture. All parties should oppose the pursuit of one’s own security at the cost of others’ security, prevent bloc confrontation, and work together for peace and stability on the Eurasian Continent.

3. Ceasing hostilities. Conflict and war benefit no one. All parties must stay rational and exercise restraint, avoid fanning the flames and aggravating tensions, and prevent the crisis from deteriorating further or even spiraling out of control. All parties should support Russia and Ukraine in working in the same direction and resuming direct dialogue as quickly as possible, so as to gradually deescalate the situation and ultimately reach a comprehensive ceasefire.

4. Resuming peace talks. Dialogue and negotiation are the only viable solution to the Ukraine crisis. All efforts conducive to the peaceful settlement of the crisis must be encouraged and supported. The international community should stay committed to the right approach of promoting talks for peace, help parties to the conflict open the door to a political settlement as soon as possible, and create conditions and platforms for the resumption of negotiation. China will continue to play a constructive role in this regard.

5. Resolving the humanitarian crisis. All measures conducive to easing the humanitarian crisis must be encouraged and supported. Humanitarian operations should follow the principles of neutrality and impartiality, and humanitarian issues should not be politicized. The safety of civilians must be effectively protected, and humanitarian corridors should be set up for the evacuation of civilians from conflict zones. Efforts are needed to increase humanitarian assistance to relevant areas, improve humanitarian conditions, and provide rapid, safe and unimpeded humanitarian access, with a view to preventing a humanitarian crisis on a larger scale. The UN should be supported in playing a coordinating role in channeling humanitarian aid to conflict zones.

6. Protecting civilians and prisoners of war (POWs). Parties to the conflict should strictly abide by international humanitarian law, avoid attacking civilians or civilian facilities, protect women, children and other victims of the conflict, and respect the basic rights of POWs. China supports the exchange of POWs between Russia and Ukraine, and calls on all parties to create more favorable conditions for this purpose.

7. Keeping nuclear power plants safe. China opposes armed attacks against nuclear power plants or other peaceful nuclear facilities, and calls on all parties to comply with international law including the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) and resolutely avoid man-made nuclear accidents. China supports the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in playing a constructive role in promoting the safety and security of peaceful nuclear facilities.

8. Reducing strategic risks. Nuclear weapons must not be used and nuclear wars must not be fought. The threat or use of nuclear weapons should be opposed. Nuclear proliferation must be prevented and nuclear crisis avoided. China opposes the research, development and use of chemical and biological weapons by any country under any circumstances.

9. Facilitating grain exports. All parties need to implement the Black Sea Grain Initiative signed by Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine and the UN fully and effectively in a balanced manner, and support the UN in playing an important role in this regard. The cooperation initiative on global food security proposed by China provides a feasible solution to the global food crisis.

10. Stopping unilateral sanctions. Unilateral sanctions and maximum pressure cannot solve the issue; they only create new problems. China opposes unilateral sanctions unauthorized by the UN Security Council. Relevant countries should stop abusing unilateral sanctions and “long-arm jurisdiction” against other countries, so as to do their share in deescalating the Ukraine crisis and create conditions for developing countries to grow their economies and better the lives of their people.

11. Keeping industrial and supply chains stable. All parties should earnestly maintain the existing world economic system and oppose using the world economy as a tool or weapon for political purposes. Joint efforts are needed to mitigate the spillovers of the crisis and prevent it from disrupting international cooperation in energy, finance, food trade and transportation and undermining the global economic recovery.

12. Promoting post-conflict reconstruction. The international community needs to take measures to support post-conflict reconstruction in conflict zones. China stands ready to provide assistance and play a constructive role in this endeavor.

Why Biden Snubbed China’s Ukraine Peace Plan

March 5th, 2023 by Medea Benjamin

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There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.”

“Not rational” is how Biden described the plan that calls for de-escalation toward a ceasefire, respect for national sovereignty, establishment of humanitarian corridors and resumption of peace talks.

“Dialogue and negotiation are the only viable solution to the Ukraine crisis,” reads the plan. “All efforts conducive to the peaceful settlement of the crisis must be encouraged and supported.”

Biden turned thumbs down.

 “I’ve seen nothing in the plan that would indicate that there is something that would be beneficial to anyone other than Russia if the Chinese plan were followed,” Biden told the press.

In a brutal conflict that has left thousands of dead Ukrainian civilians, hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers, eight million Ukrainians displaced from their homes, contamination of land, air and water, increased greenhouse gasses and disruption of the global food supply, China’s call for de-escalation would surely benefit someone in Ukraine.

Other points in China’s plan, which is really more a set of principles rather than a detailed proposal, call for protection for prisoners of war, cessation of attacks on civilians, safeguards for nuclear power plants and facilitation of grain exports.

“The idea that China is going to be negotiating the outcome of a war that’s a totally unjust war for Ukraine is just not rational,” said Biden.

Instead of engaging China–a country of 1.5 billion people, the world’s largest exporter, the owner of a trillion dollars in US debt and an industrial giant–in negotiating an end to the crisis in Ukraine, the Biden administration prefers to wag its finger and bark at China, warning it not to arm Russia in the conflict.

Psychologists might call this finger-wagging projection–the old pot calling the kettle black routine. It is the US, not China, that is fueling the conflict with at least $45 billion dollars in ammunition, drones, tanks and rockets in a proxy war that risks–with one miscalculation–turning the world to ash in a nuclear holocaust.

It is the US, not China, that has provoked this crisis by encouraging Ukraine to join NATO, a hostile military alliance that targets Russia in mock nuclear strikes, and by backing a 2014 coup of Ukraine’s democratically elected Russia-friendly president Viktor Yanukovych, thus triggering a civil war between Ukrainian nationalists and ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, regions Russia has more recently annexed.

Biden’s sour attitude toward the Chinese peace framework hardly comes as a surprise. After all, even former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett candidly acknowledged in a five-hour interview on YouTube that it was the West that last March blocked a near-peace deal he had mediated between Ukraine and Russia.

Why did the US block a peace deal? Why won’t President Biden provide a serious response to the Chinese peace plan, let alone engage the Chinese at a negotiating table?

President Biden and his coterie of neo-conservatives, among them Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, have no interest in peace if it means the US concedes hegemonic power to a multi-polar world untethered from the all-mighty dollar.

What may have gotten Biden unnerved—besides the possibility that China might emerge the hero in this bloody saga—is China’s call for the lifting of unilateral sanctions. The US imposes unilateral sanctions on officials and companies from Russia, China and Iran. It imposes sanctions on whole countries, too, like Cuba, where a cruel 60-year embargo, plus assignment to the State Sponsor of Terrorism list, made it difficult for Cuba to obtain syringes to administer its own vaccines during the COVID pandemic. Oh, and let’s not forget Syria, where after an earthquake killed tens of thousands and left hundreds of thousands homeless, the country struggles to receive medicine and blankets due to US sanctions that discourage humanitarian aid workers from operating inside Syria.

Despite China’s insistence it is not considering weapons shipments to Russia, Reuters reports the Biden administration is taking the pulse of G-7 countries to see if they would approve new sanctions against China if that country provides Russia with military support.

The idea that China could play a positive role was also dismissed by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who said, “China doesn’t have much credibility because they have not been able to condemn the illegal invasion of Ukraine.”

Ditto from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who told ABC’s Good Morning America, “China has been trying to have it both ways: It’s on the one hand trying to present itself publicly as neutral and seeking peace, while at the same time it is talking up Russia’s false narrative about the war.”

False narrative or different perspective?

In August of 2022, China’s ambassador to Moscow charged that the United States was the “main instigator”of the Ukraine war, provoking Russia with NATO expansion to Russia’s borders.

This is not an uncommon perspective and is one shared by economist Jeffrey Sachs who, in a February 25, 2023  video directed at thousands of anti-war protesters in Berlin, said the war in Ukraine did not start a year ago, but nine years ago when the US backed the coup that overthrew Yanukovych after he preferred Russia’s loan terms to the European Union’s offer.

Shortly after China released its peace framework, the Kremlin responded cautiously, lauding the Chinese effort to help but adding that the details “need to be painstakingly analyzed taking into account the interests of all the different sides.” As for Ukraine, President Zelensky hopes to meet soon with Chinese President Xi Jinping to explore China’s peace proposal and dissuade China from supplying weapons to Russia.

The peace proposal garnered more positive response from countries neighboring the warring states. Putin’s ally in Belarus, leader Alexander Lukashenko, said his country “fully supports” the Beijing plan. Kazakhstan approved of China’s peace framework in a statement describing it as “worthy of support.” Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán–who wants his country to stay out of the war– also showed support for the proposal.

China’s call for a peaceful solution stands in stark contrast to US warmongering this past year, when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, a former Raytheon board member, said the US aims to weaken Russia, presumably for regime change–a strategy that failed miserably in Afghanistan where a near 20-year US occupation left the country broke and starving.

China’s support for de-escalation is consistent with its long-standing opposition to US/NATO expansion, now extending into the Pacific with hundreds of US bases encircling China, including a new base in Guam to house 5,000 marines. From China’s perspective, US militarism jeopardizes the peaceful reunification of the People’s Republic of China with its break-away province of Taiwan. For China, Taiwan is unfinished business, left over from the civil war 70 years ago.

In provocations reminiscent of US meddling in Ukraine, a hawkish Congress last year approved $10 billion in weapons and military training for Taiwan, while House leader Nancy Pelosi flew to Taipei – over protests from her constituents–to whip up tension in a move that brought US-China climate cooperation to a halt.

A US willingness to work with China on a peace plan for Ukraine might not only help stop the daily loss of lives in Ukraine and prevent a nuclear confrontation, but also pave the way for cooperation with China on all kinds of other issues–from medicine to education to climate–that would benefit the entire globe.

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Marcy Winograd serves as Co-Chair of the Peace in Ukraine Coalition, which calls for a ceasefire, diplomacy and an end to weapons shipments that escalate the war in Ukraine.

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Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter — also a former United States Marine Corps officer — joins Mike Adams in a far-reaching interview that covers Ukraine, Russia, NATO and Nord Stream.

Ritter is of course heavily censored on mainstream platforms and is widely condemned by officials in the US government, including those in the State Dept. That’s because his analysis doesn’t coincide with the official propaganda being catapulted into the info war by the mainstream media.

Ritter’s take on the current situation is that Ukraine’s leadership (Zelensky) is hopelessly corrupt and deeply infested with Nazis and murderers who issue hit lists of journalists to execute. Ritter himself has now achieved the No. 1 top position on one such list that’s run by the Zelensky government. (Yes, the Zelensky regime quite literally runs a kill list that targets journalists.)

During the interview, I ask Ritter if he is “anti-war,” and he disagrees, stating that he wants peace for everyone, but is also trained on how to defeat enemies and is willing to go to battle to halt those who are aggressors against innocent people or nations.

Ritter explains that NATO is the aggressor in this conflict, and that NATO has broken every promise, violated every treaty and incessantly lied its way into transforming Ukraine into a proxy state for NATO, from which the West plans to completely destroy Russia and its people.

Watch the full interview with Scott Ritter here, via Brighteon.com:

Hear the full details in the interview, below. Scott Ritter’s website is www.ScottRitterExtra.com

I also ask Ritter about Russia’s nuclear weapons capabilities, hypersonic missiles, hyperglide vehicles and anti-air systems. He reiterates that Russia is far ahead of the West in weapons technology — both offensive and defensive — and that if Russia were to decide to launch nuclear weapons against western cities, there’s nothing in the US military defensive arsenal that could stop those missiles from reaching their intended targets.

Even worse, he explains that Russia has the Sarmat-II missile systems already deployed, and these missiles — which carry up to 15 nuclear re-entry vehicles each — can be launched on a trajectory over the South Pole, bringing them into the United States from a direction for which US national defense forces are not prepared.

He explains that the US focuses its missile tracking and interdiction systems on the North Pole region, since that’s obviously the shortest distance between Russia and the continental United States. But Russia’s missiles have the range to go the other way and travel over the south pole of the planet.

 

Davos 2023: Fragmenting the World

March 5th, 2023 by Rick Thomas

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The annual Davos Boys Club (it’s also open to girls as long as they know their place) is meeting Jan 16 – 20 in the Swiss Alps. The uber wealthy technocrats will discuss how to fix the fragmented world they broke. The promo for the event says it all, no need to dig for a hidden agenda:

Canadian Deputy Crime Minister Chystia Freeland will be there sniffing and twitching like she just fell off the bus on East Hastings. The usual suspects will attend, basking in the glow of their mutual sociopathy. Hopefully, they will squeeze in some skiing, and maybe cruise by the elementary school for future prospects. Epstein sightings are predicted.

The meeting will bring together 2700 members including 52 heads of state, 600 CEO’s, 160 young globalists and 125 experts from the world’s leading universities, research institutions, and think tanks. From the United States: the likes of FBI director Chris Wray, the CEOs of Amazon, BlackRock, and Pfizer, top officials at the Gates Foundation and in the Soros network, and the Publisher of The New York Times, to name a few. Special guests include:

  • John F. Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the United States of America
  • Avril Haines, US Director of National Intelligence
  • Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor of the United States
  • Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative
  • Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada
  • Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky will speak at the annual World Economic Forum conference in January 2023, and he will be featured on a panel with Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary-general of NATO, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. The panel will be called “Restoring Security and Peace,” which is Orwellian Newspeak for “How do we Balkanise Russia after we Destroy Ukraine.”

Conspicuously absent, there will be no Russian delegation this year.

In a recent Globe and Mail article, WEF managing director Adrian Monck complains that trolls are wrecking all of Klaus Schwab’s beautiful wickedness, by spreading far-right disinfo and stuff. He rattles on trying to prove the WEF are nice guys and would never plot world takeover or pull the wings off butterflies: “A pandemic was raging, and the World Economic Forum launched The Great Reset, promoting the idea of building back better so that economies could emerge greener and fairer out of the pandemic,” he says without blinking.

He continues on with the usual scripted propaganda that anti-semitic, far-right extremists, conspiracy-theorists, white-supremacists, neo-nazis, other-non-conformists are-misbehaving on the internet.

Why can’t they just drink the koolaid and do what they’re told like everybody else?

He is simply astonished that one website claimed the Great Reset was a “response to the coronavirus faked crisis” and would usher in “global communism” to ensure “no one will be able to own anything.” Wow, imagine that.

And yet, straight out of the horse’s mouth, the WEF itself suggests that a globalised world is best managed by a self-selected coalition of multinational corporations, governments and civil society organisations, which it expresses through initiatives like the Great Reset and the Global Redesign.

The main themes for 2023 will include: [translations provided by the author]

  1. Energy and Food Crises in the context of a New System for Energy, Climate and Nature [how to starve the plebs into submission]
  2. High Inflation, Low Growth, High Debt Economy in the context of a New System for Investment, Trade and Infrastructure [how to bankrupt the plebs into submission]
  3. Industry Headwinds in the context of a New System for Harnessing Frontier Technologies for Private Sector Innovation and Resilience [how to create the Borg]
  4. Social Vulnerabilities in the context of a New System for Work, Skills and Care [how to exploit the crisis they created]
  5. Geopolitical Risks in the context of a New System for Dialogue and Cooperation in a Multipolar World [how to exploit the war in Ukraine and/or how to exploit the crises they made without blowing themselves up in the process]

During the annual meeting the population of Davos explodes to well over 100,000, including participants, media, security, and support staff. About 2,500 in that surge are WEF delegates and the remainder comprise their entourage and security necessary for the delegates’ appearances, about 40 staff members per delegate.

Becoming an official member of WEF is expensive to say the least. You must be either in the billionaire crowd or a world leader whose tax payers foot the bill.

It costs $19,000 per person to attend.

Unfortunately, you cannot do so unless your organisation is also a WEF member. That costs between $60,000 and $600,000 a year, depending on your “partner” status. Doing the math, it costs minimum $79,000 per delegate to attend plus the additional cost for flights, accomodation and meals for their private entourages.

Doing more math: Schwab and the WEF are raking in a minimum of $213,000,000 and that would be the most conservative estimate. No doubt, the WEF gets a cut from all the hotels and other services, and so it would not be out of line to estimate at least a billion dollars per year in income.

Fortunately, the Swiss Army will be there, armed with their Swiss Army Knives, to keep all the nasty conspiracy theorists from crashing the party and spoiling all the fun. The Swiss government announced:

“For the use of the army in the form of support services on the occasion of the WEF from 10 to 26 January, the Federal Parliament has set an upper limit of 5,000 military personnel … With armed fighter jets on permanent patrol duty during the conference period, ground-to-air defence, additional radars, enhanced airspace surveillance and 24-hour air police service (throughout Switzerland).”

Though the WEF meets in Davos every year, it is actually headquartered in the tiny town of Cologny, outside of Geneva, 265 miles west.

One of Cologny’s claims to fame is that a group of Romantic poets and writers spent the summer there in 1816: Lord Byron, John Polidori, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Due to the poor weather, the guests spent days indoors telling each other horror stories. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and John Polidori’s The Vampyre, were the result of these fireplace sessions. Frankenstein is the story of a mad scientist who creates a monster out of used body parts, and The Vampyre is the story of a blood-sucking aristocrat who preys upon society. Sweet.

Despite the downplaying of regular attendees like Bono, who smirks that Davos is a herd of “fat cows in the snow,” the reality is that the WEF is increasingly becoming the centre of global decision-making. The United Nations did not become the forum that the elites could use to create their global corporate empire, simply because there is too much red tape and policies within the United Nations’ constitution that cannot be over-riden.

Secondly, the United Nations is built on the nation-state model, something the WEF wants to do away with.

The WEF is the future world government, plain and simple. Schwab is already its first president, and arguably the unacknowledged and unofficial CEO of the world.

All that has to happen next, through their planned series of forthcoming mega-crisis, is for the world to acknowledge the WEF’s conquest of all nation states and submit to its supreme authority.

The pandemic was the first stage towards the WEF’s endgame.

The World Health Organisation successfully enlisted 194 nations into a global coup d’etat without firing a shot.

There are three things the WEF needs to destroy in order to consolidate their power: national sovereignty, civil rights and faith in our Creator. Only the first one can be destroyed.

They can take away the power of nations on the world stage. Sovereignty has been undergoing a gradual degradation for decades. As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “Canada is the world’s first post-national state,” referring to the fact that his cabinet is infiltrated by WEF members.

[Here is a complete list of Canadian elected officials who are WEF members.]

Civil rights and faith are impossible to destroy, and as history has shown, violating either results in an increase. Civil rights are the outward political expression of the inner spiritual path. Those who are on a spiritual journey, or those who value their freedom are boldly indignant when injustice occurs, especially when people’s right to basic human existence is threatened. The universe reveals that good is more powerful than evil. For all the evil that is done under the sun, the good that it produces is a hundred times greater.

The seed of destruction is planted in every totalitarian regime because tyranny is ultimately suicidal for all involved. We can, therefore, stand firm and say in confidence, “Bring it on, Schwab, bring it on.”

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What this article fails to acknowledge is that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a carefully engineered strategic project which was formulated by the U.S. in the immediate wake of the Second World War.

It was “regime change” coupled with the fragmentation and destruction of an entire country.

The “Who Promised What” and “Security Assurances” narrative was based on an outright lie. The reassurances from CIA Director Robert Gates and President G.H. W. Bush are meaningless.

Both Gorbachev and Yeltsin were “intelligence assets”. They were complicit in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, March 5, 2023

 

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Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner.

Slavic Studies Panel Addresses “Who Promised What to Whom on NATO Expansion?”

U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

The documents show that multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991, that discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German territory, and that subsequent Soviet and Russian complaints about being misled about NATO expansion were founded in written contemporaneous memcons and telcons at the highest levels.

The documents reinforce former CIA Director Robert Gates’s criticism of “pressing ahead with expansion of NATO eastward [in the 1990s], when Gorbachev and others were led to believe that wouldn’t happen.”[1] The key phrase, buttressed by the documents, is “led to believe.”

President George H.W. Bush had assured Gorbachev during the Malta summit in December 1989 that the U.S. would not take advantage (“I have not jumped up and down on the Berlin Wall”) of the revolutions in Eastern Europe to harm Soviet interests; but neither Bush nor Gorbachev at that point (or for that matter, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl) expected so soon the collapse of East Germany or the speed of German unification.[2]

The first concrete assurances by Western leaders on NATO began on January 31, 1990, when West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher opened the bidding with a major public speech at Tutzing, in Bavaria, on German unification.

The U.S. Embassy in Bonn (see Document 1) informed Washington that Genscher made clear “that the changes in Eastern Europe and the German unification process must not lead to an ‘impairment of Soviet security interests.’ Therefore, NATO should rule out an ‘expansion of its territory towards the east, i.e. moving it closer to the Soviet borders.’” The Bonn cable also noted Genscher’s proposal to leave the East German territory out of NATO military structures even in a unified Germany in NATO.[3]

This latter idea of special status for the GDR territory was codified in the final German unification treaty signed on September 12, 1990, by the Two-Plus-Four foreign ministers (see Document 25).

The former idea about “closer to the Soviet borders” is written down not in treaties but in multiple memoranda of conversation between the Soviets and the highest-level Western interlocutors (Genscher, Kohl, Baker, Gates, Bush, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Major, Woerner, and others) offering assurances throughout 1990 and into 1991 about protecting Soviet security interests and including the USSR in new European security structures.

Michail Gorbachev discussing German unification with Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Helmut Kohl in Russia, July 15, 1990. Photo: Bundesbildstelle / Presseund Informationsamt der Bundesregierung.

The two issues were related but not the same. Subsequent analysis sometimes conflated the two and argued that the discussion did not involve all of Europe. The documents published below show clearly that it did.

The “Tutzing formula” immediately became the center of a flurry of important diplomatic discussions over the next 10 days in 1990, leading to the crucial February 10, 1990, meeting in Moscow between Kohl and Gorbachev when the West German leader achieved Soviet assent in principle to German unification in NATO, as long as NATO did not expand to the east. The Soviets would need much more time to work with their domestic opinion (and financial aid from the West Germans) before formally signing the deal in September 1990.

The conversations before Kohl’s assurance involved explicit discussion of NATO expansion, the Central and East European countries, and how to convince the Soviets to accept unification. For example, on February 6, 1990, when Genscher met with British Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd, the British record showed Genscher saying, “The Russians must have some assurance that if, for example, the Polish Government left the Warsaw Pact one day, they would not join NATO the next.” (See Document 2)

Having met with Genscher on his way into discussions with the Soviets, Baker repeated exactly the Genscher formulation in his meeting with Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on February 9, 1990, (see Document 4); and even more importantly, face to face with Gorbachev.

Not once, but three times, Baker tried out the “not one inch eastward” formula with Gorbachev in the February 9, 1990, meeting. He agreed with Gorbachev’s statement in response to the assurances that “NATO expansion is unacceptable.”

Baker assured Gorbachev that “neither the President nor I intend to extract any unilateral advantages from the processes that are taking place,” and that the Americans understood that “not only for the Soviet Union but for other European countries as well it is important to have guarantees that if the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.” (See Document 6)

Afterwards, Baker wrote to Helmut Kohl who would meet with the Soviet leader on the next day, with much of the very same language. Baker reported: “And then I put the following question to him [Gorbachev]. Would you prefer to see a united Germany outside of NATO, independent and with no U.S. forces or would you prefer a unified Germany to be tied to NATO, with assurances that NATO’s jurisdiction would not shift one inch eastward from its present position?

He answered that the Soviet leadership was giving real thought to all such options [….] He then added, ‘Certainly any extension of the zone of NATO would be unacceptable.’” Baker added in parentheses, for Kohl’s benefit, “By implication, NATO in its current zone might be acceptable.” (See Document 8)

Well-briefed by the American secretary of state, the West German chancellor understood a key Soviet bottom line, and assured Gorbachev on February 10, 1990: “We believe that NATO should not expand the sphere of its activity.” (See Document 9) After this meeting, Kohl could hardly contain his excitement at Gorbachev’s agreement in principle for German unification and, as part of the Helsinki formula that states choose their own alliances, so Germany could choose NATO. Kohl described in his memoirs walking all night around Moscow – but still understanding there was a price still to pay.

All the Western foreign ministers were on board with Genscher, Kohl, and Baker. Next came the British foreign minister, Douglas Hurd, on April 11, 1990. At this point, the East Germans had voted overwhelmingly for the deutschmark and for rapid unification, in the March 18 elections in which Kohl had surprised almost all observers with a real victory.

Kohl’s analyses (first explained to Bush on December 3, 1989) that the GDR’s collapse would open all possibilities, that he had to run to get to the head of the train, that he needed U.S. backing, that unification could happen faster than anyone thought possible – all turned out to be correct.

Monetary union would proceed as early as July and the assurances about security kept coming. Hurd reinforced the Baker-Genscher-Kohl message in his meeting with Gorbachev in Moscow, April 11, 1990, saying that Britain clearly “recognized the importance of doing nothing to prejudice Soviet interests and dignity.” (See Document 15)

The Baker conversation with Shevardnadze on May 4, 1990, as Baker described it in his own report to President Bush, most eloquently described what Western leaders were telling Gorbachev exactly at the moment: “I used your speech and our recognition of the need to adapt NATO, politically and militarily, and to develop CSCE to reassure Shevardnadze that the process would not yield winners and losers. Instead, it would produce a new legitimate European structure – one that would be inclusive, not exclusive.” (See Document 17)

Baker said it again, directly to Gorbachev on May 18, 1990 in Moscow, giving Gorbachev his “nine points,” which included the transformation of NATO, strengthening European structures, keeping Germany non-nuclear, and taking Soviet security interests into account.

Baker started off his remarks, “Before saying a few words about the German issue, I wanted to emphasize that our policies are not aimed at separating Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union. We had that policy before. But today we are interested in building a stable Europe, and doing it together with you.” (See Document 18)

The French leader Francois Mitterrand was not in a mind-meld with the Americans, quite the contrary, as evidenced by his telling Gorbachev in Moscow on May 25, 1990, that he was “personally in favor of gradually dismantling the military blocs”; but Mitterrand continued the cascade of assurances by saying the West must “create security conditions for you, as well as European security as a whole.” (See Document 19) Mitterrand immediately wrote Bush in a “Cher George” letter about his conversation with the Soviet leader, that “we would certainly not refuse to detail the guarantees that he would have a right to expect for his country’s security.” (See Document 20)

At the Washington summit on May 31, 1990, Bush went out of his way to assure Gorbachev that Germany in NATO would never be directed at the USSR: “Believe me, we are not pushing Germany towards unification, and it is not us who determines the pace of this process. And of course, we have no intention, even in our thoughts, to harm the Soviet Union in any fashion. That is why we are speaking in favor of German unification in NATO without ignoring the wider context of the CSCE, taking the traditional economic ties between the two German states into consideration. Such a model, in our view, corresponds to the Soviet interests as well.” (See Document 21)

The “Iron Lady” also pitched in, after the Washington summit, in her meeting with Gorbachev in London on June 8, 1990. Thatcher anticipated the moves the Americans (with her support) would take in the early July NATO conference to support Gorbachev with descriptions of the transformation of NATO towards a more political, less militarily threatening, alliance. She said to Gorbachev: “We must find ways to give the Soviet Union confidence that its security would be assured…. CSCE could be an umbrella for all this, as well as being the forum which brought the Soviet Union fully into discussion about the future of Europe.” (See Document 22)

The NATO London Declaration on July 5, 1990 had quite a positive effect on deliberations in Moscow, according to most accounts, giving Gorbachev significant ammunition to counter his hardliners at the Party Congress which was taking place at that moment. Some versions of this history assert that an advance copy was provided to Shevardnadze’s aides, while others describe just an alert that allowed those aides to take the wire service copy and produce a Soviet positive assessment before the military or hardliners could call it propaganda.

As Kohl said to Gorbachev in Moscow on July 15, 1990, as they worked out the final deal on German unification: “We know what awaits NATO in the future, and I think you are now in the know as well,” referring to the NATO London Declaration. (See Document 23)

In his phone call to Gorbachev on July 17, Bush meant to reinforce the success of the Kohl-Gorbachev talks and the message of the London Declaration. Bush explained: “So what we tried to do was to take account of your concerns expressed to me and others, and we did it in the following ways: by our joint declaration on non-aggression; in our invitation to you to come to NATO; in our agreement to open NATO to regular diplomatic contact with your government and those of the Eastern European countries; and our offer on assurances on the future size of the armed forces of a united Germany – an issue I know you discussed with Helmut Kohl.

We also fundamentally changed our military approach on conventional and nuclear forces. We conveyed the idea of an expanded, stronger CSCE with new institutions in which the USSR can share and be part of the new Europe.” (See Document 24)

The documents show that Gorbachev agreed to German unification in NATO as the result of this cascade of assurances, and on the basis of his own analysis that the future of the Soviet Union depended on its integration into Europe, for which Germany would be the decisive actor.

He and most of his allies believed that some version of the common European home was still possible and would develop alongside the transformation of NATO to lead to a more inclusive and integrated European space, that the post-Cold War settlement would take account of the Soviet security interests. The alliance with Germany would not only overcome the Cold War but also turn on its head the legacy of the Great Patriotic War.

But inside the U.S. government, a different discussion continued, a debate about relations between NATO and Eastern Europe. Opinions differed, but the suggestion from the Defense Department as of October 25, 1990 was to leave “the door ajar” for East European membership in NATO. (See Document 27) The view of the State Department was that NATO expansion was not on the agenda, because it was not in the interest of the U.S. to organize “an anti-Soviet coalition” that extended to the Soviet borders, not least because it might reverse the positive trends in the Soviet Union. (See Document 26) The Bush administration took the latter view. And that’s what the Soviets heard.

As late as March 1991, according to the diary of the British ambassador to Moscow, British Prime Minister John Major personally assured Gorbachev, “We are not talking about the strengthening of NATO.” Subsequently, when Soviet defense minister Marshal Dmitri Yazov asked Major about East European leaders’ interest in NATO membership, the British leader responded, “Nothing of the sort will happen.” (See Document 28)

When Russian Supreme Soviet deputies came to Brussels to see NATO and meet with NATO secretary-general Manfred Woerner in July 1991, Woerner told the Russians that “We should not allow […] the isolation of the USSR from the European community.” According to the Russian memorandum of conversation, “Woerner stressed that the NATO Council and he are against the expansion of NATO (13 of 16 NATO members support this point of view).” (See Document 30)

Thus, Gorbachev went to the end of the Soviet Union assured that the West was not threatening his security and was not expanding NATO. Instead, the dissolution of the USSR was brought about by Russians (Boris Yeltsin and his leading advisory Gennady Burbulis) in concert with the former party bosses of the Soviet republics, especially Ukraine, in December 1991.

The Cold War was long over by then. The Americans had tried to keep the Soviet Union together (see the Bush “Chicken Kiev” speech on August 1, 1991). NATO’s expansion was years in the future, when these disputes would erupt again, and more assurances would come to Russian leader Boris Yeltsin.

The Archive compiled these declassified documents for a panel discussion on November 10, 2017 at the annual conference of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Chicago under the title “Who Promised What to Whom on NATO Expansion?” The panel included:

  • Mark Kramer from the Davis Center at Harvard, editor of the Journal of Cold War Studies, whose 2009 Washington Quarterly article argued that the “no-NATO-enlargement pledge” was a “myth”;[4]
  • Joshua R. Itkowitz Shifrinson from the Bush School at Texas A&M, whose 2016 International Security article argued the U.S. was playing a double game in 1990, leading Gorbachev to believe NATO would be subsumed in a new European security structure, while working to ensure hegemony in Europe and the maintenance of NATO;[5]
  • James Goldgeier from American University, who wrote the authoritative book on the Clinton decision on NATO expansion, Not Whether But When, and described the misleading U.S. assurances to Russian leader Boris Yeltsin in a 2016 WarOnTheRocks article;[6]
  • Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton from the National Security Archive, whose most recent book, The Last Superpower Summits: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Bush: Conversations That Ended the Cold War (CEU Press, 2016) analyzes and publishes the declassified transcripts and related documents from all of Gorbachev’s summits with U.S. presidents, including dozens of assurances about protecting the USSR’s security interests.[7]

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Notes

[1] See Robert Gates, University of Virginia, Miller Center Oral History, George H.W. Bush Presidency, July 24, 2000, p. 101)

[2] See Chapter 6, “The Malta Summit 1989,” in Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton, The Last Superpower Summits (CEU Press, 2016), pp. 481-569. The comment about the Wall is on p. 538.

[3] For background, context, and consequences of the Tutzing speech, see Frank Elbe, “The Diplomatic Path to Germany Unity,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 46 (Spring 2010), pp. 33-46. Elbe was Genscher’s chief of staff at the time.

[4] See Mark Kramer, “The Myth of a No-NATO-Enlargement Pledge to Russia,” The Washington Quarterly, April 2009, pp. 39-61.

[5] See Joshua R. Itkowitz Shifrinson, “Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion,” International Security, Spring 2016, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 7-44.

[6] See James Goldgeier, Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO(Brookings Institution Press, 1999); and James Goldgeier, “Promises Made, Promises Broken? What Yeltsin was told about NATO in 1993 and why it matters,” War On The Rocks, July 12, 2016.

[7] See also Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton, and Vladislav Zubok, “Masterpieces of History”: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989 (CEU Press, 2010), for extended discussion and documents on the early 1990 German unification negotiations.

[8] Genscher told Baker on February 2, 1990, that under his plan, “NATO would not extend its territorial coverage to the area of the GDR nor anywhere else in Eastern Europe.” Secretary of State to US Embassy Bonn, “Baker-Genscher Meeting February 2,” George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, NSC Kanter Files, Box CF00775, Folder “Germany-March 1990.” Cited by Joshua R. Itkowitz Shifrinson, “Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion,” International Security, Spring 2016, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 7-44.

[9] The previous version of this text said that Kohl was “caught up in a campaign finance corruption scandal that would end his political career”; however, that scandal did not erupt until 1999, after the September 1998 elections swept Kohl out of office. The authors are grateful to Prof. Dr. H.H. Jansen for the correction and his careful reading of the posting.

[10] See Andrei Grachev, Gorbachev’s Gamble (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2008), pp. 157-158.

[11] For an insightful account of Bush’s highly effective educational efforts with East European leaders including Havel – as well as allies – see Jeffrey A. Engel, When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), pp. 353-359.

[12] See George H.W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed (New York: Knopf, 1998), pp. 236, 243, 250.

[13] Published in English for the first time in Savranskaya and Blanton, The Last Superpower Summits (2016), pp. 664-676.

[14] Anatoly Chernyaev Diary, 1990, translated by Anna Melyakova and edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, pp. 41-42.

[15] See Michael Nelson and Barbara A. Perry, 41: Inside the Presidency of George H.W. Bush (Cornell University Press, 2014), pp. 94-95.

[16] The authors thank Josh Shifrinson for providing his copy of this document.

[17] See Memorandum of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and John Major published in Mikhail Gorbachev, Sobranie Sochinenii, v. 24 (Moscow: Ves Mir, 2014), p. 346

[18] See Rodric Braithwaite, “NATO enlargement: Assurances and misunderstandings,” European Council on Foreign Relations, Commentary, 7 July 2016.

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Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) and the Turkey-Syria Earthquake: An Expert Investigation is Required

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 28, 2023

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Yıkım, sosyal yıkım ve can kaybı. Düşüncelerimiz Türkiye ve Suriye halklarıyla birliktedir.

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Giriiş 

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Son tarama, Türkiye ve Suriye’de 50.000’den fazla ölü, yarım çocuklar fazla yaralı ve on binlerce insanın kayıplarını biliyor işaret ediyor. Toplumsal imha ve imha tarifesi olamaz. Türkiye’nin güneyindeki Kahramanmaraş ilinde 6 Şubat 2023’te meydana gelen birinci ve ikinci depremler sırasıyla 7,6 ve 7,8 (Richter’in çocukları) bölgeleriydi.

20 Şubat’ta 6,3 üçüncü üçüncü bir deprem kaydedildi. 

Türkiye’de yaklaşık 530.000 kişi afet bölgesinden tahliye edildi. Ankara, “Şimdiye kadar 173.000 binanın yıkıldığı veya ciddi şekilde hasar gördüğü ve 1,9 binden fazla insan geçici barınaklara veya sığınaklara ve kamu tesislerine sığındı .

Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın  sözleriyle: Tarihimizin en acı günlerini gördük”. 

Suriye’de depremler, Suriye’nin Türkiye ile batı sınırına yakın olan Halep, Lazkiye ve Hama şehirlerini büyük ölçüde genişletiyor. Suriye’de en son açıklama sayısı ölü 5.914 oldu ve 8.8 milyon kişi yükseliyor. 

Cumhurbaşkanı Bachar Al Esad, ABD-NATO’nun yaklaşık 12 yıldır Suriye ile savaş halindeyken tarihini çizerken, ” Suriye’nin yaklaşık iki buçuk asırdır deprem bölgesi olmadığını”  vurguladı .

Bu makalenin I. Bölümü’nde, 6Şubat 2023 depreminden önce Güney Anadolu’da  “büyük deprem” faaliyetine ilişkin yakın tarihli bir kanıt veya geçmiş kaydın kaldırılmasının ardından  Türkiye’deki Deprem Faaliyetinin Tarihine odaklanacağım.

Kısım II, Çevresel Modifikasyon Tekniklerinin (ENMOD) bir Gözden Geçirileceğini alacak . 

Bölüm III,  1977’de BM Genel Kurulu tarafından onaylanan, Çevresel Sürüm Tekniklerinin Askeri veya Diğer Her Türlü Düşmanca Kullanımının Yasaklanmasına İlişkin Sözleşme’ye odaklanılacaktır.

Türkiye-Suriye depremi açısından önemli olan, 1977 BM Sözleşmesi’nin (yukarıda anılan), “Taraf resimleri” tarafından maruz kalınan “ yıkım, hasar veya yaralama”  ile ilgili olarak soruşturmaya ilişkin hükümler içermesidir . BM  “Uzmanlar Danışma Komitesi” nin himayesinde .

Sözleşme’de ayrıca Birleşmiş Milletler Güvenlik Konseyi’ne sevk edilmesi için hükümler adına “Taraf resimleri” bulunmaktadır. Bu sorunlar Bölüm IV’te özetlenmiştir

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Türkiye’de Deprem Faaliyetinin Tarihçesi

 

Türkiye ile ilgili olarak, aşağıdaki jeolojik analizleri önermektedir:

“Deprem çalıştırma etkileri olarak “ Arap levhasının doğuya doğru Avrasya levhasına çarpmasıyla batıya doğru sıkışmayan küçük kama şeklindeki tektonik levha olan Anadolu levhasında ” meydana gelir. (vurguları) .

Türkiye’nin depremi kutsayan şey

Kuzey Anadolu Fayı boyunca 1939’da başlayan ve 60 yıl boyunca doğudan batıya doğru ilerleyen büyük depremlere neden olanbir tarihi ”  

 

6 Şubat 2023’te Gaziantep ve  Kahramanmaraş ulaşımıki Pazarcık (7,8) ve Ekinözü’nde (7,5) merkez büyüklüğü olan depremler, yakın tarihin en büyük “büyük depremleri”dir. (Bkz. Ekteki Tablo, aşağıdaki Grafik).

6 Şubat’ta yerel saatle 04:15 civarında,   Türkiye’nin orta-güney kesiminde Türkiye/Suriye sınırına yakın bir yerde 7,8 büyüklüğünde bir deprem meydana geldi. Sadece 11 dakika sonra, 6.7  hakimiyetindeki bir artçıyı kapsayan sarstı. Dokuz saat sonra 7.5 büyüklüğünde bir deprem izledi. ( USGS – Ulusal Deprem Bilgi Merkezi )

Aşağıdaki Harita , Güney’de, Suriye’nin Kuzeybatı sınırına yakın bir yerde bulunan 6 Şubat 2023 depremlerinin merkez üslerini gösteriyor .

Ekinözü’nün merkez merkezleri, Pazarcık depremleri, 6 Şubat 2023

Oğlu “Büyük Depremler”

Tarihsel olarak, Türkiye’deki en büyük depremlerin merkezleri Kuzey Batı Anadolu’da, İstanbul’un gidişatı, Batı Anadolu’da ve Kuzeydoğu bölgelerinde bulunur.

Kuzey Anadolu Fayı

Kuzey Anadolu Fayı boyunca 1939’dan 1999’a kadar yedi büyük (MS) 7.0 depremi . Yukarıdaki haritaya bakın

Bu depremler fayı doğudan batıya doğru giderek parçalamıştır. Kuzey Anadolu fayını sonuçları parçalayan yedi büyük depremin verileri aşağıdaki gibidir :

  • 1939 26 Aralık. Büyüklük (MS) 7.9 – 8.0. 30.000 ölüm. Fay uzunluğu yaklaşık 360 km. Kuzey Anadolu fayı üzerinde büyük depremlerin doğuya doğru göçünü başlatmıştır. (1939 Erzincan depremi, Kuzey Anadolu olarak adlandırılır)
  • 1942 20 Aralık. Büyüklük (MS) 7.1. Fay uzunluğu yaklaşık 50 km. (1942 Erbaa depremi olarak, Kuzey Anadolu)
  • 26 Kasım 1943. Büyüklük (MS) 7.6. Fay uzunluğu yaklaşık 280 km. (1943 Tosya depremi olarak, Kuzey Anadolu)
  • 1944 01 Şubat. Büyüklük (MS) 7.3. Fay uzunluğu yaklaşık 165 km. (1944 Bolu-Gerede depremi olarak, Kuzey Anadolu)
  • 1957 26 Mayıs. Büyüklük (MS) yaklaşık 7. Fay uzunluğu yaklaşık 30 km. (1957 Abant depremi olarak, Kuzey Anadolu)
  • 1967 22 Temmuz. Büyüklük (MS) 7.1. Fay uzunluğu yaklaşık 80 km. (1967 Mudurnu Vadisi depremi olarak, Kuzey Anadolu)
  • 1999 17 Ağustos. İzmit. Büyüklük (MS) 7.8; MW 7.4-7.5) Kuzey Batı Anadolu

Özet , tüm Kuzey Anadolu Fayı boyunca olan, 1950’den bu yana meydana gelen en büyük 5 depremin raporları yer almaktadır.

Bingöl: 6.9 adresi ve 22 Mayıs 1971’de Türkiye’nin gidişindeki ilde gerçekleşti.

İzmit Şehri : 17 Ağustos 1999, İstanbul’un 90 km, 7.6 konumunda. Deprem, İstanbul’un sanayileşmiş ve en yoğun nüfuslu dış alanları olan Sakarya, Gölcük, Darıca ve Derince’de meydana geldi.

Düzce Depremi, 12 Kasım 1999, Adapazarı’nın 70 kilometre (45 mil) süresi veya Ankara’nın 170 km (105 mil) ömrü 7,2 büyüklüğünde büyük bir deprem meydana geldi.

Van Şehri . 23 Ekim 2011. 7.1 büyüklüğünde bir deprem, İran sınırına yakın kuzeydoğu şehri.

İzmir:  30 Ekim 2020, 7.0 yerel ve merkez yerleşimi Yunanistan’ın Sisam Adasının yaklaşık 14 km Çevresi

İzmit-Gölcük depreminin Kuzeybatı Anadolu’daki merkez üretimi

Nota Bene: Bu büyük depremlerin (1939-1999) hiç Güney Anadolu’da değil.

Türkiye’de Depremlerin Uzun Dönem Tarihi (MS 342 -1999)

USGS – Ulusal Deprem Bilgi Merkezi tarafındanderlenen verilere göre “büyük depremlerin” tarihi MS 342’den beri kayıtlıdır  ( Ekteki Tabloya bakınız).

13. Yüzyılda  1268’de (Güney Anadolu) Adana’da “büyük bir deprem” (60.000 ölü) yaptırmaktadır  . Ayrıca 15. yüzyıldan beri tüm “büyük depremler” Kuzeybatı, Batı ve Kuzeydoğu Anadolu’da meydana gelmiştir. (Eke bakınız)

Güney Türkiye Depremleri

Reuters , ilk büyük depremi (6 Şubat 2023)  “en az bir yüzyılda en güçlüsü” olarak sınıflandırdı . Bu yetersiz bir ifade. Güney Anadolu açısından yedi asırdan fazla bir geçmişte görülen en büyük depremdir. (Adana 1268, Ekteki Tabloya bakınız )

27 Haziran 1998′ de Ceyhan ve Adana şehirlerini inceleme, 146 kişinin hayatını kaybettiği, 6.3 büyüklüğündeki Ceyhan-Adana depremi , Türkiye’nin güneyindeki kayıtlara geçmiştir. Ancak Ceyan depremi “büyük deprem”kategorisine girmiyor . 

Yukarıdaki görüntüler gibi, Türkiye’deki büyük depremler Kuzey Anadolu Fayı boyuncadır .

6 Şubat 2023’ten önce

Güney Anadolu’da 700 yılı aşkın süredir tek bir “büyük deprem” geçmişi : Bu, Türkiye’nin güneyinde bir “büyük deprem”in meydana gelmesi “olasılığı” veya “olasılığı” konusunda bize “bir şey” söylemiyor mu?

Deprem “Tahmin”

Deprem tahmini rutin bir iştir. Aylar sonrasına kadar bir deprem tahmin edilebilir. Ancak “tahmin”, “sismolojik tahmin” ile karıştırılmamalıdır:

Hollanda’daki Güneş Sistemi Geometri Araştırması (SSGS) için çalışan Hollandalı sismolog Frank Hoogerbeets, 3 Şubat 2023’te Türkiye’deki depremi, meydana gelmesinden üç gün önce tahmin etti. 

Terör Saldırısına İlişkin Kesin Kanıt Yok 

Siyasi düzeyde şüpheler olsa da, şu adımlar  bunun bir terör saldırısının uygulanmasından kesin bir kanıt yok.  Kamuya açık bilgilere göre (gizli bilgi depoları), Türkiye ve Suriye’ye karşı “ çevre değiştirme tekniklerinin”  kullanıldığına dair somut bir kanıt bulunmamaktadır.

Ancak önemli olan, Türk Uzay Ajansı Başkanı Serdar Hüseyin’in Rus televizyonuna yaptığı bir röportajda yaptığı resmi olmayan ( henüz doğrulanmayan )  bir açıklamaydı. Yeryüzüne, yerin derinliklerine güçlü enerji yollarından geçen sert metalli çubuklardan söz etti.

Aşağıdaki röportajın çevirisi var.

Transkript (Çeviri)

Türkiye Uzay Ajansı Başkanı Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım, depreme neden olabilecek silahlarla ilgili:

Sokaklardaki elektrikleri direkt olarak verebilir. Yaklaşık 8-10 metre bedendeki bu sütunlara benzerler. Metal çubuklar.

Çubuğun içinde hiçbir şey yok, patlayıcı yok, hiçbir şey yok, ancak sert metal alaşımlı bir malzeme olarak kullanılan metal bir çubuk.

Aletleri bir uyduya yerleştirdiler. Ve sonra nişan alıp onları Dünya’ya fırlatırlar. Sivri uçlu bir sopa gibi. Mesela Allah’ı göstermenin bir yere düşer, bir hâtırafete şimdi isim vermeyeyeceğiz ama yere düşmez 5 km kadar yerin derinliklerine kadar mahkum eder.  

Bu çok hızlı gerçekleşir ve 7-8 boyutta bir deprem yaratır.

Çarpmanın bir sonucu olarak, orada olan her şey yok olacak. Bakın burada silah yok, patlayıcı yok, bomba yok, öyle bir şey yok. Basit çubuklar [çubuklar]. Ama uzaydan gelen öyle bir güç var ki onu görme, durma, kendini savunma gibi bir şans yok.” (vurgu eklendi)

videoya buradan bakın

II

Çevresel Modifikasyon Teknikleri

 

Askeri kullanım için hava anlatımı hakkında, çoğu zaman kapsamı geniş bir literatür vardır. ABD ve Rusya kayıtlarda. Gelişmiş ENMOD teknolojilerine binmek.

ABD Ordusu hava durumunu kontrol edebilir. Bu,  “Kuvvet Çarpanı Hava Durumu Olarak: 2025’te Hava Durumuna Sahip Olmak kaynağı bir  ABD Hava Kuvvetleri belgesi tarafından onaylanmıştır. 

Rahmetli dünyaca ünlü bilim adamı Dr. Rosalie Bertell, “ABD askeri bilim adamlarının … Potansiyel bir silah olarak hava sistemleri üzerinde teşebbüslerini doğruladı. Daha 1970’lerde, eski Ulusal Güvenlik toplantıları Zbigniew Brzezinski “İki Çağ Arasında” adlı notlarda yer olduğunu tahmin etmişti:

“Teknoloji, büyük ulusların liderlerine, güvenlik güçlerinin asgari bir ölçüt olarak değerlendirilmesi gereken gizli savaş yürütme giderlerini yürütecektir…”

HAARP’a karşı halk kampanyasına aktif olarak katılan bilim adamı Dr. Nicholas Begich, HAARP’ı şu şekilde tanımlamıştır:

“Bir ışıma odaklayarak ve bu alanları ısıtarak iyonosferin [atmosferin üst katmanları] alanlarını kaldıran süper güçlü bir radyo yayılımı ışınlama teknolojisi .

Eski bir Fransız askeri subayı olan Marc Filterman , radyo frekanslarını kullanan çeşitli “geleneksel olmayan silahların” ana hatlarını çiziyor. ABD ve Asker Birliği’nin zaten

“1980’lerin başında ani iklim değişikliklerini (kasırgalar, kuraklık) serbest zaman için gerekenleri elde etmekte ustalaştı.”

İlk olarak 22 Mayıs 2008’de The Ecoologist  tarafından yayınlanan Weather Warfare başlıklı makalem,   daha önceki bir dönem askeri kullanım için düzenleme modifikasyonu (ENMOD) karışımı üzerine yazdığım birkaç genişletme ve ayrıntılı makalenin bir özetini sunuyor:

“Küresel iklim değişikliği tartışmasında nadiren görülen, dünyanın hava durumu artık yeni nesil gelişmiş dahili silahların bir parçası olarak değiştirilebiliyor. Hem ABD hem de Rusya, askeri kullanım için iklimi manipüle etme özellikleri geliştirildi.
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Çevresel düşman ABD füzesi tarafından yarım yüzyıldan fazla bir süre kullanılmış. ABD Savunma Bakanlığı ile irtibat halinde olan ABD’li matematikçi John von Neumann , 1940’ların sonunda Soğuk Savaş’ın zirvesinde havayı yükseltme araştırmasına başladı ve ‘henüz hayal bile edilemeyen iklim savaşını’ni öngördü.
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Vietnam savaşı sırasında, amaç muson mevsimini uzatmak ve Ho Chi Minh Patikası boyunca düşman ikmal bakımlarını engellemek olan Temel Reis Projesi kapsamında 1967’de görülen bulut görme bölgelerini.
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ABD ordusunu, havayı yönlendiren seçici olarak değiştirmesini sağlayan gelişmiş yetenekler geliştirdi. Yüksek Frekanslı Aktif Auroral Araştırma Programı (HAARP) [2014 yılında kapatılmıştır, resmi olarak Alaska Üniversitesi’ne devredilmiştir] kapsamında mükemmelleştirilmekte olan teknoloji, Stratejik Savunma Girişimi – ‘Yıldız Savaşları’nın bir uzantısıdır. Askeri yapılar HAARP, dış atmosferden çalışan ve dünya hedefli faaliyet gösteren ve ekolojik sistemleri istikrarsızlaştıran bir kitle imha silahıdır.
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1992 yılında kurulmuş, Alaska, Gokona merkezli HAARP, yüksek frekanslı radyo dalgaları yayılan iyonosfer (atmosferin üst katmanı) büyük geniş kapsamlı enerji ileten bir dizi yüksek güçlü antendir. İnşaatları ABD Hava Kuvvetleri, ABD Donanması ve İleri Savunma İleri Araştırma Projeleri Ajansı (DARPA) tarafından finanse edildi.
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Hava Kuvvetleri Araştırma Laboratuvarı ve Deniz Araştırma Ofisi tarafından ortaklaşa yürütülen HAARP, ‘iyonosferde kontrollü yerel değişiklikler’ yaratma yeteneğine sahip güçlü antenlerden oluşan bir sistem oluşturur.
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Uluslararası Halk Sağlığı Endişesi Enstitüsü başkanı Rosalie Bertell, HAARP’ın “iyonosferde büyük bozulmalara neden olmuyor, koruyucu tabakada sadece görüşleri değil, aynı yürütücü zamanda radyasyonu bombardımandan koruyan uzun kesikler bileşiminde büyük bir ısıtıcı” olarak çalıştığını söylüyor . gezegen’.

Fizikçi Dr Bernard Eastlund, onu “şimdiye kadar yapılmış en büyük iyonosferik ısıtıcı” olarak nitelendirdi.

HAARP, ABD Hava Kuvvetleri tarafından bir araştırma programı olarak sunuluyor, ancak askeri belgeler, asıl amaç, hava durumu modellerini değiştirmek ve iletişim ve radarı bozmak amacıyla ‘iyonosferik değişikliklere neden olduğunu’ doğruluyor.

HAARP ile ilgili CBC Belgeseli

Bir CBC TV raporu (1996), ABD Hava Kuvvetlerinin himayesi sahibi Alaska’daki HAARP yönetimi tayfunları, depremleri, selleri ve kuraklıkları tetikleme yeteneklerine sahip olduğunu kabul etti: 

“Yönlendirilmiş enerji o kadar güçlü bir teknolojidir ki, havayı bir savaş silahına dönüştürmek için iyonosferi yakmak için kullanılabilir  .hava değişimine çok fazla zaman tuttu.Bir şehrin üzerinde bir darbe patlarsa, temeldeki tüm elektronik eşyalar gözpar ve patlama ve kalıcı olarak yok olurlar.”

CBC TV Raporu (1996)

Alaska, Gakonacentric HAARP programı 2014 yılında kapatılırken (Alaska Üniversitesi’ne devredildi), HAARP projesini yöneten ABD Hava Kuvvetleri yine de askeri kullanım için ENMOD tekniklerinin devamını doğruladı . :

“HAARP’ın gerçekten yapmak için tasarlandığı, iyonosferi yönetmenliğin diğer yollarına geçiyoruz” dedi.

“Onu gerçekten kontrol edebilmek için iyonosfere enerji sağlamak. Ancak bu çalışma tamamlandı” dedi.

“Kuvvet Çarpanı Olarak Hava Durumu: Hava Durumuna Sahip Olmak”

Askeri uzantıların temel amacı “Havaya Sahip Olmak” tır. Bu ABD Hava Kuvvetleri idaresi 1996’da elinde bulunduran, HAARP programı, CBC tarafından belgelendiği gibi zaten tam olarak çalışıyor durumdaydı.

Raporun açıklama amacını ayrıntılı olarak açıklamaktadır:

Bu yazıda, hava durumu modifikasyonunun uygun şekilde uygulanmasının, daha önce hiç hayal edilmemiş bir derecede savaş alanı hakimiyeti sağlayabileceğini gösteriyoruz. Gelecekte, bu tür operasyonlar hava ve uzay üstünlüğünü artıracak ve orada savaş alanı şekillendirme ve savaş alanı farkındalığı için yeni seçenekler sunacak ve hepsini bir araya getirmemizi bekleyecek; 2025’te “Hava Durumuna Sahip Çıkabiliriz”. (ABD Hava Kuvvetleri tarafından görevlendirilen AF 2025 Nihai Rapor belgesi, (kamuya açık belge)  

ABD Hava Kuvvetleri Raporuna göre hava değişikliği, ” savaş savaşçısına bir düşmanı yenmek veya zorlamak için çok çeşitli olası seçenekler sunuyor”, diyor ki, yetenekler sel, kasırga, kuraklık ve depremleri tetiklemeye kadar uzanıyor:

‘Hava Kurtarma iç ve dış güvenliğin bir parçası haline gelecek ve tek taraflı olarak hedeflenebilir… Saldırı ve savunma uygulamaları olabilir ve hatta caydırıcılık amaçlı kullanılabilir. Yeryüzünde yağmur, sis ve fırtına oluşturma veya uzay havasını değiştirme gücü… ve yapay hava üretiminin tümü, entegre bir [askeri] teknolojiler dizisinin bölümü.”

ABD Hava Kuvvetleri belgesi AF 2025 Nihai Raporu,  (orijinal AF belgesi bağlantısı artık mevcut değil)

ABD Hava Kuvvetleri tarafından yaptırılan eksiksiz raporları görün

 ….Dost operasyonlarını geliştirmekten veya doğal hava modellerinin küçük ölçekli uyarlanması yoluyla düşman operasyonlarını kesintiye uğratmaktan küresel iletişim ve karşı uzay kontrolüne tam hakimiyete kadar, hava modifikasyonu, savaş savaşçısına bir savaşı yenmek veya zorlamak için çok çeşitli olası seçenekler sunar. düşman. Bir hava durumu modifikasyon sisteminin bir savaş başkomutanına (CINC) sağlayabileceği potansiyel yeteneklerden bazıları tablo 1’de listelenmiştir. (vurgular eklenmiştir)

Depremlerin tetiklenmesi HAARP teknolojisinin ayrılmaz bir parçası olmakla birlikte, ABD Hava Kuvvetleri belgesinin yukarıdaki versiyonunda deprem terimi açıkça yer almamaktadır. Raporun Ekleri A ve B, İyonosferin maksimum kullanılabilir frekans (MUF) ile ilgili rolüne işaret etmektedir.

CIA’nın ENMOD Teknolojilerine Katılımı

Temmuz 2013’te MSN haberleri, CIA’nın Ulusal Bilimler Akademisi’nin (NAS) jeo-mühendislik ve iklim manipülasyonuna odaklanan bir projesinin finanse edilmesine yardımcı olduğunu bildirdi. Rapor yalnızca bu teknolojileri kabul etmekle kalmadı, aynı zamanda ABD istihbaratının rutin olarak iklim manipülasyonu sorununu ele aldığını doğruladı:

NAS web sitesine göre, “CIA destekli NAS çalışmasının amacı, “sınırlı sayıda önerilen jeomühendislik tekniğinin teknik değerlendirmesini” yapmaktır. Bilim adamları, hangi jeomühendislik tekniklerinin uygulanabilir olduğunu belirlemeye ve her birinin (“ulusal güvenlik endişeleri” dahil) etkilerini ve risklerini değerlendirmeye çalışacak.” (Bkz. Slate , Temmuz 2013)

Kearney, “CIA, araştırmanın finanse edilmesine yardımcı oluyor çünkü NAS aynı zamanda “dünyanın herhangi bir yerinde konuşlandırılan jeomühendislik teknolojileriyle ilgili (olabilecek) ulusal güvenlik endişelerini” değerlendirmeyi planlıyor.

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 III

1977 BM Sözleşmesi. 

Çevresel Modifikasyon Tekniklerinin Kullanımı Üzerine

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1977’de BM Genel Kurulu tarafından ” yaygın, uzun süreli veya ciddi önlemler olan düzenleme tekniklerinin askeri veya diğer düşmanca kanadı” yasaklanan uluslararası bir Sözleşme onaylandı.  
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ENMOD ölçümleri ayrıca depremler için de geçerlidir:
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“Çevresel modifikasyon tekniklerini”, “doğal modellemeyi tasarlamayı hedefleyerek – biyotası, litosferi , hidrosferi ve atmosferik veya dış uzay dahil olmak üzere dünyanın dinamiklerini, muhafazanı veya oluşumlarını değiştirmeye yönelik bir teknik” olarak tanımladı. (vurgu eklendi)
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BM Genel Kurulu tarafından onaylanan tarihi 1977 Sözleşmesi, “yaygın, uzun ömürlü veya ciddi etkilere sahip olan düzenleme tekniklerinin askeri veya diğer düşmanca görevlileri” yasaklıyor.

 

….Bu Sözleşmeye Taraf olan her Devlet, başka herhangi bir Taraf Devleti yok etme, hasar verme veya yaralama aracı olarak yaygın, uzun inceleme veya ciddi etkiler olan askeri … düzenleme değişikliklerini tekniklerini kullanmayı kabul eder. ( Çevresel Sürüm Tekniklerinin Askeri veya Diğer Herhangi Bir Düşmanca Kullanımının Yasaklanmasına İlişkin Sözleşme, Birleşmiş Milletler, Cenevre, 18 Mayıs 1977. Yürürlük tarihi: 5 Ekim 1978, Ekteki Sözleşmenin tam açıklamasına bakın)

BM metninin tam metnini okumak için tıklayınız

Antlaşmayı onaylayan veya imzalayan ülkelerin listesi 

2022 sonunda Suriye, Türkiye, Irak, İran, ABD ve Rusya Federasyonu dahil olmak üzere 78 ülke anlaşmasını sağladılar veya gönderdiler. İsrail Antlaşmayı onaylamadı.

Resmi BM belgesi 

Avrupa Görev Komitesi’nin Karar Önergesi

Şubat 1998’de Avrupa’da Dış İlişkiler, Güvenlik ve Savunma Politikası Komitesi’nin HAARP programı hakkında Brüksel’de halka açık oturumların başlaması gerekiyor. Komite’nin Avrupa yönetimine yönelik çözümler “Çözüm Önerileri”:

“Çevre üzerindeki geniş etki etkisi nedeniyle HAARP’ı küresel bir mesele olarak kabul eder ve yasal, ekolojik ve etik sonuçlarının uluslararası bağımsız bir kuruluş tarafından incelenmesinde bulunur…; [Komite] Birleşik tablo Yönetiminin, HAARP çalışmasının ve kamu risklerine ilişkin …kamuya açık duruşmaya kanıt sunmayı reddetmesinden üzüntü duymaktadır.”  (vurgu eklendi)

 

 

IV

“ENMOD’un Düşmanca Kullanımı” İlişkin “Uzman İncelemesi” 

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Türkiye-Suriye depreminin ciddiyeti, can kaybı, yıkıcı sosyal ve ekonomik sonuçların göz önüne alınması, “çevre değiştirme tekniklerinin askeri veya diğer düşmanca sorumluğu” yasaklayan 1977 Uluslararası Sözleşmesine dayalı olarak bir “uzman soruşturması” yürütülmelidir. .

Yukarıda belirtilen 1977 BM Sözleşmesinin onaylanmasından bu yana, askeri kullanım için ENMOD tekniklerinin giderek daha karmaşık hale geldiğini belirtmeliyim.

Birleşmiş Milletlere güvenebilir miyiz? İki “Taraf Devlet” yani Türkiye ve Suriye BM himayesinde bir uzman soruşturmasının yöneticilerinden önce ortak yürütme ve kendi iç soruşturmalarını yürütmelidir.

Bu Soruşturmanın Görev Tanımı, BM Anlaşmasının Anlaşma Maddelerinde yer almaktadır.

Uzman Soruşturmasının doğasını okuyucusu Madde I, II ve V’e (alıntılar) bulacağım. (vurgu eklendi). Makaleleri tam olarak saklamak için veri tıklayın

Madde I. 1.

Bu Sözleşmeye Taraf olan her Devlet, herhangi bir diğer Taraf Devleti yok etme, hasar verme veya yaralama aracı olarak yaygın, uzun süreli veya ciddi etkilere sahip askeri veya diğer düşmanca tahribatı değiştirme tekniklerini kullanma taahhüdü verir.

Madde II, depremler dahil olmak üzere ENMOD tekniklerine bağlıdır:

deli 2

1. maddede kullanılan şekliyle, “çevresel değişikliklerin kullanımı” terimi, biyotası , litosferi, hidrosferi ve göksel veya uzay.

Madde V

1. Bu Sözleşmeye Taraf tabloları, Sözleşmenin amaçları veya Sözleşme hükümlerinin idamesi ile ilgili olarak ortaya çıkma üretimi çözümünde iletkenliği sonayı ve işbirliği oluşturmalarıdır. Bu maddeyi oluşturmak istişare ve işbirliği, Birleşmiş Milletler sınırları içinde ve Şartına uygun olarak uygun uluslararası operasyonlar aracılığıyla da gerçekleştirilebilir . Bu uluslararası ameliyatlar, bu çıldırmış 2. paragrafta öngörüldüğü gibi , uygun uluslararası sonuçlar ve ayrıca bir Uzmanlar Danışma Komitesini bitirir.

2. Bu çıldırtıcı 1. paragrafta belirtilen amaçlar için, Depoziter, bu Sözleşmeye Taraf herhangi bir Devletten gelen bir talebin alınmasından itibaren bir ay içinde, bir Uzmanlar Danışma Komitesi toplayacak. …

3. Bu Sözleşmeye Taraf herhangi bir Devlet, başka bir Taraf Devlet Sözleşme hükümlerinden elde edilen tasarrufları korumak için olası nedenler varsa, Birleşmiş Milletler Güvenlik Konseyine şikayette bulunabilir . Böyle bir şikayetin, geçerliliğini ortaya koyan tüm olası kanıtların yanı sıra ilgili tüm bilgileri içermelidir.

4. Bu Sözleşmeye Taraf her Devlet, Konsey tarafından alınan şikayet talimatı, Güvenlik Konseyi’nin Birleşmiş Milletler Şartı kurallarına uygun olarak başlatabileceği herhangi bir soruşturmanın yürütmesinde işbirliği yapma kararı verir. Güvenlik Konseyi soruşturmanın sonuçlarını Taraf resmine bildirecektir.

Sözleşme Metnin Takımı’nda orkestra yer alıyor:

1. Uzmanlardan oluşan Danışma Komitesi, Komite’nin görüşmesine çağrılmasını talep eden Taraf Devlet tarafından bu Sözleşme’nin V. maddesinin 1. paragrafı öngördüğü ileri gidebilecek herhangi bir sorunla ilgili olarak uygun olgu tespitleri yapma ve uzman görüşme sağlamayı taahhüt etmesi.

vurgu eklendi

Oğul sözleri 

Türkiye ve Suriye halklarıyla dayanışma içindeyiz.

Bu bölümler, basit sonuçlar varmak gibi ve erken olacaktır.

Yasaklanmış bir gerçek var. Bir analiz ve anlayış çerçevesini inceleyin.

Hasar ve can kaybı tarifinin aşılması: Bu konu, “çevresel tekniklerinin askeri veya diğer düşmanca varsayımları” yasaklayan 1977 Uluslararası Sözleşmene bulunarak analiz, diyalog ve tartışma konusu olmalıdır.

“Taraf resimleri” olarak Türkiye ve Suriye, konu BM Uzmanlar Danışma Komitesi’ne ve/veya Birleşmiş Milletler Güvenlik Konseyi’ne havale edilmeden önce, ilk adım olarak kendi iç soruşturmalarını yürütmelidir.

 

 


Ek  

Kaynak: Bu Bilgi USGS – Ulusal Deprem Bilgi Merkezi tarafından yapılmıştır.

Kaynaklar ve dipnotlar aşağısıdır. 

ISK: Kandilli Rasathanesi Deprem Kataloğu, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul, NOAA/NGDC (Meyers ve Von Hake), Boulder CO, 1985 tarafından çıkarma.

İTÜ: K. Ergin, U. Güçlü ve Z. Uz, Türkiye ve Çevresi İçin Deprem Kataloğu (MS 11 – MS 1964), İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Maden Fakültesi, 1967.

AFAD: Deprem Risk Haritası, AFAD, Afet ve Acil Durum Yönetimi Daire Başkanlığı, 2018.

NG(n): R. Ganse ve J. Nelson, Catalogue of Significant Earthquakes 2000 BC – 1979 Include Quantitative Zayiatlar ve Hasar, NOAA/NGDC Raporu SE-27, Boulder CO, 1981. Parantez okuma sayı referans tablosundandır, aşağıda listede tutulduğu gibi :

2: Lomnitz, Küresel Tektonik ve Deprem Riski, 1974.

3: Hamam, Sismolojiye Giriş, 1978.

5b: (kaynak 5b yok — muhtemelen 55 olmalı?).

7: Meyers ve von Hake, Deprem Verisi Anlatımı, 1976.

51: Munchener Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Dünya Doğal Tehlike Haritası, 1978.

55: Milne, Yıkıcı Depremler Kataloğu, 1911.

73: ABD Kongresi, Büyük Depremler, 1888.

99: Karnik, Avrupa Bölgesinin Depremselliği, 1971.

120: Alsinavi ve Galih, Irak’ın Tarihi Depremselliği, 1978.

138: Ambraseys, Orta Doğu Depremselliğin Yeniden Değerlendirilmesi, 1978.

 

Guerre: La Storia Cancellata

March 4th, 2023 by Manlio Dinucci

La presidente Meloni, in visita a Nuova Delhi, ha dichiarato che “l’aggressione russa nei confronti dell’Ucraina” costituisce una “provocazione al cuore della Carta dell’ONU” e mina “l’ordine internazionale fondato sulle regole”, concludendo che “non possiamo sottostare alla legge del più forte”. Si cancella in tal modo la storia degli eventi che hanno portato all’attuale critica situazione.

La ricostruiamo, in questa puntata di Grandangolo, nei tratti essenziali:

1.La NATO nasce dalla Bomba
2.Jugoslavia: la guerra fondante della nuova NATO
3.L’espansione della NATO ad Est verso la Russia
4.USA e NATO attaccano e invadono l’Afghanistan e l’Iraq
5.La NATO demolisce lo Stato libico
6.La guerra USA/NATO per demolire la Siria
7.La regia USA/NATO nel colpo di stato in Ucraina
8.La portaerei Italia sul fronte di guerra
9.USA E NATO stracciano i Trattati e schierano in Europa nuove armi nucleari

Fondamentale è il momento in cui la guerra fredda termina con il dissolvimento del Patto di Varsavia e della stessa Unione Sovietica nel 1991. Gli Stati Uniti ne approfittano per scatenare nel Golfo il primo conflitto del dopo guerra fredda, al quale partecipano i principali paesi della NATO, tra cui l’Italia.

Contemporaneamente la NATO si muove per espandersi ad Est verso la Russia. Il primo passo è la demolizione della Federazione Jugoslava, che gli Stati Uniti e le potenze europee della NATO iniziano nel 1990. La guerra, denominata «Operazione Forza Alleata», inizia il 24 marzo 1999.

Mentre demolisce con la guerra la Federazione Jugoslava, la NATO inizia a espandersi ad Est, nonostante Washington avesse assicurato il Presidente dell’URSS Mikhail Gorbaciov che «la NATO non si estenderà di un solo pollice ad Est». In vent’anni, la NATO si estende da 16 a 30 paesi. Con il prossimo ingresso di Svezia e Finlandia si allargherà a 32 paesi, sempre più a ridosso della Russia. Altri tre paesi – Bosnia Erzegovina (già parte della Jugoslavia), Georgia e Ucraina (già parte dell’Urss) – sono candidati a entrare nella NATO.

Manlio Dinucci

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Women’s Day, March 8, 2023

 

Methodological introduction

You may be astonished or even shocked by my following presentation, as it may seem very unusual to you or even rather radical.

The reason for this is the different perspective from which I am speaking now: I am no longer arguing from a merely human point of view. The human or social point of view is the usual one in modern times of anthropocentrism, which includes women and their views as well. However, even ecofeminism did not yet arrive at really shifting perspective, or changing sides – i.e. meaning to change to the side of nature, life and even the planet as such, looking at the world from a different, that is non-human – or more than human – perspective.

This perspective was originally an indigenous one, one that we, in the West, have abolished with colonialism. My perspective, nevertheless, differs from the indigenous one insofar as nature and the planet today are not the same any more, because they have been and are widely being transformed, even „wrecked“, as Rosalie Bertell calls it. This is due to something that I call patriarchy, which is a civilization that disregards and hates all life, because it wants to replace it by its own „creation“, and as a consequence, engages in its deliberate destruction process.

Strangely enough, however, nearly nobody sees this destruction – as we have no concept for it. We are blinded by a „progress“ that goes along with the destruction. It seems to be beyond our perception even though we know from detailed measuring of its magnitude, that destruction exists. The Austrian philosopher Günther Anders who made the most profound and radical critique of the nuclear threat, therefore, spoke of an „apocalypse-blindness“ in Western society. He thought that this blindness regarding the dangers of modern technology is due to a general admiration for it, preventing people from recognizing the potential catastrophic consequences and even the annihilation of life these technologies are proclaiming and probably, or inevitably, would bring to the world, sooner or later.

In order to overcome this blindness, there is only one way: looking, or trying at least, to look at the world from the perspective of nature, life and the planet itself. This means to look at what this so-called civilization has done and is doing to them as the non-human or more-than-human-world, and to speak on its behalf. Of course, its ongoing permanent destruction should be stopped immediately, otherwise, we as humans would also not survive what we do to the Other. And from the perspective of nature and the planet, this „we“ includes all those who think to do no harm at all, too, because they are part of the human race and as such co-responsible for this behavior.

In this context, I suggest the consideration of the following 16 points:

  1. We know that the question of war, the military and violence is the most central question and result of patriarchy as a civilization that has a history of several thousands of years in which war has become the „ultima ratio“ of this civilization.

Without war and a military there would be no patriarchy, and has never been. This is the main contrast to matriarchal civilization, existing for millenia, before patriarchy was established, and where no institutions of war, violence nor military existed. If somebody tried to change this, it was prevented immediately (s. Clastres).

Matriarchal cultures are egalitarian and consensus-oriented cultures, i.e. meaning finding solutions to arising problems by way of reaching a consensus within their community. However, never having experienced violent invasions by an organized military force from the outside, matriarchal societies were unable to find answers.

When confronting the question of war and violence, we directly touch the foundation of our current civilization as the last and most modern patriarchal one, „capitalist patriarchy“, as we have defined it. I call it the „Alchemical War-System“ (Werlhof 2011, 2013).

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Today, the military is organized as the military-industrial complex, MIC, and related to the so-called „Deep State“ with its secret services, etc. – all that is concealed from us and does not normally reach the public.

The way the military exists today, proves how far away we are from a patriarchy-free world – contrary to those who think that patriarchy is disappearing or, has even come to an end already!

Today, we are even facing a completely new situation in this respect, namely nothing less than the ongoing destruction of life on this planet, of the planetary life-support-cycles and even of the planet itself – due to military inventions, experiments and activities on the basis of a really futuristic new weaponry, already in development since WWII, that is since more than 70 years already (s.Bertell 20000/2020; Werlhof 2021). In fact, we have entered a new world war that is even a planetary one, in the sense that it is more than global – it reaches even out to the solar system. This new, and in fact, „total“ war has started already and is going to develop much further. It involves thesimultaneous use of nuclear and post-nuclear technologies and weaponry. We call these the weapons of military geo-engineering which means that these techniques are spanning the planet as a whole, something that has never occurred in history before.

  1. A war based on military geo-engineering is different from nearly everything that we define as war until today, because this new war is not an „officially“ declared one, it has no armies the way we are accustomed to, it does not depend on borders nor limits, it does not necessarily distinguish between friends and enemies, for it is the process of transforming the entire planet and its immense natural energies, into a mega-weapon and gigantic war-machine.

Rosalie Bertell: „New wars are never fought with the same weapons than previous ones. And the next war will be one against the environment in which the weather, climate and natural catastrophes will play a role…“ (Bertell 2011).

The only thing that resembles previous wars are the secrecy and lies that are accompanying it, and the huge propaganda-system legitimizing it – even denying that it exists at all. This is possible because – as Bertell tells us – the military is, from the point of view of its weaponry, 50 years ahead of us.

  1. This war is instead explained to us as the salvation of the planet from something that we, the people, are responsible for, namely CO2-emissions growth and irresponsible consumption patterns that lead to the change of the planetary climate and a life-threatening „global warming“, as we are told (Werlhof 2021).

The new war is supposed to bring peace, as George Orwell would call this inversion.

From the totally new dimensions this war is comprising we have to conclude that it is related to a wider societal project of immense change that cannot be achieved neither democratically nor peacefully (s. Werlhof 2021, Introduction).

It seems that we are at the doorsteps of a revolution from above that is going to change nearly everything: the entire civilization, as we know it, the way how those surviving this war are going to live in it, and all of the natural surroundings, including the planet itself.

Those who believe in a salvation-project for the planet, however, are made to believe that the system agrees to get organized in an „alternative“, even „green“, way. But the „smart-cities“-propaganda tells us something else (s. Heibel 2021), like the G5 and digitalization via AI, artificial intelligence. As Maria Heibel says: CO2 is only the scapegoat to reach very different goals and obscures the truth of the arrival of a New World Order now going to be forced upon us all.

  1. It is necessary, if we want it or not, to analyze the situation and to find answers to this development, be it as human beings, be it as women, because in this war, it is life itself that is now threatened in its entirety, even the life of Mother Earth herself.

We are confronted with a completely new dimension of what is happening, on and with the earth, a dimension never heard of before in history.

This is why we are in urgent need of re-thinking the activities, reflections and feelings we until now have developed in view of war and especially the nuclear threat (s. Caldicott 2002), because in view of the new panorama that is now unfolding, our former answers are far from being suffficient.

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As women, we have to confess that our movements against wars, including the nuclear threat, have not been successful so far. If we do not recognize what is going on now – and first of all, understand why – we will be even less successful today.

We even seem to have arrived at a situation in which something like the „pure war“, as Paulo Virilio called it, is approaching, a world in which not only democracy as we know it, but civil life as such is going to be overwhelmed by militarization – and eventually, effectively will cease to exist (s. Virilio/Lotringer 1984).

The actual concept of „weaponization“ may be a symptom of what is arriving, meaning that everything is being turned into a weapon: all techniques, all labor, all communication, politics, sex, health-care, educational systems, the weather and even the human being itself by being changed via „transhumanism“ (s. Werlhof 2020).

Patriarchy’s weaponized machine civilization that is bringing everything under its control – the mega-machine (s. Mumford 1970) – is now emerging on the horizon. It means that we as former free and independent humans are now supposed to become just a tiny part of this machine. This will be our new „part“-icipation.

  1. The destructive realities on earth have started to be felt everywhere.

As we have seen already, they are explained to us as the consequences of CO2 as alleged greenhouse gas emissions of civil industries and our life style, resulting in a „global warming“ and a „climate change“ we seem to be responsible for, ourselves.

This way we are supposed to feel guilty about the problems of the planet and agree to the measures proposed from above, like accepting a so-called „civil geo-engineering“ as a technology that is said to save us and the planet from global warming and climate chaos as the supposed main problems of humanity today.

However, the underlaying concepts of this „information war“ never define those who are really responsible for what is happening on earth, that is the multi-nationals, financial capital and the military industrial complex, the deep state (s. Fraile 2021) and the “Fourth industrial revolution“ as such, adding AI, Artificial Intelligence, nanotechnology, biotechnologies (genetic and synthetic technplogies) to military geoengineering (s. Freeland 2021). They conceal and hide from us that the entire narrative and the fake science about CO2 and global warming is an invention by the real powers to be and stems from their dark agenda for the world (s. Engdahl 2018).

After the Paris UN Climate Conference of 2015 the new IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) – Special Report of 2018 is finally propagating to implement those new planetary technologies that until now have not officially been discussed, as a possible solution (IPCC 2018).

In the first instance it is the technology of so-called SRM, solar radiation management, (or SAI), proposed of being able to cool down the planet by imitating a volcanic eruption, the so- called Pinatubo effect, which means blocking the sun by metallic particles in the atmosphere, like aluminum, sulfur (s. Keith 2015), and others (s. Werlhof 2021, Geoengineering: From geo-weaponry to geo-warfare).

This debate has been opened to the public only a few years ago and gave rise to the alleged „science“ of „civil geo-engineering“ or „climate engineering“, without mentioning the military background behind, not to speak of its disturbing history. This part of the story is bluntly denied.

  1. The work of Rosalie Bertell, however, is the first to reveal a totally different picture of what is going on in reality.

Bertell (1929-2012) was a catholic nun and scientist, specialized in biometry, environmental disaster and health questions, living in the US and Canada. She worked for the UN as a specialist for industrial accidents worldwide and founded various institutions, e.g. the IICPH, the International Institute of Concern for Public Health. Bertell was awarded 9 honorary doctoral degrees as well as the Right Livelihood Award, among others.

Since I met Rosalie in 2010 she wanted me to continue her work, publishing and discussing it everywhere, and relating it more to the question of patriarchy as our modern civilization. In this way I came to consider myself an heir of her work.

This is why I am here and why I can present today the Italian version of her most important book: “Pianeta Terra. L´ultima arma di guerra“ (Trieste 2018, Asterios).

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No immediate danger: Prognosis for a radioactive earth: Bertell, Dr Rosalie.: 9780704328464: Amazon.com: Books

Rosalie Bertell wrote two unique books: “No Immediate Danger? Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth“ (1985) and “Planet Earth. The Latest Weapon of War“ (2000) – now available in Italian, French, Spanish and German, in the 4th edition already (since 2020, in the 5th edition, as well as a new enhanced English edition in 2020). They may be considered to belong to the most important books of the 21st century.

The first book discusses the health problems caused by low nuclear radiation that occurs even in peace times, next to the nuclear industry and nuclear plants, and explains the way these health problems are passed on to future generations without possibilities of being healed, because the genetic alterations they cause cannot be reversed.

In the second book, Bertell addresses nuclear and mostly secret developments of post-nuclear weapons for planetary destruction – including the ongoing destruction of the planet itself, which is actually being transformed into a giant weapon of war – and the historical development of this project in East and West so far.

  1. From the perspective of Bertell’s analysis, the realities on the planet are completely different from the ones we are told officially, and they result from very different origins than those presented to the public.

According to Rosalie Bertell’s findings, we are confronted with the results of:

  • 200 nuclear tests in the atmosphere and on earth between 1958-1998 alone, that have damaged the magnetosphere and the atmosphere, changing even the earth´s axis (now observed by the Inuit), and lowering the circular movement of the planet
  • weather and climate manipulation, the provocation of seemingly natural disasters and the change of the earth´s life support systems and cycles in the air and on the ground, by using so-called „plasma weapons“
  • SRM – solar radiation management – that is supposed to be implemented now by civil geo-engineers to combat so-called global warming, whereas SRM is already in secret use since 30 years with completely different effects and being applied for very different reasons.

SRM consists of airplanes spraying aerosols in the form of nanoparticles into the atmosphere, and they can be seen nearly everyday worldwide. They dump on us an ever increasing variety of alumimum and heavy metals like barium and strontium, fly coal ash (s. Herndon 2018), fibers, polymeres, viruses, bacteria and soon, or already, even minimachines in the form of nanobots, all of which make us sick. Furthermore, these link us as living beings via microwaves with special devices on the ground as well as with satellites in orbit (s. Elon Musk´s activities, cf. Freeland 2021).

In this way, we are continuously being poisoned; the increased toxicity in the atmosphere and in our bodies cause Alzheimer and other neurological diseases, cancer, heart and lung diseases and autism, a disease that seems to especially effect boys. According to an estimation for the US, nearly all future generations will be effected by it (s. Klinghardt 2016). We are already on the way to „transhumanism“ where our survival depends on how we manage to live as cyborgs („Homo transformator“, s. Wörer 2017; Werlhof 2020).

  • Most recently, DEW, directed energy weapons (s. Wood 2014, Johnson 2017) are to be debated, based on EM – electromagnetic – waves which seem to have been applied in 9/11 and in the so-called forest fires all over the world (s. Kadia 2021). However, the public is still lacking a more thorough analysis of such weapons.

The spraying of the atmosphere via SRM, however, is officially denied everywhere – whereas Monsanto (now Bayer) invented a seed that resists aluminum, one of the main components of the sprayings. So, how did they know?

Furthermore, the SRM-spraying technology relates to other geo-engineering techniques secretely practiced by the military, namely the above mentioned plasma weapons, because the artificial clouds produced by spraying metals, offer guidance and an artificial „replace-atmosphere“ for the electromagnetic waves of the plasma weapons to spread even there, where the atmosphere has been weakened or destroyed in the meantime (ozone depletion, s. Herndon 2018, Werlhof 2018).

This way SRM-spraying has nothing to do with cooling the planet. It has been invented and applied first in the Vietnam War as „Agent Orange“ – but an alleged cooling is the main reason why this method is now propagated to be applied in the near future!

  • Using the method of SRM now officially, only means starting to apply military geo- engineering as such, defining it as even saving the planet, whereas in reality, the opposite is true.

About the new plasma weapons:

  • The use of plasma weapons occurs from high up in the ionosphere, from 100 to 200 and much more km hight, and results in seemingly natural catastrophes on earth.

These weapons are much more difficult to understand. They are based on the inventions of Nicola Tesla – a Serbian physicist and inventor, living from 1856-1943. Tesla worked with the earth´s electromagnetism and invented the production and use of electric power in all its forms, including alternating current, electronic devices and wireless communication – all of what is in general use today.

  • Based on his work it was possible to invent arms that function with electromagnetic waves, artificially produced and pulsed up to billlions of Watt that can reach high up into the ionosphere and turn down to earth again, even passing through its core – its heart – leading to deliberate and planned destruction where they arrive.

Rosalie Bertell compared this functioning with a gun from the ionopshere that threatens the earth from above. These weapons are plasma weapons, plasma being an electrified state of matter beyond solid, liquid or gaseous. Such weapons are applied by so-called ionospheric heaters, like HAARP (High Frequency Active Aurora Borealis Research Program) in Alaska.

There are about 3-4 dozens of these installations functioning at different levels of strength on earth now, some of the most recent ones being MUOS in Sicily, and Marlow in the North-East of Germany.

  • The plasma technology is basic for all military geo-engineering, and so is all the spraying of the atmosphere necessarily related to it. From the perspective of the military and thr military industrial complex behind it, in conjunction with the dark, deep state’s agenda for the future of the planet, this technology and strategy most likely will never be given up.
  1. The ENMOD Convention (Environmental Modification Convention) of the UN is explaining all these methods already in 1977 after the Vietnam War, in which some of them had been used.

In total, they comprise the artificial implementation of: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, the change of the weather in an entire geographic region and for a prolongued period of time, hurricanes, droughts, fires, and floods, and the change of ocean currents (el Nino, la Nina).

One can also use EM waves to change the jet streams, wind currents that travel at high velocities around the earth and influence the distribution of heat and cold. One can influence the vapor streams of the earth that manage the distribution of rain, and together with sprayings one can transport humidity from one region of the world to another one, because metal in the air ties humidity (effects being rain and snow in Saudi Arabia, drying out of Europe and California…)

  1. After decades of experimentation, beginning with WW II, and an ongoing secret war on the level of the planet as such, we are now confronted with what I call “the Moment of Truth“ (Werlhof 2018). It means that the earth has been damaged in a way that is finally going to be the beginning of the death of life on earth, if nothing is done NOW to prevent it.

There is in fact real evidence of it, as most recently investigated, for example:

The ongoing dying of the ozone layer in the atmosphere. Deadly UV-B and -C radiation from the sun, not filtered any more by the ozone layer, reach the surface of the earth, producing a toxic burning and causing death from suffocation of many life forms, especially the small ones, because ozone is a sort of atmospheric oxygen. This way, the food chain is being interrupted and with it, the reproduction of life as such.

Already in 2007 the NASA, North American Space Agency, knew about this and did nothing to alarm the public or conduct any further research (s. Herndon 2018).

Marvin Herndon from San Diego et al. found out that life in the oceans as well as on land is affected: by dying plankton, coral bleech, and dying insects so that birds are dying out as well (s. Carson 1962: Silent Spring), and trees loose their reproductive capacities as the cell structures and their whole surroundings are genetically and chemically modified. In the end, agriculture will become impossible. As a consequence there won’t be enough food to feed the world if this process continues.

  1. Rosalie´s prophecies are already becoming dire realities: the process of the ozone–dying which she anticipated, forces us to become active now. Ozone is the dress, or gown, of the earth, a very thin, special layer that is unique in the universe and is the reason why life could develop on earth at all. Without ozone, the earth is naked, unprotected and exposed to unfiltered solar radiation of all types, of which UV is the most detrimental (plus gamma, x rays, infrared, micro waves). In the long run, should this process continue, the earth would thus look and become like Mars…uninhabitable.

It would need decades to repair the ozone layer, knowing the reasons for its depletion and stopping them from working. CFC was supposed to be the reason, and it was prohibited in the 1980‘s already (Montreal Protocol). Everybody was made to believe that the ozone layer would recover. Since 2018, however, data show that this was not the case, on the contrary. The ozone layer even weakened everywhere, not only at the poles.

  • The new bad news about the ozone layer can only be explained by the effects of radioactivity and military geo-engineering alltogether, including their civil applications:

They all are detrimental to the ozone layer which is situated in the stratosphere between 10-25 km, above the troposphere and below the ionosphere (oxygen O2 from the earths´ surface there being transformed into O3 by sun radiation). The process of ozone building is disturbed by radioactivity, (s. Fuskushima) and the ozone layer as such is threatened by EM waves, which are cutting holes into it by supersonic flights, rockets and all air traffic, especially SRM spraying – all of which are occurring next to the ozone layer, within it or travelling and cutting through it, and, last but not least, by microwaves from below and above.

The application of these technologies would have to be completely abolished, with the main problem being radioactivity which cannot be controlled once it has been released

  • Our knowledge and understanding of these processes mean that we now know what we urgently need to reclaim!

Until today there is no debate about the real reasons behind ozone-depletion, even though there is real evidence at hand as it is measured. So, the first thing to do is to inform the public which has no idea about theses dangers and their real causes. On the contrary, the „information war“ of today consists of feeding the public systematically with wrong explanations.

  1. Rosalie Bertell was still optimistic about the on-going and new movements for social change worldwide to confront the new war developing, including the women´s movement to fight for a world free of patriarchy, capitalism and the military. This was during the 1990‘s, when she wrote her book “Planet Earth“.

However, before she passed away in 2012 Rosalie, had become more pessimistic, as many movements had failed or disappeared in the meantime, or became corrupted, and also because the military and its new weaponry development were neither recognized nor understood by the public and by the social movements, including the women´s movement.

Knowledge about modern technologies has not yet become a female tradition, nor has the view of the earth like the one Rosalie Bertell had, considering the planet as a living cosmic macro-being – in which all life is inter-dependent in a larger, organic web of life, known for millenia in all pre-partriarchal and indigenous societies. This understanding was abolished with the rise of modern science which gave room for the modern view of the planet as a dead rock racing through a dead universe.

Women, and even the social movements of women today, have not yet grasped what is going on. Thus, they are not prepared for taking in, acknowledging and critically discussing what is happening in the meantime. And men and their movements normally do not develop a critique of modern technologies as they are „apocalypse-blind“ (Anders), and continue to understand and define these as progress! Our critique of patriarchy did not reach them.

  1. The two main dangers which Bertell saw, consist of this:
  • The effects of on-going nuclear radiation, including Fukushima. She asks: “Are we the last generations?“ (Bertell 2016)
  • The effects of military geo-engineering. She asks: „Planet without a future? New weapons through the destruction of Mother Earth“ (Berthe 2017).

Thus, a new women’s movement is needed, if possible a global one, in order to discuss and understand the causes of patriarchy’s planetary destruction, and to promote a movement for abolishing these devastating technologies altogether.

  1. However, such a movement is unlikely to become active in due time, as most women who wanted to get organized, have fallen prey to the deliberate deception from above of the alleged dangers through CO2, unable to develop their awareness of the secret military interventions. (s. 14th Info letter PBME: Manifest of civil society and UN women for climate justice).

It has, nevertheless, to be our aim as women to organize a new movement that acts simultaneously in two directions: in favor of mother earth, the planet, nature and life, on the one hand, and in pointing to those who are actively destroying them, on the other hand, so that facts of life can be known.

By now we are all heirs of Rosalie Bertell’s findings in the sense that we know for the first time, how and by which means the war against life and the planet exists and is working!

This advantage of knowledge is due to Bertell and her years of in-depth research. But, two things we do not yet know: WHY is all this happening, and WHAT can we do to stop it.

  1. WHY has this whole destructive arsenal been developed? For Bertell it was enough to see it in relation to the destructive business of the military and the military industrial complex (MIC) as such.

In order to confront the new dangers, however, we have to understand more of it:

  • Why could these weapons be invented and get into the world at all?
  • Why was and is nearly nobody aware of them and why is nearly nobody resisting them?
  • Why is questioning the military a “taboo“, thus preventing it from becoming a part of the debate?
  • Why is the military allowed to do whatever it wants, and as we now know, even threatening all life and the very conditions of life on the planet, including the planet itself?

Here, I can offer our “critical theory of patriarchy“ as an explanation. Our research has shown that patriarchy does not consist of simply dominating women in one way or another, but that patriarchy is a system, an entire “civilization“, and it is one that has developed into what I call the „alchemical war system“ we are currently living in (Werlhof 2011, 2013, 2022/3).

This has to do with the utopian idea of patriarchs to transform the world from a mother-oriented one into a father-oriented one, which means to have the entire earthly order changed and transformed into one of male creation, instead of remaining a female/motherly one. Since the beginnings of patriarchy, for instance in ancient alchemy, this has already been discussed and practiced: techniques that would lead to revolving nature and to turn her upside down in order to become a patriarchal one instead of remaining a matriarchal one. The new civilization would thus no longer depend on mothers and nature, but be independent from them and replaced by male inventions. In the end, this process has led to modern technologies which all claim to be part of a better, more “divine and higher“ civilization – one created by the “Fathers“.

However, the other side of the coin of such progress is destruction, as the alchemy of transformation implies the death of nature and the mother, while being transformed into the raw material to be „mined“ for the „brave new world“ of the fathers.

Such is the case of geo-engineering as a form of what I call “military alchemy“. It is the latest expression of a planetary, patriarchal civilization and its “hatred of life“ – the motive for deliberately destroying this life in ever more efficient ways, and propagating its replacement by the supposedly better and higher inventions of male „creation“. This includes even the earth as such, as the military industrial complex and its deep-state thinkers are is envisioning a „better planet“, which, in their thinking, has to become a managable and obedient one, one that needs to be tamed by them, so it acts the way they want it to act– and that means: as a giant war machine at their disposal. In patriarchy, the military is in power, and nearly everybody believes in progress and development! This is the alchemical war system we live in and that is spreading to all spheres of life and around the globe.

  1. What to do? First of all, we need to spread the knowlege about what is going on and why, in order to get out of the darkness of ignorance and seduction in times of an “information war”.

We need to reclaim our planetary living conditions which the military should not be allowed to threaten, as Rosalie Bertell said. And indeed, this threat happens to land, water, air and now even to the sun light! – to all the elements of earthly life.

We women will have to invent other forms of struggle. We can learn from Rosalie´s love for Mother Earth. Her „planetary consiousness“ is a consciousness that understands the earth as a big cosmic being that is alive, friendly, beautiful and motherly, though not human. Mother Earth is the only one we have!

This implies we should be grateful and happy with this earth. We should fight for it, protect it and save it from so much aggression! This is what is most urgently needed today.

A strong being is also a vulnerable one, as we know. So, we have to accept our responsibility and change sides: from the side of human society to the side of Mother Nature, the earth, and life, looking with their eyes, letting them speak to us, listening to them, understanding their suffering, feeling their strength as well as their despair – asking them for guidance and offering them our love, respect and protection. What else?

We owe this to her and to all of life.

Because it is humans who are destroying the earth, it can only be humans to stop that. These humans are WE!

In order to muster the courage for this, and after understanding consciously Rosalie Bertell’s clear mind, we most likely will initially go through hell, and I am speaking from experience. It is pure hell when we really arrive at this depth of understanding of the current situation– because it also implies to feel in your body– what is happening to the earth today. You will feel it as fear, it will shock you to the core, it is loud, you’ll get ill, your whole body will be trembling, it is like an earthquake in your bofy, mind and psyche at the same time…

This is the crisis you will have to expect and go through, when you change your perspective and turn to the side of the living planet. The crisis cannot be avoided. But, it is my experience from the hells I have been through in this process, you can come out of it again. By then, however, you will have lost your illusions with respect to this society and civilization, its leaders, its institutions and its politics. You will have learned about the myriads of feelings we have at our disposal as human beings. Certain feelings have nearly been lost, such as deep sadness, deep joy, deep pain and a deep understanding. These are then re-emerging in all their intensity and beauty. And in the end there is one feeling in particular: LOVE. It is love as you have not experienced it before. Love is the feeling of all feelings. It is the reason why you feel at all! Love must be cosmic in origin because it has to do with our cosmic being, the living earth and all life on it.

  1. So, the answer is: “Cosmic Love” – instead of patriarchal hatred. This Love is much bigger and more powerful than hatred, because it is the cosmic force as such, whereas hatred is only a human invention or inversion, a mistake that can be let aside – not so: Cosmic Love. Cosmic Love is going to show us what to do, how to do it, and how to remain strong.

This love is, however, not an easy one. It does not replace our responsibility for what is happening on earth. On the contrary, it is defining this responsibility and leads us to not only feel, but also think and act on its behalf. It tells us that we indeed have the power to stop the violent transformation of the world around us. We have the power to re-organize our civilization until it will be in synchrony with Nature again – becoming a Civilization of Love, instead of hatred.

This is our duty as women and as humanity. We are the result of cosmic love. Thus, we are called to not only remember this, but to apply it as a power for our liberation. Liberation from the forces of hatred, violence, and war that are used to destroy and transform the living earth and all life into their opposite!

In a first step, we have to learn to love and support – the earth! So she can be and will be with us, now and in the future, supporting us with all her strength, as well. We can experience this in ritual settings and other methods we know.

Furthermore, we have to invent forms of support on how to go through hell and how to know about Love – i.e. we have to learn how to love, love on a deep and comprehensive level, including love for the more-than- human world. Love is the only power that is going to help us in the coming struggle –a struggle we can no longer avoid. The time has come to act and show that the human race is in support of and with the earth and with life itself, not against them!

Otherwise we will be lost in Armageddon, if not even a possible „Omnicide“ as Rosalie Bertell warns us.

However: a movement cannot be invented. It has to emerge by itself. It´s a mystery. A spiritual and collective love event is a mystery – it may happen or not. Nobody knows in advance.

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Claudia von Werlhof, born in 1943 near Berlin, Germany, is a University Professor of political sciences and women’s studies in Austria at Innsbruck, mother of a son. She co-invented the “Bielefeld School” in Germany, worked at the grass roots in Central- and South America, developed the “Critical Theory of Patriarchy”, co-founded FIPAZ (Research Institute for the Critique of Patriarchy and Alternative Civilizations), the “Planetary Movement for Mother Earth” and “BOOMERANG – Journal for the Critique of Patriarchy”.

She is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Montreal.

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Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity

Edited by Prof. Claudia von Werlhof

After more than one year of “lockdowns” all over the world, the issue of “global warming” and “climate change” is back on the table of the international debate.

It seems that natural catastrophes have started to surround us everywhere – from the animal world next to us as well as from the sky above us. Is “nature” the enemy that has to be combatted today, be it by vaccinating humanity against the coronavirus that allegedly jumped out of the wilderness attacking us, be it by tearing down industrial production and consumption in order to avoid the alleged greenhouse gas CO2 emissions, being officially identified as the sole culprit of a so-called global warming? Or be it by applying methods of an alleged civil “geoengineering” against an ongoing climate change that seems to threaten the world?

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Neocons and the Ukraine Coup

March 4th, 2023 by Robert Parry

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland.

Of relevance to the ongoing war in Ukraine, this incisive article was first written by the late Robert Parry on February 24, 2014, in the immediate wake of the US Sponsored Coup d’Etat.

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American neocons helped destabilize Ukraine and engineer the overthrow of its elected government, a “regime change” on Russia’s western border. But the coup – and the neo-Nazi militias at the forefront – also reveal divisions within the Obama administration.

More than five years into his presidency, Barack Obama has failed to take full control over his foreign policy, allowing a bureaucracy shaped by long years of Republican control and spurred on by a neocon-dominated U.S. news media to frustrate many of his efforts to redirect America’s approach to the world in a more peaceful direction.

But Obama deserves a big dose of the blame for this predicament because he did little to neutralize the government holdovers and indeed played into their hands with his initial appointments to head the State and Defense departments, Hillary Clinton, a neocon-leaning Democrat, and Robert Gates, a Republican cold warrior, respectively.

Even now, key U.S. diplomats are more attuned to hard-line positions than to promoting peace. The latest example is Ukraine where U.S. diplomats, including Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, are celebrating the overthrow of an elected pro-Russian government.

Occurring during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the coup in Ukraine dealt an embarrassing black eye to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had offended neocon sensibilities by quietly cooperating with Obama to reduce tensions over Iran and Syria, where the neocons favored military options.

Over the past several weeks, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was undercut by a destabilization campaign encouraged by Nuland and Pyatt and then deposed in a coup spearheaded by neo-Nazi militias. Even after Yanukovych and the political opposition agreed to an orderly transition toward early elections, right-wing armed patrols shattered the agreement and took strategic positions around Kiev.

Despite these ominous signs, Ambassador Pyatt hailed the coup as “a day for the history books.” Most of the mainstream U.S. news media also sided with the coup, with commentators praising the overthrow of an elected government as “reform.” But a few dissonant reports have pierced the happy talk by noting that the armed militias are part of the Pravy Sektor, a right-wing nationalist group which is often compared to the Nazis.

Thus, the Ukrainian coup could become the latest neocon-initiated “regime change” that ousted a target government but failed to take into account who would fill the void.

Some of these same American neocons pushed for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, not realizing that removing Saddam Hussein would touch off a sectarian conflict and lead to a pro-Iranian Shiite regime. Similarly, U.S. military intervention in Libya in 2011 eliminated Muammar Gaddafi but also empowered Islamic extremists who later murdered the U.S. ambassador and spread unrest beyond Libya’s borders to nearby Mali.

One might trace this neocons’ blindness to consequences back to Afghanistan in the 1980s when the Reagan administration supported Islamic militants, including Osama bin Laden, in a war against Soviet troops, only to have Muslim extremists take control of Afghanistan and provide a base for al-Qaeda to plot the 9/11 attacks against the United States.

Regarding Ukraine, today’s State Department bureaucracy seems to be continuing the same anti-Moscow geopolitical strategy set during those Reagan-Bush years.

Robert Gates described the approach in his new memoir, Duty, explaining the view of President George H.W. Bush’s Defense Secretary Dick Cheney: “When the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the Russian empire but of Russia itself, so it could never again be a threat to the rest of the world.”

Vice President Cheney and the neocons pursued a similar strategy during George W. Bush’s presidency, expanding NATO aggressively to the east and backing anti-Russian regimes in the region including the hard-line Georgian government, which provoked a military confrontation with Moscow in 2008, ironically, during the Summer Olympics in China.

Obama’s Strategy

As President, Obama has sought a more cooperative relationship with Russia’s Putin and, generally, a less belligerent approach toward adversarial countries. Obama has been supported by an inner circle at the White House with analytical assistance from some elements of the U.S. intelligence community.

But the neocon momentum at the State Department and from other parts of the U.S. government has continued in the direction set by George W. Bush’s neocon administration and by neocon-lite Democrats who surrounded Secretary of State Clinton during Obama’s first term.

The two competing currents of geopolitical thinking – a less combative one from the White House and a more aggressive one from the foreign policy bureaucracy – have often worked at cross-purposes. But Obama, with only a few exceptions, has been unwilling to confront the hardliners or even fully articulate his foreign policy vision publicly.

For instance, Obama succumbed to the insistence of Gates, Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus to escalate the war in Afghanistan in 2009, though the President reportedly felt trapped into the decision which he soon regretted. In 2010, Obama backed away from a Brazilian-Turkish-brokered deal with Iran to curtail its nuclear program after Clinton denounced the arrangement and pushed for economic sanctions and confrontation as favored by the neocons and Israel.

Just last summer, Obama – only at the last second – reversed a course charted by the State Department favoring a military intervention in Syria over disputed U.S. claims that the Syrian government had launched a chemical weapons attack on civilians. Putin helped arrange a way out for Obama by getting the Syrian government to agree to surrender its chemical weapons. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “A Showdown for War or Peace.”]

Stirring Up Trouble

Now, you have Assistant Secretary of State Nuland, the wife of prominent neocon Robert Kagan, acting as a leading instigator in the Ukrainian unrest, explicitly seeking to pry the country out of the Russian orbit. Last December, she reminded Ukrainian business leaders that, to help Ukraine achieve “its European aspirations, we have invested more than $5 billion.” She said the U.S. goal was to take “Ukraine into the future that it deserves.”

The Kagan family includes other important neocons, such as Frederick Kagan, who was a principal architect of the Iraq and Afghan “surge” strategies. In Duty, Gates writes that “an important way station in my ‘pilgrim’s progress’ from skepticism to support of more troops [in Afghanistan] was an essay by the historian Fred Kagan, who sent me a prepublication draft.

“I knew and respected Kagan. He had been a prominent proponent of the surge in Iraq, and we had talked from time to time about both wars, including one long evening conversation on the veranda of one of Saddam’s palaces in Baghdad.”

Now, another member of the Kagan family, albeit an in-law, has been orchestrating the escalation of tensions in Ukraine with an eye toward one more “regime change.”

As for Nuland’s sidekick, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Pyatt previously served as a U.S. diplomat in Vienna involved in bringing the International Atomic Energy Agency into a line with U.S. and Israeli hostility toward Iran. A July 9, 2009, cable from Pyatt, which was released by Pvt. Bradley Manning, revealed Pyatt to be the middleman who coordinated strategy with the U.S.-installed IAEA director-general  Yukiya Amano.

Pyatt reported that Amano offered to cooperate with the U.S. and Israel on Iran, including having private meetings with Israeli officials, supporting U.S. sanctions, and agreeing to IAEA personnel changes favored by the United States. According to the cable, Pyatt promised strong U.S. backing for Amano and Amano asked for more U.S. money. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “America’s Debt to Bradley Manning.”]

It was Ambassador Pyatt who was on the other end of Nuland’s infamous Jan. 28 phone call in which she discussed how to manipulate Ukraine’s tensions and who to elevate into the country’s leadership. According to the conversation, which was intercepted and made public, Nuland ruled out one opposition figure, Vitali Klitschko, a popular former boxer, because he lacked experience.

Nuland also favored the UN as mediator over the European Union, at which point in the conversation she exclaimed, “Fuck the E.U.” to which Pyatt responded, “Oh, exactly …”

Ultimately, the Ukrainian unrest – over a policy debate whether Ukraine should move toward entering the European Union – led to a violent showdown in which neo-fascist storm troopers battled police, leaving scores dead. To ease the crisis, President Yanukovych agreed to a power-sharing government and to accelerated elections. But no sooner was that agreement signed then the hard-right faction threw it out and pressed for power in an apparent coup.

Again, the American neocons had performed the role of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, unleashing forces and creating chaos that soon was spinning out of control. But this latest “regime change,” which humiliated President Putin, could also do long-term damage to U.S.-Russian cooperation vital to resolving other crises, with Iran and Syria, two more countries where the neocons are also eager for confrontation.

Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his new book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com). For a limited time, you also can order Robert Parry’s trilogy on the Bush Family and its connections to various right-wing operatives for only $34. The trilogy includes America’s Stolen Narrative. For details on this offer, click here.

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On August 22 the exchange-traded market price for natural gas in the German THE (Trading Hub Europe) gas hub was trading more than 1000% higher than a year ago. Most citizens are told by the Scholz regime that the reason is Putin and Russia’s war in Ukraine. The truth is quite otherwise. EU politicians and major financial interests are using Russia to cover what is a Made in Germany and Brussels energy crisis. The consequences are not accidental.

It is not because politicians like Scholz or German Green Economy Minister Robert Habeck, nor EU Commission Green Energy Vice President Frans Timmermans are stupid or clueless. Corrupt and dishonest, maybe yes. They know exactly what they are doing. They are reading a script. It is all part of the EU plan to deindustrialize one of the most energy-efficient industrial concentrations on the planet. This is the UN Green Agenda 2030 otherwise known as Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset.

EU Gas Market Deregulated

What the EU Commission and government ministers in Germany and across the EU are carefully hiding is the transformation they have created in how the natural gas price is determined today. For almost two decades the EU Commission, backed by the mega banks such as JP MorganChase or large speculative hedge funds, began to lay the basis for what is today a complete deregulation of the market for natural gas. It was promoted as the “liberalization” of the European Union’s natural gas market. What it now allows is for unregulated real-time free market trading to fix prices rather than long-term contracts.

Beginning around 2010 the EU began to push a radical change in rules for pricing natural gas. Prior to that point most gas prices were set in fixed long-term contracts for pipeline delivery. The largest supplier, Russia’s Gazprom, provided gas to the EU, most especially to Germany, in long-term contracts pegged to the price of oil. Until the last several years almost no gas was imported by LNG ships. With a change in US laws to allow export of LNG from the huge shale gas production in 2016 US gas producers began a major expansion of LNG export terminal construction. The terminals take an average of 3 to 5 years to build. At the same time Poland, Holland and other EU countries began to build LNG import terminals to receive the LNG from abroad.

Emerging from World War II as the world leading oil supplier, the Anglo-American oil giants, then called the Seven Sisters, created a global oil price monopoly. As Henry Kissinger noted during the oil shocks of the 1970s, “Control the oil and you control entire nations.” Since the 1980s Wall Street banks, led by Goldman Sachs, created a new market in “paper oil,” or futures and derivative trading of future oil barrels. It created a huge casino of speculative profits that was controlled by a handful of giant banks in New York and the City of London.

Those same powerful financial interests have been working for years to create a similar globalized “paper gas” market in futures they could control. The EU Commission and their Green Deal agenda to “decarbonize” the economy by 2050, eliminating oil, gas and coal fuels, provided the ideal trap that has led to the explosive spike in EU gas prices since 2021. To create that “single” market control, the EU was lobbied by the globalist interests to impose draconian and de facto illegal rule changes on Gazprom to force the Russian owner of various gas distribution pipeline networks in the EU to open them to competitor gas.

The big banks and energy interests that control EU policy in Brussels had created a new independent price system parallel to the long-term, stable prices of Russian pipeline gas which they did not control.

By 2019 the series of bureaucratic energy directives of the Brussels EU Commission allowed fully deregulated gas market trading to de facto set the prices for natural gas in the EU, despite the fact that Russia was still by far the largest gas import source. A series of virtual trading “hubs” had been established to trade gas futures contracts in several EU countries. By 2020 the Dutch TTF (Title Transfer Facility) was the dominant trading center for EU gas, the so-called EU gas benchmark. Notably, TTF is a virtual platform of trades in futures gas contracts between in trades between banks and other financial investors, “Over-The-Counter.” That means it is de facto unregulated, outside any regulated exchange. This is critical to understand the game being run in the EU today.

In 2021 only 20% of all natural gas imports to the EU were LNG gas, whose prices were largely determined by futures trades in the TTF hub, the EU de facto gas benchmark, owned by the Dutch Government, the same government destroying its farms for a fraudulent nitrogen pollution claim. The largest import share of European gas came from Russia’s Gazprom supplying more than 40% of EU imports in 2021. That gas was via long term pipeline contracts whose price was vastly lower than today’s TTF speculation price. In 2021 EU states paid an estimated penalty cost around $30 billion more for natural gas in 2021 than if they had stuck with Gazprom oil-indexation pricing. The banks loved it. US industry and consumers not. Only by destroying the Russian gas market in the EU could financial interests and the Green Deal advocates create their LNG market control.

Closing EU Pipeline Gas

With full EU backing for the new gas wholesale market, Brussels, Germany and NATO began systematically to close stable, long-term pipeline gas to the EU.

After she broke diplomatic ties with Morocco in August, 2021 over disputed territories, Algeria announced the Maghreb-Europe (MGE) gas pipeline, which was launched in 1996, would cease operation on October 31, 2021, when the relevant agreement expired.

In September 2021 Gazprom completed its multibillion dollar undersea Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia across the Baltic Sea to northern Germany. It would double the capacity of Nord Stream 1 to 110 billion cubic meters annually, allowing Gazprom to be independent of interference with gas deliveries via its Soyuz pipeline going through Ukraine. The EU Commission, backed by the Biden Administration, blocked opening of the pipeline with bureaucratic sabotage, and finally German Chancellor Scholz imposed sanction on the pipeline on February 22 over Russian recognition of Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic. With the growing gas crisis since, the German government has refused to open Nord Stream 2 despite the fact it is finished.

Then on May 12, 2022 although Gazprom deliveries to the Soyuz gas pipeline through Ukraine were uninterrupted for almost three months of conflict, despite Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, the NATO-controlled Zelenskyy regime in Kiev closed a major Russian pipeline through Lugansk, that was binging Russian gas both to his Ukraine as well as EU states, declaring it would remain closed until Kiev gets full control of its pipeline system that runs through the two Donbass republics. That section of the Ukraine Soyuz line cut one-third of gas via Soyuz to the EU. It certainly did not help the EU economy at a time Kiev was begging for more weapons from those same NATO countries. Soyuz opened in 1980 under the Soviet Union bringing gas from the Orenburg gas field.

Next came the Jamal Russian gas pipeline through Belarus and through Poland to Germany. In December 2021, two months before the Ukraine conflict, the Polish government closed the Polish part of the pipeline cutting Gazprom gas delivery at low prices to Germany as well as Poland. Instead Polish gas companies bought Russian gas in the storage of German gas companies, via the Polish-German section of the Jamal pipeline at a higher price in a reverse flow. The German gas companies got their Russian gas via long-term contract for a very low contract price and resold to Poland at a huge profit. This insanity was deliberately downplayed by the Green Economics Minister Habeck and Chancellor Scholz and German media, even though it forced German gas prices even higher and worsened the German gas crisis. The Polish government refused to renew its gas contract with Russia, and instead buys gas on the free market for vastly higher prices. As a result no more Russian gas to Germany via Jamal is flowing.

Finally gas delivery via Nord Stream 1 undersea pipeline has been interrupted because of needed repair of a Siemens-made gas turbine. The turbine was sent to a special facility of Siemens in Canada where the anti-Russian Trudeau regime held it for months before finally releasing it on request of German government. Yet they deliberately refused to grant the delivery to its Russian owner, but instead to Siemens Germany, where it sits, as the German and Canadian governments refuse to grant a legally binding sanctions exemption for the transfer to Russia. By this means Gazprom gas through Nord Stream 1 is also dramatically reduced to 20% of normal.

In January, 2020 Gazprom began sending gas from its TurkStream pipeline through Turkey and on to Bulgaria and Hungary. In March 2022 Bulgaria unilaterally, with NATO backing, cut its gas supplies from TurkStream. Hungary’s Viktor Orban, by contrast, secured continuation with Russia of TurkStream gas. As a result today Hungary has no energy crisis and imports Russian pipeline gas at contract very low fixed prices.

By systematically sanctioning or closing gas deliveries from long-term, low cost pipelines to the EU, gas speculators via the Dutch TTP have been able to use every hiccup or energy shock in the world, whether a record drought in China or the conflict in Ukraine, to export restrictions in the USA, to bid the EU wholesale gas prices through all bounds. As of mid-August the futures price at TTP was 1,000% higher than a year ago and rising daily.

German Highest Price Madness

The deliberate energy and electricity price sabotage gets even more absurd. On August 28, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the sole cabinet member from the Liberal Party (FDP), revealed that under the opaque terms of the complex EU Electricity Market Reform measures, the producers of electricity from solar or wind automatically receive the same price for their “renewable” electricity they sell to the power companies for the grid as the highest cost, i.e. natural gas!

Lindner called for an “urgent” change to the German energy law to decouple different markets. The fanatical Green Economics Minister Robert Habeck immediately replied that, “We are working hard to find a new market model,” but cautioning that the government must be mindful not to intervene too much: “We need functioning markets and, at the same time, we need to set the right rules so that positions in the market are not abused.”

Habeck in fact is doing all possible to build the Green Agenda and eliminate gas and oil and nuclear, the only reliable energy sources at present. He refuses to consider re-opening three nuclear plants closed a year ago or to reconsider closing the remaining three in December. While declaring in a Bloomberg interview that, ”I will not approach this question ideologically,” in the next breath he declared, “Nuclear power is not the solution, it is the problem.” Habeck as well as the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have repeatedly declared more investment in unreliable wind and solar is the answer to a gas price crisis that their policies have deliberately created. In every respect the suicidal energy crisis ongoing in Europe has been “Made in Germany,” not in Russia.

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Dr. Masanori Fukushima, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, presented a warning on November 25, 2022, at an event organized by Kazuhisa Ukawa, a concerned private citizen. Apparently on the agenda were concerns involving discrimination against the unvaccinated in Japan as well as an ever-growing list of persons reporting injuries associated with the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. In what frankly can be described as a bombshell acknowledgment given the pedigree of this physician-scientist in Japanese medical research circles, Fukushima declared that “the harm caused by vaccines is now a worldwide problem” and that “given the wide range of adverse events, billions of lives could ultimately  be in danger.” Is this just reactionary hyperbole of a bitter critic or a prescient signal to be taken very seriously?

Involved with the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation and the Translational Research Center for Medical Innovation, the infectious disease expert (Fukushima) has been an oncologist with over 25 years of experience in practice and research, including ongoing reform of Japan’s medical care system.

A big proponent of clinical research,  Fukushima has actively contributed to building the clinical trial infrastructure, with a focus on translational research.  In this recent video of the conference uploaded to Rumble Fukushima told the audience that “Vaccine damage now represents a global problem. Billions of lives at possible risk.” But could this be true? Does this include some hyperbolic alarmism?

What does the physician-scientist share during this conference?

He starts out by saying that “this vaccine was scientifically misconceived. So, in 2020 I immediately translated the Chinese guidelines as soon as they arrived from China to use steroids as appropriately as possible.” He emphasized he made such a proclamation but that such messaging fell on deaf ears.

Complimenting Japan’s excellent doctors, the prominent physician-scientist emphasized that once he released unfolding guidelines involving early care with the use of drugs such as steroids, the death rate [in Japan] dropped dramatically before the vaccine. Harboring some clear resentment, Fukushima declared, “So anyone inciting this vaccine without any academic acumen is to be condemned.”

Then comes the Fukushima bombshell: “The harm caused by vaccines is now a worldwide problem. Here is my article recently published. Shall we read it? Given the large number of people who have received vaccinations and given the wide range of adverse events, billions of lives could ultimately be in danger.”

What is Dr. Fukushima demanding?

The doctor went on the record at this Japanese event:

“We urge public health agencies to acknowledge or substantiate the issues raised in this document that are relevant to public health. Recognize them and act accordingly. Also, ensure that all individuals make their own decision on the matter.”

Conveying that the medical community has an obligation to investigate this matter in pursuit of their duty of helping patients, he calls for healthcare professionals to start making their own decisions.

TrialSite also includes a Twitter link to this event. The video is hosted on multiple channels but not on YouTube. See another video capture of the same event in Japan.

A growing chorus of concern about mRNA COVID-19 vaccine safety and the need to not only recognize vaccine injury but the need to care for the injured becomes a fundamentally important unfolding event. It’s not an either-or, vaxxed vs. unvaxxed, or a liberal vs. conservative false dilemma. The COVID-19 vaccines represented an emergency response to a dangerous pandemic, and these vaccines, during bursts of time, did bring down the risks of serious COVID-19—less the unknown risk factors associated with the COVID-19 vaccines. But it’s time for the mainstream to start recognizing the problem.

Recently TrialSite reported that a New England Skeptical Society affiliated physician, Dr. Frank Han, while attacking many of the participants involved with Senator Ron Johnson’s recent roundtable on COVID-19 vaccine safety, did acknowledge an urgent need to support the COVID-19 vaccine-injured. See the link.

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Why Norway? In my account of the Biden Administration’s decision to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines, why did much of the secret planning and training for the operation take place in Norway? And why were highly skilled seamen and technicians from the Norwegian Navy involved?

The simple answer is that the Norwegian Navy has a long and murky history of cooperation with American intelligence. Five months ago that teamwork—about which we still know very little—resulted in the destruction of two pipelines, on orders of President Biden, with international implications yet to be determined. And six decades ago, so the histories of those years have it, a small group of Norwegian seamen were entangled in a presidential deceit that led to an early—and bloody—turning point in the Vietnam war.

After the Second World War, ever prudent Norway invested heavily in the construction of large, heavily armed fast attack boats to defend its 1,400 miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline. These vessels were far more effective than the famed American PT boat that was ennobled in many a postwar movie. These boats were known as “Nasty-class,” for their powerful gunnery, and some of them were sold to the US Navy. According to reporting in Norway, by early 1964 at least two Norwegian sailors confessed to their involvement in CIA-led clandestine attacks along the North Vietnam coast. Other reports, never confirmed, said the Norwegian patrol boats where manned by Norwegian officers and crew. What was not in dispute was that the American goal was to put pressure on the leadership in North Vietnam to lessen its support of the anti-American guerrillas in South Vietnam. The strategy did not work.

None of this was known at the time to the American public. And the Norwegians would keep the secret for decades. The CIA’s lethal game of cat-and-mouse warfare led to a failed attack on August 2, 1964, with three North Vietnamese gunships engaging two American destroyers—the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy—on a large body of contested water known as the Gulf of Tonkin that straddled both North and South Vietnam.

Two days later, with the destroyers still intact, the commander of the Maddox cabled his superiors that he was under a torpedo attack. It was a false alarm, and he soon rescinded the report. But the American signals intelligence community—under pressure from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who was doing President Johnson’s bidding—looked the other way as McNamara ignored the second cableand Johnson told the American public there was evidence that North Vietnam had attacked an American destroyer. Johnson and McNamara had found a way to take the war to North Vietnam.

Johnson’s nationally televised speech on the evening of August 4, 1964, is chilling in its mendacity, especially when one knows what was to come.

“This new act of aggression,” he said, “aimed directly at our own forces, again brings home to all of us in the United States the importance of the struggle for peace and security in Southeast Asia. Aggression by terror against the peaceful villagers of South Vietnam has now been joined by open aggression on the high seas against the United States of America.”

Public anger swelled, and Johnson authorized the first American bombing of the North. A few days later Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution with only two dissenting votes, giving the president the right to deploy American troops and use military force in South Vietnam in any manner he chose. And so it went on for the next eleven years, with 58,000 American deaths and millions of Vietnamese deaths to come.

The Norwegian navy, as loyal allies in the Cold War, stayed mum, and over the next few years, according to further reporting in Norway, sold eighteen more of their Nasty Class patrol boats to the U.S. Navy. Six were destroyed in combat.

In 2001, Robert J. Hanyok, a historian at the National Security Agency, published Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2–4 August 1964,a definitive study of the events in the gulf, including the manipulation of signals intelligence. He revealed that 90 percent of the relevant intercepts, including those from the North Vietnamese, had been kept out the NSA’s final reports on the encounter and thus were not provided to the Congressional committees that later investigated the abuse that led America deeper into the Vietnam War.

That is the public record as it stands. But, as I have learned from a source in the US intelligence community, there is much more to know. The first batch of Norwegian patrol boats meant for the CIA’s undeclared war against the North Vietnamese actually numbered six. They landed in early 1964 at a Vietnamese naval base in Danang, eighty-five miles south of the border between North and South Vietnam. The ships had Norwegian crews and Norwegian Navy officers as their captains. The declared mission was to teach American and Vietnamese sailors how to operate the ships. The vessels were under the control of a long-running CIA-directed series of attacks against coastal targets inside North Vietnam. The secret operation was controlled by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington and not by the American command in Saigon, which was then headed by Army General William Westmoreland. That shift was deemed essential because there was another aspect of the undeclared war against the North that was sacrosanct. US Navy SEALs were assigned to the mission with a high-priority list of far more aggressive targets that included heavily defended North Vietnamese radar facilities.

It was a secret war within a secret war. I was told that at least two SEALs were ambushed by the North Vietnamese and severely wounded in a fire fight. Both men managed to make their way to the coast and were eventually rescued. Both men were awarded the Medal of Honor, America’s highest decoration, in secret.

There also were far less dramatic movements as the war unraveled. At some later date, it was decided to arm bats with incendiary devices and drop them, by air, over areas of high interest in the south. The release came at high altitude, and the bats quickly froze to death.

This bit of top secret and heretofore unknown history raises, to this reporter, an obvious question: what else do we not know about the secret operation in Norway that led to the destruction of the pipelines? And is there anyone in the Senate and the House, or in the American press, interested in finding out what was going on—and what else we do not know?

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Undercover Economic and Social Warfare? 

The following article published on July 12, 2022 focusses on the “Covid-19 Zero Tolerance” lockdown and its economic and social consequences. 

Starting in Shanghai in April 2022, the Covid-19 zero tolerance project extended its grip to major urban areas across China.

Socially oppressive measures were adopted against millions of people in large cities. People were confined to their apartments in high rise buildings. 

China’s zero tolerance model was conducive to “confining the labour force” as well as “paralyzing the workplace”, not to mention transportation, the closing down of schools, universities, cultural activities, sports events, etc. 

The COVID-19 zero tolerance lockdown applied nationwide is based on “fake science”. 

It constitutes a de facto act of “economic warfare”. It is broadly based on the same concepts as the March 11, 2020 covid-19 pandemic “lockdown” applied in more than 190 members states of the UN under the auspices of the WHO. 

It has created social havoc. It has contributed to undermining China’s economy. 

It has created chaos in supply lines within the domestic economy as well as the destabilization of China’s buoyant commodity export economy.

The justification to close down major urban areas, put forth by China’s National Heath Commission  (on July 11, 2022) was based on the following data for Mainland China:  

  • A total of 352 new domestically transmitted COVID infections recorded on July 10,
  • 46 new symptomatic cases, 
  • 306 new asymptomatic cases.

46 new symptomatic cases out of a population of 1.45 billion people does not justify closing down China’s major urban areas. (July 10)

The most recent data of Covid positive cases using unreliable PCR and related tests is as follows. 

November 28, according to the WHO: 19,130 so-called confirmed cases out of a population of more than 1.4 billion people.

The Chinese government has now acknowledged that:

There was no scientific basis for implementing zero tolerance, which consisted in applying socially repressive measures against millions of people.

There is no public health concern behind these measures.

The number of “confirmed cases” released by the WHO are low and SARS-Cov2 (confirmed by the WHO and the CDC) is not a “dangerous virus”.

 

The process of economic and social destabilization initiated in March (see article below) extended its grip beyond Shanghai to several major industrial cities including the southern city of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China’s major exporting hub to the World Market.

According to Nomura, more than 20% of China’s GDP is currently under lockdown.

The Shanghai stock market collapsed on November 24, 2022.

We are dealing with a very complex process of Worldwide economic and social destabilization. Who are the actors behind this process?

In view of China’s leading role as a major commodity producer (with sizeable exports to all major regions of the World), the crisis in China will inevitably have repercussions in Europe, North America, not to mention the Global South.

What is unfolding is an engineered disruption of the global economy. Read carefully. Who is behind it.

 

Michel Chossudovsky, August 23, 2022, November 29, 2022, January 3, 2023

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Starting in late March early April 2022, the Chinese government ordered a Covid zero tolerance lockdown mandate pertaining to Shanghai, a port city of 26 million people:

“The official story put out by the city of Shanghai, and not denied by the Chinese Communist Party, is so extreme as to invite ridicule.

A new “zero tolerance” policy for COVID-19, which is a bogus non-existent disease in the first place, was imposed on all Shanghai citizens, first on the East side of the Huangpu River from March 28 [2022], and then for the entire city from April 1st.

Supposedly all citizens will be tested for COVID-19. According to media reports, only 26,087 new cases of COVID-19 have been found, and of those, only 914 were symptomatic…  (Emanuel Pastreich)

The confinement of Shanghai’s labour force was carried out under a “Covid zero tolerance mandate”: “At least 38,000 medical workers from across China have been deployed to aid Shanghai … in the fight against the Omicron variant…” (Global Times)

Omicron is the Buzzword: Omicron and its BA.5 Sub-Variant

China’s Health authorities have confirmed that “Nucleic acid [namely the PCR ] tests are central to its strategy”. 

A Covid-19 Response Expert Panel headed by Dr. Liang Wannian was set up under the auspices of China’s National Health Commission. The Zero Tolerance Mandate consisted in “China beating the Omicron variant” using the defunct PCR test, which does not distinguish between Covid-19 and seasonal influenza. The PCR test was categorized by the US CDC as totally invalid, effective 31 December 2021.

The Role of  Dr. George Gao Fu

Visibly, China’s Health authorities have endorsed the Fauci-Gates “fake science” lockdown consensus without batting an eyelid.

China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) is headed by Dr. George Gao Fu, a colleague of Anthony Fauci et al.

Dr. Gao was a participant in the Scenario 201 October 2019 Table Top Simulation of a Corona Virus Pandemic, less than three months prior to the outbreak of the “Real Life” novel 2019 corona virus epidemic in Wuhan in December 2019.

From the outset, Dr. Gao Fu played a central role in overseeing Covid-19 in China, acting in close liaison with the US CDC, Fauci’s NIAID, the Gates Foundation, the WHO, John Hopkins et al.

George Gao Fu is an Oxford graduate. For several years, he was fellow of the Wellcome Trust which is linked to Big Pharma.  Gao Fu is a professional colleague and “longtime friend” of Anthony Fauci:

“George F. Gao, head of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, received the email from Anthony Fauci on March 28, 2020. [a few days after the lockdown in the US]. 

As Fauci faced criticism for his handling of the pandemic, Gao reached out again.

“I saw some news (hope it is fake) that [you] are being attacked by some people. Hope you are well under such a irrational situation,” Gao wrote April 8, 2020.

Three days later, Fauci replied and thanked his longtime friend for his “kind note.”

“All is well despite some crazy people in this world,” Fauci wrote, the newspaper reported.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci is a “Double Speak”

From the outset, Fauci has persistently warned of the imminent dangers of the SARS-CoV-2 (including its variants and sub-variants), while acknowledging in his peer reviewed article in the New England Journal of Medicine that:

“The overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968)…” (See Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted, NEJM)

Careful timing: the article was published by the NEJM on March 26, 2020 two weeks following the March 11, 2020 Global Covid-19 pandemic “Lockdown” imposed on 193 member states of the United Nations.

Dr. Fauci’s NEJM peer reviewed analysis (which is barely mentioned by the media) is in sharp contrast with his frenzied statements on network TV.

On March 28, 2020 (2 days following the publication of his peer reviewed article) he stated that “Covid Could Kill as many as 200,000 Americans”

Is this Relevant to China?

Anthony Fauci is Dr. Gao Fu’s Mentor. The same policy framework is being applied.

China’s  Zero Tolerance Covid Mandate is a “copy and paste” of the March 11, 2020 lockdown (based on “fake science”) sponsored by Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates et al under the auspices of the WHO (in close consultation with the World Economic Forum).

China’s Zero Tolerance Covid mandate is predicated on a fear campaign.

The Devastating Economic Impacts of the Shanghai Lockdown

On July 10, 2022, China’s Health authorities announced that several major urban areas have been instructed to implement the Zero Tolerance COVID-19 mandate as a means to combating  the “highly-transmissible Omicron BA.5 subvariant”  

The labour force has been confined in a large number of industrial cities thereby leading to economic and social chaos as well as a dramatic decline in economic activity. According to Reuters:

The BA.5 [subvariant] lineage, spreading fast in many other countries, has been detected in cities such as Xian in the province of Shaanxi and Dalian in Liaoning province, … It was first found in China on May 13 in a patient who had flown to Shanghai from Uganda, the China Center for Disease Prevention and Control said, with no local infections linked to the case that month.

Did that “patient” from Uganda take the PCR test upon his return to ChinaVariants and sub-variants cannot under any circumstances be detected by the PCR test. (The original SARS-CoV-2 virus cannot be detected by the PCR test).

The study by China’s CCDC  focussing on the detection of genetic sequences based on a PCR nasopharyngeal swab is misleading.

A large number of urban areas have literally been closed down. There is absolutely no scientific or public health justification for these measures: 

“In the central province of Henan, the town of Qinyang has almost completely locked down its nearly 700,000 residents from Sunday, with one person in each household allowed a trip every two days for groceries.

Authorities in Wugang, another town in Henan, have told its 290,000 residents not to leave home in the next three days, except for COVID tests.

Four major districts in the northwestern city of Lanzhou, in the province of Gansu, and the southern cities of Danzhou and Haikou in Hainan province, are under temporary curbs for several days, with a total of 6 million people affected.

The city of Nanchang in southern Jiangxi province, with 6.3 million residents, shut some entertainment venues on Saturday, although the duration of the curbs was not specified.

In the northwestern province of Qinghai, the city of Xining kicked off a mass testing campaign on Monday after one person tested positive on Sunday.

Mass tests also began on Monday in several major districts of the southern metropolis of Guangzhou.

On July 11, 2022 China’s National Heath Commission confirmed the following data for Mainland China:  

  • A total of 352 new domestically transmitted COVID infections recorded on July 10
  • 46 new symptomatic cases, 
  • 306 new asymptomatic cases

46 new symptomatic cases out of a population of 1.45 billion people does not justify closing down China’s major urban areas.

  • This decision borders on ridicule.
  • It has no scientific basis.
  • Is there a hidden agenda?
  • The Chinese Communist Party has acquiesced?
  • Are there divisions within China’s leadership? 

Both the Western and Chinese media are totally silent on the matter.

The impacts of these measures put forth by China’s National Health Commission and China’s CCDC have precipitated China’s supply chains into jeopardy.

“Covid Tolerance Zero” has contributed to destabilizing Shanghai’s financial sector as well as its buoyant export economy. It has also contributed to undermining domestic transport and commodity supply lines.

China’s QR code

The Covid Zero Tolerance Mandate has created social havoc and hardship for millions of people, requiring the imposition of PCR tests on a regular basis using QR green, yellow  and red color codes as a means of social control. 

The  Washington based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) applauds:

“One area of real success, and that may have application in other countries, is the rapid development of an online “health code” system (健康码).

This innovative app tracks an individual’s travel, contact history, and biometric data (for example, body temperature) directly through one’s smartphone.” (emphasis added)

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Impacts on the Global Economy

Since mid April 2022 (coinciding with the lockdown of Shanghai), the Yuan (CNY) declined abruptly against the US dollar (USD). 

 

 

The volume of commodity trade in and out of the Port of Shanghai (and other major port cities) has subsided, which inevitably has a bearing on the availability of “Made in China” commodities Worldwide. 

“Made in China” is the backbone of retail trade which indelibly sustains household consumption in virtually all major commodity categories from clothing, footwear, to hardware, electronics, toys, jewelries, household fixtures, food, TV sets, mobile phones, etc. Ask the American consumer: The list is long.  

Importing from China is a lucrative multi-trillion dollar operation. It is the source of tremendous profit and wealth in the US, because consumer  commodities imported from China’s low wage economy are often sold at the retail level more than ten times their factory price.

Global commodity trade at wholesale and retail levels is in crisis. The potential impacts in all major regions of the World are devastating. World-wide scarcities of essential consumer goods are coupled with inflationary pressures. 

These developments also affect China’s sovereignty as a nation state with a weakened economy, not to mention its Belt and Road initiative. 

In the context of the current crisis, including Washington’s “Pivot to Asia”, there are serious geopolitical implications which have a direct bearing on the confrontation between China and the US. 

China is a Capitalist Country

Most analysts and historians fail to understand that starting in the early 1980s, China has become a full fledged capitalist country. There are powerful US business interests including Big Pharma, major hi-tech companies, banking institutions which are firmly entrenched inside China. 

The United States has faithful allies within China’s business establishment as well as among academics, scientists, medical doctors who tend to be “pro-American”.

China’s Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), China’s business schools (e.g. Beijing, Dalian, Guangzhou) going back to the early 1980s have ties with Ivy League institutions. Many of them have joint MBA programs, e.g. Shanghai’s  Fudan University School of Management with MIT. Stanford has a campus in China as well an agreement with Beijing University, etc.  

Another example is Tsinghua University’s School of Journalism’s graduate program which is funded by Bloomberg together with several Wall Street banking institutions.

The interests of powerful Chinese business interests (specifically within the pharmaceutical industry) including China’s billionaires (Forbes List 2022, Forbes New Billionaires) are represented at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership. 

Needless to say there are profound divisions within China’s CCP leadership. 

 

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“Enough is enough! We demand change! Do the right thing! Implement ceasefire in Ukraine! Today! Imagine the collective sigh of relief across the globe! The outpouring of joy! The international joining of voices in harmony singing an anthem to peace!”

 – Roger Waters, speaking at the Rage Against the War Machine rally on February 19 [1]

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As Professor Michel Chossudovsky has noted in the past, the month of March, is the time chosen by the U.S. and NATO, as the best month to go to war. [2]

The Vietnam War (March 8, 1965), the War on Yugoslavia (March 24, 1999), the Iraq War (March 20, 2003), the Covert War on Syria (March 15, 2011), NATO’s “Humanitarian” War on Libya (March 19, 2011), and the Saudi-led War on Yemen supported by U.S. airstrikes (March 25, 2015), all started in this month. [3]

But, there are also signs that peace movements in the United States and around the world are also preparing their own counterpoint signals to the Roman God of War. It was evident in 2003, twenty years ago when millions took to the streets the month previous for the most massive protests in history. More than ten million people marched and rallied in over 60 countries and over 600 cities, including Melbourne in Australia, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, London, Glasgow, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Vienna, Copenhagan, Athens, and Belfast, as well as scores of cities in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. [4]

In late February, turn-outs at rallies against funding the war in Ukraine, seen by many as a proxy war on Russia by the U.S. and NATO were not as huge as the demonstrations against the Iraq War. They are still significant however, especially considering the way the protests and the participants are completely either ignored or pilloried by Mainstream media personalities. [5]

Democrat darling Rachel Maddow reacted in a far from objective way to the Rage Against the War Machine event on February 19 in Washington DC. She referred to some of the members as “white supremacists,” pro-Russian, and used the words “weird,” “tiny,” and “random” to describe the event. She never mentioned that thousands of people who showed up! [6]

“Tis the season to collectively protest against the Military Industrial Media Complex and the Western Oligarchs that profit from this endeavor! On this week’s Global Research News Hour radio program we will be looking at two troubled situations that worldwide demonstrations are endeavoring to challenge.

In the first half hour, three figures from Toronto, Loloa Alkasawat, Mohammed Boudjenane and Dr. Atif Kubrusi speak to us about a revitalized campaign against the  unjust and unilateral coercive economic measures taken by the US and its European allies against Syria, especially at a time when attempts to provide disaster relief is being frustrated by the sanctions. They also discuss the events in Canada, Jordan, the UK, Morocco, Egypt, Ireland, Germany and elsewhere planned for Saturday the 4th as part of an “End the Siege Campaign!” The event in Toronto happens Saturday March 4th at 12pm outside the U.S. Consulate at 360 University Avenue.

In our second half hour, we air energizing speeches from three of many individuals speaking at the Rage Against the Machine event two weeks ago.

Loloa Alkasawat is an architect and an organizer of the Toronto event. She is also a Syrian immigrant.

Mohammed Boudjenane is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Arab Federation and a Morrocan Canadian.

Dr. Atif Kubrusi is the past Acting Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission and Professor at McMaster University. He is Lebanese Canadian.

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Ann Wright is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official. She was one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Tulsi Gabbard was a U.S Army Reserve officer who served a 12 month tour in Iraq. She was also formerly a U.S. member of Congress and ran against Biden for the nomination as the Democratic Presidential candidate.

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  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwB01vUgGc0&t=56s
  2. https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pentagons-ides-of-march-best-month-to-go-to-war-2/5670257
  3. ibid;
  4. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/02/summ-f17.html
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_gpv0Z12k&t=173s
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_gpv0Z12k&t=173s

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This is a horrific story of a 37 year old UK woman who developed a lump after COVID-19 vaccination (click here):

Katie Pritchard, a 37 year old mom of two went to her family doctor after finding a lump and was told it might have been a side effect of her COVID-19 vaccine.

She was misdiagnosed twice before doctors determined she had cervical cancer.

After she was initially diagnosed, Katie was forced to wait an agonizing three months for her treatment to begin, by which point the cancer had spread.

She began five weeks of grueling radiotherapy, chemotherapy and brachytherapy in April last year and was told the treatment had been a success.

But tragically, in December, after undergoing further scans, she received the devastating news that the cancer had returned and she was given just months to live.

At the start of this year, Katie was diagnosed with lung, shoulder, spine, and pelvic cancer and started palliative chemotherapy three weeks ago.

My Take…

This is not normal behavior for cervical cancer and I believe this to be yet another example of “turbo cancer” or rapidly progressive cancer due to severe immune system damage from COVID-19 vaccination.

Look at the high survival of cervical cancer patients in early stages over the course of 10 years (click here). And yet, according to her story, she went from finding a lump to having it metastasize within 3 months while she was waiting for her treatment to start, then it returned a few months after her treatments were completed and metastasized throughout her body.

Symptomatic cervical cancers do NOT behave this way:

US pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole has been discovering COVID-19 mRNA vaccine spike protein in malignant tumours (see short video)

Dr.Cole: “Why aren’t my colleagues doing these same stains on unexpected cancers in young people or any individual who has an unexpected cancer?”

We need pathologists to start testing all unusual or unexpected cancers for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine spike protein, instead of ignoring these patients until it’s too late.

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March 4th, 2023 by Dee Knight

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“We are fighting a war against Russia,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the Council of Europe on January 24. The next day German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to send high-powered tanks to Ukraine, in a major escalation of the conflict.

“Germany has really stepped up,” Biden said, “and the chancellor has been a strong, strong voice for unity…and for the level of effort we’re going to continue.”

Biden said nothing about destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines last September, considered by many as a direct attack on its European “ally.” Other voices were not so united. Croatian President Zoran Milanovic commented at the Council of Europe meeting that “The German FM said we must be united because we are at war with Russia. I did not know that. Maybe Germany is at war with Russia again, then good luck to them, maybe it will turn out better than 70 years ago.”

World-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs declared on January 25 that

“We are at the brink of a disaster…first and foremost because of the United States which is a major provocateur of this war, and a major threat to peace.” He made an impassioned plea to “get us off this reckless war between Russia and NATO, which is escalating by the day. The Doomsday Clock was moved to 90 seconds to midnight at the same time as the U.S. and Germany agreed to send new highly advanced tanks to Ukraine, in a guaranteed reckless escalation that brings us closer to nuclear war.”

Sachs said the conflict goes back more than 30 years to 1990, when the U.S. began to “pursue its unipolar agenda, moving its systems further east, with the idea of surrounding Russia.”

“Passing Germany the Poisoned Chalice”

A leader of Germany’s Left Party (Die Linke), Sevim Dagdelen said “This is obviously about passing Germany the poisoned chalice. Berlin is to be sent into the line of fire, to conclusively destroy German-Russian relations and turn them into open war for others’ benefit.” Dagdelen is the spokesperson for her party in the German Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Dagdelen’s view echoes economist Michael Hudson, who says the U.S. war against Russia is actually waged against Europe, to keep the European Union (EU) subordinated to U.S. capital. Hudson says the sanctions against Russia and China aim to prevent America’s allies from opening up more trade and investment with Russia and China, to “keep them firmly within America’s own economic orbit.” European industry has been shutting down recently as energy prices soar due to sanctions.

The German Left Party leader said delivering German tanks to Ukraine would “entail the greatest security threat to face the German population since the Second World War.” She added that “many Russians, especially those who lost loved ones in [WWII]…will see in these weapons a renewed German military campaign against their country.”

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A large majority of Germans and other Europeans share these concerns. In a recent poll by Project Europe, more than two-thirds of respondents in the 27 countries of the EU think the conflict is “worrisome.”

Across Europe, more than 80% want negotiations, not continued war, the poll said. European public opinion reflects the impact of sanctions against Russia, which have had a “boomerang” effect, with skyrocketing inflation leading to near-depression conditions. Street protests and strikes across Europe have had an impact, as people pressure their leaders to stop doing Washington’s bidding.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Washington’s loudest “poodle” in London, was toppled by the crisis, along with Italy’s ex-Prime Minister Mario Draghi; and French President Macron lost his majority in the French National Assembly.

In the United States, people are more divided: A survey completed in late November by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs found the U.S. public split 48% to 47% on whether Washington should “support Ukraine as long as it takes,” or “urge Ukraine to settle for peace as soon as possible.”

It is a changing trend: The percentage supporting “as long as it takes” went down ten points from 58% in July; and the “settle for peace” percentage rose from 38% in the same period. During that time there were anti-war protests in dozens of cities and towns across the country. More recently the protests intensified—spreading to more than 90 localities, as major national coalitions joined forces around Martin Luther King’s birthday weekend.

Mission Creep: How the U.S. Role Has Escalated

A January 28 article in Responsible Statecraft by Branko Marcetic says “NATO and the United States are creeping closer to the catastrophic scenario President Joe Biden said ‘we must strive to prevent’ — direct conflict between the United States and Russia….NATO arms transfers have now escalated well beyond what governments had worried just months ago could draw the alliance into direct war with Russia, with the U.S. and European governments now sending armored vehicles and…preparing to send tanks.”

The article adds that,

“[d]espite stressing at the start of the war that ‘our forces are not and will not be engaged in the conflict,’ current and former intelligence officials…[said] ‘there is a much larger presence of both CIA and U.S. special operations personnel’ in Ukraine than there was when Russia invaded, conducting ‘clandestine American operations’ in the country that ‘are now far more extensive.’”

Responsible Statecraft cites a January 18 report in the New York Times that U.S. officials are “strongly considering giving Ukraine the green light to attack Crimea, even while acknowledging the risk of nuclear retaliation that such a move would carry. Fears of such an escalation ‘have dimmed,’ U.S. officials told the paper.”

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov is quoted in Newsweek saying that “We have repeatedly warned the U.S. about the consequences that may follow if the U.S. continues to flood Ukraine with weapons. It effectively puts itself in a state close to what can be described as a party to the conflict.”

A “Spanner in the Works”

German Left Party leader Dagdelen says “we must do all we can to put a spanner in the works” – that is, do something that prevents this plan from succeeding (Cambridge Dictionary explanation). “If the German tanks are delivered, the door will be open for more weapons. Calls for combat aircraft have already been voiced…The next thing will be missiles, followed, when that does not work either, by our own soldiers. But a gambler’s mentality, which responds to losses by raising the stakes and eventually betting everything on one play, is a bad guide for any society.”

Dagdelen adds:

“The tank deliveries are today what war loans were in 1914. They lead directly to participation in the war. They cannot be considered in isolation from their purpose—that is, victory in NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. But consideration must also be given to the Russian response. In the end, after all, Western tanks would practically invoke the use of nuclear weapons—against Germany first…

“Why is it in Washington’s interest to send the Germans, of all people, into Russia’s line of fire?…Germany, it appears, is supposed to draw Russia’s counterfire…The United States would thus have achieved one of its long-term strategic objectives, namely to prevent cooperation between Germany and Russia forever.”

It is a reminder of the September 26 explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines, which can be seen as a guarantee, at least for now, that Europe cannot depend on Russian gas. All evidence about who did this has disappeared. But months before, Biden assured reporters the U.S. “has the capacity” to do it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to ordinary Germans during his visit to Volgograd—formerly Stalingrad—on February 2, the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s historic and decisive 1943 victory against Nazi Germany in the Battle of Stalingrad. Russia’s official news agency Tass reported that Putin said “they remember it in Germany, that German anti-fascists became the first victims of the German fascism, Nazism. And it is very good that such memory remains in ordinary citizens. Unfortunately, modern elites seem to be losing it.”

He noted that an “ordinary citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany treats Russia and the heroes that defeated Nazism with respect.”

The RAND Corporation, which functions as the Pentagon’s planning agency, released a January 2023 study entitled “Avoiding a Long War,” which concludes that “the consequences of a long war—ranging from persistent elevated escalation risks to economic damage—far outweigh the possible benefits.”

This is not the view of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who declared on January 5 that

“weapons are, in fact, the way to peace.”

Victoria Nuland, along with her bosses, Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, tend to see things more like Stoltenberg than their RAND advisers. “They don’t see the world the way sane people do,” commented Margaret Kimberley, of Black Agenda Report, in a February 1 article. “They have made the Ukraine conflict an existential crisis, and then decide they have no choice but to engage in dangerous actions…The idea of peaceful coexistence is anathema to Nuland, Biden, and Blinken. Blown up pipelines are seen as proof of victory to people who thought they could make dangerous and irrational obsessions come true.”

“Dr. Strangelove Is No Longer Satire”

Roger D. Harris, of the U.S. Peace Council and the SanctionsKill campaign, says “The world was fortunate that the Cuban Missile Crisis ended with both sides willing to seek accommodation rather than victory. In contrast, the currently raging and indeed escalatingUkraine War could be the prelude to World War III because neither side appears to have an exit strategy; one by choice, the other because its back is to the wall.”

“The U.S.’s intent,” Harris further wrote, “is victory by ‘overextending and unbalancing’ Russia,” as a 2019 RAND paper suggested. Harris cites analyst Rick Sterling that “this was the playbook for the U.S. to provoke Russia into the current conflict. Bombers have been repositioned within striking range of key Russian strategic targets, additional tactical nuclear weapons deployed, and U.S./NATO war exercises have been held on Russia’s borders.”

Harris adds that “Now the prevailing propaganda from Washington is that nuclear war can be ‘won.’ Dr. Strangelove is no longer satire. This planning to fight a nuclear war as if it were not an existential threat is institutionalized insanity.”

He cites Robert Kagan, spouse of U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, asking: “Can America learn to use its power?” He says Kagan “argues in favor of a vigorous nuclear confrontation with Russia on the grounds that Putin will most likely back down.”

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Whether Russia will “back down” or not is debatable. But back in December 2021, Russian initiatives might have prevented hostilities and made the region more secure with a reduced likelihood of war. Following are the proposals Russia made then:

  • Russia and the U.S. shall not use the territory of other countries to prepare or conduct attacks against the other.
  • Neither party shall deploy short- or intermediate-range missiles abroad or in areas where these weapons could reach targets inside the other’s territory.
  • Neither party shall deploy nuclear weapons abroad, and any such weapons already deployed must be returned.
  • Both parties shall eliminate any infrastructure for deploying nuclear weapons outside their own territories.
  • Neither party shall conduct military exercises with scenarios involving the use of nuclear weapons.
  • Neither party shall train military or civilian personnel from non-nuclear countries to use nuclear weapons.

When these measures were proposed by Russia in December 2021, they were considered “non-starters” by the U.S. Now the question is whether there is anyone in Washington, D.C., who could convince the Biden administration to reconsider. That is what Jeffrey Sachs is demanding.

Events in Munich and Moscow since Blinken’s late January ‘trial balloon’ clarify that the U.S. is really offering nothing for peace. Instead it continues to escalate the war while attempting to project blame onto both Russia and China.

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Now that www.smotrim.ru is back up and running, I have been immersing myself in Russian news, which in the past couple of days has included an assortment of separate items, or faits divers as the French would have it, which are frankly ominous when taken all together.

Why ominous?  Because they fit the description of WWIII that the most recent Russian talk shows say has already begun and is about to transition from hybrid war to hot war.

A couple of days ago Russian news showed images of six Yars ICBMs rolling into Moscow on their self-propelled launchers. Yars, to those who are not familiar with the Russian missile families, are the backbone of the present ground-based Russian strategic nuclear strike force. They date from 2007 and their numbers are listed in the now scrapped New Start arms limitation treaty. These solid fuel three stage rockets have a range of 12,000 km and carry multiple warheads (MIRV). Each launch unit on wheels weighs 100 tons and their route into town was carefully selected accordingly.  But what are they doing in Moscow?

The Vesti reporter said they have been brought there in preparation for the Victory in Europe Day parade.  However, that takes place on May 9th, so the arrival now two months ahead catches your attention.

Then today Russian news informed us that a United States “Doomsday Plane,” as it is known on the street, officially a Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborn Command Post capable of supervising military operations in case of nuclear war, has landed earlier today in Iceland on its way to Europe.  To Europe? Why is a Doomsday Plane going to be stationed here unless a nuclear scenario is being worked out by the US and Allied forces?

It is also worth mentioning something else you will not find in the New York Times or the Frankfurter Allgemeine today:  yesterday the air space over Petersburg and within 200 km radius of the city was closed to civilian air traffic.  No explanation was given at the time, but today mail.ru briefly ran an article explaining that there had been intelligence reports of a possible Ukrainian drone strike on the city.  Meanwhile Moscow today claimed to have recovered fragments of a drone downed in the Moscow Oblast bearing Ukrainian military signs. All such attacks in the very center of European Russia must be seen as a direct provocation.

However, the Russian military yesterday and today came forward with information about far more serious provocations that the Ukrainians have been planning in the Donbas and Transnistrie  (Russian patrolled territory in Moldova).  The Russian military gave details of the delivery by train into Kramatorsk of cases of poisonous chemicals which, they say, the Ukrainians have planned to release into the atmosphere to poison the population of this city in the Ukrainian occupied portion of the Donetsk Oblast, intending to put the blame for the chemical attack on Russia, just as US and British forces had done in Syria three years ago when they staged and filmed a supposed attack on civilians by the Assad government forces.  Only this time the chemicals would be real and many civilians would be endangered.  The Russian military also issued a detailed statement today on cases of radioactive materials which the Ukrainians have just now delivered by train to Moldova to stage a similar provocation that could be blamed on the Russians.

It is fairly obvious why these vile attacks were being prepared by Ukrainian military precisely now – to distract from the impending fall of Bakhmut which they have defended in the past several weeks at a cost of more than 20,000 casualties.

The aforementioned intended ‘false flag’ operations approach the realm of the insane. In that sense they reflect perfectly well the mentality of Zelensky and his neo-Nazi collaborators, as well as the madness of Nuland and other sponsors of Zelensky in the U.S. State Department.

As I said at the outset, these assorted facts taken separately are worrisome. Taken all together, they provide compelling reason why this war should be ended by negotiations forced on Zelensky at the earliest opportunity.  The Wall Street Journal has in the last few days reported that both Macron and Scholz have, behind closed doors, been telling him it is time to sit down with the Russians.

Perhaps when the Democrats take in the power of Donald Trump’s latest message on Ukraine in a Tweet that has attracted nearly 4 million views in the United States, and reckon how this logic can be used in the 2024 elections, they will also see the wisdom of pressing for talks now, before all hell breaks loose.  See:

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A new #TwitterFiles thread will be dropping in a few hours, at noon EST. It follows up the Hamilton 68 story of a month ago with examples of state-funded digital blacklisting campaigns run amok. It’s self-explanatory, but some advance context might help:

In 2015-2016, during the brief, forgotten period when Islamic terrorism was fading as a national obsession and Trumpian “domestic extremism” had not yet become one, Barack Obama made a series of decisions that may yet prove devastating to his legacy.

The short version is he signed Executive Order 13271, establishing a “Global Engagement Center” (“GEC”) to “counter the messaging and diminish the influence of international terrorist organizations.” This act got almost no press and even within government, almost no one noticed.

In the bigger picture, however, a lame duck president kick-started the process of shifting the national security establishment’s focus from counterterrorism to “disinformation.” Whether by malfunction or design, this abrupt course change of Washington’s contracting supertanker would have dramatic consequences. In fact, the tale of how America’s information warfare mechanism turned inward, against “threats” in our own population, might someday be remembered as the story of our time, with collective panic over “disinfo” defining this generation in much the same way the Red Scare defined the culture of the fifties.

This is a complicated story and it would be a mistake to jump to simplistic conclusions, like that the Global Engagement Center (humorously nicknamed “GECK” or “YUCK” by detractors in other agencies) is an evil Orwellian mind-control scheme. It isn’t. But for a few crucial bad decisions, it could have fulfilled a useful or at least logical mission, much as the United States Information Agency (USIA) once did. However, instead of stressing research and public reports, as the USIA did when responding to Soviet accusations that Americans had caused the AIDS crisis, GEC funded a secret list of contractors and employed a more surreptitious approach to “counter-disinformation,” sending companies like Twitter voluminous reports on foreign “ecosystems” — in practice, blacklists.

GEC was not conceived as a partisan mechanism to defang conservative media, despite the recent true and damning series of reports by the Washington Examiner, outlining how a GEC-funded NGO in England used algorithmic scoring to de-rank outlets like The Daily Wire and help papers like the New York Times earn more ad revenue. The blacklisting tales you’ll be reading about later today on Twitter also primarily target American conservatives, though GEC and GEC-funded contractors also target left-friendly movements like the gilets jaunes (yellow vests), socialist media outlets like Canada’s Global Research, even the Free Palestine movement.

The scary angle on GEC is not so much the agency as the sprawling infrastructure of “disinformation labs” that have grown around it.

Underneath America’s love affair with “anti-disinformation” in the Trump years — which expressed itself in the seemingly instant construction of a sprawling complex of disinformation studies “labs” at institutions like Harvard, Stanford, Clemson, UT, Pitt, William and Mary, the University of Washington, and other locations — lay a devastating secret. Most of these “experts” know nothing. Many have skill, if you can call mesmerizing dumb reporters a skill, but in the area of identifying true bad actors, few know more than the average person on the street.

This is described repeatedly in the #TwitterFiles. In one sequence Twitter was contacted by Sheera Frenkel of the New York Times, who was writing a hagiographic profiles of “disinformation” warrior Renee DiResta, who’d achieved some renown as a campaigner against vaccine misinformation. Frenkel wrote Twitter to ask why they hadn’t hired “independent researchers” like DiResta, Jonathan Albright, and Jonathon Morgan — coincidentally, all hired witnesses of the Senate Intelligence Committee — to help Twitter “better understand” its own business.

At the sight of Frenkel’s provocative note, some Twitter execs lost it.

“The word ‘researcher’ has taken on a very broad meaning,” snapped Nick Pickles. “Renee is literally doing this as a hobby… Of those three only [Albright] is the most credible, but… the bulk of his work is Medium blogs.”

“Like CVE before it, misinformation is becoming a cottage industry,” agreed comms official Ian Plunkett, referencing “countering violent extremism,” a.k.a. counterterrorism.

Today’s thread among other things will detail crude digital blacklisting schemes dreamed up by this new cottage industry. Each features the same design “flaw,” in which giant lists of supposed foreign disinformationists somehow also come to include ordinary Americans, often with the same political leanings.

In one ridiculous case, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), a GEC-funded entity, sent Twitter a huge list of people they suspected of “engaging in inauthentic behavior… and Hindu nationalism more broadly.” You’ll see the list to judge. As was the case with the “Hamilton 68” story, in which a spook-laden think tank purported to track accounts linked to “Russian influence activities” while really following the likes of @TrumpDyke and @TimeForTrumppp, this DFRLab list of “Hindu nationalists” is weirdly packed with real septuagenarian Trump supporters.

One, a woman named Marysel Urbanik who immigrated from Castro’s Cuba in her youth, struggled to understand why a Washington think tank had sent Twitter a letter ID’ing her as either “inauthentic” or a Hindu nationalist.

“They say I’m what?”

“A Hindu nationalist,” I said. “Well, suspected.”

“But I’m Cuban, not Indian,” she pleaded, confused. “Hindu? I wouldn’t even know what words to say.”

Such listmakers are either employing extremely expansive definitions of hate speech, extremely inexact methods of identifying spam, or they’re doing both in addition to a third thing: keeping up a busywork campaign for underemployed ex-anti-terror warriors, who don’t mind racking up lists of “foreign” disinformationists that just happen to also rope in domestic undesirables.

In his book Information Wars, the original nominal head of GEC and former Time editor Rick Stengel explained an epiphany he had that allowed him to tie the fight against “foreign” disinformation to matters domestic. It happened when Stengel watched a YouTube video of Russian nationalist Alexander Dugin:

He castigated Hillary Clinton’s campaign as a bunch of ‘“storm troopers.” He lambasted what he called the American “obsession with the fake Russian threat.” He said it was an excuse for losers… The production values were poor, the audience was small, but the video revealed an extraordinary mirroring of language and ideas between Dugin and other Russian voices and candidate Trump… The notion that there was some kind of shared rhetorical playbook just seemed too fanciful to believe. While the messages did not exactly repeat each other, they certainly rhymed.

At the same time as Dugin was uploading his video, according to public U.S. intelligence, the GRU—the Russian military intelligence service—began going through the email accounts of DNC officials…

Stengel didn’t need to prove an actual link between Dugin, Russia, and Trump. It was enough to imply it, by placing stories about the GRU near Trump’s name, while asserting Trump and Dugin’s ideas “rhymed.”

This is probably what’s going on in the DFRLab list: one assumes many BJP supporters have views that “rhyme” with what one might call the American version of nationalism, #MAGA. Similarly, a GEC report sent to Twitter about “Russian Pillars of Disinformation” stressed that even actors who “generate their own momentum” online should be considered part of a propaganda “ecosystem.” Independence, the GEC report stressed, should not “confuse those trying to discern the truth.”

Twitter’s complaints against agencies like GEC and projects like the India list dovetail with what current and former intelligence sources have been calling in to comment on, since the first Twitter Files reports: that though sophisticated methods for detecting true bad actors exist, virtually none of the high-profile “experts” employ those.

Instead, methodologies are often openly absurd. List #1 might target everyone who follows more than one Chinese diplomat on Twitter. List #2 might rope in everyone who’s retweeted a “Peter Douche” video or a “Free Palestine” meme made in Iran. One former GEC staffer laughs about how experts win over the media with impressive-looking “hairball” charts that nearly always come down to some sort of volume or affinity analysis: who retweets whom, whose ideas “rhyme” with whose, etc.

In a key email, OK

“In short, no,” he said, adding that it was really only possible to make “inferences.”

But inferences are enough, for the innumerable “Centers for Countering Whatever” whose real goals may involve deplatforming or disenfranchising domestic groups deemed unworthy of sharing the full benefits of Western civil society (like the unmolested use of PayPal, GoFundMe, Twitter, etc.). With an inference, you can smear, and with a smear, you can do damage.

The Hamilton 68 scam in this sense was perfect. It used digital alchemy to create streams of news stories tying ordinary Americans to “foreign” disinformation. With headlines like CNN’s “Russian bots are using #WalkAway to try to wound Dems in midterms” in hand, a “Disinfo Lab” or a noble journalistic enterprise like the “extremism” desk at USA Today can finish the important work of calling up strings of Internet companies to “ask” why this or that person is still allowed to use credit cards, advertise on Amazon, etc.

What organizations like GEC and subcontractors like DFRLab do are just subtler versions of those same schemes. They make lists and let the increasingly sophisticated machinery of digital deprivation do the rest. It’s bad enough when this dubious activity is private. But paying taxes for the pleasure? This supertanker needs turning around.

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