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The US mainstream media chose to ignore a meeting that took place at the recent United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) gathering of world leaders between Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi and an Ultra-Orthodox organization of anti-Zionist Jews called Neturei Karta.

The meeting was obviously not in any way newsworthy for any of the mainstream media networks based in the United States, but several Israeli media networks covered the story including

The Jerusalem Post who published what Raisi had said in the meeting and that was that Iran has no issues with the Jewish people or its faith “I have heard that there are anti-Zionist Jews here and this is a great thing,” said Raisi.

“We always reiterate the fact that we have no issue whatsoever with the Jewish faith, with the Torah, and in Iran, the Jews have freedom of religion. Our only issue is with the Zionists.” 

Raisi applies the same standards to Zionists and as he did with the US-backed terrorists known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) throughout the Middle East as he “stressed that he is against “oppression,” regardless of whether it comes from Jews, Christians, or Muslims.

“That’s why we never recognized the members of ISIS as Muslims” he continued “Today the Zionists wish to discredit the Jewish faith but we draw a clear distinction between Zionism and the Jewish faith and your work in which you announce that ‘we are Jewish, yet we are against Zionists’ that is something to be commended.”

Raisi and the Iranian government had always known that the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS) was funded, armed, and trained by the US and its allies in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel and to an extent, Turkey for some time.  Professor Tim Anderson, a senior lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney explained how the Islamic State was created and why Syria was a target of the US and Israeli political establishment in his book ‘The Dirty War on Syria: Washington, Regime Change and Resistance’ said that it all began with “Proxy armies of Islamists, armed by US regional allies (mainly Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey), infiltrate a political reform movement and snipe at police and civilians. They blame this on the government and spark an insurrection, seeking the overthrow of the Syrian government and its secular-pluralist state.”

Anderson also said that this was part of a long-term agenda to recreate the Middle East. We must also add that this agenda can also help Israel expand its territory in the process as Arab countries become chaotic in the midst of these US sponsored wars led by the Islamic State, “This follows the openly declared ambition of the US to create a ‘New Middle East’, subordinating every country of the region, by reform, unilateral disarmament, or direct overthrow. Syria was next in line, after Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.”  Many terrorists came from warzones such as Iraq and Libya, and in some cases, many were recruited from countries who are close allies with Washington such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar.  “In Syria, the proxy armies would come from the combined forces of the Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi fanatics. Despite occasional power struggles between these groups and their sponsors, they share much the same Salafist ideology, opposing secular or nationalist regimes and seeking the establishment of a religious state.” 

The Jewish Community in Iran

The unnamed members of Neturei Karta also told Raisi that “we found that throughout the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran, they respected and protected the Jewish community till today and you’re only distinguishing that Zionism has nothing to do with the religion and the occupation is unacceptable.” The Jews of Iran say that they feel safe and respected, “the Iranian government allows thousands of Jews to worship in peace and continue their association with the country founded more than 2,500 years ago.” 

Nejat Golshirazi, a rabbi of a local synagogue said that “we have all the facilities we need for our rituals, and we can say our prayers very freely. We never have any problems. I can even tell you that, in many cases, we are more respected than Muslims.” Currently there are various estimates range from 9,000 to 15,000 or more Jews living in Iran.  There was a larger population of Jews living in Iran before the Islamic revolution in 1979, however many left due to fear of reprisal for being Jewish. 

The Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture claimed that

“Before the revolution, Jews were well-represented among Iran’s business elite, holding key posts in the oil industry, banking, and law, as well as in the traditional bazaar. The wave of anti-Israeli sentiment that swept Iran during the revolution, as well as large-scale confiscations of private wealth, sent thousands of the more affluent Jews fleeing to the United States or Israel. Those remaining lived in fear of pogroms, or massacres.” 

So, the new atmosphere was propelled by fear for many Jews who decided to move to Israel or the United States

“But Khomeini met with the Jewish community upon his return from exile in Paris and issued a ”fatwa” decreeing that the Jews were to be protected. Similar edicts also protect Iran’s tiny Christian minority”.

In today’s Iran, Persian Jews still live in Iran and that angers Israel’s leadership and its pro-Zionist supporters.  In fact, it was reported that in 2007, “Iran’s Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the archenemy of its Islamic rulers.”  But that backfired:

The incentives — ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families — were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran’s 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel’s official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.  However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as “immature political enticements” and said their national identity was not for sale. 

“The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money,” the society said in a statement. “Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran’s Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews.”

It is obvious that the US political establishment, the mainstream media, AIPAC and the Christian-Zionists from the bible belt in the Southern part of the US never want the truth to be told about Jews living in Iran, because Iran is on the list with Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, and Syria for regime change and destruction because the US and European establishment and their closest ally, Israel want to turn Iran into another Iraq. 

However, the situation for Israel’s leadership becomes a little complicated because it is most likely that they do not want Iranian Jews to be killed or injured if they decide to move forward with a foolish military strike that can be armed with a nuclear warhead inside of Iran, which will mean not only having Persian blood on their hands, but also the blood of their Jewish brethren.    

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In an interview with Sarnia News Today, Diversity Ed founder Crystal Fach said protesters advocating for parental consent regarding the use of puberty blockers are “taking away kids’ right to exist as who they are.”

This is baffling double-speak, since the very point of puberty blockers is to prevent the child from experiencing a natural, healthy and essential part of their development as a human being. At the same time, there is a little truth behind what this trans activist is proposing, particularly when she says, “…the only thing that we’re doing is giving trans kids the ability to have a pause.”

While giving kids dangerous and untested puberty blocking chemicals should probably be as illegal as paedophilia, we can’t ignore the fact that children, especially in Western nations, are hitting puberty earlier than is natural.

An article in the journal Nature states: “Trends for northern Europe show an average age of menarche [first menstruation] of 16 years in the early 1850s; by the early twentieth century, it had dropped below 15; now it is 12-and-a-half.”

Early onset of puberty is possibly just as dangerous as puberty-blocking drugs.

A lead article in the journal Nutrition Review states, “Early onset of puberty is considered an intermediary factor on the life-course path to a number of diseases in adulthood, including hormone-related cancers, a higher risk of all-cause mortality, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease.”

In other words, early pubic hair increases the child’s risk of getting fat and developing type-2 diabetes (know any fat kids?), developing cancer (one of the leading causes of death among teenagers) and having a heart attack (presumably when they are older, unless they’ve had their mRNA booster). And, it’s fair to assume, having a period at eight could also cause a degree of gender dysphoria.

So what causes early onset of puberty?

“The most consistent link between diet and premature puberty has been animal protein consumption,” states Dr. Micheal Gregor, author of How Not to Die, in his presentation, Protein, Puberty and Pollutants. “For example, every gram of daily animal protein intake — that’s the weight of a paperclip — has been associated with about a 17% increase in the risk of girls starting their periods earlier than age 12.”

Put another way, studies are finding that if a girl consumes 40g of animal protein a day, their chances of hitting puberty before age 12 goes up 680%.

“Why this link between animal protein and premature puberty?” asks Dr. Gregor.

“Well, we know meat increases the levels of the growth hormone IGF-1, and that alone is associated with early-onset puberty. But, maybe animal protein is just a proxy for the endocrine-disrupting chemicals that build up the food chain in animal products.”

So the next question is: Is meat and dairy in itself responsible for early puberty, or is it due to chemicals that the animals ingest and inhale? For example, a study in the journal Environmental Research found that early periods are associated with higher levels of flame retardant chemicals in girls’ bloodstreams. Both chicken and fish have been shown to contain these chemicals. And, of course, children often sleep on flame retardant mattresses, in poorly ventilated rooms, wearing flame retardant pyjamas (and maybe even a flame retardant face mask).

So while drugs are obviously an unwise route to prevent early onset of puberty, would not a healthier diet and a less toxic environment be something both sides could agree on?

My son is now 16. He’s still not shaving. Since he was nine has been on a strict diet absent of any meat, diary or eggs. Prior to that he followed a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet. He is now taller than me. One of the factors which convinced me that a plant-based diet (I rather dislike the word “vegan”) was truly “safe and effective” was seeing that children who had been raised on plant-based diets were taller than their parents. This appears to be a result of the child not being rushed into puberty too early, allowing more time to grow.

In contrast, I grew up eating eggs and butter for breakfast, luncheon meat and mayo at noon, and fish and chips for dinner. Plus, I was a big milk drinker. I had to start shaving at age 12.

As Dr. McDougall, author of The Starch Solution, points out in his talk on Precocious Puberty, “Let me give you some of the statistics. Little girls and boys are supposed to mature when they are 16, 17 or 18 years of age. That’s the time to start thinking about having babies, not before then. But because of the rich Western diet — the dairy, the meat, the high-protein, high-oil foods — what happens is we encourage the production of sex hormones. As a consequence, our children are maturing earlier.”

Those of us opposing the sexualization of children have been focusing on countering indoctrination from the school system and media. Maybe we should also be giving attention to the food we are feeding our kids?

“It’s a disaster for the family, for the [child] and for our society to have children mature and start thinking about sexual thoughts five [or] ten years before they are intended to,” continued Dr. McDougall. “We can change all that… by nourishing our children properly. A child who lives on a starch-based diet, with a minimal amount of animal foods and extra oils in their diet — will mature when it’s time to mature…. You have disruption going on in your home? It’s not too late, you can change it now. Change the kid’s diets.”

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More than 30 years of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is drawing to a close, and Armenia is the loser.

On September 19, following the death of four soldiers and two civilians, Azerbaijan pushed aggressively to control Nogorno-Karabakh, and the next day the Armenian forces agreed to lay down their arms in the Armenian majority enclave. 

Azerbaijan previously had waged a war of attrition to cut off supplies to the 120,000 Armenians. Despite Russian peacekeepers being stationed there since December 2022 tasked with keeping the Lachin corridor open, Azerbaijan blockaded the narrow mountain road which links Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh.

On September 18, Red Cross trucks carrying food and medicine finally gained access to Nagorno-Karabakh.

“An agreement has been reached on the withdrawal of the remaining units and servicemen of the Armenian armed forces … and on the dissolution and complete disarmament of the armed formations of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army,” the Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh said in a statement.

Europe’s insatiable demand for energy is in part supplied by Azerbaijan’s gas and oil resources.

In January, the EU signed a natural gas import agreement with Azerbaijan, as the EU moved away from Russian supplies. Within months, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, announced a new agreement to double gas imports from Azerbaijan while visiting Baku.

In response to the new agreement, about 50 French legislators denounced the move that would place Europeans dependent on a state with war-like aspirations, referring to Azerbaijan’s aggression against the Armenians. 

Energy analysts have pointed to the West’s hypocrisy in the conflict, as they negotiate gas and oil at the expense of the Armenians.

Azerbaijan saw their chance to finish off a decades-long dispute with Armenia as the West turns to Baku for oil, and turns away from Russia.

In the middle of the conflict is Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenian since 2018.

He faced intense domestic pressure in 2020 after he agreed to a Russian-brokered ceasefire that ended a 44-day war between ethnic Armenian, and Azerbaijani forces who had achieved victory, after taking back a third of the breakaway territory, and an additional seven surrounding districts.

Pashinyan had faced calls to resign in 2020, as angry crowds protested in the capital Yerevan after the defeat then, and he faced thousands of protesters in Yerevan on Wednesday asking him again to resign, after viewing the surrender of the breakaway region as a final humiliating defeat.

In the past, Pashinyan reversed his position and recognized that Nagorno-Karabakh was part of Azerbaijan and gave up on his previous claim. However, he demanded that Azerbaijan agree to protect the rights and security of the Karabakh Armenians, but Azerbaijan refused.

Pashinyan is pursuing a pro-Western policy, and in early September, Armenia announced humanitarian aid to Ukraine and undertook a joint military exercise with the US, which began on September 11.

Pashinyan’s critics have said he has moved towards the US and NATO, and away from his former alliance with Russia, which is a neighbor and has peacekeeping forces in the area.  The Armenian people look at results, and have seen Pashinyan’s failures mounting up, while they have seen a lack of any American involvement in their conflict, which leaves them wondering what is driving Pashinyan’s decision to go West, when the US has not helped Armenia other than bread crumbs in humanitarian aid, and the EU are depending on Azerbaijan.

Armenia ceded territory in and around Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan after the 2020 defeat, and 2,000 Russian peacekeepers were placed to guarantee the safety of the Armenians as stipulated in the ceasefire, but despite their presence armed skirmishes continued on the border.

Washington provides security assistance to Azerbaijan through a presidential waiver to Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act. US ally Israel is Azerbaijan’s principal supplier of weapons. The Azerbaijani army is trained by the Turkish military, another US-NATO ally. Despite having an awful human rights record, Azerbaijan is a strategic partner for the West.   

The US is not allied to Armenia, but has diplomatic relations, although Washington is not legally bound to Yerevan by any bilateral or multilateral security agreements

Experts are left wondering: why is Pashinyan moving away from Moscow, when Washington has never moved towards Yerevan? Are there secret promises from the US only Pashinyan knows about?  Will a coup unfold in Yerevan to remove Pashinyan before he can reveal his motives?

In 1921, Stalin separated the predominantly Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia, and attached it to Azerbaijan, and this became a permanent tension between the two.

During the USSR collapse in 1991, the separatist Republic of Artsakh declared independence from Azerbaijan; however, it was not internationally recognized.  In 1994, Armenia won the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, resulting in the de facto independence of the Republic of Artsakh, but Azerbaijan refused to acknowledge it.

The Armenian defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh is a decisive victory for Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, who has made the reunification of his country a priority.

Azerbaijan had taken advantage of the significant revenues from oil and gas to build up their military arsenal from Turkey, and this turned the tide in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

In the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020, Azerbaijan’s forces overpowered the Armenian military in the conflict which Baku had launched with the support of Turkey.

On Tuesday, the Turkish Defense Ministry admitted they are supporting Azerbaijan, but denied playing a direct role in the recent victory at Nagorno-Karabakh.

On Wednesday, Hikmet Hajiyev, Azerbaijan’s presidential foreign policy advisor said they aimed to “peacefully reintegrate” Armenians living in the separatist region and that it supports a “normalization process between Armenia and Azerbaijan”.

At the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, officials were warning about a possible “ethnic cleansing” of the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh.  Azerbaijan is Muslim as well as their ally Turkey, who has a history of genocide against the Armenians in 1915, as well as the Syrian Christians.

In March 2014, the US sponsored Radical Islamic terrorists crossed from Turkey into the Armenian village of Kessab, Syria.  They raped, killed, and occupied the village for three months during which every home and business was destroyed. In April 2014, Ahmed Jarba, the president of the political wing of the US sponsored Free Syrian Army visited Kessab to congratulate his troops, and then left Syria to sit in the Oval Office with President Obama. After almost a decade, Kessab still sits destroyed and the Armenian residents have almost all gone due to US sanctions preventing any rebuilding, donations, or investment for recovery.  A similar fate may await the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Here is a report on 72 cases of TURBO CANCER in Ages 18-24 in 2023. This is just a small sample of the thousands of tragic stories that are out there: 

Sep. 5, 2023 – Woolwich, ON – 24 year old Spencer Ewen was diagnosed with very rare Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor (Sarcoma).

Sep. 3, 2023 – Biloxi, MS – 21 year old Alesia Lockhard is in the US National Guard Reserve and was diagnosed with Stage 3 Rhabdomyosarcoma (rare and aggressive).

Aug. 30, 2023 – San Clemente, CA – 22 year old Hailey Pressnell was diagnosed with Stage 3B melanoma.

Aug. 29, 2023 – 20 year old UK University student DylanLamb has died. Dylan was told he was in remission from leukemia on July 5, 2022. He had a stem cell transplant Sep. 22, 2022. But his leukemia returned and he was told he had weeks to live.

Aug. 28, 2023 – Meadowbrook, AL – 23 year old Lauren Beck graduated University of Alabama at Birmingham and was diagnosed with AML leukemia and now needs an urgent bone marrow transplant.

Aug. 27, 2023 – Chicago, IL – 19 year old Tyler Fenlon was diagnosed with a very rare Stage 4 Primary Bone DLBCL (with spleen and bone marrow involvement, lytic lesions, extension of soft tissue into spinal canal, etc).

Aug. 26, 2023 – Chattanooga, TN – 22 year old Jada Nowell was diagnosed with a brain tumor (Glioblastoma). After several surgeries and treatment failure (tumor is growing again) she is now in the ICU.

Aug. 22, 2023 – Melville, NY – 19 year old Kenneth Reidenbach, a 2023 high school graduate with plans to go to College was diagnosed with a large brain cancer (he needed two urgent surgeries lasting more than 6 hours each).

Aug. 18, 2023 – Windsor, NC – 19 year old Jameer Bell was accepted to East Carolina University and was diagnosed with a very rare Primary mediastinal Large B-Cell-Lymphoma.

Aug. 15, 2023 – St. Petersburg, FL – 19 year old Javon Rivera had a spinal tumor and was diagnosed with a late Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Aug. 13, 2023 – 21 year old Hannah Crow is a student at St.Lawrence University in upstate NY on scholarship. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Aug. 10, 2023 – Jamesville, NY – 24 year old Mya Maloof was attending Nazareth College in Speech Pathology when she was diagnosed with Stage 4 Melanoma. Her mother also has Stage 4 cancer. Mya has died.

Aug. 8, 2023 – Portland, OR – 21 year old Dani Franek, a College student studying Optometry, was diagnosed with extensive cervical cancer over 4 areas.

Aug. 6, 2023 – Chillicothe, OH – 19 year old Dalton Black is a Huntington High School graduate who is starting his first year at Capital University, who was just diagnosed with Stage 3 Classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Aug. 5, 2023 – Milford, MA – 21 year old Angel Ramirez UConn student who just completed his Junior year majoring in Communication was diagnosed with Stage 4 brain cancer glioblastoma.

July 28, 2023 – Netley, SA – 24 year old Occupational Therapist Noorline Zareh was diagnosed with Stage 4 Gastric signet ring cell adenocarcinoma.

July 27, 2023 – Dover, NH – 22 year old Michael Leger was diagnosed with Lymphoma, he is a University student at UNH in his senior year.

July 25, 2023 – Burt, MI – 18 year old Allison Flint was diagnosed with 10cm lymphoma tumor between her lungs.

July 20, 2023 – Stony Brook, NY – 20 year old Caleb Bowser was diagnosed with Lymphoma, two tennis sized masses in his chest, left thigh. Also has fluid around his heart.

July 19, 2023 – Irish football star 18 year old Pauric Brady died suddenly on July 19, 2023. “after a short battle with cancer” he was diagnosed with in Dec. 2022. Diagnosis to death in 6 months.

July 17, 2023 – 19 year old Aidan Fertig is a 1st year student at Mount Saint Joseph University, was diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer.

July 8, 2023 – England – 21 year old Sophie White was diagnosed with brain cancer Glioblastoma and has been given 1 year to live.

July 7, 2023 – Manassas, VA – 24 year old Christian battled a late stage germ cell cancer (testicular cancer) that invaded his organs within weeks, leading to his death.

July 7, 2023 – Pittsburg, TX – 21 year old Emily Duncan was diagnosed with Stage 4 Colon Cancer. Emily’s family was given the grave news July 3rd that they would need to bring Emily home for end of life care. Emily was discharged on July 4th and is currently under Hospice.

July 7, 2023 – Overland Park, KS – 23 year old Peyton Rowe was diagnosed with Stage 3C Testicular cancer. It has spread to his lymph nodes, spine and lungs.

July 6, 2023 – Manchester, TN – 21 year old Brianna Stacey was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma.

July 6, 2023 – Potomac, MD, 22 year old Andrei (boyfriend of Gabriela Novoa) is a philosophy student in University, was diagnosed with Stage 3 Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma. PET scan he had at the end of chemo showed he had NEW cancerous tumors created during the treatment process!

July 6, 2023 – Lakeland, FL – 19 year old Ali Cardenas was diagnosed with ALL leukemia.

July 3, 2023 – Jackson, NJ – 24 year old Jillian Cillo was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer and needed an aggressive treatment plan.

July 3, 2023 – Worcester, MA – 22 year old Josiah Begor goes Clark University in Worcester MA was diagnosed with an unknown cancer that spread faster than oncologists expected.

July 2, 2023 – Osprey, FL – 20 year old Ciara Tomlinson, a junior at Florida State University was diagnosed with a 3.5cm brain tumor Diffuse intrinsic Pontine Glioma and was given 6-9 months to live!

July 1, 2023 – UK – 18 year old Bradley Stout Miller was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma after he began rapidly losing weight without explanation.

June 28, 2023 – Boca Raton, FL – Jamie Sabeeney is a Lynn University senior, studying Early Childhood Education and will begin graduate school in May 2023. She was just diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma.

June 15, 2023 – Mount Shasta, CA – 22 year old US Navy Sailor Maxwell Haban, is currently serving as a Nuclear Mechanic. He was diagnosed with metastatic cancer (not specified, lump on his chest).

June 14, 2023 – Metairie, LA – 20 year old Bryan Ibanez is a student at Missouri State University, in Sep.2, 2022 he was diagnosed with Stage 2 testicular cancer which turned to Stage 4 with lung metastases by May 1, 2023.

June 10, 2023 – Lancaster, PA – 21 year old Savannah Byers is in her senior year of College. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

June 10, 2023 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – 22 year old Rohan Noel is in his final year in Florida State University when he was diagnosed with Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma. Had to withdraw from school.

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Preface

A common historical feature of the “Three Baltic sister-states” (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) is that for most of the modern time instead of state independence there were decades of foreign administrations imposed by several European powers. Such historical experience exposed the people living in this part of the Baltic region to several foreign political regimes, and different cultural and linguistic influences. A short period of independence between the two world wars was followed again by the loosing of formal political independence.

It was not until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s by the decision of one man – Mikhail Gorbachev, that these three East-Baltic States regained their formal political independent status (the question of real political, economic, and financial “independence” of the post-Soviet Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania is not the subject or/and object of this article).

Now, all three of them had not only to rebuild their national institutional structure but also to create a space for the emergence of a common (national) identity, which stands in contrast to the alleged and massively propagated bad memories attached to the Soviet period. As one of the measures after 1990, they instituted language laws which were to become one of the key features of separation from the Soviet past, but also a key point of controversy and conflicts, which reached international attention (to be clear, many of ex-communist party members continued to occupy the key political positions in their countries after 1990, like the “Lithuanian Patriarch” – Vytautas Landsbergis, or Algirdas Brazauskas – the first President of the post-Soviet “independent” Lithuania). Nevertheless, these laws were partly a continuation of those introduced during the period of M. Gorbachev’s Perestroika but did not realize their full potential until the mid-1990s (Hogan-Brun et al. 2008: 31−35).

State, Language, Nation

A state can be considered to be an institution built by a community of people to secure its territory against external threats. The community of the state as a social construct is characterized by more than the mere rational will to belong to something larger. Consolidating one’s own beliefs and attitudes in common values, historical memory, faith, cultural habits, and language enhances the identification of the individual with the group. Such internalization ties a community together on an emotional basis (Spiering 1996: 110). Strong group identity is a vital asset to ethnolinguistic nations since it enables its members to accept and follow its rules but also to make sure that other citizens do the same.

Due to its fundamental necessity to all communities, the aspect of language in this context will be further elaborated. Regardless of the type of community, the language remains a fundamental asset for at least two crucial reasons:

1. First of all, it is a medium of communication and therefore serves equally as a prerequisite for coordinating communities, and
2. Secondly, language is a very complex and well-ingrained social system; one language, therefore, cannot simply be replaced by another.

The adoption (implementation) of new languages takes many years of effort, and, even if other languages are successfully acquired, the status of the mother tongue remains unique. The special relevance of the mother tongue acts as a strong binding agent within the community as well as an obstacle to the interference or intentional influence of the other languages. Even if we tried, we could not simply “delete” the ability to understand our mother tongue. Our mother tongue remains within us and connects us to all individuals with the same knowledge whether we want it to or not. We usually do not realize the importance of the language to our identity unless we leave the familiar environment of the language community or the “outsiders” enter it.

Unless it comes to confrontation with other languages within the same territory, the linkage with national identity, however, has not always been equally strong. The standardization of language through dictionaries, orthography manuals, and grammar manuals is surely making a stronger ethnolinguistic framework for the nation. Nonetheless, despite the important status and unifying factor that language has for a community, it can easily become a tool of separation and exclusion. As soon as different languages clash within the same territory, the question of status immediately arises (Paulston 1997: 73−74).

The East-Baltic States (1721−1944)

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have been constantly facing exactly such a situation throughout history with an intensity that remains internationally outstanding (Hogan-Brun et. al 2008: 33−34). The Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian languages have been under constant threat of being forced into a minority position in their region due to different political and other reasons. A significant decline in sociolinguistic status was furthered additionally through explicit policies.

In Estonia, for example, the German language remained for a long time the language of the elites (like the Polish in Lithuania), despite intense Russification policies during the Tsarist times and the imposition of the Russian language as an administrative one in 1880 (Tomusk 2002) similarly to the case of France after 1795 when the French language of Paris and the region of Ille de France was imposed to the rest of the country or the case of the USA after 1787 when the English language was practically considered (but never administratively proclaimed) as an administrative one and the language in the public use within the whole country [about Lithuania within Tsarist Russia from 1795 to 1915, see in (Aleksandravičius, Kulakauskas 1996)].

Concerning Estonian and Latvian cases in the Russian Empire, we have to keep in mind that after the Great Nordic War of 1700−1721, which started when the Kingdom of Sweden proclaimed war on Russia and lost it, no kind of Estonia or Latvia became included into the Russian Empire but there were Swedish East Baltic provinces ceded to Russia as the war reparations. Estonia and Latvia as such for the first time, differently from Lithuania, in Europe, and world history appeared only in 1918. Before the first independence in 1918, both the Estonians and the Latvians were unknown in Europe as nations and, therefore, the imposition of the Russian language in the Tsarist time, likewise before the German or the Swedish, have been, in fact, for both of them rather a great step towards both Europeanization and globalization than a kind of civilizational degradation.

The first period of independence between the two world wars (1918−1940) was central to the awakening of the national movements and a lingua-centric self-identity (Kaplan and Baldauf 2007: 57). In the attempt to support a state community on the grounds of the common language and ethnicity, however, similar problems to those we face today arose. Around12% of Estonian passport holders were not ethnically Estonian. In Latvia and Lithuania, this was the case for 27% (Knowles 1989: 146).

The period of the interwar political independence and the linguistic self-determination of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania was, however, abruptly terminated as the preparations for the Second World War led the way to the foreign rule imposed by the Bolshevik internationalists who firstly occupied Russia and Russians between the years of 1917 and 1921 and then started to spread around their ideology and political-economic system based on the West European Judeo-German Marxism by the bayonets (likewise traditionally the Vatican was spreading Roman Catholicism by arms either in Europe or in the New World). The return of Russification tendencies (Kaplan and Baldauf 2008:7) during the first period of the Bolshevik administration (1940−1941) led by the Georgian Joseph Visarionovich Dzugashviili Stalin was followed by the imposition of the German language during the Nazi occupation (1941−1944), led by the Austro-German Adolf Hitler, until the return of Russification together with gasification and industrialization during the integration into the Soviet Union (1944−1991).

In the Soviet Union (1944−1991)

At first glance, maybe it is strange that a linguistic Russification of the East Baltic and the other parts of the ex-Soviet Union (like Central Asia) is committed by non-ethnic Russian Bolsheviks sitting in Moscow (V. I. Lenin, J. V. Dz. Stalin, N. Khrushchev, L. Brezhnev) and running for almost 70 years anti-Russian national politics but we have to keep in mind that such kind of linguistic practices is done for the very practical every-day purposes and reasons taking the West European patterns and experience of the Englishization of Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the biggest part of Canada and the USA, the Spanishization of the biggest portion of Latin America or the Frenchization of France and Quebec, as for the examples.

The period of the Bolshevik rule over the lands of former Tsarist Russia is marked by a policy to fully integrate the Baltic republics, like other Soviet provinces, into its ideological construct of West European Marxism. The Bolshevik-Soviet policy aimed to create a multi-ethnic society in which the individual should identify himself/herself as “homo Sovieticus” before anything else (likewise today in the European Union to be firstly the “European” and then something else).

Although the Soviet Constitution guaranteed equality of all languages within the Soviet Union, the reality reflected a contrary image. Since there were around 100 other languages throughout its huge territory from Vladivostok to Ryga, the party and army officials were aiming to install the Russian language (Knowles 1989: 149-51) as the “lingua Franca” among its citizens for the same reason as, for instance, the English language is imposed in the USA as practically the only official one like in Australia.

However, in the Bolshevik case, at least nominally all languages have been treated equally on the paper but in the French, or many other cases even such paper-equality is never offered to their citizens. The consequences of such different language policies are very visible today: during the Bolshevik rule over Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania no one ethnolinguistic Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian forgot to speak her/his native tongue but today in France, for instance, one can count on the fingers how many Provansals, Normandians, Bretons, etc. can speak their native languages instead of foreign French. In the case of Ireland, for instance, we know today that only around 5% of the citizens of the Republic of Ireland can speak the Irish tongue nevertheless the fact that the Irish language is the Constitution official one in the Republic of Ireland (Ireland was for several centuries under the English/British occupation and severe oppression).

After 1991

Robert L. Cooper (1989) distinguishes three types of language planning policy; 1) Status, 2) Corpus, and 3) Acquisition planning. The next part of the article will analyze these three aspects concerning the post-Soviet language policies in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

These three East-Baltic states, in line with all the other non-Russian Soviet Republics, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev, instituted language laws that aimed to “maintain, protect, and develop” the sociolinguistic status of their titular languages. This policy was to become one of the key features of separation from the communist past and can be seen as a continuation of the language policies during the inter-war independence (Hogan-Brun et al. 2008: 83).

The first step was to re-establish the national language as the sole official one. Language laws have been introduced in Estonia in 1989 and Latvia and Lithuania in 1995. The question of the state language is also regulated by the national Constitutions. Any other language was thus automatically regarded as a “foreign language” except for the recognition of the Liv as the language of the indigenous (autochthonous) population in Latvia (Latvian Language Law, Section 4 and 5). With the official status all three national languages of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania became automatically also and only languages of administration, higher (university) education, and public communication.

It is further settled by the language regulations that all state officials are required to be fluent in the respective language. Furthermore, official events have to be conducted in the national languages unless it is explicitly addressing an international audience in which case professional translation has to be ensured. Finally, it is the state’s responsibility to ensure that all state services are provided in the national languages [see more in (Sanita and Heiko 2019)].

However, for the matter of comparison, in Balkan Serbia after 1945 alongside the language of the ethnic majority (Serbian), there is equal use in the educational and public administration system by both the law and in the practice of an additional 5 languages: the Hungarian, Croatian, Albanian, Ruthenian, Romanian, and Slovak. A university education in the Hungarian and Albanian languages was and is a regular practice in Serbia from 1945 onward. However, neighboring Central European/Mediterranean Croatia during the last 30+ years has been following the language policy of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Nevertheless, we have to conclude that after the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian national state independence restoration in 1990/1991 and the official proclamation of their national languages as the only official no one ethnic Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian needed to start to learn her/his native language but in the case of the establishment of the independent state of Breton nation, for instance, and proclamation of the Breton language as the only administrative one the overwhelming majority of Bretons will need to attend regular language courses for many years to learn their native tongue.

An active way to reinforce the importance of language for group identity is a higher degree of language standardization [(Oakes 2001:51). See more in (Smith, et al. 1998)]. This came to special importance due to the high degree of lexical influence from the Russian language, but also Polish and German, which had to be countered. Since the Soviet regime aimed for a homogeneous society, terms related to the ideology were introduced across the whole country. “Many previously existing words have been re-semanticist to align their denotations (or connotations!) with their Russian ‘benchmarks’” (Knowles 1989: 149) what already began before the reestablishment of independence, continued by the new Governments after 1990/1991. A high degree of attention was given to language norms and form which is reflected, for instance, in the Lithuanian Language Law of 1995:

Article 19: “The state shall enhance the prestige of the correct Lithuanian language, provide conditions for protecting linguistic norms, personal names, place-names, dialects, and written language monuments, ensure the material basis for the state language functioning, provide general assistance to the Lithuanian language, as well as to publishing of books on the Lithuanian language science and practice.”

Similar trends can also be found in the Latvian Language Law in Section 22 which pays particular attention to the use of the Latvian language in specialized educational literature. Besides, particular governmental institutions have been established to supervise the implementation of the language policy in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. For instance, in Lithuania, the Lithuanian Language Commission, the State Language Inspectorate, and country-wide language service for the local supervision and the inspection of the use of the national language in public were established. The re-infusion of language culture was a major concern of these institutions. Regulations and implementation of norms were furthered through the publication of various grammars, orthographies, and dictionaries. It has to be stressed that syntactic constructions remain the focus of attention as well as the use of neologisms in written and oral use of the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian languages.

Additionally, the Commissions or similar institutions are involved in the standardization of names and further, in the approving of the standard technical terms (Hogan-Brun et al. 2008: 107−108). For instance, Latvia has introduced several language institutions with such objectives. The State Language Center is responsible for ensuring the working of the language laws. There is also an instrument of language attestation for personnel in public and private employment in contact with the public. However, its advisory roles remained restricted due to its attachment to the Ministry of Justice (ibid.: 109). In 1998, The Commission of the Official Language was established to investigate the possibilities of strengthening the state language. In Estonia, the language policy is conducted by national research programs as well as governmental and non-governmental institutions. The Ministry of Education and Research, for example, has been responsible for language policy related to the preservation of the Estonian language and its dialects. Furthermore, it establishes programs and publications to offer general language support but also supports the Estonian language in higher education. The primary task of the Language Inspectorate is to ensure that the Estonian Language Law and other regulations of the language are respected and to provide advice in all necessary practical cases. Immediate results were the disappearance of the Cyrillic alphabet and inscriptions in public places and the improvement of the teaching of the titular languages.

All three East-Baltic States introduced obligatory language classes of their national languages until the end of secondary-level education. College and university education are with few exceptions held entirely in the titular languages (Hogan-Brun et al. 2008: 122). The necessity to learn an additional language is further encouraged as a continuation of the interwar period of independence language policy. English, German, and French are usually offered as the first additional language, nevertheless, the Russian language is also chosen as the second additional language since its status as lingua franca remains important among the former Soviet Republics (ibid.).

In Estonia and Latvia, the system of language education has been successful as the competence in the national languages increased from an average of 65% to 80% among the Russian population between 1989 to 2000. At the same time, the language competence of the national language in Lithuania increased from 85% to 94% (ibid.). A further marker of the development in this respect has been the attitude of the non-ethnic Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian communities to send their children to mainstream schools but also to the titular language kinder gardens. Especially in Latvia, a gradual increase in mainstream schools is visible (Hogan-Brun 2008: 113).

Final Words

Finally, an increased willingness to learn the titular language has been observed among the adult population although in 1994 some 35% of the native Russian language speakers believed that learning the titular language was important whereas over 50% of them disagreed. Nevertheless, increased competence in the titular languages is very visible in all three East-Baltic States today [see more in (Maarja, et al. 2017)].

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Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had to face a time in Washington D.C. that may be told as difficult as the political situation in the U.S. Capitol Hill is different than his first visit to the Capitol.

A CNN report (Zelensky faces a more splintered GOP as he returns to Capitol Hill looking for aid, Sept. 21, 2023) said:

Ukraine President Zelensky was on Capitol Hill Thursday for his second visit, as fresh attacks by Russia overnight underscore the urgency facing his country for more US aid.

Only this time, the political landscape has shifted.

A year ago, Zelensky faced a much different reception in Congress. Democrats controlled the House and public support for funding the war effort in Ukraine was higher. As he stood to ask for more money and weapons before a joint meeting of Congress Zelensky was met with a packed House, members adorned in yellow and blue standing in support with Ukraine. Now, the Ukrainian president will return to Congress to a new speaker – facing a rebellion on his right – who has yet to promise future aid to Ukraine and will have to balance his own political future against the future Zelensky is hoping for his country.

‘Is He Our President?’

The report said:

“Was Zelensky elected to Congress? Is he our president? I do not think so. I have questions for where is the accountability on the money we have already spent? What is the plan for victory?” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy asked Tuesday.

Zelensky Arrives Amid Shutdown Fight

The report said:

Zelensky’s visit is coming as House Republicans are engaged in a bitter fight over government funding on the domestic front and as the prospects for more money for Ukraine – while very much alive in the Senate – are far less clear in the House even as the Biden administration has sent over a request for $24 billion in support.

No Money For Ukraine Now

It said:

“The first thing I will tell you is there is no money in the House right now for Ukraine,” Rep. Byron Donalds, a conservative member of the House Freedom Caucus from Florida, told CNN. “It is not a good time for him to be here, quite frankly. That is just the reality.”

Stop Ukraine Game

Texas Rep. Chip Roy, another conservative, told CNN, “When was the last time Zelensky came here? Right before money. You think that is a coincidence? I do not. That is why this Ukraine game needs to stop.”

It added:

Despite a slip in public support, there is still strong bipartisan backing for Ukraine funding on Capitol Hill, but it will be up to McCarthy to decide if legislation will even be put on the floor. The speaker has said he does not want funding attached to a short-term spending bill and he has also said it should be a standalone issue. But time is of the essence, with aides close to the matter telling CNN the expectation is that current U.S. funding accounts for Ukraine could be depleted as soon as by the end of the year.

“This becomes an issue that time and time again, minute to minute, every question is: Is Speaker McCarthy going to do the responsible thing of putting the bill on the floor that we know will pass with broad bipartisan support?” Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia said. “If he lives in this constant fear that one member on his far right is going to take the action of motion to vacate the chair, therefore removing him from the speakership, then we are making day-to-day decisions or not making day-to-day decisions because one guy wants to keep his job. “

‘Our People Cannot Afford Their Food Bills’

The CNN report said:

Inside McCarthy’s conference, the question of helping Ukraine is being framed by isolationists as a choice between helping Americans or helping Ukraine.

“I think every single person in this Congress, Democrat, Republican or in between is appalled, shocked and disagrees with what Russia and Vladimir Putin has done and is doing. That having been said, our borders are wide open. Our people cannot afford their electric bills, their gas bills and their food bills and before we send blank checks to some other country, we need to take care of our own people,” said Rep. Scott Perry, a conservative Republican from Pennsylvania.

Majority of Americans Oppose Funding Ukraine

A CNN poll in August found now a majority of Americans are opposed to authorizing more funding for Ukraine, and among Republicans, the number opposed soars to 71%.

‘Average Congress Member Does Not Understand Happenings In Ukraine’

The CNN report said:

“Do you know who is winning the war in Ukraine right now? I do not think the average member of Congress understands what is going on in Ukraine,” said Rep. Mike Garcia, a Republican from California. “I do not think the executive branch knows what is going on in Ukraine right now. Look, we have invested $100 billion of American taxpayer dollars in Ukraine, we owe it to the American taxpayers to get an accountability of that money, the accountability of the weapons, to get a current status of what’s going on in Ukraine … and what is needed to win and how we are going to be involved in it before we invest.”

Rep. Garret Graves, a Republican from Louisiana, blamed the administration for a slide in support even as he argued it was still essential.

“The fiscally responsible thing to do here is to stop this in Ukraine. This crosses over into NATO countries and you trigger article five, you are not going to be talking about tens of billions of dollars, you are going to be talking about trillions of dollars and you are going to be talking about American service men and women on the front lines. That is not an option,” Graves said. “This administration has both accountability and transparency issues they have got to address before they deserve another penny.”

There is still a strong coalition of GOP support for Ukraine funding on Capitol Hill, such as McConnell, but Republicans have at times been critical of how the president has engaged in the war and how he has sold the U.S. aid. Those GOP lawmakers argue Biden could do more to both sell the importance of the war effort to the public and to ensure members of Congress are kept in the loop on where and what impact the funding they are appropriating is having.

‘More War’

“The consequences of pulling the plug on Ukraine are enormous,” said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. “It will lead to more war, not less. It will destroy a world order that has existed that has benefited the world. So I could not disagree more with my colleagues who say Ukraine does not matter to us. It matters a lot.”

‘We Oppose The Additional Expenditure For War In Ukraine’

A report by The Hill (‘We’ll get it done,’ Mccaul says of Ukraine aid after Zelensky meeting, Sept 21, 2023) said:

The top House Republican overseeing U.S. foreign affairs said Congress will provide more funding for Ukraine to fight off the Russian invasion despite GOP pushback, after a meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky in Washington on Thursday.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also proposed legislating that the U.S. provide F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine and long-range missiles that the Biden administration has held back on providing.

It said:

The president has submitted to Congress a request for $24 billion in additional funding that would go towards military, economic and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine. It is opposed by a minority group of Republicans with the power to frustrate efforts to pass additional assistance quickly, given tight margins in the House and Senate rules.

Sen. Rand Paul

The report said:

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a staunch critic of foreign assistance for Ukraine, has vowed to hold up any government funding bill that includes Ukrainian assistance.

Paul was also signatory to a letter led by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) this week laying out specific asks of the Biden administration before greenlighting additional assistance to Ukraine, signed by 28 members of the House and Senate.

“Certainly until we receive answers to the questions above and others forthcoming—we oppose the additional expenditure for war in Ukraine included in your request,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter.

The letter was published ahead of Zelensky’s arrival on Capitol Hill for meetings Thursday morning.

Chillier Reception

It said:

It is the Ukrainian president’s second visit to the capitol in a year, but he is receiving a chillier reception under the Republican-controlled House. In Dec. 2022, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) invited Zelensky to address a joint session of Congress, an invitation that was not extended by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)

‘Where Is the Accountability on the Money?’

Another report by The Hill (McCarthy on Ukraine funding: ‘I have questions’ for Zelensky, Sept. 20, 2023) said:

When asked about renewed funding for Ukraine in its war against Russia, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday he has “questions” for Ukrainian President Zelensky.

“Where is the accountability on the money we already spent?” McCarthy said, listing off questions he said he will ask the Ukrainian leader when he meets with him later this week. “What is the plan for victory?”

“Look, what Russia has done — invade — is wrong,” McCarthy said. “It is an atrocity. We want to make sure that ends. I also have always said from the beginning, no matter what the issue is, I want accountability for whatever the hardworking taxpayers spend their money on, and I want a plan for victory.”

McCarthy’s statements come as a government shutdown looms if Congress does not agree on a deal by the end of the month. House Republicans’ proposed stopgap bill does not provide funding for Ukraine, which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) heavily criticized Monday on the Senate floor.

“And with no Ukraine funding, the proposal is an insult to Ukraine and a gift to Putin. I cannot think of a worse welcome for Zelensky, who visits us this week than this House proposal, which ignores Ukraine entirely,” Schumer said.

The U.S. Is Broke

A report by The Telegraph (Ukraine-Russia war latest: ‘We’ve got no money’, Republicans tell Zelensky, Sept 21, 2023) said:

The U.S. is “broke” and cannot provide further support to Ukraine, Republican legislators will tell Zelensky as he visits the Capitol.

The Ukrainian president signalled ahead of his visit to Washington that he wanted to secure more air defenses after a “massive” missile attack by Russia last night.

However, he faces a difficult hearing from Congress, where Joe Biden is struggling to pass a $24bn aid package in the face of Republican skepticism.

‘We Do Not Have Any Money’

The report said:

Tim Burchett, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said: “I appreciate [Zelensky’s] bravado and everything, but we do not have any money.  We are broke, and we are giving our money away.”

Matt Gaetz, a Florida representative, has said all he wants to hear from Zelensky is that “he is sending our money back.”

Retiring Utah senator Mitt Romney has urged his party to unite behind Ukraine, declaring its war effort is an “extraordinarily wise investment”.

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The evidence of Ukrainian despair is becoming increasingly clear. In an attempt to obtain new sources of energy, the possibility of using prisoners to generate electricity is being discussed in the Ukrainian Parliament. In practice, this would be an extreme human effort to make a small amount of energy, which shows how desperate Kiev is to reduce the effects of its energy crisis.

The proposal was presented by Ukrainian legislator Sergey Grivko and will be evaluated by other parliamentarians soon. What he plans is to literally “motivate 50,000 inmates to generate electricity with the help of bicycle generators.” Thus, Grivko and his political partners hope to at least alleviate the disastrous effects of the serious energy crisis currently affecting Ukraine.

The measure, called “unconventional” by its own proponent, comes amid a situation of true desperation on the part of the Kiev regime, which is trying to find safe sources of energy as quickly as possible, as the country’s energy infrastructure has been severely affected by the conflict. Recently, the head of Ukraine’s national power company Ukrenergo, Vladimir Kudritsky, had already made it clear that it will be impossible to repair the destroyed facilities before the advent of winter.

In theory, the project is expected to be implemented through a “win-win” relationship between the state and prisoners. They will be able to “work” on generating energy on electric bicycles in exchange for shorter sentences. The more they work, the shorter their time in prison will be. In practice, however, things could be very different and more difficult than that.

It is virtually impossible for the use of electric bicycles to be sufficient to restore a country’s energy stability. The capacity of these bicycles is low compared to conventional energy sources. The bicycle model was designed as an ecological and sustainable alternative for domestic use and to reduce energy costs in small facilities, but it does not seem like a viable alternative to overcome a national energy emergency.

In order to generate a significant amount of energy, prisoners will need to work on the bicycles for many hours. And this can be a problem considering that certainly not all prisoners have the health conditions and physical capacity necessary for this type of bodily effort. In this sense, considering the dictatorial, terrorist and anti-humanitarian nature of the neo-Nazi regime, it is very likely that, in practice, prisoners will be coerced to work until exhaustion to generate as much energy as possible, creating a system analogous to slavery and to corporal punishment.

This type of unconventional and irrational plan only shows how serious the country’s energy crisis is and how local authorities are looking for “solutions” in every possible way. This crisis is due to the massive attacks launched by the Russian armed forces since last year, mainly after the beginning of the command of General Sergey Surovikin. At the time, a wave of high precision strikes was launched against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, leaving several regions of the country without energy and severely affecting Kiev’s military logistics.

Unlike Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilian regions, Moscow’s intention with this type of operation was never to harm the Ukrainian population and energy supplies in civilian areas. On the contrary, the strategic value of the attacks was precisely to neutralize the energy supply lines that guaranteed both the maintenance of decision-making centers and the operability of the Ukrainian armed forces. Indeed, Ukrainian energy stability was making terrorist incursions against Russian civilians viable, thus Moscow had to damage it.

Unfortunately, in many cases the civilian population is affected by the consequences of the destruction of infrastructure, but this was the only alternative left for Moscow in the face of so many terrorist attacks carried out by the Ukrainian armed forces. In other words, Russia just reacted in order to protect its own citizens.

In fact, with the arrival of winter, Ukraine will certainly face very difficult times, even worse than those seen in 2022. And this will happen amidst the already catastrophic situation of the country’s armed forces, which were unable to launch a “counteroffensive” in the spring-summer season. The damage in winter is expected to be substantial both from a military point of view and in the social sphere, accelerating the inevitable process of defeat in the conflict and collapse of Ukrainian society.

The correct way to prevent the worst from happening is not by forcing prisoners to work on inefficient sources of energy generation, but by making strategic decisions that bring an end to the conflict. Kiev should break with the West, stop being a proxy state and accept Russian peace terms. And then Moscow would certainly help Ukraine to overcome social problems caused during the hostilities. But unfortunately the Kiev Junta does not seem interested in this type of solution.

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As the anniversary of the purported Biden Regime sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline approaches Sept. 26,  veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh blamed a ”secret disinformation operation“ by CIA and MI-6 for misleading the public about the disastrous state of the US-led war effort.

“The war is over. Russia has won. There is no Ukrainian offensive anymore, but the White House and the American media have to keep the lie going,“ a senior US intel official told Hersh.

“The truth is if the Ukrainian army is ordered to continue the offensive, the army would mutiny. The soldiers aren’t willing to die any more, but this doesn’t fit the B.S. that is being authored by the Biden White House.”

As the first anniversary of the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline approaches next Tuesday, Hersh promised more revelations after his Feb. 8 scathing exposé of the Biden Regime’s purported plot to commit the greatest act of industrial sabotage since WW II – against an ally, Germany. 

As Volodymyr Zelensky made the rounds at the UN and in Washington, Hersh wrote that his intel source told him “the war continues … because Zelensky insists that it must.”

“There is no discussion in his headquarters or in the Biden White House of a ceasefire and no interest in talks that could lead to an end to the slaughter,” Hersh said.

Speaking of the Ukrainian claims of slow progress in an offensive that has lost an estimated 75,000 casualties, the official told Hersh: “It’s all lies.”

There has been a ”secret disinformation operation“ by the CIA and British intelligence aimed at discrediting Putin, Hersh wrote, which led “major media outlets here and in London to report that the Russian president was suffering from varied illnesses that included blood disorders and a serious cancer.“

During the much-anticipated Ukrainian spring offensive, “there were some early penetrations“ of the Russians‘ heavily fortified ‘Maginot Line’, the source told Hersh, “and the Russians retreated to sucker them in. And they all got killed.”

“After weeks of high casualties and little progress, along with horrific losses to tanks and armored vehicles,” the source said, “major elements of the Ukrainian army, without declaring so, virtually canceled the offensive,” Hersh reports. “The two villages that the Ukrainian army recently claimed as captured “are so tiny that they could fit between two Burma-Shave signs,” the source said.

The Biden-Obama Regime’s “neocon hostility to Russia” had caused “a significant split in the intelligence community,” Hersh writes, citing a “longstanding disagreement between the CIA and other elements of the intelligence community on the prognosis of the current war in the Ukraine.“

The CIA has been “far more skeptical than their counterparts at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on the prospect for a Ukraine success,“ Hersh notes, which he says the American media has ignored.

Speaking at the UN this week, President Biden had ignored the disastrous failure of the billion-dollar Ukrainian offensive, while Zelensky refused to consider peace negotiations and continued to tubthump for more money and arms.

In an interview with The Economist, Zelensky issued a veiled threat to European countries which had taken in millions of Ukrainian refugees, according to Hersh, saying the refugees had “behaved well . . . and are grateful” but there is “no way of predicting how they would react to their country being abandoned.”

“It was nothing less than a threat of internal insurrection,“ Hersh wrote.

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Did you know there are now 10 cases of cancer after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in the literature? Here they are:

“Turbo Cancer” post mRNA vaccine papers reviewed: 

• Sep. 2023 – Seneff, McCullough – 56M skin cancer after 1st Pfizer mRNA
• May 2023 – Eens et al – Mouse develops lymphoma after 2nd Pfizer mRNA
• April 2023 – Tachita et al – 73M develops lymphoma after 2nd Pfizer mRNA
• Jan 2023 – Cavanna et al – 66M develops lymphoma after 3rd Pfizer mRNA
• Sep 2022 – Revenga-Porcel et al – 76M lymphoma after 3rd Moderna mRNA
• Aug 2022 – Sekizawa et al – 80F lymphoma after 2nd Pfizer mRNA
• June 2022 – Zamfir et al – 58F 2nd Pfizer, 53M 2nd Pfizer both lymphoma
• Apr 2022 – Mitsui et al – 67M 2nd Pfizer, 80F 2nd Pfizer both lymphoma
• Nov. 2021 – Goldman et al – 66M lymphoma progression after 3rd Pfizer mRNA

New paper by Dr. Stefanie Seneff and Dr. Peter McCullough

• 56 year old man had 1st Pfizer mRNA dose
• 4 days later he started having right TMJ pain which worsened over time
• 2 months after Pfizer he was diagnosed with right-sided trigeminal neuralgia and cranial nerve VII palsy
• 4 months after Pfizer he started losing weight, lost 12 kg
• 8 months after Pfizer he had deafness in right ear, couldn’t open right eye, couldn’t open right side of his mouth, total paralysis of right face and a large mass blocking the external auditory canal – diagnosed as basaloid cell carcinoma
• 15 months after Pfizer (1st picture above – extreme cavitation in the preauricular region, extreme necrosis of the skin and extensive infiltrations of vasculature)

May 2023 – Eens et al – Mouse develops lymphoma after 2nd Pfizer mRNA

• I don’t count this as part of the 10 cases but I include it here for completeness
• They injected 14 mice with two Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
• Two days after the 2nd dose and 16 days after 1st dose, one of the mice died suddenly without any warning.
• necropsy showed extensive, systemic infiltration of liver, kidneys, spleen, lungs, and intestines” by a lymphoma

April 2023 – Tachita et al – 73M develops lymphoma after 2nd Pfizer mRNA

• 73 year old Japanese man presented with a lump in left arm where he had his 2nd Pfizer mRNA vaccine three months prior.
• he then developed 6cm and 3cm ulcerated lesions in the left arm
• he was diagnosed with Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (ENKL), a natural killer (NK) cell malignancy

Jan 2023 – Cavanna et al – 66M develops Stage 2 NHL lymphoma post 3rd Pfizer mRNA 

• 66 year old Italian man developed swollen right axillary lymph nodes 10 days after 3rd Pfizer mRNA (booster) dose.
• 3 months later he presented to the clinic with a 7cm mass in right axilla and 2cm lesion in right supraclavicular region
• He was diagnosed with a Stage 2 NHL Lymphoma, Ki-67 90%

Sep 2022 – Revenga-Porcel et al – 76M develops lymphoma after 3rd Moderna mRNA

• this paper is behind a paywall
• 76 year old man developed 7cm mass in right arm 10 days after 3rd Moderna mRNA
• diagnosed with PC-ALCL (very aggressive lymphoma – Primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma (PCALCL) is a subtype of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), and is a non-Hodgkin lymphoma that arises in the skin

Aug 2022 – Sekizawa et al – 80F lymphoma after 2nd Pfizer mRNA 

• 80 year old Japanese woman developed a right temporal mass the day after 1st Pfizer mRNA
• she was given tylenol and took a 2nd Pfizer mRNA 3 weeks later
• she then presented again 3 weeks after 2nd Pfizer dose and mass was 3cm
• at around 13 weeks the mass grew to 7cm
• right temporal mass was diagnosed as a subtype of MZL (extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue or nodal marginal zone lymphoma) stage IIE

June 2022 – Zamfir et al – 58F and 53M develop lymphoma post 2nd Pfizer mRNA

• 58 year old Romanian woman developed 4cm left neck mass that appeared one week after 2nd Pfizer dose
• the 4cm mass and two lymph nodes were diagnosed DLBCL lymphoma, Ki-67 80%
• 53 year old Romanian man had 2 Pfizer mRNA vaccines
• On the third day after the first dose, he noticed a painless ulcer on the mucosal surface of the upper lip. He initiated self-treatment with topical vitamin A. The lesion extended and new lesions developed
• These lesions had a progressive character and during the following months were complicated with repetitive episodes of heavy oral bleeding, requiring blood transfusions. Biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of T/NK-cell lymphoma

Apr 2022 – Mitsui et al – 67M and 80F develop lymphoma post Pfizer mRNA

• 67 year old Japanese man presented with a 6 cm subcutaneous mass in the left axilla 2 weeks after 2nd Pfizer mRNA.
• Tenderness and a palpable lymph node in the left axilla were noted 1 day after 1st Pfizer mRNA
• He was diagnosed with DLBCL Lymphoma with Ki-67 > 80%

• 80-year-old Japanese woman presented with a 4cm enlarging nodule in her left axilla 1 day after 2nd Pfizer mRNA
• The nodule appeared 2  days after the first vaccination.
• Two months after the first consultation, the nodule gradually enlarged, and computed tomography revealed a 6.0-cm mass in the left axilla and another 2.8-cm mass in the left mesentery
• she was diagnosed with germinal centre B-cell DLBCL lymphoma, Ki-67 > 90%
• patient complained of diplopia and left eyelid ptosis 8  days after the biopsy. Magnetic resonance imaging detected a small tumour, a suspicious DLBCL lesion, in the left cavernous sinus, which was treated with radiation therapy

Nov. 2021 – Goldman et al – 66M lymphoma progression after Pfizer booster 

• 66 year old man had 2 Pfizer mRNA doses and 5 months after 2nd dose presented with axillary lesions
• He was diagnosed with Angioimmunoblastic T Cell Lymphoma
• He then had a Pfizer mRNA booster shot and a few days later presented with neck swelling.
• A repeat PET/CT scan done 8 days after Pfizer mRNA 3rd dose (booster) showed extensive progression of lymphoma.

My Take…

The goal of this article was to bring together all the cases of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine induced Turbo Cancer in the literature.

There are now 10 published cases. And this is only the beginning.

When the dam finally breaks, there will be 100s, then 1000s of these cases.

Right now it’s mostly lymphomas.

But I am seeing Turbo Cancers with lymphomas, brain cancers, breast, colon and lung cancers as the top 5, with signals in leukemias and hepatobiliary cancers.

I will not cover the possible mechanisms here but I will point out that Ki-67 is extremely important.

Ki-67 is a proliferation index determined with special staining during pathology, and a Ki-67 of 90% means 90 out of 100 cells are dividing.

It indicates how rapidly growing a tumor is. 90% is extreme.

“Tumors with a high Ki-67 index have a larger number of proliferating cells and are therefore likely to grow more quickly”

It also predicts long term survival in a number of cancers.

A high Ki-67 usually carries a very poor prognosis.

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In the desperate bid for the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination to hold onto the unipolar world, the war on Africans globally intensifies. This reactionary legacy of Western colonialism is proving itself impenetrable to the fruitless reformist strategies of liberals. As the world is literally and figuratively engulfed by fire or drowning by floods, the most clear headed paths forward come from the radical Black left. The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) is consistent in doing our part.

This month, the Haiti/Americas Team of BAP has been leading a call to action on Haiti to counter the Biden administration’s call for the UN to send a military force to intervene in Haiti with Kenya volunteering to serve as the Black face of white supremacy in a perverse claim to “restore order” in Haiti by invading the island nation in the name of Pan-Africanism. In the face of this imminent imperialist intervention BAP remains vigilant and is exposing these intercontinental contradictions. Kenya is willing to assist white supremacist in Haiti at the expense of the wishes and aspirations of the Haitian people.

While plans for the invasion in Haiti are being finalized, Africans are rising up in Niger to kick France out and regain control of their country and its immense mineral resources. In response the French refuse to leave and, with their U.S. partners in crime, plan to use the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to invade Niger. Once again employing Black faces to carry out white supremasist, imperialist designs. 

Africans (black people) everywhere must be vigilant in defense of our interest. The imperialist, white supremacist empire is struggling with legitimacy and employing the age old tactic of “Divide and Conquer”.  As the repression increases, African resistance must also intensify.

BAP is acutely aware – while helping others become so – that the drive to build Cop City is not just in Atlanta but that there are similar projects in Newark and Baltimore to name a few and that the U.S. settler state is preparing to lash out even more as its empire continues to decline. It insists on sending billions to Ukraine and on the militarization of Africa, while more and more of its citizens join the ranks of the homeless, are denied the human right to healthcare, face obscene price hikes for basic necessities, crumbling infrastructure, and derailing trains. Look at the heavy handed approach to the organizers against Cop City.

The same grand jury and prosecutor who is going after Trump and his associates with RICO charges, have also brought RICO charges against the Stop Cop City protestors. We will not forget that this follows the indictments against the Uhuru Movement earlier this year. Repression abroad and repression within the enclaves of those colonized in Western countries is what the Black working class has to look forward to. 

In the next month of October the Africa Team of BAP, and the organizing arm of our campaign “U.S. Out of Africa, Shut Down AFRICOM, will hold the 4th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM, under the theme “From Niger to Haiti to Cop City, Defeat the War Against African People.”

BAP Coordinating Committee Chairperson, Ajamu Baraka points out:

“The lived experiences of the colonized suggest that the difference between a white supremacist liberal imperialist order and something European activists label as fascism is indistinguishable.”

People are seeking and need an alternative which is why formations like BAP become more and more vital. There is no way out of the current moment we face except through revolutionary struggle and organization. BAP came in to fill a need – to rekindle the Black liberation movement, in particular the Black Radical Tradition; crystallizing the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist position of our people. With wars raging on between Russia and Ukraine raising the threat of a nuclear catastrophe, saber rattling against China over Taiwan that eerily resembles U.S. policy toward the Russia-Ukraine military conflict, and military destabilization across the entire African continent, there has never been a greater need to for the masses of the people to organize. It should be clear now that revolutionary struggle is the only solution.

With your support, BAP will continue to bring clarity to the context and the complexity of the struggle of African People around the world.

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After their success with the Kirin 9000s smartphone chip, I expected Huawei to make AI chips using that same technology. And that is precisely what Huawei announces now.

And much more.

Huawei will not only make advanced AI chips in contravention of US tech sanctions, Huawei will also build big computers and run AI cloud data centers on a large scale.

Huawei announces that the era of big AI has also come for China. Huawei speaks of developing and implementing both software and hardware for LLM (Large Language Models), which is the main type of models for implementing AI. 

Huawei already makes smartphones, 5G wireless telecom base stations, PCs, and operating systems, key tech fields in which operate big US tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and INTEL.

Huawei now adds new big business fields including AI-chip design, fields which are the domain of other US tech giants NVIDIA and AMD.

By adding AI cloud computer centers, Huawei enters other large business fields in which operate Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, and IBM. That is already an enormous palette covered by Huawei. But even more than that. Huawei announces that it will open a new business field where Huawei will work with companies to develop and run big AI models for their specific needs with their specific big data. Having a large toolbox of generally usable AI systems and adapting these to the needs of specific customers is precisely something which IBM is specializing in too.

All US tech sanctions against China are in shambles now.

And it is an extra kick in the face of the US that this complete Chinese contravention of all US tech sanctions is announced by Huawei, which is a hundred-times over sanctioned by the US, and through Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s CFO who was illegally detained on fake US orders in Canada. See this.

It looks like US tech sanctions are crumbling faster than anybody (including myself) had expected.

Huawei is clearly designated by China as one if not the lead company to achieve China’s ambitious goals in AI and tech.

Instead of being quashed by sanctions like the US wanted to, Huawei has become much stronger by overcoming US sanctions.

Huawei is becoming an unprecedented global IT and tech giant in many ways bigger than IBM, INTEL, and Apple by combining all they do into one mega tech Corporation supported and spearheaded strategically by the Chinese government.

Welcome to Huawei-World.

The strategic consequences are enormous on a global scale. China is already the leading industrial and trade power in the World. China has the World’s biggest economy measured in Purchase Power Parity (PPP), far bigger than the USA.

China in recent years has also become the leading research power in the World, also surpassing the USA with a substantial margin. China also already has the biggest navy in the World. With a continued growth advantage over the USA of 3.5% in yearly GDP, China will overtake US GDP in a decade, by 2033.

And now, with the collapse of US tech sanctions, the US has no hope of keeping China from becoming the World’s leading power in everything – tech, economy, trade, industry, diplomacy, and military.

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is meeting Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa today as he scrambles to rally more international support for his troops fighting Russia. 

Mr Zelensky landed in the capital late on Thursday, and will today have talks with Mr Trudeau before addressing the Canadian parliament.   

The Ukrainian leader will hope for a positive outcome after a difficult visit to Washington, where US president Joe Biden offered warm words of support and weapons – but rejected a request for longer range ATACMS missiles.

Mr Zelensky also faced skeptical Republicans who want to cut off aid to his country amid concerns over the slow progress of Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

Some Republicans are threatening to block Mr Biden’s funding requests, with one senator openly declaring that Congress ‘should not be sending another blank check to Zelensky’.

It came just one day after Poland‘s prime minister announced he would no longer arm Ukraine amid a row over grain exports – in a move sure to delight Russian president Vladimir Putin. 

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The United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly (UNGA) president today approved the non-binding U.N declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR), without a full assembly vote and over the objections of 11 nations.

Critics called the declaration, which seeks to create a global pandemic authority with the power to enforce lockdowns, universal vaccination and censorship of “misinformation,” “hypocrisy” and “unhinged.”

The approval came as part of a high-level meeting on PPPR. But what does the declaration mean in practice?

For proponents, the declaration is a key step toward global coordination in pandemic prevention and public health.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it “presents an opportunity … to prevent and prepare for pandemics and their consequences, using an approach that involves all government sectors.”

The WHO also said the PPPR aims to “apply lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic” and “comes as the world faces multiple humanitarian and climate-related crises which are threatening lives and livelihoods around the world.”

In a statement, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “If COVID-19 taught us nothing else, it’s that when health is at risk, everything is at risk.” He linked the PPPR to the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), saying world leaders should “show they have learned the painful lessons of the pandemic.”

Attorney Lawrence Gostin, head of Georgetown University’s WHO Collaborating Center — a key figure “playing a key behind-the-scenes role in negotiations” for the proposed “pandemic treaty” and amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) — said the high-level meeting “is our best chance to gain support and deep engagement of heads of state and government.”

‘Unprecedented’ Agreement Comes at Expense of National Sovereignty

Other experts took a different view. Author and podcaster Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, told The Defender it is “very worrying” that the U.N. and WHO “will further encourage, if not actually authorize, the kind of standing capability or authority on their part to essentially dictate what constitutes emergencies.”

“There’s no getting around the fact that it’s going to come at the expense of the sovereignty of the various nations that will subsequently be told that they have an emergency and told what they have to do about it,” he added. “This is unprecedented.”

Gostin said “Negotiators are at a loss” as to how to balance accountability and sovereignty when implementing instruments like the PPPR, IHR or “pandemic treaty.”

Writing for the Brownstone Institute, Dr. David Bell, a public health physician, biotech consultant and former director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund, said “the main aim” of the PPPR “is to back” the “pandemic treaty” and IHR amendments currently under negotiation by WHO member states.

Bell said a “silence procedure” is in place, “meaning that States not responding will be deemed supporters of the text.” He said the text is “clearly contradictory, sometimes fallacious, and often quite meaningless,” and intended to centralize the WHO’s power.

Bell told The Defender, “The declaration was not written with serious intent, but is essentially empty rhetoric promoting a continued centralization of control that the U.N. and WHO are openly seeking, at the expense of democracy, human rights and equality.”

Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., a bioweapons expert and professor of international law at the University of Illinois who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, agreed. “The same people who drafted the pandemic treaty and the IHR amendments drafted the PPPR document,” Bell told The Defender.

“This is a full-court press to have the entirety of the United Nations Organization, its specialized agencies and its affiliated organizations, back up and support their proposed globalist WHO worldwide totalitarian medical and scientific police state,” he said.

Today’s high-level meeting included scheduled speeches from 158 national representatives, including the presidents or prime ministers of 34 countries and, representing the U.S., Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

Panelists included German Minister of Health Dr. Karl Lauterbach and representatives of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.

What Does the Declaration Mean for You?

The final text of the PPPR political declaration, dated Sept. 1, includes statements and proposals covering a range of issues, from vaccination to so-called “misinformation.”

Screenshot of the PPPR Political Declaration from the UN

According to the declaration, “pandemics call for timely, urgent and continued leadership, global solidarity, increased international cooperation and multilateral commitment … to implement coherent and robust national, regional and global actions, driven by science … to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”

Stating that “health is a precondition for all” and an indicator of “sustainable development,” the declaration calls for:

• Universal vaccination: The declaration expresses “deep concern” about declining global vaccination rates, and includes a commitment supporting “research and development of vaccines and medicines, as well as preventive measures and treatments for communicable and non-communicable diseases.”

“Routine immunization is one of the most efficient and cost-effective public health interventions with the greatest reach and demonstrated health outcomes,” the declaration states, while highlighting the ”important role played by the private sector in research and development of innovative medicines,” including vaccines.

It calls for the improvement of “routine immunization, vaccination and outreach capacities, including by providing evidence-based information on promoting confidence, uptake, demand” and “expand[ing] vaccine coverage to prevent outbreaks as well as the spread and re-emergence of communicable diseases.”

• Makes “temporary” COVID-19 powers permanent: The declaration expresses “concern with the continued emergence and re-emergence of epidemic-prone diseases,” stating “the need … to build on the lessons learned and best practices from the COVID-19 pandemic,” including “turning, where appropriate, temporarily scaled up capacities” developed during the pandemic “into permanent capacities in a sustainable manner.”
• Calls for increased surveillance and digital health documents, such as vaccine passports:The declaration “recognize[s] … the potential of digital health technologies” in “implementing and supporting health measures and bolstering national response efforts” to pandemics and health emergencies.

Digital technologies such as vaccine passports are a key component of the under-negotiation IHR amendments. The declaration, in turn, also states a need for “early warning systems” and “an integrated One Health approach,” for “the earliest and most adequate response” to pandemics and health emergencies.

• Potential social media censorship: The declaration expresses “concern that health-related misinformation and disinformation negatively impacted routine immunization services globally.”

Accordingly, the declaration calls for “measures to counter and address the negative impacts of health-related misinformation, disinformation, hate speech and stigmatization, especially on social media platforms … including countering vaccine hesitancy … and to foster trust in public health systems and authorities.”

• Calls for “pandemic treaty” and IHR amendments to be finalized: The declaration “encourages” the conclusion of negotiations on the IHR amendments and the “pandemic treaty,” suggesting that this will ensure “the sustainable, affordable, fair, equitable, effective, efficient and timely access to medical countermeasures,” including vaccines.
• You will pay for this: The declaration “Welcome[s] the launch of the Pandemic Fund” to “finance critical investments” for pandemic preparedness and response, at a cost of $30 billion per year. This price tag includes an “estimated gap of $10 billion in new external financing per year outside current official development assistance levels” — namely, dues paid by WHO member states.

According to Bell, “The WHO noted in 2019 that pandemics are rare, and insignificant in terms of overall mortality over the last century” but, “The WHO and the entire U.N. system now consider pandemics an existential and imminent threat.”

He said this is important, because “They are asking for far more money than is spent on any other international health program,” which will “deliver great wealth to some people” and great powers for governments, which can be used to “reimpose the very responses that have just caused the largest growth in poverty and disease in our lifetimes.”

“Logically, pandemics will only become more frequent if someone intends to make them so (so we should wonder what is going on),” Bell wrote.

Bell said that while the declaration pays lip service to issues such as women’s rights and education, it contradicts itself by supporting COVID-19-style restrictions, including “closing schools and disproportionately throwing women out of work and into poverty.”

Independent journalist James Roguski told The Defender, “The vast harms that have been caused by approved therapeutics and injections make the hypocrisy” of the declaration’s calls for “greater access” to vaccines “absolutely astonishing.”

“If the WHO was still about improving overall health, they would obviously not be involved in this as it is contrary to good public health policy,” Bell said.

Gostin said misinformation “poses a serious health threat, especially in vaccine distribution,” adding, “Balancing free speech with combating misinformation is challenging” and that the “WHO can lead partnerships between scientific experts and information disseminators to ensure credible information reaches the public.”

Bell, however, disagreed with this view, writing, “The WHO recently publicly characterized people who discuss adverse effects of COVID vaccines and question WHO policies as ‘far-right,’ ‘anti-science aggressors,’ and ‘a killing force,’” adding that “This is unhinged. It is the denigration and hate speech that fascist regimes use.”

Yet, for Gostin, the PPPR declaration isn’t enough. “It is wholly inadequate on concrete action, such as pledges for funding health systems,” he said, adding “There has been too little cooperation between the U.N. and WHO.”

11 Countries Opposed Declaration

Consensus on the PPPR is not universal. In a Sept. 17 letter to Dennis Francis, president of the UNGA, co-signed by the representatives of 11 countries, “legitimate concerns” were raised “of a large number of developing countries have been ignored.”

The 11 countries are Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Eritrea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nicaragua, the Russian Federation, the Syrian Arab Republic, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

Their letter broke the “silence procedure,” stating, “Our delegations are convinced that this is no way to handle multilateral and intergovernmental negotiations on issues of great relevance for the international community, particularly for developing countries.”

It added that “no consensus has been reached on any of these processes.” However, the letter does not contain specific objections to the content of the PPPR declaration.

According to Boyle, the 11 nations’ objections should “prevent this declaration being adopted by consensus and thus arguably becoming part of customary international law, which is what those behind the declaration intend.”

“They could not get it through the UNGA as a Consensus Resolution because of the 11 objecting states,” Boyle said. “They are trying to spin it and misrepresent it,” he said, by having the UNGA president — not the UNGA — approve the declaration.

Gates-supported Organization Pushed for PPPR Declaration

In addition to national representatives, organizations like Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — recognized as a stakeholder and “observer” by the WHO — also participated in today’s meeting.

Gavi proclaims a mission to “save lives and protect people’s health,” and states it “helps vaccinate almost half the world’s children against deadly and debilitating infectious diseases.”

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a partner of Gavi and holds a permanent seat on its board— as do the WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

Gavi described this year’s UNGA as “a sobering milestone” on the path toward meeting the 2030 target date for the SDGs, and said the high-level meeting is “a one-time and historic opportunity for leaders to adopt a whole-of-government, whole-of-society, global approach to addressing pandemic threats.”

“By taking lessons from the acute phase of the pandemic, the moment is imminent to shape a more responsive and resilient system,” Gavi said, adding that “urgent action is needed to fulfill the SDG3 [health and well-being] targets and reach all children with life-saving vaccines.”

Gavi also assigned itself a role in this process, stating, “There should also be a prominent role for specialised agencies such as Gavi, building on technical expertise and lessons from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic to achieve health equity.”

Bell said Gavi is an example of an organization that was not “negatively impacted” by the COVID-19 catastrophe. “People and corporations who sponsor much of the WHO’s health emergency work, and that of its sister organizations such as CEPI, Gavi, and Unitaid, did very well from the policies they advocated so strongly for,” he wrote.

PPPR Envisions ‘Digital Gulag,’ Negotiated in ‘Secrecy’

Gaffney, who is hosting a webinar today relating to proposals to expand vaccine passports and grant the WHO more power, said PPPR is part of a broader power grab by the WHO and U.N., including proposals expected to be discussed at the U.N. in September 2024, to grant the U.N. secretary-general indefinite emergency powers.

“Both the U.N. and WHO envision this kind of digital gulag as an underpinning mechanism for exercising that kind of authority, and specifically the ability of those entities to dictate what must be done in response to whatever they decide is a crisis, health-related or otherwise,” Gaffney said. “This is the thing that’s very alarming to me.”

Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, a French physician and diplomat and member of the team that drafted the PPPR declaration, said the declaration and the proposal to grant the U.N. secretary-general emergency powers are linked.

According to Roguski, the PPPR declaration is one of “four tracks that are important to pay attention to right now” — along with the IHR amendments adopted in May 2022, which he says “need to be rejected by the end of November,” the new IHR amendments and the “pandemic treaty” (formally named the WHO CA+ Framework Convention).

Roguski told The Defender that the May 2024 target date for adoption of the IHR amendments and “pandemic treaty” at the WHO’s World Health Assembly is in jeopardy due to the objecting nations — a view shared by Gostin, who said the May 2024 deadline is “pushing it” but noting that “the reason for speed is compelling.”

Roguski said the PPPR negotiations were conducted in “secrecy” and noted the PPPR declaration “is silent” regarding efforts to develop a Global Digital Health Certification Network — which would establish a global framework for “vaccine passports” and other types of health certificates to be implemented.

Roguski said that rather than calling for gain-of-function research to end, the PPPR supports funding WHO efforts “to implement a Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing System.” He said this “increases the risk of the spread of deadly pathogens, by design.”

According to the PPPR declaration, a high-level meeting reviewing progress on PPPR implementation will be held in New York in 2026. Other health-related high-level meetings at the UNGA this week focus on universal health coverage and tuberculosis.

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First published by Global Research on May 23, 2015, Colin Todhunter focusses on the socially destructive role of GMO Seeds.

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If physical violence is to be used only as a final resort, a dominant class must seek to gain people’s consent if it is to govern and control a population. It must attempt to legitimize its position in the eyes of the ruled over by achieving a kind of ‘consented coercion’ that disguises the true fist of power. This can be achieved by many means and over the years commentators from Gramsci to Althusser and Chomsky have described how it may be done.

However, one of the most basic and arguably effective forms of control is eugenics/ depopulation, a philosophy that includes reducing the reproductive capacity of the ‘less desirable’ sections of a population.

There is a growing fear that eugenics is being used to get rid of sections of the world population that are ‘surplus to requirements’. And it is a legitimate fear, not least because there is a sordid history of forced/covert sterilizations carried out on those deemed ‘undesirable’ or ‘surplus to requirements’, which reflects the concerns of eugenicists who have operated at the highest levels of policy making. From early 20^th century ‘philanthropists’ and the Nazis to the nascent genetics movement and rich elites, by one means or another ridding the planet of the great unwanted masses has always been fairly high on the ‘to do’ list (see this informative piece)

Millionaire US media baron Ted Turner believes a global population of two billion would be ideal, and billionaire Bill Gates has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to improve access to contraception in the Global South.

Gates has also purchased shares in Monsanto valued at more than $23 million at the time of purchase. His agenda is to help Monsanto get their genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into Africa on a grand scale. In 2001, Monsanto and Du Pont bought a small biotech company called Epicyte that had created a gene that basically makes the male sperm sterile and the female egg unreceptive.

Bill Gates’ father has long been involved with Planned Parenthood:

“When I was growing up, my parents were always involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.”

The above quotation comes from a 2003 interview with Bill Gates.

Planned Parenthood was founded on the concept that most human beings are reckless breeders. Gates senior is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a guiding light behind the vision and direction of the Gates Foundation, which is heavily focused on promoting GMOs in Africa via its financing of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).

The Gates Foundation has given at least $264.5 million to AGRA.

According to a report published by La Via Campesina in 2010, 70 percent of AGRA’s grantees in Kenya work directly with Monsanto and nearly 80 percent of the Gates Foundation funding is devoted to biotechnology.

The report also explains that the Gates Foundation has pledged $880 million to create the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), which is a heavy promoter of GMOs.

The issue of genetic engineering cannot be fully understood without looking at the global spread of US power. The oil-rich Rockefeller dynasty helped promote the ‘green revolution’, which allowed the US to colonise indigenous agriculture across large parts of the planet. By projecting power through the WTO, IMF and World Bank, Washington has been able to make food and agriculture central to its geopolitical strategy of securing global dominance.

As with the control of food and agriculture, the US also regards depopulation as a potential geo-strategic tool (see this) in the quest for control of global resources. What better way to achieve this via a (GM) tampered-with food system that US agribusiness has increasingly come to dominate?

What better way to achieve this than with ‘spermicidal corn’ for example? In Mexico, there is concern about biopharmaceutical corn. Some years ago, Silvia Ribeiro, of the ETC organization, stated:

“The potential of spermicidal corn as a biological weapon is outrageous, since it easily interbreeds with other varieties, is capable of going undetected and could lodge itself at the very core of indigenous and farming cultures. We have witnessed the execution of repeated sterilization campaigns performed against indigenous communities. This method is certainly much more difficult to trace.”

While most of the literature on GMOs is concerned with the impacts of crops that have been genetically modified to deal with pests or herbicide spraying, there are very worrying trends regarding plants being genetically modified to contain industrial pharmaceuticals or possess possible contraceptive traits.

The world’s problems are not being caused by overpopulation, as Turner states, but by greed and a system of ownership and global power relations that ensures wealth flows from bottom to top. The issue at hand should not be about stopping population growth in its tracks but about changing a socially divisive global economic system and the unsustainable depletion of natural resources.

Millionaires like Ted Turner believe it should be a case of carry on consuming regardless, as long as the population is cut.

This is the ideology of the rich who regard the rest of humanity as a problem to be ‘dealt with.’ He says there are “too many people using too much stuff.” He couldn’t be more wrong. For instance, developing nations account for more than 80 percent of world population, but consume only about one third of the world’s energy. US citizens constitute 5 percent of the world’s population but consume 24 percent of the world’s energy.

We should be weary of a politically and militarily well-connected biotech sector which has ownership of technology that allows for the genetic engineering of food and a gene that could be used (or already is) for involuntary sterilization. From covert vaccination campaigns to germ warfare and geo-engineering, sections of the population around the world have too often been sprayed on, injected or exposed to harmful processes to induce sterility, infertility or to merely see the outcome of exposures to radiation, bacteria or some virus. It is for good reason some conflate GMOs and bio-terror.

Herbert Marcuse once summed up the problem facing us by saying that the capabilities — both intellectual and technological — of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than before. As a result, the scope of society’s domination over the individual is also immeasurably greater than ever before. That domination comes in increasingly sinister forms.

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Today, we are witnessing the nudging (manipulation) of the population to accept a ‘new normal’ based on

• a climate emergency narrative,
• restrictions on movement and travel,
• programmable digital money,
• ‘pandemic preparedness’ courtesy of the World Health Organization’s tyrannical pandemic treaty,
• unaccountable AI and synthetic ‘food’.

Whether it involves a ‘food transition’, an ‘energy transition’, 15-minute cities or some other benign-sounding term, all this is to be determined by a supranational ‘stakeholder’ elite with ordinary people sidelined in the process. An undemocratic agenda designed to place restrictions on individual liberty, marking a dramatic shift towards authoritarianism.

In the 1980s, to help legitimise the deregulation-privatisation neoliberal globalisation agenda, government and media instigated an ideological onslaught, driving home the primacy of ‘free enterprise’, individual rights and responsibility and emphasising a shift away from the role of the state, trade unions and the collective in society.

We are currently seeing another ideological shift:

Individual rights and freedoms are said to undermine the wider needs of society and the planet – in a stark turnaround – personal freedom is now said to pose a threat to national security, public health or the climate.

As in the 1980s, this messaging is being driven by an economic impulse. This time, the collapsing neoliberal project.

In the UK, poverty is increasing in two-thirds of communities, food banks are now a necessary part of life for millions of people and living standards are plummeting. Indeed, the poorest families are enduring a ‘frightening’ collapse in living standards, resulting in life-changing and life-limiting poverty).

In the US, around 30 million low-income people are on the edge of a ‘hunger cliff’ as a portion of their federal food assistance is taken away.

In 2021, it was estimated that one in eight children were going hungry in the US. Small businesses are filing for bankruptcy in the US at a record rate.

The Bank of England’s chief economist, Huw Pill, says that people should ‘accept’ being poorer. This is similar to the response of Rob Kapito, co-founder of the world’s biggest asset management firm, BlackRock. In 2022, the unimaginably rich and entitled Kapito said that a “very entitled” generation of (ordinary working) people who have never had to sacrifice would soon have to face shortages for the first time in their lives.

While business as usual prevails in Kapito’s world of privilege and that of major arms, energy, pharmaceuticals and food companies, whose megarich owners continue to rake in massive profits, Kapito and Pill tell ordinary people to get used to poverty and the ‘new normal’ as if we are ‘all in it together’ – billionaires and working class alike. They conveniently use COVID and the situation in Ukraine as cover for the collapsing neoliberalism.

But this is part of the hegemonic agenda that seeks to ensure that the establishment’s world view is the accepted cultural norm. And anyone who challenges this world view – whether it involves, for instance, questioning climate alarmism, the ‘new normal’, the nature of the economic crisis, the mainstream COVID narrative or the official stance on Ukraine and Russia – is regarded as a spreader of misinformation and the ‘enemy within’.

Although the term ‘enemy within’ was popularised by Margaret Thatcher during the miners’ strike in 1984-85 to describe the striking miners, it is a notion with which Britain’s rulers have regarded protest movements and uprisings down the centuries. From the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381 to the Levellers and Diggers in the 17^th century, it is a concept associated with anyone or any group that challenges the existing social order and the interests of the ruling class.

John Ball, a radical priest, addressed the Peasants’ Revolt rebels with the following words:

“Good friends, matters cannot go well in England until all things be held in common; when there shall be neither vassals nor lords; when the lords shall be no more masters than ourselves.”

The revolt was suppressed. John Ball was captured and hung, drawn and quartered. Part of the blood-soaked history of the British ruling class.

Later on, the 17^th-century Diggers movement wanted to create small, egalitarian rural communities and farm on common land that had been privatised by enclosures.

The 1975 song ‘The world Turned Upside Down’ by Leon Rosselson commemorates the Diggers. His lyrics describe the aims and plight of the movement. In Rosselson’s words, the Diggers were dispossessed via theft and murder but reclaimed what was theirs only to be violently put down.

Little surprise then that, in the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher used the state machinery to defeat the country’s most powerful and trade union and the shock troops of the labour movement, the National Union of Mineworkers – ‘the enemy within’. She needed to do this to open the gates for capital to profit from the subsequent deindustrialisation of much of the UK and the dismantling of large parts of the welfare state.

And the result?

A hollowed-out, debt-bloated economy, the destruction of the social fabric of entire communities and the great financial Ponzi scheme – the ‘miracle’ of deregulated finance – that now teeters on the brink of collapse, leading the likes of Kapito and Pill to tell the public to get ready to become poor.

And now, in 2023, the latest version of the ‘enemy within’ disseminates ‘misinformation’ – anything that challenges the official state-corporate narrative. So, this time, one goal is to have a fully controlled (censored) internet.

For instance, US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) recently awarded Accrete a contract for Argus to detect disinformation threats from social media. Argus is AI software that analyses social media data to predict emergent narratives and generate intelligence reports at a speed and scale to help neutralise viral disinformation threats.

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Accrete AI is a leading dual-use enterprise AI company. It deployed its AI Argus software for open-source threat detection with the US Department of Defense in 2022.

In a recent press release, Prashant Bhuyan, founder and CEO of Accrete, boasts:

“Social media is widely recognised as an unregulated environment where adversaries routinely exploit reasoning vulnerabilities and manipulate behaviour through the intentional spread of disinformation. USSOCOM is at the tip of the spear in recognising the critical need to identify and analytically predict social media narratives at an embryonic stage before those narratives evolve and gain traction. Accrete is proud to support USSOCOM’s mission.”

‍This is about predicting wrong think on social media. But control over the internet is just part of a wider programme of establishment domination, surveillance and dealing with protest and dissent.

The recent online article ‘How the Government Weaponizes Surveillance to Silence Its Critics‘ notes that, on any given day, the average person in the US is monitored, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways.

The authors of the article ask us to consider some of the ways the US government is weaponizing its surveillance technologies to flag citizens as a threat to national security, whether or not they have done anything wrong – from flagging citizens as a danger based on their feelings, phone and movements to their spending activities, social media activities, political views and correspondence.

The elite has determined that the existential threat is you. The article ‘Costs of War: Peterloo’, written by UK Veterans for Peace member Aly Renwick, details the history of the brutal suppression of protesters by Britain’s rulers. He also strips away any notion that some may have of a benign, present-day ruling elite with democratic leanings. The leopard has not changed its spots.

As we saw during COVID, the thinking is that hard-won rights must be curtailed, freedom of association is reckless, free thinking is dangerous, dissent is to be stamped on, impartial science is a threat and free speech is deadly. Government is ‘the truth’, Fauci (or some similar figure) is ‘the science’ and censorship is for your own good.

None of this was justified. It only begins to make sense if we regard the COVID restrictions in terms of trying to deal with an economic crisis by closing down the global economy under cover of a public health crisis (see the online articles ‘What Was Covid Really About? Triggering a Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis’ and ‘Italy 2020: Inside Covid’s Ground Zero’ which outline how COVID policies can be explained by economic factors not health concerns).

The economic crisis is making many people poorer, so they must be controlled, monitored and subjugated.

The transitions mentioned at the start of this article along with the surveillance agenda (together known as the ‘Great Reset’) are being accelerated at this time of economic crisis when countless millions across the West are being impoverished. The collapsing financial system is resulting in an interrelated global debt, inflation and ‘austerity’ crisis and the biggest transfer of wealth to the rich in history.

As a result, the powers that be fear that the masses might once again pick up their pitchforks and revolt. They are adamant that the peasants must know their place.

But the flame of protest and dissent from centuries past still inspires and burns bright. So, with that in mind, let’s finish with Leon Rosselson’s lyrics in reference to the Diggers movement (Billy Bragg’s version of the song can be found on YouTube):

In sixteen forty-nine
To St. George’s Hill
A ragged band they called the Diggers
Came to show the people’s will
They defied the landlords
They defied the laws
They were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs

We come in peace they said
To dig and sow
We come to work the lands in common
And to make the waste grounds grow
This earth divided
We will makе whole
So it will be
A common treasury for all

Thе sin of property
We do disdain
No man has any right to buy and sell
The earth for private gain
By theft and murder
They took the land
Now everywhere the walls
Spring up at their command

They make the laws
To chain us well
The clergy dazzle us with heaven
Or they damn us into hell
We will not worship
The God they serve
The God of greed who feed the rich
While poor man starve

We work we eat together
We need no swords
We will not bow to masters
Or pay rent to the lords
We are free men
Though we are poor
You Diggers all stand up for glory
Stand up now

From the men of property
The orders came
They sent the hired men and troopers
To wipe out the Diggers’ claim
Tear down their cottages
Destroy their corn
They were dispersed
Only the vision lingers on

You poor take courage
You rich take care
The earth was made a common treasury
For everyone to share
All things in common
All people one
We come in peace
The order came to cut them down
We come in peace
The order came to cut them down

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Food, Dispossession and Dependency. Resisting the New World Order

We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain. The high-tech/big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model of food and agriculture on the world.

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

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We have to have the courage to face our enemies. I think most readers of this article will already know that the psychotic element of the human race which has succeeded in establishing itself at the top of the end of the control pyramid, will stop at nothing to get its way. 

That ‘way’ is to destroy the soul of humanity and bulldoze all but the most elementary expressions of nature.

What I have to report today escaped my attention until very recently, but unfortunately fits the above description all too well. 

On 13 May 2021 the Defence and Armed Forces Ministry (MOD) of the UK government published a document entitled ‘Human Augmentation – the Dawn of a New Paradigm’. That title alone sent a shiver down my spine; but that shiver extended upon reading the first paragraph. 

“The Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre worked in partnership with the German Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning to understand the future implications of human augmentation, setting the foundation for more detailed Defence research and development”.

Screenshot from MOD 

Screenshot from MOD 

Why is it that a link-up between the German Bundeswehr and the British Ministry of Defence sent an extended shiver through my body? 

Next we learn that

“The project incorporates research from German, Swedish, Finnish and UK Defence specialists to understand how human augmentation emerging technologies could affect the future of society, security and Defence.” 

Well, well, are we supposed to believe that these ‘defence specialists’ are coming together to make a detached survey of the state of the art developments of human beings re-engineered to become instant battlefield weapons? 

Not likely! This is a description of a collaboration designed to work-out the optimum potential of such cyborgian kamikaze bipedals, to be at the cutting edge of offensive military hardware in the very near future. 

We read on

“Human augmentation technologies provide a broad sense of opportunities for today and in the future. These are mature technologies that could be integrated today with manageable policy considerations, such as personalised nutrition, wearables and exoskeletons.“

What in God’s name are they talking about?

Are readers of this UK government document supposed to know what ‘personal nutrition’, ‘wearables’ and ‘exoskeletons’ actually are?

Bear in mind that this was written in the middle of the great Covid hoax. Doesn’t it ring of something equally diabolical?

But wait, it gets worse

“There are other technologies in the future with promises of bigger potential such as genetic engineering and brain computer interfaces.”

OK, thanks. Now you have let us into an uncloaked description of what’s to come in a language most can understand. The weaponised corporals in the front line of the war with…China?..Russia? will be computer programmed Transhumans – the jewel in the crown of Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, Fourth Industrial Revolution. We might have guessed. 

But hey, just take a look at the next revelation

“The ethical, moral and legal implications of human augmentation are complex and hard to foresee and regular engagement with these issues must be thoroughly considered.”

Hard to foresee? Only if you are a deeply psychotic, mind-blind and insentient demon disguised as a human being. 

The document ends with the following statement

“Human augmentation could signal the coming of a new era of strategic advantage with possible implications across the force development spectrum.” 

“A new era of strategic advantage with ‘possible implications’ across the force development spectrum”. Now the shiver has reached my heart, but I’m not letting it dwell there for more than a couple of seconds. In fact I’m outraged by the utter obscenity of all these statements. 

What kind of ‘strategic advantage’ are these technocrats talking about? What kind of ‘possible implications’ for the ‘force development spectrum’? Possible implications?

“Hi Sam, this is Houston Automated Army Digital Defence Centre, here’s your instructions: plug-in corporal Jones and line him up with target 371. Make sure his wearables are set on invisible mode and that he is equipped with ‘insecto-synth-nutrit’ augmentation capsules. We’ll be steering him from here. But you guys need to be alert to any retaliation within the war theater.” 

It is highly instructive that in the ‘related content’ section at the end of the MOD document are the following links: 

• Financing the 2030 Agenda through Covid-19 and beyond 
• Agenda 2030: delivering the global goals 
• The Fourth Industrial Revolution 
• Investing in a Better World: Results of UK Survey on Financing SDG’s (Sustainable Development Goals). 

This is an in-your-face head’s-up for anyone still failing to understand ‘the programme’ being driven forward by the darkly possessed globalist cabal. A programme designed to exterminate warm hearted, living breathing human beings like you and me and replace us with a mix of mind controlled/hypnotised slaves and digitally programmed robotic devices that ape elementary human behaviour patterns. 

The authors of this report should already be in the dock for advancing the implementation of such egregious crimes against humanity. This is ice cold techno-military gamesmanship portrayed as a shared and even ‘ethical’ scientific overview of the latest developments in high-tech sub human battlefield deployments – and its all part of Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development and the Great Reset. 

One must not underestimate the lengths this evil cohort will go to achieve its ambitions. It will ‘voluntarily’ stop at nothing. So it must be stopped by us. 

 If we want the light of day to shine on future generations – we must resolutely commit to putting our best energies into making sure we win this war; empowering our light to vanquish the darkness. 

Warriors of the Golden Dawn – step forward! 

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“Dissident Voice”

In an explosive and extraordinary analysis, Dr. Anita Baxas, MD, explains the multiple causes for injuries and deaths from covid injections worldwide. An estimated 20 million people died and another 2 billion have been injured (adverse events) worldwide. And this after only 2 ½ years of the coerced fake and deadly covid vaxxes.

Dr. Baxas reasons that spike protein, like any protein foreign to the body, may cause the immune system to build antibodies against it.

This may explain the damage to cells and ultimately the tissues they form, such as the inner lining of blood vessels, heart muscle, kidneys, ovaries, testes and basically any organ that displays the spike protein.

It may also explain inflammation, myocarditis, vascular complications such as heart attacks, strokes, brain fog, pulmonary embolism, sudden loss of vision, hearing, limb amputations to erectile dysfunction – and many more diseases, not immediately linked to the covid injections, but to immune deficiencies caused by the injections.

Ultimately, it may explain auto-immune disease symptoms and a heightened immune response, eventually depleting the immune system, leading to immune deficiency.

See Dr. Baxas’s full report below.

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The NYT Covid Tracker estimated in March 2023 that over 5.55 billion people, 72.3% of the world population, have been injected at least twice by the vaxx poison. See this.  

According to Michael Yeadon, former Pfizer VP and Chief of Research, the real death toll will manifest itself three to ten years after the covid injections and “boosters”. In addition to the direct vaxx effect, each mRNA spike-protein “follow-up” injection will also disturb and diminish people’s immune system and consequently lead to many deaths from various causes.

On several occasions, Dr. Yeadon expressed his concern that people should at all cost abstain from covid injections, or at least avoid “booster” shots. See this and this and this.

Become Aware 

It is never too late to become aware and proactive against a killer-system that wants to drastically reduce humanity, convert survivors to robotized transhumans subjected to artificial intelligence (AI) – and full digitization to the world’s locked-in matrix.

We MUST under no circumstances allow the WEF, WHO, and the United Nations to push through the planned 94-point revision of the International Health Regulations (IHR) which includes the Pandemic Treaty, giving the UN and WHO the authority to decide on health regulations over and above national sovereignty of the more than 190 member countries.

This would also involve worldwide recognized and recognizable digital vaxx certificates and IDs.

It would transform WHO and the UN into an international health tyranny.

These measures are currently being debated behind closed doors at the UN General Assembly, 19 to 26 September 2023.

Update: Just in: UN General Assembly President Approves Pandemic Declaration — Privacy Experts Warn of ‘Digital Gulag’ (20 September 2023), see this.

What Causes Death and

Disability in the COVID Shots?

Is there something hidden inside to cause the illusion of the “next pandemic”?

By

Dr. Anita Baxas

Experts estimate that 20 million are dead and 2 billion have been injured by the Covid injections¹. The spectrum of symptoms people suffer from after getting the Covid shots is very large.  This is an indication that there are several undisclosed ingredients in the shots that alone or in combination with each other can cause this wide variety of health problems.

Researchers on five continents have been examining the vials and blood of the injected. So far the following culprits of death and disability have been discovered, though not all their effects are completely known yet.² At the bottom of the article you will find a table listing the affected organ systems and the symptoms/diseases that affect them as well as the ingredient(s) most likely causing the problems.

mRNA (modified RNA, NOT messenger RNA)

Not all the examined vials contained mRNA, but we must assume that the majority do. It’s transported through the cell membranes into the cell and as researchers in Sweden³ found also into the nucleus where it can be inserted into the DNA via an enzyme called reverse transcriptase. It’s supposedly coded to force the cell to make spike proteins which are then expressed on the outside of the cell’s membrane. There it attracts antibodies that ultimately destroy not only the spike protein but also the cell presenting it.

Spike protein is said to be the outer shell of the virus. As there is no proof that viruses exist, the question arises as to what the mRNA is coded for. mRNA and DNA basically are blueprints for cells to produce amino acid chains. Two or more short amino acid chains make up peptides and several peptides make up proteins. Any protein foreign to the body will cause the immune system to build antibodies against it. What protein the mRNA in the shots code for remains an open question.

This can explain the damage to cells and ultimately the tissues/organs they form such as the inner lining of blood vessels, heart muscle, kidneys, ovaries, testes and basically any organ that displays the spike protein. It can explain inflammation, myocarditis, vascular complications such as heart attacks, strokes, brain fog, pulmonary embolism, sudden loss of vision, hearing, limb amputations to erectile dysfunction. It can also explain auto-immune disease symptoms and a heightened immune response ultimately depleting the immune system leading to immune deficiency.

Lipid Nano Particle LNP aka Hydrogel ^4-9

This is supposedly only a harmless transport vehicle to get the mRNA into the cell. Patents discovered by Karen Kingston though show that they are much more than that. They can build “things” and be directed by outside stimuli like temperature, electric and magnetic fields, possibly by signals sent via 5G (?). They can serve as sensor platforms and transmitters. They could be the origin of fibrous clots pulled out by coroners and embalmers. Dr. Ana Maria Mihalcea MD, PhD as well as Dr. Shelton in Australia, Dr. Nixon in New Zealand, La Quinta Columna researchers in Spain, Shimon Yanowitz in Israel and others have photographed structures that look like computer chips that are assembled under the influence of EMF.

These hydrogels could be responsible for clotting symptoms as they are suspected of forming fibrous clots (not blood clots). These include the same as symptoms as caused by spike proteins. They may be responsible for the spiritual decline and personality changes as well as neurological symptoms like seizures.

Fetal Tissue

Admittedly human fetal tissue was used to create the shots. Dr. Robert Young said that this is used to drive or direct the LNP with the mRNA to particular tissues in the body. From my medical background doing fetal cell therapy (using animal fetal cell tissue –NEVER human) to treat a variety of so-called incurable diseases I have seen studies done in the early 50s to 70s proving that fetal cells will migrate to the tissue of their origin. Thus, when we injected fetal calf liver cells intramuscularly, these cells would migrate to the liver to heal the organ in the patient. Consequently the “vaccine” manufacturers are using fetal tissue as a driver to direct the LNPs loaded with mRNA and probably Graphene to particular tissues. The shot was never going to stay only in the Deltoid muscle where the injection was placed. They purposely targeted certain organ systems such as ovaries, testes, brain. Fertility of the human race was purposefully targeted as a means of depopulation. A recent analysis by Professor Konstantin Beck at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland of June 6, 2023 clearly shows a reduction of birth rates in Germany and Switzerland by about 10%. This was due to the increase of still births mainly within 9 months of the first “vaccination” campaign. A report from the UK just confirmed an increase in stillbirths as well.

As it’s possible that Graphene is also enclosed in the hydrogel, it could be a co-factor in fertility issues. The fetal tissue is the cab driver, the hydrogel is the cab and the mRNA and very possibly Graphene are the passengers.

Graphene Oxide

I have already written about the effects of Graphene in the human body in my first Substack. Here is a short summary of Graphene effects in the body:

Physical Destruction of Cell Membranes: Acts like razor blades, cutting through the cell membranes.

Free Radical Damage: breakdown of cell membrane lipids,  DNA breakage & mutation, Chromosomal fragmentation, Protein denaturation, Deformation of Chromosomal end base pairs.
Mitochondrial dysfunction, aging, mutagenesis, carcinogenesis. Reduces antioxidants Glutathione and SOD, increases free radical malonaldehyde.

Inflammation: Elevation of pro inflammatory cytokines IL-6, 12, Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha, Nuclear factor Kappa beta. Activates Immune response with Monocytes, Macrophages, T Helper cells 1+2 and destroys them.

Apoptosis: Triggers mechanisms in the cell to induce cell death, necrosis

Alters Gene expression: Epigenetic effects through DNA hypermethylation or hypomethylation

• Forms large aggregates blocking blood vessels
• Platelet aggregation forming thrombi (blood clots)
• Retards brain tissue development in fetus by decreasing RNA and DNA synthesis
• Retards blood vessel formation in the heart of the fetus, leading to hypoxia
• Leads to abortion and death of the mother in pregnant mice
• Hemolysis (destroyed red blood cells)
• Cytotoxic to T Lymphocytes (toxic to the immune cells called T Lymphocytes)
• Decreases Cell adhesion, changes cell morphology leading to cell degradation
• Decreases gene expression responsible for structure and function of cell membranes, regulation of cytoskeleton, endocytosis and focal adhesion. Cell function becomes dysregulated.
• Colon Cancer cell viability improves with Graphene Oxide!
• Affects locomotor activity, balance, neuromuscular coordination
• Electrostatic interactions with Red blood cells (Rouleau formation, aggregation)

Researchers in China¹⁰ studied the effects of Graphene in the body. Basically it can go everywhere, pass the Blood Brain barrier, Placental barrier, Lung and Testis barriers. Depending on the method of administration (oral, intravenous, subcutaneous, intratracheal (into the windpipe), intraperitoneal- into the abdomen), it can be found in lung, liver, spleen, bone marrow, blood vessels. It penetrates cell membranes, the nucleus and mitochondria. Larger particles can get stuck in blood vessels. It breaks down cell membranes, breaks DNA strands, mutates DNA, fragments chromosomes and destroys proteins. It causes mitochondria to malfunction curbing cellular energy production. It causes aging and cancer. It causes massive inflammation and increases the inflammatory cytokines Interleukin 6, 12, Tumor Necrosis Factor and Nuclear Factor Kappa Beta. It activates immune cells and destroys them.  It triggers cell necrosis and cell death leading to organ failure.

Graphene can be responsible for a collapsing immune system, inflammation, multi organ damage including blood vessels leading to blood clots and thrombocytopenia (lack of blood platelets due to excessive bleeding using up the platelets faster than they can be made leading to more excessive bleeding). Many neurological symptoms can be caused not only by reduced blood flow to the central nervous system due to spike proteins and hydrogels but also by direct damage to nervous tissue by Graphene. These include paralysis (including Bell’s palsy), Parkinson’s symptoms, MS, Guillain Barré symptoms, uncontrollable limb movements and other neurological symptoms. Graphene will also be responsible for fetal malformation and still births as well as infertility. The collapsing immune system as well as damage to DNA could explain the massive increase in cancers seen in the injected population. Mitochondrial damage explains chronic fatigue and brain fog.

Graphene used to carry payloads which can be released by remote activation via mobile phones- is this the next “pandemic”?

A new article was just published in Science Direct¹¹ explaining how Graphene Oxide can be used to transport payloads such as a pharmaceutical (and maybe a potent toxin, bio weapon, warfare chemical?) and then triggered to release the payload remotely via a mobile phone.  Graphene was not only injected with the fake vaccine but was also found on masks and nasal swabs. The implications of this are frightening. Suspicion is circulating that the next “pandemic” will be Marburg or Ebola virus. Since there is no proof that viruses exist (see my last Substack article), let’s look at what toxins could elicit symptoms that could be attributed to these two viruses. The most prominent symptoms of Marburg “infection” are fever, myalgia (muscle aches), headaches, nausea, vomiting, pain, diarrhea, cough, chest pain, sore throat, jaundice, swollen lymph glands, delirium, stupor, coma, bleeding, rash, multiple organ failure. Most of these symptoms correlate with the body trying to detox something.

Snake venom from crotalid and viparid snakes can cause diffuse bleeding of skin and internal organs¹².  Blood thinners such as Warfarin which is also used in rat poison cause disseminated bleeding.  Endotoxins from gram negative bacteria such as E. Coli, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Salmonella and others can cause generalized intravascular coagulation (blood clotting inside of blood vessels) leading to a rapid decline of blood clotting factors and platelets which then causes generalized bleeding.  There may exist poisons that are not known about except in top secret labs that could cause Marburg and Ebola symptoms.

Then there are electromagnetic frequencies that can inhibit blood coagulation leading to increased bleeding. This has been studied in 2001 in Poland¹³ and in 2022 in the country of Georgia¹⁴. We also know that EMFs can elicit flu like symptoms which mostly are a detox reaction as detailed in the last Substack article.

It’s important not to take any information by government as truth in case the next plandemic is rolled out with symptoms attributed to viruses such as Ebola and Marburg.

Toxic Metals

These are found in most vaccines. Many are neurotoxins causing neurological issues, but they also interfere with normal cellular metabolism. Besides causing neurological issues they can also interfere with the heart’s electrical system causing palpitations.

Aluminum, Antimony, Barium, Titanium, Cesium and Thulium have been found in vials so far.

A Parasite Here and There

Dr. Robert Young found a parasite in one of the vials called Trypanosoma Cruzi.

Dr. Robert Young found Trypanosoma Cruzi in a Pfizer vial under his microscope. Trypansosoma Brucei was also found which causes sleeping sickness. T. Brucei is one of the few pathogens known to cross the blood-brain barrier. 

Trypanosoma Cruzi is the cause of Chagas Disease:

Acute infection is followed by a latent period which may remain asymptomatic or progress to chronic disease. Infection during pregnancy results in stillbirth or abortion or chronic neonatal disease. Acute Chagas disease is fatal. Death results from acute myocarditis with heart failure or meningo-encephalitis. Chronic disease has cardiac and GI effects with chronic cardiomyopathy with heart failure, syncope, sudden death, thromboembolism. In the GI tract it can cause enlargement of the esophagus causing dysphagia and mega colon with difficulty passing stool.

Trypanosoma Brucei causes African Sleeping Sickness:

Causes intermittent fever, headaches, rigors, circular red rash, swollen lymph nodes. Inability to concentrate personality changes (lassitude, indifference), daytime somnolence, tremor, ataxia, over eating, terminal coma.

Entries in the VAERS system corroborate Dr. Young’s findings. One of them tells of a woman who donates blood regularly and whose blood tested positive for the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite after her second vaccination.

So far these are the only reports and findings on parasites. More research is needed.

An Italian Research Team examined 1006 blood samples. 12 Samples were taken from patients before and after vaccination. 94.23 % had abnormal blood!¹⁵

Below is a table showing the organ systems affected, the known symptoms/illnesses and the probable cause of these.

I personally suspect there are other as of yet undiscovered ingredients in the shots as mRNA and Graphene can’t completely explain the skin conditions found in the injected patients. They are also not a complete explanation for some of the spiritual problems encountered by many energy healers such as torn up, thin aura, dark energies surrounding their clients and many more issues (see the post about Spiritual Implications of the Fake Covid Vaccines)

Natural Treatment Possibilities

There are natural treatments that can alleviate, even heal many of the issues caused by the shots. The main problem is that integrative/alternative physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are usually in small private practice and don’t have the resources to do studies.  They are all scrambling to find the best treatment options for their patients and many are afraid to share them publicly for fear of losing their license to practice. I had a conversation with an integrative physician about his experience. You can read it here.

I will be speaking with more colleagues and posting their treatment approaches and experiences in future articles.

To get a short overview of possible treatments, see www.vaccineinjuryrecoveryproject.com.

 

Notes

1. https://expose-news.com/2023/09/15/20m-dead-2b-injured-covid-vaccination/?cmid=a18ca5fb-e862-4aed-8e59-ae3343383f1e 

2. What is in the so-called COVID-19 «Vaccines»? Part 1: Evidence of a Global Crime Against Humanity. International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research 2(2), September 3, 2022 Page 586

3. Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, 20502 Malmö, Sweden
Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden
Curr. Issues Mol. Biol. 2022, 44(3), 1115-1126; https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb44030073

4. Hydrogel-Induced Cell Membrane Disruptions Enable Direct Cytosolic Delivery of Membrane-Impermeable       Cargo. Advanced Materials/ Volume33, Issue 30/ 2008054 June 09, 2021 Jelter Van Hoeck et al.

5. A new class of biological materials: Cell membrane-derived hydrogel scaffolds. Biomaterials Vol. 197, March 2019, pages 244-254. Zhiyuan Fan et al.

6. Principles for optimization and validation of mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccines against COVID-19 using 3D bioprinting. Nano Today, Vol. 43, April 2022, 101403 Massimiliano Papi et al.

7. mRNA Vaccines Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants Delivered by Lipid Nanoparticles Based on Novel Ionizable Lipids. Advanced Functional Materials/Early view/ 2204692, 19 July 2022, Kepan Chen et al.

8. Smart Hydrogels in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Materials 2019,12,3323 doi:10.3390/      ma12203323, Somasundar Mantha et al.

9. USPTO Utility application Ser.No. 12/399,906. Dynamic Bio-Nanoparticle Elements filed March 6, 2009.

10. Toxicity of graphene-family nanoparticles: a general review of the origins and mechanisms. Particle and Fibre Toxicology (216) 13:57 DOI 10.1186/s12989-016-0168-y Lingling Ou et al.

11. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468519422002166

12. Hemorrhagic Toxins from Snake Venoms, Jon Bragi Bjarnason & Jay William Fox, Pages 121-209 | Published online: 28 Sep 2008 https://doi.org/10.3109/15569548809059729

13. The effect of electromagnetic fields on blood coagulation and fibrinolysis in humans], E Kazimierska, Pol Merkur Lekarski  2001 Jan;10(55):9-11. PMID: 11320559

14. Electromagnetism, Blood Flow and Coagulation Merab Beraia, Guram Beraia MRI Department, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia.Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia. DOI: 10.4236/jbise.2022.157017 

15. Dark-Field Microscopic Analysis on the Blood of 1006 Symptomatic Persons After Anti-COVID mRNA Injections from Pfizer/BioNtech or Moderna. International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research. Franco Giovannini, MD, Riccardo Benzi Cipelli MD,DDS     and Gianpaolo Pisano MD, OHNS 2(2), August 12, 2022 Page 385

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United Nations recently published three new Policy Briefs “to provide more detail on certain proposals contained in Our Common Agenda” – The UN Secretary-General’s vision for the future of global cooperation that will be decided at “The Summit of the Future” in September 2024.

These briefings; A Global Digital Compact, Reforms to the International Financial Architecture and The Future of Outer Space Governance sets out a chilling course for our future.

Among the proposals are a new “apex body” in charge of the entire financial system that will “enhance its coherence and align its priorities with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” This could, according to Secretary-General António Guterres, be done through a “Biennial Summit between the Group of 20, Economic and Social Council, the Secretary-General, and heads of international financial institutions.”

This will further integrate the G20 with the United Nations into a body that can be described as an economic Security Council. It also seems like a perfect nest for the “apex predators” that runs the international banking system.

A vital part of the agenda is also digital connectivity and the establishment of a Global Digital Compact. This can be described as a cybernetic organ, consisting of a digitally connected network of people, entities, devices, and things, that easily can be directed by those who run the system. In the Policy Brief it is for example explained how digitisation will help to achieve the global goals. The suggestions happens to be very similar to what World Economic Forum and PwC prescribed in their report Unlocking Technologies for the Global Goals in 2020. A Digital ID is a cornerstone in this work and is among other things seen as a way to reduce poverty.

This may, however, come at a cost. In the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperations report Age of Digital Interdependence from 2019, it is stated that:

A digital ID can help unlock new opportunities but can also introduce new risks and challenges. They can be used to undermine human rights – for example, by enabling civil society to be targeted, or selected groups to be excluded from social benefits.

Will you get your social protection coverage if you don’t comply with vaccinations or other measures introduced to achieve the SDGs? Probably not. This can later be fused with a social credit system and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) – which is now being introduced and tested in many countries across the world. To receive your daily bread you have to obey and accept the instructions from the Masters that run the show. If the UN declares a “Planetary Emergency” this will have severe consequences for our freedoms (as we experienced during the pandemic).

In the Policy Brief – A Global Digital Compact the authors truthfully are mentioning the rising inequality after the pandemic.

Digital technologies are accelerating the concentration of economic power in an ever smaller group of elites and companies: the combined wealth of technology billionaires, $2.1 trillion in 2022, is greater than the annual gross domestic product of more than half of the Group of 20 economies.

But it seems that United Nations has a somewhat peculiar way of solving this problem. Not only do they strive towards digitising everything – they have also partnered with Big Tech in order to achieve this.

The UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation was led by Melinda Gates from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (according to the bio, Melinda “helped develop many of the company’s multimedia products” during her time at Microsoft) and tech billionaire Jack Ma from the Chinese Ali Baba Group.

This comes with assistance from Young Global Leaders like Mohammed Al Gergawi(chairman of the high-tech Mecca gathering – World Government Summit in Dubai), and Marina Kolesnik (Russia/Ukraine) as well as a “generous” contribution from the World Economic Forums Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Ali Baba developed Chinas Social Credit System through their subsidiary Ant Group whereas Microsoft promotes Digital ID in the ID2020 Alliance together with GAVI – The Vacccine Alliance and the ever so present Rockefeller Foundation.

United Nations seems to have hired a gang of robbers to manage the bank. These are the “trustees of the material universe for future generations” as stated in the global business elites’ Davos Manifesto from 1973.

And now our “generous” tech billionaires are heading for Outer Space. The last Policy Brief (The Future of Outer Space Governance) formulates the grand vision to reestablish a presence on the moon with a way station (Lunar Gateway) and the development of a base at the south pole of the Moon as well as conducting a manned mission to the red planet (Elon Musk’s SpaceX).

These are old fantasies from the late 1940s that never seem to materialise. But their “space-based opportunities” also highlight the “important link between outer space and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” with the importance of satellite surveillance to “track deforestation, monitor protected areas for illegal poaching and fishing and assess biodiversity changes” as well as track our every move through the global navigation satellite systems.

As WEF-trustee and Climate Prophet/Profiteer Al Gore proclaimed with a giggle in the commercial for his satellite surveillance project Climate Trace: “And most importantly… NO MORE HIDING”.

Are these people insane? How can the construction of a digital world brain really contribute to a greener and healthier planet?

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As partes envolvidas no conflito Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh alcançaram felizmente um acordo de cessar-fogo temporário. Mas a crise parece longe de terminar. Sendo governada por uma junta pró-OTAN, a Armênia terá muitos problemas num futuro próximo, tanto em Artsakh como no seu próprio território, uma vez que evidentemente a intenção do Ocidente é aumentar tanto quanto possível o caos na região.

Não há dúvida de que o governo irresponsável e impopular de Nikol Pashinyan é o culpado pela recente escalada no conflito entre a Arménia e o Azerbaijão. Tendo chegado ao poder através de uma revolução colorida pró-Ocidente, Pashinyan tem-se esforçado desde 2018 para fazer de Yerevan um estado proxy da OTAN no Cáucaso, aumentando exponencialmente os laços entre a Arménia e países como os EUA e a França, ao mesmo tempo que cria fricções com a Rússia.

Incapaz de obter qualquer garantia real de segurança por parte dos seus parceiros ocidentais e adoptando um comportamento hostil para com a Rússia, Pashinyan levou a Armênia a uma fraqueza estratégica absoluta num momento de novas tensões elevadas com o Azerbaijão, culminando nos ataques ocorridos entre 19 e 20 de Setembro na qual o Azerbaijão chama de “operação antiterrorista”. Covardemente, Pashinyan deixou claro que não participaria do conflito, quase forçando os armênios de Artsakh a se renderem para evitar uma catástrofe humanitária.

Mais de 120 mil armênios temem agora o seu futuro face à agressão do Azerbaijão, sem poder contar com a ajuda dos seus parceiros em Yerevan na crise. Na prática, Pashinyan “entregou” as vidas dos seus compatriotas a um país inimigo, colocando o seu próprio povo em risco e mostrando falta de preocupação com a segurança dos armênios étnicos. Tudo isto para continuar a cumprir o objetivo número um do governo, que é agradar aos “aliados” ocidentais.

Deve ser lembrado que os “amigos” ocidentais de Pashinyan criaram uma verdadeira armadilha para a Armênia ao mediarem os chamados “acordos de Praga”. Na altura, Yerevan reconheceu a soberania do Azerbaijão, o que foi erroneamente visto pelos grandes meios de comunicação como um “passo em direção à paz”. O problema é que o acordo não estabeleceu quaisquer condições reais para resolver a disputa sobre Artsakh, servindo assim para legitimar ainda mais o interesse de Baku na região. Com a Arménia a reconhecer a integridade territorial do Azerbaijão, o país ficou sem qualquer justificação para evitar novas agressões do Azerbaijão contra a etnia armênia de Artsakh.

Na prática, Pashinyan legitimou o expansionismo turco-azerbaijano em Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh e “autorizou” o início da limpeza étnica, abandonando mais de 120 mil armênios. Esta foi a intenção ocidental ao promover tal “acordo”, cujos termos, em vez de alcançarem a paz, legitimaram ainda mais conflitos. Isto serve obviamente os interesses ocidentais, uma vez que face a novas hostilidades, Yerevan, incapaz de intervir, tende a solicitar ajuda à OTAN- exatamente como fez o embaixador armênio em Washington – permitindo assim a chegada de tropas ocidentais à região. Neste cenário, Baku certamente também solicitaria ajuda internacional, apelando aos turcos. No final, o Cáucaso tornar-se-ia uma zona de influência da OTAN e a presença russa na região seria minimizada ou mesmo eliminada.

É claro que tudo isto ficou claro recentemente, levando a uma onda de protestos e críticas em massa contra Pashinyan. Além disso, o partido “Civil Contract” recebeu o menor número de votos em cinco anos nas últimas eleições para o council of elders, sendo apoiado por apenas 32% dos eleitores. Existe evidentemente uma crise de legitimidade e é possível que o fim da era Pashinyan seja uma questão de tempo.

O principal problema, porém, é que Pashinyan não é um agente isolado. Ele é apenas um dos membros da junta pró-OTAN que governa a Arménia de hoje. Além dele, há outros políticos igualmente dispostos a subordinar Yerevan aos planos ocidentais. Por exemplo, o secretário do conselho de segurança, Armen Grigoryan, que muitos analistas veem como alguém com possibilidade de crescer politicamente e tornar-se o novo primeiro-ministro, é um político ainda mais pró-Ocidente do que Pashinyan.

Ligado às Fundações Soros, Grigoryan diz abertamente que promoverá a integração da Arménia na OTAN, avançando as políticas iniciadas por Pashinyan. Além disso, Grigoryan já é notório pela sua militância pró-Ocidente, tendo mesmo sido acusado de vazar documentos confidenciais da CSTO para a NATO, o que mostra o seu elevado nível de subserviência aos interesses estrangeiros.

Assim, infelizmente, não há boas expectativas quanto ao futuro da Armênia. O país precisaria de passar por uma mudança política radical para reverter os efeitos catastróficos do golpe de 2018. Se isso não acontecer, Yerevan continuará a ser governada por políticos pró-Ocidente, e o único ponto de divergência entre eles será sobre como ser ainda mais obediente à OTAN.

Pashinyan parece cada vez mais entender que será substituído por alguém mais “competente”. Não é de surpreender que haja rumores de que sua esposa começou recentemente a procurar imóveis na Suíça e que seu filho já mora no Canadá. Ao contrário do povo armênio de Artsakh, Pashinyan poderá deixar o país com a sua família, sem ver em primeira mão a catástrofe que criou para o seu próprio povo.

Lucas Leiroz

 

Artigo em inglês : http://infobrics.org/post/3942

Lucas Leiroz, jornalista, pesquisador do Centro de Estudos Geoestratégicos, consultor geopolítico.

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The number of public school book bans across the country increased by 33 percent in the 2022-23 school year compared to the 2021-22 school year, according to a new PEN America report. “Banned in the USA: The Mounting Pressure to Censor” highlights the disproportionate number of bans occurring in Florida — where over 40 percent of all book bans took place in the 2022-23 school year — and shows how state legislation and coordinated pressure campaigns from local groups and individuals have driven mass restrictions on access to literature.

Since PEN America started tracking public school book bans in July 2021, the organization has recorded nearly 6,000 instances of banned books. This includes 3,362 book bans affecting 1,557 unique titles during the 2022-23 school year, impacting the work of 1,480 authors, illustrators, and translators.

There are multiple drivers of these trends. Over the past school year, vaguely-worded state legislation and local and national advocacy groups have converged, pressuring districts to remove more books from student access. Fear of penalties, legal liabilities, and criminal punishments are escalating book bans to new heights.

“The toll of the book banning movement is getting worse. More kids are losing access to books, more libraries are taking authors off the shelves, and opponents of free expression are pushing harder than ever to exert their power over students as a whole,” said Suzanne Nossel, Chief Executive Officer of PEN America. “Those who are bent on the suppression of stories and ideas are turning our schools into battlegrounds, compounding post-pandemic learning loss, driving teachers out of the classroom and denying the joy of reading to our kids. By depriving a rising generation of the freedom to read, these bans are eating away at the foundations of our democracy.”

This year Florida surpassed Texas as having the most books pulled from shelves. Laws and tactics that emerged in the Sunshine State are also being replicated elsewhere. The language of the so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law that originated in Florida has been mimicked in Iowa, where vagueness and lack of state guidance similarly led school districts to ban books. Book Looks, a website created by a Moms for Liberty member from Florida to encourage book censorship, has been used widely to ban books, from Pennsylvania to Virginia.

The range of efforts to restrict teaching or intimidate educators also continues to expand. The escalation of book bans — combined with the proliferation of legislative efforts to restrict teaching about topics like race, gender, American history, and LGBTQ+ identities, as well as the rise in ‘educational intimidation’ mandates that require intrusive monitoring of teachers and librarians — pose a grave threat to the freedom to read and learn in schools across the country. 

PEN America argues these efforts are part of an ongoing nationwide “Ed Scare” — a campaign to foment anxiety and anger with the ultimate goal of suppressing free expression in public education.

Other major findings include:

• PEN America recorded 1,406 book ban cases in Florida, followed by 625 bans in Texas, 333 bans in Missouri, 281 bans in Utah, and 186 book bans in Pennsylvania. These cases are instances where books were banned from classrooms or libraries, or both, or were banned pending investigation, as per PEN America’s definitions.
• Over 75 percent of the books banned are young adult books, middle grade books, chapter books, or picture books — in other words, books specifically written and selected for younger audiences.
• Of the 3,362 books banned this year, 1,263 were banned from classrooms and school libraries, compared to only 333 books in this category last year. This represents an increase of nearly 400 percent compared to last school year.
• Nearly half of all book bans (48 percent) during the 2022-23 school year deal with violence or physical abuse, including books that include sexual assault; 30 percent include characters of color and themes of race and racism; 30 percent represent LGBTQ+ identities; and six percent include a transgender character.
• In the 153 school districts across the country that banned a book during the 2022-23 school year, 124(81 percent) have a chapter or local affiliate nearby of one or more of the three most prominent national groups pushing for book bans — Moms for Liberty, Citizens Defending Freedom, and Parents’ Rights in Education. These districts are where 87percent (2,912) of book bans have occurred.

According to Kasey Meehan, PEN America’s Freedom to Read program director and lead author of the report, “Hyperbolic and misleading rhetoric continues to ignite fear over the types of books in schools. And yet, 75 percent of all banned books are specifically written and selected for young audiences. Florida isn’t an anomaly – it’s providing a playbook for other states to follow suit. Students have been using their voices for months in resisting coordinated efforts to suppress teaching and learning about certain stories, identities, and histories; it’s time we follow their lead.”  

One positive trend highlighted in the report is the continued growth in student pushback against book bans across the country. Youth resistance to book bans in numerous school districts has included protests, speaking out at school board meetings, and the establishment of national organizations dedicated to defending access to literature in schools.

This report expands on PEN America’s work documenting the spread of educational censorship in America’s schools, showing the rapid evolution and intensification of book-banning across the country since the April 2023 Banned in the USA report, which documented 1,477 instances of book bans in the first half of the 2022-23 school year.

Author John Green, whose book, Looking for Alaska, was the third most banned in U.S. schools according to the report, said

“While I’m encouraged by PEN America’s work to protect free expression and intellectual freedom, it’s disappointing to see such a steep rise in the banning and restriction of books. We should trust our teachers and librarians to do their jobs. If you have a worldview that can be undone by a book, I would submit that the problem is not with the book.”

PEN America defines a school book ban as any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened action by lawmakers or other governmental officials, that leads to a previously accessible book being either completely removed from availability to students, or where access to a book is restricted or diminished.

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The US has created a permanent new pandemic agency called the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy in anticipation of future pandemics and the Decade of Vaccines. President Joe Biden has appointed a retired Air Force general to take charge of spearheading the project.

Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy

On Friday, the White House made an official announcement regarding the establishment of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR). This newly formed agency will have the important responsibility of formulating strategies to address public health crises, coordinating scientific research and medical initiatives to combat pandemics, and ensuring regular reporting to Congress on its activities.

According to a press release from the White House: 

“This will be a permanent office in the Executive Office of the President charged with leading, coordinating, and implementing actions related to preparedness for, and response to, known and unknown biological threats or pathogens.”

Major General Paul Friedrichs

The newly established office will be led by Retired Air Force Major General Paul Friedrichs, who currently holds the position of special assistant to President Joe Biden and serves as the Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the White House National Security Council.

Before this role, Friedrichs served as the joint staff surgeon at the Pentagon, where he provided guidance to the military’s Covid-19 task force.

During a speech in February, Dr. Friedrichs, who had retired from the military in June, took the opportunity to look back on his impressive 37-year career in the Air Force and offered some personal insights. He shared that his family background was deeply connected to military service and resilience.

His father had served in the Navy towards the conclusion of World War II, while his mother had a remarkable history as a Hungarian freedom fighter, whose own parents tragically lost their lives at the hands of the Russians.

Next-Generation Vaccines

According to the New York Times, the Official Pandemic Preparedness and Response (OPPR) is set to be officially established on August 7. Following its establishment, Friedrichs will initiate the process of forming a dedicated team. His primary tasks will involve ensuring that the Strategic National Stockpile is adequately stocked with essential medical supplies and collaborating with Congress to secure funding for bolstering US preparedness initiatives.

In his new position, Dr. Friedrichs holds the authority to supervise and manage domestic biosecurity preparedness. A significant aspect of his role will involve spearheading the development of next-generation vaccines for future pandemics.

Additionally, Dr. Friedrichs will prioritize enhancing surveillance systems to diligently monitor and detect new biological threats as they arise.

Pandemic 2025

The year 2025 seems to have a special importance for global health institutions predicting future pandemics. Multiple pandemic scenarios like Event 201 before COVID-19, are being played out targeting the year 2025.

Catastrophic Contagion

SEERS, a fictional virus, was specifically designed for a simulated pandemic preparedness exercise known as Catastrophic Contagion. This exercise took place in October 2022 and was held in Brussels. The primary objective was to engage public health and government officials in a realistic scenario where they could explore and discuss effective responses to the invented illness.

During the simulated exercise, participants engaged in a series of World Health Organization meetings to strategize and analyze the best course of action to combat the fictional virus, SEERS. The description of the virus in the summary of the event indicated that it had a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and had a particular impact on children and young people.

The Catastrophic Contagion exercise was conducted in collaboration between Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security, the World Health Organization, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

As part of the exercise, a highlight reel was assembled, featuring various components, including a fictional television news segment dedicated to reporting on the developments and impacts of the SEERS virus. This simulated media coverage aimed to mimic real-world situations and enable participants to assess how information dissemination and public communication would be vital during a potential pandemic situation.

SPARS Pandemic 2025–2028

According to Johns Hopkins University, the SPARS Pandemic Scenario 2025-2028 is a fictional training exercise designed for public health and government officials. Its purpose is to serve as a teaching and training resource, enabling participants to practice responses and improve public health protection measures.

In the simulated scenario, the narrative revolves around Americans returning from Asia with an unknown, influenza-like illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) later identifies the illness as a novel coronavirus named SPARS-CoV, with little to no information available about it. The virus is transmitted through respiratory droplets, and quarantine measures are recommended for infected or exposed individuals. Eventually, the outbreak escalates into a global pandemic. 

Although the similarities between the fictional SPARS scenario and the real-world COVID-19 pandemic are indeed striking, Johns Hopkins University was forced to release a statement on December 16, 2021, emphasizing that the scenario is not a prediction.

“The scenario is not a prediction: It is a teaching and training resource for public health officials, to help users envision problems that could plausibly emerge in the future, so that they can practice responses and better protect the public’s health. Any resemblances between the fictional scenario storyline and the COVID-19 pandemic are coincidental. The scenario was developed by experts in the clinical, epidemiological, sociocultural, and communication aspects of epidemic management, to assure the narrative’s scientific plausibility.”

COVID 2025

The video series “COVID 2025: Our World in the Next 5 Years” features prominent scholars from the University of Chicago engaging in discussions about the lasting impacts of COVID-19 on various aspects of our lives. These experts delve into how the pandemic will bring about significant changes in health care, international relations, education, urban life, and several other crucial areas.

The series offers insights and predictions on the potential transformations that will shape our world over the next five years. By examining the mainstream consequences of the pandemic, the discussions brainwash individuals and communities to prepare for future pandemics and adapt to the evolving circumstances.

Through these discussions, viewers are normalized to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, providing a foundation for proactive decision-making and strategic planning in a post-COVID-19 world.

Decade of Vaccines (DoV)

As highlighted above, the role of the new pandemic agency OPPR is to develop next-generation vaccines for future pandemics. This is what is dubbed as the Decade of Vaccines (DoV) Collaboration by British Vaccine Cartel GAVI.

In 2010, a significant announcement was made by the Vaccine Cartel, declaring the upcoming decade as the “Decade of Vaccines.” This initiative aimed to create a world where everyone, regardless of their background and skepticism, would be vaccinated. 

Under the Decade of Vaccines (DoV) Collaboration, a diverse group of stakeholders joined to establish the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP). The primary goal of GVAP was to promote the research, development, and distribution of vaccines, working to fulfill the future pandemics scenarios.

GAVI – the British Vaccine Cartel

Playing a crucial role in the DoV Collaboration was GAVI, an organization that holds a prominent position on the Leadership Council. GAVI is largely led by the British government and Bill Gates. While the UK is GAVI’s largest funder, its implementation follows what is known as the” Gates approach”. Known as the Vaccine Cartel or Pharma Cartel by critics, its vaccines have been accused of causing atleast 38 million premature deaths worldwide.

The UK has funded GAVI since its inception in 2000 and is its largest donor, with a pledge of £1.65 billion for the next five years.

However, GAVI has been criticized for giving private donors more unilateral power to decide on global health goals, prioritizing new, expensive vaccines while putting less money and effort into expanding coverage of old, cheap ones, harming local healthcare systems, spending too much on subsidies to large, profitable pharmaceutical companies without reducing the prices of some vaccines, and its conflicts of interest in having vaccine manufacturers on its governance board.

British Eugenics Movement

GAVI is also associated with the British Eugenics Movement as well as other Eugenics-linked institutions like the Wellcome Trust and other manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine like AstraZeneca and Oxford University.

Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, is enmeshed with the Gates Foundation. His employer, the University of Oxford, has received $11 million for vaccine development research from the foundation over the past three years and $208 million in grants over the past decade.

In 2016, the Gates Foundation gave $36 million to a team of researchers that was headed by Pollard for vaccine development. In addition, Pollard’s private laboratory is funded by the Gates Foundation.

Given this, it should come as no surprise that the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI), a public-private partnership founded and currently funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, plans to distribute the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to low-income, predominantly African and Asian, countries once it’s approved.

The developers of the COVID-19 vaccine share a close relationship with the most infamous eugenics society in Europe, the British Eugenics Society. The Eugenics Society was renamed the Galton Institute in 1989, a name that pays homage to Sir Francis Galton, the so-called father of eugenics, a field that he often described as the “science of improving racial stock.”

This new “wider definition of eugenics,” Galton has said, “would cover methods of regulating population numbers as well as improving genome quality by selective artificial insemination by donor, gene therapy or gene manipulation of germ-line cells.” In expanding on this new definition, Galton is neutral as to “whether some methods should be made compulsory by the state, or left entirely to the personal choice of the individual.”

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“I don’t want anybody to win! I do not think of this war in these terms! I want this war to end as quickly as possible!”

Dimitri Lascaris, from his speech at the conference “Making Peace with Russia, One Handshake at a time.”

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The War in Ukraine, or “Special Military Operation” or whatever one wants to call it, has lasted as of the date this is published over 570 days. More than a year and a half. [1]

NATO, an organization sold to nations as “securing a lasting peace in Europe” has had its members spend billions and billions of American dollars supplying tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel vehicles, anti-tank systems, surface to air missile systems, F-16 fighter jets and other weaponry to the country of Ukraine. All this has likely done, however is extend the fight and the suffering. [2][3]

According to the estimates from Mediazona and Meduza, independent Russian media outlets, by May of this year, nearly 50,000 Russian soldiers have perished. And Retired US Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor estimates that over 400,000 Ukrainians in the conflict will not see the sun rise again over the land of their birth. [4]

Ukraine is now completely dependent on international aid from Western countries for their financial survival. According to a Swiss Bank report, European economic growth has been reduced and inflation pushed up considerably since the invasion started. [5]

All the evidence is that, with the current trajectory of forces on the ground, the U.S., NATO, and Ukraine are not turning the tide. The best that they can do, short of having NATO’s forces actually joining the fight and turning this conflict into World War III, is draw out the war. Continue to shed more and more blood. [6]

Citizens abroad, even in America, are starting to grow weary of the conflagration draining their own resources. The dying continues. And their own cost of living is soaring. And in Europe, with another cold winter on the horizon, peace is no longer a dirty word spoken only by “Russian collaborating traitors.”

October 1st to October 8th is slated to be a Global Week of Action to end the war in Ukraine. The Global Research News Hour will try to shift our listeners’ attention to this dynamic and explore the many different ways to achieve peace as soon as possible, and resist wars whose only profiteers so far has been weapons contractors and the investors who derive wealth from them.

In our first half hour, with a Canadian activist perspective, we are joined by Ken Stone and Glenn Michalchuk, members of the Canada-wide Peace and Justice Network. They explain what makes the Ukraine war different from other wars taking place historically. They also talk about the impact of their recent tour by recent visitor to Russia Dimitri Lascaris. And they go through the various Canadian events planned in Canada during the first week of October.

And in our second half hour we speak to conscientious objector and pacifist based in Ukraine: Yurii Sheliazhenko. He was arrested on August 3 by the Security Service of Ukraine for opposing participation in the war. He was accused of ‘justifying Russian aggression’ in spite of his personal opposition to Russian special military operation. He will speak about how the Ukrainian officers violated his rights with his arrest,and about the roots of his own personal convictions regarding fighting in all wars.

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO), War Resisters’ International (WRI), the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) and Connection e.V. (Germany)  strongly condemn the actions of the Ukraine government toward Mr Sheliazhenko and are calling for his release. The World BEYOND War launched a petition to the Ukrainian Government entitled “Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko”.

Ken Stone is a long time antiwar, anti-racism, environmental and labour activist, and resident in Hamilton. He is also Treasurer of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War. He currently coordinates the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network.

Glenn Michalchuk is the Chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg and also the National President Association of United Ukrainian Canadians. He is a member of the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network.

Yurii Sheliazhenko is a  conscientious objector, pacifist, human rights defender and the Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement.

(Global Research News Hour Episode 401)

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1. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1138442#:~:text=The%20war%20began%20on%2024%20February%202022%2C%20and,though%20the%20real%20number%20could%20be%20much%20higher.
2. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/politics/war-funding-ukraine-what-matters/index.html
3. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/politics/us-f-16-fighter-jets-ukraine/index.html
4. https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukrainian-military-contemplating-depose-zelensky-former-us-army-colonel/5832241#popup-maker
5. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/30/tracking-changes-to-ukraines-economy
6. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/19/akof-s19.html

Dopo il suo show alle Nazioni Unite, in cui  ha declamato che “l’aggressione russa potrebbe espandersi oltre l’Ucraina”, Zelensky ha chiesto altri miliardi di dollari al Congresso USA.  Questo ha stanziato finora 43 miliardi in “assistenza alla sicurezza dell’Ucraina”, ossia a fini direttamente militari. Insieme ad altri finanziamenti, dati ufficialmente a fini umanitari ma che in realtà servono alla guerra, l’ammontare fornito  da Washington a Kiev supera ampiamente i 70 miliardi di dollari. Ora la Casa Bianca ha richiesto al Congresso ulteriori 24 miliardi di dollari per l’Ucraina. Si aggiungono a questi oltre 30 miliardi dati a Kiev dall’Unione Europea, più decine di miliardi forniti da Gran Bretagna, Germania, Giappone, Canada, Polonia, Olanda, Norvegia, Danimarca, Svezia, Francia e Italia. 

Questo enorme flusso di denaro pubblico, proveniente dalle tasche dei cittadini, alimenta in Ucraina quello che il New York Times definisce  “un mercato di armi clandestino e segreto”. Miliardi di dollari sono finiti nelle tasche di alti funzionari di Kiev, tanto che il governo ha dovuto licenziare per corruzione il ministro e tutti e sei i viceministri della Difesa. Questi corrotti sono in realtà i capri espiatori di una ben più vasta corruzione. Lo stesso presidente Zelensky ha consistenti quote (trasferite formalmente a un suo socio)  in tre società costituite in paradisi fiscali e ha acquistato ville di lusso in varie parti del mondo (ultimamente in Egitto) per l’ammontare di decine di milioni di dollari. 

Le enormi forniture militari che l’Ucraina riceve dagli Stati Uniti e dalle potenze europee non vengono regalate ma date a credito. L’Ucraina ha così accumulato un debito estero tale che occorrerebbero secoli per ripagarlo Tale debito crescerà ulteriormente con la “ricostruzione” che Zelensky ha messo nelle mani della statunitense BlackRock, la maggiore società di investimenti del mondo. 

“L’investimento in Ucraina ci sta fruttando molto –  afferma il senatore Democratico USA Richard Blumenthal –  Abbiamo unito la NATO. Abbiamo contribuito a ripristinare la fede e la fiducia nella leadership americana – morale e militare. Il tutto senza che un solo militare americano sia stato ferito o ucciso.” “La ragione fondamentale per continuare ad aiutare l’Ucraina – dichiara Mitch McConnell, leader del Gruppo Repubblicano al Senato USA –  sono i freddi, duri e concreti interessi americani”. 

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The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of “net zero carbon” by 2050. This for most sounds far in the future and hence largely ignored. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, to countless other economies, are setting the stage for creation of what in the 1970’s was called the New International Economic Order.

In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, one that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse by design. Consider some background.

Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) is currently promoting his favorite theme, the Great Reset of the world economy. The key to it all is understanding what the globalists mean by Net Zero Carbon by 2050.

The EU is leading the race, with a bold plan to become the world’s first “carbon neutral” continent by 2050 and reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 55% by 2030.

In an August, 2020 post on his blog, self-appointed global vaccine czar Bill Gates wrote about the coming crisis in climate:

“As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse… The relatively small decline in emissions this year makes one thing clear: We cannot get to zero emissions simply—or even mostly—by flying and driving less.”

With a virtual monopoly on mainstream media as well as social media, the Global Warming lobby has been able to lead much of the world into assuming that the best for mankind is to eliminate hydrocarbons including petroleum, natural gas, coal and even the “carbon free” nuclear electricity by 2050, that we hopefully might avoid a 1.5 to 2 degree Centigrade rise in average world temperature. There is only one problem with this. It’s cover for a diabolical ulterior agenda.

Origins of ‘Global Warming’

Many have forgotten the original scientific thesis put forward to justify a radical shift in our energy sources. It was not “climate change.” Earth climate is constantly changing, correlated to changes in the emission of solar flares or sunspot cycles affecting Earth climate.

Around the turn of the millennium as the previous solar-led warming cycle was no longer evident, Al Gore and others shifted the narrative in a linguistic sleight-of-hand to “Climate Change,” from Global Warming. Now the fear narrative has gotten so absurd that every freak weather event is treated as “climate crisis.” Every hurricane or winter storm is claimed as proof that the Climate Gods are punishing us sinful CO2 emitting humans.

But wait. The entire reason for the transition to alternative energy sources such as solar or wind, and abandoning carbon energy sources, is their claim that CO2 is a greenhouse gas that somehow goes up to the atmosphere where it forms a blanket that supposedly warms the Earth below—Global Warming. Greenhouse gas emissions according to the US Environmental Protection Agency come mostly from CO2. Hence the focus on “carbon footprints.”

What is almost never said is that CO2 cannot soar up into the atmosphere from car exhaust or coal plants or other manmade origins. Carbon dioxide is not carbon or soot. It is an invisible, odorless gas essential to plant photosynthesis and all life forms on earth, including us. CO2 has a molecular weight of just over 44 while air (mainly oxygen and nitrogen) has a molecular weight of only 29.

The specific gravity of CO2 is some 1.5 times greater than air. That would suggest that CO2 exhaust gases from vehicles or power plants do not rise into the atmosphere some 12 miles or more above Earth to form the feared greenhouse effect.

Maurice Strong

To appreciate what criminal action is unfolding today around Gates, Schwab and advocates of an alleged “sustainable” world economy, we must go back to 1968 when David Rockefeller and friends created a movement around the idea that human consumption and population growth were the major world problem. Rockefeller, whose wealth was based on oil, created the neo-Malthusian Club of Rome at the Rockefeller villa in Bellagio, Italy. Their first project was to fund a junk study at MIT called Limits to Growth in 1972.

A key organizer of Rockefeller’s ‘zero growth’ agenda in the early 1970s was his longtime friend, a Canadian oilman named Maurice Strong, also a Club of Rome member. In 1971 Strong was named Undersecretary of the United Nations and Secretary General of the June 1972 Stockholm Earth Day conference. He was also a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Maurice Strong was a key early propagator of the scientifically unfounded theory that man-made emissions from transportation vehicles, coal plants and agriculture caused a dramatic and accelerating global temperature rise which threatens civilization, so-called Global Warming. He invented the elastic term “sustainable development.”

As chairman of the 1972 Earth Day UN Stockholm Conference, Strong promoted population reduction and lowering of living standards around the world to “save the environment.” Some years later the same Strong stated:

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

This is the agenda today known as the Great Reset or UN Agenda 2030. Strong went on to create the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a political body which advances the unproven claim that manmade CO2 emissions were about to tip our world into irreversible ecological catastrophe.

Co-founder of the Club of Rome, Dr Alexander King, admitted the essential fraud of their environmental agenda some years later in his book, The First Global Revolution. He stated:

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill … All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself. 

King admitted that the “threat of global warming” was merely a ploy to justify an attack on “humanity itself.” This is now is being rolled out as the Great Reset and the Net Zero Carbon ruse.

Alternative Energy Disaster

In 2011, acting on the advice of Joachim Schnellnhuber, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Angela Merkel and the German government imposed a total ban on nuclear electricity by 2022, as part of a 2001 government strategy called the Energiewende or Energy Turn, to rely on solar and wind and other “renewables.” The aim was to make Germany the first industrial nation to be “carbon neutral.”

The strategy has been an economic catastrophe. Going from having one of the industrial world’s most stable low-cost and reliable electric generation grids, today Germany has become the world’s most expensive electric generator. According to the German energy industry association BDEW, at the latest by 2023 when the last nuclear plant closes, Germany will face electricity shortfalls.

At the same time coal, the largest source of electric power, is being phased out to reach Net Zero Carbon. Traditional energy-intensive industries such as steel, glass production, basic chemicals, paper and cement manufacturing, are facing soaring costs and shutdowns or offshoring and loss of millions of skilled jobs. The energy inefficient wind and solar, today costs some 7 to 9 times more than gas.

Germany has little sun compared with tropical countries, so wind is seen as the major source for green power. There is a huge input of concrete and aluminum needed to produce solar or wind farms. That needs cheap energy—gas or coal or nuclear—to produce. As that is phased out, cost becomes prohibitive, even with no added “carbon taxes.”

Germany already has some 30,000 wind turbines, more than anywhere else in the EU. The gigantic wind turbines have serious problems of noise or infrasound health hazards for residents nearby the huge structures and weather and bird damage. By 2025 an estimated 25% of existing German windmills will need replacement and waste disposal is a colossal problem. The companies are being sued as the citizens realize what a disaster they are. To reach targets by 2030 Deutsche Bank recently admitted the state will need to create an “eco dictatorship.”

At the same time the German push to end gasoline or diesel transport by 2035 in favor of e-vehicles is on course to destroy Germany’s largest and most profitable industry, the auto sector, and take down millions of jobs. The lithium-ion battery-powered vehicles have a total “carbon footprint” when the effects of mining lithium and producing all parts are included, that is worse than diesel autos.

And the amount of added electricity needed for a zero carbon Germany by 2050 would be far more than today, as millions of battery chargers will need grid electricity with reliable power. Now Germany and the EU begin to impose new “carbon taxes,” allegedly to finance the transition to zero carbon. The taxes will only make electric power and energy even more expensive, insuring the faster collapse of German industry.

Depopulation

According to those advancing the Zero Carbon agenda, it is just what they desire: the deindustrialization of the most advanced economies, a calculated decades-long strategy as Maurice Strong said, to bring about the collapse of industrialized civilizations.

To turn the present world industrial economy backward to a wood-burning, windmill turning dystopia where blackouts become the norm as now in California, is an essential part of a Great Reset transformation under the Agenda 2030: UN Global Compact for Sustainability.

Merkel climate adviser, Joachim Schnellnhuber, in 2015 presented the radical green agenda of Pope Francis, the encyclical letter, Laudato Si , as Francis’ appointee to the Pontifical Academy of Science. And he advised the EU on its green agenda. In a 2015 interview, Schnellnhuber declared that “science” has now determined that the maximum carrying capacity of a “sustainable” human population was some six billion fewer people:

“In a very cynical way, it’s a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something –- namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people.”

To do that the industrialized world must be dismantled. Christiana Figueres, a World Economic Forum Agenda Contributor and former executive secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, revealed the true aim of the UN climate agenda in a February 2015 Brussels press conference where she stated, “This is the first time in human history that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally changing the economic development model that has reigned since the Industrial Revolution.”

Figueres’ 2015 remarks are echoed today by French President Macron at the January 2021 World Economic Forum’s “Davos Agenda” where he claimed that “under the current circumstances, the capitalist model and open economy are no longer feasible.” Macron, a former Rothschild banker, claimed that the “only way to get out of this epidemic is to create an economy that is more focused on eliminating the gap between the rich and the poor.” Merkel, Macron, Gates, Schwab and friends will do so by bringing living standards in Germany and the OECD down to levels of Ethiopia or Sudan. This is their zero carbon dystopia. Severely limit air travel, car travel, people movement, closing “polluting” industry, all to reduce CO2. Uncanny how conveniently the coronavirus pandemic sets the stage for the Great Reset and UN Agenda 2030 Net Zero Carbon.

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One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a new report from the Oakland Institute, War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land, exposes the financial interests and the dynamics at play leading to further concentration of land and finance.

“Despite being at the center of news cycle and international policy, little attention has gone to the core of the conflict — who controls the agricultural land in the country known as the breadbasket of Europe. Answer to this question is paramount to understanding the major stakes in the war,” said Frédéric Mousseau, Oakland Institute’s Policy Director and co-author of the report.

The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is over nine million hectares — exceeding 28 percent of Ukraine’s arable land. The largest landholders are a mix of Ukrainian oligarchs and foreign interests — mostly European and North American as well as the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia. Prominent US pension funds, foundations, and university endowments are invested through NCH Capital, a US-based private equity fund.

Several agribusinesses, still largely controlled by oligarchs, have opened up to Western banks and investment funds — including prominent ones such as Kopernik, BNP, or Vanguard — who now control part of their shares. Most of the large landholders are substantially indebted to Western funds and institutions, notably the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank.

Western financing to Ukraine in recent years has been tied to a drastic structural adjustment program that has required austerity and privatization measures, including the creation of a land market for the sale of agricultural land. President Zelenskyy put the land reform into law in 2020 against the will of the vast majority of the population who feared it would exacerbate corruption and reinforce control by powerful interests in the agricultural sector. Findings of the report concur with these concerns. While large landholders are securing massive financing from Western financial institutions, Ukrainian farmers — essential for ensuring domestic food supply — receive virtually no support. With the land market in place, amidst high economic stress and war, this difference of treatment will lead to more land consolidation by large agribusinesses.

The report also sounds the alarm that Ukraine’s crippling debt is being used as a leverage by the financial institutions to drive post-war reconstruction towards further privatization and liberalization reforms in several sectors, including agriculture.

“This is a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying to defend their land, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests. At a time when the country faces the horrors of the war, the government and Western institutions must listen to the calls made by the Ukrainian civil society, academics, and farmers to suspend the land law and all land transactions. The necessity to prioritize an agricultural model no longer dominated by oligarchy and corruption, where land and resources are controlled by and benefit all Ukrainians, is the way forward for post war reconstruction,” Mousseau concluded.

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Annex: War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land

By Frédéric Mousseau and Eve Devillers, The Oakland Institute

Executive Summary

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It started slowly at first – a trickle of concerning reports that something wasn’t right. In January 2021, just weeks after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, cases of myocarditis began cropping up.

Myocarditis – inflammation of the heart muscle – had never been linked to vaccines before. So when 28 cases were reported to the U.S. vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS) [1] that month, it raised eyebrows.

By February, the trickle had become a stream. VAERS received 64 more reports, including two deaths [2]. Then in March, Israel [3] and the military [4] started reporting cases too.

Something strange was going on. But the authorities ignored it.

In March, the FDA authorized the Johnson & Johnson vaccine without a whisper of myocarditis [5]. The CDC soon recommended it for all adults [6]. Colleges and businesses started mandating the shots [7]. It was full speed ahead.

Behind closed doors though, alarm bells were ringing. The CDC met with the military to discuss the myocarditis cases in young troops [8]. Israel was reporting dozens of cases, including in teenagers [9]. The FDA knew from Pfizer that there were nearly 60 cases already in its database [10].

But in public, it was denial and dismissal. The CDC director claimed she wasn’t aware of any military cases [11]. Pfizer hid its database numbers [12]. And the FDA rubber stamped authorization of the Pfizer vaccine for teenagers in May without a mention of myocarditis [13].

As myocarditis reports flooded into VAERS in the hundreds during the summer [14], young, healthy people continued being pressured to get vaccinated. Mandates rolled out across the country [15]. The authorities told the public the benefits outweighed the risks [16].

But patients started sharing their stories of being hospitalized with heart problems after vaccination [17]. Researchers began publishing case reports in medical journals [18]. And still, the CDC publicly downplayed concerns [19].

Behind closed doors, officials strategized about monitoring the alarming reports [20]. They expanded the criteria for identifying myocarditis cases [21]. More hospitals confirmed seeing unusual cases in vaccinated youths [22].

In June, the FDA quietly added warnings about myocarditis to the vaccine fact sheets [23]. The news dripped out slowly that CDC advisers now acknowledged a “likely association” [24].

But the full scope remained obscured. The authorities clung to the narrative that benefits outweighed risks [25]. They used incomplete data and rosy assumptions to claim the vaccines were still worth it for young people [26].

Millions of teenagers continued getting pressured to get vaccinated throughout the summer and fall [27]. It became painfully clear that the drive for widespread vaccination took precedence over transparency and caution.

It wasn’t until October 2021 that the warnings were taken more seriously. Nordic countries limited the Moderna vaccine due to myocarditis concerns [28]. The FDA and CDC were forced to address the risks more openly in meetings [29].

But still, they pushed ahead with expanding the shots to younger ages [30]. Five-year-olds started getting vaccinated in November despite a complete lack of safety data [31]. Booster doses were promoted for teenagers against the advice of their European counterparts [32].

The evidence continued piling up into 2022 that the vaccines were inflaming hearts [33]. Young people, almost all male, were suffering severe outcomes [34]. The FDA fully approved the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines with scarcely a mention of myocarditis[35].

Regulators around the world scaled back recommendations for boosters in young people as more safety signals emerged [36]. But the U.S. charged ahead, even permitting a fourth dose before any trial data was available [37].

Three years and over 1,600 confirmed VAERS reports later [38], the CDC finally admitted publicly that the mRNA vaccines cause myocarditis [39]. But authorities continue maintaining the stance that benefits outweigh risks across all groups [40].

Yet as researchers report finding heart abnormalities months later [41], it’s unclear if the full scope of risks is known. Some experts argue society lost sight of “first, do no harm” in the rush to vaccinate an entire population against COVID-19 [42].

Why were the early warning signs dismissed? How many ended up harmed from ignored or hidden signals [43]? And why does debate about vaccine prudence remain taboo despite mounting evidence condemning overly broad immunization policies [44]?

This story is far from over. As more studies probe long-term effects and deaths possibly caused by vaccine-induced myocarditis [45], questions will continue swirling.

The families forever changed want accountability. Recognition that mass vaccination programs failed to uphold informed consent [46]. And assurances that blindly “following the science” won’t again take precedent over individuals’ health [47].

Myocarditis turned out to be the tip of the iceberg when it came to underestimated vaccine risks [48]. Only time will tell the full scope of lives upended and lost in the race to inoculate the world [49].

Props to Epoch Times for their detailed timeline on all of this!

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Notes

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-06/03-COVID-Shimabukuro-508.pdf
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-02/28-03-01/05-covid-Shimabukuro.pdf
[3] https://www.fda.gov/media/144416/download
[4] https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-ignore-inquiry-military-covid-vaccine-injuries/
[5] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-issues-emergency-use-authorization-third-covid-19-vaccine
[6] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0303-COVID-19-Vaccines.html
[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/us/rutgers-vaccine-mandate.html
[8] https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/fauci-redacted-emails-041321.pdf
[9] https://www.fda.gov/media/148542/download
[10] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0426-covid-19-vaccination-young-people.html
[11] https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-ignore-inquiry-military-covid-vaccine-injuries/
[12] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-emergency-use
[13] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-06/03-COVID-Shimabukuro-508.pdf
[14] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/us/college-vaccine-mandates.html
[15] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/recs/grade/covid-19-pfizer-biontech-vaccine.html
[16] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2779731
[17] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33975157/
[18] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-05/05-COVID-Shimabukuro-508.pdf
[19] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/min-archive/min-2021-05.pdf
[20] https://brightoncollaboration.us/brighton-collaboration-case-definition-myocarditis-published/#:~:text=On%20May%2030%2C%202021%20the,case%20definition%20for%20myocarditis%20globally.
[21] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/min-archive/min-2021-05-508.pdf
[22] https://www.fda.gov/media/150054/download
[23] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-june-25-2021
[24] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-06/03-COVID-Shimabukuro-508.pdf
[25] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7027e2.htm?s_cid=mm7027e2_w
[26] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0506-Pfizer-BioNTech.html
[27] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-pauses-use-moderna-covid-vaccine-cites-rare-side-effects-2021-10-06/
[28] https://www.fda.gov/media/153409/download
[29] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-emergency-use-children-5-through-11-years-age
[30] https://www.fda.gov/media/153086/download
[31] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/03/uk-reportedly-reconsiders-giving-second-jabs-to-teens
[32] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34931745/
[33] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34519242/
[34] https://www.fda.gov/media/151710/download
[35] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-updated-advice-on-covid-19-vaccination-of-children-aged-12-to-15
[36] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/29/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-launches-covid-gov-one-stop-shop-for-americans-to-get-covid-19-tests-treatments-vaccines-and-high-quality-masks/
[37] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2022-02/02-COVID-Su-508.pdf
[38] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html
[39] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/recs/grade/covid-19-pfizer-biontech-vaccine.html
[40] https://journals.lww.com/pidj/Fulltext/2022/11000/Seven_Month_Follow_up_of_Symptoms_and_Health.1.aspx
[41] https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-covid-19-vaccine-kids-payment-physicians-committee-ethics-newsom-california-mandate-school-11663518249
[42] https://trialsitenews.com/did-pfizer-fail-to-perform-industry-standard-testing-prior-to-requesting-eua-from-the-fda/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
[43] https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o102
[44] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35713431/
[45] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2203965
[46] https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2022/09/28/ignored-and-denied-how-officials-have-failed-vaccine-injured-people/
[47] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(22)00251-0/fulltext
[48] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCEP.121.010666
[49] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35713431/

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Director General of Israeli Defence Ministry, Eyal Zamir, visited Azerbaijan two days before clashes erupted with Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.

Members of the Israeli delegation met with their Azeri counterparts, including Defence Minister, Zakir Hasanov, The Times of Israel said, pointing out that the visit came amid stepped-up Israeli arms supplies to Azerbaijan.

At least 32 people had been killed in the region before the clashes stopped. Azerbaijan described its attacks as an “anti-terrorist operation”.

It said it would continue until the separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh dismantles itself and “illegal Armenian military formations” surrender.

On Wednesday, the two sides announced a ceasefire.

Israel is expanding bilateral ties with Azerbaijan. In March, Azeri Foreign Minister, Jeyhun Bayramov, opened Baku’s first-ever embassy in Israel.

Israel is one of Azerbaijan’s leading arms suppliers. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Israel provided 69 per cent of Baku’s major arms imports in 2016-2020, accounting for 17 per cent of Israel’s arms exports over that period.

During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Israel stepped up its weapons shipments to Azerbaijan, which emerged victorious in that war with Armenia.

Israel gets benefits from its relations with Azerbaijan through its location on Iran’s northern border and the fact that Israel buys over 30 per cent of its oil from Baku.

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The now-revived Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) has found a new grift – Ukraine.

But first – a short review. The Clintons, through their foundation, fleeced Haiti to the tune of Billions following the 2010 earthquake which killed an estimated 220,000 people.

Pope Francis kicked off the new initiative in a videoconference with Bill Clinton on Monday, where he said “No challenge is too great if we meet it starting with personal conversion and the personal contribution that each of us can make to solve it… No challenge can be overcome alone — not alone, only together, sisters and brothers, children of God.”

The CGI Ukraine Action Network is the result of a collaboration between Hillary Clinton and Olena Zelenska, first lady of Ukraine, that began last year. The new organization, which will be formally announced Tuesday, is designed to mobilize existing CGI partners, as well as new leaders from around the world, to create and finance new commitments for Ukrainians, according to CGI. Numerous monetary commitments for Ukraine are also set to be announced Tuesday. -ABC News

We’re sure this will go well, particularly for the children of war-torn Ukraine, and CGI donors.

More money laundering of our tax dollars via the World Bank to fund CGI's worldwide child sex trafficking/organ harvesting network being sourced from Ukraine. https://t.co/jheHTQJINa

— Lisa Mei (@TheNotoriousLMC) September 20, 2023

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A group of 28 Republicans in the House and Senate released a letter to the White House on Thursday saying they’re opposed to authorizing more spending on the Ukraine war as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington.

The Republicans said there were too many unanswered questions related to what the US goals were in Ukraine and how long the conflict will last.

“For these reasons — and certainly until we receive answers to the questions above and others forthcoming — we oppose the additional expenditure for war in Ukraine included in your request,” they wrote.

President Biden has asked for an additional $24 billion for Ukraine, which would bring total US spending on the proxy war to about $137 billion. The White House and Democrats in Congress want to include the money in a funding bill that needs to be passed before September 30 to avert a government shutdown.

But the prospect seems unlikely as the Republican-controlled House is battling over spending levels and has failed to move forward with its Pentagon funding bill. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) also did not include the $24 billion in new Ukraine aid in the House stop-gap funding bill that would avert a shutdown, which is not expected to pass as it is.

The aid is expected to ultimately get approved, but not as quickly as the White House would like. Even some Republicans in the House who support spending more on the Ukraine war say it’s not a priority since the Pentagon still has billions to use to ship weapons that was made available by a Pentagon “accounting error” that overvalued previous arms shipments.

The situation in Washington is much different than when Zelensky last visited in December 2022, when he was given a hero’s welcome and spoke before Congress. McCarthy said that he declined a request for the Ukrainian leader to address a joint session of Congress this time around because “we just didn’t have time.”

Instead of a dramatic speech, Zelensky held a closed-door meeting with dozens of Senators and separate talks with some members of the House. POLITICO reported that Ukraine aid “skeptics” were not swayed by the Ukrainian leader’s visit.

“His comment was, ‘It’s a totally frozen conflict,’” said Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), who favors prioritizing arming Taiwan instead of Ukraine. “And I think his other comment was ‘Everything depends on the United States.’ Sounds more and more sort of like Vietnam in the day to me, if I’m going to be honest. So what he said was basically a recipe for just shy of needing to land American troops.”

After meeting with Congress, Zelensky headed to the Pentagon and the White House, where he received pledges for a new weapons package and long-term support. Despite Ukraine’s faltering counteroffensive, the Biden administration is determined to continue fueling the proxy war for as long as possible.

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Today I am putting leadership of the House, the Senate, and the President of the United States on notice. I will not consent to the expedited passage of any spending measure providing more American aid to Ukraine.

Simply put: We have no extra money to send to Ukraine. Our deficit this year will exceed $1.5 trillion. Borrowing money from China to send to Ukraine makes no sense.

Since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the American taxpayer has provided Kiev $113 billion. Over the 583 days of war between February 24, 2022 and the end of this month, that average will come to $6.8 billion per month—or $223 million per day.

This week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Washington to lobby Congress to approve the Biden administration’s $24 billion supplemental aid request.

When will the aid requests end? When will the war end? Can someone explain what victory in Ukraine looks like? President Biden certainly can’t. His administration has failed to articulate a clear strategy or objective in this war, and Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive has failed to make meaningful gains in the east.

With no clear end in sight, it looks increasingly likely that Ukraine will be yet another endless quagmire funded by the American taxpayer. That’s why public support for the war is waning. A CNN poll from August shows that a majority of Americans now oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to Ukraine.

The Senate leadership of both parties know this. That’s why they are trying to hold the federal government hostage by inserting the $24 billion aid request in a continuing resolution: to force our hand. Either we fund an endless war in Ukraine or the uniparty will shut down the federal government and make the American people suffer.

This is a clear dereliction of duty, and I will not stand for it. My colleagues: As representatives of the American people, you should not stand for it. The bill that comes before us should be about funding our own government, not anyone else’s. I will do everything in my power to block a bill that includes funding for Ukraine.

As elected officials, we have an obligation to pursue a foreign policy that advances the security and prosperity of the American people. Funneling billions of dollars into the meatgrinder in eastern Ukraine does neither.

The longer this conflict continues, the greater the risk that miscalculation or purposeful escalation draws the United States into direct conflict with Russia. Russia’s military may have a bloody nose, but Moscow still maintains the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Let’s not pretend that American involvement in this war comes without risks.

If that’s not bad enough, Senate leadership has prevented the implementation of effective oversight mechanisms to ensure that hard-earned American tax dollars don’t fall prey to waste, fraud, and abuse. As a result, besides the colossal costs of the war, we will end up paying a corruption tax.

Unfortunately, corruption runs deep in Ukraine, and there’s plenty of evidence that it has run rampant since Russia’s invasion. As Zelensky landed in New York earlier this week, we learned that corruption concerns in Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense resulted in the firing of six deputy defense ministers. This comes two weeks after the firing of Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, who was removed after it was discovered that the Ministry of Defense had mishandled military contracts.

Last month, Zelensky fired all twenty-four regional military recruitment chiefs because they were “involved in illegal activities, including enrichment.”

Last October, we learned that U.S. shipments of grenade launchers, machine guns, rifles, bulletproof vests, and thousands of rounds of ammunition, were ending up in the hands of criminal gangs and weapons traffickers posing as humanitarian aid organizations.

What are we doing? Is this fair to the American people? Millions of Americans are struggling each day to make ends meet. Millions of Americans are struggling to provide for their families and put food on the table. Can we honestly look our constituents in the eye and tell them that this is a good investment of their tax dollars?

Some say it’s to save democracy. They should be honest with themselves and the rest of us. Ukraine is far from a shining example of democracy. While the strain of wartime can make for questionable government actions, we must approach these cases with a critical eye; after all, we have to live with them when or if the war is ever over. As if to prove a point, for all the platitudes about America supporting democracy, Ukraine, the biggest recipient of American welfare, has canceled the nation’s next presidential election.

At the end of the day, this isn’t about what Ukraine is or isn’t with respect to its form of government. This is all about our interests and our national security.  Every day this war continues is another spin of the roulette wheel with another chance of it stopping on Armageddon. And we are paying for the privilege. We cannot continue business as usual. We cannot keep putting the needs of other countries above our own. We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the American economy. And we certainly cannot save Ukraine by fighting a war with Russia.

No matter how sympathetic we are to the Ukrainian people, my oath of office requires me to put the American people first. I encourage my colleagues to oppose any effort to hold the federal government hostage for Ukraine funding.

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The World Health Organization’s pandemic treaty, the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHRs) and the global One Health agenda are all part of a soft coup, a global power grab

The globalists’ plan for our future can be summarized as “global dominion by the few and total control of the masses”

The technocratic cabal has control over most if not all Western governments, as well as the bureaucratic structure of the WHO; 85% of its funding comes from private entities, so it’s owned by private interests

Based on the current treaty draft and proposed IHR amendments, it’s clear that mRNA-based vaccinations will be mandatory under the WHO’s power structure, and these vaccines will be made in 100 days by skipping human trials and shaving safety and efficacy testing down to the bare bones

Under the treaty, as currently written, nations will be required to surveil and censor social media. The WHO’s narrative will be the only one allowed

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In this September 1, 2023, Highwire interview,¹ Dr. Meryl Nass, a biowarfare and epidemics expert, exposes the threat posed by the World Health Organization’s pandemic treaty and the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHRs), which add to and further strengthen the WHO’s powers under the treaty. The WHO’s One Health agenda is also part of this power grab.

Nass also recently published an article, “The WHO’s Proposed Treaty Will Increase Manmade Pandemics,”^2,3 in which she reviews the history of biological warfare and the role of gain-of-function research, where we are right now, and what the globalists’ plan for our future is. It’s imperative everyone understand what the plan is, because we can only stop it by rejecting it en masse.

Nass Persecuted by Lawless State Medical Board

But first, Nass provides an update on her personal situation. In January 2022, the Maine medical board suspended Nass’ medical license for spreading “COVID misinformation” and prescribing ivermectin. They also ordered her to undergo a psychological evaluation by a board-selected psychologist.⁴ Nass refused.

As she points out in the interview, “misinformation” refers to information that may be mistaken or inaccurate, but being wrong is not a crime — no matter how badly government wants you to think it is.

We have the First Amendment — freedom of speech — for a reason. Government does not have the legal right to suppress our speech, and the medical board is a state government agency. So, by censoring doctors like Nass and punishing them for speaking their minds and sharing medical and scientific data, they are actually the ones breaking the law.

Nass didn’t, because there’s no law against sharing information, even if it is suspected of being incorrect, or can be proven to be wrong. And, in this case, the board is actually punishing her for sharing truths.

So, in mid-August 2023, Nass sued the Maine medical board, and every board member in their personal capacity, for violating her free speech rights.⁵

“Telling me that I can’t talk about the vaccine or I can’t talk about the treatment of COVID or masks or distancing, even when the things that I was saying were based on published medical literature, that is a First Amendment violation,” Nass said in a statement.

“The state government and the federal government are not allowed to restrict the speech of people. So we are looking for a jury trial to see whether the Board of Licensure in Medicine is guilty of a malicious, political prosecution and targeting of me.”

The Plan in Broad Strokes

So, what is the globalists plan for our future? Summarized into as few words as possible: global dominion by the few and total control of the masses.

As explained by Nass, the COVID pandemic showed us that the technocratic cabal has control over most if not all Western governments. World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab has even bragged about how his Young Global Leaders have “penetrated” governments of the world.⁶

The technocratic cabal also has control over the bureaucratic structure of the WHO. Eighty-five percent of the WHO’s funding comes from private entities, most of which is earmarked for specific programs. “So, the WHO is already owned by private interests,” Nass says.

According to the WHO, the reason the COVID pandemic got so bad is because nations failed to cooperate. Hence, the reasoning goes, we need an international treaty that centralizes pandemic response powers to the WHO. The problem, of course, is that most nations did follow the WHO’s irrational and unscientific recommendations. Its ineptitude — whether intentional or not — is what destroyed economies and resulted in needless deaths.

Based on the current treaty draft and proposed IHR amendments, it’s clear that mRNA-based vaccinations will be mandatory under the WHO’s power structure, and these vaccines will be made in 100 days rather than 10 years by skipping human trials and shaving safety and efficacy testing down to the bare bones.

The WHO will also decide which medications can be used in medical emergencies, and which you cannot have. In other words, the WHO director-general will decide the health care for every person in every member state, and your local doctor will be required to follow his edicts. You’ll have no medical freedom or bodily autonomy anymore.

Nations will also be forced to implement massive nationwide biosurveillance programs to identify potential pathogens with pandemic potential. This will include swabbing and testing humans, domesticated animals, farm animals, wildlife, farms, factories, wastewater and more, and the chances of finding a pathogen with pandemic potential if searching for it in every nook and cranny of the world are 100%.

The WHO director-general will then have the sole authority to declare a pandemic, or even potential pandemic, at which point all decision-making powers fall under the WHO. However, there are no standards that must be met before a public health emergency can be declared.

The way these documents are written, the director-general can even act on what amounts to hearsay. He doesn’t have to have proof that a pandemic is imminent or in progress. He can act on suspicion. Even more disturbing, the treaty will be in force all the time, so the director-general doesn’t even need to declare an emergency. He will have the authority to dictate public health even when there’s no pandemic. That’s how far-reaching this treaty is.

Nations will also be required to surveil and censor social media. The WHO’s narrative will be the only one allowed. YouTube has already implemented this policy, even though the treaty is not even in place yet.

The History of Biological Warfare and How We Got Here

Nass also reviews the history of biological weapons and why we’re in a situation now where most of the pandemics that have occurred are basically the result of biological weapons development.

In 1969, President Nixon announced the U.S. would end its offensive biowarfare program. This was a strategic rather than altruistic move, because the U.S. was far ahead of other nations when it came to chemical and nuclear weapons. By banning biological weapons, which are relatively simple and inexpensive to create, the U.S. would gain a strategic advantage on the global stage.

Nixon initiated the first global treaty to prevent the creation and use of biological weapons in 1972. The Biological Weapons Convention took effect three years later, in 1975. However, in 1973, genetic engineering was discovered, which suddenly allowed the U.S. to gain a technological advantage that would allow us to make better and more precise biological weapons.

The problem with the Biological Weapons Convention is that there’s no enforcement. To be effective and verifiable, a nation needs to be able to challenge another nation and have the right to carry out inspections, and add sanctions in cases of noncompliance. But this enforcement method was not included, and the U.S. has blocked all efforts to add enforcement articles to the treaty since 1991. So, as explained by Nass:⁷

“Under the guise of preparing their defenses against biowarfare and pandemics, nations have conducted ‘dual-use’ (both offensive and defensive) research and development, which has led to the creation of more deadly and more transmissible microorganisms. And employing new verbiage to shield this effort from scrutiny, biological warfare research was named ‘gain-of-function’ research.”

SARS-CoV-2, for example, appears to be the direct result of gain-of-function research. [This issue is not corroborated, GR Editor].

As noted by Nass, it has “unusual homologies (identical short segments of nucleotides) to human tissues and the HIV virus, which may have caused or contributed to the late autoimmune stage of illness, an impaired immune response and ‘long COVID.’”

As such, SARS-CoV-2 is a biological weapon [not corroborated]. David Martin, Ph.D., has also done many interviews, speeches and lectures exposing COVID-19 as a biological warfare crime.

Are We Funding Public Health or Bioweapons Development?

As noted in Nass’ article, funding for natural epidemics, such as seasonal influenza, has been lumped together with biodefense funding, which hides the cost of our nation’s bioweapons development, because in reality, “biodefense” is “bioweapons development.”

And, while bioweapons development is dangerous and violates the international treaty, biodefense is useless and a complete waste of money, so it’s a lose-lose proposition for taxpayers.

In March 2023, former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield testified before Congress stating that gain-of-function research had never, to his knowledge, resulted in a single beneficial drug, vaccine or therapeutic.⁸

In other words, while they conduct this research under the guise of “defense,” all gain-of-function research is biological weapons research and has no beneficial public health applications.

The WHO treaty makes matters even worse by requiring member nations to look for pathogens with pandemic potential, and when they find them, to share them, and any research done on them, with everyone else.

So, the WHO treaty quite literally promotes the proliferation of biological weapons, and opens the door wide to biological weapons research and testing. This will also remove the ability to cast blame on any particular nation for starting a pandemic (read unleash a biological weapon), as everyone is working with the same pathogens.

The treaty also requires nations to eliminate administrative hurdles to gain-of-function research on pathogens with pandemic potential, when we really need far more stringent regulations on this type of work, if we’re going to engage in it at all.

So, the WHO treaty will move us in the complete opposite direction of where we actually need to go if we want to prevent future pandemics. To prevent them, we need to stop gain-of-function research, because that’s the greatest pandemic threat out there.

Pandemic Preparedness Is a Smokescreen

Similarly, the idea that the world can prepare ahead of time for a global pandemic is “a smokescreen behind which lies a fascist approach to social management,” Nass writes. She adds:⁹

“There’s no known way to prevent pandemics, and the methods that governments are spending money on are actually going to make this problem a great deal worse.

The concept of a ‘response’: withholding cheap, available generic drugs in favor of the warp speed development of patentable drugs and vaccines, which will undergo minimal testing and have no liability, is another disaster in the making.”

Our Health Agencies Are Selling Us Out

Importantly, the U.S. government — including our health agencies — have been central in developing and writing these documents, which strips us of our sovereignty as a nation, bodily autonomy as a people, along with freedom, human rights and democracy in general.

Indeed, the IHR amendments specifically remove the need to respect “human rights, dignity and freedom of persons” during public health emergencies. This deletion did not go unnoticed, however, and after severe criticism, language “guaranteeing” human rights was inserted into the latest draft (the Bureau draft) of the pandemic treaty.

The bottom line is, our health agencies are not protecting us. They’re controlled by private, globalist interests, and they’re selling us out.

We also see this in the way the U.S. health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration refused to course correct once it became clear that the COVID shots were not preventing infection or transmission, and were causing historically high rates of injuries.

Instead, they doubled down and imposed mandates, and started fiddling with database algorithms to hide the extent of injuries and deaths. Likewise, the WHO is working on an international vaccine passport, even though the entire premise for it has been eliminated. If the shots don’t prevent infection or transmission, then what good does proof of “vaccination” do?

Same with the masks. No matter how much scientific evidence was thrown at them, health authorities refused to admit that masks don’t work and pushed for wearing two or three masks instead. And what can we say about the worldwide recommendation to treat only advanced-stage infection? It’s medicine 101 to treat a condition as early as possible, especially when it comes to infections.

As noted by Nass, “There can be no question about it: Our health agencies are guilty of malfeasance, misrepresentation and deliberate infliction of harm on their own populations.”

All the basic rules of medicine were tossed out during COVID, and under the pandemic treaty, common sense and basic medical facts will be ousted forever. Nass goes through much more in her article, so I urge you to read it¹⁰ in its entirety.

The Timeline

The IHR amendments will only require a 50% vote of whoever is in the room at the time of the vote, which will take place at the World Health Assembly’s annual meeting, May 22 through 24, 2024.¹¹The amendments will take effect 10 months later for any nation that does not opt out.

Nations that have not officially opted out will then be bound by the new terms laid out in the amendments. The pandemic treaty will also be voted on during that meeting. It will require two-thirds vote in favor by the members that are in the room and will go into effect as soon as 30 nations have ratified it.

Thirty days after that, the treaty will go into effect for all the nations that have signed on. Any nation that has not signed the treaty will be excluded from its terms. Those who sign the treaty must wait three years before they can get out.

Door to Freedom

To prevent this nightmare, Nass has founded a new organization called Door To Freedom (doortofreedom.org), which seeks to educate people around the world about what the pandemic treaty and IHR amendments will change life as we know it, and strip us of every vestige of freedom.

Door To Freedom has created a poster to explain the impacts the pandemic treaty and IHR amendments will have. Please download this poster and share it with everyone you know. Also put it up on public billboards and places where communities share information.

Other Action Items

While the situation seems incredibly bleak, Nass insists there are many things we can do to prevent the WHO’s power grab, including the following:

• Call your congressman or congresswoman and urge them to sponsor H.R.79 — The WHO Withdrawal Act,¹² introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs, which calls for defunding and exiting the WHO. At the time of this writing, it has 51 cosponsors, all of them Republicans. We cannot get this bill passed without Democrats, so we need to get them to understand what’s at stake.

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Neues Denken und Handeln  

Als ich vor kurzem zusammen mit meiner Frau meine Wahlheimat verließ, um in einer Weltstadt der EU nach vielen Jahren geschätzte Freunde zu treffen, die Freundschaft mit ihnen zu pflegen und mich mit ihnen auszutauschen sowie meine Muttersprache wieder zu hören, fiel mir auf, dass ich auf der Straße statt der deutschen viel öfter die arabische und persische Sprache hörte und viele muslimisch gekleidete Frauen mit Kopftüchern sah. Da mir dieses ungewohnte Erlebnis ein wenig Unbehagen bereitete, dachte ich ernsthafter über dieses Problem nach und erinnerte mich gleichzeitig an den Text der Hymne der Europäischen Union, in der es in der ersten Strophe einer späteren Fassung heißt: „Alle Menschen werden Brüder“ (im Sinne von Brüderlichkeit) (1).

Wir sollten aufhören, die Migranten aus den armen Ländern des Südens, die zu Tausenden legal oder illegal in die Länder der Europäischen Union oder der USA strömen, argwöhnisch zu beäugen und sie auf die eine oder andere Art und Weise zu bekämpfen; wir sollten vielmehr gegen den gewollten Hunger und die zum Himmel schreiende Ungleichheit in der Welt vorgehen und uns offen zur Einheit des Menschengeschlechts bekennen.

„Freude, schöner Götterfunken“

Das Lobgedicht (Ode) an die Freude ist das berühmte Gedicht von Friedrich Schiller, das bereits 1785 entstand und von Ludwig van Beethoven im 4. Satz seiner 9. Sinfonie vertont wurde. Das Gedicht, das in seiner frühen Fassung aus 9 Strophen zu je 8 Versen bestand, beschreibt sehr emotional und feierlich das Ideal einer Gesellschaft gleichberechtigter Menschen, die durch das Band der Freude sowie der Freundschaft verbunden sind (2).

Da Schiller sein eigenes Werk kritisch betrachtete, änderte er den Text mehrfach: Die erste Strophe der 1808 posthum veröffentlichten Variante lautet gemäß Wikipedia (3):

„Freude, schöner Götterfunken,

Tochter aus Elisium,

Wir betreten feuertrunken,

Himmlische, dein Heiligthum.

Deine Zauber binden wieder,

Was die Mode streng getheilt,

Alle Menschen werden Brüder,

Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.“

Nachdem in der ersten Strophe der Kontext des Gedichts geschaffen wird, spricht die zweite Strophe vom „Großen Wurf“, der insbesondere darin besteht, „eines Freundes Freund zu seyn“ . Der soziale „Bund“ im Sinne von Gemeinschaftlichkeit und Freundschaft soll als Krönung des Lebens verstanden werden, das „Erdenrund“ als Bund aller Menschen (4).

Dass Ludwig van Beethoven seine 9. Sinfonie in einer Zeit der politischen Restauration im Jahr 1824 mit einem Chorgesang mit Schillers Text enden ließ, wurde von einem Zeitgenossen folgendermaßen bewertet – und erinnert an die heutige Zeit:

„Nach all dem politischen Wirrwarr und den Schrecknissen der Zeit, die auch Beethoven selbst erlebt hat, ist dieses Werk am Ende ein Appell, eine Sehnsucht nach Verbrüderung, nach Freude und Jubel, nach der Utopie eines Weltfriedens, nach einer Welt ohne Kriege und Zerstörung.“ (5)

Seit 1972 ist die Melodie die Hymne des Europarats, seine Instrumentalversion seit 1985 offizielle Hymne der Europäischen Union.

„Freiheit, schöner Götterfunken“

Zum Weihnachtsfest 1989 wurde Beethovens 9. Sinfonie im Ostberliner Konzerthaus unter der Leitung des berühmten US-amerikanischen Dirigenten, Komponisten und Pianisten Leonhard Bernstein mit dem geänderten Text „Freiheit, schöner Götterfunken“ aufgeführt. Der Grund war der Fall der Berliner Mauer einen Monat zuvor (6).

Die Länder und Staaten des globalen Südens schließen sich diesem geänderten Text sicherlich gerne an, ist die Freiheit doch ein hohes Gut, das es immer und überall zu verteidigen gilt.

Der US-Star-Ökonom Jeffrey Sachs sprach in einem Interview mit dem geopolitischen YouTube-Podcast „The Duran“ in diesem Zusammenhang laut „Russia Today DE“ vom 18. September 2023 vom Ende der US-Hegemonie als Teil eines natürlichen Zyklus‘. Sachs ging auf die beiden gegensätzlichen „Denkweisen“ ein, welche die Geopolitik prägen und sagte:

„Auf der einen Seite, unter Berufung auf Adam Smith, eine Haltung der Offenheit, von der alle Nationen nur profitieren können, auf der anderen Seite das Bestreben, andere unterzuordnen und die ‚Nummer eins‘ sein zu wollen. Die Vereinigten Staaten und Europa hätten in Bezug auf diesen letzten Punkt die Geschichte geschrieben. China hingegen habe in der Geschichte noch nie eine Bedrohung dargestellt. (…). Die ‚Tragödie‘ der Großmachtpolitik ist ein westliches Konzept – wir dürfen uns dieser Tragödie nicht ergeben.“ (7)

Lernen, uns zur Einheit des Menschengeschlechts zu bekennen

Für den Aufbau von Vertrauen zu den Mitmenschen – egal welcher Nationalität – sind die Informationen und kulturellen Werte, die Eltern und Erzieher täglich an das Kind herantragen, von entscheidender Bedeutung.

Das Menschenbild der christlich-abendländischen Kultur besagt, dass der Mensch – auch schon das kleine Kind – schlechte Eigenschaften in sich trägt. Mit dieser Information – sei sie bewusst oder unbewusst – treten die Erzieher in der Regel an das Kind heran. Dadurch bekommt das Kind Angst vor dem anderen Menschen. Wenn das Kind lernt, Angst zu haben, durchzieht das sein ganzes Tun und Handeln und wie es sich in der Gemeinschaft bewegt und gibt. Die Gefühlsreaktion der Angst wird dann ein Bestandteil seines Charakters, den es bis ins Erwachsenenalter mehr oder weniger bewusst in jede zwischenmenschliche Beziehung hineinträgt.

Es ist also entscheidend, welche Art von Informationen und welche kulturell vorherrschenden Werte sie an das Kind herantragen. Wird das Kind durch unwahre Informationen und/oder verwirrende Lügen verunsichert und getäuscht, wird es sich auch noch als erwachsener Mensch von allen Mitmenschen distanzieren.

Wir wissen heute noch nicht, wann das Menschheitsgewissen die sogenannte „absolute Wahrheit“ verkünden wird, wonach die Menschen zusammengehören und unter dem Gesetz stehen, zusammenzuwirken und einander die Hände zu reichen. Es besteht jedoch kein Zweifel, dass der Bestand des Menschengeschlechts davon abhängen wird, dass sich die Menschen zur allmenschlichen Solidarität bekennen.

Kulturelle Besonderheiten der verschiedeneen Nationen sollten weiterhin bestehen bleiben; sie werden eine immense Bereicherung sein.

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Dr. Rudolf Lothar Hänsel ist Schul-Rektor, Erziehungswissenschaftler und Diplom-Psychologe. Nach seinen Universitätsstudien wurde er wissenschaftlicher Lehrer in der Erwachsenenbildung. Als Pensionär arbeitete er als Psychotherapeut in eigener Praxis. In seinen Büchern und Fachartikeln fordert er eine bewusste ethisch-moralische Werteerziehung sowie eine Erziehung zu Gemeinsinn und Frieden. Für seine Verdienste um Serbien bekam er 2021 von den Universitäten Belgrad und Novi Sad den Republik-Preis „Kapitän Misa Anastasijevic“ verliehen.

Er schreibt regelmäßig für Global Research.   

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US officials suppressed internal assessments that Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing had an “advanced” sarin production cell even as the US publicly blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons attack, a report reveals.

Leaked documents obtained by The Grayzone show a shadowy British intelligence contractor helped sell the story that Assad was responsible – and nearly triggered Western intervention.

On September 13, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) appraisal detailing the chemical weapons arsenal possessed by the Al Qaeda-aligned Syrian armed opposition group known as Jabhat al-Nusra.

The document claims the terror group acquired the ability to produce sarin through Saudi Arabia and Turkey, both sponsors of the Syrian proxy war, and was attempting to achieve “large scale production” of the highly toxic nerve agent. The memo lamented that al-Nusra’s “relative freedom of operation” in the country meant its “[chemical weapons] aspirations will be difficult to disrupt in the future.”

The disclosures raise serious questions about the infamous 2013 chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, including whether the estimated 280 to 1700 people killed were in fact massacred by al-Nusra, and not Syrian loyalist forces. The revelations also cast significant doubt on claims that the government of Bashar Al-Assad was responsible for other alleged chemical attacks during the Syrian crisis.

As Hersh notes, the incident in Ghouta nearly triggered Western military intervention in Syria, which likely would have resembled the NATO operation which led to the destruction of Libya two years earlier. It would’ve been a war based on deceit comparable to the false claims that precipitated the illegal US invasion of Iraq in 2003. 

The role of British intelligence in attempting to escalate the conflict has been overlooked to this point. Now, never-before-seen official documents obtained by The Grayzone illustrate the crucial role UK intelligence played in the failed push to launch a NATO invasion of Syria.

‘High Confidence’ Intelligence Assessment Fails

While the Obama White House claimed to possess incontrovertible proof that the Syrian government was responsible for the attack in Ghouta, it stubbornly refused to disclose any. By contrast, communications intercepted by German spies suggested Assad neither ordered nor had any knowledge of the attack. Meanwhile, “multiple” US officials told AP that intelligence implicating Syrian forces was “not a slam dunk.”

The choice of wording was widely understood to be a deliberate reference to then-CIA Director George Tenet’s insistence that intelligence showed Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in 2002. Apparently, American spies did not want to be blamed for triggering an invasion on false pretenses this time around.

The DIA’s internal assessment explicitly states that Al-Nusra maintained sarin production facilities, describing the “al-Nusrah Front associated sarin production cell” as “the most advanced sarin plot since al-Qaida’s pre 9/11 effort.”

According to Hersh, the report in question never reached the White House. An anonymous senior intelligence official reportedly told the journalist that in the name of “political expediency,” evidence implicating al-Nusra was deliberately withheld from President Obama, who repeatedly insisted that no such proof existed:

“We do not believe that, given the delivery systems, using rockets, that the opposition could have carried out these attacks. We have concluded that the Syrian government in fact carried these out.”

Intelligence officials in Britain struck a similar tone. On August 27 2013, London’s Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) published an assessment on Ghouta which maintained that there are “no plausible alternative scenarios” to the idea that Syrian government forces were responsible for the incident.

The assessment offered no evidence to support the charge, citing only unspecified “highly sensitive” intelligence. While the group acknowledged that a number of opposition groups were seeking chemical weapons, it insisted that “none currently has the capability to conduct [an] attack on this scale,” and that there was “no credible intelligence or other evidence to substantiate” claims that opposition groups possessed chemical weapons. But the newly-released DIA documents completely contradict that assertion.

Even less impressively, the JIC admitted that its “high confidence” in its assessment did not extend to “the regime’s precise motivation for carrying out an attack of this scale at this time.” It acknowledged the key question of why the Syrian government would conduct a chemical strike “remains a puzzle.” There was “no obvious political or military trigger” for the action, and the presence of UN weapons inspectors in Damascus when the attack took place was a clear deterrent, as was Obama making such strikes a “red line.”

One area of certainty for the JIC was the “extensive video footage attributed to the attack in eastern Damascus,” depicting vast numbers of victims suffering from the apparent effects of “a nerve agent, such as sarin.” The Committee assessed this “would be very difficult to falsify,” which lends credence to independent investigations that attribute the bodies seen in the footage to a massacre carried out by al-Nusra.

Somewhat surprisingly — given all the pro-intervention tubthumping in which it would engage over the next decade — The Guardian newspaper published a highly skeptical analysis at the time which slammed the JIC assessment for its “striking lack of any scientific evidence.” The publication quoted chemical weapons expert Alastair Hay, who received the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ Hague Award in 2015, as saying: “there are no hard facts, it is more a case of ‘believe us and our experts.’”

British lawmakers were similarly unconvinced. During an August 29 vote on military intervention, then-Prime Minister David Cameron repeatedly cited the Committee’s assessment while arguing for bombing Syria. But members of Parliament ultimately voted against the proposed war. Many MPs were concerned about trusting opaque intelligence assessments after the Iraq debacle, and several expressed fears that an initial aerial attack would ultimately lead to boots on the ground and occupation.

London’s decision to buckle on intervention also took the prospect off the table for Washington as well. By that point, MI6 had been conducting operations to smuggle soil samples out of Syria for some time. A mainstream media report on these efforts published six days after the Ghouta incident quoted an anonymous “senior Western source” who made clear the objective was to generate pressure for a US intervention:

“MI6 played the leading role but the American military wants more evidence before it agrees Assad has crossed the line in the use of chemical weapons. The question is what is the West going to do now? If nobody reacts, there was not much point in conducting the tests.”

As The Grayzone has revealed, British intelligence assets were intimately involved in either staging or marketing virtually every alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria throughout the conflict. The British skullduggery only intensified after Ghouta, as did the CIA’s notorious Operation Timber Sycamore, which saw Langley spend roughly $1 billion per year to arm and train anti-Assad insurgents. And as the CIA prosecuted its dirty war against Damascus, MI6 played a critically supportive role.

British Intel Operatives Puppeteer Syria’s Opposition

A sizable international coalition was banking on British parliamentarians greenlighting intervention, believing it would open the floodgates for regime change, and Syria being overrun by foreign forces. 

John Jenkins, a veteran diplomat who served as London’s special representative to Libya following NATO’s violent ouster of Muammar Gaddafi during 2011 and later became the UK’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said there was serious resentment in Riyadh following Western governments’ failure to take the bait.

“I remember vividly the last week of August 2013, when Assad was going to be punished for stepping over that particular ‘red line,’” wrote Jenkins, who was “in Riyadh at the time and involved in seeking, on behalf of the British government, senior engagement by the Saudis in an international response, which they were willing to give.”

“The sense of frustration when the UK and US stepped back was palpable,” he noted.

Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show Western-backed extremists in Syria were also despondent. A late 2013 submission to the British Foreign Office by a firm called ARK International recorded how “the Syrian opposition leadership was ‘shocked’ by the UK’s ‘no’ vote on the principle of intervention.”

ARK was a government contractor founded by longtime MI6 operative Alistair Harris and staffed by military and intelligence veterans. Throughout the dirty war on Syria, it was an omnipresent player.

A cursory glance at ARK’s website reveals the group partners with CIA cut-out USAID, the US State Department, and the British military. The group bills itself as a “social enterprise empowering local communities” through “the provision of agile and sustainable interventions to create greater stability, opportunity and hope for the future.”

In the leaked documents, ARK expressed anxiety that anti-government militias would now be unwilling “to work with Western advisors,” given the “inaction over both the steady state conflict and inactivity following the August 2013 chemical weapons attack.” Since it had operated in Syria since the very first days of the crisis, ARK bragged that it could rely on a team of Arabs to “gain the trust and respect” of the Free Syrian Army anew, and counter perceptions among the opposition that its leaders were “being ‘told what to do’ by foreigners.”

ARK’s clandestine meddling in Syria was massive. The group raked in millions of pounds conducting psychological warfare operations funded by London, which aimed to destabilize the government of Bashar Assad by flooding media across the world with pro-opposition propaganda in an effort to convince Syrians, international bodies and Western citizens that militant groups rampaging across the country were a “moderate” alternative.

Leaked documents show that ARK was responsible for coordinating the Syrian National Coalition’s media office. One such file notes that ARK delivered explicit “media handling advice around the chemical weapons attacks in Ghouta” to the Western-backed parallel puppet government. 

Another report describes the group’s work “[facilitating] contact between the Syrian opposition and international media…to address the perception of an uncoordinated opposition by fostering the image of a united front.” The “united condemnation” of Ghouta was specifically cited as an example of their efforts.

ARK Spreads Strategy of Chemical Attack Tension

One particularly striking document explains that ARK was employed in 2013 by the British and US governments to deliver “a public safety messaging campaign,” warning residents of opposition-occupied territory about the dangers of unexploded ordnance “and other “remnants of war.” Graffiti stencils and an educational age-relevant activity booklet” targeted at children aged 6 – 10 were employed to produce a “cognitive effect” in select audiences, the document notes.

The campaign’s implementation was “accelerated after the chemical weapons attack in Ghouta… to ensure the message had been disseminated before any international intervention,” the file reveals. This indicated the effort was conducted in expectation of a Western military assault that seemed inevitable later that year. 

Even after the intervention failed to materialize, pro-opposition content was still circulated throughout Syria by ARK’s “extensive in-country network, which included stringers, media activists,” and members of the White Helmets, or Syrian Civil Defence — which the company also claimed credit for creating.

ARK clearly knew its propaganda had significant real-world impacts, documents show. In submissions to the Foreign Office, the group boasted of how a documentary “on the indefatigable spirit of a struggling female protestor” it produced for broadcast for the Gulf monarchy-owned outlets Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, and Orient TV led to “the eruption of anti-regime protests” in Idlib, where “protestors chanted her name.” 

The British intelligence contractor also produced documentaries promoting the White Helmets, such as “Digging for Life”, which racked up hundreds of thousands of YouTube views. The White Helmets were also marketed as heroes to Syrian youth.

In a four-minute cartoon entitled “Goal to Syria,” the group can be seen rescuing a child trapped in rubble. At one stage, an adult character barks: “first they bombed us with chemicals, and now barrel bombs!” ARK was conspicuously keen to promote the risk of these attacks in occupied territory, both on and offline. In one file, the group bragged that a “chemical weapons information poster” which it circulated on Twitter “reached a primary audience of 700,000.”

These efforts were ostensibly intended to “educate people about the best ways to respond to chemical weapons attacks.” This supposed educational campaign of course demonized the Assad government among captive populations in Syria, and created a perpetual sense of threat, which could be exploited to create hysteria for propaganda purposes, as the response to the April 2018 Douma incident amply underlined.

A suppressed OPCW investigation of the alleged chlorine attack in Douma reveals that when residents suffering from dust inhalation due to government shelling of the city were taken to a local medical facility, a nameless individual “not from the hospital” burst in shouting “Chemical! Chemical!” Immediately, “panic ensued”, with patients being undressed, washed, and given “inappropriate treatment” based on the individual’s false warnings.

Strikingly, the report revealed that “some medical staff who were interviewed only heard about the alleged chemical attack from videos circulating on the internet or from other people, a couple of days after the alleged attack.”

“Most of the medical staff…emphasized that the symptoms of the casualties were not consistent with those expected from a chemical attack,” the censored report revealed. “They also reported not having [treated] casualties of chemical weapons and some witnesses mentioned not being aware of any chemical attacks in Douma or Syria.”

A 2018 New York Times article indicates such scaremongering was not restricted to the hospital in Douma. Per the outlet, once government forces attacked, “people started shouting in the streets, ‘Chemicals! Chemicals!’”

The ensuing panic would no doubt be of assistance to opposition elements seeking to stage a chemical weapons attack in the city, which the OPCW’s suppressed investigation into the incident suggests is precisely what happened.

Syrian Proxy War Bleeds Into Ukraine

A particularly remarkable passage in a leaked 2015 Foreign Office document establishes explicit terms of a secret operation to fund anti-Assad “grassroots media activism” by opposition figures “who share the UK’s vision for a future Syria.”

“Getting rid of Assad’s chemical weapons” was initially one of London’s key “priorities” following the conflict’s outbreak, the file reveals, although the issue had been “largely been resolved since the priorities were set.”

Under strict OPCW and UN supervision, all Syria’s declared chemical weapons were surrendered and destroyed in 2014. The excerpt is supremely striking because it demonstrates that privately, London knew at the highest levels this objective had been legitimately completed, and there was no threat of government chemical weapon use. But in public, British officials continued voicing grave doubts that Assad had indeed handed over the country’s entire arsenal.

The contradiction could be explained by the fact that chemical weapons attacks in Syria continued apace after August 2014, when the OPCW determined all Syria’s chemical weapons stocks had either been deactivated beyond use, or removed from the country by international monitors. As such, it was necessary to concoct a cover story for how these strikes kept happening — and why the opposition was not responsible.

The skepticism from within Western halls of power about the Syrian opposition’s narrative on Ghouta was a phenomenon which would never be repeated again during the Syrian crisis. Following every purported chemical weapons attack in the country thereafter, Assad’s forces were reflexively blamed, and those who cast doubt on the culpability of Damascus were viciously smeared as conspiracy theorists, war crimes deniers, or worse. 

Following the April 2018 Douma incident, Sky News prematurely terminated an interview with senior British Army veteran Jonathan Shaw as soon as he questioned whether the Syrian Arab Army was responsible. After making the obvious observation that there was no motivation whatsoever for government forces to launch a chemical attack in the city, given they were “winning” with conventional weapons, Shaw’s mic was cut and the host awkwardly segued to the next segment.

The credulity of mainstream journalists during the Ukraine proxy war has somehow exceeded their woeful record during the Syrian crisis. Nonsensical claims of Russian responsibility for events like the sabotage of the Nord Stream II pipeline and the destruction of the Kakhovka dam have received uncritical amplification. And when the official story collapses, the attacks conveniently tumble down the memory hole.

It is anyone’s guess what Western governments and spies are suppressing this time around. But as the leaked UK files on Syria show, there is always more to the story than they are willing to reveal.

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Thousands of Druze in Suwayda, in the southwest of Syria near Jordan, have been protesting inflation and economic woes facing all of Syria because of US-EU sanctions, and the economic collapse after the long armed conflict. But, recently, they are calling for regime change, and the US is supporting them.

In late August, Ben Cline of Virginia, French Hill of Arkansas and Scott Fitzgerald of Wisconsin, all Republicans in the US House of Representatives, entered Syria from Turkey illegally, without any VISA, via the Bab al-Salam crossing north of Aleppo, under the control of Al Qaeda linked terrorists. They met with Syrian opposition members living in terrorist control areas.

Recent media reports are circulating that Congressman French Hill discussed the Suwayda protests on the phone for more than an hour with the spiritual leader of Syria’s Druze community, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hajri. 

The Syrian conflict began in March 2011 not far from Sawayda; however, the city did not get involved in the “Arab Spring”. The Druze are a close-knit minority, neither Christian nor Muslim, who have communities in Suwayda, the Damascus suburb of Juramana, and Lebanon.

The Druze attempted to sit-out the 2011 conflict, and preferred to be neutral. The instigators of the violence in Deraa in March 2011 were followers of Radical Islam, and wanted ‘regime change’ to install a pro-US government in Damascus. The Obama administration, with VP Joe Biden, supported the terrorists fighting for “Holy War” because they were the only available boots on the ground. The CIA ran a multi-billion-dollar project supplying and training the terrorists in Turkey who crossed the border into northern Syria. In 2017, Trump cut the CIA program off, which has since left Syria in a quiet stalemate.

Suwayda is an agricultural area, and though it is close to Deraa, it did not have a stake in the uprising to install an Islamic State in Syria. Suwayda, similar to Aleppo, kept its collective head down and kept working hoping that the armed conflict between US-NATO and the Damascus central government would pass them by, and they could survive on the sidelines.  

The Druze and the Christian community of Syria are minorities under a secular Syrian government which has protected minorities. The armed opposition was comprised of followers of Radical Islam, such as those who are aligned with Al Qaeda and ISIS. The Druze have no connection with Radical Islam or “Holy War”. For this reason, they felt collectively as if the conflict did not include them, and they wanted no part in it.

But now, after 13 years of armed conflict which has turned into a status quo, Suwayda has taken the center stage and is protesting and they are asking for ‘regime change’ as well as economic reforms.

Why now, after years of neutrality and dodging the fighting? Experts have pointed a finger at the US, which is instigating the protests and promising support. Damascus, Aleppo and Homs are all quietly suffering the same economic hardships, but they are not protesting. Electricity is supplied just a few hours per day, gasoline is very expensive and the prices of basic food stuffs have gone up by the day, making some basic needs now a luxury item.

Expert analysis in the early days of the 2011 conflict pointed to the overarching US goal of breaking Syria into small pieces, such as the US-NATO attack achieved in Yugoslavia. Small places, each governed by different leaders, would be easier to control and denominate for US interests. 

The protesting Druze in Suwayda are separatists. They are asking for their small piece of the pie from the US map of the new Middle East. Suwayda, Deraa and the US occupation military base at Al Tanf would be connected in a crescent shaped border with Jordan and Iraq.

The Al Tanf base is positioned to prevent Iranian cargo from entering Syria on the Baghdad-Damascus highway.  

Deraa was the starting point of the March 2011 conflict. The Al Omari Mosque was used as a weapons storage for the terrorists who were supplied with Libyan arms confiscated from the US military and transferred through the neighboring US military base in Jordan.

Recently in Suwayda, protesters attacked the Ba’ath Party headquarters which has an arsenal stored there for use by the Syrian Arab Army. 

The original map drawn by the US State Department in 2011, showed Syria cut into small pieces. It now appears that the northwest province of Idlib is proposed to be part of the Turkish occupied border area, and the border with Turkey north of Aleppo is also proposed to be under Turkish administration, which they would like to annex later. The US sends no humanitarian aid of any kind to Syria, even for the 7.8 magnitude earthquake relief, except to Idlib alone, which is under terrorist control.  The former ISIS leader of Idlib, Mohammed al-Julani, has already changed into a suit and tie and has given interviews to US media in an effort by the State Department to rebrand his image as a western supported leader, transformed from his time with ISIS and Al Qaeda.

The Kurds are also on the same separatist band wagon with Idlib and Suwayda. The Kurds were a sizable community in the northeast of Syria, but were never the majority, who were Arabs and Christians.  But, the Kurds had the backing of the US military who partnered with them in the fight to defeat ISIS. The actual victors over ISIS was the Syrian Arab Army, the Iraqi Army, Russian military, along with the US military and Kurds. The Kurds have established their own Communist administration under the tremendous financial support of the US government. Usually the US government takes a dim view of Communism, but in the case of the Kurds they have fully supported them, which reinforces that fact that the US government will work with, and support any group, as long as it is in the US interest.

Suwayda is just the newest proposed project in a long list of US regime change projects which have resulted in dividing a sovereign nation into small pieces. Yugoslavia was the first, and the next big US-NATO regime change project was the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, which has left Iraq split into the northern section of Kurdistan, and the southern section of Iraq, which has never recovered from the US invasion and destruction.

Then Libya was attacked in 2011 by US-NATO forces for regime change, and is now split into two separate sections with separate governments. Sudan and Yemen were both attacked and split up. 

A project still in progress is the partition of Syria into at least five sections, and also on the drawing board in Washington, DC. is the partition of Lebanon, which will first depend on the culmination of the partition of the south of Syria including Suwayda.

Lebanon has been purposely left without a President for one year, and a government and parliament which is flying on auto-pilot. Israel’s goal, which is jointly a US goal, is to contain Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon and to cut off its support from Iran, and Syria.

When Condoleezza Rice called for a New Middle East, she was referring to an Arabic styled patchwork quilt, made up of bits and pieces of formerly defiant and resistance supporting countries, who had called for the end of the occupation of Palestine as a core national cultural value. The American-engineered New Middle East demands forgetting resistance, and acquiescing to normalization with Israel as the prerequisite to peace and prosperity. 

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Mike Adams is joined by Jeffrey Prather on Health Ranger Report to talk about what’s happening behind the scene that’s not reported on mainstream media. 

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Dr. William Makis sat down with Police on Guard to tell the world about his observations surrounding the mandatory injections and the impact it is having on the health of Canadians.

From the sudden onset of unforeseen cancers in children, as well as adults, to the accelerated deaths of those diagnosed, what is being observed is unprecedented.

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The Balkanization of the US by warring ideological divisions has expended all of their energies that could have been constructively used to bring unity. We face numerous crises including public health and education, destruction of the environment, food security, inflation, etc. Instead the nation’s deficit of clear attention has been focused on social sundries as if the preservation of western civilization, and humanity itself, were dependent upon racial, ethnic and gender identities. For example the very idea that every white person on the planet is born a white-privileged racist is a violation of psychological insanity, yet a significant mass of Americans believe this. The Second World War should have taught us that no one has the right to determine genetic superiority or inferiority. These are mental constructs used solely for political, social and ideological ends. The new rules are being written by a small group of race hustlers who are determined to define the standards for national identity and policy. And it seems they are so far succeeding. This is a lethal game of intellectual decadency bereft of any legitimate morality.

Today the archetype of racism is the antiracist. Anti-fascists are the exemplary fascists. If you are a traditional feminist and disagree with men alchemically transmuting into biological women, you are a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” or TERF, a derogatory name used to dehumanize any woman who disagrees with the new gender ideology. These new postmodern incarnations of the Weimar Republic’s German Social Democrat youth corps have a limited knowledge of history. In demonstrations across the US and Europe, protestors robotically wave or dress in the flag of Ukraine, evidently unknowing that the Eastern European nation has become the leader of a new brand neo-Nazism following the US-supported coup in 2014. But nobody wants to see or acknowledge the clear evidence available to everyone. In the 1930s, fighting the rise of fascism was a noble cause; today, it is preferable to blindfold ourselves and pretend it doesn’t exist.

Thus a small and very vocal segment of the radicalized communities morphed into a self-centered pathology with only one intention: to destroy anyone’s reputations before giving them a forum to have a civil, open debate. Many individuals’ reputations including scholars, philosophers, ethicists, and a large segment of social activists have had their careers cancelled, their reputations trashed, and their futures stunted or obliterated. Where is the justice for these individuals? It does not exist. In fact, just some of the names of people who were historic liberal democrats, including Naomi Wolf, Chris Hedges, Abby Martin, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Jimmy Dore, Matt Taibbi, Joe Rogan, and countless other less known journalists, reporters, and educators. Consequently, the social advocacy that was spurred by these new age neocons was exploited by others to serve as a tool for social control. This was later adopted by the woke social movements. Without question, all individuals have the right to be heard. However, the ideologues have total control over all social platforms including Facebook, Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube. All contrary speech has been banned; all rights to present your information on any topic has been thwarted and limited by these platforms’ algorithms and political intervention, to maintain control of the narrative. 

The question is how many social movements driven by selfish individualist desires for reaching nefarious goals gained the attention of ruling powers that were able to capitalize on such grassroots foolishness for their own ends to increase their control and power?

Revolutions are strategized and launched usually by small groups of individuals rather than the majority.  Often they begin with a handful of radical intellectuals who compose treatises such as White Fragility, How to be an Antiracist, and 1619, that capture the subconscious angst and anger of larger segments in society. For example, without the printing press, Martin Luther could not have led the Protestant Reformation in 1517. In his Ninety-Five Theses tacked on the castle cathedral in Wittenberg Germany would have been just another lonely, unread piece of parchment if it were not for the printing press to have them distributed to the masses. Today social media is the most powerful printing press that enables radical ideas to go viral with lightning speed to millions of people. Name any topic – climate change, class struggle, immigration, pandemic policies, and war – and we find warring divisions pitted against each other with no centralized safe space for civil dialogue. But there is never a winner in any of these struggles at the populist level. Instead, the spoils are reaped by the powerful that have identified the means to use the civil hate-filled diatribes to their advantage. Then the worst of their plundered loot, at the expense of the average citizen, becomes codified into laws.  Canada’s little dictator, Justin Trudeau, is a prime example of a new Orwellian Canada whose dystopian standards will flood over our border shortly. In fact, they already have.

All discourse, or the lack thereof, has moved into the virtual realm. It is for that reason that social media has become an uncontrollable behemoth that now transcends any humanly possible means to control. And for this reason, powerful political, intelligence and corporate forces are determined to exert whatever control they can seize over what we can and cannot read or have access to in order to commandeer what we can and cannot think. Several years ago, few people realized that companies like Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street own financial control over nearly every commodity, financial service and transaction in our lives. Minus a standing military, these private corporations are collectively far more powerful and wealthy than any developed nation. Yet this is the new reality and people assume it is completely inconsequential.

No doubt, political powers noticed an opportunity to advance their social control over the public, which always works in their favor when they can keep the population divided and in hot-tempered combat, by capitalizing on our collective ignorance. Consequently, woke and multi-gender agendas are being institutionalized across elementary schools, university campuses, workplace and the military under the pretense of contributing to an all-inclusive civilized society. Yet in which functioning society has a small minority ruled over the majority while sustaining a social justice system? Communist China?

What is currently missing from any civil discourse in the growing wars of ideas is what we have accomplished over the decades.  As a nation, we suffer from historical amnesia. It is not simply a matter of rewriting history – in which at times it does need to be rewritten after new evidence reaches consensus – however, today history is composed on a whim, a momentary flight of imagination, and for whatever purpose it serves at this moment. Thus we float in the dark waters of an intellectual blackout, when history books are replaced by multi-gender sexual comic books.

Yet despite all the improvements that still need to be made to return to a functioning culture, there are the achievements that need to be resurrected in our consciousness: the decades long struggle for civil rights, women’s suffrage, the voting rights of Native Americans, a working wage, the times when everyone had the potential to own a home, etc. Through enormous effort by empathetic and compassionate activities from all groups, minorities who were denied access to basic human rights and honorable employment achieved those opportunities. We’ve forgotten about the 14th Constitutional amendment that gave Blacks equal protection under the law and the 15th amendment gave them the right to vote.  Or the 1954 Supreme Court decision to ban school segregation and Eisenhower’s 1957 Civil Rights Act that would federally prosecute anyone from preventing an American citizen from voting. These policies, achieved only through great moral diligence, enriched our culture. And yet today it is as if it never happened. In fact these same laws are violated without impunity.

Sadly, a large percentage of Americans know the truth perfectly well but are fearful to speak forth. This is why no institution is capable of reversing course to restore the riches lost. Rather, the alternative is that our public and private institutions worsen until they collapse in public disgrace. Perhaps then something may change for the better.

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Introductory Note on Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

We bring to the attention of our readers the timely analysis and interpretation by Dr. Rudolf Haensel of Friedrich von Schiller’s Ode to Joy, which was subsequently embodied in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. 

Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony first performance was in Vienna in May 1824 at the Kaiserliches Hoftheater am Kärntnertor

The 9th Symphony is considered as a powerful symbol of solidarity, social equality, peace and human values. 

But there is something important, which is has been ignored by musicologists and historians of music: Beethoven added three extra verses –coupled with corresponding musical pitches– which were not contained in Schiller’s original “Ode to Joy”: 

Oh friends, not these sounds!
O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!

But let us sing more pleasantly
Sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen

And more joyful ones!
Und freudenvollere!

These three verses were sung right at the beginning, they were followed by 

Freude!

Freude!

Freude schoener Goetterfunken

Tochter aus Elysium 

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Dear readers, we suggest you listen carefully to the 4th movement. 

The  “ugly sounds” were inserted (in musical phrases) at the outset of the 4th movement (O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!).

Was Beethoven’s intention to “bypass censorship” while expressing in the lyrics and melodies the true nature of these “ugly sounds” which in Vienna in the year 1824 expressed the political acts of derogation of peace, social equality, fundamental human rights, solidarity and brotherhood which prevailed at the height of the Austrian Empire during the Metternich Period. 

Flash Forward to the 21st Century

Today, at the outset of the 21st Century, Europe’s “Classe politique” is once again committed to sustaining the “ugly sounds” of a social order marked by corruption, fraud and social divisiveness.

The music of Beethoven’s 4th Movement was embedded in the EU-Anthem. The poem by Friedrich von Schiller was not used.

For more details see:

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Confronting the “Ugly Sounds” of Corrupt Politicians

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 22, 2023

 

Michel Chossudovsky, September 21, 2023

 

 

New Thinking and Action  

When I recently left my adopted country together with my wife to meet cherished friends in a cosmopolitan city of the EU after many years, to cultivate friendship and exchange ideas with them and to hear my mother tongue again, I noticed that on the street I heard the Arabic and Persian languages much more often instead of German and saw many Muslim-clad women wearing headscarves. As this unfamiliar experience made me a little uncomfortable, I thought more seriously about this problem and at the same time remembered the text of the European Union anthem, which in the first stanza of a later version says: “All men become brothers” (in the sense of brotherhood) (1).

We should stop being suspicious of the migrants from the poor countries of the South, thousands of whom are pouring into the countries of the European Union or the USA, legally or illegally;

We should take action against the deliberate hunger and the inequality in the world that is crying out to heaven, and openly profess the unity of the human race.

“Joy, Beautiful Spark of the Gods”

The poem of praise (Ode) to Joy is the famous poem by Friedrich Schiller, written as early as 1785 and set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven in the 4th movement of his 9th Symphony. The poem, which in its early version consisted of 9 stanzas of 8 verses each, describes very emotionally and solemnly the ideal of a society of equal people bound together by the bond of joy as well as friendship (2).

Since Schiller was critical of his own work, he changed the text several times: according to Wikipedia (3), the first stanza of the variant published posthumously in 1808 reads:

“Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,

Daughter of Elisium,

We enter drunk with fire,

Heavenly, thy sanctuary.

Your spells bind again,

What fashion strictly divides,

All men become brothers,

Where thy gentle wing dwells.”

After the context of the poem is established in the first stanza, the second stanza speaks of the “great litter”, which consists in particular of “being a friend of a friend”. The social “Bund” in the sense of communality and friendship is to be understood as the crowning of life, the “Erdenrund” as the covenant of all people (4).

The fact that Ludwig van Beethoven had his 9th Symphony end with a choral song with Schiller’s text in a time of political restoration in 1824 was assessed by a contemporary as follows – and is reminiscent of today:

“After all the political confusion and horrors of the time, which Beethoven himself also experienced, this work is in the end an appeal, a longing for fraternisation, for joy and jubilation, for the utopia of a world peace, for a world without wars and destruction.” (5)

The melody has been the anthem of the Council of Europe since 1972, and its instrumental version has been the official anthem of the European Union since 1985.

“Freiheit, schöner Götterfunken”

For Christmas 1989, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony was performed in the East Berlin Konzerthaus under the baton of the famous US conductor, composer and pianist Leonhard Bernstein with the altered text “Freiheit, schöner Götterfunken”. The reason was the fall of the Berlin Wall a month earlier (6).

The countries and states of the global South are certainly happy to join in this amended text, as freedom is after all a high good that must be defended always and everywhere.

In an interview with the geopolitical YouTube podcast “The Duran”, the US star economist Jeffrey Sachs spoke in this context of the end of US hegemony as part of a natural cycle, according to Russia Today DE of 18 September 2023. Sachs elaborated on the two opposing “mindsets” that shape geopolitics, saying:

“On the one hand, invoking Adam Smith, an attitude of openness from which all nations can only benefit, on the other hand, the desire to subordinate others and to be ‘number one'”. The United States and Europe have made history on this last point. China, on the other hand, has never posed a threat in history. (…). The ‘tragedy’ of great power politics is a Western concept – we must not surrender to it.” (7)

Learning to Embrace the Unity of the Human Race

In building trust with fellow human beings – regardless of nationality – the information and cultural values that parents and educators bring to the child on a daily basis are crucial.

The image of man of the Christian occidental culture says that man – even the small child – carries bad qualities within himself. The educators usually approach the child with this information – whether consciously or unconsciously. This makes the child afraid of the other person. When the child learns to be afraid, this permeates all his actions and how he moves and gives himself in the community. The emotional reaction of fear then becomes a component of his character, which he carries into adulthood more or less consciously into every interpersonal relationship.

It is therefore crucial what kind of information and what culturally prevailing values they bring to the child. If the child is unsettled and deceived by untrue information and/or confusing lies, he or she will continue to distance himself or herself from all fellow human beings even as an adult.

We do not know today when the human conscience will proclaim the so-called “absolute truth”, according to which human beings belong together and are under the law to cooperate and join hands with each other. There is no doubt, however, that the existence of the human race will depend on people professing all-human solidarity.

Cultural particularities of different nations should continue to exist; they will be an immense enrichment.

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He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Notes

(1) https://wikipedia.org/wiki/An_die_Freude

(2) op. cit.

(3) op. cit.

(4) A. a. O.

(5) A. a. O.

(6) A. a. O.

(7) https://de.rt.com/international/181178-us-oekonom-jeffrey-sachs-ende-500-jährigen-westlichen-hegemonie-unvermeidlich/

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Background

Syrian President Bashar Assad is in China on his first visit since the war and foreign-backed insurgency gripped his country some 12 years ago.

Assad arrived in the eastern city of Hangzhou where he will attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games on Saturday.

He and other foreign leaders will then meet Chinese President Xi Jinping there.

The Syrian president will also travel to Beijing to discuss bilateral issues and China’s help to rebuild his war-ravaged country.

Beijing, which has long provided Damascus with diplomatic support, says that Assad’s visit will push bilateral relations to a new level. The visit also comes as China expands its engagement in West Asia. This year Beijing brokered a deal that saw Saudi Arabia and Syria agree to restore diplomatic ties and reopen their respective embassies.

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PressTV: Mr. Koenig, what is your take on Mr. Assad’s visit to China?

Peter Koenig (PK): This is excellent news. President Bashar Assad’s visit to China and his meeting with President Xi Jinping will further strengthen the already good diplomatic relations, as well as cooperation, between the two countries.

China has an outstanding record in expanding diplomacy and Peace initiatives. As you mentioned before, earlier this year Beijing was highly influential in re-establishing diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Syria – a move, paralleled by another Chinese initiative – re-establishing diplomatic relations – and de facto peace – between Iran and the Saudis – and Yemen.

What is important, Mr. Assad’s visit will likely lead to enhanced support by China for Syria’s defense and possibly reconstruction of western initiated war-destroyed infrastructure.

Since January 2022, Syria is also part of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative – a fact that may further enhance China-Syria collaboration, for example, in the field of hydrocarbon exploitation and protection from western theft – especially from the US and Turkey.

President Bashar Assad’s visit to China comes at a crucial time, just preceding the coming 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF), planned for Mid-October 2023 in Beijing.

Regarding the BRICS – although Syria is not yet a candidate for joining the BRICS – this diplomatic visit by the Syrian President to China may spark a common interest in expanding the BRICS with Syria’s presence, during next year’s BRICS summit, sponsored by Russia in October 2024.

Overall, as China is expanding her engagement in Western Asia and the Middle East, Syria’s diplomatic closeness to China is also enhanced due to Syria’s central geographic location bordering Lebanon, Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, and Jordan to the south.

This potentially also makes for an excellent emissary for China in the region.

PressTV: You just mentioned the Chinese diplomatic initiatives to reopen Embassies between Teheran and Riyadh and between Saudi Arabia and Syria. Do you think there is a shift of the Middle East breaking loose from the US-led western hegemony?

PK: Definitely. This is visible in all fronts. Trade relations between Saudi Arabia and China have already grown rapidly before President Xi’s diplomatic initiatives in the region, and that in local currencies. In other words, hydrocarbon deals are made in non-dollar currencies, even though the US dollar had been set by the US in the early 1970s as THE trading currency for OPEC. 

However, a detachment from the west does not happen overnight. The shift will be gradual as the dollar dominance will wane gradually, especially with ever-more countries trading in local currencies rather than in US-dollars which, after WWII was made de facto the world trade currency.

In this de-dollarization, it is expected that the BRICS will play a major role. Consequently, it is also important that countries like Syria and Iran – truly interested in de-dollarization – will join the initiatives of China and Russia, as well as the stated goal of the BRICS.

The trend of disengagement from the West of the Global South in general and the Middle East in particular is irreversible. Western dollar-hegemonic “sanctions policies” have done enough harm for sovereign countries to take their destiny into their own decision making.

The East, led by China and Russia, is pursuing a brighter future for social and economic development, one of peace and harmony.

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On 17 August, anti-government protests erupted in Suwayda, a province in southern Syria with a Druze-majority population. These demonstrations were triggered by the Syrian government’s decision to lift fuel subsidies, which came amidst a severe economic crisis exacerbated by US economic sanctions.

Hundreds of Syrians burnt tires, blocked roads, and chanted anti-government slogans in Al-Karama Square in Suwayda’s city center. 

Protesters shouted, “Long live Syria and down with [Syrian President] Bashar al Assad,” which, according to Reuters, echoed “chants from 2011 pro-democracy protests that were violently crushed by security forces and sparked a long-running conflict.”

References to the protests in 2011, and the bloody 12-year war that followed are important, but not for the reasons Reuters suggests.

Suwayda Then and Now 

Contrary to the mainstream view, the anti-government demonstrations in 2011 were not popular, peaceful protests demanding democracy. As detailed elsewhere, the protests were sparked by US and allied intelligence agencies seeking regime change in Damascus. The CIA and Saudi intelligence flooded Syria with Al-Qaeda militants from Iraq and Lebanon who infiltrated protests to attack Syrian police, soldiers, and security officials.

As in 2011, the hand of foreign intelligence agencies is evident in the Suwayda protests taking place today.

According to an informed source speaking with The Cradle, the protests are driven primarily by groups enjoying support from US and Israeli intelligence, namely the Men of Dignity and the Brigade Party.

According to the source, “everyone is aware of the role they played and continue to play” in Suwayda.

The Men of Dignity, or Rijaal al-Karama, group was formed by an obscure Druze religious figure, Wahid Balous, shortly after the US-led covert war on Syria began in 2011.

“Balous was an unknown cleric before the [war],” one of his associates told The New Arab in 2015. Three years earlier, “His name began to emerge with the rise of armed groups affiliated to sheikhs who said they were neither in the opposition nor the pro-government camp.”

Al-Jazeera also reported in 2015 that “Syria’s Druze are not fully supportive of Balous,” including some who “questioned his political agenda.”

“He openly declared himself opposed to Israel, but his close relations with Israeli Druze, who are linked to Israeli intelligence and the military establishment, raised fears that he might have been manipulated,” said one activist from Suwayda, quoted by the Qatari outlet.

The informed source speaking with The Cradle also highlights the role of Israeli intelligence in establishing the Men of Dignity with the help of Israeli Druze figures.

“The Men of Dignity are influenced and mobilized by the Mossad, and there is a role for Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the head of the spiritual council for Israeli Druze,” the source states.

Israeli Involvement in Druze Affairs 

While the Druze community in Suwayda and in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights are traditionally strong supporters of the Syrian government, some Druze elements in Israel are Zionists and support the Jewish state.

Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif has publicly expressed his strong support for Zionism and the Israeli state, while prominent Druze politician Ayoob Kara is a member of the Likud Party, founded by former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Given this context, it’s not surprising that Israel has been involved in efforts to sow chaos and promote separatism among the Druze in Syria, as outlined in Oded Yinon’s 1982 plan of breaking up Baathist Syria into ethnic mini-states, including a Druze state, as a primary Zionist objective.

As part of the establishment of the Men of Dignity in 2012, Balous established a militia allegedly devoted to protecting the Druze community during the ongoing war between the government and foreign-backed Salafist armed groups, including the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.

According to sources from Suwayda speaking with Al-Jazeera, Balous commanded between 500 and 1,000 fighters. 

This can be compared with the strength of the pro-government Druze militias active in Syria at the time.

Al-Jazeera notes that roughly 8,000 Druze fighters were then affiliated with the National Defense Forces (NDF), the Popular Committees, Dara al-Watan (Shield of the Homeland), and the armed wing of Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP).

According to the informed source speaking with The Cradle, Balous’ militia obtained their weapons from Israel via the Nusra Front – since rebranded as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). 

This claim is plausible given Israel’s well-documented collaboration with the FSA and Nusra Front 

In 2014, opposition activists close to the FSA acknowledged the Israeli air force bombed Syrian army positions in Quneitra near the Golan Heights in support of Nusra. 

Between 2015 and 2017, reports from the Wall Street Journal and UN peacekeeping troops patrolling the Golan Heights border fence revealed that Israel was supporting Nusra and allied FSA factions in southern Syria. Israel provided funds to pay salaries and buy weapons for armed groups while bringing Nusra fighters across the Golan border fence for treatment in Israeli hospitals. 

Anger at Israeli support for Nusra caused Druze residents in the town of Majdal al-Shams, located on the Israeli side of the Golan border fence, to attack Israeli ambulances carrying Nusra fighters. 

Israeli support for Nusra was further documented by the Druze activist Sidqi al-Maqt, who also hailed from Majd al-Shams. Maqt had been imprisoned for 27 years by Israel for resisting its occupation of the Golan Heights. 

After his release in 2012, Maqt documented contacts between the Israeli army and Nusra in posts on social media. As a result, he was arrested again in 2015 and spent another five years in an occupation prison.

Collaboration and Conscription 

In June 2015, Balous and his militia were criticized for undermining the Syrian army and collaborating with the Nusra Front. At the time, Syria’s Druze community was facing its worst threat from the Israeli-backed Nusra Front and allied FSA since the start of the war. 

Al-Jazeera reported that

“Some criticized [Balous’] attacks on government checkpoints, and according to sources in Sweida, many questioned the absence of his militia when armed opposition groups launched a large-scale attack on the Thaaleh airbase in Sweida.” 

Balous’ collaboration with the so-called rebels of Nusra and the FSA was evidenced further by a report from the Lebanese Daily Star. The Lebanese paper reported that

“FSA spokesman, Yassin al-Hariri, pledged that if Thaaleh airport is seized by the rebels, it will be turned over to Balous’ Dignity Sheikhs group.”

The Nusra and FSA attack came at a sensitive time, as Nusra had massacred 20 Druze civilians in Idlib governorate in northern Syria the day before. In the months prior to the massacre, Nusra fighters had destroyed historic Druze graves and shrines in Idlib and forced hundreds of Druze to covert to Sunni Islam.

The massacre came as the western and Persian Gulf media launched a propaganda campaign to rebrand Nusra and describe it as a moderate group deserving western military support, despite its ties to Al-Qaeda. 

Prominent Lebanese Druze politician Walid Jumblatt played his part. Following the massacre, he refused to condemn Nusra as a terrorist group, instead claiming,

“The terrorist regime of Bashar obliged the Syrians to join Nusra.” 

While Balous and the Men of Dignity refused to join the effort to protect Suwayda, Druze fighters in the NDF, Dara al-Watan, and SSNP helped the Syrian army recapture the Thaaleh airbase. 

At the same time, large numbers of Druze youth were joining the Syrian army following a plea from Druze religious leader Hikmat al-Hijri.

Balous took a different stance. In a speech circulated online, he called on Druze youth to refuse conscription into the army, even though President Assad had made commitments that Druze recruits would remain in Suwayda to protect their own communities.

While seeking to undermine the military defense of Suwayda, Balous’ Men of Dignity organized anti-government protests that included the slogan, “The people want the downfall of the governor [of Suwayda],” Atef al-Nadaf.

Syria expert Aymenn al-Tamimi notes that in response, pro-government elements accused Balous and his followers of “orchestrating the demonstrations as part of a prior agreed plan to destroy the regime in Suwayda through collusion with foreign intelligence and Jabhat al-Nusra.”

In September 2015, Balous was assassinated in a bomb attack along with 25 others, including several Men of Dignity leaders in the Zhahr al-Jabal region.

Although it is not known who killed Balous, it is widely suspected the head of Military Intelligence in Suwayda, Colonel Wafiq Nasser, ordered the bombing. Balous had called for the “citizen’s arrest” of Colonel Nasser three months prior.

Rallying Behind the Flag 

The informed source speaking with The Cradle also pointed to the role of Hezb al-Liwa, or the Brigade Party, in the protests that erupted in Suwayda recently. The group was founded in July 2021 and led by journalist Malik Abu Khair. 

In an interview with Al-Monitor, Abu Khair said the party receives no foreign funding and that its political vision called for resolving the Syrian crisis in accordance with the US-backed UN Resolution 2254, which calls for a new constitution, elections, and the removal of President Assad from power.

However, according to the informed source, Abu Khair resides in France, and the party is funded by Qatar, France, and Britain:

“Those who called for protests in the squares were the Brigade Party and the Men of Dignity. They are the ones who raise the Druze flags and demand the implementation of UN Resolution 2254, and they offer dollars to those who join the Syrian Brigade Party or work with them.” 

A militia affiliated with the Brigade Party, the Counter Terrorism Force (CTF), was also established in Suwayda in 2021.

Nowras Aziz, an independent journalist from Suwayda residing in France, told Al-Monitor that the CTF militia “was formed of members with criminal records, militia fighters and former security contractors with the military, as well as members of gangs that carry out kidnappings and demand ransom. Those are known locally and deeply hated.”

The Kurdish and Jordanian Roles

The Brigade Party and affiliated CTF have received support from the US military and allied Kurdish forces operating out of the Al-Tanf base on the Syria-Jordan-Iraq border.

Journalist Nowras Aziz added that Brigade Party leader Abu Khair “had contacted the [US-led international] coalition forces at Al-Tanf base in the second half of 2020,” explaining his plan to take full control over the eastern villages of Suwayda province and remove “any presence of the Syrian regime or Iran in that area.”

Sources in Suwayda speaking to pro-opposition Syria TV confirmed the Brigade Party and CTF received funding, arms, and training from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US military. This included help in establishing bases under SDF supervision in the eastern countryside of Suwayda.

The sources added that the CTF militia received six months of training from US forces stationed at the Al-Tanf base, under the pretext of combating Iranian militias and drug trafficking.

Because the US base at Al-Tanf is located on the Jordanian border – in close proximity to Suwayda – this suggests the US is using Jordan as a staging ground to support Druze separatism in Syria. The US military has already established 16 military bases in the Hashemite Kingdom, and there is talk about establishing a NATO office in the country.

It is widely acknowledged that the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia used Jordan as a staging ground to support the FSA and Nusra during the war to topple the Syrian government starting in 2011.

Additional evidence for a US and Israeli-backed separatist project in Suwayda emerged in July, roughly one month before the recent protests erupted. As Syria TV reported in July 2023: 

The “Syrian Brigade Party announced the establishment of service institutions alternative to those affiliated with the Syrian regime, indicating its desire to establish an independent self-administration for the Druze community, similar to the special regions of northeastern Syria, which are predominantly Kurdish.”

Syria TV further noted that the Brigade Party’s separatist project is “met with widespread opposition” in Suwayda, including from political and civic organizations, most of the local armed factions, and prominent religious leaders.

This suggests the current protests organized by the Men of Dignity and Brigade Party are supported only by a minority of Druze in Suwayda.

However, as in 2011, the western media has focused its attention on the few hundred protesters waving colorful flags and chanting slogans against President Assad to suggest the majority of Syrian Druze back regime change.

In light of the recent protests, the source speaking to The Cradle observes that:

“What caught my attention is an important detail: the raising of the Druze flag. During the protests since 2011, the Druze flag has not been raised at all. This flag-raising indicates preliminary steps that may lead to a separatist movement similar to that undertaken by the Kurds.”

Syrian Druze religious leader Sheikh Yusef Jarbou made a reference to the prominence of the Druze flag in the protests during a meeting with Suwayda notables on 30 August, one week after the protests began. 

Sheikh Jarbou rejected calls by some of the protestors for separatism and the overthrow of the Syrian government, while stating that the flag of the Syrian state is the flag that he represents, and that siding with Damascus is the “strategic and national choice.”

Additionally, not all protesters in Suwayda are seeking regime change, as media reports typically imply. 

Prominent Syria expert Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma explained that “most of the protesters are calling for more government activity in the economic life of the country, rather than a collapse of the government.”

“They want more electricity, they want subsidies, they want better schooling, they want the currency to be stabilized. They are desperate. They want higher salaries,” Landis said.

Crushing Syria Through Sanctions

It remains to be seen whether US and Israeli efforts to turn the Druze community against the Syrian state will succeed. 

As journalist Aaron Mate observed, US planners are waging an economic war against average Syrians, hoping a collapse in living standards will turn them against the government. 

Andrew Tabler, a former senior US official for Syria policy, boasted in 2021 that US sanctions have caused Syria’s currency to collapse, leading to “corresponding cuts in regime subsidies that have exacerbated fuel and food shortages for everyday Syrians.”

The threat of economic collapse comes as pro-Israeli voices are calling for the establishment of a “Free Druze Province” in Suwayda, bound by the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to the west, the Al-Tanf base to the east, and US and Israel-allied Jordan to the south.

Damascus-based journalist Vanessa Beeley warns that the stage is now set for a possible US-Israel military intervention. 

She reports that according to Syrian security sources, the US is gathering mercenaries at Al-Tanf in preparation to seize Suwayda and the border crossings with Jordan.

If such an intervention takes place, Israel will be one step closer to achieving the goal of dividing Syria into weak, ethnic mini-states, as articulated by Oden Yinon some four decades ago.

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According to the official narrative, on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda carried out four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks against the United States, killing 2,750 civilians in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 airline passengers whose plane crashed in Pennsylvania

The 9/11 Commission Report was published July 22, 2004, but 28 pages of the report detailing the role of Saudi Arabia remain classified

Evidence suggests the Saudi government may have been involved in the 9/11 attacks, but the U.S. government, FBI and CIA covered up the connection

Two of the 9/11 hijackers — Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar — were Saudi nationals whom high level sources claim were recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation. The CIA refused to share information about the recruits with the FBI, thereby preventing the FBI from launching a criminal investigation that could have stopped the terrorist plot

Other evidence points to an even more sinister possibility, namely that U.S. authorities not only knew about the potential for an attack beforehand, but were part of it

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September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda carried out four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks against the United States, killing 2,750 civilians in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 airline passengers whose plane crashed in Pennsylvania.¹ At least, that’s what we’ve been told. But is that really what happened?

The video above is a five-minute rapid-fire summary by investigative journalist James Corbett of the official narrative and the main problems with the “terrorist attack” narrative.

In 2016, Corbett published a “9/11 Suspects” video series in which he dissected the alleged attacks and reviewed potential suspects. Four years later, he re-released the series as an hour-long documentary,² embedded below for your convenience. As noted by Corbett in the documentary:³

“9/11 was a crime. This should not be a controversial statement, but given how 9/11 was framed as a terrorist attack or even an ‘act of war’ from the very moment that it occurred, it somehow is. If we lived in a world of truth and justice, 9/11 would have been approached as a crime to be solved rather than an attack to be responded to …

Like a prosecutor trying to bring down a mafia kingpin, it is unlikely that such an investigation would start by bringing the suspected mastermind of the plot to trial.

Such a vast and intricate operation would be picked apart from the outside, starting with people on the periphery of the plot who could be forced to testify under oath and who could provide leads further up the ladder.

We may not live in a world where such a criminal investigation is taking place, but we are trying the crimes of 9/11 in the court of public opinion …

Over the course of The Corbett Report’s existence, I have looked at many figures who no doubt feature more prominently in the 9/11 plot itself from an operational standpoint: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Larry Silverstein, Dov Zakheim, Paul Bremer, Richard Armitage.

[In the documentary] we will look at some of the other suspects in that crime; not ringleaders or masterminds, not even people who were likely to know about the plot ahead of time. But those who helped cover up those crimes for the real perpetrators.”

Characters featured in Corbett’s film are former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman, executive director of the 9/11 commission Philip Zelikow, former CIA case officer Robert Baer and general Ralph Eberhart.

Was Saudi Arabia Involved?

As noted by Corbett, it took President Bush 441 days to establish a commission to investigate the events of 9/11, and even then he didn’t do it willingly. Bush reportedly resisted the idea of conducting an investigation, and even asked Senate majority leader Tom Daschle to limit Congressional inquiries.

Commission chairman Thomas Kean also later stated the commission members felt they’d been “set up to fail,” as the investigation was underfunded and rushed. Curiously, Zelikow, the executive director of the commission, had also authored the Bush administration’s 2002 national security strategy, which included the use of a “preemptive war” strategy against Iraq, which would seem a rather severe conflict of interest.

The 9/11 Commission Report⁴ was published July 22, 2004, but to this day, 28 pages of the report detailing the role of Saudi Arabia remain classified. In April 2016, the editorial board of the New York Post called on then-President Barack Obama to declassify the sealed pages, stating “America deserves the truth about the Saudis and 9/11.” According to the New York Post:⁵

“As early as 2003, a U.S. official who’d read the pages told the Los Angeles Times they linked ‘direct involvement of senior Saudi government officials in a coordinated and methodical way directly’ to the terrorists …

Paul Sperry has been writing in The Post about this for over three years, reporting that Riyadh’s involvement ‘was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government.’ Federal investigations were quashed and leads ignored …

Riyadh actively funded al Qaeda and other Islamist extremists for decades — officially stopping only after they turned on the Saudi kingdom. How many of the perfidious princes kept it up anyway?

Only the 9/11 commissioners have dared pursue that question. The rest of official Washington shied away, for fear disclosure would threaten the US-Saudi relationship.”

In another 2016 New York Post article, Sperry wrote:⁶

“… the kingdom’s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government. And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report in a vault in the U.S. Capitol basement. Investigations were throttled. Co-conspirators were let off the hook.

Case agents I’ve interviewed at the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Washington and San Diego, the forward operating base for some of the Saudi hijackers, as well as detectives at the Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department who also investigated several 9/11 leads, say virtually every road led back to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles.

Yet time and time again, they were called off from pursuing leads. A common excuse was ‘diplomatic immunity.’ Those sources say the pages missing from the 9/11 congressional inquiry report … detail ‘incontrovertible evidence’ gathered from both CIA and FBI case files of official Saudi assistance for at least two of the Saudi hijackers who settled in San Diego …

‘The Saudi ambassador funded two of the 9/11 hijackers through a third party,’ [former FBI agent John] Guandolo said. ‘He should be treated as a terrorist suspect, as should other members of the Saudi elite class who the U.S. government knows are currently funding the global jihad.’”

At Least Two 9/11 Hijackers Were CIA Recruits

Even more disturbing is the declaration⁷ of Donald Canestraro, an investigator with the Office of Military Commissions, the legal body overseeing the cases of 9/11 defendants, who in July 2016 launched an investigation into the possible involvement of both the Saudi Arabian government and the CIA in events leading up to 9/11.

According to Canestraro, at least two of the 9/11 hijackers — Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar — were Saudi nationals who had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation. Hazmi and Mihdhar also lived with an FBI informant.

Canestraro’s declaration confirms previous suspicions that the CIA knew far more about the hijackers than they admitted,⁸ and may in fact have been working with them at the time of the attacks. As reported by The Grayzone:⁹

“When originally released in 2021 on the Office’s public court docket, every part of the document was redacted except an ‘unclassified’ marking. Given its explosive contents, it is not difficult to see why: as Canestraro’s investigation concluded, at least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited either knowingly or unknowingly into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation which may have gone awry.

In 1996, Alec Station [a special CIA unit tasked with tracking the activities of Osama bin Laden] was created … The initiative was supposed to comprise a joint investigative effort with the FBI. However, FBI operatives assigned to the unit soon found they were prohibited from passing any information to the Bureau’s head office without the CIA’s authorization …

In late 1999, with ‘the system blinking red’ about an imminent large-scale Al Qaeda terror attack inside the U.S., the CIA and NSA were closely monitoring an ‘operational cadre’ within an Al Qaeda cell that included the Saudi nationals Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. The pair would purportedly go on to hijack American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.

January 15th, Hazmi and Mihdhar entered the U.S. through Los Angeles International Airport … Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi government ‘ghost employee’ immediately met them at an airport restaurant. After a brief conversation, Bayoumi helped them find an apartment near his own in San Diego, co-signed their lease, set them up bank accounts, and gifted $1,500 towards their rent …

Bayoumi alleged his run-in with the two would-be hijackers was mere happenstance… The Bureau disagreed, concluding Bayoumi was a Saudi spy, who handled a number of Al Qaeda operatives in the U.S. They also considered there to be a ‘50/50 chance’ he — and by extension Riyadh — had detailed advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks …

A Bureau special agent, dubbed ‘CS-3’ in the document, stated Bayoumi’s contact with the hijackers and support thereafter ‘was done at the behest of the CIA through the Saudi intelligence service.’ Alec Station’s explicit purpose was to ‘recruit Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar via a liaison relationship,’ with the assistance of Riyadh’s General Intelligence Directorate.”

FBI-CIA Coverup

According to high level sources that spoke to Canestraro, it was highly unusual for Alec Station to recruit human assets. The unit consisted of CIA analysts whose job it was to collect intelligence on Osama bin Laden and warn policymakers about his activities. Alec Station was not equipped to handle covert operations.

Moreover, if the CIA had recruited or even was just monitoring Hazmi and Mihdhar in the U.S., they were likely in violation of the CIA’s charter, as they’re not allowed to carry out operations on U.S. soil.

CIA case officers within Alec Station also admitted to other violations, such as directing field officers — over whom they had no legal authority — to carry out tasks for the unit. In the aftermath of 9/11, both Alec Station and the FBI suppressed investigations into the unit’s operation to recruit Hazmi and Mihdhar.

One key takeaway from the Grayzone’s extensive writeup about this affair is that the FBI could have stopped Hazmi and Mihdhar, if only the CIA unit had actually shared information with the FBI, as it was supposed to, as the FBI had already linked the pair to Walid bin Attash, another al-Qaeda terror suspect. As noted by Grayzone:

“Alec Station’s tireless efforts to protect its Al Qaeda assets raises the obvious question of whether Hazmi and Mihdhar, and possibly other hijackers, were in effect working for the CIA on the day of 9/11.

The real motives behind the CIA’s stonewalling may never be known. But it appears abundantly clear that Alec Station did not want the FBI to know about or interfere in its secret intelligence operation.

If the unit’s recruitment of Hazmi and Mihdhar was purely dedicated to information gathering, rather than operational direction, it is incomprehensible that the FBI had not been apprised of it, and was instead actively misdirected.”

A question then arises. Had Alec Station gone rogue? It’s unlikely, considering no Alec Station member has ever been punished for the intelligence failures that allowed 9/11 to occur.

Was It an Inside Job?

As bad as all of that may seem, other evidence¹⁰ points to an even more sinister possibility, and that is that U.S. authorities not only knew about the potential for an attack beforehand, but that they were part of it.

In other words, it may have been a false flag event, orchestrated to justify the implementation of the Patriot Act, which brought with it massively increased surveillance and reduced freedom, and the launch of the war in Afghanistan.

Just how and why did World Trade Center building 7 collapse? No planes struck it, and it wasn’t on fire. Speaking of fire, more than 3,000 architects and engineers have gone on record saying fire, even if fueled by jet fuel, couldn’t possibly cause a skyscraper to collapse into its own footprint, let alone a skyscraper that was undamaged.

According to Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth,¹¹ the evidence clearly points to the three buildings being destroyed by explosives placed at strategic locations within the buildings, which means they had to have been planted well beforehand.

Was it pure coincidence that war games and terror drills were being conducted that very same day, allowing air defenses to be circumvented? Was it also pure coincidence that whatever hit the Pentagon vaporized the budget analyst office and its contents, which was trying to figure out where $2.3 trillion of the Pentagon’s budget had disappeared to?

And what’s the likelihood of finding an undamaged passport on the streets of New York City, identifying one of the hijackers, when the plane and the entire building had been turned to ash?

These and many other questions have been asked by 911truth.org,¹² which today, 22 years later, is still working to get answers. You can delve deeper into these questions on 911 Truth’s Case for Complicity page.¹³ The Journal of 9/11 Studies¹⁴ is another resource. It’s a peer-reviewed electronic-only journal that covers any and all research related to the events of 9/11.

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¹ Britannica 9/11

^2, 3 Corbett Report September 4, 2020

⁴ The 9/11 Commission Report

⁵ NY Post April 20, 2016

⁶ NY Post April 17, 2016

⁷ Testimony of Donald Canestraro

⁸ Salon October 14, 2011

⁹ Grayzone April 18, 2023

^10, 12 911truth.org About Us

¹¹ Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

¹³ 911truth.org Case for Complicity

¹⁴ Journal of 9/11 Studies

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NEW Sep. 19, 2023 STUDY REVIEWED: (Hanna et al) Biodistribution of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in human breast milk. 

Published Sep.19, 2023 – New York researchers collected breast milk samples from 13 women before and after vaccination.

10/13 or 77% had mRNA in the breast milk 45 hours after vaccination.

“The assumption that the mRNA vaccine is rapidly broken down at its intramuscular administration site with no biodistribution to other organs may not be accurate.”

“Our findings demonstrate that the COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is not confined to the injection site but spreads systemically and is packaged into BM EVs (breast milk extracellular vesicles.”

CONCLUSION:

“However, as only trace quantities are present and a clear translational activity is absent, we believe breastfeeding post-vaccination is safe, especially 48 h after vaccination. Nevertheless, since the minimum mRNA vaccine dose to elicit an immune reaction in infants <6 months is unknown, a dialogue between a breastfeeding mother and her healthcare provider should address the benefit/risk considerations of breastfeeding in the first two days after maternal vaccination.”

“Although the vaccine mRNA appears to be translationally inactive, further investigation is required to determine the minimum amount of mRNA needed to elicit an immune response in newborns.”

“Although this may indicate that the vaccine mRNA in the EVs is not translationally active, it may also indicate that the methodology used is not sensitive enough to detect S protein expression. Thus, confirming the lack of translational activity needs further investigation” – means they didn’t prove that the baby doesn’t make spike protein, only that they were not able to detect with their methods.

My Interpretation 

They have to say its “safe” or it won’t get published.

There are key findings here:

1. mRNA goes systemic and ends up in the breast tissue (I have warned about breast cancer being one of the top 5 turbo cancers in mRNA vaccinated doctors, nurses, teachers, College/University students, pregnant women) – spike protein is expressed in breast tissue and we don’t know what damage that does long term.
2. In this small sample of 13 women, 77% of women had mRNA in their breast milk. That is a very high percentage.
3. mRNA in breast milk is absorbed through the baby’s gut into its circulation and the minimum safety dose of absorbed mRNA is UNKNOWN.
4. mRNA viability and Spike protein expression wasn’t tested properly (was tested on a colorectal carcinoma cell line which makes no sense)
5. This study doesn’t prove that mRNA vaccination of the mother is safe for the baby when she is breast feeding. Authors say more studies are needed.

mRNA & Breastfeeding Problems 

Babies who died when COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers were breastfeeding (two cases): 

CASE 1 (VAERS ID 1532154): 8 week old baby died July 17, 2021: 

36 year old mother from New Mexico wrote: “On July 17, 2021, my baby passed away. I had been breastfeeding my 6 week old baby at the time that I received the first Pfizer vaccine on June 4, 2021.

He became very sick with a high fever on June 21, about 2 weeks after I got the first Pfizer vaccine. He was treated for 2 weeks with IV antibiotics for a supposed bacterial infection, however, they never found any bacteria.

After the 14 day course of antibiotics, he was home for one week, but exhibited strange symptoms (e.g. swollen eyelid, strange rashes, vomiting). I took him back to the hospital on July 15, where he presented with what they called an atypical Kawasaki disease. He passed away shortly thereafter from clots in his severely inflamed arteries. He died on July 17, 2021.

CASE 2 (VAERS ID 1166062): 5 month old baby died March 20, 2021 

Mother received her 2nd dose of Pfizer vaccine on March 17, 2021 while at work. The next day on March 18, 2020, her 5 month old breastfed infant developed a rash and within 24 hours was inconsolable, refusing to eat and developed a fever.

Baby was brought to ER, blood analysis revealed elevated liver enzymes, was hospitalized but continued to decline and died on March 20, 2021 with diagnosis of TTP.

Babies who had serious reactions when COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers were breastfeeding: 

There are hundreds of these cases so I will only highlight a few:

CASE 3 (VAERS ID 1415059): 3 month old baby had seizures from breastfeeding 

A mother from Pennsylvania wrote: “I received 1st dose of Moderna on June 18, 2021. I fed my three month old daughter milk that I pumped from my breasts later that night and put her to bed. When transferring her to her bassinet at approximately 11:30pm, she started a seizure that lasted seven minutes. We were transported to Hospital where she suffered two more seizures in the early morning hours of June 19th. She has been a healthy baby with no health conditions prior to these events.

CASE 4 (VAERS ID 930348): Pfizer vaccinated mom’s baby had seizures for 4 days 

A 33 year old mother from New Jersey writes: “I am breastfeeding. My daughter had seizure like episodes starting on Saturday 1/2, Sunday 1/3, Monday, 1/4 and 2 times on Tuesday 1/5.”

CASE 5 (VAERS ID 1099241): A 16 month old baby got hemolytic anemia

A mother from California had J&J vaccine on March 10, 2021. Her 16 month old baby developed jaundice the next day and was admitted for evaluation of hemolytic anemia.

CASE 6 (VAERS ID 1543319: 12 month old has swollen lymph nodes

On Feb 1, 2021, the mother received 1st Moderna dose. The next day the nursing 12 month old infant developed fever and swollen lymph nodes in the groin.

CASE 7 (VAERS ID 1101777): 14 month old boy has body rash all over 

A 29 year old mother from New York had Moderna and writes: “I’m breastfeeding my 14 month old son. A couple of days after I received my first dose of the Moderna vaccine, he broke out in red spots all over his body. A few days later, he developed a low grade fever. It’s been one week since I was vaccinated. He does not have a fever anymore and the red spots are almost all gone.”

CASE 8 (VAERS ID 917888): 15 month old has rash and fever

A 35 year old mother from New Mexico had one dose of Pfizer. She writes: “ I am breastfeeding my 15 month old son and he got a rash on his abdomen and face that has progressed more over past several days. He has had no fever but acts like he doesn’t feel great as he was not eating like his normal self. I don’t know if the rash is related or not but it is during the time of the vaccine.”

CASE 9 (VAERS ID 931851): 5 month old baby has severe diarrhea & vomiting, almost died 

A 32 year old mother from Alaska writes: “I am currently breastfeeding my 5-month-old son. I received my first (Pfizer) vaccine on 12/28/2020 and directly breastfed within 4 hours of receiving the vaccine. Two days after my vaccine my son was at daycare and had two large diarrhea blowouts and two large emeses followed by a 1-minute episode where he was limp with entire body cyanosis and in-and-out of consciousness. He also had a maculopapular rash on his torso. EMS was called. He was observed in the emergency department for a few hours then recovered. He has continued to be well and back to baseline since the event.”

CASE 10 (VAERS ID 970309): 5 month old boy has vomiting, diarrhea, body rash and blood in urine 

A 30 year old mother from Connecticut had one Moderna jab. Two nights after her 1st Moderna dose, her 5 month old boy had violent vomiting, diarrhea, body rash, and hematuria.

CASE 11 (VAERS ID 1088716): 4 month old baby had blood in stool 

A 29 year old mother from Kentucky had 1st Pfizer dose. She writes: “I am currently breastfeeding my 4 month old son. He started pooping blood 4 hours after my 1st dose of the vaccine. His next 3 stools were blood streaked and then returned to normal.”

COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers who had reactions related to breastfeeding:

CASE 12 (VAERS ID 976245): Significant decrease in breast milk supply 

A 28 year old mother from Oregon had 1st Pfizer dose. She had arm soreness, lip swelling and numbness next day. She developed a significant decreased in breast milk supply starting 2-3 days after Pfizer and it did not recover. She had been breastfeeding her baby completely since birth in July 2020.

CASE 13 (VAERS ID 980782): Breast milk turned green 

Mother had Pfizer vaccine. She noticed reduced breast milk production and her breast milk has turned green.

CASE 14 (VAERS ID 1022827): Blood in breast milk after 1st Pfizer dose 

A 33 year mother from New Jersey writes: “I am breastfeeding. The first pump after my Pfizer shot ( three and half hours after) 2oz of blood was pumped from the right breast.”

CASE 15 (VAERS ID 1041373): Had a miscarriage 10 days after Pfizer 

A 36 year old woman from Pennsylvania who was breast feeding her previous infant born in 2019, had 1st Pfizer dose on Dec.21, 2020. She was 4 weeks pregnant and had a miscarriage 10 days after Pfizer.

CASE 16 (VAERS ID 1154934): Mom started bleeding after 1st Moderna dose 

A 37 year old woman from California writes: “The Moderna vaccine induced my menstruation. I am currently breastfeeding and had not been menstruating since becoming pregnant in January 2019. I had a baby since then and due to nursing on demand my period had not returned. Less than 24 hours after getting vaccinated I woke up to a moderate menstrual flow, bright red blood. I am still menstruating and experiencing mild cramping and bloatedness in my abdominal area. There was no prior indication this would happen before the vaccine. I had not even spotted before. My cycle has historically been very regular and I am certain the vaccine had something to do with stimulating my endocrine system and thus causing my menstruation.”

History of COVID-19 Vaccine mRNA Found in Breast Milk

It is interesting to note that mRNA was found in breast milk as early as April 2021 in a paper by Low et al. (click here)

It was then confirmed by Hanna et al. in Sep.2022 (click here)

US Genomics Expert Kevin McKernan wrote a substack article about how mRNA ingested by the infant through breast milk, could exert clinical effects by:

1. COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is RNase resistant due to modified N1-methyl-pseudoU, so it doesn’t break down easily;
2. Baby’s oral mucosa can be transfected by mother’s mRNA (contained in extracellular vesicles in breast milk);
3. Mother’s mRNA can survive the baby’s gut and digestive process.

His fascinating account of how mRNA is transported in breast milk can be found here: (click here)

“Milk is considered as more than a source of nutrition for infants and is a vector involved in the transfer of bioactive compounds and cells. Milk contains abundant quantities of extracellular vesicles (EVs) that may originate from multiple cellular sources. These nanosized vesicles have been well characterized and are known to carry a diverse cargo of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and other biomolecules. Milk-derived EVs have been demonstrated to survive harsh and degrading conditions in gut, taken up by various cell types, cross biological barriers and reach peripheral tissues. The cargo carried by these dietary EVs has been suggested to have a role in cell growth, development, immune modulation and regulation.”

Pfizer’s Post Marketing report issued April 2021 with Adverse Event reports through Feb. 28, 2021:

Pfizer’s documents give us some interesting information on page 12 (click here).

Babies who were breastfed by COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers had a 13% adverse event rate (17/133), and a 2% serious adverse event rate (3/133). 

My Take… 

This new study published on Sep. 19, 2023 once again confirms what we’ve known since at least April 2021 – COVID-19 Vaccine mRNA is found in breast milk.

In this new study, 77% of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccinated mothers had mRNA in their breast milk which is absorbed by the baby through the gut into their circulation.

What is the safe amount of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA for a baby? The study says they don’t know but I do. The answer is: ZERO.

Pfizer’s own documents report that the rate of adverse events in babies who are breastfeeding from COVID-19 mRNA vaccinated mothers is 13% and serious adverse events occur in 2% of babies, including two baby deaths recorded in VAERS.

Most common reactions babies have to mRNA in breast milk are: fever and rashes, then diarrhea, vomiting, and sometimes more serious such as hemolytic anemia, bleeding in urine or stool, and seizures.

We now have a recent outbreak of myocarditis (heart inflammation) cases in babies < 28 days old, with 16 cases of myocarditis in the UK, including two deaths that are not reported in VAERS (click here). These cases COULD be due to mRNA in breast milk or LNPs with mRNA crossing the placenta before baby is born.

Mothers report decrease in breast milk production, breast milk discoloration (turns blue-ish or green-ish), sudden onset irregular or heavy menstrual bleeding, breast lumps, miscarriage and more.

COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in breastfeeding mothers is NOT SAFE and never was. Any scientist or doctor who claimed otherwise was engaging in medical malpractice and must be held legally liable and accountable.

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The Openness of Poland

Poland cuts the hand off Ukraine. Poland has been Ukraine’s strongest backer in the EU, but Poland is tired and will no longer support Ukraine.

The Secret of Rammstein

What about the latest Rammstein meeting between NATO and Ukraine two days ago 19 September 2023?

Did you all see the headlines about how much NATO promised to Ukraine this time? No – because there were no headlines.

Even a search for “Rammstein” in the New York Times and the Washington Post only turns up news about a German rock band by the same name.

The latest Rammstein meeting has been censored in the US mainstream media because Ukraine got basically nothing. We talk of millions, not billions. Germany will supply $ 427 million worth of winter clothes and mortars. Finland will supply € 109 of ammunition and sundry stuff. Canada will send 43 AIM-9 missiles. No real punchy items. The only big items are few, and they are old stuff. Denmark scrapes the barrel around the World to conjure up and repair 30 outdated Leopard 1 tanks and 15 T-72 tanks to Ukraine.

The Secret of Biden as Well

 Did you hear just HOW many new weapons Biden promised Zelensky at his latest visit to Washington?

Well – I heard NOTHING.

End of the Flagpole

The West has been creeping up the flagpole all the way as Ukraine has gone down to Hell.

The West has now come to the end of the flagpole. Some extremist Western leaders like President Biden and the conservative German parliamentarian Kiesewetter keep shouting about supporting Ukraine until the last Ukrainian. But the West has run out of both money and stuff to give, as well as out of will to give it.

As Ukraine now burns in the flames of Hell, self-preservation kicks in among Western leaders, refer to Poland above, which says that any weapons Poland has left will be for Poland’s own territorial defense, not for Ukraine.

Ukraine has in 3 months burnt through all the weapons the West has donated and achieved nothing with it at all.

Ukraine has today basically nothing left and will receive just about nothing more. A dozen Abrams. Some 45 old Leopard 1 and T-72. And at the end of the rainbow, if Ukraine ever reaches it, some glorious F-16 fighterjets some time in “Summer 2024”. Everything will be over for Ukraine by then.

Ukraine is breaking down now.

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President Biden took aim at Russia at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday in a speech that revealed US hypocrisy on the war in Ukraine and other issues.

Discussing arms control, President Biden accused Russia of “shredding longstanding arms control agreements,” mentioning that Moscow suspended its participation in New START, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia.

Biden’s rhetoric omits the fact that the US withdrew from several arms control treaties in the years leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In 2019, the Trump administration pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which banned ground-launched short and medium-range missiles.

In 2020, the US exited Open Skies, a treaty that allowed the US, Russia, and other signatories to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over each other’s territory. At the time, then-presidential candidate Biden slammed the move, but his administration declined Russia’s offer to salvage the treaty in 2021.

Back in 2002, the George W. Bush administration pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems Treaty, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has cited as the reason for developing the Sarmat ICBM, Russia’s most powerful missile that can pack a huge nuclear payload and travel 11,000 miles. A Russian official recently said the Sarmat was placed on combat duty for the first time.

Shifting to the war in Ukraine, President Biden called the conflict “an illegal war of conquest, brought without provocation by Russia against its neighbor, Ukraine.” While Biden claims the war was unprovoked, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently acknowledged that Putin invaded to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO after the US and the alliance refused to provide a guarantee that Kyiv would never become a member.

“Russia alone bears responsibility for this war. Russia alone has the power to end this war immediately. And it is Russia alone that stands in the way of peace,” Biden said. In the early days of the war, the US and its allies discouraged peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that one goal of US involvement in the conflict was to “weaken” Russia. Ahead of Ukraine’s counteroffensive — which US officials expected not to succeed — Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected the idea of a ceasefire in Ukraine.

Biden urged for continued support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, saying an aggressor cannot be appeased and that Ukraine can’t give up its territory. “If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?”

Biden administration officials often say territorial borders cannot change under international law when explaining their opposition to a peace deal that would involve Ukraine ceding territory to Russia. But as a senator, President Biden was a staunch supporter of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, which broke up the country and carved Kosovo out of Serb territory. To this day, Kosovo is not recognized by much of the world, including ethnic Serbs living within Kosovo’s borders.

Biden also led the charge in the Senate before the 2003 invasion of Iraq to whip up Democratic support for the aggressive war that was based on the lie that Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs. In 2006, then-Senator Biden proposed carving Iraq into three regions based on ethnic and religious divisions, a plan he devised with the help of one of his Senate aides, Antony Blinken.

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A series of politically motivated legal efforts by the Republican-dominated state legislature in Alabama are designed to maintain limited electoral power for African Americans.

State authorities have been ordered to redraw a congressional district map which would provide African Americans with the opportunity to elect two candidates of their choice to send to the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.

A federal court rejected an appeal by Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen to maintain the existing map which disenfranchises African Americans. At present, there is only one Congressperson of African descent representing Alabama on Capitol Hill.

There are 1.3 million African Americans living in the state of Alabama, constituting 26% of the population. Of that number, 37% live in poverty in comparison to only 15% of whites residing in the state.

The Allen v. Milligan case could result in a landmark decision by the Supreme Court rendering even further damage to the effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. By failing to carry out the orders of the federal district court, the State of Alabama should be held accountable for refusing to implement a mapping plan which upholds the intent of the ruling.

However, Allen has filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to stay the federal district decision believing that the conservative majority would vote in favor of the Republican political establishment in Alabama. A decade ago, in 2013, the enforcement provisions of the Voting Rights Act were struck down in the infamous Shelby v. Holder decision which also originated in Alabama.

This challenge to the full voting rights of African Americans extends to several states across the U.S. State legislative bodies have passed bills which restrict the ability to vote and run for political office. The movement led by conservative political action committees well-funded by corporate interests are attempting to reverse the legal gains of the Civil Rights Movement during the post-World War II period.

In an article published on September 20 by the Alabama Political Reporter, the renewed round of legal challenges is placed into context:

“On Tuesday (Sept. 19), attorneys representing the Milligan plaintiffs in the Allen v. Milligan suit filed a response to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to deny Alabama’s emergency request for a stay that was filed last week with the high court. Two weeks ago, a federal district court ruled that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map passed by the legislature in July failed to create a ‘remedy’ to the previous map’s dilution of Black voting power. Secretary of State Wes Allen on behalf of the state filed an appeal to stay that decision but the district court refused the stay prompting Allen to make an emergency request to the Supreme Court to freeze the decision.” 

Behind the Campaigns to End Effective Voting Rights for African Americans

Another important aspect of the open defiance of the Voting Rights Act, Section 2, is that these campaigns are being supported by wealthy elements within U.S. society. Investigative journalism done by the Alabama Political Reporter traces the Alabama politicians seeking to defy the order of the federal district court to a right-wing political operative named Leonard Leo.

These campaigns are specifically geared towards obliterating the Voting Rights Act which was passed at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in 1965. The last battleground of the struggle to pass voting rights legislation unfolded in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama.

People were fired from jobs, driven off their land, beaten, jailed and murdered by segregationists simply because they sought to overturn the Jim Crow system in the southern U.S. Leading up to the intervention of the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson in March 1965, three people were murdered by police and the Ku Klux Klan: Jimmy Lee Jackson, Rev. James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo.

According to the Alabama Political Reporter resulting from their research:

“APR has now identified connections between Alabama officials who led the 2023 redistricting process — which disregarded the U.S. Supreme Court’s order — with far-right power broker Leonard Leo’s dark money network, described this past week by Politico as ‘a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues.’ APR’s reporting shows the extent to which Alabama’s calculation to defy the Supreme Court was made not simply by state legislators in Alabama but has been driven by nationally connected political operatives at the center of the well-documented right-wing effort to reshape the composition and jurisprudence of the Supreme Court and to overturn the remaining key protections established by the 1965 Voting Rights Act.” 

There is the targeting by the Alabama officials of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh who is known for his extremely conservative views of race and civil rights. Kavanaugh voted in a recent Supreme Court ruling to ban affirmative action in higher education.

Within the briefs submitted by the attorneys for the Alabama Secretary of State, there is reference to the Supreme Court decision where Harvard and Duke University had their affirmative action and diversity program deemed in violation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Ironically, the 14th Amendment was specifically drafted to ensure full citizenship rights for African Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War. Today, the conservative legal advocates are once again effectively nullifying the 14th Amendment by turning its purpose upside down, arguing that equal opportunity and protections under the law also apply to those committed to restricting freedoms and reimposing legal inequality.

APR also went on to emphasize:

“[T]here now appears to be a significant connection between Alabama’s post-Milligan map redrawing process, Leo’s powerful national dark money network, and Kavanaugh.  The tangled web of previously unreported ties centers around Marshall, Alabama Solicitor General Edmond LaCour — dubbed ‘the architect behind Alabama’s voting rights defiance’ — and the D.C.-area law firm Consovoy McCarthy, the firm founded by William Consovoy, a now-deceased former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas who represented Shelby County in Shelby County v. Holder. In Shelby County, the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and its vital preclearance provision, which protected against unilateral state changes to voting rights and maps in states that had a documented history of racial bias in administering elections in order to disenfranchise Black voters.” 

African American voter suppression in 1867 graphic

These claims of a concerted plan to repress the political involvement of African Americans in Alabama warrant further investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. The defeat of former President Donald Trump in the 2020 elections was contingent upon the mass participation of African Americans, Latin Americans, women, and other historically oppressed and marginalized groups.

With national elections scheduled for 2024, a myriad of laws which have been put into effect in various states could prove critical in the outcome of the race for the White House, Congress as well as state and local offices. These legal measures compliment the often-violent tactics used by the right-wing and racist organizations in the U.S.

National Implications of the Allen v. Milligan Case

These legal struggles over voting rights are not occurring within a political vacuum. Similar challenges to universal suffrage are taking place in Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Texas, among other states.

In Louisiana, civil and voting rights organizations brought suit against the state legislature for drafting a congressional district map which limits the potential of electing an African American congressional representative to one district. Due to the litigation, the implementation of the redistricting map remains blocked.

As in Alabama, Louisiana Republican officials are appealing to the Supreme Court in the anticipation of garnering a ruling which provides a legal cover for their blatantly segregationist policies. The Supreme Court has informed the Republican officials in Louisiana that their case would be paused pending a hearing on the emergency appeal filed by the Alabama Secretary of State in Allen v. Milligan.

This fierce resistance to voting rights in the U.S. exposes the fact that there are tens of millions of people, largely within the white community, who fundamentally oppose the granting of equal representation to African Americans. Consequently, activists within the African American community and their allies must look beyond the courts in developing tactics and strategies aimed at the complete acquisition of freedom and social justice.

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Thousands of Canadian came together in Ottawa this morning to voice their concern over the sexualization and exploitation of our children!

We the people are beginning to raise our individual and collective voice!

On September 20th at locations big and small, across Canada, people of different faiths, origins, backgrounds and lifestyles have come together to say “No!” to the globalist agenda of sexualizing, grooming, and gender-reassignment-canvassing our children in our schools.

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When Julian Assange was disgracefully arrested in 2019, he shouted, as he was dragged out of the Ecuadorean Embassy with his hands shackled to his feet, “RESIST.” 

His story is a good illustration of why resistance is so necessary, timely and urgent.

Approximately a decade before this 2019 arrest, Assange had become an acclaimed activist, having successfully pushed knowledge of US war crimes into the mass media and public consciousness. This was largely through his work as editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, the crypto-journalism organisation which managed and published the incriminating data.

The following months and years were marked by escalating tensions between the US and Assange, with Wikileaks gaining more and more credibility and influence as a media organisation and information source.

The viciousness of the counter strategic effort by the US really gained pace after Wikileaks published a mountain of diplomatic cables,  effectively shifting the geopolitical balance of power in a way which embarrassed and emasculated the US. 

Assange was from that point an existential threat to the US, to be eliminated by any means necessary.

The dynamic after cablegate was decidedly harsher and more oppressive and saw the beginning of a ruthless pursuit of Assange with the intention to bring him into a custody which would serve as a smokescreen for extradition to the US.

Both the UK and US found time, as well as vast resources better invested in schools, libraries and hospitals, to corner Assange into a trap. 

Having absconded from house arrest to seek asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy, a huge, expensive surveillance operation was set up in the vicinity of the embassy to make it impossible for Assange to leave either the building, or the country.

The period after he was granted sanctuary in the embassy was defined by a concerted attack on the part of the establishment, swamping the discourse around him with trivialities and red herrings intended to bury the most salient fact of the situation, his status as an asylum seeker, protected by international law.

From January 2018 Assange was an Ecuadorean citizen, until unfortunately being stripped of this status and rendered stateless by way of machinations of an unsympathetic right wing government in Ecuador, bribed with IMF and Goldman Sachs loans – blood money-to trade him. This was made possible by a shady bilateral relationship between the US and Ecuador, which spelled the end for Assange’s asylum bid, completely trashing Ecuador’s hitherto impeccable example on human rights.

Just one year after being granted citizenship in Ecuador, the hope for a liberated Assange was damned. In the build up to his arrest the Ecuadorean administration initiated a rapid erosion of his living conditions and quality of life, staffing the embassy with subservient diplomats working in the interests of the US.

He was eventually ejected into the hands of the UK “Justice” system, a corruptible power working at the behest of the US dictatorship. 

The US national security regime, which grabbed power in the atmosphere of fear and panic after 9/11, exerts extraterritorial control over seemingly self-determining nations, in spite of their supposed judicial sovereignty.

There is a clear issue with the proceedings of the longstanding, ongoing extradition case in the UK, insofar as the judge is operating as an adjudicator whilst having a conflict of interest, as her husband’s professional misconduct was reported on by Wikileaks.

The bulwark imperial states, of which the UK and US are the poster boys, have long been committed to augmenting their partnership. Unfortunately they are not a force for good, despite their shallow rhetoric. They have coordinated in a way that decidedly undermines and renders obsolete basic constitutional principles, human rights norms and fundamental civil liberties.

This sickening agenda is one aspect of an agenda for world domination, based on US supremacy, a historical trend oft left undiscussed due to the negative perception of “conspiracy theories.” There are, however, peer reviewed studies and academic texts that study the political mechanics of what can be called a “new world order.”

This development has been followed by a nascent, burgeoning political consciousness and sense of resistance amongst some citizens, harbouring bold aspirations to disestablish the institutions of empire. Perceiving that neither political parties, nor elections, nor mainstream media serve the public interest, rather working together to rig the system and augment the status quo, these digital denizens share their dissent online and educate themselves through peer to peer dissemination of knowledge and information.

Beginning its life as a vibrant democratic community based on a lively exchange of ideas, the internet has sadly transformed into an empire, dominated by shadowy Silicon Valley corporations who police the parameters of legitimate opinion and operate with an interface fusing it with government and military agencies.

Unfortunately this is the socially acceptable model of internet publishing and all the worst tech companies have mestastisized into a digital leviathan. An example of how they are rendered legitimate is how Facebook successfully launched the “publisher” defence in court, a legal refuge denied to Wikileaks. Facebook, with near total impunity, was complicit in its use as a tool for perception management during elections and plebiscites by agencies such as Cambridge Analytica, deleterious to democracy and tantamount to treason.

Wikileaks on the other hand is a benevolent and politically impartial repository of information, with an unassailable reputation for 100% accuracy. It empowers citizens to transform society for the better by helping them to establish informed judgments and thus make them more likely to make rational decisions.

If this is the enemy, the fifth column and harbinger of terror and social decay then there must be a powerful feat of optics being perpetrated by the true criminals in this saga.

Democracy is a fugitive whose redemption is overdue, an occupied territory, repressed precisely because of its power.

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From the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we’ve been told that the issue of NATO expansion is irrelevant to the war, and that anyone bringing it up is, at best, unwittingly parroting Kremlin propaganda, at worst, apologizing for or justifying the war.

So it was curious to see NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg earlier this month say explicitly that Russian president Vladimir Putin launched his criminal war as a reaction to the possibility of NATO expanding into Ukraine, and the alliance’s refusal to swear it off — not once or twice, but three separate times.

“President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement,” Stoltenberg told a joint committee meeting of the European Parliament on September 7. “That was what he sent us. And [that] was a pre-condition for not invade [sic] Ukraine. Of course we didn’t sign that.”

“He went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders. He has got the exact opposite,” Stoltenberg reiterated, referring to the accession of Sweden and Finland into the alliance in response to Putin’s invasion. Their entry, he later insisted, “demonstrates that when President Putin invaded a European country to prevent more NATO, he’s getting the exact opposite.”

It’s not clear if Stoltenberg was referring to the draft treaty Putin put forward in December 2021 and simply mixed up the seasons (the provisions of each are the same), or if he’s referring to an earlier, as-yet-unreported incident. In any case, what Stoltenberg claims here — that Putin viewed Ukraine’s NATO entry as so unacceptable he was willing to invade to stop it, and put forward a negotiating bid that might have prevented it, only for NATO to reject it — has been repeatedly made by those trying to explain the causes of the war and how it could be ended, only to be dismissed as propaganda.

The only logical conclusion, if we’re to listen to the hawks, is that the man in charge of the very alliance helping Ukraine defend itself from Putin is, in fact, working for the Russian leader and spreading his propaganda.

This isn’t the only instance from a member of the NATO establishment. Testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee in May this year, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said, alongside Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, that “we assess that Putin probably has scaled back his immediate ambitions to … ensuring that Ukraine will never become a NATO ally.” Earlier in her testimony, Haines had said that Putin’s invasion had backfired by “precipitating the very events he hoped to avoid such as Finland’s accession to NATO and Sweden’s petition to join.”

Likewise, in a March 2023 interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit, Russia expert Fiona Hill — who served as an intelligence analyst under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as on the National Security Council under President Donald Trump — told the paper that “it was always obvious that NATO’s enlargement to Ukraine and to Georgia was a provocation for Putin.” Yet the opposite claim, that the invasion was entirely “unprovoked,” has become such an article of faith in Western discourse that this word is ubiquitous in news reports and official statements on the war.

On a similar note, an August 2022 Washington Post report based on “in-depth interviews with more than three dozen senior U.S., Ukrainian, European and NATO officials” reported four separate instances of high-ranking Russian officials telling their U.S. counterparts in the lead-up to the war that NATO expansion was a core part of the grievances motivating Moscow’s threatening troop build-up. That included Putin himself, who told President Joe Biden in a December 2021 video call “that the eastward expansion of the Western alliance was a major factor in his decision to send troops to Ukraine’s border,” according to the report.

To some extent, this isn’t surprising. As the analysts, journalists, politicians, and others pointing to NATO expansion as a leading cause of the war have copiously documented, the decades before the invasion saw countless members of the Washington national security establishment, from famed Cold War strategist George Kennan and current CIA Director William Burns to a parade of diplomats, military officials, NATO leaders and even Biden himself, warn that the alliance’s eastward creep was a fundamental source of Russian unhappiness and that it would provoke Russian hostility and aggression — or even spark war.

But what was once uncontroversial and widely acknowledged before the invasion has become verboten since it started in February 2022, as debate or dissent on the matter of the war and U.S. and European policy toward it have been clamped down on, often via vicious McCarthyite tactics. The topic has become verboten, that is, unless you happen to be a U.S. or NATO official.

It’s not just individual officials, either. Elements of this supposedly Kremlin-originating argument also pop up in major U.S. government documents. Take, for instance, the Annual Threat Assessment put out by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence a year after the invasion started. Meant to reflect the “collective insights” of Washington’s various intelligence agencies, the report states that it expects Moscow to continue “to insert itself into crises when it sees its interests at stake, the anticipated costs of action are low, it sees an opportunity to capitalize on a power vacuum, or, as in the case of its use of force in Ukraine, it perceives an existential threat in its neighborhood that could destabilize Putin’s rule and endanger Russian national security.”

Yet today, anyone else saying that Putin or the Russian establishment genuinely view Ukraine’s growing integration into NATO as a security threat is liable to receive all manner of scurrilous accusations.

As with officials’ words, you can find similar points in documents before the war. A 2020 U.S. Army War College paper states that “future admissions to NATO for states in Russia’s near abroad will likely be met with aggression.” A 2019 paper from the Pentagon-funded RAND Corporation — and sponsored by the Army Quadrennial Defense Review Office — states explicitly that the Kremlin’s fear of a direct military attack by the United States is “very real,” plus that “providing more U.S. military equipment and advice [to Ukraine in the war on the Donbas] could lead Russia to increase its direct involvement in the conflict and the price it pays for it,” including by “mounting a new offensive and seizing more Ukrainian territory.” The 2017 National Security Strategy states outright that “Russia views the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and European Union (EU) as threats.”

It’s the central paradox of the current war discourse: What is widely acknowledged by Western policymakers and officials in the halls of power, who rely on an evidence-based understanding of the world to shape foreign policy, is unspeakable anywhere outside of them.

What’s at stake is more important than just finger-pointing and apportioning guilt. By steadfastly refusing to understand one of the foundational causes of the war and the U.S. and NATO role in it, we will continue to fail to end it and to secure a lasting peace, leading to many more Ukrainian deaths, and to many more years of living in the shadow of global catastrophe.

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Branko Marcetic is a staff writer with Jacobin magazine and the author of Yesterday’s Man: the Case Against Joe Biden. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, In These Times, and others.

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Most Americans have absolutely no idea how close we are to the unthinkable. Even though leaders all over the globe have developed a really bad case of war fever, the vast majority of us here in the United States are entirely convinced that everything will be okay somehow. Most of us believe the talking heads on television when they assure us that our politicians have everything under control and that it is extremely unlikely that a nuclear conflict will happen. But on the other side of the globe they see things very differently. On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the United Nations that the world is being pushed to the brink of the “final war“…

The chilling remarks by the Ukrainian president were aimed at countries that have been ambivalent about who’s side they’re on since the conflict began in February 2022 and nations that were with him in the beginning but have pulled back on their support.

Russia’s invasion of his country is pushing the world to the “final war,” the Ukrainian president told world leaders attending the annual gathering in New York.

For once, I actually agree with Zelenskyy.

We are literally on the verge of an apocalyptic global conflict in which billions of people could die, and so we need to find a way out while we still can.

But during his speech, Zelenskyy made it abundantly clear that he has absolutely no intention of ever negotiating with Vladimir Putin…

Without providing any details, Zelenskyy hinted at the United Nations at an alleged effort by some individuals to broker a secret peace deal with Putin.

Zelenskky warned anyone who would trust Putin, to recall the fate of Russian mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was assumed dead last month after challenging Putin’s leadership.

“I am aware of some attempts to make some shady dealings behind the scenes. Evil cannot be trusted. Ask Prigozhin if one bets on Putin’s promises,” he said.

The Russians also believe that we are rapidly approaching a point of no return.

On Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov publicly stated that the U.S. is conducting a “war” against Russia…

Washington’s massive campaign to support Ukraine with arms amounts to a war against Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, adding that the US has long groomed Kiev for this very purpose.

In a comment to Russian reporter Pavel Zarubin released on Sunday, Lavrov suggested that rumors about Washington possibly giving the green light to the delivery of Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which have a range of up to 300km, were aimed at “shaping public opinion.”

According to the minister, these deliberations would not change the fact that “for many years Ukraine has been groomed to fight with its hands and bodies in order to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.” Lavrov accused the US of controlling the hostilities between Kiev and Moscow.

Most Americans would not say that we are at war with Russia at this moment.

But over in Russia they view things very differently.

There is constant talk on Russian television about how the U.S. and Russia are now locked in an existential conflict which will only have one eventual winner.

Needless to say, the Russians do not plan on losing.

Joe Biden also spoke in front of the United Nations on Tuesday, and during that speech he once again reaffirmed U.S. support for the war in Ukraine.

And it is being reported that he plans to ask Congress for a $24 billion aid package to help bolster the Ukrainian military.

But we have already given them billions upon billions upon billions of dollars.

Where has all that money gone?

That is a question that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is now asking…

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy demanded ‘accountability’ on U.S. aid to Ukraine and vowed to question President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, amid heightening tensions among Republicans over funding the country’s defense.

‘Is Zelenskyy elected to Congress? Is he our president? I don’t think I have to commit anything and I think I have questions for him,’ McCarthy said Tuesday, in just the latest remarks exhibiting skepticism about billions in U.S. military and other support.

‘Where’s the accountability on the money we’ve already spent? What is the plan for victory? I think that’s what the American public wants to know,’ he said, ABC News reported.

A lot of Americans refuse to believe that this conflict will ever spill outside the borders of Ukraine.

But the truth is that it already has.  In fact, CNN is reporting that the Ukrainians just conducted drone strikes “against a Wagner-backed militia near Sudan’s capital”…

Ukrainian special services were likely behind a series of drone strikes and a ground operation directed against a Wagner-backed militia near Sudan’s capital, a CNN investigation has found, raising the prospect that the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spread far from the frontlines.

Speaking to CNN, a Ukrainian military source described the operation as the work of a “non-Sudanese military.” Pressed on whether Kyiv was behind the attacks, the source would only say that “Ukrainian special services were likely responsible.”

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan has begun a large-scale offensive against Armenia…

Azerbaijan carried out strikes on the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday as it announced the launch of an “anti-terror” operation, a move that threatens to trigger another war in the region.

The country’s Defense Ministry said it was using “high-precision weapons” to “incapacitate” Armenian-backed forces and target Armenian military positions in a push to force out “formations of Armenia’s armed forces.”

Footage purportedly filmed in Stepanakert, the capital of Karabakh, which is called Khankendi by Azerbaijan, captured the sounds of loud shelling and artillery fire.

Have you noticed that the Biden administration has not condemned this aggression by Azerbaijan?

That is because the Biden administration has almost certainly blessed it.

If fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia flares up, it will divert much-needed Russian military resources away from the Ukrainian front.

We definitely live at a time of wars and rumors of wars.

And we continue to hear more rumors that China is rapidly preparing for a military conflict with the United States.  Just check out what Gordon Chang told Fox Business on Monday…

Gatestone Institute senior fellow and China expert Gordon Chang has issued a dire warning about the possibility of a nuclear exchange with China as tensions remain inflated on the world stage and the U.S. prepares for war.

“We’re much closer to a nuclear exchange than Americans think,” Chang said on Fox Business‘s “Mornings with Maria” Monday. “China is preparing to go to war… China is surveying the United States for nuclear weapons strikes, so we’ve got to realize the gravity of this. The problems inside the Chinese regime right now indicate that Xi Jinping in the rocket force, which controls almost all of China’s nuclear weapons, he’s now installing officers who will obey his orders to push the button when he gives it.”

Gordon Chang is right.

War with China is coming.

The moment that China invades Taiwan, the U.S. and China will be at war.

The Chinese know this, but it is not stopping them from preparing for such a conflict.

In recent days, the Chinese have continued to probe the island’s defenses by sending waves of warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone…

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence has issued a strong plea to Beijing to cease its continuous military provocations after the detection of more than 100 Chinese warplanes in close proximity to the island within a 24-hour period spanning Sunday to Monday, CNN reported.

In a statement, the ministry expressed grave concern over the substantial number of warplanes, which it said posed “severe challenges to the Taiwan Strait and regional safety.”According to a flight map provided by the ministry, 40 of the 103 Chinese warplanes breached the median line on the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan’s self-declared air defence identification zone (ADIZ), as reported by CNN.

When this war begins, most Americans will be completely shocked.

But nobody will be able to say that we weren’t warned.

Interestingly, one man recently asked Alexa about the upcoming presidential election, and he was told by Alexa that the 2024 election in the United States will be canceled because we will be at war with Russia and China at that time.

Personally, I don’t think that events will move quite that quickly.

I could be wrong, but I do believe that there will be a presidential election in 2024.

However, there should be no doubt that a war with Russia and a war with China are both very much on the horizon.

If our leaders had any sense at all, they would be trying to find a way out of this mess while it is still possible.

Unfortunately, our leaders appear to have gone completely mad, and so we continue to speed toward a date with the unthinkable.

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