Bulletin N° 1147
“Elmer Gantry”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeAWJN9ljNA
by Sinclair Lewis
[audiobook, Read by William Jones]
(9:56:43)
(10:07:48)
Subject : Standing on the Cusp of Catastrophe and Looking for New Investment Opportunities.
Grenoble
September 25, 2024
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Tectonic frictions have emerged into plain sight for all to see. At first unrecognizable, the palpable discomfort caused by the operations of this old capitalist imperial order becomes noticable, and then came the multitude of harebrained ideas by the super-rich owners who have suggested that one avenue toward peace of mind is to make friends with our would-be executioners and embrace Mother Teresa’s legacy of lending comfort to the sick and dying, instead of making the effort to understand why they are suffering and to commit ourselves to the elimination of this crime against humanity.
Many Anglophone articles and essays suggest that we live in perverse times, finding ourselves solicited to collaborate with contradictions producing the most disgusting evils. Morally, it’s unacceptable! Existentially, it’s murder and eventually suicide! Only the most insolated billionaires could come up with some of these ideas, but despite this hallmark of total alienation from society, they can find technicians a plenty, willing and able to run their morbid experiments, despite the incidental costs to society. (“What society?” we've been instructed to ask by M. Thatcher’s TINA doctrine.)
The 22+ items below, selected this week from the Anglophone social media, delve into some of these contadictions and can be seen as attempts to reappropriate stolen values by providing a crash course on class sturggle as "self-defense": on how to save your skin by helping others rescue themselves from the throes of death and destruction, imposed on us by a benighted ruling-class-in-disarray, the existence of which is the grotesque product of private capitalist accumulation, a class blinded by the extreme inequalities inflicted upon us, and protected by their cultural hegemony which governs our so-called “free market economy.”
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
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Professeur
honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
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“Atlantic Mag admits ‘pandemic’ FAILED to brainwash people into ‘unifying’”
by Catte Black
This article in the Atlantic by Establishment Drone Director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis S. Collins, should interest us.
Not for its utterly predictable and easily debunked attempts at gaslighting about what the early days of “covid” were “really” like (the terror! the deaths! the hospitals like war-zones ! oh the humanity!).
No, what makes it interesting is the question in its title-
Why Didn’t Facing a Common Enemy Bring Us Together?
This is a respected mainstream drone authority in an establishment journal making two important admissions.
1 – that “covid” was anticipated to unite us
2 – that it failed to do so.
The first one is obvious – I mean, in his own words, “covid” was expected to “bring us together” – be a big global(ist) kumbaya moment. It was expected to be the trigger for humanity to put aside its differences in the face of a terrifying “common enemy”.
Yes, we were expected to cry with one voice, – we will lock ourselves down! Yes, we will wear face masks! Yes we will be injected with untested experimental compounds and endure empty food stores and invasive testing, QR codes and enforced medical interventions – to save us all from something much much worse!
This, of itself, isn’t really new information of course. The signs were all there very early that this was where it was intended to go. Does anyone remember ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in March 2020 saying the quiet part outloud WAY too soon and telling people “covid” inexplicably required a global government to deal with it? (our emphasis)
Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The former Labour prime minister, who was at the centre of the international efforts to tackle the impact of the near-meltdown of the banks in 2008, said there was a need for a taskforce involving world leaders, health experts and the heads of the international organisations that would have executive powers to coordinate the response.
“This is not something that can be dealt with in one country,” he said. “There has to be a coordinated global response.”
Yikes, bit of a giveaway, right. We can be sure he got a phone call after that saying “too soon Gordon, too soon!”.
A little more circumspectly, in the same month, the German Development Institute saw…
Coronavirus as an opportunity for international cooperation
Brookings agreed with the GDI, and widened the discussion to include our old friend “climate change”, arguing “global cooperation” was essential for tackling both.
In July 2020, Secretary General of the UN Guterress in his annual lecture told the world (our emphasis)…
COVID-19 is a human tragedy. But it has also created a generational opportunity.
You don’t say…
An opportunity to build back a more equal and sustainable world.
The response to the pandemic, and to the widespread discontent that preceded it, must be based on a New Social Contract and a New Global Deal that create equal opportunities for all, and respect the rights and freedoms of all.
This is the only way that we will meet the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, agreements that address precisely the failures that are being exposed and exploited by the pandemic.
In September 2020 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was the chosen mouthpiece for a similar call for “global unity” as the only way forward.
And also in September that year the UN (again) joined its voice to the chorus, advocating “multilateral cooperation” to deal with this devastating plague of totally unremarkable seasonal flulike illness (our emphasis)…
The COVID‑19 pandemic has been a test, demonstrating that multilateral cooperation is the key to overcoming global challenges, the President of the General Assembly said today at the conclusion of the seventy‑fifth session’s unprecedented general debate…Assembly President Volkan Bozkir (Turkey) said Member States had voiced their strong support for multilateralism, even though, for the first time in United Nations history, global leaders could not physically attend the general debate due to COVID‑19‑related restrictions at Headquarters. Indeed, the fact that leaders chose to address the General Assembly reflects the role of this world body, he said, with the vast majority confirming that multilateralism is the most effective system to address global threats.
Even China and Russia – while still apparently subject to western aggression – were 100% on board the “global cooperation train” over covid.
As we know the pandemic lie began in Wuhan with the bogus claims of a “new type of pneumonia”, and concomitant bogus search for the “cause”. In reality there was nothing unusual about the pneumonia cases, this was just the foundational lie to give a reason for a “new virus” to be searched for – and of course “found” in record time. Thus paving the way for everything that followed neatly on.
In March 2020 the Contemporary China and World: International Think Tank Webinar on Combating COVID-19” was held.
And guess what it was advocating (our emphasis)…
Noting that COVID-19 has become the most pressing challenge facing the international community, Du urged think tanks to call on all countries to put aside their differences, build consensus, strengthen cooperation and help one another.
Russia, as we all sadly have seen, has been an enthusiastic purveyor of the covid lie, and was so committed to “global cooperation” as the cure that in 2021 Putin still considered it was more important than Russia’s economic recovery (our emphasis)…
ST. PETERSBURG, June 4 (Xinhua) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday stressed the need to join efforts globally in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The world has not yet recovered from the difficulties and restrictions caused by COVID-19, and effective results could only be achieved through cooperation, Putin said at a meeting via video link with representatives of world news agencies.
“If sources of COVID-19 infections remain somewhere in the world, then they can again trigger a spread globally,” he said at the meeting on the sidelines of the 24th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The Russian leader believes that economic benefits should not be a priority at this point
“We need to prioritize humanitarian issues and the fight for the health and lives of people,” Putin said.
So, the road map was pretty clear from the start. The fake pandemic was intended as another “catalyzing event” that would launch us into another new age, not of perpetual war this time but of “multilateral cooperation”, a new type of “global governance”, united by new global(ist) pandemic prevention legislation, which turned nation states into mere regional authorities ultimately answerable in all things to a new central global(ist) administration (the UN and its affiliates).
To that extent the Atlantic article is just more confirmation of this intention.
What makes the article more noteworthy is the admission that what they all expected – didn’t happen
Here’s how our Atlantic writer puts it…
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“Dr. Bhakdi's Chilling Statement On How Covid Vax Is Changing Personalities”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CoDmlEV3xXgz/
with Ryan Cristian and Dr. Bhakdi (Feb. 22,2023)
(2:02)
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“Turninig Technology”
https://off-guardian.org/2024/09/20/turning-technology/
by Sylvia Shawcross
Now, I could write about the way the leaves on the maples are beginning to fall without that cold snap at night that drapes the forest in colours. I could. But I won’t because something much more “in the world” is bothering me.
It’s this whole thing in Lebanon with exploding pagers and walkie talkies etc. And it is horrifying.
Perhaps more horrifying than we can truly understand. It goes beyond the casualties and injuries.
Apparently some people are beginning to be afraid of their technology. Who thought we’d live to see that day, eh?
It’s not even that which is the horrifying part though. It is because so many now live in cyberspace, on gadgets. So much so that they are not much in the real world, the tangible world, except perhaps to not step down from a curb without looking or drive the kids to school or make it to work or try to get the darn pickle jar open.
And all those gamers! Shooting and crashing and bombing the enemy in on-line games… But in this case, the explosions are real world. What this act of terrorism has done is brought the real world together with the cyber world and apparently we have no control.
We (well… the tekkie high flyer types) invented technology with the whole idea of control in mind. We can use our gadgets to control appliances, drive cars, fly planes, construct things, analyze things, predict and produce and keep everyone safe even as we invent weapons to kill them. We can use our technology to do all sorts of things. We are in control. We can pick our “Aps” can’t we?
But there is always, as in nature, the unexpected. In other words, there is no actual autonomous control as everyone with their cellphones seems to think. And it is not God (however you conceive Him/Her/it/zem/zay/lgb/they to be), but actual humans with “intent” controlling things it seems in this case. That’s what happens when humans invent technology. Whatever is made by humans can usually be hacked by humans. I’m waiting for that day to arrive with crypto things. We are apparently not God (however you conceive Him/Her/it/zem/zay/lgb/they to be).
This act of exploding devices marks a turning point to the crazy that is the world now. We are probably just at the beginning of crazy. It isn’t the cultural crazy we’re up against now so much as the military crazy. And that is not a pretty thing. But never mind all that…
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“What is the Deep State? The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11”
by Prof. Peter Dale Scott
“I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [the National Security Agency] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.” — Senator Frank Church (1975)
I would like to discuss four major and badly understood events – the John F. Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11. I will analyze these deep events as part of a deeper political process linking them, a process that has helped build up repressive power in America at the expense of democracy.
In recent years I have been talking about a dark force behind these events — a force which, for want of a better term, I have clumsily called a “deep state,” operating both within and outside the public state. Today for the first time I want to identify part of that dark force, a part which has operated for five decades or more at the edge of the public state. This part of the dark force has a name not invented by me: the Doomsday Project, the Pentagon’s name for the emergency planning “to keep the White House and Pentagon running during and after a nuclear war or some other major crisis.”(1)
My point is a simple and important one: to show that the Doomsday Project of the 1980s, and the earlier emergency planning that developed into it, have played a role in the background of all the deep events I shall discuss.
More significantly, it has been a factor behind all three of the disturbing events that now threaten American democracy. The first of these three is what has been called the conversion of our economy into a plutonomy – with the increasing separation of America into two classes, into the haves and the have-nots, the one percent and the 99 percent. The second is America’s increasing militarization, and above all its inclination, which has become more and more routine and predictable, to wage or provoke wars in remote regions of the globe. It is clear that the operations of this American war machine have served the one percent.(2)
The third – my subject today — is the important and increasingly deleterious impact on American history of structural deep events: mysterious events, like the JFK assassination, the Watergate break-in, or 9/11, which violate the American social structure, have a major impact on American society, repeatedly involve law-breaking or violence, and in many cases proceed from an unknown dark force.
There are any number of analyses of America’s current breakdown in terms of income and wealth disparity, also in terms of America’s increasing militarization and belligerency. What I shall do today is I think new: to argue that both the income disparity – or what has been called our plutonomy — and the belligerency have been fostered significantly by deep events.
We must understand that the income disparity of America’s current economy was not the result of market forces working independently of political intervention. In large part it was generated by a systematic and deliberate ongoing political process dating from the anxieties of the very wealthy in the 1960s and 1970s that control of the country was slipping away from them.
This was the time when future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, in a 1971 memorandum, warned that survival of the free enterprise system depended on “careful long-range planning and implementation” of a well-financed response to threats from the left.(3) This warning was answered by a sustained right-wing offensive, coordinated by think tanks and funded lavishly by a small group of family foundations.(4) We should recall that all this was in response to serious riots in Newark, Detroit, and elsewhere, and that increasing calls for a revolution were coming from the left (in Europe as well as America). I will focus today on the right’s response to that challenge, and on the role of deep events in enhancing their response.
What was important about the Powell memorandum was less the document itself than the fact that it was commissioned by the United States Chamber of Commerce, one of the most influential and least discussed lobbying groups in America. And the memorandum was only one of many signs of that developing class war in the 1970s, a larger process working both inside and outside government (including what Irving Kristol called an “intellectual counterrevolution”), which led directly to the so-called “Reagan Revolution.”(5)
It is clear that this larger process has been carried on for almost five decades, pumping billions of right-wing dollars into the American political process. What I wish to show today is that deep events have also been integral to this right-wing effort, from the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963 to 9/11. 9/11 resulted in the implementation of “Continuity of Government” (COG) plans (which in the Oliver North Iran Contra Hearings of 1987 were called plans for “the suspension of the U.S. constitution”). These COG plans, building on earlier COG planning, had been carefully developed since 1982 in the so-called Doomsday Project, by a secret group appointed by Reagan. The group was composed of both public and private figures, including Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
I shall try to show today that in this respect 9/11 was only the culmination of a sequence of deep events reaching back to the Kennedy assassination if not earlier, and that the germs of the Doomsday Project can be detected behind all of them.
More specifically, I shall try to demonstrate about these deep events that
1) prior bureaucratic misbehavior by the CIA and similar agencies helped to make both the Kennedy assassination and 9/11 happen;
2) the consequences of each deep event included an increase in top-down repressive power for these same agencies, at the expense of persuasive democratic power;(6)
3) there are symptomatic overlaps in personnel between the perpetrators of each of these deep events and the next;
4) one sees in each event the involvement of elements of the international drug traffic – suggesting that our current plutonomy is also to some degree a narconomy;
5) in the background of each event (and playing an increasingly important role) one sees the Doomsday Project — the alternative emergency planning structure with its own communications network, operating as a shadow network outside of regular government channels.
Bureaucratic Misbehavior as a Factor Contributing to both the JFK Assassination and 9/11 . . . .
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WATCH: “James Corbett Answers 9/11 Questions”
https://off-guardian.org/2024/09/20/watch-james-corbett-answers-9-11-questions/
by Truth Over Comfort
(1:15:46)
911 can be a touchy subject, you may be like me and not have a consolidated view, are undecided, have questions, or you may feel the likelihood of an inside job is low, nevertheless, the day remains to have many strange phenomenons and questions. The official line the Bush administration could not see an attack like this coming, is a clear lie, no matter your overall view of 911 Truth, shown by the governments documents and words themselves.
Whatever you may think, this interview should provide information you may have not been aware of, and all though we did not cover everything, it will provide a starting point to follow the links discussed. Whatever your view, there is no hiding from previous administrations working with terrorists, bin laden, Al-qaeda in previous conflicts to achieve geopolitical goals, which led to their rise and these attacks, if you believe the official story
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“Ted Walter Dissects the 9/11 Phone Calls”
https://corbettreport.com/walter-911calls/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
with James Corbett and Ted Walter
(49:39)
Joining us today is Ted Walter of the International Center for 9/11 Justice (ic911.org). We discuss the center, its work, its recent symposium on “Aviation Impossibilities: Deconstructing the Official Story of the 9/11 Hijackings and Air Defense Failures” and Walter’s own research detailing the many anomalies, contradictions and impossibilities found in the reports of the phone calls supposedly made on the planes that day. We also talk about the state of the 9/11 Truth movement and what achieving 9/11 justice would actually mean.
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“The ‘Genocide Gentry': Weapon Execs Sit on Boards of Universities, Institutions”
https://consortiumnews.com/fr/2024/09/20/the-genocide-gentry/
by Brett Wilkins
"This research provides a view into just how embedded the corporate, profit-fueled war machine is in our higher education and cultural institutions," said one campaigner.
A trio of human rights groups on Wednesday announced a new interactive initiative exposing what the coalition is calling a "Genocide Gentry" of weapons company executives and board members and "54 museums, cultural organizations, universities, and colleges that currently host these individuals on their boards or in other prominent roles."
The coalition—which consists of the Adalah Justice Project, LittleSis, and Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE)—published a map and database detailing the "educational and cultural ties to board members of six defense corporations" amid Israel's ongoing annihilation of Gaza, for which the U.S.-backed country is on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice.
" Israel has destroyed every university in Gaza and nearly 200 cultural heritage sites since October 2023, using bombs and weapons manufactured by the companies included in the Genocide Gentry research," the coalition said. "As of April, these attacks have killed more than 5,479 students and 261 teachers and destroyed or critically damaged nearly 90% of all school buildings in Gaza."
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“World War III Is “On” But the Empire Has Already Lost. An American Civil War Looms. Spiritual Transformation Is the Only Way to Prevent Extinction.”
by Richard C. Cook
Richard C. Cook is co-founder and lead investigator for the American Geopolitical Institute. Mr. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst with extensive experience across various government agencies, including the U.S. Civil Service Commission, FDA, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury. As a whistleblower at the time of the Challenger disaster, he exposed the flawed O-ring joints that destroyed the Space Shuttle, documenting his story in the book “Challenger Revealed.” After serving at Treasury, he became a vocal critic of the private finance-controlled monetary system, detailing his concerns in “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform.” He served as an advisor to the American Monetary Institute and worked with Congressman Dennis Kucinich to advocate for replacing the Federal Reserve with a genuine national currency. See his new book, Our Country, Then and Now, Clarity Press, 2023. Also see his Three Sages Substack at https://montanarcc.substack.com and his American Geopolitical Institute articles at https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/category/agi/
“Every human enterprise must serve life, must seek to enrich existence on earth, lest man become enslaved where he seeks to establish his dominion!” Bô Yin Râ (Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, 1876-1943), translation by Posthumus Projects Amsterdam, 2014. Also download the Kober Press edition of The Book on the Living God here.
We have seen many dire warnings that the crises in Ukraine and the Middle East risk escalation into World War III, a war between the U.S. and its “allies” vs. Russia, Iran, and China (RIC), three nations labeled by U.S. military doctrine as “threats” or “adversaries.” Not far behind on the hit list are North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and a host of fence-sitting nations from the “Global South.”
I contend that the hot phase of World War III actually began with the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021.
A more accurate name for what the U.S. is fronting for is the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire, whose aim for over a century, as we shall discuss, has been total world conquest.
In today’s warnings, World War III is equated with a global nuclear conflict. Of course, since the end of World War II, a nuclear “first strike” on Russia by U.S. military planners has never been off the table.
But a global nuclear conflict lies at the far extreme of the potential for devastation. If we can acknowledge that World War III has already begun, I contend further that the Empire and its signature globalist ideology have already lost. The Empire in fact is imploding. The globalists are in a panicked retreat, trying to cover their rear ends with noise, threats, provocations, lies, and bluster. The number of people fooled by all this shrinks by the day.
The question then becomes, what happens next? I contend that the sequel has also already begun and is revealing itself within the U.S. as a possible American Civil War II, which is arguably a continuation of the first Civil War of 1861-1865. This should not be surprising, as history repeats itself in long waves that engage the same underlying forces.
Along with many Americans, Europe has also begun to liberate itself from the Empire to which it has been subservient for over a century. Even staunch backers of NATO and its pretentions, like Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski, have stated that, as quoted by Simplicius, “There is no willingness in Europe to have a war with Russia. This is an absolute red line.”
Besides Russia, the focal point of the next phase of European history is likely, as we shall further discuss, the German-speaking world, where even German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, long viewed as a U.S. lapdog, is now calling for negotiations to end the crisis in Ukraine.
But will the Empire blow up the world first?
Where Is the “Declaration of War”? . . . .
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“The Media Silence Surrounding the UN Pact for the Future”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/media-silence-un-pact-future/5868270
by Jacob Nordangard
Instead we are drowned with nonsense and scaremongering while we are slowly being transformed into controllable entities to be controlled by the digital world brain
On Sunday, the Pact for the Future will be signed by world leaders at the Summit of the Future in New York. The pact aims to “upgrade the multilateral system” (i.e. the UN system) and make it more adapted to “future challenges” (i.e. give it more power) with the help of technology and AI systems (which will give it “foresight capabilities”).
Despite the world-changing significance of this historic Summit, reporting on the Pact has been non-existent in Swedish media. In our leading daily papers such as Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet—not a word. Nor from our public broadcasting company SVT.
(The same silence surrounded the adoption of Agenda 2030 at the UN Summit in September 2015—until after the fact, when there has been no escape from the Sustainable Development Goal propaganda. The historic signing of the strategic partnership between the UN and the World Economic Forum in June 2019 also managed to slip completely under the radar.)
What about in the political arena?
The only reference that can be found on the Swedish parliament’s website is a meeting of the European Union Committee (EU-nämnden) where State Secretary Diana Janse informed the members that the preparations for the Summit of the Future would be discussed by the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borell, during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on 7 May.[1]
At this meeting, the Swedish government was expected to give an account of its priorities. The Swedish representative was the Swedish diplomat Mikaela Kumlin Granit, head of Sweden’s EU representation in Brussels since 2023.[2]
In other words, foreign affairs are not dealt with by any of our ministers, but by the diplomatic corps.
We can therefore assume that there are probably very few of our elected politicians who have any knowledge of the Pact.
Even on the government’s website, there is a surprising lack of information about the Pact and the Summit. This, despite the fact that Sweden (together with Zambia) has had the main responsibility for negotiating the text of the annex Global Digital Compact. Sweden’s task has been led by UN diplomat Anna Karin Eneström.[3]
READ MORE: Psychopaths of the World United. Rebuilding Trust at the World Economic Forum
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“Surviving the UN Is Exiting the UN: Otherwise the Ways Are Charted Towards a Digital Gulag”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/surviving-un-exiting-un/5868267
by Dr. Rima E. Laibow and Peter Koenig
September 22 and 23 are reserved for “debating” this topic to which in anticipation several governments, including Canada, have already given their approval. It is a plan for a borderless digital control in the future. In other words, towards a digital gulag — the first step towards a One World Order.
See also these two recent articles on the same subject: this and this.
As Dr. Laibow correctly points out, it is important that this information reaches as many people as possible and as soon as possible. Time is of the essence.
These are the various links, displaying the same video message – in case one or the other of the links has been censored out.
And below is the transcript of Dr. Rima Laibow’s video speech.
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Surviving the UN Is Exiting the UN . . . .
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“The UN's [Death] Pact for the [Globalist] Future”
https://corbettreport.com/un-death-pact/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
with James Corbett
(58:43)
Next week, a gaggle of globalists will descend on the UN to rubber stamp the Pact for the Future, a new document from the kleptocrats laying out their goals for global government and universal neofeudal enslavement. What, you didn’t think the UN was an innocent organization devoted to world peace, did you? Well, you certainly won’t after this week’s edition of The Corbett Report podcast. United Nations delenda est.
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“Is It Pyramids All The Way Up? – Questions For Corbett”
https://corbettreport.com/qfc-pyramids/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
with James Corbett
(20:02)
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“The woman trying to upend the U.S political system | Jill Stein | UNAPOLOGETIC”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZSK24I2Fxg
by The Middle East Eye
(1:15:23)
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“Jill Stein & Michael Hudson: The UGLY TRUTH About what's Destroying America”
https://www.youtube.com/live/tPZjxna3jk4
by Dialogue Works
(1:04:15)
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“The ‘Thirdworldization’ of the Russian Federation. IMF-World Bank Shock Treatment under Boris Yeltsin”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/thirdworldization-russian-federation/5867385
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The following text describes the devastating social and economic impacts of a “Third World style” Neo-liberal agenda applied in the immediate wake of the “Cold War”.
I was in Russia in 1992 undertaking field research as well as interviews for Le Monde diplomatique. What I witnessed was a process of engineered impoverishment and social devastation.
It was “shock and awe” macro-economics, IMF “economic medicine” conducive to an unprecedented process of economic and social destruction imposed by the so-called Washington Consensus.
There was no peaceful transition. America had Won the Cold War the objective of which was to dismantle the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin was their faithful proxy President of the Russian Federation, acting on behalf of the Washington consensus.
The USSR collapsed in one fell swoop. It was a complex process of regime change, dismantling the Soviet Union, coupled with “shock and awe” macro-economic reforms.
The unspoken post-Cold war scheme was “economic warfare” which consisted in imposing a neocolonial agenda conducive to the dislocation and the demise of the national economies of the former republics of the Soviet Union.
It was regime change, an exceedingly complex process of economic and social dislocation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR),
This dismal chapter in Russian history has a bearing on the current crisis and the real danger of a Third World War.
It should be understood by Western public opinion.
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, September 18, 2024
(emphasis added by the author, September 18, 2024, no modifications of the text)
* Phase I: The January 1992 Shock Treatment
“In Russia we are living in a post-war situation. . .”, but there is no post-war reconstruction. “Communism” and the “Evil Empire” have been defeated, yet the Cold War, although officially over, has not quite reached its climax: the heart of the Russian economy is the military-industrial complex and “the G-7 wants to break our high tech industries. (. . .) The objective of the IMF economic program is to weaken us” and prevent the development of a rival capitalist power.[1]
The IMF-style “shock treatment”, initiated in January 1992, precluded from the outset a transition towards “national capitalism” – i.e. a national capitalist economy owned and controlled by a Russian entrepreneurial class and supported, as in other major capitalist nations, by the economic and social policies of the state. For the West, the enemy was not “socialism” but capitalism.
How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?
“If the West thinks that they can transform us into a cheap labor high technology export haven and pay our scientists US$ 40 a month, they are grossly mistaken, the people will rebel.”[2]
While narrowly promoting the interests of both Russia’s merchants and the business mafias, the “economic medicine” was killing the patient, destroying the national economy and pushing the system of state enterprises into bankruptcy.
Through the deliberate manipulation of market forces, the reforms had defined which sectors of economic activity would be allowed to survive. Official figures pointed to a decline of 27 percent in industrial production during the first year of the reforms; the actual collapse of the Russian economy in 1992 was estimated by some economists to be of the order of 50 percent.[3] . . . .
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“History: Adolph Hitler was Financed by Wall Street, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England”
by Yuri Rubtsov and Prof Michel Chossudovsky (May 16, 2016)
US Investments in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller Financed Adolf Hitler's Election Campaign.
The Power of the U.S. Dollar
1932 Secret Agreement
Wall Street Finances Hitler’s Election Campaign
by
Michel Chossudovsky
November 21, 2023
minor corrections, September 22, 2024
Introduction
From World War I to the Present: Dollar denominated debt has been the driving force behind all US led wars.
Wall Street creditors are the main actors.
They were firmly behind Nazi Germany. They financed Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
“On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held between British financier Montagu Norman (Governor of the Bank of England), Adolf Hitler and Franz Von Papen (who became Chancellor a few months later in May 1932) At this meeting, an agreement on the financing of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP or Nazi Party) was reached.
This meeting was also attended by US policy-makers and the Dulles brothers, something which their biographers do not like to mention.
A year later, on January 14th, 1933, another meeting was held between Adolph Hitler, Germany’s Financier Baron Kurt von Schroeder, Chancellor Franz von Papen and Hitler’s Economic Advisor Wilhelm Keppler took place, where Hitler’s program was fully approved.” (Y. Rubtsov, text below)
Upon the accession of Adolph Hitler as Chancellor in March 1933, a massive privatization program was initiated which bears the finger-prints of Wall Street.
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht –re-appointed in March 1933 by Adolph Hitler to the position of President of The Reichsbank— was invited to the White House (May 1933) by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“After his meeting with the U.S. President and the big bankers on Wall Street, America allocated Germany new loans totalling $1 billion” [equivalent to $23.7 billion in 2023, PPP estimate] (Y. Rubtsov, op cit)
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“Nato Vs Russia, US Vs Iran! BIG WARS Are About To Break Out In NEAR Future”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hva9ijfPVyw
with Douglas Macgregor
(29:22, with transcript)
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“Israel and Hezbollah require US and Iran's consent for further escalation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q07lXzonyJg&si=fkjFLEKVXwAeNnap
by Aljazeera, with Marwan Bishara
(7:46)
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“Ukraine's Army Being DESTROYED In The Rubble! Israel' DARK Plan Has Been EXPOSED”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqWCCA5DqI&si=TbAK40AKO16prDwP
with Larry Wilkerson
(52:08)
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“Everything You Need to Know About the Conflict in Ukraine. ‘Multi-polar World Over-Ridden by Washington’s Hegemony’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/everything-you-need-know-conflict-ukraine/5868499
by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
The Soviet Union collapsed when Soviet President Gorbachev was placed under house arrest by hardline elements in the Politburo who were alarmed by the rapidity with which Gorbachev was establishing friendly and open relations with the West.
For the hardline American neoconservatives, the Soviet Collapse removed the constraint on American unilateralism. The neoconservatives quickly seized the initiative and with the Wolfowitz Doctrine declared US hegemony and stated that the principal goal of US foreign policy was to prevent the rise of any power that could serve as a constraint on Washington’s hegemony. This policy resulted in the hopes of Reagan and Gorbachev and the trust Gorbachev had placed in Washington being frustrated. Washington’s pledge not to move NATO one inch to the East was disavowed, and more hostile steps followed.
By 2007 it was clear to Russia’s President Putin that the promise of a multi-polar world was being over-ridden by a policy of Washington’s hegemony. At the Munich Security Conference, Putin threw down the gauntlet and said that Russia did not accept Washington’s rules based uni-polar world. At that moment the US/NATO went to war against Russia.
The first attack on Russia was a year later in 2008 when Washington sent a US supplied and trained Georgian army into disputed South Ossetia, resulting in the deaths of Russian peace-keepers and many civilians. Putin, caught off guard, returned from the Beijing Olympics, and the Russian army quickly defeated the US trained Georgian forces. Putin is often accused of intending to rebuild the Soviet Empire, but he had in his hands Georgia, historically a part of the Soviet Union and previously of Russia. Instead of reincorporating Georgia back into Russia, he turned them loose to be again subjected to Washington’s plots against Russia.
Having failed in Georgia, Washington turned its attention to Ukraine, another former province of the Soviet Union and previously of Russia for centuries. As Victoria Nuland boasted at a televised conference, Washington spent $5 billion organizing NGOs, students, and purchasing Ukrainian politicians in support of a coup to overthrow the democratically elected Ukrainian government and install a neo-nazi regime hostile to Russia.
For unknown reasons except perhaps surprise–Putin was at the Sochi Olympics–Putin did nothing to prevent Washington’s coup. For eight years Putin relied on the Minsk Agreement, which the West used to deceive him, while Washington built up a Ukrainian army capable of overthrowing the Donbas republics that broke away and resisted Ukraine’s persecution and murder of the Russian population.
READ MORE: “Putin Has Misread the West (And) if He Doesn’t Wake Up Soon, Armageddon Is Upon Us”
When Putin and Lavrov’s efforts during December 2021 and February 2022 to achieve a mutual defense agreement with the US and NATO were cold-shouldered by Washington, NATO, and the EU, Putin had no choice but to intervene in order to protect the Donbas, a former Russian province attached to Ukraine by Soviet leaders, from massacre, as the Israelis are doing in Gaza and the West Bank.
The West disingenuously called Putin’s “limited military operation” confined to Donbas an “invasion of Ukraine.” It was no such thing. The fact that it was not an invasion and conquest of Ukraine was Putin’s mistake.
It is the limited nature of Putin’s intervention that is the cause of the possible explosion of the conflict into a nuclear war.
Putin, being a mid-20th century American liberal, had trusted diplomatic relations and good will between nations and did not understand that the West was at war with Russia. He and his Foreign Minister kept stressing their “American partners” and belief in negotiations, while the West organized its attacks on Russia.
These attacks now include attacks deep into Russia far removed from the battle front. Russia has suffered many attacks from low-flying drones that evade air defense systems. As I write, Nato Secretary Stoltenberg and the UK prime minister are urging the Biden regime to give approval to US/NATO firing long range missiles into Russia. Putin has said that this is the final red line that will force him to acknowledge that Russia is at war with the West.
NATO General Secretary Stoltenberg says the West does not need to pay attention to Putin’s threat, because “There have been many red lines declared by Putin before, and he has not escalated.”
We have reached the point that I said we would each. Putin by his failure to act in response to aggression now has his back to the wall. He has three choices: He can surrender. He can end the Ukraine conflict with force, which puts the West on notice that the West is at risk if the conflict continues, or he can continue to ignore reality, thereby leaving the initiative in the West’s hands where it has been throughout the conflict.
We are faced with Putin’s mettle. Is he a warrior or an out-of-date American liberal?
I agree that this question is unfair. Putin is the only statesman the world has at this crucial time when the world’s continued existence is in question. Putin has accepted insult after insult, provocation on top of provocation in order to avoid a war that means death for humanity.
No one gives Putin credit for this.
Stoltenberg, a nonentity, mocks Putin. Biden, a nonentity, insults him. Zelensky, a nonentity, vows to defeat him.
We can see Satan’s hold on the West when the only leader determined to preserve human existence is demonized.
Despite his honorable characteristics, Putin is failing because he cannot recognize the extreme evil that confronts him and the country he represents.
As England’s ambassador Craig Murray has reported, the Western world is criminalizing free speech.
Washington’s investigations of Scott Ritter, Dimitri Simes, and others indicate that those who talk with Russians are being criminalized for aiding and abetting Russian disinformation, which is being equated with espionage. How can the dangerous situation be resolved when talk is prevented?
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“How Germany's Economy Compares to 22 European Countries”
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-germanys-economy-compared-to-22-european-countries/
by Pallavi Rao and Miranda Smith
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“The ‘War Party’ Makes Its Plans”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/20/patrick-lawrence-the-war-party-makes-its-plans/
by Patrick Lawrence
The Biden White House and the Democratic Party machine trying to advance Kamala Harris from No. 2 in the regime to No. 1 gets more interesting by the week, I have to say. The Harris campaign has at last, two months after the party’s elites and financiers railroaded her candidacy past any semblance of a democratic process, published a platform it calls A New Way Forward, and I will get to this in due course.
I am less interested now in words posted on a website than in two recent developments we ought to consider together even if no one has yet thought to do so.
Slowly and very surely, it becomes clear by way of these weekly turns how a new Democratic regime, should Harris win on Nov. 5, proposes to manage the imperium’s business.
And however many foolish voters may be illusioned otherwise, if Harris takes the White House her business will be neither more nor less than managing the imperium —the wars, the provocations, the illegal sanctions and other collective punishments, the terrorist clients in Israel, the neo–Nazis in Kiev.
Last Wednesday, Sept. 4, Liz Cheney surprised Washington and, I suppose, most of the rest of us when she announced she would support Harris’s run for the presidency.
The onetime Wyoming congresswoman, a coup-cultivating warmonger who remains among the hawkiest of right-wing foreign-policy hawks, was not the first Republican to jump across the aisle this political season, and she was also not the last: Two days later, Liz’s pop did the same. Dick Cheney, of course, needs no introduction.
Instantly, the Harris campaign declared its delight in having the support of these courageous patriots, as the organization called them in its official statements.
A week after all this high-caliber politicking, President Joe Biden convened in the Oval Office with Keir Starmer, the new British prime minister, to consider Ukraine’s proposal to fire Western-supplied missiles at targets well inside Russian territory.
The Brits are ready to oblige the Kiev regime, as are the French, but everyone — London, Paris, Kiev — needs Biden’s permission to widen the war in this fashion.
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“EU’s Defense Chief Says Europe Must Be Ready To Fight Russia in 6-8 Years”
by David DeCamp
Andrius Kubilius, former prime minister of Lithuania, was appointed as the EU's first defense commissioner.
Andrius Kubilius, a former Lithuanian prime minister and the EU’s first defense commissioner, has said Europe must be ready to fight Russia within 6-8 years.
“Defense ministers and NATO generals agree that Vladimir Putin could be ready for confrontation with NATO and the EU in 6-8 years,” Kubilius told Reuters.
“If we take these assessments seriously, then that is the time for us to properly prepare, and it is a short one. This means we have to take quick decisions, and ambitious decisions,” he added.
NATO has been preparing for a future war with Russia despite the risk of the conflict quickly turning nuclear. The EU has little impact on military policy since individual EU members are responsible for their own defense, but the appointment of Kubilius shows the bloc is looking to increase its involvement in war planning.
“The European Union won’t have defense plans or military leadership, like NATO does — but the European Union has instruments to get larger financing, which NATO doesn’t,” Kubilius said.
The former Lithuanian leader is a staunch supporter of the Ukraine proxy war and a major Russia hawk. He said that his first job is to see what resources the EU has available to prepare for a future fight. Kubilius told Reuters that he would like to see an investment of more than 500 billion euros in the next few years to build up European militaries.
On Thursday, the EU’s parliament passed a resolution calling on European countries to allow Ukraine to use Western weapons for long-range strikes inside Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the step would mean NATO is at war with Russia.
In response to the EU resolution, Vyacheslav Volodin, the head of Russia’s State Duma, said, “What the European Parliament is calling for leads to a world war using nuclear weapons.”
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“Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 939 | Russia-Ukraine war News”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-939
by Al Jazeera
As the war enters its 939th day, these are the main developments . . . .
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“A Nuclear War in Ukraine Is a Distinct Possibility”
https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/22/a-nuclear-war-in-ukraine-is-a-distinct-possibility/
by C.J. Polychroniou
The war in Ukraine has been going on for 2.5 years with no end on sight. Not only that, but we are now close to a nuclear war, according to the Norwegian scholar Glenn Diesen who predicted in November 2021 that “war was becoming increasingly unavoidable” as NATO was escalating tensions with Russia by strengthening its ties with Ukraine. Indeed, as Diesen argues in the interview that follows, NATO provoked Russia and sabotaged all peace negotiations, using Ukraine as a proxy to a geopolitical chessboard. Diesen is professor of political science at the University of South-Eastern Norway and author of scores of academic articles and books, including, most recently, The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order(2024).
C. J. Polychroniou: On February 22, 2022, in a move that few had anticipated, Russia invaded Ukraine by launching a simultaneous ground and air attack on several fronts. The war hasn’t gone at all as Moscow had intended and it rages on as neither side is seriously considering an end to the fighting. Yet, the invasion is in many ways a continuation of a territorial conflict between Russia and Ukraine that goes back to 2014. What lies behind the Russia-Ukraine conflict? How did we arrive at this dangerous juncture that is now dragging NATO into the conflict?
Glenn Diesen: I predicted the war in an article in November 2021, in which I argued war was becoming “unavoidable” as NATO continued to escalate while rejecting any peaceful settlement. This should have been evident to everyone if we had an honest discussion about what had been happening.
NATO was always part of this conflict, and it did not start as a territorial conflict. The conflict began with the Western-backed coup in Ukraine in February 2014, which was seen as a precursor to NATO expansion and the eventual eviction of Russia from its Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol. As the New York Times has confirmed, on the first day after the coup, the new Ukrainian government hand-picked by Washington established a partnership with the CIA and MI6 for a covert war against Russia. It is important to remember that Russia had not laid any claims to Crimea before seizing it in the referendum in March 2014. This is not a commentary on legality or legitimacy, merely the fact that Russia’s actions were a reaction to the coup.
A proxy war broke out in which NATO backed the government it installed in Kiev and Russia backed the Donbas rebels who refused to recognize the legitimacy of the coup and resisted the de-russification and purge of the language, political opposition, culture, and the church. The Minsk-2 peace agreement of 2015 laid the foundation for resolving the conflict, but this was merely treated as a deception to buy time and build a large Ukrainian army as confirmed by the Germans, French and authorities in Kiev. After 7 years of Ukraine refusing to implement the Minsk agreement and NATO’s refusing to give Russia any security guarantees for NATO’s military infrastructure that moved into Ukraine—Russia invaded in February 2022.
It is correct that the war has not gone as Moscow expected. Russia thought it could impose a peace but was taken by surprise when the U.S. and U.K. preferred war. When Russia sent in its military, the small size and conduct of the invading forces indicated that the purpose was merely to pressure Ukraine to accept a peace agreement on Russian terms. Ukraine and Russia were close to an agreement in Istanbul, although it was sabotaged by the U.S. and U.K. as they saw an opportunity to fight Russia with Ukrainians.
The nature of the war changed fundamentally as it became a war of attrition. Russia withdrew to more defensible front lines, began mobilizing its troops and sourcing the required weapons for a long-term war to defeat the NATO-built army in Ukraine. After 2.5 years of war, this has become a territorial conflict that makes it impossible to resolve in a manner that would be acceptable to all sides. As NATO refuses to accept losing its decade-long proxy war in Ukraine, it must continue to escalate and thus get more directly involved in the war. We are now at the brink of a direct NATO-Russia War.
Did NATO provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Even if so, didn’t Moscow have any other options other than to resort to the use of military force?
NATO provoked the invasion and sabotaged all paths to peace. The NATO countries affirmed on several occasions that the UN-approved Minsk agreement was the only path to a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine, yet then admitted that it was merely a ruse to militarize Ukraine. This convinced the Russians that NATO was pursuing a military solution to the conflict in Ukraine that would also involve an invasion of Crimea. As argued by a top advisor to former French president Sarkozy, the U.S.-Ukrainian strategic agreement of November 2021 convinced Russia it had to attack or be attacked.
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“US Now Wants to Shift the Burden of Ukraine Onto Its European Colonies. Allies or ‘Veiled Enemies’?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-shift-burden-ukraine-european-colonies/5868345
by Uriel Araujo
About Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg now says: “I welcome these developments and these decisions but it’s for individual allies to make the final decisions.” He means Europe. With US-led NATO, a pattern has clearly been emerging – one about shifting the burden (and blame) to Europe.
Some context is needed. I’ve written a number of times on how the Euro-American partnership and friendship consists of a rather strange alliance to the point of resembling a veiled enmity. Just consider this:
Washington does not refrain from openly employing terrorist operations against a major European power such as Germany, with no consequences – I am of course talking about the blowing up of Nord Stream, as promised by Joe Biden himself, a huge act of sabotage which, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, was Washington’s doing.
The US wages a “subsidy war” against Europe’s industry via the Inflation Reduction Act, while advancing its own energy interests to the detriment of the continent.
Even though this betrayal of Europe is in line with Washington’s historical record pertaining to partners, considering all the above, one can argue it is not far-fetched at all to describe the relationship between the United States and its transatlantic European “allies” as bearing a colonial character.
Hal Brands (Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies) describes the role played by an American “benign hegemon” by imagining the European continent “without Washington’s embrace” and then reverting to an “anarchic and illiberal past”. He describes such a scenario thusly:
“Which is the real Europe? The mostly peaceful, democratic, and united continent of the past few decades? Or the fragmented, volatile, and conflict-ridden Europe that existed for centuries before that? If Donald Trump wins… we may soon find out… A post-American Europe… might even revert, eventually, to the darker, more anarchic, more illiberal patterns of its past… Many people—Americans especially—have forgotten how hopeless the continent once seemed…. Europe was the land of “eternal wars” and endless troubles… [a] cursed continent…. U.S. military protection broke the doom loop of violence by safeguarding Western Europe from Moscow—and from its own self-destructive instincts…. Americans are the “best Europeans,” West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer remarked in 1949… [The] transformation began with the forced democratization of West Germany under the Allied occupation. It involved using Marshall Plan aid to revitalize and stabilize fragile democracies…This was a uniquely U.S. solution to Europe’s problems… U.S. intervention helped turn a “dark continent”… into a post-historical paradise at the heart of an expanding liberal order”
It does sound almost like a defense of the American man’s burden, doesn’t it? It goes way beyond Pax American. Those European barbarians simply can’t get their act together and will naturally revert to their old illiberal ways, it seems.
It would be rather tempting to compare Brands’ rhetoric with European colonialist discourses on Eastern or New World peoples (I’ve commented on Hal Brands’s apocalyptic reasoning elsewhere). I believe that the point that I am trying to make by quoting Brand’s exercise of exceptionalism is quite self-evident. While some Western Europeans picture their civilization as a “garden” (and the rest of the world as a “jungle”), many figures within the American regime’s Establishment and Intelligentsia perceive Europe instead as a “dark continent”.
Again, this is not merely an exercise of rhetoric. Once one starts to understand the American hegemony over Europe as colonial in character, in a literal way, one can thus make much more sense of today’s world. For example, with regards to US actions pertaining to Georgia and Ukraine, we know that key European leaders such as former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned against it for several reasons – but ultimately then US President George W. Bush had his way, and American interest prevailed, as often happens.
The Atlantic Alliance 2008 Bucharest Summit Declaration then stated that “NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO” (23). The outcome back then was the 2008 Russo-Georgian conflict – one can argue 2014 and 2022 are also part of the outcomes of an ongoing trend, namely NATO expansion. And yet, paradoxically, strategic Russo-European energy cooperation kept going, as recently as 2021.
How can Europeans allow such a disaster? Why won’t they stand against the Americans? The answer can be quite simple. As John Mearsheimer, the renowned University of Chicago political scientist, put it, in quite blunt terms: “the United States runs NATO and the Europeans do what we tell them” (see video here, at around 1h59min).
Make no mistake – there shall be no real American “withdrawal” from Europe. All talk about European “strategic autonomy” aside, what is happening now is that Washington is skillfully shifting the Ukrainian crisis’ burden onto the shoulders of the European bloc (which will have an impact on European welfare and standard of living), while still benefiting from it – by having ever-more dependent European NATO members purchasing American weaponry to comply with NATO standards (alas, even Trump’s rhetoric is really about it).
It has become clear by now that the political, economic, and moral costs pertaining to the Ukrainian effort are becoming too high – not to mention the risk of uncontrolled escalation potentially leading to nuclear war. It is thus time to further “proxify” the American proxy attrition war against Russia (as Former US ambassador to Finland, Earle Mack described it), by turning Europe itself into a full-fledged American proxy. It is not just about “pivoting to the Pacific”.
Realizing that the European bloc today is a de facto American colony is part of the theoretical effort to come up with an accurate description of the current state of affairs. Reflecting on what to do about it, upon realizing this, would be the next logical step, especially from a European perspective. Such reflection is a kind of forbidden discourse in Europe today, and it has become a monopoly of the Populist camp and the so-called “far-right”. It doesn’t need to be this way. It is about time to decolonize Europe.
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“Netanyahu frustration, Middle East conflict delayed”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urDPn1q4d8k
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(33:00)
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“Israel in Panic Mode: Orders US Congress To Force South Africa To Drop ICJ Case?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCUDI74I2oc
by We Love Africa
(11:41)
Has the U.S. completely surrendered to Israel? Israel orders the U.S. to force South Africa into withdrawing its ICJ case, and the U.S. obeys without a second thought. But this puts many things into question. Where are those grand human rights speeches now? Where’s the so-called morality? Has the U.S. abandoned every shred of integrity, blindly following Israel’s commands? Let’s find out.
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“Houthis Arrive in Syria: New Threat to Israel Sparks Regional Crisis”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_9OzlPbDmM
Israeli media reports that 50 Yemen’s Houthi militants have arrived in southern Syria. They entered Syria from Iraq through strategic Abu Kamal border crossing. Abu Kamal crossing is controlled by the Iran-led Resistance Axis. The Houthis are reportedly opening a new front against Israel. This development introduces new dimension to ongoing regional conflicts
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“Alastair Crooke: Hezbollah' Missiles RAIN DOWN On Israel! Prepares For The UNTHINKABLE in Next 48h”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOuFu1urJM4
with Alastair Crooke
(28:44, with transcript)
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“Israel's pager attack in Lebanon will blow back: Western tech can't be trusted anymore”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnVF55Eu0o
by Ben Norton
(31:39)
Israel killed many people in Lebanon by putting explosives in pagers and walkie-talkies, in what was condemned internationally as a terrorist attack. This is already backfiring, hurting Western technology companies. Ben Norton discusses how this act of war will fragment supply chains, as Global South markets no longer trust tech made by the US and its allies. China's manufactured goods will increasingly be seen as a safer alternative.
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“Ray McGovern”
https://scheerpost.com/category/ray-mcgovern/
with Ray McGovern
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“Israel' Conflict BREAKS OUT! US Abandoned Ukraine, Zelensky PLEADS To End War”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VngHwZLCrc
with John Mearsheimer
(25:14)
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“Russia Announced the Destruction of the U.S. Special Forces Unit in the KURSK Region”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKZsJiKg02Y
by Borizziman
(9:06)
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“Israel In Panic After Suspicious Boat In Tel Aviv; Hezbollah Fighters Inside Israel?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFH-1YW7hcQ
by Times of India
Israel on high alert after unverified reports claim another infiltration by resistance fighters into Tel Aviv. Videos circulating on social media claim resistance fighters sneak into Tel Aviv via Netanya coast. Reports claimed that there was an abandon boat but there was no trace of resistance fighters. Soon after, Israeli officials carried out an intensive search operation using helicopters and boats. Watch.
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“Israel Takes A Step Into The Hell Of Destruction! Iran Will End The IDF”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW52fUpaafQ
with Douglass McGregor
(29:50, with transcript)
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“Israel Carries Out Large-Scale Terrorist Attacks In Lebanon”
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/israel-large-scale-attack-lebanon/
by Robert Inlakesh
In an outrageous move that killed at least 11, injuring over 4,000 people — of whom 400 are critically wounded — Israel detonated wireless communication devices across Lebanon. Despite the refusal of the Western corporate media to label this as an act of terrorism, the act was clearly designed to inflict widespread anxiety in the Lebanese civilian population as well as scoring a point against Hezbollah militarily.
This Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the Israeli security cabinet officially agreed to expand their Gaza war aims to include stopping Hezbollah by force, Israel inflicted the worst mass casualty event in Lebanon since the Beirut Port Explosion of 2020. Over 4,000 casualties were inflicted simultaneously across Lebanon, indiscriminately wounding women, men, children, and the elderly. Christians, Muslims, and Druze were all effected by the Israeli decision to rig pagers with small amounts of explosive material and detonate them amongst civilians.
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“High-tech Attack in Lebanon May Usher In a Regional War”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/high-tech-attack-lebanon-regional-war/5868478
by Steven Sahiounie
Between Tuesday and Wednesday, 32 people were killed and about 4,000 injured by exploding handheld devices, including pagers, walkie-talkie radios, mobile phones, laptops, and even solar power cells across Lebanon, with two children among the dead. Many of the injured lost fingers, hands, and eyes, with some 300 in critical condition according to the Health Ministry’s press briefing on Thursday morning.
Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, gave a televised address on Thursday evening. Nasrallah explained how Israel had sent direct and indirect messages on Tuesday threatening the Lebanese resistance that more attacks would follow if the attacks on Israel continued. The Wednesday attack was a follow-up of the threat from the previous day.
Nasrallah called the Israeli attacks a ‘declaration of war’ and a ‘war crime’. Belgium’s Foreign Ministry called it an act of ‘terrorism’, with other Western countries also condemning it.
Nasrallah reiterated that to stop the attacks on Israel, a ceasefire in Gaza must be put into effect.
Hezbollah discontinued the use of mobile phones among its operatives because Israel was capable of listening in. Instead, the Lebanese resistance group started using pagers and walkie-talkies.
The pagers were sold under the name Apollo Gold, a well-known Taiwanese manufacturer. However, investigators confirmed that they were not made in Taiwan but by a Hungarian firm, BAC Consulting, which had a contract from Taiwan to use the Apollo Gold brand name.
According to the New York Times, BAC was an Israeli shell company set up to mask the identity of the Israeli agents who inserted explosive material and a remote detonator capability into the pagers.
According to leaked intelligence to Al-Monitor, the explosions were planned to go off at the start of a full-scale war against Lebanon. Still, a leak alerted two members of Hezbollah to the danger, and the Israelis detonated the devices on Tuesday.
Hezbollah had attacked Israel on August 25 and among the targets was the elite spy center known as Unit 8200. 22 Israelis were killed and 74 wounded at the cyber-spy headquarters.
Is Lebanon the Next War After Gaza? Interview with Alwan N. Amin Eddine
When the pagers exploded on Tuesday, many analysts saw the attack as a response to the attack on Unit 8200.
The Israeli spies who planted the explosives in the pagers were most likely from Unit 8200.
Hezbollah has been calibrating its attacks and minimizing casualties to avoid justifying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to start a full-scale war against Lebanon. The US administration of President Joe Biden has been asking Netanyahu to reign in the extremist elements in his cabinet who are pushing for a regional war.
Israel has been waiting for Hezbollah to lose patience so that they can start a full-scale war. Media reports from Tel Aviv say Netanyahu will fire Yoav Gallant the Defense Minister. The two have a tense relationship, but Gallant seems to accept that his next mission will be a full-scale attack on Lebanon.
According to the Times of Israel, Gallant said Israel’s focus has moved to the northern front as a “new phase” of the war is beginning. Lebanon’s Foreign Minister saw the attack on Lebanon as a signal to a wider war.
Netanyahu knows that he could stop the Hezbollah attacks on Israel by agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza. Biden got Netanyahu’s promise of a ceasefire in July, but later Netanyahu reneged on his agreement and used the excuse of demanding Israeli troops on the Philadelphia corridor. Once it was clear to Biden that Netanyahu would not agree to any ceasefire, under any terms, Biden stepped out of the race for a second term as President.
Netanyahu is bound to keep the war going in Gaza, despite not having achieved his military goals there, because he is in office only as long as he does the bidding of two Ultra-Extremist Jewish settlers, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Bezalel Smotrich. If Netanyahu loses their support in his cabinet, his coalition will fall, and Netanyahu will go to jail on past corruption charges.
From the beginning of the war on Gaza, Netanyahu has been determined to destroy Hamas, and his second goal has been to destroy Hezbollah. Military experts have cautioned that his goals cannot be achieved because the resistance to occupation can never be stopped. An army can kill leaders and fighters, but the desire for freedom and independence can never be wiped out. India and South Africa are both examples of winning independence from colonial rule.
With the Biden Oval Office flying on auto-pilot, Netanyahu feels this is the unique chance to start a major war in Lebanon, which the US government will pay for. He knows from his standing ovations speech at the US Congress, that Israel is assured of US military support during a war in Lebanon. Netanyahu has calculated that the time is right because if Donald Trump were to win in November, he might pressure Netanyahu to a ceasefire and stop the blank check for weapons. Trump has proved in his previous term in office that he is not in favor of foreign wars in which the US taxpayers have to pay the bill.
All eyes are on the skies of Lebanon, as the hours passing by bring us closer to a possible war that has not been seen in its scope for 50 years.
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“The Exploding Pagers in Lebanon May be Israel’s Response to the Attack on Israel’s Spy HQ, Unit 8200”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/exploding-pagers-lebanon-israel-response-hq-unit-8200/5868275
by Dr. Ali Hamie and Steven Sahiounie
Interview with Dr. Ali Hamie:
On Tuesday afternoon, thousands of pagers exploded in Lebanon killing at least nine and injuring 2,800, including Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani.
More details will emerge in time, but it appears Israel, through their intelligence services, had planted explosives in the hand held communication devices used by the Lebanon resistance group Hezbollah.
Some experts feel this may be Israel’s response to Hezbollah’s attack on August 25, which targeted the elite ‘cyber-spy’ unit 8200 in Glilot, which killed 22 operatives and wounded 74, according to a Lebanese news agency, which was confirmed by European security sources.
The Israeli Intelligence Corps Unit 8220 of the Israel Defense Forces is responsible for spy operations, including collecting signal intelligence.
Israel refuses to publically address the attack at their most sensitive spy center. However, in a telling public announcement, the commander of 8200, Yossi Sariel, resigned on September 10. He will be the scapegoat needed for the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have valued killing Hamas and Palestinian civilians in Gaza, over the safe return of Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Steven Sahiounie of MidEastDiscourse interviewed Dr. Ali Hamie, a strategic analyst, concerning various issues facing Lebanon today.
Dr. Hamie mentioned the destruction of Israel’s unit 8200, and the fact that since Hezbollah makes their own weapons, the old land route through Syria is no longer necessary, although the Israeli airstrikes on Syria continue. Hamie also exposed how the US has prevented Lebanon from recovering from the worst economic crisis in the world, by standing in the way of Lebanon’s development of their rich off-shore oil resources.
Steven Sahiounie (SS): Lebanon is in one of the worst economic crisis in modern history. In your opinion, would a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have a role in recovering the Lebanese economy?
Ali Hamie (AH): The whole world is heading towards recession and economic depression, and Lebanon is subject to a devastating economy as a result of mismanagement and internal corruption; however, the greater devastation comes by means of American sanctions by penal laws. This means the internal corruption is backed by American policy that protects the corrupt up to the point they no longer serve their purpose before exposing their corruption and plays the part of ‘protector against the corrupt’. The direct imposition of sanctions on some Lebanese figures and indirect sanctions, are suffocating Lebanon. Such as those imposed on Syria through the Caesar Act which harms Lebanon more than it does Syria. Just as the United States prevents Lebanon from benefiting from international donations regarding oil and food, the foolish American control of economic policies against most countries that reject it, it’s as if the United States crossed into the sea borders and oil-rich Lebanese beaches, and placed obstacles to stall Lebanon from extracting their oil.
READ MORE: “Israel realizes that igniting a regional war means the end of Israel.” Interview with Khalil Harb
Today we have an additional, sensitive, and essential factor that has entered the economic equation. War and offensive by the Zionist entity against the occupied Gaza Strip. This factor, however, has an impact on both sides of the conflict, and everyone wants to get out of it. Even as an achievement, it comes after the Israeli economy has been devastated just as our economy has endured. Therefore, call for a ceasefire, withdrawal from Gaza, and stopping the fighting to call for a temporary truce may give breathing space to restore the collapsed economy for everyone.
SS: Israeli is threatening a full-scale war against the resistance in South Lebanon. In your opinion, will Benjamin Netanyahu take this kind of action, even though he is unable to achieve military victory in Gaza?
AH: Until now, the Israeli enemy has not been able to achieve any goal or military objective on the Gaza front, apart from the destruction of the infrastructure of hospitals, schools, retirement homes. So, how can they open a new expanded front with Lebanon while they are aware that the Northern front has been tried with some of the most powerful air force in the Middle East, with the largest squadron of 100 fighter jets, and carried out sixty raids, but could not destroy any major targets? Meanwhile, Hezbollah has responded to the Israelis and destroyed unit 8200 Security Division Serial Mektel North of Tel Aviv. Therefore, despite the military might of the Israeli forces, they have proven unable to expand the circle of war on the Northern front except by foolish strategies that could cost them the demise of their entity.
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“Failed Machismo: Israel’s Pager Killings in Lebanon”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/failed-machismo-israel-pager-killings/5868368
by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
With each ludicrously diabolical move, Israel’s security and military services are proving that they will broaden the conflict ignited when Hamas breached the country’s vaunted security defences on October 7. Notions such as ceasefire and peace are terms of nonsense and babble before the next grand push towards apocalyptic recognition.
The pager killings in Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 17 that left almost 3000 people injured and 12 dead were just another facet of this move. On September 18, a number of walkie-talkies used by members of Hezbollah were also detonated, killing 14. (The combined death toll continues to rise.)
In keeping with the small script that always accompanies such operations, the coordinated measure to detonate thousands of deadly pagers had Mossad’s fingerprints over it, though never officially accepted as such. It featured the use of the Apollo AR924 pager, adopted by Hezbollah as a substitute for smartphone technology long compromised by Israeli surveillance.
The group had ordered 5,000 beepers made by the Taiwanese Gold Apollo manufacturer in the early spring, most likely via BAC Consulting, a Hungarian-based company licensed to use the trademark. According to a Reuters report, citing a “senior Lebanese source”, these had been modified “at the production level.” Mossad had “injected a board inside the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It’s very hard to detect it through any means. Even with a device or scanner.”
The manner of its execution stirred sighs of admiration. Here was Israel’s intelligence apparatus, caught napping on October 7, reputationally restored. French defence expert Pierre Servent suggested that, “The series of operations conducted over the last few months marks their big comeback, with a desire for deterrence and a message: ‘we messed up but are not dead.’” A salivating Mike Dimino, former CIA analyst and plying his trade at Defense Priorities, a US-based think tank, admired the operation as one of “classic sabotage” that would have taken “months if not years” to put into play and proved to be “[i]ntelligence work at its finest.”
While admired by the security types as bloody, bold machismo, this venture remains politically stunted. However stunning a statement of power, it only promises temporary paralysis. It’s true that Hezbollah is in disarray regarding its communications, the extent of the compromise, and pondering the nightmarish logistics of it all. Its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has every reason to feel rattled. But the pretext for an escalation, the temptation to reassert virility and strength, has been set, thereby creating the broader justification for a move into Lebanon.
READ MORE: Explosion of Middle East – Only “One Strike Away”
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“Israel’s Pager Terrorism”
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/israels-pager-terrorism/
by The Libertarian Institute, with Brad Pearce
On Tuesday, September 17, Lebanon experienced one of the most widespread terrorist attacks in history. All at once, pagers across the south of the country indicated they had received a message and then exploded. As of Tuesday night it was said fourteen people were killed, including an eight-year old girl. Almost 3,000 were wounded, a testament to the indiscriminate nature of the attacks. As the people who possessed the pagers were primarily associated with Hezbollah, responsibility was quickly attributed to Israel, both by Hezbollah and by Israel’s ghoulish supporters, who are excited by wanton violence. The New York Times quickly confirmed Israel’s responsibility, something which no one has seriously tried to deny. This may be a glorious day for Israel’s partisans, but this use of personal electronics for massive and decentralized violence should horrify reasonable people.
According to the Times’ “government officials,” Israel put plastic explosives into a large batch of pagers that Hezbollah ordered from a Taiwanese company—which has now said it only licensed the products to be manufactured by a different corporation in Budapest. They were then detonated remotely apparently after a message caused the users to look at them, though the method by which Israel accessed the network to send the messages remains unknown. Regardless, if Israel did this, it has reached a comic book level of villainy. In essence, Israel turned an unknown number of humans into involuntary suicide bombers. Further, while it is established that Hezbollah stopped using cell phones to avoid Israeli spying, this is particularly nefarious because pagers are widely used by hospital staff and Israel had no idea who would ultimately receive the pagers once they entered Lebanon.
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“Report: Israel Notified US Before Blowing Up Pagers But Gave No Details of What Was Planned”
by Davis DeCamp
CNN reports Gallant told Austin that Israel was about to launch an operation in Lebanon but didn't say what by Dave DeCamp September 19, 2024 at 5:02 pm ET Categories NewsTags Israel, Lebanon
Before thousands of pagers blew up in Lebanon on Tuesday, Israel informed the US that it was preparing an operation in the country but didn’t say what it was, CNN reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The sources said that Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant conveyed the message to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin early Tuesday, but due to the lack of detail, the US was left in the dark about what was about to transpire.
Austin and Gallant spoke again later that day after the pagers exploded, but it’s unclear what was said in that conversation.
The White House has insisted it was unaware of the Israeli plan to blow up pagers, which was followed by the detonation of walkie-talkies the following day. The Biden administration has barely commented on the Israeli terrorist attack, which killed at least two children, saying that it still needs to “gather information.”
But US officials were quick to share the details of the plot with The New York Times on the same day the pagers were detonated. US officials speaking to the paper were the first to confirm that Israel intercepted the pager shipment to Lebanon and packed the devices with explosives and a detonator switch.
There’s no indication that the attack will impact US military support for Israel, even though the US was reportedly warning Israel against escalating in Lebanon a day before the pagers were detonated.
The US has vowed to defend Israel if the situation in the Middle East turns into a full-blown regional war. In April, the US directly intervened to intercept Iranian missiles and drones that were fired at Israel in response to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
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“Terror Attack on Lebanon Opens New Front in US-Israeli War in Middle East”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/terror-attack-lebanon-opens-new-front/5868331
by Andre Damon
On Tuesday and Wednesday, thousands of mobile communication devices rigged with explosives by Israel detonated throughout Lebanon, killing dozens of people, including members of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization, and wounding thousands.
The mass terror bombings by Israel against the people of Lebanon are a flagrant war crime. They violate the laws of war regarding assassination, treachery and the prohibition of indiscriminate bombing.
“International humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps—objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use—precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon,” said Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement.
The New York Times described the death of a nine-year-old victim of the attack:
“Fatima was in the kitchen on Tuesday when a pager on the table began to beep,” her aunt said. “She picked up the device to bring it to her father and was holding it when it exploded, mangling her face and leaving the room covered in blood,” she said. “Fatima was trying to take courses in English,” Ms. Mousawi said. “She loved English.”
While these crimes were committed by the Israeli government and military, they were orchestrated with the help of the limitless financial, military and political support of the United States and other imperialist powers for Israel as part of their drive to subjugate and dominate the Middle East.
At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, the usually composed White House spokesman John Kirby could not help visibly sneering as he denied US responsibility for or foreknowledge of the terrorist attack. “We were not involved,” Kirby said, grinning from ear to ear.
Meanwhile, officials of the Democratic Party openly gloated about this act of mass murder.
“I fully support efforts to target and neutralize any existential threat like Hezbollah,” wrote Democratic US Senator John Fetterman on X, after sharing a screenshot of the news report of the attack.
Israel’s attack on Lebanon aims to massively escalate its war with the country, in which hundreds of people have been killed since October of last year. Just hours before the start of the bombings, Israel’s security cabinet met to declare that it had “updated the objectives of the war” to include returning Israeli residents to northern Israel, a euphemism for escalating Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
On Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant reported that the Army’s 98th Division, which includes commandos and paratroopers, is being transferred from Gaza to northern Israel.
READ MORE: Is Uncle Sam Being Duped Into Fighting Israel’s War? Mike Whitney
“The ‘center of gravity’ is moving north, meaning that we are allocating forces, resources and energy for the northern arena,” Gallant said.
The transfer of Israeli forces to the north does not mean any let-up in the suffering of Gaza’s population, who are totally besieged and being systematically starved and denied access to water, electricity and medical care. Since October, more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, according to the official death toll, while a study published in The Lancet suggested the real death toll could be 186,000 or more.
The attack on Lebanon is the latest in a series of provocations by Israel, supported by the United States, with the aim of provoking war not only against Lebanon but also against Iran.
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« Explosion de bipeurs et de talkies-walkies au Liban : décryptage d’Alain Bauer »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLx0fvmUgT0
avec Alain Bauer
Plusieurs talkies-walkies ont explosé au Liban, ce mercredi 18 septembre, au lendemain d'une attaque similaire qui a ciblé les bipeurs de membres du Hezbollah. Alain Bauer, Pr. de criminologie au Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, décrypte cette attaque « massive et inédite. »
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“Home Solar Systems Explode in Beirut, Lebanon Following Walkie-Talkie and Pager Blasts. Israel Announced a ‘New Phase in the War’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/home-solar-systems-explode-beirut-lebanon/5868304
by Jim Hoft
Lebanon officials are now reporting that multiple home solar energy systems have reportedly exploded in various neighborhoods across Beirut.
This attack follows closely on the heels of Tuesday’s pager blasts, which claimed the lives of 12 and left nearly 4,000 wounded in what is rapidly becoming an unparalleled security nightmare for the terrorist organization.
On Wednesday, walkie-talkies exploded simultaneously at various Hezbollah-controlled locations across the country.
Now, reports emerged from Lebanon’s Official News Agency detailing how home solar systems—often touted as the solution to climate change—were also going up in flames.
Al Jazeera reported, “Several blasts took place simultaneously, Hashem said, similar to what happened on Tuesday. “But this time, it was mostly walkie-talkies or radios [that exploded],” he said, adding that reports suggested that solar devices and some batteries in cars also exploded. Lebanon’s official news agency reported that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut.”
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“Lebanon: 37 Dead, 3,400+ Injured in Wave of Explosions in Electronic Devices Booby-Trapped by Israel”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/19/Lebanon
by Democracy Now!
(31:44)
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“Israel's Infiltration Of US Tech In Light Of The Lebanon Pager Attack”
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/israel-infiltration-us-tech-lebanon/
with Ryan Cristián
(3:32:07)
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“Israel's Device Attacks in Lebanon Reveal it's Military Limits”
with Greg Stoker and Mike Prysner
(1:00:28)
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“At least 45 killed in Israeli strike on suburb in Lebanon’s Beirut | Israel-Palestine conflict News”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/21/death-toll-from-israeli-strike-on-beirut-suburb-rises-to-31
by Al Jazeera
(24:54)
The death toll from an Israeli air attack in Beirut’s southern suburbs has risen to 45 people, including three children and seven women, Lebanese authorities say.
“The number of dead has risen to 45 people,” Lebanon’s health ministry said on Sunday, updating an earlier toll of 38 from the Friday attack.
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It said “work continues to remove the rubble for the third day in a row” and that DNA sampling would be used to determine the identities of some of the bodies.
The strike, which wrecked two buildings in the Lebanese capital’s Dahiya district during rush hour on Friday, also injured about 60 people.
The three children killed were aged four, six and 10, according to Abiad. Emergency personnel was still searching for 17 people under the rubble.
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“Lebanon WAR: Nearly 200 Killed, 700 Injured, 1000s Flee; Israel's Haifa”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9-CsjzXik
by Times of India
(3:33)
Israel has launched a significant military attack on Lebanon, resulting in at least 182 deaths and nearly 700 injuries, as reported by the Lebanese Health Ministry. The Israeli military conducted over 300 strikes on alleged Hezbollah sites in southern and eastern Lebanon. Click to find out more.
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“Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald on Media, Terror, Gaza, and More”
https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/22/chris-hedges-and-glenn-greenwald-on-media-terror-gaza-and-more/
by Glenn Greenwald
System Update Special . . . .
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“AFTER THE ONSLAUGHT”
https://www.youtube.com/live/Yur09jhEsOQ
with George Galloway, Nick Cruse, and Richard Medhurst
(2:10:45)
05:45 Menu #Lebanon #Israel #terror #Pagers
07:52 Monologue #Lebanon #Israel #terror #Rayner #Pantygate #Greens #Streeting #JillBiden #Kamala #Oprah #
28:30 Nick Cruse #Harris #Cheney #Trump #Stein #Biden #Russiagate #MehdiHassan
1:09:06 Richard Medhurst #Lebanon #Israel #terror #pagers #
1:54:58 Gayatri Galloway on Social Media
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“Israel Accused of Running "Torture Camps" as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYhGEmxbaK0&si=WoPlLZ4tFFfRHu3c
by Democracy Now!
(25:40)
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has published a major new report documenting how the Israeli prison system has become "a network of torture camps," where physical, psychological and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners is normalized and routine. The report, titled "Welcome to Hell," collects the testimony of 55 Palestinians who were detained by Israeli authorities since October 7 and later released, almost all without charges. This comes as a group of U.N. experts condemned the widespread torture of Palestinians and as Israel's Channel 12 News aired shocking footage of Israeli soldiers sexually abusing a prisoner at the Sde Teiman army base, where thousands of detainees from Gaza are held. Sarit Michaeli, the international advocacy lead for B'Tselem, says the abuse in Israeli prisons is "systemic, ongoing and state-sanctioned," reflecting the cruelty and thirst for revenge among a growing number of Israelis. "They would like to have a completely open field in terms of what they can do to Palestinians," says Michaeli.
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“‘Greater Israel’: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
by Israel Shahak and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.” which was led by its Military Chief Mohammed Deif. On that same day, Netanyahu confirmed a so-called “State of Readiness For War”. Israel has now (October 7, 2023) officially declared a new stage of its long war against the people of Palestine.
Military operations are invariably planned well in advance (See Netanyahu’s January 2023 statement below). Was “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm” a “surprise attack” ?
U.S. intelligence say they weren’t aware of an impending Hamas attack.
Did Netanyahu and his vast military and intelligence apparatus (Mossad et al) have foreknowledge of the Hamas attack?
Was a carefully formulated Israeli plan to wage an all out war against Palestinians envisaged prior to the launching by Hamas of “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm”? This was not a failure of Israeli Intelligence, as conveyed by the media. Quite the opposite.
Evidence and testimonies suggest that the Netanyahu government had foreknowledge of the actions of Hamas. And “They Let it Happen”:
Following the Al Aqsa Storm Operation on October 7, Israel‘s defence minister described Palestinians as “human animals” and vowed to “act accordingly,” as fighter jets unleashed a massive bombing of the Gaza Strip” (Middle East Eye).
A complete blockade of the Gaza Strip was initiated on October 9, 2023 consisting in preventing and obstructing the importation of food, water, fuel, and essential commodities to 2.3 Million Palestinians. It’s an outright crime against humanity.
Was “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm” a “surprise attack”? Was it a false flag?
Netanyahu’s “New Stage” of “The Long War” against Palestine
Netanyahu’s stated objective, which constitutes a new stage in the 75 year old war (since Nakba, 1948, see below) against the people of Palestine is no longer predicated on “Apartheid” or “Separation”.
This new stage –which is also directed against Israelis who want peace– consists in “total appropriation” as well as the outright exclusion of the Palestinian people from their homeland.
The current Netanyahu government is committed to the “Greater Israel” and the “Promised Land”, namely the biblical homeland of the Jews.
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“‘Unspeakable’: Doctors Back from Gaza Say Death Toll ‘Much Higher,’ Push Harris, Biden for Ceasefire”
by Amy Goodman
(27:54, with transcript)
We speak to two doctors who are part of a group of 45 U.S. doctors, surgeons and nurses who have volunteered in Gaza since October 7 and wrote an open letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, demanding an immediate ceasefire and an international arms embargo of Israel. The group includes evidence of a much higher death toll than is usually cited: more than 92,000 people, which represents over 4% of Gaza’s population. The doctors write, “With only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured, or both. Israel’s continued, repeated displacement of the malnourished and sick population of Gaza, half of whom are children, to areas with no running water or even toilets available is absolutely shocking.” The conditions in Gaza are “unacceptable,” and “people know this is wrong but no one is speaking up,” says Dr. Thalia Pachiyannakis, an obstetrician and gynecologist who volunteered at the Nasser Medical Complex. “We all saw evidence of a death toll that is certainly much higher than what is reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health,” adds Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who volunteered at the European Hospital.
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“Sectarian Sickness: Divided They Fall”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO7myZ-dhkI
with George Galloway
(1:35)
The only people helping the Palestinians in Gaza are mainly Shia. And none of the Palestinians experiencing genoc**e in Gaza are Shia
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“This is the worst It has ever been”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBzWeinQFyc
with Douglas Macgregor
(8:28)
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“Roger Waters on nuclear war, Israel's genocide and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3w0PJq9imk&si=CPzii2OirBxRBRpB
with Dimitri Lascaris
(52:39)
Waters and Lascaris talk about the growing danger of nuclear war, the causes of the devastating conflict in Ukraine, Israel's genocide in Gaza and the increasingly aggressive efforts of Western governments to strangle internet freedom.
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“What Is ‘Power in Global Politics’ and International Relations?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/power-global-politics-international-relations/5868283
by Dr. V. Sotirovic
Power is the ability to make people, states, movements, organizations, or things do what they would not otherwise have done. It is a matter of fact that politics is seen to be about might rather than right.
It can be said that, in essence, politics is power or, in other words, the ability of some international actor to get the desired results of his/her political behavior by using whatever instruments (legal or not, moral or not, etc.). In the very broadest sense of its meaning, power can be understood as the ability to influence the results of certain political/historical events, from the point of view to have or control power to do something in the arena of world politics and international relations.
The notion of power in world politics is usually attached to the nation-state and, therefore, power as an ability is prescribed to the country to direct its affairs but without the interference of other states or other international actors. As a consequence of such an understanding of the term, power in politics is, basically, a very close term if not even a synonym to autonomy or independence.
Nevertheless, in academic literature, power in international politics is mostly understood as a relationship as the real ability to influence the behavior of other actors (states, organizations, movements, parties, persons, etc.) in a manner, not of their choosing.
That is the reason why the term power over others is becoming more and more used as a proper one. In other words, power in politics can be understood as a phenomenon that is exercised when one actor gets another actor to do something that, in fact, the latter would not otherwise have done. However, from a very practical point of view, distinctions exist between potential and actual power, relational and structural power, and finally between hard and soft power.[1]
Power is for sure a property of a structure which means that it is an ability to control the political moves and shape how things of the others are going to be arranged influenced by key factors through which one actor may influence another one or several of them at the same time (for instance, the relations between the USA and the rest of the member states of NATO).
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“Closing in on World Government: Summit of the Future and the WHO”
with Michael Welch, Derrick Broze, James Corbett
(59:01)
“What the secretary-general is trying to do is an end run around the United Nations charter and delegate to himself all the powers he can possibly assume.” – Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., professor of international law at the University of Illinois [1]
“The Pact is a dire threat to every nation, and it must be stopped.” – Dr. Meryl Nass [2]
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Towards an “Oppressive Digital New World Order”. UN “World for the Future” Conference. 22-23 September 2024. Borderless “Enslavement Package”, Digital Control over 8 Billion People
https://www.globalresearch.ca/un-conference-future-complete-borderless-digital-control/5867564
by Peter Koenig
In less than two weeks, the United Nations will present during a special session – 22 and 23 September — of their 2024 UN annual meeting in New York, the World of The Future. It is a fully digitized world. For the UN AG meeting, a “package” of global digitization was prepared by the governments of Germany and Namibia. Of course, with the “help” of Big Tech and Big Finance.
This digital enslavement package will be adopted under almost complete exclusion of the public, of people like you and me.
Most parliaments and governments worldwide have apparently already agreed to it, so that the presentation and the so-called discussion during the UN Annual Conference is a sheer fig leaf, a mere farce.
This is the new “rules-based” way of forcing an entire population into a compact of a digital straightjacket, escaping from which is almost impossible.
People nowhere have been consulted or even informed. Governments worldwide were forced by the unnamed powers-that-be to accept a complete digitization of our future – what the WEF calls the 4th Industrial Revolution.
People, it is here!
No waiting for the end of the UN Agenda 2030. The goals have conveniently been advanced. You – and me – will be confronted with cash elimination, already started in many European countries and to some extent in the US; and even in some “developing countries” like India, without people’s consent.
All will be controlled, our money-spending, health data, food and eating habits, travels, TV viewer preferences, radio favorites, friends with whom we regularly meet and communicate, as well as others from the opposition camp; shopping / spending habits – and so on – all will be controlled digitally by the IT-digital corporate control system.
See this (in German) for the full story. . . . .
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“The Government Wants to Agree to “Digital Coercion”. An Agreement to Force 8 Billion People into a World Controlled by Digital Corporations”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/government-wants-agree-digital-constraints/5867654
by Norbert Haering
(7:26)
On September 22 and 23, a UN Future Summit prepared by the German and Namibian governments will take place in New York. A global digital pact is to be adopted, which has already been negotiated in almost complete secrecy and – as far as I know – in the absence of the public and parliaments. If you put aside the empty words in which the Global Digital Compact has been wrapped, you see an agreement to force everyone into a world controlled by digital corporations.
When I write about exclusion of the public, I do not mean secrecy.
The negotiations at the summit are taking place behind closed doors. But the Global Digital Compact in the versions of the 2nd revision and the 3rd revision is published on the UN’s Summit of the Future website.
However, neither the UN nor the German government, which was heavily involved in the preparations for the summit, have made any serious efforts to inform the public about what is planned or even to have it discussed in parliaments and the media. It is also not public which corporations, foundations and hand-picked representatives of so-called civil society will be allowed to sit at the negotiating table. The World Economic Forum will almost certainly be there, as will the Club of Rome, according to reports.
The text of the agreement begins by stating that digital technologies “offer immense potential benefits for human welfare and the advancement of societies” and that we must therefore eliminate any digital divide between and within countries. The stated goal is “a digital future for all”.
What is important is what the contract does not say. The word voluntary only appears in connection with the signing of the contract. For citizens, however, there is no right to choose a future for themselves other than a completely digitalized future. After all, that would open up a digital divide that should no longer exist.
There is no provision for the right to manage many of one’s affairs in the traditional way by interacting with other people rather than with computers.
No one should be able to choose to have their children taught by teachers instead of computers, or to keep conversations with their doctor and treatments a secret instead of being stored on the servers of IT companies. Nothing in the contract indicates that such a right has even been considered.
Risks are acknowledged, but without the text being specific. They are to be “mitigated”. Human oversight of the new technologies should also be ensured. International cooperation must be agile and adapt to the rapidly changing technological landscape. Then there is a lot of blah-blah with nice adjectives such as sustainable, fair, open, responsible, etc. It sounds good, but it has big feet.
The development of the digital technology “landscape” is thus presented as coming from above, as something that citizens and even governments have to adapt to.
Yet landscape is just another word for the digital corporations and what they come up with. It recognizes a leadership role for corporations. This, as I have shown in a previous post, is a common thread of the UN Summit on the Future and the UN’s actions over the last two decades.
Risks of digitalization should not be avoided in any way, but only “mitigated”.
“Human oversight” of new technologies is something quite different from democratic control and decision-making autonomy for users. If Elon Musk of X, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Sam Altman of OpenAI and the bosses of Google have sovereignty over the new technologies, this requirement of the treaty is fulfilled, but the interests of citizens are anything but safeguarded. The whole treaty reads as if the IT corporations and their foundations had drafted it, and that is probably not far from the truth. After all, the UN relies on corporate money, and the world’s richest and most powerful corporations are IT companies.
Conclusion . . . .
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“Selling War: How Raytheon and Boeing Fund the Push for NATO's Nuclear Expansion”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/raytheon-boeing-fund-push-nato-nuclear-expansion/288300/
by Alan Macleod
To “counter Russia’s nuclear blackmail,” the Atlantic Council confidently asserted, “NATO must adapt its nuclear sharing program.” This includes moving B-61 atomic bombs to Eastern Europe and building a network of medium-range missile bases across the continent. The think tank praised Washington’s recent decision to send Tomahawk and SM-6 missiles to Germany as a “good start” but insisted that it “does not impose a high enough price” on Russia.
What the Atlantic Council does not divulge at any time is that not only would this drastically increase the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear war, but that the weapons they specifically recommend come directly from manufacturers that fund them in the first place.
The B-61 bombs are assembled by Boeing, who, according to its most recent financial reports, gave tens of thousands of dollars to the organization. And the Tomahawk and SM-6 are produced by Raytheon, who recently supplied the Atlantic Council with a six-figure sum.
Thus, their recommendations not only put the world at risk but also directly benefit their funders.
Unfortunately, this gigantic conflict of interest that affects us all is par for the course among foreign policy think tanks. A MintPress News investigation into the funding sources of U.S. foreign policy think tanks has found that they are sponsored to the tune of millions of dollars every year by weapons contractors. Arms manufacturing companies donated at least $7.8 million last year to the top fifty U.S. think tanks, who, in turn, pump out reports demanding more war and higher military spending, which significantly increase their sponsors’ profits. The only losers in this closed, circular system are the American public, saddled with higher taxes, and the tens of millions of people around the world who are victims of the U.S. war machine.
The think tanks receiving the most tainted cash were, in order, the Atlantic Council, CSIS, CNAS, the Hudson Institute, and the Council on Foreign Relations, while the weapons manufacturers most active on K-Street were Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and General Atomics.
These think tanks directly affect conflicts around the world. CSIS, for example, are among the loudest advocates for arming Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel, even as the latter carries out a genocide in Palestine. A recent report lays out a shopping list of U.S. weapons that would help the Israeli military, including Excalibur artillery projectiles, JDAM bomb guidance systems, and Javelin missiles. Those weapons are manufactured by Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, respectively, all of whom are among CSIS’ top funders.
U.S. arms are being used daily to carry out illegal and deadly attacks against civilian populations in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, making arms manufacturers directly complicit in war crimes.
One example of this is the recent Israeli bombing of the Al Mawasi humanitarian zone in Gaza. Israel dropped three one-ton MK-84 bombs on the camp, killing at least 19 people. Dozens more are still missing.
According to the UN, MK-84 bomb blasts rupture lungs, tear limbs and heads from bodies, and burst sinus cavities up to hundreds of meters away.
The MK-84 bombs were produced in the U.S. by General Dynamics and sent to Israel with Washington’s blessing. General Dynamics has made huge profits from the slaughter; the D.C.-based arms manufacturer’s stock price has jumped by 42% since October 7.
Conflicts and Conflicts of Interest . . . .
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“Former British ambassador Craig Murray: 'The West is deeply complicit in genocide of Palestine'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBWbYBdGEMI&si=EyVOs3iWVC_lM7N1
by Middle East Eye, with Craig Murray
(9:36)
"We have a situation where not only is the West deeply complicit in the genocide in Palestine, the West, the ruling class of the West is so scared of its own citizens." Former British ambassador and human rights campaigner Craig Murray was invited to speak at the United Nations in Geneva on 13 September, where he spoke about how western countries are using anti-terrorism laws to silence pro-Palestine sentiments.
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“Russia Officially Announced The Beginning of The MASS Flight of Ukrainian Soldiers From KURSK Region”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkh1HWZeKfI
by Borzzikman
(9:04)
A few minutes ago, representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation officially stated that over the past 24 hours, the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has deteriorated significantly in the Kursk, Pokrovsk, and even Vuhledar directions of the front. According to them, the Ukrainian Army units are forced to defend themselves in almost all key areas.
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“The UN's ‘Pact for the Future,’ Translated From the Globalese
by James Corbett
(58:43)
Have you ever heard an establishment mouthpiece, a political puppet or a globalist gopher say something like: "Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective—a new world order—can emerge. A new era, freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace"?
Or: "As our world becomes more complex, more uncertain, and more dangerous, we have an even greater responsibility to strengthen the multilateral system"?
Or: "The constructive contributions by INB relevant stakeholders were incredibly valuable. Together, we must sustain this progress during the coming months to realize our shared goal to forge a pandemic agreement that guides future global responses to pandemics"?
Yes, those are English words coming out of their mouths. But they're not speaking English. They're speaking Globalese.
You see, Globalese sounds like English and it employs English words, but it has its own dictionary, in which certain words have a completely different meaning. If you think you can understand terms like "sustainable development" or "international law" by looking them up in your standard English dictionary (or, even worse, Wikipedia), you're sadly mistaken.
Thankfully, after decades of listening to these globalists speak, I have a fairly good grasp of Globalese. Today I offer my services to help you translate the Globalese gobbledygook in the United Nation's new "Pact for the Future" into plain English.
Sorry, and you're welcome!
Decoding the [Death] Pact
If you have no idea what the Pact for the Future is, the first thing you're going to need to do is to watch my recent podcast on the subject: Episode 465 – The UN’s [Death] Pact for the [Globalist] Future. . . . [SEE: The UN's [Death] Pact for the [Globalist] Future @ https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/ep465-unpact:b?src=embed]
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“Summit of the Future: The Public Still Has Not Seen the Final Draft of the Pact for the Future”
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/summit-future-final-draft/
by Derrick Broze
With the Summit of the Future only days away, the general public has not seen a final draft of the Pact for the Future agreement.
On September 13, United Nations member states completed the 4th draft of the Pact for the Future document which is expected to be signed this weekend at the Summit of the Future in New York City. With the Summit set to begin on Sunday, and “Action Days” for the Summit beginning Friday, the public is unlikely to see the final version of the document before it is signed by all 193 member states of the UN.
The Summit of the Future is taking place during the 79th session of the annual UN General Assembly. The summit has been in the making since at least 2022 after repeated calls by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to shift financial resources to rapidly complete the Agenda 2030 goals set by the UN in 2015.
The 4th edition of the Pact for the Future was placed under silence procedure on September 13 until Monday evening. During this 72 hour period, the draft is circulated to all Member States. If there are no objections during the silence procedure the draft is accepted. If the silence is “broken” with member state objections, an additional draft is released.
The UN has not publicized whether or not member states broke the silence or if the draft was accepted as the final edition. A 5th revision has not been posted as of the publishing of this article.
Despite the lack of transparency on the final draft of the Pact, noteworthy changes were made from the 3rd to the 4th revision.
Specifically, references to “Emergency Platforms” were removed for the 4th revision of the Pact for the Future. The 3rd draft of the Pact read (emphasis added):
“(a) Present for the consideration of Member States protocols for convening and operationalizing emergency platforms based on flexible approaches to respond to a range of different complex global shocks, including criteria for triggering and phasing out emergency platforms, ensuring that emergency platforms are convened for a finite period and will not be a standing institution or entity.
(b) Ensure that the convening of emergency platforms supports and complements the response of United Nations’ principal organs, relevant United Nations entities, United Nations-coordination entities and mechanisms…”
That same section now reads:
“(a) Consider approaches to strengthen the United Nations’ system’s response to complex global shocks, within existing authorities and in consultation with Member States, that supports, complements and does not duplicate the response of United Nations’ principal organs, relevant United Nations entities, United Nations- coordination entities and mechanisms, and specialized agencies mandated to respond to emergencies…”
The removal of emergency platforms is significant because it is these platforms which are supposed to be the mechanism by which the UN acts in the event of a declared emergency. The 3rd draft of the Pact claimed that the emergency platforms will only be “convened for a finite period”, and would not be a standing institution or entity with respect to national sovereignty. These statements were likely intended to sway critics of the UN who fear that these emergency platforms will be seized upon and used to grant the UN new legal powers.
Now, rather than emergency platforms, the document is focused on considering ways to “strengthen” UN “system’s response” to “complex global shocks”. This could be a temporary victory for supporters of national sovereignty and independence. However, the public will not know for sure until the final document is released.
The UN continues to claim the world is facing “global shocks”. The UN defines “complex global shocks” as events that “have severely disruptive and adverse consequences for a significant proportion of countries and the global population”. These shocks would require a “multidimensional multistakeholder, and whole of government, whole of society response.”
Under “Action 56”, the 4th draft of the Pact for the Future calls for strengthening the “international response to complex global shocks”.
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“The Criticized Emergency Platform Mechanism Has Been Removed from the “Pact for the Future”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/emergency-platform-mechanism-removed-pact-future/5868477
by Jacob Nordangard
But we can be assured that the technocrats will try to find other ways to implement the Emergency Platform toolbox within the current system.
In the fourth revision of the Pact for the Future the request to present “protocols for convening and operationalizing emergency platforms” has been replaced with the more watered down: “consider approaches to strengthen the United Nations’ system’s response to complex global shocks within existing authorities”.
This is somewhat of a relief for all of us who has warned about the consequences that these platforms can have on our human liberties if triggered, but it remains to be seen what this means in practice, as the wording leaves room for interpretation.
READ MORE: The Climate Emergency Illusionists and the Pact for the Future
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“Is Putin in Cahoots with the Globalists?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/putin-cahoots-globalists/5836121
by Riley Waggaman and Mike Whitney
This important Interview of Riley Waggaman with Mike Whitney first published on October 2023 suggests that President Putin’s government is aligned with the so-called Globalists.
Question: What is the position of the Russian government regarding the “World of the Future” project which is scheduled to be adopted (tomorrow?) at a special session of the UN General Assembly (September 22-23, 2024)
The project consists of a package of “Global Digitization” to be adopted by the United Nations 190+ Member States.
According to Western critics, this “fully digitized world of the future” is an enslavement package on behalf of Big Tech and Big Money.
Mike Whitney (MW): In many parts of the world, Vladimir Putin is admired for his outspoken defense of national sovereignty. But on the domestic front, many of Putin’s policies seem to align with those of the Western globalists. As you note in a recent post at Substack Putin just “signed a decree on the creation of a ‘digital’ domestic passport,” which many people think will pave the way to technocratic tyranny. Am I exaggerating the risks of digital ID here, or does this development pose a serious threat to personal freedom?
Riley Waggaman (RW): Imagine if the United States started issuing digital driver’s licenses that could be used as an official form of ID. What would the reaction be? I suspect a lot of Americans would feel “worried”, for lack of a better term. And not without good reason.
The digital passport system being implemented in Russia is deserving of the same skepticism.
First some context: Russia has a “domestic passport” that basically functions as a national ID. You use your domestic passport to open up a bank account, and for when you have to interact with the local bureaucracy. It’s an important document that you need to do ordinary, everyday things.
The digital passport has been billed as an electronic copy of the domestic passport, accessible via smartphone (via the State Services portal, Gosuslugi). The government is still deciding in what situations/scenarios the digital passport will be accepted as a valid form of ID.
Proponents of this digital document say it’s more convenient than a paper ID, and perhaps they’re right. The problem of course is that modern conveniences can lead to all sorts of unpleasantness, and with time these unpleasant things can even become “normal”.
The fact that this ID will be linked to the State Services portal (Gosuslugi) is certainly cause for concern and it’s easy to imagine how digital passports could be used (and abused) by the Russian government—or any government, for that matter. All in the name of convenience.
Of course, the authorities promise that digital IDs will never be made mandatory. Well, I’m old enough to remember when the Russian government promised that Covid vaccination would be 100% voluntary.
MW: Russia appears to be spearheading the transition to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) with its creation of the “digital ruble”. In your opinion, what are the potential pitfalls of such a plan?
RW: Excluding the possibility of imposing a full-spectrum digital gulag, the digital ruble has no obvious benefits. I would say the same of all CBDCs, of course.
Some claim that the digital ruble is a very necessary, prudent, and brilliant way to bypass Western sanctions. This is untrue. The Bank of Russia has a fully functional Financial Messaging System (SPFS) that operates independently from SWIFT. Here are a few RT.com headlines for your consideration:
· March 2017: “Russia’s banking system has SWIFT alternative ready”
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February
2018: “Russian banks
ready to switch off SWIFT – official”
· October 2019: Russia, China & India to set up alternative to SWIFT payment system to connect 3 billion people”
All of these articles are about SPFS and were published long before the Bank of Russia announced its intention to develop the digital ruble in October 2020.
I’m puzzled as to why so many westerners who claim to understand the dangers of CBDCs think the digital ruble is somehow “different”. The Bank of Russia’s CBDC has been almost unanimously condemned by the country’s most prominent commentators in the alternative/conservative media space. Even mainstream outlets like Tsargrad have published scathing take-downs of the digital ruble.
Meanwhile, in English-language “alternative media”, we are blessed with the profound postulations of deep thinkers like Simplicius who write nipple-hardening purple prose about how amazing and anti-globalist the Bank of Russia is, and why the digital ruble is super hip and cool.
I just don’t understand why English-language commentary (all non-Russian commentary, actually) is so far removed from what patriotic Russians living in Russia are saying about their own country, in Russian.
By the way: The Bank of Russia has already reneged on its promise that it will never, ever “color” digital rubles so that they can only be used to purchase certain items. The central bank’s deputy chairman recently said that placing restrictions on how digital rubles can be spent is a real possibility—and one that will be explored in the future. (link)
The digital ruble hasn’t even entered circulation yet, and the Bank of Russia is already open to “exploring” how this fun new tool of total control—endorsed by Davos, the IMF, the G20,–can be used to curb and stomp on basic human dignity.
MW: Is Russia moving closer to mandatory vaccinations?
Image is from InfoBrics
READ MORE: Is Neoliberlism Killing Russia?
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“Eco-Warrior Mark Carney: Set Up To Replace Trudeau And Usher In Great Reset”
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/carney-replace-trudeau-great-reset/
by Matthew Ehret
(38:58)
In September 2013, while still a volunteer with the Canadian branch of the LaRouche Movement, I found myself spearheading a campaign to break up the banks of Canada and shed light on the incoming Bail-in legislation being set up to loot depositors’ accounts.
To launch that campaign I made a short video with a colleague where I warned that a certain creepy figure named Mark Carney had been deployed by the highest echelons of the Financier Oligarchy centered in the City of London to oversee the controlled disintegration of the world economy and transition towards a new depopulation-oriented world order.
Today, Mark Carney, a darling of the Central Bankers and self-professed ‘eco-warrior’ of banking has been named Chairman of a new Taskforce for Economic Growth for Canada’ where he will work closely with fellow Oxford ideologue and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in overseeing a transition of the economy into a green, decarbonated hellscape.
It is my intention to explain what this means, and the danger of Carney’s position as the replacement for the widely-hated Justin Trudeau in the coming months.
Carney the Eco-Warrior Takes the Helm Again . . . .
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“INTERVIEW: Oprah and ‘the craziest interview of my life’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OTbiXCMgzE
with Nick Cruse
(14:01)
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“Charges DROPPED Against Stop Cop City Protesters!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_FNI07Gqvg&si=GI2i63lQbWUqydJK
with Jimmy Dore
(14:29)
Money-laundering charges are being dropped against a bail fund swept up in an unprecedented case involving 61 people accused of a criminal conspiracy while protesting against the controversial Georgia police training center known colloquially as “Cop City”. Deputy attorney general John Fowler unexpectedly told Fulton county superior court judge Kimberly Esmond Adams and attorneys for several of the case’s defendants in a hearing this week that he was dropping charges underlying 15 of the 18 counts included in the Rico, or racketeering, indictment.
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“Political Justice in New Normal Germany”
by CJ Hopkins
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“VIDEO: Secret chats expose decade of US meddling in Ecuador”
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/08/29/secret-chats-decade-us-meddling-ecuador/
by The Gray Zone with Oscar Leon
(34:42)
Exclusive interviews and leaked messages reveal how a key ally of the US weaponized the fight against corruption and criminal organizations to selectively prosecute Ecuador’s heads of state, viciously persecuting Rafael Correa and his Revolución Ciudadana movement on flimsy evidence, while delaying investigations into much graver crimes allegedly committed by his successors.
Recently-leaked secret chats obtained by The Grayzone expose how Ecuadorian prosecutor Diana Salazar leaked information to a subject of an ongoing investigation, undermining the prosecution of associates of Ecuador’s current and previous US-aligned presidents, and acted hand-in-glove with the United States government, which essentially selected and controlled prosecutions from Washington.
The shocking revelations of corruption and US meddling in the geopolitically-crucial South American nation have been largely ignored by the US government and corporate media outlets.
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“VIDEO: Ecuador’s exiled ex-president Correa discusses the US lawfare agenda with The Grayzone”
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/09/12/ecuador-president-correa-lawfare/
by Oscar Leon
(27:53, with transcript)
Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa sat down with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon to discuss our recent report exposing the political manipulation of the country’s judicial system by attorney general Diana Salazar in favor of US state and corporate interests.
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“Haiti's Long History Of Western Destabilization & Dehumanization”
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/dan-cohen-kim-ives-interview-9-18-24/
with Ryan Cristián, Dan Cohen and Kim Ives
(1:28:41)
Joining me today is Dan Cohen, founder & editor of Uncaptured Media, and Kim Ives, the English language editor of Haiti Liberté, here to discuss the long and sordid history of western intervention, occupation, and deliberate destabilization in Haiti, how this has led to mass migration that has been routinely weaponized, and the impending effort to once again directly occupy Haiti today. We also discuss the odd social media story, mentioned by Donald Trump during the recent debate, regarding Haitian immigrants allegedly eating animals in Springfield, Ohio, and why this largely fact-free narrative has been injected into the conversation, once again.
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“Debunking the False Binary with the Independent Media Alliance”
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ima-debunking-the-false-binary/
with Ryan Cristián
(1:25:30)
Welcome to the very first Independent Media Alliance panel. Today we will be discussing the false binary, or as I call it, the two party illusion. One of the important points to discuss today is how this is not a manipulation unique to the United States, but one that is used by power structures all around the world to coerce their respective populations, typically into very specific political choices that benefit the ruling class and almost always as the expense of the people themselves. This concept is, however, much larger than just politicians and political choices, as it can be used to create the illusion of choice in just about any context, giving the false impression of objectivity, when in reality both prearranged choices are not the full scope of possible options and were chosen because either will take you in the direction desired by the manipulation’s architects. Today we will break down this idea, discuss how it affects your life and livelihood, and what actions we can take to solve this problem.
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“Israel Hates Truth”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-hates-truth/5868546
by Caitlin Johnstone
Israel has continued its war on journalism with another attack on Al Jazeera, this time with a raid on the outlet’s office in the West Bank and an order to shut down for 45 days. The shuttering occurred despite the office being legally under Palestinian control per the Oslo Accords.
This move comes as Israel and Hezbollah exchange heavy fire and step closer to the brink of full-scale war, and as Israel continues its daily massacres in Gaza and keeps ramping up its brutality toward Palestinians in the West Bank.
Israel keeps attacking Al Jazeera, assassinating journalists and bombing press offices for the same reason the mafia kills witnesses. They want to commit their crimes in the dark.
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“Israeli forces raid Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah”
by Al Jazeera
(5:30)
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“Israeli forces raid Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah | Israel-Palestine conflict”
by Al Jazeera
(5:30)
Israeli soldiers carrying guns have entered Al Jazeera’s offices in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, ordering staff to vacate and imposing a 45-day closure.
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“Could Hezbollah retaliate to Israeli attacks by targeting Tel Aviv?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVCpwbNyto&si=WZLMisXH7reGsWsr
with Rami Khouri
(6:42)
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“Iran, Hezbollah's sponsor, reacts to Israel's strikes on the militant group”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H7D3cVRN2M
by CNN, with Fareed Zakaria and President Masoud Pezes
(8:31)
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian sat down with CNN's Fareed Zakaria to discuss the latest escalations between Hezbollah and Israel. See more of Zakaria's interview with Pezeshkian this Sunday at 10am/1pm ET on CNN and at 10am/9pm ET on CNN International
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“Are Israel and Hezbollah on the verge of all-out war?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjNMcB27Z2s
by TRT World Now
(7:28)
Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire for a second day after Monday's Israeli assault killed nearly 500 people across Lebanon. Israel says it has intercepted most of the missiles fired by Hezbollah early on Tuesday. Naim Joseph Salem from the Lebanese Army Military Academy explains.
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“Scott Ritter: Israel’s Collapse is Imminent Amid Escalation in Lebanon”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/scott-ritter-lebanon-pager-attack-hezbollah-brics/288312/
with Mnar Adley and Scott Ritter
(1:15:10)
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“Watch ‘Stop Now, Else...': Putin Deters Israel Against Strikes On Lebanon”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=U8EyM63f96kXNkR9&v=7NhhaFOLCGw&feature=youtu.be
by Times of India
(3:05)
The Kremlin has cautioned that Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon could destabilize the Middle East. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized the potential dangers of an expanded conflict. Concerns are
rowing as Hezbollah retaliates against Israeli military facilities, heightening fears of a broader war.
This warning follows Lebanon's deadliest day in decades, with tensions escalating rapidly. Click to know more. #russia #israel #lebanon #hezbollah #middleeast #conflict #tensions #dmitrypeskov #warwarning #regionalstability
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“Scott Ritter' Warns: Hezbollah's SUDDEN SLAP Will Destroy Israel! Netanyahu's SUICIDAL Strategy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ2KA_IqRhE&si=sC2VeUWHFdBMh6bz
by THẢO NHI
(23:15, with transcript)
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“Turkey Taking Revenge: FM Reveals Turkey Would Not Join BRICS If EU Had Made it a Member!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHPeFENQr4E
by We Love Africa
(10:21)
Why would Turkey wait at Europe’s door when Brics is rewriting global power? But choosing Brics has made the West question; whether Brics be the alliance that shakes up Western dominance once and for all. Now after Tukrey has decided to join Brics EU fears losing control over Turkey’s influence. EU is panicking because Turkey’s found a new game to play, far better than one EU had ever offered Turkey. But what does Turkey see in Brics that the West refuses to acknowledge? Let’s find out.
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“Italian Missiles: ‘Nuclear Escalation against Russia’, ‘Italy also produces Nuclear Missiles for France’”
by Manlio Dinucci
The New York Times reports:
“President Biden is clearing the way for Ukraine to fire long-range Western weapons deep into Russian territory, provided it does not use weapons supplied by the United States”.
Britain and France have already sent Ukraine their own air-launched cruise missiles, known as Storm Shadow in Britain and SCALP in France.
The main proponent of the use of these missiles against Russia is the British Prime Minister, Labour’s Keir Starmer. After meeting US Secretary of State Blinken in Kiev and President Biden in Washington, he met Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome:
“We have to put Ukraine in the best possible position, i.e. to be able to carry out missile attacks deep into Russian territory”, Starmer stressed at the joint press conference.
Giorgia Meloni stated that :
“as far as authorizing long-range missiles is concerned, in Italy it’s not on the table today“, but she added that “these are all decisions we share with our Allies“.
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“Here’s What’s so Messed Up About Bill Gates”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NCsC6UGsNc
with Jimmy Dore
(14:15)
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News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller
“This past week, 36 nurses, 27 infants all ‘died suddenly’ in the US”
by Mark Crispin Miller
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“Top Oncologist Raises Alarm: Every New Cancer Patient Is Under 45”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-cancer-patient-under-45/5867952
by Frank Bergman
A leading oncologist is raising the alarm about the staggering surge in cancer cases among young people.
North Carolina‘s Duke University oncologist Dr. Nicholas DeVito is warning that “every new patient” who now comes to his clinic is under 45 years old.
Dr. DeVito says he and his colleagues have experienced a complete demographic switch in recent years.
Based on what he’s seeing every day, talking to patients on the ground and analyzing the data, DeVito is now issuing a red alert to warn the public about the phenomenon.
However, the doctor is raising concerns that U.S. government officials are refusing to address or even acknowledge the dramatic surge in cancer cases.
The physician wrote for STAT News:
“The desire to protect Americans from substances that cause cancer and other diseases should transcend party affiliation and political motivation to overcome industrial lobbying efforts.”
In recent years, multiple studies and oncology experts have warned that cancer cases have been skyrocketing in younger people.
The U.S. has the sixth highest rate of early-onset cancers – disease in people under 50 – with 87 cases per 100,000 people younger than 50 years old.
And studies project diagnoses of early-onset cancers will rise by 31 percent and deaths will rise by 21 percent by 2030.
Cancers increasing the fastest include throat and prostate cancers.
Early-onset cancers with the highest mortality include breast, tracheal (windpipe), lung, stomach and colon.
DeVito wrote: “I hope to have a long career in oncology and eventually practice in an era where the U.S. has turned the tide against early-onset gastrointestinal cancers and few, if any, of my patients are under age 50.”
As Slay News reported earlier, a growing number of experts are demanding answers as aggressive turbo cancers continue to surge to unprecedented levels in young people.
Two shocking new reports from the American Cancer Society have revealed that various forms of the deadly disease surging among younger citizens.
In response to the reports, the corporate media is promoting several narratives to explain away the rapidly developing and spreading cancers.
However, several doctors have spoken out to warn that Covid mRNA shots are causing the recent emergence of aggressive cancers.
The disease has been found to form and spread so rapidly among vaccinated people that doctors have dubbed the phenomenon “turbo cancer.”
Doctors have revealed that some “turbo cancers” spread so quickly that seemingly healthy patients can die within a week of being diagnosed.
Oncologists are also warning that these aggressive cancers don’t respond to conventional treatments.
A study published in the August edition of The Lancet Public Health revealed that the incidence rates for 17 of 34 cancer types were increasing in progressively younger people in the U.S.
More recent data from the ACS’s “Cancer Statistics 2024” report shows the trend of cancer rates and related mortality continuing to rise.
The data shows cancer cases spiked dramatically in 2021, shortly after the Covid shots were released for public use.
The cases have continued to surge at alarming rates since then.
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“Thanks to the ‘vaccine,’ appendixes are busting out all over!”
by Mark Crispin Miller
On this, as on so many other current horrors, "the science" confirms what we can see with our own eyes.
UNITED STATES
Stephen Colbert Forced To Cancel ‘The Late Show’ This Week After Undergoing Surgery For Ruptured Appendix . . . .
UNITED KINGDOM
Non-fatal:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival comedian's appendix burst while performing show . . . .
DENMARK
Non-fatal:
Danish MP emergency operated - appendix removed . . . .
etc., etc….
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“The title of that Danish study (of "vaccines" and appendicitis) tells the dark truth that its authors tried to hide”
by Mark Crispin Miller
When reading "the science," be sure to note exactly what it says beyond the title—and who/what funded it.
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“Winning for losing (part 3 of 3) : Our work at the Leading Edge Clinic, the casino of care, and reframing health”
by Scott Marsland, FNP-C
Pierre Kory: “This post was written by my practice partner Scott Marsland and it is an accurate and honest summary of all that we have learned from our approaches to treating Long Covid and Long Vax at our Leading Edge Clinic. A must read for all those still suffering and/or anyone who knows someone still suffering from the consequences of spike protein induced diseases.”
Scott Marsland: “Dr Pierre Kory opened our telemedicine practice, the Advanced COVID-19 Care Center, in February of 2022. We became partners in June of 2022, followed by renaming our practice the Leading Edge Clinic. In the years since than time, we have learned a lot about how to prevent COVID, treat acute COVID, and care for patients with post acute sequelae of COVID (PASC) and injury from the COVID shots. I really don’t want to call them vaccines because, in truth, they are experimental, genetic therapy products at best, and bioweapons at worst.
“As someone injured by the COVID shots, I’m very sympathetic to patients who become frustrated with the slow pace and not-so-linear path of recovery. At times, they turn in desperation to novel therapies, clinicians and practices which make promises of effective treatment – and frequently charge a hefty sum for their services. Part three of my series on Winning for losing is where I was headed all along. I wanted to make you laugh and smile with stories of small time gambling in part one, and shared my car follies in part two, because when we delve into the misadventures of my patients, it can get pretty dark.” . . . .
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“‘We Are Literally Poisoning Our Children,’ Kennedy Tells Senate Roundtable”
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D..
The U.S. healthcare system is “an existential threat to our country,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday told members of a congressional roundtable on nutrition and the prevalence of chronic illness.
The U.S. healthcare system is “an existential threat to our country,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday told members of a congressional roundtable on nutrition and the prevalence of chronic illness.
“Every major pillar of the U.S. healthcare system as a statement of economic fact makes money when Americans get sick,” Kennedy said. “The most valuable asset in this country today is a sick child.”
Kennedy, founder and chairman on leave of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), joined a lineup of prominent doctors and medical professionals, scientists, nutritionists and academic researchers who participated in the roundtable, which was hosted by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
CHD CEO Mary Holland, who attended the roundtable, told The Defender:
“Sen. Johnson’s roundtable on health and nutrition was both devastating and inspiring. Devastating because our food system is so corrupt and harmful to health, and inspiring because the speakers and those assembled were so passionate about turning things around quickly.
“All shared the view that these problems are man-made and can be corrected — by individuals in terms of diet, by Congress in terms of law and by health agencies intent on protecting people instead of profits.”
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“There Be Dragons”
https://off-guardian.org/2024/09/21/there-be-dragons/
by Tom Hayen
I’ve lived most of my long life asleep. I was 8 years old when JFK was assassinated. It wasn’t until I was in my 30s that I even gave it a second thought (well, maybe a “first thought” a decade before any serious consideration). I was 9 days shy of 14 when man allegedly made a giant leap on the moon—didn’t give it a second thought—it was real, of course.
I was nearly drafted to go fight the “just” war in Vietnam and lived through countless world events I was not even aware of.
Events that involved false flags, CIA manipulation, and God knows what else. I lived through all of this without giving any of it even an eye twitch—it certainly was all that I had been told, nothing more. It was business as usual. Most, if not all, of it did not directly affect me or my ability to eat, work, play, and live my life in relative comfort.
I finally got the big kick in the butt when Covid came along, and as I slowly fully awakened, I realized that everything that passed me by in my life that I had shoe-horned into believing was normal was anything but normal. Now, don’t get me wrong, I think I have always been a teeny-weeny bit awake. I scratched my head a lot and was always interested in the alternative view of things.
But these understandings were always peripheral to me.
The main thrust of life was generally good, people could be trusted, government may be whacky at times, but in general was benevolent, and trying very hard to be decent. The hideously ugly, weird, or deceitful stuff were the anomalies, not the norm.
I think 9-11 really started the bottom to drop out for me, but I still had not lost faith in the foundation of “rightness” in the world. But the whole thing fell apart once Covid started its rampage of false rhetoric and deceitful lies. Now I’ve made full circle where nothing at all is trusted, it is pretty much all bad, ugly, and evil. It is difficult to convince me there is even one decent person in power in the world.
Where does that leave me (us)? That is a difficult question to answer. I do know we have it pretty good in the opulent West—the “free and brave” North America. We’ve had it that way for quite some time, and if you are not too discerning when you look, you can live a pretty carefree life even though the maggots are right below the surface gnawing away.
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“The Madness of Antony Blinken”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/20/the-madness-of-antony-blinken/
by Joe Laurie
Two years after the Pentagon shot down his ploy for a no-fly zone against Russia in Ukraine, the U.S. “top diplomat” has been at it again pushing an even more insane idea, writes Joe Lauria.
On March 7, 2022, two weeks after Moscow entered the civil war in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CBS News from Moldova that the U.S. would give NATO-member Poland a “green light” to send Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine to enforce a no-fly zone against Russian aircraft.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer then also backed the no-fly zone. But within days the Pentagon shot down the idea as it engaged in a consequential battle with the State Department and members of Congress to prevent a direct NATO military confrontation with Russia that could unleash history’s most unimaginable horrors.
A no-fly zone “could result in significant Russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with NATO,” according to then Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
President Joe Biden was caught in the middle of the fray. Pressure on the White House from some members of Congress and the press corps was unrelenting to recklessly bring NATO directly into the war.
Biden ultimately sided with the Defense Departme
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“NATO Aided It’s Neo-Nazi Puppets: Recruits “Al Qaeda Linked Militants” Helping Them Attack Russian Military Bases in Syria, Acts of Sabotage against Russia”
by Drago Bosnic
The Kiev regime’s use of terrorism is a well-documented fact. Worse yet, NATO aided its Neo-Nazi puppets in conducting horrendous massacres of hundreds of Russian civilians, including in the Crocus City Hall, Dagestan and Sevastopol. What’s more, the world’s most vile racketeering cartel even threatened to conduct further terrorist attacks within Russia in case the Kiev regime forces keep losing, a monstrous statement that Moscow certainly won’t forget anytime soon.
However, instead of de-escalating, the political West keeps fanning up tensions in what can only be described as an attempt to ignite WW3. Russia’s patience is now running out, as the Kremlin realizes that any displays of sanity on its part will be taken for a weakness in NATO. Obviously, the Neo-Nazi junta regularly goes furthest to get the world’s most vile racketeering cartel into the fight, as it thinks this is the only way to prevent complete defeat.
To that end, the Kiev regime is ready to do virtually anything, including ally itself with terrorist groups and even directly recruit them. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently revealed disturbing details about the Neo-Nazi junta’s efforts to work together with extremists in Idlib, a NATO-backed terrorist-infested region that has been under Turkey’s control since the political West and its vassals and satellite states launched the crawling invasion of Syria back in 2011.
According to Lavrov, Moscow “recently received information that ’emissaries’ from the Ukrainian intelligence services are present in the Idlib de-escalation zone within the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic” and that “they are recruiting local militants from Jabhat Al-Nusra, now known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham [HTS], with the intention of involving them in nefarious operations”. The Kiev regime intelligence services are also focusing on the south, “towards the Sahara-Sahel zone in Africa”.
Lavrov also pointed out that “they team up with recruited extremists there to carry out terrorist attacks against the armed forces of multiple countries”.
Russian FM further stated that “the al-Qaeda linked militants are being recruited for new hideous operations planned“. Lavrov also mentioned the March 22 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack which resulted in at least 145 deaths and over 550 injuries, making it one of the worst massacres in modern Russian history. Investigation showed the direct involvement of both the Neo-Nazi junta and its NATO overlords, resulting in large-scale precision strikes on their intelligence assets across Ukraine. The terrorist attack was formally claimed by the NATO-backed ISIS-K which is based in Afghanistan, where the world’s most vile racketeering cartel is even conducting air strikes to support the terrorists in their fight against the Taliban (NATO keeps targeting them after they inflicted a crushing and humiliating defeat at it).
How Will Russia Respond to NATO Sponsored Terror Attacks? The Attack against Sevastopol, Crimea
“The investigation is still underway, but it has already revealed evidence that the Main Directorate of Intelligence [GUR] of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry was involved in the preparation of the terrorist attack. In particular, the escape routes of the killers across the Russian–Ukrainian border were planned in detail,” Lavrov stated.
Moscow’s top diplomat is essentially warning that the Kiev regime is planning additional sabotage and terrorist attacks within Russia and it needs extremists ready to conduct them.
Idlib is a perfect recruitment ground for such groups, as they’ve been fighting the Russian military and allied forces in Syria for nearly a decade. NATO, particularly its major member Turkey, has been instrumental in preventing the total defeat of all Idlib-based terrorist groups, particularly after the Kremlin and Damascus conducted offensive operations in northwestern Syria. The mainstream propaganda machine launched the fake “save Aleppo” campaign that aimed to present allied anti-terrorist operations as an “invasion”. However, it soon became obvious that this was a pro-terrorist propaganda narrative that aimed to save extremist groups from the Syrian and Russian military and other allied forces (particularly Iranian-backed militias).
However, in recent years, the Neo-Nazi junta got directly involved in pro-terrorist operations in this highly contested area. Reports indicate that it’s working together with HTS and several other (mostly Turkish-backed) terrorist groups. Major sources in Turkey, such as the Istanbul-based Aydinlik, also covered this in a report that actually predates Lavrov’s statements.
The outlet claims that “Ukrainian government officials recently traveled to Idlib and met with members of HTS to discuss a drones-for-fighters deal”. The meeting with the terrorists was reportedly held in June. Worse yet, military sources report that the Kiev regime’s special forces (specifically GUR operatives of the Khimik Group) launched an attack on a Russian military outpost on the southeastern outskirts of Aleppo. The attack reportedly took place on September 15 and “saw a powerful explosion followed by secondary blasts causing serious damage to the site”.
As its battlefield performance keeps deteriorating, the Neo-Nazi junta is determined to escalate sabotage and terrorist attacks on Russian civilians in order to foment internal tensions and divisions, the end goal of which is to shift attention away from the actual frontline. This also includes efforts to provide advanced NATO-sourced weapons to radical Islamic groups. Certain reports suggest that Turkey is also supporting this, further indicating the danger of letting Neo-Ottomanist, pan-Turkist and pro-terrorist Ankara join the multipolar world.
What’s more, as previously mentioned, the Kiev regime is also working closely with terrorists in Africa. NATO also supports these groups, as the world’s most vile racketeering cartel is working on maintaining the remnants of the political West’s (neo)colonial system. This is particularly evident in attacks on the “Wagner” PMC (private military company)
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« L'EXCELLENT DISCOURS DE LAVROV : PLUS PERSONNE NE POURRA DIRE QU'IL N'ÉTAIT PAS INFORMÉ »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-u6JZhrBY
par 2MSYNERGY GROUP
(26:14)
Dans cette vidéo, nous plongeons dans les critiques de Sergueï Lavrov sur le rôle des États-Unis et de leurs alliés dans la configuration actuelle des affaires internationales. Lavrov dénonce l'usage de la notion d'"ordre basé sur des règles" pour légitimer des démarches unilatérales et met en garde contre les risques liés à l'expansion continue de l'OTAN. Nous explorons ses analyses sur les tensions géopolitiques actuelles et les défis croissants pour la stabilité mondiale.
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“Lavrov's Shocking Statements That Could Change Global Politics!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NtlG7SyTfs&si=zcHpKMLrEN0pV4PX
by World of Finance
(44:15)
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« Grand entretien avec Dominique de Villepin »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6StC1jg6MiA&si=XgE2W69GkcIlLo8P
par Journal l'Humanité, avec Dominique de Villepin
(1:03 :33)
Grand entretien avec Dominique de Villepin, ancien ministre et diplomate, sur les questions internationales et la résolution des conflits. Animé par Sébastien Crépel, codirecteur de la rédaction de l'Humanité, et Rosa Moussaoui, rédactrice en chef de l'Humanité.
Voir article en anglais : https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-gaza-villepin-denounces-scandal/5867924?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles
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“World War III Is “On” But the Empire Has Already Lost. An American Civil War Looms. Spiritual Transformation Is the Only Way to Prevent Extinction.”
Global Research E-Book, Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)” [This can be read in 51 languages via the “Translate Website” dropdown menu above. This can also be downloaded as PDF by clicking the PDF button above the featured image.]
Table of Contents:
· Preface
· Chapter 1: Introduction
· Chapter 2: How Did We Get Here?
· Chapter 3: Key Dates: 1880-1990
· Chapter 4: Key Dates: 1991-2024
· Chapter 5: The Plan is Population Reduction
· Chapter 6: American Civil War II?
· Chapter 7: Spiritual Transformation
· Addendum 1: The Fourteen Holy Helpers
· Addendum 2: Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
· Addendum 3: Jesus on a White Horse
A Note on Documentation: Major sources have been indicated, but every statement made in this eBook has documentary backing which may or may not be cited. Of course, the author takes responsibility for the entire content. Also, while some of the statements in the text may be shocking to some readers, it is still necessary that they be made. Finally, the text has been reviewed in its entirety by several responsible experts, so that it is in this sense the product of a community of individuals that has been interacting for some time.
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“John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs - Is China a Threat to the United St”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM9uXDurPOo&si=tqoJk5mbci0DKQzp
with John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs
(14:34)
A theoretical analysis of “Realpolitik” vs. “Social Democracy” (sans the historical perspective of “Historical Materialism” and class struggle).
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“John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs - Is India's Rise Good for the United States?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dmjlyOgtj8
with John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs
(10:54)
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“Richard Wolff on the decline of the US empire and the denial of the US”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogH0wRD0Vkw
with Richard Wolff
(57:04)
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“Does China Pose a Threat to Freedom Around The World? I Robert Wright and John Mearsheimer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9qnJVg51CY
by NonzeroClips
Robert Wright and international relations scholar John Mearsheimer debate whether containing Beijing should be a priority of US grand strategy.
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“Swimming Against the Current: The Philosophical Foundations of Contrarian Analysis”
by Prof. Ruel F. Pepa
Contrarian analysis isn’t just a contrarian quirk; it boasts a rich intellectual heritage stretching back centuries.
Imagine a world of homogenous thought, where everyone chants the same tune.
Contrarian analysis throws a wrench into this echo chamber, refusing to accept the prevailing opinion at face value.
Instead, it acts as an intellectual spelunker, venturing into the dark caves of unconventional perspectives to unearth hidden gems of insight.
These insights often lie buried beneath the layers of conventional wisdom, waiting to be discovered by those brave enough to challenge the status quo. By delving into the philosophical underpinnings of contrarian analysis, we can illuminate the powerful forces that fuel its ability to disrupt and enlighten.
Epistemological Skepticism lies at the heart of contrarian analysis. This philosophical stance, rooted in the works of ancient Greeks like Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360-c. 270 BCE)[1], questions the very possibility of attaining absolute knowledge. Pyrrho and other skeptics argued that our senses and experiences can be deceiving, shaped by individual biases and limitations. This inherent uncertainty about the world around us makes claims of absolute truth suspect. Contrarians inherit this skeptical spirit, approaching the prevailing narrative with a healthy dose of doubt. They understand that popular opinion can be as much a product of perspective as it is a reflection of objective reality. This skepticism compels them to seek alternative explanations, venturing beyond the surface level to uncover hidden assumptions and potential blind spots.
Building on the foundation of skepticism, contrarian analysis finds further support in the concept of the “marketplace of ideas.”
This theory, championed by philosophers like John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) in his influential work On Liberty[2], suggests that truth emerges most readily from a vibrant exchange of diverse viewpoints. Imagine a marketplace bustling with ideas – the more stalls with unique wares, the greater the chance of finding something valuable. Contrarian analysis enacts this very principle by injecting a dissenting voice into the conversation. By challenging the dominant narrative, contrarians can expose potential blind spots and biases that might otherwise remain hidden. This open competition of ideas, much like the competition in a marketplace, allows the strongest arguments to rise to the top, fostering a more nuanced and accurate understanding of the truth.
Dialectical reasoning, a method honed by the likes of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates (470-399 BCE)[3], provides another key pillar for contrarian analysis. This method emphasizes the critical examination of ideas through a rigorous back-and-forth exchange. Imagine Socrates in the agora, relentlessly questioning his interlocutors, exposing inconsistencies and forcing them to refine their arguments. Contrarian analysis adopts this same spirit. Rather than passively accepting the prevailing view, it dissects it with a sharp scalpel, identifying its underlying assumptions, potential logical fallacies, and any weaknesses in its supporting evidence. By proposing counter-arguments and forcing a reevaluation of the dominant narrative, contrarian analysis pushes for a more in-depth and robust understanding of the issue at hand.
The power of minority voices resonates deeply with contrarian analysis. This perspective finds strong support in the concept of “perspectivism,” championed by the iconoclastic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)[4]. Perspectivism posits that knowledge is inherently subjective, shaped by our unique experiences, values, and position in the world. There’s no single, objective truth waiting to be discovered; instead, we each navigate the world through our own unique lens. Contrarian analysis acknowledges this by recognizing the potential value of minority viewpoints, those often dismissed as outliers or eccentricities. Just as a single vantage point offers a limited view of a landscape, relying solely on the dominant perspective can obscure crucial details. By challenging the status quo and amplifying dissenting voices, contrarians can bring new information and alternative interpretations to light. These minority perspectives, though initially disregarded, might hold the key to unlocking a more comprehensive understanding of the situation at hand.
The inherent dangers of groupthink serve as a stark reminder of the importance of contrarian analysis. Groupthink, a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis in the 1970s[5], describes the phenomenon where group members prioritize conformity over critical thinking. The desire for social cohesion and a fear of dissent can lead groups to make poor decisions, often overlooking crucial information or alternative perspectives in favor of maintaining a unified front. Disastrous historical events like the Bay of Pigs invasion are often attributed, at least in part, to the pitfalls of groupthink. Contrarian analysis acts as a powerful antidote to this group mentality. By questioning the status quo and challenging assumptions, even if it means facing social friction, contrarians can prevent catastrophic errors. Their dissenting voices can serve as a wake-up call, forcing the group to re-evaluate the evidence and consider alternative viewpoints before committing to a potentially disastrous course of action. In a world where consensus is often equated with truth, contrarian analysis reminds us of the critical role that dissent plays in ensuring sound decision-making.
The Challenge of Contrarianism . . . .
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