Bulletin N° 862
“Reheating the Cold
War”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGu8lDADlk
with
André Vltchek & Ross Ashcroft
(28 min)
Western triumphalism has bred a certain complacency
that’s starting to bite as the elites continue to turn on their own people.
Yet,
the new world is quietly emerging with a shared purpose.
So,
is this continual talk of the ‘new cold war’ legitimate? Or could Western
politicians be peddling an old idea so to distract their citizens from thinking
about their increasingly limited freedoms and diminishing standards of living?
Host
Ross Ashcroft is joined by philosopher, author, and filmmaker André Vltchek to discuss the rapid, ongoing geopolitical shift.
Subject
:
Resistance
in the Carnival House of Homicides and Suicides.
George Grosz (1893-1959)
October 10, 2019
Grenoble,
France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Like
the overwhelming number of inmates in concentration camps, who made possible
their oppression by collaborating with their “masters,” we find ourselves today
powerless to take control of our lives because we have grown accustomed to
being powerless and even defend our right to be without authority over our own
lives. This is the message brought home
by Ellen Brown in her book, The Web
Debt, The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and
How We Can Break Free (2007,2011).
Her
odyssey along the yellow brick road brings us back home again, to our own
willful state of powerlessness. Toward the end of her book, she writes under
the subheading, “Waking Up in Kansas,” that,
It is at this point in our story, if it is
to have a happy ending, that we the people must snap ourselves awake, stand up
and say, ‘Enough!” The bankers’ extremity is our opportunity. We can be kept indebted and enslaved
only if we continue to underwrite bank profligacy. As Mike Whitney wrote in
March 2007, ‘The Federal Reserve will keep greasing the printing presses and
diddling the interest rates until someone takes away the punch bowl and the
party comes to an end.’ It is up to us, an awakened and informed populace, to
take away the punch bowl. Private commercial banking as we know it is obsolete, and the vulture capitalist investment banking that
has come to dominate the banking business is a parasite on productivity,
serving its own interests at the expense of the public’s. Rather than propping
up a bankrupt banking system, Congress could and should put insolvent banks
into receivership, claim them as public assets, and operate them as agencies
serving the depository and credit needs of the people.
The Ponzi
scheme has reached its mathematical limits, forcing another paradigm shift
if the economy is to survive. Will the collapse of the debt-based house of
cards be the end of the world as we know it? Or will it be the way through the
looking glass, a clarion call for change? We can be swept up by the tornado into
debtor’s prison, or we can step into the technicolor
cornucopia of a money system based on the ingenuity and productivity that are
the true wealth of a nation and its people.(p.453)
In
a section entitled, “The Puzzle Assembled,” Brown provides a descriptive
summary of the constituent parts of the financial system and how it plunders
the public (see pp. 448-453). She then returns to lessons from the past:
Like
the earlier Greenback and Populist Parties, this grassroots political party
might not win any major elections ; but it could raise
awareness, and when the deluge hit, it could provide an ark. We need to spark a
revolution in the popular understanding of money and banking while free speech
is still available on the Internet, in independent media and in books. New
ideas and alternatives need to be communicated and put into action before the
door to our debtor’s prison slams shut. The place to begin is in the
neighborhood, with brainstorming sessions in living rooms in the Populist
tradition. The Populists were the people and what they sought was a people’s
currency. Reviving the ‘American system’ of government-issued money would not
represent a radical departure from the American tradition. It would represent a
radical return. Like Dorothy, we the people would finally have come home.(p.457)
Later
she cites the 2008 confession of “investment guru and trading insider” Jim
Cramer, who in a television series on January 17, 2008, admitted that
defrauding gullible investors was motivated by unadulterated Greed.
[We used to say] ‘The commissions
on structured products are so huge, let’s just jam it.’ [Note ‘jam it’
means foist it on the customer.] It’s all about the ‘commish’.
The commission on structured product is gigantic. I could make a fortune
‘jamming that crummy paper’ but I had a degree of conscience – what a
shocker! We used to regulate people but they decided during the Reagan
revolution that that was bad. So we don’t regulate anyone anymore. But listen,
the commission in structured product is so gigantic. . . . First of all the customer hs no idea what the product really is because it is
invented. Second, you assume the customer is really stupid; like we used to say
about the German bankers, ‘The German banks are just Bozos. Throw
them anything;’ Or the Australians, ‘Morons.’ Or the Florida Fund [ha ha ], ‘They’re so stupid, let’s give them Triple B’ [junk
bonds]. Then we’d just laugh and laugh at the customers and jam them with the
commission. . . . Remember, this is about commissions, about how much money you
can make by jamming stupid customers. I’ve seen it all my life; you jam stupid
customers.’(p.467)
Ellen
Brown concludes her study, The Web of
Debt, The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and
How We Can Break Free, with a Postscript in which she sums up her
discoveries this way:
Our
financial woes are a direct result of a monetary scheme in which money is
created by private banks and lent into the economy at interest. To find our way
out of the labyrinth, we need to retrace our steps and exit on the road by
which we came. The power to create the nation’s money and credit needs to be
vested in the people themselves, as it was in the early American colonies.
Possible roads to that result include:
1)
Nationalizing
the Federal Reserve, making it an agency of the Treasury authorized to issue
Federal Reserve Nortes for direct congressional use.
2)
Mandating
that the privately-owned Federal Reserve buy U.S. securities (or debt), rebate
the interest to the federal government, and roll over the loans. Interest-free
loans rolled over indefinitely are the functional equivalent of debt-free
government Greenbacks.
3)
Thawing
the credit freeze at the state level by forming state-owned banks, on the model
of the Bank of North Dakota. State assets could be used as capital, and state
revenues could be used as a deposit base. These funds could then be leveraged
into loans, supplying a cheap and readily available source of credit for the
local economy.
4)
Nationalizing
bankrupt banks considered ‘too big to fail’ not just partially or temporarily
but permanently, making them public services like libraries and courts.
Nationalizing just one major bank having branches around the country could be
sufficient to establish a public banking system nationwide.
Those would be the better roads to Oz, but
whether the Emerald City can be reached before a bankrupt populace falls into
anarchy and a police state is imposed remains to be seen. Will Dorothy’s house
come crashing down on the Witch? Will she pull the silver slippers from the
Witch’s feet and step into their magical power? Or will she keep running after
humbug Wizards who are under the Witch’s spell themselves? Stay tuned.(p.478)
We
shall return to this question of the key role bankers and finance play in the
capitalist system that plagues the planet today.
The
15 + items below
should provide readers with information about the current events that are
shaping our lives and about the possibility for us to look for strategic opportunities to
intervene and shape such events in ways that will assure an advantageous
outcome. As the economic, political and social forces aligned against us become more visible, we are
potentially empowered to act strategically for the causes of humanity, against the cause of
capital.
Francis Feeley
---
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
a.
The big polluters’ masterstroke was to blame
the climate crisis on you and me
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/09/polluters-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel
by George Monbiot
+
This Is Not a Drill: 700+ Arrested as Extinction
Rebellion Fights Climate Crisis with Direct Action
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/8/extinction_rebellion_global_actions_climate_crisis
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As Trump Administration Downplays Warming,
Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts - Scientific American
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b.
Paris : des manifestants
pour le climat et des Gilets jaunes occupent le centre commercial, Place
d’Italie
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Rising Tides
https://renegadeinc.com/rising-tides/
(Video
28min)
by Renegade Inc
with Director of Replenish Earth, Dr Tia Kansara, and author and campaigner, Rory Spowers
+
10 photos de l’incendie qui ravage l’usine Lubrizol à Rouen
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c.
California Legalizes Public Banking
https://therealnews.com/stories/california-legalizes-public-banking
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d.
Lost
wars can bring down empires
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52365.htm
by Lawrence Wilkerson
Murder
and Murderers
Last
week, Human Rights First and others hosted a panel discussion on Capitol Hill
aimed at keeping the brutal murder of Washington
Post journalist and Virginia resident Jamal Khashoggi
in the forefront of Americans’ thoughts as the one-year anniversary of his
death approached. Eleven Members of Congress—five senators
and six representatives—made appearances that were more than cameos.
They offered serious statements concerning the murder and the perpetrators
thereof, the Saudis. Several even declared Mohammad bin Salman,
the young Saudi crown prince whose strategic mistakes are embroiling the
Kingdom in possibly its worse morass since its creation, culpable of ordering
the murder. The majority of the U.S. Intelligence Community backs them up. The
important question is: how do those of us who care obtain redress?
As
the policy-related attachments to the current military spending bill, the
National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, make their way through the
conference process now occurring with regard to that some $740 billion defense
authorization, we need to take note that two such attachments concern respectively
Khashoggi’s murder and, very much connected, the
horrible war in Yemen. These two attachments, along with several other
contentious policy matters, will be the difficult issues in the conferencing
process, not the almost three-quarters of a trillion dollars allocated to the
military. That part is a done deal.
The
Khashoggi policy issue is contained in the provisions
of Subtitle K of HR 2500 (the NDAA). These provisions mirror legislation
labeled the Saudi Arabia Human Rights and Accountability Act (HR 2037), which
was sponsored by Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) and Ann Wagner (R-MO) and passed the
House with an overwhelming bipartisan majority, 405 to 7. Members of
both parties have spoken out repeatedly about the need for accountability for
the Khashoggi murder. A companion bill (including the
same language) was introduced in the Senate with bipartisan support by Senators
Chris Coons (D) and Lindsey Graham (R) (S. 2351).
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Syria
- Turkey Again Invades
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52364.htm
by Moon Of Alabama
So
it begins:
Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that a Turkish military operation into
Syria has started.
Erdogan said on his official Twitter
account Wednesday that the operation, named “Peace Spring,” has begun. He said
the operation aims to eradicate “the threat of terror” against Turkey.
Earlier,
Turkish television reports said Turkish jets had bombed Syrian Kurdish
positions across the border from Turkey.
The
plan is as we anticipated. A major goal is to interrupt the M4 highway
that runs parallel to the border and allows for troop movements between the
east and the west of the Kurdish majority areas. The highway is about 20-30
kilometers from the border. The sector Turkey attacks right now has only a
minority of Kurdish people amongst a majority of Arabs.
Ragıp Soylu
@ragipsoylu - 11:34 UTC · Oct 8, 2019
How will Turkey conduct the operation in Syria?
• First phase: 120km area between Tal Abyad/Rasulayn, where US troops withdrew
• Airforce, drones/jets and howitzers will pound YPG
targets
• Then Turkish Special Forces and Syrian National Army will enter
— Turkish reports
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e.
Julian Assange -
the case of the WikiLeaks founder
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The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52354.htm
by Matt Taibbi
It’s
an insult to real whistleblowers to use the term with the Ukrainegate
protagonist
Americans who’ve
blown the whistle over serious offenses by the federal government either spend
the rest of their lives overseas, like Edward Snowden, end up in
jail, like Chelsea Manning, get arrested and
ruined financially, like former NSA official Thomas Drake, have their homes
raided by FBI like disabled NSA vet William Binney, or get
charged with espionage like ex-CIA exposer-of-torture John Kiriakou. It’s an
insult to all of these people, and the suffering they’ve weathered, to frame
the ballcarrier in the Beltway’s latest partisan
power contest as a whistleblower.
Drake, who was the
first to expose the NSA’s secret surveillance program, seems to have fared
better than most. He ended up working in an Apple Store, where he ran
into Eric Holder, who was shopping for an iPhone.
I’ve met a lot of
whistleblowers, in both the public and private sector. Many end up broke,
living in hotels, defamed, (often) divorced, and lucky if they have any kind of
job. One I knew got turned down for a waitressing job because her previous
employer wouldn’t vouch for her. She had little kids.
The common thread
in whistleblower stories is loneliness. Typically the employer has direct
control over their ability to pursue another job in their profession. Many end
up reviled as traitors, thieves, and liars. They often discover after going
public that their loved ones have a limited appetite for sharing the ignominy.
In virtually all cases, they end up having to start over, both personally and
professionally.
With that in mind,
let’s look at what we know about the first “whistleblower” in Ukrainegate:
He or she is a “CIA officer detailed to the White House”;
The account is at
best partially based upon the CIA officer’s own experience, made up
substantially by information from “more than a half dozen U.S. officials” and
the “private accounts” of “my colleagues”;
“He or she” was
instantly celebrated as a whistleblower by news networks and major newspapers.
That last detail
caught the eye of Kiriakou, a former CIA
Counterterrorism official who blew the whistle on the agency’s torture program.
“It took me and my
lawyers a full year to get [the media] to stop calling me ‘CIA Leaker John Kirakou,” he says. “That’s how long it took for me to be
called a whistleblower.”
Kirakou’s crime was talking to ABC News and the New York Times about the CIA’s
torture program. For talking to American journalists about the CIA, our federal
government charged Kiriakou with espionage. That
absurd count was ultimately dropped, but he still did 23 months at FCI Loretto in Western Pennsylvania.
When Kiriakou first saw the “whistleblower complaint,” his
immediate reaction was to wonder what kind of “CIA officer” the person in
question was. “If you spend a career in the CIA, you see all kinds of
subterfuge and lies and crime,” he says. “This person went through a whole
career and this is the thing he objects to?”
It’s fair to wonder
if this is a one-person effort. Even former CIA official Robert Baer, no friend
of Trump, said as much in an early confab on CNN with Brooke Baldwin:
BAER: That’s what I find remarkable, is that this whistleblower knew
about that, this attempt to cover up. This is a couple of people. It isn’t just
one.
BALDWIN: And on the people point, if the
allegation is true, Bob, what does it say that White House officials, lawyers,
wanted to cover it up?
BAER: You know, my guess, it’s a palace coup against Trump. And who
knows what else they know at this point.
That sounds about
right. Actual whistleblowers are alone. The Ukraine
complaint seems to be the work of a group of people, supported by significant
institutional power, not only in the intelligence community, but in the
Democratic Party and the commercial press.
In this century
we’ve lived through a president lying to get us into a war (that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and the
loss of trillions in public treasure), the
deployment of a vast illegal surveillance program, a drone assassination campaign, rendition, torture, extralegal
detention, and other offenses, many of them mass human rights violations.
We had
whistleblowers telling us about nearly all of these things. When they came
forward, they desperately needed society’s help. They didn’t get it. Our
government didn’t just tweet threats at them, but proceeded straight to
punishment.
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f.
"Bush & Cheney Should Be Charged
with War Crimes,” Says Col. Wilkerson, Former Aide to Colin Powell
Trump admits US killed millions in war based on lies
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52370.htm
by Bill Van Auken
Propaganda 101: The New York Times pumps another ‘evil Russia’ plot
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52373.htm
by Finian Cunningham
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g.
Trump
Administration Provides New Evidence for a Saudi Connection to 9/11
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52367.htm
by Philip Giraldi
The
debate over what actually occurred on 9/11 and, more to the point, who might
have been behind it, continues to preoccupy many observers worldwide.
There
is considerable legitimate concern that the commission that reviewed the
incident engaged in a cover-up designed either to excuse a catastrophic failure
on the part of the United States’ national security apparatus, or even
connivance of federal agencies in the attack itself. And then there is the
issue of possible foreign government involvement. The roles of the Saudi
Arabian, Israeli and Pakistani governments and security services has never been
adequately investigated in spite of the fact that all three countries had clear
involvement with the mostly Saudi individuals who have been identified as the
attackers. Beyond that, Israel had intelligence operatives that appeared to be
celebrating the fall of the twin towers in real time, an involvement in what
took place that has never been comprehensively looked at by law enforcement due
to unwillingness to offend the Israelis.
It
was Saudi Arabia which had the most sustained and personal contact with some of
the alleged hijackers. For years, families of victims have been seeking to find
out more about the possible Saudi role, admittedly so they can sue the Kingdom
in US courts under existing anti-terrorism legislation that dates from 2016 and
is referred to as the Justice Against Sponsors of
Terrorism Act. The Act permits lawsuits in the US directed against any country
whose government supports international terrorism.
The
plaintiffs have won something of a victory recently with the Trump administration
decision to declassify a key name of a Saudi official who has been long sought
by the relatives of the victims. Under the terms of the information release,
the government as well as the victims’ lawyers, who received
the name under a “protective order,” have not been allowed to expose the
name publicly.
The
declassified name, which came from an FBI investigative file, is, however,
only a partial victory for the group that goes by the name 9/11 Families
& Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism. The release of other
documents relating to the Saudi role is pending, possibly due to the Trump
White House’s insistence on maintaining good relations with the Kingdom and
more particularly with its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,
but the plaintiffs wonder how it is possible that information on the attack
should still be classified more than eighteen years after the fact. |
The
name of the official is nevertheless important, even a “top priority,” because
it is believed that he was a senior intelligence officer who was meeting with
two men who may have assisted the alleged hijackers. The FBI even refers to it
as “the primary piece of information that the plaintiffs in the 9/11 litigation
have been seeking.”
The
Saudi Embassy in Washington has not commented on the report and the White House
referred inquiries to the Justice Department, which did not comment beyond
stating that it had been a top-level decision not to invoke the so-called
“state secrets” privilege to keep the information classified.
Previous
exposure of a possible Saudi role in 9/11 came with the release of the redacted
“28 pages” of the 9/11 report on July 15, 2016. To be sure there were extensive
deletions from the text to protect names and sources, but the document produced
by the White House was at the time reported to be largely complete. CIA
Director John Brennan provided some damage control prior to the release by
arguing that much of the information contained in the redacted section
consisted of “raw” and untested information, suggesting that it might not be
completely reliable, while some who had seen the full document revealed through
leaks that there would be no “smoking gun” exposing direct Saudi involvement in
9/11.
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9/11 TV Coverage That Mainstream Media
Didn’t Let Us See Twice - Red Pill University
+
Richard
Grove - Red Pill Expo
https://redpillexpo.org/portfolio-items/richard-grove/
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9/11
Whistle Blower Fired for Revealing Errors in Government's Report
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NEWS
FROM UNDERGROUND ARCHIVES
&
9/11
http://markcrispinmiller.com/page/2/?s=9%2F11
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h.
Khashoggi's Murder Should Have Made Saudi
Arabia A Pariah. 7 Men Made Sure That Didn't Happen
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/saudi-seven-khashoggi_n_5d975e49e4b02911e11a38b1
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Trump
Syria Withdrawal: Damage Is Done Even If Erdogan
Backs Down
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i.
From: GAZA PALESTINE
[mailto:anahona366@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019
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More
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I wish you to complete this noble work and
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You
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j.
John
Lennon vs. the Deep State: One Man Against the
‘Monster’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52360.htm
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Féminicides : action choc des Femen au cimetière du Montparnasse à Paris
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k.
Joe Biden 'Personally Paid $900,000 By Burisma' According To Ukrainian MP In Bombshell Admission
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52369.htm
by Tyler Durden
Ukrainian
MP Andriy Derkach revealed
on Wednesday that former Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 from Burisma Group for lobbying activities, citing materials
related to an investigation.
Via Interfax:
Former
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine's Verkhovna
Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials.
Derkach publicized documents which, as he
said, "describe the mechanism of
getting money by Biden Sr." at a press conference at
Interfax-Ukraine's press center in Kyiv on Wednesday. -Interfax
"This was the transfer of Burisma
Group's funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a
lobbying company. Funds in the amount
of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners,
which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is
affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative
services," said Derkach.
Derkach also puiblicized sums of money transferred to Burisma Group representatives - including Joe Biden's son
Hunter.
"According
to the documents, Burisma paid no less than $16.5
million to [former Polish President, who became an independent director at Burisma Holdings in 2014] Aleksander
Kwasniewski, [chairman of the Burisma board of
independent directors] Alan Apter, [Burisma independent director] Devon Archer and Hunter Biden
[who joined the Burisma board of directors in
2014]," Derkach added.
"Using
political and economic levelers of influencing Ukrainian authorities and
manipulating the issue of providing financial aid to Ukraine, Joe Biden actively assisted closing criminal
cases into the activity of former Ukrainian Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky, who is the
founder and owner of Burisma Group."
"Biden's
fifth visit to Kyiv on December 7-8, 2015 was devoted to making a decision on
the resignation of [then Ukrainian Prosecutor General] Viktor Shokin over the case of Zlochevsky
and Burisma. Loan guarantees worth $1 billion that
the United States was to give to Ukraine was the point of pressure. Biden
himself admitted exerting pressure in his speech at the Council of Foreign
Relations in January 2018, calling Shokin 'son of a
bitch who was fired'," Derkach added.
Via Interfax:
The timeline of events proves that the U.S. linked
the Zlochevsky case to loan guarantees, he said.
After
the decree dismissing Shokin was published on April
3, 2016, the governments of the United States and Ukraine signed a loan
guarantee agreement worth $1 billion, several months later, on June 3, he said.
"In
this case, there are facts should be subject to investigation. There is an
agency that has powers to investigate them; the U.S. Department of Justice. If
the Ukrainian Prosecutor General signs documents and send them to U.S.
Department of Justice without any requests, he will accomplish his
mission," he said, adding that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General has such
powers.
"Considering
international corruption in public is a way-out for President Zelensky. I am certain that he is not involved in
international corruption," Derkach said.
It
was reported earlier that Derkach publicized
correspondence between the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU)
and officers of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. According to publicized
correspondence, starting from July 14, 2017, the lists of criminal proceedings
undertaken by NABU officers were sent from the electronic mailbox of Polina Chyzh, an assistant to
NABU first deputy head Gizo Uglava,
to the electronic mailbox of Hanna Yemelianova, a
legal specialist of the anti-corruption program of the U.S. Justice Department
at U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
Derkach says he will publish the leaked
documents on his Facebook account, and will initiate the creation of an ad hoc
parliamentary investigative commission, "and has already requested launching a
criminal case against Ukrainian officials into interference into U.S. elections,"
according to the report.
This article was originally published by "ZeroHedge
l.
Protest Wave Engulfs Iraq, Over 100 Dead, Government Helpless?
https://therealnews.com/stories/protest-iraq-100-dead-government-helpless
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Tracking foreign interference in Hong Kong
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52363.htm
by Pepe Escobar
Lawyer Lawrence Ma claims the US has been supporting the protests via
groups such as the NED
Lawrence YK Ma is the executive council chairman of the Hong Kong Legal
Exchange Foundation and director of the China Law Society, the Chinese Judicial
Studies Association and the Hong Kong Legal Exchange Foundation. He also finds
time to teach law at Nankai University in Tianjin.
Ma is the go-to expert in what is arguably the most sensitive subject in
Hong Kong: He meticulously tracks perceived foreign
interference in the Special Administrative Region (SAR).
In the West, in similar circumstances, he would be a media star. With a
smirk, he told me that local journalists, whether working in English or
Chinese, rarely visit him – not to mention foreigners.
Ma received me at his office in Wanchai this
past Saturday morning after a “dark day” of rampage, as described by the SAR
government. He wasted no time before calling my attention to a petition
requesting a “United Nations investigation into the United States’ involvement
in Hong Kong riots.”
He let me see a copy of the document, which lists the People’s Republic
of China as petitioner, the United States of America as respondent nation and
the Hong Kong Legal Exchange Foundation as ex parte petitioner. This was
submitted on Aug. 16 to the UN Security Council in Geneva, directed to UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
In the document, Issue II deals with “funded, sponsored and provided
supplies to any organizations, groups, companies, political parties or
individuals” and “trained and frontline protesters, students and dissidents.”
Predictably, the US National Endowment for Democracy is listed in the
documentation: its largest 2018 grants were directed to China, slightly ahead
of Russia.
The NED was founded in 1983 after serial covert CIA ops across the Global
South had been exposed.
In 1986, NED President Carl Gershman told
the New York Times: “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the
world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. We saw that in the ‘60s, and that’s
why it has been discontinued.” As the Times article explained about the NED:
In some respects, the program resembles the aid given by the Central
Intelligence Agency in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s to bolster pro-American
political groups. But that aid was clandestine and, subsequent Congressional
investigations found, often used planted newspaper articles and other forms of
intentionally misleading information. The current financing is largely public –
despite some recipients’ wish to keep some activities secret – and appears to
be given with the objective of shoring up political pluralism, broader than the
CIA’s goals of fostering pro-Americanism.
Soft power at work
So it’s no secret, all across the Global South, that under the cover of a
benign umbrella promoting democracy and human rights, the NED works as a soft-power
mechanism actively interfering in politics and society. Recent examples
include Ukraine, Venezuela and Nicaragua. In many cases, that is conducive to
regime change.
The NED’s board of directors includes Elliott Abrams, who was
instrumental in financing and weaponizing the Contras
in Nicaragua, and Victoria Nuland, who supervised the
financing and weaponizing of militias in Ukraine that
some but not all experts have described as
neo-fascist.
The NED offers grants via various branches. One of them is the National
Democratic Institute, which has been active in Hong Kong since the 1997
handover. These
are some of the grants offered by the NED in Hong Kong in 2018.
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From:
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[mailto:newsfromunderground@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Subject: [MCM] What population crisis? The heirs of Thomas Malthus have
apparently—and radically—brought DOWN the global birthrate. (MUST-READ)
Here's a typical example of the faux-green propaganda
used to blame humanity itself for the environmental crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/07/africa-birth-control-global-population-crisis
This
must-read essay gives the lie to such hysterical predictions.
MCM
"In this
situation, one can’t help but recall the US secret service programs on
depopulation, the purpose of which was to artificially reduce the population
according with the ideas of the 18th century English political economist Thomas
Robert Malthus. Involuntarily, one starts thinking about the rhetorics voiced by the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates,
who argued that the population of our planet must be reduced to the “golden
billion”, thus advocating eugenics. Gates made his remarks to the
invitation-only Long Beach, California TED2010 Conference, in a speech titled,
'Innovating to Zero!.' Back then he stated that he would expect vaccines to be
used to reduce population growth. It’s been humorously noted that when
Bill Gates speaks about vaccines, he speaks with authority."
06.01.2019 Author: Jean Perier
Depopulation Crisis – When Numbers
Don’t Add Up, You’ve been Cheated
https://journal-neo.org/2019/01/06/depopulation-crisis-when-numbers-dont-add-up-youve-been-cheated/
The population of the Earth today is
just over 7.6 billion people. Up until the 1970s, the world’s population would
grow in accordance with
a hyperbolic formula discovered by the Austrian physicist Heinz von Foerster.
Most recently, as sociologists were bracing for a demographic record,
birth rates have suddenly come to a stall. Since the 90s, there’s been a
noticeable slowdown in the growth of the population of the planet. Previously,
it was predicted that by 2015 the world’s population would exceed 9.3 billion
people, but in reality it barely reached 7.5 billion people. The UN would
regularly issue forecasts titled World Population Prospects, with the latest of
them stating that by 2030 the world’s population may reach 8.6 billion
people, closing to
9.8 billion mid-century.
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Ralph Nader: Here are 19 ways the 1 percent rules,
and the 99 percent lets them
https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/ralph-nader-here-are-19-ways-the-1-percent-rules-and-the-99-percent-lets-them/