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‘No One Can Win this War’ – Viktor Orbán (HT)
Orban: “In A War Taking Place In Europe The Americans Have The Final Word” (ZH)
Only Ceasefire Can Put End To Conflict In Ukraine – Hungarian FM (TASS)
NATO and EU States Already Parties To Ukraine Conflict – Top Hungarian MP (RT)
US Forces EU To Finance Kiev Regime, But Incurs Lower Costs – Duma Speaker (TASS)
Biden Admin Not Ready To Unambiguously Support Kiev Position On Crimea (TASS)
Military Strategy Revolutionizes Political Strategy In Ukraine (Helmer)
The State Of Ukrainian Democracy Is Not Strong (Jacobin)
West Ready To Give Security Guarantees To Kiev After Conflict – Scholz (TASS)
The Valdai Meeting: Where West Asia Meets Multipolarity (Escobar)
Top US General Reaffirms Occupation Of Syria During Visit (Cradle)
US Army Resumes Theft Of Syrian Oil Weeks After Deadly Quake (Cradle)
People Behind Biden Announce Creation of Formal National Surveillance State (CTH)
Fauci Prompted Scientific Paper In Feb. 2020 To Disprove Lab Leak Theory (NYP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“The West has lost its ability to unite the world in the interest of a single cause. Its philosophical tenets are limited in space. This is a new phenomenon..”

‘No One Can Win this War’ – Viktor Orbán (HT)

Hungary is seriously affected by the war in Ukraine, the Western countries are not seeking peace, and EU leadership is following American interests, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a Swiss weekly. “There are some who want to force Hungary into the war, and they are not picky about the means with which to achieve that goal,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Swiss weekly Weltwoche – according to a summary published on his website –, stressing that “Hungary’s leadership is strong enough to keep the war away from our country.” According to Prime Minister Orbán, Hungarians “are most affected by the EU sanctions introduced against Russia” which have drastically increased the price of oil and gas. He added that the war “is taking its toll on our soul, on our psyche.” “Ukraine is our neighbor where Hungarians live as well. They are being conscripted and are dying by the hundreds on the front,”he pointed out.”

Orbán said the most important realization of the war in Ukraine is that “Europe has retired from the debate.” “In the decisions adopted in Brussels, I recognize American interests more frequently than European ones. In a war that is taking place in Europe the Americans have the final word,” he added. The prime minister agreed with the journalist’s assumption that the deeper causes of Europe’s weakness should be sought in the European Union, because “it is destroying the nation states without replacing them with anything workable.” Regarding the outcome of the war, Orbán said “no one can win it.” There is a nuclear power with a population of 140 million up against the Ukrainians, while there is the whole of NATO up against the Russians. This is what makes things so dangerous. There is a stalemate which can easily escalate into a world war,” he pointed out.


The prime minister noted that two weeks before the outbreak of the war when he met with Vladimir Putin for the last time in Moscow, the Russian President told him that Hungary’s NATO membership was not a problem, only that of Ukraine and Georgia. “Putin has a problem – this is what he told me – with the American missile bases already created in Romania and Poland, and with NATO’s potential expansion towards Ukraine and Georgia in order to station armaments there. Additionally, the Americans terminated important disarmament treaties. This is why Putin could no longer have a good night’s sleep,” he explained, adding that he understood what Putin said, but cannot accept what he did. According to Viktor Orbán, the desire, the will to create peace is missing, at least in the West. He pointed out that “the Chinese, the Indians, the Arabs, the Turks, and the Brazilians all want peace.” The West has lost its ability to unite the world in the interest of a single cause. Its philosophical tenets are limited in space. This is a new phenomenon,” he underlined.

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“(How) can anyone want to be our ally in a military system while they’re shamelessly spreading lies about Hungary? So let’s stop for a friendly word and ask them how this can be.”

Orban: “In A War Taking Place In Europe The Americans Have The Final Word” (ZH)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said in a fresh interview with Swiss weekly Weltwoche that his country’s leadership is “strong enough to keep the war away from our country” while also stressing that Washington has become prime the decision-maker over the conflict in Ukraine. He further addressed the proxy war nature of the conflict in saying, “There are some who want to force Hungary into the war, and they are not picky about the means with which to achieve that goal.” “Ukraine is our neighbor where Hungarians live as well,” he continued. “They are being conscripted and are dying by the hundreds on the front.” The Hungarian government has long protested this practice and presented its complaints to Kiev.

“Europe has retired from the debate,” Orban complained of EU countries being dragged into confrontation with Moscow by Washington. “In the decisions adopted in Brussels, I recognize American interests more frequently than European ones. “In a war that is taking place in Europe the Americans have the final word,” he stressed in the interview. Most recently, Hungary has shown its unwillingness to go along with the rest of NATO by delaying a vote on ratifying Sweden and Finland’s accession bids. According to a Thursday Associated Press report, “The delay, which pushes the vote back by two weeks to the parliamentary session beginning March 20, comes as Hungary remains the only NATO member country besides Turkey that hasn’t yet approved the two Nordic countries’ bids to join the Western military alliance.” The report indicates:


“Hungary’s populist prime minister, Viktor Orban, has said that he is personally in favor of the two countries joining NATO, but alleges that the governments in Stockholm and Helsinki have “spread blatant lies” about Hungary which have raised questions among lawmakers in his party on whether to approve the bids. “It’s not right for them to ask us to take them on board while they’re spreading blatant lies about Hungary, about the rule of law in Hungary, about our democracy and about life here,” Orban complained. “(How) can anyone want to be our ally in a military system while they’re shamelessly spreading lies about Hungary? So let’s stop for a friendly word and ask them how this can be.” But even if Budapest were ready and willing to give its approval, Turkey’s ongoing resistance has been even fiercer, and thus Sweden and Finland are unlikely to enter the alliance anytime soon.”

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“We are a state that neighbors Ukraine, and we do not want more people to die. This is why we are working to stop it. We do not ship weapons, we continue to advocate peace.”

Only Ceasefire Can Put End To Conflict In Ukraine – Hungarian FM (TASS)

The solutions that Europe is trying to find in order to resolve the crisis in Ukraine are not working, and the conflict could only be ended through a ceasefire, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview for the SVT TV channel. “The first goal is to stop killing people, which means a ceasefire agreement and nothing more,” he said.According to Szijjarto, EU sanctions failed to stop the conflict. “We have already introduced 10 sanctions packages; has it brought us any closer to a resolution [of the conflict]? No. Has it brought Russia to its knees? No. Has it hurt us? Yes. I think that the ‘solutions’ that we have been trying to find in Europe simply didn’t work, because we’ve got too carried away with the war mentality,” he noted.


When asked why Hungary does not ship weapons to Kiev, the Foreign Minister said: “We are a state that neighbors Ukraine, and we do not want more people to die. This is why we are working to stop it. We do not ship weapons, we continue to advocate peace.”

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“Budapest has also been the only NATO nation to voice support for China’s recently unveiled peace plan for Ukraine.”

NATO and EU States Already Parties To Ukraine Conflict – Top Hungarian MP (RT)

Massive deliveries of military aid to Ukraine have made multiple NATO and EU nations parties to the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, according to Laszlo Kover, the speaker of Hungary’s National Assembly. Speaking to Hir TV late on Friday, Kover said certain members of the two blocs are already participants in the conflict, despite not “yet” actually engaging in the fighting themselves. He did not identify the countries to which he was referring. “Members of NATO and the EU have already sent almost $60 billion worth of lethal military equipment to Ukraine, one of the warring parties. This means that individual countries – members of the European Union and NATO – are participants of this war, although not yet fighting,” he said.

The speaker also shared his opinion on the potential accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO. While the move has already been approved by the vast majority of member states in the US-led military alliance, it has been opposed by Hungary and Türkiye. Budapest is expected to dispatch a delegation to the two Nordic nations shortly in an effort to resolve differences regarding the accession bid, Kover noted. Both Finland and Sweden have caused “damage” to Hungary, repeatedly making hostile moves against Budapest within the EU, he continued. “They cause specific, measurable damage to Hungary’s national interests. These people are putting pressure on the European institutions so that they do not allocate the EU funds due to Hungary. This is about specific damage, not just that our souls are sensitive,” Kover explained.


He also claimed that their potential accession to NATO would not increase the “sense of security” within the bloc, but rather yield the opposite result, greatly extending the alliance’s border with Russia. Earlier this week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called for the creation of a “European NATO,” arguing that America’s desire for the further expansion of its influence has led to the current tensions between the West and Russia. The EU needs to create a military bloc of its own to become free of American influence and stop doing Washington’s bidding, Orban suggested. Hungary has repeatedly called for peace since the outbreak of conflict between Moscow and Kiev, criticizing both the Western sanctions imposed on Russia and the continuous flow of arms to Ukraine. Budapest has also been the only NATO nation to voice support for China’s recently unveiled peace plan for Ukraine.

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“..Washington has once again showed that “the main principle of its policy is to use other countries to pursue its interests.”

US Forces EU To Finance Kiev Regime, But Incurs Lower Costs – Duma Speaker (TASS)

The United States is forcing European countries to finance the Kiev regime to the detriment of its citizens, but Washington itself allocates only 0.37% of its share of GDP for these purposes, Chairman of the Russian State Duma (lower house of the Russian parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin wrote in his Telegram channel on Sunday. “The US is forcing European countries to fund the Kiev regime at the expense of their own citizens’ well-being. However, as it turns out, they incur far lower costs than others. In terms of the cost of maintaining the Kiev regime, the United States ranks 12th, accounting for 0.37% of GDP,” Volodin stated.


According to him, this is 5.7-fold less than militarization and regime maintenance costs by Poland at 2.1% of GDP. “Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Malta, Norway, Romania, and Cyprus are putting pressure on Washington to increase spending,” Volodin added. He emphasized that Washington has once again showed that “the main principle of its policy is to use other countries to pursue its interests.” “Furthermore, the EU countries bear additional costs as a result of anti-Russian sanctions, which have destabilized their economies. The total amount of support for Europe’s energy industry reached 570 bln euro. It cost Germany 7.2% of GDP,” Volodin said, emphasizing that “EU leaders are acting contrary to national interests at the expense of European citizens” by continuing to supply weapons to Kiev.

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“..Even if they don’t actually believe that it’s likely that Crimea will be returned to Ukraine militarily.”

Biden Admin Not Ready To Unambiguously Support Kiev Position On Crimea (TASS)

The US Administration is currently unwilling to unambiguously support Ukraine’s plans to capture Crimea, and Washington tries to avoid publicly clarifying its position on this issue, The Hill says in an op-ed published Sunday. According to the article, the Biden Administration is “keeping the door open” on the Crimea issue. The Administration officials “have repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether Washington would support Kyiv’s efforts to retake” the peninsula, “punting the issue to further ‘down the road’.” “Though U.S. officials have said that Washington will support Ukraine for however long it takes for them to win the war, they’ve been unwilling to give full support to Kyiv’s ambitions in Crimea,” the article reads, noting that this is in part due to heavy weapons that would be necessary to restore control over Crimea, including long-range missiles, tanks and planes.

The op-ed notes that US lawmakers asked the Administration to clarify its position on Crimea, but its officials have chosen to stick to a “strategy of ambiguity.” In particular, this is the approach that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan adheres to. “They may believe that there is value in holding Crimea at risk in order to put pressure on the Russians to come to the negotiating table,” says Chris Chivvis, a former U.S. national intelligence officer in Europe and current director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment. “It’s possible that that’s driving their policy. […] Even if they don’t actually believe that it’s likely that Crimea will be returned to Ukraine militarily.”


Following the coup 2014 d’etat in Ukraine, authorities of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol held a referendum on reconciliation with Russia. Over 80% eligible voters participated, with approximately 96% of all voters favoring the reconciliation. On March 18, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty on accession of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia; lawmakers ratified the treaty on March 21. Despite the convincing outcome, Kiev refused to recognize Crimea as a part of Russia.

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“What has remained of the plan of the destruction of Russia from those days is what there is today.”

Military Strategy Revolutionizes Political Strategy In Ukraine (Helmer)

In the history of the wars of the world, it almost never happens that the military strategy of a fighting state directs and revolutionizes the political strategy, and not the other way round — as aspiring politicians, military officers and policemen are taught by the venerable Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz to believe. But it is happening in Europe now, on the Ukrainian battlefield, and in the war of the US and NATO alliance against Russia. So long, Sun; so long, Carl; so long, Pardner! For Russia it would never have turned out this way if President Boris Yeltsin had decided to run for a third term, ruling as medically incapable as President Joseph Biden, but deferring the succession until after Mikhail Khodorkovsky had sold the Yukos oil company to the US, and the other Russian oligarchs created by Yeltsin had followed suit. Heart, brain, and liver disease stopped the Yeltsin part of that. The Vladimir Putin succession plan then failed to deliver what had been intended.

What has remained of the plan of the destruction of Russia from those days is what there is today. The oligarchs survive but, according to the terms of the US and NATO sanctions war, they cannot have their assets and freedom of movement back unless they overthrow Putin, change the regime in the Kremlin, and destroy the capability of the Russian military to defend the country. The defensive strategy in response is obvious. Not only must the capacity of Ukrainian forces and their NATO weapons be destroyed at the front, and their remainder driven to a territorial line west of the Dnieper River, between Kiev and Lvov, out of range of Russian Crimea, Zaphorozhye, Kherson, Donetsk and Lugansk. Also, each of the NATO weapons must be defeated and destroyed which the US sends to the battlefield, and the airborne and ground systems for directing them at their Russian targets neutralized. .


If this Russian strategy succeeds, the implication for Europe – and the rest of the world (Taiwan) – will be plain. The US cannot defend NATO and NATO cannot defend its member states with a military capability that has been defeated. Article Five of the NATO treaty will become a dead letter. If and when that happens, the all-for-one-one-for-all principle of security in Europe which Article 5 promises will be replaced, first by the principle of every one for himself, and then for the principle of reciprocal security and non-aggression; that was the proposal of the Russian treaties of December 17, 2021.

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Oh, we’re going to acknowledge that now? Well, well…

The State Of Ukrainian Democracy Is Not Strong (Jacobin)

“Zelensky used the Russian invasion and the war as a pretext to eliminate most of the political opposition and potential rivals for power and to consolidate his largely undemocratic rule,” says University of Ottawa political scientist Ivan Katchanovski. March 3, 2022 saw the Ukrainian criminal code amended to include significantly harsher punishments for treason when committed under martial law — imposed the day of the invasion — and adding the new offenses of “collaborative activities” and “assistance to the aggressor state,” meant to simplify the law and speed up investigations and trials. Such changes had been introduced earlier but failed to get off the ground until the war.

Under the new law, “collaborationism” includes a broad range of activities, from supporting aggression against Ukraine, to spreading propaganda in education, to protesting or handling information in ways that help the enemy. Mykyta Petrovets, a lawyer at the Kyiv-based Regional Center for Human Rights, acknowledged that how responsibly the new laws are wielded comes down to how authorities interpret them. Since the law’s passage, treason and collaboration cases have exploded. According to data from the prosecutor general’s office, while 663 criminal proceedings for treason were recorded over the period 2014–2021, that number ballooned to 1,062 over 2022 alone. From February to March that year, the figure shot up more than fivefold, to 278. The number of collaborationist offenses, meanwhile, reached 3,851 between June, when they were first recorded, and the end of the year, with over six hundred referred to the courts.


For Chemerys, these changes are a way to silence Ukrainians with the “wrong” views and to make “speaking anything other than official propaganda in Ukraine” an imprisonable offense. Kotsaba charges they’re a way to keep society “scared and obedient” and to distract attention from Ukraine’s internal problems. Others point to Zelensky’s markedly weakened prewar approval ratings. As reports of the arrest of dissidents began spreading early in the war, Zelensky and his party first suspended and then banned eleven opposition parties over “links to Russia.” Alongside the suspension of two of the 2019 election’s top vote-getting parties, most prominent was the ban on Ukraine’s second-largest bloc, the pro-Russian Opposition Platform — For Life (OPZZh). This occurred even though most of its major figures took a pro-Ukraine position in the war and have since become reliable backers of Zelensky’s policies in parliament.

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Who will be in power in Kiev?

West Ready To Give Security Guarantees To Kiev After Conflict – Scholz (TASS)

Western nations are ready to give security guarantees to Ukraine after the conflict is over, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday. He said that the Western countries do not object against Ukraine’s entering the European Union but Kiev will need to comply with certain requirements for that. The Wall Street Journal reported in February that the United Kingdom, Germany, and France were looking at signing a defense agreement between Ukraine and NATO after the conflict ends. Under the agreement, according to the newspaper, the Kiev authorities will have a wider access to advanced military equipment, weapons and munitions. This step is called to push Kiev toward talks with Russia, the newspaper claimed.

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A new world takes shape.

“..pave the way for a tripartite summit between Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.”

The Valdai Meeting: Where West Asia Meets Multipolarity (Escobar)

Bouthaina Shaaban, a special advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is a remarkable woman, fiery and candid. Her presence at Valdai was nothing short of electric. She stressed how “since the US war in Vietnam, we lost what we witnessed as free media. The free press has died.” At the same time “the colonial west changed its methods,” subcontracting wars and relying on local fifth columnists. Shaaban volunteered the best short definition anywhere of the “rules-based international order”: “Nobody knows what these rules are, and what this order is.” She re-emphasized that in this post-globalization period that is ushering in regional blocs, the usual western meddlers prefer to use non-state actors – as in Syria and Iran – “mandating locals to do what the US would like to do.”

A crucial example is the US al-Tanf military base that occupies sovereign Syrian territory on two critical borders. Shaaban calls the establishment of this base as “strategic, for the US to prevent regional cooperation, at the Iraq, Jordan, and Syria crossroads.” Washington knows full well what it is doing: unhampered trade and transportation at the Syria-Iraq border is a major lifeline for the Syrian economy. Reminding everyone once again that “all political issues are connected to Palestine,” Shaaban also offered a healthy dose of gloomy realism: “The eastern bloc has not been able to match the western narrative.” Cagri Erhan, rector of Altinbas University in Turkey, offered a quite handy definition of a Hegemon: the one who controls the lingua franca, the currency, the legal setting, and the trade routes.

Erhan qualifies the current western hegemonic state of play as “double-layered proxy war” against, of course, Russia and China. The Russians have been defined by the US as an “open enemy” – a major threat. And when it comes to West Asia, proxy war still rules: “So the US is not retreating,” says Erhan. Washington will always consider using the area “strategically against emerging powers.” Then what about the foreign policy priorities of key West Asian and North African actors? Algerian political journalist Akram Kharief, editor of the online MenaDefense, insists Russia should get closer to Algeria, “which is still in the French sphere of influence,” and be wary of how the Americans are trying to portray Moscow as “a new imperial threat to Africa.”

Professor Hasan Unal of Maltepe University in Turkiye made it quite clear how Ankara finally “got rid of its Middle East [West Asian] entanglements,” when it was previously “turning against everybody.” Mid-sized powers such as Turkiye, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are now stepping to the forefront of the region’s political stage. Unal notes how “Turkiye and the US don’t see eye to eye on any issue important to Ankara.” Which certainly explains the strengthening of Turkish-Russian ties – and their mutual interest in introducing “multi-faceted solutions” to the region’s problems. For one, Russia is actively mediating Turkiye-Syria rapprochement. Unal confirmed that the Syrian and Turkish foreign ministers will soon meet in person – in Moscow – which will represent the highest-ranking direct engagement between the two nations since the onset of the Syrian war. And that will pave the way for a tripartite summit between Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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So you have Turkey, Syria and Russia getting closer, while US troops remain in Syria to steal their oil. How much longer can that last?

Top US General Reaffirms Occupation Of Syria During Visit (Cradle)

Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited US forces occupying northeastern Syria on Saturday, 4 March, allegedly to assess efforts to prevent a resurgence of ISIS and to review safeguards for US forces against attacks, including from drones flown by Iran-backed militias, Reuters has reported. Some 1,000 American troops continue to support allied Arab and Kurdish militias from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the region. Milley, whose term as chairman of the joint chiefs ends in September, met with the commander of the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS, Army Maj. Gen. Matthew McFarlane, and reviewed security measures from an undisclosed base in Syria’s northeast.


According to Al-Monitor, Milley’s visit to Syria signals the Biden administration’s seriousness about keeping troops in the country in support of the SDF. “We’re committed to maintaining our force presence in support of the enduring defeat of ISIS,” the Pentagon’s top Middle East policy official, Dana Stroul, told reporters last week. “This is a mission that has the full support of the Secretary of Defense,” Stroul said. Syria analyst Jennifer Cafarella of the Institute for the Study of War noted the importance of continuing the US military occupation in northeastern Syria. She observed in 2017 that “Whether Washington chooses to admit it or not, the US now has direct influence over the vast majority of Syria’s most productive oil fields,” and that the territorial gains of the SDF “are Syrian national treasures that when added up amount to brute geopolitical power for the US.”

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ISIS is no longer a credible threat, so ” the official rationale for the occupation changed once ISIS was largely defeated..”

US Army Resumes Theft Of Syrian Oil Weeks After Deadly Quake (Cradle)

The US occupation army renewed its oil smuggling campaign in northeast Syria three weeks after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake ravaged the war-torn country.According to eyewitness reports from the countryside of Al-Yarubiyah in Hasakah governorate, on 27 February, US troops transported at least 34 tankers filled with stolen Syrian oil through the illegal Al-Mahmoudiya border crossing to their bases in Iraq. The oil was plundered from Syria’s northeast Jazira region, the country’s primary energy and grain-producing region. Washington maintains approximately 900 troops in Syria, primarily split between the Al-Tanf base and the country’s northeastern region. Their occupation is illegal under international law as it was carried out without government approval.

Though US troops – accompanied by fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – initially occupied large swathes of Syria under the pretext of fighting ISIS, the official rationale for the occupation changed once ISIS was largely defeated. In infamous comments made in 2019, former US President Donald Trump said: “We’re keeping [Syria’s] oil. We have the oil. The oil is secure. We left troops behind only for the oil.” The same year, the current US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for West Asia, Dana Stroul, noted during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) that “one-third of Syrian territory was owned by the US military, with its local partner the SDF.”


The White House official made it a point to highlight that the territory Washington controls is the “economic powerhouse of Syria, so where the hydrocarbons are … as well as the agricultural powerhouse.” According to an investigation by The Cradle, dozens of tankers pass through illegal crossings between Iraq and Syria every week in convoys accompanied by US warplanes or helicopters. Shepherds in the region corroborate these claims, saying that the Syrian oil is transported to the Al-Harir military site in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR), a region known as a “hub” for western and Israeli spy agencies.

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“All of the control systems previously assembled under the guise of the Dept of Homeland Security now become part of the online, digital national security apparatus..”

People Behind Biden Announce Creation of Formal National Surveillance State (CTH)

On March 2, 2023, the people in control of the Joe Biden administration officially announced that government control of internet content was now officially a part of the national security apparatus. If you have followed the history of how the Fourth Branch of Government has been created, you will immediately recognize the intent of this new framework. The “National Cybersecurity Strategy” aligns with, supports, and works in concert with a total U.S. surveillance system, where definitions of information are then applied to “cybersecurity” and communication vectors. This policy is both a surveillance system and an information filtration prism where the government will decide what is information, disinformation, misinformation and malinformation, then act upon it.

In part, this appears to be a response to the revelations around government influence of social media, the Twitter Files. Now we see the formalization of the intent. The government will be the arbiter of truth and cyber security, not the communication platforms or private companies. This announcement puts the government in control. All of the control systems previously assembled under the guise of the Dept of Homeland Security now become part of the online, digital national security apparatus. I simply cannot emphasis enough how dangerous this is, and the unspoken motive behind it; however, to the latter, you are part of a small select group who are capable of understanding what is in this announcement without me spelling it out.


Remember, we have already lost the judicial branch to the interests of the national security state. All judicial determinations are now in deference to what is called broadly “national security,” and the only arbiter of what qualifies to be labeled as a national security interest is the same institutional system who hides the corruption and surveillance behind the label they apply. We cannot fight our way through the complexity of what is being assembled, until the American People approach the big questions from the same baseline of understanding. What is the root cause that created the system? From there, this announcement takes on a more clarifying context – where we realize this is the formalization of the previously hidden process.

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How can you NOT question him under oath?

Fauci Prompted Scientific Paper In Feb. 2020 To Disprove Lab Leak Theory (NYP)

New emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci. They show he “prompted” or commissioned — and had final approval on — a scientific paper written specifically in February 2020 to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Eight weeks later, Fauci stood at a White House press conference alongside President Trump and cited that paper as evidence that the lab leak theory was implausible while pretending it had nothing to do with him and he did not know the authors.

“There was a study recently,” he told reporters on April 17, 2020, when asked if the virus could have come from a Chinese lab, “where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences… in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human. “So, the paper will be available. I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you.” That paper, entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” was sent to Fauci for editing in draft form and again for final approval before it was published in Nature Medicine on Feb. 17, 2020.


It was written four days after Fauci, and his NIH boss Francis Collins, held a call with the four authors to discuss reports that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan lab and “may have been intentionally genetically manipulated”. The House Oversight subcommittee published emails Sunday in which the paper’s co-author Dr. Kristian Andersen admits Fauci “prompted” him to write the paper with the goal of “disprove” the lab leak theory. On February 12, 2020, Andersen submitted the paper to Nature Medicine with a cover email: “There has been a lot of speculation, fear-mongering, and conspiracies put forward in this space. [This paper was] Prompted by Jeremy Farrah [sic], Tony Fauci, and Francis Collins”. Farrar, then head of British nonprofit, the Wellcome Trust, which has historic ties to the pharmaceutical industry and the Gates Foundation, was rewarded with the plum role of Chief Scientist at the WHO last December.

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    Rembrandt van RIjn A Woman Standing with a Candle c.1631   • ‘No One Can Win this War’ – Viktor Orbán (HT) • Orban: “In A War Taking Place In Eur
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 6 2023]

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    Thanks for the Helmer piece Raul, it is very good.

    Also I think if I was Jewish I would be annoyed at some of the comments here especially as I am descended from Anglo-Viking shit-fucks largely responsible for the huge mess of colonialism and modern warfare yet for some reason seem to be spared the insults. I guess when one is in a smaller group it becomes easy to seperate and make a ‘thing’ out of it but we are all humans.
    Some do bad shit
    Some do good shit
    Some do dumb shit
    Some do clever shit

    All do shit though

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    “• Fauci Prompted Scientific Paper In Feb. 2020 To Disprove Lab Leak Theory (NYP)

    He got all the Science™ he paid for. Somehow – I can’t imagine how this happened – the Science didn’t kill itself for money in honor and protest, but accidentally happened to find the results that were purchased. Can anyone explain this to me, I’ve never seen it before where when you buy things, the buyee gives you the things you bought?

    “Russia’s Oil Revenues Plunged by 48% In February”

    Interesting if true. That’s still a problem even if they’re flush for now.

    “If all true to his words, I don’t believe Putin ( or Medvedev, too! ) will stop with Ukraine!”

    Wouldn’t surprise me. But it was all unnecessary. Putin wasn’t doing anything. Then Europe hollowed out THEMSELVES and made THEMSELVES incapable of defense. Even as Trump says like “Looks like you spend about ZERO GDP on NATO/arms.” Hahahahaha! That sure was funny of him! Boy is he stupid! Don’t you know you don’t need factories, armies, bullets to fight a war? “We’re an empire now, and we create our own reality…”

    Fast forward, NATO tried an active, literal Nazi genocide and ethnic cleansing. The line then would have been “Yeah we hate you Russians anyway, go ahead and take your stinky Donbas back to Russia, it’ll save us the bullets.” But no. Now that the war was 6 months, it cost a lot of money! At that point, Russia was like, let’s hold referendums and you lose two more Oblasts for our trouble. Gone. Now NATO/Nazi has cost Russia yet ANOTHER six months PLUS Nordstream, so they’re going to take Odessa and some others for sure, now that Biden has completely depopulated (i.e. ‘murdered’) everyone on top of BlackRock’s prime farmland. Because the real Nazis aren’t in Ukraine, they’re headquartered someplace much further West.

    Get the picture? But my point was what is EUROPE doing during this time? A: Nothing. The biggest sit-n-spin in the history of the world. So IN A WAR, that they say they’re fighting, Europe has actually done LESS, hollowed out MORE, and destroyed their nations more thoroughly, WHILE destroying all citizen morale not only to fight an offensive war, pulling back from helping a nation they have nothing to do with, but even to defend unwilling to defend those nation’s governments at all.

    So before this, Russia would have been like, “We have neither need, nor logistics (all army moves on Russia-gauge rail), nor manpower to take over ANY part of Europe. Even Poland.” Now all of Europe is a hollow shell collapsing on its own, Russia may actually look to Paris and Berlin and say, “Jeez, it would be as easy as knocking over a liquor store to take all of Europe and end our trouble for good.” Half of NATO is dead already.

    Don’t do it. But you can see the point. Why WOULDN’T you do it? It’s like a fish with one flipper flailing around the drain bleeding everywhere. Heck, a third of the people in those nations involved would ASK you to come in and clean it out for them.

    Just post without comment. Tangling with what to do when retail theft – shoplifting – rises. Now backed by organized shoplift kingpins.
    https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/02/27/shoplifting-retail-theft-lawmakers-response Uh, yeah, that’s a problem.

    Meanwhile in California…

    “”We only stay stocked up for maybe three or four days, and the grocery store is just down the street, so we’re like it’s not a big deal, but then when the grocery store collapsed and all these trees are snapping…”

    You have three day’s food? Sir? That is not stocking, that’s owning no food whatsoever, ordering a pizza, and having some leftovers on the counter. You could double your three days for like $12. I’ll mail it to you if you need it that badly.

    “Oh well, I live on the top of a mountain at 2000ft, on a narrow winding road lined by 80 foot trees, I think I’ll keep one pack of ramen and six eggs.”

    Riggs in a telephone interview, adding that the county’s response has been “horrible” and that “people are really angry.”

    Angry the county didn’t drive up their house and put food in their mouths? I mean, does the county USUALLY do that? On Tuesdays in March? So why would they expect it when they can’t move without a snowmobile?

    “”I’m getting more upset by the day,” said Devine Horvath of Crestline, who said it took she and her son 30 minutes to walk down the street to check on a neighbor”

    You had to exercise and be out of the house THIRTY whole minutes? Without TV or nothin’? Well I say sir! What did you do with the other 23 ½ hours?

    Diagnosis: You’re on your own. And apparently you’re all going to die.

    “”We are going house to house, and we’re literally using shovels to shovel out driveways”

    …You don’t say!!!… Quick, alert Minneapolis! They may want to hear about this “Shovel” stuff.

    “Why? Were I to criticise Christians in the same way would that be okay?”

    Yes, it would. Here’s why: you’re regularly saying EVERY Jew. If I said EVERY American, all 330 Million of us approve of the Iraq or Ukraine war, would that be true? Does EVERY American profit from it, or are more than half of us liquidated by it? They regularly say EVERY Christian is responsible for the Spanish Inquisition or the witch trials. This is equally idiotic. The Spanish Inquisition was SPANISH. And Catholic. And almost no one out of all the population of Europe was involved. 1,000 men out of 60 million? AND that was centuries ago. AND they execute witches worldwide, it’s not a Europe thing. (Try South America). Yet I, here today, having never met any of the people, having never lived in any of the countries, having never done any of the actions, am somehow responsible for the actions of other men? Why? Because “I said words”? People are responsible for what THEY do, not the actions of others YOU broadly classified them into, using your own majesty and largess.

    This is above how the actions are actually largely false and just made up by history for an interesting and profitable story. Newsflash: Not all Italians are the Mafia. The Mafia and Italians are two very different groups, and you’ll get in a lot of trouble confusing them.

    Second part, from a recent comment: That means they’re not Christians. This heads toward the “One True Scotsman” fallacy, but it’s true. If you have no attributes of a duck, you’re not a duck, just as if you have no attributes of a Christian, you’re not a Christian.

    And it’s the same with the Jews. This particular subset HAS NO ATTRIBUTES of the Jews. They are not Semitic, from the Middle East. They do not follow the Torah. They do no Mitzvahs. They constantly and provably use, kill, maim, and destroy the actual Jews, Soros being a prime example, joyfully sending them to concentration camps, but we have the same in Hitler’s administration as well as Ze’s, in Israel with every day security but also with mass vaccinations, and in America. THEY ARE NOT JEWS. Get it through your head. Or I’ll put on a dress and claim I’m a woman, since all it takes to be a woman – or a Jew – is merely to say so. These “Jews” said it – who you say are known liars, murderers, and fiends, now Aspnaz believed them! Immediately, without question! Well if a JEW said it, I take orders from them, Aspnaz said.

    No. Although this is a broad brush for this subset, they are essentially “Kabbalahists”, what we would call “Satanists.” Their ethos is Prometheus got a raw deal teaching men fire and war, shouldn’t have been cast out of heaven, and the strong should do as they please. They are the SAME religion as the Saudis (“Islamic”), the Bushes (“Christian’”), and the Chinese (“Confucian”), and many others, if you hadn’t noticed. Maybe you should take the time to list all the NON-Jews in administration and wonder what they’re doing there, executing the same policies while getting on record with spirit cooking and Epstein Island. What are Pelosi and Biden doing? Who is their god?

    The only thing you can be sure of is they’re Not Jews. Unless you believe all known pathological liars.

    They are HIDING behind the Jews. They do that by killing, sacrificing the Jews like a volcano sacrifice. Even Bush, Blair, you don’t blame them as they’re “controlled” or something. Meanwhile, chasing the innocent, you’ve let the real bad guys get away merely by saying the one magic “jew” word. Poof! Soros escapes, my Dentist is killed. Thanks Aspnaz. He had almost finished paying off his 2010 Acura with all that lavish Davos money, the same kind of money Putin sends me for being a Russian bot. Where do you get his stuff? Use your head. Dr. Day isn’t = “George Bush” because he’s Texan. They are maybe different people? Or in this case, George Bush isn’t Texan at all. They’re from Connecticut. Same with these guys. Not. Jews. George Bush is also Not. Christian.

    Narrow your definition and leave my dentist alone.

    #130615
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @Dr D. Maybe you should inform the Jerusalem Post that their list of Jews in Biden’s admin actually consists of pretend Jews. Whether semitic of non semitic, the west’s anti-semitism laws apply to the Jews catagorized as such by Israel, I wonder how your argument “But I insulted a pretend Jew” would stand up in court. Anyway, I told RIM I would not pursue this topic.

    #130616
    Germ
    Participant

    Posted for those who enjoy Fabio:

    Endless emergency? The Lockdown Model for a System on Life Support

    #130617

    Lots about Orban & Hungarian perspective today.

    While I appreciate his resistance to the parasitic Empire & their demands on European poodles and his willingness to talk to president Putin, I still am perplexed about his “ adding that he understood what Putin said, but cannot accept what he did. “ statement.

    Is this just fig leaf diplomacy?

    Again, what would Orban have done inPutin’s shoes ? Negotiate ? Bwahaahahaahahh , yup that’s a tried and true winner solution when dealing with the Empire.

    #130618
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Blowing a kiss to all the Woketard hypocrites out there…

    SmoochSmoochSmoochSmooch!

    .

    #130619
    Red
    Participant

    When energy per capita falls, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain the complexity that has been put in place. It becomes too expensive to properly maintain roads, electrical services become increasingly intermittent, and trade is reduced. Long waits for replacement parts become common. These little problems build on one another to become bigger problems. Eventually, major parts of the world’s economy start failing completely.

    When people forecast ever-rising energy prices, they miss the fact that market fossil fuel prices consider both oil producers and consumers. From the producer’s point of view, the price for oil needs to be high enough that new oil fields can be profitably developed. From the consumer’s point of view, the price of oil needs to be sufficiently low that food and other goods manufactured using oil products are affordable. In practice, oil prices tend to rise and fall, and rise again. On average, they don’t satisfy either the oil producers or the consumers. This dynamic tends to push the economy downward.

    There are many other changes, as well, as fossil fuel energy per capita falls. Without enough energy products to go around, conflict tends to rise. Economic growth slows and turns to economic contraction, creating huge strains for the financial system. In this post, I will try to explain a few of the issues involved.

    When the Economy Gets Squeezed by Too Little Energy

    #130620
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I’ll give Orban the benefit of the doubt on the “he understood what Putin said, but cannot accept what he did” comment because I genuinely think that Putin understands Orban is between a rock and a very hard place and would do the same if He was in Orban’s place.

    They are playing for time.

    Orban pulling Hungry out of the Eurotardistan® would be like kneeing the Collective West in the groin.

    Save the best for later.

    When Russia finally dictates the terms for peace, rolling back the NATO line to 1991 conditions will kill NATOtardistan® and the E-union Clusterfuck.

    Hungry has positioned itself, due to Orban, in a good light with Russia and if the ethnic Hungerian part of Ukronaziland is returned to them, they will have a land bridge to Russian energy and resources and trade, more than the other Phuckwad® ‘countries’ to the West of it.

    Here’s a Whiff of collapse in Eurotardistan

    The Lebanese can’t get their money out of the ATMs so they are burning the banks to the ground.

    Pretty spiffy

    A glimpse into the near future.

    #130621
    zerosum
    Participant

    Identify your enemy and friend.

    How many ways can a request for a cease fire and peace be made?

    (The US is forcing European countries to fund the Kiev regime at the expense of their own citizens’ well-being.
    Become free of American influence and stop doing Washington’s bidding.)
    ————
    Zelensky’s path for power and wealth is not democratic.
    • The State Of Ukrainian Democracy Is Not Strong (Jacobin)
    —————–
    • The Valdai Meeting: Where West Asia Meets Multipolarity (Escobar)
    Washington fears Multipolarity, which is that emerging powers/countries, will be sharing the ruling of the world.
    Washington wants globalization, which means they will not share the power of ruling the world.
    • US Army Resumes Theft Of Syrian Oil Weeks After Deadly Quake (Cradle)
    ————————–
    • People Behind Biden Announce Creation of Formal National Surveillance State (CTH)

    This policy is both a surveillance system and an information filtration prism where the government will decide what is information, disinformation, misinformation and malinformation, then act upon it
    —————–

    #130622
    Kassandra
    Participant

    Just putting this here. As I have mentioned before, I read Marginal Revolution regularly to see what the “other side” is saying. It’s just so crazy how there’s still two sides to this covid mess, and even though I upended my entire life to avoid getting the vaxx, well, I still don;t 100% know what to believe. It’s true, I am going on gut instinct…well that and the fact that I always thought the flu vaxx was bullshit, and after 50 years hearing that we cannot make a vaxx for the common cold, somehow we magically created one for this novel strain. Oh, and people way smarted than me who know about this stuff thought it was crazy too, and then they weren’t allowed to speak.

    Anyway, are all these cardiac events really from covid infection? https://erictopol.substack.com/p/heart-attacks-and-strokes-late-

    On another note, many of my triple vaxxed friends and acquaintances are sick again.

    #130623
    Dora
    Participant

    Taibbi.

    #130624
    Germ
    Participant

    Have a listen to Abi Roberts.
    Her daily commentary is hilarious, very British, brytal honest and not for the kids.
    Enjoy to the end.

    She knows what’s unfolded and that TVASF

    Today’s commentary is a corker.

    https://abiroberts.substack.com/p/the-establishment-files

    #130625
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Aspnaz

    How is it in any way injurious to honest to God Jews for you to abstain from identifying and holding to account FAKE Jews who hide among the truly faithful and bring undeserved retribution down upon their innocent heads?

    You didn’t promise to ABANDON the welfare of rights of decent law abiding true-hearted Jewish children of the one and only God. You promised to be more careful and refrain from stupidly ranting in ways that might hurt them , when instead you should be judiciously reporting truths that help those particular people and everyone else as well..

    #130626
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It’s hard not to wander off into the weeds when they tower over your head.

    For example, when someone uses the term “Continuity of Government” in an otherwise unremarkable sentence (almost regardless, at this point, of what the remainder of that sentence might happen to be) it is easier than easy to just carry on with the conversation as though both parties to the confab are on the same page in regard to what is MEANT by “Continuity of Government”.

    Oh, no no no no no. Don’t DO that!

    Before discussing the ways and means of assuring continuity of government one should first reach a firm understanding of what each and every one of those simple little words actually MEANS in that ostensibly innocuous little phrase.

    Does it lean towards meaning the continued operation of governmental business as usual, with all of the laws still firmly in place and steadfastly upheld? (such as the Constitution and Bill of Rights, for examples). Or does it mean ensuring that the grip on the reins of power continue to be firmly in the hands of the individuals who hold them now (and would prefer to hold them even more firmly, and for a much much longer period of time).

    Does it mean continuity of the LAWS and Forms which provide the freedoms and protections guaranteed to citizens under the Constitution?

    Or does it mean throwing all of those things under the bus if the “government” thinks that that is what it will take to guarantee the “continuation” of themselves as the controllers of “government”?

    Most good guys (nearly all of them) will think (without warrant) that “Continuity of Government” means sensible procedural agreements for the emergency protection of the democratically free society (that we almost had there for a while) from the depredations of those mean old Ruskies and Chinks in the event that they attack us with a war or something.

    And the Bad Guys will think, “Great! That’s what we hoped and PLANNED for you morons to think. Not only do we get to ‘continue’ robbing you to death, but it’s actually LEGAL because we told you in writing what we were going to do and no one objected! NOW all we’ve got to do to ensure that we get ALL of the power and KEEP it forever, is to drum up so much fear of war with Russia or China (or disagreeable domestic terrorist truth questioners) that no one will be able to object when we actually DO all that stuff written into our Continuity of Government policy. Stuff like full enforceable internet censorship, suspension of Habeas Corpus, mandatory routine injections, and vaccine passports linked to Central Bank Digital Currency, etcetera. The Cool thing is that we don’t even need a real war or even the ability to win one! All we need is enough FEAR of war that people will hand literally EVERYTHING over to us for “Continuity”.

    If you are any kind of student of history at all then you know that there is no way this ends without internecine bloodshed, because if no one stops them then they WILL control, enslave and eliminate anyone who disagrees with them by word, deed, or even thought., They government ownership class will not stop of their own accord because that is no part whatsoever in the “accord” that they are imagining. It simply isn’t what they want, and they have already told you quite clearly what it is that they want. They WANT to be the sole and only boss, of YOU, and it AIN’T gonna stop until they get it. They will not stop until they are THE boss, so there won’t be any stopping going on unless and until they are physically made to, because why the fuck should they stop when they don’t want to stop, and when no one else seems to care enough about any of it to really, actually, physically, STOP them? No one has even started to try to do that so far, nor will they, until they see that they HAVE TO. That day is coming on fast, and it’s going to be a doozie.

    See what I’m getting at here? What I’m saying, yet again, is that your only available choice is between Heaven on Earth or Hell on Earth, and the choosing is based entirely on what you are willing to die for.

    #130627
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Sure, just consider they said the same thing when Bush started his war: he’s a Christian, he believes in the end times, it’s a holy crusade on Islam retaking Jerusalem (and Baghdad) and all that. And not that a lot of churches claiming to be Christian didn’t jump on either!

    But SAYING it didn’t make Bush a Christian. Or Rumsfeld. JOINING didn’t make those Churches Christian, or the attack an actual holy war. They’re not Christians, the war was never religious, and it was all for money and power. They’re just punking the Christians, using them, hiding in them, cheating them into support, using them as a skin suit then throwing them to the wolves, discredited, as now, then laugh about it since they hate earnest people of every stripe. They’re a subset of liars, willing to say anything.

    Consider the same thing may be happening elsewhere.

    #130628
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Okay. So we have a massive surveillance state, and yet massive shoplifting crimes are being committed by organized groups of people? The surveillance state must be turning a blind eye to the shoplifting. I mean…if the geolocation information on sale to whoever pays the fee can easily be purchased by the folks behind the 2000 mules documentary, then why isn’t it easily available to law enforcement in order to ascertain who is shoplifting or a part of these crime networks? Are we seriously to believe that the individual shoplifters are leaving their personal cellphones home when they go on shoplifting sprees? I highly doubt it. I am not suggesting some sort of giant conspiracy between retailers, law enforcement, and the surveillance state — it is more along the lines of retail disruption serving the goals of the surveillance state, and so they mess with the higher ups in law enforcement/legislatures, who then create rubrics that cannot effectively address the problem — law enforcement has its hands tied. Crime syndicates benefit and retailers and shoppers are left with the results.

    #130629
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Something interesting down the pipeline…
    Birth rates are down, beginning with 2022. This is going to become obvious with the kindergarten class that begins in fall 2027 (in the northern hemisphere.). Classroom size is going to shrink. I am curious about what will transpire. The only potential way to mask it in the US would be with the babies of the millions of immigrants streaming across thevUS’s southern border (largely not vaccinated , and therefore not affected by the drop in birth rate.). Although, even that could not mask it fully, as then a very large proportion of the kindergartners would be “English as a Second Language” students.

    #130630
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Paranoid theoretical conspiratorialists aren’t nutty because they think intentional collaborations of conspiring people are out to get them. They’re nutty because they have stopped deeper investigations before getting down to the bottommost (and therefore irrefutable) layer of their theory.

    #130631
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr D: Roger This:
    “Dr. Day isn’t = “George Bush” because he’s Texan. They are maybe different people?
    Or in this case, George Bush isn’t Texan at all. They’re from Connecticut.”

    #130632
    peteypies
    Participant

    Thanks for your posts Aspanz….

    #130633

    Let’s pretend that there is an alien/demonic band of entities who believe they are the rulers of the universe. Let’s say they call themselves “Luciferians”.
    Let’s pretend that they have decided to harvest the earth of its resources- gold, for example, and human emotions, because luciferians get high off fear and humans can produce a lot of it.

    Let’s pretend the luciferians sent their Joshuas and Calebs* here long ago and some humans joined up with them. These have amassed mind-boggling wealth and hidden power, and think they will be rewarded by their lord Lucifer (after all, look how generous he has been so far!) They gleefully create misery on earth.

    Does it matter if Lucifer actually exists? Does it matter if there really aren’t any alien/demons who think they rule the universe? All that matters is that there are humans who do believe it- and have for many, many centuries.
    And right now, they are “harvesting”.

    *Early charlatans- manipulators of the nascent Theory of Mind.

    Wasn’t that fun?

    #130634
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    I am very clear in my mind about everything financial, economic, environmental, scientific, cultural and political. but I am still in two minds about aspnaz.

    On one side he writes utter drivel -such as oil being abiotic and generated by unknown processes- and makes utterly stupid assertions and engages in ad hominem attacks and generally offers nothing worth reading -so I usually skip over anything he writes -unless it is one of his personal attacks on me.

    On the other hand, he regularly reminds us how uninformed and nasty many humans are -and there is value in being reminded how uninformed and nasty many humans are.

    #130635
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    My ego is bruised by the apparent fact that AFKTT considers Aspnaz to be more dangerous than me. Ah , well. He’s been wrong before, rather frequently as a matter of fact Maybe he’s using chat GPT or something.

    #130636

    At 20.00 GMT, which I think is about 2 hours from now -though I get easily confused-, the BBC’s Panorama program “tackles” all the terrible things Elon Musk has done to Twitter. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64804007

    “..with trolls emboldened, harassment intensifying and a spike in accounts following misogynistic and abusive profiles..”

    Musk: “Sorry for turning Twitter from nurturing paradise into place that has… trolls.”

    #130637
    John Day
    Participant

    Do Mafias share interests and avoid wars between families? I saw that in movies.

    I am told that in the non-(European,which includes 5-eyes) world, that discussion of “Jewish” control of western governments is matter-of-fact, and not taken to threaten anybody.
    It is an accolade in some ways.

    Aspnaz navigates in such a world of expression and exhibits signs of frustration regarding self-censorship.
    Dr D points out the innacuricies and the unfaiirness to practicing religious Jews, who have historically been cannon-fodder in hard times for what might be called the “Khazarian Mafia”. The Khazarian empire covered much of what was later considered “the heartland” in McKinder’s “Great Game” model.. They did not write stuff down. Legend has it that the Khazarian emperor adopted Judaism as a facilitation of trade with both Moslem and Christian regimes.
    Wikipedia has something about it:
    The Khazars[a] (/ˈxɑːzɑːrz/) were a semi-nomadic Turkic people that in the late 6th-century CE established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan.[10] They created what for its duration was the most powerful polity to emerge from the break-up of the Western Turkic Khaganate.[11] Astride a major artery of commerce between Eastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, Khazaria became one of the foremost trading empires of the early medieval world, commanding the western marches of the Silk Road and playing a key commercial role as a crossroad between China, the Middle East and Kievan Rus’.
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Chasaren.jpg/500px-Chasaren.jpg
    Khazaria

    Later, the Roman Pope (not Byzantine) said that “Jews”, being a separate nation, could practice “usury”.
    This was economically useful, and also provided a target to scapegoat in financial collapse, but who?

    “The name is not the thing”, I am fond of pointing out.

    I’d put quotation marks around “Khazarian Mafia”, to indicate one’s intent to talk about something without accusing John Day of being a George W. Bush equivalent. (Molly Ivins, a confirmed Texan, wrote: Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush). “Shrub” Vogued some generic West-Texan like a bad actor, or a carny…

    #130638

    The shell game is so useful when one’s pulling off a con-
    My money’s here; my money’s there- my money isn’t anywhere!
    The shell game is so useful when on’s pulling off a con.
    I didn’t peek! I didn’t spy! I swear it was the other guy!

    #130639
    Red
    Participant

    I have to smile when I see this in any article; “private equity firm”, in reality they are corporate raiders. They scoop up companies with low returns but good assets and then leverage those assets to the max. When they can no longer meet the payment schedule they cry foul and liquidate. I learned the process back when it was done to Sears, so last century rite? I watched it with P3 projects (private public partnerships) as well. I just waiting on out local electric utility to follow suit. It was sold by the provincial government in the early 2000’s to an energy conglomerate. They immediately went about doing an inventory on every little piece of equipment that it was now in possession of down to even the ground wires on individual poles. Leverage it all and get the payments from the customers at the expense of regular maintenance.

    Food supplies to Australia’s biggest supermarkets can no longer be guaranteed after the shock collapse of one of the county’s biggest trucking firms.

    News broke late last month that Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics – one of Australia’s biggest trucking firms, which services major super­markets, including Coles, IGA and Aldi – had been plunged into receivership.

    Scott’s was reportedly bought by private equity firm Anchorage Capital Partners in June 2020 for about $75 million.

    KordaMentha was appointed as receivers and was initially optimistic it would find a “new long-term owner”.

    However, after being unable to find a buyer – reportedly due to fears over the company’s debt levels – staff were told they were being made redundant and the firm would enter liquidation, with 1500 jobs lost and the firm’s 500 trucks and more than 1000 trailers set to be sold.

    KordaMentha partner Scott Langdon told news.com.au the receivers had “no confidence” of a smooth wind down, and that groceries supplies could not be guaranteed.

    https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/receivers-of-collapsed-trucking-giant-admit-continuity-of-food-supply-cant-be-guaranteed/news-story/0e994f116738dd4188dfc6a5abb4e848

    #130640
    John Day
    Participant

    Really can’t be sure whether it is coming or going…
    Watch: Vast Expanse Of US Military Hardware Positioned At Polish Port
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-vast-expanse-us-military-hardware-positioned-polish-port

    #130641
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    On the matter of ‘climate change’ (planetary meltdown), I knew Al Gore was a professional liar before he even commenced his project of enriching himself and his buddies via fake and counter-productive ‘climate solutions’.

    At the time of the 2000 election, he just rolled over without a fight when it was blatantly obvious that there was vote rigging in Florida and elsewhere.

    Anyone interested in what scientists actually studying the meltdown of the Arctic and Antarctic regions have to say about the sea ice extent can find a useful report here:

    https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

    The current status is summarised by: ‘Throughout February, Arctic sea ice extent tracked between second and fourth lowest in the satellite record while Antarctic sea ice extent tracked at record low extents’.

    Since the kind of meltdown we are witnessing normally occurs over then of thousands of years -as opposed to a few decades- we can justifiably describe it as a emergency.

    On the other hand, whilst the mangers of Airstrip Five declared a ‘Climate Emergency’ three years ago, everything they did both prior to the declaration and since the declaration has made matters worse faster.

    That is exactly what we would expect from a gang of professional liars -professional not in the quality of their lies but simply ‘professional’ insofar as that is their occupation and because they are paid enormous sums by the real controllers to lie to the populace on a continuous basis about everything.

    That is where it gets really interesting because it is becoming increasingly difficult for these professional lairs to lie convincingly when all their [fake] narratives are unravelling fast.

    Housing bubble kaput and in freefall in major cities.

    Shockingly bad trade figures and other financial figures.

    A surge in ‘sudden deaths’ -clearly due to the fake and toxic vaccines.

    Collapsed infrastructure because it was built in the wrong place on the basis of poor design. And no capacity to fix any of the worst catastrophes – just a lot of headless chickens (and one Chipmunk) running round in circles trying placate angry people trying to avoid responsibility whilst ‘promising’ responses they are incapable of delivering on and have no intention of delivering on.

    Collapse of the fake ‘freedom and democracy’ and ‘Ukraine will win the war if we all help’ narrative.

    Collapse of the fake Carbon Trading Ponzi scheme.

    Under way but not yet fully apparent: collapse of the economy and collapse of the political system that got us into this multi-faceted predicament.

    #130642
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Since the kind of meltdown we are witnessing normally occurs over tens of thousands of years -as opposed to a few decades- we can justifiably describe it as an emergency.

    #130643
    Red
    Participant

    Humanity faces a bottleneck of crises which threaten the collapse of industrial civilisation. Of these, most people are only aware of climate change, which most believe can be solved via electrification and a range of simple changes to our lifestyles. But climate change is just one of myriad crises, including: antibiotic resistance, biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, cyber-attacks/AI, energy shortages, famine, financial crises, governance failure, infrastructure failure, microplastic contamination, migration waves, natural disasters, nutrient run-off, ocean acidification, resource depletion, soil depletion, war, water shortages, weapons of mass destruction, to name but a few.

    Any one of these crises threatens to undermine our complex industrial civilisation. But taken together, they constitute an existential threat to humanity as a whole. And yet, faced with this dire predicament, no “great leader” has come to the fore. Nor have “we the people” rallied to action. Instead, our self-identifying leaders seem impotent, while the population at large is passive. Why should this be?

    In one word – Technocracy. In The Death Cult: Technocratic failure at the end of the industrial age, Tim Watkins explains the origins of our ruling technocracy, and how it became a “class for itself” – no longer interested in the little people whose lives it desires to take ever more control over, and is, indeed, even hostile to planet Earth.

    A Reading from The Death Cult

    #130644
    John Day
    Participant

    The daily news announced that “hundreds of high-ranking military officers sacked in Hungary”. From the article:

    Multiple Hungarian media outlets reported that Hungary’s defense minister sacked hundreds of high-ranking military officers. The people concerned have two months to leave and will get 70 percent of their current salaries as a pension-like allowance even if they continue to work. The minister says the move served the rejuvenation and modernisation of the army. The opposition believes the government fired pro-NATO officers.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/massive-global-restructuring-underway-heres-what-it-means-europe

    #130645
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    DBS. Yes, I freely admit I am wrong about 3% of the time. I said so to a friend just yesterday evening. 🙂

    97% on the ball is good enough for me.

    That beats the local council, who are on the ball about 3% of the time.

    But that 3% success rate is understandable because the local council is full of fuckwits and liars and is told to generate utter garbage and implement counterproductive actions as a matter of policy by the head saboteurs in Wellington.

    Garbage is still collected once a week by a contractor. The local council’s role is to decide the price of the rubbish bags and oranisae their sale.

    Even garbage is a business, to be run at a profit.

    Never mind the long-term effects. The bureaucrats are so demented they think it’s all going to continue the way is has many decades -we just need more electric cars and more windmills and more houses and more sewer lines and more electricity poles….

    Resouces are infinite.

    Energy appears out of nowhere whenever required.

    The effects of pollution are negligible and can be disregarded altogether.

    There is no such thing as population overshoot.

    Everyone lives forever in happy-land.

    #130646
    Red
    Participant

    AFKTT isn’t it amusing how more growth is going to fix everything. I watched and argued against it on the very basis that it has only brought larger deficits and shrinking improvements over the forty or so years it was promising the opposite. I gave up 15 years or so ago. I don’t bother with the political class any longer, not in my best mental interests. Logic is no match for volume. Oh well.

    #130647
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Red. All very good stuff from you.

    Regarding the latest from Tim Wakins: it’s a bugger being 20 or 30 years ahead of the crowd and being 10 or 15 years ahead of the ‘activists’.

    “You’re too gloomy.”

    You’re just Chicken Little,”

    “That’ll never happen.”

    “It’s snowing, so how can the Earth be warming?”

    “Carbn dioxide is a nutrient.”

    ‘Carbon dioxide was much higher in the past.” (when sea level was 100 metres higher and there were no mammals)

    “It’s changes in the Sun cycle that determines the temperature of the Earth.”

    “it’s chemtrails that are causing the bad weather.” (true up to a point)

    “We just have to think positive.”

    “Scientists will find solutions.”

    I’ve heard it all over the past 25 years. Plus the government-sponsored lies churned out by the government and the government-owned and government-controlled corporate media

    I still struggle with that one. Corporations own the government; government owns the corporations.

    But I rarely hear: “Industrial civilisation is a toxic and unsustainable set of living arrangements which is terminal decline.”

    And if I tell people they truth, they hate me for it and argue that black is white, and that that night is day.

    Even as glaciers melt before their eyes and sea ice disappears, I am told on TAE that it’s not happening and there is no planetary meltdown because ‘climate change is a scam’.

    The inability (unwillingness) of people to distinguish between real world events and the fake narratives of The Empire of Lies and their insistence on lumping them into one basket is dismal, isn’t it?

    #130648
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @phoenixvoice

    I friend wrote that her local elementary school was going to close state regs require two class of each 1-5 grade and her school only had about 20 kids in one class each grade.

    So the teacher’s union and school board figured out how to comply with state regs by dividing the 20 kids in one class into two classes with 10 tens each.

    It was sold as a big win because the kids would have more attention from the teacher, only 10 of them per class and thee school system hired 5 more teachers, pleasing the teacher’s union.

    Taxes however went up. ;>)

    Everyone gets a trophy

    .

    #130649
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    @AFKKT – why do you keep obsessing about climate change? It’s an irrelevance. Like a guy driving head-on into a brick wall at 100mph fretting about his terminal cancer diagnosis.

    Why fixate on something that’s, frankly, not going to matter by the time it really starts to bite? It’s not healthy to obsess about things that (a) there is no possible mechanism to change and (b) are way down the priority list of things that will kill you.

    Yes – our current way of life is ‘Unsustainable’ to use the mot-du-jour but it sure as hell won’t be climate change that puts an end to it.

    I’d worry about, and plan as best you can for, the immediate issues that face us all. Not something that will only become relevant after what’s left of society is already foraging for food in the landfills left by industrial society.

    #130650
    Curlene48
    Participant

    from AFKTT:
    I am very clear in my mind about everything financial, economic, environmental, scientific, cultural and political. but I am still in two minds about aspnaz.
    On one side he writes utter drivel -such as oil being abiotic and generated by unknown processes- and makes utterly stupid assertions and engages in ad hominem attacks and generally offers nothing worth reading -so I usually skip over anything he writes -unless it is one of his personal attacks on me.
    On the other hand, he regularly reminds us how uninformed and nasty many humans are -and there is value in being reminded how uninformed and nasty many humans are.

    Thanks, A Few Know the Truth, for this and true wise comment. Also, thanks Ilárgi, Oxymoron and others for your comments re what I wrote.

    When people use the word “Jew” as an insult, as in “Fauci the Jew” … when in fact Fauci is not a Jew and you are only using the word as an epithet … that is genuine racism. People who throw racist expressions like that around are not really helping the anti-Zionist cause. They are not helping the cause of Corbin and other anti-Zionists who are being UNFAIRLY tarnished with the “anti-Semite” smear. Au contraire, they are actually lending credence to the incorrect idea that those who oppose the Apartheid state of Israel are anti-Semites, which is not true.
    Just whose interests does that serve, aspnaz, D.Benton Smith, and peteypies? It serves the goals of the oligarchs who are ruling the world and want to smear all of us as racist anti-Semitic nut-cases.
    Doesn’t seem that difficult to understand.

    #130651
    WES
    Participant

    That Hungary sacked hundreds of pro-NATO army officers means they fired pro-war officers who were likely preparing a coup against Orban’s government, just like in Turkey. I wonder what color this color revolution was going to be?

    Remember a certain high level US bitch recently went to Hungry to ensure election integery? I have since then been wondering what Orban would do?

    Glad to see Orban’s positive response. I bet Orban has his army’s soldiers backing but not the officers. I think he still needs to do more to protect himself and Hungry’s people though.

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