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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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    John Day
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    “Entering The Future” (cue Twilight Zone theme) https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/entering-the-future

    Tim Morgan at Surplus Energy Economics takes the risk of looking a little bit into the future of Modern Industrial Economy in his 250th blog post,
    The Surplus Energy Economy, Part-5 , What Happens Next?
    Dr. Morgan’s thesis is that you only get to use the energy that is left after you spend energy to get your energy. It is that “Surplus Energy” which drives the trucks, trains, factories and farms of industrial economy. As more energy is required to obtain a gallon of diesel fuel, there is less for the rest of the economy. People get paid less than what their bills are, even when they quit going out for food and entertainment.

    Some people are higher up in the stack, but in the US, the prosperity of working people has been in relative decline since I graduated high school in 1976. The US has had declining total prosperity per capita since about Y2k, so we got to watch the top 10%, the stock markets. Those were put on life-support in 2008-2009. “Zombies” is the financial term to describe these corporate life-forms now.
    affordability

    In part #4 he pointed out that China and the world in aggregate had this downturn of prosperity per capita in 2020, but that Russia has not yet had that downturn.

    He points out that the decline in net resources and net energy is gradual, but that the relative cost of the net energy is already so high that established industrial economies cannot be sustained without cheap inputs from outside, which is what we see supporting the US economy, cheap imports for $US. This has been “papered over” with fake-promises of future wealth, which might be kept in a rapidly expanding economy of the 1950s – 1960s US or Europe, but not now, when real-economy is contracting. He comes to the inevitable conclusion that there will be defaults, and that current inflation will continue, as an expanded money-supply gets more and more diluted in its ability to buy real things.
    prosperity liabilities
    Inflation will persist, and the ability to cover the cost of the essentials of life will become more of a struggle at all levels of society. Financial elites will be more threatened by the allocation-of-losses, which is bound to occur when notional wealth in the world is more than 10X real wealth. Massive losses will be assigned all around. The losses assigned to the dead are the easiest to deal with, followed by losses assigned to the terrified. Things that kill a lot of people become attractive. People who will be able to pursue their interests without effective coercion become a major threat to those who seek to maintain their wealth/power, and to impose all losses on the lower economic classes (99%).
    There are threats to financial systems and currencies. Personally, I think that central banks are prepared to change over to a gold standard. They have long maintained gold-reserve parity, and bought the most gold in 2022 that they had bought since Nixon had to default on the gold-standard. This one-time adjustment would probably require a gold-price of 10X to 30X the current valuation, from what I have read. It does not require much trust. Central Bank Digital Currencies would require a lot of trust in a time of panic. Many are dubious, but central banks like the idea, because they keep getting something for nothing, and they decide how much everybody else gets, too.
    What I see as the bigger threat is the sudden discontinuities when the music stops and there is one chair per 10 players. Some players have machine-guns.
    I’m speculating on my own at this point, because I continue to see the conflicting needs of major financial owners to keep the economy going, and to keep their power and control undiminished. How can the threat to ownership be moderated so that every day it is a less threatening decision to negotiate a bit of loss of wealth, to maintain some comfortable control of relative position in the global oligarchy? Every day needs to be another day that nobody starts a nuclear war.
    The US/NATO have more and more of their remaining geopolitical eggs in the basket of this nuclear threat, since they have nuclear war, the $US global financial regime, and advanced spying and propaganda networks as their primary assets. The financial extraction of wealth from the rest of the world, which is necessary to support western economies, as they are now structured, will stop when the financial regime changes to a level field of trade under a gold-based system. There will be no long term transfers of wealth from colonies to the financial centers of empire. Imperial institutions will collapse, as happened with the break-up of the USSR. The oligarchs of our world are all taking steps to induce the first stages of collapse to happen to somebody else. The US Fed is owned by US retail and commercial banks, and is purportedly seeking to make the ECB crash first. The Fed may succeed.
    Still, implosion of political-economy in Europe does not assure the safety of American finance. European neo-colonization brings a financial collapse forward in time. How long will it be possible to hold European economies captive? Everybody knows who bombed Nordstream now, and the US/NATO want European sanctions on Russia to extend to China next? How much fear will be required to do that? What will be the economic cost of just creating that much fear?
    Is there a valid rationale?
    I’ve got a “maybe” for that. If we model an inevitable economic decline in industrial economy, as the real cost of real energy and raw-materials rises, how might this possibly be managed by those who are accustomed to being in-control? If unnecessary burdens are added to an economy, which can be removed later, then an economy is pre-choked, with an option to un-choke later. It is widely-observed that most green-economy measures like electric-cars and biofuels actually use a little more carbon and cause a little more pollution when the whole production-to-landfill cycle is analyzed. There are political interests pointing this out, saying that these green-mandates restrict economic-growth, and they are right. They assume that growth of the real economy will continue to be possible on this finite planet with declining oil, gas, coal and minerals. Probably not…

    So, for those who cannot countenance a world where they are not the owners, we have the mysteriously rising excess deaths, each one the end of a claim against future wealth, which would compete with them. There are brakes on the productive economy of the USA, via outsourcing production, and mandating inefficient battery-car and electric-grid changes. Those changes will not be possible, and when the mandates are lifted, there will be some economic relief in the declining real economy. That is sort of a control lever. Those benefits would take years of re-tooling, which has energy and materials costs. At any rate, it is possible to modulate a gradual decline of industrial economy up and down at any given point in time to get political buy-in. The dead don’t get a say…

    What about that imposition of losses? It’s really unjust to impose excess-death increases upon populations through secretly slow-poisoning them with a mandated “medical treatment”. It occurred to me that this very mechanism, creeping towards the light of dawn, would be a potential mechanism of managing the imposition of vast losses of notional wealth in favor of non-elites,”vaccine victims”. If it becomes accepted that the global mandates of gene-therapy Vaccine-products were a criminal conspiracy, a series of war-crimes against humanity, then it would facilitate reparations. If 90% of notional-wealth is to disappear, then those who participated could be forced to take the first round of losses, not (surviving) pensioners and current workers.
    This would imply a change in the management of the power structure. Top level owners are good at avoiding loss of wealth, but this is also an unprecedented situation in the world.
    #250: The Surplus Energy Economy, part 5

    #130653
    John Day
    Participant

    Richard Heinberg looks at the looming debt crisis, the music stopping in that game of musical chairs. He points out a category of debt called “Theft Debt”, which is debts that never could be repaid, Ponzi schemes, but also the debts of wealthy countries to poorer countries, who send resources and labor for promised eventual reward, and the theft from future generations, nature and other species, all “legal”… He looks at US Federal Debt, the service of which is a small part of the budget, but growing inevitably now. It must be paid by law. How will that work? He makes the point that learning to get by with less is the best lesson, the one that is not a trick, not a manipulation.

    Museletter #359: Converging Debt Crises

    The Consciousness Of Sheep looks at this same breakdown of economies of scale at low energy prices, giving a different assessment of the viability of the communications industry business model for the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Paradise Postponed
    The communications sector faces an even worse death spiral than those opening up elsewhere in the economy. This is because a large part of communications – along with the technologies that might require 5G – are entirely discretionary. I might need access to a phone for emergencies. And I am currently pissed with the government and the banks for insisting I have a phone to verify online transactions. But most of the other things we do with phones, like sharing photos or watching YouTube videos, are entirely discretionary. Nor do I particularly need a refrigerator that is capable of doing shopping on my behalf, or a washing machine that I can operate from the other side of the planet. And don’t get me started on the complete waste of time and energy that is the proposed “metaverse.”
    ​ ​Crucially, as is the case in all death spirals, the communications networks depend upon mass use in order to remain profitable. That is, it is only because enough of us use our phones to watch videos, record our exercise routines, and do our online banking, that the communications industry can keep prices affordable to a critical mass of consumers. But rising energy, food and resource costs is forcing a majority of the population of Europe to abandon discretionary spending of all kinds in favour of maintaining essentials. And so, while communications “can” – in a legal sense – pass on their rising costs, economically they cannot because they will drive consumption down and thus lose the critical mass required to remain profitable.
    ​ ​The advocates of the third disruption will no doubt claim that this is merely about the correct allocation of money. Whether through a socialist redistribution of wealth or a fascist programable basic income, so long as we put enough money in the hands of ordinary people, they will continue to consume. This though, is also a mirage. Money has no intrinsic value but is merely a claim on future energy and resources. Indeed, the only thing which gives money its value is our shared belief that those resources will be there in future – which is why, by the way, governments and central bankers are so scared of inflation. But the situation we now find ourselves in is precisely that the energy and resources our currency is based upon are not there anymore – at least, not in the quantities and at the price we depend upon.

    Paradise postponed

    ​ There are a lot of situational uncertainties. 2023 seems to have been dubbed “the year of poly-crisis”, which might keep most of us off-balance, or on-our-toes.​
    Ukraine is reportedly poised to invade Transnistria, the Russian-area isolated between Ukraine and Moldova from the break-up of the USSR. “Moldovans” are supposed to attack from the other side, which actual Moldovans have never wanted to do, and are not prepared to do, so they will be soldiers from somewhere, advancing through Moldova. At the same time, secret negotiations between the US/NATO and Russia are reportedly underway, and officially denied. Threats may be raised for bargaining pressure in such a setting, like the western threat to attack Crimea. It is almost mud-season on the European steppes again.

    It is hard to see what the rational intentions of the western financial and power elites may be in the current rapid-escalation of multiple crises, but Andrew Korybko tries, and he takes a different position than I have seen. Korybko makes the case that a Tri-Polar world is arising with “The Golden Billion” in the western camp, including neo-colonized Europe, which ahs been attacked to break it away from Russia, the “Russian-Chinese Entente”, where China has been trying to maintain a mutually beneficial relationship with the “Golden Billion”, but may now be unable to maintain that. That will “necessitate” EU “sanctions against China”, which will be another attack on neo-colonized Europe, just as “Russian sanctions” have been.
    What Korybko presents differently is the third pole of this global tripod, as being led by India, firmed up in the effective Global South Conference of January 12-13, 2023. The third pole will include India, Brazil, Iran, Turkey the BRICS and the SCO in a forum which will serve their national interests, not merely financial and military, but cultural and civilizational. India as the leader of this movement is a hypothesis which I will be keeping in mind and watching for as history unfolds.

    Tri-Multipolarity

    Pepe Escobar explores the complex relationships of the 12th Valdai conference, preferring that “Middle East” be properly referred to as “West Asia”:
    ​ ​Kayhan Barzegar of Islamic Azad University in Iran qualified the two major strategic developments affecting West Asia: a possible US retreat and a message to regional allies: “You cannot count on our security guarantees.”
    ​ ​Every vector – from rivalry in the South Caucasus to the Israeli normalization with the Persian Gulf – is subordinated to this logic, notes Barzegar, with quite a few Arab actors finally understanding that there now exists a margin of maneuver to choose between the western or the non-western bloc.
    ​ ​Barzegar does not identify Iran-Russia ties as a strategic alliance, but rather a geopolitical, economic bloc based on technology and regional supply chains – a “new algorithm in politics” – ranging from weapons deals to nuclear and energy cooperation, driven by Moscow’s revived southern and eastward orientations. And as far as Iran-western relations go, Barzegar still believes the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, is not dead. A least not yet.

    ​ ​Egyptian Ramzy Ramzy, until 2019 the UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, considers the reactivation of relations between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE with Syria as the most important realignment underway in the region. Not to mention prospects for a Damascus-Ankara reconciliation. “Why is this happening? Because of the regional security system’s dissatisfaction with the present,” Ramzy explains.
    ​ ​Yet even if the US may be drifting away, “neither Russia nor China are willing to take up a leadership role,” he says. At the same time, Syria “cannot be allowed to fall prey to outside interventions. The earthquake at least accelerated these rapprochements.”
    ​ ​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.

    https://thecradle.co/article-view/22167/the-valdai-meeting-where-west-asia-meets-multipolarity

    #130654
    aspnaz
    Participant

    DBS said

    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..

    My rants are injuring Jewish children? Wow, I never knew there were Jewish children reading TAE.

    All groups have their elite classes and it is mainly the elite classes that run the groups. Take the British and their empire, was the East India Company a reflection of all British prople, including British children, or was it just the greedy British elites grabbing what they could steal. The result was an empire, a British empire, but did the British children have anything to do with that empire or do they just get dragged into the fray because they are British – and now labelled white supremecists. As for the Jews, they have their elites and those people form the basis of what people in the world will think of the Jews. The theft of Palestine was done by elite Jews, regardless of whether they are practicing or not is irrelevant, in the same way as the people in the East India company were Christians, regardless of whether they were practising or not. The Jews in Israel are heavily supported by the elite Jews in America and vice versa. I don’t care which ones are practicing, which ones are “real” Jews, that is for them to sort out – none of my business – but they all identify as a part of that group and their land, Israel, also identifies them as Jews. Your argument about whether they are real of not is like an argument about whether Church of England are real Christians because they are not Catholics. I don’t care, they are all Christians to me because the people who decide who are Christians – the elite Chiristians – say that is so. The elite Jews say all these people are Jews, so they all gain the protection of the anti-semitism laws and they all get the right to live in Israel. Sure, some Jews will get dragged into the classification of Jews although they do not agree with what their elites are doing. I am sure it was the same when the East India Company was pillaging, but it makes no difference to the victims, they are all victims of the British and today we are all victims of the Jews. I really don’t care how you try to pretend that these people are fake Jews, although language is constantly changing, the word Jew today includes the people who are identified as Jews by Israel. If you think the real Jews are victims then they can break away from the Israel Jews and let everybody know that they are different and reject Zionism and support the Palestinian right to live in Palestine, you know, all those political viewpoints that do not exist in any of the Jews in congress.

    The judicious truth is that these “real” Jews that you talk of do not stand up for themselves, they do not sponsor politicians to support their views, so why should I stand up for them? To me the distinction between real and fake Jews is a straw man argument, plain bullshit, mostly because actions are what counts and these two groups are not fighting each other outside their comfortable Jew enclaves. Talk is one thing, but unless it is backed by action, it is not really what people believe.

    #130655
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr D said

    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.

    But their culture is Christian, their moral framework is Christian. I have lived in Muslim countries and you really need to educate yourself on the different ways different religious people think and behave before you assume that the Christian culture of the west somehow not real just because a person is not a practicing Christian. In an earlier post you stated that Dr John Day is not Bush even though they are both associated with Texas: no, they are not the same, but Dr JD respects the military service of Tulsi Gabbard which helped Bush to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people who were no threat to the USA. Dr JD has the same “military is good service” thinking that Bush does, he thinks it was good for Gabbard to serve to defend his country, even though there was no “defend” involved, it was all rape, pillage and murder.

    The same with the Jews, they have their culture, they have their values, their own way of behaving towards each other and the outside world and you saying that because they are not practicing that they somehow lose all that culture drilled into them from birth, is pure nonsense.

    I gather from your posts that you are a practicing religious person. It appears to me that you have a chip on your shoulder about people identifying as your religion because they are not practicing the way you think they should practice in order to qualify as being of your religion. Sorry, but the world dosn’t work that way, religions such as Christianity allow people to choose how to practice their religion, religions such as Islam do not provide that flexibility. Just because you don’t approve does not make them any less a devout follower than you.

    #130656
    aspnaz
    Participant

    D Benton Smith said

    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.

    Just a bruise, it will heal. I would like to say that on the other hand, my ego is looking very svelt and taned, but I cannot as my gut tells me that AFKTT is up to no good supporting the CO2 business paradigm, the basically false core of the corporate green movement, while claiming to not support the oligarchs.

    #130657
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @Dr John Day: I apologise if I appear to be having a go at you re. Tulsi Gabbard. I am using you as an example of how people have viewpoints that are maybe contradictory to their values or not what they would necessarily choose to support, the viewpoint being the result of their cultural heritage.

    A more extreme example would be me saying that I understand why non-elite Jewish people in Israel would steal the homes of Palestinians. Why would a normal good person steal someone else’s home. The main reason is that the elites of that group support such actions and couch the justification to the common people in terms that make the people think they are not being bad by stealing someone else’s house. They are as brainwashed as the people who support the vaccines or woke and although they may have nagging doubts, they soon override those because it is easy and society supports them.

    #130658
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Curlene48

    I think a careful reread of my comments regarding Jews would show that I’m on your side of the argument. I am not prejudiced against any particular race or religion. I’m prejudiced against certain types of behavior REGARDLESS of race or religion, and therefore object to bad-actors hiding behind an ethnic or religious “Get Out of Jail Free Card” at the expense of the good people of that race, ethnicity or religious faith. I think that bad-actors who do that are fair game to call out and criticize, not just for their other crimes, but for the sneaky and harmful way that they attempt to evade justice.

    With that one minor adjustment I basically agree with the entirety of what you wrote in comment #130650.

    #130659
    aspnaz
    Participant

    DBS said

    bad-actors hiding behind an ethnic or religious “Get Out of Jail Free Card”

    Jews have “anti-semitism” laws (worst racism crime), brown and black have “racism” laws (second worst racism crime), white have no racism protection (free for all). You object to people, as you say, hiding behind anti-semitism laws but you refuse to call them out on it because it may hurt Jewish children? Instead you will permit these people to promote child sex changes, promote naked men in children’s changing rooms etc? Whatever.

    How do you propose that the people of the USA should get rid of the people, as you say, hiding as Jews? Obviously not mentioning it and pretending they are not real Jews is the first step in your approach, but then what?

    #130660
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Crooke’s weekly, … biggish snip:

    Just as with lockdown, governments have used behavioural psychology to instil fear and isolation to mass large groups of people into herds, where toxic sneering at any contrariness cold-shoulders all critical thinking or analysis. It is more comfortable being inside the herd, than out.

    The dominant characteristic here is remaining loyal to the group – even when the policy is working badly and its consequences disturb the conscience of members. Loyalty to the group becomes the highest form of morality. That loyalty requires each member to avoid raising controversial issues, questioning weak arguments, or calling a halt to wishful thinking.

    The ‘Groupthink’ allows some self-imagined reality to detach; to drift further and further from any connection to reality, and then to transit into delusion – always drawing on like-minded peer cheerleaders for its validation and extended radicalisation.

    So, it’s ‘goodbye’ to traditional Intelligence! And ‘welcome’ to western Intelligence 101: Geo-Politics no longer revolves around a grasp on Reality. It is about the installation of ideological pseudo-realism – which is the universal installation of a singular groupthink, such that everyone lives passively by it, until it is far too late to change course.

    How Could Western Intelligence Have Got It Wrong, Again? They Didn’t. They Had Other Purposes

    F.S.

    #130661
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    A friend from Ohio sent me this picture from the comic section of his local paper
    DilbertNoMore

    #130662
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    mpsk said:

    ‘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.

    That is similar to the argument put forward by Derrick Jensen 15-20 years ago.

    Paraphrasing: suppose a species of aliens arrived on Earth and started chopping down trees and polluting the air and water; would you fight back?

    Suppose these aliens carried on, exterminating species after species; would you fight back?

    Suppose these aliens created numerous dead zones. Would you fight back?

    How far would you let these aliens go in their destruction of the Earth before you fought back?

    Of course, in the real world the ‘aliens’ have convinced a huge portion of the population that chopping down most of the trees, generating massive of pollution, creating mono-culture plantations, overheating the Earth via excessive fossil fuel use and putting the entire biosphere into terminal decline is a good thing that should be celebrated continuously.

    #130663
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @aspnaz

    It seems that language can be as much hinderance as it is helpful, at times, especially when feelings have been stirred up for one reason or another. I think a language glitch has occurred. But first of all, and hopefully to smooth the waters a bit , I was not intending to criticize you (which would be to accuse you of some perceived fault) I was commenting on the subject you had raised.(which was intended to expand or explore ideas.)

    Secondly, my reference to (and I quote myself), “. . . decent law abiding true-hearted Jewish children of the one and only God. . . .” , was not an allusion to persons who are physically below the age of majority, such as kids. My reference (which was admittedly too literary) was to persons who . . . as human beings . . . are thus offspring of “the one and only God” of the Universe. I meant ALL persons, of whatever age, who also happen to be Jewish by the fact that they were descended from Jewish lineage.
    As for such persons being, “. . . decent law abiding [and] true hearted . . .” I simply meant that people who are not habitual baddies ARE, for the most part, rather decent law abiding and true hearted, and therefore fully deserving of the rights, privileges and respect that is automatically due to all people of good will.

    Basically, all I’m trying to say with all this delicately diplomatic verbiage, is that it behooves us all to be mindful of people’s legitimate personal security concerns when we start mucking about in all of this tribal stuff. People tend to be touchy on such subjects, and for damned good reasons. I do think that we DO need to talk about such matters, but to ensure that we CAN talk about them requires more care and less self-indulgence about how we express our opinions. Otherwise people tend to get upset, and that puts an end to conversation and a start to conflict.

    As regards my reference to fake Jews, I was not talking about people who are mere hypocrites or insincere posers. I meant actual and literal FAKES, meaning people who claim to be Jewish while being fully and deceitfully aware that they are something entirely and malevolently opposite. And by the way, the other religions have these jokers in the deck, too, as any moderately deep dive into the subject quickly reveals.

    #130664
    WES
    Participant

    AFKTT:

    Lol. Right now, I am praying to the CO2 gods to raise daytime high temperatures 1 degree higher, so the sap in my maple tree will start flowing again! Right now daytime high temperatures are sitting at zero or minus 1 so the sap isn’t flowing.

    #130666
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    @oxymoron #130613

    and some do murder – of innocent civilians in the 21st century, – whether they be my sister, or the family of my Syrian friends living as refugees in Germany. They also murder Jews in Israel. Go figure. I can’t.

    #130667
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    WES

    Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that.

    High CO2 = melting of ice.

    Melting of ice = ruined thermal gradient.

    Ruined thermal gradient = uncontained Jet Streams

    Uncontained Jet Streams = ‘Polar Vortexes’ -huge masses of frigid air moving into places it ‘really should not be’

    And then shortly after, a mass of tropical air.

    We’ve had ‘climate whiplash’ here, with temperatures swinging wildly between 32oC and 12oC over a matter of a few days.

    “What’s a poor boy gonna do?”

    #130680
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    AFKTT: 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?

    And here we have a self-indictment. Dismal, indeed. AFKTT is failing to distinguish between the pseudo-science of the fake “Climate Change” narrative (aka “Global Warming”), the pseudo-science of the fake Covid and “vaccine” narratives, the fake puppet-show political narratives, and the fake economic narratives. Why? It’s not clear, except that a sensible person might suspect that he has some neurotic need to believe in at least something. A fear-addiction, perhaps?
    They are all fake narratives, and those pretending to be based on “science” are the most fake of all, and the most thoroughly debunked (by actual science). Maybe AFKTT is simply unable to comprehend how science works — and that suggests he is also unable to comprehend how the so-called “real world” works. Back to kindergarten, fella…

    #130684
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @DBS When people tell me that what they wrote is not what they really meant, then I switch off and watch the cowardice.

    #130686
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @aspnaz

    And when I see that someone prefers to be mistaken than consider explanation, and would rather remain offended than accept sincere apology I simply take note of the facts and move on.

    #130713
    Curlene48
    Participant

    D Benton Smith … Okay, you are correct in that I misread your statement. Thanks for clarifying.
    I certainly agree that most people of my ethnic group are completely WRONG-HEADED apologists for Israel, and thereby help perpetuate its racist and heinous crimes against humanity. They hide behind accusations of “anti-Semitism” whenever confronted with the reality of Israel’s criminality.
    However, slinging the word “Jew” around as an insult (as in “Fauci the Jew”, which our esteemed colleague wrote a few days ago) doesn’t help any argument except the for one that the Empire of Lies, Israel, and the world-wide oligarchy wish to make.
    I read this blog for the information that Ilargi brings to light, and I find it incredibly valuable.

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