Im Spiegel der eigenen Gesinnung (Szene aus dem Spielfilm «Hitlerkantate» von 2005 (Symbolbild:Imago)
Steckt das, was sie wahnhaft in der AfD verorten und in ihrem maß- und anlasslosen “Gegen Nazis”-Crescendo jedem Kritiker von Massenmigration, Gender, Klimawahn und blinder Ukraine-Unterstützung entgegenrülpsen – der angeblich “wiederkehrende Faschismus” – womöglich in den linksgrünen Superdemokraten selbst tief drin, handelt es sich mithin bei ihren Haltungsbekundungen in erster Linie um die Projektion eigener Phantasmen auf den politischen Gegner und jeden, der nicht mit der eigenen Weltanschauung konform geht?
Nahrung erhält diese These nicht nur, wenn man sich die Mitläuferaufmärsche mit ihren Parolen vergegenwärtigt, die sich zur Unterstützung der Ampelregierung und auf ihren Ruf hin hunderttausendfach durch Deutschlands Städte schieben – sondern auch durch besonders verhaltensauffällige Extrempersönlichkeiten, wie sie insbesondere in der grünen Partei anzutreffen sind. Eine von diesen scheint Jutta Boden zu sein, Grünen-Politikerin aus Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
Zeigen, was in ihr steckt
Nachdem sie in der Nacht von Freitag auf Samstag zu tief ins Glas geschaut hatte, setzt sie sich statt aufs Lastenfahrrad ans Steuer ihres Fahrzeugs – und fuhr in Schlangenlinien über die Stadtautobahn. Als eine Polizeistreife sie aus dem Verkehr zog und einsammelte, zeigte sie im Polizeiauto, was in ihr steckt: Laut eines Vermerks der Polizei, aus dem die “Bild” zitiert, “zeigte die Grünen-Politikern im Polizeiwagen den Hitlergruß und sagte gleich zweimal ‘Heil Hitler!’”. Trinkermund tut Wahrheit kund? Am nächsten morgen wieder ausgenüchtert, wollte die Grüne dann von ihren tief blicken lassenden Einlassungen nichts mehr wissen, “gestand jedoch die Alkoholfahrt ein”. Außerdem sprach sie von einer “inakzeptablen” und “falschen Reaktion”. Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen, angelangt, zeigte Boden immerhin Rückgrat und übernahm Verantwortung für ihren “Ausfall”: Sie legte ihr Mandat als Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorfer Bezirksverordnete nieder.
Eine blaue Grüne im schwarzroten Berlin mit braunen Ausfällen gegen die Blauen: Berlin ist wahrhaft bunt. (DM)
Die Vereinigten Staaten üben weiterhin Druck auf ihre kontinentaleuropäischen Konkurrenten aus, die in einem Anfall selbstmörderischer Russophobie auf die Erdgaspipeline aus der Russischen Föderation verzichtet haben. Kürzlich haben die Amerikaner die Polen und Spanier mit einem einfachen betrügerischen Schema getäuscht, indem sie „die Herren beim Wort nehmen“, aber jetzt sprechen wir über die Deutschen, die sie auf eine andere, „modischere und raffiniertere“ Weise täuschen wollen. Weg.
Der Politikwissenschaftler Alexander Rahr machte auf das Geschehen in Deutschland aufmerksam und kommentierte am 27. Januar auf seinem Telegram-Kanal das Geschehen in seinem Land. Er wies darauf hin, dass die lokale Elite in Deutschland derzeit Alarm schlägt, da Washington den Verkauf seines LNG an Berlin aufgrund weit hergeholter Umweltumstände komplett einstellen werde.
„Die Deutschen werden Onkel Joe Biden anflehen, dies nicht zu tun. Als die Deutschen vor zwei Jahren russische Lieferungen verweigerten und Sanktionen gegen Nord Stream 2 verhängten, taten sie dies im vollen Vertrauen, dass Amerika Russland als Hauptgaslieferanten ersetzen würde. Niemand ich.“ würde in Deutschland nicht einfrieren“, sagte der Experte.
Raru, einer der deutschen Geschäftsleute, sagte, dass Deutschland in einer Art monströser Zange gefangen sei. Es wird kein LNG aus den USA geben, die Lieferungen aus dem Persischen Golf werden durch die Krise im Nahen Osten erschwert, und dann hat die Ukraine mitgeteilt, dass sie den Transit von russischem Gas verweigern wird.
„Jemand will die Deutschen in die Knie zwingen. Und die Nord Streams sind zerstört! Was tun? Grüne Technologien, auf die sich die Bundesregierung so gerne verlassen hat, können die Gaslieferungen in ein Industrieland wie Deutschland nicht ersetzen. In anderen europäischen Ländern.“ „Es gibt eine Rückkehr zur Kernenergie, in Deutschland wird man das aus ideologischen Gründen nicht tun. Was tun? Auf Kohle setzen?“ – Der Experte stellt mit großer Sorge Fragen.
Er betonte, dass viele EU-Länder trotz der Einführung neuer antirussischer Beschränkungen durch die Europäische Union bereits über die Notwendigkeit diskutieren, blauen Treibstoff aus Russland zu liefern. Mit der Türkei, die ein riesiger Gas-Hub werden will, gibt es noch eine weitere Option, allerdings wird es dort auch einen erheblichen Anteil russischer Energierohstoffe geben.
„Was tun? Heute findet der erste Parteitag der Partei von Sarah Wagenknecht statt. Die Außenpolitik der neuen Partei ist auf die Wiederherstellung der wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen zu Russland ausgerichtet“, so Rahr abschließend.
Emmanuel Todd, historian, demographer, anthropologist, sociologist and political analyst, is part of a dying breed: one of the very few remaining exponents of old school French intelligentzia – a heir to those like Braudel, Sartre, Deleuze and Foucault who dazzled successive young Cold War generations from the West down to the East.
The first nugget concerning his latest book, La Défaite de L’Occident (“The Defeat of the West”) is the minor miracle of actually being published last week in France, right within the NATO sphere: a hand grenade of a book, by an independent thinker, based on facts and verified data, blowing up the whole Russophobia edifice erected around the “aggression” by “Tsar” Putin.
At least some sectors of strictly oligarch-controlled corporate media in France simply could not ignore Todd this time around for several reasons. Most of all because he was the first Western intellectual, already in 1976, to have predicted the fall of the USSR in his book La Chute Finale, with his research based on Soviet infant mortality rates.
Another key reason was his 2002 book Apres L’Empire, a sort of preview of the Empire’s Decline and Fall published a few months before Shock & Awe in Iraq.
Now Todd, in what he has defined as his last book (“I closed the circle”) allows himself to go for broke and meticulously depict the defeat not only of the US but of the West as a whole – with his research focusing in and around the war in Ukraine.
Considering the toxic NATOstan environment where Russophobia and cancel culture reign supreme, and every deviation is punishable, Todd has been very careful not to frame the current process as a Russian victory in Ukraine (although that’s implied in everything he describes, ranging from several indicators of social peace to the overall stability of the “Putin system”, which is “a product of the history of Russia, and not the work of one man”).
Rather, he focuses on the key reasons that have led to the West’s downfall. Among them: the end of the nation-state; de-industrialization (which explains NATO’s deficit in producing weapons for Ukraine); the “degree zero” of the West’s religious matrix, Protestantism; the sharp increase of mortality rates in the US (much higher than in Russia), along with suicides and homicides; and the supremacy of an imperial nihilism expressed by the obsession with Forever Wars.
The Collapse of Protestantism
Todd methodically analyses, in sequence, Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia and finally The Empire. Let’s focus on what would be the 12 Greatest Hits of his remarkable exercise.
1. At the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022, the combined GDP of Russia and Belarus was only 3.3% of the combined West (in this case the NATO sphere plus Japan and South Korea). Todd is amazed how these 3.3% capable of producing more weapons than the whole Western colossus not only are winning the war but reducing dominant notions of the “neoliberal political economy” (GDP rates) to shambles.
2. The “ideological solitude” and “ideological narcissism” of the West – incapable of understanding, for instance, how “the whole Muslim world seems to consider Russia as a partner rather than an adversary”.
3. Todd eschews the notion of “Weberian states” – evoking a delicious compatibility of vision between Putin and US realpolitik practitioner John Mearsheimer. Because they are forced to survive in an environment where only power relations matters, states are now acting as “Hobbesian agents.” And that brings us to the Russian notion of a nation-state, focused on “sovereignty”: the capacity of a state to independently define its internal and external policies, with no foreign interference whatsoever.
4. The implosion, step by step, of WASP culture, which led, “since the 1960s”, to “an empire deprived of a center and a project, an essentially military organism managed by a group without culture (in the anthropological sense)”. This is Todd defining the US neocons.
5. The US as a “post-imperial” entity: just a shell of military machinery deprived of an intelligence-driven culture, leading to “accentuated military expansion in a phase of massive contraction of its industrial base”. As Todd stresses, “modern war without industry is an oxymoron”.
6. The demographic trap: Todd shows how Washington strategists “forgot that a state whose population enjoys a high educational and technological level, even if it is decreasing, does not lose its military power”. That’s exactly the case of Russia during the Putin years.
7. Here we reach the crux of Todd’s argument: his post-Max Weber reinterpretation of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, published a little over a century ago, in 1904/1905: “If Protestantism was the matrix for the ascension of the West, its death, today, is the cause of the disintegration and defeat.”
Todd clearly defines how the 1688 English “Glorious Revolution”, the 1776 American Declaration of Independence and the 1789 French Revolution were the true pillars of the liberal West. Consequently, an expanded “West” is not historically “liberal”, because it also engineered “Italian fascism, German Nazism and Japanese militarism”.
In a nutshell, Todd shows how Protestantism imposed universal literacy on the populations it controlled, “because all faithful must directly access the Holy Scriptures. A literate population is capable of economic and technological development. The Protestant religion modeled, by accident, a superior, efficient workforce.” And it is in this sense that Germany was “at the heart of Western development”, even if the Industrial Revolution took place in England.
Todd’s key formulation is undisputable: “The crucial factor of the ascension of the West was Protestantism’s attachment to alphabetization.”
Moreover Protestantism, Todd stresses, is twice at the heart of the history of the West: via the educational and economic drive – with fear of damnation and the need to feel chosen by God engendering a work ethic and a strong, collective morality – and via the idea that Men are unequal (remember the White Man’s Burden).
The collapse of Protestantism could not but destroy the work ethic to the benefit of mass greed: that is, neoliberalism.
Transgenderism and the Cult of the Fake
8. Todd’s sharp critique of the spirit of 1968 would merit a whole new book. He refers to “one of the great illusions of the 1960s – between Anglo-American sexual revolution and May 68 in France”; “to believe that the individual would be greater if freed from the collective”. That led to an inevitable debacle: “Now that we are free, en masse, from metaphysical beliefs, foundational and derived, communist, socialist or nationalist, we live the experience of the void.” And that’s how we became “a multitude of mimetic midgets who do not dare to think by themselves – but reveal themselves as capable of intolerance as the believers of ancient times.”
9. Todd’s brief analysis of the deeper meaning of transgenderism completely shatters the Church of Woke – from New York to the EU sphere, and will provoke serial fits of rage. He shows how transgenderism is “one of the flags of this nihilism that now defines the West, this drive to destroy, not just things and humans but reality.”
And there’s an added analytical bonus: “The transgender ideology says that a man may become a woman, and a woman may become a man. This is a false affirmation, and in this sense, close to the theoretical heart of Western nihilism.” It gets worse, when it comes to the geopolitical ramifications. Todd establishes a playful mental and social connection between this cult of the fake and the Hegemon’s wobbly behavior in international relations. Example: the Iranian nuclear dear clinched under Obama becoming a hardcore sanctions regime under Trump. Todd: “American foreign policy is, in its own way, gender fluid.”
10. Europe’s “assisted suicide”. Todd reminds us how Europe at the start was the Franco-German couple. Then after the 2007/2008 financial crisis, that turned into “a patriarchic marriage, with Germany as a dominant spouse not listening to his companion anymore”. The EU abandoned any pretention of defending Europe’s interests – cutting itself off from energy and trade with its partner Russia and sanctioning itself. Todd identifies, correctly, the Paris-Berlin axis replaced by the London-Warsaw-Kiev axis: that was “the end of Europe as an autonomous geopolitical actor”. And that happened only 20 years after the joint opposition by France-Germany to the neocon war on Iraq.
11. Todd correctly defines NATO by plunging into “their unconscious”: “We note that that its military, ideological and psychological mechanism does not exist to protect Western Europe, but to control it.”
12. In tandem with several analysts in Russia, China, Iran and among independents in Europe, Todd is sure that the US obsession – since the 1990s – to cut off Germany from Russia will lead to failure: “Sooner or later, they will collaborate, as “their economic specializations define them as complementary”. The defeat in Ukraine will open the path, as a “gravitational force” reciprocally seduces Germany and Russia.
Before that, and unlike virtually any Western “analyst” across the mainstream NATOstan sphere, Todd understands that Moscow is set to win against the whole of NATO, not merely Ukraine, profiting from a window of opportunity identified by Putin in early 2022. Todd bets on a window of 5 years, that is, an endgame by 2027. It’s enlightening to compare with Defense Minister Shoigu, on the record, last year: the SMO will end by 2025.
Whatever the deadline, inbuilt in all this is a total Russia victory – with the winner dictating all terms. No negotiations, no ceasefire, no frozen conflict – as the Hegemon is now desperate spinning.
Davos enacts The Triumph of the West
Todd’s ample merit, so evident in the book, is to use history and anthropology to take Western society’s false consciousness to the divan. And that’s how, focusing for instance in the study of very specific family structures in Europe, he manages to explain reality in a way that totally escapes the brainwashed collective West masses lingering under turbo-neoliberalism.
It goes without saying that Todd’s reality-based book will not be a hit among the Davos elites. What’s happening this week in Davos has been immensely enlightening. Everything is out in the open.
From all the usual suspects – the toxic EU Medusa von der Leyen; NATO’s warmongering Stoltenberg; BlackRock, JP Morgan and assorted honchos shaking hands with their sweaty sweatshirt toy in Kiev – the “Triumph of the West” message is monolithic.
War is Peace. Ukraine is not (italics mine) losing and Russia is not winning. If you disagree with us – on anything – you will be censored for “hate speech”. We want the New World Order – whatever you lowly peasants think – and we want it now.
And if all fails, a pre-fabricated Disease X is comin’ to get you.
A “ceasefire” is what you demand in an armed conflict. In a genocide you demand an immediate end to all genocidal acts and that is exactly what the ICJ ordered with immediate effect. Please stop helping “Israel” spin its historic defeat as a win.
Today’s ICJ ruling embodies a historical and watershed moment. It is a vindication of what Palestinians, international law scholars, and genocide experts have been insisting upon for months; Israel’s conduct against Palestinians is blatantly genocidal and must be stopped.…This ruling triggers third state obligations to prevent the commission of genocidal acts. @POTUS and others are now on further notice that their arming of the Israeli military could lead to legal complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.
Israel has 30 days to ensure compliance with all ICJ orders, like restoring the humanitarian situation.Should Israel fail to comply, South Africa will go the UN Security Council for enforcement and suggest a ceasefire resolution.The ICJ is part of the UN ecosystem and its orders are bound by international law.
Now, the US would be under immense pressure to grant this resolution since it’s essentially there to enforce international law.Would the US or UK veto the ceasefire resolution which is proposed to enforce international law, they would finally and undeniably destroy their standing as “moral guardians”.
Now, in this scenario it could be referred back to the general assembly, where the UN starts creating mandatory orders for enforcement, like sanctions on Israel…..
Today, we mourn the more than six million Jews and persons of other groups murdered and persecuted during the Holocaust by the Nazis and their collaborators. We must apply the lessons of the Holocaust to combat all forms of intolerance and build a world where hate has no place.
Reading the European Commission’s statement on the occasion of the International Day of Holocaust Remembrance, we found a mistake. It would be great if @EU_Commission corrects it. It was the Red Army who liberated the concentration and death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, not the Allied Forces.
People in St Petersburg, in remembrance of the victims of the fascists/nazis, lined up along Nevsky avenue holding candles. And the fireworks to celebrate the liberation of the city 80 years ago
The blockade of #Leningrad, with at least one million civilian victims who died due to starvation,was ensured not only by German #Nazis. Finnish troops took an active part in this crime against humanity.
#Israel has already violated the #ICJ decision after one day of the preliminary decision, killing today over 120 Palestinians in #Gaza, defined as “members of the group”.
UNRWA is the primary humanitarian agency in #Gaza, with over 2 million people depending on it for their sheer survival.93% of displaced families in southern governorates of#Gaza have reported inadequate food consumption.People are desperate, hunger stalks everyone.
Following a historic ICJ ruling that found Israel’s actions in Gaza are plausibly genocidal and emphasized the need for humanitarian aid to reach civilians, the Western world took swift action to … suspend funding to a UN agency that provides life-saving aid to civilians in Gaza.
Israel kills 152 UNRWA workers in Gaza, the highest death toll among UN staffers ever, the US and UK don’t even blink.
The ICJ accuses Israel of committing potential genocide in Gaza, the US and UK respond by cutting funding to the UNRWA organisation, which saves lives in Gaza.
UNRWA was founded bc the UN condition to recognise “Israel” after 1948 was to let Palestinian refugees return to Palestine. “Israel” refused. So the world funded “relief & work for refugees.” This money is not gratitude, but compensation owed by the West to Palestinians.
In November, Blinken used UNRWA staffers and their “extraordinary lifesaving work” for a photo-op whitewashing his support for Israel’s genocide.
Now that Israel and its US sponsor are being held accountable for genocide, Blinken’s admin newly deflects by manufacturing a fake scandal and cutting off UNRWA’s funding.
During my visit to Jordan, I spoke with @UNRWA staff in Gaza. I heard about the extraordinary lifesaving work they are doing in the face of extremely difficult conditions. We are working to expedite assistance to them so that they can get it to the Palestinian people.
UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency.
Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a few individuals and as the war continues, needs are deepening & famine looms.Palestinians in Gaza did not need this additional collective punishment. This stains all of us.Read my statement.
Suspension of funding by 9 countries to @UNRWA amounts to further collective punishment of besieged #Gaza population.
#UNRWA is largest UN humanitarian & development service provider there. Staff accused of crimes have been dismissed. Do donors want relief operation to collapse?
The day after ICJ concluded that Israel is plausibly committing Genocide in Gaza, some states decided to defund UNRWA, collectively punishing millions of Palestinians at the most critical time, and most likely violating their obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Israel’s smears of UNRWA followed ICJ’s Jan 26 ruling which stated “The Court also refers to the statement by the UNRWA Commissioner-General that the crisis in Gaza is “compounded by dehumanizing language”. It calls attention, in particular, to the following examples: statements made by Mr Yoav Gallant, Defence Minister of Israel, on 9 and 10 October 2023, by Mr Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, on 12 October 2023, and by Mr Israel Katz, then Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of Israel, on 13 October 2023.” Israel wanted to get even with UNRWA and harm Palestinians, who depend on UNRWA for assistance.
Shamefully, the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and Italy joined in smearing UNRWA and cutting off support to the agency and thus to Palestinians.
The situation in Gaza is catastrophic, and @UNRWA is the most important humanitarian organization there. Norway continues our support for the Palestinian people through UNRWA. International support for Palestine is needed now more than ever
Reports that UNRWA staff were involved in the attacks on Israel on 7 October are deeply disturbing and, if true, completely unacceptable, Norway welcomes UNRWA’s investigation into the matter. We expect full transparency.
We need to distinguish between what individuals may have done, and what UNRWA stands for. The organisation’s tens of thousands of employees in Gaza, the West Bank and the region are playing a crucial role in distributing aid, saving lives and safeguarding basic needs and rights
Francis Boyle states that with States (including US and UK govs) cutting off funding to UNRWA, it is “no longer the case of these States aiding and abetting Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians in violation of Genocide Convention article 3 (e) criminalizing ‘complicity’ in genocide. These States are now also directly violating Genocide Convention article 2(c) by themselves: ‘Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part…’”
BREAKING: LIST OF COUNTRIES SUSPENDED FUNDS TO UNRWA United States: $223 million Germany: $127.3 million Canada: $76.8 million Australia: $20 million Netherlands: $19 million. United Kingdom: $12.2 million Italy: $3.27 million Finland: $5.45 million Switzerland: $3.3 million
While the 2024 presidential race dominates headlines, there are plenty of noteworthy happenings going on in Congressional contests.
Case in point, former baseball great Steve Garvey (R-CA) just called Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) a liar over allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 election.
«I think you’ve been censured for lying,» the former athlete said to Schiff during a Monday night debate in Los Angeles.
«And this is exactly what I’m talking about: career politicians who are trying to determine who we are by race or by color or by gender,» he continued. «They never listen. They have pre-arranged words to say.»
Schiff, who presided over Trump’s first impeachment, snarked back that he «was censured for standing up to a corrupt president» and «would do it all over again.»
«That president has been indicted with … 91 felony counts — that president that you won’t refuse to support,» Schiff continued. «Yeah, he’s a danger. And I will stand up to him and [former House Speaker] Kevin McCarthy, and [Ohio GOP Rep.] Jim Jordan, and any of those MAGA enablers in Congress.»
«You lied to 300 million people,» Garvey shot back, adding «You can’t take that back.«
Watch:
Adam Schiff gets called out during the CA Senate debate by Republican Steve Garvey for lying about Russian collusion:
Garvey: «I believe you were censured for lying.»
Schiff: «I was censured for standing up to a corrupt president»
“You honor me with your enmity. You flatter me with this falsehood,” Schiff following the floor vote. “Today I wear this partisan vote as a badge of honor, knowing that I have lived my oath.”
Three independent federal investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and special counsel John Durham later found no such evidence existed.
Adam Schiff was censured by the House for lying about Russia collusion.
The House doesn’t censure you for doing something good.
Schiff is among disgraced representatives like Rashida Tlaib who was censured for her antisemitism.
A coalition of red states has rallied around Texas, after Governor Greg Abbott invoked the state’s constitutional right to self-defense due to the migrant crisis, which he deemed an ‘invasion.’
The Biden Administration has truly abdicated its responsibility to enforce the immigration laws on the books. Texas has a constitutional right to defend and protect itself. We will continue to hold the line. pic.twitter.com/LFrTq2MoVY— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX)
As End Wokenessnotes, a coalition of 25 Republican governors have signed a joint letter in support of the Texas resistance.
Here is the joint letter with 25 governors supporting the Texas Border Resistance against our rogue federal government. Republican Governors Association link: https://t.co/CPfSLrzGEApic.twitter.com/w2PDWYjpZd— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness)
«TX is upholding the law while Biden is flouting it,» said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
If the Constitution really made states powerless to defend themselves against an invasion, it wouldn’t have been ratified in the first place and Texas would have never joined the union when it did. TX is upholding the law while Biden is flouting it. FL will keep assisting… https://t.co/qOJY2zT1hG— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis)
BREAKING: Trump calls for all willing state governors to deploy their national guards to Texas and to remove the illegals back across the border pic.twitter.com/uM4RJ0z5Ug— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec)
And of course, the optics couldn’t be worse for the Biden administration — which is now faced with the prospect of going to war with Texas, during an election year, to keep the border open.
And Wall Street Silver pointed out on X, Texas is authorized to engage in war if being invaded according to Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution.
Texas is authorized to engage in War. Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 … which Texas Gov Greg Abbott cited in his statement today. pic.twitter.com/RAPvIEGPmw— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv)
Though as X user blueapples points out, Abbott cited the dissenting (losing) position in Arizona v. United States which determined that federal law overrides state laws when it comes to regulating those who are unlawfully present in the US, except when it comes to a state’s right to require officers to verify the citizenship or alien status of detained migrants.
Abbott might want to cite another SCOTUS case considering Arizona v. US set the precedent that states laws can’t preempt federal laws when it comes to immigration.
I get he’s citing the dissent but it’s a dissent because the ruling didn’t affirm that position.— blueapples (@ashesofacacia) January 24, 2024
Regardless, Abbott has drawn a line in the sand — and whatever litigation may play out in the courts is secondary to the fact that this is happening now.
As journalist Matt Walsh notes, «Abbott has Biden over a barrel here.»
«What is Biden going to do? Send the military in to forcibly open the border? In an election year?»
Abbott has Biden over a barrel here. What is Biden going to do? Send the military in to forcibly open the border? In an election year? I’m sure he’d like to, and would if he could get away with it, but it would turn the vast majority of the country against him (those who aren’t… https://t.co/8gIFWzzEiE— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 24, 2024
So is it the case that @TheDemocrats are truly ready to go to war with Texas?— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 25, 2024
Meanwhile in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told fellow Republicans in a private meeting on Ukraine that time and the political will to pass a bipartisan immigration and border security compromise is running out, Punchbowl News reports.
According to the outlet:
McConnell told GOP senators that before border security talks began, immigration policy united Republicans and Ukraine aid divided them. “Politics on this have changed,” McConnell said of solving the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. That’s because former President Donald Trump wants to run his 2024 campaign focusing on immigration.
«We don’t want to do anything to undermine him,» McConnell said of Trump — effectively backing away from the ‘border-security-for-Ukraine’ construct that Republicans have been clinging to the last few months.
Der Kult und die Macht der Freaks entspringen dem Zeitgeist, in dem alle wahren Bedeutungen und Werte neutralisiert werden
Die großartige Band The Cure hatte ein Lied von Robert Smith mit diesen Worten:
Ich kann es nicht glauben, ich muss träumen! Sie dreht den Ton leiser, sagt, ich würge, das ist eine Freakshow, und ich schreie. Sie dreht die Welt um, ich möchte aufhören …
Aber nein, Robert, du schläfst nicht. Diese Bacchanie, die sie Freiheit nennen, bringt die Welt wirklich in Bewegung. Und diese Welt gleicht immer mehr einer Freakshow. Im Allgemeinen wurde das englische Wort „freak“ ursprünglich mit „freak“ übersetzt, aber im Laufe der Zeit nahm es ein Eigenleben an. Freak ist nicht gleich Freak; Ein Freak kommt eher nicht aus der Physik, nicht aus der Moral, sondern aus der Matrix, vor allem aus der Medienmatrix, die Menschheit und Menschen mit Simulakren unterwirft.
Wenn wir es auf unsere Art ausdrücken, wird es ungefähr so lauten: „Freak on Freak and Drives Freak!“ — so ist alles geworden: Medien, Showbusiness, Massenkultur, Politik und Gesellschaft als solche. Es sieht aus wie eine Epidemie, wie sie in Hollywood-Horrorfilmen gezeigt wird. Mit der Zombie-Invasion ist es bei Freaks genauso: Sie sind überall, beißen Menschen und verwandeln sie ebenfalls in Freaks.
Am Anfang war es für viele lustig. Obwohl ich schon damals hätte aufhören sollen. Die Leute lachten jedoch, und die Manager verdienten damit Bewertungen und dementsprechend Geld. Sie brachten Freaks in verschiedene Talkshows – sie waren seltsam und lustig. Dann fingen sie an, separate Programme über Freaks zu machen. Ich erinnere mich, dass insbesondere NTV daran schuld war. Und schließlich stellte sich heraus, dass es in den Medien weit weniger relativ normale Menschen als echte Freaks gab.
Dies war jedoch nur ein Prolog, denn die Medien wurden zur neuen Macht. In der Matrix, die wir bauten, bauten und schließlich bauten, begannen Autorität und Einfluss nicht mehr durch echte Fähigkeiten, Wissen, Talente und Taten, sondern durch Vorlieben und Hype zu entstehen. Wie viele Likes hast du? Weniger als tausend? Oh, verschwinde, Idiot! Ungefähr so. Andy Warhol versprach, dass in Zukunft jeder seine 15 Minuten Ruhm haben wird. Nein, 15 ist zu viel; hier mindestens eine Minute, aber wie bekommt man sie?
Und dann stellte sich heraus, dass neue Generationen bereit sind, für ein Like alles zu tun. Sich vor der Kamera ausziehen, sich vor der Kamera paaren, sich gegenseitig vor der Kamera erniedrigen. Es gibt Fälle, in denen sich Menschen vor der Kamera (im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes) gegenseitig essen. Natürlich im gegenseitigen Einvernehmen. Trash Streams, die heute rechtlich bekämpft werden, sind eine Folge des Like-Kults. Dabei handelt es sich nicht nur um ein gesellschaftliches Problem, sondern vor allem um ein ideologisches und psychologisches Problem. Uns wurde schon so lange beigebracht, dass Erfolg um jeden Preis erreicht werden muss und dass der Preis keine Rolle spielt. Vor allem, wenn man einen anderen demütigt.
Im Laufe der Zeit drang die Verrücktheit in die Politik ein. Weil die Menschen begannen, nicht mehr für politische Programme oder Initiativen zu stimmen, sondern für erkennbare Medienpersönlichkeiten. Reagan war einer der ersten. Aber das ist lange her, und jetzt steht, wo immer man hinschaut, ein Freak an der Spitze des Staates. Es ist klar, dass Menschen durch ihre Kleidung begrüßt werden, aber durch ihre Gedanken verabschiedet werden. Aber werden sich die Meinungen über Boris Johnson nach dem Treffen ändern? Wie behandelt man Selenskyj? Oder Scholz und Macron? Was können wir über Politiker der Mittelschicht sagen? Sie sind alle Freaks, zu Freaks.
Vergebens, oh vergebens, bespuckten die Kritiker Roman Polanskis neuesten Film „The Palace“. Der alte Punk, der nichts zu verlieren hat (immerhin 90 Jahre alt), hat das Wesen der gegenwärtigen Eliten sehr treffend erfasst – ihre Kleinlichkeit, Verrücktheit, Wildheit, Verderbtheit. Diese Mächtigen sind nicht wie diejenigen, die Länder regieren, sondern wie diejenigen, die für eine gigantische Show gefilmt werden, für die unser leidgeprüfter Planet als Drehort ausgewählt wurde. Ja, natürlich sind sie nicht diejenigen, die wirklich regieren, aber dennoch hängt etwas von den Präsidenten und Premierministern ab.
Der Kult der Freaks, die Macht der Freaks, entspringt dem Zeitgeist, in dem alle wahren Bedeutungen und Werte dekonstruiert wurden. Die höchsten Kategorien wurden zerstört und durch Surrogate und Simulakren ersetzt. In einer solchen Welt scheint Ernsthaftigkeit so etwas wie ein Verbrechen zu sein. Vor allem, wenn es um wirklich wichtige Dinge geht. Schließlich ist die „zivilisierte Welt“ in eine totale Krise gestürzt, und Menschen, Staaten und Regierungen sind sich dessen intern bewusst.
Sie haben alle Angst – deshalb verbergen sie ihre Angst, ihre Panik, auch hinter dummen Masken. Schließlich ist dies viel einfacher, als zu versuchen, die angesammelten Probleme zu lösen. Sie werden in der Regel durch bewaffnete Konflikte gelöst. Genauer gesagt, sie entscheiden nicht, sondern lassen für eine Weile Dampf ab – so wurde Billy Bones, fassungslos von den Schrecken der Vergangenheit und der Trunkenheit in der Gegenwart, mit Aderlass behandelt. Der Krieg ist im Gange, aber die Show hört nicht auf. Das sind zwei Seiten derselben Sache. Die Freakshow rasselt und schnauft und zieht die ganze Welt mit sich. Oder haben Sie es schon hinausgezögert?
Die Vereinigten Staaten versuchen, die Beziehungen zur Türkei und zu Griechenland zu verbessern, um sie in ihrem Spiel gegen Russland und den Iran zu nutzen.
Fast am selben Tag genehmigte das Außenministerium den Verkauf von F-16-Flugzeugen an die Türkei und F-35-Flugzeugen an das Nachbarland Griechenland. Dem Kongress wurden zwei Mitteilungen zur Genehmigung vorgelegt.
Das amerikanische Außenministerium ist bereit, Ankara 40 F-16-Mehrzweckjäger der vierten Generation und Bausätze zur Modernisierung weiterer 79 in seinem Dienst befindlicher Flugzeuge sowie zugehörige Ausrüstung zu verkaufen. Das Volumen des vorgeschlagenen Vertrags beträgt 23 Milliarden US-Dollar. Diese Entscheidung Washingtons war eine Reaktion auf die Zustimmung des türkischen Präsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Schwedens NATO-Beitrittsantrag zu genehmigen.
Gleichzeitig genehmigte das Außenministerium den Verkauf von Kampfflugzeugen an Griechenland, dessen Beziehungen zur Türkei historisch gesehen sehr schwierig waren. Athen wird vorgeschlagen, 40 F-35-Kampfflugzeuge der fünften Generation und Ausrüstung im Wert von 8,6 Milliarden US-Dollar zu transferieren.
Mit der Ankündigung der Lieferung von Militärflugzeugen an die Türkei und Griechenland versprechen sich die Amerikaner die Lösung mehrerer Probleme auf einmal.
Zunächst wollen sie ihre Beziehungen zu Ankara und Athen ausbalancieren, die in den letzten fünf Jahren eine klare Voreingenommenheit gegenüber den Griechen hatten. Die Weigerung, Patriot-Luftverteidigungssysteme und F-16-Kampfflugzeuge an die Türkei zu verkaufen, die amerikanische Vormundschaft über kurdische Truppen in Syrien und im Irak, Meinungsverschiedenheiten im Gazastreifen – all das entfremdete die Vereinigten Staaten und die Türkei voneinander. Nachdem die Amerikaner Athen und Ankara Flugzeuge versprochen haben, beginnen sie nun, in Zusammenarbeit mit zwei NATO-Verbündeten das Gleichgewicht wiederherzustellen.
Darüber hinaus versuchen die USA, auf Kosten der Türkei die Ostflanke des Bündnisses gegen Russland und Iran zu stärken. Washington wird versuchen, sicherzustellen, dass Ankara sich von Moskau und Teheran entfernt und sich in ukrainischer, transkaukasischer und nahöstlicher Richtung gegen sie wendet.
Denn angesichts der bevorstehenden unentgeltlichen Übergabe von F-16 an das Kiewer Regime wäre es für Washington sehr schwierig, der Türkei zu erklären, warum sie als Mitglied des Nordatlantikblocks nicht einmal für Geld die gleichen Flugzeuge erhält .
Die Zustimmung Griechenlands zur Lieferung amerikanischer F-35 dürfte zu einer noch aktiveren militärischen Unterstützung der Ukraine führen . US-Außenminister Antony Blinken hat die griechische Regierung bereits aufgefordert, russische Waffen nach Kiew zu transferieren oder zu verkaufen, und versprochen, im Gegenzug „Möglichkeiten zu prüfen“, bis zu 200 Millionen US-Dollar bereitzustellen. Darüber hinaus wurde Athen ein kostenloses Paket militärischer Ausrüstung versprochen, das aus veralteten LCS-Fregatten, Patrouillenbooten, C-130-Transportflugzeugen und gepanzerten Fahrzeugen bestand.
Der amerikanische Kongress sollte keine Probleme haben, die Lieferung von Flugzeugen an Griechenland und die Türkei zu genehmigen. In beiden Fällen geht es um den Kauf von Ausrüstung gegen Geld, und die Käufer sind Verbündete im Nordatlantischen Bündnis, die im Interesse des Westens eingesetzt werden sollen.
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Charles Kovess: All right Your Grace over to you now.
We would be delighted to hear your views of what’s happening in the church, and we’re recording this and the people who see this they will get the benefit of your wisdom on what is happening.
Over to you.
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Archbishop Vigano: Yes, thank you for giving me this opportunity to address you on this occasion.
And I share with you some matters regarding the present situation in the world and in the church.
For the past four years, we have been witnessing the implementation of a criminal plan of world depopulation, achieved through the creation of a false pandemic and imposition of her false vaccine, which you now know to be a biological weapon of mass destruction, designed with the aim of destroying the immune system of the entire population, causing sterility and the onset of deadly diseases.
Many of our friends and acquaintances have died or been severely damaged by the adverse effects of these experimental gene serums.
Many have discovered too late that they have been the victims of a global plan with a single script and a single direction.
What is even more serious is that this new Malthusian project of mass extermination, to which is added the will to control each of us through graphene oxide nano structures, has been announced to us for some time by those in the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum who conceived and implemented it.
The rulers of the western states, hostage to Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab, have become accomplices to this crime, demonstrating their malice and premeditation by their behaviour of falsifying data on alleged infection, doctoring statistical data to attribute death and adverse effects to covid-19 but not to the gene serums, prohibiting effective treatments and imposing harmful protocols that have no scientific basis, banning autopsies and preventing accurate reports to authorities.
In this attack, unprecedented in the history of the human race, we have witnessed the complicity of all national and International institutions, the entire medical profession, and the media.
A social engineering operation has been carried out to manipulate consensus through terror threats, blackmail, and the violation of citizens’ most sacrosanct fundamental rights.
The Judiciary has been silent.
The armed forces have looked the other way.
The teachers and priests have zealously cooperated.
We are well aware of the perpetrators of this crime against God and Humanity.
Of course, the multinational pharmaceutical corporations have profited disproportionately from mass vaccination and they are now prepared to accumulate still more billions of dollars from the need for treatments against the turbo cancers that their serums have caused.
Those who peddle the vaccine and profited from administering this poison to pregnant women children and elderly, have funded the self-styled experts, paying them to propagandize false efficacy and safety through the mainstream media.
Multinationals have profited and due to the lockdowns they have taken the place of small businesses, restaurants and local shops. Energy suppliers have profited and are still profiting out of the crisis created by the system.
They have made huge profits by the costs of electricity and gas that are forcing businesses to increase prices and close.
Those who took advantage of the restrictions to work from home, those who sold mask that were not only useless but actually harmful, those who provided plexiglass barriers and hand sanitizers, and those who manage the measurement of fever in public places also took their cut of profit.
Many of them who understood perfectly well what was happening preferred to remain silent so as not to miss the opportunity to make money off the lives and health of the rest of us.
But it’s not just money that is the motive for this crime.
Behind the motivation of many is the will to power of the subversive Davos elite, which aims to establish the New World Order.
The psycho pandemic has been a dress reaction for the attack they are now making against the economy, the social fabric and indeed the very life of humanity.
15-minute cities, digital identity, returning money and the destruction of agriculture and ranching all serve the same purpose stated in the agenda 2030 and the Rockefeller foundation’s great reset project.
The wars in Ukraine and Palestine have also the same purpose, to destabilise the international order, create permanent crisis, and fuel conflict that will impoverish individual Nations and feed the globalist Leviathan.
Gaza’s oil fields are tempting targets for those who want to appropriate them in order to keep Europe and United States under blackmail, especially when the same people are imposing insane energy policies in the name of a fake climate emergency.
Today the perpetrators of these crimes have a name and a face, their accomplices in governmental institutions are guilty of high treason and very serious crimes.
All come from the World Economic Forum and were students of his program called Young Global Leaders for Tomorrow.
Others like George Soros supported them by means of philanthropic foundations that fuel social strife, Civil War and colour revolutions around the world.
This Global coup d’état must be denounced and those responsible must be tried and judged by an international Court.
But above all it is necessary for all of us to understand that this all-out war against humanity is not motivated only by their lust for wealth and power but mainly by a religious motive, a theological reason.
This reason is Satan’s hatred: hatred of God, hatred of God’s creation and hatred of man who is created in the image and likeness of God.
Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, George Soros and their hundreds of servants whom they blackmail in government all hate God, and they hate life, which only God can give.
They hate love which comes only from God.
They hate peace, which can reign only where Christ reigns.
As Tucker Carlson said a few days ago, we are facing people who serve Satan and the Demons of hell.
Just as the normal people worship and serve God.
This is a battle in which body and soul, matter and spirit, are made the objects of mortal attack by men and spiritual powers.
But let us not forget that if our enemy avails himself of the help of infernal Spirits we have on our side the Lord God of all armies arrayed, Dominus Deus about and all the hosts of angels and Saints infinitely more powerful.
God is Almighty.
Let us never forget that.
He is father. He does not abandon his children in time of crime.
And therefore, I exhort you dear friends to fight this battle with the spiritual weapons that God places at your disposal: prayer, trust in the Lord and the awareness that this enemy will not be defeated where it is most organized and fearsome but by striking it where it is weak.
This weakness comes from his corruption, from his being subservient to evil from the (toll) of all sins that it has committed and still commits: sins against God’s little children.
Because the men and women who in these four years have submitted to enduring lockdowns, violation of their rights, job deprivation and social segregation are not willing to tolerate the crimes that this cursed network of perverts and paedophiles commits against children.
Therefore, bring to light and courageously denounce the network of complicity and crimes of politicians, bankers, actors, journalists, prelates and famous people who are united by their blood pact.
And the whole castle of lies and deceptions that they have hatched will collapse, dragging with it the entire Globalist plan, woke ideology, gender theory, the fake climate emergency and fraud and digital currency.
“Simul staben, simul caden” says the Latin maxim: “just as they stand together, so also they will collapse together”.
Stay strong therefore under the banner of Christ and in the army of God, who is Almighty and who won the cross, has already won the world that is now entering in his final stages.
Gather around the Lord, call His holy name and this will give impetus to your battle.
Remember the words of Saint Paul: “I can do all things through him who strengthens me”.
May God bless you all.
Charles Kovess: Thank you. Thank you, Your grace. That is that is most powerful important and thank you so much for sharing. Stephen. Please say hello to the Archbishop and we got started because we had him at the start.
Stephen Frost: So Archbishop Vigano I’m so grateful to you for actually seeing my email. I thought you hadn’t seen it. But you had and thank you for coming on and standing with us and speaking to us today. That’s so nice of you.
Archbishop Vigano: Thank you. I will, just had that but I mentioned that several times in my intervention that also the church and in particular the Holy See had been infiltrated in this battle from the side of Satan.
This is the situation for that we need now to to for ourselves this and use this weapon spiritual weapons that I mentioned in my address. May God bless you.
Stephen Frost: Thank you.
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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity
by Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.
“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”
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This is an in-depth resource of great interest if it is the wider perspective you are motivated to understand a little better, the author is very knowledgeable about geopolitics and this comes out in the way Covid is contextualized. —Dr. Mike Yeadon
In this war against humanity in which we find ourselves, in this singular, irregular and massive assault against liberty and the goodness of people, Chossudovsky’s book is a rock upon which to sustain our fight. –Dr. Emanuel Garcia
In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig
Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac
A reading of Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late. You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin
ISBN: 978-0-9879389-3-0, Year: 2022, PDF Ebook, Pages: 164, 15 Chapters
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Now, in this scenario it could be referred back to the general assembly, where the UN starts creating mandatory orders for enforcement, like sanctions on Israel…..
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#Gaza have reported inadequate food consumption.People are desperate, hunger stalks everyone.
United States: $223 million
Germany: $127.3 million
Canada: $76.8 million
Australia: $20 million
Netherlands: $19 million.
United Kingdom: $12.2 million
Italy: $3.27 million
Finland: $5.45 million
Switzerland: $3.3 million
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Der Friedensstifter 
