Russia has completed on December 12, 2023, the cleansing of Marinka, where the Atlanticist forces were entrenched since 2014, in the southwestern suburb of Donetsk.
A video surfaces on December 14, is showing an ablaze French VAB armored personnel carrier (APC) in the same area.
Am 10. Dezember wurden von einer Initiative von Kritikern der Corona-Maßnahmen (ZAAVV) beim Generalbundesanwalt in Karlsruhe 592 Strafanzeigen gegen öffentlich Verantwortliche wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit eingereicht. Ca. 6.000 Menschen nahmen daran teil. Die Strafanzeigen betreffen 568 Mitglieder des Bundestages, 15 Mitglieder des Bundesrates, den Bundespräsidenten und acht Richter des Bundesverfassungsgerichts. In der anschließenden Pressekonferenz hat der Hauptinitiator, Rechtsanwalt Ralf Ludwig, für die sich auf das Völkerstrafgesetzbuch stützenden Strafanzeigen eine ausführliche Begründung entwickelt, wovon wir wegen der großen Bedeutung der Sache das Wesentliche nachfolgend darstellen.
(Auf dem Platz der Menschenrechte in Karlsruhe treffen sich am 10. Dezember 2023 Tausende Menschen zur Übergabe von Strafanzeigen an den Generalbundesanwalt. Foto: privat – Epoch Times)
Von den totalitären Corona-Maßnahmen des Staates, mit denen die unabänderlichen demokratischen Grundrechte zum großen Teil ganz oder teilweise außer Kraft gesetzt wurden, ragt besonders die einrichtungsbezogene Impfpflicht hervor, die vom 16. März bis 31. Dezember 2022 für den Gesundheits- und Pflegebereich galt. Beschäftigte in diesen Einrichtungen mussten nachweisen, dass sie geimpft oder genesen waren oder aus medizinischen Gründen nicht geimpft werden konnten. Wer dem nicht nachkam, erhielt Bußgelder, Betretungsverbote oder wurde schließlich gekündigt.
Beim Beschluss dieses Gesetzes war den Bundestag-Abgeordneten bekannt, dass schon Menschen an der mRNA-„Impfung“ gestorben waren und dass weitere daran sterben würden. Und das Paul-Ehrlich-Institut geht am 31.März 2023, so RA Ralf Ludwig auf der Demo, auch von 127 Menschen aus, die durch die Impfung gestorben sind, obwohl die Zahlen in der Realität noch viel höher seien. Doch „127 Menschen sind 127 Menschen zu viel, weil ein Staat keine unschuldigen Menschen töten und eine Pflicht einführen darf, bei der er weiß, dass am Ende auch nur ein einziger Mensch schwer geschädigt oder sterben kann“, habe RA Ralf Ludwig betont (epochtimes.de). Um diese die Menschenwürde verachtende Grenzüberschreitung der Verantwortlichen des Staates geht es.
Grundsätzliches
Auf der Pressekonferenz führte nach einigen Vorrednern der Schweizer Rechtsanwalt Claudio Zanetti die Sache auf einfache Grundsätze zurück, die eine Überleitung zu Rechtsanwalt Ralf Ludwig bildeten. RA Claudio Zanetti:
„Wenn eine Regierung sagt: Wir opfern jetzt 10, um 1.000 zu retten, dann ist es die Regierung, die den Boden des Grundgesetzes verloren hat. Und darauf müssen wir sie behaften. Es ist eine ganz einfache Geschichte. Es wurde heute hier sehr viel Gescheites gesagt von Regeln und WHO und viele juristische Überlegungen, aber es geht um sehr Einfaches, Grundsätzliches. Darf die Regierung tun, was sie getan hat?
Wir haben dazu übrigens auch eine Rechtsprechung. Wir haben heute auch von Frau Bahner gehört, dass es da ganz viele kluge Urteile gibt vom Verfassungsgericht, wo die Richter noch den Mut hatten zu denken und vernünftige Entscheidungen zu fällen. Z.B. hatten es die Richter dem Bundestag verboten, ein Flugzeug abzuschießen, das von Terroristen entführt wurde und das, sagen wir, auf ein Fußballstadion mit vielen Leuten dort zusteuert. Im Einzelfall, wenn ein Kommandant dann den Abschuss befiehlt, ist das ein anderes Problem. Aber wenn der Staat grundsätzlich sagt: Jawohl in einem solchen Fall gilt das Leben der Leute im Flugzeug weniger als das der Leute im Stadion, geht das nicht.
Und das Verfassungsgericht hat das (so) entschieden. Und wir sollten jetzt einfachauf dieser Basis bleiben: Nein, ihr dürft das nicht, ihr dürft nicht mit Menschenleben spielen. Und auch wenn wir jetzt weiterdenken an die WHO, müssen wir uns immer die Frage stellen: Ja sind jetzt diese Menschenrechte ein kategorischer Imperativ, an den sich alle rechtsanwendenden Behörden und auch die rechtssetzenden Behörden halten müssen, oder ist das einfach eine Knet- und Spielmasse der Mächtigen? Um das geht es.
Wenn ein Bundeskanzler sagt, es gibt keine roten Linien mehr, dann haben wir genau wie Frau Bahner gesagt hat, im Grunde einen Putsch.1 Denn die Menschrechte sind nichts anderes als rote Linien. Und wir müssen die Regierenden, die Mächtigen dazu zwingen, Stellung zu nehmen. Nehmen sie diese roten Linien ernst, oder fangen sie an zu relativieren. Insbesondere die Würde des Menschen ist viel zu ernst, viel zu wichtig, als dass wir sie den Regierenden überlassen können.“
Vorbemerkung (hl): Ralf Ludwig hat frei gesprochen, oft viele Einschiebungen gemacht und die Sätze in der Fülle der Gedanken oft grammatisch nicht ganz zu Ende geführt. Ich werde seine wesentlichen Ausführungen daher teilweise nicht wortwörtlich wiedergeben, wie ich sie transkribiert habe, sondern für die fließende Lesbarkeit etwas umgeformt, ohne dass sie dadurch ihre Authentizität verlieren. Ich behalte deshalb auch den Indikativ bei und verwende nicht den referierenden Konjunktiv. Wortwörtliche Passagen sind kursiv gekennzeichnet:
RA Ralf Ludwig einleitend zur allgemeinen Situation und Stimmung:
Ich habe heute 592 Strafanzeigen beim Generalbundesanwalt am Bundesgerichtshof eingereicht. Davon sind 568 Bundestagsabgeordnete. 570 haben am 10. Dezember 2021 für die „einrichtungsbezogene Impfnachweispflicht“, wie es ja bezeichnet wird, gestimmt, 2 sind verstorben. Es (das Gesetz) wird immer bezeichnet als „einrichtungsbezogene Impfnachweispflicht“; tatsächlich haben diejenigen, die das Gesetz eingebracht haben, im Entwurf von einer Impfpflicht gesprochen. Sie wussten, was sie da taten: Es war keine „einrichtungsbezogene Impfnachweispflicht“, sondern de facto war es eine Impfpflicht, was auch das Bundesverfassungsgericht nicht bestritten hat.
Am gleichen Tag, am 10. Dezember 2021, – das Gesetz ist am 6. Dezember 2021 in den Bundestag eingebracht worden – hat die Abgeordnete Frau Dr. Christina Baum eine mutige Rede gehalten. Diese musste sie von der Tribüne des Bundestages halten, auf die sie verbannt war, weil sie keine Maske getragen hat. Das darf man auch nicht vergessen: ein Abgeordneter mit einem freien Mandat wurde – diese Plenarprotokolle sind historische Dokumente – sie wurde mehrfach aufgefordert, die Maske über die Nase zu ziehen. – Jeder, der auf einer Demo war, kennt das: „Ziehen Sie die Maske über die Nase!“
Die Grünen waren nicht so nett, die haben sie geduzt. Die Zwischenrufe der Grünen sind auch dokumentiert und die der anderen Parlamentarier, wie diese Frau Baum und andere beschimpft worden sind, weil sie die Maske nicht richtig trugen. Das sind alles historische Dokumente. – Wenn wir uns heute historische Dokumente von vor 34, 40, 50 Jahren angucken, wie da miteinander umgegangen wurde, wenn wir uns das angucken, sagen wir: Das ist unvorstellbar.
Das Schöne ist, das ist alles stenografiert, und diese Dokumente werden sich in 30 Jahren andere Menschen angucken, Historiker vielleicht und sagen: Das können wir uns gar nicht vorstellen, dass das in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland los war, alleine diese Stimmung im Bundestag.
Am 6. Dezember ist dieses Gesetz eingebracht, am 10. Dezember ist es in dritter Lesung beschlossen worden. D.h. über eine Frage der verpflichtenden Aufnahme einer Substanz in den Körper hat der Deutsche Bundestag sich 3 Tage genommen, 3 Tage! Wo will man da sich wirklich informiert haben?! Ein Politiker hat die Pflicht, nicht zu fragen, schützt das, was ich tue?, sondern er hat die Pflicht zu fragen, schädigt das, was ich tue? Und dann muss man sich informieren.
Es ist ja so, wir brauchen doch darüber nicht streiten: Es war ein bedingt zugelassener Impfstoff in der damaligen Zeit, es gab eine Diskussion. Und die haben die Politiker natürlich wahrgenommen, weil es ja immer wieder Anfragen gab, ob die Querdenker denn Verfassungsfeinde wären. Das heißt, die Politiker haben sich ja mit dem beschäftigt, was wir gesagt haben. Die wussten, was draußen gesprochen wurde. Die hatten natürlich auch von den Demonstrationen mitbekommen. Gerade in dem Corona-Untersuchungsausschuss (in Brandenburg) kriegt man das jetzt mit.
Die haben natürlich auch das PEI und das RKI gefragt. Wenn man den Lothar Wieler beim Untersuchungsausschuss gesehen hat, der da sagt: ´Wir vom RKI haben nur Empfehlungen gemacht. Das ganze waren die Politiker, wir waren das gar nicht.` Jetzt geht`s nämlich los, jetzt geht das „Schwarze Peter-Spiel“ los, wer war eigentlich verantwortlich. Ja, verantwortlich waren die Politiker, die haben ihre Hand gehoben, die haben namentlich abgestimmt. (…)
Am selben 10. Dezember hat der Bundesrat über die einrichtungsbezogene Impfpflicht gesprochen, und da haben zwei Personen geredet: Herr Dulig aus Sachsen als Innenminister – ich weiß nicht – und stellvertretender Ministerpräsident, und Herr Volker Bouffier, damals noch hessischer Ministerpräsident. Es ging also um die einrichtungsbezogene Impfpflicht, also darum, 6,5 Millionen Menschen, die in und um das Gesundheitswesen arbeiten, zu verpflichten …, eine Substanz in ihren Körper aufzunehmen.
Und nach diesem Bundesrats-Plenarprotokoll geht der Herr Dulig an das Rednerpult und redet darüber, dass ein Tag vorher ein Mob zu der Frau Köpping, ich glaube, das ist die Sozialministerin, gezogen sein soll und vor ihrem Haus protestiert hat. D.h. die Diskussion im Bundesrat ging nicht um die Frage, zwingen wir hier einem großen Teil unserer Bevölkerung etwas auf, was diese Menschen möglicherweise schädigt, sondern man hat sich als Politiker darüber empört, dass Menschen einen Protestzug vor das Wohnhaus dieser Politikerin gemacht haben. Es ist eine Entscheidung über das Leben, über die Gesundheit anderer Menschen, und man diskutiert gar nicht über die Frage, was man hier eigentlich macht. Und man fragt nicht, mein Gott, ist das möglicherweise ein Eingriff in das Grundrecht auf körperliche Unversehrtheit, auf das Leben, ein Verstoß gegen die Würde des Menschen? Nein, man diskutiert über die Frage, dass es jetzt ganz schlimm war, und man müsse jetzt endlich dagegen halten, sonst würde die AfD noch stärker werden. – Das ist die Denkweise der Politiker.
Im Hauptausschuss, der immer vorher tagt und wo man diskutiert über mögliche Veränderungen, wurden sogenannte Experten gehört. Diese Experten sind verschiedene Verbände: Verband der Virologie, Verband der Hausärzte, Verband der Apotheker. Vom Verband der Hausärzte war die einzige Kritik an diesem Gesetz, dass danach auch die Apotheker impfen durften, und man sagte: ´Es kann doch nicht sein, dass die auch impfen dürfen. Das darf doch nur ein Hausarzt machen!` – Das war die Diskussion. Ansonsten wurde darüber geredet, dass nicht genug Geld zur Verfügung gestellt wurde.
Die Linke hat sich im Wesentlichen dieses Gesetzes enthalten mit der Begründung, ja wir müssen erst mal dafür sorgen, dass die Pflegekräfte, die sich so aufgeopfert haben, Geld bekommen. D. h. sie haben sich eigentlich nicht der Impfpflicht verweigert, sondern dem, dass neben der Impfpflicht das Pflegepersonal nicht auch noch sozial abgesichert würde, ein typisch linkes Thema. Also wenn man sich das mal durchguckt: Es wurden die typischen politischen Debatten geführt.
Das Verbrechen
Keiner hat sich um die Menschen gekümmert, die diesen Stoff erhalten sollten, der eine bedingte Zulassung hat, von dem man nicht wusste, wie er wirkt. Was jedoch inzwischen nicht stimmte, weil im PEI- Sicherheitsbericht vom 26. Oktober 2021, also direkt vor der Abstimmung, schon von Todesfall-Verdachts-Meldungen die Rede war. Da wurde schon gesagt, wir haben eine Todesfall-Verdachts-Meldung auf 50.000 Impfungen. Es war also bekannt, auch das war klar, aber man hat darüber nicht gesprochen. Es gab genau zwei Wortmeldungen zu diesem Thema. Und das war eine FDP-Abgeordnete, die dann noch sagte: ´Wir müssen diese Impfpflicht machen, weil wir ja wissen: In 99,98 % der Fälle gibt es keine schweren Nebenwirkungen.`
Das stimmt möglicherweise. Aber in 0,02 % der Fälle gibt es schwere Nebenwirkungen. (…) Und derjenige, der schwere Impfnebenwirkung hat, für den ist es nicht selten, für den ist es ein ganzes Leben. Und derjenige der daran stirbt, der ist nicht eine statistische Größe, das ist ein echter Mensch. Und wir dürfen nicht unterscheiden zwischen wertem und unwertem Leben. – Das ist der Bogen zu dieser Strafanzeige, das ist, was der Kollege Claudius Zanetti gesagt hat.
Der Staat darf keinen Menschen töten. Wir sagen immer, er darf keinen unschuldigen Menschen töten, aber hier in Europa darf er auch keinen Menschen töten. Wir in Europa dürfen noch nicht mal schuldige Menschen töten. Denn bei uns ist die Todesstrafe abgeschafft. Und der einzige Fall, wo man einen schuldigen Menschen töten darf, ist im Rahmen einer Todesstrafe. Die gibt es bei uns nicht. Unsere Gesellschaft in Europa hat sich darauf verständigt: Der Staat darf keinen Menschen töten, insbesondere keinen unschuldigen.
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat festgestellt: Diese Impfpflicht ist ein zielgerichteter mittelbarer Eingriff in die körperliche Unversehrtheit. Also es hat noch nicht einmal gesagt: Nein, nein, das ist ja kein Eingriff, das ist letztlich nur freiwillig, die Leute können ja auch ihren Job bleiben lassen. Nein, das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat deutlich gesagt: ´Das ist schon relativ hart, was diejenigen, die im Gesundheitsbereich sind, da trifft, wenn sie diese Impfung nicht akzeptieren.` Und es hat auch gesagt: ´Wir wissen, dass es sogar auch Menschen geben kann, die sterben können. Aber wir müssen eine Abwägung machen.` –
Es gibt über das Leben keine Abwägung! Das ist die rote Linie. Der Staat hat nicht das Recht, darüber zu entscheiden, dass es wertes und unwertes Leben gibt. Der Staat kann nicht sagen: 0,02 % nehmen wir hin. – Wir nehmen das nicht hin!
Eine Kollegin von mir hat im Cicero jetzt gerade einen wunderbaren Aufsatz geschrieben. Sie hat da gesagt: Es gibt zwei Dinge, die wir uns merken müssen. Das eine: eine Pandemie, selbst wenn es eine wirkliche Pandemie ist, ist ein Unglück, das andere ist menschgemacht und ein Unrecht. Und wir müssen immer zwischen Unglück und Unrecht unterscheiden. Ein Unglück können wir nicht verhindern; wir können alles dafür machen, es abzumildern.
Wenn es eine Pandemie gibt, dann können wir Krankenhäuser bauen, dann können wir Ärzte besorgen, dann können wir Pflegeschlüssel verändern, dann können wir Pflegekräfte ranschaffen, dann können wir Überstunden besser bezahlen, dann können wir auch Medikamente entwickeln, auch Medikamente meinetwegen bedingt zulassen, dann können wir auch möglicherweise über Hürden gehen, über die wir sonst nicht gehen würden, aber es muss immer freiwillig sein. Die letzte Grenze, die wir nicht überschreiten dürfen, ist, dass wir Menschen dazu zwingen, ein Mittel in ihren Körper aufnehmen zu müssen, das sie möglicherweise tötet, und wenn es nur ein einziger Fall ist.
Und das Völkerstrafgesetzbuch redet genau von einem Menschen, es steht nämlich dort drin in § 7: „Wer in einem systematischen oder ausgedehnten Angriff auf eine Zivilbevölkerung einen Menschen tötet“, – es reicht einer aus, „einen Menschen“, da steht nicht drin 100 oder viele Menschen, es steht nicht die Mehrzahl drin. § 7: „Wer in einem systematischen oder ausgedehnten Angriff gegen eine Zivilbevölkerung 1. einen Menschen tötet …, wird mit lebenslanger Freiheitsstrafe bestraft. … 8. einem anderen Menschen schwere körperliche oder seelische Schäden … zufügt …, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe nicht unter drei Jahren bestraft.“
Das steht da so drin im Völkerstrafgesetzbuch, was ja aus dem „Römischen Statut des Internationalen Gerichtshofs“ abgeleitet ist. Es ist klar, dass es nur um den Angriff geht. Und wenn dieser Angriff dazu führt, dass auch nur ein Mensch stirbt oder ein Mensch schwer in seiner Gesundheit verletzt wird, dann ist das ein Verbrechen wider die Menschlichkeit.
Und wenn dann jetzt viele Leute kommen und sagen: Ja, was ist denn ein Angriff? – Wir haben das mit vielen Juristen durchdiskutiert. Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof hat zum Thema Ruanda gesagt: Ein Angriff ist es auch dann, wenn Menschen wie in Apartheit oder apartheitsähnlich unterdrückt werden, wenn so viel gesellschaftlicher Druck auf sie ausgeübt wird, dass sie z.B. Teile ihrer Grundrechte verlieren. Als wir diese 2G- und 3G-Regelungen hatten, ging doch immer die Diskussion: Ist das eigentlich Apartheit oder wie Apartheit? Es sind Teile der Gesellschaft ausgegrenzt worden. Ich durfte, weil ich keinen Impfnachweis hatte, während des Weihnachtsmarkts in Frankfurt nicht zum Karstadt zum Pinkeln gehen. Ich durfte nicht rein auf die Toilette, weil man mir gesagt hat, ich hätte keinen Nachweis, dass ich geimpft bin.
Das ist eine Ausgrenzung, und nach den Kriterien des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs ist es, wenn das staatlich geregelt ist, ein Angriff auf die Zivilbevölkerung. Wir haben das ganz, ganz nüchtern durchsubsumiert, wir sind Juristen, das ist völlig unemotional. Und wir haben das Ganze nun dem Generalbundesanwalt zur Prüfung vorgelegt. Es haben viele Anwälte, Richter und Staatsanwälte daran mitgearbeitet an dieser Strafanzeige.
Wir haben auch zu dem Thema Indemnität Stellung genommen. Indemnität heißt, ein Abgeordneter darf für sein Abstimmungsverhalten nicht verurteilt werden, auch nicht strafverfolgt werden. Das kann aber nicht so gelten. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat im NPD-Verbots-Verfahren dazu auch eine Äußerung gemacht. Es hat gesagt – wir Juristen nennen das so – man müsse immer die Normen des Grundgesetzes in praktischer Konkordanz gegeneinander auslegen. Und Art. 46 Abs.1 GG sagt: Ein Abgeordneter darf für sein Abstimmungsverhalten nicht strafrechtlich verfolgt werden.
Das kann nicht meinen, dass ein Abgeordneter auch dann nicht verfolgt werden darf, wenn er gegen Art. 1 Abs. 1 des GG verstößt. So wird das immer ausgelegt in „praktischer Konkordanz“, denn das würde ja heißen, dass die Abgeordneten beschließen könnten: Wir töten jetzt Menschen, wir suchen uns irgendwelche Menschen aus. Wir sagen z.B.: Die größte Gefahr für dieses Land sind die Journalisten, nur als Beispiel, und machen dann ein Gesetz, das besagt, wir machen das und das mit Journalisten.
Das ist natürlich bloß ein blödes Beispiel. Sie lachen, weil Ihnen völlig klar ist, dass ein Parlament ein solches Gesetz niemals beschließen dürfte. Wenn es das aber täte und dann sich darauf berufen würde, für unser Abstimmungsverhalten dürfen wir ja wohl nicht verurteilt oder strafrechtlich verfolgt werden, ist das Blödsinn. Dann gäbe es keine rote Linie. Und diese Indemnität gibt es übrigens auf der Ebene des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofes nicht.
Der Generalbundesanwalt ist jetzt der erste Schritt. Wenn er nicht ermittelt, z.B. weil es tatsächlich ernsthafte juristische Stimmen gibt, dass die Indemnität absolut gelte, dass, egal was die Parlamentarier entscheiden, sie dafür nicht strafrechtlich verfolgt werden dürften, dann mag das auf deutscher Ebene gelten. Dann muss der Generalbundesanwalt morgen sagen: Ich darf hier wegen Indemnität nicht ermitteln, jedenfalls nicht gegen die Parlamentarier. Und dann werden wir die Strafanzeigen sofort nach Den Haag weiterreichen. Denn dann haben wir den Beleg für diesen Weg – Art. 17 des Römischen Statuts des Internationalen Gerichtshofs verlangt das. Dann haben wir den Beleg dafür, dass Deutschland nicht willens oder in der Lage für eine Strafverfolgung ist.
Ich will noch kurz, weil das vielleicht nicht alle mitbekommen haben, auch zum Abschluss sagen: Das sind diejenigen, gegen die die Strafanzeigen heute eingegangen sind: 568 Bundestagsabgeordnete, 15 Mitglieder des Bundesrates, die an diesem Tag abgestimmt haben, ein Bundespräsident, der das Gesetz ausgefertigt hat, und 8 Richter vom 1. Senat des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, die dieses Gesetz nicht gestoppt haben, obwohl sie es hätten stoppen müssen.
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The official concluding statements by the UN and WHO at the completion of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York regarding the High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response are summarized as follows:
United Nations
The high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response will focus on the theme: “Creating and maintaining political momentum and solidarity for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response“. Plenary Segment: Statements by Member States and members of the United Nations specialized agencies.Issued on 20 Sept 2023.
WHO statement on the high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response:
The World Health Organization welcomed today’s historic commitment shown by global leaders, at the UNGA, to strengthen the international cooperation, coordination, governance, and investment needed to prevent a repeat of the devastating health and socioeconomic impact caused by COVID-19, make the world better prepared for future pandemic, and get back on track to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
“The first-ever head of state summit on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response is a historic milestone in the urgent drive to make all people of the world safer, and better protected from the devastating impacts of pandemics,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “I welcome this commitment by world leaders to provide the political support and direction needed so that WHO, governments and all involved can protect people’s health and take concrete steps towards investing in local capacities, ensuring equity and supporting the global emergency health architecture that the world needs.”
The political declaration, approved by Mr Dennis Francis, President of the 78th United Nations General Assembly (2023), and the result of negotiations under the able leadership of Ambassadors Gilad Erdan of Israel and Omar Hilale of Morocco, underscored the pivotal role played by WHO as the “directing and coordinating authority on international health,” and the need to “commit further to sustainable financing that provides adequate and predictable funding to the WHO, which enables it to have the resources needed to fulfil its core functions.”Issued on 20 Sept 2023
Neither the UN nor the WHO statement mentions the number of world leaders or heads of state, who approved the crucial WHO documents, the severely revised (more than 90 points of revision) International Health Regulations (IHR), including the Pandemic Treaty – which is actually no longer a treaty, as it is planned to ram it through during the next World Health Assembly (WHA) in May 2024 – making the new IHR effective without a vote. See full interview with Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger here.
Since there are no official accounts from these “behind closed-door” UN / WHO meetings, we can rely only on “hearsay”, according to which there were several member states who abstained and others who objected to the revised IHR. Among the objectors was apparently the Russian Federation. See this.
The Mike Adams interview of Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger (26 September 2023) about the coming (planned) health dictatorship by the UN and WHO juxtaposes the official UN / WHO statements.
There is nothing constructive, nothing the world might want to look forward to that came out of these secret meetings, debates. Secretive, like a death cult, planning a worldwide genocide run as part of the “new” WHO / UN Agenda.
Imagine where the world has gone? And where the full UN Agenda 2030 is planning to take us?
With a corrupted UN system, with a World Health Organization that is no longer looking after the population’s health and disease, but is promoting death.
And that on a worldwide basis. All governments – more than 190 national governments, have all been coopted, corrupted coerced and outright threatened – if they do not go along and lie to the people who supposedly elected them, and if they do not betray the trust and the (tax) money these people have confided in them – people’s funds that also pay for the government bureaucrats generally generous wages.
Here are some of the key points Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger made during the BOMBSHELL interview. For courageously speaking out since the beginning of the outbreak of this criminal plandemic, Dr. Stuckelberger has been a beacon for truth. In response, the University of Geneva cut off all her courses and deprived her of her faculty position.
She is also otherwise threatened and coerced, often censored – to no avail: Astrid keeps speaking out, to spread the truth as far and widely as possible – so that people eventually may wake up – stand up – and stop obeying. Non obedience is everyone’s right.
Here are some of the highlights of Dr. Stuckelberger’s interview:
When during the organization’s earlier times, WHO stood for protecting the lives of the elderly and children, today WHO is promoting suicide for older people and forced killer vaccination for children.
WHO is eliminating staff – scientists, doctors, and researchers, who are ethical and true experts, replacing them with people who are no experts, unethical and corrupt.
WHO programs on food, nutrition or basic sanitation, have morphed into programs that are largely overseeing the extermination of people on planet earth, rather than promoting the health of people.
In the 1990s WHO was still warning about the dangers of 5G microwaves, the negative effects of holding the phone to your ear… how it affected the brain — no longer. These warnings have been eliminated from the WHO’s website. This is part of accelerating elimination of old age people and of dumbing the brains of children and young adults.
Also, WHO warned of the danger building 5G antennas on school buildings – as the effect on human brains and the development of human brains is devastating – this warning too, has disappeared from WHO’s website.
Around the year 2000, the private sector, with lobbies came into effect – and Bill Gates put his foot in WHO’s door. In 2012 he was literally in charge of WHO’s vaccination / immunization programs.
Today, WHO alone has a monopoly on all that concerns health – it is a tyrannical dictate – and is followed by severe censoring, including with punishment for those who do not follow the mandate. UN Secretary General, António Guterres, is echoing what WHO is doing, by promoting censorship [banning “fake news”], and digitizing health information – with a monopoly for WHO.
But WHO alone cannot control the world, as Ministers of Health, usually countries’ representatives at the World Health Assembly, may not agree with some dictates and they must listen to their governments [though, most of which have been corrupted], they need an overarching body to assure full compliance, the United Nations.
Therefore, the UN will claim the overall right of controlling censorship as well as dictates on health, i.e., vaccination / programs on immunization, delegated to WHO — no questions asked, all with the objective of massively reducing the world population, an objective which has been on the political drawing board since the 1970s.
See the Kissinger Report published in 1974, in the year following the U.S. sponsored military coup in Chile (September 11, 1973).
WHO is the door to the most sensitive and vulnerable points in our lives: life and death, health and disease. It is the entry to their – the Beast’s – biotech neuro-weapon which is the so-called injection vaccine – and they want to roll out untold thousands of new types of vaccines, billions to be administered over the coming years – a perpetual program, feeding into the UN Agenda 2030 – to help accomplish the “17 Sustainable Development Goals” (SDG).
The first paragraph of the preparedness on pandemic prevention response, refers to the constant and repeated danger of covid and covid-related pandemics… triggering an eternal fear, as covid has been enshrined in the brains of the people as THE potentially death-bringing pandemic and danger.
They are generating constant fear with something that didn’t even exist, that has never been analyzed scientifically, never been isolated in laboratories, nor with the instruments of WHO — it’s always about infections, because you cannot see them (the viruses), and people do not know.
WHO along with the (bought) media is a psychological terrorist organization.
Under the new declaration WHO is becoming a permanent fear campaign mechanism, with the overarching worldwide tyrannical authority to demand “preventive” quarantine even against the policies of individual sovereign countries, and they are implementing them enforced by police and military – which country governments must obey, under threat.
But, says Astrid, “the Beast is losing power, because we are becoming more conscious, waking up and resisting.
The revised IHR and the Pandemic Convention – yes, it is not a treaty, as it will be adopted, not even voted on.
That is the imposition by the UN – sponsored, or imposed by the US. The IHR / Pandemic Convention will be adopted by the WHA in May 2024, without a vote. And during this UNGA 2023, WHO and its public (mainly the White House) and private (mainly the pharma-industry) sponsors are asking for the blessing of the UN; and “they” received the blessing of the UN.
Australia is already training their police and military to enforce mandated vaccinations – ramming in doors of family homes and making sure that schools comply with the vaxx-orders.
They want to get rid of children for depopulating the world – and of course of elderly people, who are not contributing to the economy, but using state money [that they contributed to] for living in retirement (pensions) – whom Klaus Schwab’s Israeli adviser, Yuval Noah Hariri, calls, “useless eaters”.
That is why former President Trump has already said, if he will be reelected President, he would propagate homeschooling.
WHO is run by McKinsey Consulting – Dr. Stuckelberger has seen the contract – and by the bought media.
They, “the Beast”, will invent a public emergency, either “natural” or a plandemic of a monster epidemic, to spread fear and lock people down.
They are rolling out a plan, to lock people down, they want the vaxx back – it is already visible from the media.
[In India a new pandemic has already been declared, with compulsory masks. An outbreak of Nipah virus (NiV) has been confirmed in India. Six cases of Nipah, including two deaths, have been reported – see video below (Annotation by PK)]
Three major corporate media outlets control the world:
AP = American Press;
AFP = French Press; and
Reuters.
They are paid to lie. They cannot be believed, but they distribute their news to all local mainstream media, which must report almost verbatim the going narrative.
We must create our own counter-media – like what you are doing, referring to Mike Adams and others, to spread the truth and let people know what is going on.
They – “the Beast” — are doing whatever they can with the help of the governments, which are no longer YOUR governments. Today’s governments across the globe are coerced to do what “the Beast” wants them to do, either by buying them or by threat.
They will create anything to maintain the level of fear, even the plague is a possibility.
All they need to do is create a fake disease in one city, and then declare it a pandemic – and all that comes with the pandemic — lockdowns, ramming in doors for forced vaccinations also in schools, a fear-based tyranny – where people will obey…. But will they? (Annotation PK)
Then they are going to use their real weapon, either by vaccine, or in the hospitals, like in NY, where they incubated people… until they died.
Or using 5G. 5G can be directed into the brain of people, paralyzing individuals, or programming them, à la Klaus Schwab’s transhumanism, digitized, robotized obeying transhumans.
With 5G they can do whatever they want; 5G is not only emitted from the endless antennas around the world, but also from street lamps, or other items you least expect, and don’t know; possibly also through your TV set.
“Vaccination” – people will be injected by a binary weapon, that can be activated by remote signaling… through 5G, maybe soon to come 6G.
This is made possible through graphene oxide in people’s bodies [those, who have been vaccinated] – who were injected with the false covid vaxxes, some of which contained graphene oxide, a highly electro-magnetic sensible substance that will react to the 5G micro-waves.
Pfizer’s Bio-n-Tech vaxx = bio nano tech, or bio neuro tech…and mRNA – a computer program — “mode” RNA – will make humans highly vulnerable to 5G. As humans, we are bio-electromagnetic, electro-encephalogram – making our brains vulnerable to 5G manipulation.
Astrid Stuckelberger: “Hacking the mind is at the center of what is going on.”
Dr. James Giordano: The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future
The “Havana Syndrome” is one of the brain manipulations – first appeared in 2016 in the US and Canadian Embassies in Havana, Cuba. Since then, the syndrome has occurred in many other places – in Beijing, Moscow, Serbia…
We humans emit waves – “love waves” as well as “anger waves” – our moods are expressed in electromagnetic waves.
Controlled opposition talking about viruses, covid, mRNA, PCR-test, the vaccination that all may come back… that is their plan – the Beast’s plan, the perpetuation of an absolute fraud.
Mike Adams:
“We are seeing the complete perversion of science which will destroy the credibility of science and medicine. – There is no isolate of SARS-Covid-2, has never been – it is a total fraud.”
“While the next plandemic is being rolled out – and more and more people are being victimized by this fraud – genocide is unfolding in front of us.”
We, the People, cannot let that happen; we must win this war
These are the paraphrased final words of Astrid Stuckelberger –
“We are gonna have a tough wave of time now, this may last for 6 months a year… who knows. So, take good care of yourself. If you are knowledgeable, you are better prepared for what may come – and take care of the elderly and the kids. I am worried about the children. They are gonna go after the children…”
“There is already a warning: in Norway, they must vaccinate all the young people… Take No Vaccine whatsoever, they are trying to sell you all sorts of common vaccines – don’t take them, they are all fake mRNA vaccines….”
Ending on a positive note:“I think we are protected for what we are ….”
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today. Many might assume that that was then and long before their time, so let’s move on to what we must deal with today.
Let some old folks, the obsessive ones, live in the past. It is an understandable but mistaken attitude that this documentary will quickly shatter, visually and audibly.
The echoes of those guns that killed President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy in rapid succession repeat and repeat and repeat down through the years, and their echoes bang off the walls of all today’s news that springs from the cells of all the little digital dinguses that provide a constant stream of distractions and fear porn meant to titillate but not illuminate the connections between then and now, nor those between the four subjects of this illuminating film.
Today we are living the consequences of the CIA/national security state’s 1960s takeover of the country. Their message then and now: We, the national security state, rule, we have the guns, the media, and the power to dominate you. We control the stories you are meant to hear. If you get uppity, well-known, and dare challenge us, we will buy you off, denigrate you, or, if neither works, we will kill you. You are helpless, they reiterate endlessly. Bang. Bang. Bang.
But they lie, and this series, beginning with its first installment (see sneak peek here), will tell you why. It will show why understanding the past is essential for transforming the present. It will profoundly inspire you to see and hear these four bold and courageous men refuse to back down to the evil forces that shot them down. It will open your eyes to the parallel spiritual paths they walked and the similarity of the messages they talked about – peace, justice, racism, human rights, and the need for economic equality – not just in the U.S.A. but across the world, for the fate of all people was then, and is now, linked to the need to transform the U.S. warfare state into a country of peace and human reconciliation, just as these four men radically underwent deep transformations in the last year of their brief lives.
Four Died Trying, directed by John Kirby, the wonderful filmmaker who made The American Ruling Class with and about Lewis Lapham, and produced by Libby Handros, his partner in exposing the criminals that run the country, has just begun streaming.
As I watched the first twenty minutes of this opening episode, I was inwardly screaming, feeling deep in my soul how powerfully the film was capturing the essence of the dynamic, prophetic, and charismatic voices of JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, Jr., and RFK. All shot down – we hear the gun shots – by deep state forces, even as the film artfully juxtaposes this brutality against video clips of new reports, images of advertisements for silly products, and television shows that kept most of the public entertained and distracted during the 1960s carnage. Doing the Hokey Pokey, as the soundtrack plays it, but not turning around in a profound sense, as did the four who died trying to radically change the country and the world for the better. Simply as film art, this documentary is ingenious. And its use of music is great.
I was transported back to the time of my youth. I was startled again by the powerful courage, passion, and eloquent intelligence of those four compelling voices that once lifted my spirits to the heavens, and I felt the despair as well as each assassination followed the other and my spirits sank. It is not nostalgic, I am sure, to say that one is hard pressed to find those qualities in many leaders today. Like others of my generation, I am still trying to grasp the depths of what their assassinations did to me. Bob Dylan, who came to prominence in the midst of it all, referring ironically to his own life and work, has said that his first girlfriend was named Echo. I think I know her, for she echoed down the canyons of my mind as I watched this prologue and continues as I now reflect upon it.
So it does get hard to be objective, if that is what you want. I don’t. This not-to-be-missed film is truthful, for it uses vintage footage of what these men said and what was said against them by a government/media intent of distorting their messages and their assassinations. Listen and then research if you have any doubts. See if the film is truthful or manipulative. As one who has deeply studied these matters, I can attest to the former.
And I can tell you that if you are young and never knew about these four guys and what men they were – not in any macho sense, but as true lovers of human beings, men with chests, as C.S. Lewis described those who were true and brave and undaunted by the then current vibes that sucked the soul out of you, not pseudo-men in the “pumping iron” sense, not men who tried to appeal to your grossest stereotypes – you are in for a great surprise. You will yearn to see them resurrected in others today. In yourselves. As Malcolm X said hopefully, “The dead are arising.”
This 58 minute prologue touches on many of themes that will follow in the months ahead. Season One will be divided into chapters that cover the four assassinations together with background material covering “the world as it was” in the 1950s with its Cold War propaganda, McCarthyism, the rise of the military-industrial complex, the CIA, red-baiting, and the ever present fear of nuclear war.
Season Two will be devoted to the government and media coverups, citizen investigations, and the intelligence agencies’ and their media mouthpieces’ mind control operations aimed at the American people that continue today.
One important aspect of this documentary series – never before done in film – is the way it shows the linkages between these four great leaders. Beside their own words, we hear from their families and associates throughout. Based on over 120 interviews conducted over many years, we hear from the four men’s children, Vince Salandria, James W. Douglass, Mort Sahl, Harry Belafonte, Khaleed Sayyed, Earl Caldwell, Clarence Jones, James Galbraith, John Hunt, Stephen Schlesinger, Andrew Young, Oliver Stone, David Talbot, Adam Walinsky, et al. It is an amazing list of thoughtful commentators who tell the story for the dead men whose living tongues have been silenced, although we are privileged for their fatidic cinematic ghosts to speak to us through archival footage.
In this opening Prologue, I was especially impressed with the words of Vince Salandria, one of the earliest critics of the Warren Commission’s absurd claims, and Adam Walinsky, a former aide and speechwriter for RFK, who made it clear that we are free, no matter what the propagandists tell us. That freedom to think and act, to make connections between then and now, to see the linkages between the four men’s messages and today, is crucial to carry on their legacy. That message ends the Prologue. It is a message of hope in a dark time.
This opening prologue is divided into four parts, each devoted to what each man tried to accomplish. That is followed by a section on how they died and the ways it was buried, ending with an Epilogue on why they died and why it matters today.
All four died fighting the international power structure, the CIA and FBI, the military-industrial complex, the racist ideology central to the capitalist elites’ economic injustice and warfare state – those deep structures of power that have come to be called the deep state. They were brothers in arms, their only weapons being their linked arms in a spiritual war against evil forces. They were men of compassionate conscience, warriors for peace and justice for all. That is why they were killed.
Four Died Trying is a profound documentary. It is good that each episode will be a stand-alone short film – that gives the viewer time to absorb its lessons rather than binging on too much too soon. Once you watch this prologue, with its overview of all to come, you will be hooked. It is not just revelatory history, but is artistically made, and, dare I say, entertaining. Kirby and Handros are astute to realize that young people demand more than lectures, and it is to the next generations that these voices must be addressed. For although the times have changed, in so many ways we are today faced with all the same problems. The deep wounds of the 1960s were never given careful treatment; they are now suppurating and the infection is spreading.
Then and now. There is a powerful clip in the film of Senator Robert Kennedy giving a speech in Chicago when he has decided to enter the race for the presidency right after the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, a massive breakout surprise to U.S. authorities who thought they could contain and defeat the Vietnamese struggle for independence; that they had them trapped. Kennedy has decided to enter the race for President and realizes that supporting a corrupt South Vietnamese government and their ruthless policies aimed at exterminating the Vietcong and North Vietnamese is morally wrong and runs counter to American attestations of the belief in democracy and justice for all. He says about such an impossible military victory:
. . . and that the effort to win such a victory will only result in the further slaughter of thousands of innocent and helpless people—a slaughter which will forever rest on all our consciences and the national conscience of the country.
His was a powerful moral voice. Who is standing with the innocent and helpless people today? And who is standing with the killers? As Martin Luther King, Jr., put it, “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” And procrastination is still the thief of time and conscience whispers those pathetic words: Too Late.
Don’t miss Four Died Trying. I am sure it will affect you deeply and force you to think twice over about what is going on today.
Yes, then and now. To slightly alter the song, As Time Goes By:
It’s still the same old story. A fight for love and glory. A case of do and die. The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by.
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Edward Curtin is a prominent author, researcher and sociologist based in Western Massachusetts. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
The United Nations Security Council vote on December 8, calling for an immediate cease-fire in Palestine, was a public humiliation of the United States. When explaining their vote, numerous countries denounced the U.S. — Israel’s number one supporter — as the accomplice, the enabler and the real force behind the Zionist destruction in Gaza.
The U.S. vetoed the resolution, making the resounding vote by every other member of the current Security Council unenforceable. Britain, the only remaining U.S. ally, acted like a loyal lap dog and abstained. Yet the vote was unprecedented; 100 member countries of the U.N. signed on to the resolution with less than 24 hours’ notice.
It is politically significant that the U.S. effort to amend the resolution, by inserting a condemnation of the Oct. 7 actions by the united Palestinian resistance, was refused. The vote was an assertion of the Palestinian right to resist occupation — a right that has long been recognized in international law but is usually ignored.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield attempted to label Hamas as a terrorist force. This also went down in public defeat, which was a global victory for the Palestinian resistance.
Of course, the U.N. has been a mere talk shop for decades. Its Secretariat and even its “humanitarian organizations” have been largely controlled through heavy-handed U.S. dictates. But the fact that more than 100 U.N. personnel have been killed by Israeli bombs in Gaza is fueling enormous anger at the U.S. within the body. The deaths of its workers are challenging toothless and usually complicit U.N. agencies to publicly denounce the killing of over 17,000 Palestinians.
Pressure on Guterres Led to Vote Being Called
Pressure from within the United Nations is what led the usually compliant U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to convene the emergency meeting. For the first time in his tenure as Secretary-General, Guterres invoked Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, under which he “may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.”
On X, Guterres posted:
“Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe and appeal for a humanitarian cease-fire to be declared.”
Growing U.S. isolation and its waning ability to enforce its domination through any political forum was confirmed in a stark new way. Only its military firepower remains. This overwhelming firepower is being challenged by a small armed resistance in a totally occupied Gaza.
The resistance in the West Bank is defending Palestinians from armed settler lynch mobs who operate with the Israeli Occupation Forces. In the past, these enforcers of apartheid acted with impunity. In addition to the armed resistance, a call for a Global General Strike has resonated in the West Bank and the surrounding countries, bringing about a total shutdown on Dec. 11.
Israel is being challenged by revolutionary forces in Yemen, who through several drone and missile attacks and then by daringly boarding Israeli-owned freighters, have forced all other Israeli chartered ships to avoid the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. They must navigate around Africa and into the Mediterranean Sea, causing the cost of supplies to skyrocket.
The U.N. vote is mirrored in hundreds of votes by unions and student assemblies, city council resolutions and actions by grassroots organizations globally. This can’t be shut down by U.S. demands.
The vote in the U.N. Security Council has now moved to the United Nations General Assembly. This vote, scheduled for Dec. 12, will lead to a further U.S. humiliation and a resounding defense of Palestine’s right to resist occupation.
Map depicts isolation of U.S, Israel in U.N. General Assembly vote in October 2023. (Map: Geopolitical Economy Report)
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Two kinds of absolute controls are being prepared to implement The Great Reset, alias UN Agenda 2030. A potentially straitjacket and total control by programmable Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and an all-oppressive health tyranny by WHO, overriding national Constitutional rights and national sovereignty as far as health measures are concerned.
The former will be “managed”, coordinated and supervised for faultless implementation, by the so-called Central Bank of Central Banks, the Bank for International Settlement (BIS); the latter by the 1948 Rockefeller-created, falsely called UN-agency WHO. The emerging tyrant’s budget is to 80% pharma, Gates and otherwise privately funded. Both are criminal organizations.
These are plans, not yet implemented. But the world better be aware, so We, the People, may stop this terrifying assault on humanity in its tracks.
CBDC may be upon us, humanity, rather sooner than later. Programmable CBDC is a weapon of mass destruction. The weapon has been in the planning for decades – and it fits right into the Bigger Picture of the Great Reset / Agenda 2030.
Programmable – means the money can be programmed on how it is to be spent by an individual, or blocked, or made to expire, or made to be used for certain goods or services – or it can be totally withheld, wiped out, depending on how well you behave, according to the standards of the all-commandeering death cult elite.
CBDC is a master control element, a stranglehold on the population.
Simultaneously, an all controlling health tyranny is being prepared by WHO. The plan is that the new totalitarian rules – Biden Administration initiated revised International Health Regulations (IHR), including a new Pandemic Treaty – are to be ratified by the World Health Assembly, presumably by the end of May 2023. If approved, by a two-thirds majority, the new rules will become effective in 2024.
Health Tyranny and Control by WHO
The elite who pretends to rule over humanity acts most silently from the shadows. It includes the financial giants, the largest funders of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Davos Boys. The financial elite calls the shots on integrated and willing Klaus Schwab, WEF’s CEO.
In turn, Mr. Schwab passes on instructions to the World Health Organization (WHO), for example, to redesign and implement the revision of the IHR which now also includes a Pandemic Treaty.
First, Bill Gates, also one of the key sponsors of WHO, puts a shady Ethiopian politician, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at the helm of WHO. Tedros, a buddy of Bill Gates, is former DG of the GAVI Vaxx-Alliance, also created and funded by the Gates Foundation. – So much for WHO being a UN Agency.
If these new IHR / Pandemic Treaty are approved by the World Health Assembly at the end of May 2023, the world (currently 194 WHO members) will be living under a “health tyranny”.
WHO would have overreaching powers over otherwise autonomous countries, being able to overrule national Constitutions and decide whether a disease must be treated as a pandemic, i.e., with massive vaccination.
For example, WHO could decide that henceforth the common flue must be treated as a pandemic. Since “covid”, any “vaccination” will be the gene-modifying mRNA type. The same viral-technology that has, with covid inoculations, caused already tens of millions of deaths around the world. Of course, not openly recognized, but over-mortality statistics, especially in the western world, alias, Global North, speak for themselves. They are congruent with the countries’ vaxx-injection rates.
People have no clue that when they next take their kid for a polio, or measles vaccination, their child will be injected with a potentially deadly mRNA-type toxic solution, producing immune-averse spike proteins. See this by Dr. Mike Yeadon, former VP and Chief Science Officer of Pfizer.
Total Obedience
To assure utmost obedience of countries, Klaus Schwab has on several occasions boasted that the, the WEF was able infiltrating scholars of the WEF “Academy” for Young Global Leaders (YGL) into governments around the world. They often are placed in Prime Minister’s or President’s positions. To name just a few of the more prominent ones – Justin Trudeau, Canada; Emmanuel Macron, France; Mark Rutte, Netherlands; former German Chancellor Angela Merkel; as well as Olaf Scholz, current Chancellor of Germany.
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) – Welcome to the New Money Prison
The decision to introduce CBDC so-to-speak at warp speed was made at a Jackson Hole, WY, meeting in August 2019 by the Central Bankers of the G7 nations. They voted on a financial coup which was “Going Direct Reset”.
This was planned way ahead for at least the last 20 years, and now needed to be consolidated for the final stage of total and absolute financial control – the end game of the coming world tyranny. First applied by the Global North, where the impact will be greatest.
It is weaponizing money into programmable and controllable CBDC – a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
The rest of the world will follow suit. That’s what they think. Destruction of the industrialized world is first. Germany is supposed to lead deindustrialization of Europe, prompted by artificially caused energy shortages. Then comes the absolute control of the world’s natural resources – so that reconstruction of the system, with a drastically reduced world population, may progress rather fast.
The US / NATO Ukraine proxy-war against Russia is a forerunner aiming at dominating Russia and her wealth of natural resources.
Governments and banksters are the people’s biggest, most nefarious, but least recognized enemies. How much longer does it take until a majority of people will wake up and stop this crime on humanity?
According to Katherine Austin Fitts, the introduction of CBDC, may put half a billion people out of work. That is just one part of the warfare. It is intimately connected to the plandemic. People did not die of covid, most perished from toxic vaxxes and from “covid” caused misery.
Dr. Michael Yeadon, former VP and Chief Scientist of Pfizer repeatedly said in his interviews and special addresses, the real, potentially massive dying, of the coerced vaxx-campaign – will take place after three and up to about ten years from the beginning of the vaxx-drive. Injections of mRNA material into people’s bodies began in December 2020. We are now entering year three. And hundreds of thousands, if not millions, around the world have already died due to the “vaxxes”, NOT covid.
Today, truth-seeking scientists and medical doctors warn – “don’t get vaxxed, it is dangerous for your health, the jabs may kill you.” If not, they may maim you for life, or reduce massively women’s and men’s fertility. The latter shows already up in statistics – in Europe from 20% to 40% reduced fertility in 2022. Yet, worldwide vaxx-drives go on – a bulldozer stopping from nothing.
How to weaponize money?
A threesome tyranny – a “trinity”, is at it. The WEF and it’s behind the scene giant financiers; the Governments, and the banksters, through a network of national central banks, all controlled by the Bank for International Settlement (BIS), in Basel, Switzerland. The “health industry” – Big Pharma, health- and hospital facilities and insurances are following the line with digitized health records and digitized health services.
The 2019 G7 Jackson Hole decision on massive bank failures to bring about CBDC, started in early March 2023 on a relatively light note in the United States. The opening was the apparent collapse of California’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), California’s Silvergate Capital and NYC’s Signature Bank. None of them really needed to go into bankruptcy. They were “bailed out” by the Biden Administration, put in control of the “Regulator”, before rumors of failure could trigger a run on the bank.
We know how “rumors” can be fabricated or enhanced and how they may mobilize people.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Credit Suisse, second largest Swiss bank, had been plagued for the last two decades by scandals and “financial irregularities” one after the other, including drug money laundering, and helping Russian oligarch escape western sanctions by “disappearing “ documents linking them to their luxury yachts which were supposed to be confiscated.
Since earlier this year, the bank’s share value plummeted, first by the week, then by the day. For a complete list of financial scandals and more, see this.
Much of the loss of confidence was, again, based on rumors – and rumors can be spread – true or false.
There was never a need to put CS into receivership. The bank, according to many analysts, also FINMA (the Swiss banking “regulator”) was solvent, especially after CS supposedly received on Friday, 17 March, a 50 billion franc “bail-out” loan from the Swiss Central Bank.
According to insiders (CS analysts)- and outsiders, this amount of cash would have been enough to restructure the bank, including quietly getting rid of undesirable skeletons – regaining trust of people and shareholders – and be functional again within less than a year.
However, there may be another agenda for the sudden change in direction, during the weekend, 18/19 March. Janet Yellen, US Secretary of Treasury, UK and German senior Ministry of Finance officials were in “consultation” with the Swiss Minister of Finance.
Outside pressure again cut into Swiss sovereignty politically and in terms of Swiss reputed private banking services.
What happened then, is the complete opposite to what the 50 billion “bail-out” should have achieved. One may ask, was the CHF 50 billion government “bail-out” just a disguise?
In an apparent sudden change of direction, the Swiss Government, without any consultation of shareholders and holders of some CHF 16 billion worth of bonds, forced UBS, the largest Swiss bank, to take over its slightly smaller sister, CS. Even stranger, this happened by applying a shady emergency decree. CS was never in an emergency of insolvency.
CS shareholders had to accept a take-over price of CHF 3 billion, about CHF 0.76 / share, less than half its last quoted share value. The bank’s infrastructure alone is worth a multiple of the take-over price.
On Sunday, March 19, the Swiss regulator FINMA announced that the so-called additional tier-one bonds (AT1) of about CHF 16 billion will be written to zero as part of the deal. Neither the shareholders or the bondholders were warned.
This precipitous coerced deal has not gone down well in Europe. A famous law Professor at the Swiss Fribourg law-specialized university, called Switzerland a “Banana Republic”.
The conservative Swiss newspaper NZZ reported on 19 March 2023 that a few months ago nobody would have believed the downfall of CS was possible. In 2007, CS had a stock value of over CHF 100 billion. It was gradually reduced to CHF 7 billion, less than a week before the decreed take-over. The paper concludes that Switzerland got rid of a Zombie-bank, but acquired instead a Monster-bank. After the merger, UBS will have about 5 trillion worth of managed assets. Compare this with about 10 trillion of BlackRock.
Instead of a 50 billion bailout credit – which would have been paid back, the new deal costs Switzerland about 230 billion – a 200 billion Central Bank line of credit, of which hundred billion are fully guaranteed by the Swiss Government (taxpayers), plus a 9 billion guarantee (taxpayer) for UBS losses, plus other guarantees in case of defaults.
As a sideline, the Swiss Central Bank, on 5 March declared one of the biggest losses in its recent history, of CHF132.5 billion. You add to this a potential loss position of another some CHF 100 to 200 billion – that makes you think – what else is planned to wipe out this debt?
The major CS shareholders may launch a massive law suit against the Swiss Government. Saudi National Bank (10%), Saudi Olayan Group (5%), plus Qatar Holding (5%), hold together about 20%. For these oil-producing countries legal fees may not be an issue, but creating a precedent will be important. BlackRock with about 4.1% CS shares stays for now on the sidelines.
Looks and smells like all of this has been planned by a long hand. Remember the G7 Central Bankers meeting at Jackson Hole, Wy in 2019?
Financial Times and Forbes report that there are about 200 small-to medium size US banks “at the brink” of collapse. The Credit Suisse collapse, one of the world’s 30 systemically most important banks, also one of the “Too Big to Fail” banks, rescued by the Swiss Government, may just set the beginning of a massive domino of bank failures in the US and Europe. See this.
BlackRock’s Vice Chairman, responsible for Investments, Philipp Hildebrand, is the former President of the Swiss National Bank (forced out in 2016, because of a personal scandal), then joined BlackRock. He knows how the wheels turn in Switzerland.
The Biden Administration’s rule of order, ignores the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that eliminates government bail-outs and opened the door for bail-ins, allowing banks to confiscating creditors’ money and converting it into equity. If this government bail-out policy continues, a never-seen before government debt will accrue. The same may apply in Europe, amassing potentially hundreds of trillions of national debts, on both sides of the Atlantic.
This would be the ideal moment to introduce at once in the western world – US, UK, Canada, Europe, but also Japan and Australia – programmable Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
These countries’ combined 2022 GDP amounts to about US$ 50 trillion equivalent, almost half of the 2022 world GDP (US$ 103.86 trillion). See this (World Bank data).
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Within the shortest period of time, the western US-dollar-based economy’s debt could be wiped out with one stroke – with a new kind of money, the CBDC. With another stroke, the entire ignorant western population could be doubly straitjacketed – by WHO’s Health Tyranny, as well as by programmable CBDC.
It is high time that We, the People, around the world gain consciousness and become aware of the dictatorial measures waiting just a short stretch down road to be implemented. Then, the bulk of The Great Reset / Agenda 2030 would have been achieved. Once that happens, it will be difficult to escape.
It is time that We the People, request our governments to exit WHO – in Switzerland a referendum to this effect has already been initiated – and that we are prepared for setting up parallel governments with local money, totally delinked from existing banking and central banks.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
The Head of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde, has announced the implementation of the digital Euro, which will have devastating economic and social consequences.
According to Peter Koenig:
“The universal drive towards central bank digital currencies, emanates most likely from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Central Bank of all central banks, controlling at least 90% of central banks around the globe, and the BIS, itself, being controlled by the Rothschild family.
As we see, all is in best-intended private hands, perfectly aligned with the fraudulently established 1913 Federal Reserve Act – that has allowed the US Federal Reserve –which is controlled by a handful of Wall Street Banks– to create a US dollar hegemony around the world”.
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The euro is key to our European unity. A digital euro, existing alongside cash, would future-proof our currency. It would be safe, easy to use and free of charge.
While the decision whether to issue a digital euro will be taken later, we’re now launching the preparation phase. pic.twitter.com/fs81p7otVW
The Head of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde has a criminal record in France.
“International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has been convicted [December 2016] over her role in a controversial €400m (£355m) payment to a businessman.
French judges found Ms Lagarde guilty of negligence for failing to challenge the state arbitration payout to the friend of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy [Bernard Tapie].
The 60-year-old, following a week-long trial in Paris, was not given any sentence and will not be punished.
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The Court of Justice of the Republic, a special tribunal for ministers, could have given Ms Lagarde up to one-year in prison and a €13,000 fine. (The Independent, December 19, 2016, emphasis added)
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Screenshot: The Independent, December 2016
Unusual in France? Lagarde was found “guilty” without the enforcement of a one year jail term ordered by the Court: She was accused of “negligence” rather than “complicity” in a multimillion euro fraud.
The French judges took the decision to withhold a one year prison sentence pertaining to the accused pursuant to a decision of the IMF Executive Board which is routinely chaired by the accused.
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The globalists decided to deprive everyone associated with the IMF of money. If they don’t die from vaccination, they will die of starvation when entire countries will lose their finances.
I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.
What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose. As J-Street, an important organization in the Israel lobby, puts it,
“The scope of the unfolding humanitarian disaster and civilian casualties is nearly unfathomable.”[1]
Let me elaborate.
Featured image: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (L) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meet in Brussels on June 15, 2023. (Photo Credit Elad Malcha/Defense Ministry)
First, Israel is purposely massacring huge number of civilians, roughly 70 percent of whom are children and women. The claim that Israel is going to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties is belied by statements from high level Israeli officials. For example, the IDF spokesman said on 10 October 2023 that “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy.” That same day, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced:
“I have lowered all the restraints – we will kill everyone we fight against; we will use every means.”[2]
Moreover, it is clear from the results of the bombing campaign that Israel is indiscriminately killing civilians. Two detailed studies of the IDF’s bombing campaign – both published in Israeli outlets – explain in detail how Israel is murdering huge numbers of civilians. It is worth quoting the titles of the two pieces, which succinctly capture what each has to say:
“‘A Mass Assassination Factory’: Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing of Gaza”[3]
“The Israeli Army Has Dropped the Restraint in Gaza, and the Data Shows Unprecedented Killing.”[4]
Similarly, the New York Times published an article in late November 2023 titled: “Gaza Civilians, Under Israeli Barrage, Are Being Killed at Historic Pace.”[5] Thus, it is hardly surprising that the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, said that
“We are witnessing a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict since” his appointment in January 2017.[6]
Second, Israel is purposely starving the desperate Palestinian population by greatly limiting the amount of food, fuel, cooking gas, medicine, and water that can be brought into Gaza. Moreover, medical care is extremely hard to come by for a population that now includes approximately 50,000 wounded civilians. Not only has Israel greatly limited the supply of fuel into Gaza, which hospitals need to function, but it has targeted hospitals, ambulances, and first aid stations.
Defense Minister Gallant’s comment on 9 October captures Israeli policy:
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.”[7]
Israel has been forced to allow minimal supplies into Gaza, but the amounts are so small that a senior UN official reports that “half of Gaza’s population is starving.” He goes on to report that, “Nine out of 10 families in some areas are spending ‘a full day and night without any food at all’.”[8]
Third, Israeli leaders talk about Palestinians and what they would like to do in Gaza in shocking terms, especially when you consider that some of these leaders also talk incessantly about the horrors of the Holocaust. Indeed, their rhetoric has led Omar Bartov, a prominent Israeli-born scholar of the Holocaust, to conclude that Israel has “genocidal intent.”[9] Other scholars in Holocaust and genocide studies have offered a similar warning.[10]
To be more specific, it is commonplace for Israeli leaders to refer to Palestinians as “human animals, ”human beasts,” and “horrible inhuman animals.”[11] And as Israeli President Isaac Herzog makes clear, those leaders are referring to all Palestinians, not just Hamas: In his words,
“It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.”[12]
Unsurprisingly, as the New York Times reports, it is part of normal Israeli discourse to call for Gaza to be “flattened,” “erased,” or “destroyed.”[13] One retired IDF general, who proclaimed that
“Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist,” also makes the case that “severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer.”[14]
Going even further, a minister in the Israeli government suggested dropping a nuclear weapon on Gaza.[15] These statements are not being made by isolated extremists, but by senior members of Israel’s government.
Of course, there is also much talk of ethnically cleansing Gaza (and the West Bank), in effect, producing another Nakba.[16] To quote Israel’s Agriculture Minister,
“We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”[17]
Perhaps the most shocking evidence of the depths to which Israeli society has sunk is a video of very young children singing a blood-curdling song celebrating Israel’s destruction of Gaza:
“Within a year we will annihilate everyone, and then we will return to plow our fields.”[18]
Fourth, Israel is not just killing, wounding, and starving huge numbers of Palestinians, it is also systematically destroying their homes as well as critical infrastructure – to include mosques, schools, heritage sites, libraries, key government buildings, and hospitals.[19] As of 1 December 2023, the IDF had damaged or destroyed almost 100,000 buildings, including entire neighborhoods that have been reduced to rubble.[20]Consequently, a stunning 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes.[21] Moreover, Israel is making a concerted effort to destroy Gaza’s cultural heritage; as NPR reports, “more than 100 Gaza heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks.”[22]
Fifth, Israel is not just terrorizing and killing Palestinians, it is also publicly humiliating many of their men who have been rounded up by the IDF in routine searches. Israeli soldiers strip them down to their underwear, blindfold them, and display them in a public way in their neighborhoods – sitting them down in large groups in the middle of the street, for example, or parading them through the streets – before taking them away in trucks to detention camps. In most cases, the detainees are then released as they are not Hamas fighters.[23]
President Joe Biden participates in a restricted bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Hotel Kempinski in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, October 18, 2023. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith)
Sixth, although the Israelis are doing the slaughtering, they could not do it without the Biden administration’s support. Not only was the United States the only country to vote against a recent UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but it has also been providing Israel with the weaponry necessary to wage this massacre.[24] As one Israeli general (Yitzhak Brick) recently made clear:
“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability.… Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”[25]
Remarkably, the Biden administration has sought to expedite sending Israel additional ammunition, by-passing the normal procedures of the Arms Export Control Act.[26]
Seventh, while most of the focus is now on Gaza, it is important not to lose sight of what is simultaneously going on in the West Bank. Israeli settlers, working closely with the IDF, continue to kill innocent Palestinians and steal their land. In an excellent article in the New York Review of Books describing these horrors, David Shulman relates a conversation he had with a settler, which clearly reflects the moral dimension of Israeli behavior toward the Palestinians.
“What we are doing to these people is actually inhuman,” the settler freely admits, “But if you think about it clearly, it all follows inevitably from the fact that God promised this land to the Jews, and only to them.”[27]
Along with its assault on Gaza, the Israel government has markedly increased the number of arbitrary arrests in the West Bank. According to Amnesty International, there is considerable evidence that these prisoners have been tortured and subjected to degrading treatment.[28]
As I watch this catastrophe for the Palestinians unfold, I am left with one simple question for Israel’s leaders, their American defenders, and the Biden administration: have you no decency?
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The problem isn’t “global inaction” to prevent mass atrocities, as The Guardian claims, writes Jonathan Cook. It’s intense U.S. and U.K. support for atrocities so long as they bolster their global power.
Gaza, Oct. 17. (Saleh Najm and Anas Sharif/Fars News/Wikimedia Commons)
How do politicians, diplomats, the media and even the human rights community keep us politically ignorant, docile and passive – a collective mindset that prevents us from challenging their power as well as the status quo they benefit from?
The answer: By constantly misrepresenting reality to us and their own role in shaping it. And they do it so successfully because, at the same time, they gaslight us by flaunting the pretence that they crave to make the world a better place — a better place where, in truth, the unspoken danger is that, were it to be realised, their own power would be severely diminished.
A perfect illustration of how this grand deception works was provided in a report at the weekend in the supposedly progressive Guardian newspaper, headlined, “World faces ‘heightened risk’ of mass atrocities due to global inaction.”
The opening paragraph reports that human rights activists fear the “international community has given up on intervention efforts to stop mass atrocities, leading to fears that such occurrences may become the norm around the world.”
In practice, this “failure,” according to the report, has manifested in an abandonment by Western states of the principle of R2P — or “responsibility to protect.” This principle and related “humanitarian” pretexts were used to justify the U.S. and its allies meddling since the 1990s variously in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, with disastrous consequences.
Millions were killed as a result of R2P-type interventions and tens of millions displaced, leading to mass movements of people that are seen today by Western states in terms of an “illegal immigration threat.”
Sustained Massacre
The context for the human rights community’s concerns, we are told, are growing abuses of the Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both were adopted in the immediate wake of the Second World War to prevent a repeat of the Nazi holocaust and widespread atrocities committed against civilians on both sides of the fighting.
One might have assumed, at this point, that such fears have been heightened — resulting in their being raised at the United Nations — by the most egregious genocide of modern times: the sustained massacre over two months of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the wanton destruction of the vast majority of their homes to drive the survivors out of Gaza and into Egypt.
At least 17,000 Palestinians are known to have been killed by Israel so far, most of them women and children. More than 100,000 homes have been made uninhabitable. Some 2.3 million Palestinians have been herded into a tiny, ever shrinking space, close to the border with Egypt, denied water, food and fuel.
This combined act of genocide and ethnic cleansing is the most intense, visible and industrial — using the very latest and most powerful weaponry available — in living memory.
But extraordinarily, that does not appear to be the central concern of the “international community.” According to The Guardian, the following are the global crises primarily driving a steep rise in atrocities:
“The mass killing of civilians in Syria and Ukraine, and the internment of over a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in China, have been followed by war crimes in Ethiopia, and a resumption of ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s Darfur province, 20 years after the start of the genocide there.”
Notice anything significant about this list? It comprises only mass atrocities being committed by those not firmly within the U.S. imperial sphere of subservience.
The mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza, which has been in the headlines for many weeks, cannot be credibly overlooked. So it is mentioned — but notice how the spotlight is sharply directed away from the present, highly pertinent events in Israel and Palestine. The genocide in Gaza, which has driven many millions of protesters on to the streets across Europe and North America, becomes an afterthought:
“The 7 October Hamas killing of 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and the consequent Israeli invasion of Gaza, in which women and children have accounted for most of the estimated 16,000 dead, have added to the bloody chaos.”
Manifold Deceptions
Medic carries an injured Palestinian child into Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City following an Israeli airstrike on Oct. 11. (Atia Darwish, Palestinian News & Information Agency — Wafa — for APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0)
The deception here is manifold, and not just because Gaza ought to be top of the list of concerns, not at the bottom.
The formulaic framing in this paragraph is designed — as ever in Western reporting — to create a false equivalence between Hamas’ actions and Israel’s, and engender a sense that Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians is caused, and excused, by Hamas’ preceding mass slaughter of Israelis.
It should hardly need restating that Hamas’ breakout of the prison that is Gaza — and its predictably dire consequences — was preceded by decades of Israeli military abuses of Palestinians under military occupation and an illegal 16-year siege of their territory depriving more than 2 million people of their freedom, basic rights and dignity.
There has been a constant, slow-motion atrocity in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem for decades — long before the human rights community, the U.N. and The Guardian raised their new concerns about “a heightened risk of atrocity crimes.”
There is, too, a clear difference between the exceptional, one-off violence Hamas was able to wreak on Oct. 7 because of dramatic and unexpected failures in Israel’s surveillance and control of the Palestinian population in Gaza and Israel’s intensification of the structural violence of a decades-long occupation and siege.
These, all too obviously, are not the same things — and they do not pose even vaguely comparable threats to the status of the Genocide Convention and Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
To suggest otherwise — as all Western reporting does constantly — is to exaggerate the threat posed to international law by the atrocities committed by Hamas and dramatically underplay the significance of Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Weapons Testing Lab
But there is a far deeper problem with the framing of these concerns. The critical problem is not “global inaction” over mass atrocities. It is the opposite: intense Western — chiefly U.S. — support for, and complicity in, such atrocities.
This problem is highlighted only too clearly by events in Gaza. Which is precisely why it is included reluctantly, and only as an afterthought, in the list of threats to international humanitarian law. The U.S. is not helpless in the unfolding genocide. It is actively facilitating it. In fact, Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing would be impossible without not just U.S. collusion but active participation.
The mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza is occurring because the U.S. has supplied many of the heavy-duty bombs razing Gaza’s high-rises and killing its children. The slaughter is occurring because the U.S. has sent warships to the region to intimidate neighbouring Arab states and militant groups into remaining quiet as Gaza’s civilians are murdered.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah, for example, is quite capable of ending “global inaction,” by engaging Israel militarily and drawing Israeli firepower away from Gaza. But no one in the “international community” presumably wants that kind of “action.”
The mass slaughter in Gaza is occurring because the U.S. used its veto at the U.N. Security Council last Friday to block a ceasefire. It is occurring because the U.S. has funded the Iron Dome missile interception system that stops Hamas being able to fire rockets on Israeli communities — mirroring on a tiny scale Israel’s destruction in Gaza — to raise the political pressure in Israel for a ceasefire.
The slaughter is occurring because Washington has for decades propped up Israel’s military with the bulk of the U.S. overseas aid budget, and let Israel use the Palestinian territories as a profitable laboratory for testing new weapons systems, surveillance techniques and cyber technology.
Peace Talks Blocked
Boris Johnson, then-U.K. prime minister, left, meeting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev, April 9, 2022. (Ukraine government)
The problem here is most definitely not “inaction.” It is that the U.S. picks and chooses when and how it wants to be active in creating, sustaining and ending conflicts around the globe.
Noticeably absent from the list of concerns about the spread of atrocities is the suffering of Yemen, where Saudi Arabia has been waging a genocidal war for years. On average, four Yemeni children have been killed or maimed each day over the past eight years by Saudi atrocities.
Why is Yemen overlooked? Because factions there are seen as allies of Iran and therefore enemies of the West whose lives count for nothing. Because Riyadh is a critically important U.S. ally and supplier of oil. And because the U.S. and Britain have been arming the Saudis to the hilt to commit the genocide there.
Similarly, in Ukraine. The vast majority of the casualties on both sides of the fighting might have been avoided if peace talks had not been blocked by the U.S. and Britain in the first weeks after Russia’s invasion.
It was that “action” and others — such as the threatening expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders and the West’s flooding of Ukraine with weapons on the false promise that Nato would have Kyiv’s back — that ensured nearly two years of war and its tragic death toll.
As with Gaza, the problem has not been inaction, it’s been far too much action from the U.S. and its lapdogs in Europe of the very kind designed to assist in slaughter and genocides.
‘You Must Obey’
There is, however, a reason why the “international community” is raising concerns about “atrocity crimes” now, while downplaying or denying the worst possible atrocity crime – genocide – in Gaza.
And that is because Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7 signifies a dangerous moment for Western domination of the so-called global, rules-based order. The concern is not really about a rise in mass atrocities. The West is just fine with atrocities when it commits them or it helps others carry them out.
It is about the West’s increasing difficulty of keeping the rest of the world weak, intimidated and subdued through the use of its own atrocities. U.S. military failures in Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine — and the growing self-assurance of Russia and China — are marking out new limits to Washington’s supremacy.
The truth is that Hamas’ attack on Israel — horrific as its consequences were — served as a signpost to a different future for many of those who have lived for decades under the thumb, or more often the boot, of the U.S. and its allies. They see that it is possible, even as an oppressed, weak, abused party, to give the bullying global hegemon and its sidekicks a bloody nose.
What is seen by privileged, complacent Westerners purely in terms of senseless, barbaric violence is understood by others as a slave revolt – as an “I am Spartacus” moment.
Which is why, just as happened after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, so much of the rest of the world is failing to join the West in its self-righteous chorus of outrage and condemnation. They view these professions of indignation as pure hypocrisy.
It is the reason, too, why the U.S. is being so indulgent as Israel goes about its genocidal rampage in Gaza. The importance for Washington is not stopping Israel’s atrocities but making sure Israel reasserts its famed “deterrence” to provide a lesson to those who might be inspired to wage their own slave revolt.
In front of the cameras, the Biden administration is calling for restraint and urging Israel to minimise civilian casualties. But behind the scenes, it is carefully calibrating just how much savagery Israel needs to unleash to send the right message to the non-Western world: You cannot win. You must obey.
Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His website and blog can be found at www.jonathan-cook.net
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