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Israel-Palestine War: The Big Picture. Peter Koenig

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This Interview with Mike Adams, Brighteon Broadcast News (BBN) on the Israel-Palestine Conflict and Beyond is followed by a loose transcript of the key points of the interview.

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/27a9ee4a-aed1-43ff-8e8d-d6e6634242ea

Some “experts” say with full conviction Hamas is winning this war.

They base it on Hamas having achieved a ceasefire which they consider is already a “win”. And then they said getting Israel to accept a 2-day extension is a further sign of Hamas upper-hand.

That is just wishful thinking. An illusion at best. It would be desirable. But, with Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) armed to the teeth with western — mostly US — state-of-the-art weapons, plus top secret service advice from Mossad, CIA and UK’s MI6 (Military Intelligence, section six), such ideas are way detached from reality.

Background

First, in this, like in most other wars, there is no winner. There are only losers.

Second, instead of dividing the world in pro or con the one or the other warrying party, the typical “divide to conquer” propaganda, we should all vouch for PEACE.

Having said this, it is undeniable that Palestine has lived through some kind of a “Holocaust” for the last 75 years, since the creation of Israel in 1948 – sponsored by the UK, in connivance with the then brand-new UN, backed by the US.

The UN, created in 1945, had only 51 member countries, and was then already under full control of the “top winner” of WWII, the USA.

The Israeli crackdown on Palestine became even more severe when, on June 5, 1967, Israel launched an attack against Egyptian forces in response to Egypt’s closing of the Suez Canal for Israeli shipping. Jordan and Syria joined the conflict.

By June 11, Israel defeated all three and occupied the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. The United States pressed for a ceasefire to prevent the risk of a Soviet intervention. See this.

This was the beginning of Palestine’s – especially Gaza’s – colonization.

The next step and further repression of Palestine followed the Yom Kippur War in October 1973 – against Egypt and Syria. It lasted a mere 20 days.

From then forward, the oppression mounted year by year to the point where in January 2006, Hamas won democratic elections in Palestine with 74 of the 132 seats, while Fatah, the then ruling party trailed with 45.

Fatah was the former Palestine Liberation Movement founded and led by Yasser Arafat until his death (by poisoning) in 2004.

When in 2007 Hamas also took over the reins in Gaza, Israel no longer adhered to the earlier agreed ever shakier ceasefire.

Israel then closed the border to Gaza, making Gaza the world’s largest open prison with then close to 2 million inhabitants which grew by 2023 to about 2.3 million.

Up to today, for the last almost 17 years, the border has remained hermetically sealed, surveilled electronically and by hundreds of border guards. Some Israeli guards say that not even a rat could escape undetected.

Second Nakba: The Start of Monumental Destruction of the Middle East?

Living in Gaza was and is hell.

Gaza was and is fully occupied by Israeli military, the people harassed on a daily basis – and as we know, shot often point blank, for no reason. See video below.

This was the situation up to October 7, 2023. Since then, Gaza has been bombed to ashes and almost erased from the map. Close to 2 million people are homeless and, on the move, starving, no clean water, no electricity, no fuel, no means of communication, destroyed infrastructure, hospitals, schools. IDF has either all destroyed or blocked access to vital means of surviving.

There are no words to describe the misery in Gaza.

Hamas was created in 1987 by Israel and the US – Ron Paul just recently testified to this effect in the US Congress when he said, “after all we created Hamas and now, we have to get rid of them…”

See below and listen to the end, Rep. Ron Paul (Tx) also reveals openly that the US has recruited and supported Osama Bin Laden and created Al-Qaeda.

Hamas is the Arabic abbreviation for “Islamic Resistance Movement”; Hamas gave the impetus to and led the first Palestine Intifada (“civil uprising”) in 1987, after Israel killed four Palestinians driving to work in a provoked car accident… or so the story goes.

Direction and Purpose of the War

These developments, however, point to a much larger story – to a plan that has been in the making for at least the last 50 to 70 years.

The Three Point Plan that serves the West is part of the Great Reset and Agenda 2030 playbook – and is supposed to lead to the “promised” One World Government run by what might be called the Financial-Military-IT-Media and Pharma (FMIMP) Complex.

From the very beginning, the Zionists behind Israel wanted to dominate not only what they called the ancient homeland, Palestine – which, as Israeli homeland, is historically highly questionable.

Some 3,000 years ago on that greater land of Palestine which also included today’s Jordan – Arabs and (few) Jews lived peacefully together. They lived together in peace and harmony for about 1,600 years when Islam was born in about 610 AD.

Even after this date Israelis and Arabs still lived together for another about 1,400 years in peace, until 1948, when Israel was born. That is when the Zionist-Arab conflict started and was driven by worldwide Zionism and by all those who defended Zionism, including Evangelists.

Zionists have infiltrated western governments, from the United States, Europe to the UK’s Commonwealth States and beyond.

Let us start with the first of the Three Points mentioned earlier.

Since the Old Testament, Jews were the “Chosen People” who will eventually live in their “Promised Land” to become Israel.

The Zionist concept of the Chosen People was always intent to expand their territory – Palestine – to “Greater Israel”.

Source: Adda247

Greater Israel – in the planning since the ’60s, and definitely after the Yom Kippur War – would stretch east to comprise parts of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and, of course Jordan (see map above). This might constitute 30% to 50% of what is today’s Middle East.

As such it would make Israel the owner of a good third (or more) of the world’s hydrocarbon resources, mainly oil and gas. The West needs these resources for economic development – to be able to further sanction Russia and to make sure the New World Order is controlled by the West.

As a parenthesis, the Russian central bank forecasts the 2023 current account surplus at $26 billion; whereas the US national debt is projected for 2023 and more than US$ 33 trillion – as compared to the US GDP of projected US$ 26.5 trillion – a debt-GDP ratio of 124%.

Looking at the real US debt, namely Unfunded Liabilities, they stand at 259 trillion, almost 10-times US GDP. See the US-deb clock for more details.

With a planned (though, far from realized) larger, energy resources-rich Israel, the symbiotic relationship between Israel and the West, mainly the US and its western puppets, the European Union, would grow even stronger.

The Second Point is with focus on Gaza.

It is the discovery in 1999 by British Gas (BG) of at least a trillion cubic feet of gas [about 300 billion cubic meters] off-shore of Gaza.

With the Gaza population pushed into Egypt’s Sinai desert where Egypt, in agreement with Israel, has already built a huge tent city – and from where Palestinians would never be allowed to return to their home land, Israel would simply and undisturbed confiscate these Gaza gas fields.

The existence of huge gas deposits was known before 1999. Indications are that the quantities are much larger than a trillion cubic feet. But talking about suspected much larger deposits now would be strategically unwise.

Adding the Gaza gas to the hydrocarbon resources of a Greater Israel would make Israel an even bigger player in the world arena of energy supplier, possibly one of the three largest (Venezuela, Russia, Israel) — sort of really the “Chosen People”.

And the Third Point, not to be neglected, is since the early 1970’s the planned Ben Gurion Canal. It would lead from the Mediterranean Sea either through current Gaza or just outside of Gaza, through Israel / Palestine to the Red Sea. It would be about three-times as long as the Egyptian Suez Canal, competing with the Suez Canal, and be entirely under Western control.

It would be crucial for the presumably undisturbed transport of the Gaza gas and other Western goods, to Asian and Global South markets.

The Big Picture

Frankly, chances that this monster plan of a Greater Israel, with the ensuing wars and conflicts will be realized are almost nil, as We, the People, are waking up and can stop the growing tyranny in its tracks.

We may not yet have the masses we would like to see, but dynamics never work out as we, the People foresee them, but rather with a quantum spin which we do not quite comprehend yet – but which eventually will lead to justice.

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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.

Featured image: A view from the area after Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, on October 31, 2023. [Stringer – Anadolu Agency]

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Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. The Prodigious Machine of Control. The 24/7 Digital Life. Edward Curtin

Daydreaming While Reading Jonathan Crary’s 24/7

By Edward Curtin

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“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.” – Shakespeare, Macbeth

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People often laugh when I tell them that I go to sleep at 8:15 P.M. They laugh harder when I say it’s been a lifetime habit, with unavoidable exceptions of course. And that I wake up long before dawn.

Not because I am a dairy farmer or a baker, but because I love to sleep and all the best things I have written have been written in my dreams and refined during reveries while walking or in the early morning when all is silent still and I am alone with my musings.

I have always felt that sleeping and being awake were a seamless whole, contrary to the go-getters’ attitude that sleep and dreams are a waste of time, and I have been blessed with the ability to fall asleep as soon as I crawl into my crib and usually to remember my dreams in detail when I wake.

Jonathan Crary, the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University, agrees that sleep is profoundly important and under assault today. To enter his book, 24/7, Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep, (which was first published in 2014) is for me to discover a kindred spirit, but also to enter a mind so capacious and profound that I wish to share his insights while I dream in words.

If what William Wordsworth (what a name!) wrote in 1802 was true then,

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

What possibly could one say about today? That shopping or thinking about shopping – things or propaganda or the latest useless buzz – is all we know? That we have become completely insane, bamboozled by a capitalist techno-electronic madness that has not only seized our hearts but convinced our minds that it is good to spend our lives – our sleep and dreams and time and praxis – in tending to machines that destroy our souls night and day without interruption.

When fifty plus years ago the monk Thomas Merton wrote that “someday they will sell us the rain,” he could today add that the hard rain that Dylan sung of then has already fallen and they now need not sell us anything because we have eaten the bitter fruit of our own corruption. People say they want peace while they fill their nights and days with digital dreams, eliminating what Crary calls “fugitive anonymity” for the bait of 24/7 capitalist drug addiction and being “with it.” All the clichés have it that peace begins with “you,” yet you has become them or it, the tech-life 24/7. I hear Sinatra singing Cole Porter’s lyrics today as

Night and day, you are the one
Only you ‘neath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me or far
It’s no matter, cell phone, where you are
I think of you day and night

And such love is reciprocated, of course, as the electronic machines help so many distracted and restless souls make it through the night. Sort of. Not the kind of help Kris Kristofferson sang about, but a fleshless flashing gizmo colder than a frozen heart.

It is well known that sleep disorders are widespread today with technologically produced sleep drugs (and now marijuana) used by vast numbers of people. Such drug-induced sleep, the flip side of the frenetic passivity that precedes and follows it, occurs within a larger 24/7 sleepless framework that Crary accurately notes happens “ . . . within the globalist neoliberal paradigm, [for] sleeping is for losers.”

Yet what’s to be won is never enunciated because the winners’ faces are always well-hidden as they execute the prodigious capitalist machine of control that creates docility and separation in people who find the machine life irresistible – even as it drains them of easy-going vitality and the joy of dawdling, even for an idle while. Doing nothing has become a crime.

When Time Stands Still

Last night I stepped outside an hour after sunset and was startled by a massive full moon eyeing me as it rose over the eastern hills. Here where I dwell there are no city or factory lights to block the moon and stars as they illuminate our nights. But most people are not so lucky, for what our ancestors once took for granted – that we are part of nature, part of the Tao – has been lost for so many as artificial lights, urbanization, and a 24/7 linguistic mind-control ideology block the thrill of being transfixed by the moon’s loving gaze, an invitation to taste the sweetness of the north wind’s cookie. Maybe the sight of her face might rattle the televised images lodged in people’s “memories” of mechanical misbegotten men in ghost suits trampling her peaceful countenance.

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The 24/7 digital life, essential to neo-liberal financialized capitalism with its day and night markets and infrastructure that allow for continuous consumption and work – total availability – is the culmination of a long process that began with the invention of artificial lighting that allowed the English cotton mills to run 24/7. Crary brilliantly illustrates this point through the 1782 painting, Arkwright’s Cotton Mills by Night, by the British artist James Derby. This painting shows the windows of the massive mills lit like pin-points in the rural night, watched over by a full moon that illuminates the sky. Incongruous time indeed! He writes, “The artificial lighting of the factories announces the rationalized deployment of an abstract relation between time and work, severed from the cyclical temporalities of lunar and solar movements.” This radical break from the traditional relation between time and work and the earth was later noted by Karl Marx as essential to the advance of capitalism since it disconnected the laboring individual from all interdependent connections to family, community, etc. while reorienting people’s feelings for time. The English art critic John Berger, who knew that time with its corollary to place was a key to understanding so much history, put it this way: “Every ruling minority needs to numb and, if possible, to kill the time-sense of those it exploits. This is the authoritarian secret of all methods of imprisonment.”

Dreaming of imprisonment, I just remembered that although it seems like a delusion from so far away and long ago, I once worked in a factory by day with its huge blast furnaces, in a NYC Police precinct jail on the 4-12 P.M. shift, and all-night as a nightwatchman. All good lessons in how American society works, although I hated them all and labored simply for the pay. But each in its own way taught me about imprisonment, especially the watchman’s job, since it involved a jolting sense of time and staying awake all night and sleeping by day. I was always exhausted and felt I was violating my deepest nature.

Sleep deprivation is a central component of the torturers’ methods, as so many victims of the U.S. war machine have learned. And the Pentagon (DARPA) has spent vast sums trying to create a sleepless soldier who can go at least seven days without sleep. As Crary notes: “ . . . scientists in various labs are conducting experimental trials of sleeplessness techniques, including neurochemicals, gene therapy, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.” The war against sleep is being waged on many fronts by well-armed maniacs intent on controlling human beings for nefarious ends. To control sleep is to control time is to confound minds, which is the goal.

Ovid, the most sensual of Roman poets, would be shocked, I imagine, to learn that Morpheus, the god of sleep and dreams from his Metamorphoses, would be attacked so relentlessly by today’s madmen who never heard of his poetry. My mind drifts to my college days translating Ovid under a weeping willow. “My cause is better: no-one can claim that I ever took up arms against you,” he wrote and I read. These words come back to me as I muse on the arms taken today against sleep, but I’m not sure if it’s Ovid or Bob Dylan’s lyrics in his song Workingman’s Blues #2 (from the album Modern Times) that fly to mind, for Dylan also sings “No-one can ever claim/ That I took up arms against you.”

Poor Morpheus, so many people in these modern times yearn for your arms but instead of that balm, they toss and turn in a time out of mind and out of sleep.

Crary tells us that the amount of sleep the average North American adult gets has gone from ten hours in the early twentieth century to eight hours a generation ago to six-and-a-half today. And although people will always have to sleep, I think we can expect further reductions. To say it is a form of torture is probably an exaggeration, but not by much. He writes:

Behind the vacuity of the catchphrase, 24/7 is a static redundancy that disavows its relation to the rhythmic and periodic textures of human life. . . . A 24/7 environment has the semblance of a social world, but it is actually a non-social model of machinic performance and a suspension of living that does not disclose the human cost required to sustain its effectiveness. . . . 24/7 is a time of indifference, against which the fragility of human life is increasingly inadequate and within which sleep has no necessity or inevitability. In relation to labor, it renders plausible, even normal, the idea of working without pause, without limits. It is aligned with what is inanimate, inert, or unageing. As an advertising exhortation it decrees the absoluteness of availability, and hence the ceaselessness of needs and their incitement, but also their perpetual non-fulfillment.

In other words, 24/7 is a form of linguistic mind control tied to cell phones, computers, and the digital life of the Internet whose purpose is to convince people that sleep and the human body is somehow unnatural and the future lies with people accepting their marriage to machines in a disenchanted and transhuman world. It is a lie, of course, for if that is a future people accept, there will be no future, just a desert. “Deleuze and Guattari went to the point of comparing the order-word [24/7] to a ‘death sentence,’” writes Crary. Such an order-word or imperative is similar in this respect to the term “9/11” which was coined to send an instant message that emergencies will now be endless so we will have to monitor you forevermore. Keep your cell phone ready. Be on your toes, stay alert, the terrorists come at all hours – keep awake!

Crary makes a profoundly important point at a time when there is much justifiable focus on propaganda and the lies of governments and the media. This is the power of habit involved in the acceptance of the naturalness of various devices – today, electronic screens that are omnipresent – that we semi-automatically accept as normal. He says,

“In this sense, they are part of larger strategies of power in which the aim is not mass-deception, but rather states of neutralization and inactivation, in which one is dispossessed of time. But even within habitual repetitions there remains a thread of hope – a knowingly false hope – that one more click or touch might open onto something to redeem the overwhelming monotony in which one is immersed. One of the forms of disempowerment within 24/7 environments is the incapacitation of daydream or any mode of absent-minded introspection that would otherwise occur in intervals of slow or vacant time.”

This is part of a modern process of psychological reductionism and a changed understanding of the nature of wishes that have excluded dreaming and daydreaming from any connection to a traditional magico-theological framework. Science and especially the neuro-sciences have reduced all life to what is empirically provable, attenuating life and the creation of art in the service of human life. Crary uses Jean Paul Sartre’s inelegant but insightful neologism, “practico-inert,” to explain people’s inability to see the nature of the social worlds they are part of with any clarity. “The practico-inert was thus Sartre’s way [in Critique of Dialectical Reason] of designating the sedimented, institutional everyday world constituted out of human energy but manifested as the immense accumulation of routine passive activity.”

To repeat, this frenetic passivity serves to obscure the negative historical reality of life in a 24/7 electronic spectacle that is advertised as amazingly empowering but is the reverse.

For direct experience has fallen on hard times as life today has come to be mediated through electronic gadgets. Surprises must be googled in advance or photographed to prove their reality. Living is never easy, not in the summertime or any other season. Tension, inattention, exhaustion, and constant busyness are the order of the day. This should be self-evident but isn’t. People feel it but can’t see it.

Commenting on the dying art of storytelling, Walter Benjamin, in an essay called “The Storyteller,” said the following about people’s ability to listen and remember stories that they can integrate into their own experience so they can pass them on:

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation, which is becoming rarer and rarer [written in 1936]. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places – the activities that are intimately associated with boredom – are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift of listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears. [my emphasis]

We have gone beyond rustling in the bushes to a cacophonous electronic world that makes one deaf to all else. That it will come crashing down around our ears is hard to imagine, but it will. It already has in the damage that it’s done.

Once upon a time . . . well, I will spare you. It might just seem like the dream of a ridiculous man, or something Dostoevsky would write, not your normal story or even daydream.

So read Jonathan Crary’s brilliant, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep and its sequel, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World. They will get you to think about your sleep habits and whether or not you are ever turned off and tuned out but just sometimes only in “sleep mode.”

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Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. The Prodigious Machine of Control. The 24/7 Digital Life. Edward Curtin

The Genocidal State of Israel

What Happened to the Jewish State of Israel? Part I

By Prof. Anthony J. Hall

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It came as a surprise to me to see flashes of warmth, affection and mutual respect during the moments on the 25th of November when the Israeli captives were handed off to Red Cross officials by Hamas fighters of the Qassem Brigades. Not only were the captives shown to be in good health; they were well scrubbed and calm in their demeanour. One young woman on crutches had obviously been receiving medical attention.

At the end of her 7-week ordeal, time probably spent largely in the Gaza tunnels, she and one of her captors seemed touched with warm emotion as they parted, each going their own way into very different futures. They exchanged tender looks and little waves as the young woman said in Arabic Shukran, “thanks.” Other similar scenes were pictured as a other captives in Gaza were transported back to Israel on the second day of a several-day respite in the bombardment.

This little snapshot of sane interactions between human beings near the very heart of a holocaust-level event, seemed to fly in the face of the stereotypes contaminating too many minds in setting the mental environment within which the Gaza Kill Fest has been unfolding. The objectives of the leadership running the Israeli side of this operation go far beyond the stated goal of conquering and eliminating a Palestinian organization, one founded and funded by the Israeli government.

See this.

Hamas was meant by its Israeli founders to further the Israeli effort to avoid a two-state resolution to the longstanding Palestine-Israel conflict. As explained by Joachim Hagopian,

On Sunday November 26^th, the Washington Post exposed Benjamin Netanyahu’s symbiotic relationship with Hamas. On the one hand, he’s often claimed to want to destroy the “terrorist” group Hamas over many years, yet has helped finance Hamas and used this Palestinian militant faction to divide and rule Palestinians as a politically disunited people. By breaking up Palestine between its token Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and treating it as separate from East Jerusalem and the Hamas stronghold in Gaza, it ensures Israeli apartheid subjugation and control continues. See this.

What we are seeing, therefore, is the the culmination of the strategy to put a permanent end to even the possibility of a two-state solution. In fact the decision to depopulate Palestine of Palestinians, may be leading much of the international community to a conclusion that runs exactly opposite to what the conniving Prime Minister of Israel intends.

To be more explicit, the objective of Netanyahu and his Jewish supremacist constituents led by fascist Itamar Ben-Gvir, is to quickly eliminate by a variety of means the entire population of Palestinians who have survived three generations of violent abuse under the rule of Zionist Israel.

For decades these Palestinians have stubbornly refused to remove themselves from the lands of their ancestors regardless of all the pressures put on them to leave, to die, to suffer, or to just fade away into despondent despair.

The objective of the Israeli genocidaires is to destroy all the infrastructure that makes life possible in Gaza.

The aim is to push forward a scorched earth strategy to transform Gaza into a desolate wasteland incapable of supporting human existence. The tactics include a Dresden-style bombardment of human habitations. The result is that 80% of the 2.3 million Gazans are already homeless and internally displaced. Water treatment facilities are being dismantled as sewers and other sanitation facilities are being destroyed including in the remaining Palestinian districts in the West Bank.

Special measures have been taken to eliminate all capacity for growing and processing food. Even the remnants of institutions for recreation and cultural appreciation are being wiped into oblivion. The Israeli government’s proudest feat of ruination, has been to transform hospitals into bombed-out morgues on a scale that has probably never been seen before in military history.

As we shall see, this strategy of transforming hospitals into death camps can be interpreted as a particularly morbid legacy of the insanities done in the name of fighting COVID-19. On his way to the “War on Hamas,” Netanyahu had a big role in incorporating these insanities, many of them lethal, into Israeli policy and hospitals in ways that proved lethal and injurious for many Israeli citizens.

The Israeli government is trying to cover up many of these lethal insanities in Gaza through the IDF’s targeted assassination of journalists, photographers and even their families. Dozens have of them have been killed since October 7 along with many UN officials charged to record the extent of Israeli savagery.

From Netanyahu on down, Israeli officials make it clear that they are far from finished in their quest to make Gaza uninhabitable. The strategy so far has been to flatten Gaza’s buildings but especially those in its main population centre, Gaza City. The ceasefire has presented more openings for the cameras to record the devastation from many angles. In spite of the intense bombardment, thousands of northerners have refused to leave, preferring instead to live in tents in front of their destroyed homes.

The ceasefire has resulted in the temporary opening up to a trickle of essential supplies desperately needed by more than 2,000,000 starving and thirsty people, many of them suffering all sorts of injuries. This trickle of incoming supplies has slightly mitigated the draconian measures put in place by the Defence Minister. On October 8 Yoav Gallant notoriously announced that the “human animals”in Gaza would be subjected to a “siege” including being cut off from all food, water, and electricity.

Apparently Itamar Ben Gvir, the Minister of National Security who publicly declared his contempt for the ceasefire agreement, was particularly distraught with Netanyahu for letting in gasoline. Netanyahu is still seemingly in charge although he is hated by much of Israeli population.

The multiple scandals swirling around Netanyahu, including the emerging leaks about his “symbiotic” relationship with Hamas as well as new disclosures about what really happened on October 7. It seems that before October 7 many people, including several journalists, had prior knowledge of what was about to take place on October 7.

Moreover Netanyahu was one of many officials in Israel and the United States who would have had to have played a role in setting up the pretext for the planned annihilation and displacement of the entire population of Palestinians still living under the jack boot of Israeli control.

During the 7 weeks of bombing, the Jewish people of Israel mostly supported the military operation. But that support is apparently dwindling as the fate of the Israeli captives is more and more highlighted in the media.

There was something very discordant in Netanyahu’s claim that the way to free the Israeli hostages, but especially the soldiers, was to continue the blitzkrieg pounding their Hamas captors.

It is not known how many Israelis, if any, have already been killed by the proliferation of Israeli-US bombs dropped on the population of Gaza. While Netanyahu continues to stay out of jail by retaining his job as Prime Minister, he is once again being confronted with public protests at his home. The demands for his resignation are once again becoming aggressive.

The military operations have included an Israeli order to Gazans in the northern sector of the Gaza strip to move southwards. Many from this internally displaced population used the ceasefire to travel north in an effort to find their dead relatives in the rubble heaps and possibly to locate a few of their possessions that might have survived the bombing. IDF soldiers briefly broke the ceasefire by firing at northward-headed Palestinians. Two were killed and several were injured.

The internally displaced population, that is to say 80% of Gaza’s people, are being assembled in the south end of the Gaza strip.

They are being conveniently placed into close proximity to the Rafah crossing into Egypt. The plan has been to push the process of exterminating as many Palestinians as possible, before reconstituting the survivors as a new contingent of intergeneration refugee. Efforts have been aimed at bullying and bribing the government of Egypt into setting up refugee camps in the Sinai Desert.

Another scenario is to force more survivors of the US-Israeli bombardment into Western countries. This subject has large implications addressed by Tucker Carlson and others. They compare the desire of people in Israel to be exclusively and monolithically Jewish, even as Zionist power brokers demand intensified and enlarged multicultural mixing throughout the West.

The hypocrisy and double standards of Zionist connivance are becoming too audacious as so many in the “never again” chorus, cheer on the slaughter to advance Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinians.

The core motivation in the Zionist quest to eliminate Palestinians from Israel is not difficult to understand. Many Jewish citizens of the Jewish state want to extract themselves from the dark legacy of the inconvenient truths about how their country came to emerge and grow from the violent ongoing expropriation of the land of Palestine.

No amount of passing of Netanyahu-style laws to declare that Israel is under the exclusive sovereign proprietorship of the Jewish people, can change this history. In fact the ugly side of this genocidal history would only be rendered more shameful in the eyes of much of the world if the land of Palestine was to be ethnically cleansed of its entire Palestinian population.

There would be no need for a two-state solution if there were no more indigenous Palestinians to form the Arab state called for in the UN Resolution that launched Israel into the realm of international affairs.

It is this convergence of current events, changing attitudes, and inherited realities that causes me to question if the Jewish State of Israel might henceforth be better understood as the Genocidal State of Israel. As I see it, the flash of affection and decency displayed in the handover process indicates the situation is not yet hopeless.

A similar scene was re-enacted on day six of the ceasefire, as several released Israeli teenagers hugged, smiled and shook hands with members of the Qassam Brigades as they were being handed off to the Red Cross. Why not make friends, not hatred and war?

From God’s Chosen People, to Manifest Destiny, to Annihilating the Swastika Bearers

Those who after WWII declared, “Never Again,” are themselves committing a new Holocaust complete with obscene PR campaigns.

One such campaign can be seen as a telling marker of the emergence of the Genocidal State of Israel. This marker is the now-notorious video of a choir of Jewish children singing angelic praise for mass murder. This production by Rosenbaum Communications represents a new low in manipulative war propaganda. Putting such poisonous words into the mouths of innocent minors, amounts to nothing short of child abuse.

The video was removed from its biggest platform “ for violating You Tube’s Terms of Service.” The children affirmed in this song that, “within a year we will annihilate everyone.” By “everyone” the producers apparently mean all Palestinians who are described generically as “swastika-bearers.”

🚨WATCH: Israeli children sing, «We will annihilate everyone» in Gaza, against a background of destruction.

Disturbing video was posted, then deleted by Israeli national broadcaster @kann_news.

We captured it and added English subtitles

FULL STORY: https://t.co/fzS5bu2NBx pic.twitter.com/pKut1WYixi

— Electronic Intifada (@intifada) November 19, 2023

Like the child singers of the genocidal song, many Israeli officials have clearly declared their country’s intention to eliminate all Palestinians from Israel. See this.

A clear indication of the fraudulent nature of the Israeli government’s description of its military campaign as a “War on Hamas” is that the slaughter is being pushed forward not only inside Gaza but outside Gaza as well. See this.

As shall be explained in more detail below, the West Bank is well outside the jurisdictional sphere of Hamas. The Palestinians of the West Bank are currently assigned by their Israeli rulers to the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority. The PA is another another branch of the Israeli-authorized system for governing Palestinians.

A proliferation of Jewish “settlements” have been built in the West Bank since the region was illegally conquered along with the Gaza enclave by the IDF in 1967. Both the West Bank and Gaza were assigned by the United Nations to the Arab state that has yet to be created

Gallant’s description of Palestinian’s as “human animals” deserving of genocide is widely reflected and even exceeded in similar pronouncements coming from many prominent Israelis. See this.

Of course this resort to dehumanizing language followed up by genocidal action has been a persistent theme in the Israeli entity’s treatment of the Palestinians since its founding acts of violently uprooting native people in the so-called War of Independence in 1948. Now, many Israels are intent on “finishing the job.” See this.

Prime Minister Menachin Begin’s description in 1982 of the Palestinian leader and martyr, Yasser Arafat, as “a beast walking on two legs” can be seen as a forerunner of Gallant’s description of the IDF’s targets as human animals. See this.

Arafat, by far the most unrelenting leader in the history of the movement for Palestinian self-determination, was killed by poisoning in 2004 through contamination with radioactive polonium. See this.

The Israeli campaign of genocidal onslaught in Gaza is nothing like that of state-backed armies doing battle in open spaces. The Gaza Massacre in more like a modern-day version of an American Indian war, only the Indigenous peoples are locked up in a fort from which there seemed to be no exit until October 7 of 2023. Moreover the Palestinians of Gaza face some of the most sophisticated weaponry coming from the vast and sophisticated arsenals of their Zio-American attackers.

The plight of the Palestinians and Native Americans have often been compared by Norman Finkelstein and others, including myself. The Native peoples of both Palestine and the United States have both been subject to the force of Biblical interpretation. The founders of both New England and Israel saw themselves as Israelites, chosen by God for a divinely-sanctioned mission starting with the seizure of the Promised Land from the Indigenous peoples.

The theology of the New England Puritans was given a twist in the adoption by US expansionists of the view that America had a “Manifest Destiny” granted by God to rule North America, the Western Hemisphere and eventually the world. In taking over the imperial mission of Great Britain, the United States assumed leadership of the Zionist vision of building up a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. This history forms much of the background for the establishment of Israel in 1947-48.

This geopolitical partnership between the United States and its Israeli offshoot evolved into the thesis that both countries are exceptional polities not subject to the usual restrictions of the law, especially when it comes to acquiring land, resources, and wealth in the name of “spreading democracy.”

Given this shared history there is considerable strategic importance in “Native Studies” in Israel and North America. This topic area has attracted the attention of the proponents of competing schools of interpretation that go from the sublime scholarly contributions of Stephen Salaita to the ridiculous babblings of Ryan Bellerose who was briefly “the face” of B’nai Brith Canada. See this.

To add to the horror of the overall spectacle, a portion of humanity are openly cheering on with religious fervour the Israeli Defence Force and its US partners. The cheer leaders, including many millions of Christian Zionists, are instrumental proponents intent on lending support to this one-sided debacle of mass annihilation.

Part 2 Forthcoming

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Dr. Anthony Hallis currently Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. He has been a teacher in the Canadian university system since 1982. Dr. Hall, has recently finished a big two-volume publishing project at McGill-Queen’s University Press entitled “The Bowl with One Spoon”.

He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-genocidal-state-of-israel/5841849

U.K. approves CRISPR gene editing to create GMO humans

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GMO,

ADVERTISEMENTRegulators in the United Kingdom

have approved the world’s first CRISPR therapy to treat humans – and United States regulators are expected to soon follow.

The gene-editing therapy, which was reportedly designed to treat blood disorders, could appear on the market by as soon as December.

The way CRISPR works is that it functions like a pair of «genetic scissors,» chopping up sections of DNA so scientists can edit them by «snipping» specific portions and replacing those portions with new, artificial segments.

According to a 2012 paper that first announced the technology, CRISPR is basically a cheap and easy way to edit genes and create new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) – in this case, out of human beings.

Known as exa-cel therapy, the new CRISPR about to be released, known formally as Casgevy, is the world’s first CRISPR therapy for humans to receive approval on the market.

CRISPR’s inventers won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2020 for the discovery, which in recent years has been used to manipulate plants as a possible solution to «climate change.» Only now is CRISPR about to be used on humans, despite the fact that it is highly risky.

(Related: Gene-edited salad greens are also coming soon to a grocery store near you – and no, they will not be labeled.)

Is genetically modifying your body really worth a «cure?»

Casgevy was designed to treat two specific blood conditions: sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia. Also known as sickle cell anemia, the former most commonly occurs in people of African or Caribbean descent and is known to cause debilitating pain.

Beta thalassemia, which can cause mild or severe anemia, is a similar condition that typically requires regular blood transfusions to treat.

Both of these genetic conditions are said to be caused by «errors» in the genes that regulate hemoglobin, a protein that lets red blood cells transport oxygen around the body. Both conditions can also be fatal if left untreated.

Developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, the technology was approved after just one study that followed only 29 out of 45 total participants for 16 months. Twenty-eight out of these 29 supposedly had no pain after one year, Nature reported.

In a clinical trial for beta thalassemia, 39 of the 42 trial participants tracked did not end up needing a routine red blood cell transfusion for a full 12 months at least – without Casgevy, these same beta thalassemia patients require a blood transfusion every three to five weeks.

While the media and the companies they back that produce this kind of stuff are celebrating these amazing recoveries, what they are not telling people is that CRISPR comes with serious side effects, not the least of which include unexpectedly large deletions that result in even more serious genetic mutations.

«It is well established that CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing is not only prone to off-target genetic damage but also a wide range of unintended mutations even at the intended edit site,» said Michael Antoniou, PhD., head of the Gene Expression & Therapy Group at King’s College London. «This can negatively impact the function of multiple genes, which can lead to cancer.»

«It is thus vital that those responsible for administering the gene editing therapy conduct unbiased genome-wide analysis of treated patients for potentially life-damaging DNA mutations. This is essential as it only takes one cell within the large pool of edited cells to go wrong and cause cancer.»

In the meantime, a U.S. company is pushing a different but similar CRISPR technology called «base editing» that was reportedly designed to artificially reduce people’s cholesterol levels.

More related news coverage about the genetic modification of humans can be found at GeneticLunacy.com.

Sources for this article include:

ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Science.org

Newstarget.com

Nature.com

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-11-30-uk-approves-crispr-therapy-create-gmo-humans.html

Washington Green Lights Resumption Of Israel’s Killing Spree

By Moon of Alabama

Yesterday U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Israel. He gave a green light to the radical Netanyahoo regime’s intent to genocide more people in Gaza.

Israel agrees to protect civilians when Gaza war resumes, Blinken says – Washington Post

TEL AVIV — The Israeli government agreed to form a “clear plan” for averting civilian deaths before resuming its assault of southern Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday, a sign of the intensifying U.S. pressure that Israel faces to recalibrate its approach amid the war’s grave humanitarian toll.

Blinken said to tell Israel to change strategy for southern Gaza, suggest it won’t have months to win war – Times of Israel

According to leaked remarks from today’s war cabinet meeting, attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Blinken told Israel it cannot operate in southern Gaza in the way it has done in the north — a presumed reference to the heavy air bombardment and crushing ground operation — and indicated that Israel has weeks, not months, to complete its declared mission of destroying Hamas.

Scoop: Blinken warns Israeli officials global pressure will grow longer war goes on – Axios

Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Gen. Herzi Halevi told Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Thursday that the Israeli military operation in Gaza, including in the southern part of the enclave, is expected to take “more than a few additional weeks,” three people with direct knowledge of the meeting said.
…
Blinken didn’t ask Israel to stop the operation but expressed concern and said the longer the high-intensity military campaign goes on, the more international pressure will build on both the U.S. and Israel to stop it, one source said.
…
What they’re saying: Netanyahu said in a statement after the meeting with Blinken that Israel will continue the war until it achieves three goals: freeing all of our hostages, completely eliminating Hamas and ensuring that no threat like this will ever come from Gaza again.

The last aim is of course only achievable if Israel removes all Palestinians, by murder or forced ethnic cleansing, from Gaza.

This morning, shortly after Blinken left, the Netanyahoo regime resumed its bombing of random people in Gaza.

As the U.S. is unwilling to use its power to prevent Israel from committing further war crimes it is up to the resistance, Hamas, Hizbullah, Badr and Houthis, to bring the U.S. and Israel, and anyone who supports, them to their senses.

Source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/12/washington-green-lights-resumption-of-israels-killing-spree.html

Washington Green Lights Resumption Of Israel’s Killing Spree

Russland hat eine der Säulen der modernen westlichen Ideologie des Satanismus getroffen

Trotz all der Medien und Informationen, die das Thema des Verbots der LGBT-Bewegung im Land aus der patriotischen Öffentlichkeit verbreiten, habe ich es ehrlich gesagt nicht geglaubt (zu lange haben wir mit unseren „Partnern“ in Ideologie und Politik geflirtet). , Wirtschaft, Finanzen, Sport usw.), dass der Oberste Gerichtshof Russlands die LGBT-Bewegung als extremistisch anerkennt und ihre Aktivitäten im Land verbietet, aber das ist passiert. Ich denke, angesichts der Stärke dieser Lobby in unserem Land haben nur sehr wenige Menschen daran geglaubt.

Es scheint jedoch, dass das System beschlossen hat, nachweislich und hart gegen eine der Säulen der modernen westlichen Ideologie des Satanismus vorzugehen, was die Vorstellung bestätigt, dass die Konfrontation mit dem Westen ernst und langanhaltend ist. Es ist viel tiefer als nur SVO. Und es ist bezeichnend, wie all jene, die für den westlichen Kurs des Landes und gegen den nördlichen Militärbezirk sind, sofort aufgewacht sind. Sie sprachen sofort von einer Identitätskrise. Identitätskrise! Wer hätte das gedacht. Nicht bei ihnen, wo Kindern beharrlich angeboten wird, ihr Geschlecht zu ändern und ihnen die notwendigen Hormonpillen verschrieben werden, wo sie beginnen, Pädophilie und sogar Sodomie zu legalisieren (https://t.me/barantchik/6109), gibt es eine Identitätskrise, aber mit uns, als wir uns klar entschieden haben, zu den Grundlagen zurückzukehren. Wahrlich, sie werden bald sagen: Weiß ist Schwarz und Schwarz ist Weiß.

Ich schreibe schon seit langem, dass der Westen – die USA, Europa und seine anderen Teile, vereint in der NATO und der Europäischen Union – vom Satanismus übernommen werden. Dies wird durch den offenen, erlaubten Satanskult in den USA (mehr als 180 Denkmäler wurden bereits errichtet) und den Abriss prächtiger, beeindruckender christlicher Kirchen in Europa oder deren Umwandlung in Bordelle und Nachtclubs (ich habe darüber fünf Jahre lang geschrieben) belegt vor) und natürlich die Einführung des LGBT-Kultes.Benutzen Sie AdBlock?Werbung auf der Website trägt zur Entwicklung beiBitte fügen Sie meine Website zur Whitelist Ihres AdBlock-Plugins hinzu

Man muss verstehen, dass es bei LGBT nur zu einem zehnten Teil um Sex geht. Zunächst einmal ist dies die Schlüsselfrage: Ist der Mensch ein Kind Gottes oder ein Tier, ein Homunkulus, zusammengeklebt aus tierischen Instinkten und Bedürfnissen? Ich möchte Sie daran erinnern, dass letztes Jahr in Europa ein Priester verurteilt wurde (https://t.me/ukraina_ru/91095), weil er während einer Gay-Pride-Parade öffentlich christliche Ansichten geäußert hatte. Es scheint, dass dies ein Sonderfall ist. Was sagen LGBT-Ideologen? – Dass es keine Verbote von Ansichten und Ideologien geben sollte. Unmittelbar nach der Machtübernahme verbieten sie den Christen jedoch, ihre Meinung zu äußern. Das ist schlimmer als Faschismus. Und noch gefährlicher, weil es in eine wunderschöne Hülle vermeintlicher Freiheit, eines ewigen Feiertags, eines Karnevals usw. gehüllt ist.

Und die LGBT-Bewegung hört hier nicht auf. Gab es früher LGBT-Märsche für Erwachsene, so gibt es jetzt im Westen LGBT-Märsche für Kinder. Sie fangen an, Kinder in Grundschulklassen für Sex zu werben, ihnen Kleidung des anderen Geschlechts anzuziehen, Kinder im Unterricht bloßzustellen, und wenn die Eltern damit nicht einverstanden sind, droht ihnen entweder der Entzug der elterlichen Rechte oder sie werden vorübergehend inhaftiert mehrere Tage im Zentrum verbringen, und es gibt viele solcher Fälle, in Deutschland, sowohl in Frankreich als auch in anderen europäischen Ländern. Darüber hinaus beginnen sie, die Geschlechtsumwandlung bei Kindern zu fördern. Und das können Eltern auch nicht verhindern. Warum – siehe Punkt oben – Gefängnis oder Entzug der elterlichen Rechte.

Daher lässt die Tatsache, dass der Staat einen echten Kampf gegen diese Infektion begonnen hat, indem er ankündigt, dass das nächste Jahr in Russland das Jahr der Familie sein wird, und auf höchster politischer Ebene erklärt, dass Russland kinderreiche Familien braucht, hoffen, dass dies nicht der Fall sein wird werden nicht nur ein Teil der Informationskampagne für die Wahlen sein, sondern in den kommenden Jahren zum Hauptinhalt unserer Innenpolitik werden.

Denn 145 Millionen Einwohner sind für unser Land nicht genug. Wir brauchen mindestens 250-300 Millionen Bürger, um unsere Gebiete zu halten. Aber das ist eine Frage. Und die Hauptfrage ist natürlich, dass wir das Territorium unseres riesigen Landes in Ordnung bringen müssen. Wir müssen es meistern, und zwar nicht nur im Hinblick auf die Ressourcen, sondern auch im Hinblick auf die Lebensqualität, damit unser Land über modernste Medizin, Bildung und Wohnraum verfügt. Und dafür brauchen wir Menschen. Gebildet, stark, gläubig. In Gott, in der Liebe, in höchster Gerechtigkeit. Und dafür brauchen wir eine moralische Grundlage der Gesellschaft, eine klare Identität – Geschlecht, Soziales, Alter usw., ohne Abweichungen und Abweichungen. Und das Verbot der LGBT-Bewegung in Russland ist ein sehr richtiger und richtiger Schritt in die richtige Richtung.

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Time To Boycott Elon’s Boycotters

BY TYLER DURDENFRIDAY

It was about four years ago that ZeroHedge went through ad monetization hell, having lost most of our advertisers because they did not approve of the content on this website and as a result they — together with such members of the Censorship Industrial Complex such as Newsguard, Sleeping Giants and CheckMyAds and various three letter US government agencies — did everything in their power to kill the site by starving it of ad revenue (it’s what prompted us to launch a premium, subscription-supported version without which we would not have survived, and therefore we wish to personally thank all of our premium subscribers).

Fast forward to today, when Elon Musk is going through the same hell, as a growing group of companies are trying to do to X/Twitter what they tried to do to us by targeting the social media network and trying to starve it of ad revenue (their stated trigger of responding to the Media Matters fake news «report» was just a red herring: if it hadn’t been for Media Matters, they would have found some other point of «virtue» to rally around, and pull their ads).

Of course, there is one key difference: Elon is the world’s richest man, and if Twitter does not generate even one additional dollar of revenue, Elon will still be a multi-billionaire, and X can continue to operate for a long, long time if not in perpetuity (if costs are trimmed enough). It’s also why Elon yesterday had some choice words for those advertisers who had halted advertising, telling them «go fuck yourself» (with a shout out to Disney chief Bob Iger) if they think they can blackmail Musk… which is precisely what ad demonetization is: a not so subtle way of pushing content and editorial direction in exchange for a monthly stipend.

🚨WATCH🚨 — ELON MUSK GOING VIRAL ON NATIONAL TV‼️ “Go Fuck Yourselves” to all advertisers threatening to leave X 🤯🤯🤯 pic.twitter.com/KL7jgCk1Tg— Nelson Epega (@nelsonepega) November 29, 2023

Here, a brief tangent: for the most part, advertising spending is rarely about actual «advertising» and instead it is about endorsing, encouraging and funding certain ideologies and party lines which corporations agree with, encourage and seek to make default. It is about influencing the content decisions and editorial slant by implicitly threatening that the ad money can disappear at a moment’s notice if something is published the company disagrees with. It’s why when Pfizer or Moderna spend tens of millions for advertising in the NYT it is not so people are aware that Pfizer makes a covid booster shot — they know that from non-stop news coverage; it is to make sure that the NYT never questions the corporate party line. In other words, it is public relations in an advertising wrapper. Add to this lobby spending and political donations by those same corporations, and you have a fusion of the corporate, political and media branches, all superglued together with lots of money (and in the case of Pfizer and Moderna, it’s taxpayer money) something which in simpler times has been called fascism. Glenn Greenwald recaps this dynamic in the clip below:

Elon Musk to boycotting corporate advertisers: “Go F*ck Yourself!”

That corporate «journalists» were shocked and horrified by this defiance of establishment power so perfectly encapsulates the fraud at the center of their increasingly irrelevant industry: @GGreenwald: «If… pic.twitter.com/nNAC2tElWz— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) November 30, 2023

As a result, ad companies have unlimited leverage when it comes to dealing with most media companies… except one: X, which as noted above, is controlled by the world’s richest man, and thus advertiser leverage in this particular case is virtually non-existent. It’s also why instead of pretending they can influence the narrative (and force X to pursue the same censorship as were implemented by the former management team of its predecessor, Twitter) they are simply pulling away and hoping to crush this bastion of free speech, the same way they did to us.

The problem, as Musk laid out, is that while X can sustain without ad revenue for a long time, a complete ad boycott will likely eventually kill X as Musk is unlikely to shoulder the burden of its costs and expenses out of his own pocket indefinitely, and as a result, «what the advertising boycott is going to do is it’s going to kill the company.»

Elon Musk will let X die before he caves to advertisers:

«What the advertising boycott is going to do is it’s going to kill the company. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail. Let’s see how Earth responds.» pic.twitter.com/QeQPrNBFdg— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 30, 2023

And while Musk is ready to let X die before he folds to advertiser blackmail, he is confident that «the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail. Let’s see how Earth responds.»

In other words, the only way these corporations, whether for woke, neo-conservative, militant, progressive, or any other reason, will stop trying to demonetize websites such a X, ZH or any other media outlet they have no leverage over in hopes of snuffing them out, is if the public takes the fight straight to them and starves them of revenue. Think the sales implosion at Tranheuser Busch/Bud Light after the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco, or the collapse of Target stock after the anti-woke backlash.

So yes, the only way that corporate management teams will ever stop weaponizing ad dollars — especially if it means losing access to one of the wealthiest audiences, such as that of Zerohedge, or one of the most engaged readership bases such as that of X, is if their shareholders lose enough money and force management to either change or be fired.

Which is why it is time to boycott the boycotters: below we have summarized the names of those companies which have publicly signaled their «virtue» by pulling their ads from X/Musk.

We are confident there are many more companies that have also pulled their ~~influence~~ «ad» dollars, and we will update the list as more become public. These are the companies that Musk told to «go fuck yourselves» because, well, he can afford to. And while ordinary Americans have far less recourse and don’t have nearly enough «fuck you money» as Elon, they have the ability to chose who gets their money instead, and the only way to retaliate to the Musk boycott is by boycotting the boycotters themselves, and stop spending money on products like Disney streaming services, or getting every new iPhone or buying whatever it is that Paris Hilton is selling.

Yes, Apple has no obligation to advertise on X, and neither does Disney, but nobody has an obligation to buy iPhones or to go to (the idiotically overpriced) Disney World. And since boycotting Musk is nothing more than a ploy to project influence (where else does one have the guarantee of reaching the eyeballs of the world’s most influential, powerful and richest), it’s only fair that retaliation against corporate attempts to starve the First Amendment, takes place in kind.

Which is why the time to boycott the boycotters has arrived: let’s find out how these leftist corporations — and their shareholders — like it when their revenues suffer the way that they hope to make Musk suffer; judging by the grassroots response already, we won’t have long to wait.

JUST IN — Users on X report mass cancellation of Disney subscriptions after Elon Musk’s interview pic.twitter.com/5T2s1up1CK— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) November 30, 2023

FREE SPEECH: I support @elonmusk’s decision not to cave to pressure from @disney to censor X users. To demonstrate that I’ve cancelled my Disney+ subscription and subscribed to X’s Premium+. Will you do the same? https://t.co/CQ5qlkc6Ko pic.twitter.com/WYJZ8vpWH0— @amuse (@amuse) November 30, 2023

Support @elonmusk, join 𝕏 Premium +, and cancel your Disney subscription.

𝕏 is the only big tech platform fighting for freedom of speech online.

These slimy corporations should feel ashamed of themselves for trying to suppress free speech in America:

—@Apple
—@comcast… pic.twitter.com/qSFcl59UOW— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) November 30, 2023

I just canceled my Disney+ Subscription. I’m so tired of these communists scumbags that are against free speech. @Disney @DisneyStudios @WaltDisneyWorld #CancelDisney pic.twitter.com/HJmwnIkVr2— MatthewXRP (@Matthew_XRP) November 30, 2023

JUST IN — Users on X report mass cancellation of Disney subscriptions after Elon Musk’s interview pic.twitter.com/5T2s1up1CK— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) November 30, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/boycotting-elons-boycotters?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2057

«I Have No Problem Being Hated» — Musk Tells Boycotting Advertisers To «Go F**k Yourselves»

Y TYLER DURDENTHURSDAY

In a truth-bomb-filled interview with Andrew Ross-Sorkin, at the DealBook Conference, Elon Musk silenced a room full of liberal elites as he proclaimed that: «…if someone wants to blackmail me with advertising, they can go fuck themselves.»

Reflecting on the actions of various companies to his now-viral retweet of a so-called anti-semitic comment — specifically mentioning ‘Bob’ (Iger from Disney) — Musk confirmed he did not want them to advertise while noting that «an advertising boycott will kill X.»

«Don’t advertise. If someone is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f**k yourself.

Go f**k yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.»

But, he explains, «the whole world will know those advertisers killed the company… and we’ll document it in great detail.»

Sorkin replies «those advertisers will say, ‘we didnt’ kill the company’ to which Musk cuts him off:

«Oh yeah, tell that to earth.. and let’s see how earth responds to that.»

Fuck you says Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/XailyzZVqZ— One Tesla Share (@OneTeslaShare)

November 29, 2023

With regards to the anti-semtitic tweet, Musk admits his action was:

“I mean, look, I’m sorry for that post. It was foolish of me. Of the 30,000 it might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done.

And I’ve tried my best to clarify six ways from Sunday, but you know at least I think it’ll be obvious that in fact far from being antisemitic, I’m in fact philosemitic.”

Musk clarifies once again the thought process behind his retweet:

“What I was saying was that it’s unwise to support groups that want your annihilation,” he says.

If it encouraged anti-semites, he says: “I am quite sorry,» adding, “I should in retrospect not have replied to that particular post.”

“Essentially I handed a loaded gun to the people who hate me,” he said.

He also insisted his trip to Israel was “not an apology tour.”

But, he explains, «I have no problem being hated,» and responding to questions about ‘trust’, Musk points out that his work speaks for itself:

«Let the chips fall where they may… I won’t tapdance to prove I am trustworthy.»

If you want to send satellites to space, SpaceX sent 80% of all mass into orbit this year; and, if you want to buy an EV, Tesla makes the best cars in the world — it doesn’t matter what you think of him.

“We make the best cars… Whether you hate me, like me or are indifferent, do you want the best car or not the best car?”

In fact, he reflects, Tesla has done more than all the companies combined to help the environment, and as the leader of the company,«I’ve done more for the environment than any single human on earth.

Sorkin then asked how Musk felt about that — and got a response he didn’t expect:

«What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it…

…And what I see all over the place is people who care about LOOKING good, while DOING evil. Fuck them.»

«What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about LOOKING good, while DOING evil. Fuck them.»

—@elonmusk at NYT Dealbook Summit pic.twitter.com/aZ18D7dbXg— Alec Allen (@S3XYstarship) November 29, 2023

The mood of the discussion turns a little more morose as Musk discusses the «demons of his mind» that drive the storm inside his brain.

The xAI founder warns that «AI is more dangerous than nuclear bombs,» when asked about about OpenAI (the company he co-founded):

“I have mixed feelings about Sam,” Musk said about CEO Sam Altman, who was recently ousted and reinstated.

“The ring of power can corrupt.”

Musk added that he wanted to know why OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever «felt so strongly as to fight Sam.»

«That sounds like a serious thing. I don’t think it was trivial. And I’m quite concerned that there’s some dangerous element of AI that they’ve discovered,» he added.

Musk said he believes Sutskever has a «strong moral compass.»

«He really sweats it over questions of what is right,» Musk told Sorkin.

«And if Ilya felt strongly enough to want to fire Sam. Well, I think the world should know what was that reason.»

When asked about TikTok, the X owner also points to A.I., which powers the technology that serves up videos to users based on their viewing habits, as his reason for avoiding it:

«I stopped using TikTok when I felt the AI probing my mind…and I felt uncomfortable with that.»

The Tesla founder made it clear he still feels aggrieved at the Biden administration’s shunning of him at the EV Summit at The White House:

«It was an insult.»

Adding that Democrats «appear to be more pro-censorship» and that he «could not see himself voting for Biden» but also refused to say who he would vote for.

🚨#BREAKING: Elon Musk declares that he will not vote for President Biden in the 2024 election. pic.twitter.com/freyjtbFF4— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) November 29, 2023

Musk also addressed the inordinate amount of power he wields:

“The reason I have these powers isn’t because of anticompetitive actions but because we’ve executed well,” he said.

Simply put, this discussion brought a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘fuck you money!» as Musk says what he thinks without fear of woke retaliation.

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Sahra Wagenknecht30. November 2023 Dies ist der Newsletter von Sahra Wagenknecht, MdB. Darin informiere ich über meine Aktivitäten und aktuelle politische Themen

Seit das Bundesverfassungsgericht den Haushaltstricks der Ampel ein Ende gesetzt hat, steht die Regierung vor einem großen Problem. Wo sollen die Milliarden herkommen, um die riesigen Haushaltslöcher zu stopfen? Ist es wirklich alternativlos, jetzt schon wieder Otto Normalverbraucher und kleine Unternehmen zu schädigen, indem man die Energiepreisbremsen vorzeitig abschafft? Ist der erbärmliche Rest, der von den ursprünglich geplanten Hilfen für arme Kinder noch übrig war, jetzt auch noch unfinanzierbar? Müssen gar die ohnehin niedrigen deutschen Renten weiter gekürzt werden, wie einige schon wieder fordern? Oder werden nicht an anderen Stellen nach wie vor Milliarden sinnlos verbrannt? In meiner Wochenschau gebe ich ein paar Tipps, wo die Ampel viele Milliarden problemlos einsparen könnte und was man tun müsste, um in Zukunft verantwortungsvoller mit dem Geld der Steuerzahler umzugehen:

Zehntausende für Frieden auf der Straße! Die Ampel will den größten Rüstungshaushalt in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik beschließen. Gleichzeitig wird schon wieder über Kürzungen bei jenen diskutiert, die sich am wenigsten wehren können: Arme Kinder, Arbeitslose sowie Rentnerinnen und Rentner. Diese absurde und unsoziale Politik hat unseren Protest verdient! Ich möchte mich daher herzlich bei den über 20.000 Menschen bedanken, die trotz des schlechten Wetters am letzten Samstag für eine Politik der Entspannung, für Friedensverhandlungen und gegen den Aufrüstungswahn und weitere Waffenlieferungen auf die Straße gegangen sind. Unser Protest war nicht zu überhören. Hier mein Redebeitrag auf der Kundgebung vor dem Brandenburger Tor, in dem ich mit einer SPD abrechne, die mit der Entspannungspolitik von Willy Brandt gebrochen hat und uns «kriegstüchtig» machen will, statt unsere Infrastruktur endlich wieder funktionstüchtig zu machen, und mit GRÜNEN, bei denen man sich gar nicht mehr vorstellen kann, dass sie einmal aus der Friedensbewegung hervorgegangen sind. Weitere Redebeiträge und Fotos von der Kundgebung findet ihr auf der Seite: https://nie-wieder-krieg.org/

Eine Außenministerin zum Fremdschämen Diplomatie war nie die Stärke von Annalena Baerbock, aber was die Außenministerin nun zum Gaza-Konflikt zum Besten gegeben hat, ist nur noch erschreckend. Um dringende humanitäre Hilfe leisten zu können, helfe es nicht, einen Waffenstillstand zu fordern, so Baerbock. Außerdem sei es keine Aufgabe der Politik, dafür zu sorgen, dass die Waffen schweigen. Ja, wessen Aufgabe soll es denn dann sein? Was für eine verantwortungslose und verdrehte Logik! Ich finde diese Außenministerin nur noch zum Fremdschämen. Zumal sich die Regierung Netanyahu und die Hamas unterdessen auf eine Feuerpause geeinigt haben, um Gefangene bzw. Geiseln auszutauschen.

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Heizen muss für alle bezahlbar sein! Der Winter naht, der erste Schnee fällt — doch worüber sich viele Kinder sicher freuen, bedeutet für Millionen Kinder leider auch, dass sie frieren müssen. Laut Statistischem Bundesamt ist die Zahl der Menschen, die ihre Wohnung nicht ausreichend heizen konnten, im letzten Winter auf 5,5 Millionen gestiegen — das sind doppelt so viele wie 2021! Vor allem Alleinerziehende und kinderreiche Haushalte konnten sich keine warme Wohnung mehr leisten, weil der unsinnige Wirtschaftskrieg gegen Russland die Energiepreise hochgetrieben hat. Und in diesem und im nächsten Winter dürfte es noch schlimmer kommen, denn wegen des selbstverschuldeten Haushaltschaos will die Ampel die Preisbremsen für Strom und Gas vorzeitig abschaffen. Gleichzeitig steigen die Netznutzungsentgelte für Strom im Januar 2024 um 11 Prozent und auch die Mehrwertsteuer auf Gas soll wieder von 7 auf 19 Prozent angehoben werden. Zusammengenommen wird all dies dazu führen, dass ein Durchschnittshaushalt im nächsten Jahr rund 370 Euro mehr für Strom und Gas ausgeben muss — wobei hier die Zusatzkosten, die durch die steigende CO2-Steuer entstehen, noch nicht eingerechnet sind und es für Menschen, die sich keine moderne und gut gedämmte Wohnung leisten können, noch deutlich teurer werden dürfte. Was ist das für eine dumme und herzlose Politik, die Millionen Menschen, darunter Millionen Kinder, zum Frieren verdammt? Wie kann man einen «Winterschutzschirm» für die Ukraine versprechen, aber keinen für die Menschen in Deutschland, Frau Baerbock? Ich finde: Diese Politik der sozialen Kälte gegenüber den Ärmsten in diesem Land ist erbärmlich und muss schnellstmöglich beendet werden.

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Neutralität ist der Schlüssel zum Frieden Der Krieg in der Ukraine hätte schon im Frühjahr 2022 beendet werden können, wenn die Ukraine — wie einst Finnland — die Neutralität akzeptiert hätte, statt einen Beitritt zur NATO anzustreben. Das hat nun auch der Fraktionsvorsitzende von Selenskyis Partei «Diener des Volkes», Arachamija, bestätigt, der an den Friedensverhandlungen in Istanbul im März 2022 teilgenommen hatte. Wie viel Tote und wie viel Leid hätte man verhindern können, wenn man die russischen Warnungen und Sicherheitsinteressen ernst genommen und auf einen Beitritt der Ukraine zur NATO verzichtet hätte? Diese Frage müssen sich auch westliche Politiker wie Boris Johnson stellen, die der ukrainischen Führung seinerzeit empfohlen hatten, zu kämpfen statt mit Russland weiter über einen Kompromissfrieden zu verhandeln.
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„Als wir aus Istanbul zurückkamen, kam Boris Johnson nach Kiew und sagte, dass wir überhaupt nichts unterschreiben und einfach kämpfen sollten“, berichtet Arachmija. Wie viele Menschen sollen noch sinnlos sterben, bis man in der Ukraine und im Westen begreift, dass man endlich an den Verhandlungstisch zurückkehren muss und der Verzicht auf einen NATO-Beitritt der Ukraine der Schlüssel zu einem Kompromissfrieden ist?

Putin über die Bundesregierung: „Die ganze Welt lacht über sie“

Ein Artikel von: Tobias Riegel

Die öffentliche Häme eines ausländischen Staatschefs gegen deutsche Politiker möchte ich mir nicht zu eigen machen – aber die aktuellen deutlichen Zitate des russischen Präsidenten und auch von Außenminister Sergej Lawrow sollen hier doch wiedergegeben werden. Sie demonstrieren die verrohende Wirkung einer verweigerten Diplomatie: Denn selbst wenn man Putin nicht zustimmen sollte, zeigt die Art der Formulierungen eine deutliche Erosion des gegenseitigen Respekts auf internationaler Bühne, die durch westliche Kampagnen ausgelöst wurde. Und was bedeutet die sehr befremdliche Entscheidung, LGBTQ-Aktivitäten in Russland als „extremistisch“ zu verbieten? Ein Kommentar von Tobias Riegel.

Einen Teil einer Diskussion des russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin mit jungen russischen Wissenschaftlern hat Thomas Röper . In den Zitaten findet sich diese Aussage Putins über die deutsche Regierung:

„Das ist bekannt, die ganze Welt lacht über sie, ich will jetzt keine Namen nennen, aber die ganze Welt lacht wirklich über sie. Aber damit müssen sie leben.“

Zum Hintergrund solcher für die internationale Bühne (und gerade für öffentlich sonst eher zurückhaltend formulierende Russen) drastischen öffentlichen Worte führt der russische Präsident vorher aus:

„Wir haben billige Energieträger, die Primärquelle ist billig, was alles billiger macht. Dazu gehören Metalle, Düngemittel – alles, was einen wesentlichen Teil unserer Exporte ausmacht, alles ist billiger als bei denen. Und sie wollen dieses Problem der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit mit Hilfe von administrativen Manipulationen für sich lösen.
Aber hier tauchen die heutigen Probleme auf. Erstens schränken sie ihre eigenen Möglichkeiten der Zusammenarbeit mit uns ein. Europa schneidet sich selbst von der Quelle billiger Energie ab, oder das machen ihre Verbündeten aus den USA und schneiden sie aus politischen Gründen von unseren billigen Primärenergiequellen ab, oder sie sprengen einfach Gaspipelines oder schließen sie.

Polen hat einfach die Jamal-Europa-Pipeline, die nach Deutschland führt, stillgelegt. Die Ukraine hat einfach eines der Systeme, eines ist noch in Betrieb, geschlossen. Die Ukraine bekommt Geld aus Europa, aus Deutschland, unter anderem für Waffen, Renten, Sozialleistungen und Gehälter, aber vom russische (sic) Gas, das die Deutschen brauchen, werden sie abgeschnitten. Und die Deutschen schlucken das alles, weil sie keine Souveränität haben und einige Regierungsmitglieder offensichtlich nicht über eine ausreichende berufliche Ausbildung verfügen, um qualitativ hochwertige professionelle Entscheidungen zu treffen.“

Ich möchte mir die teils persönliche Häme eines ausländischen Staatschefs gegen die EU und deutsche Politiker wie gesagt nicht zu eigen machen und möchte diese Art des öffentlichen politischen Umgangs keinesfalls unterstützen – auch wenn dieser Umgang meiner Meinung nach eindeutig von der „anderen Seite“ provoziert worden ist. Die Äußerungen aus Russland sollen hier aber wiedergegeben werden, auch um die Respektlosigkeit zu verdeutlichen, die die Bundesregierung momentan beileibe nicht nur in Russland auslöst – unter anderem durch eine zwischen der Erfüllung von US-Interessen und der Kitsch-PR in eigener Sache wechselnden Außenministerin und einen von Finanzaffären in der Vergangenheit mutmaßlich belasteten Kanzler, die beide den ungeheuerlichen Terroranschlag gegen die deutsche Energieversorgung einfach unter den Tisch fallen lassen.

An der zunehmenden Verrohung des gegenseitigen Umgangs auf internationaler Bühne hat die westliche Seite meiner Meinung nach einen erheblich größeren Anteil, angesichts der Sanktionspolitik und der Medienkampagnen gegen Russland. Die deutsche Außenministerin hat ein moralisches Auftrumpfen auf diplomatischer Bühne gar als neue Maxime ihrer Behörde ausgegeben.

LGBTQ+-Bewegung in Russland verboten

Ein kurzer Exkurs zur russischen Innenpolitik: Die Tagesschau berichtet aktuell über einen sehr befremdlichen innenpolitischen Vorgang in Russland. Demnach hat der Oberste Gerichtshof in Russland ein Verbot gegen die internationale LGBTQ+-Bewegung wegen „Extremismus“ verhängt. Unklar sei dabei, wie das Urteil in der Praxis ausgelegt werde, weil es sich nicht gegen bestimmte Organisationen richten würde. Laut Medien stimmten die Richter einem entsprechenden Antrag des russischen Justizministeriums zu, wie die russische Nachrichtenagentur Interfax unter Berufung auf das Gericht gemeldet habe.

Die Anwendung des Gesetzes bleibt abzuwarten – ich kenne als Hintergrund bisher nur den Bericht der Tagesschau. Wenn der aber so zutrifft, finde ich, dass bereits der Erlass des Gesetzes und zusätzlich dessen schwammig definierter Charakter scharf abzulehnen sind.

Das führt zu folgenden Fragen: Bedeuten Forderungen nach außenpolitischer Verständigung eine Akzeptanz innenpolitischer Vorgänge? Nein. Und wenn der Umgang mit Homosexuellen der Maßstab wäre, würde es sich dann moralisch verbieten, Gas aus Katar zu beziehen? Ja. Und wenn die Außenpolitik der Maßstab dafür wäre, ob der Handel mit bestimmten Ländern „erlaubt“ ist: Hätten sich die USA als Handelspartner dann nicht viel mehr diskreditiert als Russland? Zweifellos. Soll man also nun mit all diesen Ländern keinen Handel mehr treiben? Um Gottes Willen!

Verhinderung von Krieg und die Ermöglichung von Handel zum beiderseitigen Nutzen bedeuten keine Unterwerfung, weder innen- noch außenpolitisch. Es geht beim Verhältnis zwischen Deutschland und Russland schließlich nicht um romantische Russenliebe, sondern um eine kühle Analyse der wirtschafts- und geopolitischen Situation. Zusätzlich sei an die gewaltige Verantwortung und die eindeutige Pflicht zur Verständigung mit Russland erinnert, die aus den Verbrechen Deutschlands gegen die Sowjetunion und gegen ihre Bürger im Zweiten Weltkrieg erwachsen. Dass mit dieser Haltung mögliche innenpolitische Defizite nicht gerechtfertigt werden, ist selbstverständlich.

Muss der Friede bewaffnet sein?

Es stimmt nicht, dass Russland und „der Westen“ zwangsläufig auf einen Showdown oder auf eine waffenstarrende und dauerhaft getrennte Existenz zusteuern müssen. Und wenn Russland nach jahrelanger westlicher Sanktionspolitik und feindlicher Propaganda vonseiten der EU und den USA diese Gruppen künftig als Feinde sehen sollte, dann wäre das auch keine Bestätigung der „Warnungen“ vonseiten westlicher Kriegstreiber vor dem angeblichen russischen Expansionsdrang: Es wäre – im Gegenteil – die tragische Bestätigung der Warnungen von Kritikern des Regierungskurses, dass die (unnötige) Konfrontation mit Russland den Frieden in Europa in große Gefahr bringen kann. Dass Russland spätestens ab 2001 für lange Zeit die Hand ausgestreckt hatte und zu einer echten und friedlichen Partnerschaft mit Resteuropa bereit war, kann nicht ernsthaft bestritten werden. Ein Gelingen dieser Entwicklung hätte aber wichtigen US-Interessen widersprochen. Spätestens mit dem Maidan-Umsturz wurde dann ein Weg eingeschlagen, der absolut voraussehbar zum Krieg in Europa geführt hat.

Wenn die russische Stimmung endgültig kippt, muss man sich dann nicht doch vor Russland schützen? Ja, möglicherweise – aber genau diesen Zustand gilt es unbedingt zu verhindern: durch Verhandlungen, durch Handel zum beiderseitigen Nutzen und durch die gegenseitige Akzeptanz nachvollziehbarer Sicherheitsinteressen, wozu auch ein neutraler Status der Ukraine zu rechnen ist. Dazu hatte ich kürzlich geschrieben:

„Eine friedliche Koexistenz mit Russland bedeutet selbstverständlich nicht, dass man einer eventuellen russischen Übermacht naiv gegenübertreten sollte – weder militärisch noch wirtschaftlich. Es bedeutet, die gegenseitigen Interessen rational zu analysieren und zu respektieren. Man muss sich nicht lieben, aber man darf sich nicht von den USA und hierzulande (vor allem, aber beileibe nicht nur) von den Grünen und vielen Journalisten gegeneinander aufhetzen lassen. Die militärischen Kräfteverhältnisse zwischen Russland auf der einen Seite und der NATO auf der anderen Seite hat etwa „Statista“ unter diesem Link verglichen – angesichts des massiven Übergewichts auf NATO-Seite erscheint die „russische Gefahr“ für das westliche Bündnis momentan alles andere als akut, was aber wiederum keine Aussage für die Ewigkeit ist.
Eine friedliche Koexistenz mit Russland bedeutet auch keineswegs, dass die wirtschaftlichen oder kulturellen Brücken zu den USA abgebrochen werden müssen. Das sollte auch nicht passieren! So sollte auch gegen die USA meiner Meinung nach kein Wirtschaftskrieg vom Zaun gebrochen werden. Deutschland könnte und müsste eine Brückenfunktion in einer möglicherweise entstehenden multipolaren Welt übernehmen.“

Außenminister Lawrow: „Wir werden künftig zehnmal abwägen, wie verlässlich unsere europäischen Kollegen sind“

Auch der russische Außenminister Sergej Lawrow hat kürzlich in einem Video des Außenministeriums deutliche und desillusionierte Worte gefunden. Sie wurden hier nach dem englischen Transkript von Andrei Martyanov übersetzt. Demnach sagte Lawrow auf eine Frage nach den Aussichten für die russisch-europäischen Handels- und Wirtschaftsbeziehungen (Hervorhebungen von mir):

„Ich werde nicht einmal versuchen zu erraten, was Europa tun wird. (…) Nach einer Reihe von Gesetzen, die von den Amerikanern verabschiedet wurden, um die Inflation und andere Themen zu bekämpfen, sind die Energiepreise in den Vereinigten Staaten 4-5 Mal niedriger als in Europa, wo eine Deindustrialisierung stattfindet. Unternehmen, die über ihre Zukunft nachdenken, ziehen in die Vereinigten Staaten. Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass dies nicht nur ein Zufall ist, sondern eine bewusste Politik Washingtons. (…) Aber in diesem Stadium brauchen wir nicht darüber nachzudenken, wie wir die Beziehungen zu Europa wiederherstellen können. Jetzt müssen wir darüber nachdenken, wie wir uns von den “Wendungen” in der europäischen Politik (vor allem in den Bereichen Handel, Wirtschaft und Investitionen), die sie unter dem Einfluss Washingtons vornehmen, unabhängig machen können. (…) Die Beschränkungen sind nirgendwo verschwunden. Der Westen will alles “heimlich” und auf listige Art und Weise zu Ende bringen. Einfrieren, Zeit gewinnen (wie es bei den Minsker Vereinbarungen der Fall war), das Nazi-Regime in Kiew wieder aufrüsten und seine hybride (oder nicht hybride) Aggression gegen die Russische Föderation fortsetzen.

Aber selbst wenn alles vorbei ist, werden die meisten Sanktionen bestehen bleiben. Wir müssen nach unserer eigenen Art leben. Wenn und falls sie ‚nüchtern‘ werden und uns etwas anbieten, werden wir zehnmal nachdenken, abwägen, ob alle Vorschläge unseren Interessen entsprechen und wie verlässlich unsere europäischen Kollegen sind. Sie haben ihre Verhandlungsfähigkeit und ihren Ruf stark unterminiert.“

Angesichts der sehr deutlichen Töne aus Russland könnte man befürchten, dass sich momentan Türen endgültig schließen. Haben die US-Lobbyisten in der Bundesregierung Erfolg damit, vollendete Tatsachen zu schaffen, bevor sie hoffentlich bei der nächsten Wahl an der Vernunft der Bürger scheitern werden? Ist meine kürzliche Bestandsaufnahme, nach der die Russen Deutschland (trotz Waffenlieferungen und Medienkampagnen) immer noch die Hand reichen würden, also obsolet? Solche Befürchtungen, also dass die russische Geduld irgendwann in Wut umschlagen könnte, sind überhaupt nicht unbegründet. Lawrow lässt aber auch noch ein Fenster der Hoffnung geöffnet:

„Es mag noch nicht endgültig sein.“

Putin über die Bundesregierung: „Die ganze Welt lacht über sie“

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