“Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy”

Corruption of U.S. Justice Department and the Two-Tiered Justice System: The Case of Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld

By Jeremy Kuzmarov

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When this Whistleblower Exposed the Crimes of Obama’s Golf Partner and 12th Largest Campaign Contributor, the U.S. Justice Department Did the Honorable Thing—It Jailed the Whistleblower and Let Obama’s Golf Partner Walk Away Free

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Bradley Birkenfeld is a former Swiss banker who helped the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recoup billions of dollars in tax revenues after exposing the largest tax fraud in U.S. history.

Yet it was Birkenfeld who served 40 months at the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pennsylvania, while his bosses who orchestrated the fraud and the wealthy investors who cheated the U.S. government never faced any jail time.

The egregious double standard by which whistleblowers go to prison and those on whom they blow the whistle go free is all too typical in today’s two-tiered U.S. justice system.

In April, Apple whistleblower Ashley Gjovik wrote an article in CovertAction Magazine aptly entitled “Whistleblowers Are the Conscience of Society, Yet Suffer Gravely For Trying to Hold the Rich and Powerful Accountable For Their Sins.”

It detailed the backlash and abuse that whistleblowers often face and the impunity of those holding positions of power.

In Birkenfeld’s case, at least he was able to get the last laugh: After he applied for whistleblower status following his release from prison, the IRS awarded him a settlement of $104 million through their Whistleblower Office.

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Lucifer’s Banker

Birkenfeld told his incredible story in his memoir, Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy (Austin, TX: Greenleaf Press, 2016), which is being made into a movie. See Birkenfeld’s website for more information. See also his updated second edition: Lucifer’s Banker Uncensored: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy (Alexandria, VA: Republic Book Publishers, 2020).

Birkenfeld writes that he has “lived the life of an Ian Fleming character, which was all about thrill and that’s a hunger that can get you buried.”^[1]

Growing up in an upper middle-class home in Hingham, Massachusetts (his father was a neurosurgeon), Birkenfeld graduated from Norwich Military Academy in Vermont and then experienced his first taste of the corruption of the banking world working for State Street Bank and Trust Company in Boston, where he first became a whistleblower.

The father of the bank’s CEO, Marshall N. Carter, perhaps not coincidentally, had been Deputy Director of the CIA.

After getting an MBA degree, Birkenfeld started working for Credit Suisse, then Barclays and then the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), the largest Swiss banking institution and private bank in the world.

Serving as a director and head of business development for the American desk, Birkenfeld became UBS’s highest paid employee when he signed a multi-billionaire Russian émigré to the U.S., Igor Olenicoff, with the promise of helping him to evade paying taxes on much of his fortune.

Birkenfeld’s boss, Christian Bovay, conceived the scam that Birkenfeld participated in by which UBS would charge a three percent management fee to its wealthy clients in exchange for helping them to evade paying taxes by placing it securely in one of the bank’s secret off-shore accounts.

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Birkenfeld would make clients more money by investing, often in weapons manufacturers. Then when the clients needed their money, UBS would lend it back at a reasonable interest rate.

Birkenfeld wrote in Lucifer’s Banker that “UBS was making a fee for holding the guy’s cash in the first place, then making another fee for loaning him his own damn money! And guess what? That guy’s happy! He’s getting his deal done, and he’s still doing it with tax-free cash! I couldn’t believe it, and you know what? It worked, over and over again.”^[2]

Birkenfeld’s job was to travel to the U.S. frequently, to attend charity events and upscale social functions, and to woo wealthy new clients to the UBS Bank with an offer they couldn’t refuse.

UBS headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. [Source: wikipedia.org]

When asked by a prospective client what he could do for them, Birkenfeld’s stock answer was “three zeros: Zero income tax, zero capital gains tax; and zero inheritance tax.”

And he told them that, if the feds came nosing around, they were protected by Swiss laws.

Birkenfeld did very well with the arrangement by taking a cut of the investment, enabling him to purchase a $250,000 Ferrari Maranello and to live the high life.

Birkenfeld estimated that the total assets in the secret U.S. accounts acquired and invested by UBS in Switzerland totaled a whopping $20 billion.^[3]

With time, Birkenfeld wrote that his conscience began to bother him as he recognized that he was helping rich people to “not pay their share, while the tax man’s axe fell on those who couldn’t afford it.”^[4]

Birkenfeld decided to become a whistleblower on November 24, 2004, after his boss Christian Bovay issued a three-page internal memorandum, “Cross-Border Banking,” that specified that private wealth management employees should not do precisely what Birkenfeld and others had been doing—traveling to the U.S. seeking out clients by proposing to help them evade taxes in violation of U.S. laws.

Birkenfeld considered the memo to be a “cover-your-ass document,” whose purpose was for company management to wash its hands of activities carried out by company employees and, if they were investigated by police authorities, to create the false illusion that they did not support such practices.

Birkenfeld wrote: “Christian Bovay. That fucking slimy, rotten-toothed, dandruff-flinging scumbag. This was all him, all the way…We are all making a fucking fortune for the firm. Would they throw their best moneymakers under not merely a bus, but a bullet train? Yes they would…In a fucking heartbeat. That bastard Bovay was like Satan. And what did that make me? A trusting naïve dupe. Nothing more then Lucifer’s fucking banker.”^[5]

On October 5, 2005, Birkenfeld resigned from UBS and became an internal whistleblower. After a company review of its malpractice turned into a whitewash, Birkenfeld sued UBS and was given a payout of 575,000 Swiss francs.

He then decided to provide the information that he had to the U.S. Justice Department, telling his lawyers that his job had been to help wealthy American citizens “hide their money, avoid paying taxes, deceive spouses and business partners, and in effect defraud the U.S. government.”^[6]

According to Birkenfeld, UBS “not only encouraged these practices [but] trained us all on the methods of secret solicitation, as well as on how to dupe American federal authorities.”^[7]

In July 2008, Birkenfeld testified on the malfeasance of his and other Swiss banks before the U.S. Senate.^[8]

He thought that he would be welcomed by the Department of Justice lawyers as “an American patriot, a virtual Paul Revere”; instead, he was treated with hostility by them.

A key reason is that UBS was very well connected politically. President Barack Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, for example, had been a partner at the well-connected law firm of Covington & Burling, one of whose biggest clients was UBS.

The chairman of UBS’s America Division, Robert Wolf, was also a golfing partner and the 12^th largest donor to President Obama who may have lobbied to help ensure that no UBS executives were prosecuted by the Department of Justice—only the whistleblower Birkenfeld.^[9]

Image: Obama shakes hands with Robert Wolf, the chairman of UBS’s America Division. [Source: voiceofdetroit.net]

According to The New York Times, Wolf raised over $500,000 for Obama’s election in 2012 and he served as an informal adviser to Obama after being appointed to the Economic Recovery Advisory Board from 2009-2011, the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness from 2011-2013, the Export Council from 2014-2016, and the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Border Infrastructure Task Force in 2012. In 2017, Wolf was named to the board of directors for the Obama Foundation and chairs the foundation’s audit and risk committee.

When Birkenfeld learned that the Department of Justice would be prosecuting him and not his bosses, he said it was “like being thunderstruck by the revelation that your entire family had banded together, taken out a $5 million insurance policy on your life, and hired a hit man to put a bullet in the back of your skull.”^[10]

Later on, Birkenfeld learned of a secret deal cut by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to resettle some Uyghur terrorists from Guantanamo Bay in Switzerland in exchange for protecting the 19,000 American account holders in UBS, some of whom were big-time donors to the Clinton Foundation.^[11]

Soon after this deal was struck, Bill Clinton was paid $1.52 million by UBS for a series of fireside chats with the bank’s Wealth Management Chief Executive, Bob McCann—Clinton’s biggest payday since leaving the presidency.

Most of Birkenfeld’s clients ultimately admitted to their guilt, signed on to amnesty programs, paid their fines and back taxes, and remained safe from any public revelations.

Igor Olenikoff pled guilty to a single felony count of filing a false tax return for 2002 and got off with a $52 million fine, which for him was small change.

But the Feds threw the book at Birkenfeld, who believed that DoJ lawyer Kevin Downing had a “psychotic obsession” with him.^[12]

During sentencing after his conviction, Birkenfeld was given more than three years in prison despite the judge receiving a supporting letter from Senator Carl Levin who said that the information he provided to the Senate subcommittee on banking that he headed was accurate, and enabled the subcommittee to initiate its investigation into the practices of UBS.

He received another letter of support from Robert Khuzami, Director of the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), who said that Birkenfeld’s whistleblowing and cooperation with the SEC had resulted in a successful civil suit against UBS that brought $200 million in penalties to the SEC, while preventing UBS from further violating federal securities laws.^[13]

Two-Tiered Justice System

According to Birkenfeld, the U.S. Treasury loses $100 billion each year in tax revenues from off-shore tax abuses.^[14]

These are not victimless crimes, as this money could be put to good use in funding education, health care, public transportation and environmental clean-up in the U.S., which is urgently needed.

Birkenfeld’s story exposes at once both the corruption and venality of global bankers and the blithe disregard for the common good among America’s one percent of earners.

It also shows the two-tiered nature of the U.S. justice system, which goes after whistleblowers while granting impunity to those against whom they blow the whistle.

An even more tragic case then Birkenfeld is that of Daniel Hale, who faced 45 months in jail for leaking documents exposing the criminality of the U.S. drone war, and Julian Assange, who faces the prospect of life in prison for exposing war crimes by leaders who will probably never see the inside of a jail cell that they so richly deserve.

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Jeremy Kuzmarov is Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine. He is the author of five books on U.S. foreign policy, including Obama’s Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019), The Russians Are Coming, Again, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018), and Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden (Clarity Press, 2023). He can be reached at: jkuzmarov2@gmail.com.

Notes

1. Bradley Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy (Austin, TX: Greenleaf Press, 2016), 4. 
2. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 71. 
3. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 174. 
4. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 86. 
5. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 103, 104, 106. Above Bovay was his superior in Zurich, Martin Liechti, and Raoul Weil, managing director of the entire UBS operation worldwide. 
6. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 134, 135. 
7. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 134, 135. 
8. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 173. 
9. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 257. 
10. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 164. 
11. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 231. 
12. More recently Downing was Paul Manafort’s attorney. 
13. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 241. 
14. Birkenfeld, Lucifer’s Banker, 211. 

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The Myth that Putin Was Bent on Conquering Ukraine and Creating a Greater Russia

By John J. Mearsheimer

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There is a growing body of compelling evidence showing that Russia and Ukraine were involved in serious negotiations to end the war in Ukraine right after it started on 24 February 2022 (see below). These talks were facilitated by Turkish President Recep Erdogan and former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and featured detailed and candid discussions on the terms of a possible settlement.

By all accounts, these negotiations, which took place in March-April 2022, were making real progress when Britain and the US told Ukrainian President Zelensky to abandon them, which he did.

Coverage of these events has focused on how foolish and irresponsible it was for President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson to put an end to these negotiations, given all the death and destruction that Ukraine has suffered since then – in a war that Kyiv is likely to lose.

Yet an especially important aspect of this story regarding the causes of the Ukraine war has received little attention. The well-entrenched conventional wisdom in the West is that President Putin invaded Ukraine to conquer that country and make it part of a Greater Russia. Then, he would move on and conquer other countries in eastern Europe. The counter-argument, which enjoys little support in the West, is that Putin was mainly motivated to invade by the threat of Ukraine joining NATO and becoming a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. For him and other Russian elites, Ukraine in NATO was an existential threat.

Why Did US Torpedo April Ukraine War Negotiated Settlement?

The negotiations in March-April 2022 make it clear that the conventional wisdom on the war’s causes is wrong, and the counter-argument is right, for two main reasons. First, the talks were directly focused on satisfying Russia’s demand that Ukraine not become part of NATO and instead become a neutral state. Everyone involved in the negotiations understood that Ukraine’s relationship with NATO was Russia’s core concern. Second, if Putin was bent on conquering all of Ukraine, he would not have agreed to these talks, as their very essence contradicted any possibility of Russia conquering all of Ukraine. One might argue that he participated in these negotiations and talked a lot about neutrality to mask his larger ambitions. There is no evidence, however, to support this line of argument, not to mention that: 1) Russia’s small invasion force was not capable of conquering and occupying all of Ukraine; and 2) it would have made no sense to delay a larger offensive, as it would afford Ukraine time to build up its defenses.

In short, Putin launched a limited attack into Ukraine for the purpose of coercing Zelensky into abandoning Kyiv’s policy of aligning with the West and eventually bringing Ukraine into NATO. Had Britain and the West not intervened to scotch the negotiations, there is good reason to think Putin would have achieved this limited objective and agreed to end the war.

It is also worth remembering that Russia did not annex the Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia until September 2022, well after the talks had ended. Had a deal been reached, Ukraine would almost certainly control a far greater share of its original territory than it does now.

It is becoming increasingly clear that in the case of Ukraine, the level of foolishness and dishonesty among Western elites and the mainstream Western media is stunning. See this.

See this and this.

See this, this and this.

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Eine Presseerklärung und eine Pressemitteilung zum Julian-Assange-Skandal (Nachdenkseiten)

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The FSB declassified documents about Japanese bioweapon testing on Soviet citizens

The FSB for the first time declassified documents about Japanese biological weapons tests on Soviet citizens

The Russian FSB declassified documents with the names of Soviet prisoners of war, whom the Japanese secret services during the Second World War, under torture, could not force to work against the USSR and in 1945 were sent to death in a special detachment of the 731st Kwantung Army, where they were tested with bacteriological weapons.Among the archival documents, including captured ones, which RIA Novosti reviewed, are the interrogation protocols of the head of the Hogoin concentration camp, Yoshio Iijima, and his deputy, Kenji Yamagishi; the interrogations were carried out in 1948-1949 in preparation for the Khabarovsk trial.

https://t.me/rian_ru/115630?embed=1In 1930-1945, several thousand 

USSR citizens were captured by the Japanese . These included Soviet soldiers who were considered missing during the battles on Lake 

Khasan in 1938 and the Khalkhin Gol River in 1939, in addition, the Japanese kidnapped people right on the territory of the Soviet Union. Many Soviet citizens who ended up in Manchuria were placed in the Hogoin (Shelter) concentration camp in the Harbin area. Prisoners of the camp were sent for experiments to the nearby Detachment 731, commanded by Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii.During interrogation in June 1948, the head of the Iijima concentration camp said that the camp was designed for 150 people, and only Russian men were kept there. Among them, in particular, were Soviet pilots who accidentally landed in 

Tokyo- controlled territories in northern 

China , and Soviet civilians captured by the Japanese at the border.

FSB: Japan planned to use a bacteriological bomb in 194416 August 2021, 03:09As the deputy head of the Hogoin concentration camp, Kenji Yamagishi, testified during interrogation in January 1948, the main task of the camp was to obtain information from prisoners about the military and economic capabilities of the Soviet Union, and the political situation in the country. At the same time, all kinds of torture were used against Soviet citizens.»“The Soviet military personnel who were disobedient to our Japanese interests and held in the Hogoin camp were physically exterminated by us, and such extermination was carried out in the 731st chemical sabotage detachment, in which various experiments were previously carried out on Soviet people doomed to death in order to test the effects of new chemical poisons substances and bacteriological agents,” said Yamagishi.Iijima stated that in total they sent about 40 people to death in the 731st detachment. The decision to send each Soviet prisoner was approved at the Japanese military mission in 

Harbin on the recommendation of Iijima. The organization of sending prisoners to the 731st detachment was personally handled by his deputy Yamagishi, the head of the camp specified.

The FSB published the Japanese «Guide to Secret War» of 19449 August 2021, 07:06Yamagishi, during interrogation in October 1949, recalled several Soviet citizens transferred from Hogoin to Detachment 731 to be killed.»“A soldier of the Soviet Army, Demchenko, who categorically refused to give any information about 

the Soviet Union. With my permission, measures of physical coercion were applied to him; his interrogators tortured him, hanging him by his arms and legs from a beam. Demchenko still did not testify gave. Then I decided to physically destroy him and for this purpose sent him to the 731st detachment,” said Yamagishi.In addition, officer Ignatov was sent to physical destruction for anti-Japanese agitation, Soviet citizens Kanev, Pereboev and Romanchenko were sent for attempted escape, as well as officer Kuzevanov, who was soon caught after a successful escape attempt.

Japanese authorities do not know what to do with the Kuril IslandsJuly 31, 2021, 08:00Yamasagi also noted that he gave orders to send people to the 731st detachment without their personal belongings, since the clothes and military uniforms of Soviet prisoners of war were used to outfit Japanese intelligence officers sent to the territory of the USSR.

Execution of Soviet prisoners

From documents declassified by 

the FSB it also follows that the Japanese special services killed some Soviet citizens after the surrender of the Kwantung Army in August 1945, whom they did not have time to transfer from the Hogoin concentration camp to special detachment 731 for experiments in the study of bacteriological weapons.»

“In addition to the 40 people sent to Detachment 731, I had to send four more people… But since I needed these people in the Hogoin camp for their specialties, I temporarily left them in place,” said the head of the Iijima concentration camp during interrogations in June 1948.According to him, after the surrender 

of Japan , the question arose of how to deal with these prisoners.»“Considering that, according to the instructions, they were to be destroyed through detachment 731, but at the same time this was no longer possible, I decided to shoot them, and on August 16 they were shot,” Iijima testified.The head of the concentration camp clarified that he only remembers the artist Smirnov by his last name; in addition to him, an Orthodox priest, an agronomist and a Soviet sailor were killed.In addition, Iijima also ordered the murder of a Russian woman named Lisa, who, as an exception, ended up in Hogoin.

https://t.me/rian_ru/115637?embed=1She was sent as a servant for an employee of the Harbin YVM, but since his apartment was not ready, the woman was temporarily placed in the Hogoin camp, from where after some time she ended up with appendicitis in military hospital No. 7, said the concentration camp commander.»

“Based on the general rule of how to act in such cases, <…> I decided to kill Lisa,” Iijima testified.According to him, the same fate awaited other seriously ill patients so that they would not interfere with the movement of the hospital to the rear.“The military doctor of the hospital, after giving an injection, killed Lisa,” summed up the ex-chief of Hogoin.

“Winners are not judged”: the Japanese called for forgetting about the South Kuril Islands18 August 2021, 14:35

Japan and bacteriological weapons in World War II

During the war, Japan remained an ally of Nazi 

Germany and did not abandon the plan for war against the USSR.In preparation for war against the Soviet Union and other states, Tokyo had high hopes for the use of bacteriological weapons in combat conditions, while developing and testing them, including on living people. Similar experiments were carried out by special detachments 731 and 100 of the Kwantung Army.In detachments 731 and 100, experiments were conducted to infect people with plague bacteria, anthrax, cholera, typhus and other microbes. Most of those infected died in terrible agony. Those who recovered were subjected to repeated experiments and, in the end, were also killed. Internal organs were removed from living people to see how the infection spread throughout the body.

Japan was preparing sabotage against the USSR before the declaration of war9 August 2021, 08:02According to various sources, the number of deaths within the walls of the Detachment 731 laboratory ranges from three to ten thousand people.On December 25-30, 1949, in 

Khabarovsk , the military tribunal of the Primorsky Military District considered a case on charges of the Japanese military preparing and using bacteriological weapons. The main defendant in the trial, Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army Otozo Yamada, then received 25 years in the camps — the capital punishment in the USSR at that time.Iijima and Yamagishi were sentenced in October 1948 by the Military Tribunal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Far Eastern Military District to 25 years in the camps.Shiro Ishii escaped punishment. In 1945, he was sheltered by the Americans, and subsequently worked in both Japan and the 

United States . Died in 1959 in Japan.

The historian spoke about documents on Japan’s preparation for war with the USSR8 August 2021, 14:08

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Deep State manufactures “illusions of consensus” to herd human masses into obedience and compliance with TYRANNY

ADVERTISEMENTThere is a tendency among people in general to follow the crowd, even if it ends up being to their own demise. This is one reason 

among many why the world at large has allowed itself to be herded into the giant open-air concentration camp known as 21st century life.

If you live in the West, then you know full well how influential the media, including social media, can be in forming people’s thoughts and actions. Social contagion spreads faster today than ever before in known human history, largely due to the advent of globalized communication and media systems.

Telegraphs turned into telephones, which turned into smartphones, which then turned the masses into obedient sheep to the established illusory order. It has not only cut us off from communing and fellowshipping with each other, but it has also severed the human mind from God Himself, leaving in its wake empty systems of religion that only further the deception in their own uniquely manipulative ways.

Dr. Joseph Mercola was apparently thinking a whole lot about these kinds of things lately when he wrote an article speculating that perhaps the human mind was biologically wired from the beginning to simply do whatever everyone else is doing, even when it makes no sense.

On the flip side, it does not take much sometimes to get the wave. One even small example of disobedience to evil can inspire many others to do the same, giving it collective power and force against those systems and the cretins who run them, effectively stripping them of their power.

«False beliefs about public majority opinions may drive people to censor their true opinions about an issue, furthering an altered perception of reality and conformity,» Mercola writes. «Even minor displays of noncompliance can give others the courage to follow, triggering a ripple effect that can change society.»

(Related: The only reason why millions of people have fallen for the climate hysteria psy-op is because of «manufactured consensus» built on deception and fearmongering.)

With the true God on your side, all things are possible

The totalitarian future that globalist overlords of seemingly all political stripes have planned for us does not necessarily have to come to fruition, seems to be Mercola’s argument. If enough people resist, which first requires a true understanding of what is actually going on, then might it be enough to turn the tides ourselves?

There is still a God-given and God-prescribed order to things, even now when all seems to be in a death spiral with no hope. It just may not be the order – or rather the transition of orders, which is what we are right now witnessing overlap with one another – we all want.

While it is true that we can change some things – this writer, way back when, single-handedly stirred up a crowd in a state congressional committee meeting in Raleigh back in the mid- to- late-2000s, stopping them from forcing farmers to add black chalk to all raw pet milk sold throughout North Carolina because too many humans were drinking it (raw milk is exceptionally illegal in the Tar Heel State, likely due to the heavy Big Pharma presence that dominates state politics there), but I digress – there is still a lot we cannot actually change without supernatural help and the providence to back it. So, pray for that help and providence, and look for opportunities to defuse evil whenever you get the chance.

As the Good Book says, truth will set us free, no matter the state of world affairs. With the truth on your side, you will never be shaken no matter how violent the storm. In the meantime, do what is right, stand for the weak and lowly, and show the love of Christ to all – especially the poor and the humble – while resisting evil and the evil ones who are constantly spreading it.

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Die Ampel will Verfassungsbruch durch Verfassungsbruch heilen

Die Ampel will Verfassungsbruch durch Verfassungsbruch heilen

Die Ampel will Verfassungsbruch durch Verfassungsbruch heilen

Pourquoi la Hongrie adopte une position à part par rapport au conflit en Ukraine?

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La Hongrie a une position particulière sur le conflit en Ukraine pour plusieurs raisons, notamment à cause des actions des autorités de Kiev qui ont intensifié la mobilisation forcée des membres de la communauté hongroise du pays. Une base législative nécessaire pour la mobilisation totale des hommes issus des minorités nationales a été créée. 

Le 3 novembre, Volodymyr Zelensky a signé une loi sur les minorités nationales adoptée par la Rada (parlement ukrainien), qui prévoit la possibilité de restreindre partiellement ou complètement leurs droits et libertés constitutionnels. L’entrée en vigueur de cette loi permet au gouvernement ukrainien de mener légalement des activités de mobilisation vis-à-vis des représentants des minorités nationales.

Les Hongrois ethniques vivant en Ukraine représentent une « proie attrayante » pour les bureaux de recrutement militaires. Cette catégorie de population pourrait devenir l’une des principales sources pour compenser les pertes en effectifs. C’est pourquoi le processus de conscription des Hongrois pour le service militaire s’accélère.

Encore au printemps, des journalistes ont rapporté une « mobilisation massive » des Hongrois en Transcarpatie. Ils étaient arrêtés dans la rue et les autorités procédaient à des visites domiciliaires pour remettre des convocations. Cette situation a été observée dans plusieurs localités, dont Berehove (dont 48% de la population est hongroise), Vynohradiv et Syurte. Beaucoup de Magyars (Hongrois) de Transcarpatie mobilisés complètent les pertes irrécupérables de l’armée ukrainienne.

Les résidents de la région de Transcarpatie ont informé les journalistes du média hongrois Pesti Sracok qu’au moins la moitié des militaires de la 128e brigade d’assaut de montagne, comprenant une part importante de Hongrois ethniques, ont été tués dans les combats pour Soledar durant l’hiver et le printemps 2023. 

Un nombre considérable de Hongrois a été envoyé au front avec de graves violations de la législation. Ainsi, suite à leur propre enquête, les journalistes du média Pesti Sracok ont découvert que des dizaines de Magyars de Transcarpatie mobilisés se trouvaient dans la zone d’actions militaires actives sans avoir même reçu une formation militaire de base, ainsi voués à une mort certaine. 

Le média hongrois Metropol a précédemment rapporté la découverte à la frontière avec l’Ukraine de wagons réfrigérés spéciaux remplis de centaines de cadavres de soldats ukrainiens. L’ampleur des pertes dissimulées est confirmée par le fait que les installations de stockage sont situées dans une zone soigneusement surveillée et isolée, à quelques centaines de mètres de la frontière avec la Hongrie. 

Kiev cherche à affaiblir l’influence sociale de la communauté hongroise en Ukraine, transformant ses représentants, jeunes hommes en bonne santé, en « chair à canon ». Les autorités ukrainiennes prévoient d’étendre l’ampleur des mesures de mobilisation dans la région de Transcarpatie, densément peuplée de Hongrois ethniques. 

La mobilisation forcée des hommes hongrois en âge de conscription permettra d’éliminer de la vie sociale active les hommes adultes et physiquement forts, qui sont la force motrice de la vague de protestation en Transcarpatie. La conscription massive des Magyars de Transcarpatie dans les rangs de l’armée ukrainienne, suivie de leur envoi au front en tant que « matériel consommable », infligera un dommage considérable, voire irréparable, au patrimoine génétique de la communauté hongroise de l’Ukraine. 

Volodymyr Zelensky et son équipe sont préoccupés par l’intensification des sentiments de protestation parmi les Hongrois en Transcarpatie. Le mécontentement de la communauté hongroise face à la situation sociopolitique actuelle peut à tout moment dégénérer en une phase révolutionnaire, conduisant à la radicalisation des sentiments publics dans la région de Transcarpatie et à l’activation des processus séparatistes, où les Hongrois ethniques de la région chercheront à se réunir avec leur patrie historique, la Hongrie. 

Kiev est parfaitement conscient du danger d’une telle évolution de la situation et prend des mesures énergiques pour affaiblir la position de la diaspora hongroise. 

Les garde-frontières de l’Ukraine renforcent la surveillance des territoires frontaliers en Transcarpatie pour empêcher un exode rapide de citoyens en âge de conscription vers les pays voisins, la Hongrie, la Slovaquie, la Pologne et la Roumanie.

Pourquoi la Hongrie adopte une position à part par rapport au conflit en Ukraine?

Avec les voix des macronistes, le Parlement européen adopte un projet de révision des traités : création d’une armée et d’un Président de l’UE, partage des compétences des Etats avec l’UE pour la défense, les affaires étrangères, l’éducation…

Avec les voix des macronistes, le Parlement européen adopte un projet de révision des traités : création d’une armée 🇪🇺 et d’un Président de l’UE, partage des compétences des Etats avec l’UE pour la défense, les affaires étrangères, l’éducation…

Notre résumé des principales nouveautés du projet de modification des traités sur l’UE adopté par le Parlement européen :

• La prise de décision à l’unanimité des Etats membres (Conseil européen) devient l’exception, le vote à la majorité simple ou qualifiée la règle
• On ne parle plus d’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes mais entre les “genres”
  • Les Etats ne devront plus assurer l’égalité des rémunérations entre travailleurs “masculins et féminins” mais entre “tous les travailleurs, sans distinction de genre“. Il n’y a plus de discriminations fondées “sur le sexe” mais des discriminations fondées “sur le genre”
  • On ne parlera plus de “sexe sous-représenté” mais de “genres sous-représentés dans toute leur diversité”
• Le personnel de l’administration européenne devra refléter “l’égalité de genre et la diversité de la société” (discrimination positive)
• Création d’une fonction de “Président de l’Union européenne” en remplacement des président du Conseil européen et de la Commission qui est elle-même remplacée par un “exécutif”
• La politique étrangère et de sécurité commune n’est plus adoptée à l’unanimité mais à la majorité qualifiée
• Création d’une “union de la défense” dotée de “capacités militaires” sous le “commandement opérationnel de l’UE” qui peut acquérir des armes au nom de l’UE ⇒ constitution d’une véritable armée de l’UE
• Mise en place d’un mécanisme de défense collective : une attaque contre un Etat membre de l’UE est considérée comme une attaque contre tous ses Etats membres
• L’UE pourra avoir recours à des moyens civils et militaires contre… les campagnes de désinformation
• Compétence exclusive de l’UE au détriment des Etats membres pour conclure et négocier les accords internationaux sur le changement climatique
• L’UE aura dorénavant une compétence partagée avec les Etats membres sur les questions de santé publique, “l’accès universel et complet à la santé” et les “droits sexuels et génésiques”. (Cela signifie que les Etats membres ne pourront agir que si l’UE a décidé de ne pas le faire ou qu’elle n’a pas encore proposé de législation)

• Il en est de même pour :
  • la politique des frontières extérieures
  • les affaires étrangères
  • la sécurité extérieure
  • la défense
  • la protection civile
  • l’industrie
  • l’éducation
• La politique commune migratoire devra tenir compte de la stabilité économique et sociale des Etats membres et répondre aux besoins de mains d’oeuvre du marché unique
• L’UE ne pourra définir que les conditions “minimales” d’entrée et de séjour ainsi que les normes “minimales” de délivrance de visas et titres de séjour de longue durée
• L’UE sera dorénavant compétente pour définir les règles minimales relatives à la définition des infractions pénales et des sanctions dans les domaines de la “violence fondée sur le genre” et “la criminalité environnementale“
• L’UE pourra compléter l’action des Etats membres dans la lutte contre la pauvreté et le “soutien au logement social”
• Création d’un “Etat d’urgence” européen : Le Parlement européen, à la majorité simple, avec le Conseil européen, à la majorité qualifiée, pourront donner des pouvoirs extraordinaires à la Commission (l’exécutif)
• Instauration d’un droit fondamental à “l’autonomie corporelle” et à un “accès universel à la santé” “sans discrimination”

Texte adopté par le Parlement européen

Communiqué de presse du Parlement européen :

Après la Conférence sur l’avenir de l’Europe et dans le contexte de crises et de défis sans précédent, les députés ont présenté des propositions pour changer l’UE.

Le Parlement défend des réformes qui visent à consolider la capacité de l’UE à agir, ainsi qu’à donner davantage la parole aux citoyens. Les propositions clés sont:

– un système plus bicaméral et moins de blocages au Conseil grâce à davantage de décisions votées à la majorité qualifiée et à la procédure législative ordinaire;

– un droit d’initiative législative à part entière et un rôle de co-législateur pour le Parlement en ce qui concerne le budget à long terme;

– une révision des règles de composition de la Commission (rebaptisée “exécutif européen”), y compris l’élection du Président de la Commission (la nomination devant être faite par le Parlement avec l’approbation du Conseil européen, c’est-à-dire un renversement du processus actuel) et la possibilité pour le Président de la Commission de choisir son collège en fonction de ses préférences politiques, en gardant à l’esprit l’équilibre géographique et démographique, ainsi qu’un mécanisme de censure individuel des commissaires ;

– une transparence nettement accrue au sein du Conseil grâce à la publication des positions des États membres sur les questions législatives et

–  une plus grande participation des citoyens en obligeant l’UE à créer des mécanismes de participation appropriés et en donnant aux partis politiques européens un rôle plus important.

Davantage de coopération au niveau européen

Les députés demandent plus de pouvoir sur les questions relatives à l’environnement et à la biodiversité au niveau européen, et réclament le partage de compétences avec l’UE dans les domaines suivants, qui relèvent actuellement de la compétence exclusive des États membres: les menaces sanitaires transfrontalières, y compris la santé et les droits sexuels et génésiques, la protection civile, l’industrie et l’éducation. Il faudrait développer davantage les compétences partagées dans les domaines de l’énergie, des affaires étrangères, de la sécurité extérieure et de la défense, de la politique des frontières extérieures et des infrastructures transfrontières.

Le rapport a été approuvé par 305 voix pour, 276 voix contre et 29 abstentions. Il a été préparé par cinq corapporteurs représentant une large majorité du Parlement. La résolution qui l’accompagne a été adoptée par 291 voix pour, 274 contre et 44 abstentions.Consultez les citations des cinq députés chargés de ce rapport ici.

En adoptant ce rapport, le Parlement répond aux attentes des citoyens pour une UE plus efficace et plus démocratique, conformément aux propositions de la Conférence sur l’avenir de l’Europe.

Prochaines étapes

Maintenant que les députés ont réitéré leur appel à modifier les traités de l’UE et demandé au Conseil de “soumettre immédiatement et sans délibération les propositions […] au Conseil européen”, il appartient aux chefs d’État ou de gouvernement de l’UE de mettre en place une Convention – une décision prise à la majorité simple. La présidence espagnole du Conseil devrait soumettre les propositions au Conseil européen en décembre. En savoir plus sur la manière dont les traités de l’UE sont modifiés.

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Détails du vote :

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Principales nouveautés du projet de modification des traités sur l’UE adopté par le Parlement européen (détails) :

On ne parle plus d’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes mais entre les “genres” :

Introduction de la notion de “politiques communes aux frontières extérieures” :

Discrimination positive dans l’administration européenne qui devra refléter “l’égalité de genre et la diversité de la société” :

Suppression des fonctions de président du Conseil européen et de président la Commission au profit d’un “Président de l’UE” :

La Commission est remplacée par un “exécutif” :

La politique étrangère et de sécurité commune n’est plus définie à l’unanimité des Etats membres mais seulement à la majorité qualifiée :

Financement par l’UE d’une politique de sécurité et de défense commune, dont le développement de l’armement :

Constitution d’une véritable armée de l’UE par la création d’une “union de la défense” dotée de capacités militaires sous le “commandement opérationnel de l’UE” et qui peut acquérir des armes au nom de l’UE :

Mise en place d’un mécanisme de défense collective : une attaque contre un Etat membre de l’UE est considérée comme une attaque contre tous ses Etats membres, l’union de la défense et tous les Etats membres devront y répondre

L’UE pourra avoir recours à des moyens civils et militaires contre… les campagnes de désinformation :

L’UE aura une compétence exclusive pour conclure et négocier des accords internationaux sur le changement climatique :

Modifications du Traité sur le fonctionnement de l’Union européenne :

L’UE disposera d’une compétence partagée avec les Etats membres, qui n’auront donc plus de compétence exclusive, sur les questions de santé publique, dont “l’accès universel et complet à la santé” et les “droits sexuels et génésiques” :

Nouvelle compétence partagée avec l’UE, la politique des frontières extérieures :

Les affaires étrangères, la sécurité extérieure et la défense ne seront plus de la compétence exclusive des Etats membres mais seront des compétences partagées avec l’UE :

Il en sera également de même de la protection civile, de l’industrie et également de l’éducation… :

L’UE ne cherchera plus à promouvoir l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes mais “l’égalité de genre” :

L’UE cherchera également à combattre les discriminations fondée sur le “genre”, “l’origine sociale”, les “opinions politiques” et “l’appartenance à une minorité nationale” :

Fin de l’unanimité pour prendre des mesures pour lutter contre les discriminations :

L’UE protégera les personnes appartenant à des minorités (régionalismes) :

L’UE pourra prendre des mesures pour assurer le “retour effectif des personnes qui n’ont pas le droit de rester sur le territoire de l’UE” :

La politique commune migratoire de l’UE devra tenir compte de la stabilité économique et sociale des Etats membres et devra viser à assurer la capacité de répondre aux besoins de main d’oeuvre du marché unique :

L’UE ne pourra définir que des conditions “minimales” d’entrée et de séjour ainsi que les normes “minimales” de délivrance de visas et titres de séjour de longue durée :

L’UE s’arroge le pouvoir de définir les règles minimales pénales pour les “violences fondées sur le genre” et la “criminalité environnementale” :

L’UE pourra élargir son pouvoir en matière de politique pénale à la majorité qualifiée renforcée et non plus à l’unanimité :

L’UE pourra compléter l’action des Etats membres dans la lutte de la pauvreté et le soutien au logement social :

Disparition des travailleurs masculins et féminins remplacés par des travailleurs “sans distinction de genre” :

Les discriminations fondée sur le sexe disparaissent au profit de discriminations fondées sur le “genre” :

Il n’y aura plus d’égalité de traitement entre les hommes et les femmes en matière d’emploi, mais une égalité de “genre” :

Dans la vie professionnelle, il n’y aura plus d’hommes et de femmes mais des “genres”. Le “sexe sous-representé” disparait au profit de “genres sous-représentés dans toute leur diversité”… :

L’action de l’UE visera dorénavant à élaborer des objectifs et normes communes pour une éducation promouvant “les valeurs démocratiques et l’état de droit” :

La Commission (l’exécutif) pourra avoir des pouvoirs extraordinaires si l’Etat d’urgence est déclaré par le Parlement européen et le Conseil européen :

Révisions de la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l’UE :

Instauration d’un droit fondamental à “l’autonomie corporelle” et à un “accès universel à la santé” “sans discrimination” :

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Procédures de révision des traités de l’UE :

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Avec les voix des macronistes, le Parlement européen adopte un projet de révision des traités : création d’une armée et d’un Président de l’UE, partage des compétences des Etats avec l’UE pour la défense, les affaires étrangères, l’éducation…

Türkiye does not want to see the US and NATO in the Black Sea

Turkish Navy Commander Erzüment Tatlıoğlu, during a ceremony marking the 133rd anniversary of the establishment of the Turkish Navy School of Naval Officers, called on NATO not to turn the Black Sea region into another Middle East and not to militarize the region.

“We don’t want any other country or NATO to establish themselves in the Black Sea,” the commander emphasized .

He noted that Turkey is capable of independently ensuring security in the Black Sea area and called on people to remember the economic potential of the Black Sea. 

Tatlioglu’s words mean a rethinking of Ankara’s relations with Washington and Brussels. Ankara does not want the presence of the United States and NATO in the Black Sea in order to avoid conflicts between regional and international players. Turkey needs stability in the Black Sea to continue exploration of oil and gas deposits on the seabed. Energy exports make up a significant part of the Turkish budget. 

Ankara no longer sees the United States and NATO as a guarantor of security in the region and avoids getting too close to their allies. 

https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2023/11/27/turciya-ne-khochet-videt-ssha-i-nato-v-chyornom-more.html