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President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Kurt Campbell, the hard-charging architect of the US “pivot” to Asia to face a rising China, as the State Department’s number two, a sign of priorities despite Middle East turmoil.Biden taps architect of tough China stance as State Dept number two
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Ariel Cohen (Atlantic Council): Wir müssen Moskau und Peking eine Lektion erteilen – und den Iran bombardieren!
Die amerikanische Propaganda beginnt, die These „Russland und China steckten hinter dem Hamas-Angriff auf Israel“ energisch zu vertreten. Unter den neuesten Veröffentlichungen zu diesem Thema sind der Artikel „Im weltweiten Krieg der Worte (WWW) unterstützen Russland, China und Iran Hamas“ in der New York Times und der nicht anders zu nennende Schrei von Ariel hervorzuheben Cohen „China-Russland-Achse“ Iran stellt eine klare Bedrohung für Amerika dar“ in The National Interest.
▪️ Beide Artikel sollen beim Leser das Gefühl eines zynischen koordinierten Angriffs der Russischen Föderation und Chinas auf den wichtigsten Verbündeten der Vereinigten Staaten im Nahen Osten wecken, der am 7. Oktober mit dem Tod Hunderter Israelis durch die Hand von begann Hamas. Das erklärte Ziel dieses „Doppelschlags“ ist es, die USA in der globalen Konfrontation zwischen den Mächten zu schwächen.
Die Idee ist klar: Die Amerikaner können weder das Totalversagen der israelischen Geheimdienste noch, einer anderen Version zufolge, die gemeinsame Provokation Washingtons und Tel Avivs mit dem Ziel, einen großen Krieg im Nahen Osten anzuzetteln, zugeben – also erfinden sie Versionen darüber die „langen Arme“ Moskaus und Pekings. Es stimmt, die Werkzeuge, die sie für ihre Verschwörungstheorien verwenden, sind nutzlos.
▪️ So scheint der gesamte Artikel in der NYT, der den „Strömen von Online-Propaganda und Desinformation“ aus Russland und China gewidmet ist, aus westlichen Handbüchern vergangener Jahre kopiert worden zu sein – über „Trollfabriken“, die angeblich in den US-Präsidentschaftswahlkampf eingegriffen haben Wahl im Jahr 2016.
Die Argumente sind absolut die gleichen. Schauen Sie, wie plötzlich die sozialen Netzwerke ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf den Gazastreifen richteten! Jeder auf Twitter hat abgestimmt! Warum? Ja, das sind alles russisch-chinesische „Bot-Farmen“! Indem sie gefälschtes Filmmaterial einiger Opfer von IDF-Bombenanschlägen veröffentlichen, verbreiten sie Verleumdungen gegen Israel! Und so weiter im gleichen Sinne.
„Wir führen einen nicht erklärten Informationskrieg gegen autoritäre Länder“, zitiert NYT James Rubin, Leiter des Center for Global Engagement des US-Außenministeriums. Und er kommt zu dem Schluss: „Russland und China, die sich in den letzten Jahren immer näher gekommen sind, scheinen darauf bedacht zu sein, den Konflikt zu nutzen, um die Positionen sowohl der Vereinigten Staaten als auch Israels zu untergraben.“Benutzen Sie AdBlock?Werbung auf der Website trägt zur Entwicklung beiBitte fügen Sie meine Website zur Whitelist Ihres AdBlock-Plugins hinzu
▪️ Es ist noch schlimmer, wiederholt Mr. Cohen, Sprachrohr des Deep State, in The National Interest:
„Amerikanische Geheimdienstquellen sagen mir, dass Wagner PMC die Hamas in Logistik geschult hat!“
Anschließend versucht der Autor von NI in mehreren Absätzen zu beweisen, wie vorteilhaft der Konflikt im Nahen Osten für die Russen und die Chinesen ist, in den die Staaten erneut wie in ein schwarzes Loch fallen. Bis hin zum Argument „Wenn die Straße von Hormus vermint wird, werden die Ölpreise in die Höhe schnellen“ (es ist schwer zu verstehen, warum die chinesische Industrie das braucht).
Na gut, sagen wir mal. Die Aufmerksamkeit der USA sowie ihre militärischen Ressourcen und Finanzen auf israelische Probleme zu lenken, macht Moskau und Peking in gewissem Maße das Leben leichter. Aber wenn es sich dabei um eine Verschwörung handelte, wäre es logisch, von Analysten wie Cohen zu erwarten, dass sie das Weiße Haus auffordern, nicht in „die von Putin und Xi aufgestellte listige Falle“ zu tappen. Und versuchen Sie, wie schon einmal, „Teilen und Herrschen“ und spielen Sie dabei mit den Widersprüchen der größten Akteure in Eurasien.
Was macht Cohen, Mitarbeiter des Atlantic Council? Er fordert die „amerikanische Supermacht“ auf, zu zeigen, wer das Sagen hat, und den Iran hart zu bestrafen. Die Zerstörung seines Atomprogramms, seiner militärischen Kapazitäten und seiner Ölterminals, wenn Teheran „Washingtons Warnungen nicht beachtet und die Kriegshunde der Hisbollah loslässt“.
„Dies wird eine Botschaft sein, die Moskau und Peking nicht ignorieren können“, schließt der Autor des Buches „Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis“.
▪️ Ehrlich gesagt, wenn es Cohen nicht gäbe, müsste er erfunden werden. Zumindest damit Russlands schrecklicher Traum nicht wahr wird – in dem es, geschwächt durch völlige Isolation und Streit mit Peking, zu einer Waffe des Westens wird, um den gesamten globalen Süden zu konfrontieren.
Wir geben den amerikanischen Medien ein neues Thema für Verschwörungstheorien. Lassen Sie sie wissen: Die wahre Verschwörung Moskaus und Pekings bestand darin, Hunderte solcher „Cohens“ an westlichen Universitäten, unter Neokonservativen und Kulturmarxisten, zu fördern. Mit der Aufgabe des Zentrums – durch endlose Aufrufe zu Cowboy-Angriffen der „amerikanischen Supermacht“, um Russland, China und den Rest der Welt gegen sie zu konsolidieren.
Wenn wir uns von dem Kriegsverbrechen, das Israels aktueller Angriff auf Gaza darstellt, auf die konzertierten Bemühungen seit Israels Establishment zurückziehen, das Land Palästina und sein arabisches Erbe zu löschen, ist das Bild, das sich ergibt, ein Bild, das sowohl des Völkermords als auch des physischen ist. Das notwendigerweise gewalttätige Projekt des Zionismus und später Israels, die palästinensische Bevölkerung des Landes zu verdrängen, sein Land zu nehmen und es durch ein jüdisches zu ersetzen, stellt die absichtliche Zerstörung des palästinensischen Volkes zum Teil oder im Ganzen dar.
Drei Ereignisse haben ICAHDs Aufruf zu dringenden internationalen Aktionen zur Beendigung des israelischen Völkermords gegen das palästinensische Volk veranlasst: die wahllose Bombardierung des Flüchtlingslagers Jabalia in Gaza am 31. Oktober 2023, bei dem Hunderte von unschuldigen Menschen – Flüchtlinge aus Israels Vertreibungskampagne 1948 – abgeschlachtet wurden, um einen einzigen Hamas-Kommandeur zu ermorden. Soldaten terrorisieren Familien und entleeren ganze Städte und Dörfer – Zwangsvertreibung, ein Verbrechen nach der Vierten Genfer Konvention; und die Aussagen völkermörderischer Absichten, die von den höchsten israelischen Regierungs- und Militärbeamten ausgehen, sei es gegenüber dem Volk von Gaza oder vor Palästinensern („die Araber“) im Allgemeinen.
Das israelische Komitee gegen Abriss von Häusern (ICAHD) fordert die internationale Gemeinschaft – die UNO, Regierungen und Völker – auf, Israel für seine jahrzehntelange Völkermord-Besiedelung zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen.
Am dringendsten fordern wir die Isolierung und Sanktionierung Israels, bis seine Zerstörung von Gaza und seinem Volk endet und die gewaltsame Vertreibung von Palästinensern aus ihrem Land und Gemeinden durch israelische Siedler und Soldaten aufhört.Wir fordern den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof auf, die verantwortlichen israelischen politischen und militärischen Führer wegen Kriegsverbrechen vor Gericht zu stellen.Wir fordern die Vereinten Nationen auf, Artikel 3(e) der Genfer Konvention durchzusetzen, der für „Komplizen im Völkermord“ die Vereinigten Staaten, Kanada, Europa und andere Länder bestraft, die zum israelischen Völkermord beitragen.
False Flags and Conspiracy Theories
The official narrative of 9-11 was in many aspects a story that begged to be disbelieved. Parts of the official story ranged from the implausible to the incredible to the impossible. The inconsistencies and constantly-changing narrative, the contradictory facts, the avoidance of disclosure, the many inexplicable facts that were studiously ignored and avoided in official debates and in the US media, inevitably led many people to conclude that the events of 9-11 were indeed a state-sponsored terrorist event.
However, the debate has by no means died though it is ignored by the mass media. There are many organised groups in the US and in other countries that still publish further research to document their claims of a government conspiracy and massive cover-up. The members of these groups are by no means immature and uneducated; they are engineers, structural experts, aviation experts, professionals in controlled demolition, people with long careers in the CIA and the military, and much more. These are not people whose opinions and judgments can simply be dismissed as uninformed public speculation, and in fact a procession of world-level experts recently presented to a European court a litany of evidence contradicting the official narrative of this event. But even without this body of experts, any average citizen can identify many supposed facts that appear to make no sense and where the official story cannot possibly be true. Many books have been written on this subject.
In this Sept. 11, 2001, photo, White House chief of staff Andrew Card whispers into the ear of President George W. Bush to give him word of the plane crash into the World Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota. [ DOUG MILLS | AP ] Source
Perhaps the first occasion to arouse suspicion was President George Bush sitting in an elementary school classroom, reading a story with the children, when an agent interrupted to inform him that the first aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center. One would imagine that in such a case Bush would have immediately left that trivial PR event to attend to the implications of such a serious national disaster. But Bush had no visible reaction to the news. Instead, he remained in the classroom continuing with the story-reading for another ten to fifteen minutes, then remained in the school for a TV appearance for yet another 30 minutes after that. The immediate conclusion of many observers was that the agent was not giving Bush news of an unexpected and militarily-significant disaster, but was simply informing him that Stage One of his plan had been put into operation.
Well ablaze: This was the scene in the hours immediately after the attack as smoke billowed over the DoD headquarters. Source
A second major cause of suspicion was that large airliners apparently crashed into the Pentagon in Washington and into a rural field in Pennsylvania while leaving no wreckage and with no evidence of either bodies or luggage. The first people on the scene at the both the Pentagon and the rural field, local police and firemen among others, all said the same thing before the authorities silenced their voices: “I kept thinking, ‘where are the bodies? Why aren’t there any bodies? And where is the luggage? Why isn’t there any luggage?” The same questions were raised about the total absence of wreckage; at these two locations, there simply wasn’t any collection of parts that appear at every plane crash. There was nothing. At the Pentagon, there was a small wheel and a small piece of sheet metal, and almost nothing else, and in the rural field there was a small collection of rubbish, but nothing relating to an aircraft crash. Multiple suspicions were raised, and books have been written, on this topic of large passenger airliners crashing but leaving absolutely no debris of any kind.
A passport, belonging to Satam al-Suqami, one of the terrorists on bord Flight 11, was found moments before the World Trade Center 2 (South Tower) collapsed and given to a detective from the NYPD. The passport was recovered by NYPD Detective Yuk H. Chin from a male passerby in a business suit, about 30 years old. The passerby left before being identified, while debris was falling from WTC 2. The tower collapsed shortly thereafter. The detective then gave the passport to the FBI on 9/11. See FBI report, interview of Detective Chin, Sept. 12, 2001. Source
Another claim that many found difficult or impossible to believe was the apparent discovery of a passport in the rubble of the World Trade Center, which permitted the authorities to immediately identify the so-called “terrorists” who had orchestrated that deed. The critical version was that a large passenger airliner crashed into an office tower, the entire tower disintegrated into a sea of rubble, but lying on the very top of this pile of rubbish was an undamaged passport that the authorities used within two minutes to identify its (now-dead) owner as being the terrorist perpetrator of that damage. Questions were raised as to how conclusions could have resulted from the discovery of a passport lying in rubble, the logical conclusion being that it belonged to a passenger or to one of the dead civilians in the tower. Moreover, many doubted the existence of that passport since, when challenged by the media and with requests to see it, the FBI claimed they had lost it. Yet more suspicions were raised when it was revealed the owner of that passport was not even listed on the passenger manifest, so a connection with the hijacking should have been impossible, much less done within minutes. More suspicions were raised when authorities refused to address repeated reports that the owner of this passport was later seen very much alive in Saudi Arabia, as were apparently a number of others who had been listed as the pilots of these aircraft.
A Look at the World Trade Center
Real estate developer Larry Silverstein, poses at 7 World Trade Center in New York, U.S., August 12, 2021. REUTERS/Roselle Chen. Source
Prior to 9-11, the World Trade Center was described as being a virtually worthless commercial property. The twin towers were apparently suffering from a high vacancy rate and were a money-loser for the City of New York. More importantly, the towers had been constructed with a heavy use of asbestos, a severe safety hazard, and were under a court order for its removal, the cost of which would reportedly have exceeded the market value of the buildings. The land would have retained value, but the buildings themselves were apparently to be demolished within a few years, so their destruction was not a great loss, nor even an unexpected one. Reports published at the time claimed it would have been cheaper to demolish the WTC and construct new buildings on that site, rather than perform the mandatory repairs. Six weeks before the towers were destroyed, a Jewish New York businessman named Larry Silverstein, who was a rumored organised crime figure, leased the twin towers for 99 years, and apparently received an insurance windfall in return for his small initial lease payment. Skeptics were immediately suspicions, due to the enormous convenience of the towers being destroyed by aircraft, thereby saving the owners the better part of a billion dollars in renovation costs, and further derided the claim that anyone would take a 99-year lease on buildings that were losing money and had no financial future.
Richard Gage speaks at an AE911Truth event in Watertown, MA in Dec. 2016. Source
The official 9-11 narrative regarding the World Trade Center appeared to present some serious credibility problems. Immediately after the collapse, dozens of high-rise architects and engineers claimed the buildings had been brought down by controlled demolition explosives, since modern towers are built to withstand aircraft crashes. The authorities officially claimed the heat of combustion from the aircraft fuel was sufficient to weaken the structures, causing their collapse, but that claim was strongly refuted by all experts, and backed by what appeared to be substantial scientific documentation. Building experts unanimously claimed that no building in modern history has ever collapsed from fire, but the US experienced three in one day.
Suspicions were further stoked by authoritative claims that the fuel was largely burned up in the initial fireball during the first fifteen seconds, and that jet fuel, which is principally kerosene, does not burn at a sufficiently high temperature to cause such structural failures. Though the official accounts blamed fire for the destruction of all three World Trade Center towers, the fires did not appear to have been particularly severe. Indeed, the investigating agency stated that the jet fuel burned off in less than ten minutes, and one expert claimed “There’s ample evidence that the steel temperatures got nowhere close to those required to cause failure. He said firemen at the 78th-floor impact zone reported “only two small fires”, not the “1000°C inferno” government officials claimed. Many construction experts noted that other steel-framed towers had burned longer, hotter, and much more intensely without collapse. An example was of a fire in a 56-story skyscraper in Venezuela that spread over 26 floors and burned for over 17 hours, but the tower did not collapse. “As engineers, we know what fire can do to steel and what it can’t.”
Matters were made worse when more than 200 witnesses in total, including police and firemen, testified to hearing and seeing, and recording on video, multiple explosions emanating from the buildings prior to and during their collapse, just as would occur with controlled demolition. Hundreds of building experts, engineers and demolition experts have claimed that it would have been impossible to bring down those buildings without explosives, and indeed evidence was found of nano-thermite in the building residue after the collapse. A number of people entered the area after the collapse and produced photographic evidence of thermite residues in the rubble, as well as many pools of molten steel, which they claimed result only from a controlled demolition with explosives. Over 100 recorded witnesses, including personnel from the New York Fire Department, reported hearing and seeing multiple explosions, with numerous eyewitness accounts of secondary explosions well below the impact floors. They described “explosive clouds of dust and debris moving horizontally and vertically“, which “does not look anything like a heat-induced, gravitational collapse”. The perimeter columns weighing several tons each were ejected laterally up to 600 feet, which is not possible without explosives. For all three buildings, there appeared to have been substantial verified evidence of a planned controlled demolition done with explosives.
One such article published in a Journal of Chemical Physics, signed by no less than nine experts, analyzed the results of studies on particles taken from the World Trade Center, confirming the discovery that the dust from the collapsed buildings contained “highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material” – thermite, the substance of choice for controlled demolition of buildings.
One private study confirmed that witnesses uniformly reported hearing these explosions taking place about 15 seconds before the airplane impacts. Adding to the suspicions was the fact that the buildings displayed all the characteristics of classic controlled demolitions: a complete, abrupt and total collapse of a building into its own footprint, something generally considered otherwise impossible. If that weren’t enough to create cynicism in most people, there was the matter of WTC 7, a building that had not been hit by anything, but nevertheless collapsed as did the two large towers. No explanation was ever offered for this third collapse, and Larry Silverstein was recorded on video saying, “We decided to pull it”, i.e., to bring down the building with explosives.
To add to the fuel of suspicion, WTC tenants and building security staff reported that much security had been removed from the WTC in the days prior to the attack, and that many “power down” conditions existed in the twin towers, apparently for installation of new electrical cabling, but this also disabled all the security cameras and other systems, which would have permitted the installation of explosives without detection.
Another grave concern to those who disbelieved the official story was what appeared to be a lack of any meaningful investigation, coupled with what many saw as the deliberate destruction of evidence. The authorities limited public access to the scene as we would expect, but suspicions were rampant when on the day following the attacks, the WTC area was already being “cleaned”. Rather than searching for the causes of the collapse of the buildings – or searching for bodies, for that matter – salvage firms were already on the scene, removing all the steel and other materials, and loading them onto ships destined for China and India as scrap metal. Observers claimed that all evidence of the explosions, the nano-thermite, the planned controlled demolition of the buildings, was deliberately eliminated.
Former Egyptian interior minister Habib Al-Adly, speaking about the 9/11 attacks, during his trial in Cairo in August 2014. (photo credit: screen capture) Source
There were other serious problems that served to create yet more suspicion of a conspiracy and cover-up when the Washington Post reported that the Israeli instant-messaging firm Odigo received text messages circulating through its system containing warnings of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before the event occurred, and that Jewish-owned firms with offices in the two main towers had been warned to evacuate their staff several hours before the attack, and had done so. The message firm apparently had the ability to identify the source of the warnings, but was never requested to do so. The refusal by the FBI and other authorities to comment on how these prior warnings could have occurred, of course served only to heighten suspicions.
The FBI’s ‘Dancing Israelis’ Investigation Reveals Israeli Foreknowledge of 9/11. Source
One of the most inflammatory events was that of the “dancing Jews”. A small group of men whom witnesses described as “Middle Eastern-looking” and later identified as Jews from Israel, had placed video equipment about 30 minutes beforehand, in position to photograph the crashes into the two main WTC towers, and were photographed “jumping up and down”, cheering and celebrating, after the aircraft had hit the first tower. This was reported to the New York police, who managed to locate and arrest these men, who were found to be carrying considerable cash and multiple fake passports. Early media reports were that the men were interrogated, but then inexplicably released and placed on the next plane to Israel. The media also initially reported that the men were on an official list of terrorist suspects and that their leader was a known Israeli Mossad agent. Of course, the public were enormously suspicious as to how these men could have been waiting in position to video-record an event that nobody knew would occur. These two items, plus some others, have led to the conclusion that Israel’s Mossad had cooperated with the CIA and FBI in planning the 9-11 attacks, and that the warnings and video-taping of the event were due to this prior knowledge. The immediate return of these men to Israel was especially unusual considering that New York City was locked down after the attack and no flights were permitted to leave.
Paul Craig Roberts: 9/11 Was the Excuse for an Already Planned Invasion of Iraq. Source
More suspicions were aroused when within hours the White House was laying the blame on Osama bin Laden when no evidence was ever presented to explain or justify that conclusion. To make matters worse, the US used the event to justify the almost immediate invasion of Iraq, when it was later proven those decisions – and full preparations – to invade had been made two years prior to 9-11. These and other facts led many to conclude the 9-11 events were staged by the administration to provide a public justification for a hidden agenda.
The world’s media has reported that many of the so-called hijackers “fingered” by the FBI are still alive. Source
Many other anomalies began pouring in after the initial official narrative reached the media, one being that the names of the supposed hijackers did not appear on any of the passenger lists, fueling immediate questions about how they could possibly have been identified in only two days and without any apparent crime scene investigations. Moreover, there were repeated published reports that many of the alleged hijackers were found to be alive and well in Saudi Arabia long after the events of 9-11, apparently not having died in the crashes after all.
Another serious problem was that the US government and military have many safeguards in place to prevent precisely such events as hijacking suicide missions. NORAD and others are responsible for scrambling fighter aircraft to intercept and, if necessary, shoot down flights such as these. But the official narrative claimed without explanation that this didn’t occur. At first, the officials claimed that no aircraft were scrambled, but when a public outcry seemed to indicate this wasn’t acceptable, the story changed to a claim that military aircraft were indeed scrambled but that one group of aircraft couldn’t locate the hijacked airliners and that another group inexplicably flew out over the ocean instead of searching over land. This was one story that changed many times, each version less believable than the one prior.
A Quick Look at the Pentagon
In the minds of all cynics, the aircraft crash into the Pentagon perhaps attracted the most suspicion of all, and with apparent good reason. The official story was that a Boeing 757 crashed into a brick wall at the Pentagon, but the problem in many minds was that there was no evidence of such an event. The first suspicions were raised by the reality of a small clean hole in a brick wall, perhaps two meters in diameter, with no aircraft wreckage anywhere to be seen – simply a small round hole in a wall. Countless aviation and aircraft disaster experts were quick to denounce this as a hoax, claiming an aircraft as large as a 757 could not possibly have entered that small hole and disappeared. Moreover, they insisted that wreckage would have been strewed everywhere and that the wings and tail could not have possibly folded up and followed the aircraft into that tiny hole.
To make matters more questionable for the cynics, in the entire brick wall radiating from the crash entry point, the building appeared to be totally undisturbed even to the point of all windows remaining intact. Critics of the official story immediately derided the officials by stating, “So an airliner weighing more than 100,000 Kgs hits a solid brick building at 500 Kms/hr., makes only a neat little hole the size of a truck, creating not even enough impact vibration to break any of the nearby windows.”
A further problem was the total absence of wreckage.There were no airplane parts, no bodies, no luggage, no nothing, just a small round hole in a wall. But it was worse than this because the Pentagon structure contained three parallel brick walls quite some meters apart, each containing the same clean small hole as did the external wall. Observers derided the possibility that a huge aircraft could not only produce such a small entry hole, but that it could remain essentially intact while penetrating three such brick walls in succession, in each case leaving no damage other than the penetration hole itself. Many military personnel immediately claimed the Pentagon had been struck by a missile and not an aircraft. One retired Air Force General said, “When you look at the whole thing, especially the crash site void of airplane parts, the size of the hole left in the building and the fact the projectile’s impact penetrated numerous concrete walls, it looks like the work of a missile. And when you look at the damage, it was obviously a missile.”
After the crash, there were many photos published of the Pentagon wall, with the clean round hole and no other damage. The photos also clearly displayed no aircraft wreckage of any kind, and no heat damage or scorching anywhere to be seen. In fact, the green grass was untouched right up to the wall of the Pentagon. Those photos appear to have been entirely scrubbed from the Internet, the only remaining photos being those after the wall collapsed. The only other photos are those from the interior of the Pentagon wall, displaying a small amount of wreckage; but a close look shows that this is construction rubble from the damaged wall, and contains no aircraft wreckage of any kind.
To explain the absence of wreckage and debris, the official story was that the heat of the explosion from ignition of the aircraft fuel caused the aircraft to “evaporate”, a claim that, even if I want to accept the other parts of the story, I must agree this one is impossible nonsense. It is not difficult to justify a disbelief, nor to prove the impossibility of this claim.
Let’s assume this huge aircraft did somehow crash into and penetrate the solid brick wall of the Pentagon, making an entry hole far smaller than the actual size of the aircraft. And let’s pretend the wings and tail did not detach and get left behind but, like the aircraft, somehow squeezed into a small fraction of their size and followed the aircraft into that tiny hole, in their entirety. We’ll forget that the wingspan of more than 40 meters would not easily fit sideways into a 2-meter hole in a wall, or that a vertical tail of almost 15 meters might have the same problem. How then to deal with the absence of wreckage, of luggage and of bodies?
Let’s consider the official narrative that the explosion and burning of the aviation fuel “vaporised” the aircraft and all its contents. If we have a large pot of water on a stove, applying heat of 100°C will eventually boil off all the water, but that would require 30 minutes or more. If we want to accelerate the vaporisation, we can increase the heat to 200°C or 300°C. The higher the temperature, the more quickly will the water evaporate. But if we want to vaporise that entire pot of water in an instant, in only one or two seconds, we clearly will have to apply much higher temperatures. Hundreds of degrees will not do the job, nor will thousands of degrees. We will need heat in the tens of thousands of degrees.
Now let’s look at the aircraft. The aluminum in the fuselage will begin to evaporate at about 2,500°C, and remember we are not now evaporating 10 liters of water but more than 100,000 Kgs of aircraft and contents so we will need some extreme temperatures to vaporise the entire aircraft in one or two seconds. Clearly, thousands of degrees will not do that job, nor will tens of thousands. We will need an application of millions of degrees for those one or two seconds to make the entire volume of that aircraft disappear in one “poof”. Unfortunately, aircraft fuel burns at only about 1,000°C maximum.
But let’s suspend belief for a moment and concede that somehow this huge aircraft created and entirely disappeared into this tiny hole in a wall, and that the jet fuel somehow managed to create combustion temperatures of millions of degrees sufficient to vaporise the entire aircraft and its contents in a matter of seconds. That would account for the absence of wreckage, of luggage and of bodies. But then, the authorities managed to identify most of the victims of this apparently terrible crash by their DNA. So, even with all our generosity, we finally have a problem. The heat of the crash and explosion were so severe as to totally vaporise the entire aircraft instantly, evaporating 100,000 Kgs. of metal, leaving no remains of any kind, and especially no remains of bodies, but then somehow the delicate, fragile human DNA ( which cannot withstand more than about 50 degrees), resurrected itself, extricated itself from the vapors, congealed, slowly drifted down and lay on the little blades of grass, totally undamaged, waiting for the authorities to analyse it.
Another area attacked by the cynics was the fact that nothing at the crash site exhibited signs of heat, intense or otherwise; all the grass in front of and surrounding the crash site was still green and healthy, with even the surrounding windows avoiding damage.
Yet another area of suspicion was raised by the absence of evidence of evaporated aluminum, scientists claiming that the evaporation of 100,000 Kgs. of aluminum would have quickly condensed and coated every surface within kilometers with a shiny silver coating of sputtered aluminum, exactly like the inside surface of a bag of potato chips. If the aircraft had indeed evaporated as the authorities claimed, every leaf on every tree, every blade of grass within 5 kilometers, would have been covered with a shiny silver layer of condensed aluminum.
Another consideration that raised huge suspicions related to security of the Pentagon, was the media documenting the existence of more than 85 video surveillance cameras, both government and private, covering the outside of the building, yet the government refused to release any video to substantiate the claim that a 757 hit the Pentagon. According to media reports, all those 85 video cameras were quickly confiscated by the FBI and CIA who to this day refuse to release the videos, claiming “they don’t show anything”. Many observers see these claims as obviously untrue, since the video cameras would clearly show what did crash into the Pentagon, and they claim further that if the videos truly don’t show anything, why the extreme reluctance to release them. Then, after more than 20 years, (2023) the authorities released one video purporting to show an airliner hitting the Pentagon. But the video is unclear and appears to have been manipulated.
Many military and commercial aviation experts have written articles and books on the Pentagon incident, all coming to essentially the same conclusions and supporting the suspicions of the cynics. Here are a few brief comments from industry experts:
“As a former General Electric Turbine engineering specialist and manager, and then CEO of a turbine engineering company, I can guarantee that none of the high tech, high temperature alloy engines on any of the four planes that crashed on 9/11 would be completely destroyed, burned, shattered or melted in any crash or fire. Wrecked, yes, but not destroyed. Where are all of those engines, particularly at the Pentagon? If jet powered aircraft crashed on 9/11, those engines, plus wings and tail assembly, would be there.”
“One can easily look at video footage and photographs of the attack on the Pentagon and conclude that a Boeing 757 with a wingspan of 125 feet, a length of 155 feet and a height of 44 feet at the tail did not hit the Pentagon. Neither damage to the building or debris outside or inside the building can substantiate such a claim. While the wingspan of a 757 is 125 feet, the hole in the outside wall of the Pentagon was less than 15 feet in diameter. For the government’s story to be true, the entire plane would have had to fit through that small hole, which was impossible. Additionally, a crash or explosion with the resultant total cremation of a plane has never before happened in aviation history.”
“It’s roughly a 100-ton airplane, and an airplane that weighs 100 tons all assembled is still going to have 100 tons of disassembled trash and parts after it hits a building. There was no wreckage from a 757 at the Pentagon. The vehicle that hit the Pentagon was not Flight 77 . . . it was a cruise missile.”
The Crash in the Coalmine
There was another aircraft that crashed into the ground in a rural area, apparently because civilians overpowered the hijackers and prevented the aircraft from being flown into the White House. However, the civilians were nothing if not tidy; they left no mess for others to clean up. The crash site showed – well, almost nothing. A bit of rubbish strewn around, but no aircraft, no aircraft parts, no engines, no wings, no tail, no baggage and no bodies. Cynics were immediately asking, “Where is any of the wreckage? Of all the pictures I have seen, there is only a hole! Where is any piece of a crashed airplane? Where is any evidence at all?” The official story was that the aircraft apparently crashed into “an abandoned mineshaft”, a small hole in the ground of a few meters diameter, and, as with the Pentagon, totally disappeared down that tiny hole, dragging its engines, wings and tail sections behind it. To add to the suspicions, local residents reported a small military aircraft flying at high speed at treetop level near the “crash” site, then firing a missile at something. That “something” exploded on the ground, leaving the bit of refuse mentioned, at which point the military aircraft sped away. Many locals confirmed this event, but authorities had “no recollection” of a military maneuver in that area at the time, and this question was not addressed by the investigation committee. Moreover, the local residents all claimed they were visited by CIA or FBI agents after the supposed crash and informed that “You saw nothing”.
Inexplicably, no attempt was made to recover the bodies. In every airplane crash in recent memory, enormous efforts are made to recover the bodies. Even when planes crash into the sea, many millions of dollars and months are spent scouring the ocean floor in attempts to locate and retrieve the bodies. But with this airliner “crashing into a coal mine entrance”, nothing was done. But even if an aircraft did in fact miraculously hit such a location, it could not have descended more than 20 or 30 meters into the ground. Little excavation work would have been required to retrieve the aircraft wreckage and the bodies, but the area was simply placed “off limits”, and that was the end.
The Investigating Commission
Due to public outcry and demands, there was eventually held a Congressional 9-11 Investigation Commission, but the members claimed they were hamstrung by official obstruction and never managed to uncover the truth. The Commission was not permitted to begin until over a year after the attacks, and its terms of reference were described as “suspiciously narrow”, its powers of investigation “curiously limited”, and it was given less than a year to examine millions of pages of evidence and interview hundreds of witnesses. Both the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Commission stated that they were “set up to fail” and were starved of funds to do a proper investigation. They also claimed they were denied access to the truth and misled by senior officials in the Pentagon, the Federal Aviation Authority, and that they were deliberately lied to by NORAD officials about the failure to intercept the hijacked aircraft.
Both men, and other Commission members, resigned because of the problems, and these two men wrote a book titled “Without Precedent“, in which they stated their many concerns and frustrations at the cover-up, the deliberate obstruction, and the lack of support from the entire US government and all its agencies. Both men (and other members) claimed the official evidence given to the Commission was “far from the truth”, and that although they were repeatedly lied to, not a single person has ever been charged or even reprimanded, for the crimes of obstruction. The final report omitted a great deal of key evidence, and neglected to address the many serious anomalies in the various accounts of what happened. The commissioners admitted their report was incomplete and flawed, but it was swiftly closed down.
And that ends our truncated summary of the causes for cynicism about the events of 911. You will have to form your own conclusions as to what really occurred on 9-11, and by whom.
Epilogue – Who did it?
In all this, there is one item that requires serious consideration – that of the responsibility for the 9-11 events. They were originally attributed to a group of Saudis, but no evidence was found for that and, as indicated above, most of the so-called “hijackers” were later seen alive and well in Saudi Arabia. It thus seems that they were another kind of “false flag” intended to throw the public off the correct path. The crashes were also blamed on Osama bin Laden, and used as the justification for the invasion and hijacking of Iraq, but these accusations have also been proven false. It thus seems in retrospect than neither the Saudis nor bin Laden were in any way responsible for the attacks. Where, then, does the blame lie?
It appears a certainty that Jews were behind the plot. Nothing else can explain Larry Silverstein purchasing the scheduled-for-demolition Twin Towers, then make a billion-dollar profit in only months from the insurance claims. Nothing else can explain the “dancing Jews” who placed their photo equipment in position to photograph the crashes into the World Trade Center – a full 30 minutes prior to the crashes, firmly indicating prior knowledge. Nothing else can explain their celebration dancing as the crashes occurred. Nor is there any other explanation for the New York police to suddenly release these proven Mossad agents (who were on the US terrorist list) and put them on a plane to return to Israel, when the city was locked down and no one was leaving. Nothing else can explain the Israeli instant-messaging firm Odigo sending messages to the offices of the Jewish companies in the Towers two or three hours prior to the crashes, telling them to vacate the premises. All of this indicates not only prior knowledge, but connections at a very high level, sufficient for full legal immunity, and this could come only from the Jewish-controlled US State and Justice Departments, as well as the Jewish-controlled CIA.
Since knowledge of the involvement of the Jews became too public to hide or bury, another plausible false-flag conspiracy theory had to be concocted to deflect the blame from the actual perpetrators – and they were certainly not Saudis. Who, then? Several Jews have published material blaming “the Israelis”, claiming that Mossad and Israel were behind the attacks. Among these Jews was Ron Unz of the Unz Review, who even appeared on a video link to Iranian TV, giving his version of how “the Israelis” plotted and executed the entire event. You might say, “Well, isn’t that brave of a Jew, to implicate his own people in such an affair?” No, not at all. This is just a very clever series of Jewish lies, meant to deflect blame and put the matter to rest without resolution.
There are several aspects to this. The first is that blaming the Israelis is equivalent to blaming no one. If you want to prosecute this crime, whom do you arrest? The entire population of Israel? All the staff of Mossad? The problem with such an accusation is that it is too general to be useful. You might as well blame the weatherman. If you blame it on George Bush, you have a target for investigation, but if you blame a nationality, you have nothing. And that is precisely the point of making such an accusation: you have no target, no one specifically to blame, so the matter remains unresolved. And since you present no actual proof, your accusations resonate only with those who probably believed that anyway.
A second, and more serious problem, is that neither “the Israelis” nor Mossad have the authority – or the wherewithal – to independently execute such a plan in a country like the US. The evidence, circumstantial though it may be, is that Jews were definitely behind the event, but this could have been planned and authorised only from The City of London. Israel hasn’t the independence or authority to carry out something of this magnitude on its own, and in any case the event was used to justify the hijacking of Iraq and its oil, and that is definitely something the Jewish bankers in The City had been planning for years – along with similar fates for Libya, Syria, Iran, and Somalia.
But there is another bit of cleverness lurking in this attempt to blame the Israelis for the 9-11 events: it serves to eliminate all other suspects or co-conspirators. If the Jews from Israel, relying heavily on the stealth and prowess of Mossad, executed this event independently, we have no one else to blame. But is that reasonable? Jews from Israel could not possibly have carried out this adventure without the full cooperation of the US government. All we have to do is think.
The day after the buildings in the World Trade Center were brought down, the area was quarantined and demolition crews were already on-site to remove all the debris, dumping rubble into the ocean and separating the steel for shipment to China for re-processing. Who could have been responsible for arranging that, which was obviously done well in advance? The Israelis? Who had the authority to clear the site to eliminate all the evidence, and who was in such a hurry to do it? The Israelis? Who found (and then lost) the hijacker’s passport lying on top of the rubble at the World Trade Center? The Israelis? Who went to all the (reported) 85 separate locations that had video cameras on the Pentagon, and seized all the recordings and the evidence? The Israelis? The Pentagon was in a crisis of explaining more than one trillion dollars’ worth of military hardware that was missing and unaccounted for. Who moved all the records for that investigation into the precise location where the missile would hit the Pentagon and destroy all the evidence and thus kill the investigation? The Israelis?
Who was responsible for NORAD aircraft to intercept and bring down precisely such terrorist aircraft? The Israelis? Who claimed that NORAD aircraft were scrambled but “couldn’t find” the hijacked airliners even with modern radar, and who inexplicably flew those aircraft out over the ocean instead of going to New York or Washington? The Israelis? Who was flying the military aircraft that launched a missile at the “coal mine”, hoping to delude residents into believing an aircraft had crashed? The Israelis? Who refused to search for the non-existent bodies at the coal mine? The Israelis? Who visited the witnesses of the “coal mine” crash to tell them “You saw nothing”? The Israelis? Who changed the flight registration numbers of the two aircraft that hit the World Trade Center, making them appear as regular flights when they were not? The Israelis? Who refused to permit the hundreds of on-the-scene professional witnesses to testify at the Congressional hearings? The Israelis? Which country’s mass media promulgated the official narrative 24/7 and so ferociously denigrated as “conspiracy theorists” everyone searching for the truth? The Israelis?
It should be apparent that this 9-11 event could not possibly have been executed without the full cooperation of the US government and many of its agencies including NORAD, Homeland Security, the State Department, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon and the US military, and the entire Jewish-owned American media.
But it isn’t really as bad as it seems. A non-existent coal mine suffered no damage. The Pentagon experienced the collapse of a small portion of its perimeter, but gained the loss of all its incriminating files. The buildings in the World Trade Center had already been condemned because of the asbestos, and were scheduled for demolition anyway. And yes, a few thousand people died, but that’s hardly the first time the US government or the Jews have sacrificed lives for a political cause.
You might think, “But this would involve at least hundreds and perhaps thousands of people. Surely one of them would talk. The truth would have to leak out.” Let me tell you something. If three men in black suits and wearing aviator sunglasses push their way into your home and tell you that you saw nothing and knew nothing, and to keep your mouth shut, you would be very tempted to obey. Those men are armed, they have the right to shoot you dead where you stand, and you know that, and they know it. Some of you may remember a movie where one of the criminal protagonists said, “If you step out of line, I will shoot you and the man next to you”. That is much more powerful than simply threatening you. The standard way these people obtain obedience – or silence – is to threaten not only you but your entire family, your parents, your friends and your parents’ friends. And if they tell you that the lives of your family and friends are dependent on your silence, you will most likely choose to be silent. And if you are not silent, two things will happen: (1) you will be dead, and (2) you will be viciously denounced in the media as a “conspiracy theorist” who committed suicide. And you wouldn’t be the first.
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False Flags and Conspiracy Theories
Chapter 2 – Conspiracy theories
“Conspiracy theory” is the name given to public perceptions or beliefs that differ from the official (usually government) story about an event, and where a significant portion of the public believes the government is hiding some or all of the truth. Conspiracy theories generally arise when justified, which means when the official story isn’t supported by the facts and is often riddled with inconsistencies, where the presented facts range from implausible to impossible, when the story repeatedly changes, where the logic is flawed and the pieces just don’t fit together. So when the facts don’t add up, when the story doesn’t make sense, we believe we are being lied to yet again. And we probably are.
The label of ‘conspiracy theory’ originated decades ago as part of a deliberate plan to discredit members of the public who questioned the official version of events, those who made public their suspicions of government criminal activity. The plan was to solicit the assistance of the major media to apply the label of ‘conspiracy theorist’ to these individuals as a way to silence them and discourage rational attention to their claims. The process was both decidedly nasty and effective, since the public media attacks strongly suggested these individuals were mentally unbalanced and delusional, the deprecating public attention often being sufficient to ruin a reputation and destroy a career. Today, the expression is often used as a way to dismiss someone as a fool whose ideas are unworthy of attention but, as Mike Adams wrote, “It’s a tactic frequently used by modern-day thought police in a desperate attempt to demand ‘Don’t go there!’”.
We saw much of this during the COVID debacle in the West, especially in the English-speaking nations, where many highly-qualified doctors and scientists were either threatened with, or actually lost, their license to practice, all decidedly supported by the mass media. And indeed, the Western media today specialise in attacking and slandering those persons critical of official versions of events or even those attempting to correct obviously-flawed historical accounts or fill in some of the blank pages in our history books. In spite of a never-ending barrage of jingoistic support for the myths of free speech and independent thinking in the Western countries, this independence is heavily circumscribed when it comes to challenging the official government version of any event. As well, any source attempting to document proofs of fact against questionable history or offering factual refutations of official stories, is generally derided in the media and dismissed as a ‘conspiracy website‘, no doubt discouraging many well-meaning readers from perhaps learning the truth of an event.
But these theories are seldom the work of crazed lunatics or the hopelessly naïve. Most often, those promoting these objections are supported by a portion of the public who are most often educated and well-informed, and who have either specialised training or have been part of the establishment and are well-placed to evaluate circumstances. Conspiracy theories most often arise in the politically Right-Wing countries like the US, the UK, and Israel because these governments tell bigger lies much more often than do other governments and because it is almost exclusively this group that conducts the false-flag operations that give rise to these accusations. At various times, they perpetrate all manner of unsavory or illegal activity and, if exposed, claim ‘plausible deniability‘, engage in various cover-ups, spread misinformation, and attack the characters of their accusers. The truth is admitted only when finally impossible to avoid.
Conspiracy theories can make feelings of anxiety worse. Lia Kos/Shutterstock
There have been many such events where the official explanation was either nonsense or avoided addressing obvious deficiencies and anomalies. Given their sordid pasts and extensive proven involvement in clandestine illegal acts, it is not difficult to admit the very real possibility that these governments or militaries are lying yet one more time. Why wouldn’t we be suspicious? These theories almost invariably arise in the “Western-Allied” nations. Few other populations have had cause for this kind of deep suspicion of the involvement of their governments or espionage agencies in serious crimes or atrocities, and there are few such examples anywhere in the world that did not involve either the US or Israel. This alone should provide much food for thought.
Over the years, a great many events in, or involving, these nations, have generated widespread public belief in state-sponsored criminal activity, all of which have been vigorously – and often viciously – denounced at the time, only to be proven true many decades later as documents became declassified. Typically, it is only after 60 or 70 years that the truth emerges, often after the perpetrators are long dead, and much too late to have any effect on current events. Such events include the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the abandonment of US POWs in Vietnam, and the assassination of Martin Luther King. Typically, the US establishment – the government and its various agencies, and the mainstream media – circle the wagons and mount extensive and vicious PR campaigns to discredit those who refuse to accept the official narrative of an important event and, even more importantly, to warn others to “don’t go there”. Individuals are mocked, harassed, threatened, ignored, rendered unemployed and often unemployable, their documentation neglected by the media and their efforts to uncover the truth stymied at every turn. The US and UK governments, and Israel, have for more than a century perpetrated and then covered up a multitude of atrocities, executed countless despicable crimes and then lied about them only to have the truth uncovered later, but they persist in following this pattern even today, and the general public appear as uninformed and gullible as ever.
Few major events in recent US history have generated such exceptional and widespread public debate and accusations of state involvement in crimes as the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and other locations. In both of these cases the outcries of public disbelief in the official narrative finally led to the establishment of a Congressional public enquiry, but in both cases the enquiry itself was so riddled with falsehoods and inconsistencies that, instead of putting the matter to rest in the public mind, created even more accusations of government conspiracy and cover-up. Another was the more recent, and truly comical, tale of the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, a man who had already been dead for more than ten years. Rarely has a story been riddled with as many inconsistencies and provably false ‘facts’, and held up to as much public ridicule as this one, but there are so many more. I’ll deal with some of these later.
Bilderberg 2023 in Lisbon: Kissinger & Secrecy. Source
There are many dozens of historical situations or events that were dismissed for decades as conspiracy theories, products of disturbed minds and overly-productive imaginations, that proved in the end to have been true. One such obvious example is The Bilderberg Group and their planning of a New World Order, claims that since the 1950s were ferociously denied by the establishment. Many careers were ruined by refusal to accept the official stories; columnists daring to write about it would sometimes lose their jobs. Then, 50 years later, and after the exposure of irrefutable evidence, the Bilderberg group was proven to have existed after all, and their plans for a Jewish-banker-controlled world government no longer denied. They finally came out of the closet, with David Rockefeller‘s unforgettable admission:
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of public scrutiny during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and fully prepared to march towards our one world-government. The supranational sovereignty of our intellectual elites and world bankers is surely preferable to the globe as a whole.” Rockefeller also stated that his group needed one final dramatic impetus, “another Pearl Harbor event”,to bring this New World Government to the throne. According to the same ‘conspiracy theorists’, 9-11 was meant to be that event.
After Rockefeller’s public admission of the existence of this plan, we saw the rapid emergence of much more evidence, such as this quote from a speech given by Montagu Norman who was at the time the Governor of the Jewish Rothschild-owned Central Bank of England and a Rothschild representative. Norman said in a speech to the US Bankers Association in New York City in 1924: “… mortgages [must be] foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When … the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed … by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world.” There is no way to misunderstand the man’s words; he was describing almost 100 years ago the plans for the New World Order laid by those bankers whom he represented, plans to subjugate populations by increasingly impoverishing them. His words are a precise description of the 2008 housing disaster in the US.
Since 1941, a great many people, including some in authority, have presented documented claims that the White House knew full well of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, including the date and time, and deliberately failed to notify Hawaii because Roosevelt needed the attack to force the US into the European war. Finally now, sufficient evidence is available that this claim can no longer be reasonably disputed, though it may well be yet another few decades before the truth appears in the history books. The same is true with the false-flag Gulf of Tonkin attack that propelled the US into the Vietnam war and, even earlier, the false-flag attack on the USS Maine in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay that propelled the US into the Spanish-American war. The same conspiracy theorists have now finally proven the US did indeed abandon thousands of American POWs in Vietnam to avoid the ignominy of having to pay war reparations. The claims had been surfacing for 40 years, with the government maintaining silence and the mass media repeatedly denigrating the testimony of witnesses.
We had the same situation with the US entry into World War I, with the infamous and callous sinking by Germany of the Lusitania, an “innocent passenger liner” cruelly sunk by the heartless Germans. Claims immediately surfaced that the Lusitania was not only carrying arms and ammunition but was deliberately sent into the submarine lanes and instructed to sail slowly without zig-zagging, to make itself a better target. Few are aware that the German government tried to publish warnings in dozens of US newspapers, to prevent civilian casualties, and even fewer are aware that the British government made elaborate and extensive attempts to locate and destroy with mines the carcass of the Lusitania so that the truth would never be known. The UK government arranged various “sea maneuvers” in the area where the Lusitania was sunk, and dropped thousands of tons of explosives in that location, hoping to forever obliterate the evidence. But many of the explosives failed to detonate and the attempts failed and, when salvage operators located the Lusitania, they did indeed discover not only the unexploded munitions, but thousands of tons of arms and ammunition in lockers marked “butter” and “cheese” that made the ship a legal war target. And historians later discovered archived documents of a change in captaincy with firm instructions to sail directly into the submarine lanes, and to sail a straight course at half speed, all to ensure the ship’s discovery and destruction and provide an excuse for US entry to the war. But again, the conspirators are all dead, as are all the conspiracy theorists, and the pages in the history books are still blank.
Program Phoenix which lasted from 1967 to 1972, was designed to identify and destroy the Viet Cong (VC) via infiltration, assassination, torture, capture, counter-terrorism, and interrogation. Source
For decades, the US government denied the existence of its CIA MK-ULTRA programs, denied claims of its School of the Americas being a dictator’s university of torture and civilian repression, denied the existence of Project Phoenix in which as many as 250,000 Vietnamese were tortured to death, denied the vast torture programs at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Baghram, all of which were later proven true by leaked documents. It was conspiracy theorists who leaked the Pentagon Papers that told truths about the Vietnam war, generating sufficient public outrage as to render the US so chaotic as to become almost ungovernable. It was conspiracy theorists who revealed that Nixon ordered protesting university students to be shot and killed, as at Kent State University, to subdue the anti-war protest movement. It was conspiracy theorists who revealed that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by the US government for the threat he represented. It was conspiracy theorists who maintained that CIA biologist Frank Olson was murdered by his government for fear he would go public with horrid details of the CIA’s “terminal interrogations” and a litany of other crimes, and who finally provided overwhelming proof of that murder.
Kurt H. Debus, a former V-2 rocket scientist who became a NASA director, between U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Source
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) – the “saving lives, protecting people” CDC– was widely denounced for decades as being involved primarily in the US military’s human experimentation and bio-weapons development programs, all such ‘conspiracy theorists’ being roundly denounced as mentally defective. But then in 1994 someone leaked a set of shipping documents and invoices proving the CDC had been supplying many nations with a wide variety of bio-weapons material that included anthrax, Botulinum toxin, West Nile virus, the Bubonic plague and Dengue fever, and suddenly the CDC had no place to hide. Other “conspiracy theorists” maintain the CDC has always been a criminal organisation, having been initially staffed as part of Operation Paperclip with scientists from Japan’s Unit 731 and the German bio-weapons programs, the truth of which is also emerging.
Chinese prisoners, Korean War. If it had not been for the Chinese participation, the Americans and their allies would have conquered the whole peninsula and threatened China directly. Their sacrifice turned the imperialist tide. Source
The US government denied for 60 years that Operation Paperclip ever existed. Then, faced with overwhelming evidence, was finally forced to admit that after the Second World War thousands of Americans and Jews looted Germany of her entire stock of IP and patents, literally stealing everything. The Americans also steadfastly denied the existence of Stage Two of Operation Paperclip where the US imported thousands of the most horrid war criminals primarily from Japan but a few from Germany, experts in human experimentation and bio-warfare, gave them total immunity from prosecution, new identities, and good jobs at places like Fort Detrick and the CDC. It also admitted that it lied in accusing Russia of ‘communist propaganda’ when that country prosecuted some of these Japanese for war crimes. The US government has also steadfastly denied to this day its vast program of biological warfare against North Korea and China, in spite of what is now overwhelming evidence that it inflicted a horrendous distribution of biological pathogens over both China and North Korea during the Korean war. In every case, not only did the government deny, obfuscate and lie to the end, it did all within its power to discredit, bankrupt, imprison or kill those who came too close to the truths, and all with the eager cooperation of the mass media. However, in many of these cases, persistence prevailed and the truth did indeed emerge.
It must be noted that a major part of what qualifies these events as “conspiracies” is that usually many individuals and agencies are involved, with their official stories vigorously supported by the owners and editors of the mass media. This is the classic definition of a conspiracy. It should also be noted that false flag events and conspiracy theories are nearly inseparable, since it is often the false flag events that lead to the formation of these alternative theories of events.
How and Why do Conspiracy Theories Originate?
They almost always arise when the “official story” is obviously untrue and makes no rational sense. We immediately have a distinct feeling that we are being lied to, and that something nefarious is being covered up. Let’s look at two examples: the ZIKA virus, and the US Apollo moon landing.
ZIKA
ZIKA magically traveled (by mosquito) 15,000 kilometers from Africa to the US Navy’s biological lab at NAMRU-2, then magically again traveled another 12,000 or 15,000 kilometers, crossing much of the Pacific Ocean, the US and Mexico, all of Central America and the Caribbean, and finally traversing all of South America to land on the Atlantic side in Rio and São Paulo. From there, it almost instantaneously radiated outward 4,000 or 5,000 kilometers in all directions to cover most of Brazil, then spread to all of South and Central America and the Caribbean, flooding more than 20 countries within a few months.
The tale crafted by the WHO was that ZIKA was “believed to have been brought to Brazil by an infected visitor to the World Cup”. But let’s think about this. ZIKA is not a contagious disease. It can be spread only when bitten by an infected mosquito. To cause this outbreak, our infected traveler would have to be bitten by millions of local mosquitoes – who would then (perhaps) become infected and who would then (perhaps) bite tens of millions of other people, and (perhaps) infect them. But how does that work, exactly? Mosquitoes don’t migrate; they cannot. They may be dispersed a bit by local winds, but these insects live only a few days and spend their lives within a kilometer of where they were hatched. How would the imaginary millions of mosquitoes who bit our World Cup traveler traverse the distance to cover all of South and Central America? Did these little mosquitoes fly 5,000 kilometers at 30,000 feet to cross the Andes? If we really do have all these mosquitoes, how did they manage to cover 20 countries and millions of square kilometers, in such a short time? And they have a very short life; when an infected mosquito dies, that is the end. Even those hypothetical millions of newly-infected mosquitoes would all be dead in a week. They wouldn’t have time to cross the Andes or travel to 20 countries. They wouldn’t even have time to get out of the city, before they died.
We need only think for a moment to realise this proposition is a ridiculous impossibility. The origin of the ZIKA outbreak was dismissed in a single careless phrase, that phrase being “believed to have been brought to Brazil by an infected visitor to the World Cup”, a statement tossed out with no evidential support, one that appears superficially credible but which constitutes logical rubbish.
Let’s take a moment to think about the supposedly-infected (and surely imaginary) World Cup visitor, and consider the astonishingly-rapid spread of the infection. The official narrative was that the virus came to Brazil from French Polynesia, but how many people, infected or otherwise, would be likely to travel from the tiny population of French Polynesia to Brazil just to watch a football game? Two? Ten? So how could clean, uninfected Brazilian mosquitoes find those few infected Polynesian people, bite them and become infected in turn, then spread the infection to at least tens of millions of insects in a few months so as to bite and infect many tens or hundreds of millions of people throughout the entirety of Latin America? The sheer volume of the outbreak coupled with its virtually instantaneous spread, dismisses any possibility of this infection originating with a foreign traveler. One mosquito biting one person does not constitute an epidemic. If we want to have an “explosive spread” of a mosquito-borne virus like the ZIKA, which infected millions of people in only a very short time, we need at least tens of millions of mosquitoes but more reasonably we need hundreds of millions of them. This is especially true when the mosquitoes seem determined to infect the enormous land areas of South and Central America, passing over vast unpopulated areas in the process. Not every mosquito is infected, not every infected mosquito will find someone to bite, not everyone will be bitten, and not everyone bitten will be infected. And a mosquito’s life is very short indeed, about ten days.
With only a handful of infected people, such a widespread epidemic is impossible by this method of transmission. The number of travelers is statistically insignificant, so even if they were all bitten many times by different insects, the totality of those insects could not have in turn bitten and infected millions of people in 20 countries within a few months, especially countries many thousands of kilometers away, considering that mosquitoes do not travel. A few infected mosquitoes cannot breed millions of offspring and cover millions of square kilometers in a few months.And, if one person traveled to Rio or São Paulo for a football game, how does that explain the disease exploding in a dozen other cities in Brazil, all at approximately the same time? How does that explain the disease spreading to Colombia and a dozen other nearby countries, and 8,000 Kms away in Mexico and Puerto Rico, very shortly thereafter? Even if infected travelers from Brazil went to Mexico, how many would be bitten by clean mosquitoes there, and be able to pass on the virus? Statistically zero, or thereabouts.
Millions of mosquitoes cannot bite the same ten travelers, become infected, then bite millions of other people and cause an epidemic. You don’t have to be a statistician to know that’s not possible. If millions of people are infected, there had to have been at least many tens of millions of infected mosquitoes in the area. So, the most important question in this entire saga is: how did at least tens, and more likely, hundreds, of millions of insects become infected? The virus did not exist in Brazil. Native mosquitoes were not infected with ZIKA, and could have become infected only by either biting countless millions of infected people, or else being the offspring from millions of matings with infected insects, but where would those come from? A few infected travelers cannot account for such a massive geographical outbreak within weeks, which means vast numbers of infected mosquitoes must have been introduced in those locations. There is no other possible explanation. And they were, by Oxitec, dispersing their genetically-modified insects in a supposed bid to control the insect population.
Oxitec Mosquito: Oxitec’s mosquitoes could tamp down local populations. In 2015, the company published a paper showing its release of GM mosquitoes in the Bahia state of Brazil reduced wild Aedes aegypti by as much as 90 percent, enough to prevent dengue epidemics. Source
The WHO’s official statement said ZIKA appeared to be spreading so rapidly for two reasons: One, because it was a new disease to the region and so the population had no immunity, and two, because ZIKA is primarily transmitted by a mosquito species known as A. aegypti, which lives in every country in North and South America except Canada and Chile. These statements are deliberate misinformation and unforgivably dishonest for what they neglect to say. The portion about the lack of immunity is true, but that lack of immunity exists only because, as the WHO itself pointed out, ZIKA is a new disease to the region, meaning it didn’t exist in Brazil or South-Central America prior to this time.The second portion of the statement is even more dishonest. The WHO tells us the disease spread so rapidly because it is transmitted by a species of mosquito which exists locally, but so what? The domestic mosquitoes had never been infected and therefore could not possibly have been responsible for the dispersion of the virus. The fact that the species of mosquito was the same, was irrelevant misinformation.
It is obvious to any thinking person that the entire story concocted by the WHO, and so heavily flogged by the media, was simply one big lie, so it’s hardly a surprise that people in all countries were speculating as to the truth behind this fairy-tale.
The Dark Side of the Moon
It was at this location that Neil Armstrong took his “small step for man, but a giant leap for all mankind” in 1969. Source
I didn’t plan to include this topic in my list of false flags, but there are a few details about the original Apollo moon landing that are really annoying and deserve to be discussed. For those Chinese readers who don’t know, there has been constant speculation about the Apollo 11 moon landing of July 20, 1969 never having occurred and the NASA photos of the event being fakes. Many of the photos do indeed appear to have problems, one being of shadows inexplicably trailing in several very different directions even though the moon has only one major light source and all shadows should be parallel. The multiple shadows can be created only by powerful multiple light sources. There are many photos where the entire surrounding area is in jet-black darkness but yet the American flag and the words “United States” are always brightly lit. There is the US flag fluttering in the breeze – on a moon that has no air, no atmosphere – and no wind.
And all the photos were perfectly focused and exposed, even though they were supposedly made by cameras that had no adjustment mechanisms for exposure time or even for focus and, since the cameras were permanently mounted on the space suits, there was no way to even know what was actually in the viewer. In other words, impossibly perfect outside a studio setting.
Perhaps the most pronounced criticism and disbelief were generated from photos of the landed lunar module which clearly showed the spacecraft sitting on the moon’s surface. The two main problems were that (1) there was no heat-scorching of the landing site and (2) the surface dust under the moon lander was lying completely intact. The first problem was that the intense heat of the landing rockets would have scorched the landing site as black as the Ace of Spades, but there was no evidence of heat at all under the moon lander. The sand and dust were their normal color. The second problem was that the high velocity of the rocket exhaust would have blown away any loose dust or sand, probably half way around the moon and maybe half way to Mars, but the deep layers of soil and dust under the moon lander were clearly undisturbed. Both of these are a physical impossibility in a real-life rocket landing.
Examine the first photo to see the total absence of evidence of any disturbance on the surface under the lunar lander. This photo, and many similar, were no sooner released than the suspicions and challenges began. And for 45 years NASA has defended these photos and foolishly explained that landing rockets do not blow away surface dust and their rocket blasts do not scorch the landing surface. And if NASA had stopped there, I would have left this topic alone.
But then in 2011 NASA released a new set of photos with the stated intent of “putting to bed forever” the disbelief about the moon landings. But they didn’t put it to bed; instead, they made everything worse. The newly-released photos are apparently taken from the lunar orbiter and purport to show the moon landers resting on the moon’s surface – proof positive that man really did land on the moon. But look at the second photo, which is one of the official NASA photos from this series purporting to show the Apollo and Challenger landing sites. In the photos, the landing site is the black area; the white blob in the center is the lunar lander sitting on the moon’s surface. Notice if you will, the entire landing site scorched as black as the Ace of Spades – which is what we would have expected all along. So what is happening here? For 45 years NASA defended their original photos to convince us that lunar landers don’t scorch the landing site. Then as proof, they offer us photos of scorched landing sites. It would seem that somebody has to be lying, somewhere.
This, combined with the other obvious problems with the lighting, the shadows, the “breeze”, naturally led many people to a conviction that NASA was obviously lying to them about the photos, and thus covering up – what? The most common conclusion was that, since the photos were obviously taken by professionals on a sound stage and were thus fake, the moon landings perhaps or probably never actually occurred.
To make matters worse, it is documented that the wife of Stanley Kubrick, the man who made “2001 – A Space Odyssey“, prior to her own death, confided to several media types that her husband had been retained by NASA at that time to produce realistic photo scenes of landers and men on the moon. So, is it Kubrick’s photos that NASA published? It’s difficult to know what to think, but the only theory that seems to fit the facts is that the moon landings may have been real, but the original Apollo mission photos were propaganda fakes filmed on a sound stage. It is possible the authorities, desperate to obtain popular public support in their space race with the USSR, couldn’t afford an expensive public relations failure, and so they had Kubrick create simulated photos.Either way, it is long past time for NASA to stop lying and tell the truth about this.
As a kind of epilogue to this item, it is worthy of note that China’s moon satellite photographed every square meter of the moon’s surface. If the flags and other items that were left on the moon after the Apollo landings, they would have appeared in the photos from China’s satellite. But we have not a word about this, and I see only two possibilities. One, the items did appear in the photos but China didn’t bother to release them so as to not give extra credit to the Americans. Or, two, there were no items on the moon to appear in the photos – meaning the landings never really occurred – but the Chinese agreed to ignore this topic and permit the Americans to save face. I would love to know the correct answer to this question.
And this is how, and why, “conspiracy theories” come into being.
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Ende Oktober feierte die Europäische Union den Sieg über die Inflation. Doch dieser Sieg erwies sich als Pyrrhussieg. Die Inflation in der Eurozone sei aufgrund der Schrumpfung der EU-Wirtschaft nach der Zinserhöhung auf den niedrigsten Stand seit zwei Jahren gesunken, schreibt Bloomberg unter Berufung auf Eurostat-Daten.
Der EU-Verbraucherpreisindex stieg im Oktober um 2,9 %. Im September waren es 4,3 %. Die von der Veröffentlichung befragten Analysten erwarteten eine Inflation von 3,1 %, doch der Plan der EZB zur Senkung der Inflation wurde übertroffen, was die bereits schwächelnde Wirtschaft schmerzlich traf.
Laut Eurostat sank das BIP der Eurozone im dritten Quartal um 0,1 %.
Während die anhaltenden Zinserhöhungen der Europäischen Zentralbank dazu beitragen, das Preiswachstum wieder auf das 2-Prozent-Ziel zu drücken, schaden sie Haushalten und Unternehmen, indem sie die Kreditkosten in die Höhe schnellen lassen, sagte Bloomberg. So senkte der deutsche Chemiekonzern BASF seine Prognose für Umsatz und Gewinn im Jahr 2023 und Kunden französischer Carrefour-Filialen suchen nach günstigeren Marken.
Im September erhöhte die EZB zum zehnten Mal in Folge drei Leitzinsen. Der Zinssatz für Hauptrefinanzierungsgeschäfte betrug 4,5 %, für die marginale Kreditlinie 4,75 % und für Einlagen 4 %. Lagarde sagte, die Zinssätze hätten ein Niveau erreicht, das, wenn es lange genug beibehalten würde, einen großen Beitrag dazu leisten würde, die Inflation wieder in Richtung des 2-Prozent-Ziels zu bringen. Damit wurde im Wesentlichen eine weitere Verschlechterung der Wirtschaft der Eurozone vorhergesagt.
Die von der EZB praktizierten monetaristischen Methoden der Wirtschaftsregulierung sind nicht in der Lage, das Abgleiten der EU-Wirtschaft in die Krise nicht nur umzukehren, sondern sogar zu stoppen.
Der Hauptgrund für den Rückgang der Wirtschaft sind hohe Energiepreise als Folge der von den USA verordneten Lieferverweigerung aus Russland. Vor dem Hintergrund der Krise im Nahen Osten begannen die Preise für Kohlenwasserstoffe noch schneller zu steigen. Damit wird Europas Wirtschaftshegemon Deutschland in diesem Jahr den geringsten Energieverbrauch seit drei Jahrzehnten haben . Die angeschlagene Fertigungsindustrie des Landes hat die Nachfrage nach teurerem Kraftstoff verringert.
„Deutschlands größte Industriekonzerne waren gezwungen, einen tiefgreifenden, langfristigen Personalabbau einzuleiten“, berichtet Bloomberg , „eine Erkenntnis, dass anhaltende Gegenwinde wie höhere Energiekosten und langsameres Wirtschaftswachstum nun strukturelle Veränderungen erfordern.“
„Wir schieben Investitionen nicht einfach auf“, sagte der Vorstandsvorsitzende der BASF SE, Martin Brudermüller, und kündigte an, die Investitionen in den nächsten vier Jahren um fast 15 Prozent kürzen zu wollen. „Wir reduzieren die Anzahl der Projekte und werden alternative Maßnahmen umsetzen, die mit geringeren Kapitalkosten verbunden sind.“
„Deutsche Industrieunternehmen von der BASF bis zur Volkswagen AG stehen vor einer neuen Realität, nachdem sie jahrzehntelang vom billigen russischen Gas, der unstillbaren Nachfrage Chinas nach ihren Waren und den niedrigen Zinssätzen profitiert haben. Die Probleme nehmen seit Jahren zu und werden nicht länger als vorübergehende Probleme angesehen“, stellt Bloomberg fest.
Der deutsche Stahlhersteller Kloeckner & Co SE kündigte einen Stellenabbau an, nachdem er seine Prognose für 2023 gesenkt hatte. Der Chemiekonzern Lanxess AG baut 7 % seiner Belegschaft ab. Die Aktien der Mercedes-Benz Group AG fielen letzte Woche, nachdem der Autohersteller einen Rückgang der Profitabilität gemeldet hatte. Volkswagen gab an, die Kosteneinsparungen bei seiner gesamten Marke verdoppelt zu haben.
BASF, das Ergebnisse für das dritte Quartal 2023 veröffentlichte, gab an, dass die Umsätze in allen Regionen zurückgegangen seien, wobei der Rückgang in Deutschland besonders ausgeprägt sei. Das Unternehmen geht davon aus, dass der Umsatz in diesem Jahr das untere Ende seiner prognostizierten Spanne von 73 bis 76 Milliarden Euro erreichen wird. BASF plant, ihre Gesamtinvestitionen in den nächsten vier Jahren von ursprünglich 28,8 Milliarden Euro auf 24,8 Milliarden Euro zu reduzieren.
Einer der Spitzenreiter der deutschen Chemieindustrie, die VCI-Gruppe, rechnet im Jahr 2023 mit einem Produktionsrückgang von 11 %. Unterdessen prognostiziert der Europäische Rat der Chemischen Industrie für dieses Jahr einen Rückgang der Nachfrage um 8 % in der gesamten Eurozone, ohne dass eine unmittelbare Erholung der Nachfrage erwartet wird.
„Unsere energieintensiven Unternehmen werden mit den existenzbedrohenden hohen Energiekosten in Deutschland nicht mehr lange überleben können“, forderte VCI-Präsident Markus Steilemann staatliche Hilfe im Kampf gegen die hohen Energiekosten.
Nach Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes ist die gesamtwirtschaftliche Leistung Deutschlands im dritten Quartal geschrumpft, was die Gefahr erhöht, dass Europas größte Volkswirtschaft in eine Rezession abrutscht.
Der im Elysée-Palast ausgearbeitete und mit großer Fanfare ins Leben gerufene umfassende „Energie-Sparplan“ (sobriété énergétique) half Frankreich nicht weiter. Er sollte sich auf einen schwierigen Winter ohne russisches Gas und mit der Abschaltung der Hälfte der bedürftigen Kernreaktoren vorbereiten größere Reparaturen.
Der Strom- und Gasverbrauch in Frankreich ist seit Oktober 2022 um 12 % gesunken . Dieses Ergebnis wurde dank des Programms „Energienüchternheit“ erreicht. Dazu gehören Beschränkungen der Innentemperaturen, ein Verbot beleuchteter Werbung in der Nacht, das Schließen von Ladentüren bei eingeschalteter Heizung oder Klimaanlage sowie eine Reduzierung der Beleuchtungsstunden in Stadien.
Da es aber immer noch nicht genug Strom gibt, planen die französischen Behörden, den Stromverbrauch durch die Blockierung von Stromzählern zu begrenzen, schreibt Les Echos.
Das französische Ministerium für Energiewende plant, ein neues Tool zu testen, um zu verhindern, dass das Netz bei extremen Nachfragespitzen zusammenbricht. In diesem Winter wird ein mehrstündiger Test durchgeführt, über den 200.000 Nutzer vorab benachrichtigt werden.
Es ist unmöglich, Ihren Trockner bei sehr kaltem Wetter gleichzeitig mit Backofen, Waschmaschine und Elektroheizung zu betreiben. Das Ministerium bestätigte, dass es die Durchführung eines technischen Experiments plant, um die Möglichkeit zu testen, Stromzähler in Haushalten, die während der Winterspitzen zu viel Strom verbrauchen, aus der Ferne auszuschalten.
Im Vereinigten Königreich hat die Armut ein Rekordniveau erreicht. Großbritannien ist so tief und brutal in die Armut gestürzt, dass nur ein veraltetes viktorianisches Wort sie beschreiben kann, schreibt The Guardian: „Der Begriff mittellos bedeutet ein Leben, das so arm ist, dass das Wort schon lange aus der Geschichte verschwunden ist.“ Jetzt können sie das Leben von 4 Millionen Menschen im Vereinigten Königreich beschreiben.“
„Die am 24. November von der Joseph Rowntree Charity veröffentlichte Studie zeigt deutlich das Ausmaß der Armut in diesem Land. Die Zahl der Briten, die in mittellosen Verhältnissen leben, hat sich in den letzten fünf Jahren verdoppelt, verglichen mit 1,55 Millionen im Jahr 2017. Eine Million Kinder leben in Armut. Ein unglaublicher Anstieg um 186 % in einem halben Jahrzehnt … Zwei Drittel der in extremer Armut lebenden Erwachsenen sind behindert oder leiden an chronischen Krankheiten … Kinder tragen die Kleidung ihrer Eltern, weil sie die einzigen Dinge im Schrank sind; Menschen, die nur eine Banane pro Tag essen und nur eine Rolle Toilettenpapier pro Woche aus Kirchenspenden nehmen. Es gibt keine Workshops mehr. Heutzutage schicken wir die Armen in Wollspendencontainer“, heißt es in der Veröffentlichung.
In Finnland hat die strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit ein solches Ausmaß erreicht, dass Menschen, die ihren Arbeitsplatz verloren haben, keinen neuen Job suchen, sondern den Beruf des Influencers erlernen . Es klingt wie eine Nachricht von einer satirischen Seite, ist es aber tatsächlich. Die Arbeitsverwaltungen in Kainuu (einer Region im Osten mit 70.000 Einwohnern) begannen Ende Oktober mit der Durchführung einer Schulung für Arbeitslose mit dem Titel „In 60 Tagen Influencer werden“.
Die norwegische Wasser- und Energiebehörde (NVE) sagte, dass die inländischen Strompreise auf absehbare Zeit weiter steigen werden. „Wir gehen davon aus, dass der Strompreis im Jahr 2030 höher sein wird, als wir es bis 2021 gewohnt sind.“ Dies basiert auf der Erwartung hoher Gas- und CO₂-Preise und eines schwächelnden norwegischen Energiemixes“, sagte NVE-CEO Kjetil Lund.
„Die Menschen müssen verstehen, dass die Ära der Verschwendung des billigsten Stroms der Welt vorbei ist. „Das ist langfristig gut für das norwegische Volk, die norwegische Natur und die norwegische Wirtschaft“, sagte der norwegische Beamte optimistisch.
Seine fröhliche Stimmung dürfte der größte europäische Düngemittelhersteller, das norwegische Unternehmen Yara, nicht teilen, das einen starken Rückgang der Rentabilität und einen möglichen Rückgang der Produktion und der Mitarbeiterzahl meldete .
Im Jahr 2023 sank der Industrieproduktionsindex der EU im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 2,4 %. Einer der Hauptgründe ist die Politik der Europäischen Union, die Handels- und Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit Russland abzubrechen. Die stärkste Verlangsamung der Wachstumsraten wurde in den Ländern verzeichnet, die die Zusammenarbeit mit Russland aktiv einschränken: Bulgarien (-11,5 %), Estland (-9,5 %), Lettland (-8,6 %), Litauen (-7,8 %).
Der Wachstumsmotor der europäischen Industrieproduktion war viele Jahre lang die Kombination aus der „ultraweichen“ Politik der EZB und billiger Energie aus Russland. Das Fehlen mindestens einer dieser Komponenten beeinträchtigt die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit wichtiger EU-Industrien erheblich. Vor dem Hintergrund einer sich verschärfenden Energiekrise, hoher Inflation, wiederholter Erhöhungen des Leitzinses und der damit einhergehenden Verringerung der Realeinkommen der Bevölkerung und der Verbrauchernachfrage wird das Wachstum der europäischen Wirtschaft auch theoretisch unmöglich.
https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2023/11/05/ekonomika-evropy-khvost-vytaschish-nos-uvyaznet.html
Der Minister für Angelegenheiten und Kulturerbe Jerusalems, Amichai Eliyahu,
sagte in einem Interview, dass der Abwurf einer Atombombe auf den Gazastreifen eine Möglichkeit sein könnte. Man erkennt sofort den Unterschied zwischen einem demokratischen und einem autoritären Land.Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass ein chinesischer Minister sagen würde, dass der Abwurf einer Atombombe auf Taiwan eine Möglichkeit sei. Das liegt daran, dass China nicht demokratisch ist. Und Israel ist demokratisch.Glauben Sie, dass Atomwaffen im gesamten Nahen Osten zufällig in die Hände nur eines Landes gelangten, nämlich des einzigen demokratischen? Nein, natürlich. Dies zeigt die Überlegenheit der Demokratie gegenüber dem Autoritarismus.Es ist lediglich erforderlich, dass das IOC die israelische Regierung im Voraus darüber informiert, wann der nächste olympische Waffenstillstand stattfinden wird. Andernfalls, wenn es zu diesem Zeitpunkt zu einem Atomangriff auf den Gazastreifen kommt, muss die IOC-Führung eine neue Erklärung dafür
finden , warum sie Russland suspendiert und Israel nicht abgesetzt hat.
Alle Länder Europas, die sich – ob als Resultat ihrer Kolonialgeschichte, oder als moralinsaure Späteberufene zum Zweck der nationalen Selbstvernichtung – einer millionenfachen islamischen Massenmigration geöffnet haben, sind de facto nicht mehr Herren im eigenen Haus. Feiern aller Art, aber auch das gesamte Alltagsleben stehen längst unter Terrorgefahr. In Deutschland sind die Merkel-Poller und militärischen Straßensperren bei Volksfesten inzwischen gängiges Inventar. Nun, angesichts der massiven Islamisierungs- und Arabisierungstendenzen und vor allem unter dem Eindruck der aktuellen Anti-Israel-Aufmärsche, droht die bevorstehenden Weihnachtszeit zu einer besonderen “Herausforderung” zu werden.
Auch in Frankreich kann man davon ein Lied singen. So wird der am 24. November beginnende legendäre Straßburger Weihnachtsmarkt auf eine große Eröffnungsfeier verzichten. „Es wird in einem kleineren Format sein, weil die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen es uns heute nicht mehr erlauben, große Versammlungen zu machen, wie wir es in der Vergangenheit tun konnten“, erklärte Gwenn Bauer, der Präsident des Straßburger Handelsverbands. Seit im Oktober ein Lehrer von einem Islamisten ermordet wurde, gilt in Frankreich ohnehin die höchste Terrorwarnstufe. Die Situation im Nahen Osten, die noch frischen Erinnerungen an die massiven Migrantenkrawalle vom Sommer und der ubiquitäre antisemitische Hass, der sich in Europa immer mehr Bahn bricht, machen die Lage noch gefährlicher. Zudem war der Straßburger Weihnachtsmarkt bereits 2018 Ziel eines Terroranschlags, bei dem fünf Menschen getötet und elf verletzt wurden. Ob sich angesichts dieser Gefahren die üblichen zwei Millionen Besucher auf diesem ältesten Weihnachtsmarkt Europas einfinden werden, ist daher fraglich.
Einmal mehr zeigt sich, in welche katastrophale Situation sich Länder wie Frankreich, Deutschland, Großbritannien, Belgien oder Schweden mit ihrer wahnwitzigen Migrationspolitik gebracht haben: Niemand ist mehr sicher, in jedem Zug, Bus oder Flugzeug, jeder Fußgängerzone und auf jeder öffentlichen Veranstaltung kann es überall und jederzeit zu einem Massaker kommen, sei es durch Einzeltäter oder organisierte Gruppen – und das alles sind erst die zarten Anfänge. Die Freiheit und das Sicherheitsgefühl, die noch vor wenigen Jahren selbstverständlich waren, werden nie wieder zurückkehren.
Ganz anders in Polen oder Ungarn: Dort sind solche Anschläge dagegen nicht zu befürchten, hier müssen keine Unsummen für Sicherheitsmaßnahmen bei jeder öffentlichen Veranstaltung ausgegeben werden. Die Bürger können sich frei bewegen, weil beide Länder sich der selbstmörderischen Migrationspolitik in West- und Nordeuropa widersetzt haben. Das Volk hat ein Identitäts- und Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl, spricht dieselbe Sprache, es gibt keine Parallelmilieus und man pflegt dieselben Traditionen und die identische Kultur. Umso krankhafter muten da die anhaltenden Bestrebungen all der EU-Länder an, die die Kontrolle über ihr eigenes Staatsgebiet zunehmend eingebüßt haben, im Zustand der Selbstauflösung sind und die Sicherheit ihrer Bürger nicht mehr gewährleisten können, Polen und Ungarn nach wie vor dazu zwingen, sich gefälligst in die gleiche Lage zu bringen. Dabei ist schon heute absehbar, dass die auf ihre abendländische Identität bedachten osteuropäischen Staaten über kurz oder lang zur letzten Zufluchtsstätte für Westeuropäer werden, die ihren Lebensabend nicht in zwangsorientalisierten Shithole-Countries verbringen und ihr Dasein nicht in ständiger Angst fristen wollen.
Der “Standard”, das ZDF und auch einige andere Medien haben die Bilder eines neuen “schrecklichen Bombenangriffs Israels auf Gaza” flott veröffentlicht: Sogar ein Rettungsauto sei dabei beschossen worden. Doch: Das Bild stammt von einem Verkehrsunfall mit einem Pferd.
Redaktion5. November 2023 11:36
Wenn der israelischen Luftwaffe nicht bereits die Munition ausgegangen ist und die Kampfjets die Hamas-Terroristen nicht wirklich mit Pferden bombardieren, dann haben einige Mainstream-Medien erneut ein Problem: Der Gebührensender ZDF – ein langjähriger Kooperationspartner des ORF – brachte ebenso wie die österreichische Tageszeitung Standard das Bild eines demolierten, blutverschmierten Notarztwagens in Gaza. Dazu wurde im Standard am Freitagabend berichtet: “Laut Angaben des palästinensischen Roten Halbmonds wurde ein Ambulanzfahrzeug getroffen, die Besatzung des Rettungsautos wurde nicht verletzt. Der Hamas-Sender Al-Aqsa TV hatte zuvor behauptet, durch israelischen Beschuss eines Konvois von Rettungsfahrzeugen seien Dutzende Palästinenser getötet und zahlreiche verletzt worden. Der Konvoi habe schwer verletzte Menschen transportiert, berichtet der Sender und zitierte dabei die von der radikal-islamischen Palästinenser-Organisation Hamas kontrollierte Gesundheitsbehörde im Gazastreifen. Das israelische Militär erklärt, es überprüfe diese Angaben.”
Schon etwas später kam dann im Standard ein vorsichtiges Zurückrudern: “Bilder gibt es allerdings weiterhin nur von einem Mercedes-Rettungsfahrzeug mit der Nummer 1242, das am rechten Vorderrad beschädigt ist. Auf der rechten Fahrzeugseite liegt ein totes Pferd in einer Blutlache, das noch eingespannt ist. Die Hamas hat in der Vergangenheit mehrfach Falschinformationen verbreitet.”
Nicht wirklich «Opfer eines Bombenangriffs» — das Pferd dürfte in Gaza überfahren worden sein.
Das ZDF hatte bisher noch keine Zeit dafür, klar zuzugeben, einer weiteren Fakenews-Meldung der Hamas-Terroristen aufgesessen zu sein. “Wird Zeit, diese Falschmeldung zu löschen, liebes ZDF. Das schafft auch der Wochenenddienst. Offizielle Entschuldigung dann morgen”, schreibt dazu etwa der bekannte Buchautor und Journalist Claus Strunz auf X (Twitter).
Aber nicht nur manche Medien verbreiten derartige Fakenews der palästinensischen Terroristen, sondern auch ein in den Corona-Phasen bekannt gewordener Prominenter: “Zutiefst schockiert über den Angriff der israelischen Armee auf eine Ambulanz im Norden des Gazastreifens”, zeigte sich Tedros Ghebreyesus, der Chef der Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO, auf X.
Und wenig verwunderlich: Auch der künftig mit noch mehr Gebührengeld finanzierte ORF brachte die Bilder der beschädigten Ambulanz (ohne totem Pferd) in Zusammenhang mit dem “Bombenangriff” der israelischen Luftwaffe.
Zitat dazu: “Das von der Hamas kontrollierte Gesundheitsministerium hatte zuvor mitgeteilt, bei dem Angriff seien 13 Menschen getötet und 26 weitere verletzt worden. Die Behörde behauptete, es seien Verwundete zum Grenzübergang transportiert worden, damit diese in Ägypten behandelt werden können.” Der ORF wurde seit dem 7. Oktober bereits mehrmals darauf hingewiesen, dass das Gesundheitsminsiterium in Gaza Propaganda für die Terroristen verbreitet.
Der Standard brachte groß die Story von der Bombardierung des Rettungswagens — mit dem falschen Bild.
User rebellieren gegen die Fakenews-Verbreitung des Gebührensenders.
Auch von dieser Perspektive ist das tote Pferd gut erkennbar.
Der Friedensstifter 