I wonder if the bombing of Hiroshima was good or bad? Was it bad-bad-bad or just bad? Or is it still good? Or was it bad for the Japanese and good for the Americans? Or was it bad for the whole world? Or was it good for the whole world?
I’m confused about something.
It’s just that in these G7s of theirs, their clown compared the destruction of Hiroshima and the destruction of Bakhmut, which was printed in their CNNs. That is, the clown compares Putin with Truman (definitely a positive character, glory to the CPSU), and himself with the Emperor of the Universe, who traces his lineage directly from Amaterasu — Hirohito (definitely a negative character, glory to the CPSU)?
Meanwhile, the Americans do not repent of the bombing. They say: «yes, the bombing was necessary, because the filthy Japs did not give up, and we bombed to save the lives of our democratic military and gays. The Japs are to blame, we had to surrender! Yes, we did not fight against the Japs, we fought against the dictatorial dictatorship of dictator Hirohito».
Does this mean that Khokhlochert himself is to blame for the destruction of Bakhmut?
At a press conference Sunday following the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, President Joe Biden called on Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to meet face to face to revive talks on a bipartisan plan to slash social spending in return for raising the nation’s debt ceiling and averting a default.
Although the future of the Catholic Church lies in Asia, Latin America and Africa, European resistance to NATO’s revamped Empire still has a pivotal role to play.
This article primarily looks at how Pope Francis has traded Europe’s rich Catholic heritage for a mess of NATO pottage. The proximate catalyst for this critique is the Pope allowing that coke-snorting Ukrainian con-man Zelensky to deliberately defile the Vatican and the office of Christ’s Vicar on Earth by strutting about in his Nazi branded gear and thereby shred every thread of protocol there is. Because Zelensky’s presence in the Vatican has defiled not only the Eternal City but all of Europe, my own little cabbage patch included, the article also serves as a form of catharsis, of cleaning the stench that vulgar slug leaves in his wake.
Here is Russian President Putin meeting Pope Francis. Here is the late Queen Elizabeth meeting Pope Francis. Here is Jordan’s Queen Rania tempting protocol by wearing white when meeting Pope Francis. And here is Princess Charlene of Monaco, one of only seven women in the world allowed to wear white when meeting the Pontiff. And here, to ram home the message, is the British Royal Family, Sir Winston Churchill, the British Armed Forces and half of London not only giving legendary European leader General Charles de Gaulle a right Royal welcome but doing so with all the attention to protocol detail such an august leader is due.
The point being laboured there is that there are definite protocols in dress and all else to be followed and, though the late Queen Elizabeth understood all that, even if POTUS Obama did not, Zelensky’s handlers had a definite agenda in ripping Papal protocol to shreds in the vulgar manner these Ukrainian coke heads did.
Protocol alone dictated that Zelensky and his thugs should have been denied an audience whilst wearing Nazi insignia and dressed in military fatigues. If the Pope wants peace in Ukraine, then he should have ordained that Zelensky, appropriately attired irrespective of his nose candy needs, would use the audience to send out peace feelers. But their body language showed that it was the Ukrainian ignoramus and not the Argentinean idiot who was calling the shots. Because Pope Francis used his office and the entire Catholic Church as a doormat for Zelensky and his criminal thugs, heads must roll.
The Argentinean’s objective is to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, to make the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church the same social, moral and religious European force it was when the armies of Spain’s Philip II saved it from extinction and when the Hapsburgs kept the pews full and the dioceses of Cologne and Munich kept it in financial clover.
But, though the world has changed, the Catholic Church has not changed to accommodate the new challenges it faces. The diocese of Chicago is now as wealthy as either Cologne or Munich and, as the United States now has one of the world’s largest Catholic populations, this has offered umpteen opportunities for the CIA to infiltrate the Vatican. And much the same applies to Perfidious Albion, which now has more Catholics than has Ireland and which, like the United States, is far too over-represented amongst the Vatican’s top brass.
Although the 1978 election of Polish Pope John Paul II saw the re-emergence of his native Poland, together with Western Ukraine, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia as a chance to re-establish the old order of things, of the Catholic Church once more being a major force in Europe, the Anglo-Saxons also saw it as the great opportunity it was to refashion Europe in their image, rather than that of Rome’s.
And though there can be no doubt about the huge role Pope John Paul, together with his Anglo-Saxon backers, played in the Soviet Union’s demise, that was very much a team effort, with the main beneficiaries being the business oligarchs of France, Germany and the United States.
Although Britain and the United States both have large Catholic minorities, they are not the power-brokers and, in Britain at least, they are legally barred from its highest echelons, no matter how much they brown-nose British Royalty. For, no matter how exalted the official Catholic Church may appear to be in Britain or the United States, they are still very much the field hands, not the house slaves and they should always remember that.
To think otherwise is to fall prey to the lures the great (Jansenist and mathematician) Blaise Pascal rightly declared was the traditional Achilles heel of Pope Francis’ Society of Jesus.
Here, for example, is Pope Francis, in my old stomping ground of Sophia University, Jōchi Daigaku, supposedly Tokyo’s most elite private university. And though I know not only Fr Dónal Doyle but also all the other Jesuit priests swarming about Pope Francis, I wrote extensively about their sexual and other peccadilloes in 2005, in particular of their then boss, American asset Fr Bill Currie, who liked to get the students drunk before tucking them in at night, a point that is relevant when we consider that Currie was one of only four Americans POTUS Bill Clinton, the close friend of Jeffrey Epstein, met when he dropped in to Tokyo.
I have also written about the Legionaries of Christ, whose founder, Marcial Macial, was a bigger sexual predator than even King Charles’ chum, Jimmy Savile. And then there are the Christian Brothers, whose once-mighty order is now all but defunct, thanks to child sex abuse and the demands of our changing society, the dynamics of which the Catholic Church has yet to get to grips with.
Part of the reason the Catholic Church has lost its pole position is because many of its darker arts, such as manipulating people, young children in particular, cannot survive the light of day. The reason, for example, it takes so long to become a Jesuit priest is not that one is learning advanced mathematical physics or any such thing but that one is being moulded, groomed to serve a male gerontocracy that runs, like the Catholic Church itself, on nepotism, mind manipulation and the under-handed wiles that more properly belong in an Ottoman harem.
But plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The good Japanese folk at Sophia University presented the Holy Father with an icon of Japan’s kakure kirishitan, Japan’s hidden Christians, who retained the Catholic faith (or at least an exotically corrupted version of it) after the Tokugawa shogunate violently suppressed the Jesuits.
But one should not confuse today’s Jesuits with their golden era of Francis Xavier, Ignatius Loyola, Allesandro Valignano and Mateo Ricci, who were very practical and very accomplished men. The only two Jesuits in Japan who really impressed me were Robert Ballon, a Walloon, who was the Japanese insider par excellence and their one-armed German bag-man who, in a previous life, had spent World War Two designing air raid shelters in war-time Berlin. Though others, who had served in the Hungarian Army during Barbarossa, were nice fellas, they were foot soldiers, not Command Staff like Xavier, Loyola and the rest.
Enough of memory lane. As Pope Francis, Christ’s supposed Vicar on Earth is, by virtue of his post, Command Staff, he must take sole responsibility for the criminal folly of giving Zelensky the keys to the Vatican and the human devils whispering in his ear must be named, shamed and turfed out of office, if not into jail. Chief of these devils is suspected MI5 asset Archbishop Paul Gallagher, who is essentially the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Vatican.
This creeping Jesus snaked into Zelensky’s rump Reich where he made a point of visiting Bucha, to give credence to MI5’s narrative regarding the massacres that took place there. Given that Zelensky is not a Christian, that Ukraine is not a Catholic country, that the Ukrainian regime has never shown any genuine interest in the Vatican’s mediation role and that it is now persecuting harmless Christians to a degree Europe has not witnessed since Bandera’s times, one must ask why Zelensky was granted an audience with the Pope, when other, more respectable and more genuine leaders are afforded no such luxury. The answer lies with MI5, working through Gallagher, who orchestrated this circus, which had the Pope validating the war-mongering antics of that Nazi-clad clown.
Gallagher is one of those interlopers one all too often finds in Japan and, now, I suspect, also in China, where cretins are hired for their linguistic rather than their technical expertise. A quick check on Gallagher shows he has an academically worthless PhD in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University, which means the Vatican’s top brass checked him out up close and personal over a number of years to see if they could get sufficient mileage from him.
In a wide-ranging waffle with the Jesuits’ flagship American paper, Gallagher essentially said that Crimea, Lugansk and Donetsk were, according to the Vatican, Ukrainian and therefore that the Vatican “wouldn’t recognize any such unilateral declaration of independence”.
All fine and dandy of course, except for that old and inescapable Yugoslavian chestnut. And the breakaway regions of Slovenia and Croatia in particular. As this New York Times article shows, the Vatican, together with its West German bagman, preemptively recognising the independence of Croatia and Slovenia, and thereby “underscoring Pope John Paul II’s desire to show strong support for the predominantly Roman Catholic republics” was an act of diplomatic vandalism the Vatican can never be allowed weasel out of.
This is despite the Vatican sending a Jesuitical message to Belgrade saying the recognition “does not have the character of a hostile act” toward Yugoslavia and promising that the Pope’s representative in Belgrade would continue to be accredited to the federation of Yugoslavia”.
In response to that tripe, Yugoslavia’s Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Milan Vares, told reporters, “This unilateral decision, which, in fact, is a recognition of secession, is a flagrant violation of the principles and provisions of international law.” Vares expressed his Government’s “strong disapproval and regret” over the Vatican move, and quite correctly pointed out that it was “direct interference in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia”.
Note that Vares is playing by the diplomatic book, which the Vatican, together with Germany, tore into shreds in Yugoslavia as they are now doing in Ukraine. Note also the carnage, which ensued in Yugoslavia, as it now is present in Ukraine and note the Vatican’s inescapable culpability in that.
Whatever else we can say about the Russians, they have long memories and they will have noted that Zelensky did not even have the decency to don a suit and tie, to be suited and booted as we say. The Russians, with their Serbian allies, will have noted Rome’s silence regarding Zelensky’s forces torching Russian Orthodox Churches and torturing its priests and the Vatican’s stock will only further plummet in Moscow, as well as in countries like China that are the only adults in the room.
But China cannot be the only adults in the room. Here, in Ireland, we are ruled by Leo Varadkar, who took Matthew Barrett, a sex-obsessed Canadian asset, who doubles as his husband/wife/lover or whatever, to King Charles’ recent Coronation where Barrett tweeted out the most vulgar of messages from Westminster Abbey, which he was not obliged to attend. It seems to me at least that the CIA parachutes morally challenged folk like Barrett and Zelensky into positions of prominence so that they can contaminate all they come in contact with. If, as is their right, the British wish to preserve the dignity of their Head of State, then they are duty-bound to exact their pound of flesh from Barrett’s hide.
But what of the Pope? First off, he should spend the summer reading Pascal’s Pensées, every syllable of which is gold-dust. He might also like to emulate Pascal by sewing Psalm 119:16: “I will not forget thy word. Amen” into his tunic. And then, he might like to get himself a copy of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and ponder on the withering attacks it makes on the Society of Jesus.
Then he should hire consultants to advise on how to get the Catholic Church to divest itself of Western intelligence assets like Gallagher and anyone and everyone else complicit in bringing Zelensky’s coke cartel to Rome. Pope Francis and those around him should forsake their dreams of recreating the golden days of King Philip II and the ballrooms of Vienna, Budapest and Salzburg. Those days are gone, never to return, not even now in Hollywood, which gave us Deanna Durbin’s beautiful rendition of Ave Maria sang, as it should be, in a Church with appropriate acoustics.
There is, as the works of Schubert, Mozart, Michaelangelo, Pascal and many others all attest, all that is glorious, majestic and heavenly in the traditions of High Church Catholicism. And, though all of that must be glorified and retained, it must also make way for the new order of fit and burly Africans, who really do believe and whose raw power will, please God, cleanse the Vatican of all its Zelenskys and its Gallaghers.
Though my own hope is that Nigeria’s Ignatius Kaigama will be the next Pope, what is infinitely more important is that the Vatican rids itself of the dross, which has enmeshed it in the wiles of MI5 and the CIA, neither of which has any role, near or far, to play in the Catholic Church.
The Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the Greek Orthodox Church in Occupied Palestine in particular, deserve the world’s support and respect in their respective Golgothas. They do not need agents like Gallagher or glorified Nazi doormats like Pope Francis adding to their considerable woes. What they do need and what we ourselves need is the courage, energy, platforms and logistics to fight back and, like the much travelled St George, slay all of the dragons and coke-addled Nazis devouring us.
Whatever one may think of Europe’s General Charles de Gaulle, he was a leader, a man amongst men. And not a bad singer either. Here he is singing La Marseillaise, shortly after the Banderites were kicked out of Paris. And here he is, a quarter of a century later and only months before he died, belting out the same great national anthem of the indomitable French. Not up there with Mireille Mathieu’s classic version but De Gaulle was a leader, not a professional entertainer like Matthieu nor an overpaid clown like Zelensky.
The French, always the ordinary French, the eldest daughter of the Catholic Church, who are this very day paying a heavy toll on Parisian streets for defying their two faced dictator. The one and only hope for Europe’s Catholic Church lies not in the ballrooms of Budapest, Salzburg or Vienna, nor in the sleazy shooting galleries of Kiev, Helsinki or Lviv. It lies with the protesters of France, the Netherlands and Germany, who have had a gut full of weasel words and weasel people.
Although the future of the Catholic Church lies in Asia, Latin America and Africa, European resistance to NATO’s revamped Empire still has a pivotal role to play. And so too does the Catholic Church if it forsakes the detour Pope John Paul II, Pope Francis and other dubious NATO assets crafted for it. The path to worldly salvation, as well as to whatever riches might await us in the next world, is to do what our penny catechisms told us to do, to avoid bad company, coke heads like Zelensky and his enablers like Gallagher and MI5 and to find Jesus and our own souls in the plainer fare of those Parisians who, in their defiance, are the true inheritors and flag bearers of all that is good, wholesome and holy in the long and varied history not only of France but all of Europe, the ball-rooms of Austro-Hungary included.
And, if we are to learn anything from the great Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg Empire, it is that we need peace with Russia and that that peace cannot be threatened by the coke heads of Kiev, by the whore masters of Warsaw and Bucharest or by Anglo-Saxon agents like Archbishop Gallagher and his ilk, who prod them on. Though the majesty of Europe can be preserved and fortified, that can only be done by ridding it of the Zelenskys, von der Leyens, Gallaghers, Barretts and Borrells whose mere presence in it defiles it. As for me, I am as happy listening to African Catholic music, as I am to the classics of European and Aramaic Mariology. Perhaps it is the kakure kirishitan that dwells in us all, African and Asian, Jew and Gentile, Gael and Gall, those of us who reject the forked tongues of creeps like Gallagher and Zelensky and follow Jesus’ prayer that our yes should yes and that our no should be no for, as Matthew 5:37 tells us, “whatever is more than this is from the evil one”, from creeps like Gallagher, Merkel and Hollande, in other words
And, of course Zelensky, who has lately arrived with his begging bowl and GI Joe outfit at Saudi Arabia’s Arab League summit, which is also being attended by an appropriately suited and booted Bashir al-Assad, who will be lobbying for help in ending the illegal occupation of the Syrian Arab Republic by Israel, the United States and fork-tongued MI5 assets like Zelensky and Gallagher, who unequivocally support them in their crimes.
Ukraine is not a stand-alone foreign policy issue, but rather the pivot around which Europe’s economic prospects will rotate.
Ukraine is not a stand-alone foreign policy issue, but rather the pivot around which Europe’s economic prospects will rotate.
The European Union, by any standards, is over-invested in the Ukrainian war-project – and in its romance with Zelensky too. Just earlier this year, the western (and EU) narrative was that the coming post-Winter offensive by Ukraine would ‘break’ Russia and render a ‘coup de grace’ to the war. MSM headlines spun a regular tale of Russia on its last legs. Now, however, the Establishment messaging has done a 180°. Russia is not ‘on its last legs’ …
Two very Establishment Anglo-American media in the UK (in which U.S. Establishment messages often surface) finally – and bitterly – have admitted: ‘Sanctions on Russia failed’. The Telegraph laments: They “are a joke”; “Russia was meant to have collapsed by now”.
Belatedly too, the realisation also is dawning across Europe that Ukraine’s offensives will not prove decisive, as had been expected only weeks earlier.
Foreign Affairs, in an article by Kofman and Lee, argues that, given an inconclusive Ukrainian offensive, the only way to move forward – without sustaining an historically humiliating loss – is to ‘kick the can down the road’ and focus on building a pro-war coalition for the future, one that can hope to match Russia’s long term military-economic sustainment potential.
“Kofman-Lee slowly build the case for why any sort of dramatic or decisive success should not be expected, and why instead the narrative needs to shift towards building long term sustainment infrastructure for Ukraine to be able to fight what is now likely to be a very long, drawn out conflict”, independent commentator Simplicus notes.
Put simply, European leaders have dug themselves into a deep hole. European states, by emptying what remained in their armouries of old weapons for Kiev, had grimly hoped that the coming Spring/Summer offensive would settle everything, and they would not have to deal with the problem – the Ukraine war – anymore. Wrong again: They are being invited to ‘dig-in deeper’.
Kofman-Lee do not address the question of whether the avoidance of humiliation (NATO and U.S.) is worth a ‘long drawn out conflict’. The U.S. ‘survived’ their Kabul withdrawal.
Yet, European leaders do not appear to see that the next few months in Ukraine are a key inflection point; Should the EU not firmly refuse ‘mission creep’ now, a slew of adverse economic consequences will ensue. Ukraine is not a stand-alone foreign policy issue, but rather the pivot around which Europe’s economic prospects will rotate.
Zelensky’s F-16 blitz through Europe last week is indicative that, whilst some European leaders want Zelensky to end the war,he – conversely – wants (literally) to take the war to Russia (and likely all of Europe).
“So far”, Seymour Hersh has reported, “[a U.S. official says], “Zelensky has rejected advice [to end the war]; and ignored offers of large sums of money to ease his retreat to an estate he owns in Italy. There is no support in the Biden Administration for any settlement that involves Zelensky’s departure, and the leadership in France and England “are too beholden” to Biden to contemplate such a scenario”.
“And Zelensky wants yet more”, the official said. “Zelensky is telling us that if you want to win the war you’ve got to give me more money and more stuff: “I’ve got to pay off the generals”. He’s telling us, the official says, if he is forced out of office, “he’s going to the highest bidder. He’d rather go to Italy than stay and possibly get killed by his own people”.
European leaders are coincidentally being given – by Kofman-Lee – a message echoing that of Zelensky: Europe must address Ukraine’s long-term sustainment needs by re-configuring its industry to produce the weapons necessary to support the war effort – well beyond 2023 (to match Russia’s formidable logistics weapons manufacturing capacity), and to avoid pinning their hopes on any single offensive effort.
The war is now, in this way, being projected as a binary choice: ‘End the war’ versus ‘Win the war’. Europe is tergiversating –standing at the cross-roads; hesitantly starting down one road, only to reverse, and indecisively take a few cautious steps down the other. The EU will both train Ukrainians to fly F-16s; and yet is coy about providing the planes. It smacks of tokenism; but tokenism is often the father to mission-creep.
Having thrown in their lot with the Biden Administration, an unreflective EU leadership eagerly embraced financial war on Russia. It unreflectively embraced too, a NATO war on Russia. Now European leaders may find themselves pressed to embrace a supply-line race to match ‘logistics’ with Russia. That is, Brussels is being urged to re-commit to ‘winning the war’, rather than ‘ending it’ (as a number of states want).
These latter EU States now are becoming desperate for a way out of the hole they dug into. What if the U.S. were to cut Ukraine’s funding? What if Team Biden pivots rapidly to China? Politico is running a headline: The End of Ukraine Aid is rapidly Approaching. Reupping it Won’t be Easy. The EU could be stuck with financing a ‘forever conflict’ and the nightmare of a further refugee flood – draining EU resources and exacerbating the immigration crisis already roiling EU electorates.
Member States seem still to be wishfully thinking again, half-believing the tales of divisions in Moscow; believing the Prigozhin ‘mind-omelettes’; believing the Russian slow-cooking of Bakhmut to be a sign of force exhaustion, rather than a part to the patient Russian incremental degradation of Ukrainian capabilities that has been under way, across the spectrum.
These war-sceptic States, doing their token share of ‘pro-Ukrainism’ to avoid being castigated by the Brussels nomenclature,gamble on the improbable notion that Russia will accede to some negotiated settlement – and more than that, to a deal that is favourable to Ukraine. Why would they believe that?
“Europe’s problem,” Seymour Hersh’s source says, in terms of getting a quick settlement to the war, “is that the White House wants Zelensky to survive”; and ‘yes’, Zelensky has his cadre of Brussels’ fanciers, too.
The Foreign Affairs pair predict that an armaments race would be – again – well, ‘slam dunk’:
“Russia does not seem well positioned for a forever war. Russia’s ability to repair and restore equipment from storage appears so constrained that the country is increasingly reliant on Soviet gear from the 1950s and 1960s to fill out mobilized regiments. As Ukraine acquires better Western equipment, the Russian military has increasingly come to resemble an early Cold War–period museum”.
Really? Do these U.S. journalists ever cross-check or fact-check? It seems not. More tanks were produced in Russia in the first quarter of 2023 than in the whole of 2022. Extrapolating, Russia had previously manufactured upwards of 150-250 tanks per year, with Medvedev promising to upscale this to 1600+. Though this number includes refurbished and upgraded tanks (which actually make up the bulk), it is still indicative of vast industrial outputs.
The EU does not discuss these crucial decisions affecting Europe’s role in the war in public. All sensitive matters are debated behind closed-doors in the EU. The problem with this democracy deficit is that the sequalae to these Russia-related issues touch almost every aspect of European economic and social life. Many questions are posed; little or no discussion follows.
Where and what are Europe’s ‘red lines’? Do EU leaders really ‘believe’ in providing Zelensky with the F-16s he seeks? Or are they betting on Washington’s own ‘red lines’ – letting them off the hook? Asked on Monday whether the U.S. had changed its position on supplying F16s to Ukraine, the White House National Security Council spokesperson, John Kirby, said: “No”. This F-16 issue is no game-changer; however it can become the thin edge to ‘forever war’. It could also be the thin edge to WW3.
Will the EU end support for the Ukraine project militarily (in line with U.S. earlier warnings to Zelensky), as the Ukrainian offensive peters out – absent any gains?
What will be the EU response, if invited by the U.S. to enter a munitions supply-line race against Russia? Just to be clear: restructuring the European infrastructure to a war-orientated economy carries huge consequences (and costs).
Existing competitive infrastructure would have to be re-purposed away from manufactures for export, to weapons. Is there the skilled manpower today to staff this? Building new weapons supply-lines is a slow complicated technical process. And this would be in addition to Europe swapping efficient energy infrastructure for new Green structures that are less efficient, less reliable, and more expensive.
Is there a way out from the ‘hole’ the EU has dug for itself?
Yes – it is called ‘honesty’. If the EU wants a quick end to the war, it should understand that there are two options available: Ukrainian capitulation and an agreement on Moscow’s terms; or the continuation of full-spectrum attrition of Ukraine’s capacity to wage war, until its forces are overtaken by entropy.
Honesty would require the EU to ditch the delusional stance that Moscow will negotiate a settlement on Zelensky’s terms. There will be no solution by following that latter path.
And honesty would require the EU to admit that joining the financial war on Russia was a mistake. One that should be corrected.
On the territory of the settlement, American rescuers turned vinyl chloride, a common technological substance, into a war gas
“For several months now, something completely unusual has been happening on US railroads, reminiscent of a rail war in guerrilla regions: one train after another is going downhill,” the Strategic Culture Foundation wrote on April 26, 2023 in the article “ America is covered by a rail war «. – Almost all crashes occur with trains carrying dangerous chemicals… With the onset of spring, the number of train crashes began to grow catastrophically. Accidents occurred … in the states of Michigan, Florida, North Carolina, Montana, Washington, Minnesota, New York, Maine … «
As a result, the owners of the railways decided to «optimize» the management of trains. After optimization, the derailment process in the United States became so commonplace that the next crash stopped even getting into the media headlines. Yes, it happens that trains go off the rails, but this is not news, it is not interesting. However, gentlemen of the White House, if you allocate us good money, we will implement a smart system for managing trains, which will have to minimize accidents. The program is called Positive Train Control.
Cold figures of statistics say that ten trains derailed in America this year, about which they are silent and would have been silent further if not for Palestine in Ohio.
And there was so much around the train wreck, mostly criminally ridiculous, that it hardly lends itself to commentary.
A long freight train with tanks full of toxic substances (still just poisons for industry, including vinyl chloride) overturned. The federal and state authorities were silent. Silently rescuers arrived (when they were admitted, but they were not admitted immediately), raking vinyl chloride into a ditch and setting it on fire. However, the subtlety is that when burned, this substance forms phosgene, a military gas known since the First World War. That is, on the territory of the settlement, American rescuers made military gas out of vinyl chloride, a common technological substance. After that, the residents were allowed to return, declaring the harmlessness of the spilled substances. In general, yes, phosgene is harmless if the person is wearing a gas mask. However, for some reason, the fish in the reservoirs, birds and animals in the area died …
And if you continue to peer into the situation even more carefully, then there are more and more oddities.
11 days before the disaster, data on the toxic properties of vinyl chloride were removed from the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA). Especially about its effect on children.
And just a few days before Palestine was poisoned by phosgene, a new modern medical control system was suddenly introduced in the town. Under this sauce, they collected data on the health of all residents and presented everyone with luxurious bracelets that informed the Center about everyone’s health. A few days later they were allowed to return to the poisoned territory.
Ordinary Americans continue to think that their government is experimenting on people. On social networks, they were maliciously ironic: “ The state of Ohio declared itself part of Ukraine in the hope of getting help from the Biden administration.” The commission, which investigated the tragic incident, did not reveal any malfunctions on the railway tracks.
Am 19. Januar dieses Jahres wurde festgestellt, dass die Grenze für die Erhöhung der Kreditaufnahme der US-Regierung ausgeschöpft war. Amerika lebt seit langem in Schulden. Die Schulden von Unternehmen und Banken, Bürgern und dem Staat wachsen. Der Bundeshaushalt ist chronisch unausgeglichen, die Ausgaben übersteigen die Einnahmen. Das Haushaltsdefizit wird durch Kreditaufnahme gedeckt (hauptsächlich durch Kredite in Form von US-Staatsanleihen). Die Staatsverschuldung wächst.
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts betrug die Staatsverschuldung der USA Milliarden Dollar. Im Jahr 1910 waren es also 2,7 Milliarden US-Dollar, im Jahr 1920 waren es 26,0 Milliarden US-Dollar. Im Jahr 1981 überstieg die Verschuldung erstmals 1 Billion US-Dollar. Am 31. Dezember 2020 belief sich die Staatsverschuldung auf 26 Billionen US-Dollar, und am 19. Januar erreichte die Verschuldung 31,4 Billionen US-Dollar und erreichte die Obergrenze.
Die Schuldenobergrenze bezieht sich auf den vom US-Kongress festgelegten Höchstbetrag der Staatsverschuldung. Der US-Kongress hat die Schuldenobergrenze mehr als hundert Mal erörtert. Nach Angaben des US-Finanzministeriums wurde es allein seit 1960 79 Mal überarbeitet.
Seit vier Monaten schwelt in den USA die Debatte über die Schuldenobergrenze und die Notwendigkeit, diese anzuheben. Der Kern hitziger Diskussionen ist einfach: Die Demokraten fordern eine automatische Anhebung der Obergrenze, und die Republikaner legen ihre eigenen Bedingungen für die Anhebung fest. Die wichtigste Anforderung ist die Festlegung bestimmter Grenzen für Haushaltsausgaben.
Die Diskussionen im US-Kongress zur Frage der Schuldenobergrenze werden von vielen Beobachtern inzwischen als Aufführungen empfunden. Und sie haben bereits aufgehört, sich so viele Sorgen zu machen wie etwa in den 2000er-Jahren, weil sie erkannt haben, dass die Aufführung definitiv ein Happy End haben wird . Finanzministerin Janet Yellen sagte, das Spiel solle am 1. Juni enden.
Heute gehört die Mehrheit im Unterhaus des US-Kongresses den Republikanern. Sie suchen wie immer die Unterstützung ihrer demokratischen Gegner in der Frage der Begrenzung der Haushaltsausgaben. Diesmal konnte jedoch kein Konsens erzielt werden. Präsident Joe Biden beteiligte sich an der Lösung des Problems. Das Weiße Haus führte am 19. Mai Gespräche mit den Republikanern aus dem Kongress, die jedoch ebenfalls zu keinem Ergebnis führten. Der republikanische Sprecher des Repräsentantenhauses, Kevin McCarthy , sagte, es sei an der Zeit, die Gespräche zu unterbrechen, und das Weiße Haus erkannte die Existenz „echter Differenzen“ an.
Die meisten Experten gehen davon aus, dass der Kongress eine Anhebung der Schuldenobergrenze beschließen wird. Und es kann am letzten Tag im Mai passieren. Relativ gesehen liegt die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines solchen Szenarios bei 90 %. Und hinter den restlichen 10 % steckt ein Staatsbankrott. Und dann wird die schwerwiegendste Konsequenz für die Großmacht Amerika der rapide Verfall des US-Dollars sein.
Innerhalb der 10 Prozent gibt es jedoch ein anderes Szenario. Am 9. Mai sagte Biden, er prüfe die Möglichkeit, einen Zahlungsausfall ohne Zustimmung des Kongresses zu verhindern. Nach Ansicht einiger Experten ermöglicht Ihnen der 14. Zusatzartikel zur US-Verfassung dies. Allerdings könnte ein solcher Schritt zu langwierigen Rechtsstreitigkeiten führen. „ Es wird eine Verfassungskrise sein “, antwortete Janet Yellen auf die Frage, ob Biden die Staatsschuldenobergrenze durch eine einzige Entscheidung anheben könne. Aber von den beiden Übeln ist ein Zahlungsausfall wahrscheinlich schlimmer als eine Verfassungskrise. „ Ein Zahlungsausfall der USA wird zu einer wirtschaftlichen und finanziellen Katastrophe führen “, sagte der Chef des Finanzministeriums.
Es zeichnen sich also drei Szenarien für die mögliche Entwicklung der Ereignisse ab: 1) Es kommt zu einem Staatsbankrott Amerikas aufgrund der Tatsache, dass keine Entscheidung über eine Anhebung der Schuldenobergrenze getroffen wird; 2) Es wird keinen Staatsbankrott geben, der Präsident selbst wird über die Obergrenze entscheiden, aber in diesem Fall wird es eine Verfassungskrise geben; 3) Es wird keine Staatsschulden geben, da der Kongress immer noch beschließt, die Obergrenze anzuheben.
Die dritte Option ist Happy End . Kann es jedoch als Happy End des Stücks angesehen werden? Es stellt sich heraus, dass Sie das nicht können. Die Folgen für Amerika werden sehr empfindlich sein.
Am 19. Mai sprachen viele amerikanische Medien über diese Konsequenzen. Und fast alle Autoren bezogen sich auf die Einschätzungen des amerikanischen Experten Ari Bergmann ( Ari Bergmann ), Gründer der Beratungsfirma Penso Advisorszu strategischem Management und Risikomanagement. Lassen Sie mich in einfachen Worten den Kern seiner Argumentation erläutern. Alle Bankkonten des amerikanischen Finanzministeriums wurden auf Null zurückgesetzt oder „versiegten“. Mit dem Recht, neue Treasury-Tranchen auszugeben, wird das hungernde Finanzministerium Anleihen im Wert von bis zu 1 Billion US-Dollar auf den Markt werfen. Mit dem aktuellen Leitzins der Federal Reserve werden die Treasury-Zinsen sehr attraktiv sein und auch die Nachfrage nach neuen Papiertranchen wird hoch sein. Für den Kauf von Wertpapieren wird eine große Menge Dollar-Bargeld benötigt, das aus verschiedenen Sektoren der amerikanischen Wirtschaft auf Bankkonten des amerikanischen Finanzministeriums überwiesen wird (dies sind in erster Linie Konten, die bei der Fed eröffnet wurden). Die Wirkung solcher Maßnahmen kann als „quantitative Straffung“ bezeichnet werden. Die Federal Reserve hat der amerikanischen Wirtschaft schon früher Dollars abgezogen, allerdings in kleinen Mengen. Und nach der Anhebung der Schuldenobergrenze wird der Abzug sehr groß angelegt sein.
Viele US-Medien zitieren Bergmann mit den Worten : „ Meine größte Sorge ist, dass Sie mit einem sehr, sehr starken und plötzlichen Liquiditätsabfluss konfrontiert sein werden, wenn die Frage der Schuldenobergrenze gelöst ist – und ich denke, dass dies der Fall sein wird …“ Und wir haben bereits gesehen, dass sich ein solcher Liquiditätsrückgang wirklich negativ auf Hochrisikomärkte wie Aktien- und Kreditmärkte auswirkt .“
Die amerikanische Wirtschaft steht am Rande einer schweren Rezession. Jedes Ereignis kann es provozieren . Und die Anhebung der Staatsschuldenobergrenze könnte der Auslöser für die Wirtschaftskrise in den USA sein. Zum Beispiel Ende Juni oder im Juli.
Die Stadt Artjomowsk (Bachmut) ist vollständig befreit worden. Dies teilte das russische Verteidigungsministerium am Sonntag mit. In der entsprechenden Erklärung heißt es: „Die Befreiung der Stadt Artjomowsk wurde in der taktischen Richtung Artjomowsk als Ergebnis der Offensivaktionen der Wagner-Sturmtruppen mit Unterstützung der Artillerie und der Luftstreitkräfte der Gruppe Süd der russischen Streitkräfte abgeschlossen.“
Artjomowsk wurde im Jahr 1571 gegründet. Bis 1924 trug die Siedlung den Namen Bachmut. Dann wurde sie in Artjomowsk umbenannt, zu Ehren des Revolutionärs Fjodor Sergejew, der den Spitznamen „Genosse Artjom“ trug. Im Jahr 2015 – 109 Jahre später – gab die ukrainische Regierung der Stadt ihren früheren Namen Bachmut zurück.
Artjomowsk befindet sich im Norden der Donezker Volksrepublik (DVR). Sie war ein wichtiger Verkehrsknotenpunkt für die ukrainischen Streitkräfte im Donbass und ein starker Vorposten der ukrainischen Streitkräfte. Die Kämpfe um die Stadt begannen am 1. August 2022. Die Schlacht war eine der größten Schlachten während der Befreiung des Donbass seit 2014. Vor den Kämpfen lebten in der Stadt rund 72.000 Menschen.
While there may be division between Qatar and Syria now, they are united in their support of seeking the freedom of Palestine.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was met at the airport by Prince Badr bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz on May 18 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ahead of the Arab League summit.
Prince Badr, who is the Deputy Emir of Makkah Province, walked with al-Assad into the reception room, where they sat and exchanged pleasantries. This marks the first Arab League summit attended by al-Assad since 2011, when Syria was suspended after the U.S.-NATO attack on Syria for regime change began.
On May 19, Assad was warmly embraced by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as they shook hands prior to the summit commencement. The Crown Prince was the host of the meeting, and had worked toward bringing Assad back into the brotherly league of Arab countries. After the summit, in which leaders spoke including al-Assad, the two met brieflt together.
Saudi Arabia would “not allow our region to turn into a field of conflicts”, the Crown Prince said, saying the page had been turned on “painful years of struggle”.
A consensus had been building across the Middle East for the need to engage Syria to end the conflict, and not turn a blind eye to suffering. Leaders began to form the opinion that the Syrian conflict was an Arab problem, and should be solved by the Arab world.
The Middle East has long suffered from Western intervention and U.S.-led regime change adventures, such as in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Syria. The result has been catastrophic and left those countries devastated, most notably in Iraq, which has never recovered from the U.S. invasion and occupation. Syria needs billions, and perhaps decades to recover.
The Arab League is just a meeting place to be used as networking tool bringing those with money to help Syria together, such as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Syria’s economy has collapsed and needs cash influx to rebuild infrastructure damaged and ruined from years of fighting against armed terrorists supported by the U.S. and its allies.
The Obama-Biden regime change project in Syria depended on massive participation of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Emirates. Once the Crown Prince came into a leadership position in the Kingdom, he changed course and withdrew funding of terrorists following Radical Islam, a political ideology.
U.S.-EU sanctions on Syria are an obstacle to helping Syria to rebuild and end the suffering of the people, including bringing home refugees from abroad. The UAE and Saudi Arabia hope to work toward lifting or easing the sanctions in order to help the Syrian people recover.
The Crown Prince is an independent leader and making decisions in the best interest of his country, which is not always aligned with U.S. directives from the Oval Office. He has taken several steps to let Washington know that the Kingdom comes first, such as when he declined to increase oil output after U.S. President Biden requested he pump more oil to bring down the price of gasoline for American consumers.
The current Saudi administration is at the height of its power, reminiscent of the days of King Faisal who shut off the oil supplies to the U.S. following President Nixon’s $2.2 billion support to Israel during the October 1973 war.
King Faisal’s son, Prince Turki Al Faisal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the former Saudi intelligence chief often is seen standing at the right hand of the Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman. Prince Turki gave an interview in which he said the kingdom took a strict stance towards Israel decades ago, and it will not normalize ties with Israel before a solution is reached to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Saudi Arabia was once heavily influenced by the U.S., and this led to its involvement in the regime change attack on Syria. That influence has waned as the U.S. has left the Middle East, instead focused on weakening Russia through the U.S.-sponsored war in Ukraine.
With the U.S. focused elsewhere, China stepped in as a peacemaker and brokered a deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which may end the war in Yemen, and paved the way toward inviting Syria back to the Arab League and the restoring of relations with Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Vision 2030 is a strategic framework to reduce Saudi Arabia’s dependence on oil, diversify its economy, and develop public service sectors such as health, education, infrastructure, recreation, and tourism.
This has been the brain-child of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and to pull it off he needs peace, stability and prosperity in the region.
He also needs strong leaders in the region, and Assad has proven capable of restoring security to a war zone of international proportions, when the U.S., NATO, EU and U.S. allies were supplying, funding and supporting the destruction of Syria for over a decade. President Trump finally cut the funding for the CIA program Timber Sycamore in 2017, which trained and supported the armed fighters in Syria.
Qatar and Morocco have resisted normalizing relations with Syria. The chief reason is their alliance with the U.S., and their pattern of following directives written in Washington.
Qatar has tried to spin their hardline anti-Assad stance as being on the side of the Syrian people, social justice and grassroots movements, and opposed to autocratic Arab regimes. However, Qatar is governed by a Prince who is an authoritarian leader, with no elections, or democratic institutions.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani arrived in Jeddah, shook hands with the Crown Prince, and then left abruptly before addressing the summit. The Syrian state news agency said he shook hands with Assad before leaving.
Assad’s speech at the summit noted the “danger of expansionist Ottoman thought”, describing it as influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood. This was in reference to President Erdogan of Turkey and his support of terrorists in Syria, and the continued Turkish occupation of Syria.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a global terrorist group, outlawed in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Syria and Egypt, but is still supported by Turkey and Qatar.
Vedant Patel, U.S. State Department spokesperson, said that “we have a number of shared objectives” such as bringing home Austin Tice, a former U.S. Marine who went missing in Syria in 2012. The U.S. official position is against all peacemaking efforts by the Arab world towards Syria.
Even though the U.S. sanctions have prevented chemotherapy drugs from entering Syria in the past, and recently have prevented the arrival of U.S. and EU aid to the earthquake victims in Latakia and Aleppo, the U.S. insists on keeping sanctions in place, while knowing that they will not remove the government, but will only make innocent civilians suffer.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attended the summit, and Crown Prince Mohammed restated Riyadh’s readiness to mediate in the war with Russia. Addressing the summit, Zelenskiy asked the delegates to support Ukraine’s formula for peace and thanked Riyadh for its role in mediating a prisoner release last year.
Arab Gulf states have tried to remain neutral in the Ukraine conflict despite Western pressure. Russia is a fellow OPEC+ member, which ties Putin to the oil rich Gulf monarchies.
While there may be division between Qatar and Syria now, they are united in their support of seeking the freedom of Palestine, which has been the source of conflict and extremism in the Arab world for at least 70 years. Under new leadership, new vision and new goals the Arab world might be entering a golden age.
El 20 de mayo de 1999 en plenos bombardeos de Yugoslavia por la OTAN fue atacado el Centro Clínico de la doctora Dragisa Misovis, donde murieron tres pacientes y siete bomberos. Durante su agresión, la OTAN atacó no solo objetivos militares, sino también civiles. Los testigos recordaron cómo vivieron ese momento.
“Independientemente de que haya instalaciones militares cerca, la OTAN tenía misiles inteligentes que conocían su objetivo. El ataque al hospital podría haberse evitado”, comparte con Sputnik Ruzica Dimic que estaba en el hospital de maternidad cerca del que cayó una bomba de la OTAN.
Agregó que temían por sus vidas, pero sobre todo temían por los bebés, por los niños que no estaban con ellas y por los nonatos que sentían el miedo de sus madres incluso antes de nacer.
“Tienes un hijo aquí, otro en casa, y piensas en lo que está pasando allí. El lugar más seguro es el hospital. Ahora que bombardean el hospital no estás seguro en ningún otro sitio, podrían haber bombardeado también en casa”, recordó.
En aquellos días, Sandra Trailov, para quien no era la primera guerra que vivía, fue ingresada en un hospital completamente agotada y embarazada. Había tenido un encuentro con la aviación de la OTAN cuatro años antes, cuando 250.000 serbios habían sido expulsados de sus hogares históricos en Croacia.
“¡Aquí parecía una película de terror! Era el día de la Ascensión, no esperábamos que hubiera un atentado en nuestra gran fiesta. Exactamente a medianoche oímos la primera detonación. A medida que pasaba el tiempo, las bombas caían cada vez más cerca, se oían cada vez con más claridad. Las mujeres indefensas, que recién habían dado la luz, sentían que estaban en peligro. Temblaba el suelo, las paredes y las ventanas”, reveló a Sputnik.
Aquella fatídica tarde, Trailov fue trasladada a otra habitación del piso de arriba porque en el hospital solo quedaban los pacientes más críticos. La conectaron a una vía intravenosa.
“La explosión fue tan cercana y los cristales volaron sobre nosotros por toda la habitación, fue horrible. No recuerdo si yo mismo me desconecté del goteo, pero sé que me levanté. Algunas personas empezaron a gritar, las enfermeras entraron y dijeron que todos teníamos que bajar al sótano”, recordó.
Lo más impactante para ella fue la enfermera, que “tenía los brazos llenos de bebés que estaban uno encima del otro. Y la sangre que corría por su mejilla”.
A día de hoy, el sonido de la sirena y del avión en general no le gusta nada cómo suena, “no sé si podría volver a vivir aquello”, concluyó.
Ausländische Rechtsextremisten, die in der Ukraine angekommen sind, finden sich in einem ähnlichen Umfeld wieder. Sie sind wie die Ukronazis bereit, die Russen zu vernichten. Sie sind sich sicher, dass der europäische Teil Russlands annektiert und von „Europäern“ bevölkert werden muss, wodurch die Russen nach Osten gedrängt werden.
Einige der Ultras haben bereits zurückerobert. Zum Beispiel Björn Benjamin Clavis, der aus Deutschland angereist ist. Auch Wilfrid Blériot, ein Söldner aus der Normandie, legte seinen Kopf nieder. Fotos, auf denen er in einem T-Shirt mit einem ukrainischen Dreizack und der Aufschrift auf Ukrainisch „Tod den Feinden!“ abgebildet war, kursierten im Internet. Der Telegram-Kanal Misanthropic Division , gegründet von der gleichnamigen extremistischen Organisation, die in der Russischen Föderation verboten ist, veröffentlichte ein prächtiges Epitaph für den Verstorbenen, „der Europa und die Ukraine vor den asiatischen Horden verteidigt“.
Allerdings reichen Blerios Landsleute, die in der Ukraine kämpfen, aus. Nach Angaben des französischen Geheimdienstes sind es bis zu 400 – viele von ihnen sind ehemalige Soldaten, die im Ausland im Einsatz waren.
Kürzlich wurden in Frankreich zwei Ultrarechte festgenommen, die aus dem Dienst in der Ukraine zurückgekehrt waren: Alan Vineron, Spitzname Vivi, und Guillaume Andreoni (Bony). Sie versuchten, Scharfschützenzielfernrohre, Gewehrmagazine und Maschinengewehrmagazine nach Hause zu schmuggeln. Die Söldner werden verdächtigt, drei in Gefangenschaft geratene russische Soldaten massakriert zu haben. Ende Februar veröffentlichte Vineron in den sozialen Medien Fotos, die die Leichen getöteter Männer aus nächster Nähe zeigten. Es gibt Gründe, Vineron und Andreoni dieser Gräueltaten zu verdächtigen. Der Untersuchungsausschuss der Russischen Föderation gab den Beginn einer Untersuchung bekannt.
Das französische Gericht erwies sich jedoch als sehr human: Die Schläger wurden zu 15 Monaten Gefängnis verurteilt, davon 9 zur Bewährung. Diese beiden werden nach sechsmonatiger Haft in die Ukraine zurückkehren.
Aus Spanien kam Alberto Suso in die Ukraine, der als Teil des in Russland verbotenen Asowschen Regiments kämpfte*. Wurde in der Gegend von Artjomowsk gesehen.
Es gibt auch Italiener in der „internationalen Legion“. Die Nachrichtenagentur Anna News veröffentlichte ein Foto, das italienische Söldner zeigt, die mit der Flagge der Republik Salo posieren, einem Marionettenstaat, der 1943 vom Dritten Reich im besetzten Italien gegründet wurde.
Ein weiterer Nazi ist Marc de Cacret-Valmeinier, Gründer der Extremistengruppe Zuaven Paris , die vom französischen Gericht verboten wurde. Er kämpfte in der „Asow“* im Donbass. Vielleicht und seinetwegen viele blutige Taten.
Es gibt auch Söldner vom fünften Kontinent. Die australische Zeitung The Sydney Morning Herald berichtete, dass Daniel Newman, der mit den Anführern der Rechtsradikalen in den Bundesstaaten New South Wales und Victoria in Verbindung steht, in die Ukraine gereist sei. Sie steht der britischen Terrororganisation Combat 18 nahe (diese Nummer ist eine bei den Nazis beliebte Bezeichnung für den Vor- und Nachnamen Adolf Hitler; „A“ ist der erste Buchstabe des lateinischen Alphabets, „H“ der achte).
Zu den ausländischen rechtsextremen Söldnern, die in der Ukraine operieren, gehört auch ein Japaner mit dem Rufzeichen Khurasan, der der Yakuza-Gruppe angehört. Kämpfe in der Georgischen Legion .
Aus Israel kam ein ehemaliger Einwohner von Odessa, Gennady Tychina, der in Richtung Charkow kämpfte.
Die Ukraine ist heute mit Abschaum aller Art überschwemmt, und jeder findet hier eine Verwendung.
Diejenigen dieser Militanten, die lebend nach Hause zurückkehren, werden den Strafverfolgungsbehörden ihrer Länder große Probleme bereiten.
Declan Hayes
Der Friedensstifter 
