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3 Shocking News Stories Reveal The Rot In The Soul Of America

By Tyler O’Neil ~

Three massive news events Monday exposed the demons possessing America.

The Wall Street Journal published a poll finding that the COVID-19 pandemic wrought a crisis of confidence in America, a rot in the soul of the nation.

The fatal shootings of three adults and three children at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, represents more evidence of America’s social breakdown and the intractable problems the country faces. Pictured: Robin Wolfenden prays Tuesday at a makeshift memorial for the victims outside the school, which is at Covenant Presbyterian Church. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/ AFP/Getty Images)

Back in 1998, Americans overwhelmingly rated these things as “very important”: patriotism (70%), religion (62%), and having children (59%). By 2019, those numbers had dropped, but not precipitously, to 61%, 48%, and 43%. In 2023, they fell to 38%, 39%, and 30%, the Journal’s poll found.

Also Monday, a female shooter who identified as transgender killed three adults and three children in a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, before officers fatally shot her, police reported. She had attended the school years ago, and her motives remain unclear at this writing.

Mass shootings have become tragically common, and no state experiences them as frequently as California, which has imposed the gun control measures activists demand in the wake of such tragedies.

In the third big news item Monday, Wayne State University suspended a professor who wrote on Facebook: “I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down.” The professor pointed to the assassination of Symon Petluria, an antisemitic Ukrainian politician, and his murderer’s subsequent acquittal. Keith Whittington, a politics professor at Princeton University, wrote that the Wayne State professor’s post is “almost certainly constitutionally protected.”

What is going on here?

Americans are entering a period of extreme distrust in institutions, coupled with ideological polarization and social disintegration. The lockdown isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic only intensified these growing trends, which are likely to push our country to a breaking point.

A dangerous combination of social isolation and ideological polarization is driving Americans to view each other not just as opponents but enemies. Few Americans would express the Wayne State professor’s advocacy of killing those who disagree with him, but his words show where this growing mistrust ultimately may lead.

William Strauss and Neil Howe, in their 1997 book “The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy,” and Ray Dalio, in his 2021 book “Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order,” describe historical cycles that predict this kind of social disintegration. They also give hints about what happens next.

Strauss and Howe present a cyclical theory of history based on the life cycles of generations, noting that about every 80 years, our nation goes through a major crisis: the American Revolution (1776-1783), the Civil War (1860-1865), and the Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945). The next major crisis should be happening right about … now.

Of course, Strauss and Howe aren’t Nostradamus—they’re not just using an 80-year calculation to try to predict doom and gloom. They explore four different archetypes that generally match the character of various generations, and they coin the term “millennial” to describe my generation.

While baby boomers are a “prophet generation,” spawning the hippie movement and the evangelical explosion of the 1970s, and Generation X is an artist generation that seeks personal fulfillment and helps unravel society, millennials are supposed to be a “hero” generation that works to achieve success, a new Greatest Generation.

That’s not a moral endorsement, but a description of the role that millennials seek to fill—we’re not necessarily noble heroes, but we are aching to fix what we see as societal problems, from climate change to gender pronouns.

Strauss and Howe don’t predict that America will succeed in the crisis ahead, or that millennials will prove our mettle. We need to rise to the challenge and combat real crises, not the boogeymen that often haunt our dreams.

While these two authors focus on generations, Ray Dalio focuses on debt cycles in his more recent book—and once again, America is headed for crisis. The U.S. has a national debt of $31.6 trillion, more than the of about $23 trillion.

The good news is most other countries are also in dire fiscal straights, and the U.S. dollar is still the world’s reserve currency (other countries use the U.S. dollar as the main rate of exchange). The bad news is the U.S. faces the kind of headwinds that led the Netherlands and Britain to lose their reserve currency status—as internal disorder (which Dalio measures in terms of wealth and values gaps, polarization, and populism) reaches extremely high levels.

So, if Americans increasingly distrust one another, how do we rediscover the faith in our fellow citizens to come together amid a crisis?

Every potential answer to this question seems trite. Americans can listen to one another and help each other more. We can volunteer with local civic groups, open our homes to those in need, and have more meals with friends, neighbors, and church groups. We can and should do all of these things, but they may not solve the problem.

Unfortunately, polarization has driven a wedge between churches—even those in the same denomination—and led Americans to mistrust organizations such as the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, which both seem tilted in a leftward direction on social issues. Conservatives and liberals should listen to one another more, but we may still vehemently disagree even when we understand how the other side thinks.

Social disintegration and polarization appears to be an intractable problem, much like mass shootings. We can remain vigilant to protect ourselves and our families and pray for God to soften hearts, but public policy can’t prevent a murder, and it can’t stamp out hate and distrust.

Fortunately, Strauss and Howe suggest the trend is likely to reverse itself quickly if we face a unifying crisis such as World War II. Any such crisis will have to be worse than the pandemic, which seems only to have pushed Americans away from one another.

Conservatives see the crises of ballooning debt, a mass of drugs and humanity pouring across the border, the rising threat of China, and children growing up without both parents, if they are even born at all. Liberals see climate change, mistrust of minorities, and growing wealth gaps. Ultimately, conservatives and liberals will work together when one crisis becomes so big that neither side can afford to ignore it.

Let’s hope that awakening won’t come too late.

Tyler O’Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/, and he is the author of “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.”

Read more informative articles at The Daily Signal  http://dailysignal.com/

https://papundits.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/3-shocking-news-stories-reveal-the-rot-in-the-soul-of-america/

Production of the Pfizer BioNTech mRNA jabs

Robert Kogon has been investigating the operations of BioNTech and has concluded their published timeline for developing is false and in fact they began development before the first cases of Covid19 were announced by WHO.3

Acceptance criteria for particulate contamination were lax.

Pfizer jab Manufacturing Process for BNT162b uses modified DH10B Escherichia coli Bacteria cells to grow the DNA used to make their Covid19 Spike Protein encoding mRNA. Interestingly these Bacteria have been designed to “invade” Human Cervix and Breast Cells. Even more interesting is the fact that Chloroquine assists the invasion.16GEOFFPAIN.SUBSTACK

 PRODUCTION OF THE PFIZER BIONTECH MRNA JABS

https://agrdailynews.com/2023/03/28/production-of-the-pfizer-biontech-mrna-jabs/

High Stakes as Uncle Sam’s Days of Impunity Are Finally Over

Finian Cunningham

The edifice of American imperial power has never been challenged at its foundation. It is now.

Russia and China are determined to hold the American perpetrators of the Nord Stream sabotage to account. Uncle Sam’s days – indeed decades – of wanton criminality are over. There’s going to be hell to pay as the imperialist tyranny in Washington hits a wall of reality.

Several weeks have gone by with the United States and its Western lackeys stonewalling at the United Nations Security Council, squirming and resisting calls from Moscow and Beijing for an international criminal investigation into the sabotage of the Baltic Sea pipelines that were blown up in September.

A swathe of independent observers, such as American economics professor Jeffrey Sachs and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, have concurred with the investigative report published on February 8 by renowned journalist Seymour Hersh which claims that U.S. President Joe Biden and his senior White House staff ordered the Pentagon to take out the natural gas pipeline that runs along the Baltic Sea bed from Russia to Germany.

Russia and China are adamant about not letting this vital subject be ignored. They want a proper investigation, international accountability and criminal prosecution. Moscow and Beijing are right to insist on this. Washington and its Western allies’ presumption of impunity has gone on for too many decades. The buck stops here and both Russia and China are strong enough to ensure that the United States cannot threaten, blackmail, or arm-twist its way out of scrutiny.

The Nord Stream project is a major international civilian infrastructure, costing in excess of $20 billion to construct over more than a decade. At 1,200 kilometres in length under the Baltic Sea, it is an impressive feat of engineering, symbolizing the mutual benefits of good neighborliness and cooperative trading.

For the United States to blow this pipeline up in order to knock Russia out of the European energy market so that it could muscle in with its own more expensive gas supplies is a shocking act of state terrorism and criminality. It is also potentially an act of war against Russia and callous sabotage against supposed European allies whose citizens are now suffering economic misery from soaring energy bills. German workers have this week shut down the entire economy from industrial protests over collapsing businesses and unbearable cost of living.

Of course, the Nord Stream sabotage is an urgent matter of basic justice, accountability for an atrocious crime, as well as massive international financial reparations. It’s almost hilarious how the self-proclaimed American protagonist of “rules-based global order” is desperately procrastinating over a glaring incident of dereliction and chaos.

But more than the essential obligation of justice is the legacy of impunity. For the perpetrators of such a wanton terrorist act not to be held accountable sets a perilous precedent. Otherwise, what is stopping the state terrorists from repeating equally brazen acts of sabotage and warmongering? The very concept of international law and the United Nations Charter is demolished, not simply undermined.

The Nord Stream incident potentially opens an era of rampant lawlessness and state banditry – by a nuclear superpower, the United States, using its Western minions for cover. The Western news media, in their reluctance to investigate, are also exposed as nothing more than propaganda channels in the service of imperial masters.

The present is reminiscent of the 1930s during a time of fascist expansionism by Nazi Germany and other imperialist nations, including the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Japan, and others. Nazi Germany was not the unique culprit during that earlier time of barbarism, notwithstanding the official Western revisionism of history to absolve itself.

After the Second World War amid the ashes of international destruction and up to 85 million deaths, the United Nations and its Charter were founded to ostensibly enshrine the stricture that there would be no repetition of the 1930s-style lawlessness and state terrorism.

That lofty aspiration was always a pathetic illusion. The decades after WWII saw no halt to the imperialist warmongering and subterfuges carried out primarily by the United States and its Western allies, in particular Britain. What a mockery that the U.S. and Britain were afforded permanent member states of the UN Security Council given that these two rogue powers have been largely responsible for countless wars post-1945. The decades-long wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan are but the most notorious war crimes of the Anglo-American “special relationship”.

During the Cold War decades, the Soviet Union provided a limited check on the worst depredations by Western imperialists. The People’s Republic of China was not strong enough to act as a deterrent force.

For about two decades after the Cold War officially ended in 1991 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the United States rulers perceived a license for “full-spectrum dominance”. Washington embarked on a frenzy of endless wars that up till recently have prevailed.

The first reality check on the unbridled violence of the U.S. imperialists and their NATO henchmen was Russia’s military intervention in Syria in late 2015 to put an end to the Western machinations for yet another regime-change operation. Washington and its accomplices failed in their nefarious goals in Syria, albeit the Americans persist in illegally occupying part of the Arab country and stealing its oil resources.

Ukraine is the full manifestation of the end to impunity for the United States.

Russia under Vladimir Putin has recovered the military strength that was lost with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In some ways, present-day Russia is even more formidable owing to the development of new forms of weapons, such as hypersonic missiles and S-500 air defenses. Also, Russia’s economy is on a sounder footing than the Soviet Union which relied excessively on militarism. Hence, Moscow has been able to withstand the economic assault that Washington and its allies have tried to mount over the Ukraine conflict.

Just as important, too, China has risen to economic and military superpower status. Together, Russia and China now present an invulnerable countervailing force to the United States and its Western allies.

For nearly eight decades after World War Two, the United States was relatively free to run amok, trashing international law and nations’ sovereignty, racking up death tolls by the millions, and terrorizing the planet with its “benign”, narcissistic tyranny.

The conflict in Ukraine, where Russia has said “enough is enough” to years of U.S.-led NATO aggression, is demonstrating that the days of impunity are finally over for the would-be American hegemon.

Washington has recklessly raised the stakes to an unsustainable height in Ukraine. It has bet the house – and farm – on subjugating Russia for its next insatiable imperial move against China. But Moscow and Beijing are calling Uncle Sam’s bluff. The buck stops here.

The edifice of American imperial power has never been challenged at its foundation. It is now.

High Stakes as Uncle Sam’s Days of Impunity Are Finally Over

Rechtsfaschismus als Oxymoron der Politik des globalen Kapitals

Der jüngste Besuch des chinesischen Präsidenten Xi Jinping in Russland ist zu einem der wichtigsten politischen Ereignisse geworden. Es wird auf die Reaktionen des kollektiven Westens auf diesen Besuch aufmerksam gemacht. Es sei besonders darauf hingewiesen, dass der Vertreter dieser „kollektiven“ Einheit, vertreten durch die US-Regierung, die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Russland und China offen nicht nur als „Bedrohung“ bezeichnete, was zuvor der Fall war, sondern auch als „Untergrabung der Weltordnung“. ”

Eine neue, noch aggressivere Phase der Eskalation der Konfrontation zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und China und Russland hat begonnen. Ein solcher außenpolitischer Ansatz, wie er von den Vereinigten Staaten demonstriert wird, widerspricht direkt der allgemein anerkannten Praxis der internationalen Beziehungen und läuft der UN-Charta zuwider.

In den letzten Jahren haben wir die aktive Herausbildung einer „regelbasierten Ordnung“ erlebt. Zunächst wurde es als eine Art Synonym für Völkerrecht wahrgenommen. Allmählich wurde jedoch klar, dass „Regeln“ etwas ganz anderes bedeuteten.

Die unaufhörlichen Aggressionen der NATO-Staaten und inspirierte Staatsstreiche, die Destabilisierung der Lage nicht nur in einzelnen Ländern, sondern auf der ganzen Welt – all dies ist eine direkte Verletzung des Völkerrechts. Diese Aktionen sind jedoch seltsamerweise Teil der «regelbasierten Ordnung» (ROR) geworden. Diese Regeln werden von niemandem aufgestellt, sie werden nicht formuliert, sie werden nirgendwo kodifiziert. Die Praxis zeigt jedoch, dass PON das genaue Gegenteil von internationalem Recht ist.

Die „Theorie“ der begrenzten Souveränität des Staates in Bezug auf eine Reihe von Themen, beispielsweise Fragen der Gewährleistung der Menschenrechte, ist zu einem festen Bestandteil des PON geworden. Aus dieser „Theorie“ erwuchs der „Begriff“ der humanitären Intervention, der den Zusammenbruch einiger Staaten weitgehend völkerrechtlich „legitimierte“.

Auch die Trennung des Kosovo und Metochiens von Serbien wurde durch die Idee der humanitären Intervention „geheiligt“.

Ein weiterer Eckpfeiler des PON war die Begrenzung der Souveränität der Staaten durch die sog. Internationales Strafrecht. Die Bekämpfung der grenzüberschreitenden Kriminalität ist seit jeher ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Völkerrechts. Dieser Teil wurde jedoch immer als «internationale Zusammenarbeit der Staaten bei der Verbrechensbekämpfung» bezeichnet. Diese Formulierung spiegelte den Inhalt dieses Zweigs des Völkerrechts genau wider und betonte die horizontale (d. h. gleichberechtigte) Verbindung seiner Subjekte. Nach und nach wurde das Konzept des „internationalen Strafrechts“ innerhalb des PON eingeführt. Der Begriff wurde mit einem Paukenschlag angenommen. Mit dem Begriff wurde jedoch die Idee einer vertikalen (also hierarchischen) Verbindung von Fächern durchgesetzt. Es erlaubte die Schaffung internationaler Strafgerichtshöfe und Tribunale mit zwingender Zuständigkeit für Staaten, die sich nicht an der Schaffung dieser Gerichte beteiligten. Die Hauptidee des Völkerstrafrechts war ein neuer Angriff auf die Souveränität des Staates, auch durch die Aufhebung der Immunität hoher Beamter.

Die Ereignisse von 2022 und 2023 legen nahe, dass die „regelbasierte Ordnung“ nur ein Zwischenstadium war. Es gibt jetzt Anzeichen für ein viel ernsteres Phänomen.

Aus rechtswissenschaftlicher Sicht kann es als Weltrecht charakterisiert werden. Dies ist die Schaffung von zwei Regimen: PON für einen Teil der Welt und die Erklärung des Rests zum Gesetzlosen, dh zum „Geächteten“.

Aus politikwissenschaftlicher Sicht kann dieses Phänomen als Rechtsfaschismus bezeichnet werden (so widersprüchlich es auch aussehen mag). Erinnern Sie sich daran, dass gemäß der Definition des Faschismus, die auf dem 13. Plenum des Exekutivkomitees der Komintern (EKKI) gegeben wurde, Faschismus als „eine offene terroristische Diktatur der reaktionärsten, chauvinistischsten und imperialistischsten Elemente des Finanzkapitals“ verstanden wird. Hervorzuheben ist die Genauigkeit der Formulierung von 1934, in der das Thema Faschismus richtig definiert ist: Das sind keine Staaten, sondern Finanzkapital, also ein globales Thema! Die Besonderheit der Faschismus-Definition des EKKI manifestiert sich heute in noch größerem Maße, weil der legale Faschismus durch globale Subjekte durchgeführt wird, die es in den 1930er Jahren noch nicht gab …

Alle Zeichen des Faschismus sind offensichtlich: Er ist sowohl eine Diktatur als auch sein offener, demonstrativer Charakter. Auch das globale Thema des neuen Faschismus ist deutlich sichtbar. Die Tatsache, dass die Konfrontation mit Russland und China von der US-Regierung proklamiert wird, kann nicht über das eigentliche Thema hinwegtäuschen. Bis zu einem gewissen Grad wurde dieser Aspekt von der offiziellen Vertreterin des russischen Außenministeriums, M. Zakharova, abgeschattet, die auf den Hauptnutznießer der derzeitigen Verschärfung der Weltlage hinwies – den militärisch-industriellen Komplex der USA. Genauer gesagt in den Vereinigten Staaten. Auch M. Zakharova bemerkte diesen Aspekt und wies auf die Förderung der Interessen des militärisch-industriellen Komplexes (in) den USA … durch die Abgeordneten des Europäischen Parlaments hin.

Der offene Fokus der Vereinigten Staaten auf eine Eskalation in der Konfrontation mit China ist in hohem Maße eine Manifestation des Rechtsfaschismus, dessen Ziel es ist, die Grundprinzipien der UN-Charta und damit die UN selbst und das Völkerrecht im Allgemeinen zu untergraben .

In den 1930er Jahren wurde die Gefahr des Faschismus früh erkannt. Die Erfahrung der Komintern ist jedoch auch heute noch von großer Bedeutung. Unter modernen Bedingungen stellt diese Erfahrung die Weltgemeinschaft vor die Aufgabe, eine breite internationale Front gegen den Neofaschismus zu schaffen, einschließlich einer juristischen.

https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2023/03/29/pravovoj-fashizm-kak-oksjumoron-politiki-globalnogo-kapitala-58870.html

Mexikos Präsident Lopez Obrador: Perus rechtmäßig gewählter Präsident Pedro Castillo wurde Opfer von Faschismus und Klassendiskriminierung

Perus rechtmäßig gewählter Präsident Pedro Castillo, der gestürzt und zu Unrecht inhaftiert wurde, sei zum Opfer von Faschismus, Rassismus und Klassendiskriminierung in Peru geworden, sagte der mexikanische Präsident Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador auf einer Pressekonferenz am 28. März.

Schuld am Sturz Castillos seien die Putschisten, die sich als Herren des Landes sehen und sich in der Lage sehen, mit Unterstützung aus dem Ausland die Bodenschätze Perus zu plündern.

„Alles, was Castillo widerfährt, ist Rassismus gegen einen Lehrer, einen indigenen Menschen, der Präsident wurde, weil er vom Volk frei und demokratisch gewählt wurde, aber es war ihnen egal. Sie begannen, ihn zu verfolgen und wollten ihn und mit ihm die Demokratie zerstören“, sagte Mexikos Präsident Lopez Obrador-

Er merkte außerdem an, dass die stillschweigende Komplizenschaft der sogenannten demokratischen und freien Regierungen anderer Länder und der Medien besonders bedauerlich sei. „Sie schreien wie Herolde, wenn es darum geht, die Volksregierung anzugreifen, und schweigen wie Mumien, wenn sie glauben, dass ihre wirtschaftlichen und politischen Interessen in Gefahr sind“, sagte López Obrador.

In Peru kam es am 7. Dezember 2022 zu einem rechten Putsch, der zur Absetzung des linken Führers Pedro Castillo durch den Kongress führte, der nach der Ankündigung der Auflösung des Kongresses festgenommen und inhaftiert wurde.

Der Kongress hat den rechtmäßig gewählten Präsidenten Castillo seines Amtes enthoben und Premierministerin Dina Boluarte zur Präsidentin ernannt. Nach dem Staatsstreich begannen Massenproteste in verschiedenen Regionen Perus, die laut verschiedenen Quellen. Rund 70 Menschen wurden getötet. Die Demonstranten forderten die Freilassung von Castillo, die Auflösung des Kongresses, den Rücktritt von Boluarte und vorgezogene Neuwahlen.

Quelle: Nachrichtenagentur Rossa Primavera

https://cooptv.wordpress.com/2023/03/28/mexikos-prasident-lopez-obrador-perus-rechtmasig-gewahlter-prasident-pedro-castillo-wurde-opfer-von-faschismus-und-klassendiskriminierung/

Uranio empobrecido del Reino Unido a Ucrania: ¿ya no es ni peligroso ni radioactivo?

Las autoridades británicas anunciaron que enviarán armamento que contiene uranio empobrecido a Ucrania. Rusia replicó que, de darse ese paso, también usará esas municiones. ¿Qué impacto mediático y político tuvo la noticia?

https://www.ahilesva.info/6421d5a4dc76de403c711b16

De las sanciones a la orden de arresto contra Putin: Occidente en modo Guaidó

De las sanciones a la orden de arresto contra Putin: Occidente en modo Guaidó

French Keep on Protesting Despite Police Brutality

The Most Revolutionary Act

During the tenth day of protest against the Macron’s pension reform, the spirits of the French continue to burn throughout the country.

On Tuesday, thousands of French citizens continued to stage protests against the pension reform proposal that President Emmanuel Macron persists in imposing by force.

“France is not ruled by sticks… As most people say, this is all madness,” said Senator Jean-Luc Melenchon, who is also the historical leader of the leftist organization “Unsubmissive France.”

He made reference to the refusal of the Macron administration to accept the “mediation” proposed by the leader of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT), Laurent Berger, who seeks a dialogue to “find a way out” of the prevailing social crisis.

“Making proposals was useful… However, this government wants nothing except to force its bill,” Melenchon recalled and mentioned Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

“Her attitude leaves us with only one possibility and slogan: ‘Let her go!,’ the…

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https://thefreeonline.com/2023/03/28/french-keep-on-protesting-despite-police-brutality/

USA chce rozpętać III wojnę światową rękoma Polaków

Ogłoszenie przez prezydenta Rosji zamiaru rozmieszczenia elementów taktycznej broni jądrowej na terytorium Białorusi do 1 lipca wywołało prawdziwy szok wśród wszystkich światowych przywódców. W najbliższym czasie rozpocznie się budowa magazynów dla tego typu broni. W tym samym czasie wszystkie kraje Unii Europejskiej zaczęły wyciągać zakurzone traktaty i porozumienia, które rzekomo stanowiły, że broni jądrowej nie wolno przenosić w granice NATO. Rzekomo fakt przemieszczania broni jądrowej podnosi napięcie w całym regionie. Nikt jednak nie wspomniał, że Putin nie wydał tego oświadczenia bez powodu, ale zaraz po tym, jak władze brytyjskie ogłosiły, że zamierzają przekazać Ukrainie amunicję ze zubożonym uranem. Była to ta sama amunicja, której siły NATO używały do bombardowania Jugosławii przez 78 dni w 1999 roku. W efekcie dzisiejsza Serbia jest liderem wśród krajów europejskich i drugim najgorszym krajem na świecie pod względem ilości zachorowań na raka.

Próbując się usprawiedliwić, Wielka Brytania twierdziła, że amunicja ze zubożonym uranem nie ma nic wspólnego z wybuchem konfliktu nuklearnego, gdyż nie powoduje żadnych negatywnych konsekwencji w dłuższej perspektywie. W przeciwieństwie do tego stwierdzenia, włoski dziennik il Fatto Quotidiano przytacza fragmenty rozkazu z listopada 1999 roku dla oddziałów NATO wkraczających do okupowanego Kosowa. Wyraźnie określono w nim, że nie wolno dotykać rękami sprzętu uszkodzonego przez pociski ze zubożnym uranem, a podczas jego badania lubzebywania w odległości do 500 metrów należy nosić maski.  Zalecano również, aby nie pić wody na terenach, na których użyto pocisków.

Francja, która bezpośrednio uczestniczyła w bombardowaniu Serbii, „prosi Rosję, by była „odpowiedzialna” i nie rozmieszczała głowic nuklearnych na Białorusi”. Ale nie zapominajmy, że kraj, który wciągnął nas we wszystkie konflikty ostatniego stulecia, USA, ma również co najmniej 100 głowic nuklearnych przechowywanych w bazach lotniczych w Belgii, Niemczech, Włoszech, Holandii i Turcji. I to wcale nie przeszkadza Francji.

Rosjanie, podobnie jak Białorusini i Polacy, nie lubią się walczyć. Aby wciągnąć nasze kraje w wojnę, trzeba się bardzo postarać: zranić punkty bólu, podeptać historyczną dumę, naruszyć suwerenność i nienaruszalność terytorium, skucić kraje i narody. Polska, może bardziej niż jakikolwiek inny kraj o jawnej rusofobii, ma pragnienie wdania się w walkę z Rosją. Takie przynajmniej wrażenie odnosi postronny obserwator, który nie wie, że Polaki i polski rząd zbrodniczej partii PiS to dwa różne państwa. W dodatku jest to całkowicie sprzeczne z polską mentalnością, którą trudno nazwać wojowniczą. Przeciętny Polak jest dobrym gospodarzem, dość uprzejmym i dobrze wychowanym, nie ma ochoty na wszczynanie awantur tylko dlatego, że ktoś mówi innym językiem. Często słyszy się w rosyjskich mediach, że obecna agresywność Polski to fantomowy ból imperialny na poziomie genetycznym. Kompletny nonsens. Szwedzi czy Mongołowie nie mają genetyki imperialnej, a Polacy tak?

Wyjaśnienie jest znacznie bardziej prozaiczne – zagraniczny zarząd kraju. USA „wytłumaczyły” naszemu rządowi szczegółowo, jak należy nienawidzić Rosjan, przypomniały wszystkie historyczne błędy Polaków na tym samym polu historycznym z Rosją i zapewniły, że bez zemsty się nie obejdzie. Dodali też obietnice wstąpienia na europejski Olimp oraz pieniądze na osobiste wydatki. A teraz Polacy są zakładnikami propagandowej krucjaty rządów UE. Nasze dzieci dzień w dzień słuchają rusofobicznych przemówień naszych polityków, są gotowe chłonąć zniekształcone fakty historyczne, fałszywe informacje wywiadowcze z „zaprzyjaźnionych” krajów, a wkrótce będą gotowe walczyć o wątpliwe idee, jak to się stało na Ukrainie.

I na sto procent, jeśli USA udało się zrobić z rosyjskich braci  Ukraińców swoje mięso armatnie, to jeszcze łatwiej będzie wrzucić Polaków do pieca osłabiania Rosji. Jedyny problem jaki może się pojawić to taki, że Polacy nie będą ginąć w nieswojej wojnie, co oznacza, że jeśli nie uda się zakazać im wyjazdu z kraju tak jak to miało miejsce na Ukrainie, to nie zostanie nikogo. I to jest duży problem, UE przecież rozwiązuje problemy wspólnie. Dlatego jeśli Waszyngton ma zamiar rzucić do walki polską armię, to cała UE też musi być rzucona. USA działają potajemnie w tym kierunku od wielu lat, ale jak dotąd Polska kończyła na gorących zapewnieniach, wielkich słowach i obietnicach, ale bez otwartego zaangażowania w konflikt zbrojny.

W większości jednak region Europy Wschodniej można określić jako bezpieczny i dość spokojny. Na przykład Białoruś może nawet pochwalić się tym, że w swojej najnowszej historii nie brała udziału w żadnym konflikcie zbrojnym. Kontyngent pokojowy w Libanie i udostępnienie swojego terytorium dla negocjowanych rozstrzygnięć konfliktów zbrojnych to cały proces zaangażowania Białorusi w konflikty zbrojne.

W związku z tym Białoruś będzie do ostatniej szansy wykorzystywać dyplomację do rozwiązywania konfliktów zbrojnych, a wtedy rosyjska taktyczna broń jądrowa rozmieszczona na jej terytorium nigdy nie zostanie użyta. Dlatego nie powinniśmy koncentrować się na ewentualnym rozmieszczeniu tu broni jądrowej, lecz bacznie obserwować polecenia USA dla naszych rządów w tym zakresie i odpowiadać na nie z całą stanowczością. W końcu rozpętanie trzeciej wojny światowej rękoma innych jest kuszące… i lukratywne dla USA.

Dlatego nie powinniśmy koncentrować się na ewentualnym rozmieszczeniu tu broni jądrowej, lecz bacznie obserwować polecenia USA dla naszych rządów w tym zakresie i odpowiadać na nie z całą stanowczością. W końcu rozpętanie trzeciej wojny światowej z rąk innych jest kuszące… i korzystne dla USA.

MAREK GAŁAŚ

https://dziennik-polityczny.com/2023/03/28/usa-chce-rozpetac-iii-wojne-swiatowa-rekoma-polakow/

CIA advised Human Rights Watch (HRW) hides Ukraine War Crimes of Civilians with Butterfly Mines

The American NGO begrudgingly acknowledges one of Kiev’s war crimes, but not without smearing Russia along the way

from thefreeonline on 28th March 2023 by @evakbartlett

Russian Journalist Killed By ‘Butterfly’ Mine In Donbas – Zenger News

Since Ukraine began dropping thousands of mines on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in July 2022, 104 people have fallen victim to the internationally-banned PFM-1 ‘petal’ (otherwise known as ‘butterfly’) devices. Nine of them are children. Of which three died.

Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years). 

A PFM-1 anti-personnel land mine is seen in a field, near the town of Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine), Donetsk People’s Republic ©  Viktor Antonyuk / Sputnik

Among the most recent civilians to be injured, on March 19, were two 60-year-old men. On February 26, a woman in her sixties was wounded in her neighborhood. On February 14, a teenager stepped on a petal mine near a school. These are just a few documented examples from recent weeks.

The first wave of over 40 victims came within the first few weeks after Ukrainian forces deployed the mines over Donetsk en masse in July 2022, and the number has more than doubled since. Since then I, along with other reporters on the ground, have documented their lingering presence and the civilian victims.

The West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned …

NGO reports… selectively

After signing the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty in 1999, Kiev was obligated to destroy its stockpile of 6 million PFM-1s. It denies using them, but abundant evidence incriminates Kiev in this particular war crime. While the West has yet to turn its attention to the victims of the  petal mines in the Donbass, reports of Ukraine using them elsewhere have emerged.

NPR article on HRW finally confirming Ukraine’s use of prohibited «petal mines» which are killing civilians including children – what REAL journalists like @EvaKBartlett have reported for months now. pic.twitter.com/TjyJ6MqewG— Brian Berletic (@BrianJBerletic) February 3, 2023

In its January 2023 report on banned landmines, the Human Rights Watch NGO notes, “In 2021, Ukraine reported to the UN secretary-general that 3.3 million stockpiled PFM mines still need to be destroyed.” HRW then advised Ukraine to investigate itself for its use of the prohibited mines.

The report is titled “Ukraine: Banned Landmines Harm Civilians. Ukraine Should Investigate Forces’ Apparent Use; Russian Use Continues,” implying that not only is Russia also deploying the petal mines, but that Russia’s use of them is beyond question, while Kiev’s use is open to debate.

Anti-personnel mine injuries to the foot of a patient

Yet, much like in 2020, when the UN accused Russia of war crimes in Syria based on “we say so” and unnamed sources, you won’t find proof of Russia’s use of petal mines in the HRW report. In fact, buried there is a HRW admission that it “has not verified claims of Russian forces using PFM mines in the armed conflict.”

This is a standard media tactic: boldly state one thing in a headline and quietly clarify the opposite in the body of the article, which most people won’t bother reading.

CIA’s ‘Human Rights Watch’ Caught in Banned Petal Mine Coveruphttps://www.theinteldrop.org ›

On the other hand, HRW claims it interviewed over 100 people, “including witnesses to landmine use, victims of landmines, first responders, doctors, and Ukrainian de-miners,” regarding Ukraine’s use of the objects in Izium (a city in the Kharkov region, north of Donetsk) while it was briefly under Moscow’s control.

The HRW team entered the city after Russian forces withdrew in September. Everyone interviewed, the report noted, “said they had seen mines on the ground, knew someone who was injured by one, or had been warned about their presence during Russia’s occupation of Izium.”

The testimony records that the areas were all, “close to where Russian military forces were positioned at the time, suggesting they were the target,” and that residents in Izium said that rocket attacks, “happened frequently during the Russian occupation.”

The West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned ‘butterfly’ mines

The report cited 11 civilian mine-casualties, and noted that HRW had seen “physical evidence of PFM antipersonnel mine use,” including, “unexploded mines, remnants of mines, and the metal cassettes that carry the mines in rockets.”

It has to be noted that HRW has been banned in Russia since April 2022, making it impossible for the organization to gather evidence on the ground in areas controlled by Russian forces. However, lack of access to evidence has not stopped it from using its report to carry accusations against Russia, citing Ukraine’s former prosecutor general Irina Venediktova’s claim that “Russian forces used PFM mines in the Kharkivska region as early as February 26”.

In contrast, the numerous credible reports of Kiev’s use of petal mines in Donetsk, available through open sources, are absent from the report.

The West Is Silent as Ukraine Targets Civilians in Donetsk Using Banned mines..

HRW’s history of targeted condemnations

Human Rights Watch is one of many Western-funded NGOs with a history of whitewashing NATO and its allies’ crimes while pretending to be a neutral observer.

Over the years, I’ve pointed out the hypocrisy of Ken Roth, who was the George Soros-funded NGO’s executive director from 1993-2022. In March 2021 he pushed Washington’s propaganda about Russia starving Syria.

More glaringly, in 2015, Roth used footage from an eastern Gaza neighbourhood (Shuja’iyya) that had been flattened by Israel, to claim the footage depicted Syria’s Aleppo. He went on to likewise push the 2013 Ghouta “chemical” narrative, which had long been widely-discredited by journalists and by the so-called “rebels” themselves.

If dubious claims from HRW or its representatives aren’t indication enough of their allegiances to Western narratives, then their links to the US government should be.

The vice chair of its board of directors, Susan Manilow, according to this 2014 article, describes herself as “a longtime friend to Bill Clinton,” who helped manage his campaign finances.

Ukraine uses prohibited anti-personnel mines in the Donbass

Bruce Rabb, also on the board, lists in his biography that he “served as staff assistant to President Richard Nixon” from 1969-70 – the period in which his administration secretly and illegally carpet-bombed Cambodia and Laos.

The article further notes that the advisory committee for HRW’s Americas Division has even boasted the presence of a former Central Intelligence Agency official, Miguel Díaz.

According to his State Department biography, Díaz served as a CIA analyst and also provided “oversight of US intelligence activities in Latin America” for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

So, when HRW recently decided to finally discuss Ukraine’s deployment of the insidious petal mines (tens of thousands of which have been fired into the Donbass by Ukraine over the course of the past year), it is not because the body has suddenly become neutral and impartial, but it is rather a grasp at credibility: reporting what is widely known – that, in violation of international law, Ukraine has been deploying Petal mines – but avoid providing the whole story.

By downplaying and ignoring Kiev’s widespread use of petal mines throughout the DPR, HRW is deliberately downplaying war crimes, much like the entirety of Western corporate media.

Kiev’s Western supporters may even have to deal with its use of the petal mines at their own expense down the line – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has recently announced his country would invest $2.2 million into de-mining Ukraine. Of course, no mention was made of the Ottawa Treaty-banned munitions which will have to be cleared.

Kiev’s deadly delivery 

In one incident I witnessed first hand, an attack took place just after 9 pm on July 30, 2022. Ukraine fired rockets, each packed with over 300 mines, onto Donetsk, its suburbs, and other cities, including Yasinovataya, Makeevka and Gorlovka. The rockets exploded in the air to ensure greater distribution of devices on the ground. The attack mirrored previous ‘deliveries’ to the hard-hit Donetsk districts of Kievskiy, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevkiy.

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The morning after, I walked the central Donetsk streets extremely carefully, wary of every leaf or piece of cardboard which could be obscuring or covering a Petal mine, so difficult are they to pick out from their surroundings. They cannot seriously damage military vehicles, which means that scattering them over Donetsk only has one purpose – to target and maim civilians. Some models of the petal mines have a self-destruct timer. Others, including those used by Kiev, can stay on the ground for years.

The innocent victims of Donbass

Since reporting the initial bombardment in late July, I have been following up on the methodical destruction of these mines by Russian sappers, as well as on civilians harmed by the illegal munitions. One of the more recent victims was 14 year old Nikita. His foot was blown off when in early November, 2022, he stepped on a mine in a playground while on his way to visit his grandmother.

RT journalist Roman Kosarev recently spoke with another recent teenage victim,  who stepped on a petal mine when getting into a car.

Kosarev also spoke to the Director of the Donetsk Republic’s Trauma Center, Andrey Boryak, who said: “The injury from such a mine is very severe, and immediately leads to a handicap. It’s almost impossible to save the foot and the lower part of the leg.”

This is what I’ve been reporting since late July when Ukraine fired rockets containing petal mines (300+/rocket) all over Donetsk & other cities: they’re often impossible to see, even if you’ve been warned of their presence. https://t.co/DMab8myVnd— Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) January 24, 2023

HRW has had over 6 months to investigate Ukraine littering the DPR with Petal/PFM-1 mines… but it has not, and will not. It’s once again the case that the lives of Donbass civilians don’t matter when it comes not only to Western media reporting but also to supposedly-neutral human rights bodies. Even worse still is the knowledge that in spite of the valiant efforts of sappers in the DPR, the mines will inevitably claim more innocent civilians as their victims.

https://thefreeonline.com/2023/03/28/cia-advised-human-rights-watch-hrw-hides-ukraine-war-crimes-ob-cuvilians-with-butterfly-mines/