Un exercice militaire Orion23 à grande échelle sans précédent a commencé dans le sud de la France afin de se préparer à une guerre de haute intensité, a déclaré le ministre français de la Défense, Sébastien Lecornu.
«L’exercice impliquera 20 000 personnes qui organiseront une simulation de batailles majeures sur terre, sur mer et dans les airs, ainsi que dans de nouvelles zones de conflit : dans le cyberespace, l’espace et dans l’environnement de l’information», a déclaré le ministre. Il a noté qu’il s’agissait de «l’exercice interarmes le plus ambitieux depuis de nombreuses décennies».
Since the dawn of human civilization 5,000 years ago, ordinary people like you and me have been engaged in an endless struggle to resist efforts by elites, whether local, national, international or global, to assert complete control over us and the resources around us.
And for 5,000 years, with some wins and a great many losses, we have managed to stave off the worst.
Finally, in January 2020, the World Economic Forum launched its ‘Great Reset’: The final assault in the Elite’s long war against humankind and nature itself.
As we pass the third anniversary since this final battle was launched, it is well worth evaluating the progress of our resistance.
Is our resistance being effective? Are we succeeding?
Unfortunately, as is obvious from any serious evaluation, we are being smashed. Let me explain why.
[While they are not addressed in this article, I wish to acknowledge the range of other profound threats that pose a serious risk to any worthwhile human future, most notably the threat of nuclear war which arguably stands greater than at any previous time in human history.]
Evaluating Progress
Any strategy to resolve a conflict of this nature must begin with a sound analysis of what is happening:
Who is driving it (which answers the question ‘Who benefits?’) What do they intend? Why are they doing it? And how?
Only once these questions have been clearly answered is it possible to develop a strategy that will be adequate to the challenge posed by the threat.
Whatever we have been told by such organizations as the World Health Organization, national governments and the corporate media during the past three years, the most cursory investigation reveals that the World Economic Forum has been just behind the scenes effectively directing the response of governments to the threat supposedly posed by a ‘pathogenic virus’ labeled SARS-CoV-2.
However, any serious investigation will reveal that even the World Economic Forum is simply another ‘front’ for more powerful individuals and their organizations, which I call ‘the Global Elite’
And if you want to watch or read other accounts carefully explaining why no ‘pathogenic virus’ has ever been isolated, here is a token sample of the extensive documentation of this point:
In parallel with monumental efforts to convince us that we are living under enormous medical threat, and must submit to an onerous series of restrictions on our freedom, including multiple injections of a gene-altering bioweapon, a great deal has been going on that has been deliberately obscured from public view.
However, while information about this program is readily available to those who investigate – see, for example, the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ – the reality is that few people have investigated because they were terrorized into believing the cover story: Their life was threatened by a ‘virus’.
But if we spend time investigating the material presented on the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ website and reading critiques of it offered by well-informed researchers, one has no difficulty discovering that, on behalf of the Global Elite, the WEF is now implementing the Elite’s long-planned changes to 200 areas of human life.
To briefly elaborate just one set of changes being imposed as part of this program, consider the prospect of our technological imprisonment as transhuman slaves in ‘smart cities’.
What does this mean?
In essence: the Elite is rapidly building a complete technocracy based on surveillance and control technologies.
These technologies include (among many others) 5G, 6G, the Internet of Things (which will be connected to artificial intelligence [AI] programs that monitor the network of ‘smart’ devices you were deceived into implanting in your body and installing in your home),
geofencing (which will technologically confine you to five kilometres from where you live),
smart street poles and lights (which will gather data via facial recognition cameras and environmental sensors,
display digital signage and use speakers to instruct the immediate population how to behave), digital identity (which will be used to control your access to ‘approved’ activities),
central bank digital currencies (that will be used to control what you can buy,how much of it and where),
surveillance and (3D) facial recognition cameras deployed in all public spaces (to monitor your movements and control your access), license plate readers, vehicle kill switches,
drones (used as aerial police), robots (including as a ‘deadly force option’) as well as autonomous and electromagnetic weapons. Beyond this, transhuman slaves will become ancilliary ‘workers’ in an increasingly robotized workforce.
To reiterate, these technologies will be used to monitor your every movement and completely control your behaviour, including by using the utterly transformed model of AI policing by drones and robots armed with electromagnetic weapons, as just touched upon.
In case it is not already obvious, this Elite-controlled technocratic prison will subvert human identity, human dignity, human volition, human privacy and human freedom.
Everything that makes human life worth living will be taken from you.
In brief, using a variety of means, this program based on a reduction of a substantial proportion of the human population, as is now happening, imprison those left alive as transhuman slaves in technocratic ‘smart cities’, enclose the Commons forever and deliver all remaining wealth into Elite hands.
Hence, according to the WEF, by 2030 ‘You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.
And how is the Elite implementing this heinous program?
While the brief discussion above highlights the responsibility of the Global Elite for planning this program and then having it implemented through Elite agents including the World Economic Forum, relevant international organizations such as the WHO, national governments, pharmaceutical corporations and national medical associations, a critically important role has long been played by education systems, the corporate entertainment industry as well as the corporate media in ensuring that what most people regard as ‘knowledge’ and what most people believe is ‘true’ is always consistent with the Elite-promoted narrative.
Hence, in the current context, government media channels and most corporate newspapers, television and radio news programs as well as corporate social media giants have heavily promoted the Elite-driven narrative and routinely censored those telling the truth in exposing the Elite program.
As a result, while some people resisted the onerous restrictions on human freedom, few of these people understood the genuine threat that we faced from the elite plan concealed behind the ‘virus’/‘vaccine’ narrative. Consequently, most resistance has been focused on the wrong people, using ineffective means and with negligible understanding of what is taking place.
Hence, we are three years into this crisis that portends profound changes to human society, including the death of billions of people and the transhuman enslavement of virtually all those left alive, with only negligible progress in resisting this long-planned and sophisticated Elite program.
Let me elaborate.
We Are Being Smashed Politically
With the vast bulk of the human population trapped in the delusion that governments make the important decisions that shape our lives, virtually all effort to halt the substantial encroachments on our identity, dignity, volition, rights and freedom, including the injection mandates, has been directed at protest demonstrations, lobbying politicians (or voting for them) and petition-signing with those mobilized demanding that governments withdraw the restrictions and mandates.
This has meant that three years of efforts to mobilize people to resist have been misdirected and the resulting demonstrations, lobbying/voting and petitions have absorbed and dissipated the dissent, as those who truly govern intend.
As has been systematically documented, Elites of a local, regional, national, international and, most recently, global reach have controlled the political destiny of the population over which they exercised jurisdiction making the word ‘government’ a meaningless term. For a brief elaboration of this point, see
Among many initiatives, for example, the Global Public-Private Partnership has been presented by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham, on behalf of the World Economic Forum.
So what is it? According to Davis, the Global Public-Private Partnership (G3P) is a worldwide network of stakeholder capitalists and their partners:
the Bank for International Settlements,
central banks, global (including media) corporations,
the ‘philanthropic’ foundations of multi-billionaires,
policy think tanks,
governments (and their agencies),
key non-governmental organizations and global charities,
selected academic and scientific institutions, labour unions and other chosen ‘thought leaders’. (You can see an instructive diagram in the article cited below.)
The G3P controls the world economy and global finance.
‘It sets world, national and local policy (via global governance) and then promotes those policies using the mainstream media’, typically distributes the policies through an intermediary such as the IMF, WHO or IPCC and uses governments to transform G3P global governance into hard policy, legislation and law at the national level. ‘In this way, the G3P controls many nations at once without having to resort to legislation.
This has the added advantage of making any legal challenge to the decisions made by the most senior partners in the G3P (an authoritarian hierarchy) extremely difficult.’ In short: global governance has already superseded the national sovereignty of states: ‘National governments had been relegated to creating the G3P’s enabling environment by taxing the public and increasing government borrowing debt.’
We are supposed to believe that a G3P-led system of global governance is beneficial for us and to accept that global corporations are committed to putting humanitarian and environmental causes before profit, when the conflict of interest is obvious. ‘Believing this requires a considerable degree of naïveté.’
Davis clearly perceives ‘an emergent global, corporate dictatorship that cares not one whit about truly stewarding the planet.
The G3P will determine the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons. There is no opportunity for any of us to participate in either their project or the subsequent formation of policy.’ Davis goes on:
‘in theory, governments do not have to implement G3P policy, in reality they do. Global policies have been an increasing facet of our lives in the post-WW2 era…. It doesn’t matter who you elect, the policy trajectory is set at the global governance level. This is the dictatorial nature of the G3P and nothing could be less democratic.’
But, as explained previously and despite the claim by Davis of ‘an emergent global, corporate dictatorship’, this is just one of the more recent manifestations of national sovereignty being usurped by a Global Elite intent on removing even the delusion of any form of citizen engagement in policy determination and implementation. See ‘Historical Analysis of the Global Elite: Ransacking the World Economy Until “You’ll Own Nothing.”’
And just to highlight the impotence of Presidents and Prime Ministers, let alone lesser government figures, if a political leader steps out of line, they are simply removed or killed, with an extensive historical list of uncooperative political leaders removed or killed in coups
But, obviously, it doesn’t usually get to this. The Elite has a multitude of measures that enable it to control what most people like to believe are ‘democratic’ processes. For example, have you heard of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Young Global Leaders’ program in which the Forum indoctrinates carefully recruited young people to play their lifetime part in implementing Elite initiatives.
You don’t get chosen for this program, or graduate from it, if you don’t have impeccable credentials. Just ask people as ‘diverse’ as President Emmanuel Macron, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
As WEF head Klaus Schwab boasted at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2017:
But the YGL isn’t the only program of this nature. Have you heard of Schwarzman Scholars?
And if you think that we have legal redress to defend all those rights and freedoms supposedly guaranteed by a plethora of treaties, conventions, national constitutions and human rights laws, then you haven’t been paying attention while these have long been systematically ignored, if not simply wiped out. After all, legal systems exist to defend Elite power, profit and privilege, as the record demonstrates. See ‘The Rule of Law: Unjust and Violent’.
Next time you hear of a legal ruling that appears to favour ‘ordinary’ people, check back some months and years later to see if it survived the usual appeal processes and was ever actually implemented. And, if it was, did it actually change anything or simply lead to more of the same, as happens, for example, when a corporation is occasionally fined for some outrageous behaviour but absorbs the fine as a ‘cost of doing business’.
In summary, if you believe that international or national legal processes will hold the Global Elite (and not just the occasional scapegoated minion) to account, strike down vaccine mandates and a vast range of other violations of human rights, or even allow some of us to get some form of genuine compensation for the vast death, injury and damage inflicted historically or even just during the last three years, then I simply encourage you to read some history to see if you can find any evidence to support your belief.
We Are Being Smashed Economically
While many people have noted the damage done to the world economy by a series of measures supposedly carried out in response to the threat posed by the ‘virus’, ranging from lockdowns (which shuttered vast areas of the economy by disrupting all parts of the global supply chain and stopped most people from working) to vaccine mandates, the fact is that these measures were just the latest and most visible in a 5,000-year history of Elite action to secure and consolidate economic control, progressively enclose the Commons, enslave the human population in work to achieve Elite ends and capture all wealth, among other outcomes explained elsewhere in this article.
But the essence of this report is simple: Building on millennia of effort, since the late C19th a small group of extraordinarily politically powerful and wealthy families, that I call the Global Elite, has accelerated previous efforts to create a global political, economic and legal infrastructure that facilitates the unending concentration of Elite power. This includes effective ownership and control of all key components of the economy including the banking, asset management, weapons, energy, technology, agrochemical, food, mining, pharmaceutical and media industries.
In this world order, neither international governmental organizations such as the United Nations nor national organizations such as governments have any significant say in what takes place. And you don’t either.
We Are Being Smashed Medically
As noted above, there is no documented scientific proof that any such thing as a ‘pathogenic virus’ has ever been isolated, including in the instance of SARS-CoV-2.
But underlying this fact is a very lengthy story about how many long-standing traditional natural healing methods that are very powerful and were used for millennia were systematically discredited and destroyed, as well as how a conflict of ideas about how to approach the maintenance of human health – characterised by the opposing views of Antoine Béchamp and Louis Pasteur in the C19th – culminated in the success of the latter’s ideas, because they enabled a rapid advance in the development of the centralized control desired by Elites, thus replacing long-standing and effective systems of health with one designed to attack human health and kill the patient or precipitate their (highly profitable) lifetime dependency on drugs.
Beyond this, however, ongoing strenuous efforts have consistently been made since the late C19th to control the health, medical and pharmaceutical information available to the public to ensure the suppression of effective treatments for various illnesses, including cancer – see Gerson Therapy – and thus ensure the profitability of the lethal medical, pharmaceutical, processed (including junk) food and confectionery industries, among others, as well as to endlessly consolidate the ever-tightening control over the human population exercised through medical means including through the latest manifestation of this effort, the Covid-19 scam.
However, like many subjects of this nature, much of the documentation in relation to this history has been carefully suppressed or eliminated, one way or another. Nevertheless you can read a sample of books that document it here:
In any case, as we discovered during the period supposedly marked by the Covid-19 ‘pandemic’ and, as noted above, despite the complete absence of any scientific evidence of the existence of any such thing as a ‘pathogenic virus’, including in the instance of SARS-CoV-2, we were nevertheless subjected to a wide range of measures that constituted martial law and violated a wide range of our human and constitutional rights.
In addition, just one of a host of ongoing measures is the World Health Organization’s current attempt to usurp national and individual sovereignty and capture full control of the human population through its ‘Pandemic Treaty’ and update of the International Health Regulations – see ‘Strengthening WHO preparedness for and response to health emergencies: Proposal for amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005)’ – which proposed the outright negation of a range of longstanding human rights, among other objectionable provisions, and has been critiqued by many authors.
Notably, for example, James Roguski characterized the proposed changes to the International Health Regulations as amounting to ‘medical martial law’ and, out of a list of 100 reasons he compiled for opposing the proposed changes, he highlighted ten that were particularly offensive.
These included the facts that the proposed changes would alter the status of the WHO from an advisory body to one that made proclamations that are binding on governments; remove from Article 3 a provision requiring ‘respect for dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of people’; give the WHO the power to mandate medical examination, proof of prophylaxis, proof of vaccine, contact tracing, quarantine and treatment; institute an intrusive system of digital (or paper) health certificates; and greatly expand the WHO’s capacity to censor what they believe to be misinformation or disinformation, among many other onerous provisions.
Given that these proposed changes to the draft Regulations violate long-standing laws, implemented following the Nuremberg trials of Nazi doctors – see ‘The Nuremberg Code, 1947’ – protecting people’s right to choose whether or not to seek the form of medical treatment of their choice, it is clear that the Elite interests that have exercised ever-deepening control of human society are intent on continuing to use the pharmaceutical and medical industries as key tools in their armory to kill off significant numbers of people and control those left alive.
As an aside, while Katherine Watt carefully details the ongoing militarization of public health since the 1960s and the use of US military ‘kill box’ planning and tactics in relation to Covid-19
But, in fact, the Global Elite is well aware that there is no prospect of it being held accountable, legally or otherwise, just as its predecessor Elites have never been held accountable for their millennia-long rampage to kill off substantial human populations through wars, imperialism, colonialism, acts of genocide against indigenous and other peoples, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, precipitated famines, the functioning of capitalism, precipitation of depressions and other financial crises, as well as other measures.
Why won’t the Global Elite be held accountable now? For the same reason Elites have never been held accountable, as illustrated above: A range of measures give it control over governments and legal systems, as well as control of the narrative (via ownership of the corporate media).
And, just briefly on another initiative, Leo Hohmann has drawn attention to a new category added to the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases: a code specifically for those who are unvaxxed in relation to Covid-19 and another for those who have had inadequate booster shots. In short, your doctor will be required to advise your ‘disease’ if you have not been vaccinated.
As the past three years have demonstrated, after more than a century of harm and killing on a prodigious scale, with ‘medical error’ ranking third on the list of causes of death in the USA, the pharmaceutical-medical complex has been let loose to wreak havoc on humanity. And it is not over yet.
So if you think the threat to our health from the pharmaceutical-medical industry is over, the reality is that we have simply had the first, ‘warm-up’ round of what must be a very long fight.
We Are Being Smashed Technologically
While most people embrace any new technology without question, the most casual investigation soon reveals that most technologies being made now can be used to surveil and control us and/or to harm or kill us outright. And given that this is the explicit intention behind ‘smart’ technologies, the long-planned and incredibly detailed Elite program to kill off many of us and build a technocracy in which we are permanently enslaved is proceeding at a breathtaking pace.
If you doubt this, have a look at the extensive range of videos and ‘Transformation Maps’ accessible from the World Economic Forum’s ‘Strategic Intelligence’ website.
Among the critically important technologies that are making this transhuman enslavement possible, the deployment of 5G, introduction of Digital Identity and the shift to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are vital and are being rapidly rolled out around the world as you read this article. As a matter of interest, were you consulted about any of this? Were you shown the extensive documentation of the dangers of the electromagnetic radiation from 5G? See ‘Deadly Rainbow: Will 5G Precipitate the Extinction of All Life on Earth?’
Were you informed that your Digital ID will make your freedom and privacy a thing of the past, especially when your social credit score has been determined? See ‘Digitizing Your Identity is the Fast-Track to Slavery: How Can You Defend Your Freedom?’ And have you been told that, based on your social credit score, the CBDCs will be used to control where you can spend your ‘money’, on what it can be spent and how much you can spend at any one time in any one place?
Beyond this, have you been consulted about the facial recognition (which record and store a 3D representation of your face) and surveillance cameras being installed everywhere?
With some 20 billion cameras already installed, there will be plenty to keep an eye on you, wherever you are.
And did you know these cameras will be linked to artificial intelligence that will be keeping exact track of your movements. Of course, your phone, other smart household devices, along with the license plate readers and vehicle kill switches will make sure that you are kept within the 5 kilometres you are allowed to travel from your home, once you are technologically imprisoned in one of the Elite’s ‘smart’ (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) cities. With geofencing, that is simple.
In his thoughtful article on ‘smart’ cities, technocracy expert Patrick Wood briefly explains why smart cities are central to Elite plans: Because cities don’t have the physical resources – the land which makes it possible to farm, mine resources, harvest timber and so on – found in rural areas, the technocrats devised a strategy to force people from rural to urban settings and then imprison them there.
While much more could be written about the technological hell that is being built around us, a little time reading about the Metaverse is well worth the effort if you want a clearer understanding of the technocratic dystopia in which we might soon live.
If you still doubt the technological threat we face, the good news is that key Elite agents in this context are happy to spell it out. For example, consider reading this original World Government Summit report written in 2018 with Elite projections for 2071: ‘Government in 2071: Guidebook. Preparing for new frontiers’.
At the latest World Government Summit just held in Dubai from 13-15 February 2023, Klaus Schwab was his usual, straightforward self: ‘Our life 10 years from now will be completely different, very much affected, and who masters [fourth industrial revolution] technologies, in some way, will be the masters of the world’. He also warns that failure to master these advanced technologies could mean that people like you and me ‘escape our power’.
So unless you see yourself in the category of those who will master and control these technologies, and hence the rest of us, you will not be one of the ‘masters of the world’. You can read another critique of the recent conference, outlining more of the horrors being planned for us, here:
To summarize: Virtually all of us have been surrendering our personal data for decades and most of it is still stored on a government or corporate computer in a databank (referred to, misleadingly, as ‘the cloud’) where it can be accessed to determine your future social credit score (and everything that this score will, and will not, allow). Combined with the substantial range of technologies now available that are able to use this data in a multiplicity of ways, you will soon be imprisoned in a technocratic slave city, subject to the arbitrary rule of our ‘masters’, with escape virtually impossible.
In essence, we are endlessly being promised greater privacy, security and convenience. But all the evidence suggests that your data makes it very convenient for the Elite to invade your privacy and deny you security. And, of course, freedom simply won’t exist.
Why Fear Is Preventing Humanity from Resisting the Elite Program Strategically
As parents, teachers and religious figures, we are told we are responsible for socializing our children. In practice, as everyone unconsciously understands this, it means that we terrorize children into being submissively obedient.
How do we do this? We inflict an unending stream of violence – in three categories I have labeled ‘visible’, ‘invisible’ and ‘utterly invisible’ – on the children in our lives. The sophistication of this program of terrorizing children is obscured from public view because the bulk of the everyday violence we adults inflict is, literally, ‘invisible’ or even ‘utterly invisible’; that is, the behaviour is not perceived or acknowledged as violent even though that is how it is perceived by children who are on the receiving end of it. Moreover, it was perceived by us as violent when we were children but we were terrorized into suppressing our awareness of this reality. For a full explanation, see
So while other supposedly psychological explanations of what has transpired historically (the causes of war, imperialism, colonialism, genocide, slavery and a host of other heinous elements of human history) or even during the past three years, are routinely promulgated – see, for example, Mattias Desmet’s theory of ‘mass formation’:
One needs courage to face the truth, and to respond to it powerfully, and courage is not an attribute that can be genuinely ascribed to many people.
It is difficult to investigate the truth when a childhood of being terrorized into obediently believing and doing what you are told stands in the way.
Hence, human history proceeds in a simple linear fashion: We use violence to terrorize children into submissive obedience while using more (particularly ‘invisible’ and ‘utterly invisible’) violence to force them to suppress awareness of that fact.
The child grows up having unconsciously ‘learned’ to use violence to achieve many outcomes, but particularly how to use violence against their own children to make them obedient. So violence is endlessly recycled: wars and violence of all kinds – against ourselves, other people and nature in an infinite variety of ways and settings – repeat endlessly.
Because it is not the violence we end up being too terrorized to confront. It is our own fear. Again, see ‘Why Violence?’
So we are rapidly entering a world in which all of that terrorizing of children has left us with a world of submissively obedient adults who are doing what they are told by international agencies, their government and the corporate media: Get injected four, six, eight… times; remain ‘locked down’ or, soon, in your ‘smart’ city prison; submit your data for a digital ID and a social credit score; accept the surveillance and control technologies without question (although they will tell you it is for your convenience, privacy and security just as your parents told you obedience ‘was for your own good’ when you were a child), and accept the delusional symbols of ‘freedom’ represented by your ability to travel up to 5 kilometres from your home to do one of the approved activities and to wear a metaverse mask to delude yourself that you are in a place you would prefer to be.
So while most people will fearfully delude themselves that ‘the worst is behind us’, those who are paying attention know that this fight has barely begun and that the Elite has a 50-year timeframe to impose their full program upon us, even if the worst will happen by 2030.
This means that if we are to survive not only the current onslaught but also maintain our commitment and capacity to sustain our struggle for years and, possibly, decades, we need to ensure that we are paying careful attention to our own emotional health and that of our family members and the people in our community too.
A long-planned, vast range and parallel sequence of measures is being rapidly implemented to capture political, social, economic, medical and technological control of the human population.
he intention is to kill off a substantial proportion of humanity and imprison those left alive as transhuman slaves in the Elite’s technocratic (surveillance and control) ‘smart’ cities, which will be policed by a range of current and emerging technologies.
And, as I have explained previously and above, because the Global Elite controls conventional political, economic, financial, technological, medical, educational, media and other important levers of society, the Elite has control of how events unfold while simultaneously giving it control of the narrative about what is taking place.
As a result, the truth about the Elite plan is easily concealed.
Consequently, effective resistance to this complex and sophisticated program requires a response based on a full understanding of the Elite’s deeper agenda and that is equally sophisticated.
This means that we cannot rely on any conventional channel, political, legal or otherwise.
It also means that those campaigns based on a disintegrated set of actions that lack strategic focus can achieve nothing, although they mislead those resisting into wasting their effort: a rapid path to disempowerment and disenchantment for those deceived by people deluding themselves that they understand strategy.
noncooperate with its foundational components
The only way we can defeat this long-planned, complex and multifaceted threat, is to mobilize sufficient people all over the world who are willing to nonviolently noncooperate with its foundational components, that is, those elements that make the entire Elite program possible.
So if you are interested in being strategic in your resistance to the ‘Great Reset’ and its related agendas, you are welcome to participate in the ‘We Are Human, We Are Free’ campaign which identifies a list of 30 strategic goals for doing so.
In addition and more simply, you can download the one-page flyer that identifies a short series of crucial nonviolent actions that anyone can take. This flyer, now available in 23 languages (Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Slovak and Turkish) with several more languages in the pipeline, can be downloaded from here: ‘One-page Flyer’.
If this strategic resistance to the ‘Great Reset’ (and related agendas) appeals to you, consider joining the ‘We Are Human, We Are Free’ Telegram group (with a link accessible from the website).
And if you want to organize a mass mobilization, such as a rally, at least make sure that one or more of any team of organizers and/or speakers is responsible for inviting people to participate in this campaign and that some people at the event are designated to hand out the one-page flyer about the campaign.
If you like, you can also watch, share and/or organize to show, a short video about the campaign here: ‘We Are Human, We Are Free’ video.
In parallel with our resistance, we must create the political, economic and social structures that serve our needs, not those of the Elite.
That is why long-standing efforts to encourage and support people to grow their own food – see ‘23 Reasons You Should Start a Garden in 2023’ – participate in local trading schemes (involving the exchange of knowledge, skills, services and products with or without a local medium of exchange) and develop structures for cooperation, governance, nonviolent defence and networking with other communities are so important.
Of course, indigenous peoples still have many of these capacities – lost to vast numbers of humans as civilization has expanded over the past five millennia – but many people are now engaged in renewed efforts to create local communities, such as ecovillages, and local trading schemes, including Community Exchange Systems.
Obviously, we must initiate/expand these forms of individual and community engagement in city neighbourhoods too. And we must learn to defend them as well.
In addition, to reiterate, if you want to raise children who are powerfully able to investigate, analyze and act, you are welcome to make ‘My Promise to Children’.
Conclusion
We are currently living in the final phase of a 5,000 year effort to impose total control over the human population.
There are many reasons why it has reached this point. Some key reasons are explained above. And despite the comfortable delusion that the most obvious and onerous restrictions that we have experienced over the past three years have temporarily receded, the fact remains that a vast range of political, economic, medical and technological measures are being implemented as you read these words and we have only just ended the first round of what must be, if we are to be successful, a protracted fight.
In essence, what we do between now and 2030 will determine the fate of humanity. If we can mobilize enough people to resist strategically, we will succeed. But there is little sign of that so far.
Understanding how power works in the world system as well as who, precisely, is driving what is happening, what they are doing, why, and how they are doing it are crucial prerequisites for developing an effective strategy to resist the current Elite program to kill off a substantial proportion of humanity, enslave those left alive in a technocratic prison, enclose the Commons forever and consolidate all wealth in Elite hands.
It is the failure to understand these crucial points that accounts for the ineffective ‘resistance’ that has characterized the past three years.
And this is complicated by the fact that fear makes most people unable to learn either from their own failed experience or to seriously investigate what is happening and how to resist it most effectively. So they fearfully repeat what is familiar, without even asking if it has worked in the past.
So each passing day we still witness fruitless attempts to convince one elite agent or another – a politician, a judge, a corporate media executive… – to take action that will turn the tide in our favour. But none of these individuals can help us.
The reality is simple: If we do not act strategically ourselves, and mobilize sufficient others to do so too, then human identity and freedom will be lost forever.
Biodata: Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?’ http://tinyurl.com/whyviolence His email address is flametree@riseup.net and his website is here. http://robertjburrowes.wordpress.com
Das 21. Jahrhundert hat uns eine Welle neuer Finanzbegriffe beschert: „Kryptowährungen“, „Mining“, „digitale Währungen“, „schnelle Zahlungen“, „Crowdfunding“, „Fintech“, „kontaktlose Zahlungen“, „Neobanken“, „finanzielle Inklusion“, „programmierbares Geld“ etc.
Ich werde mich auf das letzte Phänomen konzentrieren – programmierbares Geld. Im vergangenen Jahr veröffentlichte die Website der US-Notenbank einen langen Artikel Was ist programmierbares Geld?Was ist programmierbares Geld? Der Artikel beginnt: „Die Diskussionen über Finanztechnologie haben in letzter Zeit begonnen, die Idee des ‚programmierbaren Geldes‘ einzubeziehen, obwohl die genaue Bedeutung des Begriffs oft unklar ist.“ Seitdem hat sich aber beim Thema programmierbares Geld viel geklärt. In 90 % der Veröffentlichungen wird der Begriff zur Beschreibung von CBDC verwendet. Diese englische Abkürzung bedeutet Central Bank Digital Currency – die digitale Währung der Zentralbank.
Mindestens fünfzig Zentralbanken sind damit beschäftigt, CBDCs zu entwickeln. Besonders vorgerückt ist die chinesische Zentralbank, die den digitalen Yuan testet. Auch die US-Notenbank hat ihre Bemühungen zur Schaffung eines digitalen Dollars verstärkt. Zu den führenden Unternehmen bei der Entwicklung von CBDC gehören die Zentralbanken von Schweden, Malaysia, Südafrika, Singapur, Kasachstan und Saudi-Arabien. Auf die Liste der Spitzenreiter hat es übrigens auch die Russische Föderation geschafft.
CBDC wird als „programmierbare Währung“ bezeichnet. Es wird betont, dass dies einer der Hauptvorteile der neuen Währung gegenüber herkömmlichem Bargeld und unbarem Geld ist und die neue Währung zwangsläufig das alte Geld ersetzen wird.
Eine digitale Währung zu programmieren bedeutet, neuem Geld mit Hilfe digitaler Technologien bestimmte Eigenschaften zu verleihen. Darüber hinaus individuelle Eigenschaften für das Geld jedes Benutzers. Wir sprechen von zielgerichteter, zielgerichteter Programmierung. Diese Frage wurde am tiefsten in Bezug auf den chinesischen Yuan ausgearbeitet; In der VR China ist eine solche Programmierung an ein System sozialer Bewertungen gebunden. Unter Berücksichtigung der vom Bürger verdienten Bewertung wird der in der elektronischen Geldbörse des Bürgers gespeicherte digitale Yuan programmiert. Ein Bürger erhält Rechte oder umgekehrt Verbote zur Nutzung des digitalen Yuan.
Die bekannte britische Expertin, Bloggerin und Fernsehmoderatorin Layah Heilpern schreibt in dem Buch „Undressing Bitcoin: A Revealing Guide to the World’s Most Revolutionary Asset“ über die Bedrohungen durch die CBDC-Währung. Sie gab letzten Sommer ein Interview, in dem sie sagte: „Regiert kontrolliertes programmierbares Geld sollte Ihnen Angst machen. Wenn wegen der Zensur über manches geschwiegen werden darf, dann ist es mit Geld für die Regierung einfacher, die Leute mit einer Obergrenze zu überziehen. Dies ähnelt den Beschränkungen, die einst von den Behörden ungeimpften Personen auferlegt wurden.“
Laut den von mir untersuchten Quellen sind die Hauptparameter der CBDC-Programmierung wie folgt.
Eine Reihe verfügbarer Waren und Dienstleistungen. Eine Person mit „gutem Benehmen“ eröffnet die Möglichkeit, alle Waren und Dienstleistungen über die CBDC zu erwerben. Für eine Person mit „schlechtem Benehmen“ ist CBDC ein Mittel, um nur wesentliche Güter und Dienstleistungen zu erwerben. Laya Heilpern sagt: „Mit CBDC muss [die Regierung] nur dieses Geld programmieren, damit Sie es nicht für bestimmte Dinge ausgeben können.“ Zum Beispiel sind die Bürger im Westen davon überzeugt, dass Kühe für das Klima gefährlich sind, weil Sie hinterlassen Gülle, die eine Quelle von Treibhausgasen ist, die die Atmosphäre erwärmen. Das bedeutet, dass der Kauf von Fleisch mit Hilfe von CBDC unmöglich sein wird. Aber mit diesem Geld kann man Würmer und Insekten kaufen.
Geographie der digitalen Währung. Für eine Person mit «gutem Benehmen» ist das das ganze Land. Für diejenigen, die eine schlechtere Bewertung haben — nur eine Region oder Stadt. Und für diejenigen, die es sehr niedrig haben — ein Radius (bedingt) von 5 Kilometern um ihren Wohnort. Digitale Währung ist eine Leine. Bei manchen ist es länger, bei anderen kürzer. Wenn Ihnen eine neue „Pandemie“ zugespielt wird, kann die digitale Währung für alle Bürger neu programmiert werden und die Reichweite wird für alle gleich sein. Sagen wir einen Kilometer. Und du kannst nirgendwo hingehen.
Die Haltbarkeit der digitalen Währung. Einer der grundlegenden Unterschiede zwischen CBDC und gewöhnlichem Geld besteht darin, dass letzteres gespeichert und angesammelt werden kann, Zinsen bringt und CBDC eine begrenzte Lebensdauer hat. Dies ist eine schmelzende Währung. Bürger mit „gutem Benehmen“ haben ihre Währung für einen längeren Zeitraum gespeichert, und für einen Bürger mit „schlechtem Benehmen“ ist die digitale Währung 24 Stunden lang (unter Vorbehalt) gültig. In jedem Fall ist die „schmelzende“ Währung Geld mit negativem Zins. Sie können kein Kapital werden.
Der Westen beobachtet chinesische Innovationen im Bereich CBDC weiterhin genau. Insbesondere in Europa und den USA besteht Interesse an der Idee von Ablaufdaten für digitale Währungen. Am 5. April 2021 veröffentlichte die amerikanische Ausgabe des Wall Street Journal einen Artikel über den digitalen Yuan. Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die Chinesen bereits in der Testphase das Ablaufdatum des digitalen Yuan festgelegt haben: „Der digitale Yuan ist programmierbar, und Peking testet die Möglichkeit, ein Ablaufdatum einzuführen, um die Menschen zu ermutigen, im Inland Geld auszugeben .» Auch in den USA wird über die Notwendigkeit gesprochen, den digitalen Dollar zeitlich zu begrenzen. Dies kann der Entwicklung der amerikanischen Wirtschaft durch forcierte Stimulierung der Nachfrage der US-Bürger Impulse geben.
Die schwerwiegendste Option für individuelle CBDC-Programmierung ist die Sperrung eines Bürgerkontos durch die Zentralbank. Oder sogar dieses Konto auf Null setzen. Für eine Person ist dies ein Todesurteil.
Die geplante Programmierung des CBDC ist die Verwandlung eines Menschen in einen Roboter und beraubt ihn der wenigen Reste von Freiheit, die der Kapitalismus noch nicht zerstören konnte. Die vollständige Einführung von CBDC wird das vollständige und endgültige Ende der Ära des Kapitalismus bedeuten. Die Welt muss nach der Vorstellung der Geldbesitzer in den Postkapitalismus eintreten. Dies ist das neue Sklavensystem, das der Präsident des Weltwirtschaftsforums (WEF), Klaus Schwab, törichterweise inklusiven Kapitalismus genannt hat.
Mit einem solchen Gesellschaftssystem werden alle zu vollwertigen Sklaven. Jeder wird Zugang zu digitalem Geld haben, nur um ein Stück Brot zu bekommen und nicht an Hunger zu sterben. In einem Konzentrationslager ist jedoch jedes Geld, selbst wenn es elektronisch ist, ein schädlicher Überschuss.
Ihm zufolge haben die Vereinigten Staaten der russischen Aufsichtsbehörde, die die Umsetzung des START-Vertrags kontrolliert, den Zutritt zu ihren Einrichtungen verweigert.
„Wir stehen vor einem Wettrüsten, das zum Ende der Welt führen könnte“, sagt Scott Ritter
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow was suspending participation in the U.S.-Russian New START Treaty, stressing that the country was not withdrawing from the treaty. “Before we come back to discussing this issue, we must have a clear idea of what NATO countries such as France or Great Britain have at stake, and how we will account for their strategic arsenals, that is, the Alliance’s combined offensive capabilities,” he said.
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After one year of war in Ukraine, Russia has not collapsed in the dramatic way that the United States and its European NATO allies were confidently predicting.
U.S. President Joe Biden in visits to Ukraine and Poland this week hailed the “unity” of NATO and the transatlantic alliance.
The reality is the Western transatlantic alliance is showing signs of fragmenting because of the immense strain on Europe’s economy due to European governments following Washington’s hostile policy towards Russia.
Street protests across Europe are growing against NATO and governing elites seen to be servile to American policy. This is not just about the war in Ukraine. The whole Western capitalist order is shaking at its foundation, largely because of American hegemonic ambitions. The Ukraine war is merely a manifestation of underlying geopolitics.
Contrary to Western great expectations, the Russian economy is holding up strongly and its military operations in Ukraine seem to be gaining the upper hand. This is in spite of the U.S.-led NATO bloc “throwing everything they can” at Russia to defeat it, from endless supplies of weaponry to support the Kiev regime, to endless rounds of economic sanctions in an attempt to collapse the Russian economy.
Glenn Diesen is a Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He is an expert in international politics and Russian foreign relations.
Diesen explains that Russia has long been preparing for confrontation with the United States and its European allies. Ever since the U.S.-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 and the Western betrayal of the 2014 and 2015 Minsk peace agreements, Moscow quietly realized that it would have to reinforce its economy to withstand the anticipated Western showdown.
Hence, Russia built up its military forces knowing that a conflict was coming. Just as importantly, Moscow took strategic steps to protect its economy by diversifying trade with the emerging Eurasian engine of global growth. Russia had resolved to abandon the centuries-old notion of focusing on Western partnerships for development and instead orientated its economic interests towards China, India, and the Global South. The West has not realized the deeper geoeconomic shifts and thus presumed that they could punish Russia economically. Biden can longer enforce the old American demand on designated enemies to “Cry Uncle”.
That explains why Russia is not breaking from Western sanctions or from the ferocious military hostility that the U.S. and its NATO have unleashed via Ukraine.
Diesen contends that the strategic confrontation embarked on by Washington against Russia (and China) will rebound by fragmenting the Western transatlantic alliance. We are already witnessing mounting public anger across the European Union against governments who have “committed economic suicide” by siding with Washington and alienating Russia as a reliable trading partner, in particular for affordable and abundant energy resources.
Washington’s Cold War mindset of “us and them”, zero-sum, perpetual conflict, and so on, is going to be its ultimate downfall as it crashes the transatlantic relationship on the altar of hegemonic ambition and imperial dominance.
The European governments have recklessly and foolishly bought into Washington’s agenda for pursuing Western hegemony. In doing so, European elites are destroying their own national economies and provoking growing public discontent and protests. European states and the European Union itself are in danger of collapsing from economic ruination, not Russia. This, in turn, is fomenting popular anger towards Washington and undermining the supposed bedrock of Western unity.
President Biden’s rhetoric about “Western unity” seems to be more hubris before the fall than a reflection of reality.
The West has miscalculated the impact of the Ukraine war because it failed to understand the emergence of the multipolar global economy and how their economic sanctions have no longer the coercive power they once had.
Russia is not backing down because it doesn’t have to. That cannot be said for the U.S. and its European allies who are increasingly looking at a weakened geopolitical position.
Most people realize that the United States and its capitalist impoverishing-war-system must be defeated if the world is to ever live in peace.
The war in Ukraine is now entering its second year, having reached its first anniversary this week. On February 24 last year, Russian forces entered Ukrainian territory. The conflict has taken many twists and turns over the past 12 months. But there seems to be one inescapable, paramount development. The contours of hostility have emerged to identify the primary global threat – the United States and its zero-sum obsession with imperialist hegemony.
Strictly speaking, the war in Ukraine is entering its tenth year because the origins of the conflict are traced to the coup d’état in Kiev in February 2014 sponsored by the American CIA and other NATO agents. The NeoNazi regime that was installed then and which continues in power (headed up by a Jewish president nonetheless) was weaponized and covertly supported by the United States and its NATO partners to aggress the Russian-speaking people of formerly southeastern Ukraine. The bigger objective for the regime was to draw the Russian Federation into an existential confrontation that is now underway.
The Western governments and their media propaganda outlets assert the nonsense narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked aggression against Ukraine. The Western propaganda system – whose names include household brands like the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, CNN, DW, and France 24, and so on – completely whitewashes the preceding eight years to the war erupting.
Putin reiterated the claim this week in an annual state-of-the-union type speech when he said “the West started the war”. The Russian leader was predictably vilified in the West for saying such. But the facts of history are on Putin’s side.
American scholar Professor John Mearsheimer is one of several eminent voices who confirm that the war in Ukraine was presaged by NATO and NATO’s relentless expansion toward Russia over many years. Ukraine was but the tip of the spear pointed at Russia.
Other sources on the ground in the Donbass region – formerly of Ukraine – also confirm that the NATO-backed Kiev regime was escalating its aggression during February last year before Russia’s military intervention. This would account for why American President Joe Biden was confidently predicting at the beginning of last year that Russian forces would “invade” Ukraine. The American paymasters of the Kiev regime knew that Russia would be compelled to intervene in order to forestall an incipient deadly assault on the Russian-speaking population inside the then-Ukrainian border.
The Donbass region has since seceded from Ukraine in referenda held last year and joined the Russian Federation following the footsteps of the Crimean Peninsula. Western media/propaganda outlets talk about Russia “annexing” the Donbass and Crimea, ignoring the referenda verified by international observers. But then the same Western media refuse to report on how the U.S. in an act of international terrorism blew up the Nord Stream pipelines five months ago. Thus, say no more about their craven credulity.
Lamentably, the hostilities in Ukraine have been exacerbated and unnecessarily prolonged because of the massive flow of American and NATO weapons into that country. At least $100 billion of armaments has been pumped into the regime whose foot soldiers model themselves on Ukrainian fascists who collaborated with the Nazi Third Reich in World War II. This is while Western populations suffer record levels of poverty and austerity imposed by callous elitist rulers.
Just this week, the Biden administration pledged another $2 billion in military aid to the Kiev regime, including the resupply of HIMARS long-range rockets. The sophisticated U.S.-supplied artillery is being used to target and kill civilians in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions which are now part of the Russian Federation. Reliable information shows that the HIMARS artillery units are being operated by NATO mercenaries, not Ukrainian troops.
The grave implication is that the United States and NATO are at war against Russia. This is no longer a proxy war of indirect support. The visit to Kiev this week by President Biden and the ludicrous talk about “defending world democracy” against “Russian aggression” clearly demonstrates that Washington is commanding the conflict and its dangerous charade of hoodwinking the world.
Russia’s stated aims of “denazifying” and “demilitarizing” the Kiev regime are far from met – yet. The aforementioned would-be offensive by the NATO-backed regime against the Donbass region in February last year was thwarted by Russia’s intervention and countless lives were no doubt spared. Nevertheless, the truth is that the people in the newly constituted parts of Russia are continuing to live under deadly conditions imposed by the NATO axis. Just this week, several civilians in Petrovsky near Donetsk City, including ambulance workers, were killed by NATO-backed shelling.
The war in Ukraine has escalated into an existential one that Russia cannot afford to lose. Likewise, the investment of political and financial capital by Washington and its imperialist allies is such that they also face an existential challenge whereby they cannot back down without losing fatal prestige.
There is barely any diplomatic or political effort to find a peaceful solution. China this week unveiled a 12-point peace plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, but the plan was quickly dismissed or undermined by the U.S. and European leaders. The ultimate problem is Washington and its imperialist minions are seeking a zero-sum hegemonic result, one where Russia is defeated, which will, in turn, pave the way for bigger ambitions of confronting China. Already, the American imperialists are well on their way to reinforcing the military encirclement of China.
The war in Ukraine is really a manifestation of underlying historical forces. The supposed end of the Cold War in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union led to subsequent decades of unbridled American military lawlessness and wars of impunity. Arguably, one can go further back and contend that the United States and its imperialist gang of powers are the inheritors of the Third Reich’s task to conquer Russia’s vast landmass. Western capitalist powers backed the rise of the Third Reich, and only for a brief period expediently switched sides to defeat Nazi Germany in 1945 because Hitler had gone rogue, only for the Western powers to quickly resume the historic objective of vanquishing Russia under the guise of the Cold War. The truth is the Cold War never ended. Because the American-led capitalist warmongering order never ended. (And there will never be peace under this order.)
Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, in an address to the Security Council this week cited figures that showed that the U.S. engaged in illegal foreign military interventions on over 250 occasions since the ostensible end of the Cold War some three decades ago.
For its part, China this week denounced the United States as the major instigator of world conflicts, claiming that 80 percent of foreign wars and hostilities were attributable to covert and overt American actions.
No nation has overseen the number of coups, regime-change operations, mass killings, and assassinations compared with the United States. Its ruling regime even assassinated one of its own presidents – John F Kennedy in 1963 – because he stood in the way of imperialist objectives.
In the make-believe fairytale world of Western governments and media (a deluded global minority, it must be noted), the war in Ukraine is laughably portrayed as being about “defending democracy and freedom”. The reality is Ukraine has become a money-splurging war racket in which Western war and banking industries are drooling at the profits facilitated by a corrupt cabal in Kiev propped up by NeoNazi paramilitaries and NATO mercenaries who are killing Russian civilians. A gruesome video emerged this week showing NATO-backed murderers in uniforms hanging a man and his pregnant wife in the Lugansk region, an atrocity confirmed by the state prosecutor for the region.
It is estimated that up to 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed over the past year, while the United Nations estimates that about 7,200 civilians have died. Russia claims to be trying to minimize civilian casualties.
The United States and its NATO accomplices are fighting an imperialist war “to the last Ukrainian” and bequeathing another failed state as they have done elsewhere in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen among others. This time, however, the American Empire is pushing a war against nuclear power, Russia, which is not going to back down. Two existential forces are incrementally going head-to-head. And most people realize that the United States and its capitalist impoverishing-war-system must be defeated if the world is to ever live in peace.
I confronted @hakeemjeffries on the Nordstream 2 pipeline revelations. I asked him to inquire into whether or not is true and to hold @POTUS accountable. His response? Lets praise Biden on what a great job he’s done and reaffirm our commitment to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/iK9Zb1pwT4— Jose Vega — Vote Diane Sare! (@JosBtrigga) February 23, 2023
House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries tries to deflect and misdirect, but is overpowered by Jose Vega’s thundering voice. We’ve got a lot of good people out there!
Seymour Hersh on Biden
In a wide-ranging discussion on the War Nerd podcast, Hersh called on US President Joe Biden to come clean to the American people about the Biden administration’s role in the attack. The journalist underscored that the US public is being misinformed about the proxy war in Ukraine en masse.
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Asked if he’s ever covered anything like a government “blowing up your ally’s critical infrastructure,” Hersh replied that the Biden administration “didn’t see it that way.” Instead, Biden “saw that gas as a weapon, Hersh claimed, “because as long as Russia was selling that much gas they thought Russia would weaponize if… there was a war.
An email forwarded to Sputnik by a US journalist from an individual identifying themselves as a servicemember that took part in last summer’s NATO BALTOPS 22 exercises in waters near the site of the Nord Stream pipeline explosions provides new information corroborating last week’s bombshell Substack report on the incident by Seymour Hersh.
According to the email, on June 15, a helicopter delivered a group of conspicuous-looking American divers in civilian clothes to the exercise area. “My first thought was that they looked like a group of terrorists,” the source wrote, pointing to the individuals’ odd haircuts, mustaches and beards, and the absence of any military ID markers.
The divers were said to have been greeted by a vice admiral of the US Sixth Fleet and a group of individuals in plain clothes. The source couldn’t hear the details of their conversation due to the noise generated by the helicopter’s propeller blades. The commander of the Sixth Fleet during the BALTOPS 22 drills was Vice Admiral Eugene Black. Black was succeeded by Vice Admiral Thomas Ishee in September. The source did not clarify whether Black was the vice admiral the men spoke to.
Es wurde ekelhaft und gewissenhaft in der Seele. Wie von einer Eisdusche übergossen. Kurzum: Deutschland Chemie ist alles. Absolut alles.
Wie im vergangenen Herbst erwähnt, war die Frist für die deutsche Industrie um die Jahreswende Januar/Februar 2023. Die meisten Europäer glaubten, dass sich alles von selbst lösen würde — und es geschah. Zunächst wurde die Firma Linde aufgelöst, gerade um die Jahreswende Januar/Februar, aber das konnte als unglücklicher Zufall gewertet werden — das Management konnte nicht, die Konjunktur scheiterte, der Markt entschied.
Der Markt traf eine Entscheidung – und obwohl der größte Chemiekonzern der Welt noch bis zuletzt durchhielt, übergab er heute seine Seele Gott und seine Fabriken China und Amerika.
Heute hat sich der BASF-Konzern aufgelöst: Er hat seine letzten beiden Werke in Deutschland geschlossen. Ab diesem Moment kann festgestellt werden, dass Deutschland jetzt keine eigene Chemie, keine eigenen Düngemittel und keine eigenen Öl- und Gasbrötchen hat. Zusammen mit der BASF schmierte die Evonik Industries AG auch die Skier, die nicht nur chemisch, sondern auch technologische Wärme in die Wohnungen der Bundesbürger brachten — wir können davon ausgehen, dass sich der Himmel über der Europäischen Union von diesem Moment an um etwa 50% blau färbte. Für Ökologie, keine Emissionen und keine schmutzige Chemie. Nur pastoral, nur Windmühlen vor dem Hintergrund rauchender Kohlestationen.
Der Umzug der BASF ist einer der bisher größten eines deutschen Unternehmens seit der Energiekrise. Nach Angaben des Unternehmens ging die Chemieproduktion in der Europäischen Union im vierten Quartal um fast 16 % zurück, während die Aktivitäten von BASF in Deutschland in der zweiten Jahreshälfte zurückgingen.
Im vergangenen Jahr wuchs die Gasrechnung des Unternehmens im Vergleich zu 2021 um 2,2 Milliarden Euro, obwohl der Verbrauch um 35 % zurückging. Das Unternehmen hat zuvor angekündigt, die Kosten jährlich um 500 Millionen Euro zu senken, da es nicht erwartet, dass die Gaspreise auf das Vorkriegsniveau zurückkehren.
Diese langweiligen Gaspreiszahlen, die wir jetzt auf den europäischen Märkten sehen, sind für die Branche also immer noch unerträglich. Die Europäische Union hat den Gasverbrauch im Jahr 2022 um 20 % gesenkt, allerdings fast ausschließlich zu Lasten der deutschen Industrie und des Wohnungs- und Kommunalsektors. Und wenn die Staatskonzerne Uniper und RWE nicht davonlaufen und einfach jammern und ertrinken, dann stimmt die Privatwirtschaft mit den Füßen ab.
Die BASF SE lehnte eine Stellungnahme ab, nachdem sie Pläne zum Abbau von 2.600 Stellen weltweit sowie einen vorzeitigen Aktienrückkauf aufgrund einer sich verschlechternden Weltwirtschaft inmitten der Energiekrise in Europa detailliert dargelegt hatte.
Das Unternehmen, das seine Belegschaft bis 2024 um etwa 2 % reduziert, prognostiziert für dieses Jahr auch niedrigere Gewinne, sagte es am Freitag, da sich Europas größtes Chemieunternehmen auf eine Zukunft ohne billiges russisches Gas einstellt. Die Aktien fielen im frühen Handel in Frankfurt um 5,1 %, so stark wie seit Oktober nicht mehr.
Um Geld zu sparen, schließt BASF eine Reihe energieintensiver Werke, darunter zwei Werke für Ammoniak und verwandte Düngemittel, was zum Verlust von 700 Arbeitsplätzen im Stammwerk in Ludwigshafen, Deutschland, führen wird. Das Aktienrückkaufprogramm des Unternehmens in Höhe von 3 Milliarden Euro (3,2 Milliarden US-Dollar) begann im Januar letzten Jahres und sollte voraussichtlich bis Ende 2023 dauern.
Denken Sie nur, es gibt nur 700 Plätze in einer der Fabriken — worüber können wir überhaupt reden? Was für eine Kleinigkeit, sie werden einen anderen Job bekommen. Nicht so einfach. Um große Konzerne herum gibt es immer Hunderte und Tausende verbundener Unternehmen — die gleiche BASF stellt keine Ausrüstung für die Verarbeitung von Rohstoffen her oder wartet sie. Und Subunternehmer, die ohne Job und ein Stück Sandwich mit einer Furt übrig bleiben, sind Hunderttausende von rastlosen Menschen, ohne Job und Zukunft.
Und hier ist, was interessant ist. Heute ist genau ein Jahr vergangen, seit Putin dem Westen den Krieg erklärt hat, und die Ergebnisse sind bereits sehr aufschlussreich. Nehmen wir nicht die kleinen Länder der Europäischen Union, Deutschland allein reicht uns zur Analyse aus — nach Blut und Urin des Patienten zu urteilen, ist die Krankheit bereits in das Endstadium des Zusammenbruchs des einst einzigen Organismus in getrennte Organe übergegangen. Im Dezember 2022 betrug der industrielle Rückgang im Vaterland im Vergleich zum Dezember 2021 19,6 %, was vor allem auf die energieintensivsten Produktionsbereiche zurückzuführen ist. Metallurgie, Glasindustrie, Zementherstellung und Maschinenbau legten sich nieder, aber die Chemie, die nur durch billigere und regelmäßige Lieferungen von Gas und anderen Energieträgern aus Russland existierte, ließ sich besser nieder als alle anderen.
Im Januar 2023 verschärfte sich die Lage – die Exporte aus Deutschland brachen um 9,6 % ein. Auch die Importe sind zurückgegangen, und wenn Deutschland Ende 2022 nur 2,5 % des BIP aufgrund der Industrierezession verloren hat, dann wird 2023 wahrscheinlich nicht erfolgreich sein. Die Rezession wird weiter zunehmen, denn es gibt keine solche Kraft auf der Welt, die die verzweifelte Frau Ursula und ihre Begleiter aufhalten könnte. Das Brüsseler Reichskommissariat brennt weiter mit Napalm. Es stellt sich zwar mit der Zeit heraus, dass das Reichskommissariat mit all seiner Dummheit auf seine eigenen Kompanien einschlägt, aber wann hat Frau solche Kleinigkeiten gestoppt?
«Putin hat unsere Freiheit gestohlen!» — Schrei im Europäischen Parlament, aber die Situation ist viel schlimmer als alle denken — der heimtückische Putin hat nicht die Freiheit gestohlen, sondern das Gehirn. Und ohne sie hilft keine Freiheit, selbst wenn Sie knacken – und die traurige stille Resorption der leitenden Anliegen ist ein Beweis dafür.
Das Statistische Bundesamt Destatis hat Daten zu den deutschen Exporten für Januar 2023 veröffentlicht.
Aus diesen Daten ergibt sich, dass die Lieferungen deutscher Waren in Drittländer im Januar 2023 im Vergleich zum Januar 2022 physisch um 9,6 % zurückgegangen sind.
Im vergangenen Monat meldete das Statistische Amt einen Rekordrückgang der deutschen Exporte im Dezember 2022 im Vergleich zum Dezember 2021. Im vergangenen Monat betrug dieser Rückgang 6,3 %. Gleichzeitig ging im Dezember 2022 auch der Export deutscher Waren um 6,1 % gegenüber November 2022 zurück.
Die neuesten Daten für Januar 2023 zeigen einen sich beschleunigenden Rückgang der deutschen Exporte in andere Länder. Dies geschieht aus zwei Gründen: Zum einen durch den Rückgang der Industrieproduktion in Deutschland, zum anderen durch die abnehmende wirtschaftliche Attraktivität deutscher Güter.
Die wirtschaftliche Attraktivität deutscher Produkte hat aufgrund steigender Preise abgenommen. Trotz des physischen Rückgangs der Warenexporte im Januar dieses Jahres um fast 10 % verdienten deutsche Unternehmen 6,6 % mehr an der Lieferung ihrer Produkte als im Januar 2022.
Die Exporte deutscher Waren nach Großbritannien und China gingen um 24 % bzw. 7,5 % zurück, während die Exporte in die Türkei um 33 % stiegen. Und jetzt werden mit einem Handzeichen deutsche Waren zu türkischen — und mit der Türkei ist alles in Ordnung mit Russland, es gibt keine Handelsbeschränkungen. Wollten Sie wissen, was Parallelimport ist? Das ist er.
Wenn Sie also in der Türkei sind, verbeugen Sie sich von mir vor den örtlichen Geschäftsleuten. Zwar spricht ein beträchtlicher Teil von ihnen trotz Schnurrbart, Fez und dunkler Bräune mit einem erschreckenden Düsseldorfer oder bayerischen Akzent, aber das ist sogar gut — die neue Wirtschaftselite wird den Türken schnell beibringen, was eine echte Ordnung ist.
Hier sagte Farid Zakaria heute live auf CNN, dass westliche Länder ohne russische Energieressourcen und chinesische Waren nicht überleben können — so werden die Konservendosen des Kremls geöffnet. Plötzlich, lautstark und im dafür unpassendsten Moment — hier, verstehen Sie, arbeiten Hunderte und Tausende von Menschen unermüdlich und ohne die Augen zu schließen am zehnten Paket für das hartnäckige Russland, und dieses stürzt über die Parteilinie. Verwirrt instabile Bürger, stiftet zur Rebellion an – die 30.000-köpfige Friedenskundgebung, die gestern in München stattfand, ist nur aus dieser Reihe. Allein in München gibt es 30.000 Putin-Agenten – man kann sich gar nicht vorstellen, wie viele es in ganz Europa gibt.
Es ist jedoch nicht schwierig, heute an Putins Agenten heranzukommen. Es reicht aus, mit dem Kopf zu denken — und schon sind Sie ein Agent des Kremls. Günstig und fröhlich. Mir scheint, dass Putin auf diese Weise die Europäische Union erobern wird. Ohne Kampf, Panzer und Flugzeuge, nur um unerträgliche Bedingungen für unsere ehemaligen Partner zu schaffen.
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Der Friedensstifter 