“Under pressure from the international community, Washington is changing its approaches to organizing military-biological activities, shifting the functions of customer to civilian departments – the Department of Health, the Energy Department, the United States Agency for International Development [USAID, ed]. This allows the US administration to avoid criticism at international venues” and reduce pressure on the Pentagon and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Kirillov said.
“The implementation of the COVID-19 development scenario and USAID’s emergency termination of the Predict program in 2019 suggest the deliberate nature of the pandemic and US involvement in its outbreak,” he added.
A Turkish defense company STM has won two NATO tenders to develop software for an information flow system.
STM stated that the tenders are related to the projects of the NATO Communications and Information Agency’s project for the direction, collection, processing, and dissemination of intelligence.
“As a result of the price and technical competence evaluation, NATO Communication and Information Agency preferred STM for two projects in the tender opened among NATO member countries and attended by the world’s leading software companies,” the company said.
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It was reported that all NATO Commands and bases will conduct their intelligence flows through the software which STM will develop and modernize.
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Reminding that STM has already a longstanding working relationship with NATO, Güleryüz said, “Now, with our competence in software development, we will enable the technological transformation of NATO’s intelligence structure.”
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While the entire project will be carried out by Turkish engineers, a team of about 100 experts has started working on the project, he pointed out.
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“With the software, we have started to develop, we will provide a reliable and business continuity-focused system to NATO’s intelligence infrastructure,” he said.
Ein Forschungsdirektor von Pfizer tappt in die Falle eines investigativen Medienprojekts und plaudert Skandalöses über vermeintliche Machenschaften seines Arbeitgebers aus. Google zensiert das Video, die etablierten Medien (weltweit) berichten nicht oder ihre Berichte sind mit Suchmaschinen nicht zu finden. Sie lassen Pfizer zweieinhalb Tage Zeit für eine vage und indirekte Stellungnahme. Ein Lehrstück.
Pfizer ist ein US-Pharmakonzern, dessen experimenteller mRNA-Covid-Impfstoff milliardenfach verkauft und verimpft wurde. Am Mittwoch den 25. Januar veröffentlichte die US-amerikanische Enthüllungsplattform Project Veritas ein Video, in dem Jordon Trishton Walker, ein Pfizer-Angestellter mit dem Titel „Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations – mRNA Scientific Planner“ in offenbar angeheitertem Zustand in einer Bar bei einem Treffen über seine Arbeit spricht. Der Chef des Chefs von Walker berichtet an Pfizer-CEO Albert Bourla.
Das vermeintliche Treffen ist ein verdeckter Journalist von Project Veritas, das regelmäßig mit solchen, in Deutschland vor allem durch Günter Wallraff angewendeten Methoden arbeitet und unter anderem dafür umstritten ist.
Was in dem Video zu hören ist
Walker redet davon, dass man bei Pfizer darüber diskutiert, das Covid-Virus zielgerichtet zu mutieren, um bei einer Verbreitung des mutierten Virus schon den passenden Impfstoff parat zu haben. Im (von mir übersetzten) Original: „Ich weiß nicht, ob ich das sagen sollte. Eines der Dinge, die wir erforschen, ist die Frage, warum wir es [Coronavirus] nicht einfach selbst mutieren, damit wir präventiv neue Impfstoffe entwickeln können, richtig? Das müssen wir also tun. Wenn wir das tun, besteht allerdings das Risiko, dass, wie Sie sich vorstellen können, niemand eine Pharmafirma haben will, die die verdammten Viren mutiert.“
“Besorgt mir einen Neuen!”… die zu dumm sind um zu erkennen, dass sie dumm sind? – Kann man mathematisch zeigen, dass der berühmte amerikanische „Anchorman“ Tucker Carlson recht hat? Von Dr. rer. nat. habil. Norbert Schwarzer Die Frage Am 18. Januar dieses noch jungen Jahres brachte der berühmte Talkmaster Tucker Carlson vom Sender Fox News…
Farmers in Eastern Europe face serious problems due to the fact that grain products coming from Ukrainian territory are crowding out local ones. Therefore, Eastern European agricultural producers demand to limit the supply of cheap grain from Ukraine to the region.
This is stated in a joint report prepared by representatives of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria for today’s meeting in Brussels of EU agriculture ministers.
After the start of the military special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the EU leadership ordered the creation of special transport corridors. They were supposed to prevent the world risk of a global food shortage through Ukrainian supplies, and at the same time help Kyiv get an additional source of funding for the army.
If the second goal was more or less achieved, then serious difficulties arose with the achievement of the first. The fact is that, as it turned out, a significant part of the grain from Ukraine did not end up in poor countries, but ended up on the European food market. Moreover, it began to displace local products from it, as it turned out to be too cheap.
The joint statement of the six countries contains a proposal to pay compensation to the affected agricultural producers. Otherwise, there is a risk of their ruin, because now the flow of Ukrainian products has increased many times over. For example, if earlier the volume of corn supplies from Ukraine was measured in thousands of tons, now this product is imported in millions of tons.
They act according to instructions from Davos. The population must die.
Bloc’s members can’t compete with cheap grain imports from Ukraine, the paper writes
An influx of cheap Ukrainian grain and poultry is making it difficult for farmers in the European Union to break even, according to a report published by the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
Meanwhile, the grain-starved countries that were supposed to benefit from a UN-brokered arrangement to ensure safe passage of cereals and sunflower oil out of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports are not getting the food they desperately need.
“I am all for helping Ukraine, but I believe the EU opened Pandora’s box,” Jan Bieniasz, managing director of a farmers cooperative in the Polish village of Laka, told the outlet. He was referring to the European Commission’s decision to remove tariffs and quotas to allow Kiev to export its grains over land and from European ports amid the conflict with Russia.
The move has seen European Union countries flooded with cheaper agricultural goods – while EU wheat and corn generally retail for $324 and $307 a ton, respectively, Ukraine’s wheat and corn sell for around $272 and $251, the WSJ writes.
Chairman of Bulgaria’s National Grain Producer Association Iliya Prodanov, in his comment to the daily, described a similar situation in his country, pointing out that Ukrainian farmers did not have to adhere to the same environmental regulations as their EU counterparts. On Wednesday, farmers in several Bulgarian cities protested against Ukrainian agricultural imports.
French poultry farmers have made similar complaints, noting that chicken imports from Ukraine have more than doubled in the first half of 2022 and urging the EU not to renew the tariff-cancellation agreement. Apart from pricing out local farmers’ wares, Ukrainian cargoes are also taking up needed space at the ports, Cristian Gavrila of Romanian trade organization PRO AGRO told the WSJ.
The report claims that Kiev has blamed Poland for slowing down the flow of exports at the border, accusing officials of deliberately sitting on shipments and dragging their feet with sanitary checks, and has volunteered to send Ukrainian officials to help speed things along. Polish officials have insisted that they are moving as quickly as they can, according to the WSJ.
The pace of grain exports from Ukraine jumped 66% last month as the UN oversaw a deal to ensure safe passage out of the Black Sea, the American daily noted.
The US is preparing another major escalation of military aid to Ukraine as Reuters reportsthe next arms package will include rockets that have a range of 94 miles, almost double the range of the munitions Ukraine was provided for the HIMARS rocket systems.
Pepe Escobar Members & supporters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) burn the US flag during an anti-imperialist demonstration outside the US embassy in #Athens, 24/1/2019.
One may be excused to imagine all sorts of amusement games unrolling at the HQ of the Russian General Staff as The Empire and NATO go literally bonkers. What crazy stunt will they come up with next – short of WWIII?
Here is a delightful put down of NATO’s dementia praecox. Everything so far has failed, from “crippling sanctions” to all sorts of wunderwaffen, while the whole Global South marvels at the exploits of Wagner PMC – now configured as the planet’s top urban fighting machine.
CIA mouthpiece Washington Post duly released how Washington, once again, had the Liver Sausage Chancellor Scholz for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The idea was floated by Secretary of State Tony Blinken: let’s announce we will deliver M1 Abrams to Ukraine in a hazy, unspecified future, thus providing cover for Scholz to release the Leopards now.
Don’t you just love German sovereignty in action?
Every military analyst with an IQ over room temperature knows all those Leopards will be duly incinerated – or better yet, captured, and dissected by Russian military specialists.
So what happens next is yet another vector of the – very successful so far – U.S.-unleashed German de-industrualization racket: the Americans will invade the German industrial military complex with their “much improved” Abrams – which may perhaps arrive in 2024, when only a rump Ukraine may still exist, or never arrive at all. So no need for the Abrams to prove themselves in actual combat – as in being captured and/or incinerated.
Rumors in Washington advance that the U.S. “strategy” in Ukraine – extensively detailed by endless think tank reports – had to be adapted. It’s not about “defeating Russia” anymore, but providing Kiev with the means to “scare” Russia. The Russian General Staff must be trembling in their boots.
Meanwhile, in real life, nearly every possible scenario gamed in Washington and Brussels finishes with NATO like a giant, armoured version of Wile E. Coyote plunging to the depths of the Grand Canyon. And that happens even if the much ballyhooded “Big Arrow” Russian offensive starts in a few days or weeks, or never starts at all.
Arguably the Russian General Staff has concluded a long time ago there’s no point in reducing Ukraine to rubble in a matter of hours – something they could easily accomplish. Thus the fabled mincing machine approach – offering no excuses for NATO to “escalate” (which they continue to do anyway, as Jens “War is Peace” Stoltenberg is so fond of parroting).
The trick is that NATO’s escalation overdrive, as it happens, is somewhat controlled by the Russian General Staff, which is always calculating which optimal maneuvers will consume NATO’s military hardware faster. Call it a Russian version of the popular axiom “frog in a boiling pot doesn’t realize it’s being cooked until it croaks.”
Attacking Russia-China-Iran
Absolute desperation is now graphically extrapolating into attacks on Iran. Both Russia and China have Iran as their key ally in West Asia for the whole, complex process of Eurasia integration; strategic partnerships interlink the trio.
So attacking the Ministry of Defense in Isfahan with drones – total fail – and bombing an IRGC convoy of humanitarian aid crossing from Iraq to Syria is a serious U.S.-Israel-coordinated provocation.
Essentially these are also attacks against Russia and China. Israel cannot lift its hand or foot without U.S. permission. Iranian intel may be able to establish how the Straussian neo-con and neoliberal-con cabal in charge of U.S. foreign policy authorized if not ordered these attacks, which of course are directly connected to NATO’s desperation in Ukraine.
When in doubt, just come back to Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski: “Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia and perhaps, Iran, an ‘anti-hegemonic’ coalition united not by ideology but by contemporary grievances. It would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc.”
And mirroring Ukraine/Russia there’s of course Taiwan/China.
As Credit Suisse strategist Zoltan Pozsar has extensively explained, if Taiwan manufactures chips for U.S. missiles Washington then sends to Taiwan for its “self-defense”, but Taiwan needs to wait because the missiles are needed in Ukraine instead, or chips can’t be shipped to the U.S. owing to a possible sea and air blockade imposed by China, the Americans will be operationally ill-equipped to support their two-front war against peer competitors Russia and China.
Bye bye Pax Americana. It’s the fear, actually paranoia, of a destroyed Taiwan – and the destruction in every scenario would be provoked by the Americans themselves – that has led the Straussian neo-con and neoliberal-con cabal to demand their chips be Made in USA.
On the energy front, since U.S. energy costs are low, Washington gambled that much of the deindustrialization of Germany would revert to American benefit. Yet since Iranian, Russian and Venezuelan oil prices are lower than the U.S., not much production may be shifting to the Hegemon: it will go to China.
This NATO-EU joint mission consists in using all economic, political and military means to make sure the “jungle” always behaves according to the “rules-based international order” and accepts to be plundered ad infinitum by the “blooming garden”.
So in the end what’s left of “Europe”, when it’s NATO – actually Washington – that really rules?
“Europe”, according to relentless propaganda, means defending “our values” – as in peace, democracy and prosperity. The trick is that unelected elites forced the implicit identification of this imagined, practically sacred “Europe” with the European Union. And that’s how the EU has acquired a mythical identity.
Of course, in real life the EU – as in the real, politically organized “Europe” – has performed as a toxic instrument of division among European peoples.
Instead of peace, it has invested in all-out rabid war against Russia. The EU is arguably the most democratically irresponsible institution on the planet: spend a day in Brussels and you understand everything. And instead of prosperity, the EU has institutionalized austerity.
So sit back, relax and enjoy a race to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The only question is who will get there first: the EU, NATO, or both.
Der Friedensstifter 