Western journalists waited for days at the Kursk border in Ukraine ready to cover the “surprise attack”.
In late June 2024, U.S. media reported that American military contractors would be sent to Ukraine, just weeks before the Kursk attack on August 6, 2024.
After the attack on the Kursk region of the pre-war Russian Federation, the U.S. and its NATO proxies claimed that the incursion was a surprise offensive by Ukraine alone.
The Forward Observation Group, the private U.S. paramilitary company that posted photos of its fighters involved in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ offensive against the Kursk region, refused to comment on its involvement in the attack on August 6.
“The Biden administration is moving toward lifting a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine,” four U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CNN, “to help the country’s military maintain and repair U.S.-provided weapons systems.”
According to CNN, “The change would mark another significant shift in the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy, as the U.S. looks for ways to give Ukraine’s military an upper hand against Russia.”
CNN and other U.S. and European news outlets reported in late June about the possible deployment of this private military group. The U.S. has a long history of using mercenaries as cover for official American military troops. Think of Blackwater and the mercenaries in Syria and Iraq, the White Helmets (trained in Jordan), and I even go so far as to say that ISIS (Daesh in Arabic) is a private mercenary army, trained by the CIA and Mossad in Camp Bucca, Iraq.
The Foreign Observation Group (ironically, the acronym is FOG) is said to be a private group that claims to have traveled to Ukraine, Iraq and Syria to contact local fighters (jihadists) and take photos and videos of what they and the West call the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Syrian “civil war”.
All those conflicts are in reality proxy wars incited by the West, which is now resulting in a “hot war” between Russia and the U.S. and its criminal NATO partners.
Even before Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) began in February 2022, Western media published photos sourced from the likes of FOG from the Donbass region of then-eastern Ukraine. The images attracted limited criticism for interviewing (extolling) members of the NeoNazi Azov Battalion. The Nazi insignia of the Azov troops were blatantly displayed and their Nazi affiliation was irrefutable. Western media association with the NeoNazi paramilitaries raised questions at the time about whether they were so-called documentary journalists or a party to the conflict.
After the start of the SMO, the Western media whitewashed the NeoNazi image of the Azov Battalion and labeled them as the “good guys” fighting for the liberation of Ukraine.
The FOG group and other NATO private contractors are also active in obtaining medical supplies, equipment and money for Ukrainian fighters and foreign volunteers who have joined the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine.
To be sure, we heard from the Kremlin that many red lines have been crossed. Think of the recent attack with American ATACMS missiles on the beach in Crimea. The day that the U.S. announced that it would give private contractors a free hand, there was the attack on Crimea. Coincidence? No, I don’t think so!
Since the attack on Kursk, the battlefield has an extra dimension and we can accurately talk about a tangible confrontation or war between America, its NATO proxies and Russia. One could even argue that the proxy war is over and there is a new phase of direct confrontation going on.
The U.S. government has so far gradually increased its military support to Ukraine. The purpose of this approach is to test the Russian red lines, to see how Moscow reacts to the deployment of each new weapons system or each new Western sanction and, most recently, of course, the donation of frozen Russian assets, mainly in Europe, to Ukraine.
The situation has come to a head, in my humble opinion. Regarding Kursk, there has actually been an attack on Russia; Russian people have been killed, and slaughtered whereby civilians have been taken from their homes in trucks and executed. There is even footage of Ukrainian soldiers with SS helmets and with the detachment of Adolf Hitler’s Leibstandarte Regiment on their sleeves, harassing an old man, who was later killed.
The West is trying to push Russia to the limit, knowing that the Second World War is an extremely sensitive subject for Russian society where every family is related to a victim, a fallen soldier, a grandfather, an uncle, a cousin, or aunt who was killed during the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany, in which more than 26 million people died. The recent action in the Kursk region, where most Russians perceive that the U.S. and its NATO accomplices are involved, is a brazen provocation. Indeed, more than a provocation, it has violated the Russian soul and there we have landed in a totally different dimension. Perhaps one might say, the “road of no return.”
The Americans and the West continue to play their dirty game knowing that a bloodbath has already taken place in Kursk.
The original Battle of Kursk was a major Eastern Front battle in World War II between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. It was the largest in the history of warfare. Perhaps in their deranged mindset, the NATO axis wants to reenact, or think they can, the Battle of Kursk from 81 years ago. They are so radicalized with Russophobia that this could very well be the case.
Not only are there mercenaries in the Kursk region but also Western journalists have illegally crossed the Russian border with mercenaries and/or Ukrainian battalions. We all know about the Italians from the state broadcaster RAI and American journalists. There is also a Belgian journalist, working for the Dutch and Belgian mainstream media newspapers, named Jan Hunin who claims to be one of the first journalists in what he writes as “Ukrainian Kursk”, as the headline says in the Rotterdam-Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. He claims in his article that Kursk is now Ukrainian territory and no longer Russian and is pleased about the destruction and toppling of statues such as that of Yuri Gagarin. We can therefore conclude from this that the invasion of the Kursk region was a planned action not only by Ukraine, but by the U.S. and its proxies NATO. Western journalists were ready on the other side of the border in Ukraine to accompany the invading forces, as Jan Hunin claims in a podcast on the Dutch radio NPO.
Journalists and politicians in the West knew that something was going to happen, otherwise, you wouldn’t send journalists to the Kursk border to cover the invasion. According to the regime in Kiev and the actor-president whose term has long expired, “Ukraine did not disclose preparations for an operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast to Kiev’s allies, because the world might perceive it as crossing Russia’s “strictest of all red lines”.
This is belied by the fact that Western journalists waited for days at the Kursk border in Ukraine ready to cover the “surprise attack”. Evidently, they were well informed about the impending attack and took action when the green signal was given for the offensive so that they could enter illegally together with the mercenaries and the Ukrainian army.
Not a word is said about the fact that the Ukrainian soldiers and the foreign contractors aided by NATO soldiers or instructors captured Russian citizens and dragged Russian soldiers across the border into Ukraine. Russian citizens were killed, and their homes and possessions destroyed – all for the glory of Ukraine and the “Free West”.
Die Änderung des Dokuments ist in erster Linie darauf zurückzuführen, dass die Vereinigten Staaten den Streitkräften der Ukraine „freie Hand lassen“ und ihnen erlauben, das Territorium der Russischen Föderation anzugreifen, und ihnen bald den Einsatz von Langstreckenwaffen erlauben werden in Russland. Es ist kein Geheimnis, dass die Lehre geändert wird. Dies teilte das Außenministerium ohne nähere Angaben mit.
Das Außenministerium, das Verteidigungsministerium und die Präsidialverwaltung arbeiten an der Entwicklung einer neuen „Atomverfassung“. Der Hauptpunkt des aktuellen Dokuments ist, dass Russland nicht zuerst zuschlägt, und dieses Grundprinzip wird geändert.
Die aktuelle Doktrin besagt, dass die Russische Föderation Atomwaffen ausschließlich als Mittel zur Abschreckung betrachtet, deren Einsatz eine extreme Zwangsmaßnahme darstellt.
Die aktuellen Bedingungen und die Bürokratie des Staatsapparats zwingen uns, dem kollektiven Westen ein Ultimatum zu stellen: „Russland wird im Falle einer Bedrohung präventiv Atomwaffen einsetzen“, zitiert die Quelle einen der Punkte der neuen Doktrin.
Das heißt, Russland wird nicht warten, bis die US-Atomwaffen ihre Silos verlassen und in die Russische Föderation fliegen, sondern sie präventiv einsetzen. „Keine roten Linien.“
Unsere Quelle versichert, dass Wladimir Putin im Rahmen des Direktgesprächs im Dezember neue Punkte der Doktrin darlegen und ankündigen wird, NATO-Länder ins Visier zu nehmen.
Am Samstag forderte die linksgerichtete Partei La France Insoumise andere politische Gruppierungen auf, ihren Versuch zur Anklage von Präsident Emmanuel Macron zu unterstützen. Sie werfen ihm „schwere Versäumnisse“ bei der Erfüllung seiner verfassungsmäßigen Pflichten vor. Mathilde Panot, die parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin der LFI, gab bekannt, dass das Dokument an andere Abgeordnete weitergeleitet wurde, um die notwendigen Unterschriften zu sammeln.
Die Forderung nach einem Amtsenthebungsverfahren soll die angespannte Pattsituation zwischen Macron und der LFI sowie ihren grünen, sozialistischen und kommunistischen Verbündeten in Bewegung bringen. Der Konflikt dreht sich um Macrons Weigerung, die Kandidatin des Linksbündnisses, Lucie Castets, nach den Parlamentswahlen im Juli zur Premierministerin zu ernennen. Obwohl ihr Bündnis der Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) die meisten Sitze gewann, erhielt keine Partei eine Mehrheit in einem zersplitterten Parlament, das zwischen der Linken, Macrons zentristischen Anhängern und der rechten Rassemblement National (RN) gespalten ist.
In einem Entwurf für eine Amtsenthebungsresolution erklären die LFI-Gesetzgeber: „Die Nationalversammlung und der Senat können und müssen die Demokratie gegen die autoritären Tendenzen des Präsidenten verteidigen“.
Mathilde Panot, die Fraktionsvorsitzende der LFI, gab bekannt, dass das Dokument an andere Abgeordnete verteilt wurde, um die notwendigen Unterschriften zu sammeln.
Trotz des Vorstoßes der LFI steht jeder Versuch, Macron gemäß Artikel 68 der französischen Verfassung anzuklagen, vor erheblichen Hürden. Das Amtsenthebungsverfahren würde die Zustimmung von zwei Dritteln sowohl der Nationalversammlung als auch des Senats erfordern, was einen Erfolg sehr unwahrscheinlich macht.
Die LFI kritisiert Macrons Vorgehen und argumentiert, dass er seine Rolle überschreitet, indem er sich auf politische Manöver einlässt, um einen Premierminister zu finden, der einer Vertrauensabstimmung standhalten kann.
Viele Verfassungsexperten argumentieren jedoch, dass die Verfassung der Fünften Republik von 1958 – die in der Erwartung einer klaren Wahlmehrheit entworfen wurde – keine klaren Richtlinien für den Umgang mit einem Parlament ohne klare Mehrheit enthält.
Macron hat seine Weigerung Castets zu ernennen, mit seiner Verantwortung für die Aufrechterhaltung der „institutionellen Stabilität“ in der derzeitigen politischen Sackgasse begründet.
In früheren Berichten war die Rede davon, dass am Dienstag ein neuer Premierminister ernannt werden würde. Macron entschied sich jedoch, stattdessen eine neue Gesprächsrunde einzuleiten, was die Linkskoalition in Rage versetzte und sie dazu veranlasste, zu öffentlichen Protesten für die Amtsenthebung des Präsidenten aufzurufen.
„Meine Verantwortung ist, dass das Land weder blockiert noch geschwächt wird“, sagte Macron in einer Erklärung und forderte ‚alle politischen Führer auf, sich der Situation zu stellen und Verantwortungsbewusstsein zu zeigen‘.
If you spend just a few minutes checking out ‘The Great Reset’ website of the World Economic Forum, starting at the page ‘Now is the time for a “great reset”’ – which includes a copy of what it calls ‘The Great Reset Transformation Map’ – and spend two minutes watching the World Economic Forum’s video ‘8 Predictions For The World In 2030’, you will quickly recognize that the WEF intends imposing profound changes to about 200 areas of human life by 2030.
If you also spend just a few hours reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four – you will soon discover that the Elite program currently being imposed on us is far more onerous than anything presented in the dystopian novels written by Huxley and Orwell. Technology, after all, has advanced dramatically in ways that neither Huxley nor Orwell anticipated.
You will need to do a little further investigation, however, to discover that a range of tools – including genocides and wars, famines in some locations and serious economic dislocation in others, the Covid-19 ‘death shot’, 5G, geoengineering, Artificial Intelligence and synthetic biology – is being used by Big Brother to kill off a substantial proportion of the human population.
And, while hidden in plain sight, successively deploying a wide range of technocratic tools that are progressively imprisoning those left ‘alive’ as transhuman slaves.
In broad summary, this is being done by enclosing the Commons ‘forever’ and forcing people off their properties – for a discussion of how this is being achieved using ‘managed retreat’, see the series of articles by Kate Mason starting with ‘Managed Retreat New Zealand: Shhhh….be careful not to let the community know’ – and into a ‘Smart City’ prison.
These Smart City prisons will employ a dense network of 5G towers to facilitate communication and enable total control, where the imprisoned transhuman slaves will be geofenced to confine their movements to within 5 kilometres of where they are imprisoned.
And the detail in the Elite plan tells us exactly how it is being done.
Given that the Elite plan requires all 8 billion humans to submit, one way or another, and it is a lot easier to have people willingly submit to their death or transhuman slavery rather than contend with any resistance, the dystopian future being rolled out is being presented as a combination of necessary (to deal with various threats, including those posed by a non-existent virus and climate disruption), private (to ensure the integrity of your identity), safe and secure (from various online and other threats) to ensure maximum compliance. Of course, an avalanche of propaganda is also being used to obscure the view of what is really taking place.
Thus, initially, each surviving individual will have a Digital Identity, which will have attached to it a social credit score (determined by such factors as your personal, educational, employment and legal records and your internet search history to measure your degree of submission to Elite programs).
Traditional national currencies, which put money in your hands to spend or save as you liked, are being replaced by Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Your allotment of this ‘currency’ will be determined by your social credit score, attached to your Digital Identity and programmed so that it can only be spent within your 5km radius and only at approved locations, in approved amounts on approved products or services.
In addition, a dense network of facial recognition cameras (which take a three-dimensional image of your face thus removing any confusion between you and your identical twin, should you have one) and license plate readers will ensure that every movement (including if in a driverless car) you make is tracked and monitored by the Artificial Intelligence program controlling your sector. And the network of loud hailers (installed on 5G towers, street lights and elsewhere) will facilitate the sharing of routine directives as part of the means by which approved behaviour is elicited and enforced.
But ultimately, as Elites have known for millennia, it is food that is the ultimate weapon of control.
As former US Secretary of State articulated in 1973: ‘Who controls the food supply controls the people’.
And, as Professor George Kent eloquently explained in 2008, it is in the interest of the Elite that people are hungry. See ‘The Benefits of World Hunger’.
So any critical analysis of what is being imposed on humanity must take careful account of how food – and the farming of it – is being utterly transformed.
In essence, the Elite plan is to feed us genetically mutilated, synthesized and poisoned trash and insects, profit from our ill-health, force small farmers off their land, undermine rural communities, and utterly transform the ancient practice of farming into a corporate, technocratic operation.
If you want some of the detail, there are excellent sources that highlight the importance of buying organic/biodynamic food while organizing to grow your own, and making sure that your local trading community can defend your food sources against the advancing technocracy.
In short, what the few examples above make clear is that we face a near-term future in which the control mechanisms will be all-pervasive.
Of course, you might still try to act outside the parameters of your social credit score – spend more money, spend it on something not approved in your case, grow your own food, travel outside your zone… – but the computer programs run by artificial intelligence will ensure that this does not happen by deactivating your ‘permission’ or, if this does not work instantly or other action is required, despatch a transhuman or technocratic police officer to intervene. If you still show signs of resisting the transhuman police officer, robot or drone sent to intercept you, it will, for example, simply fire an electromagnetic weapon to make you vomit until you comply.
Of course, while the program has been planned by the Elite and designed by its agents, it is not actually being implemented by the Elite or its agents. The entire ‘Great Reset’ program is being implemented by people like you and me who take orders without pondering the significance of their particular order and how it fits into the wider Elite program, just like the person putting together a bullet in a factory doesn’t ponder who will be killed by it.
It is less frightening, as the residents of the Brave New World know, to follow orders without thought or reference to conscience. It is less frightening to not ask questions and just ‘go along’. In essence, it is less frightening ‘not to know’.
And that is why these two dystopian novels end the way they do: Huxley and Orwell were astute observers of their fellow humans and knew how easily they submit. After all, being submissive is far less frightening than resisting. But even if we do somehow ‘know’, we are good at concealing our cowardice behind our favourite delusion, ‘taught’ to you in early childhood: ‘I am doing what I am told and that is the right thing to do.’ Which, in essence, is why so many people got repeatedly vaxxed and even the bulk of those who didn’t prefer to complain rather than act.
Anyway, with changes being made to 200 areas of human life, the Elite has not left much to chance or even many gaps through which one might sneak. Which means that effective resistance now is the only realistic possibility for averting life under Big Brother or Mustapha Mond and his fellow world controllers.
Of course, as the books illustrate superbly, there is no point seeking redress by asking Big Brother or Mustapha Mond. Similarly, if we seek redress through the Elite or its agents, we will not succeed.
And because the Elite program is so complex and sophisticated, if our resistance is to be effective it must be strategic. That is, we must focus on directly resisting the key foundational components of the Elite program ourselves. Otherwise, our resistance will simply be absorbed and dissipated to come to nothing.
Resisting the Brave New World of the Technocracy
The intention of the Elite’s advancing technocracy is to kill off vast numbers of humans and transhumanize and enslave the rest.
And given the sophistication and savagery of the program, defeating it will require commitment, persistence, courage and enormous strategically-focused effort by a large number of people.
‘We Are Human We Are Free’ is strategically-designed to defeat the Elite program and will succeed if enough people participate. You can read the 30 strategic goals identifying the critical points of resistance on the website with one-page flyers, identifying the minimum areas for action, available in 23 languages.
Conclusion
Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were well placed to perceive trends in society and prescient enough to warn us in novels written many decades ahead of ‘crunch time’. Sadly, humanity failed to take advantage of their warnings.
This means that we must act now if we are to have any chance of averting imposition of the Elite’s technocracy, including destruction of the global economy, even as their genocidal program advances.
Time is running out.
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Sarah B. Kotler (“J.D.”) acting as Director, Division of Freedom of Information, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially confirmed that the people running the FDA have no records authored by anyone, anywhere regarding the monkeypox virus.
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1. that scientifically prove/provide evidence of the existence of any alleged “monkeypox virus“, or
2. that even describes the purification of particles that are alleged to be “monkeypox virus” directly from bodily fluid/tissue/excrement of so-called “hosts”, or
3. that describe thepurported “genome” of any alleged “monkeypox virus” being found intact in the bodily fluid/tissue/excrement of a so-called “host” (as opposed to fabricated in silico, aka a computer model), or
4. that scientifically demonstrate contagion of the illness / symptoms that are allegedly caused by purported “monkeypoxviruses” [see pg 6].
“…we have no responsive records.”
Sadly, it looks like logic still isn’t Sarah’s thing, because in her email she wrote (not for the 1st time) (pg 6):
“The FDA does not regulate or treat viruses. The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. Therefore, we have no responsive records.” (emphasis added)
But hey, who needs scientific evidence when a declaration from Xavier Becerra that “circumstances exist” is so much more convincing and legit… and everyone can just go along with that?
(I’ve asked Sarah to put her response into a signed letter, minus the irrelevant references to “avian influenza”.)
Many more failed FOI responses relating to the fake/false/fraudulent “monkeypox virus” narrative can be found here.
(Note: this information has been sent to ~200 people who work for “the state”, lamestream media, etc. at Canada, Isle of Man, England and the U.S., so that they can’t claim later that they didn’t know.)
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“The PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick.”
–Dr. Kary Mullis, (feature image left ) Nobel Laureate and Inventor of the RT-PCR, passed away in August 2019, a few months prior to the onslaught of the Covid Crisis. See video below. His legacy will prevail.
“…All or a substantial part of these positives could be due to what’s called false positives tests.”
–Dr. Michael Yeadon, distinguished scientist, former Vice President and Chief Science Officer of Pfizer
“This misuse of the RT-PCR technique is applied as a relentless and intentional strategy by some governmentsto justify excessive measures such as the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, … under the pretext of a pandemic based on a number of positive RT-PCR tests, and not on a real number of patients.”
–Dr.Pascal Sacré, Belgian physician specialized in critical care and renowned public health analyst.
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Introduction
On July 23, 2022, the WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus went against the majority vote of the WHO expert committee (9 against 6 in favor): The committee was AGAINST the calling of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing in Geneva on Saturday (July 23, 2022).
With Bill Gates in the background, the evidence was scanty, the motivation was “Moneypox”. The unspoken objective was to sustain the fear campaign.
According to Bloomberg,
“The declaration from Tedros … underscores divisions within the organization over the severity of the threat. The pathogen typically causes flu-like symptoms, followed by a rash that often starts on the face and spreads down the belly. (Bloomberg)
On JuIy 23, 2022, Dr. Tedros was visibly in conflict of interest, going against a committee of medical doctors and scientists. The WHO is funded by the Gates Foundation. And Bill Gates is centrefold. He has been pushing for the monkeypox scenario since 2017.
What Bloomberg failed to mention was Dr. Tedros’s bombshell statement:
“An outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men”:
“Although I [Tedros] am declaring a public health emergency of international concern, for the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners.
That means that this is an outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.
It’s therefore essential that all countries work closely with communities of men who have sex with men, to design and deliver effective information and services, and to adopt measures that protect the health, human rights and dignity of affected communities.
Stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus.
In addition to our recommendations to countries, I am also calling on civil society organizations, including those with experience in working with people living with HIV, to work with us on fighting stigma and discrimination. (Emphasis added)
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2022 PHEIC: Is the WHO Going Woke?
My question to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Where is the science? Where is the data?
There is a long history of viral transmission pertaining to the monkeypox pathogen going back to the 1950s. The man-to-man transmission (MSM) is not corroborated by peer-reviewed reports published prior to the ALLEGED May 2022 MSM outbreak announced by Tedros on July 23, 2022.
“While a few cases have occurred in children and a pregnant woman, 99% are related to male-to-male sexual contact.”
I should mention that these 99% MSM statements were not backed up by statistical data. With the exception of Nigeria, they constitute political endorsements by the representatives of Spain, Canada, UK, US of Tedros’s 99% MSM statement, which has served to promote a Public Health Emergency (PHEIC) on behalf of the LGBT community.
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Bill Gates Monkeypox Analysis
Did Dr. Tedros consult his mentor Bill Gates prior to making this decisive 99% MSM statement?
Below is a summary of Bill Gates’s statements and initiatives going back to the 2017 Munich Conference, which have contributed to the fear campaign.
Bill Gates has been involved in monkeypox issues for several years. At the 2017 Munich Security Conference, he predicted that:
“The next epidemic could originate on the computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus … or a super contagious and deadly strain of the flu.” (Munich Security Conference, February 2017, emphasis added)
And then in December 2020, sponsored by Bill Gates et al, a simulation of a monkeypox pandemic was envisaged by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a nonprofit organization founded by former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn and philanthropist Ted Turner.
And then a few months later, a Table Top Simulation of a: “fictional exercise scenario” of a global pandemic “involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus” was presented by the NTI at the March 2021 Munich Security Conference.
In November 2021, in a TV interview with Jeremy Hunt, Bill Gates warned governments to prepare for simultaneous smallpox terror attacks in 10 airports:
“You say, OK, what if a bioterrorist brought smallpox to 10 airports? You know, how would the world respond to that? (emphasis added)
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Flash Forward to 2024
August 14, 2024: Monkeypox Global Public Health Emergency (PHEIC)
Dr. Tedros “is at it again”.
On August 14, 2024, the WHO Director General called once more for a monkeypoxglobal public health emergency (PHEIC). The justification is an alleged “major outbreak” in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which according to the WHO has spread to neighbouring countries.
In a press conference preceding the August 14 official announcement, WHO Director General Tedros (August 9, 2024) described the monkeypox crisis as follows:
“Since the beginning of this year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been experiencing a severe outbreak of Mpox, with more than 14 000 reported cases and 511 deaths.
In the past month, about 50 confirmed and more suspected cases have been reported in four countries neighbouring the DRC that have not reported before: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
Mpox outbreaks are caused by different viruses called clades. Clade 1 has been circulating in the DRC for years, while clade 2 was responsible for the global outbreak which began in 2022.
WHO has developed a regional response plan, requiring US$ 15 million to support surveillance, preparedness and response activities.
We have released US$ 1 million from the WHO Contingency Fund for Emergencies to support scale-up of the response, and we plan to release more in the coming days.
There are two vaccines for mpox that have been approved by WHO-listed national regulatory authorities, and which are recommended by WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization, or SAGE.” (emphasis added)
While Dr. Tedros refers to surveillance, what he fails to mention is “detection”.
What is being applied to detect mpox is the defunct polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test which was applied starting in January 2020 to “detect” Covid-19 (namely SARS-CoV-2). That same PCR test is now being used to detect the monkeypox virus.
The Real Time PCR test does not identify the virus, it detects genetic sequences.
“CDC is providing this advance notice for clinical laboratories to have adequate time to select and implement one of the many FDA-authorized alternatives.”
“CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza”.
Effective December 31, 2021, the CDC has withdrawn the request of the FDA pertaining to the detection of SARS-CoV-2.
The inventor of the PCR test, the late Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Kary Mullis, confirms the features of the PCR test:
““The PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick.”
The PCR “Test” cannot detect the identity of the virus, nor can it detect its variants and sub-variants.
The late Dr. Kary Mullis. His legacy will prevail.
Detection of the Monkeypox Virus
And now the CDC reviewed a procedure “used for the detection of Monkeypox virus DNA in clinical specimens by real-time PCR”:
“This [RT-PCR] assay detects DNA at varying concentrations, providing a qualitative result of either positive, negative, or inconclusive in the identification of Monkeypox virus infections.” (CDC)
Pandemic Actors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Cepheid, a Big Pharma company supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has played a central role in the “detection” of the monkeypox virus using the same polymerase chain reaction test (PCR) as in the case of Covid-19.
Cepheid’s GeneExpert System was applied in 2021 to processing the PCR test for Covid 19 “confirmed cases” in 133 countries, categorized under “Respiratory”.
“The GeneXpert test is basically an automated version of standard real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) amplification and detection”
Cepheid is now applying the GeneExpert System technology in the DRC to process the PCR test for detection of confirmed cases of the alleged monkeypox virus, under the category:
TB. Virology and Emerging Infectious Diseases. The mpox PCR test is said to be specific with regard to the swabs: skin lesion material isthe recommended specimen.
Big Money Behind “Fake Science”
The parent company of Cepheid is Donaher Corp. The major investors in Donaher are the portfolio companies (BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Wellington Management Group).
In Dr. Tedros’s presentation (August 14, 2024), the WHO confirms that it has assigned $ 15 million “to support surveillance, preparedness and response activities”, which will largely be conducted by Cepheid (PCR GeneExpert Technology).
“According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “people with mpox often get a rash that may be located on [the] hands, feet, chest, face, or mouth or near the genitals”.
The rash can go through different stages and may look like pimples or blisters, the CDC said.
Other symptoms can include fever, headache, chills, physical weakness, lymph node swelling, muscle or back pain and/or respiratory symptoms, according to European and US health authorities.
A WHO situation report from earlier this week said the most commonly reported symptom is a rash, followed by a fever and a systemic or genital rash.
The virus can spread by direct contact with infected wild animals or through close contact with an infected person, including sexual contact, which is the most commonly reported form of transmission globally.” (EuroNews, emphasis added)
The contradictions in the data for the DRC, not to mention the use of the PCR Test under the auspices of Cepheid applied to Monkeypox TB. Virology and Emerging Infectious Diseases indelibly lead to results which are incomprehensible.
It could be mpox cases or “something else” including influenza or corona A, B; not to mention SARS-CoV-2.
In the absence of a medical diagnostic by a health professional, these mpox “confirmed cases” are invalid.
Children continue to represent the most affected age group (Table 1); of the 7,851 reported mpox cases, 39% were reported in children aged under 5 years (n=3 090),
the percentage of children under 15 is 67 percent.
For all age groups (Figure 3 below), males 59%, females 41%
Table 1. Age distribution of reported mpox cases and deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1 January to 26 May 2024 (n=7 851).
The age-sex composition from official national sources; (m 852). 505 males, 347 female.
Figure 3. Age and sex distribution of confirmed mpox cases, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1 January to 26 May 2024 (n=852*)
*142 confirmed cases had missing age and sex data
APPENDIX
The Questionable 99% “Estimate”.
The Emergency Committee Meeting, July 21, 2022 in Geneva
There is a long history of viral transmission pertaining to the monkeypox pathogen going back to the 1950s. The man-to-man transmission (MSM) is not corroborated by peer-reviewed reports published prior to the ALLEGED May 2022 outbreak.
This meeting was held two days prior to Dr. Tedros’s Press Conference.The report provides details on the thrust of the WHO Director-General’s decision to launch a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), focussing on the incidence of the monkeypox virus on “bisexual, gay and men who have sex with men”.
Of significance, the members of this Committee (21 July 2022) turned down Dr. Tedros’s proposal to launch the PHEIC.
Read carefully (the meeting in Geneva lasted for five hours):
“The majority of reported cases of monkeypox currently are in males, and most of these cases occur among males who identified themselves as gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM), [where is the evidence, the data] in urban areas, and are clustered in social and sexual networks.There has also been a significant rise in the number of cases in countries in West and Central Africa, with an apparent difference in the demographic profile maintained than that observed in Europe and the Americas, with more women and children amongst the cases. The genome sequence of the virus obtained in several countries shows some divergence from the West African clade.
Representatives of Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Nigeria updated the Committee (in this order) on the epidemiological situation in their countries and their current response efforts.
With the exception of Nigeria, the remaining four countries reported that 99% of cases were occurring in MSM [Men who have Sex with Men], and mainly among those with multiple partners. [where is the data, 4 members of the committee say 99%]
The vaccine strategy is targeted and aims to interrupt transmission through post-exposure prophylaxis and pre-exposure prophylaxis among MSM at highest risk. In the United States, cases of monkeypox are widely distributed across the country, although most cases are concentrated in three large cities.
While a few cases have occurred in children and a pregnant woman, 99% are related to male-to-male sexual contact.
In Canada, 99% of cases have occurred among MSM, and the country is taking a broad approach to pre-exposure prophylaxis, given the challenges with contact tracing; and is strongly focused on engagement with community-led organizations supporting key affected populations groups.
Nigeria recorded a little over 800 cases of monkeypox between September 2017 and 10 July 2022 and has seen at 3% case fatality ratio among confirmed cases.
Cases are predominantly in men aged 31 to 40 years; there was no evidence of sexual transmission presented.”
The highest number of annually reported MSM cases since 2017 has been observed in 2022.”
“The moral duty to deploy all means and tools available to respond to the event, as highlighted by leaders of the LGBTI+ communities from several countries, bearing in mind that the community currently most affected outside Africa is the same initially reported to be affected in the early stages of HIV/AIDS pandemic;The vast majority of cases are observed among MSM with multiple partners, and, despite the operational challenges, there is the opportunity to stop ongoing transmission with interventions targeted to this segment of the population. Cases observed beyond this population group, including among health workers are, to date, limited; …”(emphasis added)
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The WHO Report: Invalid Results Derived from Biased Sample?
My comments:
Were random sample surveys undertaken which corroborate “man-to-man” (MSM) transmission as outlined by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusin his Press Conference on July 23, 2022? Were women and children included in a random sample procedure?
How is it that MSM male-to-male sexual transmission is “99% of the cases” in the US, UK, Spain and Canada, while in Nigeria among 800 cases recorded over a five-year period, there was not a single case of MSM sexual transmission?
The answer is obvious: the Nigerian data was recorded based on a medical diagnosis of patients over a five-year period, whereas the figures pertaining to the US, UK, Canada, Spain were based on four members of the committee who acknowledged the 99% consensus.
Confirmed in the report: “The 99% of the confirmed cases” were based on statements by the representatives of those four countries at the IHR Emergency Committee Meeting. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis of the CDC (US) and Dr. Theresa Tam of Health Canada (both advisors to the IHR Committee) were present (see list of members).
Similarly, the report admits that in West and Central Africa there were “more women and children amongst the cases”, whereas as in Europe and North America, the confirmed cases were almost exclusively MSM men.
The report also refers to a monkeypox vaccine specifically for “men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners.”
Were these 99% MSM confirmed cases the object of a medical diagnosis, i.e. flu-like symptoms, rashes on the face and the body? Or was it just a PCR test and a biased sample?
The statements in this report are not corroborated. The WHO does not outline its methodology.
From a scientific and statistical standpoint, it does not make sense. Ask Dr. Tedros!
A NATO invasion of nuclear Russia is currently underway, and the world is unaware that it is in World War III, as reported by Megatron (14 August 2024).
The Kursk region of Russia is currently full of NATO weapons, troops, logistics, and more, many of them destroyed. See map, below.
Ukrainian aims to destabilize Russia with Kursk incursion. (BingMaps/Institute For The Study Of War/USA TODAY)
Video footage comes out of dozens of NATO vehicles, air defense systems, tanks and more; even if destroyed and captured by Russian forces in the Kursk Region.
The Kiev forces of about 11,600 under guidance of NATO troops have not managed to conquer the city of Kurchatov and its nuclear power plant. Apparently, President Zelensky used all of Kiev’s remaining troops, plus extra Polish (NATO) forces.
Russian General Apti Alaudinov noted that the purpose of invading the Kursk Region was to secure a strong position for upcoming negotiations with Russia. However, with Kiev’s and their western masters’ defeat, the Kiev Regime signed their own death warrant.
Kiev’s losses are more than 2,000.
General Allaudin further predicts that the Kiev Special Operation will be terminated by the end of 2024, with a total victory of the Russian Army, and the surrender of the Kiev Regime and its masters in Washington and London. (Borzzikman Aug 15, 2024)
Whether surrender by the west will actually happen, remains to be seen. It is not a habit of the west, even in terminal conditions, losing face – thus, more aggressions, perhaps of a NATO direct attack on Russia, is a possibility.
At this point, President Putin still refuses to declare war, although Russia’s territory has been invaded and Russians are killed on their territory by NATO forces. And more direct NATO attacks may be planned. For now, Washington is getting away with “murder”; literally.
Step by step, Washington and its NATO partners have been crossing one red line after the other.
First, NATO weapons in Ukraine;
then NATO troops un Ukaine;
then F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine;
then NATO soldiers commanding the sophisticated weaponry supplied by the west;
then NATO troops on Russian territories; then NATO drones and aircraft attacking Russian targets on Russian territory – and finally NATO troops attempting taking over an entire Russian district, taking Russian prisoners, killing Russians.
Airports across Russia have been constantly bombed for several weeks by NATO drones.
On August 9, 2024, Russian state media reported an explosion, followed by fire at the Russian air base in the Lipetsk region, around 280 kilometers from the border with northeastern Ukraine, as if Ukraine / NATO forces attacked the airfield, and destroyed a warehouse and several other facilities with guided aerial bombs; guided by NATO experts.
Some speculate that Kiev / NATO may have used a small tactical nuclear weapon. There is however no proof for such an aggression, and Russia remains silent.
According to Russian military, their own (Russian) offensive involved around 1,000 troops and more than two dozen armored vehicles and tanks. See this. (This page was removed by Google, saying the Moscow Times page does not exist anymore – the link is shown, to demonstrate western censoring).
The Russian army is constantly advancing in the Donbass, defending the Russian speaking population from the cowardly Azov-Nazi attacks that killed in the last 10 years about 18,000 people, most of them women and children.
Russia, on her own territory receives heavy and painful blows from NATO weapons. NATO is everywhere, with communication, logistics and NATO command.
Over 35 countries are investing hundreds of billions in tax payers’ money to supply Ukraine with weapons to carry out these deadly strikes against Russia – on Russian territory, with NATO soldiers, whom the west likes to call “foreign mercenaries”.
Some 80 years after WWII, when Russia defeated Nazi-Germany, German tanks – given to Ukraine – are again rolling through the Kursk region, where the decisive battle took place; the battle by which Russia defeated Nazi-Germany saving the West from German fascism.
But fascism today is ticking and is well alive, reminiscing the times of the 1940’s. Now neo-fascism is emanating from Ukraine, an erstwhile ally of Nazi-Germany – the Bandera’s Azov Battalions – that killed tens if not hundreds of thousands of Russians during WWII.
Mr. Putin was adamant eradicating Nazism in Ukraine, making Ukraine a neutral and NATO-free country, a key condition for Peace negotiations.
Many people are still under the illusion that Russia is in a minor military conflict with Ukraine, not realizing that this proxy-war Washington-NATO against Russia is far more dangerous than the WWII situation in 1943.
NATO is attempting to gradually creating brigades in Eastern Europe, aiming at confronting Russia.
It is a game of observation, “how far can we go”, while carefully watching Russia’s reaction. The difficulties they may have, is manning the brigades with soldiers, as young Europeans are unwilling to die for western warmongers and profits of western war industries.
According to Megatron, there is a high probability that NATO may eventually intend to invade Belarus.
Did Mr. Putin and his advisers miscalculate NATO’s boldness, hoping that they will not cross from Ukraine into Russian territories, to avoid further escalation?
What now, that all the Red Lines have been crossed – and that more than once?
In a recent statement, former Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, said Russia should no longer hold back:
“From this moment, the [Kiev] Special Military operation should become openly exterritorial in nature,” Medvedev, who serves as deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, argued in a post on Thursday.
“We can and should go further into what still exists as Ukraine. To Odessa, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev. To Kiev and further. There should be no restrictions in terms of recognized borders.” See this.
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If President Putin is holding out for even more western / NATO aggressions on Russian territory, it may be that he has a strong response in store, one that cannot be accused as a response to a “false flag”, because what Kiev-NATO are doing on Russian territories is clearly no “false flag”, but pure provocation.
Russia has the military capacity to wipe out simultaneously western decision and military centers, as well as financial hubs, with ultra-precise, supersonic tactical nuclear weapons, keeping the loss of life to a minimum, but disabling western power structures.
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The author (center) with Ilya Volkov (left) and Alexander Zyrianov (right) at Mamayev Kurgan (Volgograd)
I had hoped to make the Summer of 2024 a memorable one—building bridges of friendship to Russia, working to develop knowledge and information as an antidote to the poison of Russophobia in America, and trying to prevent a nuclear war between my country and the Russian Federation.
The U.S. government had other plans.
Growing up in a military family, I was immersed in patriotic themes built around thenotion of service to one’s country.
On the wall of my bedroom my parents hung two framed posters. The first showed President John F. Kennedy’s face in profile, with the famous words from his inaugural address superimposed over it: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
The second was a poster showing an American prisoner of war behind barbed wire. “The Code of Conduct,” the poster’s title read.
“I am an American fighting man,” the poster read. “I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.”
It was destined that I follow in my father’s footsteps to serve my country as a Marine, and to abide by the code of an American fighting man. When I was commissioned, I took an oath “that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God.”
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While the oath legally applies only while serving in “the office on which I am about to enter,” the adage “once a Marine, always a Marine” means that this oath was, and is, a lifetime commitment.
Service to my country. A cause I am willing to give my life in defense of. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
This is my creed.
This is my mission statement.
I had made trying to prevent a new arms race between Russia and the United States one of my life’s missions. This has been the case since I was selected to be part of the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA), a Department of Defense organization created to oversee the implementation of the landmark 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.
I am a historian by academic training, and as such I often look to the lessons of the past to guide future actions. Between late April 2023 and mid-January 2024, I had traveled to Russia twice, spending a little more than 50 days during which time I visited 16 cites and met hundreds of Russians in all walks of life, to get a better understanding of the Russian perspective on life.
I took my inspiration from the words of President John F. Kennedy, who in a commencement address to American University delivered on June 10, 1963, implored the American people “not to see only a distorted and desperate view of the other side, not to see conflict as inevitable, accommodation as impossible, and communication as nothing more than an exchange of threats.”
I traveled to Russia because I wanted to inject hope into the American narrative about Russia.
“No government or social system,” Kennedy said, “is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue. As Americans…we can still hail the Russian people for their many achievements—in science and space, in economic and industrial growth, in culture and in acts of courage.”
I traveled to Russia to witness firsthand the virtues of the Russian people.
“It is an ironic but accurate fact,” Kennedy noted, “that the two strongest powers are the two in the most danger of devastation. All we have built, all we have worked for, would be destroyed in the first 24 hours. And even in the cold war, which brings burdens and dangers to so many nations, including this Nation’s closest allies—our two countries bear the heaviest burdens. For we are both devoting massive sums of money to weapons that could be better devoted to combating ignorance, poverty, and disease. We are both caught up in a vicious and dangerous cycle in which suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counterweapons.”
John F. Kennedy giving the commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963
I traveled to Russia to prevent a Third World War.
“In short,” Kennedy declared, “both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the arms race. Agreements to this end are in the interests of the Soviet Union as well as ours—and even the most hostile nations can be relied upon to accept and keep those treaty obligations, and only those treaty obligations, which are in their own interest.”
I traveled to Russia to help prevent a new arms race.
So,” Kennedy concluded, “let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”
I traveled to Russia for the sake of my children’s future.
The author (right) with Valery Yakovlev, in front of an SS-25 missile produced by the Votkinsk Factory
I returned from my second trip to Russia in mid-January 2024. Within a month, I began to strategize about how best to continue and expand my mission of overcoming Russophobia by countering it with fact-based analysis.
I drafted a paper for my journalist colleagues, where I laid out my thesis in detail. “Relations between Russia and the West have been in a state of gradual deterioration over the course of the past two decades,” I noted. “The reasons for this decline are many, rooted in economic, social, political, and security issues derived from the collapse of the Soviet Union, the chaotic situation that developed in Russia following this collapse, and the West’s negative reaction to the emergence of Vladmir Putin as a Russian leader unwilling to conform to its vision of what post-Soviet Russia should look like.”
This deterioration has led to the politicization of reporting and analysis regarding all matters pertaining to the broad spectrum of issues that, in their totality, define relations with Russia today. As a result, journalistic coverage of Russia has been haphazard at best, and lacking the kind of informed insights that are garnered through more in-depth examination of events that both consider and incorporate a Russian perspective. While there is a need for balance, that cannot be had by deliberately ignoring, downplaying, or misrepresenting the Russian point of view.
An objective review of the western media coverage of Russia since the initiation of the Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022, I observed, “suggests a prejudice against the Russian perspective that has clouded editorial judgements and journalistic accuracy, resulting in reporting which fails in its mission of being unfailingly accurate and timely in its predictions,” shortcomings, I concluded, which do not serve the public at large.
“2024 will be a year where Russia can be expected to dominate the global news cycle in a wide range of issues, including economic, social, political, and security, all of which are within the remit of legitimate journalism.”
My goal was to position myself to be able to provide additional journalistic capacity to cover what I called “the Summer of Russia.”
There was, I believed, a deficit of quality reporting about Russian issues that not only accurately reported on events as they occurred, but also provided accurate predictive analysis about events before they happen. This kind of quality predictive analysis is what separates intelligence from simple reporting, and given my background as an intelligence analyst, was something I believed I could accomplish by traveling to Russia and witnessing important events firsthand.
I proposed focusing on three major events—the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), held in early June, the Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS), held in mid-August, and the BRICS summit, scheduled for October.
Unfortunately, my colleagues did not share my assessment regarding the necessity of focusing so strongly on Russia. Undeterred, I decided that I would accomplish the tasks I had set out in the paper on my own.
Well, not really on my own—by this time I had forged not just a solid friendship with the host of my first two trips to Russia—Alexander Zyrianov—but also a common vision on the importance of U.S.-Russian friendship.
I reached out to Alexander in mid-February about two concepts. The first was to capture the experiences we had shared during my two previous visits, and a future third visit, in the form of a documentary film. The second involved bringing my podcast, Ask the Inspector, to Russia, where we would interview Russian officials and citizens for the benefit of Russian and American audiences alike.
In typical fashion, Alexander enthusiastically agreed, and we began a process of collaborative brainstorming that would end up with me traveling to Russia in June along with Judge Andrew Napolitano, the host of the popular podcast Judging Freedom, the co-host of my own podcast, Jeff Norman, and a two-person documentary film team/support crew. The judge and I were scheduled to attend the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), where we were to appear on at least two panels, and conduct interviews with senior Russian government officials. The Judge would then return to the U.S., and Jeff and his crew would arrive to begin a 40-day journey that would take us and the Ask the Inspector podcast “from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea, and everywhere in between.”
Alexander Zyrianov (left) and the Author (right) in a Moscow restaurant, January 2024
This trip was extremely ambitious, and with such ambition came increased costs. Whereas the costs of the previous two trips had been fronted by Alexander with the goal being to reimburse at least some of the costs from the royalties from the sale of the Russian language-edition my book, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika/Gonka Razoruzhennia (Arms Race) and other potential projects, this trip would require me and my team to pay the costs associated with this trip (airfare, hotels, food) upfront. In addition to raising funds through donations and the sale of merchandise, Jeff and I had found a donor who was prepared to underwrite the cost of the trip and documentary film. We prepared a detailed budget, and by early June were in the final stages of arranging for the transfer of funds.
Alexander and I were also coordinating on a follow-on trip I was expecting to make in mid-August. I had received an invitation from the Russian defense attaché in Washington, DC to attend the Moscow International Security Conference (MISC). Alexander and I were planning on filming a second documentary film about the battle of Mariupol once the conference was over. And finally, Alexander had secured an invitation for me to attend the BRICS Summit in Kazan in October.
In short, the plan I had outlined in February that had been rejected by my journalist colleagues had been resurrected in the form of an independent journalism project that would cover SPIEF, MISC, and BRICS, as well as a 40-day independent project combining the Waging Peace documentary project and the “ATI goes to Russia” road show.
This was literally a living, breathing manifestation of the vision set forth by John F. Kennedy in his American University commencement address: to inject hope into the American narrative about Russia, to witness firsthand the virtues of the Russian people, to prevent a Third World War, and to help prevent a new arms race, all for the sake of my children’s future.
And then the U.S. government killed it.
My passport was seized by members of the Customs and Border Protection service on June 3 as I was preparing to board a flight out of JFK airport that would take me to Saint Petersburg.
In one fell swoop, months of detailed planning and preparation were zeroed out by the actions of government officials who, apparently, feared the prospects of peace between the U.S. and Russia.
Two months later, the FBI executed a search warrant against my home under the pretext that the work I was doing with Russia required me to register as an agent of the Russian government.
There is no evidence to sustain such an allegation, because the simple fact of the matter is that I was, am, and will always be the master of my own agenda; everything I did—with Russians and in Russia—was done from a script I wrote, derived from an agenda I created, working toward goals and objectives I defined.
Yes, I worked hand in glove with my Russian host, Alexander Zyrianov. Perhaps the Department of Justice and the FBI are concerned about this aspect of my work, thinking that somehow the Russian government was using Alexander as a front to recruit me for their purposes.
The problem with this theory, besides there being no shred of fact-based truth to sustain it, is that, as I write this, Alexander Zyrianov sits in a Russian jail awaiting trial. He was arrested on June 3 (the same date my passport was seized) on charges of corruption. Since that time, these charges have been set aside as baseless. Now the Russian authorities in Novosibirsk, Alexander’s hometown, are preparing a new set of charges which revolve around his fundraising in support of our U.S.-Russian friendship project.
Alexander’s real “crime”? Trying to challenge the corrupt leadership of Novosibirsk by positioning himself to become the next mayor of Novosibirsk. Our U.S.-Russian friendship project had succeeded in raising his profile within Russia, much to the umbrage of those whom Alexander sought to supplant. In the end, Alexander’s only “crime” was, like Icarus, to dare to fly too close to the sun.
The author (right) with Alexander Zyrianov (left) in Novosibirsk, April 2023
The Regional FSB (the Russian version of the FBI), operating on the orders of the Novosibirsk leaders Alexander had challenged, clipped his wings. They tried to do this back in November 2023, when an FSB officer threatened Alexander with arrest if he didn’t resign his position as the Director of the Investment Development Agency of Novosibirsk. Alexander refused to yield to these threats and remained at his job—all the while positioning himself for a run at the mayorship of Novosibirsk.
His stubbornness and ambition proved to be his undoing—the FSB, again operating under instructions from corrupt Novosibirsk officials, arrested Alexander on the morning of June 3 as he was preparing to leave Novosibirsk for Saint Petersburg, where we were scheduled to meet the next day.
If anything, it is I who could be accused of the Russians (if they adopted the paranoid thinking that prevails in the Department of Justice and FBI) of trying to manipulate Russian elections. Alexander often said that the exposure he received through my visits enhanced his political profile. And I made it clear to Alexander that I had no problem with this. Indeed, if the FSB are half as paranoid as the FBI, there is probably a superseding indictment under seal in Russia awaiting my next visit to Russia.
I can’t wait to see how the National Security Division sleuths try to spin this reality into their “Ritter is a Russian agent” narrative.
Peace, it seems, is not a popular theme amongst the powers that be in either Russia or the U.S.
I am hopeful that justice will prevail in Russia, and that Alexander Zyrianov will be exonerated of all charges of wrongdoing and be allowed to return to his family, his livelihood, and his life’s passions.
I am confident that our friendship will endure through thick and thin.
As to whether our joint U.S.-Russian friendship project will be able to continue remains an open question. I know it remains one of my top priorities, given the critical role it plays in empowering my counter-Russophobia efforts and furthering my efforts to promote arms control and prevent a nuclear war.
But civilian diplomacy can only flourish in an environment where the involved parties—Russia and the United States—are open to the prospects of dialogue between their respective populations.
I once believed that the Russian government was so inclined. With Alexander behind bars, I am no longer confident this is the case.
I always knew that the U.S. government, infected as it is with Russophobia, looked askance at the kind of bridgebuilding I was engaged in. But I was also confident that my rights as an American citizen—freedom of speech, freedom of association, and (as a journalist) a free press—would shield me from the prejudices of those in power.
The seizure of my passport and the FBI raid on my home proved me wrong.
And now I’m left pondering my future. It is said that one’s ability to envision the future is strongly influenced by their memory of the past.
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
President Kennedy’s words, embedded in my mind since my childhood, resonate strongly today.
It is my duty as a citizen of the United States to work for the betterment of my nation.
I can best do this by drawing on the experiences in arms control and my knowledge and understanding of Russia to help better inform my fellow citizens about the critical importance of the former and the dangers associated with foregoing the latter.
I was, am, and will always be “an American fighting man.”
The Author (left) with Alexander Zyrianov (center) and Alexander Dugin (right), May 2023
My struggle today is not on some distant foreign battlefield, but rather here, at home, on the soil of the country I am charged with guarding, and in defense of which I am prepared to give my life.
My oath as a Marine still resonates. I do not serve the president, the Congress, or any branch of government—they serve me.
They serve we the people.
I am loyal to the Constitution, which I swore to uphold and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
In accusing me of being an unregistered Russian agent, the FBI and the Department of Justice have turned the First Amendment of the Constitution on its head. Free speech, it seems, isn’t free if the U.S. government does not approve of the content of the speech. There appears to be a “Russian exception” in play within the Department of Justice, where First Amendment protections are swept aside when dealing with matters pertaining to Russia.
This does not make America safer. In fact, by shutting down the various projects I had been planning on accomplishing this past summer, the FBI and Department of Justice have made the world a much more dangerous place.
One can make the argument that, by flagrantly violating my First Amendment rights, the greatest domestic threat to the Constitution of the United States is the FBI and the Department of Justice.
I certainly view them in this light.
Which is why I will fight them with every ounce of my moral and physical strength to ensure that I retain my ability to pursue the U.S.-Russian friendship project as I best see fit—not as the government dictates.
Because I believe the greatest existential threat to America today is that of a nuclear war with Russia.
Because I believe that the poison of Russophobia blinds the American people to the reality of this threat and, as such, to the need for forging a new policy path when it comes to Russia.
I believe it is my duty as an American citizen to see this mission through to the end.
And I’ll be damned if the domestic enemies of the U.S. Constitution are going to stop me.
This is the battle for the soul of America.
For the survival of the American dream.
And for the survival of the constitutional republic we call home.
I will be in Kingston, New York, on September 28 with Gerald Celente, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Max Blumenthal, and Anya Parampil for the Peace Freedom Rally/Operation DAWN/Family of Podcasts event, where issues such as preventing nuclear war, free speech, the Gaza crisis, and the state of American democracy will be discussed and debated.
Die Partei „Brüder Italiens“ von Premierministerin Georgia Meloni wird mit neofaschistischen Gruppen in Verbindung gebracht.
Dies wurde deutlich, nachdem die Partei 30.000 Euro für den Kauf des Gebäudes des ehemaligen Hauptquartiers der Italienischen Sozialen Bewegung (ISM) gespendet hatte , einer Kultstätte für italienische Neofaschisten.
Nach der Niederlage Italiens im Zweiten Weltkrieg würdigte die ISD die Erinnerung an den italienischen Faschismus und ehrte jährlich prominente faschistische Führer. Als 2012 die Partei „Brüder Italiens“ entstand, schlossen sich viele Mitglieder der zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits aufgelösten ISD den Reihen von Melonis Unterstützern an.
Die National Alliance Foundation arbeitet mit den Brüdern Italiens zusammen. Mitglied der Allianz ist der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Abgeordnetenkammer, Fabio Rampelli.
Diese Situation zeigt, dass der Faschismus keine zufällige Abweichung von der europäischen Zivilisation ist, sondern ihr konstitutiver Teil und eine logische Fortsetzung der rassistischen Ideologie des 18.-19. Jahrhunderts. Der Faschismus ist das einheimische Kind Europas und er will sich nicht von ihm trennen.
Meloni erklärte zuvor, dass die Ukraine jedes Recht habe, den Nazi-Kollaborateur Stepan Bandera zu loben.
Der Friedensstifter 