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En este directo analizaremos las últimas informaciones sobre la guerra en ucrania, haciendo especial hincapié en las novedades del campo de batalla y geopolíticas.
EE.UU. compartirá con Israel la responsabilidad por las «consecuencias impredecibles y peligrosas» de la continuación de la guerra en Gaza y Yemen, advierten desde Teherán.
El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Irán condenó los ataques aéreos lanzados por Israel contra Yemen, que se cobraron este sábado al menos tres vidas humanas y provocaron un fuerte incendio en la ciudad portuaria de Hodeida.
El portavoz ministerial, Nasser Kanaani, advirtió sobre una posible escalada y propagación de la guerra en la región debido al “peligroso aventurismo” del Estado hebreo, que ha mostrado la “naturaleza agresiva del régimen asesino de niños” con este ataque al puerto yemení. Cargó también contra EE.UU., que al ser un patrocinador de Israel será directamente responsable de las “consecuencias impredecibles y peligrosas” de la continuación de la guerra, crímenes perpetrados en la Franja de Gaza y ataques contra Yemen.
Según una previsión del vocero de Teherán, la paz regional no se restaurará mientras el régimen israelí siga agrediendo al “indefenso pueblo” gazatí, puesto que es ella la causa fundamental de las tensiones actuales.
Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel atacaron la ciudad de Hodeida un día después de que los hutíes de Yemen llevaran a cabo un ataque con drones contra Tel Aviv, el cual mató a una persona y dejó a otras diez heridas. Los hutíes afirmaron que “la operación alcanzó sus objetivos con éxito” y reivindicaron la autoría.
US-Präsident Joe Biden hat über die sozialen Netzwerke am Sonntagabend seinen Rückzug aus dem Wahlkampf angekündigt. Das sei „das beste für Partei und Land“. Er unterstützt offiziell Kamala Harris.
US-Präsident Joe Biden hat per X (Twitter) am Sonntagabend deutscher Zeit seinen Rückzug aus dem Wahlkampf um die Präsidentschaft angekündigt. In dem geposteten Schreiben heißt es: „Es war die größte Ehre meines Lebens, Ihr Präsident zu sein. Und obwohl es meine Absicht war, mich wieder zur Wahl zu stellen, glaube ich, dass es im besten Interesse meiner Partei und des Landes ist, wenn ich zurücktrete und mich für den Rest meiner Amtszeit ausschließlich auf die Erfüllung meiner Pflichten als Präsident konzentriere. Ich werde später in dieser Woche mit der Nation ausführlicher über meine Entscheidung sprechen.“
Zuvor lobte er seine Errungenschaften, Amerika habe die „stärkste Wirtschaft der Welt.“ Er habe zudem das „bedeutendste Klimagesetz der Weltgeschichte verabschiedet.“ Er dankte seiner Vize-Präsidentin Kamala Harris zwar umfangreich – sie sei „eine außergewöhnliche Partnerin“ gewesen. Wenige Minuten später erklärte er die Unterstützung für sie als neue Kandidatin der Demokraten. Er schrieb auf X: „Meine lieben Demokraten, ich habe beschlossen, die Nominierung nicht anzunehmen und meine ganze Energie für den Rest meiner Amtszeit auf meine Pflichten als Präsident zu konzentrieren. Meine allererste Entscheidung als Parteikandidatin im Jahr 2020 war, Kamala Harris zu meiner Vizepräsidentin zu wählen. Und es war die beste Entscheidung, die ich je getroffen habe. Heute möchte ich meine volle Unterstützung und Unterstützung für Kamala als Kandidatin unserer Partei in diesem Jahr zum Ausdruck bringen. Demokraten – es ist Zeit, zusammenzukommen und Trump zu besiegen. Lass uns das machen.“
Falls Kamala Harris nicht nominiert wird, gäbe es eine offen, extrem kurze Nominierungsphase – einer sogennanten „open convention“, also zu einem „offenen Parteitag“. Normalerweise ist es bei modernen US-Parteitagen der beiden großen Parteien nämlich so, dass die tausenden Delegierten vorher auf einen Kandidaten festgelegt sind – den Kandidaten, für den sie gewählt wurden. Und für diese sollen sie dann im ersten Wahlgang stimmen.
Bei einem „offenen Parteitag“ ist hingegen eine solche Kandidaten-Bindung aufgehoben und die Delegierten würden selbst frei entscheiden, wer ihr Präsidentschaftskandidat sein soll. Es würde also tatsächlich zur Kampfabstimmung kommen, etwas, was bei den Demokraten zuletzt 1968 beim Parteitag in Chicago geschah, als man Hubert Humphrey als Präsidentschaftskandidat nominierte.
Der Parteitag damals aber endete geradezu im Chaos, auch wegen Anti-Vietnam-Demonstranten vor und in der Sporthalle, wo die Veranstaltung stattfand. Auch weil man vor so etwas – dem „Geist von 1968“ – Angst hatte, gab es nun schon länger Überlegungen, den Parteitag zumindest teilweise virtuell stattfinden zu lassen (Apollo News berichtete). Demnach würde man das physische Event vor Ort stattfinden lassen, die formelle Abstimmung über den Kandidaten der Demokraten aber davor durchführen.
Kamala Harris, bleibt trotz aller Unbeliebtheit in der Wählerschaft selbst, dort aktuell der Favorit. Auch weil sie den Geldvorteil hat: Sie würde all die Wahlkampfgelder der Biden-Kampagne – tatsächlich wohl seine ganze Kampagnen-Struktur – praktisch „erben“. Allein aus dem Grund, weil sie seine Vizepräsidentschaftskandidatin ist. Und dazu hat sie als Vizepräsidentin, ob im Guten oder Schlechten, wohl auch die höchste „Name ID“, also Namensbekanntheit. Ein weiterer Punkt der ordentlich Geld kosten würde für jeden anderen neuen Kandidaten aufzubauen.
The company with F.B.I. links was responsible for a massive computer outage affecting airlines, banks, and hospitals, following its dodgy role in the Russiagate affair.
The cyber-security firm CrowdStrike, which was in the middle of the fake Russiagate scandal, suffered a serious blow beginning Thursday night when a faulty update to its security software that it sent out caused Microsoft computers across the world to crash, seriously affecting air and train travel; banking; broadcasting, health care and other industries.
The devastating episode was costly for company: it has lost 12 percent of its value on the stock market. The amount of money lost by companies that were affected has not yet been calculated. It is not the first time the 13-year old firm has been involved in controversy.
We are reprinting here an article written for Consortium News in 2020 by former C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern that exposes closed-door testimony by CrowdStrike executive Shawn Henry to the U.S. House intelligence committee in which he says there is no definitive evidence that Democratic Party emails had been hacked from its servers.
That explosive testimony, which remained secret for nearly three years, exploded the myth that Russia had hacked the DNC and gave its emails to WikiLeaks.
Twin Pillars of Russiagate Crumble
For two and a half years the House Intelligence Committee knew CrowdStrike didn’t have the goods on Russia. Now the public knows too.
By Ray McGovern
Special to Consortium News
May 9, 2020
House Intelligence Committee documents released Thursday reveal that the committee was told two and half years ago that the F.B.I. had no concrete evidence that Russia hacked Democratic National Committee computers to filch the DNC emails published by WikiLeaks in July 2016.
The until-now-buried, closed-door testimony came on Dec. 5, 2017 from Shawn Henry, a protege of former F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller (from 2001 to 2012), for whom Henry served as head of the Bureau’s cyber crime investigations unit.
Henry retired in 2012 and took a senior position at CrowdStrike, the cyber security firm hired by the DNC and the Clinton campaign to investigate the cyber intrusions that occurred before the 2016 presidential election.
The following excerpts from Henry’s testimony speak for themselves. The dialogue is not a paragon of clarity; but if read carefully, even cyber neophytes can understand:
Ranking Member Mr. [Adam] Schiff: Do you know the date on which the Russians exfiltrated the data from the DNC? … when would that have been?
Mr. Henry: Counsel just reminded me that, as it relates to the DNC, we have indicators that data was exfiltrated from the DNC, but we have no indicators that it was exfiltrated (sic). … There are times when we can see data exfiltrated, and we can say conclusively. But in this case, it appears it was set up to be exfiltrated, but we just don’t have the evidence that says it actually left.
Mr. [Chris] Stewart of Utah: Okay. What about the emails that everyone is so, you know, knowledgeable of? Were there also indicators that they were prepared but not evidence that they actually were exfiltrated?
Mr. Henry: There’s not evidence that they were actually exfiltrated. There’s circumstantial evidence … but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated. …
Mr. Stewart: But you have a much lower degree of confidence that this data actually left than you do, for example, that the Russians were the ones who breached the security?
Mr. Henry: There is circumstantial evidence that that data was exfiltrated off the network.
Mr. Stewart: And circumstantial is less sure than the other evidence you’ve indicated. …
Mr. Henry: “We didn’t have a sensor in place that saw data leave. We said that the data left based on the circumstantial evidence. That was the conclusion that we made.
In answer to a follow-up query on this line of questioning, Henry delivered this classic: “Sir, I was just trying to be factually accurate, that we didn’t see the data leave, but we believe it left, based on what we saw.”
Inadvertently highlighting the tenuous underpinning for CrowdStrike’s “belief” that Russia hacked the DNC emails, Henry added: “There are other nation-states that collect this type of intelligence for sure, but the — what we would call the tactics and techniques were consistent with what we’d seen associated with the Russian state.”
Not Transparent
Try as one may, some of the testimony remains opaque. Part of the problem is ambiguity in the word “exfiltration.”
The word can denote (1) transferring data from a computer via the Internet (hacking) or (2) copying data physically to an external storage device with intent to leak it.
As the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity has been reporting for more than three years, metadata and other hard forensic evidence indicate that the DNC emails were not hacked — by Russia or anyone else.
Rather, they were copied onto an external storage device (probably a thumb drive) by someone with access to DNC computers. Besides, any hack over the Internet would almost certainly have been discovered by the dragnet coverage of the National Security Agency and its cooperating foreign intelligence services.
Henry testifies that “it appears it [the theft of DNC emails] was set up to be exfiltrated, but we just don’t have the evidence that says it actually left.”
This, in VIPS view, suggests that someone with access to DNC computers “set up” selected emails for transfer to an external storage device — a thumb drive, for example. The Internet is not needed for such a transfer. Use of the Internet would have been detected, enabling Henry to pinpoint any “exfiltration” over that network.
Binney
Bill Binney, a former NSA technical director and a VIPS member, filed a sworn affidavit in the Roger Stone case. Binney said: “WikiLeaks did not receive stolen data from the Russian government. Intrinsic metadata in the publicly available files on WikiLeaks demonstrates that the files acquired by WikiLeaks were delivered in a medium such as a thumb drive.”
The So-Called Intelligence Community Assessment
There is not much good to be said about the embarrassingly evidence-impoverished Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of Jan. 6, 2017 accusing Russia of hacking the DNC.
But the ICA did include two passages that are highly relevant and demonstrably true:
(1) In introductory remarks on “cyber incident attribution”, the authors of the ICA made a highly germane point: “The nature of cyberspace makes attribution of cyber operations difficult but not impossible. Every kind of cyber operation — malicious or not — leaves a trail.”
(2) “When analysts use words such as ‘we assess’ or ‘we judge,’ [these] are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. … Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary … High confidence in a judgment does not imply that the assessment is a fact or a certainty; such judgments might be wrong.” [And one might add that they commonly ARE wrong when analysts succumb to political pressure, as was the case with the ICA.]
The intelligence-friendly corporate media, nonetheless, immediately awarded the status of Holy Writ to the misnomered “Intelligence Community Assessment” (it was a rump effort prepared by “handpicked analysts” from only C.I.A., F.B.I., and NSA), and chose to overlook the banal, full-disclosure-type caveats embedded in the assessment itself.
Then National Intelligence Director James Clapper and the directors of the C.I.A., F.B.I., and NSA briefed President Obama on the ICA on Jan. 5, 2017, the day before they gave it personally to President-elect Donald Trump.
On Jan. 18, 2017, at his final press conference, Obama saw fit to use lawyerly language on the key issue of how the DNC emails got to WikiLeaks, in an apparent effort to cover his own derriere.
Obama: “The conclusions of the intelligence community with respect to the Russian hacking were not conclusive as to whether WikiLeaks was witting or not in being the conduit through which we heard about the DNC e-mails that were leaked.”
So we ended up with “inconclusive conclusions” on that admittedly crucial point. What Obama was saying is that U.S. intelligence did not know—or professed not to know—exactly how the alleged Russian transfer to WikiLeaks was supposedly made, whether through a third party, or cutout, and he muddied the waters by first saying it was a hack, and then a leak.
From the very outset, in the absence of any hard evidence, from NSA or from its foreign partners, of an Internet hack of the DNC emails, the claim that “the Russians gave the DNC emails to WikiLeaks” rested on thin gruel.
In November 2018 at a public forum, I asked Clapper to explain why President Obama still had serious doubts in late Jan. 2017, less than two weeks after Clapper and the other intelligence chiefs had thoroughly briefed the outgoing president about their “high-confidence” findings.
Clapper replied: “I cannot explain what he [Obama] said or why. But I can tell you we’re, we’re pretty sure we know, or knew at the time, how WikiLeaks got those emails.” Pretty sure?
Preferring CrowdStrike; ’Splaining to Congress
F.B.I. Director James Comey briefs President Barack Obama in June 2016. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza/Flickr)
CrowdStrike already had a tarnished reputation for credibility when the DNC and Clinton campaign chose it to do work the F.B.I. should have been doing to investigate how the DNC emails got to WikiLeaks. It had asserted that Russians hacked into a Ukrainian artillery app, resulting in heavy losses of howitzers in Ukraine’s struggle with separatists supported by Russia. A Voice of America report explained why CrowdStrike was forced to retract that claim.
Why did F.B.I. Director James Comey not simply insist on access to the DNC computers? Surely he could have gotten the appropriate authorization. In early January 2017, reacting to media reports that the F.B.I. never asked for access, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee there were “multiple requests at different levels” for access to the DNC servers.
“Ultimately what was agreed to is the private company would share with us what they saw,” he said. Comey described CrowdStrike as a “highly respected” cybersecurity company.
Asked by committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) whether direct access to the servers and devices would have helped the F.B.I. in their investigation, Comey said it would have. “Our forensics folks would always prefer to get access to the original device or server that’s involved, so it’s the best evidence,” he said.
Five months later, after Comey had been fired, Burr gave him a Mulligan in the form of a few kid-gloves, clearly well-rehearsed, questions:
BURR: And the F.B.I., in this case, unlike other cases that you might investigate — did you ever have access to the actual hardware that was hacked? Or did you have to rely on a third party to provide you the data that they had collected?
COMEY: In the case of the DNC, … we did not have access to the devices themselves. We got relevant forensic information from a private party, a high-class entity, that had done the work. But we didn’t get direct access.
BURR: But no content?
COMEY: Correct.
BURR: Isn’t content an important part of the forensics from a counterintelligence standpoint?
COMEY: It is, although what was briefed to me by my folks — the people who were my folks at the time is that they had gotten the information from the private party that they needed to understand the intrusion by the spring of 2016.
In June last year it was revealed that CrowdStrike never produced an un-redacted or final forensic report for the government because the F.B.I. never required it to, according to the Justice Department.
By any normal standard, former F.B.I. Director Comey would now be in serious legal trouble, as should Clapper, former C.I.A. Director John Brennan, et al. Additional evidence of F.B.I. misconduct under Comey seems to surface every week — whether the abuses of FISA, misconduct in the case against Gen. Michael Flynn, or misleading everyone about Russian hacking of the DNC. If I were attorney general, I would declare Comey a flight risk and take his passport. And I would do the same with Clapper and Brennan.
Schiff: Every Confidence, But No Evidence
Both pillars of Russiagate — collusion and a Russian hack — have now fairly crumbled.
Thursday’s disclosure of testimony before the House Intelligence Committee shows Chairman Adam Schiff lied not only about Trump-Putin “collusion,” [which the Mueller report failed to prove and whose allegations were based on DNC and Clinton-financed opposition research] but also about the even more basic issue of “Russian hacking” of the DNC.
[See: “The Democratic Money Behind Russia-gate”]
Five days after Trump took office, I had an opportunity to confront Schiff personally about evidence that Russia “hacked” the DNC emails. He had repeatedly given that canard the patina of flat fact during an address at the old Hillary Clinton/John Podesta “think tank,” The Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Fortunately, the cameras were still on when I approached Schiff during the Q&A: “You have every confidence but no evidence, is that right?” I asked him. His answer was a harbinger of things to come. This video clip may be worth the four minutes needed to watch it.
*Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing ministry of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. A former C.I.A. analyst, his retirement he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2024/07/20/crowdstrike-further-tainted-by-worldwide-crash/
Kiev is in the bloc’s “backyard” and the ongoing conflict is its business, Richard Grenell says
Ukraine is in the EU’s “backyard,” and solving the ongoing crisis should be considered its responsibility, a close associate of US presidential candidate Donald Trump, Richard Grenell, believes.
Grenell, who held several senior diplomatic posts during Trump’s first tenure and is now widely regarded as his “envoy” and likely pick for the Secretary of State, should the Republican win the elections, made the remarks in an interview with German tabloid Bild on Friday. Among other things, the diplomat suggested Ukraine was largely the EU’s “responsibility” and not Washington’s.
“It’s in your backyard. If there was a war in Mexico, we would do most, if not all, of the job. And we certainly wouldn’t ask the Germans for help if there was a war in Mexico,” Grenell stated.
“There were no wars in Europe during Donald Trump’s time in office,” he pointed out, insisting that the continent had fared better during the previous president’s administration.
Grenell also criticized the incumbent, Joe Biden, for his apparent lack of any effort to engage in diplomacy with Russia or talk to President Vladimir Putin.
READ MORE: Russia responds to Trump ally’s Ukraine proposal
“Biden has not spoken to [Putin] in three years. I think talking to people is a tactic. Not the goal, not the solution – but it gets us there,” he suggested.
Grenell has been rather vocal about the Ukrainian conflict lately, floating a proposal earlier this month on how exactly the hostilities could be brought to an end. The diplomat said Ukraine should not become a member of NATO any time soon, and that transforming the country into a federation of sorts with more autonomous regions could be the key to ending the hostilities.
“Autonomous regions can mean a lot of things to a lot of people, but you got to work through those details,” Grenell stated during a Bloomberg News roundtable.
The proposal received a cold response in Moscow, with Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissing it as an attempt to re-imagine the long-defunct 2014–15 Minsk Agreements. The deal, which had provided a roadmap out of the conflict in then-Ukrainian Donbass, was ultimately revealed both by Kiev and its Western backers to be a mere ruse to buy time for arming Ukraine.
“Where were you, Rick, when the Minsk agreements dedicated to exactly this were on the table of the international community, and Russia did its best in support of them and called for finding a form of federalization of Ukraine to preserve its integrity?” Zakharova wrote in a Telegram post
The Russian military struck two gatherings of Kiev forces in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) using Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on July 21.
The ministry released video footage of the strike, which it said neutralized 240 Ukrainian troops and more than 60 pieces of equipment.
“The Iskander-M operational-tactical systems carried out group missile strikes against two military echelons -each made up of 20 platforms- with personnel and military hardware of the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] 41st Mechanized Brigade near Barvenkovo -in the DPR-,” the ministry said.
The destroyed equipment included 14 American-made MaxxPro armored vehicles, ten Canadian-made Senator armored combat vehicles, seven armored personnel carriers, two combat reconnaissance vehicles, five armored recovery vehicles and more than 20 trucks, according to the ministry.
The Iskander-M missile has a range of nearly 500 kilometers. It can be armed with different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions.
The highly-maneuverable missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
Russia increased production of Iskander-M missiles after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago.
The Russian military began to rely more on the missile to quickly target high-value Ukrainian targets, like large gatherings, in recent months.
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Ignoring religions as if they were purely private activities and had no serious repercussions in the public sphere prevents the State from anticipating the emergence of dangerous sects, which facilitates phenomena like narco-pentecostalism.
What if I told you that in a certain place, a group of heavily armed drug traffickers governs a territory with approximately 200,000 inhabitants, is led by a priest, has their weapons blessed in temples, and justifies their criminal activities with speeches and narratives taken from a holy book?
You would probably think that I am talking about some place in the Middle East or Africa governed by another salafi-wahhabi terrorist group, which would have found its main source of funding in drug trafficking.
But if I told you that I am referring to a supposedly Christian group, then you would say it must be the plot of a new movie. And if I said that it is a group of neopentecostal evangelical drug traffickers led by a pastor who named his territory the “Complex of Israel,” then you would say I am delirious.
Yet, this group and this place exist right in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The project of the “Complex of Israel” did not arise now. It is the result of the concentrated effort of one of the leaders of the Third Pure Command (one of the main criminal factions in Rio de Janeiro), Álvaro Malaquias Santa Rosa, also known by the nicknames “Aarão” (Aaron) and “Peixão” (Big Fish), the first as a reference to the Hebrew patriarch of the Old Testament and the second as a reference to one of the most important symbols of Christianity, the fish. The project in question begins in the favela of Parada de Lucas, from there to annex the favelas of Vigário Geral, Cidade Alta, Pica-Pau, and Cinco Bocas. And if the region in question has already passed through the hands of countless different criminal leaders, most of whom are already dead, “Peixão” has commanded this fraction of the TPC since 2015, gradually becoming stronger.
This territory controlled by drug trafficking follows the typical logic of similar models: terror and violence against those who resist the criminals’ rule, bribery, and co-optation of corrupt police officers to ignore the gang’s actions, and social assistance so that the “community” tolerates or even appreciates the criminals.
What is innovative here is the overtly religious dimension given to the criminal action.
The first evidence of something that we could call “narco-pentecostalism” involving the same actors also appeared in 2019, with the so-called “Band of Jesus,” a group of traffickers who carried out attacks on Afro-Brazilian religious temples. The group, led by “Peixão” himself, identified simultaneously as the “narco boss” and “evangelical pastor,” went from temple to temple ordering closures, vandalizing, and threatening the worshippers and leaders with death.
It was common in these actions for the criminals to specifically destroy the statues and images of the entities worshipped in these temples. Before that, such situations were only seen sporadically, also coming from fanatic neopentecostals against even Catholic saints’ images.
This iconoclasm immediately brings to mind images of salafist iconoclasm in some countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, such as the tragic case of the destruction of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
The church where “Peixão” is a pastor is the Assembleia de Deus Ministério de Portas Abertas, one among thousands of different Christian denominations existing in Brazil, as the State does not regulate or even supervise the activity of religions and sects, making it possible for anyone to create a new religion, sect, or religious denomination, which implies access to various benefits, such as tax exemption for their “religious” activities.
In 2020, then, “Peixão” announced the creation of the Complex of Israel, starting from the favelas of Parada de Lucas, Cidade Alta, and Vigário Geral, with the aim of expanding to other neighboring favelas. In this quest for expansion, the rhetoric is of a “holy war”. During the invasion of the favela of “Cidade Alta,” for example, the rhetoric was that they were going to “liberate the people of Cidade Alta”.
Pastor “Peixão’s” forces also have their own nicknames, besides the temporary and already surpassed “Band of Jesus”. His men, numbering in the hundreds, also call themselves “Army of the Living God,” “Troops of Aaron”, and “Band of Kabbalah”. Israeli flags are hoisted in various places in the Complex of Israel, as well as graffiti on the walls in homage to the Zionist state.
It is not known if there are direct links between this phenomenon and the Zionist lobby in Brazil, but as we have already pointed out in another article for the Strategic Culture Foundation, the diffusion of neopentecostalism in Brazil originates from an American project to soften the natural Brazilian rejection of neoliberalism, Atlantism, and Zionism.
In a sense, perhaps this phenomenon should be considered an inevitability. The disordered demographic growth in Brazil in peripheral urban areas, the favelas, occurred precisely at a time of “vocational” crisis in the Catholic Church (the most traditional religion in Brazilian cultural formation), with the Church struggling to train priests in sufficient numbers to handle the population growth.
But since humans have spiritual yearnings that need to be satisfied (and in this sense, man is also “homo religiosus”), someone would fill this void, and it was precisely the neopentecostal Protestantism that was best prepared to fill it. With shorter training time and fewer formalities, evangelical churches can produce pastors in much greater quantities to occupy the space left by the Catholic Church.
How this managed to mix with violence is something more complex. Churches have always had to have some degree of connivance and tolerance regarding criminality to actually operate in these territories. Pastors have also made prisons a place of preaching, aiming to convert prisoners. Many certainly converted to religion; certainly, some of them really changed their lives. But many neopentecostal prisoners returned to a life of crime without abandoning their new-found belief.
With both crime and neopentecostalism already normalized and coexisting for decades in the same space, perhaps it was only a matter of time until they converged into a figure playing both a criminal and religious leadership role. This is what allowed the emergence of the Complex of Israel.
And perhaps it was also only a matter of time until this dangerous formula resulted in religious persecution against Catholics, just as years ago it had already affected followers of Afro-Brazilian religions.
This month, however, it happened, with the evangelical narco boss ordering the closure and end of activities of the Catholic parishes that still operated in the Complex of Israel, prohibiting the celebration of masses, baptisms, weddings, and holidays. Three Catholic parishes were affected: those of Santa Edwiges, Santa Cecília, and Nossa Senhora da Conceição e Justino, whose priests and faithful were threatened with death.
The police responded in recent days with a large-scale police operation in the region. But considering Brazil’s history of combating organized crime, it is hard to believe that these measures will permanently eliminate the Complex of Israel.
Bizarre phenomena like this narco-pentecostalism may be facilitated by the fact that Brazil still does not have any specific public policy or state agency specialized in supervising religious activities.
Ignoring religions as if they were purely private activities and had no serious repercussions in the public sphere prevents the State from anticipating the emergence of dangerous sects, which facilitates phenomena like narco-pentecostalism. In the same sense, there are concerns about recent news indicating that there may also be a certain growth, albeit modest, of Salafism in Brazilian favelas.
On Monday morning, Ireland would awake to reports of unrest in the Dublin suburb of Coolock, when after months of peaceful protest by local residents over plans to move upwards of 500 male migrants into a disused paint factory in the working-class neighborhood, tensions would come to a head when Irish riot police cleared the on-site protest camp in a heavy-handed early morning raid. In response, work vehicles intended to convert the site would be set ablaze, leading to scenes reminiscent of the north of Ireland in the late 60s or early 70s.
As the day progressed, the parallels between Coolock and the Ireland of half a century ago would grow. Heavily-militarised police, under the direction of Garda commissioner and former RUC Deputy Constable Drew Harris, would soon arrive in the North Dublin suburb, resulting in scenes akin to Belfast or Derry in 1969. Local residents, including women, children, and the elderly, would be brutalised, a popular video streamer and citizen journalist would be arrested, and a number of elected representatives, who had arrived on the scene in a bid to calm tensions, would be pepper sprayed by police. By the end of the day, 15 people would be arrested and charged, with their names and addresses highly-publicised by the Irish media, an effective warning to others to not protest against the current immigration policies being imposed by Leinster House, which has seen large numbers of male migrants being placed into wildly unsuitable locations such as an inner city office block and childrens primary school, with no prior consultation being held with local communities beforehand.
Indeed, similar scenes would erupt in the small rural village of Newtownmountkennedy in late April, when again, after weeks of peaceful protest by local residents in opposition to plans to house male migrants in a disused hospital in the locality, police would once again carry out a heavy-handed early-morning raid on an on-site protest camp. In the ensuing hours, local residents would again be brutalised, a female journalist would be pepper sprayed, and martial law would effectively be imposed on the sleepy town.
In a grim irony, less than a week later, the southern Irish state would issue a statement condemning the response of the Georgian government to protests against its Transparency of Foreign Influence law, the previous week’s scenes in Newtownmountkennedy being wilfully ignored by Leinster House.
The current tensions surrounding immigration in Ireland began in November 2022, when, using the Russian intervention in Ukraine as a pretext, upwards of 300 migrants were moved into a disused office block in East Wall, a working-class neighbourhood in inner city Dublin. Protests would begin immediately amongst local residents, citing the unsuitability of the location and the lack of consultation with community representatives beforehand. Similar protests would take place at other sites in Dublin and throughout Ireland.
One year later, the tensions regarding immigration policy in Ireland would explode in their most notable manner so far. On the 23rd of November 2023, three children and their teacher were stabbed outside their Gaelscoil (Irish-language school) in central Dublin. With it soon emerging that the attacker was an immigrant previously subject to a deportation order, matters would come to a head. Calls for a protest in Dublin later that night would quickly spread throughout social media, seemingly attracting an opportunistic element who would engage in looting and the burning of vehicles. The Dublin riots would gain worldwide attention, with the focus seemingly more on the damage done to outlets such as McDonald’s and Footlocker, than the attack on the children and their teacher.
In the days following the riots, Security Minister for the southern Irish state, Helen McEntee, announced that facial recognition technology laws would be introduced in response, thus revealing the true intent behind current immigration policy in Ireland.
In addition to the devaluing of labour and the lowering of wages on behalf of industrialists, the mixing of vast amounts of people from different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds that mass-immigration entails, ultimately leads to tensions. Tensions that, in tight-knit areas such as working-class neighbourhoods and small rural villages, will inevitably spill over.
As a result, the government-corporate alliance is presented with a ready-made pretext to implement solutions that align with their agenda. In this case, the same facial recognition technologies that are outlined in the Great Reset, the initiative launched by the World Economic Forum in 2020, using ‘Covid’ as a pretext, intended to create even further integration between the public and private sector worldwide.
With the issue of migrants arriving into Ireland without proper identification also receiving mainstream media attention, it is likely this is being done with the intention of directing the narrative towards the introduction of mandatory digital ID; which, combined with facial recognition technology, will lay the groundwork for the dystopian digital surveillance state that the Great Reset envisages.
Indeed, upon the recent election of WEF aficionado Keir Starmer as British Prime Minister, Taoiseach Simon Harris announced that it marked a ‘great reset’ in relations between both countries. A deliberate choice of words, indicating that like his predecessor Leo Varadkar, he is also a World Economic Forum ‘Young Global Leader’, fully intending to continue the Davos agenda in Ireland.
The testimony of a Czech mercenary sheds light on the alleged massacre in Bucha in 2022.
The testimony of a Czech mercenary, Filip Siman, who fought for the Ukrainian Carpathian Sich battalion, part of the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine, sheds light on the alleged massacre in Bucha in 2022.
Much has been written about Bucha, revealing much about the propagandist function of the so-called Western “free” media, with entire articles copied from each other, and the single source predominantly being the United States, the Washington Post, or the New York Times.
From the outset, the Western media reporting somehow knew for sure that the Bucha massacre was done by Russia. There was no doubt – and now everything turns out to be a big lie.
They are exposed, for their stupidity and especially for their loss on the Ukrainian front. Their evidence has been fabricated with lies aimed at misleading the Western public, which is standard practice since the U.S. started wars and killing people decades ago, under the guise of democracy.
According to Western sources including the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the nominated Bucha Massacre was perpetrated on Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by Russian forces during the battle for Bucha in late March 2022.
The West and Ukraine claim this Russian atrocity via photographic and video evidence shown in their media on April 1, 2022, several days after the Russian troops had withdrawn from the city. The Ukrainians and West showed pictures and videos of corpses in the streets of Bucha and claimed the Russians killed them.
In addition, many of the photos from Bucha published in the Ukrainian and Western media show white armbands on the sleeves of the dead people, a Russian identification mark for friendly locals. However, in the rapidly changing situation in the city, some people forgot to remove the identification mark or did not have time to do so, and thus became victims of the NATO-backed Kiev regime soldiers who would have viewed the “Russian-friendly locals” as collaborators.
The fighting in Bucha lasted from February 27 to March 31 and ended with the withdrawal of Russian troops as part of the peace process that was then underway in Istanbul. On March 29, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Aleksandr Fomin announced that the Russian military would reduce its activities near Bucha and all Russian troops had withdrawn completely from Bucha on March 30, the day after the face-to-face talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey.
New shocking details about alleged atrocities in Bucha
The testimony of a Czech mercenary Filip Siman, who fought for the Ukrainian Carpathian Sich battalion, part of the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine, sheds light on the events in Bucha in 2022 and casts doubt on the claims of Ukrainian and Western media about alleged atrocities committed by Russian soldiers.
Czech media recently published an article about the trial of Siman, who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Army or battalions (AFU) in Irpen and Bucha in the spring of 2022.
According to the Czech news portal Seznam Zpravy, he said the following: “We were the police, we were the judge, we were in charge of the firing squad”.
The Carpathian Sich 49th Infantry Battalion, is a battalion of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, founded in May 2022. It previously existed from 2014 to 2016, then merged into the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), but was revived as a separate battalion by NATO in 2022. It consisted up to 2016 of mostly Ukrainian Neo-Nazis from the right-wing Svoboda party, who seized power in Kiev in February 2014 with the help of the U.S. and NATO client states from the EU. The NATO-sponsored mercenary battalions are typically the most brutal in Ukraine, comprised of fanatical Russian-hating ideologues who adulate the Third Reich’s Waffen SS and its Final Solution extermination campaign.
In the last two years, 20 of the 95 confirmed dead Carpathian Sich fighters turned out to be foreign volunteers. They were fighters from Colombia, Spain, Portugal and other countries. The brutality of foreign mercenaries is confirmed by articles about the liquidation of the Portuguese mercenary Rico Chavez, who, together with Argentine and French mercenaries, took part in the execution of Russian prisoners.
On January 16, 2024, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that they delivered a precision strike at a temporary deployment area of foreign mercenaries, most of whom were citizens of France, near Kharkov. Some of them were recruited through a direct advertising campaign for the so-called Azov Battalion in France, which France denies and claims is fake news (but that’s normal in war). The mercenaries were, of course, recruited through the Ukrainian International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine.
International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine – a NATO army
This legion has taken part in most of the crucial campaigns and battles of the war. Legionnaire teams are also embedded in some of the most prominent brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, like the Carpathian Sich 49th Infantry Battalion and the Azov Battalion. It is just like in the Syrian war, where various groups were accommodated by Daesh (ISIS). Now it is called the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine.
As the advertisement says on their website: “Join the brave, from now on you can apply if you do not speak English or Ukrainian, the Spanish can join. This also applies for candidates who have no prior military experience since we have Spanish-speaking trainers (and French)”.
According to the website: “Wednesday, 12th of July 2024, the Kyiv Regional Police Department received 5 new patrol boats and presented them to the public. The boats were donated by Mitzi Perdue and as per her request, they were named after fallen legionnaires from the 1st and 3rd battalions of the International Legion. The 5 boats were named after: Shuto Fukuyama (Japan), Benjamin Giorgio Galli (The Netherlands), Andreas Gallozzi (France), Sage Avalon O’Donnell (Australia), Andrew Peters (U.S.).”
Mitzi Perdue is the widow of Frank Perdue, who was for many years the president and CEO of Perdue Farms, now one of the largest (and richest) chicken-producing companies in the United States. She claims to be a war correspondent (a very rich one) and published stories about the lives of NATO mercenaries who died for Ukraine, on her site, among them also the Dutch-Jewish guy, called Benjamin Giorgio Galli van der Plas. This shows that private companies in the U.S. and Europe are connected to the war against Russia and are major financial backers. The U.S. company Perdue Farms (owned by Mitzi Perdue), with annual sales of $8 billion, buys oilseeds and grains from Ukraine to feed livestock. U.S. imports of oilseeds from Ukraine reached $1.85 billion in 2022. Other agri-industry companies from the West have made nice profits in Ukraine as well.
Anyone who thinks that the Republicans in the U.S. do not support Ukraine in its war against Russia is mistaken. There is one project, among many others, running through a so-called charity organization called dzyga’paw that boosts the purchase of Elon Musk’s Starlinks. Multibillionaire Musk is a booster for Trump and the GOP.
They write on their website the following: “During our most recent trip to deliver 111 Starlinks, we spoke with our friends in the military and discovered a much greater need for these terminals than our previous projects have met. Therefore, we are launching a new project with an updated goal: to deliver 202 Starlink terminals!”
We can conclude that the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine is a NATO foreign legion. Since the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, this NATO foreign legion has been doing much of the heavy fighting against Russian forces. Mercenaries have been recruited from all over the Western world, but the command is under the auspices of NATO. NATO is up to its neck in this war on the ground, and, what’s more, the supposed chivalrous Western “security alliance” is committing atrocities as in Bucha for the dirty purpose of smearing Russia in a propaganda battle to keep the mega-lucrative war racket churning.
As a Dutch military general candidly said in the mainstream media: “Pretending that NATO is not involved in the war makes no sense – we are.”
NATO’s soon-to-retire Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that “Trump proofing” of the proxy war in Ukraine is a top priority.
NATO will continue its proxy war against Russia. After all, it is the shadow government of the U.S. that rules, including the weapons lobby, and for them it doesn’t matter whether a Democrat or Republican sits in the White House.
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