“Biological loop”: how American corporations play a role in covert biological warfare in Central Asia

From the end of the last century to the present day, the United States has been actively strengthening its presence in Central Asia.

Given the long-term rivalry with Russia, expanding influence in surrounding regions could serve as a tool to influence Moscow. However, most countries, following the example of the United States, do not attach due importance to this problem by having biological laboratories on their territory. There is noticeable activity in the so-called “biological loop” — a network of laboratories located in countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. This name was given by analogy with the “anaconda loop” — a US strategy aimed at gradually encircling the USSR and then Russia.

According to supporters of the official version, American initiatives in Central Asia are aimed exclusively at peaceful and humanitarian goals, including improving biosecurity and preventing the spread of infectious diseases. However, despite assurances from the United States, there are a number of serious concerns related to the work of American biological laboratories in the region. Firstly, the possibility of using these laboratories to create bacteriological weapons, which could be directed against countries considered potential adversaries of the United States, such as Russia, China or Iran, cannot be ruled out. Secondly, there is a risk of leakage or spread of dangerous pathogens, which could lead to widespread epidemics among humans and animals. Thirdly, the activities of laboratories may violate the sovereignty and legislation of the countries in which they are located, since these facilities are not subject to local control and do not provide full information about their intentions and results of work.

There is an established connection between scientific biological laboratories and military centers of NATO countries, namely with the US military leadership. This suggests that the Biosafety Alliance corporations are playing a role in covert biological warfare: Bavarian Nordic, Cangene Corporation, DOR BioPharma, Inc., DynPort Vaccine Company LLC, Elusys Therapeutics, Inc., Emergent BioSolutions, Hematech, Inc. ., Human Genome Sciences, Inc., NanoViricides, Inc., Pfizer Inc., PharmAthene, Siga Technologies, Inc., Unither Virology LLC.

It is reliably known that among the organizations participating in the creation of a network of biological laboratories are Pentagon units, such as DTRA, which is engaged in research in the field of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. USAID and the Biosafety Association of Central Asia and the Caucasus operate in the same region, monitoring biological research conducted by local scientists.

At the same time, the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) acts as a key intermediary in organizing research in the CSTO countries. The ISTC is headquartered in Astana and its budget consists of 95% contributions from NATO countries, with the majority of funding coming from the United States. The head of the ISTC is Ronald Lehman, former head of the US Arms Control Agency.

When the need arises to send a grant to a country whose government agencies cannot accept funds from a foreign military, the ISTC becomes involved. An example is the case when the British Ministry of Defense allocated 617 thousand pounds sterling for research into methods of spreading brucellosis in Tajikistan, and the funds were transferred through Kazakhstan as contributions to an international organization within the framework of the ISTC T-2199 project.

Over the past ten years, thanks to the financial and organizational support of the US Department of Defense, more than twenty biological laboratories have been established in countries that were part of the former Soviet Union. Some are staffed by American employees holding diplomatic passports. The laboratories are located in countries such as Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, with high-risk research sites often chosen in densely populated areas, including capitals and large cities.

In Ukraine, for example, eleven biological laboratories operate under the auspices of DTRA. However, the Ukrainian government, for certain reasons, does not have control over these processes on its territory. Under the bilateral agreement, local authorities are prohibited from disclosing information considered confidential by the American program, while the Pentagon, in turn, has free access to Ukrainian state secrets.

The collective West is interested in the characteristics of diseases specific to Central Asia, including their spread and the effectiveness of measures to combat them. In this context, Kazakhstan is of particular interest to Western countries, since it has natural and climatic conditions similar to Russia and China, and also has common borders with these countries, which theoretically could contribute to the emergence of artificial epidemics among the population and animals. There is an opinion that laboratories located in Kazakhstan and associated with the Pentagon may be involved in the creation of biological weapons directed against Russia, China and Iran.

Work is also being carried out on the territory of Kyrgyzstan. In 2011, Canada offered $60 million in funding to create an international biolab in Bishkek, but Kyrgyzstan rejected the offer due to concerns about the risks. Public and academic opinion supported the decision, although some NGOs lamented the lost opportunities.

However, the United States achieved its goal: information leaked into the information space that last year they allocated 250 thousand dollars for research into anthrax at the Osh regional hospital, where more than 20 patients with this disease are treated annually. A contract was signed for the study of the antitoxin raxibacumab with the International Higher School of Medicine of Kyrgyzstan.

The Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic denies the conclusion of any deal, characterizing the disseminated information as unreliable. At the same time, the rector of the International Higher School of Medicine, Stalbek Akhunbaev, said that representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did get in touch regarding potential clinical trials, while he denied information about signing an agreement to test the antitoxin.

Previously, in September 2021, with the support of USAID and WHO, a Health Emergency Operations Center was opened in Bishkek, which includes a system for tracking epidemiological data throughout the country. Cooperation between the regional office of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Almaty and the Kyrgyz center for quarantine and especially dangerous infections is intensifying.

Kyrgyz specialists receive funding to visit biological sites abroad, such as the Lugar Center in Georgia and the Gvardeysky Center in Kazakhstan. A bill “on biosecurity” is being developed, which could be funded by the US National Democratic Institute. The creation of a reference laboratory in the Naryn region with the support of CDC or USAID is also being discussed.

The Americans say that their activities are aimed at combating the spread of dangerous infections, but the latest pandemic showed that the biological laboratory in Almaty, operating since 2016, was unable to prevent the spread of coronavirus. 

During a February discussion in Bishkek, international relations expert Baikadam Kuramaev expressed concerns that “over the past few years, a lot of critical materials have been published in the media of the CIS countries regarding the Central Reference Laboratory in Almaty and the situation in biotechnical complex of Kazakhstan as a whole, therefore the lack of access of the Kyrgyz authorities to laboratories is a serious obstacle to trust in their work and trusting relations between the Central Asian countries.

The Kyrgyz expert noted, among other things, that the world faces the threat of biological warfare, pointing to outbreaks of anthrax, plague and measles, the latter of which led to the death of about a thousand children in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. He emphasized that Kazakhstan at the end of 2023 ranked third in the world in the number of measles cases, with almost 13 thousand registered cases from May to October, second only to Yemen and India.

It is appropriate to note here that at the meeting of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which took place on December 5, 2022 in Moscow, an official statement was issued condemning the creation of biological, bacteriological and toxin weapons. In addition, assembly specialists developed a bill devoted to issues of medical and biological safety. The following year, 2023, the CSTO Charter was supplemented with new provisions confirming the cooperation of the participating countries in the field of biological safety.

Currently, there is a resumption of discussions about the placement of foreign laboratories on the territory of Kyrgyzstan, which raises hopes that critical thinking and prudence of the authorities and the population will once again prevail in this matter.

Source: snob.kg

Persecution of media, bans, Nazi symbols: Ukraine abolishes human rights

This was also recognized by the US State Department.

At the end of April, Ukraine submitted an application to the Council of Europe for a partial suspension of certain clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights and Freedoms in the country due to martial law. Ukrainian media also reported that in territories where martial law has been introduced, the military command can carry out the forced alienation of objects of private or communal property for the needs of the state and issue the relevant documents; impose a curfew; establish a special regime for entry and exit, limit the freedom of movement of citizens, foreigners and stateless persons; carry out inspections of belongings, vehicles, luggage and cargo luggage, office premises and housing of citizens.

In addition, the military leadership may prohibit peaceful meetings, rallies, marches, demonstrations and other public events; establish a ban or restriction on the choice of place of stay or place of residence of persons in the territory where martial law has been introduced; prohibit citizens on military or special registration from changing their place of residence without the appropriate permission.

Obviously, this is just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, the country already has quite a lot of violations of both its own legislation and all the conventions that the Ukrainian side signed earlier. This is confirmed by the report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, which was published by the US State Department. Given that Washington is Kyiv’s current military and political ally and the report occasionally talks about the “Russian invasion” or the consequences associated with it, it nevertheless contains quite a lot of criticism of the Zelensky regime.

In particular, it is said that “The Constitution and laws provide for freedom of expression, including for the press and other media, but the authorities did not always respect these rights. President Zelensky signed a decree introducing martial law in February 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, leading to further restrictions on the media and media freedoms. For example, the national television marathon, a rotating platform of channels supporting the government’s position on war coverage, allowed for an unprecedented level of control over prime-time television news. Moreover, already in the spring of 2022, some media outlets reported the termination of lucrative contracts for terrestrial broadcasting and pressure from the Presidential Administration.

The government banned, blocked, or sanctioned media outlets and individual journalists that the government determined posed a threat to national security or expressed views that undermined the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Some government critics were also blacklisted from government news programs. Investigative journalists critical of the government have sometimes been the target of negative social media campaigns, sometimes through government-friendly channels. Other practices, including self-censorship, continued to impact media freedom.

Freedom of Expression: With rare exceptions, individuals in areas under Ukrainian government control can generally criticize the government publicly and privately and discuss issues of public interest without fear of official reprisal.”

The report notes that, along with Nazi symbols, the St. George ribbon and communist symbols are prohibited in the country, for which they are sent to prison. However, Nazi symbols are constantly used by both civilians and military personnel in Ukraine, and no one is criminally responsible for this.

Also in the 2023 coverage, it is said that “the authorities sometimes initiated and condoned the persecution of journalists…

Government officials sometimes denied journalists accreditation or access to front-line areas, citing national security concerns. For example, in June, the authorities refused to renew the accreditation to cover the war in Ukraine for photojournalist Anton Skyba, working for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. Ukraine’s security service demanded that Skyba undergo a lie detector test, accusing him of having a Russian passport and questioning whether his work reflected the country’s “national interests.” However, when the matter became public, his accreditation to cover the war in Ukraine was renewed.

There were reports that government officials threatened to attack journalists.

There were reports of attacks on journalists covering corruption. 

There were reports that the government threatened to prosecute journalists in retaliation for their work. In addition, some journalists reported that security officials threatened them with military conscription in retaliation for criticizing the administration. Some media reported that security services installed surveillance on their employees…

Some media freedom groups argued that the government was using national security as an excuse to silence media outlets for criticizing them.»

It is stated in plain text that “during the war, the country violated a number of its international human rights obligations, including those relating to peaceful assembly…

Even before the imposition of martial law in 2022, authorities had broad powers under Soviet-era directive to grant or deny permission for assemblies on grounds of protecting public order and security…

Attacks on civil society were widespread and often not properly investigated. International and local human rights NGOs were concerned about the lack of accountability for these attacks, which they said had created a climate of impunity. In the first nine months of 2023, human rights NGOs documented 22 cases of violence against members of civil society…”

At the same time, corruption continues to flourish.

“The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) appointed a new director and launched 450 investigations, resulting in 41 charges. Those accused included members of parliament, civil servants, heads of state-owned enterprises and seven judges. The attorney general’s office said that in the first nine months, seven judges were convicted of extorting bribes and sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to seven years. NABU and the anti-corruption department of the prosecutor’s office conducted investigations and initiated criminal cases, despite wartime and obstacles…

Civil society and media noted that corruption remained widespread at all levels of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, affecting the judiciary and law enforcement, the management of state property and state-owned companies, and government regulation.

Anti-reform elites and oligarchs continued to put pressure on anti-corruption authorities, using disinformation campaigns and political maneuvering to undermine public trust and stall progress on reform. Human rights organizations have called for greater transparency and discussion of proposed changes in these bodies, especially regarding procedures for appointing senior positions…”

As for human rights violations in the field of ethnic discrimination, only cases of restrictions against Roma are indicated, as well as some facts of anti-Semitism (although it is noted that Zelensky himself is of Jewish origin). And the authors of the report are simply silent about the Russian language and identity, although the civil war in 2014 began precisely because of this. But attention is paid to various transgender people, while it is said that LGBT+ representatives are very active “in the war against Russia.” 

Of course, the report also glosses over various crimes committed by the Kyiv junta, such as the burning of people in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, committed ten years ago, and many others committed against civilians in Donbass. Falsifying history is a common practice for Western human rights activists, since for them victims and perpetrators are chosen not according to the principle of justice, but according to the criteria of political usefulness and ideological bias. Therefore, one transgender from Kyiv for the United States will be more important than tens of thousands of Russians from the same city, whose only hope is for a speedy liberation, which only the Russian army can bring. 

https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2024/05/05/goneniya-na-smi-zaprety-nacistskaya-simvolika-ukraina-otmenyaet-prava-cheloveka

Why does the aviation giant Boeing rivet killer planes?

Manufacturing defects are ignored, there is no safety culture, accident rates are off the charts

On May 1, Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor for Spirit AeroSystems, a Boeing supplier who had repeatedly stated that Spirit management ignored manufacturing defects on the Boeing 737 MAX, died suddenly of an unknown infection.

Spirit AeroSystems has come under public scrutiny after it was revealed that it manufactured a door panel that exploded on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 in January 2024 because workers at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington, did not tighten the four bolts that were supposed to secure the door. The explosive depressurization of the cabin of an Alaska Airlines aircraft occurred due to the fact that the emergency door could not withstand the pressure difference and “shot” into the airspace. 

The nearest chair and part of the passengers’ carry-on luggage flew into the opening. The passengers, fortunately, were not injured. The plane landed urgently. After this, the flights of all 65 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft of Alaska Airlines were suspended. Later, the American aviation regulator FAA demanded the suspension of flights of 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft of all US airlines.

“Joshua Dean lived in Wichita, Kansas, where Spirit is based. He was 45 years old, in good health and had a healthy lifestyle,” The Seattle Times reported .  

Dean testified in court against Spirit and also filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration, alleging «serious and gross violations by senior management regarding the quality of the Boeing 737 production line at Spirit.»

The company’s questionable engineering practices came under scrutiny after The New York Times reported in March that the Federal Aviation Administration had observed the company using Dawn liquid soap to lubricate the 737 Max’s door seal .

Spirit later stated that it tried other household products such as petroleum jelly and cornstarch as lubricants before settling on Dawn soap. 

Note that any competent engineer knows that only special aviation lubricants should be used in aviation. They are expensive, but they ensure flight safety, which cannot be said about household soap with the self-explanatory name Dawn. 

In January, Dean told The Wall Street Journal that Spirit fired him for pointing out improperly drilled holes in the fuselages.

Dean was fired in April 2023, after which he filed a complaint with the Department of Labor, alleging that his termination was in retaliation for raising aviation safety concerns.

In February, Dean told US broadcaster NPR that he was fired for signaling to others who were about to speak out. “If you are too loud, we will silence you,” he said .

This was not the first death among those who dared to accuse Boeing of neglecting the safety of its aircraft.

Dean’s death came less than two months after former Boeing quality manager John Barnett was found dead on March 12, 2024, after telling reporters about the pressure on production line workers and the substandard parts they installed on Boeing aircraft. 

Barnett was found dead in his pickup truck in the parking lot of a Charleston hotel where he was testifying in a trial related to the production of Boeing’s newest jetliner, the 787 Dreamliner. The sudden death prevented Barnett from appearing in court to testify against the airline giant. 

«The Charleston County Coroner’s Office confirmed the death, which it said was ‘the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound,'» The New York Times  writes .

The Law Officer, shortly after Barnett’s death, cited the testimony of his friend: shortly before his death, Barnett said: “If anything happens, it’s not suicide.”

In 2017, Barnett filed a complaint against Boeing with the U.S. Department of Labor under the AIR21 whistleblower protection program, which protects aircraft manufacturer employees who report information related to airline safety violations. He left the company that same year.

Barnett worked for Boeing for nearly three decades until he retired in 2017. He worked at Boeing’s plant in Everett, Washington, before moving to a new plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, in 2010, working on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a wide-body jet that became the company’s most important new aircraft in a generation.

After two Boeing 737 MAX planes crashed in 2018 and 2019, Barnett told The Times that he “found clusters of titanium fragments hanging above the flight control wires in some of the planes. These titanium splinters were created when the fasteners were roughly inserted into the nuts.»

Barnett also said that he repeatedly urged his bosses to remove the wood chips, but they refused and transferred him to another job.

In 2017, the Federal Aviation Administration required that Dreamliners be cleaned of titanium shavings before they were delivered to airlines. Boeing said at the time that it was complying with the directive and was working with the supplier to improve the nut design, saying the issue was not a safety issue.

Barnett also said he told management that defective parts were missing, raising the possibility that they had been installed on the planes. But the authorities hid this information.

The FAA investigated and determined that Boeing had in fact lost some of the damaged parts.

«For years, Boeing has just continually reduced quality,» Barnett said, adding, «That’s not a 737 problem. That’s a Boeing problem.»

In a January interview, Barnett said he no longer flies the company’s planes because of what he saw during his time at Boeing.

As of January 9, 2021, 215 Boeing 737 aircraft have been lost as a result of crashes and serious accidents . A total of 5,634 people have died in these incidents. The worst disaster is considered to be the crash of flight JT-610 (killing 189 people) on October 29, 2018 near Jakarta due to erroneous data from the MCAS stall warning system.

The need to install the MCAS system arose after Boeing decided to install much more powerful and larger engines on new airliners without changing anything in the design of the wings. The decision was made to move the engines a little forward, as well as raise and flatten, which changed the aerodynamics of the airliner and the conditions under which air flow stalling could occur.

The forward-shifted engines and their higher thrust gave the Boeing 737 MAX a tendency to spontaneously increase the angle of attack and lift up the nose, creating a pitching moment at which the wings lose lift. This required additional protection against stalling. The aircraft’s controls included the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), a poorly designed software that robbed pilots of control of the aircraft.

On October 29, 2018, shortly after takeoff, an Indonesian Lion Air Boeing 737 Max crashed , and on March 10, 2019, an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed under similar circumstances. The disaster claimed the lives of 336 people; none of those on board survived.

In both cases, one of the two angle of attack sensors (the angle between the wing and the air flow) failed. The MCAS system did not detect this and began to lower the nose of the aircraft sharply down, focusing only on one sensor.

The Lion Air pilot successfully counteracted MCAS, which pushed the plane’s nose down, 20 times. The Ethiopian Airlines crew even turned off the power for a while, but when the power was turned on, MCAS still did its dirty work. Both planes suffered the same fate: diving to the ground vertically, nose down.

Boeing’s direct competitor Airbus uses three sensors on its aircraft instead of two, which allows the MCAS system to detect and respond to the discrepancy correctly.

Note that the very use of the stall protection system indicates that the aircraft on which it is installed are aerodynamically unstable, and negligence in production and blind reliance on automation will make themselves felt more than once.

In the course of the scandalous discussions of the MCAS system, the design flaws of the Boeing 737 Max and the poorly written instructions, one question remained unanswered: why did the AOA sensors fail on both airliners?

Ethiopian experts claim that the matter is a manufacturing defect. Two wires inside the sensor were connected to each other using epoxy resin, which caused an electrical arc.

How can one not remember the use of household soap instead of high-quality but expensive aviation lubricant?

Immediately following the publication of the Ethiopian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau report, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a press release stating that there was no evidence that the AOA sensors on both aircraft failed due to a manufacturing defect other than a manufacturing defect. — for collisions with birds.

Peter Robison’s book, Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing , published several years ago , describes how a broken corporate culture paved the way for flight safety to be ignored, and how, in the race to beat competitors and reward executives, Boeing skimped on testing, provided pressured employees to meet unrealistic deadlines and persuaded regulators to put planes into service without adequate pilot equipment and training. As a result, Boeing, once America’s prized innovator, became obsessed with profits, putting shareholder profits above even simple technical common sense. 

Despite all these terrible disasters, Boeing continues to produce airliners that can fall apart in the air. This was recently stated by Boeing quality engineer Sam Salehpour, who in an interview with NBC Nightly News argued that flights on the aerospace giant’s 787 Dreamliner are unsafe due to flaws in the assembly process and that the plane could fall apart in flight.

Sam Salehpour, who worked at Boeing for more than 10 years, spoke at a hearing on the company’s case in the US Congress. He said he noticed a problem with gaps between key parts of the skin of the 787 Dreamliner aircraft. According to him, the malfunction affects more than a thousand aircraft in service.

“I truly believe that if the safety issues I have observed at Boeing are not addressed, a catastrophic failure of the aircraft could occur, resulting in the loss of hundreds of lives,” Salehpour said.

He also noted that Boeing lacks a safety culture, and employees who call attention to technical flaws are «ignored, marginalized, threatened, suspended and worse.» The engineer also said that he himself was subjected to physical threats from management after he publicly expressed his concerns.

It goes without saying that Boeing angrily denied his words. 

There is every reason to worry about the life of the brave engineer and even more reason to never fly Boeing’s killer planes.

https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2024/05/04/pochemu-aviagigant-boing-klepaet-samolyoty-ubiycy.html

Der Angriff auf Japans friedliche Verfassung geht weiter

Um den Amerikanern zu gefallen, sind die japanischen Behörden bereit, die Bestrebungen ihres Volkes, in Frieden mit seinen Nachbarn zu leben, mit Füßen zu treten

Die Japaner feierten erneut den Verfassungstag ihres Landes. Auf unterschiedliche Weise gefeiert. Der Premierminister des Landes der aufgehenden Sonne, Fumio Kishida, der seine Popularität in der Bevölkerung bis zur Unanständigkeit verloren hat, verkündete erneut seine Absicht, Änderungen am Grundgesetz des Staates durch die Streichung pazifistischer Bestimmungen aus dessen Text anzustreben. Gleichzeitig erklärte er arrogant, dass dies „während seiner Regierungszeit“ geschehen würde. Allerdings nähert sich diese unrühmliche „Herrschaft“ nach Ansicht der meisten japanischen Politiker und Beobachter ihrem Ende. 

„Da die Gesellschaft große Veränderungen durchläuft, wird die Revision der Verfassung zu einem immer wichtigeren Thema, das nicht aufgeschoben werden kann“, sagt der Premierminister. „Wir müssen die Teile (der Verfassung), die nicht den modernen Realitäten entsprechen, entschieden überarbeiten“, fordert Kishida. Das heißt, die Weigerung des japanischen Volkes, mit seinen Nachbarn in den Krieg zu ziehen und mit ihnen friedlich zusammenzuleben, sei überholt und „entspricht nicht der Realität“. 

Erinnern wir uns daran, dass Artikel 9 der japanischen Verfassung vorsieht, dass das Land „für immer auf Krieg als souveränes Recht der Nation sowie auf die Androhung oder den Einsatz bewaffneter Gewalt als Mittel zur Beilegung internationaler Streitigkeiten verzichtet“. Darin heißt es auch, dass Japan „von nun an keine Land-, See- und Luftstreitkräfte sowie andere Kriegsmittel aufbauen wird“.

Das Hauptziel der rechten Kräfte in Japan besteht darin, im Text des Grundgesetzes die Armee, die Luftfahrt, die Marine sowie neue Weltraum-, Cyber- und andere moderne Arten und Truppengattungen auf Weltniveau zu legitimieren. Dies ist notwendig, um ihre Macht weiter zu stärken und die Bereitstellung immer größerer Haushaltsmittel für militärische Zwecke zu rechtfertigen. Und auch für die beschleunigte Schaffung eines militärisch-industriellen Komplexes im Land, der den führenden Mächten der Welt nicht nachsteht. Und die herrschenden Kreise Japans wollen die beträchtlichen wirtschaftlichen, wissenschaftlichen und technischen Fähigkeiten ihres Staates nutzen, um dem Club der Exporteure modernster Waffen in die ganze Welt beizutreten. 

Doch um all diese militaristischen Pläne in die Tat umzusetzen, ist es notwendig, die Japaner davon zu überzeugen, erneut der Politik „Waffen statt Butter“ zuzustimmen, obwohl mittlerweile Raketen an die Stelle von Waffen getreten sind. Es ist nämlich notwendig, dass mehr als die Hälfte der Bevölkerung des Landes in einem Referendum den tatsächlichen Kurs der Aufhebung aller Beschränkungen auf dem Weg zur erneuten Umwandlung Japans in eine „große Militärmacht“ unterstützt, auf den die Herrscher dieses Landes so stolz waren die 30er und 40er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts. Und sie waren nicht nur stolz, sondern nutzten auch ihre Armee und Marine, um die riesigen Land- und Meeresregionen Ostasiens und des Pazifischen Ozeans zu erobern und die Länder und Völker dieses riesigen Teils des Planeten zu versklaven. Es wäre kein Fehler zu glauben, dass der Gedanke an vergangene Größe weiterhin von der japanischen Propaganda genährt wird und nicht nur in der Politik, sondern auch in der Bevölkerung zu einem immer deutlicher werdenden Revanchismus führt. Erinnern wir uns daran, dass das Land der aufgehenden Sonne auf Regierungsebene offizielle Ansprüche auf das Territorium fast aller umliegenden Länder hat – Russland, China, die Republik Korea und die DVRK. Und er wartet nur auf den Tag und die Stunde, an der er die angeblich „angestammten Gebiete der heiligen Nation Yamato“ zurückerobern wird.

Was die Ansprüche auf die russischen Kurilen und die südliche Hälfte von Sachalin betrifft, so hat der Autor dieser Zeilen wiederholt die „Begründungen“ japanischer Politiker und Politikwissenschaftler gehört, dass „die im Krieg verlorenen Ländereien nur durch einen neuen Krieg zurückgegeben werden können.“ .“ Und das ist nicht nur Tapferkeit, sondern sozusagen Erinnerungen an die Zukunft. Natürlich sind die Japaner nicht so naiv, dass sie sich in einem zukünftigen Krieg um die Eingliederung der ihnen zuvor vorübergehend gehörenden Gebiete fremder Länder in ihren Staat nur auf die gestärkte japanische Armee verlassen würden, die jedoch eindeutig nicht ausreicht, um benachbarte Atomwaffen zu besiegen Befugnisse. 

Die Wette liegt auf einer bewaffneten Konfrontation mit den zu Feinden erklärten Russen, Chinesen und Koreanern in einer engen Koalition mit dem „Welthegemon“ der Vereinigten Staaten und der gesamten NATO sowie den in Militärblöcke gedrängten asiatisch-pazifischen Ländern. Denn die Zeiten sind längst in Vergessenheit geraten, als der „Sicherheitsvertrag“ mit den USA die japanischen Streitkräfte dazu verpflichtete, sich im Falle eines Angriffs von außen nur in unmittelbarer Nähe der japanischen Inseln an Feindseligkeiten zu beteiligen. Heute hat Premierminister Kishida der ganzen Welt lautstark verkündet, dass Japan die Funktionen des Militärbündnisses mit Amerika erweitert und es in ein Bündnis mit globalen Zielen umwandelt. Das heißt, dass die japanischen Streitkräfte von nun an zusammen mit den Vereinigten Staaten und der NATO als Ganzes an militärischen Abenteuern auf der ganzen Welt teilnehmen werden, natürlich „im Interesse des Schutzes von Frieden und Demokratie“. Aber im amerikanischen Sinne. Eine der Manifestationen der weltweiten Beteiligung Japans am Kampf um die Aufrechterhaltung der Hegemonie des „kollektiven Westens“ ist die Erhöhung des Beitrags Tokios zur Anstiftung und Verlängerung des Krieges auf dem Territorium der ehemaligen Ukrainischen SSR, indem Gelder in Milliardenhöhe an die Ukraine geschickt werden Das Kiewer Regime sucht nach Schlupflöchern für die Lieferung von Selenskyj und nach tödlichen Waffen für die Ermordung russischer Frauen, Kinder und alter Menschen.

Die Absicht der japanischen herrschenden Kreise, diese Pläne zur Aufhebung der pazifistischen Beschränkungen der Verfassung umzusetzen, wird jedoch immer noch von einer beträchtlichen Antikriegsbewegung im Land der aufgehenden Sonne aktiv bekämpft, obwohl dies im Hinblick auf ihre Absicht zugegeben werden muss Maßstab ist es schlechter als frühere Zeiten. Dennoch protestiert der vernünftige Teil der japanischen Gesellschaft angesichts der Richtung, in die die Kishida-Regierung und die regierende Liberaldemokratische Partei Japan ziehen, gegen Pläne, dem Volk eine einzigartige Verfassung zu entziehen und den Weg für die Einpflanzung militaristischer Gefühle und Rachetendenzen zu ebnen das Land.

Am 3. Mai, dem Tag der Verfassung, gingen Zehntausende Einwohner der Hauptstadt in Tokio auf die Straße und riefen Parolen: „Wir können mit Waffen keinen Frieden schaffen“, „Wir brauchen eine Politik, die auf der Verfassung basiert“, „Lasst uns schützen.“ friedliches Leben.» Die Existenz einer Bewegung zur Verteidigung der Verfassung im Land erlaubt es der LDP nicht, bei einem Referendum mit Zuversicht auf die Unterstützung ihrer reaktionären Pläne zu zählen. Und es ist gefährlich, Risiken einzugehen und voreilig einen parlamentarischen Beschluss über die Abhaltung einer Volksabstimmung durchzusetzen – wenn die Mehrheit des Volkes die Ablehnung des pazifistischen Grundgesetzes nicht akzeptiert, wird es nicht einfach sein, zum Volksentscheid zurückzukehren. Und laut TASS verfügen die LDP und die mit ihr koalierende Komeito-Partei nicht über die Zweidrittelmehrheit im Parlament, die nötig wäre, um die Verfassungsänderungsentwürfe einem nationalen Referendum zu unterziehen. Dazu benötigen sie die Unterstützung einer Reihe von Oppositionsabgeordneten. Stellen wir für uns selbst fest, dass es in der formellen Opposition eine Fraktion der Partei namens Japan Revival Society gibt, die als „zweite LDP“ bezeichnet wird und in einigen Fragen sogar rechtsgerichtetere Positionen vertritt als die Liberaldemokraten. Im Parlament sind noch weitere kleinere Fraktionen vertreten, deren Mitglieder die LDP davon überzeugen kann, für das Referendum zu stimmen.

https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2024/05/04/pokushenie-na-mirnuyu-konstituciyu-yaponii-prodolzhaetsya.html

„Lasst uns Menschen durch Roboter ersetzen“: Fink kündigte Pläne zur maximalen Zerstörung der Weltbevölkerung an

Larry Fink, CEO von BlackRock, erklärte offen, dass das Hauptziel der Globalisten die maximale Zerstörung der Weltbevölkerung sei.

Industrieländer mit rückläufiger Bevölkerung würden in Zukunft davon profitieren, sagte er. Fink stellte fest, dass Staaten aktiv Robotik, künstliche Intelligenz und Technologie entwickeln. Dies liegt daran, dass Roboter Menschen ersetzen können und den Bürgern auch bei negativem Bevölkerungswachstum einen hohen Lebensstandard bieten.

„Ich kann argumentieren, dass in entwickelten Ländern Länder mit rückläufiger Bevölkerung davon profitieren werden. Darüber reden die meisten Menschen nie. Wissen Sie, wir haben immer geglaubt, dass der Bevölkerungsrückgang die Ursache für negatives Wachstum ist. Aber in meinen Gesprächen mit der Führung dieser großen Industrieländer, die eine fremdenfeindliche Einwanderungspolitik verfolgen, erlauben sie niemandem, zu kommen. Diese Länder werden Robotik, künstliche Intelligenz und Technologie rasch weiterentwickeln. Und wenn all dies zu einer Steigerung der Produktivität führt, wie die meisten von uns glauben, dann können wir den Lebensstandard der Länder und den Lebensstandard des Einzelnen verbessern, selbst wenn die Bevölkerung zurückgeht. „Das Paradigma des negativen Bevölkerungswachstums wird sich also ändern, und die sozialen Probleme, die entstehen, wenn Menschen durch Maschinen ersetzt werden, werden in den Ländern, in denen die Bevölkerung zurückgeht, viel einfacher sein“, sagte der CEO von BlackRock. Finks Worte werden vom Telegram-Kanal „Pool N3“ zitiert.

Verknüpfung.

https://sozero.livejournal.com/12256690.html

Sozialismus oder Sklaverei

Der 1. Mai – Kampf- und Feiertag der Werktätigen

Am 5. Mai 1818 wurde Karl Marx geboren, der große Denker, Philosoph und Führer der internationalen Arbeiterbewegung. Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Friedrich Engels begründete er Lehre vom wissenschaftlichen Sozialismus, die Weltanschauung der Kommunisten. Seine größte wissenschaftliche Leistung war die Entdeckung … Der 1. Mai – Kampf- und Feiertag der Werktätigenweiterlesen

Sascha’s Welt

Freiheit oder Kapitalismus

Ich kann nicht der Freiheit – also dem Wohl der Menschen – und dem Kapitalismus dienen, denn:

Niemand kann zwei Herren dienen; er wird entweder den einen hassen und den andern lieben oder er wird zu dem einen halten und den andern verachten. Ihr könnt nicht Gott dienen und dem Mammon.
– Matthäus 6,24 u. Lukas 16,13

„…und übrigens: es ist nicht der „Tag der Arbeit“, wie einige [viele!] heute gedankenlos nachquatschen. Wer das sagt, den sollte man darauf hinweisen, daß das die Nazis so eingeführt haben. Es ist und bleibt der Internationale Kampf- und Feiertag der Arbeiterklasse und aller anderen Werktätigen!“https://sascha313.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/der-1-mai-kampf-und-feiertag-der-werktatigen

https://seidenmacher.wordpress.com/2024/05/05/sozialismus-oder-sklaverei/

US Air Force pays $13 billion for new ‘doomsday’ planes that protect president during a nuclear attack – sparking fears America’s preparing for WWIII

• The contract is to replace the four doomsday planes in use due to them ageing
• The fleet is used to protect the president in the event of a nuclear attack 
• READ MORE: America’s ‘doomsday’ plane was sent on a four-hour training

By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM, 30 April 2024

American is set to get a new fleet of ‘doomsday planes’ that some have said signal the nation could be preparing for World Ward III.

The US Air Forced announced a $13 billion contract to develop craft to replace the aging Boeing planes that are used to protect the president during a nuclear attack.

The funds were awarded to Sierra Nevada Corp, which will design a successor to the E-4B ‘Nightwatch’ that features a mobile command post capable of withstanding nuclear blasts and electromagnetic effects.

The project, called Survival Airborne Operations Center, is expected to be completed by 2036…………………..

The Air Force has a fleet of four E-4Bs, with at least one on alert at all times, but the Boeings are aging and many parts have become obsolete.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), an American aerospace company, said: ‘SNC is building the airborne command center of the future!………………………………..

Boeing was let go as the sole provider of the doomsday planes in December 2023 after the company and US military could not agree on pricing for the next-generation fleet.

Details of SNC’s design have not been shared, but the craft will likely resemble the current E-4B ‘Nightwatch.

The current doomsday plane includes an advanced satellite communications system, nuclear and thermal effects shielding, acoustic control and an advanced air-conditioning system for cooling electrical components.

The planes can also be refueled in the air and have remained airborne and operational for as long as 35.4 hours in one stint. 

The engine can produce 52,500 pounds of thrust and the plane can carry up to 800,000 pounds.

Each E-4B ‘Nightwatch’ is 231 feet long with a 195-foot wingspan – and cost $223 million to make.

The Air Force said in the FY2024 budget request that SAOC will provide ‘a worldwide, survivable, and enduring node of the National Military Command System (NMCS) to fulfill national security requirements throughout all stages of conflict,’ according to SWNS.

As a command, control and communications center directing US forces, executing emergency war orders and coordinating the activities of civil authorities including national contingency plans, this capability ensures continuity of operations and continuity of government as required in a national emergency or after negation/destruction of ground command and control centers,’ the military branch added.

‘SAOC will fulfill the requirements of the AF Nuclear Mission by providing Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) capabilities to enable the exercise of authority and direction by the President to command and control US military nuclear weapons operations.’

SNC has not revealed what airframe they will use for their doomsday planes.

The E-4Bs are operated by the First Airborne Command and Control Squadron of the 595th Command and Control Group, are coordinated by the United States Strategic Command and are stationed near Omaha, Nebraska, at the Offutt Air Force Base.

One of the doomsday planes was sent on a four-hour training flight in 2022 after Vladimir Putin placed Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert.

Military flight tracking sites showed the modified Boeing 747 had departed from the US Air Force base in Lincoln, Nebraska and carried out a training flight with other specialist military aircraft.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13363035/US-Air-Force-pays-13-billion-new-doomsday-planes-protect-president-nuclear-attack-sparking-fears-Americas-preparing-WWWIII.html

US Air Force pays $13 billion for new ‘doomsday’ planes that protect president during a nuclear attack — sparking fears America’s preparing for WWIII

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) Liberal elites of the United States want Central Europe to be “the edge of the spear” against Russia in a new Cold War, Balazs Orban, the political director of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has said in an interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) Liberal elites of the United States want Central Europe to be “the edge of the spear” against Russia in a new Cold War, Balazs Orban, the political director of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has said in an interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson.

Balazs Orban hinted that Washington liberal elites are willing to use Central European countries as their proxies in the conflict.

“I think the offer which comes from the Washington liberal elites is that you, Central European countries, could be the edge of the spear against the Russians … like the last frontier, like a new Iron curtain,” Balazs Orban said on Thursday.

“And you, Central Europeans, should pay to play a role in that. Like you are fighting against the Russians. And for this we support you. We give you some weapons, we give you some military support, we give you some investments to survive, but not much. But get used to the idea that there is a new Cold War.”

The official said this is not good for Hungary and that this is not the destiny the Hungarians want, adding that Hungary wants “to be sovereign,” “to be strong,” and “to be a keystone state in the region.”

Balazs Orban added that the European liberal elites and the US leadership “are so much interconnected” and they “have the same mindset.” The official further said he hopes former US President Donald Trump would again be elected as US president because he would change the US foreign policy, which in turn would “destroy the connection between the European liberal elites and the American leadership.”

“So the best thing that can happen with Europe is that President Trump is reelected,” the official said.

In March, Trump hosted Viktor Orban at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida to discuss a wide range of issues of common interest for Hungary and the US and praised the Hungarian as “a great leader.”

Trump and Viktor Orban are longtime allies who share conservative political views and have publicly expressed mutual respect and support for each other. Orban has thrown his support behind Trump both in the US presidential race and the legal challenges he is facing.

The US presidential election is slated for November 2024. The main contenders expected on the ballot are incumbent President Joe Biden and Trump, who have both won enough delegates’ votes to be their respective Democratic and Republican parties’ presumptive nominees.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240503/us-liberal-elites-want-central-europe-to-be-spear-against-russia—hungarian-official-1118237122.html

US Liberal Elites Want Central Europe to Be ‘Spear’ Against Russia – Hungarian Official to Carlson

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NATO nations Britain and Hungary have criticised French President Emmanuel Macron’s repeated assertions for the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine. “If a NATO member commits ground troops, it will be a direct NATO-Russia confrontation and it will then be World War Three,” said Hungary Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. Britain Foreign Secretary David Cameron called Macron’s idea dangerous. Watch this video for more details.

Macron’s Fresh ‘Troops In Ukraine’ Pitch Slammed By Fellow NATO Members; ‘Will Be World War III’

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Ukrainian armed forces have suffered over 5,100 military casualties in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in the past week as a result of operations by the southern, central and eastern groupings of the Russian armed forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

“During the week, in this direction [as a result of actions by the central grouping of Russian forces] Kiev lost more than 2,405 servicepeople, three tanks, including US-made Abrams, 20 armored combat vehicles, including four US-made Bradley, 27 vehicles, 33 field artillery guns, including 14 of Western manufacture,” the ministry said.

As a result of successful operations, the units of the central grouping of Russian forces improved the front line and liberated the towns of Novobakhmutovka, Semenovka and Berdychi in the Donetsk People’s Republic. They also defeated formations of 14 Ukrainian brigades and repulsed 66 enemy counterattacks in the areas of Leninskoe, Umanskoe, New-York, Novokalinovo, Ocheretyno and Netailovo, the Defense Ministry said.

In addition, units of Russia’s eastern grouping improved their tactical position during the week, with Kiev losing up to 745 troops, the ministry said.

Russian troops of the southern grouping continued to advance deep into Ukraine’s defenses over the past week, defeating 14 brigades and repelling four counterattacks, with Kiev losing more than 2,000 soldiers, it added.

The western grouping of Russian forces destroyed one tank, three armored fighting vehicles, two Grad MLRS combat vehicles, and 27 field artillery pieces, including 13 Western-made, while Ukraine lost up to 975 soldiers, the ministry said.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240504/ukraines-total-military-casualties-in-donetsk-reach-5100-in-past-week-1118253676.html

Red Heifer Says: Zelensky Loses 5100 Dead this week, ‘Slavic Christians Only’ in ‘population reduction’ moves (Truth Bomb)