The Arctic region is warming at twice the global rate, leading to rapid melting of ice–some have even predicted ice-free summers by year 2034. This has brought unprecedented threats to various species of the region including the polar bear. Some species are threatened by the shrinking, even vanishing habitats where they have always lived safely and happily, some are threatened by the fast reducing access to their staple food, while some are threatened by weather extremes.
Despite this there is still relentless march to exploit the vast natural resources of the region, including oil, natural gas, rare earth and other minerals. Partly due to the huge natural resources and partly due to strategic and geo-political reasons, big power confrontation in this remote region can also increase.
In fact melting of ice increases the possibility of higher exploitation of natural resources as well as carving out of new maritime routes with all its strategic and commercial implications. Another complication is the increasing confrontational situation of NATO and Russia which may get extended, tragically, even to the Arctic region with very heavy costs to ecology and to native people.
The Arctic region is spread over 8 countries, 7 of which are NATO members. These are USA, Canada, Iceland, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Sweden and Finland. The eighth country is Russia.
While Russia has a well-established military presence here, this is largely defensive as Russia has important strategic interests to protect here spread over a vast area. With Finland and Sweden recently becoming NATO members and with the situation in Ukraine not working out to be favorable to NATO plans, the USA may just be tempted to try to create difficulties for Russia in this region. Russia may respond by giving more opportunities to China to acquire a presence here. One move by one side may lead to another move by the other side and very soon the situation may become much more tense and risky.
This should be avoided in the interests of world peace as well as the considerations of protecting Arctic ecology. Not just actual conflict but even large-scale military exercises may prove to be quite harmful for Arctic ecology. Under the Nordic Response 2024 exercise in Norway in March, as many as about 20,000 soldiers from 13 NATO member countries were gathered in the Arctic region with frigates, submarines and other vessels, and over 100 aircrafts. This is likely to ultimately increase to about 90,000 soldiers.
A high-risk situation already exists here in which climate change and global warming first create conditions in which exploitation of natural resources and militarization are likely to increase more, and this trend in turn greatly increases the possibilities of global warming further, apart from destruction of local environment and life-species in more direct ways as well. All this should be avoided. With due caution and by ensuring there is no undue suspicion of each other’s intentions, conflict in this region can be avoided as both sides also recognize hopefully how costly in economic as well as in ecological terms, above all of course in terms of loss of human lives, conflict in such a region is likely to prove. Special mechanisms should be in place to minimize militarization and the possibility of any conflict breaking out here.
Further we look here at the various high risks that have already occurred in recent times in this region in more details in the context of a part of this region—Greenland. Very high rate of ice melting has been reported here—even melting of as much as 18 billion tons of ice sheets in just 3 days of mid-July in Greenland. Very frightening estimates have been presented of the extent of rise in sea level if melting on such a scale continues.
It was reported that Donald Trump made an offer of a payment to Denmark to acquire control over Greenland. This was considered an atrocious offer by most people and for good reason was not even considered seriously by the Denmark government. This even led to the cancellation of a planned visit of President Trump to Denmark. Although Denmark controls the foreign policy and security of this vast island, Greenland has been moving towards autonomy and self-government.
However it is not difficult to understand why the USA has been keen to acquire Greenland. In fact even President Truman made an offer in 1946 to purchase Greenland for 100 million dollars. This offer was refused, but Denmark later succumbed to USA pressure to set up military bases in Greenland, including a nuclear powered station Camp Century.
Camp Century Trench Construction (From the Public Domain)
With its strategic location close to Russia as well as the USA, Greenland remains of great military interest to the USA. This is a factor which has acquired more significance recently with the accentuation of big power rivalries.
In addition, Greenland is a source of precious mineral resources, including gold and rare earths. The opening up of these rare earth deposits to China is something which the Western powers will like to stop, given the fact that China already has high levels of control over rare earths.
Greenland has a population of just 57,000 people in its vast territory of 836,330 sq. miles and has the lowest population density in the entire world. This Arctic region is highly sensitive from the ecological point of view, a sensitivity which has increased further in times of climate change. As the ice sheets which cover vast areas melt under the influence of global warming, buried carbon deposits will be released and sea levels will rise. The region’s unique biodiversity includes polar bears and seals will be badly threatened.
Hence there is a strong case for the entire Greenland to be administered by the United Nations as a zone of neutrality, peace and environment protection. Under such an arrangement, ecologically protective livelihoods and basic facilities will be ensured by a UN-administered program, which will treat the entire island as an area of ecological protection where any exploitation of natural resources will be strictly controlled and no military installation will be allowed. In addition there will be a very careful well-planned effort for undoing the damage already done.
As the snow melts with global warming, the remains of what was once a nuclear-powered military station (Camp Century) of the USA will open up, requiring a very careful clean-up effort. An even bigger danger exists in the form a nuclear weapon which was lost here in a bomber airplane accident in 1968. This was the peak of the cold war period when some USA bomber planes carrying nuclear weapons used to be in the air all the time and the Thule military base in Greenland was a special place for these operations due to the relative proximity of Russian targets from here. The airplane accident took place when the USA bomber containing nuclear weapons was approaching this military base in Greenland. The USA had obtained the permission of the Denmark government to set up this military base but it is not at all certain whether the Denmark government, let alone the local communities, had been informed about the transactions here involving the transport of nuclear weapons.
An aerial view of Thule Air Base in 1989 (From the Public Domain)
Actually the plane contained four nuclear weapons but three could be recovered. In the salvage operation in 1968 thousands of pieces of debris as well as millions of tons of ice, suspected to contain radioactive debris, were collected. Still one weapon could not be found despite the huge research effort. Workers employed in the clean-up work suffered from cancer later and have been claiming compensations till recently.
It is by now widely accepted that in this accident as many as four nuclear weapons were endangered, three were recovered more or less intact but one hydrogen bomb was never recovered. One aspect of a UN-administrated protective future should be to remain on constant alert for any tell-tale signs of damage from this so that a potential catastrophic event can still be prevented.
The existing military installations particularly the Thule Military Base should also be dismantled as part of the efforts to establish Greenland as a zone of peace and neutrality. While the wider paradigm of future development should be based on ecological protection, protective livelihoods, peace and neutrality, within this paradigm local people should have all the autonomy for highly decentralized governance. There should be a special program of mental health and well-being to bring down the high rate of suicides and substance abuse in the region.
Clearly there are several serious issues in Greenland which have to be sorted out. A big effort with continuity has to be made to ensure a more protective future for Greenland which is in fact crucial for the entire world.
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This past weekend, April 20, 2024 the US House of Representatives passed a bill to provide Ukraine with another $61 billion in aid. The measure will quickly pass the Senate and be signed into law by Biden within days.
The funds, however, will make little difference to the outcome of the war on the ground as it appears most of the military hardware funded by the $61 billion has already been produced and much of it already shipped. Perhaps no more than $10 billion in additional new weapons and equipment will result from the latest $61 billion passed by Congress.
Subject to revision, initial reports of the composition of the $61 billion indicate $23.2 billion of it will go to pay US arms producers for weapons that have already been produced and delivered to Ukraine. Another $13.8 billion is earmarked to replace weapons from US military stocks that have been produced and are in the process of being shipped—but haven’t as yet—or are additional weapons still to be produced. The breakdown of this latter $13.8 amount is not yet clear in the initial reports. One might generously guess perhaps $10 billion at most represents weapons not yet produced, while $25-$30 billion represents weapons already shipped to Ukraine or in the current shipment pipeline.
In total, therefore, weapons already delivered to Ukraine, awaiting shipment, or yet to be produced amount to approximately $37 billion.
The remainder of the $61 billion includes $7.8 billion for financial assistance to Ukraine to pay for salaries of government employees through 2024. An additional $11.3 billion to finance current Pentagon operations in Ukraine—which sounds suspiciously like pay for US advisors, mercenaries, special ops, and US forces operating equipment like radars, advanced Patriot missile systems, etc. on the ground. Another $4.7 billion is for miscellaneous expenses, whatever that is.
In other words, only $13.8 billion of the $61 billion is for weapons Ukraine doesn’t already have!
And that $13.8 billion is all Ukraine will likely get in new weapons funding for the rest of 2024! Like the $23 billion already in theater, that will likely be burned up in a couple of weeks this summer once Russia’s coming major offensive—its largest of the war—is launched in late May or early June. So what does the US do in order to continue to fund Ukraine’s economy, government and military efforts this fall and thereafter?
In other words, what’s the Biden/NATO strategy for aiding Ukraine, militarily and economically, after the $37 billion is expended by late this summer? Where’s the money to come from?
To understand how the US/NATO plan to fund subsequent weapons production for Ukraine in late 2024 and early 2025, one must consider not only the $61 billion bill but a second bill also passed by Congress this past weekend that hasn’t been given much attention in the mainstream media.
That second bill may potentially provide up to $300 billion for Ukraine from USA and its G7 allies, especially NATO allies in Europe where reportedly $260 of the $300 billion resides in Eurozone banks.
Biden/US Short Term Strategy 2024
The $61 billion is clearly only a stopgap measure to try to get the Ukraine army and government funded through the summer. Beyond that, the broader Biden strategy is to keep Ukraine afloat until after the US November elections. In addition to the $61 billion—which the US hopes will get Ukraine through the US November election (but likely won’t)—US strategy includes getting the Russians to agree to begin some kind of negotiations. The US will then use the discussions to raise a demand to freeze military operations on both sides while negotiations are underway. But Biden’s ‘freeze and negotiate’ strategy is dead on arrival, since it is abundantly clear to the Russians it is basically about US and NATO ‘buying time’ and Russia has already been played by that one. As the popular US saying goes: “fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me”.
The Russians already fell for that ‘let’s suspend fighting and negotiation ploy’ with the Minsk II treaty back in 2015-16. It agreed to halt military operations in the Donbass back then but NATO and the Ukraine government used the Minsk agreement as cover to re-build Ukraine’s military force which it thereafter used to attack the Donbass provinces. European leaders Angela Merkel of Germany and Francois Hollande of France thereafter publicly admitted in 2022 that Minsk II was just to ‘buy time’.
The Russian’s were again similarly snookered at the Istanbul peace discussions held in April 2022. They were asked by NATO to show good faith in negotiations by withdrawing their forces from around Kiev, which they did. Negotiations were then broken off by Zelensky, on NATO’s strong recommendation, and Ukraine launched an offensive chasing the withdrawing Russians all the way back to the Donbass borders.
Russia is therefore extremely unlikely to fall a third time for a Biden/NATO request to ‘freeze’ military operations and negotiate again.
Biden may want to ‘buy time’ once more, but that hand’s been played twice already and the West will be (is being) told by Russia they aren’t interested in buying anything from the West and its ‘money’ no longer has any value.
Speaker Johnson’s Volte Face
The passage of the stop-gap $61 billion for Ukraine by the US House of Representatives was the result of House Speaker, Johnson, doing an about face and allowing the vote on the House floor after saying he wouldn’t for weeks. There’s been much speculation in the US mainstream media as to why Johnson reversed his position and allowed the Ukraine aid bill to the House floor for a vote. However, it’s not difficult to understand why he did reverse his view.
Image: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Mike Johnson delivers remarks following his election to the position, October 25, 2023. (From the Public Domain)
In recent weeks there was intense lobbying behind the scenes by US weapons companies with key Republican committee chairmen in the House. After all, at least $37 billion in payments for weapons—both already delivered and to be delivered—was involved. Not a minor sum even for super-profitable companies like Lockheed, Raytheon and the like. Rumors are that corporate lobbying had its desired effect on Republican committee chairs in the House, who then in turn pressured Johnson to allow the vote on the floor. The final vote in the House was 310 to 111 with 210 Democrats joining 100 Republicans to pass the measure—revealing that the core support for the US Military Industrial Complex in the House of Representatives is at least three-fourths (the US Senate likely even higher).
So the vote was the result of a ‘parliamentary maneuver’ in which all the Democrats crossed over to support the Republican Speaker of the House (who de facto switched parties for the moment). A minority of Republicans joined him. A slim majority of Republicans opposed the measure. Their opposition remains. Thus it is highly unlikely Congress will appropriate more funding for Ukraine for the rest of this year—even when the $61 billion for weapons and Ukraine’s government run out by this late summer.
So what happens if and when the $61 billion is exhausted well before the November elections?
A possible answer to that question lies in the passage of a second Ukraine funding measure this past weekend.
The $61 billion was not the most important legislative action in the US House. While most of the media commentary has been on that Ukraine aid bill, hardly anything has been said in the mainstream media about another bill that the US House also passed over the weekend. This second measure has greater strategic implications for US global interests than the $37 billion in actual weapons shipments for Ukraine.This second measure is HR 8038, a 184 page bill misnamed the ‘21st Century Peace Through Strength Act’ which amounted to yet another package (the 16th?) of US sanctions.
Transferring Russia’s $300 Billion Assets to Ukraine
The first section of the bill arranges a procedure for the US to force the sale of the China company, Tik Tok, to a consortium of US financial investors, reportedly led by former US Treasury Secretary under Trump, Steve Mnuchin.This is part of the expanding list of sanctions on China.Also sanctioned are China purchases of Iranian oil, as well as a host of additional sanctions on Iran itself. However the most significant measure related to sanctions on Russia.
The 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act calls for the US to transfer its $5 billion share of Russia’s $300 billion of seized assets in Western banks that were frozen in 2022 at the outset of the Ukraine war. It provides a procedure to hand over the $5 billion to Ukraine to further finance its war efforts! This move has been rumored and debated in the USA and Europe since the assets were seized two years ago. But now the process of actually transferring the seized funds to Ukraine has begun with the passage of this second bill by the US House.
The USA’s $5 billion share in US banks is just a drop in the bucket of the $300 billion. Russia could probably care less about it, i.e. a mere ‘rounding error’ in its total revenue from sale of oil, gas and other commodities. But Europe holds $260 of the $300 billion, according to European Central Bank chair, Christine Lagarde.A tidy sum which Russia has threatened to retaliate against Europe should the EU follow the US/Biden lead and also begin to transfer its $260 billion to Ukraine.
The US bill is very clear that the transfer of the US’s $5 billion is imminent. The bill requires the Biden administration to establish a ‘Ukraine Defense Fund’ into which the US’s $5 billion will be deposited. If parts of the $5 billion are not in liquid asset form, the US president is further authorized by the bill to liquidate those assets and deposit the proceeds in the fund as well. So the seizure and transfer of the $5 billion to Ukraine is a done deal. And when it happens a legal precedent will be made that Europe may use to follow and transfer its $260 billion.
One can expect the US to pressure Europe strongly to do so. Biden is further authorized by the bill to ‘negotiate’ with Europe and other G7 partners to convince them to do the same—i.e. seize their share of the $300 billion, liquidate and then transfer the cash assets into the US ‘Ukraine Defense Fund’. And to date the US has been able to ‘convince’ Europe—via its control of NATO and influence over Europe’s economy and its umbrella political elites in the European Commission and European Parliament—to follow US policy without too much resistance.
Europe is fast becoming an economic satrapy and political dependency of the USA in recent decades, more than willing to bend in whatever policy direction the USA wants.
It is clear the seizure & redistribution to Ukraine of the $300 billion via the Ukraine Defense Fund is the means by which the US/NATO plan longer term to continue to finance the Ukraine war after the $61 billion runs out sometime in 2024; and certainly in 2025 and beyond. For the US has no intention of ending its NATO led proxy war in Ukraine anytime soon. It is just seeking to ‘buy time’ in the interim before its November elections.
For a majority of both parties in the US—Democrat and Republican—are united on continuing the war. It will matter little who wins the presidency or which party has majorities in Congress after November. Political elites on both sides of the aisle in Congress are united in pursuing the war in Ukraine—just as they are united in continuing to fund Israel as well as to continue the US’s steadily expanding economic war with China. In just the past week it is obvious more US sanctions on China are also coming soon, including possibly an announcements of financial sanctions on China for the first time after US Secretary of State, Blinken’s, most recent visit.
Failed Russian Sanctions: Past and Future
The geopolitical objectives of the US and its commitment to continuing its three wars are resulting in unintended, negative effects on the economies of the US and its G7 allies, especially Germany. But those same sanctions have had little to no negative impact on Russia’s economy.
The recently passed US transfer of its $5 billion share of Russia’s $300 billion will accelerate the negative consequences especially for Europe should the latter follow the US lead and distribute its $260 billion share to Ukraine, which it eventually will.
As EBC chairperson, Lagarde, put it referring to the US plan and legislation: “It needs to be carefully considered”. UK political leaders are already on record advocating the confiscation and transferring of Europe’s $260 billion holdings of Russian assets to Ukraine. Europe in recent years has a strong history of capitulating to US economic policies and demands. It will be no different this time.
Should Europe join the USA in transferring its $260 billion share of Russian assets in European banks (most of which is in Belgium), it’s almost certain that Russia will reply similarly and seize at least an equal amount of European assets still in Russia. The Russian Parliament has officially recently said as much.
Part of the G7/NATO sanctions to date included forcing Western businesses in Russia to liquidate and leave Russia. Some have done so. But many have not. Russia’s response has been to arrange the transfer of those EU companies’ assets that have left to Russian companies. This has actually stimulated the Russian economy. It resulted in Russian government subsidies—and thus government spending—to Russian companies assuming the assets, as well as additional investment by those companies after their acquisition of the departed EU companies’ assets.
In short, Western sanctions measure pressuring Western companies to leave Russia has backfired in its predicted result of reducing Russian government spending and business investment.
In contrast, the US/NATO’s 15 or so sanctions packages to date have had little, if any, impact on Russia’s economy since the commencing of the war in February 2022. To cite just a few of the performance of Russia’s key economic indicators under the sanctions regime: see this (note: all following data is from the US global research source).
Russia’s GDP in the latest six months has risen between 4.9% (3rd quarter 2023) and 5.5% (4th quarter). Russia’s PMI statistics show robust expansion for both manufacturing and services during the same period while in most of the major European economies both PMI indicators are contracting. Wage growth in Russia over the six months has averaged 8.5% for both quarters (whereas in the US is it less than half that and in Germany less than 1%).
Russian government revenues rose from roughly 5 trillion rubles in the third quarter to 8.7 trillion in the 4th. Military expenditures are up from $69.5 billion (dollars) to $86.3 billion. Consumer spending is at record levels in the latest quarter. Russian household debt as a percent of GDP remains steady at around 22% (whereas in the USA it is 62.5%). Crude oil production and general exports continue to steadily rise. Gasoline remains at 60 cents a liter (whereas in US five-six times that and in Europe more than ten times). And the unemployment rate in Russia remains steady at 2.9% (whereas in the US and Europe it’s a quarter to a half higher). Interest rates and inflation are higher in Russia but that represents an economy firing on all economic cylinders and is not necessarily a negative.
In short, it’s hard to find a single statistic that shows the Russian economy has been negatively impacted by the US/NATO sanctions regime over the past two years. Indeed, an argument can even be made the sanctions have stimulated the Russian economy not undermined it.
The latest sanction in the form of the US and G7 transfer of the $300 billion in seized Russian assets in western banks will almost for certain have a similar effect on Russia’s economy. Namely, distributing the $300 billion will result in Russian government seizure of at least an equivalent of European companies’ assets still in Russia. And that will provide funding for still further government subsidy spending benefiting Russian companies followed by more private investment.
Is the US Empire Shooting Itself in the Foot?
But there is an even greater consequence to follow the US and Europe’s desperate act of transferring Russia’s $300 billion in assets in Western banks to Ukraine.
Western bankers, economic policymakers, and many economists alike have warned against the seizure and transfer of the $300 billion. Heads of US and other central banks, CEOs of large commercial banks, and even mainstream economists like Shiller at Yale have continually warned publicly that transferring the assets will seriously undermine faith in the US dollar system which is the lynchpin of the US global economic empire.
What countries in the global South will now want to put (or leave) their assets in Western banks, especially in Europe, if they think the assets could be seized should they disagree on policies promoted by the empire? It’s clear the US has now begun to impose ‘secondary’ sanctions on countries that don’t abide by its primary sanctions on Russia. Will the US also seize the assets of these ‘secondary’ countries now in Western banks if they don’t go along with refusing to trade with Russia? And what about China, as the US has now begun to expand its sanctions—primary and secondary—on that country as well? Watch for unprecedented financial sanctions on China that may be forthcoming following Blinken’s visit to China this week.
The US does not realize this is not the 1980s. The global south has developed massively in recent decades. They are insisting on more independence and more say in the rules of the empire—without which they will simply leave now that an alternative is beginning to appear in the expansion of the BRICS countries.
Recently expanded to 10 members (all of which in the middle east and heavily oil producers), no fewer than 34 more countries have now petitioned to join the BRICS. Furthermore, it is reported that at the BRICS next conference in late 2024 an ‘alternative global financial framework’ will be announced! That will likely include some alternative currency arrangement as well as an alternative international payments system to replace the US SWIFT system (by which the USA via its banks can see who is violating its sanctions). Likely forthcoming will be something to replace the US-run IMF in order to ensure currency stability and an expansion of China’s Belt & Road as an alternative to the US run World Bank. (Perhaps that is the real topic of Blinken’s forthcoming China visit?)
In short, the US global economic empire is entering its most unstable period. And yet US policy is to accelerate alternatives to it by seizing and transferring funds to Ukraine to continue the war! The blowback from the seizure and transfer will prove significant, both to US and European interests. It will render past resistance to US sanctions pale in comparison.
How to Crash an Empire!
History will show that US geopolitical objectives and strategies in the 21st century were the single greatest cause of the decline of US global economic hegemony over the last quarter century. Much of those objectives and strategies have been the work of the most economically ignorant foreign policy team in US history, who are generally referred to as the Neocons.
The seizure and transfer of the $300 billion may provide a way to continue funding Ukraine in the US/NATO proxy war against Russia through 2024 and beyond. But the timing could not be worse for US/Europe imperial interests, coming on the eve of the historic BRICS conference later this year. The desperate act of seizure and transfer will only convince more countries of the global South to seek another more independent alternative by joining the BRICS, or increasingly trade with that bloc.
History shows empires rest ultimately on economic foundations. And they collapse when those underlying economic foundations fracture and then crumble.
The longer run consequence of the $300 billion transfer and the exiting of the global South from the US empire can only be the decline in the use of the US dollar in global transactions and as a reserve currency. That sets in motion a series of events that in turn undermine the US domestic economy in turn: Less demand for the dollar results in a fall in the dollar’s value. That means less recycling of dollars back to the US, resulting in less purchases of US Treasuries from the Federal Reserve, which in turn will require the Fed to raise long term interest rates for years to come in order to cover rising US budget deficits. All this will happen to an intensifying fiscal crisis of the US state rapidly deteriorating already.
In other words, blowback on the US economy from declining US global hegemony—exacerbated by sanctions in general and seizure of countries like Russia’s assets in particular—is almost certain in the longer run, just as it will be for Europe’s economy in the even more immediate term.
But such is the economic myopia of the US neocons and the incompetent political elite leadership in both parties in the USA in recent years. As that other American saying goes: ‘We have found the enemy and they are us!’
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“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s the way to soften up a democracy.”― J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit
“Nothing is real,” observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics.
Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population.
This is the magic of the reality TV programming that passes for politics today.
Everything becomes entertainment fodder.
As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.
Studies suggest that the more reality TV people watch—and I would posit that it’s all reality TV, entertainment news included—the more difficult it becomes to distinguish between what is real and what is carefully crafted farce.
This doesn’t bode well for a citizenry able to sift through masterfully-produced propaganda in order to think critically about the issues of the day.
Yet look behind the spectacles, the reality TV theatrics, the sleight-of-hand distractions and diversions, and the stomach-churning, nail-biting drama that is politics today, and you will find there is a method to the madness.
We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry.
This is how you persuade a populace to voluntarily march in lockstep with a police state and police themselves (and each other): by ratcheting up the fear-factor, meted out one carefully calibrated crisis at a time, and teaching them to distrust any who diverge from the norm through elaborate propaganda campaigns.
Add the government’s inclination to monitor online activity and police so-called “disinformation,” and you have the makings of a restructuring of reality straight out of Orwell’s 1984, where the Ministry of Truth polices speech and ensures that facts conform to whatever version of reality the government propagandists embrace.
This “policing of the mind” is exactly the danger author Jim Keith warned about when he predicted that “information and communication sources are gradually being linked together into a single computerized network, providing an opportunity for unheralded control of what will be broadcast, what will be said, and ultimately what will be thought.”
However, when you have social media giants colluding with the government in order to censor so-called disinformation, all the while the mainstream news media, which is supposed to act as a bulwark against government propaganda, has instead become the mouthpiece of the world’s largest corporation (the U.S. government), the Deep State has grown dangerously out-of-control.
This has been in the works for a long time.
Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein, in his expansive 1977 Rolling Stone piece “The CIA and the Media,” reported on Operation Mockingbird, a CIA campaign started in the 1950s to plant intelligence reports among reporters at more than 25 major newspapers and wire agencies, who would then regurgitate them for a public oblivious to the fact that they were being fed government propaganda.
In some instances, as Bernstein showed, members of the media also served as extensions of the surveillance state, with reporters actually carrying out assignments for the CIA. Executives with CBS, the New York Times and Time magazine also worked closely with the CIA to vet the news.
In its article, “How the American government is trying to control what you think,” the Washington Postpoints out “Government agencies historically have made a habit of crossing the blurry line between informing the public and propagandizing.”
This is mind-control in its most sinister form.
The end goal of these mind-control campaigns—packaged in the guise of the greater good—is to see how far the American people will allow the government to go in re-shaping the country in the image of a totalitarian police state.
The government’s fear-mongering is a key element in its mind-control programming.
It’s a simple enough formula. National crises, global pandemics, reported terrorist attacks, and sporadic shootings leave us in a constant state of fear. The emotional panic that accompanies fear actually shuts down the prefrontal cortex or the rational thinking part of our brains. In other words, when we are consumed by fear, we stop thinking.
A populace that stops thinking for themselves is a populace that is easily led, easily manipulated and easily controlled whether through propaganda, brainwashing, mind control, or just plain fear-mongering.
Fear not only increases the power of government, but it also divides the people into factions, persuades them to see each other as the enemy and keeps them screaming at each other so that they drown out all other sounds. In this way, they will never reach consensus about anything and will be too distracted to notice the police state closing in on them until the final crushing curtain falls.
This Machiavellian scheme has so ensnared the nation that few Americans even realize they are being brainwashed—manipulated—into adopting an “us” against “them” mindset. All the while, those in power—bought and paid for by lobbyists and corporations—move their costly agendas forward.
It was almost 100 years ago when Bernays wrote his seminal work Propaganda:
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of… In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
To this invisible government of rulers who operate behind the scenes—the architects of the Deep State—we are mere puppets on a string, to be brainwashed, manipulated and controlled.
All of the distracting, disheartening, disorienting news you are bombarded with daily is being driven by propaganda churned out by one corporate machine (the corporate-controlled government) and fed to the American people by way of yet another corporate machine (the corporate-controlled media).
“For the first time in human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it,” writes investigative journalist Nick Davies.
So where does that leave us?
Americans should beware of letting others—whether they be television news hosts, political commentators or media corporations—do their thinking for them.
A populace that cannot think for themselves is a populace with its backs to the walls: mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all.
If not, if we continue to sit back and lose ourselves in political programming, we will remain a captive audience to a farce that grows more absurd by the minute.
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In the last war which the Americans, British, and French fought against the Russians, they were all defeated and forced to run away. Now it’s happening again.
But if Anna Reid, author of a new history of the Allied powers’ invasion of Russia and war against the Bolsheviks, titles her book “A Nasty Little War” (lead image, left), what title does Reid give to the present war which the Doughboy alliance is losing for the second time? A Nasty Big War doesn’t quite do their plan for destroying Russia enough justice, does it? A Nasty Little Defeat followed by a Nasty Big Defeat comes closer to the truth, but Reid has written her book in the conviction that it will not and must not come to that again.
One hundred and six years since the Russia Intervention of 1918-20 is long enough for Reid to conclude with one of her contemporary British officer sources: “‘Of course it could not possibly be otherwise. But it is unfortunate that events worked out as they did.’ It could have been the epitaph for the whole Intervention,” Reid adds from the British point of view, then but not now.
“So ends a not very creditable enterprise”, she quotes from a report on the desk of British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon in April 1920. Curzon then crossed out “not very” and wrote in “highly dis”.
Reid is so certain this is not the lesson of today’s allied war against Russia she declares her conclusion at the very beginning of her book. “There is no simple read-across from the Intervention. Today’s war is not a civil one, and the impressive and staunchly democratic Ukrainians are not the inept, revanchist Whites. The lazy lesson from 1918-20 – that Western meddling in the region failed then, and will again now – is completely mistaken. If the Intervention does have something to teach, it is that Putin will fail for the same reason the Whites did: because he underestimates the desire for freedom of the non-Russian nations…”
This declaration is at page 10. Reid’s history runs on for another 350 pages of the same.
Reid cannot bring herself to introduce or mention the Russian president by his full name. He first appears, first name-less, on page 9 “as Putin’s Russia attempts to reconquer its thirty-years independent Ukraine.” Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bolshevik head of intelligence, is more fortunate with Reid. He gets his full name, but Reid adds: “the weasel-faced psychopath in charge of the Cheka”. Dangerous adjectives, weasel-faced psychopaths in glass houses with hands full of them.
Reid has similar tongue trouble with how to identify the Russians in the war by name. She repeatedly refers to them as “the enemy”, because the war diaries and operation reports of the British commanders she was reporting described them so at the time. Their soldiers called them “Bolos” or “Russkis” if they were men; if they were women, they used fonder terms. These men did not want to fight – there were mutinies by the Quebec infantry in the Canadian force, as well as in US, French, and British units. More committed to killing Russians were the Japanese and Greek forces.
At every turn of events, Reid continues to wage her war against the Russian history of what happened:
This is history topsy-turvied to fit a political message. “Excellent background to today’s events” – this is the endorsement of Reid’s book by Anne Applebaum, wife of the Polish foreign minister, Radoslav Sikorski, whose Siklebaum profiteering from Russia war-making can be followed here. In London, Reid shares direction of the Ukrainian Institute with Applebaum — Applebaum is a patron, Reid a trustee of the “independent charity that champions Ukrainian culture” which, the institute financial reports reveal, is paid for by George Soros.
Also endorsing Reid’s nasty little war book is Head Boy of the Russophobe school in the London press, Luke Harding: “Putin is the real inheritor of the White Russian legacy,” Harding opines. “He shares the same vaulting imperial mindset and addiction to violence. Like the Whites, he is contemptuous of Ukrainians and other non-Russian peoples.”
“Cartoonishly propagandistic but essentially fact-based” – what this contradiction of Reid’s means is that she hates the truth of the Bolshevik or Communist or Red case – that’s to say, she hates Russia’s Russians for thinking and acting the way they have done and continue to do. This produces a book which is cartoonishly propagandistic but essentially lie-based.
Reid reveals how it is possible for her, her Hachette-owned publisher, and her publishing agent Natasha Fairweather* to produce such a one-eyed history. The answer is in the one eye of the beholder: Reid lists eight library or government archive sources, seven of them British, one American, none Russian; four eyewitness army and navy diaries, all British, none of the Red Army; and 158 books, of which 7 were in Russian (4%).
“With the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Reid claims on her second but last page, “the motheaten trope of heroic Red Army versus villainous White Guard and Entente unravelled.” The evidence, she explains, is because “archives opened, scholarship flourished, and cartoonish [again] memorials such as Mudyug [British liquidation camp] were left to crumble.” Reid leaves no quote, no footnote to show that she has read any of this at all. That, Reid explains, is because “the wheel started turning again from the early 2000s, with the rise of Putin. Censorship returned, media and academic were muzzled, and a new story enforced, of unbroken Russian greatness under strong leaders… With Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, history is in some ways repeating itself”.
In her acknowledgements section, Reid mentions four hospitable Russian academics she met on her research trips to Moscow, Arkhangelsk, and Murmansk, she omits to reveal who paid for her travel. Then Reid makes an admission. “I made these trips in 2019, before Russia’s new [sic] invasion of Ukraine. Today I would not go.”
MAP OF ALLIED INVASION OF RUSSIA, AUGUST 1918
MAP OF ALLIED TERRITORY AND OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA, 1919
MAP OF ARKHANGELSK REGION AREA OF BRITISH OPERATIONS UNTIL EXIT ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1919
Racism against Jews, aka anti-semitism, earns a full chapter of the history, including Reid’s condemnation of Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for War, for thinking, saying and exploiting it politically. Racism against Russians is pervasive throughout the book; it’s what Reid shares with Churchill and all the others. “Generally speaking,” Reid quotes from an American army manual, “the Russian is exactly like a child – inquisitive, easily gulled, easily offended…” According to General Alfred Knox, the commander of the British military mission to Siberia, the Whites were “brave men fighting for civilisation” while the Reds were “blood-stained Jew-led Bolsheviks”. Most Russians, wrote a British naval captain, were turncoats who would change sides if not “tied hand and foot by Soviets composed of madmen, Jews, murderers and dreamers”. On going ashore at Alushta in Crimea, another British officer wrote that it was “a pleasure to meet the honest Russians and Tatars, but I confess my gorge rose at the Jews. A Russian Jew is quite the most loathsome type of humanity as a rule, and they are the curse of Russia at this moment.”
Reid is keen on Churchill’s derring-do in military operations. One of them was a fast, surface-skimming torpedo-firing naval boat that is the century-old predecessor of the Black Sea drone boats used by the Ukrainians in the Black Sea at present.
Churchill was also gung-ho in the first-ever employment of chemical weapons on Russian territory, devised and used by the British in 1919. According to Reid, the “M Device” was an arsenic derivative, diphenylaminechlorarsine, developed at Porton Down, the British military laboratory for chemical and biological weapons, and the recent source of the Novichok reported in the Skripal case.
Reid says Churchill ordered the chemical bombing to begin on August 27, 1919. It continued until September 22. By then 2,718 gas bombs had been dropped in and around Arkhangelsk and Lake Onega – that was a rate of 105 bombs, 50 sorties, each day. When the British forces left, they dumped more than 47,000 unused bombs in the White Sea. According to Reid, “what the long-term health damage was to Russian civilians, we do not know.” Reid doesn’t know because she made no attempt to find out.
THE PORTON DOWN CHEMICAL WEAPON INVENTED BY THE BRITISH FOR ATTACKING RUSSIA IN 1919
Ordered in 1919 by Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for War, to be used against the Russians, the “very secret” M Device was to be used “if specially necessary”. Left to right, British infantryman assembling the bomb before a bombing run; the air-dropped M Device containing diphenylaminechlorarsine (DM or Adamsite), and two thermogenerators; British pilot preparing to load the bombs for a bombing run in the Arkhangelsk region. Click for detail. From the Russian try-out of chemical warfare, Churchill went on to order gas bombing of Indian and Iraqi rebels against British rule in 1919 and 1920. The British manual of military law of the time declared the rules of war against chemical weapons applied to conflict "between civilized nations" but did “not apply in wars with uncivilized States and tribes"; click for detail.
When Reid is compelled by the truth of the Bolshevik or local Russian source of evidence, she insists on adding qualifiers: “Soviet propaganda around the Intervention was crude, hypocritical and exaggerated”, Reid claims on page 86, before adding: “but did not always have to be untrue”.
In the operations in the Caucasus around Baku, the British role in the murder of the Bolshevik-appointed leadership, the twenty-six Baku commissars, is now clear, Reid writes: “Scoffed at by Western historians for decades, the Soviet version gained credibility [sic] with the publication of Teague-Jones’s diaries, after his death in 1988”. Reginald Teague-Jones was the British intelligence officer who was official liaison with the British-backed leadership in Baku called the Trans-Caspian Committee, and relayed to them the execution order, so they did the killing and the British wrote the subsequent history denying their part.
Describing a British camp for liquidating Russian prisoners at Mudyug, on the White Sea north of Arkhangelsk, Reid says “the Soviets turned it into a cartoonishly propagandistic but essentially fact-based museum”. “Cartoonish” is a term Reid uses more than once when the truth of the history forces its way into her narrative. For an eyewitness account of what the British and French arranged to be done to Russians imprisoned at Mudyug, Reid accepts “a Soviet-inflected but plausible survivor memoir” which documented a policy of starvation of the inmates to death, and the understanding that “many inmates should not have been there at all…the English had confused the word for Bolshevik with bolshak, local dialect for the eldest son in a fatherless family.” Больша́к isn’t either “Soviet-inflected” or “local dialect” – Reid is excusing local genocide by a linguistic mistake. In truth, uninflected, this was a policy of the senior British commanders, some of whom, Reid concedes, were running on the side coal and timber-stealing for export in the north, oil in the south.
British history-telling like this turns out to be not history at all, but “cartoonish propaganda” of the same credibility now being paid for and published by foundations like Reid’s Ukrainian Institute. This turns Reid’s book into a museum for the British culture of learning and expression which is now so ailing and so poor it is obliged to take its direction, money, and script from Kiev and Washington.
[*] Fairweather is the widow of Richard Beeston, Russophobe of the London Times, who was assigned to report from Moscow during the Yeltsin presidency, 1994-98; his idea of sourcing for his despatches was to harangue foreign correspondents better informed than he was, at dinners he obliged them to pay for, on how mistaken they were about Yeltsin’s failures. As a London literary agent, Fairweather sells books to publishers and film producers on their anti-Russian value for clients who, in addition to Reid, include Boris Johnson,Owen Matthews, and Timothy Garton Ash.
Nicole Shanahan is a “dark horse” who can bring surprises
What is happening in the US presidential elections now marks the advent of a completely new era in this political mechanism, calling into question its very essence as a competition of real personalities. In recent weeks, according to polls, Biden has significantly reduced the gap with Trump from 5% to 1%, and in some of them, in direct comparison, he even took a slight lead. Why the sudden increase in support for Sleepy Joe (Trump’s expression)? After all, he still barely drags his feet, has difficulty recognizing those around him, confuses basic things, etc., that is, he demonstrates all the signs of oncoming dementia. But this is seen mainly by people outside America, while in the United States itself, paid election advertising is in full swing, which, thanks to more money, is dominated by Democrats. Everywhere there are videos and images in which the current president, with the help of ingenious modern technologies, including, apparently, artificial intelligence, appears as a kind of wise, cheerful person, demonstrating excellent physical qualities and memory. In their everyday worries, people simply confuse where Biden is active and where he is “virtual-cybernetic,” and it begins to seem to them that “the old man is nothing at all.” At the same time, his rival Trump is being physically and mentally exhausted by all sorts of courts. In this way, in modern America it is possible to bring to power not only a sick person, but even a dead or completely non-existent person. But there’s one catch.
Joe Biden — that’s what he is!
The same polls show that if one-on-one Biden can still win, then in the presence of such a third independent candidate as Robert F. Kennedy (the media often refers to him simply as RFK), for whom the fame of his dead uncle and father works, the current head The White House will inevitably lose to Trump anyway. In this regard, a serious struggle is flaring up around the representative of this famous family and, perhaps, the main intrigue of the upcoming final of the entire campaign in November. The Democrats, from whom the younger Kennedy takes the largest number of votes, are trying in every possible way to discredit him and remove him from the race, while the Republicans are openly flirting with him.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “through thorns to the stars”
In the whole country, polls show that from 12% to 20% of all voters are ready to vote for Kennedy, which is a lot considering that he is opposed by two huge party machines and even the money for registration in the largest possible number of states is catastrophic for him lacks. Robert Kennedy’s immediate goal is to register in all 50 states, as well as to attend national televised debates with the two leading candidates, if any take place at all. The “virtual” Biden would prefer to avoid them altogether, and Trump, who is still insisting on them, if Kennedy, who is significantly superior to both main candidates in terms of intelligence and eloquence, joins them, may also backtrack.
The latter, apparently, partially solved his most pressing financial problems by choosing a very peculiar person as his vice-presidential candidate — Nicole Shanahan . She was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as a result of her divorce from whom, due to an affair with another “cyber shark” Elon Musk, she became the owner of a billion-dollar capital. Her mother is Chinese from Guangzhou, her father is German by birth. Nuclear mix — a woman, a representative of national minorities, big money and popularity in Silicon Valley. Her fortune, plus possible help from Musk, who never puts his eggs in one basket, and, while expressing sympathy for Trump, is quite capable of supporting RFK, could significantly facilitate the latter’s progress in the campaign.
Nicole Shanahan and her ex-husband Sergei Brin
N. Shanahan is the founder and president of the Bia-Echo Foundation, a private nonprofit organization that makes grants on issues such as reproductive rights, equality, criminal justice reform and the environment. She is also the founder and CEO of ClearAccessIP, a patent analytics company. She is active and ambitious, representing the face of “New America” against the backdrop of government gerontocrats. It can have a special effect in the totally “pro-democratic” state with the largest population – California.
N. Shanahan at one of the events
The Democratic National Committee is extremely concerned about the negative effect on itself from the appearance of RFK and is using methods no less dirty against him than against Trump. He, in particular, created a first-of-its-kind unit, hiring employees specifically dedicated to eliminating Kennedy, led by former White House adviser Dana Remus.
They filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission against Kennedy, accusing him of being bankrolled by big Republican donors. Active work is underway to collect incriminating evidence on Kennedy and his partner Shanahan. With great fanfare, Joe Biden met with a dozen members of the “extended Kennedy clan”, at which RFK Jr.’s sister Kerry Kennedy, who had long quarreled with her brother, promised “unwavering support” for the current president.
Kerry Kennedy for Biden
It all looked pretty ridiculous, especially after RFK cited the names of a dozen of his other relatives who fully support him. True, of course, few people learned about this, while the words of the “Kerry sisters” read out on television were spread throughout the country by Democrat-controlled propaganda as the alleged position of the entire clan, with the exception of the “prodigal son” Robert Kennedy.
What buckets of dirt are not being poured on his head now, going beyond all moral standards, by the “freest press in the world”! They remember, for example, how after the assassination of his father shortly after the death of his uncle John Kennedy, young RFK Jr. resorted to drugs in despair, although for him this is a long-forgotten page.
RFK Jr. leads his father’s funeral procession in 1968.
They shamelessly misinterpret his position on COVID-19, claiming that, being “intoxicated by conspiracy theories,” RFK opposes any vaccines. In fact, he always pointed out only the abuses associated with their production and use, sometimes quite successfully opposing the “Big Pharma” industry in various lawsuits, which, of course, it does not forgive. Particularly condemned are his claims that it is still not known exactly where the recent pandemic came from and where it went. Isn’t that right? Robert Kennedy is also reproached for a lack of patriotism, since he believes that “the only moral war America has fought since 1865 was World War II,” and Russia’s “invasion” of Ukraine in 2022 was provoked by America itself.
Billboard erected by the Democratic National Committee claims RFK Jr. is a Trump puppet
Republicans, on the other hand, are not too zealous in discrediting RFK, seeing in him primarily a weapon against the Democrats from whom he comes. Kennedy has already twice made statements that Trump himself was looking for approaches to attract him as a vice-presidential candidate. This was confirmed by the fairly high assessments that the former US President gave him in his speeches. At first, the Trump campaign did not particularly refute such an initiative. But after Kennedy publicly rejected such an honor, putting Republicans in an awkward position, they began to deny the existence of such an idea. And Trump adviser Chris LaCivita called his would-be partner a “left-wing lunatic.” Nevertheless, Trump, who knows Kennedy personally well, continues to say: “He is much better than Biden. If I were a Democrat, I would vote for RFK Jr. every time, not Biden.»
However, it is alarming that during the current race, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was denied protection from the state Secret Service (analogous to the FSO) for the fifth time by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Kennedy lawyer Aaron Seery pointed out that Secret Service protection was first extended to presidential candidates precisely because of the assassination of Kennedy’s father in 1968 while he was running for president. Since then, 32 presidential candidates have received protection. Candidates in the past have been protected from far less risks than those Kennedy faces, he said. He pointed to an incident in which someone attended one of RFK’s campaign events with two loaded guns and demanded to meet with the candidate.
In a message to Mayorkas, Siri wrote , not without reason : “Your disregard for the safety of Mr. Kennedy is contemptible. «Failure to immediately provide him with Secret Service protection exposes your political motives and diminishes respect for our great nation.» Really again?
Russian lawmakers are ready to introduce a bill on retaliatory measures, the country’s top senator says
Moscow has drafted a package of retaliatory measures in the event that Western countries seize Russian sovereign assets that have been frozen over the Ukraine conflict, senior senator Valentina Matvienko warned on Tuesday.
In an interview with Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, the chairwoman of the Federation Council said that the EU’s potential move to confiscate Russian assets would be “unprecedented,” adding that it “would destroy the global economy.”
“Of course, it would be absolutely illegal, and everyone in Europe understands that they can’t do that,” the official stated.
Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, the West has frozen around $300 billion in Russian central bank assets, most of which are being held in the EU. Moscow has repeatedly denounced the seizure as “theft.”
Officials in several Western nations, notably the US and the UK, have insisted on the outright confiscation of Russian assets despite widespread concerns that this would have no legal basis. In contrast, the EU has been reluctant to do so, reportedly fearing Russian retaliation.
Matvienko stressed that Russia has “a prepared response” to a potential confiscation. “We have a bill that we are ready to consider immediately in response. And the Europeans will lose more than we will. Of course, they are afraid of this, especially given that their economy is collapsing.”
The senator argued that Washington has crushed the EU, both politically and economically. “In the defense and security area, it used to be a vassal… but now it has been simply squashed by the Americans. They now want to strangle it even more… to make it even less competitive,” she stated.
With this in mind, Matvienko suggested that the European business community should vehemently protest against the potential seizures, as they would be the primary target of Moscow’s retaliatory measures.
While the EU has been dragging its feet on confiscating Russian assets, it has been working on a plan to seize the profits generated by those funds in order to procure weapons for Ukraine and boost its defense production capabilities.
According to Politico, however, some members of the bloc have voiced serious misgivings about the initiative. Hungary and Slovakia have opposed the idea of sending weapons to Ukraine, while Malta and Luxembourg are reportedly unhappy that they were not consulted about the plan.
Präsidenten entwickelt hervorragende Guerillataktik Pyongyang, 24. April (KCNA) – Anlässlich des Gründungsjubiläums der Revolutionären Volksarmee Koreas, der ersten revolutionären Streitkräfte unseres Typs, erinnert sich das koreanische Volk ehrfürchtig an die Jahrhunderttaten des Präsidenten Kim Il Sung, der mit seinen hervorragenden militärstrategischen und taktischen Ideen und seiner außerordentlichen Befehlskunst den großen antijapanischen Krieg zum Sieg führte.…
Pyongyang, 24. April (KCNA) – Anlässlich des Gründungsjubiläums der Revolutionären Volksarmee Koreas, der ersten revolutionären Streitkräfte unseres Typs, erinnert sich das koreanische Volk ehrfürchtig an die Jahrhunderttaten des Präsidenten Kim Il Sung, der mit seinen hervorragenden militärstrategischen und taktischen Ideen und seiner außerordentlichen Befehlskunst den großen antijapanischen Krieg zum Sieg führte.
In seiner Rede „Anlässlich der Gründung der Antijapanischen Volksguerillaarmee“ bei der Gründungszeremonie der Antijapanischen Volksguerillaarmee am 25. April 1932 erläuterte der Präsident Kim Il Sung das Grundprinzip des Partisanenkrieges, die feindlichen Kräfte bei maximaler Erhaltung der Partisanenarmee schwer zu vernichten, und legte den Gedanken dar, eine neue Partnertaktik nach der anderen zu entwickeln. Vom ersten Tag des bewaffneten antijapanischen Kampfes an waren die vom Präsidenten entwickelten Guerillataktiken eine entscheidende Garantie dafür, den zahlenmäßig und technisch überlegenen Feind durch strategische und taktische Überlegenheit zu überwältigen, in der Konfrontation mit dem Feind stets die Initiative zu ergreifen und einen Sieg nach dem anderen zu erringen.
Die Schlacht an der Grenze zwischen den Kreisen Antu und Fusong im Juni 1932 war eine triumphale Schlacht, in der die Partisanen die japanischen imperialistischen Aggressionstruppen, die auf sie zustürmten, durch eine Kombination aus starker Feuerkraft und Gegenangriff völlig vernichteten und damit zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte des Partisanenkrieges den Mythos von der Übermacht der japanischen Imperialisten, die sich damit brüsteten, „unbesiegbar“ zu sein, erschütterten. Die Schlacht zur Verteidigung des Guerillagebiets Xiaowangqing zeigte deutlich die seltene militärische Weisheit und die herausragende Befehlskunst des Präsidenten, der den Feinden, die auf „Strafoperationen“ der Guerillastützpunkte aus waren, einen schweren Schlag versetzte, indem er eine elastische Taktik aus geschickten Manövern, Überraschungsangriffen, Angriffen, Hinterhalten und Angriffen auf den Feind von hinten anwendete. Bei den Kämpfen an den Toren von Heixiazigou, Taoquanli und dem Rimyong-Bach Ende 1936 und Anfang 1937 wurden zahlreiche japanische Angreifer in einem geheimnisvollen Hinterhalt der antijapanischen Guerillas getötet.
Die vom Präsidenten entwickelte und aktiv angewandte Teleskoptaktik führte zu glänzenden Siegen in vielen Schlachten, darunter die Schlacht von Xiaodeshui, Hongtushanzi und die Schlacht auf der Hochebene von Fuhoushui. Die Schlacht um die Kreisstadt Fusong, in der die Taktik des blitzschnellen Auftauchens mal im Osten und mal im Westen angewandt wurde, endete mit einem triumphalen Sieg der Partisanen.
Die Taktik, eine lange Strecke im Gleichschritt zu marschieren, mit der die KRVA am helllichten Tag entlang der von den japanischen Imperialisten im Mai 1939 angelegten Schutzstraße Kapsan-Musan marschierte, und die Taktik des Kreisens, mit der sie ein weites Gebiet immer wieder umkreiste, um den Feind mit verschiedenen Taktiken zu überraschen, bevor sie verschwand, wurden vom Präsidenten entwickelt. Auch die Taktik, eine große Einheit des Feindes mit einer kleinen Einheit anzulocken, um den Feind zu ermüden und zu spalten, bevor er zuschlägt, und andere brillante, flexible Taktiken wurden als legendäre Geschichten im Volk überliefert.
Die vom Präsidenten entwickelte Taktik des Partisanenkrieges auf der Grundlage unserer Lehre war ein mächtiges, wertvolles Schwert, das es ermöglichte, die bis an die Zähne bewaffneten japanischen imperialistischen Aggressoren mit strategischer und taktischer Überlegenheit zu besiegen. Dank der geheimnisvollen Guerillataktik, die die Millionen von japanischen imperialistischen Truppen in die Enge trieb, endete der bewaffnete antijapanische Kampf mit dem großen Sieg des koreanischen Volkes, und die historische Sache der nationalen Befreiung konnte erfolgreich verwirklicht werden.
Stellvertretender Außenminister der DVRK: US-Militärhilfe für die Ukraine ist nur eine verblüffende Droge Pyongyang, 24. April (KCNA) – Der für russische Angelegenheiten zuständige Vizeaußenminister der DVRK, Im Chon Il, gab am Mittwoch die folgende Presseerklärung ab. Berichten zufolge hat das US-Repräsentantenhaus kürzlich einen Gesetzentwurf über zusätzliche Militärhilfe für die Ukraine verabschiedet. Es kann also gesagt…
Stellvertretender Außenminister der DVRK: US-Militärhilfe für die Ukraine ist nur eine verblüffende Droge
Pyongyang, 24. April (KCNA) – Der für russische Angelegenheiten zuständige Vizeaußenminister der DVRK, Im Chon Il, gab am Mittwoch die folgende Presseerklärung ab.
Berichten zufolge hat das US-Repräsentantenhaus kürzlich einen Gesetzentwurf über zusätzliche Militärhilfe für die Ukraine verabschiedet. Es kann also gesagt werden, dass das im politischen Lager der USA seit langem diskutierte groß angelegte zusätzliche militärische Hilfspaket der USA für die Ukraine tatsächlich zur Frage der Zeit geworden ist.
In den Medien der USA und anderer westlicher Länder wird verbreitet, dass die Entscheidung Washingtons dem Kampf der Ukraine gegen die russische „Invasion“ neue Kraft verleihen wird. Die jüngste parteiübergreifende Unterstützung für die Verabschiedung des Militärhilfegesetzes für die Ukraine durch das US-Repräsentantenhaus beweist einmal mehr, dass die USA unverändert an ihrem Hintergedanken festhalten, Russland um jeden Preis eine strategische Niederlage beizubringen, indem sie die Ukraine trotz ihrer schweren Niederlagen auf dem Schlachtfeld immer wieder anfeuern. Eine große Ironie ist die Tatsache, dass mehr als ein Drittel der US-Hilfsgelder in Höhe von über 60 Milliarden US-Dollar auf dem amerikanischen Festland für die Lieferung neuer Waffen und Munition an die US-Streitkräfte ausgegeben wird. Damit ist wieder einmal deutlich geworden, dass hinter den „rettenden Händen“, mit denen die USA die militärische Unterstützung der Ukraine anpreisen, die durchtriebene und finstere Absicht der USA steckt, die Ukraine-Krise als Gelegenheit zu nutzen, um ihre Munitionsmonopole zu mästen und die Fesseln, die sie der Ukraine angelegt haben, noch enger zu schnallen, um die Zelenskiy-Clique zu Handlangern zu machen, die ihr den Weg zur Umsetzung ihrer Strategie zur Abschreckung Russlands ebnen sollen. Es ist kein Zufall, dass Experten feststellen, dass die USA am meisten von der Ukraine-Krise profitieren und die Biden-Administration enorme Gewinne macht, während sie sich am „blutigen Tropfen“ labt.
Russische Politiker, die sich ihres Sieges sicher sind, machen sich über die Verabschiedung des neuen Militärhilfegesetzes lustig, weil es die USA noch reicher macht, die Ukraine aber noch mehr in Schutt und Asche legt: Obwohl die USA Dutzende von Milliarden Dollar für die Sicherheit in Kiew ausgeben und damit die wilde Gier der Rüstungsmagnaten befriedigen, wird Russland sicher als Sieger hervorgehen. Die USA versorgen das Selenskij-Regime mit Blut, um dessen Existenz zu verlängern, aber das kann nichts an dem schrecklichen Schicksal ändern, das die Marionetten auf dem Sterbebett erwartet.
Die ukrainischen Schlachtfelder sind seit langem ein „Friedhof“ für die verschiedensten Waffen, mit denen die USA und die NATO prahlen. Aber Selenskij ist so verrückt geworden, dass er seinen Willen zum Ausdruck bringt, den „todesmutigen Widerstand“ gegen Russland bis zum Ende fortzusetzen, und verbeugt sich tief vor seinen amerikanischen Herren für die Entscheidung über neue Militärhilfe. Dies kann nur als reine Hysterie eines „Don Quijote des 21. Jahrhunderts“ angesehen werden, der seinen Gegner überhaupt nicht kennt.
Selenskij muss ein „Star“ sein, der seine Rolle nach dem von den USA geschriebenen Drehbuch gut spielt, und nicht der Präsident eines Landes. Ich behaupte, dass das von den USA verabschiedete Militärhilfepaket nur eine bewusstseinsverändernde Droge ist, um die Selenskij-Clique, die aufgrund ihrer sich ständig verschlechternden Lage auf dem Schlachtfeld vor Angst erstarrt ist, für einen Moment aufzumuntern und sie gegen Windmühlen kämpfen zu lassen. Die pro-amerikanischen Lakaien sind dem Tod und dem Ruin geweiht, weil sie die Menschen und alle Werte des Landes vollständig verkauft haben, um Kanonenfutter ihres Herrn zu werden, unfähig zu beurteilen, was richtig und was falsch ist.
Jegliche militärische Hilfe der USA kann niemals den Vormarsch der heldenhaften russischen Armee und des Volkes aufhalten, die alle für einen heiligen Krieg der Gerechtigkeit zur Wahrung der souveränen Rechte und der Sicherheit ihres Landes kämpfen.
Die enge Verbindung von Pharmaindustrie und korrupten Politikern hat in der inszenierten Corona-Krise Hunderttausenden schwere bis tödliche Impfnebenwirkungen beschert, für deren Risiko der Steuerzahler haften muss, der zudem Milliarden Euro für ungenutzte Impfdosen zu blechen hat – ein noch nie dagewesener Skandal. Die „Wissenschaftliche Initiative – Gesundheit für Österreich“ um Prof. Sönnichsen beleuchtet die unfassbare Szenerie, wie weltweite Netzwerke der Pharmabranche mit nationalen, übernationalen Stellen (WHO, EU) und dem kapitalistischen Hasardeur Bill Gates mittendrin die Menschen weltweit bedenkenlos schaden und ausnehmen. (hl)
EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen und Pfizer-Chef Albert Bourla (FPÖ EU)
Wissenschaftliche Initiative – Gesundheit für Österreich
Interessenskonflikte: Lobbys, Netzwerke und ihr Einfluss
Wie weltweite Lobbys miteinander vernetzt sind, am Beispiel von Pharmabranche, Bill Gates und WHO
Wie kann es sein, dass Regierungen Millionen von Covid-19-Impfdosen bestellen (und aus Steuergeld bezahlen), die dann ungenutzt ablaufen und entsorgt werden müssen? Kolportierter Preis pro Impfdose: 30 Euro. In Österreich waren es Anfang September 2023 ganze 17 Millionen ungenutzte Impfdosen, weitere 10 Millionen wurden bis dahin bereits vernichtet, weil abgelaufen. Dabei hatte das Land schon 9,5 Millionen Dosen an Drittstaaten gespendet – über die internationale Initiative „COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access“ (COVAX), die hier weiter unten noch einmal auftauchen wird.
Einfach übervorsichtig angesichts einer nie dagewesenen Pandemie? Oder schlicht verrechnet? Oder war die österreichische Bevölkerung eben nicht impfwillig genug? – Tatsächlich sieht die Lage in Deutschland ähnlich aus. Und in der Schweiz. Und in den USA. Und in asiatischen Ländern.
Zig Milliarden Euro an Steuergeldern sollen aus der EU in Richtung Impfstoffhersteller geflossen sein, 35 Milliarden allein an Pfizer. Die Haftung für unerwünschte Nebenwirkungen haben übrigens ebenfalls die Staaten auf sich genommen (siehe www.gesundheit-oesterreich.at/geleakter-eu-vertrag-mit-pfizer-biontech). In der Folge verzeichnete BioNTech 2021 einen zweistelligen Milliarden-Gewinn. Und Pfizer hat im Jahr 2022 seinen Umsatz um 95 Prozent und seinen Nettogewinn sogar um 140 Prozent gesteigert und wurde wieder zur Nummer eins in der Pharmabranche.
Ein Geschäftsmodell, das seinesgleichen sucht. Wie kommt das?
Gesundheit ist ein Markt wie jeder andere
Ein Unternehmen muss Gewinne machen, sonst geht es unter. Das gilt für einen pharmazeutischen Betrieb genauso wie für den Arzt, die Modeboutique und den Dorfwirt. Auf die Methoden kommt es an. Problematisch wird es jedenfalls dann, wenn ein Unternehmen, ein Konzern oder gar eine ganze Branche direkten Einfluss auf die Gesetzgebung eines Landes ausübt oder die Politik anderweitig beeinflusst, um bessere Geschäfte machen zu können. Noch problematischer ist es, wenn gleichzeitig die daraus folgenden Gesetze oder Entscheidungen zum Schaden anderer führen.
Das kann im Kleinen zum Beispiel bedeuten, dass ein Bauunternehmen einem Magistratsbeamten ein Geldkuvert über den Tisch schiebt, um eine Umfahrungsstraße bauen zu können, die zwar keiner braucht, die dem Bauunternehmen aber Einkommen beschert – Einkommen, das die Gemeinschaft zahlen muss. Oder dass eine Handelskette dem Bürgermeister einen neuen Privatwagen finanziert, um eine Baugenehmigung für den dritten Supermarkt am Ortsrand durchzusetzen, den wiederum keiner braucht, für den aber wertvolles Grünland geopfert wird.
Marktplatz EU
Doch das sind Kleinigkeiten. Auf der großen internationalen Bühne geht es um weitaus höhere Beträge. Dementsprechend größer ist auch der notwendige Aufwand, um Einfluss zu gewinnen. Das ist die Arbeit von Interessen-Vertretungen und Lobbys. Knapp 12.500 solcher Interessensvertreter sind zum Beispiel im Rahmen der EU aktiv. Ihre Aufgabe ist es, Kontakte zu den europäischen Spitzenpolitikern und Entscheidungsträgern zu pflegen und sie in high-level Meetings zu „beraten“. Bezahlt werden sie von Unternehmen, Branchenvereinigungen und NGOs, die ihre jeweils eigenen Interessen durchgesetzt sehen möchten. Logisch. Auch das ist an sich nichts Verwerfliches. Interessen einzelner Bevölkerungsgruppen und Wirtschaftszweige sollen in einer Demokratie schließlich kommuniziert werden. Man mag sich allerdings fragen, warum dort zum Beispiel auch 300 Interessensvertretungen aus den USA lobbyieren, die nun wirklich keinen demokratischen Auftrag von EU-Bürgern haben.
Drei Millionen Euro ließ sich zum Beispiel der Internet-Riese Amazon im Jahr 2021 seine Lobbyarbeit in Brüssel kosten. €113 Millionen Euro haben allein Technologiekonzerne im Jahr 2023 dafür ausgegeben, die Europäische Politik unter anderem von den Vorteilen der Digitalisierung zu überzeugen. Ob Amazon und Tech-Konzerne immer die Interessen der europäischen Bürger vertreten, ist fraglich. Dass sie Entscheidungen tatsächlich beeinflussen, kann man annehmen. Sonst wären sie ja nicht dort.
Pfizer, BioNTech und Gates
Selbstverständlich ist im Lobby-Register der EU auch die Pharma-Branche breit vertreten, die zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie zur Höchstform auflief. Ein Beispiel: Im Jahr 2020 erhöhte der US-Pharmariese Pfizer seine Lobby-Ausgaben in der EU schlagartig von 850.000 auf 1,38 Millionen Euro. Zeitgleich steigerte auch das damals noch kleine Unternehmen BioNTech SE seine Lobby-Ausgaben in Brüssel von 75.000 Euro auf das Doppelte. Das war leicht leistbar, denn im Jahr zuvor, also 2019, hatte die Bill & Melinda Gates Stiftung gerade 50 Millionen Euro in das deutsche Unternehmen investiert – für die Entwicklung von mRNA-Impfstoffen. Dieselbe Stiftung ist übrigens ebenfalls auf der Lobbyisten-Liste in der EU: Im Jahr 2019 mit 450.000 Euro Lobbykosten. (Seit 2020 gibt die Stiftung ihre Ausgaben nicht mehr bekannt.) Bill Gates ist auch mit seinem privaten Büro „Gates Ventures, LLC“ in Brüssel engagiert, mit dem proklamierten Ziel „globale Lösungen in den Bereichen Gesundheit und Saubere Energie“ voranzutreiben. (https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/)
Was dabei herauskommen kann: Ein Vertrag zwischen EU und BioNTech/Pfizer über 200 Millionen Impfdosen für die EU-Länder zum Beispiel, darunter die eingangs erwähnten 27 Millionen ungenutzten Impfdosen für Österreich. Dieser Vertrag wurde zentral von der EU verhandelt, die Hersteller der Impfstoffe wurden darin von jeglicher Haftung freigesprochen, das Risiko eventueller Nebenwirkungen tragen die Steuerzahler. Die Kosten für die zu viel bestellten, ungenutzten Impfstoffe ebenfalls. Dass diese neuartigen mRNA-Impfstoffe zudem nicht hielten, was versprochen war, stattdessen aber viele Nebenwirkungen mit sich bringen, macht den Deal möglicherweise endgültig zum „größten Korruptionsskandal der Menschheitsgeschichte“.
Wie konnte das in so vielen Ländern rund um den Globus gleichzeitig geschehen? Um das zu erklären, muss man den Blick noch einmal weiten.
Offizielle „Geldkuverts“ an die WHO
Eine wesentliche Rolle spielte die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO), die die neuartigen Impfstoffe als Gamechanger empfohlen und den Regierungen nahegelegt hat, möglichst viele Menschen zu impfen. Und zwar noch bevor zuverlässige Studien vorhanden waren. Genaue Zahlen nannte übrigens Bill Gates schon am 12. April 2020 (!) in der deutschen Tagesschau. Er erklärte: „Wir werden den zu entwickelnden Impfstoff letztendlich 7 Milliarden Menschen verabreichen.“ Wen er mit „wir“ meinte, ließ er offen. Ob diese 7 Milliarden Menschen diesen Impfstoff überhaupt wollen, stand ebenfalls nicht zur Debatte. Dabei prophezeiten Gates und der Fernsehmoderator in hellseherischer Einigkeit, dass die Pandemie nur mit einer Impfung beendet werden könnte. – Warum die ARD ausgerechnet den amerikanischen Multimilliardär und Programmierer zum Interview über die Entwicklung der Pandemie einlud, ist übrigens eine interessante Frage für sich.
Bill Gates träumt also schon zu Beginn der Pandemie davon, fast die gesamte Weltbevölkerung zu impfen. Die WHO setzt in ihren Pandemie-Updates ebenfalls auf die Impfung als einzigen Ausweg. Dabei muss man wissen, dass die WHO inzwischen zu 80 Prozent von freiwilligen Spenden finanziert wird, von denen wiederum 88 Prozent zweckgebunden sind. Das bedeutet, dass der jeweilige Spender entscheidet, was die WHO mit diesem Geld anfangen soll: Wer zahlt, schafft an. Die Bill & Melinda Gates Stiftung ist mit 46,8 Milliarden Dollar nicht nur die größte private Stiftung der Welt, sondern auch die zweitgrößte Spenderin der WHO (nach den USA). Viertgrößte Spenderin ist die Impfallianz GAVI, eine öffentlich-private Partnerschaft aus Impfstoffherstellern, Regierungen und NGOs, deren Gründungsmitglied und viertgrößte Spenderin wiederum die Bill & Melinda Gates Stiftung ist (Stand Februar 2024: mehr als 4 Milliarden Dollar).
Dieselbe Stiftung ist auch Geldgeberin der weltweiten „Koalition für Innovationen in der Epidemie-Vorbeugung“, deren Zweck die Entwicklung neuer Impfstoffe ist und die gemeinsam mit GAVI (der Impfallianz) und der WHO das Projekt COVAX ins Leben gerufen hat. Das ist genau jenes Projekt, dem Österreich die eingangs erwähnten Millionen von Impfstoffen gespendet hat. – Verwirrend? Ja. Doch Eines ist deutlich: Bill Gates hat offenbar großes Interesse nicht nur an der Digitalisierung, sondern auch an Impfstoffen. Und dieses Interesse setzt er unter anderem über die Weltgesundheitsorganisation durch. Denn: Wer zahlt, schafft eben an.
Und was schaffen die Bill & Melinda Gates Stiftung und die Impfallianz GAVI an? Zum Beispiel eine „gesunde Nachfrage“ nach Impfungen zu erzeugen („Healthy demand driven by a supportive environment“). Auf der GAVI-Website nennt sich das Impfmarkt-Gestaltung(„vaccine market shaping“). Und es scheint sich finanziell auszuzahlen. Schon 2019 erklärte Bill Gates, dass seine Investitionen in globale Gesundheitsorganisationen zur Verbreitung von Impfstoffen seine beste Investition wären mit einem 20-fachen Return on Investment.
WHO: Gesundheit oder Geld?
Wer (zumindest teilweise) Macht über die WHO hat, profitiert auch davon, wenn die WHO selbst ihre Macht ausweitet. In diesem Licht kann man auch die aktuellen Pläne der WHO betrachten, die seit 2021 an einem neuen Pandemievertrag und der gleichzeitigen Änderung der Internationalen Gesundheitsvorschriften (IHR) arbeitet. Die Vertragsentwürfe lassen keinen Zweifel darüber, dass die WHO in Zukunft Entscheidungen über die Menschen in den Mitgliedsländern treffen will, die weder aus gesundheitlicher Sicht noch demokratiepolitisch oder rechtsstaatlich zu rechtfertigen sind.
Geht es nach diesen Entwürfen, soll der WHO-Generaldirektor in Zukunft allein entscheiden, wann eine Pandemie oder ein Gesundheitsnotstand ausgerufen wird. Und während die WHO bisher Empfehlungen ausgab, denen die Regierungen folgen konnten oder nicht, sollen sich die Mitgliedsländer nun verpflichten, diese „Empfehlungen“ durchzusetzen:
Artikel 13A IHR:
States Parties recognize WHO as the guidance and coordinating authority of international public health response during public health Emergency of International Concern and untertake to follow WHO’s recommendations in their international public health response.
(Die Vertragsstaaten erkennen die WHO als die leitende und koordinierende Behörde für die internationale Reaktion im Bereich der öffentlichen Gesundheit bei Notfällen von internationalem Interesse an und verpflichten sich, die Empfehlungen der WHO bei ihrer internationalen Reaktion im Bereich der öffentlichen Gesundheit zu befolgen.)
Der Pandemievertrag ruft sogar deutlich zur Zensur auf:
Pandemievertrag Artikel 18:
The Parties shall strengthen science, public health and pandemic literacy in the population, as well as access to (Die Vertragsparteien stärken die Wissenschaft, die öffentliche Gesundheit und die Pandemiekompetenz in der Bevölkerung sowie den Zugang zu Informationen über Pandemien und ihre Auswirkungen und Triebkräfte und bekämpfen falsche, irreführende, fälschliche oder desinformierende Informationen, unter anderem durch wirksame internationale Zusammenarbeit und Kooperation nach Artikel 16.)
(Die Vertragsparteien stärken die Wissenschaft, die öffentliche Gesundheit und die Pandemiekompetenz in der Bevölkerung sowie den Zugang zu Informationen über Pandemien und ihre Auswirkungen und Triebkräfte und bekämpfen falsche, irreführende, fälschliche oder desinformierende Informationen, unter anderem durch wirksame internationale Zusammenarbeit und Kooperation nach Artikel 16.)
The Parties shall, as appropriate, conduct research and inform policies on factors that hinder adherence to public health and social measures in a pandemic and trust in science and public health institutions.
(Die Vertragsparteien führen gegebenenfalls Forschungsarbeiten durch und informieren über Faktoren, die die Einhaltung von Maßnahmen des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens und der Gesellschaft im Falle einer Pandemie sowie das Vertrauen in die Wissenschaft und die Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens behindern.)
Eine nicht demokratisch gewählte Institution maßt sich hier an, darüber zu entscheiden, welche Information richtig und welche falsch ist. Das widerspricht nicht nur dem liberalen und demokratischen Grundverständnis, es öffnet Missbrauch Tür und Tor. Nicht ohne Grund besteht Wissenschaft immer aus These und Antithese. Informationskontrolle verhindert freie Wissenschaft.
Kritisches Hinterfragen hilft
Österreich handelt die Verträge mit der WHO übrigens nicht selbst aus, sondern hat, wie alle anderen EU-Länder, die Vollmacht dafür an die EU übertragen. Dieselbe EU, die auch die Impfstoff-Verträge ausgehandelt hat.
Sollten die Mitgliedsländer diese Gesundheitsvorschriften unterzeichnen, könnte auch Bill Gates‘ Prophezeiung der sieben Milliarden geimpften Menschen wahr werden. Einfach, weil die Impfung (oder ein beliebiger anderer medizinischer Eingriff) zur weltweiten Vorschrift gemacht werden könnte. Die Macht von internationalen Lobbys, einer industriefinanzierten WHO oder eines Bill Gates wirkt aber nur so lange, wie sie nicht breit durchschaut wird. Und wenn Gesundheit, Rechtsstaat und Souveränität auf dem Spiel stehen, ist es wohl endgültig Zeit, Stopp! zu sagen.
Weiterführende Links:
Die Verbindungen der Pharmalobby zu Regierungen und anderen öffentlichen Einrichtungen sind lange bekannt:
Fast drei Jahre lang lieferten die willigen wissenschaftlichen Helfer des Robert Koch Instituts ihren politischen Vorgesetzten mit der Corona-Einschätzung „hohes Risiko“ die gewünschte „wissenschaftliche“ Begründung für die willkürlichen totalitären Maßnahmen, wohl wissend, dass es dafür keine wissenschaftlichen Fakten gab.1 Jetzt, nachdem die Veröffentlichung der Protokolle ihres Krisenstabes die Ungeheuerlichkeiten ans Licht gebracht hat, versuchte das RKI die Dokumentation der andauernden hohen Risikobewertung zu löschen, damit sie ihm bei einer echten Aufarbeitung nicht peinvoll vorgehalten werden können, vergeblich. – Das große Staatsverbrechen wird aufgeklärt werden, einschließlich seiner internationalen Dimensionen.
I. RKI löscht Risikobewertungen
Unter diesem Titel veröffentlichte Prof. Stefan Homburg in seinem Aufklärungs-Kanal „homburgshintergrund“ ein weiteres Video, dessen Transkript wir nachfolgend bringen:
Prof. Stefan Homburg
„Ich habe etwas entdeckt, und zwar hat das RKI die Risikobewertungen zu Corona im Netz gelöscht. Ist das wichtig? Und ob, jahrelang hing unser Leben von diesen Bewertungen ab. Wenn das RKI sagte, das Risiko sei mäßig oder moderat, dann konnten wir leben wie die Menschen in früherer Zeit jahrhundertelang. Wenn das RKI aber sagte, das Risiko sei hoch, dann kamen Kita- und Schulschließungen, Lockdowns, Ausgangssperren, und alte Menschen wurden in Pflegeheimen isoliert, durften nicht besucht werden, bis sie starben. Reguläre Beerdigungen mit vielen Gästen waren auch verboten.
Wie habe ich das entdeckt? Nun Ausgangspunkt war ein RKI-Protokoll, das ich Ihnen in der letzten Sendung gezeigt hatte. (Kopie wird eingeblendet, Min.: 1:14) In diesem Protokoll heißt es, dass das Bundesgesundheitsministerium (BMG) im Hochsommer 2020 eine Vorgabe macht, das Risiko hochzuhalten. Das heißt, die Risikobewertungen des RKI beruhten nicht auf irgendwelchen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen, sondern waren politische Vorgaben.
Nun haben Kritiker eingewandt: Dieses Protokoll ist vom 29. Juni 2020, und man soll das Risiko bis zum 1. Juli 2020 hochhalten, also nur zwei Tage. Daraufhin habe ich mich gefragt: Bis wann ist das Risiko eigentlich hochgehalten worden? Dazu habe ich in einen der damaligen Berichte geschaut, den ich hier einblende (Min. 2:03). Und dort sehen Sie einen Link zu einem speziellen RKI-Dokument „Risikobewertung“. Darauf habe ich geklickt, und dann bekam ich diese Nachricht: nämlich dass die Datei nicht mehr vorhanden ist. Ich habe danach auf dem gesamten RKI-Server gesucht – konnte ja sein, dass es an eine andere Stelle gewandert ist – aber es ist gelöscht.
An dieser Stelle wäre die Geschichte jetzt zu Ende, wenn es nicht fleißige Bienen gäbe, die alles, was irgendwie fischig ist, im Internetarchiv speichern, sodass man auch jahrelang später es noch findet. Und so kann ich es Ihnen jetzt zeigen: ein Dokument, und zwar vom April 2020, mit einer Risikobewertung des RKI (wird eingeblendet Min. 2:56). Wir schauen uns mal genau an, wie diese Bewertung aussieht, und ob sie hergibt, dass drastische Maßnahmen beschlossen werden. Schauen wir den Text Stück für Stück durch.
Zunächst steht dort, dass die WHO eine weltweite Pandemie erklärt hat. Nun das stimmt, aber das hat die WHO oft getan. Denken Sie an die Schweinegrippe 2009 oder erst vor zwei Jahren, als die „Affenpocken“ zu einer weltweiten Pandemie der höchsten Warnstufe erklärt wurden. Das kam kaum in die Medien, ist von Deutschland ignoriert wurden. Es gab keinen Affenpocken-Lockdown, sondern die Leute wollten nichts mehr von solchen Pandemien hören. Und Medien und Politik dachten, das sei kein Gewinnerthema.
Zweites Argument hier: ´Es handelt sich um eine sehr dynamische Situation` – Ja dynamisch sind eigentlich Erkältungswellen immer – ´und ernst zu nehmen`. Da wird gewissermaßen die frühere Bundeskanzlerin zitiert mit ihrem berühmten Satz: ´Ich nehme es ernst, nehmen sie es auch ernst.` Es ist natürlich reine Floskel und keine wissenschaftliche Begründung. Schließlich heißt es: ´Bei einem Teil der Fälle sind die Krankheitsverläufe schwer, auch tödliche Krankheitsverläufe kommen vor.` Das stimmt wiederum, gilt aber für jede Atemwegserkrankung und ist kein Argument einen Lockdown auszurufen. Das Entscheidende ist jetzt: Ganz unten – das hängt im Grunde an einem einzigen Wort – (wird eingeblendet: Min. 4:38): ´Die Gefährdung für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung in Deutschland wird derzeit insgesamt als hoch eingestuft.`
Nun habe ich alle diese Risikobewertungen des RKI heruntergeladen, und statt dass ich sie jetzt einzeln verlese, zeige ich Ihnen eine neuartige Grafik, die ich daraus gemacht habe, die den gesamten Zeitverlauf der letzten Jahre darstellt (wird eingeblendet Min. 5:06). Schauen Sie mal: Ganz links sehen Sie zunächst Januar und Februar 2020. Damals wurde das Risiko von Politik und Robert Koch Institut als niedrig bis moderat angesehen, und es hieß, Corona sei eine Sache, die Rechtsradikale ersonnen hätten, um die Bevölkerung zu ängstigen.
Dann wird das Risiko hochgestuft, und zwar am 17. März 2020, aufgrund eines Dokuments, was ich Ihnen in der letzten Sendung vorgelesen hatte. Dann im Juni 2020 – das war das Dokument, das ich eben gezeigt hatte – wird das Risiko auf Befehl des BMG hochgehalten. Es folgen dann 6 Monate mit noch höherem Risiko. In diesen 6 Monaten bestand ein erneuter kompletter Lockdown. Dann wird das Risiko auf ´hoch` gemindert, wiederum auf „sehr hoch“ gestellt. Und nachdem die Impflicht im April 2022 im Bundestag gescheitert wird, genau dann wird das Risiko von „sehr hoch“ auf ´hoch herabgestuft´. Ganz rechts finden wir jetzt die Lösung, nämlich: Erst im Februar 2023 wurde das Risiko auf ´moderat` herabgestuft, also nach knapp 3 Jahren. Das Muster der Grafik, die sie hier klein noch neben mir sehen, ergibt selbst in der PCR-Testlogik des RKI überhaupt keinen Sinn, was auf politischen Einfluss schließen lässt.
Ich zeige Ihnen zum Vergleich hier einmal (wird eingeblendet, Min. 6:58) diese sogenannten Inzidenzen oder Fallzahlen. Da sehen sie ganz links einen winzigen Hügel, Anfang 2020. Das war die Rechtfertigung für den ersten Lockdown. Dann Ende 21, als die gesamte Bevölkerung geimpft ist, schießen die Fallzahlen durch die Decke und bleiben durchgehend höher als 2020. Und dort, im Februar 2023, sehen sie, sind immer noch beachtliche PCR-Fallzahlen zu entdecken, aber das Risiko wird plötzlich auf „moderat“ herabgestuft.
Es lautet natürlich die interessante Frage: Hat im Februar 2023 das BMG eine weitere Anweisung an das RKI gegeben, das Risiko nun endlich herabzustufen? Leider sind von multipolar nur die RKI- Protokolle 2020 bis April 2021 herausgeklagt worden, und diese waren stark geschwärzt, wie Sie wissen. Die späteren Protokolle sind ungeschwärzt, werden aber nicht herausgegeben.
Herr Minister Lauterbach hat zwar zugesagt, demnächst, vermutlich nach den Wahlen, denke ich, die ungeschwärzten Protokolle herauszugeben. Aber er weigert sich, die Folgeprotokolle, die für uns eigentlich noch viel interessanter sind, weil sie mit der Impf-Pflicht zusammenhängen, der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen.
Somit müssen wir uns ein wenig gedulden, bis auch die späteren Protokolle freigeklagt sind, woran wenig Zweifel bestehen kann.“
All dies belegt, dass es sich bei der Corona-Pandemie in Wahrheit um eine Inszenierung der den Staat beherrschenden Parteivertreter gehandelt hat, eine Verschwörung gegen die eigene Bevölkerung mit dem Ziel, sie experimentell in totalitäre Verhältnisse und in die lukrativen Impfnadeln der Pharmaindustrie zu treiben, Maßnahmen, die materielle Not, Krankheiten und Tod über viele Menschen gebracht haben. Dies ist ein ungeheures Staatsverbrechen, ein Putsch, der von oben die vorstaatlichen, unantastbaren Menschen- und Grundrechte und damit die Grundlagen der Demokratie außer Kraft setzte. Ein Unternehmen, das auf den gewaltsamen Umsturz im Innern, auf die Beseitigung der verfassungsmäßigen Ordnung gerichtet ist, nennt man Hochverrat, ein Straftatbestand, der nach § 81 StGB mit Freiheitsstrafe nicht unter zehn Jahren zu bestrafen ist.
Die Politiker dieses Parteienstaates, der sich schon lange in eine Oligarchie verwandelt hatte2, haben das Vertrauen der Bevölkerung damit endgültig verspielt.
Aber auch die gesamte Wissenschaft, die sich in staatlicher Obhut und Abhängigkeit befindet, steht für jeden objektiven Beobachter von vorneherein unter Korruptionsverdacht. Auch ihr kann kein Vertrauen entgegengebracht werden, ob sie die Wahrheit sagt. Vertrauen kann sie sich erst wieder erwerben, wenn sie die grundgesetzlich garantierte Freiheit der Forschung und Lehre in einem von Staat und Wirtschaft unabhängigen Geistesleben entfalten kann.
II. Die internationale Dimension
Wir haben gesehen, wie in fast allen Staaten des Westens und einigen des Ostens die auf Lügen und Täuschungen beruhende politische Inszenierung der „Pandemie“ in gleicher Weise abgelaufen ist. Das deutet darauf hin, dass zwischen den internationalen Eliten geheime Absprachen stattgefunden haben müssen, es sich also sogar um eine gigantische internationale Verschwörung gehandelt hat.
Paul Schreyer (multipolar-magazin)
Eine Aufklärung hat das Buch von Paul Schreyer: „Chronik einer angekündigten Krise“ gebracht, das bereits 2020 erschienen ist. Er ist auf internationale „Gesundheitsstrukturen“ gestoßen, in denen sich Militär, Politik, Pharmaindustrie, Wissenschaft und WHO seit Jahrzehnten mit möglichen Biowaffen-Angriffen, Virus-Epidemien und Notfallplänen befassen, in die die Regierungen der wichtigsten Staaten involviert sind. Einiges davon ist hier und da schon bekannt geworden, doch P. Schreyer stellt alles in einen erhellenden chronologischen Zusammenhang. Im Vorwort schreibt er: „Für mich persönlich war es in der Recherche überraschend, wie intensiv und wie lange schon ein solcher Virusausbruch immer wieder geübt wurde, insbesondere in den USA, und wie regelmäßig man in diesem Zusammenhang auch einen politischen Ausnahmezustand einschließlich öffentlicher Unruhen und der Einschränkung von Bürgerrechten durchgespielt hat.“ (S.8)
Den Höhepunkt erreichten diese Trainings-Zusammenkünfte mit der „Event 201“ genannten Übung am 18. Oktober 2019 in Manhatten. Hier kam die „Oberliga der Sponsoren“ (P. Schreyer) mit an Bord, die die Übung finanzierten: die Bill und Melinda Gates Foundation und das World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Und die Übung ´Event 201´ spielte interessanterweise auch tatsächlich den Ausbruch einer globalen Coronavirus-Epidemie durch, zwei Monate vor dem tatsächlichen ersten Auftauchen von Covid-19.
Paul Schreyer weist nach, dass erstaunliche Übereinstimmungen der Abläufe und Maßnahmen in der Übung „Event 201“ mit den tatsächlichen in der Corona-Krise bestehen. Er hält sich in dem Buch noch mit dem Urteil einer geplanten Pandemie zurück. Die frappierende Ähnlichkeit von Übung und Realität allein sei noch kein Beweis; aus den Zusammenhängen lasse sich nicht logisch ableiten, dass die Organisatoren und Teilnehmer der Übung von der nachfolgenden realen Pandemie gewusst hätten, die Corona-Krise wäre also absichtlich geplant worden.
Doch Paul Schreyer übersieht hier und bezieht nicht ein, was die harmlose Erklärung völlig ausschließt und eine absichtliche Planung nicht nur denkbar, sondern durch offen liegende Indizien erwiesen macht: Die permanenten Lügen und Täuschungen sowie die systematische tägliche Angst- und Panikmache der Regierungen, ihrer Hofvirologen, medialen Lautsprecher und der WHO. Wer gezielt Lügen, Angst und Schrecken verbreitet, dem geht es nicht um die Wahrheit und die Gesundheit der Menschen, der verfolgt andere Ziele, die man vorher eingeübt hat. Siehe dazu genauer: https://fassadenkratzer.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/die-globale-planung-eine-corona-grippe-zur-pandemie-aufzublasen/
Mit dem Herausklagen und Veröffentlichen der RKI-Protokolle hat Paul Schreyer in Bezug auf die deutschen Mitverschwörer selbst den letzten Beweis erbracht.3
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Der Friedensstifter 