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The Final Battle

6. März 2024 - 14:01

The Final Battle

Robert Ringer Agrees with me that 2024 stands to be America’s final year.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/robert-ringer/the-final-battle/ 

 

Is 2024 America’s last year?  https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/01/15/is-2024-americas-last-year/ 

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Google’s AI Is a Destroyer of History and Reality

6. März 2024 - 14:01

Google’s AI Is a Destroyer of History and Reality

Even Nazis are blacks

https://www.unz.com/ghood/anti-white-ai-is-no-laughing-matter/ 

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Secretary Blinken Announces Warhawk Nuland’s Resignation

5. März 2024 - 22:34

Secretary Blinken Announces Warhawk Nuland’s Resignation

Paul Craig Roberts

In a surprise statement this morning Secretary of State Blinken announced the resignation of Under Secretary Victoria Nuland to take place “in the coming weeks.”  https://www.state.gov/on-the-retirement-of-under-secretary-of-state-for-political-affairs-victoria-nuland/ 

The announcement is a surprise for many reasons.  Nuland is the primary and best-placed operative of the neoconservatives’ control over US Foreign Policy.  Moreover, things are going well for her war agenda.  For a year of longer she has been advocating for supplying Ukraine with long range missiles, and now German generals are recorded talking about doing so.  She has pushed for NATO troops for Ukraine, and Washington’s French puppet has called for this step to be taken. 

In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nuland has seen the opportunity to expand the conflict to an attack on Iran, long a neoconservative agenda.  The war has already expanded into Yemen, and there are reports that Israel intends to expand the war into Lebanon against Hezbollah, an Iranian ally.  

Why would a neoconservative in an influential and powerful position on the verge of achieving neoconservative goals resign?

Another puzzle is Blinken’s resignation announcement.  No reason is given.  The announce is full of praise for Nuland, but there is no expression of regret of her leaving.  Instead, there is only this: “We are so grateful for Toria’s service” (Toria is Victoria’s nickname).

My quarter century experience in Washington tells me that Blinken has just told Nuland that she is fired.  

I have seen no US news reports of Nuland’s resignation/firing.  This is amazing. The principle architect of Washington’s aggressive foreign policy toward Russia and Iran is removing herself, or is being removed, from a powerful office without explanation, and the presstitutes are silent?

I think it is too much to hope that the Democrats, a collection of bird brains, realized that Nuland was the face of the war party and that the Democrats could not survive that face in the upcoming elections.  After the many years of demonization of Putin, Russia, and Iran, how can the effects of such demonization suddenly be called off?

Another puzzle is the absence of reporting in the presstitute media of Blinken’s announcement of Nuland’s resignation. RT mentioned it and Gilbert Doctorow on his personal site.  Apparently, the official narrative hasn’t yet been prepared and handed to the presstitutes. 

It will be interesting to see what the official narrative is.

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Western Governments Have Declared Open Season on Their White Citizens

5. März 2024 - 13:30

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Western Governments Have Declared Open Season on Their White Citizens

Paul Craig Roberts

Normal heterosexual white people are losing the protection of law in the Western world.  It is happening in some countries faster than in others.  Although women in Sweden and Norway do not have the same recourse to law when they are raped by immigrant-invaders as they have if raped by white Scandinavian men, it is in Great Britain and the US where the protection by law has collapsed most rapidly.  

A recent example in Great Britain is the case of Sam Melia.  Sam, a white British citizen, made available stickers that read:

Reject White Guilt

It’s ok to be White

We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066

White Lives Matter

Stop Anti-White Rape Gangs

Love your Nation

The BBC presstitutes branded Melia “a far-right activist.”  A piece of shit “judge” ruled that the stickers’ messages are “corrosive to our society.”  In other words the “judge” said that “our society is not white except for the corrosive elements in it who are opposed to Britain being overrun by immigrant-invaders.”  The piece of shit “judge,” with weaponized law in his hand, declared his opinion that Sam was an “antisemite with Nazi sympathies” and sentenced Sam to two years in prison.

Sam was charged with a “hate crime” for saying it is ok to be white.  He wasn’t charged with being an anti-semite or a Nazi sympathizer.  These were charges that the “judge” added.  The result is that a white British family with a two year old daughter and another child on the way will be devoid of a father, earner, and protector for two years.  

THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A WHITE BRITISH CITIZEN TODAY. 

Meanwhile British “justice” gave a child pornographer no jail time.  The same “British justice” gave no jail time to a person who brain damaged a baby.  When criminals and immigrant-invaders get in trouble the ruling is that conviction would damage their careers.  So there is no one to convict but white British citizens.

Consider what British “justice” has done to Julian Assange.  British “justice” has kept him imprisoned in one form or the other for 12 years without any charges filed against him.  This is a massive violation of habeas corpus.  Today British “justice” is the same as the “justice” of the feudal lord who at his whim confined a person to a dungeon for life without recourse.

It is amazing what white people do to white people, but they won’t dare touch an immigrant-invader whatever he does.  That would be racist.

In the United States the situation is so bad that the federal government absolutely refuses to enforce the immigration laws on the books. The pro-overrun America regime in Washington actually ruled that Texas cannot even protect its own border.

The US border is wide open. According to official figures immigrant-invaders from 160 countries have been pouring into the United States during the Biden regime equal in number each year equivalent to the populations of 12 cities the size of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

All the while the dumbshit liberals say “replacement is misinformation.”  Well, so far the Biden regime, according to their very own understated figures, have given us White American Citizens immigrant-invaders in numbers equivalent to 36 cities the size of Pittsburgh.  After four years of fiercely anti-white Democrat rule, we will have 48 cities, according to official understated figures, of immigrant-invaders the size of Pittsburgh.

Four more years of Democrats and we will have, according to official understated numbers, immigrant-invaders present in the amount of 96 cities the size of Pillsburgh.

In other words, four more years of Democrat rule and America is no longer a white country.  It will be a tower of babel in which law is used to oppress white people.

White people don’t seen to care enough to stop the immigrant invasion.  For more than a half century white Americans have accepted second class  citizenship in university admissions, employment and promotion.

Only whites have to endure hate speech.  Only whites are racists if they complain of black crime. Only whites can be sent to prison for saying that their lives matter.

Everywhere in the Western world, every citizen who attempts to defend the  ethnic basis of his society is declared a racist.

In other words, everywhere in the Western world governments are committed to eliminating the white ethnicity of the countries that the ethnicities constituted:  Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy,  Belgium, Netherlands.  Britons, French, Germans, Italians, Dutch, will cease to exist.

This is the trajectory on which the Western world is traveling.

If you point it out, you are declared an “enemy of democracy.”

https://modernity.news/2024/03/02/man-jailed-for-2-years-over-stickers-as-pm-whines-about-democracy/ 

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Putin Now Complains of the Consequences, about which I warned, of a Conflict that Continues Too Long

5. März 2024 - 13:29

 

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Putin Now Complains of the Consequences, about which I warned, of a Conflict that Continues Too Long

Paul Craig Roberts

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent speech to the Federal Assembly in Moscow warned the West about the consequences of starting a war with Russia. Putin said:

“The West has provoked conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East, and other regions around the world while consistently propagating falsehoods. Now they have the audacity to say that Russia harbors intentions of attacking Europe.”  

Now that Ukraine has lost the conflict, the West is “selecting targets to strike on our territory and contemplating the most efficient means of destruction. Now they have started talking about the possibility of deploying NATO military contingents to Ukraine.”

Putin now expresses concern that the West’s provocations could result in nuclear war:

“Everything they are inventing now, spooking the world with the threat of a conflict involving nuclear weapons, which potentially means the end of civilization – don’t they realize this? The problem is that these are people who have never faced profound adversity; they have no conception of the horrors of war. We – even the younger generation of Russians – have endured such trials during the fight against international terrorism in the Caucasus, and now, in the conflict in Ukraine. But they continue to think of this as a kind of action cartoon.”

It is unclear whether Putin yet understands that his tolerance of provocations encourages the neoconservatives to push forward with their hegemonic policy.  It is Putin’s failure to put down a firm foot that is leading to war. Putin should understand that in the West there is no alternative voice to the neoconservatives. There is no opposition Putin can rouse as an ally for peace.  Putin and Xi are the only constraints on US hegemony. If these constraints remain in abeyance, the march to nuclear war will continue.

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The US Is the Haiti of Tomorrow

5. März 2024 - 13:28

The US Is the Haiti of Tomorrow 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68462851 

3 March 2024

Haiti violence: Gangs free 4,000 inmates in mass jailbreak

Armed gangs have stormed the main prison in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, releasing many inmates. 

The vast majority of about 4,000 men held there have now escaped, a local journalist told BBC News.

Among those were gang members charged in connection with the 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse.

Violence in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, has worsened in recent years. Gangs aiming to oust PM Ariel Henry control 80% of Port-au-Prince.

The latest upsurge in violence began on Thursday, when the prime minister travelled to Nairobi to discuss sending a Kenyan-led multinational security force to Haiti.

Gang leader Jimmy Chérizier (nicknamed “Barbecue”) declared a co-ordinated attack to remove him.

“All of us, the armed groups in the provincial towns and the armed groups in the capital, are united,” said the former police officer, who is thought to be behind several massacres in Port-au-Prince.

Kenyan police to tackle Haiti gang violence

Haitian capital taken hostage by brutal gangs

Haitians flee surging gang violence in capital

A wave of shootings left four police officers dead and five injured. The French embassy in Haiti advised against travel in and around the capital.

Haiti’s police union asked the military to help reinforce the prison, but the compound was stormed late on Saturday.

On Sunday the doors of the prison were still open and there were no signs of officers, Reuters news agency reported. Three inmates who tried to flee lay dead in the courtyard, the report said.

One volunteer prison worker told the Reuters journalists that 99 prisoners – including former Colombian soldiers jailed over President Moïse’s murder – had chosen to remain in their cells for fear of being killed in crossfire. 

Haiti Crisis: Can Kenya Succeed Where Others Failed?

Violence has been rife since President Moïse’s assassination. He has not been replaced and elections have not been held since 2016.

Under a political deal, elections were to be held and the unelected Mr Henry was due to stand down by 7 February, but that did not happen.

In January, the UN said more than 8,400 people were victims of Haiti’s gang violence last year, including killings, injuries and kidnappings – more than double the numbers seen in 2022.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/03/us/memphis-gangs-ceasefire-paul-young/index.html 

Memphis mayor meets with gang leaders to request ceasefire in effort to curb city’s gun violence

Mayor describes talking to gang leaders in effort to curb crime

A record-breaking 398 people fell victim to homicides in Memphis last year – a noticeable jump from the 190 reported five years ago. And with more than 600 major violent crimes so far in 2024, including at least 40 homicides, Tennessee’s second-most populous city is off to another turbulent start.

The Justice Department underscored these worrying trends recently when it said violent crime in Memphis had reached a 17-year high.

In an effort to curb criminality, Memphis Mayor Paul Young, who took office in January with a focus on public safety, recently met with some of the city’s highest-ranking gang leaders in Memphis and crafted a ceasefire between the groups for seven days.

“My ask for them in that conversation was, ‘Can we get a seven-day ceasefire? Just seven days where there’s no shooting, no killing?’” the mayor said during a youth development panel discussion, CNN affiliate WMC-TV reported. “And they said, ‘Yeah, we would be willing to do that,’ and they gave me a couple of caveats.”

Some of the requested terms included assurances their rival gangs would agree to the ceasefire, as well as help getting well-paying jobs and the training needed to access them, WMC-TV reported.

Only 1% on path toward a living wage

Young told CNN Saturday that what he described as an endemic issue of car break-ins in Memphis has stemmed in part from a lack of job opportunities for gang members. Those break-ins are part of more than 3,500 major property crimes reported in January, according to the Memphis Police Department.

“What they said was … ‘Our young guys just need something to do; they steal cars because it’s fun, because there’s a lack of activities in their communities,’” Young said. “They need ways to earn income.”

More than 45,000 out-of-school and out-of-work young adults ages 16 to 24 live in the greater Memphis area, nearly half of whom live in poverty, according to Memphis nonprofit The Collective Blueprint.

The group says by the time those young adults turn 28, only 1% of them will be on the path toward a living wage.

During the recent panel discussion, Young cited a study that aligns with his hopes for Memphis’s at-risk youth, including young gang members.

The Chicago-based study found violent crime arrests among young adults who received job or internship opportunities went down by 45% over the first year.

When asked if he was able to achieve a seven-day ceasefire, Young said the city did not observe any shootings from the gang groups whose leaders attended the initial meeting.

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Truth-telling or Anti-Semitism?

5. März 2024 - 13:28

Truth-telling or Anti-Semitism?

The Views of a US Secretary of State, a US Ambassador to Great Britain and father of a US president, and an American hero

“Terrific control the Jews have over  the news media and the barrage the Jews have built up on Congressmen … I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here  is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get Congress to do anything the Jews don’t approve of.  The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the Congress.”  – John Foster Dulles,  Secretary of State, 1957 

“Nothing happens in Washington DC unless it benefits the Jews.  – Joseph P. Kennedy

“The very mention of the word ‘Jew’ is cause for a storm.”  – Charles Lindbergh 

The real question is:  Do Americans really have self-determination?

  

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PCR addresses An International Conference: Where is the World Headed?, Argentina, February 23-24, 2024

4. März 2024 - 13:30

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An International Conference: Where is the World Headed?, Argentina, February 23-24, 2024

On February 23, I addressed an important international conference, or congress as it was called, organized by Norma Pimienta in Argentina. The conference addressed international concerns about the failure of Western leadership to put the world on a peaceful path.  Also addressed was the problem of the privatization of government throughout the world.  Even in the democracies the elites who control government use government for their benefit and not for the benefit of the people.  Powerful countries in the West, such as the USA, and in past times much of Europe, use financial power and their currencies’ value as reserves to control Latin American, African, Arab, and Asian countries.  The Western world’s control over others has prevented the normal economic and social development of much of the world. How is it that the West, which professes democracy, does not permit it?

I used my opportunity to address the congress to speak about the importance of truth and of the determination of the elites who control America to destroy all vestiges of truth because truth stands in their way.

The Western world comprises the first empire in history that is destroying itself and the institutions of freedom to which the West gave birth:  government accountable to the people, a rule of law in which law serves as a shield of the people instead of as a weapon in the hands of rulers, respect for life and property, free speech and free inquiry in order to prevent proclamations of self-interest and ideologies from becoming unchallenged agendas.

All of these defenses erected to protect truth and freedom have been dismantled throughout the West.

Truth is dying, and truth has fewer and fewer defenders.  Defenders of truth are labeled “enemies of the state.”

Everywhere in the Western world to speak the truth when it contradicts an “official explanation” is a certain way to trouble.

Here is what I said to the international congress:

Can Truth Survive?

Paul Craig Roberts 

I appreciate the opportunity to address this important Congress.  My topic is truth.

Those of us who understand that there is more to life than material existence know that even the richest material life is insecure if there is no justice and no accountability for governments and criminals.  Justice depends on truth, as does freedom, scholarship, and science. Yet now in our time truth is endangered and can be banned because some privileged groups find it “hurtful” and other privileged groups find truth inconsistent with their agendas.

This leaves us with the realization that the defense of truth is a major task of our time.

Intellectuals should be the main defenders of truth, because without truth what is their profession? But intellectuals today will ask, “what is this truth of which you speak?  How do you define it, measure it, weigh it?”

Others will deny an independent existence to truth and say it is an expression of class, race, or gender interests.  It is widely taught in American universities that truth is a tool of white racists for suppressing people of color.  Those who say this don’t realize that it cuts both ways and that under their definition they use truth to serve the racial interests of people of color.

We have learned nothing from the violence that ensued from Karl Marx’s denial of truth as an independent force. If there are only class interests, there is nothing but violence to mediate between the classes.  Similarly, if there are only race and gender interests, how can differences be mediated except through violence?  If truth is not an independent force that we respect, violence and tyranny are our future.

We should be alarmed that it is in the Western countries, where constitutions were devised to protect truth with free speech and assembly and with prohibitions of a state religion and status-based law, that truth is being suppressed.  In the United States the print and TV media, Google, and social media cooperate with the federal government and its agencies in censoring and suppressing truth.  This has been revealed in many ways.  For example, Elon Musk’s release of the Twitter files and Amazon’s suppression at the White House’s demand of books written by experts that warned of the dangers of the Covid “vaccine.”

Today in the United States debate and free speech are no longer permitted. What can be said is closely controlled, even down to the use of pronouns.  Today feminists, people of color, and sexual perverts put the most preposterous interpretations  on words and ordinary expressions of language that allow them to suppress the words and condemn the speaker for being “offensive.”  The term I just used, “sexual pervert,” is no longer permissible.  It has been replaced by “the other attracted.”  In other words, sexual perversion has been normalized.

Historians are at work revising history in keeping with the Woke interpretation.  Any challenge to any official narrative brings the charge of “misinformation,”  “domestic terrorist,” “white supremacist,” “transphobic,” “misogynist,” “racist,” “anti-semite,”  “Holocaust denier.” It is no longer possible for a person at any of America’s prestigious universities to defend the US Constitution, Western Civilization, or the existence of white ethnic countries.  Diversity is a value, but not so far as to include white nations, all of which are being systematically overrun and turned into towers of babel.

With white ethnicities silenced from their defense and the defense of their values by restrictions on free speech and open debate, will people of color take up the defense of truth or is it outside their tradition and does not favor their material interests?

My view is that the belief system, which provided protection against tyrannical government and robber barons, that imbued public and private institutions with integrity, that provided equality under the law as the ruling principle if not always in practice, and that pursued truth by leaving it subject to discovery, is being systematically dismantled everywhere in the Western World.

In the United States for more than a half century privilege in law has been created for blacks, women, the handicapped, sexual perverts, illegal aliens, and government officials and sons thereof such as Hunter Biden.  Laws have been passed, such as the asset forfeiture laws, that destroy the Constitution’s protection of property.  One American president, George W. Bush, took it upon himself to declare his right to violate the US Constitution and to detain American citizens indefinitely without due process just like a medieval feudal lord who could at his whim throw people into a dungeon for keeps.  Another American president, Obama, declared his right to assassinate American citizens in violation of the US Constitution on suspicion alone without due process, and he did.  

Neither president was impeached for violating his oath to the US Constitution.  Their tyrannical behavior was simply accepted by the Congress, the judiciary, the universities and their law schools, the bar associations, the media, and the public as necessary measures of the “war on terror,” which was, in fact, a war on Israel’s enemies in the Middle East.

The question I leave you with is:  If the West has abandoned its own belief system, a belief system that gave truth power over authority, that made law a shield of the people instead of a weapon in the hands of the state, and that freed the individual from his overseers, what part of the world is going to stand in for the missing West and defend these historic accomplishments from the Satanic evil that is beginning to overwhelm us?

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The Brainwashing of Germany in Preparation for War

4. März 2024 - 13:28

The Brainwashing of Germany in Preparation for War

A source in Europe sent to me this translation of Wolfgang Bittner’s article, “Germany before the impending war–a tragedy.”

The same indoctrination of people is underway in the US, UK, and I expect all of Europe.  Everywhere the indoctrination is the same, which suggests that it has a  common source.  Remembering Udo Ulfkotte’s book, Bought Journalism, the CIA is the likely source of the anti-Russian propaganda campaign.

The campaign has succeeded in Germany as Bittner reports, and certainly among the British and American presstitutes, politicians and foreign policy establishments.  In the age of nuclear weapons, the mindlessness that has been created in the West spells doom for mankind.

https://globalbridge.ch/deutschland-vor-dem-drohenden-krieg-ein-trauerspiel/ 

Germany before the impending war – a tragedy

March 1, 2024

By Wolfgang Bittner

For several months I have had to be careful not to become depressed. When I look at the newspapers, listen to the radio or turn on the television, I am overcome by a feeling of being at the mercy of dark forces that I can now name. But I can only talk about this with a few people around me; some avoid me and probably think I’m a lateral thinker or conspiracy theorist.

Recently my friend G., with whom I still correspond occasionally, wrote to me saying that he had read my book “State of Emergency” and got the impression that I had fallen into a “filter bubble”. He comes from a wealthy family, his father was a senior teacher, his mother a doctor, and at a young age he was a professor of mathematics at a southern German university and also a guest lecturer in Japan, South Korea and the USA. He cannot understand the fact that I am of the opinion that it is not Russia but the USA and its allies that are to blame for most of the conflicts in the world, especially the war in Ukraine and the economic decline in Germany and Western Europe.

G. would like to give me friendly advice to reconsider my political views and to please obtain information from the public media and “reputable” newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine, Welt or Süddeutsche and not from so-called alternative media. If I see “evil” in the USA rather than in Putin, all he can say about himself is that he would rather live “under the evil of the Americans” than that of the Russians. And if the NATO protective umbrella, under which the Europeans have set themselves up so well, were to become leaky, things would not look rosy for Western Europe compared to a country like Russia full of nuclear weapons. It is sad that so much money has to be spent on “defensive armament”, but it is good that Putin is getting older and older and that the end of his tyranny is imminent at some point in the near future for the good of humanity.

Like other acquaintances and friends, G. is firmly convinced that he knows everything and is right. All we agree on is that wars are terrible and must be avoided. But at this point the dissent begins again, because G. considers “humanitarian interventions”, such as those carried out by the USA again and again, to be legitimate and even necessary to defend freedom and democracy.

I can describe the views represented by G. as exemplary. German society is thoroughly rabble-roused, and it is divided between those who have retained an eye for the facts and the others, the far greater majority, who have succumbed to years of influence.

My hairdresser, with whom I discussed, is of the opinion that Germany needs the atomic bomb to protect itself from “the Russian” who will soon attack Poland and the Baltic countries. When I countered that Vladimir Putin had called for cooperation and a common economic zone from Vladivostok to Lisbon in a memorable speech to the German Bundestag in 2001, he replied: “This Putin is lying as soon as he opens his mouth.” The resulting dispute ended He asked me the completely serious question: “Why do you think you can judge the political situation better than me?” He told me that he reads the newspaper in the morning and watches the Tagesschau in the evening. He also speaks to customers every day who all have different opinions than me.

Every now and then I gave lectures and discussed things publicly. Most of the time, listeners and discussants came who shared my views or at least kept an open mind. After one such event, a middle-aged woman who identified herself as a judge said to me: “Everything you said was logical and well-documented, although from an unusual perspective, but you largely convinced me.” And then she added : “But Putin…”.

Indoctrination has not stopped at the doors of universities either. There are still some contacts with colleagues there from the time when I was a visiting professor in Poland, but they have become fragile. My friend Tomasz, who unfortunately also succumbed to US-controlled propaganda against Russia and for Ukraine, wrote to me: “I cannot understand the people who prefer to look the other way after the Russian attack on Ukraine. Stop this policy that is killing thousands of innocent people. “Putin with his megalomania has destroyed a long and stable peace in Europe.”

He really believes that and he continued: “For me, Putin resembles Hitler to a T.” It is not Ukraine, which wants to go its own sovereign way, that is to blame for the war, but Putin, for whom Ukraine is just an appetizer. He built gas pipelines behind the EU’s back and against Poland’s interests. This shows his true colors, leading and oppressing other countries like dogs on a leash.

At least I was able to have a somewhat civilized conversation with my German friend and with Tomasz, if only by holding back. The space for debate has become increasingly narrow, and the authorities are no longer relying on the previous psychological warfare. Rather, the pressure on those who think differently, their patronization and harassment, is increasing dramatically. Anyone who doesn’t step up and stand out must expect the destruction of their existence and worse.

I just read that the Interior Minister is planning a “democracy promotion law” according to which “hatred and agitation on the Internet” as well as disinformation, science denial and “delegitimization of the state” will be punished more severely than before.[1] She explained to the press: “An alert civil society is the strongest firewall against right-wing extremists… For me it is therefore still important to dismantle right-wing extremist networks, dry up their financial sources, take away their weapons and harshly prosecute agitators and violent criminals.”[ 2]

Questionable “democracy projects” such as the government-affiliated  Center Liberal Modernity Foundation [3] or the supposedly independent research center  Correctiv [4] are to be supported (and financed), while critical internet forums such as the much-frequented NachDenkSeiten, which are defamed as a “lateral thinker’s medium”. Non-profit status is withdrawn. Correctiv , which spied on a private round of discussions and got close to the infamous Wannsee Conference, managed to launch a completely escalating campaign “against the right”, which means pretty much everything that is politically unacceptable.

There are dubious projects and broadly interpretable terms with which the Interior Minister wants to promote democracy. They could enable state authorities to take even more rigorous action against political opponents in the future, for example by blocking accounts or terminating suspicious fellow citizens (as has already happened in some cases) – another milestone on the way to a fascist authoritarian state, because the vagueness of the wording alone opens the door to arbitrariness. But there is little opposition, neither from politicians nor from journalists, who appear to lack basic democratic awareness. 

Instead, the “democratic leaders” appeal to citizens to actively support democracy. Accordingly, hundreds of thousands are taking to the streets to demonstrate for democracy and against the AfD, with the benevolent support of politicians and the media. Hardly anyone notices that it is absurd and undemocratic when representatives of the people call on the people to demonstrate against an approved party and to defend a democracy that they represent. Here, apparently well-intentioned people are being abused for controlled actions. It becomes grotesque when posters read: “The whole of Berlin hates the AfD,” or “AfD voters = Nazis.”

The state should take action against hatred and agitation, but dissidents and opposition members can be described as lumpen pacifists or Putin servants with impunity and hatred against Russia can be carried out without restraint. Russian President Vladimir Putin can be insulted as a murderer, tyrant and monster (the criminal Joseph Biden can even call him a son of a bitch without being contradicted[5]).

What kind of non-democratic excesses are these, organized by a leadership that is obviously deserted by all good spirits and also preaches water and claims wine for itself? Apparently the contradictions of such a policy are not at all noticed by citizens demonstrating for democracy.

An embarrassing tragedy that the German Bundestag has allowed itself to commit is a resolution of February 20, 2024, entitled “Ten years of the Russian war against Ukraine – Resolutely defend Ukraine and Europe”.[6] It claims right at the beginning that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been waging a war against Ukraine that violates international law for ten years. It is “an attempt to destroy the European peace order, to move borders by force and to enforce violence as a principle of order.”

It continues: “In February 2014, Russian soldiers launched attacks on the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula with the aim of eventually annexing it. Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russian President Putin took the next, most drastic step to date in his increasingly aggressive policy against free and democratic Europe for years by attacking the entire Ukraine. Putin is waging this war to maintain his own power and his regime’s imperial great power fantasies. Russia under Putin’s rule is today the greatest threat to peace and security in Europe.”

The majority of the Bundestag is in favor of the supply of “additionally required long-range weapons systems and ammunition” for Ukraine, and it warns “clearly: Ukraine is the current target of Russian aggression – if the Russian leadership is not stopped, “It is encouraged to continue its imperial policy beyond Ukraine.” “Putin’s imperialism” has been underestimated for years, support for Ukraine is therefore “more than an act of solidarity between democracies”, it is “a necessary investment in our security and peace in Europe and Germany”.

This style continues in the pamphlet approved by 382 MPs from the SPD, FDP and Alliance90/The Greens, which, however, was rejected by 284 MPs.[7] When the majority of parliament acts so undiplomatically with claims and insinuations against Russia – an absolute strangeness in parliamentary events – there is no need to be surprised at the anti-Russian mood in the country. Evidence that these accusations are largely hypocritical and false can be found in my books.

But the media, which has no longer been independent for a long time, is joining in and is constantly spreading horror stories and fear-inducing visions of the future: acute danger of war emanating from Russia and China, nuclear threat, climate catastrophe, corona, viruses, terrorists, inflation and so on. This is how to keep a misled and latently frightened society in check. It’s no wonder when hundreds of thousands of agitated citizens take to the streets and believe they are the defenders of democracy.

We are once again living in a transitional period. This time Germany is being systematically ruined, economically, culturally, linguistically… with the help of a US-affiliated government, which the politician Sahra Wagenknecht described as the stupidest in Europe.[8] This state is getting closer and closer to us, the citizens, and it is constantly getting too close to us. And if we are unlucky, we will perish in a provoked major war with everything we have left after two world wars.

After all, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has clearly rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s highly dangerous considerations about sending Western troops to Ukraine. It also applies to the future that “there are no ground troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian soil that are being sent there by European states or NATO states.”[9] And the otherwise less reserved Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has also approved the deployment of German troops Ukraine is excluded: “Boots on the ground is not an option for the Federal Republic of Germany.”[10] A modest signal of reason at a stage in which a third world war can no longer be ruled out.

The writer and journalist Dr. jur. Wolfgang Bittner lives in Göttingen. He published “The Conquest of Europe by the USA” in 2014, “The Homeland, the War and the Golden West” and “The New West-East Conflict” in 2019 and “Germany – Betrayed and Sold” in 2021. Background and analysis”.

Editor’s note Globalbridge.ch: I, Christian Müller, editor in charge of Globalbridge.ch, feel exactly the same as Wolfgang Bittner. Some former colleagues no longer talk to me, others think they know everything because they watch TV and read the newspaper every day. On Swiss television, for example, the responsible Russia correspondent, David Nauer – formerly from Moscow, now from Vienna – has had a strong hatred of Russians for years. He also simply panned Putin’s current speech in parliament (from minute 6). Anyone who only gets information from these programs on Swiss television SRF is de facto a sensible discussion partner on foreign policy issues. (cm)

Sources and references:

1.  www.bmfsfj.de/resource/blob/207618/74e2FD6031602DA1157B0386A426/ Law Democratic Democrief- data.pdf
2.  www.br.de/deutschland-welt/faeser-haechste-feze-fezeit-fuer-
Democratic law.  ://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=110961
4. For more information:  https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=110662
5.  https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/in-wahlkampfrede-und -then-biden-putin-casually-calls-a-whoreson_id_259693206.html
6. Printed matter 20/10375. https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/103/2010375.pdf
7. See also the subsequent debate:  www.bundestag.de/documents/textarchiv/2024/kw08-de-ukraine-988604
8.  www.youtube. com/watch?v=yJm4MTBfTOc  (February 26, 2024)
9. See:  www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/ukraine-bodentruppen-scholz-100.html
10. Ibid.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci Now Admits that the Covid mRNA Vaccines Do NOT WORK

4. März 2024 - 13:27

Dr. Anthony Fauci Now Admits that the Covid mRNA Vaccines Do NOT WORK

The top flight medical scientists who warned from the beginning that the Covid “vaccine” was dangerous and ineffective against the virus were, and still are, persecuted.  But the evidence is overwhelmingly clear that they were right.  Now Fauci has joined their ranks.  The question is why.  Is Fauci out to create a replacement product for the mRNA vaccine that no one with any sense will any longer take?  Why should anyone trust the next Big Pharma product?  Or their doctor?  Or the medical establishment? Or the politicians elected with Big Pharma campaign donations?

https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/fauci-admission?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1712557&post_id=142232644&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9atnc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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The Braindead American Foreign Policy Establishment

3. März 2024 - 15:22

March brings the first quarter of 2024 and my request for your support of this website. Note on the donation page of the website there is a new address for donations by mail.

 

The Braindead American Foreign Policy Establishment

Paul Craig Roberts

A source recently sent to me an article by a well-placed Russian foreign affairs expert with a note attached: “He thinks like you do.”  Not entirely, but we share some of the same concerns.

“What Is To Be Done?,” by Sergei A. Karaganov, honorary chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Moscow ( https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/an-age-of-wars-what-is-to-be-done/ ) reflects my own views expressed on many occasions, such as that in the face of the Western world’s hostility, Russia should avoid continuing conflict by turning to the East to China and India and to the expansion of BRICS. Like myself Karaganov hopes to avoid the death of mankind in nuclear war. He writes off the pro-Western Atlanticist Integrationist Russian liberals who clinged too long to their fantasy of being an accepted part of the West.  Likely, it was this delusional collection of Russian liberals who are responsible for the failures in judgment that Karaganov brings home to the Kremlin, the very same failures that I have pointed out. The last thing Russia needs is interdependence with the West.  

Karaganov points out that Russia has Asian roots dating from the days of Mongol overlords that are as strong as Western roots and that it is China that is rising, not Europe and the US which he regards as essentially washed up politically, economically, morally, and spiritually. 

Karaganov writes: “Europe―once a beacon of modernization for us and many other nations―is rapidly moving towards geopolitical nothingness and, hopefully I am wrong, towards moral and political decay. Its still-wealthy market is worth exploiting, but our main effort in relation to the old subcontinent should be morally and politically fencing ourselves off from it. Having first lost its soul―Christianity―it is now losing the fruit of the Enlightenment―rationalism. Besides, on orders from outside [Washington], the Eurobureaucracy is itself isolating Russia from Europe. We are grateful.”

“A break with Europe is an ordeal for many Russians. But we must go through it as quickly as possible. Naturally, fencing-off should not become a principle or be total. But any talk of recreating a European security system is a dangerous chimera. Systems of cooperation and security should be built within the framework of the continent of the future―Greater Eurasia―by inviting European countries that are interested and are of interest to us.”

The West, he writes, is the modern equivalent  to Sodom and Gomorrah. “It would have been better to finish our Western, European odyssey a century earlier. There now remains little of use to be borrowed from the West, though plenty of rubbish seeps in from it. But, as we belatedly complete the journey, we will retain the great European culture that is now rejected by post-European fashion.”  As the West has rejected itself, it is an evil and Russia should fence itself off from it. He answered my recent question by saying that the culture the West created and is now alienated from will be saved by Russia.

There are other points where we have the same judgment, such as the defeatist way Putin conducted the conflict with Ukraine and his acceptance of provocations that escalated Western participation in the conflict.  The way Putin tries to make the West feel non-threatened even as the West threatens Russia feeds conflict. To continually express your willingness to negotiate with Washington which intends to destroy Russia and Putin personally is an extraordinary failure of judgment. The lack of realism smacks you in the face. 

Karaganov writes that Russia should revise its approach to foreign policy from being defensive to offensive, and should cease its attempts to please and negotiate with the West.  The Kremlin’s attempts “are not only immoral but also counterproductive” as they are unrealistic and produce more provocations.

Karaganov sees the West as I do, that it is sinking into moral debauchery and anti-humanism. He writes, “It is time to openly raise the banner of the defense of normal human values from the post-and even anti-human ones coming from the West.”

As I have explained, Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries dating back long before there was a Soviet Union. Ukraine is a brand new country torn out of Russia by Washington’s neoconservatives when the Soviet Union collapsed. Ukraine was created by Washington as a weapon to be used against Russia.  It is extraordinary that it took Russians so long to realize this.  Russians must have been completely brainwashed by Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.  Certainly the Atlanticist Integrationists were.

Karaganov escaped the brainwashing.  He writes: 

“Our only reasonable goal regarding Ukraine’s lands is quite obvious to me―the liberation, and reunification with Russia, of the entire South, East, and (probably) Dnieper Basin. Ukraine’s western regions will be the subject of future bargaining. The best solution would be creating a demilitarized buffer-state there with a formal neutral status (with Russian bases to guarantee neutrality)―a place to live for those residents of present-day Ukraine who do not want to be citizens of Russia and live by Russian laws. And to avoid provocations and uncontrolled migration, Russia should build a fence along its border with the buffer-state, like the one that Trump started on the border with Mexico.”  Or the one that Israel has built in Palestine.

Karaganov writes that in Russia’s defense policy, the Kremlin expected too much from the West, expecting cooperation and good will. The Kremlin must have been uninformed of the neoconservative doctrine of US hegemony, which declares Russia an obstacle to Washington’s hegemony that has to be removed. To deal with the West, Karaganov writes, Russia should use its vastly superior nuclear capability to intimidate the  West.

“When preemptively (although belatedly) starting a military operation against the West [Ukraine limited military intervention] we, acting on old assumptions, did not expect the enemy to unleash a full war. So we did not use active nuclear deterrence intimidation tactics from the very outset. And we are still dragging our feet. By so doing we not only doom hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine (including losses from a plunging quality of life) and tens of thousands of our men to death, but we also do a disservice to the whole world. The aggressor, which is de facto the West, remains unpunished. This clears the way for further aggression.”

I am pleased to see my contention that Putin’s non-response to aggression is dooming the world to death, not because I want the deaths but because it verifies my belief that tolerating provocations does not lead to peace but to more provocations that will result in nuclear war.  I remain convinced that Putin’s unwillingness to act is bringing nuclear Armageddon.

Karaganov points out that Putin is deviating from Russian military practice:

“It is Russian tradition to deliver a crushing defeat to European invaders and then agree on a new order” devised by the Russians.

At for the mistakenly conducted war in Ukraine, “The Special Military Operation must be continued until victory. Our enemies must know that if they do not retreat, the legendary Russian patience will run dry, and the death of each Russian soldier will be paid for with thousands of lives on the other side.”

Where Karaganov and I part company is with his belief that constraint on wars lies in most countries having nuclear deterrents. His argument is rational.  He writes that if an aggressor faces nuclear retaliation, the aggressor is unlikely to aggress. The problem with his argument is that there are psychopaths ruling countries, and psychopaths are unconcerned about populations.  He himself admits this fact.  

Karaganov and I are in agreement that a more aggressive posture by Russia would cause the West to rethink its aggression and, thereby, reduce the likelihood of nuclear war. Karaganov writes: 

“By intensifying nuclear deterrence, we will not only sober up the aggressors, but also perform an invaluable service to all humanity. There is currently no other protection from a series of wars and a major thermonuclear conflict. Nuclear deterrence needs to be activated.”

Here Karaganov spells out the likely fate of Europe and the US, impotent peoples devoid of any influence over “their” governments:

“Russia’s policy should be based on the assumption that NATO is a hostile bloc that has proven its aggressiveness with its previous policy and which is de facto waging a war against Russia. Therefore, any nuclear strikes on NATO, including preemptive ones, are morally and politically justified. This applies primarily to countries that provide the most active support to the Kiev junta. The old and especially new members of the alliance must understand that their security has cardinally weakened since joining the bloc, and that their ruling comprador elites have put them on the edge of life and death. I have repeatedly written that if Russia delivers a preemptive retribution strike on any NATO country, the U.S. will not respond unless the White House and Pentagon are populated by madmen who hate their country and are ready to destroy Washington, Houston, Chicago, or Los Angeles for the sake of Poznan, Frankfurt, Bucharest, or Helsinki.’

“From my point of view, Russian nuclear policy and the threat of retaliation should also deter the West from the massive use of biological or cyber weapons against Russia or its allies. The arms race in this field, conducted by the U.S. and some of its allies, must be stopped.”

The targets for being wiped from the face of the earth are not limited to Europe.

“It also appears necessary to alter (to some extent, publicly) the list of targets for nuclear retaliatory strikes. We need to think hard about who, exactly, we intend to deter. 

“The Americans [Washington] ‘in defense of democracy’ and for the sake of their imperial ambitions have killed millions in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Iraq, committed monstrous acts of aggression against Yugoslavia and Libya, and against all warnings deliberately cast hundreds of thousands—maybe even millions—of Ukrainians into the fire of war, there is no guarantee that the threat of retaliation, even against cities, is a sufficient deterrent for the globalist oligarchy. Simply put, they do not care even about their own citizens, and will not be frightened by casualties among them.”

As the ruling Western elites have zero concern for their people, attacks against America should be directed  against the utterly corrupt ruling elites, “the globalist oligarchy”:

“Maybe it would be worth designating this oligarchy’s gathering-places as targets for the first wave, or even for preemptive retribution strikes.”

“God struck Sodom and Gomorrah—mired in abomination and debauchery—with a rain of fire,” so why shouldn’t Russia give God a hand and strike the West with the same rain of fire.  This is Karaganov’s question. “The modern equivalent: a limited nuclear strike on Europe. Another hint from The Old Testament: to cleanse the world, God unleashed the Great Flood. Our Poseidon nuclear torpedoes can trigger similar floods by tsunamis. Today, most brazenly aggressive states are coastal. The globalist oligarchy and the deep state should not hope to escape as Noah and his pious family did.”

Karaganov writes that “Russia finally stopped dragging itself after the West” and has wakened to her Western  enemy.

“Greater reliance on nuclear deterrence is necessary to cool the European ‘leaders’ who have lost their mind, speak of an inevitable clash between Russia and NATO, and urge their armed forces to prepare for it. These babblers and their listeners need to be reminded that, in the event of war between Russia and NATO in Europe, little will be left of many European alliance-members after even the first few days of the conflict.”

The West Karaganov writes is a moral and spiritual threat as well as a military threat:

“The continuous spread of digital technologies . . . are not only promoting but imposing anti-human or post-human ideologies, values, and patterns of behavior that reject the natural foundations of human morality and almost all basic human values.”

“We can already see that European elites have lost almost completely the ability to think strategically, and there are practically none left in the traditional meritocratic sense. We are witnessing an intellectual decline of the ruling elite in the United States, a country with enormous military, including nuclear, capabilities.”

The question Karaganov leaves us with is:  Can the rising new world restrain the declining old world of debauchery, sin, and all forms of evil before the evil that reigns in the West destroys the world?  Can Putin and Xi see reality before it is too late?

It is clear that Russian strategic thinkers have been radicalized by what they experienced as treachery and betrayal by the West.  The neoconservatives pursuit of US hegemony at all cost has created an enemy whose trust in the West is exhausted.  This, as I have repeatedly said, is a far more dangerous situation than existed during the 20th Century Cold War.  The realization of this danger continues to escape Western decision-makers.

 

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Covid Killed Medical Ethics

3. März 2024 - 15:20

Covid Killed Medical Ethics

People died from euthanasia, the banning of HCQ and Ivermectin, and from the vaccine. The murder of medical ethics by medical authorities has institutionalized murder in the “health care” system, just has the world’s acceptance of genocide paved the way for the elimination of ethnicities.  Ethnic-targeted biowarfare research carried on by Washington is further evidence that respect for human life has departed.  The Western world has plenty of money to support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, the conflict in Ukraine, and the immigrant-invaders over-running their countries, but not for the health care of their citizens.  

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/more_proof_that_covid_killed_medical_ethics.html 

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EVIDENCE PRESENTED TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE THAT ISRAEL IS AN ILLEGAL ENTITY

3. März 2024 - 15:18

EVIDENCE PRESENTED TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE THAT ISRAEL IS AN ILLEGAL ENTITY, A STATE WITHOUT LEGAL BASIS

https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-illegal-state-dr-ralph-wilde-icj/5850966 

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William Engdahl Explains that Dumbshit Scientists Playing God Are Another Threat to Life

2. März 2024 - 14:06

William Engdahl Explains that Dumbshit Scientists Playing God Are Another Threat to Life https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-gates-pentagon-releasing-gmo-mosquitoes-florida-keys/5745027 

Note that even in DeSantis Florida citizens are denied a voice in decisions that directly affect them. There is no sign anywhere of American people allowed a voice. Things are done to us, not for us.

Like George Soros, Bill Gates Hates Humanity.

Why Did Gates and the Pentagon Release “Gene Edited” (GMO) Mosquitoes in Florida Keys?

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Satan’s Chosen People and their Western Enablers

2. März 2024 - 14:06

Satan’s Chosen People and their Western Enablers

And Russians think the West should be upset over Atrocities  Committed by Ukraine

Mike Whitney reports:  Israel Opens-Fire on Palestinians Gathered at Food Truck Killing 104

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/israel-opens-fire-on-palestinians-gathered-at-food-truck-killing-104/ 

What kind of men and women join Israeli and American militaries that focus on killing women and children?  Why are we supposed to be proud of such militaries?  

Chris Hedges asks the correct questions:

“Young men and women sign up for the military for many reasons, but starving, bombing and killing women and children is usually not amongst them. Shouldn’t, in a just world, the U.S. fleet break the Israeli blockade of Gaza to provide food, shelter and medicine? Shouldn’t U.S. warplanes impose a no fly zone over Gaza to halt the saturation bombing? Shouldn’t Israel be issued an ultimatum to withdraw its forces from Gaza? Shouldn’t the weapons shipments, billions in military aid and intelligence provided to Israel, be halted? Shouldn’t those who commit genocide, as well as those who support genocide, be held accountable?” https://www.unz.com/article/aaron-bushnells-divine-violence/ 

The West’s enabling of the Zionists’ genocide of Palestine has destroyed forever the West’s claim to be a moral force that stands for justice, freedom, and self-determination.  Israel has the Western world so mired in Evil that the West cannot escape and is damned forever.

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