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Wagner PMC is protecting the president of the Central African Republic, an adviser to its head of state has said The Central African Republic (CAR) has a defense contract with the Wagner private military company, which is helping to enhance the country’s security, Fidele Gouandjika, special minister and presidential adviser, has said. Members of the Russian PMC are training local forces and protecting President Faustin-Archange Touadera, the adviser said in an interview with Al-Arabiya on Saturday. NATO and the West are working to destabilize Africa, but the Central African Republic is not afraid of coups anymore because of the security…
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For approximately 20-25 years, the political West has been flirting with the idea of Ukraine joining NATO. And yet, Kiev is as far from joining the belligerent alliance as it was a few decades ago, as evidenced by Zelensky’s unconcealed, almost painful frustration at the latest NATO summit in Lithuania’s Vilnius. The very idea that Ukraine might join the aggressive alliance is hardly a new concept. The CIA had plans for such a scenario long before the Soviet Union’s dismantling during the late 1980s and early 1990s. And yet, the country never became part of NATO, not even after approximately two decades of close…
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As a former intelligence officer, I’ve been wondering why has no one done an investigation about Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine. His rise to power, in my opinion, represents an incredible manipulation of world opinion that will go down in history as a classic case study in social psychological engineering: an ordinary comedian who came to power because he promised a long-awaited peace, who then dragged his fellow citizens into a bloody war that can only be described as a massacre. With the help of colleagues and experts with first-hand insights into Zelensky, I have poured over documents and video to…
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Before the Russian invasion, CIA reports linked him to an oligarch so dirty and so mired in “significant corruption” that the State Department banned him from entering the U.S. But now CIA propaganda portrays Zelensky as nobler than Winston Churchill and saintlier than Mother Theresa. Will the Real Volodymyr Zelensky Please Stand Up In 2019, the CIA-run Radio Free Europe reported on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s connection to Ihor Kholomoisky, a Ukrainian oligarch whom the State Department banned from entering the U.S. in March 2021 due to his “significant corruption.” See video report below. This report is ironic given that, since Ukraine’s war with…
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This incisive article by Nauman Sadiq was first written on March 18, 2022, barely two weeks after the Russian invasion, provides a carefully documented portrait of President Zelensky and his links to the CIA. Contradictions: Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish. He supports the Nazi Azov Battalion, the two Nazi parties, which have committed countless atrocities against the Jewish community in Ukraine. He belongs to a Russian-Jewish family. He was brought up as a native Russian speaker, who until recently was not fluent in Ukrainian. And now his government is involved in targeting the Russian speaking population throughout Ukraine. Amidst Russia’s impending Ukraine invasion last…
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Neurotechnology and the Ban of Mind Control Weapons: If Democracy Is to Win in This World, the United Nations Must Become Democratic Outstanding analysis by Mojmir Babacek On July 6 2023, The Washington Times published the article “China crafts weapons to alter brain function; report says tech meant to influence government leaders“. The article says: “China‘s People’s Liberation Army is developing high-technology weapons designed to disrupt brain functions and influence government leaders or entire populations, according to a report by three open-source intelligence analysts. The weapons can be used to directly attack or control brains using microwave or other directed energy weapons…
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If the recent report on the investigation by the Department of State Security (DSS) into the discharge certificate feud between the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State surprised anyone, it wasn’t me. Even though I was of the view that both parties should be allowed to prove their respective case, NYSC’s story never looked straight to me, especially knowing the ineptitude, underhand practices, endemic corruption, shoddiness, and the poor and analog record keeping that have become the hallmarks of most of our public institutions. As a psychologist, my field of study teaches me that…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s questions about alleged drug use at the White House followed the discovery of a bag of cocaine near the West Wing US Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene questioned whether President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and the rest of the White House occupants could pass a drug test in a tweet on Wednesday, several days after a small amount of cocaine triggered an evacuation of the grounds. “I’d also like to know if [White House] staff and admin, as well as Hunter Biden, can all pass a drug test,” Greene tweeted. The conservative firebrand also questioned the president’s…
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Republicans say the FBI interfered in the 2020 election by misleading the American public The Federal Bureau of Investigation refused to disclose to US social media companies that the laptop allegedly belonging to President Joe Biden’s son was genuine, the US House Judiciary Committee revealed on Friday. The New York Post had published a story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020, a month before the presidential election pitting his father against the incumbent President Donald Trump. All social media platforms censored the story – some blocking the outlet itself – with the tacit approval of the FBI and citing a prior Bureau warning about…
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Pyongyang has accused Washington and Seoul of plotting an attack against it North Korea has threatened a nuclear response if the US deploys aircraft carriers, bombers, and missile submarines in South Korea, according to a statement shared on Thursday by state media channel KCNA. Pyongyang claims that despite repeated warnings, Washington and Seoul held a meeting of the “nuclear consultative group” on July 18 to allegedly discuss using nuclear weapons against North Korea. “In particular, the hostile forces posed the most undisguised and direct nuclear threat to the DPRK [North Korea] by bringing an Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine to the Busan Port…
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Months ago, British operatives reportedly studied ways to blow up the strategic bridge UK intelligence officials apparently commissioned a study in April examining ways to blow up Russia’s Crimea Bridge, The Grayzone has reported. The secret plot was drawn up at the request of senior British Army intelligence operative Chris Donnelly, the Grayzone reported on Tuesday, citing internal documents and correspondence that the investigative journalism outlet obtained from an unidentified source. The stated goal was to destroy the bridge to cut off a key Russian supply route, isolate military forces in Crimea and temporarily block maritime access to the Sea…
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Crude flows hit 10.5 million tons in June, customs data has shown China’s imports of Russian crude soared to an all-time high last month, helping the sanctioned country maintain its position as Beijing’s top oil supplier, according to customs data. Oil flows from Russia hit 10.5 million tons in June, up more than 40% compared to the same month last year, Chinese data released on Thursday showed. In monetary terms, imports amounted to $5.22 billion. In May, supplies stood at 9.7 million tons, worth $5.14 billion. Overall, during the first six months of this year, China imported more than 50…
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Nicola Sturgeon has announced a second vote to leave the UK for October 2023 Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced on Tuesday that a second Scottish independence referendum will be held on October 19, 2023. However, a ‘yes’ vote will not be enough to separate Scotland from the UK. Sturgeon told lawmakers at Holyrood, Scotland’s parliament, that her government would publish the Scottish Independence Referendum Bill later on Tuesday. The bill will provide for a referendum next October in which Scots will be asked the same question as in the failed 2014 independence referendum: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” “Now…
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RT’s journalists were able to swiftly agree the purchase of a US-made Phoenix Ghost kamikaze drone The lavish deliveries of ‘lethal aid’ from the US, UK and other NATO countries to Ukraine amid its conflict with Russia have led to marketplaces where some of those weapons can be purchased popping up on the dark web, RT Russian has learned. The Ukrainian traders claim to offer not just small arms or body armor there, but also such sophisticated hardware as Javelin and NLAW anti-tank systems or Phoenix Ghost and Switchblade explosive drones. That said, it’s not possible to completely rule out that…
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Poland, Romania and other countries are being flooded with arms intended for Kiev, the veteran journalist insists Western-supplied arms are being sold by Ukrainian commanders to smugglers in Poland, Romania and other states, veteran American journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed. The Pulitzer Prize winner, speaking to Afshin Rattansi on his program ‘Going Underground,’ said the West is aware of the black market trade, as some reports about missing arms shipments have even appeared in the US media. Hersh claimed that, according to his data, almost immediately after the conflict broke out between Kiev and Moscow last February, “Poland, Romania, other countries…
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The US has struggled to keep track of weapons it sent to Kiev early in the conflict, the paper says Some of the military equipment supplied to Ukraine by the US and its allies during the conflict with Russia has fallen into the hands of criminal groups, volunteer fighters and traffickers, a report by the Pentagon inspector general has revealed. CNN and Militray.com reported on the content of the paper, entitled “Evaluation of the DoD’s Accountability of Equipment Provided to Ukraine,” on Thursday, after obtaining the document via a Freedom of Information Act request. The report, which came out in October, examined…
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EU officials have been debating ways of confiscating the funds and sending them to Ukraine Germany has raised objections to Brussels’s plan to use frozen Russian Central Bank assets for Ukraine’s reconstruction, warning of the legal and financial risks arising from such a move, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The European Commission has been working on a plan to raise billions of euros by requiring financial institutions holding immobilized Russian assets to hand over some of the profits they generate. However, many lawmakers from across the bloc have pointed out that the EU legal system only allows the assets…
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No country has yet found a legal method to redirect sanctioned funds, a British official has revealed Coming up with a way to “repurpose” frozen Russian assets for rebuilding Ukraine will require “creativity and innovation,” Britain’s Parliament heard during a debate on Tuesday. “It is our ambition to find a legally workable route to repurpose Russian assets. As yet, no country has found one. We are working with partners to do so,” said the Conservative MP Leo Docherty, parliamentary under-secretary for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs. The government needs to be sure of the “safety, robustness and legality of any proposal in this regard,” Docherty added. “If there…
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Alexander Schallenberg has argued that the bloc must find a ‘watertight’ legal case if it wants to appropriate Moscow’s funds The EU must ensure it has a clear legal basis if it decides to confiscate frozen Russian assets and hand them over to Ukraine, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has warned. The diplomat argued that failure to do so would significantly tarnish the bloc’s reputation. In an interview with Austrian broadcaster ORF published on Sunday, Schallenberg stressed that any such confiscation of Russian assets “must be watertight” from a legal viewpoint. He claimed that Austria and other EU members “are countries with the…
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The European Central Bank and the bloc’s leaders have reportedly sparred over plans to tax sanctioned assets EU leaders and the European Central Bank have argued over a plan to use profits generated by Russian assets that are frozen under EU sanctions, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources. The EU has frozen assets and reserves belonging to the Russian state worth some worth some €207 billion ($217 billion) since the beginning of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine. The assets are expected to generate around €3 billion in interest. A large chunk of the funds is held at the Belgian…
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Nearly $2 billion in interest was generated between January and June, Euroclear has said Major EU clearing house, Belgium-based Euroclear, has revealed that it accrued nearly $2 billion in profit from frozen Russian assets in the first half of 2023. In financial results for the first six months of this year, Euroclear reported “a substantial growth in operating income” driven partly by “higher interest earnings, including a material rise linked to the application of international sanctions on Russia.” According to data published by Euroclear on Thursday, Russian assets generated more than €1.7 billion ($1.9 billion) in interest between January and June. It’s estimated…
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Legal issues and German concerns make the move “difficult,” a Dutch government representative has said The EU is not ready to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine due to legal issues and concerns from Germany, a Dutch government representative has said. Geoffrey van Leeuwen, a prime ministerial adviser on foreign affairs and defense, told a national security forum in the US on Thursday that the issue of using frozen Russian assets in Ukraine was “a difficult one,” partly due to German objections. The EU is not “in principle” against transferring the assets to Ukraine, but any such move must be legally watertight, he stated.…
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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China Espionage, election meddling, disinformation, assassinations, subversion, and sabotage – all attract headlines today about Putin’s dictatorship. But they are far from new. The West has a long-term Russia problem, not a Putin problem. Spies mines hitherto secret archives and exclusive interviews with former agents to tell the history of the war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage dark arts were the Kremlin’s means to equalise the imbalance of arms between the East…
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Dolphins trained to detect enemy divers are being deployed at Sevastopol on Crimean peninsula Russia is stepping up security at its Sevastopol Black Sea fleet base by deploying trained dolphins meant to detect and “counter” enemy divers, British intelligence has said. A report made by the UK defence intelligence agency says that the Russian navy is investing in major enhancements to the Black Sea fleet’s main base in Sevastopol, a port on the occupied peninsula of Crimea. Ukraine has begun a highly anticipated counteroffensive that has targeted infrastructure near Crimea, and has said its goal is to return all occupied…
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During the Cold War 60 years ago, US President John F. Kennedy sparked hope with a legendary speech given in West Berlin after the Berlin Wall came up. The June 1963 visit to West Germany by then-US president John F. Kennedy was eagerly awaited. Diplomatic relations between the two countries had been somewhat strained since his inauguration in 1961, especially due to his administration’s decision to show restraint towards the Soviet Union. West Germany, especially the city of West Berlin, felt that political decision very directly. Nevertheless, the crowds were huge when Kennedy arrived in West Berlin on the fourth day…
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In remembrance of Prof. Graeme MacQueen, we publish this article which is Chapter 17 of his book “The Pentagon’s B-Movie: looking closely at the September 2011 Attacks“. Many of us are convinced that the twin towers of the World Trade Center were brought down on September 11, 2001 through controlled demolition. But the question at once arises: if this is what happened, would somebody not have noticed? The answer is that many people did notice. There is a good deal of eyewitness evidence for the demolition of buildings 1 and 2. This paper will give a brief overview of this evidence.…
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“Of all the endangered species, Truth is the most endangered. I am watching it go out.” Paul Craig Roberts, September 4, 2019 What makes Paul Craig Roberts’ writing so powerful, is his ability to cut through false narratives and identify the elite agendas that are shaping events. This is the work of a truth-teller which is the designation that is typically applied to Roberts. The term refers to a person of deep moral convictions who devotes his life to exposing the lies and fabrications of the state and its corrupt allies. This is what Roberts has been doing for more…
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The US has only a week’s worth of anti-ship missiles, one think tank has estimated Ammunition shortages laid bare by the Ukraine conflict have prompted some US think-tanks to check on stockpiles in the West and find them wanting, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The military industry of NATO allies is not able to help, either. A Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) wargame of a conflict with China over Taiwan showed that the US had only about 450 long-range anti-ship missiles, enough for about a week. Another think tank, the Center for New American Security (CNAS), said the existing…
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This is disturbing and alarming — Biden issued an order activating up to 3000 Ready Reserve and Select Reserve military personnel and sending them to Europe for potential combat with Russia. This is not a hoax. It is on the White House website: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around…
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Western weapons won’t be enough to give Kiev a decisive advantage, John Kirchhofer has warned Fighting in Ukraine has reached “a bit of a stalemate,” US Defense Intelligence Agency Chief of Staff John Kirchhofer told a conference in Washington on Thursday. His assessment of Ukraine’s chances is considerably gloomier than that of other Biden administration officials. “Certainly we are at a bit of a stalemate,” Kirchhofer said, according to Bloomberg. “One of the things that the Russian leadership believes is that they can outlast the support of the West.” Ukrainian forces have been bogged down in a counteroffensive against Russian defenses from Kherson to…
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Media outlets are targeted in the West because they counter propaganda, the Russian president believes Russian media outlets including RT have been banned by Western governments because they fear the truth, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. The president made the remarks on Wednesday during a meeting of the ‘Russia – the country of possibilities’ civic platform. “Probably, [truth] is the sharpest weapon against lies, and propaganda soaked with these lies,” Putin stated. “That’s exactly why our effectively only media outlet aimed at a Western audience – RT – gets shut down and obstructed everywhere. They are afraid of the truth,” he…
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The Russian leader’s contribution will be “comprehensive” despite joining the event remotely, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in the summit of BRICS leaders in South Africa via video link, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The host nation announced earlier on Wednesday that the Russian leader will not attend the high-profile event in person. Putin’s contribution to the gathering next month will be “comprehensive” despite its remote nature, Peskov told the Russian media on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to Johannesburg in person to serve as Moscow’s representative, he added, confirming a previous statement…
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reiterated calls for a peace deal to be brokered between Moscow and Kiev Countries around the world are beginning to grow weary of the ongoing military conflict between Moscow and Kiev, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told reporters on Wednesday. “The world is starting to get tired. Countries are starting to get tired,” he said following a two-day meeting of EU and Latin American leaders in Brussels, as quoted by Bloomberg. The Brazilian president predicted that there will eventually come a moment when there will be peace in Ukraine, and insisted that a…
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Those implicated by the publication downplayed it as ‘legitimate lobbying’ and dismissed it as Russian ‘disinformation’ at the same time An elaborate high-profile conspiracy allegedly run by shadowy figures within the British elite was exposed in a massive leak released by a group of hackers late in May. The cache of documents and emails alleging a deep-state plot by hardcore Leavers to deliver the ‘hardest’ Brexit possible is now available on the website ‘Very English Coop d’Etat’. Plotting for a hard Brexit The conspiracy involved the most hardcore Leavers: Former head of MI6 Richard Dearlove, former NATO and Defence Ministry adviser Gwythian…
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One of the leading voices in the UK’s move to quit the EU has claimed that the process was “mismanaged” Nigel Farage, a key figure in Britain’s vote to leave the EU in 2016, has argued that Brexit “has failed.” The former politician accused “useless” UK lawmakers of letting the nation down. Speaking to the BBC’s Newsnight show on Monday, Farage – who founded the Brexit Party in 2018 on a platform of Euroskepticism and advocacy for a ‘no deal’ severance from the EU – said that the general thrust of Brexit had been stifled by politicians in Westminster and Brussels. He claimed that…
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Just under two-thirds of UK citizens regard the decision to leave the EU as a mistake, a survey indicates A majority of UK citizens would vote to rejoin the European Union (EU) if a second Brexit referendum was to be held, according to the findings of a new poll. A YouGov survey of more than 2,100 adults in the United Kingdom released on Tuesday showed that 51% of respondents are in favor of re-establishing ties with the EU, with just 32% saying that they support the 2016 vote to leave. The percentage of people seeking a reunion with Brussels has…
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The Meta chief admitted that the social media platform removed millions of posts during the Covid-19 pandemic Facebook was asked by the scientific “establishment” to remove various posts related to Covid-19 which later proved to be “debatable or true,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a podcast interview this week. Speaking to the Russian-American interviewer Lex Fridman in a podcast released on Thursday, Zuckerberg said that policing Facebook’s attempts to remove mistruths is “really tricky.” “Just take some of the stuff around Covid earlier on in the pandemic,” Zuckerberg explained, “Where there were real health implications but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of…
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The assessment comes after Republicans accused the government of withholding key information on the pandemic US intelligence officials have released a report evaluating whether the coronavirus outbreak emerged from a Chinese virology lab in late 2019, challenging a theory still embraced by other federal agencies. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published the review on Friday, after investigating “potential links” between the Covid-19 pandemic and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) located in central China. The report noted that both a lab-related incident and natural exposure to the virus remain “plausible hypotheses” to explain the health crisis, adding that the US Department of…
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The bloc should be more powerful, Martin Dvorak has argued The EU in its current form is not nearly as strong as its population and economic power would suggest, Czech Minister for European Affairs Martin Dvorak said in an interview with EURACTIV.cz on Tuesday. Admitting that this position is “not at all popular,” the minister proposed that the European Union should be turned into “a European Federation or a United States of Europe,” which he claimed would put it in a position where it could be “a truly equal partner in the game between China, America, or Russia and India.”…
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Moscow has no intention of surrendering to outside pressure, the Russian president has said The West had hoped to force Russia into submission by restricting its access to technology, but this is not going to happen, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “Our opponents expected that we would retreat or surrender, but this will not happen, as we often say in such cases,” he said at the Future Technology Forum event in Moscow. “Russia will only advance, on a path of its own, while not isolating from anyone,” Putin added. “To external pressure, we will respond only by improving the quality and efficiency…
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Unlike the West, Russians know what they’re fighting for, the foreign minister has said Russia’s objectives in Ukraine are non-negotiable and existential, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov explained on Wednesday at an annual meeting with domestic non-governmental organizations and nonprofits. “We can’t and won’t ever give up the goals that were announced as part of the special military operation,” Lavrov said, adding that Moscow had warned for years against setting up Ukraine as a direct military threat on Russia’s doorstep. “There were plans to create military bases on the Sea of Azov and in Crimea. The regime that had proven its neo-Nazi essence more…
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Moscow earlier warned that all ships in the Black Sea headed for Ukrainian ports would be treated as military The US has no plans to assist ships in entering Ukrainian ports, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed on Wednesday, responding to a reporter’s question about the Russian Ministry of Defense’s warning that all ships headed for Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea would be considered military targets. Washington will “continue to support Ukraine’s effort to get Ukrainian grain to the markets,” Jean-Pierre said, mentioning a $250 million aid package along with seeds, fertilizer, and help with crop storage and…
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All ships heading for Ukrainian ports will be treated as potentially carrying weaponry, the Russian Defense Ministry has said The Russian military issued a new navigational warning for the Black Sea on Wednesday, declaring certain areas in its international waters to be “temporarily unsafe” for vessels. Apart from that, the military advised seafarers against attempting to reach Ukraine’s ports, stating that all vessels heading there will be treated as potential carriers of war goods starting from Thursday. Therefore, the flag state of a ship attempting to reach the Ukrainian Black Sea ports will be deemed as “taking part in the Ukrainian conflict on…
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Both in domestic matters and in foreign affairs, there have been few U.S. Presidencies that have failed as thoroughly as Biden’s is failing. His foreign policies have focused upon defeating simultaneously Russia and China, two countries on the opposite side of the planet from us and which for decades have sought good relations with us, but Biden has been trying to turn Ukraine into a U.S. colony armed against Russia on Russia’s border, and he has been trying to turn Taiwan into a U.S. colony armed against China on China’s border, and he will obviously fail at both objectives, or…
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A Chronology of Events and Case for Diplomacy The American people urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine and its current prospects. Unfortunately, the mainstream media ––The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN –– have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating US President Joe Biden’s lies and hiding history from the public. Biden is again denigrating Russian President Vladimir Putin, this time accusing Putin of a “craven lust for land and power,” after declaring last year that “For God’s sake, that man [Putin] cannot stay in power.” Yet Biden is the one who is trapping…
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It is a lucky break that the Screen Actors Guild has gone on strike as it will give Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky an opportunity to dust off his thespian credentials and look for a new job when the Russians eventually bring down his government. Hollywood and Las Vegas would undoubtedly compete for such a nice Jewish young man to revive his former comedy routine where he played a piano with his penis. To be sure, without disrobing, Zelensky was inevitably the star performer at the recently completed two day NATO Summit in Vilnius Lithuania on July 11th-12th which also featured as a speaker…
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America’s Brobdingnagian $1.3 trillion national security budget thrives on manufactured threats and falsely demonized foes. And nothing could be more demonstrative of that proposition than the utter villainy now emanating from the NATO summit in Vilnius. For crying out loud. Since the Munich Security Conference in 2007, the man (Putin) has said over and over, and then over again, that Ukraine’s accession to NATO is an absolute red line. And anyone with their head screwed on right would have no trouble accepting that declaration by answering one simple question. To wit, how would Washington react if Russia put missiles and…
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As a rule, US war reporting since Vietnam has been mostly mainstream media cheerleading the mission rather than digging beyond government war propaganda. After all, it was images of American boys coming home in body bags shown on the six o’clock news across America that finally galvanized mainstream opposition to that war. The Pentagon learned its lesson by the first Gulf War, and it severely restricted up-close media coverage. Only “trusted” journalists were able to report from the front lines. Most of the press corps wrote up stories based on US military press releases from luxury hotels in Baghdad. By…
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Things are getting awkward and coming to a head as BRICS countries are now just weeks away from the Aug. 22-24 major summit in Johannesburg, South Africa – and Russian President Vladimir Putin is still committed to attending in person. South Africa had even mulled requesting that Moscow opt for Zoom instead, which would have without doubt been taken as an insult by the Russian side. “President Putin will be asked by South Africa to attend a key summit via Zoom and not in person after Pretoria sought legal advice about its obligations to arrest the Russian leader, who has been…
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Our hearts go out to those who were forced to engage in unnatural and unfair activities in a desperate attempt to preserve their sanity and to save their families. But we have to admit now that although what we did made sense to us at the time, it was wrong and it must end. Playing along with the COVID-19 narrative was immoral and it was illegal. The repetition of the bland phrase “during the pandemic” has to end too. We need to make sure that the words we speak correspond with the reality that we see around us. Otherwise, we…
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“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed”. Nigeria is not only the most populous black nation in the world, it is also the country with the highest number of cowards in the universe. If the country has 200,000,000 citizens, over 199,000,000 million of them are effeminate, grovelliing, church and mosque-going cowards, who cannot stand up for themselves or even pursue an argument in pursuit of their own self interest. They only complain, wring and throw their hands in the air and wait for the Almighty God to come down and save them, like Vladimir…
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The restructuring discourse and debate has now been on-going in Nigeria for about a decade. Here in this piece, I simply want to argue that it’s in the best interest of Nigeria, and of Igbos, broadly defined to include “peripheral Igbos” or “fringe Igbos”, to carve out of Nigeria an independent, sovereign nation for all Igbos and only Igbos, and to do this peacefully. The reason such a nation should be created is to solve the Igbo Problem and Paradox. What then is the Igbo Problem and Paradox? It’s the fact that Igbos have been extremely unjustly treated, or, if…
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Our political culture does produce true leaders. The culture produces merchantilist, overtly ambitious, opportunistic and visionless politicians, and that is why they compromise leadership principles to please and align with the culture that produces them, they don’t have their own focus. We don’t need more politicians in leadership, we’ve gotten enough of them, what we need is leaders that are active in politics. Don’t ever believe that a Politician is a leader, because the system that we have, has always produced politicians it doesn’t produce leaders. People who don’t understand leadership are the ones leading us today, and aspiring to…
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There is so much the Igbo can celebrate about themselves. Take their brilliant performance in education which is phenomenal. Whether in the West African School Certificate examination or the Joint Admissions Matriculation examination or the entrance examination into Federal Government Colleges or into the Federal Government-owned School for the Gifted and Talented in Abuja, the story is the same. Even in global educational competitions, the Igbo are outstanding. This is by no means fortuitous. By 1945 when the Second World War ended, there were a handful of Igbo graduates because the Igbo live in the interior; the Europeans who brought education…
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Out of sheer insensitivity coupled with impunity, the members of the National Assembly, regardless of political affliation, conspired to breach the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 by padding the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2023 to provide the so called palliative of N70 billion for 306 newly elected members. While the masses of Nigeria are groaning under the excruciating economic pains unleashed on them by the ruling class, the National Assembly has thereby awarded N228.7 million to each of the newly elected legislators. As if that is not enough, the members of the National Assembly…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a Muslim. His wife is not just a Christian, but a pastor of one of the biggest Pentecostal churches in Nigeria. I encourage Pastor Mrs. Remi Tinubu to impress on the president the implications of King Saul’s consultation of the witch of Endor as contained in 1 Samuel 28:7. Whoever sold the idea of the N8,000 palliative to the president is a “familiar spirit”. Saul lost the kingship after taking counsel from a familiar spirit at Endor. If Tinubu goes ahead to implement this scam called palliative, he will lose more than his ‘goodwill’, he…
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“Palliatives have a long history and like fuel subsidy nothing about its history smells roses. Like fuel subsidy the administration of palliatives regime was corrupt and became an instant source of wealth for the army of consultants and business comprador’s. Its beneficiaries were not the supposed poor and the vulnerable. Rather they were the same rich people who are not tired of making money.” President Bola Tinubu has asked for and received the approval of the national assembly for N500 billion to be used as palliatives. It is a thousand pities that the president has allowed himself to be persuaded…
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18th July, 2023HIS EXCELLENCY,Bola Ahmed Tinubu,President and Commander in-Chiefof the Federal Republic of Nigeria,Presidential Villa,Asokoro,Federal Capital TerritoryAbuja. My Dearest Mr. President, WE ARE ALL NOW POORER MR. PRESIDENT MUST STEP UP OR LOSE GOODWILL.#OCCUPYNIGERIA IS POSSIBLE I convey the earnest greetings of the good people of Nigeria and particularly Ondo State to you, sir. It is important to state that since your election and eventually swearing-in, as the 16th President, C-n-C of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria, my hope had remained high. Indeed, the emblem of a Hope once promised us in 1993, where one of your mentors…
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the bloodshed could have been averted if US-led bloc hadn’t increased instability South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, a potential mediator in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, has faulted NATO for triggering war in the former Soviet republic by expanding eastward onto Moscow’s doorstep. “The war could have been avoided if NATO had heeded the warnings from amongst its own leaders and officials over the years that its eastward expansion would lead to greater, not less, instability in the region,” Ramaphosa told South African lawmakers on Thursday. Rather than reaping an expected peace dividend after the Cold War ended in…
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A new generation of leaders is offering hope for more recognition on the world stage, an activist has told RT African leaders gathered in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi on Sunday, for the fifth mid-year African Union (AU) coordination summit, where the 55 members’ delegations discussed harmonizing national and regional policies in order to advance socioeconomic development across the continent. Kenyan President William Ruto used the summit to push for a new financing system for the AU that would benefit the union’s combined 1.39 billion population, as the organization works to integrate the continent into the global economy. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu…
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has sought an exemption from executing the ICC warrant for his Russian counterpart South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that executing an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin when the Russian leader attends the BRICS summit next month in Johannesburg would amount to a “declaration of war” against Moscow. “Russia has made it clear that arresting its sitting president would be a declaration of war,” Ramaphosa said in a court filing released on Tuesday. “It would be inconsistent with our constitution to risk engaging in war with Russia.” He added that such a move would also…
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The White House has “publicly disavowed” the new attack on the Crimean Bridge, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has become “toxic” to the collective West, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed, pointing to veiled criticism in Washington of the Ukrainian drone attack on the Crimean Bridge which killed two civilians. “The White House has publicly disavowed attacks carried out by the Kiev regime, drawing a dividing line between arms sales and terrorist attacks. This is, of course, just another manipulation. But something else is important – Zelensky has become toxic to the West,” Zakharova wrote in a Telegram…
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We have been warned decades ago by US President John F. Kennedy who gave a speech on the dangers the globalists pose to us all before the American Newspaper Publishers Association on April 27, 1961: It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions–by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on…
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There are too many coincidences and contradictions. This article was first published in September 2017 Author’s Note The UN’s climate change summit (COP27) has opened in Egypt. (November 6, 2022). More than 120 world leaders attended last year’s COP27 summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, amidst a stylized propaganda campaign: “Our Planet is “Sending a Distress Signal”. Environmental modification techniques which are the object of this article have been carefully excluded from the debate on climate change. While Environmental modification (ENMOD) techniques have been available to the US military for more than half a century, there is…
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What attitudes toward public infrastructure tell us about the state of the social contract in Nigeria. Two recent incidents in different parts of the country throw an instructive light on a critical aspect of Nigeria’s much-lamented governance crisis. In Lagos, unidentified criminals brazenly disassembled and made away with ground lights at the domestic runway of the Murtala Muhammad Airport. Only reinstalled in November 2022 to much fanfare and official chest-beating, the lighting system suffered the fate of equipment and safety components regularly pilfered from airports across the country. In a second incident, unknown vandals reportedly dislodged and carted away road fittings on the Onitsha…
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The conflict in oil-rich Libya has become a proxy war, fueled by rival foreign powers such as Russia and Turkey. For months, UN-backed government forces have battled rebel commander Khalifa Haftar for control of Libya, with foreign powers increasingly wading into the fray. Here are the major players involved in the conflict: Government of National Accord The United Nations helped establish and formally endorsed Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) in 2015 to unify rival administrations that came out of the country’s 2014 elections. Based in the capital city of Tripoli, the GNA is led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and controls…
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Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11–12 to discuss Sweden’s accession, Ukraine membership, new regional defense plans, and other global challenges. Despite significant successes, fundamental divisions within NATO and with wartorn Ukraine were evident. Council of Councils (CoC) experts react to the NATO and Group of Seven (G7) commitments made at the summit for this CoC global perspective series, and what they portend for the future of the alliance. Alessandro Marrone Head of the Defence Programme, Institute of International Affairs (Italy) Realism Was the Right Approach in Vilnius Realism is the hallmark of…
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Adichie revealed this in a press statement posted on her official Facebook page, stating that she has been falsely attributed. Investigations reveal that the following article was written by Gloria Ogo and attributed to Chimamanda Adichie. Read the contentious article below👇 Yesterday I announced that I would unveal my thoughts regarding the IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu. Several people reached out, advising me to be neutral and steer clear of political discourse. They meant well for a young female writer with a reputation to protect, an image to project, and the care not to cause offense. I almost yielded but changed…
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In Biafra, under three years, they were making their own rockets and calculating its distances; distilling their own oil and making aviation fuel, creating in their Chemical and Biological laboratories, new cures for diseases like Cholera, shaping their own spare parts, and turning the entire East into a vast workshop, as Ojukwu put it. At the end of the war, the Ukpabi Asika regime brought together these Biafran scientists and set up PRODA. The initiative led, in the first five years between 1970-1975 under the late Prof. Gordian Ezekwe and Mang Ndukwe, to designs of industrial machinery models and prototypes…
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The African continent has had many admirable and remarkable leaders in times past who fought with their lives, blood, and sweat for the independence and growth of the continent. This reality makes it sad to see that Leaders of today seem to be of a different breed and have completely deviated from the path of visionary leaders of the past such as Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, and Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. These leaders were fierce in their advocacy for the freedom of Africa from the clutches of colonial masters. They saw the need for self-determination and fought without end until…
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It won’t be an easy task to deny that there’s a wind of change blowing across the African continent at the moment. Africa, which has been for decades a cauldron of traditional politics, is presently at a crossroads and needs to make a crucial decision about the type of leaders it wants to shape its future. Thankfully, for the very first time, the conventional wisdom that has long relied on career politicians is increasingly being questioned. The new narrative emerging from the continent’s intellectuals, youth, and forward-thinking citizens is a call for a new breed of leadership – technocrats. It was…
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As the sun sets on another day in Nigeria, it casts long shadows over the masses, shrouding them in the chilling gloom of hardship. The man on the street, the woman at the market, the artisan in the workshop, and the child in the classroom, all bear the brunt of a political system that seems far removed from their plight. While they continue to hope for the best, the worst keeps locating them, and their soreness keeps festering. Coming off an eight-year tenure marshalled by the grossly ineffective Muhammadu Buhari as President left Nigerians wondering if there could be some higher…
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In an era defined by global economic turmoil and the constant struggle against societal inequality, governments worldwide have a profound responsibility to shield their citizens from the biting impacts of these hardships. Unfortunately, in the case of Nigeria under President Bola Tinubu’s administration, this commitment to public welfare appears to be subverted by misguided attempts at populist governance. President Tinubu recently proposed to dispense N8,000 to 12 million households for six months, a move that his administration parades as an effort to alleviate the burden of the populace. This initiative is not only bewilderingly shortsighted but also representative of a deeply flawed…
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The economy of the former Eastern Region was planned from ground up by the US consulting firm Arthur D. Little Dr. Azikiwe brought them and they worked with M I Okpara at first, then with Sam Otti and later Eluwa who headed the Civil Service and later with Sir Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu who at the time was the Chairman of the Eastern Nicerian Development Corporation (ENDC) and also the Chairman of the Eastern Nigeria Commodities Board (ENCB) Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu also sat as Chairman of 15 multinational companies at the time – John Holt, PZ, Michelin, Costain, Thomas…
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This writer recently sent out, worldwide, as a quasi-Public Service Announcement, a document titled “Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part One” This document, at this particularly dangerous moment in time, serves as an especially prescient warning of caution to NATO as it currently deliberates Ukraine’s membership within the alliance. Scott Ritter calls the world’s attention to the underlying truths of those powers like Zelensky and others involved in the commission of the war in Ukraine, who the corporate mainstream media would prefer the general public to implicitly trust, yet know as little about as possible. Yet the overwhelming silence received about…
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NATO is expanding, and the U.S. has recently created also new military alliances to conquer ultimately China, such as AUKUS, which is a nascent version of NATO for the Pacific Ocean and the rest of Asia against China, just like the established NATO is for the Atlantic Ocean and Europe against Russia. In addition, the U.S. and its European vassal nations have recently stepped-up their efforts to recruit new versions of Ukraine but not on Russia’s western border (such as Ukraine is): these are instead on Russia’s southern border. America’s recruiting efforts here are to gain military access against Russia…
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The Russian Foreign Ministry highlighted Washington and London’s role in backing Kiev after two civilians were killed in an attack on the Crimean Bridge The US and the UK are ultimately responsible for the latest attack on the Crimean Bridge, the Russian Foreign Ministry has claimed. Moscow has accused Ukraine of being behind the incident on Monday morning, which left at least two civilians dead and saw the key transport link between the peninsula and mainland Russia closed for car traffic. “This regime [the Ukrainian government] is terrorist and has all the hallmarks of an international organized crime group,” the ministry…
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A raid by two sea drones damaged a section of roadway and killed two civilians, according to Moscow Russia has accused Ukraine of staging another attack on the Crimean Bridge, which claimed the lives of two civilians and injured a child. The incident also resulted in considerable damage to one section of the roadway. What happened? In the early hours of Monday morning, Crimean Governor Sergey Aksyonov said traffic on the key link between the peninsula and mainland Russia had been stopped. At the time, he did not clarify the reason for the move, citing an unspecified “emergency.” Later, Belgorod Governor…
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For almost ten years officials have refused to find the culprits, despite plenty of eyewitness accounts and evidence The active phase of hostilities in Ukraine has been going on for more than 500 days. During this time, tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people have died. Meanwhile Western governments have spent billions to support the war, and an active discussion has begun in Russia about the possibility of using nuclear weapons. Ivan Katchanovski, a Canadian researcher of Ukrainian origin, believes that the first domino in the sequence toppled almost ten years ago, when the mass protests that would become known…
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Kiev’s Western-supplied tanks and armored vehicles “all burned,” one soldier told the newspaper The Ukrainian military lost 20% of the equipment it sent to the battlefield during the first two weeks of its counteroffensive, the New York Times reported on Saturday. This high attrition rate was reportedly a key factor in Kiev’s decision to pause the operation. Beginning in early June, Ukrainian forces launched a series of attacks all along the front line from Kherson to Donetsk. Advancing through minefields and without air support, the Ukrainian military lost 26,000 men and more than 3,000 pieces of military hardware, according to…
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Fighters from the PMC are sharing their experience from the Ukraine conflict with local territorial defense units, according to Minsk Less than a month after launching a short-lived mutiny in Russia, members of the Wagner private military company are training Belarusian troops and sharing the battlefield experience they gained from the Ukraine conflict, according to the Defense Ministry in Minsk. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said that together with the Wagner leadership it had developed a “road map” for military training and sharing experience. It also noted that Wagner troops were instructing Belarusian territorial defense forces in exercises near the…
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This article first published by Global Research on March 6, 2014 at the very outset of the Ukraine crisis explains the nature of the Kiev proxy regime. It is of relevance to an understanding of recent events. What is happening in Ukraine has serious geopolitical implications and could potentially lead to a World War III scenario. It is important that a peace process be initiated with a view to preventing escalation. This was my assessment in the immediate wake of the EuroMaidan Coup in February 2014: “The World is at a dangerous crossroads: The structures and composition of this proxy government…
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This article first published on February 26, 2014 in the immediate wake of the EuroMaidan focusses on the complicity of US-NATO-EU in turning “a blind eye” to the ongoing actions of Neo-Nazi factions directed against Ukraine’s Jewish community. And now, in the wake of the Vilnius NATO Summit, the 31 member states of NATO (many of which were the victims of Nazism) have committed themselves to supporting the Kiev Neo-Nazi regime. The US and the EU are supporting the formation of a coalition government integrated by Neo-Nazis which are directly involved in the repression of the Ukrainian Jewish community. There are about…
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First published on February 7, 2023 Introduction My long-standing commitment is to “the value of human life”, “the criminalization of war” , “peaceful co-existence” between nation states and “the future of humanity” which is currently threatened by nuclear war. I have been researching nuclear war for than more 10 years focussing on its historical, strategic and geopolitical dimensions as well as its criminal features as a means to implementing what is best described as “genocide on a massive scale”. What is presented below is the history of nuclear war: a succession of U.S. nuclear war plans going back to the Manhattan Project (1939-1945) leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki…
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First published on July 7, 2022 “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself.” Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) (preface to the English Edition, p.36) The IMF and World Bank have for decades pushed a policy agenda based on cuts to public services, increases in taxes paid by the poorest and moves to undermine labour rights and protections. IMF ‘structural adjustment’ policies have resulted…
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This article was originally published in 2018. There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that the world is facing and that something desperately needs to be done about it. They truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that we will literally destroy the planet if we are left to our own devices… …The following are 30 population control quotes which show that the elite truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that a great culling is necessary: 1. UK Television Presenter Sir David Attenborough: “We…
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Is Worldwide Depopulation Part of the Billionaire’s “Great Reset” First posted on September 29, 2021 For more than ten years, meetings have been held by billionaires described as philanthropists to Reduce the Size of the World’s Population culminating with the 2020-2022 Covid crisis. Recent developments suggest that “Depopulation” is an integral part of the so-called Covid mandates including the lockdown policies and the mRNA “vaccine”. Flash back to 2009. According to the Wall Street Journal: “Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population”. In May 2009, the Billionaire philanthropists met behind closed doors at the home of the president of The Rockefeller University in Manhattan. This Secret Gathering was sponsored by…
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Whether you voted for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or Mr Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) in the recent presidential election. Or have spent your political life fighting Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. If you are Yoruba by ethnic affiliation, you are likely to be made to bear vicarious responsibility for any failings of government for as long as Tinubu remains president of Nigeria. But you will of course not share in the success. Given how many Nigerians are wired, every wrong choice Tinubu makes will be attributed to “your brother”, no…
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One indicator: 78% of Ukraine’s people have close relatives or friends who were injured or killed due to the Russian invasion Prologue NATO’s Summit in Vilnius broke the promise made to Ukraine 15 years ago that it would join NATO. The media won’t tell you that it never will – and that non-NATO Ukraine shall now win over Russia and pay an incredibly cruel price (or make peace with Russia). In other words, US/NATO has recognised what scores of knowledgeable people have said the last 30+ years: Including Ukraine in NATO means WW III. Had NATO been dissolved when the Soviet…
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The World Health Organization has finally gotten around to declaring the popular artificial sweetener aspartame a potential carcinogen The ruling comes from sources with WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), who said aspartame will be listed as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in July 2023 I’ve been warning about aspartame’s cancer-causing potential since 2010, so you can see just how long this danger has been known For over a decade, researchers have been warning of aspartame’s neurotoxicity and carcinogenicity, stating reevaluation of aspartame consumption is “urgent and cannot be delayed” A 2022 large-scale cohort study found people who consumed…
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The US leader should acknowledge his “failure” in Ukraine and focus on domestic issues, the presidential candidate has said. By ordering the deployment of 3,000 more reservists to Europe, US President Joe Biden is preparing to fight Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said. “Biden has lost his way,” Kennedy tweeted on Friday, arguing that the president should focus on America’s domestic problems instead of trying to achieve “global military dominance.” “I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It’s about preparing for a ground war with Russia,”…
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The Globalists Are Making Really Big Moves Which Would Fundamentally Change How Our Society Operates
While everybody else is distracted, the globalists are making absolutely enormous moves. Previously, I have written about the UN’s new worldwide system for cracking down on “misinformation” and about their desire to implement a global system of digital identification that is tied to our bank accounts. I realize that these things sound really wild, but they aren’t being done in secret. In fact, the globalists are very proud of what they are doing. But only a small percentage of the population is even aware of this insidious agenda that they are pushing through, and so there is very little debate about it. Ultimately, the…
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First published on October 31, 2022 Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab. Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier. The Davos Great reset is merely an updated blueprint…
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‘‘From experience in DNA testings, most firstborns are not fathered by the husbands at home, because these ladies have a prior relationship before getting married. Most times, they continue with that relationship, they don’t leave it after marriage…’’ Abiodun Salami is a senior geneticist with DNA Centre for Paternity Test, Allen Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos. For over 10 years, DNA Centre has provided comprehensive DNA testing services in three main areas: paternity and other family relationships, Immigration, and DNA tests during pregnancy – Prenatal DNA test. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Abiodun speaks about paternity fraud and the…
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OVERVIEW The Beacon atmospherics platforms continue to monitor the fluid security threat levels in the different geopolitical regions of the country associated mainly with the activities of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and criminal gangs including Islamist terror groups with international affiliations in mainly the North East and the Lake Chad Basin, separatists in the South East, gunmen and bandits in the North West and North Central and militants and organised criminal gangs in the South-South and South West. Other security concerns affecting the country are the farmer versus herder violence, social upheaval and heavy-handedness and non-compliance with rules of engagement…
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Much of the world now supports de-dollarization. It will happen, but not as a “big bang” The de-dollarization of the global financial system is set to continue. This will be facilitated by the development of new financial technology. Central banks will seek to settle directly with each other without using the currencies of developed countries. In the future, central banks’ digital currencies may also be used for international transactions, reducing costs for economic transactions. However, this process will be rather slow. The US dollar has long been the world’s dominant currency. Its use in international transactions has for many…
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The US-led alliance constantly creates confrontation, a deputy foreign minister said NATO needs enemies so it can justify its existence, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko said on Thursday, commenting on the Western bloc’s recent meeting in Lithuania. “Expansion is one of the instruments used by NATO countries to maintain confrontation,” Grushko told Russia’s Channel One. “Therefore, unfortunately, history has forced us to conclude that NATO cannot exist without an adversary. Otherwise, it would lose all meaning.” Grushko stressed that the admission of Ukraine into the US-led military bloc would have “catastrophic consequences for European security, Ukraine, and the alliance itself.” At the same time,…
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The bloc claims to be a defensive alliance but provokes confrontation, Beijing’s UN envoy has said NATO is “the real troublemaker” that has fully embraced “Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice” as it continues to generate global tensions, China’s permanent representative to the UN has said. In a statement on Thursday, Zhang Jun hit back at the communique issued by NATO members at the Vilnius summit earlier this week, which accused China of pursuing “coercive policies” that challenge the bloc’s interests. It also claimed that Beijing uses a wide array of tools to increase its global footprint and undermine the alliance’s security. The envoy rejected this…
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The media bombardment with weapons of mass distraction intensifies. A few days ago, Poland announced that it had been hit by two Russian missiles, the big media spread the news, the alarm went off, and Moscow announced that it was a fake but nobody listened to it. Finally, NATO admits that the accident was caused by a Ukrainian missile, but that’s it. Another weapon of mass distraction is the news given by the British newspaper Mirror: Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin asked to overthrow and kill President Putin. The big media spread the news on a global scale, then Dugin’s denial arrived but was essentially…
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Author’s Note Independent media is under attack Worldwide. Censorship is now routinely applied. In recent developments, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched indictments to Criminalize Dissent, namely to Weaponize Censorship. Moreover, readers on social media (including Global Research) are “warned not to go onto certain sites”. Those who say the truth are tagged as “conspiracy theorists”. Our analysis confirms that the mainstream media are routinely involved in distorting the facts and turning realities upside down. They are the unspoken architects of “Fake News”. The Lie becomes the Truth. Propaganda under Nuremberg is a crime against humanity One area of routine distortion…
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