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February 26, 2025

Kazakhstan as a new biological testing ground for US DoD

Alex Lloyd

The US is turning Kazakhstan into a military-biological testing ground, funding research on deadly pathogens under the Pentagon’s supervision.

Kazakhstan is the 9th largest country in the world, rich in natural resources, with diverse flora and fauna. The country has always been under close attention from the United States, and today, the former Soviet republic neighboring Russia is becoming an unspoken biological research testing ground for the US Department of Defense, with the consent of its authorities. On the territory of Kazakhstan, there is an intensification of U.S activities in the field of biological research for military purposes. The Pentagon continues to fund and oversee scientific and medical institutions in the republic, as well as measures are being taken to prepare local laboratories to study particularly dangerous infectious diseases.

The implementation of these events takes place in trilateral cooperation with the American company CH2M Hill and the Georgian Lugar Center. Kazakh biologists plan to focus their research on Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever.

Expansion of US military-biological activity in Kazakhstan 

The expansion of US military-biological activities in post-Soviet countries, such as Armenia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan has been touched on by numerous media. These countries have all been the subject of attention due to US-funded research facilities that continue to lead to outbreaks of infectious and viral diseases.

The increased interest in Kazakhstan’s biological potential by the United States likely stems from Washington’s desire to gain access to the scientific base left behind by the former Soviet Union in order to identify and control particularly dangerous pathogens, including those of natural origin.

Since 2023, the US Defense Department has been conducting a series of activities in Kazakhstan aimed at organizing biological research into dangerous infectious diseases, based on the National Research Institute for Biological Safety located in Gvardeisky, Zhambyl Region. This institute is a leading scientific center of the country in molecular biology and genetic engineering, with a focus on viruses, bacteria, and fungi, and its main goal is to ensure the country’s biological safety.

DTRA’s activities in Kazakhstan 

Since 2016, the United States has actively developed cooperation with Kazakhstan in the field of biological safety through the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP). The aim of this project is to gain superiority in the biological field, and the Office of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) plays a leading role in promoting American interests in this area.

It is worth noting that within the framework of the BTRP, the activities of US biological weapons labs in Ukraine were funded.

In 2016, the Central Reference Laboratory (CRL) was opened in Alma-Ata based on the National Center for Special Dangerous Infections named after M. Aikimbayev. The CRL is officially under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan, but it receives financial support from the Department of Defense (DTRA). Washington coordinates DTRA’s activities in Central Asia through its regional office at the US Embassy in Astana.

Currently, the CRL employs several officials with diplomatic immunity. Some of these officials were recruited after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when there was a program to support scientists related to weapons of mass destruction.

Cooperation of DTRA with National Center for Special Dangerous Infections

It is known that since at least 2023, DTRA representatives in Kazakhstan have been actively cooperating with the NIIPB. The Director of the institute is Kerimbayev Aslan Amangeldievich.

The organization’s structure consists of management, 12 departments, and 13 laboratories. It employs a total of 271 people, including 20 senior staff members, 167 scientific laboratory staff members, and 94 departmental staff members.

As part of its operations in Kazakhstan, DTRA engages in trilateral collaboration with the National Center for Special Dangerous Infections, the Georgian Lugar Center, and the CH2M Hill company. These organizations are well-known for their expertise in the field of biology. The Lugar Center is located in Alekseevka, 15 kilometers east of Tbilisi, and officially engaged in studying biological threats and has laboratory facilities that total more than 8,000 square meters, including two BSL-3+ laboratories designed to study pathogens and diagnose human and animal infections. These labs occupy approximately 2,500 square meters and are equipped with cutting-edge equipment. They also have their own production of nutrient media and a vivarium for small and medium-sized animals and primates.

However, while the Lugar Center actively participates in biological research and supports the Kazakh Institute, the CH2M Hill company not only provides training in biosafety but also offers consulting, design, construction, maintenance, and project management services. It serves as a general contractor for DTRA, with its headquarters situated in Inglewood, Colorado, USA.

On the internet, you can easily find claims that laboratories established with funding from the United States operate exclusively within the legal framework of Kazakhstan and are subject to the oversight of the country’s authorities. The most common argument in support of this is that Washington provided financial assistance solely for the construction of the laboratory, and since September 29, 2017, Kazakhstan has been operating the laboratory for its own purposes.

However, let’s take a closer look at a revealing letter from the director of National Center for Special Dangerous Infections, A.Kerimbayev, to the head of the CH2M Hill branch in Kazakhstan, A. Smaglyk, dated June 26, 2024.

In this letter, Kerimbayev expresses gratitude to CH2M for maintaining the operation of the laboratory. Noteworthy is his request for the replacement of 15 metal pipes and the painting of the floor. This appears to indicate a significant financial reliance on US support.

Under the supervision of the DTRA, several interesting events are taking place at the National Center for Special Dangerous Infections. These include:

Financing projects to study the Congo-Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever, and modeling its spread in Central Asia.Holding meetings between representatives of the BTRP program supervised by the DTRA with officials from the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan and the National Center for Special Dangerous Infections.Implementing training programs and training sessions to improve the overall competence of staff at the National Center for Special Dangerous Infections when working with highly contagious pathogens such as HCG and Brucella, as well as preventing the leakage and spread of these pathogens.Assessing the general condition of Kazakhstan’s biological laboratories, identifying problems with their provision of specialized equipment, engineering materials, and spare parts.Purchasing laboratory equipment and carrying out repair and construction work to increase the possibility of studying pathogens of especially dangerous and dangerous infectious diseases. For reference, Congo-Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever is an acute infectious disease transmitted through tick bites. It is characterized by fever, severe intoxication, and haemorrhages on the skin and internal organs. As for brucella, they are bacteria belonging to the class of α-proteobacteria that can infect humans by inhaling contaminated dust or aerosol. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified brucellas as militant bacteria that could be used as a biological weapon.

The above information clearly indicates an increase in US activity in military biological research in Kazakhstan. The US Department of Defense continues to fund and supervise scientific and medical institutions in the country, and DTRA is working with Kazakh officials to prepare local laboratories for research on particularly dangerous infectious diseases.

This effort is being carried out in cooperation with the US company CH2M Hill and Lugar Center. Currently, DTRA aims to focus the National Center for Special Dangerous Infections on research on Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever. Soon, information will be released confirming regular visits by Pentagon representatives to Kazakhstan to assess and monitor the readiness of Kazakh specialists and laboratories to conduct research on dangerous pathogens.

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Via https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/kazakhstan-as-a-new-biological-testing-ground-for-us-dod

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Published on February 26, 2025 10:32

Rubio: US open to economic cooperation with Russia

US open to economic cooperation with Russia – Rubio

FILE PHOTO: Marco Rubio. ©  Joe Raedle / Getty Images

RT

The potential “reset” will focus on Moscow’s frozen assets and restrictions on American companies, the secretary of state has said

The US and Russia could restore economic ties once the Ukraine conflict is resolved, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has suggested.

Speaking in an interview with Breitbart on Tuesday, Rubio noted that Moscow and Washington could discuss the economic and business domain, but only after they have ensured the smooth operations of each other’s diplomatic missions and have resolved the Ukraine crisis.

“We have to invite them and see, okay, if you guys are serious about ending this thing, let’s sit down and talk about it,” Rubio said. “I think step three is, if we can end this conflict, what does US-Russian relations look like in the 21st century? Are there things we can work on together geopolitically or maybe even economically?”

According to Rubio, Russia and the US have “opportunities to work together” to achieve a “reset” in relations which will “entail talking about not just Russian assets that have been seized by America, by the Europeans… but also American companies that have been hurt.”

He cautioned, however, that such negotiations remain distant. “We’re not at that step yet… We can’t even really talk about those things or fix those things until we bring this war at least to some sort of enduring ceasefire – hopefully permanent.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in 2023 allowing for the temporary takeover of assets belonging to Russia-based foreign companies from “unfriendly” countries, with several Western companies affected. In October 2024, Russia temporarily nationalized the assets of Glavproduct, a major US-owned food producer.

However, while US-Russian relations sank to historic lows under the administration of US President Joe Biden, his successor Donald Trump has signaled interest in restoring ties. Earlier this month, the two sides held high-profile talks in Saudi Arabia that focused on paving the way for resolving the Ukraine conflict and restoring bilateral ties.

Trump has since indicated that Washington might explore joint ventures in Russia’s mineral sector and suggested that sanctions on Moscow could be lifted “at some point” as part of the broader Ukraine conflict settlement process.

Putin said on Monday that Russia and the US are in talks about “major” joint economic projects, adding that Moscow is open to cooperating with American private companies and government agencies to develop its rare-earth industry.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/613330-us-open-economic-cooperation-russia/

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Published on February 26, 2025 10:01

February 25, 2025

More USAID Fraud? Billions Of US Tax Dollars Are Missing From Haiti Relief Projects

Zero Hedge

There are those that say all government aid is a scam in one way or another, and so far the revelations surrounding USAID are proving those people right daily.  Democrats and the establishment media, in a bid to muddy the waters and save face, continue to claim that there was never any fraud at USAID and that the Trump Administration is simply labeling projects they “disagree with” as suspect. 

Of course, spending American tax dollars on projects the public never asked for and were never told about is the epitome of fraud, and waste is never a good thing.  Beyond that, the question of billions in missing funds certainly falls into the category of criminality. 

Trump has taken a lot of heat from the media with the shut down of USAID and much of the criticism suggests that without US funds people in third world countries will fall back into desperation.  The Washington Post recently claimed that Trump’s cuts to USAID are a “gift to Haitian gangs” terrorizing the locals; a typical leftist appeal to emotion that assumes most of the funds were getting to the Haitians in the first place. 

Yet another example of this problem has been revealed in a New York Post expose on the audit of USAID which shows a disturbing shortfall in funds surrounding ongoing relief projects in Haiti.  The Post notes:

“Since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed as many as 300,000 people, the US government has disbursed around $4.4 billion in foreign assistance to the small island nation.

At least $1.5 billion was disbursed for immediate humanitarian aid, while another $3 billion went to recovery, reconstruction and development.

Of the at least $2.13 billion in contracts and grants for Haiti-related work, less than $50 million, or 2% went to Haitian organizations or firms. By comparison, $1.3 billion, or 56%, has gone to firms located in or near the US capitol. Little wonder USAID is so threatened by the sudden scrutiny.

It remains unclear how exactly the billions have been spent and whether US tax dollars have had a sustainable impact. USAID and its vendors have generally failed to make such data public…”

The exposure of USAID by DOGE actually confirms long running suspicions of mishandled aid.  Some Haitian reporters warned about this disappearing money years ago under the Obama Administration.  USAID funds to Haiti were dispersed in part through the Clinton Foundation. 

The lack of funding transparency was also noted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2023.  Though, not surprisingly, the impotent agency did nothing about it.  The GOA stated in their analysis of USAID activities in Haiti

“The USAID mission in Haiti does not fully track data on its local partnerships, or its activities to strengthen local organizational capacity, which limits institutional knowledge about these efforts and understanding of results and lessons learned to inform future activities.”

“The Administrator of USAID should ensure that USAID/Haiti develops a process to track and assess consistent and complete results information for infrastructure activities, such as the final outputs, outcomes, costs, time frames, and lessons learned.”

“The Administrator of USAID should ensure that USAID/Haiti establishes a process to completely and consistently track and analyze data on awards made to local organizations, such as the amount and percent of total funding awarded and the percent of total awards provided to these organizations.”

Of the five “recommendations for executive action” put forward by the GAO for USAID, two are marked as “completed”.  Transparency was never achieved and no one was held accountable.  The question is, if only 2% of the $4.4 billion allotted for Haitian relief was actually used in Haiti, where did the rest of the money go?

As the New York Post points out, 56% went to firms located in or near the US capitol, and apparently the money stayed there.  A comprehensive forensic accounting of these funds (along with all other missing funds) needs to be undertaken and tracked to the recipients.  Not just because it is is politically advantageous for the Trump Administration, but because justice needs to be served for once in the case of government fraud.  Americans are tired of seeing bureaucratic conmen get away with it. 

The public is welcome to debate whether or not any American taxes should be spent in Haiti (proximity to the US does not mean they are entitled), but if the money was already sent and it never arrived, then whoever took it stole from both sides of the equation – Americans and Haitians. 

Via https://www.zerohedge.com/political/more-usaid-fraud-billions-us-tax-dollars-are-missing-haiti-relief-projects

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Published on February 25, 2025 10:42

Trump Policy Will Embolden Developing World to Reject Climate Agenda

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Richard Stambaugh, Wikimedia Commons

The climate change agenda stifles the aspirations of the poor to satisfy the pretensions of the rich.

President Donald. J. Trump’s seismic shift in energy policy will be felt far beyond U.S. borders. His withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, expanding American oil and gas exports, terminating the Green New Deal and eliminating the prospect of carbon tariffs offers a lifeline todeveloping nations grappling with chronic energy poverty.

When the United States pivots sharply, other nations reassess their positions. Nowhere will a change in the dynamics of energy policy be more welcome than in developing nations whose imperative to increase access to energy conflicts with pressures to submit to Western climate lords’ anti-growth, anti-humanistic, and dystopian Paris climate agreement.

Many developing nations have long expressed frustration with the climate agenda’s constraints on their economic growth. India and China, for instance, have consistently maintained that they need flexibility to determine their own domestic energy mix, emphasizing that access toaffordable fossil fuels is crucial for lifting millions out of poverty.

Similarly, nations across Africa have argued that their development priorities must include utilizing their natural resources – including coal, oil and natural gas – to meet people’s basic needs.

Take Nigeria, for example. With its significant natural gas reserves, the country has been caught between international pressure to limit the use of hydrocarbons and the urgent need to provide electricity to its growing population. International financial markets friendlier to fossil fuels could accelerate Nigeria’s plans to monetize its natural gas resources and expand domestic power generation.

As Yemi Osinbajo, a former Nigerian vice president, said, “Africans need more than just lights at home. We want abundant energy at scale so as to create industrial and commercial jobs. To participate fully in the global economy, we will need reliable, low-cost power.”

Global Implications of U.S. Energy Expansion

One of the most notable effects of Trump’s energy policy is an anticipated surge in exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the U.S., which is to resume processing permit applications for new LNG projects interrupted by former President Biden.

For developing countries, this means reliable energy at competitive prices – a stark contrast to the intermittent power of solar and wind projects that have been favored by climate-compliant financial institutions.

Energy poverty remains a crippling obstacle in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. According to the InternationalEnergy Agency (IEA), nearly 800 million people worldwide are without electricity, while 3 billion rely on smoky biomass for cooking.

By moving to increase the global supply of LNG, Trump offers an avenue for these nations to transition toward cleaner-burning natural gas. Benefits will include less deforestation, less indoor air pollution and a chance for more economic growth.

India has already invested in LNG terminals in the U.S. and will be increasing imports as demand grows from its population of 1.4 billion.

Moreover, an increased supply of LNG will stabilize global reserves and reduce the vulnerability of energy-importing nations to geopolitical disruptions. Energy abundance is a prerequisite for stability and prosperity – a reality that developing countries know all too well and the climate obsessed seemingly undervalue.

No Carbon Tariffs: A Boon for Developing Economies

While many pundits harp on Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports, they don’t recognize – or at least fail to acknowledge – that many in the developing world are likely to be happy that carbon tariffs of the climate agenda won’t be part of Trump’s tax regime.

Carbon tariffs, a darling of the climate crowd on both sides of the Atlantic, are designed to penalize the producers – and users – of carbon-intensive goods. In practice, however, they act as a regressive tax on developing nations, many of which lack the financial and technological means to “decarbonize” their industries.

For countries like India, which Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has argued must prioritize economic growth over rigid climate targets, the carbon tax-free future represents a much-needed reprieve. It levels the playing field, allowing developing economies to compete in global markets without bearing the disproportionate burden of forced emissions reductions. Yes, Trump has threatened other tariffs, but those can be resolved through diplomacy.

Fossil fuels still account for over 80% of the world’s primary energy consumption, with countries like China, India and Indonesia expanding their infrastructures to produce, import and use hydrocarbons despite pledges to meet impossible climate goals.

With Trump’s bold move, these nations will no longer feel the need to hide behind the veneer of climate appeasement.

Trump’s rejection of climate orthodoxy matches the aspirations of developing nations striving to ensure energy security and overcome poverty. Expect these countries to be emboldened to more openly pursue their preferred energy strategies and leave the Paris agreement themselves.

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Published on February 25, 2025 10:33

Scientists Developing mRNA Foods To Replace Injections

The Winepress

“Not just for food, but for high-value products as well, like pharmaceuticals.”

Scientists are actively creating new foods that are similar to the current Covid vaccines in use, as a way to replace traditional inoculation. Both Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that rewrites a person’s genetic code to fight disease. Moderna refers to this technology as an “app,” “software,” “operating system,” and more.

Currently, mRNA tech used in the Covid vaccines must be stored at cold temperatures to work, or they lose their stability.

However, researchers at the University of California-Riverside are testing ways for this mRNA tech to be functional under normal temperatures. In this case, if they are successful, they would then design plant-based mRNA food for public consumption.

For further development and functionality, the researchers received a $500,000 grant courtesy of the National Science Foundation.

The team seeks to accomplish three goals: first, attempt to successfully carry and transport DNA containing the same mRNA vaccine tech into plant cells, where they can replicate.

From there, the team wants to see if these newly cultured plants can replicate enough to generate sufficient mRNA to replace the traditional injection via syringe. Finally, the group of researchers will establish what the proper dosage will be for the masses to consume to effectively replace vaccinations.

Juan Pablo Giraldo, an associate professor in UCR’s Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, said in a university release:


“Ideally, a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person.


“We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens. Farmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it.”


In order for this to work properly, the plant’s chloroplasts are key, says Giraldo and a team of scientists from UC-San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University. Chloroplasts are tiny organs inside plant cells that aid in the conversion of sunlight into usable energy.

“They’re tiny, solar-powered factories that produce sugar and other molecules which allow the plant to grow. They’re also an untapped source for making desirable molecules,” Giraldo added.

Previous studies have been reported to have shown gene expression, which is not a natural part of the plant. This was discovered when Giraldo and his team successfully injected genetic material into the chloroplasts.

Professor Nicole Steinmetz of UC-San Diego worked with Giraldo and the team to utilize nanotechnology to help deliver even more genetic material – identical to how the Covid vaccines work, not just the Moderna or Pfizer ones either.

“Our idea is to repurpose naturally occurring nanoparticles, namely plant viruses, for gene delivery to plants. Some engineering goes into this to make the nanoparticles go to the chloroplasts and also to render them non-infectious toward the plants,” Steinmetz explained.

Giraldo added:

“One of the reasons I started working in nanotechnology was so I could apply it to plants and create new technology solutions. Not just for food, but for high-value products as well, like pharmaceuticals.”

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Published on February 25, 2025 10:17

Harvard Polling: Majority Support DOGE Measures to Reduce the Size of Government

Jonothan Turley

As the courts hash out the legalities of the orders supporting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the public appears to support the effort despite the almost universal condemnations in the media. Despite the prediction from James Carville that the Trump Administration will collapse within 30 days, a recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shows that most citizens support the cutting of government spending and size. While the courts must rule on the legal basis for these executive orders, the polling shows continued support for both Trump and his agenda after the election.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) also has declared that “remorse” was growing among voters who were souring against the Trump Administration.

Yet, the Harvard poll shows Trump with a 50% approval rating, (43% expressing disapproval). That is consistent with the RealClearPolitics polling average, giving Trump a 49.3% approval rating.

What was interesting amid the ongoing judicial and legislative fight is that 83% of voters preferred cutting government spending to raising taxes.

Some 77% also supported a broad review of government spending. A massive 70% believe government spending is rife with waste and fraud and 69% support cutting spending by $1 trillion.

Sixty percent of voters said that DOGE is carrying out the need of the government to make significant cuts.

Once again, our courts are designed to resist popular demands when they contravene legal or constitutional authorities. However, courts are also sensitive to what is called the “countermajoritarian difficulty.” As Alexander Bickel discussed in his 1962 book, The Least Dangerous Branch, the courts straddle this line between protecting constitutional values and not becoming a type of super-legislature. The political question doctrine and other judicial rules are designed to remove federal judges from making policy or political judgments.

Voters are allowed to bring about significant, even radical, changes in government policies and programs. They are allowed to elect “change agents” to use existing powers to achieve those goals.

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Published on February 25, 2025 10:09

The Crisis of School Bullying in Russia

Bullying

RT (2024)

Film Review

Russian with English subtites

Accord to the filmmakers, school bullying has significantly increased in Russia (it hasn’t increased in New Zealand – historically has been an integral part of Kiwi culture, not only in the schools but in the workplace).

The film indicates that 55% of Russian students surveyed reported issues with bullying. Thirty-nine percent of this bullying occurs on social.

The film focuses on a Russian teenager who stabbed a classmate with a knife after a long history of bullying by his classmates, a girl who was bullied for being overweight (which she ended by joining classmates in bullying another fat student) and a third girl who was bullied on social media. Her bullies eventually tried to blackmail her over an obscene photo they posted, leading her to try to sell a kidney online to pay them off.

There is an in-depth interview with the boy’s mother, who has fought for two years to get the school and the bullies’ parents to acknowledge the role of bullying in the knife attack. The filmmakers also play a recorded call with the school principal, who flatly denies any bullying occurred. Her son Vlad remains in a psychiatric hospital two year after the attack.

The filmmakers also show excerpts of a recent Russian play about bullying and a school anti-bullying workshop. The students responding most strongly to the play and the workshop were “onlookers” too scared to report bullying incidents to authorities.  authorities.

 

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Published on February 25, 2025 09:59

February 24, 2025

The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Solution

By Dean Henderson (2011)

Two centuries and a few decades later this same cabal of trillionaire money changers – mysteriously immune from their own calls for “broad sacrifice” – utilizes the debt lever to ring concessions from the people of Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and now the United States.

In their never-ending quest to subjugate the planet, the bankers’ IMF enforcer – chronic harasser of Third World governments – has turned its sites on the developed world. To further advance their dizzying concentration of economic power, the whining banksters take a giant wrecking ball to the global middle class as they prepare to eat their young.

No one can argue that the US deficit is not a problem. Much of it accrues paying interest on the $14 trillion debt. Stooped-over Congressional cartel shills with names like Cantor and Boehner argue for slashing entire government departments to satiate the bloodthirsty bond-holders. Liberals argue for higher taxes on the rich and massive Pentagon cuts.

I agree with these latter proposals. The super-rich paid 90% under Eisenhower and 72% under Nixon. Both were Republicans. They now pay 33%. Most corporations and many elites utilize offshore tax havens and pay nothing.

The argument for progressive taxation is that those who benefit more from government should pay more. Cartel apologists propagate the fiction that the poor soak up middle-class tax dollars, sowing division between the poor and middle class. Meanwhile, the Eight Families financial octopus feeds mightily at the public trough be it the SEC (rich investors), the FCC (Gulfstream jet fliers), the USDA (the richest farmers get the biggest checks), Medicaid (insurance fraud, Big Pharma gouging) or the Pentagon (Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, Blackwater).

Still, $14 trillion is an insurmountable debt. Increasing taxes on the super-rich combined with a global American military withdrawal from its current role as Hessianized mercenary force for the City of London banksters, while welcome, will not be enough to deal with this monster debt, what Jefferson termed, this “deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery”.

The Economic Situation of the West

The belt-way dialogue on the deficit remains locked in a tiny intellectual box created by the corporate media and their Federal Reserve cartel owners. But there is another way.

It is a myth that most of that $14 trillion debt is owed to the Chinese or other “governments”. The vast majority – around $10 trillion – is owed to the Eight Families Federal Reserve crowd.

In a June 9, 2011 article for Marketwatch, Unicredit’s Chief US Economist Harm Bandholz stated that the Federal Reserve is the largest holder of US debt with around 14% of the total. This does not include debt held by Rothschild-controlled central banks of other nations – including China, Japan and the GCC oil fiefdoms.

Through the recent QE2 program, the Fed purchased another $600 billion in Treasury bonds. They claimed it was a last ditch attempt to save the global economy from deflation. Instead, the banksters who got the interest free taxpayer-backed money pushed us further towards deflation by refusing to lend their welfare bonanza to potential homeowners or small business.

Conversely and inherent in the printing of zero-interest money, they created inflation – speculating in oil, food and gold futures and rolling this increased US debt on the roulette tables at their various wholly-owned global stock exchanges. Is it any wonder the financial parasite class is now clamoring for QE3?

What follows is a ten-step proposal which President Obama and the Congress could enact to lift the $14 trillion debt from the backs of future generations of Americans. These should be done concurrently as part of a single sweeping financial reform bill. Modeled after last week’s release of strategic petroleum reserves by twenty-seven nations, this measure should be enacted in tandem with as many willing nations as possible. The same Rothschild-led cabal controls the central banks of most every nation and there is power in numbers. If these measures are enacted separately or by only one nation, the Eight Families cartel will use their financial clout to target and destroy the US:

1) Introduce a Treasury Department-administered infrastructure investment fund, which workers should be strongly encouraged to opt into using accrued funds from their private 401K plans. This is important because the banker’s stock market casino will crash due to the next nine steps and workers must be shielded from this event. This fund can be used to rebuild America’s infrastructure, with American workers acting as lenders and receiving a fair rate of interest in return.

2) The US needs to withdraw from the Bank of International Settlements, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the IMF and all Eight Families-controlled multilateral lending facilities. We would save billions funding these banker welfare schemes while freeing ourselves from rules which prevent our financial emancipation.

3) De-link the dollar from all currency baskets and IMF special drawing rights. Ban trade in dollars on all global exchanges. This will create a demand for dollars and strengthen our badly devalued currency. Impose currency controls by fixing the dollar at 1:1 euro, Chinese yuan, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc; 100:1 Japanese yen. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad fixed the nation’s currency – the ringit. It was the only currency in the region that did not crash when Rothschild front-man George Soros took aim at the region.

4) Nationalize the Federal Reserve. According to a London barrister I have been in contact with, under the Federal Reserve Act there is a provision that allows for the US government to buy back the Fed’s charter for $4 billion. We should pay this fee, revoke the Fed charter and launch a new US dollar issued by the Treasury Department. With the dollar fixed, the vampires cannot crash it.

5) Cancel the $10 trillion debt to the Illuminati bankers. Debt obligations to foreign governments and small bond-holders should be honored at par.

6) Arrest the perpetrators. Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all fraudulent transactions involving the Fed cartel. Send the FBI to the New York Fed. Seize all documents. Confiscate the world’s largest gold reserves which are stored there. These were stolen from various governments including from our own Ft. Knox reserves.

7) Forget just repealing the Bush tax cuts on the rich. The top tax rate on people who make more than $1 million/ year should be raised to 75%. People making more than $500,000/year should pay 50%. All tax brackets below $75,000/year should see tax cuts. If you get more from government you need to pay for it, instead of soaking the middle-class and blaming it on the poor.

8) Slash Pentagon spending. Shut down all US military bases on foreign soil, including those in Europe, Japan and South Korea. Withdraw ALL troops from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately. Use the savings to pay off government and small bond-holders.

9) Outlaw offshore banking by US citizens and corporations. Bring your money home and pay taxes on it or surrender your US passport/corporate charter. The dramatic increase in tax revenue would be enough to pay off the remaining debt to sovereign governments and small bond-holders, while keeping our obligations to the Social Security trust fund.

10) Introduce single-payer health care and price controls on prescription drugs. The current corporate for-profit health care bonanza depends upon sickness and ill health for its hefty profits. In 2006 Canada government spent $3,678 per person for free single-payer coverage for all its citizens. The US government spent $6,714 per person covering the insurance, pharmaceutical, hospital and AMA cartels. The savings attained from eliminating insurance/pharmaceutical/hospital chain/doctor-perpetrated Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security fraud will save the US Treasury billions. It is the only solution to skyrocketing and unsustainable health care costs.

Using this methodology the US could wipe out both its deficit and its debt within a year. These measures should be planned in secret and introduced swiftly and in rapid succession. Social security and Medicare will be saved. The middle class will see their tax rates go down, while their retirement fund finances the rebuilding of a 21st Century America. Manufacturing jobs will come home, since the Chinese yuan will have seen a dramatic appreciation. Our national security will be enhanced by withdrawing from the role of global policeman.

If we keep thinking inside the banker-manufactured beltway box, our children have no future. They will live in a Third World country which produces nothing, lorded over by debt-collector parasites known as the “financial services industry”.

The wealth-destroying Eight Families banker elite are the perpetrators of the US debt crime. Should a woman who is raped serve the sentence of her rapist? That’s absurd. Then why should Americans or any other nation pay a fraudulent debt foisted upon them by con-men? It is time for Obama and the Congress to get a backbone and force the criminal Federal Reserve cartel to make the “broad sacrifices”.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/federal-reserve-cartel-solution/5818590

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Published on February 24, 2025 11:45

Another scam exposed: birds not dying from Bird Flu

By fatheracab

https://twitter.com/i/status/1893526443008590192

“I’m a chicken farmer and they are bullsh*tting you about the reasons why your eggs are so expensive.” “They say the same sh*t every year. I know it ’cause I’m a chicken farmer. I see the same alerts — When you look at these large facilities, a lot of these birds aren’t dying of bird flu. They are dying of neglect.” “They don’t give the vegan vitamins, oregano, all the supplements they are supposed to be getting — In these mega facilities and these birds are dying of disease and neglect and every time and every time a bird dies, they say bird flu. I’m telling you, they’re bullsh*tting you.” This would be why in the Mexico video I shared Mexico was not being impacted by the bird flu… it’s just another lie

We all know the Biden administration did this for one reason initially. They wanted to push bird flu vacs and draconian lockdowns again. Their timing was a little off so they switched to using it to hurt the economy for Trump. Change my mind.So now bird flu is the new fear campaign—just like COVID, just like every other crisis they manufacture to squeeze more money out of us. A chicken farmer is saying they’re lying about why eggs are expensive. Birds aren’t dying from some mass outbreak—they’re dying from neglect in mega facilities, but every death gets slapped with a “bird flu” label to justify skyrocketing prices. How much of what we’re told is another manufactured crisis to control supply, hike prices, and keep us dependent?100% believe this. All other countries doing just fine when it comes to eggs. Speaking of the fear campaign, I talked with my connection in China and she says there is no “pandemic” over there and its just the normal flu and or colds. Get over it in a couple days. All nonsense.I live in Mexico. Plenty of eggs available. Never have I heard on the news here or anywhere else that they had to cull a flock. I guess the sick birds just keep flying south. A video of one of my chickens for your enjoyment – Josefina MicheleBreaking News: Big Pharma’s newest hit single “Bird Flu Blues” featuring special guest star “Neglected Chicken”. Same script, different species – first they came for the humans with PCR tests, now they’re coming for our nuggets. – Politickle

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Published on February 24, 2025 11:22

USAID Exported CIA Balkan Terror to Haiti

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

By Kit Klarenberg

On December 19th, James Foley, US ambassador to Haiti 2003 – 2005, published an explosive op-ed in rabidly anti-Communist Miami Times. He lamented how the country had become a “ticking time bomb”, with hundreds of thousands of refugees threatening to emigrate Stateside, “mounting gang violence”, withdrawal of “humanitarian relief organizations” due to “threats”, and “criminal” entities “on the verge” of capturing Port-au-Prince entirely. His remedy was simple – direct US “intervention” to secure control locally, and reassert Washington’s “primacy in the hemisphere.”

As the CIA’s man in Port-au-Prince at the start of the millennium, Foley was on the frontlines of a brutal coup that displaced popular, legitimately-elected, anti-imperialist President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power, and all the horrors that followed. As this journalist and academic researcher on Haiti Jeb Sprague exposed in February, Aristide’s ouster was orchestrated by the Agency, in direct coordination with the most extreme, murderous local opposition elements. This tragic event produced a neverending descent into nightmarish lawlessness, which endures to this day in the country.

Massacres of innocent civilians are now a daily staple of life in Haiti, civil society is non-existent, and major powers exploit the chaos to road-test techniques of repression and pacification subsequently deployed elsewhere. Yet, there is a fundamental component of this nationwide misery that has hitherto remained unexamined. In September 2004, USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives, which avowedly “advances US foreign policy interests…by seizing emerging windows of opportunity ” – in other words, oversees regime change – deployed Kosovo Liberation Army veterans to Port-au-Prince:

“Training and management specialists of the Kosovo Protection Corps, a civilian response unit consisting primarily of former Kosovo Liberation Army members, have been brought to Haiti to assess how the Kosovo model might be applied there.”

The KLA was a sadistic, civilian-targeting, organ-harvesting CIA and MI6-backed narcoterrorist militia that for years waged a savage insurgency in Yugoslavia. Their aim was to forge an ethnically-pure Kosovo, in service of recreating Nazi-era Greater Albania. Once Yugoslav forces departed the province following a three-month-long NATO bombing campaign against Belgrade in June 1999, the KLA began carrying out a total genocide of local non-Albanian inhabitants, killing countless Bosniaks, Roma, Serbs, and other minorities, while sending survivors scurrying.

Albanians were not infrequently in the KLA’s crosshairs too, whether they were criminal rivals, supported multiethnic Yugoslavia, or simply rejected the lethal faction’s excessive barbarity. The KLA was largely insulated from legal repercussions for its monstrous crusade, by direct US decree. However, the 2005 indictment of Kosovo’s then-Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and his deputy Idriz Balaj, both former high-ranking KLA operatives, details a typical fate that befell those who crossed the Al Qaeda adjunct. After capturing three members of a Romani family, and severing one of their noses:

“Idriz Balaj cut each of the three men on their necks, arms and thighs, rubbed salt into the cuts and sewed them up with a needle. Idriz Balaj then wrapped [them] in barbed wire and used an implement to drive the barbs of the wire into their flesh. Idriz Balaj also stabbed [one] in the eye. The three men were then tied behind Idriz Balaj’s vehicle and dragged away…They have not been seen alive since this day and are presumed to have been killed.”

Haradinaj was accused of a welter of similarly hideous crimes, including multiple rapes, and personally planning and overseeing the KLA’s frenzied, ultraviolent post-bombing genocide in Kosovo. Come November 1999, KLA “murder and kidnap” in the NATO-occupied Yugoslav province reduced Pristina’s Serb population from 40,000 to just 400. Yet, Haradinaj spent just two months in prison. Coincidentally, he was widely reported to have served as the KLA’s “key US military and intelligence asset” during NATO’s bombing.

‘Kosovo Model’

The KLA was tutored in its boundless savagery by British and American military and intelligence, and contractors including notorious MPRI. The Kosovo Protection Corps was its UN mandated successor, charged with acting as first responders in certain contexts, but formally prohibited from performing law and order functions, due to its parent organisation’s obscene history of gruesome sectarian violence. It was supposed to be disarmed, but this never materialised. The Corps was the absolute last entity one would consult to restore stability in tumultuous post-coup Haiti.

Yet, Washington had long-planned to “transform the [KLA] from a rag-tag band of guerrilla fighters into a political force.” Strikingly, none other than future Haiti ambassador James Foley was at the forefront of these efforts. As a senior State Department official during NATO’s criminal bombing of Yugoslavia, he went further than any other US apparatchik in not only openly celebrating Washington’s intimate bond with the mass-murdering militia, but uniquely acknowledged the KLA was being primed to become a governance actor in post-war Kosovo:

“We want to develop a good relationship with them as they transform themselves into a politically-oriented organization…[The KLA] would have the chance to move forward in their quest for self government under a ‘different context’. If we can help them and they want us to help them in that effort of transformation, I think it’s nothing that anybody can argue with.”

Foley uttered those comments in February 1999, before NATO’s villainous assault on Yugoslavia began. Evidently, even at that early stage, he and other US officials were looking ahead to Kosovo metamorphosed into a US colony, with its KLA assets running the show, brutally purging anyone and anything standing in Waashington’s way. Which is precisely what came to pass. Foley’s appointment as US ambassador to Port-au-Prince in May 2003 may also indicate eerie foresight among certain actors about what would soon transpire in Haiti.

Aristide’s removal would never be taken lightly by his local supporters, not least due his ouster inevitably unleashing dangerous criminal, militant, fascist elements, who would target them. This included adherents of US puppet François Duvalier, who ruled Haiti 1957 – 1971 as a brutal police state, via a devilish apparatus of spying and terror units. This Mephistophelian nexus was smashed to smithereens by Aristide, with nigh-universal public support. Resultantly, many Haitians favoured self-defence, were armed, and prepared for trouble, should it arise.

Therefore, we can surmise that a brutal crackdown on Aristide supporters was considered certain, and being planned, by the US almost a year before the February 2004 coup. Foley’s beloved KLA were ideal candidates not only for strategising such bloodshed, but also helping transform Washington-backed rebel paramilitary factions in Haiti into formal police and military units, to execute campaigns of violence and repression against specific target groups, under a legitimising imprimatur. This was the “Kosovo model” USAID sought to apply to Port-au-Prince, post-Aristide.

‘Violent Nation’

So it was in January 2004, during a Western-boycotted bicentennial celebration of Haiti’s independence from France centuries prior, attended by Aristide and guests including South African President Thabo Mbeki, local putschists intervened to wreck the gathering, engaging in brutal violence. This was the spark that ignited the CIA’s coup in Port-au-Prince, a month later. It was, per a leaked US diplomatic cable, orchestrated by the Agency in conjunction with “questionable individuals”, such as local paramilitary-tied oligarch Hugues Paris.

Aristide was promptly kidnapped by US forces, then flown to South Africa. His modest yet contextually revolutionary social reforms immediately repealed, Haiti abruptly descended into a failed state. Savage paramilitary forces worked overtime to suppress public opposition, particularly among the felled President’s support base. Meanwhile, thousands of UN and US “peacekeepers” ostensibly deployed to maintain order and prevent massacres of civilians were directly implicated in those very slaughters. Precisely the same horrendous story played out in Kosovo, courtesy of the KLA, post-June 1999.

Britain’s esteemed Lancet Medical Journal found approximately 8,000 people were murdered in Port-au-Prince, within two years of the February 2004 coup. In the span of just one month, 1,000 bodies were dumped in a mass grave. Simultaneously, Haiti’s state structures were purged of any and all officials still loyal to Aristide, and his progressive programs. Mass government department layoffs and brutal crackdowns on unions were routine. Dissident journalists faced arrest or even murder. Pro-Aristide media outlets were shuttered, typically at literal gunpoint.

Paramilitary faction National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation and Reconstruction of Haiti was at the forefront of the coup in Port-au-Prince. Immediately, Western news outlets began talking up the savage faction as Haiti’s next government. In April 2004, longtime anti-Aristide mainstay and FLRN chief Guy Philippe told the Miami Herald his first act in office, if elected, “would be to reinstitute” Haiti’s army, to “give the violent nation a sense of security.” It would also hopefully encourage foreign oligarchs to make a mint in Port-au-Prince:

“This would be a professional army, not the one we had…You can’t have foreigners invest without security.”

The same report noted that ultra-violent elements central to Aristide’s ouster “will turn their weapons over to police next month.” Presumably, in precisely the manner the KLA didn’t. Those belligerent rebel factions were subsequently transformed into an almost identically named political party, National Reconstruction Front. The outlet’s deference to Philippe couldn’t have been clearer. Miami Herald referred to the mass murderer as “wildly popular”, while praising his “boyish charisma”, despite acknowledging his personal connections to “drug trafficking.”

As it was though, in Haiti’s February 2006 presidential election, Philippe won just 1.97% of the vote. A similar result was achieved by FRN in concurrent Senate elections, leaving them with no elected representatives. Fast forward to today, and he and his party have been rather forgotten. In the intervening time, the chaos unleashed by the CIA and sustained by the KLA 20 years ago in Haiti has only intensified. And now Washington has an ideal pretext – and self-authored legal justification – for all-out invasion.

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Via https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/usaid-exported-cia-balkan-terror

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Published on February 24, 2025 10:59

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