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January 7, 2025
Iran Accuses US of Violating UN Charter Over Nuclear Facilities Strike Discussions
Sputnik International
TEHRAN – US threats to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities are a gross violation of international norms, the UN Security Council must hold the US accountable internationally, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei said.
Three days earlier, US media reported, citing three informed sources, that incumbent US President Joe Biden had discussed with his team, in particular with White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, plans to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. Biden ultimately made no final decision on the issue. The discussion was not prompted by new intelligence, but was aimed at working out possible scenarios, the publication’s sources noted.
“This issue has been raised repeatedly. From the point of view of international law, threats to use force by any country are a gross violation of international law and the UN Charter. This issue is doubly a violation of international agreements,” Baghaei said.
This US threat is a threat against the country’s peaceful nuclear infrastructure, he stressed.
“The UN Security Council should intervene and hold the United States internationally accountable for these statements,” Baghaei added.
On January 4, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the Iranian authorities were ready to immediately enter into constructive negotiations with Western countries on their nuclear program if they lead to a new agreement. According to Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi, a new round of consultations between Iran and Europe on the nuclear deal will take place on January 13.
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Make Way for the Billionaires!
By Dmitry Orlov
Trump’s presidential entourage (the term “cabinet” seems rather limited in scope) includes quite an assemblage of billionaires. The list includes Elon Musk ($363 billion), Donald Himself ($6.3 billion), Warren Stephens ($3.4 billion), Linda McMahon ($3 billion), Jared Isaacman ($1.7 billion), Howard Lutnick ($1.5 billion), Doug Burgum ($1.1 billion), Vivek Ramaswamy ($1 billion), Steven Witkoff ($1 billion) and Scott Bessent (fortune unknown, assumed huge). This assemblage of very wealthy individuals seeing political appointments is completely unprecedented in the annals of US presidential administrations.
Musk is the obvious outlier, since he is wealthier than all of the rest combined by a huge margin, but it is notable that they are all billionaires. Why are giant overstuffed bags of money drawn to Trump like moths to the flame? What might motivate them to pick up the fallen flag of government service and march forth? What do they hope to gain? What do they fear to lose?
But first we must answer an even simpler question: Who are these people? Answer: they are filthy rich bastards. Why bastards? That’s simple too: they gained their fortunes over the course of this century — a century during which the US has continuously lost ground. So far over the course of the 21st century China’s industrial production has increased by a factor of 10, along with the fortunes of the Chinese population as a whole, while US industrial production has increased by a factor of 1, growing by a fraction of a percent. If we exclude from consideration the top 1% of Americans (by wealth and income) as an uncharacteristic aberration (they are a country within a country, if you will), the US has grown significantly poorer.
This becomes immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who flies into the US from one of the modern, glittering megalopolises such as Beijing, Moscow or Dubai. The place is old — simply outdated and unfashionable, rather than antique or classic, having been cheaply and hastily put together to start with. It is run down and dirty. The people are cheaply and carelessly dressed and are vulgar, slovenly, often pushy and rude, quick to anger and violence and generally abusive. The food that is widely available to them is too low-quality even for the pig trough. Unsurprisingly, many of them look ill: sallow or pasty-faced and obese to an astounding extent.
Obscenities fly about in public places whether or not there are children present. The children are a special case. They are not like normal children — curious, full of wonder at the amazing world around them and eager to explore it and to make contact with anyone they meet. Rather, they are fearful of strangers, estranged even from their own parents whose parenting often seems half-hearted and disingenuous, and sunk into the meaningless abyss of some digital device that has been thrust into their hands practically from birth as a sort of electronic pacifier. They are poised to remain blinkered, infantile and digitally addicted for the rest of their sad little lives.
And then there are the actual addicts, flopped out inside tents that stretch for many kilometers along major roads, stumbling zombie-like along the sidewalks in search of their next dose of fentanyl or standing slouched over, flopped over on the sidewalk or stumbling about some more once they find it. They are the living dead of American society — people for whom that society no longer finds a purpose except as fodder for government corruption. The government keeps the borders open, giving the drug cartels free reign. The government also prints and hands out money to the addicts which filters back to the drug cartels. The drug cartels then bribe government officials to keep the scheme in operation. The victims of this scheme are not missed: according to government statistics, they barely exist. They are not even unemployed, you see; they are a different category altogether called “not in labor force” and there is over 100 million of these — an entire third of the US population!
The mental landscape is equally wretched. Television screens are everywhere — in airports, lobbies, bars, restaurants, waiting rooms — blasting out equal portions of advertising, celebrity trivia and lies. The celebrity trivia is gradually being replaced with AI-generated content. The lies are rather curious; most of the information about the outside world seems to be organized into very specific tropes concocted by the CIA and repeated ad nauseam. Some of them are so preposterous that they are the stuff of comedy. “The Russians build their rockets using chips scavenged from Ukrainian washing machines” is one such trope. The Russians use them to laugh at Americans; but it is all that the vast majority of Americans know about the rest of the world!
As for information about the US itself, an order is in effect to maintain a sense of normalcy no matter what is happening. Bad news are always treated as a “crisis”, by its nature temporary and quickly forgotten whether it has been mitigated in any way or simply ignored. The giant and growing piles of unsolved crises are treated as “old news” and never mentioned again to keep the presentation upbeat and positive, because otherwise the advertisers would start to complain.
This may seem like a digression, but it is essential to set the scene against which to gauge the success of Trump’s little band of billionaires. Quite a lot of Americans might not care too much about any of the above because, you see, the people I described are losers and losers don’t matter because America is the land of opportunity and if some people don’t avail themselves of that opportunity then it’s their own damn fault. Maybe they are unlucky or lazy or just stupid; America, for the “hard-working men and women of this great nation” oft-mentioned in political speeches, is for the taking with all of God’s blessings and the above-listed Trumpean billionaires just happened to be particularly well blessed. Musk, in particular, is so hugely blessed that he is practically a demigod.
And what American wouldn’t want to be a demigod just like Musk? Even an American who lives in a trailer park and dines out of dumpsters behind fast food joints still wants to have the opportunity to dream of being rich like Musk. The cult of Mammon is so deeply ingrained in American culture that it is not even perceived as such for all of its blatancy: “In god we trust”, it says on American money — spelled out in all capitals, so it is most likely a lower-case god whose name is Mammon (ממון), which is Hebrew for “money” and, figuratively, “wealth”.
But this begs an important question: Can someone be successful if their country is failing? In an ideal world, it is possible to imagine someone who is justly and lavishly compensated for faithfully and very effectively serving the public good — alas, there isn’t enough of that public good to go around and the public cause fails as a whole, but still… But is this really the case with Trump’s merry band of billionaires, or are they more likely of the ethos espoused by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, according to whom the goal is to make your “fuck you money,” after which point you are no longer anyone’s wage slave and can do or not do whatever you want. And what Trump’s billionaires want to do is… wait for it… work for the government! What?!
Über-rich types generally only respond to three types of emotional stimuli: vanity, greed and fear, in this exact order. Vanity is at the forefront once greed is sufficiently satisfied. What is sufficient differs from person to person but I am sure that beyond the first billion the urge to flaunt one’s wealth exceeds the urge to amass even more of it. Nor is the fear of losing it all at the forefront if everything is as rosy as mainstream American economists would have us believe. Yes, inflation is a bit high and government debt is growing faster than the economy, but unemployment is low and financial markets are stable.
Is it vanity, then, that motivated Trump’s merry band of billionaires to seek political appointments within the federal bureaucracy? This seems very highly unlikely. The job of a government bureaucrat who is a political appointee is hardly a vanity job. There are lots of boring meetings to sit through and lots of mind-numbing paper shuffling. Not only that, but a government bureaucrat is expected to be a team player, which a fabulously wealthy oligarch is normally loath to do.
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Next in line is greed. While it is certainly the main motive force that drove these bloated moneybags to amass stupendous wealth even as much of their country degenerated into a third-world hellhole.
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Look at all the effort Joe Biden and his son Hunter put into corrupt activities, turning the Ukraine first into a personal fiefdom and then into a dismembered failed state, funneling billions of in US government funds to it (most of them subsequently stolen) — all for the sake of amassing perhaps a hundred million, perhaps two hundred in kickbacks — chump change for a billionaire. And Joe Biden could afford to take the risk, hiding behind presidential immunity and having the authority to pardon his son. Someone who would be lower down on the political totem pole and already a billionaire would hardly consider taking such risks.
And so we get to fear. What do billionaires have to fear? It is certainly not the US justice system because it offers the best justice money can buy and they have enough money to buy it. And they have no reason to fear the US political establishment since both the elected and the appointed officials are quite affordably priced. By process of elimination, what they have to fear is the failure of the US financial system itself. Their net worth is denominated in US dollars and if dollar goes kaput, so does their net worth. But this still doesn’t answer the following question: Why would these billionaires seek political appointments themselves instead of just finding someone to do their bidding for a reasonable fee? After all, they are not strangers to hiring people to do things for them, from domestics to legal representatives. What is different in this case? This question is most puzzling!
Why would a billionaire take to driving his own limousine, piloting his own jet or skippering his own mega-yacht? What sort of a situation would cause the denizens of the upper deck of the Titanic to abandon their cigars and their snifters of single malt and to storm the bridge, dismissing the captain and his mates and taking over the helm? Is the situation so dire that these billionaires can no longer trust anyone at all to avoid disaster?
It is easy to point to a scenario most dire. The US government debt is so large that if it were laid out in stacked containers full of $100 bills it would be visible from orbit with unaided eye. A third of that amount has to be rolled over in the course of the next year. A third of the federal budget has to be deficit-financed with more borrowing. Foreigners are no longer eager to snap up new US debt issuance, leaving the Federal Reserve and various domestic financial chumps (pension funds, insurers, money market funds) as the creditors of last resort. Close to half of the US economy is sustained through federal spending.
Nobody knows exactly when “this sucker is going to go down” (© George W. Bush) but go down it will. . . Perhaps they are clever enough to know that this is bound to happen over the next four years — the years of Trump’s second and final presidential term.
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This, then, is my conclusion. Trump’s billionaires are wild with fear that the fiscal cliff will happen some time soon — during Trump’s term. To avoid losing it all, they want to be in a position to take desperate, completely illegal, blatantly self-serving and ultimately self-destructive steps.
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Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/3e0547a3-61b3-4501-932b-aa656df51de9
Lost Kingdoms of Africa – Zula Kingdom
Lost Kingdoms of Africa – The Zulu Kingdom
BBC (2013)
Film Review
King Malendela founded the Zulu dynasty in the 17th century. He named his son Zulu (heaven), and their subjects became known as Aman Zulu or people of heaven. Historicaly KwaZulu-Natal, the historical home to the Zulu nation, was a rich grasslands, ideal for pasturing cattle and raising cultivated crops. With the arrival of Europeans, they became heavily involved in trade with the Portuguese, which greatly increased their wealth and power. For the most part they traded ivory and captured slaves for copper, brass, textiles and beads.
Shaka, the 19th century Zulu nation founder, transformed a small network of chieftains into a massive military force. Born in 1780 the oldest son of a Zulu chief, he was sent to a neighboring chiefdom as a child to be trained in statecraft and soldiering.
When inter tribal conflict erupted in the early 1800s, he returned to his family’s tribe, seized the chieftaincy and unified the Zulu tribes. He then enacted compulsory conscription for all males at age 14. At 35, they were allowed to marry as a reward for a successful military career. Zulu society was patriarchal and polygamous.
Under Shaka, the Zulu invented “horns of the buffalo” formation they used to surround their enemies and substituted throwing spoons (daggers), which were more suited for hand to hand contact, for their longer spears. During four years of aggressive regional expansion, the Zulus drove many neighboring tribes off their land. Those who chose not to join the Zulu nation fled to the foothills.
By 1816, Shaka had expanded the area of the Zulu nation from 10 to 12,000 square miles and its population from 3,000 to 250,000. By 1824, the British had settled Durban, the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal and traded textiles and metals for Zulu hides and ivory. In 1828, Shaka was assassinated by his half-brothers, one of whom (Dingane) seized the throne. In 1836 Dingane and his men clubbed 100 Boer settlers to death for stealing cattle. In the Battle of Blood River, 420 armed Boers retaliated and defeated 25,000-30,000 Zulus. The latter’s short daggers were no match for the Boers’ firearms.
In 1867, the discovery of diamonds and gold in southern African created an insatiable need for labor. Heavy recruitment of Zulus to work in Kimberly’s diamond mines was devastating to their traditional way of life. Driven off their land by Dutch and British settlers, many Zulu natives were forced to leave their families to live in miners barracks 800 miles away.
The Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 was the first major Anglo-Zula military encounter. After invading Zulu territory without consent of the British government, their High Commissioner for Southern Africa suffered a humiliating defeat when the Zulu successfully employed a horn of the buffalo formation to destroy the British camp and kill 1200 troops. Despite having only a few archaic firearms, the Zulu used their superior numbers to overwhelm the British before they could mount a defense.
At their second encounter, the Battle of Rourke’s Drift, 25,000 British troops returned to Zulu territory, where they used a block formation similar to that used by the Boers in the Battle of Blood River. This time 1500 Zulus died, with only 13 British losses. The British supported rivals of the Zulu king, leading to civil war and his capture.
January 6, 2025
Pennsylvania Court Rules Amish Farmer Amos Miller Can Continue Operations Outside the State Despite FDA’s Overreach on ‘Food Safety Laws’
Credit: @TheLanPatriot screenshot
Jim Hoft
Amish farmer Amos Miller of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has been authorized to continue his farming operations following a protracted legal battle with state and federal authorities over the sale of raw milk and other unpasteurized dairy products.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) initiated legal action against Miller, alleging violations of state food safety laws due to the sale of raw milk without the requisite permits.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this year that several government officials stormed into a building on Amos Miller’s Lancaster County organic farm and conducted an illegal hours-long raid without notice, eventually leaving with multiple coolers containing the Amish farmer’s property.
The Lancaster Patriot reported the ‘search’ was performed by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture employees with three Pennsylvania State policemen aiding them.
PDA claimed in the affidavit that Miller failed to file applications from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture “for registration, licensing, or permitting under the pertinent Retail Food Facility Safety Act, Food Safety Act, or Milk Sanitation Laws.”
The Lancaster Patriot obtained footage of the officials executing the search at Miller’s organic farm. In the first video, a Patriot reporter is confronted by a cop and pushed outside once they learn he is a media member.
BREAKING: Footage of search warrant being executed on Amos Miller’s organic farm operations in Lancaster County, PA. (For more info on the ongoing saga, visit: https://t.co/uB5pbpnlhS) pic.twitter.com/U64ft05x0F
— The Lancaster Patriot (@TheLanPatriot) January 4, 2024
Exclusive footage of state agents leaving Amos Miller’s organic farm store, carrying off some of his products. pic.twitter.com/yVAHSmr1WH
— The Lancaster Patriot (@TheLanPatriot) January 4, 2024
A report of seized property provided to Miller revealed the officials seized 37 types of foods, including sour cream, chocolate milk, ice cream, and eggnog. They also took food from a walk-in cooler door, which contains hundreds of items and represents a significant portion of Miller’s products.
In March 2024, Judge Thomas Sponaugle of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas issued an injunction prohibiting Miller from selling raw milk products to the public without a permit.
In October 2024, Amos Miller’s attorney, Robert Barnes, argued in Commonwealth Court in Pittsburgh that the Pennsylvania farmer should be permitted to sell raw milk to out-of-state customers while facing legal action from the state.
Barnes contended that Pennsylvania’s milk regulations are designed to safeguard in-state consumers, and applying these laws to out-of-state sales raises constitutional concerns.
On Friday, Barnes announced on X that the court has allowed Miller to sell his raw milk products to out-of-state customers.
“Big win today for Food Freedom as Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania affirmed the trial court decision allowing Amish farmer Amos Miller to continue to make his wonderful food available to customers outside the state. Thank you to everyone who spoke out for Amos!” he wrote.
Big win today for #FoodFreedom as Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania affirmed the trial court decision allowing #Amish farmer #AmosMiller to continue to make his wonderful food available to customers outside the state. Thank you to everyone who spoke out for Amos!
— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) January 4, 2025
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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/pennsylvania-court-rules-amish-farmer-amos-miller-can/
New Evidence Reveals 30 Year Global Drop in Hurricane Frequency and Power
Chris Morrison
Last month a small but powerful cyclone named Chido made landfall in Mayotte before sweeping into Mozambique, causing considerable damage and leading to the loss of around 100 lives. Days after the tragedy, the Green Blob-funded Carbon Brief noted that scientists have “long suggested” that climate change is making cyclones worse in the region, while Blob-funded World Weather Attribution (WWA) at Imperial College London made a near-instant and curiously precise estimate that a Chido-like cyclone was about 40% more likely to happen in 2024 than during the pre-industrial age. Not to be outdone, Green Blob-funded cheerleader the Guardian chipped in with the obligatory “cyclones are getting worse because of the climate emergency”. Almost unnoticed, it seems, among all the Net Zero dooming and grooming was a science paper published during December by Nature that found no increase in the destructive power of cyclones – the generic term for typhoons and hurricanes – in any ocean basin over the last 30 years. In the South Indian basin, the location of cyclone Chido, there was a dramatic decrease in both frequency and duration in recent times.
Reality rarely gets much of a look-in these days when fanatical Net Zero activism is afoot, but the paper, written by a group of Chinese meteorologists, makes its case by considering the facts and the data. The scientists apply a “power dissipation index” (PDI) which they consider superior to single measure indicators since it combines storm intensity, duration and frequency. The graphs below show the cumulative index for tropical cyclones across all ocean basins along with a global indication.
Downward trends in the cumulative PDI can be seen in a number of Pacific regions, while the trend holds steady in the North Atlantic. The southern Indian ocean downward trend is particularly pronounced while the overall global line is also heading in a similar direction.
So why does all this scientific twaddle get written by the green activists in mainstream media? Much of it arises from the new pseudoscience that claims it can tie individual weather events to human-caused climate change. Press releases peddling climate Armageddon are issued days after a natural disaster and are eagerly reprinted by activist journalists promoting the Net Zero fantasy. The distinguished science writer Roger Pielke Jr. is a fierce critic of this new pseudoscience, which he calls weather attribution alchemy. In a recent Substack post in the aftermath of Chido, he noted that the WWA at Imperial College simply assumes the conclusion that it seeks to prove by accepting that every storm is made stronger because of warmer oceans. Using this explanation, continues Pielke, it is straightforward to conclude that the storm was made more likely due to climate change. Or as Imperial states: “The difference in the storm intensity and likelihood of this storm intensity between the counterfactual climate and today’s climate can be attributed to climate change.”
As the new Chinese paper shows, the matter is not quite so simple. Pielke notes that tropical storms encounter numerous environmental influences such as vertical wind shear and storm-induced ocean surface cooling, even when they remain over warmer waters. “Such complexities mean that simple storyline attribution – warmer oceans predictably mean stronger storms – is inappropriate when used to characterise the behaviour of individual storms,” he argues. Pielke also comes down hard on the statistical evidence backing the WWA claims. Even if storms such as Chido were more likely in the future, it would take a very long time to detect a significant change using the threshold 90% confidence set down by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And by very long time, he means thousands of years.
“Perhaps that is why assumptions are favoured over evidence,” suggests Pielke.
There were plenty of assumptions on display in a now routine end-of-year weather report from the BBC headed: ‘A year of extreme weather that challenged billions.‘ Written by Esme Stallard, it claims that record-breaking heat brought extreme weather including hurricanes and month-long droughts. Pride of place is given to Dr. Friederike Otto, lead of WWA and Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at Imperial, who claimed: “We are living in a dangerous new era – extreme weather caused unrelenting suffering.” “The impacts of fossil fuel warming has never been clear or more devastating than in 2024,” she added.
The redoubtable Paul Homewood is unimpressed with Stallard’s opening line about increasing extreme weather and has filed a complaint with the BBC. Stallard goes on to list a handful of random events, “but fails to provide any evidence that these are anything other than natural events which happen all the time”, states Homewood. “Nor is any evidence provided that such events have been getting more frequent or extreme over time,” he adds.
The BBC story highlighted typhoons in the Philippines as well as hurricane Beryl and stated that such events may be increasing in intensity due to climate change. Official data do not show any evidence of them becoming more powerful over time, notes Homewood. Much play was made of a recent drought in the Amazon, but Homewood points out that the World Bank Climate Portal reveals that rainfall has increased in the area by 5% over the last 30 years. Throughout the report, observes Homewood, the BBC bases its claims on weather attribution computer models. “However, computer models are not evidence, and can be manipulated to provide whatever results are desired. That is why they are widely derided by the wider scientific community,” he states.
For Roger Pielke, extreme weather attributions are “puzzling”. The most charitable explanation for their proliferation is that there is a demand for them, including from many in the media. The demand will be filled by someone, he concludes. “A less charitable explanation is that there is a systematic effort underway to contest and undermine actual climate science, including the assessments of the IPCC, in order to present a picture of reality that is simply false in support of climate advocacy. We might call that pseudo-scientific gaslighting,” he suggests.
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BRICS expands with 9 new partner countries. Now it’s half of world population, 41% of global economy
The Confirmation FilesBRICS keeps expanding, adding 9 partner countries in January 2025, after admitting 4 new members in 2024. It now makes up roughly half of the global population and more than 41% of world GDP (PPP). It’s an economic powerhouse, with top producers of key commodities like oil, gas, grains, meat, and minerals.
BRICS, the Global South-led forum for economic cooperation, continues to grow in influence, as its seeks to de-dollarize and transform the international monetary and financial system.
After admitting four new members in 2024, BRICS officially welcomes nine new nations as partner countries on January 1, 2025. They are:
BelarusBoliviaCubaIndonesiaKazakhstanMalaysiaThailandUgandaUzbekistanWith its nine members and nine partners, BRICS now makes up roughly half of the global population and more than 41% of world GDP (PPP).https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/12/25/brics-expands-9-partner-countries-population-economy/
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‘Moderate’ New Islamist Syrian Rulers Publicly Humiliate German Foreign Minister By Refusing to Shake Her Hanrd
Paul Sarran
It’s no wonder the failed German coalition led by outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz is such a train wreck: at the same time that they want to lecture the world on their failed Globalist policies and prejudices, they wanted to jump the gun and be one of the first states to send top-level officials to engage with the ‘moderate’ new Islamist Syrian rulers – and they sent a woman to try to do the job, FM Annalena Baerbock..
Rarely was a disaster so predictable.
BILD reported (translated from German):
“Annalena Baerbock’s visit to Syria on Friday has another aftermath: In Damascus, the new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa did not shake hands with the Federal Foreign Minister at first – unlike her male companions.
Now comes the next discrimination: Islamist news channels from the environment of the new rulers spread photos of Baerbock’s visit – and censor the German politician in the process!”
The humiliation began at her arrival at Damascus airport: Syrians did not shake her hand – so she shook the hands of German officials instead, with gusto!
Baerbock then met new Syrian ruler Ahmad al-Sharaa also did not shake hands with the Minister.
But things were about to get even worse:
“The news channel Almharar distributed photos on Telegram in which the Federal Foreign Minister was made unrecognizable by obfuscation.”
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Bill Gates Vows to Use Mosquitoes As “Flying Vaccinators” Against Anti-Vaxxers
The Peoples Voice
Bill Gates has announced plans to mass vaccinate anti-vaxxers using flying mosquitoes carrying the new bird flu mRNA vaccine.
The Gates initiative is being conducted by researchers at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. The goal is to mass vaccinate the planet by using these mosquitoes to administer vaccines “with or without public consent.”
Expose-news.com reports: Critics have raised concerns about safety, informed consent and unintended ecological impacts.
In November 2024 a study by Leiden University Medical Center (“LUMC”) was published in the New England Journal of Medicine which concluded that mosquitoes could be used as “flying vaccinators.”
According to the paper, the study was “supported by a donation from the Bontius Foundation.” This doesn’t tell us very much as the Bontius Foundation, also known as Bontius Stichting LUMC Research Foundation, funds and supports finding additional funding for scientific research at LUMC.
However, for years the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has supported LUMC’s research. The Foundation granted LUMC $1,578,317 in September 2023 and another $2,287,871 in November 2024 for its malaria programme.
In LUMC’s study, 43 adults aged 19 to 35 with no prior malaria history were divided into three groups. Each group received bites from mosquitoes carrying either the GA2 parasite, the GA1 parasite or no parasite (placebo).
The participants underwent three rounds of vaccination by mosquito, spaced 28 days apart. Three weeks after the final round, all participants were exposed to malaria through bites from infected mosquitoes. The results showed that eight out of nine participants in the GA2 group were successfully protected against malaria, compared to only one out of eight in the GA1 group and none in the placebo group.
The Dutch researchers now seek to replicate their results in a larger human trial.
While it is claimed this method shows promise in combating malaria, it has raised ethical concerns regarding informed consent and medical safety. Critics argue that bypassing traditional vaccination methods and consent procedures could be ethically unacceptable and set a dangerous precedent.
The concept of using mosquitoes as “flying vaccinators” is not new. In 2010, Japanese researcher Shigeto Yoshida modified mosquito saliva to deliver leishmania vaccines to mice, noting that vaccination by insect could be painless and cost-effective. However, Yoshida also acknowledged that medical safety issues and concerns about informed consent mitigate the use of this method for vaccine delivery.
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January 5, 2025
Countdown to European Collapse
Lucas Leiroz
With the ban on the flow of Russian gas to Europe through Ukrainian territory, little remains before the absolute economic and social collapse of the European continent.
Finally, energy cooperation between Russia and Europe is (almost) completely over. After nearly three years of sanctions and sabotage, the bilateral Moscow-EU energy partnership suffered its greatest historical blow. Kiev fulfilled its promise not to extend its contract with Gazprom, which was allowing the arrival of Russian gas to Europe, then creating an extremely uncomfortable energy insecurity situation for its own “partners” in the European Union.
On the morning of the first day of 2025, the Russian Federation stopped supplying gas to European buyers via Ukraine. Even amidst the conflict, the Russian Gazprom and Ukrainian Naftogaz had kept in operation an energy transit agreement signed in 2020, which expired on the last day of 2024. Previously, Kiev had already announced it was unwilling to renew the contract with Gazprom, although some European countries repeatedly asked Ukraine to do so.
Despite the sanctions imposed on Russia since 2022, some European countries continued benefiting from the import of Russian gas, particularly Slovakia and Hungary – nations that refused to participate in the Western-sponsored anti-Russian boycott – as well as Austria, a country historically neutral in Europe’s geopolitical and military disputes. Other nations, even adhering to the sanctions, continued hypocritically receiving Russian gas, such as Italy, Poland, Romania, and Moldova. There were also cases of gas resale, with receiving nations re-exporting the commodity to countries seeking to bypass the sanctions.
With the end of the Ukrainian route, all these states lost any guarantee of a safe energy source – precisely during winter, the time of year when gas consumption in Europe is at its highest. Obviously, there are currently energy reserves that may be enough to cope with the challenges of the current season, but the situation will progressively become more critical over time. European nations will have to find new sources of gas or expand the use of the only two remaining routes for Russian gas (via Turkey and the Black Sea). Recent indicators show a substantial rise in gas prices among Asian exporters. Ankara is also expected to take the opportunity to gain more profits from its pipeline.
There is currently hope among Europeans for a cheap gas supply through the long-awaited Qatari-Turkish pipeline project via Syria. With the fall of Bashar al Assad’s legitimate government, energy giants from Turkey and the Gulf have revived the proposal, although they are waiting for domestic pacification in Syria by the Al-Qaeda junta to begin the construction. Some optimistic analysts in Europe believe this would be the antidote to Europe’s dependency on Russian gas – or Asian and American, as in the current circumstances.
The main problem with this hope is believing in the goodwill of the Western hawks to “pacify Syria.” Without Assad, Damascus became a “failed state,” with territory divided between different factions in constant hostilities. It is unlikely this will change – simply because, despite the tactical operators of the Syrian crisis (Turkey and Qatar) wanting pacification, the strategic mentors (Israel and the USA) are not interested. Tel Aviv prefers a polarized and war-torn Syria, unable to do anything to prevent territorial progress in the Golan and beyond. Washington, which is subservient to Israeli interests through the international Zionist lobby, is interested in the same – along with, of course, fostering Kurdish terrorists to worsen the internal Syrian situation even further.
In other words, Western analysts still do not understand that the decision-makers of the unipolar axis simply do not want to solve Europe’s problems. It is not in the US’ interest that its “partners” in Europe regain cheap energy and a strong industrial base. For Washington, the collapse of Europe is not a tragedy but a strategic goal, whose roots lie in the science of geopolitics itself. According to the fundamentals of Western geopolitics, Russian-European integration would be disastrous for the US-UK Atlantic axis. Therefore, in the face of Russia’s imminent military victory and Moscow’s rehabilitation as a Eurasian geopolitical power, the Americans and the British have adopted a “scorched earth” strategy in Europe.
Sanctions, the terrorist attack on Nord Stream, and the closure of the Ukrainian route to Europe are events that are part of the same strategic context: in all these cases, Anglo-American strategists want to provoke an energy collapse in Europe to enable deindustrialization and the subsequent economic and social crisis. The final goal is a ruined Europe, not only unwilling but also incapable of establishing any future strategic ties with Moscow.
With the fall of the Ukrainian gas route, it can be said that the US won an important battle in its economic war against Europe. The total collapse is merely a matter of time.
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Via https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/01/04/countdown-to-european-collapse/
Top Pfizer owners — Blackrock, Vanguard & State Street — also top shareholders of parent companies of Annalect, hired by NZ’s Govt to spy on Kiwis’ social media
By Steve Snoopman
In this exposé, Steve Snoopman shows the Blackrock-Vanguard-State Street Connection behind New Zealand Government’s out-sourcing of social snooping to the same big three Monopoly Board Players that own Pfizer.
The company hired by the NZ Government to monitor New Zealanders’ social media accounts, produce data analytics and ‘social listening’ reports for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) is called Annalect New Zealand.
Annalect is part of the New York-based Omnicom Group — whose top three owners are Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street — and who are also the top three shareholders of Pfizer, the primary pharmaceutical company that has supplied the New Zealand Government with its Covid-19 mRNA-nano ‘vaccine’, Cominarty.
During the Corona Plandemic, one of Omnicom’s advertising agency, Clemenger BBDO, created the NZ Government’s ‘Unite Against Covid-19’ campaign, which contained four functions of ideology that are essential for successful propaganda to brainwash a population.
Key Finding: Under the ‘corporate umbrella’ of Omnicom Media Group (OMG), the NZ Government has been able to manipulate the thoughts, feelings and understandings of the archipelago’s captive population by out-sourcing social snooping to Omnicom, whose top three owners reveal the ‘Blackrock-Vanguard-State Street Connection’ to Pfizer.
State Out-sources Social Snooping to Monopoly Board PlayersThe top three shareholders of the parent companies that own a company hired by the Government to trove New Zealanders’ social media accounts since the beginning of the Covid lockdowns, are also owned by the top shareholders of the parent companies that are Pfizer’s top owners — Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street.
The company hired by the NZ Government to monitor social media accounts, produce data analytics and ‘social listening’ reports for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) is called Annalect New Zealand.
Records of NZ Companies Office state that Annalect New Zealand has been registered as Resolution New Zealand, since 27 May 2020.
Resolution New Zealand’s ultimate holding company is OMG New Zealand Limited,i and in turn OMG NZ Ltd’s ultimate holding company is Omnicom Group Inc, which is a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange.ii
OMG NZ is 50 percent owned by DDB Media Holding New Zealand and 50 percent owned by Clemenger Group.iii
DDB New Zealand is 84% owned by DDB Worldwide, whose total share allocation is registered with DDB Worldwide PTY Australia,iv and their ultimate holding company is Omnicom Group Inc, headquartered in Madison Avenue, New York.v
Clemenger Group Limited — which is the holding company of a group of companies involved in advertising and marketing communication services throughout Australia and New Zealand — is also 74% owned by BBDO Worldwide, which is owned by the Omnicom Group.vi
The top three owners of Omnicom Group Inc are The Vanguard Group Inc, Blackrock Fund Advisors and State Street.
Therefore, the majority owners of Resolution New Zealand (formerly Annalect) is the Omnicom Group, whose top three owners are Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street, which have been shown to be at the core of institutional investors owning stakes across all major transnational corporations that dominate all industries across Western Civilization — as Professor Peter Phillips showed in his 2018 book, Giants: The Global Power Elite. The professor of political sociology at Sonoma State University in the USA, identified twenty asset management firms and banks at the center of global capital: BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, J.P Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Bank of NY Mellon, Bank of America, Barclays, Allianz, Capital Group, Morgan Stanley, AXA, Prudential, Amundi, FMR, Wellington Capital Management, Northern Trust and BNP Paribas.
Indeed, Professor Phillips names Omnicom as one of several propaganda firms specializing in advertising, public relations and marketing to serve the global power élite.
As Wellington-born advertising illustrator, Nick McFarlane, presented in his book, Spinfluence: The Hardcore Propaganda Manual, in order for the brainwashing of spinfluence to work, the targets need to be identified on two levels: with demographics and the heart — to engineer conformity, or group think, to produce desired behavorial modifications.
Because Vanguard, State Street and Blackrock are the top three shareholders of Pfizer, the primary pharmaceutical company that has supplied the New Zealand Government with its Covid-19 mRNA-nano ‘vaccine’, Cominarty, this means the family of companies owned by the Omnicom Group were well suited to produce, enhance, and mass disseminate Corona Cult propaganda
Social Listening, Social Signalling and Social SteeringIn a story headlined, “NZers’ social media comments scanned to inform Covid-19 response”, Radio New Zealand reported that OIA released documents showed Annalect surveilled public comments on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other sites, about current topics like ‘Covid response’, ‘virus’, ‘vaccine rollout’, ‘economy’, ‘business and consumers’, ‘contact tracing’ and ‘team of five million’, posted by New Zealanders.vii
The website Annalect boasts that it uses Omni, an operating system owned by Omnicom Media Group (OMG), to “orchestrate better outcomes”.viii
The contract with Annalect (Resolution NZ) has been managed by the COVID-19 Group from 1 July 1st 2020 when it took-over from National Crisis Management Centre following the centre’s deactivation on 30 June 2020. The COVID-19 Group was established as a business unit of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC), and is headed by the COVID-19 Group deputy chief executive, Cheryl Barnes.ix
RNZ reported that Barnes said the reports were first commissioned in April 2020, via OMD, the media buying agency for the Covid-19 Response.
Clemenger Group lists OMD Worldwide as one of its family of companies and brags that it “is a leading media communications agency, with more than 10,000 employees across 100 countries serving some of the world’s highest profile brands.” OMD Worldwide is a unit of Omnicom Media Group, the media services division of Omnicom Group.xi
During the Corona Plandemic, advertising agency Clemenger BBDO created a propaganda advertising campaign called ‘Unite Against Covid-19’ for the New Zealand Government.
Clemenger BBDO claimed the ‘Unite Against Covid-19’ campaign was both a collective story and a “design system centred around our people, not the virus, [that] helped interpret complex changes, established daily routines, and created a consistent source of truth.”
In reality, Clemenger BBO designed its ‘Unite Against Covid-19’ propaganda campaign to assist the Government’s plan to construct a new ideological hegemonic bloc, amid the contagion of fear-porn news that occurred as a consequence of an orchestrated emotional hijacking operation through the syndicated cartelized global news-chain.
Indeed, the four functions of ideology — that are essential for a successful propaganda campaign to brainwash a population — were detectable in the ‘Unite Against Covid-19’ explanatory graphic, supplied on Clemenger BBO’s website.
The legitimation function is evident by the verb, “unite”, which served to “rally people around a unified truth, a unified message and a unified author in a world of uncertainty.” This unification element envisaged front-footing the ‘crisis’ with biased ‘expert voices’, whom supported the narrative’s definitions, problems, and solutions, to the exclusion of counter-factuals, established early treatment protocols, and the views of dissenting scientists, doctors and nurses. In this way, the activation of the ideological legitimation function supported the power of authority by masking over the cracks in the narrative myth-making.
The preposition “against” served the ideological function of activation to face the threat of a common enemy. Quite consciously, Clemenger BBDO, deployed the language of conflict to galvanize a nation to fight the perceived common enemy.
This perceived common enemy — an apparent novel naturally evolved disease called “Covid-19” — served the ideological function of distortion, which is designed to create a warped copy of reality. By claiming to “call-out the enemy”, this “Covid-19” element linked back to the “Unite” element, as a circular argument that failed to present any evidence that could withstand criticism from dissident scientists, doctors and nurses who had not fallen for the scientism.
Packaged into the ‘Unite’ element, was the meme that “we are all in this together”, which performed the essential ideological function of social integration. By seeking to re-cast the rarefied celebrities as folksy mortals, the vox-pops of influencers shot in domestic locations with a ‘skype call’ filming style supply glimpses or vignettes of extraordinary people reduced to ordinary routines, amid ‘the new normal’ of ‘social distancing’, ‘isolation’, and ‘social bubbles’.
These unified message drops served the crucial project of identity re-codification for group integration amid a brazen destabilization, sabotage and re-engineering of Western Civilization.
In these deceptive ways, the New Zealand population was emotionally hijacked through the deployment of propagandist elements as described in Nick Farlane’s 2013 book, Spinfluence: The Hardcore Propaganda Manual. By tapping into ‘the new normal’ zeitgeist amid a climate of fear designed for the subversion of household autonomy, free enterprise and nation state independence, Clemenger BBDO sought to manufacture consent of New Zealanders by constructing a new group consciousness. Without explicitly saying so, such propaganda campaigns are designed to produce a new social hierarchy through social conditioning.
Thus, terminology such as ‘social listening’ used by Annalect was a euphemistic term in place of harvesting the feelings, thoughts and understandings of New Zealanders, who were thought farmed without their knowledge and therefore without their consent. This thought framing was essential in order to better brainwash Kiwis. As McFarlane pointed out, the core techniques of brainwashing include conditions that produce control, isolation, uncertainty, emotional manipulation, and repetition.
Therefore, the New Zealand Government’s hiring of Omnicom’s OMD Worldwide to harvest data of social media communications — while also contracting with Omnicom’s Clemenger BBDO to produce a propagandist advertising, communications and signage campaign — was a shrewd chess move manufacture the consent of naïve Kiwis.
Despite Clemenger BBDO claiming it was creative like children wise beyond their years, the advertising appears to have screened off performing any due diligence to check counter-factuals regarding the sudden hype of a global pandemic designated as such by the World Health Organization — when at the time — the world death toll was under 5000.
Clemenger BBDO ‘failed’ to see that its client, the Government of New Zealand, worsened the real emergency, which involved the dismissal of known therapeutics, fostered a politicization of medicine, public health and personal health choices, and dismissed any counter-voices as conspiracy theorists — while brazenly claiming to be the “single source of truth”. This official state position was geared toward the eventual biased mass deployment of poorly-tested harmful experimental nano-gene injections as the silver bullet solution to an engineered health crisis.
Within this propaganda campaign, Clemenger BBDO also created advertising titled ‘Cover for Each Other’ to manipulate New Zealanders to wear masks to forge “social cohesion” with the brainwashing idea that “your daily sacrifice” overcomes a “selfish act” to abstain — essentially from such virtue-signalling.xii
The propagandist “I Love NZ” signs that continue to re-program humans to believe that by scanning the QR-Codes for entry into premises, they are helping to “protect the things [New Zealanders] love to do too” — were also created by ‘The Work’ creatures at Clemenger BBDO.
Thus, according to Clemenger BBDO “the act of scanning, becomes synonymous with the act of loving New Zealand”, rather than submission to the roll-out of a totalitarian technocratic bio-security system.
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Thus, the Government’s Covid-19 strategy was geared toward maximizing compliance to the lockstep Medical Martial Law measures to reset the nation on to a Techno-Feudalist trajectory. Such a strategy required a plan to maximize high uptake of Covid-19 nano-gene ‘vaccines’. In its selection of Omnicom, the Crown’s All of Government Response was matched with an ‘All of Agency Propaganda’ capacity.
In August 2020, Omnicom Media Group (OMG) and Resolution Digital launched ‘Resolution Kinetic’, in Australia and New Zealand. ‘Resolution Kinetic’ is a Google Marketing Platform service to maximize the full functionality of the platform, solving their business challenges to maximize client’s investments within their technology ‘stacks’.x
In other words, ‘Resolution Kinetic’ paid big money to leverage the Google algorithms to maximize penetration of message dissemination to impregnate minds with the propaganda of ‘Corona Agent’, which is my sarcastic term to denote the agency, or ability to express free-will, that was ripped off humanity during the ‘Great Corona Hostage Crisis’.
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