tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40303434479533327532024-03-13T03:03:52.798-07:00Brandon TurbevilleThe Official Brandon Turbeville WebsiteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2069125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-3282888714286111962023-12-02T09:35:00.000-08:002023-12-02T09:36:40.595-08:00Yes, Israel Knew About The Hamas Attack Plans Long Before They Took Place<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWobrKaN1JD0hrnsC2QsVGQGKHrWuEjEiF2wqSJ5p7grQbIFoDwx4OuI9emt4LFlv79qCjT8QY9jVx1wX_-CZVZ-pNI8NeAvzLj1es1ZKfxW-5tc-ZQx8bPQvU98HNPhT4wl4tbUZx-KpEJfMA8tY5C8WO1O8-nFitwJyRhd4pv0tu7DZIgmbePBBuWd6/s320/israelus.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="312" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWobrKaN1JD0hrnsC2QsVGQGKHrWuEjEiF2wqSJ5p7grQbIFoDwx4OuI9emt4LFlv79qCjT8QY9jVx1wX_-CZVZ-pNI8NeAvzLj1es1ZKfxW-5tc-ZQx8bPQvU98HNPhT4wl4tbUZx-KpEJfMA8tY5C8WO1O8-nFitwJyRhd4pv0tu7DZIgmbePBBuWd6/s1600/israelus.png" width="312" /></a></div>Brandon Turbeville</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2023/12/yes-israel-knew-about-hamas-attack.html">BrandonTurbeville.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">December 2, 2023<br /></div><p>On October 8, shortly after the Hamas attacks on Israel, I wrote an article entitled, "<a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2023/10/somethings-not-right-about-israelhamas.html" target="_blank">Something's Not Right About The Israel/Hamas War - Could It Lead To Genocide, World War Three?</a>" In that article, I discussed how the official Israeli story, as well as the official Hamas story, simply did not seem to add up. Claims that Hamas, with its deep roots to Israeli intelligence, independently outwitted the Israeli intelligence apparatus in one of the most surveilled areas of the world seemed ominously similar to American claims that Osama bin Laden masterminded the 9/11 attacks from a cave in Afghanistan. </p><p>Indeed, in that article I wrote:</p><blockquote>Gaza is one of the most surveilled areas of the world. The Israelis are exceptionally good at intelligence gathering and putting that intelligence to use and yet we are supposed to believe there were not enough Israeli intelligence agents on the ground in Palestinian territory to catch wind of such a monumental operation? Anyone who understands geopolitics and has been to the Middle East knows well how powerful and effective Israeli intelligence is in the region.<br /><br />But, while it may be possible that Hamas did outwit the Israeli intelligence apparatus by using more rudimentary methods of communication, how do we know this now? How did we know the next day? Did Hamas announce its methods or did Israel discover it 24 hours too late? This explanation seems all too neatly sewn and all too quickly delivered to be entirely believable.<br /><br />Indeed, the attack was able to deliver losses to the Israeli military in direct combat, missiles got past the Iron Dome, and ships escaped discovery. None of these losses are such that the Israeli military is crippled or even damaged beyond a potential perception of weakness but it was all theatrical enough and horrendous enough for civilians to experience that it has been useful to instill fear in the population.<br /><br />Is it possible that Israel did, in fact, know about the plans to attack before they happened and that the Israeli government allowed it to happen for some reason or other? Is it also possible that the Israelis worked with Hamas to do so?</blockquote><p>A recent article by the New York Times entitled "<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-knew-hamas-attack-plan-122433854.html" target="_blank">Israel Knew Hamas' Attack Plan More Than A Year Ago,</a>" by Ronan Bergman and Adam Goldman has revealed clear evidence that my questions were well placed. Israel did, in fact, know about the Hamas plan in detail long before it ever took place. </p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>Bergman and Goldman write:<p></p><blockquote>Israeli officials obtained Hamas’ battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.<br /><br />The approximately 40-page document, which Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.<br /><br />The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters.<br /><br />Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border, and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot — all of which happened Oct. 7.<br /><br />The plan also included details about the location and size of Israeli military forces, communication hubs and other sensitive information, raising questions about how Hamas gathered its intelligence and whether there were leaks inside the Israeli security establishment.<br /><br />The document circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders, but experts determined that an attack of that scale and ambition was beyond Hamas’ capabilities, according to documents and officials. It is unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other top political leaders saw the document, as well.<br /><br />Last year, shortly after the document was obtained, officials in the Israeli military’s Gaza division, which is responsible for defending the border with Gaza, said Hamas’ intentions were unclear.<br /><br />“It is not yet possible to determine whether the plan has been fully accepted and how it will be manifested,” read a military assessment reviewed by the Times.<br /><br />Then, in July, just three months before the attacks, a veteran analyst with Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence agency, warned that Hamas had conducted an intense, daylong training exercise that appeared similar to what was outlined in the blueprint.<br /><br />But a colonel in the Gaza division brushed off her concerns, according to encrypted emails viewed by the Times.<br /><br />“I utterly refute that the scenario is imaginary,” the analyst wrote in the email exchanges. The Hamas training exercise, she said, fully matched “the content of Jericho Wall.”<br /><br />“It is a plan designed to start a war,” she added. “It’s not just a raid on a village.”</blockquote><div>The analyst was thoroughly ignored and now Israeli officials privately acknowledge that merely shifting some forces to the south would have possibly dimmed or even prevented the Hamas attacks. Instead, Israeli forces on the ground were caught completely unprepared. This lead not only to the success of the Hamas attack but also to the deaths of scores of Israeli citizens. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Israeli government and its mainstream (and alternative) media supporters are, of course, painting this attack as a colossal failure of intelligence. According to them, Israeli military hubris simply did not believe that Hamas had the capability to launch an such as that detailed in the Jericho Wall document. </div><div><br /></div><div>Bergman and Goldman continue:</div><blockquote>Officials would not say how they obtained the Jericho Wall document, but it was among several versions of attack plans collected over the years. A 2016 Defense Ministry memorandum viewed by the Times, for example, says, “Hamas intends to move the next confrontation into Israeli territory.”<br /><br />Such an attack would most likely involve hostage-taking and “occupying an Israeli community (and perhaps even a number of communities),” the memo reads.<br /><br />The Jericho Wall document, named for the ancient fortifications in the modern-day West Bank, was even more explicit. It detailed rocket attacks to distract Israeli soldiers and send them hurrying into bunkers, and drones to disable the elaborate security measures along the border fence separating Israel and Gaza.<br /><br />Hamas fighters would then break through 60 points in the wall, storming across the border into Israel. The document begins with a quote from the Quran: “Surprise them through the gate. If you do, you will certainly prevail.”<br /><br />The same phrase has been widely used by Hamas in its videos and statements since Oct. 7.<br /><br />One of the most important objectives outlined in the document was to overrun the Israeli military base in Re’im, which is home to the Gaza division responsible for protecting the region. Other bases that fell under the division’s command were also listed.<br /><br />Hamas carried out that objective Oct. 7, rampaging through Re’im and overrunning parts of the base.<br /><br />The audacity of the blueprint, officials said, made it easy to underestimate. All militaries write plans that they never use, and Israeli officials assessed that, even if Hamas invaded, it might muster a force of a few dozen, not the hundreds who ultimately attacked.</blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>. . . . . </p>In September 2016, the defense minister’s office compiled a top-secret memorandum based on a much earlier iteration of a Hamas attack plan. The memorandum, which was signed by the defense minister at the time, Avigdor Lieberman, said that an invasion and hostage-taking would “lead to severe damage to the consciousness and morale of the citizens of Israel.”<br /><br />The memo, which was viewed by the Times, said Hamas had purchased sophisticated weapons, GPS jammers and drones. It also said Hamas had increased its fighting force to 27,000 people — having added 6,000 to its ranks in a two-year period. Hamas had hoped to reach 40,000 by 2020, the memo determined.</blockquote><p>But the signs were very clear for anyone to see. Indeed, many intelligence agents, such as the analyst mentioned in Bergman and Goldman's article, not only saw the signs but warned repeatedly that the plans were real and that the upper echelons of the Israeli military and intelligence apparatus were making a mistake by not taking them seriously. </p><p>Bergman and Goldman also describe how the Israeli military's Gaza division drafted an intelligence assessment earlier this year reporting that Hamas was planning an organized attack, even writing to other intelligence experts that Hamas had engaged in training exercises for just the kind of attacks as those described in the Jericho Wall document and using the same phrases contained in the document. Bergman and Goldman write:</p><blockquote>Last year, after Israel obtained the Jericho Wall document, the military’s Gaza division drafted its own intelligence assessment of this latest invasion plan.<br /><br />Hamas had “decided to plan a new raid, unprecedented in its scope,” analysts wrote in the assessment reviewed by the Times. It said that Hamas intended to carry out a deception operation followed by a “large-scale maneuver” with the aim of overwhelming the division.<br /><br />But the Gaza division referred to the plan as a “compass.” In other words, the division determined that Hamas knew where it wanted to go but had not arrived there yet.<br /><br />On July 6, 2023, the veteran Unit 8200 analyst wrote to a group of other intelligence experts that dozens of Hamas commandos had recently conducted training exercises, with senior Hamas commanders observing.<br /><br />The training included a dry run of shooting down Israeli aircraft and taking over a kibbutz and a military training base, killing all the cadets. During the exercise, Hamas fighters used the same phrase from the Quran that appeared at the top of the Jericho Wall attack plan, she wrote in the email exchanges viewed by the Times.<br /><br />The analyst warned that the drill closely followed the Jericho Wall plan, and that Hamas was building the capacity to carry it out.<br /><br />The colonel in the Gaza division applauded the analysis but said the exercise was part of a “totally imaginative” scenario, not an indication of Hamas’ ability to pull it off.<br /><br />“In short, let’s wait patiently,” the colonel wrote.<br /><br />The back-and-forth continued, with some colleagues supporting the analyst’s original conclusion. Soon, she invoked the lessons of the 1973 war, in which Syrian and Egyptian armies overran Israeli defenses. Israeli forces regrouped and repelled the invasion, but the intelligence failure has long served as a lesson for Israeli security officials.<br /><br />“We already underwent a similar experience 50 years ago on the southern front in connection with a scenario that seemed imaginary, and history may repeat itself if we are not careful,” the analyst wrote to her colleagues.</blockquote><p>Whether the Israeli intelligence apparatus ignored the analyst out of hubris or the intention to allow the attacks to happen to justify military operations against Gaza, the end result was the same. Nevertheless, for those who are unaware of just how closely Hamas and the Israeli government are related, it is important to understand the history of Hamas' creation. </p><b>Who Is Hamas?</b><br /><br />On its own soil, Israel has long been documented as <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2550513.stm">creating “fake” al-Qaeda groups</a> to justify its treatment of the Palestinian people.<br /><br />With that in mind, it is important to note that Israel’s arch nemesis, Hamas, was created by Israel itself for the purpose of splitting the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) and Fatah, the leading outfit for the Palestinian freedom and resistance movement.<br /><br />Robert Dreyfuss, a veteran journalist for The Nation, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/israel-and-the-u-s-created-hamas-hezbollah-and-other-terrorists-via-blowback.html">even wrote that</a>,<br /><br /><blockquote>In the decades before 9/11, hard-core activists and organizations among Muslim fundamentalists on the far right were often viewed as allies for two reasons, because they were seen a fierce anti-communists and because the opposed secular nationalists such as Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Iran’s Mohammed Mossadegh.<div> <br />*** </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>In Syria, the United States, Israel, and Jordan supported the Muslim Brotherhood in a civil war against Syria. And … Israel quietly backed Ahmed Yassin and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West Bank and Gaza, leading to the establishment of Hamas.</div></blockquote><div>As Justin Raimondo of <a href="http://antiwar.com/">AntiWar.com</a> wrote in his 2006 article “<a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2006/01/27/hamas-son-of-israel/">Hamas, Son of Israel</a>,”<br /><br /></div><blockquote><div>Amid all the howls of pain and gnashing of teeth over the triumph of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, one fact remains relatively obscure, albeit highly relevant: Israel did much to <a href="http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=18062002-051845-8272r">launch Hamas</a> as an effective force in the occupied territories. If ever there was a clear case of “<a href="http://tinyurl.com/auhcm">blowback</a>,” then this is it. As Richard Sale pointed out in <a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2002/06/18/Analysis-Hamas-history-tied-to-Israel/UPI-82721024445587/">a piece for UPI</a>:<br /><br />Israel and Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years. Israel ‘aided Hamas directly – the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization),’ said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic [and International] Studies.Israel’s support for Hamas ‘was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative,’ said a former senior CIA official.</div><div> <br />Middle East analyst Ray Hanania <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/hanania01182003.html">concurs</a>:</div><div> <br />In addition to hoping to turn the Palestinian masses away from Arafat and the PLO, the Likud leadership believed they could achieve a workable alliance with Islamic, anti-Arafat forces that would also extend Israel’s control over the occupied territories.</div><div> <br />In a conscious effort to undermine the Palestine Liberation Organization and the leadership of Yasser Arafat, in 1978 the government of then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin <a href="http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=13">approved the application</a> of Sheik Ahmad Yassin to start a “humanitarian” organization known as the Islamic Association, or Mujama. The roots of this Islamist group were in the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, and this was the seed that eventually grew into Hamas – but not before it was amply fertilized and nurtured with Israeli funding and political support.It is important to note here that the Muslim Brotherhood, in addition to this close connection to the predecessor of Hamas and thus Mossad and other forms of Israeli intelligence, also contains close and historical ties to Western intelligence, <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/unmasking-the-muslim-brotherhood-syria-egypt-and-beyond">most notably the British and the American versions</a>.</div></blockquote><div>With that in mind, Raimondo’s article continues by stating that,<br /></div><blockquote><div>Begin and his successor, Yitzhak Shamir, launched an effort to undercut the PLO, creating the so-called Village Leagues, composed of local councils of handpicked Palestinians who were willing to collaborate with Israel – and, in return, were put on the Israeli payroll. Sheik Yassin and his followers soon became a force within the Village Leagues. This tactical alliance between Yassin and the Israelis was based on a shared antipathy to the militantly <a href="http://tinyurl.com/8yl4p">secular and leftist</a> PLO: the Israelis allowed Yassin’s group to publish a newspaper and set up an extensive network of charitable organizations, which collected funds not only from the Israelis but also from Arab states opposed to Arafat.</div><div> <br />Ami Isseroff, writing on MideastWeb,<a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/hamashistory.htm">shows</a> how the Israelis deliberately promoted the Islamists of the future Hamas by helping them turn the Islamic University of Gaza into a base from which the group recruited activists – and the suicide bombers of tomorrow. As the only higher-education facility in the Gaza strip, and the only such institution open to Palestinians since Anwar Sadat closed Egyptian colleges to them, IUG contained within its grounds the seeds of the future Palestinian state. When a conflict arose over religious issues, however, the Israeli authorities sided with the Islamists against the secularists of the Fatah-PLO mainstream. As Isseroff relates, the Islamists</div><div> <br />Encouraged Israeli authorities to dismiss their opponents in the committee in February of 1981, resulting in subsequent Islamisation of IUG policy and staff (including the obligation on women to wear the hijab and thobe and separate entrances for men and women), and enforced by violence and ostracization of dissenters. Tacit complicity from both university and Israeli authorities allowed Mujama to keep a weapons cache to use against secularists. By the mid 1980s, it was the largest university in occupied territories with 4,500 students, and student elections were won handily by Mujama.</div><div> <br />Again, the motive was to offset Arafat’s influence and divide the Palestinians. In the short term, this may have worked to some extent; in the longer term, however, it backfired badly – as demonstrated by the results of the recent Palestinian election</div><div> <br />***</div><div> <br />Israel’s relentless offensive against its perceived enemies – first Fatah, now Hamas and Islamic Jihad – has created a backlash and solidified support for fundamentalist extremist factions in the Palestinian community.</div></blockquote><div>What Raimondo refers to as “backlash”, however, has revealed itself to be more of a cleverly written script designed to play out years later.<br /><br />Still, The Wall Street Journal concurred with Raimondo’s analysis in an article published in 2009. In this article, entitled “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123275572295011847?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB123275572295011847.html">How Israel Helped To Spawn Hamas</a>,” Andrew Higgins wrote,<br /><br /></div><blockquote><div>"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction.</div><div> <br />Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.</div><div> <br />***</div><div> </div><div>When Israel first encountered Islamists in Gaza in the 1970s and ’80s, they seemed focused on studying the Quran, not on confrontation with Israel. The Israeli government officially recognized a precursor to Hamas called Mujama Al-Islamiya, registering the group as a charity. It allowed Mujama members to set up an Islamic university and build mosques, clubs and schools. Crucially, Israel often stood aside when the Islamists and their secular left-wing Palestinian rivals battled, sometimes violently, for influence in both Gaza and the West Bank.</div><div> <br />***</div><div> <br />When it became clear in the early 1990s that Gaza’s Islamists had mutated from a religious group into a fighting force aimed at Israel — particularly after they turned to suicide bombings in 1994 — Israel cracked down with ferocious force. But each military assault only increased Hamas’s appeal to ordinary Palestinians. The group ultimately trounced secular rivals, notably Fatah, in a 2006 election supported by Israel’s main ally, the U.S.</div><div> <br />***</div><div> <br />In Gaza, Israel hunted down members of Fatah and other secular PLO factions, but it dropped harsh restrictions imposed on Islamic activists by the territory’s previous Egyptian rulers.</div><div> <br />***</div><div> <br />The Muslim Brotherhood, led in Gaza by Sheikh Yassin, was free to spread its message openly. In addition to launching various charity projects, Sheikh Yassin collected money to reprint the writings of Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian member of the Brotherhood who, before his execution by President Nasser, advocated global jihad. He is now seen as one of the founding ideologues of militant political Islam. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>Mr. Cohen, who worked at the time for the Israeli government’s religious affairs department in Gaza, says he began to hear disturbing reports in the mid-1970s about Sheikh Yassin from traditional Islamic clerics. He says they warned that the sheikh had no formal Islamic training and was ultimately more interested in politics than faith. “They said, ‘Keep away from Yassin. He is a big danger,’” recalls Mr. Cohen.</div><div> <br />Instead, Israel’s military-led administration in Gaza looked favorably on the paraplegic cleric, who set up a wide network of schools, clinics, a library and kindergartens. Sheikh Yassin formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya, which was officially recognized by Israel as a charity and then, in 1979, as an association. Israel also endorsed the establishment of the Islamic University of Gaza, which it now regards as a hotbed of militancy.</div><div> <br />***</div><div> <br />Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who took over as governor in Gaza in late 1979, says he had no illusions about Sheikh Yassin’s long-term intentions or the perils of political Islam. As Israel’s former military attache in Iran, he’d watched Islamic fervor topple the Shah. However, in Gaza, says Mr. Segev, “our main enemy was Fatah,” and the cleric “was still 100% peaceful” towards Israel. Former officials say Israel was also at the time wary of being viewed as an enemy of Islam.</div><div> <br />Mr. Segev says he had regular contact with Sheikh Yassin, in part to keep an eye on him. He visited his mosque and met the cleric around a dozen times. It was illegal at the time for Israelis to meet anyone from the PLO. Mr. Segev later arranged for the cleric to be taken to Israel for hospital treatment. “We had no problems with him,” he says.</div><div> <br />In fact, the cleric and Israel had a shared enemy: secular Palestinian activists. After a failed attempt in Gaza to oust secularists from leadership of the Palestinian Red Crescent, the Muslim version of the Red Cross, Mujama staged a violent demonstration, storming the Red Crescent building. Islamists also attacked shops selling liquor and cinemas. The Israeli military mostly stood on the sidelines. [emphasis added]</div><div> <br />***</div><div> <br />A leader of Birzeit’s Islamist faction at the time was Mahmoud Musleh, now a pro-Hamas member of a Palestinian legislature elected in 2006. He recalls how usually aggressive Israeli security forces stood back and let conflagration develop. He denies any collusion between his own camp and the Israelis, but says “they hoped we would become an alternative to the PLO.”</div><div> <br />A year later, in 1984, the Israeli military received a tip-off from Fatah supporters that Sheikh Yassin’s Gaza Islamists were collecting arms, according to Israeli officials in Gaza at the time. Israeli troops raided a mosque and found a cache of weapons. Sheikh Yassin was jailed. He told Israeli interrogators the weapons were for use against rival Palestinians, not Israel, according to Mr. Hacham, the military affairs expert who says he spoke frequently with jailed Islamists. The cleric was released after a year and continued to expand Mujama’s reach across Gaza. [emphasis added]</div><div> <br />Taking into consideration the fact that Israel has provided military and medical support to the most bloodthirsty and brutal Islamic extremist terrorists in the world and the fact that it has created Hamas from the very beginning, the answer to the question of “Why aren't organizations like Nusra, al-Qaeda, and ISIS attacking Israel?” is quite simple – because Israel is partly responsible for funding and directing them.</div></blockquote><div>With all of this in mind, any claims of victimhood by Israel should immediately be discarded. Indeed, this portrayal of self-defense and endangerment should especially be discarded when one considers the history of the state itself. This does not justify the attack on innocent Israeli citizens, however. It is important to distinguish between natural born Israeli civilians and their counterparts of settlers and the Israeli government. <br /><br />Israel has made its own enemies by virtue of its colonial nature, its foreign and domestic policy, and even by direct organization and funding. It is thus wholly accurate to say that Israel’s enemies are literally those of its own making.<br /><br />In the end, the information presented in this article is simply one more window into the realm of the Anglo-European-American-Israeli intelligence apparatus and the depths to which the rabbit hole goes in terms of international terrorism. The script which is being acted out across the Middle East and the rest of the world is clearly being directed by a force unseen by the vast majority of the world’s population.<br /><br />Still, the players act out their roles according to the predetermined narrative provided to them, despite the fact that they have no idea they are actually acting out the will of a shadowy “other” who does not have their best interests at heart.<br /><br />In this game, virtually all of those acting out their parts on the ground are merely players unaware of their roles.<p><b>Conclusion - Suggestions For Negotiated End To War</b></p><p>At the time of the writing of this article, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-intensifies-assault-southern-gaza-073227961.html" target="_blank">has fallen apart</a>. A few prisoners and hostages have been released but the slaughter will continue. The ceasefire, of course, was only enacted to save Joe Biden's political face in the United States and Netanyahu's in Israel so that both will be able to tout claims of retrieving American and Israeli citizens. </p><p>It is difficult to criticize the ceasefire agreement even if the reasons are political in nature. But now the ceasefire is over. </p>The war between Hamas and Israel threaten to bring in more powers besides the two directly fighting, all the way to the point of multinational military conflicts directly in the region and far outside its scope. Already, Hezbollah and Israel are trading rocket fire on the border. Hezbollah is backed by Iran which, predictably, is a connection Israel and its acolytes will seize upon in order to justify military conflict with Iran and claims that Iran is ultimately behind the current conflict, thus bringing in the United States to do the heavy lifting.<br /> <br />Interestingly enough, the spokesman for <a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/1008/1409642-lebanon-israel/">Hamas has already told</a> the BBC that Iran gave its support to the organization for the operation that was just launched. It is unusual for combatants to openly volunteer the names of their financial backers but, conveniently for those who want to demonize Iran and blame it for the new war, Hamas has come through with flying colors. <br /><br />Iran's side of the story is currently unknown. Perhaps it did support the operation and perhaps it did not. Both possibilities are realistic but neither of them will matter in the West where the Western media has already drawn the logical conclusion - Iran is responsible for the attacks in Israel.<br /><br />The current Israeli war is already spilling across borders but, if it is not contained immediately, will risk bringing in Lebanon, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Egypt, the United States, NATO, and Russia. Yemen's Houthis have already declared war on Israel and have launched multiple missile attacks against Israeli territory. In addition, a wider war will bring in the gangs and hordes of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists the West and GCC have sponsored across the Middle East.<br /><br />Western powers must stay out of the Israeli/Hamas war. Both the United States and Russia (though it will likely only become involved as a result of US involvement) must show the utmost restraint in this regard. </div><div><br /></div><div>As for the American role, the United States should use its influence to negotiate a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. An agreement should entail the following:</div><div><br /></div><div>1.) An immediate cessation of armed hostilities </div><div>2.) A One State solution encompassing the territory of Israel, West Bank, and Gaza</div><div>3.) Guarantee of equal rights for all citizens, Arab, Israeli, Palestinian, Jew, Christian, etc. </div><div>4.) Right of return for exiled and displaced Palestinians (but not for their descendants)</div><div>5.) Expulsion of Israeli settlers and immigrants to their home countries.</div><div>6.) Lend Lease style program to aid in the rebuilding of war torn and apartheid afflicted areas. </div><div>7.) An end to financial support by the United States to both Israel and Palestinian territories. </div><div><br /></div><div>A rejection of the offered peace deal should result in the immediate cessation of American military and financial support or diplomatic cover to one or both sides followed by a public declaration that the United States will not engage itself militarily or diplomatically to protect or defend either side and that warring parties will be subject to the consequences of their own actions. Hamas should not be considered the negotiating party representing Palestine but only one of several interested parties. </div><div><br /></div><div>The United States cannot allow Israel to drag it into World War Three. The primary and ultimate concern of the United States government is to ensure the security and prosperity of the United States, not foreign nations. The United States cannot afford another war, especially a World War. The world cannot afford to allow this war to become the graveyard of humanity. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandon Turbeville is a journalist and author. He is the author of fourteen books, including <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">7 Real Conspiracies</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Sense Solutions</a> and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/dispatches-from-dissident-articles-from.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1</a> and<a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=19038&ID=6318fa2d-7ac3-42c0-b510-b6aeadfa93db" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"> volume 2</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=23813&ID=e489793f-d003-471a-9a4c-02f7e3df4d77" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,</a> <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/the-difference-it-makes-36-reasons-hillary-clinton-should-never-be-president/f41a75c2-a316-4932-b4eb-e7efdb9f6a5a" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President</a>, and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1541205626/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome</a> as </em><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The War Continues <a href="https://www.amazon.com/War-Continues-Syrian-Crisis-2016-2022/dp/B0C47TCCPD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=M44IF0HUFEUF&keywords=the+war+continues&qid=1693944584&sprefix=the+war+continues%2Caps%2C493&sr=8-1" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Vol. 1</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/War-Continues-Syrian-Crisis-2016-2022/dp/B0C481P765/ref=sr_1_2?crid=M44IF0HUFEUF&keywords=the+war+continues&qid=1693944609&sprefix=the+war+continues%2Caps%2C493&sr=8-2" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">2</a>.</b></em><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Turbeville has published over 2500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. He has also released a book of poetry, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon also hosted a radio show for three years which was called Truth on The Tracks. His website is <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">BrandonTurbeville.com.</a> You can contact him through his website. </em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-35309014714530807972023-11-03T07:25:00.002-07:002023-11-03T07:26:00.256-07:00Seymour Hersh Releases Leaked Pentagon/DIA Document - One More Nail In The Coffin Of Western Gov't Official Story Of Syria Chemical Weapons Claims<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjHb_SmpzgcZS9zSetD5F96SmIxuZHtnjiTlOQfVPkzlArP6axPk5oba9HnvT400lU3Y3AJT8tkflBfzJvY-5Ohn3tPcW5QXXamw8_VokEAAesA6Bw8582kDvTd6R-YS2m2T3mFEATD0SC61QmBC9Kg9bz1mBtSIjCwOthwH-l3O9Ba3TVYuAbUeXM2K-l/s1280/Flag_of_Syria.svg.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjHb_SmpzgcZS9zSetD5F96SmIxuZHtnjiTlOQfVPkzlArP6axPk5oba9HnvT400lU3Y3AJT8tkflBfzJvY-5Ohn3tPcW5QXXamw8_VokEAAesA6Bw8582kDvTd6R-YS2m2T3mFEATD0SC61QmBC9Kg9bz1mBtSIjCwOthwH-l3O9Ba3TVYuAbUeXM2K-l/s320/Flag_of_Syria.svg.png" width="320" /></a></div>Brandon Turbeville</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2023/11/seymour-hersh-releases-leaked.html">BrandonTurbeville.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">November 3, 2023</div><p>With absolutely no fanfare in either the alternative or mainstream media, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has released a leaked Pentagon/DIA assessment of the chemical warfare capability of Jobhat al-Nusra/Al-Nusra Front (also known as Al-Qaeda), a fact that Western governments and Western media simply would not admit during their "chemical weapons" propaganda volley against the Syrian government. The document is from June 20, 2013.</p><p>The documents were released in Hersh's article entitled "<a href="https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/when-the-intelligence-is-inconvenient" target="_blank">When the Intelligence is Inconvenient</a>" and can be found on his Substack page. The entire article can be read in full with a subscription. </p><p>A <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/seymour-hersh-publishes-leaked-memo-undermining-us-narrative-2013-syria-sarin-attack/285697/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">brief excerpt</a> from the article reads:</p><blockquote>On Sunday Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Jonathan Karl of ABC’s This Week that he remained “very confident in Ukraine’s ultimate success” in the ongoing war with Russia. He depicted Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to escalate its attacks inside Russia as “their decision, not ours.”<br /><br />Blinken’s wrong-headed confidence and his acceptance of a significant escalation in the Ukraine war defies belief, given the reality on the ground today in the war. But it also could be based on insanely optimistic assessments supplied by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The DIA’s assessments, as I have reported, are now the intelligence of choice inside the White House.<br /><br />As a journalist who has written about national security matters for many decades, how can I explain a process that is clearly contrary to the best interests of the people of the United States and its leadership?</blockquote><p>More importantly than Hersh's quotes, however, are the quotes from the DIA assessment itself. </p><p></p><blockquote><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>The al-Nusrah Front associated sarin production cell is the most advanced sarin plot since al-Qaeda's pre-9/11 effort. Arrests in Iraq and Turkey have disrupted the cell's operations; however we assess the intent to produce advanced chemical weapons (CW) remains. Previous IC focus had been almost entirely on Syrian CW stockpiles; now we seen ANF attempting to make its own CW. <p></p><p>. . . . . </p><p>To continue with a sarin effort they will need to recruit scientific expertise. Less difficult will be obtaining needed chemicals; Ghani has a chemical facilitation route already.</p><p>. . . . . </p><p>Al-Nusrah's relative freedom of operation within Syria leads us to assess the group's CW aspirations will be difficult to disrupt in the future. </p><p>. . . . . </p><p>Under the section "Turkey-based Chemical Facilitators:" </p><p>The first part of this effort we saw in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. April-May several Turkey and Saudi-based chemical facilitators were attempting to obtain sarin precursors in bulk, tens of kilograms, likely for the anticipated large-scale production effort in Syria. Three of these individuals were detained by the TNIO in late May; </p><p>. . . . . </p><p>Turkey based Barack is still at large. He attempted to help procurement, and offered to help produce a chemical for the cell. He allegedly has a PhD from an unnamed Western university. </p><p>Section IV - "Use of the Baghdad Chemical Market:" </p><p>The Baghdad market has supported at least seven CW efforts since 2004</p><p>Section V - "Syria-based ANF Links"</p><p>Supervising their work was Abd al-Ghani, the Aleppo-based ANF emir for military manufacturing. SIGINT from April-May shows Ghani talking with both Adil and Kifah about sarin production.</p><p>. . . . . </p><p>The Syria-based part of this effort may have begun as early as late 2012. Abu Muhammad Al-Hamawi, the ANF emir for Hamah, was attempting to obtain phosphorous trichloride, a key sarin precursor, in December, 2012. </p><p>Section VII - "Disrupting Future CW Efforts:"</p><p>We believe ANF continues to intend to make sarin. What indicator and warnings might we see?</p><p>Evidence of restart is most likely through discussion of precursor acquisition, unless ANF is able to obtain needed chemicals within Syria. The IC learned about the sarin cell from SIGINT of the Turkey-Saudi-based chemical facilitators.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>You can read the entire assessment <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/seymour-hersh-publishes-leaked-memo-undermining-us-narrative-2013-syria-sarin-attack/285697/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">at this link</a> </p><p>Hersh's publication of the DIA/Pentagon assessment is just one more nail in the coffin of Western governments claims that only the Syrian government had access to chemical weapons. Indeed, this document shows that intelligence agencies were aware that al-Nusra Front did indeed have not only the intent but the ability to operate a network of chemical weapons production on an international level. Coupled with the fact that the terrorists also had access to sarin and individuals with knowledge of how to produce such a chemical only demonstrates the deceit Western governments were and are willing to engage in for purposes of geopolitics and imperialism. </p><p><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandon Turbeville is a journalist and author. He is the author of fourteen books, including <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">7 Real Conspiracies</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Sense Solutions</a> and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/dispatches-from-dissident-articles-from.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1</a> and<a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=19038&ID=6318fa2d-7ac3-42c0-b510-b6aeadfa93db" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"> volume 2</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=23813&ID=e489793f-d003-471a-9a4c-02f7e3df4d77" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,</a> <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/the-difference-it-makes-36-reasons-hillary-clinton-should-never-be-president/f41a75c2-a316-4932-b4eb-e7efdb9f6a5a" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President</a>, and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1541205626/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome</a> as </em><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The War Continues <a href="https://www.amazon.com/War-Continues-Syrian-Crisis-2016-2022/dp/B0C47TCCPD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=M44IF0HUFEUF&keywords=the+war+continues&qid=1693944584&sprefix=the+war+continues%2Caps%2C493&sr=8-1" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Vol. 1</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/War-Continues-Syrian-Crisis-2016-2022/dp/B0C481P765/ref=sr_1_2?crid=M44IF0HUFEUF&keywords=the+war+continues&qid=1693944609&sprefix=the+war+continues%2Caps%2C493&sr=8-2" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">2</a>.</b></em><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Turbeville has published over 2500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. He has also released a book of poetry, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon also hosted a radio show for three years which was called Truth on The Tracks. His website is <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">BrandonTurbeville.com.</a> You can contact him through his website.</em></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-43038553635565520022023-10-24T06:47:00.004-07:002023-10-24T06:48:53.716-07:00Protests In Suweida Reminiscent Of 2011 - Who Is Behind Them?<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Fl1SGpos_7kV63IkhIzR_V4z6PaDg4XEKTKjbQrXY9312QkI2qNl1V0draXBZCUSgLeNeUaqtHXUEAXR35gf0GoJkNHYMlZgJHdCnyFGW8ICe9M5P_SJoUmTJJhQ9p5wK40_4YzhV8Dh6G4U5eY6al41XoZ_MH0R6mBYy49-pHoqyGYKJkGSup6MXYSJ/s320/Flag_of_Syria.svg.png" /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">Brandon Turbeville</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2023/10/protests-in-suweida-reminiscent-of-2011.html" target="_blank">BrandonTurbeville.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">October 24, 2023<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Twelve years after the initiation of the Western backed destabilization in Syria, it appears the Western intelligence and military apparatus is once again attempting to stir up a "popular" revolution against the government of Bashar al-Assad. This time, however, not only do they continue to use their proxy fighters in the form of terrorists and Kurdish fanatics, they are also attempting to use the domestic population to further fracture Syrian society. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Having suffered through over a dozen years of horrific warfare that saw their country largely destroyed and an almost unimaginable loss of life, Syrians were then saddled with American (and thus Western) sanctions that have brought the entire Syrian economy to a halt, causing as much suffering as the war itself at least in terms of living standards for the average Syrian. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">With the frontlines largely quiet except for daily shelling and occasional airstrikes, Syrians are forced to reckon with the fact that, even with the guns silent, their lives will not return to normal or to any sense of normalcy. Basic necessities like electricity, fuel, medical care, and food are are scarce and have been scarce for some time. Certainly, they have been scarce long enough for the words of their government to "hold on just a little longer" to start feeling hollow. Indeed, starving Syrians have begun to look at Syrian government officials whose lives do continue on as normal with the resentful eyes of the hungry that only someone with an empty belly can truly understand. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This resentment is what Western powers are attempting to take advantage of. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>I myself saw the beginnings signs of the coming "2nd Revolution" when I was last in Syria and have long worried that Western powers would eventually find fertile ground for such a catastrophe. Such feelings are only natural after all and any failing of the Syrian government will of course be exploited to the utmost degree by Western powers. Unfortunately for the Assad government, it's options are slim and decidedly radical if implemented, a tall order for any country broken from a decade of war that it is still continuing to fight. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>With all that being said, it is still unclear as to just what is happening on the ground in Syria. While some assume that the rumblings of revolt against the Syrian government are nothing more than a new attempt by Western powers to further weaken the country and the government's rule, others suggest that they are firmly an expression of frustration by Syrians. While both explanations are plausible, it is also possible that they are a mixture of the two. </div><div><br /></div><div>Vanessa Beeley, who has long been a fantastic source of information and reporting on Syria and who currently lives there, discussed this issue last month in her report for UK Column entitled "Western Intelligence agencies recycle the 2011 "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBdLwkwU6lI&ab_channel=vanessabeeley" target="_blank">Revolution" in southern Syria with Israel playing an instrumental role</a>." In this report, she wrote that "Syrians, despite the hardships they are enduring remain opposed to further sectarian division. Only a small minority backed by Israel and the US, UK and EU, financed by Qatar (reported) are allowing their grievances to be hijacked by the West and are welcoming terrorists into their midst again."</div><div><br /></div><div>Beeley suggests that this new expression of revolt is actually a destabilization campaign created by the American, British, and French intelligence agencies with the goal of destabilizing the south of the country specifically. </div><div><br /></div><div>The protests and revolt in question were taking place in Suweida Governate, a largely Druze area. </div><div><br /></div><div>Her evidence supported her perspective is as follows:</div><div><br /></div><div>1.) In May-July of 2023, there were meetings in Paris between the French and British intelligence agencies and the head of the Syrian Brigade Party. The SBP is a derivative of the terrorist Free Syrian Army. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.) Qatari funding of $30 million to make moves against the Syrian government. $200k of which was given to the leadership of the Brigade in Suweida to provide water tanks, medical assistance, etc. to compensate for the inability of the Syrian government to provide essential services and functions due to Western sanctions. </div><div><br /></div><div>3.) The Federalist Project by these agencies to increase sectarian dissent and increase calls for autonomy amongst sects, religions, ethnicities, etc. </div><div><br /></div><div>4.) To establish border crossings to "facilitate" "humanitarian aid" but will essentially be used to import fighters and weapons into Syria from Jordan.</div><div><br /></div><div>5.) 16,000 Druze trainees at al-Tanf U.S. base, 3,500 of which are prepared to replace Syrian state security forces. </div><div><br /></div><div>6.) 7,500 terrorists from Turkish occupied territory in the north will be deployed to the border with Jordan to control the border crossings. </div><div><br /></div><div>7.) Moves to achieve international recognition of the Federalist Movement from France, UK, and US and they will ask for international protection, i.e. a No Fly Zone. </div><div><br /></div><div>8.) French, UK, and US intelligence will provide communication networks, logistics, and surveillance technology to the movement/fighters. Joint operations will be used to establish the movement on the border with Jordan. </div><div><br /></div><div>To be clear, the information above comes from Syria media, presumably having received their information from Syrian intelligence sources. </div><div><br /></div><div>In her report to the UK Column, Beeley shares a number of photographs which back up her claims and the information shared by Syrian media. </div><div><br /></div><div>1.) Recent protests in Suweida city. Photo shows Balaclava clad "militants" holding rifles. It is not clear whether or not they are Druze militia members, FSA fighters, or other militants. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.) Photos of protesters holding signs calling for autonomy. </div><div><br /></div><div>3.) Lack of Syrian national flag in any of the protests. </div><div><br /></div><div>4.) Blogs describing the protests in ways such as "Syria: Negotiations Between Assad And Druze In Southern Syria Have Failed; Demonstrations Expected Tomorrow." Reminiscent of how "protests" were described in Daraa in 2011. </div><div><br /></div><div>Blog goes on to say:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>According to Syrian media, talks between the Assad regime and Sheikh Hikmat al-Hajri, the spiritual leader of the Druze in Suweida (southern Syria), aimed at pacifying the situation after over a week of continuous protests, have proven unsuccessful. </div><div><br /></div><div>All attention is now on the planned demonstrations set to take place tomorrow, on their scale, and their potential to stimulate anti-Assad sentiment not only within Sweida and Daraa districts in southern Syria, but also beyond. </div></blockquote><div>5.) Blogs like Abu Ali Express (which Beeley associates with Israel as the blog has an Israeli flag on the blogs home page) apparently promoting the protests. </div><div><br /></div><div>5.) Megaphone News Twitter page reporting "The Syrian city of #Sweida witnessed the largest anti-#assad protests since strikes and demonstrations began four days ago. Suwayda24 reported that activists confirmed that the internet connection was weak and they were having trouble uploading and sharing photos and videos. It is also reported that several protesters headed to the #Damascus-Sweida road to prevent Russian forces from coming into the city, after learning that the latter might come to bring food aid." This, of course, would make little sense if the issue is the lack of essentials. Beeley suggests that the real reason is to paralyze the Governor of Suweida Governate and to pose as the real saviors of the region themselves. </div><div><br /></div><div>6.) Daraa activist Nedal Al-Amari (actually in Daraa) posting on Twitter "For the 5 consecutive day, we continue until the regime falls and the Nazi Russia is expelled from our land. Glory to Great Syria. </div><div><br /></div><div>7.) Video from Suweida posted by Suwayda24 channel of the protests. A protester leading a chant saying "We are one people. Syrians are one people." Beeley points out that there are no Syrian flags present. However, there is a Druze flag and a Free Syrian Army flag. She also adds that there are no women at this protest. </div><div><br /></div><div>"Former terrorists are actually mingling with these Suweida protesters," Beeley says, also pointing out that the videos are zoomed in, which she suggests is done to make the protests look bigger than they are, a common technique used by Western countries to make their destabilization efforts look more popular than they are for propaganda purposes. Beeley says that video zoomed out shows that the protests are actually quite small. </div><div><br /></div><div>8.) Suwayda24 has cooperated and collaborated in the past with Western media organizations like the BBC in order to promote the theory that Syria is essentially a narco state headed by Bashar al-Assad, a theory promoted by Western media and terrorists in Syria. </div><div><br /></div><div>9.) Reuters and AP (and other Western, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/8/antigovernment-protesters-tear-down-picture-of-al-assad-in-syrias-sweida" target="_blank">GCC</a>, and Israeli media outlets) picking up stories from Suwayda24 and using its photos in the same pattern as in 2011 and in color revolutions in other countries such as Ukraine. Pro-"opposition" "activists" promoting the Suweida protests as well. </div><div><br /></div><div>10.) Attempts by terrorist supporters to claim that protests are spreading, despite evidence to the contrary. </div><div><br /></div><div>While the protests themselves largely seem to have fizzled out, it still remains unclear as to what was truly behind them. However, the points made by Beeley certainly lend credence to the argument that very real complaints against the Syrian government were quickly hijacked and exploited by agencies and groups who wish to see the Syrian government destroyed and the country broken apart. We will simply have to continue to analyze the situation for more information. </div><div><br /></div><div>Watch Beeley's video for yourself here:</div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="314" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fvanessa.beeley%2Fvideos%2F871565684480422%2F&show_text=false&width=560&t=0" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandon Turbeville is a journalist and author. He is the author of fourteen books, including <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">7 Real Conspiracies</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Sense Solutions</a> and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/dispatches-from-dissident-articles-from.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1</a> and<a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=19038&ID=6318fa2d-7ac3-42c0-b510-b6aeadfa93db" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"> volume 2</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=23813&ID=e489793f-d003-471a-9a4c-02f7e3df4d77" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,</a> <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/the-difference-it-makes-36-reasons-hillary-clinton-should-never-be-president/f41a75c2-a316-4932-b4eb-e7efdb9f6a5a" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President</a>, and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1541205626/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome</a> as </em><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The War Continues <a href="https://www.amazon.com/War-Continues-Syrian-Crisis-2016-2022/dp/B0C47TCCPD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=M44IF0HUFEUF&keywords=the+war+continues&qid=1693944584&sprefix=the+war+continues%2Caps%2C493&sr=8-1" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Vol. 1</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/War-Continues-Syrian-Crisis-2016-2022/dp/B0C481P765/ref=sr_1_2?crid=M44IF0HUFEUF&keywords=the+war+continues&qid=1693944609&sprefix=the+war+continues%2Caps%2C493&sr=8-2" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">2</a>.</b></em><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Turbeville has published over 2500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. He has also released a book of poetry, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon also hosted a radio show for three years which was called Truth on The Tracks. His website is <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">BrandonTurbeville.com.</a> You can contact him through his website.</em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-60342966004229409512023-10-08T16:25:00.006-07:002023-10-08T16:26:45.156-07:00Somethings Not Right About The Israel/Hamas War - Could It Lead To Genocide, World War Three?<div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP4BNRItOCX-a4CLFSe91XP-o66Fo0j2NL5FSP4JF1tOo5BQ2bB3uYqzl1pRLQnAWb40PSvY8vQr8Q56k8v7lc_-pdBA3XM4c1JtO7rXVcgE52-SW5jrs2M7xNb2kC3LR2tv5oRf7p5HABFU-wi0WL3ur4s7sjkzeYyWg6toNQ1N5vD_eC2yHOrrgyf92v/s320/israelus.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="312" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP4BNRItOCX-a4CLFSe91XP-o66Fo0j2NL5FSP4JF1tOo5BQ2bB3uYqzl1pRLQnAWb40PSvY8vQr8Q56k8v7lc_-pdBA3XM4c1JtO7rXVcgE52-SW5jrs2M7xNb2kC3LR2tv5oRf7p5HABFU-wi0WL3ur4s7sjkzeYyWg6toNQ1N5vD_eC2yHOrrgyf92v/s1600/israelus.png" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dees Illustration</td></tr></tbody></table>Brandon Turbeville</div><div><a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2023/10/somethings-not-right-about-israelhamas.html" target="_blank">BrandonTurbeville.com</a></div><div>October 8, 2023<br /></div><div><br /></div>On Saturday morning, an ominously quiet region was set alight with rocket fire, gun battles, and declarations of war, the latter threatening to bring in a multitude of other countries on either side. Indeed, the events that took place yesterday in Palestine and Israel could very well be the powder keg that ignites the rest of the world into an open and undeniable Third World War.<div> <br />The clash began when fighters from Hamas launched rockets and a ground attack on villages near Gaza. Unlike previous clashes, the fighters used paratroops and parasails and also cut through the border fence to conduct their operations which were also conducted from the sea with Hamas using a number of ships. Hamas was able to capture several villages under Israeli control as well as make off with Israeli soldiers as prisoners. Hamas also reportedly captured Israeli civilians, taking them back across the battle lines into Hamas territory. <br /><br />Hamas also launched thousands of rockets, with some reports of between 2,000 and 5,000, against numerous cities, with Tel Aviv reporting damage as well. Israeli officials claimed that 300 people were killed and hundreds wounded. Palestinian officials from the Palestinian Health Ministry reported 160 Palestinians had been killed and estimated that 1,000 were wounded. <br /><br />Reports stated between 13 and 21 Israeli controlled villages were "infiltrated" by Hamas. <br /><br />As <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/07/israel-pm-says-we-are-at-war-after-hamas-attacks-by-land-air-and-sea/" target="_blank">Kyle Anzalone writes for Antiwar</a>, <br /><br />Human rights groups consider Gaza an “open-air prison.” Most Palestinians living in the region are refugees. Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on the planet, with 2 million people living in 140 sq. miles. Israel severely restricts the amount of food, fuel, and water the people of Gaza can access.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><br /><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/07/israel-pm-says-we-are-at-war-after-hamas-attacks-by-land-air-and-sea/">As Antiwar reports</a>,<br /><blockquote>An Israeli official said the Palestinian forces were able to capture the headquarters of an Israeli military unit near Gaza. “The headquarters of the Gaza division in camp Ra’im is under the control of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam brigades,” the official explained.<br /><br />Photos and videos on Twitter show Hamas returning to Gaza with captured Israeli military equipment. Additional images show Israeli Brigadier General Nimrod Aloni was captured by Hamas, although this has not been confirmed by either side.<br /><br />Hours after the attack began, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced the start of Operation Iron Swords. “We are at war, not an operation. Hamas has launched a murderous surprise attack against the State of Israel and its citizens,” he posted on Twitter. “I ordered first of all to cleanse the settlements of the terrorists who had infiltrated and ordered a large-scale mobilization of reserves. The enemy will pay a price he has never known.”<br /><br />A spokesman for the Israeli military, Daniel Hagari, said soldiers were being mobilized, and strikes on Gaza have begun. “The IDF [Israeli army] is flooding the area with troops. We are focusing on the fighting on the Gaza border.” He continued, “We have begun a widespread call-up in all parts of the IDF. The air force is also striking in Gaza.”<br /><br />Tel Aviv reports targeting 21 locations in Gaza, and Palestinian officials say there are dozens of casualties. Israel’s minister of national security, Itamar Ben Gvir, declared a state of emergency. The White House National Security Council spokesperson <a href="https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/10/07/US-condemns-Hamas-attacks-on-Israel">said</a> Washington “unequivocally condemns” the Hamas attack.<br /><br />The violence has spread to other regions of Israel. In East Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers fired teargas at Palestinian protesters. An Israeli police station was <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-resistance-launch-major-attack-on-israel-what-happened-developing-story/">set on fire</a> in Jerusalem. In the West Bank, occupying forces shot a Palestinian man.</blockquote>Predictably, the United States is declaring its unwavering support for Israel, with President Biden stating that military assistance is on its way to Israel and neo-con Nikki Haley, former SC governor and US diplomat currently running for the Republican nomination stating that Israel should "<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/nikki-haley-blasts-biden-administrations-excuses-on-6-billion-in-unfrozen-iranian-assets/">finish them</a>," meaning the Palestinians. <br /><br />The United States is joined by much of the Western world including usual suspects Britain and Germany. But the Middle East and other countries are not so willing to throw unquestioning support behind Israel, thus exposing <a href="Western countries, including the US, Germany and the UK, have shown signs of solidarity with Israel, while much of the Arab world has stood behind Palestine.">a worldwide rift</a> in the philosophy of the current world order. <br /><br /><b>The Lead Up</b><br /><br />Israel claims that the surprise element of the attacks were the result of a catastrophic failure of intelligence on the part of the Israeli intelligence apparatus. In short, Israel claims that Hamas used methods to bypass its surveillance system and thus avoid detection during a prolonged period of planning. While Israel has a robust system of cameras and internet/cellphone monitoring, it is reported that Hamas used more traditional methods of communication such as in person meetings and the use of couriers to deliver messages, thus avoiding technology and the pitfalls of technological surveillance. <br /><br /><b>Something Doesn't Seem Right</b><br /><br />However, something simply doesn't add up when it comes to the Israeli explanation. Gaza is one of the most surveilled areas of the world. The Israelis are exceptionally good at intelligence gathering and putting that intelligence to use and yet we are supposed to believe there were not enough Israeli intelligence agents on the ground in Palestinian territory to catch wind of such a monumental operation? Anyone who understands geopolitics and has been to the Middle East knows well how powerful and effective Israeli intelligence is in the region. <br /><br />But, while it may be possible that Hamas did outwit the Israeli intelligence apparatus by using more rudimentary methods of communication, how do we know this now? How did we know the next day? Did Hamas announce its methods or did Israel discover it 24 hours too late? This explanation seems all too neatly sewn and all too quickly delivered to be entirely believable.<br /><br />Indeed, the attack was able to deliver losses to the Israeli military in direct combat, missiles got past the Iron Dome, and ships escaped discovery. None of these losses are such that the Israeli military is crippled or even damaged beyond a potential perception of weakness but it was all theatrical enough and horrendous enough for civilians to experience that it has been useful to instill fear in the population. <br /><br />Is it possible that Israel did, in fact, know about the plans to attack before they happened and that the Israeli government allowed it to happen for some reason or other? Is it also possible that the Israelis worked with Hamas to do so?<br /><br /><b>Who Is Hamas?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Indeed, on its own soil, Israel has long been documented as <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2550513.stm">creating “fake” al-Qaeda groups</a> to justify its treatment of the Palestinian people.<br /><br />With that in mind, it is important to note that Israel’s arch nemesis, Hamas, was created by Israel itself for the purpose of splitting the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) and Fatah, the leading outfit for the Palestinian freedom and resistance movement.<br /><br />Robert Dreyfuss, a veteran journalist for The Nation, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/israel-and-the-u-s-created-hamas-hezbollah-and-other-terrorists-via-blowback.html">even wrote that</a>, <br /><br /><blockquote>In the decades before 9/11, hard-core activists and organizations among Muslim fundamentalists on the far right were often viewed as allies for two reasons, because they were seen a fierce anti-communists and because the opposed secular nationalists such as Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Iran’s Mohammed Mossadegh. </blockquote><blockquote>*** </blockquote><blockquote>In Syria, the United States, Israel, and Jordan supported the Muslim Brotherhood in a civil war against Syria. And … Israel quietly backed Ahmed Yassin and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West Bank and Gaza, leading to the establishment of Hamas.</blockquote></div><div><br />As Justin Raimondo of <a href="http://antiwar.com/">AntiWar.com</a> wrote in his 2006 article “<a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2006/01/27/hamas-son-of-israel/">Hamas, Son of Israel</a>,”<br /><blockquote>Amid all the howls of pain and gnashing of teeth over the triumph of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, one fact remains relatively obscure, albeit highly relevant: Israel did much to <a href="http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=18062002-051845-8272r">launch Hamas</a> as an effective force in the occupied territories. If ever there was a clear case of “<a href="http://tinyurl.com/auhcm">blowback</a>,” then this is it. As Richard Sale pointed out in <a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2002/06/18/Analysis-Hamas-history-tied-to-Israel/UPI-82721024445587/">a piece for UPI</a>:<br />Israel and Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years. Israel ‘aided Hamas directly – the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization),’ said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic [and International] Studies.Israel’s support for Hamas ‘was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative,’ said a former senior CIA official. </blockquote><blockquote>Middle East analyst Ray Hanania <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/hanania01182003.html">concurs</a>: </blockquote><blockquote>In addition to hoping to turn the Palestinian masses away from Arafat and the PLO, the Likud leadership believed they could achieve a workable alliance with Islamic, anti-Arafat forces that would also extend Israel’s control over the occupied territories. </blockquote><blockquote>In a conscious effort to undermine the Palestine Liberation Organization and the leadership of Yasser Arafat, in 1978 the government of then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin <a href="http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=13">approved the application</a> of Sheik Ahmad Yassin to start a “humanitarian” organization known as the Islamic Association, or Mujama. The roots of this Islamist group were in the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, and this was the seed that eventually grew into Hamas – but not before it was amply fertilized and nurtured with Israeli funding and political support.</blockquote>It is important to note here that the Muslim Brotherhood, in addition to this close connection to the predecessor of Hamas and thus Mossad and other forms of Israeli intelligence, also contains close and historical ties to Western intelligence, <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/unmasking-the-muslim-brotherhood-syria-egypt-and-beyond">most notably the British and the American versions</a>.<br /><br />With that in mind, Raimondo’s article continues by stating that,<br /><blockquote>Begin and his successor, Yitzhak Shamir, launched an effort to undercut the PLO, creating the so-called Village Leagues, composed of local councils of handpicked Palestinians who were willing to collaborate with Israel – and, in return, were put on the Israeli payroll. Sheik Yassin and his followers soon became a force within the Village Leagues. This tactical alliance between Yassin and the Israelis was based on a shared antipathy to the militantly <a href="http://tinyurl.com/8yl4p">secular and leftist</a> PLO: the Israelis allowed Yassin’s group to publish a newspaper and set up an extensive network of charitable organizations, which collected funds not only from the Israelis but also from Arab states opposed to Arafat. </blockquote><blockquote>Ami Isseroff, writing on MideastWeb,<a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/hamashistory.htm">shows</a> how the Israelis deliberately promoted the Islamists of the future Hamas by helping them turn the Islamic University of Gaza into a base from which the group recruited activists – and the suicide bombers of tomorrow. As the only higher-education facility in the Gaza strip, and the only such institution open to Palestinians since Anwar Sadat closed Egyptian colleges to them, IUG contained within its grounds the seeds of the future Palestinian state. When a conflict arose over religious issues, however, the Israeli authorities sided with the Islamists against the secularists of the Fatah-PLO mainstream. As Isseroff relates, the Islamists </blockquote><blockquote>Encouraged Israeli authorities to dismiss their opponents in the committee in February of 1981, resulting in subsequent Islamisation of IUG policy and staff (including the obligation on women to wear the hijab and thobe and separate entrances for men and women), and enforced by violence and ostracization of dissenters. Tacit complicity from both university and Israeli authorities allowed Mujama to keep a weapons cache to use against secularists. By the mid 1980s, it was the largest university in occupied territories with 4,500 students, and student elections were won handily by Mujama. </blockquote><blockquote>Again, the motive was to offset Arafat’s influence and divide the Palestinians. In the short term, this may have worked to some extent; in the longer term, however, it backfired badly – as demonstrated by the results of the recent Palestinian election </blockquote><blockquote>*** </blockquote><blockquote>Israel’s relentless offensive against its perceived enemies – first Fatah, now Hamas and Islamic Jihad – has created a backlash and solidified support for fundamentalist extremist factions in the Palestinian community.</blockquote></div><div><br />What Raimondo refers to as “backlash”, however, has revealed itself to be more of a cleverly written script designed to play out years later.<br /><br />Still, The Wall Street Journal concurred with Raimondo’s analysis in an article published in 2009. In this article, entitled “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123275572295011847?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB123275572295011847.html">How Israel Helped To Spawn Hamas</a>,” Andrew Higgins wrote (my emphasis added),</div><div><blockquote>"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction. </blockquote><blockquote>Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric. </blockquote><blockquote>*** </blockquote><blockquote>When Israel first encountered Islamists in Gaza in the 1970s and ’80s, they seemed focused on studying the Quran, not on confrontation with Israel. The Israeli government officially recognized a precursor to Hamas called Mujama Al-Islamiya, registering the group as a charity. It allowed Mujama members to set up an Islamic university and build mosques, clubs and schools. Crucially, Israel often stood aside when the Islamists and their secular left-wing Palestinian rivals battled, sometimes violently, for influence in both Gaza and the West Bank. </blockquote><blockquote>*** </blockquote><blockquote>When it became clear in the early 1990s that Gaza’s Islamists had mutated from a religious group into a fighting force aimed at Israel — particularly after they turned to suicide bombings in 1994 — Israel cracked down with ferocious force. But each military assault only increased Hamas’s appeal to ordinary Palestinians. The group ultimately trounced secular rivals, notably Fatah, in a 2006 election supported by Israel’s main ally, the U.S. </blockquote><blockquote>*** </blockquote><blockquote>In Gaza, Israel hunted down members of Fatah and other secular PLO factions, but it dropped harsh restrictions imposed on Islamic activists by the territory’s previous Egyptian rulers. </blockquote><blockquote>*** </blockquote><blockquote>The Muslim Brotherhood, led in Gaza by Sheikh Yassin, was free to spread its message openly. In addition to launching various charity projects, Sheikh Yassin collected money to reprint the writings of Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian member of the Brotherhood who, before his execution by President Nasser, advocated global jihad. He is now seen as one of the founding ideologues of militant political Islam. </blockquote><blockquote>Mr. Cohen, who worked at the time for the Israeli government’s religious affairs department in Gaza, says he began to hear disturbing reports in the mid-1970s about Sheikh Yassin from traditional Islamic clerics. He says they warned that the sheikh had no formal Islamic training and was ultimately more interested in politics than faith. “They said, ‘Keep away from Yassin. He is a big danger,’” recalls Mr. Cohen. </blockquote><blockquote>Instead, Israel’s military-led administration in Gaza looked favorably on the paraplegic cleric, who set up a wide network of schools, clinics, a library and kindergartens. Sheikh Yassin formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya, which was officially recognized by Israel as a charity and then, in 1979, as an association. Israel also endorsed the establishment of the Islamic University of Gaza, which it now regards as a hotbed of militancy. </blockquote><blockquote>*** </blockquote><blockquote>Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who took over as governor in Gaza in late 1979, says he had no illusions about Sheikh Yassin’s long-term intentions or the perils of political Islam. As Israel’s former military attache in Iran, he’d watched Islamic fervor topple the Shah. However, in Gaza, says Mr. Segev, “our main enemy was Fatah,” and the cleric “was still 100% peaceful” towards Israel. Former officials say Israel was also at the time wary of being viewed as an enemy of Islam. </blockquote><blockquote>Mr. Segev says he had regular contact with Sheikh Yassin, in part to keep an eye on him. He visited his mosque and met the cleric around a dozen times. It was illegal at the time for Israelis to meet anyone from the PLO. Mr. Segev later arranged for the cleric to be taken to Israel for hospital treatment. “We had no problems with him,” he says. </blockquote><blockquote>In fact, the cleric and Israel had a shared enemy: secular Palestinian activists. After a failed attempt in Gaza to oust secularists from leadership of the Palestinian Red Crescent, the Muslim version of the Red Cross, Mujama staged a violent demonstration, storming the Red Crescent building. Islamists also attacked shops selling liquor and cinemas. The Israeli military mostly stood on the sidelines. [emphasis added] </blockquote><blockquote>*** </blockquote><blockquote>A leader of Birzeit’s Islamist faction at the time was Mahmoud Musleh, now a pro-Hamas member of a Palestinian legislature elected in 2006. He recalls how usually aggressive Israeli security forces stood back and let conflagration develop. He denies any collusion between his own camp and the Israelis, but says “they hoped we would become an alternative to the PLO.” </blockquote><blockquote>A year later, in 1984, the Israeli military received a tip-off from Fatah supporters that Sheikh Yassin’s Gaza Islamists were collecting arms, according to Israeli officials in Gaza at the time. Israeli troops raided a mosque and found a cache of weapons. Sheikh Yassin was jailed. He told Israeli interrogators the weapons were for use against rival Palestinians, not Israel, according to Mr. Hacham, the military affairs expert who says he spoke frequently with jailed Islamists. The cleric was released after a year and continued to expand Mujama’s reach across Gaza. [emphasis added] </blockquote><blockquote>Taking into consideration the fact that Israel has provided military and medical support to the most bloodthirsty and brutal Islamic extremist terrorists in the world and the fact that it has created Hamas from the very beginning, the answer to the question of “Why aren't organizations like Nusra, al-Qaeda, and ISIS attacking Israel?” is quite simple – because Israel is partly responsible for funding and directing them.</blockquote>With all of this in mind, any claims of victimhood by Israel should immediately be discarded. Indeed, this portrayal of self-defense and endangerment should especially be discarded when one considers the history of the state itself. This does not justify the attack on innocent Israeli citizens, however. It is important to distinguish between natural born Israeli civilians and their counterparts of settlers and the Israeli government. <br /><br />Israel has made its own enemies by virtue of its colonial nature, its foreign and domestic policy, and even by direct organization and funding. It is thus wholly accurate to say that Israel’s enemies are literally those of its own making.<br /><br />In the end, the information presented in this article is simply one more window into the realm of the Anglo-European-American-Israeli intelligence apparatus and the depths to which the rabbit hole goes in terms of international terrorism. The script which is being acted out across the Middle East and the rest of the world is clearly being directed by a force unseen by the vast majority of the world’s population.<br /><br />Still, the players act out their roles according to the predetermined narrative provided to them, despite the fact that they have no idea they are actually acting out the will of a shadowy “other” who does not have their best interests at heart.<br /><br />In this game, virtually all of those acting out their parts on the ground are merely players unaware of their roles.<br /><br /><b>What Is The End Game?</b><br /><br />Of course, the Israeli "official story" of the attacks may very well be true and we cannot discount the possibility of an organic uprising against the Israeli government which has treated the Palestinian people so horribly throughout its history and has essentially engaged in a plan of slow eradication of Palestinians. <br /><br />But, given the questionable nature of the Israeli official story and the questionable allegiances of Hamas, what would be the end game of allowing a Hamas attack on Israeli soil? For the Israeli government, there are several options:<br /><br />1.) Declare martial law on the Israeli population who have been divided and restless over the economy and cultural manipulation as well as other political issues inside Israel. This war has effectively silenced political dissent and internal disagreements. <br /><br />2.) Create an "Israeli 9/11" that would generate support both inside and outside Israel for the "final solution" to the Palestinian "problem." In other words, a massive incursion into the Gaza Strip and possibly other territories. <br /><br />3.) An excuse to launch an attack against Hezbollah before the Iranian-backed militia gains so much strength that Israel is unable to defend itself successfully, a very real possibility given the increasing strength and skill of the militia currently. <br /><br />4.) To launch a war against Iran that will logically draw in the United States to do the brunt of the fighting, thus breaking its largest functional enemy in the region. <br /><br />Naturally, it would be important to point out that it is unlikely that the Israeli government would take such steps without first consulting the United States and being reassured the American military will quickly come to its rescue. <br /><br /><b>Is Open World War Three The Natural Result?</b><br /><br />The military battles between Hamas and the Israeli government threaten to bring in more powers besides the two directly fighting, all the way to the point of multinational military conflicts directly in the region and far outside its scope. Already, Hezbollah and Israel have traded rocket fire on the border. Hezbollah is backed by Iran which, predictably, is a connection Israel and its acolytes will seize upon in order to justify military conflict with Iran and claims that Iran is ultimately behind the current conflict.</div><div> <br />Interestingly enough, however, the spokesman for <a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/1008/1409642-lebanon-israel/">Hamas has already told</a> the BBC that Iran gave its support to the organization for the operation that was just launched. It is unusual for combatants to openly volunteer the names of their financial backers but, conveniently for those who want to demonize Iran and blame it for the new war, Hamas has come through with flying colors. </div><div><br /></div><div>Iran's side of the story is currently unknown. Perhaps it did support the operation and perhaps it did not. Both possibilities are realistic but neither of them will matter in the West where the Western media has already drawn the logical conclusion - Iran is responsible for the attacks in Israel. <br /><br />The current Israeli war is already spilling across borders but, if it is not contained immediately, will risk bringing in Lebanon, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Egypt, the United States, NATO, and Russia as well as the gangs and hordes of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists the West and GCC have sponsored across the Middle East. <br /><br />Western powers must stay out of the Israeli/Hamas war. Both the United States and Russia (though it will likely only become involved as a result of US involvement) must show the utmost restraint in this regard. The world cannot afford to allow this war to become the graveyard of humanity. </div><div><br /></div><div><em style="background-color: #fefdfa; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandon Turbeville is a journalist and author. He is the author of fourteen books, including <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">7 Real Conspiracies</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Sense Solutions</a> and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/dispatches-from-dissident-articles-from.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; 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He has also released a book of poetry, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon also hosted a radio show for three years which was called Truth on The Tracks. 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Presidential Guard Commander General Abdourahamane Tchiani subsequently <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66320895" target="_blank">proclaimed himself</a> leader of the new military-led government. Immediately after Bazoum was removed from office, Tchiani's government closed the borders, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/26/soldiers-in-niger-claim-to-overthrow-mohamed-barzoums-government" target="_blank">declared a curfew</a>, and suspended operations of various state institutions. For a country that scarcely makes the news at any time, Niger was suddenly front and center, revealing the true nature of its importance, at least in terms of its significance, geographically speaking. The French stand to lose the most, as France has been rapidly losing influence in Africa over the last several years. Western interests, as they stand, appear to be on the losing end of the coup while Russia and Wagner Group appear to be poised to, at the very least, capitalize on it. The coup also threatens to draw the region of West Africa into a multi-national conflict.<br /><br />To be clear, the events still currently unfolding on the ground in Niger are not yet fully clear. While mainstream media outlets are trying to point the finger at Russia, the alternative media is attempting to blame the United States. Both suggestions may have merit, as does the possibility that the coup was simply a result of government mismanagement, corruption, and ineptitude, or at least the perception of it. It is also possible that the coup came as a result of internal squabbles between government members. Regardless, before knee-jerk reactions and embedded positions cloud judgement, the events in Niger must be examined closely.<br /><br /><b>The Initial Events</b><br /><br /><span></span>On July 26, 2023, Niger's <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/soldiers-nigers-presidential-guard-blockade-presidents-office-security-sources-2023-07-26/" target="_blank">Presidency tweeted </a>that the Presidential Guards, commanded by General Abdourahamane Tchiani was engaging in an "anti-Republican demonstration." It noted that Tchiani's forces were unable to obtain the support of other security forces. <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/26/soldiers-holding-niger-president-inside-palace-security-sources" target="_blank">It stated</a> that the President (Barzoum) was well, since reports had emerged that he was being held inside the Presidential Palace in Niamey. <br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span>Later, Interior Minister Hamadou Souley was also arrested and held in the palace. About twenty members of the Presidential Guard were seen outside the palace later in the day. Bazoum's wife, Hadiza and his son, Salem, were <a href="https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1467524/politique/au-niger-larmee-affirme-avoir-renverse-mohamed-bazoum/" target="_blank">also detained</a> with him at the palace. <br /><br />That morning, the palace and the ministries adjacent to it were blocked off by military vehicles and the palace staff were not allowed to access their offices. It was reported that up to 400 civilians who supported Bazoum approached the palace but were dispersed by the Presidential Guard. Some reports suggest the Guards fired at the civilians but the Guards deny doing so. There was no evidence provided either way. Likewise, the Presidency claimed that there were protests all over the world at the country's overseas diplomatic missions in support of Bazoum, but no evidence was provided. In response, Niger's <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/1b5c843d-a814-4811-9eb2-0a66880ac779" target="_blank">Armed Forces surrounded </a>the Presidential Palace in apparent support of Bazoum, also issuing a statement that they had secured "major strategic points" in the country. BBC then reported loyalist forces had surrounded the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66312011" target="_blank">state broadcaster ORTN</a> as the <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/26/africa/niger-presidency-attempted-coup-intl/index.html" target="_blank">US Embassy warned</a> against travel along the Boulevard de la Republique. <br /><br />In the evening, Air Force Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane <a href="https://apnews.com/article/niger-tensions-presidential-guard-96f8f63b838af5467d4c95ba7b998b32" target="_blank">appeared on state television channel</a> Tele Sahel and claimed that President Barzoum had been removed from power. He then announced the creation of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland. Abdramane was flanked by <a href="https://apnews.com/article/niger-mutinous-soldiers-attempted-coup-2efab1649bea7d89b14dbc9432f5f819" target="_blank">nine other officers</a> wearing uniforms, each representing different branches of the security forces. He stated that the Defense and Security forces had decided to overthrow the regime "due to the deteriorating security situation and bad governance." He also stated that the country's Constitution was officially dissolved, the suspension of state institutions, and the closure of the country's borders. In addition, he announced a nationwide curfew and warned against foreign intervention. The curfew was eventually <a href="https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/506019.aspx" target="_blank">lifted on August 4</a>. <br /><br />The next day, Bazoum indicated he had no intentions to step down and his Foreign Minister Hassoumi Massaoudou told France 24 that Niger's "legal and legitimate power" remained with Bazoum. Massaoudou then <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230726-presidency-sealed-off-in-coup-prone-niger" target="_blank">declared himself </a>acting head of state and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66320895" target="_blank">called on</a> all "democrats" to "make this adventure fail." <br /><br />Bazoum has yet to officially resign yet, despite being held by the new government, has been able to contact world leaders such as French President <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/macron-says-niger-s-bazoum-reachable-in-good-health-/7201644.html" target="_blank">Macron</a>, UN Secretary-General <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/27/niger-situation-remains-fluid-as-army-backs-coup-plotters" target="_blank">Antonio Guterres</a>, AU Commissioner <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/africa/niger-coup-general-state-tv-appearance-intl/" target="_blank">Moussa Faki</a>, and US Secretary of State <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/blinken-calls-immediate-release-ousted-niger-president-2023-07-29/" target="_blank">Antony Blinken</a>. But the coup leaders have stressed Bazoum is being treated well and that he is being provided medical care. Bazoum and his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/11/niger-captive-leader-losing-weight-in-inhumane-conditions-daughter-reveals-mohamed-bazoum" target="_blank">supporters insist</a> power has been cut to his residence and he is being denied medical care. <br /><br />On July 27, Niger's Army Chief of Staff General Abdou Sidikou Issa <a href="https://france24.com/en/africa/20230727-niger-s-army-command-declares-support-for-military-coup" target="_blank">declared his support</a> for the coup, saying there was a need to "preserve the physical integrity" of the president and his family as well as a need to avoid "a deadly confrontation that could create a bloodbath and affect the security of the population." Shortly thereafter, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/27/nigerien-army-pledges-allegiance-to-coup-plotters" target="_blank">Abdramane announced</a> the suspension of all activities by political parties in the country until further notice. He also <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66324875" target="_blank">reprimanded France </a>for violating Niger's airspace which the coup leaders had closed immediately after taking power. France defied this order and landed a military plane at an air base.<br /><br />The new Nigerien government then <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-military-mission-niger-focus-after-coup-2023-08-10/" target="_blank">revoked military cooperation</a> with France which has approximately 1,000 to 1,500 troops stationed in the country. However, France declined to remove those troops stating that France does not recognize the coup leaders as the legitimate government of Niger. <br /><br />The same day, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230728-niger-s-general-abdourahamane-tchiani-declared-new-leader-following-coup-state-tv" target="_blank">a pro-coup demonstration</a> took place with about 1,000 supporters flying Russian flags, and calling for the entrance and support of Russia and/or the Wagner Group. These demonstrators chanted anti-French slogans and threw rocks at the car of a politician who passed by. They denounced France in general as well as "other foreign bases." At the same time, other demonstrators gathered in support of Bazoum though this demonstrations was noticeably smaller. <br /><br />Other demonstrators gathered outside Bazoum's PNDS-Tarayya party and threw stones at vehicles and setting them on fire. They then ransacked and burned the building before police arrived to disperse the riot with tear gas. Demonstrations then occurred in front of the National Assembly which led to the Interior Ministry <a href="https://www.thesundaily.my/world/niger-bans-protests-after-post-coup-chaos-PL11293826" target="_blank">banning all demonstrations</a> immediately. Civil servants were then told to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66337767" target="_blank">stay home</a>. <br /><br />On July 28, General Abdourahamane Tchiani <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230728-niger-s-general-abdourahamane-tchiani-declared-new-leader-following-coup-state-tv" target="_blank">declared himself</a> to be the President of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland in a televised address. He stated that the coup was initiated to avoid "the gradual and inevitable demise" of Niger and said that Bazoum had tried to hide "the harsh reality" of the situation. <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/28/niger-general-tchiani-named-head-of-transitional-government-after-coup" target="_blank">He described </a>the country's state as being a "pile of dead, displaced, humiliation and frustration." He referenced the previous government's ineffectiveness and lack of collaboration with Mali and Burkina Faso in regards to the security crisis and the task of combatting Islamic terrorism. <br /><br />Tchiani's position as head of state was confirmed by Colonel Abdramane, who also accused Bazoum's government of plotting against the new government while hiding away in foreign embassies. In other words, treason. <br /><br /><b>ECOWAS/US/France Reaction</b><br /><br />The international reaction to the Niger coup was quite telling. France, notably, was quite shaken by the open revulsion toward the French presence in the country. Fresh on the heels of being <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-faso-marks-official-end-french-military-operations-its-soil-2023-02-19/#:~:text=In%20January%2C%20Burkina%20Faso%20gave,the%20country%20to%20defend%20itself.">kicked out of Burkina Faso</a> and Mali, both as a result of military coups, the French are not only being forced to reckon with the end of even the ghost of its empire, but also the hatred and resentment much of Africa has for its former exploitative colonizers. As the French economy continues to spiral downward and cultural cohesion is falling apart due to "multiculturalism," mass immigration, and a direct assault on French culture through globalist forces, the loss of the ability to even station a few thousand troops in the former colonies is just one more nail in the coffin of the formerly powerful French empire. <br /><br />The United States, for its part, remained largely quiet in the days after the coup. However, Victoria Nuland seemed genuinely perplexed that an impoverished vassal nation like Niger would not only have the gall to suggest foreign powers leave its soil, but also that it was not willing to be dictated to by the United States. “These conversations were extremely frank and at times quite difficult because, again, we are pushing for a negotiated solution. It was not easy to get traction there. They are quite firm in their view of how they want to proceed,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/niger-coup-victoria-nuland-west-africa-jihadis-4f21ee42f7e87b3747a322709d8d1bbc">she said</a><br /><br />While the United States did not openly call the coup what it was - a coup - it was most likely out of an attempt to salvage the vestiges American influence that such a declaration was not made. If the US government declares a coup has taken place, American aid to Niger, by US law, must be cut, thus ending the carrot of American diplomacy and influence in the country. <br /><br />ECOWAS (Economic Community Of West African States) had a much stronger reaction, however. On July 30, ECOWAS <a href="https://theinformant247.com/niger-coup-ecowas-issues-7-day-ultimatum-for-restore-to-normalcy-threatens-force/" target="_blank">gave Niger's coup leaders</a> one week to place Barzoum back in power or face international sanctions and possibly even the use of force by ECOWAS members. That same day, ECOWAS said it would enforce a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66353284" target="_blank">no-fly zone</a> over the country for commercial flights and close all borders with Niger, a landlocked nation. A series of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-african-leaders-threaten-sanctions-force-against-niger-coup-leaders-2023-07-30/" target="_blank">sanctions were also announced</a> which included suspending all commercial and financial transactions between ECOWAS members and Niger. It also included the freezing of assets and travel restrictions for military personnel who were involved in the coup. The Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/31/nigers-planned-51-mln-bond-issuance-cancelled-due-to-sanctions" target="_blank"> cancelled a a planned 30 billion CFA Franc bond issuance</a> by Niger. <br /><br />Niger <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2023/08/10/niger-la-cedeao-ordonne-l-activation-immediate-de-sa-force-d-intervention-mais-dit-toujours-privilegier-une-resolution-pacifique-de-la-crise_6185056_3212.html" target="_blank">ignored ECOWAS' deadline</a> and, as a result, ECOWAS ordered the "immediate activation" of the threatened "intervention force" while stating it still supported a peaceful resolution to the crisis. ECOWAS extended that deadline to August 18. <br /><br />As for the France and the rest of Europe, the EU and France <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/29/blinken-offers-nigers-ousted-leader-bazoum-unflagging-support" target="_blank">withheld financial and development aid</a> to Niger. France simply <a href="https://punchng.com/niger-coup-army-general-warns-against-foreign-intervention/" target="_blank">refused to remove</a> its troops from Nigerien soil despite the fact that the new government of Niger cancelled the agreement of military cooperation between the two countries. France argued that the new leaders were not the legitimate government of Niger. <br /><br />Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian private military contracting firm, Wagner Group, praised the coup, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/niger-mutinous-soldiers-attempted-coup-2efab1649bea7d89b14dbc9432f5f819" target="_blank">labeling it</a> as part of Niger's fight against its colonizers. Vladmir Putin, however, through spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/31/situation-in-niger-is-cause-for-serious-concern-says-kremlin" target="_blank">called the coup</a> a "serious concern" and called for all sides to "show restraint" and for the "fastest possible return to legal order." Putin also criticized the calls for intervention by foreign states.<br /><br />Burkina Faso and Mali, however, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/1/burkina-faso-and-mali-warn-against-foreign-intervention-after-niger-coup" target="_blank">expressed support</a> for Niger's coup and threatened to use force of their own in order to defend Niger in case of an ECOWAS military intervention. <br /><br />On August 24, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/niger-allows-mali-burkina-faso-troops-enter-its-territory-case-attack-2023-08-24/">Niger authorized Mali and Burkina Faso's armed forces</a> to deploy to its territory in case of attack launched against Niger. The agreement was announced in a joint statement, a clear sign that not only is Niger's new government here to stay but that it plans to continue to resist Western, Asian, and African international efforts to remove it and violate Nigerien national sovereignty. <br /><br />"The Burkinabe and Malian Ministers ... reiterated their rejection of an armed intervention against the people of Niger which will be considered as a declaration of war," the statement said.<br /><br /><b>Threat of Regional War - Will Sahel Become The African Front In West vs Russia/China?</b><br /><br />The threat made by ECOWAS toward Niger is, in actuality, a threat to the entire continent of Africa. A war between ECOWAS would pit Benin, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bassau, Togo, Nigeria, Sierre Leon, Senegal, and Cabo Verde directly at war with Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso. <br /><br />An armed conflict between this many powers would see the initiation of an immediate regional war in a region and a continent that is already reeling from multiple armed conflicts that have taken place in the past and many that are still ongoing. In some areas, conflict has waned but it is still latent, as religious, ethnic, tribal, or political differences compounded by foreign interests and foreign influence are a powder keg waiting for the strike of a match.<br /><br />Thus ECOWAS is threatening to take the entire West African region to immediate war. But it may not stop there. It is also possible that such a war will draw in other African nations, particularly those of the Sahel but also those outside of the Sahel or West Africa. Such a conflict could potentially spill over the borders of warring countries to involve countries across the entire continent, risking what would essentially be a continent wide war. <br /><br />African forces are not the only potential participants, however. For instance, Russian interests have capitalized on the Mali and Burkina Faso coups, with Wagner Group moving in to provide "security" and take the lead in fighting Islamic extremist terrorist organizations. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Russia</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Fighting terrorism has long been a goal of Russia's, mainly to combat the use of such extremism by the West to justify military invasions of sovereign nations, "conveniently" those that Russia considers allies or where Russia maintains influence. Moreover, Russia is aware of the West's attempt to implement the Brzezinski plan of "federalizing" Russia and, for that reason, it views combatting terrorism an extension of the national defense against the West's proxy armies. <br /><br />Globalist think tank, Carnegie Endowment For International Peace published an article by Paul Stronski entitled, "<a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/02/28/russia-s-growing-footprint-in-africa-s-sahel-region-pub-89135">Russia's Growing Footprint In Africa's Sahel Region,</a>" where Stronski laid out how Russia is capitalizing on Western failures in the Sahel in regards to international aid, diplomacy, exploitation, and terrorism. He writes,<br /></div><blockquote><div>So far, Russia has <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/10/16/late-to-party-russia-s-return-to-africa-pub-80056">invested minimal time</a> and funding in Africa. But it is still steadily making inroads in various countries. Its presence delivers good publicity that undermines <a href="https://www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicazione/russia-tries-break-isolation-engaging-africa-37131">Western attempts to isolate Russia</a>. To be sure, Russia’s track record is mixed. It has had most success in internationally isolated and deeply troubled Sahelian states, and it has <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/04/28/how-russia-s-hollow-humanitarianism-hurt-its-vaccine-diplomacy-in-africa-pub-87004">struggled</a> to make inroads in several <a href="https://www.ghanamissionun.org/statement-by-ghana-in-explanation-of-vote/">African democracies</a>.</div><div><br />Nevertheless, Moscow has proven that it knows how to take advantage of governance shortfalls, instability, and security vacuums in Africa.<br /><br />For example, after brokering an <a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/central-africa/central-african-republic/russias-influence-central-african-republic">exemption</a> to the UN Security Council’s embargo on supplying arms to the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2017, Moscow quickly sent weapons and military trainers from the Wagner Group to that country. Prior to the Russians’ arrival, CAR had been under France’s strong political and military influence for decades, although that relationship failed to help Bangui make significant progress in terms of stability, security, and economic development. Moscow exploited Paris’s decision to withdraw its forces from CAR in 2017 at a time when armed groups remained active and held large parts of territory. However, Wagner support since France’s pullout has helped consolidate the current CAR government and prevented rebel groups from extending their control. Wagner’s entry into CAR was clearly an opportunistic move by Russia to exploit France’s failures and the favorable context for a new security interlocutor. Today, Wagner is the Kremlin’s most important proxy in CAR; it provides security for the government, facilitates Russian <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/files/WP_Paul_Stronski_-_Russia-Africa-v3.pdf">political and diplomatic influence</a>, and has <a href="https://www.theafricareport.com/275235/car-cameroon-an-investigation-into-the-wagner-groups-african-financial-model/">gained access</a> to lucrative mining assets. Despite Russia’s increased presence, large-scale violence continues in CAR and the <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/central-african-republic/central-african-republic-situation-report-20-feb-2023">humanitarian situation</a> for vulnerable civilians remains dire.<br /><br />Moscow is now taking advantage of a similar alignment of opportunities in the Sahel. It has embraced the military regimes in both Mali and Burkina Faso, providing them with security assistance, <a href="https://www.dw.com/fr/des-questions-sur-la-pr%C3%A9sence-russe-aux-c%C3%B4t%C3%A9s-de-la-junte/a-54687932">diplomatic backing</a>, and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64451376">information operations</a> support. Russian military advisers arrived in Mali in <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/tracking-arrival-russias-wagner-group-mali">late 2021</a> after the country’s second military coup. Primarily through the Wagner Group, Moscow has provided the country with a four-hundred-strong contingent of mercenaries to combat jihadist groups. In mid-2022, it delivered <a href="https://www.africanews.com/2022/08/10/mali-gets-more-military-equipment-from-russia/">arms shipments</a>. However, Mali’s security situation continues to deteriorate, and the insurgency is spreading.<br /><br />The government in Mali does not officially recognize Wagner’s presence in the country, but growing evidence of Russian mercenary activities and atrocities has made clear that Wagner or a similar Russian group is active there. In spring 2022, Wagner and local military forces orchestrated an anti-terror operation in the country that killed about <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/world/africa/mali-massacre-investigation.html">four hundred civilians</a>. <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/01/mali-un-experts-call-independent-investigation-possible-international-crimes">Civilian casualties</a> in the country have risen <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-mali-government-russia-violence-10ba966bceb2dc732cb170b16258e5a6">disproportionately</a> since Wagner’s arrival, following clear patterns of the group’s violence against local populations in <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/05/03/central-african-republic-abuses-russia-linked-forces">CAR</a>, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/27/libya-landmines-other-war-hazards-killing-civilians">Libya</a>, <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/international-security/reports/inquiry-murder-hamdi-bouta/">Syria</a>, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/25/wagner-group-fighters-accused-murdering-civilians-ukraine-war-crimes-belarus">Ukraine</a>.<br /><br />U.S. officials have expressed concern that Wagner seeks to replicate this modus operandi in Burkina Faso, where anti-French and <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20221004-coup-after-coup-after-mali-pro-russia-sentiment-stoked-in-burkina-faso">pro-Russian sentiment</a> have grown over the past five months. With France having pulled its remaining troops from the country by late <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c899cd24-696e-4df7-9b97-ee0d38c2426f">February 2023</a>, Burkina Faso is left with a choice. Will Ouagadougou establish a privileged relationship with Russia in which the Wagner Group is the key component of Russian activities? The mercenary group is certainly counting on that, looking for new opportunities and incentives to promote its services. Today, the extent of Russian activities in Burkina Faso remains unclear, but Ghana’s president has <a href="https://www.africanews.com/2022/12/16/ghana-accuses-burkina-faso-of-hiring-russian-wagner-mercenaries/">expressed alarm</a> that Wagner forces are operating in the country.<br /><br />In addition, African, European, and U.S. officials have warned that the Wagner Group is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-intelligence-points-to-wagner-plot-against-key-western-ally-in-africa-29867547?mod=world_major_3_pos5">expanding into Chad</a>. Located in a strategic position in the center of the Sahel, Chad has relatively open borders with CAR, Libya, and Sudan, where Russian mercenaries are <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-politics-libya-government-b4218ab0163e6c5e271a3902cd893759">also active</a>. Wagner has purportedly provided material and operational support to local rebels seeking to destabilize and possibly oust the government of Chad’s interim president, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno.<br /><br />U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Richard M. Mills recently <a href="https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-at-a-un-security-council-briefing-on-west-africa-and-the-sahel-4/">raised concern</a> that Russian mercenary activities stoke human suffering in the Sahel without addressing the true causes of instability: poor governance, broken institutions, years of displacement, and the proliferation of armed groups. He argued that greater international focus should be on mitigating the Sahel’s growing humanitarian catastrophe, addressing governance shortfalls, and preventing the spread of instability to other parts of the region or neighboring countries. Indeed, neighboring African and Western countries have yet to invest the political, economic, and military resources that might disrupt Russia’s toehold.<br /><br />While aligning with military regimes in Africa hardly enhances Russia’s power over the long term, it is certainly useful for unnerving countries including the United States, France, and some of the Sahel’s <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3203528/ghana-accuses-burkina-faso-hiring-russian-wagner-mercenaries-paying-mine">neighbors</a>. Wagner’s head, Yevgeny Prigozhin, presumably relishes the commercial benefits generated by the group’s mercenary activities in Africa. But the real gains that he stands to earn are tied to the unique role that Wagner is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-wagner-group-yevgeny-prigozhin-803da2e3ceda5dace7622cac611087fc">playing in Ukraine</a>, which helps Prigozhin bolster his financial and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/13/putins-reshuffle-of-ukraines-military-command-reveals-power-struggle.html">political position</a> at home amid <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/world/europe/wagner-russia-military-prigozhin.html">infighting</a> among Russian <a href="https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/02/22/evgeny-prigozhin-blames-wagner-group-casualties-on-defense-ministry-demands-ammo-for-wagner">elites</a>.</div></blockquote><div>Despite Carnegie's being part of the <a href="https://ceipfiles.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/2022_AnnualReport_final.pdf" target="_blank">western NGO apparatus</a>, one can scarcely argue with Stronski's points. Indeed, the above selected quote explains the Russian position well - one that has recognized the geopolitical game and the importance of countering Western positioning on the geopolitical chessboard and an attempt to achieve a solid position for Russia for the purposes of stabilization as well as defensive or offensive economic or military actions. <br /><br /><b>China</b><br /><br />China also has deep interests Niger, as well as in Mali and Burkina Faso. In Niger, China is actually ranked as the second largest investor in the country after France, its former colonial power. "China's total foreign direct investment (FDI) into Niger stood at $2.68 billion as at the end of 2020, according to the U.S. Embassy in Niger." <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinas-oil-uranium-business-niger-2023-07-31/">writes Andrew Hayley of Reuters</a>. <br /><br />In regards to China's oil interests, Hayley continues, </div><div><blockquote>Niger became an oil producer in 2011 when the Agadem oilfield, a joint venture between the government and PetroChina <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/601857.SS">(601857.SS)</a>, started production.<br /><br />PetroChina entered a production sharing agreement in 2008 with the Nigerien government to develop the field, located some 1,600km (1,000 miles) east of the capital Niamey, with estimated reserves of 650 million barrels.<br /><br />As part of the deal, PetroChina invested in the construction of the SORAZ refinery, located 460km away in the southern city of Zinder, near the border with Nigeria. PetroChina holds a 60% stake in the refinery, which has a capacity of 20,000 barrels per day (bpd) and mostly supplies the Nigerien domestic fuel market. The remaining share is held by the Nigerien government.<br /><br />In September 2019, PetroChina entered into another agreement with the Nigerien government to lay a 2,000-km (1,200 miles) pipeline between the Agadem field and the Beninese port city of Cotonou.<br /><br />The pipeline investment is twinned with a second phase of development of the Agadem field. Taken together, total investment into the pipeline and second phase development is expected to reach $4 billion, according to China's Ministry of Commerce.<br /><br />The pipeline, the longest of its kind in Africa, is planned to mitigate the security and logistical challenges of exporting crude from the troubled area, and designed to carry 90,000 barrels per day, according to China's Ministry of Commerce.<br /><br />The project was 63% complete as of February this year, according to a PetroChina statement.<br /><br />PetroChina did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.<br /><br />In May this year, state oil and gas major Sinopec <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/600028.SS">(600028.SS)</a> entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Nigerien government paving the way for further potential cooperation between Beijing and Niamey in oil and gas.</blockquote>Like the United States, China is also interested in Niger's Uranium resources. Hayley continues,<br /><blockquote>In 2007, state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/601985.SS">(601985.SS)</a> entered a joint venture with the Nigerien government to develop the Azelik uranium mine in the centre of the country.<br /><br />CNNC owns 37.2% of the project, with a further 24.8% owned by Chinese investment entity ZXJOY Invest, according to a 2010 filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.<br /><br />The Nigerien government received a 650 million yuan ($90.93 million) loan from Chinese state-owned Eximbank to support development of the project in 2009.<br /><br />The mine has estimated total reserves of 11,227 metric tons, and annual production capacity of 700 tons, according to the filing. The project was halted in 2015 due to unfavourable market conditions.<br /><br />Niger, which has Africa's <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/uranium-mines-niger-worlds-7th-biggest-producer-2023-07-28/">highest-grade uranium ores</a>, produced 2,020 metric tons of uranium in 2022, about 5% of world mining output, according to the World Nuclear Association.</blockquote>Although China's relationship with Burkina Faso has been inconsistent to say the least, with Burkina Faso at one point in 2018 breaking off its relations with China and reinstating them two days later, China nonetheless has continued to move toward influence in the African nation. It has not only become interested in "security" concerns but also in adding Burkina Faso to its <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-06/11/c_1310001440.htm">Belt Road Initiative</a>. <br /><br />Likewise China's interests in Mali center around the potential for greater access to natural resources but also perhaps for a few more reasons. Not only does Mali provide China with access to rare and protected items <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/china-s-illegal-rosewood-trade-with-mali-under-scrutiny-/6580241.html">like Rosewood lumber</a> and <a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/china/imports/mali">other natural resources</a> (wood, wood and charcoal, oil, seed, grain, fruits, cotton, ore slag, ash, and aluminum etc.), it also provides the burgeoning Chinese with greater influence at the United Nations, and combat experience. <br /><br />This much was stated by the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) in a seminar entitled "<a href="https://www.clingendael.org/event/chinas-role-peacekeeping-and-counter-terrorism-mali">China's Role In Peacekeeping and Counter Terrorism In Mali</a>," in 2015. The organization's website stated,<br /><blockquote>Why has China sent a force protection unit to Mali? In general, explanations for Chinese involvement in Africa revolve around four main points: securing natural resources, facilitating export, gaining military experience and taking an increasingly responsible role as a global stakeholder. It is therefore interesting to note that Mali is of limited interest for China with regard to the former two motives. Participants of the Seminar pointed to the relatively low-risk potential for China to gain military experience and expand their existing sphere of influence in Africa under a UN mandate. Even though Mali has relatively little to offer China in terms of natural resources or export market, the MINUSMA mission in Mali can be seen as a cautious way of responding to the growing responsibilities of China in international affairs (Xi Jinping's “great power diplomacy”). The fact that China is currently the largest contributor to UN peacekeeping among the permanent members of the Security Council (SC) also reflects that China perceives the UN in general and the SC in particular as the guarantors of international order. There was some discussion during the Seminar regarding the question whether China would make use of Chinese troops deployed under UN command to protect its own interests in Africa even if these would clash with the UN mandate.</blockquote><b>Western Interests </b><br /><br />China and Russia are by no means the only countries that have interests in Niger. The economic factor of course exists every bit as much with the United States as it does with Russia and China. In fact, it should be noted that there are multiple American companies at work in Niger in both the mining and energy sectors. It should also be noted that the United States is a larger importer of Nigerien goods than China, despite the understood interest that China has in Niger. <br /><br />Still, for the US, its official statements suggest that its interests lie mostly in "fighting terrorism" in West Africa and thus a justification for the deployment of American and French troops to Niger. However, the US is only fighting terrorist organizations that itself has helped create, fund, and direct in West Africa as well as across the globe. More on this later. <br /><br />France, however, is the country whose interests are most solidly tied to Niger. Despite its stated aims of "fighting terrorism" in Niger (thus justifying its own troop deployment to the country),<a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/04/how-dependent-is-france-on-niger-s-uranium_6080772_8.html"> France depends</a> on Niger for around 20% of the uranium it uses to fuel its extensive nuclear power system. This makes Niger a vitally important trade partner and one that has a direct effect on the French people and their daily lives.<br /><br /><b>Whose Interests Matter More?</b><br /><br />With globalism tragically having become the order of the day in the world economy, suffice it to say that all three foreign powers (considering the United States and Europe as one entity - the "West") have important interests in Niger. But whose interests matter more? Russia and China both can only win with greater influence in Niger, whether it be military, economic, or political or, more likely, a combination of all three. <br /><br />The clear loser in the Nigerien coup, of course, is the West. More specifically, France. <br /><br />This is assuming that neither the United States or France can readjust their policies to promote their influence in a way that does not exploit or use their militaries to bully and frighten as opposed to incentivize foreign nations to trade with them. This, unfortunately, is a fair assumption given the history of both countries and Western imperialism after 9/11. For France at least, it seems that ship has sailed. Indeed, it seems there is little chance of it coming back around to port any time soon. <br /><br />It should be mentioned here, before going any further, however, that the interests who are the most important are those of the Nigerien people, something that goes largely unnoticed in both the mainstream and alternative medias as both sides jockey for their respective teams. Nigeriens have factored unsurprisingly little in this entire discussion and their wellbeing is rarely considered.</div><div><br /></div><div>Regardless, the Russians and the Chinese have everything to gain in Niger and the West has significant possibility of loss in the situation as it currently stands. <br /><br /><b>Who Was Behind The Coup?</b> <br /><br />The "West" (United States, France, Europe, etc) - The alternative media, having been traumatized by repeated wars, coups, and destabilizations initiated by the United States or the Collective West, has no doubt sprung into action to point out that the West was behind the Nigerien coup. However, not one shred of credible evidence has been produced to back up that claim. Simply looking at the situation as it stands, neither the United States or especially France have anything to gain by removing the Nigerien government from power. What did Western powers gain by installing a presumed puppet regime that then demands their militaries leave the country? Why would the "people power" protesters supporting the coup be flying Russian flags? Why would the West overthrow a government and replace it with one who makes apparent overtures to Russia? None of these questions can be answered without extraordinary mental gymnastics. <br /><br />Russia - This claim has more validity than one might think at first, despite the fact that the mainstream media insinuates Russia's involvement. Russia is certainly the answer to the question of "Who Benefits?" when it applied to foreign powers and their interests. The obvious benefit to Russia for a Frenchless and pro-Russian Niger has lead some to believe that the Russians have learned a thing or two from watching the West over the last forty years. Indeed, it would be silly to believe that the Russians are not taking advantage of the knowledge provided by decades of observing the West overthrowing governments across the world and at least building the capability to project the same amount of influence and social disruption waged by the West for so many years. Indeed, it would be foolish of them not to. <br /><br />We can add to the evidence that the coup took part during the time of <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-africa-summit-putin-food-grain-00408e40403c3c30f89371a474bb4f9d">Russia's Russia-Africa summit</a> (where Wagner's Prighozin made an appearance) and reports coming from Western governments that "pro-Russian" Telegram groups <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/09/coup-detat-in-niger-is-russia-involved">were identifying</a> Niger as a potential coup shortly after the coup that took place in Burkina Faso. But we must be careful to point out that identifying a coup is not the same as being behind one. <br /><br />Both Russia and China benefit immensely from the ouster of France and the United States from Niger, even they don't stand to gain in any other way. Thus, there is at least the possibility of a motive on the part of the Russians. <br /><br />However, there is no proof of Russia's involvement and, if it were behind the coup and the West was aware of it (as they likely would be), there is little doubt that it would have produced that evidence and used it to continue provoking a third world war with Russia before the ink even dried on the paper. <br /><br />Niger - The third option is that the Nigerien coup is exactly what it appears to be - a coup by Niger's military leaders who either were afraid of being fired or who were simply sick of corruption, mismanagement, and continued impoverishment by a Western-friendly government. The complaint regarding an ineffectual fight against terrorism by the Nigerien government, France, and the US was one of the principal complaints of the coup leaders and the protests alike. Is it that hard to believe that a coup could be domestically incubated and launched without the approval of any of the world powers? At least at the time of the writing of this article, we cannot discount this possibility. <br /><br />On the issue of the "fight against terrorism" in Niger, however, one final word must be said.<br /><br /><b>The Reason Terrorism In The Sahel Just Won't Go Away - Foreign Interests</b><br /><br />Terrorist groups operating in Western Africa, specifically the Sahel region, more specifically in the Mali, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, continue to operate for one reason and one reason only - geopolitical interests. <br /><br />By now, it is well known that Islamic Fundamentalist terror is largely controlled and directed by the West and Gulf States. For years, these terrorist groups have popped up when Western militaries needed justification for deployment to areas that otherwise would not have needed or supported Western military activity. The reason for Boko Haram's terror rampages are often simply that the West needs to terrorize the local populations into accepting foreign troops on their soil to "defend" them. However, it is more that the West wishes to deploy troops in areas of strategic and economic interest to protect those interests from both Russia and China. Essentially, three powers are competing for the exploitation of an already impoverished nation or nations. <br /><br />As I wrote in 2014,<br /><blockquote>Boko Haram is increasingly viewed as an readily-available scapegoat that will allow for the greater deployment of U.S. troops on the mineral and oil rich continent of Africa, gradually positioning an invading and occupying force on the ground using both Islamic terrorism and “Humanitarian Intervention” as an excuse.<br /><br />Such a commitment should immediately remind observers of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/world/africa/obama-is-sending-more-resources-for-joseph-kony-search.html">justification of the deployment</a> of military aircraft and special operations forces to Uganda under the cleverly manipulated pretense of hunting for the phantom and <a href="http://www.webpronews.com/kony-ugandan-says-hes-already-dead-2012-03">possibly dead Joseph Kony</a>.</blockquote><div><b>M62 Movement</b></div><div><br /></div>It is <a href="https://www.africanews.com/2023/08/15/niger-scraps-jail-sentence-for-head-of-group-supporting-military//" target="_blank">worth noting</a> that the new Nigerien government has recently released Abdoulaye Seydou, who leads an activist group which supports the current government. The group is called the M62 Movement. Seydou has been in jail for seven months due to a case involving an Nigerien army air strike on suspected jihadists in southern Niger.<br /><br />"The Niamey Court of Appeal has cancelled the decision of the High Court... which had sentenced our comrade Abdoulaye Seydou to nine months in prison", said M62 secretary general Sanoussi Mahaman.<br /><br />"We have always said that Abdoulaye Seydou's detention is an arbitrary decision... orchestrated from start to finish".<br /><br />The M62 Movement, established around one year ago, is essentially a coalition of 10 NGOs who are opposed to the presence of the French military in Niger. It has been clear in its support of the coup leaders.</div><div><br /><b>The Way Forward</b><br /><br />Regardless of who was behind the Nigerien coup, there is only one sensible way of moving forward for the United States if it wants protect its interests and prevent itself from becoming overtaken and outmaneuvered by Russia and China. <br /><br /><b>The United States must abandon Globalism and "Free Trade" as an ideology</b>. - The United States, having embraced Globalism and "Free Trade," has seen its economic standing become a shell of its former self, dependent on other nations, some of them hostile to it, for vital commodities and goods. The US must depart from this foolhardy adventure and return to "America First" policies, including Protective Tariffs and Fair Trade. <br /><br /><b>The United States must abandon the use of Islamic terror as a method of war, international relations, or influence.</b> - It is high time the United States became a genuine and reliable partner in the fight against terrorism, not a power who funds, arms, herds, and directs terrorist groups for geopolitical reasons. </div><div><br /></div><div>The US must negotiate with Niger on multiple fronts. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Niger should receive</b>:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The United States as a reliable and legitimate partner in the fight against terrorism. This will include temporary and limited operations (at the permission of Niger's government) against terror groups, intelligence, training and weaponry so that Nigerien forces can take over the fighting themselves within a matter of six months. </li><li>Continued trade and investment on the part of the United States. </li><li>Marshall Plan for Niger, helping to develop and implement clean water systems, roads, infrastructure, housing, technology, engineering, irrigation, and industry. Instead of direct financial contributions, the US will offer equipment and concrete goods as well as the expertise as needed for proper implementation. </li><li>A recognition of the military leaders as the legitimate government of Niger. </li><li>A negotiated end to the conflict between Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali and ECOWAS nations. There must be no "intervention." Sanctions must be removed.</li></ul></div><div><b>United States should receive</b>:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>An agreement that Niger will continue to be a reliable partner in the fight against terrorism. </li><li>An agreement that American companies can continue to operate pursuant to the laws of Niger.</li><li>An agreement that neither Russia or China will establish military installations in Niger. </li><li>An agreement to prioritize preferred relations (economic, military, political) with the United States over non-African nations. </li><li>Marshall Plan for Niger as described above will ensure that the money will not be spent, wasted, or distributed in a corrupt fashion. By providing goods made in the United States, such a program will also aid in rejuvenating American industry and domestic production while solidifying America as a partner that sponsors development and progress, not war or debt diplomacy, and thus ensures the US a one up on its competitors. </li></ul></div><div><b>Conclusion</b><br /><br />At the end of the day, we simply do not know who was behind the coup in Niger. But we do know that both France and the West in general have lost a foothold there while the Russians and, presumably, the Chinese, have likely gained one. The new Nigerien government has yet to show its hand as to which direction it will lean in regards to international relations with any of these powers but one thing is for sure - the new government in Niamey will have its work cut out for it if its true goal is the best for the people of Niger. It will effectively be torn at all ends by the three competing superpowers for its resources and strategic significance.<br /><br />Thus, while many may see Niger and just another African playground for foreign superpowers, it could very well determine which direction the pendulum of world power will swing.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><em style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandon Turbeville is a journalist and author. 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He has also released a book of poetry, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon also hosted a radio show for three years which was called Truth on The Tracks. His website is <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">BrandonTurbeville.com.</a> You can contact him through his website. </em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-18165882607060644792023-08-28T20:10:00.000-07:002023-08-28T20:10:18.472-07:00Documentary: Crimes Against SyriaBrandon Turbeville<div><a href="http://BrandonTurbeville.com">BrandonTurbeville.com</a></div><div>August 28, 2023</div><div><br /></div><div>Brandon's work featured in "Crimes Against Syria." </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u4"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");</script>
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Kennedy Jr. Florence, SC <div class="separator"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDzHmSsIa9jVH9XUEA1OMPvaVeqWdr5Aj71x8U2EvNaQIwLV5ByxU9qiPqWFTGoe9QZ7-uB049XaDmsBFZ1-PrkUMonOjzZ45xTOrUoFXMWVvxXeSQ3fx7PF5Lo7dxuJtOGWyBUkCQbNuKJ_ZnThpwI0-M_-aTI2ZGQUMPh3sH_pJlr_boT3EN6Lhp8CEL/s320/Main%20Kennedy24%20Logo.png" /></div></div><div>Brandon Turbeville</div><div><a href="http://BrandonTurbeville.com">BrandonTurbeville.com</a></div><div>August 21, 2023</div><div><br />Despite very little mainstream media coverage of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Presidential Campaign, Kennedy is still attracting large in-person crowds as well as large audiences in the podcast world as his run for the Presidential Nominee of the Democratic Party continues. Mr. Kennedy's goal is a lofty one - unseating an incumbent President in a party whose nomination process is notoriously corrupt. But there is no doubt he believes he is up to the challenge and recent polls within the Democratic Party indicate he might be right. Kennedy has consistently polled in the 20% range despite a mainstream media blackout and a refusal by Joe Biden to debate or even acknowledge him. <br /><br />On August 20, 2023, I had the opportunity to attend a Meet and Greet Townhall campaign event for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Florence, SC where I was able to listen to Kennedy's near hour long talk where he touched on almost every aspect of his campaign - his vision for America, the economy, foreign policy, the environment, and the corporate stranglehold over American regulatory agencies. Kennedy also spoke at length about how super wealthy corporations like BlackRock are buying up American homes, driving up housing prices and, as a result, rent as well as depriving American citizens the ability to own their own homes.<br /><br />With about 75 people in attendance - a decent turnout for a campaign event in Florence, particularly one that has no mainstream media coverage ahead of time - Kennedy was eager to take pictures and talk with every attendee. Kennedy took plenty of time to sign books and discuss specific issues with anyone who had something they wanted to know more about regarding his platform points, his research and activism, or just a word with the candidate himself. <br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span>After his speech, questions were taken from the audience where he was asked about the border, housing, the veteran's appeals process within the VA and his view on the 2020 elections. Kennedy clearly stated that unfettered illegal immigration was not just a problem but a crisis that needs to be addressed immediately. He referenced his own stay at the border where he personally witnessed thousands of illegal immigrants coming across, being driven to the border by the drug cartels who are running ads on Tik Tok and Youtube all over the world for their services. Kennedy aptly pointed out how allowing illegal immigration to continue both facilitates the further exploitation of immigrants once they arrive and the driving down of American wages at the same time. <br /><br />Another question surrounded the question of Kennedy's promise to break the hold corporations have on American regulatory agencies and the American way of life to which he went through a line of agencies including the FDA, EPA, and USDA that have become entirely co-opted by corporate interests and are now doing the opposite of their stated purposes. Kennedy stated that he would immediately begin removing the individuals from positions within those agencies who are responsible for the corporate influence over them. He said he knew exactly who these individuals are. <br /><br />When asked about the unreasonable amount of time it takes for a Veteran's appeal to go through the VA, which Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Mr. Kennedy's campaign manager reaffirmed was a "nightmare," Mr. Kennedy stated that much of the reason for this is because previous administrations would not appoint the judges necessary to adjudicate the appeals and thus a glut occurs and the cases build up. He then pledged to appoint the judges necessary to improve the speed in which they are heard. <br /><br />I was granted a brief two question interview with Mr. Kennedy after the event and I chose to ask him about his plan to reinvigorate the American economy and whether or not he would support enacting a series of protective tariffs. </div><div><br /></div><div>I also asked him about his policy on Syria and whether he would support an end to the brutal Western sanctions on that country that have reduced the nation to below third world status, having perhaps an even more devastating effect than the war itself. I also asked if he would support removing American troops stationed in Syria. <br /><br />You can see Mr. Kennedy's answers in the video below:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v37kyof/?pub=2pq2yl" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/bVQadVDyLjx9/" style="border: none;" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/twnhLVAO5z4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />In my brief time speaking with Mr. Kennedy, my impression is one of a man who is not just running for office but one who believes what he is saying on the campaign trail. I got the solid impression that he is a genuine person doing everything he can to save his country before it is too late. The fact that the Democratic Party and the mainstream media are doing everything they can to keep his campaign a secret and, whenever he is mentioned, do everything they can to malign him, is a testament to this perception and to the work he has done in the past the work he continues to do. <br /><br />Mr. Kennedy's task is a monumental one and he clearly has an entire political machine arrayed against him. But that is not a position that is unfamiliar to him. <br /><br />Mr. Kennedy's campaign website is <a href="http://www.Kennedy24.com">www.Kennedy24.com</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can view the entire speech below:</div><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v37lyiq/?pub=2pq2yl" width="640"></iframe><div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/ExNoYXJaABsl/" style="border: none;" width="640"></iframe>
</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ABBw50moHCk?si=6dBAYgmSSBZAIeqn" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><i>Brandon Turbeville is a journalist and author. He is the author of ten books, including <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf">Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5">7 Real Conspiracies</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7">Five Sense Solutions</a> and <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/dispatches-from-dissident-articles-from.html">Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1</a> and<a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=19038&ID=6318fa2d-7ac3-42c0-b510-b6aeadfa93db"> volume 2</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=23813&ID=e489793f-d003-471a-9a4c-02f7e3df4d77">The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,</a> <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/the-difference-it-makes-36-reasons-hillary-clinton-should-never-be-president/f41a75c2-a316-4932-b4eb-e7efdb9f6a5a">The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President</a>, and <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1541205626/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y">Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome</a>. Turbeville has published over 2500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. His most recent release is a book of poetry, <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon also hosted a radio show for three years which was called Truth on The Tracks. His website is <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/">BrandonTurbeville.com.</a> You can contact him through his website. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-62682864480539177792023-08-19T08:59:00.000-07:002023-08-19T08:59:39.712-07:00Brandon Turbeville on "Real History" With Melissa Of Cutting Through The Matrix<div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrl1FGd0oJ8o3ZAeYoS7zRj0u8l2H9LrJ2vZOlyI8RF2tEnX4IbPrObOZehPI0i0HMPz4JxSy3lFU2tZhQ2aKwaa0F7ofzhPCErLbFEkZP7wnc-qg_DD-xLO9LxCMp_1fbkAlCf6pwlREtmbVwH8XYlcQzmYjCHirT8n7zGUlqmJpLG9zIzeA4gBTG1xXz/s467/AlanPyramidKick%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="467" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrl1FGd0oJ8o3ZAeYoS7zRj0u8l2H9LrJ2vZOlyI8RF2tEnX4IbPrObOZehPI0i0HMPz4JxSy3lFU2tZhQ2aKwaa0F7ofzhPCErLbFEkZP7wnc-qg_DD-xLO9LxCMp_1fbkAlCf6pwlREtmbVwH8XYlcQzmYjCHirT8n7zGUlqmJpLG9zIzeA4gBTG1xXz/s320/AlanPyramidKick%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cuttingthroughthematrix.com/" target="_blank">CuttingThroughTheMatrix Logo - Alan Watt</a></td></tr></tbody></table>Brandon Turbeville</div><div style="text-align: left;">BrandonTurbeville.com</div><div style="text-align: left;">August 19, 2023</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After close to a four year hiatus, I have decided to initiate a limited return to the alternative media and return to writing on a variety of topics, both journalistic and creative. This is the first interview I have done in approximately four years and it was an honor to be invited to talk to Melissa of Cutting Through The Matrix, the home of Alan Watt's work and a site I have followed and respected for many years. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Melissa is continuing to keep the site alive with podcasts of her own, additional podcasts from Alan's associates, and reposting of Alan's talks with relevant links attached to the reposting. Alan's work was ahead of its time, groundbreaking, and continues to be revelatory to this day. I highly encourage all of my readers to visit <a href="http://CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com">CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com</a> and give Alan's talks a listen as well as the newly added podcasts being posted their on a regular basis. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">August 17, 2020 "Real History" with Melissa Ep. 31 - Brandon Turbeville</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Below are the links to the interview:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/real-history-with-melissa-ep-31-brandon-turbeville-aug-172023" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/bHWW4xO7lLII/" style="border: none;" width="640"></iframe>
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Rumble("play", {"video":"v35yv97","div":"rumble_v35yv97"});</script><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U9ufl7eqMHQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br />Aug. 17, 2023<br />"Real History" with Melissa<br />(Podcast)<br />Ep. 31 - Brandon Turbeville<br />Dialogue Copyrighted CTTM - Aug. 17, 2023 (Exempting Bumper Music and Literary Quotes)<br /><a href="https://cuttingthroughthematrix.com/RH2023/Real_History_with_Melissa_Ep_31_Brandon_Turbeville_Aug172023.mp3">*LISTEN / DOWNLOAD</a><br /><br /><br />Podcast links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/">Brandon Turbeville's website</a><br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonTurb">Brandon's Twitter</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2023/07/yes-we-can-end-ukraine-war-in-24-hours.html">Yes, We Can End the Ukraine War in 24 Hours - Here's How - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2017/10/on-returning-from-syria-more-convinced.html">On Returning From Syria: More Convinced Than Ever Western Media Narrative Is Bullshit - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2017/11/i-visited-east-aleppo-there-is-no-doubt.html">I Visited East Aleppo - There Is No Doubt Nusra And White Helmets Are the Same Organization - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-ten-things-about-gaddafi-they-dont-want-you-to-know/5414289">Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Don’t Want You to Know</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4">Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Codex-Alimentarius-End-Health-Freedom/dp/1519198396/">Codex Alimentarius: The End Of Health Freedom - Book by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/7-Real-Conspiracies-Brandon-Turbeville/dp/1517761018/">7 Real Conspiracies - Book by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Makes-Reasons-Hillary-President/dp/1518635962/">The Difference It Makes: 36 Reasons Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President - Book by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dispatches-Dissident-Vol-Articles-Infowar/dp/1518826660/">Dispatches From A Dissident Vol 1 - Book by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dispatches-Dissident-Vol-2/dp/1533089272/">Dispatches From A Dissident Vol. 2 - Book by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Amputee-Brandon-Turbeville/dp/1793022399/">Dance, Amputee - Book of Poetry by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/38-Steps-501-Other-Poems/dp/1722241195/">38 Steps To 501 And Other Poems - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Road-Damascus-Anglo-American-Assault-Syria-ebook/dp/B01EPGNLWS/">The Road To Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault On Syria - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Resisting-Empire-Destroy-Depends-Outcome-ebook/dp/B01MSF4YT1/">Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/War-Continues-Syrian-Crisis-2016-2022/dp/B0C47TCCPD/">The War Continues: The Syrian Crisis 2016-2022: Vol 1 NEW BOOK - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/War-Continues-Syrian-Crisis-2016-2022/dp/B0C481P765/">The War Continues: The Syrian Crisis 2016-2022: Vol. 2 NEW BOOK - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Helmets-Exposed-Brandon-Turbeville/dp/B0C9SHK3CH/">The White Helmets Exposed NEW BOOK - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/History-Science-Color-Revolutions/dp/B0C9SBMHNM/">The History And Science Of Color Revolutions NEW BOOK - by Brandon Turbeville</a><br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/VanessaBeeley">Vanessa Beeley's Twitter</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Iv-9ojtjo">Assala - Boaadak Ani - Syrian singer</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32kJGvWHXi8">George Wassouf...Shoukran - Syrian singer</a><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Hentoff">Nat Hentoff - Writer and Journalist</a><br /><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/U9ufl7eqMHQ">Real History - Ep. 31 "Brandon Turbeville" - YouTube</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/bHWW4xO7lLII/">Real History - Ep. 31 "Brandon Turbeville" - BitChute</a><br /><br /><a href="https://rumble.com/v38kb57-real-history-with-melissa-ep.-31-brandon-turbeville-aug.-17-2023.html">Real History - Ep. 31 "Brandon Turbeville" - Rumble</a><br /><br /><a href="https://rumble.com/v38k9w3-real-history-with-melissa-ep.-31-brandon-turbeville-aug.-17-2023.html">Real History - Ep. 31 "Brandon Turbeville" - Rumble 2</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-14967694557093256052023-07-19T10:00:00.002-07:002023-07-19T10:48:32.680-07:00Yes, We Can End The Ukraine War In 24 Hours - Here's How<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p>Brandon Turbeville<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1tfFeN3sSxcyIyRZD0cV7rhSw7KDRoQ3JB197f4N2quc66NNLEqXC0PgYvOszyfHlckdUWBQ3AZ9GJHkdQZY24dxF45rdQqoO1A_IGMFc-xq8_rsy9YLK8f7x4mumIs3M5PGQyrsB97QXanM2Df9PJvTl_avjI3VmuzX5r4D4kv9L2puYE86kvtrjHeC/s1024/Russia%20Ukraine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1024" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1tfFeN3sSxcyIyRZD0cV7rhSw7KDRoQ3JB197f4N2quc66NNLEqXC0PgYvOszyfHlckdUWBQ3AZ9GJHkdQZY24dxF45rdQqoO1A_IGMFc-xq8_rsy9YLK8f7x4mumIs3M5PGQyrsB97QXanM2Df9PJvTl_avjI3VmuzX5r4D4kv9L2puYE86kvtrjHeC/s320/Russia%20Ukraine.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2023/07/yes-we-can-end-the-ukraine-war-in-24-hours-heres-how.html" target="_blank">Activist Post</a></div><div>July 17, 2023</div><div><br /></div><div>As the United States Presidential Primaries are now in full swing, there is much talk about the future of the American-Ukraine-Russian entanglement. Should the United States be sending more assistance to Ukraine? Less? Are we moving fast enough? Should we be moving at all? These are the questions that are beginning to show the dividing lines in both parties between the anti-war and pro-war camps and, thus, the oligarchy’s approved candidates and those who are more outside the acceptable reigns of modern politically established candidates.</div><div><br />I will remind my own readers that, in 2013, when the Obama administration overthrew the Yanukovich Presidency in Ukraine, I wrote numerous articles not only exposing the coup for what it was but also predicting that the color revolution in Ukraine would lead to a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4030343447953332753/1496769455709325605">confrontation between the United States and Russia</a> on the battlefield of Ukraine. I was criticized for not supporting the “freedom movement” in Ukraine that soon turned into ethnic conflict and civil war. I was then criticized for opposing American “assistance” to Ukraine in the form of money and weaponry as well as training and American military personnel. I was wrong, according to my critics, for not supporting the “underdog” against the alleged aggressor who was bigger and stronger. If only my critics had reacted logically instead of emotionally and in a woefully uninformed manner, perhaps public opinion would have opposed any involvement in Ukraine and much of the needless bloodshed would never have occurred. <br /><br />That’s doubtful, of course, since public opinion alone rarely makes a difference when the Great Eating Machine is hungry and has decided to march forward with a pre-ordained plan of war or economic destruction. <br /><br />The vindication I feel for being right in my assessment ten years prior is no match for the disappointment I feel at watching Ukrainians being slaughtered by Russians and other Ukrainians, for Russians being killed by Ukrainians, and for the distinct possibility that American service personnel may soon be experiencing the same fate. It does not make up for the very real threat of World War Three that will effect every man, woman, and child upon the planet this time around. It also does not make up for watching Americans insulted every day by the fact that billions of dollars are routinely shipped to Ukraine while their own country falls apart at the seams. <br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span>For those who are unaware of the true nature of the conflict in Ukraine as it currently stands, I would encourage you to search my website and find those articles from 2013. Everything is explained there and it will shed light on how we got to where we are at the moment. <br /><br />But it is one thing to say “We never should have done that in the first place,” or “we shouldn’t have let it get this far.” The fact of the matter is we did overthrow the Ukrainian government. We did assist in the arming of militias who engaged in ethnic warfare. We did break up a struggling country that is virtually beyond repair as a whole nation. We did arm Ukraine. We are currently still pushing for Ukraine to join NATO as well as to destabilize and break up Russia. <br /><br />It is also one thing to oppose war and destabilization but another to offer a legitimate end to the war that does not involve further violence, collapse, or worsening of living conditions for all parties involved. Being opposed to bad outcomes is half the battle but supporting positive outcomes is the other half. <br /><br />So what do we do from here? <br /><br />First, a few points must be understood in order to achieve a lasting peace in Ukraine between the United States, Russia, China, Europe, and, of course, Ukraine. <br /><br /><b>US Culpability In The War In Ukraine </b><br /><br />It must be understood that the United States launched a color revolution in Ukraine that overthrew the President and sent the country into a tailspin of destabilization. The United States encouraged, armed, and facilitated militias to crack down on opposition to the administration that the Anglo-American bloc imposed upon the Ukrainian people and resulted in ethnic tensions, violence, and murder against ethnic Russians and East Ukrainians. The United States and Europe have pushed for Ukraine to join NATO, something Russia repeatedly stated it would not stand for as it would push a blatantly anti-Russian coalition right up to the borders of Russia. There were talks of arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons and there were the clear evidence of American bio-weapons labs functioning in Ukraine. All this came as members of the Obama administration and numerous Military Industrial Complex Think Tanks wrote openly about the destruction and breakup of Russia as a nation. The United States and European countries have provided political and military support, billions and billions of dollars, weapons, and even troops to aid Ukraine in its war against Russia. The West has sanctioned Russia repeatedly, dealing multiple blows to its economy. This is not to mention the crisis in Syria where Russians and Americans/NATO nations are also in danger of direct conflict with one another and who’s goals once again stand stark opposite to one another. <br /><br /><b>Putin Is A Rational Actor </b><br /><br />Despite attempts by Western media outlets to paint Vladmir Putin as the next Hitler (or the next Stalin), a crazed fascist or crazed communist, or simply a madman, the truth is that Putin is an entirely rational actor. At every turn, Putin has shown willingness to negotiate, cooperate, and compromise for the greater goals of peace and security of Russia. This has been and continues to be the case, despite hysterical Western media propaganda. <br /><br /><b>Russian Interests </b><br /><br />While Western media and Western governments claim to have no idea what Putin wants in Ukraine, beyond hysterical theories of conquering Europe and the world or uncontrolled mental illness, the truth is that Russia has made its interests clear the entire time. Russia has repeatedly stated that it will not stand for NATO being pushed up to its borders. It also has refused to sit idly by while attacks against ethnic Russians in East Ukraine take place on a regular basis. <br /><br /><b>European Interests </b><br /><br />There is a distinct and important difference between legitimate European interests and European goals. Currently, European goals are locked in tight with those of the United States, which is essentially the use of Ukraine in order to further an anti-Russian agenda. However, European interests are, without a doubt, better served by friendly, cooperative, and peaceful relations with Russia. Europe is not served by an aggressive (or aggressed) Russia, nor is it served by a Russia that feels threatened. Europe is best served by a Russia that is assured it is not threatened by European countries and that is also certain that Europe is prepared to prevent and defend against aggressive invasion or untoward attempts at influence over the various nations. Europe also needs Russian energy and cooperation on the international stage. <br /><br /><b>American Interests </b><br /><br />Much like Europe, the United States' goals are much different than its interests. Aside from geographical location, it is almost more important for the United States to have peaceful, cooperative relations with Russia. Two of the worlds largest countries, most formidable militaries, and nuclear powers simply cannot collide without immense ramifications for the entire world. The United States should find cooperation with Russia vital, especially on issues such as the war on terror, global balance in terms of international relations, and the battle for national sovereignty against globalism, Free Trade, and cultural destabilization that is currently destroying the United States as it is the bulk of Europe. Peace and cooperation between the United States and Russia is vital to reducing conflict across the world. As with Europe, Russia should not be made to feel threatened by US global power, nor should the US be threatened by Russian influence or military power. <br /><br /><b>Need For Cooperation </b><br /><br />There is no solution for the conflict in Ukraine without cooperation between the United States/Europe and Russia. At least, there is no solution that does not involve greater loss of life, greater war, or the complete destruction of Ukraine. <br /><br />The threat of direct conflict between Russia and the United States is becoming less and less of a deterrent for both sides. In fact, it is increasingly being seen as a foregone conclusion. Yet, it remains one of the greatest threats to the world. Arming Ukraine has not defeated the Russians and continued warfare has yet to defeat the Ukrainians (for now). The United States, Europe, Ukraine, and Russia all have interests at play in this conflict that must be acknowledged and protected. Cooperation is the only way to achieve peace through enlightened self-interest. <br /><br /><b>Peace Plan </b><br /><br />While the pro-war side pitches the idea that there is no peace in Ukraine outside the complete and utter defeat of Russia, such an idea not only inaccurate, it is dangerous. <br /><br />At least two Republican candidates and one Democrat have espoused a legitimate understanding of a need for a peace deal in Ukraine and have also expressed minor detail about how a deal would be brokered. Of course, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4030343447953332753/1496769455709325605">Donald Trump</a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4030343447953332753/1496769455709325605">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4030343447953332753/1496769455709325605">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a> were immediately attacked as heretics, Russian agents, and defeatists for doing so. <br /><br />Trump has repeatedly stated that he could end the war in 24 hours, though he has been less forthcoming on the details of how. But, much to the consternation of Western media, he is right. There is a way to end the war in 24 hours. Below, I will detail a peace proposal that would likely bring the war to a halt to the benefit of all parties - Russia, Ukraine, Europe, and the United States. I am doing so in hopes that politically influential individuals may view it and put it in to practice or that a groundswell of public support for an end to the war will then have it’s demands readily available to it and thus will not be a typical rudderless mass protest. <br /><br />It should be pointed out that the proposal below should be viewed as an agreement between Russia and the United States. Europe must come along for its own sake but it may not desire to do so. I will also discuss possible contingencies if any party does not want to participate in the proposal. <br /><br />The plan is as follows: <br /><br />1.) <b>The Donbass region of Ukraine will be ceded to Russia to be considered Russian territory</b>. Without sinking under the weight of an attempt to describe the history of Ukraine, suffice it to say that Eastern Ukrainian culture (specifically the Donbass region) is historically Russian in culture. Add to this the ten year conflict between East and West Ukraine that has degenerated into ethnic warfare and slaughter, it is apparent that the country of Ukraine has become so divided culturally that the chances of peaceful reintegration of East and West Ukraine into one nation without continued internal violence are slim to none. Donbass has repeatedly shown itself comfortable with integrating and becoming part of Russia proper. This is not the creation of an ethnic microstate. This part of the proposal should be viewed as the reunification of ethnically and culturally Russian people with one another. Of course, those non-ethnic Russians should be guaranteed equal rights and protections as ethnic Russians. <br /><br />2.) <b>Official recognition of Donbass as Russian territory</b>. There must be a formal declaration and recognition of the Donbass as part of Russia. <br /><br />3.) O<b>fficial recognition of Crimea as Russian territory.</b> Like Donbass, there must be a formal declaration and recognition of the Donbass as part of Russia. <br /><br />4.) <b>Russian forces must draw back from areas that are outside Donbass.</b> This includes areas in East Ukraine that are not part of Donbass. While Donbass must be recognized as part of Russia, Russia is not entitled to West Ukraine or areas outside of Donbass. Areas outside of Donbass, both East and West, are to be recognized by all participants as the sovereign nation of Ukraine. <br /><br />5.) <b>Official recognition of areas outside of Donbass as the sovereign nation of Ukraine</b>. This must be a formal declaration and recognition by all participants, including Russia, of Ukraine as a sovereign nation whose borders adhere to the description above (Ukrainian territory that is not part of the Donbass region). <br /><br />6.) <b>Written agreement that Ukraine will not join NATO. </b>The United States, Europe, Ukraine, and NATO must agree in writing, signed together with Russia, that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. Formal attempts at “timelines” and “paths” to Ukrainian membership in NATO must then be rescinded and abandoned. <br /><br />7.) <b>Russia will agree that Ukraine will be free from Russian invasion, intimidation, coercion, or undo political influence</b>. Russia must ensure, for its part, that empire and conquest is not part of its foreign policy when it comes to Ukraine. It must agree that Ukraine, as defined by the borders previously agreed to, is safe from Russian invasion, intimidation, coercion, or attempts to manipulate its government. <br /><br />8.) <b>Ukraine and Russia agree to a prisoner swap of official military personnel, intelligence agents, militia members, contractors, and civilians.</b> Both Ukraine and Russia must agree to release prisoners of war (loosely defined). This will include regular military personnel, intelligence agents, contractors, and civilians. While much has been made of the political ideology of the Ukrainian militias, there must be no definition as some prisoners being beyond traditional prisoners of war. All must be returned without preconditions. <br /><br />9.) <b>Upon fulfillment of the agreement described above, all sanctions imposed upon and by the United States and Russia as a result of the conflict of Ukraine going back to 2013, will be lifted.</b> This agreement will not include those imposed as a result of the Syrian crisis or other conflicts. This removal of sanctions will include those imposed on Russia by the United States and upon the United States by Russia. It will include sanctions upon the governments, business, and individuals and will function as a reset in regards to the Ukrainian question. <br /><br />10.) <b>An agreement between the United States and Russia to begin the process of normalizing diplomatic relations such as but not limited to, restoring diplomatic offices, diplomats, military to military conversations in conflict zones, and direct talks between heads of state.</b> It is both infantile and dangerous that two of the world’s most effective militaries and nuclear powers do not maintain fully functioning diplomatic and official communications. Russia and the United States must agree to restore any diplomatic offices, positions, and communications that have been stopped or interrupted as a result of any disagreements between the two countries, including over Syria or other issues. In Syria, military to military communications must resume as well as the “deconfliction channel.” Direct communications between the President of the United States and the President of Russia must resume. <br /><br />11.) <b>An agreement between the United States and Russia to begin, at the Executive and diplomatic levels, discussions regarding the placement of nuclear weapons by both countries (in Belarus, Romania, nuclear subs, etc), weapons shields, American forces on Russian borders, Russian troops in South and central America, cooperation in the international war on terror, the Nord Stream Pipeline, and Syria.</b> There need be no more detail in this agreement. It is not an agreement on the specifics but merely an agreement to discuss issues that both countries find threatening and important. Both countries have legitimate complaints and this is merely an acknowledgement and recognition that both concerns will be discussed between the two parties in good faith. <br /><br />12.) <b>European countries and Russia agree to lift all sanctions imposed on one another as a result of the conflict over Ukraine.</b> This means sanctions that European nations have imposed upon Russia and those that Russia has imposed upon Europe. Neither Russia nor the Europeans benefit from sanctions and hostile neighbors. <br /><br />13.) <b>European countries and Russia agree to Russian gas shipments to Europe at fair market prices.</b> This should merely be seen as agreement that Russian gas is now for sale to European markets. This is not a requirement that said gas is purchased. <br /><br />14.) <b>Russia and Ukraine agree to eliminate sanctions imposed on one another as a result of the conflict</b>. Much harm and ill will has been created as a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Armed conflict is not the only act of war. Indeed, sanctions have long been viewed as an act of war in and of themselves since they are a form of embargo. Russia and Ukraine are ending the war, so the war must be ended. For this reason, both countries must agree to eliminate sanctions imposed on one another since 2013 and the ouster of the Yanukovych government. <br /><br />15.) <b>Russia and Ukraine agree to establish diplomatic relations befitting nations not at war with one another.</b> Much like the agreement between the United States and Russia, Russia and Ukraine must development and restore official diplomatic communications with one another. This includes formal diplomacy, diplomats, diplomatic offices and peer to peer communications. Russia and Ukraine are neighbors and a refusal to communicate formally is foolish. <br /><br />Naturally, there will be resistance to this proposal by pro-war and globalist parties so the mere introduction of a peace plan will not necessarily guarantee all participants are willing to make strides toward peace. Thus, there must be repercussions if the fate of the world is put in jeopardy by globalist interests. <br /><br />For it’s part, Ukraine must be made to understand that it has no choice but to negotiate. If it refuses to do so, it must be left to its own devices. No longer will foreign countries fight and die to the last American. If Europe wishes to commit to Ukraine, then Europe will also have to fight Russia on its own. It should be made clear that, if Ukraine and Europe do not participate, the United States-Russia aspect of the peace plan will go ahead as planned and that whatever the outcome Ukraine and/or Europe find will be determined without the involvement of the United States. <br /><br />If Russia, refuses to negotiate and indicates that it indeed wishes simply to conquer more territory for the sake of empire, it should be made aware that the United States will please its Military Industrial Complex by sending high-tech weapons, heavy weaponry, and whatever is required (short of American service personnel) to create, at best, an unwinnable quagmire for Russia. <br /><br />In truth, only the Europeans would likely pose a problem of resistance to peace, since emotional political grandstanding is the order of the day in Modern Europe and since Europe collectively has bought in to the anti-Russian, globalist order. The United States exerts incredible amounts of influence over Ukraine and Russia, for its part, has repeatedly demonstrated that it is a rational actor, always ready to discuss conflict and negotiate for peace. <br /><br /><b>Conclusion </b><br /><br />This proposal offers the Russians the best possibility of peaceful, productive relations with the United States ever offered. Only if the Western media is correct that Putin is a madman hell-bent on the complete conquering of Ukraine before Europe and the rest of the world would he reject it. The United States has a vested interest in ending the war from a strategic, diplomatic, and domestic viewpoint. Ukraine obviously needs a swift end to the war and Europe benefits nothing from a hostile Russia. There is no sane reason for all parties not to agree to this proposal as it ensures the respect of the interests of all parties involved. <br /><br />For those activists still operating out there, remember, it's election season. Without weighing ourselves down into the political platforms of each individual candidate or the morass that is politics in general, it is nonetheless important to understand that we have a unique opportunity to take advantage of the current Primary elections to reach politically aware and unaware individuals paying attention to their various anti-war candidates in order to educate, inform, and join forces in order to defeat the war machine threatening to destroy our country as well as the rest of the world in the process. <br /><br />It is thus important for those of good will to capitalize on this increased political activity to insert rational platform policies and solutions into the debate and into the minds of the general public.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17.008px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandon Turbeville is a journalist and author. He is the author of ten books, including <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">7 Real Conspiracies</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Five Sense Solutions</a> and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/dispatches-from-dissident-articles-from.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1</a> and<a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=19038&ID=6318fa2d-7ac3-42c0-b510-b6aeadfa93db" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"> volume 2</a>, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=23813&ID=e489793f-d003-471a-9a4c-02f7e3df4d77" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,</a> <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/the-difference-it-makes-36-reasons-hillary-clinton-should-never-be-president/f41a75c2-a316-4932-b4eb-e7efdb9f6a5a" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President</a>, and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1541205626/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome</a>. Turbeville has published over 2500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. His most recent release is a book of poetry, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon also hosted a radio show for three years which was called Truth on The Tracks. 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The War Continues</em></a> picks up where Turbeville’s previous book, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="easyazon-link" data-cart="y" data-cloak="y" data-identifier="B01MSF4YT1" data-locale="US" data-localize="y" data-popups="n" data-tag="permacultucom-20" href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/B01MSF4YT1/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Resisting The Empire</a></em> leaves off – the election of Donald Trump and subsequently Joe Biden.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17.008px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beginning in 2016 and the end of the Obama administration, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The War Continues</em> takes a detailed look at the Syrian crisis beginning with the election of Donald Trump to the presidency and examines claims of chemical weapons attacks, Kurdish autonomy, geopolitics, and the Deep State.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17.008px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turbeville deconstructs a myriad of propaganda tropes including the White Helmets and Assad’s alleged “war on his own people.” Turbeville highlights the failures of Western media outlets to maintain a consistent story on Syria and presents stories and reporting from boots on the ground, both himself and other independent reporters not beholden to corporate media outlets and Western governments.</p><div class="sb-widget clearfix widget_text amr_widget" id="text-48" style="background-color: white; 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line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The War Continues: The Syrian Crisis 2016-2022 Volume 1</em></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; 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font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandon Turbeville’s Activist Post archive can be read <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/tag/brandon-turbeville" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; 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In fact, while many were attacking anyone warning of the "coming Microchip" as a conspiracy theorist, luddite, or religious fanatic, that microchip has arrived. </div><div><br /></div><div>But governments aren't having to market the chip as a method to track, trace, and control their populations. Instead, they are marketing the chip as a way to track and detect COVID and other Coronaviruses. Clearly, this is a much easier sell to a public literally terrorized by their governments and mainstream media outlets for the last six months. <blockquote><p>Raul Diego details the creation and coming rollout of the new biochip in his article, "<a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/darpa-covid-19-vaccine-implant-mrna/271287/">A DARPA-Funded Implantable Microchip to Detect COVID-19 Could Hit Markets By 2021,</a>" where he writes,</p>The most significant scientific discovery since gravity has been hiding in plain sight for nearly a decade and its destructive potential to humanity is so enormous that the biggest war machine on the planet immediately deployed its vast resources to possess and control it, financing its research and development through agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and HHS’ BARDA.<br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span>The revolutionary breakthrough came to a Canadian scientist named Derek Rossi in 2010 purely by accident. The now-retired Harvard professor claimed in an <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/heroes-of-the-pandemic-meet-the-canadian-hockey-dad-behind-covid-19-vaccine-developer-moderna">interview</a> with the National Post that he found a way to “reprogram” the molecules that carry the genetic instructions for cell development in the human body, not to mention all biological lifeforms.<br /><br />These molecules are called ‘messenger ribonucleic acid’ or <a href="https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/messenger-rna">mRNA</a> and the newfound ability to rewrite those instructions to produce any kind of cell within a biological organism has radically changed the course of Western medicine and science, even if no one has really noticed yet. As Rossi, himself, puts it: “The real important discovery here was you could now use mRNA, and if you got it into the cells, then you could get the mRNA to express any protein in the cells, and this was the big thing.”<br /><br />It was so big that by 2014, Rossi was able to retire after the company he co-founded with Flagship Pioneering private equity firm to exploit his innovation, – Moderna Inc., attracted almost a half billion dollars in federal award monies to begin developing vaccines using the technology. No longer affiliated with Moderna beyond his stock holdings, Rossi is just “watching for what happens next” and if he’s anything like the doting “hockey dad” he is portrayed to be, he must be horrified.</blockquote>This new technology, of course, amounts to the remote control of biological processes. Diego continues,<div><blockquote><blockquote>As early as 2006, DARPA was already researching how to identify viral, upper respiratory pathogens through its Predicting Health and Disease (PHD) program, which led to the creation of the agency’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO), as reported by Whitney Webb in a May <a href="https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/coronavirus-gives-dangerous-boost-darpas-darkest-agenda/">article</a> for The Last American Vagabond. In 2014, DARPA’s BTO launched its “In Vivo Nanoplatforms” (IVN) program, which researches implantable nanotechnologies, leading to the development of ‘hydrogel’.<br /><br />Hydrogel is a nanotechnology whose inventor early on <a href="https://leapsmag.com/3-futuristic-biotech-programs-the-u-s-government-is-funding-right-now/">boasted</a> that “If [it] pans out, with approval from FDA, then consumers could get the sensors implanted in their core to measure their levels of glucose, oxygen, and lactate.” This contact lens-like material requires a special injector to be introduced under the skin where it can transmit light-based digital signals through a wireless network like 5G.<br /><br />Once firmly implanted inside the body, human cells are at the mercy of any mRNA program delivered via this substrate, unleashing a nightmare of possibilities. It is, perhaps, the first true step towards full-on transhumanism; a “philosophy” that is in vogue with many powerful and influential people, such as Google’s Ray Kurzweil and Eric Schmidt and whose proponents see the fusion of technology and biology as an inevitable consequence of human progress.<br /><br />The private company created to market this technology, that allows for biological processes to be controlled remotely and opens the door to the potential manipulation of our biological responses and, ultimately, our entire existence, is called <a href="https://profusa.com/">Profusa Inc</a> and its operations are funded with millions from <a href="https://profusa.com/profusa-awarded-1-75m-nih-grant/">NIH</a> and <a href="https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medical-devices/profusa-awarded-7-5-million-darpa-grant-to-work-implantable-biosensors">DARPA</a>. In March, the company was quietly inserted into the crowded COVID-19 bazaar in March 2020, when it announced an <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/03/military-funded-biosensor-could-be-future-pandemic-detection/163497/">injectable biochip</a> for the detection of viral respiratory diseases, including COVID-19.</blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/03/military-funded-biosensor-could-be-future-pandemic-detection/163497/">Patrick Tucker of Defense One</a> goes into a few more specifics of how the biochip works. He describes it as follows:</p></div><blockquote><div> The sensor has two parts. One is a 3mm string of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel">hydrogel</a>, a material whose network of polymer chains is used in some contact lenses and other implants. Inserted under the skin with a syringe, the string includes a specially engineered molecule that sends a fluorescent signal outside of the body when the body begins to fight an infection. The other part is an electronic component attached to the skin. It sends light through the skin, detects the fluorescent signal and generates another signal that the wearer can send to a doctor, website, etc. It’s like a blood lab on the skin that can pick up the body’s response to illness before the presence of other symptoms, like coughing. </div></blockquote><div>It is clear that the project has support not just in the halls of the Corporate World, but also in the halls of the Deep State American government. Diego writes, <blockquote>In July, a <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2022483#disclosures">preliminary report</a> funded by Fauci’s NIAID and the NIH on an mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, concluding that mRNA-1273 vaccine. provided by Moderna for the study, “induced anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants, and no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified,” and supported “further development of this vaccine.”<br /><br />A month earlier, the NIH had claimed a joint stake in Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, citing a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6935295-NIH-Moderna-Confidential-Agreements.html#document/p105/a568569">contract</a> signed in December, 2019, stipulating that the “mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates [are] developed and jointly owned” by both parties. Moderna disputes the federal government’s position, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6955095-Moderna-Statement-to-Axios.html">stating</a> that the company “has a broad owned and licensed IP estate” and is “not aware of any IP that would prevent us from commercializing our product candidates, including mRNA-1273.”<br /><br />The only obstacle is a delivery system, which though Moderna claims to be developing separately, is unlikely to get FDA approval before the federal government’s own DARPA-developed hydrogel technology, in tandem with Profusa’s DARPA-funded light sensor technology, which is expected to receive fast track authorization from the Food and Drug Administration by early 2021 and, more than likely, used to deploy a coronavirus vaccine with the capacity to literally change our DNA.<br /><br />In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is <a href="https://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Article/2020/09/09/Spotlight-on-Moderna-funding-declarations-in-patent-filings">currently investigating</a> Moderna’s patent filings, claiming it failed to disclose “federal government support” in its COVID vaccine candidate patent applications, as required by law. The technicality could result in the federal government owning a 100 percent stake in mRNA-1273.</blockquote><p>Activists and concerned citizens need to stop talking about the "coming microchip" and how they will refuse to be chipped when the time comes. That time is now. Soon, people all over the world are going to have a very difficult decision to make - take a microchip or face the consequences. Judging by the amount of people walking around in masks during my trips to the supermarket, I'd say the odds are not in the favor of free humanity. </p><p>Note: Listen to researcher Alan Watt of CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com discuss the biochip and much more in a historical and analytical context here: </p></div></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yJ29q05WJRw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-44886529737288456142022-09-09T12:48:00.001-07:002023-08-26T12:48:42.638-07:00This 2020 Food Shortage Simulation Predicted 400% INCREASE in Food Prices by 2030Robert Wheeler<br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidL6pOMZMeQSDgxaVMjAIrIfzU8h4-gNlA8RobLa7uc-_PJinhAwdFWzFkX_NDDj40siSwHc304GqC9W0b_CB08LIV9wqhz02bkEWOLGsTKKWirNwfDgy2VZ740DlA4SkKjHLJH7SfJC3lE6XOIjQrFHZzdCkFLcQRRB_vmhdc5fugIl64qmUvlfDWWPl3/s1024/CARGILLSIMULATIONFB-2-1024x536-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="1024" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidL6pOMZMeQSDgxaVMjAIrIfzU8h4-gNlA8RobLa7uc-_PJinhAwdFWzFkX_NDDj40siSwHc304GqC9W0b_CB08LIV9wqhz02bkEWOLGsTKKWirNwfDgy2VZ740DlA4SkKjHLJH7SfJC3lE6XOIjQrFHZzdCkFLcQRRB_vmhdc5fugIl64qmUvlfDWWPl3/s320/CARGILLSIMULATIONFB-2-1024x536-1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/simulation-400-increase-food-prices-2030/" target="_blank">The Organic Prepper</a></div><div>September 9, 2022<br /><br /><b><i>[Editorial Note: Given current events, rereading this OP article from October 2020 is timely. Also, it’s interesting – and unfortunate – to note how these things are all beginning right on the schedule laid out.]</i></b><br /><br />Recently, I wrote an article discussing the<a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/supply-chain-food-shortages/"> looming food crisis</a> in the United States and the rest of the world. While it might seem like paranoia to some readers, the information provided in that article is very real. In fact, I’m not the only one that’s been thinking about it.<br /><br />Back in 2015, 65 people showed up at the World Wildlife Fund’s headquarters in Washington D.C. These individuals were international policymakers, corporate businessmen, academics, and “leaders in thought.” Their goal? To run a simulation of a world food crisis that would begin in 2020 and run to 2030.<br /><br />The press release of the event was published on the Big Ag corporation Cargill website and revealed that the food shortage simulation that the decade between 2020 and 2030 would see two major food crises. During this time, prices would rise 400% of the long term average, there would be a number of climate-related weather events, governments would be toppled in Ukraine and Pakistan, and famine would force refugees from Myanmar, Chad, Sudan, and Bangladesh.<br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span>Does any of this sound familiar yet?<br /><br />In the simulation, one governmental solution was a tax on meat. Another? A global carbon tax.<br /><br />(To learn more about how to preserve what you raised this past summer, check out our free <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/quickstart-home-canning/">QUICKSTART Guide</a> to home canning.)</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>A meat tax. A carbon tax.</i></span><br /><br />Seriously. This has to sound familiar by now.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.cargill.com/story/food-chain-reaction-simulation-ends-with-global-carbon-tax">The press release stated</a>:<br /><br />On Monday and Tuesday, 65 international policymakers, academics, business and thought leaders gathered at the World Wildlife Fund’s headquarters in Washington DC to game out how the world would respond to a future food crisis.<br /><blockquote>The game took the players from the year 2020 to 2030. As it was projected, the decade brought two major food crises, with prices approaching 400 percent of the long term average; a raft of climate-related extreme weather events; governments toppling in Pakistan and Ukraine; and famine and refugee crises in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Chad and Sudan.<br /><br />Climate, hunger, civil unrest and spiking food prices came together at the Food Chain Reaction game in Washington DC this week. Cooperation mostly won the day. Along with WWF, the Center for American Progress and the Center for Naval Analyses, Cargill was one of Food Chain Reaction’s organizers. The company was represented in the game by Corporate Vice President Joe Stone.<br /><br />. . . . .<br /><br />Over two days, the players – divided into teams for Africa, Brazil, China, the EU, India, the U.S., international business and investors, and multilateral institutions – crafted their policy responses as delegations engaged in intensive negotiations.</blockquote>Of course, working “globally” turned out to be the most beneficial.<br /><blockquote>Cooperation mostly won the day over the short term individual advantage. Teams pledged to build international information networks and early warning systems on hunger and crops together, invest jointly in smart agricultural technology and build up global food stocks as a buffer against climate shocks.<br /><br />In the face of a steep price spike with looming global food shortages in 2022, the EU at one point suspended its environmental rules for agriculture and introduced a tax on meat. Both measures were quickly reversed in 2025, as harvests went back to normal and tensions eased in the hypothetical universe.</blockquote>Carbon and meat taxes are “a possibility.”<br /><blockquote>The most eye-catching result, however, was a deal between the U.S., the EU, India and China, standing in for the top 20 greenhouse gas emitters, to institute a global carbon tax and cap CO2 emissions in 2030.<br /><br />“We’ve learned that a carbon tax is a possibility in years ahead,” acknowledged Stone. “But before we can consider moving ahead with a measure like that, we must study it and understand it much better. We have to avoid sudden market distortions and unforeseen consequences.”<br /><br />Stone said he was impressed with the complexity of the game and the second and third order consequences of some of the decisions that were taken. “Take the meat tax Europe wanted to impose, and think through that. What meat are you going to tax – does that mean poultry and beef or aquaculture as well? Where do you levy the tax, where does the money go, what are the unintended consequences?”<br /><br />The game was built over the course of months, with maximal realism in mind. The scenario was extrapolated from events that have actually occurred in the real world, such as the food crisis of 2008-2009 or the recent string of hottest years and months on record.<br /><br />Cargill economist Tim Bodin, who helped design the game and sat on the judges’ panel that evaluated the team’s moves, said he was surprised by the degree of cooperation. “Most people started out with a short-term perspective, but transitioned to long-term measure pretty quickly – they started working to strengthen resiliency instead of just putting out fires.”</blockquote>Keep in mind, this press release and the exercise took place in 2015 yet it’s almost as if they were reading the script for 2020.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>There’s a clear agenda.</i></span><br /><br />The fact is, we know there is an agenda for all of these things – food shortages, meat tax, global carbon tax and if COVID has been anything, it has been the most helpful little virus to ever have existed. That is, as long as you’re a member of the global feudal overlords. If you’ve been reading my articles recently, I’d encourage you to pay attention to what’s being said. <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/self-reliance/">Self-reliance</a> is about to become a whole lot more important.<br /><br />Do you think the price of food will increase as much as predicted in this simulation? How are you planning to prepare for this? If you knew of this previously, what do you think now? Share your thoughts in the comments below.</div><div><br /><br /><i>About Robert<br /><br />Robert Wheeler has been quietly researching world events for two decades. After witnessing the global network of NGOs and several ‘Revolutions’ they engineered in a number of different countries, Wheeler began analyzing current events through these lenses.<br /></i><br /> <p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-47422466252299633512022-06-30T18:36:00.028-07:002022-07-01T07:58:15.542-07:00Controlling The Savages: COVID, Lockdowns, Shortages, and The Great ResetBrandon Turbeville<div>BrandonTurbeville.com</div><div>June 30, 2022<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><i><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrADbUKcTOZUnBlmrnxo-xF6fMvKEDhH-m3ScPlKtLdX91Lp9dofAAJy4OwueP2eHPlz1KoVesOT4V1R0IXoXghQT9oh2uMcBq9GKdL69SbQrUIxi96DW_4-O69R6c_BSlnwUAWErZJvOfrIWWUOMET82P4Zujk62xiYFOKhXUKhTZLsvXw7hSFFCMuA/w400-h175/corona-g593238f49_1920.jpg" width="400" /></i></div><i>Who controls the food supply controls the people. Who
controls the energy can control whole continues. Who controls money can control
the whole world. – Henry Kissinger<o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Around 1868, the Indian Wars had briefly paused and the soon to be butchered treaties remained in force. However, the US Federal government
and private interests were well aware that the “Indian Question” and “problem
of the savages” was still unanswered. In other words, the “problem of the
savages” was that the savages still existed. Those “savages” had been beaten
back for years by the US regular army but they were not completely vanquished.
In fact, despite being outmanned and outgunned and with little to no
competition for the advancements in weaponry of the US Army, the Native
Americans routinely routed the American military, at times slaughtering whole
detachments. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But now that the secessionists had been dealt with, it became apparent
that it was now time to remove the gloves from the iron fist of the coming
settlements and that the Native Americans had to be annihilated, subjugated, or
displaced from their native lands. Railroads, telegraphs, mines, and the like
were all being hampered by the very existence of Native Americans. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Enter William Sherman, the general famous for his brutal
March to the Sea, the burning of Atlanta, and the destruction of civilian
infrastructure in the US Civil War. Say what you want about Sherman, the man
knew how to win a war. He knew that breaking the backs of the civilian
population and the ability of the society as well as military to sustain itself
was a successful method of warfare. He also knew that the Native Americans
relied upon buffalo for food and shelter and indeed their very survival. In a letter penned in 1868, he wrote that as long as the buffalo were alive, “Indians will go there.
I think it would be wise to invite all the sportsmen of England and America
there this fall for a Grand Buffalo hunt, and make one grand sweep of them
all.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>And so it became <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buffalo-killers/482349/">unofficial
Federal policy</a> that the buffalo had to be extinguished in order to solve the
vexing “Indian problem.” Over the next ten years, the buffalo were hunted by
privateers, highly encouraged by the US government, to the point of near
extinction. Where buffalo once numbered about 30 million, by the end of the
1800’s, that number had been reduced to just a few hundred. <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Andrew C. Isenberg’s book, The Destruction Of The Bison,
Isenberg writes of a reporter who asks a railroad worker, “Do the Indians make
a living gathering these bones?’ Yes, replied a railroad inspector, ‘but it is
a mercy that they can’t eat bones. We were never able to control the savages
until their supply of meat was cut off.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fast forward to 2022. After nearly three years of COVID hysteria,
lockdowns, economic disruptions, and schizophrenic government responses, the
United States as a whole as well as the rest of the world is facing a food shortage.
Claims that once belonged only to “preppers” and “conspiracy theorists” are now
mainstream news items, with corporate media outlets reporting that some items
may be in short supply or simply not available at all. All that is necessary is a brief internet search to see
a myriad of mainstream reports of shortages of meat, vegetables, baby formula
and many other staple items. Just a cursory walk around the local grocery store
will reveal a fairly obvious shortage of many items though the pain is now mostly at the point of being an inconvenience moreso than a reason for panic. For now. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But talk of a food shortage is more than scattered news
reports. Even the United Nations is warning of one, but not just in the United States. The UN is warning of a global food shortage. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chief-warns-catastrophe-global-food-shortage-85628783">As
ABC News reports</a>, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world
faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Food" target="_blank">food</a> around
the globe.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war
in <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Ukraine" target="_blank">Ukraine</a> has
added to the disruptions caused by climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and
inequality to produce an “unprecedented global hunger crisis” already affecting
hundreds of millions of people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared
in 2022,” he said in a video message to officials from dozens of rich and
developing countries gathered in Berlin. “And 2023 could be even worse.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Guterres noted that harvests across Asia, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Monkeypox" target="_blank">Africa</a> and
the Americas will take a hit as farmers around the world struggle to cope with
rising fertilizer and energy prices.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“This year’s <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Food" target="_blank">food</a> access
issues could become next year’s global food shortage,” he said. “No country
will be immune to the social and economic repercussions of such a catastrophe.”</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Notice that Gueterres also mentions the rising prices of fuel and
fertilizer. This is something else that is being experienced worldwide, not just
in the United States. Of course, Western media and the ruling party would have
the population believe that Vladmir Putin is hoarding all the world’s gas via
Ukraine, imposing restrictions and taxes on the vulnerable people of the United
States who were on their way to energy independence just three short years.
Now, however, they somehow woke up begging other countries for fuel, licking
the boots of the Saudis, and blaming Vlad for the doubling of the price at the
pump. Clearly, it has nothing to do with intentionally shutting off oil pipelines and punishing businesses and working people on behalf of the climate and faulty notion that man-made CO2 is causing temperatures to rise and the planet to reach a point of irreversible calamity. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Again, however, fuel prices aren’t just rising in the United
States. They are rising across the world along with fertilizer and food costs
and along with the price of just about any consumer good. Inflation too, the
hidden tax that is making itself well known in the United States, is popping up
in the majority of countries across the globe. Who knew printing large amounts
of money would cause that money to be worth less and thus cause prices to rise
to compensate? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Living standards too are dropping all across the world with
<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/06/22/1106711204/polio-found-in-u-k-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-40-years-heres-what-it-means" target="_blank">polio now rearing its head</a> in the UK again for the first time since the 1980s.
Polio, of course, is a disease that thrives on the low living standards and poor sanitation
of the third world, a world which was partially imported to the UK all the
while the standards of living (healthcare, sanitation, nutrition, etc) have
been gradually eroded. It’s not just the UK either. Living standards have been
falling in the US for decades but accelerating recently. That is, of course, unless one chooses to
believe silly “happiness indexes” repeated out of the UN to promote globalism
and Free Trade policies. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even basic services are falling apart. Labor shortages from
pilots to the service industry are causing disruptions in the economy, rising
prices, and chaos at airports. All happening globally. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Food shortages are happening globally. Food prices are
rising globally. Fuel and fertilizer are rising globally. Living standards are
falling globally. Inflation is rising globally. Labor shortages are global.
Transportation is falling apart globally. See a pattern yet? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Everything disruption happening nationally is also happening
globally. Are we expected to believe that every government across the world
simply made the same stupid decisions at the same time? That none of them could
figure out the source of the problem? Shouldn't at least one of them have stumbled on the right path forward and lead the others through the mist? Or should we assume that there are more
factors at play here and remember that anytime we see the same thing happening
across the world at the same time agendas that are global in nature
and have no respect for national boundaries are marching forward? I would argue the latter. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Keep in mind, all of these “global crises” came to be out of
the “global pandemic,” itself at best an opportunity that was not allowed to go
to waste. At worst, a global hoax designed to usher in the Great Reset. COVID, after all, is still a virus that has yet to be fully identified in a lab, yet the entire world was locked down at the same time, a prison planet brought in to being, upon this dubious evidence and weak justifications. Regardless, COVID's biggest casualty was freedom. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">None of the current crises have arisen on the basis of a
chain of befuddled reactionaries acting in ignorant unison across the globe to
an emerging “pandemic.” In fact, the only ones ignorant of the pandemic and
coming responses were the unsuspecting civilians who willingly gave up their
most basic rights over fear of a virus that has never been isolated in a lab
and still is not able to be accurately tested for. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Still think COVID just surprised everyone in power as much as it did the unsuspecting citizens? Consider briefly how, in the months before the alleged
pandemic arose, a simulation exercise was held at Johns Hopkins Center for
Health Security in concert with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation regarding the emergence of a global coronavirus
pandemic that results in mass disruption of life and culture as we know it,
economic chaos, and disruption of basic services. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As Tim Hinchcliffe wrote in his article, “<a href="https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/timeline-great-reset-agenda-event-201-pandemic-2020/">A
Timeline Of The Great Reset Agenda: From Foundation To Event 201 And The
Pandemic of 2020,</a>” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">On May 15, 2018, Johns Hopkins Center for Health
Security hosted the “Clade X” pandemic exercise in partnership with the WEF.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Clade X exercise included mock video footage of actors
giving scripted news reports about a fake pandemic scenario <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">. . . . . <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Clade X event also included discussion panels with real
policymakers who assessed that governments and industry were not adequately
prepared for the fictitious global pandemic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“In the end, the outcome was tragic: the most catastrophic
pandemic in history with hundreds of millions of deaths, economic collapse and
societal upheaval,” <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/infectious-disease-pandemic-clade-x-johns-hopkins/" target="_blank">according to a WEF report on Clade X</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“There are major unmet global vulnerabilities and
international system challenges posed by pandemics that will require new robust
forms of public-private cooperation to address” — Event 201 pandemic simulation
(October, 2019)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then on October 18, 2019, in partnership with Johns
Hopkins and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the WEF ran Event 201.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During the scenario, the entire global economy was shaken,
there were riots on the streets, and high-tech surveillance measures were
needed to “stop the spread.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">. . . . . <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Two fake pandemics were simulated in the two years leading
up to the real coronavirus crisis.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Governments will need to partner with traditional and
social media companies to research and develop nimble approaches to countering
misinformation” — Event 201 pandemic simulation (October, 2019)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security <a href="https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/news/center-news/2020-01-24-Statement-of-Clarification-Event201.html" target="_blank">issued a public statement</a> on January 24, 2020,
explicitly addressing that Event 201 wasn’t meant to predict the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners
did not make a prediction during our tabletop exercise. For the scenario, we
modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was
not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and
response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic.”</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote>Intentional or not, Event 201 “highlighted” the “fictional”
challenges of a pandemic, along with recommendations that go hand-in-hand with
the great reset agenda that has set up camp in the nefarious “new normal.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">“The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness
and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal
consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering” —
Event 201 pandemic simulation (October, 2019)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Together, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the
World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation <a href="https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/recommendations.html" target="_blank">submitted seven recommendations</a> for governments,
international organizations, and global business to follow in the event of a
pandemic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Event 201 recommendations call for greater collaboration
between the public and private sectors while emphasizing the importance of
establishing partnerships with un-elected, global institutions such as the WHO,
the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Air
Transport Organization, to carry out a centralized response.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">. . . . . <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of the recommendations calls for governments to partner
with social media companies and news organization to censor content and control
the flow of information.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Media companies should commit to ensuring that
authoritative messages are prioritized and that false messages are suppressed
including though [sic] the use of technology” — Event 201 pandemic simulation
(October, 2019)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to the report, “Governments will need to partner
with traditional and social media companies to research and develop nimble
approaches to countering misinformation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“National public health agencies should work in close
collaboration with WHO to create the capability to rapidly develop and release
consistent health messages.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“For their part, media companies should commit to ensuring
that authoritative messages are prioritized and that false messages are
suppressed including though [sic] the use of technology.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sound familiar?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Throughout 2020, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have been
censoring, suppressing, and flagging any coronavirus-related <a href="https://sociable.co/technology/big-tech-covid-19-surveillance-data-censorship-threaten-free-speech-privacy/" target="_blank">information that goes against WHO recommendations</a> as a
matter of policy, just as Event 201 had recommended.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Big tech companies have also deployed the same <a href="https://sociable.co/big-tech/facebook-twitter-ceos-to-testify-on-big-tech-censorship-during-disputed-presidential-election/" target="_blank">content suppression tactics during the 2020 US presidential
election</a> — slapping “disputed” claims on content that question
election integrity.</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Take a look at the predictions made by Event 201:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #282828; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Governments
implementing lockdowns worldwide</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #282828; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The
collapse of many industries</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #282828; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Growing
mistrust between governments and citizens</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #282828; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">A
greater adoption of biometric surveillance technologies</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #282828; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Social
media censorship in the name of combating misinformation</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 47.25pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #282828; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The
desire to flood communication channels with “authoritative” sources</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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global lack of personal protective equipment</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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breakdown of international supply chains</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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unemployment</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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in the streets (see </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/timeline-great-reset-agenda-event-201-pandemic-2020/"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">source</span></b></a></span><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">)</span></b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Only the last two are yet to have checkmarks beside them,
though mainstream economists are pointing toward September as a possible date for the mass unemployment. Surely, unless there is some inflationary
printing by governments, the riots will then follow.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the core of the COVID scam as well as the subsequent
crises mentioned above is the ushering in of an entirely new society, that
depicted by UN Agenda 21 and the Great Reset, itself the beginning of a global
society reminiscent of that depicted in the Hunger Games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So what is the Great Reset? Essentially, the term comes from
both a June 3, 2020 event sponsored by the WEF entitled The Great Reset which
featured statements from leaders of the IMF, World Bank, and members of the
corporate and banking sectors of the United States and UK as well as book
written by Klaus Schwab, founder of the WEF, entitled <i>COVID19: The Great Reset</i>.
Both the book and the event echoed the same sentiment, i.e. that the world
economy must be shut down and “reset” in order to usher in a new economy based
upon the ideals of Agenda 21 and the Green New Deal. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hinchcliffe again, in a separate article, “<a href="https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/the-great-reset-will-expand-surveillance-state-via-real-time-tracking-ron-paul/">’The
Great Reset Will Dramatically Expand The Surveillance State Via Real-Time
Tracking’: Ron Paul,</a>” writes, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">The overall goal of the WEF’s so-called great reset agenda
has always been to reshape the global economy and revamp every aspect of
society, with or without COVID.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trust becomes a major concern when you realize that the idea
of tracking and tracing every human being on the planet was already <a href="https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/timeline-great-reset-agenda-event-201-pandemic-2020/" target="_blank">championed by the WEF Founder Klaus Schwab years before
COVID-19</a> arrived on the scene.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another concern is whether to believe that the lockdowns, the
limited mobility, the destruction of small businesses, the crashing of the
economy, the home evictions, and the <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biggest-ever-transfer-wealth-happening-000100008.html" target="_blank">largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world</a> are
all necessary to stop an “invisible enemy,” along with the subsequent
curtailing of freedom that hasn’t been seen in the free world <a href="https://sociable.co/technology/covid-19-data-collection-9-11-privacy-risks-cnas-datagovhub/" target="_blank">since the beginning of the so-called War on Terror</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“This digital identity determines what products, services
and information we can access – or, conversely, what is closed off to us” — WEF
report<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to Schwab, the post-COVID fourth industrial
revolution will lead to “a fusion of our physical, our digital, and our
biological identities.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In his books, “COVID-19: The Great Reset,” (2020) and “The
Fourth Industrial Revolution” (2017), Schwab envisioned a future of tracking
and tracing every individual through digital identities connected to the <a href="https://sociable.co/technology/great-reset-meets-internet-of-bodies-manipulating-human-behavior-authoritarian-surveillance/" target="_blank">Internet of Bodies (IoB) ecosystem</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For example, in “The Fourth Industrial Revolution,” Schwab
noted:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any package, pallet or container can now be equipped with a
sensor, transmitter or radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that allows a
company to track where it is as it moves through the supply chain—how it is
performing, how it is being used, and so on.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the near future, similar monitoring systems will also be
applied to the movement and tracking of people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">. . . . . <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The digital identity agenda picked-up speed throughout 2020,
starting with contact tracing and continuing with immunity passports to monitor
and control citizen mobility for the greater good.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After attempting to justify mass surveillance in the
interest of public health and safety, Schwab wrote in “COVID-19: The Great
Reset” that in the post-pandemic era “the genie of tech surveillance will not
be put back in the bottle,” and that “dystopian scenarios are not a fatality.”</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Below are just a few quotes from “COVID19: The Great Reset:”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">Now that information and communication technologies permeate
almost every aspect of our lives and forms of social participation, any digital
experience that we have can be turned into a “product” destined to monitor and
anticipate our behavior.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">. . . . . </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The pandemic could open an era of active health surveillance
made possible by location-detecting smartphones, facial-recognition cameras and
other technologies that identify sources of infection and track the spread of a
disease in quasi real time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">. . . . . </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dystopian scenarios are not a fatality. It is true that in
the post-pandemic era, personal health and wellbeing will become a much greater
priority for society, which is why the genie of tech surveillance will not be
put back into the bottle.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">. . . . .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The combination of AI, the IoT and sensors and wearable
technology will produce new insights into personal well-being. They will
monitor how we are and feel, and will progressively blur the boundaries between
public healthcare systems and personalized health creation systems – a
distinction that will eventually break down.</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hincliffe also writes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">Between 2014 and 2017, the WEF called to reshape, restart,
reboot, and reset the global order every single year, each aimed at solving
various “crises.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014: WEF <a href="http://www3.weforum.org/docs/AM14/WEF_AM14_Public_Report.pdf" target="_blank">publishes meeting agenda</a> entitled “The Reshaping of
the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015: WEF <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/we-need-to-press-restart-on-the-global-economy/" target="_blank">publishes article in collaboration with VOX EU</a> called “We
need to press restart on the global economy.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016: WEF <a href="https://www.weforum.org/open-forum/event_sessions/how-to-reboot-the-global-economy" target="_blank">holds panel</a> called “How to reboot the global economy.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2017: WEF <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/we-need-to-upgrade-the-sustainable-development-goals-here-s-how/" target="_blank">publishes article</a> saying “Our world needs a reset in
how we operate.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 2020, the coronavirus was the catalyst needed to enact
the great reset plan that had been bubbling under the surface for years, and
immunity passports are just another step in the overall plan to track and trace
every citizen through their digital identity.</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Without digressing too far, I would suggest reading my
article, “<a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2019/03/social-media-universal-basic-income-and.html">Social
Media, Universal Basic Income, and Cashless Society: How China’s Social Credit
System Is Coming To America,</a>” to see just how far characters like Klaus
would like to drag the world’s population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It truly is essential reading at this stage of the game. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One of the few statements made by the WEF related to it’s
future goals was a bizarre article published by Forbes entitled, “ <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=5eee30221735">Welcome
To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better,</a>”
where the WEF contributor describes a futuristic society (eight years away)
that resembles a feudalist communist utopia where there is no such thing as
privacy or private property and AI runs society. The article is so bizarre
because, while it attempts to paint a utopia, even the fictional narrator can’t
seem to keep from sounding like a brainwashed cult member. It reads<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our
city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all
this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took
over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and
turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some
have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty
and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no
real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere,
everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will
use it against me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All in all, it is a good life. Much better than the path we
were on, where it became so clear that we could not continue with the same
model of growth. We had all these terrible things happening: lifestyle
diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation,
completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and
unemployment. We lost way too many people before we realized that we could do
things differently.</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Combined with the Social Credit System, UBI, and digital
passports, UN Agenda 21, mentioned above, the next step after the world’s
economic and cultural systems are “reset,” will be implemented, creating what
is essentially a global version of the Soviet Union, gulags and all. For those
who are unaware, UN <a href="https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/articles/Agenda21.pdf" target="_blank">Agenda 21</a> is an established and published plan developed by
the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for
Sustainable Affairs. The plan, according to the UN website, is a “comprehensive
plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of
the <a href="http://csglobe.com/un-caught-running-child-sex-ring/">United
Nations</a> system, government, and major groups, in every area in which
humans have impact on the environment.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The plan essentially calls for government control of all
land, where human and animal lifestyle and activity is strictly limited and
controlled, humans rounded up into “habitat areas,” and individual rights are a
thing of the past. Travel will be restricted to essential vehicles only and
diet will be mandated by the dictates of the “needs” of the environment. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is precisely why we are seeing chaos at airports for
lack of pilots, why the supply chain is broken and why food is becoming scarce.
This is not by accident. In fact, food processing facilities have been <a href="https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/04/fbi-warns-of-cyberattacks-on-us-food-plants-after-a-dozen-hit-by-mysterious-fires/" target="_blank">burned,vandalized</a>, and rendered inoperable <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/updated-list-us-based-food-manufacturing-plants-destroyed-biden-administration/" target="_blank">all across the United States</a> in seemingly
random acts. But how random are they? Did a sudden mass psychosis take hold
which prodded people into carrying out attacks against food processing
facilities? Or, again, is there an agenda afoot? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is it any coincidence that the very goals set forth by
Agenda 21 and the Great Reset have been met one by one in the last two years? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Economic shutdown and “reset” </b>– COVID Lockdowns
and furloughs, artificial labor shortages</li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span><b><!--[endif]-->Food shortages</b> – disruption of supply chain by
lockdowns, labor shortage, “random” attacks on food facilities, destruction of
crops, culling of farm animals, rising fuel prices</li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Restriction of travel</b> – rising fuel prices,
fewer cars functional due to trade disruption, harder to find parts, COVID
travel restrictions, vaccine passports, digital monitoring of travel, pilot shortages</li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><b>Loss of individual rights</b> – slow burn for
decades but COVID lockdowns, vaccine passports, travel restrictions, right to
gather all drastically infringed upon under “emergency measures” have
eviscerated the concept of individual rights</li><li><b>Unemployment </b>– global economy already struggling
before COVID, after the “pandemic,” however, many businesses simply disappeared
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<p class="MsoNormal">But there is some light in all this. Where many people
simply panicked at the outset of the “pandemic” and willingly gave up their
rights and their critical thinking skills, the subsequent infringement upon
their daily lives for such a sustained amount of time with little to no logical
standards for actually preventing disease, many eventually began opening their eyes to the
fact that another agenda was being put in place. In fact, more people than ever
before have begun to openly question and oppose what their governments are
doing in the name of keeping them safe and healthy. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, after two years of having their most basic rights
shredded and destroyed, the savages have become restless. They've started to
realize that the treaties of the status quo between themselves and the global
ruling glass were not being honored and so they began to question the
legitimacy of that ruling class. They voted, they protested, they demonstrated,
and refused to comply. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And what is the response of the ruling class? “We were never
able to fully control the savages until their supply of meat was cut off.” It’s
not very inventive but it is effective. So the question dear reader is, if you
are a savage and your meat supply is being cut off, what should you do? Well,
ask yourself what should the native Americans have done? I’ll leave that up to
you but, I think you already know the answer. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><i>Brandon Turbeville is a journalist and author. He is the author of ten books, including <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf">Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5">7 Real Conspiracies</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7">Five Sense Solutions</a> and <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/dispatches-from-dissident-articles-from.html">Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1</a> and<a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=19038&ID=6318fa2d-7ac3-42c0-b510-b6aeadfa93db"> volume 2</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=23813&ID=e489793f-d003-471a-9a4c-02f7e3df4d77">The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,</a> <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/the-difference-it-makes-36-reasons-hillary-clinton-should-never-be-president/f41a75c2-a316-4932-b4eb-e7efdb9f6a5a">The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President</a>, and <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1541205626/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y">Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome</a>. Turbeville has published over 1500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. His most recent release is a book of poetry, <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon also hosted a radio show for three years which was called Truth on The Tracks. His website is <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/">BrandonTurbeville.com.</a> You can contact him through his website. </i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-80461660367951762702021-12-09T07:52:00.000-08:002021-12-09T07:52:01.379-08:00A Note On My Absence Brandon Turbeville<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO6aTRBEJBKoNB7BzjMdyhcp6591_W24l9c8abjcrQh4HwZ_LkNMrb_9DGUIGlrI5mvCX0kQPuYloZfspzOQTl26Mip529AJw8M-fLIyY6o301R7ZcwtDhBjwBAgcO5xI7HCBHcDu80zbnceFklgemSrh0zp0SnAJx9ixCWEIYk8Z0Uajy18giFY7GXQ=s947" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="947" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO6aTRBEJBKoNB7BzjMdyhcp6591_W24l9c8abjcrQh4HwZ_LkNMrb_9DGUIGlrI5mvCX0kQPuYloZfspzOQTl26Mip529AJw8M-fLIyY6o301R7ZcwtDhBjwBAgcO5xI7HCBHcDu80zbnceFklgemSrh0zp0SnAJx9ixCWEIYk8Z0Uajy18giFY7GXQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2021/11/a-note-on-my-absence.html" target="_blank">Activist Post</a></div><div>November 20, 2021<br /><br />It’s been nearly two years since I’ve written anything. I haven’t written any op-ed pieces. I've composed no new poetry and I’ve engaged in no journalism whatsoever. I may have penned a social media status during that time but even that, in this moment, I’m not sure about. There was a time when I wrote all day. I would publish multiple articles a day, work diligently on my books, and write poetry into the morning. For years, it was my daily ritual and I would labor at it into the late hours of the night, even after a full day's work at my day job. But for the last two years? Nothing. I simply disappeared from the alternative media. <br /><br />So, I feel like I am unable to successfully return to the craft of writing without at least addressing my absence to my readers. <br /><br />I've always been amazed that so many people religiously read the articles I've written over the years. But what began as a necessity to make my voice heard at at time when I believed there were no other voices, ended in exactly the same circumstance as it started. For that, I suppose, I owe my readers an apology. The last two years have needed voices more than ever and, during that time, mine was silent. <br /><br />The funny thing is I haven’t had any desire to write anything, at least not until recently. So how did someone whose whole identity was wrapped up in the written word, simply stop writing? For me, there was a confluence of circumstances.<br /><br />First, my last few articles were written at the beginning of the alleged “pandemic.” Amidst the new hysteria, I found myself having come full circle in both my professional and personal life. When I first became politically aware, it was a result of 9/11, the truth surrounding that event, and the shredding of Constitutional liberties administered by a ruling class that had longed planned to drive the final nail into the coffin of the United States as we know it. At the time, I felt, as did many others, caught between a totalitarian oligarchy and a terrified hysterical public. Speaking out against the war, the burning of the Bill of rights, and the black clad police state mostly resulted in my own surveillance from the Deep State and, most unfortunately, a hue and cry from the American public. Rather, that was in the beginning.<br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span>Fast forward five years, after five years of the slaughter in Afghanistan, three years of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq, open surveillance, suspension of habeus corpus, torture, militarized police, public humiliation and sexual assault at airports, and a broadened definition of “terrorism” at home, those of us who spoke out in 2001 found more receptive ears. If only those ears had been listening on September 12, then all of the aforementioned atrocities could have been avoided.<br /><br />In March, 2020, almost twenty years later, I found myself in the same position yet again. This time, many of the people who had since gotten with the program, spoken out against totalitarianism, police states, wars, and the like, were now shouting at those of who dared to question the all-knowing and (in their eyes) completely justified governments who were not only banning public gatherings, but forcing citizens to cover their faces in public, waging war on their own economies (particularly the smaller businesses) and even regulating funerals, religious services, and whether or not sovereign human beings could hug their own family members. The US government was bad it seemed, except in times when there was the perceived danger of getting sick. In the moment of COVID, they had all come to love Big Brother.<br /><br />I was particularly shocked at the "patriot" types who had long warned against the "enemy within," themselves so steeped in religious imagery that they constantly preached against a society where the government would regulate who could buy and sell based upon its whims and a twisted sense of "social credit" and compliance. Their own obsessions with staying alive at all costs lead them to embrace the very thing they had previously seen as a harbinger of the end times and an unforgiveable sin. <br /><br />Nevertheless, at the moment the insanity began, I wrote numerous articles opposing mask mandates, “Lockdowns,” and the attack on civil liberties and economic freedom. I was met with catcalls of “Do you want people to die??” “Well, what are they supposed to do??” and other loaded questions that were always armed with the well-propagandized and psychically driven notion that these governmental policies were not the affront to human life and dignity that they actually are. <br /><br />After writing for nearly 20 years, I felt more discouraged than I had ever felt. If so many of my readers, who had been right along side me in the fight to end the war on Syria as well as many other battles, were so easily led into not only giving up their own freedom but assisting in forcibly removing it from their friends and family members, then I didn’t see the point in continuing to write words that, at best, would be realized correctly years after the fact and, at worst, be used to convict me as a undesirable in the court of public opinion or government tribunal. <br /><br />So, I simply stopped. I stopped writing altogether. Soon after, I stopped reading the news. I stopped debating. I stopped talking about the issues I once cared so much about. I didn’t even bring it up. I will spare you all of the details but, in the midst of my hiatus, my personal life fell apart. My health took a downturn. The alternative media lost one of its most important voices when my friend, Alan Watt, passed away suddenly and I replaced the news that I devoured so much with whiskey and vodka. I determined that the scene in the film where my battle with the coming system takes place publicly was over and I would no longer resist openly. <br /><br />But, for some reason, I still couldn’t give in. Or, rather, I was not allowed to. I simply could not return to the matrix and blend in with everyone else because the great eating machine has now turned itself to feed upon the American people and, once again, it seems I cannot avoid the inevitable confrontation with it. It remains to be seen if either I or the machine will survive that confrontation but, as Alexander Solzenhitsyn said, "Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me." <br /><br />Dear reader, we may not be able to stop what is coming, but we can at least enter the next life with the dignity of one who has not contributed to it, who refused to allow himself to be consumed and coopted into serving it. Who said you can tell whatever lies you wish to tell, but I will not believe them and I will never repeat them. You can do whatever you want to me, but you can never force me to do it to someone else. <br /><br />I have long advocated for organized mass resistance. I suppose I still do. But I have no illusions that organized mass resistance is still possible. This is the age of the individual. Because humanity will choose in the coming days whether or not the individual will continue to be exalted in what is left of our culture. In fact, humanity will soon decide whether the individual even continues to exist at all. <br /><br />We have reached the point where individual resistance is the only hope. That resistance will come not out of necessity, but out of a determination to live a life of dignity and freedom. It will come when we have reached the point where the individual must decide that there are things worse than death and that he must live accordingly. <br /><br />"How little was required for struggle and victory - merely not to cling to life! A life that was in any case already lost," Solzhenitsyn wrote. How right he is. <br /><br />It's been nearly two years and, reader, I have yet to wear a mask. I have refused on any occasion I was asked and especially when it was demanded that I do so. On some of those instances, my refusal set off a chain reaction, others around me took theirs off also and soon the face covered crowd had faces yet again. Other times I was the only one. <br /><br />I have refused to "social distance," opting instead to join crowds of unmasked people during the height of the hysteria, even when governmental power declared it criminal to do so. <br /><br />I have never ever obeyed "stay at home" orders and I have never obeyed Lockdowns. I will simply not comply with tyranny or submit to insanity and hysteria. Neither from my government or from my friends. <br /><br />Most of us have always been so careful in the alternative media. We've always chosen our words to hide the things we really want to say. But, over the last two years, we've seen where a precocupation with safety and being careful leads. Instead, I encourage you all to refuse to comply at every level. <br /><br />Do not wear a mask. Do not social distance. Do not shut down your business. Do not take the vaccine. Do not obey. Do not back down from your government or your community members who want to bully you into submission. Resist. The existence of your culture and your country do not depend on presidential candidates or activist leaders. Your very existence as an individual rests on your shoulders alone. If you will not preserve your right to live a free and individiual life, who will? And who should?<div><br /></div><div><blockquote>And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Solzhenitsyn</blockquote>So, here we are, nearly two years later, and I am typing away at a keyboard again. I am writing.<br /><br />I do not have any illusions about what effect anything I write may have. I don't know when or if I will write another article. You shouldn’t expect anymore day to day updates on Syria or any other topic. I may write them, but nothing is for certain and I am not making any promises. <br /><br />The world is heading in a very dark direction. Economies are being destroyed. Freedom is being drawn and quartered. The soul of humanity is being surgically altered. The lights of humanity are flickering and the power is cutting out. The prisoners are now being led out to the courtyard and the guards are taking aim. As Orwell said, "The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one: don't let it happen. It depends on you." <br /><br />I have spent two weeks trying to muster up the motivation and the courage to write this article, such as it is. It may be the beginning of a long volley of articles or it may be one of only a handful of the last few I am able to write.<br /><br />I don’t have a specific purpose to this piece, except to explain my absence and to encourage those few individuals left out there to resist. To encourage all of you to utter the most powerful word in any language that exists in this world . . . "No."</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-10943983911020010812020-10-10T12:30:00.001-07:002023-08-26T12:30:41.327-07:00Michigan Health Officials Warn of ANOTHER “Scary” Virus That People Should Worry AboutBrandon Turbeville<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNAVRdoazis1AXWDmpTtPlIs8kZuFpGGB2ko8tLEBVwdfVibg0kTHB5jqmLiaVbhm1wYyXpJfmuZ35hzxlE9u0ElNC4to9qLv-6g1g6XNldApuhC041FciQKVEV3zNP_FxdS_WJpertp7ujXFsCubxy8HM09l_rj85JsYuYom_Ko2wuyMV2k6kTrqc1kH_/s750/EEEmain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNAVRdoazis1AXWDmpTtPlIs8kZuFpGGB2ko8tLEBVwdfVibg0kTHB5jqmLiaVbhm1wYyXpJfmuZ35hzxlE9u0ElNC4to9qLv-6g1g6XNldApuhC041FciQKVEV3zNP_FxdS_WJpertp7ujXFsCubxy8HM09l_rj85JsYuYom_Ko2wuyMV2k6kTrqc1kH_/s320/EEEmain.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/eee-virus-michigan/" target="_blank">The Organic Prepper</a></div><div>October 10, 2020<br /><br />While Michiganders focus on the COVID-19 issue as well as attempting to get their state’s economy back on track, Michigan public health officials are now warning of another potential breakout of a new virus, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/17/health/michigan-eee-case-suspected-trnd/index.html">Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE)</a>.<br /><br />EEE is spread by mosquitoes and MI officials claim they are doing everything they can to stop the spread as COVID fatigue sets in with citizens across the country.<br /><br />One of the methods officials have devised is strikingly similar to what they are suggesting for COVID – i.e. urging residents to stay indoors after dark and protect themselves against mosquitoes when they are out. All this comes after a resident in Barry County was suspected of contracting EEE.<br /><br />The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced the case last week.<br /><blockquote>“This suspected EEE case in a Michigan resident shows this is an ongoing threat to the health and safety of Michiganders and calls for continued actions to prevent exposure, including aerial treatment,” Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy for health at MDHHS, said in a statement. “MDHHS continues to encourage local officials in the affected counties to consider postponing, rescheduling or cancelling outdoor activities occurring at or after dusk, particularly those involving children to reduce the potential for people to be bitten by mosquitoes.”</blockquote><span><a name='more'></a></span>22 horses located across ten counties have been confirmed to have EEE, a number that is allegedly twice that of the previous year.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The state is now engaging in aerial spraying to reduce the number of mosquitoes.<br /></i></span><br />Nationwide, 5 cases of humans contracting EEE have been reported to the CDC – three in Massachusetts and two in Wisconsin. Generally speaking, there are only 5 to 9 cases of EEE in the US every year with 30% of those cases resulting in death.<br /><br />The incubation period of EEE is usually around 4 to ten days, and symptoms can be mild including fever, chills, aches, and general discomfort. Severe cases can involve swelling of the brain and meningitis.<br /><br />While everyone should agree that caution must be exercised when dealing with communicable diseases, canceling town events, social gatherings, and staying indoors seems a bit ridiculous. Especially when the disease is one suspected case of a virus that kills a maximum of ten people on a yearly average across the country.<br /><br />But that is where we are.<br /><br />It is possible that MDHHS is truly concerned about the spread of the virus. However, it is once again, at best, engaging in extraordinary levels of hysteria and restrictions to deal with what is essentially an ordinary virus. Keep in mind, <b>Michigan has no confirmed human cases of EEE in the state as of yet and only one suspected case.</b></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Health agencies have lost credibility in the eyes of all but the far left public.<br /></i></span><br />Health agencies across the entire country as well as across the entirety of the world have essentially destroyed their own credibility with the unprecedented hype and hysteria over COVID and the subsequent rights-crushing “recommendations,” “guidelines,” proclamations, and Executive Orders. So many things <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/can-we-trust-the-official-american-coronavirus-numbers/">have not added up</a> since the beginning and they’ve even admitted <a href="https://www.newsbreak.com/news/1585946488038/dr-fauci-admits-health-experts-lied-about-masks-at-the-beginning-of-coronavirus-pandemic">they lied about masks</a> early in the outbreak. These agencies have led the charge against the American economy, individual rights, and the mental and physical health of every single American. All over a virus that has yet to be isolated properly in a lab and has not come anywhere close to killing the number of people we were told it had, much less predicted it would.<br /><br />This is where the danger comes in. Hysteria and a self-imposed apocalypse over COVID. Hysteria over EEE. What virus will cause hysteria next? How many times will this continue until everyone simply ignores everything the CDC and other health agencies have to say? If, or more likely when, there is a real and deadly pandemic, will the general population simply respond to their health agencies with sneers and memes?<br /><br />Let’s face it, we’ve reached the point where half of the population is doing that already.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>We see the same irresponsibility from MSM and government regarding weather.</i></span><br /><br />Anyone who lives on a southern coastal state can tell you that there is a seasonal panic set in by local and national media when hurricane season arrives. Not in the last 20 years has there been a beginning of a hurricane season where predictions were anything other than “deadly” and “unusually busy.” National media predicts every storm will be a major hurricane and every hurricane will be devastating and bring “imminent death.” Some <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/hurricane-prep-round-up/">general hurricane preparedness steps</a> are usually sufficient.<br /><br />Of course, most of these storms are just storms.<br /><br />Some even bring badly needed rain to drought areas. People who listen to the Weather Channel and state governments often look completely foolish when they realize they ran away from a summer shower. People who ignored those agencies often are rewarded with some peace and quiet and a few more pounds due to overeating their hurricane snacks.<br /><br />But, every once in a while, the hysteria is justified. Every once in a while, a Cat 5 hits land and lays complete waste to cities and towns. By this time, people have been burned over and over with repetitive claims of imminent death and other nonsense. They ignore the reports. They ignore the warnings and they don’t prepare. This is when the death toll is the highest.<br /><br />The moral of the story is not that the government should do nothing and it certainly isn’t that it should do everything.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The media and government have way too much power.</i></span><br /><br />By allowing <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/media-civil-war-2-0/">media</a> and government to maintain so much power, we have allowed a situation to be created where hysteria and dependency justify their existence and more fear and hysteria ensure its continuation.<br /><br />The moral of the story is to think for yourself and to prepare for all eventualities while still allowing yourself to live your life and not just spend it trying to avoid death.<br /><br />Lastly, maybe health “authorities” shouldn’t have so much “authority” after all.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-63127201669993498152020-09-29T12:37:00.001-07:002023-08-26T12:37:59.588-07:00Australia To Run Out Of Rice By December <div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqewOxuauidxpDCtsZP8u8jYFbkOV1G2IxYakhFSoAvHIC_PWQ17CAKWHxfq7QLLoQ4NWbYoxSVRW2ZoXdn9x40wiAZjiqA-RwSMWhlL6I_hqrdQkcMr3veTyS1IH3JQBbo2I5_dyB_ZCmjes_F0NckehAZzO1wsd7h1zadSgDs4vulUXV_Ikwc62aUKo/s5472/pierre-bamin--LdilhDx3sk-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqewOxuauidxpDCtsZP8u8jYFbkOV1G2IxYakhFSoAvHIC_PWQ17CAKWHxfq7QLLoQ4NWbYoxSVRW2ZoXdn9x40wiAZjiqA-RwSMWhlL6I_hqrdQkcMr3veTyS1IH3JQBbo2I5_dyB_ZCmjes_F0NckehAZzO1wsd7h1zadSgDs4vulUXV_Ikwc62aUKo/s320/pierre-bamin--LdilhDx3sk-unsplash.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Robert Wheeler<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/australia-rice-december/" target="_blank">The Organic Prepper</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">September 29, 2020</div><p>Recently, I wrote an article regarding coming food shortages the world over, but particularly in the United States. I should say, food shortages are coming in the Western World, particularly those parts of the world that continue to cling to fanatical "health guidelines" that involve the shutting down of economies and normal life. These food shortages are no accident and there is a much deeper agenda here than can be covered in the pages of this article. Needless to say, I plan to do this in the very near future. </p><p>But, while the United States receives so much attention from readers of my articles, it's important to mention the scale of food shortages that are going to be seen not just here but in other places as well. </p><p>Case in point, Australia. The entire continent is now on total house arrest, with the level of totalitarianism and police state enforcement only rivaled by that of China. </p><p>Australia is now bracing to be out of domestically produced rice by Christmas. Yes, you read that right. </p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>In an article by Aidan Wondracz entitled "<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8728943/Australian-run-rice-Christmas-SunRice-warns-rice-come-Vietnam.html">Warning Australia is running out of RICE - and may not have a single homegrown grain left by Christmas,</a>" Wondracz writes, <p></p><blockquote>Australia is facing a rice shortage with the country predicted to run out of the domestically-grown product by Christmas. <br /><br />SunRice chief executive Rob Gordon warned families would soon be forced to eat rice imported from Vietnam as local supplies continued to dwindle. <br /><br />'We are going to run out of Australian rice by Christmas,' he told The Daily Telegraph.<br /><br />. . . . . <br /><br />Low rainfall, dry weather and COVID-19 panic buying have all been linked to the diminishing stock. <br /><br />SunRice, the country's biggest rice supplier, has lost more than $400million in exports.<br /><br />The company has also been forced to cut its 600 strong workforce by one third in the New South Wales Riverina region - one of the biggest rice producing parts of the country. <br /><br />The cutbacks come as the country records a poor harvest season for rice. <br /><br />Low rainfall and dry conditions have led harvesting figures to dip by more than 90 per cent since 2017.<br /><br />Last year, SunRice produced its second lowest rice crop. <br /><br />Only 54,000 tonnes of rice was harvested - compared to its regular 800,000 tonnes. <br /><br />Farmers have also blamed poor water allocation management on poor yields.<br /><br />Growers say they have received little to no access to irrigated water. <br /><br />'Our rice industry, 98 per cent of which is grown in southern NSW, is at risk of collapse with the last two years of zero water allocations,' NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey said.<br /><br />'While NSW was suffering through the worst drought on record, and our communities were living on zero general security allocations, South Australia was running the Lower Lakes at a minor flood level and released over 600,000 megalitres out over the barrages into the Southern Ocean. <br /><br />COVID-19 panic buying has been regarded as the breaking point for the rice industry. <br /><br />Shoppers stripped supermarket shelves bare of rice products, toilet paper and pasta in March. <br /><br />Around the same time, experts sounded the alarm the frenzied shopping would only add further strain to the rice industry. <br /><br />SunRice warned the demand was exceeding 'supply capability'. <br /><br />The frenzied shopping forced prime minister Scott Morrison to phone the Vietnam president.<br /><br />He reportedly made the call to ensure an Australian-owned factory in the country would be able to continue to export its rice to Australia despite closed borders.</blockquote><p>Of course, all of this is happening as the United States is also facing its own looming food crisis. I wrote about this in a previous article where I said </p><p></p><blockquote><p>Many of these manufacturing and packaging facilities as well as slaughterhouses were simply shut down as a result of intrusive totalitarian government reactions to an alleged pandemic. Combined with panic buying, the ability of those facilities to replace what was bought up was drastically reduced and, as a result, consumers were forced to wait weeks before they could buy what they needed (or wanted) again. Even then, they had to show up in the morning.</p><p>We are still experiencing those shortages, though better hidden due to a lack of panic buying, as anyone who shops regularly can tell you. You can find what you need but you may have to go to three stores to get it, where one would have done in the past.</p><p>To make matters worse, as millions of Americans are out of work due to the war launched on the domestic economy by State governments, workers were suddenly starting to o<a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2020/05/06/meat-workers-quit-virus-infected-plants-reopen/111669272/">rganize, strike, and walk off the job</a>, conveniently at a time when the food supply was already broken. These workers, of course, had not organized or initiated a strike at any time before when working conditions were bleak and wages were low. Now, however, when most rational people would simply be happy to have a job at all in the midst of such high unemployment, they were prepared to stop the wheels of the machine from working. While extraordinary times beget extraordinary reactions, the timing of the newfound sense of workers' resolve cannot go unnoticed.</p><p>At the same time, we witnessed farms <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2020/07/03/dairy-farmers-dumping-milk-worldwide-brink-crisis/5372654002/">dumping thousands of gallons of milk down the drain</a>, meat producers slaughtering animals and burying them, and farmers destroying crops all over the country and the world. The reason for this is two-fold. First, many major producers would not want a glut of their product on the market and see the prices of that product drop down. Second, with the totalitarian measures forcing the shut down of restaurants across the country, many farms and producers simply lost a massive part of their market and thus had nowhere to send their products. Thus, it was destroyed.</p><p>A government truly concerned with the health of its people would have bought that produce and either distributed it or freeze dried and stored it for the coming apocalypse. Indeed, the <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-food-aid-program-gives-little-funding-to-the-northeast-where-coronavirus-hit-hardest">Trump administration attempted this</a> with some very minor success and high cost. Food banks at least benefited. But the damage to the food supply was already done.</p><p>As time moved forward, we saw <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/aug/14/wind-razed-corn-dots-iowa-fields/#:~:text=The%20storm%2C%20known%20as%20a,two%20years%20of%20crops%20here.">devastating straight line winds blow</a> across places like Iowa, destroying massive amounts of crops and farming infrastructure, effects rarely advertised on mainstream media outlets.</p><p>Following those winds, we saw massive wildfires along the entirety of the West coast from Washington to California and as far east as Colorado, South Dakota, and Texas. One need only take a <a href="https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/">look at the map</a> at fires seemingly heading east, burning up prairies and farmland all along the way to see that the food chain is going to experience yet even more hiccups once the smoke is finally done billowing. But while leftists claim the fires are the natural result of "Climate Change" and Conservatives blame lack of adequate forest management (which has some merit), both completely ignore the fact that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/arrest-four-possible-arson-west-coast">close to ten</a> people <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-fire-map-update-as-nearly-1-million-acres-burned-and-6-accused-of-arson/ar-BB19fSFL">were arrested </a>for setting these fires. Repeatedly, arsonists are being arrested for starting blazes though the motive is unclear. Those of us who have studied history, however, can speculate with some certainty.</p></blockquote><p>Perhaps Australia's rice crisis isn't the end of the world. But it is a sign of that end. Even if Vietnam, for some unknown reason, would decide to cut off the rice supply to Australia, the country may get along just fine without rice for the foreseeable future. </p><p>But the question is not just about rice. What else is in danger of becoming scarce in Australia? Few consumers even knew that a shortage of rice was in the works, instead finding out after the deal is already done. Now, with threats of a complete shortage by Christmas, panic buyers will assuredly reduce that supply even further. So what else is coming? What other food will disappear from Australian shelves? We simply don't know. But I would hazard a guess that rice won't be the only food Australians are missing anytime soon. </p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-74626527412908822982020-09-28T12:56:00.001-07:002023-08-26T12:56:34.396-07:00Here Are 4 Potential Hotspots Where the Next World War Could Erupt at Any Time<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63I1k3ZTDy2vuDDxlHHzh_Apnb_Ibx23DHs5muA1Dq9YWjVua0RQ95fPZxha3Ng7PSgEcH7iRBrYRxq2E1CXUIjp0ByzbsJ0LYxEBIxSwveMNPTpSYoV_F6Fq--OeWd_nd88IX-XCHOziV7-vpmay5OPj0LTvUkH_GlWTpL5DOg6vw9vBes2mL9LwKkC-/s750/AdobeStock_240482472.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63I1k3ZTDy2vuDDxlHHzh_Apnb_Ibx23DHs5muA1Dq9YWjVua0RQ95fPZxha3Ng7PSgEcH7iRBrYRxq2E1CXUIjp0ByzbsJ0LYxEBIxSwveMNPTpSYoV_F6Fq--OeWd_nd88IX-XCHOziV7-vpmay5OPj0LTvUkH_GlWTpL5DOg6vw9vBes2mL9LwKkC-/s320/AdobeStock_240482472.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Robert Wheeler<br /></div><div><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/china-is-spying-on-millions-of-people-and-they-arent-in-china/">The Organic Prepper</a></div><div>September 28, 2020</div><div><br /></div>If 2020 had a slogan, it would be “The Year Of Our Discontent.” This sentiment is felt in virtually every country globally as national governments declare war on their economy, the working class, the poor, and the very old and the very young. In America, the “discontent” is genuine.<br /><br />Already reeling from a <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/media-fear-hate/">mass propaganda campaign of division</a> created by the MSM corporate outlets, Americans were still attempting to claw their way out of an economic depression with some success.<div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Then, of course, came COVID.</i></span><br /><br />China engaged in a <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/quarantine-in-china/">massive police state repression</a> of what few individual liberties existed, locking residents in their apartment buildings, disappearing doctors, and, allegedly, patients themselves. Australia and Western Europe joined in the hysteria, with<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/new-asio-law-one-more-step-towards-a-totalitarian-state-20200513-p54smi.html"> Australia attempting to become as totalitarian</a> as the Chinese and mainly succeeding.<br /><br />Western Europe engaged in the biggest propaganda campaign since the war in Iraq and the United States. Locked in some media manipulated struggle, Western Europe saw its governments shut down their economies, deploy National Guard troops, enforce lockdowns, and wear masks for their states’ populations.<br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span>As a result of the implementation of Communo-Fascism, the world’s economy tanked, shrank, and may never come back as long as these governments and “leaders” remain in power.<br /><br />In America, however, amid the economic collapse and COVID hysteria, a new threat has emerged.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/supply-chain-food-shortages/">Almost every major city in America is experiencing violence on a nightly basis</a>. Riots, physical assaults, vandalism, and street clashes are becoming ordinary. Some conflicts are deadly as the “right” begins to fight back against the attacks of the “left.” We’re seeing <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/warning-armed-conflict-in-america-is-a-turning-point-are-you-prepared/">armed conflict in our streets</a> on an increasingly regular basis.<br /><br />For those living in America, the civil war, societal disruption, and chaos sowed overseas for so many years appear to be germinating back home.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>In other words, the empire appears to be collapsing as they all inevitably do.</i></span><br /><br />But, when empires collapse, they often leave a vacuum. At the very least, they present opportunities to other powers and, especially, other empires.<br /><br />In addition to America’s problems at home, it appears the entire world might be sleepwalking into a third World War and yet another “restructuring” of the world order. Seemingly localized incidents have an international and global root, and the reverberations will be felt across the entire planet.<br /><br />While most people alive today might believe that the first World War was a direct result of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the truth is somebody laid the groundwork for that war years prior. Indeed, even after the assassination, the sparks did not immediately fly. As Historian <a href="https://theglobalobservatory.org/2014/03/are-we-sleepwalking-towards-war-interview-with-chris-clark/">Christopher Clark wrote, the world was “sleepwalking” into one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th Century.</a><br /><br />It took over a month before the first shots of the war were truly fired after the assassination. In the meantime, the world’s population carried on as it had prior – going to work, going to school, engaging in business, etc. Politicians crowed about national dignity and others about retribution. In a sense, once the initial shock of the assassination had worn off, life continued as usual until it didn’t.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>It is now entirely possible that we find ourselves in just the same type of situation.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>While the world’s people are focused on a virus and America teeters on the brink of a civil war, the world’s governments are positioning themselves for a global conflagration, the likes of which we have never seen if for no other reason that the existence and proliferation of nuclear weapons.<br /><br />Below are just a few examples of the world’s current hotspots that could, at any moment, drag the entire globe into a military confrontation.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Armenia | Azerbaijan</b></span><br /><br />The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Armenian%E2%80%93Azerbaijani_clashes">Armenia/Azerbaijan conflict</a> continues apace. Both sides have fired at one another repeatedly over the past few years. On Sunday, however, the situation erupted and an official state of war was declared in the region.<br /><br />Zero Hedge reports:<br /><blockquote>“Early in the morning, around 7 a.m. the Azerbaijani forces launched a large-scale aggression, including missile attacks…” Armenia’s Defense Ministry stated Sunday. Armenia has since reportedly declared martial law and a “total military mobilization” in what looks to be the most serious escalation between the two countries in years.<br /><br />Air and artillery attacks from both sides ramped up, with each side blaming the other for the start of hostilities, while international powers urge calm. Crucially, civilians have already been killed on either side by indiscriminate shelling. At least a dozen soldiers on either side have also been reported killed.<br /><br />Armenia’s high command has ordered all troops throughout the country to muster and report to their bases: “I invite the soldiers appointed in the forces to appear before their military commissions in the regions,” a statement said. (<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/armenia-declares-war-martial-law-effect-tank-warfare-azerbaijan-erupts-disputed">source</a>)</blockquote>While previously avoiding large-scale military clashes, there is potential to bring in much more significant players – Russia and Turkey and NATO itself- as both nations are acting as patrons and weapons suppliers to the Armenians Azeris. Read the article, <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2016/04/regional-conflict-brewing-in-azerbaijan-armenia.html">“Regional Conflict Brewing In Azerbaijan, Armenia,”</a> to get a clear understanding of the conflict taking place.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>United States | Russia</b></span><br /><br />Although things might not appear as dangerous today as they did during the time period of Obama’s <a href="https://time.com/109197/barack-obama-syria-crisis/">“red lines”</a> in Syria and the highest point of American provocation in Ukraine, 2020 has marked direct, albeit minuscule, skirmishes between Russians and Americans in Syria.<br /><br />Incidents of fistfights followed numerous Russian and American refusals to allow others to pass through checkpoints. American and Russian soldiers have intentionally run each other’s patrols off the road, resulting in injuries. It is now commonplace for these forces to collide in this manner, with one or the other being forced off the highway by a slightly more substantial contingent of opposing forces, complete with helicopters circling overhead.<br /><br />Even if the Russian and American militaries’ strategy is to “let boys be boys,” how long will it be before those boys decide to fire on one another?<br /><br />Of course, there is a second front where the United States<a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36021/american-armored-vehicle-crew-injured-after-violent-encounter-with-russian-convoy-in-syria"> and Russia could potentially find themselves in a military conflict, one even more dangerous than Syria. After all, Ukraine is on the border of Russia and,</a> for that reason, an immensely more important region. Russia maintains a covert force in Eastern Ukraine.<br /><br />In contrast, the United States maintains troops in Western Ukraine, and shelling still occurs regularly between the Western and Eastern sides. Any major incident between the two would have cataclysmic repercussions for the world. While Russia might not go all the way to defend Syria, it will absolutely do so in Ukraine.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">China | India | South East Asia | Japan | United States</span></b><br /><br />While analysts seem divided on China’s question – some argue China is a victim of US imperialism, while others see it as the root of all evil – the truth is somewhere in between.<br /><br />China and the US are unquestionably at odds with one another. However, China is every bit as much an empire as the United States, and it is much more adept at playing the long game.<br /><br />However, recently, as the Trump administration in the United States begins calling out unfair trade practices, WTO favoritism, and Free Trade policies and attempting to bring jobs back to the United States from Chinese sweatshops, China has responded more traditionally.<br /><br />From retaliatory and targeted tariffs (fair enough) to alleged cyber attacks, China is responding. However, the Chinese response has come in the form of traditional military tactics and preparing for “unrestricted warfare” with the United States. In other words, war with no rules.<br /><br />But China has also increased its aggression against its Asian neighbors in the east, most notably Japan and Vietnam. Chinese friction with Japan is perhaps the most well known, and it centers around the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu in China). Also, China is attempting to extend its borders in the South China Sea by creating artificial islands to stretch its maritime claims.<br /><br /><a href="https://asiatimes.com/2020/05/japan-could-carry-the-day-in-a-us-china-conflict/">Japan is now openly preparing for war with China,</a> having changed its Constitution to allow its army to operate overseas and begin planning stages for a defensive strategy of offense.<br /><br />Its tensions with Vietnam and the Philippines also stem from a desire to impose its empirical desires upon those sovereign governments generally within the orbit of the United States.<br /><br />Taiwan has always been a sore spot with China, with PROC maintaining that it’s the ultimate goal is “liberation” and return of Taiwan to mainland China. However, recently, China has become even bolder in its claims<a href="https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/time-may-be-ripe-for-china-to-invade-taiwan/">, threatening imminent war to reclaim Taiwan.</a></div><div><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Greece | Turkey</span></b><br /><br />Greek and Turkish relations have always been tense. Yet, Western audiences persist in believing they are outside of history and that any Euro-Med country is beyond the point of starting pointless wars.<br /><br />However, Turkey’s moves in the Mediterranean in 2019 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-libya-idUSKBN1Y213I">(signing a maritime treaty with Libya involving Greek waters and islands without informing Greece)</a> and attempting to explore for gas and oil in Greek territorial waters have led to several face-offs between the two countries, including some alleged and unconfirmed clashes between naval and coast guard forces.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/conflict-greece-turkey/">A war between Turkey and Greece</a> would necessarily involve the rest of Europe, as evidenced by the fact that France has already sent token air support to the region to deter Turkey.<br /><br />Of course, Germany’s close relationship to Turkey may not put it on the side of Europe and possibly raise tensions between France and Germany if the conflict goes too far. Europe may very well find itself in yet another inter-European quagmire with the wildcards of NATO, US, Russia, and the ironically capitalistic Chinese waiting in the wings.</div><div><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Conclusion</span></b><br /><br />This is by no means an exhaustive list of conflicts shaping up around the world. It is merely a glimpse into some of the more significant possibilities that might launch this planet into a repeat of 1914 when the modern world was sleepwalking into the greatest catastrophe it had yet to see.<br /><br />We can no longer afford to continue sleepwalking. Like the first World War, a new world will undoubtedly rise out of the ashes. But these ashes will be nuclear, and the world will be far different from the one in 1919.<br /><br />The building blocks for that world are already in place, but that is a topic for another article.<br /><br />Are you concerned about global events? Where do you think conflict will erupt next? And do you think that the rest of the world will be dragged into the event? Share your thoughts in the comments.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-88705171423860063652020-09-27T12:03:00.001-07:002023-08-26T12:03:47.525-07:00What’s the Conflict Between Greece and Turkey All About?<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUiOd92vW4tnCBmryCesJWhORrJ-7T38Uy4UMfF1NFiSulGrzC05y0f9X7iuUxdDCg9MbPckjMz4BG-OelEC7A5WaGDS76FoBp7Hp86SqCyiijIHBBhKkAppaTLE0fJPSU8Vw3y8qgI7NZT9pfw-71q6hugrJJskE8mMWZkzFs3Vhu0IflNOR1cFCfWb3f/s750/turkeygreece.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUiOd92vW4tnCBmryCesJWhORrJ-7T38Uy4UMfF1NFiSulGrzC05y0f9X7iuUxdDCg9MbPckjMz4BG-OelEC7A5WaGDS76FoBp7Hp86SqCyiijIHBBhKkAppaTLE0fJPSU8Vw3y8qgI7NZT9pfw-71q6hugrJJskE8mMWZkzFs3Vhu0IflNOR1cFCfWb3f/s320/turkeygreece.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Brandon Turbeville</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/conflict-greece-turkey/" target="_blank">The Organic Prepper</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">September 27, 2020<br /></div><br />The majority of people tend to think of the concept of history as if it is something relegated only to the past. As if they are not living through what will become history in the future. Doing so allows them to maintain a thought process that convinces them that world wars and European wars, in general, are over. <br /><br />After all, Europe learned its lesson in the Big One – and the Big One after that. Of course, with any such incident, <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/selco-history-really-happened/">there’s history, and there’s what actually happened</a>.<div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>If things between Greece and Turkey don’t cool down, a European/Mediterranean war will ensue.<br /></i></span><br />Such a war would not be merely European but Euro-Asian and, at its furthest reach, global.<br /><br />With Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman desires at the forefront, Turkey is expanding its national borders, with what Erdogan seems to believe will resurrect the Ottoman Empire. From Iraq to Syria and Libya, Turkey has attempted to either gain territory or forcefully make a seat at the international table through military action. Now, however, Turkey is threatening Greece as well and, as a result, Europe.<br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span>Turkey’s actions may well result in a global confrontation if cooler heads do not prevail. Political motives and deep state intrigue are not allowed to repeat themselves as they did in the first World War. Anyone who offers a so-called “perfect solution” is often <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/selco-perfect-solution-control/">using difficult times to take more control</a>.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>A brief history of the current conflict</i></span><br /><br />Greek and Turkish relations have, for the most part, always been tense. Some brief historical context helps to understand the historical antipathy held toward one another by Greece and Turkey, at least at the national level.<br /><br />As Victor Davis Hanson wrote for FOX News in his article “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/turkey-greece-ancient-rivalry-matters-now-victor-davis-hanson">Turkey vs. Greece – here’s why this centuries-old rivalry matters now</a>,”<br /><blockquote>Turkey is a Muslim country and was once the Ottoman Empire that ruled much of the Islamic world. Greece is still surrounded by Muslim countries.<br /><br />Turks are quick to remind everyone that from the late 15th Century to the early 19th Century, most of Greece and the Aegean Islands belonged to the Ottoman Empire.<br /><br />In modern times, after the bitterness over the Cyprus crisis of 1974 and years of socialist governments, Greece was vehemently anti-American despite shared Western traditions.<br /><br />In contrast, Turkey once prided itself on its secular customs institutionalized by its first modern, pro-Western president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. His successors until recently were pro-American autocrats.<br /><br />Now, geostrategic relations have flipped. Both nations remain NATO members, but Greece, not Turkey, is also a member of the European Union. Turkish northern Cyprus is largely considered a rogue territory, while democratic Greek Cyprus is an EU member.<br /><br />Moreover, Turkey, under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become an increasingly Islamic state, often hostile to the U.S. It likes to leverage its NATO membership to advance its new Middle East agendas.<br /><br />It is Turkey, not Greece, that has been acting provocatively on the world stage. It recently refashioned the iconic Hagia Sophia cathedral, built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian in the sixth century-long one of the most iconic churches of the Christian world – from a museum into a mosque.</blockquote></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The tensions between Greece and Turkey are primarily over energy and territorial rights<br /></i></span><br />However, those tensions carry with them quite a bit of baggage. This baggage is not only historical but also relatively recent. That is what makes the issue so dangerous.<br /><br />Turkey and Greece both have overlapping claims to areas in the Eastern Mediterranean that are rich with gas. Greece argues that each of its thousands of islands is entitled to its own continental shelf and their own exclusive Greek drilling rights.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But Turkey disagrees</i></span><br /><br />Turkey argues that Greece’s claims are an unrealistic interpretation of international law and encroach upon Turkey’s exclusive economic zone.<br /><br />This disagreement <a href="https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/7/22/turkey-ignores-greece-s-dispute-moves-on-with-mediterranean-seismic-surveys">came to a head </a>when Turkey began seismic tests in the Mediterranean Sea in areas Greece claims as it’s territorial waters. Greece was angered and dispatched its armed forces to the area, but Turkey still went ahead with the tests.<br /><br />On August 14, Greek and Turkish warships were involved in a “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-turkey-warships/greek-turkish-warships-in-mini-collision-ankara-calls-provocative-idUSKCN25A161">minor collision</a>” due to the standoff that Greece described as an accident, but Turkey predictably labeled a “provocation.”</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Both sides continue to warn that they are not afraid of outright war</i></span><br /><br />The EU supports Greece and has gone so far as to sanction Turkey for the seismic surveys off the Northern Cypriot coast, warning Turkey against any further provocations. There are also several other factors contributing to the Greek/Turkish friction. First, there is the question of the massive number of immigrants Turkey has held and used as a battering ram and bargaining chip with the rest of Europe.<br /><br />In previous articles, I wrote at the height of the migrant push into Europe how Turkey was <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2015/09/turkey-pushes-refugees-to-europe-part.html">directing migrants’ flow </a>and intentionally <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2015/09/behind-euro-immigration-crisis-who-is.html">selecting specific types of migrants</a> (those of a more fundamentalist variety) to send abroad. Greece was, of course, one of the heaviest hit when Erdogan “opened the gates.”<br /><br />In July of this year, Turkey announced the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/europe/hagia-sophia-mosque-turkey-intl/index.html">re-conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia </a>into a mosque. This re-conversion enraged a sizeable amount of the Greek population. Religious tensions and a centuries-old debate reignited.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Hagia-Sophia.jpg"><img src="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Hagia-Sophia.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Despite Turkey’s clear aggression in the Mediterranean, <a href="https://time.com/5884397/turkey-greece-tensions/">Joseph Hincks of TIME writes</a>,<br /><blockquote>Turkey’s muscular approach to the contested waters enjoys bipartisan support. Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), voiced support for the Mediterranean drilling program. Securing lucrative energy resources in a region where Turkey finds itself increasingly isolated also enjoys popular social backing, experts say. “Erdogan’s adventure in the Eastern Mediterranean probably has more support than any of his other regional adventures,” says Emile Hokayem, a Middle East security expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.</blockquote></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The other players</i></span><br /><br />The friction between Greece and Turkey affects many more countries than just the leading two players. For instance, the European Union as a whole is at risk of being drawn into a confrontation not only between an EU member and a powerful Asian nation but between two members of NATO.<br /><br />While that might sound like bad news for Turkey, this puts the EU itself at risk of confrontation between member states in a coalition centered around whose interests lie with Turkey, Greece, or some other effected third-party nation.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You don’t need to look far to see how this could happen either</i></span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/mediterranean-gas-greece-turkey-dispute-nato">French President Emmanuel Macron</a> has publicly stated that France will play a larger role in international affairs. Most likely due to his incredibly weakened and failing status at home (another article, another time).<br /><br />Now, France is becoming involved in the Greek-Turkey row, publicly criticizing Turkey, demanding that it remove its ships and even placing French fighter jets in Cyprus as a deterrent. France indicates that it will sell several French jets to Greece, all moves that anger Turkey.<br /><br />Even Jacques Attali is getting in on the action. “We have to hear what Turkey says,” he writes, “take it very seriously and be prepared to act by all means. If our predecessors had taken the Führer’s speeches seriously from 1933 to 1936, they could have prevented this monster from the accumulating the means to do what he did.”</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But the EU is not necessarily unified in its view of the conflict<br /></i></span><br />Germany has tried to sound neutral but has long ties with Turkey if for no other reason than the massive number of Turkish immigrants in Germany and the large Turkish community. Germany is now attempting to act as a mediator between the two parties by offering Turkey an “enhanced customs union” with the EU. Spain and Italy seem to be following Germany’s lead in that direction also.<br /><br />Patrick Wintour has written an interesting for The Guardian about this standoff entitled, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/mediterranean-gas-greece-turkey-dispute-nato#:~:text=An%20increasingly%20fractious%20standoff,raised%20fears%20of%20a%20naval">“How A Rush For Mediterranean Gas Threatens To Push Greece And Turkey Into A War,”</a> where he says the following:<br /><br /><blockquote>An increasingly fractious standoff over access to gas reserves has transformed a dispute between Turkey and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4030343447953332753/850425871177510881">Greece</a> that was once primarily over Cyprus into one that now ensnares Libya, Israel, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, and feeds into other political issues in the Mediterranean and has raised fears of a naval conflict between the two Nato allies in the Aegean Sea.<br /><br />The crisis has been deepening in recent months with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, leading those inside the EU opposing Turkey’s increasingly military foreign policy and saying Turkey can no longer be seen as partner in the Mediterranean. He has offered French military support to the Greek prime minister, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4030343447953332753/850425871177510881">Kyriakos Mitsotakis</a>, including the possible sale of 18 Rafale jets.<br /><br />The issue was on the agenda of a meeting of the Med7 group of southern Mediterranean leaders on the French island of Corsica on Thursday and again at an EU council meeting on September 23 that will discuss imposing severe sanctions on the already struggling Turkish banking sector over its demand for access to large swaths of the eastern Mediterranean.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4030343447953332753/850425871177510881">Germany</a>, the lead mediator between Turkey and Greece, is exploring an enhanced customs union between Turkey and the EU to calm the dispute, which has been exacerbated by vast hydrocarbon discoveries over the past decade in the eastern Mediterranean.<br /><br />Turkey has long sought a broader customs union with the EU, and although Greece might see any such offer as a reward for bullying, Germany believes both carrots and sticks are needed to persuade <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4030343447953332753/850425871177510881">Turkey</a> to change its strategy.<br /><br />But Germany is also warning Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that his current unilateral strategy is a commercial dead end, since no private gas company is going to touch cooperation with Turkey if it is trying to exploit illegal claims on gas reserves.<br /><br />Macron has already increased the French naval presence in the sea and called for the withdrawal of the Turkish reconnaissance ship Oruç Reis, accompanied by Turkish naval ships. The ship is undertaking seismic surveys in Greek waters south of Cyprus.<br /><br />The fear that the conflict could spiral out of control has led to an urgent search for a neutral arbitrator and an agreed agenda for talks. An effort by Nato to start technical naval deconfliction talks was delayed after Greece objected to Nato’s involvement. The Greek foreign minister, Nikos Dendias, insisted that the talks would start only when the threats stopped. He then flew to New York to enlist the help of the UN secretary-general, António Guterres.</blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><i>There are more players for no other reason than energy exploration.<br /></i></span><br />The size of the reserves for which Turkey is attempting to lay claim inspired Israel, Egypt, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Jordan, and Palestine form an East Med Gas forum to develop a plan to extract and export gas from the same region.<br /><br />France wants to join that forum, and the UAE is a supporter as well. This forum has effectively created an anti-Turkish coalition (though Italy’s position is less clear) regarding this conflict.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>There is even more to the story, particularly regarding the Libyan question.</i></span><br /><br />Initially, many thought that the Turkish intervention in the Libyan civil war (following America and NATO’s tragic war there) was merely Erdogan acting out. Erdogan had other ideas, most notably a maritime treaty that he was rewarded with for his support by the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA).<br /><br />Of course, Turkey supports the GNA and has become involved military and by proxy in support of that government while Russia, UAE, Egypt, and France are supporting Khalifa Haftars’ Libyan National Army (LNA).</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Pro-LNA members have some concerns.</i></span><br /><br />Turkey’s newfound maritime treaty with the GNA gives Turkey drilling rights and essentially ignores Crete’s existence, contradicting all previously understood Greek and Cypriot drilling rights.<br /><br />Thus, Egypt and Greece have now signed a maritime agreement that Turkey has labeled null and void. Egypt’s al-Sisi has even gone so far as to threaten to intervene militarily against Turkey in Libya, now putting those two countries in a place where the possibility of a direct military confrontation is a very real one, not to mention a conflict between each of their allies.<br /><br />The UAE has already <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/news/uae-deploy-us-made-warplanes-despite-un-arms-embargo-1789619374">sent a number of US-manufactured jets </a>to Libya and has <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/uae-sends-f-16-jets-to-crete-for-joint-drills-with-greece-639739">taken part in military drills </a>with Greece off Crete’s island.<br /><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And Russia’s role?</i></span><br /><br />Joseph Hincks writes,<br /><blockquote>Russia has yet to make a public statement on the Greece–Turkey tensions but it is deeply entrenched in both the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, where Erdogan recently announced <a href="https://www.mei.edu/publications/erdogan-pulls-rabbit-out-his-hat-black-sea-gas-find-it-all-it-seems">Turkey’s biggest ever gas find</a>. The U.S. Navy’s top admiral in Europe <a href="https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/russia-turning-eastern-mediterranean-into-a-militarized-hot-spot-navy-s-foggo-says-1.635306">warned last year </a>that Moscow is in the process of turning the eastern Mediterranean into one of the world’s most militarized zones, in part as a result of building up a naval hub at the Syrian port of Tartus. Greek media <a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/08/25/russian-naval-activity-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-is-sounding-alarm-bells-for-turkey/">reported</a> this week that the Russian Navy has gathered nine military vessels between Cyprus and Syria, including three submarines.<br /></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i> If any of this sounds familiar, it should.</i></span></p>If any of this sounds familiar, it should. Just before World War 1, a tangled mess of alliances had been <a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/the-versailles-thesis-the-roots-of-wwi-and-wwii/">created</a> by a perfect <a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/king-edward-vii-of-great-britain-evil-demiurge-of-the-triple-entente-and-world-war-1/">mix of cunning by some nations</a> and a dose of folly by others to result in one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th Century.<a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/conflict-greece-turkey/#_ftn1">[1]</a><br /><br />World War 1 led to the Russian Revolution’s tragedies, the rise of Adolph Hitler, and World War 2, where the order was re-invented yet again. Now, that order is being challenged but not in a way that will result in greater freedom and prosperity for the world’s people. Indeed, it will result in quite the opposite.<br /><br />There is no way to predict whether or not the Greek-Turkish row will become a military clash or even a war, much less a global one. But the puzzle pieces are there and slowly being put together just as they were over a hundred years ago.<br /><br />The odds are that it won’t happen. But then again, the odds were that it wouldn’t happen the first time.</div><div><br /><br /><i>Brandon Turbeville writes for <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/">TheOrganicPrepper.com</a> and his own website, <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/">BrandonTurbeville.com</a> He is the author of ten books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, The Difference It Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President, and Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome. His books can be found in the bookstore at <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/p/click-to-modifychange-cover.html">BrandonTurbeville.com</a> and on <a href="https://amzn.to/2EhkNdC">Amazon</a>.<br /><br />Turbeville has published over 1500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. His most recent release is a book of poetry, “<a href="https://amzn.to/2TUSRSj">Dance, Amputee</a>.”</i>
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-90151889498892654052020-09-26T13:07:00.001-07:002023-08-26T13:08:24.667-07:00The Supply Chain Is Broken and Food Shortages Are HERERobert Wheeler<br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uu0TLWwuGi5BshehwHNdK42U7xYHRD4PTFhxC86qCmmJRmN4nNOnqPmyd0oq8SEsgu4OOS83L9vNpDEfOQrz1Lc5wh_YLe8g4uZbsLQFfp0XGg27STbW6iMIekLq4lNuxS8yGwmRzhq2N9xVk8FXGvaTRWuc3vp3ekM13ZfoLL4avtLAqyKSf_s7LCkc/s750/foodshortagesMAIN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uu0TLWwuGi5BshehwHNdK42U7xYHRD4PTFhxC86qCmmJRmN4nNOnqPmyd0oq8SEsgu4OOS83L9vNpDEfOQrz1Lc5wh_YLe8g4uZbsLQFfp0XGg27STbW6iMIekLq4lNuxS8yGwmRzhq2N9xVk8FXGvaTRWuc3vp3ekM13ZfoLL4avtLAqyKSf_s7LCkc/s320/foodshortagesMAIN.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/supply-chain-food-shortages/" target="_blank">The Organic Prepper</a></div><div>September 26, 2020<br /><br />If you are a reader of this site, you might be more interested in the food supply chain than most, at least when things are good. So, if you have been paying attention recently, you might find that there have been some severe disturbances in that supply chain.<br /><br />Several months ago, the immediate disruptions began at the beginning of the COVID-19 hysteria, when <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/covid-food-supply-jgmd/">factories, distribution centers, and even farms</a> shut down under the pretext of “flattening the curve.”<br /><br />As a result, Americans found <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/store-shelves-bare/">necessities were missing on the shelves</a> for the first time in years. Items like hand sanitizer and Clorox wipes were, of course, out of stock.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Soon other items became noticeably missing as well.</i></span><br /><br />People began to notice meat, and even canned vegetables and rice were soon missing from the shelves. Most of this was simply the result of mass panic buying, although <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/media-preppers-stocking-up-selfish-hoarders/">“preppers” were blamed for “hoarding.”</a> Therefore, people who had not been prepping all along and were suddenly caught with their pants down.<br /><br /><b><span><a name='more'></a></span>But that’s not the whole story.</b><br /><br />Manufacturing and packaging facilities and slaughterhouses shut down due to intrusive totalitarian government reactions to an alleged pandemic. Combined with panic buying, those facilities’ ability to replace what was bought up was drastically reduced. As a result, consumers were forced to wait weeks before buying what they needed (or wanted) again. Even then, they had to show up in the morning.<br /><br />We are still experiencing those shortages, though better hidden. As anyone who shops regularly can tell you, you can find what you need, but you may have to go to three stores to get it, where one would have done in the past. In this article, you’ll find some advice about <a href="https://thefrugalite.com/food-shortage-us/">dealing with the limited varieties of inventory that people are currently noticing at stores</a>.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>War launched on the economy by state governments put millions of Americans out of work.</i></span><br /><br />Now, when most rational people would be happy to have a job at all amid such high unemployment, they were prepared to stop the machine’s wheels from working.<br /><br />Workers suddenly started to <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2020/05/06/meat-workers-quit-virus-infected-plants-reopen/111669272/">organize, strike, and walk off</a> the job conveniently when the food supply was already broken. Of course, these workers had not organized or initiated a strike at any time before when working conditions were bleak, and wages were low.<br /><br />While extraordinary times beget extraordinary reactions, the timing of the newfound sense of workers’ resolve cannot go unnoticed.<br /><br />At the same time, we witnessed farms <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2020/07/03/dairy-farmers-dumping-milk-worldwide-brink-crisis/5372654002/">dumping thousands of gallons of milk down the drain</a>, meat producers slaughtering animals and burying them, and farmers destroying crops all over the country and the world.<br /><br /><b>The reason for this is two-fold.</b><br /><br />First, many major producers would not want a glut of their product on the market and see their prices dropdown.<br /><br />Second, with the totalitarian measures forcing the shut down of restaurants across the country, many farms and producers lost a massive part of their market, thus destroying it.<br /><br />A government genuinely concerned with its people’s health would have bought that produce and either distributed it or freeze-dried and stored it for the coming apocalypse.<br /><br />Indeed, the <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-food-aid-program-gives-little-funding-to-the-northeast-where-coronavirus-hit-hardest">Trump administration attempted this</a> with some very minor success and high cost. Food banks at least benefited. But the damage to the food supply was already done.</div><div><br /><i><span style="font-size: large;">And then came the winds.</span></i><br /><br />As time moved forward, we saw devastating <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/aug/14/wind-razed-corn-dots-iowa-fields/#:~:text=The%20storm%2C%20known%20as%20a,two%20years%20of%20crops%20here.">straight-line winds</a> blow across places like Iowa, destroying massive amounts of crops and farming infrastructure, effects rarely advertised on mainstream media outlets.<br /><br />Following those winds, we saw massive wildfires along the West Coast’s entirety from Washington to California and as far east as Colorado, South Dakota, and Texas.<br /><br />One need only <a href="https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/">take a look at the map</a> at fires seemingly heading east, burning up prairies and farmland all along the way to see that the food chain will experience yet even more hiccups once the smoke has cleared.<br /><br />But while leftists claim the fires are the natural result of “climate change” and conservatives blame lack of adequate forest management (which has some merit), both completely ignore the fact that close to ten people were arrested for setting these fires.<br /><br />Repeatedly, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-fire-map-update-as-nearly-1-million-acres-burned-and-6-accused-of-arson/ar-BB19fSFL">arsonists are being arrested</a> for starting blazes though the motive is unclear. Those of us who have studied history, however, can speculate with some certainty.</div><div><br /><i><span style="font-size: large;">But these problems are not unique to the United States.</span><br /></i><br />Countries all over the world are experiencing supply chain problems. Australia, for instance, is about to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8728943/Australian-run-rice-Christmas-SunRice-warns-rice-come-Vietnam.html">run out of its domestic rice supply</a> by December entirely.<br /><br />Now, here we are, with winter fast approaching and the food supply decimated. The world’s population is walking around masked and terrified of getting within six feet of another human, and the <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/battle-zones-america/">cities all across America are on fire with violent riots</a>.<br /><br />Communists and the inevitable response are <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/warning-armed-conflict-in-america-is-a-turning-point-are-you-prepared/">clashing in the streets</a> and threatening to turn in to a possible American Civil War 2.0. What role will hunger play in this scenario?<br /><br />At the moment, we can’t say for sure.<br /><br />But what we can say with certainty is that this will be a very long, very trying winter.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Food shortages are coming, and they aren’t too far away.</i></span><br /><br />You do not have much time left before the items you can grab now are gone and gone for good. Here are some <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/last-minute-coronavirus-quarantine-supplies/">tips for shopping when there aren’t many supplies</a> left on the shelves, and here’s a <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/coronavirus-products-from-china/">list of things that are usually imported from China</a> that we haven’t been receiving in the same quantities (if at all) since the crisis began.<br /><br />Many of the readers of this website will be prepared, no doubt, but others won’t. Not only do we advise you to prepare – but we also advise you to be ready for the unprepared.<br /><br />Have you seen shortages in your area? Do you still have quantity limits on certain purchases? Some areas seem better stocked than others. Let’s discuss it in the comments.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-9779904789559049202020-09-25T12:19:00.001-07:002023-08-26T12:19:31.375-07:00Facebook’s New AI Could Help You “remember everything from where you left your keys to whether you already added vanilla to that bowl of cookie dough”Robert Wheeler<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSwXSeYFX0lDPGrZpL3WxeLqFrcFjCf0ELE4cGvWSJICQFK4myKJJMwV56_3IApE3La-nCmaRZOp8SvtcEbHN3DbaNpamp9P1vOGwiUnXIbyMQIfp9_f3NBhmAW-XlUMSz1GV3hTj2BZJKMXZVM39c6UWJxvRvS-5JtpdzsqIgJMPZapvPGlpUWBMeJ0E/s750/FBAIMAIN-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSwXSeYFX0lDPGrZpL3WxeLqFrcFjCf0ELE4cGvWSJICQFK4myKJJMwV56_3IApE3La-nCmaRZOp8SvtcEbHN3DbaNpamp9P1vOGwiUnXIbyMQIfp9_f3NBhmAW-XlUMSz1GV3hTj2BZJKMXZVM39c6UWJxvRvS-5JtpdzsqIgJMPZapvPGlpUWBMeJ0E/s320/FBAIMAIN-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/facebooks-ai-remember-everything/" target="_blank">The Organic Prepper</a><br />September 24, 2020<div><br /></div><div>If you are uncomfortable with Mark Zuckerberg’s <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/facebook-transcribing-users-voice-recordings/">massive data-mining operation</a>, otherwise known as Facebook, you might be even more uncomfortable with his <a href="https://ai.facebook.com/">next public venture.</a><br /><br />While the software, AI, and algorithms used by Facebook are already uncanny in their ability to monitor and predict behavior, Facebook is now launching a research program into creating an AI indoor mapping technology and increased sound recognition.<div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>This isn’t your ordinary AI program.</i></span><br /><br />It’s not just about mapping and recognition but the permanent memory of objects and locations.<br /><br />Just read part of this CNN report, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/22/tech/facebook-ai-memory-research/index.html">“Facebook Wants To Help Build AI That Can Remember Everything For You.”</a><br /><blockquote>The company announced a real-world sound simulator that will let researchers train AI systems in three-dimensional virtual spaces. These spaces will mimic sounds that occur indoors, opening up the possibility for an AI assistant to help you track down a smartphone ringing in a distant room.<br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span>Facebook also unveiled an indoor mapping tool to help AI systems better understand and recall details about indoor spaces, such as how many chairs are in a dining room or whether a cup is on a counter. Today’s technology is not capable of doing this. Smart speakers generally can’t “see” the world around them, and computers are not nearly as good as humans at finding their way around indoor spaces.<br /><br />Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, hopes this works. However, the early stage could eventually power products like a pair of smart glasses to help you remember everything from where you left your keys to whether you already added vanilla to that bowl of cookie dough. In short, he wants to perfect AI that can perfect your memory.<br /><br />“If you can build these systems, they can help you remember the important parts of your life,” Schroepfer told CNN Business in an interview about the company’s vision for the future of AI.</blockquote>Schroepfer’s goal depends on the company convincing people to trust Facebook to develop technology that may become deeply embedded in their personal lives. No small feat after years of privacy controversies and concerns about the amount of personal information the social network already has.<br /><br />And to turn these AI systems into the sort of memory machine Schroepfer envisions, you would have to wear a pair of sensor-laden augmented-reality glasses, which have so far struggled to gain much traction.<br /><br />Facebook, like other tech companies, including Snap (SNAP)and reportedly Apple (AAPL), is working on AR glasses.<br /><br />“At the end of the day, our hope is that these AR glasses are giving people superpowers,” Schroepfer said.<br /><br />With its tiny display and front-facing camera, Google Glass didn’t catch on with consumers but was reborn as an enterprise device. Snapchat’s parent company has made multiple attempts at launching video-recording sunglasses and took a nearly $40 million write-down for excess inventory of its first-generation version.<br /><br />But perhaps smart glasses that can help you track down your wallet would be a bit more compelling than glasses that can take a picture of it.<br /><br />Facebook’s latest AI research builds upon an existing open-source environment simulator. The company introduced AI Habitat in 2019, enabling AI researchers to quickly train AI systems in realistic-looking digital replicas of real spaces, like a kitchen or living room.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>AI Assistants that understand and navigate indoor spaces, will become a reality.</i></span><br /><br />Of course, many people are only going to see the upside of this technology. Never lose your phone again. Never forget your keys again. Never wonder if you had 50 dollars or 20 dollars on the counter when you went to sleep.<br /><br />Just ask Facebook.<br /><br />When has Facebook been concerned about its users’ convenience when a price wasn’t attached?<br /><br />Most people believe Facebook is free. The truth, however, is that it comes at an incredible price – your personal data. That data is siphoned off to others for a fee and to some for free. Why might Facebook want to map indoor areas and have a permanent memory of all those spaces? And, we might ask, where is this ultimately going?<br /><br />Right now, Facebook is marketing its new AI as something that would have to be worn a la Google Glass. But how long before the technology isn’t merely wearable but implantable?</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>How long before you aren’t ON Facebook, but IN it?</i></span><br /><br />Nearly a decade ago, journalist Brandon Turbeville wrote an article entitled <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/implantable-microchips-and-cyborgs-are.html">“Implantable Microchips And Cyborgs Are No Longer Conspiracy Theory.”</a> He stated,<br /><blockquote>“For years, many have mocked the idea of implantable microchips and cyborgs as both conspiracy theories and science fiction. Anyone who mentioned possibilities to their neighbor risked being labeled either as a religious fanatic or delusional and paranoid.<br /><br />However, as they have become more prevalent in everyday society, it has become increasingly challenging to ridicule these concepts.<br /><br />For instance, with stories like the recent Singularity Hub article entitled, “Revolutionary New Brain Chip Allows Monkeys To Grasp AND Feel Objects Using Their Thoughts,” these emerging technological possibilities are almost impossible to ignore.</blockquote>This article discusses how scientists have recently announced the creation of an implantable device that can be placed in the brain, allowing for the control of computers by thought. Dr. Miguel Nicolelis and company have already tested these devices in monkeys with stunningly accurate results. In addition to allowing the user to control the computer by thought, it also allows the user to feel the virtual object it is manipulating.<br /><br />Of course, this device is not the first of its kind. For years, implants have allowed monkeys to control computer cursors and even robotic arms in laboratory settings. In the most recent experiment, two macaque monkeys were trained to control a virtual arm represented on the computer screen and use the arm to “grasp” virtual objects.<br /><br />However, the difference between this latest experiment and the preceding experiments is these monkeys felt the objects they were grasping.</div><div><br /><i><span style="font-size: large;">This could provide individuals who have lost limbs with more than a prosthetic replacement.<br /></span></i><br />Indeed, it would offer them a prosthetic that comes complete with the sense of touch.<br /><br />As prosthetics’ quality continues to improve, this technology could no doubt go a great distance toward replacing lost limbs with something more than simple equipment that allows merely for basic mobility.<br /><br />Yet mobility, for some, is still the primary goal. Miguel Nicolelis and his associates, who conducted the experiment, have expressed a desire to take the technology to the next level. In conjunction with The Walk Again Project, there is allegedly a concerted effort to “restore full mobility to patients suffering from a severe degree of paralysis.”<br /><br />Nicolelis’ lab at Duke University is already working toward this end. Because the ultimate goal of a return of full mobility to a person experiencing such paralysis will require support for the body itself, the scientists are also developing what they call a “wearable robot” to encase the person who is being implanted.<br /><br /><b>Yes, I said a wearable robot.</b><br /><br />And yes, a wearable robot can also be described as an exoskeleton.<br /><br />Peter Murray of Singularity Hub writes:<br /><blockquote>The brain chips – if they work – will be a technological triumph by themselves. Custom-designed, the brain chips will be low-power and wireless, transmitting their signals to a processing unit worn on the patient’s belt about the size of a cell phone. That brain activity will then be translated to digital motor signals which will control the actuators across the joints of the exoskeleton. Force and stretch indicators throughout the exoskeleton will signal back to the patient’s brain the whereabouts of his or her joints and limbs.</blockquote></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The technology created will enable the lame to walk again.</i></span><br /><br />However, for everything good in the world, there is an evil twin. This technology provides for the possibility of some darker applications but, considering those who are currently guiding the destiny of the world, it almost ensures them.<br /><br />If we allow society to continue to move in the direction it is currently headed, these technologies do not bode well for humanity’s future as we know it.<br /><br />For years, shadowy and <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/darpa-wants-to-create-mind-controlled-weapons-of-war/">nefarious agencies like DARPA</a> have openly discussed creating drones designed to look like insects, snakes, and other animals. These creations have been primarily robotic, with the appearance of being an insect, but being nothing more than a sophisticated remote-controlled or pre-programmed drone.<br /><br />Going one giant step further, and in direct relationship to the style of brain tampering spoken about early in this article, DARPA has unveiled other projects as well. As far back as 2007, DARPA announced that it was planning to not only build but grow cyborg moths and other insects for spying purposes. The program,<a href="https://idstch.com/technology/electronics/darpas-hi-mems-hybrid-insect-micro-electro-mechanical-systems-created-cyborg-insects-military-micro-air-vehicles-missions/"> Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems</a> (HI-MEMS), involves the construction of a “tiny lepidopterous infiltration borg by growing a living moth around a ‘micro-mechanical system.'”<br /><br />Essentially, DARPA is implanting a “metallic core” into the moths, which will function as a cloak for the metal center.<br /><br />This is something that bears repeating. Instead of functioning as an exoskeleton as discussed in Nicolelis’ project, the cores will wear the bodies.<br /><blockquote>Lewis Page wrote for The Register, “If Dr. Lal [DARPA scientist involved in the project] was using vast Austrian bodybuilders rather than moths, we’d be talking Terminator yet again (this happens rather a lot when one starts looking at the US defense establishment.”</blockquote>Of course, there is little doubt that if DARPA is releasing this much information on HI-MEMS, the project has already been attempted, tested, and perfected a long time ago. It is only new to the general public, and the few scientists who released the information to the population are doing it to prep them for the coming New World Order.<br /><br />As Rod Brooks of MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence lab (CSAIL) was quoted as saying,<br /><br />“This is going to happen. It’s not a science like developing a nuclear bomb, which costs billions of dollars. It can be done relatively cheaply.”<br /><br />“A bunch of experiments have been done over the past couple of years where simple animals, such as rats and cockroaches, have been operated on and driven by joysticks, but this is the first time where chip has been injected in the pupa stage and ‘grown’ inside it.”<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">“First time.” Yeah right.</span></i></div></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>“Biological engineering is coming.” ~ Rod Brooks</i></span><br /><br />There are already more than 100,000 people with cochlear implants, which have a direct neural connection, and chips are being inserted in people’s retinas to combat macular degeneration. By the next Olympics, we’re going to be dealing with systems that can aid athletes’ oxygen uptake.<br /><br />There’s going to be more and more technology in our bodies, and there will be many moral debates.<br /><br />Moral debates there may be, but there is also no doubt that the world is more and more readily coming to accept biological intrusion and top-down control due to their constant training at the hands of the television, video games, and <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/protecting-children-indoctrination/">indoctrination at the hands of the education system</a>.<br /><br />Take a look at the behavior of anyone under thirty in the presence of modern interactive technology. You will see the writing on the wall.<br /><br />In this regard, The Singularity Movement is a perfect example of the coming scientific dictatorship, and some’s enthusiasm to accept it. Singularity can be defined, very simply, as the moment when humans and machines merge.<br /><br />It is a philosophy that is gaining more and more steam with the general public due to its gradual introduction and promotion by the media (television, games, etc.) and prominent individuals like Ray Kurzweil and Rodney Brooks.<br /><br /><a href="https://time.com/">TIME</a> magazine’s Lev Grossman discussed Singularity in this way:<br /><blockquote>Maybe we’ll merge with them to become super intelligent cyborgs, using computers to extend our intellectual abilities the same way that cars and planes extend our physical abilities. Maybe the artificial intelligences will help us treat the effects of old age and prolong our life indefinitely. Maybe we’ll scan our consciousnesses into computers and live inside them as software, forever, virtually. Maybe the computers will turn on humanity and annihilate us. The one thing all these theories have in common is the transformation of our species into something that is no longer recognizable as such to humanity circa 2011. This transformation has a name: Singularity.</blockquote>Singularity is a movement promoted from the top-down. And it is easily seen that the backers of the Singularity movement are the usual suspects, including NASA and GOOGLE, as well as individuals like Bill Gates and Ray Kurzweil.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Governments have been preparing for the merger of man and machine for some time.</i></span><br /><br />A report by Richard Norton-Taylor, written for The Guardian in 2007, entitled <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/apr/09/frontpagenews.news">“Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future,”</a> Norton-Taylor relays the findings of a 90-page report administered and released by the British Ministry of Defense. The research team was tasked with describing a future “strategic context” that the British military might encounter in the coming years.<br /><br />Norton-Taylor writes:<br /><blockquote>By 2035, an implantable ‘information chip’ could be wired directly to the brain. A growing pervasiveness of information communications technology will enable states, terrorists or criminals, to mobilize ‘flashmobs,’ challenging security forces to match this potential agility coupled with an ability to concentrate forces quickly in a small area.</blockquote>Singularity is also a movement that has its roots in eugenics and the ruling elites’ desire for complete control over the mind, body, and soul of every human being on the planet. Oddly enough, while some may dispute this claim, this movement’s eugenics roots are relatively open.<br /><br />Consider the comments made by the RAND corporation in its 2001 report, <a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1307.html">The Global Technology Revolution: Bio/Nano/Materials Trends and Their Synergies with Information Technology by 2015.</a><br /><br />It says,<br /><blockquote>The results could be astonishing. Effects may include significant improvements in human quality of life and life span…continued globalization, reshuffling of wealth, cultural amalgamation or invasion with potential for increased tension and conflict, shifts in power from nation-states to non-government organizations and individuals…and the possibility of human eugenics and cloning. [Emphasis added]</blockquote>With this in mind, the Singularity Hub article developments, which I discussed early on, take a more sinister tone.<br /><br />As the RAND corporation states in its report, singularity’s introduction will most likely involve a significant improvement in the disabled’s living standards. At least it will at first. Eventually, the movement will begin to encompass convenience and be seen as trendy and fashionable. Once merging with machines has become commonplace and acceptable (even expected), the real tyranny will begin to set in. Soon after, there will be no opt-outs allowed.<br /><br />When discussing the coming technological fascism, <a href="http://cuttingthroughthematrix.com/">author and</a> researcher <a href="http://www.alanwattsentientsentinel.eu/english/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_302_Death_by_Stealth--Allergic_to_Food_Apr202009.html">Alan Watt stated</a>:<br /><blockquote>It [technology/internet/etc.] has many purposes but one of them was never to free the people, it would be used as an incredible tool of data-collection and using, like television and repetition of different topics, or the same topics or phrases again, it would be used to condition the public in their opinions, until, really, they’d be addicted to it, they could never do without it. That’s the intent, because you will go cashless eventually and it will be used as a form of social approval and disapproval, if they cut you off from the net: you won’t be able to do your banking, get money to pay your rent etc. Bertrand Russell talked about this sort of technique to be used in the future and it’s coming now. ‘Cloud’ will come in and that will take over and be THE one for the planet and everyone will rush into it thinking ‘my God I don’t have to worry about spyware or viruses or upgrades, it’s all done for me, out there somewhere in the big ‘cloud.” And the Cloud, eventually, will be censoring your emails and actually popping up windows to tell you ‘are you sure you want to use this word, this politically incorrect word in this email?’ Then it might give you a little list of fines or punishments etc. etc. This is all planned folks, that’s how you do it.</blockquote></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Advancements in the quality of human life due to new technology aren’t intended for the average person.</i></span><br /><br />The good that could be done by virtue of its development is only meant as a tool to sell it to the population in the beginning and to control them in the end. Indeed, the control that can and will be exerted through its acceptance is the ultimate goal.<br /><br />What seems like an innocuous announcement to many hapless consumers the world over is an opening of the rabbit hole. However deep that rabbit hole may seem right now though, it goes much deeper, even than the scope of this article.<br /><br />The technology mentioned above is nearly a decade old, and even that technology was virtually obsolete in 2011 compared to the tech being created and perfected at the time.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-91167147408729557402020-09-22T06:45:00.001-07:002023-08-26T12:22:21.842-07:00China is Spying on Millions of People. And They Aren’t in China<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYAVnnenc_qgunpr08Twb12IGDzlIfA4PcxjAOBVVXeu6rosuEg3bs8HWwiFhybm52nbuHPhLTDhgmioVGbBdrxELCa5bIR4lwlcwuvI3e8Ck5cAQdVuNfrpeGlCxz5xlm5BKAffRK4E4/s1024/1024px-Flag_of_the_People%2527s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYAVnnenc_qgunpr08Twb12IGDzlIfA4PcxjAOBVVXeu6rosuEg3bs8HWwiFhybm52nbuHPhLTDhgmioVGbBdrxELCa5bIR4lwlcwuvI3e8Ck5cAQdVuNfrpeGlCxz5xlm5BKAffRK4E4/s320/1024px-Flag_of_the_People%2527s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" style="text-align: left;" width="320" /></a></div><div>Robert Wheeler</div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">The Organic Prepper</a><br />September 22. 2020<br /><br />After years of constant media fear-mongering, a sizeable number of Americans continue to believe in the disproven “Russiagate” conspiracy theory.<br /><br />Putin, the story goes, owns Donald Trump and engaged in a massive propaganda campaign via social media, hacking elections, and other collusion forms to ensure that Trump was elected. Now, Putin sits like Cobra Commander in the Kremlin, directed Trump’s actions, and Trump does what he is told.<br /><br />Yet these same Americans harbor little fear of China, the nation to which America’s economy was sold decades ago (and the one <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/china-withhold-medical-exports/">who threatened to withhold all medical exports during a pandemic</a>) and the only real aggressive empire (though admittedly the Russian bear is beginning to wake up) outside of the United States.<br /><br />Despite China’s imperial ambitions, leftists all across the United States reacted in outrage and mockery when <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/the-tiktok-saga-everything-you-need-to-know/">Donald Trump announced plans</a> to ban TikTok, the Chinese owned social media firm. According to them, the idea that China may be using TikTok for nefarious purposes is beyond the scope of reality. It is yet one more conspiracy theory conjured up by Trump and Qanoons.<div><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span><a name='more'></a></span>Trump might not be so wrong after all.</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></b>In a new report from <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/xg89aj/china-has-been-doing-mass-surveillance-on-millions-of-citizens-in-us-uk-australia-and-india">VICE</a> (not a Trump or Q sympathizer by any means) “China has Been Doing ‘Mass Surveillance’ on Millions of Citizens in the US, UK, Australia, and India,” Gavin Butler writes:<br /><br /><blockquote>A Chinese technology company with links to Beijing’s military and intelligence agencies has been compiling personal information on millions of people from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, India, and Japan.<br /><br />The database was put together by the private firm Zhenhua Data: a Shenzhen-based company that lists the People’s Liberation Army and Chinese Communist Party among its main clients.<br /><br />Contained therein were the names and personal details of some 2.4 million people, including 35,000 Australians, 40,000 Britons, and many high-profile figures such as senior politicians, royal family members, religious leaders, and military officers.<br /><br />Those details included dates of birth, addresses, marital status, relatives, political associations, and social media IDs. While a lot of data has been “scraped” from social media and other open-source material, some appears to have been sourced from confidential bank records, job applications, and psychological profiles and is believed to have been acquired via the dark web.<br /><br />According to the ABC, one intelligence analyst described the giant global database as <a href="https://www.mbs.news/en/2020/09/this-is-cambridge-analytica-on-steroids-chinas-big-leak.html">“Cambridge Analytica on steroids,”</a> At the same time, the <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/chinese-firm-holds-personal-files-on-millions-in-uk-australia-canada-india-20200914-p55va3.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed">Telegraph</a> reported that intelligence sources described the scale of information as “frightening.” Both publications were among the international consortium of media outlets that the database was shared with, including others in Australia, the UK, the US, Canada, Italy, and Germany.</blockquote><blockquote><br />Professor Christopher Balding, the US academic and cybersecurity expert to whom the database was initially leaked, described the revelation as “something akin to discovering the Holy Grail.<br /><br />“What cannot be underestimated is the breadth and depth of the Chinese surveillance state and its extension around the world,” Balding wrote in a <a href="https://www.baldingsworld.com/2020/09/14/personal-statement-on-shenzhen-zhenhua-data-leak/">statement </a>on Monday. “The world is only at the beginning stages of [understanding] how much China invests in intelligence and influence operations using the type of raw data we have to understand their targets.”</blockquote><blockquote><br />The intended use of the information contained in the database is not entirely clear. Still, Zhenhua Data—whose official website has since been taken down—claims it provides “services for military, security and foreign propaganda” and describes its mission as influencing the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”</blockquote><blockquote><br />The company’s chief executive Wang Xuefeng has also previously used the Chinese social media app WeChat to endorse waging “hybrid warfare.” A term that refers to unconventional methods such as cyber attacks, fake news, and electoral intervention to disrupt and disable an opponent without engaging in open hostilities.</blockquote>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/social-credit-system-coming-to-america/">Social Media, Universal Basic Income, and Cashless Society: How China’s Social Credit System Is Coming To America</a><div><br /><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Is China using psychological warfare?<br /></span></i></b><br />China’s invasive technology has been used against its own people for years – everything from <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/china-data-mining/">mining data straight from the brains of employees</a> to sending reluctant participants to <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/chinas-re-education-camps-fact-fiction-or-both/">re-education camps</a> to blocking millions who didn’t measure up in their <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/chinas-social-credit-travel-blacklisted/">social credit system from any type of travel</a>. And now they’ve turned their attentions on us.<br /><br />There are legitimate concerns here for those who sneer at the idea that China has amassed the deeply personal data of so many individuals outside of its borders. Note that China maintains both the personal data of elected officials and that of “regular” citizens.<br /><br />The issue here is that China can use that data to manipulate those individuals through a professional understanding of their psychology (their desires, drives, biases, etc.). Even more so, it allows China access to data that those officials do not want out. In other words, it makes those officials susceptible to blackmail.<br /><br />Even “ordinary” citizens could be recruited as Chinese agents to keep some of their most private thoughts or actions secret.<br /><br />Don’t understand how this could happen? Just watch <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/26/13416348/black-mirror-season-3-episode-3-shut-up-and-dance-recap">Black Mirror’s episode, “Shut Up And Dance.”</a><br /><br />Given America’s constant kowtowing to China and the American industry’s shipping to that country over the past 40 years, it appears someone is already dancing.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-15124173020853347072020-04-24T10:03:00.000-07:002020-04-24T10:03:23.366-07:00Yes, I Still Oppose The Lockdown — Principles and Fear in the Age of COVID-19<div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMCqVdbDs6Bcb3cCu2rzkKl9e4tUx50bAtE9Dszi1XGNz6RqvzO2L1AK_xm5St2YMcHPVb-15vT7_7mxmDv-Qs3bwuKnM8Ze1TOWwvHe_OhHSMac6X4geW5lVFYgmT6P1YCHhHiFwk8jGJ/s1600/coronasurveillance-1024x606-2-768x455.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="768" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMCqVdbDs6Bcb3cCu2rzkKl9e4tUx50bAtE9Dszi1XGNz6RqvzO2L1AK_xm5St2YMcHPVb-15vT7_7mxmDv-Qs3bwuKnM8Ze1TOWwvHe_OhHSMac6X4geW5lVFYgmT6P1YCHhHiFwk8jGJ/s320/coronasurveillance-1024x606-2-768x455.jpg" width="320" /></a>Brandon Turbeville<br />
<a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2020/04/yes-i-still-oppose-the-lockdown-principles-and-fear-in-the-age-of-covid-19.html">Activist Post</a><br />
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On March 24, I wrote one of my most controversial articles. "<a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2020/03/why-i-oppose-the-lockdown.html">Two Hundred And Thirty Years Of Rights And Liberties Shredded: Why I Oppose The Lockdown.</a>"<br />
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Of course, nothing said in the article should ever be considered controversial. I merely stated my opposition to the "Lockdowns" taking place all across the country, the violations of the 1st and 4th Amendments, and the deliberate crashing of the economy. In a well-educated rational society, such a statement would raise no eyebrows and even agreement would be expressed in the generic, "yes, of course" manner. But a well-educated rational society we do not have. In its place, is a society of emotion and fear and that is perhaps the most dangerous kind. </div>
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In response to my article, I was treated to the typical responses that one might expect in the latter type of society. I saw criticism that I was putting money over people, claims that I was ignoring the severity of the virus, and insinuations that I was selfishly holding on to "rights" that apparently only exist in times of peace, prosperity, and good health. Further absurd accusations came that anyone who opposed the "lockdown" is a right wing extremist or even a neo-Nazi. </div>
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On numerous instances, I was arrogantly challenged by another writer to "give it a week" and see if my position is still the same. Presumably, the virus outbreak would have worsened by then and I would be so horrified by the death and horror around me, I would retract my previous position about rights being sacred and come to love Big Brother. In a week, I would acknowledge that 2 + 2 = 5 and join the masses calling for lockdowns and shutdowns and whatever else "authorities" have in store for us. </div>
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Well, it's been nearly a moth and my position is the same. It will be the same in another week and in another. What my critics, of course, fail to understand is that, if one has rights, those rights do not take a back seat to their fear of getting sick, being a victim of a terror attack, or of dying by any means. Ever. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>If my critics were right and the numbers of dead and infected people began skyrocketing in the days and months ahead, my position would not change. I do not apologize for this. I also shouldn't have to explain it. </div>
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It is likely that many of the people who wrote to me to tell me how wrong I was and who incorrectly perceived that I would be as susceptible to fear as they, will recognize how unfortunately wrong they were when it counted. </div>
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But it is worth pointing out the absurdity of the fear in real time when one observes the statistics related to Coronavirus and/or COVID-19.<br />
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First, it should be made clear that I am not denying the existence of the virus. It is not a made up illness. People are contracting it and people are dying of it. Those numbers, however, in no way justify the massive panic that is sweeping the entire world and never would they justify the trampling of basic American rights.<br />
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But back to the reason for panic - we have to ask ourselves just what we are so afraid of? For anyone listening to the mainstream media, you would be led to believe that COVID-19 is affecting everyone of all ages with a 100% kill rate and that thousands have died of the virus in every city in the country. You might be shocked to see the numbers of deaths vs the numbers of the population of the country, state, and city. You might be shocked to see the number of full recoveries.<br />
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In Italy, one of the most publicized and allegedly hardest hit areas of the world, it has been admitted that the deaths attributed to COVID-19 were almost all elderly people with underlying health conditions. This is not meant to sound harsh to those with underlying conditions or the elderly, but many people in this condition were not only more susceptible to this virus but to many other viruses as well.<br />
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However, while mainstream media outlets shout down anyone who questions the numbers as "conspiracy theorists" or of hatred of the elderly, it is hard to take the insults seriously since it is precisely these same outlets and their host nations that make the elderly choose between electricity, food, and medicine. It might be worth asking the thousands of British elderly who freeze to death every year because of the British government's policies if the UK government cares about the elderly. It might be wise to ask elderly Americans who routinely skip medications because purchasing them would see them skip groceries or rent if the US government cares about its senior citizens. If hospitals cared about the elderly, why are so many of them issuing immediate "Do Not Resuscitate" orders for anyone coming in to the facility with COVID-19. For that matter, if they cared about the elderly, why are they imposing DNR orders for all people with cardiac emergencies, particularly the elderly? If the elderly are going to be left to die anyway, why restrict rights at all? Why panic at all? The elderly and disabled are being sacrificed on the altar of panic and fear and, ironically, under the guise of protecting the sick and the disabled.<br />
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Indeed, all around the country, in the midst of an alleged pandemic, hospitals are putting doctors and nurses on furlough as they shutter their doors in preparation for the supposed surge of COVID-19 patients that might come someday maybe. No elective surgeries. No cancer tests. In some cases, no emergency room even if you are having a heart attack or were in a car accident. No one is asking how many people will die of preventable diseases because their tests were put off months later, allowing the disease to progress to an untreatable stage.<br />
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Likewise, no one seems to be asking, except for a few notable exceptions, how many people will die as a result of the economic crash, not only from suicide and lack of access to healthcare (remember, the newly unemployed are newly uninsured) but also from lack of nutrition and lower living standards that will inevitably occur as a result. </div>
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I fully expect this article to meet the same response of my previous article. I fully expect to hear "just wait until . . ." and insert your preferred doomsday scenario into the lines that follow. Even if America were to reverse course, I expect to hear a number of people who have not recovered from their mass trauma reminding me that this virus will be back in the fall. The virus will be back next year. The virus will mutate. The virus. The virus. The virus.<br />
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These same people will continue to support Lockdowns, the crushing of the American economy, jail for walking your dog, and the coming vaccine mandates. They will continue to snitch on their neighbors for walking in the park. They will continue to rush forward in whatever direction their television sets tell them to go, even if it is in the opposite direction than what they were told yesterday. It is the curse of anyone who lives in fear and makes decisions based solely upon emotion, to live in a rudderless fashion, changing their positions from day to day and never noticing.<br />
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Allowing principles to be your guide not only keeps a person centered, it acknowledges that there are some things that are more important than the assuaging of temporary emotions or fear. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those who will give up liberty for security will lose both and deserve neither." He was right.<br />
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So talk to me in ten days. Talk to me in ten months. Talk to me in ten years. I will still oppose the Lockdown. <br />
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<i>Brandon Turbeville writes for Activist Post – <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/tag/brandon-turbeville">article archive here</a> – He is the author of seven books, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf">Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5">7 Real Conspiracies</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7">Five Sense Solutions</a> and <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/dispatches-from-dissident-articles-from.html">Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1</a> and<a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=19038&ID=6318fa2d-7ac3-42c0-b510-b6aeadfa93db"> volume 2</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=23813&ID=e489793f-d003-471a-9a4c-02f7e3df4d77">The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,</a> <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/the-difference-it-makes-36-reasons-hillary-clinton-should-never-be-president/f41a75c2-a316-4932-b4eb-e7efdb9f6a5a">The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President</a>, and <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1541205626/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y">Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome</a>. Turbeville has published over 1500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. His most recent release is a book of poetry, <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon Turbeville’s radio show Truth on The Tracks can be found at <a href="http://ucy.tv/TT">UCYTV</a>. His website is <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/">BrandonTurbeville.com.</a> He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) <a href="https://gmail.com/">gmail.com</a>. He is from Columbia, SC.<br /><br />This article may be freely shared in part or in full with author attribution and source link.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.activistpost.com/survive-job-automation-apocalypse">Subscribe to Activist Post</a> for truth, peace, and freedom news. Become an Activist Post Patron for as little as <a href="https://www.patreon.com/activistpost">$1 per month at Patreon</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://somee.social/profile/activist-post/timeline">SoMee</a>, <a href="https://flote.app/ActivistPost">Flote</a>, <a href="https://www.minds.com/ActivistPost">Minds</a>, <a href="https://www.twitter.com/ActivistPost">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://hive.blog/@activistpost">HIVE</a>.<br /><br />Provide, Protect and Profit from what’s coming! <a href="http://countermarkets.com/">Get a free issue of Counter Markets today</a>.</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-67787282166725564062020-04-17T07:00:00.000-07:002020-04-17T08:35:46.716-07:00How Will America End? A Bang, A Whimper, Or Something Else<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyTeouZ-Wxkijzba06Aat1Yb_HlgpdYjwRpFrPkvIncwpncA7q517BSHZ61lSJ_XIoSjzwTR9DyKW6klGv-5ICnR4b-z6k7mVNLT6TGBv_I-_foxxzZBArXUXuLRR18hyphenhyphenU4QY_FlTQ2w6f/s1600/liberty-virus-pix-768x428.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="768" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyTeouZ-Wxkijzba06Aat1Yb_HlgpdYjwRpFrPkvIncwpncA7q517BSHZ61lSJ_XIoSjzwTR9DyKW6klGv-5ICnR4b-z6k7mVNLT6TGBv_I-_foxxzZBArXUXuLRR18hyphenhyphenU4QY_FlTQ2w6f/s320/liberty-virus-pix-768x428.jpg" width="320" /></a>Brandon Turbeville<br />
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April 16, 2020<br />
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Hope is a wonderful thing. Even in the darkest of times, hope gives us the strength to keep working toward a goal in the face of impossibility or to keep fighting for life even though all evidence points to the contrary. Hope is what can lead to miracles, to beauty, and to revolutions.<br />
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But hope can be a treacherous thing as well. It can blind those standing on train tracks to believe that the train heading towards them will stop in time or to believe, despite hearing the whistle as clear as day, that the light at the end of the tunnel is not a train at all. It can fool people living in unbearable circumstances, who are listening to their own governments denounce them as criminals and parasites worthy of eradication to believe that things are going to get better. Things will get better, in their mind, because they have to.<br />
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Despite everything I have seen from all levels of government in the US, the mainstream media, and worst of all, from the American people, I still have to admit that I have hope that my country will realize the error of its ways and attempt to return to some sense of sanity and normalcy. I hope that the American people realize that deliberately crashing our economy, shredding the Bill of Rights, and placing the majority of the population on house arrest was not only a bad idea but an act of treason on the part of government officials and a terrifying lesson in why government by emotion, outrage mob, and fear always leads to the same thing - the imposition of tyranny, the erosion and elimination of civil liberties, and the empowering of would-be tyrants to no longer "would-be" but "be."<br />
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I still have that hope but I do not have expectations.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Instead, I expect more and more people will come to question the wisdom of acquiescing to quasi martial law. I expect those numbers to grow but not so great a number as to have any real effect in forcing change and a return to a respect for civil liberties and general sanity. There will be more protests. Perhaps there will be riots and violence. I also expect, whatever happens, it will be entirely too late.<br />
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But even with that being said, a sizeable portion of the population will continue to pat itself on the back for being good comrades and following all the rules. They will live their lives believing that staying at home and snitching on their neighbors who did not live in fear, saved the world from a deadly virus. Most of them will remember our current time this way. But no doubt many of them will forget what the virus was called and will barely remember anything more than a few blurry weeks at home before something happened and we justifiably came to live the way we do.<br />
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But it is because of this strange hope that I have written yet another article despite believing the former would be my last. I hope that, even if we do not change course in the immediate future, there will at least be a record of dissent and that not everyone agreed with throwing our rights to the wolves and giving our voices away to sheep. Perhaps this registered dissent will be a seed for someone, long in the distant future, to become inspired and attempt to regain what the generations currently inhabiting the earth tossed aside in fear and laziness.<br />
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But that is my hope, not my expectation.<br />
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As Alan Watt of <a href="http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/">CuttingThroughTheMatrix</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOfeX8_MMOM">recently stated</a>, "History is full of people rebelling and even having revolutions to try and get rights and freedoms from those that deemed themselves superior, who believed they had the right to rule people. It took centuries to get rights for the people and you're watching it all go down the tubes voluntarily under the guise of the big psych-terror drive you're watching day after day after day. And you'll never get those rights back once you give them up."<br />
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If you are unfamiliar with how we got to where we are, I highly recommend looking in to Watt's work. He predicted what we are going through today nearly 25 years ago because, having been a student of history, he knew the plan that was unfolding.<br />
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So, in conclusion, as Americans huddle in their homes, willingly giving up their rights and openly calling for more of their and their fellow citizens' rights to be taken away, I can't help but think the country that was itself put on a ventilator in 2001, might well have heaved and gasped for the last time. Watching Americans call police on their neighbors for walking their dog or for having dinner with friends, I cannot help but feel like my country is all but dead.<br />
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So there it is. America is coming to an end. But it is not ending with a bang nor a whimper, but to the sound of rapturous applause.<br />
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<i>Brandon Turbeville writes for Activist Post – <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/tag/brandon-turbeville">article archive here</a> – He is the author of seven books, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf">Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5">7 Real Conspiracies</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7">Five Sense Solutions</a> and <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/dispatches-from-dissident-articles-from.html">Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1</a> and<a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=19038&ID=6318fa2d-7ac3-42c0-b510-b6aeadfa93db"> volume 2</a>, <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=23813&ID=e489793f-d003-471a-9a4c-02f7e3df4d77">The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,</a> <a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/the-difference-it-makes-36-reasons-hillary-clinton-should-never-be-president/f41a75c2-a316-4932-b4eb-e7efdb9f6a5a">The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President</a>, and <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1541205626/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y">Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome</a>. Turbeville has published over 1500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. His most recent release is a book of poetry, <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/product/1793022399/US/permacultucom-20/?cart=y">Dance, Amputee</a>. Brandon Turbeville’s radio show Truth on The Tracks can be found at <a href="http://ucy.tv/TT">UCYTV</a>. His website is <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/">BrandonTurbeville.com.</a> He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) <a href="https://gmail.com/">gmail.com</a>.<br /><br /><br />He is from Columbia, SC.<br /><br />This article may be freely shared in part or in full with author attribution and source link.<br /><br />Support us at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/activistpost">Patreon</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://www.minds.com/ActivistPost">Minds</a>, <a href="https://steemit.com/@activistpost">Steemit</a>, <a href="https://somee.social/profile/activist-post/timeline">SoMee</a>, <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/channel/ActivistPost/">BitChute</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/activistpost">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.twitter.com/ActivistPost">Twitter</a>. Ready for solutions? Subscribe to our premium newsletter <a href="http://countermarkets.com/">Counter Markets</a>.<br /><br />Image: <a href="https://www.pixabay.com/">Pixabay</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.activistpost.com/survive-job-automation-apocalypse">Subscribe to Activist Post</a> for truth, peace, and freedom news. Become an Activist Post Patron for as little as <a href="https://www.patreon.com/activistpost">$1 per month at Patreon</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://somee.social/profile/activist-post/timeline">SoMee</a>, <a href="https://flote.app/ActivistPost">Flote</a>, <a href="https://www.minds.com/ActivistPost">Minds</a>, <a href="https://www.twitter.com/ActivistPost">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://hive.blog/@activistpost">HIVE</a>.<br /><br />Provide, Protect and Profit from what’s coming! <a href="http://countermarkets.com/">Get a free issue of Counter Markets today</a>.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030343447953332753.post-26284649951051502792020-04-17T06:27:00.000-07:002020-04-17T06:27:15.239-07:00Meanwhile, WW3 May Be Brewing While We’re Distracted<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ61LGa8AyjU1A9nIaioySYD4EQF00O76Y6h8u4oBvLwa7FMV7iC6Lh_qO0fWcPop3kXrZy8YykR5GMhmZsCkmxiI0h270yz2hW4i6568L8Ym9ncPGFdgvx2QcTO3J_Hp-vLsXa-IlOOIm/s1600/danger-nuclear-war-illustration-multiple-600w-320460137.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="600" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ61LGa8AyjU1A9nIaioySYD4EQF00O76Y6h8u4oBvLwa7FMV7iC6Lh_qO0fWcPop3kXrZy8YykR5GMhmZsCkmxiI0h270yz2hW4i6568L8Ym9ncPGFdgvx2QcTO3J_Hp-vLsXa-IlOOIm/s320/danger-nuclear-war-illustration-multiple-600w-320460137.webp" width="320" /></a>Brandon Turbeville<br />
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April 14, 2020<br />
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Those who are paying close attention to the pandemic may have missed that another potential killer is brewing across the ocean. In Syria today, there is the real and looming threat of a third world war. Not only is Syria fighting Western-backed terrorists on its territory, there are many more players involved on Syrian soil – from the Russians and Iranians to the Americans, Turks, and Israelis and, with the recent Turkish actions, all of those players could very well come to blows.<br />
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It’s well-known to geopolitical scholars that the world is already in global conflict. With the United States, NATO, Israel, EU, and the Gulf States loosely united against the “multi-polar” world of Russia, China, Iran and a growing host of “target” nations that prefer the carrot over the stick, the globe is already in a quiet world war, though the major powers have yet to publicly declare it on one another. As it stands currently, the global conflict is more akin to the Cold War where color revolutions and proxy wars are the order of the day. However, the quiet war can only remain quiet for so long, until one side begins to see that it is the inevitable loser. Then the quiet war becomes loud.<br />
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When the Western powers initiated the war against Syria in 2011, it was largely expected and intended to go the way of the Libyan disaster that just ended. However, with the unity of Syrian culture, Syrian government leadership and, most importantly, Russia entering into the war on the side of the Syrian government, the quick destruction of the Syrian state has resulted in a nine year war that has seen Syria turn the tide on the largest and most effective military state in the world.<br />
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But while Syria has been defeating Western backed terrorists on its own territory, there are a number of players now involved in the country that could very well find themselves in direct confrontation with one another, leading their proxy forces into a larger much more destructive and global war.<br />
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<b>Summation of events</b><br />
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After having dispatched troops to the terrorist haven of Idlib, Syria as the Syrian military engaged in a massive push to liberate the region. Turkey has since come to the rescue of the embattled terrorists, launching drone attacks, airstrikes, and ground forces into Syrian territory.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Turkey established a number of “<a href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkish-military-wont-withdraw-from-observation-posts-despite-syrian-army-pressure/">observation points,</a>” that the Syrian military, during the process of liberation early on in the Battle of Idlib, surrounded. The Syrian military did not disturb these posts or harm any Turkish soldiers.<br />
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However, that all changed when the Syrian and Russian air forces began bombing terrorist targets. Those airstrikes killed a number of Turkish soldiers <a href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkish-soldiers-were-embedded-with-militants-when-attacked-by-syrian-military-russia/">who had been embedded with terrorist groups</a>. Turkey then played victim and Erdogan sent more Turkish soldiers and engaged in airstrikes against the Syrian military. Later, another Syrian airstrikes killed yet more Turkish soldiers who were also embedded with terrorists, resulting in a forceful Turkish response of drone attacks and airstrikes and the further progression of Turkish troops onto Syrian soil.<br />
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Syria managed to <a href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-shoots-down-turkish-drone-in-idlib-10th-in-3-days-photo/">shoot down a number of Turkish drones</a> but other airstrikes have since avoided hits from the Syrian air defenses.<br />
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<a href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/israeli-military-choppers-fire-rockets-in-southwestern-syria-sana/">Israel has also stepped up</a> its attacks on Syria, claiming to be targeting “Iranian” assets but really attacking forces assisting Syria in the fight against terrorism. In fact, Israel recently announced that it has a plan to <a href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/israel-plans-to-remove-iran-from-syria-in-next-12-months-mod/">remove Iran from Syria in the next 12 months</a>.<br />
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Thus, with Turkey attacking from the North and Israel attacking from the Southwest and, of course, the American troop presence in the Northeast, Syria is now facing a “multi-front war.”<br />
Moscow and Ankara have since agreed upon yet another “ceasefire” agreement in order to stop the erratic and possibly insane Erdogan from pushing forward any further inside Syria and resulting in a full-on direct war between the two. That ceasefire, however, even as I write this article is quickly unraveling as a number of the groups that are a party to it have yet to stop shelling and launching attacks upon the Syrian army and the latter cannot simply sit by while being fired upon by Turkey’s “rebels” nor can it continue to abide attacks by terrorist groups not even included in the ceasefire but who are continually launching attacks as against the SAA as well.<br />
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<b>Possibilities – Turkey vs Syria /Israel vs Syria/ Israel vs Iran/ Russia vs Turkey/ US vs Iran/ US vs Syria/ US vs Russia/ WW3</b><br />
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So we now have yet another situation in Syria that could result in a third world war, potentially moving all the way toward a nuclear confrontation between Russia and the United States. This time, there are a number of possibilities that could see the spread of conflict.<br />
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Turkey vs Syria – With the Turkish invasion of Syria it stands to reason that both parties will see direct clashes. However, both of these nations have powerful allies and backers – Turkey has the United States, Israel, and NATO (of which it is a member) while Syria has Russia and Iran. While the threat of a Turkish-Syrian clash may be contained in and of itself, any attempt by Syria to defend itself against Turkey, particularly if that response is taken on Turkish territory, could then trigger the “mutual defense” pact of all NATO states, something Turkey has repeatedly attempted to implement. A full NATO response would then see NATO forces facing Russian forces in Syria, at least at first.<br />
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Israel vs. Syria – Ever since 2011 when the crisis in Syria began, Israel has not only been supporting terrorists via intelligence, weaponry, and medical treatment, but it has also acted as another wing of al-Qaeda’s air force, routinely bombing Syrian government forces and installations. Over the past few years, Israel has stepped up its attacks until strikes against Iranian, Hezbollah, and Syrian (often whatever target Israel chooses labeled as “Iranian”) are an almost weekly occurrence. Israel, whatever its claims may be, is already at war with Syria. Should there be a Syrian response, however, it is likely that the one-sided US-Israel relationship that allows Israel to fight to the last American will be triggered, bringing in US forces en masse, putting them at risk for a direct confrontation with Russia.<br />
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US vs Russia – All the possible scenarios (and there are many more than the two mentioned above, focus around the possibility of American and Russian troops clashing and thus resulting in a wider, third world war. While both Trump and Putin have proven to have cooler heads than many may at first suspect, there are nonetheless instances of brinkmanship that could very well have resulted in a crossing over the line.<br />
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In the past several months, Syrian soldiers have turned back illegal American patrols and refused to allow them to pass through Syrian military checkpoints. In response, US forces have turned back Russian patrols and Russians have done likewise. The situations have become increasingly tense, with some unconfirmed reports of a fist-fight breaking out between American and Russian forces. Ironically, this is the first direct clash of the two world powers if the reports are true.<br />
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The checkpoint tensions reached a tipping point when the US attempted to pass through a Syrian village and were met with Syrian protesters and rock throwers. American troops responded with gunfire resulting in the death of a Syrian teenager but also in the village engaging the troops in battle. Russian forces quickly intervened to end the fight.<br />
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Thus, the world is yet again held hostage to the possibility of global conflagration as a result of Western aims in Syria and an agenda that is attempting to march forward despite credible and capable opposition.<br />
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<b>COVID19 and Spanish Flu</b><br />
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These clashes and potential clashes come in the context now of a global pandemic that is being used to justify the shutdown of entire nations and the world economy. There is, of course, precedent when it comes to world war and pandemic.<br />
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For instance, <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/learn-100-years-spanish-influenza-pandemic-1918/">the 1918 Spanish Flu</a> that killed millions of people worldwide came on the heels of World War 1 which left many places in the world ravaged with destruction, famine, and vastly reduced living standards. The high use of chemical weapons, particularly those which affect the human immune system,[1] also played a part in the virulent spread of the Spanish Flu. Although many theories have been proposed regarding the source of the pandemic (including the possibility that it was created on a military base in Kansas), it is without a doubt the living conditions of the world that provided a fertile ground for its spread and severity.<br />
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With this in mind, however, it is important to take a look at the conditions in which we find ourselves in the present day with respect to pandemics or, at the very least, the possibility of pandemics.<br />
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The United States and the world finds itself in <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/covid-19-economic-crisis/">an economic depression</a>. For some countries, particularly the United States, <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/coronavirus-special-living-standards/">living standards have been vastly reduced</a> compared to those which previous generations have experienced. While technology may have advanced, the applications of that technology in most areas other than entertainment have been intentionally withheld from general society.<br />
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It is also an unfortunate fact that some parts of the world have never had high living standards to lose. Whenever the West catches a cold, Africa catches pneumonia. The Middle East is in the process of being destroyed and Asia remains a pit of slave labor, crowded living conditions, and inadequate infrastructure.<br />
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Regardless of what you might think of the COVID-19 hysteria <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/getting-back-to-normal/">and the responses to it</a>, it is undeniable that the world is in complete turmoil, a situation in which war and disease are always ready to join hands.[1] Tenpenny, Sherri. FOWL!: Bird Flu: It’s Not What You Think. Insight. 2006.<br />
About Brandon<br />
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<i>Brandon Turbeville writes for <a href="https://www.theorganicprepper.com/">TheOrganicPrepper.com</a> and his own website, <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/">BrandonTurbeville.com</a> He is the author of ten books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, The Difference It Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President, and Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome. His books can be found in the bookstore at <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/p/click-to-modifychange-cover.html">BrandonTurbeville.com</a> and on <a href="https://amzn.to/2EhkNdC">Amazon</a>.<br /><br />Turbeville has published over 1500 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. His most recent release is a book of poetry, “<a href="https://amzn.to/2TUSRSj">Dance, Amputee</a>.”</i></div>
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