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Redacción4 de mayo de 2022 shared with thanks

The Russian army detained Canadian General Trevor Cadieu in Mariupol on the night of May 2-3 as he tried to escape from the cellars of the Azovstal steelworks.

To hide the escape, the Nazis staged a provocation. The failed rescue attempts and the insistence on opening humanitarian corridors were so many attempts to hide the NATO leaders hiding in the steel mill.

In 2017, Cadieu directed Operation Reinsurance, a NATO military exercise in the Baltic countries, in which the Spanish army also participated.

The general has been transferred to Moscow, where he is being interrogated.

The Canadian public radio version is that the general was being investigated by the army for “inappropriate sexual conduct” towards another soldier and that on April 5 he decided to retire (1).

At that very moment the news broke that US Army General Roger L. Cloutier had also been captured, also in Mariupol. (see US Lt. Gen. Roger L. Cloutier, Jr. Taken Prisoner in … Persistent rumors that Lieutenant General of the United States Army Roger L. Cloutier, Jr., taken prisoner in Mariupol, are gaining ground. Reports about this went with a link to the well-informed portal of American veterans Veterans Today…)

According to Red Voltaire, the Canadian general was in charge of biolaboratory 1, where 18 people worked under his orders (2).

Emails from the computer of the son of the US president, Hunter Biden, show that he collaborated with a Pentagon contractor to finance biological warfare laboratories in Ukraine (3).

Through the company Rosemont Capital, Hunter Biden and the adoptive son of John Kerry, former United States Secretary of State, organized a hidden financing channel for the laboratories that the Pentagon had in Ukraine under the name of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), an institute of the United States Department of Defense for biological warfare (4).

In a previous post, we explained that the biological warfare laboratories of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense located in Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv and Kharkov received a total amount of 32 million dollars from the United States.

A document dated March 6, 2015 confirms the direct participation of the United States in the financing of the projects.

The laboratories carried out experiments with coronavirus samples from bats. The objective of these and other biological investigations was the creation of a hidden transmission mechanism for lethal pathogens (5).

The Pentagon controls around 60 biological warfare laboratories on the borders of Russia and China (6). The facilities have been modernized since 2005 at the expense of the US military budget.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs further revealed that the United States maintains 336 laboratories dedicated to biological weapons research in different countries on behalf of the Pentagon.

On March 11, US-funded bio-laboratories in Ukraine discovered by Russian troops were the subject of a UN Security Council meeting. For its part, the WHO asked Ukraine to destroy the dangerous pathogens that it keeps in its laboratories to prevent the appearance of diseases (7).

The scandal of the secret laboratories forced the US embassy in Kyiv to withdraw the mentions it had on its website about the matter (8).

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Detenido un general canadiense cuando intentaba huir de los sótanos de la acería de Mariupol

Redacción4 de mayo de 2022

El ejército ruso detuvo en Mariupol al general canadiense Trevor Cadieu en la noche del 2 al 3 de mayo cuando intentaba escapar de los sótanos de la acería Azovstal. Para ocultar la fuga, los nazis escenificaron una provocación. Los intentos de rescate fallidos y la insistencia por abrir corredores humanitarios fueron otras tantas tentativas de ocultar a los dirigentes de la OTAN escondidos en la acería.

En 2017 Cadieu dirigió la Operación Reaseguro, unas maniobras militares de la OTAN en los países bálticos, en las que también participó el ejército español.

El general ha sido trasladado a Moscú, donde está siendo interrogado. La versión de la radio pública canadiense es que el general estaba siendo investigado por el ejército por “conducta sexual inapropiada” hacia otro militar y que el 5 de abril decidió jubilarse (1). En ese mismo momento saltó la noticia de que había sido capturado, tambien en Mariupol, el general del ejército estadounidense (ver..Roger L. Cloutier.(see US Lt. Gen. Roger L. Cloutier, Jr. Taken Prisoner in …“Los persistentes rumores de que el teniente general del ejército de los Estados Unidos, Roger L. Cloutier, Jr., fue hecho prisionero en Mariupol, están ganando terreno. Los informes sobre esto iban con un enlace al portal bien informado de veteranos estadounidenses Veterans Today”…)

Según Red Voltaire, el general canadiense era el responsable del biolaboratorio 1, donde trabajaban 18 personas bajo sus órdenes (2).

Los correos del ordenador del hijo del presidente estadounidense, Hunter Biden, demuestran que colaboró con un contratista del Pentágono para financiar los laboratorios de guerra biológica en Ucrania (3).

A través de la empresa Rosemont Capital, Hunter Biden, y el hijo adoptivo de John Kerry, ex secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, organizaron un canal oculto de ‎financiación para los laboratorios que el Pentágono tenía en Ucrania ‎a nombre de la Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), un instituto del Departamento ‎de Defensa de Estados Unidos para la guerra biológica (4).

En una entrada anterior expusimos que los laboratorios de guerra biológica del Ministerio de Defensa ucraniano situados en Kiev, Odesa, Lviv y Jarkov recibieron de Estados Unidos un importe total de 32 millones de dólares. Un documento fechado del 6 de marzo de 2015 confirma la participación directa de Estados Unidos en la financiación de los proyectos.

Los laboratorios llevaron a cabo experimentos con muestras de coronavirus de murciélagos. El objetivo de estas y otras investigaciones biológicas fue la creación de un mecanismo de transmisión oculta de patógenos letales (5).

El Pentágono controla alrededor de 60 laboratorios de guerra biológica en las fronteras de Rusia y China (6). Las instalaciones se han modernizado desde 2005 a expensas del presupuesto militar estadounidense.

El Ministerio chino de Asuntos Exteriores reveló además que Estados Unidos mantiene 336 laboratorios dedicados a la investigación sobre armas biológicas en diferentes países por cuenta del Pentágono.

El 11 de marzo los biolaboratorios financiados por Estados Unidos en Ucrania y descubiertos por las tropas rusas fueron objeto de una reunión del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU. Por su parte, la OMS pidió a Ucrania que destruya los patógenos peligrosos que guarda en sus laboratorios para prevenir la aparición de enfermedades (7).

El escándalo de los laboratorios secretos obligó a la embajada de Estados Unidos en Kiev a retirar las menciones que tenía en su página web sobre el asunto (8).

(1) https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1878047/officier-canadien-cadieu-enquete-allegations-inconduite-ukraine
(2) https://www.voltairenet.org/article216734.html
(3) https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/hunter-biden-played-role-in-funding-us-bio-labs-contractor-in-ukraine-e-mails/
(4) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/breaking-exclusive-hunter-biden-firm-rosemont-seneca-invested-firm-tied-ukrainian-biolabs/
(5) https://mpr21.info/estados-unidos-investigaba-en-ucrania-la-transmision-de-la-peste-porcina-y-el-antrax/
(6) https://elpais.bo/internacional/20220406_el-pentagono-controla-alrededor-de-60-laboratorios-biologicos-en-las-fronteras-de-rusia-y-china-denuncia-el-ministerio-de-defensa-ruso.html
(7) https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4969145/0/la-oms-pide-a-ucrania-que-destruya-los-virus-peligrosos-que-guarda-en-sus-laboratorios-para-evitar-enfermedades/
(8) https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/pentagon-doesnt-want-you-to-see-these-documents-about-biolabs-in-ukraine

By Nimue Brown at druidlife.wordpress.com

For some time now, countries have been run on the assumption that there would be infinite growth. It’s pretty obvious that on a finite planet, this could not work, but no one in power has thus far seemed keen to look at that. 

The UK is a mess at the moment, and is likely to remain so. Our economy is shrinking, the cost of living is going up and suffering is already widespread. As far as I can make out, the political responses do not include squaring up to the problems growth itself causes.

We can’t consume our way out of this. More importantly, we can’t consume our way out of climate crisis and all of the many threats that poses to us. Our wellbeing as a species is going to depend on degrowth. We need to use less, cause less pollution, cause less destruction.

Ideally we need to turn ourselves around entirely as a species to become regenerative – focusing on the growth of plants, eco-systems and all life rather than destroying life for the idea of economic growth.

It’s a marvellous opportunity. Imagine if we only made and used things we needed. How much less work would we all need to do? Imagine if we just accepted that everyone needs a home, shelter, clothes, clean water, clean air… and started deploying resources accordingly.

Without growth and a growth-orientated economy, there’s much less scope for a small number of parasitic super-rich people to dominate everything.

Having what we need is not going to support gratuitous wealth or obscene consumption. Everyone should have nice things, no one should behave in ways that are eco-cidal.

Economic growth fuels competition and exploitation. It requires an underclass of workers. It creates waste and pollution. There’s no reason at all why we have to live like this.

Politicians have long been afraid of shrinking economies because no one really knows how that would work. But, here we are, and it’s happening anyway, and is bound to happen as we run out of cheap fossil fuel options.

We could choose to do this well, cleverly, kindly and for everyone’s benefit.

As an individual, there’s not a vast amount we can do, but there are some things.

We have to let go of the story that business as usual is desirable

.We have to stop believing in the idea of eternal growth.

We could go further and let ourselves be excited about how much good we could do by shrinking economies.

Politicians may be in charge, but most of them don’t lead. They simply follow the social trends they believe will get them re-elected. 

España detiene y tramita la extradición a Ucrania de Anatoli Sharí, periodista amenazado por los neonazis ucranianos

Redacción5 de mayo de 2022

Según ha difundido el gobierno ucraniano, la Policía Nacional ha detenido al periodista ucraniano Antoli Sharí, perseguido por el gobierno de Kiev y amenazado de muerte por los grupos fascistas que operan bajo su protección.

Anatoli Sharí y Olga Bondarenko viven con su hijo en Roda de Berà y, desde hace dos años, sufren acoso a las puertas de su casa por parte de personas cercanas al gobierno de Volodomír Zelenski. Los Mossos d’Esquadra están al corriente e impiden que lleguen a las manos, pero los mensajes amenazantes-también en forma de cuna manchada de sangre – no han cesado.

Todo radica en la actividad pública de esta pareja ucraniana, que desde hace varios años no pisan su país. Anatoli Sharí tiene un canal de Youtube con casi tres millones de suscriptores y es uno de los periodistas más influyentes desde antes de la revuelta del Maidan, en 2014.

Los neonazis no sólo han filtrado la dirección de su domicilio, sino que también circula la identidad del hijo menor de edad, a la que, según su madre, Olga Bondarenko, sólo podía tener acceso el consulado ucraniano. La última protesta se produjo antes de Semana Santa, pero temen por su seguridad especialmente en el momento en que los hombres puedan salir de Ucrania, una vez finalice el conflicto.

Hasta ahora, todos los intentos de extradición han sido infructuosos, pero tras la visita de Pedro Sánchez a Kiev parece que todo se ha reactivado. El gobierno español ha dado curso a la estrambótica acusación que le hace el gobierno de Zelenski: alta traición.

Investigaciones con conexiones con el gobierno

Antes de marcharse del país, Sharí era un periodista residente en Kiiv que trabajaba para el medio Obozravatel. Investigaba temas relacionados con casinos ilegales, la venta de drogas en farmacias, asesinatos… Algunos de ellos, según explica en una entrevista concedida hace pocos días a Nació Digital, «tenían conexión con el Ministerio de Interior, que encubría los delitos». En ese momento gobernaba Víktor Yanukovich, un presidente considerado pro-ruso y originario del Donbass.

A raíz de algunas presiones, en 2012 se exilió, pasando por los Países Bajos y terminando en Barcelona. En 2015 decidió trasladarse a vivir a Roda de Berà, eso sí, sin estatus de refugiado.

El Euromaidan

Entre finales de 2013 y principios de 2014, estalló la revuelta del Euromaidan, es decir, una serie de protestas especialmente concentradas en la capital que buscaban echar al hasta entonces presidente, Víktor Yanukovich, para forzar un acercamiento a la Unión Europea. Anatoli lo vivió ya desde el exilio, pero fue poco antes cuando inició su etapa como periodista político.

Los hechos del 2 de mayo de 2014, en Odessa, en los que 48 personas fueron asesinadas por el lanzamiento de cócteles Molotov cuando se refugiaban de los neonazis en la llamada «Casa de los sindicatos», levantaron todas las alertas. Este asesinato masivo realizado por el Pravy Sektor (Sector Derecho, neonazi) provocó que Anatoli empezara a colgar vídeos en las redes expresando su opinión y al mismo tiempo comunicando información sobre sus investigaciones.

«Nunca ha habido tanta corrupción como ahora»

Los primeros meses del gobierno Zelenski no alcanzaron las expectativas de una parte de la población, que le veían como un líder que podía llevar respeto entre las diferentes formas de pensar que existían en el país. «Queríamos que llegara Zelenski porque en Ucrania hay muchos problemas con los batallones y los neonazis», explica Olga.

A su lado, Anatoli niega que sean pocos: «Es muy fácil controlar a la población con armas aunque sean 10 entre 100.000». «Tienen mucho poder, tienen armas, atacan a periodistas, mucha gente tiene miedo y el gobierno no hace nada con ellos», añade. Uno de los batallones más conocidos en este sentido es el Azov, que incluso ha acogido entre sus integrantes a diferentes combatientes internacionales de ideología de extrema derecha, uno de ellos vecino de Segur de Calafell .

Rotura con Zelenski

Si bien antes de las elecciones hubo buena relación entre Anatoli Sharí y Volodomír Zelenski, la situación cambió drásticamente en 2020. Casos de corrupción como, por ejemplo, la especulación con la venta de mascarillas llegadas al país durante la pandemia fueron denunciados por Anatoli. Asegura que en estos últimos dos años «nunca como ahora ha habido tanta corrupción, ni con Poroshenko».

La operación militar del gobierno ruso es para Anatoli un «regalo» para Zelenski, que no paraba de bajar en popularidad antes de que se produjera. Uno de sus rivales en la carrera política era el propio Anatoli, quien desde el mes de junio de 2019 dirige su propio partido, de ideología liberal y con un discurso contra la corrupción y contra los grupos neonazis.

«Los tres principales opositores a Zelenski son Viktor Medvedchuk, Poroshenko y Anatoli», asegura Olga, quien señala que éste sería uno de los motivos por los que le acusaron de alta traición en el 2020 y, más tarde, una vez iniciada ya la guerra, prohibieron su formación, junto a otros partidos. «Zelenski es un pequeño tirano y ahora le ha tocado la lotería para hacer lo que quiera», dice.

La acusación de alta traición sirvió a Zelenski para bloquear los perfiles de Facebook, Youtube e Instagram de Anatoli y de Olga, y no sólo eso, sino que ha impuesto distintas sanciones como la prohibición de disponer de un cuenta bancaria tanto a ellos como a la madre de Olga.

Medios alternativos

Con el bloqueo de las redes sociales de los opositores, miles de ucranianos han tenido que buscar alternativas para recibir información de todo tipo. Las visualizaciones del canal de Youtube de Anatoli cada vez que sube un vídeo son casi instantáneas, aparte de las retransmisiones en directo, y la mayoría son o bien de residentes en el país -a través de servicios VPN- o de ucranianos que han tenido que irse. Entre ellos, a través de estos espacios, se ponen en contacto para ayudarse mutuamente cuando alguien necesita algún medicamento, por ejemplo, según Olga.

Mientras, el gobierno de Zelenski sigue tratando de estrechar cada vez más el círculo de Anatoli. Uno de sus seguidores, detenido y más tarde huido del país, le aseguró que, durante la detención, le habían propinado torturas …

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Última hora de la guerra en Ucrania El bloguero ucraniano Anatoly Shariy, acusado de traición por sus “posiciones prorrusas”, ha sido detenido en España, según los Servicios de Seguridad de Ucrania…

Anatoly Shariy, bloguero de Ucrania prorruso, detenido en España...

El destacado bloguero y crítico del gobierno ucraniano, Anatoly Shariy, ha sido detenido por la policía española como parte de una operación internacional, anunció el jueves el Servicio de Seguridad de Ucrania (SBU).

Shariy fue arrestado el miércoles en una operación conjunta de policías españoles y ucranianos, así como “socios” internacionales, dijo la SBU en un comunicado.

La agencia, sucesora de Kiev de la KGB soviética, dijo que la figura de la oposición es buscada por cargos de traición por parte de Kiev, entre otras cosas.

Shariy ha estado infringiendo la seguridad nacional de Ucrania a través de sus actividades en el ámbito de los medios, mientras supuestamente actuaba en nombre de fuerzas “extranjeras”, insistió.

ver también.. La corrupción en Ucrania es endémica el Periodico

El caso contra el YouTuber con casi 3 millones de suscriptores se inició en febrero de 2021.

El arresto de Shariy “es una prueba más de que todo traidor a Ucrania tarde o temprano recibirá su merecido castigo. Es inevitable”, afirmó la SBU.

El anuncio ucraniano fue confirmado por la policía española

El anuncio ucraniano fue confirmado por la policía española, que dijo a RIA-Novosti que Shariy fue detenido en la ciudad costera de Tarragona el 4 de mayo por una orden de arresto internacional.

see also: Dutch Party Asks Zelensky to Account for $850 Mln Personal Wealth

Shariy recibió asilo político en la UE en Lituania en 2012. En ese entonces, dijo que estaba huyendo de la persecución del gobierno de Viktor Yanukovich, a quien los medios occidentales tildaron de prorruso.

Yanukovich fue depuesto después del golpe de estado de Maidan en 2014, pero el bloguero siguió siendo un duro crítico de las autoridades en Ucrania, ya sea el presidente Petro Poroshenko o su sucesor Volodymyr Zelensky.

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12,548 Children have suffered a Serious Adverse Event due to the COVID Vaccines in the USA; and 106 Kids have sadly died

ByThe ExposéonMay 4, 2022•( 8 Comments )

Official data published by the U.S Centers for Disease Control has revealed that 106 children have now sadly died following Covid-19 vaccination.

The deaths have been reported among 12,548 serious adverse events among children ranging from hospitalisation to permanent disability.

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A search of the CDC Wonder Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) returns the following results on adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccines among children (under 18’s) up to 22nd April 2022 –

A similar search for serious adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccines among children ranging from hospitalisation to permanent disability, to death, returns the following results –

And a final search for the number of deaths among children following Covid-19 vaccination returns the following results –

Here’s a chart illustrating the number of adverse events, serious adverse events and deaths due to the Covid-19 injections among children by age group in the USA up to the 22nd April 2022 –

The data shows that even children under the age of 6 months old are suffering adverse reactions to the Covid-19 injections suggesting this is either through being breast-fed by vaccinated mothers, or over-eager doctors/nurses/vaccine administrators vaccinating children who are not legally eligible.

As of 22nd April 2022, two children under 6-months-old have sadly died, as well as another 4 children between the ages of 1 and 5.

The following chart shows the total number of adverse events, serious adverse events and deaths due to the Covid-19 injections among all children under 18 –

As of April 22nd 2022, there have been 48,033 adverse reactions to the Covid-19 injections among children, of which 12,548 were considered serious resulting in hospitalisation, permanent disability or death. Sadly, 106 children have lost their lives.

The above does not however paint the full picture, because the CDC estimated just 1 to 10% of adverse reactions are actually reported to VAERS. Therefore, it’s possible that over 10,600 children have sadly lost their lives due to Covid-19 vaccination.

But despite this, medicine regulators in the USA are urgently looking to authorise the administration of the Covid-19 injection to children as young as 6-months-old.

CounterPunch, BY JOHN LAFORGE, 29 Apr 22, shared with thanks

The public policy of readiness to initiate attack with nuclear weapons — not as a deterrent against being attacked with nuclear weapons, but its exact opposite — is at the heart of both U.S. and NATO “nuclear posture.”

The United States could immediately take direct actions that would de-escalate the over-arching nuclear threat that haunts Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.

A few such actions would demonstrate good will and indicate a real intention to reduce tensions in the crisis which seems every day to grow more dangerous.

1. U.S. hydrogen bombs stationed in Europe could be withdrawn and their planned replacement cancelled.

The United States and Germany are formal states parties to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Articles I and II of the NPT flatly prohibit the transfer of nuclear weapons from one states party to another.

Any fourth grader can understand that the NATO practice of “nuclear sharing” with Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Turkey — which together have over 100 U.S. nuclear weapons — is an open violation of the clear, unambiguous, unequivocal and binding prohibitions of the NPT.

The United States stations an estimated 20 of its B61-3 and B61-4 thermonuclear gravity bombs at the German Air Force Base Büchel, 80 miles southeast of Cologne.

These B61 H-bombs at Büchel are identified as “intermediate-yield strategic and tactical thermonuclear” bombs, and “the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the U.S.” according to the NuclearWeaponArchive.org.

Calling these weapons “intermediate” or “tactical” is shocking disinformation. The maximum yield of the B61-3 is 170 kilotons, and the maximum B61-4 yield is 50 kilotons, as reported by the Bulletin of the atomic Scientists.

These H-bombs respectively produce over 11 times and 3 times the explosive blast, mass fire, and radiation of the 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb that killed 140,000 people. (For background, see Lynn Eden’s “Whole World on Fire,” or Howard Zinn’s “The Bomb.”

The effects of detonating B61-3 or B61-4 bombs would inevitably be catastrophic mass destruction involving disproportionate, indiscriminate and long-lasting devastation. Plans to replace the current B61 with a new “model 12” could be cancelled now, and constitute a real ratcheting down of tensions in Europe.

2. The U.S. can discontinue its nuclear attack courses underway at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

The U.S. studies and plans nuclear weapon attacks at classrooms of its Defense Nuclear Weapons School (DNWS), and the one branch school outside the U.S. is at Ramstein in Germany, the largest U.S. military base outside the country, headquarters of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and NATO Allied Air Command.

Outlines of nuclear attack coursework can be read on the DNWS website, which boldly declares the school: “is responsible for delivering, sustaining and supporting air-delivered nuclear weapon systems for our warfighters …every day.”

…………… Dispensing with this nuclear attack planning school would reduce tensions and help eliminate Russia’s dread of the U.S./NATO nuclear posture.

3. NATO can suspend its provocative military exercises.

Attacks with U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe are regularly simulated or “rehearsed,” as is often reported.

Recent headlines noted: “German Air Force training for nuclear war as part of NATO” (Kazakh Telegraph Agency 2020), “Secret nuclear weapons exercise ‘Steadfast Noon” (German Armed Forces Journal 2019), “NATO nuclear weapons exercise unusually open” (2017), and “NATO nuclear weapons exercise Steadfast Noon in Büchel” (2015).

Giant NATO war games routinely zero in on Russia.

In 2018, there was “Trident Juncture” with 50,000 troops in Norway, and “Atlantic Resolve” was conducted in Eastern Europe. In 2016, some 16,000 troops gathered in Norway for “Cold Response,” and in “Anaconda 2016” another 31,000 troops from 24 countries were again in motion across Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

In 2015, there was “Atlantic Resolve,” “Dragoon Ride,” and “Spring Storm,” all conducted across Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. In 2014, the routine “Cold Response” game in Norway involved 16,000 troops, and “Atlantic Resolve” took place in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.

Beyond the annual “Steadfast Noon” simulations, complex, multinational NATO exercises in Eastern European countries just recently ballooned in number.

In 2019, there was a single big exercise called “Atlantic Resolve.”

In 2020 there were five.

In 2021 the number leaped to eleven, and NATO that year made plans for a total of 95 exercises.

Individual NATO states had plans for another 220 of their own war games.

Nothing justifies Putin’s naked aggression, but the marked increase in NATO war practices would even make the Dali Lama defensive.

4. The U.S. and NATO could end their nuclear weapon “first-use” policy.

The public policy of readiness to initiate attack with nuclear weapons — not as a deterrent against being attacked with nuclear weapons, but its exact opposite — is at the heart of both U.S. and NATO “nuclear posture.”

This perpetual threat to start nuclear attacks during a conventional conflict, especially in the context of routine NATO nuclear war exercises, is unnecessarily destabilizing and reckless.

In view of the enormously overwhelming power of U.S. and NATO conventional military forces, the nuclear option is grossly redundant and militarily useless.

After he retired, Paul Nitze, a former Navy Secretary and personal advisor to President Ron Reagan, wrote “A Threat Mostly to Ourselves” where he observed: “In view of the fact that we can achieve our objectives with conventional weapons, there is no purpose to be gained through the use of our nuclear arsenal.”

Now that the U.S. public as a whole has been transformed into one big anti-war group, it should recognize that it can influence our own government but not Russia’s.

Our demands for negotiation, cease-fire, de-escalation and a peace agreement need to be directed in a way that has some chance of success. 

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/29/reducing-tensions-building-trust-de-escalating/

May 5, 2022 Strategic Culture Foundation By Tom LUONGO .. shared with thanks

There’s a lot of news flying around about the changes happening in global currency trading.

From “Gas for Rubles” to “What the Hell is Going on With the Yen?” there are a lot of questions and very few answers as to what it all means and whose on which side of the divide.

The Fed just hiked 50 basis points for the first time since 2000 and will be running off its balance sheet forcing the Treasury to stop issuing new debt at stupid rates. The European Union unveiled a sixth sanctions package against Russia which calls for a complete embargo of all Russian oil.

Further to this the EU is now aping what the Trump Administration tried to do to Iran in 2018, sanctioning all services, including insurance, to all shippers of oil from doing any business with Russia and sanctioned Russian banks.

The bloc is proposing to ban European vessels and companies from providing services — including insurance — linked to the transportation of Russian oil and products globally as part of its new sanctions package, according to officials and a draft document seen by Bloomberg.

While member states are still wrangling over the terms, it’s a potentially powerful tool because 95% of the world’s tanker liability cover is arranged through a London-based insurance organization called the International Group of P&I Clubs that has to heed European law.

These sanctions, effectively politicizing every aspect of international business and trade, are ultimately nothing more than short-term annoyances for Russia or anyone else.

It betrays a mindset that cares nothing for the downstream effects of these actions and, if anything, betray the desperation felt in Brussels today about its position in the global market.

I’ve spilled hundreds of column inches trying to explain to the world that it is the EU’s totalitarian mindset based on their psychological imbalance and ideological need to be seen as the champions of humanity, that drives all of their decisions.

The US is not so driven. We’re far easier to understand. We like power but only so long as it nets us a profit.

This sanctions package is prima facie evidence of their insanity and what happens when, like a cornered animal, they are faced with an existential choice. The EU is built on a foundation of insulating its leadership from the vicissitudes of public opinion.

Populism is a four-letter word in the Eurocrat’s vocabulary.

The consequences of this policy which was conceived of by the fart-sniffing buffoons at the World Economic Forum, The Davos Crowd, are irrelevant to them in the short-term. Yes, Europeans will suffer tremendously high inflation because, if successful at taking a majority of Russian oil off the global markets, will only ensure that prices go ballistic.

Do you think the same people who have a stated depopulation agenda who mandated a 12% effective Pfizer vaccine and wasn’t tested at all on pregnant women lest they be barred from partaking of European society care one whit about the people they govern?

Of course not.

I guess this is what they mean when they invoke “European values.”

So, keep that firmly in mind when you play through the following scenarios and what is really at stake for them and for us going forward. These are people who are only in power because they control the political process handed to them via a corrupt monetary system which institutionalizes the Cantillion effect of money printing to grant them unearned advantages in the market place.

As I’ve pointed out in previous articles, one of the strongest weapons Russia has in their arsenal is the world’s need for the commodities they produce and their ability now, with the global financial system teetering on the brink of collapse, to set the terms of payment for them.

Ronan Manly at Bullion Star recently wrote a great article which is, I believe, the foundational one for what’s going on in Russia.  In it Manly goes over the steps being taken by the Russians to move away from a purely debt-based currency regime to a commodity-based one. This idea is promulgated by Sergei Glazyev, who is heading up the creation of a kind-of SDR for the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

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