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from thefreeonline on March 6, 2023 by Winter Oak

Number 81… In this issue:

1. A slippery smart slope to slavery

One of the main aims of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is to herd us all into smart cities, digital concentration camps in which our vastly restricted lives will become products for the speculative greed of the global ruling entity.

Because they know we prefer to live otherwise, this venal clique has to dress up each stage of their long-term plan as something else, so as to fool us into going along with it.

Thus the current phase, that of 15-minute Cities, 20-minute Neighbourhoods and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, is being sold to us as nothing more than urban planning aimed at protecting the environment.

We are assured that our freedom is not at risk, since it is only movements by car that are currently being targeted – with trips on foot, by bike or by public transport unaffected.

The 5G masts that have sprung up everywhere and the calls for vaccine passports and a central digital currency are supposedly mere coincidences and could never be imagined to form part of one and the same scheme.

If Operation Covid had never happened, this deception might have passed generally unnoticed. But having already been exposed to the authorities’ evident desire to limit and track our movements under any invented pretext, large numbers of people have been able to identify the totalitarian agenda behind this supposedly “green” initiative.

They are very aware that in the cash-free digitally-connected “smart” (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) dystopia being planned for us, every move we make would be monitored, analysed and reported in real time and that the geofencing of “human capital” would certainly not stop with private vehicle use.

As a result, there is growing public opposition to the embryonic smart city projects now cropping up everywhere, particularly in the Evil Empire that calls itself The Commonwealth.

For example, in February a very successful public meeting was held in Bath, Somerset, UK, with 350 people cramming into the venue and speakers including former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies. (See videos here and here plus this local media report).

And across country in Oxford there was a huge and impressive protest which promises to be the start of a serious wave of mass resistance.

The game of gangs and counter-gangs has long been a tool of the British state’s political repression and the presence of one or two members of the “far right” in the diverse Oxford protest allowed the usual smear card to be played.

This absurdly exaggerated “threat” was also used to manipulate people who oppose the far right into forming a small “counter-protest”.

As this video reveals, these people were in fact protesting about issues that had nothing to do with the matter in hand, having been whipped up by the ridiculous scaremongering, about “violent” groups supporting “abhorrent genocidal causes”, that deliberately sought to misrepresent the true nature of the demonstration.

The irony, of course, is that the real threat of fascism comes from the digital slavery project of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the metaverse and impact capitalism.

Another claim from the back-to-front “anti-fascist” camp was that anti-technocracy protesters had uttered “anti-semitic tropes”.

As we know, this is now applied to any reference to a threat from globalised central control or any mention of the Great Reset, openly launched by Charles III and yet still described as a “conspiracy theory” by the powers-that-shouldn’t-be.

Over in Commonwealth Canada, the system’s media are likewise desperately trying to depict opposition to 15-minute Cities as unfounded paranoia.

For instance, a piece entitled “15-minute city conspiracy theory reaches Sudbury” by Tyler Clarke, a local hack in Ontario, kicks off in full propaganda mode, declaring: “Fuelled by misinformation, local conspiracy theorists have expanded their scope beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and focused on another convoluted web of misinformation”.

“Misinformation” twice in one sentence! A gold WEF star for you!

The hack rolls out the usual claim that the WEF’s very real Great Reset is a mere “conspiracy theory”, providing the obligatory link to system “fact-checkers”.

Russia’s Deterrent to US’s ‘Preemptive Decapitation’ plan – would destroy USA in One Hour with Hypersonic Nukes..

thefreeonline on 5th March 2023 by Drago Bosnic at South Front 8850 views

Russia Just Announced New Strategy On Deterring NATO Aggression

The new document, published by the “Military Thought” magazine run by the Russian Ministry of Defense, attracted little attention in Western media, although such changes are made only once in several decades or even longer.

Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst

Amid incessant NATO aggression and escalation of hostilities within Russia, now also including US-backed Kiev regime terrorists targeting schoolchildren, Moscow has started revamping the doctrinal approach to the use of its strategic arsenal. Rather curiously, the new document, published by the “Military Thought” magazine run by the Russian Ministry of Defense, attracted little attention in Western media.

It should be noted that such changes are made only once in several decades or even longer. The strategic posturing of countries, particularly superpowers, is usually “set in stone”, meaning that changes are prompted only by major events of historical proportions.

It was only a week ago that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia is suspending its participation in the New START arms control treaty.

Putin cited continuous, blatant US and NATO violations of the agreement as the primary reason for the decision. With the treaty becoming a mere formality, Russia is not bound to honor it anymore, as this would undermine its own strategic security.

With that in mind, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) started implementing new ways to deter any possible direct US/NATO attacks on Russia, particularly as the belligerent thalassocracy has repeatedly floated the idea of “decapitation strikes” on Moscow in the last several months.

The authors of the document are Deputy Commander of the RVSN Igor Fazletdinov and retired Colonel Vladimir Lumpov.

Russia Hypersonic missiles are 27 times faster and ready to launch … youtube.com

They argue that the US is on a collision course with Russia, as Washington DC and its vassals are becoming increasingly aggressive due to their political elites’ frustration with the loss of the “sole superpower” status.

With America seeing Moscow as the main culprit for this, it plans on defeating Russia in a “single blow”, thus eliminating the main obstacle to total US global dominance. Fazletdinov and Lumpov argue that Washington DC plans to defeat Russia in a “strategic (global) multi-sphere operation”, the primary goal of which will be the elimination of its strategic arsenal.

“[The US believes] this goal is only achievable in the event of an instantaneous nuclear strike against the RVSN or at least with the deployment of ABM [anti-ballistic missile] systems around Russia. The US plan is to destroy at least 65-70% of Russian strategic nuclear forces as part of its Prompt Global Strike concept, with the rest eliminated by American ABM systems. The US would then launch an all-out nuclear attack on the Russian Federation in order to destroy it,” authors warn, further adding: “We aim to repel a potential [US] nuclear strike, preserve our own nuclear capabilities, suppress the deployed US missile defense systems and cause unacceptable damage in case of [US/NATO] aggression.”

Russia certainly has the capability to almost instantly change its strategic doctrine. Unlike its NATO rivals (including the US itself), Moscow leads the world in several key military technologies, which also include at least a dozen operational hypersonic weapons deployed over the last 5-10 years.

And indeed, in early December President Putin stated Russia could adopt a US-style concept of preemptive strikes. The program mentioned by Russian military experts, called PGS (Prompt Global Strike), is a US attempt to develop a capability that enables it to attack enemy strategic targets with precision-guided weapons anywhere in the world within just one hour.

Still, the US is yet to deploy a weapon that can achieve that.

On the other hand, with the Mach 12-capable “Kinzhal” air-launched hypersonic missile carried by modified MiG-31K/I interceptors and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers, the Mach 28-capable “Avangard” HGV (hypersonic glide vehicle) deployed on various ICBMs and the Mach 9-capable scramjet-powered “Zircon” hypersonic cruise missile deployed on naval (both submarines and surface ships) and (soon) on land platforms, Russia is the only country on the planet with the capability to immediately implement such a program.

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And yet, Moscow still refrains from going ahead with such plans, although its justification for this would hold much better than that of the US.

The authors further emphasize “the need to make sure the US was perfectly aware of the impossibility of the complete destruction of our strategic capabilities and the inevitability of a crushing retaliatory nuclear strike”.

However, the problem with this is that the establishment in Washington DC has become so detached from reality that they believe the Kiev regime has the capacity to not only “push Russia back from Donbass”, but also “retake Crimea”, despite relevant reports on the Neo-Nazi junta’s staggering losses.

It can hardly be expected from them to be aware of Russia’s wholly undeniable capability to obliterate the continental US in minutes.

There is No Defense to Hypersonic Missiles & Russia’s Plans to Expand …

American policymakers take advice from former high-ranking generals and officers who somehow managed to lose a war against outnumbered and outgunned AK-wielding insurgents in sandals while wasting trillions of dollars and deploying hundreds of thousands of troops during the two decades of continuous NATO aggression in Afghanistan.

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This is without taking into account the technological disparity which was so overwhelmingly on the side of the aggressors that it can quite literally be measured in centuries rather than decades. Still, delusions and living in parallel reality seem to be a given for the warmongers at the Pentagon.

In addition, considering the fact that Afghanistan became more peaceful and safer after the US and NATO have been soundly defeated and driven out of the country devastated by decades of incessant conflict, this clearly implies that being able to militarily beat the political West is of utmost importance for the safety of any given country.

Russia’s new strategic doctrine will certainly ensure this, not just for itself but also for the entire world, as the Eurasian giant will surely remain the only global power with such a capability in the foreseeable future.

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Turkish Parties whip up hate crimes on Syrian Refugee earthquake victims as Election Looms

from thefreeonline March 6, 2023 by Turkish Minute

Anti-Syrian discrimination mars Turkey’s earthquake response: report

State-linked organizations providing the bulk of relief have denied aid to Syrians in some cases in Turkish provinces affected by devastating earthquakes in early February, according to earthquake survivors and rights organizations, Syria Direct, an independent media organization reporting on Syrians, said on Wednesday, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported.

Xenophobia, hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees are increasing in Turkey as the country prepares for upcoming elections, and politicians from far-right parties have been fueling anti-Syrian sentiment in regions hit by the earthquakes.

Syrians quake — Syrians, displaced as a result of the deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria two days ago, walk in an open field on the outskirts of the rebel-held town of Jindayris on February 8, 2023. A leading United Nations official called for the facilitation of aid access to rebel-held areas in Syria’s northwest, warning that relief stocks will soon be depleted. Rebel-held areas near Turkey’s border — hard hit by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck on Monday — cannot receive aid from government-held parts of Syria without Damascus’s authorization. Bakr ALKASEM / AFP

3 TV stations fined $423K in total for earthquake coverage critical…A total of TL 7,990,000 ($423,000) in fines has been imposed by broadcasting watchdog the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) on three TV…

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck near the Turkish city of Gaziantep – home to around 2 million people and on the border with Syria – as people were sleeping on February 6 was followed by dozens of aftershocks, including a 7.5-magnitude temblor that jolted the region in the middle of search and rescue efforts the same day.

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A large number of Syrians affected by the earthquakes have been temporarily evacuated by authorities to shelters in the southern Turkish province of Mersin.

Speaking to Syria Direct, a Syrian man called “Bilal” said the police escorted his family and a few dozen other Syrians in the shelter, run by the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), out on the grounds that it was reserved for Turkish citizens.

As the Syrians were leaving the shelter in Mersin on February 10, Bilal said he saw a Turkish journalist speaking to the cameras and claiming that Syrians were being expelled because they had destroyed furniture in the shelter.

When they went to an AFAD center in Mersin the next day, “The person from AFAD said, ‘You are Syrian, you already took everything, this help is for Turks. Come back in five days and we’ll see,” Bilal recounted.

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Attitudes about refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria have gradually hardened in Turkey, where they used to be welcomed with open arms, sympathy and compassion, as the number of newcomers has swelled over the past decade.

Tensions between Turks and Syrians flare up on occasion in Turkey, where refugees are blamed for many of the country’s social and economic troubles.

Hate crimes against refugees and migrants have been escalating in recent years as Turkish media, including pro-government and opposition outlets, fuel and exploit the flames of hatred against people who fled their countries and sought refuge in Turkey.

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Anti-migrant sentiment has also been expressed by opposition politicians, including Ümit Özdağ, leader of the far-right Victory Party (ZP). In January, Özdağ launched a new campaign dubbed “Bus to Damascus” aimed at deporting Syrian refugees from Turkey.

In a propaganda video posted on Twitter by Özdağ, who has been at the forefront of anti-refugee propaganda in Turkey, party supporters were asked to share the names of refugees and to donate to the ZP so that refugees could be put on buses they call “Victory Buses” and deported to Syria.

Meta is subverting the Bolivian majority indigenous govt while enabling the far right ex rulers

from thefreeonline on 5th March 2023 by Bradley Blankenship @BradBlank at Home World News

Supporters of the ruling Socialist Party with millions of followers are finding themselves deplatformed as the social media giant defends the far right racist opposition who staged an ultimately failed US supported Coup.

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has blocked a slew of accounts and groups as part of its “Adversarial Threat” program.

Despite Meta’s war against them the MAS socialists are still supported by the indigenous majority over the racist former rulers

The social media giant said it “took down three CIB (coordinated inauthentic behavior) networks – in Serbia, Cuba and Bolivia – targeting people in their own countries across many services across the internet and linked to governments or ruling parties in each state.”

But people in Bolivia took issue with this over freedom of speech concerns. According to a local media report from Kawsuchen News, “1,041 Facebook accounts, 450 Pages, 14 Groups and 130 Instagram accounts were deleted in December 2022.

All the banned accounts belonged to supporters of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS-IPSP), the party of government. Those who were banned have not been able to return. The excuse given is to accuse us of ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior.’”

As the report’s author, Oscar Alfaro, pointed out, “the accusation of ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ is a concept based on convenience-oriented algorithms. However, such algorithms cannot discern simple social and group behavior.

In the case of Bolivia, activists have utilized social media as a platform to provide an alternative to the national media which is dominated by right-wing groups.”

Both Meta and the US are determined to provoke a race war in Bolivia in an effort to take back control of its rich natural resources.

Meta claims it is defending “members of the opposition,” but, in practice, this means allowing these same groups to publish open hate speech and racial discrimination against Bolivia’s indigenous majority.

These are the same groups responsible for the 2020 Bolivian coup that installed the far-right government of (now former) provisional president Jeanine Anez.

‘Palestine Action’ slam into Shenstone’s Israeli arms factory in UK

Palestine Action activists have, this morning, pulled a van alongside Elbit Systems UAV Engines weapons factory.

from thefreeonline on March 4th 2023 by Freedom News

Palestine Actionist action at UAV Engines, Shenstone 02/03/23

From inside the vehicle, they climbed on top to raise the Palestinian flag, whilst the driver locked on to the steering wheel to secure their position.

Shortly after, they were confronted by scores of Elbit’s private security and police. In total, four were arrested after taking action against the Israeli weapons factory.

Today’s action comes amidst Israeli army invasions and settler riots in the West Bank, with Palestinians being subjected to brutal attacks, by both Israeli military and settlers. In Nablus, last week’s military invasion killed 11 and injured over 100 Palestinians, while settlers later terrorised the town of Huwara, and elsewhere in the West Bank, burning down 35 Palestinian homes, and killing one Palestinian.

Elsewhere, activists in central Birmingham performed a banner drop with the Palestinian and Kashmiri flags, highlighting the shared plight of the two populations under military occupations using Elbit weaponry.

These attacks have been carried out with either the explicit or implicit support of the occupation regime’s cabinet ministers, with Israel’s finance minister calling for Huwara to be ‘wiped out of the earth’.

UAV Engines in Shenstone is owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company. Elbit Systems are the majority provider of weaponry to the Israeli military – supplying 85% of its drones and land-based military equipment, including a vast range of surveillance, munitions, ammunition, software and other military technologies.

Their Shenstone subsidiary specialises in making engines for military drones, which Elbit openly market as ‘battle-tested’ or ‘combat-proven’ on the Palestinian people.

Publicly available information demonstrates the site is directly used for the supply of weapons to Israel, as shown in its ML10 and ML11 export licenses held for sales to Israel of drones and military electronics .

Elbit’s Hermes 450 drone is powered by a Wankel-style engine made by UAV Engines Ltd in Shenstone, and has been used to surveil and attack the people of Gaza for over a decade, decimating thousands of lives.

Israel admitted in July 2022 that its Hermes 450 drones are armed, with this fact being described as “Israel’s worst kept secret” by Israeli TV Channel i24 News.

Announcing a new phase of the campaign against Elbit Systems, Palestine Action have declared a ‘siege‘ against Elbit’s Leicester drone factory from May 1st. The mass action will include hundreds staying put for weeks on end, through day and night, refusing to leave until Elbit does.

People in the West Midlands who reject British complicity in Israeli apartheid are invited to join this siege. To build up to it, Palestine Action will be hosting a talk on ‘How to Shut Elbit Down’ in Birmingham on Sunday March 5th, at the Warehouse, Allison Street, between 3:00 and 5:00pm.

Speakers will include rapper-activist Lowkey, arms trade expert Andrew Feinstein, and representatives from Palestine Action. Similar talks are planned across the country in the upcoming weeks.

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UN says that Govt and Media Censoring “disinformation”will protect “free speech”

from thefreeonline on February 23, 2023 by Didi Rankovic at Reclaim The Net.

The UN is openly embracing the agenda of mobilizing to fight against perceived online hate speech and disinformation. The latest was to organize an event called, Internet for Trust.

Calls for online regulation.

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The unelected and well-funded organization whose purpose primarily is to facilitate conflict resolution in the real world and provide peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance in war-torn areas, is now increasingly following in the footsteps of other unelected, though less formal elite groups, like the WEF.

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Now, we have announcements from one of its agencies, UNESCO – that is supposed to promote world peace and security through international education, arts and sciences cooperation, and protection of world heritage in forms of monuments, etc. – crafting its very own “guidelines” to regulate “hate speech” and “misinformation.”

According to an announcement, UNESCO has found a way to explain how (but not when or why) it started to believe it should have this power to regulate online communications by citing its mandate to promote free circulation of ideas through words and images.

“The internet and social media offer many advantages in the world today. But as we know and we have just heard, individuals are increasingly using it for disinformation. And the reality is they also propagate hate speech”.

UNESCO’s global mandate includes the promotion of the free circulation of ideas through words and images. UNESCO has therefore decided to develop, through multistakeholder consultations, principles for regulation of digital platforms guidelines whose aim is to support the development and implementation of regulation procedures to guarantee freedom of expression and access to information while managing illegal contents and any contents that can be so harmful to democracy and respect for human rights.

And instead of doing just that – the agency stopping the free circulation of often arbitrarily selected (and sometimes contrary to national law) “unwanted” information, and regulating it, is apparently the way to go.”

The Regulation of Digital Platforms guidelines, which UNESCO is developing does still pay what looks like lip service to freedom of expression and access to information – but the main goal i to “manage” what the UN has deems “illegal contents and any contents that can be so harmful to “democracy and respect for human rights.”

That’s a handily broad definition to cover a lot of things – whether truly harmful or not – and the whole idea is sure to make quite a few free speech proponents unhappy.

But those behind it are positively giddy to be working on guidelines to “support the development and implementation of regulation procedures” aimed at “guaranteeing” access to information, and freedom of expression.

The real policy is to label as illegal any content that the elite decides could harm their profits and control agenda, in the name of democracy and human rights.

In announcing the Internet for Trust conference, UNESCO mentioned looking for ways to combat hate speech, misogyny, doxxing and conspiracy theories, and even, with a straight face, suppression of free speech.

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said that regulation was necessary online:

“The blurring of boundaries between true and false, the highly-organized denial of scientific facts, the amplification of disinformation and conspiracies – these did not originate on social networks,” the UNESCO head said. “But, in the absence of regulation, they flourish there much better than the truth”.

“Only by taking the full measure of this technological revolution can we ensure it does not sacrifice human rights, freedom of expression and democracy. For information to remain a common good, we must reflect and act now, together,” she said.

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