The newly-initiated Syrian-Turkish rapprochement talks are headed in Damascus’ favor and the “Turkish concessions” derided by opponents are just the start, insiders tellThe Cradle.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already abandoned his dream of “praying in the Umayyad Mosque” in Damascus. But sources say this will be swiftly followed by further concessions that will throw a wrench into the ambitions of Syria’s opposition factions.
An undivided Syria
There will be no “federalism” or “confederation” – western codewords for the break up of the Syrian state – at these talks, but rather a “Turkish-Russian” acceptance of Damascus’ conditions.
For starters, Ankara plans to open the strategic M4 highway – which runs parallel to the Turkish border and connects all the vital Syrian cities and regions – as a prelude to opening the legal border crossings between Syria and Turkiye…
For millions of years, humans and animals have maintained their health by eating the fruits of the earth.
The necessity and benefits of a broad natural diet are evident from Egyptian skeletal remains from 6000 years ago, which suggest scurvy—a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C. In 1753 a Scottish surgeon, James Lind demonstrated that scurvy could be treated with citrus fruit. The New Zealand government seems intent on changing history.
Just before Christmas, our Government introduced the Therapeutic Products Bill for its first reading. Public consultation is being rushed through the summer holidays here in the southern hemisphere and closes on February 15th. The Bill contains 423 pages of dense provisions with countless cross references. I am not sure whether any MPs actually read it before voting for its acceptance or whether the public could stand to do so. You can view my video summary…
Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 85th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 12, 2023)
2023/01/13
On January 12th, the 85th day of the hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, the antagonist radio station Radio Onda d’Urto broadcast a third speech by the doctor who is regularly visiting anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, imprisoned in the Bancali prison, in Sassari. As for the updates on the 71st (December 29th) and 78th day (January 5th) of hunger strike, we report a transcript of the speech and the recording of the broadcast (in italian language):
“He has lost even more weight, and significantly more than last week: he lost another 4.50 kg, so he weighed 80 kg today. So for his height of about 1.93 cm, he is about 10 kg below his target weight. The musculature…
Police forces have advanced into the building where the entrance to the tunnel is suspected while other activists were still holding out on the roof tops of occupied buildings and in self-made tree houses.
1 day ago In a press release published by the “Aktionsticker Lützerath”, the two tunnel residents “Pinky” and “Brain” emphasized that the “improper and unqualified clearance” by the police could cause the tunnel to collapse and put their lives in danger.
Energy firm RWE wants to demolish the village Luetzerath to expand an open coal mine, demonstrators have been occupying the village in the brown-coal district of the western state…
Lützerath: Brutal Eviction by the police continues. First report
from Saturday, January 14th
Big shout out to everyone still defending the future at squatted land & village of #Lutzerath against a new coal mine. Big demo today. Hope big crowds can aid those locked on or in tree houses. pic.twitter.com/X7wEEq0QHr
Die Polizei hat in #lützerath friedliche Demonstrierende, Kinder, Jugendliche, Familien mit Schlagstock brutal angegriffen. Das ist Gewalt gegen demokratisches Recht zu protestieren im Interesse der Großkonzerne #lützibleibtpic.twitter.com/99BfjgDS39
Police forces have advanced into the building where the entrance to the tunnel is suspected while other activists were still holding out on the roof tops of occupied buildings and in self-made tree houses.
Composer Inna Zhvanetskaya has reportedly gone into hiding to prevent insane German authorities from forcibly imprisoning and vaccinating her
Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaya, sheet music for free notarhiv.ru
Soviet-born composer Inna Zhvanetskaya is reportedly in hiding from German authorities after they attempted to have the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor committed to a mental institution and inoculated against her will with a Covid-19 shot, German outlet Report24 said on Thursday.
Politicians and legal experts, including the ‘Alternative for Germany’ (AfD) party’s Martin Sich, have decried the court order against the composer as a violation of Germany’s Basic Law.
While a court order had authorized the forcible removal of Zhvanetskaya from her home in Stuttgart on Wednesday in order to institutionalize her “for her own good,” she was reportedly rescued ahead of their visit by “friendly activists.”
In a video recorded from her hiding place, the composer told Report24 that “music is my life, and if they take away music from me then they take my life.”
“…Our entire system is a Ponzi scheme (a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors) .
American Dream..or Ponzi Scheme
‘American Ponzi’
Everyone is in on it. The government is a Potemkin village, populated by a criminal syndicate that is raping the American people and stealing every last thing of value right before our eyes, with impunity. On occasion when it becomes so obvious that nothing can conceal the crimes, they’ll toss one of their associates overboard to placate the roiling masses before quickly moving their shop to another 17th floor”
The first question that came to mind as the closing credits rolled on the Netflix documentary Madoff The Monster of Wall Street was why?
Why would they make a movie like this that connects as many dots?e
The film lays out so many of the obvious truths of how America and the economic systems we have come to depend upon are nothing more than a colossal fiction, a fraud operating at every level and throughout every aspect of our Government, and the institutions we have come to think of as our culture.
And then it hit me.
The purpose of this revelation is to serve as cover for the even larger Ponzi scheme that is SBF (Samuel Bankman-Fried ie. a mega financial disaster) about to unravel, and eventually, if I suspect correctly, the death blow that will be discovered when BlackRock is finally shown to be the exact same kind of Ponzi scheme as all the others.
When the final downturn in our economic collapse goes into full Krakatoa and wipes out every last vestige of economic stability in the Western World.
The central underlying explanation for what transpired is based upon the rickety tripod of incompetence, misplaced altruism, and bad luck.
Had it not been for the crisis of 2008, Madoff’s scheme would have continued to be as successful as it was up to 2007.
Had it not been Madoff’s central concern to please people, he never would have made the kinds of promises he did.
Had it not been for a couple of low level SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) examiners who weren’t properly trained, it would have been caught sooner.
None of these explanations pass the sniff test of course.
From the beginning the SEC with their bloated multi-billion dollar annual budget do little if any work on anything other than drawing paychecks and providing cover for large scale institutional level white collar criminals to operate without fear of accountability.
Without the greed of the people helping to run the operation anyone with two eyeballs and a heart beat would have been able to discern what was going on inside the offices of Madoff’s criminal empire in a week or less.
Had it not been for the gullibility and rank stupidity of the American people the common denominator between all of these parties, save for a few, low-level associates, would be readily discernible.
The producers do not want anyone to notice these obvious signs of just how the global banking and economic systems really operate because if they were made clear there’d be a revolution tomorrow.
Our entire system is a Ponzi scheme. Everyone is in on it.
The government is a Potemkin village, populated by a criminal syndicate that is raping the American people and stealing every last thing of value right before our eyes, with impunity.
On occasion when it becomes so obvious that nothing can conceal the crimes, they’ll toss one of their associates overboard to placate the roiling masses before quickly moving their shop to another 17th floor.
This documentary is an absolute must see for anyone with even the slightest interest in how things are going to, in the not too distant future, play out in the last days of the dying Empire that was once America.
The only requirement is to watch it unfold without listening to the rhetorical assurances of the ones trying to pull this polished wool over your eyes, but as you would a true con man with his hand on your wallet.
In the final analysis the greatest con of all is in how this story is told by Netflix rather than the shoddily constructed grift that was Madoff Investments.
Türkiye is demanding too much, despite multiple concessions, Stockholm says
Sweden’s Supreme Court blocked the extradition of former newspaper editor Bulent Kenes last month
Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has complained during a security conference on Sunday that Türkiye has piled impossible demands on the country as prerequisites for joining NATO.
Türkiye “has confirmed that we have done what we said we would do, but it also says that it wants things that we can’t, that we don’t want to, give it,” he lamented. Still, he predicted Ankara would “make a decision, we just don’t know when” – with the outcome dependent both on internal Turkish politics and “Sweden’s capacity to show its seriousness.”
One of just two members yet to approve Sweden’s accession to NATO, Türkiye officially rescinded its objections in an agreement announced in June, stating at the time that it had “got what it wanted,” including “full cooperation… in the fight against” terrorism, from both Sweden and fellow applicant Finland.
Sweden’s objections have centered on false claims of its support for the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), a group banned in Türkiye, accused as a “terrorist” organization for resisting attempted genocide. Erdogan has accused anyone he doesn’t like, thousands, of being a ´”PKK terrorist”.
However, just days after Sweden’s Supreme Court blocked the extradition of former newspaper editor Bulent Kenes last month, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu scolded Stockholm for what he described as the lack of a “concrete development regarding the extradition of terrorism-related criminals and the freezing of their assets.”
The diplomat specifically referred to the Kenes case.
In denying Kenes’ extradition, the court argued that some of the journalist’s alleged crimes were not punishable by law in Sweden and suggested he would be subjected to political persecution if sent home.
Kenes received political asylum in Sweden in 2016 following the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ankara has accused him of having foreknowledge of the coup attempt and being a member of a terrorist organization.
Swedes have urged their government to stand firm on judicial independence even if it means delaying joining NATO. A poll conducted earlier this month found 79% of respondents wanted Stockholm to “stand up for Swedish laws” in the face of Turkish demands, while just 10% suggested that the country should prioritize joining the bloc as soon as possible.
Sweden’s troubles could delay the accession of its fellow applicant as well, as Finland doesn’t want to move forward in ditching its longstanding neutrality without its neighbor.
“Finland is not in such a rush to join NATO that we can’t wait until Sweden gets the green light,” Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told reporters on Sunday.
Extraditing Kurdish refugees to Turkey could make Sweden an Accessory to Genocide
Finland has stated it will follow suit if/when Sweden agrees to extradite Kurds fleeing Turkish persecution.
In that case both could be accused of supporting the jailing of thousands of Turkish Kurds on flimsy racist political charges. Not only that, the rest of the world would see them as insane warmongers for pandering to the suicidal US drive to place nuclear missiles and bombers along 100’s of kms of Russia’s Finnish border, some just minutes flying time from Moscow.
A replay in reverse of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Even worse, Sweden could then be accused forever as an Accessory to Genocide .
For example Erdogan’s 2019 ongoing invasion of Afrin “specifically targets the Kurdish population amid ongoing massacres, pillage, rape and dispossession campaigns, exiling 75% of the population, and settling his jihadi mercenary gangs in the ethnically cleansed canton”.
This sounds very like the definition of genocide to me.
And the invasion includes a ‘Turkification program’, Turkifying the language, police, laws, education, money etc. and outlawing Kurdish customs, language and heritage after the ethnic cleansing.
The above example of one of the continuing Turkish crimes against Kurds is arguably WORSE than the Russian invasion Rus of Ukraine, which is the pretext in the first place for joining NATO and the expansion to the Russian frontier.
However, in contrast to the warlike hysteria over Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to protect ethnic Russians NOT ONE WESTERN STATE has yet made any sanctions for the continuing ‘Rape of Afrin’, due to the US desire to placate Turkish NATO imperialism, on the contrary.
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