By Andrew Korybko | March 26, 2023

The New York Times (NYT) damning report about Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker contained an intriguing detail that most readers might have missed regarding a US mercenarys plot to recruit Pakistani-based Afghan refugees as fighters for Kiev. Former construction worker-turned-mercenary Ryan Routh brazenly told them about his plan to purchase passports from that country in order to facilitate this. Heres the relevant excerpt from their report:

With Legion growth stalling, Ryan Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, N.C., is seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban. Mr. Routh, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine. He said dozens had expressed interest. We can probably purchase some passports through Pakistan, since its such a corrupt country, he said in an interview from Washington.

The reason why hes resorting to illegal means for getting those refugees to Kiev is because that former Soviet Republics authorities have thus far refused to grant visas to any Afghan fighters. Routh said in a separate interview earlier this month that Most of the Ukrainian authorities do not want these soldiers. I have had partners meeting with [Ukraines Ministry of Defense] every week and still have not been able to get them to agree to issue one single visa.

Pakistan is already suspected of indirectly arming Kiev against Russia at the behest of its American overlord so the precedent is established for suspecting that it could support Rouths plot. The fascist post-modern coup regime might therefore very well end up doing this despite Ukraine literally being against it if their shared US patron signals its approval, which is why its incumbent on Islamabad to issue a statement in response to the NYTs latest report so as to urgently clarify this scandalous matter.

Remaining silent after one of the worlds leading Mainstream Media (MSM) outlets informed millions of people about this plan comes off as extremely suspicious. While its possible that Pakistan can still end up supporting Rouths proposal even if it publicly denies any interest in doing so, its leadership...

By Ryan McMaken | Mises Institute | March 17, 2023

Republicans and Democrats may quibble over how federal tax dollars might be spent on various social welfare programs like Medicaid and food stamps. But alongside Social Security, there is one area of federal spending that everyone can apparently agree on: military spending. Last year, the Biden administration requested one of the largest peacetime budgets ever, at $813 billion. Congress wanted even more spending and ended up approving a budget of $858 billion. In inflation-adjusted terms, that was well in excess of the military spending we saw during the Cold War under Ronald Reagan. This year, Joe Biden is asking for even more money, with a new budget request that starts at $886 billion. Included in that gargantuan amountwhich doesnt even include veterans spendingis billions for new missile systems for deploying nuclear arms, plus other programs for modernizing the United States nuclear arsenal.

Indeed, over the past year, the memo has gone out among the usual advocates of endless military spending that the US needs to spend much more on nuclear arms. This is a perennial position at the Heritage Foundation, of course, which has never met a military pork program it didnt like. Moreover, in recent months, the Wall Street Journal has run several articles demanding more nuclear arms. The New York Post was pushing the same line late last year. Much of the rhetoric centers on the idea that Beijing is increasing its own spending on nuclear arms and thus the United States must keep up. For instance, last month, Patty-Jane Geller insisted that the US is in an arms race with China. Meanwhile, writers at the foreign-policy site 1945...

March 2003 and March 2011 have a great deal in common, but that is not where the story begins, Steven Sahiounie writes. The 20th anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq for regime change coincides with the 12th anniversary of the U.S. attack on Syria for regime change. March 2003 and March 2011 have a great deal []

The morally bankrupt Western media lied to start the Iraq War as they did dutifully about starting other wars for their imperial masters. Twenty years after, the Western media are at it again. This week, March 20, saw the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-British war launched on Iraq. The war resulted in over one million []

The Beijing-brokered rapprochement between Tehran and Riyadh is expected to have significant implications for peace and prosperity in and around West Asia, given the considerable influence the two nations wield in the region. The China-mediated Saudi-Iran peace agreement, inked on 10 March in Beijing, marks a significant geopolitical shift with far-reaching implications for the Persian Gulf []

Lebanon divided again in dispute over daylight saving time

March 26, 2023 The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued a statement on Saturday condemning in the strongest terms the United States military for conducting multiple air strikes in the eastern parts of the Arab country against resistance groups. The statement claims that the raids are a cover-up for Washingtons ferocious attempts to []

The crisis that France is going through today is not just another episode in an eternally agitated country. It is about a deep crisis of mode which will be solved only with the beginning of a new society. The country will go through several years of blockage, before embarking on a complete transformation, a revolution Continue reading France Blocked for 4 Years: Macron Has Just Deliberately Destroyed His Constitutional Authority

By Edward curtin | OffGuardian | March 26, 2023

It is comical how easily one can be ignored for pointing out that new technology is dangerous and fetishistic. So-called smart cell phones are a prime example. For years I have been pointing out their dangers on many levels. To say most people are devoted to them is an understatement. Maybe it is an exaggeration to say they revere them, but if asked, they will say they couldnt live without them. Its sort of like saying I dont revere my partner but couldnt live without her or him. Ah love!

But whats love got to do with it? Love and romance are out of date. Sex is just a quick fill-in when theres a break in the technological action. Creative and erotic energy is pissed away on trivia. Being lost and confused and having no time is in. But only the latter can be admitted.

Busy busy busy! Beep beep beep as the eyes go down to the screens. Thumbs athumbing or voices talking to the gadgets, while the busy beavers forget who is under whose thumbs.

Eros is replaced by Chaos while Aphrodite weeps in the woods, but no one hears.

Pass the remote. The silence stings.

We are children of Greece but we forget its truths in our time of digital dementia, if we ever knew them. Beauty is banished for ugliness and technology is worshipped as a god. Art has become meaningless unless its falsely connected to celebrities and entertainment culture. There are no limits; everything is permitted. Hubris reigns. Even the thought that Digital IDs, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and vaccination passports are on the agenda does not dissuade the lovers.

Its a game of control abetted by radical stupidity, and it is not a mistake, as Dylan, contrary to his public posturing and corporate imaging, lets his artists soul sing:

There are no mistakes in life some people say
It is true sometimes you can see it that way
But people dont live or die, people just float

Floating in a void of gibberish and double-talk, heads barely above the water, alienated from reality while fixated on the Spectacle, while sometimes when panicky looking for a life preserver but never to the right source, this is where technology and capitalism  have taken us. On any issue the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, the facts about the US proxy-war against Russia in Ukraine, Covid-19, the economy, etc.  the mainstream media daily pumps out contradictory stories to confuse the public whose attention span has been reduced to a scrolling few seconds.

Sustained attention and the ability to dissect the endless propaganda is a thing of the past and receding faster than the computer jargon of milliseconds and nanoseconds. Planned cha...

By P Gosselin  | No Tricks Zone | March 26, 2023

Berliners are going to the polls today in a referendum on whether or not to make the city climate-neutral already by 2030 instead of 2045.

Thats quite a lofty goal for a chaotic, financially broken city that couldnt even build an airport.

Polls showing slight lead for klimaneutral ja. And no campaign in Berlin has seen funding to this scale. Acc0rding to media reports, most funding has come from foreign countries, mainly from far left groups in the USA.

According to a report by online Bild, one wealthy New York couple (Albert Wenger und Susan Danziger) even donated half a million euros to fund a campaign to get the people to vote ja.

Should Berliners vote to make the German capital CO2 neutral by 2030, it would mean enacting an amendment that would force the city of Berlin to achieve climate neutrality by 2030 instead of 2045. This would affect almost every aspect of Berlin life, from transportation, to heating and widescale major building renovation.

Foreign funding

The amendment is being pushed by the Green Party and radical groups like Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, who are largely financed by foreign funders like the Climate Emergency Fund, Abigail Disney and Hollywood film director Adam McKay.

If the amendment gets adopted, immense power will be transferred a small group of unelected people, a so-called Climate Protection Council of experts, appointed by the Berlin Senate. Climate targets for 2045 would turn into climate legal obligations for 2030.

Huge restrictions, astronomical costs, loss of private property

Critics warn this would mean many more restrictions on freedom, Berliners might even have to say goodbye to their cars completely. Under the amendment, the Berlin airport would be a part of the climate budget. thus posing the risk of reducing the number of flights.

Moreover property owners would be forced to make largescale, costly renovations and have to install solar panels. No one knows where the money is magically supposed to come from.

Unachievable, pie-in-the-sky

Critics are speaking up, however, calling the radical climate project factually impossible and out of the question...

BY CHRIS MORRISON | THE DAILY SCEPTIC | MARCH 14, 2023

There is no animal or plant in the natural world that cannot be used to promote climate Armageddon and its collectivist Net Zero political solution. On Sunday, the WWF, also known as the World Wildlife Fund, started running a series of Wild Isles co-produced propaganda films narrated by Sir David Attenborough on the BBC. These include finely-crafted messages of improbable extinctions culled from computer models.

From the absurd to the ridiculous, we had National Margarita Day recently hijacked by CNN running a story about the climate crisis affecting tequila production a story easily debunked by the news that since 1995, tequila production had increased six-fold, and in four years it had doubled. Now the increasingly unhinged Guardian is giving us its Net Zero, or else the coffee gets it story.

According to the newspaper, new research suggests that climate conditions that reduce coffee yields have become more frequent over the past four decades, with rising temperatures from global heating likely to lead to ongoing systemic shocks to coffee production globally.

Note the use of the phrase climate conditions for what in effect is weather, and the suggestion that it reduces coffee yields. These climate conditions are said to have become more frequent over the last four decades. But one can only read the Guardian for so long. Let us look at actual coffee yields over the last four decades.

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For the Palestinian people to achieve justice, Zionism must be dismantled. And for Jewish Israelis to achieve peace, we too must free ourselves from this project of Jewish supremacy.

March 21, 2023 By Romana Rubeo & Ramzy Baroud When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv by a helicopter because anti-government protesters blocked all the roads around it. Netanyahus visit was not met with much enthusiasm in Italy, either. []

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The Guardians Chris McGreal blamed far-right American Jews for enabling Netanyahus court take-over in a March 24th article focusing on the alleged influence of the Kohelet Policy Forum on efforts to overhaul the countrys judiciary.

The articles thesis is based on comments by Israeli MK Gilad Kariv, who told McGreal that Jewish donors to Kohelet were driving and financing the judicial overhaul.

However, later in the article, McGreal, in his own words, expands upon as he so often does the circle of Jewish influence:

The moves to weaken the Israeli supreme court are also influenced by another US organisation, the Tikvah Fund led by Elliott Abrams, a neoconservative former senior official under several Republican presidents who played an important role in the USs bloody involvement in Central America in the 1980s and one of the intellectual architects of the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago.

First, regarding McGreals claims that the Tikvah Fund is influencing efforts at overhauling the judiciary, we were unable to find any evidence of their involvement in judicial reform, so we reached out to...

Jet fighter training endangered Tohono O'odham in Gu-Vo District this week. In this screenshot by Censored News, a Falcon jet is engaging with another aircraft whose identity is so secretive that it is blocked here on Flight Radar 24 online. Censored News screenshot.Tohono O'odham were not informed of jet combat training overhead this week, or that the Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems had

Daylight saving controversy leaves Lebanon with two time zones

Palestinians expect new Intifada to erupt, according to polling

More than half of Palestinians expect a new Intifada to erupt as a result of Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank, a new survey has revealed.

According to a survey carried out by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 61 percent of Palestinians expect a new uprising, while 68 percent support the formation of armed groups, such as the Nablus-based Lions' Den, who do not take orders from the Palestinian Authority.

While 52 percent said they were worried that the formation of such groups could lead to armed clashes with the PA security services, 52 percent also said that "the Palestinian people's interest lies in the collapse or dissolution of the PA".

A large majority, 70 percent, said that they believed that "punitive measures" by Israeli forces against Palestinians would lead to more attacks against Israelis, and 71 percent of respondents also said they supported the shooting of two Israeli settlers in Huwwara last month.

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Gregory Hood The Unz Review March 24, 2023

Suppose they gave a war and nobody came? The United States is gearing up for a possible war with China, but it faces a serious recruitment problem. The nations youth cant meet basic standards.

Earlier this year, the Council for a Strong America reported that 77 percent of 17- to 24-year-olds are ineligible for service. About 44 percent of young Americans cant serve for multiple reasons. More than 20 percent are simply too fat.

The Council didnt have any good ideas. It discussed the benefits of the SNAP food program and suggested that policymakers promote healthy eating, increased access to fresh and nutritious foods, and physical activity for children. A country whose citizens are too stupid to feed themselves without the government both paying for it and telling them what to eat has problems.

The poor are the first to fight is a lazy slogan that suggests social hierarchies are illegitimate because the elite wont fight the wars it starts. Historically, that isnt true. The very poor and the lumpenproletariat dont make good soldiers.

The aristocracy bore the burden of combat well into the 20th century. Vanity Fair reported in March 1916 that more than 800 titled men died in the first 16 months of World War I, a butchers bill higher than that in the Great Rebellion against Charles I. [A] whole generation of the nobility will have been wiped out by the time peace is declared. Even the Irish Times marveled at the willingness of the highest levels of the aristocracy to die for King and Country. Twenty-four peers died in the war, and the British aristocracy arguably never recovered. Officers died at a higher rate than enlisted men.

The United States lacks a responsible aristocracy. In 2006, just a few years after 9/11, fewer than 1 percent of Ivy League graduates joined the military and about 1 percent of Congressmen had a child in uniform. ABC reported that many upper-class Americans didnt want to support an immoral war in Iraq or Afghanistan. In 2015, just 20 percent of elected officials...

Michael Hoffman Substack.com March 24, 2023

Directed-energy technology is the perfect covert weapon. It leaves no fingerprints and is non-attributable. For decades alternative researchers, activists and scientists sounded the alarm and some even resorted to the use of tin foil, placing it in the windows of their homes or fashioning head gear from it to protect themselves from the perceived threat. It may have been an inchoate action but at least it recognized there was a threat.

Those so engaged are taunted and jeered by the people who know better and who talk down to usthe corporate media and Hollywoods tastemakers and trend setters. The image of the tin foil hat has become a trope in American culture, a signature device for indicating who among us is a supposedly rational, intelligent human and who is a moronic paranoid, or so the Cryptocracy wants us to believe.

We acknowledge that satire and caricature are legitimate tools when reason and evidence have proved unable to dislodge superstition, logical fallacies or prejudice.

However, in some circumstances radically original ideas and pioneering research which undercut prevailing mythologies are mocked by partisans who have no cogent answers and no way of effectively defeating ideas and research they fear and detest.

There certainly are bamboozled people on both sides of the political spectrum whose naivet and/or confirmation bias are so intense and self-deluding online that they comprise what we have described as the Internet fever swamp.

One of our columns is titled The Right-wing fever swamp, which is an accurate profile of people who scour the Internet solely to obtain material they can use to buttress their biases and who have no real interest in the pursuit of the truth wherever it may lead, which is the main means by which knowledge is advanced.

In the case of the corporate media, whose job it is to suppress that which contradicts the dogma of the ruling class, scorn is employed to limit debate and suppress dissenting evidence before it can receive a fair hearing in the public square. These suppression tactics limit the advancement of knowledge and entrench the ruling class monopoly over information.

One category of lesser humans who the corporate media and entertainment conglomerate condition us to believe are deserving of our sneers and contempt, are Americans who espouse non-conformist views, disseminate dissenting information or ask heretical questions at variance with heavily propagated Establishment beliefs. These people are often said to metaphorically wear a tin-foil hat.

The tin-foil sneer is used to belittle or discredit those who hold beliefs that are outside an alleged consensus which in actuality has often been manufactured by notoriously...

RT.com March 25, 2023

US intelligence agencies were most likely behind last Septembers sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russia 24 TV on Saturday, adding that he agrees with the conclusions made by veteran American journalist Seymour Hersh.

It would be very difficult to bring the entire truth to light, the Russian president admitted in comments to journalist Pavel Zarubin in the Kremlin. Nevertheless, Putin expressed his hope that at some point in time it will be finally revealed what was done and how.

The Russian leader then cited Hersh, calling him an American journalist, who recently gained prominence in the world, and said that he conducted an investigation and concluded that this blast was orchestrated by the US intelligence.

I fully agree with these conclusions, Putin added. He did not elaborate on whether Russia has any evidence of its own to support this position.

In February, Hersh published a bombshell report on the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, accusing Washington of orchestrating the attack. The US has denied responsibility. In March, Hersh went on to claim that the CIA and Germanys intelligence service, the BND, were tasked with covering up Washingtons involvement by providing an alternative story to the media.

The two intelligence services then supposedly came up with a story about an off the books operation by a pro-Ukrainian group, according to Hersh. media outlets.

Moscow dismissed the reports about the Ukrainian trace behind the blasts as a coordinated media hoax campaign.

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HenryMakow.com March 25, 2023

La Civilta  Cattolica (Italian for Catholic Civilization) is a periodical published without interruption by the Jesuits in Rome, Italy since 1850 and is among the oldest of Catholic Italian periodicals. All of the journals articles are the collective responsibility of the entire college even if published under a single authors name. It is the only one to be directly supervised by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See and to receive its approval before being published.

An 1890 article in an official Vatican publication confirms that a satanic cult, Cabalist Judaism, has colonized humanity by leveraging their control of credit and Freemasonry. Society is indeed  satanically possessed. 

A reader has sent the whole 27-page text.

by Henry Makow Ph.D (Updated from Jan 29, 2015 )

We need to go back to 1890 to understand what has taken place. An article in the official Vatican periodical La Civilta Cattolica dated 23 Oct. 1890 reveals how Catholics perceived Jews 133 years ago. The article confirms that a satanic cult, Cabalist Judaism, has colonized humanity by leveraging their control of credit and Freemasonry. Society is indeed  satanically possessed. 

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Woke Jewish Communism is just a pretext to destroy Western civilization. Do you think they give a damn about the rights of gender deniers?

Brandon Smith- Get Woke, Go Broke? Its Time To Talk About SVBs Ties To The World Economic Forum

https://alt-market.us/get-woke-go-broke-its-time-to-talk-about-svbs-ties-to-the-world-economic-forum/

Looking into SVBs operational history, the company was a woke nightmare. Take a gander at their 66 page ESG report compiled in 2021 to get a sense of how far to the extreme political left the bank was. SVB is the pinnacle example of why Get Woke, Go Broke is more than a mantra, its a rule.

Digging even deeper we then find that SVBs leadership was highly involved in the WEF and their Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics (SCM), along with corporate governance. SVB was not only implementing every single policy the WEF outlines in its agenda, they were reporting back to the WEF on their progress.

SVBs capital exposure was heavily tied up in securities, but also venture capital for woke tech startups, climate change related projects and leftist activist groups which qualified for ESG loans; everything from BLM to Buzzfeed. In other words, they were investing aggressively into money-pit projec...

RT | March 25, 2023

Death threats will remain a constant part of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khans life until he can return to power and hold his would-be killers accountable, he told Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi on Saturday.

Khan told Rattansi that he has survived two attempts on his life in the last week one which involved him being led into a deathtrap outside a court in Islamabad on Saturday, and another in which agents of the state would provoke police into opening fire on a crowd of Khans supporters before coming after him to finish the job.

The threat is real because these people are sitting in power, Khan said. They are petrified that if I win the elections they will be in trouble, or held accountable.

Khan blames Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, and Major General Faisal Naseer, a senior intelligence official, of plotting his assassination at a rally last November. Khan, who was removed from office through a no-confidence motion seven months earlier, was hit in the leg and hospitalized.

Sharif denies any involvement in the murder attempt, and has accused Khan of spreading false and cheap conspiracies. Sharif has also denied colluding with the US to have Khan removed from power.

Khan has since been charged with 143 criminal offenses, with the government most recently accusing him of terrorism after his supporters rioted outside the Islamabad courthouse last Saturday. He views these charges as politically-motivated, and aimed at preventing him from contesting this years general election.

While he has been barred from participating in the election, he insists Pakistans election commission had no legal grounds to ban him.

They are petrified that their elections, my party will sweep them, Khan told Rattansi. In all opinion polls, my party is poised to win a two-thirds majority in Pakistan, hence them wanting to get rid of me.

The threat is real until the elections, he added. Theyre worried that if the elections take place and I come back into power, they will be held accountable.

Khans PTI party has won 29 out of 37 by-elections since he was removed from power, and a Gallup poll put his approval rating at 61% earlier this month, compared to Sharifs 32%. Provincial elections in the PTI strongholds of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were set to be held on April 30, but were pushed back until October this week, after Sharifs government withheld election-related funding from the provinces.

Amid the apparent threat to his life, Khan said that he is taking precautions, and now gives speeches from behind bulletproof glass. Refe...

Edward curtin It is comical how easily one can be ignored for pointing out that new technology is dangerous and fetishistic.  So-called smart cell phones are a prime example.  For years I have been pointing out their dangers on many levels. To say most people are devoted to them is an understatement.  Maybe it is

On the evening of March 22^nd the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten titled Oldest most complete Hebrew Bible goes on display in Israel before sale on its Middle East page.

The majority of that report about an ancient manuscript headed for auction is unremarkable but in one paragraph there is an omission of a kind all too frequently found in BBC content.

Referring to a different manuscript, the report tells readers: [emphasis added]

The Aleppo Codex, which was assembled around 930, is considered the most authoritative Masoretic text. However, damage from a fire in the Syrian city of Aleppo in 1947 means that only 295 of the original 487 pages survive today.

Grittens reference to a fire in Aleppo in 1947 is not inaccurate but it comes nowhere near to telling the whole story.

That fire at the citys Central Synagogue, where the Aleppo Codex was kept was one of many organised attacks on Aleppos two-thousand-year-old Jewish community of around 10,000 people that took place immediately after the UN vote in favour of partition of Palestine. Some 75 members of the community were murdered...