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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that he is considering running for President of the United States. Kennedy made the statement Friday at an event hosted by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, a traditional stop for potential candidates. When asked if was considering running Kennedy said, “I am thinking about it, yes. I have passed the biggest hurdle, that my wife has greenlighted it.”

Please use the panel to the right to sign a petition encouraging Kennedy to run.

We think RFKJ running for President is a great idea. The most probable candidates, at this point, for the two major political parties are obviously President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Both of whom have dismal records on vaccine rights, reforming the drug industry, and their management of the COVID crisis. At the very least, a Kennedy candidacy would force a light on issues Biden and Trump would prefer to leave in the dark, and at best could usher in a new age of desperately needed transformation.

If he runs Kennedy would challenge President Joe Biden (if he runs) and self-help author Marianne Williamson (the only declared candidate so far) for the nod of the Democratic Party.

After many years as a leading environmental issue litigator Kennedy became one of the leading voices in the world criticizing vaccine policy and politics.

Kennedy is the son of former Senator, US Attorney General, and 1968 Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., and nephew of President John F. Kennedy.

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Episode 11: The MIssissippian City of Cahokia

Ancient Civilizations of North America

Dr Edwin Barnhart (2018)

Film Review

Cahokia (in present-day Illinois) flourished from 1050 – 1150 AD. It had an urban population of around 15,000, with another 30,000 living in satellite communities. It was the largest city north of Mexico until New York reached 50, during the 1700s.

Covering six square feet, in 1100 AD Cahokia had a grand plaza, surrounded by hundreds of family homes with thatched roofs, central hearths and sapling walls covered with mud daub. The city also had over 200 mounds, as well as a wood henge to the west of Monk’s Mound, the largest pre-Columbia earthwork in North America (and home to Cahokia’s paramount chief).

Cahokia’s other mounds contained hundreds of bodies showing clear evidence of ritual sacrifice, with death induced via strangulation, decapitation or bashed in skulls. All sacrifice victims show evidence of malnutrition, suggesting they represented Cahokia’s nderprivileged community.

Most early Cahokians were commoners and worked the corn fields surrounding the city. Early residents also grew sunflower seeds and pigweed, fished, hunted and gathered wild plants. Some engaged in craft production, though it’s unclear whether they were full or part time artisans. They left behind stone tools (including a stone hoe used to plant long straight rows of corn) and religious tokens, as well as copper tools and jewelry, pottery and textiles (for the elite).

Cahokia also featured a prominent chunkey field. The latter was a ritualized game dating from  600 AD, in which players rolled a stone disk while their opponents three spears at it.

Archeological evidence indicates the original village of Cahokia was razed in 1050 AD and totally rebuilt as a planned city, a project requiring at least 100,000 man hours and strong central leadership. Following the remodel, Cahokia’s population increased 10-fold in a decade. A rapid decline followed in 1150 AD. By 1250, there were only 5,000 residents total and by 1300, the city was abandoned.

Anthropologist David Graeber and archeologist David Wengrow shed some light on the demise of Cahokia in their 2021 masterpiece The Dawn of Everything. (Based on a multiplicity of religious badges and insignia found there) they attribute the Cahokia’s phenomenal growth to its centuries’ long role as a site of religious pilgrimage. They attribute the massive 1050 AD rebuild to the ruling priests’ deliberate destruction of the self-governing council that at one time ruled the city.

In addition, they assert that the major expansion at Cahokia followed an extensive period of warfare in which Cahokia seized control of neighboring villages. In their view the game of chunkey often served as a continuation, or even a substitute, for war.

They also find it significant that the human sacrifices in ancient Cahokia were so horrific Cahokia’s descendants totally erased them from oral tradition. At the same time, the city’s brutal culture also played an essential role in spurring a resurgence of collective self-government (as an alternative to brutal hereditary rule).

*A wood henge was an astronomically aligned circle of wood posts used for religious functions.

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Image source: Tony Blair Institute for Global Change “Time to vaccinate all children”

DR. WILLIAM MAKIS MD

Brian Peckford

This story is important in light of my recent report on 96 Canadian childrenwho died suddenly or unexpectedly in the past 3 months (click here).

While there have been many stories of child deaths due to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, this is the first one that involves government compensation.

Taiwan awards compensation to 9 COVID vaccine deaths

Taiwan News published this story on Feb.27, 2023 (click here).

One of the 9 compensated families was a girl aged 5 to 11, who died of fulminant myocarditis after receiving her 2nd shot of Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.

The girl lost consciousness 3 days after receiving her 2nd Pfizer vaccine, and a cardiac ultrasound scan showed preserved systolic function, suggesting fulminant myocarditis

A forensic autopsy found lymphocytic infiltration within her myocardial fibers. Considering the sequence of events, the committee agreed to offer the girl’s family the highest compensation amount for an adverse reaction after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine: NT$3.5 million (USD $114,829).

Another news source suggests she fell into a coma after her 2nd Pfizer vaccine and had an ultrasound scan just before she died (click here)

Her pathology findings are consistent with the James Gill paper called “Autopsy Histopathologic Cardiac Findings in 2 Adolescents Following the Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose” which describes 2 teenage boys who died with 3-4 days after receiving 2nd dose of Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (click here):

Vietnam: 5 children died after Pfizer mRNA vaccine:

After Vietnam started vaccinating with Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on Nov.23, 2021, within two weeks, 5 children were dead and 120 hospitalized (click here)

• 17 yo girl (Trieu Phong, vaxxed Dec.2, died Dec.9, 2021) (click here)
• 15 yo boy (Son La, vaxxed Dec.4, died Dec.6, 2021) (click here)
• 12 yo boy (Binh Phuoc, vaxxed Nov.29, died Nov.30, 2021) (click here)
• 16 yo boy (Bac Giang, vaxxed Nov.24, died Nov.28, 2021) (click here)
• 14 yo girl (Hanoi, vaxxed Nov.27, died Nov.28, 2021) (click here)
• Vietnam suspends Pfizer batch after 120 children hospitalized (click here)

USA: Many children died after Pfizer mRNA vaccine:

Michigan: 13 yo boy died in his sleep 3 days after 2nd vaccine dose (click here)

California: 9 yo girl died 2 weeks after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)

California: 16 yo boy died 3 weeks after 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)

Colorado: 15 yo boy died 2 days after Pfizer (click here)

16 yo Ernesto Ramirez Jr died 5 days after Pfizer (click here)

Two US teens died within 3-4 days of 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)

Washington: 7 yo boy died 13 days after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)

Canada

17 yo Sean Hartman died (Sep.27, 2021), 33 days after Pfizer (click here)

Other Countries:

Ireland: 14 yo boy died 3 weeks after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)

New Zealand: teen died weeks after Pfizer dose (click here)

Malaysia: 13 yo boy died 18 days after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)

Barbados: 14 yo boy died 90 min after 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)

Guyana: 13 yo boy died 2hr after 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)

Brazil: teen died after Pfizer (click here)

My Take…

This is the first case in the world that I am aware of, involving government compensation of a child death due to Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.

When Canadian doctors who pushed mRNA vaccines attack me on the 96 Canadian children who died suddenly in the past 3 months, they do it for a reason. They want to maintain a false reality where COVID-19 vaccines are safe in children and have not killed any children. But in reality, mRNA is neither safe nor effective in children.

They don’t want people to remember that many children died in the US after taking Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, or that 5 kids died in Vietnam within 2 weeks of their Pfizer vaccine rollout. You will rarely hear any of these stories now.

Via https://peckford42.wordpress.com/2023/03/05/first-child-death-due-to-pfizer-covid-19-mrna-vaccine-compensated-taiwanese-girl-5-11-years-old-died-after-2nd-pfizer-jab-government-awarded-115000-to-family/

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering running for president in 2024, challenging President Biden for the Democratic nomination, and he says his wife approves.

“I am thinking about it yes. I have passed the biggest hurdle, that my wife has greenlighted it,” Kennedy told a crowd in New Hampshire on Friday, according to reports.

Kennedy’s wife, actress Cheryl Hines, was reportedly attending the speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, which for nearly a quarter-century has been a must stop in the Granite State for potential or actual White House contenders.

Kennedy, the son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, describes himself as a lifelong Democrat and has faced criticism for his activism against the COVID-19 vaccine.

In his speech, he called the Democratic National Committee (DNC) decision to upset the presidential nominating calendar wrong, as it moves New Hampshire’s primary from the first place into the third.

New Hampshire, which prides itself on its well-informed electorate and its emphasis on small-scale and grassroots retail politics, has for a century held the first primary in the race for the White House. While Republicans are making no changes to their presidential nominating calendar in the 2024 election cycle, the DNC last month voted overwhelmingly to approve a new top of the calendar, pushed by Biden, that upends the traditional schedule.

New Hampshire will now vote second in the DNC’s calendar, along with Nevada, three days after South Carolina, under the new schedule.

Ahead of the DNC’s final approval of the schedule, Kennedy wrote an open letter to the committee, urging members to keep New Hampshire in the first spot because of the state’s long history advocating for civil rights and election transparency.

The DNC changed the nominating calendar in an effort to reflect more diversity in the Democratic Party, but Kennedy said that New Hampshire already showcases the diversity in America. As a swing state, Kennedy said, New Hampshire’s “four electoral votes could decide the 2024 election.”

“Most importantly, New Hampshire runs the most secure and transparent election in America. It should be a model for our country at a time when we need it most,” Kennedy wrote.

Granite State Democrats warn that New Hampshire will still go first — courtesy of a longstanding state law that mandates the leadoff primary position — and that a primary not sanctioned by the DNC, where Biden doesn’t take part, could invite trouble for the president.

By Tom Jefferson and Carl Henegan

Browstone Institute

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is spectacular, with Orcs, Elves and breathtaking scenery filmed on location in New Zealand. The special effects were good too – the eye of Sauron looked very realistic – perhaps it is.

We have come across a minimally redacted 28-page draft of a Kiwi Government document entitled “Communications approach to managing disinformation, online harms and scams” dated 10 Dec 2021 (Available here).

The document’s aim appears to be coordinating countering disinformation seeking to harm “by threatening public safety, fracturing community cohesion and reduced trust in democracy.” All well and good then; it’s a bit like saying, do not open fire on the Red Cross.

Except that the object is “disinformation” relating to the Kiwi government’s response to the Covid pandemic. The definition of disinformation in the document is on page 5:

We will not summarise the complex and superficial content of the document other than to note that this is precisely the attempt at normalising the message of the pandemic that we have reported. The government has put out a message, and its credibility must be defended at all costs, with tech media partners, academics, the community and, of course, the armies of Sauron.

One consideration is that the Covid narrative in Middle Earth (as elsewhere) is based on the misuse and misinterpretation of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the death of clinical medicine, as we have made clear.

Cases may not have been active cases, hospitalisations may not be due to SARS-CoV-2, and deaths may be due to various causes related or unrelated to SARS-CoV-2. We will never know for sure. Why? Because the PCR cycle threshold for testing PCR “positive” in Middle Earth was 40 to 45, ensuring that most tested people would test positive even in the total absence of contamination (a very tall order).

So presenting figures of cases, hospitalisations and deaths based on qualitative PCR results inflates the totals and undermines the confidence in the competence and honesty of public health bodies: it is disinformation.

We make the document available now (see here), and all our readers will find different parts interesting or as scary as the orcs.

So if you think you live in a democracy, one last word of warning: do not go too near the Black Gate. You may think it is fiction, but it’s not.

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Via https://brownstone.org/articles/how-new-zealand-dealt-with-disinformation/

James Bovard

Brownstone Institute

Many Americans were appalled at the oppressive decrees issued by politicians and government officials during the Covid pandemic. But there were plenty of post-9/11 precedents that paved the way for recent abuses. Authoritarian Covid policies were shocking but not surprising.

In March and April 2020, politicians justified shutting down schools, businesses, houses of worship and practically everything else in pursuit of Zero Covid. Nineteen years earlier, President George W. Bush promised to “rid the world of evil” after the 9/11 attacks. But it was impossible to rid the world of evil – which has always been the mother’s milk for ambitious demagogues.

Bush also promised to “rid the world of terror” so children can “grow up in a free society, a society without fear.” And until that nirvana was reached, the Bush administration sought to maximize fear in order to minimize opposition to suspending habeas corpus, illegally vacuuming up Americans’ phone and email records, suppressing protests, and unleashing federal agents on domestic dissent.

Promising absolute protection entitled the Bush administration to all the power that it claimed to need. Frightened Americans were convinced that vesting arbitrary authority in federal officials would keep people safe. One of the first fruits of that folly was the Transportation Security Administration, which adapted the motto of “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.” The TSA erected checkpoints at hundreds of airports staffed with tens of thousands of federal agents.

From the start, the TSA was utterly inept, continually failing up to 95 percent of undercover tests to detect mock bombs and weapons. In order to make flying safe, the TSA claims the right to take menstruating women into private rooms to force them to disrobe to show blood. But the TSA’s promise of security absolves its perennial failures – in the same way that Covid mask mandates have been vindicated by vapid appeals about saving children and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

After 9/11, fretful Americans and a docile media defaulted to “Washington logic” on one issue after another. Bush took the nation to war against Iraq based on a childlike syllogism:

1. Terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 were bad people.
2. Saddam Hussein is a bad person.
3. Therefore, Saddam Hussein was guilty of the 9/11 attacks.

The Bush administration pushed the Saddam-9/11 connection on every possible occasion – though Bush admitted in 2006 that Saddam was not responsible for the attacks. In the same way that Covid policymakers sanctified their decrees with ludicrous forecasts of potential deaths, the Bush administration consecrated its authority by continually issuing terrorist attack alerts that had not even a whiff of credibility. For both Bush and Covid policymakers, fear-mongering razed limits to their sway. As long as enough people can be frightened, then almost everyone can be subjugated.

Similarly, after the start of the Covid lockdowns, policymakers entitled themselves to all the power they claimed to need to compel compliance. In Newark, New Jersey, thousands of people were ticketed, facing six months in prison and a $1,000 fine, for crimes such as “hanging out,” “sitting on milk crate,” “sitting on bench smoking,” “standing outside enjoying the weather,” and “standing without a mask,” as journalist Michael Tracey reported.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti “ordered all residents living in the city ‘to remain in their homes’” and banned all unnecessary “travel, including, without limitation, travel on foot, bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, automobile, or public transit.” Once vaccines became available, politicians justified lockdowns and mandates to persuade people to get injected so that they could have their freedom again.

Many people have been appalled that few medical experts spoke out to condemn Covid policies that inflicted vast collateral damage on Americans’ lives for no real benefit. But it is naïve to expect courage or wisdom from doctors involved in federal policymaking.

During the Bush administration, medical doctors helped unleash some of the worst human rights abuses committed by the US government in the modern era. Beginning in 2002, the CIA unleashed a torture regime that included waterboarding (simulated drowning), hypothermia, sleep deprivation for up to 7 days and nights, and other brutal methods. The program was designed by psychologists who pocketed millions of dollars for making up a list of techniques designed to shatter the will of detainees. Abusive interrogations were supervised by doctors to protect the government, not the victims. A 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report revealed how far the Hippocratic Oath had fallen. “After a doctor X-rayed one prisoner’s feet and determined they were badly broken, another physician recommended that he could be made to stand for 52 hours,” Business Insider summarized one case.

And it wasn’t just a few wild-eyed medical misfits who propelled the abuses. A 2015 internal investigation of the American Psychological Association concluded “senior officials of the association had ‘colluded’ with senior Defense Department officials to make certain that the association’s ethics rules did not hinder the ability of psychologists to remain involved with the interrogation program… while several prominent outside psychologists took actions that aided the C.I.A.’s interrogation program and helped protect it from growing dissent inside the agency,” the New York Times reported. Numerous detainees were killed during interrogations and many were permanently injured.

“Truth will out” is Washington’s favorite fairy tale. Eight leading critics of Covid policies recently called for a commission to expose the abuses of federal agencies and policies during the pandemic. Other activists have demanded prosecution of federal officials who deceived the American public. But the torture scandal is a reminder that accountability in Washington is rarer than an honest congressman. None of the torture policymakers were prosecuted, and the only CIA official to be jailed was a whistleblower who exposed waterboarding. The Justice Department has successfully torpedoed every lawsuit from a torture victim. Good luck to the victims of federally-mandated Covid-19 vaccines.

Perilous precedents continued piling up after Bush left the White House. Many Americans expected Barack Obama to set a higher tone and show far more respect for the Constitution. But Obama quickly proclaimed a presidential prerogative to assassinate Americans who he labeled as terrorist suspects. Obama’s lawyers insisted that the president need disclose zero evidence before executing officially-designated bad guys. A Justice Department lawyer declared in court that no federal judge had authority to be “looking over the shoulder” of Obama’s targeted-killing program because it involved “the very core powers of the president as commander-in-chief.”

When Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008, entitling the president to kill Americans without trial wasn’t one of the reforms he promised. The Obama administration promised to be very careful about who it killed. But Daniel Hale, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, leaked information revealing that nearly 90 percent of people killed in drone strikes were not the intended targets. Biden’s Justice Department is rewarding Hale with a long prison sentence.

Covid policymakers didn’t claim a right to “terminate with extreme prejudice” troublesome Americans – only to destroy their First Amendment freedom of speech. The Biden White House browbeat Twitter into canceling the accounts of Alex Berenson and many other Covid critics. We are still learning how far Team Biden extended its unconstitutional censorship decrees.

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Via https://brownstone.org/articles/landmarks-on-the-road-to-covid-tyranny/

The Great Global Warming Swindle

Directed by Martin Durkin (2007)

Film Review

Made in 2007, this film features a number of prominent climate scientists who raise surprisingly cogent arguments against the IPCC “science” on which the global climate movement is based. It also raises legitimate concerns about the politicization of climate science, as well as the tragic effect of climate activism on Third World development.

In the late eighties, Margaret Thatcher was the first prominent politician to raise concerns about global warming (aka climate change) and acid rain. The film suggests Thatcher’s primary motivation was to promote Britain’s nuclear industry, in part due to  deep mistrust of both the miners union and Middle East oil nations. In 1990 she authorized creation of the Hadley Centre for Climate Research and Prediction at the British Meteorological Office. The Hadley Centre would become a key contributor to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (formed in 1988).

Thanks to the IPCC’s dire predictions linking catastrophic climate change to continued fossil fuel use, by 2007, when this film was made, climate research was already a $4 billion a year business.

The film interviews a number of prominent climate scientists who acknowledge the temperature on Earth is rising but dispute that the warming stems from industrialization and increased CO2 production.

The main scientific arguments they present are

1. Most of 20th century planetary warming occurred prior to 1940. Global temperatures fell for four decades after World War II (a period of massive industrialization) and only began rising again during the 1970s recession (when CO2 production declined briefly).

2. In the film An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore showed graphs of ice core data linking periods of high CO2 with increase in global temperature. What Gore didn’t mention is that increases in atmospheric CO2 always lagged 500-800 years behind temperature increases (suggesting higher temperatures caused CO2 to increase, rather than vice versa).

3. The theory behind greenhouse warming is that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere by trapping heat. However data from satellites and weather balloons indicate that temperatures in the troposphere (lowest layer of the atmosphere) are remaining constant despite increases in the Earth’s surface temperature.

4. Astrophysicist Dr Piers Corbyn (Jeremy Corbyn’s brother), who has been using sunspots and solar flaring to make extremely accurate weather predictions since the 1980s, explains in the film how warming and cooling, both in the 20th century and the last 400 years, correlate far more closely with sunspot activity than CO2 levels. In contrast, IPPC computer modeling, on which their dire climate predictions are based, fail to take account of either sunspot activity or atmospheric concentrations of water vapor, which comprises 95% of the Earth’s greenhouse gases.

A common claim made by the IPPC and climate activists is is that their views represent consensus among 2,500 climate scientists. Yet, as the film points out, the public is largely unaware of the ruthlessness with which this consensus in enforced. Any climate scientist brave enough to dispute IPPC findings is systematically vilified by their universities, the media and government agencies and private foundations they rely on for research grants. In fact, there are striking parallels with the systematic vilification doctors experienced when they disputed the official Covid narrative.

The most concerning section of the film features African social justice and public health advocates who call it “morally repugnant” for Western climate activists to use politicized climate predictions to force the most expensive form of power (ie solar or wind) on developing countries where 2 billion people still have no access to electricity. Without access to fossil fuels, Third World countries have no hope of industrializing (eg developing their own railroads and steel factories. In this sense, climate activists are inadvertently colluding with the World Economic Forum and global elites who seek to block Third World development to preserve developing nations as cheap reservoirs of mineral resources for their high tech industries.

Without access to cheap electricity (from coal or gas-fired power plants), roughly (as of 2007) four million Third World children die annually from the effects of indoor smoke (from wood and dung fires), with many of their mothers also dying prematurely.

More recent evidence pointing to the politicization of climate science comes from

1. Michael Moore’s excellent 2020 film Planet of the Humans

2. Cory Morningstar’s excellent articles in the Wrong Kind of Green, including “The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg“and other articles linking Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion to Wall Street and the WEF Fourth Industrial Revolution.

3. The analysis by Whitney Webb and Iain Davis (Sustainable Debt Slavery) about the WEF’s incorporation of climate change (Goal 13) into the WEF’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and their appointment of former Bank of England Director Mark Carney and Wall Street Investment Banker Michael Bloomberg to oversee its implementation

4. The 2023 report by Russian engineer and political analyst Dmitry Orlov indicating that all the planets (not just the Earth) are warming:

5. Matthew Ehret’s chapter on stochastic computer modelling in The Clash of the Two Americas Volume 4. In it, Ehret explains how the IPCC used the same stochastic computer modeling to predict catastrophic climate change that Neil Ferguson used to predict 500,000 Brits and 1 million Americans would die of Covid.

Drago Bosnic

Global Research

It has been at least a year and a half since the political West drastically intensified its weapons shipments to the Kiev regime. Ever since, the black markets have been flooded with Western-made arms and munitions, some of which have even started running out from NATO stocks. As late as December, top Western officials have complained about this, including the Pentagon’s Deputy Inspector General for Investigations James R. Ives, who admitted that the US is aware of the lack of effective mechanisms to track Ukraine-bound NATO weapons. Several major US media have called for the Biden administration to send investigators to audit and oversee the use of more than $110 billion in US military and economic “aid” to the Kiev regime.

And yet, the true understanding of the massive scale of this is sorely lacking in the political West. Perhaps it is even being ignored, but the consequences are already there. In addition, while the mainstream propaganda machine is lionizing the Kiev regime forces, presenting them as some sort of mythical heroes supposedly “defending” Europe, the West and the so-called “Euro-Atlantic values”, the Neo-Nazi junta troops’ role is crucial in what can only be described as the world’s largest arms smuggling scheme. Also, this certainly doesn’t exonerate the rest of the Kiev regime and the corrupt oligarchs supporting it, as they too are getting their “slice of the cake”.

Corruption is endemic in Ukraine, but ever since the NATO-backed Neo-Nazi coup in 2014, it has worsened dramatically as the political West started showering the already crooked politicians and bureaucrats with tens of billions of dollars. Everyone from the managers of military warehouses, company and battalion commanders, top military officers, directors of the Kiev regime’s military-industrial complex to the defense minister himself, are engaged in essentially stealing NATO-sourced weapons and then reselling them on the Darknet. The list of those involved also includes the office of the president, the cabinet of ministers, security services and military intelligence.

Up until several years ago, the massive stocks of Soviet-era weapons in Ukraine were the main source of smuggled weapons. However, despite inheriting approximately 30% of the Soviet military, Ukraine somehow managed to expend most of it, much of it ending up on the black markets around the globe. The political West was perfectly aware of this, as NATO had a major role in reselling the weapons to terrorist groups they support in many of the targeted countries. And yet, they still went ahead and provided tens of billions in Western weapons and munitions to the same people smuggling their own for decades.

There’s even fierce competition among Kiev regime institutions for the right to control the extremely profitable arms smuggling business. This includes various intelligence services, such as the SBU and GUR. The latter is the main military intelligence agency which is supposed to play a major role in overseeing the transfer and distribution of NATO weapons. Thus, GUR has a substantial headstart in the arms smuggling scheme, which is causing a lot of envy and frustration in the SBU. Since August 2020, Kirill Budanov has been the head of GUR, a close ally of the Kiev regime frontman Volodymyr Zelensky, whose ties to the junta’s top officials allowed him to play a crucial role in the scheme.

On March 5, 2022, mere days after Russia launched its counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe, banker Denis Kireev, a member of the delegation for negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, was killed. According to the German publication Bild, Kireev “was shot dead by Ukrainian SBU counterintelligence while trying to avoid arrest.” Two days later, the GUR confirmed that Kireev was their employee, and Budanov himself stated that Kireev had been executed by the SBU, thus confirming that the fierce competition between the two agencies escalated from the very beginning of the special military operation (SMO). It is worth noting that the fact that the SBU and the GUR are “supervised” by various NATO intelligence services also played a major role in the conflict between the agencies.

For instance, the SBU is largely controlled by UK intelligence, primarily the infamous MI6. On the other hand, the GUR has been deeply connected to US services. The looming rivalry erupted after the political West intensified its arms shipments. Budanov’s headstart made it possible for the GUR to oversee the largest contracts for the transfer of Western weapons, further strengthening his position, a state of affairs the SBU didn’t take too kindly. Budanov also worked with intermediaries, such as the Incompass, a company headed by oligarch Sergei Slyusarenko. It is through such companies that GUR manages the supply of weapons from abroad.

Part of the funds embezzled through Incompass ends up in the pockets of Budanov and his associates, with the rest going to the presidential office and even Zelensky himself. In July 2022, the German SWR TV channel reported that Europol had identified “signs” of organized arms smuggling in Ukraine, but gave no further details in order not to incriminate the Kiev regime. The revelation came on the heels of a plane accident that happened in Greece, when a Ukrainian An-12BK aircraft belonging to Meridian, a company registered in Kiev, crashed on July 16, 2022. According to various reports, the airline was working closely with the Kiev regime, including the office of the president and the GUR.

Days before the crash, the plane made several flights to Ostrava (Czechia), Burgas (Bulgaria) and Rzeszow (Poland). The latter is the main NATO transport hub for supplying weapons and other military equipment to the Kiev regime. Each flight included “Stinger” MANPADS, “Javelin” and NLAW ATGMs. In total, approximately 12 tons of missile systems and munitions.

EU politicians, including German officials, also commented on the scandal, with Konstantin von Notz, spokesman for the Bundestag Home Affairs Committee from the “Greens”, acknowledging: “From the experience of the Kosovo war, we learned that weapons from conflict zones often fall into the hands of extremists and organized crime.” Von Notz demanded that the risk of weapons smuggling from Ukraine “be stopped at the international level.”

Additionally, the grain deal was also (ab)used extensively for this purpose, resulting in Russia’s decision to suspend it. The issue was discussed at a meeting of EU interior ministers on July 11, 2022, with Czech Defense Minister Yana Chernokhova admitting that “avoiding arms smuggling will be difficult – we did not achieve this in the former Yugoslavia and certainly will not be able to achieve it in Ukraine”.

This still leaves the question of whether Washington DC is even trying to oversee its massive arms shipments to the Neo-Nazi junta. Many US officials claim they’re unable to audit the weapons once they leave Poland, but the real issue is if they even want to know. Considering the nearly mythical status they’ve given to Zelensky, revealing his involvement with such criminal activities could be rather “uncomfortable” and might even backfire, further exacerbating the growing factionalism within the Neo-Nazi junta.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/kiev-regime-flooding-black-markets-nato-sourced-weapons/5810677