By Ilya Tsukanov – Sputnik – 27.03.2024

The US established a maritime ‘coalition of the willing’ in the Red Sea in December 2023 and began bombing Yemen in January in response to the Houthis’ bid to shut down Israeli-affiliated commercial traffic through the waterway in solidarity with Palestine. The Houthis have vowed to continue their operations until the carnage in Gaza stops.

The US-led military campaign in the Red Sea which the Pentagon wanted to make into a “no-fail mission” has turned into a modern-day David vs. Goliath PR disaster, with the powerful American naval and air might arrayed against the Houthis proving unable to stop militia attacks or reopen the Red Sea to shipping, US business media has reported.

“The gray F/A-18 fighter jets hurtled one by one from the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower into the heat of the Red Sea morning, scrambling to counter the latest attack drone launched by the Houthis. The $56 million aircraft were part of a coalition operation that nullified the attack, returning hours later as they have almost daily for the last several months,” Bloomberg wrote in a report Wednesday highlighting the difficulties the West has faced trying to stop Ansar Allah.

“Yet for all the costly hardware the US and its allies have thrown at the Islamist group from northwest Yemen, they haven’t been able to stop the attacks on civilian freighters and warships. As a result, the world’s biggest shipping companies are still largely avoiding a route that once carried 15% of global commerce,” the outlet lamented.

Rear Admiral Marc Miguez, commander of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier-led American armada operating in the Red Sea, said that while the US has “reduced some” of the Houthis’ missile and drone capability through strikes, there’s no way to predict when the fleet’s “job” in the region will be done, since estimates on Houthi missile numbers are “kind of a black hole for the US intelligence-wise.”

Shipping firms and companies impacted by the Red Sea crisis are even less optimistic.

“It’s quite a binary situation,” Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen explained earlier this month. “It is either safe for our people or it is not. As long as it is not safe, we will not send our people through the Red Sea.” Jansen didn’t rule out the Houthi blockade could last throughout the rest of the year and into 2025.

A Western official predicted that the Houthis will be able to continue their blockade at its current intensity for “months” to come. Others accused the Houthis of getting help from outside via Iran, including everything from weapons components to sea mine-laying specialists. Iran has “categorically” denied providing any military or weapons assistance to the Houthis.

“[The Houthis] don’t create inertial navigation systems. They don’t create medium-range ballistic missile engines. They don’t create the stage separations on these medium-range ballistic missiles or the anti-ship cruise missiles,” US Central Command commander Gen. Michael Kurilla told a Senate hearing earlier this month, accusing Ansar Allah of getting help from outside, and ignoring the vast stocks of Soviet-era ballistic, cruise and air defense missile technologies which the Houthis have inherited and upgraded since 2014.

Unable to stop the Houthis at sea, Western officials have rejected any talk of a ground operation against the militia, warning that if the group escalates its targeting of Western warships, the coalition may respond by assassinating Houthi leaders.

An anonymous US military official told Bloomberg that the US is on the “wrong side of the cost curve” in the Red Sea campaign, whose economic costs are starting to add up.
While the Houthis can build and launch simple ballistic and cruise missiles or drones at a cost of thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, the anti-missile interceptors US warships launch to take down militia threats are costing US taxpayers up to hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece, with F/A-18 jets costing the Navy $25,000 or more per hour to operate (not counting whatever munitions they happen to expend during their mission).

The Houthis’ campaign of ship seizures, missile and drone attacks have caused commercial traffic through the southern Red Sea to drop by about 70 percent in March compared to early December, with container shipping reportedly down 90 percent, gas tanker flow halting almost completely, and Israel’s main Red Sea port forced to lay off half of its workforce.

Ansar Allah began its partial blockade of the Red Sea in November with the seizure of the Galaxy Leader, an Israeli billionaire-owned ro-ro car carrier, expanding operations to target not only Israeli, but US and British commercial vessels and warships after the pair of nations began a campaign of airstrikes against Yemen in January. Last month, the militia warned European countries setting up their own maritime security operations in the Red Sea that “any idiocy you commit will affect your ships and navigation.” Major European shipping companies including Maersk have said they would continue to avoid the Red Sea in spite of the EU’s security mission.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20240327/humbling-a-goliath-us-led-no-fail-mission-against-the-houthis-is-failing-1117586684.html

Jimmy “Barbecue” Chezizier and the G9

K.D.Lewis

The Revolutionary Mischaracterized as a Butcher

The current state-sponsored news coverage regarding the island of Haiti, describes its current state as one infested with gang violence including heinous acts ranging from trafficking to rape to cannibalism with one of its ring leaders being Ex-Police Officer, Jimmy Chezizier, nicknamed “Barbecue”. It is such accused violence that serves as an incurious justification for financially sanctioning the leader of Haiti’s largest anti-crime militia as well as supporting a U.S. backed intervention utilizing Kenyan and other ECOWAS militaries to seize the nation.

The propaganda surrounding Chezizier’s resistance group’s (known as the G-9) actions against the local perpetrators of violence has provided cover for the imperialist aspirations of the United States’ military industrial complex. Dan Cohen’s 3-part documentary Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising would display Chezizier in the light of a community leader of the impoverished town of Delmas whose entrance into revolutionary resistance began with his desire to protect his home of Delmas 6 from gang violence and his disillusionment from the effectiveness of Haiti’s judicial and law enforcement system. He noticed the bourgeois class colluded with police and government leaders to avoid accountability from the country’s criminal justice system.

Though formed in 2020 following Chezizier departure from Haiti’s UDMO police force, the G9, accused of being an international criminal organization, would see greater expansion after a police sponsored attack against various areas of Delmas, using gangs from Ruelle Maillart to burn down homes and bulldoze schools. These opposition gangs to the G9 are reportedly sponsored by Haiti’s wealthy class and the Organization of American States (OAS). No human rights organizations reported on such a massacre as well, including the United States backed Haitian human rights group, the RNDDH.

The response from Chezizier to these acts included providing shelter and food within undamaged sectors of Delmas as well as an avocation and plea for unity among the poor armed gangs and militias to resist what he describes as the top 5% families that own and control 85% of Haiti’s wealth. Despite antagonism from various parties including the U.S. sympathetic leadership in Haiti, the violent bourgeois-backed gangs, the Western media, and a U.S. government prepared for intervention, Jimmy Chezizier holds to his vision of a unified proletariat revolution against the corrupted bourgeois system while also opposing foreign intervention from Western powers, specifically the United States.

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Haiti’s Postpartum Depression caused by Western Theft

On January 1, 1804, the world’s first black independent nation following centuries of European settler colonialism was established. Formerly known as San Domingue, Haiti successfully defeated and ousted its colonial oppressors after a 13 year revolt turned revolution. As monumental of a victory this newly acquired independence was, the immediate response from Western imperialism has contributed greatly to the nation’s perpetual state of misery.

Just two decades following their independence, Haiti was forced to pay their former enslavers for their independence at gun-point. Receiving their final payment from the Haitian government in 1922, France successfully stole $560 million (value in 2022) from Haiti. This stolen money was used to not only construct marvels such as the Eiffel Tower, but also build France’s banking system, benefitting the Credit Industriel et Commercial (C.I.C) the most. The New York Time’s “The Ransom” explains how this vindictive looting of Haiti has resulted in the loss of upwards of $21 Billion had the money remained with Haiti. This singular action by a colonial power had a grand negative impact on Haiti’s development as a nation, and it was only the first.

Happening almost simultaneously with this heist, the United States set its sights on the resource rich yet economically destitute nation of Haiti, starting with President Andrew Johnson’s aspirations to annex the entire island of Hispaniola in 1868. His successor, Ulysses S. Grant would support a commission tasked with generating positive PR for the possible annexation of Santo Domingo, utilizing Frederick Douglass as the face of black support for this imperialist action. Though a vote for the annexation would fail in the U.S. Senate, the United States would continue to include itself in the nation’s affairs, later invading and occupying Haiti in 1915.

This occupation lasted for 19 years. During that time, the United States stole upwards of $500,000 from Haiti’s National Bank and transferred that money into various banks on Wall Street, Citigroup being one of those banks. This act essentially gave the U.S. unilateral control over Haiti’s largest financial institution.

Corporate Exploitation and Dictators

After the Good Neighbor Policy of 1934 led to the complete removal of American troops from the island, World War II offered yet another opportunity for the West to exploit Haiti’s resources. In 1941, the Haitian Government with the United States established the Société Haitiane-Américaine de Développement Agricole (SHADA).

This entity was an agricultural corporation financed and controlled by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM). Its board consisted of 3 Haitian and 3 American representatives, and key leaders in the corporation were American as well. This initiative was designed to expand Haiti’s agricultural-based economy and focus on rubber production during the war. The end result of SHADA left the Haitian government $4,000,000.00 in debt to EXIM, the United States and Canada replacing Europe (France specifically) as the largest importers of Haitian goods, and the loss of farmland for Haiti’s “peasant class” to the SHADA corporation.

From this point to the late 1980s, Haiti suffered under dictatorial rule of faux-populist Francois Duvalier and later his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier.

The Duvalier reign began in 1957 as a response to violence from the mulatto population mainly stemming from the Dominican Republic. Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier expressed a vision of dominant political and economic power held by the black masses early into his administration. His actions, on the other hand, were that of a demagogue who ended up establishing his own corrupt paramilitary dubbed “The Bogeymen ” that terrorized the local population. Later in 1964, he declared himself “Ruler for Life ”.

Under his leadership, Haiti suffered from a lack of tourism, an increase in tensions with the D.R., and extreme repression from his regime. His 19 year old son, nicknamed “Baby Doc” would replace him in 1971. Though Jean-Claude Duvalier’s approach to rule focused more on establishing an image of international respectability, the remnants of his father’s leadership would lead to a mass uprising ousting the dictatorial dynasty in 1987.

A Sanguine Transition Thwarted by Traitors

In the later winter of 1991, social and economic reformist Jean-Betrand Aristride, overwhelmingly supported by the Haitian masses, would hold the mantle of Haiti’s first democratically elected president. This victory was short-lived.

Some of Aristride’s ambitious reforms included extending more civilian control over the army, the “encouraged” retirement for military leaders of the last long-standing regime, and abolishing the corrupted system of rural chiefs, who stole land from poor peasants. It was these perceived attacks on the wealthy and former military authorities that sparked a coup d’etat against Aristride only seven months after his election. The coup was led by Lieutenant General Raoul Cedras, who later received amnesty and thousands of dollars in payments per month to reside in a secluded area in Haiti, both received from the U.S. government.

What followed this coup were acts of extreme violence from the military junta against various worker, farmer, and student resistance groups and supporters of Aristride. These actions included armed attacks against independent Haitian radio stations and the mass arrest of 150 students associated with the Federation of Haitian Students (FENEH).

The response from the United States intelligence agencies under George H.W. Bush presidency was a mix of facilitating negotiations between Cedras’ faction and Aristride and a series of character-assassination against Aristride, blaming the accused human rights violations from his supporters toward the Duvalier-sympathetic opposition to Aristride for the 1991 coup d’etat.

Contrastly, in the following Clinton Administration, the harsh tone toward Aristride would subside, in fact, this administration would spearhead a military intervention to remove the repressive Cedras regime in Operation Uphold Democracy. This benevolent action, however, is contradicted by the C.I.A. ‘s involvement in backing the very regime that helped Cedras overthrow Aristride and operated as an active organization against his reinstallment as president, the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH).

FRAPH was implicated as active participants in the Haitian Armed Forces (under Cedras) acts of violence, terror, and repression per the Center for Justice & Accountability. Its leader, Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, was exposed for being an asset for the C.I.A. in 1993, likely since the initial ousting of Aristride in 1991. Nonetheless, the 1994 occupation of Haiti by the United States (again) would “successfully ” remove Cedras and his faction from power, paving a way for Aristride’s return.

A Second Chance Destroyed by Greed and Colonial Instinct

The return of Aristride was not an action of goodwill by the U.S. as imperialists may believe, however a transactional act with the conditions that Aristride would develop economic policies that meet the approval of Western power, one condition being the complete privatization of Haiti’s state-owned enterprises. A condition Aristride didn’t follow, presumably due to the nature of the condition opening a huge window for American economic control in the sovereign nation of Haiti.

This refusal to submit to Western-will coupled with the overwhelming support Aristride and the Lavashe party (the “progressive” party associated with Aristride) received from the proletariat made the democratically elected president a threat and a target.

After winning his second election, Aristride would face opposition from leftover remains of the U.S. backed FRAPH and West-friendly Haitian elite. A notable opposition leader was Andre Apaid, a factory-owner with a U.S. passport who led a gang called “the Group of 184”, believed to be conjured for the purposes of painting Aristride and his regime as authoritarian. Alongside them, the aforementioned violent and oppressive FRAPH, which continued its practice of terrorizing, maiming, and abusing Aristride supporters.

The United States saw the inevitable bloodshed caused by the past actions of its meddling in Haitian affairs and used it as leverage to force Aristride into exile in 2004. Afterwards, the United States military would again enter Haiti and quickly dispose of the violent opposition to Aristride. With the help of France and sanctions supported by the United Nations, Haiti’s first elected president was replaced by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, acting as the face of a puppet regime to the UN. This regime change included replacing the Lavashe majority in leadership with a cabinet full of former Duvelier-ists.

The Exploitation of a Natural Disaster

Many still haven’t forgotten the devastation of the 7.0 Earthquake that struck Haiti just a few weeks into 2010, but many may not be aware of the devastation caused by the U.S. failure of a response to this natural catastrophe. Under the supervision of then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, the U.S.-led humanitarian response consisted of haphazard management and faulty oversight of the nongovernment organizations (NGOs), most notable example being the Red Cross unaccounted half a billion dollars in donations.

There was also very little care for the autonomy of the local population, pointed out by Clinton’s own daughter. She would also find issue with the lack of security offered by U.S. military presence. The more sinister acts of the Clintons was the pimping of the “charitable” Clinton Foundation and Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, which received donation pledges totaling $10 Billion.

After raising this money, Bill Clinton would be appointed as co-chairman of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission. This essentially granted him direct control over the money received through both foundations, leaving nothing much to show other than nickeled-and-dimed assistance and a failed $300 million garment industrial park established by the Clintons and a fashion executive in 2012.

Puppets and Patriots

This U.S. debacle successfully placed Haiti at the mercy of the U.S. The leaders during and following the failed attempt to save Haiti were Michael Martelly and Josavah Moise. Martelly, infamous for embezzling over $4 billion dollars of aid from Venezuela via the PetroCaribe agreement beginning under socialist Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez in 2005. This stolen money is speculated to have been utilized to boost his successor, Moise, into power.

Under Moise, the living conditions in Haiti continued to deteriorate. The PetroCaribe agreement was effectively eliminated in 2017 due to the heavy sanctions placed on Venezuela by, who other than, the United States under the Trump administration. The end of the PetroCaribe would prove to be a bridge too far for the exploited masses, leading to mass civil disruption and the assassination of Moise in 2021.

His assassination left the prime minister, Ariel Henry as the current recognized head of state in Haiti. However, that view isn’t shared by the Haitian proletariat and its de facto leader, Jimmy Chezizier.

Jimmy Chezizier is a son of Haiti, with experience in fighting crime and the compassion grand enough to seek unity amongst all who suffer under the repression set upon them but their social and political elite as well as the Western foreign entity that insist on entangling itself with said Haitian elite, calling this new family “G9”. It is high time the first black independent nation be given the space and the courtesy of establishing their own path, especially that set forth by the poor masses in the nation.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/the-tragic-history-of-the-worlds-first-post-colonial-black-nations-struggle-for-freedom-and-autonomy/

Patricia Harrity

Dr. Reiner Füllmich has continued to analyse evidence of the crimes against humanity from prison. that he and the Corona Committee had been working to expose since 2020. The corruption is being increasingly seen worldwide and “Their house of cards is collapsing” according to Reiner, “and we as international attorneys will do our best to speed up that process and make sure that Justice is done.” He adds ‘The windows of truth that are opening worldwide and the light that shines through these windows is in the process of identifying all of those who are responsible, no one will escape Justice.‘

Reiner Füllmich made this statement in a a break from the his trial due to the Easter holidays which has followed eight days in court. He has now been able to summarise the criminal proceedings against him and concludes that Hoffman and Antonia Fischer were only interested in ‘getting their hands on the Corona Committees donation. He claims that ‘through ‘fraud and extortion’, they had gotten their hands on roughly 1.5 million euros of his and his client’s money.’

Viviane Fischer, however, has confirmed in court that they both took loans in order to secure the Corona Committee’s donations which were at risk from “government attack, but they were both able to pay the monies back.

What this means is accusations that Reiner had embezzled committee funds are unfounded. In fact, there seems to be no reason for the man to have been kept in jail at all, and he believes, as many others do, that the criminal proceedings are an effort to shut him up and put him in jail and can see that the ‘DA’s case, is dead in the water.’

Reiner therefore, seems to be more positive for the future, which can be heard in his statement which you can listen to in full in the video of the audio below. However, I have also transcribed the audio recording verbatim and have added it underneath the video for those unable to play videos.

Statement From Dr. Reiner Füllmich 22nd March 2024.

Transcript.

Dear friends, because of the Easter holidays there is a two- week break in the criminal proceeding against me.

This gives me a chance to summarise the current status, the status quo of that proceeding, but it also gives me a chance to look beyond this proceeding at a very positive development that is happening in reality in that reality which is the backdrop to the efforts to shut me up and put me in jail.

It looks like the corona pandemic which actually opened my eyes and made me aware of an up until then unimaginable web of lies is um now unraveling and even officially unraveling as a planemic.

The windows of truth that are opening worldwide and the light that shines through these windows is in the process of identifying all of those who are responsible, no one will escape Justice.

Without Scientific Basis.

1:09 A new article by German journalist Paul Schreyer, in the publication Multipolar is based on on intensive research and a number of lawsuits which were brought under the German version of FOIA. the Freedom of Information Act.

And it clearly shows that, this article clearly shows that the German equivalent of the CDC, the RKI which up until March 16th of 2020 based on real science, had informed the public that the Corona virus was nothing but the flu, changed its tune overnight when on March 16th a high ranking member of the RKI who was intimately connected with a plandemic industry and its mouthpiece that WHO in tandem with much of the rest of the Western World of course, decided that there was now reason to escalate the hitherto harmless situation into a pandemic and scare the hell out of the population to test their obedience.

This happened without any scientific basis, without any scientific basis, it was based purely on a political signal from the plandemic industry and its mouth piece the WHO.

Even though Paul Schreyer States in that article that the name of the person who did the ‘dirty work’ for the WHO in Germany is not known, it seems very clear to me that he knows precisely who it is, and so do we.

By the way, this of course will be of huge importance even in the German systems courts of Law and as they, up until now, blindly and without questioning anything that came from the RKI, took for granted that there was a dangerous novel Corona virus that was responsible for a pandemic.

Now it is clear that the RKI is corrupt and it looks like similar developments can be seen worldwide.

The House of Cards is Collapsing

I was just informed by one of the people who wrote me and gave me some information, that Fauci, in the United States, seems to have admitted that there was no basis whatsoever let alone the scientific basis for the social distancing and the distances prescribed for social distancing.

Their house of cards is collapsing and we as international attorneys will do our best to speed up that process and make sure that Justice is done.

The Criminal Case Against Him

As far as the criminal case against me is concerned, it is very simple the prosecution’s main witnesses the strange attorney Mr Hoffman and my former co-host Viviane Fisher, whose performance in court rivaled that of Mr Hoffman, have been questioned.

They gave their testimony, Mr Hoffman came across as a highly aggressive, uncontrolled person whose inexplicable and also unexplained hatred for me, Viviane Fischer and actually the entire world she had to admit, that there was absolutely no basis for any of the massive accusations of me having threatened him in numerous weird ways, among others, with a Winchester rifle, or by radicalising the members of the political party whose co-chairman I was for a while.

One of the more bizarre accusations he made was that he felt threatened by me because of this quote unquote ‘ethnic background.’ When we asked him what this meant, he stated that he was an Ashkenazi Jew. Well if that is true, and I don’t know that it is, it would have been even if I had known about it it, would have been totally irrelevant to me.

Hoffman – is “Simply and Idiot”

The only reason I had shown him, indeed my utter disrespect for him, that I even despised him, is that I learned that he was both professionally and on a personal level simply an idiot.

Viviane Fischer confirmed that neither Mr Hoffman, nor Antonia Fischer whom we had included in the corona investigative committee as substitutes for two scientists played any role in the work of the Corona Investigative Committee and were only interested in the donations.

We found it rather bizarre however, that Viviane Fischer seems to still be willing to cooperate with these people, despite the fact that these two and their dubious partner, through fraud and extortion, had gotten their hands on roughly 1.5 million euros of my and my client’s money.

Despite the fact that these people, with the help of the district attorney, are now trying to get their hands on all of the Corona Committee’s donations only to shut its work down.

Very strange. Despite the fact that the evidence is mounting that the district attorney is guilty of obstruction of justice, now this is a crime, not just a misdemeanor, I don’t believe that the court is under control of whoever is behind this proceeding, but we’ll see.

Viviane Fischer Confirmed Loans Secured Donations

Very helpful in fact, crucial for my case, is that this, and Fischer also confirmed that we took out the loans in order to secure some of the donations from the states attaching our bank account, but there was an imminent and rising risk of this happening and that of course we were both willing and able to repay the loans.

This means that DA’s case, is dead in the water. In fact, had we not done anything to protect the money from willful attachment by the state, we would have been guilty of a violation of our fiduciary duty to take care of the donations.

For the court and for those who are interested, we will file a detailed assessment of Viviane Fischer and Mr Huffman’s, at least partially bizarre testimony in court.

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Via https://expose-news.com/2024/03/27/dr-fullmich-statement-from-prison-their-house-of-cards-is-collapsing/

By Rebekah Barnett

The Australian Senate voted to establish a parliamentary inquiry into the nation’s excess deaths today, giving the green light to what is possibly the first inquiry of this nature in the world.

One year and five motions is what it took for Senator Ralph Babet, of the United Australia Party, to finally get the go-ahead on the inquiry.

Senator Babet tabled two unsuccessful motions calling for an inquiry into Australia’s excess mortality last March, followed by another unsuccessful motion in February of this year.

Several weeks later, his fourth motion calling for the Senate to acknowledge the need for an inquiry scraped through with a win, marking a shift in attitude within the Senate and paving the way for today’s vote to finally establish an inquiry.

“Fifth time’s the charm!” said Senator Babet in a statement after his motion passed successfully.”

“This appears to be a world-first inquiry for what is a global issue. May this committee process give a voice to the family members of the deceased and deliver the answers that our nation so desperately needs.”

The successful motion, co-sponsored by independent Senators Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock, calls for the Community Affairs References Committee to conduct an inquiry into factors contributing to excess mortality in 2021 – 2023 and to make recommendations on how to address them.

The vote was won 31 to 30 with only the left-wing Labour Party and the Greens opposing the motion (see full breakdown HERE).

The phenomenon of excess all-cause mortality is an issue for nations all around the world since the pandemic kicked off in 2020, yet governments have shown little interest or initiative in investigating why, or what to do about it.

Australia saw record-high excess mortality throughout the pandemic, peaking at 11.7% above the expected baseline in 2022. This number was initially touted to be as high as 15%, but the Australian Bureau of Statistics (“ABS”) revised its excess death numbers down with the adoption of new modelling in 2023.

Though 2023 saw fewer excess deaths, the ABS reports that the excess was “sustained” and “statistically significant” into the first half of 2023.

Cancer remains the leading cause of death in Australia, accounting for around a third of all deaths year on year, followed by dementia, respiratory disease, and heart disease. In 2022, covid was the sixth-leading cause of death, falling to eighth in 2023.

Naturally, some of the excess deaths seen in Australia and around the world are attributable to covid, but the virus cannot account for all of the excess mortality. In fact, the lax criteria for attribution of deaths to covid means that the impact of the virus on excess mortality is probably overestimated.

Initially, the ABS differentiated between deaths due to covid alone, and deaths with other causal factors, revealing that just 8.6% of deaths with covid were caused solely by the virus. Subsequently, this reporting method was done away with, and all deaths with a causal sequence of events (including with pre-existing chronic conditions) were swept into the ‘due to covid’ category, taking the accounting of deaths due to covid from 8% to approximately 80%.

Even so, an analysis of 2022 excess mortality by Australia’s peak actuarial body, the Actuaries Institute, pinned only half of Australia’s excess deaths on covid.

That leaves the rest of the excess mortality unexplained.

The actuaries suggest that other factors driving Australia’s excess deaths may include: mortality displacement, undiagnosed covid, mental health issues, and unhealthy pandemic-influenced lifestyle changes. Note that the latter two are documented knock-on effects of government pandemic policies.

An independent excess death probe led by the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society (“AMPS”) highlighted the impact of the covid vaccination program as another potential driver of excess mortality.

One particularly interesting report featured in the AMPS inquiry was an Australian study of all-cause mortality trends conducted on the pre-covid but post-vaccinated Queensland population. The analysis showed that deaths started trending upwards with the covid vaccine rollout, not covid.

While the Therapeutic Goods Administration (“TGA”) officially acknowledges only 14 deaths related to the covid vaccines, there were over 1,020 reported deaths and over 140,000 injuries recorded in the DAEN, Australia’s safety surveillance database, as at 12 March 2024.

As underreporting is a well-known feature of such safety surveillance systems, the true extent of harm from the covid vaccines is unknown.

The TGA admitted as much when, in September last year, the regulator refused to say how many of the adverse events reported to the DAEN it had determined to be causally linked to the covid vaccines, but let slip that the TGA assigns almost all reports a causality status of “possible,” neither confirming nor denying causality.

Other potential contributors to excess mortality may include harms arising from the pandemic response, including lockdowns, isolation, loss of employment, loss of autonomy and increased stress, all of which were raised in submissions to an inquiry into Terms of Reference for a Covid Royal Commission.

Australia’s inquiry into excess deaths will likely consider all this and more. The Committee is expected to provide its report by 31 August 2024.

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Via https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/breaking-australian-government-establishes

Colin Todhunter

The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate what is essentially a social and economic reset within the context of a collapsing financial system.

Writer Ted Reece notes that the general rate of profit has trended downwards from an estimated 43% in the 1870s to 17% in the 2000s. By late 2019, many companies could not generate enough profit. Falling turnover, squeezed margins, limited cashflows and highly leveraged balance sheets were prevalent.

Professor Fabio Vighi of Cardiff University has described how closing down the global economy in early 2020 under the guise of fighting a supposedly new and novel pathogen allowed the US Federal Reserve to flood collapsing financial markets (COVID relief) with freshly printed money without causing hyperinflation. Lockdowns curtailed economic activity, thereby removing demand for the newly printed money (credit) in the physical economy and preventing ‘contagion’.

According to investigative journalist Michael Byrant, €1.5 trillion was needed to deal with the crisis in Europe alone. The financial collapse staring European central bankers in the face came to a head in 2019. The appearance of a ‘novel virus’ provided a convenient cover story.

The European Central Bank agreed to a €1.31 trillion bailout of banks followed by the EU agreeing to a €750 billion recovery fund for European states and corporations. This package of long-term, ultra-cheap credit to hundreds of banks was sold to the public as a necessary programme to cushion the impact of the pandemic on businesses and workers.

In response to a collapsing neoliberalism, we are now seeing the rollout of an authoritarian great reset — an agenda that intends to reshape the economy and change how we live.

Shift to authoritarianism

The new economy is to be dominated by a handful of tech giants, global conglomerates and e-commerce platforms, and new markets will also be created through the financialisation of nature, which is to be colonised, commodified and traded under the notion of protecting the environment.

In recent years, we have witnessed an overaccumulation of capital, and the creation of such markets will provide fresh investment opportunities (including dodgy carbon offsetting Ponzi schemes)  for the super-rich to park their wealth and prosper.

This great reset envisages a transformation of Western societies, resulting in permanent restrictions on fundamental liberties and mass surveillance. Being rolled out under the benign term of a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, the World Economic Forum (WEF) says the public will eventually ‘rent’ everything they require (remember the WEF video ‘you will own nothing and be happy’?): stripping the right of ownership under the guise of a ‘green economy’ and underpinned by the rhetoric of ‘sustainable consumption’ and ‘climate emergency’.

Climate alarmism and the mantra of sustainability are about promoting money-making schemes. But they also serve another purpose: social control.

Neoliberalism has run its course, resulting in the impoverishment of large sections of the population. But to dampen dissent and lower expectations, the levels of personal freedom we have been used to will not be tolerated. This means that the wider population will be subjected to the discipline of an emerging surveillance state.

To push back against any dissent, ordinary people are being told that they must sacrifice personal liberty in order to protect public health, societal security (those terrible Russians, Islamic extremists or that Sunak-designated bogeyman George Galloway) or the climate. Unlike in the old normal of neoliberalism, an ideological shift is occurring whereby personal freedoms are increasingly depicted as being dangerous because they run counter to the collective good.

The real reason for this ideological shift is to ensure that the masses get used to lower living standards and accept them. Consider, for instance, the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill saying that people should ‘accept’ being poorer. And then there is Rob Kapito of the world’s biggest asset management firm BlackRock, who says that a “very entitled” generation must deal with scarcity for the first time in their lives.

At the same time, to muddy the waters, the message is that lower living standards are the result of the conflict in Ukraine and supply shocks that both the war and ‘the virus’ have caused.

The net-zero carbon emissions agenda will help legitimise lower living standards (reducing your carbon footprint) while reinforcing the notion that our rights must be sacrificed for the greater good. You will own nothing, not because the rich and their neoliberal agenda made you poor but because you will be instructed to stop being irresponsible and must act to protect the planet.

Net-zero agenda

But what of this shift towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and the plan to slash our carbon footprints? Is it even feasible or necessary?

Gordon Hughes, a former World Bank economist and current professor of economics at the University of Edinburgh, says in a new report that current UK and European net-zero policies will likely lead to further economic ruin.

Apparently, the only viable way to raise the cash for sufficient new capital expenditure (on wind and solar infrastructure) would be a two decades-long reduction in private consumption of up to 10 per cent. Such a shock has never occurred in the last century outside war; even then, never for more than a decade.

But this agenda will also cause serious environmental degradation. So says Andrew Nikiforuk in the article The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics, which outlines how the green techno-dream is vastly destructive.

He lists the devastating environmental impacts of an even more mineral-intensive system based on renewables and warns:

“The whole process of replacing a declining system with a more complex mining-based enterprise is now supposed to take place with a fragile banking system, dysfunctional democracies, broken supply chains, critical mineral shortages and hostile geopolitics.”

All of this assumes that global warming is real and anthropogenic. Not everyone agrees. In the article Global warming and the confrontation between the West and the rest of the world, journalist Thierry Meyssan argues that net zero is based on political ideology rather than science. But to state such things has become heresy in the Western countries and shouted down with accusations of ‘climate science denial’.

Regardless of such concerns, the march towards net zero continues, and key to this is the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goals.

Today, almost every business or corporate report, website or brochure includes a multitude of references to ‘carbon footprints’, ‘sustainability’, ‘net zero’ or ‘climate neutrality’ and how a company or organisation intends to achieve its sustainability targets. Green profiling, green bonds and green investments go hand in hand with displaying ‘green’ credentials and ambitions wherever and whenever possible.

It seems anyone and everyone in business is planting their corporate flag on the summit of sustainability. Take Sainsbury’s, for instance. It is one of the ‘big six’ food retail supermarkets in the UK and has a vision for the future of food that it published in 2019.

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Tracked, traced and chipped — for your own benefit. Corporations accessing all of our personal data, right down to our DNA. The report is littered with references to sustainability and the climate or environment, and it is difficult not to get the impression that it is written so as to leave the reader awestruck by the technological possibilities.

However, the promotion of a brave new world of technological innovation that has nothing to say about power — who determines policies that have led to massive inequalities, poverty, malnutrition, food insecurity and hunger and who is responsible for the degradation of the environment in the first place — is nothing new.

The essence of power is conveniently glossed over, not least because those behind the prevailing food regime are also shaping the techno-utopian fairytale where everyone lives happily ever after eating bugs and synthetic food while living in a digital panopticon.

Fake green

The type of ‘green’ agenda being pushed is a multi-trillion market opportunity for lining the pockets of rich investors and subsidy-sucking green infrastructure firms and also part of a strategy required to secure compliance required for the ‘new normal’.

It is, furthermore, a type of green that plans to cover much of the countryside with wind farms and solar panels with most farmers no longer farming. A recipe for food insecurity.

Those investing in the ‘green’ agenda care first and foremost about profit. The supremely influential BlackRock invests in the current food system that is responsible for polluted waterways, degraded soils, the displacement of smallholder farmers, a spiralling public health crisis, malnutrition and much more.

It also invests in healthcare — an industry that thrives on the illnesses and conditions created by eating the substandard food that the current system produces. Did Larry Fink, the top man at BlackRock, suddenly develop a conscience and become an environmentalist who cares about the planet and ordinary people? Of course not.

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Via https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/12/net-zero-the-digital-panopticon-and-the-future-of-food/

Tess Lawrie

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German Osteopath, Health and Science Lead, and Steering Committee Member of the World Council for Health (WCH), Christof Plothe stated that Human Rights, as defined by the UN, are universal, inalienable, and indivisible, ensuring equality and non-discrimination. They are inherent to every human being and cannot be granted or revoked by any state or government. And yet, Human Rights were ignored and trampled on during the Covid-19 event.

Christof Plothe raised 36 critical questions that must be urgently addressed to ensure that the abuse of human rights that took place in response to Covid-19 never happens again:

1. Why were we not told that the Covid 19 virus was patented by Moderna in 2018?
2. Why did Moderna produce 100,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses in 2019 before the pandemic started?
3. Why, against all scientific evidence, were lockdowns and masks used?
4. Why were we not told that the ‘vaccine’ does not remain in the arm, but accumulates all over the body?
5. Why was PCR testing recommended when it is not designed for diagnostic purposes?
6. Why were the definitions of ‘vaccine’, and ‘herd immunity’ changed prior to the Covid-19 outbreak?
7. Why was a pandemic declared when the case fatality rate was akin to ’flu?
8. Why were tests on genotoxicity, teratogenicity, and carcinogenicity not carried out, and yet we were told the ‘vaccine’ was safe?
9. Why was there no proper follow-up of all people injected when using a new gene therapy product?
10. Why were doctors and the public not reminded regularly about the need to report adverse reactions to these new and experimental genetic ‘vaccines’?
11. Why was a ‘vaccine’ recommended during an ongoing pandemic, which is contraindicated in vaccinology?
12. Why was a ‘vaccine’ recommended for those who had superior natural immunity?
13. Why was a novel gene therapy launched after three months, instead of the required ten years?
14. Why were we not told that, in the Pfizer trial, more people died in the vaccinated group than in the control group?
15. Why were we told that Covid injections were ‘safe and effective’ when the evidence did not substantiate this?
16. Why were – and are – opposing voices from science and practicing medicine discredited, punished, and jailed?
17. Why were doctors, for the first time in history, discouraged from treating a disease, and told to wait for a vaccine?
18. Why was early treatment discouraged, whilst we know it is the most important tool to address any infectious disease?
19. Why were effective and very safe medicines like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin discredited and even prohibited?
20. Why did the producers of the novel gene therapies not want their data to be published for 75 years?
21. Why were Covid injections, masks and lockdowns recommended for children when it was known that they were not severely affected and did not spread Covid?
22. Why were the Covid injections recommended in pregnancy, when over 80% of babies were lost in trials when women were vaccinated in the first trimester?
23. Why was emergency approval guaranteed when over 2,000 people died within the first three months after vaccination roll-out?
24. Why is there no scientific outcry after over 3,500 papers have been published demonstrating side effects of the Covid-19 injections?
25. Why are conflicts of interest tolerated among medical authorities, with the FDA, EMA, and WHO being 80-90% funded by industry?
26. Why was there no adequate education of doctors, patients, and the public, and thus no possibility of informed consent?
27. Why and how were the media captured so that they pushed only one agenda worldwide?
28. Why were and are effective treatment protocols, which have existed since 2020, banned and declared illegal?
29. Why are we not told about the unnecessary deaths that were attributed to Covid but actually caused by iatrogenic measures (e.g. Midazolam, ventilation) carried out in early 2020?
30. Why was the fundamental role of Vitamin D status, diet, and the microbiome not communicated, when these measures could have prevented almost 100% of Covid deaths?
31. Why was and is a certain medical procedure forced upon people against their will, whilst the Nuremberg Declaration clearly opposes this?
32. Why is gain of function research, like that relating to Covid-19, not banned worldwide?
33. Why is an mRNA product still being used, when we know that mRNA is being incorporated into the human genome, and resulting in the production of other, unknown, proteins?
34. Why has the failed mRNA concept not been stopped, when we know it increases the likelihood of the recipient getting Covid-19, thus demonstrating negative efficacy?
35. Why do these products continue to be recommended, when at least 17 million people are believed to have died due to the injections?
36. Why is there no investigation into excess deaths, and increases in rates of cancer and heart problems, etc., which started in 2021, not in 2020?

It is absolutely clear that the WHO must not be allowed to continue with its plans to amend the International Health Regulations or finalise their ‘Pandemic Treaty’ without  responding to these questions.

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Via https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/geneva-switzerland-22-march-2024

Episode 46 Napoleon’s Fall and the 100 Days

Living the French Revolution and Age of Napoleon

Dr Suzanne M Desan

Film Review

Following Napoleon’s defeat, Alexander was celebrated in Prussia as the savior of Europe. With 170,000 troops, Napoleon marched into Saxony twice in the spring of 1813 and was defeated both times. Austria, which was still neutral, offered the services of foreign minister Metternnich to negotiate peace between France and the coalition (UK, Prussia and Sweden).

After Austria joined the coalition that summer, three-day Battle of Nations was the bloodiest European battle to date. Napoleon’s 180,000 troops were crushed by a 300,000-strong coalition force. Seventy-three thousands French troops died, compared to 27,000 in the coalition.

Napoleon rejected the treaty conditions they offered: retreating to France’s 1797 borders (allowing France to keep Belgium and the Rhineland). In 1814, the French legislature demanded he initiate peace talks immediately. When he refused, the Anglo-Portuguese army swarmed over the Pyrenees into France while coalition forces crossed the Rhine and invaded northeastern France. Simultaneously the Dutch launched an insurrection against French rule and the Swiss declared independence. After the French legislature demanded Napoleon agree to a ceasefire, his sister and brother-in-law (General Murat), who ruled the kingdom of Naples, switched sides to support the coalition.

Napoleon fought brilliantly but lacked the numbers to prevail. On March 9, 1814 Marie-Louise fled Paris with their three-year-old son. Most of the court and legislature fled, as did peasants in the path of coalition forces. On March 31, 145,000 coalition forces invaded Paris, and Alexander I and King Frederick William of Prussia marched up the Champs Elysee and invited the brother of Louis XVI (Louis XVIII) to assume the French throne.

On April 2, 1814, the royalist French diplomat Charles-Maurice de Tallyrand pressured the senate to dethrone Napoleon and appoint Louis XVIII. Having lost the support of his generals,on April 11, 1814 Napoleon signed an abdication from the thrones of Italy and France. He also swallowed poison he carried around his neck with no effect.

Exile to Elba

As per the conditions of his abdication, he then set off for the island of Elba (presently an Italian island in the Mediterranean) under the guardianship of British naval officer Neil Campbell. The coalition had promised him sovereignty of Elba, allowing him to bring 600 troops and paying him a stipend of $2 million francs a year. Marie-Louise, who was given the title of Duchess of Palma, was forbidden to accompany him to Elba.

The island was 26 square miles and Napoleon had 13,700 subjects. He built new roads, sewers, irrigation systems, fortifications and a hospital, as well as importing mulberry trees and starting a silk work industry. His Polish mistress visited him with their their son.

Only taking the throne 310 pound Louis XVII ripped up the constitution the coalition handed him and created his own constitution charter, which granted the French people equality and numerous civil rights, including religious freedom. It also created a two-chamber legislature, with the king resuming the lawmaking power Louis XVI enjoyed. The king declared Catholicism France’s official religion and filled his government with returned emigres.

Napoleon Resumes Power for 100 Days

In mid-February 1815, Napoleon left Elba with 100 men, landing on the southern French coast on March 1st. As they marched north, they were joined by 1000s of former troop sent to stop him. On March 19, Louis XVIII fled Paris, as Napoleon led his men unopposed to the Tuilleries palace. They had seized control of central France without firing a shot.

The former emperor now reinvented himself as a revolutionary intent on expelling a new king, and the working class immediately flocked to join him.

One of his former critics Benjamin Costent wrote him a new constitution turning France into a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislature and guaranteeing, freedom of the press and religion.

Film can be viewed free on Kanopy with a library card.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/video/149323/149413

By Diego Ramos / Original to ScheerPost
The British High Court has accepted three elements of Julian Assange’s appeal against his extradition to the U.S., delaying the process for some time. Unless the U.S. provides “assurances” for Assange’s appeals, including protection against the death penalty, the WikiLeaks founder will be granted a new appeal.

Despite U.S. officials promising Assange would not be subject to capital punishment, the court ruled “nothing in the existing assurance explicitly prevents the imposition of the death penalty.”

The U.S. government has until April 16 to file these assurances and if done so, Assange will have until April 30 to respond and the U.S. is to answer back by May 14, with a hearing considering the leave to appeal on May 20. If the U.S. fails to file assurances in three weeks, Assange will be granted permission to appeal.

Judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson of the British High Court agreed with the following points in Assange’s appeal:

• a) if extradited, the applicant might be prejudiced at his trial by reason of his nationality (contrary to section 81(b) of the 2003 Act), and
• b) as a consequence of a), but only as a consequence of a), extradition is incompatible with article 10 of the Convention. [In the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), article 10 protects the right to freedom of expression.]
• The applicant has established an arguable case that the Secretary of State’s decision was wrong because extradition is barred by inadequate specialty/death penalty protection.

The judges dismissed appeal of Assange’s other points including:

• The UK-US Extradition treaty (the Treaty) prohibits extradition for a political [offense] (and the [offenses] with which the applicant is charged fall within that category).
• The extradition request was made for the purpose of prosecuting the applicant on account of his political opinions (contrary to section 81(a) of the 2003 Act).
• Extradition is incompatible with article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) (which provides there should be no punishment without law).
• Extradition is incompatible with article 6 of the Convention (right to a fair trial).
• Extradition is incompatible with articles 2 and 3 of the Convention (right to life, and prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment).

The judges acknowledged that extradition for “political opinions” has been barred in English law, citing the Extradition Act 1870 and 1989. However, in examining the Extradition Act 2003, the judges separate “political [offense]” from “political opinions,” stating “[The Extradition Act 2003] says nothing, however, about preventing extradition for a political [offense]. Although there may be a degree of overlap, the two are separate concepts.”

Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, spoke outside the court stating, “The Biden administration should not issue assurances. They should drop this shameful case, which should never have been brought.”

Significantly, the court also rejected “fresh evidence” from the Assange team with regards to the Yahoo News article written by Zach Dorfman, Sean D Naylor and Michael Isikoff that exposed a plot by former CIA Director Mike Pompeo and others to kidnap or assassinate Assange during his time at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

Despite the evidence exposed by the article, the judges ruled, “Extradition would result in him being lawfully in the custody of the United States authorities, and the reasons (if they can be called that) for rendition or kidnap or assassination then fall away.”

Assange enters his fifth year of imprisonment inside Belmarsh Prison, where his physical and mental health has significantly deteriorated.

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Via https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/26/assange-extradition-delayed-unless-us-provides-assurances/

Ekaterina Bellova

Over the past two years, Moscow has collected evidence of Western involvement in training and arming jihadi terrorists to weaponize them on the Ukrainian battlefield and Russia’s rear.

The Crocus City Hall terror attack has raised questions about the West’s repeated use of jihadist elements, starting from arming Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the Cold War era to most recent reports of Islamists fighting on the side of the Kiev regime.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) stated on February 13, 2023, that it obtained intelligence indicating that the US military was actively recruiting militants from jihadist groups affiliated with ISIS and al-Qaeda to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia and the CIS countries. According to the SVR, particular attention is paid to attracting people from the Russian North Caucasus and Central Asia to cooperate.

The Russian intelligence service revealed that in January 2023, 60 terrorists with experience of participating in hostilities in the Middle East were recruited by the West, adding that they were undergoing training at the American base in Al-Tanf, Syria, to conduct terrorist and subversive attacks.

The SVR noted at the time that the militants would be dispatched in small groups to the territory of Russia and the CIS countries in cooperation with underground cells of international terrorist groups, including Hizb ut-Tahrir, Jamaat Ansarullah and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

“We see the final loss of any moral principles in the US security forces,” the SVR summarized in its official statement, lambasting Washington’s obsession with inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia by any means possible. “Such actions put Washington on a par with the largest international terrorist groups.”

Intel data confirming the plans described by the SVR started to emerge later in the year. Russian Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov stated at the October 2023 meeting of heads of Russian security agencies and special services that ISIS and other terrorist groups were fighting against Russia as part of the Ichkerian and Crimean Tatar mercenary units in Ukraine. ISIS is also part of sabotage and reconnaissance groups sent to Russian territory to carry out attacks and terrorist attacks, Bortnikov emphasized.

The FSB director pointed out that Western governments were “actively facilitating the movement of militants into the Ukrainian conflict zone.” As of October 2023, the FSB had registered the participation of employees of 13 Western private military companies (PMCs) and members of nine foreign paramilitary proxy forces in the Ukraine conflict on the side of the Kiev regime.

According to Bortnikov, the US and its NATO allies have turned Ukraine into nothing short of a terrorist hotbed.

The FSB chief likewise drew special attention to the US and British intelligence services’ efforts to create a “belt of instability” in Afghanistan near the southern borders of the CIS, where al-Qaeda and the ISIS groups are becoming stronger. To that end, the Western intelligence services were recruiting militants from international terrorist organizations operating in Iraq, Syria, and a number of other Asian and African countries, and transferring them to northern Afghanistan.

“We note the increased role of al-Qaeda, which, in alliance with the IS branch Vilayat Khorasan, takes an active part in the preparation, indoctrination and logistical support of controlled groups,” Bortnikov stressed last October.

Islamic Terror Groups Flocking to Ukraine

From the very beginning of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, reports started to emerge in international media outlets and blogs, shedding light on jihadists of all stripes flocking to the combat zone in Ukraine.

In early March 2022, the BBC quoted Syria-based terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) explicitly expressing solidarity with the Kiev regime. High-profile HTS member al-Shamali al-Hurr took to Telegram to cheer Ukrainian victories by sharing footage and graphic images of damaged Russian military hardware and dead soldiers.

In April 2022, reports emerged claiming that the White Helmets, a Western-backed so-called “humanitarian” Syrian group, had arrived in Ukraine. Prior to this, the group, officially known as the Syrian Civil Defense, pledged to provide “tutorials” to the Ukrainian forces. The group was accused by Syrians of being connected to al-Qaeda offshoots operating in the Middle Eastern country and staging chemical attacks.

What’s more, initial training and financial support to the White Helmets was provided by the Mayday Rescue Foundation, a non-governmental organization established by ex-British Army officer James Le Mesurier. Le Mesurier’s group was instrumental in the West’s long-standing effort to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, according to Grayzone investigative journalists’ account of events in 2016.

The SVR announced in May 2022, citing obtained evidence, that about 60 ISIS terrorists were released from prisons controlled by the US-backed Syrian Kurds a month earlier with the aim of dispatching them to Ukraine as sabotage units. The SVR highlighted that the US Al-Tanf base in Syria’s Homs province was turned into a terrorist hub where militants were trained to be deployed to Ukraine.

“Priority is given to natives of the states of Transcaucasia and Central Asia. The training ‘course’ in Al-Tanf includes training in the use of available types of anti-tank missile systems, reconnaissance and strike drones MQ-1C, advanced communications and surveillance equipment,” the SVR stated.

On October 22, 2022, Al-Monitor reported that it had learned that members of Ajnad al-Kavkaz, a Chechen-led Islamist group, left the Syrian province of Idlib and headed to Ukraine to fight against the Russian military.

Who Masterminded the Crocus City Hall Attack?

The Crocus City Hall terror attack was carried out by the hands of radical Islamists, but it is necessary to find the masterminds and those who benefitted from the hideous crime, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Monday.

“The horrific crime committed on March 22 in the capital of Russia is an act of intimidation … and the question immediately arises: who benefits?” Putin said. “This atrocity can only be an element in a whole series of attempts by those who have been fighting our country since 2014 with the hands of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.”

In the wake of the attack four alleged perpetrators – Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Shamsidina Fariduni, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda and Muhammadsobir Fayzov – were caught in the Russian Bryansk region on the way to the Ukrainian border. According to the FSB, the jihadists had connections in Ukraine and sought to hide in the Eastern European country after committing the crime. The fifth suspect, Dilovar Islomov, was detained on March 25.

“We also need to answer the question of why the terrorists tried to leave for Ukraine after committing the crime and who was waiting for them there,” Putin underlined during the conversation with Russian authorities on security measures taken after the terrorist attack.

The Russian president specifically referred to the Biden administration’s effort to divert public attention from Ukraine’s possible involvement immediately after the tragedy.

“We see how the US is taking to various channels to convince its satellites and other countries that according to the data from its intelligence, there is allegedly no Ukrainian trace in the Moscow terrorist attack (…) We already know by whose hands this atrocity against Russia and its people had been carried out. Now we want to know who the mastermind is,” the Russian president emphasized.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20240326/russian-intelligence-services-kept-eye-on-wests-effort-to-weaponize-isis–1117565239.html