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The coming verdict in the MH17 trial is certain, and double Dutch

John Helmer - Dutch MH17
Next year it will be four hundred years since the Amboyna Massacre of March 9, 1623. The British won't be memorializing their countrymen's killings by the Dutch, nor the Dutch celebrating one of the last gasps of their Asian empire. They are now allies in the fabrication of reasons for killing Russians.

Remember the Amboyna Massacre! That was fighting talk in London during a decade of litigation in The Netherlands, and leading to the first Anglo-Dutch War of 1652-54. The British won that one - and also the second war of 1655-57, and the third war of 1672-74.

In the Amboyna massacre the Dutch water-boarded and then executed a group of ten British merchants on the trumped-up charge of plotting to seize the Dutch fortress on the island of Ambon, now part of Indonesia, where today it is called Maluku. They were beheaded, along with nine Japanese mercenaries and a Portuguese they had employed. The head of the senior English officer, Gabriel Towerson, was put on a pike for display by the Dutch . On the fiftieth anniversary, John Dryden gave Towerson the leading role in a play he put on the London stage entitled, "Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants, A Tragedy". That was the time when British political propaganda was written by men of talent.

Comment: How bad is it in the Netherlands? As for useful tools like Rutte:

Proof of direct collusion between WEF and Dutch government

Dutch Farmers
As for Rutte and his WEF sidekicks:


As for covid:

Dear Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoestra, "your contributions to the work of the Great Reset..."

With love from the WEF:

Dear Netherlands, love from the WEF



Colosseum

NINE women spiked with date rape drug at summer party held by German chancellor's SPD

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© Emmanuele Contini/NurPhoto/Getty Images/KJNSDP official admits that guests were targeted with 'knockout drops' at its summer event
At least nine women are suspected to have been spiked with a date rape drug at an event hosted by the German chancellor's political party.

Police are investigating after several female guests fell ill after going to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) summer gathering - attended by Olaf Scholz - earlier this week.

One young woman said she felt dizzy and unwell at the gathering, and woke up the next day unable to remember the evening.

The 21-year-old - who ate food and consumed non-alcoholic drinks at the event on Wednesday - has been tested for toxic substances. By Saturday morning, another four cases of guests reporting similar symptoms had emerged.

Comment: It's perhaps no coincidence that throughout the West, endless scandals are coming to light, with MPs being outed for being everything from dangerously incompetent, deviant, to full blown psychopath. As the establishment collapses into infighting and begins to eat its own, it also benefits by distracting people from the very real destruction occurring to their respective countries, in part thanks to their lockdown and Ukraine policies:


Wolf

Zelensky sacks Ukraine's ambassadors to FIVE countries including Germany and India, claims it's 'normal'

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© Presidential press service/EPAUkrainian president says move is 'normal' and new candidates are being readied
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has fired several of Kyiv's senior envoys abroad, including the country's outspoken ambassador to Germany.

The leader announced the sacking of Ukraine's ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary and said new candidates were being readied for the positions.

"This rotation is a normal part of diplomatic practice," he said in a statement. It was not clear if the envoys would be assigned new positions.

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Fourth July Mass Shooting, Abe Shinzo Assassination, Rebuilding Ukraine

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Chaos in the tweets, chaos in the East, chaos in the streets. Last week's July Fourth mass shooting, the THIRD 'mediatized' terror event in the US this year, is another milestone in the West's chaotic descent into collective madness. Each 'side' in the Culture Wars™ blames the other, seeing in the protagonist the Other's agent of destruction. But look closer and you see the hidden hand provoking both sides...

This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall analyze the Fourth July mass shooting from another angle - literally, from street-level - the shocking assassination of Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and the diabolically cynical use of Putin's War™ for 'noble purposes', connecting the dots to reveal the single Overarching Agenda into which 'agents of chaos' are corralling humanity.


Running Time: 01:57:14

Download: MP3 — 80.5 MB


Bullseye

Germany's developing economic crisis is a fascinating study in self harm

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© Glass InternationalGerman glass manufacturing is one industry that cannot survive without the type of gas only Russia supplies
By sanctioning Russia, Germany has destroyed its business model. Now it faces an possible economic catastrophe

Germany just posted its first monthly trade deficit in three decades, and the head of the German Federation of Trade Unions has warned that key industries in the country may collapse permanently as a result of high energy prices and shortages. The golden era of the European Union's economic locomotive has already come to an end.

For three decades, the competitiveness of German industries was enhanced by the import of cheap Russian energy, while Europe's largest country also became a key export market for German technologies and manufactured goods. Over the previous centuries, a key theme of European politics was that the productive power of Germany and the immense resources of Russia could create the main pillar of power on the European continent.

Shopping Bag

Achieving self-funding local sovereignty as global food systems collapse

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The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks?

"Deglobalizing" and "dedollarizing" have been much in the news. Reducing dependence on the global supply chain and the U.S. dollar are trends that are happening not just internationally but locally. In the United States, we have seen movements both for local food independence and to divest from Wall Street banks. The burgeoning cryptocurrency movement is another push to "dedollarize" and escape the international bankers' control grid.

This article is a sequel to one discussing home gardens and community food co-ops as local counter-measures to an impending food crisis. The question to be addressed here is how to fund them. What sort of local currency could fund food co-ops independently of the credit dollars we get from banks?

But first, some framing of the problem. It's not just about temporary food shortages. It's about sovereignty from the sort of global control foreshadowed in Henry Kissinger's notorious statement, "Control food and you control the people."

Stop

Boris beheaded: From restoration to regicide

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© Carl Court/Getty ImagesUK PM Boris Johnson • 10 Downing Street • July 7, 2022
Those who have closely followed the picaresque soap opera of Boris Johnson's career to its ignominious end this week may remember an episode, much puffed by the press, which occurred in 2019. It concerned an argument between Johnson and his then-girlfriend (now wife) Carrie Symonds, overheard through the walls (and recorded) by a hostile neighbour. Johnson had just discharged a quantity of red wine over his beloved's sofa, and was being screamed at. "You just don't care for anything because you're spoilt!" she exploded. "You have no care for money or anything!"

Many — on this rare occasion — would have sympathised with Symonds's feelings. Indeed, the notorious lockdown party, or parties, at Number 10 that kickstarted Johnson's spiralling demise were arguably just another of his wine-stains, though on a much larger scale. The ruined sofa this time around was the electoral future of his party, and there was little evidence that he cared about that much more.

Nor has Symonds been the only one to skewer our departing Prime Minister in these terms. "Disgracefully cavalier" (his teacher at Eton); "a buffoon and an idler" (ditto at Oxford); a producer of "follies, gaffes, idiocies, scoundrelisms" (former boss Max Hastings); "a compulsive liar who has betrayed every single person he has ever had any dealings with: every woman who has loved him; every member of his family, every friend..." (Nick Boles, fellow Conservative MP). Johnson's life is strewn with such assessments like these.

Red Flag

'Too much red flag for bank': The tale of Hunter Biden's payments to alleged Russian prostitutes

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© Politico/Real Clear Politics/Gateway Pundit/AP/KJNIowa Senator Chuck Grassley • Hunter Biden • Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson
Senators' pressure on DOJ to probe wire transfers part of larger concerns about Biden family being compromised by overseas business dealings.

As his father was ramping up his 2020 presidential run, Hunter Biden was busy texting a woman with a Russian email address about finding a way to evade bank suspicions so they could complete a wire transfer.

"Email with .ru flags wires," Hunter Biden texted the woman named Eva in early January 2019, according to evidence two members of Congress have sent the Justice Department.

"Too much red flag for bank," Hunter Biden texted another time when wire coordinates for the payment to the woman were sent. "That its [sic] what got my accounts frozen and reviewed by bank. Send me Julia and I will give her the cash."

The text messages — first reported in the news media and now recounted in an official letter from Congress to DOJ — raise a tantalizing question: Should Americans be concerned that a presidential son was texting and exchanging wire transfers with alleged prostitutes using a Russian email address?

Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley, two Republicans who have spent more time than any investigating the Biden family's overseas business dealings, believe the answer is a resounding "Yes."

Stormtrooper

Training for thousands of Ukrainian soldiers begins in UK

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© Diego Herrera/Europa Press/Getty ImagesA Ukrainian army soldier observes his position in Irpin, Ukraine.
The first cohort of Ukrainian troops has arrived in the UK to undergo specialist military training, with up to 10,000 service members expected to take part in the program in the coming months. British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has personally welcomed the soldiers. According to a statement published by Britain's Ministry of Defence on Saturday, Ukrainian military personnel had met with the top military official earlier this week.

Wallace described the training program as the next phase of Britain's support to the Ukrainian military:
"Using the world-class expertise of the British army we will help Ukraine to rebuild its forces and scale up its resistance as they defend their country's sovereignty and their right to choose their own future,"
According to the Ministry of Defence's own estimates, London has so far spent over £2.3 billion ($2.7 billion) on military aid to "support Ukraine in its fight against Russia's unprovoked invasion."

Approximately 1,050 British personnel will be conducting the training at a number of undisclosed locations across the UK, with each course lasting several weeks.

Control Panel

Tantrum over: Canada to return disputed Russian gas turbine to Germany

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© Sputnik / Alexander GalperinA worker of the Siemens Gas Turbines Technologies joint venture walks past a rotor of a turbine in a workshop in the Leningrad Region, Russia, May 24, 2018
Ottawa will send the Russian gas turbine to Germany to avoid breaching its own sanctions

The Canadian government has decided to sidestep its own restrictions by returning crucial equipment, needed for maintenance on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, to Russia via Germany, despite criticism and pressure from Ukraine.

Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson announced the move on Saturday evening, insisting it would guarantee "Europe's ability to access reliable and affordable energy as they continue to transition away from Russian oil and gas."

The decision follows Berlin's pleas for Ottawa to return Russian gas pipeline components amid a growing energy shortage. In the meantime, according to Reuters and Ukrainian news outlets, the government in Kiev was pressuring Canada not to return the equipment, arguing that the precedent would erode anti-Russia sanctions.