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Dangerous Illusions

Timothy Garton Ash's controversial vision for Ukraine's future exposes the reckless implications of his call for intensified conflict and Western expansionism.
Timothy Garton Ash
© Spiegel.deTimothy Garton Ash
The world has always had a plethora of problems. The fact that human beings are still here is proof of God's existence. For without some mighty unseen hand holding our planet together, the lunatics would indeed have already destroyed us. And they still may. Reading the most recent op-ed by Timothy Garton Ash at The Guardian, the lines of Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage" echo in his words about destroying what's left of Ukraine.
The lunatic is in the hall

The lunatics are in my hall

The paper holds their folded faces to the floor

And every day, the paperboy brings more
Garton Ash mirrors the knee-buckling fear that now grips the hegemony

Time Magazine assured us (by proclaiming him all-powerful) that writer, historian, and British Intelligence operative Garton Ash is one of those folded faces littering the halls of the palaces of the Western elites. The former Hoover Institution and Oxford professor has now gone sure enough bonkers in a piece that recommends Armageddon in Ukraine can bring us all to the promised land. This passage from "What if Russia wins in Ukraine? We can already see the shadows of a dark 2025" is prophetic, only not in the way the self-acclaimed "liberal internationalist" foresees. This raving lunatic offers a "what if" glimpse into the Medusa mind of the liberal world order. Imagine if you can...
"In five years, the country joins the EU, and then, under a new US administration, starts the process of entering Nato. Most of Ukraine becomes a sovereign, independent, free country, firmly anchored in the West."
Yes, the man thinks that. The batshit crazy liberal lords and hedge fund trillionaires running the show from Washington and at Oxford can discuss an Ukraine in NATO, even after a million are dead, as if Russia does not even exist! It's as if their giant squirmy brains have just willed it - "Presto!" - Zelensky must be the end and the beginning. Holy shit. Profanity is the only language capable of conveying the lunacy, the raw evil, and the contriving hatred of not just Russians but humanity itself.

Biohazard

Africa is 'new focus' of US biolab activities - Moscow

Major General Aleksey Rtishchev's briefing
© Russian Ministry of DefenseMajor General Aleksey Rtishchev's briefing
Washington's system of managing biological risks in other countries was tested in Ukraine and Georgia, the Russian military says

Africa has become a focal point of interest for the US government, which views the region as an unlimited natural reservoir of dangerous pathogens and a testing ground for experimental medical treatments, the Russian military has reported.

The Russian Ministry of Defense continues to scrutinize the military-biological activities of the US in Ukraine and other regions worldwide. Previously, attention was drawn to the transfer of unfinished Ukrainian projects to post-Soviet states and Southeast Asia.

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24 Dec, 2024 10:28
US biolab activity in Africa: Russia's country-by-country analysis
The continent is the new focus of American biolab activities, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has claimed

The US is significantly expanding its military-biological presence in Africa, raising concerns about sovereignty and healthcare dependencies among participating nations, new analysis from the Russian military has claimed.

According to documents presented on Tuesday, the US is collaborating with local ministries, private contractors, and Big Pharma companies to implement American standards in biological safety and health management in Africa.

The documents indicate that the US military-biological presence on the African continent is rapidly expanding. Studies on the resistance of pathogenic microorganisms to medical drugs are reportedly being conducted in 18 African countries, while funding is provided through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Here is a breakdown of the countries mentioned in the report from the Russian military.

Ghana and Djibouti

Branches of the US Navy Medical Center are located in these countries, where work is being conducted to isolate and sequence pathogens in natural disease hotspots.

Nigeria

In 2024, a joint medical research center and a military medical laboratory were established in Nigeria, staffed by US Defense Department specialists. Additionally, the country is funded for HIV projects, where Nigerian citizens participate in clinical trials of drugs by the Pentagon-affiliated company Gilead.

Senegal

A $35 million laboratory complex is nearing completion, implemented by Pentagon contractors.

Zambia

The US has begun active research into highly dangerous pathogens, funding the enhancement of military medical institutions and retraining healthcare personnel, according to the Russian report.

South Africa

The US is organizing joint research on the mpox virus (formerly known as monkeypox). Washington has delivered 10,000 doses of a vaccine produced by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic.

Guinea

The US has invested $40 million in healthcare while simultaneously launching a project to study Lassa Fever. Washington's efforts are mainly directed to undermine Russian-Guinean economic cooperation, Moscow claims.

Kenya

The US Army Medical Center has deployed a network of field stations to monitor the spread of infectious diseases in Equatorial African states.

According to Moscow, one of the "real clients" behind military-biological projects is the Metabiota company. Its requests are reportedly directed towards the US Army's Infectious Diseases Research Institute, and concerns the training of infectious disease specialists in Kenya and Uganda.

Moscow stressed that Metabiota has currently ceased its activities in Africa. Major General Aleksey Rtishchev, who conducted the briefing from the Russia's Ministry of Defense, described a report by an international group of experts who participated in combating the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2014. According to the report, the company's personnel concealed their engagement with Pentagon employees. The primary goal of this activity was to isolate virulent strains and subsequently smuggle them. As a result, Ebola virus samples were illegally exported by company representatives and handed over to the US Army's Infectious Diseases Research Institute.
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24 Dec, 2024 14:41
US fears exposure of illegal bioweapon projects in Africa - Moscow
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Pentagon is testing "dangerous pathogens" in over a dozen countries across the continent

The US is growing increasingly concerned about joint efforts by Russia and China with African nations to expose Washington's alleged secret military and biological activities on the continent, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.

The accusations were laid out in a document presented on Tuesday by Major General Aleksey Rtishchev, the deputy chief of Moscow's Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops.

According to the report, while the US claims its initiatives are aimed at monitoring infectious diseases and providing assistance to African countries, it is actually expanding its military-biological capabilities in violation of the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention (BTWC).

"The Americans are particularly concerned about the work carried out by Russia and China with the states of the continent to expose the true content of the military-biological programs of the United States in connection with the possible restriction of the Pentagon's activities in this area," Rtishchev stated.

He warned Moscow's "African partners against cooperation with the United States in the military-biological sphere," adding that "such cooperation turns out to be a loss of national sovereignty in the sphere of biosecurity and worsening of the disease situation."

Moscow and Beijing have repeatedly demanded greater transparency from the US and its allies regarding their military biological activities. Earlier this year, the two countries agreed to unite against biological security threats and strengthen the BTWC, a 1972 treaty signed by 109 nations to block the development of bioweapons.

Last year, the Russian Defense Ministry drew attention to the transfer of Washington's dual-purpose biological research projects from Ukraine to Africa under the guise of public health programs.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the former head of the Russian Army's Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops who was recently killed in an explosion, stated that the relocation was in response to Moscow's efforts to expose the Pentagon's illegal operations in the European region.

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Below is a list of previous articles on SOTT.net where the words biolab and bioweapons appear in the title: 4) To the above one might add articles like: 5) Fertility may also connect to the concept of depopulation


Dollars

Failing Pelosi luxury resort was bailed out with government Covid grants

Auberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel pelosi covid grant
© aubergeresorts.comAuberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel located in Napa Valley, California
The Auberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel and spa with a panoramic view overlooking the vineyards of Napa Valley, appears to be first-rate in all ways but one. While the glamorous resort, an hour's drive from San Francisco, fills rooms that routinely go for $2,000 a night with A-list celebrities and tech titans, financial records suggest it did not provide much of a return to at least two of its investors - Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul. That changed when it received millions in congressionally authorized COVID-19 relief in 2020 and 2021.

The Auberge du Soleil investment, held for decades by Paul Pelosi, has rarely turned a significant profit, according to Nancy's financial disclosure forms. In some years, he has recorded a loss or a profit of between $50,000 to $100,000. But the year of the bailout money stands apart. In 2021, Pelosi's ethics forms show that her family's income from the resort surged to a range of $1 million to $5 million.

Comment: Vodka Nan used her grip as Speaker in myriad ways to enrich herself, while the district she supposedly represents slides further into squalor.
homeless san francisco
© Media News GroupA homeless camp at Market Street and 5th Street in Oakland is seen in a file photo. Nearby San Francisco has seen an explosion in homelessness
homeless san francisco
The tents and belongings of the homeless population line the streets in the city of San Francisco. Homeless camps occupy the sidewalk next door to city buildings in every area of the city.



Black Cat 2

Bait-and-switch: Biden admin bails on student loan forgiveness plans

biden student loanforgiveness
© BloombergThe Biden administration announced it canceled $4.28 billion in student loan debt on Friday for public service workers, but leaves other groups in the lurch.
The Biden administration has abandoned two significant student loan forgiveness plans.

Proposed regulations would have permitted the U.S. Department of Education to cancel student loans for multiple groups of borrowers.

CNBC noted that the proposed regulations included individuals who had been in repayment for decades and were facing financial hardship.

Snakes in Suits

Report: House Speaker Johnson Shielded Dishonest J6 Committee 'Star Witness' from GOP Subpoena

Cassidy Hutchinson
© APCassidy Hutchinson
Over the last two years, the Republican-controlled House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight found numerous inconsistencies and outright lies in the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, who was the Democrat-controlled January 6th Commission's "star witness" in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021.

The Oversight Subcommittee apparently wanted to subpoena Hutchinson about her testimony. But according to a Tuesday report from Breitbart, House Speaker Mike Johnson blocked that from moving forward.

Breitbart noted that the Oversight Subcommittee's recent final report on Jan. 6 mentions Hutchinson by name 268 times, but didn't reference bringing her in for questioning.

"Johnson (R-LA) personally intervened to block the subcommittee from issuing a subpoena to Hutchinson," Breitbart reported, citing an unnamed source. "Johnson, in a statement to Breitbart News, called that claim 'clearly false.'"

Arrow Down

Resolution on 'Combating glorification of Nazism' at the UN

UN Votes
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On December 17, during the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the resolution titled "Combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" was adopted at the Russian Federation's initiative.

In addition to Russia, 39 countries from various regions of the world co-authored the document, including Azerbaijan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Venezuela, Vietnam, Guinea, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Cameroon, Kyrgyzstan, China, the DPRK, Congo, Cuba, Laos, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Serbia, Syria, Sudan, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, the Central African Republic, Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and South Africa.

The resolution was supported by 119 states, with 53 delegations voting against and ten countries abstaining.

The document strongly reaffirmed its condemnation of the glorification of the Nazi movement and the attempts to rehabilitate former SS members, including the Waffen-SS units, which were declared criminal by the Nuremberg Tribunal.

The participants of the resolution expressed grave concern over the continued targeting of monuments dedicated to those who fought against Nazism and fascism, as well as soldiers liberators - acts that have evolved into official state policies in recent years.

Additionally, the resolution voiced profound indignation at events glorifying Nazis and their collaborators, such as neo-Nazi marches, torchlight processions, and gatherings of radical nationalists.

Bad Guys

Operation Choke Point 2.0: How the Feds Are Seeking to 'Debank' Targeted Industries

bitcoin
Afederal initiative that began during the Obama administration with the goal of debanking certain industries disfavored by federal officials has apparently been resurrected and is taking aim at cryptocurrencies.

Operation Choke Point was started by the U.S. Dept. of Justice in 2013 as a way to put pressure on banks to sever their ties, without due process, with legal businesses like gun dealers, cannabis dispensaries and payday lenders which the administration found objectionable.

That initiative was ended by President Trump in 2017 but under the Biden administration, it appears that Operation Choke Point 2.0 has begun with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) sending letters to U.S. banks in 2022, urging them to "pause all crypto-related activity."

Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) told Fox Business that the regulatory abuse is real and that President-elect Trump will put an end to this type of regulatory abuse.

Dollars

Best of the Web: Trump resurrects idea of buying Greenland


Comment: We're trying not to laugh. Obviously, Greenlanders and Danes won't find this funny. But still...


Greenland
© ViaMichelin.com
Controlling the world's largest island is an "absolute necessity" for the US, the president-elect has said

US President-elect Donald Trump has said that it is essential for Washington from a national security standpoint to take ownership of Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

During his first term, Trump repeatedly voiced his intention to buy Greenland, calling the possible purchase "a large real estate deal." He argued that the Danish government would be eager to part with the world's largest island as providing funding for it hurts them "really badly."

However, the authorities in both Denmark and Greenland outright rejected the sale, to which the then-US president reacted by canceling his state visits to Copenhagen in 2019.

Trump, however, returned to the idea of the US acquiring the autonomous territory in a post on his TruthSocial platform on Sunday. "For purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the US feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," he wrote.

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23 Dec, 2024 17:45
Greenland hits back at Trump threat
The autonomous Danish Arctic island has announced it's "not for sale"

Greenland has rejected any idea of selling out to Washington after US President-elect Donald Trump said control over the Arctic island would be in his country's strategic and national interest.

The autonomous territory of Denmark is sparsely inhabited and mostly covered by snow and ice. Trump has raised the issue of buying the island in his first term at the White House.

"Greenland is ours," the island's prime minister Mute Egede said in a statement quoted by AFP on Monday. "We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom."

Announcing the nomination of the new US ambassador to Denmark on Sunday, Trump said that "ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity" for the US, "for purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world."

Trump did not specifically mention an offer to buy Greenland and it was unclear whether his phrasing implied the willingness of his incoming government to seize the island by force from Denmark, a fellow NATO member.

In August 2019, one of Trump's aides confirmed that the then-president wanted to "take a look at a potential Greenland purchase," describing it as "a strategic place" with a lot of valuable minerals.

The island sits on top of several strategic trade routes in the Arctic Ocean, as well as significant deposits of uranium and precious metals. Control over the island would also allow the US to claim around 900,000 square kilometers of the adjacent continental shelf.

Though Greenland is over 2.1 million square kilometers in size, it has only around 55,000 residents, almost 90% of them Inuit. Greenland has been recognized as Danish territory since the 1814 Treaty of Kiel. It was administered as a colony until 1953 and has enjoyed home rule since 1979. Since 2009, the island has also had a parliament and a government managing internal affairs, law enforcement, and coast guard duties. Greenland has two deputies in the Danish parliament and relies on Copenhagen for its security, foreign and monetary policy, and more than half its budget.

The island formally left the EU's economic precursor in 1985 due to a dispute over fishing rights, but remains tied to the bloc as part of Denmark.

Greenland has no borders with the US, but it does with Canada. The talk about Greenland (In Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]) becoming a part of the US could be a warning to Canada as well.
Considering the historical trajectory of US foreign policy there are many examples of how interference in the affairs of foreign states has been carried out. Just because there is resistance in Nuuk, the capital, does not mean a takeover of some kind will not be attempted.

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Top Danish think tank: Denmark better keep eye on 'unpredictable' US as Russia only wants stability in the Arctic (Jan 2020) which has:
DIIS, which prepares researches for Denmark's government and parliament, said that Washington remains a key ally to Copenhagen, but acknowledged that it's not always easy to work with the Americans.

"The US is unpredictable and, as experience shows, isn't too sensitive towards the national and local priorities and interests of the host countries."
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The think tank advised Denmark and other northern nations - Iceland, Finland and Norway - to carefully monitor not only the regional activities of Russia and China, but the US as well, the think tank said.

It's paramount for Denmark to boost its own potential in the Arctic in order to lower the dependence on the US and NATO, DIIS researches said in the report. They also suggested that the government develops a set of principles that would influence American drills and other military moves on the Danish territory more actively.
Since the report, the US has established bilateral military agreements with the Scandinavian countries including securing access to and presence at a number airfields. It would seem that the development has been 180 degrees opposite to what was recommended by the think tank. A few months before the above report, there was: 3) Below are other headlines from old articles related to Greenland
The Air Force said that most of the sightings remained 'unidentified' because the details were not precise enough. However, some of the reports contained enough description to rule out the UFOs as aircraft, weather phenomenon or paper lanterns. Not all of the sightings were centred over Denmark and one event over Greenland is attracting attention.

On the 5 January, 1981 at 12:50 a flaming, square disc was seen approximately 45 degrees over the frozen land near Thule Air Base. It then vanished as suddenly as it had appeared.

Coincidentally, radar stations at the American base recorded an unidentified flying object on its radar at 12:50.



Bullseye

The 'king-makers' pull the rug from Syria, yet again... A 'Greek tragedy' begins

Jeffrey/Syriaflag
© Shutterstock/KJNJames Jeffrey former US Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey • The end of Syria
Syria has been disintegrated and pillaged in the name of 'liberating' Syrians from the threat of ISIS, which they - Washington - had installed in the first place.

James Jeffrey, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, in a March 2021 interview with PBS Frontline, laid out very plainly the template for what has just happened in Syria this month:
"Syria, given its size, its strategic location, its historical importance, is the pivot point for whether [there can be] an American-managed security system in the region ... And so you've got this general alliance that is locked in with us. But ... the stress point is greatest in Syria."
Jeffrey explained (in the 2021 interview) why the U.S. shifted its to support to Jolani and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS):
"We got Mike Pompeo to issue a waiver to allow us to give aid to HTS - I received and sent messages to HTS" -The messages coming back from HTS were: 'We [HTS] want to be your friend. We're not terrorists. We're just fighting Assad'."

Comment: Scope, magnitude, timeframe, deception...just jaw dropping!


Explosion

Netanyahu orders destruction of Houthi infrastructure

Netanyahu
© Lev Radin/Getty ImagesBenjamin Netanyahu arrives on stage to address the UN General Assembly in New York City • September 27, 2024
The Israeli premier has vowed to hit the Yemeni militants "with full force".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to "destroy the infrastructure" of Yemen's Houthi militants, he told parliament on Monday. The Houthis struck Tel Aviv with a ballistic missile on Friday.

Netanyahu said in a speech to lawmakers:
"I have instructed our forces to destroy the infrastructure of the Houthis because anyone who tries to harm us will be struck with full force. We will continue to crush the forces of evil with strength and ingenuity, even if it takes time."
Two days earlier, Yemen's Houthi movement claimed responsibility for a ballistic missile attack on what they called a military target in the Jaffa area of Tel Aviv:
"The missile struck its target accurately and the defenses and interception systems failed to intercept it."
The missile attack was the latest in a series of tit-for-tat exchanges between the militants and the IDF. Less than a day beforehand, Israeli warplanes attacked ports and power infrastructure in Yemen, in response to a Houthi missile attack that set off air raid sirens across Israel before the projectile was intercepted.

Comment: Starting a war is easy. To stop one...is death-defying.