During the second day of the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on July 24th, South-African actress Charlize Theron praised the Netherlands for its "inclusion, multiculturalism and freedom of expression," claiming that the Dutch capital "was a beacon of openness and acceptance."

When it comes to serving the Left's culture war agenda, the Dutch are certainly very 'tolerant'. In early June, the city of Amsterdam permitted illegal immigrants to go on the rampage, breaking into at least 30 vacant buildings, and even into buildings that were occupied. The temporary mayor of Amsterdam Jozias van Aartsen didn't seem too bothered and even had his photograph taken with the spokesperson of this movement (called We Are Here). Squatting is actually illegal in the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands, "freedom of expression" of course also applies to pedophiles, just as the Dutch trade in child pornography is included in this big happy tolerance party.

The Dutch government sings a different tune, however, when dealing with people who hold beliefs that oppose the government stronghold.

In a recent appearance on FOX News, U.S. senator Ted Cruz stated categorically that Vladimir Putin was a KGB thug who said that the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 21st century was the dissolution of the Soviet Union (the quote and the warped timeline Cruz's own). The foregoing article should explain why Vladimir Putin may have said something of the sort. It is part 5 in a six-part series on Russia's 1990s transition from communism to capitalism, excerpted from Chapter 3 of my book, Grand Deception: the Truth About Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and Anti-Russia Sanctions. The book's previous incarnation was banned last summer.

Links to previous posts: introduction, part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.

"Does America want Russia to raise its living standards and consume most of its fuels and raw materials domestically? Or, does it see a chance to nail down its Cold War victory by destroying Russia's potential power to be a rival, by turning it into an exporter of oil, gas and other raw materials?" ~ Dr. Michael Hudson speaking before the Russian parliament, 15 March 1999.

"To make ends meet, professors had to become taxi drivers, nurses became prostitutes and art museums sold paintings right off their walls. Nearly every Russian was cowed and humiliated..." ~ Bill Browder, Red Notice

The transition program engineered by the American deep state and its Wall Street patrons was nothing short of catastrophic for Russia. The perfect storm of sudden price liberalization, drastic curtailment of government spending and bank credit, and opening of domestic markets to unrestricted foreign competition produced a toxic brew that devastated the Russian economy, destroyed its currency, and plunged much of the population into poverty and hunger. After 1992, Russian middle class saw their savings evaporate and their real wages halve - if they were fortunate enough to receive them at all.¹

'Novichok' survivor Charlie Rowley is in a "safe house" but has been denied access to television and newspapers, according to his brother. The ever-stranger case of the Salisbury-Amesbury poisonings gets curiouser and curiouser.

Whoever said 'Novichok' was a "military-grade lethal nerve agent" doesn't know their tables.

For a program which Boris Johnson told us had been 10 years in the making, had cost (presumably) millions of dollars to develop (and "train" agents to put poison on a doorknob), a 20-percent success rate must have been a bitter disappointment.

Four out of five of those affected by 'Novichok' - Sergei and Yulia Skripal, Detective Sergeant Bailey, and Charlie Rowley - have survived the contact, with only poor Dawn Sturgess, a homeless alcoholic, succumbing to its "deadly" effects.

The darling of the war party needs to answer some questions

At the press conference following their summit meeting in Helsinki, Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of resolving potential criminal cases involving citizens of the two countries by permitting interrogators from Washington and Moscow to participate in joint questioning of the individuals named in indictments prepared by the respective judiciaries. The predictable response by the American nomenklatura was that it was a horrible idea as it would potentially require U.S. officials to answer questions from Russians about their activities.

Putin argued, not unreasonably, that if Washington wants to extradite and talk to any of the twelve recently indicted GRU officers the Justice Department has named then reciprocity is in order for Americans and other identified individuals who are wanted by the Russian authorities for illegal activity while in Russia. And if Russian officials are fair game, so are American officials.

The detrimental effects that non-native electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) have on the cells of the human body are well-documented. The radiofrequency EMFs emitted from mobile devices, computers and wifi routers have been associated with a wide range of illnesses, including brain cancers and neuropsychiatric disorders. Upon exposure to this radiation, our cells begin to flood with calcium ions and become excited - sometimes to the point of burnout and eventual death.

Considering these human effects, it would be safe to assume that EMFs also influence the homeostasis of bacterial cells. And with all of the cutting-edge research coming out about the importance of the microbiome and host-bacteria relationships for maintaining health, it would be wise to examine some of the established effects.

Despite having one of the toughest gun export laws in the world, Germany enjoys a comfy place among the top weapon exporters. How is that possible? A newly released Redfish documentary has some of the answers.

"The laws are very strict and the practice is very-very leisure and very easy. Everyone was wondering how could it be that Germany has one of the strictest laws and always, depending on the ranking, is number three, in small arms is even number two of the biggest world arms trades and weapon producers? So, where's the gap?" lawyer Holger Rothbauer told the Germany-based investigative journalism team Redfish.

Who was Sergei Magnitsky, and why are we supposed to believe he was a hero?

The official story:

• Bill Browder was an American businessman who ran a hedgefund in Russia.
• Corrupt Russian cops, with the help of the Russian mafia, stole his business through a convoluted fraud scheme.
• The lead cop grew rich from his stolen money.
• Sergei Magnitsky was one of Browder's lawyers.
• Magnitsky reported the fraud to the Russian government.
• Magnitsky was arrested and brutally treated in jail.
• 7 riot cops beat Magnitsky to death while he was handcuffed.
• The official cause of death listed 'heart failure'.
• Browder has since spent all his time and money lobbying Western governments to sanction Russian individuals in honor of Magnitsky, and scored a major breakthrough when US Congress passed the first round of anti-Russia sanctions via the Magnitsky Act in 2012.

Andrei Nekrasov, the Russian film-maker and director of this documentary (The Magnitsky Act - Behind the Scenes) set out as a believer in Browder's story about the heroic Magnitsky and the evil Russian government. In the course of making a dramatic movie about it, however, Nekrasov and his crew realized that many details didn't add up. And so their production evolved into an investigative documentary...

We knew it was going to provoke those vested in isolating Russia and keeping the US president on a leash, but we didn't know it would set off such a firestorm. Trump's brief meeting with Putin last Monday should really just be a footnote to the fact that trade, security, and diplomatic relations between the two countries are at an all-time low. Instead, the 'Washington Consensus' reacted as if the whole world had been turned upside-down!

This week on NewsReal with Joe and Niall, we're discussing the fallout and trying to understand why certain people consider a meeting between the world's largest nuclear powers as 'treason'.


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The following article is part 4 in a six-part series on Russia's transition from communism to capitalism during the 1990s. Links to previous posts: introduction, part 1, part 2, part 3. It is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of my book, Grand Deception: the Truth About Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and Anti-Russia Sanctions. The book's previous incarnation was banned last summer by some of the same actors we'll be discussing today. This post should prove relevant today, in light of hysterical rebukes of President Trump's recent summit with his Russian counter part in Finland, particularly regarding the role and trustworthiness of the so-called "intelligence community."

Now, why does the west applaud Gorbachev and Yeltsin? Do you think that the West wants Soviet people to live in luxury, be well fed? Not remotely! The West wants the Soviet Union to break up. Gorbachev and Yeltsin get a pat on the back because the West thinks they are destroying the country. - Alexander Zinoviev, March 1990 on French TV channel Antenne 2 during a debate with Boris Yeltsin

Western commentators usually focus on the period from 1991 to 2000 and blame the administration of Bill Clinton for mismanaging their aid to Russia. However, blaming the Clinton administration is a bit like reading a book from the middle rather than from the beginning. To understand the U.S. government's role in the Russian tragedy, we have to go at least ten years back, to the beginnings of the administration of President Ronald Reagan. We must also distinguish between the legitimate U.S. government, and an illegal, parallel structure of power operating within it. For a long time, this "secret government" could not be discussed in polite society because its existence was deemed a wild conspiracy theory.

But that all changed in the fall of 1986 when an American supply plane got shot down over Nicaragua and Reagan's illegal arm sales to Iran became exposed. These events brought to light the "Iran-Contra" affair. A full congressional investigation was launched and its proceedings revealed the existence of a parallel power structure operating unlawfully within legitimate government structure. For the first time, the actions of this network, also referred to as shadow government, deep state or the Enterprise, came out on record and could no longer be dismissed as mere conspiracy theory.

While only 11% of Americans trust Congress, a whopping 74% have a "great deal or quite a lot of" trust in the military, which also vastly outperforms newspapers (23%) and even the US Supreme Court (37%). Similarly, the CIA and the FBI get an "excellent" rating from 58% of Americans. While reverence for the military is quite common all over the world - perhaps related to evolutionary fear - it behooves us to be a bit more critical and objective. Like the Old Testament characters who never asked Moses for evidence regarding the burning bush, Americans blindly accept all verdicts from the intelligence agencies. The rise of the colossal military and the "Deep State" are new phenomenons in American history, and a dispassionate scrutiny underscores the need for more vigilance on our part.