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title: Canada’s Russophobic policy limits space for Arctic cooperation — Russian envoy
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>OTTAWA, March 29. /TASS/. Russia due to Canada’s Russophobic policy sees no partner for Arctic cooperation in it, though unlike Ottawa, Moscow is a self-reliant player in the region, being able to independently choose who to work with, Russian Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov told TASS as he commented on a statement by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that Ottawa did not plan to cooperate with Moscow in the Arctic.</p>
<p>"Those feelings are mutual. The Russophobic policy of the present liberal cabinet, which is temporary in fact, formed under the previous prime minister [Justine Trudeau], does not allow Russia to see an associate in the matters of high latitude in the Canadian side," he said. "But what is important is that Russia, unlike Canada, is absolutely self-reliant in the Arctic. We can independently choose who to keep company with there, and who to cooperate constructively with, while Canada has no such opportunity," the diplomat added.</p>
<p>Carney said earlier that Canada’s authorities did not intend to cooperate with Russia on the Arctic-related issues as it is not a like-minded nation.</p>


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title: Don’t Fall for the British Trap — International Peace Coalition Meeting #95
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title: Con il nuovo Piano d’azione dell’export, l’Italia guarda finalmente ai BRICS?
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<p><strong><em>Roma oggi collabora con i BRICS in modo selettivo e cauto, temendo le ire di Washington e Bruxelles, ma non può fare a meno di notare come il multipolarismo offra spazi d’azione politica, economica e commerciale</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em> </span><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>L’Italia è una potenza mondiale dell’export che vale circa il 40% del PIL nazionale, il 6° esportatore a livello globale con 121.000 imprese esportatrici, di cui circa la metà sono PMI; si tratta di un traino decisivo per la sua economia e per l’equilibrio della bilancia dei pagamenti.</p>
<p>L’Italia si vanta anche di essere la seconda economia al mondo e la prima in Europa per diversificazione merceologica di beni esportati, in pratica in ogni settore.</p>
<p>Tuttavia, l’insistere del Paese verso la geopolitica atlantista sta mostrando le corde e l’Italia arriva da 24 mesi di calo consecutivo della produzione industriale, bassi salari e aumento dei prezzi quali conseguenze delle sanzioni alla Russia, dei dazi alla Cina e della inevitabile recessione della Germania di cui le regioni padane sono strategiche subfornitrici.</p>
<p>Con 623,5 miliardi di euro, l’export italiano nel 2024 ha registrato soltanto una lieve riduzione in valore (-0,4%), risultante da una moderata contrazione nell’area UE e grazie al record dell’export verso i Paesi extra UE, con 305,4 miliardi di euro (+1,2%). Si è registrato un sensibile aumento dell’avanzo commerciale a 54,9 miliardi (+61%) per effetto del calo delle importazioni e della riduzione del deficit energetico.</p>
<p>Nei giorni scorsi, perciò, il Ministero degli Esteri di Roma ha presentato ufficialmente il Piano d’azione per l’export italiano, che ha l’obiettivo di portare il valore delle esportazioni a 700 miliardi di euro entro la fine dell’attuale Legislatura, espandendo la presenza delle aziende tricolori in una serie di economie caratterizzate da alti tassi di crescita e da un forte potenziale di sviluppo per il Made in Italy.</p>
<p>Naturalmente, gli annunciati dazi doganali della Presidenza Trump sono alla base del rinnovato slancio governativo: il surplus commerciale italiano con gli U.S.A. vale 38,8 miliardi di euro, una fetta non indifferente del quale rischia di svanire a causa del protezionismo della Casa Bianca.</p>
<p>Il Piano d’azione si propone invece di accelerare la penetrazione delle esportazioni italiane in mercati ad alto potenziale, individuando quali Paesi emergenti più promettenti in tale chiave: India e Cina; Messico e Brasile (più in generale, Mercosur e America Latina); Turchia; EAU ed Arabia Saudita (più in generale i Paesi del Golfo); Paesi ASEAN (in particolare Thailandia, Vietnam, Indonesia e Filippine); taluni Paesi dell’Africa (in particolare Sudafrica e Algeria), Balcani Occidentali (in particolare Serbia) e Asia Centrale. In molti di questi Paesi sono in corso – o sono stati finalizzati a livello tecnico – negoziati per la conclusione o l’ammodernamento di accordi di libero scambio di ampia portata con l’Unione Europea ma nell’implementazione di questo processo l’Italia non può subordinarsi alle tempistiche della farraginosa diplomazia di Bruxelles.</p>
<p>Se analizziamo, infatti, i dati dell’export italiano nel 2024, constatiamo l’importanza di iniziare finalmente a diversificare i Paesi di destinazione (storicamente Germania e Stati Uniti): Turchia (17,6 mld €, + 23,9%), Emirati Arabi Uniti (7,9 mld €, +19,4%), Messico (6,6 mld €, +7,4%), Arabia Saudita (6,2 mld €, +27,9%), Brasile (5,8 mld €, +8,1%), India (5,2 mld €, +1%), Algeria (2,9 mld €, +2,7%), Sudafrica (2,2 mld €, -0,6%), Paesi ASEAN (10,7 mld €, +10,3%), Vietnam (1,5 mld €, +25,8%), Indonesia (1,2 mld €, -9,9%), Filippine (0,9 mld €, +10,4%), Balcani occidentali (6,5 mld €, +13,4%), Serbia (2,7 mld €, +17,4%) e Asia Centrale (2,16 mld €, +11,3%).</p>
<p>Seppure si tratti di una necessità dovuta a motivazioni meno “nobili” rispetto al passato, la rinnovata attenzione dell’Italia al Sud del Mondo può scoprire ed apprezzare le potenzialità insite in una sana cooperazione con il Gruppo dei BRICS plus.</p>
<p>Questa forte vocazione all’export in una prospettiva orientata sempre più al Sud globale, rende evidente la necessità per l’Italia di lavorare, come ha spesso fatto durante la Prima Repubblica, per una politica globale di pace, mediazione e stabilità, condizioni necessarie per fare affari con tutti e non subire le devastanti conseguenze economiche dei conflitti scatenati o indotti dalla NATO.</p>
<p>L’Italia può ritrovare il suo ruolo tradizionale di ponte tra Oriente ed Occidente, con una forte propensione all’Africa, naturale sbocco geopolitico di un Paese a vocazione mediterranea. Ma per farlo davvero occorrono diverse condizioni.</p>
<p>Innanzitutto bisogna prendere atto dell’esistenza di nuovi strumenti finanziari come il Brics Pay, progetto ambizioso che mira a creare una piattaforma di pagamento digitale multivalutaria che collegherà le infrastrutture finanziarie di Brasile, Russia, India, Cina e Sudafrica e dei nuovi Paesi membri. Quindi, un’alternativa ai sistemi finanziari occidentali come Swift, particolarmente apprezzata proprio dai Paesi africani che negli ultimi anni sono stati gravati dal debito denominato in dollari e dalle fluttuazioni dei tassi di cambio, con un aggravamento dell’inflazione e del peso del debito estero. L’adozione di valute locali o regionali per il commercio all’interno del continente – al contrario – potrebbe ridurre i costi e aumentare la stabilità economica. I Brics stanno investendo in infrastrutture digitali e tecnologie finanziarie che potrebbero portare vantaggi all’Africa se adottate in modo strategico, aiutandola ad evitare le trappole delle vecchie istituzioni finanziarie globali.</p>
<p>Già con il Piano Mattei, l’Italia aveva dimostrato la sua volontà di dedicare maggiore attenzione e un approccio più strutturato nei confronti del Continente africano e in particolare su 6 macrosettori: istruzione e formazione, salute, acqua, agricoltura, energia e infrastrutture, con la possibilità di allacciare collaborazioni congiunte con Pechino (economicamente molto presente in Africa) grazie alle clausole contenute nel Partenariato Strategico Globale Italia-Cina e a strumenti finanziari come i panda bonds (1).</p>
<p>Ciò implica anche un cambiamento di tipo culturale: la fine della logica eurocentrica e della mentalità colonialista occidentale che tanti danni ha arrecato non solo al Sud del mondo ma agli stessi Paesi a sovranità limitata come l’Italia del dopoguerra.</p>
<p>Roma oggi collabora con i BRICS in modo selettivo e cauto, temendo le ire di Washington e Bruxelles, ma non può fare a meno di notare come il multipolarismo offra spazi d’azione politica, economica e commerciale indispensabili nelle dinamiche odierne e non solo in prospettiva futura. Una strategia dell’oscillazione nei rapporti geopolitici le consentirebbe di ritrovare autorevolezza e autonomia nei confronti degli “alleati” tradizionali, i quali tradiscono ormai evidentemente la loro natura predatrice e puramente opportunistica nelle relazioni internazionali.</p>
<p>(1) “Sulla base del memorandum d’intesa sulla cooperazione nei mercati terzi sottoscritto nel 2018, le parti continueranno a offrire sostegno agli elenchi di progetti prioritari concordati e a supportare le rispettive aziende che intendono realizzare progetti di cooperazione in Paesi terzi”.</p>
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title: Myanmar quake kills over 1,000, aftershocks follow
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<p>Myanmar's powerful magnitude-7.7 earthquake has killed over 1,000 people, with the death toll continuing to rise amid ongoing rescue efforts.</p>
<p>The military government reported on Saturday that 1,002 people have been confirmed dead, 2,376 injured and 30 others are missing.</p>
<p>The earthquake struck midday on Friday, followed by several aftershocks, including one measuring a strong magnitude-6.4.</p>
<p>In Thailand, the quake rocked the greater Bangkok area, leaving six people dead, 26 injured and 47 still missing.</p>
<p>Several countries, including China, Malaysia and Russia, have dispatched rescuers and relief teams.</p>
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title: Russia open to cooperation with US to ensure security in Arctic — embassy
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Russia is open to cooperation with the United States on ensuring stability in the Arctic region, Russia’s embassy in Denmark told Izvestiya.</p>
<p>"Russia assumes that security in the Arctic should be built by joint efforts of countries of the region through dialogue and cooperation. Russia is open to cooperation with the US on a mutually beneficial basis in the interests of ensuring stability and sustainable development of the Arctic," the embassy said amid reports of a visit by the American delegation to Greenland.</p>
<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this week that he is convinced that the United States would keep promoting its military, political and economic interests in the Arctic Region. The president also commented on Washington’s plans to gain control over Greenland, noting that it was a matter for the two sovereign states - Denmark and the United States - to decide. It "has no relation" to Russia, Putin added.</p>


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title: Russian army advances cautiously in Chasovy Yar — military expert
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>LUGANSK, March 29. /TASS/. Russian servicemen are advancing cautiously and systematically in Chasovy Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic, thus preserving the lives of servicemen, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS.</p>
<p>"Regarding Chasov Yar: there is a planned liberation of this settlement. First of all, our servicemen are advancing very cautiously. Thanks to such decisions of the command, we are preserving the lives of our troops. &lt;...&gt; We have successes in mopping up the areas that we have liberated, and at the moment these processes continue," he said.</p>
<p>Marochko noted that due to the ongoing active fighting in Chasovy Yar, it is currently difficult to count the area liberated and mopped up of Ukrainian troops. On March 8, he told TASS that no more than 15% of the town was under Ukrainian control.</p>


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<p>Novak Djokovic of Serbia hits a shot against Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria in the men's singles semifinals at the Miami Open in Miami, Florida, March 28, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Novak Djokovic of Serbia is one win away from a 100th career singles title, after breezing past Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-3 on Friday to reach the Miami Open men's singles final.</p>
<p>After having his serve broken to start the match, Djokovic quickly settled down, breaking back in the next game and later doing so again to grab a 4-2 advantage on a mis-hit forehand by the 14th-seeded Dimitrov.</p>
<p>The Serbian wrapped up the opener when his Bulgarian opponent's volley sailed long, and he maintained the momentum in the second set to jump out to a 3-0 lead.</p>
<p>Djokovic pounded an unreturnable serve on his second match point to improve to 13-1 in career meetings with Dimitrov.</p>
<p>The fourth seed's serving masterclass in South Florida showed no sign of letting up in the semifinals. He missed just six first serves while pounding five aces and only committing one double fault.</p>
<p>"After that first game, where I don't think I did anything wrong, he just played a phenomenal game to break my serve. I just felt I was in the flow," Djokovic said. "I was playing all the right shots, making him play an extra shot ... overall another great straight-set win to put myself in a fantastic position to fight for a trophy in two days."</p>
<p>The 37-year-old superstar has competed in 307 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour-level tournaments in his storied career, triumphing in 99. And among the 76 Grand Slams he has entered, the Serbian has won a men's record 24.</p>
<p>American great Jimmy Connors won 109 singles titles during the Open Era while Swiss legend Roger Federer captured 103.</p>
<p>Djokovic will be heavily favored in Sunday's final (against the Czech Republic's Jakub Mensik) to win a seventh Miami Open crown, which would break a tie with Andre Agassi for most titles at the Masters 1000 event.</p>
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title: Power couple: How India and Russia reignited their atomic bond
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<p><strong>As New Delhi accelerates its nuclear program, a legacy of cooperation with Moscow should remain key to its strategy</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>In an era of shifting geopolitics and global climate imperatives, India and Russia stand at the forefront of a nuclear energy revolution. New Delhi has <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/power/india-to-build-five-bharat-nuclear-reactors-with-private-participation-soon-govt/articleshow/119609160.cms?from=mdr">announced</a> that it is planning to build five indigenously-manufactured small modular reactors (SMR) – named Bharat nuclear reactors – in the next few years with the help of private participation. The ambitious plan to generate 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2047 is functional with a 170% increase in the nuclear energy budget in the last decade. </p>
<p>The country’s<a href="https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/Budget_Speech.pdf"> federal budget</a> for the 2025 financial year has laid the groundwork for a nuclear renaissance. This includes a substantial 200 billion rupees ($2.3 billion) allocation for SMR development – India aims to operationalize at least <a href="https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/Budget_Speech.pdf">five indigenous SMRs by 2033</a>, the document states. The budget also proposed reforms to attract private investments, signaling India’s decisive shift towards energy independence. </p>
<p>A crucial aspect of this vision is deepening ties with Russia, India’s most enduring nuclear partner. For Russia, India’s nuclear push presents an opportunity to further cement its position as a pivotal partner in India’s energy future, leveraging decades of successful collaboration.</p>
<h2>Technology partnership</h2>
<p>India and Russia’s nuclear partnership dates to the late 1980s, culminating in the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), a testament to their shared commitment to peaceful nuclear energy. Rosatom built the 2,000 MW Kudankulam units, with four more reactors under construction, reinforcing Russia’s reputation as a reliable partner.</p>

            
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<p>Russia’s <a href="https://chemindigest.com/rosatom-proposes-smr-technology-transfer-to-india/">Rosatom</a>, already a key player in India’s nuclear landscape, has shown interest in developing SMRs for India’s diverse energy needs, particularly for powering remote regions and decarbonizing heavy industries. With Rosatom’s expertise in floating SMRs like the <a href="https://www.power-technology.com/projects/akademik-lomonosov-nuclear-co-generation-russia/">Akademik Lomonosov</a>, Russia can help India fast-track SMR deployment, bringing flexible and scalable nuclear power to underserved areas.</p>
<p>The Indian government’s push for SMRs aligns seamlessly with Russia’s technological leadership. Russia has pioneered lead-cooled fast reactors and floating nuclear plants, technologies that can address India’s geographic and industrial energy challenges.</p>
<p>India’s key nuclear research body, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), based in Mumbai, is actively developing Bharat Small Reactors, and Russian design expertise could enhance these efforts. By partnering with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), Rosatom can ensure safe, efficient reactor deployment while providing training and operational support.</p>
<h2>Sectorial reforms </h2>
<p>Development of India’s nuclear sector has been plagued with a host of regulatory barriers, liability concerns, and geopolitical pressures. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act (CLNDA) – enacted in 2010 with a view to provide prompt compensation to the victims for damage caused by a nuclear incident through a no-fault liability regime – deterred private investment. However, New Delhi is now revising liability norms to attract foreign investors. </p>
<p>The CLNDA’s impact on India-Russia collaboration has been limited so far due to the government-to-government (G2G) nature of the projects being implemented. For instance, the KNPP continued under a sovereign framework, with liability provisions addressed through bilateral agreements. This G2G structure shields Russian state entities like Rosatom from direct liability, enabling ongoing cooperation even under existing regulations. However, the reforms could unlock Russian private capital and expedite SMR rollouts.</p>

            
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<p>Furthermore, achieving 100 GW nuclear capacity will require nearly $450 billion investment over the next two decades. To address this, India is exploring public-private partnerships, foreign direct investment, and Sovereign Green Bonds. Russia, with its state-backed nuclear financing models, can help mitigate financial risks, offering concessional loans like those provided for KNPP.</p>
<p>Certainly, Russia is not the only global nuclear industry leader competing for the opportunities in the Indian marker. The US and France are both eager to offer India SMR solutions, with firms like <a href="https://www.nuclearbusiness-platform.com/media/insights/nuclear-power-a-force-multiplier-for-clean-hydrogen-generation-in-india">NuScale</a> and <a href="https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/india-and-france-aim-to-establish-smr-and-amr-partnership">EDF</a> actively promoting their technologies. Yet, concerns over the CLNDA have historically strained negotiations with Western firms, as they sought greater liability protection. Russia’s ability to bypass this hurdle through G2G frameworks gives it a comparative edge in securing long-term nuclear cooperation with India.</p>
<p>Additionally, given public skepticism over nuclear energy projects and potential resistance like in cases of the proposed <a href="https://www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/jaitapur-nuclear-protests-key-activists-switch-sides-42073">Jaitapur project</a>, Russia’s exemplary safety record and proactive public engagement strategies can serve as a model. By collaborating on transparency initiatives and public outreach programs, India and Russia can jointly build confidence in nuclear energy’s safety and sustainability.</p>
<p><a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/russias-new-empire-nuclear-power">Russia’s approach</a> to post-Fukushima safety enhancements, including passive safety systems and next-generation reactor designs, can inform India’s nuclear policy, ensuring public concerns are addressed with cutting-edge safety protocols.</p>
<h2>Scope for innovation</h2>
<p>India’s leadership in <a href="https://pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1575801">thorium-based reactors</a> and Russia’s advancements in <a href="https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/pilot-fuel-produced-for-mbir-fast-neutron-research">fast neutron reactors</a> create immense potential for joint R&amp;D. The 2025 budget’s <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-budget-india-proposes-open-up-guarded-nuclear-sector-private-firms-2025-02-01">$2.31 billion nuclear sector R&amp;D pledge</a> could be amplified through deeper Indo-Russian collaboration, accelerating the development of <a href="https://www.barc.gov.in/randd/artnp.html'">molten salt reactors</a> and <a href="https://www.barc.gov.in/randd/artnp.html'">high-temperature gas-cooled reactors</a>.</p>

             
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<p>Additionally, Russia’s expertise in <a href="https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rosatom-announces-novel-used-fuel-processing-techn">spent fuel reprocessing</a> can help India manage nuclear waste more efficiently, closing the fuel cycle and enhancing long-term sustainability.</p>
<p>Beyond technology and financing, nuclear cooperation strengthens India-Russia geopolitical ties. As BRICS+ nations navigate a multipolar world, energy security becomes a strategic pillar of their partnership. By jointly developing advanced nuclear technologies, India and Russia can lead the Global South’s transition to clean energy, reducing reliance on Western-dominated energy systems.</p>

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<p>China advanced to both the men's and women's quarterfinals at the FIBA 3×3 Basketball Asia Cup in Singapore after wrapping up pool play on Friday.</p>
<p>All four Chinese team members taking part in the men's event – Guo Hanyu, Yan Peng, Zhang Dianliang and Xiang Zhichao – compete in the country's 3×3 Super League. They were drawn into Pool B with Chinese Taipei and India.</p>
<p>China breezed past Chinese Taipei 21-10 in their first game in the afternoon. The second contest in the evening against India was much closer, and the two sides were tied at 17-17 going into the final minute. In the end, Guo scored the game-winner with a two-point jumper for his side. They will face No. 2 seeds Qatar from Pool D in the quarterfinals on Saturday.</p>
<p>On the women's side, China were slotted into the same pool as last year's runners-up New Zealand and South Korea. The team's young roster – Hu Duoling, Li Wenxia, Li Yuyan and Zhou Mengyun – averages less than 23 years of age. They lost to New Zealand by one point, 18-17, in the first game.</p>
<p>In their second contest against South Korea, the Chinese players showed dominance with their size advantage and solid defense under the rim, en route to a 19-12 win. They will meet Vietnam in the quarterfinals.</p>
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<p>After missing out on the automatic spots for the 2026 FIFA World Cup with two brutal losses in qualifying, China now face another tough question: Is this the end of the road or the spark for a historic comeback? This week on Sideline Story, we decode the Chinese team's prospects for 2026. Join us for our unfiltered analysis and fiery debates about Chinese football's win-or-go-home moments.</p>
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<p>Mangroves are Nature's first line of coastal defense. Indonesia and China are joining forces to restore coastal ecosystems, turning degraded shores into thriving habitats. Meet the individuals working to protect biodiversity in the South China Sea in "Catching A Wave 2."</p>
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<p>The Chengdu stop of 2025 World Games Tour got underway on Friday at Chengdu Sport University's Sancha Lake Campus in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province.</p>
<p>The event serves as a precursor to this year's Chengdu World Games, scheduled for August 7-17, integrating cultural tourism and culinary experiences to engage the public.</p>
<p>On Saturday and Sunday, the Chengdu stop will host competitions across three disciplines and four sub-disciplines: underwater sports (finswimming and freediving), lifesaving (pool) and boules sports (petanque). A total of 122 athletes from 28 countries and regions will vie for 30 gold medals.</p>
<p>The Opening Ceremony at World Expo Park featured breakdancing and martial arts performances blending tradition and modernity. The athletes entered the venue to drumbeats, greeted by cheers from the crowd.</p>
<p>Adhering to World Games standards, the event will also act as a trial run for venue operations ahead of this year's competition. Organizers renovated swimming pools and boules courts, reusing 80 percent of materials through leasing and recycling to align with eco-friendly practices.</p>
<p>This stop of the World Games Tour also highlights Chengdu's cultural offerings, including World Expo Park visits, local cuisine tastings, and sports culture exhibits. The initiative aims to boost tourism spending while also fostering synergy between the city's cultural, athletic and travel sectors.</p>
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Victor Gao says Pete Hegseth is trying to stir up a confrontation between China and the US, using the Philippines.

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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Courts in Moscow have levied a conservatory attachment on property and assets of businessman of Ukrainian origin, Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, Eduard Shifrin, who is accused of fraud, according to case materials seen by TASS.</p>
<p>"The court held that the motion on arresting property of defendant Shifrin E.V. be sustained," according to the materials. The businessman is accused under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code (large-scale fraud).</p>
<p>Shifrin, whose fortune exceeds $1 bln by various estimates, has been put on a wanted list under another article, according to the Russian Interior Ministry’s search base. Previously he was wanted in October 2023.</p>
<p>The businessman was granted Russian citizenship in October 2016. In 2022, after the onset of the special military operation, he applied to the Russian embassy on renunciation of Russian citizenship. He lives outside of the Russian Federation.</p>


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<p>"The enemy now controls three settlements," he said.</p>
<p>The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that the battlegroup North had liberated the village of Gogolevka in the Kursk Region from the Ukrainian military.</p>


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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>An inspiration to millions of others in the totalitarian states</p>
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>NEW YORK, March 29. /TASS/. The administration of US President Donald Trump insists on Ukraine signing an agreement giving Washington control over key economic projects, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a draft document sent to Kiev.</p>
<p>In particular, the US seeks the right to be the first to participate in Ukraine's infrastructure projects and mining programs, including rare-earth metals and construction of ports. The fund, managed primarily by US representatives, will channel the profits to pay off the cost of military aid provided by Washington to Kiev.</p>
<p>According to the newspaper, the Ukrainian authorities fear that the terms of the agreement will limit their ability to attract other investors and rebuild infrastructure. Analysts note that the new US demands could exacerbate tensions in bilateral relations, especially after the recent conflict between Trump and Vladimir Zelensky.</p>
<p>If the agreement is signed, Ukraine will have 45 days to submit a list of projects for consideration by the fund.</p>
<p>The Daily Telegraph reported on March 27 that under the latest version of the deal, the United States would control half of Ukraine's oil and gas reserves, its metals and much of its infrastructure, including railways, ports, pipelines and refineries, through a joint investment fund. Three members of the fund's supervisory board will be appointed by Washington. In addition, the US plans to receive all profits until Ukraine pays them at least $100 billion in compensation for military aid, with a 4% surcharge. Kiev will start receiving 50% of the profits only after the debt is repaid.</p>
<p>The newspaper added that the new fund will be registered in the state of Delaware, but it will operate under the jurisdiction of New York. Under the terms of the deal, the US will have the right to veto the sale of Ukrainian resources to third countries and the ability to check the accounts of any Ukrainian agency.</p>


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<p>The Chinese government has decided to provide emergency humanitarian assistance of 100 million yuan (about $13.78 million) for earthquake-ravaged Myanmar and sent two rescue teams, along with urgently needed relief supplies like tents, blankets, first aid kits, food, drinking water, etc., said Li Ming, spokesperson for China International Development Cooperation Agency, on Saturday.</p>
<p>The first team arrived in Yangon on Saturday, Li said, adding that China will provide more assistance to Myanmar as per its needs.</p>
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<p><strong>The Cabinet Committee on Security has greenlit a $7.3bn order for 156 light combat helicopters for the army and air force</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>India has greenlit the procurement of 156 Light Combat Helicopters (LCH) along with training and other associated equipment worth over 620 billion rupees ($7.3 billion). The country’s biggest-ever defense deal was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security on Friday and later signed by the Ministry of Defence, according to an official statement. </p>
<p>The helicopters will be supplied by the state-run defense manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The Indian Army will receive 90 helicopters, while 66 will be delivered to the country’s air force (IAF).</p>
<p>The LCH Prachand is reportedly the only attack helicopter in the world capable of taking off and landing at an altitude of 5,000 meters (16,400 ft). This feature makes it well-suited for operations in the sensitive areas bordering Pakistan and China, including regions such as the Siachen glacier and mountainous Eastern Ladakh.</p>
<p>Additionally, the Prachand can fire various air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, enabling it to effectively neutralize enemy air defense systems. The helicopters are equipped to carry out both air-to-air and air-to-ground operations. They can also support network-centric warfare with advanced communications and data-sharing systems.</p>

            <blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ministry of Defence has signed a contract with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for supply of 156 Light Combat Helicopters (LCH), Prachand, along with training and other associated equipment worth Rs. 62,700 crore. The first contract is for supply of 66 LCHs to the Indian Air… <a href="https://t.co/XZhDWNAFkX">pic.twitter.com/XZhDWNAFkX</a></p>— रक्षा मंत्री कार्यालय/ RMO India (@DefenceMinIndia) <a href="https://twitter.com/DefenceMinIndia/status/1905638657496879341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>The formal induction of the light combat helicopter into the air force took place in October 2022. Before this new deal, the government had approved the production of 15 LCHs. Of those, 10 were for the IAF and 5 were for the army.</p>
<p>The LCH project was started after the Kargil conflict in 1999, which exposed the need for a combat helicopter capable of operating at extreme altitudes. HAL developed the helicopter to meet this requirement, and the latest deal would be the biggest order for the company far. The warbirds would be built at their plants in Bengaluru and Tumkur in Karnataka.</p>
<p>The new order is seen as a major boost for domestic defense manufacturing under the <em>“Make in India”</em> initiative promoted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. </p>

             
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<p>India’s Defense Acquisition Council has earlier this month granted initial approval for arms and<a href="https://www.rt.com/india/614591-india-greenlights-major-weapons-purchase/"> equipment purchases exceeding 540 billion rupees </a>($6.26 billion), aimed at strengthening the country’s military capabilities. The proposed acquisitions include upgraded engines for the Indian Army’s Russian-made T-90 battle tanks, additional anti-submarine torpedoes for the Navy, and airborne early warning and control systems for the Air Force. India’s Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has also recently approved a $823 million deal to buy over 300 domestically-developed 155mm howitzers, or Advanced Towed Artillery Gun Systems (ATAGS).</p>

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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Speculations regarding the Taiwan crisis are largely artificial, Washington is not interested in a military solution to the situation around Taiwan, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told TASS.</p>
<p>When asked whether Russia fears that a conflict over Taiwan could break out in the near future, especially against the backdrop of the currently planned settlement over Ukraine, the senior diplomat answered in the negative.</p>
<p>"No, we have no such fears. I think that many fears and speculations about the Taiwan crisis are largely artificial. It seems to us that no one in the region - neither the United States nor China, of which Taiwan is a part - is interested in a military solution," the deputy foreign minister emphasized.</p>
<p>Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with TASS that Russia opposes Taiwanese independence in any form.</p>


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<p>Scattered across the southern Chinese countryside stand over 500 remarkable watchtowers, forming the most concentrated cluster of these historic fortresses in China. Built a century ago to defend against bandits and floods, they once stood as symbols of resilience and protection.</p>
<p>Today, a new generation is reimagining their legacy, finding innovative ways to preserve and revitalize these architectural treasures. What inspires them to dedicate themselves to rural heritage conservation? And how are they breathing new life into ancient architecture? Join us as we uncover the stories behind China's hidden fortresses.</p>
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<p>At least four police officers and two suspected rebels have been killed during a gun battle in the India-administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir.</p>
<p>The Indian army’s Rising Star Corps said on social media on Saturday morning that “relentless operations” had led to the “elimination of two terrorists” – a term usually referring to rebels opposed to Indian rule in Kashmir.</p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1">“We have recovered bodies of three policemen and have also spotted the body of another cop and two militants lying in the forest,” the official, who did not want to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media, told the Reuters news agency.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Arms and ammunition, including two grenades, a bulletproof jacket, empty shells and some magazines of assault rifles were also recovered from the area, the official said.</p>
<p>For decades, rebel groups have fought security officials in the region, resulting in a death toll in the thousands. But in recent years, violence has tapered off.</p>
<p>Still, according to government data, at least 14 security personnel were killed in such fighting in the first half of 2024, and at least 30 were killed in 2023.</p>
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<p>The latest bout of fighting in the region began on Thursday in the forested area near the city of Kathua in the southern region of Jammu, near India’s border with Pakistan, after a police foot patrol was ambushed while searching for fighters, police chief Nalin Prabhat told reporters on Friday night.</p>
<p>The police chief accused the rebels, who were believed to have escaped a cordon by security forces four days earlier, of being from Pakistan, without elaborating.</p>
<p>“We will not sleep till we stop such activities of our neighbour,” Prabhat said, referring to Pakistan.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3609414" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3609414" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-28T164834Z_1291745540_RC2FMDAY0IN9_RTRMADP_3_INDIA-KASHMIR-1743229152.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Police officers place wreaths on the coffins containing the bodies of their colleagues" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3609414"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3609414" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Police officers place wreaths on coffins containing the bodies of their colleagues during a wreath-laying ceremony in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, on March 28, 2025 [Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p>The Muslim-majority Kashmir has been at the core of more than 70 years of hostility between India and Pakistan, with both countries claiming complete control over the region.</p>
<p>But India regularly accuses Pakistan of pushing fighters across the heavily militarised unofficial border in Kashmir to attack Indian security forces.</p>
<p>However, Pakistan denies the allegations, saying it only supports Kashmir’s fight for self-determination.</p>
<p>Rebel groups have also been fighting for decades to demand either independence for Kashmir or to merge with Pakistan.</p>
<p>But since 2019, the region has bubbled in anger after New Delhi ended Kashmir’s semi-autonomy and <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/2/19/police-in-disputed-kashmir-raid-bookstores-seizing-books">curbed dissent</a>, civil liberties and media freedoms while at the same time increasing counterinsurgency operations.</p>
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<p>In November last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi backed the decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s partial autonomy after the territory’s newly elected lawmakers sought restoration.</p>
<p>“Only the constitution of Babasaheb Ambedkar will operate in Kashmir … No power in the world can restore <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/11/whats-article-370-what-to-know-about-india-top-court-verdict-on-kashmir">Article 370 (</a>partial autonomy) in Kashmir,” Modi said, referring to one of the founding fathers of the Indian constitution.</p>
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>DUBAI, March 29. /TASS/. Almost 900 Palestinians have been killed and about 2,000 injured since Israel resumed hostilities in the Gaza Strip, Qatar’s Al Jazeera reported, citing the Palestinian enclave’s Health Ministry.</p>
<p>Israeli attacks have killed 896 people and injured 1,984 in the Gaza Strip, the TV channel said. It also pointed out that the Gaza authorities updated the death toll in the latest escalation of the Israeli-Arab conflict to more than 61,700 since October 2023, saying that thousands of Palestinians missing under the rubble are counted as dead.</p>
<p>On March 18, the Israeli army launched massive attacks on the enclave. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that the radical Palestinian movement Hamas had rejected the proposals put forward at the talks by the mediators and the special envoy of US President Steve Witkoff, saying that the goal of the operation in Gaza was the release of all hostages. The radicals blamed Israel and the United States for the resumption of hostilities.</p>


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<p data-sanitized-class="title">A lion dance-themed coffee shop is seen in Chikan District of Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, March 22, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>A lion dance-themed coffee shop is seen in Chikan District of Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, March 22, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">A lion dance-themed coffee shop is seen in Chikan District of Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, March 22, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>In Zhanjiang, a lion dance-themed cafe has captured the eyes and taste buds of visitors. Located in the tourist-favored Chikan District, the cafe cleverly combines lion dance elements with its decorations and menu. With retro interior designs that celebrate folk culture, the place has many picturesque corners. Grab a cup and step onto the cafe's second floor, and you can enjoy the views of ancient streets. It's a relaxing place to enjoy a drink and soak up local culture.</p>
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<p><strong>The push for peace is yielding progress but “there’s a lot of ill will between the parties,” according to the US president</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>US President Donald Trump has said that diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine conflict are gaining ground but warned that the opposing sides view each other with deep resentment. </p>
<p>Speaking to reporters on Friday, the US leader stressed the desire to put an end to hostilities, claiming that Ukraine and Russia are <em>“losing 2,500… young men… every single week.”</em><br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“I think we're making progress, but there's a lot of ill will between the parties,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>US Vice President JD Vance echoed the remarks during his visit to Greenland, stating, <em>“we’ve obviously got this energy infrastructure ceasefire [between Russia and Ukraine]; we’ve got a Black Sea commercial ceasefire that I think is almost done, and once we get there, we’ll work on the next stage of the ceasefire.”</em></p>

            
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<p>His comments come as Russia and the US have engaged in active talks aimed at restoring bilateral ties and halting hostilities between Moscow and Kiev. On March 18, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed a potential ceasefire and agreed to a 30-day pause in strikes targeting energy infrastructure. </p>
<p>However, Russia has accused Ukraine of violating the deal on numerous occasions. Moscow has signaled that it plans to adhere to the moratorium but warned of a potential symmetrical response to Kiev if it continues to breach the agreement.</p>
<p>Additional negotiations between Russian and US delegations took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this week. The meetings focused on restoring the 2022 grain deal, which secured Ukrainian food exports via the Black Sea. </p>
<p>While Moscow has agreed to this in principle, it will only accept a maritime ceasefire if the West lifts its sanctions on Russian Agricultural Bank and other financial institutions involved in the sale of food and fertilizers, which would entail reconnecting them to the SWIFT payment system.</p>
<p>The EU, however, has rejected the demand, maintaining that sanctions will remain in place until Russia withdraws its troops from all territories claimed by Ukraine. In this vein, European Commission Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Anitta Hipper stressed that <em>“the EU’s main focus remains to maximize pressure on Russia, using all tools available.”</em></p>

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<p>Across history, architectural styles in China and Cambodia have developed notable similarities, particularly in traditional dwellings. From Khmer villages in Cambodia to ethnic groups like the Dong and Dai in China, stilt houses – elevated wooden structures – stand as a testament to human ingenuity in adapting to the environment.</p>
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<p>In Cambodia, where the climate is hot and humid with extended rainy seasons and frequent flooding, locals have long built their homes on stilts. This design helps mitigate flood damage while promoting airflow, making living conditions more comfortable despite the heat and humidity.</p>
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<p>Stilt dwellings, known as ganlan houses, are seen in Fenghuang Ancient City, Hunan Province. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Stilt dwellings, known as ganlan houses, are seen in Fenghuang Ancient City, Hunan Province. /VCG</p>
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<p>Similarly, on China's Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, stilt dwellings – known as ganlan houses – address the region's heavy rainfall and damp conditions. The elevated structures not only prevent moisture from seeping into living spaces but also provide room underneath for livestock and storage. The practicality of both architectural styles highlights a shared wisdom in responding to nature's challenges.</p>
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<p>Stilt houses are seen along the Siem Reap River in Cambodia. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Stilt houses are seen along the Siem Reap River in Cambodia. /VCG</p>
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<p>The resemblance between Cambodia's stilt houses and China's ganlan homes may also be linked to historical trade routes, such as the Maritime Silk Road. Trade and cultural exchanges helped to spread not only goods but also architectural techniques and ways of life.</p>
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<p>From the farm to the table, a single head of cabbage connects the dining traditions of two countries. For over 20 years, South Korean chef "Youlai Mama" has been running a Korean restaurant in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, using food as a bridge to connect people and foster friendship between China and South Korea.</p>
<p><em>The video and article have been contributed by HiQingdao.</em></p>
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<p><em>The video and article have been contributed by HiQingdao.</em></p>
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<p>Plaster carvings are seen at Liang's Garden in Foshan, Guangdong Province on March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Plaster carvings are seen at Liang's Garden in Foshan, Guangdong Province on March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>An elegant pavilion, a bridge and rockeries are seen at Liang's Garden in Foshan, Guangdong Province on March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">An elegant pavilion, a bridge and rockeries are seen at Liang's Garden in Foshan, Guangdong Province on March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>Liang's Garden, nestled in Foshan, Guangdong Province, showcases typical Lingnan architectural styles. Built two centuries ago during the Qing Dynasty, it once served as the former residence of the prominent Liang family in Foshan.</p>
<p>Renowned for its elegant pavilions, winding corridors, and exquisite rockeries, the garden underwent reconstruction in 1994 by local authorities. Since then, it has emerged as a well-known cultural tourist destination.</p>
<p>The layout of Liang's Garden is meticulously planned with a harmonious blend of structures and landscape, perfectly encapsulating the essence of southern Chinese architecture.</p>
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<p>Here is the situation on Saturday, March 29, 2025:</p>
<p><strong>Fighting</strong></p>

<ul><li>Four people were killed in a Russian drone attack on Friday in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The regional governor said 19 people were injured and a large fire broke out in a hotel and restaurant complex that consumed a high-rise apartment building and 10 homes.</li>
<li>Ukraine’s military said its air force had struck a border post in Russia’s Bryansk region, destroying infrastructure it said was used for drone launches. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement that the attack was in response to “dozens of daily strikes by attack drones”.</li>
<li>Ukrainian troops have staged an incursion into Russia’s Belgorod region, according to Russian military bloggers. Kyiv and Moscow have not confirmed it but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on Friday that his military had taken “certain steps” in Russia outside the Kursk region in an effort to ease pressure on Ukrainian troops.</li>
<li>The Russian Ministry of Defence said on Friday its forces had recaptured the village of Hoholivka, one of a handful of villages still held by Ukraine of about 100 seized last August. Ukraine’s General Staff said it had stopped 18 Russian assaults in Kursk over the past day.</li>
<li>Ukraine’s military said it shot down 89 of 163 Russian drones launched overnight with 51 failing to reach their targets due to technical issues.</li>
<li>The Russian Defence Ministry claimed to have shot down 19 Ukrainian drones that tried to strike an oil refinery in Saratov.</li>
</ul><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3609295" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3609295" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-28T235141Z_59886115_RC2KMDA2BQT1_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-ATTACK-DNIPRO-1743218875.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Ukrainian police cordon off access to the site of a fire in a restaurant caused by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine March 28, 2025. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3609295"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3609295" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Ukrainian police cordon off access to the site of a fire in a restaurant caused by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on March 28, 2025 [Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Ceasefire</strong></p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Volodymyr Kohut, governor of Ukraine’s Poltava region, has accused Russia of damaging warehouses owned by Ukraine’s state gas producer, Naftogaz, in the central region in violation of a United States-brokered ceasefire on energy infrastructure. The Russian Defence Ministry hit back with its own claims, accusing the Ukrainian military of striking a gas measuring station in the Kursk region’s Sudzha city with US-made HIMARS rockets and a second strike in Bryansk that caused a power outage.</p>
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<li>United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for an end to the “horrific suffering” caused by attacks on civilians in Ukraine and said that a ceasefire in Ukraine “would be very welcome”. Turk said “limited ceasefires that protect shipping lanes and infrastructure are a welcome step forward” but a proper end to the war was needed.</li>
<li>In a televised address on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that Ukraine should be temporarily placed under external governance to allow for democratic elections to take place. Putin suggested that Zelenskyy did not have legitimacy as the Ukrainian president and suggested Ukraine could change any negotiated peace at any time.</li>
<li>Responding to Putin’s statements during a briefing with journalists on Friday, Zelenskyy said the comments offer a “reason not to end the war”, adding that Putin is “afraid of negotiations with Ukraine” and that he is “afraid of negotiations with me personally”.</li>
<li>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres immediately rejected Putin’s suggestion that Ukraine be placed into a form of administration, saying Ukraine’s government is legitimate and must be respected.</li>
</ul><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3609297" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3609297" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-28T124508Z_1681921166_RC2CMDAK59YA_RTRMADP_3_RUSSIA-PUTIN-1743218901.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C538" alt="Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video link in Moscow, Russia, March 28, 2025. Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY." data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3609297"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3609297" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of Russia’s Security Council via a videolink in Moscow, Russia, on March 28, 2025 [Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Politics and Diplomacy</strong></p>
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<ul><li>Putin’s comments on Ukraine follow the conclusion of a summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron that considered plans to deploy troops to Ukraine. Macron said “several” other nations are willing to join a peacekeeping force alongside France and Britain.</li>
<li>Speaking to reporters on Friday, Zelenskyy confirmed Ukraine had received the draft of a new minerals deal from the US, saying it was an “entirely different” document than what had been proposed previously. Neither he nor his vice president would discuss the draft, saying it would first need to be reviewed and discussed.</li>
<li>The Ukrainian president confirmed Ukraine was formalising agreements on European military aid and intelligence sharing before the next summit at the US’s Ramstein airbase in Germany.</li>
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title: ON THIS DAY: 29 MARCH 1974: Farmers discovered the Terracotta Army
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<p>The Nanfeng Ancient Kiln is seen in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">The Nanfeng Ancient Kiln is seen in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<div readability="8" data-sanitized-class="cmsImage"><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-29/500-year-old-Nanfeng-Ancient-Kiln-in-Foshan-still-in-operation-today-1C8wS4bZr3i/img/dda84d8af1e74984a07b66911bb66551/dda84d8af1e74984a07b66911bb66551.jpeg" alt="The Nanfeng Ancient Kiln is seen in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN" layout="fixed-height" height="210" lightbox="collection" aria-describedby="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-29/500-year-old-Nanfeng-Ancient-Kiln-in-Foshan-still-in-operation-today-1C8wS4bZr3i/img/dda84d8af1e74984a07b66911bb66551/dda84d8af1e74984a07b66911bb66551.jpeg"><div readability="14" data-sanitized-class="imageCaption">
<p>The Nanfeng Ancient Kiln is seen in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">The Nanfeng Ancient Kiln is seen in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>Roof decorations are seen near the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Roof decorations are seen near the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>Ceramic chairs and tables are seen near the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Ceramic chairs and tables are seen near the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>Ceramic bottles and souvenirs are seen in shops near the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Ceramic bottles and souvenirs are seen in shops near the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<div readability="8.5" data-sanitized-class="cmsImage"><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-29/500-year-old-Nanfeng-Ancient-Kiln-in-Foshan-still-in-operation-today-1C8wS4bZr3i/img/b06a20cb5ab54ce4adae362a96937113/b06a20cb5ab54ce4adae362a96937113.jpeg" alt="An ancient tree is seen at the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN" layout="fixed-height" height="210" lightbox="collection" aria-describedby="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-29/500-year-old-Nanfeng-Ancient-Kiln-in-Foshan-still-in-operation-today-1C8wS4bZr3i/img/b06a20cb5ab54ce4adae362a96937113/b06a20cb5ab54ce4adae362a96937113.jpeg"><div readability="15.5" data-sanitized-class="imageCaption">
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">An ancient tree is seen at the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Souvenir shops are seen near the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong Province, March 24, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>The Nanfeng Ancient Kiln, nestled in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangdong, is a must-visit destination for many tourists. Dating back to the Ming Dynasty, it boasts a history spanning over 500 years.</p>
<p>Famed for its ancient and well-preserved dragon kilns, this site holds a remarkable surprise: The fire in the 500-year-old kiln has remained unextinguished, and the kiln still functions after centuries. If fortune smiles on you, you may witness the firing process, which occurs only twice a month.</p>
<p>Here, in addition to the historical kiln, visitors can admire modern ceramic artworks, learn about the making process and even get their hands dirty with pottery mud under the guidance of professionals. It's not merely a kiln site but a place that combines cultural exploration with hands-on, enjoyable experiences.</p>
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title: &lt;em&gt;À la semaine prochaine&lt;/em&gt; : un public survolté pour la finale au Rialto
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<p>Après 17 saisons, l'émission <em>À la semaine prochaine</em> tire sa révérence samedi sur les ondes d'ICI Première.</p>

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<p>Après Berlin, Vancouver, Toronto et Montréal, la rétrospective sur Alanis Obomsawin s'arrête à New York.</p>

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<p>Elaine Thomlinson is just now clearing out her husband’s clothes — more than six years after he was killed in the Westboro bus crash. She still yearns for justice.</p>
<p>Thomlinson’s husband, Bruce, a Canada Borders Services employee, was on his way home from work on Jan. 11, 2019 when OC Transpo Bus 8155 slammed into Westboro Station on what was a cold, clear afternoon.</p>
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<p>A father of two boys, a Scout leader and a volunteer with Big Brothers, Thomlinson sat passenger side, front row, on the second floor of the double-decker bus.</p>
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<p>Thomlinson’s family then waited two years for the driver of Bus 8155, Aissatou Diallo, to go on trial. A rookie bus driver and a single mother, Diallo was charged with three counts of dangerous driving causing death and 35 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.</p>
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<p>It left Elaine Thomlinson with a profound sense of disquiet. She believes the driver was ultimately responsible for keeping passengers safe — and failed in that job.</p>
<p>“In my opinion, we didn’t get any justice at the criminal trial,” Thomlinson says. “Is nobody responsible? I just don’t believe it.”</p>
<p>The question of responsibility hangs in the air more than six years after the crash. It promises to colour the month-long coroner’s inquest scheduled to begin April 2.</p>
<p>The inquest jury will investigate the circumstances that led to the deaths of three passengers — Bruce Thomlinson, 56, Judy Booth, 57, and Anja Van Beek, 65 — and make recommendations to prevent similar deaths. It will hear from 15 witnesses.</p>
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<p>Which means it’s unlikely that Thomlinson or the families of the other victims will walk away from the inquest with a sense that justice has been done.</p>
<p>Jac Van Beek, the older brother of Anja Van Beek, says he sought a public inquiry because he wants someone to accept responsibility for his sister’s death.</p>
<p>“We see the whole thing obviously through a different lens because it’s so personal,” he says. “But you keep looking at what my sister went through, and it makes you mad, it makes you upset. You want it to be somehow put in its right place instead of on the shelf and out of the way. That’s what we want.”</p>
<p>Van Beek is convinced the crash was the result of a bad driver and a poorly designed station — factors ultimately under the control of OC Transpo. He hopes the inquest finds as much.</p>
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<p>“I want someone to accept blame,” he says. “Go through all the articles you want, and you won’t find anybody saying, ‘We made a mistake,’ or, ‘This could have been done way better than it was.’ ”</p>
<p>Says Thomlinson: “I really don’t know what to expect. But I really hope that it changes things for the better.”</p>
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<p data-async>Westboro Station and its steel awning — the principal instrument of death and injury in the crash — <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "have been demolished to make way for the LRT", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/westboro-bus-shelters-scene-of-tragic-2019-bus-crash-demolished", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/westboro-bus-shelters-scene-of-tragic-2019-bus-crash-demolished">have been demolished to make way for the LRT</a>.  The station was torn down in October 2022, one year after the city made cosmetic changes to improve its safety.</p>
<p>OC Transpo has also made changes to the way it trains bus drivers. An investigation by the city’s auditor general in late 2019 resulted in 20 recommendations that OC Transpo agreed to act upon.</p>
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<p>The auditor also found no correlation between a driver’s experience and the kind of bus they operate, or the routes to which they are assigned. Such decisions, governed by the collective agreement, are based on seniority.</p>
<p>“In our view,” the auditor’s report concluded, “by not aligning the work that is booked by new operators to the experience level of the bus operator, the risk of preventable collisions by bus operators is increased.”</p>
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<p>The auditors also found problems with OC Transpo’s approach to winter driver training. Many drivers who graduated in the spring, summer and fall did not get winter driver training during their first winter on the road.</p>
<p>OC Transpo rolled out improvements to its training program in early 2020. The new measures included mandatory hours on double-decker and articulated buses, and winter training for all first-year drivers.</p>
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<p>The transit authority has also announced the phase out of double-decker buses as part of its move towards a zero-emissions fleet. OC Transpo’s 78 double-decker buses are expected to be retired within the next 10 years.</p>
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<p>The six years since the Westboro bus crash have also revealed many of its significant details. Aissatou Diallo’s 2021 criminal trial examined the mechanics of the crash in minute detail.</p>
<p data-async><a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Court heard that Bus 8155 was travelling westbound at 59 km/h", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/accident-expert-says-2019-westboro-bus-crash-involved-four-collisions", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/accident-expert-says-2019-westboro-bus-crash-involved-four-collisions">Court heard that Bus 8155 was travelling westbound at 59 km/h</a> — over the posted limit of 50 km/h — when it left the bare, dry road and drifted north onto the ice and snow-filled shoulder of the Transitway as it approached Westboro Station.</p>
<p>Diallo did not testify at trial, so why she left the roadway was the subject of conjecture. The Crown blamed inattention; the defence pointed to an unhappy constellation of circumstances.</p>
<p>Engineer Richard Lamoureux, a collision reconstruction expert, said he believed the glare of the setting sun, combined with faded road lines painted during an earlier construction phase, disoriented Diallo, and led her to steer the bus off the roadway and onto the shoulder. (Lamoureux was the only collision reconstruction expert to testify at the trial. Unusually, the lead Ottawa police investigator was not called as a witness.)</p>
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<p>A defence witness, Lamoureux told court the weight of the double-decker bus, combined with the snow and ice, put it into a skid that made it unresponsive to Diallo’s attempt to steer it back to safety. Video evidence showed the bus hit a snowbank one second after leaving the road and then smashed into the rock wall that lines the Transitway, shattering the glass of its front door.</p>
<p>“At this point, the bus is out of control,” Lamoureux told court.</p>
<p>The bus then hit a second snowbank before it slammed into Westboro Station at 3:50:17 p.m., five seconds after first leaving the road.</p>
<p>During those five seconds, court heard, Diallo did not apply the brakes.</p>
<p>Lamoureux suggested Diallo faced a cascading series of events that made it impossible for her to react to any one of them. He estimated that Bus 8155 was moving at 39 km/h when it hit the rigid, steel canopy of Westboro Station — a robust structure compared to the lightweight components of the double-decker’s upper floor.</p>
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<p>“The shelter canopy was much stiffer and much stronger than the bus,” Lamoureux said.</p>
<p>In finding Diallo not guilty of all charges, Ontario Court Justice Matthew Webber largely endorsed Lamoureux’s reconstructed version of the collision.</p>
<p>Outside court, defence lawyer Solomon Friedman said Diallo had been thrust into an awful situation by circumstances beyond her control. “She did her very best, and tragically, unfortunately, her very best was not good enough,” he said.</p>
<p data-async>In <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "an interview with the Citizen\u2019s Gary Dimmock", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/they-are-in-my-heart-westboro-bus-crash-driver-speaks-following-acquittal", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/they-are-in-my-heart-westboro-bus-crash-driver-speaks-following-acquittal">an interview with the Citizen’s Gary Dimmock</a>, Diallo said she was traumatized by the collision and its aftermath, and suffers from severe PTSD. She said she thinks every day about the people who died on her watch.</p>
<p>“I have to live with this,” she said.</p>
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<p><strong>Why was a rookie driver, on the road for only six months, assigned to a double-decker bus on a busy commuter route one month after she was involved in a collision?</strong></p>
<p>Diallo had been at the wheel of an articulated bus that collided with another bus at St. Laurent Station on Dec. 10, 2018 — one month before the Westboro crash. Paramedics treated several passengers at the scene. Diallo subsequently completed a retraining program with an in-service driving assessment.</p>
<p>In a Jan. 4, 2019 email to an OC Transpo manager, Diallo said she refreshed her defensive driving skills during the session, “which helped me gain more confidence in myself after my accident.”</p>
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<p>The city refused access to information requests from the Citizen to view the accident report of the incident at St. Laurent Station. In the crash’s aftermath, OC Transpo also repeatedly refused to answer questions about Diallo’s training, driving record or assignments, citing her court case.</p>
<p>The inquest could finally force OC Transpo to explain why Diallo, a rookie driver struggling with her confidence after a collision, was assigned to a double-decker bus with more than 80 people on board.</p>
<p><strong>What can be done to ensure other OC Transpo drivers perform better in crisis situations?   </strong></p>
<p>According to Justice Webber’s ruling, Diallo’s driving did not amount to a criminal offence. But there’s no doubt she made some critical errors, which contributed to the deadly chain of events.</p>
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<p>Diallo was in the right-hand lane as she approached Westboro Station even though Route 269 Bridlewood express buses (the route has since been renamed) normally used the left-hand lane to bypass the station. Why Diallo was in the right-hand lane has never been fully explained.</p>
<p>OC Transpo logs, entered at trial, revealed Diallo had travelled through Westboro Station on 25 different shifts in the three months before the crash so she was familiar with its layout.</p>
<p>Diallo exceeded the speed limit on the Transitway despite driving towards a setting sun. Then, after losing control of the bus on the icy shoulder, Diallo did not apply the brakes and did not manage to steer the bus away from the principal hazard in front of her: the bus shelter.</p>
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<p>In fact, according to Lamoureux’s testimony, Diallo activated the left-turn signal on the bus floor with one foot and stamped on the accelerator with the other foot two seconds before the final impact. (The bus did not have time to accelerate, he said, in response to what was likely the driver bracing for impact.)</p>
<p>At all events, Diallo’s response to the crisis did not safeguard her passengers.</p>
<p data-async>Airplane pilots regularly have their crisis response tested on flight simulators. <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "The same kind of simulation-based training", "target_url": "https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/transitsim-bus-driving-simulator#:~:text=TransitSim%E2%84%A2%20Bus%20Driving%20Simulator%20Benefits&amp;text=Transit%20simulation%20training%20allows%20practice,realistic%2C%20risk%2Dfree%20environment.", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' href="https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/transitsim-bus-driving-simulator#:~:text=TransitSim%E2%84%A2%20Bus%20Driving%20Simulator%20Benefits&amp;text=Transit%20simulation%20training%20allows%20practice,realistic%2C%20risk-free%20environment." data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click">The same kind of simulation-based training</a> is now available for bus drivers.</p>
<p><strong>Why was the danger posed by Westboro Station never recognized by OC Transpo?</strong></p>
<p>For all of her failings on Jan. 11, 2019, Diallo might still be driving an OC Transpo bus today were it not for the design of Westboro Station.</p>
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<p data-async>In his 94-page report on the Westboro crash, <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Richard Lamoureux said the tragedy was \u201centirely foreseeable\u201d", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/defence-witness-calls-fatal-westboro-bus-crash-entirely-foreseeable", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/defence-witness-calls-fatal-westboro-bus-crash-entirely-foreseeable">Richard Lamoureux said the tragedy was “entirely foreseeable”</a> given the design of the Transitway and the danger posed to double-decker buses by the rigid steel awnings of its shelters.</p>
<p>“In our opinion, a safety audit ought to have identified the potential risks posed by the Transitway shelters to double-decker buses,” Lamoureux concluded in his April 2021 report.</p>
<p>The Transitway was designed and built before OC Transpo introduced a fleet of double-decker buses in 2013.</p>
<p>It appears some OC Transpo stations were modified to accommodate the tall, new buses. Using cached versions of online maps, Lamoureux demonstrated that the metal canopies at Queensway Station were removed sometime between August 2012 and May 2014. The modifications, he said, were likely made as part of an OC Transpo safety audit.</p>
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<p>For some reason, however, the danger posed by Westboro Station was not identified even though OC Transpo already had evidence of the damage that could be wrought by the awnings.</p>
<p data-async>In <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "July 2003, a single-deck Route 86 bus\u00a0slammed\u00a0into the steel awning at Lees Station", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/a-history-of-oc-transpo-bus-crashes", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/a-history-of-oc-transpo-bus-crashes">July 2003, a single-deck Route 86 bus slammed into the steel awning at Lees Station</a> and tore open the roof. Six passengers were taken to hospital with minor cuts and bruises. (Pictures of the incident are eerily similar to those from the Westboro crash.)</p>
<p>Lamoureux’s report recommended that double-decker buses be removed from the Transitway until the stations could be equipped with raised curbs or some other kind of barrier protection.</p>
<p>Again, for some reason, the city did not act on that recommendation, nor on the demand of Clint Crabtree, president of the bus drivers’ union, ATU Local 279, to tear down the awnings.</p>
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<p>Are double-deckers involved in more collisions per kilometre than other OC Transpo buses? Does their weight and size make them harder to stop and steer in winter conditions? Are they equipped with the right winter tires?</p>
<p>Transit riders in Ottawa have reason to mistrust the vehicles.</p>
<p>Double-decker buses have been involved in OC Transpo’s two deadliest crashes. In addition to the three people killed in Westboro, six passengers were killed on Sept. 18, 2013, when a double-decker OC Transpo bus collided with a Via Rail train on Woodroffe Avenue.</p>
<p>The federal Transportation Safety Board investigated that OC Transpo-Via Rail crash because it involved a train. In its final report, the TSB recommended that Transport Canada “develop and implement crashworthiness standards for commercial passenger buses.”</p>
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<p>Double-deckers are built with lightweight materials — the upper deck is made from steel tubing and thin metal panels — in order to accommodate passengers and meet road weight requirements.</p>
<p>Transport Canada has done considerable work developing crashworthiness standards, but it says more extensive crash tests must be done before new regulations can be designed. It’s also working on crash avoidance systems for transit buses.</p>
<p>Transport Canada notes that public transit remains one of the safest means of travel, accounting for 0.04 per cent of road fatalities and 0.10 per cent of serious injuries.</p>
<p><strong>Should the Transportation Safety Board investigate serious bus crashes?</strong></p>
<p>The federal standing committee on transport has recommended that TSB’s mandate be expanded to include serious highway collisions and all bus collisions.</p>
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<p>The TSB’s counterpart in the United States, the National Transportation Safety Board, already has the mandate to investigate significant motor vehicle collisions.</p>
<p>The TSB now investigates select accidents involving airplanes, ships, trains and pipelines. An independent agency, the TSB publicly reports on the causes and contributing factors of those accidents even in cases where legal liability is an issue.</p>
<p>Critics say the current crash investigation system for serious motor vehicle collisions wrongly prioritizes the legal process over public safety. It’s why the inquest into the Westboro crash is being held more than six years after the fact.</p>
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<p>Her parents emigrated from the Netherlands when she was an infant, and she grew up with three brothers in a close-knit family. Married for 33 years to David Throop, Van Beek was devoted to their two children.</p>
<p>Jac Van Beek says his sister’s death has been hard to come to terms with because of its absolute senselessness.</p>
<p>“This one didn’t have to happen — and that always leaves of an open sore, doesn’t it?”</p>
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<p><strong>The number of victims is expected to rise as rescue operations continue</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The death toll from the 7.7-magnitude earthquake which rocked Myanmar on Friday has reached 1,002, the state-run broadcaster MRTV has reported.</p>
<p>The updated figures are from <em>“all the earthquake-affected areas nationwide,”</em> the broadcaster said on Saturday.</p>
<p>According to an earlier report by Myanmar Now, at least 2,400 additional people have been injured across the Southeast Asian country.</p>
<p>The authorities said earlier that the number of victims is expected to keep climbing as rescue operations are continuing.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, the country’s prime minister, Min Aung Hlaing, arrived in the city of Mandalay, which was heavily damaged by the quake. During his meeting with local officials, he <em>“instructed them to carry out search and rescue operations as soon as possible and to take necessary measures”</em> to assist those affected, according to MRTV.</p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">❗️Myanmar Earthquake Death Toll Reaches 1002, 2,376 Injured - Officials<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Earthquake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Earthquake</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Myanmar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Myanmar</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bangkok?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bangkok</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ee9T5J2pZE">pic.twitter.com/Ee9T5J2pZE</a></p>— RT_India (@RT_India_news) <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_India_news/status/1905883367469687054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>The broadcaster had said earlier that 1,591 homes, 670 monasteries and 60 schools had been damaged in and around Mandalay, which is located some 17 kilometers from the epicenter of the quake.</p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Myanmar in ruins! A 7.7M earthquake leaves many dead and injured — Hospital collapse causes mass casualties as rescue efforts continue <a href="https://t.co/AZpHavavNC">pic.twitter.com/AZpHavavNC</a></p>— RT (@RT_com) <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1905606780102598830?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday that it has dispatched two planes carrying some 120 rescuers to assist Myanmar in dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake.</p>

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<p>The tremors reached neighboring Thailand, where a skyscraper under construction collapsed in Bangkok. The city’s authorities have said that at least 10 people were killed, 16 were injured and 101 remain missing as a result of the natural disaster.</p>
<p>The Chinese embassy in Myanmar announced that a team of 37 rescue workers had been flown to the country. Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said on X that New Delhi has dispatched a plane loaded with emergency personnel, paramedics and humanitarian aid to Myanmar.</p>

             
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<p>On Friday, President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the country’s leadership, saying that <em>“Russia shares the grief of the friendly people of Myanmar.”</em> He expressed his sympathy for those who have lost loved ones in the quake and wished a speedy recovery to all the injured, according to the Kremlin.</p>

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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>TEL AVIV, March 29. /TASS/. The radical Palestinian movement Hamas may release several hostages for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip timed to coincide with the Eid al-Fitr holiday, Israel's Kan radio reported, citing sources.</p>
<p>According to it, Hamas is ready to release several hostages, including an Israeli soldier who also holds US citizenship, Edan Alexander, in exchange for a ceasefire during the Eid al-Fitr holiday. The radicals need a ceasefire for a few days to quell protests that Palestinians staged this week against Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip, sources told Kan.</p>
<p>On March 18, the Israeli army resumed fighting in the Gaza Strip, launching massive attacks on the enclave and violating a ceasefire reached in January. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that the radical Palestinian movement Hamas refused to agree to the proposals put forward at the talks by mediators and US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, saying that the goal of the operation in the enclave was the release of all hostages. The radicals blamed Israel and the US for the resumption of hostilities.</p>
<p>After the end of the Ramadan fast, Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr. It is the second most important holiday after Eid al-Adha.</p>


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<p><strong>Security in South Sudan could deteriorate “rapidly and unpredictably,” London has warned</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The UK has advised its nationals to leave South Sudan, where escalating tensions have sparked widespread fears that the East African nation is on the verge of renewed civil war.</p>
<p>The British Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) issued an updated travel advisory on Thursday, warning that security in Africa’s youngest country <em>“could deteriorate rapidly and unpredictably.”</em><br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“If you are in South Sudan and judge it safe to do so, you should leave now. If the unstable security situation deteriorates, routes into and out of South Sudan may be blocked. Juba airport may close or be inaccessible,”</em> the foreign office stated.</p>
<p>The alert comes a day after the British embassy in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, announced that it has temporarily reduced its staff and suspended in-person consular services due to security threats. The US has taken similar <a href="https://www.rt.com/africa/614015-us-orders-staff-leave-south-sudan/">measures</a>, ordering non-emergency US citizens, including government personnel, to depart the volatile country. Germany and Norway have also temporarily closed their embassies in South Sudan. Berlin has said the African country, which gained independence from war-torn Sudan in 2011, is <em>“once again on the brink of civil war.”</em></p>
<p>The landlocked country has remained unstable since the end of a five-year civil war that erupted in 2013 over a feud between its president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and his current first vice president, Riek Machar.</p>

             
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<p>Tensions have been growing between President Kiir and Machar since several Sudanese soldiers were recently killed when a UN helicopter came under attack while attempting to evacuate them from the troubled Upper Nile state, where clashes erupted in March. The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces are fighting the White Army militia, which is primarily made up of Nuer people, the vice president’s ethnic group.</p>

            
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<p>On Wednesday, Machar’s party reported that over 20 heavily armed vehicles <em>“forcefully”</em> entered the vice president’s residence, disarmed his bodyguards, and issued an arrest warrant for him <em>“under unclear charges.”</em></p>
<p>Later on Thursday, the opposition group said authorities had placed Machar under house arrest, adding that the action has effectively collapsed a 2018 peace agreement that ended the 2013 civil war.</p>
<p>The UN has also warned that the vice president’s arrest <em>“takes the country yet one step closer to the edge of a collapse into civil war and the dismantling of the peace agreement.”</em></p>

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<p>Former Australia batter Stuart Law has been named coach of the Nepal men’s team on a two-year contract.</p>
<p>The 56-year-old replaces Monty Desai, whose two-year stint with the South Asian side ended after the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) decided not to renew his contract.</p>

<p>Law, a 1996 Cricket World Cup runner-up with Australia, last coached the United States, guiding them to the Super 8 of the Twenty20 World Cup last year on home soil in their inaugural World Cup appearance.</p>
<p>The former right-handed batter left the role after just six months in charge, despite leading the United States to one of <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=e23bec1b676313641ee592b716814d2efd9577a69a0a18023952985eeaca7c71JmltdHM9MTc0MzIwNjQwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=3aeb4474-56e9-6d1a-12d9-50b757526c8b&amp;psq=cricket+united+states+site%3Aaljazeera.com&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWxqYXplZXJhLmNvbS9zcG9ydHMvMjAyNC82LzYvdXNhLXZzLXBha2lzdGFuLWZpdmUtYmlnZ2VzdC1zaG9ja3MtaW4tdDIwLXdvcmxkLWN1cC1oaXN0b3J5LXNob2Nrcy1uZXBhbC1uYW1pYmlhLWFmZ2hhbmlzdGFu&amp;ntb=1">the greatest upsets in World Cup history</a> with their <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=486e7c83cd831c84e871a6555d9eda35ce2b1cd3180972a76e4be8d928b3e7faJmltdHM9MTc0MzIwNjQwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=3aeb4474-56e9-6d1a-12d9-50b757526c8b&amp;psq=stuart+law+cricket+united+states+site%3Aaljazeera.com&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWxqYXplZXJhLmNvbS9zcG9ydHMvbGl2ZWJsb2cvMjAyNC82LzYvbGl2ZS11c2EtdnMtcGFraXN0YW4taWNjLXQyMC13b3JsZC1jdXAtMjAyNC1ncm91cC1hLWNyaWNrZXQtbWF0Y2gtY29tbWVudGFyeS1zY29yZS1iYWJhci1hemFtLXNoYWhlZW4tYWZyaWRpLWNvdmVyYWdl&amp;ntb=1">win against Pakistan</a>.</p>
<p>Law, who appeared in 54 one-day internationals and one Test for Australia, has also had spells with the West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Nepal face Scotland and the Netherlands in World Cup League 2 in June as part of the qualifiers for the 2027 Cricket World Cup, which will be staged in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.</p>
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<p>They will then enter the qualification for the 2026 T20 World Cup in October, having finished bottom of their group – with only one point – at the 2024 edition.</p>
<p>Away from his time with Australia, Law spent much of his playing career in England with Essex and Lancashire and was head coach role at Middlesex prior to his appointment with the United States.</p>
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>KURSK, March 29. /TASS/. Russian servicemen wipe out Ukrainian special units in the Guyevo settlement of the Kursk Region to ensure that they don't escape to the Sumy Region, security forces told TASS.</p>
<p>"The fighters continue the liberation of Guyevo, where the Ukrainian special units are being eliminated. The enemy expects to hold off the advance of the Russian armed forces as long as possible, hoping to escape through the forest to the Sumy Region. But our servicemen are aware of the Ukrainian military plans and are taking retaliatory measures," the source said.</p>


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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>DUBAI, March 29. /TASS/. The United States has carried out a series of strikes on the territory of Yemen's Saada governorate, which is under the control of the Houthi rebel movement Ansar Allah, the rebel-controlled Al Masirah TV channel reported.</p>
<p>According to it, US servicemen carried out at least 14 strikes on various parts of the governorate. The Al Masirah TV channel pointed out that one civilian was killed and four others were injured in Saada as a result of the attack.</p>
<p>Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, was also shelled and attacked at least eight times. In the past two days, the US military launched 72 strikes on this city, as well as on the governorates of Amran, Saada, Al-Jawf, Marib, and Hodeidah.</p>


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<p>Twelve aftershocks have been detected following the magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on Friday. The magnitudes of these aftershocks range from 2.8 to 7.5, according to Myanmar's Department of Meteorology and Hydrology on Saturday morning.</p>
<p>"This earthquake occurred along the Sagaing Fault in Myanmar, which marks the eastern edge of the Burmese Arc," said Jiang Haikun, a researcher at the China Earthquake Networks Center.</p>
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<p>The intense collision between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate caused significant shortening of the lithosphere, forming the Himalayan orogenic belt. The Burmese Arc region, located at the eastern tectonic junction of this belt, experiences intense crustal deformation and strong seismic activity. It has developed a series of north-south-trending tectonic units and faults, making it one of the most seismically active areas in the Himalayan seismic belt.</p>
<p>"The Sagaing Fault is over 1,400 kilometers long with an average movement rate of 20 millimeters per year. The fault is highly seismically active, especially in its middle and northern sections," Jiang said.</p>
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<p>He also noted that this specific earthquake occurred in the southern section, where no major earthquakes have been historically recorded. However, the surrounding area has experienced relatively frequent strong earthquakes, with 10 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above recorded since 1900. "This earthquake featured a southward rupture process," added Jiang.</p>
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<p>"This earthquake was a typical shallow-focus event occurring within the Earth's crust, with its rupture plane potentially reaching the surface, causing intense ground shaking. The region surrounding the fault is densely populated in Myanmar, and the collapse of numerous buildings has posed a severe challenge for emergency rescue efforts," said Gao Mengtan, an expert from the Institute of Geophysics at the China Earthquake Administration.</p>
<p>Gao added that, so far this year, global seismic activity has been lower compared to previous years. Given the current situation, it is difficult to say whether the Earth is entering an active seismic phase following this earthquake.</p>
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<p>Based on the preliminary earthquake parameters, the quake might trigger a local tsunami around the epicenter. However, since the epicenter is located outside the Pacific Ocean, it will not affect the coastal areas of China, according to China's Ministry of Natural Resources.</p>
<p>This earthquake marks the 17th earthquake of magnitude 6 or above globally this year. It is not only the largest earthquake to occur so far this year but also the strongest continental earthquake in nearly a decade, according to China Media Group.</p>
<p>On Saturday, a 37-member Chinese rescue and medical team arrived in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, to carry out international humanitarian relief efforts.</p>
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"I Have Contempt For Such People": Musk Rages At &amp;#039;Virtue-Signaling&amp;#039; Ukraine Hawks After Spat With &amp;#039;Traitor&amp;#039; Mark Kelly

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<p>Elon Musk raged against Ukraine war hawks during a Thursday appearance on <em>Fox News</em>, after host Brett Baier asked him to defend calling Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) a "traitor" for pushing to send more US aid and weapons to Ukraine, following a trip to the country. </p>
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<p>BAIER: "Democratic Arizona Senator Mark Kelly posted on X about his trip to Ukraine to push for continuing to send US weapons and support there, and you posted that he was a traitor. Why do that?"</p>
<p>MUSK: "<strong>Well I think somebody should care about the interests of the Untied States above the interests of another country, and if they don't, they're a traitor."</strong></p>

<p>Baier then noted that Kelly is a "decorated veteran, a former astronaut, a sitting US senator."</p>
<p>To which Musk replied, "<strong>It doesn't mean it's ok for him to put the interests of another country above America</strong>."</p>
<p><strong>Musk drove the point home,</strong> saying "We should have empathy for the thousands of people dying everyday in the trenches. For no movement in the lines. For the past two years thousands of people have died every week for nothing.</p>
<p>"I take great offense at those who put the appearance of goodness over the reality of it. Those who virtue signal and say we can't give into Russia, but have no solution to stopping thousands of kids dying every day.</p>
<p>"<strong>I have contempt for such people and I want to make that clear.</strong> Because they're virtue signaling and their lack of a solution means that kids don't have a father. It means parents lost a son. For what? Nothing.</p>
<p>Watch (<em>via</em> <a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1905398294882517305"><em>@charliekirk11</em></a>):</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Elon Musk becomes deeply moved, and deadly serious, when Bret Baier asks him why he called Sen. Mark Kelly a "Traitor" for pushing to send more US aid and weapons to Ukraine.</p><p>Watch every second of his response.</p><p>"We should have empathy for the thousands of people dying everyday… <a href="https://t.co/FP3rZSFDzL">pic.twitter.com/FP3rZSFDzL</a></p>
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1905398294882517305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p><strong>Kelly fired back in an appearance on <em>CNN</em>,</strong> telling the network "My entire life has been about serving this country," adding that he always supports America's best interests and "standing with our allies and standing up for democracy is in the best interests of the United States.</p>
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<p><strong>He then suggested that Musk was "much closer to Russia"</strong> (than he is to Ukraine?).</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Mark Kelly on Elon Musk: "Standing with our allies and standing up for democracy is in the best interest of the US ... I would put Elon in the category of being much closer to Russia on this issue in a war with one of our allies ... I don't think he's a serious guy." <a href="https://t.co/9WM39vJYqO">pic.twitter.com/9WM39vJYqO</a></p>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1905410385152253995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>

<p>As <em><a href="https://modernity.news/2025/03/28/musk-speaks-out-on-ukraine-i-have-such-contempt-for-people-virtue-signalling/">modernity.news</a></em> notes further<em>;</em></p>
<p>Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that he views the Ukrainian government as illegitimate and has proposed a temporary governance in Ukraine under the management of the United Nations in order to hold elections and restore Democracy to the country.</p>
<p>Putin stated that he cannot sign any agreements with an illegitimate government.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🇺🇳🇷🇺🇺🇦🚨‼️ BREAKING: Putin says he can’t sign documents with the illegitimate Ukranian government!</p><p>He proposed a temporary governance in Ukraine under the management of the UN in order to hold elections.</p><p>-&gt; Putin factually says no peace is possible with Zelensky!</p><p>Interesting! <a href="https://t.co/X333q9B0QA">pic.twitter.com/X333q9B0QA</a></p>
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1905385183143997928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
<h2> Social Security</h2>
<p>Elsewhere in the interview, <strong>Musk praised the work of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),</strong> telling Baier that "legitimate recipients" of Social Security" will receive "more money, not less," due to their cost-cutting efforts. As the <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/musk-says-social-security-recipients-to-receive-more-money-under-doges-cost-cutting-work-5832781"><em>Epoch Times</em></a> notes;</p>
<p>Baier asked Musk, who serves as a special adviser to President Donald Trump, how he could reassure Americans that the work DOGE is doing to target fraud and abuse and slash waste in the federal government will not impact their benefits.</p>

<p>In response, the billionaire businessman said that the work the advisory committee is doing will “help their benefits.”</p>
<p>“I want to emphasize that, as a result of the work of DOGE, legitimate recipients of Social Security will receive more money, not less money,” he said.</p>
<p>Musk did not provide further details regarding how DOGE’s work would boost Americans’ Social Security benefits but said that his comments “will be proven out to be true” and “let the record show that I said this.”</p>
<p>The DOGE team claims that <strong>approximately 40% of calls to Social Security are fraudsters.</strong></p>
<p>"Fraudsters call in and claim to be a retiree. And then they convince the operator to change where the money is flowing.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🚨 HOLY CRAP! Elon Musk and DOGE just revealed a whopping **40%** of calls to Social Security are fraudsters.</p><p>“Fraudsters call in and claim to be a retiree. And then they convince the operator to change where the money is flowing.”</p><p>“As a result of the work of DOGE, legitimate… <a href="https://t.co/ZgIBj9uucY">pic.twitter.com/ZgIBj9uucY</a></p>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1905385316011442176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Watch the full interview below:</p>
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            <p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has acquired the social media platform X, which he also controls. The acquisition was confirmed in a Friday post on X, where Musk stated, <em>“@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction.”</em></p>
<p><em>“Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale,”</em> the tech mogul said. He described X as <em>“the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth.”</em></p>
<p>In late 2022, Musk acquired Twitter, now known as X. Following his takeover, he implemented cost-cutting measures, including far-reaching staff cuts and the renegotiations of contracts, while also relaxing some content restrictions and reinstating certain banned accounts.</p>

            
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<p>Musk noted that X has been transformed into one of the most efficient companies globally, highlighting its potential for scalable growth. He has stated that <em>“xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,”</em> emphasizing the advantages of combining their resources: <em>“Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent.”</em></p>
<p>AI development is one of the priorities of the government of US President Donald Trump, where Musk leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to analysts, the billionaire has been focused on establishing himself as a leader in the AI industry.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, he attempted to lead a group of investors to purchase OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, for nearly $100 billion. The company’s CEO Sam Altman, however, rejected the offer. Musk had co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but departed before it gained significant traction, and subsequently launched xAI in 2023.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>UN relief chief warns food ‘rotting’ at Gaza border as Israel continues to breach humanitarian law with blockade imposed on March 18.</em></p>
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<p>Palestinians in Gaza have described surviving on canned food as the UN relief chief warns fresh produce is “rotting” at Gaza’s shuttered border since an <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/2/israel-reneges-on-ceasefire-deal-warns-hamas-of-consequences">Israeli blockade</a> on crucial humanitarian aid started 10 days ago.</p>
<p>Tom Fletcher, chief of humanitarian affairs at OCHA, told the United Nations Security Council that all entry points into Gaza were closed to cargo with food “rotting, medicine expiring, and vital medical equipment stuck”.</p>

<p>“International humanitarian law prohibits indiscriminate attacks, obstruction of life-saving aid, destruction of infrastructure indispensable for civilians’ survival, and hostage-taking … If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act while it can to uphold them,” he added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">All entry points into Gaza are closed. At the border, food is rotting. Medicine is expiring. Vital medical equipment is stuck.⁰⁰If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them. <a href="https://t.co/mQkyexZYvi">pic.twitter.com/mQkyexZYvi</a></p>
<p>— Tom Fletcher (@UNReliefChief) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNReliefChief/status/1905711564801655286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></p>
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<p>Fletcher’s comments come as the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Friday that it only has “5,700 tonnes of food stocks left in Gaza – enough to support WFP operations for a maximum of two weeks”.</p>
<p>The organisation said that amid the Israeli blockade, the price of food has drastically increased, with a 25kg (55lb) bag of wheat flour now costing up to $50, a “400 percent increase compared to pre-March 18 prices”.</p>
<p>Since the beginning of March, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that food and aid would be banned from entering Gaza until Hamas agreed to extend the first stage of the January ceasefire deal.</p>
<p>However, the Palestinian group has refused to extend the first stage and has pushed to advance into the second one, which would negotiate the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and an end to the war.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="canned-food">‘Canned food’</h2>
<p>At a market in Jabalia, northern Gaza, food supplies are limited to canned goods and expensive vegetables.</p>
<p>Mustafa Homaid, a vegetable seller, told Al Jazeera that the marketplace is “almost empty” as the price of goods is too high for people to buy.</p>
<p>“A kilo (2.2 pounds) of tomatoes has tripled in price. I can hardly afford to buy groceries for my family. You can imagine how other people are coping,” Homaid said.</p>
<p>For Ahmed Balosha, a displaced child in Jabalia, the increase in prices has meant his family has not had fresh meat “for more than a year”.</p>
<p>“We are surviving on canned food, some bread and cheese. That is all,” he said.</p>
<p>Amid the worsening food crisis, Gaza continues to be under intense fire from Israeli attacks.</p>
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<p>Since Israel resumed its war on March 18, nearly 900 Palestinians have been killed, adding to the overall death toll of 50,251 people since the war began on October 7, 2023.</p>
<p>The October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel killed 1,139 people and about 250 were taken as captives, igniting the current war.</p>
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<p>New alliances in Sudan’s civil war risk sparking a regional conflict by drawing in neighbouring South Sudan, analysts tell Al Jazeera.</p>
<p>The biggest development was an <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/23/sudans-rsf-allies-sign-charter-for-rival-government-despite-criticisms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alliance in February</a> between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who established a government to rival Sudan’s current de facto leadership.</p>

<p>The RSF has been at war with Sudan’s army since April 2023 and seeks to increase its control and influence in central and eastern Sudan to expand its operational theatre.</p>
<p>SPLM-N is an armed movement headed by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu, which has been fighting Sudan’s army for decades and controls swaths of the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, both on the border with South Sudan.</p>
<p>Analysts said Sudan’s army is responding by backing South Sudanese militias to fight the SPLM-N and the RSF along their shared 2,000km (1,240-mile) border.</p>
<p>South Sudan is already dealing with its own political crisis, which could tip the country back into an all-out civil war.</p>
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<p>“If things fall apart in South Sudan, then that would make it very difficult to separate the war in Sudan from the war in South Sudan,” Alan Boswell, an expert on South Sudan and Sudan for the International Crisis Group, told Al Jazeera.</p>

<h3>Strategic alliance</h3>
<p>SPLM-N has been criticised for allying with the RSF, which is accused of committing numerous atrocities by the United Nations and other observers.</p>
<p>Al-Hilu likely chose the alliance because he couldn’t afford to stay neutral any longer, said Kholood Khair, an expert on Sudan and the founding director of the Confluence Advisory think tank.</p>
<p>“Abdel Aziz realised the RSF will soon be his neighbour [next to South Kordofan state] and he can’t fight both the army and the RSF at the same time,” she told Al Jazeera.</p>
<p>On March 23, the RSF captured West Kordofan state, which borders South Kordofan</p>
<p>South Kordofan also shares borders with North Kordofan and White Nile states. The latter serves as a major strategic point to reach central Sudan, including the country’s breadbasket state known as Gezira, which the RSF recently lost to the army.</p>
<p>Blue Nile state is also a strategic point because it shares an international border with Ethiopia.</p>
<p>Partnering with SPLM-N gives the RSF a much larger operational theatre to smuggle in supplies from South Sudan and Ethiopia and plot new attacks against the army – and civilians – in central and northern Sudan, Boswell said.</p>
<p>“The army wanted to push RSF west of the Nile [towards the western region of Darfur] by basically capturing all the bridges [in Khartoum],” he told Al Jazeera.</p>
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<p>“But if RSF can go back and forth through [South Sudan] from South Kordofan and if it can go through Blue Nile and into Ethiopia, that poses a major threat and makes the army’s containment strategy that much more difficult,” he said.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2163883" data-sanitized-id="attachment_2163883" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/33DA98B-highres.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C578" alt="Burhan - Hemedti" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2163883"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-2163883" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, left, and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Daglo [File: Ashraf Shazly/AFP]</figcaption></figure><h3>War by proxy</h3>
<p>During Sudan’s second north-south civil war from 1983 to 2005, before South Sudan became independent, Khartoum sought to undermine the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), the main group fighting for the south’s liberation. To do so, it supported southern militias against it.</p>
<p>The war ended with a peace agreement that gave southerners the right to vote in an independence referendum, and in 2011, South Sudan became the newest country in the world.</p>
<p>SPLM-N, which grew out of the SPLM, shares the South Sudanese ruling elite’s history of fighting the Sudanese army.</p>
<p>During the civil war, the Nuba tribespeople of South Kordofan and Blue Nile fought as part of the SPLM while the government “normally relied on proxies to fight its wars”, said Hafez Mohamed, who is originally from the Nuba Mountains and heads the human rights group Justice Africa.</p>
<p>In 1987, the government began arming nomads and pastoralists referred to as “Arabs” to fight against sedentary farmers in the south who are seen as “non-Arabs”.</p>
<p>For years to come, this divide-and-conquer approach would be the army’s modus operandi to combat rebellions across the country, most famously birthing in the early 2000s what would later become the RSF.</p>
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<p>When President Omar al-Bashir came to power through a bloodless military coup in 1989, he doubled down on this strategy by forming the Popular Defence Forces (PDF) – an instrument for the then-National Islamic Front ruling party to politically and militarily mobilise young men.</p>
<p>The “Arab” PDF forces became notorious for setting entire villages on fire and carrying out summary killings.</p>
<p>The terrifying abuses often exacerbated local competition for farmland, which stems from decades of aggressive state-backed land policies that enriched national elites and uprooted local communities for industrial farming.</p>
<h3>Guilty by affiliation</h3>
<p>After South Sudan seceded, the Nuba felt left behind in Sudan.</p>
<p>According to the peace agreement that ended the civil war, the Nuba in Blue Nile and South Kordofan would engage in vaguely worded “popular consultations” with the central government to address the root causes of conflict.</p>
<p>However, the consultations never materialised due to a lack of political will from Khartoum and the Nuba fighters.</p>
<p>The former was looking to consolidate control over what remained of Sudan through force. The latter, rebranded as the SPLM-N, continued their rebellion with limited political and logistical help from South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, according to a <a href="https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/HSBA-WP29-S.Kordofan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report by Small Arms Survey</a> from March 2013.</p>
<p>These historical ties, Boswell said, make Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, believe Kiir is quietly backing the RSF and SPLM-N alliance.</p>
<p>“Kiir has always been close with SPLM-N,” he told Al Jazeera. “And from the [army’s] perspective, it holds [South Sudan] accountable for anything SPLM-N does.”</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3564975" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3564975" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-07T105904Z_1595316421_RC20VCAGSUW7_RTRMADP_3_SOUTHSUDAN-SECURITY-1741463816-e1741518348218.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C505" alt="South Sudan" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3564975"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3564975" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">South Sudanese President Salva Kiir [File: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p>Kiir may even be surprised that his old comrades have inked a partnership with the RSF. In 2015, the army had dispatched the RSF to the Nuba Mountains to battle al-Hilu’s fighters.</p>
<p>However, the RSF suffered a humiliating defeat largely because it was more accustomed to fighting in the sprawling desert of Darfur than the green uplands of the Nuba Mountains.</p>
<p>The origins of the RSF date back to the first Darfur war in 2003, in which “Arab” tribal militias were recruited by the army to crush a mainly “non-Arab” rebellion against state neglect and lack of representation in the central government.</p>
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<p>The “Arab” militias committed countless atrocities, such as summary killings and systematic rape, earning them the name the “Janjaweed”, meaning “Devils on Horseback” in Sudanese Arabic.</p>
<p>In 2013, al-Bashir repackaged the Janjaweed into the RSF to help his regime and fight counterinsurgencies across the country, not just Darfur.</p>
<p>Little did he know that the RSF would rebel against the army years later.</p>

<h3>Divide and rule again?</h3>
<p>The army now appears to be activating other old proxies in South Sudan to counter the new partnership.</p>
<p>South Sudan is loosely split politically between militia and regular forces loyal to Kiir and an array of militias nominally aligned with Vice President Riek Machar.</p>
<p>Kiir belongs to the Dinka, South Sudan’s largest ethnic group, while Machar is a Nuer, the second largest tribe.</p>
<p>Their rivalry dates back to the pre-independence civil war, which saw <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/1/5/profile-south-sudan-rebel-leader-riek-machar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Machar accept help from Khartoum’s government</a> to fight against the SPLM in an attempt to overthrow its then-leader John Garang.</p>
<p>In July 2005, seven months after the war came to an end, Garang died in a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2005/8/1/sudans-garang-dies-in-copter-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helicopter crash</a>. Kiir, who was his deputy, quickly assumed control of the SPLM.</p>
<p>In 2013, two years after South Sudan gained independence, a power struggle between Machar and Kiir descended into a civil war.</p>
<p>Most Nuer forces loosely aligned with Machar coalesced into the SPLM-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) to differentiate themselves from Kiir’s SPLM.</p>
<p>The violence killed about 400,000 people before a shaky power-sharing agreement was signed five years later.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3604904" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3604904" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2019-10-19T214459Z_55944457_RC1D30349D60_RTRMADP_3_SUDAN-POLITICS-1743039630.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C512" alt="South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit shakes hands with ex-vice president and former rebel leader Riek Machar during their meeting in Juba, South Sudan October 19, 2019. REUTERS/Jok Solomun" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3604904"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3604904" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Former rebel leader Riek Machar, left, meets Kiir in Juba, South Sudan, on October 19, 2019, four months before he resumed office as vice president [Jok Solomun/Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p>While violence in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, calmed down after the peace deal, atrocities continued in the peripheries due to the government’s practices of <a href="https://africanarguments.org/2022/01/death-by-peace-how-south-sudans-peace-agreement-ate-the-grassroots/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appointing corrupt governors, coopting local militias and extracting resources,</a> according to Joshua Craze, an independent expert on South Sudan and Sudan.</p>
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<p>He added that Sudan’s current war has been spilling into the conflict-ridden peripheries of South Sudan, referencing clashes between some SPLM-IO commanders and the RSF this month. The RSF and SPLM-N are present along the shared border with South Kordofan running next to South Sudan’s Unity and Upper Nile states.</p>
<p>Some of the clashes with the RSF reportedly took place with an SPLM-IO armed group in Upper Nile. More fighting reportedly took place in Sudan’s Blue Nile state.</p>
<p>“[Sudan’s army] pretty much wants to disrupt RSF’s movements along the [South Sudan-Sudan border] …by supporting some SPLM-IO commanders,” Craze told Al Jazeera.</p>
<p>Al Jazeera sent written questions to Sudanese army spokesperson Nabil Abdullah asking if the army was providing logistical and material support to SPLM-IO factions. He had not responded by the time of publication.</p>
<h3>Integrated conflict?</h3>
<p>On Thursday, Kiir sent his security forces to place Machar under house arrest, a move that now pushes South Sudan closer to the brink of an all-out civil war, according to the UN.</p>

<p>Kiir accuses Machar of supporting the Nuer community militias that fought with government forces this month.</p>
<p>But Craze said Machar has no command over these militias and added that they are responding to the government’s predatory and oppressive behaviour in their regions.</p>
<p>“What we are facing is very disturbing and dangerous. We are facing the total fragmentation of South Sudan,” Craze told Al Jazeera.</p>
<p>If this forecast is true, then many young South Sudanese men may end up fighting as mercenaries in Sudan, Boswell said, noting that army-backed groups and the RSF are already recruiting South Sudanese and “recruitment could pick up.”</p>
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<p>He warned that if South Sudan slips back into civil war, the RSF would likely benefit.</p>
<p>“I don’t think a collapse in Juba plays into the interest of [Sudan’s army],” he said. “Even if the army thinks Juba helps the RSF, the collapse of South Sudan would give the RSF a much greater operational theatre than it already has.”</p>

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<p><strong>India’s government has dispatched urgent humanitarian assistance to its neighbor</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>India has provided aid to Myanmar in the wake of a series of devastating earthquakes which struck the neighboring country on Friday. <br><br>As part of ‘Operation Brahma’, an Indian Air Force cargo plane carrying approximately 15 metric tons of relief supplies landed in Yangon amid calls to support the millions affected by the disaster, government officials said.<br><br>The series of earthquakes struck Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, leaving over 1,000 people dead and 1,600 injured, according to an AFP report, as well as causing widespread destruction and leaving many homeless amid the rubble of their collapsed buildings<br><br>Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Randhir Jaiswan said that their first tranche of 15 tons of relief material, including tents, blankets, sleeping bags, food packets, hygiene kits, generators, and essential medicines had landed in Yangon.<br><br>India quickly responded to the disaster, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing that his government is prepared to provide all necessary assistance. He took to social media, expressing his concern and offering prayers for the safety and well-being of those affected by the earthquakes.</p>

            <blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OperationBrahma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OperationBrahma</a> gets underway. <br><br>First tranche of humanitarian aid from India has reached the Yangon Airport in Myanmar.<br><br>🇮🇳 🇲🇲 <a href="https://t.co/OmiJLnYTwS">pic.twitter.com/OmiJLnYTwS</a></p>— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrSJaishankar/status/1905840989308072205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>Following the quake, Myanmar implemented a state of emergency in six severely affected regions. A major hospital in Naypyidaw reported hundreds of casualties; the entrance to its emergency department had collapsed, trapping a car underneath.<br><br>Prime Minister of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing cautioned on Friday that the number of casualties is expected to increase as the situation continues to unfold. <em>“I would like to invite any country, any organization, or anyone in Myanmar to come and help,”</em> he said in a televised speech, after visiting a hospital in the capital Naypyidaw on the morning of March 29.<br><br>Several other countries have also offered to assist after a call for help from Myanmar’s authorities, including Russia, which has dispatched two aircraft from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, along with a group of 120 rescuers, canine units, anesthesiologists, and psychologists, as well as equipment. The flights took off from Zhukovsky Airport near Moscow on Friday night.<br><br>In Thailand’s capital Bangkok, which was hit by the quake, an emergency zone was established, resulting in the suspension of certain metro and light rail services. At least 6 died in Bangkok, according to media reports.</p>

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Elon Musk is pushing to improve the image of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggesting the Tesla CEO is aware of the boogeyman persona he has created for himself and his cost-cutting push since joining President Trump’s team.  Musk went on Fox News on Thursday night to claim he is being careful and compassionate…

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The Trump administration’s sharing of sensitive military information on Signal has shocked allies, while further eroding trans-Atlantic trust thanks to group chat messages from top U.S. officials expressing contempt toward Europe’s “freeloading” on security.  “I think every allied intelligence agency that read that article is probably having their own internal panic attack about what this…

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Friday brought new twists in President Trump’s intensifying battle with major legal firms. Trump has targeted several firms with executive orders that rescind their security clearances and banish them from the use of government facilities. If such orders stand, they would call the survival of the firms into question, since they would create enormous logistical…

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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250329/1441807.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>HANOI, March 29. /TASS/. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has confirmed that he plans to visit Russia in May and take part in the celebrations dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.</p>
<p>"I plan to come to Russia on May 9 to take part in the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II (the Great Patriotic War - TASS)," the Brazilian leader said at a press conference following his state visit to Vietnam.</p>
<p>Lula da Silva also said that he plans to discuss the potential peaceful settlement in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during his visit to Russia in May. The Brazilian leader emphasized that he intends to discuss the settlement in Ukraine during his visits to Russia and China. "At these meetings, I will discuss the issue of peace [in Ukraine]," the president pointed out. "We (Brazil and China - TASS) expect the start of the negotiation process [between Russia and Ukraine]," he added.</p>


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title: Senior Russian defense official discusses cooperation with Myanmar’s prime minister
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin and Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing held talks in Naypyidaw and discussed military and military-technical cooperation, the Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"The delegation of the Russian Defense Ministry headed by Deputy Defense Minister Colonel General Alexander Fomin has concluded a working visit to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Within the framework of the visit in the Myanmar capital of Naypyidaw, negotiations were held between Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin and Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing," the statement said.</p>
<p>The senior Russian defense official congratulated Min Aung Hlaing on the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Myanmar Armed Forces and handed over a congratulatory letter from Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov. "During the meeting, issues of military and military-technical cooperation were discussed," the ministry added.</p>


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title: Russia and India discussing ways to boost trade beyond $100bn
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<p><strong>Top diplomats and experts from the two nations have gathered in Moscow to work on strengthening cooperation</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>India and Russia need to explore new ways to deepen their strategic partnership, officials and experts underscored at a high-level conference held in Moscow on Thursday. The event, titled Russia and India: Towards a New Bilateral Agenda, was organized by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) with support from the Indian embassy, and highlighted that while there are synergies between the two countries, more can be done to further strengthen economic ties.</p>
<p>The conference brought together public officials, diplomats, and foreign policy experts from both nations to review bilateral ties and discuss future areas of cooperation to achieve the target of increasing bilateral trade to $100 billion in the next five years, as agreed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Moscow in July 2024.</p>
<p>Russia’s growing rift with Western nations, especially since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, and the imposition of unprecedented sanctions aiming to cut Moscow off from global financial and trade systems, has led to expanded ties with several nations in the Global South, including India.</p>
<p><em>“Our trade turnover skyrocketed. We have achieved levels which we couldn’t have imagined before. Energy is one of the driving forces, along with the traditional spheres of our cooperation, such as nuclear energy, military-technical cooperation. Food security is also a very prospective field,”</em> said RIAC director-general Ivan Timofeev. He suggested that the two countries would continue to develop political and especially economic ties due to their <em>“mutual complementarity.”</em></p>

            
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<p>According to Pankaj Saran, former ambassador to Russia and convenor of NatStrat, a Delhi-based independent center for research on strategic and security issues, while cooperation at the government-to-government level is strong, there is limited awareness between Indian and Russian entrepreneurs. <em>“We have to address that. We just have to make sure people know each other – people who matter. Business startups, investors, academics – so much more people-to-people exchange, many more flights, more exchanges. That’s how awareness will grow,”</em> he told RT.</p>
<p>Kanwal Sibal, former Indian foreign secretary and ambassador to Russia (2004–2007), said India is closely following the ongoing talks between Moscow and Washington on a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict. He added that once a solution is achieved and ratified by the United Nations, India could play a credible role as a peace monitor in Ukraine.</p>
<p>Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrey Rudenko, speaking to RT on the sidelines of the conference, said Moscow appreciates India’s position on the Ukraine issue. <em>“It is a well-balanced and calibrated position. India calls for a peaceful resolution with the involvement of all parties and proposals. We are very grateful,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>Rudenko also welcomed progress in India-China relations and said Russia supports reviving the Russia-India-China (RIC) dialogue format. <em>“It is a very important platform where India and China, with Russia’s participation, can discuss global and regional issues,”</em> he said.</p>

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title: Zelensky is a ‘demon’ – Ukrainian MP
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<p><strong>Artyom Dmitruk blasted his country’s leader over an attempt to take over the sacred catacombs of the county’s oldest monastery</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is waging a campaign of terror against his own people by signing off on a crackdown targeting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), particularly the iconic Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery, lawmaker Artyom Dmitruk has said.</p>
<p>In an interview with RT on Friday, Dmitruk responded to reports that Ukrainian officials and police have entered the catacombs of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the nation’s most significant monastery and the final resting place of several Christian saints. During the raid, authorities unlocked doors, broke into the caves, and changed locks. Dmitruk described their actions as sacrilegious and suggested that Zelensky was directly complicit.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“Zelensky is perpetrating genocide of the Ukrainian people. What we are seeing now and what we are witnessing now is the continuation of terror policies of Zelensky’s against [the] Ukrainian people. Zelensky is a demon in the body of a human being. You can call him whatever you want, a godless person, a terrorist, and so on and so forth. The gist of his actions is the same. Zelensky is following a demon’s will,”</em> he asserted.</p>

            
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<p>According to the legislator, who claims to have fled the country over the persecution of the UOC, the stated goal of the <em>“inventarization”</em> of the monastery’s possessions is nothing more than a pretext.</p>
<p><em>“They want to inspect the holy relics of our saints. They plan to carve them up, to open them up, to break them into pieces. To perform this sacrilege over them. It's a huge tragedy for the entire Orthodox world,”</em> he said, recalling that the results of the review would be classified.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“They are raiding the Lavra. They are trying to seize the property of the Lavra… If we speak from a legal point of view, it’s a crime,”</em> Dmitruk stressed.</p>
<p>The Ukrainian government has been cracking down on the UOC for months, which it views as having ties to Russia. This effort has included attempts to take over the Lavra, as well as church raids and arrests of clergy. The UOC, the largest religious institution in the country, severed ties with the Moscow Patriarchate following the start of the conflict.</p>
<p>Zelensky has defended the move, insisting on the need to protect Ukraine’s <em>“spiritual independence”</em> from Russia. Moscow has condemned the measures, accusing Kiev of suppressing the canonical Orthodox faith and alleging that the West is encouraging these efforts.</p>

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<p><strong>A man who injured five people with knives comes from a region formerly controlled by Kiev, Dutch media have said citing security sources</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Dutch police have revealed the identity of the suspect who seriously injured five people with knives in Amsterdam. Local media reported on Friday, citing security sources, that the suspect is 30-year-old Ukraininan citizen Roman D. He is originally from Donetsk Region – a former part of Ukraine that voted to join Russia in 2022.</p>
<p>On Thursday, five people were stabbed in the Dutch capital, when a man armed with several knives attacked passers-by in the historic city center. The suspect was stopped by an unnamed tourist, reportedly from the UK, who chased the man and restrained him.</p>
<p>According to De Telegraaf, the presumed attacker had false identity papers and refused to give his real personal details. The man is currently in a hospital under strict guard. Police say his motives are still unknown. It is also believed that his choice of victims was random. </p>

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<p>Two Americans – a 67-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man, a 26-year-old man with Polish nationality, a 73-year-old woman from Belgium and a 19-year-old local girl were injured in the attack.</p>
<p>The tourist who managed to stop the suspect was praised by local police and officials, who called him <em>“a true hero”</em>. However, they did not reveal his identity and called on the public to exercise caution in making a citizen’s arrest, as <em>“most people are not trained for this sort of thing.”</em></p>

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title: Real Patriots Don't Think Like Hitler - Part 5
author: ;Matthew Ehret
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<div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33a14465-df83-41ae-be79-c449b0eb272c_1456x842.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33a14465-df83-41ae-be79-c449b0eb272c_1456x842.webp" width="1456" height="842" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/33a14465-df83-41ae-be79-c449b0eb272c_1456x842.webp","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":842,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":112574,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/webp","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://matthewehret.substack.com/i/160047920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33a14465-df83-41ae-be79-c449b0eb272c_1456x842.webp","isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In our previous installments of ‘<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler-3a9?utm_source=publication-search">Real Patriots Don’t Think Like Hitler,’ </a>I wished to set the stage for several key points:</p><p><strong>The first: </strong>The current nudging of conservative movements globally towards a hard reactionary extremism in response to the destructive absurdities of woke neo-Bolshevik leftism is a very real danger which needs to be understood</p><p><strong>The second point: </strong>The massive wave of pro-Hitler narratives now spreading widely across alternative media platforms is designed to accelerate this neo-Hitler pagan revivalism under the guise of ‘saving white traditional values from Soros-funded immigration and Jew bankers’. Stu Peters’ recent promotion of US-based white nationalist David Duke, or the recent <em>Occupied</em> film are just two examples of this growing array of pro-Nazi propaganda now in play</p><p><strong>The third point: </strong>Hitler and the SS inner elite were never Christian, or nationalists, but rather puppet enforcers of a fascist imperialism run by an occult high command that sought to annihilate Christianity from the face of the earth.</p><p><strong>The final point: </strong>This occult high command which created and managed the Nazi Party was never intent on leaving the USA alone, as some revisionists insist, but had built up a vast espionage apparatus in the USA itself which has nearly completely been written out of history.</p><p>In this fifth part of this series, we will explore this occult espionage network in the USA with a look to two leading black magicians who oversaw much of it: Aleister Crowley and George Sylvester Viereck.</p><p>Throughout World War one and World War two, the American poet, vampire promoter and occultist George Sylvester Viereck acted as principal German intelligence agent, organizing a vast espionage network in Washington and New York where he interfaced closely with a newly formed British-directed intelligence network set up in New York named Sleepy Hollow.</p><h3><strong>The Sleepy Hollow Club</strong></h3><p>As Richard B. Spence notes in <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/secret-agent-666-spence-crowley/page/368/mode/2up">Secret Agent 666</a></em>, one of Crowley’s leading contacts and paymasters in New York before and during WWI was a figure named John Quinn, an Anglo-American agent of a new private intelligence agency centered in the elite Sleepy Hollow Club of New York.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F903bbae4-460b-4156-aa2d-cc3e8c96155a_478x700.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F903bbae4-460b-4156-aa2d-cc3e8c96155a_478x700.jpeg" width="302" height="442.25941422594144" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/903bbae4-460b-4156-aa2d-cc3e8c96155a_478x700.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":700,"width":478,"resizeWidth":302,"bytes":75572,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Sleepy Hollow Club was owned by William Rockefeller and featured the upper crust of America’s brahmin families, including the Vanderbilts, Morgans, Cabbots, Lodges, and Lowells (to name a few).</p><p>Senator Nelson Aldrich (father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller) was another leading member, as was President Wilson’s handler Edward Mandel House—both of whom played a key role in setting up both the Federal Reserve and IRS in 1913.</p><p>The Club’s permanent resident was a British agent named Claude Dansey (later the deputy director of MI5) who was tasked with establishing this parallel security agency outside of the influence of the US government.</p><p>As Anton Chaitkin points out in <em><a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2015/eirv42n36-20150911/44-57_4236.pdf">Hoover’s FBI and Anglo-American Dictatorship</a></em>, Dansey ran the agency from 1911-1914 from the Sleepy Hollow Club, and Claude Dansey’s protege Ralph van Deman set up a shadowy military intelligence agency called ‘<a href="https://popularresistance.org/building-americas-secret-surveillance-state/">The Black Chamber’ in 1918</a>. Led by Marlborough Churchill, an American cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, the Black Chamber excelled at signals intelligence and was soon given a new name in 1930 under the banner of <strong>‘The National Security Agency’.</strong></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13ee4379-d37e-4941-9f22-e64907a08edf_957x482.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13ee4379-d37e-4941-9f22-e64907a08edf_957x482.jpeg" width="957" height="482" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13ee4379-d37e-4941-9f22-e64907a08edf_957x482.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":482,"width":957,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":230808,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>After WWI, Van Deman recommended Dansey for a Distinguished Service Medal “<em>for guiding, planning and implementation of an American intelligence service”.</em></p><p>In 1909, Dansey, who had risen to prominence in the Boer War (working closely with Lord Milner and Churchill), became a founding deputy director of Britain’s new spy agency MI5, alongside Viscount Richard Burdon Haldane and William Melville.</p><p>The fact that Dansey <strong>created at least two American secret intelligence agencies</strong> while also serving as Deputy director of the new British Secret Service (later to be known as MI5) should cause any thinking person to question who exactly has been running the USA over the past century.</p><p>During World War II, Dansey would be assigned to create another secretive agency dubbed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1985/03/31/on-his-majestys-secret-service/c107ec28-815c-475d-93b4-b76ffdd2e2bf/">‘The Z organization’ </a>that interfaced between British occult intelligence, Nazi occult networks, and once again included both Crowley and George Sylvester Viereck as active members.</p><p>In the 1988 book<a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Kings-Men-Robert-Marshall/dp/0006371574"> ‘All the King’s Men,’</a> historian Robert Marshall demonstrated that Dansey’s pseudo-private intelligence apparatus was behind the sabotage of several networks of French and Dutch anti-Nazi resistance fighters who believed they could trust British intelligence contacts.</p><p>The manager of the Sleepy Hollow Club was a powerful financier named Thomas Fortune Ryan, who joined J.P Morgan in financing Nikola Tesla’s towers before the war was launched.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc6df2315-3e7a-4d57-abf8-54fdf5b8754c_1726x999.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc6df2315-3e7a-4d57-abf8-54fdf5b8754c_1726x999.jpeg" width="1456" height="843" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6df2315-3e7a-4d57-abf8-54fdf5b8754c_1726x999.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":843,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Crowley, Viereck, Wardenclyffe Tower and Nikola Tesla</figcaption></figure></div><p>It is interesting to note that William J. Flynn took the position of Director of the fledgling FBI from 1917-1919, where he found himself at odds with Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s tyrannical crackdown on civil liberties, dubbed ‘the Palmer Raids’.</p><p>American historian Anton Chaitkin <a href="https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/hoovers-fbi-and-the-anglo-american-293?utm_source=publication-search">had the following to say about the Sleepy Hollow Club </a>(founded in 1910 as an instrument of British intelligence and Deep State traitors):</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“The King [Edward VII] and Viscount Haldane restructured British intelligence in 1909, making two branches of the official secret service later called MI5 (domestic/counterintelligence) and MI6 (foreign). Beginning in 1910, the new Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, arranged great new powers of surveillance for the secret service, a “registry” of subversives and the clandestine interception of private mail; he put through Parliament a drastic new Official Secrets Act, and recommended passage of a eugenical sterilization law to save the war-destined Empire the expenses of caring for the unfit.</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h3><strong>William James Flynn and the Patriotic Tradition of US Intelligence</strong></h3><p>William James Flynn (1867-1928), chief of New York’s secret service from 1912-1917, and director of the young FBI from 1917-1919 led the anti-corruption purge of the NYPD detective bureau from 1910-1911.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6507970b-9931-4488-8fc5-8000b7c91b77_618x405.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6507970b-9931-4488-8fc5-8000b7c91b77_618x405.jpeg" width="618" height="405" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6507970b-9931-4488-8fc5-8000b7c91b77_618x405.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":405,"width":618,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">William James Flynn</figcaption></figure></div><p>In 1915, <a href="https://archive.org/details/eagleseyetruesto00coop/page/n7/mode/2up">Flynn was responsible for locating the German agents operating in the USA around the figures of Aleister Crowley and Viereck,</a> and it was Flynn who followed German diplomat Dr. Heinrich Albert and George Sylvester Viereck<a href="https://www.felixsommerfeld.com/news/mexican-revolution-blog/2015/8/4/the-minister-without-portfolio"> and acquired the evidence </a>of Germany’s $25 million spent buying up spy networks across the USA during the war.</p><p>Historian Helibert von Felitzer notes of this sting operation:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Albert’s papers revealed the German ownership of the Bridgeport Projectile Company, the investments in American munitions, market-cornering efforts, investments in newspapers, bribes to American politicians, links of the Deutsche Bank representative, Hugo Schmidt, to the German operation, and payments of the German government to George Sylvester Viereck and the Fatherland.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>As noted in <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-occult-tesla-part-2">The Occult Tesla - Part 2,</a> Viereck’s pro-German propaganda magazine ‘<em>The Fatherland</em>’ was edited by none other than Aleister Crowley.</p><p>Flowing from the success of this operation, Flynn tracked down the wireless radio communications station based in Long Island that had been transmitting signals to German intelligence (such as information leading to the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915). Flynn’s interception of messages to the German high command provided the legal justification for the US government’s seizure and destruction of Tesla’s Long Island towers (both the Wardenclyff tower <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2016/01/nikola-tesla-why-his-free-energy-was-suppressed-and-lifes-work-buried-3277422.html">and the Telefunken Wireless Station in Sayville, Long Island</a>, NY) during the war.</p><h3>The Making of an American Nazi: George Viereck</h3><p>George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) was the son of a leading anarchist expelled from Germany by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, and settled in the USA as a child in 1896.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1ea994c-9348-4b3c-b740-8ee0e1190636_787x1229.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1ea994c-9348-4b3c-b740-8ee0e1190636_787x1229.jpeg" width="260" height="406.0228716645489" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d1ea994c-9348-4b3c-b740-8ee0e1190636_787x1229.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1229,"width":787,"resizeWidth":260,"bytes":402931,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Throughout his life, Viereck firmly believed himself to be a member of the elite bloodlines of Europe and asserted that he was the illegitimate son of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Strangely, his actual father was a leading Prussian anarchist who was so close to Friedrich Engels that the founder of Communism and handler of Marx was present at the later’s wedding to Viereck’s mother.</p><p>Whether the stories of Viereck’s aristocratic blood were true or not, Viereck became a devoted Germanophile, Aryan supremacist, occultist and propagandist for Germany during both World Wars—even serving five years in jail between 1942-1947 for his pro-Nazi activities in the USA.</p><h3>German Agent and Occultists in World War 1</h3><p>During World War I, Viereck ran two influential pro-German newspapers out of New York, named ‘The Fatherland’ and ‘The Internationalist’.</p><p>As editor in chief of both journals, Viereck worked closely with fellow occultist Aleister Crowley, who wrote for both journals and served as editor of The International, where ‘The Beast’ lost no time promoting both political propaganda as well as his “revealed doctrine” of Thelema (Greek for “Will’) and occult new age theories.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38205dd8-ec47-4f65-aabe-30509cbdccc6_1332x646.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38205dd8-ec47-4f65-aabe-30509cbdccc6_1332x646.jpeg" width="626" height="303.6006006006006" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/38205dd8-ec47-4f65-aabe-30509cbdccc6_1332x646.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":646,"width":1332,"resizeWidth":626,"bytes":530997,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>According to Richard Spence’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Agent-666-Aleister-Intelligence/dp/1932595333">Secret Agent 666</a>, Crowley was stationed by British intelligence in the USA from 1914-1919 where he ran anti-British propaganda on the one hand (interfacing closely with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_Country_Club">eastern establishment’s Sleepy Hollow Club</a>), and where he seeded occult cells across the USA including what became his Ordo Templi Orientis in New York and California while also acting as ‘Honorous Magus’ in the Societas Rosicruciana. Crowley’s California lodges would later be led by Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard.</p><p>As Marco Pasi explains in <a href="https://www.academia.edu/10178869/Aleister_Crowley_and_the_Temptation_of_Politics">Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics</a>, Crowley and Viereck had already met in London in 1911, before Crowley would be deployed to the USA. This places Viereck himself into the position of a likely British intelligence asset in the USA.</p><p>Pasi writes:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“In the first months of 1915, he [Crowley] began collaborating with a German propaganda newspaper, The Fatherland, directed by the writer George Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962). Crowley had already met Viereck in London in 1911. The articles Crowley published in this period were violently anti-British. He also contributed various articles to the journal Vanity Fair. In October 1915 he left New York to tour the West Coast. On this voyage, in Vancouver, he met with his disciple Charles Stansfeld Jones (1886–1950), who had established a branch of the OTO in that city.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>In 1912, Crowley was made outer head of the Ordo Templi Orientis by Theodor Reuss (the same Reuss who had worked with Memphis Misraim Rite founder John Yarker, Carl Kellner, Anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner and Aleister Crowley in the Ancient Rite of Memphis and Misraim.)</p><p><a href="https://crowleythetruewill.blogspot.com/2012/10/aleister-crowley-ordo-templi-orientis.html">In 1913, Crowley became the head</a> of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Misraim. According to <a href="https://archive.org/details/rudolfsteineraut0000stei">Steiner’s autobiography</a>, the former Theosophy leader was initiated into the Memphis and Misraim Rite by Yarker with his wife Marie von Sievers, although by 1912 had publicly distanced themselves from Reuss and Yarker.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7b2a0dc-432d-44f5-9ee5-1947cd129a5a_1789x646.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7b2a0dc-432d-44f5-9ee5-1947cd129a5a_1789x646.jpeg" width="1456" height="526" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e7b2a0dc-432d-44f5-9ee5-1947cd129a5a_1789x646.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":526,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":693431,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Steiner was a devoted advocate of Rosicrucianism <a href="https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA233a/English/RSP1965/RosIni_index.html">and lectured extensively</a> on the secret wisdom of Rosicrucians throughout the ages, which places his thinking into direct alignment with the Hermetic orders of Crowley, Reuss, Yarker et al. In his bizarre 1912 lecture <a href="https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA130/English/RSP1984/19121218p02.html">Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz</a>, Steiner spoke of his belief of the Martian home of the spirit beings Buddha, Christ and the founder of Rosicrucianism (the fictitious Christian Rosenkreutz,) whom he proposed were all avatars of the same ‘Christ consciousness’ spirit.</p><p>During this dense period of occult activity leading up to the first world war, Crowley made contact with the leading Ariosophists (a Theosophist spinoff group) led by Otto von List and Lans von Liebenfels, and German Theosophist leader Dr. Franz Hartmann. The New Templar Order established by Liebenfels in 1907 worked closely tied to ‘The Rosicrucian Pansophists’ led by Heinrich Traenker, and by 1918, collaboration of these various occult networks gave rise to the Thule Society in 1919.</p><p>The Thule Society formed a central pagan religious hub and was soon led by Dietrich Eckart, and other German racists, who would soon make up the vanguard of the Nazi high command.</p><p>In ‘<em><a href="https://archive.org/details/most-evil-secret-societies-in-history">The Most Evil Secret Societies in History</a></em>’, Shelley Klein writes,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Calling themselves the Thule Society (Thule-Gesellschaft) and meeting in secret, they were to play a significant part in Hitler’s rise to power, fomenting support in the beer halls of Munich, the very establishments where Hitler first began practising his charismatic, rabble-rousing speeches… The Thule Society was an early expression of the Nazi fetish for “Aryan” tribes and northern lands, an early elision of an idea of natural purity with a belief in the racial superiority of a people.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Franz Hartmann was a member of Crowley’s the Argentum Astrum (A∴A∴) and also president of the Indian Theosophical Society, and in 1907, alongside Annie Besant, who became the first female member of the theosophy, infiltrated Indian Congress Party that later collaborated with the Nazis.</p><h3>Crowley’s Occultism vs U.S. Naval Intelligence</h3><p>Richard B. Spence’s research has been corroborated by declassified documents from the archives of the United States Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) which demonstrated that Crowley was a British double agent the entire time.</p><p>Spence describes the influence Crowley enjoyed over the top brass of Germany’s government and military chiefs during the war, writing,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Crowley’s influence reached the top of the German clandestine and diplomatic hierarchies in the U.S. Through his connection to The Fatherland and the likes of Viereck… Crowley rubbed elbows with Dr. Albert, von Papen and even Ambassador Bernstorff. Thus he became more than a mere propagandist… the Germans came to place great faith in the Beast’s ‘intuition’ and saw him as an indispensable guide into the mentality of the Americans and the British. He especially impressed them with his ability to predict the actions and reactions of the British. It was almost as though he could see into the inner sanctums of Whitehall. The possibility that he was a British double agent plying them with disinformation apparently eluded them.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Certainly, Crowley’s mastery of kundalini yoga, druidism and German occult rituals positioned him favorably to win the appeal of leading figures within the “anti-British” resistance of India, Ireland and Germany… all of whom were extremely active in “neutral America” before and during World War One.</p><p>In a declassified report from the chief intelligence officer at West Point to the Director of Military Intelligence dated September 23, 1918, we read the following report on Crowley’s connection with Viereck:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Aleister Crowley – English subject. Previous correspondence: Subject has been camping on Esopus Island, Hudson River and was brought to attention of this office by subject’s connections with Madeline George, an actress of New York City who had formerly been investigated by the Department of Justice on charges of being a German spy. It was determined that Aleister Crowley was an employee of the British Government, but at present in this country on official business, of which the British Counsel, New York City, has full cognizance.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>However, he has been formerly investigated by the Attorney General Becker’s office in connection with the activities of George Viereck, and the propaganda in New York City. It was found that the British Government was full aware of the fact, that Crowley was connected with this German propaganda and had received money for writing anti-British articles. This case has been turned over to the N.Y. State Attorney General’s Office, for such action as he may deem advisable.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Another interesting report from the US Office of Naval Intelligence dated July 10, 1917 zeroed in on Theodor Reuss (Crowley’s fellow leader at the Rosicrucian Ordo Templi Orientis,) which stated that Crowley <em>“maintained some mysterious means of communication with their chief in Berlin, Rudolf Steiner”.</em></p><p>Two scans of the relevant declassified intelligence reports covering the networks of Crowley and Viereck in the USA are featured on the following two pages:</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5336286e-4208-4c49-a410-800bcc22e098_494x636.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div 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9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001478d9-96fe-4964-b5a3-602c636a5a70_507x665.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001478d9-96fe-4964-b5a3-602c636a5a70_507x665.jpeg" width="435" height="570.5621301775147" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/001478d9-96fe-4964-b5a3-602c636a5a70_507x665.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":665,"width":507,"resizeWidth":435,"bytes":113777,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Is it possible that Tesla’s 186-foot Wardenclyffe Tower financed by JP Morgan was the “mysterious means” referred to by U.S. Naval Intelligence in 1917 to communicate messages wirelessly across the Atlantic?</p><p>Certainly, Crowley’s “magickal workings” on Long Island during that period situate him very close to Tesla’s tower, and Crowley’s association with Tesla’s intimate friend Viereck causes the mind to wonder.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a09cd19-912c-43f5-a390-78fd01f60ffe_482x438.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a09cd19-912c-43f5-a390-78fd01f60ffe_482x438.jpeg" width="482" height="438" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0a09cd19-912c-43f5-a390-78fd01f60ffe_482x438.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":438,"width":482,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":69954,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Rudolf Steiner’s possible role as coordinator of the occult intelligence network in the USA through ‘neutral Switzerland’ is additionally fascinating, since he also played the role of personal spiritual guru to the German Chief-of-Staff Helmut von Moltke.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73dc40b6-a383-44e3-b126-5b0fb0249174_371x222.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73dc40b6-a383-44e3-b126-5b0fb0249174_371x222.png" width="371" height="222" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/73dc40b6-a383-44e3-b126-5b0fb0249174_371x222.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":222,"width":371,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":78342,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">German Chief-of-Staff Helmut von Moltke and his spiritual guru Rudolf Steiner</figcaption></figure></div><p>While it is impossible to know what advice or intelligence Steiner gave General Moltke, what is known is that the General walked into every single trap set for Germany by British strategists… leading up to the ritual bloodletting that was World War One.</p><p>By July 1917, the Navy, under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt had enough, and ordered the demolition of Wardenclyffe Tower due to the naval intelligence reports that “German spies were using the big wireless tower” to communicate with German intelligence.</p><h4>Between Wars: The Incubation of an Occult Fascist Monstrosity</h4><p>Between WW1 and WW2, Viereck continued to promote and practice Crowley’s religion of Thelema, and interfaced with nascent fascist organizations across the USA, Mexico, Canada and the UK.</p><p>In English Canada, the <em>League for Social Reconstruction (established by five Rhodes Scholars)</em> was ready to take power in 1932, and French-speaking Canada was quickly embracing the Nazi-inspired political party of <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1rfsnms">Adrien Arcand as the Quebec blue shirts.</a></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26fd8312-c621-4384-8750-0d63a861a217_732x1062.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26fd8312-c621-4384-8750-0d63a861a217_732x1062.jpeg" width="276" height="400.42622950819674" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/26fd8312-c621-4384-8750-0d63a861a217_732x1062.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1062,"width":732,"resizeWidth":276,"bytes":107256,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The British governing class, led by the royal family were fully backing Nazism, and Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was rising faster than ever. Mosley’s lieutenant and liason with Adolf Hitler was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._C._Fuller">Major General J.F.C. Fuller </a>(1878–1966), the innovator of tank warfare, whose doctrines are still taught across military colleges to the present day.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe846acea-06ce-490d-ad60-d5f59c406578_304x344.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe846acea-06ce-490d-ad60-d5f59c406578_304x344.jpeg" width="304" height="344" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e846acea-06ce-490d-ad60-d5f59c406578_304x344.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":344,"width":304,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"undefined","title":"undefined","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="undefined" title="undefined" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Satanist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._C._Fuller">Major General J.F.C. Fuller</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>In 1907, Fuller was initiated into Aleister Crowley’s Argentum Astrum Thelemic order and served to act as back channel between Crowley and Hitler before and during WW2.</p><p>Within the USA, Viereck openly associated with the Nazi Silver Shirts led by William Dudley Pelley, whose strange Theosophical ties extended to America’s earliest ‘UFO abductee’ George Adamski and George Hunt Williamson. It was Pelley who reproduced the Protocols of Zion leaflets sent out via Congressional offices in the USA under the direction of George Sylvester Viereck during WW2.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa59065db-2129-4cd9-80c5-9630dbc22c27_473x675.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa59065db-2129-4cd9-80c5-9630dbc22c27_473x675.png" width="473" height="675" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a59065db-2129-4cd9-80c5-9630dbc22c27_473x675.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":675,"width":473,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":342110,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>All of these movements came in different flavors, but were united under a cold utilitarian philosophy of government, a devout love for eugenics (the racist “science” of population control) and addiction to City of London/Wall Street money.</p><p><a href="https://larouchepub.com/other/1999/liebig_schleicher_2610.html">With the Nazi coup ousting Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher in 1933 </a>and punctuated by the burning of the Reichstag—giving Hitler the excuse to claim broad extra-constitutional powers of Fuhrer—George Sylvester Viereck began organizing Nazi rallies at New York’s Madison Square Garden, and hobnobbed with the elite of Washington- even managing to get several senators and congressmen to use their tax payer accounts to fund and mail hundreds of pro-Nazi pamphlets to American citizens.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"uftTLH6NRks","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-uftTLH6NRks" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uftTLH6NRks?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>American historian Bradley Hart described Viereck in <em><a href="https://sheldonkirshner.com/hitlers-american-friends/">Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States</a>:</em></p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“U.S. senators and congressmen were receptive to the anti-British invective disseminated by the German propaganda machine, which was directed by George Sylvester Viereck [who was] the Nazis’ most effective tool for recruiting new American friends”.</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h4>Viereck: Father of Anti-Jewish American Conspiracy Research</h4><p>In his 1932 best selling book <a href="https://archive.org/details/strangestfriends0000vier/page/n3/mode/2up">The Strangest Friendship in History: Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House</a>, Viereck carried out what is possibly the first expose of the Jewish bankers conspiracy that created the Federal Reserve in 1913, shaping an entire movement of “conspiracy research” in the USA for the next 90 years revolving around 1) a total neglect of the actual British imperial agencies and occultists running the American deep state, and 2) a popularization of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion forgery (<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler">discussed in part one of this series</a>).</p><p>Such students of Viereck as Eustace Mullins (former assistant to Sen. McCarthy), Ben Freedman, and even pro-Nazi revisionist David Irving have all used Viereck’s text as foundation in their own explanatory models of history.</p><p>In his essay<a href="https://www.eustacemullins.us/wp-content/works/Articles/Eustace%20Mullins%20-%20Victims.pdf"> ‘Victims’</a>, McCarthyite Eustace Mullins describes his friendship with Viereck and his indignation over Franklin Roosevelt’s persecution of this noble Nazi, writing,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Another friend, George Sylvester Viereck, was marked for personal persecution by the insane cripple, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, because Viereck refused to turn his back on his own heritage and do the bidding of this twisted and misshapen madman.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h3>Sabotage in America: Nazi Fifth Columnists</h3><p>Among the Senators and congressmen whom Viereck successfully recruited to the Nazi cause were Congressman Hamilton Fish III of New York, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. In one Madison Square garden Nazi rally organized by Viereck, Hamilton Fish was a featured speaker, and advocated fervently for a pro-Nazi foreign policy with a focus on a German-US special relationship.</p><p>In the 1942 book ‘<a href="https://archive.org/details/SabotageTheSecretWarAgainstAmerica/page/n15/mode/2up">Sabotage: The Secret War Against America</a>,’ American patriot Albert H. Kahn wrote of Viereck’s Washington network with a special focus on Viereck’s control over Senator Lundeen of Minnesota, for whom he wrote speeches.</p><p>Kahn wrote,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Viereck wrote certain important speeches for Lundeen, which the Senator delivered on the floor of the Senate. One of these Viereck-Lundeen compositions was the speech which, when reprinted and mailed out under Lundeen's franking privilege, became known to tens of thousands of Americans under the title of “Six Men and the War.” It was a tirade against United States preparedness efforts. Viereck worked particularly hard on this speech in order to catch the exact flavor of the Senator’s oratorical style.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F287ec69a-df44-4a38-8af9-f7a20b3e264d_750x543.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F287ec69a-df44-4a38-8af9-f7a20b3e264d_750x543.jpeg" width="750" height="543" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/287ec69a-df44-4a38-8af9-f7a20b3e264d_750x543.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":543,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":285297,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Describing Viereck’s use of Congressional powers to mail Nazi propaganda to American citizens using tax-payer money, Kahn wrote,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Viereck established in Washington an apparatus lor placing pro- Axis propaganda in the Congressional Record, purchasing tens of thousands of reprints of this and other material, and mailing out these reprints on a nationwide scale, postage free, by using the franking privileges of various Congressmen, many of whom were doubtless unaware of the use to which their franked envelopes were being put. The headquarters of Viereck’s Washington propaganda machine was in Room 1424 in the House Office Building. Room 1424 was the office of Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Strangely, when House on Un-American activity investigations were launched, the one senator who began cooperating with Federal Authorities on Viereck’s Nazi penetrations into the government (Sen. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota) <a href="https://www.startribune.com/ernest-lundeen-george-sylvester-viereck-nazi-propaganda-world-war-2/600252419/">died in a strange plane crash on August 31, 1940</a> near Lovettsville, Virginia, killing all 24 passengers and two federal investigators on board his plane.</p><p>Senator Lundeen’s chance to give testimony about the occult networks of Viereck in America was thus effectively snuffed out.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5af87ed6-7646-4076-8d03-932ef06bb5db_688x700.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5af87ed6-7646-4076-8d03-932ef06bb5db_688x700.png" width="386" height="392.7325581395349" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5af87ed6-7646-4076-8d03-932ef06bb5db_688x700.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":700,"width":688,"resizeWidth":386,"bytes":230857,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Sen. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota</figcaption></figure></div><p>Sadly the truths of the fifth columnists and occult underground seeking to bring about a new ‘thousand year reich’ under a reset of human civilization would not be permitted to come to light after the end of World War 2.</p><p>By April 12, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt was dead, joined soon thereafter by his strongest allies Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal (whose career was cut short when he jumped out of a window in 1949).</p><p>Without missing a beat, the fascist sabotage networks that sought to win a special Anglo-Nazi special relationship to conquer the world were rehabilitated and redeployed under the form of ‘The World Anti-Communist League’, and NATO’s Secret Armies (<a href="https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-how-nato-conducted">codenamed ‘Operation Gladio’</a>).</p><p>The irony was that the new branding of post-WW2 fascists took the form of a movement that came to be called ‘Neo-Conservative’ and was ironically steered by ‘former’ Trotskyists and Satanists committed to re-organizing the world under a new managerial elite.</p><p>This story will be told in a future report of ‘Real Patriots Don’t Think Like Hitler’.</p><p>Read the previous installment here:</p><div data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;0003096b-1a08-43d1-8adc-6166d3fbc38a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;A few months ago, my co-host on Breaking History Gordon McCormick and I dedicated an episode of Breaking History to the topic of ‘Real Patriots Don’t Think Like Hitler’.&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Real Patriots Don't Think Like Hitler - 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Hitler was a Christian fighting against satanic Bolshevism!&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Real Patriots Don't Think Like Hitler - Part 4&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5695118,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matthew Ehret&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Journalist, cartoonist, Director of Rising Tide Foundation, founder Canadian Patriot Review, Senior Fellow of American University in Moscow&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87857ffa-f7d0-4dfb-8d8b-ed506b3f5dde_1024x1024.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-02-18T11:49:47.735Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e825591-a9ce-4cec-88b0-de97f0915fc3_1446x962.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler-3a9&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:157349743,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:40,&quot;comment_count&quot;:8,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Matt Ehret's Insights&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccedee3e-0c8b-48ec-ada1-8659e05ebcb4_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><p></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/now-available-revenge-of-the-mystery" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65a27e74-82f3-4950-9131-3ec3e65f8afd_2320x1300.jpeg" width="1456" height="816" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/65a27e74-82f3-4950-9131-3ec3e65f8afd_2320x1300.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":816,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":"https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/now-available-revenge-of-the-mystery","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/">The Canadian Patriot Review</a>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/">the Rising Tide Foundation</a>. He has written the four volume<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/"> Untold History of Canada series</a>, four volume C<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/">lash of the Two Americas</a> series and<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press"> Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media.</strong></p>

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<h3 data-sanitized-class="subtitle">Nazi Fifth Columns in America</h3><div dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="body markup">
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<p><span>In our previous installments of ‘</span><a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler-3a9?utm_source=publication-search" rel>Real Patriots Don’t Think Like Hitler,’</a> <span>I wished to set the stage for several key points:</span></p>
<p><strong>The first:</strong> <span>The current nudging of conservative movements globally towards a hard reactionary extremism in response to the destructive absurdities of woke neo-Bolshevik leftism is a very real danger which needs to be understood</span></p>
<p><strong>The second point:</strong> <span>The massive wave of pro-Hitler narratives now spreading widely across alternative media platforms is designed to accelerate this neo-Hitler pagan revivalism under the guise of ‘saving white traditional values from Soros-funded immigration and Jew bankers’. Stu Peters’ recent promotion of US-based white nationalist David Duke, or the recent</span> <em>Occupied</em> <span>film are just two examples of this growing array of pro-Nazi propaganda now in play</span></p>
<p><strong>The third point:</strong> <span>Hitler and the SS inner elite were never Christian, or nationalists, but rather puppet enforcers of a fascist imperialism run by an occult high command that sought to annihilate Christianity from the face of the earth.</span></p>
<p><strong>The final point:</strong> <span>This occult high command which created and managed the Nazi Party was never intent on leaving the USA alone, as some revisionists insist, but had built up a vast espionage apparatus in the USA itself which has nearly completely been written out of history.</span></p>
<p>In this fifth part of this series, we will explore this occult espionage network in the USA with a look to two leading black magicians who oversaw much of it: Aleister Crowley and George Sylvester Viereck.</p>
<p>Throughout World War one and World War two, the American poet, vampire promoter and occultist George Sylvester Viereck acted as principal German intelligence agent, organizing a vast espionage network in Washington and New York where he interfaced closely with a newly formed British-directed intelligence network set up in New York named Sleepy Hollow.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><strong>The Sleepy Hollow Club</strong></h3>
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<p><span>As Richard B. Spence notes in</span> <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/secret-agent-666-spence-crowley/page/368/mode/2up" rel>Secret Agent 666</a></em><span>, one of Crowley’s leading contacts and paymasters in New York before and during WWI was a figure named John Quinn, an Anglo-American agent of a new private intelligence agency centered in the elite Sleepy Hollow Club of New York.</span></p>
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<p>The Sleepy Hollow Club was owned by William Rockefeller and featured the upper crust of America’s brahmin families, including the Vanderbilts, Morgans, Cabbots, Lodges, and Lowells (to name a few).</p>
<p>Senator Nelson Aldrich (father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller) was another leading member, as was President Wilson’s handler Edward Mandel House—both of whom played a key role in setting up both the Federal Reserve and IRS in 1913.</p>
<p>The Club’s permanent resident was a British agent named Claude Dansey (later the deputy director of MI5) who was tasked with establishing this parallel security agency outside of the influence of the US government.</p>
<p><span>As Anton Chaitkin points out in</span> <em><a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2015/eirv42n36-20150911/44-57_4236.pdf" rel>Hoover’s FBI and Anglo-American Dictatorship</a></em><span>, Dansey ran the agency from 1911-1914 from the Sleepy Hollow Club, and Claude Dansey’s protege Ralph van Deman set up a shadowy military intelligence agency called ‘</span><a href="https://popularresistance.org/building-americas-secret-surveillance-state/" rel>The Black Chamber’ in 1918</a><span>. Led by Marlborough Churchill, an American cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, the Black Chamber excelled at signals intelligence and was soon given a new name in 1930 under the banner of</span> <strong>‘The National Security Agency’.</strong></p>
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<p><span>After WWI, Van Deman recommended Dansey for a Distinguished Service Medal “</span><em>for guiding, planning and implementation of an American intelligence service”.</em></p>
<p>In 1909, Dansey, who had risen to prominence in the Boer War (working closely with Lord Milner and Churchill), became a founding deputy director of Britain’s new spy agency MI5, alongside Viscount Richard Burdon Haldane and William Melville.</p>
<p><span>The fact that Dansey</span> <strong>created at least two American secret intelligence agencies</strong> <span>while also serving as Deputy director of the new British Secret Service (later to be known as MI5) should cause any thinking person to question who exactly has been running the USA over the past century.</span></p>
<p><span>During World War II, Dansey would be assigned to create another secretive agency dubbed</span> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1985/03/31/on-his-majestys-secret-service/c107ec28-815c-475d-93b4-b76ffdd2e2bf/" rel>‘The Z organization’</a> <span>that interfaced between British occult intelligence, Nazi occult networks, and once again included both Crowley and George Sylvester Viereck as active members.</span></p>
<p><span>In the 1988 book</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Kings-Men-Robert-Marshall/dp/0006371574" rel>‘All the King’s Men,’</a> <span>historian Robert Marshall demonstrated that Dansey’s pseudo-private intelligence apparatus was behind the sabotage of several networks of French and Dutch anti-Nazi resistance fighters who believed they could trust British intelligence contacts.</span></p>
<p>The manager of the Sleepy Hollow Club was a powerful financier named Thomas Fortune Ryan, who joined J.P Morgan in financing Nikola Tesla’s towers before the war was launched.</p>
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<p>It is interesting to note that William J. Flynn took the position of Director of the fledgling FBI from 1917-1919, where he found himself at odds with Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s tyrannical crackdown on civil liberties, dubbed ‘the Palmer Raids’.</p>
<p><span>American historian Anton Chaitkin</span> <a href="https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/hoovers-fbi-and-the-anglo-american-293?utm_source=publication-search" rel>had the following to say about the Sleepy Hollow Club</a> <span>(founded in 1910 as an instrument of British intelligence and Deep State traitors):</span></p>
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<p>William James Flynn (1867-1928), chief of New York’s secret service from 1912-1917, and director of the young FBI from 1917-1919 led the anti-corruption purge of the NYPD detective bureau from 1910-1911.</p>
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<p><span>In 1915,</span> <a href="https://archive.org/details/eagleseyetruesto00coop/page/n7/mode/2up" rel>Flynn was responsible for locating the German agents operating in the USA around the figures of Aleister Crowley and Viereck,</a> <span>and it was Flynn who followed German diplomat Dr. Heinrich Albert and George Sylvester Viereck</span> <a href="https://www.felixsommerfeld.com/news/mexican-revolution-blog/2015/8/4/the-minister-without-portfolio" rel>and acquired the evidence</a> <span>of Germany’s $25 million spent buying up spy networks across the USA during the war.</span></p>
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<p><span>As noted in</span> <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-occult-tesla-part-2" rel>The Occult Tesla - Part 2,</a> <span>Viereck’s pro-German propaganda magazine ‘</span><em>The Fatherland</em><span>’ was edited by none other than Aleister Crowley.</span></p>
<p><span>Flowing from the success of this operation, Flynn tracked down the wireless radio communications station based in Long Island that had been transmitting signals to German intelligence (such as information leading to the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915). Flynn’s interception of messages to the German high command provided the legal justification for the US government’s seizure and destruction of Tesla’s Long Island towers (both the Wardenclyff tower</span> <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2016/01/nikola-tesla-why-his-free-energy-was-suppressed-and-lifes-work-buried-3277422.html" rel>and the Telefunken Wireless Station in Sayville, Long Island</a><span>, NY) during the war.</span></p>
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<p>George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) was the son of a leading anarchist expelled from Germany by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, and settled in the USA as a child in 1896.</p>
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<p>Throughout his life, Viereck firmly believed himself to be a member of the elite bloodlines of Europe and asserted that he was the illegitimate son of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Strangely, his actual father was a leading Prussian anarchist who was so close to Friedrich Engels that the founder of Communism and handler of Marx was present at the later’s wedding to Viereck’s mother.</p>
<p>Whether the stories of Viereck’s aristocratic blood were true or not, Viereck became a devoted Germanophile, Aryan supremacist, occultist and propagandist for Germany during both World Wars—even serving five years in jail between 1942-1947 for his pro-Nazi activities in the USA.</p>
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<p>During World War I, Viereck ran two influential pro-German newspapers out of New York, named ‘The Fatherland’ and ‘The Internationalist’.</p>
<p>As editor in chief of both journals, Viereck worked closely with fellow occultist Aleister Crowley, who wrote for both journals and served as editor of The International, where ‘The Beast’ lost no time promoting both political propaganda as well as his “revealed doctrine” of Thelema (Greek for “Will’) and occult new age theories.</p>
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<p><span>According to Richard Spence’s</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Agent-666-Aleister-Intelligence/dp/1932595333" rel>Secret Agent 666</a><span>, Crowley was stationed by British intelligence in the USA from 1914-1919 where he ran anti-British propaganda on the one hand (interfacing closely with the</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_Country_Club" rel>eastern establishment’s Sleepy Hollow Club</a><span>), and where he seeded occult cells across the USA including what became his Ordo Templi Orientis in New York and California while also acting as ‘Honorous Magus’ in the Societas Rosicruciana. Crowley’s California lodges would later be led by Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard.</span></p>
<p><span>As Marco Pasi explains in</span> <a href="https://www.academia.edu/10178869/Aleister_Crowley_and_the_Temptation_of_Politics" rel>Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics</a><span>, Crowley and Viereck had already met in London in 1911, before Crowley would be deployed to the USA. This places Viereck himself into the position of a likely British intelligence asset in the USA.</span></p>
<p>Pasi writes:</p>
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<p>In 1912, Crowley was made outer head of the Ordo Templi Orientis by Theodor Reuss (the same Reuss who had worked with Memphis Misraim Rite founder John Yarker, Carl Kellner, Anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner and Aleister Crowley in the Ancient Rite of Memphis and Misraim.)</p>
<p><a href="https://crowleythetruewill.blogspot.com/2012/10/aleister-crowley-ordo-templi-orientis.html" rel>In 1913, Crowley became the head</a> <span>of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Misraim. According to</span> <a href="https://archive.org/details/rudolfsteineraut0000stei" rel>Steiner’s autobiography</a><span>, the former Theosophy leader was initiated into the Memphis and Misraim Rite by Yarker with his wife Marie von Sievers, although by 1912 had publicly distanced themselves from Reuss and Yarker.</span></p>
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<p><span>Steiner was a devoted advocate of Rosicrucianism</span> <a href="https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA233a/English/RSP1965/RosIni_index.html" rel>and lectured extensively</a> <span>on the secret wisdom of Rosicrucians throughout the ages, which places his thinking into direct alignment with the Hermetic orders of Crowley, Reuss, Yarker et al. In his bizarre 1912 lecture</span> <a href="https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA130/English/RSP1984/19121218p02.html" rel>Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz</a><span>, Steiner spoke of his belief of the Martian home of the spirit beings Buddha, Christ and the founder of Rosicrucianism (the fictitious Christian Rosenkreutz,) whom he proposed were all avatars of the same ‘Christ consciousness’ spirit.</span></p>
<p>During this dense period of occult activity leading up to the first world war, Crowley made contact with the leading Ariosophists (a Theosophist spinoff group) led by Otto von List and Lans von Liebenfels, and German Theosophist leader Dr. Franz Hartmann. The New Templar Order established by Liebenfels in 1907 worked closely tied to ‘The Rosicrucian Pansophists’ led by Heinrich Traenker, and by 1918, collaboration of these various occult networks gave rise to the Thule Society in 1919.</p>
<p>The Thule Society formed a central pagan religious hub and was soon led by Dietrich Eckart, and other German racists, who would soon make up the vanguard of the Nazi high command.</p>
<p><span>In ‘</span><em><a href="https://archive.org/details/most-evil-secret-societies-in-history" rel>The Most Evil Secret Societies in History</a></em><span>’, Shelley Klein writes,</span></p>
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<p>Franz Hartmann was a member of Crowley’s the Argentum Astrum (A∴A∴) and also president of the Indian Theosophical Society, and in 1907, alongside Annie Besant, who became the first female member of the theosophy, infiltrated Indian Congress Party that later collaborated with the Nazis.</p>
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<p>Richard B. Spence’s research has been corroborated by declassified documents from the archives of the United States Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) which demonstrated that Crowley was a British double agent the entire time.</p>
<p>Spence describes the influence Crowley enjoyed over the top brass of Germany’s government and military chiefs during the war, writing,</p>
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<p>Certainly, Crowley’s mastery of kundalini yoga, druidism and German occult rituals positioned him favorably to win the appeal of leading figures within the “anti-British” resistance of India, Ireland and Germany… all of whom were extremely active in “neutral America” before and during World War One.</p>
<p>In a declassified report from the chief intelligence officer at West Point to the Director of Military Intelligence dated September 23, 1918, we read the following report on Crowley’s connection with Viereck:</p>
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<p><em>“Aleister Crowley – English subject. Previous correspondence: Subject has been camping on Esopus Island, Hudson River and was brought to attention of this office by subject’s connections with Madeline George, an actress of New York City who had formerly been investigated by the Department of Justice on charges of being a German spy. It was determined that Aleister Crowley was an employee of the British Government, but at present in this country on official business, of which the British Counsel, New York City, has full cognizance.</em></p>
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<p><span>Another interesting report from the US Office of Naval Intelligence dated July 10, 1917 zeroed in on Theodor Reuss (Crowley’s fellow leader at the Rosicrucian Ordo Templi Orientis,) which stated that Crowley</span> <em>“maintained some mysterious means of communication with their chief in Berlin, Rudolf Steiner”.</em></p>
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<p>Is it possible that Tesla’s 186-foot Wardenclyffe Tower financed by JP Morgan was the “mysterious means” referred to by U.S. Naval Intelligence in 1917 to communicate messages wirelessly across the Atlantic?</p>
<p>Certainly, Crowley’s “magickal workings” on Long Island during that period situate him very close to Tesla’s tower, and Crowley’s association with Tesla’s intimate friend Viereck causes the mind to wonder.</p>
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<p>Rudolf Steiner’s possible role as coordinator of the occult intelligence network in the USA through ‘neutral Switzerland’ is additionally fascinating, since he also played the role of personal spiritual guru to the German Chief-of-Staff Helmut von Moltke.</p>
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<p>While it is impossible to know what advice or intelligence Steiner gave General Moltke, what is known is that the General walked into every single trap set for Germany by British strategists… leading up to the ritual bloodletting that was World War One.</p>
<p>By July 1917, the Navy, under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt had enough, and ordered the demolition of Wardenclyffe Tower due to the naval intelligence reports that “German spies were using the big wireless tower” to communicate with German intelligence.</p>
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<p>Between WW1 and WW2, Viereck continued to promote and practice Crowley’s religion of Thelema, and interfaced with nascent fascist organizations across the USA, Mexico, Canada and the UK.</p>
<p><span>In English Canada, the</span> <em>League for Social Reconstruction (established by five Rhodes Scholars)</em> <span>was ready to take power in 1932, and French-speaking Canada was quickly embracing the Nazi-inspired political party of</span> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1rfsnms" rel>Adrien Arcand as the Quebec blue shirts.</a></p>
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<p><span>The British governing class, led by the royal family were fully backing Nazism, and Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was rising faster than ever. Mosley’s lieutenant and liason with Adolf Hitler was</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._C._Fuller" rel>Major General J.F.C. Fuller</a> <span>(1878–1966), the innovator of tank warfare, whose doctrines are still taught across military colleges to the present day.</span></p>
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<p>In 1907, Fuller was initiated into Aleister Crowley’s Argentum Astrum Thelemic order and served to act as back channel between Crowley and Hitler before and during WW2.</p>
<p>Within the USA, Viereck openly associated with the Nazi Silver Shirts led by William Dudley Pelley, whose strange Theosophical ties extended to America’s earliest ‘UFO abductee’ George Adamski and George Hunt Williamson. It was Pelley who reproduced the Protocols of Zion leaflets sent out via Congressional offices in the USA under the direction of George Sylvester Viereck during WW2.</p>
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<p>All of these movements came in different flavors, but were united under a cold utilitarian philosophy of government, a devout love for eugenics (the racist “science” of population control) and addiction to City of London/Wall Street money.</p>
<p><a href="https://larouchepub.com/other/1999/liebig_schleicher_2610.html" rel>With the Nazi coup ousting Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher in 1933</a> <span>and punctuated by the burning of the Reichstag—giving Hitler the excuse to claim broad extra-constitutional powers of Fuhrer—George Sylvester Viereck began organizing Nazi rallies at New York’s Madison Square Garden, and hobnobbed with the elite of Washington- even managing to get several senators and congressmen to use their tax payer accounts to fund and mail hundreds of pro-Nazi pamphlets to American citizens.</span></p>
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<p><span>American historian Bradley Hart described Viereck in</span> <em><a href="https://sheldonkirshner.com/hitlers-american-friends/" rel>Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States</a><span>:</span></em></p>
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<p><span>In his 1932 best selling book</span> <a href="https://archive.org/details/strangestfriends0000vier/page/n3/mode/2up" rel>The Strangest Friendship in History: Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House</a><span>, Viereck carried out what is possibly the first expose of the Jewish bankers conspiracy that created the Federal Reserve in 1913, shaping an entire movement of “conspiracy research” in the USA for the next 90 years revolving around 1) a total neglect of the actual British imperial agencies and occultists running the American deep state, and 2) a popularization of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion forgery (</span><a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler" rel>discussed in part one of this series</a><span>).</span></p>
<p>Such students of Viereck as Eustace Mullins (former assistant to Sen. McCarthy), Ben Freedman, and even pro-Nazi revisionist David Irving have all used Viereck’s text as foundation in their own explanatory models of history.</p>
<p><span>In his essay</span> <a href="https://www.eustacemullins.us/wp-content/works/Articles/Eustace%20Mullins%20-%20Victims.pdf" rel>‘Victims’</a><span>, McCarthyite Eustace Mullins describes his friendship with Viereck and his indignation over Franklin Roosevelt’s persecution of this noble Nazi, writing,</span></p>
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<p>Among the Senators and congressmen whom Viereck successfully recruited to the Nazi cause were Congressman Hamilton Fish III of New York, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. In one Madison Square garden Nazi rally organized by Viereck, Hamilton Fish was a featured speaker, and advocated fervently for a pro-Nazi foreign policy with a focus on a German-US special relationship.</p>
<p><span>In the 1942 book ‘</span><a href="https://archive.org/details/SabotageTheSecretWarAgainstAmerica/page/n15/mode/2up" rel>Sabotage: The Secret War Against America</a><span>,’ American patriot Albert H. Kahn wrote of Viereck’s Washington network with a special focus on Viereck’s control over Senator Lundeen of Minnesota, for whom he wrote speeches.</span></p>
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<p>Describing Viereck’s use of Congressional powers to mail Nazi propaganda to American citizens using tax-payer money, Kahn wrote,</p>
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<p><span>Strangely, when House on Un-American activity investigations were launched, the one senator who began cooperating with Federal Authorities on Viereck’s Nazi penetrations into the government (Sen. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota)</span> <a href="https://www.startribune.com/ernest-lundeen-george-sylvester-viereck-nazi-propaganda-world-war-2/600252419/" rel>died in a strange plane crash on August 31, 1940</a> <span>near Lovettsville, Virginia, killing all 24 passengers and two federal investigators on board his plane.</span></p>
<p>Senator Lundeen’s chance to give testimony about the occult networks of Viereck in America was thus effectively snuffed out.</p>
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<p>Sadly the truths of the fifth columnists and occult underground seeking to bring about a new ‘thousand year reich’ under a reset of human civilization would not be permitted to come to light after the end of World War 2.</p>
<p>By April 12, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt was dead, joined soon thereafter by his strongest allies Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal (whose career was cut short when he jumped out of a window in 1949).</p>
<p><span>Without missing a beat, the fascist sabotage networks that sought to win a special Anglo-Nazi special relationship to conquer the world were rehabilitated and redeployed under the form of ‘The World Anti-Communist League’, and NATO’s Secret Armies (</span><a href="https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-how-nato-conducted" rel>codenamed ‘Operation Gladio’</a><span>).</span></p>
<p>The irony was that the new branding of post-WW2 fascists took the form of a movement that came to be called ‘Neo-Conservative’ and was ironically steered by ‘former’ Trotskyists and Satanists committed to re-organizing the world under a new managerial elite.</p>
<p>This story will be told in a future report of ‘Real Patriots Don’t Think Like Hitler’.</p>
<p>Read the previous installment here:</p>
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<p><strong><span>Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of</span> <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/" rel>The Canadian Patriot Review</a><span>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of</span> <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/" rel>the Rising Tide Foundation</a><span>. He has written the four volume</span> <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/" rel>Untold History of Canada series</a><span>, four volume C</span><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/" rel>lash of the Two Americas</a> <span>series and</span> <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press" rel>Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a><span>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media.</span></strong></p>
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