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<p><strong>New Delhi may take the measure to secure a trade deal with Washington and prevent new tariffs</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>India’s government could reduce tariffs on more than half of its $23 billion in US imports as part of the initial phase of a trade agreement being negotiated between the two countries, according to Reuters. This significant concession aims to prevent Washington from implementing reciprocal duties as soon as April 2, which has caused market uncertainty.</p>
<p>According to an internal analysis conducted by New Delhi cited by the report, the implementation of reciprocal tariffs by the US could impact approximately 87% of India’s total exports to the country, which are valued at $66 billion. </p>
<p>To prevent this, India is considering a trade deal that would involve reducing tariffs on around 55% of the US goods that the country imports, which currently face duties ranging from 5% to 30%. New Delhi hopes to find a mutually beneficial solution to current trade tensions.</p>
<p>The development was reported on Monday – ahead of trade negotiations between the two countries that are currently taking place in New Delhi. A US delegation, led by Assistant Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch, arrived in the Indian capital on Tuesday. Their visit comes after India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal travelled to Washington earlier this month to discuss a Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA), particularly with respect to tariff issues.</p>

            
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<p>Goyal later told the country’s parliament that the government is engaging with Washington in order to eliminate tariffs and other barriers; however, he did not clarify whether any concessions have been made so far.</p>
<p>New Delhi maintained that any decisions on tariffs would not be rushed, according to an Indian Express report, despite Trump’s claim that India had already agreed to reduce its tariffs after being <em>“exposed”</em> for its restrictive trade practices. <em>“They have agreed, by the way. They want to cut their tariffs way down now because somebody’s finally exposing them for what they have done,”</em> he said in remarks from the Oval Office on March 8.</p>
<p>According to government data, the US has a trade deficit of $45.6 billion with India. In the past, US President Donald Trump has been vocal about India’s high tariffs, along with those imposed by other countries, condemning them as <em>“very unfair.”</em></p>

             
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<p>Meanwhile, New Delhi is looking to increase trade with China in order to counterbalance the economic pressure of impending US tariffs and offset potential losses, according to reports. The two BRICS members have been working on normalizing bilateral ties after a diplomatic and military standoff lasting nearly five years, which erupted when their troops clashed along a disputed border in the Himalayas in 2020. </p>

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<p><strong>Voters will be obliged to provide proof of citizenship, while mail in voting must conclude before election day</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order to overhaul the American election system, including requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.</p>
<p>The order, titled ‘Preserving and protecting the integrity of American elections,’ calls on states to work with federal agencies and share voter rolls, as well as prosecute election crimes. It also threatens to slash federal funding for states that fail to comply.</p>
<p><em>“Despite pioneering self-government, the United States now fails to enforce basic and necessary election protections employed by modern, developed nations, as well as those still developing,”</em> the text of the order reads, listing measures taken by other nations to make the election process more secure, including the introduction of biometric identification and limiting voting by mail.</p>
<p><em>“Free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional republic.  The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,”</em> the document says.</p>
<p>Among other things, the order requires proof of citizenship for voters to be registered in federal elections. The measure is effectively aimed at doing the same thing as the long-anticipated Republican-backed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act). While voting in federal elections by non-citizens is already a felony, Republicans have long argued that more is needed to restore public confidence in elections.</p>

            
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<p>Voting rights groups, however, have been critical of the proposed change, arguing that many voting-age Americans do not have proof of citizenship readily available. According to a 2023 report compiled by the Brennan Center for Justice and other groups, some 21.3 million people, around 9% of US citizens of voting age, do not have such documents on hand.</p>
<p>Trump has long been critical of the US voting system, arguing that it is very susceptible to irregularities and fraud. He has been particularly opposed to voting by mail. Under the executive order, votes must now be <em>“cast and received”</em> before the election day, with federal funding conditional on state compliance.</p>
<p>The move has already faced criticism from various parties that have vowed to challenge it in court. Oregon’s secretary of state, Tobias Read, branded the order an <em>“action against democracy.”</em> His state relies heavily on mail-in balloting.</p>
<p><em>“It is every American citizen’s right to hold politicians accountable at the ballot box. This executive order is a threat to that right and a threat to our responsibility as states to run fair, secure elections. This illegal action against American democracy will be challenged, and it will not stand,”</em> Read said in a statement.</p>

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title: AS’AD AbuKHALIL: What Went Wrong for Hizbullah?
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<p><strong><span>The organization dubbed its 2006 triumph over Israel a “divine victory.” That may have been a mistake. Its experience in this war offers lessons.</span></strong><span data-sanitized-id="more-126056"></span></p>
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<p><span><strong>By</strong> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/tag/asad-abukhalil/"><span><strong>As`ad AbuKhalil</strong></span><br></a><em>Special to Consortium News</em></span></p>
<p><span><span><strong><img decoding="async" src="https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Asad-1-100x100.jpg" alt width="100" height="100" data-sanitized-class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-31977">W</strong></span>hat is Hizbullah’s status today and why didn’t it perform as well on the battlefield against Israel this time as it did in 2006?</span></p>
<p><span>Answers to these questions are not easy to come by. Hizbullah has  been uncharacteristically quiet about its military and political situation. </span></p>
<p><span>Its new secretary-general insists it is fine and is learning from its mistakes. He says investigations are underway into security breaches that led to a number of devastating results for the party. </span></p>
<p><span>Not much information has been shared with the public. Clearly security breaches have not been plugged because Israel continues to target its commanders on the ground, mostly as they move in cars or on motorcycles.</span></p>
<p><span>Former Hizbullah MP Nawwaf Musawi (one of the party’s smartest leaders who had slain leader Hasan Nasrallah’s confidence), lately caused a stir within the party and among its general supporters when he spoke candidly about the party’s mistakes.</span></p>
<p><span>He said that instead of talking about Israeli successes, he prefered to talk about the shortcomings that enabled Israel to strike the devastating blows that it d id against Hizbullah’s military and security wings.</span></p>
<p><span>The party has perpetrated a series of mistakes since its 2006 victory that has allowed Israel to enjoy a wide advantage over its formerly formidable adversary.</span></p>
<p><strong><span>The Still Powerful Party</span></strong></p>
<p><span>Hizbullah is nevertheless the largest and most powerful political party in Lebanon, if not in the Arab world. It is even larger than the Sudanese Communist Party at its late 1960s, early 1970s zenith. It can’t be compared to the Ba`th Party of Iraq under Saddam Hussein because membership in Iraq wasn’t as voluntary as in Lebanon).</span></p>
<p><span>Hizbullah has some 100,000 fighters, many of whom have been battle tested in Lebanon and Syria. One of its MPs, Muhammad Ra`ad, received more votes (preferential votes in the latest Lebanese electoral system) than entire political parties like the Phalanges.</span></p>
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<p><span>Ra`d received more than 48,000 votes while better known MPs such as Paula Yacoubian received no more than 4,000 votes. Still, Yacoubian, not Ra`d, is chosen by Western media to speak for the Lebanese people.</span></p>
<p><span>With its partner Amal Movement, Hizbullah has been consistently receiving around 95 percent of the Lebanese Shiite vote. Its representation of Shiites hasn’t  been challenged in years despite the avalanche of cash Western and Gulf governments throw at Hizbullah’s Shiite opponents.</span></p>
<p><strong><span>Hubris</span></strong></p>
<p><span>But why did Hizbullah suffer devastating blows since its Oct. 8, 2023 entry into the war against Israel in solidarity with Hamas?</span></p>
<p><span>It’s clear Hizbullah (like many big or small powers) suffered from an acute case of hubris. It became intoxicated with its vast powers and great military victories against the mightiest army of the Middle East.</span></p>
<p><span>Its performance in the July 2006 war was by far the greatest humiliation of the Israeli army since the October 1973 war ended to the advantage of Israel, not the Syrian and Egyptian armies.</span></p>
<p><span>Hizbullah dubbed its 2006 triumph “the divine victory” and that may have been a mistake.</span></p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_40280" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-40280" src="https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Final_day_of_the_war_sees_Katyusha_rockets_in_Haifa.jpg" alt width="2700" height="1958" data-sanitized-class="size-full wp-image-40280"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-40280" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><span>Smoke over Haifa, Israel, after a rocket launched by Hezbollah hit the city; Aug. 12, 2006. <span>(Tomer Gabel, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)</span></span></p>
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<p><span>By accepting the notion of a godlike origin of its success, the party descended into a sense of complacency. It became too confident in its abilities. Its ill-advised intervention in the Syrian civil war on the side of Bashar Al-Asad added to its sense of invincibility.</span></p>
<p><span>Party commanders and members were convinced it was their military intervention, and not Russia’s, that was key to preserving Al-Asad in power until recently.</span></p>
<p><strong><span>Infiltration</span></strong></p>
<p><span>Actually Hizbullah’s Syrian intervention facilitated Israeli encroachment into its security apparatus.  The Syrian terrain has been rife with Israeli agents and Syrian armed rebels cooperating with Israeli intelligence.</span></p>
<p><span>They provided each other detailed information about their mutual enemy. The Syrian regime army was also infiltrated by Israeli agents who reported on Hizbullah fighters and commanders.</span></p>
<p><span>It’s clear that Israel was able to compile a detailed profile of the party’s structure and hierarchy and obtain most of its fighters’ names.  Funerals from the Syrian war held in public in Lebanese villages allowed agents to easily report on visitors to the burials.</span></p>
<p><span>Hizbullah fighters entered Syria in processions through known entry points amid  evidence of deep Israeli penetration of Syria before war broke out in 2011.  Imad Mughniyyah was assassinated in 2008 in Damascus. He was the overall supreme commander of all Hizbullah fighters, second only to Nasralllah. </span></p>
<p><span>Shouldn’t that have alerted the party that Syria was suffering an acute case of Israeli infiltration?</span></p>
<p><strong><span>Corruption</span></strong></p>
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<p><span>Like the PLO, Hizbullah in recent years suffered from massive corruption. In the past, it was said that Hizbullah itself was not corrupt but that it was  aligned with corrupt regimes (Syria) and with corrupt movements (like Amal).</span></p>
<p><span>But that changed after 2006. Iranian money for reconstruction was not transparently spent, and many Hizbullah officials over billed for their damaged or destroyed homes.  When millions are being dispensed, corruption is the natural outcome with the absence of accountability and tight financial management.</span></p>
<p><span>Before 2006, Nasrallah prevented corruption, as did Mughniyyah. Things changed afterwards, especially when Nasrallah no longer ran the day-to-day affairs of the party.  Prior to 2006, he even knew the salaries of people at Al-Manar TV (the official TV station of Hizbullah).</span></p>
<p><span>Corruption often leads to enemy infiltration, especially when people compromised financially can be blackmailed.</span></p>
<p><span>There were presumably cases like that. That was the norm within the PLO.  To be sure, unlike the PLO, Hizbullah built a formidable fighting machine with its financial resources, while the money the PLO raised failed to produce an effective military force. PLO fighters retreated swiftly when Israel invaded Lebanon, first in 1978, and then in the massive invasion of 1982.</span></p>
<p><span>People in South Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut and the Baalbek region (all strongholds of Hizbullah) went beyond whispering about manifestation of wealth and even extravagance among families of party leaders.</span></p>
<p><span>Hizbullah officials’ wives were seen traveling in large SUVs, escorted by fighters.  Many Hizbullah officials and their children were living very well, certainly better than rank-and-file Shiites of South Lebanon. There were a few investigations of corruption within the party, but they never amounted to anything, and accused officials were restored to their posts.</span></p>
<p><span>And there are talks about “sexual improprieties” among some within the party and rumors of widespread “temporary marriage.”  Like the PLO experience, the Israelis always manage to exploit sexual weaknesses for entrapment or blackmail.</span></p>
<p><span>Even if commanders avoided cell phones and electronic devices, wives had their phones on them. This was presumably exploited by Israeli intelligence to target commanders in the war. </span></p>
<p><span>The party brandished its power internally.  For instance, a Hizbullah security official was quoted saying a judge would be “plucked” after his 2020 port explosion investigation didn’t follow Hizbullah and its allies’ wishes. </span><span>Instead of insisting on a thorough investigation, Hizbullah joined Amal in protests against the judge. </span></p>
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<p><span>When Lebanese President Michel Awn’s term ended in 2022, Hizbullah refused to allow Parliament to elect a successor and insisted on its handpicked candidate, Sulayman Franjiyyah.  Awn was a close ally of Hizbullah, but the party’s refusal to consider an alternative demonstrated its arrogance of power.</span></p>
<p><strong><span>Exploding Phones</span></strong></p>
<p><span>Furthermore, the party clearly did not train its cadres on electronic intelligence and ways to avoid the enemy’s penetration and surveillance.</span></p>
<p><span>Hamas leaders in Gaza were university graduates who learned about computers and technology in Israeli prisons and in classrooms. Hizbullah leaders were not as educated and lacked technological skills.</span></p>
<p><span>In the early months of the war, when Israel was managing to kill tens of fighters daily, Nasrallah had to plead on TV for fighters to avoid carrying smart phones.  Osama Bin Laden, in comparison, stopped using all technological devices as early as 1998.  Bin Laden was not spotted by electronic intelligence but by tracking one of his messengers. </span></p>
<p><span><strong>Lost Allies</strong></span></p>
<p><span>Finally, Hizbullah had a wide network of political allies (from all sects) which helped it greatly in 2006. </span></p>
<p><span>The recent war took place after Hizbullah lost its allies, including the chief Christian ally, Tayyar of Michel Awn.  Hizbullah fighters had nowhere to hide or to blend into and their maneuverability was too narrow.</span></p>
<p><span>Hizbullah’s experience during this war is a lesson for armed groups, liberation movements and resistance organizations. Corruption is a window from which the enemy can enter, and military victories are great for inspiration and recruitment, but dangerous if they produce a sense of invincibility and hubris.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span>As`ad AbuKhalil is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. He is the author of the <em>Historical Dictionary of Lebanon </em>(1998), <em>Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New War on Terrorism</em> (2002), <em>The Battle for Saudi Arabia</em> (2004) and ran the popular The Angry Arab blog. He tweets as <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40asadabukhalil&amp;src=typd">@asadabukhalil</a></span></strong></p>
<p><em><span>The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of</span></em> <strong><span>Consortium News.</span></strong></p>

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title: The Narrative: The Multipolar Pincer (f. Matt and Burning Bright)
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It was a fun show (<a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/Z9twurprWwc">which can be watched here</a>), however the actual theme of the Multipolar Alliance which the host announced as the principal topic was never actually addressed.</p><p>In order to correct that error, I went back onto the Narrative this week to expand on the them ‘The Multipolar Pincer’ in greater detail with a focus on the battles against the Deep State structures led by patriots in Russia and China over the past 30 years.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v6r6ias-the-narrative-the-multipolar-pincer-f.-matt-and-burning-bright.html?mref=nmtun&amp;mrefc=5" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img 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data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/22382007-fd7d-426e-9f56-94b060c5b59b_750x240.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":240,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":"https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/","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"></figcaption></figure></div><h2>Follow my work on Telegram at: T.me/CanadianPatriotPress</h2><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><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

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<p><span>Last week, I was invited to be a guest on ‘The Narrative’ hosted by Burning Bright in order to explain the enigma of “Canada” to Americans. It was a fun show (</span><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/Z9twurprWwc" rel>which can be watched here</a><span>), however the actual theme of the Multipolar Alliance which the host announced as the principal topic was never actually addressed.</span></p>
<p>In order to correct that error, I went back onto the Narrative this week to expand on the them ‘The Multipolar Pincer’ in greater detail with a focus on the battles against the Deep State structures led by patriots in Russia and China over the past 30 years.</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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<p><strong>Donald Trump’s team has revealed a lot more than just the Yemen attack during the chat with the accidentally invited Atlantic journalist</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>There’s a scandal exciting American mainstream media and minds, and it has to do with bombing. Yet there is an important nuance: it is <em>not</em> the bombing itself that is so scandalizing.</p>
<p>What is troubling many Americans is neither what Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin has rightly called the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians with US bombs and support nor the renewed American air campaign against Yemen. Bombing large numbers of essentially defenseless brown people – men, women, and children – into bloody, dusty pulp, has long been a bipartisan tradition of the Indispensable Nation, especially if most of them are Muslims.</p>
<p>What Americans do find irritating is when their leaders spill the beans too early. And have they been spilling! In a cluster-fiasco reminiscent of those loose-lipped <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/593880-germany-crimea-bridge-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">German generals caught out last year</a> while prattling about launching their Taurus missiles at Russia via Ukraine, a whole gaggle of Washington top officials have made fools of themselves by a ridiculously feckless breach of elementary security.</p>
<p>In the run-up to the recently renewed US bombing campaign against Yemen, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Vice President J.D. Vance – to name only the most prominent delinquents – have all been involved in online chat meetings via the commercial messaging app Signal.</p>
<p>Having such meetings on Signal, instead of via well-established and obligatory secure channels, is ludicrously amateurish: Signal may be encrypted, but spyware can hack it. There are reasons why officials are instructed to use other means.</p>

            
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<p>It is also seriously illegal (no Stormy Daniels issue this one) to be so sloppy, since it infringes on more than one provision of the National Security Act, which is ironic, considering it seems to have been the national security adviser who initially got this trainwreck going.</p>
<p>Because it was Waltz who – somehow – invited a journalist to participate: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=QAVT1Qgz97Mzh5O19DC9gqCibCOWG4PmH4xSG_eOjNE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic</a> does of course not belong in meetings preparing a military strike, especially when sharing sensitive operational data. And talking all too frankly about making the mooching European vassals pay, one way or the other. She may have been shunted off to a sinecure at New York’s hapless Columbia University, but the spirit of Victoria Nuland’s <em>“F*ck the EU!”</em> is alive and well in Washington, as this meeting also unsurprisingly showed.</p>
<p>Nobody has yet explained how it happened that Goldberg was included and why no one seems to have noticed the clearly visible presence of an obvious if conspicuously silent outsider in the virtual room. And all that while the secretary of defense was droning on about how secure it all was: The TV show Hogan’s Army was funny; the reality of Hegseth’s army looks silly.</p>
<p>The above, in essence, is what mainstream America is all worked up about now. President Donald Trump and Hegseth have nothing of substance to say in this case: Hegseth messed up royally – as did Waltz and the others – and Trump is the guy who hired them all. So they have switched into attack mode, tearing down Goldberg and The Atlantic. It’s cheap, but it may work, especially since The Atlantic really does have a bad record of stirring up baseless Russia Rage (aka Russiagate) hysteria.</p>
<p>But this time, it’s not complicated: the Signal meetings really did take place; Goldberg was invited, present, and not spotted; and what he has now reported has been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/war-plans-signal-chat-what-to-know.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">confirmed as authentic</a> even by Brian Hughes, spokesman of the National Security Council.</p>
<p>What is unfolding now in US domestic politics is, to be frank, predictable and dull: The opponents of the Trump administration are trying to squeeze every last little drop of dramatic embarrassment for it out of the foul-up. The Democrats are calling for investigations and consequences. Hillary Clinton – remember her? – <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/trump-officials-signal-chat-hillary-clinton.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">is gloating</a> that those, especially Hegseth, who almost a decade ago went after her own sloppy and probably criminal use of private technology for government business are now getting a taste of their own medicine.</p>
<p>The Trumpists meanwhile – surprise, surprise – are not having a self-flagellation procession down the National Mall but closing ranks, even demonstratively: The president has called Waltz a <em>“good man,”</em> who <em>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/war-plans-signal-chat-what-to-know.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has learned a lesson</a>.”</em> Ouch, that must feel so humiliating, like being dressed down live on The Apprentice. But it’s still the opposite of being fired. For now, at least.</p>

            
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<p>Vice President Vance has denied any disagreements within the administration, that is, precisely the thing he displayed in the Signal chat. There he doubted the wisdom of the attacks on Yemen, not because killing people is a problem, but because he did not like the timing and the fact that Europe was going to profit, as he believes. And so on. The good bad old Washington.</p>
<p>In case you don’t like Trump and his government, please don’t be naïve and make a hero out of Goldberg simply because he is giving them some probably minor trouble. For one thing, though posing as a <em>“liberal,”</em> <a href="https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/jeffrey-goldberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Goldberg is a highly aggressive Zionist</a>. As a young man, he moved from the US to Israel to enter its military forces. He then served as a prison guard in a large camp for Palestinians, about which he has written a self-revealingly egocentric and, in fact, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">self-incriminating</a> memoir, admitting at least covering up the brutal torture of a defenseless prisoner.</p>
<p>As you would expect, for over two decades Goldberg has consistently used his great media and policy influence to agitate for and embellish American aggression in the Middle East. Clearly, very much in line with what Israeli governments perceive as Israel’s national interest.</p>
<p>In this particular instance, <a href="https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1904382780059869210" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WikiLeaks has rightly asked</a> about Goldberg’s dubious role in this affair:  Why, instead of speaking up quickly, did he <em>“sit on”</em> what he must have known to be real, until the attack actually happened? His <em>“claim that he did not know if the group was real until after the bombing is clearly a construction designed to facilitate an ignorance defense under the espionage act,”</em> as WikiLeaks plausibly notes.</p>
<p>Given his politics, there is another obvious reason why Goldberg did not use his scoop before the bombing got going: Disregard the silly cant about <em>“freedom of navigation”</em> and all that, the real reason why the US has started striking Yemen’s people again is that they resist Israel striking Gaza’s people.</p>
<p>Indeed, Yemen’s true <em>“sin”</em> in the eye of Zionists and their US allies is that, with the partial exception of Iran, it is the only country that, under Ansar Allah’s de facto rule, complies with the 1948 UN Genocide Convention by actually resisting Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians. While Yemen does occasionally lob a well-deserved missile at Israel, its main leverage is blocking much of the maritime traffic through the Red Sea. <a href="https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/a-tougher-world-for-the-biggest-bully-557" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East and one of the poorest in the world, is using a geographical choke point to do the ethically and legally obligatory right thing</a>: fight against Israeli genocide as good as it can, while the collective West is on the side of the genociders. As is Jeffrey Goldberg.</p>
<p>We live in a morally perverse, upside-down world. The repeated bombing of Yemen is part of this world’s insane and evil rules. <em>“Rules-based”</em> this international disorder may be, but if so, its rules are from hell, <a href="https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/03/11/1132992.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">as Russia’s foreign minister has also recently hinted</a>.</p>

            
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<p>Hence, what is really bizarre about the current Signal scandal in the US is what is outside the American media frame, namely the bombings themselves. They are just taken for granted. Because America is a country where they watch bad TV, drink too much fizzy sugar, and also, with the same regularity, bomb the world.</p>
<p>On any given day, it’s more likely than not that the US is bombing – someone, somewhere, for some bad reason or another. Washington has long been addicted to lethally clobbering other parts of humanity from a safe distance, and sometimes at close range, too, of course.</p>
<p>The end of the Cold War made no difference to that bad habit; in fact, it may even have gotten worse: As of 2022 – three years ago already – official surveys found that America and its vassals <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/01/11/the-us-drops-an-average-of-46-bombs-a-day-why-should-the-world-see-us-as-a-force-for-peace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">had dropped over 337,000</a> bombs and missiles since, in essence, the beginning of this millennium (note that this figure <em>excludes</em>, for instance, the Gulf War of 1990-91 – <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/Article/1728715/desert-storm-a-look-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">another 88,500 tons of bombs</a> – and the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia).  Or, put differently, over 20 years, the US conducted an average 46 airstrikes <em>per day</em>.</p>
<p>Just ask Google’s Gemini AI <em>“How often and how much and where has the USA used air power to bomb since 1990?”</em> The answer will include an impressive – and merely representative, not complete – list of operations all around the globe and a note cautioning that <em>“the ‘how much’ in terms of bombs dropped is difficult to quantify precisely due to the vast number of operations and the variety of munitions used,”</em> while the ‘where’ is also extensive, <em>spanning multiple continents and regions</em>.” Known highlights have included Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and Syria.</p>
<p>In the case of the <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mapping-us-attacks-on-yemen/ar-AA1B1FBn?ocid=BingNewsVerp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new wave of American air attacks on Yemen</a>, the US officially pretends that it is merely (if that is the word) targeting the Ansar Allah movement (usually pejoratively labelled <em>“the Houthis”</em>). But with Ansar Allah the de facto ruler of much of Yemen, including its capital Sanaa, America is, of course, really assaulting the country itself and its people. As of March 25, ten days after these new attacks began, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-fires-on-sanaa-as-campaign-against-yemen-s-houthis-continues/ar-AA1Bx71b?ocid=BingNewsVerp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">at least 79 people have been killed and more than 100 injured</a>.</p>
<p>Compared with the slaughter Israel is inflicting with massive US support on the Palestinians, and its neighbors too, whenever the fancy takes it, these figures may appear small, for now. Yet these Yemeni victims are being killed for the same abject reason: to execute and shield a genocide that the West is co-perpetrating together with Israel. Yet all US mainstream pundits and politicos can get worked up about is a premature leak of some of these crimes and not the crimes themselves. That is yet another sign of just how entirely lost the West is.</p>

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<p><strong>The bloc has advised keeping a 3-day emergency supply kit to be ready for a crisis</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The European Union has advised its 450 million inhabitants to stockpile essential supplies sufficient for at least 72 hours, citing increasing risks of war, cyberattacks, climate change, and disease.</p>
<p>EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib stated on Wednesday that the warning reflects a broader strategy to improve civil readiness across the bloc. While not mentioning Russia specifically, she stressed that the Ukraine conflict threatens European security.</p>
<p><em>"For three years in Ukraine, we have seen a battlefield of bombs, and bullets, drones, fighter planes, trenches and submarines.Yes, our European security is directly threatened by this,"</em> Lahbib said.</p>
<p>Several EU countries have consistently named Moscow as a significant threat to regional security. France, Poland, the Baltic states, and Finland have all raised concerns over alleged Russian cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, and political interference. They have also described the Ukraine conflict as an example of aggressive behavior that poses a military threat to the bloc.</p>

            <blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today, the EU launches its new <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Preparedness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Preparedness</a> Strategy. <br><br>“Ready for anything” — this must be our new European way of life. Our motto and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hashtag?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hashtag</a>. <a href="https://t.co/fA1z8ZvMDA">pic.twitter.com/fA1z8ZvMDA</a></p>— Hadja Lahbib (@hadjalahbib) <a href="https://twitter.com/hadjalahbib/status/1904858985972351264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>Moscow has consistently denied any intention to attack NATO countries or the EU. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed such claims as <em>“nonsense”</em> meant to scare European populations and increase military budgets.</p>

            
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<p><em>“We want people to be ready, not to panic,”</em> Lahbib said. <em>“Preparedness is not fearmongering – it is common sense in a time of uncertainty.”</em></p>
<p>Under the strategy, the EU is advising households to keep essential supplies, including non-perishable food, bottled water, flashlights, batteries, first-aid materials, and key documents. Citizens are also encouraged to have access to a shortwave radio in case of power or communication outages.</p>
<p>The EU is also planning to create a strategic reserve of key resources, including firefighting aircraft, medical transport, mobile hospitals, and stockpiles of protective equipment for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents.</p>
<p><em>“Today’s threats facing Europe are more complex than ever, and they are all interconnected,”</em> Lahbib said. <em>“From war on our borders to increasingly frequent climate disasters, the EU must be ready to face the unexpected,”</em> she added.</p>
<p>The initiative mirrors long-standing practices in countries such as Finland and Sweden, where civil defense preparations and emergency guidance are more established. Sweden, for example, recently updated its ‘If Crisis or War Comes’ handbook with modern scenarios, including how to respond to nuclear threats.</p>

             
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<p>The Commission’s new plan includes the creation of an EU-level crisis hub to coordinate cross-border responses and ensure continuity of essential services, from healthcare to energy and telecommunications.</p>

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<p><strong>Southern European countries have expressed opposition to a proposal to boost military spending through loans, according to a report</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Southern European states have been pushing back against an EU plan to ramp up military spending through loans, amid concerns it could deepen their already heavy debt burdens, Politico reported on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The so-called ‘ReArm Europe Plan’, unveiled this month by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, calls for up to €800 billion ($850 billion) in debt and tax breaks for the bloc’s military industrial complex. The proposal includes a €150 billion loan package and an emergency clause to loosen EU fiscal rules.</p>
<p>However, according to unnamed EU diplomats cited in the report, some countries have <em>“serious doubts”</em> about taking on additional debt. France, Italy, and Spain have been reportedly advocating grants – or so-called ‘defense bonds’ – rather than loans.</p>
<p>Such bonds would require joint EU borrowing on capital markets, a move that needs unanimous approval from all 27 member states.</p>
<p>Von der Leyen has so far avoided backing the idea, wary of opposition from fiscally hawkish states like Germany and the Netherlands, who fear it could set a precedent for shared EU debt.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“No Eurobonds,”</em> Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said after a recent EU leaders summit.</p>
<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the plan’s reliance on national debt, calling the proposed April deadline <em>“a bit too close”</em> and saying <em>“we should have more time [to decide].”</em></p>
<p>Italy and Spain have also urged a broader definition of military spending exempt from EU fiscal limits. Madrid has proposed including border control, cybersecurity, and infrastructure resilience.</p>

            
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<p>France does not plan to trigger the emergency clause, two EU diplomats said, citing concerns over market reactions and its debt-to-GDP ratio above 110%. Germany is expected to invoke the clause to help fund a €500 billion military expansion but is unlikely to take EU loans since it can raise the money more cheaply on its own.</p>
<p>However, weaker economies have raised concerns that requesting EU loans first could signal financial vulnerability and drive up borrowing costs.</p>
<p>Brussels insists the ‘ReArm’ plan is aimed at countering a <em>“threat”</em> from Russia, an idea Moscow has dismissed as baseless. It also comes amid growing pressure from Washington. US President Donald Trump has distanced himself from supporting Ukraine, while urging the EU to take greater responsibility for its own defense.</p>

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<p><span>On 25 March, Lavrov provided information about the negotiations with Team Trump in</span> <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2005367/" rel>an interview</a> <span>with Channel One, Moscow. The Kremlin followed later in the day with two press releases that provided additional details. We’ll begin with Lavrov:</span></p>
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<p><strong>Question:</strong> <span>Let's start with your anniversary. You have received many different congratulations. There was even a "marathon" of your wonderful poems. Did you have time to look at everything, read everything, did you have time to answer everyone?</span></p>
<p><strong>Sergey Lavrov:</strong> <span>I am very touched by what I heard, saw and received through a variety of information delivery channels.</span></p>
<p>I want to say "thank you" to everyone. But it is impossible to do this, so it is very opportune for us to meet today.</p>
<p><span>Before moving on to the political part of our conversation, I would like to convey my gratitude to all those who remembered my</span> <a href="https://t.me/MID_Russia/53978" rel>anniversary</a><span>, who not only called and congratulated, but put their hearts into</span> <a href="https://t.me/MID_Russia/53975" rel>the recitation</a> <span>of my modest poems and added some of their lyrical, humorous and many other "findings".</span></p>
<p>First of all, I am grateful to President Vladimir Putin for his high assessment of my work, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the leadership of the Federal Assembly, ministers – my colleagues, deputies and senators, heads of the media, including, of course, Channel One and our other partners: Rossiya 1, Rossiya 24, TV Centre, NTV – channels where we often speak and convey to our citizens the essence of what is happening in the Foreign Ministry and what we are achieving at the international Arena.</p>
<p>I was also pleased with the congratulations from TNT, where I was not invited, but nevertheless congratulated. Leaders of sports movements, civil society in its various manifestations, of course, my colleagues at the Foreign Ministry. It is impossible to list them all. I have a thick folder on my desk. I have a lot of materials on my phone. There will be a free minute, I will definitely and gladly watch everything. But I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who celebrated and marked my anniversary.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> <span>The talks in Riyadh are an important issue. What was their task and how did they come out? Please comment.</span></p>
<p><strong>Sergey Lavrov:</strong> <span>The talks ended with President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump reporting on the preliminary results that were achieved there. As the presidents agreed, they discussed, first of all, the issues of safe navigation in the Black Sea. This is not the first attempt.</span></p>
<p><span>The first attempt was made back in</span> <a href="https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1823484/" rel>July 2022,</a> <span>when UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, together with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, mediated with specialists representing the relevant Ukrainian and Russian agencies and agreed on a "package." It consisted of two parts. The first is to provide facilitated methods for delivering Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea through the straits when inspecting ships. So that there is no forgery, and so that if grain is declared and transported to the point where it is to be delivered, an empty flight for a new batch of grain is not used to deliver weapons.</span></p>
<p>Inspection procedures were agreed. They worked for a whole year. But after that, we were forced to stop this process, at least take a break. Because the second integral part of the "package" was simply sabotaged one hundred percent. It concerned the need to remove all "obstacles" to the export of Russian grain and fertilizers. This was due to the inclusion of all ships that transport Russian agricultural products, including fertilizers, in prohibited lists. Lloyd's, which insures these vessels, inflated the rates. Transferring money for the supply of our products was also difficult. Rosselkhozbank was disconnected from SWIFT. There was a lot of things that turned out to be aimed at inflating prices. European farmers created a situation of unfair competition for themselves, but at the same time, the bias of our Western colleagues was manifested in the fact that Ukrainian grain was dumped on European markets, although its quality was far from meeting the criteria existing in this area.</p>
<p><em><strong>The West did everything to shield Ukraine as much as possible and punish the Russian Federation as much as possible.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Therefore, when UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a year after the Black Sea initiative, threw up his hands and said that he was not succeeding, we said that when he succeeded, then let's return to this deal. We simply withdrew from the Ukrainian part, which was approved for a year. The year has expired. We did not extend this deal.</span> <a href="https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1829558/" rel>The Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and the UN Secretariat on Facilitating the Promotion of Russian Food and Fertilisers to World Markets,</a> <span>which calls for removing all obstacles to the export of Russian grain and fertilisers (which account for a much larger share of world markets than Ukrainian ones), is valid for three years and remains in effect until July of this year.</span></p>
<p><span>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his representatives are in constant contact with us. They are trying to help in some way.</span> <em><strong>But they are not looking for ways to lift sanctions in principle, demanding that the West (if it really wants to look after the interests of developing countries, the Global Majority, primarily in Africa) lift discriminatory measures in the field of food security</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has taken a different path.</span> <em><strong><span>He decided to look for loopholes in the sanctions imposed by the West without demanding that they be lifted. Moreover, in fact, by respecting and implementing these sanctions, which is absolutely unacceptable for any UN official, and even more so for the Secretary-General. Because the</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/ru/about-us/un-charter/full-text" rel>UN Charter</a> <span>states that no employee of the UN Secretariat, including the Secretary-General and his deputies, has the right to receive instructions from any government.</span></strong></em> <em><strong>If the UN Secretary-General looks for "loopholes" between the sanctions, recognising that they exist, then he complies with the decisions that are made in the capitals of the UN member states. And he has no right to do this.</strong></em></p>
<p>Therefore, our negotiators in Riyadh, appointed by President of Russia Vladimir Putin, have reminded their American colleagues of this whole story and said that, given the "track record" of Ukraine itself and the entire Black Sea history, we would like there to be no ambiguity this time.</p>
<p><span>We also recalled that when the Ukrainian part of the initiative expired in 2023 and we withdrew from it after that, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried to resume it two or three times. A year ago, he asked for our support so that it would be possible to resume this initiative in a simplified form, without physical inspections of empty ships returning after unloading grain and fertilisers.</span> <em><strong>We were ready to even do this.</strong></em> <span>Then, at the last moment, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Vladimir Zelensky wanted to agree not to strike at nuclear infrastructure facilities. Although they were carried out only by Vladimir Zelensky himself at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.</span> <em><strong>But since such a proposal came from Kiev, we agreed to this as well.</strong></em> <span>And also without any special verification mechanisms. In other words, we have responded to all of President Erdogan's requests. Including the one that Vladimir Zelensky himself slipped to him at the last moment. We said yes.</span> <em><strong>Then Erdogan called President Vladimir Putin and said, "You know, Vladimir Zelensky has changed his mind."</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Given all these "rethinks", given that every time a truce is suddenly announced, Ukraine agrees to it solely because at the specific historical moment in question, it found itself in a hopeless situation on the battlefield. As soon as there was a pause, immediately within a week or a couple of months, this truce was grossly violated. This was the case throughout the Minsk</span> <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/detail-material-page/1426913/" rel>Agreements</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>Therefore, we now need the clearest, most concrete, verifiable and working guarantees and mechanisms</strong></em><span>. As President Vladimir Putin said at a</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76450" rel>news conference</a> <span>with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko a few days ago, he supports US President Donald Trump's initiative to declare a truce for 30 days, and not just a moratorium on strikes on energy infrastructure or maritime infrastructure in the Black Sea, but a truce for thirty days in general. He said that we are in favour of it. But given the length of this line and the ability of the Ukrainian "army" to create provocations...</span></p>
<p>Recently, they hit the Sudzha gas metering station and said that Russia did it itself. Although this is our property, on which the continuation of energy supply to a number of European countries largely depends. Now it is impossible to do this, just as it is impossible to use the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which reflects the interests of business in Kazakhstan and the United States. One of its pumping stations, Kropotkinskaya, was attacked. This damage cannot be repaired quickly. The volume of oil pumped to European consumers will decrease sharply due to another terrorist act by Ukrainians.</p>
<p>President Vladimir Putin said that we were in favour of a truce, but there are nuances: who will ensure the "cleanliness" of the Nazi regime in Kiev? We are also in favour of considering ways to avoid causing any damage to the energy infrastructure. This is not in our interests. As the President said, we are also in favour of resuming the Black Sea Initiative in a more acceptable form for all. It was discussed as a priority in Riyadh.</p>
<p><span>Our position is simple. I have just outlined it roughly.</span> <em><strong>We cannot take this man's word for it.</strong></em> <span>We want the grain and fertilizer market to be predictable, so that no one tries to "discourage" us from it. Not only because we want/wanted to make a legitimate profit in a fair competition, but also because we are concerned about the food security situation in Africa and other countries of the Global South and East, which suffer from these "games" of the West in the field of unscrupulous competition. Prices there are not ruinous at all, but they could be much lower if the West stopped interfering with the free play of market forces, which it idolized when it invited us all into this "kingdom of globalization and freedom."</span></p>
<p>As I have already said, we will need clear guarantees. Given the sad experience of the agreements with Kiev, guarantees can only be the result of an order from Washington to Vladimir Zelensky and his "team" to do this or not otherwise.</p>
<p>I think our American partners have taken this signal. They understand that only Washington can achieve positive results in stopping terrorist attacks and shelling of civilian energy infrastructure that is not related to the military-industrial complex.</p>
<p><span>Europe has now taken a completely different path. Like in the times of Napoleon, Hitler and the Crimean War, it is showing yet another "swiftness" to inflict a "strategic defeat" on our country.</span> <em><strong>As in those years, almost all European countries, with rare exceptions, have been put under arms. Only they are not yet physically fighting against us on the territory of Ukraine, but without them this country would have been defeated long ago, and the life of this Nazi regime would have been terminated.</strong></em></p>
<p>Pumping weapons into the Kiev regime, London and Paris (especially the two leaders, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron), with the support of the not very powerful chorus of the Baltic States and a number of other countries, are not only talking about continuing to pump weapons into Ukraine, but are also talking about some kind of "coalitions of the willing" to deploy some kind of "peacekeeping mission" or "mission to ensure Ukraine's security" after the end of the war. Or even two missions to be deployed in Ukraine: one on the border with the European Union and NATO, and the second from the countries of the Global South (India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, even China). But these "dreamers" are proving their complete political incompetence every day, their desire not only to "contain" Russia, but to "defeat" it (someone even said that it is necessary to humiliate Vladimir Putin), as it turns out, historians can correct me, but I have a feeling that we have already gone through all this: both Napoleon and Hitler – the goals were the same. To achieve these goals, the whole of Europe was conquered by Napoleon and A. Hitler, and in this case it was mobilized.</p>
<p>Now Europe, led by Germany, starting with Ursula von der Leyen, is beginning to seriously consider the issue of remilitarisation for fabulous hundreds of billions of euros in a situation where they are doing "badly" in the economy and social sphere as a result of the fact that the Biden administration "let them off the hook" and sent them to fight the Russian Federation. They have decentralization and a huge number of problems.</p>
<p>This partly explains why they are so ardently demanding not to "surrender" Ukraine, to arm it, not even to stutter that this country should not join NATO and the European Union. French President Emmanuel Macron recently spoke on this topic. They directly contradict the Trump administration. The President himself, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz clearly said that preliminary discussions are underway on the parameters of a final settlement. Donald Trump clearly said that NATO should be forgotten and there was no need to stir up this topic. Joe Biden made a colossal mistake and refused to listen to Russia, insisting that Ukraine would be in NATO, thereby creating unacceptable threats. Waltz and Trump's special envoy Stephen Witkoff said that territorial issues are "the key." Because the territories where the referendums were held have always been Russian in culture, language, religion, and tradition. People want to continue to be associated with Russian culture, which the Kiev regime is legally exterminating.</p>
<p>Rearmament, which President of Russia Vladimir Putin spoke about, is that it is necessary to stop the supply of weapons. And Europe and Vladimir Zelensky say, no, we will not take a "pause."</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> <span>Can the United States and the Trump administration influence Europe today? Why is nothing happening?</span></p>
<p><strong>Sergey Lavrov:</strong> <span>Both US President Donald Trump and his team said that this is a taboo. The territories should be discussed,</span> <em><strong>because we are not talking about some area of land, but about the people who live there and have said that their future is connected with the Russian Federation.</strong></em> <span>And also about the fact that weapons should not be supplied there. On all three points, first of all, Vladimir Zelensky himself (he was rude to Donald Trump in the White House, then left for London, where he was "pinned"), when he returned to Kiev, began to make many more bold statements, including rejecting both the neutral status and the discussion of the territories. No, they say, give us "everything." And what does this mean? That you have banned everything Russian, including the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the sister of the Russian Orthodox Church, the media, and education. Now the Rada has a new bill to ban speaking Russian during breaks at school. Previously, it was only in the classroom. And that they want to return to this country citizens who said "we are Russians" in a referendum?</span> <em><strong>If we, they say, lived with all our rights, we would be Russian citizens of Ukraine. And you are trying to exterminate us, including physically and legislatively.</strong></em></p>
<p>In this situation, it turns out that Europe is not only showing "affront" in relation to US President Donald Trump's analysis of his team, that it is necessary to discuss and resolve the issue of territories without NATO. But Europe also wants to "incite" Vladimir Zelensky himself. When the Europeans talk about "peacekeeping forces" or "security forces," they are saying that at least the part that is now controlled by the Kiev regime or will be controlled by it at the time of some agreement must be urgently "picked up" for itself–-for the British and the French.</p>
<p><span>No one is saying that in the rest of Ukraine, which will return or has already returned to its "native harbor", the linguistic, educational and cultural rights of all-–both Russians and ethnic minorities–-are fully ensured. And when the "remnant" of Ukraine,</span> <em><strong>if it really survives in some form,</strong></em> <span>is taken under the control of the security forces of NATO countries (no matter under what flag), no one is saying that then they will strengthen democracy in the remaining territory. That they will abolish the racist and Russophobic laws that exterminate everything Russian. No one is talking about it.</span> <em><strong>And if so, it means that these security forces will perpetuate the Nazi regime with a ban on everything that in any way reminds of the Russian roots of this country, which was born thanks to the Russians.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> <span>How should we come to an agreement then? In a conversation with US President Donald Trump, President Vladimir Putin agreed that we would not hit energy facilities (although we did not do so) for 30 days, and then he would immediately arrive at an oil depot in the Kuban. It turns out that this is a kind of "vicious circle."</span> <em><strong>How much patience should we have?</strong></em> <span>It just happened the next day immediately after the conversation.</span></p>
<p><strong>Sergey Lavrov:</strong> <span>There were many more examples. I said that this is a non-negotiable regime. So, this is not only a non-negotiable regime, but I think that there is a new "quality" of these "characters"-–the desire not so much to deceive, but to do some nasty things out of spite, openly and publicly, which directly contradicts what you were asked to do, and you seem to have agreed.</span></p>
<p><span>On March 11, in Jeddah, for the first time, the Kiev regime said that it agreed to a 30-day truce. He immediately shifted the blame to Russia, saying, "Let's immediately agree without question." All sorts of Macrons, Starmers and Vonderleins immediately started shouting that the ball was now in President Putin's court. Although three days before they all said that there was no truce, they needed to pump Ukraine up from a position of strength before sitting down at the negotiating table.</span> <em><strong>They instantly changed their position as soon as the wind changed.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>On March 11, the Ukrainians and Vladimir Zelensky said, "Okay, we are ready for a truce, but now we need to force President Vladimir Putin." On the same day, they sent a record number of drones (about 340) to the central regions of Russia, including Moscow and the Moscow Region. This has never happened before. The West swallowed it all.</span> <em><strong>No one said how dare they, they had just agreed with them, and the Ukrainians publicly stated that they were ready for a truce.</strong></em> <span>Are you now waiting for Russia to respond to you accordingly? They fired 340 drones at exclusively civilian targets. Our air defence system worked reliably.</span></p>
<p><span>We are seeing the same thing now. When the meeting in Riyadh was being prepared, the US administration and I first agreed with the US administration on the basis of an understanding between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump that US and Russian experts would go.</span> <em><strong>But, apparently, in Washington, "such active guys" want to record something as soon as possible. As you know, they invited the Ukrainians there. They arrived a day earlier and stayed after our experts left there.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Between us (I do not think this is a big secret), in contacts on the eve of the meeting in Riyadh, it was felt that the Americans wanted to put Ukrainians and Russians in "neighboring rooms" and carry out "shuttle diplomacy" between them, and issue some kind of single text.</span> <em><strong>But we explained once again (what our presidents discussed), we have an absolutely unequivocal understanding that the presidents agreed to move in such a way that all this would be reliable, and that no one else would accept unsubstantiated documents.</strong></em> <span>And even those that are adopted with certain "guarantees"—so that our American colleagues take control of the implementation and observance of these guarantees by the Kiev regime.</span></p>
<p><span>This is what we are talking about now. Europe wants in every possible way to "undermine" the role of the United States in the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis</span> <em><strong>and does not want to resolve it on the basis of eliminating the root causes.</strong></em> <span>I mentioned the root causes:</span> <em><strong>NATO, the extermination of the rights of the Russian population, everything that is connected with Russia legally and physically.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> <span>At the same time, Stephen Witkoff is quite optimistic that a truce will be reached (at first he said in two weeks, now he says by Easter, which is in a month). Do you share his optimism? I know that you are not paid for optimism.</span></p>
<p><strong>Sergey Lavrov:</strong> <span>People often compare the habits and traditions of the Soviet Union with what is also manifesting itself in some Western countries. After all, we had a "five-year plan in four years." After we rejected "godlessness"–-by Easter (perhaps it could have been by Christmas, but here by Easter). I would not ask a question like that. I understand Stephen Witkoff's wish. He is an intelligent and energetic person. He thinks that everyone should understand what he thinks are elementary things. He understood the essence of this conflict, judging by his statements during an interview with T. Carlson.</span> <em><strong>But he significantly overestimates the elites of European countries who want to "hang like a stone" on Vladimir Zelensky's hands in order not to allow him to give up his "weakness."</strong></em></p>
<p>Vladimir Zelensky himself does not want to give up. He realises that his days are numbered, that his "bright image" (as he tried to build it among the people) has long faded, with the exception of the part of the population that reflects radical, ultra-right, revanchist and Bandera views (there are many such people there too).</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> <span>Over the years, relations between Russia and the United States have been steadily deteriorating, even during Donald Trump's first term, and have reached a low point. Why is the President of the United States changing the paradigm of relations with Russia so dramatically?</span></p>
<p><strong>Sergey Lavrov:</strong> <span>I think that he gained invaluable experience during his first term. First of all, with regard to the need to have his own team. Relations deteriorated to a decisive extent because random people gathered around him during Donald Trump's first term. In America, analysts say that the reason for this was the conviction that he would not be allowed to run for president, and he did not prepare very much for his first term. Therefore, there were people who betrayed him.</span></p>
<p>Recently, he recalled his then vice president, the Secretary of State, and his national security adviser, who still criticises him very impolitely (rudely, I would even say). Therefore, Donald Trump is a decisive man, and when he decided to take revenge for the previous election, where Joe Biden won with the votes of millions of "dead people" or people who sent their ballots by mail in huge numbers. Donald Trump decided to get even with this and get what history and the will of the American people are due to him. And he achieved this by conducting his campaign in a completely different way. The speed with which he approved his team in the Senate suggests that Donald Trump began to form it a long time ago.</p>
<p><span>This is a team of like-minded people. They do not hesitate to directly say things that they agree on among themselves and which, in their opinion, reflect the national interests of the American people. When Yury Ushakov and I were in Riyadh and met with Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz (I mentioned it once in an</span> <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2002637/" rel>interview</a><span>), Rubio said that Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is in the American national interest, but at the same time he understands that other countries, especially great powers, also have their own national interests. They do not always coincide, and in most cases they do not coincide. But when they do, it would be criminal not to use this coincidence to materialise it into some mutually beneficial, joint material projects in the economy, energy, infrastructure and logistics.</span></p>
<p>The second idea was that when interests do not coincide (such cases are the majority), responsible powers are obliged to do everything necessary to prevent these differences from degenerating into confrontation, especially into a "hot" one.</p>
<p>We supported this approach with both hands. I believe that these are the principles on the basis of which we build our relations with any countries.</p>
<p>These are the same principles that lie in the relationship between the United States and China. They have a lot of disagreements. They often switch to a tough exchange of "pleasantries" across the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. The Chinese say they condemn the U.S. and other Western countries' view of Taiwan as an independent state. They say that they are committed to the peaceful reunification of the motherland, but, if anything, they are ready to achieve this goal of the great Chinese people by other methods. The Americans answer, they say, don't you dare. But at the same time, their dialogue was never interrupted.</p>
<p>I believe that what we experienced under Joe Biden is an anomaly. This does not do credit to politicians, especially those with such experience as Joe Biden. He was proud of his experience. But when you suddenly, like a boy in kindergarten, turn away from a girl or a girl from a boy, saying, "I won't be friends with you, we won't walk in the yard"–-it's stupid.</p>
<p>The fact that now, despite serious differences, we have resumed dialogue is a return to normality. Such a dialogue is necessary. Moreover, much beyond Ukraine is being discussed.</p>
<p><span>Joe Biden has</span> <em><strong>artificially</strong></em> <span>brought the Ukrainian issue to the very top of the international agenda. Many of my friends told us that this topic did not deserve it, that there was an overly exaggerated reaction to our</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67843" rel>special military operation</a><span>, launched 10 years after we began to warn that it would not lead to good. After the coup d'état, after being drawn into NATO, they warned at all "corners". Even back in</span> <a href="http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/24034" rel>2007</a> <span>in Munich, Vladimir Putin said that</span> <em><strong>such a phenomenon as impunity for the West, its sense of excessive inferiority and exceptionalism, was maturing. Then it all materialized.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Of course, there are disagreements now. But the interest in restoring Europe's normal energy supply, is it only the interest of the United States and Russia? There is talk about Nord Stream. It will probably be interesting if the Americans use their influence on Europe and force it not to abandon Russian gas. But this is surrealism. Europe and business are now paying several times more for energy than American business. At the same time, people like Robert Habeck, Ursula von der Leyen and Boris Pistorius all say that they will never allow the Nord Streams to be restored.</span> <em><strong>These are either sick people or suicides</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>It is normal when there is a conversation. As you know, the prospect of removing obstacles to mutually beneficial (I stress again) joint economic projects was discussed.</span> <em><strong>These are energy, space, and the Arctic.</strong></em> <span>We are two Arctic powers.</span></p>
<p>We are not flattering ourselves. Biden's "partners" have led us too deeply into bilateral relations. But we have consensus on the fact that Donald Trump's people want to make these relations mutually beneficial where possible, mutually respectful where we disagree, and to prevent the disagreements between the two largest nuclear powers from escalating into confrontation.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> <span>If we do not flatter ourselves, does this mean that we will already be some kind of others in this relationship? What mistakes that we may have made before when building relationships will we definitely not make again?</span></p>
<p><strong>Sergey Lavrov:</strong> <em><strong>"Trust, but verify." This is a great commandment of Ronald Reagan. Donald Trump recalled it. We will not forget it.</strong></em></p>
<p>This is a combination of a civilisational understanding of the current stage of development, when it is necessary to put national interests in the foreground, when it is clear that globalisation was destroyed by the efforts, including those of the previous administration. They began to use the dollar as a weapon. Even before he became president, after the election, Donald Trump said that Joe Biden had made a colossal mistake, if not a crime, when he began to use the dollar to "punish" individual countries. Accordingly, not only those whom he tried to punish by depriving them of the opportunity to use it, but also others began to take a closer look. Now they are punishing Russia, now Iran, Venezuela and someone else. What if one of us does not like it next time? Remember how Joe Biden insulted Saudi Arabia and then had to go to reconcile.</p>
<p>Everyone thinks about the same thing. If suddenly a US administration (each administration can cancel everything that the previous one agreed on) comes and does not like someone who is not on the "black list" now.</p>
<p><span>Maybe in this case it is better to hedge our bets and not only create our own currency, but use national currencies in settlements, and not the dollar or the euro. Europeans are even less predictable people. Payment platforms such as</span> <a href="https://brics-russia2024.ru/about/" rel>BRICS</a> <span>are now being discussed. This process can no longer be stopped.</span></p>
<p><span>US President Donald Trump is a man of action. He does not like to philosophize, he likes to solve problems. He said that the United States desperately needs Greenland for security.</span> <em><strong>We talked about this with the Americans, and I have every feeling that they have understood this.</strong></em> <span>Such comparisons are very important for them,</span> <em><strong>that Ukraine is several orders of magnitude more important for Russia's legitimate security interests than Greenland is for ensuring US security.</strong></em> <span>They understand this.</span></p>
<p><span>By the way, about Greenland. This is a shameful phenomenon. Before the meeting with the US President at the White House, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte expressed the hope that the United States would not "entangle" NATO in the issue of Greenland. What is the result? The person who is obliged to protect the interests of the member states (Denmark, which now owns Greenland, is a member of NATO) and not to allow the territorial integrity of the member states to be violated, says that he is doing this, but does not even want to speak out about Greenland. At the same time, with regard to Ukraine, which is not a member of the North Atlantic Alliance and will never be, Mark Rutte does not hesitate to say that they demand that no one dare to violate the territorial integrity of Ukraine with a single finger.</span> <em><strong>The territorial integrity of Denmark–-please, as much as you want, but do not touch Ukraine. A ridiculous and pathetic person.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> <span>The Americans want to involve China in the New START Treaty. How realistic do you think this idea is?</span></p>
<p><strong>Sergey Lavrov:</strong> <span>It is up to the PRC to decide. We have said this many times. Beijing has repeatedly commented when this topic has surfaced in the public space. They boil down to the fact that China's nuclear arsenal is incommensurable with the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia. When a comparable level is reached, we can think about how the nuclear powers will interact in the future.</span></p>
<p><span>We are still working in the nuclear five at the level of representatives to the UN. Meetings are also held at the level of deputy ministers.</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67551" rel>At our initiative</a><span>, an online summit was held in January 2022, when the Gorbachev-Reagan formula that there can be no winner in a nuclear war and should never be unleashed was transferred to a five-sided format. The entire nuclear five repeated this formula.</span></p>
<p>We are not against continuing to work in this format. By the way, it has never stopped. It mainly discusses confidence-building measures, things that are not related to any reductions or even to discussing the quantitative parameters of nuclear arsenals and avoiding any incidents.</p>
<p>US President Donald Trump (and Joe Biden before him) says that China should be involved in these talks. We had the following position: first, this is Beijing's business. As he decides, we will fully respect his choice. If we are talking about expanding the circle of participants, then what to do with France and Britain? These two countries, together with the United States, are members of the same alliance, which during the years of Joe Biden, and even before him, did not say much good about us, and during his presidency simply declared us the "main threat." If we are the "main threat" and we are told, let's talk to you, but do not touch these two sides, then this is not fair.</p>
<p><em><strong>The Russian-American dialogue on strategic stability must be restored. We agree with this. Of course, this can only be done on the basis of a return to the principles that underpinned the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms and reflected in its preamble, including the link between strategic offensive and strategic defensive arms, including mutual respect and an agreement to conduct business exclusively on the basis of equality. As long as we are, in fact, doctrinally an enemy, what kind of stability can we talk about?</strong></em></p>
<p>We are in favour of negotiations in all areas. We are both for hockey and football. By the way, these are not games, but what people want. In sports, the overwhelming majority of Russian and American masters, as well as masters of any other country, including Western ones, consider it absolutely anomalous what is happening with regard to the suspension of Russian and Belarusian athletes, as well as with regard to how a man, calling himself a woman, beats a real woman in a boxing match. The administration of US President Donald Trump is aware of the inadmissibility of perverting human essence and traditional values (religious, cultural and moral). This should have a healing effect on the entire Western society. I hope this will happen. [My Emphasis]</p>
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<p><span>Next we have the two Kremlin press releases.</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76526" rel>Number one</a><span>: Main results of the meeting of the expert groups of Russia and the United States:</span></p>
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<p>1. In accordance with the agreement between the presidents of Russia and the United States, the Russian and American sides agreed to ensure the implementation of the Black Sea initiative, including ensuring the safety of navigation in the Black Sea, non-use of force and prevention of the use of commercial vessels for military purposes, with the organization of appropriate control measures by inspecting such vessels.</p>
<p>2. The United States will help restore access for Russian exports of agricultural products and fertilizers to the world market, reduce the cost of shipping insurance, as well as expand access to ports and payment systems for such Transaction.</p>
<p>Note:</p>
<p>Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall enter into force after:</p>
<p>Lifting of sanctions restrictions from the Russian Agricultural Bank and other financial institutions involved in ensuring operations for international trade in food (including fish products) and fertilizers, their connection to SWIFT, opening the necessary correspondent accounts;</p>
<p>Removal of restrictions on trade finance operations;</p>
<p>Lifting of sanctions restrictions on companies producing and exporting food (including fish products) and fertilizers, as well as lifting restrictions on the work of insurance companies with cargoes of food (including fish products) and fertilizers;</p>
<p>Lifting restrictions on servicing ships in ports and sanctions on ships under the Russian flag involved in trade in food (including fish products) and fertilizers;</p>
<p>Lifting restrictions on the supply to the Russian Federation of agricultural machinery, as well as other goods involved in the production of food (including fish products) and fertilizers.</p>
<p>3. Russia and the United States agreed to develop measures to implement the agreements of the presidents of the two countries on a ban on strikes on energy facilities of Russia and Ukraine for a period of 30 days, starting from March 18, 2025, with the possibility of extension and withdrawal from the agreement in case of non-compliance by one of the parties.</p>
<p>4. Russia and the United States welcome the good offices of third countries aimed at supporting the implementation of agreements in the energy and maritime spheres.</p>
<p>5. Russia and the United States will continue to work to achieve a lasting and lasting peace.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76534" rel>Number two</a><span>: The list of Russian and Ukrainian facilities agreed between the Russian and American sides that are subject to a temporary moratorium on strikes on the energy system:</span></p>
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<p>1. Oil refining Enterprise;</p>
<p>2. Oil, gas pipelines and storage facilities, including pumping stations;</p>
<p>3. Electricity generation and transmission infrastructure, including power plants, substations, transformers and distributors;</p>
<p>4. Atomic Power plant;</p>
<p>5. Dams Hydropower plants.</p>
<p>Temporary The moratorium is valid for 30 days, starting from March 18, 2025, and, by mutual agreement, can be extended.</p>
<p>In case violation of the moratorium by one of the parties, the other party has the right to consider itself free from obligations to comply with it.</p>
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<p><span>The initial steps in the long complex negotiation process have commenced and resulted in a few positive outcomes, while there remains a very large number of considerations or nuances. The capricious and untrustworthy nature of Zelensky is well noted, but it isn’t just him that must be take into consideration since he’s merely a front for the Nazis behind him that the Outlaw US Empire and NATO still refuse to admit exist. And all the legal issues I’ve written about still remain to be solved, while there are others I haven’t mentioned that also apply, the most important being amending Ukraine’s constitution so the president can cede territory. Lavrov broached the previously unmentionable possibility that Ukraine may cease to exist as a state: “And when the "</span><em><strong>remnant</strong></em><span>" of Ukraine,</span> <em><strong>if it really survives in some form.”</strong></em> <span>This issue was just raised by Witkoff as his “elephant” but not in the same context as Lavrov’s words. IMO, Americans are essentially illiterate when it comes to Russian and especially Ukrainian history and have little knowledge of the latter’s artificial construct over time which relates to how it’s likely to be deconstructed. The Nazis don’t want any Russians, yet the Poles, Hungarians, and Slovaks don’t want any Nazis. The Romanians are currently not at all sovereign and because they’re proto-Nazi an EU/NATO controlled Romania would likely allow Nazis entrance. IMO, that’s the real elephant in the room that has yet to even be mentioned by the West, which will make reaching a solution be all the more difficult.</span></p>
<p><span>Now, about the recent reports that Putin mentioned Odessa’s status during the closed session of the Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Congress on 18 March, which appear to stem from a</span> <em><a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7586520" rel>Kommersant</a></em> <a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7586520" rel>report</a> <span>about the meeting’s two sessions, including hearsay from the closed session from participants, that resulted in this:</span></p>
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<p><strong>Now, according to my interlocutors, the talks are about the fact that what has been achieved cannot be taken away from Russia and that Crimea, Sevastopol and four well-known territories should be recognized as part of Russia: the Lugansk, Donetsk republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>If that happens anytime soon, Russia will not lay claim to Odessa and other territories now belonging to Ukraine, participants told me.</p>
<p><span>But this point can also move, because "they do not have time to dig in."</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span>The above was expanded upon today by an</span> <a href="https://rtvi.com/news/stalo-izvestno-uslovie-putina-dlya-otkaza-rossii-ot-pretenzij-na-odessu/" rel>RTVI report</a><span>, “Putin's condition for Russia's abandonment of claims to Odessa became known,</span><strong>”</strong> <span>which leads with this paragraph:</span></p>
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<p><span>Moscow will not claim Odessa and "other territories now belonging to Ukraine" if the West "in the near future" recognizes the Crimea, DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions as part of Russia. This</span> <a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7586520" rel>was reported by</a> <span>Kommersant special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov with reference to the participants of a closed meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and representatives of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) on March 18.</span></p>
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<p>As you see, nothing new is added. That’s then followed by this:</p>
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<p><span>Participants in the closed meeting</span> <em><strong>claim</strong></em> <span>that on the eve of the conversation with US President Donald Trump, the Russian leader spoke not about business, but about Ukraine, Kolesnikov writes.</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span>As you see, this is hearsay. And there are other reports in other Russian language media that all cite the initial</span> <em>Kommersant</em> <span>hearsay report. I’ve looked for any official word from the Kremlin conforming or denying such words by Putin but have found nothing. Instead, there’s this interesting</span> <a href="https://www.mk.ru/politics/2025/03/23/putin-zabiraet-odessu-tramp-soglasen-velikaya-sdelka-mozhet-dobit-zelenskogo.html?ysclid=m8q9ib4n1l692610899" rel>report by MKRU</a> <span>published on 23 March, “</span><strong>"</strong><span>Putin takes Odessa - Trump agrees": the "great deal" can finish off Zelensky</span><strong>”</strong> <span>that I’ll fully translate</span><strong>:</strong></p>
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<p>Some analysts believe that one of the key points of a possible deal between Moscow and Washington could be the transformation of the port of Odessa into the main logistics hub through which the United States will be able to promote its interests in the region. Such a prospect could lead to a change in the status of both Odessa itself and the entire Black Sea region. This is written by international journalist, Tsargrad columnist Igor Pshenichnikov.</p>
<p>The central topic of a possible dialogue between Russia and the United States could be the redistribution of territories and the establishment of new zones of influence. According to information leaked from the White House, Donald Trump is probably ready to consider concessions in favor of Moscow in exchange for control of a significant part of Ukrainian territories. However, the question remains: at what price could such an agreement turn out to be for both sides?</p>
<p>American media report that Trump's entourage made it clear that the issue of Crimea's ownership is no longer subject to discussion: it remains with Russia. At the same time, the US president himself is in no hurry to disclose the details of negotiations with Vladimir Putin regarding the future fate of other Ukrainian territories. The administration believes that we are talking about lands that are already actually controlled by Russian forces - this is about a fifth of the entire territory of Ukraine.</p>
<p>The New York Times reports that the entourage of Acting President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky expressed serious concern about Donald Trump's possible support for Vladimir Putin's additional demands regarding territorial changes in Ukraine. In particular, we can talk about the strategically important port of Odessa. In fact, this means that Kiev was made to understand: Russia insists on the transfer of Odessa under its jurisdiction.</p>
<p>Tsargrad columnist Igor Pshenichnikov expressed the opinion that the issue of Odessa is inextricably linked with neighboring regions. According to him, if we talk about the Odessa region, it is logical to assume that Nikolaev and the surrounding territories should follow. He also stressed that without this, Odessa as a Russian exclave loses its strategic meaning. At the same time, the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, according to Pshenichnikov, are already perceived as an integral part of Russia, and their status is beyond doubt.</p>
<p>Some analysts believe that the terms of a possible "big deal" between Russia and the United States may be completely unexpected for the public. One of these scenarios is the transformation of the port of Odessa into a crucial logistics center through which the United States will promote both its geopolitical and economic interests in the region.</p>
<p>Political strategist Igor Dimitriev suggested that Washington is unlikely to openly transfer Odessa to Russia or agree to completely deprive Ukraine of access to the sea. However, he noted that behind closed doors, various compromise options can be discussed that will suit both sides.</p>
<p>Analysts believe that the best option for the United States could be to turn Odessa into a free economic zone. This is due not only to the city's status as a key port, but also to its importance as a major logistics hub linking European and Asian markets.</p>
<p>If Washington plans to use this transport hub to bring Russian exports to the world stage, Odessa could become the epicenter of the clash of interests of several players at once - Ukraine, Great Britain, the United States and Russia. At the same time, the main beneficiary of such a scheme, according to experts, will be the United States.</p>
<p>Igor Pshenichnikov noted that the failure of the "Ukraine project" forces Washington to curtail it in the most favorable format for itself, presenting itself as a peacemaker. He stressed that in such a scenario, the United States will try to maintain at least a small anti-Russian bridgehead from the remaining territories controlled by Kyiv. The journalist also added that the Americans fear: if they do not have time to consolidate their positions, they may lose all influence in the region.</p>
<p>This alignment, according to analysts, explains why Donald Trump is demonstrating haste and may be ready to transfer Odessa along with the Black Sea region to Russia. Bloomberg is already publishing materials describing the likely division of Ukrainian territories as "assets." Trump's opponents, in turn, express concern that the Republican president, who promised to quickly end the conflict during the election campaign, may agree to concessions to Moscow without taking into account the interests of Ukraine. The final answer to this question, according to analysts, can only be given by a personal meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.</p>
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<p><span>I’ve opined that to “give away” Odessa after proclaiming it a “Russian City” during last December’s “Direct Line” would be a huge political mistake by Putin. I provide this</span> <em><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1721001" rel>TASS</a></em> <a href="https://tass.com/politics/1721001" rel>report</a> <span>as a reminder:</span></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Odessa is a Russian city and everyone is well aware of this, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the combined Direct Line Q&amp;A session and year-end press conference.</p>
<p>"The whole southeast of Ukraine has always been pro-Russian, because these are historically Russian territories. Turkey knows this well, the entire Black Sea coast went to Russia as a result of the Russo-Turkish wars. What does Ukraine have to do with this? It has nothing to do with it. Neither Crimea, nor the entire Black Sea coast in general," Putin said in response to a TASS question. "Odessa is a Russian city. We know this. Everyone knows this. But no, they drummed up all sorts of historical nonsense," he pointed out.</p>
<p>At the same time, the president noted that once upon a time "Vladimir Lenin gave away the whole of Ukraine when he created the Soviet Union." "We came to terms with this after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We accepted it and were ready to live in this paradigm," the Russian president emphasized. "But this part, the southeast [of Ukraine], is pro-Russian. It was also important for us," he underscored.</p>
<p>Putin explained that the residents of these territories had always voted for those who "went along with the pro-Russian agenda of Ukraine's domestic and foreign policy," and in general "Russia was quite satisfied with that." "But after the coup in 2014, it became clear to us that we would not be allowed &lt;...&gt; to establish normal relations with Ukraine," the Russian leader added.</p>
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<p>Did Putin make his own leak during the closed session? It’s been over a week since and no mention by Peskov, yet there’s plenty of chatter in Russian media as the above news accounts attest. So, while the minutia gets discussed the bigger points are also being thought about. Is the Odessa ploy a ruse to get Zelensky to agree to peace so Ukraine retains Odessa and other regions that are being discussed as being ceded? There’s lots of additional Russian military activity in the Kherson region with Russian forces in control of the islands in the Dnieper delta that are required as a prelude to a river crossing and other signs. IMO, Zelensky is frozen by the Nazis and perhaps MI6 having a gun at his back. What will happen next?</p>
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<p><strong>Russia wants to see more people who comprehend it and want to live in peace, the president has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Some people in the West do not understand Russia, yet that fact does not hamper the country’s development, President Vladimir Putin has said.</p>
<p>The Russian president was speaking on Wednesday during a meeting of the supervisory board of the Movement of the First, a Russian organization for children and youth.</p>
<p>”There are people in the so-called West who do not understand Russia. But this does not prevent us from living and developing. This should only motivate us to increase the number of people who understand us and want to live with us in peace and friendship,” Putin stated.</p>
<p>Such a goal could be achieved through extensive work with the youth in particular, the president emphasized. <em>“Success awaits us in this area if we work actively and effectively with young people, with children, with teenagers, those who create the foundation of the country’s future and value this country,”</em> he said.</p>

            
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<p>Founded in 2022 with Putin’s direct backing, the Movement of the First has grown into a major nationwide organization. According to the president, it now brings together more than 11 million members.</p>
<p>The main goal of the group is helping the country’s young people become successful in their lives, Putin said. Helping a person find an <em>“optimal”</em> path in life is the key to success, he stressed.</p>
<p><em>“Almost every person wants success, even if they think that, in general, they do not need anything and everything is fine. No, in their souls, everyone strives for success. To achieve this success, you need to find your path in life and find a trade to which you are ready to dedicate your life. This is one of the reasons why the Movement of the First was created,”</em> the president explained.</p>

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<p><strong>In Trump’s world, great powers don’t preach – they compete</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The phrase <em>“changing world order”</em> has become a familiar refrain in international affairs. But what’s often missed is how rapidly that change is now unfolding – and who is accelerating it.</p>
<p>Regime changes in international relations are usually the result of crises: wars between great powers or upheavals within them. This was the case in 1939-1945 and again in 1989-1991. Usually, the problems accumulate over years and decades, and the resolution comes unexpectedly: the slow movement of tectonic plates suddenly accelerates dramatically, an avalanche begins that rapidly changes the landscape. We have had the opportunity to observe something similar in recent weeks. The most striking thing is that the main factor in the changes has been the leadership of the state which until now has defended the remnants of the old world order most stubbornly, even fiercely.</p>
<p>The fall of unipolarity, once long predicted and cautiously awaited, has arrived ahead of schedule. The United States, long the enforcer of liberal internationalism, is no longer trying to stop the shift toward a multipolar world. Under Donald Trump, it has joined it.</p>
<p>This pivot is not a mere campaign promise or rhetorical shift. It is a structural break. In the space of weeks, the US has gone from resisting the multipolar order to attempting to dominate it on new terms – less moralism, more realism. In doing so, Washington may inadvertently help deliver the very outcome that previous administrations worked so hard to prevent.</p>
<p>Trump’s turn has broad and lasting implications. The world’s most powerful actor has abandoned the guardianship of liberal globalism and embraced something far more pragmatic: great power rivalry. The language of human rights and democracy promotion has been replaced with <em>“America First,”</em> not just domestically, but in foreign relations as well.</p>
<p>The new US president has shelved the rainbow banners of BLM and the alphabet soup of Western liberalism. Instead, he waves the American flag with confidence, signaling to allies and adversaries alike: US foreign policy is now about interests, not ideologies.</p>

            
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<p>This is not theoretical. It is a geopolitical earthquake.</p>
<p>Firstly, multipolarity is no longer hypothetical. Trump has shifted the US from an enforcer of unipolarity to a player in multipolarity. His doctrine – <em>“great power competition”</em> – aligns more with the realist tradition than with the post-Cold War liberalism that dominated Washington for decades.</p>
<p>In this view, the world is made up of sovereign poles: the US, China, Russia, India – each pursuing its own interests, sometimes in conflict, sometimes overlapping. Cooperation arises not from shared values, but from shared necessities. This is a world Russia knows well – and one in which it thrives.</p>
<p>Secondly, Washington’s pivot to realism means a fundamental shift in how it engages with the world. The era of liberal crusades is over. Trump has defunded USAID, slashed <em>“democracy promotion”</em> budgets, and shown a willingness to work with regimes of all types – so long as they serve American interests.</p>
<p>This is a departure from the binary moral frameworks of the past. And ironically, it aligns more closely with Moscow’s own worldview. Under Trump, the White House no longer seeks to export liberalism, but to negotiate power.</p>
<p>Thirdly, the West, as we knew it, is gone. The liberal <em>“collective West”</em> – defined by shared ideology and transatlantic solidarity – no longer exists in its previous form. The US has effectively withdrawn from it, prioritizing national interest over globalist commitments.</p>
<p>What remains is a fractured West, split between nationalist-led governments like Trump’s and more traditional liberal strongholds in Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. The internal clash between these two visions – nationalism versus globalism – is now the defining political struggle across the West.</p>
<p>This struggle is far from over. Trump’s dominance may look assured, but domestic resistance remains potent. If Republicans lose the 2026 midterms, his ability to pursue his agenda could be blunted. He is also constitutionally barred from running again in 2028, which means time is short.</p>

            
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<p>As the West fractures, the <em>“World Majority”</em> – an informal coalition of nations outside the Western bloc – grows stronger. Originally coined to describe states that refused to sanction Russia or arm Ukraine, it now represents a broader realignment.</p>
<p>The World Majority isn’t a formal alliance, but a shared posture: sovereignty over submission, trade over ideology, multipolarity over hegemony. BRICS, the SCO, and other regional formats are maturing into genuine alternatives to Western-led institutions. The global South is no longer a periphery – it’s a stage.</p>
<p>We are witnessing the consolidation of a new <em>“Big Three”</em>: the US, China, and Russia. India is likely to join them. These are not ideological allies, but civilizational powers, each pursuing its own destiny.</p>
<p>Their relations are transactional, not sentimental. China, for example, has managed a tightrope walk during Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, maintaining a strategic partnership with Moscow while safeguarding access to Western markets.</p>
<p>That’s not betrayal – it’s good diplomacy. In the multipolar world, every player watches their own flank. Russia respects that. And increasingly, it acts the same way.</p>
<p>Moscow’s place in the new world is another issue. Russia has emerged from the past two years more self-reliant, more assertive, and more central to the international system. The war in Ukraine – and the resilience of Russia’s economy, society, and military – has shifted global perceptions.</p>
<p>Russia is no longer treated as a junior partner or regional power. It is now engaged on equal terms with Washington, Beijing, and New Delhi. This shift is visible not only in diplomacy, but in global logistics: new Eurasian trade corridors, expanded BRICS cooperation, and increasing use of national currencies in trade.</p>

            
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            <figcaption><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/613905-new-american-empire-trump-russia/">A new American empire: Trump, Russia, and the end of globalism</a></figcaption>
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<p>Having confirmed its status as one of the world’s leading powers as a result of the Ukraine conflict, Russia is in a position to take its rightful place in this world. We must not indulge in illusions and relax. America’s turn to realism is the result of the success of the Russian army, the resilience of the Russian economy and the unity of the Russian people.</p>
<p>What matters now is to build on this momentum. The US may have pivoted to realism, but it remains a competitor. Russia must continue strengthening its technological sovereignty, deepening ties with Asia, and pursuing a foreign policy anchored in pragmatism, not nostalgia.</p>
<p>Russia must continue to observe the internal battles in the West – especially the US presidential cycle and tensions inside the EU. But it should no longer hinge its policies on Western acceptance or approval. Moreover, Moscow’s relations with Western European countries are becoming increasingly strained against the backdrop of its dialogue with Washington.</p>
<p>Western unity is increasingly conditional, transactional, and riddled with contradictions. France, Germany, and Italy may face political turbulence. Integration may falter. Russia’s engagement should be tactical – eyes open, cards close to the chest.</p>
<p>There is no point waiting for the new world to be declared – it is already here. We have moved beyond theory. Now begins the contest for position. The world has become multipolar not because anyone willed it, but because power itself has shifted. Trump did not cause this alone. But he has – perhaps unwittingly – accelerated the process.</p>
<p>Russia’s job now is not to prove the old order wrong, but to ensure it claims its place in the new one.</p>
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<p><em>This article was first published by the magazine <a href="https://profile.ru/abroad/iz-za-trampa-mir-stal-mnogopolyarnym-ranshe-chem-mozhno-bylo-ozhidat-1679850/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Profile</a></em><em> and was translated and edited by the RT team</em>.</p>

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<p><strong>Ukraine does not need peacekeepers, but soldiers ready to fight, according to Igor Zhovkva</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Western European countries should deploy combat troops to Ukraine ready to fight, rather than to conduct peacekeeping, a senior aide to Vladimir Zelensky told AFP on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Igor Zhovkva made the appeal ahead of a Paris summit of the <em>“coalition of the willing”</em> – countries across Europe and beyond that are ready to provide security guarantees to Ukraine.</p>
<p><em>“We need serious, trained troops... who are ready to fight,”</em> he told AFP.</p>
<p>The official clarified that Kiev is not seeking European forces to engage directly with Russian troops but rather to bolster Ukraine’s defensive capabilities.</p>
<p><em>“We are not talking about soldiers who will fight with Russia... but about those who will defend, who will deter,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>Led by France and the United Kingdom, the coalition’s discussions have included the potential deployment of a 30,000-strong <em>“reassurance”</em> force to secure key cities, ports, and infrastructure, as well as air-policing missions.</p>
<p>Moscow has previously warned that the deployment of NATO military personnel to Ukraine – even with the stated purpose of peacekeeping – would constitute direct involvement of NATO countries in a war against Russia. Moscow has also accused France and the UK of deliberately escalating tensions in Ukraine to undermine efforts to resolve the conflict by the US and Russia.</p>

            
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<p>However, the composition and mandate of such a force remain under debate. While some EU leaders advocate a robust military presence capable of engaging in combat if necessary, others express reservations about escalating the conflict. Germany and Poland, for instance, have shown reluctance, emphasizing the need for defensive support without direct involvement in combat operations.</p>
<p>Washington’s position further complicates the situation. US President Donald Trump’s administration has rejected committing American troops, focusing instead on diplomatic efforts to broker a ceasefire. This has led some EU nations to consider taking greater responsibility for Ukraine’s security, with French President Emmanuel Macron stating that Europe must <em>“step up”</em> its commitments.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Zelensky arrived in Paris for a meeting with Macron ahead of the summit. The two are expected to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine and the potential deployment of European forces. According to Le Monde, Macron will reaffirm France’s commitment to increasing military and financial aid for Kiev.</p>

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title: Eight More Minutes of Lavrov: The Vesti Interview
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<p><span>A short,</span> <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2005662/" rel>specific interview</a> <span>for the Vesti program builds on the 4 February essay he wrote that I translated. Lavrov’s very dedicated to educating people on this topic:</span></p>
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<p><strong>Question:</strong> <span>What are the main geopolitical principles laid down in the decisions of the Yalta Conference?</span></p>
<p><strong>Sergey Lavrov:</strong> <a href="https://idd.mid.ru/exhibition_materials_idd/k-80-letiyu-yaltinskoy-krymskoy-konferentsii-1945-g-/" rel>The principles</a> <span>were simple. Recently, I had the opportunity to answer questions on this topic. I even wrote</span> <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1994357/" rel>an article</a><span>, because they began to say more and more often: "You see what is happening in Europe. It has lost its grip. America is now on its own. In general, it wants to manage everything everywhere, to [their] benefit and not to owe anything to anyone." The Yalta-Potsdam system has exhausted itself. Let's come up with something new.</span></p>
<p><span>The point is not that the system is bad in international law. The international legal embodiment of Yalta and Potsdam is the</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/ru/about-us/un-charter/full-text" rel>UN Charter</a><span>. Who can be against its principles?</span></p>
<p><span>Read it.</span> <em><strong>There you will not find a single line that would cause rejection among normal people.</strong></em> <span>The UN is based on the sovereign equality of states. How could it be otherwise, when everyone is equal?</span> <em><strong>This is what we are taught in Orthodoxy and in other world religions.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>It is necessary to ensure equality and the right of nations to self-determination. The right of nations to self-determination is at the heart of decolonisation, which took place 15 years after the creation of the UN and after the approval of the Charter. When the African peoples finally conclude that the people who govern them (from the capitals of the metropolises) through "inspectors on the ground" do not reflect their interests. Just like the ultra-nationalists who came to power in Ukraine after</span> <a href="https://newzealand.mid.ru/ru/press-centre/news/neudobnaya_pravda_o_gosperevorote_2014_goda_na_ukraine_/" rel>February 2014</a><span>. It was immediately clear that they did not reflect the interests of the population of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya. This is obvious.</span></p>
<p><span>The General Assembly, in one of its</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/ru/documents/decl_conv/declarations/intlaw_principles.shtml" rel>documents</a> <span>(when it specifically analyzed all the principles of the UN Charter),</span> <em><strong>came to a consensus that it is necessary to respect the territorial integrity of any state whose governments respect the right of nations to self-determination, and by virtue of this they represent the entire people living on this territory.</strong></em></p>
<p>It is clear that those who are now leading Ukraine under the "puppeteer" of Western patrons do not represent the interests of a huge part of the population. Crimea and Donbass, Novorossiya–-these are long-closed issues. Given how the results of the referendum in these territories are reflected in our Constitution.</p>
<p><span>There is also the principle of respect for territorial integrity. I have already spoken about it.</span> <em><strong>In order for your territorial integrity to be respected, respect your people</strong></em><span>. Do not forbid him to speak his native language, remember his history, raise his children the way your grandfathers, great-grandfathers, fathers and mothers raised you.</span> <em><strong><span>This is also about the UN</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/ru/about-us/un-charter/full-text" rel>Charter</a><span>. It says that it is necessary to respect the rights of any person, regardless of race, gender, language or religion.</span></strong></em></p>
<p><span>The canonical religion and language in Ukraine are prohibited for Russian speakers. The West with the slogan "human rights" is "rushing" around the world, raising this banner for any reason, blaming Venezuela, Iran, us, China, who knows who.</span> <em><strong>In any bilateral and multilateral process, the West always says that it is a beacon of human rights, the rule of law.</strong></em></p>
<p>Hinting at President Donald Trump's coming to power in the United States, Ms von der Leyen said that European values (democracy, human rights and the rule of law) are under "enormous threat." This is said by a woman who categorically does not want to see laws on the extermination of everything Russian (language, media, culture, banning the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a sister church for the Russian Orthodox Church), which were adopted by the Nazi regime of Vladimir Zelensky (and before him Petr Poroshenko).</p>
<p><em><strong>Such hypocrisy on the part of the West means only one thing: they have not reconciled themselves to the fact that a different time has come, that multipolarity has already come.</strong></em> <span>Everyone should be equal and respect each other, compete fairly. After all, the West tried to persuade us when the Soviet Union disappeared, that now a new era has come, "the end of history." We are all now based on the same principles: globalization, fair competition, the presumption of innocence. Everything has been discarded and thrown away.</span></p>
<p>In the latest statements by the same Ursula von der Leyen and other leaders of the European Union (most leaders, I do not want to offend everyone) it is simply "obvious" that no matter what, "this is how we interpret democracy." In Ukraine, it is possible to ban the Russian language. Try to ban French in Switzerland or English in Ireland (now they are "butting heads" with the Irish there). If English is banned in Ireland, look at what the "cry to the heavens" will be. There are many similar examples. It was decided that in Romania C. George Georgescu will not run for president, although the country's Constitutional Court cleared him of all suspicions. And the Central Election Commission said: "We don't care about the Constitutional Court, the President ordered us not to let 'this' in, because he does not 'scold' Vladimir Putin and Russia.</p>
<p><em><strong>Therefore, the "genetic" property of the West to constantly feel like a hegemon continues to undermine the foundations of the Yalta-Potsdam system. This is a very fair system</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Realizing that we are going to talk about the 80th anniversary, I took a quote from F. Roosevelt, the then American president, who spoke in the US Congress in March 1945 following the Yalta Conference. He said:</span> <em><strong>"The structure of universal peace cannot be created by one person, one party or one country. There cannot be an American, British, Russian, French, Chinese world. There can be no world of large countries or small countries. There must be a peace that is based on the cooperation of all mankind."</strong></em> <span>This is also a statement of the essence of the principles of the UN</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/ru/about-us/un-charter/full-text" rel>Charter</a><span>, which the current leaders of the European Union have forgotten. [My Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p>The Outlaw US Empire also needs to become enlightened for it remains the West’s vanguard. Just weeks after FDR provided those outstanding words he passed away and was replaced by a person who didn’t believe in those words and who gathered around him people having similar opinions. And thus, when the UN Charter came into legal relevance on 24 October 1945, Truman and the USA were already deeply in violation along with the UK and France. The USSR was also grappling with many aspects of the Charter since it now occupied the enemy nations that tried to eliminate it during WW2 and was trying to arrange a policy to deal with that reality. The three Western nations just went about their usual colonial. hegemonic ways and have never really ceased. The UN/Yalta/Potsdam system isn’t at fault here; it’s the nations that determined they weren’t going to obey the new system that have made it appear to be dysfunctional. And then there was one that was created that is also a gross violator of the Charter and every tenet of civilized human behavior. Does the UN need reforming? Yes, and Lavrov is the first to admit and detail its shortcomings which are mostly administrative and bureaucratic. Yes, I do find it very difficult to understand how Russia can negotiate with the Outlaw US Empire when the Americans are abetting Genocide and committing further acts of Aggressive War.</p>
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<p><strong>The Ukraine conflict is giving Warsaw time to rebuild its military capacity, a top Polish official has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Poland has ammunition to hold the line for up to two weeks in the event of war, until allied forces arrive, the head of the country’s National Security Bureau has said.</p>
<p>Dariusz Lukowski told local broadcaster Polsat News on Wednesday that Poland has been increasing arms production to build sufficient capacity to resist a potential Russian attack. The NATO member shares a 144-mile border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave.</p>
<p>Moscow has consistently denied having aggressive intentions toward NATO countries and insists that the Ukraine conflict was triggered by the military bloc’s expansion toward Russia’s borders.</p>
<p>Asked whether Poland’s reserves might only last for five days of war, Lukowski said that was <em>“possible in many areas and types of ammunition,”</em> though not across all categories of munitions.</p>
<p><em>“I believe that depending on how the fighting unfolds, we could maintain defensive operations for a week or two with the current level of stockpiles,”</em> he said.</p>

            
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<p>According to Lukowski, the situation is most critical when it comes to ammunition for older weapons systems, for which production has already ceased.</p>
<p>Lukowski said Poland has been draining its stockpiles to supply weapons to Ukraine, but emphasized <em>“this is being done very cautiously,”</em> and added that <em>“at this stage, we are replenishing those stockpiles.”</em></p>
<p>He also said that as long as the Ukraine conflict continues, <em>“we are gaining time to rebuild our [military] potential – the capacity to produce and replenish those stockpiles.”</em> Poland is among several NATO members who argue that Russia poses a threat.</p>
<p>Warsaw has launched a $2.6 billion ‘Eastern Shield’ project to beef up its eastern border, with officials indicating that anti-personnel landmines could play a key role.</p>
<p>Moscow has repeatedly ridiculed Western claims that it intends to attack NATO or EU states, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed such statements as <em>“nonsense.”</em> Putin has also suggested that the supposed threat of a Russian attack is being used by European politicians to scare their citizens to extract more resources from them and justify increased military spending.</p>
<p>Russian officials have also blasted the EU’s increasing military build up as reckless and escalatory. The Kremlin says the bloc’s confrontational rhetoric and plans could hamper the chances of finding a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict.</p>

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<p><strong>The right-wing party is only 3.5% behind the country’s top conservative CDU/CSU alliance, a new INSA poll shows</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party enjoys record high public support, according to polls conducted by the Institute for New Social Answers (INSA).</p>
<p>The latest poll, released by INSA on Tuesday, indicated 23.5% support for the party, while the top conservative alliance, between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), polled at 27%. The figure constituted a 1.5% drop since the CDU/CSU achieved victory in Germany’s February 23 general election.</p>
<p><em>“This is the highest value ever measured for the AfD in the INSA opinion trend,”</em> the head of INSA, Hermann Binkert, told Bild daily.</p>
<p>The AfD has gained nearly three points in polls since the election and is currently just 3.5% behind the CDU/CSU alliance. The Christian Democrats alone polled at 21%, and their Bavarian sister party fetched a further 7% for the alliance, Binkert noted. </p>
<p>The INSA poll sampled the opinions of some 2,004 respondents, representing various social groups throughout Germany. </p>

            
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<p>According to the pollster’s estimates, the party’s public support could reach as high as 30.5%. Other parties, however, still maintain higher estimated ceilings, with the CDU/CSU theoretically able to reach up to 42%, while the Social Democratic Party (SPD) could get up to 39.5%, according to INSA’s analysts. </p>
<p>The CDU/CSU emerged as the strongest force in last month’s parliamentary election with 28.5% of the vote, while failing to get an absolute majority. The party is currently in coalition talks with the SPD, which suffered a crushing defeat during the election, garnering a record-low 16.4%. Should the two forces reach a coalition, however, they would hold 328 seats in the Bundestag, comfortably surpassing the 316-seat mark to get a majority. </p>
<p>The AfD solidly secured second place during the election, receiving 20.8% of the vote – a twofold rise from the 10.4% they got in 2021. Despite the result, the party remains ostracized by the other major political forces, which refuse to cooperate with it, and is commonly labeled ‘far-right’ by officials and media alike. </p>

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<p><strong>Russian Senator Grigory Karasin gave some details of the conversation with his American counterparts in Riyadh</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Russian and American delegations spent nearly 12 hours in closed-door expert-level talks in Riyadh on Monday, in what Russian Senator Grigory Karasin has described as an <em>“open”</em> and <em>“detailed”</em> exchange of views that marked a rare moment of sustained direct engagement between the two powers.</p>
<p>The high-level consultation, ordered by Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump following their recent discussion, aimed to lay groundwork for future negotiations across a broad range of geopolitical and security issues, including the Black Sea Initiative and energy infrastructure security.</p>
<p>Karasin, who chairs the Federation Council’s Committee on International Affairs, shared insights into the unusually long and intensive session, which ran from morning until late evening with only brief pauses. Speaking after the talks, he emphasized the professionalism of the atmosphere and the effort made by both sides to understand one another’s positions.</p>
<p><strong>Q: <em>Mr Karasin, what was the atmosphere like during the talks in Riyadh?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Grigory Karasin:</strong> We held them from the morning until eleven o’clock at night, with a few breaks. It was intense work and the atmosphere was normal from a professional point of view, quite acceptable for both delegations and demanding in terms of the presentation of the material and the relevance of the issues discussed. I would like to note that the discussion was open, and the issues raised by each side were discussed in sufficient detail.</p>
<p><strong>Q: <em>How difficult or easy was it to get through to the American representatives?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Grigory Karasin: </strong>First of all, we must not forget that this was a meeting of experts that took place after the conversation between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. And it was the leaders of Russia and the United States who ordered it to be held. In the course of the discussions, the necessary material was worked out, as well as proposals that would help move forward the negotiation process led by the leaders of the two states.</p>

            
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<p><strong>Q:</strong><em><strong> The negotiations lasted almost 12 hours. What does this indicate? That the discussion was difficult or that the range of issues discussed was wide?</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Grigory Karasin: </strong>The range of issues was indeed quite wide. But that is not the point – it is simply that the positions of the parties were outlined in some detail. For example, the position of the Russian Federation on the Black Sea Initiative, on other issues. We wanted our negotiating partners to understand our thinking, our approaches, our philosophy, if you like. And in this case we did not waste any time.</p>
<p><strong>Q:</strong><em><strong> Do you think the Americans were open to understanding Russian approaches?</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Grigory Karasin:</strong> I would like to think so, they listened to us very attentively. I can say that by the end of a full day of negotiations, both sides had gotten used to each other and began to speak more directly, without ambiguity.</p>
<p><strong>Q:</strong><em><strong> Will the format of expert group meetings continue in the Russian-American negotiations?</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Grigory Karasin: </strong>Our group will continue to work on the instructions of the Russian president. If it is deemed necessary to discuss additional issues with our American partners, new meetings are of course possible. But we have no plans for this as of now.</p>
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<p><em>This interview was first published by Russia’s <a href="https://www.pnp.ru/politics/dvenadcat-chasov-dialoga-pochemu-konsultacii-rossii-i-ssha-byli-takimi-dolgimi.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Parliamentary newspaper</a>, and was translated and edited by the RT team.</em></p>

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<p>One year ago six maintenance engineers were killed when a cargo ship crashed into a bridge in the middle of the night.</p>
<p>The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge was a devastating blow to a key trade hub for the U.S. as it recovered from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
<p>The incident exposed questions about the vulnerability of bridges to the latest containerships that have grown exponentially in size and weight. CGTN's Owen Fairclough reports.</p>
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<p>The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, will stand trial alongside seven co-defendants accused of attempting a coup d'état -- among other charges. The decision by a five-judge panel of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday, March 26, was unanimous. CGTN's Paulo Cabral reports.</p>
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<p>U.S. President Donald Trump is promising new tariffs that threaten to deliver a crushing blow to Venezuela's already fragile economy, with far-reaching implications for the global oil trade. CGTN’s correspondent Nitza Soledad Perez has details.</p>
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title: Encouraging Developments in Ukraine
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title: No Reason to Attack No-Nuke Iran
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title: Code Pink is Funded by… China?
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title: Working on Peace Despite Zelensky and Europe
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<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans to impose 25-percent tariffs on all imported automobiles, with the measures set to take effect on April 2.</p>
<p>"What we're going to be doing is a 25 percent tariff for all cars that are not made in the United States," Trump said in the White House Oval Office. "We start off with a 2.5-percent base, which is what we're at, and go to 25 percent."</p>
<p>"We're signing (an executive order) today. It goes into effect April 2. We start collecting on April 3," Trump said.</p>
<p>The U.S. president argued that the tariffs would encourage more production to relocate to the United States, generate new revenue for the government, and help reduce the national debt.</p>
<p>Economists, however, have warned that tariffs would push up car prices, and hurt consumers, who already face elevated prices.</p>
<p>Mexico's Monex Financial Group warned on Wednesday that the tariff could raise production costs for Mexico and Canada, adding pressure to an already strained global auto industry.</p>
<p>In a sectoral analysis, Monex said recent U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, imposed on March 12, are already disrupting trade flows and supply chains.</p>
<p>Mexico and Canada together accounted for nearly 40 percent of U.S. steel imports in 2023, and also supply about 29 percent of America's imported vehicles, Monex noted.</p>
<p>An additional 25-percent auto tariff would significantly impact pricing and availability. For Mexico, the tariffs could hit exports worth 4.7 percent of its total trade and over 1.5 percent of its GDP, according to the report.</p>
<p>Industry estimates suggest the move could add up to $3,000 to the average cost of a car in the United States, potentially reducing 2025 sales.</p>
<p>Only vehicles meeting the 75-percent regional content rule under the USMCA trade agreement would be exempt.</p>
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<p><strong>EU warns tariffs hurt consumers</strong></p>
<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday night warned that tariffs "are bad for businesses, worse for consumers" in both the United States and the European Union.</p>
<p>"The automotive industry is a driver of innovation, competitiveness and high-quality jobs, with deeply integrated supply chains on both sides of the Atlantic," von der Leyen said in a statement.</p>
<p>"We will now assess this announcement, together with other measures the U.S. is envisaging in the coming days," she said, noting the bloc would continue to seek negotiated solutions while protecting its economic interests.</p>
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<p><strong>Canada: Looking for possible retaliation</strong></p>
<p>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday said his government will be looking at its options for retaliation against the U.S. auto tariffs, local media reported.</p>
<p>While campaigning ahead of upcoming elections, the Liberal leader said the tariffs are "a direct attack" against Canadian workers, regardless of how they are applied, according to CBC News.</p>
<p>"We have anticipated this possibility," he was quoted as saying. "We will take the steps that are in the interests of Canadian workers, of Canada. We're going to stand up for Canada. We're going to be united."</p>
<p>Previously Carney announced a "strategic response fund" which is valued at 2 billion Canadian dollars ($1.4 billion) to bolster the country's auto industry.</p>
<p>Carney said the money would be used to boost the auto sector's competitiveness, protect manufacturing jobs, help workers gain expertise and build "a fortified Canadian supply chain."</p>
<p>Auto parts often cross the border multiple times, and the added costs of tariffs and counter-tariffs would quickly snowball.</p>
<p>Carney called that a "huge vulnerability" and promised to build an "all-in-Canada" manufacturing network to build more car parts domestically, limiting how often they cross the border during production.</p>
<p>"In the new world, that will be an advantage," he was quoted as saying. "That will help insulate us from President Trump's trade threats and it will grow the economy."</p>
<p>If elected on April 28, Carney said his government would also prioritize and procure Canadian-built vehicles, CBC News reported.</p>
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<p><strong>UK trade body: U.S. tariffs disappointing</strong></p>
<p>A leading trade association for the British automotive industry said on Wednesday night that Trump's plan to impose new tariffs on imported cars is disappointing.</p>
<p>The announcement "is not surprising but, nevertheless, disappointing if, as seems likely, additional tariffs are to apply to UK-made cars," Mike Hawes, chief executive officer of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), said in a statement.</p>
<p>Noting that the U.S. and British auto industries have a long-standing and productive relationship, Hawes called on both sides to "come together immediately and strike a deal that works for all."</p>
<p>"Rather than imposing additional tariffs, we should explore ways in which opportunities for both British and American manufacturers can be created as part of a mutually beneficial relationship, benefitting consumers and creating jobs and growth across the Atlantic," he said.</p>
<p>The United States is the second-largest market for British carmakers, according to the SMMT.</p>
<p><strong>Japan: All options on table against U.S. tariffs</strong></p>
<p>Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday that Japan will consider an appropriate response against U.S. tariffs on imported automobiles, vowing that all options are on the table.</p>
<p>"We are strongly urging the U.S. not to apply the 25-percent tariff to Japan," Ishiba said.</p>
<p>Citing Japan's contributions to the U.S. economy through investment and job creation, Ishiba questioned the fairness of a uniform tariff increase for all countries.</p>
<p>(With input from Xinhua)</p>
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<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans to impose 25-percent tariffs on all imported automobiles, with the measures set to take effect on April 2.</p>
<p>"What we're going to be doing is a 25 percent tariff for all cars that are not made in the United States," Trump said in the White House Oval Office. "We start off with a 2.5-percent base, which is what we're at, and go to 25 percent."</p>
<p>"We're signing (an executive order) today. It goes into effect April 2. We start collecting on April 3," Trump said.</p>
<p>The U.S. president argued that the tariffs would encourage more production to relocate to the United States, generate new revenue for the government, and help reduce the national debt.</p>
<p>Economists, however, have warned that tariffs would push up car prices, and hurt consumers, who already face elevated prices.</p>
<p>Mexico's Monex Financial Group warned on Wednesday that the tariff could raise production costs for Mexico and Canada, adding pressure to an already strained global auto industry.</p>
<p>In a sectoral analysis, Monex said recent U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, imposed on March 12, are already disrupting trade flows and supply chains.</p>
<p>Mexico and Canada together accounted for nearly 40 percent of U.S. steel imports in 2023, and also supply about 29 percent of America's imported vehicles, Monex noted.</p>
<p>An additional 25-percent auto tariff would significantly impact pricing and availability. For Mexico, the tariffs could hit exports worth 4.7 percent of its total trade and over 1.5 percent of its GDP, according to the report.</p>
<p>Industry estimates suggest the move could add up to $3,000 to the average cost of a car in the United States, potentially reducing 2025 sales.</p>
<p>Only vehicles meeting the 75-percent regional content rule under the USMCA trade agreement would be exempt.</p>
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<p><strong>EU warns tariffs hurt consumers</strong></p>
<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday night warned that tariffs "are bad for businesses, worse for consumers" in both the United States and the European Union.</p>
<p>"The automotive industry is a driver of innovation, competitiveness and high-quality jobs, with deeply integrated supply chains on both sides of the Atlantic," von der Leyen said in a statement.</p>
<p>"We will now assess this announcement, together with other measures the U.S. is envisaging in the coming days," she said, noting the bloc would continue to seek negotiated solutions while protecting its economic interests.</p>
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<p><strong>Canada: Looking for possible retaliation</strong></p>
<p>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday said his government will be looking at its options for retaliation against the U.S. auto tariffs, local media reported.</p>
<p>While campaigning ahead of upcoming elections, the Liberal leader said the tariffs are "a direct attack" against Canadian workers, regardless of how they are applied, according to CBC News.</p>
<p>"We have anticipated this possibility," he was quoted as saying. "We will take the steps that are in the interests of Canadian workers, of Canada. We're going to stand up for Canada. We're going to be united."</p>
<p>Previously Carney announced a "strategic response fund" which is valued at 2 billion Canadian dollars ($1.4 billion) to bolster the country's auto industry.</p>
<p>Carney said the money would be used to boost the auto sector's competitiveness, protect manufacturing jobs, help workers gain expertise and build "a fortified Canadian supply chain."</p>
<p>Auto parts often cross the border multiple times, and the added costs of tariffs and counter-tariffs would quickly snowball.</p>
<p>Carney called that a "huge vulnerability" and promised to build an "all-in-Canada" manufacturing network to build more car parts domestically, limiting how often they cross the border during production.</p>
<p>"In the new world, that will be an advantage," he was quoted as saying. "That will help insulate us from President Trump's trade threats and it will grow the economy."</p>
<p>If elected on April 28, Carney said his government would also prioritize and procure Canadian-built vehicles, CBC News reported.</p>
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<p><strong>UK trade body: U.S. tariffs disappointing</strong></p>
<p>A leading trade association for the British automotive industry said on Wednesday night that Trump's plan to impose new tariffs on imported cars is disappointing.</p>
<p>The announcement "is not surprising but, nevertheless, disappointing if, as seems likely, additional tariffs are to apply to UK-made cars," Mike Hawes, chief executive officer of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), said in a statement.</p>
<p>Noting that the U.S. and British auto industries have a long-standing and productive relationship, Hawes called on both sides to "come together immediately and strike a deal that works for all."</p>
<p>"Rather than imposing additional tariffs, we should explore ways in which opportunities for both British and American manufacturers can be created as part of a mutually beneficial relationship, benefitting consumers and creating jobs and growth across the Atlantic," he said.</p>
<p>The United States is the second-largest market for British carmakers, according to the SMMT.</p>
<p><strong>Japan: All options on table against U.S. tariffs</strong></p>
<p>Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday that Japan will consider an appropriate response against U.S. tariffs on imported automobiles, vowing that all options are on the table.</p>
<p>"We are strongly urging the U.S. not to apply the 25-percent tariff to Japan," Ishiba said.</p>
<p>Citing Japan's contributions to the U.S. economy through investment and job creation, Ishiba questioned the fairness of a uniform tariff increase for all countries.</p>
<p>(With input from Xinhua)</p>
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<p>Hamas spokesperson Abdul Latif al-Qanou has been killed in an Israeli air strike on northern Gaza, according to media report on Thursday.</p>
<p>al-Qanou was killed when his tent was targeted in Jabalia, Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV said. The same strike wounded several people, while separate attacks killed at least six in Gaza City and one in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, medical sources said.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, the Israeli army killed Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas' political office, and Salah al-Bardawil, another senior leader.</p>
<p>Both Barhoum and al-Bardawil were members of the 20-member Hamas decision-making body, the political office, 11 of whom have been killed since the start of the conflict in late 2023, according to Hamas sources.</p>
<p>Last week, Israel ended a two-month-old ceasefire by resuming bombing and ground operations, increasing pressure on Hamas to free the remaining hostages in its captivity.</p>
<p>At least 830 people, over half of them women and children, have been killed since Israel resumed major military strikes in Gaza on March 18, according to Gaza's health ministry.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered strikes because Hamas had rejected proposals to secure a ceasefire extension. He repeated threats on Wednesday to seize territory in Gaza if Hamas failed to release the remaining hostages it still holds.</p>
<p>(With input from agencies)</p>
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<p>Hamas spokesperson Abdul Latif al-Qanou has been killed in an Israeli air strike on northern Gaza, according to media report on Thursday.</p>
<p>al-Qanou was killed when his tent was targeted in Jabalia, Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV said. The same strike wounded several people, while separate attacks killed at least six in Gaza City and one in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, medical sources said.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, the Israeli army killed Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas' political office, and Salah al-Bardawil, another senior leader.</p>
<p>Both Barhoum and al-Bardawil were members of the 20-member Hamas decision-making body, the political office, 11 of whom have been killed since the start of the conflict in late 2023, according to Hamas sources.</p>
<p>Last week, Israel ended a two-month-old ceasefire by resuming bombing and ground operations, increasing pressure on Hamas to free the remaining hostages in its captivity.</p>
<p>At least 830 people, over half of them women and children, have been killed since Israel resumed major military strikes in Gaza on March 18, according to Gaza's health ministry.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered strikes because Hamas had rejected proposals to secure a ceasefire extension. He repeated threats on Wednesday to seize territory in Gaza if Hamas failed to release the remaining hostages it still holds.</p>
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<p><strong><span>National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Vice President J.D. Vance celebrated news <span>that</span> a residential building in Yemen collapsed following a U.S. strike.</span></strong></p>
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<p><span><strong>By </strong><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/tag/julia-conley/"><span><strong>Julia Conley</strong></span><br></a><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/michael-waltz-trump"><em>Common Dreams</em></a></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><strong>A</strong></span>long with raising alarm about a massive national security breach — and questions about the competence of top officials in the Trump administration who “inadvertently” added a journalist to a Signal group chat about plans to bomb targets in Yemen — the incident that</span> <em><span>Atlantic</span></em> <span>reporter Jeffrey Goldberg</span> <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-yemen"><span>publicized</span></a> <span>this week included an apparent “confession” of at least one alleged war crime.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Goldberg on Wednesday released the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/war-plans-signal-hegseth">entirety</a> of the group chat that was held via the commercial messaging app Signal, following denials by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that any classified information was transmitted in the discussion.</span></span></p>
<p><span>In addition to making clear the detailed plans for attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen using F-18s and drones, the conversation included a brief message from National Security Adviser Michael Waltz in which he appeared to casually describe a strike on a civilian target in Sanaa.</span></p>
<p><span>Waltz first praised Hegseth, Central Command leader Gen. Michael Kurilla, and the intelligence community for an “amazing job,” saying a “building collapsed” after U.S. intelligence identified a Houthi leader who was targeted for a strike.</span></p>
<p><span>He then clarified his message for Vice President J.D. Vance: “Their first target — their top missile guy — we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” wrote Waltz.</span></p>
<p><span>The vice president replied, “Excellent.”</span></p>
<p><span><span>The messages Goldberg disclosed to the public on Monday were sent on March 14-15 after he received a connection request from “Michael Waltz” via the Signal app on March 11. The conversation was about the Trump administration’s</span> <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-bombs-yemen"><span>March 15 bombing</span></a> <span>of Yemen, which was carried out after the Houthis renewed a blockade on Israeli ships.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>At least</span> <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/u-s-airstrikes-yemen"><span>31 civilians</span></a> <span>were killed in the bombing campaign, and the Houthi media office reported at the time that the U.S. had struck a “residential neighborhood” in Sanaa.</span></span></p>
<p><span>On Wednesday, journalist and author Kim Zetter said Waltz’s message suggested top administration officials knew U.S. forces had “targeted [a] residential building,” despite President Donald Trump’s claims to the contrary.</span></p>
<p><span><span>Dylan Williams, vice president for government affairs at the Center for International Policy,</span> <a href="https://x.com/dylanotes/status/1904885554816090264"><span>said</span></a> <span>the messages contain “prima facie evidence of at least one war crime applauded by the people who conspired to commit it.”</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Matt Duss, executive vice president of the organization,</span> <a href="https://x.com/mattduss/status/1904901111581925581"><span>recalled</span></a> <span>the</span> <a href="https://x.com/LaraFriedmanDC/status/1840082575890759888"><span>warning</span></a> <span>of Foundation for Middle East Peace president Lara Friedman in September 2024 regarding the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s “rules of war” in Gaza — where “every human being” has been defined “as a legitimate military target — a terrorist, a terrorist supporter or sympathizer, or a “’human shield’ … allowing the annihilation of huge numbers of civilians and destruction of entire cities.”</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>“The costs of these new rules of war will be paid with the blood of civilians worldwide for generations to come, and the U.S. responsibility for enabling, defending, and normalizing these new rules—and their horrific, dehumanizing consequences—will not be forgotten,”</span> <a href="https://x.com/LaraFriedmanDC/status/1840082575890759888"><span>said</span></a> <span>Friedman at the time.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Duss</span> <a href="https://x.com/mattduss/status/1904881366598107404"><span>said</span></a> <span>Wednesday that “rules of engagement that permit destroying an entire civilian apartment building to kill one alleged terrorist is part of [former President] Joe Biden’s legacy.”</span></span></p>
<p><span>“It’s still a war crime though,” he added, “and Waltz’s text is a confession.”</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.</strong></span></p>
<p><span><em>This article is from <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/">Common Dreams</a>.</em></span></p>
<p><span><em>Views expressed in this article and may or may not reflect those of </em><strong>Consortium News.</strong></span></p>

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<p><strong>The search for the “missing” soldiers is still ongoing after their armored vehicle was found “submerged” in Lithuania, according to the US Army</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="111" data-end="325"><strong data-start="111" data-end="170"></strong>Four US Army soldiers mysteriously disappeared during a training exercise in Lithuania near the Belarusian border on Tuesday. The Pentagon has yet to confirm their fate, after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte triggered confusion by expressing condolences to their families.</p>
<p data-start="603" data-end="892">The soldiers, from the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, were conducting <em>“scheduled tactical training”</em> at the General Silvestras Zukauskas training ground in Pabrade, Lithuania when they went missing, prompting a large-scale search and rescue operation.</p>
<p data-start="894" data-end="1105"><em>“The M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle the four missing US Soldiers were operating during a training exercise has been located in Lithuania,”</em> US Army Europe and Africa <a href="https://www.europeafrica.army.mil/ArticleViewPressRelease/Article/4136092/press-release-vehicle-of-missing-us-soldiers-in-lithuania-found/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> in its latest update on Wednesday.</p>
<p data-start="1107" data-end="1395">The armored vehicle <em>“was discovered submerged in a body of water in a training area,”</em> but <em>“search efforts for the soldiers continue,”</em> the US military added. The Lithuanian Armed Forces also stated that, at present, <em>“there is no evidence or information confirming the death of the troops.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="1397" data-end="1741">Earlier on Wednesday, Rutte appeared to confirm the US servicemen were dead, saying, <em>“This is really terrible news and our thoughts are with the families and loved ones.”</em> However, NATO spokeswoman Allison Hart later clarified that the secretary-general was merely <em>“referring to emerging news reports”</em> and <em>“was not confirming the fate of the missing.”</em></p>
<p data-start="1743" data-end="1826"><em>“We regret any confusion about remarks [Rutte] delivered on this today,”</em> she added.</p>
<p data-start="1828" data-end="2159">The United States maintains a force of around 1,000 personnel in Lithuania; Washington increased deployments across the Baltics and other European NATO members following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. The US-led military bloc has also intensified exercises near the borders with Russia and its ally Belarus.</p>

            
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<p data-start="2161" data-end="2441">Last week, the militaries of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland called on their governments to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty –<strong> </strong>an international agreement that bans the use of anti-personnel landmines –<strong> </strong>arguing that an increased military threat from Russia necessitates the move.</p>
<p data-start="2161" data-end="2441">Western countries <em>“can’t wait”</em> to drag Belarus into their <em>“military squabbles,”</em> Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/600311-west-drag-belarus-conflict-lukashenko/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warned</a> last year, as Minsk estimated there are 20,000 NATO soldiers stationed <em>“near”</em> the country’s borders.</p>
<p data-start="2443" data-end="2889">Moscow has repeatedly dismissed Western claims that it intends to attack NATO or EU states, with Russian President Vladimir Putin calling such statements <em>“nonsense.”</em></p>
<p data-start="2443" data-end="2889">He has argued that the alleged <em>“Russian threat”</em> is being used by European politicians to scare citizens and justify increased military spending. Moscow officials have also criticized the EU’s latest militarization efforts as reckless and escalatory.</p>

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<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R), also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Nauruan Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Lionel Aingimea in Beijing, China, March 26, 2025. /Chinese Foreign Ministry</p>
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<p>China is willing to deepen cooperation with Nauru in various fields, including agriculture and fisheries, sports, marine development, climate change response and capacity building, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while meeting with Nauruan Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Lionel Aingimea, who came to China for the opening ceremony of the Nauru Embassy in China.</p>
<p>Wang noted that since the <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-01-24/China-Nauru-resume-ties-One-China-principle-represents-global-trend-1qCEwo8mp3i/p.html">resumption</a> of diplomatic relations between China and Nauru, both sides have fostered mutual understanding and support, while the pragmatic cooperation has developed comprehensively, bringing tangible benefits to the people of Nauru.</p>
<p>China appreciates Nauru's firm adherence to the one-China policy and believes that Nauru will continue to support China in safeguarding its sovereignty and territorial integrity, thus consolidating the political foundation of bilateral relations, Wang said.</p>
<p>China congratulates Nauru on the upcoming official opening of its embassy in China, and is willing to provide conveniences and assistance for the embassy's operation, he said.</p>
<p>Aingimea said that Nauru sincerely thanks China for the valuable assistance provided in infrastructure construction and socio-economic development, which helps improve people's livelihood and sustainable development of Nauru.</p>
<p>Nauru will not waver in its stance of adhering to the one-China principle, and looks forward to expanding bilateral cooperation in various fields and pushing bilateral relations to a new level, Aingimea added.</p>
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<p>Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang met with foreign leaders who visited China to attend the ongoing Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2025 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Ding, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, had a meeting with Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone. Ding said China is willing to work with Laos in supporting each other's core interests and advancing practical cooperation across various fields.</p>
<p>For his part, Sonexay reaffirmed that Laos would make continuous efforts to make new progress in developing Laos-China community with a shared future.</p>
<p>In a meeting with Aren B. Palik, vice president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Ding called for expanding mutual collaboration in trade, investment, infrastructure and marine economy, while jointly addressing climate challenges.</p>
<p>Palik reiterated FSM side's adherence to the one-China principle and its firm support for China's positions on the Taiwan question as well as affairs concerning Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea.</p>
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<p>Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang (R) meets with Aren B. Palik, vice president of the Federated States of Micronesia, in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, March 26, 2025. /Xinhua</p>
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<p>On China-Mongolia relations, Ding said to Mongolia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development Luvsannyam Gantumu that the enduring friendly relations between the two neighboring countries align with the fundamental interests of both peoples.</p>
<p>Gantumu expressed willingness to deepen cooperation with China in connectivity, energy resources, and high-tech sectors.</p>
<p>In a meeting with Kazakhstan's First Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar, Ding called for joint efforts to translate the outcomes of the recent 12th Meeting of the China-Kazakhstan Cooperation Committee into real actions.</p>
<p>Sklyar said Kazakhstan is ready to work closely with China to elevate bilateral ties to a new high.</p>
<p>This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of China-Indonesia diplomatic relations. While speaking with Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Regional Infrastructure and Development Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, Ding said the two sides should enhance strategic synergy and strive for new breakthroughs in practical cooperation.</p>
<p>Agus said Indonesia is committed to deepening and expanding cooperation with China in various sectors and further advancing the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.</p>
<p>When meeting with Portugal's Minister of State and Foreign Affairs Paulo Rangel, Ding said China is dedicated to mutual respect and trust with Portugal and is ready to expand mutually beneficial cooperation and deepen opening up and exchanges between the two sides.</p>
<p>Rangel said Portugal thinks highly of Macao's prosperity and steady development since it returned to China, pledging efforts to further deepen practical cooperation with China.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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<p>China firmly opposes the United States' move to add dozens of Chinese entities to its export-control "entity list," a Ministry of Commerce spokesperson said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The U.S. move aims to suppress and restrict foreign entities, depriving other countries of their development rights, the spokesperson said, noting that it will severely harm the legitimate rights of related entities and undermine the stability and security of the global supply chain.</p>
<p>The move is detrimental to solving problems through dialogue and cooperation, and China urges the United States to end its wrongdoing immediately, the spokesperson said, adding that the country will take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese entities.</p>
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Today, President Donald J. Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/adjusting-imports-of-automobiles-and-autombile-parts-into-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">imposed</a> a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles imported into the United States — a continuation of President Trump’s Made in America renaissance.</p>
<p>The move was <a href="https://x.com/UAW/status/1905034035081986053" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">immediately hailed</a> by the United Auto Workers — one of the country’s largest labor unions — as a “victory for autoworkers.”</p>
<p>“We applaud the Trump administration for stepping up to end the free trade disaster that has devastated working class communities for decades. Ending the race to the bottom in the auto industry starts with fixing our broken trade deals, and the Trump administration has made history with today’s actions. … The UAW and the working class in general couldn’t care less about party politics; working people expect leaders to work together to deliver results. The UAW has been clear: we will work with any politician, regardless of party, who is willing to reverse decades of working-class people going backwards in the most profitable times in our nation’s history. These tariffs are a major step in the right direction for autoworkers and blue-collar communities across the country, and it is now on the automakers, from the Big Three to Volkswagen and beyond, to bring back good union jobs to the U.S.”</p>
<p><a href="https://uaw.org/tariffs-mark-beginning-of-victory-for-autoworkers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Read the UAW’s full statement here.</strong></a></p>


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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*31TW_s9oDcWT6F49ts_IUA.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78YdcmZ_TkI"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F78YdcmZ_TkI%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D78YdcmZ_TkI&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F78YdcmZ_TkI%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/6d459f1cb7e22ee87029684cbcc97562/href">https://medium.com/media/6d459f1cb7e22ee87029684cbcc97562/href</a></iframe><p>The Atlantic has <a href="https://archive.is/vnPIk">published the full contents</a> of a Signal chat from earlier this month featuring top Trump administration officials discussing the bombing campaign the president was about to begin in Yemen.</p><p>There’s a whole scandal in mainstream US politics right now about the Trump team’s carelessness in letting the conversation become public. The story goes that Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz accidentally included in the chat Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who then swiftly exited instead of staying and doing some actual journalism by observing what these warmongering swamp monsters were up to. Goldberg did this because he is not actually a journalist, he is one of the most virulent war propagandists working in US media today, having famously <a href="https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/jeffrey-goldberg/">worked to manufacture consent</a> for the invasion of Iraq by publishing false narratives linking Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda. He is also a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg#Early_life_and_education">former IDF prison guard</a>.</p><p>What’s getting a lot less discussion in mainstream political discourse is the depraved nature of the bombing itself, and the Trump team’s exuberance about murdering civilians seen in the brief exchange of messages. Waltz describes to the group how US forces waited until a target entered an apartment building and then flattened it with an airstrike, eliciting digital applause from the rest of the administration.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/DecampDave/status/1904899849591398755&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/c7d9576292efbeb3b68bb9243bef81c9/href">https://medium.com/media/c7d9576292efbeb3b68bb9243bef81c9/href</a></iframe><p>“The first target — their top missile guy — we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building, and it’s now collapsed,” Waltz said.</p><p>“Excellent,” Vice President JD Vance responded.</p><p>“Great job all,” said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.</p><p>“Kudos to all — most particularly those in theater and CENTCOM! Really Great. God bless,” said White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.</p><p>“Great work and effects!” replied intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard.</p><p>Waltz and Trump’s middle east envoy Steve Witkoff are seen posting numerous celebratory emojis.</p><p>Imagine how fucked up you have to be inside to react this way to the bombing of an apartment building full of civilians. How far gone you have to be as a human being. These are the kinds of freaks who rule our world.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/ProudSocialist/status/1904596593401356415&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/bc438390d51a4458ba0d3844f8646621/href">https://medium.com/media/bc438390d51a4458ba0d3844f8646621/href</a></iframe><p>Another thing that strikes me about the Signal chat is how Trump’s supporters are so much more confident that Yemen needs to be bombed than Trump’s own cabinet was. Any time I criticize Trump’s ongoing war on Yemen I get his cultists in my replies going “Well obviously the Houthis need to be bombed to protect global shipping routes, what choice did Trump have?” But if you scroll through <a href="https://archive.is/vnPIk#selection-814.26-1078.0">the chat</a> you’ll find mixed opinions about it, admissions that there’s no urgent need to launch any strikes right away, and nonsense about how the bombings can be used “to send a message.”</p><p>Trumpers have their tongues so far up Trump’s asshole that they’re more supportive of Trump’s warmongering than Trump’s own appointed officials.</p><p>In reality this entire conflict could have been avoided by simply <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/21/biden-stop-gaza-bombing-genocide-israel">using the leverage the US has</a> over Israel to make it honor its ceasefire agreement with Hamas. The <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/houthi-rebels-red-sea/">only reason</a> Yemeni forces began attacking ships in the first place was to blockade Israel because of its genocidal atrocities in Gaza; as soon as a ceasefire was in place those attacks stopped, and <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/11/yemens-houthis-announce-renewed-blockade-on-israeli-ships-due-to-lack-of-gaza-aid/">the Houthis only announced</a> that their blockade would resume again when Israel announced a genocidal starvation siege on the entire Gaza Strip. The Trump administration told Israel to <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/20/more-us-airstrikes-hit-yemen-as-houthis-fire-missiles-at-israel/">let the US handle the Houthis</a> for them, and that’s exactly what happened.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/Antiwarcom/status/1905005720015380633&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/ff43b1f3aa8e84e39635bb5bf7e55e87/href">https://medium.com/media/ff43b1f3aa8e84e39635bb5bf7e55e87/href</a></iframe><p>But the main thing that stands out for me right now is a section of the conversation where Pete Hegseth talks about what the administration’s “messaging” should be about the airstrikes.</p><p>Hegseth wrote the following in the lead-up to the strikes:</p><blockquote>“I think messaging is going to be a problem no matter what — nobody knows who the Houthis are — which is why we would need to stay focused on: 1) Biden failed &amp; 2) Iran funded.”</blockquote><p>It’s always fascinated me how much empire managers focus on messaging. Their focus is never on whether or not they should do evil things, it’s on what narrative they’re going to sell to the public about the evil things they’re going to do.</p><p>Here we see Hegseth talking about the challenges in the administration’s “messaging” regarding its upcoming bombing campaign on Yemen, and the need to establish a public narrative about how (1) Biden is to blame for it and (2) the Houthis are “Iran funded”.</p><p>At no time does anyone ever raise the issue of whether or not it’s ethical to rain military explosives on an already war-ravaged and deeply impoverished nation in order to protect Israel’s right to commit genocide. Hegseth’s interest is solely in what stories will be told to the public to justify those actions.</p><p>These are the kinds of people who rule our world. This is how they think.</p><p>The powerful understand that narrative control is everything. Power is the ability to control what happens, but ultimate power is the ability to control what people <strong><em>think</em></strong> about what happens. Human consciousness is dominated by mental narratives, so if you can control what narratives the humans believe about their reality, you can control the humans.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F34LGPIXvU5M%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D34LGPIXvU5M&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F34LGPIXvU5M%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/03da42bfc7ea53a1b71f11610b7c8436/href">https://medium.com/media/03da42bfc7ea53a1b71f11610b7c8436/href</a></iframe><p>The need to control the narrative is why the US empire has invested so heavily in soft power, and why it has the most <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/05/caitlin-johnstone-15-reasons-why-media-dont-do-journalism/">sophisticated propaganda machine</a> ever constructed. It’s why Palestinian journalists are being killed in Gaza while western journalists aren’t being allowed in. It’s why pro-Palestine activists are being silenced and deported. It’s why the internet is being censored with increasing aggression. It’s why Julian Assange spent years in prison.</p><p>The empire invests extensively in narrative control, as do manipulative people in general. If you’ve ever had the misfortune of knowing a malignant narcissist or sociopath, you’ll know they tend to pour immense amounts of energy into manipulating the social narrative about themselves and the people in their circle. Manipulators understand the power of narrative control, while ordinary people do not.</p><p>And that’s why the world looks the way it looks: powerful manipulators understand this dynamic, while the rest of humanity typically doesn’t. Normal people tend to assume they’re looking at a more or less accurate picture of what’s happening and how the world works from the information that’s laid out in front of them, not understanding that the information they consume is being constantly distorted, funneled and manipulated by the powerful to the benefit of our rulers.</p><p>That’s how consent is manufactured. That’s how wars are justified. That’s how revolution is suppressed. That’s how the political status quo is maintained. That’s how the public is duped year after year into signing on to more of the same while being robbed, cheated, exploited, impoverished, censored, oppressed, brainwashed, and driven to environmental disaster.</p><p>The real currency of our world is not gold, nor bureaucratic fiat, nor even war machinery. The real currency of our world is narrative and the ability to control it. 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<p><strong>Moscow has asked Washington to ease its sanctions as a step towards settling the Ukraine conflict</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="250" data-end="448"><strong data-start="250" data-end="335"></strong>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has confirmed that all options remain on the table as Washington considers lifting certain sanctions against Moscow, including the possible reconnection of Russian banks to the Belgium-based SWIFT network.</p>
<p data-start="693" data-end="1167">The US and EU cut off major Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system as part of a decade-long sanctions campaign, which was significantly expanded following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. As part of the Black Sea ceasefire initiative discussed in Saudi Arabia earlier this week, Moscow requested that its Agricultural Bank (Rosselkhozbank) and other institutions involved in food and fertilizer sales be reconnected to the international payment system.</p>
<p data-start="1169" data-end="1432"><em>“There would be a long discussion about many things in terms of the proper way to bring Russia back into the international system,”</em> Bessent told Fox News on Wednesday, emphasizing that it was <em>“premature to discuss the terms of a deal before we have a deal.”</em></p>
<p data-start="1434" data-end="1706"><em>“I think everything is on the table,”</em> he added, noting that <em>“it will be determined by the Russian leadership’s next moves whether the sanctions go up or down, and President Trump, I think, would not hesitate to raise the sanctions if it gives him a negotiating advantage.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="1708" data-end="2028">Reconnecting Rosselkhozbank to SWIFT was part of the original Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered in July 2022 by the UN and Türkiye. A Western failure to deliver on that commitment, along with Kiev’s alleged misuse of the arrangement for military purposes, prompted Moscow to reject the renewal of the agreement in 2023.</p>
<p data-start="2030" data-end="2344">The US and Russia agreed to revive the defunct Black Sea deal following 12 hours of talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday. President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday that his administration is considering lifting some sanctions on Moscow. <em>“There are about five or six conditions. We’re looking at all of them,”</em> he said.</p>

            
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<p data-start="2346" data-end="2670">The Brussels-based SWIFT system is incorporated under Belgian law and must comply with EU regulations and restrictions. European Commission spokeswoman Anitta Hipper stated on Wednesday that the bloc will not amend or lift its sanctions until Russia <em>“unconditionally”</em> withdraws all forces from the <em>“entire territory of Ukraine.”</em></p>
<p data-start="2672" data-end="2900">Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that Western sanctions are not a temporary measure but a long-term tool used to apply strategic pressure on Moscow, and that Russia’s rivals will always seek out ways to weaken the country.</p>
<p data-start="2672" data-end="2900">According to Putin, a total of 28,595 sanctions have been imposed on Russian individuals and entities in recent years – more than the total number imposed on all other countries combined – which have only strengthened the national economy by encouraging self-reliance.</p>

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<p><strong>Aleksandr Darchiev has hailed warmer bilateral relations as a “window of opportunity” and outlined Moscow’s priorities</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="318" data-end="529"><strong data-start="318" data-end="325"></strong>Relations between Moscow and Washington have gained some positive momentum, but further efforts are needed to overcome the <em>“toxic legacy”</em> of the previous American presidential administration, newly appointed Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Darchiev has said.</p>
<p data-start="318" data-end="529">Speaking to reporters upon his arrival in Washington on Wednesday night, Darchiev expressed that he was optimistic now that both countries are showing signs of constructive engagement. </p>
<p data-start="1094" data-end="1510"><em>“It is encouraging that my tenure in the United States begins at a time when a certain window of opportunity has opened in our bilateral relations,”</em> Darchiev told reporters, according to TASS. <em>“The presidents of our countries have set a goal to restore state-to-state contacts, which were effectively severed by the team of former US President Joe Biden, and to normalize the functioning of the diplomatic missions.”</em></p>
<p data-start="1512" data-end="1972">Darchiev added that while work is progressing on multiple fronts, the process of clearing what he described as the <em>“toxic legacy”</em> of previous years remains a major challenge. He said Moscow is pushing for the easing of visa procedures not only for diplomats but also for ordinary citizens, as well as the reinstatement of direct air travel between the two countries and the return of six confiscated Russian diplomatic properties in the US.</p>

            
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<p data-start="1974" data-end="2179"><em>“All of these are issues I intend to address substantively,”</em> Darchiev stated. <em>“The practical work has gained momentum, which should be sustained and increased based on the principle of strict reciprocity.”</em></p>
<p data-start="2181" data-end="2524">Darchiev is a seasoned career diplomat who previously headed the North American Department at Russia’s Foreign Ministry. Fluent in English and French, he served as Russia’s ambassador to Canada between 2014 and 2021. He has also held multiple postings at the Russian Embassy in Washington, including as senior counselor and minister-counselor.</p>
<p data-start="2526" data-end="2782">The new ambassador’s arrival comes after years of strained relations between Moscow and Washington, marked by reciprocal sanctions and the expulsion of diplomatic personnel. The post had remained vacant since the end of Anatoly Antonov’s tenure in October.</p>
<p data-start="2784" data-end="2979">President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Darchiev ambassador to the US on March 6, after his candidacy was discussed with US officials during talks in Istanbul in late February.</p>

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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-27/Boao-Forum-for-Asia-Annual-Conference-2025-opens-in-Hainan-1C4SvOMDdMA/img/8fb3815bee23470ebb88f380a8083b82/8fb3815bee23470ebb88f380a8083b82-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2025 opened on Thursday in Boao, south China's Hainan Province.</p>
<p>Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attended the opening ceremony.</p>
<p>Founded in 2001, the BFA is a non-governmental and non-profit international organization committed to promoting regional economic integration and bringing Asian countries closer to their development goals. Running from March 25 to 28, this year's conference is themed "Asia in the Changing World: Towards a Shared Future."</p>
<p>Addressing the opening ceremony, Ding highlighted the significant progress in building an Asian community with a shared future over the past decade.</p>
<p>"China and ASEAN have established a comprehensive strategic partnership, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership has entered into effect," the vice premier said.</p>
<p>He added that regional economic integration has been strengthened and that Asia's share in the global economy is steadily rising.</p>
<p>"Our world is experiencing far greater instability and uncertainty," Ding noted, calling for joint efforts to address global challenges, build a shared Asian home, and usher in a brighter future for Asia and beyond.</p>
<p>It is necessary to strengthen solidarity and cooperation through greater mutual trust, Ding said. Efforts should be made to champion the Asian values built around peace, cooperation, inclusiveness and integration, and respect each other's core interests and major concerns, he added.</p>
<p>Ding stressed the importance of promoting economic globalization through openness and integration, urging efforts to jointly safeguard the free trade system, uphold open regionalism, and firmly oppose trade and investment protectionism.</p>
<p>Ding noted that to promote prosperity and development through mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, it is imperative to deliver on the Global Development Initiative and actively improve people's livelihood.</p>
<p>He underscored the need to safeguard tranquility and stability through peaceful coexistence. The vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security in Asia should be upheld. Meanwhile, efforts should be made to ensure that Asia continues to be a land of peace and stability, Ding said.</p>
<p>Regarding the Chinese economy, Ding said that the country's economic performance has been running steadily with a stronger outlook.</p>
<p>The country will do its best to fulfill this year's goals and tasks for economic and social development, he said. "China is confident of realizing these goals and will contribute to development in Asia and the world."</p>
<p>China's innovation-driven growth has gathered stronger momentum, presenting opportunities not only for the country itself but also for Asia and the world, Ding said.</p>
<p>Describing opening up as a distinct hallmark of Chinese modernization, the vice premier pledged that China will open wider to the world no matter how the external environment changes.</p>
<p>"We warmly welcome businesses from all countries to invest and operate in China, join in the process of Chinese modernization, and share in China's development opportunities," he said.</p>
<p>Thursday's opening ceremony was attended by more than 1,500 representatives from over 60 countries and regions, including officials, business leaders and scholars.</p>

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Artificial Intelligence Is Bringing Us the Communism That Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, and Pol Pot Were Unable to Deliver, by Paul Craig Roberts

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<p wcount="5" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>The Digital Revolution Equals Communism</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Finally, equality has arrived.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/obWllC_GpR0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" title="The Paul Craig Roberts Podcast: AI and the Digital Revolution Are Mankind’s Deadly Enemies" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><br><a title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWllC_GpR0'" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWllC_GpR0" target="_blank" data-sanitized-class="caption">Video Link</a></iframe></span></p>
<p wcount="7" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><a href="https://rumble.com/v6r8xiq-the-paul-craig-roberts-podcast-ai-and-the-digital-revolution-are-mankinds-d.html" title="https://rumble.com/v6r8xiq-the-paul-craig-roberts-podcast-ai-and-the-digital-revolution-are-mankinds-d.html">https://rumble.com/v6r8xiq-the-paul-craig-roberts-podcast-ai-and-the-digital-revolution-are-mankinds-d.html</a></span></p>
<p wcount="22" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Artificial intelligence greatly empowers scammers and malevolent uses of the Internet. Malwarebytes provides updates on the latest threats. Here are a couple:</span></p>
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<p wcount="10" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><a title="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/fake-captcha-websites-hijack-your-clipboard-to-install-information-stealers" href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/fake-captcha-websites-hijack-your-clipboard-to-install-information-stealers">Fake CAPTCHA websites hijack your clipboard to install information stealers</a></span></p>
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<p wcount="28" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/warning-over-free-online-file-converters-that-actually-install-malware?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250324_marchweeklynewsletter_paid_v4_1_174250044006&amp;utm_content=wolf_in_sheep_clothing" title="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/warning-over-free-online-file-converters-that-actually-install-malware?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250324_marchweeklynewsletter_paid_v4_1_174250044006&amp;utm_content=wolf_in_sheep_clothing">https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/warning-over-free-online-file-converters-that-actually-install-malware?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250324_marchweeklynewsletter_paid_v4_1_174250044006&amp;utm_content=wolf_in_sheep_clothing</a></span></p>
<p wcount="27" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/android-devices-track-you-before-you-even-sign-in?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250317_marchweeklynewsletter_v3_174193602475&amp;utm_content=Android_figure_on_keyboard" title="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/android-devices-track-you-before-you-even-sign-in?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250317_marchweeklynewsletter_v3_174193602475&amp;utm_content=Android_figure_on_keyboard">https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/android-devices-track-you-before-you-even-sign-in?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250317_marchweeklynewsletter_v3_174193602475&amp;utm_content=Android_figure_on_keyboard</a></span></p>
<p wcount="71" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The digital revolution and artificial intelligence are not only the greatest possible threat to our privacy and financial security, but also to our values, because the digital revolution makes possible Communism, our likely future. Humans, like the Borg in Star Trek, will no longer be individuals capable of thought. They will be part of a collective with a collective mind imposed by official narratives, with all unofficial narratives censored as misinformation.</span></p>
<p wcount="105" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Already in American universities and public schools students are being taught that compliance with official narratives is rewarded and that intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat. Even this is being bypassed, because students no longer know a subject or how to use language to write a theme. AI does it for them, so of what does modern education consist? It consists of knowing how to use AI to solve math and physics problems and write your history and English papers. You don’t need to know math, physics, history, or how to use the language. Never learning these skills, education produces uneducated citizens.</span></p>
<p wcount="76" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">These are precisely the people who will be made useless by AI. AI has a massive advantage over researchers and memory and repeat. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects will be needed only in small numbers to type into the computers the medical symptoms, legal precedents, architectural parameters for the building, and the parameters of the engineering problem. AI’s ability to recognize patterns and to rapidly search data bases eliminates most purposes of the upper professional classes.</span></p>
<p wcount="37" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The process of technology separating students from learning skills perhaps began with handheld calculators, which resulted in children ceasing to learn the multiplication tables. With the advent of computer keyboards, students ceased to learn to write cursive.</span></p>
<p wcount="75" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As AI replaces human skills, it also destroys human jobs. What people, especially free market libertarian economists, have not understood is that unlike earlier technological advances, AI eliminates the need of humans to do jobs. AI is a step beyond offshoring. Offshoring eliminated Americans jobs by giving the jobs to China, other parts of Asia and Mexico. But still humans did the jobs. Human performance was not eliminated, just a change in location of performance.</span></p>
<p wcount="48" data-sanitized-id="p_1_14" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In earlier times when technology destroyed household jobs (as in the “putting out system,” see Appendix at the end) and relocated them in factories, the technological advance did not eliminate the need for humans to do the jobs. The factory system just collected the jobs under one roof.</span></p>
<p wcount="38" data-sanitized-id="p_1_15" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">AI is a totally different form of technology. It eliminates the need for people. So what does humanity do? The absence of purpose is why Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum want to reduce the world population.</span></p>
<p wcount="36" data-sanitized-id="p_1_16" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In an earlier article, I said that a colleague and I would present a case that AI would liberate mankind by taking over undesirable and dreary jobs. My colleague sincerely believes this, but I do not.</span></p>
<p wcount="25" data-sanitized-id="p_1_17" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I think that AI disconnects people from one another and from themselves. I regard it as not merely inconvenience but as the epitome of evil.</span></p>
<p wcount="101" data-sanitized-id="p_1_18" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Nevertheless, I will try to keep my commitment to present a possible positive portrait of the digital revolution. This is the first task in my life in which I have no confidence. If readers would like to contribute to forming a positive portrait of AI, I am pleased to hear from them. There are positive aspects. For example, people can work from home and participate in face-to-face meetings and conferences without travel. But even the positive aspects have costs. Working from home is isolating, as is the absence of travel which reduces experiences. Is life in a virtual world really life?</span></p>
<p wcount="1" data-sanitized-id="p_1_19" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Appendix:</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="3" data-sanitized-id="p_1_20" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The putting-out system</span></p>
<p wcount="38" data-sanitized-id="p_1_21" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Certain industries that were small at the outset of the Middle Ages grew to be quite large in scale, and this growth influenced changes in the organization of work. The most important of these was the wool-cloth industry.</span></p>
<p wcount="128" data-sanitized-id="p_1_22" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">For reasons of cost and availability, wool was the basic clothing material in western Europe until the beginning of modern times (19th century US cotton plantations in the South altered the composition of clothing). Linen and silk were too costly for any large-scale use, and cotton was grown only in small volumes. The production of cloth from wool involved several time-consuming steps: cleaning and carding (straightening curled and knotted fibers sheared from the sheep), spinning the fibers into thread, weaving the thread into cloth, shearing off knots and roughness, and dyeing. All these processes could be carried on within a single peasant household, for they required only simple apparatus and rudimentary skills. Typically, children carded the wool, women operated the spinning wheel, and men worked the loom shuttles.</span></p>
<p wcount="51" data-sanitized-id="p_1_23" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The cloth produced by such crude tools and relatively unskilled workers was rough but serviceable. Those above the peasant class, however, desired the more comfortable and attractive clothing that was produced by skilled craftsmen. The resulting demand for better textiles caused the industry to outgrow the peasant household means of production.</span></p>
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<p wcount="118" data-sanitized-id="p_1_24" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">A new organization of work, called the “putting-out system,” was instituted in which a merchant clothier bought raw wool, “put it out” to be carded, spun, and woven into cloth, and then carried the cloth through the finishing processes with the help of skilled craftsmen. Because the spinners and weavers remained peasants, they also earned part of their living from the plots on which their cottages stood, meaning that agriculture and industry were pursued as something of an integrated enterprise. The man could work in the field while his wife spun, and in winter the man helped with textile production. At harvest time every hand was out in the fields, leaving the spinning wheels and looms temporarily idle.</span></p>
<p wcount="143" data-sanitized-id="p_1_25" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The putting-out system differed from peasant household production in that the merchant clothier, or entrepreneur, bought the raw wool and owned the product through all stages of its preparation (the cottage workers still owned their own spinning wheels, looms, and other tools). Thus, the peasant farmer came to work on materials that did not belong to him. On the other hand, the work was performed at home (known as the cottage system or domestic system) rather than in a factory, and work proceeded at the worker’s pace. The merchant simply organized the work by arranging the order and sequence of the various technical processes—he did not supervise the workers’ actual performance. Nevertheless, the merchant clothier who began putting out cloth came to control the entire production process. This represented a step toward the industrial capitalism that emerged in the 19th century.</span></p>
<p wcount="65" data-sanitized-id="p_1_26" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Industrial capitalism resulted from the Enclosures. Prior to the Enclosures, land was not owned in the sense that it is today. Lords and serfs had use rights in the land. No one owned it. Lords had use rights in serfs’ labor, because the original deal establishing the feudal system was that free people became serfs in exchange for protection from marauding predator Vikings, Saracens, Huns.</span></p>
<p wcount="76" data-sanitized-id="p_1_27" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The Crusades brought home to Europe and England that there were delightful consumption goods unavailable in the West. The realization arose that if the manor could be organized for the production of cash crops, instead of kept as an instrument of self-sufficiency, money would be available for trade. This realization required the demise of an economy in which use rights determined property rights and as the land was not owned the land could not be sold.</span></p>
<p wcount="73" data-sanitized-id="p_1_28" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The transformation–the Enclosures–achieved according to Karl Marx “by fire and sword,” created private ownership in land and a labor market. Serfs were no longer subject to the government of their time owning part of their labor. Serfs emerged as free men who owned their own labor (there was no income tax) and sold it in labor markets. Thus did the Enclosures create a labor market and the private ownership of property.</span></p>

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title: Victor Hugo Vaca: "It&amp;#039;s the Jew$!", by Kevin Barrett
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<div><img src="https://www.unz.com/wp-content/themes/unzSite/IMAGES/unz_large_logo.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><a title="https://rumble.com/v6r56ck-the-noticing-history-repeats-itself-worldwide-pogroms-coming-kevin-barrett-.html" href="https://rumble.com/v6r56ck-the-noticing-history-repeats-itself-worldwide-pogroms-coming-kevin-barrett-.html" rel>Rumble link</a> <a title="https://old.bitchute.com/video/b5K4d7YnuqCZ/" href="https://old.bitchute.com/video/b5K4d7YnuqCZ/" rel>Bitchute link</a></span></p>
<p wcount="59" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I joined “The Noticing” with <a title="https://victorhugocollection.com/" href="https://victorhugocollection.com/" rel>Victor-Hugo Vaca</a>, who writes: “Kevin Barrett of Truth Jihad and The Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo, host of <a title="https://redpillliving.com/TheNoticing" href="https://redpillliving.com/TheNoticing" rel>The Noticing</a> on the Nemos News Network discuss how History Repeats Itself and Worldwide Pogroms Coming.” Our almost-two-hour conversation covered many topics including my background, religion and eschatology, and the decline and impending collapse of the US empire.</span></p>

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<p wcount="91" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Victor-Hugo Vaca: The cowards who hide behind fake names and avatars tell me, oh, you’re over there in another country. You don’t know what it’s like over here. We’re in control. The patriots are in control. The white hats are in control. And we have to hide behind a fake name in Avatar because if they knew who we were…we’re just really doing a top secret job. I’m like, yeah, you’re doing a top secret job leaving comments on my obscure Bitchute channel.</span></p>
<p wcount="177" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So I don’t think the U.S. stands a chance. I don’t mean to black pill. I think I agree with you that the U.S. is pretty much done at this point by design because the Jews see the West as the dome. And like you said, they want to bring back the Mashiach and build a third temple and have 2,800 slaves, according to the Talmud. I learned all this when I lived in China, by the way. The Chinese know the plan. They said, oh, yeah, the Jews, they think that we’re stupid. So they want to have us as their 2,800 slaves because they think we’re subservient. But what the Jews don’t realize is that the Chinese are hip to their plan. And the Chinese are not averse to doing the double cross on the Jews. The Chinese are just playing stupid. And the Russians also are hip to what these Jews are up to, because they’ve both been through it with Mao’s revolution and the Bolshevik revolution.</span></p>
<p wcount="30" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">So yeah, it’s just the Americans have been so dumbed down and fluoridated. The men are pussified. Viewers hate it when I say that but it’s the truth.</span></p>
<hr><p wcount="85" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">VHV: Have you heard of Cliff High? He developed some sort of software that can predict the emotional words in the internet and then he gathers them all together and they somehow end up predicting events…He was able to predict very well the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. He didn’t know that it was going to be the attempted assassination, but he knew he could see that it was going to send a ripple effect around the world, which it ended up doing.</span></p>
<p wcount="94" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">His prediction now is that the pogroms are coming for the reasons which you stated. And I’m noticing as well that the world is noticing. People are sending me coins that are stamped with the words “it’s the Jews.” Money from Canada to Maldives to the UK to the United States with “it’s the Jews” written on it. So people are in a peaceful manner getting the word out and starting the conversation, ironically using the Babylonian magic trick (fiat money) that is suppressing them and keeping them in debt slavery.</span></p>
<p wcount="64" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">And it seems like the Jews are realizing that the cat is out of the bag. It’s now being passed around. And you gotta realize if it says “it’s the Jews” on coins, imagine how many times these coins are being passed around every day. People see “it’s the Jews” and then subconsciously it makes them wonder what’s going on.</span></p>


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<p wcount="103" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Welcome, Labour followers, to the reality that Conservative voters have experienced since 2010. The dichotomy of Left and Right, which originated in the French national assembly of the late 18th century (nobility sitting on the right and revolutionaries on the left) seems irrelevant to the party in power. The only difference is in presentation: Labour pretends to serve one side while the Conservatives pretend to support the other. Did Cameron, May or Johnson stem the tides of immigration, Green and Woke? No – but they made the right noises to fool the electorate. The establishment wants us to keep the faith in a political pantomime.</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The old divide is becoming unsustainable, despite mainstream media efforts. In the latest <em>Atlantic</em> monthly magazine, Anne Applebaum <a title="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/trump-populism-britain/682055/" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/trump-populism-britain/682055/">tries to explain</a> what ‘far right’ means in context of Donald Trump’s return of to the White House. How could former Democrats Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy Jr. serve a man that the likes of the <em>Atlantic</em> and <em>Washington Post</em> had deemed fascist?</span></p>
<p wcount="49" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Applebaum is starting to get it, but her prejudices prevent her from really understanding why the Left / Right paradigm is becoming meaningless. She focuses entirely on supposedly problematic ‘populism’, failing to consider how conventional political parties have abandoned the ordinary people to become like the nobility of revolutionary France.</span></p>
<p wcount="60" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Confusing for Applebaum is the phenomenon of politicians of the Right pursuing causes associated with the Left. She cannot believe that the likes of Trump and Viktor Orban really care about the common people; instead, she sees demagogues exploiting economic and cultural woes in a rapidly changing world. They are conmen, pretending to help the poor while building an oligarchy: –</span></p>
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<p wcount="92" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">She has a new word for the Right: ‘obscurantism’. The movement led by Trump and other figures manifests in a nebulous spiritualism, nativist narratives, and covid and climate change denial. The trajectory Applebaum describes is from Enlightenment values to darkness, through cultivation of fear. Ironically, she believes that humanity should be very afraid of viruses and a purported climate emergency, while most Trump voters simply want more freedom and less government, especially government that massively subsidises the left. It’s the establishment that has cultivated fear, from nuclear Armageddon to ‘global boiling’.</span></p>
<p wcount="57" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I first read Applebaum’s neocon missives two decades ago when I subscribed to the new magazine <em>Standpoint</em>, which I naively regarded as an antidote to subversive identity politics. Like neocons generally, Applebaum was obsessively concerned about Russia, which under Vladimir Putin was a counterweight to the Western-driven new world order emerging after the fall of communism.</span></p>
<p wcount="68" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Today, such rhetoric is normalised. But Applebaum knows that so-called populists in the West do not see Russia as our enemy or believe that Putin wants to invade Europe. Instead they see NATO and the EU as the warmongers, while the biggest threat to civilians in Western countries is not Putin but their own governments (as JD Vance remarked in his address to a security conference in Munich).</span></p>
<p wcount="105" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The Right, Applebaum asserts, has abandoned conservatism and caution for a wrecking ball. Democratic institutions are at risk. Again displaying lack of insight, she began her article with a scathing account of the Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu, who was arrested and barred from standing after his first-round election win was annulled. The reason given was supposed Russian influence on TikTok, but it was foreign interference by the EU and globalists that cancelled the election and its likely winner. Some democracy there, Anne! Meanwhile Orban has ‘impoverished his country’, she claims, ignoring the EU clamouring for punishment because of the Hungarian government’s legitimate policies.</span></p>
<p wcount="65" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Applebaum has a litany of slurs for anyone patriotic or traditionalist: law-breakers, thieves, misogynists. And, of course — conspiracy theorists. The latter should be worn as a badge of honour nowadays, because undoubtedly there is a global conspiracy to undermine sovereignty and install an oppressive technocracy. Wild conjecture may abound, but that does not invalidate the obvious truth, as blatantly stated by the World Economic Forum.</span></p>
<p wcount="54" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">She gets something right, by stating that ‘techno-optimism has given way to techno-pessimism, a fear that technology controls us in ways we can’t understand’. But who is controlling this technology? And why is the internet, initially liberating, now used for surveillance and censorship? Populists are not the powerful clinging to the status quo.</span></p>
<p wcount="37" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Applebaum scoffs at a mystical belief in the ‘deep state’ as a dark force taking humanity in a dystopian direction. Anyone remotely paying attention to politics in the West realises the deep state is a horrifying reality.</span></p>
<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_14" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The problem with pro-establishment concepts of public opinion and politics is that the disfavoured side is labelled not with its own identification but by smears. ‘Far-right’ is not how most conservative patriots would describe themselves. But this term is used so excessively that libertarians and even socialists have been caught in the net, if they commit heresy against the climate cult or doubt the safety and efficacy of vaccines.</span></p>
<p wcount="70" data-sanitized-id="p_1_15" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The Right / Left construct is a divide-and-rule strategy that we must overcome if we are to build a unified resistance to the globalist agenda. Applebaum, for all her verbosity, is a useful idiot for the predatory elite. Or more likely, she realises that as an entirely kosher, card-carrying member of the predatory elite, she is quite aware of where her ethnic, social, and economic interests lie: Definitely not with populism.</span></p>

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<div><img src="https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Hamdan-Ballal.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p wcount="221" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The news cycle over the past week has been dominated by reports and analysis of the Signal group chat involving top national security officials discussing aspects of the recent air strikes which have been directed against the Houthis in Yemen. There are four basic issues that are being examined by both the media and by elected and appointed government officials. First is the apparent ignorance of ordering the strike at all since the panel appeared not to know very much about the target or why the US was escalating the conflict. Second, was the possibly accidental inclusion in the list of participants of a journalist who is closely connected to Zionist Israel, having voluntarily served in the Israeli Army as a prison guard, where he may have tortured Palestinians, and who plausibly is a dual national US-Israeli citizen. Third is the security of the Signal technology itself, which was reportedly initially created to permit such sharing of confidential views online <a title="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/25/signal-chat-encryption-hegseth-cia/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter" href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/25/signal-chat-encryption-hegseth-cia/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter">for criminal purposes</a>, but which might be vulnerable to penetration by any professional foreign intelligence service including those of Russia, China, the United Kingdom and, of course, Israel, which would have had a serious interest in what Washington was intending to do in Yemen. Fourth, is the question whether Donald Trump knew about the meeting and approved what was being discussed.</span></p>
<p wcount="97" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">My own experience of secure communications enabling meetings goes back nearly fifty years when nearly every national security-linked facility, including Embassies and military bases, had a so called “bubble” which was enclosed and electronically sealed to prevent outside penetration to learn what was being discussed and by whom. Since that time, there have been huge advances in protecting communications but friends who are still in the intelligence community insist that what is being protected can be made vulnerable by the cyber agencies that exist in various competitive countries that spend billions of dollars to do just that.</span></p>
<p wcount="265" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The participants in the Signal meeting are now scrambling to make their case that they did nothing wrong, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in particular is arguing that the discussion was not classified even though the issue related to sensitive intelligence regarding the United States plans for escalating a war against a country with which it was not technically at war. The deniers are certainly wrong in making that case, either that or they were incapable of understanding what was on the table. The presence of Jeffrey Goldberg of <em>The Atlantic</em> magazine is more difficult to comprehend as he is no friend of the Trump Administration, but it is now being argued that it was either done absentmindedly by Michael Waltz, the national security director who chaired the meeting, or it was caused by a fit of confusion due to the fact that the “Goldberg” who was supposed to be invited was someone else. In any event, Jeffrey Goldberg first surfaced the story of the Signal meeting and then followed up with a full transcript. Was it all some kind of clever ploy to push Trump into making the decision to go full throttle and attack Iran? It would not be above Netanyahu to arrange something that convoluted and flat out evil and we shall see about Iran soon enough, but certainly Goldberg could only have been there due to manipulation of a situation in which he was pursuing a pro-Israel agenda. Waltz is taking credit for the snafu at the moment but that position might change as he comes under more pressure to resign.</span></p>
<p wcount="87" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In any event, the Signal story will no doubt be discussed and both embellished and dismissed during the next few days, but one thing it does demonstrate is the relative lack of knowledge that comes across as incompetency on the part of the Trump national security team. And the role of Trump himself will also be hotly debated as he has personally been playing a key role in foreign policy decision making, though so far he is only speaking up to support the work of his subordinates.</span></p>
<p wcount="86" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Actually there are couple of other stories that surfaced last week that I much prefer. First is the ongoing battle to silence, imprison and actually deport anyone who is critical of Israel or of Jewish group behavior. This has been job number one for the Israel Lobby, which has been eminently successful under both the Joe Biden and Donald Trump administrations, so much so that the sentiment that Israel controls America has been growing among the US public to such an extent that it surfaces regularly.</span></p>
<p wcount="150" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The Justice Department has reportedly acted on President Trump’s Executive Order on Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism, through the formation of a multi-agency Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. The Task Force’s first priority will be to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses. It is currently on the prowl, visiting four cities (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Boston) where it will investigate ten elite universities. It has been suggested that Israeli investigators might well be part of the teams that will actually go into the classrooms, dormitories and administrative buildings on campus, all done without search warrants or probable cause. And the universities have basically surrendered over the issue of freedom of speech, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and regarded by many as the “right” that is most vital if the people are to enjoy fundamental liberties.</span></p>
<p wcount="286" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><a title="https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-tufts-university-student-detained-050509677.html" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-tufts-university-student-detained-050509677.html">A recent arrest</a> of a foreign student took place in Somerville Massachusetts on Tuesday March 25<sup>th</sup> when Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk was on her way to meet friends at an Iftar dinner to break their Ramadan fast, but she never made it. Instead, the 30-year-old was arrested and physically restrained by six armed plainclothes immigration officers near her apartment, close to Tufts University’s campus where she was a PhD student. Surveillance cameras <a title="https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-immigration-authorities-detain-international-151754575.html" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-immigration-authorities-detain-international-151754575.html">show how</a> one officer wearing a hat and hoodie grabbed her arms, causing her to shriek in fear while another confiscated her cell phone. The officers reportedly only showed their badges after Ozturk was restrained with her hands cuffed behind her back. According to the University, she was enrolled in a doctorate program at Tufts University on a valid F-1 visa, which allows international students to pursue full time academic studies, in which she was in good standing. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman issued a statement on Wednesday claiming that Ozturk “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, that relishes the killing of Americans” but didn’t specify what those alleged activities were. In fact, friends report that Ozturk has not even been active in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The DHS spokesman never the less pressed on and explained “A visa is a privilege not a right. Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is commonsense security.” Nevertheless, no actual charges have been filed against Ozturk but the State Department has indicated that her visa has been terminated and she has been transferred to the Central Louisiana Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center in Basile, where other students are also being held.</span></p>
<p wcount="142" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It is believed that Ozturk’s actual “crime” consisted of having cowritten a March 2024 <a title="https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj" href="https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj">op-ed in the school’s newspaper</a> where she criticized Tufts’ response to the pro-Palestinian movement, calling for the school to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide” and also urging divestment of any holdings in Israeli companies and government. Ozturk was to a certain extent a victim of vigilante justice. Her photo and details <a title="https://www.newsweek.com/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-detained-ice-canary-mission-2051085" href="https://www.newsweek.com/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-detained-ice-canary-mission-2051085">appear on a website</a> called Canary Mission, run by a Jewish extremist group that says it is dedicated to documenting individuals and organizations “that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses and beyond.” Tufts University officials said the school had no prior knowledge of the arrest and did not cooperate with it. Several professors, speaking off the record, were shocked and described how many on campus are fearing what comes next.</span></p>
<p wcount="123" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">One <a title="https://www.972mag.com/hamdan-ballal-attack-arrest-oscar/" href="https://www.972mag.com/hamdan-ballal-attack-arrest-oscar/">final tale</a> comes from a place formerly known as Palestine, where armed Israeli settlers descended upon the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank and assaulted Hamdan Ballal. Ballal is the co-director of the film “<a title="https://www.972mag.com/no-other-land-bds-masafer-yatta/" href="https://www.972mag.com/no-other-land-bds-masafer-yatta/">No Other Land</a>” which recently has been in the news since it won an Oscar in Hollywood for best documentary. As is always the case when Jews assault Arabs, Israeli soldiers were present at the scene and stood by as Ballal was attacked and beaten along with other local residents, only to then detain him and two other Palestinians overnight in a military base, where they endured further abuse from the “Most Moral Army in the World” before being released.</span></p>
<p wcount="230" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Of course, President Trump did not register a complaint at the treatment of Ballal. What happened to the Palestinian was not just a random encounter. As co-director of a film that <a title="https://www.972mag.com/no-other-land-oscars-masafer-yatta-erasure/" href="https://www.972mag.com/no-other-land-oscars-masafer-yatta-erasure/">documents</a> the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the violent expansion of Israeli settlements in his region, he has used his platform to speak directly and unapologetically about Israeli apartheid and theft. Friends of Israel clearly see that as a threat and they have succeeded in blocking the showing of the documentary in the US, where it has been unable to obtain a distributor. Targeting Ballal is part of a broader strategy by the Israeli government and groups like the settlers of <a title="https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-artists-culture-repression-israel/" href="https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-artists-culture-repression-israel/">silencing Palestinian cultural figures</a> and truth-tellers, especially those who succeed in establishing prominent narratives worldwide. The underlying message is that if even an award-winning filmmaker isn’t immune to state violence, then Palestinians should rightly walk in fear or get out. The sad part is that international media, which should have recognized something was wrong when Palestinians without global awards and credentials — students, farmers, mothers, teachers — have been arrested and beaten and tortured by Israeli forces every day, ignored their plight. Their stories do not make headlines. Their names are rarely known. In death, all they become is a number, like the tens of thousands who are buried under rubble in Gaza and who will never be commemorated.</span></p>
<p wcount="56" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><em>Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is</em> <a title="mailto:inform@cnionline.org" href="https://www.unz.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e0898e868f928da0838e898f8e8c898e85ce8f9287"><em><span data-cfemail="e48d8a828b9689a4878a8d8b8a888d8a81ca8b9683" data-sanitized-class="__cf_email__">[email protected]</span></em></a>.</span></p>


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<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">By Matthew Ehret</h2>
<p>It appears increasingly like our world is being shaped by ideas and intentions that have a pseudo-religious like commitment to limits and reducing human activity upon the earth.</p>
<p>The concepts of “entropy”, “homeostasis”, “natural equilibrium” and “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/overcoming-limits-to-growth-and-the" target="_blank">limits to growth</a>” shape many of the contours of all permitted discussion of ecological, economic and political policy among those stuck within the trans-Atlantic “rules based order”.</p>
<p>Where does this dismal “science of managing scarcity” come from?</p>
<p>Certainly it has not always been this way.</p>
<p>Previous generations created abundance through investments into large scale infrastructure and cutting-edge discoveries that not only improved the conditions of life of people and increased the industrial productive powers of nations <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/12/03/holistic-solutions-to-the-north-american-water-crisis-chinas-new-silk-road-and-nawapa-revisited/">but even increased the abundance of the biosphere</a> itself as we find in such former desert zones of California which were turned into lush agricultural areas through projects like the New Deal and water projects of the 1960s.</p>
<p>But we are told that those days are long gone, and anti-Malthusian leaders like FDR, Enrico Mattei, Charles de Gaulle and JFK have disappeared from the political landscape of western societies.</p>
<p>After 1971, large scale infrastructure investments seized up along with the crash science programs that had defined our earlier breakthroughs with NASA’s funding collapsing from 4.5% of GDP in 1966 to less that 1% in 1976 [see graph].</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2F46ec9d66-321b-45c3-a1b3-ea0f0c3fb55d_960x720.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46ec9d66-321b-45c3-a1b3-ea0f0c3fb55d_960x720.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt></a></figure><p>Fusion research similar shrivelled up as all research into next generation breakthroughs in science were handicapped throughout the 1970s resulting in the demoralized adage “fusion is always 30 years away” which become a cynical truism.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2F68fa6295-86e8-444e-9d4d-cd1e2890a7f4_1019x764.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68fa6295-86e8-444e-9d4d-cd1e2890a7f4_1019x764.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt></a></figure><p>With the Malthusian takeover of Trans-Atlantic governments, the world was slowly turned inside out and a former viable industrial economic system was turned into a post-industrial consumer cult whose growth was defined increasingly in purely speculative monetary terms devoid of any actual genuine metrics of value or GDP.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2F09812661-2984-49c2-9481-739eb8bcf2ed_750x495.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09812661-2984-49c2-9481-739eb8bcf2ed_750x495.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt></a></figure><p>And so now, we find ourselves trapped within a shrinking box of resources, and increased rates of scarcity across all fields that directly support life: energy, healthcare, agriculture. It isn’t that this scarcity is necessary. Even if next generation technological breakthroughs in all domains had not been sabotaged (they were), then even existing technologies and resources, IF organized and used justly, as the new multipolar alliance is doing, could eliminate hunger and want for the currently existent 7.7 billion souls on the earth with relative ease.</p>
<p>However, we don’t want to be merely satisfied with solving the errors in thinking that have brought us into today’s absurd crisis of scarcity, but we want to ensure that such errors are never brough back in the future.</p>
<p>As such, it were expedient to exit for the time being the realm of geopolitics and appreciate the more subtle scientific ideas shaping standard theory physics itself which in turn influence the thinking of both economic, ecological and political science in profound ways since all three “practical” domains derive their legitimacy from concepts of science that are in turn influenced by theories that extend into the largest domains of existence and the smallest domains of subatomic physics.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>NASA’s James Webb Telescope Threatens Big Bang Cosmology</strong></h3>
<p>In June of this year, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=james+webb+telescope+images+challenge+big+bang">NASA’s James Webb telescope</a> began its work scanning the cosmos with a high powered infra red lens providing a measure of clarity and definition to the images of both deep space and our surrounding environment within the solar system unlike anything ever seen before.</p>
<p>However, with new deep penetrating images of the furthest reaches of the cosmos ever photographed, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://mindmatters.ai/2022/08/james-webb-space-telescope-shows-big-bang-didnt-happen-wait/">problems have begun to emerge</a> which are threatening the entire edifice of the already fragile and self-contradictory ivory tower of Standard Model Cosmology.</p>
<p>Images of deep space galaxies which should be few in number, and underdeveloped in form are turning out to be so old (according to the rules of current physics that interpret red shift as a measure of distance and velocity from a point of observation) that current calculations are determining must have existed long before the supposedly 13.77 billion year date which mainstream physicists have agreed the universe was “born” from nothing in the form of the big bang.</p>
<p>Renowned physicist Eric Lerner (author of the 1992 best seller <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://archive.org/details/the-big-bang-never-happened">‘The Big Bang Never Happened’</a>) <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215">had this to say</a> about the crisis and newly published scientific papers which acknowledge the crisis in physics:</p>
<p><em>“Since that hypothesis [big bang theory’] has been defended for decades as unquestionable truth by the vast majority of cosmological theorists, the new data is causing these theorists to panic. “Right now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning,” says Alison Kirkpatrick, an astronomer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, “and wondering if everything I’ve done is wrong.”</em></p>
<p>In this sequal to my previous article “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/08/28/biogeochemistry-and-open-system-thinking-with-vladimir-vernadsky/" target="_blank">Open System Thinking with Vladimir Vernadsky</a>”, I would like to discuss additional evidence for the fallacies underlying Big Bang cosmology which will hopefully liberate our crisis-ridden world from certain poisonous dogmas that have kept the scientific community in a stagnant box for far too long.</p>
<p>This exercise will bring us into an appreciation of some major suppressed discoveries in embryology, life sciences and cosmology during the 19th and 20th centuries and will have us encounter certain scientists with names like Halton Arp, Alexander Gurwitsch, Hans Driesch and Fritz Popp. These names should be known far and wide due to the profound nature of their discoveries into the creative foundations of life, electromagnetism etc. However, due to the infantile period of oligarchism which humanity has struggled with in its still-early stages of life in the universe, these names have remained in obscurity.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2F673a0dff-2e6a-4edb-a51b-0fd488e41287_975x735.png?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F673a0dff-2e6a-4edb-a51b-0fd488e41287_975x735.png?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a></figure><h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Who was Halton Arp?</strong></h2>
<p>The recently deceased Halton Arp (1927-2013) remains one of the pioneers of modern astrophysics whose observational work during the 1960s formed the bedrock for much of today’s descriptive cosmology. In 1966, Arp published an incredible book called <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/frames.html">“The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies”</a> which catalogued hundreds of cases of anomalous observations which broke the chains of “standard theory cosmology” which was quickly shackling mainstream scientific research. For this work and the decades of advances on these insights, Arp was never forgiven by the scientific establishment and his work at the Carnegie Institute of Washington was ended along with his access to the telescopes needed to conduct his work, while his writings would no longer be published or peer reviewed, forcing him to eventually leave the U.S.A all together.</p>
<p>Even though he recruited a loyal following of students and researchers internationally, his work which totally abolishes the foundations of Big Bang (and implicitly Heat Death) cosmology remains inaccessible for most students of physics and citizens alike.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2F6684da56-deb4-42b3-952e-ccf8a0d8c972_1000x520.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6684da56-deb4-42b3-952e-ccf8a0d8c972_1000x520.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a></figure><h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>What Did Arp Discover?</strong></h2>
<p>In his decades of fruitful work, Arp tackled the Achilles heal of big bang cosmology by demonstrating that quasars (the furthest and thus oldest objects visible from the earth), do not give off their extremely large red shifts due to the doppler effect which mainstream theorists wish to believe, but actually contain a form of “intrinsic redshift” indicative of their young age as “galactic seedlings” or embryos having only recently been born of more mature parent galaxies in their vicinities. These parent galaxies were found to exhibit redshifts of a much lower magnitude indicating their age and phase of evolution more than serving as any form of indication of the recession or speed from the point of observation as is commonly thought.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 1 A simple example of the Doppler Effect as it expresses red or blue shifting observations</figcaption></figure><p>The importance of maintaining adherence to the Doppler Effect interpretation of redshift (the phenomenon caused by degrees of shifting of spectroscopic data from electromagnetic signatures of various celestial bodies towards the red or towards the ultraviolet part of the spectrum) is due to the fact that linear extrapolations into the past using redshift permits scientists to determine “when” the universe began. In the case of quasars, their redshift is especially important since it’s extreme intensity implies a maximum distance from us putting them onto the supposed “edge” of the universe (beyond which a vast nothingness is assumed to exist).</p>
<p>This assumed distance creates a certain “boundary condition” around which all other metrics of time, relationships and distances of all other visible objects are established. Imposing this bounded, finiteness onto a potentially unbounded, infinite universe has given big bang cosmologists the arrogance to assert in absolute terms that our universe is <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.livescience.com/universe-expansion-atacama-hubble-constant-measurement.html#:~:text=Oldest%20surviving%20light%20reveals%20the%20universe's%20true%20age&amp;text=Ancient%20light%20from%20the%20Big,or%20take%2040%20million%20years.">definitely 13.77 billion years old</a><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn1">[1]</a>. Before the universe exploded onto the scene in the form of the Big Bang from an infinitely dense and small singularity which contained all energy now in existence, these physicists insist that all that existed was an expanse of eternal nothingness and just as National Geographic reported in the opening quote, it will be this nothingness that we are destined to eventually return once more.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 2 The popular model of the universe now hegemonic across the scientific establishment. Everything “before” the light 13.77 billion years ago and “outside” the limited boundaries assumed to exist is essential an infinitely extended ocean of nothing.</figcaption></figure><p> These big bang models have also established with certainty that in only 4.5 billion years the blue shifted Andromeda galaxy near the Milky Way’s Galaxy <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.space.com/43267-milky-way-andromeda-collision-later.html">will smash into us</a><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn2">[2]</a> causing unimaginable destruction.</p>
<p>In his work Arp catalogues hundreds of instances of galaxies who exhibit immensely different redshifts which would suggest incredible distances of hundreds or even thousands of light years of separation from one another and yet whom are consistently bounded by material filaments emitting electromagnetic energy from all across the spectrum. The three cases of the companion galaxies NGC7630 and its companion galaxy taken from x ray and radio wave filters showcases this phenomenon excellently. Each galaxy feature vastly different redshifts implying a separation of over hundreds of millions of light years, but they are undeniably connected by filaments of gas and energy making this interpretation impossible! Additionally we see two extremely redshifted quasars which would imply a distance of thousands of millions of light years more [see figure 4].</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2F20d5f425-5d7d-4ffe-8629-6680f6485da9_1000x705.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20d5f425-5d7d-4ffe-8629-6680f6485da9_1000x705.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a>
<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 3 Seyfert galaxy NGC 7603 and its companion high redshift companion galaxy connected by a filament of x ray emitting gas</figcaption></figure><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2Fe48d1c15-d873-48cb-993b-d47e1ab42b0d_1000x737.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe48d1c15-d873-48cb-993b-d47e1ab42b0d_1000x737.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a>
<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 4 Another filter taken of the same galactic anomaly features the redshifts of two young quasars (objects 2 and 3) whose immense redshifts should place them at the edge of the Big Bang universe and yet who obviously sit in between the two companion galaxies.</figcaption></figure><p>During his years of research, Arp accumulated a vast array of quasars which tended to be found in the proximity of parent galaxies either within the filaments themselves connecting galaxies [as featured in images 3 and 4], or in the jet streams emitted by the polar axis of seyfert galaxies (ie: spiral) galaxies [image 5 and 6]</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2Fa7aba265-234e-4511-9d5a-7d120257d432_955x949.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7aba265-234e-4511-9d5a-7d120257d432_955x949.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a>
<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 5 Galaxy NGC 4258 with two optically active x ray emitting quasars found symmetrically within the conic zones surrounding the parent galaxy’s line of axis.</figcaption></figure><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2F8de2d312-6fe6-44ae-92cd-e5c624e52df7_1000x674.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8de2d312-6fe6-44ae-92cd-e5c624e52df7_1000x674.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a>
<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 6 Another example of the same common observation taken from the side view of another galaxy</figcaption></figure><p>Keep in mind, most galaxies feature some form of jet streams visible in various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum which also creates vast problems for big bang cosmologists who wish to mainting that galaxies are held “together” by a combination of powerful black holes internally, and vast arrays of “dark matter” and “dark energy” pushing all stuff together. The case of Centaurus A Radio galaxy (featuring filters of other parts of the spectrum) is useful to showcase the point. The fact that vast emissions of new energy is being created by these jet streams including small quasars should not be seen as surprising.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 7  The Centaurus A radio galaxy</figcaption></figure><p>These anomalies demonstrated several revolutionary truths:</p>
<ol data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>That high redshift quasars could not exist on the “edge of our universe” as mainstream scientists imply, but rather must exist in close proximity to the parent galaxy that birthed them</li>
<li>That among the thousands of quasars documented, the expected continuous array of various redshifts one would expect to find in a universe governed by randomness were nowhere to be found. Rather only a handful of harmonically ordered frequencies moving from higher (younger) to lower (older) frequencies in a discrete manner<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn3">[3]</a>. This harmonic character implies an organized state of the universe which favors order over chaos and also specific phases of the quasar’s evolution towards maturity as its parts differentiate and the space time field of the system matures accordingly. [see figure 8]</li>
<li>That since redshift properties were “intrinsic” to their respective galaxies and expressed a signature to said galaxies’ rate of maturation, a process of creative life rather than death and decay fundamentally organize our universe!</li>
</ol><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2F838134be-7ccc-44e0-96a7-88549a4df792_1000x753.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F838134be-7ccc-44e0-96a7-88549a4df792_1000x753.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a>
<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 8 This illustration of a side view of a parent galaxy ejecting two high redshift quasars demonstrates their slow motion away from the parent as they evolve lowering their redshifts to become spiral (seyfert) galaxies  </figcaption></figure><p>Describing this process in 2009, Arp wrote:</p>
<p><em>“When quasar-like companions are associated with a parent galaxy they tend to be smaller, higher surface brightness and show emission line activity. In quasars large energies are packed into absurdly small initial volumes. As they evolve they have no place to go except to brighten towards being galaxies and lessening intrinsic redshifts with time. The important point however is that the excess redshift companions are in the process of evolving into more “normal” galaxies and it is the numerical value of the redshifts themselves evolving by steps into smaller values”.</em><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn4"><strong><em>[4]</em></strong></a></p>
<p>When one treats the facts discovered by Arp seriously, we confront the happy reality that evidence points not towards a dying heat death as the ultimate abysmal conclusion of our death-dominated universe, but rather to a universe characterized by life, creativity and directed upward evolution! This is a universe which has more in common to the principles of open system embryology than to the closed system lifeless processes that characterized an engine or randomized “gas theory”, and the second law of thermodynamics (entropy) underlying the statistical logic of big bang cosmology.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>A Fresh Look at Embryology</strong></h2>
<p>Just as astronomers began to discover the fascinating geometries of galaxies at the end of the 19th century, parallel discoveries were being made on the microcosm with new insights into the mechanisms defining the growth of living matter. Embryology was a relatively new field as two opposing schools of thought began to clash in Europe. One school known as vitalism found its champion in the form of the great epigenesist Hans Driesch (1867-1941), the other was called the mechanistic/preformism school led by the figure of Wilhelm Roux (1850-1924).</p>
<p>Both schools were fascinated by the obvious directionality and design expressed by the unfolding of an organism from a fertilized single cell all the way to becoming a fully formed organism.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2Fd0874198-d7ed-416e-a919-c53a487ebbd5_660x495.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0874198-d7ed-416e-a919-c53a487ebbd5_660x495.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a></figure><p>In the field of embryology, it was more obvious than any other field that randomness, chaos and chance played no role in this complex yet harmonic process of growth, multiplication and differentiation of cells over the course of an embryo’s existence. What mechanisms determined how the parts would unfold over time as the embryo grew?</p>
<p>An elementary question during this time was: did the parts define the whole or did the whole define the parts? How could we know at what point the undifferentiated cell’s fate becomes sealed by its destiny?</p>
<p>The mechanist school of Roux assumed that one could know only what a cell would do a “moment” before or after one observes it, but that the pathway was assumed generally unknowable beyond this point. The vitalist school of Driesch on the other hand presumed that only the “end phase” of an embryo could be known, but nothing of its individual changes.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2Fe2199482-a3e8-49b0-b94b-b7781c2f9a1c_1000x484.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2199482-a3e8-49b0-b94b-b7781c2f9a1c_1000x484.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a></figure><p>To prove his case, Roux began by burning one of the two cells making up a frog zygote which resulted in the eventual formation of a half frog. This incredible experiment implied of course that all information determining the fate of all subsequent phases of embryonic evolution were contained within each of those two original cells. If Driesch were correct, then that single cell should have grown up into a full frog. While this appeared at first to be a “win” for the mechanist school, it wasn’t long enjoyed, as Driesch formulated a new experiment whereby instead of killing one of the two cells of the frog zygote, he used a four celled sea urchin embryo cut in half using a fine baby’s hair which now resulted not in two half organisms as Roux and the mechanists had expected, but rather two fully formed sea urchins!</p>
<p>While these experiments contributed much towards answering some fundamental questions about the mechanism of creative growth, many other questions remained unanswered and still required a few decades for a new generation of scientists to tackle the problem with a fresh perspective. One of the most prominent of these scientists being a brilliant Ukrainian naturalist named Alexander Gurwitsch.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Gurwitsch Takes the Stage</strong></h2>
<p>Rather than simply side with the vitalists or mechanists, Gurwitsch took the best of both schools and added something extra by asking the question “how do cells communicate and harmonize their behaviour in one unifying system”?</p>
<p>Considering that the average human baby comprises approximately 10 trillion cells with 10 million dying and being born with every passing second, and considering that each cell has within it over one million molecular actions/second it is nothing short of a miracle that these trillions of cells can communicate and harmonize with one another, let alone “decide” when an undifferentiated cell should take on a function such as a liver cell, brain cell, heart cell, etc that will define its “destiny”.</p>
<p>Gurwitsch realized that the vast intercommunication of cells could not be accounted for through mere molecular activity or the motion of enzymes from one place to another in the body. Something more had to be occurring. But what?</p>
<p>It was in the period of rich creative development of the 1920s that Gurwitsch configured his famous “onion root experiment” which involved simply configuring two onion roots in a perpendicular set up. While one onion root grew downwards, the other was caused to grow towards it [see image]. When the stems came into close proximity, a 30% increased rate of growth was induced in the first onion stem and it was now obvious that high rate of young cell mitoses occurring at the tip of the stem were accompanied by some form of invisible energy emission inducing the increased growth rate, but what was its nature? What sort of energy was being admitted from one stem to another?</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 9 Alexander Gurwitsch and his original onion root experiment. Two onions (Z1 and Z2) grow perpendicularly with point W representing the point of intersection of the younger root emitted from Z1 and the older root of Z2 separated by a quartz lens blocking the emissions of ultra violet emissions from Z1 to Z2.</figcaption></figure><p>To answer this next question, Gurwitsch tested various quartzes that blocked all but the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum and discovered that the increased cell growth only occurred when UV light was permitted to transmit. Even though no instrumentation would be invented for another 30 years sensitive enough to pick up these ultra weak UV photon emissions, Gurwitsch’s elegant experiment demonstrated what sort of electromagnetic properties were causing living tissues to harmonize!</p>
<p>Gurwitsch termed this newly discovered phenomena “Mitogenetic Radiation” with this idea created several new interconnected fields of 1) molecular morphology, 2) cellular morphology and 3) organismic morphology which all encompassed the concept of Gurwitsch’s “biogenic field”.</p>
<p>Despite an intensive counter operation run by the Rockefeller Foundation which attempted to discredit Gurwitsch under the scientific hack A. Hollaender who intentionally bungled his experiments producing negative results, small networks of committed scientists continued this valuable work<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn5">[5]</a>. Several decades had to pass until A.B. Burkalov, inspired by Gurwitsch’s onion roots, set up a similar experiment using two sets of fertilized fish embryos separated by a glass divider and a small opening- one set of embryos being slightly older than the other. <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8465505_Biophotonic_patterns_of_optical_interactions_between_fish_eggs_and_embryos">Burkalov discovered</a> that as long as the age separating the two sets was not too great, placing each set into proximity caused the younger eggs to speed up in their development greatly. However when the age difference was too far removed beyond a certain bandwidth, the younger eggs grew into malformed mutants<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn6">[6]</a>.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Popp, Montagnier and the Schumann Resonance</strong></h2>
<p>Over the years, this research continued in the fringes of the scientific community with some of the most interesting developments occurring under the guidance of <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/Users/matte/Downloads/A_tribute_to_Fritz_Albert_Popp_on_the_oc.pdf">Fritz Popp who discovered</a> a wide array of ultra weak bio-photon emissions from all forms of life<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn7">[7]</a>. Popp established that coherent photon fields are emitted by all cells and molecules expressing life- each carrying unique signatures and information from that cell across the entire body triggering an intricate array of chemical reactions necessary for the functions of living matter to endure. Working with Walter Nagel, Popp additionally discovered techniques which interpreted the scattering patterns of cell photons in order to adduce information about viral and bacterial infections.</p>
<p>Popp claimed that <em>“every change in the biological field or physiological state of the living system is reflected by a corresponding change of biophoton emission”.</em></p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 10 Fritz Popp (left) and Dr Luc Montagnier (right)</figcaption></figure><p>This work was amplified by the later work by the Nobel Prize winning virologist Dr. Luc Montagnier who discovered how ultra weak photon emissions were not only occurring in the UV range <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230937823_DNA_waves_and_water" target="_blank">but also in the radio wave spectrum</a><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn8" target="_blank">[8]</a>.</p>
<p>Montagnier went even further to measure the frequency of these emissions occurring from DNA which was placed in liquid solutions within test tubes. In these experiments which advanced the work of Jacques Benveniste on water memory, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2020/04/29/dr-luc-montagnier-and-the-coming-revolutions-in-optical-biophysics/">Montagnier discovered</a> how the radio signals emitted from the DNA structured the water molecules in such a manner that even after all traces of the DNA were filtered out of the water, DNA-specific radio signatures continued to be emitted from the liquid solution and even caused a clone replica of the original DNA to be created out of random organelles, proteins and nucleotides when placed within the resonant solution. The only caveat here was that this cloning only occurred under the singular condition that the solution were exposed to a 7.8 Hertz background radiation in the laboratory.<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn9">[9]</a></p>
<p>This 7.8 Hz background radiation is of course the same frequency which characterizes the earth’s natural electromagnetic environment between the ionosphere and surface of the earth itself. This phenomenon was first discovered in 1923 and was given the name Schumann Resonance for its discoverer<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.brmi.online/post/2019/09/20/schumann-resonances-and-their-effect-on-human-bioregulation"> Winfried Otto Schumann</a> (1888-1974)<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn10">[10]</a>. As Magnetic Resonance Imaging developed in the 1970s, it was also discovered that 7.8 Hz happens to also be the same frequency that the human brain emits when in a calm meditative state. The electromagnetic environment shaped by the earth’s evolving ionosphere, magnetosphere and Van Allen Belts (themselves influenced by the growth of free oxygen over long expanses of time contributing to the ozone layer) not only “tunes” but is tuned in return by the evolving systems of life on the earth leading up to the most advanced yet seen: the human brain.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/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%2F464e04f6-dce3-4422-9f43-285d8780b79e_597x380.png?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F464e04f6-dce3-4422-9f43-285d8780b79e_597x380.png?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a></figure><h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Re-Uniting the Macro and Microcosmos</strong></h2>
<p>As you can see, the flow of these discoveries has brought us from the macrocosm of galaxies birthing seedling galaxies in the form of quasars within a dense intergalactic and interplanetary medium of plasma (not dark matter or the nebulous dark energy which so many statistical Big Bang Cosmologists assume must exist by virtue of their denial of Arp’s discoveries). We moved from the realm of galaxies into the realm of cellular evolution, and the dynamic equilibrium maintained by the space time of living organisms. We then continued our journey through the electromagnetic properties and fields of life throughout the 20th century until we arrived back at the Schumann resonance defined by the earth’s Van Allen belts, magnetic field and the broader magnetic field shaped by the sun in our small corner of the Milky Way galaxy which is itself just one of billions if not trillions of suns being shaped by our galaxy.</p>
<p>Although it is not well understood, our solar system exists not in “empty space” with planetary bodies falling in random locations orbiting our star, but rather in a densely saturated ocean of plasma and cosmic radiations with harmonic least action pathways defining each pulsating orbit. While each revolution of our star the sun occurs every 365 days, our solar system itself is revolving around the galactic center once <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://interestingengineering.com/the-last-galactic-year-has-taken-us-from-the-jurassic-period-to-today">every 220-250 million years</a> during which time our solar system passes through arms of the Milky Way and bobs above and below the galactic plane. These insights are inferred primarily from measuring the relative rates of radioactive decay in fossil records and the relatively cyclical mass extinction (and mass creation events) which have been archeologically uncovered in recent years.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 11 Various periodic activities discovered in long term activities of the earth have found a correlation to such long term periodic behaviour only occurring on the level of galactic activity illustrated above [image from the Schiller Institute]</figcaption></figure><p>Just as the living organism is a sort of universe unto itself defined by trillions of cellular interactions occurring throughout a life, a galactic body is made up of trillions of stars and many more planetary bodies within each system harmonized by the living space time of that particular galaxy’s phase of evolution from young Quasar seedling to a more advanced mature state such as the blue-shifted Andromeda galaxy which may in fact be MUCH closer than the 2.5 million light years assumed by Big Bang theorists.</p>
<p>From this new and healthier re-framing of the forces and principles at play in our living, creative universe, Andromeda’s blue shift is no longer seen as the rate at which this large galaxy is racing towards our Milky Way where we are destined to collide in 4.5 billion years… but rather becomes seen as indicative of its older, parental relationship to our younger galaxy from which it once gave birth (as well as all other galaxies within our local galactic constellation).</p>
<p>If you haven’t realized it, the two opposing cosmologies currently at odds with each other (open vs closed systems) strike on the very nature of life vs death. Where one system assumes the principle of death to be primary in a universe of decay and entropy, the other paradigm sees life as primary within a universe of creative growth and perfectibility.</p>
<p>So before you find yourself agreeing to the assumption that “scarcity” and “limits to growth” are absolute laws which define our choices going into the 21st century and beyond, it were wise to look at nature itself from this standpoint and ask if it were not MORE NATURAL to leap beyond our mental and physical limits by making discoveries into our potentially unbounded, albeit finite universe and live as though we were made in the image of the creator ?</p>
<p>The author recently delivered a lecture on this topic which can be viewed <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://youtu.be/jIF0E9hm_gE" target="_blank">here</a>:</p>
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</figure><h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Footnotes</strong></h2>
<hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Oldest surviving light reveals the universe’s true age, Rafi Letzter – LiveScience, July 17, 2020</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref2">[2]</a> We Finally Know When Our Milky Way Will Crash Into the Andromeda Galaxy, Mike Wall, Space.com, February 08, 2019</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref3">[3]</a> The redshifts found among quasars do not occur at any randomized interval but tend to occur at specific quantized periodicities implying a higher yet-to-be discovered harmony which Arp termed “harmonic oscillations”. These periodicities are: 0.3, 0.6, 0.96, 1.41 and 1.96 which physicist <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2020/02/26/ray-gallucci-do-quasars-and-redshift-break-big-bang-theory-space-news/">Ray Gallucci discovered to correlate directly</a> with the rates of decreasing density of the quasars on their transformative journey to becoming galaxies</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref4">[4]</a> Halton Arp, C. Fulton, D. Carosati, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.haltonarp.com/articles/intrinsic_redshifts_in_quasars_and_galaxies.pdf">Intrinsic Redshifts in Quasars and Galaxies</a>, 2009</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref5">[5]</a> Describing his visit to Hollaender alongside Fritz Popp in 1985, the eminent mathematician Jonathan Tennenbaum wrote: “Hollaender admitted having been deployed by the Rockefeller Foundation to Russia with the sole purpose to “investigate” Gurwitsch and his laboratory, bringing back the story that Gurwitsch’s experimental technique was allegedly “sloppy” and his results “unreliable”. Hollaender subsequently carried out and published in 1937 his own botched series of experiments, alledgly failing to discover any evidence of Gurwitsch’s radiation. Confronted with Popp’s detailed measurements of mitogenetic radiation using modern photomultiplier instruments, Hollaender admitted, without blinking an eyelash, that he “had always suspected Gurwitsch had been right.” [21st Century Science and Technology, Winter 1998-99 “On the Fate of Gurwitsch’s Work”]</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref6">[6]</a> A.B Burlakov, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8465505_Biophotonic_patterns_of_optical_interactions_between_fish_eggs_and_embryos">Biophotonic patterns of optical interactions between fish eggs and embryos</a>, June 2003Indian journal of experimental biology</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref7">[7]</a> Marco Bischof, A Tribute to Fritz-Albert Popp on his 70th Birthday, Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 46, May 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref8">[8]</a> L. Montagnier, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230937823_DNA_waves_and_water">DNA waves and water</a>, July 2011 Journal of Physics Conference Series</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref9">[9]</a> This story was told in full by this author <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2020/04/29/dr-luc-montagnier-and-the-coming-revolutions-in-optical-biophysics/">in Dr. Luc Montagnier and the Coming Revolutions in Optical Biophysics</a>, Rising Tide Foundation</p>
<p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref10" target="_blank">[10]</a> It is worth noting that like the quasar redshifts, the Schumann resonances do not occur in randomized frequencies, but rather in harmonic oscillating maxima of 7.83, 14.1, 20.3, 26.4, and 32.4 Hertz</p>
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<h3 data-sanitized-id="by-matthew-ehret" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">By Matthew Ehret</h3>
<p>Near the end of 2019, signals arrived to Earth from the Voyager 2 spacecraft which have shaken the foundations of modern physics, and brought into question what are the forces and principles shaping the space time of stars within galaxies (and implicitly galaxies within clusters of galaxies). The data which NASA scientists received from Voyager 2 have catapulted mankind’s ability to finally answer the old question of “what is in the “space” between stars or even between galaxies within our universe? As Voyager Project scientist Ed Stone stated:</p>
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<p>“The Voyager probes are showing us how our sun interacts with the stuff that fills most of the space between stars in the milky way Galaxy.”</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-did-voyager-2-encounter" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">What did Voyager 2 encounter?</h2>
<p>As Voyager 2 exited the Heliosphere (the spherical boundary shaped by the sun’s electro-magnetic field) and moved into the interstellar medium on November 5, 2019, the five sensors still functioning on the craft which was launched in 1977 alongside Voyager-1, measuring magnetic field intensity, cosmic radiation flux and plasma density produced surprising results. As the magnetic field intensity from the sun was no longer felt, an ocean of extremely dense cosmic radiation and plasma was encountered. Voyager-2’s results corroborate those same measurements which occurred on the faster moving Voyager-1 when it traversed the Heliosphere in 2012 proving that this was not a “localized phenomenon”.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="800" height="480" data-attachment-id="8418" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/voyager2reac/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/voyager2reac.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="800,480" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="voyager2reac" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/voyager2reac.jpg?fit=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/voyager2reac.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/voyager2reac.jpg?resize=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8418"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">An artistic rendition of the Voyager 1 and 2’s recent exit from the Heliosphere into the interstellar medium</figcaption></figure><p>Cosmic rays are the loose term for all forms of highly energized protons and atomic nuclei which are produced in suns, supernovae and other galaxies. Cosmic radiation pervades the solar system and is mediated with terrestrial activity by the earth’s magnetic field. Some examples of cosmic rays on earth include the aurora borealis, cloud formation which mediates warming and cooling of the earth [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANMTPF1blpQ">discovery by Svensmark and co.</a>], and appears to also coincide with earthquake activity, activation/de-activation of viruses and even may play a significant role in the evolution of species. If you are a layman just encountering this idea, a wonderful introduction to the topic can still be found in the 1957 film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wt5AFjRQo">“The Strange Case of Cosmic Rays”</a> produced by Frank Capra which is as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="279" data-attachment-id="8420" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/earth-sun-plasma/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/earth-sun-plasma.jpg?fit=1400%2C390&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1400,390" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="earth-sun-plasma" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/earth-sun-plasma.jpg?fit=300%2C84&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/earth-sun-plasma.jpg?fit=1000%2C279&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/earth-sun-plasma.jpg?resize=1000%2C279&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8420"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">The sun’s radiation moves not through an empty vacuum, but rather a densely saturated ocean towards the earth. It’s emissions (and those of the broader galactic environment are mediated by the ionosphere, van allan belts and electromagnetic field of the earth as featured in the artistic rendition above.</figcaption></figure><p>Plasmas are sometimes known as the fourth fundamental state of matter (the first three being solid, liquid and gas). When the atoms and molecules making up a gas are induced to lose their electrons (becoming ions), an electrically conducive plasma is produced composed of said ions and free electrons.</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="400" height="328" data-attachment-id="8446" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/plasma_2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/plasma_2.jpg?fit=400%2C328&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="400,328" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="plasma_2" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/plasma_2.jpg?fit=300%2C246&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/plasma_2.jpg?fit=400%2C328&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/plasma_2.jpg?resize=400%2C328&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8446"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Some of the various manifestations of plasma featuring their flux density per cubic meter and temperatures</figcaption></figure></div>
<p>Rather than supposing the interplanetary and interstellar media is composed of “empty” space or “vacuum”, networks of physicists internationally have accumulated bountiful evidence for decades that an ocean of densely saturated plasma and cosmic radiation is the true medium in which our planets move around the sun, and our sun moves through the galactic center of the milky way every 230 million years.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="778" height="538" data-attachment-id="8422" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/nasa-earth-milky-way/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nasa-earth-milky-way.jpg?fit=778%2C538&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="778,538" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="nasa-earth-milky-way" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nasa-earth-milky-way.jpg?fit=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nasa-earth-milky-way.jpg?fit=778%2C538&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nasa-earth-milky-way.jpg?resize=778%2C538&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8422"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">An excellent infographic produced by NASA featuring the trajectory of our sun’s orbit around the galactic center every 230 yeas. Another fascinating cycle featured in this graphic is the solar system’s “wobble” above and below the plane of the Milky way which occurs every 30 million years and coincides with certain mass extinction cycles.</figcaption></figure><p>Some of the most important pioneers in the plasma universe model of solar and galactic space time includes pre-eminent physicists Kristian Birkland, Winston Bostwick, Anthony Peratt and Hannes Alfvén. After winning the 1970 Nobel Prize for his discovery of magneto hydrodynamics, Swedish scientist Hannes Alfvén wrote:</p>
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<p><em>“In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric field and the electric currents. Space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large or very large distances. The currents often <a href="https://www.plasma-universe.com/Pinch">pinch</a> to <a href="https://www.plasma-universe.com/Filamentation">filamentary or surface currents</a>. The latter are likely to give space, as also interstellar and intergalactic space, a cellular structure”</em></p>
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<p>The referenced “pinch” effect describes the natural compression of an electrical conducting filament by magnetic forces. It occurs in lightning, aurora borealis and its use by scientists has borne great fruit in magnetically confined plasmas used in fusion energy research. Many breakthroughs in fusion research have been held back for decades due to the pervasiveness of certain false concepts of “forces”, “vacuums”, “black holes” and “dark matter” prevalent in standard theory cosmology. One of the greatest paradoxes encountered in fusion research has involved naive attempts to overcome the Coulomb barrier.</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="640" height="360" data-attachment-id="8448" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="640,360" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="lapoint_peratt_ulyssest" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8448"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">One expression of the pinch effect as applied to cosmology by Lapointe, and Afven’s leading student Anthony Peratt</figcaption></figure></div>
<p>Anyone who has ever attempted to “press” the identical polarities of two strong magnets together will have a visceral idea of the Coulomb barrier. This difficulty increases as the proximity of the magnets is reduced. In the atomic world where the “fusing” of two helium atoms or hydrogen isotopes requires that positively charged nuclei from two atoms occupy one and the same space in order to transmute and release alot of energy in the process, this obstacle is amplified by many orders of magnitude.</p>
<p>Without a concept of the organized harmonics which pervades plasmas which researchers like Bostwick, Alfven, Anthony Peratt et al have proven exist, then the only path to attaining fusion is through brute force as seen by pounding nuclei together, and super-heating and speeding up their motion in giant tokamak reactors. However, when dealing with plasmas, and the electro-magnetic dynamics of Birkeland currents we are now dealing with frequencies, pulses, and wavelengths that can amplify or de-amplify, create consonances or dissonances with measurable observable effects. In this sense, space actually has more in common with a symphony than with kinetic objects emiting “forces” in a vacuum.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="900" height="627" data-attachment-id="8450" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1.jpg?fit=900%2C627&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="900,627" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1.jpg?fit=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1.jpg?fit=900%2C627&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1.jpg?resize=900%2C627&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8450"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">An inside view of the European JET Tokamak featuring an image of super heated plasma confined by strong magnetic fields at right</figcaption></figure><h2 data-sanitized-id="anthony-peratt-s-galactic-insight" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Anthony Peratt’s Galactic Insight</h2>
<p>One of the leading figures of the plasma universe school is Anthony Peratt (a leading physicists at the <em>Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics</em> and close collaborator with Hannes Alfvén), who generated an incredible model of spiral galaxy structures forming within a charged plasma which he conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It has long been observed that plasmas have a tendency to create minuscule steady state superstructures like vortices and spheres (called “solitons” for their likeness to the sun). These observed structures form in plasmas for reasons that have not yet been fully ascertained and endure for very short intervals of time. In spite of their mysteriously short duration, they do exist and cannot be accounted for under any mathematical analysis that features Newtonian concepts of empty space and self-evident “masses” or “forces”.</p>
<p>Pratt took these observations to a new level of cosmology when he began to apply the results of two spherical plasmas “pinched” by two magnetic Birkeland filaments of 10 (to the 18) amperes. In his 1986 paper “<a href="http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/Peratt86TPS-II.pdf">Evolution of the Plasma Universe II: The Formation of Systems of Galaxies</a>“, Peratt published several simulations which are featured under the M81 spiral galaxy image below.</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="648" height="679" data-attachment-id="8415" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/040913plasma-galaxy/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/040913plasma-galaxy.jpg?fit=648%2C679&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="648,679" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="040913plasma-galaxy" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/040913plasma-galaxy.jpg?fit=286%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/040913plasma-galaxy.jpg?fit=648%2C679&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/040913plasma-galaxy.jpg?resize=648%2C679&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8415"></figure></div>
<p>While this evolution of two adjacent plasma spheres into a fully formed microscopic spiral galaxy endures for mere picoseconds under Peratt’s models whereas the evolution of actual galaxies takes billions of years, the fact that the plasma universe model generates such analogues to the macro verse is incredible. It is merely the matter of SCALE of physical space time which differs in both cases but the qualitative effects are the same.</p>
<p>What is also extraordinary is that this model doesn’t rely on any recourse to the imposition of imaginary entities like black holes, or dark matter to account for the galaxy’s structure as mainstream mathematical physicists have been forced to do!</p>
<p>In another fascinating experiment, Peratt used information from three radio telescopes to form models of double radio galaxies and found similar analogies of the evolution of these galactic structures within laboratory plasmas as documented in his paper <a href="http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1990IAUS..140..143P&amp;db_key=AST&amp;page_ind=0&amp;plate_select=NO&amp;data_type=GIF&amp;type=SCREEN_GIF&amp;classic=YES">3 Dimensional Spiral Cell Simulations of Spiral Galaxies</a>. Peratt’s simulations generated identical macro-structures in his laboratory as those same double radio galaxies observed in the universe.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="672" height="419" data-attachment-id="8456" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/radio-galaxy-simulation/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/radio-galaxy-simulation.png?fit=672%2C419&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="672,419" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="radio-galaxy-simulation" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/radio-galaxy-simulation.png?fit=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/radio-galaxy-simulation.png?fit=672%2C419&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/radio-galaxy-simulation.png?resize=672%2C419&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8456"></figure><p>Peratt has been very clear that popular difficulty to accept this principled pathway in physics is connected to the poisonous effects of Newtonian assumptions of empty space and matter on the minds of many of today’s leading scientists and stated as much recently when he said:</p>
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<p>“Space, being the most voluminous of the cosmos, when treated as pure vacuum, gives a false sense that most of the universe is in a known state, the only unknowns being the point-like masses occupying Newton’s universe. The discovery of the complexity of the planetary plasma magnetospheres proved that space is plasma with an electrodynamic complexity that exceeds that of the first three states of matter.” </p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="as-above-so-as-below" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">As Above so as Below</h2>
<p>Peratt’s identification of Newtonian assumptions as the core mental crutch holding back researchers in the fields of cosmology, and atomic physics alike is incredibly important.</p>
<p>A few words would be appropriate to here clarify how and why these Newtonian assumptions crept into modern science when those brilliant physicists like Max Planck and Einstein who revolutionized both domains over a century ago were not only un-encumbered by Newton’s assumptions, but in fact shattered them brilliantly. Throughout their lives, both men stated applied not the method of Newton in their creative work, but rather Johannes Kepler whose work on the <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/johannes-kepler/">New Astronomy (1609), On the Six Sided Snowflake (1609) and Harmonice Mundi (1619)</a> not only created the basis for a modern astrophysics establishing Kepler’s three laws (later plagiarised by the <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/venice-and-leibniz-the-battle-for-a-science-of-economy/">Bank of England’s autistic kaballist Isaac Newton</a>), but set that new physics upon the foundations of musical harmony.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="409" data-attachment-id="8466" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/kepler-musical-solar-system-model/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kepler-musical-solar-system-model.png?fit=1134%2C464&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1134,464" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="kepler-musical-solar-system-model" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kepler-musical-solar-system-model.png?fit=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kepler-musical-solar-system-model.png?fit=1000%2C409&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kepler-musical-solar-system-model.png?resize=1000%2C409&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8466"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Johannes Kepler’s 3 planetary laws unshackled physics from mysticism and relied on a musical insight outlined in his 1619 masterpiece featuring his model of the solar system above. The fact that his 3rd Law was the effect of this theory should cause the sceptic to think twice before dismissing Kepler’s insight as rubbish.</figcaption></figure><p>It is not uncommon for a mathematician to freak out when confronting the argument that the laws of macro-physics are in harmony with the laws of micro-physics, or even that the inner subjective world of mankind is in harmony with the outer subjective universe. One could imagine a statistical probability theorist exclaim: <em>“Everyone knows that 20th century quantum mechanics has proven that the random, chaotic laws of the microcosm are entirely incompatible with the pre-deterministic laws of gravitation, electricity, etc dominant in the macrocosm!”</em></p>
<p>Well, if Neils Bohr, Heisenberg, Paoli and the Copenhagen School interpretation of the quantum which took over the narrative of quantum mechanics at the turn of the century is correct then this claim is certainly true, and there is no point in searching for discoverable principles that unify the universe within mankind’s mind. Although adherents to the Copenhagen interpretation assert this schism to be an absolute truth beyond which no mind can pass, the irony is that this very school is celebrated for having “disproven” the notion of causality or truthfulness all together! If anything, the micro and macro worlds may only be united under the presumed “irrationalism and statistical probability” which governed the inner universe of Bohr’s own mind [See Billington, Michael <a href="https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_91-96/943_tao.html">‘Taoist Perversion of 20th Century Science</a>, Fidelio, 1994].</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="724" data-attachment-id="8469" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1.jpg?fit=1400%2C1013&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1400,1013" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1.jpg?fit=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C724&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1.jpg?resize=1000%2C724&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8469"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">The 5th Solvay Conference of 1927 featured an all-out battle between two opposing schools of physics over how the paradoxes of the quantum domain should be treated. On the one hand, actual creative scientists who made sincere breakthroughs such as Planck, Marie Curie, Lorenz and Einstein defended the idea of causality and truth while the new breed of statistical probability theorists of the Copenhagen School of Bohr, Heisenberg, Paoli et al asserted the contrary. Unfortunately for 20th century, the “old guard” scientists were discarded as obsolete and naive.</figcaption></figure><p>However, the question should be asked: what if those founding fathers of today’s quantum physics such as Albert Einstein and Max Planck <strong><em>were right</em></strong> in their assertion that the new breed of statistical probability theorists of the Copenhagen school were wrong to deny causality and truth? What if Einstein was right in stating that “God doesn’t play dice with the universe”?</p>
<p>Perhaps the lack of progress in fusion research or fundamental discoveries in general over the 20th century had something to do with the abandonment of a fruitful method of thinking which Einstein, Planck and other great souls understood…</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="604" height="434" data-attachment-id="8428" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg.jpg?fit=604%2C434&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="604,434" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg.jpg?fit=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg.jpg?fit=604%2C434&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg.jpg?resize=604%2C434&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8428"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Einstein and Planck</figcaption></figure></div>
<p>Speaking against the abandonment of causality, Planck argued in his 1935 Philosophy <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/philosophy-of-physics_full.pdf">of Physics</a> that:</p>
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<p><em>“the reason why the measurements of atomic physics are inexact need not be looked for necessarily in any failure of causality. <strong>It may equally well consist in the formulation of faulty concepts and hence inappropriate questions.</strong>“</em></p>
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<p>In the same essay, Planck argued that the corruption of science (which has become much deeper 80 years later) was tied to two fundamental errors:</p>
<p>1) The imposition of mathematics into the dominant position above physics which induced scientists to try to “fit” physical reality into the limited (and often wrong) cage of their mathematical language and…</p>
<p>2) The tendency to break the subjective mind of the scientist out of the equation of the objective universe which that person’s mind was investigating. On this point, Planck said:</p>
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<p>“In dealing with the structure of any science, a reciprocal inter-connection between epistemological judgements and judgements of value was found to arise, and that no science can be wholly disentangled from the personality of the scientists.”</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="music-as-a-fundamental-principle-of-the-plasma-universe" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Music as a Fundamental Principle of the Plasma Universe</h2>
<p>Towards the end of his life, Max Planck strove passionately to re-infuse scientific practice with the sense of honesty and love which animated the greatest discoveries of human history including his own discoveries of the quantum and Planck’s constant.</p>
<p>In both his incredible works “Philos<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/philosophy-of-physics_full.pdf">ophy of Physics” (1935)</a> and <a href="https://archive.org/details/whereissciencego00plan_0/mode/2up">“Where is Science Going?” (1932), Planck makes the point that the wave-par</a>ticle duality paradox can only be resolved by infusing a sense of the mind of the inquirer into the equation and removing the conceptual wall dividing observed from observer.</p>
<p>To clarify the wave-particle paradox and Planck’s resolution:</p>
<p>Unlike a planet or other projectile, a light photon’s velocity and position cannot be simultaneously measured (for the moment one attempts to “see” a photon, those photons “hitting” the observed “object” to be returned back to the eye of the observer change that object’s position). Planck states that the resolution to this must be found not in lazily assuming that light must simply have two opposing identities of wave and particle, nor that the truth of its essence cannot be known, but rather that the very definitions of wave, particle, as well as mind itself must be refined by treating the matter of free will scientifically… for this is the only known case other than an observed photon, whereby the act of observing, changes that which is observed. Planck states:</p>
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<p>“We may perhaps deal with free will. Looked at subjectively, the will, in so far as it looks to the future, is not causally determined, because any cognition of the subject’s will itself acts causally upon the will, so that any definitive cognition of a fixed causal nexus is out of the question. In other words, we might say that looked at from outside (objectively), the will is causally determined, and that looked at from inside (subjectively) it is free.”</p>
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<p>Planck described the role of creative thought in this process most beautifully when he said:</p>
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<p>“A good working hypothesis is essential for any investigation. This being so, we are faced with the difficult question how we are to set about to find the most suitable hypothesis. For this there can be no general rule. Logical thought by itself does not suffice- not even where it has an exceptionally large and manifold body of experience to aid it. The only possible method consists in immediately gripping the problem or in seizing up on some happy idea. <strong>Such an intellectual leap can be executed only by a lively and independent imagination and by a strong creative power, guided by an exact knowledge of the given facts so that it follows the right path.</strong>“</p>
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<p>While Planck was an accomplished pianist, Einstein spoke relentlessly on the importance of his soul’s adherence to classical music and his love of playing Mozart on his violin. Both men played music together frequently, <a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2013/eirv40n02-20130111/18-19_4002.pdf">and both testified</a> to the vital role of classical music’s performance in allowing them to leap beyond the constraints of logical deductive/inductive reasoning (aka: formal mathematics) which had prevented them from formulating fruitful hypotheses.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="800" height="539" data-attachment-id="8445" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/einstein-violin/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein-violin.png?fit=800%2C539&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="800,539" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="einstein-violin" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein-violin.png?fit=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein-violin.png?fit=800%2C539&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein-violin.png?resize=800%2C539&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8445"></figure><p>On music’s role in scientific discovery Einstein said:</p>
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<p>“The theory of relativity occurred to me by intuition, and music is the driving force behind this intuition. My parents had me study the violin from the time I was six. <strong>My new discovery is the result of musical perception.</strong>“</p>
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<p>In another essay, Einstein went even further to describe the role of a causality in a Bach fugue as a master key to unlock the mathematically unsolvable problems of the quantum and causality more generally:</p>
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<p>“I believe that events in nature are controlled by a much stricter and closely binding law than we suspect today, when we speak of one event being the cause of another. Our concept here is confined to one happening within one time section. It is dissected from the whole process. Our present rough way of applying the causal principle is quite superficial… We are like a child who judges a poem by its rhyme, and not by its rhythm. Or, we are like a juvenile learner at the piano just relating one note to that which immediately precedes or follows. To an extent, this may be all very well, when one is dealing with simple compositions; <strong>but it will not do for the interpretation of a Bach fugue. Quantum physics has presented us with very complex processes, and to meet them, we must further enlarge and refine our concept of causality.”</strong></p>
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<p>To this author’s knowledge, nowhere was this idea best expressed in our modern age then in the short 17 minute video Is the Past Fixed?</p>
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</figure><h2 data-sanitized-id="placing-the-mind-back-in-the-driver-s-seat" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Placing the Mind back in the Driver’s Seat</h2>
<p>This may seem like a deviation from our original theme of a plasma universe, however that is not so. The only reason why science’s natural creative evolution was artificially de-railed during the 20th century, such that fusion power was not achieved on schedule and revolutionary discoveries on par with those of the late 19th-early 20th century failed to occur were due to the failure of leading scientists, artists and philosophers to follow the superior method of creative discovery utilised lovingly by the likes of Planck and Einstein.</p>
<p>Instead of a new age of discoveries in space travel, peaceful development and atomic discoveries as envisioned by the followers of John F. Kennedy, the 20th century saw the formation of a new scientific priesthood and transformation into a consumer cult society attempting to forever “live in the elusive now”… ignorant of the past, fearful of the future and disdainful towards human nature.</p>
<p>So as mankind’s understanding begins to penetrate beyond the limits of the heliosphere and into inter-stellar space, and as new discoveries are made into the secret world of the atom, let us be reminded of the wise words of Planck who said:</p>
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<p>“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature, and that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature, and therefore, part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. Music and art are, to an extent, also attempts to solve, or at least express that mystery. But to my mind, the more we progress with either, the more we are brought into harmony with all nature itself. And that is one of the great services of science to the individual.”</p>
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