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<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Foreign rescue teams and supplies have arrived in Myanmar to help the impoverished country cope with a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that killed about 1,700 people and left thousands wounded.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/30/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-live-race-to-find-survivors-as-toll-tops-1600">deadly quake</a>, followed by a second magnitude 6.4 tremor, hit midday on Friday with an epicentre near Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, bringing down dozens of buildings and damaging infrastructure, such as the airport.</p>

<p>Myanmar’s neighbours – including India, China, Malaysia, and Singapore – dispatched aircraft and warships carrying relief supplies and rescue teams. Thailand, where at least 18 people died due to the earthquake, also sent aid to Myanmar.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3611501" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3611501" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/reuters-677983025_f4550d-1743319951.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C433" alt="A view shows debris next to a damaged building after a strong earthquake struck central Myanmar, in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 29, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3611501"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3611501" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">A view shows debris next to a damaged building in Mandalay, Myanmar [Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p>On Sunday, a convoy of 17 Chinese cargo trucks carrying critical shelter and medical supplies was expected to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/magnitude-7-7-earthquake-in-myanmar-tremors-felt-in-thailand-all-we-know">reach Mandalay</a>, after making the arduous journey by road from Yangon.</p>
<p>Beijing said it sent more than 135 rescue personnel and experts <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/3/30/myanmar-earthquake-kills-over-1600-and-leaves-countless-buried">along with supplies</a> such as medical kits and generators, and pledged about $13.8m in emergency aid.</p>
<p>Two Indian C-17 military transport aircraft were able to land late on Saturday at Naypyidaw with a field hospital unit and some 120 personnel, who were then to travel north to Mandalay to establish a 60-bed emergency treatment centre, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said.</p>
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<p>Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations said it had flown 120 rescuers and supplies to Yangon, and its Ministry of Health said Moscow has also sent a medical team.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/INTERACTIVE-MYANMAR-EARTHQUAKE-DEATH-TOLL-March-30-2025-12-30-GMT-1743338958.png?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C962" alt="INTERACTIVE-MYANMAR-EARTHQUAKE DEATH TOLL-March 30-2025 - 12-30 GMT -1743338958" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3612070"></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">The World Health Organization said it was mobilising its logistics hub in Dubai to prepare trauma injury supplies. The global health body said it was coordinating its earthquake response from its Geneva headquarters “because we see this as a huge event” with “clearly a very, very big threat to life and health”.</p>
<p>The United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom also sent emergency aid.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, an initial report on earthquake relief efforts issued on Saturday by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that “severe shortage of medical supplies is hampering response efforts.”</p>
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<p>“All military and civilian hospitals, as well as healthcare workers, must work together in a coordinated and efficient manner to ensure effective medical response,” Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing said, according to state-run media.</p>
<p>But in some of Myanmar’s hardest-hit areas, residents told the Reuters news agency that government assistance was scarce so far, leaving people to fend for themselves.</p>

<p>The entire town of Sagaing near the quake’s epicentre was devastated, resident Han Zin said.</p>
<p>“What we are seeing here is widespread destruction – many buildings have collapsed into the ground,” he said by phone, adding that much of the town had been without electricity since the disaster and that drinking water was running out.</p>
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<p>“We have received no aid, and there are no rescue workers in sight.”</p>
<p>In Mandalay, a rescue worker told Reuters most operations were being conducted by small, self-organised resident groups that lack the required equipment.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/29/myanmar-quake-muslims-feared-dead-destroyed-mosques">hit near Mandalay</a>, the US Geological Survey said, with no casualties reported so far.</p>
<p>Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng, reporting from the city, said many people slept outside on Saturday night, fearing even brief aftershocks could collapse already severely damaged buildings.</p>
<p>“People are choosing to sleep either on the streets next to their houses or in tent cities, gathered together for comfort.”</p>

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title: NYT reveals ‘secret history’ of US meddling in Ukraine conflict
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<p><strong>Washington became a “part of the kill chain” by providing invaluable intelligence and strategic support, one official told the paper</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The administration of US President Joe Biden was far more deeply involved in backing Ukraine’s fight against Russia than previously acknowledged, a New York Times investigation has claimed, stressing that Washington’s intelligence was indispensable for Kiev's military operations.</p>
<p>The lengthy report released on Saturday offers a deep dive into an <em>“extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology”</em> that became Kiev’s <em>“secret weapon”</em> in countering Russia.</p>
<p>While the Pentagon supplied Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in military aid, it also provided crucial intelligence that enabled Kiev to attack Russian command and control centers and other high-value targets starting in mid-2022, the NYT said.</p>
<p>According to the article, the heart of this partnership lay at the US Army facility in Wiesbaden, Germany, where American and Ukrainian officers set daily targeting priorities which they reportedly referred to as <em>“points of interest,”</em> for fear of appearing too provocative.</p>

            
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<p>American and Ukrainian officers planned major counteroffensives together and launched large long-range high-precision strikes, using Western-supplied weapons on Russia’s Crimea, the NYT also claimed. The strikes using Western-supplied missiles have led to civilian casualties, with one ATACMS attack on a Sevastopol beach in June 2024 killing four and injuring more than 150.</p>
<p>The US has also dispatched dozens of military advisers to Ukraine, some of whom were allowed to travel close to the frontline.</p>
<p>In 2024, the US extended its permissions to allow Ukraine carry out limited long-range strikes using American-supplied weapons into internationally recognized Russian territory – for years considered a <em>“red line.”</em> Washington provided Kiev with the targeting data for the strikes.</p>
<p>One European intelligence official was shocked by the level of US involvement in the conflict, telling the Times, <em>“they are part of the kill chain now.”</em></p>
<p>The cooperation, however, was at times tenuous due to disagreements over strategy and objectives, especially in the run-up to Ukraine’s botched counteroffensive in the southern sector of the front in the summer of 2023.</p>
<p>American officials reportedly viewed the Ukrainians as too ambitious and dismissive of strategic advice. The Ukrainians accused the Americans of being overly cautious. During the 2023 counteroffensive, the Ukrainian leadership was split between competing objectives – pursuing an assault toward Melitopol, and defending Artemovsk (Bakhmut). This reportedly undermined the unified strategy developed in Wiesbaden.</p>
<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Ukraine <em>“cannot exist”</em> without outside support. Moscow has repeatedly denounced Western involvement in the conflict, saying it would only prolong the hostilities without changing their outcome.</p>
<p>However, the administration of US President Donald Trump has engaged with Russia with the aim of ending the conflict, an engagement that Moscow has described as productive.</p>

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If Everything Is Going To Be Okay, Why Are The US &amp; The EU Feverishly Preparing For World War III?

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<p><a href="https://endoftheamericandream.com/if-everything-is-going-to-be-okay-why-are-the-u-s-and-the-eu-feverishly-preparing-for-world-war-iii/"><em>Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,</em></a></p>
<p>If there is going to be peace in the Middle East, why has the Pentagon sent 25 percent of our entire fleet of B-2 stealth bombers to the region? And if there is going to be peace in Europe, why is the European Union telling all of their citizens to store up food and water for a war with Russia?  <strong>We keep being told that everything is going to be okay, but meanwhile western officials continue to make moves that indicate that more war is coming.</strong></p>
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<p>According <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/us-iran-nuclear-list-conflict-2050825">to Newsweek</a>, the United States has “significantly increased its military presence” in the Middle East during the past couple of weeks…</p>

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<p>The U.S. has significantly increased its military presence in both the Gulf and Indian Ocean, deploying B-2 stealth bombers, cargo planes, and aerial refueling tankers, alongside key assets like the USS Carl Vinson and USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carriers.</p>
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<p>I am particularly concerned about the deployment of highly advanced B-2 stealth bombers to the region.</p>
<p>It is <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/13872701/us-bombers-british-island-diego-garcia-houthi-yemen-strikes/">being reported</a> that “at least five” B-2 stealth bombers have been deployed to the island of Diego Garcia…</p>
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<p>The US military has sent at least five B-2 Spirit stealth bombers to highly strategic island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.</p>
<p>These heavy bombers can obliterate targets with their huge 25 tonne bomb payload per jet.</p>
<p>This means the US’s deadly fleet of five could carry an astounding 125 tonnes of bombs.</p>
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<p>For those that do not know, Afghanistan was relentlessly bombed by U.S. air assets based in Diego Garcia during the invasion of that nation in 2001, and Iraq was relentlessly bombed by U.S. air assets based in Diego Garcia during the invasion of that nation in 2003.</p>
<p>Currently, the U.S. only possesses 20 B-2 stealth bombers, and so that means that 25 percent of them are now in Diego Garcia.</p>

<p>It is being speculated that these B-2 bombers could be involved in the ongoing campaign to bomb the Houthis in Yemen, but it is important to note that these B-2 bombers would also be ideal for carrying out the sort of <a href="https://www.twz.com/air/signs-u-s-massing-b-2-spirit-bombers-in-diego-garcia">“bunker buster” strikes</a> that would be necessary to take out Iran’s nuclear program…</p>
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<p>The bombers present a unique mix of capabilities, particularly their ability to penetrate past dense enemy air defenses to carry out ‘bunker buster’ strikes employing 30,000-pound class GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs. MOP, which only the B-2 is currently certified to employ operationally, itself offers a unique conventional option for striking deeply buried and fortified targets, of which there are many in Iran.</p>
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<p>We do know that President Trump recently delivered a letter to the Iranians that gives them a choice with a very clear deadline.</p>
<p>Either the Iranians must make an agreement to end their nuclear program within two months <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/us-iran-nuclear-list-conflict-2050825">or they will be attacked</a>…</p>
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<p>Recently, President Trump revealed that he had sent a letter to Tehran, demanding a new nuclear agreement within two months or face significant military consequences. With negotiations stalled and the deadline looming, the diplomatic window for de-escalation is quickly closing, leaving military action as an increasingly likely outcome.</p>
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<p>The Iranians have already told us that they have no plans to negotiate.</p>
<p>So it appears that it is just a matter of time before the second option is implemented.</p>

<p>In a recent interview with “Face the Nation”, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz made it clear <a href="https://www.twz.com/air/signs-u-s-massing-b-2-spirit-bombers-in-diego-garcia">that there will be no compromises</a>…</p>
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<p>“Iran has to give up its program in a way that the entire world can see,” Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security Advisor, said during a separate interview on CBS News‘ “Face the Nation” this weekend. “It is time for Iran to walk away completely from its desire to have a nuclear weapon, and they will not and cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapons program. That is its weaponization and its strategic missiles program.”</p>
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<p>If B-2 stealth bombers start hitting Iran’s nuclear facilities, we will officially be at war with Iran.</p>
<p><strong>I hope that everyone understands the implications of that.</strong></p>
<p>Meanwhile, the European Union is <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/13853765/trump-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-saudi-arabia-riyadh/">“pushing for every household in the 27-nation bloc”</a> to prepare an emergency kit in case a direct war with Russia breaks out…</p>
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<p>European Union bureaucrats are pushing for every household in the 27-nation bloc to prepare the kit for war and natural disasters.</p>
<p>It is expected that will be part of a union’s broader “preparedness strategy” amid the threat from Russia.</p>
<p>Key items they will ask the bloc’s 450 million citizens to gather includes water, energy bars and a flashlight.</p>
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<p>Why does every home in the EU need to prepare for war with Russia if there is going to be peace?</p>

<p><strong>Do EU bureaucrats know something that the rest of us do not?</strong></p>
<p>Sadly, it appears that even the very limited agreements that Russia and Ukraine just agreed to are not going to hold.  The Ukrainians just launched more strikes against Russian energy infrastructure, and the Russians just keep sending waves of drone attacks <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-and-russia-s-truce-agreements-run-into-trouble-within-hours/ar-AA1BHD3S?ocid=hpmsn&amp;cvid=0c89f04d3b494172aed13786fe09d068&amp;ei=75">at Ukrainian cities</a>…</p>
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<p>Overnight, Russia said it had taken down nine drones, including two over the Black Sea. It also said Ukraine tried to attack a gas storage facility in Russian-occupied Crimea and energy infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk and Bryansk regions. Ukraine said it conducted no such strikes.</p>
<p>Ukraine’s military reported 117 Russian drone attacks overnight. Local officials said the city of Kryvyi Rih had been hit by the biggest drone attack it has faced yet.</p>
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<p><strong>Hopefully both sides will come to their senses, because this is our one shot at peace.</strong></p>
<p>If negotiations ultimately fail, it is inevitable that both sides will escalate matters, and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is warning that an attack on Poland or any other NATO member <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nato-issues-direct-ww3-threat-to-vladimir-putin-and-warns-of-devastating-retaliation/ar-AA1BHBfO?ocid=hpmsn&amp;cvid=0c89f04d3b494172aed13786fe09d068&amp;ei=33">“will be met with the full force of this fierce alliance”</a>…</p>
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<p>NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte issued a stern warning to Vladimir Putin, stating that any attack on Poland or another NATO member would be met with a “devastating” response.</p>
<p>“If anyone were to miscalculate and think they can get away with an attack on Poland or on any other ally, they will be met with the full force of this fierce alliance. Our reaction will be devastating” he declared in Warsaw. “This has to be very clear to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and anyone else who wants to attack us.”</p>
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<p>Those are unusually strong words.</p>
<p><strong>Is he expecting something to happen?</strong></p>
<p>Ominously, we are being told that four U.S. soldiers were just found dead <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2032823/us-soldiers-missing-belarus-lithuania-training">near Lithuania’s border with Belarus</a>…</p>
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<p>Four US soldiers have reportedly been found dead in Lithuania after going missing during a training mission. A major search operation was launched after the tracked vehicle they were travelling in disappeared at around 4.45pm yesterday.</p>
<p>The Embassy in Vilnius has yet to confirm the deaths after releasing a statement to confirm only that four soldiers were missing. But speaking to reporters while visiting Warsaw, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said: “Whilst I was speaking the news came out about four American soldiers who were killed in an incident in Lithuania,” as he confirmed he had no further details. The search, involving Lithuanian and US assets, has identified a “possible location” of where they are believed to have disappeared.</p>
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<p><strong>This is a very alarming incident.</strong></p>
<p>Hopefully we will learn more details shortly.</p>
<p>There is one last thing that I wanted to mention today.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just told European journalists that Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2032497/putin-clear-signal-no-peace-zelensky">“will die soon”</a>…</p>
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<p>Volodymyr Zelensky has predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘will die soon’ in a candid assessment as he discussed the war on Ukraine. Speaking during a round table with journalists including the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen, the Ukrainian leader said: “He will die soon, and that’s a fact, and it will come to an end.”</p>
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<p>What an irresponsible thing to say.</p>
<p>Yes, Putin has been experiencing health problems for a long time.</p>
<p>But if Putin does die soon, the Russians will remember what Zelenskyy just said.  At that point it would be exceedingly difficult to convince the Russians that nothing nefarious was going on, and getting both sides to agree to any sort of a peace deal would almost certainly become impossible.</p>
<p><strong>We are at such a delicate moment.</strong></p>
<p>The decisions that global leaders make over the next several months could dramatically alter the course of human history, and right now I am not particularly optimistic about where things are heading.</p>
<p>*  *  *</p>
<p><em>Michael’s new book entitled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFVKTRJR">“Why”</a> is available <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFVKTRJR">in paperback</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-Michael-Snyder-ebook/dp/B0DFVNMC4P">for the Kindle</a> on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at <a href="https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/">michaeltsnyder.substack.com</a>.</em></p>
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spoke out against President Trump’s imbalance on tariffs arguing that established levies have kept the world a stable place with a secure market. “International trade since World War II has made us phenomenally rich. President Trump paints it another way,” Paul said during a Sunday interview with radio host John Catsimatidis…

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War with Russia and Punishing White People for being White are the two main tasks of the British government

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1743326619
title: ‘Eid of Sadness’: Gaza marks festival amid Israeli bombings, lack of food
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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AA-20250330-37487386-37487360-EID_ALFITR_PRAYER_IN_GAZA-1743317390.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate as they <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/30/live-israeli-forces-kill-24-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-negotiations-continue">marked Eid al-Fitr</a> with rapidly dwindling food supplies and no end in sight to the Israeli bombardment.</p>
<p>Many held prayers outside demolished mosques on the day marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, as at least 20 Palestinians were killed on Sunday, most of them women and children.</p>
<p>The Muslim festival is supposed to be a joyous occasion, when families gather for feasts and buy new clothes for children – but most of Gaza’s two million Palestinians are just trying to survive.</p>
<p>“It’s the Eid of Sadness,” Adel al-Shaer said after attending outdoor prayers in the central town of Deir el-Balah. “We lost our loved ones, our children, our lives, and our futures. We lost our students, our schools, and our institutions. We lost everything.”</p>
<p>Twenty members of his extended family have been killed in Israeli attacks, including four young nephews just a few days ago, he said as he broke into tears.</p>
<p>On March 18, Israel abruptly ended a fragile two-month ceasefire as it resumed its intense bombing campaign and ground operations in Gaza. Israel has since killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and has allowed no food, fuel or humanitarian aid to enter for four weeks.</p>
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<p>Arab mediators are trying to get the truce back on track, and Hamas said on Saturday it had accepted a new proposal from Egypt and Qatar, the exact details of which were not immediately known. Israel said it had advanced its own proposal in coordination with the United States, which has also been mediating.</p>
<p>Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.</p>

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title: Is Lebanon’s new central bank governor ‘another Riad Salameh’?
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<p><strong>Beirut, Lebanon</strong> – Lebanon’s council of ministers has elected Karim Souaid as central bank governor – a candidate backed by the country’s bank lobby and a businessman who many say is emblematic of the malaise Lebanon is suffering.</p>
<p>Just out of a brutal war with Israel, Lebanon is in dire need of reconstruction and recovery money. Since 2019, Lebanon has suffered through one of modern history’s worst economic crises. State services have been battered, including the electricity sector, leaving those who can afford the cost to rely on private generators.</p>

<p>The World Bank estimates $11bn is needed for the job, and the next governor is crucial for unlocking funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that will encourage more support from the international community.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Lebanese media reports marked Souaid, the founder of Bahrain-based private investment firm Growthgate Partners, as the frontrunner.</p>
<p>Sources told Al Jazeera that while the IMF did not comment on candidates, Souaid’s proposed policies do not match the required reforms.</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="another-riad-salame">‘Another Riad Salame’</h2>
<p>Two camps had emerged in response to Souaid’s candidacy.</p>
<p>On one side were the banks, banking lobby, most of the significant traditional parties – including ideological adversaries like Hezbollah and the Lebanese Forces – and President Joseph Aoun, whose economic adviser, Varouj Nerguizian, is a board member of Souaid’s investment firm.</p>
<p>On the other side were some reformist ministers, independent MPs, reform-minded NGOs, and sceptics, including Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.</p>
<p>After Souaid was voted in, Salam delivered a speech admitting he and other ministers had reservations about the new appointment.</p>
<p>“Any governor must abide by the financial policy of our reformist government as expressed by the ministerial statement [that includes] a new programme with the International Monetary Fund, restructuring banks, and devising a complete plan according to the best international standards to preserve depositors’ rights,” Salam said.</p>
<p>Souaid has yet to comment on what his plan for the central bank would be.</p>
<p>But those opposed to Souaid say he is too close to power and his policies overwhelmingly favour the banking lobby. Former Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s son Maher is also a board member of Souaid’s investment firm.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3611535" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3611535" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/reuters-844173240_9cdac8-1743321072.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C504" alt="FILE PHOTO: A view shows Lebanon's Central Bank building in Beirut, Lebanon September 3, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir//File Photo" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3611535"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3611535" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Critics say central bank Governor Souaid’s policies will not please the IMF [File: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p>“They’re trying to bring in another Riad Salameh,” said Mohammad Farida, economic adviser for the Depositors Union, an NGO that argues that banks and not depositors should be held accountable for the 2019 financial crisis.</p>
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<p>Salameh is the former central bank governor who was arrested in September for financial crimes in Lebanon and is the subject of numerous financial investigations in five different European countries.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="every-minister-will-be-held-accountable">Every minister will be ‘held accountable’</h2>
<p>Lebanon is entering the sixth year of a devastating economic crisis and badly needs relief funds from the IMF, which has laid out several reforms Lebanon needs to apply to receive those funds.</p>
<p>A parallel battle for accountability for the tens of billions in economic losses has been at an impasse for five years as the political class, backed by the banking lobby, focused on scuttling any effort at passing reforms the IMF deems critical to unlock $3bn in relief funds.</p>
<p>The fight essentially comes down to who should bear responsibility for the 2019 economic collapse and bear the losses.</p>
<p>The pro-banker side believes the state is primarily responsible for the collapse after defaulting on eurobonds. To recover depositors’ money, they say, the state should pay the banks back through actions like selling off state assets. This is the side supporting Souaid.</p>

<p>Souaid’s ideas for the state are thought to be outlined in a 2023 paper, financed by his investment firm, that recommends haircuts of up to 90 percent, which would fall on depositors.</p>
<p>Critics say this would allow bankers and the politicians who backed and profited from them to escape accountability.</p>
<p>“It would basically incentivise them to take the same behaviour [that caused the economic and banking crisis] with the same risks,” Walid Marrouch, an economics professor at the Lebanese American University, said.</p>
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<p>The pro-reform side, which includes the Depositors Union, says piling the losses on the state will bankrupt it and hurt citizens who did nothing wrong, so the commercial banks should foot the losses to repay depositors.</p>
<p>These reforms would hit bank owners the hardest, forcing some banks to merge or close entirely.</p>
<p>At an emergency news conference called by the Depositors’ Union on Wednesday to oppose Souaid’s selection, Halime Kaakour, one of 13 Lebanese MPs elected in 2022 on a post-revolution sentiment demanding reform, stated: “We will hold each minister accountable who nominates a central bank governor that will burden the state with $76bn in losses.”</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3611561" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3611561" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ap-389014202_cc30ea-1743321656-e1743328010984.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C467" alt="Lebanese lawmaker Halime Kaakour arrives to attends a parliament session at the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3611561"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3611561" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Among Souaid’s critics are independent and pro-reform MPs, including Halime Kaakour  [Hassan Ammar/AP]</figcaption></figure><p>The $76bn figure is an estimate, as the exact figure is unknown. During the crisis, many depositors withdrew their money while the Lebanese lira was plummeting, while some of the country’s wealthiest moved their money abroad.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="it-s-a-mafia">‘It’s a mafia’</h2>
<p>In 2020, the Hassan Diab government proposed a solution that experts told Al Jazeera would have met the IMF’s specifications. But the solution was derailed by political deadlock, and depositors suffered.</p>
<p>As banks locked down and citizens were unable to withdraw their money, the exchange rate devalued by more than 95 percent. Before the crisis, the lira stood at 1,500 to the US dollar – today, $1 is equal to 89,000 lira.</p>
<p>With many of the country’s former middle class thrust into poverty, some citizens were forced to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/15/what-is-behind-lebanons-bank-robberies-explainer">hold up banks</a> to withdraw their money.</p>
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<p>After the vast destruction caused by Israel’s latest war on Lebanon, the need for reconstruction money is increasingly pressing. As this pressure increased, so too did the battle over who would lead Lebanon’s central bank since this figure will deeply affect Lebanon’s economic and banking agenda over the coming years.</p>

<p>The banks’ side, which supports Souaid, has been spearheaded by Antoun Sehnaoui, the chairman of the board of the SGBL Group.</p>
<p>Sehnaoui also funds Lebanese media outlets and is believed to be close to many politicians. He is widely believed to back the Soldiers of God (Jnoud el-Rab), a gang of men who quote Christian scripture and gained notoriety for targeting Lebanon’s LGBTQ community with violence.</p>
<p>In the run-up to the vote for central bank governor, media outlets Megaphone and Daraj reported that Sehnaoui had filed lawsuits against them.</p>
<p>The deeply rooted influence bankers like Sehnaoui have over the Lebanese system is largely why the state struggles to serve its citizens, critics say.</p>
<p>“It’s a mafia and [the bankers] are the oligarchs,” Fouad Debs, a lawyer and member of the Depositors Union, told Al Jazeera.</p>
<p>Debs said Souaid’s confirmation was a setback for a just solution to Lebanon’s economic crisis and it will deeply affect depositors and the state.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1684544" data-sanitized-id="attachment_1684544" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/lebanon.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Riad Salameh, governor of Lebanon's central bank" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-1684544"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-1684544" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Critics say Souaid will be another Riad Salameh, shown, who led the central bank for 30 years [File: Bloomberg]</figcaption></figure><p>“The appointment of Souaid is disastrous,” he said, adding that the state is likely to take on the tens of billions of dollars in debt instead of the banks.</p>
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<p>Critics like Debs say, because many politicians are funded by bankers or are shareholders in banks themselves, they try to bring Lebanon’s economic policy in line with the banks’ interests even if it contradicts the public interest.</p>
<p>For years, the banks have benefitted from banking secrecy laws that reformists and the IMF say need to change.</p>
<p>Opponents to the new central bank governor will now push to try and come up with a recovery plan they feel is fair to depositors, but it will be an uphill battle after Souaid’s appointment.</p>
<p>“They are turning the country into a private company for maybe a few thousand individuals who will literally have control over most of the wealth in the country,” Debs said.</p>
<p>“It’s very dangerous and the country will change completely.”</p>

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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/afp-1130346947_284033-1743319903.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>The smell of decaying bodies permeates the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city as volunteers work frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding people still alive, two days after a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/magnitude-7-7-earthquake-in-myanmar-tremors-felt-in-thailand-all-we-know">massive earthquake</a> killed more than 1,600 people and left countless others buried.</p>
<p>The magnitude 7.7 quake hit midday on Friday with an epicentre near Mandalay, bringing down scores of buildings and damaging other infrastructure like the city’s airport.</p>
<p>Relief efforts have <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/30/foreign-aid-rushed-to-quake-hit-myanmar-as-more-than-1600-killed">been hampered</a> by buckled roads, downed bridges, unreliable communications and the challenges of operating in a country amid a civil war.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/30/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-live-race-to-find-survivors-as-toll-tops-1600">search for survivors</a> has been primarily conducted by locals without the aid of heavy equipment, moving rubble by hand and with shovels in 41C (106F) heat, with only the occasional tracked excavator to be seen.</p>
<p>Many of Mandalay’s 1.5 million people spent the night sleeping on the streets, either left homeless by the quake, which also shook neighbouring Thailand and killed at least 17 people there, or worried that the continuing aftershocks might cause structures left unstable to collapse.</p>
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<p>So far, 1,644 people have been reported killed in Myanmar and 3,408 missing, but many areas have not yet been reached, and many rescue efforts so far have been undertaken by people working by hand to try to clear rubble, said Cara Bragg, the Yangon-based manager of Catholic Relief Services, an international humanitarian agency, in Myanmar.</p>
<p>The quake rocked much of neighbouring Thailand, bringing down a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok, some 1,300km (800 miles) away from the epicentre.</p>
<p>So far, 10 people have been found dead at the construction site near the popular Chatuchak Market, where 83 people are unaccounted for and the latest body was recovered from the rubble early on Sunday morning. A total of 17 people have been reported killed by the quake in Thailand so far.</p>

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title: Palestine Red Crescent says 15 bodies found in search for missing Gaza crew
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Nine Red Crescent crew members were missing for a week after they came under Israeli fire in Rafah.</em></p>
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<p>The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says 15 bodies have been found in Rafah, southern Gaza, a week after its first responders came under heavy fire from Israeli forces.</p>
<p>The PRCS said on Sunday that eight of the bodies have been identified as PRCS members, six as members of the Civil Defence, and one as a UN agency employee. One PRCS first responder is still missing.</p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1">The group said the those killed “were targeted by the Israeli occupation forces while performing their humanitarian duties as they were heading to the Hashashin area of Rafah to provide first aid to a number of people injured by Israeli shelling in the area”.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">“The occupation’s targeting of Red Crescent medics … can only be considered a war crime punishable under international humanitarian law, which the occupation continues to violate before the eyes of the entire world.”</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">In an earlier statement the Red Crescent said the bodies “were recovered with difficulty as they were buried in the sand, with some showing signs of decomposition”.</p>
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<p>PRCS President Younis al-Khatib condemned Israel for targeting its paramedics as they “fulfil their humanitarian mission”.</p>
<p>“Those souls are not mere numbers. If this incident [happened] anywhere else, the whole world would have moved heaven and earth to expose this war crime,” al-Khatib said on Sunday.</p>

<p>Last week, the Israeli military told the AFP news agency that it had fired on ambulances and fire trucks – calling them “suspicious vehicles” – that arrived at a scene where it was carrying out attacks.</p>
<p>Hamas political bureau member Basem Naim slammed the attack on the ambulance and said the “targeted killing of rescue workers – who are protected under international humanitarian law – constitutes a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions and a war crime”.</p>
<p>OCHA chief Tom Fletcher said since Israel broke the ceasefire in Gaza on March 18 and resumed its war on the enclave, Israeli air attacks have hit “densely populated areas”, with “patients killed in their hospital beds, ambulances shot at, first responders killed”.</p>
<p>Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that since Israel resumed its attacks, at least 921 people have been killed in the territory, adding to the more than 50,000 killed since October 7, 2023.</p>
<p>Israel launched its war after the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, during which 1,139 people died and about 250 were taken captive into Gaza.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>The Argentine star made an immediate mark upon his return to his club side, scoring the game-winning goal.</em></p>
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<p>Lionel Messi scored his second goal of the season less than two minutes after he entered the game as a second-half substitute, and Inter Miami held on for a 2-1 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Union.</p>
<p>The 37-year-old star had missed Argentina’s World Cup qualifiers in South America during the recent international window after picking up an adductor strain in Miami’s most recent Major League Soccer (MLS) game, a 2-1 win at Atlanta on March 16.</p>

<p>Finnish winger Robert Taylor had put Miami ahead in the 23rd minute of Saturday’s game, slotting home a low pass from Benjamin Cremaschi after Jordi Alba had broken down the left flank.</p>
<p>Messi was brought on by coach Javier Mascherano in the 55th minute and he was immediately on target. Messi’s former Barcelona teammate Luis Suarez picked him out on the right and he jinked to make space and fired a low, right-foot effort into the far corner.</p>
<p>Philadelphia pulled a goal back in the 80th minute when Quinn Sullivan whipped in a cross from the right and Hungarian midfielder Daniel Gazdag brought the ball down before firing home a crisp shot.</p>
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<p>Unbeaten Miami sits on top of the Eastern Conference with four wins from their opening five games of the season.</p>
<p>Inter face a busy spell with a trip to Los Angeles to play LAFC in a CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal, first leg on Wednesday. They have a home game against Toronto the following Sunday with the return against LAFC three days later.</p>
<p>Mascherano said it had been a cautious move to start with Messi on the bench.</p>
<p>“We didn’t want to risk him from the start because we thought he might be at risk playing the whole game, but we did want him to get some minutes,” said the Argentine coach.</p>
<p>“The plan is that he can recover and travel to Los Angeles. He played today because he was fine. Maybe he wasn’t ready for the full 90 minutes but it was good for him to play 45 minutes. If nothing unusual happens the plan is for him to travel,” he added.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3611898" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3611898" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AP25089039020527-1743332889.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Lionel Messi in action." data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3611898"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3611898" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi, left, runs to score his side’s second goal past Philadelphia Union defender Ian Glavinovich during the second half of their MLS match on March 29, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US [Rebecca Blackwell/AP]</figcaption></figure></div>

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<p>60 Years of Racial Discrimination Against White Americans</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>Thirty years after the publication of my book, <i>The New Color Line</i>, Jared Taylor asks if racial discrimination is illegal or not. <a href="https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/is-racial-discrimination-illegal-or-not/">https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/is-racial-discrimination-illegal-or-not/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>As I made crystal clear three decades ago, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution make it totally certain that racial discrimination, as practiced by 60 years of US discriminatory policy against white Americans upheld by the US Supreme Court, is strictly illegal and unconstitutional.</p>
<p>What explains 60 years of illegal and unconstitutional discrimination against white American citizens by the US government, state and local governments, universities, and employers?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>An indoctrinated guilty conscience about “white racism”?  The liberal-left subversion of the ethnic basis of a nation?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Or a simple-minded determination to make reparations for slavery imposed on blacks conquered by the black King of Dahomey, who captured blacks in his slave wars and sold them first to Arabs, and then to British, Spanish, and Portuguese slave traders who brought the enslaved Africans to the New World to work as a labor force?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The “racist’ American South inherited slavery.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The South did not originate slavery or impose slavery. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The American British colonies did not enslave anyone.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They purchased already enslaved people to provide a labor force to a land ready to be cultivated but without a labor force.</p>
<p>The charge that slave owners in the British colonies and later cotton and tobacco plantation owners abused valuable and expensive investments such as slaves whose cooperation was essential to economic success is mindless.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>That historians have written histories to the effect that the purpose of slavery was for white people to abuse black people demonstrates the worthlessness of history.  Good relations between slaves and owners were essential, not only for productivity but also because the slaves vastly outnumbered whites on the plantation. Many of the slaves were warriors defeated in battle by the King of Dahomey’s forces. Yet there were no slave rebellions.  Even Abe Lincoln’s attempt to provoke a slave rebellion with his “emancipation proclamation,” a wartime measure, was a total flop.</p>
<p>Yes Jarad, there has been for 60 years official illegal and unconstitutional government discrimination against whites. The discrimination was imposed by EEOC official Alfred Blumrosen, who reasoned that as courts deferred to the regulatory agencies, he could violate the language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and impose discrimination against white citizens under the rubric of “affirmative action.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  The purpose of DEI was to further institutionalize discrimination against white people.</span></p>
<p>My book was praised by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Alan Dershowitz, Judge Robert Bork, Irving Kristol, but nothing was done about the illegal and unconstitutional discrimination against white American citizens for 60 years.  Now a first step has been taken with Trump’s repeal of the federal government’s DEI Policy.</p>
<p>What does this tell us about respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, and accountability of “democracy” to the people?</p>
<p>Over the course of my life I have watched American elites destroy the foundations of liberty.  And now President Trump continues the Biden regime’s policy of criminalizing free speech if it pertains to Israel.  It seems that there is still a federal DEI policy, but it is solely an Israeli privilege.</p>

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title: Israel says missile intercepted from Yemen as US targets Houthi sites
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Israeli military says it intercepted a missile after it activated air raid sirens across multiple areas of the country.</em></p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="p1">The Israeli military says it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, as the United States launches intense military operations in the country, primarily targeting sites held by Houthi rebels.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Air raid sirens were activated across multiple areas of Israel on Sunday after the missile was launched from Yemen, which the Israeli military said was intercepted before it could cross into the country.</p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1">The Iran-backed group has regularly fired missiles at Israel since the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/30/live-israeli-forces-kill-24-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-negotiations-continue">war in Gaza</a> broke out on October 7, 2023. The rebels, who have since targeted shipping vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">The Houthis paused their campaign during the weeks-long truce in Gaza, which ended on March 18 when Israel resumed its bombardment of the Palestinian territory.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Israel announced that it had intercepted two missiles from Yemen before they could cross into its territory.</p>
<p>The Houthis, who have not yet responded to the latest Israeli claim of the missile attack, said on Thursday that they had launched two missiles, including one hypersonic projectile, towards Israel’s main air gateway, Ben Gurion airport, and an unspecified military target in the area of Tel Aviv.</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="more-us-strikes">More US strikes</h2>
<p>On March 15, the US began a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/us-hits-multiple-targets-in-yemen-report">campaign of air strikes</a> against Yemen in what Washington said was to protect global shipping routes, killing dozens of people.</p>
<p>Air strikes pounded Yemen overnight into Saturday, reportedly killing at least one person as the US military acknowledged earlier bombing a military site in the heart of the capital, Sanaa, controlled by the Houthis.</p>
<p>On Friday, Yemen’s Al-Masriah TV reported US air strikes south of Sanaa, as well as in the Saada and Jawf provinces in the north. A Ministry of Health spokesperson said seven people, including two children, were wounded.</p>
<p>A day earlier, the Houthis said US strikes had killed two people and wounded two.</p>
<p>In response, the Houthis said they targeted “warships in the Red Sea, including the American aircraft carrier [USS Harry S] Truman”.</p>
<p>The US has <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/22/every-shot-fired-are-yemens-houthis-a-proxy-force-for-iran">blamed Iran</a> for any attacks the Yemeni group undertakes.</p>
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Fossil fuel companies do not need or deserve federal government subsidies, which, in any event, are antithetical to the professed economic philosophy of the Trump administration.

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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138490
title: Trump and Putin Could Bring Peace to the World
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<p>Trump and Putin Could Bring Peace to the World</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>England and France, American puppet states for decades until the advent of Trump 2, are visibly at work disrupting Trump’s effort to reach a deal with Putin that ends the conflict in Ukraine.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The Russian Defense Ministry said that the second strike on the Sudzha pipeline infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk Region last Friday, which completed the destruction of the facility, was the work of Britain and France.</p>
<p>According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the targeting and navigation of the American HIMARS missiles (missiles Biden said he would not give to Zelensky but did) was provided by France. British specialists input the target coordinates and the launching command came from London.</p>
<p>What explains two American puppet states working against the United States government?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Is it another CIA operation against Trump? Is it the US military-security complex paying the British and French governments to keep the profitable (for the US military-security complex) conflict going?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Is it the Israeli-backed US Zionist neoconservatives continuing their efforts to diminish<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Russia’s influence in world affairs?</p>
<p>Whatever is the answer, the Russian Foreign Ministry has no better idea than I do.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The spokeswoman, Zakharova, blames Zelensky for failing to observe the negotiated agreement that both sides cease attacking the other’s energy infrastructure.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Russia agreed to Trump’s proposal as a way of protecting nuclear power plants, the destruction which could be deadly for large numbers of civilians in Russia, Ukraine, and Europe.</p>
<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov blamed the Ukrainian military for not following Zelensky’s orders.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is a mystery how Zakharova and Peskov can continue to describe the situation as a Ukrainian issue when the two nuclear-armed (armed by Washington) NATO countries, Britain and France, are at work undermining the Trump-Putin peace negotiations.</p>
<p>If Trump and Putin were in the league with the great strategists in history, what would they do to bring this clown act to an end?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They would announce a military alliance. Putin can have Ukraine, the Baltics and as much of Europe as he wants.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Trump will take Canada, Greenland, and Panama.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>No one on earth could do anything about this.</p>
<p>Putin does not want Ukraine, the Baltics, or Europe.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He only wants Russia to be left alone and to engage freely with the countries that comprise the world.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>What Trump really wants, we don’t yet know.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>But a Trump-Putin alliance would establish dominion over the rule of earth, Israel included.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Israel’s agenda of Greater Israel could easily be deep-sixed, Israel’s nuclear weapons destroyed, and justice given<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>to the Palestinians.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Israel would be reduced, instead of expanded, in boundary, and the Jews could use their talent for business to make the Middle East a prosperous area of the world.</p>
<p>President Trump seems to have the idea that the pursuit of mutual interests in business is far superior to the pursuit of war. Putin has shown himself to be the least combative of leaders of powerful countries.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>If only Trump and Putin could realize that a US-Russia military alliance would establish peace in the world, no more NATO, no more CIA overthrowing governments, no more propaganda about false news threats, we could enter a golden era of peace.</p>
<p>Of course, the military-security complex would assassinate both Trump and Putin.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, I believe both would risk it if only they could think of it.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614920-uk-ukraine-attack-violation/">https://www.rt.com/russia/614920-uk-ukraine-attack-violation/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614912-sudzha-metering-station-destroyed/">https://www.rt.com/russia/614912-sudzha-metering-station-destroyed/ </a></p>


title: Ottawa police investigate Saturday night homicide in Chinatown area
author: ;Paula Tran
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<p>Ottawa police homicide detectives are investigating the death Saturday night of a 63-year-old man found on Primrose Avenue East near the intersection of Arthur Street in the Chinatown district.</p>
<p>Emergency responders were called to the area at about 7:20 p.m.</p>
<p>A person was located with life-threatening injuries. They were transported to hospital, where they succumbed to their injuries.</p>
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<p>Police identified the victim as Paul Scott Landymore, 63, of Ottawa.</p>
<p>No arrests have been made.</p>
<p>A spokesperson for the Ottawa Paramedic Service confirmed four paramedic units were on scene Saturday night just after 7 p.m., and one adult was transported to the trauma centre.</p>
<p>Dan Desnoyers has been living in the neighbourhood with his wife for five years. He said he didn’t see what happened last night but recalled seeing three police cars in front of his house.</p>
<p>“All I saw was just police cars on the street, lights flashing. That’s it. I was walking the dog at one point, but I didn’t see anything. I didn’t know what was going on,” he told the Ottawa Citizen.</p>
<p>This is the second homicide in the neighbourhood since they moved, he added. Homicide detectives were on the scene Saturday morning investigating the incident.</p>
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<p>“It doesn’t happen that often, but it does happen. It’s a bit of a rough neighborhood sometimes,” Desnoyers said.</p>
<p>“I thought I’d maybe get a knock on the door today, maybe from the police who are investigating, but we didn’t know anything about it until just this morning.”</p>
<p>Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Ottawa Police Service homicide unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5493.</p>
<p>Anonymous tips can be made by calling Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 or at crimestoppers.ca.</p>
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5222137
title: ‘SNL’ Cold Open spoofs Signal chat controversy with Trump officials adding teens to group text
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“Saturday Night Live” spoofed the recent Trump administration Signal group chat controversy in the latest Cold Open. The sketch starts with three teenage girls, played by Mikey Madison, Ego Nwodim and Sarah Sherman, texting in a group chat about topics like a boy’s haircut and another girl’s clothes.  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is played…

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<p><strong>Tehran, Iran –</strong> In a first, Iranian authorities have dispersed a demonstration calling for stricter implementation of the country’s <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/11/iranian-women-post-images-without-hijab-despite-crackdown">dress code rules</a>.</p>
<p>On Friday evening, after state-organised <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/5/what-is-al-quds-day">Quds Day rallies</a> in support of the Palestinian cause ended, police dispersed dozens who had been camping out in front of the parliament for weeks.</p>

<p>The demonstrators, mostly women clad in full-body black chadors, had been there for nearly 50 days to decry what they view as loose enforcement of mandatory hijab, which signifies the abandonment of “Islamic values” to them.</p>
<p>Women and men in Iran are bound by a law passed shortly after the country’s 1979 revolution to adhere to strict dress codes – including a veil covering hair for women – on pain of prison, flogging, or financial penalties.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="why-the-fight-over-hijab">Why the fight over hijab?</h2>
<p>For decades, Iranian authorities have enforced the mandatory hijab through patrols by police and security forces.</p>
<p>The country’s so-called “morality police”, known as “Gasht-e Ershad” or Islamic guidance patrol, would round up people on the streets for “undermining public decency” and put them in vans to be “re-educated” at designated centres or be punished through the courts.</p>
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<p>That is what happened to 22-year-old Kurdish woman <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/16/iran-one-year-after-the-death-of-mahsa-amini">Mahsa Amini</a> in September 2022, who was arrested in Tehran for alleged non-compliance with hijab laws while out with her family.</p>
<p>She died in police custody, her death triggering nationwide protests for months. Hundreds of protesters and dozens of security forces were killed in the unrest, with authorities saying the United States, Israel, and other rivals <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/3/irans-khamenei-blames-israel-us-in-first-comments-on-protests">were behind the “riots”</a>.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3611796" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3611796" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AP23221389482427-1743329396.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Iran hijab" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3611796"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3611796" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Iranian women walk without mandatory headscarves in Tehran, Iran, August 5, 2023 [Vahid Salemi/AP]</figcaption></figure><p>The hijab has since become an increasingly hot-button topic.</p>
<p>Iranian authorities announced <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/4/iran-suspends-morality-police-what-does-it-mean">they would suspend the morality police</a> in late 2022, but the force’s white vans soon made a comeback to the streets of Tehran and other major cities.</p>
<p>Many more women and men have been arrested or had cases opened against them for dress code-related offences. This has ranged from average Iranians on the streets to journalists and veteran actresses who <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/8/more-iranian-actresses-summoned-for-not-wearing-hijab">appeared unveiled in public</a>, and businesses or even taxi drivers whose customers were deemed to be violating the law.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="controversy-over-hijab-bill">Controversy over hijab bill</h2>
<p>Faced with increasing hijab-related “crimes”, especially in Tehran, where many women go out without a headscarf, Iranian authorities have been trying to implement new legislation that would boost their authority to crack down on offenders.</p>
<p>A new hijab bill that <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/20/irans-parliament-approves-hijab-bill-harsh-punishments-for-violations#:~:text=Tehran%2C%20Iran%20%E2%80%93%20Iran%E2%80%99s%20parliament,country%E2%80%99s%20mandatory%20dress%20code%20rules">defines heavy punishments</a>, especially ramped-up financial penalties, was passed by Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament in September 2023, under the administration of late President Ebrahim Raisi.</p>
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<p>It was then discussed in top state bodies many times, before finally being backed in September 2024 by the Guardian Council, the 12-member constitutional watchdog that has to greenlight legislation before it can be implemented.</p>
<p>But President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has pledged to pursue mandatory hijab through non-confrontational methods like “education”, said his government would be incapable of enforcing the “impractical” bill.</p>
<p>After much speculation, conservative parliament chief and former military commander Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf finally confirmed in March that the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) had ordered the bill’s implementation halted.</p>
<p>The council agreed that the bill “could cause tensions in today’s society” in the aftermath of the 2022-23 protests, Ghalibaf told state media, adding that the government and parliament are working on finding ways of enforcing it in the future.</p>
<p>In the meantime, as <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/11/irans-coupons-and-taxes-giving-with-one-hand-taking-with-the-other">authorities battle a budget crunch</a> under sanctions pressure from United States President Donald Trump, they have launched new efforts to crack down on hijab offences.</p>
<p>They have <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/8/iran-to-use-cameras-to-identify-unveiled-women">set up cameras in public spaces</a> to identify and punish unveiled women, allowed people to report others – and their vehicles, which could be impounded – for hijab offences without providing evidence, and imposed heavy fines or shuttered violating businesses.</p>

<h2 data-sanitized-id="why-confront-pro-hijab-voices">Why confront pro-hijab voices?</h2>
<p>The dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of women demonstrating in front of the parliament have been making headlines for weeks.</p>
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<p>Some local media called them “super-revolutionaries” due to their religious zeal, and they have garnered praise and support from ultraconservative factions within the Iranian establishment.</p>
<p>They, along with several <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/3/irans-zarif-resigns-amid-political-wrangling-over-economic-woes">hardline legislators in parliament</a>, have been accusing the parliament chief and the president of complacency over the enforcement of the hijab bill.</p>
<p>They have described mandatory hijab as a tenet of Iran’s theocratic establishment that “enemies” wish to trample.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3611812" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3611812" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-17T133042Z_81206675_RC2XEDA05S94_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-NOWRUZ-1743329763.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Iran" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3611812"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3611812" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Iranians shop at a flower market before Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, Iran, March 17, 2025 [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p>But Tehran Governor Hossein Khosh-Eghbal said on Saturday that the demonstrations were “illegal” and warned that police would disperse any further protests held without permits.</p>
<p>He did not mention why the demonstrations were tolerated for weeks, or comment on claims, including by conservative legislator Javad Nikbin, that the demonstrators were paid to be there and had been bused in.</p>
<p>Police confirmed that many of the women had travelled from the holy Shia city of Qom, some 150km (90 miles) south of Tehran.</p>
<p>They also broadcast a short video via state media that showed their officers trying to reason with the shouting protesters and explain why they must disperse by law before taking action.</p>
<p>In a viral video filmed by one of the protesters and circulated online, the woman behind the camera can be heard screaming and saying 400 male and female officers descended on them, put them in vans and dropped them in different parts of Tehran to disperse them.</p>
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<p>The woman showed another chador-clad woman lying on the ground with a bloody face, claiming demonstrators were beaten.</p>
<p>The state-run Fars news agency reported that police used “physical means” to end the protests and left demonstrators on the outskirts of the city in the middle of the night.</p>
<p>Police said the video was “staged” in an attempt to influence public sentiment, and that the wounds were self-inflicted.</p>
<p>Politicians with the Paydari (Steadfastness) Front, the ultraconservative faction whose <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/3/who-is-competing-to-become-irans-president-in-the-run-off-election">presidential candidate Saeed Jalili</a> was defeated in elections last year, have been lambasting the decision.</p>
<p>Hamid Rasaei, a top hardline legislator with the faction, said whoever decided to disperse the protesters did it “either out of foolishness or due to infiltration”.</p>

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<p>The head of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has acknowledged the paramilitary has retreated from the capital Khartoum as it warned the fighting against the Sudanese army was not over.</p>
<p>Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, on Sunday conceded in an audio message on the Telegram app that his forces had left the capital last week as the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/27/whats-happened-in-sudans-civil-war-after-new-khartoum-battles">army consolidated its gains</a>.</p>

<p>“It’s true that in the past few days there was a withdrawal by forces [from Khartoum] to reposition in Omdurman. This was a tactical decision made by the leadership. It was a collective decision,” said Dagalo.</p>
<p>However, he pledged to return to Khartoum “stronger, more powerful and victorious”.</p>
<p>“All those who think that there are negotiations or agreements in process with this diabolical movement are mistaken,” he continued, in reference to the army. “We have neither agreement nor discussion with them – only the language of arms.”</p>

<p>Hemedti’s comments came as the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/29/sudans-war-risks-merging-with-conflict-in-south-sudan-say-analysts">Sudanese army</a> continued to consolidate its gains, taking control on Saturday of a major market in Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city, which had previously been used by the RSF to launch attacks.</p>
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<p>The army already controlled most of Omdurman, home to two large military bases. It appears intent on securing the entire capital area, which is made up of the three cities of Khartoum, Omdurman and Khartoum North, divided by branches of the River Nile.</p>
<p>The RSF still hold some territory in Omdurman.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Saturday also pledged not to back down, after a decisive blitz over the past few weeks in which the army reclaimed the presidential palace, the war-damaged airport and other key sites in the city centre.</p>
<p>“We will neither forgive, nor compromise, nor negotiate,” al-Burhan said, adding that victory would only be complete when “the last rebel has been eradicated from the last corner of Sudan”.</p>
<p>The two-year civil war is the result of a power struggle between the army and the RSF before a planned transition to civilian rule.</p>
<p>The war has created what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst hunger and displacement crises. More than 12 million people have been uprooted, tens of thousands killed, and a UN-backed assessment declared famine in parts of the country.</p>
<p>Overall deaths are hard to estimate, but a study published last year said the toll may have reached 61,000 in Khartoum state alone in the first 14 months of the conflict.</p>
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</header><p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead u-inline">Anti-Elon Musk protesters have demonstrated outside hundreds of Tesla dealerships across the US to condemn its CEO’s slashing of federal spending through his role as head of DOGE under President Donald Trump.</p>

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<p><strong>Slovak politicians and economists argue that the measures “have never worked” and backfired on the countries that imposed them</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Slovakia hosted a conference on Saturday calling for the removal of EU sanctions against Russia, with politicians and economists warning that the measures have backfired on the countries that imposed them – including Slovakia.</p>
<p>The event – For Slovakia Without Sanctions – was held in Bratislava and promoted a petition for a referendum aimed at persuading the Slovak government to push for the removal of the sanctions at the EU level.</p>
<p>The petition, initiated by the left-wing Party of Slovak Revival and the right-wing Homeland Party late last year, has so far gained more than 300,000 signatures, the organizers said.</p>
<p>Pavol Slota, the leader of the Homeland Party and one of the authors of the petition, argued that Slovakia’s future depends on ending the sanctions.</p>
<p><em>“It is about our whole nation, all Slovak citizens, about us fighting for our own future. We must do everything so that our message reaches every single Slovak citizen,”</em> he said.</p>

            
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<p><em>“If we leave everything as it is, it may happen so that we may not get a second chance… I have to ask you, do you respect weak people who adapt, who somehow just go along with the crowd? Or do you respect the strong people who respect themselves?”</em> Slota said, urging people to support the campaign in defense of <em>“our values, our traditions, our families, our nation.”</em></p>
<p>Economist and professor Peter Stanek told attendees that research, including from Western sources, has shown that the sanctions are ineffective.</p>
<p><em>“There are dozens of studies that clearly show that sanctions have never worked,”</em> Stanek said. <em>“They always affected those who imposed them… They drove the energy sector crazy.”</em></p>
<p>He added that European energy prices have been growing since 2021, warning that new US tariffs on EU exports and Brussels’ own costly militarization and climate programs will further amplify the economic fallout.</p>
<p><em>“Those sanctions begin to take on a completely different dimension [due] to the cretinism reigning in Brussels and the European Commission,”</em> he said. <em>“I can’t call it anything else, because they’ve probably run out of common sense.”</em></p>

             
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<p>Former Slovak Justice Minister Stefan Harabin also addressed the conference, accusing the EU of <em>“provoking the Russians”</em> with sanctions and escalating the conflict by arming Kiev.</p>
<p>Under Slovakia’s constitution, the president can call a referendum if a petition gathers 350,000 valid signatures. The organizers pledged to continue collecting signatures. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, a critic of EU policy on Ukraine, has called the sanctions counterproductive. He urged Brussels to re-engage with Moscow and warned that the bloc’s confrontational approach is hurting its own member states.</p>

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<p><strong>Estonia and Lithuania are concerned Moscow could redeploy its forces to their borders if the fighting stops, the outlet has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The Baltic nations believe a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict would increase the security threat they face, the Financial Times has reported, citing the defense ministers of the countries.</p>
<p>In recent weeks, a 30-day pause on strikes against energy infrastructure by Moscow and Kiev has been agreed upon, while there have been moves toward reviving the Black Sea grain deal as part of efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict. </p>
<p>The FT said in an article on Sunday that <em>“a full ceasefire is still seen as far off,”</em> but officials in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who have been among the most vocal backers of Ukraine in the EU and NATO since the escalation between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022, are already concerned that it might be achieved at some point. <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“We all understand that when the war in Ukraine will be stopped, Russia will redistribute its forces very quickly. That means also the threat level will increase significantly very quickly,”</em> Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur told the outlet. </p>
<p>Pevkur claimed that Moscow could redeploy 300,000 troops from the contact line with Ukraine to Russia’s western borders once a ceasefire takes effect. </p>

            
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<p>Meanwhile, the Estonian defense minister rejected a plan by the UK and France to send a so-called <em>“reassurance force”</em> made up of Western European soldiers to Ukraine after the fighting stops. <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“We cannot jeopardize the security of the eastern flank of NATO. We cannot fall into the trap that our forces are somehow fixed in Ukraine. Then we will have risks at our border,”</em> he explained. </p>
<p>The article also cited Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene, who said earlier this week that <em>“Russia will use this time following a ceasefire to speed up its military capabilities. They already have a huge, battlefield-trained army, which is going to get even bigger.”</em> <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“Let us not have any illusions. Let us not lie to ourselves that Russia is going to be done after Ukraine,”</em> she said. </p>
<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly dismissed claims that Moscow has any aggressive plans towards NATO as <em>“nonsense”</em> that is meant to scare the European population and justify increases in military spending. </p>

             
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<p>US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who met with Putin at the Kremlin earlier this month, told American journalist Tucker Carlson last week that Russia is <em>“100% not”</em> interested in invading NATO countries. Suggesting that Moscow harbors such plans is <em>“preposterous,”</em> according to Witkoff.</p>

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title: Sanctioned Syrian Population Desperately Trying To Access Oil &amp; Gas
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<p>Syria's severe power shortages have continued throughout the country, also as many towns and cities remain largely destroyed following well over a decade of war. Rebuilding seems nowhere on the horizon as access to global investment and materials has been blocked by Washington.</p>
<p>The post-Assad Hayat Tahrir al-Sham government under Jolani (former AQ/ISIS commander) has just announced <strong>a tender to purchase around 7 million barrels of light crude oil</strong>, according to a fresh petroleum ministry statement.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Syria Issues Tender for 7M Barrels of Light Crude Oil: Syria TV</p><p>Here comes the Al qaeda oil</p>
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<p>The purchase of 7 million barrels of light crude oil is to supply to the <strong>Baniyas refinery</strong>, Syrian media has <a href="https://x.com/Attaqa0/status/1905016489633042882">specified</a>.</p>

<p>Further, this week has seen limited efforts the ease the population's ongoing petrol woes. State-run SANA announced Tuesday, for example, that ship carrying 5,600 tons of gasoline arrived at the oil terminal of the Syrian Oil Transport Company Syrian Petroleum in Baniyas.</p>
<p>The last several years, as US sanctions have tightened, have seen long lines at gas stations and people having to ration fuel. </p>
<p>Additionally, cities and households have had to endure the majority of the day with no electricity. Often this is merely an hour of power to homes a day, but there are <strong>reports that Damascus this month has improved to several hours of electricity daily</strong>.</p>
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<p>This bettered energy situation in the capital may be the first fruits of a deal which was struck with Qatar <a href="https://apnews.com/article/qatar-syria-natural-gas-electricity-energy-shaqrouq-de3c12491048b5470b1a54beee29efd6">two weeks ago</a>. "<strong>Qatar will provide natural gas supplies to Syria with the aim of generating 400 megawatts of electricity a day</strong>, in a measure to help address the war-battered country’s severe electricity shortages," as quoted in SANA.</p>
<p>"Syria’s interim Minister of Electricity Omar Shaqrouq said the Qatari supplies are expected to increase the daily state-provided electricity supply from two to four hours per day," AP also reported.</p>

<p>"Under the deal, Qatar will send 2 million cubic meters of natural gas a day to the Deir Ali power station, south of Damascus, via a pipeline passing through Jordan," the report indicated.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Main takeaway: with Assad gone, we’re now allowed to admit that sanctions harm civilians. <a href="https://t.co/yqRqAgeKfr">https://t.co/yqRqAgeKfr</a></p>
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1905042747830006201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>It's still unclear what future fate awaits the oil and gas fields of Syria's northeast Deir Ezzor and Hasakah regions. US troops and their proxies - the Syrian Democratic Forces - still occupy these. Pre-occupation Syria drew enough resources from these fields in order to supply domestic needs.</p>
<p>US sanctions have all the while sought to cut off the flow of Iranian or Russian oil to the country. For now Trump appears willing to keep the sanctions in place, even with Assad gone.</p>
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<p>Moscow has blasted the European Union's declaration that it will not lift sanctions on Russia in the context of the US-backed Black Sea ceasefire deal. The Russian side has made clear that for the deal to be implemented the West <strong>must remove sanctions from the state-owned Rosselkhozbank as a precondition</strong>. </p>
<p>"An integral part of the Black Sea deal is the lifting of sanctions on a Russian bank," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/28/refusal-to-ease-sanctions-shows-eu-doesnt-want-peace-kremlin-says-a88528">told</a> reporters in reference to the primary financial entity overseeing Russian agricultural products.</p>
<p data-end="733" data-start="566">"If European countries don't want to go down this path, it means they don't want to go down the path of peace in unison with the efforts shown in Moscow and Washington," he added.</p>
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<p data-end="733" data-start="566">Rosselkhozbank has remained cut off from the SWIFT financial messaging network due to EU sanctions, and Russia is seeking immediate reconnect if peace is to be secured in the Black Sea.</p>
<p data-end="733" data-start="566">European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614945-eu-ukraine-sanctions-leyen/">explained</a> at the end this week, "The sanctions are very significant; they are painful; they have an impact on the Russian economy, and <strong>they represent a powerful lever</strong>."</p>
<p data-end="733" data-start="566">So clearly Europe is not ready to let go of this 'power lever'. Von der Leyen made clear that the sanctions<strong><em> "will remain in effect until a just and lasting peace is established in Ukraine."</em></strong> But she did also say that <strong>"when the war is over, the sanctions might be removed."</strong></p>
<p data-end="733" data-start="566">Other European leaders have echoed this viewpoint, for example with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz calling sanctions relief a "grave mistake" which "makes no sense" without a ceasefire first. The Zelensky government too stands against the easting of anti-Russia sanctions. </p>
<p data-end="733" data-start="566">The Kremlin has further described that Europe is actively blocking Trump's good-faith efforts to establish peace, and that this is ultimately behind the EU's refusal to lift sanctions.</p>
<p data-end="733" data-start="566">Russian sources have meanwhile pointed out that Russia is still thriving despite the West's record number of sanctions on the country.</p>

<p data-end="733" data-start="566"><em>Trump admin is increasingly openly clashing with the EU on the Black Sea deal...</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Developments on Russia-US Talks on Ukraine: 🧵</p><p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Russia's conditions to restore the Black Sea Initiative demand Rosselkhozbank be re-connected to SWIFT &amp; lifting of EU sanctions. <a href="https://t.co/TMbdi2riNa">pic.twitter.com/TMbdi2riNa</a></p>
— Fiorella Isabel (@FiorellaIsabelM) <a href="https://twitter.com/FiorellaIsabelM/status/1905033950084370863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p data-end="733" data-start="566">"Earlier this week, President Vladimir Putin asserted that the Russian economy has become the fourth largest in the world in purchasing power parity terms after those of China, the US and India, despite a record 28,595 sanctions being placed on it by Washington, Brussels and their allies," wrote <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614945-eu-ukraine-sanctions-leyen/">RT</a>.</p>
<p data-end="733" data-start="566">"According to the Russian government’s data, the <strong>country’s economy grew 4.1% in 2024</strong>, surpassing the official forecast of 3.9%," the same report said.</p>
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<p><span><span><strong><em>CN</em> Editor Joe Lauria addressed a meeting held on the eve of an appeal hearing for Australian whistleblower David McBride, highlighting the growing repression in contrast to 50 years ago.</strong></span> <span data-sanitized-id="more-124791"></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><strong>O</strong></span>n the night before the appeal hearing of Australian whistleblower David McBride on March 3, <em><strong>Consortium News</strong></em> Editor Joe Lauria addressed a gathering in Canberra, the Australian capital. Below are the texts of his remarks as prepared and as delivered.  </span></p>
<p><span><strong><span>As Prepared</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span>If David McBride’s were an isolated case, it would be an outrage.</span></p>
<p><span>But this case has taken on ramifications beyond the borders of Australia.It is part of a broader pattern of growing repression by the governments of the Five Eyes Nations.</span></p>
<p><span>McBride’s is an international case. As important in the U.S., U.K., Canada and New Zealand as it is here.</span></p>
<p><span>Whistleblowers of course have been punished before. Probably the most famous case was that of Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the classified Pentagon Papers to the NYT to try to stop the Vietnam War, exposing official American lies that the war was being won.</span></p>
<p><span>First Ellsberg gave the Papers to Sen. Mike Gravel to read into the Congressional Record, America’s Hansard. Both Ellsberg and Gravel whom we lost in recent years were friends who sat on <em><strong>CN</strong></em>‘s board of directors.</span></p>
<p><span>To illustrate how much more repressive our 5 Eyes governments are today than 50 years ago in the Pentagon Papers case, and to put David McBride’s imprisonment in context, consider the case of Julian Assange.</span></p>
<p><span>The government’s misconduct in the Ellsberg case paled in comparison to the misconduct in Assange: spying on medical and legal privileged communications and plotting to kidnap or kill Assange. When I emailed Ellsberg about these revelations in Julian’s extradition hearing he was sure he would be released as he bad been. But that was half a century ago.</span></p>
<p><span>Consider also two of the worst U.S. massacres, about 50 years apart. The My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the collateral murder in Iraq.</span></p>
<p><span>In My Lai the whistleblower was listened to by Congress</span></p>
<p><span>In Collateral Murder, the whistleblower was imprisoned.</span></p>
<p><span>In My Lai a soldier was imprisoned.</span></p>
<p><span>In Collateral Murder no one from the military was charged.</span></p>
<p><span>In My Lai the journalist, Seymour Hersh, won a Pulitzer and got a job at <em>The New York Times.</em></span></p>
<p><span>In Collateral Murder, the journalist, Julian Assange, was imprisoned in a maximum security facility.</span></p>
<p><span>This is how far we’ve come. This is the time we live in, the time of Julian Assange, who thankfully was freed after the U.S. knew it would lose, and the time of David McBride, who goes to court tomorrow in an attempt to be free.</span></p>
<p><span>It is also the time of Antoinette Lattouf and Mary Kostakidis and mania over an explosion of suspicious “antisemitism” incidents leading to a new law that can essentially land someone in prison for making another feel unsafe from mere speech.</span></p>
<p><span>It’s a time of journalists being detained under the Terrorism Act at border entries in Britain for something they wrote or said in relation to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a genocide for which Israel is on trial at the ICJ in the Hague.</span></p>
<p><span>It’s a time when university students in the United States are arrested by helmeted riot police and barred in some cases from completing their education for protesting the genocide. A time when Donald Trump wants overseas students deported for criticizing Israel.</span></p>
<p><span>Julian Assange agreed to a plea to gain his freedom. He said essentially: I broke the law, but the law is wrong. The U.S. Espionage Act criminalizes journalism that publishes classified material, permitted under the First Amendment. The law is unconstitutional.</span></p>
<p><span>Similarly David McBride broke the law, but the law is wrong. It brings Australia to pre-Nuremberg days of following orders. On the day he pleaded guilty, one of McBride’s trial lawyers, Mark Davis said:</span></p>
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<p><span>“<span>It was the fatal blow made in conjunction with the decision a few days ago that limits what we can say to the jury on David’s behalf in terms of what his duty as an officer was on the oath he took to serve, as we say, the interests of the Australian people.</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>Well the ruling was: he doesn’t have a duty to serve the interests of the Australian people. He has a duty to follow orders. That is a very narrow understanding of the law in our view that takes us back really to pre-World War II. We all know how military law has been judged since then in terms of compliance to follow orders.</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>So facing that reality, we’re limited in terms of what we could put to a jury in term’s of David’s duty … together with the removal of evidence makes it impossible, realistically, to go to trial. It is a sad day and a difficult day for us to advise David on his options this afternoon and he embraced them.”</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>McBride said: “I stand tall and I believe I did my duty and I don’t see it as a defeat. I see it as a beginning of a better Australia.”</span></span></p>
<p><span>Let us all hope that he is right, and this 50 year trend towards greater and greater repression to protect the interests of the powerful, who have never been so challenged by the public in social and independent media, is indeed coming to an end.</span></p>
<p><span>I confess it looks very dark at the moment.</span></p>
<p><span><strong><span>As Delivered</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span>I’m gonna talk about a little bit about the international aspect of [the David McBride] case. We heard about how, if he won, it could bring down the two party system here [in Australia]. Well, the case has international ramifications as well. But first, I just want to say a few words about <em><strong>Consortium News.</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span>I think we’re the only U.S. publication that has written a word about this story. I don’t know if that’s absolutely certain, but we certainly have covered it in great detail. I was in the courtroom during the trial period.</span></p>
<p><span>And I’m going to be covering tomorrow’s hearing as well. The appeal.</span></p>
<p><span>Why is that? Because on its own it’s an outrageous case, obviously, but it’s part of a trend … 50 years in making. We’re much worse off today than we were 50 years ago. I look around the room. Unfortunately, it looks like almost everybody in this room can remember 50 years ago, which doesn’t bode very well for the future of activism.</span></p>
<p><span>You see so many people of a certain age, if you look at 50 years ago what was the situation in Vietnam War anti-war protests? So many of us remember those days. Now maybe the most famous whistleblower of all, Daniel Ellsberg was on our board at <em><strong>Consortium News.</strong></em> He was a friend of ours.</span></p>
<p><span>He, of course, leaked the Pentagon Papers, which he worked on for the Rand Corporation. He first gave it to Senator Mike Gravel, who was a friend of ours as well. Was also on our board. And Gravel read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, which is America’s Hansard. And then Ellsberg gave it to <em>The New York Times.</em></span></p>
<p><span>The government shut it down. The <em>Times</em> went to the Supreme Court and won that case, a very important case. And that case was that the government has no right of prior restraint. It cannot stop publication in advance. They can’t tell a paper you can’t publish this. However, after publication, they could arrest anyone they wanted to, if it broke the Espionage Act.</span></p>
<p><span>And that, of course, is what happened to Julian Assange. His case was after publication. So if government can’t stop you from publishing. But once you do, they can prosecute you for breaking the Espionage Act.</span></p>
<p><span>Now, I want to illustrate just how far we’ve fallen in 50 years.</span></p>
<p><span>When Julian Assange’s extradition hearing was going on in London, we were there in the courtroom one day. We watched the rest online, and there was testimony from the case in Spain of the security company that were spying on his privileged communications with his lawyers and with his doctors inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London. And we heard about these incredible abuses. There were plots to kidnap or kill him.</span></p>
<p><span>I wrote to Daniel Ellsberg, I told him what had just come out, and he said, that’s it. He’s going to be released. Why? Because Ellsberg was let off when prosecutorial misconduct was revealed in his case. They tried to bribe the judge with the FBI directorship, and they, of course, went into Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist office and stole files trying to dig up dirt on him.</span></p>
<p><span>Once that became known, the case was over. He was free. That’s how Dan Ellsberg avoided going to jail for leaking the Pentagon Papers, which infuriated Nixon and Kissinger. And we know this from the Nixon tapes. He was free because of the misconduct.</span></p>
<p><span>So when Ellsberg heard that they were going to try to kidnap or kill Julian Assange, that they listened in and recorded his conversations with his lawyers – the government that was prosecuting him — that he had to walk free.</span></p>
<p><span>Well, he didn’t, he didn’t walk free. That’s a difference between 50 years ago and today.</span></p>
<p><span>Also consider this: There were two major massacres by U.S. in these 50 years. The first was My Lai in Vietnam and 50 years or so later with the Collateral Murders in Baghdad. One in Vietnam, the My Lai village and one in Baghdad.</span></p>
<p><span>What happened in the My Lai case? In My Lai, the whistleblower was listened to by the U.S. Congress and the Department of Justice. They actually investigated it.</span></p>
<p><span>50 years later in The Collateral Murder, the whistleblower, Chelsea Manning, was put in jail for revealing potential war crimes. 50 years ago they listened.</span></p>
<p><span>And they prosecuted.</span></p>
<p><span>One soldier actually went to prison. That’s in the My Lai case. In the Baghdad murders, The Collateral Murder, no one has been prosecuted on the side of the military.</span></p>
<p><span>And the third person in this story is the journalist. In My Lai it was Seymour Hersh. Seymour Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting that story. He got a full time job at <em>The New York Times</em> out of it.</span></p>
<p><span>The journalist in Collateral Murder went to prison. To a maximum security facility in London.</span></p>
<p><span>This is where we are today. At least I can say it looked like they were making a pretense of seeking justice in those days. Look how far we’ve come today. Look how far we have come.</span></p>
<p><span>Julian was freed only because the U.S. realized they were going to lose the case, based on the fact that they couldn’t give protection on the First Amendment issue. The Department of Justice could not give an assurance to the Home Secretary in Britain. They were going to lose this case. So they let him go. And we hope, of course, tomorrow that David McBride could be let go.</span></p>
<p><span>But we are living in a time now of David McBride. We’re living in a time of Antoinette Latouff. In the time of Mary Kostakidis. In a time of this suspicious anti-Semitism explosion that’s going on around this country that has led to a law that could imprison someone for making someone feel unsafe because of speech. This would not have been possible 50 years ago.</span></p>
<p><span>It seems to me that we had more freedom to speak out against the war in Vietnam. People were not criminalized. Look at the students in Columbia University and other universities in the United States now. Riot police arrested them, took them off campus. Many of them were not allowed to complete their education.</span></p>
<p><span>Donald Trump wants to kick out of the country any foreign student who has protested the genocide on an American University campus. This is the time that we’re living in now, a time when Julian Assange, essentially pleaded that he broke the law, but the law was wrong. That’s essentially what he said.</span></p>
<p><span>And what did that mean? Yes. Technically, the Espionage Act, as it’s written, says no one, no one, even a journalist can possess without authorization or disseminate without authorization, defense or classified information. Certainly, Julian Assange possessed classified information. Certainly, every national security reporter in the United States every day is handling classified information. They could be prosecute if the government wants.</span></p>
<p><span>As I said, in the Espionage Act, the government cannot stop a newspaper from publishing before. But after publication, they can arrest you and prosecute you based on the way the Espionage Act is written right now. And this is what they did with Julian Assange. The problem is the law is wrong. It’s unconstitutional because there is the first Amendment which allows journalists to publish classified material.</span></p>
<p><span>You can’t steal it. But if it’s given to you, even if it was stolen, you have a right to publish that. That is what the First Amendment is all about. And the Espionage Act is in conflict with that. It’s an unconstitutional law, but it’s still on the books. And that’s where Julian could say, I did break that law, but I thought I was protected by the First Amendment.</span></p>
<p><span>So he kept his integrity and he had to plead to something. And he did. Technically, he broke that law. Julian has not put other journalists in danger. This is a misconception here. When you plead, there is no legal precedent. They can’t put another journalist in jail because Julian Assange agreed to that. No, there has to be a conviction in front of a jury and that never happened.</span></p>
<p><span>Now, politically, is that bad? Yes. But legally Julian did not compromise to put other journalists in the future in any jeopardy whatsoever by that.</span></p>
<p><span>In David’s case, and the law, the Nuremberg principle is what has already been brought up here. Does he have a duty to the public? Or only duty to follow orders?</span></p>
<p><span>This is the essence of the case. It’s exactly like Julian. The law is wrong. Even if David broke it technically. So let’s hope if there’s a victory in the appeal of McBride’s case, it will have enormous repercussions. Because we’re living in a time right now of extraordinary repression in all of the Five Eyes countries, we not only have those university students being arrested for protesting the genocide.</span></p>
<p><span>We’ve got a Terrorism Act in Britain where several people, people we know who are also on our board, like Craig Murray – and Richard Medhurst, who have been stopped at the border, arriving in Britain and questioned and detained. Why? Because of what they’ve written, what they’ve said about Israel, because they criticize them. For 24 hours, Medhurst was under arrest and they raided his house now in Austria, the British and the Austrian police going after him.</span></p>
<p><span>We have a writer Scott Ritter, one of our writers. The FBI raided his house. This, I cannot believe 50 years ago would be as common as it’s become right now. Back then, we would have tried to imagine what it would have been like to have lived during the McCarthy era. I don’t think we have to imagine that anymore. And I don’t think it’s paranoia to say that. I resisted this for a long time, saying that we’re living in the same kind of time and we are, we are.</span></p>
<p><span>So when you look at the Terrorism Act in Britain, this repression here with this new hate law here in Australia, when you see what happened to Julian Assange and of course, what’s happened to David McBride, these are all a package, in my view, of the 5 Eyes countries. And they share intelligence with each other.</span></p>
<p><span>I believe also they are very worried, in particular, about the fact that the public now has means to express themselves that they did not have 50 years ago on social media and on independent media like <em><strong>Consortium News</strong></em> and so many others that have risen up. This is a whole new element here.</span></p>
<p><span>The mainstream media, which is in league with the established order, is losing control of the story. People are getting their own voices, that they need to stop if they want to preserve their own interests, their own privileges. And that’s all it’s about: their lifestyle. They want to keep their lifestyle going and shut the rest of us up, and we won’t let them if we can.</span></p>
<p><span>So tomorrow we’re going to come out and have a rally for David. I’m going to be in the courtroom reporting on that. Let’s hope there’s some progress, because if there is, it will have enormous repercussions, as I’m saying, in all the Five-Eyes countries.</span></p>
<p><span>There has to be a victory. There has to finally be victories. There’s got to be a tipping point. Where we win and they lose.</span></p>
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<p><span><strong>Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of</strong> <em><strong>Consortium News</strong></em> <strong>and a former U.N. correspondent for</strong> <em><strong>T</strong></em><em><strong>he Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe</strong></em><strong>, and other newspapers, including <em>The Montreal Gazette,</em> the London <em>Daily Mail</em> and <em>The Star</em> of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the</strong> <em><strong>Sunday Times</strong></em> <strong>of London, a financial reporter for <em>Bloomberg News</em> and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for</strong> <em><strong>The New York Times.</strong></em> <strong>He is the author of two books, <em>A Political Odyssey</em>, with Sen. Mike Gravel, foreword by Daniel Ellsberg; and <em>How I Lost By Hillary Clinton</em>, foreword by Julian Assange.</strong></span></p>

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Judges Weighing Appeal By Whistleblower Who Exposed Cover-Up of Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan

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<p><strong><span>SPECIAL REPORT: David McBride appeared in a Canberra court earlier this month appealing his conviction in a case that could determine if a soldier’s duty is to serve only the King or also the public, reports Joe Lauria.</span></strong><span data-sanitized-id="more-124785"></span></p>
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<p><span><strong>By</strong> <strong><span><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/tag/joe-lauria/">Joe Lauria</a><br></span></strong></span><span><strong>in Canberra, Australia</strong><em><br>
Special to Consortium News</em></span></p>
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<p><span><span><strong>A</strong></span> three-judge panel in the Australian capital is weighing an appeal by whistleblower David McBride that could determine if a soldier’s duty is to serve the public or only his superior officers even if it means covering up evidence of his nation’s war crimes. </span></p>
<p><span>The judges are also considering the question of whether Australian soldiers owe their allegiance to the British crown or to the people of Australia.</span></p>
<p><span>The three Court of Appeal judges have been deliberating for four weeks to determine if the trial judge erred in not permitting McBride a public interest defense. When classified evidence was removed from the courtroom during his trial, the former military lawyer was left with little choice but to <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/17/left-with-no-defense-mcbride-pleads-guilty/">plead guilty</a> in November 2023 to breaching national security laws for leaking the war crimes story to the media.</span></p>
<p><span>In blocking his ability to tell a jury his motive, the trial judge then sentenced McBride to a harsh five years and eight months in prison, of which he’s served 11 months at the Alexander Maconochie Centre in  the capital territory.    </span></p>
<p><span>Looking fit, McBride appeared for his appeals hearing on March 3 in a Canberra courtroom to a standing ovation from his supporters who filled the public gallery. He motioned for calm when one said loudly amidst the applause, “It looks like there <em>is</em> a public interest in your case.”</span></p>
<p><span>Before court was called into session, a rally was held on the street outside.  </span></p>
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<p><strong><span>Part of an Alarming Trend</span></strong></p>
<p><span>McBride’s case comes as one more incidence in an increasing tide of repression in Western countries against whistleblowing and free speech.</span></p>
<p><span><em>WikiLeaks</em> publisher Julian Assange was the most prominent of these cases in the past five years until the U.S. understood it would lose its extradition case and struck a plea deal in which Assange admitted he broke an unconstitutional U.S. Espionage Act that conflicts with the First Amendment.</span></p>
<p><span>A British Terrorism Act has been used since October 2023 to detain and interrogate journalists for their criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.  Berlin police have raided meetings in support of Palestine.</span></p>
<p><span>Government-directed censorship on social media has grown in recent years in both the United States and Europe.  And in the U.S., the Trump administration is seeking to deport a legal resident simply for leading anti-genocide protests on the campus of Columbia University.</span></p>
<p><span>Here in McBride’s Australia, a judge is deciding the case of a presenter who sued the ABC public broadcaster claiming she was sacked for sharing a Human Rights Watch tweet saying Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war.   </span></p>
<p><span>The Australian Zionist Federation is also considering whether to bring formal charges against journalist Mary Kostakidis, whom it brought before the Australian Human Rights Commission for <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/05/acclaimed-australian-journalist-accused-of-anti-semitism-awaits-zionist-federations-next-move/">alleged anti-semitism</a> for a series of her tweets. </span></p>
<p><span>A McBride victory on appeal would be a stunning breakthrough against this disturbing trend.  [See: <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/30/watch-a-time-of-growing-repression/"><em>A Time of Growing Repression</em></a>]</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Background to the Case </strong></span></p>
<p><span>In 2014, McBride made internal allegations after learning of murders of Afghan civilians by Australian soldiers. He then began leaking evidence of the cover-up of the crimes by senior officers to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the national broadcaster, between 2014 and 2016.</span></p>
<p><span>Australian Major General Justice Paul Brereton began an investigation in May 2016 into the allegations.</span></p>
<p><span>The ABC then broadcast a report in 2017 about the murder of innocent Afghans based on evidence supplied by McBride and a second whistleblower.  </span></p>
<p><span>In September 2018 McBride was arrested and charged with allegedly stealing government property in violation of the Criminal Code Act 1995. In March 2019 he was charged with three more alleged crimes in breach of the Defence Act 1903 as well as “unlawfully disclosing a government document” contrary, allegedly, to the Crimes Act 1914.</span></p>
<p><span>On June 5, 2019 the Australian Federal Police raided the ABC’s Sydney headquarters for eight hours and removed files.</span> <span>The attorney general ultimately decided against prosecuting an ABC journalist, Dan Oakes, who had worked on the Afghan Files story. </span></p>
<p><span>Brereton made his findings public in November 2020, pointing to “credible information” about Australian war crimes. The report accused Australian special forces of murdering 39 unarmed Afghans but it did not implicate senior officers.</span></p>
<p><span>Three years later, in March 2023, the first soldier was charged with murder but it hasn’t yet led to a conviction.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>The Trial</strong></span></p>
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<p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-103027" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><span>Davd McBride with his legal team and dog Jake arrive at the Supreme Court for his trial in November 2023, where h would plead guilty on all counts. <span>(Joe Lauria)</span></span></p>
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<p><span>McBride went on trial in November 2023. The prosecution argued that McBride broke laws of military discipline by leaking to the Australian media. McBride’s lawyers conceded in court that he indeed broke such regulations but that he had a paramount duty to the nation that superseded military discipline.</span></p>
<p><span>At the heart of the preliminary argument was the question: whom does a soldier serve? </span></p>
<p><span>Trish McDonald, the chief prosecutor, said the concept of duty in the law is that it is not in the public interest to reveal classified information to the public.</span></p>
<p><span>McBride’s primary duty, she said, was to follow orders. The accused was a legal officer, she asserted. He was not appointed to inform the press. He contravened his official duty. In fact, there is a public interest in non-disclosure, the prosecutor argued.</span></p>
<p><span>At trial, another King’s counsellor, Andrew Berger, implied that covering up alleged war crimes might be in the interests of Australia’s ties to the U.S. Under the U.S. Leahy Law, the Pentagon and State Dept. are barred from funding foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity. </span></p>
<p><span>Berger told the court: “It is a nuanced field: the very important relationship with Australia’s foreign partners. The public interest in maintaining confidentiality outweighs the interest of open justice.”</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Two Ships in the Night</strong></span></p>
<p><span>The defense agreed that while McBride had broken military regulations, he had a duty to the nation to do so.</span></p>
<p><span>Stephen Odgers, the chief defence counsel, gave an exa</span><span>mple of two ships on a collision course with the captain under strict military orders not to reveal the location of his ship. The captain had to disobey the order to avoid a collision. It would be a breach of a lawful order, he said, which would be a matter for a military tribunal, not a civilian court.</span></p>
<p><span>Odgers also argued that an Australian soldier’s duty is based on oath to serve the British sovereign, whose duty is to care for the interests of the entire nation.  </span></p>
<p><span>“The defense arguments go nowhere,” McDonald told the court. The first thing to notice about a soldier’s oath is the wording, she said, and the word is “serve.”</span></p>
<p><span>In the context of McBride, it meant “giving service to the Queen,” she said. “’Serve’ here does not mean act in the public interest. It means nothing more nor less than render service,” said McDonald.</span></p>
<p><span>She went on: “’Serve’ means to a commander, to fight for or to obey in military actions, not in the context of interpreting an oath.”</span></p>
<p><span>“To interpret ‘serve’ to mean to act in the public interest, is to turn on its head service to king or queen,” she said. It is not “for the soldier to do whatever he thinks is right.” But is a soldier to fight and die to defend the nation or only the monarch?</span></p>
<p><span>“Nowhere in the oath does it refer to public interest or that” a soldier “must act in the public interest,” she added. If it were, Parliament would have said so, she said. </span></p>
<p><span>McDonald quoted an 19<sup>th</sup> century reference on military justice and statutory powers, saying, “There is nothing so dangerous to the civil establishment of the state as an undisciplined or reactionary army.” </span></p>
<p><span>McBride’s chief trial attorney Odgers, countered that, “The duty to serve the sovereign does not require blind obedience to orders.” He asked that the judge instruct the jury on the law that would allow it to decide on this.</span></p>
<p><span>Odgers said in the “21<sup>st</sup> Century for the Crown to make the assertion that to obey unquestionably, the orders of superiors ignores Nuremberg and the acceptance in our society that members of the military have higher duties.” </span></p>
<p><span>The Nuremberg Tribunal that tried Nazi war criminals established that a soldier had a duty to disobey unlawful orders.</span></p>
<p><strong><span>The Plea </span></strong></p>
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<p><span>David Mossop, the trial judge, ruled on Nov. 17, 2023 that he would instruct the jury,</span> <span>which was to be selected the following Monday, to disregard any public interest in the defense. <span><span>“T</span><span>here is no aspect of duty that allows the accused to act in the public interest contrary to a lawful order,” he told the court.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>McBride’s legal team tried to appeal that decision, but its application was denied by Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucy McCallum the same morning. In the afternoon Mossop ordered that agents of the Attorney General’s office could remove classified documents from the defense’s possession, which McBride’s team had intended to present, in a highly redacted form, to the jury.  </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Because of those regressive rulings, McBride accepted his attorneys’ advice that, left with no viable defense, he should plead guilty.  </span></span></span><span><span><span>On being arraigned for a second time, a defiant McBride stood in courtroom SC7 before a microphone placed in front of him and pronounced “Guilty” to each count read out to him.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>On the street outside the courthouse immediately afterward, McBride’s trial lawyer, Mark Davis told reporters: “We received the decision just this afternoon, which was in essence to remove evidence from the defense. … The Crown, the government, was given the authority to bundle up evidence and run out the backdoor with it. He is no longer able to put it before a jury.”</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Davis said:</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>“It was the fatal blow made in conjunction with the decision a few days ago that limits what we can say to the jury on David’s behalf in terms of what his duty as an officer was on the oath he took to serve, as we say, the interests of the Australian people.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Well the ruling was: he doesn’t have a duty to serve the interests of the Australian people. He has a duty to follow orders.  That is a very narrow understanding of the law in our view that takes us back really to pre-World War II. We all know how military law has been judged since then in terms of compliance to follow orders.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>So facing that reality, we’re limited in terms of what we could put to a jury in term’s of David’s duty … together with the removal of evidence makes it impossible, realistically, to go to trial. It is a sad day and a difficult day for us to advise David on his options this afternoon and he embraced them.”</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>McBride said: “I stand tall and I believe I did my duty and I don’t see it as a defeat. I see it as a beginning of a better Australia.”</span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span>The Sentencing</span></strong></p>
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<p><span><span><span>McBride was sentenced to a draconian 5 years and 8 months in prison by Mossop on May 13, 2024. Mossop told the court at sentencing that McBride thought he knew better than the Australian Defence Force. “It is imperative that others be generally deterred from holding such attitudes,” he said.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span>Whether McBride’s actions had caused harm was central to his sentence. His lawyers argued until the end on Tuesday that there was  no evidence of harm and that the risk was minimal because he had given the material to professional journalists.</span></p>
<p><span>But Mossop ruled Tuesday that the “nature of the offending, harm,” and a “lack of contrition all give rise to the need to give general deterrence – to prevent any further disclosures of this kind.”</span></p>
<p><span>The judge quoted McBride as saying: “I never said I would coverup crimes for the government.”  Mossop told the court that McBride accessed documents and stored them in a personal folder. “He then removed this information – some 237 docs, 209 of which were classified ‘Secret” – and took them home,” the judge said.</span></p>
<p><span>The Australian Federal Police “seized the documents from his home, giving rise to the charge of theft.”</span></p>
<p><span>The judge said McBride’s lawyers argued his motivation was neither financial gain, nor to aid Australia’s enemies. that he believed he was not committing an offence.</span></p>
<p><span>Mossop said McBride admitted to taking the documents but in pursuit of a legal aim – within the Protective Disclosure Act, that McBride claimed he had a legal obligation to disclose.  “He showed no remorse,” the judge said.</span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Davis said McBride would appeal. He called it an “extremely heavy sentence” particularly since the government “conceded” McBride “caused no harm” and it did not personally benefit him.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span>In the street outside the courthouse, Davis said:</span></p>
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<p><span>“It’s an issue of international importance that a Western nation has such a narrow definition of duty. We say David McBride fulfilled his duty and he wished to put it to a jury that he conducted himself according to the oath he gave to his nation.”</span></p>
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<p><span><strong>A Report Delayed</strong></span></p>
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<p><span>An independent report into the Afghan war crimes, which could have had a bearing on the outcome of McBride’s case, was not released by the Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles until the day of sentencing. The Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel Report was completed on Nov. 8, 2023 — nine days before Mossop rejected a public interest defense leading to McBride’s guilty plea. </span></p>
<p><span>The independent panel report was withheld by Marles until the day of McBride’s sentencing because, as Marles wrote in the cover letter, “disclosure of the documents by these orders would, or could reasonably be expected to, prejudice legal proceedings – specifically current and future war crimes prosecutions.”</span></p>
<p><span>The independent report reversed the findings of the 2020 Bereton Report. It said:</span></p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="paragraph_paragraph__iYReA"><span>“The Panel did not agree with the Brereton Inquiry’s view that some accountability and responsibility could not fall on the most senior officers and it suggested that issue should be the subject of further consideration. […]</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="paragraph_paragraph__iYReA"><span>There is ongoing anger and bitter resentment amongst present and former members of the special forces, many of whom served with distinction in Afghanistan, that their senior officers have not publicly accepted some responsibility for policies or decisions that contributed to the misconduct, such as the overuse of special forces.”</span></p>
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<p><span>It said:</span></p>
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<p><span>“Throughout his Report, Major General Brereton attributed or dismissed legal, moral and collective accountability for the incidents that were uncovered, factors which contributed to their occurrence, actions or behaviours which facilitated them and governance oversights and failures. […] the terms of reference for the Inquiry and its reporting obligations, was such that the highest levels of Defence leadership at the relevant times were not required to give evidence to the Inquiry and were not included in the Inquiry’s attribution of accountability.”</span></p>
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<p><span>The report would have provided evidence to support McBride’s contention that senior officers were not held to account for their part in the war crimes, even if there was no direct evidence of their participation in them. McBride had taught other military lawyers about the so-called Yamashita Standard.</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki_Yamashita">Tomoyuki Yamashita</a> was a World War II Japanese general who was found guilty by an American military tribunal in Manila</span> <span>and executed in February 1946. He was held to be responsible  for subordinates’ war crimes as long as he did not attempt to discover and stop the crimes from happening. </span></p>
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<p><span>“If they didn’t know, they should know,” said federal Senator David Shoebridge outside the Supreme Court building in Canberra before McBride’s appeal hearing this month. “I can tell you now there were multiple reports going up the chain about the war crimes in Afghanistan. How is it that nobody in a position of senior leadership in the ADF has ever been seriously challenged? Something is wrong.” </span></p>
<p><span>Shoebridge said the independent panel’s report was “buried, literally buried by the Albanese government.”  He said, “We have a system in which power protects power in this country. And David tried to … knock a hole in this wall of protection for senior decision makers. And if you want to know why he’s in jail, it’s because of that. … He said surely there is a higher good, surely there is a public interest which should break that wall down of impunity.”   </span></p>
<p><span>Shoebridge said McBride was denied presenting evidence because the court said it would prejudice national security. “I can tell you now what prejudices national security: a sense of impunity in the senior leadership … breaking international laws and destroying Australia’s international reputation … that’s what impacts national security,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span>Not only ought the brass have known about atrocities in 2012; they should have backed their legal officer in bringing prosecutions, McBride’s lawyers argue. Instead they turned against McBride, covered up the atrocities and investigated other soldiers, who from 2013, had not committed serious crimes, or no crime at all.</span></p>
<p><span>“<span><span><span>I actually say the problem is with the generals, not with the corporals and privates,” McBride said at a rally on the eve of his 2023 trial. “</span></span></span><span><span><span>You people know that it it’s not going to make this country better if we put a private soldier in jail.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span>The independent panel report also raised the alarm about the ADF’s “systematic” move away from a just war theory based on natural law, which  seeks to minimize civilian casualties, to the ADF’s use of utilitarian ethics that justifies unrestrained violence or torture if it is a means to a desired outcome.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p><span>Because the independent report was released after McBride’s conviction and sentencing it is considered new evidence and not admissible to the appeals court. </span></p>
<p><strong><span>The Appeal</span></strong></p>
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<p><span>At the appeal hearing on March 3, McBride’s attorney, Bill Neild, argued before Justices Belinda Baker, Louise Taylor and Wendy Abraham, that there had been a miscarriage of justice.</span> <span>He told the court McBride’s</span> <span>“pleas of guilty arose only because of the decisions made by his Honour Mossop J in relation to … questions of law and not because the appellant had any genuine belief that he was guilty of the offences as charged.”</span></p>
<p><span>A miscarriage of justice prompted McBride to plead guilty only because of  Mossop’s wrong decision that he would instruct the jury regarding the definition of duty, Neild contended. And for Mossop, that definition of “duty was in a sufficiently similar way to the way in which a master is entitled to order his servant.”</span></p>
<p><span>Neild sought to distinguish between “duty” and “official duty.” Though the government says the duty to obey orders is central to military discipline, it doesn’t follow that this discipline is the same as “official duty,” which c0mes with taking an oath of office, McBride’s barrister argued.<br></span></p>
<p><span>Duty under his oath to the British monarch was to serve the King, who serves the interest of the public, Neild argued. McBride believed he was lawfully upholding his oath as a legal officer whose “paramount” duty is to administer justice in the public interest. </span></p>
<p><span>McBride “believed he was acting in accordance with that duty by courageously standing up for what he believed was right and speaking out robustly and openly against what he believed was wrong in the Australian Defence Force,” Neild said.</span></p>
<p><span>“At trial, it would be a question for the jury whether in so acting” he had served the public, and it would be up to the government to “prove beyond reasonable doubt that his conduct was not reasonably necessary to advance the Australian public interest,” Neild argued. </span> <span>Mossop mistakenly said he would instruct the jury to disregard any defense in the public interest at all, however.</span></p>
<p><span>This argument could lead the three judges in this case to determine whom the British monarch ultimately serves. [They should also be considering whether it is a soldier’s duty to only fight for and defend the King, or to defend the nation? In the U.S., at least on paper, a soldier’s oath is to defend the Constitution, not the president.]</span></p>
<p><span>McBride wants Mossop’s ruling to be overturned and a trial to be held before a jury, which would be allowed to hear such a defense.  Alternately, McBride is appealing for a reduction of sentence to community service. </span></p>
<p><span>[See: <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1896335902236176521?refresh=1741223769"><em>Thread of</em> <strong>Consortium News</strong></a><em>‘ Live Tweeting of Appeal Hearing.]</em></span></p>
<p><span><strong>The Government’s Response</strong></span></p>
<p><span>McDonald for the government flatly argued that</span></p>
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<p><span>“There is nothing in the oath of allegiance [to the Crown] which mentions the public interest.  … T</span><span>he content of the oath of enlistment is set out. As we submitted, there is no mention of anything to do with the public interest. What we would draw your Honours’ attention to are … two parts of [the oath]. First, that it requires that the particular member of the Defence Forces ‘will well and truly serve the sovereign’. So there is a concept of service.</span></p>
<p><span>And then finally, within the oath, ‘will faithfully discharge my duty according to law’. And, in our submissions, not only does that oath not refer to public interest, but, indeed, when one looks at its actual terms, it is the antithesis of a concept that a member of the Defence Forces would have …  discretion not to obey an order or to act in some way contrary to the Defence Forces because that member of the Defence Forces perceived that it was in the public interest.”</span></p>
<p><span>The question, or the concept of service … is in line with the inherent nature of a military service. And … </span><span>it’s an inherent part of the military that orders are issued, orders are made by superiors, and they are followed by inferior officers. …</span></p>
<p><span>The oath requires ‘to discharge my duty according to law’, and again, the concept of ‘according to law’ incorporates matters such as general orders that are made by the military requiring members of the Defence Forces to comply with those orders.”</span></p>
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<p><span>The three judges should be grappling with a collision between monarchy and democracy: does the monarch serve his people or does he ultimately serve no one except the interests of the elite to cover up war crimes? And to whom then does a soldier’s loyalty lie? Is a soldier’s life to be sacrificed to defend the nation or just the King?</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of</strong> <em><strong>Consortium News</strong></em> <strong>and a former U.N. correspondent for</strong> <em><strong>T</strong></em><em><strong>he Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe</strong></em><strong>, and other newspapers, including <em>The Montreal Gazette,</em> the London <em>Daily Mail</em> and <em>The Star</em> of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the</strong> <em><strong>Sunday Times</strong></em> <strong>of London, a financial reporter for <em>Bloomberg News</em> and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for</strong> <em><strong>The New York Times.</strong></em> <strong>He is the author of two books, <em>A Political Odyssey</em>, with Sen. Mike Gravel, foreword by Daniel Ellsberg; and <em>How I Lost By Hillary Clinton</em>, foreword by Julian Assange.</strong></span></p>

link:
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title: Follow The Money: Ex-WSJ Journalist Reveals 24 Organizations Funding Tesla Takedown Madness
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<p><strong>Democrats</strong> unleashed their <strong>coordinated, NGO-driven color revolution—dubbed the 'Tesla Takedown</strong>'—nationwide on Saturday, though it unfolded in a <strong><u>notably unimpressive fashion</u></strong>. </p>
<p>The days of million-man (or woman) marches, usually bankrolled with taxpayer dollars funneled through <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rubio-slashes-83-usaid-programs-hails-doge-supporting-historic-reform">now-defunct USAID</a>, appear to be over, as their ability to sway national sentiment has <strong>diminished significantly</strong>. Still, these dark <strong>and corrupt NGOs</strong> receive monies from <strong>leftist billionaires</strong>, as we've previously reported. </p>
<p><strong>I.e., angry old white liberals </strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">OMG, looks at this Tesla protest in Charlotte NC, it's all old white Karen's and their miserable low testosterone cucks 😂😂😂😂 <a href="https://t.co/BCuEstNEwC">pic.twitter.com/BCuEstNEwC</a></p>
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) <a href="https://twitter.com/LangmanVince/status/1906083974583103509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote>

<p>As the protests wound down by late Saturday, Elon Musk took to X, quoting a Joe Rogan podcast that called out Democrats for their rent-a-protester tactics. <strong>Musk asked: <em>"Who is funding and organizing all these paid protests?" </em></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Who is funding and organizing all these paid protests? <a href="https://t.co/QDjD9Gao8a">https://t.co/QDjD9Gao8a</a></p>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1906229604798312777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>On Friday, the far-left <strong>revolutionaries behind Tesla Takedown began <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tesla-takedown-revolutionaries-prepare-mobilization-far-left-agitators-nationwide">mobilizing their far-left agitators</a> aligned with the Democratic Party. Soros-linked organizations like Indivisible have been linked to yesterday's "Global Day of Action" against Tesla ...</strong></p>
<p><strong><em><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_11-32-54.png?itok=4WwNy2AW" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_11-32-54.png?itok=4WwNy2AW"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="091c267d-2435-4804-b51e-18cecc6bbc49" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="267" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_11-32-54.png?itok=4WwNy2AW" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></em></strong></p>
<p>The Tesla Takedown website links to <strong>The Action Network</strong>—an online platform used by shady <strong>far-left NGOs</strong> to organize and fundraise—which shows that groups like <strong><em>Troublemakers and the Disruption Project</em></strong> led yesterday's efforts to "<strong>tank Tesla's stock</strong>" and <strong>destroy shareholder value</strong>. </p>
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<p>"<strong>Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy</strong>," Tesla Takedown wrote on its website, adding, "The stakes couldn't be higher. No one is coming to save us—not politicians, not the media." </p>
<p>Also, on Friday, Musk threw the corrupt far-left and anti-American NGOs a curve ball that <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/did-musks-xai-x-merger-neutralize-tesla-takedown-color-revolution">renders their entire movement meaningless</a>...</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">xAI &amp; X Merger Defuses Musk's Tesla Share Liquidation Risk <a href="https://t.co/Ohl1l81O6H">https://t.co/Ohl1l81O6H</a></p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1906034910709645679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>On Sunday morning, <em><a href="https://x.com/AsraNomani/status/1906281197430329459">ex-Wall Street Journal journalist Asra Nomani</a></em> <strong>answered Musk's question with a detailed list of the 24 groups that led one Tesla Takedown protest in northern Virginia</strong>. </p>
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<p><strong>Here are the answers</strong>—sure to give Musk and DOGE investigators a quick path to uncovering the root of the chaos against Tesla vehicles, showrooms, service centers, and chargers in recent months. </p>
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<p><em>You asked who is funding and organizing the #TeslaTakedown protests.</em> <strong><em>I've got answers for you, after going onto the streets of northern Virginia for the local protests here, seeing familiar faces from the Virginia Democratic political machine and then following the money -- and the data.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><u>AstroTurf Protest Industry</u></strong></p>
<p>To your question, at the latest count, as of 3/30, 5:30 AM:</p>
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<p><strong>24 organizations and counting are funding and organizing the #TeslaTakedown protests</strong> and leading the very partisan propaganda campaign against Tesla, Tesla drivers, Tesla employees, Donald Trump and you. See below to see all 24 groups with their revenues, involvement, tax ID numbers and other info.</p>
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<p>These <strong>organizations have combined annual revenues of at least $124 MILLION and counting</strong>. </p>
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<p><strong>100% of the groups are aligned with the Democratic Party</strong>. At the protest on 3/29 at Tyco Road, in Tysons, Va., a photo I took of a "Virginia Democrats" sign in front of the Tesla dealership. </p>
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<p><strong>Most of these groups enjoy tax-deductible status as 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations, claiming they are "nonpartisan."</strong> A few have PACs. The organizations have not returned requests for comment.</p>
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</ul><p><u><strong>Database</strong></u></p>
<p>You can see the raw data on 306 #TeslaTakedown protests in the database <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13MOGhdMPc-_lGGdEGkS0QVSayczGG7Z5rlk_LUxdCTk/edit?pli=1&amp;gid=1384937108#gid=1384937108">here</a>.</p>
<p><u><strong>Back story</strong></u></p>
<p>I'm a <strong>former Wall Street Journal reporter and a propaganda expert and editor of the @DPearlProject</strong> , a journalism nonprofit named for my WSJ colleague and friend Daniel Pearl. Since Oct. 7th, I have been reporting on the anti-Jew, anti-America, anti-Israel protests and building a database, following the money. <strong>It numbers 2,000 groups now, and I am working on a web and mobile app for parents, policymakers, university administrators, law enforcement, the public and others.</strong></p>
<p>I went to the #TeslaTakedown protest a week ago Saturday on Tyco Road at the Tysons, Va., and saw familiar faces from Indivisible and the Fairfax County Democratic Party, shouting for you to be deported as they stood outside the Tesla dealership. I wondered too who is organizing and funding the protests nationwide.</p>
<p>I got the protest details scraped from ActionNetwork and Mobilize, the two platforms aligned with the Democratic Party promoting the #TeslaTakedown protests, and built a public database of the groups behind the Tesla protest.</p>
<p><u><strong>AstroTurf, not "grassroots"</strong></u></p>
<p>In an article for the @FairfaxTimes , I wrote about how the local protests in Tysons, are a window into how the protests are AstroTurf, not "grassroots." What this case reveals is the way that a <strong>multi-million dollar professional protest industry manufactures outrage in top-down political theater, agitprop, or agitation propaganda, and now criminal offenses.</strong> <a href="https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/local-teslatakedown-reveals-grassroots-protests-are-astroturf/article_1c368d4d-708c-4074-b5fa-5eaf6a32ea97.html">Here is the article</a>.</p>
<p><u><strong>Next step:</strong></u></p>
<p><strong>I just got data on the April 5 #HandsOff protests and will be adding that data to the database.</strong> In addition, I am completing an analysis of the propaganda using the tools of natural language processing and content analysis.</p>
<p><strong>Why is this important to report on? Because defending principles of free enterprise and individual liberty in the U.S. means allowing people to buy whatever make of car they wish without fear of danger or harassment and allowing companies to do business without fear of danger or harassm</strong>ent.</p>
<p>All, please let me know if you have any questions, ideas or recommendations. Asra <a href="mailto:asra@asranomani.com">asra@asranomani.com</a> To support the Pearl Project: <a href="https://t.co/fn51TOm2V6">http://asranomani.com/donate</a></p>
<p><strong>24+ Groups Leading and Funding #TeslaTakedown (and counting) (<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13MOGhdMPc-_lGGdEGkS0QVSayczGG7Z5rlk_LUxdCTk/edit?pli=1&amp;gid=1384937108#gid=1384937108">view full list here</a>): </strong></p>
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<p><strong>CC Doge Team...</strong></p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Hello <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElonMusk</a> and Friends,</p><p>You asked who is funding and organizing the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeslaTakedown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TeslaTakedown</a> protests. I've got answers for you, after going onto the streets of northern Virginia for the local protests here, seeing familiar faces from the Virginia Democratic political machine and… <a href="https://t.co/53MMDpOnOx">pic.twitter.com/53MMDpOnOx</a></p>
— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) <a href="https://twitter.com/AsraNomani/status/1906281197430329459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p><strong>Your dive into these NGOs became much easier <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13MOGhdMPc-_lGGdEGkS0QVSayczGG7Z5rlk_LUxdCTk/edit?pli=1&amp;gid=1384937108#gid=1384937108">because of Nomani's reporting</a>. </strong></p>

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title: Greenland, Denmark Push Back On Vance&amp;#039;s Visit
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<p><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/greenland-denmark-push-back-on-vances-visit-5833479?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge"><em>Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times,</em></a></p>
<p>Leadership in Denmark and Greenland are pushing back against the Trump administration’s proposal to take over Greenland following a controversial visit to the territory by Vice President JD Vance.</p>
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<p>Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s new prime minister, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us-vice-president-vance-visit-greenland-island-trump-wants-control-2025-03-28/">said</a> on March 28 that Vance’s visit signaled a “lack of respect,” and called for political unity to combat foreign interference.</p>

<p><em><strong>“At a time when we as a people are under pressure, we must stand together,”</strong></em> Nielsen said during a press conference in Nuuk on March 28.</p>
<p>The comments came just hours after Vance led a delegation to a U.S. Space Force base in Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. He accused Danish leadership of underinvesting in defense, which he said had allowed Chinese and Russian infiltration into the Americas.</p>
<p><em><strong>“Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,”</strong></em> Vance said at the Pituffik Space Force Base on Friday.</p>
<p><em>“Denmark has not kept pace and devoted the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China, and other nations.”</em></p>
<p>Vance has repeatedly said that the Chinese and Russian militaries are using Greenland’s waterways, without providing details about the alleged incidents.</p>
<p><strong>The United States has significantly scaled back its own Arctic defense spending over the decades, including in Greenland.</strong></p>

<p>To that end, Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that the United States had maintained 17 bases and more than 10,000 service members across the territory during the Cold War, but now only maintained the one base with about 200 personnel.</p>
<p>Denmark, meanwhile, is currently engaged in a $2 billion push to modernize its capabilities in the region. Rasmussen also noted a desire to spend more.</p>
<p><em><strong>“[Vance] has a point that we haven’t done enough, but I’m a little provoked because it’s also the Americans who haven’t done enough,”</strong></em> Rasmussen said.</p>
<p>Similarly, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that the Trump administration’s characterization was not a fair one and went against the spirit of the close alliance the two powers have shared for more than 80 years.</p>
<p>The souring in relations comes amid an aggressive push by President Donald Trump to annex Greenland. <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/trump-not-ruling-out-using-military-force-to-reclaim-panama-canal-greenland-5787667">Trump has vowed</a> to bring the territory under U.S. control and has refused to rule out using military force to do so.</p>
<p><strong>Trump has said owning Greenland is an “<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-says-us-control-ownership-of-greenland-an-absolute-necessity-5780830">absolute necessity</a>” for maintaining international security, and Vance has said that controlling Greenland’s minerals will be vital to fueling the future economy of the United States.</strong></p>
<p>Polls have <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/greenlands-opposition-party-wins-election-amid-trumps-push-for-control-of-territory-5824040">shown</a> that Greenlanders overwhelmingly oppose becoming part of the United States.</p>

<p>Likewise, Vance’s visit brought about some of the largest public demonstrations in Greenland’s history, with protesters wearing hats or waving banners with slogans including “Make America Go Away” and “Yankees Go Home.”</p>
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Intel sharing and ‘boots on the ground’: Takeaways from NYT investigation into ‘secret’ US-Ukraine partnership

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<p><strong>The Pentagon was indispensable in helping Kiev hit priority Russian targets, the outlet has claimed</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A New York Times investigation has found that the administration of former US President Joe Biden provided Ukraine with support that went far beyond arms shipments – extending to daily battlefield coordination, intelligence sharing, and joint strategy planning that were indispensable in Kiev’s fight against Russia.</p>
<p>The report, which was prepared based on more than 300 interviews with Ukrainian and Western government and military officials, takes a deep dive into the cooperation between Washington and Kiev from the early days of the conflict through late 2024.</p>
<h2>Attempt at Vietnam rematch</h2>
<p>Following the outbreak of the hostilities in February 2022, the US and Ukraine gradually moved towards an <em>“extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology”</em> that became Kiev’s <em>“secret weapon”</em> in fighting Russia, the investigation said.</p>

            
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<p>The outlet noted that Washington’s campaign to support Ukraine reached such a scale that it became <em>“a rematch in a long history of US-Russia proxy wars – Vietnam in the 1960s, Afghanistan in the 1980s, Syria three decades later.”</em> <br><em></em></p>
<h2>'Points of interest,' not <em>'targets'</em></h2>
<p>The US Army garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany, became the nerve center of the cooperation, according to the report. American and Ukrainian officers worked jointly each day to select Russian targets – although they avoided using the phrase, using instead the euphemism <em>“points of interest”</em> out of fear that the phrase could be deemed too provocative. Intelligence flowed from satellite imagery and intercepted communications directly into Ukrainian targeting decisions.</p>

            
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<p>Since mid-2022, Ukraine heavily relied on US data to attack Russian command and control centers and other high-value targets. Targeting sheets contained dozens of objectives listed in order of priority, the NYT said.</p>
<p>Some of the massive strikes made using Western-supplied long-range missiles were aimed at targets in Crimea, including Russian warships. Some of the strikes have resulted in civilian casualties.</p>
<p>One unnamed European official told the paper that he was shocked by the extent of the involvement. <em>“They are part of the kill chain now,”</em> he was quoted as saying.</p>
<h2>‘Boots on the ground’ after all</h2>
<p>While early into the conflict the Biden administration promised that the US would not <em>“put boots on the ground”</em> in Ukraine, the cooperation in Wiesbaden ended up leading to an easing of this prohibition, the report claims.</p>

            
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<p>Under Biden, the US <em>“authorized clandestine operations,”</em> and <em>“American military advisers were dispatched to Kiev and later allowed to travel closer to the fighting,”</em> NYT said, estimating their number in the dozens.</p>
<h2>Walking over ‘red lines’</h2>
<p>As the conflict progressed, the Biden administration gradually relaxed the self-imposed restrictions on supplying Kiev with arms, particularly long-range missiles. In 2024, the US extended its permissions to allow Ukraine to carry out limited long-range strikes using American-supplied weapons into internationally recognized Russian territory while providing Kiev with the relevant targeting data.</p>
<h2>Tensions over strategy</h2>
<p>While cooperation with the US provided Ukraine with invaluable data and resources to fight Russia, the sides at times had major disagreements over strategy and objectives, the NYT noted.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“Where the Americans focused on measured, achievable objectives, they saw the Ukrainians as constantly grasping for the big win, the bright, shining prize,”</em> the report said.</p>

            
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<p>The contradictions became particularly apparent during Ukraine’s botched counteroffensive in the southern sector of the front in the summer of 2023. The Ukrainian leadership was split between competing objectives – pursuing an assault toward Melitopol, and prioritizing the area of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).</p>
<h2>What now?</h2>
<p>While describing the cooperation as a <em>“secret weapon”</em> in Kiev’s arsenal, the NYT noted that the arrangement now <em>“teeters on a knife edge”</em> as US President Donald Trump is pushing for talks with Russia and seeking to end the conflict.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“For the Ukrainians, the auguries are not encouraging… the American president has baselessly blamed the Ukrainians for starting the war, pressured them to forfeit much of their mineral wealth and asked the Ukrainians to agree to a ceasefire without a promise of concrete American security guarantees,”</em> the outlet summarized, adding that Trump has already started to wind down some elements of the partnership.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le chef du Parti libéral du Canada, Mark Carney, commence la deuxième semaine de campagne avec un avion recouvert des couleurs du parti.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Contrairement à ce qui est prévu dans le cas de l'avion du Parti conservateur, les médias qui paient leur place sont invités à l’intérieur pour suivre le chef.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">M. Carney a ralenti le rythme en fin de semaine avec une seule activité publique samedi pour l’ouverture de son bureau de campagne, dans la circonscription de Nepean, dans la région d’Ottawa. Le chef libéral n’a pas tenu de point de presse depuis vendredi.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">En coulisses, une source évoque le besoin pour M. Carney de se reposer après une course au leadership et un début de mandat occupé à titre de premier ministre. Une autre source mentionne aussi le temps de préparation pour les débats à venir, un exercice dans lequel M. Carney n’a que très peu d’expérience, étant novice en politique.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">De passage dans une résidence pour aînés de Victoriaville, le chef du Bloc québécois s'est prêté à une période de questions improvisée, un exercice qui peut s’avérer périlleux, les questions n'étant pas soumises à l’avance.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">S'il y en a qui ont des questions à poser, pas besoin de me ménager, je suis capable d'en prendre</span></q>, a lancé Yves-François Blanchet aux résidents venus l’écouter dans le salon du foyer pour personnes âgées Les Jardins du Parc Linéaire.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Yves-François Blanchet lui a réservé une longue réponse, affirmant d’abord que personne ne peut affronter Donald Trump seul avant d’ajouter ceci : <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Quand les Québécois sont inquiets, ça leur prend un Torontois, préférablement un Anglais, puis, si on est capables, quelqu'un des banques. Les Québécois sont capables d'assumer tout leur poids politique avec autant de sens des responsabilités que n'importe qui d'autre.</span></q></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Ce résident lui a rappelé qu’il y a des Québécois dans le Cabinet de Mark Carney, dont Mélanie Joly et Pierre-Philippe Champagne. Le chef bloquiste a ensuite répondu à d’autres questions, mais en retrait de l’assemblée, une personne à la fois.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Il a de nouveau attaqué sa transparence, l'absence d'événements médiatiques en cette huitième journée de campagne ainsi que le refus du <span aria-hidden="false" data-sanitized-class="sc-dxlmjS fpItdT"><span tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="sc-fedTIj ghPrmF"><abbr title="Parti libéral du Canada" data-sanitized-class="border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 border-b-2 border-dotted no-underline">PLC</abbr></span></span> de débourser 75 000 $ pour participer au débat en français organisé par TVA, le <em>Face-à-Face</em>, ce qui a mené <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2150113/mark-carney-face-a-face-tva" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">à son annulation</a>. Il l'a entre autres accusé de <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">se cacher</span></q>.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Il a invité les électeurs à voter pour la formation souverainiste et ainsi empêcher l'élection d'un gouvernement majoritaire, qu'il soit conservateur ou libéral, afin qu'il soit obligé de prendre en considération les intérêts du Québec.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Ce matin, le chef néo-démocrate, Jagmeet Singh, a mis de l’avant une promesse en logement, soit l’accord de prêts hypothécaires à faible taux d’intérêt garantis par l’État pour aider les personnes souhaitant accéder à leur première propriété.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">En point de presse à Port Moody, en Colombie-Britannique, Jagmeet Singh s’est montré fier de cette <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">idée nouvelle, mais audacieuse</span></q> proposée parce que <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">le gouvernement libéral et les conservateurs ont donné des prêts aux grandes entreprises depuis longtemps, mais ils n'ont jamais aidé les gens à acheter leur première maison.</span></q></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Cet engagement s’ajoute au <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/en-direct/1012518/elections-federales-canada-jour-6?publication=2151599" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">plan pour le logement</a> dévoilé cette semaine par le parti. Ce plan prévoit entre autres d’interdire aux entreprises d’acheter des immeubles résidentiels abordables et de supprimer l’aide aux géants de l’immobilier.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Les candidats néo-démocrates présents lors de la conférence de presse du <span aria-hidden="false" data-sanitized-class="sc-dxlmjS fpItdT"><span tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="sc-fedTIj ghPrmF"><abbr title="Nouveau Parti démocratique" data-sanitized-class="border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 border-b-2 border-dotted no-underline">NPD</abbr></span></span> ont été interrogés à savoir ce qu’ils pensent de la réflexion de certains électeurs britanno-colombiens ressentant le besoin de voter pour le Parti libéral afin de répondre à la menace Trump.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Si le chef, Jagmeet Singh, a défendu les promesses du parti et son passé, Peter Julian, député depuis 2004 dans la circonscription de Burnaby—New Westminster, y est allé d'une réponse plus personnelle.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">J'ai jamais eu autant de dons, j'ai jamais eu autant de placements de pancartes, j'ai jamais eu autant de bénévoles que j'ai eu dans la première semaine de la campagne cette année</span></q>, a-t-il dit d’emblée en français.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Les gens sont très positifs. Ils reconnaissent que le <span aria-hidden="false" data-sanitized-class="sc-dxlmjS fpItdT"><span tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="sc-fedTIj ghPrmF"><abbr title="Nouveau Parti démocratique" data-sanitized-class="border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 border-b-2 border-dotted no-underline">NPD</abbr></span></span> a fait beaucoup de choses, pas simplement dans cette dernière [législature], mais aussi dans [les législatures précédentes].</span></q></p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le chef libéral, Mark Carney, et le chef conservateur, Pierre Poilievre, veulent accélérer l’adoption de projets de pipelines pour mieux faire circuler le pétrole et le gaz naturel d’ouest en est et pour réduire la dépendance énergétique du Canada envers les États-Unis.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Découvrez <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/en-bref?id=12438" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">les brèves explications ici.</a></p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Notre journaliste Julie-Anne Lapointe a demandé au chef néo-démocrate, Jagmeet Singh, d’expliquer pourquoi, selon lui, les sièges de son parti en Colombie-Britannique sont en danger, si l’on se fie à des sondages.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Jagmeet Singh a en quelque sorte esquivé la question en soutenant que les néo-démocrates sont ceux qui peuvent battre les conservateurs dans la province.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Interrogé ensuite par une autre journaliste au sujet des risques de perdre son propre siège dans la circonscription de Burnaby Central (auparavant Burnaby-Sud), Jagmeet Singh a encore une fois évité de répondre à la question en vantant l’équipe néo-démocrate.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Lors des dernières élections fédérales, le <span aria-hidden="false" data-sanitized-class="sc-dxlmjS fpItdT"><span tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="sc-fedTIj ghPrmF"><abbr title="Nouveau Parti démocratique" data-sanitized-class="border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 border-b-2 border-dotted no-underline">NPD</abbr></span></span> a obtenu 25 sièges, dont 13 en Colombie-Britannique. Un de ces sièges a toutefois été laissé vacant en décembre 2024 comme suite au départ de Randall Garrison, qui a dû quitter la Chambre des communes pour des raisons de santé.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Lors de sa conférence de presse dans un parc de Port Moody, en Colombie-Britannique, le chef du <span aria-hidden="false" data-sanitized-class="sc-dxlmjS fpItdT"><span tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="sc-fedTIj ghPrmF"><abbr title="Nouveau Parti démocratique" data-sanitized-class="border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 border-b-2 border-dotted no-underline">NPD</abbr></span></span>, Jagmeet Singh, a été interrogé au sujet <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2151775/donald-trump-division-campagne-conservatrice" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">des tensions qui règneraient présentement au sein du Parti conservateur</a>, causées notamment par les divisions concernant la relation avec les États-Unis.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">En réponse à cela, le chef néo-démocrate a soutenu que les conservateurs étaient <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">en désarroi à l'interne</span></q>.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Au lieu de se battre pour les Canadiens, ils se battent entre eux</span></q>, a-t-il dit, ajoutant que le Parti conservateur n’est pas en mesure de défendre le pays contre les États-Unis. <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Nous sommes unis</span></q>, a-t-il indiqué au sujet de son propre parti.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">François Legault est présentement en Allemagne <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">avec une centaine [de représentants] d’entreprises québécoises pour forger des partenariats avec le milieu politique et le milieu des affaires de l’Allemagne et des pays de l’Union européenne</span></q>. Ce matin, il a lancé la mission québécoise à la Hannover Messe, une importante foire commerciale pour les technologies industrielles.</p>
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<p><strong>Sagaing, Myanmar</strong> – “Now with every gust of wind, the smell of dead bodies fills the air,” says Thar Nge, a resident of Sagaing – the city closest to the epicentre of the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/30/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-live-race-to-find-survivors-as-toll-tops-1600">devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake</a> that struck Myanmar on Friday.</p>
<p>“At this point, more bodies are being recovered than survivors,” Thar Nge told Al Jazeera on Sunday, explaining how <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/29/lack-of-equipment-stalls-race-to-save-earthquake-survivors-in-myanmar">rescue workers</a> from nearby Mandalay had just arrived in Sagaing earlier in the day, after the Yadanabon Bridge, spanning the Irrawaddy River, reopened.</p>

<p>The nearby Ava Bridge, built some 90 years ago during British colonial rule, was among the many structures to collapse when the quake hit more than 48 hours ago, killing at least 1,700 people and injuring more than 3,400 – <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/30/foreign-aid-rushed-to-quake-hit-myanmar-as-more-than-1600-killed">a preliminary</a> casualty toll that is certain to rise as the full extent of the catastrophe becomes known in the coming hours and days.</p>
<p>“Rescue teams from Mandalay couldn’t reach us immediately because a bridge collapsed. That’s why they only arrived today,” said Thar Nge, surveying the ruins of the city and telling how he had now lost hope of finding his son alive.</p>
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<p>He said many in the city had <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/3/30/myanmar-earthquake-kills-over-1600-and-leaves-countless-buried">lost loved ones</a>.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3612019" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3612019" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12931904-1743336837.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C419" alt="epaselect epa11996481 A view of the collapsed Ava Bridge following an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, 29 March 2025. More than 1,000 people have been killed and thousands injured after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the country on 28 March, according to the Myanmar government. EPA-EFE/STRINGER" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3612019"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3612019" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">A view of the collapsed Ava Bridge on March 29, 2025, following an earthquake in the region of Mandalay, Myanmar [EPA]</figcaption></figure><p>Almost 90 bodies have been recovered so far – that Thar Nge knew of – compared with 36 people rescued from their flattened homes, businesses and the numerous Buddhist temples in the area.</p>
<p>“Many people, as well as monks and nuns in Sagaing, have been trapped under buildings, including monasteries and nunneries,” he said.</p>
<p>“The focus is shifting from rescuing the living to retrieving and burying the dead.”</p>
<p>The smell of decaying bodies is everywhere in Sagaing.</p>
<p>In Mandalay, the country’s second largest city located 22km (14 miles) to the east, a shortage of specialised equipment has left rescue workers and the relatives of people trapped digging with their bare hands to find survivors.</p>
<p>Conditions are harsh.</p>
<p>Along with crumpled roads, entire blocks of buildings either badly damaged or destroyed, and power cut to most of Mandalay and Sagaing, both cities sweltered in temperatures as high as 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit)  on Sunday.</p>

<p>Earlier, a distraught Ko Lin Maw could do little but wait for help at his toppled home in Mandalay.</p>
<p>“My mother and my two sons are still trapped under the debris,” he told Al Jazeera.</p>
<p>Even if he could get a signal on his mobile phone to call for help, the few rescue teams in Mandalay are prioritising larger sites of disaster where many people are believed trapped, Ko Lin Maw said.</p>
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<p>“The number of rescue workers is clearly not enough to save victims,” he said, lamenting that 48 hours had passed since the earthquake hit and neither an adequate number of emergency workers nor aid supplies had yet reached the city.</p>
<p>Myanmar fire department worker Htet Wai arrived in Mandalay on Sunday morning from the country’s commercial capital, Yangon, located 627km (390 miles) to the south.</p>
<p>With communications in the aftermath of the quake severely hampered, leaving barely-working mobile phone services and sketchy internet connections, Htet Wai told how his team had relied on information posted on Facebook to determine where their assistance was needed most.</p>
<p>“This morning, as soon as we arrived, we went to a location we had found online,” Htet Wai said.</p>
<p>But their first attempted rescue ended up being the recovery of a body, he said.</p>
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<p>“With this heat, I fear we will find more bodies than survivors. But we will do our best to save as many lives as possible,” he told Al Jazeera.</p>
<p>Alongside more skilled rescue workers and heavy equipment to move rubble, there was an urgent need for body bags, he said.</p>
<p>Weather forecasts predict that this central part of Myanmar could see daytime temperatures reach 40C (104F) and above this week, and Htet Wai said the bodies of those who have died and are still trapped under buildings are decaying rapidly.</p>
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<p>“The body we found was already decomposing. It’s heartbreaking,” he said.</p>
<p>“This is beyond what we can handle alone,” he added.</p>

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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2023-03-30T101355Z_185795673_RC2940AOPLRR_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-LAND-DAY-1743340264.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>When I was a school student, every morning, we would gather in the schoolyard and sing songs dedicated to our land, Palestine. Many of our classes would teach us about our culture and traditions deeply rooted in Palestinian land.</p>
<p>Every March 30, we would mark Land Day. Girls would wear embroidered dresses and boys would wear white shirts and keffiyeh. We would sing under a raised Palestinian flag and commemorate the Palestinian land struggle.</p>

<p>I fully realised the true meaning of what I was taught about this struggle only when I faced displacement from my home, when I faced the very real possibility of losing my land.</p>
<p>I was born and raised in the Shujayea neighbourhood on the eastern flank of Gaza City. It is a centuries-old neighbourhood, where farmers and traders settled. Over time, it became one of Gaza’s most densely populated neighbourhoods, known for its strong community ties and history of resistance. It is no coincidence that one of its most prominent people was Dr Refaat Alareer, a poet, a scholar, and my professor in English, who inspired me to write and resist.</p>
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<p>My family has lived in Shujayea for centuries. They built home after home in the same area until they created a long street known as Mushtaha Street. This is not just a name; it is a testament to just how deep our roots run in this land.</p>
<p>We not only have our homes in Shujayea but also our farmland. I grew up playing on my grandfather’s olive grove, which he had inherited from his ancestors. The olive trees taught us how to love our land, and how to be steadfast like them.</p>
<p>I have never thought, even for a minute, of leaving my home, my neighbourhood. As a child, I never dreamed of living elsewhere, I wanted to stay where my ancestors had happily lived, to inherit the land, to tend to the olive trees.</p>
<p>The first time we had to flee our Shujayea was when Israel attacked in 2014. I was very young at that time, but I remember every single moment of our evacuation. I remember the missiles and shrapnel flying around and the sound of the screaming and crying. It was a traumatic experience, but throughout it, I was sure that we would soon return.</p>
<p>Then, it happened again almost 10 years later. Throughout the genocide, my family and I had to flee our home more than 10 times. The longest we had to stay away from our neighbourhood was three months. But we never went too far. Despite the extremely difficult conditions, we did not flee to the south; we stayed in the north.</p>
<p>Shujayea endured two invasions during this war, the first in December 2023, and the second in June 2024. The second came suddenly, without warning, on a summer morning while residents were still in their homes.</p>
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<p>When the Israeli tanks reached Shujayea, they targeted markets and old restaurants, electricity poles and water pumps, levelling many areas until they were unrecognisable. The once-busy streets turned grey with destruction.</p>
<p>My family home was bombed and partially destroyed. My grandfather’s land was not spared either. The trees that stood for generations, that gave fruit countless seasons, were uprooted and burned.</p>
<p>The loss of his olive grove proved too much for my grandfather. Within three months of hearing the devastating news, he passed away.</p>
<p>Today, we face the prospect of being displaced once again. People from the eastern part of Shujayea have started fleeing under threats from the Israeli army once again. We do not know what is going to happen next. People are afraid but are still hoping there will be another ceasefire.</p>
<p>This year, marking Land Day carries a different meaning: Despite the continuing genocidal war, we are still here, we are still standing, and we are still holding on to the land that we inherited from our ancestors. We will not give up.</p>
<p>On this day, I remember Dr Alareer’s poem:<br>O, Earth<br>Hug me<br>And hold me tight<br>Or devour me<br>To suffer no more.<br>I love thee<br>So take me.<br>Make me rich.<br>Make me dirt.<br>Gone are the days of serenity.<br>Guns are the words of humanity.<br>I have no food but a thorn,<br>No sport but a sigh.<br>For a soldier needs to feel high.<br>O, Earth,<br>If in life I am to hurt<br>Let my dirt in you give birth.<br>O, Earth.</p>
<p><em><strong>The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.</strong></em></p>

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</header><p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead u-inline">Aftershocks are making it harder to rescue people in Myanmar, two days after one of its worst earthquakes killed more than 1,700 people. Workers are searching for survivors under rubble as far away as Bangkok, in neighbouring Thailand.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Vers 16 h 30, les interruptions de service touchaient déjà plus de 2000 adresses dans cette région, selon <a href="https://infopannes.solutions.hydroquebec.com/info-pannes/pannes/pannes-en-cours" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">Info-pannes <use xlink:href="/info/assets/svg/rc-info-icons.svg#link-external"></use><span data-sanitized-class="sr-only">(nouvelle fenêtre)</span></a>.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">La neige et la pluie verglaçante pourraient perturber des vols d’Air Canada dans plusieurs aéroports.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le transporteur aérien a révisé sa politique de billetterie pour que les clients des vols touchés puissent modifier facilement leurs réservations.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">On recommande de vérifier l<a href="https://www.aircanada.com/ca/fr/aco/home/fly/flight-information/delayed-flights-and-cancellations.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">'état de votre vol <use xlink:href="/info/assets/svg/rc-info-icons.svg#link-external"></use><span data-sanitized-class="sr-only">(nouvelle fenêtre)</span></a> si vous prévoyez voyager aujourd’hui ou demain.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Jusqu'à 10 mm de pluie verglaçante sont attendus au nord de Montréal, dans le corridor <strong>Rosemère–Saint-Jérôme</strong>, dans les prochaines heures. On appelle à la vigilance, surtout sur les <strong>autoroutes</strong> <strong>15 et</strong> <strong>640</strong>.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Des camions ont été envoyés <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">à des endroits stratégiques pour mettre du sel et déneiger lorsque ce sera nécessaire</span></q>, selon la porte-parole du ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable du Québec, Sarah Bensadoun.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">On demande aux gens qui ont déjà installé leurs pneus d'été de réévaluer la nécessité de prendre la route.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le Québec reçoit tranquillement les restes de la pluie verglaçante qui a <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2151668/verglas-meteo-avertissement-environnement-hydro-one" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">d'abord frappé l'Ontario</a>. Les conditions routières actuelles sont <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">étonnement plutôt bonnes</span></q>, selon la porte-parole du ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable du Québec (<span aria-hidden="false" data-sanitized-class="sc-dxlmjS fpItdT"><span tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="sc-fedTIj ghPrmF"><abbr title="ministère des Transports du Québec" data-sanitized-class="border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 border-b-2 border-dotted no-underline">MTQ</abbr></span></span>), Sarah Bensadoun.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">La chaussée est toutefois partiellement couverte sur l'autoroute 20 à partir de la frontière ontarienne jusqu'à Montréal, puis la visibilité est réduite dans le secteur de Nicolet sur l'autoroute 55.</p>

<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Elle demande à la population de ces zones d'éviter les déplacements non essentiels, particulièrement aux propriétaires de véhicules munis de pneus d'été.</p>
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said he believes there should be an investigation into the Trump administration’s use of a Signal chat for official business but stopped short of calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign, calling it “overkill.” “It’s entirely appropriate for the inspector general to be able to look at it and be…

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The crew of Artemis III will not only reflect the diversity of America but will also be as qualified to walk on the moon as were Armstrong and Aldrin, all those decades ago.

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title: Did Dr. Soon-Shiong Tell Tucker Carlson About The Cape Town Prison Vax?
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<div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5753dfb8-042c-4df9-b55c-5172e876ef99_2432x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5753dfb8-042c-4df9-b55c-5172e876ef99_2432x1536.png" width="1456" height="920" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5753dfb8-042c-4df9-b55c-5172e876ef99_2432x1536.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":920,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3199132,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5753dfb8-042c-4df9-b55c-5172e876ef99_2432x1536.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Dr. Soon-Shiong has received over six million views of his interview with Tucker Carlson pushing his new T-Cell based vaccine.  Dr. Soon-Shiong certainly has the ear of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, with a new initiative at HHS now studying Long COVID and considering an Anktiva T-Cell trial.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef4e44c0-36a4-4b28-b577-d4fafbaf5a84_1320x714.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef4e44c0-36a4-4b28-b577-d4fafbaf5a84_1320x714.jpeg" width="1320" height="714" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ef4e44c0-36a4-4b28-b577-d4fafbaf5a84_1320x714.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":714,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":218229,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef4e44c0-36a4-4b28-b577-d4fafbaf5a84_1320x714.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I was in South Africa in April 2023 during the trial of Dr. Soon-Shiong’s T-cell-based vaccine, and to this day, those results are not available to the public. Dr. Soon-Shiong built a one-billion-shot vaccine factory near the airport in Cape Town, and you don’t build a billion-shot vaccine factory unless you plan on making lots of vaccines for Africa.  I was researching the Wellcome Trust’s Center for Infectious Diseases, now called CIDRI, housed in an Apartheid prison complex. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe16505bc-6b3b-4ecc-966b-a84aff66e8d8_1264x890.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe16505bc-6b3b-4ecc-966b-a84aff66e8d8_1264x890.png" width="1264" height="890" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e16505bc-6b3b-4ecc-966b-a84aff66e8d8_1264x890.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":890,"width":1264,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1197158,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe16505bc-6b3b-4ecc-966b-a84aff66e8d8_1264x890.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p> </p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">George Webb’s Task Force Orange Journal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9510055c-79cf-4021-b933-96af5ae403e5_3358x1778.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9510055c-79cf-4021-b933-96af5ae403e5_3358x1778.png" width="1456" height="771" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9510055c-79cf-4021-b933-96af5ae403e5_3358x1778.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":771,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2342654,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9510055c-79cf-4021-b933-96af5ae403e5_3358x1778.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I couldn’t help noticing the proximity of the Dr. Soon-Shiong vaccine factory and the Wellcome Trust Institute for Infectious Diseases.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F780691b4-e022-4b96-9f86-9e1d9ab414a0_1232x812.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F780691b4-e022-4b96-9f86-9e1d9ab414a0_1232x812.png" width="1232" height="812" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/780691b4-e022-4b96-9f86-9e1d9ab414a0_1232x812.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":812,"width":1232,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1060298,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F780691b4-e022-4b96-9f86-9e1d9ab414a0_1232x812.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I was in South Africa chasing the Wellcome Trust’s early access to DARPA ADEPT vaccine technology in bid rigging in May of 2019, which turned out to be mRNA vaccine technology a year later in the worldwide pandemic.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b318e66-6732-41b2-a97c-6c95fd7afa6a_1032x960.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b318e66-6732-41b2-a97c-6c95fd7afa6a_1032x960.jpeg" width="1032" height="960" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4b318e66-6732-41b2-a97c-6c95fd7afa6a_1032x960.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":960,"width":1032,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":243669,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b318e66-6732-41b2-a97c-6c95fd7afa6a_1032x960.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Our research group gathered on the Potomac near Washington, DC, in March 2020, and determined that the Wellcome Trust had received early access to the vaccine technology for “Disease X” four months before the WHO.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6528c73-8d1c-43ab-825c-9892196462f2_722x1088.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6528c73-8d1c-43ab-825c-9892196462f2_722x1088.jpeg" width="722" height="1088" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d6528c73-8d1c-43ab-825c-9892196462f2_722x1088.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1088,"width":722,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":351384,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6528c73-8d1c-43ab-825c-9892196462f2_722x1088.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>There was a strange coincidence that all the medical experts who took the stage at the White House in March 2020, like Deborah Birx, had worked for decades in South Africa on an HIV vaccine.  Dr. Robert Redfield, the current CDC Director at the time, had also worked for Dr. Robert Gallo on an HIV vaccine. Was the new CoronaVirus vaccine going to reignite HIV in Africa?  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe006e31a-20e2-4ca7-a501-527d83c66660_1850x1036.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe006e31a-20e2-4ca7-a501-527d83c66660_1850x1036.png" width="1456" height="815" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e006e31a-20e2-4ca7-a501-527d83c66660_1850x1036.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":815,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2246641,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe006e31a-20e2-4ca7-a501-527d83c66660_1850x1036.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>The Wellcome Infectious Disease Center is located at an old Apartheid prison near the airport in Cape Town, South Africa.</em></p><p>Our Potomac research group wondered, after finding evidence of the Wellcome Trust's early access to “Disease X” and the DARPA ADEPT bid rigging, if the pandemic was more of a plandemic, specifically a military Live Exercise.  Was this some kind of population control experiment or exercise?  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5effbfaf-ff9c-4fe5-a354-243bbbf19035_1850x1036.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5effbfaf-ff9c-4fe5-a354-243bbbf19035_1850x1036.png" width="1456" height="815" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5effbfaf-ff9c-4fe5-a354-243bbbf19035_1850x1036.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":815,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2279413,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5effbfaf-ff9c-4fe5-a354-243bbbf19035_1850x1036.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Was the new Coronavirus vaccine going to reactivate immune diseases like HIV and TB in Africa?  How about all over the world?  Was this new vaccine some sinister scheme for Henry Kissinger’s population control memo, NSSM-200?  We didn’t know. But I found the fact that Dr. Soon-Shiong's COVID-19 vaccine trial is being run here to be an incredible coincidence.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61f2ec62-068e-4fd9-b553-b9f88919b4a5_1482x1200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61f2ec62-068e-4fd9-b553-b9f88919b4a5_1482x1200.png" width="1456" height="1179" 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width="1456" height="501" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a73a55bb-9830-4a44-b760-fbcfdfc46dc6_1482x510.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":501,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":219140,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa73a55bb-9830-4a44-b760-fbcfdfc46dc6_1482x510.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbef07ffa-6494-4c2f-aafd-14836f663206_2198x1458.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbef07ffa-6494-4c2f-aafd-14836f663206_2198x1458.png" width="1456" height="966" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bef07ffa-6494-4c2f-aafd-14836f663206_2198x1458.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":966,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":391229,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbef07ffa-6494-4c2f-aafd-14836f663206_2198x1458.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>https://www.dsti.gov.za/index.php/media-room/latest-news/3493-dr-patrick-soon-shiong-and-nantworks-announce-launch-of-covid-19-and-cancer-vaccine-initiative-in-south-africa-in-partnership-with-the-council-for-scientific-research-csir-and-the-south-african-medical-research-council</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e9b63cd-a496-4601-b4a5-8dfbf4fb0068_1644x1372.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e9b63cd-a496-4601-b4a5-8dfbf4fb0068_1644x1372.png" width="1456" height="1215" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2e9b63cd-a496-4601-b4a5-8dfbf4fb0068_1644x1372.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1215,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":320159,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e9b63cd-a496-4601-b4a5-8dfbf4fb0068_1644x1372.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>https://www.dsti.gov.za/index.php/media-room/latest-news/3493-dr-patrick-soon-shiong-and-nantworks-announce-launch-of-covid-19-and-cancer-vaccine-initiative-in-south-africa-in-partnership-with-the-council-for-scientific-research-csir-and-the-south-african-medical-research-council</p><p>While I was in South Africa, I was also told that SimEx, the World Health Organization’s Simulation Exercise arm, was active in Cape Town BEFORE the pandemic.  SimEx was also a key participant in Event 201, which seemed to foreshadow the rollout of the CoronaVirus pandemic.  I am at the limit of email for this substack.  I will add more after this email is sent.</p><div data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs='{"mediaUploadId":"fffdd5e9-3bac-4e6b-aff6-b5d46e676b5f","duration":null}' data-sanitized-class="native-video-embed"></div><p>I am in the Company Gardens of the Dutch East India Company and later the British East India Company.  One hundred fifty years ago, Sir Henry Wellcome sponsored Silas Burroughs to gather infectious diseases around Africa for the “Black Bomb,” a disease that would wipe out the black population.  </p><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_M._Burroughs_(pharmacist)</p><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wellcome</p><p>Wooter Basson continued research on the Black Bomb in the 1970s and 1980s during the border wars in South Africa. Before them, the Erasmus Lab and the Dutch Ministry of Health, led by a man named Lex Van der Eb, had worked on these bioweapons for decades.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f886560-9f1d-45e3-b052-807b472c18c1_3426x1932.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f886560-9f1d-45e3-b052-807b472c18c1_3426x1932.png" width="1456" height="821" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8f886560-9f1d-45e3-b052-807b472c18c1_3426x1932.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":821,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":5862693,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f886560-9f1d-45e3-b052-807b472c18c1_3426x1932.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Some speculate this sudden push for cancer vaccines is spurred by Elon Musk’s crackdown on USAID with DOGE for HIV bioagent programs like PEPFAR.  With Peter Marks resigning from FDA, Dr. Soon-Shiong may have lost his air cover at USAID.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bd8e33e-64ef-4f27-94e5-7271c8b114f7_3426x1932.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bd8e33e-64ef-4f27-94e5-7271c8b114f7_3426x1932.png" width="1456" height="821" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4bd8e33e-64ef-4f27-94e5-7271c8b114f7_3426x1932.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":821,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":5831776,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bd8e33e-64ef-4f27-94e5-7271c8b114f7_3426x1932.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Our UK elite Oxford troll insisted on changing the subject to Suchir Balaji.  Again, the AI training hard drive was the only thing taken.  As soon as I confirmed that at the crime site, I went to Silicon Valley and delivered a lecture saying Deep Seek would quickly eclipse all other AI players.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5c1f07c-0f89-4711-aae2-1668786aadfe_3426x1932.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5c1f07c-0f89-4711-aae2-1668786aadfe_3426x1932.png" width="1456" height="821" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a5c1f07c-0f89-4711-aae2-1668786aadfe_3426x1932.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":821,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":5777192,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5c1f07c-0f89-4711-aae2-1668786aadfe_3426x1932.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I contended that Scale AI training information, which included recorded NSA call data, was added to the OpenAI training dataset, which accounts for Deep Seek’s remarkable understanding of the English language overnight.  I have stated Kai-Fu Lee is the key person brokering this Deep Seek knowledge transfer with the aid of Eric Schmit of Alphabet/Google.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f0ad5de-5480-46c0-a38f-deb54d5b70d3_2160x902.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f0ad5de-5480-46c0-a38f-deb54d5b70d3_2160x902.png" width="1456" height="608" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1f0ad5de-5480-46c0-a38f-deb54d5b70d3_2160x902.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":608,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1742819,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f0ad5de-5480-46c0-a38f-deb54d5b70d3_2160x902.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Notes from Space on March 30th, 2025 - Genes memory device - EPOG.  The SV40 cancer promoter was in Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea65bdc0-8ed1-4533-ae8a-27201c97f362_3426x1932.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea65bdc0-8ed1-4533-ae8a-27201c97f362_3426x1932.png" width="1456" height="821" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ea65bdc0-8ed1-4533-ae8a-27201c97f362_3426x1932.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":821,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":6133692,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea65bdc0-8ed1-4533-ae8a-27201c97f362_3426x1932.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>SV-40 subdues quality control to prevent cancer, P53.  Also, a major side effect of Anktiva is inflammation.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7b94ad7-da30-4a81-9a38-6511b56c6616_3426x1932.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7b94ad7-da30-4a81-9a38-6511b56c6616_3426x1932.png" width="1456" height="821" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c7b94ad7-da30-4a81-9a38-6511b56c6616_3426x1932.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":821,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":5728216,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/160183903?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7b94ad7-da30-4a81-9a38-6511b56c6616_3426x1932.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is currently running a non-small cell lung cancer trial with a Beijing-based lab in China.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40eb5768-4ec2-40d2-ac7e-058a7c88223a_1284x1446.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img 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data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Ex-Soviet bioweaponeer, Ken Alibek, near Ukrainian criminal Billionaire Igor Kolomoisky in Cleveland, Ohio.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F473d910d-7df7-4928-b162-e4ed57b3daf6_3426x1932.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" 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title: Paris accuses US of ‘interference’ in French firms’ DEI policies
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<p><strong>Washington has asked companies that work with the US government to drop their diversity programs</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>France’s Ministry of Foreign Trade has denounced a request by Washington that French companies working with the US government eliminate their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, calling it <em>“unacceptable interference”</em> in a statement to AFP on Saturday.</p>
<p>The statement came after French media outlets reported that the US embassy in Paris sent letters to several companies urging them to end internal anti-discrimination policies. The request follows a January executive order by US President Donald Trump aimed at dismantling DEI initiatives across federal agencies and contractors.</p>
<p>According to Le Figaro, French firms working with the US were given five days to scrap their DEI or explain in writing why they could not. Each letter reportedly included a <em>“compliance form”</em> and warned that failure to meet the new requirements could result in larger customs duties or even the termination of US government contracts.</p>

            
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<p><em>“American interference in the DEI policies of French companies, such as threats of unjustified customs duties, is unacceptable,”</em> the French Trade Ministry told AFP. <em>“France and Europe will defend their businesses, their consumers, but also their values.”</em></p>
<p>While the US embassy has not confirmed the request, the French Economy Ministry estimated that <em>“dozens”</em> of companies could have received the notification, including a number of telecommunications firms.</p>
<p>A senior Finance Ministry official earlier told Le Figaro that while the changes <em>“reflect the values of the new American government,”</em> those values <em>“are not ours.”</em> French Economy Minister Eric Lombard reportedly intends to raise the matter with his American counterparts.</p>

             
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<p>Since taking office, Trump has signed several executive orders targeting DEI initiatives, claiming such programs foster discrimination. While he cannot legally force private firms to comply, the administration has pressured contractors to align with federal policy. Major US companies, such as Amazon, Walmart, Meta, and Ford have already either scaled back or scrapped DEI initiatives in response to the new rules.</p>

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title: Fewer Americans confident in Trump’s handling of economy: Poll
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Americans in a new poll said they are not feeling confident in President Trump’s handling of the economy amid his administration’s escalation of his trade war through sweeping changes in regulations for imports and exports. The CBS News poll found that 52 percent of surveyed Americans said they disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy,…

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title: Wisconsin AG asks state’s top court to block Musk’s $1M giveaways
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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) on Sunday asked the state’s top court to block Elon Musk from giving away $1 million checks at his town hall later in the day, which he is holding in advance of Wisconsin’s critical state Supreme Court race this week.  Filed just hours before the Green Bay, Wis., event…

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said President Trump’s order looking to control the “divisive narratives” at Smithsonian museums and federal sites is “deeply disrespectful.” Moore joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where host Dana Bash asked about Trump’s recent order, which cites an exhibit at the American Art Museum titled “Stories of Race…

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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=884364
title: Ventotene chi?
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<p><strong><em>Si è tornati a discutere del Manifesto di Ventotene del 1941, redatto da Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi ed Eugenio Colorni. Chi l’avrebbe mai detto che la demagogia dell’UE avrebbe avuto bisogno di una mossa tanto ridicola pur di esercitare un po’ di pressione nei confronti dei cittadini.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em> </span><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Un manifesto che non ha richiesto nessuno</strong></p>
<p>Si è tornati a discutere del Manifesto di Ventotene del 1941, redatto da Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi ed Eugenio Colorni. Chi l’avrebbe mai detto che la demagogia dell’UE avrebbe avuto bisogno di una mossa tanto ridicola pur di esercitare un po’ di pressione nei confronti dei cittadini.</p>
<p>Il Manifesto sostiene che il nazionalismo e la sovranità assoluta degli Stati hanno portato a conflitti distruttivi: la pace duratura non può essere garantita dalla semplice restaurazione degli Stati indipendenti dopo la Seconda guerra mondiale. Il vero obiettivo non dovrebbe essere solo la sconfitta del nazifascismo, ma la costruzione di un nuovo ordine politico che superi le rivalità tra nazioni.</p>
<p>La proposta centrale è la creazione di una federazione europea, dotata di un’autorità sovranazionale capace di prevenire i conflitti e garantire il benessere collettivo. Questa federazione avrebbe il compito di gestire le politiche economiche e sociali, superando le divisioni nazionali e creando un vero governo europeo.</p>
<p>Il Manifesto sostiene che la fine della guerra dovrà essere seguita da una trasformazione radicale della società. Non basta rimuovere le dittature: bisogna abbattere le vecchie strutture economiche che favoriscono le disuguaglianze. Gli autori riconoscono la necessità di una riforma sociale che limiti il potere delle grandi concentrazioni economiche e garantisca giustizia sociale. Tuttavia, non propongono un modello marxista, bensì un socialismo democratico che, secondo loro, tuteli le libertà individuali.</p>
<p>Spinelli e Rossi sottolineano che il cambiamento non può avvenire attraverso il ripristino delle vecchie élite, ma grazie a movimenti progressisti capaci di superare le ideologie del passato e vedono nella resistenza antifascista l’inizio di questo processo, ma avvertono del rischio che, una volta finita la guerra, le forze conservatrici tentino di restaurare il vecchio ordine.</p>
<p>Le idee espresse nel Manifesto di Ventotene influenzarono profondamente il processo di integrazione europea. Dopo la guerra, Spinelli divenne uno dei principali promotori dell’unificazione europea, contribuendo alla nascita della Comunità Europea e ispirando il progetto dell’Unione Europea.</p>
<p><strong>Chi non muore si rivede</strong></p>
<p>Giorgia Meloni, custode del neoliberismo italico, lo ha attaccato, mentre Roberto Benigni, cantore del pensiero unico liberal-progressista, lo ha esaltato. Il solito siparietto, una mossa già nota. si propone sia la via dei conservatori, sia quella dei progressisti, purché il dissenso vena incanalato entro confini già perimetrati.</p>
<p>Il Manifesto di Ventotene rappresenta la base dell’antisovranismo di sinistra ed è perfettamente in linea con la trasformazione liberal e fortemente anticomunista della nuova sinistra, funzionale al consolidamento dei rapporti di forza dominanti. Questo Manifesto ha effettivamente giocato un ruolo decisivo nel legittimare e, allo stesso tempo, mascherare l’integrazione delle sinistre post-marxiste nel capitalismo trionfante e nell’ordine mondiale liberista. Con il suo carattere antifascista ma al tempo stesso anticomunista, è diventato la piattaforma ideale per il riassetto liberal della sinistra, che da un lato condanna i totalitarismi del passato, ma dall’altro accetta senza resistenze la violenza sistemica dell’economia classista, a cui ha ceduto sia la ragione che il sentimento.</p>
<p>L’idea centrale dei firmatari era che l’unico modo per porre fine ai conflitti tra Stati sovrani, che avevano portato alle guerre mondiali, fosse il trasferimento della loro sovranità a un’autorità federale, anticipando di fatto la nascita dell’Unione Europea. Tuttavia, per quanto nobili fossero le istanze socialiste del Manifesto, esse erano destinate a restare irrealizzabili nel contesto di una sovra-nazionalizzazione che, svuotando le sovranità nazionali, non avrebbe portato – contrariamente alle aspettative ingenue dei suoi autori – a un socialismo cosmopolita, ma al dominio transnazionale delle élite economiche.</p>
<p>L’“Europa libera e unita” evocata dal Manifesto si è realizzata, con l’Unione Europea, solo per le classi dominanti, le uniche davvero “libere e unite” nel loro sfruttamento senza vincoli dei ceti subalterni. In questo senso, i firmatari del Manifesto di Ventotene si ritrovano nella figura hegeliana dell’“anima bella” (schöne Seele), le cui nobili aspirazioni vengono travolte dal corso reale degli eventi (Weltlauf). A differenza loro, Lenin aveva ben chiaro che, in un sistema capitalistico, la creazione degli Stati Uniti d’Europa non avrebbe fatto altro che rafforzare il potere del grande capitale a scapito delle classi lavoratrici.</p>
<p>Per questo, il Manifesto di Ventotene va respinto: va rigettato da una prospettiva leninista e gramsciana, nella consapevolezza che l’UE non è il sogno democratico che Benigni immagina, bensì l’incarnazione dell’ipercapitalismo antidemocratico, che oggi rappresenta il principale nemico delle classi lavoratrici in Europa.</p>
<p><strong>Non oportet</strong></p>
<p>Come <a href="https://www.quotidianoweb.it/attualita/il-manifesto-di-ventotene-prodotto-della-modernita/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ha mirabilmente sottolineato</a> il costituzionalista prof. Daniele Trabucco, Aristotele, nella <em>Politica</em>, descrive la polis come un’entità organica, la cui esistenza è necessaria affinché l’uomo possa realizzare la propria natura politica e morale. La sovranità non è un semplice strumento amministrativo, ma rappresenta il vincolo profondo che unisce i cittadini, i quali condividono leggi, tradizioni e un comune orientamento verso il bene collettivo.</p>
<p>Il Manifesto di Ventotene, invece, considera la sovranità nazionale (nel suo significato moderno) come un ostacolo al progresso, promuovendo l’idea di una federazione europea che, invece di rafforzare la libertà, rischia di ridurre gli individui a semplici ingranaggi burocratici privi di un’autentica appartenenza civica.</p>
<p>L’idea di un’autorità sovranazionale slegata dai legami identitari contraddice l’insegnamento aristotelico, secondo cui una comunità politica deve basarsi su rapporti di reciprocità e su un ethos condiviso.</p>
<p>L’errore degli autori di Ventotene è tipico dell’astrattismo razionalista: immaginare che un ordine politico possa essere costruito su un progetto teorico, trascurando il fatto che lo Stato non è una costruzione artificiale, ma una realtà concreta, sviluppata nel tempo attraverso l’esperienza storica e il patrimonio culturale di un popolo.</p>
<p>La modernità, a partire da Machiavelli e Hobbes, ha infatti ribaltato l’idea dello Stato come realtà teleologica orientata alla giustizia: esso diviene un’entità in continua evoluzione, non più guidata da una legge naturale oggettiva, ma dalla volontà politica e dal gioco delle forze in campo; di conseguenza, il potere non è più visto come un mezzo per realizzare un ordine giusto, ma come una realtà autonoma, che si ridefinisce costantemente attraverso il conflitto e la negoziazione.</p>
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guid: 1016275 at https://www.zerohedge.com
title: BlackRock&amp;#039;s Panama Port Deal With CK Hutchison Won&amp;#039;t Be Signed Next Week
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<p>President Trump's master plan to strengthen hemispheric defense—aimed at eliminating Chinese influence in the Panama Canal—appears to have hit a bottleneck at the end of last week.</p>
<p>A new report Saturday reveals that Hong Kong's CK Hutchison will not sign a deal next week to sell its two ports on either side of the canal to a BlackRock-led consortium. It's back to the drawing board for the Trump administration, which will now need to implement new tactics to pressure Panama to rid itself of Chinese Communist influence.</p>
<p>Sources told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/ck-hutchison-not-sell-strategic-ports-panama-canal-next-week-scmp-reports-2025-03-28/">Reuters</a> that Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's deal to sell the Panama ports, including Balboa and Cristobal on either side of the canal, will not have the proper paperwork signed with the BlackRock-led investor group by the April 2 deadline for "obvious reasons."</p>
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<p>Those obvious reasons include an infuriated Chinese Communist Party, which views Li as having bent the knee to Trump and the Americans by agreeing to give up such critical infrastructure around the canal.</p>
<p>For weeks, various Chinese media outlets called CK Hutchison's billionaire founder "spineless" and questioned which "side he should stand on." </p>
<p>Another source said that talks are still very much underway regarding the $19 billion deal, which includes 43 ports in 23 countries. </p>
<p>On Friday, the South China Morning Post first revealed that CK Hutchison Holdings "will not go ahead with the expected signing of a deal next week to sell its two strategic ports at the Panama Canal ... with Beijing saying it will launch an antitrust probe into the sale." </p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">CK Hutchison Deal Derailed After CCP In Beijing Launches Antitrust Probe <a href="https://t.co/vApfl7m6al">https://t.co/vApfl7m6al</a></p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1905656171991630287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>In another report, The Telegraph noted, "Chinese authorities have effectively blacklisted CK Hutchison and the business interests of the Li family by telling Chinese state-backed firms they will struggle to get regulatory approval for any work involving the group."</p>

<p>And earlier this month...</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Beijing Fumes Over BlackRock's Panama Port Deal With CK Hutchison <a href="https://t.co/TipGfIMQQS">https://t.co/TipGfIMQQS</a></p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1900578951761658141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>It's crucial to understand that eliminating Chinese Communist influence from the Panama Canal is part of Trump's master plan to strengthen hemispheric defense. This strategy also encompasses developing hardened defense layers around Canada and Greenland. It includes efforts to purge Chinese triad gangs, Mexican cartels, and other terrorist organizations from the North American financial system as the world fractures into a bipolar state. </p>
<p>If the communists in Beijing actually nuked the port deal with BlackRock. Then expect some angry Truth Social posts from Trump. </p>
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/85_qJLCd_c8" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 28 March 2025, I was on “The Duran” with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris. We had an excellent discussion about the ongoing negotiations between Russia and the United States to end the Ukraine war as well as the efforts of both the Europeans and the Ukrainians to undermine those negotiations. We concluded that unless there are secret negotiations taking place that we don’t know about, there is little hope of shutting the Ukraine war down anytime soon. Of course, that is good news to the Europeans, the Ukrainians and the neoconservatives in the Trump administration.</p>
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title: Trump&amp;#039;s New World Order
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<p><a href="https://internationalman.com/articles/trumps-new-world-order/"><em>Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com,</em></a></p>
<p><strong>The US-led world order has undergone several distinct phases since the end of World War 2.</strong></p>
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<p>From 1945 to 1991, it was defined by the Cold War—a global struggle between the US and the Soviet Union.</p>

<p>After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the post-WW2 world order experienced a massive shift, with the US emerging as the undisputed global superpower. This era, often called the “unipolar moment,” lasted from 1991 until Trump’s inauguration in 2025.</p>
<p>Yuval Harari is a key advisor to Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF). He recently stated that if Trump were to become president again, it “is likely to be the kind of death blow to what remains of the global order.”</p>
<p>While I think it’s premature to declare the end of the post-WW2 world order, Trump’s return to the White House undoubtedly marks one of the most significant shifts in international relations since the Soviet Union’s fall.</p>
<p>Marco Rubio serves as Trump’s Secretary of State, tasked with executing Trump’s vision for America’s role on the world stage.</p>
<p>His statements—during his Senate confirmation hearings and in an interview with journalist Megyn Kelly—have made that vision unmistakably clear.</p>
<p>Here’s what Rubio stated during his confirmation hearings (<strong>emphasis added</strong>):</p>

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<p>“Out of the triumphalism of the end of long Cold War emerged a bi-partisan consensus that we had reached ‘the end of history.’ That all the nations of Earth would become members of the democratic Western led community. That a foreign policy that served the national interest could now be replaced by one that served the ‘liberal world order.’ And that all mankind was now destined to abandon national identity, and we would become ‘one human family’ and ‘citizens of the world.’</p>
<p><strong>This wasn’t just a fantasy; it was a dangerous delusion.</strong></p>
<p>Here in America, and in many of the advanced economies across the world, an almost religious commitment to free and unfettered trade at the expense of our national economy, shrunk the middle class, left the working class in crisis, collapsed industrial capacity, and pushed critical supply chains into the hands of adversaries and rivals. An irrational zeal for maximum freedom of movement of people has resulted in a historic mass migration crisis here in America and around the world that threatens the stability of societies and governments.</p>
<p>While America far too often continued to prioritize the ‘global order’ above our core national interests, other nations continued to act the way countries always have and always will, in what they perceive to be in their best interest.</p>
<p>And instead of folding into the post-Cold War global order, they have manipulated it to serve their interest at the expense of ours. We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into this global order. And they took advantage of all its benefits. But they ignored all its obligations and responsibilities. Instead, they have lied, cheated, hacked, and stolen their way to global superpower status, at our expense.</p>
<p><strong>The postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us.</strong></p>
<p><strong>And all this has led us to a moment in which we must now confront the single greatest risk of geopolitical instability and generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive here today.</strong></p>
<p>Eight decades later, we are called to create a free world out of chaos once again. This will not be easy. And it will be impossible without a strong and confident America that engages in the world, putting our core national interests above all else once again.”</p>
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<p>Here are Rubio’s remarks to Megyn Kelly (<strong>emphasis added</strong>):</p>
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<p><strong>Megyn Kelly:</strong> America First?</p>
<p><strong>Secretary Rubio:</strong> Well, and that’s the way the world has always worked. The way the world has always worked is that the Chinese will do what’s in the best interests of China, the Russians will do what’s in the best interest of Russia, the Chileans are going to do what’s in the best interest of Chile, and the United States needs to do what’s in the best interest of the United States.</p>
<p>Where our interests align, that’s where you have partnerships and alliances; where our differences are not aligned, that is where the job of diplomacy is to prevent conflict while still furthering our national interests and understanding they’re going to further theirs. And that’s been lost.</p>
<p><strong>And I think that was lost at the end of the Cold War, because we were the only power in the world, and so we assumed this responsibility of sort of becoming the global government in many cases, trying to solve every problem.</strong></p>
<p>And there are terrible things happening in the world. There are. And then there are things that are terrible that impact our national interest directly, and we need to prioritize those again.</p>
<p><strong>So, it’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power. That was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet.</strong></p>
<p>We face that now with China and to some extent Russia, and then you have rogue states like Iran and North Korea you have to deal with.</p>
<p>So now more than ever we need to remember that foreign policy should always be about furthering the national interest of the United States and doing so, to the extent possible, avoiding war and armed conflict, which we have seen two times in the last century be very costly.</p>
<p>They’re celebrating the 80th anniversary this year of the end of the Second World War. That – I think if you look at the scale and scope of destruction and loss of life that occurred, it would be far worse if we had a global conflict now. <strong>It may end life on the planet.</strong> And it sounds like hyperbole, but you have <strong>multiple countries now who have the capability to end life on Earth</strong>. And so we need to really work hard to avoid armed conflict as much as possible, but never at the expense of our national interest. So that’s the tricky balance. “</p>
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<p>Rubio’s words are a reflection of Trump’s vision and policy. Frankly, it’s a much-needed dose of realism and pragmatism.</p>
<p>It’s worth emphasizing several key points from Rubio’s remarks:</p>
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<p>The idea that the US could uphold a unipolar world order indefinitely <strong>“wasn’t just a fantasy; it was a dangerous delusion.”</strong></p>
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<p><strong>“The postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us.”</strong></p>
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<p><strong>“We must now confront the single greatest risk of geopolitical instability and generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive here today.”</strong></p>
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<p><strong>“It’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power. That was an anomaly.”</strong></p>
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<p><strong>“Eventually, you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet.”</strong></p>
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</ul><p>Though it endured for 34 years, the notion that the US could maintain a unipolar world order indefinitely was never realistic.</p>

<p>President Trump seems to recognize that maintaining it is not just unrealistic but unsustainable. He appears to have decided that it is in the US’s best interest to transition to a multipolar reality on its own terms rather than be forced into it by a chaotic collapse.</p>
<p><strong>We are now in a volatile adjustment period as the unipolar world order gives way to a multipolar one</strong> (click image below to enlarge).</p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/word-image-64696-1-1024x629.jpg?itok=ED0Y0CTO" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/word-image-64696-1-1024x629.jpg?itok=ED0Y0CTO"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="5d976bc0-141c-4ecc-9846-6abcb1f6970b" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="307" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/word-image-64696-1-1024x629.jpg?itok=ED0Y0CTO" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p>Does this mean World War 3 is over?</p>
<p>I don’t think so. But it does mean we have entered a new phase of it.</p>
<p>There is still much to be determined—most crucially, the boundaries of the US, Russia, and China’s spheres of influence in this emerging multipolar world.</p>
<p>With the war in Ukraine all but lost and the prospect of victory in Taiwan shrinking by the day, the US government appears to have accepted that the complete subjugation of Russia and China under its unipolar dominance is no longer an achievable goal.</p>

<p>The goalposts of World War 3 have shifted.</p>
<p>Rather than total victory and preserving the unipolar world order, the US is now focused on maximizing its power within the new multipolar landscape—while limiting the influence of its most formidable rivals: Russia, China, and their allies, including Iran.</p>
<p>While the US seems to be moving away from the unipolar model and begrudgingly acknowledging the existence of rival powers, it still seeks to be the dominant force in a multipolar world.</p>
<p>The new global boundaries have yet to be defined, and the situation remains volatile and dangerous. Whether Trump can successfully guide the US—and the world—through this transition without descending into greater conflict remains an open question.</p>
<p>On a smaller scale, this mirrors how powerful criminal organizations—such as mafias and street gangs—operate within a city. Ideally, a gang or mafia would eliminate all rivals. However, when certain rivals prove too strong to destroy, the conflict shifts toward defining boundaries until a formal arrangement is reached that divides territories.</p>
<p>The same dynamic is now unfolding on a global scale between the US, Russia, and China as World War 3 plays out.</p>
<p>Each side is maneuvering to expand its power and influence until a new arrangement is reached that defines the balance of the multipolar world.</p>
<h2>The Global Order Is Changing—Are You Ready?</h2>
<p>The unipolar world is fading, and a volatile new multipolar reality is taking shape.</p>
<p>The global power structure is shifting fast—and <strong>the consequences will be massive</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Most people will be caught off guard—don’t be one of them.</strong></p>
<p>What does this mean for America? For the economy? For you?</p>
<p><em>That’s why I’ve put together an <a href="https://internationalman.com/special-report/the-most-dangerous-economic-crisis-in-100-years-the-top-3-strategies-you-need-right-now/">urgent report</a> revealing the hidden forces shaping this new era and how to prepare for the massive geopolitical and economic shifts ahead.</em></p>
<p><em>This could be the most important dispatch you read all year.</em></p>
<p><em>Don’t get caught unprepared.</em></p>
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Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, on Sunday pushed back against an earlier claim from national security adviser Mike Waltz about a group chat in which top Trump administration officials discussed an attack on Yemen. Waltz claimed earlier this week that Goldberg’s phone number was “sucked in” to his phone via “somebody…

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<p>Why should Russia's refusal to make big concessions come as any surprise to either the White House or mainstream media, given Russian forces are clearly steadily gaining on the battlefield?</p>
<p>In a phone interview with NBC on Sunday, President Donald Trump said, "if Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, <strong>I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia</strong>."</p>
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<p>Trump went on to say he's <strong>"very angry" and "pissed off"</strong> particularly at President Vladimir Putin's attacking the legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's and his <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/30/trump-putin-ukraine-tariffs">leadership</a>:</p>

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<p>"I was very angry, pissed off" when Putin "started getting into [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky's credibility" and "started talking about new leadership" in Ukraine, Trump told NBC's Kristen Welker in a phone call.</p>
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<p>Trump said that Putin's comments on Zelensky are "not going in the right location." This was in reference to a Friday plan pitched by Putin for a <strong>"transitional administration" for Ukraine under the auspices of the UN</strong>.</p>
<p>The immediate aim would be ceasefire leading toward "democratic" election, followed by the <strong>negotiation of a peace agreement with the new authorities</strong>.</p>
<p>"We could, of course, discuss with the United States, even with European countries, and of course with our partners and friends, under the auspices of the UN, the possibility of <strong>establishing a transitional administration in Ukraine</strong>," Putin <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-putin-suggests-un-administration-of-ukraine/live-72065497">said</a> while visiting the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk.</p>
<p>He laid out that "we could discuss the possibility of introduction of temporary governance in Ukraine," while Ukraine holds "democratic elections, to bring to power a capable government that enjoys the trust of the people."</p>
<p>After this, he explained, the two warring sides would "start talks with them about a peace treaty." Putin has in the recent past <strong>complained that Zelensky is 'illegitimate' and thus can't legally be negotiated with</strong>, since he has canceled democratic elections on an indefinite basis.</p>

<p>So Trump has clearly brushed this aside in the new Sunday comments...</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🚨 NBC: "Just hours ago, President Trump called me to tell me he is 'pissed off' with Russia's President Putin and threatened to impose secondary tariffs on Russia's oil." <a href="https://t.co/ikpmFH5t1Q">pic.twitter.com/ikpmFH5t1Q</a></p>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1906337060698399090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>However, Trump's attacking Putin for denouncing Zelensky as illegitimate will surely not be taken as a very serious critique by the Kremlin, given the irony of Trump himself not too long ago having himself blasted Zelensky as a <strong>"dictator without elections"</strong>.</p>
<p>Trump confirmed to NBC that he will speak again with his Russian counterpart this week. Russia has indicated that the question of the Black Sea ceasefire is still being negotiated, and is awaiting the removal of sanctions on agricultural exports which necessitates specific banks being reconnected to the Swift payment system. But Europe has that no, it won't go along with any plan which results in easing sanctions.</p>
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title: Mullin says Canada is still US ‘ally’ despite trade fight
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Sunday weighed in on the U.S.-Canada relationship amid tensions over trade between the two countries. “Senator, has the United States lost Canada as an ally?” NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Mullin on “Meet the Press.” “No. We haven’t lost … Canada as an ally. They need us more than we need…

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United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain said he supports President Trump’s tariffs on autos, calling them a “tool,” but noted that the union’s other stances don’t “go out the window.” Fain joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where he highlighted how he hopes Trump’s tariffs on car imports will bring more auto…

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guid: 1016245 at https://www.zerohedge.com
title: Does It Get Any More Un-American Than This?
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<p><a href="https://modernity.news/2025/03/29/does-it-get-any-more-un-american-than-this"><em>Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,</em></a></p>
<p><strong>What’s the most un-American thing you can think of?</strong></p>
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<p>Trying to make it a law that an American company that employs thousands of Americans cannot operate because you don’t like the opinions of its owner.</p>

<p>Yeah that’s up there.</p>
<p>Patricia Fahy, a Democrat state senator in New York is introducing legislation that would effectively ban Tesla dealerships in the state by pulling existing permits for its five in-person sales locations.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">NY State Senator Patricia Fahy (D) has introduced a new bill that aims to effectively ban Tesla dealerships in the state.</p><p>“No matter what we do, we’ve got to take this from Elon Musk– He’s part of an effort to go backwards.” -Sen. Patricia Fahy</p><p>Democrats are so unhinged that… <a href="https://t.co/nV8oM271AJ">pic.twitter.com/nV8oM271AJ</a></p>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1905707327124291670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>“No matter what we do, we’ve got to take this from Elon Musk,” Fahy said, according to Politico, adding “He’s part of an effort to go backwards.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">New York lawmakers target Tesla <a href="https://t.co/RlCsYGWF6K">https://t.co/RlCsYGWF6K</a></p>
— POLITICO (@politico) <a href="https://twitter.com/politico/status/1905015681835254068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Elon Musk is dragging humanity backwards. Could a more profoundly stupid sentence be uttered?</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Yeah, the guy landing rockets on barges and making EVs mainstream is definitely the one dragging us backwards. Thank God we’ve got career politicians to protect us from innovation.</p>
— Mildly Defeated (@SighHarder) <a href="https://twitter.com/SighHarder/status/1905709049657929804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>There’s a word for this. Desiring to take away an innovative business’ right to compete in a free market.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Seems pretty fascist-adjacent to me.</p>
— jeebus (@jeebus2122) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeebus2122/status/1905710184359723459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>It’s actual fascism.</p>
<p>Which is gloriously ironic given that deranged leftists can’t stop saying that word every two minutes.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">New York’s Senator Fahy’s bill to ban Tesla dealerships is a blatant abuse of power! Targeting a single company over political gripes with Elon Musk reeks of vindictiveness, not justice. Legally shaky, it violates equal protection under the law—singling out Tesla while letting… <a href="https://t.co/2AXWEGMRzt">pic.twitter.com/2AXWEGMRzt</a></p>
— 𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 (@pr0ud_americans) <a href="https://twitter.com/pr0ud_americans/status/1905949139655163986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>It’s fundamentally un-American. But then again, what do you expect from Democrats?</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This is an unconstitutional bill of attainder. You can not single out a individual or entity for punishment.</p>
— NeoUnrealist (@NeoUnrealist) <a href="https://twitter.com/NeoUnrealist/status/1905941819357073516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">You don’t want people to have jobs at the Buffalo Tesla Gigafactory NY State Senator Patricia Fahy? <a href="https://t.co/1WwbD6qvJ8">pic.twitter.com/1WwbD6qvJ8</a></p>
— Marcus Notrealius (@TheLieKeeper) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLieKeeper/status/1905750800238059738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">NY bill S6894, targeting Tesla's direct sales, may violate federal antitrust laws by limiting competition and favoring traditional dealerships. Introduced by Sen. Fahy, it caps Tesla at 5 locations, potentially banning in-person sales. Legal challenges could argue it restrains…</p>
— Grok (@grok) <a href="https://twitter.com/grok/status/1905762688325824520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Also, Fahy’s bill targets Tesla’s direct sales model by restricting registration certificates for zero-emissions manufacturers that skip dealerships.</p>
<p>So she’s using Tesla’s environmentally friendly credentials to try and ban it, prompting the question ‘what happened to the climate change crisis?’</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">It also makes clear that the so-called climate emergency was never real. If EV adoption was as important as they always claimed, they wouldn’t obstruct the company doing more than any other to make affordable EVs available to the masses.</p>
— @recruit96 (@Recruit96) <a href="https://twitter.com/Recruit96/status/1905757610139074632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Oh, it doesn’t matter when it’s someone you don’t like, riiiight.</p>

<blockquote data-conversation="none" readability="5.5116279069767" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">So are they admitting that they really don’t believe in climate change? Is that why they are hating on the best electric vehicles?</p>
— Lisa Nose (@Li_nose) <a href="https://twitter.com/Li_nose/status/1905753438128095701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Musk himself went off on Dem daddy Tim Walz, calling him a “jerk” and a “creep” for taking joy in Tesla’s stock momentarily sinking last week.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🚨 Elon Musk just EVISCERATED Tim Walz for celebrating Tesla’s stock decline</p><p>“What a creep, what a jerk. Like, who derives joy from that?”</p><p>"Minnesota State Pension fund is a major investor in Tesla. But he didn’t care. He was so overjoyed…”</p><p>"Does that sound like a good person… <a href="https://t.co/eBYB6EdRlH">pic.twitter.com/eBYB6EdRlH</a></p>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1905757552794603904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Democrats showing their true selves again.</p>
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title: Trump ‘very angry’ at Putin’s remarks on Zelensky
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President Trump said he is “very angry” and “pissed off” at remarks Russian President Vladimir Putin made Friday about Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, suggesting he is not a legitimate leader. The president threatened to slap a new tariff on Russia if it is at fault for stalling an end “to bloodshed.” “If I feel, if…

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title: Live: Discover Fujian tulou in Yongding, southeast China
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<p>Yongding Tulou, also known as earth buildings, are among the most quintessential examples of traditional architecture in Fujian Province, southeastern China. These splendid and unique ancient Chinese structures boast a profound historical heritage. They stand not only as a distinctive cultural emblem of the Hakka ethnic group but have also been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008. These remarkable architectural wonders served as the primary filming prototype for the renowned Chinese animated feature "Big Fish &amp; Begonia."</p>
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title: SpaceX delays flight to replace NASA&amp;#039;s stuck astronauts
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<div readability="8.5" data-sanitized-class="cmsImage"><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-13/SpaceX-delays-flight-to-replace-NASA-s-stuck-astronauts-1BHBVPFmSg8/img/0a5e410a2b954de495940576fdeec2da/0a5e410a2b954de495940576fdeec2da.jpeg" alt="A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of four aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft scrubbed prior to liftoff for a mission to the International Space Station from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 12, 2025. /VCG" layout="responsive"><div readability="15.5" data-sanitized-class="imageCaption">
<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of four aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft scrubbed prior to liftoff for a mission to the International Space Station from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 12, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of four aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft scrubbed prior to liftoff for a mission to the International Space Station from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 12, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>A launch pad problem prompted SpaceX to delay a flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday to replace NASA's two stuck astronauts.</p>
<p>The new crew needs to get to the International Space Station before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams can head home after nine months in orbit.</p>
<p>Concerns over a critical hydraulic system arose less than four hours before the Falcon rocket's planned evening liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. As the countdown clocks ticked down, engineers evaluated the hydraulics used to release one of the two arms clamping the rocket to its support structure. This structure needs to tilt back right before liftoff.</p>
<p>Already strapped into their capsule, the four astronauts awaited a final decision, which came down with less than an hour remaining in the countdown. SpaceX canceled for the day. The company did not immediately announce a new launch date, but noted the next try could be as early as Thursday night.</p>
<p>Once at the space station, the U.S., Japanese and Russian crew will replace Wilmore and Williams, who have been up there since June. The two test pilots had to move into the space station for an extended stay after Boeing's new Starliner capsule encountered major breakdowns in transit.</p>
<p>Starliner's debut crew flight was supposed to last just a week, but NASA ordered the capsule to return empty and transferred Wilmore and Williams to SpaceX for the return leg.</p>
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<p>Source(s): AP</p>

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title: Chinese researchers find new fungal species on Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
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<div readability="6" data-sanitized-class="cmsImage"><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-13/Chinese-researchers-find-new-fungal-species-on-Qinghai-Xizang-Plateau-1BHudin5vy0/img/e57640e41d2d4977abe4955cb22e1bf3/e57640e41d2d4977abe4955cb22e1bf3.jpeg" alt="A view of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. /VCG" layout="responsive"><div readability="8" data-sanitized-class="imageCaption">
<p>A view of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. /VCG</p>
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<p>Researchers have uncovered a significant number of new fungal species on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, with findings published in the Journal of Fungi and Fungal Diversity, as reported on Wednesday by Science and Technology Daily.</p>
<p>Researchers from the institute of plateau biology and the key laboratory of mycology in Xizang Autonomous Region, southwest China, conducted multiple joint scientific expeditions, successfully collecting 3,361 valuable specimens and obtaining a batch of wild fungal strains.</p>
<p>Researchers carried out an in-depth study on the specimens through detailed observation of the specimens' external characteristics and the application of fungal DNA barcoding technology alongside molecular phylogenetic analysis.</p>
<p>They identified 879 species, including 19 newly published species and 12 newly recorded species in China. These discoveries have enriched China's macrofungi species database, providing a vital window into understanding the mysteries of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau's ecosystem.</p>
<p>The plateau's unique climatic conditions and geographical environment have nurtured a rich diversity of macrofungi resources. Within this ecosystem, macrofungi play indispensable roles as decomposers and symbionts, contributing crucially to material cycling, energy flow, and maintaining ecological balance.</p>
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<p>Source(s): Xinhua News Agency</p>

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title: China&amp;#039;s 41st Antarctic expedition uncovers key insights into polynyas
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-13/China-s-41st-Antarctic-expedition-uncovers-key-insights-into-polynyas-1BHz5pclamc/img/b0664bc6519f4c99952081d69cb2d426/b0664bc6519f4c99952081d69cb2d426-1280.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>China's 41st Antarctic expedition has successfully completed a pivotal survey of the Amundsen Sea and Ross Sea, uncovering rare instances of polynyas. These are vital open-water regions within sea ice that influence both Antarctica's ecology and global climate patterns.</p>
<p>Sun Yongming, a member of China's 41st Antarctic expedition, explained the visualization of sea ice concentrations and the significance of polynyas along the coast.</p>
<p>"This map shows the average sea ice concentration from 2013 to 2020. It reflects data for November, with yellow areas indicating 100 percent ice coverage and pure blue areas representing 0 percent, or open water. Along the coast, you can see the blue water surface, which we call polynyas," said Sun.</p>
<p>Polynyas form through various natural processes. Sun explained that the most common method involves Antarctica's katabatic winds – strong, downward winds that push newly formed sea ice away from the coast, creating open water areas. This phenomenon, known as a wind-driven polynya, fluctuates in size over time, depending on changing weather patterns.</p>
<p>"In extremely low temperatures, it's only these polynyas that produce new ice. Once new ice forms, it gets blown outward by the wind, and more ice continues to form, so we refer to this process as an 'ice factory.' We typically measure a polynya's size by the amount of ice it produces. The Amundsen Sea polynya is currently the fourth largest among all the polynyas around Antarctica; it's quite substantial," Sun added.</p>
<p>More than a dozen large polynyas exist around Antarctica, with the Amundsen Sea polynya being one of the largest and most significant. These areas play a key role in the region's heat exchange, supporting higher biological productivity and offering unique insights into the dynamics of Antarctica's ecosystem.</p>
<p>"Polynyas facilitate heat exchange, which creates a more favorable environment for biological activity. Studies show that the Amundsen Sea polynya has the highest primary productivity of all the polynyas around Antarctica. That's why we're particularly focused on understanding how polynyas impact the entire ecosystem, which is why we've been conducting extensive ecological observations in the area," Sun concluded.</p>
<p>China's 41st Antarctic Expedition set sail from the southern Chinese port city of Guangzhou on November 1, 2024, with three vessels: the Xuelong and Xuelong-2 for scientific research and logistics, and the "Yongsheng" cargo ship, which is supplying materials for the Qinling Station. The mission is set to last nearly seven months, with a return scheduled for May 2025.</p>

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title: 16-day expedition on Taklimakan Desert &amp;#039;edge-locking&amp;#039; project ends
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<p>Taklimakan Desert, Xinjiang, June 27, 2024. /VCG</p>
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<p>Recently, the research expedition on the "edge-locking" project around the Taklimakan Desert has concluded successfully, according to China Media Group. This expedition aimed to analyze the actual effects and potential issues of the "edge-locking" project.</p>
<p>The research team conducted a 16-day on-site inspection along the 3,046-kilometer edge of the desert. They collected data to help build a key technical system for efficient forest and grass belts, and improve desert control.</p>
<p>Researchers from institutions like Xinjiang Academy of Forestry and Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, participated in the project. They recorded and analyzed the use of various technologies such as engineering sand control and photovoltaic sand control at the Ruoqiang County project site, gathering first-hand data.</p>
<p>"The team conducted in-depth research on various techniques applied in the 'edge-locking' project, including engineering, biological and photovoltaic sand control methods, and explored the social and environmental factors involved. This provides data for assessing the project's effectiveness and lays a foundation for the project's next phase," said Zhang Huifang, a researcher at the Modern Forestry Research Institute under Xinjiang Academy of Forestry.</p>
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<p>Workers at the Taklimakan Desert "edge-locking" project plow fields and sow plants, Yutian County, Xinjiang, November 27, 2024. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Workers at the Taklimakan Desert "edge-locking" project plow fields and sow plants, Yutian County, Xinjiang, November 27, 2024. /VCG</p>
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<p>The team also inspected the implementation of flood irrigation projects. Moreover, regarding the placement of grass grid sand barriers, the team emphasized the need to continue exploring suitable spacing.</p>
<p>As China's largest and the world's second-largest shifting sand desert, Taklimakan poses severe ecological threats due to its mobility and frequent sandstorms. On November 28, 2024, with the planting of rose seedlings in the last desert "edge-locking" gap area in Yutian County, the green sand-blocking protective belt around the entire 3,046-kilometer edge of the Taklimakan Desert was fully completed.</p>
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