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title: Death toll from earthquake in Myanmar surpasses 1,000 (VIDEOS)
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<p><strong>The number of victims is expected to rise as rescue operations continue</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The death toll from the 7.7-magnitude earthquake which rocked Myanmar on Friday has reached 1,002, the state-run broadcaster MRTV has reported.</p>
<p>The updated figures are from <em>“all the earthquake-affected areas nationwide,”</em> the broadcaster said on Saturday.</p>
<p>According to an earlier report by Myanmar Now, at least 2,400 additional people have been injured across the Southeast Asian country.</p>
<p>The authorities said earlier that the number of victims is expected to keep climbing as rescue operations are continuing.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, the country’s prime minister, Min Aung Hlaing, arrived in the city of Mandalay, which was heavily damaged by the quake. During his meeting with local officials, he <em>“instructed them to carry out search and rescue operations as soon as possible and to take necessary measures”</em> to assist those affected, according to MRTV.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>Law, a 1996 Cricket World Cup runner-up with Australia, last coached the United States, guiding them to the Super 8 of the Twenty20 World Cup last year on home soil in their inaugural World Cup appearance.</p>
<p>The former right-handed batter left the role after just six months in charge, despite leading the United States to one of <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=e23bec1b676313641ee592b716814d2efd9577a69a0a18023952985eeaca7c71JmltdHM9MTc0MzIwNjQwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=3aeb4474-56e9-6d1a-12d9-50b757526c8b&amp;psq=cricket+united+states+site%3Aaljazeera.com&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWxqYXplZXJhLmNvbS9zcG9ydHMvMjAyNC82LzYvdXNhLXZzLXBha2lzdGFuLWZpdmUtYmlnZ2VzdC1zaG9ja3MtaW4tdDIwLXdvcmxkLWN1cC1oaXN0b3J5LXNob2Nrcy1uZXBhbC1uYW1pYmlhLWFmZ2hhbmlzdGFu&amp;ntb=1">the greatest upsets in World Cup history</a> with their <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=486e7c83cd831c84e871a6555d9eda35ce2b1cd3180972a76e4be8d928b3e7faJmltdHM9MTc0MzIwNjQwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=3aeb4474-56e9-6d1a-12d9-50b757526c8b&amp;psq=stuart+law+cricket+united+states+site%3Aaljazeera.com&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWxqYXplZXJhLmNvbS9zcG9ydHMvbGl2ZWJsb2cvMjAyNC82LzYvbGl2ZS11c2EtdnMtcGFraXN0YW4taWNjLXQyMC13b3JsZC1jdXAtMjAyNC1ncm91cC1hLWNyaWNrZXQtbWF0Y2gtY29tbWVudGFyeS1zY29yZS1iYWJhci1hemFtLXNoYWhlZW4tYWZyaWRpLWNvdmVyYWdl&amp;ntb=1">win against Pakistan</a>.</p>
<p>Law, who appeared in 54 one-day internationals and one Test for Australia, has also had spells with the West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Nepal face Scotland and the Netherlands in World Cup League 2 in June as part of the qualifiers for the 2027 Cricket World Cup, which will be staged in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.</p>
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<p>They will then enter the qualification for the 2026 T20 World Cup in October, having finished bottom of their group – with only one point – at the 2024 edition.</p>
<p>Away from his time with Australia, Law spent much of his playing career in England with Essex and Lancashire and was head coach role at Middlesex prior to his appointment with the United States.</p>
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<p>The collapsed Mahamuni Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar, March 28, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Twelve aftershocks have been detected following the magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on Friday. The magnitudes of these aftershocks range from 2.8 to 7.5, according to Myanmar's Department of Meteorology and Hydrology on Saturday morning.</p>
<p>"This earthquake occurred along the Sagaing Fault in Myanmar, which marks the eastern edge of the Burmese Arc," said Jiang Haikun, a researcher at the China Earthquake Networks Center.</p>
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<p>The intense collision between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate caused significant shortening of the lithosphere, forming the Himalayan orogenic belt. The Burmese Arc region, located at the eastern tectonic junction of this belt, experiences intense crustal deformation and strong seismic activity. It has developed a series of north-south-trending tectonic units and faults, making it one of the most seismically active areas in the Himalayan seismic belt.</p>
<p>"The Sagaing Fault is over 1,400 kilometers long with an average movement rate of 20 millimeters per year. The fault is highly seismically active, especially in its middle and northern sections," Jiang said.</p>
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<p>Myanmar's leader Min Aung Hlaing inspects the earthquake-stricken area, Naypyidaw, Myanmar, March 28, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>He also noted that this specific earthquake occurred in the southern section, where no major earthquakes have been historically recorded. However, the surrounding area has experienced relatively frequent strong earthquakes, with 10 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above recorded since 1900. "This earthquake featured a southward rupture process," added Jiang.</p>
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<p>People queue up at a gas station after the quake, Mandalay, Myanmar, March 29, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>"This earthquake was a typical shallow-focus event occurring within the Earth's crust, with its rupture plane potentially reaching the surface, causing intense ground shaking. The region surrounding the fault is densely populated in Myanmar, and the collapse of numerous buildings has posed a severe challenge for emergency rescue efforts," said Gao Mengtan, an expert from the Institute of Geophysics at the China Earthquake Administration.</p>
<p>Gao added that, so far this year, global seismic activity has been lower compared to previous years. Given the current situation, it is difficult to say whether the Earth is entering an active seismic phase following this earthquake.</p>
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<p>Damaged pagoda, Naypyidaw, Myanmar, March 28, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Based on the preliminary earthquake parameters, the quake might trigger a local tsunami around the epicenter. However, since the epicenter is located outside the Pacific Ocean, it will not affect the coastal areas of China, according to China's Ministry of Natural Resources.</p>
<p>This earthquake marks the 17th earthquake of magnitude 6 or above globally this year. It is not only the largest earthquake to occur so far this year but also the strongest continental earthquake in nearly a decade, according to China Media Group.</p>
<p>On Saturday, a 37-member Chinese rescue and medical team arrived in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, to carry out international humanitarian relief efforts.</p>
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"I Have Contempt For Such People": Musk Rages At &amp;#039;Virtue-Signaling&amp;#039; Ukraine Hawks After Spat With &amp;#039;Traitor&amp;#039; Mark Kelly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<p>L'équipe sera formée de policiers sur le terrain et d'agents en civil chargés d'analyser des renseignements.</p>

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<p>L'entreprise ontarienne Simple Life Homes propose des maisons construites sous forme de panneaux préfabriqués.</p>


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220638
title: Elon Musk tries to rehab DOGE after backlash, mistakes
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Elon Musk is pushing to improve the image of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggesting the Tesla CEO is aware of the boogeyman persona he has created for himself and his cost-cutting push since joining President Trump’s team.  Musk went on Fox News on Thursday night to claim he is being careful and compassionate…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220396
title: Trump’s Signal scandal fuels growing distrust from allies
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The Trump administration’s sharing of sensitive military information on Signal has shocked allies, while further eroding trans-Atlantic trust thanks to group chat messages from top U.S. officials expressing contempt toward Europe’s “freeloading” on security.  “I think every allied intelligence agency that read that article is probably having their own internal panic attack about what this…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221041
title: Five takeaways as Trump’s clash with the legal world intensifies
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Friday brought new twists in President Trump’s intensifying battle with major legal firms. Trump has targeted several firms with executive orders that rescind their security clearances and banish them from the use of government facilities. If such orders stand, they would call the survival of the firms into question, since they would create enormous logistical…

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

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

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guid: https://www.rt.com/russia/614921-zelensky-demon-ukraine-lavra-crackdown/
title: Zelensky is a ‘demon’ – Ukrainian MP
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<p><strong>Artyom Dmitruk blasted his country’s leader over an attempt to take over the sacred catacombs of the county’s oldest monastery</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is waging a campaign of terror against his own people by signing off on a crackdown targeting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), particularly the iconic Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery, lawmaker Artyom Dmitruk has said.</p>
<p>In an interview with RT on Friday, Dmitruk responded to reports that Ukrainian officials and police have entered the catacombs of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the nation’s most significant monastery and the final resting place of several Christian saints. During the raid, authorities unlocked doors, broke into the caves, and changed locks. Dmitruk described their actions as sacrilegious and suggested that Zelensky was directly complicit.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“Zelensky is perpetrating genocide of the Ukrainian people. What we are seeing now and what we are witnessing now is the continuation of terror policies of Zelensky’s against [the] Ukrainian people. Zelensky is a demon in the body of a human being. You can call him whatever you want, a godless person, a terrorist, and so on and so forth. The gist of his actions is the same. Zelensky is following a demon’s will,”</em> he asserted.</p>

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

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

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

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title: Real Patriots Don't Think Like Hitler - Part 5
author: ;Matthew Ehret
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<div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33a14465-df83-41ae-be79-c449b0eb272c_1456x842.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33a14465-df83-41ae-be79-c449b0eb272c_1456x842.webp" width="1456" height="842" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/33a14465-df83-41ae-be79-c449b0eb272c_1456x842.webp","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":842,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":112574,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/webp","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://matthewehret.substack.com/i/160047920?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33a14465-df83-41ae-be79-c449b0eb272c_1456x842.webp","isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In our previous installments of ‘<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler-3a9?utm_source=publication-search">Real Patriots Don’t Think Like Hitler,’ </a>I wished to set the stage for several key points:</p><p><strong>The first: </strong>The current nudging of conservative movements globally towards a hard reactionary extremism in response to the destructive absurdities of woke neo-Bolshevik leftism is a very real danger which needs to be understood</p><p><strong>The second point: </strong>The massive wave of pro-Hitler narratives now spreading widely across alternative media platforms is designed to accelerate this neo-Hitler pagan revivalism under the guise of ‘saving white traditional values from Soros-funded immigration and Jew bankers’. Stu Peters’ recent promotion of US-based white nationalist David Duke, or the recent <em>Occupied</em> film are just two examples of this growing array of pro-Nazi propaganda now in play</p><p><strong>The third point: </strong>Hitler and the SS inner elite were never Christian, or nationalists, but rather puppet enforcers of a fascist imperialism run by an occult high command that sought to annihilate Christianity from the face of the earth.</p><p><strong>The final point: </strong>This occult high command which created and managed the Nazi Party was never intent on leaving the USA alone, as some revisionists insist, but had built up a vast espionage apparatus in the USA itself which has nearly completely been written out of history.</p><p>In this fifth part of this series, we will explore this occult espionage network in the USA with a look to two leading black magicians who oversaw much of it: Aleister Crowley and George Sylvester Viereck.</p><p>Throughout World War one and World War two, the American poet, vampire promoter and occultist George Sylvester Viereck acted as principal German intelligence agent, organizing a vast espionage network in Washington and New York where he interfaced closely with a newly formed British-directed intelligence network set up in New York named Sleepy Hollow.</p><h3><strong>The Sleepy Hollow Club</strong></h3><p>As Richard B. Spence notes in <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/secret-agent-666-spence-crowley/page/368/mode/2up">Secret Agent 666</a></em>, one of Crowley’s leading contacts and paymasters in New York before and during WWI was a figure named John Quinn, an Anglo-American agent of a new private intelligence agency centered in the elite Sleepy Hollow Club of New York.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F903bbae4-460b-4156-aa2d-cc3e8c96155a_478x700.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F903bbae4-460b-4156-aa2d-cc3e8c96155a_478x700.jpeg" width="302" height="442.25941422594144" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/903bbae4-460b-4156-aa2d-cc3e8c96155a_478x700.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":700,"width":478,"resizeWidth":302,"bytes":75572,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Sleepy Hollow Club was owned by William Rockefeller and featured the upper crust of America’s brahmin families, including the Vanderbilts, Morgans, Cabbots, Lodges, and Lowells (to name a few).</p><p>Senator Nelson Aldrich (father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller) was another leading member, as was President Wilson’s handler Edward Mandel House—both of whom played a key role in setting up both the Federal Reserve and IRS in 1913.</p><p>The Club’s permanent resident was a British agent named Claude Dansey (later the deputy director of MI5) who was tasked with establishing this parallel security agency outside of the influence of the US government.</p><p>As Anton Chaitkin points out in <em><a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2015/eirv42n36-20150911/44-57_4236.pdf">Hoover’s FBI and Anglo-American Dictatorship</a></em>, Dansey ran the agency from 1911-1914 from the Sleepy Hollow Club, and Claude Dansey’s protege Ralph van Deman set up a shadowy military intelligence agency called ‘<a href="https://popularresistance.org/building-americas-secret-surveillance-state/">The Black Chamber’ in 1918</a>. Led by Marlborough Churchill, an American cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, the Black Chamber excelled at signals intelligence and was soon given a new name in 1930 under the banner of <strong>‘The National Security Agency’.</strong></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13ee4379-d37e-4941-9f22-e64907a08edf_957x482.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13ee4379-d37e-4941-9f22-e64907a08edf_957x482.jpeg" width="957" height="482" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13ee4379-d37e-4941-9f22-e64907a08edf_957x482.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":482,"width":957,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":230808,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>After WWI, Van Deman recommended Dansey for a Distinguished Service Medal “<em>for guiding, planning and implementation of an American intelligence service”.</em></p><p>In 1909, Dansey, who had risen to prominence in the Boer War (working closely with Lord Milner and Churchill), became a founding deputy director of Britain’s new spy agency MI5, alongside Viscount Richard Burdon Haldane and William Melville.</p><p>The fact that Dansey <strong>created at least two American secret intelligence agencies</strong> while also serving as Deputy director of the new British Secret Service (later to be known as MI5) should cause any thinking person to question who exactly has been running the USA over the past century.</p><p>During World War II, Dansey would be assigned to create another secretive agency dubbed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1985/03/31/on-his-majestys-secret-service/c107ec28-815c-475d-93b4-b76ffdd2e2bf/">‘The Z organization’ </a>that interfaced between British occult intelligence, Nazi occult networks, and once again included both Crowley and George Sylvester Viereck as active members.</p><p>In the 1988 book<a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Kings-Men-Robert-Marshall/dp/0006371574"> ‘All the King’s Men,’</a> historian Robert Marshall demonstrated that Dansey’s pseudo-private intelligence apparatus was behind the sabotage of several networks of French and Dutch anti-Nazi resistance fighters who believed they could trust British intelligence contacts.</p><p>The manager of the Sleepy Hollow Club was a powerful financier named Thomas Fortune Ryan, who joined J.P Morgan in financing Nikola Tesla’s towers before the war was launched.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc6df2315-3e7a-4d57-abf8-54fdf5b8754c_1726x999.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc6df2315-3e7a-4d57-abf8-54fdf5b8754c_1726x999.jpeg" width="1456" height="843" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6df2315-3e7a-4d57-abf8-54fdf5b8754c_1726x999.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":843,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Crowley, Viereck, Wardenclyffe Tower and Nikola Tesla</figcaption></figure></div><p>It is interesting to note that William J. Flynn took the position of Director of the fledgling FBI from 1917-1919, where he found himself at odds with Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s tyrannical crackdown on civil liberties, dubbed ‘the Palmer Raids’.</p><p>American historian Anton Chaitkin <a href="https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/hoovers-fbi-and-the-anglo-american-293?utm_source=publication-search">had the following to say about the Sleepy Hollow Club </a>(founded in 1910 as an instrument of British intelligence and Deep State traitors):</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“The King [Edward VII] and Viscount Haldane restructured British intelligence in 1909, making two branches of the official secret service later called MI5 (domestic/counterintelligence) and MI6 (foreign). Beginning in 1910, the new Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, arranged great new powers of surveillance for the secret service, a “registry” of subversives and the clandestine interception of private mail; he put through Parliament a drastic new Official Secrets Act, and recommended passage of a eugenical sterilization law to save the war-destined Empire the expenses of caring for the unfit.</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h3><strong>William James Flynn and the Patriotic Tradition of US Intelligence</strong></h3><p>William James Flynn (1867-1928), chief of New York’s secret service from 1912-1917, and director of the young FBI from 1917-1919 led the anti-corruption purge of the NYPD detective bureau from 1910-1911.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6507970b-9931-4488-8fc5-8000b7c91b77_618x405.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6507970b-9931-4488-8fc5-8000b7c91b77_618x405.jpeg" width="618" height="405" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6507970b-9931-4488-8fc5-8000b7c91b77_618x405.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":405,"width":618,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">William James Flynn</figcaption></figure></div><p>In 1915, <a href="https://archive.org/details/eagleseyetruesto00coop/page/n7/mode/2up">Flynn was responsible for locating the German agents operating in the USA around the figures of Aleister Crowley and Viereck,</a> and it was Flynn who followed German diplomat Dr. Heinrich Albert and George Sylvester Viereck<a href="https://www.felixsommerfeld.com/news/mexican-revolution-blog/2015/8/4/the-minister-without-portfolio"> and acquired the evidence </a>of Germany’s $25 million spent buying up spy networks across the USA during the war.</p><p>Historian Helibert von Felitzer notes of this sting operation:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Albert’s papers revealed the German ownership of the Bridgeport Projectile Company, the investments in American munitions, market-cornering efforts, investments in newspapers, bribes to American politicians, links of the Deutsche Bank representative, Hugo Schmidt, to the German operation, and payments of the German government to George Sylvester Viereck and the Fatherland.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>As noted in <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-occult-tesla-part-2">The Occult Tesla - Part 2,</a> Viereck’s pro-German propaganda magazine ‘<em>The Fatherland</em>’ was edited by none other than Aleister Crowley.</p><p>Flowing from the success of this operation, Flynn tracked down the wireless radio communications station based in Long Island that had been transmitting signals to German intelligence (such as information leading to the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915). Flynn’s interception of messages to the German high command provided the legal justification for the US government’s seizure and destruction of Tesla’s Long Island towers (both the Wardenclyff tower <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2016/01/nikola-tesla-why-his-free-energy-was-suppressed-and-lifes-work-buried-3277422.html">and the Telefunken Wireless Station in Sayville, Long Island</a>, NY) during the war.</p><h3>The Making of an American Nazi: George Viereck</h3><p>George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) was the son of a leading anarchist expelled from Germany by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, and settled in the USA as a child in 1896.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1ea994c-9348-4b3c-b740-8ee0e1190636_787x1229.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1ea994c-9348-4b3c-b740-8ee0e1190636_787x1229.jpeg" width="260" height="406.0228716645489" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d1ea994c-9348-4b3c-b740-8ee0e1190636_787x1229.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1229,"width":787,"resizeWidth":260,"bytes":402931,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Throughout his life, Viereck firmly believed himself to be a member of the elite bloodlines of Europe and asserted that he was the illegitimate son of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Strangely, his actual father was a leading Prussian anarchist who was so close to Friedrich Engels that the founder of Communism and handler of Marx was present at the later’s wedding to Viereck’s mother.</p><p>Whether the stories of Viereck’s aristocratic blood were true or not, Viereck became a devoted Germanophile, Aryan supremacist, occultist and propagandist for Germany during both World Wars—even serving five years in jail between 1942-1947 for his pro-Nazi activities in the USA.</p><h3>German Agent and Occultists in World War 1</h3><p>During World War I, Viereck ran two influential pro-German newspapers out of New York, named ‘The Fatherland’ and ‘The Internationalist’.</p><p>As editor in chief of both journals, Viereck worked closely with fellow occultist Aleister Crowley, who wrote for both journals and served as editor of The International, where ‘The Beast’ lost no time promoting both political propaganda as well as his “revealed doctrine” of Thelema (Greek for “Will’) and occult new age theories.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38205dd8-ec47-4f65-aabe-30509cbdccc6_1332x646.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38205dd8-ec47-4f65-aabe-30509cbdccc6_1332x646.jpeg" width="626" height="303.6006006006006" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/38205dd8-ec47-4f65-aabe-30509cbdccc6_1332x646.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":646,"width":1332,"resizeWidth":626,"bytes":530997,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>According to Richard Spence’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Agent-666-Aleister-Intelligence/dp/1932595333">Secret Agent 666</a>, Crowley was stationed by British intelligence in the USA from 1914-1919 where he ran anti-British propaganda on the one hand (interfacing closely with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_Country_Club">eastern establishment’s Sleepy Hollow Club</a>), and where he seeded occult cells across the USA including what became his Ordo Templi Orientis in New York and California while also acting as ‘Honorous Magus’ in the Societas Rosicruciana. Crowley’s California lodges would later be led by Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard.</p><p>As Marco Pasi explains in <a href="https://www.academia.edu/10178869/Aleister_Crowley_and_the_Temptation_of_Politics">Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics</a>, Crowley and Viereck had already met in London in 1911, before Crowley would be deployed to the USA. This places Viereck himself into the position of a likely British intelligence asset in the USA.</p><p>Pasi writes:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“In the first months of 1915, he [Crowley] began collaborating with a German propaganda newspaper, The Fatherland, directed by the writer George Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962). Crowley had already met Viereck in London in 1911. The articles Crowley published in this period were violently anti-British. He also contributed various articles to the journal Vanity Fair. In October 1915 he left New York to tour the West Coast. On this voyage, in Vancouver, he met with his disciple Charles Stansfeld Jones (1886–1950), who had established a branch of the OTO in that city.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>In 1912, Crowley was made outer head of the Ordo Templi Orientis by Theodor Reuss (the same Reuss who had worked with Memphis Misraim Rite founder John Yarker, Carl Kellner, Anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner and Aleister Crowley in the Ancient Rite of Memphis and Misraim.)</p><p><a href="https://crowleythetruewill.blogspot.com/2012/10/aleister-crowley-ordo-templi-orientis.html">In 1913, Crowley became the head</a> of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Misraim. According to <a href="https://archive.org/details/rudolfsteineraut0000stei">Steiner’s autobiography</a>, the former Theosophy leader was initiated into the Memphis and Misraim Rite by Yarker with his wife Marie von Sievers, although by 1912 had publicly distanced themselves from Reuss and Yarker.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7b2a0dc-432d-44f5-9ee5-1947cd129a5a_1789x646.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7b2a0dc-432d-44f5-9ee5-1947cd129a5a_1789x646.jpeg" width="1456" height="526" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e7b2a0dc-432d-44f5-9ee5-1947cd129a5a_1789x646.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":526,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":693431,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Steiner was a devoted advocate of Rosicrucianism <a href="https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA233a/English/RSP1965/RosIni_index.html">and lectured extensively</a> on the secret wisdom of Rosicrucians throughout the ages, which places his thinking into direct alignment with the Hermetic orders of Crowley, Reuss, Yarker et al. In his bizarre 1912 lecture <a href="https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA130/English/RSP1984/19121218p02.html">Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz</a>, Steiner spoke of his belief of the Martian home of the spirit beings Buddha, Christ and the founder of Rosicrucianism (the fictitious Christian Rosenkreutz,) whom he proposed were all avatars of the same ‘Christ consciousness’ spirit.</p><p>During this dense period of occult activity leading up to the first world war, Crowley made contact with the leading Ariosophists (a Theosophist spinoff group) led by Otto von List and Lans von Liebenfels, and German Theosophist leader Dr. Franz Hartmann. The New Templar Order established by Liebenfels in 1907 worked closely tied to ‘The Rosicrucian Pansophists’ led by Heinrich Traenker, and by 1918, collaboration of these various occult networks gave rise to the Thule Society in 1919.</p><p>The Thule Society formed a central pagan religious hub and was soon led by Dietrich Eckart, and other German racists, who would soon make up the vanguard of the Nazi high command.</p><p>In ‘<em><a href="https://archive.org/details/most-evil-secret-societies-in-history">The Most Evil Secret Societies in History</a></em>’, Shelley Klein writes,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Calling themselves the Thule Society (Thule-Gesellschaft) and meeting in secret, they were to play a significant part in Hitler’s rise to power, fomenting support in the beer halls of Munich, the very establishments where Hitler first began practising his charismatic, rabble-rousing speeches… The Thule Society was an early expression of the Nazi fetish for “Aryan” tribes and northern lands, an early elision of an idea of natural purity with a belief in the racial superiority of a people.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Franz Hartmann was a member of Crowley’s the Argentum Astrum (A∴A∴) and also president of the Indian Theosophical Society, and in 1907, alongside Annie Besant, who became the first female member of the theosophy, infiltrated Indian Congress Party that later collaborated with the Nazis.</p><h3>Crowley’s Occultism vs U.S. Naval Intelligence</h3><p>Richard B. Spence’s research has been corroborated by declassified documents from the archives of the United States Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) which demonstrated that Crowley was a British double agent the entire time.</p><p>Spence describes the influence Crowley enjoyed over the top brass of Germany’s government and military chiefs during the war, writing,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Crowley’s influence reached the top of the German clandestine and diplomatic hierarchies in the U.S. Through his connection to The Fatherland and the likes of Viereck… Crowley rubbed elbows with Dr. Albert, von Papen and even Ambassador Bernstorff. Thus he became more than a mere propagandist… the Germans came to place great faith in the Beast’s ‘intuition’ and saw him as an indispensable guide into the mentality of the Americans and the British. He especially impressed them with his ability to predict the actions and reactions of the British. It was almost as though he could see into the inner sanctums of Whitehall. The possibility that he was a British double agent plying them with disinformation apparently eluded them.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Certainly, Crowley’s mastery of kundalini yoga, druidism and German occult rituals positioned him favorably to win the appeal of leading figures within the “anti-British” resistance of India, Ireland and Germany… all of whom were extremely active in “neutral America” before and during World War One.</p><p>In a declassified report from the chief intelligence officer at West Point to the Director of Military Intelligence dated September 23, 1918, we read the following report on Crowley’s connection with Viereck:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Aleister Crowley – English subject. Previous correspondence: Subject has been camping on Esopus Island, Hudson River and was brought to attention of this office by subject’s connections with Madeline George, an actress of New York City who had formerly been investigated by the Department of Justice on charges of being a German spy. It was determined that Aleister Crowley was an employee of the British Government, but at present in this country on official business, of which the British Counsel, New York City, has full cognizance.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>However, he has been formerly investigated by the Attorney General Becker’s office in connection with the activities of George Viereck, and the propaganda in New York City. It was found that the British Government was full aware of the fact, that Crowley was connected with this German propaganda and had received money for writing anti-British articles. This case has been turned over to the N.Y. State Attorney General’s Office, for such action as he may deem advisable.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Another interesting report from the US Office of Naval Intelligence dated July 10, 1917 zeroed in on Theodor Reuss (Crowley’s fellow leader at the Rosicrucian Ordo Templi Orientis,) which stated that Crowley <em>“maintained some mysterious means of communication with their chief in Berlin, Rudolf Steiner”.</em></p><p>Two scans of the relevant declassified intelligence reports covering the networks of Crowley and Viereck in the USA are featured on the following two pages:</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5336286e-4208-4c49-a410-800bcc22e098_494x636.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div 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%2F5336286e-4208-4c49-a410-800bcc22e098_494x636.jpeg" width="434" height="558.7530364372469" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5336286e-4208-4c49-a410-800bcc22e098_494x636.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":636,"width":494,"resizeWidth":434,"bytes":124363,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001478d9-96fe-4964-b5a3-602c636a5a70_507x665.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001478d9-96fe-4964-b5a3-602c636a5a70_507x665.jpeg" width="435" height="570.5621301775147" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/001478d9-96fe-4964-b5a3-602c636a5a70_507x665.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":665,"width":507,"resizeWidth":435,"bytes":113777,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Is it possible that Tesla’s 186-foot Wardenclyffe Tower financed by JP Morgan was the “mysterious means” referred to by U.S. Naval Intelligence in 1917 to communicate messages wirelessly across the Atlantic?</p><p>Certainly, Crowley’s “magickal workings” on Long Island during that period situate him very close to Tesla’s tower, and Crowley’s association with Tesla’s intimate friend Viereck causes the mind to wonder.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a09cd19-912c-43f5-a390-78fd01f60ffe_482x438.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a09cd19-912c-43f5-a390-78fd01f60ffe_482x438.jpeg" width="482" height="438" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0a09cd19-912c-43f5-a390-78fd01f60ffe_482x438.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":438,"width":482,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":69954,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Rudolf Steiner’s possible role as coordinator of the occult intelligence network in the USA through ‘neutral Switzerland’ is additionally fascinating, since he also played the role of personal spiritual guru to the German Chief-of-Staff Helmut von Moltke.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73dc40b6-a383-44e3-b126-5b0fb0249174_371x222.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73dc40b6-a383-44e3-b126-5b0fb0249174_371x222.png" width="371" height="222" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/73dc40b6-a383-44e3-b126-5b0fb0249174_371x222.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":222,"width":371,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":78342,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">German Chief-of-Staff Helmut von Moltke and his spiritual guru Rudolf Steiner</figcaption></figure></div><p>While it is impossible to know what advice or intelligence Steiner gave General Moltke, what is known is that the General walked into every single trap set for Germany by British strategists… leading up to the ritual bloodletting that was World War One.</p><p>By July 1917, the Navy, under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt had enough, and ordered the demolition of Wardenclyffe Tower due to the naval intelligence reports that “German spies were using the big wireless tower” to communicate with German intelligence.</p><h4>Between Wars: The Incubation of an Occult Fascist Monstrosity</h4><p>Between WW1 and WW2, Viereck continued to promote and practice Crowley’s religion of Thelema, and interfaced with nascent fascist organizations across the USA, Mexico, Canada and the UK.</p><p>In English Canada, the <em>League for Social Reconstruction (established by five Rhodes Scholars)</em> was ready to take power in 1932, and French-speaking Canada was quickly embracing the Nazi-inspired political party of <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1rfsnms">Adrien Arcand as the Quebec blue shirts.</a></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26fd8312-c621-4384-8750-0d63a861a217_732x1062.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26fd8312-c621-4384-8750-0d63a861a217_732x1062.jpeg" width="276" height="400.42622950819674" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/26fd8312-c621-4384-8750-0d63a861a217_732x1062.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1062,"width":732,"resizeWidth":276,"bytes":107256,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The British governing class, led by the royal family were fully backing Nazism, and Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was rising faster than ever. Mosley’s lieutenant and liason with Adolf Hitler was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._C._Fuller">Major General J.F.C. Fuller </a>(1878–1966), the innovator of tank warfare, whose doctrines are still taught across military colleges to the present day.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe846acea-06ce-490d-ad60-d5f59c406578_304x344.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe846acea-06ce-490d-ad60-d5f59c406578_304x344.jpeg" width="304" height="344" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e846acea-06ce-490d-ad60-d5f59c406578_304x344.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":344,"width":304,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"undefined","title":"undefined","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="undefined" title="undefined" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Satanist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._C._Fuller">Major General J.F.C. Fuller</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>In 1907, Fuller was initiated into Aleister Crowley’s Argentum Astrum Thelemic order and served to act as back channel between Crowley and Hitler before and during WW2.</p><p>Within the USA, Viereck openly associated with the Nazi Silver Shirts led by William Dudley Pelley, whose strange Theosophical ties extended to America’s earliest ‘UFO abductee’ George Adamski and George Hunt Williamson. It was Pelley who reproduced the Protocols of Zion leaflets sent out via Congressional offices in the USA under the direction of George Sylvester Viereck during WW2.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa59065db-2129-4cd9-80c5-9630dbc22c27_473x675.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa59065db-2129-4cd9-80c5-9630dbc22c27_473x675.png" width="473" height="675" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a59065db-2129-4cd9-80c5-9630dbc22c27_473x675.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":675,"width":473,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":342110,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>All of these movements came in different flavors, but were united under a cold utilitarian philosophy of government, a devout love for eugenics (the racist “science” of population control) and addiction to City of London/Wall Street money.</p><p><a href="https://larouchepub.com/other/1999/liebig_schleicher_2610.html">With the Nazi coup ousting Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher in 1933 </a>and punctuated by the burning of the Reichstag—giving Hitler the excuse to claim broad extra-constitutional powers of Fuhrer—George Sylvester Viereck began organizing Nazi rallies at New York’s Madison Square Garden, and hobnobbed with the elite of Washington- even managing to get several senators and congressmen to use their tax payer accounts to fund and mail hundreds of pro-Nazi pamphlets to American citizens.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"uftTLH6NRks","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-uftTLH6NRks" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uftTLH6NRks?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>American historian Bradley Hart described Viereck in <em><a href="https://sheldonkirshner.com/hitlers-american-friends/">Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States</a>:</em></p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“U.S. senators and congressmen were receptive to the anti-British invective disseminated by the German propaganda machine, which was directed by George Sylvester Viereck [who was] the Nazis’ most effective tool for recruiting new American friends”.</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h4>Viereck: Father of Anti-Jewish American Conspiracy Research</h4><p>In his 1932 best selling book <a href="https://archive.org/details/strangestfriends0000vier/page/n3/mode/2up">The Strangest Friendship in History: Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House</a>, Viereck carried out what is possibly the first expose of the Jewish bankers conspiracy that created the Federal Reserve in 1913, shaping an entire movement of “conspiracy research” in the USA for the next 90 years revolving around 1) a total neglect of the actual British imperial agencies and occultists running the American deep state, and 2) a popularization of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion forgery (<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler">discussed in part one of this series</a>).</p><p>Such students of Viereck as Eustace Mullins (former assistant to Sen. McCarthy), Ben Freedman, and even pro-Nazi revisionist David Irving have all used Viereck’s text as foundation in their own explanatory models of history.</p><p>In his essay<a href="https://www.eustacemullins.us/wp-content/works/Articles/Eustace%20Mullins%20-%20Victims.pdf"> ‘Victims’</a>, McCarthyite Eustace Mullins describes his friendship with Viereck and his indignation over Franklin Roosevelt’s persecution of this noble Nazi, writing,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Another friend, George Sylvester Viereck, was marked for personal persecution by the insane cripple, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, because Viereck refused to turn his back on his own heritage and do the bidding of this twisted and misshapen madman.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h3>Sabotage in America: Nazi Fifth Columnists</h3><p>Among the Senators and congressmen whom Viereck successfully recruited to the Nazi cause were Congressman Hamilton Fish III of New York, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. In one Madison Square garden Nazi rally organized by Viereck, Hamilton Fish was a featured speaker, and advocated fervently for a pro-Nazi foreign policy with a focus on a German-US special relationship.</p><p>In the 1942 book ‘<a href="https://archive.org/details/SabotageTheSecretWarAgainstAmerica/page/n15/mode/2up">Sabotage: The Secret War Against America</a>,’ American patriot Albert H. Kahn wrote of Viereck’s Washington network with a special focus on Viereck’s control over Senator Lundeen of Minnesota, for whom he wrote speeches.</p><p>Kahn wrote,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Viereck wrote certain important speeches for Lundeen, which the Senator delivered on the floor of the Senate. One of these Viereck-Lundeen compositions was the speech which, when reprinted and mailed out under Lundeen's franking privilege, became known to tens of thousands of Americans under the title of “Six Men and the War.” It was a tirade against United States preparedness efforts. Viereck worked particularly hard on this speech in order to catch the exact flavor of the Senator’s oratorical style.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F287ec69a-df44-4a38-8af9-f7a20b3e264d_750x543.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F287ec69a-df44-4a38-8af9-f7a20b3e264d_750x543.jpeg" width="750" height="543" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/287ec69a-df44-4a38-8af9-f7a20b3e264d_750x543.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":543,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":285297,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Describing Viereck’s use of Congressional powers to mail Nazi propaganda to American citizens using tax-payer money, Kahn wrote,</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“Viereck established in Washington an apparatus lor placing pro- Axis propaganda in the Congressional Record, purchasing tens of thousands of reprints of this and other material, and mailing out these reprints on a nationwide scale, postage free, by using the franking privileges of various Congressmen, many of whom were doubtless unaware of the use to which their franked envelopes were being put. The headquarters of Viereck’s Washington propaganda machine was in Room 1424 in the House Office Building. Room 1424 was the office of Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Strangely, when House on Un-American activity investigations were launched, the one senator who began cooperating with Federal Authorities on Viereck’s Nazi penetrations into the government (Sen. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota) <a href="https://www.startribune.com/ernest-lundeen-george-sylvester-viereck-nazi-propaganda-world-war-2/600252419/">died in a strange plane crash on August 31, 1940</a> near Lovettsville, Virginia, killing all 24 passengers and two federal investigators on board his plane.</p><p>Senator Lundeen’s chance to give testimony about the occult networks of Viereck in America was thus effectively snuffed out.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5af87ed6-7646-4076-8d03-932ef06bb5db_688x700.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5af87ed6-7646-4076-8d03-932ef06bb5db_688x700.png" width="386" height="392.7325581395349" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5af87ed6-7646-4076-8d03-932ef06bb5db_688x700.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":700,"width":688,"resizeWidth":386,"bytes":230857,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Sen. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota</figcaption></figure></div><p>Sadly the truths of the fifth columnists and occult underground seeking to bring about a new ‘thousand year reich’ under a reset of human civilization would not be permitted to come to light after the end of World War 2.</p><p>By April 12, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt was dead, joined soon thereafter by his strongest allies Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal (whose career was cut short when he jumped out of a window in 1949).</p><p>Without missing a beat, the fascist sabotage networks that sought to win a special Anglo-Nazi special relationship to conquer the world were rehabilitated and redeployed under the form of ‘The World Anti-Communist League’, and NATO’s Secret Armies (<a href="https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-how-nato-conducted">codenamed ‘Operation Gladio’</a>).</p><p>The irony was that the new branding of post-WW2 fascists took the form of a movement that came to be called ‘Neo-Conservative’ and was ironically steered by ‘former’ Trotskyists and Satanists committed to re-organizing the world under a new managerial elite.</p><p>This story will be told in a future report of ‘Real Patriots Don’t Think Like Hitler’.</p><p>Read the previous installment here:</p><div data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;0003096b-1a08-43d1-8adc-6166d3fbc38a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;A few months ago, my co-host on Breaking History Gordon McCormick and I dedicated an episode of Breaking History to the topic of ‘Real Patriots Don’t Think Like Hitler’.&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Real Patriots Don't Think Like Hitler - 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Hitler was a Christian fighting against satanic Bolshevism!&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Real Patriots Don't Think Like Hitler - Part 4&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5695118,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matthew Ehret&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Journalist, cartoonist, Director of Rising Tide Foundation, founder Canadian Patriot Review, Senior Fellow of American University in Moscow&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87857ffa-f7d0-4dfb-8d8b-ed506b3f5dde_1024x1024.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-02-18T11:49:47.735Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e825591-a9ce-4cec-88b0-de97f0915fc3_1446x962.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler-3a9&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:157349743,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:40,&quot;comment_count&quot;:8,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Matt Ehret's Insights&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccedee3e-0c8b-48ec-ada1-8659e05ebcb4_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><p></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/now-available-revenge-of-the-mystery" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65a27e74-82f3-4950-9131-3ec3e65f8afd_2320x1300.jpeg" width="1456" height="816" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/65a27e74-82f3-4950-9131-3ec3e65f8afd_2320x1300.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":816,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":"https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/now-available-revenge-of-the-mystery","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/">The Canadian Patriot Review</a>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/">the Rising Tide Foundation</a>. He has written the four volume<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/"> Untold History of Canada series</a>, four volume C<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/">lash of the Two Americas</a> series and<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press"> Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media.</strong></p>

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<p>Renowned South African fashion designer David Tlale spoke to CGTN about the journey his brand has taken over the years to the point of showcasing at this year's Shanghai Fashion Week. He also highlighted how "being in China is a beautiful journey," and expressed his enthusiasm for establishing his brand presence in China and engaging further with the Chinese market. </p>
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<p><a href="https://rmx.news/article/new-german-government-wants-to-ban-lies/"><em>Via Remix News,</em></a></p>
<p>The new German government coalition, which is likely to be the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) is looking to ban “lies,” according to a working paper that emerged from the group “culture and media” between the two parties.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/medien-papier-von-union-und-spd-neue-koalition-will-luegen-verbieten-67e52f80ccbc941ec01faddc">Bild newspaper</a> received a copy of the working paper, which outlines the goal of combating “fake” news on social media, including restrictions on it.</p>

<p><strong>The paper from the CDU and SPD indicates that “disinformation and fake news” threaten democracy.</strong></p>
<p>In fact, the paper argues that freedom of expression does not apply in such circumstances.</p>
<p>Bild contacted a number of constitutional lawyers, and they are highly skeptical of the law.</p>
<p><em><strong>“Lies are only prohibited if they are punishable, for example in the case of sedition. Otherwise, you can lie,”</strong></em> said Volker Boehme-Neßler, a professor at the University of Oldenburg.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">🇩🇪 Extraordinary scenes in Germany as police raid the home of Jürgen Elsässer, the publisher of the right-wing Compact Magazine, and remove various belongings from his residence outside Berlin.</p><p>Germany's interior minister has placed a blanket ban on the entire publication.</p><p>It… <a href="https://t.co/KsV03IbbSs">pic.twitter.com/KsV03IbbSs</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1813205996531003470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p>Even determining a lie is a legal complexity.</p>

<p>“It is not an easy question of what a factual claim and what an expression of opinion is. Most courts interpret freedom of expression very broadly,” he added.</p>
<p>He also took aim at a specific part of the working paper, which addresses “hate and agitation.”</p>
<p>He said, “‘hate and agitation’ — these are ‘no legal terms.” He added, <em><strong>“Basically, the spread of hatred in Germany is protected by freedom of expression. An assertion like ‘I hate all politicians,’ does not yet constitute a criminal offense.”</strong></em></p>
<p>Another law professor from the University of Augsburg, Josef Franz Lindner, said that the “deliberate spreading of false facts is not punishable, not illegal.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">AfD politician <a href="https://twitter.com/hallofraukaiser?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hallofraukaiser</a> has been convicted for publishing gang rape statistic data related to Afghan immigration, with her case now attracting worldwide attention. <a href="https://t.co/4iswSMQoNP">https://t.co/4iswSMQoNP</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1787916568053109080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p>He said that if the new government moves forward with a law against “fake news,” it would represent a grave threat to freedom of speech.</p>
<p><strong>He said he can only warn against a “fake news” offense being created, saying “Ultimately, it would expose any controversial statement to the risk of criminal prosecution.”</strong></p>

<p>It is also worth noting that Friedrich Merz himself, who is likely to be Germany’s next chancellor, openly lied when he said that his party would support an end to the debt brake. Almost immediately after the election, he said the debt brake would be lifted, and that Germany would take on historic amounts of debt.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">BREAKING: A 14-year-old German boy had his house raided and searched by police in Bavaria for posting a hashtag "Everything for Germany" on TkTok.</p><p>The raid happened on Dec. 6, St. Nicholas Day, which typically sees a Santa-like character bringing chocolates and fruit and putting… <a href="https://t.co/TxwesOOOPw">pic.twitter.com/TxwesOOOPw</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1867166140570460599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p>Lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel, who has a broad range of clients related to internet censorship, says the CDU and SPD’s goal with the new paper is to “intimidate the unpopular social media” content producers. He said that such censorship already lacks a “constitutional basis.”</p>
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<p>Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans rallied for and against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol as the country’s Constitutional Court weighs whether to dismiss him.</p>
<p>On Saturday, main streets through central Seoul were filled with rival protesters, carrying political signs and waving flags despite the cold weather.</p>

<p>Yoon has been <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/8/south-koreas-impeached-president-yoon-released-from-prison">suspended</a> from office since the liberal opposition-controlled National Assembly impeached him over his December 3 martial law decree, which plunged the country into political turmoil.</p>
<p>The Constitutional Court is deliberating whether to formally dismiss or reinstate him. If he is removed, there will be an election to replace him within two months.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3609635" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3609635" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AFP__20250329__38D3662__v1__HighRes__SkoreaPoliticsCourtYoon-1743241691.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C474" alt="An elderly woman reacts during a street rally in support of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on March 29, 2025, ahead of the impeachment verdict for the President." data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3609635"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3609635" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">An elderly woman reacts during a street rally in Seoul [Jung Yeon-je/AFP]</figcaption></figure><p>The wait has only emboldened rival camps to hit the streets in greater numbers every weekend.</p>
<p>“The people are overwhelmed with fatigue and frustration as … the ongoing crises remain unresolved,” Lee Han-sol, who was protesting for Yoon’s dismissal, told the AFP news agency. “The ongoing delays have led to a growing sense of scepticism.”</p>
<p>But Yoon supporters, whose members include right-wing YouTubers and religious figures, told AFP his impeachment trial is unlawful.</p>
<p>“The Constitutional Court won’t be able to ignore us. Look at us, there are so many of us here,” said Lee Hye-sook, 58.</p>
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<p>Yoon, a former prosecutor, was detained in a dawn raid in January on insurrection charges but was released in early March on procedural grounds. He has remained defiant throughout and blamed a “malicious” opposition.</p>
<p>A Gallup Korea poll released earlier this month showed 58 percent of respondents supported Yoon’s removal.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="impeachment-trial">Impeachment trial</h2>
<p>The Constitutional Court was given 180 days from the time it took on <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/26/south-koreas-prosecutors-indict-impeached-president-yoon-for-insurrection">Yoon’s impeachment case</a> to issue a ruling, meaning it has until June to decide his fate.</p>
<p>It has typically issued rulings within weeks for past presidential impeachment cases, but it has taken longer over Yoon’s case, without providing a reason.</p>
<p>At least six of the court’s eight justices must vote to remove Yoon.</p>
<p>South Korea will hold a snap election within 60 days if the court upholds Yoon’s impeachment.</p>
<p>The leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, is regarded as the top contender for the next presidential election but faces legal challenges.</p>

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221166
title: How does the automotive supply chain work?
author: ;Andrew Dorn
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Donald Trump's new auto tariffs also apply to certain car parts — a choice that could hurt suppliers and consumers.

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1742651370
title: Why can’t we remember our early years? Do babies make memories at all?
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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AP120330030806-1742652366.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Have you ever been convinced that you remember being a baby? A moment in a crib, or the taste of a first birthday cake?</p>
<p data-start="300" data-end="534">Chances are, those memories aren’t real. Decades of research suggest that most people cannot recall personal experiences from the first few years of life.</p>

<p data-start="536" data-end="789">However, even though we can’t remember being a baby, a new study has found new evidence that babies do take in the world around them and may also begin forming memories far earlier than once thought.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-did-the-study-work-and-what-did-it-find">How did the study work and what did it find?</h2>
<p>A study published this month in Science by researchers at Yale and Columbia universities has revealed that babies as young as 12 months old can form memories via the hippocampus – a part of the brain that stores memories in adults, too.</p>
<p>To observe this, the researchers used a specially adapted brain scan for infants during a single session. It allowed them to watch how babies’ brains responded while they were awake and looking at images of faces and objects. Parents remained close to their babies, which helped keep them calm and alert.</p>
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<p>In the study, 26 infants aged four to 25 months were shown a series of images. It was found that if a baby’s hippocampus was more active the first time they saw a particular image, they would look at the same image for longer when it reappeared a short time later, next to a new one – suggesting they recognised it.</p>
<p>“Our results suggest that babies’ brains have the capacity for forming memories – but how long-lasting these memories are is still an open question,” said Tristan Yates, a postdoctoral research scientist in the department of psychology at Columbia University and lead author of the study.</p>
<p>This is the first time scientists have directly observed how a memory begins to take shape in an awake baby’s brain. Previous <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34022155/">research</a> relied on indirect observations, such as watching whether babies reacted to something familiar. This time, however, researchers observed brain activity linked to specific memories as they form in real time.</p>
<p>Most past brain activity studies have been done while babies were asleep, which limited what researchers could learn about conscious memory-building.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-does-this-tell-us-about-early-life-memories">What does this tell us about early life memories?</h2>
<p>The findings suggest that episodic memory – the kind of memory that helps us remember specific events and the context in which they took place – begins to develop earlier than scientists previously believed.</p>
<p>Until recently, it was widely believed that this type of memory didn’t begin to form until well after a baby’s first birthday, typically around 18 to 24 months. Although the findings from the Science study were strongest in infants older than 12 months, the results were observed in much younger babies as well.</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="so-at-what-age-do-we-start-making-memories">So, at what age do we start making memories?</h2>
<p>It is now understood that babies begin forming limited types of memory when they are as young as two or three months. These include implicit memories (such as motor skills) and statistical learning, which helps infants detect patterns in language, faces and routines.</p>
<p>However, episodic memory, which allows us to recall specific events as well as where and when they occurred, takes longer to develop and requires the maturation of the hippocampus.</p>
<p>According to Cristina Maria Alberini, professor of neural science at New York University, the period in infancy when the hippocampus is developing its ability to form and store memories may be “critical”. This window could be important not only for memory but also has “great implications for mental health and memory or cognitive disorders”, she added.</p>
<p>Memories formed in early childhood do not typically last very long, it is believed, which might explain why we can’t remember them later in life. In an ongoing study at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany, 20-month-old toddlers <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/are-your-earliest-childhood-memories-still-lurking-your-mind-or-gone-forever">were able to remember</a> which toy was in which room for up to six months, while younger children retained the memory for only about one month.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="why-can-t-we-remember-anything-from-infancy">Why can’t we remember anything from infancy?</h2>
<p data-start="0" data-end="465">Humans’ near-universal inability to recall personal experiences from before the age of about three is a phenomenon known as “infantile amnesia”.</p>
<p data-start="0" data-end="465">For decades, scientists believed this happens simply because babies’ brains were too immature to store episodic memories.</p>
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<p data-start="0" data-end="465">But the Science study has shown that babies do indeed form memories. The mystery is <em>why</em> those memories become inaccessible as we grow older.</p>
<p data-start="467" data-end="780">One <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw1923">explanation</a>, scientists say, is that babies’ brains undergo rapid neurogenesis – the fast-paced creation of new neurons in the brain. This rapid growth might disrupt or “write over” existing memories. In animal studies, when scientists slowed this process in baby mice, the mice were able to retain memories much longer – similar to adult mice.</p>
<p data-start="1066" data-end="1357">There is also a hypothesis that episodic memory requires language to describe them and a “sense of self” to relate to them. Since these skills don’t fully develop until around age three or four, the brain might not yet have the tools to organise and retrieve memories in the way adults do.</p>
<p data-start="1359" data-end="1665">Some researchers also think the process of forgetting might serve a developmental purpose. By letting go of specific early experiences, the brain might be better able to focus on building general knowledge – to understand how the world works, for example – without being distracted by detailed memories which no longer serve a purpose.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="can-some-people-remember-events-from-infancy">Can some people remember events from infancy?</h2>
<p>Some people claim they can remember being a baby, but there is no evidence that what they describe are genuine episodic memories.</p>
<p>According to the Yale and Columbia study, this belief typically stems from a psychological process called “source misattribution”.</p>
<p>People may remember information, such as that they cried during their first haircut, but not where that information came from. They might unconsciously attribute the memory to personal experience when it actually came from a photo, family stories or a parent’s retelling. Over time, the line between “real” and “reconstructed” has blurred.</p>
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<p>Research shows that early family stories, frequent photo viewings or cultural emphasis on early development can all contribute to this phenomenon.</p>
<p>Yale is currently conducting a new study in which parents will film their babies regularly, either with their phones angled from the baby’s point of view or by using head-mounted cameras on toddlers. Later, as the children grow older, the researchers will show the children these old videos to see if they recognise the experiences, primarily by monitoring brain activity, to find out how long early memories can last, Yates told Al Jazeera.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="could-early-memories-be-recalled-later-in-life">Could early memories be recalled later in life?</h2>
<p>There is debate about whether early life memories are completely erased or have simply become inaccessible and could eventually be recovered.</p>
<p>Yates said that while the latest study does not answer this question, preliminary evidence from other research at the Yale lab shows that early life memories can be recalled in early childhood, but not later childhood.</p>
<p>“I think the idea that at least some of our early life memories may exist in some form in our brains as adults is fascinating,” she said.</p>
<p>Studies of adult rodents have shown that early memories can be brought back through approaches such as optogenetics – activating the specific brain cells which are believed to store those memories. This works by identifying the brain cells involved in forming a memory, then later using light to reactivate those same cells, causing the animal to recall the memory.</p>
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<p>Techniques such as optogenetics cannot yet be used in humans, but the study of rodents suggests that the process by which we retrieve memories is where the issue lies, rather than whether the memories exist at all, according to Paul Frankland, senior scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.</p>
<p>“Perhaps there are natural conditions where these early life memories become more accessible,” he added.</p>
<p>Psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud believed that early childhood memories are not lost but buried deep in the unconscious, and that psychotherapy might help bring them to the surface by changing mental states.</p>
<p>However, Frankland said that this is a “controversial area” as “it is difficult to verify the veracity of recovered memories”.</p>

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title: EU Publishes Delusional 72 Hour Bug Out Bag Video In Preparation For War
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<p>With all the insufferable quirkiness of a drunken liberal wine-mom, <span data-sanitized-id="snippet-text" data-sanitized-class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span dir="auto" role="text" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color">EU Commissioner </span></span></span>for humanitarian aid and crisis management<span data-sanitized-class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span dir="auto" role="text" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color">, Hadja Lahbib, explains the "essentials" of an emergency go-bag in a video designed for the average European facing epic disaster should NATO (minus the US) go to war. </span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The European Union has prepared a survival advisory for a 72-hour bug out bag in preparation for war against Russia.</p><p>Very delusional stuff. War will either go on for years or end within a matter of hours. <a href="https://t.co/XAxtfj7Gzx">pic.twitter.com/XAxtfj7Gzx</a></p>
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1905595916473541033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>"In the EU we must think different because the threats are different, we must think bigger because the threats are bigger too," Lahbib told reporters.</p>
<p>Roxana Mînzatu, the Commissioner for preparedness, added that the bloc is "not starting from scratch".</p>

<p>"The COVID pandemic has shown that the added value of acting together in solidarity, in coordination, in the European Union framework is absolutely crucial, This is what makes us more efficient, makes us stronger," she said.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, these are the same people that ridiculed the preparedness movement only ten years ago and then accused survivalists of being "hoarders" during the covid lockdowns.  Suddenly the EU elites claim to be concerned about the survival pantries of the citizenry and this may be a signal of expanding hostilities between Europe and Russia.</p>
<p>The advice given, however, is not useful and one can only conclude that the EU is only trying to make it look like they care should the geopolitical situation go sideways.  <span data-sanitized-id="snippet-text" data-sanitized-class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span dir="auto" role="text" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color">Hadja Lahbib's video is not tongue-in-cheek parody - She is quite serious.  She claims that in her travels around Europe she gathered perspectives on emergency survival that were eventually applied to the EU go-bag recommendations.  </span></span></span></p>
<p><span data-sanitized-class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span dir="auto" role="text" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/POG8bNeenwk?start=12" width="640" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin">[embedded content]</iframe></span></span></span>   </p>
<p>A true 72 hour survival kit (which is not what the EU is actually promoting here) would only be useful for short term natural disasters as a means to get to a safe place with the assumption of extensive government aid.  It could also be used to shelter in place, but again, relying on government aid and emergency services to arrive swiftly.  A long term widespread crisis like a near-peer war would require extensive preps well beyond a few days.</p>
<p>For example, the bare minimum standard for a survival food supply is three months.  Why?  Because that's how long it generally takes government agencies to show up and start repairing damage to essential services (Think about what happened with FEMA in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene - That response took a whole election and a new presidential administration).  Also consider the fact that what <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/world-war-iii-survival-kit-what-the-eu-says-you-must-pack-in-your-go-bag-before-the-next-war/articleshow/119656015.cms?from=mdr">little government aid</a> is available during a broad spectrum crisis will end up being consumed quickly as public desperation grows. </p>

<p>Beyond slow response time, needy citizens with no preps will need to consider the cost of government reliance.  What will emergency agencies demand from you in exchange for their help?  Will you disarm?  Take a battery of experimental vaccines?  Will your political background determine your access to government help?  There's a lot to consider but the worst possible scenario is that you become a refugee completely reliant on bureaucrats for you and your family's sustenance.</p>
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<p>European governments are currently flirting with the notion of WWIII, yet at no point did they suggest that their citizens purchase radiation treatments like Potassium Iodide or equipment like a Geiger Counter in the event of fallout.  The almost whimsical tone on display is a far cry from the comprehensive Civil Defense efforts of the Cold War era.</p>
<p>In other words, if a legitimate national or international disaster did arise, most Europeans would be screwed.  It's almost as if they are being deliberately set up for failure by EU officials.</p>
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<p><strong>The autonomous Danish territory is threatened by “Russian aggression” and “Chinese expansion,” according to a clip posted by Donald Trump</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A video shared by US President Donald Trump on Friday has promised to defend Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, from both Russia and China. Moscow has not expressed aggressive intentions towards the island and has repeatedly denied Western claims of planning to attack NATO countries.</p>
<p>Trump has talked about making Greenland a part of the US since winning the presidential election in November, arguing that it is needed for security purposes. He has offered to buy the resource-rich Arctic territory from Copenhagen, but also does not rule out the use of force to bring it under American sovereignty.</p>
<p>The video – also shared by other White House figures such as JD Vance and Pete Hegseth – assured the 56,000 people living on the island that <em>“America stands with Greenland.”</em></p>
<p>It recalled the cooperation between Washington and territory during the Second World War, stating that <em>“Americans and Greenlanders stood as sentinels at the top of the world.”</em></p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/i1rW9HroWn">pic.twitter.com/i1rW9HroWn</a></p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1905689237749727368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p><em>“But today Greenland faces new threats from Russian aggression and Chinese expansion,”</em> the clip claimed, consisting of archive WWII videos, images of Greenland’s landscape and footage of modern-day US military hardware.</p>

            
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<p>The partnership between Greenland and the US <em>“is not just history. It is destiny,”</em> the video on Trump’s channel said. <em>“Now is the time to stand together again – for peace, for security, for the future,”</em> it added.</p>
<p>The post followed a visit to Greenland by US Vice President J.D. Vance earlier this week, during which he told some 150 US servicemen stationed on the island that Washington would be <em>“investing in additional military icebreakers, investing in additional naval ships that will have a greater presence in Greenland.”</em></p>
<p>Vance blamed the Danish government for failing the people of Greenland, calling the island <em>“extremely vulnerable right now,”</em> and insisting it would be much safer <em>“under the US umbrella.”</em></p>
<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that <em>“Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic.”</em> He said that the region’s <em>“enormous potential”</em> provides an opportunity for international cooperation in economic development, resource extraction, infrastructure projects and transport.</p>

             
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<p>However, he mentioned that Russia is <em>“concerned about the fact that NATO countries are increasingly often designating the Far North as a springboard for possible conflicts,”</em> and that Moscow is <em>“closely monitoring developments in the region”</em> and would move forward in <em>“modernizing military infrastructure facilities.”</em></p>

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220147
title: Social Security faces a crisis with staff cuts, closures
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The Social Security Administration is facing a crisis, with planned cuts to staff and service delivery that could jeopardize Americans' access to their hard-earned benefits, and Congress should act soon to protect the program.

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title: Columbia University’s interim president resigns
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Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Columbia University’s interim president, resigned Friday amid the school’s tussle with the Trump administration over federal funding and criticism around its response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus.  Following the announcement, the school’s board appointed Claire Shipman to serve as acting president. Armstrong, the second Columbia leader to step down in less than…

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title: Car Wars: The EU (Probably) Strikes Back
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<p><em>By Stefan Koopman, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank</em></p>
<p>The Trump administration’s decision to slap a 25% tariff on imported cars and parts is yet another move in America’s ongoing trade battles. Following the global steel and aluminum tariffs, this latest escalation puts pressure on the EU to respond. As we noted in a <a href="https://public-eur.mkt.dynamics.com/api/orgs/285245b1-7c6f-ef11-a66d-000d3a4b6c6a/r/VVJZX6ds8E6cy19OqaUDAAAAAAA?target=%7B%22TargetUrl%22%3A%22https%253A%252F%252Fmedia.rabobank.com%252Fm%252F55f9fdd5e8187008%252Foriginal%252Fthe_european_unions_response_to_us_tariffs.pdf%22%2C%22RedirectOptions%22%3A%7B%225%22%3Anull%2C%221%22%3Anull%2C%222%22%3A%7B%22utm_medium%22%3A%22email%22%2C%22utm_term%22%3A%22N%2FA%22%2C%22utm_source%22%3A%22dynamics-rr%22%2C%22utm_campaign%22%3A%221%22%7D%7D%7D&amp;digest=cXxYvbs9TK7ee492UU5LPidIMRMgbmOEPwboeYCB3is%3D&amp;secretVersion=7c13c22c20aa46a1b2fc8b71fde4d19a"><strong><u>special report</u></strong></a> released yesterday, we believe the European Union prefers to make a deal and prevent a full-blown trade war. However, we argue that Brussels’ decision-making procedures are designed in such a way that escalation is ‘technically’ the path of least resistance. Therefore, absent an agreement, or a clear prospect thereof, <strong>European leaders will most likely strike back to any tariffs imposed by the US, even if not fully and with some delay.</strong></p>
<p>We also show in this report that the use of the EU’s (so far never used) Anti-Coercion Instrument is an option open to the European Commission, especially if the US tops up this week’s measures with its already infamous reciprocal tariffs on April 2. This approach, however, would take more time, face more internal hurdles in the EU, <strong>and could provoke an even more severe counter-response from the US, one that may extend beyond economic statecraft to political or military actions</strong>. This complicates an already complex situation. Therefore, at least initially, we expect the EU to bundle its response in rebalancing measures, i.e., rebalancing tariffs. This enables the EU to react as quickly as possible. Additional countermeasures, such as quotas, will only be considered if the US implements tariffs so high that the EU cannot match the economic impact.</p>
<p>In our baseline scenario for the economy, we have long included a 5% tariff hike on all US imports. The current measures announced still fall within this range, so there is no immediate reason to adjust our projections for growth and inflation. However, as Trump’s tariffs continue to accumulate, and as other countries retaliate, the risk of a more significant stagflationary shock has increased<strong>. A plausible scenario for such a backdrop would be if Trump follows through on his threat of an additional 25% tariff on other selected goods</strong>, such as pharmaceuticals and chips, or, even worse (but less likely), a 25% universal tariff.</p>

<p>Fittingly, the US reported another astonishingly high trade deficit number for February. <strong>The deficit in goods amounted to USD 147.9 billion, on top of January’s USD 155 billion deficit</strong>. This averages to a whopping USD 1.8 trillion annualized, over 6% of US GDP. The widening deficit reflects efforts by US companies to secure goods and materials in advance of higher tariffs. In fact, <strong>much of the widening in the deficit since December 2024 can be traced to imports of gold bars, predominantly from Switzerland and the UK</strong>. The (advanced) February data suggests strong imports of industrial supplies – which not only includes gold, but also steel and aluminum – were still a key driver. But even if industrial supplies are excluded, the trade deficit would be at record levels.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">US gold imports <a href="https://t.co/5RpaN5DaQX">pic.twitter.com/5RpaN5DaQX</a></p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1897654125246009396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Obviously, this front-running of tariffs caused quite a scare earlier in March when the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model plummeted to -2.8% annualized for 25Q1. This prompted the modelers to introduce a “gold-adjusted” version. After all, given that substantial portions of these industrial metals are likely being invested in inventories, the direct impact on GDP should be relatively neutral. However, even with gold excluded, net exports remain a considerable drag on GDP. The gold-adjusted estimate currently stands at +0.2% q/q annualized, which is not pretty.</p>
<p>Across the border, Banxico cut the policy rate 50bp to 9.00%, in line with our expectations. Notably, in its statement, Banxico said that “<em><strong>looking ahead it could continue calibrating the monetary policy stance and consider adjusting it in similar magnitudes</strong>.</em>” As such, we <a href="https://public-eur.mkt.dynamics.com/api/orgs/285245b1-7c6f-ef11-a66d-000d3a4b6c6a/r/VVJZX6ds8E6cy19OqaUDAAEAAAA?target=%7B%22TargetUrl%22%3A%22https%253A%252F%252Fmedia.rabobank.com%252Fm%252F3b49efde0c371bff%252Foriginal%252Fbanxico_post-meeting_report_both_sides_of_the_balance.pdf%22%2C%22RedirectOptions%22%3A%7B%225%22%3Anull%2C%221%22%3Anull%2C%222%22%3A%7B%22utm_medium%22%3A%22email%22%2C%22utm_term%22%3A%22N%2FA%22%2C%22utm_source%22%3A%22dynamics-rr%22%2C%22utm_campaign%22%3A%221%22%7D%7D%7D&amp;digest=HyTSoobsloq13G%2FB%2BGsXLzcaU%2B9Sb6EtQ23SGhz4PD8%3D&amp;secretVersion=7c13c22c20aa46a1b2fc8b71fde4d19a"><strong><u>now expect</u></strong></a> a 50bp cut at the next meeting in May and have added an additional 25bp cut to our forecasts. This brings us to five more cuts in 2025 to a terminal rate of 7.50%. Interestingly, Banxico notes that the risks to its inflation outlook remain skewed to the upside. However, the risk of persistence in underlying core inflation has been downgraded, now ranking below the risks of peso depreciation and tariff uncertainty. <strong>So, tariffs are leading to rate cuts.</strong></p>
<p>It is worth noting that on Wednesday, the Bank of Canada also revealed in its deliberations that it would have maintained its policy rate at 3.00% instead of cutting it to 2.75<strong>%, if not for tariff uncertainty and the perceived need to alleviate concerns among consumers and businesses as the trade war impacts the economy.</strong> So here too: <strong>tariffs -&gt; rate cuts.</strong> Of course, an extra cut here or there doesn’t address the bigger problem. Canada’s caretaker PM Mark Carney, who faces a federal election next month and has flipped the polling landscape by pushing back against Trump, has just said: “<em>The old relationship we had with the US –based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation–</em> <em>is over.</em>” <strong>That said, Canada hasn’t retaliated on the auto tariffs yet, as the US says if Canada joins up with the EU, both will see far higher tariffs.</strong></p>
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-29/Denmark-criticizes-tone-of-JD-Vance-s-Greenland-comments-1C8KgQmnc2I/img/1792aaa7d9b942f78e4e4631cb0c8ab6/1792aaa7d9b942f78e4e4631cb0c8ab6-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Denmark on Saturday said it did not like the "tone" of U.S. Vice President JD Vance's comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>"We are open to criticisms, but let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it's being delivered," Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on X.</p>
<p>"This is not how you speak to your close allies, and I still consider Denmark and the United States to be close allies," he said.</p>
<p>Vance made his comments during a trip to the Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, viewed by both Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation.</p>
<p>"Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland," Vance told a press conference.</p>
<p>"You have under-invested in the people of Greenland and you have under-invested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass," he added.</p>
<p>Trump argues that the United States needs the vast Arctic island for national and international security and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it.</p>
<p>"We are not talking about peace for the United States. We are talking about world peace. We are talking about international security," Trump claimed to reporters at the White House on Friday.</p>
<p>Asked about the potential use of force, Vance stressed the U.S. administration did not think that "is ever going to be necessary."</p>
<p>"We think this makes sense and because we think the people of Greenland are rational and good, we think we're going to be able to cut a deal, Donald Trump-style, to ensure the security of this territory but also the United States of America," Vance said.</p>
<p>Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also hit back at Vance in a statement.</p>
<p>"For many years, we have stood by the Americans in very difficult situations," she said, referring to Danish combat deployments alongside American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>"The Vice President's reference to Denmark is not accurate," she said.</p>
<p>Vance was accompanied by his wife Usha, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Utah Senator Mike Lee and former Homeland Security Advisor Julia Nesheiwat, who is Waltz's wife.</p>

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title: British Push War with Iran to Derail Trump's Plan for Peace
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title: British Push War with Iran to Derail Trump's Plan for Peace
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<p><strong>Mandalay, Bangkok</strong> – <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/29/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-live-over-1000-killed-rescue-efforts-ongoing">Rescue workers in Myanmar</a> are struggling to save people trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings in the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, following the powerful <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/magnitude-7-7-earthquake-in-myanmar-tremors-felt-in-thailand-all-we-know">magnitude 7.7 earthquake</a> that toppled buildings, brought down bridges, destroyed roads and sent shockwaves felt across the region.</p>
<p>Every street in the city has <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/28/why-is-myanmar-so-prone-to-earthquakes">collapsed buildings</a> as a result of Friday’s quake. Distraught residents are waiting outside their damaged and flattened homes and businesses for rescue crews and any assistance from the government, which has yet to arrive.</p>

<p>Mandalay resident Sandar Win, 45, told Al Jazeera how her six-year-old son was trapped under falling debris and suffered a fractured pelvis.</p>
<p>Sandar Win said she brought her boy to Mandalay General Hospital but they were turned away as the facility was overcrowded with victims of the earthquake.</p>
<p>“So we had to go to a private hospital. He is now in the operating room,” Sandar Win said. “He is our only child. My heart is dying to see my son like this.”</p>
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<p>Shops, restaurants and teashops are closed and there are crowds at Mandalay’s petrol stations, with people in need of fuel for electric generators as power is out in the city of more than 1.5 million.</p>
<p>Ambulances have been seen speeding in the direction of Pyin Oo Lwin, a town situated in the scenic hills about 64km (40 miles) east of Mandalay and popular with foreign tourists and visitors from other parts of Myanmar.</p>
<p>Wai Phyo, a rescue worker, said search and recovery teams were doing their best but were overwhelmed by the scale of destruction and the lack of “proper equipment”.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3609818" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3609818" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12931168-1743249533.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="epa11996483 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-3609818"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3609818" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">The collapsed Ava Bridge following the earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Friday 29 [EPA]</figcaption></figure><p>“There are many people still trapped under the debris. We hope to get them alive but the hope is not so bright,” Wai Phyo told Al Jazeera, adding that communications were also a problem as they barely had phone lines and access to the internet was almost impossible.</p>
<p>Myanmar’s military has sent troops to the affected areas, but “they are not helping,” Wai Phyo said.</p>
<p>“We don’t need them here,” he said, adding: “We need proper aid.”</p>
<p>The Reuters news agency also reported that rescue workers in Mandalay had to borrow machinery from private businesses to help shift debris, and some residents had taken to Facebook to appeal for donations of equipment to aid the rescue efforts.</p>
<p>Rescue operations in the city are now turning to recovery as the time window to save survivors closes, Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng reported from Mandalay.</p>
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<p>“I was just speaking to the fire chief who is leading this operation about the revised figure of 1,000 fatalities across Myanmar and he simply said there are a thousand bodies in this city alone, which suggests those numbers are going to rise, and rise steeply,” Cheng said.</p>

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<p>In Thailand’s capital Bangkok, rescue efforts are focused on a collapsed 30-storey building, which was under construction at the time the earthquake hit and where dozens of workers are believed to be under the ruins.</p>
<p>At least 10 people died in Bangkok on Friday despite the city being more than 1,000km (620 miles) from the epicentre in Myanmar.</p>
<p>“It’s hard to locate the missing,” said Atikom Watkoson, a rescue worker at the scene of what was to be a multistorey government building in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district.</p>
<p>The search has been complicated by the fact there is no clear indication where in the building the estimated 47 missing workers were when it collapsed on Friday, Atikom Watkoson told Al Jazeera.</p>
<p>But sign of survivors have been detected and heavy machinery has been brought in to help clear the mountain of debris from the site, he said.</p>
<p>Still, “there is a lot of work left to get through,” Atikom Watkoson added.</p>
<p>Across Bangkok, engineers and government officials are now inspecting the integrity of the city’s hundreds of skyscrapers, with residents of many high-rise buildings reporting cracks in walls and floors.</p>
<p>“It’s all high-rise buildings in Bangkok’s city centre,” said Sirin Hiranthanakasem, a resident in the capital who fled down 23 flights of stairs when the earthquake struck and is now staying in a hotel, too afraid to return to her apartment.</p>
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<p>“If something was to collapse, we would not survive,” she said.</p>
<p>The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has also opened an online portal for people in the capital to report damage to buildings.</p>
<p>Despite the chaos resulting from the earthquake on Friday and the Bangkok authorities declaring the city a disaster zone, the Thai capital has quickly returned to normal with the city’s airports functioning and light rail system back up and running, with most shops and restaurants back in operation.</p>
<p>Still, Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minster Anutin Charnvirakul said all possible resources have been deployed to search for survivors at the site of the building collapse and recover the bodies of the deceased.</p>
<p>“We always have hope,” he told reporters of the possibility of finding workers alive.</p>
<p>“We’re still working around the clock.”</p>
<p><em>Nandi Theint reported from Mandalay, Myanmar; Wanpen Pajai reported from Bangkok, Thailand.</em></p>

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title: Le NPD veut plafonner les prix à l’épicerie; la loi 96 s’invite dans la campagne
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<p>Les chefs de parti sont appelés à étayer leur position quant à la loi 96 sur la langue officielle du Québec.</p>


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title: Newsom on today’s ‘toxic’ Democratic Party: We tend to be ‘judgmental’
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took a swing at his own party Friday evening, claiming Democrats have become too “toxic” and “judgmental.” Newsom, in an appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” was asked about other Democrats’ criticism of the party and those who have questioned the governor for bringing GOP guests on his new…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220984
title: Fired Department of Education employees clean out desks
author: ;Kristen Eskow; Joe Khalil
content: Earlier this month, nearly half of the department's staff was laid off.
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title: Russia Says UK &amp; France Behind Latest Attack On Its Energy Infrastructure
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<p>There's been another reported attack on the Sudzha pipeline infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk Region on Friday. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova conveyed to journalists a Russian military assessment saying a metering facility was <strong>"de facto destroyed" in a Ukrainian HIMARS attack</strong>. </p>
<p>But unlike some of the prior Ukrainian attacks on the area, the Kremlin is directly blaming the West, going to far as to say that orders for the new strike came directly from European capitals.</p>
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<p>We "have reasons to believe that targeting and navigation were facilitated through <strong>French satellites and British specialists</strong> input [target] coordinates and launched [the missiles]," Zakharova <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614920-uk-ukraine-attack-violation/">said</a>, as cited in national media.</p>

<p><strong>"The command came from London,"</strong> she emphasized, describing it as part of a West-backed "terror" campaign meant to degrade and destroy Russia's energy infrastructure. </p>
<p>The Kremlin has concluded this demonstrates that Kiev is "impossible to negotiate with," she explained. The Ukrainians have done nothing to actually uphold the energy ceasefire put forward by Trump, despite that Zelensky "publicly supported" it, she said, suggesting it was all an empty game.</p>
<p>"<strong>Over the past 24 hours, the Kyiv regime continued its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure</strong> using various types of drones and HIMARS multiple rocket launchers," the Russian military had also described.</p>
<p>Russia has alleged Ukraine launched rockets on the Sudzha facility, which had already been damaged in an earlier attack this week, along with nearly 20 drones launched at an oil refinery in the southern Saratov region.</p>
<p>Ukraine is meanwhile denying the Russian allegations, instead suggesting it's a false flag orchestrated <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/28/russian-army-accuses-ukraine-of-attacking-sudzha-gas-metering-station-a88520">by Moscow</a>:</p>
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<p><em>On Friday, Ukraine denied claims that its forces fired on the gas metering station Sudzha and accused Russia's military of striking the facility.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>"Russia has again attacked the Sudzha gas transmission system in the Kursk region, which they do not control,"</strong> Andriy Kovalenko, an official who is responsible for countering disinformation, said on social media.</em></p>
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<p>The two sides have traded blame for violating the energy ceasefire on basically a daily basis since it was proclaimed. It seems to have barely held, if at all, despite ongoing pledges from both sides to uphold it.</p>
<p><em>Large fire at the scene of the metering station attack...</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Kiev has launched another assault on the Sudzha gas metering station, signaling that Zelensky has no desire at all to reduce tensions with Russia or pursue Trump’s peace plan. <a href="https://t.co/H4fe75lU5u">pic.twitter.com/H4fe75lU5u</a></p>
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1905599847169663439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>The US has claimed that it is not providing intelligence for long-range attacks inside Russia by Ukraine, but only intelligence which is defensive in nature. However, Europe is still in maximum support mode, as President Macron and Prime Minister Starmer put together a 'coalition of the willing' to defend Ukraine.</p>
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title: Symposium: Renaissance Across the Ages
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<p>While all living beings are mortal, only human kind has access to the self-awareness of its own mortality. With this knowledge of our own finiteness, we may become cynical and fearful pessimists wallowing in despair and nihilism or we may choose to embrace a higher set of goals and principles for the identity we shape for ourselves within processes much greater than ourselves. For as mortal as we may be, the civilizations which we are born into may or may not be limited by that same finiteness. Whether a civilization has the moral fitness to survive, thrive and prosper or not, depends entirely upon the choices made by those who make up said social body and who may influence the spirit (culture) spanning countless generations.</p>
<p>It is here that we find the essential character of the Renaissance principle and Dark Age principles that have shaped world history.</p>
<p>These two paths have presented themselves at all times and cultures and it has been our lot to choose which we wish to be guided by as we use the short time we have been aloted to actualize our innate potentials for creativity, and goodness… or inversely to waste those potentials.</p>
<p>In this series of lectures hosted by the Rising Tide Foundation, six speakers took the challenge of presenting six case studies of the Renaissance Principle as embodied in the moral philosophy, religious growth, science, art and political culture of various great cultures of the world.</p>
<p>We began with an exposition of the characters of Socrates, Plato and Cicero who dedicated their lives to defending the republican/Promethean heritage of Athens and Rome before either society collapsed into imperialism and a corrupting Dark Age dynamic that thrived off of master-slave systems, divide-to-conquer wars and irrationalist cults that broke its adherents from a sense of God, morality, reason, and even their own powers of sovereign free will.</p>
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</figure><p>This was followed with a presentation on St Augustine’s fight to defend Platonic Christianity in the midst of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D.</p>
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</figure><p>In another lecture, we reviewed the case study of the forgotten Confucian-Christian-Muslim-Jewish ecumenical alliance of the 8th century that transcended all material differences and causes for conflict in order to align in a common higher policy of trade, diplomacy, and cultural sharing in opposition to the growing institutions of the Byzantine and Venetian empires.</p>
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</figure><p>We followed this story with an exposition of the Renaissance Principle as it expressed itself within the Muslim cultural matrix with an investigation into the incredible lives and minds of Ibn Sina and al Farabi, and more… as well as the cultural and political dynamics which pulled Islam out of this positive tradition and into destructive and regressive systems of behaviour characteristic of a Dark Age culture.</p>
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</figure><p>The Chinese world was then explored featuring an introduction into the life and mind of Confucius and his followers who paralleled both in time and in philosophy the battles waged in Greece and Italy by the Pythagoreans, Socrates and Plato who sought to create a society, and educational system premised upon Natural Law, Creative Reason, Goodness and Love. To the degree that all members of that society strived towards these ennobled goals and to the degree its leadership did too (under Plato’s idea of Philosopher Kings), then that society would enjoy the ‘Mandate of Heaven’ or Tianxia. This insight was also reflected in Hindu and Buddhist cultures as we came to see.</p>
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</figure><p>Finally, the lecture cycle closed with an introduction into the mind, poetry and politics of the great Dante Alighieri who unleashed not only a philosophical revolution amidst the medieval dark age of war and depopulation in Europe, but planted the seeds that later blossomed in the form of the Florentine Golden Renaissance of the 15th century and a unified national Italian language capable of expressing the most powerful ideas and metaphors respecting mankind and nature.</p>
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</figure><p>This lecture cycle then led the way into a new series which follows the current of this renaissance principle as it leapt over an ocean into a New World far enough removed from the corrupting influence of oligarchism during the 17th century in the hopes that a new paradigm of humankind could finally be born which took the form of a republican independence movement. That new lecture cycle is titled <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/towards-a-harmony-of-interests-inquiries-into-the-true-nature-of-the-american-system/">A Harmony of Interests: Inquiries into the True Nature of the American System</a>.</p>
<p>While these lectures only begin to scratch the surface of world history, they each provide gateways into a universal process which is as relevant today as it was 2000 years ago and as it will be 2000 or even 200 000 years into the future.</p>
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<p>Three people have been charged in connection with the defacement early in the year of a “beloved community mural” on an Ottawa Community Housing in Wurtemburg Street in Lowertown.</p>
<p>In a release, police said the graffiti attack occurred on the evening of Jan. 16. The damage was noticed the next day and reported to police.</p>
<p>Police said two of the suspects have been arrested and charged, while  investigators are asking for assistance to locate the third individual.</p>
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<p>Liam McGarry, 29, of Ottawa, is wanted for mischief exceeding $5,000.</p>
<p>Anyone with information about McGarry’s whereabouts, is asked to contact Const. D. Bashford of the central criminal investigations section at 613-236-1222, ext. 2193 or by email at BashfordD@ottawapolice.ca.</p>
<p>Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 or online at crimestoppers.ca.</p>
<p>The striking nine-storey mural <em>Transformation: The Welcoming Ottawa Mural</em>on the building’s south wall facing 215 Wurtemburg St. was not damaged.</p>
<p>The butterfly mural addresses themes of change and diversity, organizers said.</p>
<p>The mural is on the south wall of the building, facing Rideau Street. It helps to beautify the building and highlight the diversity of the community.</p>
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<p>The work was designed by artist and community arts facilitator<span> </span>Claudia Salguero<span> </span>after conversations with residents from across the city. Salguero brought together a team of more than 60 community members, who created the mural piece by piece in several locations. They were later joined to complete the mural.</p>
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title: What is all this about a Ukrainian genocide?
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<p><strong><em>Not only does Wikipedia’s propaganda fall far short of any acceptable academic yardsticks, but so do the rest of NATO’s spinmeisters.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Before getting on to the alleged genocide by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_of_Ukrainians_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War">Russian and Belarusian</a> forces in Ukraine, let’s briefly salute <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides">Wikipedia’s list of genocides</a>, which includes not only that alleged event but Germany’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad">Siege of Leningrad</a> as well several others Germany has yet to atone for. Although there are several “minor” genocides there, which I was either unaware of or had half-forgotten, this alleged Ukrainian genocide is my focus here because it helps to put NATO’s shoddy scholarship and shoddy reporting not only on the current Ukrainian conflict but on many others, such as <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/25/western-complicity-enables-the-ongoing-genocide-of-syria-alawites/">the current Alawite genocide</a>, into focus.</p>
<p>First off, we may note that, as Belarus is not a participant in the war, Belarus can no more be said to be accountable for Russia’s alleged crimes, than Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland can be for the crimes Germany committed a little over 80 years ago. Although that much should be obvious, my main criticism is not with Wikipedia’s shaky standards but with the various “authoritative” sources they cite in notes 54-60 regarding this alleged genocide by Russia.</p>
<p><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1159106">Note 54 refers</a> to this <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1159106">United Nations account</a> which is just a superficial 850 word survey of how the war stands. Although attacks on dual purpose schools and children fatalities are mentioned in passing, there is no direct mention of genocide or attempts at genocide. Note 55 is <a href="https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20240221-toll-of-ukraine-war-high-but-exact-figures-shrouded-in-secrecy">this 380 word February 2024 AFP piece</a>, which speculates on the total body bag count and which quotes Zelensky’s fellow Ukrainian Pinocchios to negate any authoritative or trustworthy substance it might have otherwise have had.</p>
<p>Several of my former articles have already dealt at great length with notes 59 and 60, which deal with charges NATO’s International Criminal Court has leveled against Russian President Putin and the even more ridiculous ones against Maria Lvova-Belova. Whereas<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230317151628/https:/www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and"> note 59 links to the now discredited ICC</a>, note 60 links to <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2022/08/05/deporting-ukrainian-children-and-russifying-them-is-jeopardizing-the-future-of-ukraine_5992568_23.html">this shallow Le Monde report</a> which, though basically telling us that child abduction is as bad in Ukraine as it is in Syria, Africa or Cambodia, does not adduce an iota of evidence regarding Putin’s culpability in this alleged crime. My own opinion, having deduced the evidence as best I can, is that Putin has ordered his troops to go easy on the tough love and the reason the Pope and others express antithetical views is they listen far too much to Zelensky and his fellow Pinocchio puppets.</p>
<p>On the topic of Pinocchios, note 57 refers to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61017352">this BBC report</a>, which conflates Russian reports regarding the need to neutralise Ukraine’s well entrenched fascist extremist movements with a perceived Russian desire to exterminate all Ukrainians. Even leaving aside that it was Zelensky’s Nazis who wanted to do their own mini Final Solution of Russian speakers and that incriminating video evidence abounds as to how they treated the civilian “Ivans” they captured in Kursk, Russia, to my uninformed mind and to that of very many Rusisans, has fought this war with their gloves firmly on. As regards the old fall back of the tourist attraction for NATO leaders of Bucha, to my eyes at least, it was, on the evidence presented at the time, the Ukrainians who perpetrated that massacre. And, though time constraints forbid me from dwelling on it, I know that Wikipedia and the links they share will shed no real light on that crime.</p>
<p>Although note 58 refers to this May 2022 report by the New Lines Institute entitled.<a href="https://newlinesinstitute.org/russia/an-independent-legal-analysis-of-the-russian-federations-breaches-of-the-genocide-convention-in-ukraine-and-the-duty-to-prevent/">“An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent”</a>, one has to wonder how independent this Washington based Muslim Brotherhood lobby group is, given that <a href="https://onthinktanks.org/think-tank/new-lines-institute-for-strategy-and-policy/">it admits</a> to working to enhance American foreign policy. Given that the report was written very shortly after Russia’s military intervention, one has to naturally wonder just how neutral this report by this Washington-aligned group is.</p>
<p>As the report kicks off with a series of maps with such titles as “Russian Destruction of Ukraine” and “Russian Destruction tactics in Ukraine” before going on to “Reports in the media” and linking to a variety of reports praising Syria’s head choppers, we can conclude that, despite the huge financial resources behind this snow job, it is worthless as a piece of research or as a well of background knowledge.</p>
<p>Having dispensed with all the rest, we now move to note 56, the last note standing, which links to a variety of supposedly peer reviewed academic articles.</p>
<p><a href="https://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_14394_eidos_jpc_2022_0031">Mykola Riabchuk’s June 2022 article </a>in the Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities does not mince words. Though Riabchuk uses decidely unacademic language, he believes that the smoking gun of Russian intent to commit genocide can be uncovered “if the anti-Ukrainian rhetoric of Russian officials, pundits, and propagandists is systemically scrutinized, deconstructed, and contextualized”. Though <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Riabchuk">Riabchuk’s background</a> as a Ukrainian citizen and unabashed Zelensky apologist might help him in that regard, that blatant partisanship totally invalidates not only his paper but the journal that published it. To phrase that differently, anyone wanting to get to the heart of Russian intent or Russian perfidy in Ukraine would be best off ignoring Riabchuk’s rantings.</p>
<p>Timothy Snyder’s 1000 wood <a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/russias-genocide-handbook">April 2022 substack piece</a> is also cited in note 56, no doubt because Snyder regards himself as a “historian of mass killing” which, given the range of genocides Wikipedia adumbrated, is a very wide field and not one anyone, least of all a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Snyder">know-it-all American ignoramus</a>, can be expert on.</p>
<p>Snyder’s main point is that “Russia has just issued a genocide handbook for its war on Ukraine [which is, he alleges] an explicit program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such”. Snyder goes on to say that “denazification” in official Russian usage “just means the destruction of the Ukrainian state and nation. A Nazi, as the genocide manual explains, is simply a human being who self-identifies as Ukrainian”.</p>
<p>Let’s stop the idiot right there. Not only did <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2022/03/20/meet-ukraine-azov-figurehead-olena-semenyaka-europe-female-fuhrer/">my second SCF article specifically finger the Nazi ideologues</a> of today’s Ukrainian Reich but countless others have highlighted how the most innocuous manifestations of Russian culture are under attack not only in the Ukrainian Nazi Reich but in those propping up Zelensky as well. If genocide is being practiced against anyone, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that Russians and all they hold dear are the victims.</p>
<p>Not to Snyder, who believes that “the actual history of actual Nazis and their actual crimes in the 1930s and 1940s is thus totally irrelevant” because Russians are sub-human Orcs, to borrow the terminology those who slaughter them use. And, though an argument could conceivably be presented that Russia unfairly leverages Nazi history and Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis for her own ends, the fact of the matter is the Ukrainian state and its Baltic allies still honour Hitler’s Nazis and their war crimes to this very day. This is not to say that all Ukrainians are Nazis but it is to say that Ukraine’s Nazis remain, both those who are festooned with Third Reich tattoos and those who are not, in the driving seat.</p>
<p>It is also to say that Snyder and his April 2022 garbage shed no light on the issue at hand and should, like the rest of notes 54-60, be ignored because they bring Wikipedia into further disrepute. As do these articles <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2023.2185372">here </a>and <a href="https://www.academia.edu/92967824/Ukraine_Russia_and_Genocide_of_Minor_Differences">here</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Genocide_Research">Journal of Genocide Research</a>, and <a href="https://journals.iaepan.pl/ethp/article/view/3420">this gobbledygook from Rice University</a> some Polish crew saw fit to publish.</p>
<p>As the other two cited sources in note 56 are just run of the mill pieces from The Independent and the Washington Post, they are not worth dwelling on, except to point out that they are indicative of how shallow reporting and research is on Ukraine and on all arenas that do not shoehorn into NATO’s own genocidal agenda.</p>
<p>To sum up then, not only does Wikipedia’s propaganda fall far short of any acceptable academic yardsticks, but so do the rest of NATO’s spinmeisters. To phrase that differently, the reports in this journal on the <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/contributors/sonja-van-den-ende/">Ukrainian and Syrian genocides by Sonja van den Ende</a> are academic leagues ahead of any of that dross and that is not so much a clap on the back for van den Ende, as it is a withering condemnation of all journals, media outlets and flunkeys who have parrotted the NATO apologia for their war crimes adumbrated above and who are thereby complicit in them.</p>
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<p>Today, I would like to say a few words about the suppressed Pythagorean Tradition both as a celebration of a lost art of thinking that gave rise to the greatest revolutions in science and even moral philosophy but also as an antidote to the impotent cult of scientism which has permeated every branch of thought in presently beleaguered age. This cult of scientism masquerading behind peer reviews and a new technocratic priesthood of “experts” professes arrogantly to hold all the answers to the nature of the universe from the “start” of the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, the structure of atoms made up of quarks that have never been observed, fundamental “forces” that are presumed to exist as separate entities and mysterious stuff like “dark matter” mixed with “dark energy” that we are told makes up 95% of existence.</p>
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<p>This same cult has imposed “standard models” onto cosmology of macro physics which all respectable citizens are expected to conform into regardless of its mountainous array of self-contradictions. The standard model of atomic physics posits as unquestionable articles of faith, the self-evident existence of such things as “building blocks of matter” that are themselves shaped by 1) randomized stochastic behavior, and 2) separated from any lawful connection to the macro domain which is defined by laws of rigid determinism on the large.</p>
<p>Most virulent among this sickness is the total severing of the “objective” forces of the universe on either macro or micro levels from the supposedly “subjective” pollution of the inner life of humans tainted as they are by the fundamentally irrational passions and lower impulses of emotions which we are told are masters of our thoughts and identities.</p>
<p>The remedy to this sort of sickness that is indeed very much connected to society’s tendency to accept a medical dictatorship, sun blocking tech, depopulation schemes or decarbonization-driven boondoggles, is to simply revive a practice of real thinking tied to awakening the sacred universal sentiments that find joy in discovery, sharing, teaching and acts of agapic love rather than the lower passions tied to the satisfaction of hedonistic impulses or joys of cheap thrills. This is a method which was embodied in the best exemplars of the Pythagorean tradition.</p>
<p>I will do so by introducing a modern champion of this tradition named Dr. Robert Moon (1911-1989) which will also involve a exposition of the revolutionary discoveries of Johannes Kepler, Plato and the Pythagorean movement which forever altered the course of humanity’s creative evolution. In a future report, I will showcase the work of two other modern Pythagorean traditions that paralleled Dr. Moon’s work in the form of the work of Dr. Robert Bussard and a team of scientists managing the Safire Project as part of a broader electric universe reform of cosmology and quantum physics.</p>
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<p>Renowned Physicist Robert Moon (inventor of the Cyclotron particle accelerator and x ray microscope), found his world shaken by the newly discovered Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) that had won Danish physicist Klaus von Klitzing the Nobel Prize in 1984.</p>
<p>Without going into extreme detail, Dr. Klitzing noticed that something strange happened when a constant current flowing through a superconductor generated a voltage/resistance of charge when a magnetic field was brought perpendicular to the electron flow. That itself wasn’t novel, as Edwin Hall had noted this fact a century earlier. What Dr. Klitzing found strange was that when the magnetic field intensity was steadily increased using a superconductor at extremely cold temperatures, rather than observing a parallel increase in voltage of resistance as Hall had observed in regular conducting metal plates earlier, no proportional increases were observed. Instead, the resistance/voltage remained unchanged as the magnetic field intensity increased for strikingly long durations… until thresholds were struck upon whereby sudden quantum leaps occurred to new plateaus defined by integers characterizing each plateau and in total conformity with Planck’s constant<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftn1">[1]</a>.</p>
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<p>For a potent mind like Robert Moon, he began contemplating other states of harmonic quantization in nature from Schumann Resonances<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftn2">[2]</a>, to Red Shifts<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftn3">[3]</a>, to even basic phenomena we take for granted like the color spectra of light which itself corresponds to signatures of every element and even isotope on the periodic table of elements when heated. Why would electromagnetic processes exist in such discrete quantized manner?</p>
<p>With a profound sense of wonder and faith in his mind’s ability to leap into the unknown, Dr. Moon described his method by telling a grouping of students in 1987<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftn4">[4]</a>:</p>
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<p><em>“We do have a means whereby each and every one of us must, to some extent, be aware of everything in the universe… of course we may be aware of it, but we may not comprehend it”.</em></p>
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<p>After contemplating the QHE, Dr. Moon stated:</p>
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<p><em>“the next thing that struck me was: well, if space is going to be quantized, it should be quantized with the highest degree of symmetry. And so that immediately said, ‘well those are the Platonic solids’ ”.</em></p>
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<p>Having a foundation in classical education and constructive geometry, Moon recognized in the five solids outlined in Plato’s Timaeus, something universal about the nature of the boundedness and harmony of a quantized space time as well as the mind of God.</p>
<p>Of all infinitely conceivable solids that could be built, why was it demonstrable that only these five could exist with regular faces, equal angles and vertices touching the interior of a circumscribing sphere and midpoints of surfaces containing a smaller inscribed sphere? Why only five?</p>
<p>In addition to the “Timaeus,” Moon spent a few potent months of 1984 emersed in a study of Kepler’s <em>Mysterium Cosmographicum</em> (1596) which was itself inspired by the concepts outlined in Plato’s “Timaeus”. In order to properly appreciate the revolutionary new idea of that Dr. Moon unveiled, it is necessary that we now take a moment to unpack the essentials of Plato’s Pythagorean ideas and the work of Johannes Kepler that they inspired.</p>
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<p>Plato (speaking through his friend Timaeus of Locri) outlined each solid as corresponding to a fundamental element saying:</p>
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<p><em>“We must proceed to distribute the figures we have just described between fire, earth, water, and air… let us assign the cube to earth, for it is the most immobile of the four bodies… the least mobile of the remaining figures (icosahedron) to water, the most mobile (tetrahedron) to fire, and the intermediate (octahedron) to air.”</em></p>
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<p>The remaining figure (Dodecahedron), being endowed with the golden section as it is made up of 12 pentagons, was made to represent the divine template <em>“which the god used for embroidering the constellations on the whole heaven”.</em> Many have read this passage to signify the existence of an interplanetary medium or ether through which all light travels.</p>
<p>While many modern commentators are quick to relegate Plato’s 2300 year old concepts to superstitious mysticism, the fact is that those early “elements” correspond to the four fundamental states of matter which animate all forms of matter on the periodic table of elements known as solid, liquid, gas, plasmas.</p>
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<p>Finally, Plato’s Timaeus introduces the most important concept of the Pythagorean system by discussing the “music of the spheres”. This silent music guiding the orbits is shaped by certain divisions of the string (itself representing God’s unity and harmony through which all is infused with meaning), and a doubling of 1:2 creating the first relationship of resonance known as an octave. Plato goes on to find other proportions of 2:3 (fifth), 3:4 (fourth) and adds several other proportions that amount to 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 27.  These proportions thus established, Plato’s Timaeus ushers in a new study of astronomy and sphaerics upon the resonances of the planets as one musical system. One poem. Not a multiverse of infinite possible truths which contaminated the polytheistic orders for millennia, but for once, a true <em>uni</em>-verse.</p>
<p>It is vital to hold in mind, that Plato was fighting to save the soul of Athens as his beloved city had already slid far into corruption, imperial wars abroad, civil wars within and decadence abounding everywhere. Describing his insight into the importance of geometry to the students of his Academy, Plato stated in his Republic <em>“Geometry is… pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence and then perishes… it must draw the soul towards truth and give the finishing touch to the philosophical spirit”.</em></p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-pythagorean-golden-renaissance" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The Pythagorean Golden Renaissance</strong></h2>
<p>Long after the society which Plato attempted to save collapsed under its own folly and inability to break from worldly material concerns towards love shaped by higher divine pleasures of the eternal realm, the Pythagorean spirit again found a new home in the heart of a young German mathematician named Johannes Kepler.</p>
<p>Kepler was living in a world of great potential having only recently experienced a creative revolution in the form of the flowering of new discoveries across all domains (including statecraft) during Europe’s Golden Renaissance. Figures like Luca Pacioli, Leonardo Da Vinci and Raphael <a>Sanzio</a>  had revived the Pythagorean traditions and especially the study of the five platonic solids which infused new meaning and spirit into a science that had grown stagnant under centuries of descriptively-obsessed Scholasticism.</p>
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<p>Rather than suffer under the stagnant “definition-driven” models of Aristotelianism that had imposed a cage onto creative thought, this new generation of Pythagoreans became “process-oriented” focusing on the incommensurable, yet existent ironical relationship of the finite and infinite, the eternal/temporal, the divine/worldly and Being/Becoming. Pacioli brought the most rigorous studies of the golden section to the world in his <em>Divina Proportione</em>, while his friend Davinci studied and illustrated Plato’s solids [see image].</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="833" data-attachment-id="15917" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/06-luca/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/06-luca.jpg?fit=1098%2C915&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1098,915" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="06-luca" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/06-luca.jpg?fit=300%2C250&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/06-luca.jpg?fit=1000%2C833&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/06-luca.jpg?resize=1000%2C833&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15917"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Portrait of Da Vinci’s teacher and collaborator Luca Pacioli studying various manifestations of the golden section, Jacopo de’ Barbari, 1495 [Wiki Commons]</figcaption></figure><p>Raphael Sanzio himself famously showcased the two opposing paradigms of Plato vs Aristotle in his School of Athens which itself is shaped by the geometries of the solids (and featuring a key to its composition in the form of the dodecahedron and icosahedron painted into a lower corner of his Stanza della Segnatura.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="560" data-attachment-id="15918" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/07-athens/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/07-athens.jpg?fit=1430%2C801&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1430,801" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="07-athens" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/07-athens.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/07-athens.jpg?fit=1000%2C560&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/07-athens.jpg?resize=1000%2C560&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15918"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption"><em>An often-overlooked detail from Raphael Sanzio’s Stanza della Segnatura featuring the icosahedron and dodecahedron inside a trompe oeuil painting. It is in this same room that the famous School of Athens is illustrated with Plato in motion, pointing towards the higher realm of ideas while holding his Timaeus contrasted with the opposing paradigm of Aristotle, fixed in his position with his palm down to the earthly domain holding in his other hand his Nicomachean Ethics</em></figcaption></figure><p>Faced with the explosion of creative new discoveries translating at breathtaking speeds into new technologies and uplifting the cultural standards in uncontrollable ways, forces representing the entrenched oligarchical interests of the Old Roman Empire then centered in Venice had been hard at work to derail this process into an age of war, inquisitorial religious fanaticism, empiricism and ignorance.</p>
<p>This was the stage upon which Kepler entered and took sides in the universal battle for the soul of civilization. Describing the slide into never ending wars that was beginning to take hold of his world, Kepler wrote in the preface to the second edition of his <em><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/johannes-kepler/">Mysterium Cosmographicum</a></em>:</p>
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<p><em>“Would that even now indeed there may still… be a place for Plato’s oracular saying. For when Greece was on fire on all sides with a long Civil War and was troubled with all the evils which usually accompany civil war, he was consulted about a Delian riddle, and was seeking salutary advice to the peoples. At length he replied that according to Apollo’s opinion, Greece would be peaceful if the Greeks turned to geometry and other philosophical studies as these studies would lead their spirits from ambition and other forms of greed, out of which wars and other evils arise, to the love of peace and to moderation in all things”.<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftn5"><strong>[5]</strong></a></em></p>
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<p>As a young mathematician teaching in Graz, whose father had died as a mercenary, Kepler devoted his entire life to the cause of peace and the goal of ushering in a new age of creative reason. His strategic focus became his devotion to prove that the Pythagorean thesis outlined by Plato in the Timaeus was true and use that proof to bring a new standard of Natural Law to humanity around which our chaos-ridden species could use in order to “tune” ourselves with the laws of Creation.</p>
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<p>Kepler wrote:</p>
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<p><em>“It is my intention to show in this little book that the most great and good creator, in the creation of this moving universe and the arrangement of the heavens, looked to those five regular solids, which have been so celebrated from the time of Pythagoras and Plato, down to our own, and that he fitted to the nature of those solids, the number of the heavens, their proportions and the law of their motion.”</em></p>
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<p>While Kepler is known for having discovered his “three laws of planetary motion”, it is all too rare for students in modern society to do what Dr. Moon did in 1984… which was read Kepler’s own writings and replicate the act of discovery that Kepler subjectively experienced during his 25 year voyage from 1595-1620 as he discovered those “objective” laws shaping reality<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftn6">[6]</a>.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="557" height="218" data-attachment-id="15921" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/09-laws/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/09-laws.jpg?fit=557%2C218&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="557,218" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="09-laws" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/09-laws.jpg?fit=300%2C117&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/09-laws.jpg?fit=557%2C218&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/09-laws.jpg?resize=557%2C218&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15921"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption"><em>In his Mysterium, Kepler outlines the first phase of his discovery by breaking from all prevalent “standard models” of astronomy of his day.</em></figcaption></figure><p>Anyone could work within the confines of any of the three fundamental standard models of Ptolemy (which placed the earth in the center of the system), Copernicus (which placed the center of the solar system near the sun although had nothing to do with the sun as a causal agency), or the new hybrid model innovated by Kepler’s employer Tycho Brahe which featured the earth in the center, sun orbiting the earth and all other planets orbiting the sun.</p>
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<p>While these three models could equally describe the motions of the planets within a low degree of error, none of them truly cared about the causal principles of harmony, truth or causality which animated Kepler’s heart. None of them asked the fundamental question so important for all true science: Why were the planetary orbits where they are instead of some other arrangement?</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-mysterium-cosmographicum-revives-the-timaeus" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The Mysterium Cosmographicum Revives the Timaeus</strong></h2>
<p>While reviewing the Timaeus, Kepler stumbled upon his first strong hypothesis. By nesting the five platonic solids lawfully within each other with inscribed and circumscribing spherical shells, certain fundamental proportions were created resulting in a unifying system that very closely approximated the actual distances of the planets around the sun as measured by Copernicus decades earlier.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="688" height="538" data-attachment-id="15953" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/kepler-model-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/kepler-model-2.jpg?fit=688%2C538&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="688,538" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="kepler-model-2" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/kepler-model-2.jpg?fit=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/kepler-model-2.jpg?fit=688%2C538&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/kepler-model-2.jpg?resize=688%2C538&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15953"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Kepler’s first model of the solar system explicitly revived Pythagorean cosmology</figcaption></figure><p>Kepler described his model thus:</p>
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<p><em>“The Earth is the circle which is the measure of all. Construct a dodecahedron around it. The circle surrounding that will be Mars. Round Mars, construct a tetrahedron. The circle surrounding that will be Jupiter. Round Jupiter, construct a cube. The circle surrounding that will be Saturn. Now construct an icosahedron inside the Earth. The circle inscribed within that will be Venus. Inside Venus, inscribe an octahedron. The circle inscribed within that will be Mercury.”</em></p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="662" height="167" data-attachment-id="15926" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/12-discrepancies/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/12-discrepancies.jpg?fit=662%2C167&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="662,167" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="12-discrepancies" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/12-discrepancies.jpg?fit=300%2C76&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/12-discrepancies.jpg?fit=662%2C167&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/12-discrepancies.jpg?resize=662%2C167&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15926"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">The actual ratios of the planets contrasted with Kepler’s ratios. A good start but not the final word.</figcaption></figure><p>Within a few years, Kepler discovered that the data used was too divergent from actual data to stand as a full discovery, the young mathematician sought employment with the famous Tycho Brahe himself since the old aristocrat was famous for his rigorous celestial data sets. His theory left much to be desired, but Kepler’s congenial disposition and novel thinking expressed in the <em>Mysterium</em> impressed the old astronomer and Kepler was soon working as Tycho’s assistant.</p>
<p>After Tycho’s death in 1601, Kepler toiled relentless in order to solve the paradox of the retrograde motion of Mars that had perplexed astronomers for thousands of years [see image], but this time armed with Tycho’s rigorous data sets.</p>
<p>Kepler refused to accept the explanation that the two-week retardation of Mars which occurred every 686 days was due to invisible mathematical points on planetary orbits then dubbed “epicycles”.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="477" data-attachment-id="15927" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/13-retrograde/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/13-retrograde.jpg?fit=1248%2C595&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1248,595" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="13-retrograde" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/13-retrograde.jpg?fit=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/13-retrograde.jpg?fit=1000%2C477&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/13-retrograde.jpg?resize=1000%2C477&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15927"></figure><p> Even the great Copernicus was forced to place several epicycles into his model in order to make the mathematical model conform to the strange behaviour of Mars. Kepler realized that these epicycles (and their corollaries called “equants”) had to be created due to the hegemonic belief that all orbits were perfect circles. Thinking otherwise was nothing less than heresy since the following Aristotelian syllogism was law: A) God created the orbits, B) the most perfect shape is the circle, C) God is the most perfect being and thus D) God created the orbits as circles.</p>
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<p>When Kepler published his first two planetary laws of motion in the <em>New Astronomy</em> in 1609, he lit a fire that has kept oligarchical parasites up at night for centuries.</p>
<p>Not only did he destroy the foundations upon which the standard models were premised with his elaboration in books 2-6 of his <em>Vicarious Hypothesis</em> creating the most perfect model of the solar system ever generated using the real instead of the mean sun position, but also demonstrated that with this most perfect model, a discrepancy of 8 minutes of arc of longitude could not be made to disappear. This ontological paradox liberated the explorer from the fetters of epicycles and perfect circles to explore new vistas which ushered in his three-fold discovery:</p>
<ol data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>Planetary orbits were ellipses with the sun occupying one foci</li>
<li>That amidst the constantly accelerating/deacceleration motion of all planets around the sun, equal areas would be swept out in equal times</li>
<li>That this entire process is governed by a substance/effluence shaped by a rotating sun analogous to magnetism and light.</li>
</ol><h2 data-sanitized-id="not-gravity-magnetism-kepler-s-electric-insight" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Not Gravity… Magnetism: Kepler’s Electric Insight</strong></h2>
<p>Citing the works of the great English scientist Michael Gilbert (discoverer of the magnetic nature of the Earth), Kepler found himself as a founding father of not only a new astronomy but also the electric universe.</p>
<p>Describing the magnetic power, Kepler wrote:</p>
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<p><em>“One might inquire of me, what sort of body I consider the sun to be, from which the motive species descends. I would… urge him to inspect more closely the example of the magnet brought up a little earlier, whose power resides in the entire body of the magnet when it grows in mass or when by being divided it is diminished.”</em></p>
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<p>Kepler continues without ever making recourse to the existence of “forces” and although the later Newtonian formulation of the term “Gravity” and the inverse square law is derived from Kepler’s laws (which some have postulated to have been stolen by the Royal Society handlers in London who controlled Newton), Kepler always maintained that magnetism was the form that this species of attraction and motion took, saying:</p>
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<p><em>“Therefore, as the sun forever turns itself, the motive force or the outflowing of the species from the sun’s magnetic fibres, diffused through all the distances of the planets, also rotates in an orb and does so in the same time as the sun, just as when a magnet is moved about, the magnetic power is also moved, and the iron along with it, following the magnetic force.”</em></p>
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<p>But Kepler did not stop there. These discoveries were merely means to a higher end.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-harmonies-of-the-world" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The Harmonies of the World</strong></h2>
<p>By establishing these fundamental objective laws within the subjective realm of his sovereign mind (emotions and all), and experiencing all the associated joys, love and insight which such discoveries carry wit<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/johannes-kepler/">h them, Kepler embarked upon the last leg of his journey which culminated in his</a> <em>Harmonia Mundi</em> in 1619 published just as Germany was plunging headfirst into the devastating 30 years war. It was here that Kepler was able to reconstruct all of astronomy upon a new Pythagorean edifice by taking the minima and maxima of each known planet within their orbits (ie: the closest/fastest and furthest/slowest positions from the sun) a new array of musical proportions were found throughout the solar system.</p>
<p>By treating a circle as a singular string wrapped unto itself, and then interposing elemental shapes (after the first halving which created a diagonal/octave), sounds of triangles could be compared to the sounds of squares, pentagons, hexagons and octagons with all associated proportions being generated therein located between the boundary conditions of 1 and ½. In this regard Kepler generated ½ (octave), 2/3 (fifth), ¾ (fourth), 4/5 (major 3rd), 3/5 (major 6th), 5/8 (minor 6th), and 5/6 (Minor 3<sup>rd</sup>).  </p>
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<p>Additionally, by investigating the proportions of the fifth and fourth which pervade the string, Kepler was able to zero in on the elusive second and seventh as the final consonant intervals followed by the melodic intervals of 8/9, 15/16 and 24/25 which allowed the astronomer to generate several musical scales. In the end Kepler evaluated all of the possible scales and found the G Scale to have the greatest correlation with the planets in the solar system.</p>
<p>Where the distances and speeds at min/max of Saturn were then found to have a 4/5 relationship, while Jupiter, Mars, Earth and Venus generated resonances of 5/6, 2/3, 15/16 and 24/25.</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="544" height="303" data-attachment-id="15932" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/15-music-planets/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/15-music-planets.jpg?fit=544%2C303&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="544,303" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="15-music-planets" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/15-music-planets.jpg?fit=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/15-music-planets.jpg?fit=544%2C303&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/15-music-planets.jpg?resize=544%2C303&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15932"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption"><em>Kepler’s musical model of the solar system that underlay his 3<sup>rd</sup> Law</em></figcaption></figure></div>
<p>While all the planets thus harmonized with each other, one singularity stood out. Mars and Jupiter simply failed to generate the expected resonance with a strange missing interval of 18/19 causing the two planets to unresolve as the others had. Although it took another 200 years, this large gap turned out to be the exact location where the asteroid belt was to be discovered which we now know contains millions of small and large rocks- some on the magnitude of small moons like Ceres.</p>
<p>Kepler could not contain his divine joy in the preface of his 5<sup>th</sup> book of the <em>Harmonies</em> where he said:</p>
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<p><em>“Now eighteen months after the first light, three months after the true day, but a very few days after the pure Sun of that most wonderful study began to shine, nothing restrains me. It is my pleasure to yield to the inspired frenzy, it is my pleasure to taunt mortal men with the candid acknowledgement that I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far, far away from the boundaries of Egypt… Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: Let it await its reader for a hundred years if God Himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.”</em></p>
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<p>It was from this fire of passion that Kepler gave light to his 3<sup>rd</sup> law. This law demonstrated that a universal relationship existed between the periodic times of each planetary orbit squared to the cube of the mean distance of each planet to the Sun and remains a bedrock of modern astronomy to this very day.</p>
<p>Sadly, it took more than a hundred years for humanity to properly study Kepler, as his work remained consciously obscured for generations, read by only a few who grasped the importance of its wisdom.</p>
<p>One of those few was named Dr. Robert Moon.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="a-return-to-moon-s-keplerian-revolution" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>A Return to Moon’s Keplerian Revolution</strong></h2>
<p>Dr. Robert Moon immersed himself in Kepler’s works and emerged with a new model of the atom which, like Kepler’s original work, has been examined by very few to this day.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="975" height="546" data-attachment-id="15933" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/16-moon-and-model-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/16-moon-and-model-2.jpg?fit=975%2C546&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="975,546" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="16-moon-and-model-2" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/16-moon-and-model-2.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/16-moon-and-model-2.jpg?fit=975%2C546&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/16-moon-and-model-2.jpg?resize=975%2C546&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15933"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Dr Robert Moon and his Keplerian model of the nucleus- design at right by Christopher Sloan [21st Century Science and Tech]</figcaption></figure><p>Despite the fact that he died before his young discovery could be properly ripened, this work serves as an invaluable foundation for any explorer searching to find a coherent explanation of the structure of the nucleus and the reasons for the configuration of the positively charged protons inside of atomic nuclei which are somehow capable of overcoming the Coulomb barrier without recourse to the kinetic pressure that the Strong Nuclear Force demands.</p>
<p>Being a physical chemist, Dr. Moon recognized that no model of the atom could make any sense out of the context of a system as a whole unity. Just as no planet could be explored individually, Dr. Moon looked at the entire periodic table of 92 naturally occurring elements as his unit. From this reference frame, Dr. Moon asked: Are there any harmonic force-free pathways/orbits that define the motion of protons inside of atomic nuclei such that they co-exist in close proximity without being violently repelled from each other? Additionally, is there some configuration of the nested platonic solids that offers us a clue to this arrangement?</p>
<p>Just like Plato and Kepler before him, Dr. Moon recognized the importance of duels in setting up his arrangement. Where the cube containing 6 faces and 8 vertices is a duel of the octahedron (which contains 8 faces and 6 vertices), the dodecahedron containing 12 faces and 20 vertices is the dual of the icosahedron which contains 20 faces and 12 vertices. The tetrahedron having 4 faces and 4 vertices being the anomaly which Kepler called “hermaphrodite” in the sense that it is its own dual.</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="400" height="238" data-attachment-id="15934" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/17-solid-duels-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/17-solid-duels-1.jpg?fit=400%2C238&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="400,238" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="17-solid-duels-1" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/17-solid-duels-1.jpg?fit=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/17-solid-duels-1.jpg?fit=400%2C238&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/17-solid-duels-1.jpg?resize=400%2C238&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15934"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">A diagram of solids and their duals printed in Kepler’s Harmonia Mundi</figcaption></figure></div>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="403" height="239" data-attachment-id="15935" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/18-duels-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/18-duels-2.jpg?fit=403%2C239&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="403,239" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="18-duels-2" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/18-duels-2.jpg?fit=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/18-duels-2.jpg?fit=403%2C239&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/18-duels-2.jpg?resize=403%2C239&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15935"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">A more recent diagram of each solid and their duals published by 21<sup>st</sup> Century Science</figcaption></figure></div>
<p>This relationship gave both Kepler and Moon a logical foundation to nest the solids inside of each other without having recourse to randomness at any moment. While Kepler used all five however, Moon saw the self-dueled Tetrahedron as enough of an anomaly to leave out of his atomic model for the time being, resting only with a configuration that involved starting with the cube, nested inside of an octahedron, which nests inside of an icosahedron (guided by the golden section, see image below), followed by the dodecahedron.</p>
<p>What did this look like and what anomalies were satisfied?</p>
<p>For starters Moon recognized that if each vertex is treated as an element on Mendeleyev’s table starting with hydrogen at atomic number 1, then each completed solid generates the following elements: Cube (8) which represents oxygen, Octahedron (6) represents silicon (8+6=14), Icosahedron (12) represents Iron (8+6+12=26), and the Dodecahedron represents Palladium (8+6+12+20=46).</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="513" data-attachment-id="15938" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/03-moon-model4-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03-moon-model4-1.jpg?fit=1020%2C523&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1020,523" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="03-moon-model4-1" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03-moon-model4-1.jpg?fit=300%2C154&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03-moon-model4-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C513&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03-moon-model4-1.jpg?resize=1000%2C513&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15938"></figure><p>With this configuration, several interesting factors occurred, the singularities of Oxygen, Silicon, Iron represent the three most abundant elements found within the earth’s crust.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="624" height="468" data-attachment-id="15940" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/19-1-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/19-1-1.jpg?fit=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="624,468" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="19-1-1" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/19-1-1.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/19-1-1.jpg?fit=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/19-1-1.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15940"></figure><p>Additionally, when reviewing other factors like the rates of atomic compression, reciprocal melting points, co-efficients of expansion and paramagnetic powers we find again the presence of a high array of of these elements: oxygen, silicon, iron and palladium at either maxima or minima positions.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="779" height="466" data-attachment-id="15941" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/20-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20.jpg?fit=779%2C466&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="779,466" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="20" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20.jpg?fit=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20.jpg?fit=779%2C466&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20.jpg?resize=779%2C466&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15941"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Log of Magnetic Susceptibility featuring several elements that represent closed solids at points of maxima</figcaption></figure><p>But that of course only accounts for half of the periodic table of elements. What about the other half?</p>
<p>Here Dr. Moon began growing a second set of nested solids which together accounted for all 92 elements of the periodic table (46 + 46=92 vertices). When 10 of the 20 vertices of the second dodecahedron are now added to the first set, then we arrive at atomic number 54 (lanthanum).</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="468" height="603" data-attachment-id="15942" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/21-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/21.jpg?fit=468%2C603&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="468,603" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="21" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/21.jpg?fit=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/21.jpg?fit=468%2C603&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/21.jpg?resize=468%2C603&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15942"></figure></div>
<p>The second dodecahedron is built upon the first set of nested solids in the Moon model bringing us to the anomalous lanthanide series which will next be represented by a new inner cube and circumscribed  octahedron.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="596" data-attachment-id="15943" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/22-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/22.jpg?fit=1042%2C621&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1042,621" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="22" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/22.jpg?fit=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/22.jpg?fit=1000%2C596&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/22.jpg?resize=1000%2C596&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15943"></figure><p>If an additional cube and octahedron are nested therein before completing the dodecahedron, all 14 members of the anomalous lanthanide series are found to exist in total harmony with the other elements rather than falling outside of the periodic table as is the awkward fact with the popular table we are taught in school.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="664" height="374" data-attachment-id="15945" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/23-periodic-table/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/23-periodic-table.jpg?fit=664%2C374&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="664,374" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="23-periodic-table" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/23-periodic-table.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/23-periodic-table.jpg?fit=664%2C374&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/23-periodic-table.jpg?resize=664%2C374&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15945"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">The popular configuration of Mendeleyev’s periodic table of elements which features the anomalous lanthanide series of 15 elements which do not fit harmonically within the whole, yet which find a lawful home within Moon’s model</figcaption></figure><p>When the icosahedron is then filled in around the second inner cube and octahedron, we arrive at Lead (82 vertices) and the end of all stable atoms. After atomic number 82, the instable radioactive atoms begin to express themselves as we fill in the remaining vertices of the dodecahedron. By the time we arrive at 87 however, the last pentagon faces of both dodecahedra are shared which required Dr. Moon to then “unhinge them first by rotating the solids on an edge of a pentagon followed by a second unhinging along the last shared vertex and finally a convergence of both solids slightly into each other’s orbits indicating the instability of Uranium (92).</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="440" height="124" data-attachment-id="15946" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/24-3/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/24.jpg?fit=440%2C124&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="440,124" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="24" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/24.jpg?fit=300%2C85&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/24.jpg?fit=440%2C124&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/24.jpg?resize=440%2C124&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-15946"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">A three-fold image describing the unhinging process of the two filled dodecahedra until atomic number 91</figcaption></figure><p>Unfortunately, Dr. Moon passed away during the early stages of his hypothesis, and while his student Laurence Hecht took the model further, finding a home for the tetrahedron, as well as a myriad of other functions of the periodic table and tied much of it to the Gauss-Ampere-Weber electrodynamics of the 19<sup>th</sup> century which was suppressed after 1860<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftn7">[7]</a>, many discoveries are yet to be made before it can take full mature form as Kepler’s earlier work had done with his 1619 Harmonies.</p>
<p>While other modern scientific movements working in parallel and sometimes overlapping with the work of Dr. Moon have revived other aspects of Kepler’s Pythagorean approach to the micro and macrocosm, the full consummation of this revolution in science awaits future scientists to carry the discoveries to their full maturity.</p>
<p>What incredible breakthroughs await our future happier age when humanity will finally be liberated from the soulless tentacles of standard models that have no bearing on the true harmonic, loving nature of our creative universe? How will future generations ripen to creative fruitfulness at every younger ages as the suppressed methods of Pythagorean constructive thinking become liberated from the cage of dead mathematical formulae? What accomplishments both on the earth and across the universe will our creative species be expected to make as we finally leave the womb of the biosphere and learn to self-sustain ourselves across the cosmos, re-creating the conditions of biospheres through the harnessing of new energies and untapped power of the atom?</p>
<p>Of course it is impossible to know anything of this magnitude with absolute certainty, although what is knowable is the fact that the oligarchical system which has worked for too many epochs to keep our species subdued in ignorance, division and war is certainly out of tune with the higher moral laws which the greatest minds from Plato, Kepler to Dr. Moon understood to be at the heart of creation.</p>
<p>I would like to end with a short exortation from Plato who pondered the purpose of a healthy mind in the following manner:</p>
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<p>In <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/31/some-additional-words-on-todays-pythagorean-revival-from-bussards-polywell-to-the-safire-project/">the next installment,</a> we will explore the minds of two additional sets of breakthroughs in the Pythagorean tradition by plunging into the discoveries of the late Dr. Robert Bussard, and a team of electric universe engineers and physicists managing the Safire Project.</p>
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<p><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftnref1">[1]</a> It should be here noted, that rather than treating his constant as a “length” which many have been trained to do in our age, Planck always followed a Keplerian mode of thinking and implored scientists to rather conceptualize his constant as a form of “harmonic oscillation”.</p>
<p><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftnref2">[2]</a> The subtle frequencies permeating the Schumann Resonance are 7.83 Hz, 14 Hz, 21 Hz, 26 Hz, 33 Hz, and 39 Hz</p>
<p><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftnref3">[3]</a> Recent studies by K.G. Karlsson and G.R. Burbidge found that an analysis of all available quasars resulted in discrete redshift frequencies of z = 0.061, 0.30, 0.60, 0.96, 1.41, and 1.9</p>
<p><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftnref4">[4]</a> Robert Moon on “<a href="https://21sci-tech.com/Articles%202005/moon_F04.pdf">How He Conceived his Nuclear Model</a>,” published in 21<sup>st</sup> Century Science, Fall 2004</p>
<p><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftnref5">[5]</a> The famous Delian Riddle was first recounted by Eratosthenes (a leading student in Plato’s Academy who discovered the circumference of the earth). He describes the challenge delivered to the people at Delos to double the volume of a cubic temple. The doubling of the Cube was a challenge that absorbed generations of thinkers when Plato wrote those words but had no answer until Plato’s collaborator Archytus finally figured out the solution by making recourse to the combined action of a sphere, cone and cylinder.</p>
<p><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftnref6">[6]</a> One can only wonder if certain vested interests are afraid that divine powers of creative reason might be kindled were students to re-experience within their own minds the divine cognitive voyage which such figures as Kepler journeyed as they approached the mind of the creator of the universe. How much more preferable for an oligarchical system of organization to keep their students locked within a mental cage of memorizing formulas and seeking “right answers” without ever having the question awoke of “how were these formulae discovered?” or “what questions would lead me towards right answers”?</p>
<p><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/#_ftnref7">[7]</a><a href="https://21sci-tech.com/articles/Atomic_Science.pdf">The Atomic Science that Textbooks Don’t Teach</a> by Larry Hecht and Jonathan Tennenbaum</p>
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<p>There is an urgent need to reframe humanity's relationship with emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, according to scholars attending the 6th Media Materiality Forum hosted by Tsinghua University's School of Journalism and Communication in Beijing on Saturday.</p>
<p>Professor Liu Hailong from Renmin University of China and Professor Jens Schröter from the University of Bonn, both the event's keynote speakers, told CGTN Digital that technological progress must align with ethical frameworks, cultural diversity and planetary sustainability.</p>
<p>Both scholars criticized viewing technology as mere tools or revolutions, arguing instead for a holistic view of its societal and ecological impacts.</p>
<p>Liu compared Western instrumentalist approaches – where technology is seen as a neutral tool – with East Asian philosophies emphasizing harmony between humans, tools and nature.</p>
<p>"The illusion of infinite computational growth ignores Earth's finite resources," he warned, pointing to AI's massive energy consumption and e-waste.</p>
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<p>Schröter echoed this, adding that quantum computing, while promising faster problem-solving, risks eroding data privacy through its ability to crack current encryption systems.</p>
<p>"What I criticize in my talk is the rhetoric of revolution," he said. "I guess we should think more in terms of evolutionary transformation."</p>
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<p>On AI, both experts rejected binary narratives. Liu stressed that AI's "creativity" is inherently human-dependent. "Machines process data, but humans define the questions and purposes," he told CGTN. Schröter cited generative AI's disruption of education and creative industries, noting that while generative AI aids productivity, it threatens jobs in law, music and content creation.</p>
<p>While their cultural perspectives differed, both scholars agreed on the need for inclusive, cross-disciplinary collaboration. Liu proposed integrating non-human actors – animals, ecosystems, even energy flows – into media studies to better grasp technology's ripple effects. Schröter urged public participation in shaping AI's trajectory, calling for broad societal discussion about "what technologies we need, what technologies we want and in what form."</p>
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<p><strong><em>In Europa, c’è dai tempi della Prima Guerra Mondiale c’è il detto che “i Balcani sono la polveriera d’Europa”. Purtroppo, quelle parole contengono ancora un fondo di verità.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Nuove tensioni fra Bosnia e Serbia</strong></p>
<p>Il sistema politico disfunzionale della Bosnia, frutto degli accordi di Dayton del 1995 che hanno suddiviso il Paese in due entità governate congiuntamente da serbi, croati (a maggioranza cattolica) e musulmani, con una presidenza a rotazione sotto supervisione internazionale, sta inesorabilmente collassando. In Serbia le proteste contro la corruzione e per un cambio di regime proseguono da mesi, e quelle dello scorso fine settimana sono state le più imponenti fino ad oggi. Le immagini della marea umana che ha invaso le strade di Belgrado hanno fatto il giro del mondo in pochissimo tempo, gettando però anche molta confusione sugli eventi.</p>
<p>In Bosnia, le tensioni recenti sono scaturite dall’emissione di mandati di arresto da parte delle autorità centrali nei confronti del presidente della Republika Srpska  Milorad Dodik, del suo Primo Ministro e del Presidente del parlamento. I provvedimenti derivano dal loro rifiuto di conformarsi alle direttive dell’“alto rappresentante” Christian Schmidt, la cui nomina nel 2021 da parte dell’amministrazione Biden non è stata approvata dal Consiglio di Sicurezza dell’ONU. Di conseguenza, né Dodik né la Russia ne riconoscono l’autorità di questo signore, ritenendo che le sue richieste mirino a ridimensionare l’autonomia della Republika Srpska per favorire la centralizzazione dello Stato bosniaco a vantaggio politico della componente islamica.</p>
<p>Uno degli obiettivi principali di Schmidt sarebbe quello di eliminare il veto della Republika Srpska all’ingresso della Bosnia nella NATO, il che spiegherebbe la pressione internazionale su Dodik e il tentativo di rimuoverlo. Nonostante le divergenze tra le amministrazioni Biden e Trump, quest’ultima non sembra opporsi attivamente a questa strategia. Il Segretario di Stato Marco Rubio ha infatti accusato Dodik di minare la stabilità della Bosnia-Erzegovina, dichiarando che il Paese non dovrebbe frammentarsi; <a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/12/additional-eufor-peacekeeper-troops-arrive-in-bosnia-amid-rising-tensions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parallelamente, Dorothy Shea, incaricata d’affari statunitense all’ONU, ha espresso sostegno all’EUFOR</a> (Forza dell’Unione Europea in Bosnia-Erzegovina), lasciando intendere la possibilità di un intervento contro la leadership della Republika Srpska. Niente di nuovo dal fronte atlantico occidentale.</p>
<p>In risposta a queste spiacevoli provocazioni, Dodik ha invitato Rubio al dialogo per esporre il punto di vista serbo e ha avanzato una proposta interessante: concedere alle aziende americane i diritti esclusivi per l’estrazione di minerali di terre rare della Republika Srpska, un affare dal valore stimato di 100 miliardi di dollari, che potrebbe attrarre l’attenzione del Potus, ed ha sottolineato che la politica statunitense nei Balcani è ancora influenzata dal cosiddetto Deep State, in particolare da elementi dell’ambasciata americana in Bosnia, storicamente ostili a Trump.</p>
<p>Non si può escludere un coinvolgimento britannico nelle tensioni bosniache, considerando che il Servizio Segreto Estero russo, l’SVR, ha recentemente denunciato il ruolo del Regno Unito nel sabotare la politica di Trump di riavvicinamento con la Russia, quasi in concomitanza con l’accusa che Nikolai Patrushev, consigliere di Putin, ha mosso verso Londra, dicendo che ha cercato di destabilizzare i Paesi baltici, lasciando intendere che potrebbe agire in modo simile nei Balcani.</p>
<p><strong>In Serbia non se la passano meglio</strong></p>
<p>La situazione in Serbia è altrettanto delicata. Il Paese è stato scosso dalle proteste, iniziate dopo un incidente ferroviario a Novi Sad lo scorso novembre, alimentate dal malcontento per la corruzione, con richieste di responsabilità che potrebbero sfociare in un cambio di governo. Il  movimento di protesta però è eterogeneo, comprendendo sia gruppi legati all’Occidente che nazionalisti serbi.</p>
<p>I liberali globalisti accusano il presidente Aleksandr Vucic di essere troppo filo-russo per non aver imposto sanzioni a Mosca, mentre i patrioti serbi lo considerano eccessivamente filo-occidentale per le sue posizioni ambigue su Kosovo, Russia e Ucraina. Vucic, dal canto suo, sostiene che le proteste contro di lui siano parte di una strategia occidentale per destabilizzarlo, e la Russia stessa avrebbe confermato un presunto complotto per un colpo di Stato contro di lui.</p>
<p>Nonostante le accuse di ingerenza occidentale, Vucic ha mantenuto una cooperazione con la NATO,<a href="https://www.mod.gov.rs/eng/4358/partnerstvo-za-mir-4358"> firmando nel 2015 un accordo di “Partenariato per la pace”</a> che consente all’Alleanza di transitare attraverso la Serbia e nell’agosto 2024, mentre affrontava proteste su larga scala, ha siglato un accordo da tre miliardi di dollari con la Francia per la fornitura di aerei da guerra, sollevando dubbi sulla reale ostilità dell’Occidente nei suoi confronti. In tutto ciò, gli Stati Uniti continuano ad esercitare pressioni su di lui tramite diversi canali.</p>
<p>Le tensioni in Bosnia e Serbia non sono scollegate: l’obiettivo occidentale sembra essere l’adesione della Bosnia alla NATO e il ridimensionamento dell’influenza russa nei Balcani. Se Trump non si opporrà alla politica attuale o non accetterà l’offerta di Dodik sulle terre rare, il rischio di un’escalation in Bosnia potrebbe aumentare.</p>
<p>Geopoliticamente parlando, la dottrina americana della divisione e del controllo continua ad avere la meglio nei Balcani, cercando di escludere qualsiasi possibile riunificazione di Bosnia e Serbia</p>
<p>L’unica possibilità per i serbi di migliorare la loro posizione sarà una stretta coordinazione tra la Serbia, la Republika Srpska e, se possibile, la Russia, per contrastare le pressioni occidentali e ottenere il miglior risultato possibile.</p>
<p><strong>La NATO ne approfitta</strong></p>
<p>In tutto ciò, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nato-kosovo-serbia-normalization-talks-kfor-17641eacc98fcdcc5daafac8763f942c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">la NATO non perde l’occasione di approfittarsene</a>. Il Segretario Generale, Mark Rutte, ha dichiarato che le azioni della Republika Srpska sono inaccettabili e che gli Stati Uniti non offriranno alcun sostegno a Dodik, posizione ribadita anche dall’Ambasciata americana in Bosnia.</p>
<p>L’EUROFOR ha annunciato un rafforzamento del proprio contingente per far fronte alle crescenti tensioni, mandando i rinforzi via terra attraverso i valichi di Svilaj e Bijaca e via aerea all’aeroporto di Sarajevo. Un’ottima scusa per dispiegare un buon numero di soldati a guardia di quella che continua a sembrare, sempre di più, una rivoluzione colorata che vuole coinvolgere ben due Paesi.</p>
<p>Nonostante la crescente pressione internazionale, la Republika Srpska può contare non solo sul sostegno di Mosca e Belgrado, <a href="https://www.tasr.sk/tasr-clanok/TASR:2025032100000401" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ma anche su quello diplomatico di Budapest e Bratislava</a>, che hanno espresso il loro supporto per una risoluzione pacifica della situazione, evitando di partecipare alle velate minacce di carattere militare.</p>
<p>Il 10 marzo, il Capo di Stato Maggiore delle Forze Armate serbe, <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/19/la-nato-cerca-di-aprire-il-secondo-fronte-nei-balcani/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milan Mojsilović, ha incontrato a Belgrado il suo omologo ungherese, Gábor Böröndi</a>, ed hanno discusso assieme della sicurezza regionale e globale, nonché delle attività militari congiunte volte a rafforzare la stabilità nell’area. È stata ribadita l’intensità della cooperazione militare bilaterale, con l’intenzione di ampliarla ulteriormente. Particolare attenzione è stata rivolta alle operazioni congiunte tra le componenti terrestri e aeree dei due eserciti, nonché al contributo delle forze ungheresi alla missione internazionale di sicurezza in Kosovo e Metochia.</p>
<p>Appare chiaro che l’unico modo per la NATO di porre fine alla sovranità serbo-bosniaca sia quello di innescare un nuovo conflitto interno, utilizzando gruppi armati locali sulla falsariga di quanto avvenuto in Siria, <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/17/will-we-see-new-maidan-in-serbia/">oppure una sorta di Maidan</a> sul modello ucraino del 2014.</p>
<p><strong>Il rischio militare alimentato da KFOR</strong></p>
<p>​La Kosovo Force (KFOR) è una missione internazionale<a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/29/la-serbia-fra-destabilizzazione-politica-e-nuovo-fronte-militare-sui-balcani/Report%20Difesa" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> guidata dalla NATO</a>, istituita nel 1999 con l’obiettivo di garantire la sicurezza e la stabilità in Kosovo, in conformità con la risoluzione 1244 del Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite.</p>
<p>All’inizio dell’operazione contava oltre 50.000 soldati provenienti da 20 Paesi membri della NATO e da nazioni partner. Nel tempo la presenza è stata ridotta. A marzo 2022, la KFOR era costituita da 3.770 soldati provenienti da 28 paesi contributori. ​</p>
<p>Per dare un’idea del tipo di dispiegamento, consideriamo che ci sono:</p>
<ul>
<li>Regional Command West (RC-W): unità con base presso “Villaggio Italia” vicino alla città di Pec/Peja, attualmente costituita dal 62° Reggimento Fanteria “Sicilia” della Brigata “Aosta”. Il RC-W include anche militari di Albania, Bulgaria, Croazia, Macedonia del Nord, Polonia, Turchia, Austria, Moldavia e Svizzera. ​</li>
<li>Multinational Specialized Unit (MSU): situata a Pristina e comandata dal Colonnello dell’Arma dei Carabinieri Massimo Rosati, questa unità altamente specializzata dell’Arma dei Carabinieri è presente in Kosovo sin dall’inizio della missione nel 1999. Il reggimento è stato impiegato principalmente nella zona nord del paese, caratterizzata da una forte presenza di popolazione di etnia serba, in particolare nella città di Mitrovica.</li>
</ul>
<p>Le principali attività operative della KFOR includono:​</p>
<ul>
<li>Pattugliamenti e presenza sul territorio kosovaro attraverso pattugliamenti regolari;</li>
<li>L’attività dei Liaison Monitoring Teams (LMT), che hanno il compito di assicurare un continuo contatto con la popolazione locale, le istituzioni governative, le organizzazioni nazionali e internazionali, i partiti politici e i rappresentanti delle diverse etnie e religioni presenti sul territorio. L’obiettivo è acquisire informazioni utili al comando KFOR per lo svolgimento della missione;</li>
<li>Il supporto alle istituzioni locali, in ottima di non cessione alle richieste della Serbia.</li>
</ul>
<p>Si tratta di forze dispiegate e pronte ad intervenire. Questo è un dettaglio che deve essere tenuto in considerazione. La strategicità di quella zona chiave dei Balcani non viene lasciata in secondo piano dalla NATO.</p>
<p>Messi così alle strette, ai governi di Serbia e Republika Srpska non resta molta scelta: dovranno confrontarsi presto con scelte difficili, che potrebbero significare un radicale cambiamento dell’aspetto dei Balcani.</p>
<p>Insomma, siamo di nuovo davanti al rischio di vedere i Balcani scoppiare, come avvenne poco più di 100 anni fa. Chi sarà stavolta il responsabile dell’esplosione?</p>
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<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephonic conversation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, discussing Israel's attacks on Palestine and regional and global issues, according to the Turkish Presidency on Saturday.</p>
<p>The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has deepened with Israel's renewed attacks, Erdogan noted, expressing his confidence that Palestinians can overcome this process through unity.</p>
<p>Erdogan said that Türkiye will continue its efforts to make sure Palestine's voice is heard at every platform.</p>
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<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a Friday press conference <strong>that he won't recognize past US military aid as loans,</strong> after Washington sent a new draft of the minerals deal to Kiev.</p>
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<p>"Ukraine received a new agreement project from the U.S. regarding mineral resources, which is an entirely different document from the previous framework agreement," said Zelensky, adding "<strong>Ukraine will not recognize U.S. military aid as debt.</strong>"</p>
<p>"<strong>We are grateful for the support, but this is not a credit, and we will not allow it,</strong>" Zelensky continued.</p>

<p>The Ukrainian president also said that <strong>they are unwilling to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin "or with someone who would represent Russia,"</strong> and instead said "I think that if there are people, I think there are businesses in Russia, and they have many different regions, including serious business areas. <strong>I think that we would communicate with them if they have a vision of how to end the war"</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🇺🇸🇺🇦BREAKING! ZELENSKYY REJECTED TRUMP'S TREATY! He will NOT recognize U.S. military aid as debt.<br>Moreover, Zelensky refused to engage in direct dialogue with Putin.<br>Zelensky is once again confronting Trump and the U.S.</p><p>He stated:<br>"Ukraine received a new agreement project from… <a href="https://t.co/CopihXojCx">pic.twitter.com/CopihXojCx</a></p>
— Myroslav Oleshko (@oleshkomyroslav) <a href="https://twitter.com/oleshkomyroslav/status/1905681265962922252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p><em>Via @oleshkomyroslav</em></p>
<p>One Ukrainian lawmaker said on Telegram that the revised mineral agreement is a "horror" that offers no security guarantees from Washington.</p>
<p>Lwwmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a People's Deputy from Ukraine's Holos party, said he obtained a new draft of the mineral deal from the U.S., dated March 23 - which he says would grant the Untied States access to <strong>all existing and future mineral deposits across Ukraine, along with oil and gas throughout the country.</strong></p>
<p>According to Zheleznyak, the new agreement contains "not even a hint" of security guarantees - though he did note that the revised draft wasn't final, "and I hope that the Ukrainian side will demand and achieve significant changes to it."</p>

<p>"This is no longer a framework memorandum of intent, like the one discussed before the scandalous Oval Office meeting," said Zheleznyak, adding "This is a full-fledged, very clear agreement. And it's not in our favor."</p>
<p>"<strong>It can and must be changed. Otherwise, I don't see how it could be ratified by parliament.</strong>"</p>
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<p>The response comes as Kiev and Washington continue to dance around a deal that would allow the US access to Ukraine's mineral deposits, which was originally proposed by Zelensky as part of his five-point "Victory Plan" unveiled last October to secure US support. </p>
<p>Trump, meanwhile, suggests that <strong>the mere presence of American contractors in Ukraine would act as a security guarantee - something Zelensky has rejected.</strong></p>

<p>In a March 12 press release, the US State Department confirmed that Washington DC has provided $66.5 billion in military assistance to Ukraine during the war with Russia which began in 2022, adding that $69.2 billion in military assistance has been provided since 2014.</p>
<p>"We have now used the emergency Presidential Drawdown Authority on 55 occasions since August 2021 to provide Ukraine military assistance totaling approximately $31.7 billion from DoD stockpiles," read the State Department memo.</p>
<p><strong>Needless to say, this won't be over anytime soon at this rate...</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Unreasonable response. I saw something about Putin working with the UN to oust Z. Maybe this is why. Not saying what should happen but watching closely.</p>
— Alexandria Irby (@Alexandria74733) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alexandria74733/status/1905682600322322866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This is what Zelensky does, he talks to Trump's admin promises to do something. Goes home and tells his people the exact opposite will happen. You cannot work with this kind of person.</p><p>Putin said recently that no real talks can start with him pretending to be in power. That…</p>
— Hank Rearden (@HankRearden_37) <a href="https://twitter.com/HankRearden_37/status/1905691323560329420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">He backed himself in the corner and in loose loose situation. This is what happens when people put in power with zero experience and expertise in politics nether mind deplomacy. I suspect its downhill for Zelensky from now on and we will see some crazy statements in near future.…</p>
— UserWithNoName (@NetiConfetti) <a href="https://twitter.com/NetiConfetti/status/1905684494620770618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Has Z said thank you lately?</p>

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<p><a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/28/content-agnostic-eu-official-denies-anti-free-speech-policies-in-bizarre-letter-to-congress/"><em>Authored by Jonathan Turley,</em></a></p>
<p>After returning recently from <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/24/a-new-world-order-with-european-values-the-unholy-union-of-globalism-and-anti-free-speech-measures/">speaking at the World Forum in Berlin</a>, I <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/25/turley-to-testify-in-the-senate-judiciary-committee-on-free-speech/">testified</a> in the Senate Judiciary Committee and warned about the building threat to free speech from the use of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has taken up the issue and received a letter from the EU’s Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen. <strong>The <a href="https://api.politico.eu/editorial_documents/ea015e0b-7246-4f6d-8301-e3cde8046bcb">letter</a> is both evasive and deceptive.</strong></p>
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<p>In my book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668047047?tag=simonsayscom"><em>The Indispensable Right</em></a>, I detail how the DSA has been used to allow for sweeping speech investigations and prosecutions. In direct contradiction to past statements by the EU, Virkkunen denied any effort to regulate speech or enforce the DSA outside of Europe.</p>

<p>What is particularly maddening is the false claim that the EU remains “deeply committed to protecting and promoting free speech.” Many in the free speech community view the EU and the DSA as the greatest threats<a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2024/08/19/the-eu-just-declared-war-on-free-speech-in-america-it-is-time-to-fight-back/"> to free speech</a> in the West.</p>
<p>In his letter, Jordan correctly raised the concern that the DSA could “limit or restrict Americans” constitutionally protected speech in the United States by compelling platforms to crack down on what the EU considers “misleading or deceptive” speech.</p>
<p><strong>In her response, Virkkunen bizarrely describes the DSA as “<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/social-media-law-does-not-regulate-speech-eu-tech-chief-tells-us-lawmaker-henna-virkkunen/">content-agnostic”</a> while insisting that the DSA “applies exclusively within the European Union.”</strong></p>
<p>That is not what EU officials previously said or what the law itself allows. <a href="https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act_Article_34.html">Articles 34</a> and <a href="https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act_Article_35.html">35</a> of the DSA require all sites to identify, assess, and mitigate “systemic risks” posed by content, including any threats to “civic discourse”, “electoral processes,” and “public health.” It is up to the EU to define and judge such categories in terms of compliance.</p>
<p>The act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” European Commission Executive Vice President <a href="https://thehill.com/people/margrethe-vestager/">Margrethe Vestager </a>celebrated its passage by declaring that <strong>it is “not a slogan anymore, that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing. Democracy’s back.”</strong></p>
<p>Some in this country have turned to the EU to force the censorship of their fellow citizens. After <a href="https://thehill.com/people/elon-musk/">Elon Musk </a>bought Twitter and dismantled most of the company’s censorship program, many on the left went bonkers. That fury only increased when Musk released the “Twitter files,” confirming the long-denied coordination and support by the government in targeting and suppressing speech.</p>

<p><strong>In response, <a href="https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/1517247388716613634">Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures</a> turned to Europe and called upon them to use their Digital Services Act to force censorship against Americans. (Clinton<a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/24/a-new-world-order-with-european-values-the-unholy-union-of-globalism-and-anti-free-speech-measures/"> spoke at the World Forum</a> and lashed out at the failure to control disinformation).</strong></p>
<p>The EU immediately responded by threatening Musk with confiscatory penalties against not just his company but himself. He would have to resume massive censorship or else face ruin.</p>
<p>This campaign recently came to a head when Musk had the audacity to interview former president Donald Trump. In anticipation of the interview, one of the world’s most notorious anti-free speech figures went ballistic.</p>
<p><strong>Former European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services Thierry Breton issued a threatening message to Musk, “We are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political — or societal — events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.”</strong></p>
<p>The EU has long been one of the most aggressively anti-free speech bodies in the world. It has actively supported the evisceration of free speech among its 27 member states. The EU is not “agnostic” when it comes to free speech; it has long championed a type of free-speech atheism.</p>
<p><strong>We have faced EU officials engaging in Orwellian doublespeak for years. Nevertheless, Virkkunen’s letter to Jordan stands out for its sheer mendacity.</strong></p>
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<p><em>Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “</em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668047047?tag=simonsayscom"><em>The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage</em></a><em>.”</em></p>
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            <p>Iran will not bow to US pressure to resume talks over its nuclear program, a top naval commander has said, stressing that Tehran is ready to strike back in the event of an American attack.</p>
<p>In an interview with al-Mayadeen TV channel on Saturday, Alireza Tangsiri, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s recent ultimatum urging the country to enter new nuclear talks. <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“I have no knowledge of Trump’s message, nor do I care to analyze it,”</em> Tangsiri said. <em>“I hear his threats, I observe his actions, and I prepare myself to counter them. We have the capability to strike all enemy bases, wherever they may be… No one can strike us and escape. Even if we have to chase them to the Gulf of Mexico, we would.”</em></p>
<p>Tangsiri also rejected any negotiations over Tehran’s missile arsenal or its backing of groups in the region. <em>“Iran will never negotiate over its missiles or the capabilities of the Resistance Front,”</em> he said. He also emphasized that the Islamic Republic seeks peaceful relations with its neighbors: <em>“We always extend a hand of friendship to the countries in the region. As Muslims, we do not pose any threat to our neighboring countries.”</em></p>

            
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<p>The remarks came in response to Trump’s comments on Friday, in which he confirmed sending a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seeking to negotiate a nuclear deal.</p>
<p><em>“You’re gonna have to make a decision one way or the other,”</em> Trump said. <em>“We’re gonna either have to talk and talk it out, or very bad things are gonna happen to Iran. And I don’t want that to happen.”</em> He added that if the US has <em>“to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing.”</em></p>
<p>Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that while the letter seemed threatening, it still contained <em>“some opportunities”</em> for Tehran.</p>
<p>The standoff follows years of tension over Tehran’s nuclear program. In 2015, Iran signed a deal with the US, the EU, Russia, and other world powers in which it agreed to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. However, in 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the landmark agreement, calling it <em>“a horrible one-sided deal”</em> that had failed to achieve its goals.</p>
<p>Iran has not ruled out indirect talks on the matter but has refused to do so under duress. It also maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.</p>

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<p>Shares of the Las Vegas Sphere (officially the MSG Sphere), owned by <strong>Sphere Entertainment</strong> Co (SPHR), have plunged into a vicious bear market this year amid fears that its subsidiary, MSG Networks—a regional sports network—<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cracks-sphere-entertainment">faces potential bankruptcy</a>. Nevertheless, Goldman Sachs analysts Stephen Laszczyk and Antares Tobelem have <strong>initiated coverage with a "Buy" rating</strong>, arguing that the upside potential for the Las Vegas Sphere is solid and that the market has overstated the risks tied to MSG Networks. </p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-01-33.png?itok=eMqr8AI7" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-01-33.png?itok=eMqr8AI7"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="82256940-c526-468a-8a1d-7e54a8b4cabb" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="165" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-01-33.png?itok=eMqr8AI7" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p>MSG bankruptcy fears have sent SPHR shares tumbling 36% since peaking at around $48 in mid-February. Short interest has surged to 7.7 million shares—<strong>approximately 29.5% of the total float</strong>.</p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_1cf93e06.png?itok=AiaPkVLb" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_1cf93e06.png?itok=AiaPkVLb"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6b8bc3ca-8a58-4ad1-afff-37d8860e6038" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="301" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Snag_1cf93e06.png?itok=AiaPkVLb" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>On Thursday, Laszczyk and Tobelem provided clients with a detailed note about their decision to initiate a "Buy" rating on SPHR: </p>
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<ol><li><strong><em>We initiate on Sphere Entertainment (SPHR) with a Buy rating and a $42 price target</em></strong> <em>(12-month), representing 24% potential return. At $33.80 a share (off ~20% YTD through 3/26), we believe that the market is currently under-appreciating two key aspects of the company's growth story and over-estimating a potential risk.</em></li>
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<p>The analysts explained more about their bullish call, outlining three bullish reasons: </p>
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<p><em>Specifically, we believe that the</em> <strong><em>market is under-appreciating the opportunity for the Las Vegas Sphere</em></strong> <em>to continue to reinvent itself with new content and improve execution to grow Revenue and AOI (GSe is ~5% above consensus for Sphere segment AOI),</em></p>
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<p><strong><em>under-appreciating the opportunity to add additional Sphere franchises</em></strong> <em>around the globe (see addressable market analysis inside), and</em></p>
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<p><strong><em>over-estimating the likelihood that a workout of the MSG Networks debt will be value destructive</em></strong><em>.</em></p>
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</ol></blockquote>
<p>The value in SPHR is based on the Las Vegas Sphere, the world's largest spherical structure—equipped with a 16K resolution LED screen that wraps around the audience for a fully immersive visual experience, which surpasses even legacy venues like Madison Square Garden. </p>
<p><strong>Org Chart Overview across the MSG Complex</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-08-25.png?itok=m5uARBM7" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-08-25.png?itok=m5uARBM7"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="e68e5c09-f593-4e53-8469-5303c624b326" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="155" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-08-25.png?itok=m5uARBM7" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p>The analysts <strong>expect increased operational improvement through increased utilization of show days</strong>, better programming cadence, and higher ticket and hospitality pricing. Their model forecasts the Sphere segment AOI to increase significantly, from -$20M in 2024 to $158M in 2027E, outpacing the average analyst estimates on Wall Street. With premium experiences, flexible scheduling, and continued demand for immersive content, the analysts believe the Sphere is positioned for multiple years of continued growth despite "newness" fading fears. </p>
<p>"While we appreciate the argument that The Sphere has benefited from its "newness" in its first year of operation, <strong>we believe concerns that the venue is a fad and will have difficulty reinventing itself to drive continued interest are exaggerated</strong>. <strong>We see opportunity</strong> for The Sphere to add content, optimize show count and timing, and improve operations in a way that translates into continued growth," the analysts said. </p>
<p><strong>We believe SPHR is currently trading at a value that only captures the visible revenue streams from the LV and AD Spheres</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57.png?itok=eV6-rhkz" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57.png?itok=eV6-rhkz"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4431d95b-1375-4840-a3fe-bdce69829b35" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="347" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57.png?itok=eV6-rhkz" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p><strong>Las Vegas Sphere Lifetime Foot Traffic</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-51-08.png?itok=vJB4d6sg" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-51-08.png?itok=vJB4d6sg"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="150eb718-846a-449a-9af2-71acd0671a6f" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="184" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-51-08.png?itok=vJB4d6sg" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><strong>Each additional Sphere build in a new city could generate low tens of millions in AOI for SPHR through royalty fees alone</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-11.png?itok=yLt40NSt" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-11.png?itok=yLt40NSt"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6ae15531-5c72-40b3-a894-abdf4b91cbac" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="248" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-11.png?itok=yLt40NSt" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p><strong>The Las Vegas Sphere show count should be near that of the entire 5-venue MSGE footprint by ~2027 due to improved utilization</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57_0.png?itok=Dw5ILjQE" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57_0.png?itok=Dw5ILjQE"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="8eb2f735-73ca-4429-8748-6b4db7592536" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="347" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57_0.png?itok=Dw5ILjQE" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p><strong>The event count for Sphere Experience has stabilized at ~60-70 shows per month...</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-22-29.png?itok=1_MxGVJR" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-22-29.png?itok=1_MxGVJR"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="baf286ba-fbdc-402e-9d97-26e23505dcf9" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="196" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-22-29.png?itok=1_MxGVJR" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p><strong>Capacity of the 10 Most Comparable Las Vegas Venues to the MSG Sphere</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-54-18.png?itok=1Z4d9-NB" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-54-18.png?itok=1Z4d9-NB"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="563a1530-46c2-4832-b1dc-515f336a7dfd" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="212" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-54-18.png?itok=1Z4d9-NB" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p>Meanwhile, the <strong>MSG Networks segment faces secular headwinds</strong> from cord-cutting and unfavorable carriage renegotiations. The analysts expect that "successful renegotiation of MSG Networks' debt terms, without the need from Sphere Entertainment to inject significant capital, would be a net positive for Sphere's stock, which we believe appears to be pricing in some risk that Sphere Entertainment uses its own capital to bail creditors out."</p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-50-25.png?itok=rAeZ58v4" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-50-25.png?itok=rAeZ58v4"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="24e222d3-b59f-4e78-a17c-4ad07b5e3fb1" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="319" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-50-25.png?itok=rAeZ58v4" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p>All in all, the analysts have a $42 price target, which reflects a blend of current positive Sphere performance, potential franchise expansion, and a low probability of value destruction from MSG Networks' debt issues. </p>
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<h2>lol </h2>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Grateful Dead played the Las Vegas sphere—imagine tripping balls and looking up and seeing this. There’s no way I’m coming back from that <a href="https://t.co/o1D9dWXYeW">pic.twitter.com/o1D9dWXYeW</a></p>
— ØSØ (@OsoBlanc0) <a href="https://twitter.com/OsoBlanc0/status/1795994610738639301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Don’t do drugs and then go to the Sphere in Vegas. You will have a bad time. <a href="https://t.co/tjm9Q9bbFr">pic.twitter.com/tjm9Q9bbFr</a></p>
— Alpha Liger (@AlphaLiger) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlphaLiger/status/1879922602346733814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Jerry Garcia would've liked the Sphere <a href="https://t.co/IFPKbzD4eM">pic.twitter.com/IFPKbzD4eM</a></p>
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5219900
title: Not long ago, government efficiency was a bipartisan goal
author: ;Keith Hall; opinion contributor
content: Efficient government is not the same thing as less government.
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title: Peak corruption: Who’s to blame? Big Business, Big Government, or ‘Bigness’ itself?
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<p><strong><em>Corruption has co-opted the media, which now operates as a propaganda machine, indoctrinating the public into believing that it exists to hold power to account.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Every day, the world feels increasingly dystopian, with headlines that read like poorly scripted comedies—except the tragedy is that this is real life. A game show host is now president of the USA. A fame-hungry boyband member is lauded as a hero for aimlessly wandering the earth begging for money to fund an unwinnable war, all while serving as the figurehead of a US puppet state, Ukraine. The UK’s Prime Minister is a personification of malleable grey paint with a permanent cold—like a “Where Are They Now?” episode featuring Wendell from <em>The Simpsons</em>. Perhaps most ludicrous of all, the left are now raging <em>with </em>the machine, transforming into supposedly virtuous war hawks. And that’s before even mentioning the power struggles in France—but we’ll leave “Brigitte” for another day.</p>
<p>Historians tell us that we’re constantly evolving, reaching the pinnacle of civilisation, despite evidence to the contrary proving they’re probably “talking Balbeks”. Corruption and incompetence are more blatant than ever. Even Trump’s most fervent supporters—those who believe he is “draining the swamp”—don’t deny that the swamp exists. Meanwhile, the relentless rise of authoritarianism continues across the West, unfazed by whichever party holds pseudo-power. We are spoon-fed the illusion of democracy and accountability while political stooges grandstand about diversity, equity, and inclusion—all while goading us towards World War III. Indiscriminate drone bombings—now that’s the kind of “inclusion” we’ve really perfected. How virtuous and civilised we’ve become.</p>
<p>With tribalism at an all-time high, orchestrated by puppet masters overseeing the duopoly, the left blames corruption on Big Business, while the right insists Big Government is the problem. Both sides can justify their stance with an abundance of examples. The left points to the fentanyl crisis, asbestos in the food supply, Monsanto and Bill Gates engineering famine to buy up farmland, and sweatshops exploiting child labour to cut costs and maximise profits. The right fires back with Pelosi’s insider trading, the relentless plethora of political scandals (Watergate and Iran-Contra, for example), and witch hunts against candidates deemed problematic to the deep state, such as Trump and Jeremy Corbyn; the water crisis in Flint; and California’s disastrous handling of wildfires. By arguing in this binary, tribal way, both sides obscure the actual cause: it isn’t Big Business or Big Government—the problem is Big itself, and we are all as blind as Carrie Bradshaw, deluded and manipulated, doomed to become wrecks in the city.</p>
<p>The core issue is scale. The larger an institution becomes, the more power it exerts. And power doesn’t just corrupt; it attracts the corruptible. History is littered with examples: from Stalin to the British Empire, from Rome’s transition from republic to empire. As entities grow in size and influence, they become more cutthroat, corrupt, and Machiavellian, all while shedding ethical considerations.</p>
<p>A key driver of this is the erosion of individual accountability. No single executive at a pharmaceutical company explicitly signs off on the deaths of thousands of children in pursuit of profit. But through multiple tiers of management, a series of small decisions snowball into a callous strategy that no one person takes responsibility for. This is how evil operates. As organisations expand, they attract self-serving personalities drawn to power. Whether through ambition, coercion, or blackmail, they become corrupted, and moral rot takes hold.</p>
<p>Once an institution grows large enough, accountability disappears. Employees justify their actions: <em>I was just doing my job. I have a family to feed. It was an order from above.</em> When the public demands justice, a token scapegoat is occasionally thrown under the bus. But real consequences? Hardly. Remember all the bankers who went to jail after the fraudulent derivatives market collapsed in 2008, plunging millions into financial ruin? You don’t—because it didn’t happen. Remember the politicians imprisoned after the <em>Panama Papers</em> exposed their offshore accounts and shady dealings? Nope, because they all walked free. Even capitalist banks were handed socialist bailouts because they were deemed “too big to fail”.</p>
<p>Contrast this with Iceland, where citizens, fed up with corruption, assembled to take power into their own hands. They jailed the bankers and politicians who drove their country into economic ruin. Of course, over time, corruption will inevitably creep back in, but the lesson is clear: power is best kept in check when it remains small and decentralised.</p>
<p>Big Business and Big Government feed into each other. As businesses expand, ethical considerations dissolve in the relentless pursuit of profit. Hostile takeovers create oligopolies that not only eliminate competition but also infiltrate the government itself. Meanwhile, politicians, once idealistic, become complicit in corruption, lured by donations, gifts, prestige, and material gain. Through lobbying and revolving-door careers, industry titans subtly dismantle democracy, ensuring that politicians serve their shareholders, not the people. This fusion of state and corporate power is the <em>actual</em> definition of fascism—not the lazy misnomer used against anyone who questions whether biological men should compete in women’s sports.</p>
<p>Worse still, this corruption has co-opted the media, which now operates as a propaganda machine, indoctrinating the public into believing that it exists to <em>hold power to account.</em> Social media has amplified exposure to incompetence and corruption, but are we just more aware of what has always existed? To a degree, yes. But the problem runs deeper.</p>
<p>Take <em>Survivor</em>, the reality show that perfectly encapsulates the trajectory of human society. Early seasons were about teamwork—contestants collaborated to survive. Self-serving players were cast as villains, and the winners were those who demonstrated integrity. But over time, strategy replaced sincerity. “Outwit, outplay, outlast” became the tagline, and cunning betrayals were no longer frowned upon—they were celebrated as <em>smart gameplay.</em> Likewise, in business and politics, those who climb to the top are often the ones who have abandoned morality in favour of “playing the game”. Narcissists and sociopaths thrive in this environment, and our society rewards them.</p>
<p>Even on a smaller scale, this pattern persists. Children no longer aspire to be musicians for the love of art but for the fame. Islands like Koh Phangan, once havens for genuine hippies seeking paradise, are now overpriced playgrounds for talentless trust fund kids, engaging in faux spirituality while swiping Daddy’s credit card. The sincerity and optimism of pioneers are always usurped by the next generation’s hollow commercialisation.</p>
<p>Humans evolved to live in small tribes of 150-200 people. This allowed for genetic diversity while ensuring accountability within the group. Tribal members with dark hearts were necessary to commit the acts others couldn’t stomach in times of danger—but they were always kept in check. In a modern metropolis, these individuals operate in the shadows, preying on the unsuspecting, moving on onto latest victims with anonymity, facing zero consequences for previous exploitation, reinforcing their behaviour as unproblematic, and climbing the ranks of corporations and governments. This is why our leaders are so openly corrupt and incompetent. The system selects for it.</p>
<p>So how do we expose and dismantle this beast? First, we need to recognise the patterns and underlying mechanisms at play. Second, we must integrate psychological literacy into early education, ensuring future generations aren’t so easily manipulated. Most importantly, we must dismantle <em>Big</em>. Small businesses stimulate local economies and competition. Localised governance ensures accountability and re-engages citizens in the political process. Citizens’ assemblies could act as a check against local corruption. A pragmatic, cooperative approach between regions, driven by surplus rather than manufactured scarcity, is the way forward. Only then can we stop psychopaths from dictating our future—and perhaps, just perhaps, the world will stop feeling like an asylum.</p>
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221540
title: Top vaccine official at FDA resigns citing RFK Jr., ‘misinformation’
author: ;Filip Timotija
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A top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) resigned, citing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation” and apparent lack of desire for “truth and transparency.”  Dr. Peter Marks, who has led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), stepped down on Friday after earlier in…

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title: Ultra-Processed Life
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<p><a href="https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/03/ultra-processed-life.html"><em>Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,</em></a></p>
<p><em>Consuming more of this </em>Ultra-Processed World is not a path to "the good life," it's a path to the destruction and derangement of an <em>Ultra-Processed Life</em>.</p>
<p><strong>The digital realm, finance, and junk food have something in common: they're all <em>ultra-processed</em></strong>, synthetic versions of Nature that have been designed to be compellingly addictive, to the detriment of our health and quality of life.</p>
<p><strong>In focusing on the digital realm, money (i.e. finance, "growth," consuming more as the measure of all that is good) and eating more of <em>what tastes good</em>, we now have an <em>Ultra-Processed Life</em>.</strong> All three-- the digital realm, money in all its manifestations and junk food--are all <em>consumed</em>: <em>they all taste good</em>, i.e. generate endorphin hits, and so they draw us into their synthetic <em>Ultra-Processed World</em>.</p>

<p><strong>We're so busy <em>consuming</em> that we don't realize they're <em>consuming us</em></strong>: in focusing on producing and consuming more goods and services as the sole measure of "the good life," it's never enough: if we pile up $1 million, we focus on piling up $2 million. If we pile up $2 million, we focus on accumulating $3 million. And so on, in every manifestation of money and consumption.</p>
<p><strong>The digital realm consumes our lives one minute and one hour at a time</strong>, for every minute spent focusing on a screen is a minute taken from the real world, which is the only true measure of the quality of our life.</p>
<p><strong><em>Ultra-processed food</em> is edible, but it isn't nutritious.</strong> It tastes good, but it harms us in complex ways we don't fully understand.</p>
<p><strong>This is the core dynamic of the synthetic "products and services" that dominate modern life:</strong> the harm they unleash is hidden beneath a constant flow of endorphin hits, distractions, addictive media and unfilled hunger for all that is lacking in our synthetic <em>Ultra-Processed World</em>: a sense of security, a sense of control, a sense of being grounded, and the absence of a hunger to find synthetic comforts in a world stripped of natural comforts.</p>
<p><strong>In effect, we're <em>hungry ghosts</em> in this <em>Ultra-Processed World</em></strong>, unable to satisfy our authentic needs in a synthetic world of artifice and inauthenticity. The more we consume, the hungrier we become for what is unavailable in an <em>Ultra-Processed Life</em>.</p>
<p><strong>We're told there's no upper limit on "growth" of GDP, wealth, abundance, finance or consumption, but this is a form of insanity</strong>, for none of this "growth" addresses what's lacking and what's broken in our lives, the derangements generated by consuming (and being consumed by) highly profitable synthetic versions of the real world.</p>

<p><strong>Insanity is often described as <em>doing the same thing and expecting a different result</em>.</strong> So our financial system inflates yet another credit-asset bubble and we expect that this bubble won't pop, laying waste to everyone who believed that <em>doing the same thing</em> would magically generate a different result.</p>
<p><strong>But there is another form of insanity that's easily confused with denial: we are blind to the artificial nature of this <em>Ultra-Processed World</em></strong> and blind to its causal mechanisms: there is only one possible output of this synthetic version of Nature, and that output is a complex tangle of derangements that we seek to resolve by dulling the pain of living a deranged life.</p>
<p><strong>We're not in denial; we literally don't see our <em>Ultra-Processed World</em> for what it is:</strong> a manufactured mirror world of commoditized derangements and distortions that have consumed us so completely that we've lost the ability to see what's been lost.</p>
<p><strong>Ultra-processed snacks offer the perfect metaphor.</strong> We can't stop consuming more, yet the more we consume the greater the damage to our health. The worse we feel, the more we eat to distract ourselves, to get that comforting endorphin hit. It's a feedback loop that ends in the destruction of our health and life.</p>
<p><strong>Once we've been consumed by money, the digital realm and ultra-processed foods, we've lost the taste for the real world.</strong> A fresh raw carrot is sweet, but once we're consuming a diet of sugary cold cereals and other equivalents of candy, we no longer taste the natural sweetness of a carrot; it's been lost in the rush of synthetic extremes of salt, sugar and fat that make ultra-processed foods so addictive. To recover the taste of real food, we first have to completely abandon ultra-processed foods--<a href="https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar25/addiction-economy3-25.html"> Go Cold Turkey.</a></p>
<p><strong>The idea that we can consume junk food and maintain the taste for real food in some sort of balance is delusional</strong>, for the reasons stated above: junk food destroys our taste for real food and its artificially generated addictive qualities will overwhelm our plan to "eat healthy" half the time.</p>
<p><strong>Just as there is no "balance" between ultra-processed food and real food, there is no balance between the synthetic <em>Ultra-Processed World</em> and the real world.</strong> We choose one or the other, either by default or by design.</p>

<p><strong>Credit--borrowing money created out of thin air--is the financial equivalent of ultra-processed food.</strong> The machinery that spews out the addictive glop is complicated: in the "food" factory, real ingredients are processed into addictive snacks. In finance, reverse repos, swaps, derivatives, mortgages, etc. generate a highly addictive financial product: credit.</p>
<p><strong>Just as with ultra-processed food, the more credit we consume, the more it consumes us.</strong> <em>I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.</em></p>
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<p><strong>The derangements of synthetic food, digital realms and finance have yet to fully play out.</strong> Consuming more of this <em>Ultra-Processed World</em> is not a path to "the good life," it's a path to the destruction and derangement of an <em>Ultra-Processed Life</em>.</p>
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