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

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

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

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

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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Today, President Donald J. Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/adjusting-imports-of-automobiles-and-autombile-parts-into-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">imposed</a> a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles imported into the United States — a continuation of President Trump’s Made in America renaissance.</p>
<p>The move was <a href="https://x.com/UAW/status/1905034035081986053" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">immediately hailed</a> by the United Auto Workers — one of the country’s largest labor unions — as a “victory for autoworkers.”</p>
<p>“We applaud the Trump administration for stepping up to end the free trade disaster that has devastated working class communities for decades. Ending the race to the bottom in the auto industry starts with fixing our broken trade deals, and the Trump administration has made history with today’s actions. … The UAW and the working class in general couldn’t care less about party politics; working people expect leaders to work together to deliver results. The UAW has been clear: we will work with any politician, regardless of party, who is willing to reverse decades of working-class people going backwards in the most profitable times in our nation’s history. These tariffs are a major step in the right direction for autoworkers and blue-collar communities across the country, and it is now on the automakers, from the Big Three to Volkswagen and beyond, to bring back good union jobs to the U.S.”</p>
<p><a href="https://uaw.org/tariffs-mark-beginning-of-victory-for-autoworkers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Read the UAW’s full statement here.</strong></a></p>


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

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

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

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

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

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<p>It appears increasingly like our world is being shaped by ideas and intentions that have a pseudo-religious like commitment to limits and reducing human activity upon the earth.</p>
<p>The concepts of “entropy”, “homeostasis”, “natural equilibrium” and “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/overcoming-limits-to-growth-and-the" target="_blank">limits to growth</a>” shape many of the contours of all permitted discussion of ecological, economic and political policy among those stuck within the trans-Atlantic “rules based order”.</p>
<p>Where does this dismal “science of managing scarcity” come from?</p>
<p>Certainly it has not always been this way.</p>
<p>Previous generations created abundance through investments into large scale infrastructure and cutting-edge discoveries that not only improved the conditions of life of people and increased the industrial productive powers of nations <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/12/03/holistic-solutions-to-the-north-american-water-crisis-chinas-new-silk-road-and-nawapa-revisited/">but even increased the abundance of the biosphere</a> itself as we find in such former desert zones of California which were turned into lush agricultural areas through projects like the New Deal and water projects of the 1960s.</p>
<p>But we are told that those days are long gone, and anti-Malthusian leaders like FDR, Enrico Mattei, Charles de Gaulle and JFK have disappeared from the political landscape of western societies.</p>
<p>After 1971, large scale infrastructure investments seized up along with the crash science programs that had defined our earlier breakthroughs with NASA’s funding collapsing from 4.5% of GDP in 1966 to less that 1% in 1976 [see graph].</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46ec9d66-321b-45c3-a1b3-ea0f0c3fb55d_960x720.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46ec9d66-321b-45c3-a1b3-ea0f0c3fb55d_960x720.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt></a></figure><p>Fusion research similar shrivelled up as all research into next generation breakthroughs in science were handicapped throughout the 1970s resulting in the demoralized adage “fusion is always 30 years away” which become a cynical truism.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68fa6295-86e8-444e-9d4d-cd1e2890a7f4_1019x764.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68fa6295-86e8-444e-9d4d-cd1e2890a7f4_1019x764.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt></a></figure><p>With the Malthusian takeover of Trans-Atlantic governments, the world was slowly turned inside out and a former viable industrial economic system was turned into a post-industrial consumer cult whose growth was defined increasingly in purely speculative monetary terms devoid of any actual genuine metrics of value or GDP.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09812661-2984-49c2-9481-739eb8bcf2ed_750x495.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09812661-2984-49c2-9481-739eb8bcf2ed_750x495.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt></a></figure><p>And so now, we find ourselves trapped within a shrinking box of resources, and increased rates of scarcity across all fields that directly support life: energy, healthcare, agriculture. It isn’t that this scarcity is necessary. Even if next generation technological breakthroughs in all domains had not been sabotaged (they were), then even existing technologies and resources, IF organized and used justly, as the new multipolar alliance is doing, could eliminate hunger and want for the currently existent 7.7 billion souls on the earth with relative ease.</p>
<p>However, we don’t want to be merely satisfied with solving the errors in thinking that have brought us into today’s absurd crisis of scarcity, but we want to ensure that such errors are never brough back in the future.</p>
<p>As such, it were expedient to exit for the time being the realm of geopolitics and appreciate the more subtle scientific ideas shaping standard theory physics itself which in turn influence the thinking of both economic, ecological and political science in profound ways since all three “practical” domains derive their legitimacy from concepts of science that are in turn influenced by theories that extend into the largest domains of existence and the smallest domains of subatomic physics.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>NASA’s James Webb Telescope Threatens Big Bang Cosmology</strong></h3>
<p>In June of this year, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=james+webb+telescope+images+challenge+big+bang">NASA’s James Webb telescope</a> began its work scanning the cosmos with a high powered infra red lens providing a measure of clarity and definition to the images of both deep space and our surrounding environment within the solar system unlike anything ever seen before.</p>
<p>However, with new deep penetrating images of the furthest reaches of the cosmos ever photographed, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://mindmatters.ai/2022/08/james-webb-space-telescope-shows-big-bang-didnt-happen-wait/">problems have begun to emerge</a> which are threatening the entire edifice of the already fragile and self-contradictory ivory tower of Standard Model Cosmology.</p>
<p>Images of deep space galaxies which should be few in number, and underdeveloped in form are turning out to be so old (according to the rules of current physics that interpret red shift as a measure of distance and velocity from a point of observation) that current calculations are determining must have existed long before the supposedly 13.77 billion year date which mainstream physicists have agreed the universe was “born” from nothing in the form of the big bang.</p>
<p>Renowned physicist Eric Lerner (author of the 1992 best seller <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://archive.org/details/the-big-bang-never-happened">‘The Big Bang Never Happened’</a>) <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215">had this to say</a> about the crisis and newly published scientific papers which acknowledge the crisis in physics:</p>
<p><em>“Since that hypothesis [big bang theory’] has been defended for decades as unquestionable truth by the vast majority of cosmological theorists, the new data is causing these theorists to panic. “Right now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning,” says Alison Kirkpatrick, an astronomer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, “and wondering if everything I’ve done is wrong.”</em></p>
<p>In this sequal to my previous article “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/08/28/biogeochemistry-and-open-system-thinking-with-vladimir-vernadsky/" target="_blank">Open System Thinking with Vladimir Vernadsky</a>”, I would like to discuss additional evidence for the fallacies underlying Big Bang cosmology which will hopefully liberate our crisis-ridden world from certain poisonous dogmas that have kept the scientific community in a stagnant box for far too long.</p>
<p>This exercise will bring us into an appreciation of some major suppressed discoveries in embryology, life sciences and cosmology during the 19th and 20th centuries and will have us encounter certain scientists with names like Halton Arp, Alexander Gurwitsch, Hans Driesch and Fritz Popp. These names should be known far and wide due to the profound nature of their discoveries into the creative foundations of life, electromagnetism etc. However, due to the infantile period of oligarchism which humanity has struggled with in its still-early stages of life in the universe, these names have remained in obscurity.</p>
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<p>The recently deceased Halton Arp (1927-2013) remains one of the pioneers of modern astrophysics whose observational work during the 1960s formed the bedrock for much of today’s descriptive cosmology. In 1966, Arp published an incredible book called <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/frames.html">“The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies”</a> which catalogued hundreds of cases of anomalous observations which broke the chains of “standard theory cosmology” which was quickly shackling mainstream scientific research. For this work and the decades of advances on these insights, Arp was never forgiven by the scientific establishment and his work at the Carnegie Institute of Washington was ended along with his access to the telescopes needed to conduct his work, while his writings would no longer be published or peer reviewed, forcing him to eventually leave the U.S.A all together.</p>
<p>Even though he recruited a loyal following of students and researchers internationally, his work which totally abolishes the foundations of Big Bang (and implicitly Heat Death) cosmology remains inaccessible for most students of physics and citizens alike.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6684da56-deb4-42b3-952e-ccf8a0d8c972_1000x520.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6684da56-deb4-42b3-952e-ccf8a0d8c972_1000x520.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a></figure><h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>What Did Arp Discover?</strong></h2>
<p>In his decades of fruitful work, Arp tackled the Achilles heal of big bang cosmology by demonstrating that quasars (the furthest and thus oldest objects visible from the earth), do not give off their extremely large red shifts due to the doppler effect which mainstream theorists wish to believe, but actually contain a form of “intrinsic redshift” indicative of their young age as “galactic seedlings” or embryos having only recently been born of more mature parent galaxies in their vicinities. These parent galaxies were found to exhibit redshifts of a much lower magnitude indicating their age and phase of evolution more than serving as any form of indication of the recession or speed from the point of observation as is commonly thought.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 1 A simple example of the Doppler Effect as it expresses red or blue shifting observations</figcaption></figure><p>The importance of maintaining adherence to the Doppler Effect interpretation of redshift (the phenomenon caused by degrees of shifting of spectroscopic data from electromagnetic signatures of various celestial bodies towards the red or towards the ultraviolet part of the spectrum) is due to the fact that linear extrapolations into the past using redshift permits scientists to determine “when” the universe began. In the case of quasars, their redshift is especially important since it’s extreme intensity implies a maximum distance from us putting them onto the supposed “edge” of the universe (beyond which a vast nothingness is assumed to exist).</p>
<p>This assumed distance creates a certain “boundary condition” around which all other metrics of time, relationships and distances of all other visible objects are established. Imposing this bounded, finiteness onto a potentially unbounded, infinite universe has given big bang cosmologists the arrogance to assert in absolute terms that our universe is <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.livescience.com/universe-expansion-atacama-hubble-constant-measurement.html#:~:text=Oldest%20surviving%20light%20reveals%20the%20universe's%20true%20age&amp;text=Ancient%20light%20from%20the%20Big,or%20take%2040%20million%20years.">definitely 13.77 billion years old</a><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn1">[1]</a>. Before the universe exploded onto the scene in the form of the Big Bang from an infinitely dense and small singularity which contained all energy now in existence, these physicists insist that all that existed was an expanse of eternal nothingness and just as National Geographic reported in the opening quote, it will be this nothingness that we are destined to eventually return once more.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 2 The popular model of the universe now hegemonic across the scientific establishment. Everything “before” the light 13.77 billion years ago and “outside” the limited boundaries assumed to exist is essential an infinitely extended ocean of nothing.</figcaption></figure><p> These big bang models have also established with certainty that in only 4.5 billion years the blue shifted Andromeda galaxy near the Milky Way’s Galaxy <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.space.com/43267-milky-way-andromeda-collision-later.html">will smash into us</a><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn2">[2]</a> causing unimaginable destruction.</p>
<p>In his work Arp catalogues hundreds of instances of galaxies who exhibit immensely different redshifts which would suggest incredible distances of hundreds or even thousands of light years of separation from one another and yet whom are consistently bounded by material filaments emitting electromagnetic energy from all across the spectrum. The three cases of the companion galaxies NGC7630 and its companion galaxy taken from x ray and radio wave filters showcases this phenomenon excellently. Each galaxy feature vastly different redshifts implying a separation of over hundreds of millions of light years, but they are undeniably connected by filaments of gas and energy making this interpretation impossible! Additionally we see two extremely redshifted quasars which would imply a distance of thousands of millions of light years more [see figure 4].</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 3 Seyfert galaxy NGC 7603 and its companion high redshift companion galaxy connected by a filament of x ray emitting gas</figcaption></figure><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe48d1c15-d873-48cb-993b-d47e1ab42b0d_1000x737.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe48d1c15-d873-48cb-993b-d47e1ab42b0d_1000x737.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a>
<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 4 Another filter taken of the same galactic anomaly features the redshifts of two young quasars (objects 2 and 3) whose immense redshifts should place them at the edge of the Big Bang universe and yet who obviously sit in between the two companion galaxies.</figcaption></figure><p>During his years of research, Arp accumulated a vast array of quasars which tended to be found in the proximity of parent galaxies either within the filaments themselves connecting galaxies [as featured in images 3 and 4], or in the jet streams emitted by the polar axis of seyfert galaxies (ie: spiral) galaxies [image 5 and 6]</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 5 Galaxy NGC 4258 with two optically active x ray emitting quasars found symmetrically within the conic zones surrounding the parent galaxy’s line of axis.</figcaption></figure><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8de2d312-6fe6-44ae-92cd-e5c624e52df7_1000x674.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8de2d312-6fe6-44ae-92cd-e5c624e52df7_1000x674.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a>
<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 6 Another example of the same common observation taken from the side view of another galaxy</figcaption></figure><p>Keep in mind, most galaxies feature some form of jet streams visible in various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum which also creates vast problems for big bang cosmologists who wish to mainting that galaxies are held “together” by a combination of powerful black holes internally, and vast arrays of “dark matter” and “dark energy” pushing all stuff together. The case of Centaurus A Radio galaxy (featuring filters of other parts of the spectrum) is useful to showcase the point. The fact that vast emissions of new energy is being created by these jet streams including small quasars should not be seen as surprising.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 7  The Centaurus A radio galaxy</figcaption></figure><p>These anomalies demonstrated several revolutionary truths:</p>
<ol data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>That high redshift quasars could not exist on the “edge of our universe” as mainstream scientists imply, but rather must exist in close proximity to the parent galaxy that birthed them</li>
<li>That among the thousands of quasars documented, the expected continuous array of various redshifts one would expect to find in a universe governed by randomness were nowhere to be found. Rather only a handful of harmonically ordered frequencies moving from higher (younger) to lower (older) frequencies in a discrete manner<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn3">[3]</a>. This harmonic character implies an organized state of the universe which favors order over chaos and also specific phases of the quasar’s evolution towards maturity as its parts differentiate and the space time field of the system matures accordingly. [see figure 8]</li>
<li>That since redshift properties were “intrinsic” to their respective galaxies and expressed a signature to said galaxies’ rate of maturation, a process of creative life rather than death and decay fundamentally organize our universe!</li>
</ol><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F838134be-7ccc-44e0-96a7-88549a4df792_1000x753.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F838134be-7ccc-44e0-96a7-88549a4df792_1000x753.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a>
<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 8 This illustration of a side view of a parent galaxy ejecting two high redshift quasars demonstrates their slow motion away from the parent as they evolve lowering their redshifts to become spiral (seyfert) galaxies  </figcaption></figure><p>Describing this process in 2009, Arp wrote:</p>
<p><em>“When quasar-like companions are associated with a parent galaxy they tend to be smaller, higher surface brightness and show emission line activity. In quasars large energies are packed into absurdly small initial volumes. As they evolve they have no place to go except to brighten towards being galaxies and lessening intrinsic redshifts with time. The important point however is that the excess redshift companions are in the process of evolving into more “normal” galaxies and it is the numerical value of the redshifts themselves evolving by steps into smaller values”.</em><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn4"><strong><em>[4]</em></strong></a></p>
<p>When one treats the facts discovered by Arp seriously, we confront the happy reality that evidence points not towards a dying heat death as the ultimate abysmal conclusion of our death-dominated universe, but rather to a universe characterized by life, creativity and directed upward evolution! This is a universe which has more in common to the principles of open system embryology than to the closed system lifeless processes that characterized an engine or randomized “gas theory”, and the second law of thermodynamics (entropy) underlying the statistical logic of big bang cosmology.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>A Fresh Look at Embryology</strong></h2>
<p>Just as astronomers began to discover the fascinating geometries of galaxies at the end of the 19th century, parallel discoveries were being made on the microcosm with new insights into the mechanisms defining the growth of living matter. Embryology was a relatively new field as two opposing schools of thought began to clash in Europe. One school known as vitalism found its champion in the form of the great epigenesist Hans Driesch (1867-1941), the other was called the mechanistic/preformism school led by the figure of Wilhelm Roux (1850-1924).</p>
<p>Both schools were fascinated by the obvious directionality and design expressed by the unfolding of an organism from a fertilized single cell all the way to becoming a fully formed organism.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0874198-d7ed-416e-a919-c53a487ebbd5_660x495.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0874198-d7ed-416e-a919-c53a487ebbd5_660x495.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a></figure><p>In the field of embryology, it was more obvious than any other field that randomness, chaos and chance played no role in this complex yet harmonic process of growth, multiplication and differentiation of cells over the course of an embryo’s existence. What mechanisms determined how the parts would unfold over time as the embryo grew?</p>
<p>An elementary question during this time was: did the parts define the whole or did the whole define the parts? How could we know at what point the undifferentiated cell’s fate becomes sealed by its destiny?</p>
<p>The mechanist school of Roux assumed that one could know only what a cell would do a “moment” before or after one observes it, but that the pathway was assumed generally unknowable beyond this point. The vitalist school of Driesch on the other hand presumed that only the “end phase” of an embryo could be known, but nothing of its individual changes.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2199482-a3e8-49b0-b94b-b7781c2f9a1c_1000x484.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2199482-a3e8-49b0-b94b-b7781c2f9a1c_1000x484.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a></figure><p>To prove his case, Roux began by burning one of the two cells making up a frog zygote which resulted in the eventual formation of a half frog. This incredible experiment implied of course that all information determining the fate of all subsequent phases of embryonic evolution were contained within each of those two original cells. If Driesch were correct, then that single cell should have grown up into a full frog. While this appeared at first to be a “win” for the mechanist school, it wasn’t long enjoyed, as Driesch formulated a new experiment whereby instead of killing one of the two cells of the frog zygote, he used a four celled sea urchin embryo cut in half using a fine baby’s hair which now resulted not in two half organisms as Roux and the mechanists had expected, but rather two fully formed sea urchins!</p>
<p>While these experiments contributed much towards answering some fundamental questions about the mechanism of creative growth, many other questions remained unanswered and still required a few decades for a new generation of scientists to tackle the problem with a fresh perspective. One of the most prominent of these scientists being a brilliant Ukrainian naturalist named Alexander Gurwitsch.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Gurwitsch Takes the Stage</strong></h2>
<p>Rather than simply side with the vitalists or mechanists, Gurwitsch took the best of both schools and added something extra by asking the question “how do cells communicate and harmonize their behaviour in one unifying system”?</p>
<p>Considering that the average human baby comprises approximately 10 trillion cells with 10 million dying and being born with every passing second, and considering that each cell has within it over one million molecular actions/second it is nothing short of a miracle that these trillions of cells can communicate and harmonize with one another, let alone “decide” when an undifferentiated cell should take on a function such as a liver cell, brain cell, heart cell, etc that will define its “destiny”.</p>
<p>Gurwitsch realized that the vast intercommunication of cells could not be accounted for through mere molecular activity or the motion of enzymes from one place to another in the body. Something more had to be occurring. But what?</p>
<p>It was in the period of rich creative development of the 1920s that Gurwitsch configured his famous “onion root experiment” which involved simply configuring two onion roots in a perpendicular set up. While one onion root grew downwards, the other was caused to grow towards it [see image]. When the stems came into close proximity, a 30% increased rate of growth was induced in the first onion stem and it was now obvious that high rate of young cell mitoses occurring at the tip of the stem were accompanied by some form of invisible energy emission inducing the increased growth rate, but what was its nature? What sort of energy was being admitted from one stem to another?</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 9 Alexander Gurwitsch and his original onion root experiment. Two onions (Z1 and Z2) grow perpendicularly with point W representing the point of intersection of the younger root emitted from Z1 and the older root of Z2 separated by a quartz lens blocking the emissions of ultra violet emissions from Z1 to Z2.</figcaption></figure><p>To answer this next question, Gurwitsch tested various quartzes that blocked all but the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum and discovered that the increased cell growth only occurred when UV light was permitted to transmit. Even though no instrumentation would be invented for another 30 years sensitive enough to pick up these ultra weak UV photon emissions, Gurwitsch’s elegant experiment demonstrated what sort of electromagnetic properties were causing living tissues to harmonize!</p>
<p>Gurwitsch termed this newly discovered phenomena “Mitogenetic Radiation” with this idea created several new interconnected fields of 1) molecular morphology, 2) cellular morphology and 3) organismic morphology which all encompassed the concept of Gurwitsch’s “biogenic field”.</p>
<p>Despite an intensive counter operation run by the Rockefeller Foundation which attempted to discredit Gurwitsch under the scientific hack A. Hollaender who intentionally bungled his experiments producing negative results, small networks of committed scientists continued this valuable work<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn5">[5]</a>. Several decades had to pass until A.B. Burkalov, inspired by Gurwitsch’s onion roots, set up a similar experiment using two sets of fertilized fish embryos separated by a glass divider and a small opening- one set of embryos being slightly older than the other. <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8465505_Biophotonic_patterns_of_optical_interactions_between_fish_eggs_and_embryos">Burkalov discovered</a> that as long as the age separating the two sets was not too great, placing each set into proximity caused the younger eggs to speed up in their development greatly. However when the age difference was too far removed beyond a certain bandwidth, the younger eggs grew into malformed mutants<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn6">[6]</a>.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Popp, Montagnier and the Schumann Resonance</strong></h2>
<p>Over the years, this research continued in the fringes of the scientific community with some of the most interesting developments occurring under the guidance of <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/Users/matte/Downloads/A_tribute_to_Fritz_Albert_Popp_on_the_oc.pdf">Fritz Popp who discovered</a> a wide array of ultra weak bio-photon emissions from all forms of life<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn7">[7]</a>. Popp established that coherent photon fields are emitted by all cells and molecules expressing life- each carrying unique signatures and information from that cell across the entire body triggering an intricate array of chemical reactions necessary for the functions of living matter to endure. Working with Walter Nagel, Popp additionally discovered techniques which interpreted the scattering patterns of cell photons in order to adduce information about viral and bacterial infections.</p>
<p>Popp claimed that <em>“every change in the biological field or physiological state of the living system is reflected by a corresponding change of biophoton emission”.</em></p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F245ac18c-1eac-4850-8655-febae2e8d4cd_1000x577.jpeg?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F245ac18c-1eac-4850-8655-febae2e8d4cd_1000x577.jpeg?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a>
<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 10 Fritz Popp (left) and Dr Luc Montagnier (right)</figcaption></figure><p>This work was amplified by the later work by the Nobel Prize winning virologist Dr. Luc Montagnier who discovered how ultra weak photon emissions were not only occurring in the UV range <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230937823_DNA_waves_and_water" target="_blank">but also in the radio wave spectrum</a><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn8" target="_blank">[8]</a>.</p>
<p>Montagnier went even further to measure the frequency of these emissions occurring from DNA which was placed in liquid solutions within test tubes. In these experiments which advanced the work of Jacques Benveniste on water memory, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2020/04/29/dr-luc-montagnier-and-the-coming-revolutions-in-optical-biophysics/">Montagnier discovered</a> how the radio signals emitted from the DNA structured the water molecules in such a manner that even after all traces of the DNA were filtered out of the water, DNA-specific radio signatures continued to be emitted from the liquid solution and even caused a clone replica of the original DNA to be created out of random organelles, proteins and nucleotides when placed within the resonant solution. The only caveat here was that this cloning only occurred under the singular condition that the solution were exposed to a 7.8 Hertz background radiation in the laboratory.<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn9">[9]</a></p>
<p>This 7.8 Hz background radiation is of course the same frequency which characterizes the earth’s natural electromagnetic environment between the ionosphere and surface of the earth itself. This phenomenon was first discovered in 1923 and was given the name Schumann Resonance for its discoverer<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.brmi.online/post/2019/09/20/schumann-resonances-and-their-effect-on-human-bioregulation"> Winfried Otto Schumann</a> (1888-1974)<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftn10">[10]</a>. As Magnetic Resonance Imaging developed in the 1970s, it was also discovered that 7.8 Hz happens to also be the same frequency that the human brain emits when in a calm meditative state. The electromagnetic environment shaped by the earth’s evolving ionosphere, magnetosphere and Van Allen Belts (themselves influenced by the growth of free oxygen over long expanses of time contributing to the ozone layer) not only “tunes” but is tuned in return by the evolving systems of life on the earth leading up to the most advanced yet seen: the human brain.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F464e04f6-dce3-4422-9f43-285d8780b79e_597x380.png?ssl=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F464e04f6-dce3-4422-9f43-285d8780b79e_597x380.png?w=750&amp;ssl=1" alt title></a></figure><h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Re-Uniting the Macro and Microcosmos</strong></h2>
<p>As you can see, the flow of these discoveries has brought us from the macrocosm of galaxies birthing seedling galaxies in the form of quasars within a dense intergalactic and interplanetary medium of plasma (not dark matter or the nebulous dark energy which so many statistical Big Bang Cosmologists assume must exist by virtue of their denial of Arp’s discoveries). We moved from the realm of galaxies into the realm of cellular evolution, and the dynamic equilibrium maintained by the space time of living organisms. We then continued our journey through the electromagnetic properties and fields of life throughout the 20th century until we arrived back at the Schumann resonance defined by the earth’s Van Allen belts, magnetic field and the broader magnetic field shaped by the sun in our small corner of the Milky Way galaxy which is itself just one of billions if not trillions of suns being shaped by our galaxy.</p>
<p>Although it is not well understood, our solar system exists not in “empty space” with planetary bodies falling in random locations orbiting our star, but rather in a densely saturated ocean of plasma and cosmic radiations with harmonic least action pathways defining each pulsating orbit. While each revolution of our star the sun occurs every 365 days, our solar system itself is revolving around the galactic center once <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://interestingengineering.com/the-last-galactic-year-has-taken-us-from-the-jurassic-period-to-today">every 220-250 million years</a> during which time our solar system passes through arms of the Milky Way and bobs above and below the galactic plane. These insights are inferred primarily from measuring the relative rates of radioactive decay in fossil records and the relatively cyclical mass extinction (and mass creation events) which have been archeologically uncovered in recent years.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Figure 11 Various periodic activities discovered in long term activities of the earth have found a correlation to such long term periodic behaviour only occurring on the level of galactic activity illustrated above [image from the Schiller Institute]</figcaption></figure><p>Just as the living organism is a sort of universe unto itself defined by trillions of cellular interactions occurring throughout a life, a galactic body is made up of trillions of stars and many more planetary bodies within each system harmonized by the living space time of that particular galaxy’s phase of evolution from young Quasar seedling to a more advanced mature state such as the blue-shifted Andromeda galaxy which may in fact be MUCH closer than the 2.5 million light years assumed by Big Bang theorists.</p>
<p>From this new and healthier re-framing of the forces and principles at play in our living, creative universe, Andromeda’s blue shift is no longer seen as the rate at which this large galaxy is racing towards our Milky Way where we are destined to collide in 4.5 billion years… but rather becomes seen as indicative of its older, parental relationship to our younger galaxy from which it once gave birth (as well as all other galaxies within our local galactic constellation).</p>
<p>If you haven’t realized it, the two opposing cosmologies currently at odds with each other (open vs closed systems) strike on the very nature of life vs death. Where one system assumes the principle of death to be primary in a universe of decay and entropy, the other paradigm sees life as primary within a universe of creative growth and perfectibility.</p>
<p>So before you find yourself agreeing to the assumption that “scarcity” and “limits to growth” are absolute laws which define our choices going into the 21st century and beyond, it were wise to look at nature itself from this standpoint and ask if it were not MORE NATURAL to leap beyond our mental and physical limits by making discoveries into our potentially unbounded, albeit finite universe and live as though we were made in the image of the creator ?</p>
<p>The author recently delivered a lecture on this topic which can be viewed <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://youtu.be/jIF0E9hm_gE" target="_blank">here</a>:</p>
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</figure><h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Footnotes</strong></h2>
<hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Oldest surviving light reveals the universe’s true age, Rafi Letzter – LiveScience, July 17, 2020</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref2">[2]</a> We Finally Know When Our Milky Way Will Crash Into the Andromeda Galaxy, Mike Wall, Space.com, February 08, 2019</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref3">[3]</a> The redshifts found among quasars do not occur at any randomized interval but tend to occur at specific quantized periodicities implying a higher yet-to-be discovered harmony which Arp termed “harmonic oscillations”. These periodicities are: 0.3, 0.6, 0.96, 1.41 and 1.96 which physicist <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2020/02/26/ray-gallucci-do-quasars-and-redshift-break-big-bang-theory-space-news/">Ray Gallucci discovered to correlate directly</a> with the rates of decreasing density of the quasars on their transformative journey to becoming galaxies</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref4">[4]</a> Halton Arp, C. Fulton, D. Carosati, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.haltonarp.com/articles/intrinsic_redshifts_in_quasars_and_galaxies.pdf">Intrinsic Redshifts in Quasars and Galaxies</a>, 2009</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref5">[5]</a> Describing his visit to Hollaender alongside Fritz Popp in 1985, the eminent mathematician Jonathan Tennenbaum wrote: “Hollaender admitted having been deployed by the Rockefeller Foundation to Russia with the sole purpose to “investigate” Gurwitsch and his laboratory, bringing back the story that Gurwitsch’s experimental technique was allegedly “sloppy” and his results “unreliable”. Hollaender subsequently carried out and published in 1937 his own botched series of experiments, alledgly failing to discover any evidence of Gurwitsch’s radiation. Confronted with Popp’s detailed measurements of mitogenetic radiation using modern photomultiplier instruments, Hollaender admitted, without blinking an eyelash, that he “had always suspected Gurwitsch had been right.” [21st Century Science and Technology, Winter 1998-99 “On the Fate of Gurwitsch’s Work”]</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref6">[6]</a> A.B Burlakov, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8465505_Biophotonic_patterns_of_optical_interactions_between_fish_eggs_and_embryos">Biophotonic patterns of optical interactions between fish eggs and embryos</a>, June 2003Indian journal of experimental biology</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref7">[7]</a> Marco Bischof, A Tribute to Fritz-Albert Popp on his 70th Birthday, Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 46, May 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref8">[8]</a> L. Montagnier, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230937823_DNA_waves_and_water">DNA waves and water</a>, July 2011 Journal of Physics Conference Series</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref9">[9]</a> This story was told in full by this author <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2020/04/29/dr-luc-montagnier-and-the-coming-revolutions-in-optical-biophysics/">in Dr. Luc Montagnier and the Coming Revolutions in Optical Biophysics</a>, Rising Tide Foundation</p>
<p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/08/24/a-look-into-arps-peculiar-galaxies/#_ftnref10" target="_blank">[10]</a> It is worth noting that like the quasar redshifts, the Schumann resonances do not occur in randomized frequencies, but rather in harmonic oscillating maxima of 7.83, 14.1, 20.3, 26.4, and 32.4 Hertz</p>
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<h3 data-sanitized-id="by-matthew-ehret" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">By Matthew Ehret</h3>
<p>Near the end of 2019, signals arrived to Earth from the Voyager 2 spacecraft which have shaken the foundations of modern physics, and brought into question what are the forces and principles shaping the space time of stars within galaxies (and implicitly galaxies within clusters of galaxies). The data which NASA scientists received from Voyager 2 have catapulted mankind’s ability to finally answer the old question of “what is in the “space” between stars or even between galaxies within our universe? As Voyager Project scientist Ed Stone stated:</p>
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<p>“The Voyager probes are showing us how our sun interacts with the stuff that fills most of the space between stars in the milky way Galaxy.”</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-did-voyager-2-encounter" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">What did Voyager 2 encounter?</h2>
<p>As Voyager 2 exited the Heliosphere (the spherical boundary shaped by the sun’s electro-magnetic field) and moved into the interstellar medium on November 5, 2019, the five sensors still functioning on the craft which was launched in 1977 alongside Voyager-1, measuring magnetic field intensity, cosmic radiation flux and plasma density produced surprising results. As the magnetic field intensity from the sun was no longer felt, an ocean of extremely dense cosmic radiation and plasma was encountered. Voyager-2’s results corroborate those same measurements which occurred on the faster moving Voyager-1 when it traversed the Heliosphere in 2012 proving that this was not a “localized phenomenon”.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="800" height="480" data-attachment-id="8418" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/voyager2reac/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/voyager2reac.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="800,480" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="voyager2reac" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/voyager2reac.jpg?fit=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/voyager2reac.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/voyager2reac.jpg?resize=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8418"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">An artistic rendition of the Voyager 1 and 2’s recent exit from the Heliosphere into the interstellar medium</figcaption></figure><p>Cosmic rays are the loose term for all forms of highly energized protons and atomic nuclei which are produced in suns, supernovae and other galaxies. Cosmic radiation pervades the solar system and is mediated with terrestrial activity by the earth’s magnetic field. Some examples of cosmic rays on earth include the aurora borealis, cloud formation which mediates warming and cooling of the earth [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANMTPF1blpQ">discovery by Svensmark and co.</a>], and appears to also coincide with earthquake activity, activation/de-activation of viruses and even may play a significant role in the evolution of species. If you are a layman just encountering this idea, a wonderful introduction to the topic can still be found in the 1957 film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wt5AFjRQo">“The Strange Case of Cosmic Rays”</a> produced by Frank Capra which is as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="279" data-attachment-id="8420" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/earth-sun-plasma/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/earth-sun-plasma.jpg?fit=1400%2C390&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1400,390" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="earth-sun-plasma" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/earth-sun-plasma.jpg?fit=300%2C84&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/earth-sun-plasma.jpg?fit=1000%2C279&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/earth-sun-plasma.jpg?resize=1000%2C279&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8420"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">The sun’s radiation moves not through an empty vacuum, but rather a densely saturated ocean towards the earth. It’s emissions (and those of the broader galactic environment are mediated by the ionosphere, van allan belts and electromagnetic field of the earth as featured in the artistic rendition above.</figcaption></figure><p>Plasmas are sometimes known as the fourth fundamental state of matter (the first three being solid, liquid and gas). When the atoms and molecules making up a gas are induced to lose their electrons (becoming ions), an electrically conducive plasma is produced composed of said ions and free electrons.</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="400" height="328" data-attachment-id="8446" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/plasma_2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/plasma_2.jpg?fit=400%2C328&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="400,328" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="plasma_2" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/plasma_2.jpg?fit=300%2C246&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/plasma_2.jpg?fit=400%2C328&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/plasma_2.jpg?resize=400%2C328&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8446"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Some of the various manifestations of plasma featuring their flux density per cubic meter and temperatures</figcaption></figure></div>
<p>Rather than supposing the interplanetary and interstellar media is composed of “empty” space or “vacuum”, networks of physicists internationally have accumulated bountiful evidence for decades that an ocean of densely saturated plasma and cosmic radiation is the true medium in which our planets move around the sun, and our sun moves through the galactic center of the milky way every 230 million years.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="778" height="538" data-attachment-id="8422" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/nasa-earth-milky-way/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nasa-earth-milky-way.jpg?fit=778%2C538&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="778,538" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="nasa-earth-milky-way" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nasa-earth-milky-way.jpg?fit=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nasa-earth-milky-way.jpg?fit=778%2C538&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nasa-earth-milky-way.jpg?resize=778%2C538&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8422"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">An excellent infographic produced by NASA featuring the trajectory of our sun’s orbit around the galactic center every 230 yeas. Another fascinating cycle featured in this graphic is the solar system’s “wobble” above and below the plane of the Milky way which occurs every 30 million years and coincides with certain mass extinction cycles.</figcaption></figure><p>Some of the most important pioneers in the plasma universe model of solar and galactic space time includes pre-eminent physicists Kristian Birkland, Winston Bostwick, Anthony Peratt and Hannes Alfvén. After winning the 1970 Nobel Prize for his discovery of magneto hydrodynamics, Swedish scientist Hannes Alfvén wrote:</p>
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<p><em>“In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric field and the electric currents. Space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large or very large distances. The currents often <a href="https://www.plasma-universe.com/Pinch">pinch</a> to <a href="https://www.plasma-universe.com/Filamentation">filamentary or surface currents</a>. The latter are likely to give space, as also interstellar and intergalactic space, a cellular structure”</em></p>
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<p>The referenced “pinch” effect describes the natural compression of an electrical conducting filament by magnetic forces. It occurs in lightning, aurora borealis and its use by scientists has borne great fruit in magnetically confined plasmas used in fusion energy research. Many breakthroughs in fusion research have been held back for decades due to the pervasiveness of certain false concepts of “forces”, “vacuums”, “black holes” and “dark matter” prevalent in standard theory cosmology. One of the greatest paradoxes encountered in fusion research has involved naive attempts to overcome the Coulomb barrier.</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="640" height="360" data-attachment-id="8448" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="640,360" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="lapoint_peratt_ulyssest" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lapoint_peratt_ulyssest.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8448"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">One expression of the pinch effect as applied to cosmology by Lapointe, and Afven’s leading student Anthony Peratt</figcaption></figure></div>
<p>Anyone who has ever attempted to “press” the identical polarities of two strong magnets together will have a visceral idea of the Coulomb barrier. This difficulty increases as the proximity of the magnets is reduced. In the atomic world where the “fusing” of two helium atoms or hydrogen isotopes requires that positively charged nuclei from two atoms occupy one and the same space in order to transmute and release alot of energy in the process, this obstacle is amplified by many orders of magnitude.</p>
<p>Without a concept of the organized harmonics which pervades plasmas which researchers like Bostwick, Alfven, Anthony Peratt et al have proven exist, then the only path to attaining fusion is through brute force as seen by pounding nuclei together, and super-heating and speeding up their motion in giant tokamak reactors. However, when dealing with plasmas, and the electro-magnetic dynamics of Birkeland currents we are now dealing with frequencies, pulses, and wavelengths that can amplify or de-amplify, create consonances or dissonances with measurable observable effects. In this sense, space actually has more in common with a symphony than with kinetic objects emiting “forces” in a vacuum.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="900" height="627" data-attachment-id="8450" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1.jpg?fit=900%2C627&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="900,627" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1.jpg?fit=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1.jpg?fit=900%2C627&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jet_tokamak_plasma_overlay_1.jpg?resize=900%2C627&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8450"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">An inside view of the European JET Tokamak featuring an image of super heated plasma confined by strong magnetic fields at right</figcaption></figure><h2 data-sanitized-id="anthony-peratt-s-galactic-insight" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Anthony Peratt’s Galactic Insight</h2>
<p>One of the leading figures of the plasma universe school is Anthony Peratt (a leading physicists at the <em>Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics</em> and close collaborator with Hannes Alfvén), who generated an incredible model of spiral galaxy structures forming within a charged plasma which he conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It has long been observed that plasmas have a tendency to create minuscule steady state superstructures like vortices and spheres (called “solitons” for their likeness to the sun). These observed structures form in plasmas for reasons that have not yet been fully ascertained and endure for very short intervals of time. In spite of their mysteriously short duration, they do exist and cannot be accounted for under any mathematical analysis that features Newtonian concepts of empty space and self-evident “masses” or “forces”.</p>
<p>Pratt took these observations to a new level of cosmology when he began to apply the results of two spherical plasmas “pinched” by two magnetic Birkeland filaments of 10 (to the 18) amperes. In his 1986 paper “<a href="http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/Peratt86TPS-II.pdf">Evolution of the Plasma Universe II: The Formation of Systems of Galaxies</a>“, Peratt published several simulations which are featured under the M81 spiral galaxy image below.</p>
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<p>While this evolution of two adjacent plasma spheres into a fully formed microscopic spiral galaxy endures for mere picoseconds under Peratt’s models whereas the evolution of actual galaxies takes billions of years, the fact that the plasma universe model generates such analogues to the macro verse is incredible. It is merely the matter of SCALE of physical space time which differs in both cases but the qualitative effects are the same.</p>
<p>What is also extraordinary is that this model doesn’t rely on any recourse to the imposition of imaginary entities like black holes, or dark matter to account for the galaxy’s structure as mainstream mathematical physicists have been forced to do!</p>
<p>In another fascinating experiment, Peratt used information from three radio telescopes to form models of double radio galaxies and found similar analogies of the evolution of these galactic structures within laboratory plasmas as documented in his paper <a href="http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1990IAUS..140..143P&amp;db_key=AST&amp;page_ind=0&amp;plate_select=NO&amp;data_type=GIF&amp;type=SCREEN_GIF&amp;classic=YES">3 Dimensional Spiral Cell Simulations of Spiral Galaxies</a>. Peratt’s simulations generated identical macro-structures in his laboratory as those same double radio galaxies observed in the universe.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="672" height="419" data-attachment-id="8456" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/radio-galaxy-simulation/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/radio-galaxy-simulation.png?fit=672%2C419&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="672,419" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="radio-galaxy-simulation" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/radio-galaxy-simulation.png?fit=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/radio-galaxy-simulation.png?fit=672%2C419&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/radio-galaxy-simulation.png?resize=672%2C419&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8456"></figure><p>Peratt has been very clear that popular difficulty to accept this principled pathway in physics is connected to the poisonous effects of Newtonian assumptions of empty space and matter on the minds of many of today’s leading scientists and stated as much recently when he said:</p>
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<p>“Space, being the most voluminous of the cosmos, when treated as pure vacuum, gives a false sense that most of the universe is in a known state, the only unknowns being the point-like masses occupying Newton’s universe. The discovery of the complexity of the planetary plasma magnetospheres proved that space is plasma with an electrodynamic complexity that exceeds that of the first three states of matter.” </p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="as-above-so-as-below" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">As Above so as Below</h2>
<p>Peratt’s identification of Newtonian assumptions as the core mental crutch holding back researchers in the fields of cosmology, and atomic physics alike is incredibly important.</p>
<p>A few words would be appropriate to here clarify how and why these Newtonian assumptions crept into modern science when those brilliant physicists like Max Planck and Einstein who revolutionized both domains over a century ago were not only un-encumbered by Newton’s assumptions, but in fact shattered them brilliantly. Throughout their lives, both men stated applied not the method of Newton in their creative work, but rather Johannes Kepler whose work on the <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/johannes-kepler/">New Astronomy (1609), On the Six Sided Snowflake (1609) and Harmonice Mundi (1619)</a> not only created the basis for a modern astrophysics establishing Kepler’s three laws (later plagiarised by the <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/venice-and-leibniz-the-battle-for-a-science-of-economy/">Bank of England’s autistic kaballist Isaac Newton</a>), but set that new physics upon the foundations of musical harmony.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="409" data-attachment-id="8466" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/kepler-musical-solar-system-model/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kepler-musical-solar-system-model.png?fit=1134%2C464&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1134,464" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="kepler-musical-solar-system-model" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kepler-musical-solar-system-model.png?fit=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kepler-musical-solar-system-model.png?fit=1000%2C409&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kepler-musical-solar-system-model.png?resize=1000%2C409&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8466"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Johannes Kepler’s 3 planetary laws unshackled physics from mysticism and relied on a musical insight outlined in his 1619 masterpiece featuring his model of the solar system above. The fact that his 3rd Law was the effect of this theory should cause the sceptic to think twice before dismissing Kepler’s insight as rubbish.</figcaption></figure><p>It is not uncommon for a mathematician to freak out when confronting the argument that the laws of macro-physics are in harmony with the laws of micro-physics, or even that the inner subjective world of mankind is in harmony with the outer subjective universe. One could imagine a statistical probability theorist exclaim: <em>“Everyone knows that 20th century quantum mechanics has proven that the random, chaotic laws of the microcosm are entirely incompatible with the pre-deterministic laws of gravitation, electricity, etc dominant in the macrocosm!”</em></p>
<p>Well, if Neils Bohr, Heisenberg, Paoli and the Copenhagen School interpretation of the quantum which took over the narrative of quantum mechanics at the turn of the century is correct then this claim is certainly true, and there is no point in searching for discoverable principles that unify the universe within mankind’s mind. Although adherents to the Copenhagen interpretation assert this schism to be an absolute truth beyond which no mind can pass, the irony is that this very school is celebrated for having “disproven” the notion of causality or truthfulness all together! If anything, the micro and macro worlds may only be united under the presumed “irrationalism and statistical probability” which governed the inner universe of Bohr’s own mind [See Billington, Michael <a href="https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_91-96/943_tao.html">‘Taoist Perversion of 20th Century Science</a>, Fidelio, 1994].</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="724" data-attachment-id="8469" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1.jpg?fit=1400%2C1013&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1400,1013" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1.jpg?fit=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C724&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-solvay-conference-probably-the-most-intelligent-picture-ever-taken-1927-1.jpg?resize=1000%2C724&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8469"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">The 5th Solvay Conference of 1927 featured an all-out battle between two opposing schools of physics over how the paradoxes of the quantum domain should be treated. On the one hand, actual creative scientists who made sincere breakthroughs such as Planck, Marie Curie, Lorenz and Einstein defended the idea of causality and truth while the new breed of statistical probability theorists of the Copenhagen School of Bohr, Heisenberg, Paoli et al asserted the contrary. Unfortunately for 20th century, the “old guard” scientists were discarded as obsolete and naive.</figcaption></figure><p>However, the question should be asked: what if those founding fathers of today’s quantum physics such as Albert Einstein and Max Planck <strong><em>were right</em></strong> in their assertion that the new breed of statistical probability theorists of the Copenhagen school were wrong to deny causality and truth? What if Einstein was right in stating that “God doesn’t play dice with the universe”?</p>
<p>Perhaps the lack of progress in fusion research or fundamental discoveries in general over the 20th century had something to do with the abandonment of a fruitful method of thinking which Einstein, Planck and other great souls understood…</p>
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<figure data-sanitized-class="aligncenter size-large"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="604" height="434" data-attachment-id="8428" data-permalink="https://risingtidefoundation.net/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg.jpg?fit=604%2C434&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="604,434" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg" data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg.jpg?fit=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg.jpg?fit=604%2C434&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/einstein_planck_in_1931-jpg.jpg?resize=604%2C434&amp;ssl=1" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-8428"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">Einstein and Planck</figcaption></figure></div>
<p>Speaking against the abandonment of causality, Planck argued in his 1935 Philosophy <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/philosophy-of-physics_full.pdf">of Physics</a> that:</p>
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<p><em>“the reason why the measurements of atomic physics are inexact need not be looked for necessarily in any failure of causality. <strong>It may equally well consist in the formulation of faulty concepts and hence inappropriate questions.</strong>“</em></p>
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<p>In the same essay, Planck argued that the corruption of science (which has become much deeper 80 years later) was tied to two fundamental errors:</p>
<p>1) The imposition of mathematics into the dominant position above physics which induced scientists to try to “fit” physical reality into the limited (and often wrong) cage of their mathematical language and…</p>
<p>2) The tendency to break the subjective mind of the scientist out of the equation of the objective universe which that person’s mind was investigating. On this point, Planck said:</p>
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<p>“In dealing with the structure of any science, a reciprocal inter-connection between epistemological judgements and judgements of value was found to arise, and that no science can be wholly disentangled from the personality of the scientists.”</p>
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<p>Towards the end of his life, Max Planck strove passionately to re-infuse scientific practice with the sense of honesty and love which animated the greatest discoveries of human history including his own discoveries of the quantum and Planck’s constant.</p>
<p>In both his incredible works “Philos<a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/philosophy-of-physics_full.pdf">ophy of Physics” (1935)</a> and <a href="https://archive.org/details/whereissciencego00plan_0/mode/2up">“Where is Science Going?” (1932), Planck makes the point that the wave-par</a>ticle duality paradox can only be resolved by infusing a sense of the mind of the inquirer into the equation and removing the conceptual wall dividing observed from observer.</p>
<p>To clarify the wave-particle paradox and Planck’s resolution:</p>
<p>Unlike a planet or other projectile, a light photon’s velocity and position cannot be simultaneously measured (for the moment one attempts to “see” a photon, those photons “hitting” the observed “object” to be returned back to the eye of the observer change that object’s position). Planck states that the resolution to this must be found not in lazily assuming that light must simply have two opposing identities of wave and particle, nor that the truth of its essence cannot be known, but rather that the very definitions of wave, particle, as well as mind itself must be refined by treating the matter of free will scientifically… for this is the only known case other than an observed photon, whereby the act of observing, changes that which is observed. Planck states:</p>
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<p>“We may perhaps deal with free will. Looked at subjectively, the will, in so far as it looks to the future, is not causally determined, because any cognition of the subject’s will itself acts causally upon the will, so that any definitive cognition of a fixed causal nexus is out of the question. In other words, we might say that looked at from outside (objectively), the will is causally determined, and that looked at from inside (subjectively) it is free.”</p>
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<p>Planck described the role of creative thought in this process most beautifully when he said:</p>
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<p>“A good working hypothesis is essential for any investigation. This being so, we are faced with the difficult question how we are to set about to find the most suitable hypothesis. For this there can be no general rule. Logical thought by itself does not suffice- not even where it has an exceptionally large and manifold body of experience to aid it. The only possible method consists in immediately gripping the problem or in seizing up on some happy idea. <strong>Such an intellectual leap can be executed only by a lively and independent imagination and by a strong creative power, guided by an exact knowledge of the given facts so that it follows the right path.</strong>“</p>
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<p>While Planck was an accomplished pianist, Einstein spoke relentlessly on the importance of his soul’s adherence to classical music and his love of playing Mozart on his violin. Both men played music together frequently, <a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2013/eirv40n02-20130111/18-19_4002.pdf">and both testified</a> to the vital role of classical music’s performance in allowing them to leap beyond the constraints of logical deductive/inductive reasoning (aka: formal mathematics) which had prevented them from formulating fruitful hypotheses.</p>
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<p>“The theory of relativity occurred to me by intuition, and music is the driving force behind this intuition. My parents had me study the violin from the time I was six. <strong>My new discovery is the result of musical perception.</strong>“</p>
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<p>In another essay, Einstein went even further to describe the role of a causality in a Bach fugue as a master key to unlock the mathematically unsolvable problems of the quantum and causality more generally:</p>
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<p>“I believe that events in nature are controlled by a much stricter and closely binding law than we suspect today, when we speak of one event being the cause of another. Our concept here is confined to one happening within one time section. It is dissected from the whole process. Our present rough way of applying the causal principle is quite superficial… We are like a child who judges a poem by its rhyme, and not by its rhythm. Or, we are like a juvenile learner at the piano just relating one note to that which immediately precedes or follows. To an extent, this may be all very well, when one is dealing with simple compositions; <strong>but it will not do for the interpretation of a Bach fugue. Quantum physics has presented us with very complex processes, and to meet them, we must further enlarge and refine our concept of causality.”</strong></p>
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<p>To this author’s knowledge, nowhere was this idea best expressed in our modern age then in the short 17 minute video Is the Past Fixed?</p>
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<p>This may seem like a deviation from our original theme of a plasma universe, however that is not so. The only reason why science’s natural creative evolution was artificially de-railed during the 20th century, such that fusion power was not achieved on schedule and revolutionary discoveries on par with those of the late 19th-early 20th century failed to occur were due to the failure of leading scientists, artists and philosophers to follow the superior method of creative discovery utilised lovingly by the likes of Planck and Einstein.</p>
<p>Instead of a new age of discoveries in space travel, peaceful development and atomic discoveries as envisioned by the followers of John F. Kennedy, the 20th century saw the formation of a new scientific priesthood and transformation into a consumer cult society attempting to forever “live in the elusive now”… ignorant of the past, fearful of the future and disdainful towards human nature.</p>
<p>So as mankind’s understanding begins to penetrate beyond the limits of the heliosphere and into inter-stellar space, and as new discoveries are made into the secret world of the atom, let us be reminded of the wise words of Planck who said:</p>
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<p>“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature, and that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature, and therefore, part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. Music and art are, to an extent, also attempts to solve, or at least express that mystery. But to my mind, the more we progress with either, the more we are brought into harmony with all nature itself. And that is one of the great services of science to the individual.”</p>
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-27/China-France-issue-joint-statement-on-climate-change-1C55f8nD2z6/img/969c05a365bb4207a68268724552a8bb/969c05a365bb4207a68268724552a8bb-750.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>China and France issued a joint statement on climate change on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Thursday in Beijing.</p>
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<p><strong>Joint Statement between the People's Republic of China and the French Republic on Climate Change on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Paris Agreement</strong></p>
<p>The People's Republic of China and the French Republic (hereinafter referred to as "the two sides"):</p>
<p><em>Considering</em> the urgency of responding to the climate crisis and its impact on ecosystem, civil society and global economy,</p>
<p><em>Recognizing</em> the indispensable role of international cooperation in implementing the three Rio Conventions, the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals,</p>
<p><em>Reiterating</em> the strong commitments to enhance international cooperation on climate change and uphold multilateralism, and the firm support for the Paris Agreement and its temperature goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,</p>
<p><em>Reaffirming</em> the role of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement as the fundamental legal basis and main channel for international cooperation on addressing climate change, with the aim of enhancing global climate governance guided by the principles of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, including the principle of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances,</p>
<p><em>Emphasizing</em> that the Paris Agreement charts the course for the world to transition to green and low-carbon development and has driven near-universal climate action, welcoming the progress on combating climate change with the implementation of the Paris Agreement,</p>
<p><em>Underlining</em> that, as stated by the outcome of the first global stocktake, the collective achievement of the purpose and principles of the Paris Agreement and its long-term goals even more requires all parties to inject political impetus into the international cooperation on jointly fighting climate change,</p>
<p><em>Emphasizing</em> the importance of dialogue between the two sides to address global challenges, in line with the outcomes of the 2019 Beijing Call for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change and the joint statement of China and France on strengthening biodiversity and ocean cooperation from Kunming-Montreal to Nice agreed by President Xi Jinping and President Emmanuel Macron on May 6, 2024.</p>
<p>In the run-up to the third United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice and on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the two sides commit to:</p>
<p>1. <em>Implementing</em> the Paris Agreement in a comprehensive, complete and effective manner<em>,</em> informed by the outcome of the first global stocktake. The two sides will enhance cooperation on energy efficiency and decarbonization in the areas of energy, industry, transportation and buildings, including making continuous efforts to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, and actively pushing forward green and low-carbon socio-economic transformation.</p>
<p>2. <em>Providing</em> appropriate solutions to major challenges of the era within multilateral framework. The regression of certain countries from scientific consensus and their withdrawal from multilateral institutions will only strengthen our determination and actions. The two sides reaffirm their commitment to take and accelerate collective actions, on the basis of the best available science, taking into account different national circumstances.</p>
<p>3. <em>Enhancing</em> coordination in the run-up to the thirtieth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 30), in support for Brazilian presidency to deliver the decisive conference a full success, strengthening coordinated efforts and enhanced communication about their respective upcoming new ambitious NDCs which will cover all economic areas and greenhouse gases, and be aligned with the Paris Agreement goals, while reaffirming the nationally determined nature of NDCs, and recalling Articles 2, 3 and 4 of the Paris Agreement.</p>
<p>4. <em>Supporting</em> climate actions. The two sides stress that climate actions could provide opportunities for global economy in the fields of investment, financing, competitiveness, innovation, employment and economic growth, as well as benefiting people in improving living standards and health conditions, facilitating decent work, sustainable food systems and affordable energy.</p>
<p>5. <em>Advancing</em> the implementation of the decision on new collective quantified goal on climate finance (NCQG) adopted at COP29.</p>
<p>6. <em>Protecting</em> biodiversity and ecosystems. Recognizing the synergy between climate crisis and biodiversity loss, the two sides will work together to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and protect ecosystems. The two sides reaffirm their commitment at COP26 to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030. The two sides are committed to promote Nature-Based Solutions.</p>
<p>7. <em>Strengthening</em> global marine conservation in accordance with the joint statement of China and France on strengthening biodiversity and ocean cooperation: from Kunming-Montreal to Nice. China will support France in holding a successful United Nations Ocean Conference (June 9-13 2025, Nice, France) in the most ambitious manner. The two sides are working toward the early entry into force of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement).</p>

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<p>A total of 27 awards will be presented at the 2nd edition of the Golden Panda Awards in September this year.</p>
<p>The organizing committee has announced that submissions are now open worldwide, and an awards ceremony will be held to unveil the winners in four categories — Documentary, Animation, TV Drama and Film.</p>
<p>The aim of the awards is to build a global community with a shared future through film and television. The Golden Panda Awards is committed to promoting cross-cultural exchanges.</p>
<p>Held every two years in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, the event is organized by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Sichuan provincial government.</p>
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title: Vietnam&amp;#039;s Mid-Autumn Festival: A festive celebration for children
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<p>The Mid-Autumn Festival, traditionally observed on the 15th day of the eighth month of the traditional Chinese calendar, is a time-honored celebration not only in China but also in neighboring Vietnam. While sharing cultural roots with China, Vietnam has developed its own unique traditions that make the festival a joyful occasion centered around children.</p>
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<p>In the days leading up to the festival, markets bustle with festive delights. Alongside mooncakes, stalls are filled with colorful masks and an array of lanterns, including the iconic star-shaped and carp-shaped designs, which are especially beloved by children.</p>
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<p>As night falls, the streets come alive in a dazzling display of lights and laughter. Children parade through the neighborhoods carrying lanterns of all shapes and sizes, their joyful voices echoing under the glowing moon. Many lanterns, some imported from China, are adorned with auspicious characters symbolizing "good fortune" and "happiness," as well as classic Chinese poems celebrating the beauty of the season.</p>
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<p>Beyond family reunions, the festival is a cherished tradition that preserves cultural heritage and strengthens generational bonds. It offers children not only festive joy but also a connection to their roots, bridging the past and future through celebration.</p>
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title: Israel in political storm as Gaza war resumes
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-27/Israel-in-political-storm-as-Gaza-war-resumes-1C56efCVXtm/img/cfe073d99e374734a0e0011a0c2d5100/cfe073d99e374734a0e0011a0c2d5100-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Israel has found itself in a political upheaval in the midst of a reignited Gaza war after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial decisions have triggered some of the biggest protests in the country.</p>
<p>Late on the evening of Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis – from the bustling streets of Tel Aviv to the ancient avenues of Jerusalem – took to the sidewalks in protest. Their unified outcry was sparked by Netanyahu's decision to dismiss Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet, amid allegations that the domestic intelligence chief was probing corrupt financial ties involving top aides and the Qatari government.</p>
<p>Critics argue that the move is not a measure to enhance national security, as Netanyahu claims, but rather an attempt to silence investigations that threaten to expose deep-rooted corruption within his administration.</p>
<p>Bar's dismissal, defended by Netanyahu as a necessary step to "restore trust" within the state's security apparatus, has instead inflamed public anger. In a defiant letter, Bar accused the government of providing no concrete evidence for his removal and warned that such an action would cripple the Shin Bet's ability to function effectively at a time when its work is more critical than ever. He argued that the timing of his ouster was designed to derail the ongoing probe which seeks to uncover illicit financial arrangements that may have compromised national security.</p>
<p>The decision to dismiss him, however, has been halted by the supreme court, which says it needs to first hear petitions filed by the opposition. Disputing the court order, Netanyahu said the government gets to decide who will be the head of the Shin Bet.</p>
<p>Bar's supporters, along with numerous opposition figures, contend that dismissing him is a direct attack on the democratic process, as it undermines one of the country's few checks on executive power.</p>
<p>This internal power struggle is the latest chapter in a long-standing ideological battle in Israel. For years, the country has been locked in a tug-of-war between right-wing forces that favor a more politically driven judiciary and those who believe in the absolute independence of legal institutions as the bulwark of democracy. The Israeli left has long accused the Netanyahu government of attempting to overhaul the judiciary, a body the prime minister and his allies say has been dominated by left-wing elites since the country's foundation.</p>
<p>A recent cabinet vote to initiate a no-confidence motion against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has also deepened the divide. Baharav-Miara, who has consistently challenged government decisions she deems illegal, now faces an impeachment process spearheaded by Justice Minister Yariv Levin. Opposition leaders, including former Prime Minister Yair Lapid, have warned that if Netanyahu persists in his efforts to neutralize dissenting voices within state institutions, the country could face unprecedented civil disobedience – a general strike that could bring daily life to a halt.</p>
<p>Adding fuel to the fire, renewed military operations in Gaza have intensified the nation's collective anxiety. After a two-month ceasefire collapsed, Israeli airstrikes resumed with brutal force, leaving a trail of civilian casualties and further galvanizing the protesters. Families of hostages still held in Gaza joined the demonstrations, their anguish and frustration echoing through chants for an immediate ceasefire and a fair hostage exchange.</p>
<p>The intertwinement between anti-war activists and those protesting recent government decisions has captured the sentiment of a populace torn between the desperate need for peace and the growing fear that internal divisions are weakening the nation from within.</p>
<p>A recent poll by Israeli TV Channel 12 revealed that 63 percent of Israelis now fear for the future of the country's democracy. Even among those who voted for Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, 37 percent said they are concerned about where Israel's democratic institutions are headed.</p>
<p>As the country teeters on the edge of what some critics warn could be a constitutional crisis, the supreme court is set to rule on both Bar's dismissal and the impeachment motion against Baharav-Miara. These legal battles are likely to define Israel's political landscape for years to come, determining whether the nation will continue on its current path or reassert the checks and balances that the Israeli left has been defending.</p>

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title: Wildcard Alexandra Eala stuns Iga Swiatek to reach Miami Open semis
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<div readability="8" data-sanitized-class="cmsImage"><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-27/Wildcard-Alexandra-Eala-stuns-Iga-Swiatek-to-reach-Miami-Open-semis-1C4Mg5VBB2E/img/fb5fff4c11c042cfb832d3739e4294cb/fb5fff4c11c042cfb832d3739e4294cb.jpeg" alt="Alexandra Eala of the Philippines reacts after defeating Iga Swiatek of Poland 6-2. 7-5 in the women's singles match at the Miami Open in Miami, Florida, March 26, 2025. /VCG" layout="responsive"><div readability="14" data-sanitized-class="imageCaption">
<p>Alexandra Eala of the Philippines reacts after defeating Iga Swiatek of Poland 6-2. 7-5 in the women's singles match at the Miami Open in Miami, Florida, March 26, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Alexandra Eala of the Philippines reacts after defeating Iga Swiatek of Poland 6-2. 7-5 in the women's singles match at the Miami Open in Miami, Florida, March 26, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Philippine wildcard Alexandra Eala pulled off the biggest win of her young career with a stunning 6-2, 7-5 upset of Polish world No. 2 Iga Swiatek on Wednesday to extend her dream run at the Miami Open into the semifinals.</p>
<p>The big-hitting 19-year-old showed no signs of being intimidated playing against one of her idols and was instead a picture of poise as she dismantled Swiatek's serve early on to grab control of the match and never looked back.</p>
<p>"I don't know what to say, I mean, complete just disbelief right now and I am on cloud nine," Eala said in her on-court interview. "It's forever in my heart."</p>
<p>Swiatek, who was playing the match with added security after being verbally abused by a spectator at the weekend, failed to hold serve throughout the first set while Eala was swinging freely as she unleashed winners from all over the court.</p>
<p>Five-times Grand Slam champion Swiatek hit a staggering 19 unforced errors in the opening set and then received some advice from her coach before briefly leaving the court.</p>
<p>In the second set Eala managed to overturn a 4-2 deficit and then held her nerve while Swiatek tried to serve out the set at 5-4 before ultimately closing it out with her eighth break of the match.</p>
<p>The victory over Swiatek marked the third Grand Slam winner Eala has knocked out of the women's draw after earlier wins over Australian Open champion Madison Keys and 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko.</p>
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<p>Arthur Fils of France reacts after defeating Alexander Zverev of Germany 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the men's singles match at the Miami Open in Miami, Florida, March 26, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Arthur Fils of France reacts after defeating Alexander Zverev of Germany 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the men's singles match at the Miami Open in Miami, Florida, March 26, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>On the men's side, top seed Alexander Zverev was upset by Arthur Fils 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 as the rising Frenchman made the quarterfinals of a Masters 1000 tournament for the second straight occasion after doing so at Indian Wells earlier this month.</p>
<p>The towering German crushed an ace to capture the first set but the 17th-seeded Fils turned the tables in the second, securing an early break and smacking a cross-court winner to level the contest.</p>
<p>Zverev broke for a 3-1 lead in the decider but then began to struggle with his accuracy as his normally trusty backhand failed him at critical moments while his opponent began to feed off the energy of the crowd.</p>
<p>Fils, 20, confidently served out the match to set up a quarterfinal showdown with 19-year-old Jakub Mensik of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p>"In the third set I thought it was over almost, 3-1, he's serving great," Fils said after the match, which had been postponed a day due to rain. But I said don't get mad, just try to play as much as you can, try to fight and if you make a break, it's nice. And it happened."</p>
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title: Liu and Han of China make big air freeski final at World Championships
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<p>Liu Mengting of China competes in the women's big air freeski event at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in the Engadin region, Switzerland, March 26, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Liu Mengting of China competes in the women's big air freeski event at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in the Engadin region, Switzerland, March 26, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Liu Mengting and Han Linshan of China both qualified for the women's big air freeski final at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in the Engadin region, Switzerland, on Wednesday.</p>
<p>A total of four Chinese athletes participated in the qualification competitions. Liu came in fourth with 166.25 points. Han was in the eighth place with 158.75 points. Both will appear in the final on Thursday. Their compatriots, Yang Ruyi and Xiong Wenhui, came in 12th and 23rd respectively, disqualified for the final.</p>
<p>2025 Asian Winter Games women's big air snowboard gold medalist Xiong Shirui of China failed to advance to the event's final at the World Championships in Engadin. She received 52.75 points in her first run and surpassed 60 in both the second and third tries. In the end, Xiong came in 14th with 130.25 points.</p>
<p>Despite the result, Xiong said she's basically satisfied with her performance.</p>
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title: South Sudan&amp;#039;s first vice president under house arrest
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-27/news-1C5aOEDYRyw/img/5cfd95370754420aa3b03a9b89d5280d/5cfd95370754420aa3b03a9b89d5280d-750.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>South Sudanese First Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest in the national capital of Juba on Wednesday night as the United Nations mission in the country called for restraint.</p>
<p>"Following reports tonight of the detention of First Vice President Riek Machar, the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) calls on all parties to exercise restraint and uphold the Revitalized Peace Agreement," Nicholas Haysom, special representative of the UN secretary-general to South Sudan and head of UNMISS, said in a statement.</p>
<p>Haysom said the unilateral amendments by the parties to that agreement jeopardize the hard-won gains of the past seven years and risk returning the country to a state of war.</p>
<p>"This will not only devastate South Sudan but also affect the entire region," he warned in the statement issued Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Haysom called on the parties to immediately cease hostilities and engage in constructive dialogue that puts the best interests of their people at the forefront of this pivotal moment for the country.</p>
<p>"Tonight, the country's leaders stand on the brink of relapsing into widespread conflict or taking the country forward toward peace, recovery, and democracy in the spirit of the consensus that was reached in 2018 when they signed and committed to implementing a Revitalized Peace Agreement," he said.</p>
<p>Reath Muoch Tang, acting chairperson of the National Committee on Foreign Relations for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), condemned the arrest as a violation of the 2018 peace agreement that formed the unity government.</p>
<p>Tang said the defense minister and chief of national security were in the convoy that delivered an arrest warrant to Machar, along with more than 20 heavily armed vehicles that forcibly entered his residence.</p>
<p>"His bodyguards were disarmed, and an arrest warrant was delivered to him under unclear charges. Attempts are currently being made to relocate him," Tang said in a statement on Wednesday night.</p>
<p>He said the arrest was a "blatant" violation of the constitution and the Revitalized Peace Agreement, as no legal procedures, such as lifting his immunity, were followed.</p>
<p>Earlier on Wednesday, UNMISS, in a separate statement, called for an immediate cessation of hostilities and urgent dialogue between the country's leaders to de-escalate tensions and restore calm.</p>
<p>In the previous 24 hours, clashes have reportedly taken place between the South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army-in-Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) near Juba, according to the UN.</p>
<p>"We encourage the president and first vice president to lead efforts to prevent further military confrontation and restore calm by meeting to resolve differences and making a joint public statement reassuring all South Sudanese of their shared commitment to peace," Haysom said.</p>
<p>The UN mission said the situation in Upper Nile State also remains volatile, with reports of further mobilization of armed forces and aerial bombardment of civilian areas, allegedly using devices containing a highly flammable liquid that acts as an accelerant on explosion, causing significant casualties and horrific injuries.</p>
<p>UNMISS added that intensive diplomatic efforts are underway to broker a peaceful solution.</p>
<p>South Sudan, which became independent in 2011, signed a peace deal in 2018 that ended a civil war between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and Machar. Nearly 400,000 people died in the civil war.</p>
<p>Relations between Kiir and Machar, who have dominated South Sudan's politics for decades, remain strained. The clashes and latest political tensions between the two leaders have unsettled many citizens and the international community.</p>

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title: China&amp;#039;s An Xiangyi makes debut at World Figure Skating Championships
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<p>An Xiangyi of CHina performs in the women's free skating event at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Figure Skating Championships in the women's free skating event in Boston, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>An Xiangyi of China made her debut at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Figure Skating Championships in the women's free skating event in Boston, Massachusetts, on Wednesday.</p>
<p>There has been no Chinese skater performing in the women's singles event in four editions of the past tournaments until the 18-year-old rising star. She won the National Championships when she was just 13, and finished sixth at the Junior World Championships at 15.</p>
<p>An skated to French song "Voila" in the short program, but failed on her landing several times to come away with 47.52 points, which placed her 27th and out of the free skating picture.</p>
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title: Jiang Xinyu, Wu Fang-Hsien advance to Miami Open semifinals
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<p>Jiang Xinyu of China and Wu Fang-Hsien of Chinese Taipei reached the women's doubles semifinals at the Miami Open in Miami, Flordia, on Wednesday with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Chinese pair Wang Xinyu and Zheng Saisai.</p>
<p>Jiang and Wu served four aces and converted four of five break points to prevail in an hour and 20 minutes. Wang and Zheng won 70 percent of their first-serve points but were let down by a series of unforced errors at crucial moments.</p>
<p>Jiang and Wu will meet Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider of Russia on Saturday for a place in the final at stake. The Russian pair progressed by overcoming Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia and Peyton Stearns of the United States 5-7, 6-3, 10-4 in the quarterfinals.</p>
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title: Devils end three-game losing streak with 5-3 win over the Blackhawks
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<p>Players of the New Jersey Devils celebrate after scoring a goal in the game against the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, March 26, 2025. /AP</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Players of the New Jersey Devils celebrate after scoring a goal in the game against the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, March 26, 2025. /AP</p>
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<p>Luke Hughes had three assists while Jesper Bratt chipped in with two as the New Jersey Devils ended their three-game losing streak with a 5-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Nathan Bastian, Timo Meier, Ondrej Palat, Dawson Mercer and Stefan Noesen scored for the Devils. Bratt has four assists in his last three games and a career-high 84 points this season. Jacob Markstrom made 21 saves.</p>
<p>Nico Hischier extended his point streak to eight games with an assist on Noesen's empty-net goal. Hischier has four goals and five assists since March 11.</p>
<p>Tyler Bertuzzi, Ilya Mikheyev and Frank Nazar scored for Chicago, which has lost eight of the last 10 games. Spencer Knight stopped 15 shots.</p>
<p>The Devils scored two goals within 27 seconds of each other to take a 2-0 lead over the Blackhawks. Bastian scored at 6:23 of the first period and Mercer at 6:50. Mercer's came on a power play just five seconds into the penalty.</p>
<p>The last time the Devils scored at even strength, on the power play, short-handed and into an empty net was on November 14, 2024, against the Panthers. They had three power-play goals, two at even strength and one short-handed empty-netter in the 6-2 win.</p>
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title: 40-year-old LeBron James beats buzzer to end Lakers&amp;#039; losing streak
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<p>LeBron James (#23) of the Los Angeles Lakers drives toward the rim in the game against the Indiana Pacers at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 26, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>The Los Angeles Lakers edged the Indiana Pacers 120-119 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Wednesday to end their three-game losing streak thanks to a buzzer-beater by 40-year-old LeBron James.</p>
<p>The purple and gold trailed 119-118 in the final seconds of the game. In their final offensive possession, Luka Doncic's floater hit the iron, but James managed to put the ball back into the hoop before the clock ran down. It was his first game-winning buzzer-beater as a Laker and the eighth of his career.</p>
<p>It was not the best-performing night for James who missed eight of his 11 field goals (FGs) with only 11 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists. All seven of his jumpers, including three from downtown, ended as bricks. Doncic carried the team's offense in the first three quarters with 29 points, but he was limited to no more than five in the fourth quarter.</p>
<p>Austin Reaves shot as poorly as 1-for-5 from the field in the final quarter. The Lakers were outscored by the Pacers 64-52 in the second half. When Tyrese Haliburton completed a three-point play in the final minute, his side looked very close to extending their winning streak to six games.</p>
<p>In the end, James stepped up to save the day for the purple and gold, putting them back to fourth in the Western Conference with 44 wins. The Pacers remain in the same position in the East with 42 wins.</p>
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<p>Spring plowing began in Xizang earlier this month, with grand ceremonies held across farming areas in the region. In Gyantse Town in Shigatse, villagers dressed in festive attire guided yaks to pull plows and sow highland barley seeds, marking the start of a new journey toward a bountiful harvest.</p>
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<p>From Peking Opera and Sichuan Opera to Yu and Yue Opera, China has developed nearly 300 genres of this traditional Chinese art form over the centuries. Each genre from different regions has its own unique style, which depends on the way different languages have adapted, the style of music, as well as the narratives and stories. On March 27, opera performers and enthusiasts around the world took part in a range of activities to celebrate the annual World Theatre Day.</p>
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<p>After a week of innovation, artistry and cultural dialogue, the 2025 Autumn/Winter Beijing Fashion Week reached its grand finale. Closing the curtain was none other than Georgian-French designer Irakli Nasidzé, whose Art Cousu philosophy envisions fashion as more than attire – it's a canvas where heritage meets modern expression. His latest collection transformed the runway into a living museum, fusing Eastern tradition with Parisian haute couture, from Tang Dynasty ceramics to bronze sculptures, reimagined for the future.</p>
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title: The art of Shaolin blades: Spring-Autumn falchion and podao
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<p>In this video, two Shaolin masters showcase the different techniques and historical significance of the Spring-Autumn falchion (<em>chunqiudao</em>) and <em>podao</em>, iconic bladed weapons from China's martial heritage.</p>
<p>The Spring-Autumn falchion, a legendary weapon tied to Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms era (220-280 A.D.), features a long, curved blade optimized for sweeping strikes and was used in mounted combat in ancient times. Its movements emphasize power and wide-arcing fluidity. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, <em>podao</em> was originally designed to be a short weapon dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279). It prioritizes agility, enabling rapid slashes, thrusts and defensive blocks in close-quarters scenarios.</p>
<p>While historically distinct in size, modern interpretations often adapt these weapons for training and may offer different lengths according to the kung fu practitioners' height and weight.</p>
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<p><strong>The bloc still hopes to “maximize pressure” on Moscow, a European Commission spokesperson has told the Financial Times</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The EU will not fulfill Russia’s demand to lift sanctions on the country’s main agricultural bank as part of the Black Sea ceasefire initiative discussed between Moscow and Washington, European Commission Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Anitta Hipper has said.</p>
<p>During the talks between Russian and US experts in Riyadh on Monday, the sides agreed to move towards reviving the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which, according to the Kremlin, should include the removal of Western restrictions against Russian Agricultural Bank and other financial institutions involved in the international sale of food and fertilizers. The maritime ceasefire is seen by Moscow and Washington as a step towards settling the Ukraine conflict.</p>
<p>In her interview with the Financial Times on Wednesday, Hipper insisted that <em>“the end of the Russian unprovoked and unjustified aggression in Ukraine and unconditional withdrawal of all Russian military forces from the entire territory of Ukraine would be one of the main preconditions to amend or lift sanctions.”</em></p>

            
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<p><em>“The EU’s main focus remains to maximize pressure on Russia, using all tools available, including sanctions, to diminish Russia’s ability to wage its war against Ukraine,”</em> she insisted.</p>
<p>US President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday that his administration is considering lifting some curbs against Moscow, saying that <em>“there are about five or six conditions. We are looking at all of them.”</em></p>
<p>Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky claimed later that Kiev did not agree to the maritime truce due to it representing <em>“a weakening of positions and a weakening of sanctions”</em> against Russia.</p>
<p>The Black Sea Grain Initiative, originally brokered in July 2022 by the UN and Türkiye, envisioned the safe passage of Ukrainian agricultural products in exchange for the West lifting its restrictions on Russian grain and fertilizer exports. Moscow withdrew from the deal a year later, citing the West’s failure to uphold its obligations.</p>

             
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<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the maritime truce could take effect only once certain conditions set out by Russia are met. <em>“Of course, this time justice must prevail, and we will continue our work with the Americans [on the Black Sea Initiative],”</em> Peskov stressed.</p>

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<p><strong>Serving tours would allow men to earn enough money to attract women, the Defense Ministry has suggested</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A Ukrainian military campaign targeting young men has claimed that signing a contract with the army would improve their dating lives.</p>
<p>Since February, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has been offering enrollment incentives to men aged 18 to 24 who are not subject to compulsory conscription. Chief among these is compensation of 1 million hryvnia ($24,000) for one year of service. The ministry has also released several videos showcasing how this windfall could supposedly enhance recruits’ lifestyles.</p>
<p>A clip released on Wednesday on the ministry’s TikTok channel suggests that the money could significantly improve the dating prospects of those who complete their service. It features several young women discussing their expectations regarding a partner’s income.</p>
<p><em>”That would be between 100,000 and 150,000 hryvnia ($2,400 to $3,600) per month – enough to live in Kiev, rent an apartment, and dine out,</em>” one woman explained. The interviewer then turns to the camera, proposing that signing a contract with the Defense Ministry could enable young men to earn this kind of money. Earlier advertisements in the series have stated that a year of military service could equate to 15,625 cheeseburgers or 185 years of Netflix subscriptions.</p>
<p>This week, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky announced plans to expand the recruitment program, allowing both the National Guard and Border Guard to seek enlistees.</p>

             
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<p>Kiev faces challenges in replacing military casualties through mandatory conscription despite last year’s significant system overhaul. Evasion remains prevalent, with draft officers resorting to harsh measures to meet their quotas.</p>
<p>Human rights ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets acknowledged on Wednesday that abuses – including beatings and unlawful detentions – have become <em>“systematic and mass in nature”</em> and demand urgent state intervention.</p>

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<p>China's Commerce Ministry announced Thursday that China has filed a lawsuit against the United States over its additional tariff measures. The lawsuit was filed under the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement mechanism, and China will follow the relevant WTO procedures in taking the next steps.</p>
<p>In a press briefing this afternoon, spokesperson He Yadong described the U.S. tariff actions as a clear example of unilateralism and protectionism, which severely violate WTO rules.</p>
<p>"In response to these tariffs, China has initiated a lawsuit under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism. The U.S. agreed to consultations under this mechanism on March 14, and China will continue to advance the procedures in accordance with WTO rules," said He.</p>
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title: Chang&amp;#039;an City: The metropolis of Tang Dynasty
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<p>As the ancient capital city of Chang'an, it served as the political and cultural center of China, especially during the Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) dynasties. At its peak, it was the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the world, with a meticulously planned layout that influenced urban design across Asia.</p>
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<p><strong>Almost all newborns now receive extensive neonatal screening, the prime minister has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Russia has achieved a historically low rate of infant mortality due to the advancement of the maternal and childcare system in the country, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishutsin has announced.</p>
<p>Addressing the State Duma on Wednesday, Mishustin said almost all newborns now receive comprehensive neonatal screening. Over the past two years, the tests have been expanded to cover 40 conditions instead of just five.</p>
<p><em>“Today, the infant mortality rate in the country is the lowest in the entire history of Russia and the Soviet Union,”</em> the prime minister said. <em>“Behind these words are thousands of babies, at the right moment, received life-saving care from highly skilled doctors and were given the chance to live.”</em></p>
<p>The modernization of pediatric medical institutions is ongoing in Russia as part of national health and demography projects, Mishustin noted. He added that over 20 hospitals have been put into operation across the country under national projects, and almost all existing clinics have been upgraded with state-of-the-art equipment.</p>

             
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<p>Like many other countries, Russia is faced with a decline in birth rates, and is now developing a system that encompasses healthcare, childhood, and maternity. Late last year, President Vladimir Putin emphasized the importance of increasing birth rates, describing it as one of the <em>“key issues for Russia.”</em></p>
<p>The country has introduced financial support programs for families, including lump-sum payments for childbirth and expanded maternity benefits. The government has also revived the Soviet-era <em>“Mother Heroine”</em> award, which provides financial incentives for women who have given birth to or raised ten or more children. Additionally, officials have discussed policies such as restricting the promotion of so-called ‘child-free’ lifestyles and potential tax incentives for families with multiple children.</p>

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<p><strong>The Sudanese Armed Forces have regained the international airport in Khartoum from militants</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) chief and de facto leader of the African country, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has declared Khartoum <em>“free”</em> after his soldiers recaptured the international airport in the war-torn capital from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).</p>
<p>Gen. Al-Burhan made the announcement on Wednesday from the presidential palace, which the army reclaimed from RSF fighters last Friday. It is said to be the leader’s first visit to the presidential palace since the battle for control of Sudan began nearly two years ago.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“Khartoum is free, it’s done,”</em> he said, to cheers from the soldiers who had surrounded him, according to BBC reports.</p>
<p>The Sudanese army shared a video of Gen. Burhan with a caption that he had landed at Khartoum Airport on <em>“the first flight received by the airport since the start of the war”</em> in mid-April 2023.</p>
<p>In separate statements, the ruling sovereign council and the SAF said the army chief had toured Khartoum Airport and the Republican Palace following the liberation of the areas.</p>

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<p>The fighting between the RSF and SAF erupted over a plan to transition the country to civilian rule. Tens of thousands of people have since been killed in the hostilities. The UN human rights office says the conflict has triggered the world’s largest displacement crisis, with half the Sudanese population facing acute food insecurity.</p>

             
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<p>In February, the paramilitary group signed a charter with allied political and armed groups to establish a <em>“government of peace and unity”</em> in the conflict-torn country. It came just weeks after Gen. Burhan announced his intention to form a <em>“caretaker”</em> or <em>“wartime”</em> government.</p>
<p>The militia’s plan has triggered widespread concern, with the African Union and the UN Security Council warning that forming a parallel government risks partitioning the country.</p>

            
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<p>Earlier on Wednesday, the army and its allies launched the largest ground military offensive in Khartoum, capturing military and civilian facilities in the city that had previously been held by RSF fighters, according to local media.</p>
<p>The SAF released <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sudanese.armed.forces/videos/1730990947629102" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">drone footage</a> of people it claims are members of the RSF fleeing across a bridge over the Jebel Awlia dam south of Khartoum, reportedly toward the west of the country.</p>

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<p><strong>Yevgenia Gutsul, known as a critic of Moldova’s government, has been taken into custody upon her arrival in the capital</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A vocal critic of Moldova’s pro-Western government, who leads an autonomous region in the EU candidate state, has denounced her arrest on what she claims to be fabricated criminal charges.</p>
<p>Yevgenia Gutsul was taken into custody on Tuesday evening at the international airport in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, with the authorities saying she was on a wanted list. In a statement released through her lawyers on Thursday, she accused the government of pursuing a plan to dismantle the region of Gagauzia’s autonomy through lawfare targeting her administration.</p>
<p><em>“I am behind bars now under trumped up charges, yet my heart and my soul is with you,”</em> she said, addressing the people of Gagauzia.</p>
<p><em>”This arrest is not a personal attack. It’s part of Chisinau’s grand plan to destroy our autonomy. Law enforcement officials controlled by the [ruling party] PAS have been trying to put pressure on me with bogus criminal cases for two years,”</em> she added.</p>

            
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<p>According to Moldovan media, Gutsul was taken into custody as part of an <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/576392-moldova-gagauzia-bashkan-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">investigation</a> into the 2023 gubernatorial election in Gagauzia, which she won. Her campaign was accused of financial irregularities. The Moldovan government claims that Gutsul is part of a Russian influence operation aimed at disrupting the country’s attempts to become a member of the EU.</p>
<p>The Gagauz people are a Turkic-speaking, primarily Orthodox Christian ethnic group living in the southern part of Moldova, Their region, Gagauzia, has been granted broad self-government rights. Moldovan President Maia Sandu has questioned Gutsul’s mandate as governor, <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/594453-moldova-sandu-gagauzia-region/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">denouncing</a> her former party ‘Shor’ as a <em>“criminal organization.”</em> In 2023, a court in Chisinau outlawed it.</p>
<p>Gutsul has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to apply pressure on the Sandu administration in defense of Gagauzia’s rights.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov condemned the arrest, asserting that Chisinau <em>“has decided to pay no heed to the law, democratic principles and political pluralism and to openly pressure political rivals.”</em></p>

             
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<p>He compared the approach to that of the Romanian government, where a presidential election was recently overturned after a surprise first round victory by an opposition candidate. The constitutional court’s decision was based on claims that Russia interfered in the process, but media reports <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/609757-eu-states-pro-russian-presidential/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">suggested</a> that the social media campaign cited by officials originated from the ruling party, which sought to undermine a mainstream candidate by boosting an unlikely outsider.</p>

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<p><strong>A proposal for the acquisition of the long-range missiles for the army and air force will be discussed at the highest level in Delhi</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>India’s army and air force are set to acquire 250 BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, local media reported on Wednesday. The Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) has <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/new-version-land-attack-brahmos-missiles-cleared-indian-army-indian-air-force-defence-ministry-2698476-2025-03-24" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">approved </a>the procurement of the advanced missiles, according to India Today TV, citing unnamed sources.<br> <br>Once approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security, the missiles will be incorporated into existing units and deployed in terrains such as desert and high-altitude regions, the ANI news agency reported.<br><br>BrahMos Aerospace is a joint Indo-Russian venture launched in 2005. It was named after the Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers. India’s Defense Research and Development Organization has a 50.5% stake in the company, while Russian NPO Mashinostroyenia holds 49.5%.</p>
<p>The BrahMos missile has become a crucial part of the Indian military’s arsenal. It is designed for high-precision, long-range strikes against ground targets and can engage threats on land, sea, and underwater platforms.</p>
<p>Initially, the missile had a range of 290km (180 miles), but continuous upgrades have increased its range and enhanced its strategic capabilities. In 2023, the Indian Air Force successfully tested a BrahMos cruise missile with an extended range of 450km (279 miles), which was fitted on a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet.</p>

            
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<p>However, as per reports, even this capacity has been significantly enhanced – from approximately 300km (186 miles) to 800km (497 miles). A proposal has also been submitted by the two forces for additional BrahMos cruise missiles, which is essentially a repeat order for the same type of weaponry currently acquired by the Indian Navy, a source was quoted as saying in the India Today report.</p>
<p>The developments come after Russia and India signed a new defense <a href="https://www.rt.com/india/612962-russia-and-india-sign-defence-agreement/%C2%A0">pact </a>in February this year. The new agreement streamlines logistics and enhances cooperation between the armed forces of the two nations, facilitating joint military operations and activities. Additionally, during last month’s Aero India event, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh described <a href="https://www.rt.com/india/612464-russia-india-defense-partnership/">Russia </a>as a <em>“longtime and reliable partner”</em> in the security and defense sector.</p>
<p>India remains one of the world’s largest importers of weapons, with Russia being a long-standing supplier and technological partner. Russia has provided India with some of its most advanced systems, including the Su-30MKI fighter and BrahMos missiles, which are jointly developed by the two countries. </p>

             
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<p>Currently, around 60% of the Indian military’s equipment is of Russian origin. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ initiative, the country is also working towards indigenization of its defense sector and has achieved success in some areas with support from private players.</p>

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title: BRICS ties stronger after US aid cuts – South African politician
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<p><strong>Khalid Muhammad has touted independent systems and reduced reliance on foreign humanitarian support</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The withdrawal of US foreign aid to South Africa is a <em>“wake-up call”</em> and an opportunity for transformation, according to South African politician and youth activist Khalid Muhammad.</p>
<p>In an interview with RT, the African National Congress (ANC) party’s Western Cape spokesperson stated that South Africa <em>“needs to start working much more closely, particularly at the level of the economics, with our BRICS partners.”</em></p>
<p><em>“Russia, for example, becomes a key role player in this regard. Also, China becomes very, very important.  Brazil, India, even Iran, markets that the Americans try to keep us away from, we must embrace those particular markets,” </em>Muhammad added.</p>
<p>He echoed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent comments, agreeing that the country must accelerate efforts to build self-reliant systems, particularly in key sectors such as health and social development.</p>
<p>The administration of US President Donald Trump announced in February that it was terminating 90% of US Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts. The administration cited a failure to advance America’s national interests, and effectively halted $60 billion in humanitarian spending worldwide.</p>

            
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<p>Muhammad said that although the situation presents clear challenges, it is also pushing South Africa toward necessary economic diversification. He stressed that the current environment demands deeper cooperation with BRICS partners as well as renewed trade ties across Africa.</p>
<p><em>“Donald Trump’s actions … [have] in a sense pushed us into diversifying the markets for the South African economy,”</em> Muhammad said, suggesting that these changes are beneficial in the long term.  </p>
<p>Addressing the immediate effects of US aid cuts, Muhammad pointed to the Western Cape as a region facing significant consequences. The provincial government – led by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) – had become heavily reliant on USAID funding for combatting tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, Muhammad said, adding <em>“that’s where we’re going to feel it the most”.</em></p>

             
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<p>Commenting on the recent expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador from the US after he criticized Trump’s policies, Muhammad confirmed that the issue is being handled diplomatically by the president and the Department of International Relations.</p>
<p><em>“We are saying that we need to be just, we need to be equal in the manner in which these issues are dealt with,”</em> he said, while reaffirming the ANC’s dissatisfaction with how the US has handled the situation.</p>

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title: Russia to probe ‘sonic weapon’ incident – Serbia
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<p><strong>The opposition movement has accused security forces of deploying an LRAD crowd control device during a protest in Belgrade</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The Serbian government is preparing for a visit from a group of Russian experts to probe allegations regarding the deployment of a <em>“sonic weapon”</em> during recent mass protests, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin has announced.</p>
<p>The opposition Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) has accused security forces of utilizing a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), a crowd-control technology originally designed by the US Navy, which poses a significant risk of hearing damage. The <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614327-serbia-protesters-acoustic-weapons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">incident</a> occurred on March 15 during mass protests in the capital, Belgrade, which the government has claimed are foreign-instigated efforts to undermine its authority through popular unrest.</p>
<p>In an interview with RTS on Wednesday, Vulin rejected the claims that LRAD had been deployed and announced that specialists from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) will arrive in Serbia to conduct an inquiry.</p>

            
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<p><em>“Their task is to clarify what transpired. We have nothing to conceal,”</em> Vulin stated, emphasizing Belgrade’s commitment to a thorough investigation in hopes of moving beyond the controversy.</p>
<p>President Aleksandar Vucic's government has alleged that the US <em>“deep state”</em> and European intelligence agencies are inciting the wave of protests in retaliation for Serbia’s refusal to endorse anti-Russian policies. The EU has insisted that Belgrade align its foreign policy with Brussels, before a Serbian bid to join the bloc could proceed.</p>
<p>The ongoing protests stem from a tragic event in Novi Sad last November, where 16 lives were lost due to the collapse of a concrete canopy at a railway station, leading to multiple resignations among senior officials.</p>
<p>The demonstration on March 15 represented the peak of the pressure campaign. Claims of the <em>“sonic weapon”</em> deployment were propagated by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), a USAID-funded NGO supported by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.</p>

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title: China, France oppose &amp;#039;decoupling and breaking the chain&amp;#039;
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-27/China-France-oppose-decoupling-and-breaking-the-chain--1C5jTEBUaVW/img/189bd3104e5b4057b871a74dfa1d5ecf/189bd3104e5b4057b871a74dfa1d5ecf-250.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>China and France vowed to work together to avoid "decoupling and breaking the chain" as the two foreign ministers met in Beijing on Thursday.</p>
<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday held talks with his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot, calling on the two sides to demonstrate their responsibility as major powers, practice multilateralism and oppose unilateralism.</p>
<p>In the face of profound changes in the international landscape, both sides should choose dialogue over confrontation, win-win cooperation over decoupling and breaking the chain, and push the global governance system toward a more just and reasonable direction, Wang said.</p>
<p>The world should never be allowed to become a jungle where the strong prey on the weak, Wang said, urging the two sides to strengthen strategic coordination and support each other's major multilateral concepts and ideas.</p>
<p>For his part, Barrot said the importance of the France-China relationship has become even more pronounced in the current international situation with increased uncertainty and rising protectionism.</p>
<p>France has always regarded China as an important partner, firmly adheres to the one-China policy, and is committed to developing future-oriented, long-term and stable France-China relations, he told Wang.</p>
<p>It is necessary for both sides to strengthen strategic coordination and play the role of maintaining world peace and stability, Barrot said, adding that France supports free trade, is not in favor of decoupling and breaking the chain, and opposes a trade war.</p>
<p>After the meeting, the two sides issued <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-27/China-France-issue-joint-statement-on-climate-change-1C55f8nD2z6/p.html">a joint statement on coping with climate change</a>, in which China and France vowed to enhance international cooperation on the issue and uphold multilateralism while firmly supporting the Paris Agreement.</p>
<p><strong>Deepening high-quality cooperation</strong></p>
<p>Wang told Barrot that China regards France as a priority partner in realizing high-quality development and is willing to deepen cooperation in traditional fields, encourage mutual investment, expand cooperation in emerging fields, and give new momentum to Sino-French cooperation.</p>
<p>Barrot positively assessed the results of practical cooperation between France and China, noting that the French side is willing to transcend differences and disagreements through high-quality dialogues, develop equal and mutually beneficial cooperation, expand two-way investment and enrich people-to-people exchanges.</p>
<p>Speaking to the press after the meeting, Wang said China and France will hold three high-level dialogues on strategic, economic, financial and cultural issues this year.</p>
<p>Both sides agreed to deepen cooperation in agriculture, nuclear energy, aviation, and aerospace while exploring innovative industries, such as artificial intelligence, digital economy, intelligent connected vehicles, green hydrogen, and biomanufacturing, Wang told reporters.</p>
<p>He added that the Chinese side will encourage more capable and willing Chinese enterprises to invest and do business in France.</p>
<p><strong>On China-EU relations</strong></p>
<p>The two also exchanged views on China-EU relations. Wang said China and the EU have more cooperation than competition, more consensus than differences, and it is entirely possible to develop a better relationship.</p>
<p>China firmly supports European integration and backs the EU's pursuit of strategic autonomy, Wang said, voicing the hope that the European side will work together with China to take the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the EU as an opportunity to properly resolve differences, carry out mutually beneficial cooperation, and work together to open up new prospects for China-EU relations.</p>
<p>Barrot said that France supports dialogue between Europe and China to resolve trade disputes through negotiations.</p>

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title: Ukraine’s former top general claims NATO’s ‘Article 5’ doesn’t exist
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<p><strong>The US-led bloc has no intention of protecting its Eastern European members, Valery Zaluzhny has claimed</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>NATO's Eastern European members are aware that the US-led military bloc has no intention of protecting them from Russia, Ukraine’s former top general Valery Zaluzhny has said.</p>
<p>Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, stipulating that an attack on one NATO member is to be considered an attack on all, is not being implemented in practice, Zaluzhny, who currently serves as Kiev’s ambassador to the UK, said during a meeting with students in the city of Lviv on Wednesday.</p>
<p><em>“The Baltic States understand that there is no Article 5 and never has been. Poland understands this too as missiles fall there from time to time – sometimes ours, sometimes Russian. Romania understands everything, but keeps silent,”</em> he claimed.</p>
<p>The ambassador recalled that when he was still head of the Ukrainian army, <em>“they called from Romania and asked me not to say a word”</em> after two alleged Russian drones crashed in Romanian territory.</p>

            
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<p>An official from Bucharest blamed Ukraine for the incident, saying that the UAVs had been diverted to Romania because of the use of electronic warfare by Kiev, he said.</p>
<p>“<em>I told them: ‘Shoot them [drones] down. You have 40 F-16 jets’,”</em> added Zaluzhny, who was sacked as Kiev’s top general in February 2023.</p>
<p>He also suggested that even if Ukraine’s push to join NATO were to succeed, it would not provide the country with security guarantees. <em>“It would not give anything besides political protection,”</em> the ambassador insisted.</p>
<p>US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, said in an interview with Tucker Carlson last week that Vladimir Zelensky and his chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, <em>“have largely conceded that they are not going to be a member of NATO.”</em></p>
<p><em>“I think it is accepted that Ukraine and Russia, if there is going to be a peace deal, Ukraine cannot be a member of NATO,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>As for the option of Ukraine getting <em>“what is called Article 5 protection”</em> from the US or Western European countries without being in NATO <em>“that is open for discussion,”</em> Witkoff stated.</p>

             
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<p>Preventing Kiev from joining NATO, which Moscow views as a hostile bloc, had been named by Moscow as among the reasons for launching its military operation in February 2022. Late last year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated that Ukraine’s membership would be <em>“unacceptable”</em> and would contradict Russia’s stance that <em>“security of one country cannot be ensured at the expense of the security of another.”</em></p>

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title: Kiev breaking energy ceasefire – Moscow
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<p><strong>The Defense Ministry has reported three more incidents that breach a US-mediated deal</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Ukrainian forces violated a US-mediated moratorium on attacking Russia's energy infrastructure on three occasions in 24 hours, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Thursday.</p>
<p>The incidents included a drone strike in Bryansk Region that disabled a high-voltage power line, an artillery strike on a transformer station in the same part of Russia, as well as what the military believe to be an attempted kamikaze drone strike targeting an underground natural gas storage facility in Crimea. In the latter episode, the Ukrainian aircraft was intercepted as it neared the target, the statement read.</p>
<p>On March 18, the Russian military was ordered to refrain from attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure under a deal that was agreed upon by President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has publicly supported the 30-day partial ceasefire, which is supposed to involve reciprocal suspension of attacks by Kiev’s forces.</p>

            
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<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense, however, has reported multiple Ukrainian violations of the agreement, which it described as aimed at undermining Trump’s mediation efforts between Moscow and Kiev. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the Kremlin will honor its obligations despite Ukrainian actions, since the agreement represents positive diplomatic engagement with the Trump administration.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, US officials met separately with Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia. Following the talks, Moscow said it was willing to revive the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an arrangement that was originally mediated by the UN and Türkiye and expired in 2023.</p>
<p>The original deal was meant to facilitate Russian and Ukrainian exports of grains and fertilizers. Moscow, however, pulled out of the arrangement, citing a lack of progress in the lifting of Western sanctions on its commerce, which it expected to get under the initiative. Moscow is prepared to reinstate the initiative if these commitments are honored, Peskov has said.</p>
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title: Judge Napolitano: Hegseth Reveals US War Plans
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title: Chinese biggest foreign investment loss in history! Niger seized Chinese assets.
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title: Brits Move to Decapitate Trump Administration
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title: Zelensky speaks of ‘hatred of Russians’
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<p><strong>The Ukrainian leader, whose presidential term expired last year, has claimed that resentment fuels his resolve to stay in power</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has admitted that his "hatred" of Russians is one of the driving forces propelling him to <em>“keep going”</em> in the conflict against Moscow.</p>
<p>In an interview with the French daily Le Figaro published on Wednesday, Zelensky identified the emotion as one of his three key psychological drivers since the escalation of the conflict in February 2022.</p>
<p>Zelensky said he hated <em>“Russians who killed so many Ukrainian citizens,”</em> adding that he considered such an attitude appropriate in wartime. His other motivations included a sense of national dignity and the desire for his descendants to live <em>“in the free world.”</em></p>
<p>Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of being a historic oppressor while  Zelensky has previously touted Ukrainians’ <em>“love of freedom”</em> as a trait that distinguishes them from Russians.</p>

            
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<p>Zelensky, whose presidential term expired last year, was elected in 2019 on a platform of defusing tensions with Moscow and reconciling ethnic Russian Ukrainians in Donbass, many of whom opposed the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev. However, his initial diplomatic efforts were thwarted by radical Ukrainian nationalists in the body politic.</p>
<p>Since the coup, Kiev has enacted various policies undermining the rights of ethnic minorities, with Russians as the primary target. Moscow has accused Zelensky of intensifying the crackdown, particularly by attacking the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the country’s largest religious denomination, which now faces potential prohibition for having historic links with Russia.</p>
<p>In a recent interview, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asserted that Zelensky caters to <em>“the segment of the population that holds radical, ultra-right, revanchist, Banderite views,”</em> as his image as a national leader increasingly deteriorates.</p>
<p><em>“Zelensky does not want to display weakness, as he realizes that his days are numbered,”</em> the Russian official claimed.</p>

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<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><strong>The court condemned Ukrainian authorities for failing to prevent a fiery 2014 massacre in which dozens of anti-Nazi activists were burned alive – but the judges’ political bias meant victims were implicitly blamed for their fate, and their families received a paltry 15,000 euro payout.</strong></h3>
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<p><span>The</span> <a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/w/judgment-concerning-ukraine-2" rel>European Court of Human Rights has found the Ukrainian government guilty</a> <span>of committing human rights violations during the May 2, 2014 Odessa massacre, in which dozens of Russian-speaking demonstrators were forced into the city’s Trade Unions House and burned alive by ultranationalist thugs.</span></p>
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<p>Citing the “relevant authorities’ failure to do everything that could reasonably be expected of them to prevent the violence in Odessa,” the court ruled unanimously that Ukraine violated Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to life. The judges also condemned the Ukrainian government’s failure “to stop that violence after its outbreak, to ensure timely rescue measures for people trapped in the fire, and to institute and conduct an effective investigation into the events.”</p>
<p><span>42 people were killed as a result of the fire, a bloody bookend to the so-called “Maidan revolution” that saw Ukraine’s democratically-elected president deposed in a Western-backed coup in 2014. Ukrainian officials and legacy media outlets have consistently framed the deaths as a</span> <a href="https://khpg.org/en/1556716320" rel>tragic accident</a><span>, with some figures</span> <a href="https://x.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1704058527864569958" rel>even blaming</a> <span>anti-Maidan protesters themselves for starting the blaze. That notion is thoroughly discredited by the verdict, which was delivered by a team of seven judges including a Ukrainian justice.</span></p>
<p>As dozens of anti-Maidan activists burned to death, the ECHR found deployment of fire engines to the site was “deliberately delayed for 40 minutes,” even though the local fire station was just one kilometer away.</p>
<p>In the end, the judicial body determined there was nothing which indicated Ukrainian authorities “had done everything that could reasonably be expected of them to avert” the violence. Officials in Kiev, they said, made “no efforts whatsoever” to prevent skirmishes between pro- and anti-Maidan activists that led to the deadly inferno, despite knowing in advance such clashes were likely to break out. Their “negligence… went beyond an error of judgment or carelessness.”</p>
<p>The case was brought by 25 people who lost family members in the Neo-Nazi arson attack and clashes that preceded it, and three who survived the fire with various injuries. Though the ECHR found Ukraine violated their human rights, the court demanded Ukraine pay them just 15,000 euros each in damages.</p>
<p><span>The ruling also stopped short of acknowledging the full reality of the Odessa slaughter, as it largely overlooked the role played by Western-supported neo-Nazi elements and their intimate ties to the sniper massacre in February 2014 in Maidan Square which has been conclusively determined to have been a</span> <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/11/ukra" rel>false flag</a><span>. In the judges’ decision, they downplayed or justified violence by the violent Ukrainian football fans and skinheads, charitably describing them as “pro-unity activists.”</span></p>
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<p><span>Ukraine’s Maidan protests commenced in November 2013 after President Yanukovych declined to form a trade agreement with Europe and renewed dialogue with Russia, and tensions quickly began to escalate between Odessa’s sizable Russian-speaking population and Ukrainian nationalists. As the ECHR ruling noted, “while violent incidents had overall remained rare… the situation was volatile and implied a constant risk of escalation.” In March 2014, anti-Maidan activists</span> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27275383" rel>set up</a> <span>a tent camp in Kulykove Pole Square, and began calling for a</span> <a href="https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/content/war-against-ukraine/pro-russian-activists-in-donetsk-prepare-referendum-for-may-11-343857.html" rel>referendum</a> <span>on the establishment of an “Odessa Autonomous Republic.”</span></p>
<p><span>The next month, supporters of Odesa Chornomorets and Kharkiv Metalist football clubs announced a rally “For a United Ukraine” on May 2. According to the ECHR, that’s when “anti-Maidan posts began to appear on social media describing the event as a Nazi march and calling for people to prevent it.” Though the European court branded the description Russian “disinformation,” there’s extensive evidence that hooligans associated with both clubs had overt Neo-Nazi sympathies and associations, and well-established reputations for violence. The football clubs involved later</span> <a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/world/ukraines-football-hooligans-put-combat-training-to-use-in-fight-against-the-russian-enemy-1707828" rel>went on to form</a> <span>the notorious</span> <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/tag/azov-battalion/" rel>Azov Battalion</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>Fearing their tent encampment would be attacked, anti-Maidan activists resolved to disrupt the “pro-unity” march before it reached them. The ECHR revealed Ukraine’s security services and cybercrime unit had substantive intelligence indicating “violence, clashes and disorder” were certain on the day. However, authorities “ignored the available intelligence and the relevant warning signs,” and failed to take the “proper measures” to “stamp out any provocation.”</p>
<p><span>On May 2, 2014, anti-Nazi activists confronted the demonstrators as the march began, and violent clashes immediately erupted. At roughly 5:45 PM, in the precise manner of the Maidan Square sniper</span> <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/11/ukrainian-maidan-massacre-false-flag/" rel>false flag massacre</a> <span>three months earlier, multiple anti-Maidan activists were fatally shot “by someone standing on a nearby balcony” using “a hunting gun,” the ruling states. Subsequently, “pro-unity protesters… gained the upper hand in the clashes,” and charged towards Kulykove Pole square.</span></p>
<p>Anti-Maidan activists took refuge in the Trade Unions House, a five-story building overlooking the square, while their ultranationalist adversaries “started setting fire to the tents,” according to the ruling. Gunfire and Molotov cocktails were exchanged by both sides, and before long, the building was ablaze. “Numerous calls” were made to the local fire brigade, including by police, “to no avail.” The court noted that the fire chief had “instructed his staff not to send any fire engines to Kulykove Pole without his explicit order,” so none were dispatched.</p>
<p>Many of those trapped in the building died when attempting to escape by jumping from its upper windows, and those that survived were treated to more ‘unity’ by the violent demonstrators outside. “Video footage shows pro-unity protesters attacking people who had jumped or had fallen,” the ECHR notes. It was not until 8:30 PM that firefighters finally entered the building and extinguished the blaze. Police then arrested 63 surviving activists they found remaining in the building or on the roof. Those detained weren’t released until two days later, when a several hundred-strong group of anti-Maidan protesters stormed the police station holding them.</p>
<p>The litany of security failures and industrial scale negligence by authorities that day was greatly aggravated by “local prosecutors, law enforcement, and military officers” not being “contactable for a large part or all of [the] time,” as they were coincidentally attending a meeting with Ukraine’s Deputy Prosecutor General. The ECHR “found the attitude and passivity of those officials inexplicable” – apparently unwilling to consider the obvious possibility that Ukrainian authorities purposefully made themselves incommunicado to ensure maximum mayhem and bloodshed, while insulating themselves from legal repercussions.</p>
<p>Because Ukrainian authorities “had not done everything they reasonably could to prevent the violence,” nor even “what could reasonably be expected of them to save people’s lives,” the ECHR found Kiev violated Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court also concluded authorities “failed to institute and conduct an effective investigation into the events in Odessa,” a violation of the “procedural aspect” of Article 2.</p>
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<p>Though left unstated, the ECHR’s appraisal of the Odessa massacre, and the officials who failed in their most basic duties points to a deliberate state-level coverup.</p>
<p>For example, no effort was made to seal off “affected areas of the city centre” in the event’s aftermath. Instead, “the first thing” local authorities did “was to send cleaning and maintenance services to those areas,” meaning invaluable evidence was almost inevitably eradicated.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, when on-site inspections were finally carried out two weeks later, the probes “produced no meaningful results,” the ECHR noted. The Trade Unions House likewise “remained freely accessible to the public for 17 days after the events,” giving malicious actors plentiful time to manipulate, remove, or plant incriminating evidence at the site. Meanwhile, “many of the suspects absconded,” the court noted. Several criminal investigations were opened, only to go nowhere, left to expire under Ukraine’s statute of limitations.</p>
<p>Other cases that reached trial “remained pending for years,” before being dropped, despite “extensive photographic and video evidence regarding both the clashes in the city centre and the fire,” from which culprits’ identities could be easily discerned. The ECHR expressed no confidence that Ukrainian authorities “made genuine efforts to identify all the perpetrators,” and several forensic reports weren’t released for many years, in breach of basic protocols. Elsewhere, the Court noted a criminal investigation of an individual suspected of having shot at anti-Maidan activists was inexplicably discontinued on four separate occasions, on identical grounds.</p>
<p>The court also noted “serious defects” in investigations into Ukrainian officials’ role in the massacre. Primarily, this took the form of “prohibitive delays” and “significant periods of unexplained inactivity and stagnation” in opening cases. For instance, “although it had never been disputed that the fire service regional head had been responsible for the delayed deployment of fire engines to Kulykove Pole,” it took nearly two years for the Ukrainian government to officially investigate.</p>
<p>Similarly, Odessa’s regional police chief not only failed to implement any “contingency plan in the event of mass disorder,” as required, but internal documents claiming that security measures had in fact been undertaken were found to have been forged. A criminal investigation into the chief took nearly a year to materialize, then remained pending “for about eight years,” when it was closed after the statute of limitations expired.</p>
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<p><span>The notion that the incineration of anti-Maidan activists in May 2014 was an intentional and premeditated act of mass murder, conceived and directed by Kiev’s</span> <a href="https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/anatomy-of-a-coup-how-cia-front-laid" rel>US-installed</a> <span>far-right government, was apparently not considered by the ECHR. But testimonies from a Ukrainian parliamentary commission which was instituted in the massacre’s immediate aftermath indicate the violence was not a freak twist of fate spontaneously produced by two hostile factions clashing in Odessa, as the ruling suggests.</span></p>
<p><span>That parliamentary commission found Ukrainian national and regional officials explicitly planned to use far-right activists drawn from the fascist</span> <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/178662/far-right-groups-infiltrate-kievs-institutions-student-movement-pushes-back" rel>Maidan Self-Defence</a> <span>to violently suppress Odessa’s would-be separatists, and disperse all those camped by the Trade Unions House. Moreover, the notorious ultra-nationalist Ukrainian politician</span> <a href="https://archive.today/20140308194413/http://espreso.tv/new/2014/02/13/parubiy_rozpoviv_pro_istoriyu_stvorennya_ta_strukturu_samooborony_maydanu" rel>Andriy Parubiy</a> <span>and 500 of its armed members of Maidan Self-Defense were dispatched to the city from Kiev on the eve of the massacre.</span></p>
<p><span>From 1998 – 2004, Parubiy served as</span> <a href="https://www.academia.edu/5261476" rel>founder and leader</a> <span>of Neo-Nazi paramilitary faction Patriot of Ukraine. He</span> <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10665800/Ukraines-new-government-Whos-who.html" rel>also headed</a> <span>Kiev’s National Security and Defence Council at the time of the Odessa massacre. Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigations immediately</span> <a href="https://www.unian.info/society/10695003-ukraine-s-sbi-opens-case-against-ex-parliament-speaker-over-odesa-events-of-may-2-2014.html" rel>began scrutinizing</a> <span>Parubiy’s role in the May 2014 events after he was replaced as lead parliamentary speaker, following the country’s 2019 general election. This probe has seemingly come to nothing since, although a year prior a Georgian militant testified to</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7xjDxFSQc&amp;t=1786s" rel>Israeli documentarians</a> <span>that he engaged in “provocations” in the Odessa massacre under the command of Parubiy, who told him to attack anti-Maidan activists and “burn everything.”</span></p>
<p><span>That militant was one of several Georgian fighters who has</span> <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2023/09/06/ukraines-arms-supplier-maidan-massacre/" rel>admitted</a> <span>they were personally responsible for the February 2014 Maidan Square false flag sniper massacre,</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMUcrtBGX5w" rel>under the command</a> <span>of ultranationalist Ukrainian figures like Parubiy, and Mikhael Saakashvili, the founder of infamous mercenary brigade</span> <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/tag/georgian-legion/" rel>Georgian Legion</a><span>. The slaughter in Maidan brought about the end of Viktor Yanukovych’s government, and sent Ukraine hurtling towards war with Russia.</span></p>
<p>The Odessa massacre was another chapter in that morbid saga – and Europe’s foremost human rights court has now formally laid responsibility for the horror at Kiev’s feet.</p>
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*fUk6HOC2CNfyvdOaPnsI8A.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa8QqfhvvO0"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fqa8QqfhvvO0%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dqa8QqfhvvO0&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fqa8QqfhvvO0%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/50e33da7fdb4ecd6fe3cb12b84e3cb5a/href">https://medium.com/media/50e33da7fdb4ecd6fe3cb12b84e3cb5a/href</a></iframe><p>I envy the Palestinians. Not for what they’re going through, obviously, but for what they have. Their supremely authentic culture, with its deep roots and ancient connection to the land.</p><p>One of the very, very few good things that the Gaza holocaust has brought into this world is a deluge of footage of Palestinians living their lives, interacting with each other and relating to their loved ones as they find ways to get by in this nightmare. Westerners like me have been quietly watching these video clips on our little screens in our homes, and watching the various films, documentaries and shows that have been made about Palestinian life over the years, and taking it all in.</p><p>And it’s just so very moving. Palestinians are such amazingly beautiful people. How tender they are with each other. How real and organic their spirituality is. How deeply they love their culture in all its unique expressions. How profoundly intimate their connections with each other are, both between individuals and with their community as a whole.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/caitoz/status/1904312920231784529&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/8e80e4a8ad0f95e9764234ef5e3e7967/href">https://medium.com/media/8e80e4a8ad0f95e9764234ef5e3e7967/href</a></iframe><p>I’m a white Australian. We just don’t experience such things. The indigenous inhabitants of this land were massacred, robbed and displaced just as the Palestinians are today, and my ancestors were brought to this continent from Ireland and Scotland by circumstances beyond their control. Now for the most part it’s just this shallow, vapid civilization whose primary cultural identity consists of not getting too worked up about things. We live with this perpetual vague state of alienation and dysphoria buzzing in the background of our consciousness, because we have no roots here.</p><p>My husband Tim is an American of Irish descent and has had much the same experience. That’s just what it’s like for white people in the colonized world. We have no connectedness. No historical depth. No real culture. No real grounding. That’s why we’re always reaching around for something other than what we have, whether it’s more money and more possessions or a return to the religion of our grandparents or New Age spirituality or substance abuse. Our experience here just doesn’t feel quite right. We don’t feel like we belong.</p><p>Then we look at the Palestinians and how starkly their society contrasts with our own, and we can’t help but feel a sense of deep longing. They live so naturally and so warmly. It just looks right.</p><p>And I am quite certain Israelis feel the same way when they look at Palestinians. Here they are with this ridiculously fake culture of AI and electronic dance music, speaking a strange new version of a dead language that Zionists <a href="https://www.commentary.org/articles/ralph-weiman/the-re-creation-of-hebrewa-dead-language-lives-again/">reanimated a few generations ago</a> so they could LARP as middle easterners and pretend the “Israel” of today has anything whatsoever in common with the historic Israel of Biblical times. And then they look over at the people who were living there before them with their deep roots and vibrant authenticity, and they feel envy. And their envy turns to spite. And their spite turns to hate. And their hate turns to genocide.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FGfouVBM_iM0%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGfouVBM_iM0&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FGfouVBM_iM0%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/4f24e761e1d9f3db25850aa16de55ce3/href">https://medium.com/media/4f24e761e1d9f3db25850aa16de55ce3/href</a></iframe><p>There are other reasons for the hatred Israelis feel toward Palestinians, to be sure — the entire apartheid state depends on their being <a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-miko">aggressively indoctrinated</a> into viewing the lower-tiered inhabitants of the land as less than human. But jealousy surely plays a part.</p><p>And I hope they don’t succeed in wiping out the Palestinians. I hope they don’t succeed in driving them off their land. It would be such a loss to the whole world for a thing of such beauty to be snapped from its roots and cast into the dustbin of history. Apart from all the other reasons to feel heartbroken about the abuses we are witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank, there’s the fact that our world is losing one of the most breathtakingly beautiful things it has ever birthed into existence.</p><p>If these freaks succeed in stomping out Palestine, I think it will genuinely feel like losing a loved one. I think many people around the world will feel the same way.</p><p>I desperately hope this doesn’t happen. If I were a different sort of person with a different sort of spirituality, I would say I pray this doesn’t happen. In a world that’s increasingly fake and fraudulent, we can’t afford to lose Palestine.</p><p>__________________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8Yu4WZJ11Il3TZmNiMUFQ?sub_confirmation=1"><em>Go here</em></a><em> to find video versions of my articles. 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<p><strong>Ukrainian spooks allegedly pretended to be RAND Corporation employees while attempting to source classified information from Russian servicemen</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Ukrainian intelligence services have reportedly been posing as members of a renowned US think tank to recruit intel sources in Russia, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed. Kiev’s operatives were trying to get Russian military personnel to disclose classified information, according to the agency.</p>
<p>In a report issued on Thursday, the FSB stated that it had received information that Ukrainian spies have been posing as representatives of the Research and Development (RAND) Corporation and using messengers to contact Russian citizens connected with the military.</p>
<p>They reportedly offered money in exchange for classified information on the Russian Air Force's use of strategic aviation and the number and deployments of forces involved in the Ukraine conflict.</p>
<p>The FSB also published an audio recording and screenshots of several exchanges between its agents and alleged Ukrainian operatives. In the messages, Kiev’s spies introduced themselves as employees of the CIS Countries department of the Eastern Europe Center of the RAND Corporation branch, called RAND Europe. They attempted to confirm their affiliation with the organization by providing information about Hans Pung, the director of RAND Europe.</p>
<p>In the messages, the Ukrainians offered to pay for information in any currency, including crypto and through online wallets or international banks. </p>
<p><em>“We are interested in first-hand and truthful information concerning the [special military operation]. Most of all we are interested in documentary evidence of certain events,”</em> the operatives wrote.</p>

            
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<p>RAND was originally established in 1948 as a joint project between the US Army Air Force and the Douglas Aircraft Company, with the goal of carrying out long-range planning for future weapons. The scope of the project was later expanded into civilian fields such as education and international affairs, and it became the first organization to be referred to as a <em>“think tank.”</em></p>
<p>As noted by the FSB, the main declared area of activity of RAND currently is to promote scientific, educational, and charitable activities in the interests of public welfare and US national security, the development and identification of strategic problems and the development of concepts. However, most of RAND’s research connected to US security is classified.</p>
<p>In 2023, Moscow officially listed RAND as a foreign non-governmental organization whose activities are considered <em>“undesirable”</em> on the territory of Russia.</p>

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title: It's the Physical Economy, Stupid! It's Time to Listen to the Wise Words of Lyndon LaRouche
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Artificial Intelligence Is Bringing Us the Communism that Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, and Pol Pot were unable to deliver

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<p>Friends, if the website is to continue, it must be supported by its readers.</p>
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<p>Artificial Intelligence Is Bringing Us the Communism that Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, and Pol Pot were unable to deliver</p>
<p><em>The PCR Podcast with Soren Korsgaard</em></p>
<p><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><b>The Digital Revolution Equals Communism</b></p>
<p>Finally, equality has arrived.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWllC_GpR0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWllC_GpR0</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://rumble.com/v6r8xiq-the-paul-craig-roberts-podcast-ai-and-the-digital-revolution-are-mankinds-d.html">https://rumble.com/v6r8xiq-the-paul-craig-roberts-podcast-ai-and-the-digital-revolution-are-mankinds-d.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Artificial intelligence greatly empowers scammers and malevolent uses of the Internet.  Malwarebytes provides updates on the latest threats.  Here are a couple:</p>
<blockquote data-secret="yfbvtHdAWn" data-sanitized-class="wp-embedded-content"><p><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/fake-captcha-websites-hijack-your-clipboard-to-install-information-stealers">Fake CAPTCHA websites hijack your clipboard to install information stealers</a></p></blockquote>
<p><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" security="restricted" title="“Fake CAPTCHA websites hijack your clipboard to install information stealers” — Malwarebytes" src="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/fake-captcha-websites-hijack-your-clipboard-to-install-information-stealers/embed#?secret=EvN2ZJDM5m%23?secret=yfbvtHdAWn" data-secret="yfbvtHdAWn" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-sanitized-class="wp-embedded-content" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/warning-over-free-online-file-converters-that-actually-install-malware?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250324_marchweeklynewsletter_paid_v4_1_174250044006&amp;utm_content=wolf_in_sheep_clothing">https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/warning-over-free-online-file-converters-that-actually-install-malware?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250324_marchweeklynewsletter_paid_v4_1_174250044006&amp;utm_content=wolf_in_sheep_clothing</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/android-devices-track-you-before-you-even-sign-in?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250317_marchweeklynewsletter_v3_174193602475&amp;utm_content=Android_figure_on_keyboard">https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/android-devices-track-you-before-you-even-sign-in?utm_source=iterable&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20250317_marchweeklynewsletter_v3_174193602475&amp;utm_content=Android_figure_on_keyboard</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The digital revolution and artificial intelligence are not only the greatest possible threat to our privacy and financial security, but also to our values, because the digital revolution makes possible Communism, our likely future.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Humans, like the Borg<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>in Star Trek, will no longer be individuals capable of thought.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They will be part of a collective with a collective mind imposed by official narratives, with all unofficial narratives censored as misinformation.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Already in American universities and public schools students are being taught that compliance with official narratives is rewarded and that intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat. Even this is being bypassed, because students no longer know a subject or how to use language to write a theme.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>AI does it for them, so of what does modern education consist?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It consists of knowing how to use AI to solve math and physics problems and write your history and English papers.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>You don’t need to know math, physics, history, or how to use the language. Never learning these skills, education produces uneducated citizens.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>These are precisely the people who will be made useless by AI. AI has a massive advantage over researchers and memory and repeat. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects will be needed only in small numbers to type into the computers the medical symptoms, legal precedents, architectural parameters for the building, and the parameters of the engineering problem.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>AI’s ability to recognize patterns and to rapidly search data bases eliminates most purposes of the upper professional classes.</p>
<p>The process of technology separating students from learning skills perhaps began with handheld calculators, which resulted in children ceasing to learn the multiplication tables.  With the advent of computer keyboards, students ceased to learn to write cursive.</p>
<p>As AI replaces human skills, it also destroys human jobs. What people, especially free market libertarian economists, have not understood is that unlike earlier technological advances, AI eliminates the need of humans to do jobs. AI is a step beyond offshoring. Offshoring eliminated Americans jobs by giving the jobs to China, other parts of Asia and Mexico.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>But still humans did the jobs. Human performance was not eliminated, just a change in location of performance.</p>
<p>In earlier times when technology destroyed household jobs (as in the “putting out system,” see Appendix at the end) and relocated them in factories, the technological advance did not eliminate the need for humans to do the jobs.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The factory system just collected the jobs under one roof.</p>
<p>AI is a totally different form of technology.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It eliminates the need for people. So what does humanity do? The absence of purpose is why Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum want to reduce the world population.</p>
<p>In an earlier article, I said that a colleague and I would present a case that AI would liberate mankind by taking over undesirable and dreary<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>jobs.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>My colleague sincerely believes this, but I do not.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>I think that AI disconnects people from one another and from themselves.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I regard it as not merely inconvenience but as the epitome of evil.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, I will try to keep my commitment to present a possible positive portrait of the digital revolution. This is the first task in my life in which I have no confidence.  If readers would like to contribute to forming a positive portrait of AI, I am pleased to hear from them.  There are positive aspects.  For example, people can work from home and participate in face-to-face meetings and conferences without travel.  But even the positive aspects have costs.  Working from home is isolating, as is the absence of travel which reduces experiences.  Is life in a virtual world really life?</p>
<p><b>Appendix:</b></p>
<p>The putting-out system</p>
<p>Certain industries that were small at the outset of the Middle Ages grew to be quite large in scale, and this growth influenced changes in the organization of work. The most important of these was the wool-cloth industry.</p>
<p>For reasons of cost and availability, wool was the basic clothing material in western Europe until the beginning of modern times (19th century US cotton plantations in the South altered the composition of clothing). Linen and silk were too costly for any large-scale use, and cotton was grown only in small volumes. The production of cloth from wool involved several time-consuming steps: cleaning and carding (straightening curled and knotted fibers sheared from the sheep), spinning the fibers into thread, weaving the thread into cloth, shearing off knots and roughness, and dyeing. All these processes could be carried on within a single peasant household, for they required only simple apparatus and rudimentary skills. Typically, children carded the wool, women operated the spinning wheel, and men worked the loom shuttles.</p>
<p>The cloth produced by such crude tools and relatively unskilled workers was rough but serviceable. Those above the peasant class, however, desired the more comfortable and attractive clothing that was produced by skilled craftsmen. The resulting demand for better textiles caused the industry to outgrow the peasant household means of production.</p>
<p>A new organization of work, called the “putting-out system,” was instituted in which a merchant clothier bought raw wool, “put it out” to be carded, spun, and woven into cloth, and then carried the cloth through the finishing processes with the help of skilled craftsmen. Because the spinners and weavers remained peasants, they also earned part of their living from the plots on which their cottages stood, meaning that agriculture and industry were pursued as something of an integrated enterprise. The man could work in the field while his wife spun, and in winter the man helped with textile production. At harvest time every hand was out in the fields, leaving the spinning wheels and looms temporarily idle.</p>
<p>The putting-out system differed from peasant household production in that the merchant clothier, or entrepreneur, bought the raw wool and owned the product through all stages of its preparation (the cottage workers still owned their own spinning wheels, looms, and other tools). Thus, the peasant farmer came to work on materials that did not belong to him. On the other hand, the work was performed at home (known as the cottage system or domestic system) rather than in a factory, and work proceeded at the worker’s pace. The merchant simply organized the work by arranging the order and sequence of the various technical processes—he did not supervise the workers’ actual performance. Nevertheless, the merchant clothier who began putting out cloth came to control the entire production process. This represented a step toward the industrial capitalism that emerged in the 19th century.</p>
<p>Industrial capitalism resulted from the Enclosures. Prior to the Enclosures, land was not owned in the sense that it is today. Lords and serfs had use rights in the land.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>No one owned it. Lords had use rights in serfs’ labor, because the original deal establishing the feudal system was that free people became serfs in exchange for protection from marauding predator Vikings, Saracens, Huns.</p>
<p>The Crusades brought home to Europe and England that there were delightful consumption goods unavailable in the West. The realization arose that if the manor could be organized for the production of cash crops, instead of kept as an instrument of self-sufficiency, money would be available for trade.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>This realization required the demise of an economy in which use rights determined property rights and as the land was not owned the land could not be sold. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The transformation–the Enclosures–achieved according to Karl Marx “by fire and sword,” created private ownership in land and a labor market.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Serfs were no longer subject to the government of their time owning part of their labor.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Serfs emerged as free men who owned their own labor (there was no income tax) and sold it in labor markets.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Thus did the Enclosures create a labor market and the private ownership of property.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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<div><img src="https://video.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-27/Robots-on-the-runway-Humanoid-stuns-Shanghai-Fashion-Week-1C5qQ7ZO2HK/video/wu_1inbroad611fv19c4avs14pr6c2e/wu_1inbroad611fv19c4avs14pr6c2e-750.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>In a groundbreaking fusion of fashion and technology, Unitree Robotics' humanoid robot G1 and its robotic dog companion strutted onto the runway during Shanghai Fashion Week on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The showcase, presented by avant-garde label NMTG, delivered a performance that was less traditional catwalk and more immersive behavioral art.</p>
<p>The moment came after the models had completed their walk. A robotic dog suddenly flipped mid-stage, revealing a custom outfit. Then, the G1 humanoid robot sprang to life, interacting with a blue-clad model who shook its hand and adorned it with a 3D-printed necklace shaped like a deer – a symbol of harmony and hope.</p>
<p>The show's creative director, Xu Shangxi, drew inspiration from Unitree's viral Chinese New Year performance, where the G1 dazzled audiences with traditional dance moves. </p>
<p>"I wanted to explore the symbiosis of nature, humanity and technology," Xu said.</p>
<p>The event, a tripartite collaboration between Unitree, NMTG and Shanghai Fashion Week, broke the boundaries between tech and culture. As Xu put it, "This isn't just a show; it's a manifesto for the future."</p>
<p>The Unitree G1 is an advanced humanoid robot developed by China's Unitree Robotics, showcasing remarkable agility and precision. It features AI-driven, full-body motion control, enabling dynamic movements, such as dancing, spinning handkerchiefs and performing coordinated routines with human-like dexterity.</p>
<p><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-06/Vlog-Giving-Unitree-s-humanoid-robot-a-tour-of-CGTN-s-office-1BwEawsRxSg/p.html">Watch: A Unitree humanoid robot visited CGTN's office!</a></p>
<p><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-01-29/Behind-China-s-humanoid-robot-dance-How-did-they-catch-handkerchiefs--1Az4YTMlFpm/p.html">Read more: Behind China's humanoid robot dance: How did they catch handkerchiefs?</a></p>
<p>(The video was created and shot by Lingji Youxi and provided to CGTN Digital via Unitree Robotics. Edits were made before posting.)</p>

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<p><span><strong>Elite universities cowering before Trump’s crackdown on free speech continue their history of supporting plutocracy, delivering us into the arms of fascism. </strong></span></p>
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<p><span><strong>By <span><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/tag/chris-hedges/">Chris Hedges</a></span><br></strong><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/24/chris-hedges-surrendering-to-authoritarianism/"><em>ScheerPost</em></a></span></p>
<p><span><strong><span><img decoding="async" src="https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-13-at-4.37.48-PM-100x100.png" alt width="100" height="100" data-sanitized-class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-72365">I</span></strong> was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/22/how-columbia-gave-in-to-trumps-demands-to-get-its-400m-funding-back">caved</a> to the demands of the Trump administration.</span></p>
<p><span>She <a href="https://president.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/03.21.2025%20Columbia%20-%20FINAL.pdf">agreed</a> to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create an internal security force of 36 New York City Police officers empowered to “remove individuals from campus and/or arrest them when appropriate.”</span></p>
<p><span>She has also surrendered the autonomy of academic departments, as demanded by the Trump administration, by appointing a new senior vice provost to “review” the university’s department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies and the Center for Palestine Studies.</span></p>
<p><span>Elite universities such as Harvard, Princeton, Columbia or Yale, were created to train and perpetuate the plutocracy. They are not and never have been centers of cutting-edge intellectual thought or hospitable to dissidents and radicals.</span></p>
<p><span>They cloak themselves in the veneer of moral probity and intellectualism but cravenly serve political and economic power. This is their nature. Don’t expect it to change, even as we fall headlong into authoritarianism.</span></p>
<p><span>Armstrong, like most of the heads of our universities, is fruitlessly humiliating herself. She would, I expect, happily make space on her office wall to hang an oversized portrait of the president. But what she does not know and what history has taught us, is that no appeasement is sufficient with autocrats.</span></p>
<p><span>She and the rest of the liberal elites, groveling abjectly in an attempt to accommodate their new masters, will be steadily replaced or dominated by buffoonish goons such as those seeded throughout the Trump administration.</span></p>
<p><span>The Department of Education has <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment">warned</a> 60 colleges and universities that they could face “potential enforcement actions,” if they do not comply with federal civil rights law that protects students from discrimination based on race or nationality, which includes anti-Semitism.</span></p>
<p><span>Columbia, <a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-war-on-education">stripped</a> of $400 million in federal grants, is desperately trying to restore the funding. I doubt it will work. Those mounting these assaults against universities intend to turn them into indoctrination machines. The so-called campaign against anti-Semitism is simply a cynical tool being used to achieve that end.</span></p>
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<p><span>The warning follows an <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/main/2025/02/12/nearly-200-faculty-members-sign-letter-urging-columbia-to-implement-safety-measures-for-jewish-students/">open letter</a> signed by 200 faculty members on Feb. 3 urging Columbia University implement measures to “protect Jewish students.”</span></p>
<p><span>Amongst their demands are the removal of Professor Joseph Massad who teaches Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at the university and beginning a Title VI investigation against him, that the university adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, which conflates criticism of Israel with racism against Jews and the university hire tenured pro-Israel faculty.</span></p>
<p><span>These institutions of privilege — I attended Harvard and have taught at Columbia and Princeton — have always been complicit in the crimes of their times.</span></p>
<p><span>They did not, until the world around them changed, speak out against the slaughter of Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans, the crushing of labor and socialist organizations at the turn of the twentieth century and the purging of institutions, including the academy, during the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z7spn9q/revision/3">Red Scare</a> in the 1920s and 1930s and later the <a href="https://spartacus-educational.com/USAmccarthyism.htm">witch hunts</a> under McCarthyism.</span></p>
<p><span>They <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/607021/columbia-1968-protests-vietnam-gaza-war/">turned</a> on their students protesting the war in Vietnam in the 1960s as viciously as they are turning on them now.</span></p>
<p><span>Many of the dregs of the Trump administration are products of these elite academic institutions. I can assure you their children will also attend these schools despite their public denunciations.</span></p>
<p><span>Rep. Elise Stefanik, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/us/politics/elise-stefanik-antisemitism-congress.html">humiliated</a> in congressional hearings the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, graduated from Harvard. Vice President JD Vance graduated from Yale Law School.</span> <span>Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.</span></p>
<p><span>Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth went to Princeton University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who has ordered a <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2025/03/03/hhs-ed-gsa-announce-additional-measures-end-anti-semitic-harassment-college-campuses.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CAnti-Semitism%20%E2%80%93%20like%20racism,Kennedy%2C%20Jr.">review</a> of grants to universities from his agency over allegations of anti-Semitism — graduated from Harvard.</span></p>
<p><span>Professor Katherine Franke, who taught at Columbia Law School for 25 years, <a href="https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/solidarity-katherine-franke-our-former-board-chair">recently lost</a> her position at the university for defending Columbia students’ right to protest in favor of a ceasefire of the Israeli slaughter in Gaza and for Columbia University to divest from Israel. She also condemned the spraying of pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus with a toxic chemical that left students hospitalized.</span></p>
<p><span>“Part of why I think Colombia was such an easy target — and it’s not just Columbia, I think this is true for Harvard, for Yale, for the elite universities — is that the boards of trustees are no longer made up of people who are involved in education — committed to the educational mission, in some way professionally or otherwise — see themselves as custodians of the special role that the academy plays in a democracy,” she told me.</span></p>
<p><span>“Instead, they are hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, corporate lawyers and in our case, arms manufacturers as well.” She went on:</span></p>
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<p><span>“And they see that responsibility is to protect only the endowment. I often describe Columbia — which is the largest residential landlord in New York City — as a real estate holding operation that has a side hustle of teaching classes. It has evolved over time into just a business that enjoys nonprofit status.</span></p>
<p><span>And so when the pressure started here, there were no voices on the boards of trustees to say, “Hey, wait a minute, we have to be the front line of resistance. Or at a minimum, we have to defend our academic mission.”</span></p>
<p><span>When I was sitting in my living room watching [former] president Minouche Shafik testify before that House committee… I was upset because they mentioned me, but more importantly, the fact that president Shafik did not even begin to defend Columbia, its faculty, its students, our project, our history of being one of the premier universities in the world.</span></p>
<p><span>Instead, she groveled before a bully. And we all know that when you grovel before a bully, it encourages the bully. And that’s exactly what’s happened here up until today, where they’re still negotiating with the Trump administration on terms that the administration has set. And this university, I think, will never be the same if it survives at all.”</span></p>
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<p><span>You can see my interview with Professor Franke <a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-constitutional-crisis-w">here</a>.</span></p>
<p><span>Universities and colleges across the country have shut down free speech and squandered their academic integrity. They have brutalized, arrested, suspended and expelled faculty, administrators and students that decry the genocide.</span></p>
<p><span>They have <a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/revolt-in-the-universities">called</a> <a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-nations-conscience-part-i-read">police</a> to their campuses — in the case of Columbia three times — to arrest students, often charging them with trespassing. Following the lead of their authoritarian masters they subjected students to <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/09/12/inside-columbias-surveillance-and-disciplinary-operation-for-student-protesters-3/">internal surveillance</a>.</span></p>
<p><span>Columbia University, out front on the <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/columbia-university-gaza-student-disclinary-office">repression</a> of its students, <a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/10/cu-appalling/">banned</a> Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace a month after Israel’s genocide in Gaza had begun in November 2023, when both organizations called for a ceasefire, long before the protests and encampments began.</span></p>
<p><span>Columbia’s violent suppression of protests and decision to lock down its campus, which is now surrounded by security checkpoints, paved the way for the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8">abduction</a> of Mahmoud Khalil, who was a graduate student at the School of International Public Affairs.</span></p>
<p><span>He is a <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-attorney-interview-lawsuit-trump-pam-bondi-linda-mcmahon">legal permanent resident</a>. He did not commit a crime. But the university administration had already demonized and criminalized Khalil and the other students, many of whom are Jewish, who dared to protest the mass slaughter in Gaza.</span></p>
<p><span>The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZAOdGcminY">video</a> — shot by his wife on March 8 — of Khalil being taken away by plainclothes federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who did not identify themselves, is a chilling reminder of the secret police abductions I witnessed on the streets of Santiago during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.</span></p>
<p><span>The law in authoritarian states protects the criminality of the powerful. It revokes due process, basic freedoms and the rights of citizenship. It is an instrument of repression. It is a very small step from the <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/marco-rubio-personally-signed-off">stripping</a> of rights from a legal resident holding a green card to the stripping of rights of any citizen. This is what is coming.</span></p>
<p><span>Khalil was ostensibly arrested under the <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/immigration-act">Immigration Nationality Act of 1952</a>, also known as the <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/immigration-act">McCarran-Walter Act</a>. It <a href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title8-section1227&amp;num=0&amp;edition=prelim">gives</a> the Secretary of State the power to deport foreign nationals if he has “reasonable ground[s] to believe” their presence or activities in the U.S. “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.”</span></p>
<p><span>It was used to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/document/the_excluded_report.pdf">deny entry</a> to the Chilean poet <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2014/06/pablo-nerudas-historic-first-reading-in-the-us-1966.html">Pablo Neruda</a>, the Colombian writer <a href="https://www.americantheatre.org/1984/12/01/artists-fall-victim-to-mccarthy-era-law/">Gabriel Garcia Márquez</a> and the British author <a href="https://knightcolumbia.org/content/censorship-border-threatens-free-speech-everywhere">Doris Lessing</a>. It was also used to deport the poet and essayist <a href="https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/matter-randall">Margaret Randall</a> and civil rights activist and journalist <a href="https://www.aaihs.org/the-deportation-of-claudia-jones/">Claudia Jones.</a></span></p>
<p><span>Senator Patrick McCarran, an <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wYzGTelSjcsC&amp;pg=PA89&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">open admirer</a> of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and a rabid <a href="https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/feb/16/state-leaders-back-rename-las-vegas-airport-reid/">anti-Semite</a>, formulated the act to target not only dissidents and communists, but also Jews. When the law was enacted, it was <a href="https://forward.com/news/702427/mccarran-walter-act-state-department-plan-deport-pro-hamas-students/">used</a> to ban Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors from entering the U.S. due to their alleged sympathies with the Soviet Union.</span></p>
<p><span>“The irony of that is not lost on any of us, that these are laws that are at their core, deeply antis-Semitic, that are now being deployed in the name of protecting Jewish citizens or our foreign policy goals with the state of Israel,” Franke said.</span></p>
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<p><span>“And that’s the cynicism of this administration. They don’t give a darn that there’s that history. They’re looking for every piece of power that they can get, every law, no matter how ugly that law may be. Even the laws that <a href="https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066">interned</a> Japanese people during World War Two. I’m sure they would be more than happy to use those at some point.”</span></p>
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<p><span>James Luther Adams, my mentor at Harvard Divinity School, was in Germany in 1935 and 1936 until he was arrested and deported by the Gestapo. He worked with the underground anti-Nazi church, known as the Confessing Church, led by dissident clergy such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Adams saw how swiftly and cravenly German universities, which like ours were considered some of the best in the world, surrendered to the dictates of fascism and self-destructed.</span></p>
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<p><span>The theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich, a close friend of Adams, was fired from his teaching post and blacklisted ten weeks after the Nazis came to power in January 1933.</span></p>
<p><span>Tillich’s book <a href="https://wipfandstock.com/9781620322918/the-socialist-decision/"><em>The Socialist Decision</em></a> was immediately <a href="https://christiansocialism.com/2021/12/09/paul-tillich-socialism-capitalism-nazism-postliberalism-christianity/">banned</a> by the Nazis. Tillich, a Lutheran pastor, along with the sociologist <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Mannheim">Karl Mannheim</a> and the philosopher <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Horkheimer">Max Horkheimer</a>, who wrote <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Reason-Bloomsbury-Revelations-Horkheimer/dp/1780938187"><em>Eclipse of Reason</em></a> which examines the rise of authoritarianism, were branded as “enemies of the Reich,” blacklisted and forced into exile.</span></p>
<p><span>The 1933 “<a href="https://www.dfs.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/08/nazi_laws_summary_english.pdf">Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service</a>” saw all Jewish professors dismissed. The vast majority of academics cowered in fear or, as with the case of the philosopher Martin Heidegger, joined the Nazi Party, which saw him appointed as the Rector of Freiburg University.</span></p>
<p><span>Adams saw in the Christian Right disturbing similarities with the German Christian Church, which was pro-Nazi. He was the first person I heard refer to the Christian Right as “<a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-christian-fascists-and-the">Christian fascists</a>.”</span></p>
<p><span>He also warned us about universities and academics which, if the country fell into authoritarianism, would debase themselves to protect their status and privileges. Few would speak out or defy authority.</span></p>
<p><span>“If the Nazis took over America, 60 percent of the Harvard faculty would happily begin their lectures with the Nazi salute,” he quipped.</span></p>
<p><span>And this is where we are. None of the liberal institutions, including the universities, the commercial media and the Democratic Party, will defend us.</span></p>
<p><span>They will <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586795/ref=sr_1_1">remain</a> supine, hypocritically betray their supposed principles and commitment to democracy or willingly transform themselves into apologists for the regime.</span></p>
<p><span>The purges and silencing of our most courageous and accomplished intellectuals, writers, artists and journalists — begun before Trump’s return to the White House — is being expedited.</span></p>
<p><span>Resistance will be left to us. Enemies of the state.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for <em>The New York Times,</em> where he served as the Middle East bureau chief and Balkan bureau chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for <em>The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor</em> and NPR.  He is the host of show “The Chris Hedges Report.”</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree restoring Ariston’s ownership of a local subsidiary</strong></p>
            
                        
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<p>Italian household equipment manufacturer Ariston has announced its return to Russia after exiting the market in 2022, according to a company statement.</p>
<p>Ariston has become the first major Western brand to announce a return, after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday removing the firm’s Russian subsidiary from the list of companies subject to temporary state administration.</p>
<p><em>“On March 26, 2025, Presidential Decree… reinstated Ariston Holding N.V. into the possession and full management of the shares of its Russian subsidiary,”</em> the company said in the statement.</p>
<p>President Putin’s decree reverses his April 26, 2024 order that had transferred control of Ariston’s Russian assets to the temporary management of Gazprom Household Systems JSC.</p>
<p>More than 1,000 Western firms – from well-known retail names such as Adidas, H&amp;M, and Calvin Klein to car giants such as Volkswagen and Ford – have exited Russia in the past three years under pressure from Ukraine-related sanctions.</p>
<p>Ariston’s executive chairman, Paolo Merloni, said the group is <em>“very pleased with the decision”</em> to reinstate the company as the owner and manager of its Russian unit, Ariston Thermo Rus.</p>

            
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<p><em>“We believe it reflects an appreciation for decades of responsible investments and management, our dedication to over 300 Russian employees, and the ongoing operations of the company’s local business,”</em> Merloni said.</p>
<p>According to the executive, the firm will resume activities with local leadership, <em>“adhering fully to existing sanctions, and continue our legacy in the country.”</em></p>
<p>Ariston also stated that its board would need to revisit its previous decision from August of last year to deconsolidate its Russian subsidiary and to account for the related losses.</p>
<p>The development comes amid a US pivot on relations with Russia and shift in tone on the Ukraine conflict, which has sparked speculation that major Western brands which left Russia en masse may be looking to return.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin stated on Wednesday that a special commission will assess each company’s case individually. Foreign firms that left <em>“under government pressure”</em> but preserved <em>“jobs, contacts, and technologies,”</em> as well as the buy-back option could be allowed back, Mishustin said. He added that companies with unique expertise would be welcomed, provided they comply with localization and investment requirements.</p>

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<p>The 15th Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) is set to light up the capital from April 18 to 26, promising nine days of film screenings, star-studded events, and immersive cultural experiences.</p>
<p>At a press conference on Thursday, organizers announced that this year's festival, guided by the China Film Administration and hosted by China Media Group (CMG) and the Beijing Municipal Government, will bring together filmmakers, industry leaders, and fans for a celebration of cinema.</p>
<p>Beyond the usual red carpets, film screenings, and awards gala, this year's BJIFF will introduce the Beijing Film Life Festival, aiming to integrate culture, commerce, tourism, and sports. The initiative will create new film consumption experiences and transform the city into a grand cinematic carnival for moviegoers and tourists.</p>
<p>During the festival, the organizing committee, in collaboration with CMG's Beijing station, will also launch a series of events, including Ne Zha-themed exhibitions and film-related cultural and creative markets to boost consumption. Beijing's major commercial districts and tourist attractions will also participate in the campaign, offering discounts on shopping, dining, accommodation, and parking for those who present their BJIFF movie tickets.</p>
<p>This year's official festival poster, featuring a stunning kaleidoscope design, was also unveiled in the press briefing. The poster is a tribute to cinema's ability to capture and reflect the beauty of life. The intricate patterns inside the kaleidoscope are inspired by the rooftop design of the Wanchun Pavilion in the Forbidden City, merging Chinese heritage with the magic of film.</p>
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<p><strong>New Delhi and Moscow have consistently shown a commitment to each other’s core interests, S. Jaishankar has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>India <em>“immensely values”</em> its strong relations with Russia, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said on Thursday in a video address to the Russia and India Conference in Moscow. </p>
<p>Jaishankar reaffirmed India’s commitment to nurturing ties between the two countries, telling the conference that <em>“we remain committed to exploring new frontiers and strengthening our partnership in today’s rapidly evolving global order.”</em></p>
<p>Despite the volatile global geopolitical situation, New Delhi and Moscow have consistently <em>“shown a commitment to each other’s core interests,”</em> the foreign minister added.</p>
<p>Jaishankar noted that the two nations had demonstrated an exceptional ability to adapt and find new opportunities for mutual benefit, contributing to regional and global stability. <em>“The era of multipolarity necessitates greater cooperation between India and Russia, and both nations are poised to play a significant role in shaping the future of international relations,”</em> he told the conference, which was organized by the Russian International Affairs Council.</p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 India &amp; Russia Share Deep-Rooted Cultural Ties That Are Only Set To Deepen, Says EAM Jaishankar At Moscow Dialogue <a href="https://t.co/mSDbHsqNtZ">pic.twitter.com/mSDbHsqNtZ</a></p>— RT_India (@RT_India_news) <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_India_news/status/1905218214616772645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>India’s diplomatic maneuvering has allowed it to maintain a delicate balance between its relationships with the US, Europe, and Russia. Despite facing pressure from Western nations over the Ukraine conflict, New Delhi remains resolute in its stance, asserting that its relations with Moscow are driven by its strategic security and economic interests.</p>

            
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<p>Jaishankar emphasized that while areas such as energy, defense, and civil nuclear cooperation have traditionally dominated engagements with Russia, new areas of collaboration are emerging, including trade, technology, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, connectivity, and regional economy.</p>
<p>The foreign minister also highlighted the ambitious target set by both countries to increase bilateral trade when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last year. Moscow and New Delhi agreed to bring bilateral trade to $100 billion by 2030, after seeing a significant increase in trade in 2022-23, according to government data.</p>
<p>The public exhibition of <a href="https://www.rt.com/india/614389-rt-india-putin-modi-ads/">friendship </a>between the two countries continued from earlier this month, when billboards featuring Modi and Putin appeared in New Delhi when the Indian capital hosted its annual geopolitical gathering. The Russian president is set to visit India later this year for a bilateral summit with Modi.</p>
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title: Trump Administration Takes Down Top MS-13 Gang Leader
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Early this morning, the Trump Administration <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1905229078614995199">directed</a> the successful apprehension of a key leader of the brutal MS-13 gang in Virginia — an <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1905237189211926621">illegal immigrant from El Salvador</a> who was one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the United States. Thanks to a coordinated effort by federal law enforcement and state and local law enforcement in Virginia, this gang leader is no longer terrorizing our streets.</p>
<p><strong>Here’s what you need to know:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1905237397786239383"><strong>Attorney General Pam Bondi</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “America is safer today because one of the top domestic terrorists in MS-13, he is off the streets. This has been an ongoing directive of President Trump. His directive to me when I became Attorney General of the United States was very simple: keep America safe.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1905238286345421104"><strong>Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “It’s this effort that has been enabled by the Trump Administration. President Trump said, ‘Get the bad guys.’ I’ve been working on this — literally — for the first three years of our administration with little to no help from the senior leadership in the federal government in the Biden Administration. On Day One [of President Trump’s second term], we went to work signing a 287(g) memorandum.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1905239069514248336"><strong>FBI Director Kash Patel</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “This is what happens when you let good cops be cops and we’re going to continue to let good cops be cops across this country. President Trump gave us the executive decision to go after and safeguard our communities … We are returning our communities to safety.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1905241257867194757"><strong>Attorney General Bondi</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “From the second Donald Trump took office, he said he is going to make America safe. He shut down our borders — and now it’s our job to get these people out of our country as fast as we can … We will not have another Laken Riley.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1905240804567761339"><strong>FBI Director Patel</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “This task force is going to go everywhere as needed across the United States to bring the form of justice and measured security and safety that our American citizens deserve … If you are here illegally, you will not be here any longer — and if you are going to continue to commit acts of violent crime, you will meet the same fate that this individual did this morning.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1905242201916842106"><strong>Governor Youngkin</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “This task force was designed in the White House … architected in a very quick period of time and stood up immediately … I cannot emphasize enough the collaboration and support and leadership out of the new administration that is so different than what we saw [under the Biden Administration].”</li>
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<p><strong>The founder of agricultural major Rusagro, Vadim Moshkovich, has been placed in pre-trial detention</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Russian prosecutors have detained the billionaire founder of leading agro-industrial firm Rusagro, charging him with large-scale fraud and abuse of power, local media outlets reported on Thursday. The businessman has been placed in two-month pre-trial detention.</p>
<p>Founded by former Russian MP Vadim Moshkovich, named by Forbes in 2024 as Russia's 55th richest businessperson with a fortune of $2.7 billion, Rusagro is Russia’s leading producer of sugar, meat, oil, and fats.</p>
<p>The criminal case against Moshkovich was initiated on the request of a major Cyprus-based supplier of vegetable oils and fats, Solnechnye Produkty, the Vedomosti newspaper reported. The businessman was allegedly involved in fraud with the firm’s assets to the amount of one billion rubles (nearly $12 million).</p>

            
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<p>Moshkovich pleaded not guilty at a court hearing in Moscow, with his defense offering a one-billion-ruble bail to match the alleged amount of fraud in the case. However, the judge ruled that the businessman be placed in pre-trial detention until May 25 after the prosecution argued that he may attempt to flee abroad. Moshkovich reportedly has Israeli citizenship, and his children live in France and Cyprus.</p>
<p>If found guilty, he faces up to ten years in jail.</p>
<p>The former CEO of Rusagro, Maxim Basov, was also detained as police raided several of the company’s offices. The company's current CEO, Timur Lipatov, was also questioned.</p>
<p>Rusagro said in a statement that its activities were continuing as normal and that all obligations were being met. The company’s shares have lost over a third of their value since Moshkovich’s arrest on Wednesday, according to data from the MOEX exchange.</p>
<p>Rusagro is Russia's only major listed agricultural company. It is not under Western sanctions, which were imposed on many of the country’s businesses in the aftermath of the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.</p>
<p>Moshkovich himself was placed under sanctions by the European Union that year, leading to him resigning as chairman of Rusagro and cutting his stake below 50%.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Rusagro moved its corporate registration from Cyprus to Russia following a court decision in a case brought by the Agriculture Ministry against the holding’s Cyprus-based parent company.</p>

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<p><strong>The Russian president has accepted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation, the foreign minister has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make an official visit to India and preparations for the event are underway, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Thursday.</p>
<p>Lavrov revealed the plan during a video address to participants of the Russian International Affairs Council conference <em>“Russia and India: Towards a new bilateral agenda.”</em></p>
<p><em>“It is symbolic that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made Russia his first foreign visit following his re-election last year. Now, it’s our turn to return the gesture,”</em> the top Russian diplomat stated.</p>
<p>Modi invited Putin to visit his country for their next bilateral meeting during last year’s BRICS summit in Kazan.</p>
<p>Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov had previously stated that an invitation had been received and that Putin planned to visit India in 2025.</p>
<p>In January, Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal announced that India and Russia are working on finalizing a timeline for Putin’s visit.</p>

            
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<p>The Russian president last visited India in December 2021, before the escalation of the Ukraine conflict. The most recent meeting between Putin and Modi took place in July last year when the Indian prime minister visited Moscow. Modi traveled to Russia for a second time in October, to take part in the BRICS summit in Kazan. During the visit he highlighted Russia’s contributions to promoting multilateralism, sustainable development, and global governance reforms.</p>
<p>Last month, TASS cited sources in India’s military circles claiming that Modi is <em>“very likely”</em> to attend this year’s Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 9 – which marks the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II.</p>
<p>India has maintained strong relations with Russia, despite Western pressure related to the Ukraine conflict. New Delhi has opted not to join Western sanctions against Moscow and has expanded economic cooperation, particularly in the energy sector. India is now one of Russia’s largest oil buyers, with bilateral trade exceeding $65 billion in the 2023–24 financial year — a fivefold rise from 2021. The countries have set a target of boosting trade to over $100 billion by 2030.</p>

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<p><strong>Washington has said that from April 1, its passport holders will no longer be able to visit Namibia without obtaining visa</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>US nationals traveling to Namibia will soon be required to obtain a visa prior to entry, Washington’s embassy has announced. The country in southern Africa, a major tourist destination, had traditionally allowed free entry to Americans and visitors from several other parts of the world.</p>
<p>In a statement on Tuesday, the US mission in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, said the new measure would take effect on April 1.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“Visitors are recommended to apply for their visa in advance of planned travel through Namibia’s online visa on arrival portal,”</em> it stated.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“Visitors arriving in Windhoek, Walvis Bay, or entering at high volume border crossing points… will also have the option of purchasing a tourist visa upon arrival at the respective airport or border crossing point,”</em> it added.</p>
<p>The UK High Commission in Windhoek has also updated its travel advice, urging British nationals to apply for a visa before visiting Namibia or be prepared to obtain one upon arrival.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“The cost is 1,600 Namibian dollars [around $87] per person, regardless of the age of the traveler,”</em> according to the British government.</p>

             
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<p>Along with Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Canada, and Austria, the US is among the top 10 Western countries whose tourists visit Namibia, according to an official.</p>
<p>Last year, Windhoek announced the new visa policy and plans to revoke exemption status for 31 countries, including the country’s major overseas tourism markets, citing a lack of reciprocity.</p>

            
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<p>Russia is among the foreign countries whose citizens are unaffected by Windhoek’s restrictions. Earlier this month, Yulia Maksutova, deputy director of Moscow’s Center for Strategic Research, said Russia had visa-free entry agreements with Namibia, Botswana, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Tunisia, South Africa, and the Seychelles.</p>
<p>The implementation of the measure comes days after the country swore in its first female president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. The 72-year-old member of the South West Africa People’s Organisation party, which has governed the sparsely populated country for over three decades, received more than 57% of the votes in elections last December.</p>

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<p><strong>A suspect has been taken into custody but investigators have yet to establish a motive</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A stabbing incident occurred in central Amsterdam, Netherlands on Thursday, leaving at least five people injured in the apparent attack, local police have said. </p>
<p>A suspect was apprehended after attacking people in the vicinity of Dam Square. His motives are currently unknown and an investigation is ongoing.</p>
<p><em>“In a stabbing incident at Sint Nicolaasstraat [near] Dam Square, five people have been injured. One suspect has been arrested,”</em> the police said.</p>
<p>Footage circulating online shows multiple ambulances at the scene, as well as a medevac helicopter landing on the square. A portion of it appears to have been cordoned off by police.</p>

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<p>The police requested that the public provide them with any available footage of the attack, sharing a <a href="https://x.com/POL_Amsterdam/status/1905282249357935008" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">link</a> online for readers to send data that could be used as evidence.</p>

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title: Breaking History Ep 89: Why NATO bombed the Balkans (guest: Joaquin Flores)
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<p>26 years ago, a bombing campaign was launched by NATO onto Yugoslavia as part of a much larger and insidious ‘End of History’ program designed to break up the world into micro ethno-national regions unified only by local tribalism, and mutual animosity toward neighboring regions. </p><p>This divide-to-conquer tactic took the name of ‘Balkanization’ and corresponded to a simultaneous growth of NATO as the military arm of an emerging world government.</p><p>With this dark anniversary in mind and with the hot battleground that Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina have played throughout history (and continue to play in our present age), Gordon and I thought it a good idea to invite color revolution expert, and Serbian based analyst Joaquin Flores onto this week’s episode of Breaking History.</p><p>Click below to watch the full show</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" 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href="https://canadianpatriot.org/">The Canadian Patriot Review</a>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/">the Rising Tide Foundation</a>. He has written the four volume<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/"> Untold History of Canada series</a>, four volume C<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/">lash of the Two Americas</a> series and<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press"> Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

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