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Spenglerian Analysis by Constantin von Hoffmeister: "The West Lives in a Simulation While Russia is Shaping the Real World

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<p>Constantin von Hoffmeister</p>
<p><span>Having produced several new translations of Oswald Spengler’s work, Mr. Hoffmeister is certainly well versed in his philosophy and historiographical ideas, which are part of a school of thought shared by a very notable few. Some will have heard of his</span> <em>Decline of the West,</em> <span>if they’ve heard of him at all</span><em>.</em> <span>Mr. Hoffmeister is editor-in-chief of</span> <em><a href="https://arktos.com/" rel>Arktos</a></em><span>, which is an anti-globalist website, and has his own substack,</span> <em><a href="https://www.eurosiberia.net/" rel>Eurosiberia</a></em><span>. The essay that follows includes some of those ideas and was</span> <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614311-west-russia-simulation-reality/" rel>published by</a> <em><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614311-west-russia-simulation-reality/" rel>RT</a></em> <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614311-west-russia-simulation-reality/" rel>here</a><span>. It appears to be a reworked and shorter version of “</span><a href="https://www.eurosiberia.net/p/dugin-and-the-decline-of-the-west" rel>Dugin and the Decline of the West</a><span>” that was published at his substack. I’m pleased to note his substack is free.</span></p>
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<p><span>The conflict in Ukraine is not about Ukraine.</span> <em><strong>It is the West’s last delirious attempt to exert control over a world that no longer needs it.</strong></em> <span>The West, lost in the labyrinth of its own technocratic nightmare, flails like a dying beast, mechanized and blind. The German historical philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), in ‘Man and Technics’ (1931), wrote of the Faustian civilization’s ultimate downfall, where technology, once an extension of organic culture, becomes an iron cage, trapping its creators in a world they no longer understand. The Western response to Ukraine is precisely this: Drones, sanctions, media narratives manufactured in real-time, an illusion of omnipotence maintained by algorithms, and artificial intelligence. But reality is slipping through the cracks.</span> <em><strong>The more the West mechanizes, the more it loses its ability to perceive the living, breathing cultures it seeks to control.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>A ceasefire? A negotiation? The West proposes them like a bureaucrat offering a new tax code,</span> <em><strong>as if war were a spreadsheet that could be adjusted to fit quarterly projections</strong></em><span>. US President Donald Trump’s emissaries meet with Russian officials, not because they believe in peace but because the old America-–his America-–has sensed the shift. A world order of raw power is replacing the West’s dream of digital hegemony, and Russia, China, and a thousand-year-old history stand against it. Spengler saw it coming: The machines would overtake the soul, and the West would become incapable of organic thought. This is why they cannot understand Russia–-not because they lack intelligence, but because their intelligence has been reduced to an algorithmic process,</span> <em><strong>stripped of cultural depth</strong></em><span>. The West is thinking in the way that a machine thinks, and Russia, still a creature of history,</span> <em><strong>is thinking like an empire</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses the ceasefire offer because he knows it is a mirage. He speaks of root causes, of history, of a world that is not reducible to transactions and diplomatic maneuvers. The West recoils in horror. This is the fundamental difference: Russia still understands what war means, while the West sees only an endless data stream of casualties, arms shipments, and strategic objectives. Spengler called this the tragic turn of Faustian civilization–-when man, having created his machines, no longer controls them.</span> <em><strong>The West does not wage war for power or territory but to maintain the facade that it is still in control.</strong></em> <span>War as process. War as algorithm. The end goal is never victory, only perpetual management of crises.</span></p>
<p><span>Meanwhile, the financial technocrats of the G7 conjure $50 billion from thin air, leveraging interest from Russia’s frozen assets, a sleight of hand that Spengler would recognize as</span> <em><strong>the final stage of Western decay–-economic manipulation replacing genuine production, artificial wealth replacing true cultural strength.</strong></em> <span>The West no longer builds. It merely extracts, redistributes, and sanctions,</span> <em><strong>hoping that the machinery of global finance can replace the natural momentum of a rising civilization.</strong></em> <span>Russia, in contrast, returns to the old ways: Industry, military strength, self-reliance. The difference is stark. One civilization grows more entangled in its own mechanical hat tricks, the other returns to the fundamental logic of history.</span></p>
<p>Spengler saw technology as both the great achievement and the final undoing of the West. It began as a tool, an extension of man’s will, but in the late stages, it turns against its creators, reducing them to mere components in a system that no longer serves them. The West’s obsession with sanctions, surveillance, and narrative control is not an expression of power. It is a sign of weakness. True imperial civilizations do not need to micro-manage the world; they shape it through sheer will. This is why Trump, despite his flaws, represents the only real possibility for a Western resurgence. He rejects the managerial ethos. He understands power instinctively, like the rulers of old. The new Conservative Revolution in America is not about ideology. It is about reclaiming agency from the machine.</p>
<p><span>And yet, the media apparatus, a monstrous organism birthed by technics, continues its relentless march,</span> <em><strong>shaping reality through distortion</strong></em><span>. Spengler wrote that the press, in the late stages of Western civilization,</span> <em><strong>ceases to inform and instead dictates what must be believed.</strong></em> <span>Ukraine is reduced to a symbolic battlefield in this grand narrative.</span> <em><strong>Russia is the villain because the system requires a villain. The truth is irrelevant.</strong></em> <span>The headlines are written before the events occur. The war exists less as a physical struggle and more as a media spectacle, a grotesque ritual in which Western leaders play-act as warriors while ensuring they remain far from the consequences of their own actions.</span></p>
<p><span>But while the West is trapped in its simulation, Russia operates in the real. The battlefield is not a metaphor. It is a place where men kill and die. Spengler warned that the civilizations of the late stage would become incapable of true war–-they would engage in conflicts but only as technocratic exercises, devoid of the deep, existential struggle that defined the great wars of history. This is why the West cannot win in Ukraine.</span> <em><strong>It fights as a bureaucratic entity, not as a people.</strong></em> <span>And Russia, for all its flaws,</span> <em><strong>fights as a people. The difference is everything.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>So here we are, watching the end of an era. The West’s technics cannot save it. The more it relies on technology, the weaker it becomes. The West’s technocrats believe they are guiding history, but history is slipping from their grasp. Ukraine is just a chapter in a much larger story–-</span><em><strong>the story of the old world returning, of empire reclaiming its place over the managerial state.</strong></em> <span>And Trump? He is not the solution, but he is a symptom. A sign that somewhere, buried beneath the layers of bureaucracy and digital wallpaper, the West still remembers what power looks like.</span></p>
<p>This war is not about Ukraine. It never was. It is about the final struggle between technics and history, between the machine and the soul. And in the end, the machine will fail. Spengler saw it. We see it now. And Russia, whatever else it may be, understands it better than the West ever will. [My Emphasis]</p>
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<p>I don’t know, but it seems safe to bet that Orwell read Spengler as did Asimov and a few others like Huntington. I saw that Spengler was a student of Vico and both molded my conception of how history operates in both a cyclical and linear manner, some of that finding expression above. I must admit great disagreement with, “The new Conservative Revolution in America is not about ideology. It is about reclaiming agency from the machine.” Fortunately, Trump is declared to not be the solution. Musk is clearly the machine, the technics component of Team Trump. However, I would also say the technology can also be the undoing of the East as the West has no monopoly on making wrong choices. The condemnation of Neoliberalism is very well aimed along with the reduction of living to financial outcomes and little else. An interesting question is what does it mean to think/act like an empire as Russia is according to the author? I see it being very much a “managerial state” but working with a completely different aim than Western states: It’s all about supporting all the people and settling the vast regions of Russia that have lain vacant for so long. And then there’s the internal culture that makes Russians Russian which was shaped by external actors and Russians’s adaptations to their actions that were repetitive to a degree that lends powerful credence to the idea that history to some extent in circular.</p>
<p>I again find myself wanting to restudy Spengler and think I can do so by further investigating Mr. Hoffmeister’s substack. Those visiting the Arktos website and his substack will quickly see the promotion of Alexander Dugin’s work and that of other philosophers. I trust this stimulated readers’s brains and increased their curiosity.</p>
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<p>At the Huaqing Palace in northwest China's Xi'an, history and emotion come to life in "The Song of Sorrow," a performance that tells the tragic love story of Emperor Xuanzong and Concubine Yang Guifei. Set against the stunning backdrop of this historic site, the show weaves together dance, music, and dramatic storytelling to transport audiences back to the Tang Dynasty. This immersive experience captures the beauty, passion, and heartbreak of one of China's most famous love stories.</p>
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<p>In Xiapu, Fujian, a fisherwoman was seen amidst a vast expanse of turquoise fishing nets, meticulously repairing tears within them. From a bird's-eye view, she appears to drift on the waves of a rolling ocean. Captured under the soft glow of the natural light filtering through the warehouse entrance, this scene encapsulates Xiapu's coastal culture. With a coastline stretching for more than 500 kilometers, Xiapu is known for its fishing communities, where numerous harbors, islands, and tidal flats shape its unique maritime landscape.</p>
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<p>Tangsancai relics are seen on display at the Shaanxi Tang Tricolor Pottery Art Museum in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on March 16, 2025. /IC</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Tangsancai relics are seen on display at the Shaanxi Tang Tricolor Pottery Art Museum in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on March 16, 2025. /IC</p>
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<p>As one of the iconic cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Tangsancai, a type of three-colored glazed ceramic, features a rich variety of glossy surfaces and intricate carvings. An exhibition at the Shaanxi Tang Tricolor Pottery Art Museum in Xi'an offers a glimpse into the royal life of the Tang Dynasty with some of the country's rarest Tangsancai relics. It presents the stories of the pottery ware from multiple perspectives, including daily life, music, dance, and friendly diplomatic relations, allowing visitors to experience the artistic tastes of the ancients.</p>
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<p>China's overall employment landscape has remained stable despite a fluctuation in its urban unemployment rate due to the Spring Festival holiday, official data showed on Monday.</p>
<p>The country's surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.3 percent on average in the first two months of 2025, unchanged from the same period last year, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).</p>
<p>In February, the surveyed urban unemployment rate was 5.4 percent, up from 5.2 percent in January.</p>
<p>NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui said the rate typically fluctuates in the January-February period due to the Spring Festival holiday, which ran from January 28 to February 4 this year.</p>
<p>China's efforts to stimulate domestic demand, promote high-quality development, upgrade traditional industries, and foster emerging sectors and business models are expected to provide a strong foundation for job growth, Fu told a press conference.</p>
<p>This year, significant efforts are still needed to stabilize and expand employment, he said, noting that "the international environment is complex and challenging, while the foundation for domestic economic recovery is not yet stable."</p>
<p>China has set a target for a surveyed urban unemployment rate of around 5.5 percent in 2025 and aims to create over 12 million new urban jobs, according to this year's government work report released last week.</p>
<p>This year, the country is committed to further refining the employment-first policy and making better use of various types of funds and resources to provide stronger support. These policies are expected to maintain overall employment stability as their impact continues to unfold, according to Fu.</p>
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<p>Preface: The transatlantic establishment in recent decades has brought economic and moral disaster to the United States, and made the USA the instrument of permanent war (with censorship and surveillance).</p>
<p>This is the globalist system, the latest reincarnation of the British and other European empires. Voters have strongly indicated they wish to break from this policy system.</p>
<p>But what is the United States, if it is not part of an imperial system, adverse to the interests of its own people and humanity? Who are we, as a nation, as a people? Threats to our perceived enemies do not alter these questions. Only answers deeply rooted in our history will save us from betrayal and destruction.</p>
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<p>By Anton Chaitkin</p>
<p>Stark truths about America’s history – absurdly suppressed truths - are rumbling around just below the surface of current events, ready to erupt into view. Donald Trump’s unsettling actions are shaking the ground under transatlantic policymakers, who had seemingly fixed in the public mind a false American historic identity in line with their imperial globalism.</p>
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<p>American thinking is dramatically shifting away from the murderous imperial philosophy of economics and war.</p>
<p>If our most beloved past leaders from throughout U.S. history were to come back to life, they would be applauding the current rapprochement with Russia; for we have reversed the recent headlong plunge toward nuclear-war hell. They would praise those who are now breaking the spell of Free Trade, and Green Malthusianism; for under these dogmas, the globalists have dictated “rules” leading to hunger, backwardness, and chaos.</p>
<p>This American change should be appreciated despite very serious questions about Trump’s leadership on such matters as the Middle East, and his plan (beyond tariffs) to restore the economy.</p>
<p>A recent news item should ring a bell for those with a sharp ear for good and evil in deeper history.</p>
<p>President Trump let it be known that he was angry at King Charles III. The British monarch, after all, had warmly received Ukraine leader Zelensky right after Trump had kicked Zelensky out of the White House for his war mania against Russia.</p>
<p><span>A</span> <em>Seattle Times</em> <span>story, depicted below, took the British view of the affair. That newspaper printed, as if it were incontrovertible truth, a U.K. spokesman’s assertion about the Anglo-American relationship:</span></p>
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<p><span>“No two countries are as closely aligned as ours on economic, defense, security and intelligence interests, and</span> <em><strong>we share deep historic and cultural ties</strong></em><span>” [emphasis added].</span></p>
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<p>In reality, the USA has only been able to grow and prosper, indeed it has only had a moral reason for existence as a separate nation, insofar as it has distinguished itself from the British empire, the most dangerous, mass-murderous empire that ever existed.</p>
<p>To support this assertion, let us briefly survey our history in the realms of economics and war, from the beginning of our War for Independence precisely 250 years ago, to our contemporary era.</p>
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<p>Four outstanding U.S. Presidents – George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy – though they were wartime leaders, believed passionately in peace. They counseled us to shun the permanent war policy of the British empire, to seek peace with all nations.</p>
<h4 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><span>And as American nationalists, each of those Presidents scorned the British imperial economic rules</span> <em>prohibiting</em> <span>nations from rising: they</span> <em><strong>promoted our manufacturing, built our national infrastructure, and controlled credits and currency in the people’s interest.</strong></em></h4>
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<p>Under these wise leaders, we asserted the right to advance ourselves, and we likewise believed in the right of other nations to defy imperial dictates, to use their own resources to advance themselves.</p>
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<p>We may see this American national philosophy at work in the action of Lincoln’s ambassador to China, Anson Burlingame, when he later returned to the U.S. to negotiate for mutual benefit the 1868 Burlingame-Seward Treaty. Article VIII specified that the U.S. would send qualified engineers to help China build railways if and when China decided to build them. Thus America distinguished itself from the British empire and its wars that forced China into opium addiction.</p>
<p>Franklin Roosevelt asserted this American philosophy again in 1933, when he rejected the plan of Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman for joint currency action by the central banks. Standing up for U.S. national independence for the interest of its own people, FDR told the London Monetary Conference:</p>
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<p>“Old fetishes of so-called international bankers are being replaced by efforts to plan national currencies with the objective of giving to those currencies a continuing purchasing power which does not greatly vary in terms of the commodities and need of modern civilization.”</p>
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<p><span>[Wireless to the London Conference, July 3, 1933 --</span> <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/wireless-the-london-conference" rel>https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/wireless-the-london-conference</a><span>]</span></p>
<p>FDR was fully aware that this same Montagu Norman centrally coordinated the clique of Hitler supporters among bankers in London and New York, even to the later years of World War II.</p>
<p>Does the USA “share deep historic and cultural ties” with Britain? If so, it is only because banker-led globalists fastened a halter around America’s neck after FDR’s death, and again, even more tightly, after the Kennedy brothers and Dr. King were done away with.</p>
<p>Throughout its history, the United States has committed crimes against its own future, against its racial minorities, and against other nations, whenever it failed to live up to the philosophy in its Declaration of Independence. But if we understand that independence makes us both powerful and generous, we will recognize Who We Are as a nation.</p>
<p><span>[Anton Chaitkin’s</span> <em>Who We Are: America’s Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy</em><span>, Volume 1, 1750s to 1850s, was published in 2020.</span> <strong>Volume Two of</strong> <em><strong>Who We Are</strong></em> <strong>(1830s to 1890s) is now targeted for publication in April, 2025.</strong></p>
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title:
Four Megabanks on Wall Street Hold $3.2 Trillion in Uninsured Deposits – Which May Explain Senator Schumer’s Pivot to the GOP to Stop a Government Shutdown

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<p>By <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Pam Martens and </a><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Russ Martens</a>: March 17, 2025 ~</p>
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<p>During Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) political career, three of his five largest campaign donors have been Wall Street megabanks – Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase. His second largest campaign donor over his political career are the partners and employees of Big Law firm Paul Weiss, where his brother, Robert, is actively engaged in Mergers and Acquisitions by major corporations that are publicly traded on Wall Street. Paul Weiss, as a firm, represents some of the largest banks and trading houses on Wall Street.</p>
<p>Last week Schumer, the Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate, did a major pivot between Wednesday and Friday. On Wednesday he vowed that Democrats would stand firm in voting against the Republican version of a Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the federal government open, a spending bill deeply opposed by the majority of Congressional Democrats, who viewed it as a slap in the face to the working class of America. By Friday, Schumer had flipped and voted in favor of the bill – outraging progressives in the party.</p>
<p>Schumer explained his flip-flop as follows on the Senate floor: “As bad as passing the CR is, allowing Donald Trump to take even more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option.”</p>
<p>Shutting down the U.S. government would have had an immediate negative impact on stock prices on Wall Street; the U.S. dollar; potentially the credit rating of U.S. sovereign debt; and it would increase the existing threat of uninsured deposits stampeding out of U.S. banks – <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/03/moodys-downgrades-entire-u-s-banking-system-credit-suisse-plummets-welcome-to-banking-crisis-3-0/">raising the threat of another banking crisis</a> potentially worse than the one that occurred in the spring of 2023.</p>
<p>On November 14, 2023, the then Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Martin Gruenberg, testified before the Senate Banking Committee on why his agency had to pay out billions of dollars as a result of the spring bank runs. Gruenberg revealed that the biggest losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund when Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank failed in March, did not come from bad loans or underwater debt instruments but from the FDIC having to make good on the banks’ uninsured deposits that were stampeding out the door. (The FDIC temporarily took the banks into receivership when they failed until they could be sold.) Gruenberg stated:</p>
<p>“As of June 30, 2023, the FDIC estimated the cost for the failures of SVB and Signature Bank to total $18.5 billion. Of that estimated total cost of $18.5 billion, the FDIC estimated that approximately $15.8 billion was attributable to the cost of covering uninsured deposits as a result of the systemic risk determination made on March 12, 2023, following the closures of SVB and Signature Bank.”</p>
<p>The banking crisis of 2023 set off a panic bank run where depositors were withdrawing their uninsured deposits at banks from coast to coast, including from the megabanks. (Federal deposit insurance is capped at $250,000 per depositor per bank.)</p>
<p>What most Americans do not know is that the vast amount of uninsured deposits that are concentrated at just four Wall Street banks could tank the U.S. economy if there was a bank run at these institutions.</p>
<p>According to the Call Reports for the period ending December 31, 2024, uninsured deposits at the domestic branches of the following four megabanks were as follows:</p>
<p>JPMorgan Chase: $1.15 Trillion</p>
<p>Wells Fargo: $652.7 Billion</p>
<p>Citibank, N.A. (part of Citigroup): $594.5 Billion</p>
<p>Bank of America: $821.9 Billion</p>
<p>The above four banks’ domestic uninsured deposits total $3.2 <em>trillion</em>. That’s 202 times the amount of losses on uninsured deposits that the FDIC had to absorb in the 2023 banking crisis.</p>
<p>Stock markets are said to “climb a wall of worry,” which they had been doing for most of January. But markets collapse under a sea of chaos, which has been the operative descriptor of the Trump administration since February.</p>
<p>The other notable news item that may be connected to Schumer’s pivot on the Republican’s spending plan is that the same day (last Friday) that the Senate voted and passed the plan, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/addressing-risks-from-paul-weiss/">Donald Trump signed an Executive Order</a> that could potentially cripple the ability of Schumer’s brother’s law firm, Paul Weiss, to stay in business.</p>
<p>The Executive Order stripped the many lawyers holding security clearances at the firm of their security clearance – meaning the firm would have to drop major cases that required their review of classified government documents for their clients, and decline taking new cases involving classified government documents.</p>
<p>The order said the security clearances would be suspended “pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest.”</p>
<p>The Executive Order also cut off Paul Weiss lawyers’ access to government buildings and was silent as to whether that included federal courts. The order also prevented the law firm from getting federal jobs and to receive money from federal contracts.</p>
<p>Every major corporation and Wall Street firm with whom Paul Weiss has done business for 150 years now understands that it has been placed on Donald Trump’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/15/donald-trump-law-firm-attack-025949">growing list of blacklisted law firms</a>. That is going to have a chilling impact on its ability to attract new business until the case winds its way through the courts.</p>
<p>Paul Weiss has gotten many firms on Wall Street off easy for serious crimes. But that’s not the basis of Trump’s attack on the firm. The Executive Order is all about getting personal revenge for Trump.</p>
<p>Trump specifically cites in the Executive Order the law firm’s representation of the District of Columbia Attorney General against the January 6 attackers, (who were trying to keep Trump in office illegally); and it names a Paul Weiss former law partner, Mark Pomerantz, for joining the Manhattan District Attorney’s office “solely to manufacture a prosecution against me….”</p>

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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138352
title: The Whore US Media’s Double-Standard
author: ;pcr3
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<p>Trump flying a planeload of foreign terrorists out of the country: Illegal</p>
<p>Biden flying planeloads of illegals into the country: No problem</p>
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title: French President Humiliates Himself and France
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<p><a href="https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1901066990795587988">https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1901066990795587988</a></p>


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title: Trump Orders Shutdown of Deep State Propaganda Organizations
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<p>Trump Orders Shutdown of Deep State Propaganda Organizations</p>
<p><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20250316/not-just-voice-of-america-deep-state-mouthpieces-shut-down-1121644251.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20250316/not-just-voice-of-america-deep-state-mouthpieces-shut-down-1121644251.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138357
title: Trump Is Making a Fool of Himself
author: ;pcr3
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<p>It looks like hubris has taken over.  I am losing faith in a turnaround.</p>
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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138342
title: Our Pro-Israeli Heros
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<p>Our Pro-Israeli Heros</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>It is discouraging that politicians, such as Trump and DeSantis<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>who protect us from DEI and other Woke evil are aligned with Israel against American civil liberty.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Are they really our heroes if Israel owns them?</p>
<p>The anomaly of American politicians aligned with Israel against America shows the folly of permitting money to purchase the government. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Candidates for office should compete on the basis of ideas, not on the basis of who sells out to the most interest groups and amasses the largest political campaign fund. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Candidates selected by parties or some reasonable process should have free air time paid for by public funds to make their case for the agenda they represent. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Philip Giraldi emphasizes that it is the Israel Lobby that is turning America into a tyranny by criminalizing free speech. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>How are we to be made great again when, among legions of Israeli puppets, the President of the United States and the Governor of Florida sacrifice the First Amendment to Israel?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-death-of-free-speech-in-america/">https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-death-of-free-speech-in-america/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


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title: The British Repudiate Shakespeare Because His Success “Benefits the Ideology of White Supremacy”
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<p>The British Repudiate Shakespeare Because His Success “Benefits the Ideology of White Supremacy”</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14504153/Shakespeares-birthplace-colonised-fears-success-benefits-ideology-white-supremacy.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14504153/Shakespeares-birthplace-colonised-fears-success-benefits-ideology-white-supremacy.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>What has happened to the Western World that causes it to deny and bury its successes because the successes allegedly embarrass nonwhites?</p>
<p>For decades the majority of Western intellectuals, “artists,” and university professors have worked assiduously to demonize Western accomplishments as accomplished via looting of superior non-white cultures.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Not long ago a Swedish anti-white activist made a “documentary” “proving” that the original inhabitants of Sweden were black. How blacks survived such low vitamin D absorption from such weak sunshine he did not say. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>It did not matter.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The Western intellectual world was delighted at this “proof” that the accomplishments attributed to whites were really an appropriation of black accomplishments.</p>
<p>The problem with this satisfaction is that there are no black or non-white precedents for Shakespeare from whom Shakespeare can be said to have stolen his work.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The solution is to deep-six Shakespeare for being a racist for embarrassing non-whites with the sublimity of his art.</p>
<p>We have reached the point in Western Civilization to the extent it still exists at which success is equated with “white supremacy.” <i>As the Western intellectuals have arranged it, the only way the West cannot be racist is to be a failure.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>This is why everywhere in the West the governments are making the Western countries into Sodom and Gomorrah Towers of Babel.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></p>
<p>For decades<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Shakespeare, who in my student days was the example of the best use of the English language, is today portrayed in university courses as a racist, sexist, homophobic, white supremacist.</p>
<p>In Shakespeare’s day there was no such thing as a white supremacist. But facts are not a component of Western “scholarship” today.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The purpose of Western scholarship is denunciation of “racist” Western civilization.</p>
<p>Anti-western intellectuals use criticism as a weapon. Its object is an enemy it wants not to refute but to destroy.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Criticism is no longer an end in itself but simply a means. It essential pathos is indignation. Its essential task, denunciation. Criticism is hand to hand combat, and in such a combat the point is not whether the opponent is noble, equal or interesting, <i>the point is to strike him.</i></p>
<p>Those of you who are well educated will recognize that I am quoting Karl Marx on the purpose and use of criticism. My use of Marx does not mean that I am a Marxist.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is my illustration that Western intellectual and liberal-left professors are, whether they have sufficient education to realize it, utilizing Marx’s tools for overturning a society.</p>
<p>For years American and British universities that are homes to Woke academics have refused to teach Shakespeare, thus depriving an English B.A. degree of content. Shakespeare, say the dumbshit professors, is racist, because he allegedly links beauty with whiteness.</p>
<p>The London theater<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>has initiated “anti-racist” seminars to discuss “decolonizing” Shakespeare’s plays.</p>
<p>So, what are white ethnicities confronted<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>with? <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>They are confronted with being coerced by their own governments and intellectuals into accepting white inferiority. Whites can only justify their existence by submitting to the rule of non-whites. Jean Raspail correctly described Europe’s demise in 1973 in <i>The Camp of the Saints</i>.</p>
<p>If you haven’t read this book, you do not know your future.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is independent of Trump, Macron, Putin, Zelensky. It is happening despite any Trump regime deportations of immigrant-invaders.</p>
<p>The simple fact is that white people are doomed, because their intellectuals, schools and governments have convinced them that they are racists guilty of racism, and that justice requires white ethnicities to accept second class citizenship in law.</p>

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An Officially Concealed Genocide- British Malthusianism &amp; the Truth of the 'Irish Potato Famine'

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<p>This St Patrick’s Day, I thought it appropriate to be reminded that a vicious lie has been promoted for over 170 years that a “potato famine” ravaged Ireland from 1845-1850 resulting in 2 million lost souls. </p><p>The facts, as outlined by Christopher Foggarty in the following RTF lecture, demonstrates conclusively that nothing short of a conscious genocide took place following cold mathematical Malthusian principles for reasons, and using methods not at all dissimilar from what has been done to many third world nations under the guise of “globalisation” over the past century. </p><p>If this Irish genocide was finally recognized for what it was, then we would all be much better equipped to prevent another mass genocide from being invoked under the guise of a ‘Great Reset’ today.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"0cIj62NQg80","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-0cIj62NQg80" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0cIj62NQg80?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>Purchase Chris Foggarty’s An Officially Concealed Genocide: British Malthusianism and the True Story of the ‘Irish Potato Famine’<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGR4T01aOGhVUFM3X1ZLNjF3ZEs2TE02R0d4UXxBQ3Jtc0tuZHEtTE1jc3dfNFVMdVdDc1hPLVFOMXM0SWpnenZGMDRnV3ZvTjUwQ3lTbjZpTEdoM19NTDg3RVVEaVk4V0N1bjJDcmNrZ1pJRVcxcERxcWk3UDZ4cGRtRlhod05EbTI0YXNGNl9UVTJYcFJUQi11WQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FIreland-1845-1850-Perfect-Holocaust-Perfect%2Fdp%2F0989610616&amp;v=0cIj62NQg80"> here</a>. (He also made a free PDF available <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFFpR2JzX1F4VXdkZTdaZXlqRlFKU3pyaHUtZ3xBQ3Jtc0trWWlxZzRuekVsU2ZDWWZyNEp3MmhlNHNtN2hud3AyUWlaU2g5QjJvQ2FONURmX2tYdkFkd09xMnhBaTd5RjBKaHUzSkUxUVJ2emRNejBYVkhpZEVnWmJRVWM2WEQzU0lTYlJkNlNEY0J0T01LUGktUQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Ffliphtml5.com%2Fqfpkk%2Fsfhj&amp;v=0cIj62NQg80">for download here</a>)</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1ec9212-453c-469e-b1ac-6eb2e213b66e_750x515.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img 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An Officially Concealed Genocide- British Malthusianism &amp; the Truth of the &amp;#039;Irish Potato Famine&amp;#039;

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]This St Patrick’s Day, I thought it appropriate to be reminded that a vicious lie has been promoted for over 170 years that a “potato famine” ravaged Ireland from 1845-1850 resulting in 2 million lost souls.

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<div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9236319-1dd1-4158-b073-83523002e619_1830x976.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9236319-1dd1-4158-b073-83523002e619_1830x976.png" width="1456" height="777" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9236319-1dd1-4158-b073-83523002e619_1830x976.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":777,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2890056,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159255032?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9236319-1dd1-4158-b073-83523002e619_1830x976.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Yesterday, I released updated chapters of “Awan Minutes To Midnight,” a playbook for dismantling the Deep State’s shenanigans on Capitol Hill since 9/11, to Dan Bongino for his first day on the job today at the FBI.  Today, I am providing Dan Bongino and all the FBI, in addition to all the Gun and Badge agencies, an index to all my Deep State dismantling playbooks.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee8e64bd-3db2-40b2-b748-aa187acb5868_1830x976.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee8e64bd-3db2-40b2-b748-aa187acb5868_1830x976.png" width="1456" height="777" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ee8e64bd-3db2-40b2-b748-aa187acb5868_1830x976.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":777,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3142603,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159255032?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee8e64bd-3db2-40b2-b748-aa187acb5868_1830x976.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Our researchers have prepared extensive investigation playbooks no matter where Dan Bongino and Kash Patel want to start dismantling the Octopus of the Deep State.</p><p>If Dan and Kash want to get the JFK and RFK files out in the open first, we can direct them to the four “Love Sandbox Murders” on Santa Monica, Beach, where both Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe, and Sharon Tate were lured together, and all were murdered not long after. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" 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data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Here is a recent video I did on the “Love Sandbox Murders” of Santa Monica.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b769ce4-a927-4656-b9f0-dea3e29549ea_1252x976.png" 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data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>https://x.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/status/1901975116323729713</p><p>If declassifying the JFK and RFK files are not forthcoming, perhaps Dan and Kash want to tackle some recent threats to our National Security.</p><p>If Kash Patel and Dan Bongino want to start with current threats like X/Twitter being cyber-hacked from Ukraine, we have our “Mark Of Zhora” series, which predicted the attacks on Twitter and outlined all the Ukrainian hackers involved.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc96b3992-c88f-4001-a11c-c07e4d588260_1172x1134.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc96b3992-c88f-4001-a11c-c07e4d588260_1172x1134.jpeg" width="1172" height="1134" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c96b3992-c88f-4001-a11c-c07e4d588260_1172x1134.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1134,"width":1172,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1508029,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159255032?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc96b3992-c88f-4001-a11c-c07e4d588260_1172x1134.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">George Webb’s Task Force Orange Journal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><div data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;30e12bcc-ef9c-4f8d-be51-464339e037a1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;As Trump Derangement Syndrome reaches a fever pitch, it’s time to take stock of all the DNC‘s Arsenal of weapons to influence elections, especially all of the Ukrainian hacker assets at their disposal. Now the DNC has directed hundreds of Billions to Ukraine funding terrorist brigades like Igor Kolomoisky’s Azov Brigade; we can expect the hacking chick…&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Will DNC Use Ukrainians To Hack Trump If It Doesn't Go Their Way?&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:60060898,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;George Webb&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;If you would like to buy me a coffee to support my work, here you go. I am keeping the site free for now to get the word out as far and wide as I can. You can buy me a coffee here. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/georgwebb1 &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bad620b2-6788-4abf-a187-99b2e840ddbb_1200x790.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-02-07T15:23:55.962Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F158aa8f2-a93b-4c00-9645-073b51dc162d_936x1056.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/will-dnc-use-ukrainians-to-hack-2024&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:141462237,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:54,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;George’ Webb Task Force Orange Journal&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e172f42-f527-4f98-b0aa-8bd05d9e1eac_968x968.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F47dd91f3-623b-42c3-99af-ac12ae8fe1cb_2220x1258.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F47dd91f3-623b-42c3-99af-ac12ae8fe1cb_2220x1258.png" width="1456" height="825" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/47dd91f3-623b-42c3-99af-ac12ae8fe1cb_2220x1258.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":825,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":4803920,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159255032?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F47dd91f3-623b-42c3-99af-ac12ae8fe1cb_2220x1258.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We, as Americans, have to face the threat that Zelensky and Kolomoisky are going to turn their cyber hacking assets from the Ukraine War now on US targets for extortion.  By keying in on Zhora, a protege of Dmitri Alperovich, we will know the arsenal of cyberweapons that are in play and the attack signatures to be prepared for in defense of our Nation’s cyber infrastructure.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc636361b-0718-46a3-af8f-353c3193fcbd_2220x1258.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc636361b-0718-46a3-af8f-353c3193fcbd_2220x1258.png" width="1456" height="825" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c636361b-0718-46a3-af8f-353c3193fcbd_2220x1258.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":825,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":4997948,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159255032?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc636361b-0718-46a3-af8f-353c3193fcbd_2220x1258.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We want Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to know who is behind the cyber hacks from Day One.  We want to have complete players’ profiles on their desks with past attack signatures thoroughly analyzed before another cyber attack is launched from Ukraine.</p><p>Switching gears now, if Kash and Dan want to get to the bottom of the attempted Trump Assassination and the fact that Thomas Crooks was actually a duped volunteer sniper, they can check out my series, “American Antifa.”</p><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"a2c51955-4eac-4484-9e7c-c8201feeb000","caption":"Thomas Crooks is the American Antifa. We now know he was groomed over five years in bomb-making lessons and then sniper training to go on to almost murder a President.","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"Thomas Crooks - The American Antifa - Part One","publishedBylines":[{"id":60060898,"name":"George Webb","bio":"If you would like to buy me a coffee to support my work, here you go. I am keeping the site free for now to get the word out as far and wide as I can. 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The open “volunteer doing his job well” behavior that Crooks exhibited on the 8th, 12th, and 13 of July at the Butler site in threat preparation flies in the face in the current narrative that Crooks was a deranged, lone gunman.</p><p>Moving now to the January 6th psychological operation, perhaps Kash and Dan want the inside story on J6 from reporters who called out Joe Biggs and the Orange Hats throwing the Capitol Gates live  long before Trump finished speaking a mile away, exonerating Trump.  You may remember that our channel’s live stream from the Capitol Gates on January 6th made a mockery of the “Trump ordered the Insurrection” myth because we filmed the beginnings of the gate throwing far before Trump was done speaking at the White House.</p><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"b357e00e-1055-47b3-9e92-07324bf38a91","caption":"In the months leading up to January 6th, 2021, I reported extensively about 4th Psychological Operations from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, loading buses of unsuspecting, non-violent spectators into sponsored buses along the East Coast of the United States for “slaughter pen operations.”","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"American Slaughter Pen - Part One","publishedBylines":[{"id":60060898,"name":"George Webb","bio":"If you would like to buy me a coffee to support my work, here you go. I am keeping the site free for now to get the word out as far and wide as I can. You can buy me a coffee here. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/georgwebb1 ","photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bad620b2-6788-4abf-a187-99b2e840ddbb_1200x790.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":100}],"post_date":"2024-09-08T10:49:33.646Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F93742b8e-2977-4ff6-803c-3c8ed0179705_1290x734.jpeg","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/american-slaughter-pen-part-one","section_name":null,"id":148638852,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":72,"comment_count":2,"publication_name":"George’ Webb Task Force Orange Journal","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e172f42-f527-4f98-b0aa-8bd05d9e1eac_968x968.png","belowTheFold":true}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><p>Perhaps Dan Bongino and Kash Patel want to take on the military Live Exercise called CoronaVirus?  If Kash and Dan want the names, dates, and places on the joint venture between the CIA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences for the military Live Exercise we call CoronaVirus, we have our “DARPA’s Dr. Death” series.</p><div data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;8b133f97-a59b-4736-b2b4-781d17d57ec0&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;DARPA Doctor Michael Callahan has had a Harvard professorship diplomatic cover in Wuhan since 2009.&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;DARPA's Doctor Death In Wuhan For Years Before Outbreak - Part One - Beware The CoronaThrax&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:60060898,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;George Webb&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;If you would like to buy me a coffee to support my work, here you go. I am keeping the site free for now to get the word out as far and wide as I can. You can buy me a coffee here. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/georgwebb1 &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bad620b2-6788-4abf-a187-99b2e840ddbb_1200x790.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2022-12-23T12:49:08.421Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F718b6c12-f212-440e-bfff-f5e655c873ef_986x570.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/darpas-doctor-death-in-wuhan-for&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:92449727,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:104,&quot;comment_count&quot;:34,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;George’ Webb Task Force Orange Journal&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e172f42-f527-4f98-b0aa-8bd05d9e1eac_968x968.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><p>Suppose Kash Patel and Dan Bongino want a refresher on how the CIA lured previous Presidents to their deaths. In that case, they can check out our “Echoes of Laurel Canyon - How The CIA Infiltrate Hollywood” series.  You will find both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy were lured to Santa Monica Beach, California, once in 1962 by Marilyn Monroe and then again in 1968 using another blond bombshell named Sharon Tate.  Both blonde bombshells ended up murdered after being lured to the Kennedys in intelligence operations.</p><p>I will update these four series with new summaries and graphics and make them free to view, swinging open the playbook library to take down the Deep State. Welcome to the FBI, Dan Bongino, on your first day! Please consider this a welcome gift.</p><p>Sincerely,</p><p>George Webb</p><p>Don’t worry.  We won’t forget about the Awan Spy Ring and their conspirators.  Their tradition lives on the Jeff and Mark Epstein betting window for overthrows in Congress at the Humpty Dumpty Institute.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13437705-41c2-4669-86ba-2912f72cb8bd_1964x1722.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13437705-41c2-4669-86ba-2912f72cb8bd_1964x1722.png" width="1456" height="1277" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13437705-41c2-4669-86ba-2912f72cb8bd_1964x1722.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1277,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":519026,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159255032?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13437705-41c2-4669-86ba-2912f72cb8bd_1964x1722.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We continue to track the Congressional Members from the original Spy Ring.</p><p>My priority now, however, is the Black Cat Ukrainian hackers who are targeting States like Rhode Island welfare systems or claims payers like United Healthcare with “Wanna Cry”-type virus attacks.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea037756-a173-414c-9ccc-fc036e79a59f_1820x970.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea037756-a173-414c-9ccc-fc036e79a59f_1820x970.png" width="1456" height="776" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ea037756-a173-414c-9ccc-fc036e79a59f_1820x970.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":776,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3392147,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159255032?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea037756-a173-414c-9ccc-fc036e79a59f_1820x970.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">George Webb’s Task Force Orange Journal is a reader-supported publication. 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<div><img src="https://brixsweden.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Bild1-2.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Dear friend of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden,</p>
<p>Our next webinar titled “EU-China Relations in a Rapidly Changing World” will take place on Wednesday March 19th at 10:00 CET (5 PM Beijing time).</p>
<p>You are welcome to join us on Zoom on Wednesday, March 19th at 10:00 CET by clicking this link: <span>https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86429289396</span></p>
<p>The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX) is organizing a webinar to discuss with European and Chinese experts the dramatic changes underway in 2025. These developments, triggered partly by actions taken by President Donald Trump’s Administration, have created possibilities for genuine cooperation and friendship within the global perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The question remains if the EU will take this opportunity to embrace the BRI. This would mean the final abandonment of geopolitically minded zero-sum policies which have separated Europe from Russia and China. As China’s President Xi Jinping expressed it, the nations of the world find themselves in “one boat”.</p>
<p>If we seize the new opportunities for new technological and economic development, there will be ways for achieving common global peace and prosperity. There exist nonetheless great challenges. How will Europe, the EU, and Sweden respond to these dramatic global changes and challenges? How will Sweden and Europe respond to the emerging and rapidly growing Global South and BRICS? These are the questions we raise in this webinar.</p>
<p>The BRIX members believe that the Belt and Road Initiative is the appropriate framework which can facilitate increased cooperation and dialogue in 2025. There are specific steps the EU can take to position itself in a more advantageous position than the current precarious one it finds itself in.</p>
<h6>List of speakers</h6>
<p>1) <strong>Stephen Brawer (moderator)</strong>: Chairman of Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, Distinguished Research Fellow of Guangdong Institute for International Strategies.</p>
<p>2) <strong>Mr. Wan Degang:</strong> Chargé d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Sweden.</p>
<p>3) <strong>Erik Solheim</strong>: President Europe-Asia Center (Brussels), Former Executive Director of UN Environment Program, Former Minister of Development, Norway, Vice-President of the International Green Belt and Road Coalition.</p>
<p>4) <strong>Professor Bojan Lalic</strong>: Director Belt and Road Institute Belgrade.</p>
<p>5) <strong>Einmeier Bernd</strong>: President of DCG Entrepreneur for Business Development and Startups, President of German-Chinese Friendship Association, Germany.</p>
<p>6) <strong>Professor Li Xing</strong>: Director of European Research Center at Guangdong Institute for International Strategies, Professor of International Relations at Aalborg University, Denmark.</p>
<p>7) <strong>Professor Ivo Hristov</strong>: Professor in Sociology University of Plovdiv, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies Sofia, Bulgaria.</p>
<p>8) <strong>Jan-Menke Hopma:</strong> Founder and Chairman of Innovasian Bridge, Holland.</p>
<p>9) <strong>Dr. Tomaz Amon</strong>: President of Slovenian-Chinese Friendship Association, Slovenia.</p>
<p>10) <strong>Hussein Askary</strong>: Vice Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, Distinguished Research Fellow Guangdong Institute for International Strategies.</p>
<p><strong>For more information, contact us: <a href="https://brixsweden.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" data-cfemail="8ae3e4ece5cae8f8e3f2f9fdefeeefe4a4e5f8ed" data-sanitized-class="__cf_email__">[email protected]</a></strong></p>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901662703292211595" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">🚨 THE NEXT 2008 IS HAPPENING NOW 🚨<p>Party City. Joann’s. Forever 21. Big Lots. ALL COLLAPSING.</p><p>But this isn’t just “retail struggling.” This is financial arson.</p><p>Private equity rigged the system. They built a time bomb. And now? It’s detonating.</p><p>A MEGATHREAD: 🧵⬇️ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><video controls="controls" poster="https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/1901660092409257985/img/OJ81AiyBhKv0wlvl.jpg" preload="none"><span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><source src="https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1901660092409257985/pl/rIM8RTHSmsb9oTnR.m3u8?tag=16&amp;container=fmp4" type="application/x-mpegURL"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1901660092409257985/vid/avc1/480x852/20KvqduKlZ92zHOV.mp4?tag=16" type="video/mp4"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1901660092409257985/vid/avc1/720x1280/bSClcNOQaIX8enXh.mp4?tag=16" type="video/mp4"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1901660092409257985/vid/avc1/320x568/S3C295ty9wLPWkiv.mp4?tag=16" type="video/mp4"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1901660092409257985/vid/avc1/1080x1920/RItZFBSna4pvwohz.mp4?tag=16" type="video/mp4"></span></video></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901664754910798318" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">1.</span> THE BOMBSHELL<p>What if I told you…</p><p>Joann’s has 97% of its stores still profitable.<br>Hooters was making money.<br>Party City? Cash positive stores.</p><p>And yet, they’re all going bankrupt.</p><p>WHY?</p><p>Because Private Equity is using a weaponized version of the 2008 playbook.</p><p>Let me explain. ⬇️<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQSA50XEAA64t_.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQSA50XEAA64t_.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901665089184485595" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">2.</span> THE 2008 PARALLEL<p>In 2008, Wall Street used adjustable-rate mortgages to sink the economy.</p><p>They hid toxic debt inside financial products called CDOs (Collateralized Debt Obligations).</p><p>When rates adjusted, people defaulted, markets crashed, and pensions tanked.</p><p>That same disaster is happening again—but this time, it’s hidden inside Private Equity. ⬇️<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQSUObacAACEZI.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQSUObacAACEZI.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901665331560452551" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">3.</span> INTRODUCING “BACK FLOATING RATE DEBT”<p>They don’t call them adjustable-rate loans anymore.</p><p>Now, they call them “back floating rate debt.”</p><p>Same predatory scam. New name. But way worse.</p><p>Because this time, they’ve stacked it on top of businesses instead of homeowners.</p><p>And when rates rise, the business collapses instead of the bank. ⬇️<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQSig9bQAAG5ey.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQSig9bQAAG5ey.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901665717897891936" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">4.</span> JOANN’S: A CAUTIONARY TALE<p>🔴 Joann’s was NOT failing.</p><p>✅ 97% of their stores were profitable.<br>✅ Sales were strong.<br>✅ Their customer base was loyal.</p><p>So why did they collapse overnight?</p><p>Because Private Equity loaded them with “Back Floating Rate Debt”—then let them die. ⬇️<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQS49ZXMAAhetI.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQS49ZXMAAhetI.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901665954997612677" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">5.</span> THE ADJUSTABLE RATE NIGHTMARE<p>Joann’s didn’t take on $1B in debt—PE firms did.</p><p>And instead of paying it themselves, they forced Joann’s to carry the loan.</p><p>At 3% interest, the debt was manageable.<br>At 7.5%, it became a death sentence.</p><p>Interest payments tripled. The company collapsed.</p><p>And PE firms walked away rich. ⬇️<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQTG2EXgAA75Fe.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQTG2EXgAA75Fe.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901666617542758800" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">6.</span> CLOs: THE NEW CDOs<p>Where did all that toxic debt go?</p><p>They bundled it.<br>They packaged it into new financial products called CLOs (Collateralized Loan Obligations).</p><p>Sounds familiar? It should.</p><p>This is exactly what they did in 2008 with CDOs.</p><p>Except this time, they sold it to pensions. ⬇️<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQTtFRawAASyVf.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQTtFRawAASyVf.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901666857301458982" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">7.</span> HOW THIS THREATENS YOUR RETIREMENT<p>Your 401(k), your pension fund, your city’s retirement plan?</p><p>They own CLOs.</p><p>Because Wall Street sold them as “safe” investments.</p><p>But just like in 2008, when the defaults start rolling in, it won’t be the rich that suffer—it’ll be YOU. ⬇️ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQT7NXXgAEJf89.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQT7NXXgAEJf89.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901667001388433473" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">8.</span> PRIVATE EQUITY OWNS EVERYTHING<p>Think this is just a retail problem?</p><p>🚨 Private Equity controls up to 25% of essential industries.</p><p>🏥 Healthcare<br>🏠 Real Estate<br>🍽 Food Supply<br>📦 Shipping &amp; Logistics</p><p>And they’ve stacked all of it with back floating rate debt.</p><p>One domino falls—they ALL go down. ⬇️<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUDAaa4AAapM-.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUDAaa4AAapM-.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901667286907568144" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_10" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">9.</span> TRUMP WANTS TO CLOSE THE LOOPHOLE THAT MAKES THIS POSSIBLE<p>This entire scam relies on a rigged tax code—the Carried Interest Loophole.</p><p>PE firms get taxed less than teachers &amp; firefighters.</p><p>Trump says he’ll close this loophole.<br>If he does, it would cut the legs out from under Private Equity’s looting spree. ⬇️<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUUG8XEAEAVuy.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUUG8XEAEAVuy.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901667469355274578" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_11" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">10.</span> THIS IS HOW WE STOP IT<p>✔ Expose the scam.<br>✔ Demand the end of the Carried Interest Loophole.<br>✔ Call out politicians protecting Private Equity.<br>✔ Stop pension funds from buying CLOs.</p><p>If we don’t stop this, we’ll wake up in a country where pensions are drained &amp; essential industries are collapsing.</p><p>🚨 The time to act is NOW. ⬇️<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUe7jWkAAOgUh.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUe7jWkAAOgUh.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901667583431975276" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_12" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">11.</span> TRUMP, ARE YOU WATCHING?<p>@realDonaldTrump<br>You said you’d close the Carried Interest Loophole.</p><p>If you want to bring Private Equity to heel, now is your chance.</p><p>This is the biggest financial heist in American history.</p><p>Are you going to stop it? ⬇️ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUlmEbUAAfi9Y.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUlmEbUAAfi9Y.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="TheVinoMom" data-tweet="1901667710083240076" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_13" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview"><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">12.</span> SHARE THIS NOW 🚨<p>🔴 The media isn’t covering this.<br>🔴 Regulators aren’t stopping it.<br>🔴 Politicians are protecting it.</p><p>But YOU can expose it.</p><p>🔁 RETWEET.<br>📢 TAG your representatives.<br>👀 Watch the video.</p><p>This is 2008 all over again—unless we stop it. <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUsyeWcAEw963.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmQUsyeWcAEw963.jpg"></a></span></p></div>


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<p>Although depicted here as an octopus, the historic image is that of the Hydra.</p>
<p><span>This essay published by Multipolar Magazine in June 2023 was co-authored by Stefan Korinth and Paul Schreyer, “</span><a href="https://multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/the-long-lineage-of-russophobia" rel>The Long Lineage of Russophobia</a><span>,” is yet another hat-tip to Pepe Escobar. Many books on the topic have been published for 300+ years, while the roots of this racist phenomenon go back about 1,000. What IMO is great about this essay is its ability to squeeze that entire timespan into an essay that’s long but not too long, and along the way exposes the Western projection that is Russophobia. It’s important to understand how virulent this attitude is and the danger it presents since it greatly impedes any peace that might be attained between the West and Russia. It also helps understanding the occasional rant by former President and Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev and others aimed at Europeans. Lead author Stefan Korinth provides an introductory statement followed by two contemporary citations to prove his point prior to beginning the narrative:</span></p>
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<p>Why is it possible for Western politicians and journalists to repeatedly make extremely derogatory statements about Russia without an immediate public outcry? Rhetorically, any taboo may apparently be broken. This negative treatment, hardly imaginable in relation to other countries, goes well beyond factually justified criticism of the Russian leadership, and is equally observable in times of war as in times of peace. Those responsible resort to stereotypes and insinuations about Russia that have been recurrent over the centuries and have become deeply ingrained in the Western subconscious.</p>
<p><span>“The only truth emerging from Russia is lies.”</span><br><a href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/robert-habeck-die-einzige-wahrheit-die-aus-russland-kommt-ist-die-luege-a-6eea7bbf-5dd8-4b54-aa02-64bd8500571a" rel>Robert Habeck, German Minister of Economics (2022)</a><br><sub><br></sub><span>“What is the peace that exists under Russian occupation, worrying every day that you will be murdered in cold blood, raped or even abducted as a child?”</span><br><a href="https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/ukraine-krieg-friedensdemo-alice-schwarzer-sarha-wagenknecht-gregor-gysi-linkspartei-manifest-fuer-frieden-dringend-notwendig-li.317971" rel>Annalena Baerbock, German Minister for Foreign Affairs (2023)</a></p>
<p><span>Western politicians and journalists that speak or write publicly about Russia often do so in an almost exclusively negative and often highly deprecatory manner. Their remarks are often characterized by malicious insinuations, and</span> <em><strong>any understanding of the Russian perspective is conspicuously absent.</strong></em> <span>Statements by Russian politicians and journalists are consistently regarded as propaganda and lies. The Russian president is openly and blatantly insulted and equated with some of the most evil figures in world history. Russian soldiers are portrayed exclusively as war criminals, looters or rapists; Russian journalists as devious infowarriors; Russian entrepreneurs as criminals; civil servants as corrupt; indeed, the entire population of the country is depicted as more or less authoritarian, homophobic and backward.</span></p>
<p><span>The Western sources of these statements, on the other hand, experience almost no public criticism in their home countries. It is apparently a matter of course in the established political-media landscape that Russia may be criticized and portrayed in a way that is hardly imaginable in public relations with other countries–-even those at war. In doing so, those responsible fall back on fixed thought patterns and negative images of Russia that have been repeated in Western countries for centuries, and</span> <em><strong>that are merely undergoing conceptual updates.</strong></em> <em><strong>Through constant repetition, these images of Russia have become a basic truth in the West that is rarely questioned.</strong></em></p>
<p>This phenomenon is referred to as Russophobia.</p>
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<p><span>The English term “Russophobia” was coined in Great Britain at the beginning of the 19th century, when, after Napoleon’s demise, the country’s politicians and leading media positioned Russia in the public consciousness as a new, dangerous adversary of the Empire.</span> <em><strong>This phenomenon was not new at the time; it was simply that a concise term for it was coined</strong></em><span>. The term Russophobia was centered on fear–-fear of Russian expansion into the zones of influence of the British Empire, in Iran or India, for example. This “Russian scare” assumed such vast proportions that even the remote island nation of New Zealand</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_fortifications_of_New_Zealand#The_%22Russian-scare%22_forts_of_1885" rel>built</a> <span>a series of coastal forts in the 1880s to ward off a perceived Russian attack.</span></p>
<p>The phenomenon of Russophobia, however, encompasses not only fear, but also has elements of prejudice and distrust and a hostile attitude toward Russia. In German, the terms Russlandhass (“Russo-hate”) or Russenfeindlichkeit (“Russo-hostility”) are sometimes used. These terms refer to “a negative attitude toward Russia, the Russians or Russian culture,” according to the discreet definition in the German Wikipedia. While no variant of the terms appear in the Duden (the prescriptive German dictionary), the Collins English Dictionary clearly states that Russophobia is “an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia.”</p>
<p><span>The historian Oleg Nemensky criticizes these definitions as trivial. Nemensky, a researcher at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, took a more in-depth look at the phenomenon</span> <a href="https://www.perspektivy.info/print.php?ID=363035" rel>in a 2013 essay</a><span>. Although hostile attitudes have survived everywhere in history and against numerous countries and peoples, he writes, Russophobia goes much further. According to Nemensky, it is an almost holistic ideology:</span></p>
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<p><em><span>“[It is] a particular complex of ideas and concepts that has its own structure, conceptual system, and history of emergence and development in Western culture, as well as its typical manifestations.</span> <strong>The closest counterpart to such an ideology is anti-Semitism</strong><span>.”</span></em></p>
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<p><span>This parallel was also noted by the Swiss journalist and politician Guy Mettan. Mettan published a book on Russophobia in 2017 (1) in which he emphasizes the purely Western character of the phenomenon, and which does not exist in other parts of the world.</span> <em><strong>Russophobia is deeply rooted in people’s subconscious in the Western hemisphere and is virtually part of the local identity, which needs Russia as an opponent in order to reassure itself of its assumed superiority</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
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<p>There is disagreement about when in history this attitude arose. Journalist Dominic Basulto, who sees Russophobia primarily as a media phenomenon, described in his book Russophobia (2015) how Western narratives about Russia have existed for more than 150 years. The phenomenon is “cyclical,” where narratives of a good Russia appear when Russia is experiencing a phase of weakness, while stories of evil Russia come to the fore in the Western media when the country becomes more “assertive.” These narratives are de facto timeless and almost mythological in content. (2)</p>
<p>Oleg Nemensky goes back even further and argues that the ideology of Russophobia emerged as early as the late 16th century, when Russians were proclaimed enemies of European Christianity alongside the approaching Turks. Russia fought several European powers in the long Livonian War (1558–1583), including Poland, Lithuania, Denmark and Sweden. The Polish nobility, who pursued territorial conquests in Russia, played the main role in the ideological justification of the war in the West and thus shaped the image of Russia.</p>
<p>Austrian historian Hannes Hofbauer recalls in his book Feindbild Russland. Geschichte einer Dämonisierung (Russia the Enemy: A History of Demonization) how Poland and Russia had already fought five wars over Livonia in the previous hundred years. “The image of an ‘Asiatic, barbaric Russia,’ widespread in the West of the continent, is grounded in this epoch.” (3) It arose through political interests and was the brainchild of Polish intellectuals, including the philosopher John of Glogów, the bishop Erasmus Ciolek and the University of Kraków rector John Sacranus, who spread their anti-Russian war propaganda in speeches and on pamphlets in several languages throughout Europe.</p>
<p><span>Guy Mettan, in his book, ultimately also goes back to the schism in the Christian church between the Eastern Orthodox and the Western Roman Catholic churches (the “Schism of 1054”) as the foundation of anti-Russian hostility. At that time, a fundamental conflict between East and West had already been created through propaganda and the Catholics had assigned negative attributes to the Byzantine Eastern Church and the Orthodox faithful.</span> <em><strong>These attributions already strongly resembled the later Russophobic stereotypes of barbarism, backwardness and despotism.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Hostile images of Russia thus emerged in different parts of the contemporary West at different times and for different reasons.</span> <em><strong>Although the background was always power politics, the justifications differed</strong></em><span>.</span> <em><strong>In the Catholic Church, Russophobia was religiously legitimized</strong></em><span>; in Poland-Lithuania, it was the result of direct territorial conflicts; in the Enlightenment Age of France, it was philosophically motivated; in England, the “Great Game” meant it was imperially-driven;</span> <em><strong>in post-1900 Germany, it was deep racism</strong></em><span>; and in the United States, the Cold War meant it was primarily anti-communist. These various lines of development and sources of Russophobia either remained latent or were quite open over the different periods of time, and ultimately merged into an all-encompassing, unique and very powerful phenomenon in the politically and medially united West that manifests today.</span></p>
<p>Russophobia makes use of several recurring stereotypes, which some authors also refer to as metanarratives, and it is worthwhile taking a closer look at these classic Russophobic claims that expose the deep roots and persistence of the negative Western image of Russia.</p>
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<p><span>When current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz</span> <a href="https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/suche/regierungserklaerung-von-bundeskanzler-olaf-scholz-am-27-februar-2022-2008356" rel>accuses</a> <span>the Russian leadership of wanting to build an empire by invading Ukraine, he is treading very old Russophobic paths:</span></p>
<p><span>“Poland was but a breakfast … Where will they dine?” was the suspicion of the British politician and writer Edmund Burke in 1772 about Russia’s role in the first partition of Poland. (4) “When Russia has established herself on the Bosphorus, she will conquer Rome and Marseilles equally rapidly,” anticipated the French newspaper Le Spectateur de Dijon in 1854, just before the</span> <a href="https://www.manova.news/artikel/der-ewige-zankapfel" rel>Crimean War</a><span>. (5) “The future belongs to Russia, which grows and grows and lays itself upon us as an ever heavier nightmare,” was the</span> <a href="https://www.zeit.de/zeit-geschichte/2015/03/erster-weltkrieg-krim-ostexpansion-paul-von-hindenburg" rel>opinion</a> <span>of the German Reich Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg in 1914, shortly before the start of the First World War. The Cold War’s domino theory also fits this pattern.</span></p>
<p><span>For centuries, many in the Western public sphere have accused Russia’s leaders of permanently wanting to expand their sphere of domination at the expense of neighboring states. Although Russian conquests of this nature have occurred several times in history, this narrative completely ignores contrary historical developments.</span> <em><strong>The peaceful withdrawal of the Red Army and the dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty after 1990, for example, had no lasting impact on the Western image of Russia; they were merely perceived as a sign of momentary Russian weakness.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Comparisons with Western countries are also revealing. The U.S. appropriated large parts of its territory through annexations and has continued to expand its sphere of influence to its current global military presence. NATO, too, has been in continuous expansion mode since its founding and today is a direct neighbor on the Russian border. For centuries, European colonial powers conquered, divided and appropriated the wealth of almost every region in the world.</span> <em><strong>But none of these actions transformed their respective states into “voracious” and “hungry” empires in their own Western self-image.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>The stereotype of the undying Russian thirst for land, on the other hand, is a mainstay of Russophobia and is partly based on a forged but very powerful document. According to the English historian Orlando Figes, various Polish, Hungarian and</span> <em><strong>Ukrainian</strong></em> <span>authors forged a will of Peter the Great in the course of the 18th century and then circulated it within Europe. [No Ukraine existed at the time, so Galician?] The forged document, which was submitted to the archives of the French Foreign Ministry in the 1760s, spoke of an extensive Russian plan for the subjugation of Europe, the Middle East and as far as Southeast Asia. Although the supposed Tsar’s will was recognized as a forgery from an early stage, it was instrumentalized by Western foreign policymakers as a justification for war against Russia for about 200 years. Orlando Figes writes (6):</span></p>
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<p><em>“The ‘will’ was published by the French in 1812 – the year of their invasion of Russia – and henceforth it was reproduced and quoted throughout Europe as conclusive proof of Russia’s expansionist foreign policy. It was republished before every war Russia was involved in on the European continent – in 1854, 1878, 1914, and 1941 – and during the Cold War it was used to explain the aggressive intentions of the Soviet Union.”</em></p>
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<p><span>Today’s insinuations that Russia would “carry on” with other Eastern European states after a victory in Ukraine also reflect the spirit of the forged will,</span> <a href="https://tass.com/politics/1419843" rel>according to</a> <span>criticism from the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in 2022. The fact that the will is a forgery has always been irrelevant to Russophobes, because it ideologically fits the stereotypical image: “Because, after all, forgery characterizes Russia’s policy better than any historically authenticated truth,”</span> <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_Zar_Peters_des_Gro%C3%9Fen" rel>according to</a> <span>the German war propaganda concerning the document in 1916. Adolf Hitler made very similar remarks in 1941 – even though it was the German army that was stationed in Russia and annexed large territories during both world wars.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>The stereotype mainly reveals the projections of the politicians of Western powers, who assign their own way of thinking and acting to the Russian leadership.</strong></em> <span>Moreover, the Western refusal to accept any other reasons for Russian armed conflict than a simple lust for conquest and a primitive thirst for land, which still prevails today, is a central reason for the intellectually extremely limited conflict analyses that are prevalent in the West with regard to the current war. Politicians and journalists who cannot imagine that–-rather than wanting to rebuild the Soviet Union–-the Russian invasion of Ukraine serves to prevent an existential NATO threat to Russia’s heartland, counteracts any constructive problem-solving and instead promotes the making of very dangerous politico-military decisions.</span></p>
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<p><span>Another centuries-old constant of Russophobia is the conviction that Russia is backward and, at its core, savage and uncivilized to the point of barbarism. This stereotype is applied to Russia’s degree of material and technological development as well as to the intellectual and cultural makeup of its population.</span> <em><strong>A regular parallel to this assertion is an obvious Western sense of superiority and the belief that Russia must first catch up with what the West has long since achieved.</strong></em> <span>[This also applies to China.]</span></p>
<p><span>This belief is perceptible in very different public discourses, whether about Russian social policy, economics and technology, or the current war. If we restrict our view to the topic of the war, we already see numerous echoes of this stereotypical image of Russia: Western politicians and journalists have accused Vladimir Putin of acting like a</span> <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/ukraine-krieg-und-imperialismus-putin-agiert-wie-ein-machthaber-des-19-jahrhunderts-a-8b0f50e3-6e3f-4441-9682-0332df4cafe1" rel>“19th century ruler”</a> <span>in the Ukraine conflict. One can regularly read of the Russian army possessing</span> <a href="https://www.merkur.de/politik/russland-militaer-armee-waffen-ausruestung-raketen-alt-verluste-ukraine-krieg-news-aktuell-92140232.html" rel>“outdated weapons”</a> <span>and that, without the import of advanced Western technology, their arms industry is facing</span> <a href="https://www.derstandard.de/consent/tcf/story/2000138846622/putin-gehen-langsam-die-mikrochips-fuer-seine-raketen-aus" rel>rapid collapse</a><span>. In addition, Russia is traditionally fighting this war using mass rather than class, acting according to “obsolete doctrines”; the Russian army–-in contrast to NATO–-is even so unprofessional and barbaric that, apart from war crimes, it is incapable of getting anything done.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>The stereotype of Russian backwardness is ancient and could historically only have taken root because contrary facts were consistently ignored in the West.</strong></em> <span>“Russia is like another world,” wrote Bishop Matvey of Kraków as early as the mid-12th century in a letter to the French crusading preacher Bernard of Clairvaux. But the stereotype did not really catch on until the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times, when Europe began to form an identity as a separate cultural area, which was essentially achieved by distinguishing itself from other cultural areas,</span> <a href="https://www.ub.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/unibiblio/content/e6250/e6259/e6262/e81768/files81772/Werdt_2004_ger.pdf" rel>explains</a> <span>historian Christophe von Werdt.</span></p>
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<p><em><span>“Russia played a particularly important role in this interplay of European identity formation and perception of what was foreign.</span> <strong>For in its case, Europe was confronted with a ‘foreign’ Christian land that it could not colonize or culturally assimilate</strong><span>.”</span></em></p>
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<p>In the 16th and 17th centuries, Western Europeans increasingly came to Russia as diplomats, mercenaries or merchants, recording their impressions of the unfamiliar country. Eastern European historian Manfred Hildermeier writes that the cultural distance evident in the records was “increasingly combined with a sense of superiority.” German travelers, for example, reported with amazement that Russians bathed naked in the river in full view of others and men and women were not separated by gender in the saunas located almost everywhere, but went there together. The public blowing of noses, spitting, belching or swearing were viewed with outrage by Western visitors at the time.</p>
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<p><em>“What travelers denounced about Russia was not least the past of their own culture. This may also explain the superiority they assumed towards themselves and clarify why they overlooked what did not fit into their image – for example, the frequent sauna visits of the Russians (at a time when perfume replaced washing in European aristocratic courts), the frowning upon of the display of nudity … or the fact that no Russian was waving a sword (if only because he did not carry one) and no blood flowed from the loud bickering. The travelers did not succumb to any misunderstanding, but were partially blind.” (7)</em></p>
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<p>The Swiss author Guy Mettan demonstrates the selectivity of Western judgment even more pointedly. He compares the popular 1761 travelogue of French astronomer Jean Chappe d’Auteroche with the contemporaneous account of a Japanese boat captain named Kodayu, who traveled the same route through Siberia at the same time as the Frenchman. “But they seem to describe two different planets,” notes Mettan (8); the accounts of their voyages could not be more different.</p>
<p><span>Whereas d’Auteroche discerned backwardness and barbarism everywhere in Russia, Kodayu soberly describes everyday life, living conditions and socio-political circumstances. Reading both books side by side is fascinating, because</span> <em><strong>it painfully reveals the contrast between the impartiality of the traveler from the Far East and the Westerner’s urge to judge others from a position of superiority and emphasize his supposed civilizational advantage.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>It can be equally argued that from the perspective of other regions in the world, Russia was specifically not underdeveloped or uncivilized. Manfred Hildermeier explains: “Those who attested to the Russian Empire’s backwardness measured it [exclusively] by the Western European yardstick.” (9) Western Europeans had always located progressiveness only in themselves. Hildermeier, a historian of Eastern Europe, considers the stereotype of backwardness so central that he devoted the entire final chapter of his book</span> <a href="https://www.chbeck.de/hildermeier-geschichte-russlands/product/33933306" rel>Geschichte Russlands</a> <span>(History of Russia) to it.</span></p>
<p>Certain Russian intellectuals and some of the Russian upper class also contributed to the consolidation of the concept by adopting it and declaring some countries in the West (the Netherlands, France, Italy, Prussia) to be models in certain fields of knowledge that should be emulated. The most famous example is certainly Peter the Great, who “whipped” Russia into the European modern era with numerous reforms from above after his European tour.</p>
<p>Hildermeier writes, however, that backwardness is always relative, or rather, temporary and limited to certain areas. In other words, once a country has caught up in one sector, it could always become a leader in that field. Russian achievements in the natural sciences and arts in the 19th century or in aeronautics and space travel in the 20th century are examples of this. Russia also shifted from simply transplanting Western innovations under Peter the Great to creatively and innovatively adapting these models to its own conditions in subsequent centuries – because they needed to function there.</p>
<p>Due to its geographic expanse, Russia is characterized by large discrepancies between the various parts of the country, which is why it can hardly be compared with countries like France, England or Germany, and can thus only adopt their supposedly successful models to a limited extent. What do you focus on? On the provincial village or the vast metropolis? On the eve of the First World War, St. Petersburg and Moscow were mentioned in the same breath as Berlin, Paris and London, Hildermeier argues. And which specific sphere should one consider? After Alexander II’s judicial reforms, Russian judges enjoyed “an independence that was unparalleled in Europe.” (10)</p>
<p><span>But for centuries, Western politicians and journalists have rarely bothered with such differentiations. It was not Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy or Tchaikovsky who exemplified Russian culture, but often instead the</span> <a href="https://slideplayer.org/slide/1344476/" rel>fleas and lice</a><span>. The early stereotype of backwardness and barbarism of the Russians, once created by Western European visitors, has remained stubbornly intact over the centuries. While it has been conceptually updated here and there, at its core the prevailing pejorative judgments are undifferentiated to this day:</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ub.unibe.ch/recherche/sondersammlungen/rossica_europeana/virtueller_rundgang/barbarische_russinnen_und_russen/index_ger.html" rel>Adam Olearius</a><span>, German Visitor to Russia (1656):</span></p>
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<p><em>“If one considers the Russians according to their dispositions/customs and life / they are to be counted among the barbarians … being guileful/stubborn/ unbending/repugnant/perverse and unashamedly inclined to all evil.”</em></p>
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<p>Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Foreign Minister (1796 to 1807):</p>
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<p><em>“The whole system [of the Russian Empire] … is calculated to swamp Europe with a flood of barbarians.” (11)</em></p>
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<p><a href="https://libquotes.com/george-s-patton/quote/lbs7m1e" rel>George S. Patton</a><span>, U.S. general (1945):</span></p>
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<p><em>“In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no respect for human life and is an absolute son of a bitch, barbarian and chronic drunkard.”</em></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bz-berlin.de/welt/so-schuf-putin-seine-barbaren-armee" rel>The German daily paper BZ</a> <span>(2022):</span></p>
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<p><em>“They loot, rape and torture: this is how Putin created his barbarian army.”</em></p>
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<p>Of course, there has always been propaganda of atrocity and a devaluation of the enemy in times of war, but towards Russia this disparaging view prevails almost permanently in the West. None of the above quotes were made by people who were at war with Russia; the stereotype of barbaric, uncivilized Russia seems to be unshakable.</p>
<p>Since this model of thinking has become a kind of unquestioned truth in the West, events such as the so-called Sputnik crisis (1957), when the supposedly backward Soviet Union surprisingly sent the first satellite into space, will inevitably occur at some point. In his autobiography, French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann recounts how he learned from his host at a 1961 high society dinner that a Russian had just become the first man to fly into space. Georges Pompidou, who would later become the French Prime Minister and President, and was seated next to Lanzmann, refused to believe this and simply replied, “That is propaganda!” (12)</p>
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<p>The craftiness and deceitfulness of Russians is another recurring paradigm of Russophobia. As early as the 16th and 17th centuries, Western visitors to Russia identified deceitfulness and mendacity as typical Russian character traits–-not, however, as traits of individual Russians, but of all Russians. According to Russophobic logic, this general character trait, by association, will then also be reflected in Russian politics.</p>
<p>Accordingly, numerous claims that Russia always employs deceit and lies in foreign policy are documented for the following centuries. “Russian diplomacy, as you know, is one long and manifold lie,” claimed British statesman George Curzon in 1903, for example. (13) Allegations of this sort extend to present-day accusations that Russia permanently employs propaganda and manipulates Western elections.</p>
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<p><em>“In times of peace, Russia strives to force not only her neighbors but all the countries of the world into a state of confusion through distrust, turmoil and discord. … Russia is not moving directly toward its goal … but is undermining the foundations in the most devious way.” (14)</em></p>
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<p>This statement about a form of hybrid Russian warfare sounds quite familiar to the ears of today’s media users, but it is already more than 200 years old and comes from the French diplomat Alexandre d’Hauterive during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte. Writing about the English media during the Great Game, historian Orlando Figes notes:</p>
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<p><em>“The stereotype of Russia that emerged from these extravagant writings was that of a brutal power, aggressive and expansionist by nature, but also sufficiently devious and deceitful to conspire with ‘invisible forces’ against the West and infiltrate other societies.”</em></p>
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<p><span>Modern assertions of this nature sound</span> <a href="https://www.baks.bund.de/de/arbeitspapiere/2017/herausforderung-russland-worin-sie-besteht-und-wie-darauf-zu-reagieren-ist" rel>something like this</a> <span>from the German Federal Academy for Security Policy (2017):</span></p>
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<p><em>“In its war against the West, Russia resorts to a variety of tools. A number of state-controlled media (at home and abroad) are used for propaganda purposes – with the aim of undermining the trust of Western societies in their own institutions and political elites. … In its confrontation with the West, Russia is using methods that in the past were primarily used against former Soviet states (so-called near abroad) or non-Western states. This is especially true of aggressive cyberattacks combined with massive propaganda aimed at interfering in internal affairs and influencing political processes.”</em></p>
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<p><span>At this point, there is no need to discuss the blatant double standards of such analyses, which simply forget the countless Western-organized</span> <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/eine-verdammte-luege-a-1ecb281b-0002-0001-0000-000008947088" rel>election interference</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/geheimdienst-dokumente-vereinigte-staaten-foerderten-pinochet-putsch-112220.html" rel>coups</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/usa-und-israel-sollen-stuxnet-virus-gegen-iran-entwickelt-haben-a-836401.html" rel>cyberattacks</a> <span>and other hybrid destabilization attempts in countries around the world.</span> <em><strong>What then becomes clear is that despite their different ages, the Russophobic claims cited are nearly identical and are interchangeable.</strong></em> <span>And like the stereotype of the Russian thirst for land,</span> <em><strong>this cliché also primarily highlights the projections of Western politicians and journalists.</strong></em> <span>This logic becomes particularly clear when looking at the period from 1917 to 1919.</span></p>
<p>After Lenin had been smuggled into Russia by the German rulers and led the successful Bolshevik Revolution, the German rulers began fearing a similar occurrence of this Russian experience in their own country, explains historian Mark Jones. In January 1919, German newspapers of nearly every political shade alleged that Russians were instrumental in the Spartacist uprising in Berlin and the calling for an armed struggle against Germany.</p>
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<p><em>“This propaganda was widely believed and led to an increase in xenophobia as early as the founding phase of the Weimar Republic, which later escalated further in the Third Reich. In fact, none of it was true.” (15)</em></p>
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<p>Jones further explains that many politicians and journalists believed that a large amount of Russian money was flowing into Berlin to finance the uprising. Russophobic sentiment in the media had bloody consequences: Government troops committed numerous atrocities during the crushing of the Munich Soviet Republic in May 1919. The largest single incident of this kind was the shooting of 53 Russian prisoners of war on May 2 in Gräfelfing – under the accusation that the Russians had fought for the Soviet Republic.</p>
<p><span>The stereotype of Russian intrigues and lies appears on many thematic levels. The devaluation of every opposing Russian position as “propaganda” and “lies” is a core component of Russophobia, writes Dominic Basulto in his book. Thus, a country whose leadership always lies cannot have a state media that legitimately disseminates its own government’s perspectives abroad, as the state media of other countries do. No,</span> <em><strong>in the eyes of Russophobes, Russian state broadcasters must necessarily always be “propaganda broadcasters.”</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Western observers have been indignant about the European-like appearance of Russians for centuries,</span> <em><strong>meaning the Russians, in their clothes and appearance, are virtually lying already</strong></em><span>. The French writer Astolphe Marquis de Custine</span> <a href="https://eeo.uni-klu.ac.at/wwwg.uni-klu.ac.at/eeo/Wolff_Erfindung.pdf" rel>wrote</a> <span>in 1839:</span></p>
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<p><em>“I do not reproach the Russians for being what they are; what I reproach them for is pretending to be what we are. They are still uncultured … and in this they follow the example of the apes and disfigure what they copy.”</em></p>
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<p>That the Russians “ape” French culture was also reported in French newspapers in the run-up to the Crimean War. And this is where the Russophobic clichés collide. If the Russians try to remedy their supposed backwardness by orienting themselves toward the West, then they are wrong again; at heart, they remain half-savage barbarians.</p>
<p><span>Russians are people “with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul,” wrote the U.S. journalist Ambrose Bierce in his “Dictionary of the Devil” in 1911. (16) Bierce meant this satirically–-as he did with each of the approximately 1,000 entries in his book. He critically echoed the clichéd thinking of his time. In 2022, the political scientist Florence Gaub</span> <a href="https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/open-mind/florence-gaub-bei-markus-lanz-vielleicht-sind-russen-ja-doch-auch-europaeer-li.223137" rel>told</a> <span>ZDF, a German public television broadcaster: “We must not forget that even if Russians look European, they are not Europeans, in this case in a cultural sense.” She did not mean this satirically.</span></p>
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<p>Probably the most powerful element in Russophobia is the stereotype of Russian tyranny. It entails two complementary parts: a demonic leader and a sort of slave mentality of the Russian population.</p>
<p>Tsar Ivan IV-–in Russian he is called “the Austere,” while in the West he is called “the Terrible”–-was an archetype of the cruel Russian ruler, explains Oleg Nemensky. According to Nemensky, the “black myth” of the bloodthirsty tyrant, “whose brutality allegedly exceeded all conceivable limits,” emerged in the 16th century at the time of the Livonian War and occupied the most important place among the propagandistic Russian stereotypes of the time. Ivan the Terrible, in Western eyes, “combined the symbolization of evil and brutal power with the servile bondage of his subjects.”</p>
<p>Indeed, Ivan IV was a brutal ruler and apparently a sadistic character who employed cruel methods of torture and execution. However, whether this made him exceptional in his time is questionable. Yet, Ivan the Terrible’s legendary reputation established the image of Russian rulers in general in the rest of Europe, which was also basically applied to the Russian rulers of the following centuries: cruel, tyrannical, brutal. The fact that soon after the 31-year reign of Ivan, Tsar Alexei I, who bore the epithet “the meekest,” on the other hand, is something few will ever have heard.</p>
<p><span>We will not quote here all the insults that Western voices have used to describe the Russian leaders in office. From</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141027172407/http:/bildungsserver.berlin-brandenburg.de/fileadmin/bbb/unterricht/faecher/sprachen/russisch/pdf/Russlandbilder_in_Europa_-_Vortrag_Prof._Jutta_Scherrer.pdf" rel>calling</a> <span>Tsar Peter I the “greatest barbarian of mankind” (Montesquieu) to</span> <a href="https://www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/joe-biden-wladimir-putin-killer-1.5239744" rel>dubbing</a> <span>Vladimir Putin a “killer” (Joe Biden), this centuries-long list would be quite extensive.</span></p>
<p><span>Undoubtedly, it is common in wartime to demonize the leader of an opposing power as personified evil.</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda#3._Our_adversary's_leader_is_inherently_evil_and_resembles_the_devil" rel>According to</a> <span>Arthur Ponsonby, it is one of the tenets of wartime propaganda to direct hatred at the enemy leader. But in the Russophobic culture of many Western countries, this logic also applies in peacetime. Although exceptions can be found of Russian leaders who were at times viewed positively in the West because they had achieved extraordinary things--Alexander I (victory over Napoleon) or Mikhail Gorbachev (German reunification) should be mentioned here–-as a rule, the opposite is true.</span></p>
<p><span>For example, the fact that Vladimir Putin was to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 2004 caused such indignation in parts of the public that both the university and Putin decided against it. The reason for the storm of protest,</span> <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/uni/ehrendoktor-fuer-putin-verleihung-in-hamburg-geplatzt-a-312721.html" rel>it was reported</a><span>, was the “Chechen war waged in a manner contrary to international law.” In 2011, the planned awarding of the Quadriga Prize to Putin (then the Russian prime minister) was</span> <a href="https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/quadriga-preis-in-berlin-verleihung-faellt-aus--blamage-fuer-putin-3058112.html" rel>also cancelled</a> <span>due to general outrage. In contrast, these standards were not applied to U.S. presidents: Bill Clinton, who shortly before had commanded a war of aggression against Yugoslavia in violation of international law, received the German Media Prize in 1999, the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen in 2000 and the European Mittelstandspreis (Medium-Sized Business Prize) in 2002.</span></p>
<p><span>According to Dominic Basulto,</span> <em><strong>the comparison of these two presidencies is wholly relevant to the analysis of Russophobia because the Western media regularly portray the leaders of Russia and the U.S. as if they were direct opposites</strong></em><span>. The Russian leader, he says, always plays the role of the “dark twin.” This has culminated in the centuries-old depiction of Russia as “the other,” “the evil.” In Western eyes, there has always been this dualism between us and them, freedom and tyranny, democracy and autocracy, civilization and barbarism, light and darkness. The media-political portrayal of Russia as the “evil empire” (Ronald Reagan) is often downright cartoonish.</span></p>
<p><span>Oleg Nemensky explains how this Manichean worldview is particularly characteristic of contemporary American culture and implies the existence of absolute good, embodied by the U.S., and absolute evil. “The Cold War years established Russia in this position,” and to this day, he says, nothing has changed. Incidentally, the U.S. adopted many aspects of its Russophobia from the British Empire. Nemensky emphasizes that it is extremely remarkable that the antithesis of Western freedom vs. Russian slavery is reproduced again and again across different eras of history, even if there is a change in the specific concepts.</span> <em><strong>No role is played by the centuries of Western slavery, which lasted even longer in the U.S. than serfdom did in “backward” Russia.</strong></em></p>
<p>According to the Russophobic narrative, Russians are a people incapable of governing themselves and therefore covet slavery. A people that is consistently ruled by tyrants and dictators must itself be inherently authoritarian and subservient, according to the circular argument that has been recapitulated for centuries.</p>
<p><span>“This nation finds more pleasure in slavery than in freedom,” the Austrian envoy Sigismund von Herberstein</span> <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russische_R%C3%BCckst%C3%A4ndigkeit" rel>reported</a> <span>from Moscow in 1549. The Russians are a “tribe born into slavery, accustomed to the yoke and unable to bear freedom,” the Dutchman Edo Neuhusius told his readers in 1633. (17) “Political obedience has become a cult, a religion for the Russians,” the abovementioned Astolphe Marquis de Custine</span> <a href="https://www.gutzitiert.de/zitat_autor_astolphe_marquis_de_custine_thema_russland_zitat_17794.html" rel>noted</a> <span>in 1837. “Russia was for us the epitome of bondage and forced rule, a danger to our civilization,” wrote German public broadcaster ARD correspondent Fritz Pleitgen about the thinking of German journalists in the 1960s. (18) “‘Slave consciousness’: Why are many Russians so submissive?”</span> <a href="https://www.br.de/nachrichten/kultur/sklavenbewusstsein-warum-sind-viele-russen-so-unterwuerfig,T8jjNW2" rel>asked</a> <span>the German public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk in 2022.</span></p>
<p>As strikingly interchangeable as these statements are across the centuries, this insight is useful for understanding the deep-seated, traditional hatred of Russia among the liberal middle classes of Western countries. It is precisely in these groups, represented today by the Democratic Party in the U.S. or the Green Party in Germany, for example, that the stereotype of a despotic Russia has always been extremely powerful.</p>
<p>The Polish uprising against Russian “tyranny” in 1830/31 was an initial spark and engendered great enthusiasm among the liberal German media and the student movement, as well as in France and England. The crushing of the Polish uprising at the time went down in the history books and numerous “Poland songs” (Polenlieder) were written in Germany. The lyrics of one stated:</p>
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<p><em>“We saw the Poles, they went out, as the die of fate fell. They left their homeland, their father’s house, in the barbarians’ claws: The freedom-loving Pole does not bow to the dark face of the Tsar.” (19)</em></p>
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<p><span>At the time, the politician Friedrich von Blittersdorf</span> <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenschw%C3%A4rmerei" rel>recognized</a> <span>an “almost mysterious enchantment of governments and an equally incomprehensible delusion of many statesmen.”</span> <em><strong>Parallels to the “solidarity” with Ukraine in 2022 are unmistakable.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>In support of the liberation of Poland, the left in the Paulskirche parliament (the Frankfurt Parliament) also flirted with a great war against Russia in 1848. (20) According to Hannes Hofbauer, this German left at the time, which saw itself as patriotic and liberal, always viewed the tsarist empire as a threatening stronghold. Liberal intellectuals also attributed all kinds of negative characteristics to the Russians.</span> <em><strong>In the course of their criticism of autocracy, German liberals developed the image of a “despicable Russian national character,” which over the decades advanced into full-blown racism against the Russians.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Friedrich Engels, who developed from a radical democrat into a communist theorist, was one of the political journalists who attributed a civilizing role to the Germans and a barbaric role to the Russians in Europe. The tsardom, he</span> <a href="http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me22/me22_011.htm" rel>wrote</a> <span>in 1890, was already a threat and danger to us by “its mere passive existence,” and, moreover, that Russia’s “incessant interference in the affairs of the West is hampering and disturbing our normal development.”</span> <em><strong>Marx and Engels called for revolutionary war against Russia.</strong></em> <span>Their passionate struggle against the Russian monarchy “has not unjustly been called Russophobia,”</span> <a href="https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/geisteswissenschaften/geschichte-der-russophobie-weltfeind-im-osten-zur-geistigen-vorgeschichte-der-neocons-1679422.html" rel>wrote</a> <span>sociologist Maximilien Rubel. (21)</span></p>
<p>Thus, Russophobic positions also found their way into German social democracy. Anti-Russian affects were as strong in the SPD as they were in the liberal movement of Great Britain, according to historian Christopher Clark with regard to the phase before World War I. (22) The SPD leader August Bebel, who also rose through the liberal-democratic movement, said the following (23) in a 1907 speech:</p>
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<p><em>“If it came to a war with Russia, which I regard as the enemy of all culture and of all the oppressed, not only in my own country, but also as the most dangerous enemy of Europe and especially for us Germans … then I, an old boy, would still be ready to take up my rifle and go to war against Russia.”</em></p>
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<p>Today’s members of the German Bundestag are likely no longer prepared to offer this commitment, but their statements about Russia otherwise sound very similar.</p>
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<p><span>Ten years ago, Oleg Nemensky wrote that although Russophobia is a system of views that emerged over centuries, it exists in an almost unchanged form to this day in Western countries. The phenomenon occurs in the West as a kind of “reverse political correctness,” he said. Since 2013, Russophobia has once again intensified considerably. Currently, we are dealing with a peak of Russophobic statements, which have been repeatedly delivered in the run-up to wars. The degree of Russophobia could therefore serve as an indicator for attentive observers of current events.</span> <em><strong>It is particularly dangerous when politicians and journalists not only politically instrumentalize Russophobic stereotypes, but actually believe them.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>It has also been observed historically that Russophobia eventually subsides. This could happen even without war, as the end of the bloc confrontation in 1990 showed. However, the phenomenon will not disappear, but will remain latent as long as Western societies do not fundamentally address the problem. Historical models exist for this, and</span> <em><strong>the parallels between Russophobia and anti-Semitism are a topic in themselves.</strong></em> <span>Therefore, we will not go into the corresponding proposals for solutions, such as those made by Nemensky (a UN resolution against Russophobia, the establishment of an anti-defamation league and specialized institutes that investigate and publicly denounce cases of Russophobia). We will only say this much:</span> <em><strong>These proposals would be difficult to implement at present, since they would have to be supported by governments and the leading media, specifically in the West, because that is where the core of the problem lies.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Former CIA official Phil Giraldi, for example,</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsQk8eL3AQ" rel>said</a> <span>in an interview that the Biden cabinet is full of Russophobes who blame Russia for all sorts of things. He also said that many people in the CIA were motivated by Russophobia and believed the stereotypes. In the political-media landscape of Western countries, however, people are usually unwilling to even recognize the problem. The accusations of Russophobia are only a kind of clever distraction from Russian atrocities and are only meant to discredit Kremlin critics–-as typically portrayed</span> <a href="https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/russophobie-wie-die-russische-propaganda-von-greueln-ablenkt-ld.1692142" rel>here</a> <span>in the Swiss paper, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>What is clear from all this is that the phenomenon of Russophobia has little to do with Russia and the Russians themselves–-but a lot to do with Western societies. It is a permanent thinking of superiority, a deliberate double standard.</strong></em> <span>Yes, Russia wages wars; Russian politicians and journalists have lied and Russian soldiers have committed crimes. Yet all these aspects apply at least as much to actors in Western countries. But while here one glosses over one’s own wars, forgets one’s own lies and reinterprets one’s own crimes as individual cases,</span> <em><strong>one declares such acts with regard to Russia to be the norm that applies always and everywhere.</strong></em></p>
<p>Russophobia is at its core a racist phenomenon, notes Guy Mettan. Russophobes fundamentally refuse to recognize people from Russia or the Russian state as equal and equivalent to their corresponding Western counterparts. People from Russia have their own life experiences and political perspectives, and their state has its own economic and political interests that are no better or worse than their counterparts in the West. The interests and the means used to achieve these could be both legitimate or illegitimate, legal or illegal, moral or immoral. This must be examined objectively in each case–-but not always and from the outset condemned using centuries-old, pejorative stereotypes that lead to nothing but hatred and war.</p>
<p>Victor Klemperer wrote (24) directly after the Second World War:</p>
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<p><em>“I want to emphasize it particularly profusely here and today. For it is so bitterly necessary for us to get to know the true spirit of the peoples from whom we have been closed for so long, about whom we have been lied to for so long. And about none have we been lied to more than about the Russian.”</em> <span>[Bolded Italics My Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p><sub>(1) Guy Mettan: Creating Russophobia, Boston, 2017. Page 21 states: Like anti-Semitism, Russophobia is “not a transitory phenomenon linked to specific historical events; it exists first in the head of the one who looks, not in the victim’s alleged behavior or characteristics. Like anti-Semitism, Russophobia is a way of turning specific pseudo-facts into essential, one-dimensional values, barbarity, despotism and expansionism in the Russian case in order to justify stigmatization and ostracism.”</sub></p>
<p><sub>(2) Dominic Basulto: Russophobia. How Western Media Turns Russia Into The Enemy. 2015; page 2 f.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(3) Hannes Hofbauer: Feindbild Russland. Geschichte einer Dämonisierung (Russia the Enemy: A History of Demonization). Vienna, 2016; page 13 f.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(4) Quoted from Adam Zamoyski: 1812. Napoleons Feldzug in Russland (Napoleon's Campaign in Russia). Munich, 2004; page 37.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(5) Quoted from Orlando Figes: Krimkrieg. Der letzte Kreuzzug (Crimean War. The Last Crusade). Berlin, 2011; page 236.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(6) Quoted from Figes; page 126.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(7) Manfred Hildermeier: Geschichte Russlands. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Oktoberrevolution (History of Russia. From the Middle Ages to the October Revolution). Munich, 2013; page 380ff.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(8) Guy Mettan: Creating Russophobia, Boston, 2017. Page 155 ff.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(9) Hildermeier; page 1321.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(10) Hildermeier; page 918.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(11) Quoted from Figes; page 125.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(12) Claude Lanzmann: Der patagonische Hase. Erinnerungen (The Patagonian Hare. Memoirs). Reinbek, 2012; page 464.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(13) Christopher Clark: Die Schlafwandler. Wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog (The Sleepwalkers. How Europe Entered the First World War). Munich, 2015; page 190.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(14) Quoted from Figes; page 125f.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(15) Mark Jones: Am Anfang war Gewalt. Die deutsche Revolution 1918/19 und der Beginn der Weimarer Republik (In the Beginning was Violence. The German Revolution 1918/19 and the Beginning of the Weimar Republic). Berlin, 2017; page 209 f. as well as page 178 and 297.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(16) Quoted from Basulto; page 16.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(17) Quoted from Nemensky; footnote 18.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(18) Fritz Pleitgen, Mikhail Shishkin: Frieden oder Krieg. Russland und der Westen – eine Annäherung (Peace or War. Russia and the West – a Rapprochement). Munich, 2019; page 20.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(19) Quoted from Hofbauer; page 33.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(20) Sebastian Haffner: Von Bismarck zu Hitler (From Bismarck to Hitler). Munich, 2001; page 11.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(21) The claim that Marx and Engels’ criticism of Russia was Russophobia is, however, debatable. Both sharply criticized the tsarist autocracy, but were also close to Russian revolutionaries and communicated extensively with them. Engels learned Russian as a young man; Marx was trying to acquire the language in his old age.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(22) Clark; page 673.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(23) Quoted from Hofbauer; page 37.</sub></p>
<p><sub>(24) Victor Klemperer: LTI. Notizbuch eines Philologen (LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii. The Language of the Third Reich. Notebook of a Philologist). Ditzingen, 2010; page 179.</sub></p>
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<p>I emphasized that clause in the second sentence of text because it’s exactly what we just saw happen with the ceasefire proposal—there was no regard for Russian input and when Putin provided his very tactful Nyet the West screamed that Russia MUST conform and sign regardless its very well justified objections. And of course, we’re all well informed about NATO/EU propaganda that Russia covets all Europe when the truth is Russia doesn’t really have the population to properly settle and develop its own lands. But as you read, the truth is never allowed to overturn Russophobia and is almost complete projection, but only by the West. In light of how long this racism has lasted and its virulence, IMO it’s easy to understand why many Russians loathe the West for being incapable of purging themselves of their snobbish, exceptionalism.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Bruce Pardy | The Fraser Institute</p><p data-sanitized-class="">It’s been 800 years since the Magna Carta. Governments everywhere now aspire to tear down the concept that it helped establish: the rule of law. Last week, British Columbia’s NDP government introduced the <em>Economic Stabilization</em> (<em>Tariff Response</em>) Act, also known as <a href="https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2025AG0012-000204" target="_blank">Bill 7</a>, which would allow Premier David Eby and his cabinet the power to take the law into their own hands without going through the elected legislature.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">In this case, the justification is President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But the bill would authorize any action taken for the vague purpose of supporting the economy of B.C. or Canada, or responding to the actions of any foreign government, even if the actions haven’t happened yet. But according to Eby, “These are not sweeping powers.”</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The project of concentrating power in the executive branch (i.e. cabinet) and usurping the role of legislators has a long pedigree. In theory, no office or officers are above the law or are empowered to make it up as they go. In practise, that theory counts for less and less. Governments, including in Canada, don’t like the rule of law.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But what, exactly, does “the rule of law” mean? Legal theorists say it’s complicated. It need not be. To see it clearly, compare it to the alternative: the rule of persons. When King Solomon decreed that a baby claimed by two women should be split in half, he had absolute power to decide what to do. When Henry VIII ordered that Anne Boleyn should lose her head, that was absolute power, too. In each case, tyrants exercised their personal rule for good or bad.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The “rule of law” is the opposite idea. No single authority has free reign to decide how the state will use its force. The rule of law limits the powers of those who govern.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">It does so in part by separating powers between three branches of the state. The Supreme Court of Canada has said that the “separation of powers” is a fundamental feature of the Canadian Constitution. Legislatures legislate. The executive executes. Judges adjudicate. In principle, no single office or officer can alone decide what should be done.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But not in practise. Exceptions are so common today as to be ubiquitous. The Human Rights Commission, not the legislature, declares what constitutes discrimination. The police decide whether to enforce court orders. Environment ministry officials determine when environmental impacts are permissible. Cabinet decides when pipelines will be built.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But in these cases, decision-makers at least must keep themselves within the boundaries of their authorizing statute, which was passed by elected legislatures. Under Bill 7, the Eby government will take delegation to the next level. Its cabinet will have the power not just to exercise broad discretion in accordance with legislation, but to override legislation itself. The bill will allow cabinet to make exceptions to the law, modify the law’s requirements, limit the law’s application, or establish powers or duties in place of the law. And not just a specific law, but any enactment on the books. The cabinet’s edicts will be valid for more than two years, until May 2027.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">In 1539, the <em>Statute of Proclamations</em> conferred on King Henry VIII the power to rule by decree, directing that the King’s proclamations should be obeyed as though they were legislation. Such provisions, since known as “Henry VIII clauses,” are controversial because they eviscerate limits on executive power. Yet they may be constitutionally permissible in Canada. Parliament cannot abdicate its functions, the Supreme Court of Canada wrote in 1918, in a case considering the government’s conscription orders under the broad powers of the War Measures Act of 1914. But Parliament can pass legislation that delegates its powers to the executive as it sees fit. As long as the legislature retains the power to reverse the delegation, the theory goes, then separation of powers remains intact.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The rule of law is inconvenient. It gets in the way of governments and officials crafting solutions to problems they perceive as important. That’s not its downside but its purpose. Even when government efforts are well-intentioned, the power of officials to solve problems can pose a more serious threat to citizens than the problem itself. As the late Alan Borovoy, former general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, once put it, “The source of the most insidious peril is not evil wrongdoers seeking to do harm, but parochial bureaucrats seeking to do good.” If the modern administrative state is incompatible with the rule of law, then the state should be required to adapt. For decades, the current has flowed strongly in the other direction.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Crises are an ideal time for the state to advance into territory from which it will not wish to retreat. COVID-19 was the previous excuse. Now the threat of American tariffs is the latest justification to declare an emergency and discard the limitations of the rule of law. Even impending calamity does not justify the tyranny of unfettered discretion. Boundless authority to respond to circumstances is an unbearable licence to dictate.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/premier-eby-wants-give-bc-cabinet-extraordinary-powers">For the original version of this commentary, see the publisher’s website here</a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.todayville.com/opposition-says-premier-eby-using-tariff-fight-to-give-b-c-cabinet-unlimited-power/" target="_blank">Reprinted by Todayville</a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><em>Bruce Pardy is executive director of </em><a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/" target="_blank"><em>Rights Probe</em></a><em> and professor of law at Queen’s University.</em></p>





















  
  



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title: Live: Ride the &amp;#039;Panda Train&amp;#039; with seniors and embrace the spring vibes
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<p>All aboard the "Panda Train" for a vibrant spring adventure! Once used for regular passenger services last century, the refurbished "green train" now offers comfort, music, nostalgia and even showers for senior travelers. Join CGTN's Sean Callebs and Wan Hongjia as they embark on a journey from Anjing, Chengdu, to the scenic spring landscapes of Anshun, Guizhou.</p>
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<p>In Urumqi, China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Meng Lulu, a leather carving artisan and city-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor, has devoted more than a decade to preserving this traditional craft.</p>
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<p>Meng Lulu is seen making leather carving pieces at her studio in Urumqi, Xinjiang on March 17, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Meng Lulu is seen making leather carving pieces at her studio in Urumqi, Xinjiang on March 17, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Leather carving is an intricate art that involves pressing, stretching, punching, etching and dyeing plant-tanned leather to create distinctive patterns. Rooted in the nomadic cultures of the grasslands, this time-honored craft has flourished in China for centuries.</p>
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<p>Meng's passion for leatherwork began in childhood, inspired by the exquisite carvings on saddles and the fluid lines of handcrafted whips. After graduating from university, she traveled to Inner Mongolia to become an apprentice under Li Siqin, a master in the intangible cultural heritage of leather carving. Years of dedicated studies led her to establish her own leather carving studio, where she continues to refine her artistry.</p>
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<p>Beyond perfecting her craft, Meng is deeply committed to cultural preservation and education. She has trained hundreds of apprentices and actively conducts workshops for herders as part of ongoing poverty alleviation initiatives. Through her efforts, she not only keeps this ancient art alive but also ensures that its legacy thrives for future generations.</p>
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title: Live: Updates on Israel launching &amp;#039;extensive strikes&amp;#039; on Gaza
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<p>Russia and Iran Are Responsible for the Syrian Genocide Now Underway</p>
<p>Russia and Iran abandoned Syria to its destruction by the Israelis and Americans.</p>
<p>The Israel Lobby didn’t succeed in destroying 7 countries in 5 years.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It took longer, and the only country of significance remaining is Iran.</p>
<p>It is extraordinary that tiny Israel was able to wheedle enough money out of the West with which to purchase the Western governments, thereby making Israel a world power.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/alawites-ask-israel-protection-syrian-massacre-death-toll-reaches-7000/5881953">https://www.globalresearch.ca/alawites-ask-israel-protection-syrian-massacre-death-toll-reaches-7000/5881953</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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title: Most likely the CIA deep-sixed long ago incriminating evidence against itself and Joint Chiefs
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title: Are Things Going Amiss?
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<p>Are Things Going Amiss?</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>During the Biden regime, Trump criticized the Democrats for dropping bombs on Yemen.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>You don’t have to do that, Trump said, you can talk through problems over the telephone.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Now it is Trump who is bombing Yemen.</p>
<p>Those few who think about foreign affairs chalk it up to another Trump favor to Israel.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Even so, it makes no sense.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It doesn’t help to stop the killing in Ukraine to start the killing in Yemen and to continue the killing in Gaza and the small remnant of the West Bank. Is Trump for peace or just partly for peace depending on location?</p>
<p>Trump’s bombing of Yemen could turn into something bigger. Trump’s national security advisor said that Washington might begin bombing Iranian warships.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He didn’t explain the point of it or address the consequences.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The bellicosity emitting from the Trump regime calls into question Trump’s sincerity about peace in Ukraine.</p>
<p>Indeed, the way Trump took up the Ukraine negotiations struck me as either thoughtless or calculated to inflame the situation.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The Ukraine conflict is Washington’s proxy war with Russia, and this is the way Russia understands it.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>A successful negotiation has to take place between Trump and Putin.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Instead, Trump negotiated with Zelensky a temporary cease fire and then threatened Putin if he failed to agree.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>By so doing, Trump presented Putin with a fait accompli, hardly a way to build trust. As Putin surely knows, it is not an agreement if one side is coerced into it.</p>
<p>Elsewhere on the Trump front I see what look to me to be puzzling mistakes.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Before issuing all those shutdown and firing orders, Trump should have first let DOGE uncover and publicize the fantastic uses of the federal budget for unwarranted purposes.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Then with the case made, it becomes difficult for federal judges to try to overturn the remedy.</p>
<p>Yesterday a Senate vote underlined the danger of acting in advance of persuasion.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>26 Republicans, including the Senate Majority Leader, voted with Democrats not to include in the spending cuts those Trump ordered for USAID.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>When nearly half of the Republican Senate prefer to continue funding transgender comic books in Peru and DEI training sessions in Serbia despite their concern with the budget deficit, proper groundwork is missing.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In domestic fights assaults must be as carefully prepared as military assaults. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The sound and fury emitted from the Oval Office provides the presstitutes with much to misrepresent and use as weapons against Trump.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Hopefully, the presstitutes will further discredit themselves rather than Trump.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>In the meantime Trump should take a break from talk and action and figure out how to get his war for America’s renewal  better organized.</p>


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<p><span>Along with President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin, President Putin again took part in the</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76474" rel>Plenary Session</a> <span>of the Union’s Congress. Here’s what the Kremlin provided as its preamble to the transcript:</span></p>
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<p>The agenda includes key areas of interaction between business and the state, as well as initiatives of the business community aimed at achieving national development goals and implementing national projects.</p>
<p>The congress is attended by about 1300 people, including the largest entrepreneurs, representatives of small and medium-sized businesses from all over the country, heads of ministries and departments, and state political figures who are key for Russia’s economy.</p>
<p>At the end of the congress, the President held a separate meeting with members of the RSPP Bureau.</p>
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<p>The Congress has a public and closed session, the latter happening when the cameras are turned off reflecting the fact that Russia still feels parts of its economic development to be strategic and thus secret. The 43-minutes begins with a monologue by host Alexander Shokhin, then moves to Putin’s remarks followed by a short discussion between the two prior to ending the open session. Let’s find out what this year’s Congress is focused upon:</p>
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<p><strong>:</strong> <span>Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich,</span></p>
<p>Thank you for taking the time to communicate with the delegates and guests of the 34th Annual Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in a difficult schedule.</p>
<p>We know that today you have a very important telephone conversation, on which a lot depends, not only in the development of Russian-American relations, but also in the settlement of the situation in Ukraine and the resolution of many other geopolitical issues.</p>
<p><span>We discussed quite a wide range of issues before you arrived.</span> <em><strong>First of all, these are questions related to how to pass, so to speak, the golden mean between a controlled contraction of the Russian economy in order to suppress inflation and prevent overcooling of the Russian economy. In this regard, many colleagues spoke about the criteria for choosing investment projects that cannot be abandoned.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>These include projects that are at a high stage of implementation, projects aimed at national projects, including national projects of technological leadership, and</span> <em><strong>projects where the maximum multiplier is available and for every ruble of investment, you can get 5.7 rubles of return.</strong></em></p>
<p>We would like to see these additional criteria used in our dialogue with the Government, which will be formulated on the spot, so that projects don't have to be selected specifically. Although thanks to our meetings, among other things, we have established platforms, some platforms have been resumed, in particular, the sub-commission of the Government Commission on the Sustainability of the Russian Economy has resumed its work since December, and the situation in various industries with the participation of business is discussed there several times a month. We have also formed a working group with the Central Bank, where we discuss the situation in industries and individual borrowers, in order to prevent chains of non-payments, pre-bankruptcy status, and so on. In other words, the work is underway, although we understand that much depends not only on targeted solutions, but also on systemic measures.</p>
<p><em><strong>The second major issue is the personnel shortage</strong></em><span>. Many colleagues—both Government members and business representatives—spoke today. We see here, on the one hand, the possibility of such an extensive expansion of the working time fund through the removal of a number of restrictions on part-time work at the main workplace and by streamlining migration flows. In particular, it would probably be right now to focus on the additional shift method of recruiting migrants from visa-free countries through the organized recruitment mechanism. As we know, the Government is preparing a corresponding draft law. We are ready to bring the experience of companies here.</span></p>
<p>But, of course, the main thing is still the growth of labor productivity, including such well-known methods as lean production, and such areas as automation and robotization of production. Here, of course, you can also not do without investment. And here, too, we need to find an opportunity not to let this topic out of our sight even with limited budget opportunities, especially since we also have additional requirements for technological leadership here.</p>
<p><em><strong>An important topic that we discussed in the context of personnel policy is the professional education system.</strong></em> <span>Both secondary professional education and higher professional education. Hundreds, if not thousands, of Russian industrial partners have been included in such projects as "Professionalitet" and "Advanced Engineering Schools".</span></p>
<p><em><strong>We believe that these projects should be expanded</strong></em><span>. Here, the Government supports this topic. But equally, they need to be expanded not just to include new colleges or universities, but</span><em><strong>, in particular, to focus the same "Professionals" on retraining the adult population as well.</strong></em> <span>This is especially important for retraining, retaining and upgrading the skills of veterans of the SVO who are returning and who need some kind of career perspective, taking into account the fact that they are already, so to speak, people who rightfully claim more than what they had when they left for the SVO.</span></p>
<p>Among the topics that we discussed, there are also questions that we raised at the last congress, and during meetings with you in December last year, in particular, and at the congress last year, and in a public format, and in the format of a meeting with members of the RSPP bureau. I would like to remind you of some of the topics that we still have in our work.</p>
<p><span>In particular, we are talking, for example,</span> <em><strong>about expanding social partnership. The Constitution introduces the concept of social partnership as one of the main principles.</strong></em> <span>A year ago, and you supported this topic, we raised the issue of mandatory membership of leading companies and socially and economically significant organizations in one of the employers ' associations, be it regional, industry, inter-industry, all-Russian, and so on. And also about building such a interconnected system of employers ' associations.</span></p>
<p>A year has passed since that congress. To be honest, we have not made much progress so far, although we have prepared the relevant draft laws. And it turns out that the largest companies say that this is a big burden for them, including paying contributions to organizations. To be honest, you can probably help them, of course, in some way.</p>
<p><span>The second topic is the regulatory impact assessment procedure, which does not apply to tax and fiscal bills. When the ODS mechanism was introduced 15 years ago, from the very beginning we raised the issue of fiscal changes passing through ODS.</span> <em><strong>But the Ministry of Finance has always believed that businesses are against any tax change if it is not in favor of the business.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>But, on the other hand, a year ago we found a balance of interests, found compromises.</span> <em><strong>And the changes in the tax system that came into effect on January 1 of this year show that business is not only calm, but also sympathetic to these changes and, moreover, is ready to refine some things so that they work more efficiently.</strong></em></p>
<p>Therefore, we believe that it would be right to move in this way. Even those public platforms that the same Duma is ready to provide: expert platforms or parliamentary hearings. We often have documents that are marked "For official use" in the process of being prepared, and we don't have time to discuss them just by the time they are accepted. There is a commission on legislative activity, although many of my colleagues at the deputy level are represented in this commission. I enter myself so that I don't miss a single opportunity to formulate a business position.</p>
<p>An important issue–-excuse me, Mr President, I'm already tired of this topic—is the protection of the interests of bona fide property purchasers, including in the process of privatization transactions.</p>
<p><span>You said that purchasers should not be held responsible for mistakes made by federal or regional authorities. To be honest, we have worked through many aspects of this process of reviewing the results of privatization and we believe that it is quite possible to develop procedural rules that will make this process more orderly. In particular, we are talking about using the statute of limitations and the pre-trial period based on the norms of the Civil Code.</span> <em><strong>In other words, we believe that privatization transactions are business transactions, and the Civil Code should apply here. In addition, it is impossible to refer to the fact that mistakes in privatization violate the intangible rights of citizens, for which, as is known, there is no statute of limitations and can not be.</strong></em></p>
<p>I think that we can probably finalize this topic in some way, especially since we see that the Presidential Council for the Codification of Civil Legislation is also actively involved in this work.</p>
<p>I am sure that the results of today's congress and the discussion that will continue in the open part will help us to promote certain issues.</p>
<p>And one more request, Mr President, since there have been a lot of speeches today from both business and government representatives: if we formalize these proposals, including those based on the 19 forums of the Russian Business Week that took place in February, and ask you to instruct the Government to work on them together with us, it would be a great deal we will help you to register that all issues have been resolved in a year. We would very much like that.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Dear Alexander Nikolaevich, Dear friends and colleagues,</span></p>
<p><span>Alexander Nikolaevich drew attention to my schedule. Indeed, the powers of the President under the Russian Constitution are large.</span> <em><strong>But I would like to say that even without any constitutional powers, the significance of your work is of permanent importance, because you are responsible for thousands of collectives, you are responsible for the social and material well-being of millions of people.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Indeed, there are always a lot of questions. Alexander Nikolaevich has just spoken about protecting the interests of bona fide purchasers and everything related to privatization. We have already discussed this a hundred times, and rightly so:</span> <em><strong>we must discuss it until we finally decide.</strong></em> <span>But at the same time, Alexander Nikolaevich mentioned that not all large entrepreneurs and large companies want to join the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and said: maybe we should help them? You see, even within the community, such epistemological contradictions sometimes arise, as people who are engaged in science say. But we will still do all this, discuss it and, I hope, solve it.</span></p>
<p>I am very happy to welcome all participants of the plenary session of the organization, which unites leading domestic companies. And these are, of course, real market leaders, including those on a global scale.</p>
<p>At the beginning, I would like to thank the members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs for their involvement in the public agenda of development, for their active participation in the preparation of measures that strengthen our economy and our sovereignty, make the investment and business climate in the country more comfortable and meet the needs of business, which helps Russian enterprises and their labor collectives to clearly understand the long-term prospects of work, form development plans, important both for specific companies and for entire industries.</p>
<p>I hope that I will be able to answer some of the questions that Alexander Nikolaevich outlined. If not, we will still have a meeting with the RSPP bureau. We will have the opportunity to talk, as they say, behind closed doors, absolutely frankly, on some issues.</p>
<p>There are indeed a lot of issues here, including improving the regulatory framework for the real sector, removing excessive barriers, and generally improving the regulatory environment for businesses. In short, we are talking about a complex, multi-faceted cooperation, which, unfortunately, does not go without hitches. Unfortunately, some papers are delayed somewhere, approvals take a long time (this was also mentioned just now), or difficulties and uncertainties arise that could not have been foreseen, and they slow down the overall work.</p>
<p>It is absolutely correct that you directly designate these problem areas. I am sure that our colleagues from the Government will work with you to quickly resolve these issues and cooperate with you in the interests of the state and the business community. I would like to note that Russian business has faced serious challenges in recent years. You and I know that very well. These include strong sanctions pressure, especially restrictions on international settlements and operations on foreign markets. These and other actions generally undermine the freedom of trade and investment in the global economy, which I will also say a few words about separately.</p>
<p><span>It is important that during this time, domestic entrepreneurs have learned how to work in the face of sanctions, adapted to them, thought out and launched alternative mechanisms for cooperation with foreign partners, with those who want to work with us.</span> <em><strong>In addition, sanctions have become a kind of additional catalyst for positive structural changes in our economy, including in the financial, technological spheres, and in many other key areas.</strong></em></p>
<p>I know that business experts are now actively discussing what will happen next with illegitimate sanctions against Russia, our companies, and our citizens: they will be lifted, retained, strengthened, and so on. Dear friends and colleagues, I suggest that we proceed from the following considerations.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, they are on the surface.</p>
<p><span>Sanctions are not temporary or targeted measures, they are a mechanism of systemic, strategic pressure on our country.</span> <em><strong>And no matter how the situation develops, no matter what the system of international relations is, our competitors will always have the desire to restrain our country, weaken its economic and technological capabilities.</strong></em></p>
<p>And if earlier the Western so-called elites tried to give this opposition at least some semblance of decency, now it seems that they do not need to be shy, they are not going to be shy. They not only regularly threaten Russia with new sanctions, but also stamp out these packages one by one. It seems that the initiators themselves have lost track of how many restrictions they have imposed and against whom.</p>
<p><span>So the Ministry of Finance calculated it. I can tell you with confidence, with confidence.</span> <em><strong>28,595 sanctions against individuals and legal entities. This is more than all the sanctions against all the countries against which sanctions were imposed, and many times higher.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Even if there is some gesture from the other side--they say that something is supposed to be removed, weakened--we can expect that there will be another way to push, put some sticks in the wheels, as was the case with the well–known Jackson-Vanik amendment.</strong></em> <span>Even the Soviet Union, against which it was introduced at the time, was no longer there, and relations between Russia and the United States of America were at their best. And the amendment continued to work. And when it was supposedly canceled, it was actually simply replaced with another restrictive act against Russia.</span> <em><strong>Remember that. They canceled and immediately imposed other sanctions.</strong></em></p>
<p>I repeat: sanctions and restrictions are the reality of the current new stage of development, which the whole world, the entire world economy, has entered. Global competition has escalated and is becoming increasingly sophisticated and irreconcilable.</p>
<p>Thus, a new spiral of economic competition is unfolding right before our eyes, and in these conditions it is even embarrassing to recall the norms and rules of the World Trade Organization, which were once actively promoted by the West. Once. When? When these rules were beneficial to them. As soon as they became unprofitable, everything immediately began to change. And all these negotiations are stalling. And nobody really needs them.</p>
<p><em><strong>Obviously, and I've already said it more than once: as it was before, it will no longer be. There is no hope for complete freedom of trade, payments and capital flows, just as there is no need to rely on Western mechanisms to protect the rights of investors and entrepreneurs.</strong></em> <span>Yes, Alexander Nikolaevich just said, and I actually started with this: we have our own systemic problems related to privatization, with the protection of the rights of bona fide purchasers. You know my position. Something is stalling here, but we will work together to resolve this issue completely.</span></p>
<p><span>What do I want to say? We have, but there are enough of these problems. Admittedly, these mechanisms have worked with a creak before. I am referring to those proposed by our so-called Western partners.</span> <em><strong>And now the cover is completely gone, as they say: it has become obvious to everyone what the various "high courts" in European capitals and Western jurisdictions are worth, in which many sought to hide themselves there and dig something up quietly. All. None of this is happening. And there are no hidden jurisdictions.</strong></em></p>
<p>In these circumstances, it is important for Russian businesses to show flexibility, search for and explore new markets, develop their own technological solutions and establish cooperation with reliable partners, and there are also enough of them in the world. But here, of course, the Government and our regions must provide the necessary support. For my part, I will do everything possible to support this process.</p>
<p><em><strong>Russia is strengthening its own sovereignty, and in all areas that support the work of business, including the development of transport, logistics, financial and payment infrastructure. We are doing this right now and will definitely continue.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>I know and understand what difficulties you are facing, but we will do everything possible to help you.</span> <em><strong>I would like to emphasize that only those countries that can ensure real, full-fledged sovereignty become resistant in general and to external pressure in particular, and are capable of dynamic, progressive development in the interests of their peoples.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>I'll give you a good example. As a matter of fact, it is already well-known, but I will take advantage of the situation and say it again. We see how most European countries have lost their sovereignty, and as a result, they have faced serious problems both in the economy and in the security sphere.</span> <em><strong>As for the economy, all of them have near-zero growth rates or are even entering a recession.</strong></em> <span>On the contrary, the BRICS countries and those countries that want to participate in our association understand the benefits of adding up their potentials, have been leading global growth in recent years, and have set a high bar for economic dynamics.</span></p>
<p><span>Let me just remind you that in 2024, the GDP growth of the eurozone was 0.9 percent, the "big seven"—why it is big, it is not clear what is big there; wherever you look, you can't see anyone on the map—so this "seven" has 1.9 percent growth, and the BRICS–-4.9. In Russia, two years in a row, both last year and the year before, 4,1. (Applause.)</span> <em><strong>I know, I'll tell you more about it now, of course. By the way, you applauded yourself, these are your results, thank you. I'll give you a round of applause.</strong></em> <span>(Applause.)</span></p>
<p><span>By the way, Alexander Nikolaevich was just talking about the cooling of the economy. Here, of course, you need to act very, very carefully. It is clear that this is inevitable, and both the Government and the Central Bank have spoken about it. In general, as if agreed.</span> <em><strong>It is necessary that in practice everything should be as planned, so that there is no such excessive cooling as in the cryocamber, but slowly so that everything is there.</strong></em> <span>I won't do it now, the numbers are known. The Central Bank has the same figures, while the Government and the Ministry of Economic Development have different ones. This is not 4.1 percent, but 2-2.5 percent.</span> <em><strong>But you need to make sure that there is no collapse, no extra frost.</strong></em> <span>It's a subtle thing, but I hope it works.</span></p>
<p>We can still talk about it. But I suggest that we don't start a discussion right now, because we'll be talking until morning, I know that.</p>
<p>Were we with Maxim Stanislavovich Oreshkin yesterday or today already… What time did we break up, two o'clock, right? At three in the morning. So we really talked until morning. I hope that we will still follow the path that we will follow carefully and achieve the result we need.</p>
<p><em><strong>But the eluding of so-called Western dominance and the emergence of new global growth centers is a long-term trend.</strong></em> <span>That's what I want to emphasize. Yes, of course, we understand all the advantages of our so-called Western partners: high technologies, organization of production–-everything is there, it's true, they have achieved a lot.</span> <em><strong>We need to treat this with respect and take all the best, but do not copy it.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>And we must understand that growth rates in various regions of the world will be stable over the coming decades. And the fact that due to a number of circumstances, we have had a certain reorientation (by the way, through no fault of our own)–-maybe this is a good thing.</span> <em><strong>We are reorienting ourselves to global promising markets. And what we need, we will still get.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Of course, this long-term trend will continue. It will be supported, among other things, by</span> <em><strong>the BRICS development platform, which is currently being formed.</strong></em> <span>It will cover the resource, technological, human resources, financial, trade and investment components, and at a fundamentally new level, with the involvement of modern digital solutions, which makes the platform as efficient as possible and free from negative external interference.</span></p>
<p>I very much hope that Russian business will take an active part in these joint projects with our BRICS partners and its future members.</p>
<p>Dear colleagues, I will touch upon another important issue that concerns domestic business and concerns Russia's relations with foreign countries. I would like to say this again: we are talking about the return of foreign companies, the possible return of foreign companies that left our market in 2022, and even later.</p>
<p>I have already said that Russian business has taken advantage of this opportunity wisely, occupied the vacant market niches, invested, created jobs and devoted a lot of time and effort to the development of technologies.</p>
<p><span>Yes, now some of these companies that have left are going to return, we know about this, but I will not go into detail now, so as not to interfere with anything.</span> <em><strong>But our companies that have taken their place are at different stages of the investment cycle. Someone has already made investments, set up production, and someone is only at the beginning of projects and is developing construction, despite the high key rate. And of course, we have no right to undermine these plans, to reduce to zero the invested forces and funds.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>The interests of Russian companies, enterprises, and their employees will always be a priority for us. It is from these positions that we will consider the issue of returning foreign businesses to our market.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>I would like to note that among the foreign companies that left Russia under the political pressure of the so-called elites of their countries, there are those who retained their personnel, technologies, and handed over management to the Russian management. In fact, they continued to work in our market, but under a different brand.</span> <em><strong>We understand that such investors risked a lot and could have faced a negative reaction from their governments, but they made an independent and responsible choice, and, of course, we respect this choice and will treat such partners with respect.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>But there were other companies that defiantly slammed the door, wanted to sell their Russian segment, by the way, often at a large discount, and so they did. Or, even worse, they began to sabotage their activities and thereby put entire teams, their Russian clients, suppliers, and contractors in a vulnerable position.</span> <em><strong>By the way, these companies are well known to us, and we were forced to introduce temporary management in them.</strong></em></p>
<p>I understand that some Western owners were frightened and did not find the strength to contradict their political authorities. This explains their behavior. But in case the wind changed, they still left a loophole for themselves: they retained the right to buy the business back, provided for an option.</p>
<p><span>I ask the Government to closely monitor this situation and similar transactions, so that it does not turn out that the owners sold the business in Russia at a bargain price, in fact, left it to its fate, and now they want to buy the asset back,</span> <em><strong>but for the same modest money. It doesn't have to be like this, it doesn't happen like this.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>The market situation is already different: companies have grown stronger, increased their capitalization, and are operating in a different way.</span> <em><strong>Therefore, it is obvious that each such transaction will require a separate, thorough review.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>I would like to repeat once again: we did not expel anyone. Those who left our market made such a decision themselves; under the pressure of the elites of their countries, without pressure—it doesn't matter anymore. In any case, we are talking about experienced businessmen who calculated the risks and understood the consequences of their actions. If the niches of Western companies are already occupied by Russian business, then, as I said earlier,</span> <em><strong>we have people saying it, the train has left, there will be no privileges and preferences for those returning.</strong></em></p>
<p>At the same time, Russia remains an open country. Anyone who wants to return, please let them return on a competitive basis within our legal framework. I ask the Government to update the list of foreign companies that have stopped working in Russia, as well as to develop a procedure for coordinating their return with mandatory guarantees of fair and responsible business conduct in our country. But this process, of course, should be as transparent as possible.</p>
<p>Dear colleagues! Russia implements large-scale and long-term development plans, launches major infrastructure, industrial and transport projects, develops vast unique territories of the Far East, Siberia, the Arctic and other regions of our country, and strengthens promising and mutually beneficial ties with the vast majority of countries in the world.</p>
<p><em><strong>Now the main challenge for the domestic economy is the transition to a stable trajectory of balanced growth. I want to emphasize this: on the trajectory of balanced growth.</strong></em> <span>We will have to ensure high-quality, intensive dynamics in the real sector by modernizing production facilities and increasing labor productivity (and it is better, of course, if this is done not in an intensive way, but through the introduction of new technologies), increase the output of goods and services across the widest range, formulating the supply economy.</span></p>
<p><span>At the same time,</span> <em><strong>it is important to avoid unbalancing individual industries and distorting key macro parameters–-our most important task. In particular, it is necessary to contain inflation and ensure low unemployment.</strong></em> <span>This is a common joint task of both the authorities and businesses–-not only large, which unites the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, but also small and medium-sized businesses.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>It is based on the requests of entrepreneurs that we will continue to build the mechanisms of the entire state economic policy, including monetary policy, so that these mechanisms primarily work to increase Russia's production potential, open new enterprises, strengthen the country's technological and financial sovereignty, and strengthen its human resources.</strong></em></p>
<p>The Government is currently preparing a corresponding plan of additional measures. I look forward to active participation in this work of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, as well as other business associations of our country. And of course, I wish you all success for the good of Russia.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Alexander Shokhin:</strong> <span>Mr President, thank you very much for your informative report on key issues that concern both business and government.</span></p>
<p>And indeed, you concluded by saying: for the good of Russia. As you can see, our slogan is "RSPP: Uniting business for the benefit of Russia".</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>I read it.</span></p>
<p><strong>Alexander Shokhin:</strong> <span>Thank you. So we didn't try in vain.</span></p>
<p>Vladimir Vladimirovich, I would like to inform you that two years ago, from this rostrum, you instructed the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, together with interested authorities, other business associations, and social partners, to establish the Responsible Business Leaders Award and instructed the winners and laureates of the award to present appropriate awards at the annual RSPP congresses.</p>
<p>Just for the record, I would like to say that we held this ceremony today. Among the award winners are PhosAgro, Metalloinvest, Severstal, and Norilsk Nickel. Russian Railways, Gazprom, SIBUR, RUSAL and, perhaps, the lesser-known Pigment company became the winners of the award. There are still a number of winners in certain areas of socially responsible behavior of companies. But in general, two years of awarding this award show that it was a good project that allowed us to mobilize not only large companies that conduct non-financial reporting, and this was also a condition of the award, which you mentioned two years ago, but also medium-sized companies are catching up. We will now summarize the experience of two years of holding the award and, perhaps, adjust some provisions to expand the scale, so to speak, of companies ' participation and report back to you the results of our work. Next year, there may be more well-known companies among the winners.</p>
<p>At this point, I would like to thank you, Mr Putin, given that, judging by Dmitry Peskov's statements, you should have a conversation with Donald Trump before 18 o'clock.</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>I didn't hear it, it's his job.</span></p>
<p><strong>Alexander Shokhin:</strong> <span>I don't know, but now we need to see what Trump will say to this phrase, he likes to give interviews, and maybe he will react already.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>I didn't mention Trump, I was talking about Peskov.</span></p>
<p><strong>Alexander Shokhin:</strong> <span>He knows that we are having a discussion.</span></p>
<p>But in fact, since you have a very tough agenda for today and the next few days, I would like to thank you and conclude this public part of our conversation and, judging by what you have said, continue the discussion with the members of the RSPP bureau and the large companies that have joined us, which are still working on this issue. not members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Perhaps, after all, the "entrance ticket" can be made through membership in the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs?</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Do members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs have any advantages?</span></p>
<p><strong>Alexander Shokhin:</strong> <span>Look, we are organizing a congress. It has long been a tradition that after the public part of the congress–-a meeting with the Bureau of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. We have only 30 members of the bureau. Do you know how many people are participating today? Almost 90 people.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>So you don't have to leave? (Laughter in the audience.)</span></p>
<p><strong>A. Shokhin:</strong> <span>These are those who have joined. (Laughter.) Therefore, there are virtually no privileges, except for a sense of responsibility to their employees, to the Constitution, where social partnership is prescribed.</span></p>
<p>In fact, we are talking about the fact that, despite, so to speak, formal circumstances, really responsible companies have gathered here, who see not only their own future in the form of financial performance growth and so on, but also think about the future of the country. What you said today about Russian business, which successfully occupies the vacant niches and deals with issues of technological sovereignty and leadership, and implements social programs.</p>
<p><span>By the way, two years ago, one of the key topics was redomicilation, that is, the relocation of Russian companies from abroad, from offshore zones to Russian jurisdiction, and the desire for ownership. This process is almost complete, by the way, largely due to our discussions and the effective work of our colleagues: the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development, and the State Duma.</span> <em><strong>In this sense, there is no place to invest except in Russia. Thank you also, as you said, to those who impose sanctions.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>No, you can invest.</span> <em><strong>The world is huge, the world is colossal, so you need to invest where it is profitable for you, and it is profitable for Russia, the profit is high, and investments are reliably protected.</strong></em> <span>There are many such regions of the world.</span></p>
<p>Here are colleagues who are investing in Africa and Asia. Where they invest, they need for production here, someone invests, some production is transferred, because it is easier to work on world markets from there.</p>
<p><span>I know a lot, we meet regularly. Therefore, there is much to invest in. There are countries that, as you know, have already accumulated so much money in all sorts of funds, they do not know where to put it. As the main character of "Viburnum red" said, " money burns your thigh." Remember, right? That's the problem for them, the funds are huge, colossal, and have already grown to the skies. Well, why are they lying somewhere out there, in such, sorry for the bad language, already dumb jurisdictions. What to do with them, what will happen to them? Everyone is thinking about it, everyone is thinking about it. You know that very well.</span> <em><strong>Everyone was wondering what will happen to these funds that are stored in Western banks?</strong></em> <span>Everyone thought about it. Well, of course, this is a signal for the entire global economy. We need to look for these investment opportunities. There are many of them.</span> <em><strong>Of course, the state's task here is largely to ensure the interests of Russian business. It's true. But this safe haven should be the economy of our country itself, of Russia itself. Of course, we still have a lot to do.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>I know they don't talk about it now, but we'll probably meet with our colleagues in a narrow format… Although 90 companies are also not so narrow. We also need to work with the law enforcement sector. If you have noticed, I always speak at all the collegiums (tomorrow, in my opinion, the prosecutor's office, I will speak there): we need to protect the interests of Russian business,</span> <em><strong>we need to do everything possible to ensure that the legal system promotes business to go here,</strong></em> <span>is not afraid of anything, and that the judicial system is independent and efficient. We still have a lot to do. I understand, I understand everything. Believe me, we will do everything for this.</span></p>
<p><span>What's so good about it?</span> <em><strong>They freeze everything in general, you know, they take everything away rudely, not in a civilized way at all. I'm not even talking about any legal systems–-they just don't exist.</strong></em> <em><strong>They exist there only for themselves. That's the trick. Do you understand?</strong></em></p>
<p>By the way, I noticed this in the political sphere a long time ago, a long time ago. I won't mention your last name right now. Here they are discussing some political issue: we are doing so, so, so. Sorry, you think: damn! I sometimes said: "It is also impossible, it contradicts..." – " Well, nothing, it contradicts-so it is expedient." That's all. And there it has long been used in the field of politics. Now everything in the economic sphere has already started to grow at full speed.</p>
<p><em><strong>Therefore, it is impossible to trust, but it is necessary to create such a political system, legal and law enforcement practice within the country.</strong></em> <span>We need to work together on this to make it tough, stable, and reliable. I think this is a good example of how this work has developed in recent years between the business community and the Government.</span></p>
<p>Join the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs! (Laughter in the audience.)</p>
<p><strong>Alexey Shokhin:</strong> <span>Friends, on this optimistic note, I suggest that we end the public part.</span></p>
<p>Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, for your participation and for your kind words.</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Thank you for the invitation. [My Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p>Putin’s talk at the end about the nature of the West being unlawful and thus bad for business because all business is based on law was very important. and yes, Putin does met with all the law-enforcement related bureaus at their collegiums, including that of the judges and supreme constitutional court, all of which I usually report on. Putin’s opinion that the sanctions will never be completely lifted has the backing of history. Perhaps by 2080 or so the West will see the need to be honest again. Perhaps that will occur sooner, but Rusia cannot wait for that to happen and must chart its own course. Yes, trying to balance the economy is difficult to do. I note there was no mention of wages keeping or out pacing the rate of inflation, but most general economic measures went undiscussed. Clearly, the need to get the closed discussion finished so Putin could have his important talk with Trump was appreciated, so the session was shorter han normal. That the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs backs the educational plan related to personnel advancement was an excellent signal to the harmony existing between all the actors impacting Russia’s future development. I’d like to get 5.7 dollars back for every dollar I invest, but such possibilities don’t exist here or elsewhere in the West.</p>
<p>Now to find out what we’re allowed to know about the Trump-Putin chat.</p>
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<p>Report on Trump-Putin telephone conversation</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>The two leaders agreed to a 30-day cease fire limited to no attacks on each country’s energy infrastructure.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>For Ukraine this means the cessation of Russian attacks on the power grid.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The cease fire does not apply to the Russian advance on the battlefield. The two leaders agreed to further talks in order to bring the conflict to an end and normalize relations.</p>
<p>I knew that Putin could not accept a general cease fire.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I find it hopeful that Trump understands Putin’s reasons and that the two leaders could agree on a partial cease fire in order that the discussions can continue. Trump had recently publicly threatened Putin with punishment if he failed to agree to a cease fire.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I was concerned that Putin’s refusal to accept a general cease fire would offend Trump, result in more sanctions, and defeat Trump’s boast that he could end the conflict.</p>
<p>The conflict is not really between Ukraine and Russia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is Washington’s proxy war against Russia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Ukraine is merely the proxy. No decision is up to Zelensky.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As Trump says the conflict would not have happened if the Democrats had not stolen his reelection in 2020, Trump has no stake in the war and should be able to walk away from it on Putin’s terms, which are reasonable.</p>
<p>If Trump can avoid being ensnared by Israel into war with Iran, Trump can focus on his domestic agenda.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He might find that the American Establishment is a more formidable enemy than Putin.</p>


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<p><span>Here’s the straight edited translation of</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76477" rel>the Kremlin’s readout</a> <span>of the second publicly acknowledged phone chat between Presidents Putin and Trump. One publication says the call lasted three hours:</span></p>
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<p>The leaders continued a detailed and frank exchange of views on the situation around Ukraine. Vladimir Putin expressed gratitude to Donald Trump for his desire to contribute to the achievement of the noble goal of ending hostilities and human losses.</p>
<p><span>Confirming principled commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflict, the President of Russia declared his readiness to work together with his American partners</span> <em><strong>to carefully study</strong></em> <span>possible ways to resolve the conflict,</span> <em><strong>which should be comprehensive, sustainable and long-term</strong></em><span>. And, of course,</span> <em><strong>take into account the unconditional need to address the root causes of the crisis and Russia's legitimate security interests.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>In the context of the initiative of the President of the United States to introduce a 30-day truce, the Russian side outlined a number of significant points regarding ensuring effective control over a possible ceasefire along the entire line of contact, the need to stop forced mobilization in Ukraine and rearmament of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.</span> <em><strong>Serious risks associated with the inability of the Kiev regime, which has repeatedly sabotaged and violated the agreements reached, were also noted</strong></em><span>.</span> <em><strong>Attention was drawn to the barbaric terrorist crimes committed by Ukrainian militants against the civilian population of the Kursk Region.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>It was emphasized that the key condition for preventing the escalation of the conflict and working towards its resolution through political and diplomatic means</span> <em><strong>should be the complete cessation of foreign military assistance and the provision of intelligence information to Kiev.</strong></em></p>
<p>In connection with Donald Trump's recent appeal to save the lives of Ukrainian servicemen surrounded in the Kursk region, Vladimir Putin confirmed that the Russian side is ready to be guided by humanitarian considerations and, in the event of surrender, guarantees the lives and dignity of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in accordance with Russian laws and international law.</p>
<p><span>In the course, Donald Trump put forward a proposal for</span> <em><strong>the parties to the conflict to mutually refuse to strike energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days. Vladimir Putin responded positively to this initiative and immediately gave the Russian military the appropriate command.</strong></em></p>
<p>Likewise The President of Russia reacted constructively to the idea expressed by Donald Trump to implement the well-known initiative concerning the safety of navigation in the Black Sea. It was agreed to start talks for additional elaboration of the specific details of such an agreement.</p>
<p>Vladimir Putin informed that on March 19, the Russian and Ukrainian sides will exchange prisoners: 175 for 175 people. In addition, as a gesture of goodwill, 23 seriously wounded Ukrainian servicemen will be handed over, who are being treated in Russian medical institutions.</p>
<p><span>The leaders reaffirmed their intention to continue efforts to achieve a Ukrainian settlement in a bilateral mode, including taking into account the above-mentioned proposals of the President United States.</span> <em><strong>For this purpose, Russian and American expert groups are being created</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p>Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump also touched upon other issues on the international agenda, including the situation in the Middle East and the Red Sea region. Joint efforts will be made to stabilize the situation in crisis points, to establish cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation and global security. This, in turn, will contribute to the improvement of the general atmosphere of Russian-American relations. One of the positive examples is the solidarity vote in the UN on the resolution on the Ukrainian conflict.</p>
<p><span>They expressed mutual interest in normalising bilateral relations in the light of the special responsibility of Russia and the United States for ensuring security and stability in the world.</span> <em><strong>In this context, a wide range of areas in which our countries could establish cooperation was considered.</strong></em> <span>A number of ideas were discussed that are moving towards the development of mutually beneficial cooperation in the economy and energy in the future.</span></p>
<p>Donald Trump supported Vladimir Putin's idea to organize hockey matches in the United States and Russia between Russian and American players playing in the NHL and KHL.</p>
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<p><span>I can guess where most of the time was spent, and it wasn’t about Ukraine: “</span><em><strong>In this context, a wide range of areas in which our countries could establish cooperation was considered.”</strong></em> <span>Most of what was discussed about Ukraine mostly echoed what Putin said in his polite Nyet. The agreement to not target energy installations is a nothingburger that the Ukies will likely violate soon thus reinforcing their untrustworthiness. Again, no mention of elections in the readout. Also note the fact that the actual negotiating teams have yet to be formed: “</span><em><strong>For this purpose, Russian and American expert groups are being created</strong></em><span>.” Many would like to know what Putin specifically said about Palestine and Yemen, but what was said about West Asia was left vague. Again, the problem exists that one of the actors was absent from the chat—Ukraine this time. How will Trump get Zelensky to agree to what Trump committed him to? What’s missing from the announcement of expert groups being created is again no Ukraine. At some point that portion of the circus needs to be closed down and a new tent erected that includes all the actors. That will bring up yet again the issue of why the Outlaw US Empire is involved in the negotiations—either Ukraine is sovereign and provided its own legitimate representatives or it formally appoints the Empire as its agent, or Ukraine isn’t sovereign and the conflict is actually between Russia and NATO/Outlaw US Empire.</span></p>
<p>Clearly, many critical, key questions need to be resolved before any actual, serious talks can begin. Yes, there are many areas having nothing to do with Ukraine that Russia and the Outlaw US Empire need to discuss. But as we saw again at the Entrepreneurs Congress that Russia has no trust in any Western actor at all—even their legal systems are junk—worthless. I don’t know how those seriously wounded Ukie soldiers feel about being handed over to Ukie care. I hope they’re given a choice.</p>
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<p><br>Schiller Institute leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche summarized the current strategic situation on Monday, as running along on “two tracks”: <br><strong>First</strong>, the track leading potentially to a positive resolution in Ukraine, with benefit for other zones of conflict; and the <strong>second</strong> track, of war preparation madness, leading to doom. <br><br>Zepp-LaRouche invited former CIA officer and intelligence analyst Larry Johnson to discuss the quickly changing and developing geopolitical situation in the wake of the phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Other topics that will be discussed include Johnson’s trip to Russia with fellow journalists Judge Napolitano and Mario Nawfal to interview Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the vote in the German Parliament for a change in the constitution to finance the ‘war economy’ in order to further the (nuclear) confrontation with Russia.<br></p>


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<p><br>Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent contractor, he has provided training for the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. Since its founding in 1998, Larry has been managing partner of BERG (Business Exposure Reduction Group) Associates LLC, which specializes in investigating money laundering and counterfeit products, as well as providing financial analysis and counter terror strategy. Larry was a frequent guest on all major US networks from the 1990s to the late 2000s, but made the “mistake” of consistently offering candid insights and honest assessments, without deferring to establishment bias. As waging “Forever Wars” became the singular policy objective of 90% of the nation’s elected officials, and of the entire media, those voices offering independent and unbiased analysis were relegated to the wilderness, Larry’s along with them. Vilified by the establishment right, left and center, Larry must be doing something right. His take on global security, intelligence and geopolitics is regularly sought by businesses, by non-mainstream media, and by an organic and growing online cooperative of non-partisan dissident journalism and commentary. In 2024, Larry addressed the United Nations Security Council, and attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). He appears regularly on various news sites, video blogs and independent online channels, including Sputnik, RT, Judging Freedom, Redacted and The Duran, among many others. <br><br><strong><a href="https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/instead_of_rearming_for_the_great_war_we_need_to_create_a_global_security_architecture" data-type="link" data-id="https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/instead_of_rearming_for_the_great_war_we_need_to_create_a_global_security_architecture" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Petition: Instead of Rearming for the Great War, We Need to Create a Global Security Architecture!</a></strong><br></p>



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<p><span>It's extremely rare for someone reputable to tell things as they are--the bare assed truth--no matter how shocking it might be for those listening.</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEjbxIpviY4" rel>I just watched that unfold as Larry Wilkerson told Nima</a> <span>how it all is for not quite an hour.</span></p>
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<p><span>So far, just under 26,000 have viewed the chat--that needs to expand 1000X at minimum. IMO, Mr. Wilkerson is also a rare person politically having become an objective Truth Teller affiliated with Humanity instead of any political party. His candidness must be seen to be believed. IMO, this is the best segment of Nima's</span> <em>Dialog Works</em> <span>he's done all thanks to Mr. Wilkeson's ability/courage to tell it as it is.</span></p>
<p>The key point made is the Outlaw US Empire’s addiction to feeding the Military Industrial Complex General/President Eisenhower built so well then had the temerity to warn us about the Frankenstein Monster he created as he left for never ending rounds of golf. Yes, Truman started it but Ike made certain it would remain a fixture. If you don’t want to learn the truth, then don’t watch. And those who think they know and are thus not inclined to watch, I suggest you reevaluate what you think you know and watch. And for my many international readers, please share this with your circles so you can all understand the nature of this beast that must be contained then suffocated.</p>
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<p>It's the season for viewing blossoming rapeseed flowers! Many locals were attracted to a newly opened coffee shop in Nanya Village in Yichang, Hubei Province, where they can take a sip of coffee and enjoy the picturesque spring scenery of the countryside. Also, they can try the shop's limited supply of flowery cupcakes.</p>
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title: Planning a tour to China and Southeast Asia? Spring is here!
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<p>Planning a tour to China combined with a trip to Southeast Asia? Spring is here! Hit the road now!</p>
<p>China and ASEAN countries have never been more connected than they are today. It is all thanks to new infrastructures, such as China-Laos Railway, and initiatives that bring people closer, such as China's new visa relaxation policies for tourists from ASEAN.</p>
<p>In total, the 11 countries boast over a hundred UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in addition to numerous destinations with hidden gems, unique cuisines, breath-taking views and distinctive traditions.</p>
<p>Fancy a trip then? But where to start? Share with us your travel related queries with the hashtag #SpringItinerary# and CGTN will enlist its reporters, travellers and locals to help you make it one of your best journeys.</p>
<p>You can also share photos and videos of famous attractions in your hometown to attract people from all over the world!</p>
<p>Let's make this spring unforgettable!</p>
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guid: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-dystopic-mission-of-mark-carney
title: The Dystopic Mission of Mark Carney episode 1 (the Ghost of Maurice Strong)
author: ;Matthew Ehret
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<p>Due to the general ignorance of the dynamics of Canada and Canada’s strategic role within the British Empire’s global great game, Jason Dahl and I decided to create a series of short punchy films titled ‘The Dystopic Mission of Mark Carney’. </p><p>Each film will be 6-8 minutes in length and will document the broader Rhodes Trust/Bilderberger machinery managing the strange thing called Canada. </p><p>This first episode will tackle Carney’s role as an eco-warrior of Central Bankers as the living heir of Maurice Strong.</p><p>Tune into this platform and the broader Canadian Patriot channel for more installments of this series in the weeks ahead.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v6qsgjs-the-dystopic-mission-of-mark-carney-episode-1-the-ghost-of-maurice-strong.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F251d79cc-2392-462b-b786-2a104a9094e3_800x451.jpeg" width="800" height="451" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/251d79cc-2392-462b-b786-2a104a9094e3_800x451.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":451,"width":800,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":276039,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":"https://rumble.com/v6qsgjs-the-dystopic-mission-of-mark-carney-episode-1-the-ghost-of-maurice-strong.html","belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://matthewehret.substack.com/i/159396309?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F251d79cc-2392-462b-b786-2a104a9094e3_800x451.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Or watch on<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6q3H7JV3Sg"> Youtube here</a>, Bitchute <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/V3rj09hmt9VK">here</a>, Odyssee <a href="https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4/Mark-Carney-Part1-CP-v3-1-HB:e">here</a></h3><h3>For deeper reading on the Untold History of Canada, <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/get-control-of-your-past-to-shape-your-future/">click here</a></h3><p>Keep in mind: These films only happen through the support of viewers like you. 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guid: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-dystopic-mission-of-mark-carney
title: The Dystopic Mission of Mark Carney episode 1 (the Ghost of Maurice Strong)
author: ;Matthew Ehret
content: [unable to retrieve full-text content]A new film series
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guid: https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/tulsi-gabbard-reverses-her-strong
title: Tulsi Gabbard reverses her strong opposition to ‘genocidal’ Yemen war
author: ;The Grayzone
content: [unable to retrieve full-text content]By Antiwar Dot Com - March 18, 2025
link: https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/tulsi-gabbard-reverses-her-strong
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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138379
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The US government could not get its two astronauts stranded in space back to earth.  Elon Musk had to send SpaceX to rescue them.

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<p>The US government could not get its two astronauts stranded in space back to earth.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Elon Musk had to send SpaceX to rescue them.</p>
<p>That is strong evidence that the Democrats’ DEI policies have destroyed the competence of the US government.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Elon Musk can do what the US government cannot.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>This must really burn the liberals up.</p>
<p>Musk got the US astronauts safely back yesterday at about 6pm eastern time.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-just-scored-a-much-needed-win-spacex-brought-those-2-stranded-astronauts-home/ar-AA1BbGy3">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-just-scored-a-much-needed-win-spacex-brought-those-2-stranded-astronauts-home/ar-AA1BbGy3</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138381
title: PCR on Target with Larry Sparano
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<p>PCR on Target with Larry Sparano</p>
<p>Are Trump-Putin on a Promising Track?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpCyCRWs-QY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpCyCRWs-QY</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138383
title: The Judiciary Is Attempting to Seize Executive Power
author: ;pcr3
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<p>The Judiciary Is Attempting to Seize Executive Power</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>Biden judge Tanya Chutkan orders EPA not to obey a presidential order to terminate waste, fraud, and abuse.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Chutkan was admonished by the US Supreme Court last June for ignoring presidential immunity and rushing a politically motivated case against Trump just prior to election season. <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/9/statement-on-judge-tanya-chutkan-s-corrupt-election-interference">https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/9/statement-on-judge-tanya-chutkan-s-corrupt-election-interference</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Biden judge Ana Reyes ordered the Defense Department not to enforce a presidential directive to ban transgender people from serving in the military. No Democrat judge blocked the Biden Defense Department’s order to put promotions of white heterosexuals on hold while transgendered, homosexual, and blacks were promoted in their place.</p>
<p>Obama judge James Boasberg ordered planes in flight deporting dangerous immigrant-invader gang members to return the illegal aliens to the US. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>President Trump called for the lunatic judge’s impeachment, and Republican Supreme Court justice Roberts (no relation) upbraided Trump.</p>
<p>Boasberg’s order is especially egregious as is Justice Roberts upbraiding of Trump.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It seems neither<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Boasberg nor Roberts are sufficiently competent to know that the US Supreme Court has previously ruled that deportations under the Alien Enemy Act are not subject to judicial review.</p>
<p>I predicted that the judiciary would be the main obstacle to American renewal.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>So many incompetent and unqualified people have been put on the bench that the judiciary is an obstacle to governance.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>So many judges have been put on the bench because of where they stand on liberal causes such as abortion and who use judicial rulings to legislate their personal preferences that the institution of the judiciary is a dangerous threat to the United States. The only solution is to ignore the corrupt judiciary, or perhaps they should all be removed and we start over.</p>
<p>The US judicial system is so cumbersome that an appeal of a ruling against a president can take longer than a presidential term.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>This makes it so easy for ideological judges to prevent governance.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


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author: ;Pam Martens
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Trump Administration Gives All Clear to Laundering Money through Shell Companies and Bribing Foreign Officials

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<p>By <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Pam Martens and </a><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Russ Martens</a>: March 19, 2025 ~</p>
<p><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Trump-Pied-Piper.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="https://wallstreetonparade.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Trump-Pied-Piper.jpg" alt="Trump, Pied Piper" width="125" height="131" data-sanitized-class="alignright size-full wp-image-10970"></a>On February 10, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/pausing-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-enforcement-to-further-american-economic-and-national-security">issued an Executive Order</a> that suspended the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for 180 days, giving an all clear to U.S. corporations to bribe officials in foreign countries to get business deals approved. The order bars federal prosecutors from starting any new FCPA investigations, enforcing new actions and orders a review of existing FCPA investigations to “restore proper bounds” on applying the FCPA law.</p>
<p>The FCPA, enacted in 1977, has been the law of the United States for almost half a century. In July 2020, the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission issued a comprehensive and updated guide to the FCPA. It <a href="https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-fraud/file/1292051/dl?inline">explained its purpose as follows</a>:</p>
<p>“Foreign bribery is a scourge that must be eradicated. It undermines the rule of law, empowers authoritarian rulers, distorts free and fair markets, disadvantages honest and ethical companies, and threatens national security and sustainable development. This updated Guide is meant not only to summarize the product of the dedicated and hardworking individuals who combat foreign bribery as part of their work for the U.S. government, but also to help companies, practitioners, and the public — many of whom find themselves on the front lines of this fight —prevent corruption in the first instance. We hope that the Guide will continue to be an invaluable resource in those efforts.”</p>
<p>In early March the Trump administration gutted another anti-corruption law, the Corporate Transparency Act.</p>
<p>The Corporate Transparency Act became law in 2021. Its goal is to curb anonymous shell companies from money laundering in the U.S. behind a dark curtain. It requires that the true owners of these shell companies must file that beneficial ownership information into a federal registry established by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and it imposes stiff fines and up to two years in prison for failure to do so.</p>
<p>Quietly, with little fanfare on March 2, Trump’s newly installed Treasury Secretary (<a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/11/donald-trumps-treasury-nominee-made-big-bets-this-year-on-chinese-stocks-and-a-big-short-on-the-u-s-market/">hedge fund honcho Scott Bessent</a>) announced that he would not enforce the Corporate Transparency Act as the law was written. The <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0038">statement from the Treasury Department said this</a>:</p>
<p>“The Treasury Department is announcing today that, with respect to the Corporate Transparency Act, not only will it not enforce any penalties or fines associated with the beneficial ownership information reporting rule under the existing regulatory deadlines, but it will further not enforce any penalties or fines against U.S. citizens or domestic reporting companies or their beneficial owners after the forthcoming rule changes take effect either. The Treasury Department will further be issuing a proposed rulemaking that will narrow the scope of the rule to foreign reporting companies only. Treasury takes this step in the interest of supporting hard-working American taxpayers and small businesses and ensuring that the rule is appropriately tailored to advance the public interest.”</p>
<p>We have read regulatory announcements by the U.S. Treasury Department for decades. We have never read anything from prior administrations that is so unprofessionally constructed or that so brazenly thumbs its nose at duly passed laws by the U.S. Congress.</p>
<p>These two bizarre rollbacks of anti-corruption legislation raise the obvious question: Who benefits?</p>
<p>Donald Trump himself comes to mind.</p>
<p>In March 2017, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/28/trump-business-past-ties-russian-mobsters-organized-crime/98321252/">USA Today published an explosive expose</a> that revealed the following:</p>
<p>“Trump’s privately held company works through a network of subsidiaries and partnerships that make direct connections hard to trace, particularly since he has refused to release his tax filings. In addition, some of the Trump Organization’s investors and buyers operate through shell companies and limited liability corporations that hide the identities of individual owners.”</p>
<p>The article drilled down further to these specifics:</p>
<p>“•  A member of the firm that developed the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York is a twice-convicted felon who spent a year in prison for stabbing a man and later scouted for Trump investments in Russia.</p>
<p>“•  An investor in the SoHo project was accused by Belgian authorities in 2011 in a $55 million money-laundering scheme.</p>
<p>“•  Three owners of Trump condos in Florida and Manhattan were accused in federal indictments of belonging to a Russian-American organized crime group and working for a major international crime boss based in Russia.</p>
<p>“•  A former mayor from Kazakhstan was accused in a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles in 2014 of hiding millions of dollars looted from his city, some of which was spent on three Trump SoHo units.</p>
<p>“•  A Ukrainian owner of two Trump condos in Florida was indicted in a money-laundering scheme involving a former prime minister of Ukraine.</p>
<p>“…What’s more, Trump and his companies have had business dealings with Russians that go back decades, raising questions about whether his policies would be influenced by business considerations.”</p>
<p>In 2008 Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told Russian media while he was in Moscow that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia. There’s indeed a lot of money coming for new-builds and resale reflecting a trend in the Russian economy and, of course, the weak dollar versus the ruble” according to USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/15/donald-trump-russia-wealthy-condo-buyers/95464922/">reporting in December 2016</a>.</p>

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Many great nuggets were released in the 63,000 JFK Files released yesterday.  Many of the JFK files validated working our researchers had put forward on FBI - CIA liaison operations.  We also had a lot of validation on Russian defectors we researched, and we received much more indication that James Angleton was running a “false defector” program, which also seems to have been a part of it.  But the bottom line is Trump promised 80,000 pages, and only 63,000 were delivered.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32678dd0-1d30-42a6-8531-64f61a809ac1_1166x1238.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32678dd0-1d30-42a6-8531-64f61a809ac1_1166x1238.png" width="1166" height="1238" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/32678dd0-1d30-42a6-8531-64f61a809ac1_1166x1238.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1238,"width":1166,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":880195,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32678dd0-1d30-42a6-8531-64f61a809ac1_1166x1238.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>For me, Angleton’s “control file” which was a one-stop shop for informing the FBI of CIA operations, was the big find for me.  Angleton’s control file was the portal for informing the FBI about all covert operations, and I believe the Angleton “false defector” program is going to eventually be outed in the CIA files which we don’t have yet.   Don’t get me wrong.  There were nuggets like the “Cuba Project” files we predicted would be in the files.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3caef9d-cdda-4d07-b58d-e7fc1f40f56d_1320x1988.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3caef9d-cdda-4d07-b58d-e7fc1f40f56d_1320x1988.jpeg" width="1320" height="1988" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a3caef9d-cdda-4d07-b58d-e7fc1f40f56d_1320x1988.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1988,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1116217,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3caef9d-cdda-4d07-b58d-e7fc1f40f56d_1320x1988.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p> </p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">George Webb’s Task Force Orange Journal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0d9603b-4837-45b5-9159-a001b7201e13_1166x1208.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0d9603b-4837-45b5-9159-a001b7201e13_1166x1208.png" width="1166" height="1208" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b0d9603b-4837-45b5-9159-a001b7201e13_1166x1208.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1208,"width":1166,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":531912,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0d9603b-4837-45b5-9159-a001b7201e13_1166x1208.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>For instance, our researchers believe Angleton used Oswald to leak the flight path and altitude of the U-2 spy plane that was shot down just as Eisenhower and Krushchev were trying to thaw the Cold War in May 1960.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b9f97cb-c348-4e8d-bb95-662370e14dd7_1834x908.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b9f97cb-c348-4e8d-bb95-662370e14dd7_1834x908.png" width="1456" height="721" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7b9f97cb-c348-4e8d-bb95-662370e14dd7_1834x908.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":721,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3352271,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b9f97cb-c348-4e8d-bb95-662370e14dd7_1834x908.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The U-2 shootdown ushered in the Keyhole Satellite Program (also Corona), which was the brainchild of the CIA’s Richard Bissell, being held up in Congress.  Space Industrial Complex insiders like RAND Corp co-founders Curtis LeMay and Donald Douglas, CIA Insiders Richard Bissell, and James Angleton, and General Dynamics Executives Henry Crown and IB Hale benefited tremendously from the new age of satellites ushered in by the U-2 shootdown.  Using Oswald as a “false defector” in the Soviet Union to help shoot down the U-2 with flight paths and flying altitudes made it all to easy to capitalize on the Race to Space.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F189424ff-8219-4233-a9c4-31ac1f8f6ecc_2216x1590.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F189424ff-8219-4233-a9c4-31ac1f8f6ecc_2216x1590.png" width="1456" height="1045" 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16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>https://www.twz.com/8395/the-pentagon-thought-it-could-retire-the-u-2-in-1969</p><p>The US State Department “owned” all operations above the Karman Line, and diplomatic altitude for treaties established at 327, 360 feet in the atmosphere or 100 KM above the earth’s sea level.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7aa70c8c-9469-42bd-a8cb-e5ab62a1b8e3_1320x2664.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7aa70c8c-9469-42bd-a8cb-e5ab62a1b8e3_1320x2664.jpeg" width="1320" height="2664" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7aa70c8c-9469-42bd-a8cb-e5ab62a1b8e3_1320x2664.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":2664,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1254210,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7aa70c8c-9469-42bd-a8cb-e5ab62a1b8e3_1320x2664.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>With the U-2 shootdown in airspace below the Karman Line, the U-2 shootdown would now allow Bissell and the CIA to have exclusive domain over spy satellites without answering to any branch of the US military.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1f3bd3e-81f0-4f02-a03e-f9e255b2d50d_2216x1206.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1f3bd3e-81f0-4f02-a03e-f9e255b2d50d_2216x1206.png" width="1456" height="792" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a1f3bd3e-81f0-4f02-a03e-f9e255b2d50d_2216x1206.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":792,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1029567,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1f3bd3e-81f0-4f02-a03e-f9e255b2d50d_2216x1206.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)</p><p>Key factions of the new military space industrial complex, like RAND Corporation and Curtis LeMay of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were strong advocates, along with the CIA’s Richard Bissell and James Angleton, of the new move to space surveillance of the Soviets.  Curtis LeMay’s close associate and co-founder of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, Donald Douglas, built the Thor-Agena rockets that lifted the Corona satellites into space.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20c8baa7-892d-4ac8-ab3e-2b0aba2f789f_2140x1232.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20c8baa7-892d-4ac8-ab3e-2b0aba2f789f_2140x1232.png" width="1456" height="838" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/20c8baa7-892d-4ac8-ab3e-2b0aba2f789f_2140x1232.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":838,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1020601,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20c8baa7-892d-4ac8-ab3e-2b0aba2f789f_2140x1232.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I have also highlighted how John F. Kennedy’s subsequent “Peace Race” and Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty flew in the face of this space race, including an FBI turned CIA sniper named IB Hale, who also would end up being the CEO of General Atomics, the leader builder of ICBMs in the missile race of the Cold War.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8806936e-c4a9-4eee-977e-f75df028a9db_360x698.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8806936e-c4a9-4eee-977e-f75df028a9db_360x698.jpeg" width="360" height="698" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8806936e-c4a9-4eee-977e-f75df028a9db_360x698.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":698,"width":360,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":78483,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8806936e-c4a9-4eee-977e-f75df028a9db_360x698.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The slow sixty-year release of the JFK files, along with yesterday's withholding of yet another 17,000 JFK files, is the perfect metadata to show the CIA’s desire to cover up its activities during this period. The JFK files regarding the Cuba Working (or Study) Group or the Cuba Project, which is the second invasion of Cuba planned for 1962, were present in yesterday’s files, but a large swath of them are still being withheld, in my opinion.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe29e7c5-e498-4759-b491-696ba0ed8fd8_1154x1686.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe29e7c5-e498-4759-b491-696ba0ed8fd8_1154x1686.png" width="1154" height="1686" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fe29e7c5-e498-4759-b491-696ba0ed8fd8_1154x1686.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1686,"width":1154,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1375103,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe29e7c5-e498-4759-b491-696ba0ed8fd8_1154x1686.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The JFK Files released yesterday validated much of the reporting we have done on the second invasion of Cuba, complete with biological weapons being employed against Cuban crops.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791fb6bf-5cc0-411d-ac6c-d75899254f53_1154x1400.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791fb6bf-5cc0-411d-ac6c-d75899254f53_1154x1400.png" width="1154" height="1400" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/791fb6bf-5cc0-411d-ac6c-d75899254f53_1154x1400.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1400,"width":1154,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":602730,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791fb6bf-5cc0-411d-ac6c-d75899254f53_1154x1400.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd41df714-4f2d-46ae-9017-6c39f128cdb4_1154x1164.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd41df714-4f2d-46ae-9017-6c39f128cdb4_1154x1164.png" width="1154" height="1164" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d41df714-4f2d-46ae-9017-6c39f128cdb4_1154x1164.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1164,"width":1154,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":693933,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd41df714-4f2d-46ae-9017-6c39f128cdb4_1154x1164.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We knew the Operation Mongoose files were there concerning the CIA’s biological agent attacks on Cuban crops, but now we have the proof.  </p><p>There are more proof points to be had with the release of the last 17,000 missing pages.  The metadata is clear: the CIA hides and foot-drags the most sensitive programs until last.  The use of Oswald to usher in the world of Keyhole satellites as a false defector will shock the world, but that is the last secret the CIA is hiding.</p><p>For more reading -</p><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"f6eea5d0-611d-4ab0-bda7-be7a57af4cb8","caption":"I wrote most of the book, “The PermIndex Ruse’ resulted from notes and YouTube videos that our researchers compiled in 2017 and 2018 on the topic of using Otto Skorzeny’s South American assassination squads to train American and Cuba snipers to overthrow Cuba.","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"George Webb’s The PermIndex Ruse","publishedBylines":[{"id":60060898,"name":"George Webb","bio":"If you would like to buy me a coffee to support my work, here you go. I am keeping the site free for now to get the word out as far and wide as I can. You can buy me a coffee here. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/georgwebb1 ","photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bad620b2-6788-4abf-a187-99b2e840ddbb_1200x790.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":100}],"post_date":"2023-10-23T12:37:29.647Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2cc79f6-c8f9-494a-a150-30454227bf9e_984x984.jpeg","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/george-webbs-the-permindex-ruse","section_name":null,"id":138217359,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":36,"comment_count":5,"publication_name":"George’ Webb Task Force Orange Journal","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e172f42-f527-4f98-b0aa-8bd05d9e1eac_968x968.png","belowTheFold":true}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><p>And “Oswald In New Orleans”</p><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"8603a548-a2d4-43c0-9aae-0eb8603cf2b5","caption":"Most researchers into the JFK assassination ask why there is so much activity of Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination conspiracy and the cities of Dallas and New Orleans. Jack Ruby, a Chicago outfit operator, owns nightclubs in both towns, and mob boss Carlos Marcello rules both cities with an iron hand.","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"George Webb’s Oswald In New Orleans","publishedBylines":[{"id":60060898,"name":"George Webb","bio":"If you would like to buy me a coffee to support my work, here you go. I am keeping the site free for now to get the word out as far and wide as I can. You can buy me a coffee here. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/georgwebb1 ","photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bad620b2-6788-4abf-a187-99b2e840ddbb_1200x790.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":100}],"post_date":"2023-09-04T12:27:15.454Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6813d0bb-2859-4928-87cc-cdee04f6cb74_1118x1720.jpeg","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/george-webbs-oswald-in-new-orleans","section_name":null,"id":136715726,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":72,"comment_count":8,"publication_name":"George’ Webb Task Force Orange Journal","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e172f42-f527-4f98-b0aa-8bd05d9e1eac_968x968.png","belowTheFold":true}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><p>Releasing corroborating FBI and Joint Chiefs of Staff files from close Kennedy staffers like Thomas O’Loughlin, who I nicknamed McDuff, will also produce treasure troves of truth.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d1d806b-f4a2-45cc-ba46-33b36107ceb8_1154x764.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d1d806b-f4a2-45cc-ba46-33b36107ceb8_1154x764.png" width="1154" height="764" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0d1d806b-f4a2-45cc-ba46-33b36107ceb8_1154x764.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":764,"width":1154,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":962305,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d1d806b-f4a2-45cc-ba46-33b36107ceb8_1154x764.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Here is more on McDuff.</p><div data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;ee4ea07f-fc24-4082-91a0-e234707feba7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Most CIA historians know Richard Bissell as the CIA man behind the U-2 spy plane development and the Keyhole satellite during the early 1960s in the Cold War. But fewer historians see the history of Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Bissell in developing an assassination poisoning program in early 1960 called the Health Alteration Committee.&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Uncovering The CIA's Deepest Secrets&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:60060898,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;George Webb&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;If you would like to buy me a coffee to support my work, here you go. I am keeping the site free for now to get the word out as far and wide as I can. You can buy me a coffee here. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/georgwebb1 &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bad620b2-6788-4abf-a187-99b2e840ddbb_1200x790.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-03-06T14:55:52.680Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31c53218-434f-4df8-a305-597702b8ebe2_1242x1910.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://georgewebb.substack.com/p/uncovering-the-cias-deepest-secrets&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:158515927,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:85,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;George’ Webb Task Force Orange Journal&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e172f42-f527-4f98-b0aa-8bd05d9e1eac_968x968.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">George Webb’s Task Force Orange Journal is a reader-supported publication. 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width="1320" height="1413" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6870d6e9-ddb9-481c-818f-0eee6b91b5f8_1320x1413.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1413,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":861453,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6870d6e9-ddb9-481c-818f-0eee6b91b5f8_1320x1413.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40df28bd-f0c7-4282-84b1-fc95c1e86bc4_1320x2105.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40df28bd-f0c7-4282-84b1-fc95c1e86bc4_1320x2105.jpeg" width="1320" height="2105" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/40df28bd-f0c7-4282-84b1-fc95c1e86bc4_1320x2105.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":2105,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":902107,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40df28bd-f0c7-4282-84b1-fc95c1e86bc4_1320x2105.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Angleton’s “Control File”</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb72c4e41-2eb3-402e-8221-0d406fd500f9_1320x2619.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb72c4e41-2eb3-402e-8221-0d406fd500f9_1320x2619.jpeg" width="1320" height="2619" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b72c4e41-2eb3-402e-8221-0d406fd500f9_1320x2619.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":2619,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1430257,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb72c4e41-2eb3-402e-8221-0d406fd500f9_1320x2619.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>CIA knew Oswald was in Mexico City on October 1st, 1963, where he identified himself by name in phone calls, calling both the Cuban and Soviet Embassies for a visa to Cuba six weeks before the assassination.  Yet the JFK assassination was allowed to proceed, even after a returning Soviet defector returned to the United States.  It is difficult to believe that Oswald did not remain under surveillance when he returned to the United States at the height of the Cold War tensions.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb681ced4-f722-49ab-9079-87e4c60dae77_1802x1788.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb681ced4-f722-49ab-9079-87e4c60dae77_1802x1788.png" width="1456" height="1445" 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16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6506a048-0171-4a04-b9f6-48c7054a7abc_1432x1328.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6506a048-0171-4a04-b9f6-48c7054a7abc_1432x1328.png" width="1432" height="1328" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6506a048-0171-4a04-b9f6-48c7054a7abc_1432x1328.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1328,"width":1432,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":371702,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6506a048-0171-4a04-b9f6-48c7054a7abc_1432x1328.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdb36b28-0e3b-47fb-910e-50af9897c9f4_1432x1320.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdb36b28-0e3b-47fb-910e-50af9897c9f4_1432x1320.png" width="1432" height="1320" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cdb36b28-0e3b-47fb-910e-50af9897c9f4_1432x1320.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1320,"width":1432,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":382571,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdb36b28-0e3b-47fb-910e-50af9897c9f4_1432x1320.png","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We need RFK and McDuff files next, but also Epstein.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5037bd0c-5a42-4a2a-8fdc-0dbc39fe7d03_1320x2664.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 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data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F624afc93-1b5e-4a51-b105-cf60f6329700_1320x2476.jpeg" width="1320" height="2476" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/624afc93-1b5e-4a51-b105-cf60f6329700_1320x2476.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":2476,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":852522,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F624afc93-1b5e-4a51-b105-cf60f6329700_1320x2476.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6feb3dda-e197-4489-ae73-f1bf1dc67b88_1320x2580.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6feb3dda-e197-4489-ae73-f1bf1dc67b88_1320x2580.jpeg" width="1320" height="2580" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6feb3dda-e197-4489-ae73-f1bf1dc67b88_1320x2580.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":2580,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1155909,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6feb3dda-e197-4489-ae73-f1bf1dc67b88_1320x2580.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We discussed Yitsak Rabin being in Dealey Plaza, who later became Prime Minister of Israel and then was assassinated.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe57801c1-7a2b-4de6-8709-65770eddccf7_3424x1920.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img 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data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb51f18ad-20c4-4b7e-8cb4-9134a4c294fa_1320x1718.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb51f18ad-20c4-4b7e-8cb4-9134a4c294fa_1320x1718.jpeg" width="1320" height="1718" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b51f18ad-20c4-4b7e-8cb4-9134a4c294fa_1320x1718.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1718,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":970269,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb51f18ad-20c4-4b7e-8cb4-9134a4c294fa_1320x1718.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1005ecb2-e1b0-4e26-9757-4e5bdfbb1656_1320x1076.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1005ecb2-e1b0-4e26-9757-4e5bdfbb1656_1320x1076.jpeg" width="1320" height="1076" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1005ecb2-e1b0-4e26-9757-4e5bdfbb1656_1320x1076.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1076,"width":1320,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":700782,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://georgewebb.substack.com/i/159413313?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1005ecb2-e1b0-4e26-9757-4e5bdfbb1656_1320x1076.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div 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