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Candace Owens and Bassem Youssef (Bassem Youssef) ACTUALLY CLAIM that Israel is using ICE to "kill Americans." Youssef is pushing the most MORONIC conspiracy slop here... The IDF does NOT "train ICE." What exists are law-enforcement exchange programs where agencies share intelligence, investigative techniques, and counter-terrorism best practices -...

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Alex Krainer (Alex (Sasha) Krainer) traces the creation of Israel directly to the City of London and the British Round Table networks that later became Chatham House. Designed from the 1870s as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier,” it was intended to keep the Middle East in permanent instability so Britain could control the surrounding states. That same power principle later made the petrodollar system possible. Current events in Western Asia were scripted in advance by the British intelligence establishment, including the removal of Nicolás Maduro before any move on Iran. The United States is treated as a disposable proxy. The new Pakistan-Saudi-Turkey alliance is aimed at expelling the United States, Britain and Israel from the region. 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U.S. TAXPAYERS funding massive GLOBAL ELECTION FRAUD CARTEL connected to over 100+ countries called A-WEB, tied to USAID, SMARTMATIC, U.S. DEMOCRATS, and the CCP's Belt and Road initiative. SMARTMATIC not only allegedly tampered in U.S. elections, they were just caught bribing election officials in the Philippines. South Korea is also facing massive fraud through the same systems. Why do you think Bill Clinton was just caught flying to South Korea right before their elections? This is connected to all the major Democrats in the U.S., including George Soros. They all work in conjunction and have their role. Whether it's rigging elections, pushing communist ideas and education, or starting protest and riots on the ground or on social media. This is beyond a massive communist plan to rig elections worldwide and U.S. taxpayers don't even know that they're funding it. A-WEB is an international organization established in 2014 during the Obama administration to expand overseas electoral assistance. This period coincided with South Korea's first election of a UN Secretary-General and its active engagement on the international stage. This international organization entered into agreements with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), premised on supporting elections in developing countries. From 2014 until just before USAID's closure, it appears funding channels connected to the U.S. side still exist. It has approximately 100 member countries and engages in activities such as exchanges, forums, various educational programs, and exports. Problems arose during the implementation of ODA projects. This is where the issues began. Korean politicians with close ties to Smartmatic encouraged Korean companies to develop electronic voting machines similar to Smartmatic's. Subsequently, these machines were exported overseas as state-led projects. Exports occurred to various countries, including Iraq, Congo, and Kyrgyzstan. Particularly, problems occurred in Iraq and Congo from 2018 to 2019. As seen in the comments below, Congolese protesters came to the A-WEB building and held a public demonstration. At the time, Congo was in the midst of a civil war, resulting in numerous casualties. As mentioned in the comments below, election fraud has also occurred in several other member states, particularly in Europe and other countries—that is, all A-WEB member states. South Korea has experienced decisive election fraud at least 3-4 times. The current government is pursuing a completely pro-China policy. 6. South Korea's election fraud + international election cartel A-WEB Oceania Member List (As of February 14, 2025) Currently, a total of 6 organizations in 6 countries Oceania. 2013 - Australia , Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga 2015 - Fiji 2017 - Papua New Guinea 2020 - Solomon Islands A-WEB Africa Member List (As of February, 2025) 36 countries North Africa: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mali, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire Central Africa: Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Angola East Africa: Djibouti, Kenya, South Sudan, Rwanda, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Mauritius, Malawi Southern Africa: South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zambia A-WEB America Member List (As of February 12, 2025) A total of 31 institutions from 25 countries. North America: 2013 - Canada, Mexico Central America: 2013 - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua Caribbean: 2013 - Bahamas, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico South America: 2013 - Colombia, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Venezuela, Suriname, 2015 - Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru WEB Europe Member List (As of February 14, 2025) Currently, a total of 18 countries and 18 institutions 2013 - Russia, Romania, Latvia, Moldova, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Georgia, Kosovo, Turkey, Portugal, Poland, France, Hungary 2019 - Ukraine 2023 - This report details the number of election fraud allegations in the countries above Armenia since joining A-WEB. Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) BRI Leading Country - 1 country: · China BRI Signing Countries - 154 Countries (Omitted) ⁕ BRI Summit Participating Country - 1 Country: · North Korea A-WEB Member Countries Corresponding to BRI - 89 Countries: Ghana Gabon Guyana Gambia Guinea Nigeria South Sudan South Africa Nicaragua Dominican Republic Timor-Leste Liberia Latvia Russia Lebanon Lesotho Romania Rwanda Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mozambique Moldova Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Vanuatu Barbados Bangladesh Benin Venezuela Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Bolivia Burundi Burkina Faso Bulgaria Samoa São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Serbia Somalia Solomon Islands Suriname Sri Lanka Sierra Leone Armenia Argentina Afghanistan Albania Angola Ecuador Ethiopia El Salvador Yemen Uganda Uzbekistan Ukraine Iraq Egypt Indonesia Jamaica Zambia Georgia Djibouti Cameroon Kazakhstan Cambodia Kenya Côte d'Ivoire Republic of the Congo Kyrgyzstan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Tunisia Trinidad and Tobago Panama (withdrew Feb 2025) Pakistan Papua New Guinea Palestine Peru Portugal Poland Fiji Philippines (withdrew May 2022) BRI Withdrawn Countries - 4 Countries: Italy Panama Philippines Estonia 89 out of 109 A-WEB member countries are included in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) signing countries. 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Ambassador Chas Freeman: Israel Is Worse Than Nazis It’s very clear what Israel wants. It’s made no secret that it wants to depopulate Gaza by whatever means it can, by starving people into leaving, expelling them, or killing them all. And there’s no question that it meets the definition of genocide. They have the intent to destroy an entire people. They have the ability and they are, in fact, carrying out an operation intended to do so. I think it’s also quite clear why Hamas did what it did. This was in the nature of a jailbreak from the world’s largest concentration camp. And having been treated like animals they behaved like animals. What they did was horrifying, it was inexcusable, but it was understandable. The Israeli reaction has been vastly disproportionate and that is Israel’s custom. It tries to react disproportionately in order to intimidate and deter anyone from attacking it. That is not new but what is new are the genocidal statements and proposed emptying of Gaza. 60% of the buildings in Northern Gaza have been destroyed and we know that over 12,000 Palestinians have been murdered by one means or another. Israel has destroyed most of the hospitals in Gaza. It now seems to be working on the schools. So it is totally ruthless and the whole thing is particularly macabre because it is such a vivid reminder of the Warsaw Ghetto, a very parallel situation in which driven beyond any ability to tolerate what was being done to them, the Jewish inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto rose against Nazi Germany and the Nazis exterminated them all and leveled the ghetto. One would think that the survivors of that Holocaust and the larger Holocaust in Europe would not wish to repeat a holocaust against another people but evidently, that is expecting too much of human nature. It now appears that much of the killing at the music festival was actually done by Israeli forces who fired indiscriminately at both the Hamas warriors and the milling crowds at the festival. Similarly, some of the major damage in the kibbutzim and the murders of the settlers there were done not by Hamas but by Israeli forces firing tank bullets into houses and hellfire missiles into cars and so forth. So this was a dreadful beginning to what has turned out to be an absolutely nauseating months and a half of slaughter, not finished. The United States has the ability to stop this by halting armed supplies to Israel but does not do that, opposes a ceasefire in support of Mr. Netanyahu’s revenge against the Palestinians, and Mr. Netanyahu, I would remind you, is on record many years ago as expressing hope for a war in which Israel could expel all the Arabs in its midst and seems to be taking advantage of this to do that hoping, I suppose, that his reputation which has been greatly damaged by charges of corruption and by his suspension of judicial independence in Israel, can somehow be redeemed by this act of revenge. Where we are is a very bad place. What Israel is reporting is extraordinarily crude propaganda, some of it obviously, utterly false, and they’ve been caught. Even some of the mainstream media are beginning to report that the Israeli Defense Forces are lying about a huge number of things. Younger people, generally in the West, certainly in my own country the United States, are far more inclined to be sympathetic to the Palestinians than they ever were before. It’s not that they dislike Israelis but now confronted with with graphic images of horror, the murder of 12,000 [Palestinians], they’re not dispassionate. Not only are they demonstrating in all of the world’s capitals for a ceasefire which their governments declined to support for the most part, but social media is now overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian as opposed to pro-Israeli. But I think the Palestinians, generally, have been motivated to remind the world that they exist. That their problems can’t be set aside. The Israeli government, with the connivance of the Biden Administration, and before that the Trump Administration, was making an effort to set the Palestinian issue aside in order to produce Arab-Israeli normalization. And the Palestinians set out with this raid into Israel to demonstrate that that is impossible, that the only way that you can have peace in Palestine is with a two-state solution. And oddly enough, although Hamas, of course, started as a movement funded in part by the Israelis — Mr. Netanyahu has openly admitted that he corroborated with Qatar to fund Hamas in Gaza in order to divide the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza — I think Hamas seized the moment to provoke Israel into doing exactly what Israel has predictively done in order to make it clear to the world that you have to have a two-state solution which had become a talking point. There was no reality to it at all. There had been no peace process for twenty-some years. Now there must be. People have recognized that the one-state solution — which many favored, meaning a purely democratic one-man-one-vote arrangement in Palestine in which inevitably the Jewish population given its higher level of culture, civilization, and finance, would have called most of the shots — is off the table. After all the hatred that has been demonstrated on both sides, coexistence in one state is obviously impossible in Palestine. Two states, however, would give the Palestinians a stake in peace. They have no stake in peace at the moment. They’re like a rabbit being swallowed by some kind of boa constrictor. As time goes on they go farther and farther down the throat of the snake and they’re crying out, and they were doing so at a pitch that, apparently, no one internationally could hear. And now their cause has been dramatized. We can’t have a resolution of what is going on now that takes the form of another expulsion of Palestinians, more tolerance of massacres, the condoning of genocide... and I think those in the West, including President Biden, who has been prepared to give Israel a pass on these issues, are beginning to pay heavily in terms of their political prestige in their domestic politics. Settler colonialism invariably leads to some attempt at genocide. That was the case in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It wasn’t the case in New Zealand because the Māori were too tough. It wasn’t the case in South Africa because the Zulus, and other South African blacks, were too tough. It wasn’t the case in Kenya because, eventually, black Kenyans rose up in the Mau Mau movement, which was itself a horror, but it did result in a separation from the colonial rule of the British. The same thing could happen. Now the difficulty of all this is obvious in terms of the fact that you’ve got an Israeli cabinet that is the most determined, genocidal cabinet the world has ever seen, and I don’t excuse the Nazi cabinets from that comparison. The overt statements of genocidal intent are unmistakable. There’s no effort, as the Germans did make, to conceal what is in store for the Palestinians. There’s no fake camp for Jews like the one the Nazis set up to bring the Swiss Red Cross in to show how wonderful they were treating the people they had taken away from their homes. No effort whatsoever of that sort, just bombing and strafing and murder on the ground. Israel appears to be paying quite a heavy price for that in terms of combat losses, but, of course, is not reporting accurately what is happening.

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USAID, DEMOCRATS, and American taxpayer dollars funding global ELECTION FRAUD CARTEL called AWEB. USAID, Democrats, & American taxpayer dollars funding ELECTION FRAUD CARTEL through electronic voting machines, fake ids, fake ballots, while also organizing protest and riot groups, and pushing anti-American communist propaganda throughout 100+ countries, including our ally South Korea, called AWEB. These election fraud efforts that we witnessed in 2020, which Kash Patel mentioned and opened investigations, along with the thousands of fake IDs, ballots and rigged machines, aren't just happening in the United States, their expanding all over the globe beyond the United States and taxpayers are paying for all of it. This is their operation to push communism all over the world and how they're funding it and they will succeed if we don't stop them because they are rigging elections, inserting and infiltrating governments, passing laws and legislation, and brainwashing the public with these radical ideologies. This seems to be the same cartel of corruption pushing the same communist, anti-American ideologies all over the world with ties to the same manufactures, and NGOs in America, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, etc. South Korea is facing massive problems due to USAID's intervention and corruption which U.S. taxpayers are funding and they don't even know it. Not only are these groups and organizations creating massive political corruption, but they are also creating massive religious persecution along with it with a full push towards communism. Some may recall Korea was mentioned several times at Charlie Kirk's memorial service, and protests honoring Charlie were held in Korea after his death. Charlie Kirk expressed concern about religious persecution in Korea in early September and Korea's drift toward communism. He came to Korea, encouraged conservatives and Christians by saying, "Your fight is our fight." You might ask, "Why bring up Korea?" The origins trace back to 2014. During the Obama administration in 2014, South Korea's National Election Commission reached an agreement through American politicians. It has signed business agreements with major institutions such as USAID and IFES to support international elections and elections in developing countries. It also involves corrupt American politicians causing a major incident. As a result, it is now harming the United States. AWEB is not an NGO but an election agency linked to the Korean government, specifically the National Election Commission. This point is crucial. The content described on the homepage is as follows: Training election experts, international support programs - that much is understandable. Introducing election management techniques and electronic voting/counting equipment to developing countries, sharing election laws and systems is where it starts to go south. In short, it involves transferring everything related to elections, including electronic voting/counting machines and techniques, to other countries. This is precisely where the problem arises. They have complete control to the outcome they desire and Americans are paying for it. Not only are they stealing elections but are influencing other countries populations with anti-American communist ideologies to complete their agenda. In Korea, electronic vote counting machines are consistently cited as evidence of election fraud. Korea uses machines made by K-Miru Systems, which operate in a manner similar to Smartmatic's electronic vote counting machines. During Korea's economic development period, these counting machines were exported under the guise of supporting developing countries. They were exported alongside the above program. CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp, during his January visit to President Yoon's residence heard that Huawei was operating South Korea's elections and that Huawei Wi-Fi was actually detected inside polling stations on election day. This is what is happening in multiple countries. Problem Cases by Major Country: Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Congo: These three countries received voting equipment support through Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects. However, the problem is that election fraud occurred in Iraq and Congo in 2017-2018. Notably, the Congolese delegation visited South Korea to protest and demand a halt to the export of electronic vote counters. The UN also raised concerns about this issue, but ultimately, the South Korean government announced it would investigate and then swept the matter under the rug. After this issue gained international attention, South Korea experienced serious electoral fraud in the 2020, 2024, and 2025 presidential elections. The root cause of all these problems was the electronic vote-counting machines. Politicians elected through fraud amended laws to accept Chinese nationals and grant them voting rights. It has been quite some time since elections became the exclusive domain of Koreans. Recently, a temporary investigative team composed of CPAC experts toured the electoral districts ahead of the early June election and were appalled. They even submitted a report to the U.S. administration, but there has been no announcement or sanctions regarding this yet. President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law to shoulder, take responsibility for, and resolve all the aforementioned issues, but he was impeached. Currently, anti-China and pro-U.S. sentiment in Korea is at its peak. As you know, tariff negotiations are not progressing well. The government is anti-American, the people are angry, and the situation is spiraling toward pro-Americanism. With the media, the National Assembly, and the judiciary all under control, the people are protesting and fighting back. However, unless the election fraud issue is resolved, it will be difficult to solve this problem. But considering all these problems were carried out systematically and organized over a long period, USAID+IFES, we must precisely verify how much of American taxpayers' money this cartel abused and whether these agencies influenced U.S. elections. We must also verify whether they influenced U.S. allies beyond the ODA exporting nations mentioned earlier. Former Ambassador Moss Tan, who served as Ambassador for International Criminal Justice during President Trump's first term and visited Korea to investigate election fraud, stated in an interview that besides the countries mentioned, Canada, Australia, and Brazil may also have been involved. South Korea has been attacked by the CCP, and South Korean politicians are being aided by the CCP and the U.S. Democratic Party, while American citizens are unknowingly paying for their own and multiple other countries destruction. What we want is for many people to recognize this cartel, because it's a problem involving multiple countries and ultimately one that turned pro-American regimes into anti-American ones. Investigating together, imposing sanctions, and restoring the situation is the path we must take.

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President Trump was the first president to visit the Western Wall as President. 17. President Trump sent the first official American visit to the Western Wall with an Israeli Prime Minister. 18. President Trump allowed consulate and Embassy staff to meet with Jews of Judea and Samaria. 19. President Trump allowed consulate and Embassy staff to visit Jews living in Judea and Samaria. 20. President Trump announced that America would not support Israeli soldiers being tried at the ICC. 21. President Trump called out the anti-Israel antisemitism of Ilhan Omar. 22. President Trump flew to Israel on his first foreign trip. 23. President Trump issued no waivers on increased sanctions against Iran. 24. President Trump offered a $10 million reward for information on Hamas and Hezbollah financial networks. 25. The Trump administration wrote op-eds blaming Hamas and the Palestinians for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 26. 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President Trump stopped a UN Security Council statement on tensions between Israel and Hezbollah that did not single out violence by the Lebanese terror group. 37. President Trump cut $120 million from aid to Lebanon to ensure it didn’t get to Hezbollah. 38. President Trump sanctioned 9 Iranians in November 2019. 39. President Trump supported Israel after rocket fire in its skirmish with Islamic Jihad. 40. President Trump said nothing about Israel limiting retaliation. 41. President Trump and America were the only countries besides Israel to vote against all 8 UN 4th committee resolutions in November 2019. 42. President Trump declared that Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria (“settlements”) aren’t illegal under international law. 43. President Trump hasn’t supported a two-state solution as the only solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 44. Vice President Pence visited Israel during his first year in office. 45. Secretary Pompeo wrote a letter to Congress clarifying that Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria have traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support. 46. Secretary Pompeo says that claims that Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria have impeded peace are foolish. 47. President Trump didn’t comment when Defense Minister Bennet green-lighted a new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron. 48. Secretary Pompeo announced that Iran is behind all the unrest in the Middle East. 49. President Trump blamed Iran for Lebanon protests. 50. President Trump’s US deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates reportedly met with envoys from UAE, Oman, Morocco, Bahrain to gauge willingness for Israeli-Arab non-belligerence agreements. 51. President Trump denounced Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters. 52. New US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said she’ll defend Israel. In her first United Nations press conference, Kelly Craft also warned Iran that Washington has ‘other tools’ if Tehran continues its bad behavior. 53. President Trump regaled an Israeli-American group with tales of his pro-Israel moves, retelling an extensive account of the embassy move and telling the Israeli American Council that he’s Israel’s best friend in the White House. 54. President Trump signed an executive order on anti-Semitism that protects Jewish students on college campuses. The order includes anti-Israel activity. 55. Robert O’Brien told Meir Ben-Shabbat that ‘common interests between Israel and Arab states… have made new regional partnerships possible to counter Iran.’ 56. The Trump administration denounced Iranian human rights abuses and imposed sanctions on Iranian judges. 57. After President Abbas hailed the ICC declaration that it will investigate Israel as a historic day for Palestinians, Secretary Pompeo said the US ‘firmly opposes’ the ICC announcement on alleged Israeli war crimes. He said the International Criminal Court’s move ‘unfairly targets’ the Jewish state and called for direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. 58. The Trump administration announced seven joint US-Israeli clean energy projects — including an energy-storing system for electric cars and a hydrogen-powered drone that takes off vertically — have received $6.4 million in funding from the US-Israel Binational Research and Development Program for energy. 59. America struck an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq; 19 reported killed. Israeli Air Force chief said, ‘US strike on Iran-backed Iraqi militia is a ‘potential turning point.’ 60. President Trump ordered a deadly strike on Iran’s Soleimani. 61. President Trump said new Iran sanctions have been imposed; they are strong and powerful. 62. President Trump said ‘Iran will never have nuclear weapons.’ 63. Vice President Pence and PM Netanyahu met in Jerusalem. 64. President Trump and PM Netanyahu announced that he’ll reveal the Middle East peace plan next week. 65. Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan favors Israel. 66. PM Netanyahu to US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office: “Your Deal of the Century is the opportunity of the century.” 67. President Trump, in the White House’s East Room, said Israel is taking a ‘giant step toward peace.’ 68. President Trump unveiled his Middle East peace plan, saying that Israel will keep Jerusalem, while the Palestinians will have their capital in eastern Jerusalem. 69. President Trump lauded Netanyahu for backing the deal, and it ‘demonstrates the enormous progress we’ve made.’ 70. President Trump said, ‘We will not allow a return to the days of bloodshed, bus bombings, nightclubs.’ 71. President Trump said the US will recognize all existing Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria. 72. President Trump released a map of Israel’s future borders under his peace plan. 73. President Trump said, ‘We are asking the Palestinians to meet the challenges of peaceful coexistence.’ 74. US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria are part of Israel. 75. President Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan reportedly green-lighted an arms sale to the United Arab Emirates. 76. President Trump hosted the signing ceremony for Israel to normalize relations with UAE and Bahrain. 77. President Trump hosted the Israeli Prime Minister and Foreign Ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the signing of the Abraham Accords. 78. President Trump tweeted, ‘More countries will come into the tent!’ 79. President Trump praised Sudan for agreeing to a peace deal with Israel. 80. President Trump announced that the US lifted Sudan’s state sponsor of terrorism designation. 81. The Trump administration secretly moved large quantities of arms to Israel just after the 1973 Middle East War, well beyond what was being sent through official channels. 82. President Trump said, ‘There are five more countries that want to sign onto peace deals with Israel.’ 83. President Trump brokered a peace deal between Israel and Sudan. 84. President Trump signed legislation to create a fund to encourage collaboration between the US and Israel in creating cutting-edge defense technologies. 85. President Trump’s administration announced that any goods made in Israeli communities in the West Bank and exported to the United States should be labeled as ‘Made in Israel’ or ‘Product of Israel.’ 86. President Trump’s administration imposed more sanctions on Iran. 87. President Trump’s administration added an Iran-aligned Bahraini group to its terrorist blacklist. 88. President Trump said, ‘Israel and Morocco have agreed to full diplomatic relations – a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!’ 89. President Trump issued an order allowing American citizens born in Jerusalem to have Israel listed on their passports. 90. President Trump’s administration sold 50 F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates. 91. President Trump’s administration signed an agreement with Israel to protect each other’s technology and intelligence from Chinese influence. 92. President Trump brokered a peace deal between Israel and Morocco. 93. The Trump administration sold Israel 50 F-35 fighter jets. 94. President Trump announced that Israel and Bhutan agreed to establish diplomatic relations. 95. President Trump’s administration provided $12 million to enhance Israel’s missile defense systems. 96. President Trump’s administration imposed new sanctions on Iran in a last-minute push aimed at Iran. 97. President Trump’s administration negotiated a normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco. 98. President Trump said it was an honor to broker a peace deal between Israel and Morocco. 99. President Trump delivered a Middle East Peace Plan that favored Israel. It does not matter who you vote for, whether it's Trump or Biden. America is occupied territory, and the only way the country can change is if it has a true reset, free from the bankers, lobbyists, and Zionist globalist elites that have controlled America since 1871. #DonaldTrump #Trumpisaconman #FreePalestine #Zionism #TrumpCrimeFamily #Israel

Welsh Republic Podcast

61,945 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style). Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words: Friends, Congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, for being here, despite the threats, despite the ironclad police outside this venue, despite the panoply of the German press, despite the German state, despite the German political system that demonises you for being here. “Why a Palestinian Congress, Mr Varoufakis?”, a German journalist asked me recently? Because, as Hanan Asrawi once said: “We cannot rely on the silenced to tell us about their suffering.” Today, Asrawi’s reason has grown depressingly stronger: Because we cannot rely on the silenced who are also massacred and starved to tell us about the massacres and the starvation. But there is another reason too: Because a proud, a decent people, the people of Germany, are led down a perilous road to a heartless society by being made to associate themselves with another genocide carried out in their name, with their complicity. I am neither Jewish nor Palestinian. But I am incredibly proud to be here amongst Jews and Palestinians – to blend my voice for Peace and Universal Human Rights with Jewish Voices for Peace and Universal Human Rights – with Palestinian Voices for Peace and Universal Human Rights. Being together, here, today, is proof that Coexistence is Not Only Possible – but that it is here! Already. “Why not a Jewish Congress, Mr Varoufakis?”, the same German journalist asked me, imagining that he was being smart. I welcomed his question. For if a single Jew is threatened, anywhere, just because she or he is Jewish, I shall wear the star of David on my lapel and offer my solidarity - whatever the cost, whatever it takes. So, let’s be clear: If Jews were under attack, anywhere in the world, I would be the first to canvass for a Jewish Congress in which to register our solidarity. Similarly, when Palestinians are massacred because they are Palestinians – under a dogma that to be dead they must have been Hamas – I shall wear my keffiyeh and offer my solidarity whatever the cost, whatever it takes. Universal Human Rights are either universal or they mean nothing. With this in mind, I answered the German journalist’s question with a few of my own: · Are 2 million Israeli Jews, who were thrown out of their homes and into an open air prison 80 years ago, still being kept in that open air prison, without access to the outside world, with minimal food and water, no chance of a normal life, of travelling anywhere, and bombed periodically for 80 years? No. · Are Israeli Jews being starved intentionally by an army of occupation, their children writhing on the floor, screaming from hunger? No. · Are there thousands of Jewish injured children no surviving parents crawling through the rubble of what used to be their homes? No. · Are Israeli Jews being bombed by the world’s most sophisticated planes and bombs today? No. · Are Israeli Jews experiencing complete ecocide of what little land they can still call their own, not one tree left under which to seek shade or whose fruit to taste? No. · Are Israeli Jewish children killed by snipers today at the orders of a member-state of the UN? No. · Are Israeli Jews driven out of their homes by armed gangs today? No. · Is Israel fighting for its existence today? No. If the answer to any of these questions was yes, I would be participating in a Jewish Solidarity Congress today. Friends, Today, we would have loved to have a decent, democratic, mutually-respectful debate on how to bring Peace and Universal Human Rights for everyone, Jews and Palestinians, Bedouins and Christians, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea with people who think differently to us. Sadly, the whole of the German political system has decided not to allow this. In a joint statement including not just the CDU-CSU or the FDP but also the SPD, the Greens and, remarkably, two leaders of Die Linke, joined forces to ensure that such a civilised debate, in which we may disagree agreeably, never takes place in Germany. I say to them: You want to silence us. To ban us. To demonise us. To accuse us. You, therefore, leave us with no choice but to meet your accusations with our accusations. You chose this. Not us. · You accuse us of anti-Semitic hatred o We accuse you of being the antisemite’s best friend by equating the right of Israel to commit war crimes with the right of Israeli Jews to defend themselves. · You accuse us of supporting terrorism o We accuse you of equating legitimate resistance to an Apartheid State with atrocities against civilians which I have always and will always condemn, whomever commits them – Palestinians, Jewish Settlers, my own family, whomever. o We accuse you of not recognising the duty of the people of Gaza to tear down the Wall of the open prison they have been encased in for 80 years – and of equating this act of tearing down the Wall of Shame – which is no more defensible than the Berlin Wall was – with acts of terror. · You accuse us of trivialising Hamas’ October 7th terror o We accuse you of trivialising the 80 years of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the erection of an ironclad Apartheid system across Israel-Palestine. o We accuse you of trivialising Netanyahu’s long-term support of Hamas as a means of destroying the 2-State Solution that you claim to favour. o We accuse you of trivialising the unprecedented terror unleashed by the Israeli army on the people of Gaza, W. Bank and E. Jerusalem. · You accuse the organisers of today’s Congress that we are, and I quote, “not interested in talking about possibilities for peaceful coexistence in the Middle East against the background of the war in Gaza”. Are you serious? Have you lost your mind? o We accuse you of supporting a German state that is, after the United States, the largest supplier of the weapons that the Netanyahu government uses to massacre Palestinians as part of a Grand Plan to make a 2-State solution, and peaceful coexistence between Jews and Palestinians, impossible. o We accuse you of never answering the pertinent question that every German must answer: How much Palestinian blood must flow before your, justified, guilt over the Holocaust is washed away? So, let’ s be clear: We are here, in Berlin, with our Palestinian Congress because, unlike the German political system and the German media, we condemn genocide and war crimes regardless of who is perpetrating them. Because we oppose Apartheid in the land of Israel-Palestine no matter who has the upper hand – just as we opposed Apartheid in the American South or in South Africa. Because we stand for universal human rights, freedom and equality among Jews, Palestinians, Bedouins and Christians in the Ancient Land of Palestine. And so that we are even clearer on the questions, legitimate and malignant, that we must always be ready to answer: Do I condemn Hamas’ atrocities? I condemn every single atrocity, whomever is the perpetrator or the victim. What I do notcondemn is armed resistance to an Apartheid system designed as part of a slow-burning, but inexorable, ethnic cleansing program. Put differently, I condemn every attack on civilians while, at the same time, I celebrate anyone who risks their life to TEAR DOWN THE WALL. Is Israel not engaged in a war for its very existence? No, it is not. Israel is a nuclear-armed state with perhaps the most technologically advanced army in the world and the panoply of the US military machine having its back. There is no symmetry with Hamas, a group which can cause serious damage to Israelis but which has no capacity whatsoever to defeat Israel’s military, or even to prevent Israel from continuing to implement the slow genocide of Palestinians under the system of Apartheid that has been erected with long-standing US and EU support. Are Israelis not justified to fear that Hamas wants to exterminate them? Of course they are! Jews have suffered a Holocaust that was preceded with pogroms and a deep-seated antisemitism permeating Europe and the Americas for centuries. It is only natural that Israelis live in fear of a new pogrom if the Israeli army folds. However, by imposing Apartheid on their neighbours, by treating them like sub-humans, the Israeli state is stoking the fires of antisemitism, is strengthening Palestinians and Israelis who just want to annihilate each other and, in the end, contributes to the awful insecurity consuming Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. Apartheid against the Palestinians is the Israelis’ worst self-defence. What about antisemitism? It is always a clear and present danger. And it must be eradicated, especially amongst the ranks of the Global Left and the Palestinians fighting for Palestinian civil liberties –around the world. Why don’t Palestinians pursue their objectives by peaceful means? They did. The PLO recognised Israel and renounced armed struggle. And what did they get for it? Absolute humiliation and systematic ethnic cleansing. That is what nurtured Hamas and elevated it the eyes of many Palestinians as the only alternative to a slow genocide under Israel’s Apartheid. What should be done now? What might bring Peace to Israel-Palestine? · An immediate ceasefire. · The release of all hostages: Hamas’ and the thousands held by Israel. · A Peace Process, under the UN, supported by a commitment by the International Community to end Apartheid and to safeguard Equal Civil Liberties for All. · As for what must replace Apartheid, it is up to Israelis and Palestinians to decide between the 2-state solution and the solution of a Single Federal Secular State. Friends, We are here because vengeance is a lazy form of grief. We are here to promote not vengeance but Peace and Coexistence across Israel-Palestine. We are here to tell German democrats, including our former comrades of Die Linke, that they have covered themselves in shame long enough – that two wrongs do not one right make – that allowing Israel to get away with war crimes is not going to ameliorate the legacy of Germany’s crimes against the Jewish People. Beyond today’s Congress, we have a duty, in Germany, to change the conversation. We have a duty to persuade the vast majority of decent Germans out there that universal human rights is what matters. That Never Again means Never Again. For anyone, Jew, Palestinian, Ukrainian, Russian, Yemeni, Sudanese, Rwandan – for everyone, everywhere. In this context, I am pleased to announce that DiEM25’s German political party MERA25 will be on the ballot paper in the European Parliament election this coming June – seeking the vote of German humanists who crave a Member of European Parliament representing Germany and calling out the EU’s complicity in genocide – a complicity that is Europe’s greatest gift to the antisemites in Europe and beyond. I salute you all and suggest we never forget that none of us are free if one of us is in chains.

Yanis Varoufakis

1,177,351 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

🚨🚨🚨 Who do you think drops the next $XRP Ledger BOMBSHELL? Bank for International Settlements and Brazil went public with XRPL. Here’s who I think could be next, and France is at the top of my list. BIS researchers disclosed an XRP Ledger proof of concept. Brazil’s securities regulator disclosed XRPL-related market experimentation. After those two became public, I went back through the institutional connections and stopped asking whether major institutions are looking at XRP Ledger. The better question is: Who is already close enough to XRPL that another public test would actually make sense? When I went country by country, one place stood out immediately. France. 🇫🇷 France is my #1 prediction. Not because Banque de France has announced an XRPL test. It hasn’t. I’m putting France first because several separate pieces are already sitting extremely close to each other. Start with Société Générale-FORGE. SG-FORGE launched its regulated EUR CoinVertible, EURCV, directly on XRP Ledger. That means regulated euro-denominated money from a major French financial institution already exists on XRPL. Then France starts building out its wider tokenization strategy. Banque de France, the AMF and the French Treasury formed a strategic tokenization group. Look at who is involved: Société Générale BNP Paribas Crédit Agricole Euroclear Euronext LCH Amundi BPCE Caisse des Dépôts Ardian And look at what they are studying: tokenized deposits, stablecoins, wholesale central-bank money, tokenized securities, DLT market infrastructure, tokenized investment funds. That is a serious list. These are basically the pieces you need if you want to move traditional capital markets into a tokenized environment. And one of the institutions inside that ecosystem already has regulated euro money on XRP Ledger. That is what keeps France at the top of my list. Then Bpifrance enters. France’s state-backed investment bank said it will use SG-FORGE’s EUR CoinVertible for: capital-market settlement, payments, crypto/fiat activity, treasury operations, liquidity management, and securities activity. Bpifrance did not specify which EURCV blockchain deployment it will use. But the XRPL deployment already exists. So now you have a state-backed institution wanting to use regulated digital euros across capital-market and treasury activity, while that same euro asset already sits on XRP Ledger. That is a connection I’m watching hard. Then Swift shows up in the same chain. Swift and SG-FORGE have already tested tokenized-bond settlement using EURCV. Swift’s job in that experiment was interoperability. It connected tokenized systems with existing financial infrastructure. The public information does not say XRPL handled that specific transaction. I’m not claiming it did. What matters is simpler: Swift already works with SG-FORGE. SG-FORGE already has EURCV. EURCV now exists on XRP Ledger. As tokenized markets grow, somebody has to connect those networks. That is exactly what Swift wants to do. Then there is Pythagore. Banque de France and Euroclear are preparing work around tokenizing France’s roughly €310 billion NEU-CP short-term debt market, with settlement connected to the Eurosystem’s Pontes wholesale-CBDC infrastructure. Now look at what France has in one place: regulated digital euros, tokenized securities, a central bank, a state-backed investment bank, Euroclear, wholesale central-bank money, Swift interoperability, and XRP Ledger already hosting one of the regulated assets involved in that ecosystem. That is why I keep watching the combination of: EURCV + XRPL + Euroclear + Bpifrance + Banque de France + Pontes. I don’t need to say Banque de France secretly picked XRPL. There is no public announcement saying that. My prediction comes from how close the pieces already are. If France eventually reveals some form of XRPL interoperability work, it would make complete sense to me. That puts France at #1. Japan is #2. 🇯🇵 Japan is different because we already have much more direct language. SBI Ripple Asia completed a proof of concept involving tokenized bank deposits and deposit-based digital money. And SBI explicitly said the blockchain contemplated for the system is: XRP Ledger. That line matters a lot. Because a tokenized bank deposit is not just another crypto token. It is bank money becoming digitally transferable. That gets much closer to the money people actually use every day. Then SBI Ripple Asia announced additional work around blockchain financial services and again identified XRPL as contemplated infrastructure. Then SBI Ripple Asia and DSRV began studying blockchain-based remittances and payments between Japan and South Korea. XRPL was again being considered. Then RLUSD launched in Japan under the Japanese regulatory framework. So Japan already has several pieces moving together: Ripple-linked remittances. XRPL contemplated for tokenized deposits. XRPL contemplated for Japan-Korea payment infrastructure. RLUSD operating inside Japan’s regulated market. The next announcement I’m waiting for is not another exchange adding XRP. I’m waiting for a Japanese bank name. A bank publicly participating in XRPL-based tokenized JPY deposits. Or wholesale settlement. Or FX. That would take this story from SBI exploring infrastructure into actual bank-level participation. And that is why Japan sits right behind France for me. Then comes Singapore. 🇸🇬 Singapore almost does not belong on a prediction list anymore because the XRPL connection is already public. Ripple joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s BLOOM initiative. Ripple and Unloq are piloting programmable trade-finance settlement using: XRP Ledger + RLUSD + Ripple institutional infrastructure. Unloq’s SC+ system is built on XRPL. RLUSD can be released when trade conditions such as shipment verification are satisfied. That is a real business problem. Goods move. Conditions are verified. Payment settles. And XRPL is part of the infrastructure being tested under an MAS initiative. Then add: DBS + Franklin Templeton + Ripple. Franklin Templeton is tokenizing sgBENJI on XRP Ledger. DBS is exploring using those tokenized assets for collateralized lending and repo activity. So Singapore already has XRPL touching two very different areas: trade-finance settlement, and institutional fund collateral. That is important to me because it shows the ledger is not being pushed into one narrow use case. Different institutions are finding different reasons to use it. For Singapore, I’m not asking who tests XRPL first. I’m watching how far the existing work expands. Then the UAE. 🇦🇪 Dubai Land Department is already issuing tokenized real-estate title deeds on XRP Ledger. The wider Real Estate Tokenization Project includes: Dubai Land Department VARA Dubai Future Foundation Central Bank of the UAE And the program is moving toward secondary-market resale. That progression matters. Issuing a token is one thing. Building a functioning market around it is another. Once you move toward secondary trading, you need: buyers, sellers, identity, custody, settlement, liquidity, transfer rules. That is where tokenization becomes actual market infrastructure. The Central Bank of the UAE is a collaborator in the broader project. That does not mean CBUAE is running an XRPL settlement system. But it does put the central bank beside a government project that already has an XRP Ledger component. So I’m watching the UAE for what comes after tokenization. If the next phase moves deeper into settlement or secondary markets, that is where the $XRP connection becomes much more interesting. Then Hong Kong. 🇭🇰 The HKMA e-HKD Phase 1 pilot included Ripple and Fubon Bank. The work covered tokenized real estate, lending and a hypothetical e-HKD. Ripple later said the property collateral was brought onto XRPL. Its CBDC infrastructure handled the hypothetical digital-HKD side. Ripple also described the private secure ledger behind that solution as being built using the same technology as XRP Ledger. So Hong Kong is already part of this institutional history. It is not some future theory. A regulator-led pilot already involved Ripple, Fubon Bank and XRPL-related infrastructure. Then there is Swift. This is the one I think people can easily take too far. I am not predicting: “Swift replaces everything with XRP Ledger.” That is not the thesis. Swift has its own blockchain-related work, including infrastructure developed with Consensys. What interests me is interoperability. Swift wants to connect tokenized networks with traditional finance. That becomes more important every time another bank, fund, stablecoin or central-bank system chooses a different technical stack. And Swift has already worked with SG-FORGE’s EURCV. EURCV now lives natively on XRPL. So the question I’m watching is simple: What happens when Swift needs to orchestrate a transaction involving an asset that happens to live on XRP Ledger? Swift’s wider blockchain initiative involves more than 30 major financial institutions. The names include: BNY Bank of America JPMorgan Citi HSBC Deutsche Bank BNP Paribas Société Générale-FORGE MUFG Mizuho DBS Standard Chartered Santander BBVA Wells Fargo RBC UOB ANZ And 17 banks are preparing tokenized-deposit pilots through Swift infrastructure. Think about how messy that world can become. One bank issues tokenized deposits on one network. Another bank uses another system. A fund sits on a public blockchain. A stablecoin exists across multiple networks. A central bank settles through wholesale CBDC infrastructure. Someone has to connect all of that. Swift wants to be that orchestration layer. XRPL does not need to replace Swift for this to matter. It only needs to become one of the networks carrying regulated assets Swift’s members need to reach. SG-FORGE and EURCV already give that possibility a very obvious entry point. That is why Swift-linked institutions are #3 on my list. Then I look at the United States. 🇺🇸 The U.S. story is less about a central-bank pilot and more about what is already gathering around XRP Ledger. BNY is the primary custodian for RLUSD reserves. Guggenheim Treasury Services has digital commercial paper issued natively on XRPL through Zeconomy. Ondo OUSG gives institutions tokenized U.S. Treasury exposure on XRPL. Securitize is integrating with XRP Ledger. Ripple and Securitize also created RLUSD functionality around holders of BlackRock BUIDL and VanEck VBILL. I’m not turning that into: “BlackRock secretly runs on XRPL.” That is not what the public information says. The more useful point is that several pieces institutions actually care about are getting closer to the same ecosystem: -cash -Treasuries -commercial paper -funds -custody -tokenization -settlement That looks much more like capital-market infrastructure than the crypto market most people still picture when they hear XRP. And XRPL itself has been changing at the same time. Credentials help institutions verify who is allowed to participate. Permissioned Domains allow controlled environments. Permissioned DEX allows regulated trading logic inside credential-gated markets. Then you have: RLUSD tokenized Treasuries money-market funds commercial paper lending infrastructure collateral infrastructure That matters because tokenizing an asset is only the beginning. Institutions need to know who can own it. Who can trade it. Where it settles. What collateral value it has. How cash moves against it. How liquidity works after issuance. XRPL is adding the pieces for those questions at the same time institutions are trying to answer them. That timing is one reason I’m paying so much attention. South Korea stays on my radar too. SBI Ripple Asia and DSRV are already studying Japan-Korea blockchain payments and remittances with XRPL contemplated as the blockchain foundation. That does not give us a major South Korean XRPL announcement yet. But it puts South Korea inside the regional infrastructure conversation before a bigger public reveal has happened. If a Korean institution later appears in an XRPL-related pilot, I would not treat it like it came from nowhere. And there is another reason I think more announcements are possible. Ripple already has a history of working with governments and central banks through XRPL-derived technology. Bhutan’s Royal Monetary Authority used Ripple’s private ledger based on XRPL technology for CBDC work. Colombia’s Banco de la República worked on a high-value payments pilot using Ripple’s CBDC Platform based on XRPL core technology. The National Bank of Georgia selected Ripple for the Digital Lari pilot. Palau ran a government-backed stablecoin pilot directly on public XRP Ledger. Ripple has also referenced CBDC work involving Montenegro and Hong Kong. Different countries. Different use cases. Different implementations. But the history tells us something useful. Institutional work can begin inside a controlled environment. Sometimes it uses private infrastructure derived from XRPL. Sometimes public XRP Ledger appears directly. And sometimes the wider market only hears about the work after it has already been underway. That is why I do not look at BIS and Brazil as two random XRP headlines. BIS researchers disclosed a public-XRPL proof of concept. Brazil’s securities regulator tested an XRPL-native DEX architecture. Those are completely different problems. BIS used XRPL around official-data verification. Brazil used XRPL around securities-market structure. Then Singapore uses it for trade finance. Dubai uses it for tokenized property. Japan contemplates it for bank deposits and payments. France has regulated euro money issued on it. The U.S. has commercial paper and Treasuries touching it. The UK has Aviva Investors preparing traditional fund tokenization on XRP Ledger. That spread is what changes the thesis for me. I don’t want one giant use case carrying the whole XRP Ledger story. I want different institutions in different countries solving different problems with the same underlying technology. That is what infrastructure is supposed to look like. Official information. -Bank money. -Trade finance. -Property. -Securities. -Stablecoins. -Funds. -Treasuries. -Commercial paper. -Payments. -Settlement. -Interoperability. Those are not one market. Yet XRPL keeps showing up around them. There is also a reason I separate France and Japan from Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong. Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong have already given us public evidence of XRPL-linked work. They are not pure guesses anymore. France and Japan are different kinds of bets. France has the densest cluster of institutions, regulated money and interoperability projects sitting beside XRP Ledger without a public Banque de France XRPL announcement. Japan already has SBI Ripple Asia openly naming XRPL as contemplated infrastructure, but the next bank-level participant has not been publicly named in the information we have. That is why those two stand out. And Swift sits between them because its job becomes more important as every country builds its own tokenized money and asset networks. The more fragmented the new system becomes, the more valuable interoperability becomes. That is why I keep watching the connections instead of waiting for a perfect headline. One announcement rarely tells the whole story. A stablecoin launch can look small by itself. A tokenized-deposit proof of concept can look separate. A central-bank project can look unrelated. A securities pilot can look like another isolated experiment. But when those pieces start sharing the same institutions, assets and infrastructure, the picture changes. For me, that is exactly what is happening around XRPL in 2026. The strongest signal is not that every project uses XRP Ledger in the same way. It is that very different parts of finance keep finding a reason to touch the same technology. That is the kind of pattern I would rather watch early than explain after the next institution finally makes its work public. So if I had to rank the next places today: #1 France Regulated EURCV is already on XRPL. Banque de France, AMF and French Treasury are coordinating tokenization work. Société Générale, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Euroclear, Euronext, LCH, Amundi, BPCE, Caisse des Dépôts and Ardian are inside that conversation. Bpifrance wants EURCV for capital markets, treasury and liquidity activity. Swift already works with SG-FORGE and EURCV. Banque de France and Euroclear are preparing Pythagore around the €310B NEU-CP market and Pontes. That is a lot of regulated infrastructure converging around tokenized finance in one jurisdiction. #2 Japan SBI Ripple Asia has already publicly named XRP Ledger in tokenized-deposit work. It has also contemplated XRPL for other financial services and Japan-Korea payments with DSRV. RLUSD is live in Japan. The missing piece I’m waiting for is the Japanese bank name. #3 Swift-linked institutions Not because Swift needs to become XRPL. Because Swift needs to connect assets wherever they live. And regulated assets now live on XRP Ledger. After those three, I’m watching: Singapore for expansion. The UAE for deeper settlement activity. Hong Kong for another regulator-linked phase. The United States for institutional capital-market integration. South Korea for the next Japan-Korea development. And this is why I stay so bullish on $XRP. Not because every institution named here is secretly buying XRP. That is not the argument. The bullish part is that the network around XRP is becoming more useful to the exact institutions that move serious money. -Every regulated stablecoin. -Every tokenized deposit. -Every Treasury product. -Every fund. -Every piece of commercial paper. -Every secondary market. Every cross-network settlement connection creates another place where liquidity has to move. And XRP is the native asset sitting inside that ledger. The bigger XRPL becomes as financial infrastructure, the more important that liquidity role can become. That is the part I care about. BIS went public. Brazil went public. Singapore already has an XRPL pilot. Japan has already named XRPL in tokenized-deposit work. Dubai already has government property on XRPL. France already has regulated euro money on XRPL. Hong Kong already has regulator-linked XRPL history. The United States already has institutional assets on the network. So I don’t think the next bullish XRP Ledger story begins when somebody announces it. The work may already have started. The announcement is simply when the rest of us get to see it. If France, Japan or a Swift-linked institution goes public next with deeper XRP Ledger work, Who says “we tested XRPL” next?

X Finance Bull

23,207 Aufrufe • vor 20 Tagen

The Global Election Fraud Cartel and how U.S. taxpayer dollars, A-WEB, and USAID, fuel and manage a global web of election fraud, with lies, manipulation, and election equipment technology. In a world where democracy is hailed as the ultimate beacon of freedom, a shadowy alliance of international organizations and tech firms is accused of turning ballots into battlegrounds. (High quality link to documents in video at bottom of post). At the center of this storm? The Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB), a South Korean-led entity bankrolled by American taxpayers through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), alongside controversial players like Miru Systems, Smartmatic, and Dominion Voting Systems. What started as a noble quest to "export democracy" to developing nations has devolved into a whirlwind of fraud allegations, bloody riots, and overturned results across continents. Buckle up, this isn't just about rigged votes, it's about your hard-earned dollars propping up a system that critics say is eroding trust in elections worldwide, including right here in the U.S. and over 100+ countries worldwide. The birth of A-WEB, a Korean export with American funding. Founded in 2013 under the auspices of South Korea's National Election Commission (NEC), A-WEB bills itself as the world's largest network for sharing election know-how. With over 100 member countries, it promotes "best practices" through training, tech exports, and free central servers for electronic voting systems. Sounds altruistic? A-WEB's operations are fully funded by the NEC, which in turn receives U.S. support via USAID. In 2014, A-WEB inked Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with USAID and other U.S.-backed groups like the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Democracy International (DI), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the International Republican Institute (IRI). These pacts focus on capacity building, election law reforms, and tech dissemination in emerging democracies— all subsidized by American foreign aid, which totals billions annually. But here's the catch, critics allege A-WEB isn't just sharing expertise, it's exporting vulnerability. Using Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds, A-WEB has installed central servers and facilitated electronic voting machine deals in nations like Fiji, Argentina, El Salvador, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ecuador, Romania, Dominica, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Bolivia, South Africa, and Belarus. In nearly every case, scandals erupted. A-WEB's first Secretary-General, Kim Yong-hee, faced a 2018 probe by South Korean prosecutors over cash bribes from Miru Systems, a key supplier. Though cleared, the NEC slashed A-WEB's budget amid the fallout, highlighting a rift fueled by persistent suspicions of collusion. USAID's role? As a major funder of global democracy programs, it pours taxpayer money into these initiatives under the guise of advancing "free and fair elections." Yet, recent scrutiny reveals USAID's broader controversies. From accusations of interfering in foreign politics to "brainwashing" recipients through aid strings, critics like the Global Times argue it's a tool for U.S. hegemony. In Trump's second term, cuts to USAID have sparked debates about militarizing aid or withdrawing from international bodies, but the election tech pipeline persists. Miru Systems. The "Cheating Machines" at the heart of global chaos. Enter Miru Systems, a South Korean firm with a mere handful of years in the game, yet it's become A-WEB's go-to for electronic voting tech. Allegations paint Miru as the villain in a string of electoral disasters. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi fired commission members on corruption charges, with fingers pointed at collusion between Iraqi officials and Miru. Iraq (2018), Miru snagged an exclusive $150 million contract via A-WEB's push, supplying machines for the parliamentary elections. Chaos ensued. Explosions at ballot storage sites, fraud claims, and a manual recount flipped winners. The media exposed how Iraq's election commission ignored warnings about the machines' vulnerabilities to hacking and manipulation. An opposition leader even flew to Seoul to protest. Democratic Republic of Congo (2018), A-WEB brokered a $160 million deal for 107,000 Miru touchscreen units. Western nations, including the U.S., warned of fraud risks under President Joseph Kabila. Post-election riots killed dozens as locals dubbed them "cheating machines." The South Korean government distanced itself, but protests spilled to Miru's headquarters. Kyrgyzstan (2020), A-WEB-provided servers fueled protests over rigged results favoring President Sooronbay Jeenbekov's allies. The Central Election Commission annulled the vote amid corruption claims tied to Miru's tech. Critics argue these systems, prone to hacking, with QR code readers and wireless laptops, are blueprints for manipulation, mirroring South Korea's own 2020 controversies. Miru's woes extend to the Philippines, where it's bidding on 2025 elections despite fraud tags from Congo and Iraq. Smartmatic and Dominion, the U.S. connection, and a regime change global operation. While A-WEB and Miru dominate the export narrative, U.S.-linked firms Smartmatic and Dominion add fuel to the fire. Smartmatic, a Venezuelan-founded giant with operations in London, the Philippines, and Taiwan, showcased its touchscreen machines at a 2014 A-WEB event in Seoul, attended by USAID partners. It boasts success in the Philippines and Venezuela but faces bribery scandals. In 2023, executives were indicted for a $1 million scheme to rig Philippine contracts. A fugitive exec even pushed Smartmatic tech in Texas. Dominion, a Canadian-U.S. firm with servers in Serbia and Germany, licensed software from Smartmatic (leading to a 2012 lawsuit). Owned by Staple Street Capital (with ties to UBS Securities and Chinese board members), it's been dogged by 2020 U.S. fraud claims, "debunked" in court but amplified in defamation suits against media like Fox News, settling for $787 million, that is now looking like this ruling could be reversed or a new lawsuit could be in the works, especially with multiple states now confirming new evidence that is brewing behind closed doors. Direct A-WEB links are pushed aside, as USAID was in America, but whistleblowers allege global cartels involving CCP influence, with USAID's democracy funds indirectly enabling tech proliferation. The proof is in the results and outcomes of these countries elections, and one thing is for sure. Someone is funding these operations to steal elections worldwide and A-WEB and USAID are in the line of sight. Other players? IFES, NDI, IRI, and the Asia Foundation, all USAID collaborators, focus on "capacity building," but critics see them as vectors for influence, echoing U.S. laws banning foreign meddling in domestic elections. The taxpayer trap. Funding fraud or fostering freedom? As Trump-era cuts loom, voices demand accountability. Trump recently announced on the world stage in Davos that prosecutions are coming soon for the stolen 2020 elections. Former lawmaker Min Kyung-wook's push for a UN team echoes global calls. The verdict? Without transparency, the ballot box remains a black box, rigged and sold out to the highest bidder, your dollars are in play. Time for a recount on foreign aid? U.S. foreign aid, exceeding $50 billion yearly, includes election support to counter rivals like China and Russia. Yet, allegations persist. A-WEB's ties to Miru mirror broader concerns about unverified tech in poor nations, sparking riots and eroding trust. In South Korea's 2020 election, similar systems faced fraud claims, with calls for international probes. Whistleblowers link it to a "global cartel" pushing communism, funded by USAID, shady NGOs with a front for "freedom and diversity," the Democrat Party, and globalists using YOUR U.S. taxpayer dollars to steal elections and install communist regimes all around the world. It's time to expose the ones behind it all and the programs disguised funding it. We will NOT go along with this any longer. The time for change is now. Link to PDF of all documents in video (high quality):

The SCIF

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🚨TUCKER CARLSON - GREAT TAKE!!! 🚨What comes next?! A forecast from a man who has never before given an interview to Russian media. 🚨EXCLUSIVE #60MINUTES 🚨How will the mercenary and tyrant Zelensky meet his end? 🚨What should the West thank Putin for? 🚨What is stopping Russia from destroying Europe and the US? 🚨Why did Tucker fall out with Trump? 🚨What does an American consider the best habit of Russians? 🚨Only here: political predictions that come true—featuring American journalist Tucker Carlson. 📑So, what happens next? A prediction from a person we trust and whom every single conservative in the U.S. trusts as well. An exclusive for 60 Minutes. The most famous American journalist, Tucker Carlson, the author of the renowned and widely publicized interview with Russia's President Putin. Tucker Carlson himself never gives interviews. He has never publicly appeared in Russia, but for the first time, he agreed to talk to us, choosing 60 Minutes to discuss Ukraine and the US Tucker Carlson loves the Russian banya, he believes that Russia and the US, as superpowers, don't have to go to war. He is shocked that Brussels leaders don't care at all about Europe's demise. And Europe is already dead. Carlson is ready to come back to Moscow as soon as tomorrow, but not to Kyiv. He knows for sure they'd just kill him there. 🚨He calls Ukraine a police state, Zelensky a murderer. 🚨Tucker Carlson also fell out with Trump. So, why does Zelensky send people to die in this war, a war in which Ukraine cannot win? And when is the next big battle? How will the war end? When will the war end? Key answers. So, what happens next? Ukraine is a despotism, a tyranny, a police state whose people are dying. The people making decisions there do not plan to stay in the country, if everything collapses. I believe they have money offshore, and if it all falls apart, they'll leave. These are not national leaders, they're mercenaries. Very few tyrants retire and live out their days peacefully in their beds, surrounded by grandchildren. It just doesn't happen. 🚨🤡And Zelensky is a tyrant. 🚨He canceled elections, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of movement, and he also sends people to die in a war, in which victory is impossible. That is the very definition of tyranny. 🚨🤡He is a tyrant. On top of that, he is corrupt, and I cannot recall a single case when such behavior ever went unpunished. I do not know the solution to this problem, unless Western countries stop supporting Ukraine and thereby force it to seek a settlement through negotiations. Ukraine has never been a sovereign state, because it is within the sphere of influence of great powers. It does not possess independence in the sense that Americans or Russians understand it. But Ukraine does not necessarily have to wage a war that destroys most twenty-five-year-old men or wipes out the nation's future. This war can be stopped immediately. I met him in the president's office. At that time, I didn't know anything about cocaine, but I was very surprised by his behavior. His eyes were shining, he was both very happy and sluggish at the same time, he tried to joke in ways I couldn't understand at all. I thought, what a strange person. Zelensky imposed sanctions against his former press secretary, a woman I know personally, and who, by the way, is very smart and a huge patriot. She loves Ukraine, but considers Zelensky a despot and a cocaine addict. She worked with him for many years, and that's the opinion of someone from the inside. And for voicing this out loud, specifically, in my show, sanctions were imposed on her. This means she cannot visit her own country, that her assets there are frozen, that if she returns, she faces arrest, and it could also have consequences for her family, who remain in Ukraine. Such behavior is unworthy of a democratically elected leader. So why does my government and the governments of Western European countries support Zelensky? If you think about it, it's frightening. 🚨This war could destroy Europe. 🚨I want to make it absolutely clear—the destruction of Europe would be the greatest tragedy, one that can be imagined. 🚨💔My heart clenches at the very thought of it. 🚨I love Europe. My ancestors came from there. I am against war in Europe and against its destruction. I'm saying this because I believe we are close to both of these scenarios. And it seems to me that European leaders do not care about this. 🚨🤡Like Zelensky, they are not connected to their own countries. They belong to the international class of people who will leave if anything happens. If the ship goes down, they'll just run away. That is exactly why they behave so recklessly. Western media are united in their hatred of Russia and Putin. And the main reason is that the Russian government supports the Russian Orthodox Church. It's true, but no one wants to talk about it. It sounds strange, but it's a fact. I've worked in the media all my life and I know that's what angers them most. But there are also geopolitical reasons. 🚨As is well known, Zbigniew Brzezinski said: if Russia is in a permanent alliance with Ukraine, then by definition, we are dealing with a superpower. After all, Ukraine is the largest country in Europe, which has the most fertile land and enormous resources. 🚨Russia is, of course, the largest country in the world with colossal resource reserves. Together, they form an unbreakable bloc and, of course, pose a threat to Europe and NATO. 🚨Our leaders are literally infuriated that Vladimir Putin supported the revival of Christianity in Russia. Imagine if, in the year two thousand, Putin had said: You know, the only thing I liked about the Soviet Union, was their atheistic stance. Russia will continue to be an atheistic country. 🚨And now there would be no war in Ukraine, the Maidan in two thousand fourteen would not have happened. This is exactly the scenario western leaders would have preferred. By the way, Russia and the West are both products of one civilization, the Western Christian civilization. 🚨Let's take, for example, Russian literature. 🚨I'm American, I was born here, but when I read Tolstoy, whether it's Pushkin or Dostoevsky, I understand all the references and meanings. Why do I understand them? Because we share a common cultural foundation—Christianity. That's why I hope and believe that someday these ties will be restored. After all, those who started this war, who have been calling for it for twenty-five years, of course, would want to see Europe destroyed. Among Western leaders, there is deep hostility toward Europe, as the cradle of Christian civilization. That is a fact. You know, it wasn't easy, but not because of Peskov or the press service. Actually, everything on their end went very smoothly. The problems came from the U.S. government and their allies. They hacked my personal correspondence and leaked it to The New York Times. Huge efforts were made to prevent me from conducting this interview. And they came from the direction of NATO. President Putin is one of the most pro-Western leaders in your country. Many people would like to see a confrontation between Russia and NATO, and only thanks to President Putin's restraint and patience, that has not happened. That is why I often tell people in the United States, including politicians: You claim you do not like Putin. 🚨Putin is the most pro-Western and moderate leader Russia has ever had. And you should be grateful that he is in power. If he were not there, we would already be fighting a full-scale war, which we would lose. 🚨I am sure that the Republicans will lose control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and I believe that a wave of investigations into the activities of the Trump administration will follow, related to business. 🚨There will be many corruption scandals, perhaps even an attempt at impeachment. But I don't believe any of this will necessarily change our foreign policy direction. I think Trump was upset. I've known him for twenty-five years. I've always liked him a lot, and I still do. 🚨He's an interesting, very amusing and intelligent person. He was angry at me because of my criticism, because he put Israel's interests above those of his own country. I feel sorry for Trump. 🚨It was Israel that dragged him into the war with Iran, and it is Israel that prevents Trump from getting out of it. The country is run by entrenched, unelected interest groups, including intelligence agencies and other structures. This situation is unacceptable. I think for us as a nation, it would be important and useful to have the opportunity to vote for a party, that would represent the interests of the people and act accordingly, just as they wish. And right now, there is no such party. So if such a party appears, it will serve the people, living in the United States, regardless of race or religion. 🚨I am an American, my ancestors come from Britain and Scandinavia. 🚨I'm not sure if I will ever fully understand what the Russian soul is. Although I have dined with Russians many times, we ate Russian food, smoked, and talked about what it really is. This question fascinates me greatly. The Russian soul feels both history and God deeply, and believes in the redemptive power of suffering. What I like most about Russia is the idea that being outdoors even in bad weather is good for you. This is a society that has known suffering and understands the tragic nature of life. Society is very resilient, believing in endurance. We go through trials, but we will definitely come out victorious. And finally, it is an educated and well-read society. Most importantly, it is a society that honors the banya. If there is anything I love in Russia, it's the banya. I even have one at home. I go there every day. In short, I hope I can return. 🚨I could come to Moscow as soon as tomorrow, but I wouldn't be able to go to Kyiv. 🚨They would kill me there. 🚨And that's a fact.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

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War Diary Day 1,391 Blaise Metreweli, the Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, sticks it to the Killer in The Kremlin. And all his creepy helpers. I agree with every fucking word. VPDFO! (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) 📷 Welcome inside MI6. This iconic building, familiar to movie fans everywhere, is the home of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency. But whilst hundreds of my team pass through the entry pods each day, the truth is that most of our work happens many miles away from this place - out of sight, hidden from the world, undercover, recruiting and running agents who choose to place their trust in us, sharing secrets to make the UK and the world safer. You might pass one of our officers on the street or sit next to them on a plane when you’re about to set off on an adventure of your own, or in a foreign city taking selfies by the sights. Whether it’s in seemingly everyday places, or on the front line embedded with our military, MI6 is there. In my first few weeks, I’ve heard repeatedly that MI6 is trusted and respected globally, two things that we never take for granted. We are seen as a source of hard power, soft influence and rapid innovation. I’ve also heard that people want to believe in MI6. It’s my job to make sure they can. Today, I want to talk about human agency. We all have choices to make about how we deal with the undercurrents shaping our world. About how, in our new, faster, more dangerous and technology-mediated world, it will be our rediscovery of our shared humanity, our ability to listen, and our courage that will determine how our future unfolds. Conflict is not inevitable. Understanding human nature is in my bones. From a family shaped by devastating conflict, I grew up with a deep sense of gratitude for the UK’s precious democracy and freedom. I spent much of my childhood overseas, which is where my passion for travel and adventure began. I studied anthropology, and later psychology and AI, exploring how we make sense of the world and each other. It’s why I was drawn to MI6: it offers strong purpose, a chance to serve and a belief in the positive power of human connection. Like the Service, I’m operational to my very core. Over nearly three decades, my career has involved recruiting and running agents in hostile territory; and leading operations in warzones to defuse threats and support peace. Always in teams, always learning from others. Over the years, I’ve worked with hundreds of brilliant partners – and indeed occasionally those we’d label as adversaries – across dozens of countries, tackling weapons proliferation and terrorism. During my time at MI5, I saw close up what it takes to defend Britain from being targeted by hostile states. You’ll find many like me in my organisation: powerfully motivated to protect our precious country; curious about how our world is changing, joining dots and taking action, across domains. But it was in my last role as ‘Q’, where it was my job to turn emerging technologies from threats to opportunities that I could most see the world changing. As I dug deep into data and extraordinary innovation, I could see how technology was rapidly reshaping not just our capabilities but also conflict and trust, truth and global power. Let me lay out how I see the global issues MI6 must tackle. Because the greatest danger we face is to misunderstand the nature of the problem. Let’s be in no doubt. Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades. Conflict is evolving and trust eroding, just as new technologies spur both competition and dependence. We are being contested from sea to space, from the battlefield to the boardroom. And even our brains, as disinformation manipulates our understanding of each other and ourselves. Across the globe, we are now confronting not one single danger, but an interlocking web of security challenges – military, technological, social, ethical even – each shaping the other in complex ways. We are now operating in a space between peace and war. This is not a temporary state or a gradual, inevitable evolution. Our world is being actively remade, with profound implications for national and international security. Institutions which were designed in the ashes of the Second World War are being challenged. New blocs and identities forming and alliances reshaping. Multipolar competition in tension with multilateral cooperation. But there’s something distinctive that will make this change unlike any other: the impact of advanced technologies, which will accelerate the pace and scale of every threat and opportunity, and increasingly, individualise them too. Advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing are not only revolutionising economies but rewriting the reality of conflict, as they ‘converge’ to create science-fiction-like tools. There’s incredible promise in all this for all of us, from green technologies to hyper-personalised medicine. But also peril. AI-powered robots and drones are brilliant for scaled manufacturing but devastating on the battlefield. Discoveries that cure disease can also create new weapons. And as states race for tech supremacy, or as some algorithms become as powerful as states, those hyper-personalised tools could become a new vector for conflict and control. Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations, and sometimes to individuals. And at the same time, the foundations of trust in our societies are eroding. Information, once a unifying force, is increasingly weaponised. Falsehood spreads faster than fact, dividing communities and distorting reality. We live in an age of hyper-connection yet profound isolation. The algorithms flatter our biases and fracture our public squares. And as trust collapses, so does our shared sense of truth – one of the greatest losses a society can suffer. The defining challenge of the twenty-first century is not simply who wields the most powerful technologies, but who guides them with the greatest wisdom. Our security, our prosperity, and our humanity depend on it. Our world is being remade. And for the first time, we are all at the heart of it. My Service must now operate in this new context too: not just expert on hostile states, terrorism, proliferation and more, but also fluent in technology, able to anticipate the second and third order effects of advances that reshape the world in minutes not months. And as China will be a central part of the global transformation taking place this century, it is essential that we, as MI6, continue to inform the government’s understanding of China’s rise and the implications for UK national security. I’m going to break with tradition and won’t give you a global threat tour, but will focus here on Putin’s Russia. We all continue to face the menace of an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia, seeking to subjugate Ukraine and harass NATO. I find it harrowing that hundreds of thousands have died, with the toll mounting every day, because of Putin’s historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population. But Putin should be in no doubt, our support is enduring. The pressure we apply on Ukraine’s behalf will be sustained. Because it is fundamental not just to European sovereignty and security but to global stability. Alongside the grinding war, Russia is testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war. It’s important to understand their attempts to bully, fearmonger and manipulate, because it affects us all. I am talking about: Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Drones buzzing airports and bases. Aggressive activity in our seas, above and below the waves. State-sponsored arson and sabotage. Propaganda and influence operations that crack open and exploit fractures within societies. Countering this activity is the work of intelligence and security services across Europe and the globe. And as the Foreign Secretary made clear in a speech last week, the UK is defending itself against this Russian information warfare – sanctioning Russian media outlets pushing Kremlin narratives. The export of chaos is a feature not a bug in this Russian approach to international engagement; and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus. So, how should we respond? It’s not enough now just to understand the world. We must shape it too. MI6 is well-positioned to respond to these threats and wider global instability. And we will continue to evolve, just as we have throughout our long history. The UK government has invested in our intelligence agencies and we are all using our unique powers to keep the British people safe. Our ‘open and connected’ partnerships across the UK Intelligence Community, with HMGCC, NSSIF and the wider tech ecosystem in the UK will become even more important – because in the digital battleground, no single organisation can prevail alone. As a global agency, MI6’s inbuilt strength is our partners and our people. The risks I have set out require us to work ever more closely with our colleagues in MI5, GCHQ and in defence and diplomacy. But also with our Five Eyes partners, with the E3, the EU, NATO, those across the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific and beyond. And with many valued partners whose identity needs to remain secret. Together, we integrate our diverse talent, data and tools to meet the threat. AI is a domain in which we will excel, using the technology to augment, not replace, our human skills. Every digital trace, every byte of data, every algorithmic decision has implications for the safety of the lives of the courageous people who work with us as officers and agents, and for the UK’s strategic advantage. Mastery of technology will infuse everything we do. Not just in our labs, but in the field, in our tradecraft, and even more importantly, in the mindset of every officer. We will become as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple other languages. Under my leadership, MI6 will continue to attract Britain’s best and most creative minds: linguists and data scientists, case officers and engineers, behavioural experts and technologists. We need people who walk in the shoes and get in the heads of our adversaries. We need people who think differently, challenge assumptions, and act decisively. All can thrive and make a difference at MI6. At an operational level, we will sharpen our edge and impact with audacity, tapping into – if you like – our historical SOE instincts. We’re at our best when we’re hustling to make things happen, because our intelligence is most valuable when it changes reality on the ground. We will take calculated risks, where the prize is significant and the national interest clear. We will never stoop to the tactics of our opponents. But we must seek to outplay them. In every domain. In every way. So intelligence must drive action. Action must deliver advantage. And advantage must serve Britain’s security and prosperity. But at the core, our deeper contribution is also our simplest – how we unlock human agency. Our fast-paced, tech and threat-infused world now generates more heat than light. As nations retrench and rearm, we are losing opportunities to listen to what’s really going on. I’ve seen time and again throughout my career, that this is where MI6 matters most: we listen and we hear. We understand, because we take time to learn languages and cultures, complex technical and historical detail, immerse ourselves in what’s really driving the situation. Across the globe, right now, our officers are finding people with the courage to step forward, and they are taking time to sit and listen to break these tightening cycles of violence. They listen for nuance, for connection, for opportunity. Over the years, I’ve listened to terrorists who have told us how to defuse the bomb because they know that more violence won’t help. To proliferators and smugglers who’ve told us where to find the dangerous material, motivated to protect their children’s future. To people trapped in authoritarian regimes who know, deep down, that their humanity is being chipped away – and that telling us what’s really going on is an important release, allowing us all to find better ways to navigate our changing world. So, we will work with our agents. And we will continue to engage directly, and with respect, with states and organisation currently working against us. Away from the glare of the media, we will use MI6’s convening power wherever we can to make a material difference, bringing parties together to defuse tensions. But the response to the increasing risks we face won’t be delivered by the UK intelligence community alone. Wider society has a role to play too. That includes work taking place in schools across the country so our children don’t get duped by information manipulation. Let’s all check sources, consider evidence, and be alive to those algorithms that trigger intense reactions, like fear. It also means everyone in society really understanding the world we are in – a world where terrorists plot against us, where our enemies fearmonger, bully and manipulate, and the front line is everywhere. Online, on our streets, in our supply chains, in the minds and on the screens of our citizens. We must all stand together against this. As we do today with our friends in Australia after the shocking antisemitic terrorist attack this weekend. My thoughts -and those of my whole organisation – are with the family, friends and loved ones of the victims. Light will always win over darkness. In rising to meet these challenges we, in MI6, will remain anchored to our values: courage, creativity, respect and integrity. And to our principles: accountability and trust are not constraints on our work; they are the foundations of our legitimacy with the British public. Recently, I had the privilege of meeting and thanking a foreign agent who has worked with us for decades, taking extraordinary risks to help keep the UK safe. I asked why. They said simply, ‘Your values. Your integrity and respect. None of us have a future without them’. This moment reinforced to me that we must remain a very human agency. And so, to sustain that trust, MI6 will continue to be more open. Not for the sake of visibility, but because it matters – and as my MI5 counterpart Sir Ken McCallum said recently - because it is a strength. We will continue the practice of speaking publicly, broaden our channels of engagement, and sustain our focus on attracting the most diverse talent to join our Service. Transparency does not mean revealing what must remain secret. It means showing the British people who we are, what we stand for, and why our work matters. We need your trust and support for the difficult and often dangerous work our agents pursue, every day of the year. In an age of uncertainty, one constant remains: the choices made by human beings still determine the shape of the world. Yes, technology can illuminate possibilities: but information requires judgement; complexity demands clarity; and only people can decide which path to follow. The United Kingdom’s global voice has never rested solely on strength – it has rested on trust, principle, and the ability to understand others as well as ourselves. That is also the essence of intelligence: not simply knowing the world, but interpreting it through a uniquely human lens. Ours is the quiet service, the hidden service. It is one rooted in a profound belief that when human beings act with purpose and integrity, they can steady a faltering world. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was our shared belief in freedom that carried Europe forward. When acts of terror targeted open societies, it was intelligence, cooperation and resolve that preserved them. And when adversaries blur fact and falsehood, our task is to defend the space where truth can still stand. As we step into the future, the tools at our disposal will evolve. But what will always matter most is the human element – the person who stands in the shadows and says: this is right, and that is wrong. That choice – the exercise of human agency – has shaped our world before, and it will shape it again. Because in the end, it is not what we can do that defines us, but what we choose to do. Thank you. Published 15 December 2025

John Sweeney

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The Economics of Europe’s Descent into Warmongering – and our duty now! My speech at the European Parliament on the theme of “The Economic Conditions of Peace”, Tuesday 10th June 2025 [INTRODUCTION] A year ago, I would have started this speech with a lament about the hitherto unimaginable conversion of the European Union from a Peace to a War Project. Not so today. Over the past year, warmongering has seeped into the very fabric of the Union, it has trickled into every policy, it has soaked every one of the thinktanks that generate Europe’s dominant narratives and creeds. Today, therefore, it makes no sense to lament what is now a fact: The EU is now a fully-fledged War Project – a project that will either land us in permanent war, or it will bankrupt us further, or probably both! Europe’s military Keynesianism, I shall be arguing, is guaranteed to make Europe less safe, more unequal, weaker. Only two interesting questions remain: Why has Europe taken this road? And, now that Europe is on this war path, what is ourduty to our people, to Europeans, to Peace? Let me begin at the very beginning. [THE EU WAS DESIGNED TO BE SUBSERVIENT TO THE UNITED STATES] At the risk of irking Europeanists who believe in their own creation myth, let me be clear: The European Union (from its beginnings as the European Communities of Coal & Steel) was an American Construction – a part of a US Global Plan that also comprised the Bretton Woods System, the Truman Doctrine and, of course, NATO. Yes, most Europeans hankered for no more war and no more totalitarianism. But the EU was designed in Washington DC. And it was designed specifically not as a competitive market but as a Big Business Cartel run by a democracy-free bureaucracy (also known as the European Commission) not coincidentally located a stone’s throw from NATO’s headquarters. From 1950 on, the EU was nurtured by and in tune with the interests of the United States – an inconvenient fact both for Europe’s self-important rulers and for Donald Trump. Looking back, a common thread runs through the entire history of the EU: its total economic dependence on the United States. Initially, the EU was deeply dependent on being part of the Dollar Zone. Then, from 1971 onwards, it was deeply dependent on the American trade deficit. So, one way or another, Europe’s deep dependence on the US was ingrained into its architecture. It will thus take much more than mere pronouncements - or a few hundred billion borrowed euros spent on weaponry - to shed Europe’s in-built dependence on the United States. The fact that the EU was, from the beginning, fashioned as a Big Business Cartel is the reason why the EU needed fixed exchange rates: Currency fluctuations destabilise any cartel, making it hard to maintain the necessary levels of collusion between its participating producers. From 1950 to 1971, the US took care of this problem on Europe’s behalf. As long as it was running a trade deficit with the United States, Europe’s cartel was embedded in the dollar zone – its currencies tied to the dollar But, when around 1969 Europe (and Japan) started running a trade surplus with the United States, it was game over. On 15th August 1971, the Donald Trump of that era, President Richard Nixon, jettisoned Europe from the dollar zone, his Treasury Secretary cynically telling the dumbfounded Europeans: “From today the dollar is our currency but it is your problem!” Two things happened next. First, to save their Big Business Cartel the Europeans scrambled to create their own fixed exchange rate regime. They tried everything: The Snake. The European Monetary System. The European Exchange Rate Mechanism. They all proved flimsy designs that speculators had no trouble crushing. So, in desperation, they created the most noxious currency the human spirit could fashion - the euro. The second development was that, as America expanded its budget and trade deficits, the Eurozone morphed into a German-led net exporting machine whose aggregate demand was subcontracted to the United States. In effect, America’s twin deficits operated like a huge vacuum cleaner that sucked into America Europe’s net exports as well as the European exporters’ profits which were thus invested in US Treasuries, US shares and US real estate. That’s how, once it was expelled from the dollar zone, Europe became addicted to the US deficits. That was what the Nixon Shock did: It converted Europe’s utter reliance on living within the dollar zone into an even greater dependence on the US deficits. [NEVER MISSING A CHANCE TO MISS AN OPPORTUNITY] Here in Brussels they love the expression that Europe progresses from crisis to crisis. That’s another delusion. The crisis of 2008 was our greatest opportunity to render the European Union viable, and to end its deep dependence on the United States. · The French and German banks went bankrupt. · The Eurozone’s impossible rules were in tatters. · A domino effect, beginning with Greece, was bankrupting our governments. It was the perfect opportunity to transform the EU from a Big Business Cartel, inherently reliant on the US for its aggregate demand, into a functional, internally balanced federation. Instead, Europe’s radical centre (both the centre right and the centre left) decided that they would change everything so as to ensure that nothingchanges. In this vein, they did their worst: Universal austerity for the many. And frantic money printing for the financiers and Big Business. What happens when you crush the incomes of the many and hand over trillions to the very few? Since the many are too poor to buy high value added goods, business stops investing in productive capital –– while the rich use the free cash to push through the roof house prices, share prices, Bitcoin prices, art, asset prices in general. The natural result is soul-crushing levels of inequality and deep popular discontent. The people got desperate. They even voted for radical progressives like me to enter the Eurogroup! Then, in horror, Brussels and Frankfurt overthrew us, or made Mr Tsipras overthrow his own government, using not the tanks, as they did in Greece in 1967, but the banks – not that much of a difference really! A coup d’ état is a coup d’ état. [TWO SYMBIOTIC AUTHORITARIANISMS] Guess what happened next: Just as in the mid-war period, xenophobic ultra-rightists rose up from the woodwork. They proved a godsent for the shockingly unpopular radical centre whose politicians could now say to voters: It is us or them! But it was equally a godsent for the ultra-right who needed the radical centre to impose the austerity policies which created the discontent which fuelled the anger that delivered the ultra-right votes. To put it differently, if Macron and Le Pen had any sense, they would each keep a framed picture of the other on their bedside tables, saying a little prayer in their hated opponent’s name every night before going to sleep. [SMOKE AND MIRRORS] Liberal Totalitarianism and Ultra-Right-Xenophobic Totalitarianism are accomplices, they feed off each other. Meanwhile, austerity for the many and money printing for the few depletes Europe’s productive foundations, its social fabric, its sense of purpose. That’s how the European Union lost any legitimacy it had in the eyes of the public. Sensing this, the Liberal Totalitarians in charge came up with one failed Grand Initiative after another. Who can forget the eminently forgettable Juncker investment plan, the Banking Union, the Green Deal, or the Draghi Report that has now joined them in History’s Dustbin? Impressive numbers were announced that, alas, dependably failed to materialise. It was inevitable. As long as our rulers said NO to the political union that could sustain a proper, macroeconomically significant, eurobond, the money to fund the necessary investment could never materialise. Even when they – finally – during the pandemic – did issue common debt, they ended up with common liabilities but no common purpose. Every Grand Initiative ever announced was a dance with failure, smoke and mirrors by which they disguised Europe’s nakedness. The result? After fifteen years of ZERO NET PRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT, · Germany is deindustrialising fast, and along with it Eastern and Central Europe, Austria, Northern Italy · Political paralysis grows on the back of fiscal pressures · Neofascism and xenophobia are rising up everywhere · Europe’s dependence on the United States grows stronger at the time Donald Trump is cutting Europe loose · The Rest of the World looks at Europe as a sad case of what could have been, an irritating irrelevance. In this sad context, our great and good leaders had another woeful idea for a Grand Initiative: Now that the Green Deal is dead-in-the-water and the Recovery Fund is spent, why not try Military Keynesianism? [THE FOLLY OF MILITARY KEYNESIANISM] Ladies and Gentlemen, Military Keynesianism works in the United States because America has the federal institutions, the monetary sovereignty, the fiscal power, the technostructure, and the common procurement process that are essential in implementing Military Keynesianism. Europe has none of that, nor does it have leaders interested in acquiring any of that. This is why Military Keynesianism cannot work in Europe. Thank goodness it can’t work, I say! For if it could work, Europe would have to emulate the United States in starting a war every year so that the stocks of ammunition, missiles et al could be depleted sufficiently to justify the new colossal orders necessary to maintain Military Keynesianism. Nevertheless, while Europe’s Military Keynesianism cannot and should not work, it serves a purpose – it is a kind of a solution for, say, Volkswagen: Now that Volkswagen can no longer sell its cars, it hands over whole production lines to Rheinmetall to produce Leopard tanks which von der Leyen makes Greece and Italy buy even though we neither want nor need them. Yes, Military Keynesianism will fail Europe badly, but not before it further bankrupts our states and throws more fuel onto the fire burning down lives and dreams in Ukraine’s killing fields. So, let me be frank: · No really-existing enemy of Europe shakes in his boots watching a stagnating, heavily indebted Europe, invest billions in weaponry. Quite the opposite! · Military Keynesianism will end up as Europe’s New Austerity for the many and a new money spinner for the few. · It will make Europe weaker while prolonging the Ukraine War in a manner that is detrimental to the stated aim of supporting Ukraine. [EUROPE’S SURRENDER TO NATO, ITS ROLE IN UKRAINE] It is at this point that angry yelps will rise up from the press gallery. Can’t you hear them ask: "“Is Russia not ante portas?” “Is Europe not in danger?” “Should Europe remain defenceless, especially now that Trump is abandoning Europe?” My answer is clear: Weakening ourselves economically through a Military Keynesianism that constitutes the New Austerity which will, with mathematical precision, diminish Europe further is no way to make Europe stronger! And lest we forget, Europe already has 1.5m men and women in uniform while, over the past decade, we spent €2.7 trillion on defence – a period during which our net productive investment was zero! Now, NATO demands that we spend three times as much - which is totally insane, given how wastefully that €2.7 trillion was spent. In this light, surrendering our foreign and defence policies to NATO, and sinking further in unsustainable debt just to satisfy President Trump’s demands for more military spending, is the surest way of making Europe more dependent, less secure, uglier and sadder. In this context, the powers-that-be here in Brussels are anxiously trying to keep their jobs and boost their budgets by spreading the lie that NATO had to expand in order to deter Russian aggression – when it is exactly the other way round: Like the Mafia, NATO expanded to create insecurity in order to sell us protection! Does this mean that Putin was right to invade the Ukraine? Of course not. What it means is that NATO and Putin are accomplices – that they needed one another in their joint bid for a confrontation that strengthened both – at Europe’s expense. It also means that anyone truly interested in Europe’s security and prosperity 1. must dispel the lie that Russia is about to invade us – it can’t even if it wants to 2. must work tirelessly to kill Europe’s Military Keynesianism, and 3. must work toward a European Peace Process which uses Russia’s confiscated monies not as a piggybank for more useless Leopard tanks and Leonardo missiles but as a bargaining chip to end the Ukraine War in the context of a comprehensive EU-Russia Peace Treaty. As for the politicians in this town who will not rest until they see Russia on its knees, I have this to say to them: If you really wanted to weaken Russia, to bring Russia to its knees, you should have worked hard to admit Russia into the… Eurozone. In one fell swoop the euro would have wrecked Russia’s productive basis, it would have indebted its people and its state, it would have made its leaders rush to Brussels and to Frankfurt with begging bowl in hand! You think I am joking. But there is too much truth in this joke for comfort! To sum up my argument so far, Europe’s economic stagnation was the product of its total dependence on the American deficits. This dependence yielded Europe’s complicity with the decade-long American project of inciting a war in Ukraine. And now that the US is decoupling, our rulers – resembling decapitated chickens – are running around without their heads screwed on, struggling to find ways of continuing to impede Peace in Ukraine so as to use military funds to prop up Europe’s faltering Big Business Cartel. [WHAT’S BEHIND EUROPE’S ETHICAL DECAY: GAZA, TOTALITARIANISM] Ladies and Gentlemen, as we speak here today, Europe is falling headlong into another ethical void: complicity in the Palestinian genocide. It is not just the embarrassment, also known as Mrs Ursula von der Leyen, posing like a cheerleader of Israel’s genocidal army in front of its tanks hours before they stormed Gaza. No, the European Union is not merely complicit due to our subservience to the United States. No, the European Union is also enabling, it is in fact funding, the war criminals of its own accord. Directly. Cynically. With no compunction. · BNP PARIBAS and ALLIANZ underwrite the issues of the Israeli government bonds that fund the Israeli meatgrinder in the Palestinian Occupied Territories · MAERSK is the prime transporter of the military machine at work in Gaza · Since 2007, the European Union has channelled €2 billion of research funding to Israeli entities producing the means by which Palestinians are ethnically cleansed, targeted, murdered and maimed. But there is something even scarier going on: Some of our top institutions depend financially on backing Israel’s genocide. If Europe were to do its duty and sanction Israel, the Technical University of Munich stands to lose €195.4 million from the EU’s HORIZON program which funds the University to carry out joint research with Israeli institutions. Ladies and Gentlemen, Europe carries an enormous guilt. The pogroms against the Jews started here, in Europe. Europeans carried out genocides across Africa, in the Americas, in Australia. By forming the EU as a Peace Project, we claimed a chance to make amends for Europe’s past genocides. However, our dependence on the US and our ruling class’s penchant to profit from imperialism have made this impossible – and so Europe’s hands are, again, covered in the blood of innocents, in Gaza, in Ukraine, in the Sudan, in Libya, in Yemen, in Syria. It has also brought totalitarianism back into our midst, here in Europe. When the German authorities banned me from entering Germany for the crime of co-organising with German Jews a conference on the theme of ‘A Just Peace in the Middle East’, they were making a point: To them, letting the rivers of Palestinian blood flow unimpeded represented their chance of washing off their hands the guilt over the Holocaust, over the other German genocide in Namibia, of Belgium’s crimes against humanity in the Congo… It is, therefore, a clear warning to us: Economic stagnation begets warmongering which begets a revived European white settler mentality. This Europe has fallen so far into a moral crevice that it cannot easily climb out of it. Europe’s Liberal Totalitarianism, which we in Greece experienced in all its horror ten years ago, is now everywhere – and it is throwing wide open the gates through which Xenophobic Ultra-Right Totalitarianism arrives to darken our doorstep. The time to rise up against both forms of totalitarianism is now. On behalf of the peoples of Europe. [WHAT MUST WE DO?] So, what must we do? Let us begin by grasping that: · The economic condition for Peace is to de-couple Europe's economy from America's wars! · But for that we must end, once and for all, Europe’s dependence on the United States. · This entails ending Europe’s dependence on net exports to America. · Which means rebalancing Europe’s internal economy through o new productive green investments, o an end to structural austerity o an end to the madness of cartel-infested electricity ‘markets’ o a new monetary commons by which to end the bankers’ monopoly over payments and to institute a personal dividend for all o a new EU-China deal that liberates us from America’s agenda of intensifying a pointless New Cold War at our expense. Only by transforming Europe’s political economy can we end the never-ending fragmentation which breeds war, totalitarianism and the embarrassment of being led by cheerleaders of genocide and permanent war with Russia, like Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas. How can we accomplish that? In two ways. First, we need a Credible Plan for a Europe worth fighting for. Second, we must organise a campaign of civil and governmental disobedience in our countries and, potentially, in the European Council until our Plan for Europe gets a chance. We, DiEM25, have worked for a decade on this Plan – our Green New Deal for Europe – and are happy to share it with you, so that you can refine, revise, adapt it. You, the 5S Movement and other parties eager to partake across Europe, have the organisation that we lack so that, together with our MERA25 transnational parties, we can together help organise the campaign of civil and governmental disobedience without which nothing will change, nothing will impede Europe’s, Italy’s, Greece’s, indeed Germany’s secular decline. [CONCLUSION] So, to conclude, seventy-five years of this European Union teach us that we face a stark choice. A choice between a Dependent-on-the-United States, Warmongering, Stagnating Europe. Or an Independent, Non-Aligned, Prosperous, Green Europe. A choice between a von der Leyen-type Commission that greenlights genocide, impedes Peace, illegally deletes her Pfizer chat history, lobbies for Lockheed Martin, and borrows money we can’t repay to buy weaponry we do not need - while condemning People and Planet to impecunity. Or European Institutions optimised against raw power and in favour of common prosperity. A choice between being at the beck and call of the boardrooms of Rheinmetall, Leonardo and Pfizer, blind to the tax havens where war profits and tax fraud hide, while our coastguards turn refugees into corpses. Or a Europe of rational, that is a radical, humanism. To even have this choice, our immediate task must be to end war, to end genocide and to terminate before it is too late the New Austerity going by the name of Military Keynesianism.

Yanis Varoufakis

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When Judge Napolitano asked me on his show how Syria ended up with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as its “president,” I could almost hear the cognitive dissonance on the other side of the screen. How does a man who was once the emir of al-Qaeda in Syria, a co-founder of ISIS by any reasonable historical reading of his trajectory, become Washington’s chosen man in Damascus? For me, the answer is not a mystery. It is the logical end of a dirty war that began not with Syrian protesters in 2011, but in an American-run prison camp in Iraq years earlier. And if anyone still suspected this was “just a conspiracy theory,” a former CIA officer – John Kiriakou, who went to prison for exposing CIA torture – has now said publicly what many of us have long argued: Jolani is, in all likelihood, a CIA asset. Let’s start with the timeline, because the timeline alone already screams “intelligence operation.” Abu Mohammed al-Jolani was in a CIA-run prison in Iraq – Camp Bucca – alongside another familiar name: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Both men were released in early 2011. “Coincidentally,” that is exactly when the regime-change war in Syria begins. Within weeks, Baghdadi goes on to lead what becomes ISIS, and Jolani crosses into Syria to found Jabhat al-Nusra – officially al-Qaeda’s franchise in my country. Washington designates Nusra a terrorist organization. The UN follows suit. On paper, Jolani is the enemy. The State Department even slaps a $10 million bounty on his head. But bounties are cheap. Cruise missiles are expensive. And for over a decade, while the US flattened cities in Iraq and Syria allegedly to fight “terrorism,” it somehow never found the time, or the coordinates, to seriously target Jolani or his core command structure, even though he controlled large swaths of Syrian territory from Aleppo countryside all the way to Idlib. Because Jolani and his men were fighting the one government Washington had already decided must go: the Syrian state under Bashar al-Assad. This is where Operation Timber Sycamore comes in: a multi-billion-dollar CIA covert program that funneled weapons, money, and training to so-called “rebels” in Syria. They were sold to Western audiences as “moderate opposition.” On the ground, those moderates were a disappearing species. What existed in reality were hardline Salafi-jihadist factions, with Nusra at the top of the food chain. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) was the mask, the logo on the paperwork, the brand name you could sell to Congress and CNN. The real muscle on the ground was Jolani’s men and other takfiri groups, who did the actual fighting, took the actual territory, and imposed their version of rule. Weapons went “to the moderates.” The moderates magically handed them to al-Qaeda. Everyone in Washington pretended to be surprised. No one stopped the pipeline. Over the years, the mask slipped. US officials themselves began to speak of Jolani as something more than just a former enemy. James Jeffrey, Washington’s former envoy to Syria, openly called Jolani “an asset” for US strategy – not my word, his. Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Syria, has publicly admitted that he personally worked with Jolani to “take him out of the world of terrorism” and polish him into a politician. Think about what that means: the same US that claims to be fighting an endless war against al-Qaeda quietly devotes diplomatic energy to rehabilitating the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda into a partner, a useful strongman, a future head of state. I said on the show, and I repeat it here: I believe Jolani was recruited in Camp Bucca. The timeline makes no sense otherwise. You don’t walk out of an American-run prison and, weeks later, magically have the networks, the money, the arms, and the logistical capacity to found al-Qaeda in Syria, right at the moment when Washington and its allies need a battering ram against Damascus. Recently, former CIA director David Petraeus even sat with Jolani and told him, “Your success is our success.” What more do people need? A signed employment contract? But let’s assume, for a moment, that you still think this is a stretch. Enter John Kiriakou. Kiriakou is not a YouTuber chasing clicks. He is a former CIA officer who went to prison because he exposed the torture program and named the torturers. His loyalty is clearly not to the Agency’s PR department. Recently, on Unfettered Speech, he described the Jolani situation bluntly. Here is the essence of what he said, which Judge Napolitano played on air: -The “new president” of Syria is a former al-Qaeda member and a co-founder of ISIS. -This same man is welcomed at the White House. -Senior US officials, including the Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, travel to meet him. -President Trump suddenly lifts sanctions on Syria as Jolani consolidates power, prompting Syrians – desperate and exhausted – to dance in the streets. The only thing that makes sense is that Jolani is a CIA asset, per Kiriakou’s. When a former CIA officer who has already sacrificed his career and freedom to tell the truth looks at the pattern and says, “This is our guy,” it is not a conspiracy theory anymore. Now, you may ask, why would the United States and its allies back such a man? The answer lies in what Syria used to be, and what it has now been turned into. Before this war, Syria, for all its flaws, was a horizontally integrated state. People identified themselves as Syrian first and then Armenian, Druze, Christian, Alawite, Sunni, Shi’a, Kurdish, and so on. The state’s foreign policy aligned with Iran and Hezbollah, supported Palestinian factions, and kept a real deterrent posture toward Israel. For Washington and Tel Aviv, this was unacceptable. The goal was not “democracy”; that word is just wrapping paper. The real objective was to remove a government allied with Iran and replace it with a fragmented landscape: a weak central authority in Damascus, surrounded by sectarian cantons and warlord enclaves, all dependent on foreign patrons. Jolani is perfect for this role. For Israel, he brings vertical division. A man with a long al-Qaeda pedigree ruling Syria is a nightmare for minorities: Christians, Druze, Alawites, Shi’a, many Kurds, and other smaller communities. They will not accept al-Qaeda rule. So they retreat into their own militias, their own cantons, their own de facto mini-states, exactly in line with old Israeli strategic doctrines like the Yinon Plan, which openly advocated fragmenting neighboring states along sectarian lines. On the ground, we already see it: -Druze militias running their own affairs in the south with quiet Israeli backing. -Kurdish forces in the northeast under US protection, managing their own autonomous zone. -Alawites discussing an autonomous coastal enclave. -Christians living in silence and fear. You don’t need formal borders on a map to balkanize a country. When I, as a Syrian of Armenian origin, stop thinking of myself as Syrian first and start thinking purely as Armenian, when I instinctively fear my neighbor because he is from another sect, the balkanization has already happened in the mind. For Washington, Jolani is equally “useful.” He has promised to normalize relations with Israel, to open Syria’s markets to Western capital, and to hand over the country’s resources from the hydrocarbons east of the Euphrates to the gas fields under the Mediterranean to American and allied companies. A 24-million-person country reduced to a reconstruction market: $300 billion worth of contracts, infrastructure projects, and “investments.” But for investors to feel safe, they need a strongman in Damascus who can project the illusion of stability while remaining utterly dependent on foreign protection. That strongman, in their design, is Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. But Jolani is not acting alone. Around him is a constellation of Western intelligence veterans and “conflict resolution” NGOs acting as intermediaries. British MI6 circles, under figures like Jonathan Powell – former chief of staff to Tony Blair – are central in managing this process. Powell runs an organization called Inter Mediate, which specializes in “talking to armed groups.” Behind the humanitarian language lies political engineering. One of Inter Mediate’s operatives, a woman named Clare Haigh, is now said to have an office inside the Syrian presidential palace, advising Jolani on how to talk, how to dress, how to handle journalists, how to sell himself as a reformed jihadist turned statesman. And then there is Qatar. Ahmed Zaidan – once Osama bin Laden’s favorite journalist, photographed sipping tea with him and broadcasting his tapes on Al Jazeera – is now a personal adviser to Jolani. Make it make sense. An al-Qaeda emir, handled by US and British intelligence veterans, advised by bin Laden’s favorite media man, massaged by Western PR consultants, welcomed in Washington, and crowned in Damascus as “president.” If you wrote this as fiction, an editor would tell you it’s too on the nose. Since Jolani took power through an international and regional deal that pushed Assad aside, over 11,000 people have been killed. Many of them are from the very minorities the West loves to mention in speeches but abandons in practice. Videos circulate of his fighters asking terrified villagers at gunpoint, “Are you Muslim or not?” and executing those who give the “wrong” answer, including Druze and Alawites who are not recognized as “true Muslims” by their extremist ideology. Christians, who had already suffered massive emigration between 2011 and 2024, are being squeezed further. They have no organized armed force, no foreign sponsor. They are expected either to live under the mercy of an al-Qaeda-bred regime or to leave the land of their ancestors. This is what Washington’s “asset management” looks like in human terms. If you are an American reading this, you might be tempted to say: “This cannot be. My government would never knowingly empower al-Qaeda.” But it already has, repeatedly. From Afghanistan in the 1980s, when US intelligence backed the Mujahideen (and, indirectly, their Arab foreign fighter allies), to Libya and Syria in the last decade, where jihadist factions were instrumentalized against secular or nationalist governments, the pattern is clear. The names and acronyms change. The logic does not. The same establishment that lectures the world on “democracy” and “human rights” is perfectly willing to install a man like Jolani as the ruler of one of the oldest civilizations on earth, as long as he delivers strategic gains: -breaking the Iran–Syria–Hezbollah axis; -fragmenting Syria into weak, controllable pieces; -opening its resources and markets to Western and Gulf capital; -and giving Israel unprecedented strategic depth and security. Everything else – the massacres, the ethnic cleansing, the collapse of national identity, the destruction of ancient communities – is treated as collateral damage. I am often asked what Syria will look like in five or ten years. I wish I could answer with optimism. Right now, the forces pushing to turn my country into a permanent vassal state – ruled by a former al-Qaeda emir, policed by foreign intelligence, exploited by foreign capital – are incredibly strong. But nothing in this region is permanent. People who come to power by cutting off other people’s heads often lose their own. If there are still sane voices left in Western politics – people like Tulsi Gabbard 🌺, whom I mentioned on air – they must at least recognize this insanity: backing an al-Qaeda emir as “our man in Damascus” is not just immoral; it is ultimately self-destructive. Syria does not need Jolani. The West does not need Jolani. There are Syrians who can have friendly relations with the United States without being former al-Qaeda commanders, without murdering their own people, without turning an ancient nation into a laboratory for extremist social engineering. The question is not whether such alternatives exist. They do. The question is whether Washington and its allies want a sovereign, stable Syria, or whether they prefer a shattered, cantonized carcass kept alive just enough for the next “asset” to feed on.

Kevork Almassian

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"How do you know you can trust what [a non-human intelligence is] saying?" ~Bigelow Bigelow/Knapp 2: If I Was President, I'd Tell the World We Have Non-Human Craft and Bodies "The President that took on the challenge of Disclosure and of confirmation...is gonna go down in history as having really accomplished something." ~Bigelow Do China and Russia also have non-human bodies and craft? "Oh yeah, freaking yes!" ~Bigelow ~ "You've opened up Pandora's box." ~Bigelow ~ 17:44 (I'm using the KLAS YT video for time stamps. As you'll see, I add a lot to these, so they take forever to put together.) George Knapp (GK): "Would you guess - based on what you know about the topic and how it's been handled over the decades - would you guess that [Trump] had been briefed, or that any other presidents have been briefed? You know that Bill Clinton was not, even though he expressed an interest in it. So at some point, the President has to be told, 'No, we can't tell ya.'" Robert Bigelow (RB): "I think Bush Sr. knew quite a bit because he was the head of the CIA." (Dr. Eric Davis says Bush. Sr. told him some interesting things, including that he (Bush) was partially briefed in 1976 about the alleged 1964 Holloman AFB landing and meeting, and more, when he first became the director of the CIA in 1976. Watch Davis explain it, here. ) ~ RB: "I think Nixon did." (We have the Jackie Gleason story, where Nixon allegedly snuck away from his Secret Service detail and took Gleason to see non-human bodies at Homestead Air Force Base. But that was a claim from his ex-wife, and Gleason, who died in 1987, never said anything about it, on the record. The controversial Larry Warren (Rendlesham) claims Gleason told him the same story, but that's it.) Bigelow: "I think Eisenhower did. So, it's kind of hit and miss over historic...over the period of history as to who has and who hasn't." 18:20 Knapp: "Can you tell us what would be in the briefing document that you left behind? Was it cases? Here's a wave of UFOs, here's a case, here was a crash. Anything like that?" Bigelow: "Yeah, I related conversations I have had with General De Brouwer, who was the chief of the Air Force for Belgium. And there was a very interesting flap that was about 18 months long (1989-1990) with triangular craft. And he was in command of all the Air Force, and he really chased the heck out of these. "And he told me, he said, Bob, 'I'm just burning fuel, and it makes no sense.' He said, 'We're gonna stop because we're not getting anywhere. All we're doing is getting closer, you know, photographs and things, but we're not getting anywhere. We're not getting any information that is really valuable for us to understand anything.'" (I wonder if those were OUR triangles? If so, it's still a solid case/flap of anomalous craft. Dick D'Amato was a longtime (18 years) senior staffer for Senate Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia.) "Dick D'Amato has returned from Belgium where he met with Colonel De Brouwer, a 'very interesting fellow.' Dick’s conclusion, again, is that the triangular objects are very plain human craft. ~Jacques Vallée's Forbidden Science Volume 4 - November 1992 And then we have this... Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell: "We hear about all these people on military bases seeing triangles, and you're doing this study, AAWSAP, to try to figure out the physics of how to do that. Do you think it's already been achieved by the U.S. government, or it hasn't, and that's why AAWSAP had a lot of value." Lacatski: "[three-second pause] It hasn't been achieved to its full extent." Video... ~~~ RB: "And I gave [Trump] other examples of where large amounts of witnesses were involved, and so that he could read about these particular [incidents]. And, of course, the one with Fife Simington in '97 was so interesting. Because there you had a governor who was an actual witness, and he made a joke of it on and brought a guy in an alien suit on stage because he was scared to death." GK: "It's the Phoenix Lights case." (Great case for Bigelow to show Trump.) RB: "The Phoenix Lights, which weren't just lights, it was actually friggin' craft, and it came from northern Arizona. I think it started, actually, in southern Nevada, is where the craft began. In the Henderson area (not far from me. ~Joe), I think, somewhere in there. And, so you see this huge triangular craft, gigantic craft, going slowly, and [Symington] was scared to death. "But finally, fast forward 10 years later, and he confesses that he was an eyewitness, but he didn't know what to do. So he was there at a point in time when the dynamic of disclosure could have been forced, and actually, confirmation could have been from a governor of the state like that. He was a credible guy. "So we've had many [incidents] like that in the early 50s, flying over the White House and the Capitol building. We've had so many of those. So, in my report, I included a lot of very dramatic, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt kind of witnesses of exhibitions." GK: "Did you share with him anything about your knowledge of a classified program?" RB: "No." GK: "You got a Top-Secret security clearance, right?" RB: "Yeah" GK: "It was for the AAWSAP program for BAASS." RB: "Right." GK: "Operated under the DIA." RB: "Yeah." GK: "You learned a lot during that program. It's the largest accumulation of UFO info. of any government-funded UFO program ever." RB: "Yeah." GK: "You didn't tell him about it." RB: "It wasn't credible enough, I felt, for him." (Someone on here watched this interview and told me that Bigelow said the AAWSAP data wasn't credible. That is NOT what he said. Not credible enough for Trump, is what he said. And if you read "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon" or listen any of Lacatki's interviews where he talks about UFOs being under a paranormal umbrella, I think Bigelow made the right decision for an 11-minute briefing for someone (Trump) who seems to be struggling (at least in public comments) with the reality of the basics.) RB: "[The AAWSAP data is] just something pertaining to me. And whereas, these other examples are historic, and they're in a lot of literature, they're very famous. The amount of witnesses were huge. We operated under a private situation with the Skinwalker Ranch, and he wouldn't relate to...well, we all had hitchhikers, we all took things home with us. You know, we all saw a lot of stuff. Whether it was at the ranch or where we lived, it didn't make any difference where in the United States we lived. We saw a lot of things, but that wouldn't be relevant for him to be able to relate to that, right?" GK: "Well." RB: "So, why talk about it?" GK: "Yeah, I mean, you know, you're kind of jumping into the deep end of the pool when you get into hitchhikers and skinwalkers." RB: "Yeah." GK: "Maybe for your first big conversation on this topic, that might not be the place to go." RB: "No, you know. And I couldn't even...if he said, 'Oh, I need a beer (Knapp laughs),' I couldn't even give him something to drink. You know, maybe stronger than that. So, I didn't wanna do any, you know." 22:15 GK: "You used the term non-human intelligence in the sentence you gave him. Hey, try this as you're climbing aboard Air Force One. Say that to media, and then, you know, close the door." RB: "Right." GK: "You said non-human intelligence, not ET. Are they the same, and did you share anything with him about what you think it is?" RB: "Well, there have been reports of humans on board, right? But the non-human are more interesting. I mean, if a human's on board and he or she has free reign of the craft, that's pretty damn interesting, right? And you don't know where those people are when they're not on board." (I wonder what cases he's talking about? Travis Walton reported seeing humans with non-humans and John Keel wrote about humans being seen onboard craft.) ~ Bigelow: "But the other ones are...some are scary, you know? It's not surprising, that, in the Universe, everything is [not] gonna look like us. Every intelligent organism is [not] going to look like us. But you have to have... It's also a matter of respect for any really intelligent animal or creature, whatever it is, right? And the more advanced, the more respect because you don't know what they know, and you don't know the future. And they may know. They may know more than just the now." (In interviews (which I can't find right now), Bigelow has hinted at an unstoppable, not-so-rosy future for mankind. Have people in the Legacy programs told him that the NHI have warned us about our doomed future or some cataclysmic event? Or, has Bigelow encountered these non-humans (or humans) and had them make claims about our future?) ~ 23:34 GK: "If you were to have a second conversation with him, would you explain that ET is one idea, but it's not necessarily the only option for a non-human intelligence that's out there?" RB: "You have to tell me first how much time do I have with the second conversation?" GK: "[laughs] Let's make it an hour. You have an hour with the President. What would you tell them about who they are, who they might be?" RB: "Umm... So, I would try to get into the complexity of the relationship. That once you've had confirmation, you know, you've given that text of that little sentence I wrote and quoted there, and you start to go down the path of disclosure, where it's more than than just FLIR videos, and you're seeing other things that are much more crystal clear, you know, in video. "Or, legitimate people in places that you recognize these people, and they're around something, or with some thing, or somebody that's a holy cow, that's wow, you know. That's a very dramatic kind of disclosure about something landing on the lawn somewhere, you know." (I have no idea what he's talking about. Anybody else able to decipher that? Is he saying that there's evidence (that he's seen?) of people that we know (a President or head of state?) hanging with a non-human or next to a downed or landed craft?) RB: "So I think what I would have spent time doing is talking about, how do you establish: You've been in 80 years of denial as a nation, and the world. We have countries who are very upfront, and others that are also in denial. Now you wanna pivot 180 degrees. How do you start that relationship? How do you do that? "And it's not as though that we've ever been in control. We haven't been in control of anything, ever, for this 80 years of modern history. Nothing. We have no ability to control anything." GK: "That's a tough thing to tell the President, right? I would think that would be a tough thing for a President to accept." RB: "Well, you're giving me an hour to talk to him, you said." GK: "[laughs] Yeah, okay." RB: "So I'm using my hour." GK: "All right." 25:46 RB:" So, yeah! So, that's a really intriguing thing is: How do you do that, where do you start? And into a relationship? And I would say more like, well, I would wanna start with, the biggest question I would ask, I would say, what I wanna get from them is... My first question is: What are the chances we are gonna survive ourselves? That we are not going to annihilate ourselves. "Because they already are familiar with a whole lot of other species on a lot of other worlds or other planets. So, chances are they have a pretty good idea of percentage." (That assumes a lot, since we have no idea how long they've been around, what they've seen, or where they're from. Unless...Mr. Bigelow has seen evidence that relates to those questions or heard it from folks who work in the Legacy programs?) RB: "And it's not that we're a spiritual species. You talk to people that have near-death experiences; they're changed for the rest of their life. They've become a spiritual person of a caliber that they've never been. "Well, we're a long way, as an average, from that category, from that level. There are monsters among us, as human beings, and they're angelic people among us. So we are a danger to another species, we're potentially the Klingons. We have a technological maturity that is not just going on a line, but it's vertical and it's segmented because it's jumping. "And meanwhile, our spiritual maturity just bumps along the bottom, you know? So, we look at the 20th century; 60 million people were killed. Are we ever gonna get beyond that? So, the thing of it is, we know so little about how to have a relationship. I'm not in any position to really advise, except for the few ideas I have as to where to start, and the how is really super important. 27:49 "It's not gonna be like a 'Close Encounter of the Third, Kind,' which was a really cool movie. And it's not gonna be because of SETI. You know, it's gonna be by some other kinds of means that you're embarking on. And I'm interested in that kind of research." 28:06 GK: "We go back to your meeting with the President. You walk into the Oval Office, they clear off the Resolute Desk, you spread out your seven piles of stuff, and you start making a presentation about each one, in particular about ET, non-human intelligence. You can't say what he said to you. Can you say whether he asked questions? Was he curious?" RB: "He was distracted by other things. So, he also asked me... He did ask questions, but he asked questions about other stuff that wasn't necessarily just on what I was talking about." GK: "He's getting your input on other things going on in the world." RB: "Yeah, yeah." 28:49 GK: "If you had to make a guess, would you guess that you got through to him on this issue? I mean, he hasn't stood in the doorway of Air Force One and made those remarks yet, but he has taken some pretty dramatic steps on this topic since you met with him. Do you think you made a dent?" RB: "Don't know. I advised him on something that I can measure, and he hasn't taken my advice so far on what I suggested to him, on a totally different, unrelated subject. But so far, he has not taken my advice." GK: Well, somebody seems to have got through to him, because he's been taking steps that we're seeing real results. I mean, people are either..." RB: "Well, I'm talking about an unrelated subject altogether. So, yes, there there are a couple of different task forces that are involved. So, there is an initiation of an activity in this subject, [but] it remains to be seen, though, that he gives actual presidential confirmation. I don't, I haven't... Maybe you're more aware than I am. Has that been...has he done that?" GK: "Not, not really. Nothing like what I'd call confirmation. But that's really what you're talking about. I remember us having a conversation in 2008, right after you had signed the contract with DIA for BAASS to run [AAWSAP]. And you made the case then that what we need is not Disclosure; it's confirmation." RB: "Yeah." 30:25 GK: "For somebody like the President, I'm not sure if it could be anyone less than the President that steps forward and says this, and it carries the same kind of weight." RB: "Yeah. It's a big appetizer. You know, you're looking for the entree, and where's the dessert in this whole buffet? But the confirmation is a huge appetizer to start with, and that's why I started with that in my conversation with him. Is, pushing him to try and make a confirmation. And maybe he wants to get personally more comfortable?" (I have said that I want the entire enchilada NOW, but I'm also a realist, and would take a simple confirmation that somebody else is on this planet with us. That SHOULD wake up the mainstream media and masses, but no guarantees since Trump is so controversial and people might just ignore it, IF he ever did it. I've also said that I'd surround him with people like Schumer, Rubio, Rounds and Gillibrand in order to show that it's bipartisan. And a few firsthand whistleblowers who say they worked hands on, IN one of these alleged Legacy UFO/UAP programs.) 30:57 Bigelow: "And, you know, he will go down in history for a lot of things, for better or worse, that people are on both sides of the fence about him and so forth. But he's involved in so many different things and has been, that I don't know what his legacy is gonna be, I really don't. "He has an opportunity, in this serious subject, to build a legacy using this as part of the blocks, part of the brick and the structure...the content of a structure that is very unique. So, you can have all the political programs that you want, and so forth, and nobody is gonna really remember those as time goes by, as the decades fade away. "Nobody can remember Benghazi and Afghanistan and Iraq, different kinds of things, and that's just recent history. You know, the world goes so fast. But the President that took on the challenge of Disclosure and of confirmation, and actually built a satisfactory conclusion of a relationship between human beings and that subject is gonna go down in history as having really accomplished something. And if it's handled right, it can be done successfully." (To me, it's a no brainer. His presidency would go down as one that changed the world and our species. Or course, I'm sure he has people in his ear telling him that confirmation would cause societal disruption that we're not prepared to handle, and that THAT would be his legacy.) (32:21) GK: "A lot of Presidents have made comments, often after they're out of office, on this topic. 'Yeah, gosh, I'm real interested in that.' Or, 'Wouldn't that be something?' Or, 'I think aliens could exist.' Something like that. But nothing like what you're talking about, which amounts to confirmation, saying, 'It's real. They're here. We gotta figure it out,' and stopping it there, not disclosing..." RB: "Well, the dialogue, the ability to learn something from them is huge. What can we do for you? I mean, that's where...one of the first things I would ask is, not just, are we going to survive ourselves? Yeah, that's pretty damn important. That's like, probably number one, you know? "But close behind that is: Okay, we've been aware of you for a long time, and the government's never admitted it. But us as a public, we know it, and we're really curious. Is there anything that we can do for you? Not just what can you do... I loved what John Kennedy, what he said famously: Don't ask what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. That huge. So that's giving them a kind of a respect that they deserve." (Do they deserve respect? I'm not so sure. It all depends on if they're upfront with us and tell us their true intentions. Of course, how do we know they're telling us the truth? Why have you (or some of you) been abducting us against our will, and injuring some of us? See Jim Semivan's abduction story with his wife. "I don't think [the phenomenon] cares whether it does harm. I think it may go out of its way not to do harm, but, if it does harm... "I had a hole in the back of my neck, and my wife...unexplained bleeding for 17 days." ~Former CIA Officer, Jim Semivan to Engaging The Phenomenon ~ 33:33 GK: "If you were President, would you announce that yes, we've got crash retrievals, yes, we have reverse engineering programs, and yes, we've got bodies?" RB: "Yeah, because the rest of the world already knows that. The people that count in Russia and China already know." GK: "Because they've got their own." RB: "Oh yeah, freaking yes! Yeah! They've had their missiles shut down, they've had their missiles activated. You know, depending on which country you're talking about." 33:56 GK: "Have you considered the political fallout for a President? Let's say it's Trump, because he might be the guy that would do it and just cast his fate to the winds. But, he makes an announcement: 'Yeah, they're here. Yeah, we've got programs. Yeah, we've got crashes, we've got bodies. That's as far as I'm able to go right now.' What happens to him, politically? Is he able to get anything else done?" RB: "That's more than I would have said, for him to say. What you just said." GK: "That goes too far." RB: "I wouldn't advise him to say, initially, what you just said." GK: "You just say, non-human intelligence, been here a long time, and leave it at that." RB: "Yeah, that one sentence is a starter because it's a huge canon. You've opened up Pandora's box, in terms of, 'Oh my gosh, what's gonna happen?' Okay. So now, you can categorize and segment into topics. And you need time to do that, and it needs to be digestible." ~ “I have met with people who I know are in the know. One of them told me the truth is indigestible.” ~Jim Semivan to James Iandoli ~ RB: "And it needs to be not packaged in a scary kind of way, and it can't be packaged in a way that you're divulging what you shouldn't be divulging. You know, other countries aren't, so there's reasons to have national secrets. There really are. I mean, that's kind of like common sense, right?" (Well, David Grusch claimed that some other countries aren't divulging for a specific reason." Grusch on Yes Theory: "So there are certainly friendly governments, both across the pond and say, local to where we...our landmass, that are for this. And a lot of them know that they got a raw deal with the U.S. because they were, basically, part of the secrecy, through kind of agreements like, bilateral, unilateral agreements. And they're like, you know, they kind of wanna be, 'Release me!' Like, you know, because they they do realize it was a bad deal. "With the ecosystem secrecy, some people, one of their arguments is like, 'Well how would they keep the secret?' I'm, like dude, I was cleared to some of the most nation's most sensitive programs, I used to handle the PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing). You know, I had full access to most DoD activities. And most of the stuff, BROAD programs that were enduring, have NEVER leaked. "So the U.S. and its allies are very good at keeping secrecies, to include programs that are, let's say, global in nature. And really, it's been leaking like a sieve in some weird way for many decades. Now it's been mixed in with some BS in ufology and stuff, but the general gist of it's actually been out there for a long time. It has been leaking in some sense, so." ~ 35:06 GK: "We don't want the Russians and Chinese and maybe other adversaries to know how far along we are, or are not, in configuring this out." RB: "Absolutely. Especially of that. I think that the relationship (with he phenomenon) thing is a mankind relationship. It's not just for America. When you are embarking as a President on trying to initiate a solemn relationship, you're not doing for U.S. of A. only. "And so, the...and then we probably can do a show on communication (with a non-human intelligence), but it's really complex because, who are you going to have initiate it? Are you going to have politicians initiate? Are you going to have military people? Because everybody has kind of their own mindset. Are you gonna have a bunch of lawyers initiate it? Are you gonna have scientists only, initiate it? (And what if we're dealing with more than one non-human intelligence? Who do we communicate with? And what if it's one intelligence pretended to be multiple? How would we even figure that out?) "[Hynek] cited the 'poltergeist' phenomena experienced by some...after a close encounter; the fact that some witnesses develop psychic abilities after an encounter. 'Do we have two aspects of one phenomenon or two different sets of phenomena?'" ~J. Allen Hynek ~ RB: "And how do you know to whom you're talking? You know, how do you know you can trust what they're saying?" (I'm so glad he said that. We don't, and we don't.) RB: "Because it depends on the form of communication, and what are you asking for in the way of proof or demonstrations to establish trust, both ways, in the communication process?" "Because, we haven't had that happen before. It is totally new ground, and frankly, we need The Others' help. We need the help of The Others to help, to guide us." (Firs off, it MAY have happened within these Legacy programs. And, if we don't know who we're talking to, or if we can trust them, why would we enlist the help of The Others? Doesn't seem to make sense to me.)

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