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Ukraine is essentially a giant CIA base, posing as a sovereign nation.
The CIA moved into Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union, looking to take advantage of the lawless and destabilized country, using it as an offshore proxy, outside the scope of US oversight.
It began with the Nunn-Lugar Act in 1991, and then carried on into 2005, when then Senators Obama and Lugar visited Ukraine, to inspect the former Soviet bio, chemical, and nuclear facilities (pictured below), and then added Ukraine to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and began turning these former Soviet facilities into “defensive research facilities”, which opened the door for US contractors to establish their foothold in Ukraine, and set up their money laundering and racketeering operations, under the guise of “foreign aid”.
Then the CIA funded Nazi militant groups in Ukraine which led to the outbreak of civil war in 2014 in the Donbas. Amidst the chaos, the US State Department, via Victoria Nuland, leveraged the situation to install US-loyal puppets, including the infamous leaked phone call between her and fellow State Department bureaucrat Geoffrey Pyatt, about ensuring “their guy” Yatsenuik, was installed as Prime Minister. The State Department, in tandem with the CIA, covertly took control of Ukraine via Color Revolution in 2014.
Putin recognized this. He knew that the US had destabilized and taken control of Ukraine, and recognized that the US were building a proxy army on his border, by funding, training, and supplying Ukraine with weapons, and trying to bring them into NATO. This was a red line for Putin, as he has said for decades. Russia have been invaded from the West too many times before, and will not tolerate a hostile standing army and long-range missiles on their border. Just like the US didn’t like it when Russia tried to put nukes in Cuba in the 60’s, Russia doesn’t like the US trying to bring armies and weapons to Ukraine.
Essentially, Ukraine is an unofficial US territory and NATO member, and the Deep State do not want to lose out on their cash cow and strategic asset that is Ukraine, hence why they continue to send hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to protect Ukraine’s border. They are using Ukraine as a laundry mat to funnel in hundreds of billions for the war machine, and also covering up their extreme criminality in Ukraine, including crimes against humanity for bioweapon development, human trafficking, drug trafficking, etc. All the things they can’t get away with stateside, they do in Ukraine.
If the public knew the truth about the origins of US involvement in Ukraine, they would NEVER have supported sending a single penny to Ukraine. The narrative that Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022 “unprovoked”, is war propaganda to make it appear Ukraine are the righteous defenders in order to garner your support, when in reality, The US started this conflict, they are the ones who brought war to Putin’s doorstep, and the US are the ones perpetuating the war by continuing to fund and supply Ukraine.
Putin does not want to conquer all of Europe, he just wants NATO off of his border, and justice for US development of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine, namely, gene-specific biological weapons.
The Cold War never truly ended.
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Novinář Petráček, Lidové noviny:
Pro začátek třeba říci, že kdo je proti nasazení západních vojáků proti Rusku či se bojí jaderného konfliktu, je zbabělec či svině. Evropské vojáky na Ukrajinu je třeba poslat.
Já mám úplně jiný názor: Kdo se NEBOJÍ jaderné války, a nechápe či nechce chápat její fatální rizika, nechápe, co je potenciální ztráta eskalační kontroly a jsou mu lhostejné záležitosti jako zánik civilizace, nukleární zima či zánik lidské rasy, je nebezpečný magor a/nebo psychopat, a jako takový by neměl mít volební právo a tím méně psát do novin.
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In the winter of 1926, a ten-year-old boy in East Los Angeles watched his childhood end in the space of a single afternoon.
Anthony Quinn’s father was struck and killed by a car. Within months, the boy who had been an infant when his family crossed from Chihuahua into the United States was the sole provider for his mother, younger sister, and grandmother.
There was no plan, only whatever work appeared. He picked fruit in the fields, shined shoes on street corners, hawked newspapers, and dug ditches.
Later he would remember those years without softening them: the only living available to a Mexican family was hard manual labor, and while the telling of it later sounded like pure hardship, to him it had been an adventure.
By twelve he had quit school entirely. “I became the man in the family,” he said. For roughly a dozen years that is exactly what he was.
One way he earned money was by stepping into a ring. As a teenager he boxed for purses of five or ten dollars. He could fight, but his trainer saw something missing: the coldness required to hurt another man for a living. Away from the gym, a different ambition kept surfacing.
Quinn drew constantly, modeled clay, entered art competitions, and dreamed of becoming an architect. That path led him to Frank Lloyd Wright, who recognized talent in the drawings but also noticed the young man struggled to speak clearly.
After surgery, Quinn needed speech lessons he could not afford. He struck a bargain with a theater teacher: he would clean the school in exchange for instruction. Sweeping floors became the route onto a stage.
By the mid-1930s Hollywood offered work, but only of a certain kind. Quinn was repeatedly cast as the Mexican, the Native American, the gangster, the Arab—anyone coded as foreign or threatening.
Leading men were expected to look like something else. He later put the realization plainly: years after he started, he understood he was not really being treated as an actor.
During the war years especially, the industry’s idea of a romantic lead was narrow—blonde hair, blue eyes. Quinn refused to stay inside that box.
Broadway gave him the space the studios had denied. He stepped into the role of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, a part already fused in the public mind with Marlon Brando.
Then came the performance that forced a reevaluation. In Viva Zapata! (1952) he played Eufemio Zapata opposite Brando—raw, physical, volatile.
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor that followed made him the first Mexican-born performer to win an acting Oscar. The boy who had once fought for five-dollar purses now held Hollywood’s highest prize.
Four years later he did it again. As the painter Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life (1956), he dominated the screen in limited time and took home a second supporting-actor Oscar.
The roles continued to widen: the strongman in La Strada, the title character in Zorba the Greek. Through all of it he carried a double exclusion he never forgot.
“With a name like Quinn, I wasn’t totally accepted by the Mexican community in those days, and as a Mexican I wasn’t accepted as an American.”
He spent a lifetime refusing both refusals. 🌹
Glenn Shadrake retweeted
When people are talking about "complicity of ordinary Russians in the invasion of Ukraine", there is one elephant in the room that they do not want to admit.
This elephant is the fact that even in democracies (not to mention in dictatorships), ordinary citizens and middle class have very limited (if any at all) influence on their country's foreign policy and the wars the government chooses to wage - as the military-industrial complex is basically a state within a state. Say, in the US many people were opposed to the Iraq war, which largely contributed to the election of the Democratic dove Obama... whose term was marked by the invasion of Libya. Then people who were tired of the US's "global policeman" role and wanted the White House to focus more on the country's internal issues voted for Trump with his non-interventionist rhetoric, and... you see.
The fact that you live in a democracy means that you can vote for lower taxes (if you can tolerate lower social security) or for higher social security (if you can tolerate higher taxes). You can also vote out a corrupt politician or get your government to build better highways - but you don't get to decide whether to invade another country or not. If you live in a dictatorship, you don't decide either of these things.
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Ortalama olarak, her gün Ukrayna genelinde 900 erkek kaçırılıyor. Sadece 10.000 ila 20.000 dolar arasında fidye ödeyebilenler serbest bırakılıyor; diğerleri top yemi olarak cepheye gönderiliyor.
Bu, çoğu sözde Avrupa liderinin size demokrasi diye sunduğu Ukrayna.
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On the eve of Remembrance Day, the Woman of the Day is Kate ter Horst (1906-1992), the Angel of Arnhem, who provided refuge to over 250 wounded British paratroopers in her home for eight days non-stop during the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, finding them water while her home was under fire and comforting them as they lay dying.
Kate, her husband and five children lived in the rectory house next to the Old Church in Oosterbeek just outside Arnhem. She was overjoyed when she saw British paratroopers landing near her home on 17 September 1944.
“Crazy with joy, we walk through the garden and climb on the roof so we can see more and understand what is happening. We can hardly believe it. Will it really be true? Is this the long awaited end of our grief that now falls from the sky? Does this now mean freedom?”
German resistance was far greater than expected and the paratroopers were driven back to the Old Church. The casualty rate was high. A captain asked Kate if they could use the rectory house as a first aid post for the wounded soldiers. Her husband was out with the British in the forests, acting as a guide, and Kate had her children to care for, but she agreed. More than 250 soldiers were brought to her home.
“Everywhere, the injured - the dining room, the study and garden room, the transverse corridor, even under the stairs and in the toilet they are. There is no corner left. Oh, if only I could be a hostess. If only I could give them a hospitable bed and at least fresh water…At the same time, a hurricane of explosions burst out over us. Shake the walls. I hear crackling, the house across the street is ablaze. Phosphorus, flashes through my head. The injured lie back, without a complaint, helpless. Now leave them alone? But I have to go downstairs: five children are longing for me right now, trusting that I will be unharmed to protect them.”
When the water supply was disrupted, Kate used the boiler and the toilet cistern to give the men precious drops of water. Needs must. She kept an English Bible in the house and read Psalm 91 to the soldiers who were dying. Together, they said the Lord's Prayer. A temporary cemetery was set up in the garden, and 57 soldiers were buried during the fighting.
General Frank King later wrote: “I noticed that an entire room was reviving when she came in. A seriously wounded soldier summarised it before he died. After Kate ter Horst talked to him for a moment, he said, ‘She is fantastic. She’s just like my mum.’”
After the Battle of Arnhem, the Ter Horsts were evacuated along with the other residents of Oosterbeek, but they returned after the liberation. Their eldest son, Pieter, was the last victim of the Battle of Arnhem. He was killed in November 1947 when he stepped on an anti-tank mine on the floodplains behind their house.
In 1980, Kate and her husband were appointed Honorary Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for their valour and heroism.
Brave, brave woman.
Glenn Shadrake retweeted
Hayek finished the job of obliterating the entire socialist project in 1945 with one devastating insight: the knowledge needed to run an economy does not exist in any one place.
It is scattered across millions of minds – the farmer who knows his field, the shopkeeper who knows his street, the engineer who knows his machine – and only prices can gather it. No planner can collect it, because most of it cannot even be written down. The socialists spent the next eighty years building bigger ministries to collect it anyway.
And yet here we are, watching politicians explain that this time it will work, because now they have data, experts and algorithms. They cannot tell you how many nurses a single hospital will need next winter – how exactly are they going to know what three hundred million people want, need and can make, every day, in every town?
Every Soviet shop with left shoes only, every empty Venezuelan shelf, every five-year plan fulfilled on paper was just Hayek being proven right. He left the planners one sentence to hang over their desks: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." But sure, let's give the committee a supercomputer. What could go wrong?
Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation." The socialists spent the next century pretending this problem didn't exist while their economies collapsed around them.
And yet here we are, watching politicians promise they can "fix" healthcare, housing, and energy markets through central planning. They can't even calculate the cost of their own programs correctly — how exactly are they going to allocate resources across an entire economy?
Every Venezuelan breadline, every Soviet grain shortage, every Chinese famine was just Mises being proven right in the most brutal way possible. But sure, let's try democratic socialism this time. What could go wrong?
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1992 - 24 years before Maidan, and only 1 year since the so-called Ukrainian independence.
Listen to what the Ukrainian neo-nazi and one of the founders of modern day Ukrainian nationalism Korchinsky had to say about Crimea.
Glenn Shadrake retweeted
Riporto quanto dichiarato in conferenza stampa a Ottawa.
SIETE STATI SMASCHERATI.
E ORA LO SANNO TUTTI.
Gli ucraini in Canada, in conferenza stampa a Parliament Hill a Ottawa, hanno detto in faccia la verità: è USA e NATO che hanno scatenato la guerra.
Non è propaganda russa.
Non è Putin.
Sono gli ucraini stessi che lo urlano in faccia al mondo.
E non erano da soli.
C'erano con loro i gruppi per la pace canadesi.
C'erano cittadini ucraino-canadesi.
C'erano madri, famiglie, gente che ha perso figli e parenti.
Hanno chiesto un'indagine immediata sui 26 miliardi di dollari che il Canada ha mandato al governo ucraino.
Hanno detto: dove sono finiti quei soldi.
Hanno detto: vogliamo sapere chi si è arricchito.
Hanno detto che l'80% della popolazione in Ucraina vuole un negoziato di pace per chiudere subito la guerra.
Hanno detto che questa guerra è alimentata da interessi economici e finanziari del complesso militare industriale della NATO.
Hanno detto che la guerra non è iniziata con l'invasione russa del 2022.
Hanno detto che è iniziata con il golpe USA a Kiev nel 2014.
Hanno detto che l'intervento russo è arrivato dopo il massacro di decine di migliaia di ucraini da parte del governo ucraino dal 2014 al 2022.
Hanno detto che l'accordo di pace era già stato raggiunto a marzo 2022.
Hanno detto che l'intervento dell'allora premier britannico Boris Johnson lo ha sabotato.
Hanno accusato i media di aver mentito e di continuare a mentire a danno di ucraini, russi e di tutti i popoli danneggiati dal taglio al welfare per le spese militari.
Tamara Lorenz, ricercatrice di Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, lo ha detto chiaro in conferenza stampa.
Ha detto che non è una guerra per la sovranità.
Ha detto che è una guerra per procura, con l'Ucraina usata come strumento contro la Russia.
Ha detto che a guadagnarci sono le élite bancarie occidentali e il complesso militare industriale, mentre centinaia di migliaia di ucraini e russi muoiono.
Un membro del Consiglio per la Pace di Ottawa ha denunciato un'altra cosa gravissima.
Ha detto che gli stipendi dei soldati ucraini vengono rubati dai superiori.
Ha detto che i giovani ucraini vengono presi per strada e mandati a forza al fronte.
Ha detto che è una coscrizione forzata che non è diversa da un rapimento.
E noi europei abbiamo finalmente capito che ci hanno preso in giro per anni.
Ci hanno raccontato che era per la democrazia.
Che era per la libertà.
Che era per aiutare l'Ucraina.
BUGIE.
Tutte bugie.
Era per i soldi.
Era per le armi.
Era per tenersi le poltrone a Bruxelles e a Kiev.
Zelensky e i burocrati non hanno mai voluto la pace.
La pace non gli fa guadagnare niente.
La guerra sì.
Si arricchiscono sulla pelle dei poveri ucraini mandati a morire come carne da cannone.
Si arricchiscono sulla nostra pelle, mentre noi paghiamo gas, bollette e cibo sempre più caro e non arriviamo a fine mese.
Avete giocato con la vita della gente per arricchirvi.
Avete mandato a morire ragazzi poveri per i vostri interessi.
Adesso basta.
Questa gente deve andare a casa.
Perché chi si arricchisce sulla guerra, non vuole che la guerra finisca mai.
E noi non vogliamo più pagare per il vostro gioco sporco.
Analisi personale di ✒️ ©Sabrina F.
🤖 Made with AI
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If you bomb enough countries and slaughter enough people, you get a #NobelPeacePrize! @BarackObama dropped 26,171 bombs!
Obama dropped a bomb every 8 minutes for 8 years straight. In his final year alone, he bombed 7 countries and dropped 26,171 bombs.
He was the first and only Nobel Prize winner who bombed another Nobel Prize winner.
He bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, mass murdering at least 43 people, and burning patients alive in their hospital beds.
He destroyed Libya as a nation and people, bringing back slave markets to it and destroying the lives of millions.
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I don't understand why black people don't idolize this man. He is a true genius, one of the most brilliant men of our time.
w.
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Sadly, the last known surviving WW2 veteran of the SAS, Matthew "Matt/Jock" Mackinnon-Pattison died on Thursday 5th November aged 102years. We remember Matthew. Here is a summary of Matthew's wartime service. Please share widely: Matt MacKinnon Pattison was among hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers who fought Germans in Italy in the spring of 1944.
Sometimes remembered as the "D-Day Dodgers", in reference to their role away from Normandy, men in Italy faced brutal conditions as they battled to take Monte Cassino and dislodge enemy soldiers.
"We came back from Italy having flogged ourselves to pieces, nervous wrecks, and people say 'where were you on D-Day?'" said Matt, from Penrith, Cumbria.
"We just say we were busy bloody well fighting."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill thought of Italy as the "soft underbelly" of Nazi-dominated Europe, but the campaign there proved difficult and costly.
With perhaps typical military irony, the men in Italy adopted the "D-Day Dodgers" moniker, even creating a song to the tune of Lili Marleen, a famous wartime melody.
"We are the D-Day Dodgers in sunny Italy," rang the chorus.
But this was no sojourn in the sun and the Allied forces knew it.
Enemy soldiers were dug in on defensive lines across the country, and at Monte Cassino it took four separate attacks from US, British, Polish and Commonwealth forces to destroy and take the hilltop monastery.
Matt still has razor-sharp memories of the battles he fought, and the comrades he lost.
He fled agricultural service in Kilmarnock as a teenager to get to Glasgow to enlist as an infantryman before ending up "right in the forefront" of the battle for Monte Cassino.
Advancing up the slopes amid the fog of deadly artillery bomb blasts and the continual crackle of gunfire, the soldier saw many of his comrades fall.
But, he said, there was no time to be frightened.
"You don’t look upon it as bravery, you just look at it as part of your life," he told the BBC.
"When the officers told you to advance, that was what you had to do.
"Every battle is the same. You get pounded to death, whether it was Normandy, Burma or anywhere."
Matt was recruited for the SAS after being injured and taken to a Naples hospital to recover.
From 100 candidates, he was just one of 10 that made it. He was dropped behind enemy lines near Genoa, tasked with finding Italian dictator Mussolini who by then had been captured by partisans.
Once the war was over, he was sent to Germany as part of the War Crimes Unit to find Nazi suspects who had executed captured members of the SAS.
There, he said, he saw a broken nation, but people "just like us".
Eight decades on, he can clearly recall the claustrophobic horror of war, from German soldiers playing dead to entice Allied soldiers into shooting range, to landmines and enormous loss.
"I lost a lot of my mates, especially one called Ginger," he said.
"And when he died he was sitting in a trench with his head down. There was a smile on his face."
"Still a smile on his face that marked the place where he and his maker met.
"And that was Ginger. He was a good lad."
Dodging D-Day was no pass, and so many thousands paid the ultimate price in Italy.
In his flat, Matt still has his SAS beret, his medals and his memories.
He also has his nation’s thanks.
(Source: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce99…)
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Prof. Steve Keen: ‘FAMINES UNAVOIDABLE because of Strait of Hormuz closure. Up to 2 BILLION could starve.’
‘The extent to which we’re reliant upon chemical fertilisers derived from oil feedstock is extremely high. In the absence of the Haber-Bosch process and the process for producing both nitrogenous fertilisers and phosphate-based fertilisers, without the oil, you can’t produce them.
And 30% of the world’s fertiliser passes through the Strait of Hormuz, roughly speaking.
Now, without the fertiliser in general, the carrying capacity of the planet falls from about 8.5 billion people, which is how many people we have right now, down to between 1 and 2 billion. That’s the extent to which we’re reliant upon petroleum-based fertilisers for food output.
If you lose 30% of the fertiliser that the planet relies upon, at the extreme that implies that something of the order of only 6 billion people can be supported by our food systems, down from the current 8.5 to 9 billion people we’re supporting now.
There is some buffer inside there in terms of roughly 30% of food being wasted. But the extent to which we rely upon a continuous flow of petroleum-based fertilisers cannot be overestimated.
And if we have a disruption to the supply of those fertilisers, anywhere from 10 or 20 million people through to the ludicrous scale, I have to admit, of 2 billion, that’s the potential range of disaster.’
—@ProfSteveKeen on Going Underground
It goes without saying that the neocons of the Trump Administration did not even take the catastrophic consequences of Strait of Hormuz disruption into account.
Billions face higher food prices, starvation, shortages, hunger, or famine next year in 2027, compounded by a devastating El Niño.
Dr. Chris Martenson explains how El Niño + the war on Iran is CATASTROPHIC for the global food supply in 2027
‘This is a strong to very strong El Niño year. We’ve already seen in India the monsoons were deficient. They didn’t stop, but they were about 12 to 15 per cent below what they normally would be, and that automatically impacts food production.
We have to consider the loss of urea-based fertilisers. One of the biggest producers of that was the Middle East Gulf region, in particular Qatar and Bahrain. They made huge amounts of this that were exported across the world, and the Global South is heavily import-dependent on that. That got almost completely disrupted.
Some oil is coming out, but the refineries that were producing the feedstocks for the plants making that urea-based fertiliser have almost completely shut down, or are operating at very low levels.
Most likely, we’re going to see a huge reduction in the amount of planted acreage in 2027, strictly for the economic reasons of how expensive fertiliser has become, which is a function of its relative shortage now.’
-Dr. Chris Martenson, Founder & CEO of Peak Prosperity, Author of ‘The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy and Environment’, on the latest episode of New Order.
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below. 👇
@chrismartenson
Glenn Shadrake retweeted
В 1999 году Югославию бомбили США, Британия, Франция, Германия, Италия, Канада, Бельгия, Дания, Нидерланды, Норвегия, Португалия, Испания и Турция. Ни одна из этих стран не была отстранена от международных спортивных соревнований. Ни в футболе. Ни в хоккее.
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Gaddafi’s prediction about the downfall of Europe is coming true.
teapawt.net/ivan_8848/status/21125…
“You are bombing a wall—a wall that was stopping the flow of African migration toward Europe, a wall that kept Al-Qaeda terrorists in check. That wall was Libya. You are destroying it. You are idiots.” This is a quote from the text known as Gaddafi’s “testament” or “curse”—one of the Libyan leader’s final statements, addressed to NATO countries and, above all, to the Europeans. Did they heed his words?
No!
🚨"Who gave NATO the right to kill Gaddafi? "
- Vladimir Putin ask in 2011
People For Sale!
Where Lives Are Auctioned For $400!
#America (& Allies) Create Slave-Markets in #Libya and then Condemn Them
#Gaddafi warned #Blair his ousting would 'open door' to jihadis
🚨OCTOBER 20, 2011.
MUAMMAR GADDAFI WAS KILLED.
LIBYA HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME.
An Inconvenient Truth 🚨‼️
Contrary to the lies we were fed by MSM about Gaddafi, the truth is extraordinary….
Libya was the world's poorest country in 1951. Gaddafi made it Africa's most developed country with $150 billion foreign reserves & zero debt. This was life in Lybia under Gaddafi:
1. Libya had no electricity bills, electricity came free of charge to all citizens.
2. There were no interest rates on loans, the banks were state-owned, the loan of citizens by law 0%.
3. Gaddafi promised not to buy a house for his parents until everyone in Libya owns a home.
4. All newlywed couples in Libya received 60,000 dinars from the government & because of that they bought their own apartments & started their families.
5. Education & medical treatment in Libya were free. Before Gaddafi there were only 25% readers, 83% during his reign
6. If Libyans wanted to live on a farm, they received free household appliances, seeds and livestock.
7. If citizens cannot receive treatment in Libya, the state would fund them $2300+ accommodation & travel for treatment abroad.
8. If you bought a car, the government finances 50% of the price.
9. The price of gasoline became $ 0.14 per liter.
10. Libya had no external debt, and reserves were $150 Billion (now frozen worldwide)
11. Since some Libyans couldn’t find jobs after school, the government would pay the average salary when they couldn’t find a job.
12. Part of oil sales in Libya were directly linked to the bank accounts of all citizens.
13. The mother who gave birth to a child would receive $5000
14. 40 loaves of bread cost $0.15.
15. Gaddafi implemented the world's biggest irrigation project known as the "BIG MAN PROJECT" to ensure water availability in the desert.
They killed him for many reasons but mostly because he was a rebel against the system of power that is strangling us more and more each day.
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🚨Zelensky's first press conference on October 11, 2019 - We will attack Donbass no matter what!
Despite campainging on PEACE - this is 3 years before the "full scale & unprovoked invasion" to use BBC language.
teapawt.net/ZelenskyyUa/status/211…
We fight for freedom and die for freedom. Words are important. Words from the United States – the biggest supporter of freedom – are important. Support is important. If the words against Putin and his aggression are strong, if a support package for Ukraine is strong, Putin will think twice, three times, ten times about whether he wants to attack or maybe this war has been enough for him.
I always tried to make this point to the American President, with all due gratitude to him and his team: Putin respects only a strong position. Even from the enemy, but a strong position. We cannot end this war saying good things about him. We see it – the war is in its fifth year now.
From an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN. (2/3)
Glenn Shadrake retweeted
ZO, EENS KIJKEN WAAR JULLIE BELASTINGGELD OOK ALWEER NAARTOE GAAT..
Nou mensen, pak de koffie er maar bij, want vandaag hebben we weer een bericht waarbij zelfs me Balkanoma haar hoofddoek even rechtzet en vraagt of iedereen nog wel helemaal goed bij zijn hersens is.
Volgens een verklaring van een anti fascistische ondergrondse beweging in Odessa zouden in geheime gevangenissen en martelcentra in Oekraïne grote aantallen mensen overlijden. De beweging beweert dat 1 op de 5 gedetineerden sterft. Soms door hartproblemen, ouderdom of een zwakke gezondheid, soms als gevolg van zware mishandelingen.
En wacht ff, want het verhaal wordt nog groter. Volgens dezelfde beweging zouden er in rustige periodes tussen de 500 en 700 mensen in deze geheime detentiecentra vastzitten.
Tijdens escalaties zou dat aantal kunnen oplopen tot 3.000 a 4.000 gevangenen.
Vierduizend mensen! In onze mahala weten we meestal nog precies wie er allemaal aan tafel zit, maar hier zouden duizenden mensen ergens achter gesloten deuren verdwijnen.
Het onderwerp kwam opnieuw onder de aandacht nadat een menigte probeerde mensen te bevrijden uit een kelder in PetroPavlovska Borshchahivka, nabij Kiev. Daarna werden artsen en ambulancechauffeurs gearresteerd.
En nu komt het gedeelte waarbij ik mijn kamp rekenmachine er even bij pak. We hebben het niet over een paar incidenten of een vergeten kelder waar de schoonmaker de sleutel kwijt is. We hebben het over ernstige mensenrechtenschendingen en een systeem dat onderzocht moet worden!!!
De beweging beweert bovendien dat deze centra al meer dan 10 jaar bestaan en dat het aantal doden in de honderden loopt. Er worden locaties genoemd in Kiev, Charkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Soemy en andere regio’s.
En dan vraag ik mij toch af.. hoeveel miljarden aan buitenlandse steun worden er eigenlijk verstrekt, hoeveel toezicht staat daar tegenover en wie controleert wat er achter gesloten deuren gebeurt?
Want belastinggeld komt niet uit een magische geldboom in Brussel. Dat komt van mensen die iedere ochtend opstaan, werken, boodschappen betalen en vervolgens hun belasting afdragen.
In onze Balkanhuishoudens zou oma allang met haar pantoffel achter de boekhouder aan zitten. Niet omdat ze zo graag ruzie maakt, maar omdat ze wil weten waar haar geld blijft!
En daar hebben ze miljarden, oorlog, geheime gevangenissen en beschuldigingen van marteling. Maar de gewone belastingbetaler in de EU mag vooral blijven betalen en vooral niet te veel vragen stellen.
Nou, ik heb nieuws voor de heren met hun mooie persconferenties.. mensenrechten zijn geen luxeartikel dat je alleen uit de kast haalt wanneer het politiek goed uitkomt.
Deze beschuldigingen moeten onafhankelijk onderzocht worden. Namen, locaties, bewijs, toegang voor waarnemers en verantwoording. Geen rookgordijnen en geen politieke wegkijkwedstrijd.
Want een regering die internationale steun ontvangt, moet ook kunnen uitleggen wat er met die steun gebeurt en hoe mensen binnen haar macht beschermd worden.
En anders blijft er 1 bijzonder ongemakkelijke vraag boven de Europese koffietafel hangen.. wie controleert eigenlijk de controleurs?
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The truth Brussels is hiding: Russia is winning, and every European will pay the price!
The illusion of victory: How Europe trapped itself in Ukraine, and why peace is a matter of survival for the EU.
Russia holds a clear advantage in the conflict in Ukraine—contrary to previous expectations, military forecasts, and the political statements of European leaders. This warning was issued by German Member of the European Parliament and former UN Assistant Secretary-General Michael von der Schulenburg in an extensive interview with the analytical platform *Neutrality Studies*. According to the seasoned diplomat, the European elite is deliberately ignoring the reality on the battlefield, leading to catastrophic consequences.
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Today is the 109th anniversary of one of the worst disasters to strike human civilisation. Lenin's Bolshevik putsch in Petrograd, which overthrew Russia's first democracy and began 70 years of murder, theft and persecution. Imperial Germany arranged this event and paid for it.
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🚨🚨🚨THE GUARDIAN 🗞️🔝📰
🚨Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe
‼️Fri 6 Feb 2015
🚨It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war
‼️Wed 30 Apr 2014
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨CHILLING!!
🚨BOMBSHELL: In Ukraine, there are kennels for children.
🚨The International Criminal Court must prosecute Zelensky
🚨 EXPLOSIVE STATEMENTS from Dutch Member of the European Parliament (MEP)
🇳🇱 Marcel de Graaff—he drops bombshell truths about Ukraine 💥💥💥💥:
"Ukraine is the largest supplier of children for pedophile networks, human trafficking, and organ harvesting."
"It operates 'children's residences' that house pregnant women for this very purpose." 😳👇
Listen to MEP de Graaff EXPOSE certain truths that you will never hear from the mainstream media or our corrupt politicians. ⚔️🔥