tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10290335340325497782024-03-04T20:39:06.997-08:00Paradigm Shifts and PoliticsVisions, dreams, reflections, musings and ponderings on world events and in the U.S.... seeking a perspective on shifting paradigms globally.
Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-67448817222319689972024-02-08T06:30:00.000-08:002024-02-08T06:30:13.857-08:00Intervention #2 Transmission: WARNING<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">7:05 a.m. Thursday, February 8, 2024</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Transmission Received and Recorded by Ariel Ky,
Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I received a signal twice that woke me up, a bright
yellow donut, quite intense golden yellow light edged in orange. It faded and
then pulsed again, urging me to wake up and prepare for another transmission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So here I am, sitting with pen and notebook. I just
drank a glass of water, as instructed telepathically. I have also been told to
breathe. I’m not feeling well; this energy is fluid and intense. A train just
whistled by.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s begin. Keep breathing. This is difficult to keep
open in telepathic receptivity with us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oaky, what we are seeing is a great disturbance in the
energy field on your planet. An imminent attack on U.S. bases in the Middle
East is about to happen or has already occurred.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The United States military’s shocked reflex is to drop
nuclear bombs on Iran, Yemen, and Syria. This could happen today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The intervention we have been staging is kicking into
high gear because of the urgency of the moment. Frankly, if the United States
retaliates with nuclear weapons, Russia will retaliate with hypersonic nuclear
weapons that will hit the U.S. within minutes. 2.5 minutes to be precise,
targeting Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Tallahassee, Los Angeles,
Denver, Norad in Colorado Springs, all U.S. military bases, THAAD, Alaska’s
experimental array, all U.S. aircraft carriers, submarines, allied naval bases
in S. Korea, Okinawa, and all over the world where the U.S. has the capacity to
respond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Russia will win the nuclear war in a flash. And just
like that, the lives of billions of people will end, and U.S. military capacity
destroyed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We do not know if all life on the planet will be
eliminated, but the ensuing nuclear winter will kill billions more. Most, if
not all, people will die. Untold numbers of trees, fish, animals, plants, all
the whales and most life in the oceans will also die. Oceans and rivers will
evaporate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It could happen today. It may be only minutes or hours
away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We have chosen you to broadcast our message. This is a
warning, and it must be taken seriously. We also bring a message of hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a test. Has humanity evolved sufficiently to
counter this threat? If so, now is the time for collective prayer across the
world. If there was ever a greater time to coalesce, that time is now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For the percentage of people who are not in the habit
of prayer, asking for help from interplanetary beings works, too. Either way,
if we receive a strong enough signal from all corners of the globe to
intervene, we will.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We can stop this madness. It is easier to impact the
subtle energetics of synapses firing in the brain than stopping a hypersonic
missile. We can stop a heart from beating in a nanosecond. We can stop the body
from breathing. However, usually we can redirect signals in the brain, so the decision-maker
suddenly sees the full consequences of an attack. If fear has clouded their
mind or insanity has taken hold, the more delicate approaches may fail. If
necessary, we can interrupt the life forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We may also manipulate the weather, causing great
storms and flooding, killing cold, scorching heat, earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, fires, and mud slides. Great numbers of people will die, but the Earth
will survive. Humanity will endure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What happens next depends on you, all of you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">End of transmission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-75237623573406827752024-02-06T05:32:00.000-08:002024-02-06T05:37:34.359-08:00INTERVENTION<p>If humanity is to survive the destructive wars it is
currently engaging in and planning, it has been decided that an interplanetary
intervention is called for. Although the matter of free will has stayed
our hand until now, there is a growing call for assistance from awakened
multidimensional beings on Earth who remember and are aware of their off-planetary
origins. Only through this evolutionary consciousness has telepathic
communication been made possible that gives us an invitation, even many pleas,
for this intervention.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are ascended masters who no longer have physical bodies,
and there are those among us who have never inhabited one. It is always a choice.
Some of us have had physical lives on earth, yes, even many lives there. Others
have had physical lives elsewhere, and not necessarily in human bodies. No
matter.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What may be of more interest than who we are is how we plan
to stage an intervention to end warfare on the planet and give humanity more
time to evolve. One of our tools is the manipulation of time and timelines.
Your quantum physics scientists are beginning to explore the concepts of how this
might be done, but is beyond your collective understanding at this stage of
your evolution. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are crafting the intervention in an ongoing process of
decision-making. What people do impacts each choice we make along the way. The
first stage has already begun of igniting emissions from your sun to reach the
planet, creating a greater field of energy for the awakening and engagement of
those who are shifting into greater consciousness. You can understand this
process as preparing the soil to plant the seeds. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next step is upon us, so this call has gone out to all
of those who offer themselves as channels for us to communicate with the residents
of this planet. The writer who is writing this account has offered themselves
to write the story of our intervention, and it will be an ongoing story. There are many others who have devoted themselves to thinking, writing, and communicating this saga. </p><p class="MsoNormal">One of
our most important tools is human imagination. The first step in creating a
different reality is envisioning how it could be different. This introduces more
possibilities into the collective consciousness. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Imagination is a more or less dormant ability in the human genetic code that we will support in the process of activating, as is the ability to communicate telepathically between humans, animals, and other forms of life. One of the most important aspects of telepathic communication will come from ancient trees, whose collective memory will be shared with receptive humans. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The collective consciousness of humanity is our major tool.
We can work with it in subtle ways that defy imagination. Sometimes all it
takes is a single new idea imbedded in music, art, writing, and collaborative
efforts to introduce more options for going forward in a different direction. Think
of it as a bioluminescent plankton bloom on the sea that sends out sparks of light that spreads
and spreads, lighting up waves as they break upon the shore. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you consider the collective consciousness as a great
tapestry of woven threads, and every life, human, animal, plant and mineral, adding
a thread to the weaving of the pageantry depicted in the tapestry, then you begin
to understand how complex and diffuse our intervention can be, impacting the eruption of
volcanos, the implosion of plate tectonics, the velocity and volume of wind
movements, the flow of currents and tides in the ocean, and the mobilization of
people in the streets to make their will known.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are not almighty, but we are powerful in our knowledge
and experience in working with energy. We can direct shifts in consciousness,
but only with the active participation of those who have dedicated themselves
to a planetary commitment for the commonweal of all life on the planet,
including human life, but not limited to it. </p><p class="MsoNormal">If the truth be known, we have a
bigger commitment from trees on the planet, who aid our efforts through their
mycelium and active assistance as transformers of energy from the sun through
their leaves and branches down into the earth, where they pulse this awareness
of the shifts that we are implementing. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is our first transmission, but there will be more, as
we proceed. We thank our host for requesting our inspiration in writing this
information, so that the great upshift proceeds and spreads an evolution in
human consciousness, ending warfare and violence, issuing in a new paradigm
when peace and love prevail on Earth.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By Ariel Ky <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>02/06/24<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTHD4cYtVdz63Ka49S4EpQPpwd5Fo8bivTnnYQ_BTTztegkugEHXtL2LWPoc_jlszvk5j9Cj0dMsiguH0mKVhzCIpWn-Ws5rqnqaCVcq4M-zrVYDKBxnMVxQP5TuExLe3bW18Ry2PF90V7ysLEVd6mSMT76Ae4XcNSkL0JcgUw-yBky1-X9UbSXeLddk/s960/IMG_8396.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="960" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTHD4cYtVdz63Ka49S4EpQPpwd5Fo8bivTnnYQ_BTTztegkugEHXtL2LWPoc_jlszvk5j9Cj0dMsiguH0mKVhzCIpWn-Ws5rqnqaCVcq4M-zrVYDKBxnMVxQP5TuExLe3bW18Ry2PF90V7ysLEVd6mSMT76Ae4XcNSkL0JcgUw-yBky1-X9UbSXeLddk/w499-h224/IMG_8396.JPG" width="499" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-64102683670101574642023-12-27T16:17:00.000-08:002023-12-27T16:17:20.706-08:00Did Hunter Biden Use his Father's Position as Vice President to Obama in Ukraine to Finance Biolabs? Was his investment fund Rosemont Seneca involved in financing the Pentagon's military biological programme in Ukraine?<ul class="profile-links__list" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c3338; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: initial; white-space: pretty;"><li class="profile-link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 50px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 62px; position: relative; vertical-align: initial;"><br /></li></ul><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-02b91d9c-7fff-2ab7-6be0-9aae88585ec7"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Should biolabs be allowed to operate in other countries that are funded by the U.S. Department of Defense to carry out biowarfare research? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here's an article from the Business Standard March 24, 2022 that brings out the supervisory role in Ukraine of the Los Alamos research facility in the U.S. Fund led by Biden's son involved in financing biolabs in Ukraine: Russia At the same time, the scientific curator is the US nuclear center at Los Alamos Russia on Thursday said that the investment fund Rosemont Seneca led by Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, is involved in financing the Pentagon's military biological programme in Ukraine. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The US Agency for International Development (USAID), the George Soros Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also provide financial support to the Pentagon programme, the Russian Defense Ministry added, RT reported. At the same time, the scientific curator is the US nuclear center at Los Alamos. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"The incoming materials allow us to trace the scheme of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian biological objects. Attention is drawn to the involvement in the financing of these activities of structures close to the current US leadership, in particular the Rosemont Seneca investment fund, which is headed by Hunter Biden," said Lt General Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological defence forces of the Russian Armed Forces, RT reported. According to him, the fund has resources in the amount of at least $2.4 billion. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"At the same time, the fund has a close relationship with the main contractors of the US military department, including Metabiota, which, along with Black and Veach, is the main supplier of equipment for Pentagon biolabs around the world," he added. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Kirillov said that the Los Alamos nuclear center, where the first American atomic bomb was developed, was one of the scientific curators of the Pentagon's military biological program in Ukraine. "The scale of the program is impressive. In addition to the military department, the US Agency for International Development, the George Soros Foundation, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are directly involved in its implementation. Scientific curation is carried out by leading research organisations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which develops nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project," he said. </span><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/fund-led-by-biden-s-son-involved-in-financing-biolabs-in-ukraine-russia-122032401368_1.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">business-standard.com/article/international/fund-led-by-biden-s-son-involved-in-financing-biolabs-in-ukraine-russia-122032401368_1.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Wikipedia wiped out the entry on Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont Seneca. Last Updated: 24th April, 2022 13:45 IST “Wikipedia Removes Hunter Biden's Financial Firm Rosemont Seneca Partners' Entry” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Earlier this week, Wikipedia removed an entry on Hunter Biden's investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, as the firm has been at the centre of inquiries. Written By Rohit Ranjan Earlier this week, Wikipedia removed the entry on Hunter Biden's investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners. This comes as Hunter Biden's investment firm has been at the centre of various inquiries about his offshore business operations. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As per a report by New York Post, a Wikipedia editor named Alex stated that this organisation is only discussed in connection with its famous founders, Hunter Biden and Christopher Heinz, adding that "keeping it around" risked the page becoming a magnet for Hunter Biden conspiracy theories. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The deletion took place on Wednesday. US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden has been in the middle of controversy ever since the news came out that his Rosemont Seneca financed the Pentagon’s military biological program in Ukraine, according to The Washington Post. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The brief page of the firm was thin on details, and in bad need of an overhaul, but did provide information about the company’s founding by Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and Chris Heinz. Co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, claims the site can no longer be trusted and has devolved into "propaganda." </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Last year, he stated that behind the scenes, there is a vast, nasty, intricate game being played to make the piece say what someone wants it to say. However, the removal of the page was criticized by some as they stated that removing the Wikipedia page of Rosemont shows a double standard. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Curtis Houck, who is the Managing Editor of the Media Research Center stated that it's more than a safe bet that several media organisations would dedicate many reporters to following the internet trail if a Trump-linked company or one from the Russia probe had its Wikipedia page wiped. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In 2009, Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and John Kerry's stepson Christopher Heinz, founded Rosemont Seneca Partners, a private equity business, with a friend Devon Archer. The three formed a group of related limited liability companies (LLCs). It was linked to the Heinz family's alternative investment firm. An email obtained as part of a Securities and Exchange Commission probe suggests that Rosemont described itself as a $2.4 billion private equity firm co-owned by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz, with Devon Archer as "Managing Partner." </span><a href="https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/wikipedia-removes-hunter-bidens-financial-firm-rosemont-seneca-partners-entry-articleshow.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/wikipedia-removes-hunter-bidens-financial-firm-rosemont-seneca-partners-entry-articleshow.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hunter Biden is renting a mansion in Hollywood Hills for $12,000 a month. I'd say he's still a pretty high flier, despite all the scandal. Where he should be is in prison for the rest of his life, in my opinion. </span><a href="https://www.dirt.com/more-dirt/lawyers/hunter-biden-house-los-angeles-1203306242/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">dirt.com/more-dirt/lawyers/hunter-biden-house-los-angeles-1203306242</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What will happen with the legal investigation into Hunter Biden’s activities, given that his father is currently president of the U.S.? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is the LinkedIn entry for Hunter Biden. Lots of good information to research further here. He’s hiding in plain sight under the name of R. Hunter. I found him by searching LinkedIn for Rosemont Seneca Partners. There were three entries, this one among them. I’ve corroborated that it’s accurate because the colleges and dates of his enrollments correspond to his Wikipedia entry.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">R. Hunter Counsel Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, New York, New York</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jun 2009 - Present · 13 yrs </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, founded in 1997, has become one of the nation's premier law firms. Today, with over 200 lawyers practicing in offices across the country, we regularly serve as lead counsel in the most significant and highest profile disputes in the world. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">While best known for landmark cases such as United States v. Microsoft, Bush v. Gore, and In re Vitamins, we represent some of the largest and most sophisticated organizations in the world when the results matter most. In less than a decade, we have won and saved our clients billions of dollars in trials, arbitrations, and settlements. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We have been described by The Wall Street Journal as a "national litigation powerhouse" and by the National Law Journal as "unafraid to venture into controversial" and "high risk" matters. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Council Member, CSIS Executive Council on Development 2012 - Present · 10 yrs 5 mos2</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Executive Council on Development was formed to examine ways to build on the business community’s engagement in global development, this new Council is co-chaired by former U.S. senator Thomas Daschle, business leader Carly Fiorina, Hyatt executive chairman Thomas Pritzker, and former U.S. representative Vin Weber.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Managing Partner, Rosemont Seneca Partners, 2009 - Present · 13 yrs 5 mos, Washington D.C. Metro Area </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rosemont Seneca Partners is an Alternative Investment and Market Advisory firm that helps to align knowledge and capital with long term investment growth initiatives. We provide alternative investment opportunities and market guidance that seek to afford an absolute return through our global economic reach and expertise.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Adjunct Professor Georgetown University Dec 2011 - Present · 10 yrs 6 mos Washington D.C. Metro Area</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Masters Program, School of Foreign Service "The Art of Advocacy- Inside and Outside of Government" The course examines the impact of advocacy on political leaders, staff, and other stakeholders responsible for shaping international policy and managing global crisis and conflict. </span><a href="http://www.msfs.georgetown.edumasters" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">msfs.georgetown.eduMasters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here's an article from the Financial Times, with more information on Hunter Biden's financial interests: </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hunter Biden’s web of interests His ties span the globe and raise questions about the overlap of business and politics Hunter Biden </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hunter Biden’s business interests often show up in unexpected places. Now, they are at the centre of the biggest political crisis of the Trump presidency and the fourth impeachment inquiry in US history. The son of Joe Biden, former vice-president and 2020 presidential candidate, Hunter Biden’s business ties are under scrutiny after Donald Trump leaned on the president of Ukraine to investigate his activities in the country. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mr Trump has also publicly called on China to investigate the Bidens. The Ukraine revelations have led House Democrats to open an impeachment inquiry against the president, but the nature of Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine, China and further afield raise questions about potential conflicts of interest while his father was in office. The Bidens have denied any wrongdoing. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This Jan. 30, 2010 file photo shows Hunter Biden, right, son of Vice President Joe Biden, center, talking with President Barack Obama, and the vice president Joe Biden during a college basketball game in Washington. Biden's youngest son Hunter is joining the Navy. The Navy says the attorney and former Washington lobbyist was selected to be commissioned into the Navy Reserve as a public affairs officer. Because he is 42, he needed a special waiver to be accepted, but that is not uncommon. He is one of seven candidates recommended for a direct commission for public affairs.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File) </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hunter Biden, right, in 2010 with President Barack Obama and his father, Vice-President Joe Biden © AP In addition to his ties to Ukraine through Burisma, the scandal-plagued gas company, and politically connected business ventures in the US, public records show that Hunter Biden still sits on the board of BHR Partners, a private investment fund backed by a number of Chinese state entities including Bank of China, China Postal Savings Bank and China Development Bank. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here, the Financial Times examines Hunter Biden’s business ties at home and abroad: Burisma Holdings NATURAL GAS | UKRAINE </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hunter’s Role: Board member 2014-April 2019 Remuneration: Reportedly $50,000 per month </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Burisma, Ukraine’s leading privately owned natural gas producer, obtained some of its most prized production assets while its founder Mykola Zlochevsky headed a ministry that doled out gas licenses under the kleptocratic administration of ex-president Viktor Yanukovich. After Mr Yanukovich fled to Russia in 2014, investigators started probing the company. That year Burisma appointed prominent westerners to its board, including Hunter Biden, who reportedly earned $50,000 per month for this role. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mr Trump’s calls for his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Burisma over links to Joe Biden, his potential Democratic rival in next year’s presidential election, triggered the impeachment probe. In tweets and in a July phone call with Mr Zelensky, Mr Trump and Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer, alleged that Joe Biden protected Burisma and his son’s interests while he was vice-president. Ukraine’s western backers deny this narrative. Mandatory Credit: Photo by STEPAN FRANKO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10426053c) (FILE) - </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ukrainian businessman Mykola Zlochevsky, founder of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Limited, attends a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, 19 March 2012 (reissued 27 September 2019). An impeachment inquiry against US President Donald J. Trump has been initiated following a whistleblower complaint over Trump's dealings with Ukraine. The whistleblower alleges that the President had demanded Ukrainian investigations into US Presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden's involvement in the Burisma Holdings company. Mykola Zlochevsky, Kiev, Ukraine - 19 Mar 2012 Ukrainian businessman Mykola Zlochevsky, founder of Burisma, in 2012 © EPA/Shutterstock Paradigm Companies LLC HEDGE FUND | US Hunter’s Role: 2006-2010 Remuneration: Reportedly $1.2</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Inside life of Hunter Biden’s ‘sugar brother,’ Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris By Isabel Vincent, Washington Post, May 12, 2022 </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Updated Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris (left) helped make the careers of Matthew McConaughey and the duo behind "South Park." Now, he's taken Joe Biden's son Hunter (right) under his wing. NY Post photo composite More On: hunter biden House GOP rallies against Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ as FTC gains Dem majority Hunter Biden’s lawyer pal sparks concern among WH inner circle: report ‘My Son Hunter’ producer accuses first son’s lawyer pal of ‘spying’ on filmmakers Senators press Delaware prosecutor on recusal in Hunter Biden tax case It was a scene straight out of a film noir: A glamorous Hollywood writer flies in his private jet to a small Balkan enclave posing as a documentarian to gather information on a group of actors and filmmakers in the midst of shooting a biopic about Hunter Biden. But the star of the surreal scenario that took place last fall in Serbia was Los Angeles-based lawyer Kevin Morris, a friend of Hunter’s who is now being accused of “spying” on the set of “My Son Hunter.” The film, which is highly critical of Hunter for allegedly selling influence to foreign companies while his father, Joe, was vice president, is produced by husband-and-wife documentarians Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney. “On set, a man named Kevin Morris arrived and told us he was working on a documentary exposing Hunter’s corruption,” a tweet from the official “My Son Hunter” site declared on Tuesday. “He told us he was a retired lawyer associated with South Park. We allowed him and his crew to interview us, cast members, and film on our set.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hunter Biden with his wife Melissa Cohen on the opening night of his art exhibition at Georges Berges Gallery in SoHo. Morris (behind Biden) has helped the president’s son market his paintings. Stephen Yang</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In fact, Morris is a successful lawyer and big-money Democratic Party supporter who has become Hunter Biden’s newest fixer and “sugar brother,” allegedly loaning the president’s son $2 million to help pay off his overdue federal taxes. In addition to the loan, Morris, 58, has become the architect of the legal and media strategy of the president’s beleaguered son. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The lawyer, who counts Chris Rock and Matthew McConaughey among his celebrity clients, is also a prolific fiction writer of two novels and a collection of short stories. Over the past two years, Morris has helped Biden, a self-taught artist, forge a deal to market his paintings, which are priced between $50,000 and $500,000 apiece. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Morris has also paid Hunter’s monthly living expenses in Los Angeles, according to the New York Times. The Hollywood attorney even found a high-powered literary agent for Biden, 52, when he was writing “Beautiful Things,” a 2021 memoir that chronicles his drug and alcohol addictions. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Biden was so grateful for Morris’ counsel that he included him as part of “the outstanding team behind this book” on the acknowledgments page of his memoir. In fact, both Morris and Biden are represented by the same agents — Aevitas Creative Management — which looks after Morris’ own works, the novels “All Joe Knight” and “Gettysburg,” and the short story collection “White Man’s Problems.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Morris has written two novels and a collection of short stories. Getty Images Morris is a highly successful lawyer and a self-made businessman, who rose from humble origins in Pennsylvania to launch his own firm, raking in hundreds of millions for his first clients, the creators of “South Park.” Now he’s thrown in his lot with the disgraced, drug-addled son of a president, filming his own documentary about Biden. “The whole thing is so bizarre,” one Hollywood insider told The Post. “What is a guy like that doing with Hunter Biden?” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For the last couple of years at least, Morris has been a Democratic Party loyalist, and spent hundreds of thousands on backing Democratic candidates, including President Biden. He met Hunter Biden at a political fundraiser for his father in December 2019, according to the New York Times. Earlier this year, Morris gave $100,000 to a political action committee supporting Conor Lamb, a Democratic Pennsylvania congressman who is trailing in the polls. </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here's a government report of the investigation into Hunter Biden from Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: </span><a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ukraine%20Report_FINAL.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ukraine Report_FINAL.pdf</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here's an interesting contradiction that I found when I went to the website for the law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, which is the first job listing for R. Hunter. I went to their website and searched their list of attorneys. There is no entry for either R. Hunter or Hunter Biden. So how much is true and how much is fake on this LinkedIn resume? Well, that seems to be the question swirling around much of Hunter Biden's activities. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Apparently Hunter Biden did work for this law firm, as well as Joe Biden's brother, James, who we rarely hear about. Here's a Tweet from Arthur Schwartz @ArthurSchwartz Vindman & Fiona Hill are represented by Boies, Schiller & Flexner. That law firm also did work for Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that paid Hunter Biden millions of dollars. That firm also employed Hunter Biden and paid him more than he’s worth. Weird, huh?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is from the Boies, Schiller & Flexner law firm's website files: BSF Achieves Dismissal of Claims Against Family Members of Vice President Biden OCTOBER 19, 2009 In the News BSF won a major victory when New York Supreme Court Justice Bernard Fried granted in its entirety the Firm's motion to dismiss all claims filed against BSF's clients, including James and Hunter Biden, the Vice President’s brother and son, respectively, for alleged breach of contract, conversion and fraud arising from a failed acquisition of portions of a hedge fund. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here is corroboration that Hunter Biden worked for the firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, from their Wikipedia entry: Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is a national law firm based in New York City. ... Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden was employed at the firm from 2014.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Washington Free Beacon last June. Biden Administration Hunter Biden-Linked Law Firm Dodged Lobbying Disclosures for Burisma Work </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Emails from Biden's laptop reveal relationship with Boies Schiller Flexner Hunter Biden Hunter Biden / Getty Images Chuck Ross • June 29, 2021 </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The prominent law firm for which Hunter Biden served as counsel took steps to avoid disclosing to Congress its work with Ukrainian energy giant Burisma Holdings, emails from Biden's laptop show. Heather King, a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, detailed the lobbying strategy in emails to Biden, his business partners, and an executive for Burisma Holdings in 2014. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">King wrote that she planned to provide legal and political services for Burisma "right up to the line" at which the law firm would have to disclose the work under federal lobbying laws. King also wrote of plans to meet with State Department officials in order to advocate for Burisma, which was seeking to expand its operations in the West as its owner was the subject of an international bribery investigation. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The emails highlight the gray area of federal lobbying laws, which provide some exemptions for lawyers. King's strategy to avoid registering under the Lobbying Disclosure Act or the more stringent Foreign Agents Registration Act was for Burisma to hire the firm ML Strategies as its lobbyist of record. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Boies Schiller Flexner has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but another Hunter Biden-linked firm, Blue Star Strategies, is under federal investigation for its undisclosed lobbying for Burisma. Biden also helped facilitate Blue Star's consulting deal with Burisma, emails show. Rudy Giuliani, a personal lawyer for former president Donald Trump, is also under federal investigation for his foreign lobbying activities. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Boies Schiller Flexner's arrangement with Burisma appeared to be an example of a firm trying to avoid having to publicly disclose its lobbying activities, one government ethics watchdog told the Washington Free Beacon. "There is a lot of lobbying that takes place that's never reported," said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight. He said that lawyers and consultants often "play fast and loose" with lobbying laws by characterizing their lobbying as educational activity or by operating just under the threshold where lobbying is legally required to be disclosed. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A lawyer for Boies Schiller Flexner, who declined to speak on the record, insisted that the firm complied with lobbying laws. Biden connected Burisma Holdings and Boies Schiller Flexner in April 2014, shortly after he joined the energy company's board of directors. Burisma paid Biden and a business partner, Devon Archer, more than $80,000 a month to help the company burnish its reputation in the West and scout out energy deals. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Biden's board position has come under scrutiny because of his father's role at the time leading the Obama administration's diplomatic talks with Ukraine. King took the lead in developing Boies Schiller Flexner's strategy for Burisma, according to emails from Biden's laptop obtained by the Free Beacon. King was a member of the firm's Crisis Management and Government Response Team. Biden referred Burisma to the team. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Other emails show that a recent Justice Department nominee, Hampton Dellinger, worked on the crisis management team at Boies Schiller Flexner. King wrote in the May 2014 emails that she wanted to contact State Department officials to "‘update' them on Burisma's current situation." </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">She also told Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi that she planned to attend meetings with government officials alongside David Leiter, the owner of ML Strategies. "We at [Boies Schiller Flexner] will lead all this work and can execute the political and legal work right up to the line where we would need to register as lobbyists, but I don't want to register under the lobbying disclosure act or the foreign agents registration act," King wrote in a May 12, 2014, email to Biden and Archer. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In an email to Pozharskyi, King said she planned to accompany Leiter in his meetings with government officials. She said that she would be at the meeting "strictly as" a lawyer for Burisma because she was not registered to lobby. Burisma wired $250,000 to Boies Schiller Flexner on May 7, 2014, according to documents on Biden's laptop. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ML Strategies disclosed receiving $90,000 in 2014 to lobby for Burisma. The Boies Schiller Flexner connection is not disclosed in those filings. Other emails show that Boies Schiller Flexner paid $13,000 a month for consulting work. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Boies Schiller Flexner has come under scrutiny in recent years for its behind-the-scenes influence activities. The company hired Black Cube, an Israeli private intelligence firm, to spy on victims of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. </span></p><br /></span></div>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-78226996345989184562023-11-24T07:12:00.000-08:002023-11-24T07:12:32.871-08:00Thanksgiving Reflection<p> <span style="color: #050505; font-family: Caveat, cursive; font-size: 24pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2023</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Caveat, cursive; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Caveat, cursive; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Caveat, cursive; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-60bad5a8-7fff-9365-035f-6018bea6b56a"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: "Architects Daughter", cursive; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I give thanks for this day. I have been thinking deeply this morning how grateful I am for my existence as a human being, and for this lifetime of engagement with other people, with this growing sense of humanity as a big, sprawling family, and that we need to take care of each other more.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: "Architects Daughter", cursive; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">However, I even feel grateful for the people who are trying to screw me over, the ones who primarily think only of themselves. I am grateful for the people who wrestle with addictions, greed, lust and all of the wounds that make it difficult to achieve or attain our full potential.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: "Architects Daughter", cursive; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I am grateful for myself, too, as I navigate through everything that is happening, absorbing all this discordant energy and doing my best to bring harmony and beauty out of so much pain and suffering in the world.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: "Architects Daughter", cursive; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It's a major paradigm shift for me to embrace everyone, with all of their hatreds, violence, and injustice. I am praying for peace and for all of humanity this morning. The ancient battlefields are drawing us in to determine how much we have changed and evolved. Humanity is being tested. Are we worthy to go on?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: "Architects Daughter", cursive; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What I am gaining from this existence is a sharper definition of who and what I am, and what I am capable of doing. It propels me into a deeper sense of creation. For what are the many creative acts that I engage in but a form of creation?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: "Architects Daughter", cursive; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A life devoted to gratitude, forgiveness, beauty, kindness and compassion gives fertile ground for new ideas to grow, for miracles to happen, and for healing to get activated. And as more and more people receive deep healing, the benefits ripple out to their family and friends and their communities.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: "Architects Daughter", cursive; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">So in this moment of thanksgiving, I call on all of the spiritual beings that I have kinship with, and all of the spiritual beings that everyone in humanity has bonded with, to help and guide us in our next act.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: "Architects Daughter", cursive; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">May healing come to the people involved in the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East. Only through healing will the wars end and peace prevail. I have made a great leap to this understanding, as I have thought in recent years that all we had to do was make wars unprofitable. It's still not a bad idea, but it will never happen without a major healing for all of humanity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: "Architects Daughter", cursive; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And this can happen. I know it can, with the spiritual power of our collective. I trust in this process. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Caveat, cursive; font-size: 22pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ariel Ky</span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Caveat, cursive; font-size: 22pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-88735350159655375892022-03-12T16:21:00.002-08:002022-03-12T16:21:58.928-08:00Posts on Ukraine by a Peace Activist<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Retroactive Compilation of My Postings on Facebook on
Ukraine</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(NOTE: I transferred my posts from Facebook to a Word
document, complete with photos. However, when I posted the contents of my
document to this Wordpress blog, all the photos were stripped, leaving ugly
empty boxes. So I went through my original document and deleted all the photos
that made it more interesting. Nevertheless, I am blogging all of my Facebook
posts anyways. For the record.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 9, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Disband
NATO. Defund the U.S. military. End the CIA. End Wall Street. End capitalism.
Then humanity might have a chance.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/arielkyvisionary1?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZW02Y3Y9FIKbsne8MR0g0LWbY0iMBgLRAtaIuoXEcIJEH5xZF6vugVkmp5t3PKoCDyX8F0dcCrQjkfUfjTxEEXA-S7O47aVize4HuQuN2IBDbKiLjtUdCf7spzkbZgXpxw&__tn__=%3C%2CP-R"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 9,
2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lisa Savage says it well in her blog below.
She's given it a lot of thought. And I support her all the way. The United
States has to stop pursuing military hegemony over the world. NATO is a
military alliance that only endangers peace with its constant war games and
strategies for attacking Russia, China, Iran, where ever a profit can be made
by demonizing the leader of another country, and denouncing the people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I remember when Americans were known overseas for how
friendly we were as a people. A long time ago. Now Americans are known for
unscrupulous business ventures, scheming, and fomenting wars. We are known and
feared as an empire. Nobody can hold the United States accountable for war
crimes or meddling in the internal affairs of other countries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have a love/hate relationship with my country. I wish it
were simpler, and that I could love my country without also feeling ashamed of
it. I also feel isolated and alone among my fellow Americans, most of who have
the shallowest of understanding of what the truth might be in another country,
but who hold strong convictions based on ignorance and being lied to. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I used to be part of that Berkeley based Wellstone Club.
They held potlucks at the Humanist Hall across from where I lived in north
Oakland. It took me a while of getting more involved at a deeper level to
understand that these were not my people and we were not coming from the same
place. So sad. I could never find a place in the United States where I felt
that I belonged. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm more estranged than ever. If I get any more alienated, I
will just have to change my citizenship.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">went2thebridge.wordpress.com</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Turd In The Punchbowl</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My husband,
Mark, who has opposed any and all wars since evading the draft during the
Vietnam War. For the past five and half years, liberals in the U.S. have
salivated on command in response to th… I feel overwhelmed. I want the war to
end in Ukraine. Today. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm listening to Arundhati Roy speaking, saying "the
world has been whipped into obedience. We have to slowly learn to be
disobedient."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mintpressnews.com%2Fchris-hedges-russia-baited-into-war-criminal-aggression%2F279813%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR08ihN54gv7ES0LhsHm071i10k_9ApannPlf3doIcahjLbCFNaa_3r1ibM%23.Yij9gMWHBPs.facebook&h=AT3pHIXzrLHJabGR7KWwgdXDhlFuM18qfOv-8vk4xkPNN95N_HjgFCDDgUJ7dY-IKjTLlV2PWWvxYNzdd_M2ftSU_HAN4CvsQv1mtiRIcNWtBbSeqSsgsTW3iJC3XSfKU2Mz&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT2vVb0ebDnuCM6dpW2lEaRvY5c3ESoTSe7Xw_vKsFD5nhXRyAryZClApSeasMvXFbzLdoU4kkfXdZgKqJTxHiqfljB6QhnEhoJPTuoiKCzLUlNvYk-KdtIG4EzpYAklfAc_SsRRLLNXJ9G_z1mXdlO5RQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Chris Hedges: Russia Was Baited Into
War but That Does Not Absolve Its Criminal Aggression</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 9, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I've read analysis that the U.S. was antagonizing Russia to
go to war in Ukraine partly to corner the European liquid natural gas market.
Apparently that analysis was correct. I wonder how Ukrainians feel about
becoming the battleground between Russia and the U.S. so that large
corporations and Wall Street can reap profits.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fbusiness%2Fenergy%2Fus-lng-exporters-emerge-big-winners-europe-natgas-crisis-2022-03-09%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0pvu4J6ThND-QFOcdIebadM1CLoUecikj3dkz9NR0uzOXVCJ28R6Ha5C8&h=AT3fm4bUsfQSWZWkl5_-2wN6Hq2Qyfwnhv2WJjt7lbheVYApYr8EhaI05A4NFK9niYeIRxpPwbOBly48UMg-agiUQN48OJs_aHOQFUNd2qsZztSG59QJHrvdt90wdl7HeuVc&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1Oy_QwJd1awz8upc38W_96s0yzDEw8I-GBluo_Th3kuUoe7yZ7ahMK21D_ZQMG-3mGW30zQBqJEtr05JHHpGQIYHS1o6PhL2CbrPSChZjGSY0aG7rk7vp7Jjg8toz44Bw95mvuSHaNn88BnQZJHWHQ3Q" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">U.S. LNG exporters emerge as big
winners of Europe natgas crisis</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">March
9, 2022</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Random
thought surfacing... although the U.S. has never been sanctioned for its wars
of aggression or punished for its war crimes, I doubt very much that it has
escaped the notice of thinking people in the world. A reckoning may yet happen;
I just hope that it's not too late before the earth is made inhabitable or
humanity gets largely destroyed.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 9, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm thinking about the law of unintended consequences and
the war in Ukraine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here's a few already:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Russians finding out that biosafety labs doing research
in Ukraine (some 30 of them) apparently have been doing biowarfare research
funded by the Pentagon, and are now insisting that there be a stronger
Bioweapons Act, bringing focus on an issue that the U.S. would prefer the
public not think about. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. Sanctions against microchips being sold to Russia may
threaten the global microprocessor industry as it turns out Russia is the main
supplier of essential components for microchips.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. So far, Russia has failed to retaliate against Nordstream
2 being sanctioned and shut down, insisting that it is a reliable provider of
gas. However, that hasn't stopped European countries and Japan from freaking
out that it might happen in retaliation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. China has been cautioning against destabilizing and
harming the global economy over Ukraine. Shipping has already been impacted,
driving up prices. Attempting to isolate Russia and sanctioning any country
that continues to do business with it has brought out how interdependent our
global economy has become, and how impossible it is to carry out sanctions of
the scope and severity being levied against Russia without grave consequences
for the global economy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the U.S. leads the world in "punishing" Russia,
we have yet to see how much the world gets punished in return. We are
witnessing the biggest geopolitical upheaval of my lifetime; how it gets
managed will determine the fate of humanity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/arielkyvisionary1/posts/3131881113766223?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXkiibFUzb_gk4vort5i2G4_5sEDU7AiL_ng3SFGceN_2mXw2NoQH0zTjuRtPnF9hB1we_f2sMqwIBWsWrQIHYZlF18fDno49R27PS5R-ddjZO5YRou4KsjJmAaFFzPIAhZp8Jf_naS1poTWOUiARP_&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yesttlc0eurdagy gac4fSt1g gp9:nt52 0ArMed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> · </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0901-793?fbclid=IwAR1XvZDGqAkYD0v7kBf9joqOsYx9Juquhw6y6S_fnrDutYynsf9J9dseI4g" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0901-793</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This article came out in 2000, but nothing has changed since
then. Until the Russians have come out this week saying that we need a stronger
bioweapons treaty after finding out more about Pentagon-funded biolabs in
Ukraine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nature.com</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">US rejects stronger bioweapons treaty - Nature Biotechnology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 9,
2022 I am in complete support of Russia on this matter. It has been an ongoing
source of stress and concern for me since I started researching BSL-4 labs a
couple of years ago. Just watch our corporate controlled media ignore this
story!<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/551532-bioweapons-convention-verification-mechanism/?fbclid=IwAR0HesOcPJ3-egmmKuS3wlJzbYyXIGLlfyxi2KGpY4ovsDs_UF8VASLgGbw" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/551532-bioweapons-convention-verification-mechanism/?fbclid=IwAR0HesOcPJ3-egmmKuS3wlJzbYyXIGLlfyxi2KGpY4ovsDs_UF8VASLgGbw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">rt.com</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/551532-bioweapons-convention-verification-mechanism/?fbclid=IwAR0HesOcPJ3-egmmKuS3wlJzbYyXIGLlfyxi2KGpY4ovsDs_UF8VASLgGbw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Moscow calls for strengthening
bioweapons treaty</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/551532-bioweapons-convention-verification-mechanism/?fbclid=IwAR0HesOcPJ3-egmmKuS3wlJzbYyXIGLlfyxi2KGpY4ovsDs_UF8VASLgGbw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Moscow called on signatories of the
Biological Weapons Convention to implement verification mechanisms stonewalled
by the US</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whoever even heard of sapphire substrates? Apparently the
future of the microprocessor industry may depend on it. Russia is the main
supplier. Sapphire substrates are "thin plates made of artificial stone,
which are used in opto- and microelectronics to build up layers of various
materials, for example, silicon. They are used in every processor in the world
– AMD and Intel are no exception."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The U.S. just banned export of microchips to Russia that
were developed in the U.S. Apparently, those microchips are made with sapphire
substrates. Russia could retaliate by no longer exporting sapphire substrates
to countries with such sanctions against it. Surely, the experts in the U.S.
who suggested banning export of microchips to Russia knew about this minor but
essential component sourced mostly from Russia?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to this article, Russia has been exploring the use
of gallium arsenide instead of sapphire substrates, which could be done in
cooperation with mainland China. Also, Russia has the expertise of scientists
and engineers from India to draw on in the micropocessor industry to develop
its own sources of microchips. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wouldn't that be an ironic unintended consequence of
sanctions against Russia?</span></p>
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Machine translated from Russian. The world's largest manufacturers of computer
processors and semiconductors announced their accession to...</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://ussanews.com/if-russia-cant-have-chips-no-one-will-russian-inputs-are-critical-to-global-semiconductors-supply-chain/?fbclid=IwAR0W1pj9Dk5jf8Lj3GgkIA3t-hyJIAvkm8lPp1hPh5YJKBZoFQvGGZib7EI" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Machine translated from Russian. The
world's largest manufacturers of computer processors and semiconductors
announced their accession to sanctions against Russia. Processors for user PCs,
servers and data storage systems will not be supplied to our country. Loud
words inspire pessimism in the avera...</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 9, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">President Biden's drive to inflict "further pain on
Putin" by cutting off oil and gas supplies from Russia could very well
inflict further pain on himself and fellow Democrats. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If gas goes over five dollars a gallon in the U.S., I think
that I can safely predict that Biden will not be reelected, and that Democrats
will lose control of Congress in the next election. Republicans only serve the
interests of the wealthy, but Democrats are just as much a war party. How can
you have any lasting impact on the lives of working people if you squander
everything on forever wars?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 9, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The way I see it, President Biden and our Congress don't
give a damn about the lives of Ukrainians. I have only seen an escalation of
economic warfare against Russia, and no move diplomatically to make concessions
to Russia whatsoever by the puppet Zelensky government. The U.S. is running the
show in Ukraine, and it has no intention of resolving the conflict -- it wants
to bog Russia down in another Afghanistan. And to hell with Ukrainian lives. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That's how I see it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 9, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the summer of 2019, the BSL-4 lab at Ft. Detrick was shut
down due to safety concerns. I did a lot of research when the coronavirus
pandemic struck to find out if there was any connection, but could not
conclusively find evidence. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, at the time I learned the scary fact that research
into biological pathogens to use in chemical warfare was being carried out at
bioweapons labs located all over the world -- and they have been proliferating.
I've been warning of the existential threat this kind of research poses to the
safety and well-being of humanity ever since, demanding that they be shut down
everywhere. Nobody was listening, and I don't have a social media platform
anyways, at least not that anyone reads. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I've known that Ukraine was one of the countries where the
U.S. was operating BSL-4 labs. Somewhere I'd read the suggestion that it was to
escape oversight by the CDC. I had no idea, though, that there were as many as
30 of these horror labs in Ukraine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 9, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This all goes to prove the adage, "You can't please
everyone all the time." It's the biggest obstacle to global dominance that
the U.S. faces. Frankly, hegemony over the world is a ridiculous goal anyways,
even supported by the world's largest military.<a href="https://sputniknews.com/20220309/saudi-arabia-uae-reportedly-snub-us-decline-calls-with-biden-as-oil-prices-surge--1093709104.html?fbclid=IwAR3af1udVJAtUiwE518e9LUEDwMUvLm14lhoGy4sNpdaoWt-Dj4rrmM4oUc" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></p>
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‘Decline Calls With Biden’ as Oil Prices Surge</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 8, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You'd think all the European countries, and even Japan, that
depend on Russian gas would have anticipated that Russia would cut off their
supplies of gas as a consequence of being sanctioned by them. Germany,
especially, can be blamed by backing out of Nordstream 2 (after it had been
built, yet), if Russia decides to cut supplies to Europe through Nordstream 1
in half, or to cut them out entirely. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After all, it's the major economic card that Russia has, and
it's a big one. It seems quite logical to me that if other countries are going
to met out economic pain and suffering to Russia, that it would retaliate
likewise. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Strange how this is playing out -- it seems that Russia may
not need the goodwill of European countries as much as they need the goodwill
of Russia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think it's all nonsense myself. Of course, we are all
interdependent. NATO has been threatening Russia for several years, running
military games focused on war with Russia, meting out never-ending
provocations. You'd think that military strategists would have anticipated
retaliatory measures by Russia, and planned to protect NATO countries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It seems that the geopolitical earthquake that we are going
through is changing the topography considerably. If only we could cooperate
instead of compete with each other, humanity might stand a chance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 8, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I've
been checking in on what's happening in Ukraine. I listened to the Duran's
latest broadcast. They discussed a map that shows the Russian military has
closed the cauldron around Donbas, and that the Western media is not covering
this story, even though that's where the main fighting is happening. I did a
Google search, and saw that he was right.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">March
7, 2022</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here's an idea. Let Russia take back the eastern part of
Ukraine, or at least control the politics enough to make it a neutral zone, and
return the western part to Poland. They may not want any Nazis either, though. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If anything good comes out of this war, it might be
prosecution of war crimes committed by Nazis in Ukraine. And mercenaries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 6, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yesterday Putin declared that this is war, as sanctions and
several other actions taken against Russia multiply. I doubt very much, though,
that they will have the desired impact of restricting or ending the war in
Ukraine. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead, I consider Putin is being boxed into a corner with
the full weight of sanctions that have been ratcheted up in scope and severity
in unprecedented actions. I foresee that this will impel him instead to use
hypersonic weapons in an unprecedented military strike against the U.S. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I sure hope that my sense of the situation is off, and that
this is not a likely scenario. However, I've been fretting about this, and my
grave concern interfered with my night's sleep, as I woke up before 5:00 this
morning with all of this preying on my thoughts, even while sleeping. I decided
to meditate on peace and love to restore some balance into the chaotic and
disturbed energy fields. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While my meditation probably did not impact the world, it
did restore my inner balance and sense of harmony. I was sending love and sweet
energy to both presidents Putin and Biden. Both men are no doubt feeling the
great weight and gravity of their decisions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What else can be done at this time that might make a
difference other than on the inner planes?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The article that I'm sharing here is a calculated and
cautionary assessment of the real danger posed by Russia's development of
hypersonic weapons. I am excerpting a pertinent analysis that I hope will be
taken under consideration by Americans and NATO, as well as the world community
that is joining in the sanctions against Russia:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"This is not to say that hypersonics pose no threat. A
limited number of hypersonic missiles, if effectively used, could act as a
force multiplier for the Russian military. Russia’s hypersonic capabilities
might, for example, be used in a breaching role by targeting air and missile
defence radars and key command nodes in NATO’s air and missile defence system
in order to open the way for strikes by Russia’s larger arsenal of older and
slower missiles. Alternatively, hypersonic missiles might be reserved for
targets such as aircraft carriers, given their operational and symbolic importance.
If properly cued by appropriate sensors, even a limited force of hypersonics
could pose a real threat to an even more limited number of key capital ships at
sea and operational points of failure like command nodes on land. What we
should not expect, however, is for future Russian forces to field large numbers
of hypersonic missiles, or for these missiles to be the mainstay of the Russian
precision strike threat."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rusi.org%2Fexplore-our-research%2Fpublications%2Fcommentary%2Fputting-russian-hypersonic-threat-perspective%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3JlIPyKiibo5TQjxSed3ktzSIjqbtAV-4mqWHtFIE2TFHpMacoS6d6zS4&h=AT1kAOylrJQQ6DFUYsfwfNDCWfM7HMWuyfcgPJQ0ZSboHTTViRY3lyTwsqnOerHFmKE-QJ013OVHy53LSMR_S6do8dDa5W0DfnPzTVXYNjABnG5rEMfpbSUuiiblAPbXZ0-g&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3IX3-ED1iPlcIaeeoOLhXn2_A4qPmFLyvaVDgW0nOehsrqG-ZrB5_RVkjY_eUSp-GvXp6SAVyqfhWsGi3Vftn0PIEKyTy9dr6agy_5uo7idytOzJCg1MPQBMwnmybA8O61fOwVLQb1L9FxD8l8UJJN0g" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Putting the Russian Hypersonic Threat
in Perspective</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rusi.org%2Fexplore-our-research%2Fpublications%2Fcommentary%2Fputting-russian-hypersonic-threat-perspective%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3JlIPyKiibo5TQjxSed3ktzSIjqbtAV-4mqWHtFIE2TFHpMacoS6d6zS4&h=AT1kAOylrJQQ6DFUYsfwfNDCWfM7HMWuyfcgPJQ0ZSboHTTViRY3lyTwsqnOerHFmKE-QJ013OVHy53LSMR_S6do8dDa5W0DfnPzTVXYNjABnG5rEMfpbSUuiiblAPbXZ0-g&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3IX3-ED1iPlcIaeeoOLhXn2_A4qPmFLyvaVDgW0nOehsrqG-ZrB5_RVkjY_eUSp-GvXp6SAVyqfhWsGi3Vftn0PIEKyTy9dr6agy_5uo7idytOzJCg1MPQBMwnmybA8O61fOwVLQb1L9FxD8l8UJJN0g" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The threat posed by Russian hypersonic
missiles, though real, should not be overstated. Indeed, what is likely to be a
rather limited arsenal of hypersonics may have greatest value for Russia as a
peacetime competitive tool if its eventual size and military effects are
exaggerated in the West.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the United
States and a number of allies issued a joint statement on Feb. 26 announcing
that they were taking dramatic steps to prevent Russia’s central bank from
accessing its substantial foreign exchange reserves. Analysts had posited that
these reserves, sometimes referred to as “Fortress Russia,” might allow Russia
to withstand the effects of economic sanctions for an extended period. But on
Feb. 28, OFAC issued a new Directive 4 under Executive Order 14024 that
prohibits any transactions with the Central Bank of Russia, Russia’s Ministry
of Finance, or its National Wealth Fund, including foreign exchange
transactions, involving U.S. persons, institutions, or the U.S. dollar. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is by far the most dramatic step the United States and
its allies have taken. The effective blocking of central bank assets is a
severe measure that has only previously been applied to hostile foreign regimes,
such as in Iran, North Korea and Syria. Doing so prevents Russia from accessing
most if not all of its substantial foreign exchange reserves, severely reducing
its ability to stabilize its currency, compensate for its lack of access to
global debt markets or otherwise take steps to stabilize its economy. Among
other economic effects, this ensures that the broader sanctions imposed by the
international community have their maximum effect."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawfareblog.com%2Fwhat-sanctions-has-world-put-russia%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2RrL-p39uLp8ebPESKg5okjgcqXdUY_H-HGSDkHaJ-wIvlStAdfqfJcAk&h=AT1r03jIVazRkPKm_h4sUpznobMEXRTVZqk8ESQJP9vzn4fchLrgrAhlaoGp8GuwJw9at5s365c2o23Oe8DN22tAkldY2L0p6pKPLxc2cYXree8sqyCS8tDVShsIvfCzEXYb&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3NQqNBlL8wfXAMdwCd_VyB02Ecw7YoSUlMIznUKCeaNSulhcpGnuppS7PJaPgvsshuikWwx9J0FF7CyqJtZzTVrs4yzfVvBpmq6kBR_qROrXnZUz3DhAuaRw3buSdYLEnlPo_C0JvqRdj6RY9CjKCW6Q" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">What Sanctions Has the World Put on
Russia?</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawfareblog.com%2Fwhat-sanctions-has-world-put-russia%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2RrL-p39uLp8ebPESKg5okjgcqXdUY_H-HGSDkHaJ-wIvlStAdfqfJcAk&h=AT1r03jIVazRkPKm_h4sUpznobMEXRTVZqk8ESQJP9vzn4fchLrgrAhlaoGp8GuwJw9at5s365c2o23Oe8DN22tAkldY2L0p6pKPLxc2cYXree8sqyCS8tDVShsIvfCzEXYb&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3NQqNBlL8wfXAMdwCd_VyB02Ecw7YoSUlMIznUKCeaNSulhcpGnuppS7PJaPgvsshuikWwx9J0FF7CyqJtZzTVrs4yzfVvBpmq6kBR_qROrXnZUz3DhAuaRw3buSdYLEnlPo_C0JvqRdj6RY9CjKCW6Q" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The United States and its allies are
imposing unprecedented sanctions on Russia in response to its invasion of
Ukraine. But their effects may be felt far beyond Russia’s borders.</span></a></span></u></p>
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Drone Downed West of Kiev</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmilitarywatchmagazine.com%2Farticle%2Fsu-27-flanker-sees-first-ever-losses-in-air-to-air-combat-four-shot-down-in-massive-battle-over-zhytomir%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR368xhRTX4SrvxsnKcEQpbiOvBbnIn35kJIUNKnxb8piQbrq3Ds_XGEJzc&h=AT0ocKeFGfHTLkWmx5DXGLNmRknTu4Li7Dmd1UtqyVxTRGIQR6ANCr5ja3gCrk15MrwMjtPW3xarqiIG0z007XLkD7Tap5ETTZjbBTXNy90TfhjRf2TpRFtC3VXzvFhgb3Xu&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3eCi1FVDe7Cf6J1IQuQ8UOeSlgSR_B-J1nVimdMNwasUaJ1LP2IatCJIpNaTj9CwPeiwCmr_K1K99fATfZFoOXQy_8aUKYeIplpafvjH2RrY6D5Zn_AzVpHQbYPL_biGzSEj1FcbGj4m6_4Npbf9f3VQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Su-27 Flanker Sees First Ever Losses
in Air to Air Combat: Four Shot Down in Massive Battle Over Zhytomir</span></a></span></u></p>
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come out later. Maybe not.</span></p>
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military websites, that the Russians now have hypersonic weapons that are
gamechangers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2022/02/russian-navy-launched-hypersonic-tsirkon-missile-norwegian-sector-barents-sea?fbclid=IwAR11yqZzWKoxqUPu8qyGfT4jQeLua6sPo3Z11cAs8gl0VkP9itwyP5wb-7c" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Russia's new hypersonic Tsirkon
missile was fired from Norwegian sector of Barents Sea</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 4, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let's see. Democracies protect freedom of speech, freedom of
the press, no? Then why is the U.S. acting in such a totalitarian fashion with
blocking access to Russian media? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To me, that is a betrayal of everything this country has
stood for.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 4, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russia, China, India and Iran voted against censure of
Russia in the U.N. over Ukraine. I like to play with numbers on occasion, and I
wanted to know what measure of the world's population this constituted. I did
not include Russia in my sums. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">POPULATION</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">China: 1,439,323,776</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">India: 1,380,004,385… </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iran: 83, 992,949</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Total population of these countries: 2,893,321,110, roughly
1/3 of the world's population of 7.9 billion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just because I wanted to know, and also for some
perspective, here are population figures for U.S., Russia, Ukraine and Mexico:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">U.S. 331,002,651</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russia 145,934,462</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ukraine 43,733,762 (minus 1,000,000 more or less who have
fled the country)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mexico 128,932,753</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As China and India have similarly very large populations,
Russia and Mexico also have about the same number of people, roughly. I find
that interesting. These numbers are from the website, worldometers.info</span></p>
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assassination plea</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F551201-putin-assassination-plot-grahem%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0KIBUfLo0R7eKYBGzZBvrmiwwDh4cmiQqsuO-Nq89VyHqQoVTC9-3gioc&h=AT0-OVQmqcOcceCPxpUlU7rEMosMS9otVUrrJAcoT9YtaaCL_kKweORy5UonVtymWJ-Rf1GUgdPplLGuikeofiu1Pk8SBJEWaYnnfeT5alKepjr5G1bQKos8d-sQu5cBeWCf&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3a_9UfIDLrzLC8fSXydAVSqwQNbOxzF0oFTDK2HduUqV6GaRku-9dOJr6DNL35p8AJ2V_Ro7t3UtaLzzmWClO9EutfEbI9pwgFeG-hR8MGeDK_vHP87lScK49s9IZgDQR5OJdCaZy_lW9ufLXMOVfByA" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Russian Ambassador Antonov lashed out
at US Senator Lindsey Graha</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 4, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Russia Times has a different narrative about what happened at the Zaporizhzhya
nuclear reactor than what we're seeing in the Western press. (article deleted
by Facebook)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/10/russia-attacks-ukraine-as-its-happening-a76553"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/10/russia-attacks-ukraine-as-its-happening-a76553</span></a><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">March
3, 2022</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While I was working on my Master's degree at MSU, I took a
class with a fantastic professor of the Cultural Anthropology of Japan. He
analyzed everything we studied through the lens of the law of unintended
consequences, which he claimed was always greater than what was intended with a
major political move.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I'm thinking about the law of unintended consequences
when it comes to U.S. and European economic sanctions against Ukraine. By
banning several Russian banks from using the SWIFT system used globally for
international financial transactions, it's quite possible the unintended
consequence will hasten the demise of the dollar as the dominant currency in
the world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russia will likely start using SPFS more, the Chinese
alternative to SWIFT. as it's being blocked from using Swift. Much of the
global South will gravitate to using SPFS also. Well, I'm only speculating
here. Time will tell.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unfortunately, NATO seems to have become Europe's foreign
policy-making body. And NATO is an aggressive military coalition that has already
engaged in several wars outside of its borders.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another unintended consequence could be that Germany emerges
again as a Nazi power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Empowering neoNazis in Ukraine such as the Azov Battalion
and forming an international brigade of mercenaries could boomerang badly on
Western powers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pepe Escobar is a journalist who has been writing about
geopolitics for decades. His analysis is so far above and beyond what we see in
mainstream media press that it's like comparing the writing of an expert with a
Ph.D. to a high school student who cheats to pass his classes. They mostly just
parrot what they have been told, and have no critical thinking skills, or sense
of history, or anything outside of the box of the echo chamber they inhabit.
Unfortunately if they have the intellectual power or creativity to expand their
thinking, it's been crushed by the need to succeed and make a living and please
their masters. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://disq.us/t/45npmqq?fbclid=IwAR368xhRTX4SrvxsnKcEQpbiOvBbnIn35kJIUNKnxb8piQbrq3Ds_XGEJzc" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">thecradle.co</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://disq.us/t/45npmqq?fbclid=IwAR368xhRTX4SrvxsnKcEQpbiOvBbnIn35kJIUNKnxb8piQbrq3Ds_XGEJzc" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Follow the money: how Russia will
bypass western economic warfare</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://disq.us/t/45npmqq?fbclid=IwAR368xhRTX4SrvxsnKcEQpbiOvBbnIn35kJIUNKnxb8piQbrq3Ds_XGEJzc" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The US and EU are over-reaching on
Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global
economy and massive commodity shortag</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We could see a nuclear meltdown at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear
Power Plant in Ukraine, the biggest nuclear reactor in Europe. Russian shelling
caused an explosion. Hundreds of thousands of tons of spent radioactive rods at
this site, according to Kevin Blanch, who is monitoring it. Supposedly it's
shut down, but the spent fuel rods in swimming pools could explode if hit. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Russian Shelling Hits Power Unit at Key Ukrainian
Nuclear Plant \ was reported 21 minutes ago in the Russian Times. Grave cause
for concern. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoscowtimes.com%2F2022%2F03%2F04%2Frussian-shelling-hits-power-unit-at-key-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-spokesman-a76749%3Futm_campaign%3D%5brogue_corq%5d%26fbclid%3DIwAR2jHjeMluZOJBBzaXdop5TVIo_g2iSdktPuIrPS7tsajnJYY4WJ_UlxO54&h=AT1SRkuvE7YfrROTV6VUHdmoUYhpphhNGx_P3X8mrZ4YAaHCyHq8qYAWxFC5yow9mLNeiaFQHiYtmITAKN4ukmkxW3tA9gM1fDfSRTP5tZyZW4VSWuckzzHbDQyoYGSYd9kC&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0OFLq4LlaRG6zffw9qNMDERwxMcJPTuUpW1yvIsm82cOBUM9In3KxqzA1xZEVo27v0fW-EL2r0Gao5ikZmb8MX7412l13-PuZzkQbz0RMAoIVfQZJwhpaddkD5Gehyn-WoQeG88VKme515oGv0wpaoKQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoscowtimes.com%2F2022%2F03%2F04%2Frussian-shelling-hits-power-unit-at-key-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-spokesman-a76749%3Futm_campaign%3D%5brogue_corq%5d%26fbclid%3DIwAR2jHjeMluZOJBBzaXdop5TVIo_g2iSdktPuIrPS7tsajnJYY4WJ_UlxO54&h=AT1SRkuvE7YfrROTV6VUHdmoUYhpphhNGx_P3X8mrZ4YAaHCyHq8qYAWxFC5yow9mLNeiaFQHiYtmITAKN4ukmkxW3tA9gM1fDfSRTP5tZyZW4VSWuckzzHbDQyoYGSYd9kC&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0OFLq4LlaRG6zffw9qNMDERwxMcJPTuUpW1yvIsm82cOBUM9In3KxqzA1xZEVo27v0fW-EL2r0Gao5ikZmb8MX7412l13-PuZzkQbz0RMAoIVfQZJwhpaddkD5Gehyn-WoQeG88VKme515oGv0wpaoKQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">themoscowtimes.com</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoscowtimes.com%2F2022%2F03%2F04%2Frussian-shelling-hits-power-unit-at-key-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-spokesman-a76749%3Futm_campaign%3D%5brogue_corq%5d%26fbclid%3DIwAR2jHjeMluZOJBBzaXdop5TVIo_g2iSdktPuIrPS7tsajnJYY4WJ_UlxO54&h=AT1SRkuvE7YfrROTV6VUHdmoUYhpphhNGx_P3X8mrZ4YAaHCyHq8qYAWxFC5yow9mLNeiaFQHiYtmITAKN4ukmkxW3tA9gM1fDfSRTP5tZyZW4VSWuckzzHbDQyoYGSYd9kC&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0OFLq4LlaRG6zffw9qNMDERwxMcJPTuUpW1yvIsm82cOBUM9In3KxqzA1xZEVo27v0fW-EL2r0Gao5ikZmb8MX7412l13-PuZzkQbz0RMAoIVfQZJwhpaddkD5Gehyn-WoQeG88VKme515oGv0wpaoKQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Russian Shelling Hits Power Unit at
Key Ukrainian Nuclear Plant – Spokesman - The Moscow Times</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoscowtimes.com%2F2022%2F03%2F04%2Frussian-shelling-hits-power-unit-at-key-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-spokesman-a76749%3Futm_campaign%3D%5brogue_corq%5d%26fbclid%3DIwAR2jHjeMluZOJBBzaXdop5TVIo_g2iSdktPuIrPS7tsajnJYY4WJ_UlxO54&h=AT1SRkuvE7YfrROTV6VUHdmoUYhpphhNGx_P3X8mrZ4YAaHCyHq8qYAWxFC5yow9mLNeiaFQHiYtmITAKN4ukmkxW3tA9gM1fDfSRTP5tZyZW4VSWuckzzHbDQyoYGSYd9kC&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0OFLq4LlaRG6zffw9qNMDERwxMcJPTuUpW1yvIsm82cOBUM9In3KxqzA1xZEVo27v0fW-EL2r0Gao5ikZmb8MX7412l13-PuZzkQbz0RMAoIVfQZJwhpaddkD5Gehyn-WoQeG88VKme515oGv0wpaoKQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Europe's largest nuclear power plant
is on fire after an attack by Russian troops invading Ukraine, a plant
spokesman said Friday.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">March
3, 2022</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This women's denunciation of war, especially of children who
are killed, is passionate and eloquent.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will take part in this meditation. Please join us, even if
you don't meditate. You can pray, pour water ceremonially to quench a fire,
send loving thoughts, making peace within yourself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">March
2, 2022</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I completely agree with Rep. Paul Gosar. A ray of light in a
dark tunnel.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">gosar.house.gov</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Representative Paul Gosar</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Washington, DC – Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04)
issued the following statement after voting against House Resolution 956, the
so-called “Supporting the People of Ukraine Resolutio</span></p>
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Against Resolution that Drags the United States into Another War</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Washington, DC – Congressman Paul A. Gosar,
D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement after voting against House
Resolution 956, the so-called “Supporting the People of Ukraine
Resolution.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“While I have deep compassion and sympathy
for the horrible suffering of the people of Ukraine and am moved by their
nationalism, this resolution would have been more aptly titled the
“Resolution that Drags the United States into Another Foreign War.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Specifically, the resolution demands that an
armed attack against one or more NATO member in Europe or North America is
considered an attack against them all and consequently America would be
obligated to go to war. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is an unconstitutional infringement on
Article 1 Section 8 Clause 11 of the United States Constitution, which
grants only Congress the power to declare war, not NATO allies.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have repeatedly stated that this conflict
has nothing to do with American national security and not one American
soldier should be dragged into a war 5000 miles away when there is no
reason to be there. Additionally, I have called on Mr. Biden to seek
Congressional approval before sending American troops into battle. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sadly,<i> </i>the war in Ukraine
demonstrates what happens when Mr. Biden shows weakness on an international
scale and makes radical decisions tying financial and economic security to
foreign nations. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Additionally, the
Afghanistan defeat and disastrous withdrawal is still fresh in the minds of
Americans. This resolution threatens to get the United States into
another dangerous, expensive and lengthy war and there is no reason to be
there. For these reasons, I voted against it,” concluded Congressman
Paul Gosar. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 1, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Caitlin Johnstone
asks a question in this article that everyone should be thinking about.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/01/caitlin-johnstone-the-single-most-important-question-in-the-world-right-now/?fbclid=IwAR2KGriQ_Br_1w4nYH22ZmJoOMJX9ixamLxIo6CSAv25YsevykN8SoLC-nM" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/01/caitlin-johnstone-the-single-most-important-question-in-the-world-right-now/?fbclid=IwAR11u72mcY_FRaNxSNNsoZLZkM80npxtFgiMEXbl_WcgCZtjTeHHhPPvGIg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">consortiumnews.com</span><span style="color: windowtext; mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/01/caitlin-johnstone-the-single-most-important-question-in-the-world-right-now/?fbclid=IwAR11u72mcY_FRaNxSNNsoZLZkM80npxtFgiMEXbl_WcgCZtjTeHHhPPvGIg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Caitlin Johnstone: The Single Most
Important Question In The World Right Now</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Caitlin Johnson seems
to think that it's very possible the U.S. and NATO will take out Russia.
Personally, I don't think that will be the outcome.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As long as the U.S.
and NATO countries ramp up their bile and take measures to destroy the
economy of Russia, we (everyone in the world) walk a tightrope of nuclear
war. That's why all eyes are on Ukraine now and what is happening there.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russia will end this
soon in Ukraine. It won't get bogged down like it was in Afghanistan. It will
all end faster once Russia feels that it has created a buffer zone in
Ukraine. Let's see what the outcome of the talks between Russia and Ukraine
are tomorrow.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Personally, I fell in
love with Russia years ago, even though I have yet to visit there. The way I
fell in love was through my Russian students that I taught online. You're not
going to persuade me to hate all things Russian, just because you have a
media blitzkrieg against it. I'm a Libra. I always strive for balance in all
things. To me, this war hysteria is just that. When a woman gets hysterical,
somebody slaps her to abruptly bring her back to sanity. I wish there was a
way to do that with the U.S. as a country.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fodysee.com%2F%40RT%3Afd%2F'it's-unacceptable-that-us-nuclear%3A9%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3tdkHsWa1ayJolCht359kM7ven7qCqKIJbuXqVMSMLdx7TkFsIRZ-AusI&h=AT0vqAJSdKhxOv2M-ArrDgdLjw1ok4Da-cjwgh-34QUsrOz0kGrRCXSrHrYV-D1xL8kJ7uhioJozK94VjlmA7_xTr54j_MU6mMX8LHqhVhdOELo5r6zpWwbiUjKLlOjR0AZX&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0rGwdnKCOA-TrtVbKiopJf-OfNmCdN0CiUGZCkLT0xEbgEzZuvterxBvl20XKmu9c_sbxH5llzsuaMb54Jg-6BpffdqmBXUqtMtuD1m5AM2N98Q9vFEBk1Qfab5OcKUEY9J5837JEmV0Nt3QCXVVP6iA" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">'It's unacceptable that US nuclear
weapons are in Europe, it's time to bring them home' - Lavrov</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcovertactionmagazine.com%2F2022%2F03%2F01%2Frepeating-70s-strategy-of-grand-chess-master-zbigniew-brzezinski-biden-administration-appears-to-have-induced-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-to-bankrupt-russias-economy-and-advance-regime-cha%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2jHjeMluZOJBBzaXdop5TVIo_g2iSdktPuIrPS7tsajnJYY4WJ_UlxO54&h=AT1oxQrGitDRS28qwC-wrIpzDKrdWXnwVX579iFOFWy5kEwj_ByryfjiAl9SZkyQCyNp_BYpISDKUx3q2INQhHPMscBINNrn7VUP3fIkkB1-sazy0Q-RSyAKaPBzO8XQlpff&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3616w3P_1eesYtNciAOEgqNakW4owvZd3Jw2HbowY8WR4IWod2qCtHEbpT1SOJTtTxO-_bdosU4pp2dksfP5W6Rn5ZvHGWLiODYx9kP_SpbbVJ0A1Enr6vJJmQ3VLME-U3jXaXzYUCTsZzbbKnBS3pzQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Repeating '70s Strategy of Grand
Chess-Master Brzezinski: Biden Appears to Have Induced Russian Invasion of </span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been aware of the shift that took place February 22
in what has been happening in my dreams. Not to say that the war in Ukraine
hasn't impacted me terrifically, but every night I get renewed and my spirits
are uplifted. I was tired all the next day when I'd spent the night in Ukraine,
though. However, it affirmed my resolve to continue my efforts as a spiritual
warrior for peace.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I refuse to get sucked into blaming Russia entirely for the
war in Ukraine. I have been deeply researching the situation, and understand
how the West has been encroaching ever closer with bringing more neighboring
countries into NATO, a military alliance that has focused on preparing for war
against Russia. How ongoing sanctions have been a form of warfare; how military
exercises like Operation Sea Breeze, Defender Europe 2021 and NATO Sea Shield
2021 in the Black Sea have threatened Russia.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is happening now is that Russia is challenging the
hegemony of the U.S. It is stopping the expansion of NATO at its borders. It is
redefining geopolitics in a multipolar world. It is bringing an end to the
unipolar world of U.S. military dominance. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frankly, I consider that somebody needed to stand up to U.S.
military hegemony and Western dominance of the world, and I consider Putin to
have great courage in doing so. As a peace activist, I deplore that it took a
war for this to happen. I give Russia and China great credit for their efforts
to negotiate peace. The U.S. has not negotiated in good faith, and has lied
with impunity, and reniged on agreements right and left. CHEATED.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You might think that I hate my own country and that I am
determined to sabotage it. However, that's not true. We need to go through a
paradigm shift to greater awareness and caring of each other, to a more just
and fair economic system, to transitioning away from a military economy and to
end corruption in our government and systems, towards goodwill and love for
humanity.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I see great potential for this happening in the U.S. and as
a peace visionary, I want to work towards making it happen. Right now, beyond the
war in Ukraine, I see the need for a global peace movement and for the U.S.
peace movement to grow and become more effective. We need to oppose bloated
military budgets, and work to shut down military bases and war games, to change
the mindset that pits us against most of the countries in the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/celiastarchild?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZU4AIo7e6wlaou3mT8M5_RwekP2oMZnlVHmAdscgF1JjTR3c3l7X1lO_6pbB0FqEBebtuicRMkNjKhT_aCE4KHrHkqMOSCq1LLoSiD0ZIUZn41WfwH4y8HftXp9w6s6MPW3e10OvVlwirnJifpUuI9Q_MGR33wxcdnW23vSFbRhqA&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Celia Fenn</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New Moon in Pisces and 3/3 Portal</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With so much going on in the outer world, it is also good to
remember that we are still on track with our spiritual transform… </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 1, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The rhetoric and sanctions against Russia are going ballistic.
I really don't like where this is going. It doesn't augur well for the future
of humanity.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/20220301/medvedev-tells-le-maire-to-watch-his-words-after-vow-to-wage-economic--financial-war-on-russia-1093480588.html?fbclid=IwAR11u72mcY_FRaNxSNNsoZLZkM80npxtFgiMEXbl_WcgCZtjTeHHhPPvGIg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Medvedev Tells Le Maire to 'Watch His
Words' After Vow to Wage ‘Economic & Financial War’ On Russia</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/20220301/medvedev-tells-le-maire-to-watch-his-words-after-vow-to-wage-economic--financial-war-on-russia-1093480588.html?fbclid=IwAR11u72mcY_FRaNxSNNsoZLZkM80npxtFgiMEXbl_WcgCZtjTeHHhPPvGIg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The EU will wage a total
"economic and financial war" again</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Russian is clearly grieving.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1413015?fbclid=IwAR2jHjeMluZOJBBzaXdop5TVIo_g2iSdktPuIrPS7tsajnJYY4WJ_UlxO54" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Moscow-Kiev talks to begin at 12:00
Moscow time — envoy</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">March
1, 2020</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftass.com%2Fpolitics%2F1414035%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1bonPmxCm8qO2oif-5oOY_CGuZm2H_qFhRkzW3s-PDH9Oe8UxvyiSzRnQ&h=AT2YAMCjkBa9e9kCQYljfLoBbeFUbUfXND7SfqwhzXmaqh-iNss0_2iVWKmwUG9OxSvBc1RxrFQrgckGzHAM026zti1pFcCWDor-_Uz8EEI8eUNVlpcqv80LDnwUTHkpvLqg&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0-A07Qb6RRWKAGmfx_wmmdLoV7SVcc3S2UDl_hmGPIcSgwXPyaKcKvS6pUO13tsM7Hg_XHI9XSrRdPSGbbzLH0b1d5qkIburdR_6hPGkYvlIw118gCmBilULGaQkuDXTIX61U6mPyx745G2JHGfysnuQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Risks of West’s aggression against
Russia, Belarus were clear long ago — Lukashenko</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">February
28, 2022</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Negotiations have been concluded between Russia and Ukraine.
Awaiting statements.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1413465?fbclid=IwAR2OCpC0hqOt6k2u6oagqUWsTZ8H7J1Fknqd_eNCwelgZPOUmWVW2IY8YKg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Russia-Ukraine negotiations are over,
says source</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1413465?fbclid=IwAR2OCpC0hqOt6k2u6oagqUWsTZ8H7J1Fknqd_eNCwelgZPOUmWVW2IY8YKg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The participants in the meeting are
expected to give comments for the media on the results of the negotiations</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Incredible show. This is the best yet coverage of what's
happening in Ukraine. I'm listening to Scott Ritter now.</span></p>
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fmr UN weapons inspector Tony Kevin : fmr Australian Ambassador to Poland &
AU diplomat in Moscow ...</span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The outbreak of war in Ukraine needs to be put in the
context of recent U.S.-led NATO military exercises preparing for war against
Russia. Calling Russia the aggressor is inverted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is an excellent article from last year that brings out
many issues that are not being addressed in mainstream press in this push to
war with Russia, framing Putin as the aggressor.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsws.org%2Fen%2Farticles%2F2021%2F05%2F13%2Fnato-m13.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2OCpC0hqOt6k2u6oagqUWsTZ8H7J1Fknqd_eNCwelgZPOUmWVW2IY8YKg&h=AT21dF7MnfKOgSzBijJbscT-lPeFgjdurkDY1DU4A2Nt1fzAosqO-TnsEX60Whm09KnZ4yYiA4jFrrd6pKHGZZjlKY99XedN2OF5_8zNBhjVa3eY1ySdTHIfw21coa7OqQck&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT05JXhrMnfY284uRsd1Zxr19Bns8s2JkLlnPaY07RNgRMeI_qoPttbtpXOoipWLaLoJizjY15RvGP9mhXoAk4DYxbpibB-z9ANCYUplh-guL8mm2_4UiSpyogpI1qYFQ3gZcPIUzDOyWhdmDYlo2N3lSA" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">NATO begins massive Defender 2021
military exercises aimed at Russia</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsws.org%2Fen%2Farticles%2F2021%2F05%2F13%2Fnato-m13.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2OCpC0hqOt6k2u6oagqUWsTZ8H7J1Fknqd_eNCwelgZPOUmWVW2IY8YKg&h=AT21dF7MnfKOgSzBijJbscT-lPeFgjdurkDY1DU4A2Nt1fzAosqO-TnsEX60Whm09KnZ4yYiA4jFrrd6pKHGZZjlKY99XedN2OF5_8zNBhjVa3eY1ySdTHIfw21coa7OqQck&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT05JXhrMnfY284uRsd1Zxr19Bns8s2JkLlnPaY07RNgRMeI_qoPttbtpXOoipWLaLoJizjY15RvGP9mhXoAk4DYxbpibB-z9ANCYUplh-guL8mm2_4UiSpyogpI1qYFQ3gZcPIUzDOyWhdmDYlo2N3lSA" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The inclusion of non-NATO states
including Ukraine and Georgia in NATO’s largest war games in Europe since the
end of the Cold War, on Russia’s borders, is very provocative.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Looking back a little. U.S.-led NATO's ongoing war exercises
with 20-30 other countries last year, heightened tensions with Russia. All the
war gaming has been focused on going up against Russia. Duh? Are we such
ignorant imbeciles as to think that all this organizing for war against Russia
isn't going to be perceived as a threat by Russia. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a peace activist, I call for an end to NATO and an end to
war games and preparations for major war, not just with Russia, </span><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: STXingkai;">but with China and other countries. We need
to pivot away from military conflict, not prepare for it. And by we, I mean
humanity.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsputniknews.com%2F20211227%2Fnato-preparing-for-large-scale-armed-conflict-with-russia-russian-defence-ministry-says-1091840807.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1cHbBe3WREmhXs18sfy6lGIFoGBrUoTAZ_1dUaK5bVSDuXOuNV4h4JXyI&h=AT37Kk012wFruG2OegzvfBtoVq8T0Lr4qBympndr_WJP754yABp38ywr_K0MIBAGQK1OqhL7G0MPU3GE6-EmpSc4wxaM30e3fV_Ljar2y9UBLQN_Qk2AVYDFQuhO_aTiLzi6&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0mebMGAIJLD20U6PoIwyDuJYlfQ_STDLVY_8Nu_e2l2T9BpbGRs-NJnNxHJGaHKidAnCpZJgzra7Ccr7MQmJcQ64yT1DQFHPFObvwm3HNJb__RzzLikUrXxLkmxL1O-Wfb8yQQbK0im1k0wHtW26rICw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Russian Defence Ministry: NATO
Preparing for Large-Scale High-Intensity Conflict With Moscow</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsputniknews.com%2F20211227%2Fnato-preparing-for-large-scale-armed-conflict-with-russia-russian-defence-ministry-says-1091840807.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1cHbBe3WREmhXs18sfy6lGIFoGBrUoTAZ_1dUaK5bVSDuXOuNV4h4JXyI&h=AT37Kk012wFruG2OegzvfBtoVq8T0Lr4qBympndr_WJP754yABp38ywr_K0MIBAGQK1OqhL7G0MPU3GE6-EmpSc4wxaM30e3fV_Ljar2y9UBLQN_Qk2AVYDFQuhO_aTiLzi6&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0mebMGAIJLD20U6PoIwyDuJYlfQ_STDLVY_8Nu_e2l2T9BpbGRs-NJnNxHJGaHKidAnCpZJgzra7Ccr7MQmJcQ64yT1DQFHPFObvwm3HNJb__RzzLikUrXxLkmxL1O-Wfb8yQQbK0im1k0wHtW26rICw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Moscow has expressed concerns about
the concentration of Western alliance missile systems, troops, warships, and
aircraft near Russia's borders, and NATO's decades' long eastward expansion.
This month, the Russian Foreign Ministry formally...</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I just came across this interesting article.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbusinessinsider.mx%2Fus-military-failed-miserably-in-war-game-changing-warfighting-strategy-2021-7%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1WDgNjdPMe_Q9EOcKpZAPfYSUKITwAmdw092PWadgob9i1SXP902y0SAE&h=AT1gtZjk19HJ9YWGbBsgz2O_Ju7ahVM20gWhFdNkjfLzirQOCXv9601Df5hrqJb8Uxef1-NQ7uI5Yf7zS2zTTowVOhBItWr2VGAt3Wkw4goaLUREv4PrqRAynw-CzifQEnjK&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3g4U0qnMkxjf4WPYaUX_L4RK9WYKC4s3sUU4qFbG7zknCeFTqji9OmvFxvBfq5vqNDc2hizkw81s-FZxLxZa22rFSrNXfHLbRL6oskISBroxH5HvvhgO8LKRIjcvXYQdZ8apkG759_tvwnEP4edipI-A" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The US military is changing the way it
fights after it 'failed miserably' in a war game against an aggressive
adversary who knew its playbook | Business Insider México | Noticias pensadas
para ti</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbusinessinsider.mx%2Fus-military-failed-miserably-in-war-game-changing-warfighting-strategy-2021-7%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1WDgNjdPMe_Q9EOcKpZAPfYSUKITwAmdw092PWadgob9i1SXP902y0SAE&h=AT1gtZjk19HJ9YWGbBsgz2O_Ju7ahVM20gWhFdNkjfLzirQOCXv9601Df5hrqJb8Uxef1-NQ7uI5Yf7zS2zTTowVOhBItWr2VGAt3Wkw4goaLUREv4PrqRAynw-CzifQEnjK&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3g4U0qnMkxjf4WPYaUX_L4RK9WYKC4s3sUU4qFbG7zknCeFTqji9OmvFxvBfq5vqNDc2hizkw81s-FZxLxZa22rFSrNXfHLbRL6oskISBroxH5HvvhgO8LKRIjcvXYQdZ8apkG759_tvwnEP4edipI-A" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"They knew exactly what we're
going to do before we did it, and they took advantage of it," a US general
revealed.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Incidents like these that took place last summer have
contributed to Russia's taking a strong stance in Ukraine. All these military
games are not so innocent. In fact, they provoke war instead of preventing it.</span></p>
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Gorenburg On June 23, the HMS Defender—a British Type 45 destroyer—was involved
in a confrontation with the Russian military while sailing near the Crimean
Peninsula. The ship was in the Black...</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been following this situation very closely for
several weeks now. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This morning, I wrote a possible scenario for the outcome
that could be positive for the people of Ukraine.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russia has
now succeeded in their goal of making Ukraine neutral. It will never join NATO
now. However, there may rise out of the ashes of this war a new security
agreement that includes Russia and UkraineLugansk has been liberated. There is
still some fighting in Donetsk, but it will soon be over. Ukraine has
recognized the independence of the breakaway oblasts in the east in the Donbas.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zelensky has agreed to hand over the Nazis accused of war
crimes by Russia for prosecution. In exchange for his cooperation, he's being
allowed to stay in power temporarily... as a figurehead.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The power behind the scenes in Ukraine is now Russia, not
the U.S. or NATO, who have lost most of their control in Ukraine.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Incoming delivery of weapons from the West will be
confiscated. or effectively stopped. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A coalition of countries hammers out economic assistance for
Ukraine to lift the people out of poverty in the form of trade agreements,
cooperative projects, cash assistance for the neediest Ukrainians,
infrastructure building at village level, energy projects for conversion from
nuclear power to renewable energy sources, cultural and educational exchange
programs, and promotion of tourism as peace takes hold and the economy
stabilizes. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Delegations of business people and academics visit Ukraine
to assist in projects that lift the poorest of the poor out of poverty. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is not aid from the International Monetary Fund or any
of the usual sources of economic aid that only further impoverish the people of
a country. This coalition of countries will act as pioneers of the paradigm
shift in creating win/win outcomes for their investments with ingenious
programs that benefit the well-being of the people at the bottom rungs of the
economic ladder the most.</span></p>
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Russia's Security Interests Are Considered, Putin Tells Macron</span></a></span></u></p>
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noted that Russian troops do not threaten civilians and do not conduct strikes
against civilian targets in Ukraine.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 27, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I woke up tired this morning; I had spent the night in
Ukraine in my dreams, keeping vigil with the people there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And so this morning, I wrote a poem about it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soul Daring Wayfarers… </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People on the move</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Moving in migration</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fleeing uncertainty of war</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fleeing agitation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Going who knows where</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trudging tiredly onward</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seeking kindness</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seeking haven.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leaving behind</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the life they knew</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Somehow getting through</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a feminist, I have taken the liberty of rewriting and
updating this ancient poem, No Man is an Island, that has always been a
favorite of mine. The war in Ukraine brings it to mind. John Donne wrote it as
a devotion on emergent occasions.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'No One is an Island'</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No one is an island entire of itself; everyone </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">well as any manner of thy friends or of thine </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">own were; anyone's death diminishes me, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">because I am involved in humanity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And therefore never send to know for whom </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If the U.S. had not been such a double dealer on arms
agreements, it might never have come to this.</span></p>
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Missiles, Yars ICBM, Kalibr & Zircon in Drills - Videos</span></u></p>
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cruise missile system is nuclear capable, and is one of several hypersonic
weapons rolled out by Russia in the late 2010s in a bid to preserve global
strategic stability amid US efforts to...</span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It seems to me that Russia will retaliate against the severe
sanctions being levied against it by decreasing or cutting off gas supplies to
Europe. Winter is far from over. There is the grave possibility of people in
Europe also being hurt by the war in Ukraine. To say nothing of the disruption
happening with shipping, which will, of course, drive up prices across the
board.</span></p>
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retaliation if war breaks out</span></a></span></u></p>
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diversify energy supplies and stick to EU’s fiscal rules</span></a></span></u></p>
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sucked down in a whirlpool. </span></p>
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retaliation -RIA</span></a></span></u></p>
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money of Russian citizens and companies abroad by seizing funds of foreigners
and foreign companies in Russia, RIA news agency quoted Dmitry Medvedev, deputy
head of the security council, as saying on Saturday.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This hurts me. It seems that the Ukrainian crisis is
spinning crazily out of control into WWIII. Of course, Russia is retaliating by
banning flights from these countries in its airspace. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I heard some commentator say that this war in Ukraine is
really over American control of Europe, whereas Russia being much closer, it
would naturally be a better source of gas and stronger trading partner than the
U.S.. Yet, Europe is spiting itself. So now the Europeans have agreed to ban
Russia from SWIFT. How will this impact the $35 billion trade that the U.S. has
with Russia? Nowhere near as much as the $250 billion trade that European
countries have with Russia. Right now, it looks as though the U.S. has
succeeded in making Europe its vassal. The empire waxes stronger on the blood
of Ukrainians. Absolutely disgusting.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wanted to report on the peace movement coalescing, but so
far it has been marginalized, just as it was when the U.S. attacked Iraq. But
the game is not yet over, and I anxiously await further developments.</span><a href="https://simpleflying.com/russian-airlines-are-banned-from-the-baltic-region/?fbclid=IwAR2jHjeMluZOJBBzaXdop5TVIo_g2iSdktPuIrPS7tsajnJYY4WJ_UlxO54" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsimpleflying.com%2Frussian-airlines-are-banned-from-the-baltic-region%2F%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0LNf-f4RGbDvu1d39QvWeN3_oeH7ahyze6gp_-O8tT1WMdVmRL_kOumuw&h=AT3lVI2khvrhNd6RY_Z_FD9ZwqR0s5c1yDv6yhoiVh9gUjH_lO1L6_mMEqY42dZxdF-5ZYTRfu-JleJ7Eq7BPCggez-Z5h1XwVuoi7-kq2FepLjXHH8dm3CCG5XHXKKJg4UU&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT33y2TlTa3d4JXlry_95AjOt_ICvz3SNzOAJLeo3FwKCwZglU-xe_InoO0jxiG_BCdMUFBg55T9HJ3Hfm2LTk0Yty-608Snkq9ik-3sa59aMG_Obsl0aOEo8uXYWNJctAg5LicF-z7XcVz_EUmtSpq-1g" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Russian Airlines Are Banned From The
Baltic Region</span></a></span></u></p>
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Romania, and Bulgaria have banned Russian airlines from their airspaces. Europe
could be next.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ukranian soldiers on Snake Island were apparently not
bombed. They surrendered.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=zvWiPlbZSQ0&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1IH1KqkgI-H7I92G6ofO-HATnE7lZbGPnUYqGidYawb7TTjzaajrMetmg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Surrendered Ukrainian servicemen
arrive in Crimea</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=zvWiPlbZSQ0&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1IH1KqkgI-H7I92G6ofO-HATnE7lZbGPnUYqGidYawb7TTjzaajrMetmg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">82 Ukrainian servicemen reach Crimea's
Sevastopol after voluntarily laying down arms on Zmeiniy Island. After going
through short-term legal procedures, the ...</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshar.es%2FaWFCNb%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0_XhGLCM73eXhPlihC74XuVSJ_WgxD55AZ7TW6BoijGuMAeslj9iEiZdQ&h=AT3IoFAWi0yqW5AVqIyVPFr3oCB-DPy4P_R7RrsLfeEGV9Qi6R-2g-xll2ZzfngRxzDYWIsS7DYbO74L3i_aiKwU7dHzi8sUHSGeL8cWTCnZRUb0JokhcZN7NZluWEiaZtlh&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0yeWbStr4N__pa2ABrFJrA78r0vaeY44v33f4WogJ_rmGMlowIxqUIxooooGmv-LNTkym0cB9PQoIKQ4WTUzV890VzrGOPfV5Ux6gBgsmlqiEtKiSH8alPSYc8uczZ5FHycWRLG0SzF7FRSJDmXUgaJQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">UPDATED: Russian Navy Cruisers
Positioned to Counter U.S., French and Italian Carrier Groups in the
Mediterranean - USNI News</span></a></span></u></p>
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statement from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday. This post has been
updated to correct Monday’s position of RTS Marshal Ustinov. Three Russian
guided-missile cruisers have been arrayed across the Black Sea and the
Mediterranean Sea to counter three NATO ...</span></a></span></u></p>
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peace activist, I come from a military family. My niece is a fighter pilot
assigned to the USS Harry Truman, which is in the Adriatic Sea right now, with
three Russian warships patrolling the Mediterranean. Anything c… </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It seems Russian intelligence was accurate. If this
broadcast is true, Russian forces have had considerable success in Ukraine
since Putin's special operations began.<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0z8TzRbHOEA%26feature%3Dshare%26fbclid%3DIwAR0pvu4J6ThND-QFOcdIebadM1CLoUecikj3dkz9NR0uzOXVCJ28R6Ha5C8&h=AT0hm8m42rkFl7OCnrajrIYpRt3PQldPs2sClgsQaTR1jsrHDFfFC5O2rDZd9hzniASRR_C3DUcus6zzBM16cdlDsMr512AMIrrzDucD_jnnQraeLCKebOv-vQLwxqPU2rHp&__tn__=H-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0q2wUC413p2XBvjDIaPDw9CEftVuK--PSsUd6kXnkrOURmjFr1beEMKkz4iP540svzSlUTswh7gDLbwTndCLlv3oyD5AbJOTbOPtvH706LjxRicBP3-wERIF0vp2yP--C5zQBU85vnu0qn2pLwRqr2ZQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></p>
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militaries targets in Ukraine</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 25, 2022</span></span></p>
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press have been deleted by Facebook)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no such thing as defensive weapons. Weapons are
weapons.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tass.com</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ukraine has more US Javelin weapons on its
territory than some NATO states — Shoigu</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The practice of beefing up Ukraine with weapons
continues with incomprehensible goals, the Russian Defense Minister pointed out</span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think it's important in this tense time, to hear from both
sides. The Internet makes this possible.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftass.com%2Fpolitics%2F1410761%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0KIBUfLo0R7eKYBGzZBvrmiwwDh4cmiQqsuO-Nq89VyHqQoVTC9-3gioc&h=AT36OUvDT6ieu-4f6anSIv5XcxS1vl6JjrdaqVCfQE6UPo2LH5Ixjd5uACKBEJ6U50sRsBDNxNC2RBsumGaKb9GCDrstTCrNlihVSZa1ROaawqY66LJ7SSU4rA95kVEFB31o&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1h8swvbMjKxgP3C4uph0pmqckMZBADd4ejcqqdOGoj150EHuKkvjewWFWU7jNVcicHuXpHKYDgKq_3Sgy-sjsz9mH1jUKyWw6F2Fe1koiZSdalyeVIQd1iIZwuV3tpELr0rnSVnjsRpT1itMzWw-YtZQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftass.com%2Fpolitics%2F1410761%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0KIBUfLo0R7eKYBGzZBvrmiwwDh4cmiQqsuO-Nq89VyHqQoVTC9-3gioc&h=AT36OUvDT6ieu-4f6anSIv5XcxS1vl6JjrdaqVCfQE6UPo2LH5Ixjd5uACKBEJ6U50sRsBDNxNC2RBsumGaKb9GCDrstTCrNlihVSZa1ROaawqY66LJ7SSU4rA95kVEFB31o&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1h8swvbMjKxgP3C4uph0pmqckMZBADd4ejcqqdOGoj150EHuKkvjewWFWU7jNVcicHuXpHKYDgKq_3Sgy-sjsz9mH1jUKyWw6F2Fe1koiZSdalyeVIQd1iIZwuV3tpELr0rnSVnjsRpT1itMzWw-YtZQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">tass.com</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftass.com%2Fpolitics%2F1410761%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0KIBUfLo0R7eKYBGzZBvrmiwwDh4cmiQqsuO-Nq89VyHqQoVTC9-3gioc&h=AT36OUvDT6ieu-4f6anSIv5XcxS1vl6JjrdaqVCfQE6UPo2LH5Ixjd5uACKBEJ6U50sRsBDNxNC2RBsumGaKb9GCDrstTCrNlihVSZa1ROaawqY66LJ7SSU4rA95kVEFB31o&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1h8swvbMjKxgP3C4uph0pmqckMZBADd4ejcqqdOGoj150EHuKkvjewWFWU7jNVcicHuXpHKYDgKq_3Sgy-sjsz9mH1jUKyWw6F2Fe1koiZSdalyeVIQd1iIZwuV3tpELr0rnSVnjsRpT1itMzWw-YtZQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Ukrainian garrison at Snake Island
surrenders to Russian Armed Forces — Defense Ministry</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftass.com%2Fpolitics%2F1410761%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0KIBUfLo0R7eKYBGzZBvrmiwwDh4cmiQqsuO-Nq89VyHqQoVTC9-3gioc&h=AT36OUvDT6ieu-4f6anSIv5XcxS1vl6JjrdaqVCfQE6UPo2LH5Ixjd5uACKBEJ6U50sRsBDNxNC2RBsumGaKb9GCDrstTCrNlihVSZa1ROaawqY66LJ7SSU4rA95kVEFB31o&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1h8swvbMjKxgP3C4uph0pmqckMZBADd4ejcqqdOGoj150EHuKkvjewWFWU7jNVcicHuXpHKYDgKq_3Sgy-sjsz9mH1jUKyWw6F2Fe1koiZSdalyeVIQd1iIZwuV3tpELr0rnSVnjsRpT1itMzWw-YtZQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">82 Ukrainian servicemen laid down
their weapons and voluntarily surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wonder if this is true. It would be major news if it were.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftass.com%2Fdefense%2F1410211%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2q4Y0GaWjK0iQ4-B7sxLFhMuE7E_diQBMKd-DQ55796pEw_UntUaVPWDI&h=AT244GvYIaHsKKuf7BQ1SGmVhtg596LjgspPdYYk9oonGl2yF3jqq7lbSUqZnmvrtHB2CStGTPtpS2E_uroLuaeTVWGhDm6hurV0fDCkAMMX6buebmklMmh79m6D7aNMYXrq&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT38sUFVCN0nZsixMXSlAV9jPzjqsJOtsluJV-Y2-kX9fb_sjA4w6nmtR_zr6_OA9ZW8JbPYzdV8xIgcqMe4mbJ_4NUI_1St5p9OMVROyVfMaguoo2i2GKoiqFz4FMyQCIJZ5bH3mcpOzWBjX-ippHBrVg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">tass.com</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftass.com%2Fdefense%2F1410211%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2q4Y0GaWjK0iQ4-B7sxLFhMuE7E_diQBMKd-DQ55796pEw_UntUaVPWDI&h=AT244GvYIaHsKKuf7BQ1SGmVhtg596LjgspPdYYk9oonGl2yF3jqq7lbSUqZnmvrtHB2CStGTPtpS2E_uroLuaeTVWGhDm6hurV0fDCkAMMX6buebmklMmh79m6D7aNMYXrq&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT38sUFVCN0nZsixMXSlAV9jPzjqsJOtsluJV-Y2-kX9fb_sjA4w6nmtR_zr6_OA9ZW8JbPYzdV8xIgcqMe4mbJ_4NUI_1St5p9OMVROyVfMaguoo2i2GKoiqFz4FMyQCIJZ5bH3mcpOzWBjX-ippHBrVg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Fighters of Ukraine’s 57th Separate
Motorized Infantry Brigade lay down arms and join LPR</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftass.com%2Fdefense%2F1410211%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2q4Y0GaWjK0iQ4-B7sxLFhMuE7E_diQBMKd-DQ55796pEw_UntUaVPWDI&h=AT244GvYIaHsKKuf7BQ1SGmVhtg596LjgspPdYYk9oonGl2yF3jqq7lbSUqZnmvrtHB2CStGTPtpS2E_uroLuaeTVWGhDm6hurV0fDCkAMMX6buebmklMmh79m6D7aNMYXrq&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT38sUFVCN0nZsixMXSlAV9jPzjqsJOtsluJV-Y2-kX9fb_sjA4w6nmtR_zr6_OA9ZW8JbPYzdV8xIgcqMe4mbJ_4NUI_1St5p9OMVROyVfMaguoo2i2GKoiqFz4FMyQCIJZ5bH3mcpOzWBjX-ippHBrVg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Lugansk People's Militia command
said that the surrendered fighters would be released home after the
hostilities’ end</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 26, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm listening to this right now. Good program.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJAEybTns0Lg%26feature%3Dshare%26fbclid%3DIwAR0piMaDxwXpe0sZDDWg-KRaalnV_kszIk6iBV1AXl-1BOg50O5bdi52OGw&h=AT1cCeLlcS8DrEBibRrhkcSZBGW6rHir5VHpaoaGi1xmspYNX7sKbsKhkfGbLXJPRqq7upbvWA1H2uwK_yZ_7sobzhU_g7CAmU4hqkE7w-xT6n8M2S4WzFDTPdDx11mYdKiy&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0zEmp91gC67JVMs2-1IC5P4YP4hXz1R-0xlAe8ith4qv681AwPqjybYQPGgGYyeiZPyXNn2IPXYLRafux-Vnsw7C2sUOLN6N08ah_tpzyqQzOUxvI0iACgF_AJHWz9WQc0wgSK22UJXwKMgVsuWKLxEQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Ukraine: Questions for the US Anti-War
Movement w/ Abby Martin & Brian Becker</span></a></span></u></p>
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Martin and Brian Becker discuss the Ukraine war and what it means for the
anti-war movement.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I stand in solidarity with people in Ukraine and everywhere.
We all want peace, not war. Well maybe war profiteers who are laughing all the
way to the bank are the exception. They love war. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When you think about the profits that Wall Street makes on
financing wars, on how our entire economy in the U.S. depends on wars, it makes
you shudder how we as Americans can deal in the blood, misery, suffering and
destruction of so many other people in countries where we blunder in. Wars do
not "help" anyone. They do not move us closer to solutions to our
real problems.</span></p>
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Ukraine Crisis</span></p>
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Russia who oppose the invasi… </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I just took part in the Code Pink Emergency International
Online Rally: No War in Ukraine - No to NATO. There were nearly 2,000 people
from several countries on this call. The chat room was lively, with a wide
spread of political viewpoints. It was quite interesting. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxVQ_i_b4qnI%26feature%3Dshare%26fbclid%3DIwAR28C0umOwPKQtkjbJnHfLoEMG06APSE-RbFyqGL0z5JNLQkM9ce2o7NrDA&h=AT1s76HjQshNUkA3uEp4kcM0SCczv369GYOKsQa5uG3et1-_Y2C_6Tbcl92zwM8oxNLhOFxO6FLi5_qJU3uhdGXee-9oVG-dXjXilIeSbt1J6NhoOAzzZRL8ngcpa01X5vcC&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3QSCjNcK0DSXNVpyA19hqZe8vcvLLxNyE32A3LQR3M9CvxChx1jNTFmU4UAGxDztt53Z-WU__CjM7b7OZdDATFynYG71zszunOC81IQAm3AxjX9XDIo_hTRFJSSL6lKOFZ6yiZmzf89bKv_ilPc7PoVg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">International Emergency Online Rally:
No War in Ukraine - No to NATO</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxVQ_i_b4qnI%26feature%3Dshare%26fbclid%3DIwAR28C0umOwPKQtkjbJnHfLoEMG06APSE-RbFyqGL0z5JNLQkM9ce2o7NrDA&h=AT1s76HjQshNUkA3uEp4kcM0SCczv369GYOKsQa5uG3et1-_Y2C_6Tbcl92zwM8oxNLhOFxO6FLi5_qJU3uhdGXee-9oVG-dXjXilIeSbt1J6NhoOAzzZRL8ngcpa01X5vcC&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3QSCjNcK0DSXNVpyA19hqZe8vcvLLxNyE32A3LQR3M9CvxChx1jNTFmU4UAGxDztt53Z-WU__CjM7b7OZdDATFynYG71zszunOC81IQAm3AxjX9XDIo_hTRFJSSL6lKOFZ6yiZmzf89bKv_ilPc7PoVg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">This is URGENT! We are horrified at
the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. We must come together across borders
to demand a diplomatic solution to the pr...</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace Summit in Madrid</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sign the declaration at their website.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Disband NATO. NATO is a grave threat to world peace, having
already left a trail of destruction from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan. We need a
world of peace.… </span></p>
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language: Disband NATO. NATO is a grave threat to world peace, having already
left a trail of destruction from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan. We need a world of
peace. NO TO NATO NATO must be disba...</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Starting from tomorrow I will be hosting a daily peace
meditation at 9pm GMT, 4pm EST, 1pm PST at fb live @lunarinaquest. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My heart goes for all of the people of my homeland. I am
utterly terrified and cannot even phantom how my people feel in the war zone.
Taking an action towards creating more peace and more love no matter how small
it seems is soothing to my spirit. I believe in the power of our voices, power
of our intentions and power of love that is the strongest force in the world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/prayforukraine?__eep__=6&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVtXAS_5GKrOT278BZExjbycYosGDIGuPEI_fbM1DtWM5lPUxe0oqtsvq59K0cREr6MDUNiL5Ndd-Z4KsTBC5rVD9arPV-TXYxqrWMYeE8TtnO9ygjalqDyq8VlZAEZElsT0RGi_ZTzOtOr53KHMxIM71LXRBdT9f4qKqNvKFRgtg&__tn__=*NK-y-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#prayforukraine</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ukrainewar?__eep__=6&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVtXAS_5GKrOT278BZExjbycYosGDIGuPEI_fbM1DtWM5lPUxe0oqtsvq59K0cREr6MDUNiL5Ndd-Z4KsTBC5rVD9arPV-TXYxqrWMYeE8TtnO9ygjalqDyq8VlZAEZElsT0RGi_ZTzOtOr53KHMxIM71LXRBdT9f4qKqNvKFRgtg&__tn__=*NK-y-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#ukrainewar</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/prayforpeace?__eep__=6&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVtXAS_5GKrOT278BZExjbycYosGDIGuPEI_fbM1DtWM5lPUxe0oqtsvq59K0cREr6MDUNiL5Ndd-Z4KsTBC5rVD9arPV-TXYxqrWMYeE8TtnO9ygjalqDyq8VlZAEZElsT0RGi_ZTzOtOr53KHMxIM71LXRBdT9f4qKqNvKFRgtg&__tn__=*NK-y-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#prayforpeace</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/womenforpeace?__eep__=6&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVtXAS_5GKrOT278BZExjbycYosGDIGuPEI_fbM1DtWM5lPUxe0oqtsvq59K0cREr6MDUNiL5Ndd-Z4KsTBC5rVD9arPV-TXYxqrWMYeE8TtnO9ygjalqDyq8VlZAEZElsT0RGi_ZTzOtOr53KHMxIM71LXRBdT9f4qKqNvKFRgtg&__tn__=*NK-y-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#womenforpeace</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 25, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People all over the world are praying for peace in Ukraine.
This war is a wakeup call for us all. We must shift from fear into love for
each other.</span></p>
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home in </span></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Mount-Shasta-California-112813722065273/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXpxJ53fauLXeYcuXAY3WaUIyG9RBerUQaZ51tv9kYAotyHJ-ys3tqGZMOcx7SapU3KK5iJcPZeDK6sYYEinXIFWlYWXJxtwwa94Tpr5NzcTKutHQxjIn4ZR-toO9Qx9-2ZnN1y39NZc7uGQvmcfWwt1IlvLOgN89Sic0nBzQiHPQ&__tn__=kC%2CP-y-R"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mount Shasta, California</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">· <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MAY PEACE FLOW THROUGH ALL LIFE BRINGING UNITY AND EXPANDED
LOVE, THAT NEW CHOICES WILL BIRTH THROUGH THE HEART OF ALL CREATION ...<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><img alt="🌎" border="0" height="16" src="file:///C:/Users/ariel/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image005.gif" width="16" /><img alt="🙏" border="0" height="16" src="file:///C:/Users/ariel/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image007.gif" width="16" /></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ty Jenny Heston</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">⚘</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 25, 2022</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14539&fbclid=IwAR26XQTw_0Nm3q0TP4pjHhJlovScNWqbQOJDF8h6chQFbDibT6FeDgYaMi8" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14539&fbclid=IwAR26XQTw_0Nm3q0TP4pjHhJlovScNWqbQOJDF8h6chQFbDibT6FeDgYaMi8" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">act.rootsaction.org</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14539&fbclid=IwAR26XQTw_0Nm3q0TP4pjHhJlovScNWqbQOJDF8h6chQFbDibT6FeDgYaMi8" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Messages of solidarity from antiwar
activists in the United States to the antiwar people of Russia |
RootsAction.org</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They say that the U.S. has no culture. Wrong. We do. It's
called a cheating culture. Of course, it permeates our country but does not
wholly define us. There are good people everywhere. But are we a good country?
Are we good neighbors? I'm afraid the answer is a resounding no.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftransnational.live%2F2022%2F02%2F16%2Falfred-de-zayas-a-culture-of-cheating-on-the-origins-of-the-crisis-in-ukraine%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0pRUehLPRzWZkSjyeXrSGJRmMKLkg6ouT3cU1Uw-NjfFL-KExSd6n6CBI&h=AT2wraJU6HGzcoyPCcFvd6qMbhp_dx9-S_tznsB1Isohme8ovrG1s-dwLuFLrIIhNED42T2pTEyORf_Kt3AunzPOB0cfgo2x4yJgbCTpG2-5Wy5fDkBuqDkOH6xpDQI624y5&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1-JQHdehJZCJzvMX2n1i8Cx9TPkYV0-0ggiyeaAHOQ10mQICwdknMGmEXDmhRPz1v-gCDqnme_XQd-_0YrFxEEgZwEx2W8o9-oNiEx2r_DxlyaU8LbWfkRQ3yT8GIbWjSqKBWXuYcvSwE4dPsxQzkwXw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftransnational.live%2F2022%2F02%2F16%2Falfred-de-zayas-a-culture-of-cheating-on-the-origins-of-the-crisis-in-ukraine%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0pRUehLPRzWZkSjyeXrSGJRmMKLkg6ouT3cU1Uw-NjfFL-KExSd6n6CBI&h=AT2wraJU6HGzcoyPCcFvd6qMbhp_dx9-S_tznsB1Isohme8ovrG1s-dwLuFLrIIhNED42T2pTEyORf_Kt3AunzPOB0cfgo2x4yJgbCTpG2-5Wy5fDkBuqDkOH6xpDQI624y5&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1-JQHdehJZCJzvMX2n1i8Cx9TPkYV0-0ggiyeaAHOQ10mQICwdknMGmEXDmhRPz1v-gCDqnme_XQd-_0YrFxEEgZwEx2W8o9-oNiEx2r_DxlyaU8LbWfkRQ3yT8GIbWjSqKBWXuYcvSwE4dPsxQzkwXw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Alfred De Zayas: A Culture of Cheating
- On the Origins of the Crisis in Ukraine - The Transnational</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftransnational.live%2F2022%2F02%2F16%2Falfred-de-zayas-a-culture-of-cheating-on-the-origins-of-the-crisis-in-ukraine%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0pRUehLPRzWZkSjyeXrSGJRmMKLkg6ouT3cU1Uw-NjfFL-KExSd6n6CBI&h=AT2wraJU6HGzcoyPCcFvd6qMbhp_dx9-S_tznsB1Isohme8ovrG1s-dwLuFLrIIhNED42T2pTEyORf_Kt3AunzPOB0cfgo2x4yJgbCTpG2-5Wy5fDkBuqDkOH6xpDQI624y5&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1-JQHdehJZCJzvMX2n1i8Cx9TPkYV0-0ggiyeaAHOQ10mQICwdknMGmEXDmhRPz1v-gCDqnme_XQd-_0YrFxEEgZwEx2W8o9-oNiEx2r_DxlyaU8LbWfkRQ3yT8GIbWjSqKBWXuYcvSwE4dPsxQzkwXw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Alfred De Zayas February 11, 2022 The
current tensions between the United States and Russia with regard to Ukraine
goes back to a series of NATO actions</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Would that the world now comes together in prayer for the
people of Ukraine. If you believe in the power of prayer, please add your
blessings!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Pilger has it right.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsputniknews.com%2F20220224%2Fhypocrites-on-parade-john-pilger-calls-out-world-leaders-for-ignoring-donbass-shelling-for-years-1093342503.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0WSXgqu80rZ6SZgGqbWoQQ0gVQyHA0yBgv6928OVNMfD4LzuTey0quSNI&h=AT1wMfAsVvAGcaM83kS1MZzIJdap5PZ1Sl1v8Mmh1tNGsUfH9XcaYiYDWpW9GEg1kMpHKDqhlQZOrApM4200X3D3t1AEYd3i3R96ZmS9pJrlp3IHQ5HlhdS2_mKPEgsvN1VB&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT2EjH_i7wElfGTbqA_Xx2TsQOJHvmpIUZmukI7ZTY_7EAbmrXYpXYN7EHyiNhX-d0Yw59nphuu3X-YFrixm2aoKxXXo8_nnmAwuC4LL0qyJnjNveP4y0NrabWz6jm_yxCdIY11kn22ERxbq9ZP_rQPqhg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">'Hypocrites on Parade': John Pilger
Calls Out World Leaders for Ignoring Donbass Shelling For Years</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsputniknews.com%2F20220224%2Fhypocrites-on-parade-john-pilger-calls-out-world-leaders-for-ignoring-donbass-shelling-for-years-1093342503.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0WSXgqu80rZ6SZgGqbWoQQ0gVQyHA0yBgv6928OVNMfD4LzuTey0quSNI&h=AT1wMfAsVvAGcaM83kS1MZzIJdap5PZ1Sl1v8Mmh1tNGsUfH9XcaYiYDWpW9GEg1kMpHKDqhlQZOrApM4200X3D3t1AEYd3i3R96ZmS9pJrlp3IHQ5HlhdS2_mKPEgsvN1VB&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT2EjH_i7wElfGTbqA_Xx2TsQOJHvmpIUZmukI7ZTY_7EAbmrXYpXYN7EHyiNhX-d0Yw59nphuu3X-YFrixm2aoKxXXo8_nnmAwuC4LL0qyJnjNveP4y0NrabWz6jm_yxCdIY11kn22ERxbq9ZP_rQPqhg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Pilger, based in the UK, took to
Twitter to voice his view of the West’s condemnation of Russia’s special
military operation aiming to defend the people of Donbass as well as
"demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblackagendareport.com%2Fwar-europe-and-rise-raw-propaganda%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0GERCBSaYUgxbkJ8F4qpK5crzn71snCAUmH2-vEQK5ICGHXxvvuPRJexA&h=AT2XGBiYiEkZcEACUrZAvJR0U0xHLImvMzeBGHwTT0mQ1m9qI2UleYs7VHnVWBIkCgkLVAxdhiPvhGlbNih4PH_wDqW77XUBYw50T9Dixjh-Xftp07km6E4rRS1FQB5pJwb_&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3ri11Bw-RACuq_7xbzHCWBZCt3yqIJuWGmoIl0R5auKToW-56XtnBs2kKgmHU61XiGMldTAlkzx_ptFC3puZPDSG9Y4mZEqQU7qBdgaYs_CwXSCHFRndKYaZmvhPk1SCL_SCjbCXsJQujWl9FTfPNdxw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">War in Europe and the Rise of Raw
Propaganda | Black Agenda Report</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblackagendareport.com%2Fwar-europe-and-rise-raw-propaganda%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0GERCBSaYUgxbkJ8F4qpK5crzn71snCAUmH2-vEQK5ICGHXxvvuPRJexA&h=AT2XGBiYiEkZcEACUrZAvJR0U0xHLImvMzeBGHwTT0mQ1m9qI2UleYs7VHnVWBIkCgkLVAxdhiPvhGlbNih4PH_wDqW77XUBYw50T9Dixjh-Xftp07km6E4rRS1FQB5pJwb_&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3ri11Bw-RACuq_7xbzHCWBZCt3yqIJuWGmoIl0R5auKToW-56XtnBs2kKgmHU61XiGMldTAlkzx_ptFC3puZPDSG9Y4mZEqQU7qBdgaYs_CwXSCHFRndKYaZmvhPk1SCL_SCjbCXsJQujWl9FTfPNdxw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Events in Ukraine have been stoked by
US/UK war propaganda. Journalistic standards have been replaced with evidence
free narratives meant to get public support for acts of aggression. This
article originally appeared in JohnPilger.com. Marshall McLuhan's prophecy that
"the successor to politics will...</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 24, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Black Agenda Report has some excellent articles on the
Ukraine confict.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Anatol Lieven (Responsible Statecraft, 1/3/22 ), an
analyst at the Quincy Institute, wrote that US acquiescence to a neutral
Ukraine would be a “golden bridge” that, in addition to reducing US/Russia
tensions, could enable a political solution to Ukraine’s civil war. This
restraint-oriented policy is considered fringe thinking in the Washington
foreign policy establishment."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To me, the fact that such eminently sensible suggestions are
being dismissed as fringe thinking, is an indictment against the Washington
foreign policy establishment, exposing the corruption of our military
industrial complex on our relations with other countries. </span></p>
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Ukraine | Black Agenda Report</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 24, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here's another perspective that brings out many salient considerations
on Ukraine.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://blackagendareport.com/why-russian-federation-recognized-independence-movements-donbas?fbclid=IwAR1K1VbDyC4EbbvzVIG1tmSgK-deK8jfJStbuP5iizeoFd29a2K_LRAyyVU" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Why the Russian Federation Recognized
the Independence Movements in the Donbas | Black Agenda Report</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://blackagendareport.com/why-russian-federation-recognized-independence-movements-donbas?fbclid=IwAR1K1VbDyC4EbbvzVIG1tmSgK-deK8jfJStbuP5iizeoFd29a2K_LRAyyVU" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk
People's Republics is a direct result of U.S. efforts to contain Russian
economically and militarily. “Minsk, Minsk, Minsk,” they cried after Russia
recognized Donetsk and Luhansk. But those Western diplomats and pundits did not
hear those of us in the anti...</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm listening to this interview with Nicolai Petro right
now. It gives a broad perspective on the conflict in Ukraine.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dangerous Increase in Rhetoric in Ukraine Crisis Risks
Conflict</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BTL</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am posting this article again by Nicolai Petro, Professor
of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island. I consider him a
visionary thinker who is an expert on Ukraine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"We should be working toward a new Treaty of
Westphalia, the gist of which would be this: Russia and the United States
should each take a step back, Russia and Ukraine should each take a step back,
and all parties would stipulate that both Ukraine and Russia must, at the end
of this process, become… </span></p>
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Ukraine</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalinterest.org%2Ffeature%2Fhow-break-cultural-gridlock-ukraine-189505%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0pRUehLPRzWZkSjyeXrSGJRmMKLkg6ouT3cU1Uw-NjfFL-KExSd6n6CBI&h=AT3Q9NXerRbgNIqAt89qaJC6zFLQhj9UfR1NAWISyT6ivSps9il9EqqLif1nxtdTwQfYcJQZXLqd-e6tqKHBONeWL8EmhaaiGPw_eieDcd2y5-5ptrE4kMLSGnkwfE9AaPA6&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0kx3ZK0f2yCGiQ_560XoiiND4Znhnu9bSg3OK2PC-ZWDFBPFK_FeU9YVl7N1GYQr9no6DU53NHDjvkCkg87c-HRWU2KgrvilGWUhVnLPxMBn1pCWd9Op4iAv_TnZK86RNrCurUtuKQFIPLe-qg9aoiOQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">When the seven-year war in Ukraine
began, it was primarily an interregional conflict. By choosing sides at its outset,
however, Russia and the West have made it international. With the domestic and
international aspects of this conflict now so thoroughly intertwined, the
solution will also have to a...</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We need to get experts' analysis to find a way out of war in
Ukraine.</span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.courthousenews.com%2Fukraine-conflict-exposes-dangers-of-a-new-cold-war%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR08Q9SHMLYsJwMAugeZ8rSeosf8UWWxZc7yrJhY-8o61aiLLf1iBP5s6-Y&h=AT2XJ-AtvR-BJSGVVIW5ElqUdjaV2mMHCNw8pOcLpL-DEs4O8sh-zWp_KRO2dmBEmwEy3LAfIOPo3wfjWnUCo1Rsq30Sxg886Mble_uW7gn6XXx0KCFqwVw3CxoHii1rz4se&__tn__=H-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0uCcqGRqyyEizj3AVAleFIkNk6xE9i0gPlsVG2g6SAnfZrEvRLKptTNYOBtyY2p6sTHoHQMleLZta0kx2p0XQEzZlsJrNWB_jFuP8lCCrN41LBwFxYk4MrLcyMqfngSUCEoKqC5QqpTJPalNGcJK3CdA" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/ukraine-conflict-exposes-dangers-of-a-new-cold-war/?fbclid=IwAR1yAORPG2lFTpBeVi-SgNolEVxLAt9hfrZgZ5bqPhdzkNF3m6EPsfaXle0" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Ukraine conflict exposes dangers of a
new Cold War</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/ukraine-conflict-exposes-dangers-of-a-new-cold-war/?fbclid=IwAR1yAORPG2lFTpBeVi-SgNolEVxLAt9hfrZgZ5bqPhdzkNF3m6EPsfaXle0" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">A look at Ukraine’s distant and recent
past reveals a complex and dangerous example of the risks posed by a world
where superpowers are once again clashing.</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 23, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So much at stake. Sanctions against Russia could result in
gas supplies to Europe being decreased or cut off. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Attempts to separate China's economy from the US economy
have appeared laughable to me. Now I see the same effort to separate Europe's
economy from Russia's. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm listening to some Department of State shill saying that
this is a fight between democracy and hypocrisy. The United States is like the
master of hypocrisy when it comes to Russia. This is definitely the pot calling
the kettle black. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The truth is that we live in an interdependent world. Trying
to change that is tilting against windmills.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://cnb.cx/3gm0Jtb?fbclid=IwAR24RvGEZBrtKshCmf5hEG8lqCGMizl_0ocr_GFs6u35VJCjCDoz-70yNB0" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">cnbc.com</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://cnb.cx/3gm0Jtb?fbclid=IwAR24RvGEZBrtKshCmf5hEG8lqCGMizl_0ocr_GFs6u35VJCjCDoz-70yNB0" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">What if Russia turns off the gas?
Europe assesses its options as fears mount over Ukraine crisis</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 23, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a good summary of the current situation in the
Ukraine from China.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chinadaily.com.cn%2Fa%2F202202%2F22%2FWS6214cc82a310cdd39bc883f5.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0GERCBSaYUgxbkJ8F4qpK5crzn71snCAUmH2-vEQK5ICGHXxvvuPRJexA&h=AT3QFbAF_T_m9jZlLAc06DjlGwepOkEqOIh5NwSHluWw7C9PosxwJzd9Egon9tYkxQHDw6uL-0qZg3Edsd-RmV-rFITLTW7j1kwsDtLEZhSxvvwDH-yPKsj64Wb7eoPYpDdo&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT08Drr4lgL12UrOGRuiEUuSa144KOJNI5RHN-e6iQUJl7OfKl0Zk8G9dWAwmJLhOj8MdxpAe7E1skx8SKfKS32Zsxv_cE2Tjt7zbPLkJhUuRLBFFIVsijqcfEV_Vbk3TYOBSuE3WZEvoxFdLJNsRMmeRA" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chinadaily.com.cn%2Fa%2F202202%2F22%2FWS6214cc82a310cdd39bc883f5.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0GERCBSaYUgxbkJ8F4qpK5crzn71snCAUmH2-vEQK5ICGHXxvvuPRJexA&h=AT3QFbAF_T_m9jZlLAc06DjlGwepOkEqOIh5NwSHluWw7C9PosxwJzd9Egon9tYkxQHDw6uL-0qZg3Edsd-RmV-rFITLTW7j1kwsDtLEZhSxvvwDH-yPKsj64Wb7eoPYpDdo&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT08Drr4lgL12UrOGRuiEUuSa144KOJNI5RHN-e6iQUJl7OfKl0Zk8G9dWAwmJLhOj8MdxpAe7E1skx8SKfKS32Zsxv_cE2Tjt7zbPLkJhUuRLBFFIVsijqcfEV_Vbk3TYOBSuE3WZEvoxFdLJNsRMmeRA" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Security concerns of all parties in
Ukraine crisis need to be addressed: China Daily editorial</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chinadaily.com.cn%2Fa%2F202202%2F22%2FWS6214cc82a310cdd39bc883f5.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0GERCBSaYUgxbkJ8F4qpK5crzn71snCAUmH2-vEQK5ICGHXxvvuPRJexA&h=AT3QFbAF_T_m9jZlLAc06DjlGwepOkEqOIh5NwSHluWw7C9PosxwJzd9Egon9tYkxQHDw6uL-0qZg3Edsd-RmV-rFITLTW7j1kwsDtLEZhSxvvwDH-yPKsj64Wb7eoPYpDdo&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT08Drr4lgL12UrOGRuiEUuSa144KOJNI5RHN-e6iQUJl7OfKl0Zk8G9dWAwmJLhOj8MdxpAe7E1skx8SKfKS32Zsxv_cE2Tjt7zbPLkJhUuRLBFFIVsijqcfEV_Vbk3TYOBSuE3WZEvoxFdLJNsRMmeRA" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">With Russian President Vladimir Putin
having</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 22, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Great article. Here is a good talking point from this
article that should clear up confusion about what's happening in Ukraine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"There have been many provocations leading up to the Russian
recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.
Among them are NATO expansion, not taking Russian security concerns seriously,
the arming of Ukraine, and demonizing Russia via the western monopoly media.
The final nail was the shelling from Ukraine into Donbass causing the
evacuation of its civilians into Russia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It appears to be a foolhardy act by Ukraine. If Ukraine had
adhered to the Minsk Agreements, Donetsk and Luhansk would still be a part of
Ukraine, autonomous though they may be. Autonomy is not uncommon within
countries. Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, Xinjiang are autonomous
provinces in China. Russia also has one autonomous region and 10 autonomous
areas. Nonetheless, the lure of war and playing with fire has caused Ukraine to
shrink a little bit more.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dissidentvoice.org</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Putin Deftly Eludes the US-laid War Trap | Dissident Voice</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Going to war and using expensive war machinery and missiles
can be enticing and perversely exhilarating, but the lethality and devastation
of war must not be downplayed as a game. The latest political maneuver by
Russian president Vladimir Putin was a game-changing masterstroke to avoid the
American...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 22, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here's an idea for activating political discourse that I
received in a dream last night. I was teaching again, and as I often did in the
past, I put my adult students in groups of four to practice speaking English
with each other.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This time I gave them the word INGENIOUS and challenged them
to discuss ingenious ways of solving the world's problems. Then the group would
make a presentation of their ideas to the rest of the class.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I challenge everyone who is reading this, find three
other people to engage in a discussion with you to solve the world's problems. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can pretend that you are world leaders, and that you are
thinking out of the box to find ingenious ways forward. Choose one challenge to
address, such as brewing war in Ukraine, American imperialism, capitalism and
exploitation of workers, environmental issues, global warming. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Share your ideas on social media. Sow the energy field with
creative solutions. Remember kindness, caring for others and empathy are key.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What are ingenious ways to address the challenges humanity
faces today?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 21, 2022</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A good summary of the situation in Ukraine. Today's
developments in Russia recognizing the breakaway republics in the Donbas area
could expand the possibilities.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fviews%2F2022%2F02%2F17%2Fwhat-going-happen-ukraine%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0WSXgqu80rZ6SZgGqbWoQQ0gVQyHA0yBgv6928OVNMfD4LzuTey0quSNI&h=AT26lcIdKrWN7593B4JcscSjBlgF-IZYL2hW7DFZ8AC4YFKzhs1qKF6sDymj8vlt_JXP8Qhb5v71BIJ9-U2TD8SBz1PJ4XuqIAZxISil4IKEtJ-mVMsJICMps581j1-zGykk&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT2MVhBSEw-EAujwQB_moECrf95QUdVWAee-Qn70yKkbdQQldKQkBzjKyrYhKYFD46kBk4mZJtSVxknLUTBgSaRDLbSJ84KaPWm8_29gM7LTy9ka9l40NEwvuDV4fRLJOQgHBRR2-FJBR0mHpNHPZybUWQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Opinion | What Is Going to Happen in
Ukraine?</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fviews%2F2022%2F02%2F17%2Fwhat-going-happen-ukraine%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0WSXgqu80rZ6SZgGqbWoQQ0gVQyHA0yBgv6928OVNMfD4LzuTey0quSNI&h=AT26lcIdKrWN7593B4JcscSjBlgF-IZYL2hW7DFZ8AC4YFKzhs1qKF6sDymj8vlt_JXP8Qhb5v71BIJ9-U2TD8SBz1PJ4XuqIAZxISil4IKEtJ-mVMsJICMps581j1-zGykk&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT2MVhBSEw-EAujwQB_moECrf95QUdVWAee-Qn70yKkbdQQldKQkBzjKyrYhKYFD46kBk4mZJtSVxknLUTBgSaRDLbSJ84KaPWm8_29gM7LTy9ka9l40NEwvuDV4fRLJOQgHBRR2-FJBR0mHpNHPZybUWQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"The U.S., Russia, and China
could begin more serious diplomacy to reduce the threat of nuclear war and
resolve their many differences, so that the world could move forward to peace
and prosperity instead of backwards to Cold War and nuclear brinkmanship."</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">U.S. breaches international law and rules at will,
exercising a kind of American exceptionalism to these laws. Everyone else must
follow them, except us. It takes a lot of gall to be ready to go to war with
Russia over what it calls a breach of international law in recognizing the
Donbas breakaway regions from Ukraine. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's my
country that is acting as a rogue military power that acts with impunity. The
United States has been breaking treaties and international laws right and left,
ever since it started breaking treaties made with native american nations that
it never intended to honor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No wonder China and Russia call us liars. We do not
negotiate in good faith, and never have.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">xinhuanet.com</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facts on U.S. breaching international rules - Xinhua |
English.news.cn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hold your horses! That's what I say to the people on social
media who are chomping at the bit, ready to declare war with Russia over
Ukraine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">President Putin found a third way. He has not invaded
Ukraine. He has responded positively to leaders of the breakaway republics of
Donetsk and Luhansk asking for recognition (and possibly protection). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of course,
the people in these breakaway republics are freaking out that they are being
attacked, but not by Russians! By Ukrainians who would deny them the right to
speak their native language of Russian. 14,000 people in these provinces have
already died in ongoing shelling of these provinces since 2014. By Kiev! Not
Moscow! And an American-backed Kiev government, for that part. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How this threatens American security interests is beyond me.
This has nothing to do with our national security. It has everything to do with
an American empire that uses its military to put a footprint on everything that
happens in the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 22, 2022<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am in the process of forming an international working
group of women to champion peace and freedom. I had the idea last week, but
it's daunting, and I've felt paralyzed. However, I am committed, especially as
the war propaganda heats up over Ukraine. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While I was researching women that I found out about from a
recent article in The Nation, "Independent American and Russian Women Call
for Peace: Every Voice Has a Meaning", I came across the Biosphere
Foundation because </span><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sandra Cline is a Trustee Emerita for the
Foundation, and she is one of the women I am learning about. As I was wondering
what a small group of women could possibly do to impact the onset of this
pending great war, I remembered the quote from Margaret Mead that I've posted
below. I was just thinking about it when I saw it on the Biosphere Foundation
website. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
a synchronicity like this happens, I pay attention. It's the universe's way of
signaling that you are onto something.”Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only
thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brainyquote.com%2Fquotes%2Fmargaret_mead_100502%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2qKAJ9wzUILrgwQJujr2IVCycyInNnVJs6XGEZRbSKvM6TVOExNIxWvEE&h=AT1ih2Ryf8-ymBLYAo0rycclYZ65mKFH1clc-K7s2nDdjB4OY-l5znnBSkOXTA69Of_A0kdZPa_QQq4e718eZCeXc2BEwOAD0WZrjvnV47yyHZU0ygn757o5xWXTTy5E-VZW&__tn__=H-R&c%5b0%5d=AT30dzlmZus9YBZqGRtP-Z03yuXXAtcuRrnp63B7wgHpNPusuW23cijjWxo0HAzZJzk0FIjBKv-5cDjlofquy5xiv2ArW5glRUO8cS2ng_i62j1jz9raDpdTzrB7Bpi3VkU0DO69HZdL2XpTEQzaNU-WPA" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A time machine to a place I hope never materializes.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F310276887%3F1%26ref%3Dfb-share%26fbclid%3DIwAR2HxEA8ykzGWn80_ldCyqBOy0S_PQ11_wyohmbv4EbLEfM_Gifzq3_O3yY&h=AT2ebxN_ofH0NSWp6GI8aBCxz2VSp55ljguUBpssC_7ifDy6vegT6DEL7EMMw8xXnND3SD3vPMNkTf_hYiZN8RlDuR97XNwXNVkLc_yXn08Yyc9PbIimu67PI-4IrcpB-qB0&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3SVAh-JtbrSeWVxeSTAwpzrTb-PJ6LXHSnBRXH7pRygy5F01G3NIcHD4Qxmw_JN2JCbh-kXEthf61jUBUm01mM6SeSS2cVUiGJ3NKmWVZpcK994I4o7TW4mnWBgEufMYRPvdInFrQqd08EmVwqiOcVsg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MOURNING ARMAGEDDON - Makana</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F310276887%3F1%26ref%3Dfb-share%26fbclid%3DIwAR2HxEA8ykzGWn80_ldCyqBOy0S_PQ11_wyohmbv4EbLEfM_Gifzq3_O3yY&h=AT2ebxN_ofH0NSWp6GI8aBCxz2VSp55ljguUBpssC_7ifDy6vegT6DEL7EMMw8xXnND3SD3vPMNkTf_hYiZN8RlDuR97XNwXNVkLc_yXn08Yyc9PbIimu67PI-4IrcpB-qB0&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT3SVAh-JtbrSeWVxeSTAwpzrTb-PJ6LXHSnBRXH7pRygy5F01G3NIcHD4Qxmw_JN2JCbh-kXEthf61jUBUm01mM6SeSS2cVUiGJ3NKmWVZpcK994I4o7TW4mnWBgEufMYRPvdInFrQqd08EmVwqiOcVsg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Makana’s Haunting Song from Russian
Nuclear Bunker “Standing in the tomb-like space, my soul began to cry in the
form of song,” says Makana. …</span></a></span></u></p>
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to work with them for peace between the U.S. and Russia, for peace in Ukraine.<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Farticle%2Fworld%2Frussia-women-peace-letter%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0pRUehLPRzWZkSjyeXrSGJRmMKLkg6ouT3cU1Uw-NjfFL-KExSd6n6CBI&h=AT1qa67w8BV4ICNiFP_MG0ZKed5CesslemaxsZCfJ3cMJtMwLyIFbO0yRYzNf8NfCWyeiet_iGCqjw-rua9Cly02vUqLHRTqtSKmpqTODaNBQwJGdYCKIdtUF4F6dL2HmVBV&__tn__=H-R&c%5b0%5d=AT2WKA8GEjEg3G10UGsfwMLsaA6HOxWB3AvH2b-Arav-oK1esiD__8ofRwfSfWO395_BJVWQPDAQan0U0SBdzDolLTNQkk-vKf0wftLULl65iTy9pTkhqu4qiD8deDNOhx-SLwl1prMUDEGwiROzGxVbqA" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></p>
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Call for Peace</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Farticle%2Fworld%2Frussia-women-peace-letter%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1CdhXDvaeJ7i3gB4PbLZU1F3qCwV7qnXkqo0Z8kJi9VX-4QKhqsyPyJkc&h=AT1qa67w8BV4ICNiFP_MG0ZKed5CesslemaxsZCfJ3cMJtMwLyIFbO0yRYzNf8NfCWyeiet_iGCqjw-rua9Cly02vUqLHRTqtSKmpqTODaNBQwJGdYCKIdtUF4F6dL2HmVBV&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT2WKA8GEjEg3G10UGsfwMLsaA6HOxWB3AvH2b-Arav-oK1esiD__8ofRwfSfWO395_BJVWQPDAQan0U0SBdzDolLTNQkk-vKf0wftLULl65iTy9pTkhqu4qiD8deDNOhx-SLwl1prMUDEGwiROzGxVbqA" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Every voice has meaning.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am with China in the stance set forth here on finding a
political and diplomatic resolution to the crisis in the Ukraine.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fglobal.chinadaily.com.cn%2Fa%2F202202%2F21%2FWS6212d036a310cdd39bc87c41.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2L9UTA1tGRBNxSPExjC9sETaoIXJ6Tf61IbuqToZMUwTxBEoFM4XvG2fM&h=AT0fDHBlCfBz4c3JwDttFipZuzyWifU3WKzkwUcBemj3fFGP5AFT9CXYQ8PQVzDIlcYu8905212RJP5JeemXwCpYvtdgyAlgTZp-t0m7-HxzEjNw6oEKpE_2oOuVKBUfnU9L&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT2QOlacbnpvn1sTATG7OuJtYN_eVWHdJMQsohN5svrdL66TSlEXDJs-b9L-x-FlaKKZZ2nfuuGgWXBJw7rJxQNP5e3jcI42_GXSvuwZKa_MU6WQSb0rTcu-owdNegf_bA6vZLh4iY4FvDV7-vXfWj3P0g" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Strive for peace over Ukraine, FM
counsels</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fglobal.chinadaily.com.cn%2Fa%2F202202%2F21%2FWS6212d036a310cdd39bc87c41.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2L9UTA1tGRBNxSPExjC9sETaoIXJ6Tf61IbuqToZMUwTxBEoFM4XvG2fM&h=AT0fDHBlCfBz4c3JwDttFipZuzyWifU3WKzkwUcBemj3fFGP5AFT9CXYQ8PQVzDIlcYu8905212RJP5JeemXwCpYvtdgyAlgTZp-t0m7-HxzEjNw6oEKpE_2oOuVKBUfnU9L&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT2QOlacbnpvn1sTATG7OuJtYN_eVWHdJMQsohN5svrdL66TSlEXDJs-b9L-x-FlaKKZZ2nfuuGgWXBJw7rJxQNP5e3jcI42_GXSvuwZKa_MU6WQSb0rTcu-owdNegf_bA6vZLh4iY4FvDV7-vXfWj3P0g" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">China called on countries to shoulder
their responsibilities and strive for peace rather than escalate tension,
create panic and even hype up wars on the Ukraine issue.</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 21, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you want to know what Putin is thinking, watch this
video.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHPKfh6V8-Rc%26feature%3Dshare%26fbclid%3DIwAR1Ous-dgUoehXkdMDUAR_mnnl-TXZOU4q7LgAVe_usdoSFV3A9r1_S3YbU&h=AT2gpddSWMHw494uCAY91NNoKiwc5YzirkeMAs2Rk-VzFiy6WYj3chW1eS4k7za58iXkLsV-3UJdQ6VBMSIjg0RLxGJ6wXjSH9L8jSy6eByDsSAmgWlbSl__12MRfJNIBPvi&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1OM2vQdU4yNrqy5uri7LtgtmBvY2gtUw5V5Wsmc4vFw1YTbz6P4eL84wMIbDKjhG3pnivbRzYWlSghS5uzadKwqz66JjMdfjCb697vAGP6_g7xMbueR5HQr2tvmfleCfpqbIH5xOFdiPYc7rLuH1mMlg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Russia's Military Capability 2022:
Russia doesn't want a war, they just don’t want NATO on their</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHPKfh6V8-Rc%26feature%3Dshare%26fbclid%3DIwAR1Ous-dgUoehXkdMDUAR_mnnl-TXZOU4q7LgAVe_usdoSFV3A9r1_S3YbU&h=AT2gpddSWMHw494uCAY91NNoKiwc5YzirkeMAs2Rk-VzFiy6WYj3chW1eS4k7za58iXkLsV-3UJdQ6VBMSIjg0RLxGJ6wXjSH9L8jSy6eByDsSAmgWlbSl__12MRfJNIBPvi&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT1OM2vQdU4yNrqy5uri7LtgtmBvY2gtUw5V5Wsmc4vFw1YTbz6P4eL84wMIbDKjhG3pnivbRzYWlSghS5uzadKwqz66JjMdfjCb697vAGP6_g7xMbueR5HQr2tvmfleCfpqbIH5xOFdiPYc7rLuH1mMlg" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Russia doesn't want a war, they just
don’t want NATO on their doorstep.Nuclear weaponsR-29RMU2 LaynerRSM-56
BulavaRS-24 YarsRS-28 SarmatRS-26 RubezhKh-47M2 K...</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 21, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russia is warning us with this video of their military
strength. If the U.S. keeps on agitating for a war with Russia, we will face
air power on par with the U.S., if not superior. It will be devastating for the
world to unleash this. It's not too late to back off and negotiate in good
faith. That would be the way of sanity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 19, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not much has changed in five years in the U.S. leadup to war
against Russia. Gotta have an enemy to justify those bloated military budgets.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hiroyuki.hamada?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUrFG6a9Bg2J2yno40UwdpTWSEasIDH3tWhf8rwHCeZ7xGTJpiCnXGu2dNv0clwFdhkVX8pz2ywE-H6yssiOx6pyR3eKdeY07lxbUQwYq7MOS9izwCFSV_vp271heT0KAh2D-ppSP3Jn2lA8y5tdqou&__tn__=-UC%2CPH-R"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hiroyuki Hamada</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">· <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Breaking: The US has been the aggressor, not Russia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don't they know that there are people in Russia? Just like
us trying to make sense out of life, enjoying friendship, family, what nature
can offer...amazing art, literature, poetry and music? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The media and the elected officials have done this over and
over. They've demonized people in the Middle East. They brought us many wars
with false pretexts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What about the crime bills and war on drugs? Remember in 90s
how they demonized black youth? They brought us the mass incarceration of
minorities worse than under Apartheid South Africa. They brought us police
killings more frequent then Lynching in its heyday.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We must stop listening to the schemers who are guided by
corporatism, colonialism and militarism.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here are a few links on the topic:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"An economist's Mein Kampf- Learning from China"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.learningfromchina.net%2Fan-economists-mein-kampf.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3Up54VWehHzwC_U6ryM8Yaok_KkXJW5Rc8FsrpPRwkryuD0LNmQDbmjvw&h=AT3XQpznk_m47VRmGGFuEqvjE2Gtniy6ThtrwOnKYitZM8FLHIOhV8PWo9Wy4fuY7Q1bgLb9aMZ6aAfb0Vt5QUpn4RjptQf2AYN4SyJ218ACetr0WsYlAqL1D9QW7WSa4cfA&__tn__=-UKH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0RLSafbdiONlDDVF76BN-6PWef3wtaADZKzl6Zu3x2rvKBSNVc10zuYD6YDkuKQR_-5oQiyaU48jriU2dtafNw-XjRXbNQFHZWiA7l_-IFwXgi9cJbZEilOUXLmwDs-eEyqq9arYi5lxEiCT31gnGX_GaLXaUgiWZ_C-xJCYYemw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.learningfromchina.net/an-economists-mein...</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Russia: a target, not a superpower" by </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sara.flounders?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUrFG6a9Bg2J2yno40UwdpTWSEasIDH3tWhf8rwHCeZ7xGTJpiCnXGu2dNv0clwFdhkVX8pz2ywE-H6yssiOx6pyR3eKdeY07lxbUQwYq7MOS9izwCFSV_vp271heT0KAh2D-ppSP3Jn2lA8y5tdqou&__tn__=-%5dKH-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sara Flounders</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.workers.org%2F2017%2F07%2F12%2Frussia-a-target-not-a-superpower%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1Ous-dgUoehXkdMDUAR_mnnl-TXZOU4q7LgAVe_usdoSFV3A9r1_S3YbU&h=AT24f6xzJJhzxrKA4z_6e2aDY0DlYXzK7PYiJBu6bYBlk8owLI59c-AM-6658Fyj_zb7G_8uL7k--a2PXJnLBHFi_vcTIhGYzYg5GwRujVrydYP_QOlg9bwNE7qaTq3HxQ-h&__tn__=-UKH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0RLSafbdiONlDDVF76BN-6PWef3wtaADZKzl6Zu3x2rvKBSNVc10zuYD6YDkuKQR_-5oQiyaU48jriU2dtafNw-XjRXbNQFHZWiA7l_-IFwXgi9cJbZEilOUXLmwDs-eEyqq9arYi5lxEiCT31gnGX_GaLXaUgiWZ_C-xJCYYemw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.workers.org/.../russia-a-target-not-a.../</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"The Defining Year Was 1991: The Demise of Yugoslavia
and the Soviet Union" by Marcus Papadopoulos</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalresearch.ca%2Fthe-defining-year-was-1991-the-demise-of-yugoslavia-and-the-soviet-union%2F5628115%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0KaYRV8DtrRnYgk340CGKNFCkm7sLDJaGWE8Hnby7CUKUl0Qbc5VVbc7A&h=AT1u_eUodhfEciRwkuFoyR_hypHAq9xz_AAoP5aK9T-vmpS0LbtsMvxPgHEC2zb6bMJscoHVznp71rfRhlb-A4OMXxv7vcliqmKTYaCEClTLQmIMMgA_IRMHGhVRnuUQKuGM&__tn__=-UKH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0RLSafbdiONlDDVF76BN-6PWef3wtaADZKzl6Zu3x2rvKBSNVc10zuYD6YDkuKQR_-5oQiyaU48jriU2dtafNw-XjRXbNQFHZWiA7l_-IFwXgi9cJbZEilOUXLmwDs-eEyqq9arYi5lxEiCT31gnGX_GaLXaUgiWZ_C-xJCYYemw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-defining-year.../5628115</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"NATO Begins Amassing Troops On Russia’s Border"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mintpressnews.com%2Fus-begins-amassing-troops-on-russias-border%2F223837%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3rsWqQ_V6dkyaGukpdOB_J0jUa6CZvE88VqOhrKpltjHCMwzV5P6vEJK0&h=AT0P5DdAFTJ32GZIaztS7-i8kvyjz1e1TmBfRjxTr6PSG_S1tLVfnfrGT1NwlGwEi4Ia5mUzEp_HHJOmB5niN4ljSVMJF8-14kbjVlspGObeBYKct6K_1PpIYpIFfy2Im7hp&__tn__=-UKH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0RLSafbdiONlDDVF76BN-6PWef3wtaADZKzl6Zu3x2rvKBSNVc10zuYD6YDkuKQR_-5oQiyaU48jriU2dtafNw-XjRXbNQFHZWiA7l_-IFwXgi9cJbZEilOUXLmwDs-eEyqq9arYi5lxEiCT31gnGX_GaLXaUgiWZ_C-xJCYYemw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-begins-amassing.../223837/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"US Complains Inland Sea Surrounded by Russian Air
Bases Is ‘Unsafe’ for Their Destroyer" (thanks for the link </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dkersten?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUrFG6a9Bg2J2yno40UwdpTWSEasIDH3tWhf8rwHCeZ7xGTJpiCnXGu2dNv0clwFdhkVX8pz2ywE-H6yssiOx6pyR3eKdeY07lxbUQwYq7MOS9izwCFSV_vp271heT0KAh2D-ppSP3Jn2lA8y5tdqou&__tn__=-%5dKH-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">David Kersten</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.checkpointasia.net%2Findex.php%2F2017%2F02%2F15%2Fus-complains-inland-sea-surrounded-by-russian-air-bases-is-unsafe-for-their-destroyer%2F%3Futm_campaign%3Dshareaholic%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook%26utm_source%3Dsocialnetwork%26fbclid%3DIwAR1hxmuu_AUj4VFTGFazj9TDDahOQG_ziGOhJRjd29ZF4RuXG1Mvwzl6gOk&h=AT1pHy0ULolKLB3Kst6q8G3NLtb-MmsV08LJ2SpH_PWZj_6iC7BWRb5B7muER4QM_YhwXMdLXLhvq_oSHFOu1K2tqK_tS01PQlGyQ8H3qXQb0GXGeT1kkqI8OtPTVIi_kjJI&__tn__=-UKH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0RLSafbdiONlDDVF76BN-6PWef3wtaADZKzl6Zu3x2rvKBSNVc10zuYD6YDkuKQR_-5oQiyaU48jriU2dtafNw-XjRXbNQFHZWiA7l_-IFwXgi9cJbZEilOUXLmwDs-eEyqq9arYi5lxEiCT31gnGX_GaLXaUgiWZ_C-xJCYYemw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.checkpointasia.net/.../us-complains-inland.../...</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is it True That “Russia is Aggressive”? by </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rick.sterling.16?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUrFG6a9Bg2J2yno40UwdpTWSEasIDH3tWhf8rwHCeZ7xGTJpiCnXGu2dNv0clwFdhkVX8pz2ywE-H6yssiOx6pyR3eKdeY07lxbUQwYq7MOS9izwCFSV_vp271heT0KAh2D-ppSP3Jn2lA8y5tdqou&__tn__=-%5dKH-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rick Sterling</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2016%2F07%2F15%2Fis-it-true-that-russia-is-aggressive%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1K1VbDyC4EbbvzVIG1tmSgK-deK8jfJStbuP5iizeoFd29a2K_LRAyyVU&h=AT2equXl9qDip-PiP0MjgJjOMGtvMwHyH2SyIZ7GkpHnfxDqRNHI9Vs2i7-rBny6CUyd_Xkjd-z01bxxCCjCgcGJB4UtYQQyIwSg0V57lpP3HMyGpsNMYTvS0UiyFZM1AvpE&__tn__=-UKH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0RLSafbdiONlDDVF76BN-6PWef3wtaADZKzl6Zu3x2rvKBSNVc10zuYD6YDkuKQR_-5oQiyaU48jriU2dtafNw-XjRXbNQFHZWiA7l_-IFwXgi9cJbZEilOUXLmwDs-eEyqq9arYi5lxEiCT31gnGX_GaLXaUgiWZ_C-xJCYYemw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.counterpunch.org/.../is-it-true-that-russia.../</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Provoking nuclear war by media by John Pilger</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjohnpilger.com%2Farticles%2Fprovoking-nuclear-war-by-media%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2XBwsCtoo8D0D1tPhCc6-mApsbvfho4nAo4s0eeElNpbPFKhb1r5lQG4Q&h=AT3Fp-W8dCttmEtTBg-ML4V4j715APAfJ5qV5p-plcrpoNJlmSl6TEdDA_hhzEjLelBCBZ2BFkExfnzX69ija0yGXKdSEfV3QBGsiE3SHg2DP6jyCYzD1InJoOHncUsEVIsw&__tn__=-UKH-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0RLSafbdiONlDDVF76BN-6PWef3wtaADZKzl6Zu3x2rvKBSNVc10zuYD6YDkuKQR_-5oQiyaU48jriU2dtafNw-XjRXbNQFHZWiA7l_-IFwXgi9cJbZEilOUXLmwDs-eEyqq9arYi5lxEiCT31gnGX_GaLXaUgiWZ_C-xJCYYemw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://johnpilger.com/arti.../provoking-nuclear-war-by-media</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"The Great Leap Backward: America’s Illegal Wars on the
World by Luciana Bohne</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/13/the-great-leap-backward-americas-illegal-wars-on-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR24RvGEZBrtKshCmf5hEG8lqCGMizl_0ocr_GFs6u35VJCjCDoz-70yNB0" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.counterpunch.org/.../the-great-leap-backward.../</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Did the Deep State Facilitate Flynn's Resignation? by </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/coleen.rowley?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUrFG6a9Bg2J2yno40UwdpTWSEasIDH3tWhf8rwHCeZ7xGTJpiCnXGu2dNv0clwFdhkVX8pz2ywE-H6yssiOx6pyR3eKdeY07lxbUQwYq7MOS9izwCFSV_vp271heT0KAh2D-ppSP3Jn2lA8y5tdqou&__tn__=-%5dKH-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Coleen Rowley</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18412&fbclid=IwAR1Vq128uFoAtKxAhNpsTIxvDtFPwgaT6Cj9h4KEQ17EhJLtpcca2f5BTvY" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content...</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Europeans Contest US Anti-Russian Hype by </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/joe.lauria.71?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUrFG6a9Bg2J2yno40UwdpTWSEasIDH3tWhf8rwHCeZ7xGTJpiCnXGu2dNv0clwFdhkVX8pz2ywE-H6yssiOx6pyR3eKdeY07lxbUQwYq7MOS9izwCFSV_vp271heT0KAh2D-ppSP3Jn2lA8y5tdqou&__tn__=-%5dKH-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joe Lauria</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/27/europeans-contest-us-anti-russian-hype/?fbclid=IwAR3afw_7TpQRLTEQ9H0gF-NVfv2B3_1uQgmR_Hg6mTh0WZ8d7XiZuei4y6Q" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://consortiumnews.com/.../europeans-contest-us-anti.../</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Demonization of the leader Michael Parenti (thank you for
the link </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/natasha.zarich?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUrFG6a9Bg2J2yno40UwdpTWSEasIDH3tWhf8rwHCeZ7xGTJpiCnXGu2dNv0clwFdhkVX8pz2ywE-H6yssiOx6pyR3eKdeY07lxbUQwYq7MOS9izwCFSV_vp271heT0KAh2D-ppSP3Jn2lA8y5tdqou&__tn__=-%5dKH-R"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Natasha Zarich</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/HHE7rPJoUtQ?fbclid=IwAR0VVTEjLJ6MRIvcQT5rqNLthw2vWX9HnRPY54XeFY3mqiZbcmA918WP3wk" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://youtu.be/HHE7rPJoUtQ</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would love to stage a Truth or Consequences show with
maybe a panel of five contestants and a host asking questions. A loud buzzer
sounds when someone repeats a lie about Ukraine. The winners are the people who
say the truth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/lies-about-ukraine-conflict-are-standing-in-the-way-of-a-peaceful-resolution/?utm_campaign=Truthout%20Share%20Buttons&fbclid=IwAR0VVTEjLJ6MRIvcQT5rqNLthw2vWX9HnRPY54XeFY3mqiZbcmA918WP3wk" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/lies-about-ukraine-conflict-are-standing-in-the-way-of-a-peaceful-resolution/?utm_campaign=Truthout%20Share%20Buttons&fbclid=IwAR0VVTEjLJ6MRIvcQT5rqNLthw2vWX9HnRPY54XeFY3mqiZbcmA918WP3wk" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">truthout.org</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/lies-about-ukraine-conflict-are-standing-in-the-way-of-a-peaceful-resolution/?utm_campaign=Truthout%20Share%20Buttons&fbclid=IwAR0VVTEjLJ6MRIvcQT5rqNLthw2vWX9HnRPY54XeFY3mqiZbcmA918WP3wk" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lies About Ukraine Conflict Are
Standing in the Way of a Peaceful Resolution</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/lies-about-ukraine-conflict-are-standing-in-the-way-of-a-peaceful-resolution/?utm_campaign=Truthout%20Share%20Buttons&fbclid=IwAR0VVTEjLJ6MRIvcQT5rqNLthw2vWX9HnRPY54XeFY3mqiZbcmA918WP3wk" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Narratives around the Ukraine
conflict, propagated by Western governments and the mainstream media, are truly
Orwellian.</span></a></span></u></p>
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U.S. in the world today. </span></p>
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Supreme" Stokes the Ukraine Conflict</span></a></span></u></p>
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Atlanticist order in Europe has had policy implications that reach beyond
Europe itself.</span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 16, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gary
Lindorff – Nine Waves</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Nuclear Prom</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t
look up. Don’t look down,<br />
And whatever you do, don’t look around,<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or within. Don’t look at all.<br />
Just be happy, have a ball!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nine nations have the bomb,<br />
And they’re all going to the nuclear prom!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everyone with the bomb has a date!<br />
If not, it might be too late!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russia and France are going to the
dance.<br />
(The bomb is a charm for romance!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">North Korea and China definitely
will and<br />
Israel is dressed to kill.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pakistan will cut a figure at the
prom,<br />
As will India and the United Kingdom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the rest are feeling blue.<br />
What is a non-nuclear power to do?!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Without a nuclear device,<br />
No prom, no party. Any advice?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When so much of the world has none<br />
There must be something that can be done!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The US has bombs to spare,<br />
Maybe it has bombs to share!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How about just give them away?<br />
Don’t even make them pay!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When everyone has the bomb,<br />
Everyone goes to the prom!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know it sounds like charity<br />
But let’s just call it nuclear parity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…………</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> This light-hearted little poem was inspired by my seeing
“Don’t Look Up”, the sci-fi satire written, directed and produced by Adam
McKay. It has a great cast, makes great fun of pop-culture, where who is
breaking up with whom trumps the news of a comet the size of Mt Everest heading
straight for Earth. Peter Isherwood, CEO of BASH (played by Mark Rylance) pulls
off a stellar 21st century Dr Strange Love. Fast-paced, funny and the ending is
memorable.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(NOTE: I am being blocked from recovering my posts between
February 6 and 15. If I can access them another time, I will update this blog.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">February 5, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am thrilled to be part of this peace movement that is
coalescing. I had a highly symbolic dream last night about the Ukraine. I was
being helped in my mission to stop a war from breaking out between the U.S. and
Russia, and given three items, then dropped on a mouldering pile of straw. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of the objects was a kind of evil-looking nest with a
large black spider inside. Another was a good fruit that I ate. The third item
was a large overripe lemon that was starting to split. I threw the spider's
nest on the ground and stomped on it hard. The spider escaped and was quickly
escaping, with only a couple broken legs trailing. I chased it against a slight
uphill slope of concrete skirting. It morphed into a larger scorpion like kind
of vicious looking spider that was menacing me. I fought down my revulsion and
fear and stomped it again. This time I demolished it completely. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I thought the large lemon was useless, but decided to open
it, since it had been given to me to help me in my quest. Inside were hundreds
of small seeds, like mustard seeds. I couldn't believe that I had nearly thrown
it away. I understood this was a great treasure to give to the people of the
Ukraine for prosperity. This once sour lemon gone bad had actually become a
seedbed of change for the people to enjoy an abundance of all good things. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been preparing myself and my home all week for a
major shamanic ceremony that I will video and share online, cleansing my
gemstones for a layout, clearing out negative energy, cleaning, decluttering,
organizing, pondering all aspects of the situation coming to a head in the
Ukraine. Researching, reading. Thinking. Meditating. It's been so overwhelming
at times. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today I will carry out the ceremony. I will take part in
this webinar. And I will write about the Ukraine to submit an article to major
outlets such as Popular Resistance.</span></p>
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to stop the U.S. from going to war with Russia.</span></p>
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Over Ukraine - PopularResistance.Org</span></a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">February 5, 2022</span></p>
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from going to war in Ukraine against Russia.</span></p>
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webinar: US/NATO aggression at the Russian Border. After registering, you will
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_984zj4TsQ8er6Ja5z3F9vg?fbclid=IwAR3y1YJLVZ4EtUBJpV30YRsjfZCy6Wql8yX1IJgwf__OxJ2ekNYIHyxXyS4" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">A conversation between US, Russian and
Ukrainian peace activists on the situation on the Russian border with Ukraine,
NATO expansion and related topics. Speakers: Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer,
Black Alliance for Peace Larissa Shessler, Chair, Union of Political Emigrants
& Political prisoners of...</span></a></span></u></p>
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<![endif]--><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"></span></p>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-84315329896375327872022-03-06T06:08:00.004-08:002022-03-06T06:08:59.929-08:00Dismal Analysis of Ukraine War and Impact of Sanctions on Russia<p>Dismal Analysis of Ukraine War and Impact of Sanctions on Russia</p><p><br /></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yesterday Putin declared that this is war, as sanctions and
several other actions taken against Russia multiply. I doubt very much, though,
that they will have the desired impact of restricting or ending the war in
Ukraine. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead, I consider Putin is being boxed into a corner with
the full weight of sanctions that have been ratcheted up in scope and severity
in unprecedented actions. I foresee that this will impel him instead to use
hypersonic weapons in an unprecedented military strike against the U.S. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I sure hope that my sense of the situation is off, and that
this is not a likely scenario. However, I've been fretting about this, and my
grave concern interfered with my night's sleep, as I woke up before 5:00 this
morning with all of this preying on my thoughts, even while sleeping. I decided
to meditate on peace and love to restore some balance into the chaotic and
disturbed energy fields. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While my meditation probably did not impact the world, it did
restore my inner balance and sense of harmony. I was sending love and sweet
energy to both presidents Putin and Biden. Both men are no doubt feeling the
great weight and gravity of their decisions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What else can be done at this time that might make a difference
other than on the inner planes?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The article that I'm sharing here is a calculated and
cautionary assessment of the real danger posed by Russia's development of
hypersonic weapons. I am excerpting a pertinent analysis that I hope will be
taken under consideration by Americans and NATO, as well as the world community
that is joining in the sanctions against Russia:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"This is not to say that hypersonics pose no threat. A
limited number of hypersonic missiles, if effectively used, could act as a
force multiplier for the Russian military. Russia’s hypersonic capabilities
might, for example, be used in a breaching role by targeting air and missile
defence radars and key command nodes in NATO’s air and missile defence system
in order to open the way for strikes by Russia’s larger arsenal of older and
slower missiles. Alternatively, hypersonic missiles might be reserved for
targets such as aircraft carriers, given their operational and symbolic
importance. If properly cued by appropriate sensors, even a limited force of
hypersonics could pose a real threat to an even more limited number of key
capital ships at sea and operational points of failure like command nodes on
land. What we should not expect, however, is for future Russian forces to field
large numbers of hypersonic missiles, or for these missiles to be the mainstay
of the Russian precision strike threat."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/putting-russian-hypersonic-threat-perspective</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<![endif]--></p>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-34499311465822618002022-02-05T16:33:00.000-08:002022-02-05T16:33:23.471-08:00Shamanic Ceremony for Peace, Harmony and Prosperity in Ukraine<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzymGMzpi66yKjrL6gftay9Kk5L9lOpFBVxope0xsYUNu0EuKfF-r_Df083Ixr1mKwdV63n9BN8UOq1UytG-A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwPmGUXHe0HbpdC1S989Kh-XI5YUof5SmNTN4mI-AvVLSQ3_T8UBoHh-h0oDoRX3DcMTGULJXwsBPIPqfaBfQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-71389124839617747232022-02-05T10:45:00.002-08:002022-02-05T10:52:17.037-08:00Unite for Peace - No War in Ukraine; Pay Heed to What the Leaders of Russia and China Have to Say <p> </p><div class="read__top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(168, 240, 224); color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 64px; padding: 75px 0px 45px;"><div class="width_limiter" style="margin: 0px 140px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><h1 style="font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Md 862390", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 37px; margin: 105px 0px 44px; padding: 0px;">Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development</h1><div class="read__meta" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><div class="read__published" style="float: left; margin: 0px 25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 4, 2022</div></div></div></div><div class="entry-content e-content read__internal_content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index1" rel="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>At the invitation of President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin visited China on 4 February 2022. The Heads of State held talks in Beijing and took part in the opening ceremony of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index2" rel="2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, hereinafter referred to as the sides, state as follows.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index3" rel="3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Today, the world is going through momentous changes, and humanity is entering a new era of rapid development and profound transformation. It sees the development of such processes and phenomena as multipolarity, economic globalization, the advent of information society, cultural diversity, transformation of the global governance architecture and world order; there is increasing interrelation and interdependence between the States; a trend has emerged towards redistribution of power in the world; and the international community is showing a growing demand for the leadership aiming at peaceful and gradual development. At the same time, as the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection continues, the international and regional security situation is complicating and the number of global challenges and threats is growing from day to day. Some actors representing but the minority on the international scale continue to advocate unilateral approaches to addressing international issues and resort to force; they interfere in the internal affairs of other states, infringing their legitimate rights and interests, and incite contradictions, differences and confrontation, thus hampering the development and progress of mankind, against the opposition from the international community.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index4" rel="4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides call on all States to pursue well-being for all and, with these ends, to build dialogue and mutual trust, strengthen mutual understanding, champion such universal human values as peace, development, equality, justice, democracy and freedom, respect the rights of peoples to independently determine the development paths of their countries and the sovereignty and the security and development interests of States, to protect the United Nations-driven international architecture and the international law-based world order, seek genuine multipolarity with the United Nations and its Security Council playing a central and coordinating role, promote more democratic international relations, and ensure peace, stability and sustainable development across the world.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index5" rel="5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>I</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index6" rel="6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides share the understanding that democracy is a universal human value, rather than a privilege of a limited number of States, and that its promotion and protection is a common responsibility of the entire world community.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index7" rel="7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides believe that democracy is a means of citizens' participation in the government of their country with the view to improving the well-being of population and implementing the principle of popular government. Democracy is exercised in all spheres of public life as part of a nation-wide process and reflects the interests of all the people, its will, guarantees its rights, meets its needs and protects its interests. There is no one-size-fits-all template to guide countries in establishing democracy. A nation can choose such forms and methods of implementing democracy that would best suit its particular state, based on its social and political system, its historical background, traditions and unique cultural characteristics. It is only up to the people of the country to decide whether their State is a democratic one.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index8" rel="8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides note that Russia and China as world powers with rich cultural and historical heritage have long-standing traditions of democracy, which rely on thousand-years of experience of development, broad popular support and consideration of the needs and interests of citizens. Russia and China guarantee their people the right to take part through various means and in various forms in the administration of the State and public life in accordance with the law. The people of both countries are certain of the way they have chosen and respect the democratic systems and traditions of other States.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index9" rel="9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides note that democratic principles are implemented at the global level, as well as in administration of State. Certain States' attempts to impose their own ”democratic standards“ on other countries, to monopolize the right to assess the level of compliance with democratic criteria, to draw dividing lines based on the grounds of ideology, including by establishing exclusive blocs and alliances of convenience, prove to be nothing but flouting of democracy and go against the spirit and true values of democracy. Such attempts at hegemony pose serious threats to global and regional peace and stability and undermine the stability of the world order.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index10" rel="10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides believe that the advocacy of democracy and human rights must not be used to put pressure on other countries. They oppose the abuse of democratic values and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states under the pretext of protecting democracy and human rights, and any attempts to incite divisions and confrontation in the world. The sides call on the international community to respect cultural and civilizational diversity and the rights of peoples of different countries to self-determination. They stand ready to work together with all the interested partners to promote genuine democracy.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index11" rel="11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides note that the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set noble goals in the area of universal human rights, set forth fundamental principles, which all the States must comply with and observe in deeds. At the same time, as every nation has its own unique national features, history, culture, social system and level of social and economic development, universal nature of human rights should be seen through the prism of the real situation in every particular country, and human rights should be protected in accordance with the specific situation in each country and the needs of its population. Promotion and protection of human rights is a shared responsibility of the international community. The states should equally prioritize all categories of human rights and promote them in a systemic manner. The international human rights cooperation should be carried out as a dialogue between the equals involving all countries. All States must have equal access to the right to development. Interaction and cooperation on human rights matters should be based on the principle of equality of all countries and mutual respect for the sake of strengthening the international human rights architecture.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""ITCFranklinGothicW10-Md 862399", arial, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index12" rel="12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>II</span></p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index13" rel="13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides believe that peace, development and cooperation lie at the core of the modern international system. Development is a key driver in ensuring the prosperity of the nations. The ongoing pandemic of the new coronavirus infection poses a serious challenge to the fulfilment of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is vital to enhance partnership relations for the sake of global development and make sure that the new stage of global development is defined by balance, harmony and inclusiveness.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index14" rel="14" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides are seeking to advance their work to link the development plans for the Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road Initiative with a view to intensifying practical cooperation between the EAEU and China in various areas and promoting greater interconnectedness between the Asia Pacific and Eurasian regions. The sides reaffirm their focus on building the Greater Eurasian Partnership in parallel and in coordination with the Belt and Road construction to foster the development of regional associations as well as bilateral and multilateral integration processes for the benefit of the peoples on the Eurasian continent.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index15" rel="15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides agreed to continue consistently intensifying practical cooperation for the sustainable development of the Arctic.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index16" rel="16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides will strengthen cooperation within multilateral mechanisms, including the United Nations, and encourage the international community to prioritize development issues in the global macro-policy coordination. They call on the developed countries to implement in good faith their formal commitments on development assistance, provide more resources to developing countries, address the uneven development of States, work to offset such imbalances within States, and advance global and international development cooperation. The Russian side confirms its readiness to continue working on the China-proposed Global Development Initiative, including participation in the activities of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative under the UN auspices. In order to accelerate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the sides call on the international community to take practical steps in key areas of cooperation such as poverty reduction, food security, vaccines and epidemics control, financing for development, climate change, sustainable development, including green development, industrialization, digital economy, and infrastructure connectivity.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index17" rel="17" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides call on the international community to create open, equal, fair and non-discriminatory conditions for scientific and technological development, to step up practical implementation of scientific and technological advances in order to identify new drivers of economic growth.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index18" rel="18" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides call upon all countries to strengthen cooperation in sustainable transport, actively build contacts and share knowledge in the construction of transport facilities, including smart transport and sustainable transport, development and use of Arctic routes, as well as to develop other areas to support global post-epidemic recovery.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index19" rel="19" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides are taking serious action and making an important contribution to the fight against climate change. Jointly celebrating the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, they reaffirm their commitment to this Convention as well as to the goals, principles and provisions of the Paris Agreement, including the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. The sides work together to ensure the full and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement, remain committed to fulfilling the obligations they have undertaken and expect that developed countries will actually ensure the annual provision of $100 billion of climate finance to developing states. The sides oppose setting up new barriers in international trade under the pretext of fighting climate change.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index20" rel="20" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides strongly support the development of international cooperation and exchanges in the field of biological diversity, actively participating in the relevant global governance process, and intend to jointly promote the harmonious development of humankind and nature as well as green transformation to ensure sustainable global development.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index21" rel="21" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The Heads of State positively assess the effective interaction between Russia and China in the bilateral and multilateral formats focusing on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, protection of life and health of the population of the two countries and the peoples of the world. They will further increase cooperation in the development and manufacture of vaccines against the new coronavirus infection, as well as medical drugs for its treatment, and enhance collaboration in public health and modern medicine. The sides plan to strengthen coordination on epidemiological measures to ensure strong protection of health, safety and order in contacts between citizens of the two countries. The sides have commended the work of the competent authorities and regions of the two countries on implementing quarantine measures in the border areas and ensuring the stable operation of the border crossing points, and intend to consider establishing a joint mechanism for epidemic control and prevention in the border areas to jointly plan anti-epidemic measures to be taken at the border checkpoints, share information, build infrastructure and improve the efficiency of customs clearance of goods.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index22" rel="22" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides emphasize that ascertaining the origin of the new coronavirus infection is a matter of science. Research on this topic must be based on global knowledge, and that requires cooperation among scientists from all over the world. The sides oppose politicization of this issue. The Russian side welcomes the work carried out jointly by China and WHO to identify the source of the new coronavirus infection and supports the China – WHO joint report on the matter. The sides call on the global community to jointly promote a serious scientific approach to the study of the coronavirus origin.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index23" rel="23" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The Russian side supports a successful hosting by the Chinese side of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing in 2022.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index24" rel="24" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides highly appreciate the level of bilateral cooperation in sports and the Olympic movement and express their readiness to contribute to its further progressive development.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""ITCFranklinGothicW10-Md 862399", arial, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index25" rel="25" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>III</span></p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index26" rel="26" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides are gravely concerned about serious international security challenges and believe that the fates of all nations are interconnected. No State can or should ensure its own security separately from the security of the rest of the world and at the expense of the security of other States. The international community should actively engage in global governance to ensure universal, comprehensive, indivisible and lasting security.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index27" rel="27" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides reaffirm their strong mutual support for the protection of their core interests, state sovereignty and territorial integrity, and oppose interference by external forces in their internal affairs.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index28" rel="28" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The Russian side reaffirms its support for the One-China principle, confirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and opposes any forms of independence of Taiwan.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index29" rel="29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Russia and China stand against attempts by external forces to undermine security and stability in their common adjacent regions, intend to counter interference by outside forces in the internal affairs of sovereign countries under any pretext, oppose colour revolutions, and will increase cooperation in the aforementioned areas.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index30" rel="30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides condemn terrorism in all its manifestations, promote the idea of creating a single global anti-terrorism front, with the United Nations playing a central role, advocate stronger political coordination and constructive engagement in multilateral counterterrorism efforts. The sides oppose politicization of the issues of combating terrorism and their use as instruments of policy of double standards, condemn the practice of interference in the internal affairs of other States for geopolitical purposes through the use of terrorist and extremist groups as well as under the guise of combating international terrorism and extremism.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index31" rel="31" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides believe that certain States, military and political alliances and coalitions seek to obtain, directly or indirectly, unilateral military advantages to the detriment of the security of others, including by employing unfair competition practices, intensify geopolitical rivalry, fuel antagonism and confrontation, and seriously undermine the international security order and global strategic stability. The sides oppose further enlargement of NATO and call on the North Atlantic Alliance to abandon its ideologized cold war approaches, to respect the sovereignty, security and interests of other countries, the diversity of their civilizational, cultural and historical backgrounds, and to exercise a fair and objective attitude towards the peaceful development of other States. The sides stand against the formation of closed bloc structures and opposing camps in the Asia-Pacific region and remain highly vigilant about the negative impact of the United States' Indo-Pacific strategy on peace and stability in the region. Russia and China have made consistent efforts to build an equitable, open and inclusive security system in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR) that is not directed against third countries and that promotes peace, stability and prosperity.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index32" rel="32" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides welcome the Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapons States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races and believe that all nuclear-weapons States should abandon the cold war mentality and zero-sum games, reduce the role of nuclear weapons in their national security policies, withdraw nuclear weapons deployed abroad, eliminate the unrestricted development of global anti-ballistic missile defense (ABM) system, and take effective steps to reduce the risks of nuclear wars and any armed conflicts between countries with military nuclear capabilities.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index33" rel="33" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides reaffirm that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is the cornerstone of the international disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation system, an important part of the post-war international security system, and plays an indispensable role in world peace and development. The international community should promote the balanced implementation of the three pillars of the Treaty and work together to protect the credibility, effectiveness and the universal nature of the instrument.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index34" rel="34" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides are seriously concerned about the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom (AUKUS), which provides for deeper cooperation between its members in areas involving strategic stability, in particular their decision to initiate cooperation in the field of nuclear-powered submarines. Russia and China believe that such actions are contrary to the objectives of security and sustainable development of the Asia-Pacific region, increase the danger of an arms race in the region, and pose serious risks of nuclear proliferation. The sides strongly condemn such moves and call on AUKUS participants to fulfil their nuclear and missile non-proliferation commitments in good faith and to work together to safeguard peace, stability, and development in the region.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index35" rel="35" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Japan's plans to release nuclear contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean and the potential environmental impact of such actions are of deep concern to the sides. The sides emphasize that the disposal of nuclear contaminated water should be handled with responsibility and carried out in a proper manner based on arrangements between the Japanese side and neighbouring States, other interested parties, and relevant international agencies while ensuring transparency, scientific reasoning, and in accordance with international law.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index36" rel="36" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides believe that the U.S. withdrawal from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, the acceleration of research and the development of intermediate-range and shorter-range ground-based missiles and the desire to deploy them in the Asia-Pacific and European regions, as well as their transfer to the allies, entail an increase in tension and distrust, increase risks to international and regional security, lead to the weakening of international non-proliferation and arms control system, undermining global strategic stability. The sided call on the United States to respond positively to the Russian initiative and abandon its plans to deploy intermediate-range and shorter-range ground-based missiles in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. The sides will continue to maintain contacts and strengthen coordination on this issue.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index37" rel="37" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The Chinese side is sympathetic to and supports the proposals put forward by the Russian Federation to create long-term legally binding security guarantees in Europe.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index38" rel="38" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides note that the denunciation by the United States of a number of important international arms control agreements has an extremely negative impact on international and regional security and stability. The sides express concern over the advancement of U.S. plans to develop global missile defence and deploy its elements in various regions of the world, combined with capacity building of high-precision non-nuclear weapons for disarming strikes and other strategic objectives. The sides stress the importance of the peaceful uses of outer space, strongly support the central role of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in promoting international cooperation, maintaining and developing international space law and regulation in the field of space activities. Russia and China will continue to increase cooperation on such matters of mutual interest as the long-term sustainability of space activities and the development and use of space resources. The sides oppose attempts by some States to turn outer space into an arena of armed confrontation and reiterate their intention to make all necessary efforts to prevent the weaponization of space and an arms race in outer space. They will counteract activities aimed at achieving military superiority in space and using it for combat operations. The sides affirm the need for the early launch of negotiations to conclude a legally binding multilateral instrument based on the Russian-Chinese draft treaty on the prevention of placement of weapons in outer space and the use or threat of force against space objects that would provide fundamental and reliable guarantees against an arms race and the weaponization of outer space.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index39" rel="39" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Russia and China emphasize that appropriate transparency and confidence-building measures, including an international initiative/political commitment not to be the first to place weapons in space, can also contribute to the goal of preventing an arms race in outer space, but such measures should complement and not substitute the effective legally binding regime governing space activities.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index40" rel="40" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides reaffirm their belief that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BWC) is an essential pillar of international peace and security. Russia and China underscore their determination to preserve the credibility and effectiveness of the Convention.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index41" rel="41" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides affirm the need to fully respect and further strengthen the BWC, including by institutionalizing it, strengthening its mechanisms, and adopting a legally binding Protocol to the Convention with an effective verification mechanism, as well as through regular consultation and cooperation in addressing any issues related to the implementation of the Convention.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index42" rel="42" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides emphasize that domestic and foreign bioweapons activities by the United States and its allies raise serious concerns and questions for the international community regarding their compliance with the BWC. The sides share the view that such activities pose a serious threat to the national security of the Russian Federation and China and are detrimental to the security of the respective regions. The sides call on the U.S. and its allies to act in an open, transparent, and responsible manner by properly reporting on their military biological activities conducted overseas and on their national territory, and by supporting the resumption of negotiations on a legally binding BWC Protocol with an effective verification mechanism.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index43" rel="43" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides, reaffirming their commitment to the goal of a world free of chemical weapons, call upon all parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention to work together to uphold its credibility and effectiveness. Russia and China are deeply concerned about the politicization of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and call on all of its members to strengthen solidarity and cooperation and protect the tradition of consensual decision-making. Russia and China insist that the United States, as the sole State Party to the Convention that has not yet completed the process of eliminating chemical weapons, accelerate the elimination of its stockpiles of chemical weapons. The sides emphasize the importance of balancing the non-proliferation obligations of states with the interests of legitimate international cooperation in the use of advanced technology and related materials and equipment for peaceful purposes. The sides note the resolution entitled ”Promoting international Cooperation on Peaceful Uses in the Context of International Security“ adopted at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly on the initiative of China and co‑sponsored by Russia, and look forward to its consistent implementation in accordance with the goals set forth therein.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index44" rel="44" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides attach great importance to the issues of governance in the field of artificial intelligence. The sides are ready to strengthen dialogue and contacts on artificial intelligence.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index45" rel="45" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides reiterate their readiness to deepen cooperation in the field of international information security and to contribute to building an open, secure, sustainable and accessible ICT environment. The sides emphasize that the principles of the non-use of force, respect for national sovereignty and fundamental human rights and freedoms, and non-interference in the internal affairs of other States, as enshrined in the UN Charter, are applicable to the information space. Russia and China reaffirm the key role of the UN in responding to threats to international information security and express their support for the Organization in developing new norms of conduct of states in this area.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index46" rel="46" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides welcome the implementation of the global negotiation process on international information security within a single mechanism and support in this context the work of the UN Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) 2021–2025 (OEWG) and express their willingness to speak with one voice within it. The sides consider it necessary to consolidate the efforts of the international community to develop new norms of responsible behaviour of States, including legal ones, as well as a universal international legal instrument regulating the activities of States in the field of ICT. The sides believe that the Global Initiative on Data Security, proposed by the Chinese side and supported, in principle, by the Russian side, provides a basis for the Working Group to discuss and elaborate responses to data security threats and other threats to international information security.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index47" rel="47" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides reiterate their support of United Nations General Assembly resolutions 74/247 and 75/282, support the work of the relevant Ad Hoc Committee of Governmental Experts, facilitate the negotiations within the United Nations for the elaboration of an international convention on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes. The sides encourage constructive participation of all sides in the negotiations in order to agree as soon as possible on a credible, universal, and comprehensive convention and provide it to the United Nations General Assembly at its 78<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup> session in strict compliance with resolution 75/282. For these purposes, Russia and China have presented a joint draft convention as a basis for negotiations.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index48" rel="48" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides support the internationalization of Internet governance, advocate equal rights to its governance, believe that any attempts to limit their sovereign right to regulate national segments of the Internet and ensure their security are unacceptable, are interested in greater participation of the International Telecommunication Union in addressing these issues.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index49" rel="49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides intend to deepen bilateral cooperation in international information security on the basis of the relevant 2015 intergovernmental agreement. To this end, the sides have agreed to adopt in the near future a plan for cooperation between Russia and China in this area.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""ITCFranklinGothicW10-Md 862399", arial, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index50" rel="50" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>IV</span></p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index51" rel="51" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides underline that Russia and China, as world powers and permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, intend to firmly adhere to moral principles and accept their responsibility, strongly advocate the international system with the central coordinating role of the United Nations in international affairs, defend the world order based on international law, including the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, advance multipolarity and promote the democratization of international relations, together create an even more prospering, stable, and just world, jointly build international relations of a new type.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index52" rel="52" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The Russian side notes the significance of the concept of constructing a ”community of common destiny for mankind“ proposed by the Chinese side to ensure greater solidarity of the international community and consolidation of efforts in responding to common challenges. The Chinese side notes the significance of the efforts taken by the Russian side to establish a just multipolar system of international relations.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index53" rel="53" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides intend to strongly uphold the outcomes of the Second World War and the existing post-war world order, defend the authority of the United Nations and justice in international relations, resist attempts to deny, distort, and falsify the history of the Second World War.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index54" rel="54" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>In order to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy of the world war, the sides will strongly condemn actions aimed at denying the responsibility for atrocities of Nazi aggressors, militarist invaders, and their accomplices, besmirch and tarnish the honour of the victorious countries.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index55" rel="55" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides call for the establishment of a new kind of relationships between world powers on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial cooperation. They reaffirm that the new inter-State relations between Russia and China are superior to political and military alliances of the Cold War era. Friendship between the two States has no limits, there are no ”forbidden“ areas of cooperation, strengthening of bilateral strategic cooperation is neither aimed against third countries nor affected by the changing international environment and circumstantial changes in third countries.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index56" rel="56" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides reiterate the need for consolidation, not division of the international community, the need for cooperation, not confrontation. The sides oppose the return of international relations to the state of confrontation between major powers, when the weak fall prey to the strong. The sides intend to resist attempts to substitute universally recognized formats and mechanisms that are consistent with international law for rules elaborated in private by certain nations or blocs of nations, and are against addressing international problems indirectly and without consensus, oppose power politics, bullying, unilateral sanctions, and extraterritorial application of jurisdiction, as well as the abuse of export control policies, and support trade facilitation in line with the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO).</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index57" rel="57" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides reaffirmed their intention to strengthen foreign policy coordination, pursue true multilateralism, strengthen cooperation on multilateral platforms, defend common interests, support the international and regional balance of power, and improve global governance.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index58" rel="58" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides support and defend the multilateral trade system based on the central role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), take an active part in the WTO reform, opposing unilateral approaches and protectionism. The sides are ready to strengthen dialogue between partners and coordinate positions on trade and economic issues of common concern, contribute to ensuring the sustainable and stable operation of global and regional value chains, promote a more open, inclusive, transparent, non-discriminatory system of international trade and economic rules.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index59" rel="59" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides support the G20 format as an important forum for discussing international economic cooperation issues and anti-crisis response measures, jointly promote the invigorated spirit of solidarity and cooperation within the G20, support the leading role of the association in such areas as the international fight against epidemics, world economic recovery, inclusive sustainable development, improving the global economic governance system in a fair and rational manner to collectively address global challenges.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index60" rel="60" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides support the deepened strategic partnership within BRICS, promote the expanded cooperation in three main areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and humanitarian exchanges. In particular, Russia and China intend to encourage interaction in the fields of public health, digital economy, science, innovation and technology, including artificial intelligence technologies, as well as the increased coordination between BRICS countries on international platforms. The sides strive to further strengthen the BRICS Plus/Outreach format as an effective mechanism of dialogue with regional integration associations and organizations of developing countries and States with emerging markets.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index61" rel="61" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The Russian side will fully support the Chinese side chairing the association in 2022, and assist in the fruitful holding of the XIV BRICS summit.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index62" rel="62" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Russia and China aim to comprehensively strengthen the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and further enhance its role in shaping a polycentric world order based on the universally recognized principles of international law, multilateralism, equal, joint, indivisible, comprehensive and sustainable security.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index63" rel="63" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>They consider it important to consistently implement the agreements on improved mechanisms to counter challenges and threats to the security of SCO member states and, in the context of addressing this task, advocate expanded functionality of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index64" rel="64" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides will contribute to imparting a new quality and dynamics to the economic interaction between the SCO member States in the fields of trade, manufacturing, transport, energy, finance, investment, agriculture, customs, telecommunications, innovation and other areas of mutual interest, including through the use of advanced, resource-saving, energy efficient and ”green“ technologies.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index65" rel="65" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides note the fruitful interaction within the SCO under the 2009 Agreement between the Governments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member States on cooperation in the field of international information security, as well as within the specialized Group of Experts. In this context, they welcome the adoption of the SCO Joint Action Plan on Ensuring International Information Security for 2022–2023 by the Council of Heads of State of SCO Member States on September 17, 2021 in Dushanbe.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index66" rel="66" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Russia and China proceed from the ever-increasing importance of cultural and humanitarian cooperation for the progressive development of the SCO. In order to strengthen mutual understanding between the people of the SCO member States, they will continue to effectively foster interaction in such areas as cultural ties, education, science and technology, healthcare, environmental protection, tourism, people-to-people contacts, sports.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index67" rel="67" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Russia and China will continue to work to strengthen the role of APEC as the leading platform for multilateral dialogue on economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The sides intend to step up coordinated action to successfully implement the ”Putrajaya guidelines for the development of APEC until 2040“ with a focus on creating a free, open, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent and predictable trade and investment environment in the region. Particular emphasis will be placed on the fight against the novel coronavirus infection pandemic and economic recovery, digitalization of a wide range of different spheres of life, economic growth in remote territories and the establishment of interaction between APEC and other regional multilateral associations with a similar agenda.</p><p style="color: #020c22; font-family: "ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span class="masha_index masha_index68" rel="68" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The sides intend to develop cooperation within the ”Russia-India-China“ format, as well as to strengthen interaction on such venues as the East Asia Summit, ASEAN Regional Forum on Security, Meeting of Defense Ministers of the ASEAN Member States and Dialogue Partners. Russia and China support ASEAN's central role in developing cooperation in East Asia, continue to increase coordination on deepened cooperation with ASEAN, and jointly promote cooperation in the areas of public health, sustainable development, combating terrorism and countering transnational crime. The sides intend to continue to work in the interest of a strengthened role of ASEAN as a key element of the regional architecture.</p><p style="margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #020c22; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770">http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770</a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 140px 29px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #020c22; font-family: ITCFranklinGothicW10-Bk 862339, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span></p></div>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-19260675340886941302022-01-18T10:12:00.003-08:002022-01-18T10:12:44.959-08:00Renaissance of the Civil Rights Movement Led by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Reflections and Projections<p> <span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Martin Luther King, Jr. made friends across the country who engaged in the civil rights movement. We have focused on him alone with celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and seem to have forgotten that it was a movement involving a great many people. </span></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">And he was a celebrity, too, in those times, who had many celebrity friends. We can all learn how to bring about social change by galvanizing our networks of friends in the renaissance of the civil rights movement, the Black Lives Matter movement we see today. Now we have many powerful politicians involved in this struggle as well. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I've been learning that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great letter writer, and that is one way that he communicated with his friends. Today we use social media and email to communicate with others, but we should not forget the power of a letter that is highly personal when handwritten. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I support President Joe Biden and the Democrats who want to pass voting rights legislation. I support Stacey Abrams and Fair Fight that has worked successfully to turn out the vote in Georgia. I support Representative Barbara Lee and the progressive caucus she is part of. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I also support Vice President Kamala Harris in her efforts to stem immigration from countries south of the border by engaging private industry in efforts to boost their economies. And I support Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in the superb leadership she has given us on so many important issues.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I make the commitment right now to write and send letters through snailmail to President Biden, Stacey Abrams, Representative Barbara Lee, Vice President Kamala Harris., and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">The struggle to pass voting rights legislation and so much of the Build Back Better legislation is the face of the civil right movement and support for women today. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">It seems to me that Black Lives Matter has made such a significant impact on our politics that we are seeing a backlash from white supremacists (and corporations that don't want social change that might threaten their profits) in the repressive legislation of Republican dominated legislatures in so many states . </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Who owns corporate media? Billionaires, of course, who use our mass media to further their own agendas. Who is attacking President Biden in his efforts to make corporations pay their fair share of taxes and strengthen labor unions? Connect the dots. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Republicans have made themselves a party of contortionists with the truth as they promote the interests of the wealthy and corporations. Never in my life have I seen such a clear difference between Republicans and Democrats. I am a Green Party member and peace activist myself, but my allegiance in this struggle between the two major parties goes to the Democrats.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">The truth of the matter is that humanity is in a process of spiritual evolution. Truth, kindness, compassion, equality, respect, fair play and love will prevail over greed, ego, avarice for power and control over other people, hatred and fear. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Every time you take an action for the benefit of others (and maybe yourself, too), you shift the paradigm. Every time someone says something mean to you or hurts you, and you turn the other cheek and bless them, or return their shabby behavior with kindness and compassion, you are part of the pardigm shift, of the evolution of humanity. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I'm not saying that it's easy, and I am not able to do it all the time myself. I know that it is a worthy feat when I can do it. We can't measure the moments or even our successes. It's bigger than that. All we can do is engage in the process as best we can at the moment. The fate of our race depends on it.</div></div>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-11490791327917921352022-01-18T09:38:00.001-08:002022-01-18T09:38:08.114-08:00Are Electric Cars an Answer to Global Warming? A Return to Village Life Might Help More<p> <span style="background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are Electric Cars an Answer to Global Warming?</span></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">If you factor in the environmental costs of manufacturing batteries, electric cars are not such a great investment in the environment. Also it perpetuates the need for a cultural lifestyle dependent on cars, a lifestyle that we need to diversify.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Let's look at a move to village living again, riding bikes or taking buses or vans to feeder lines to commute by rail to the nearest city.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Now building transport systems that make it viable for people to live in the country without a car makes all the sense in the world. Break up our large cities.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Not everyone living in a village would need a car or even to commute to work in a nearby city. Many could work from home or work on projects for the benefit of the community. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">There might be car sharing and cooperative ownership of a fleet of various vehicles and ways to get around: trucks, golf carts, motorcycles, electric bikes and bicycles. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Energy could be sourced locally from photovoltaic cell clusters. There could be a town hall to discuss political and community concerns, provide a music and arts rehearsal and performance center for concerts, dancing and parties. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Community gardens and orchards could provide some of the food for villagers. A broad based of trade and exchange with surrounding villages could share the abundance of a variety of food that is grown. There could be a baking collective and a wide range of cooperative food preparation and meal sharing from weekly potlucks at the community center, to breakfast clubs, etc.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">The village would need a good, reliable source of water. Perhaps a ring of wells strategically placed could provide an independent source of water. We know how to build up the aquifer below the land today.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">A ring of trees could provide an outdoor ceremonial site for weddings and funerals, parties and harvest feasts. Hickory, walnut, and pecan trees could also be a source of food for everyone.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">A return to village life could meet many social needs for belonging, a sense of mission and purpose, connection with the land and other people that is so often missing in modern life. It would not be the remote and isolated village life of the past, but one of connection through the Internet that provides a good quality of life.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: #242526; color: #e4e6eb; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">However, if the grid should fail, if the Internet were to crash permanently, life would go on, and it would be a good life, as it would be possible to become more or less self sufficient.</div></div>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-36879306850369987592021-12-15T09:50:00.002-08:002021-12-15T09:50:40.984-08:00Peace and Goodwill Message of 2021 to Presidents Biden and Putin and to Americans and Russians<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Peace and Goodwill Message of 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During this Christmas season let us open our hearts to bring
in peace and goodwill between the great nations of the United States and
Russia. I call on President Biden and President Putin to cease and desist all
military moves that could lead our countries to war in the Ukraine. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During this pandemic, with the Omicron variant spreading
like wildfire and over 800,000 deaths from Covid in the U.S., the urgent need
to come together and cooperate with each other is greater than ever. The last
thing Americans or Russians, or anyone in the world, needs is to worry about
the threat of war. In fact, if humanity is to survive and thrive, the time is
now to end military conflict as a way to resolve conflicts. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We must evolve if we are to survive as a race. We have far
more in common than our differences. If we can shift to cooperating, sharing
and caring more for each other, we have a chance, despite the all-encompassing
threat of climate change. We can work together to ameliorate the worst impacts
it will bring, and we need to focus on making the changes that will ensure that
everyone possible survives. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I call for an end to all economic sanctions against Russia
by the United States, which is a form of warfare that has impoverished
Russians. I call on both presidents to do their best to improve the lives of
their people. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">War does nothing but destroy and kill. It does not improve
the lives of the people. I call on both countries to cut the military budget in
half -- use the money instead to make life better for the majority of people.
It’s the wealthy who get richer and richer on wars, profiting on the blood of
the people lost in fighting. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Use the military not to kill, but to help people through
hard times, in places hit hard by severe weather, such as we have seen in
Kentucky with tornadoes recently. Use the military in joint exercises that make
sure everyone has food and shelter in the world, as well as caring for the
environment. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are undergoing the greatest shift in the minds and hearts
of people that the world has ever seen. Let’s take this to the top and reorder
our priorities as nations. Professional diplomats are not enough to see us
through this shift safely. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I call on President Putin and President Biden to consult
with the wise women of the International Council of Thirteen Grandmothers to
strategize what needs to be done, and where we should go from here to be in
right relation with each other and all life on this planet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">Послание мира и доброй воли 2021 года<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">В течение этого рождественского сезона давайте откроем наши
сердца, чтобы принести мир и добрую волю между великими народами Соединенных
Штатов и России. Я призываю президента Байдена и президента Путина прекратить и
воздерживаться от всех военных шагов, которые могут привести наши страны к
войне на Украине.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Во время этой пандемии, когда вариант Omicron
распространяется как лесной пожар и более 800 000 смертей от Covid в США,
острая необходимость объединиться и сотрудничать друг с другом больше, чем
когда-либо. Последнее, что нужно американцам, русским или кому-либо в мире, это
беспокоиться об угрозе войны. На самом деле, если человечество хочет выжить и
процветать, настало время положить конец военным конфликтам как способу
разрешения конфликтов.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Мы должны развиваться, если хотим выжить как раса. У нас
гораздо больше общего, чем наших различий. Если мы сможем перейти к
сотрудничеству, обмену и заботе друг о друге, у нас есть шанс, несмотря на
всеобъемлющую угрозу изменения климата. Мы можем работать вместе, чтобы
смягчить наихудшие последствия, которые это принесет, и нам нужно
сосредоточиться на внесении изменений, которые обеспечат выживание всех
возможных.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Я призываю к прекращению всех экономических санкций против
России со стороны Соединенных Штатов, которые являются формой войны, которая
привела к обнищанию россиян. Я призываю обоих президентов сделать все возможное
для улучшения жизни своего народа.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Война не делает ничего, кроме разрушения и убийства. Это не
улучшает жизнь людей. Я призываю обе страны сократить военный бюджет вдвое -
использовать деньги вместо этого, чтобы сделать жизнь лучше для большинства
людей. Именно богатые становятся все богаче и богаче на войнах, наживаясь на
крови людей, погибших в боях.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Используйте военных не для того, чтобы убивать, а чтобы
помочь людям пережить трудные времена, в местах, сильно пострадавших от суровой
погоды, таких как мы видели в Кентукки с торнадо в последнее время. Используйте
военных в совместных учениях, которые гарантируют, что у каждого есть еда и
кров в мире, а также забота об окружающей среде.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Мы переживаем величайший сдвиг в умах и сердцах людей,
который когда-либо видел мир. Давайте поднимем это на вершину и перестроим наши
приоритеты как наций. Профессиональных дипломатов недостаточно, чтобы безопасно
провести нас через этот сдвиг.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Я призываю Президента Путина и Президента Байдена
проконсультироваться с мудрыми женщинами Международного совета тринадцати
бабушек, чтобы выработать стратегию того, что необходимо сделать, и куда мы
должны двигаться дальше, чтобы быть в правильных отношениях друг с другом и со
всей жизнью на этой планете.<o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-44294570652546340642021-01-22T11:05:00.001-08:002021-01-22T11:05:18.405-08:00What is the Difference Between the Soul and Spirit?<p>I'm in a Facebook group of many diverse people, the Arcturians. Today I saw that someone had posed the question, "What is the difference between the soul and spirit? Here is my response.</p><p> <span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I have thought about this, too, and the way I see it both words mean basically the same thing. Soul seems like an older word that mostly Christians use. Spirit seems more inclusive somehow, kind of an expansion of what people meant when they used to say soul. I use both words. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Basically it's the part of us that you can't see. It's not the physical body; it's the spark of life that imbues it. And the spirit or the soul carries both our past lifetime memories and is also part of the greater soul of collective humanity. How that all works out is part of the greater mystery, the beguiling unknown that those of us on a spiritual path continually explore.</span></p>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-91456093280537618242021-01-19T09:58:00.011-08:002021-01-19T10:14:30.462-08:00Biden's Great Appointment of Transgender Rachel Levine as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fantastic! As a
visionary, I reached the understanding this past year that transgender people
and those who are "gender nonconforming", are important wayshowers in
the evolution of humanity at this time. For one, Americans have become such a
nation of conformists, sheeple if you may, that anyone who doesn't conform in
any way is one courageous singular person. Conformity is a corporate value, and
it works against self-expression, which is the core of freedom. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The paradigm shift
that we are experiencing right now is taking us into a greater consciousness, a
deeper level of understanding, if you're able to follow me on this. We are
starting to remember all of who we are and have been, and continue to be. As we
start to wend our way through the multiverses and alternate realities of higher
levels of consciousness, awakening to the full extent of all of who we are,
that means we begin to get in touch with past lives, often lived as the
opposite gender. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The truth is that we
are all an amalgam of all the lives that we've led, sometimes as a woman,
sometimes as a man, and as our memory returns with a greater awareness of the
fluid nature of time and space, we will become more aware of all of these
different aspects of who we are. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I realize that I
probably lost almost of all of you in sharing these insights. And I could be
wrong. Actually I want to write a story with a transgender hero/heroine, that
will help people begin to explore all of this. It's one of my goals for this
year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I just know that this
news makes me rejoice. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #f1765e; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #f1765e; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Congratulations </span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rachel Levine! I am sure you will do an
outstanding job for all of us in this position as Assistant Secretary for
Health and Human Services. Our country needs someone with your level of
experience and knowledge to help lead in protecting the health and safety of
Americans during this pandemic. May the Senate confirm your appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See New York Times article, January 19, 2021, <span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Biden’s pick for Health and Human Services role would be first transgender federal official confirmed by the Senate," by Eileen Sullivan.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://nyti.ms/3sBDVKB">https://nyti.ms/3sBDVKB</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-75282179896577634652021-01-04T18:01:00.002-08:002021-01-04T18:01:43.022-08:00Let's Make Life Better for People in the United States<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brainstorming ideas this morning for making life better for people in the United States.</span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">FEED AMERICA -- cooking classes for healthy eating, community gardens, planting fruit and nut trees in school yards, sharing resources more so everyone has enough healthy food</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">GET FIT AMERICA -- Creating ways for people to get more exercise, walking more, working physically, and holding mass healing events</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">RISE AMERICA -- intergenerational programs to lift people's spirits, engage in community forums and political activity, get people singing together, making public art, holding community dances, battles of the bands, tree planting projects, building community centers as a civic project.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">BUILD AMERICA -- Building cultural ties with other countries, creating new ways to engage in international trade, building small communities.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">HEAL AMERICA -- Form wise women councils to lead a process of truth and reconciliation circles, to launch a massive movement to heal our divisions, especially racial ones and with indigeneous peoples, but also for women to be heard about how oppressive our patriarchal systems have been for them.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">DREAM AMERICA -- Sharing our dreams, visions, hopes and wishes for the country we want to create going forward.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">WORK AMERICA -- Developing work programs that provide training in new skills and that create better communities, promote creative projects, and provide care for everyone that needs it.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">CARE AMERICA -- Assess the needs of people in our neighborhoods and communities, and develop programs that meet those needs in new and creative ways.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">SHARE AMERICA -- Start sharing programs at home and abroad that gives anyone who wants the opportunity to give public service and share resources. Building internships into all of our educational programs. Seniors mentoring teenagers and children in mutually beneficial ways. Sharing ideas on ways to make our society more inclusive, more caring and more supportive of everyone through sharing.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">CELEBRATE AMERICA -- Both online and on the ground festivals and concerts (as the coronavirus pandemic subsides), new kinds of celebrations that are free and family friendly. Music, dance,, art, performance. Make entertainment accessible to everyone to enjoy and participate in.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">ACTIVATE AMERICA -- Get everyone going, working on creative projects, engaging in work that pays well and meets real needs of people, building communities and ways to live in harmony with nature. Engage people in creating better lives and taking responsibility for themselves and their communities.</div></div>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-3256463500333558422020-10-29T09:08:00.002-07:002020-10-29T09:08:20.378-07:00Politics is the Realm of the Possible: Engage<p> <span style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want Americans to develop a backbone, to fight for themselves. Are you voting for the first time or the first time in years? Well let me tell you it doesn't stop at the voting booth. You need to be an informed voter. Follow the issues, know your candidates for every office you cast a vote for. </span></p><div style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc e5nlhep0 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_8j" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="animation-name: none !important; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Engage in democracy, this great gift from our forebears and activists who have expanded the franchise to women and blacks. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Attend city council meetings and meetings of the Board of Supervisors for your county. At least 2-3X a year to stay informed and get to know their character, but especially when they are deciding on issues that you care about. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Find out their hidden agendas and who their corporate backers are. Call them out on conflicts of interest. Fight for open meetings, and make it known when decisions are being made in secret. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Strategize to block developers when their plans go against the public interests. Fight for common space, better wages and working conditions, equality for everyone, and a strong social net for those who get sick or need more help than they are getting. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Above all, ask good questions.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Write letters to the editor for your local newspaper. And if you're not sure about what's happening, raise questions, pointed questions. At least voice your views on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and any social media you are active in. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Demand the truth, and when you are blessed enough to read it, support those journalists like Julian Assange who put themselves on the line to tell it. Understand that there is disinformation spread about everyone who stands up to the powerful. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Become a warrior for freedom, and support a free press (not the corporate media who manipulate what you think). Think for yourself. Most of us have access to the Internet, even if we go to the library or an Internet cafe. Speak out. Speak up.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Your voice matters. You are important. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise, that your vote doesn't count, that your opinion doesn't matter, that nobody wants to hear what you have to say.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Use your good mind and free will. If you've become lazy about all this or indifferent, it doesn't matter. You have been disenfranchised. You have become a pawn if you just go along to get along. Just get started and build some muscles. It's like going to the gym. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">We need fit and healthy citizens, people who put everything they've got into making this work, heart, body, mind and soul. Put yourself on the line. Make a difference. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Take care of yourself and your family because politics is the realm of the possible. If you take yourself out of that realm, then you may have to live with what may seem like increasingly impossible circumstances.</div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="stjgntxs ni8dbmo4 l82x9zwi uo3d90p7 h905i5nu monazrh9" data-visualcompletion="ignore-dynamic" style="animation-name: none !important; border-radius: 0px 0px 8px 8px; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; transition-property: none !important;"><div style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><div style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; transition-property: none !important;"><div style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="a8nywdso e5nlhep0 rz4wbd8a ecm0bbzt dhix69tm oygrvhab wkznzc2l kvgmc6g5 k7cz35w2 jq4qci2q j83agx80 olo4ujb6 jmbispl3" style="animation-name: none !important; 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color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am putting on my crystal visionary hat, of empathic and shamanic wisdom, to convey The Law of Eleven. The Law of Eleven would elevate the Supreme Court of the United States to the next level of evolution.</span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There should be eleven judges on the Supreme Court, not nine, if we heed the Law of Eleven. </span></p><p style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">11 judges would be devout supporters of humanity. Their collective vision would be crystal clear, with a breadth of ability to see and discern truth and justice that others cannot. Eleven judges would bring a creative and magnetic energy that serves as a beacon of wisdom and hope for others to follow.</span></p><p style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Following the Law of 11, the Supreme Court will be a channel for truth and answers that inspire us to the greater justice inherent in cosmic spiritual truths.</span></p></div>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-38089998254671784282020-10-27T12:37:00.003-07:002020-10-27T12:37:40.135-07:00Ruth Bader Ginsburg Left Big Shoes to Fill: How Will Amy Coney Barrett Fare?<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Amy Coney Barrett may have won the partisan vote today to be appointed Supreme Court Justice to replace RBG, but she will always be in the shadow of RBG.
Although they have some things in common, there is no way that Amy Coney Barrett is in the same league as RBG, who was a major pioneer in the legal field of gender discrimination. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> Important or not, the facts are that RBG went to law school at Harvard. Amy Coney Barrett went to Notre Dame's law school. Harvard is ranked #2 among law schools; Notre Dame is #24. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">https://www.velocitylsat.com/resources/top-law-schools They both graduated at the top of their class. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Both women were law professors, RBG at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School (ranked #4 in top law schools) teaching civil procedure. Barrett taught at her alma mater, Notre Dame Law School. Like RBG, she also taught civil procedure. In addition, Barrett taught constitutional law and statutory interpretation. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Both women served as circuit court judges, RBG for 13 years on the DC Circuit Appeals Court from 1980-1993; Amy Coney Barrett for three years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, since 2017. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued and won six cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on gender discrimination from 1973 to 1976, making strategic gains for women's rights. I don't believe that Amy Coney Barrett has ever personally argued a case before the Supreme Court, although much is made of her working as a law clerk for Antonin Scalia when he represented George W. Bush, Jr. in the Supreme Court decision that made him president. For those of us who think that the Supreme Court had no business deciding who was our president, that is not a point in her favor. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Although it's true that Amy Coney Barrett is the first woman to serve on the Seventh Circuit from Indiana, that seems to be the only mark of distinction. Compare this to the career achievements of RBG before her appointment to become a Supreme Court Judge.: </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg volunteered as an attorney at the ACLU, and then served as general counsel and as a director on their Board of Directors. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">2. RBG co-founded the Women's Rights Law Reporter, the first law journal in the U.S. to focus exclusively on women's rights. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">3. She became the first tenured female professor at Columbia Law School. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">4. Ginsburg co-authored the first law school casebook on sex discrimination. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU in 1972. She attained a reputation as a skilled oral advocate, and her work led directly to the end of gender discrimination in many areas of the law. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Amy Coney Barrett, so far in her career, comparing it to the early career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has not been exactly a trailblazer for human rights. She is known for being dogmatic and conservative, and usually favors big business over workers.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Amy Coney Barrett has a brilliant legal mind, which I readily admit after having read an academic paper she wrote. However, I don't anticipate that she will do anything so remarkable as RBG did that earned her the moniker, the Notorious RBG. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">I don't foresee that Amy Coney Barrett will make any contribution to the advancement of our society in particular. She may eventually move more to the center with all the pressures that will come to bear on her as a Supreme Court Judge, and she may even make some sound decisions.
However, it is my opinion that she will forever be cast in the shadow of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I most certainly would like to be wrong about this, and hope that she will indeed distinguish herself.
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span></p>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-31471502509994340612020-08-17T09:11:00.003-07:002020-08-17T09:11:53.814-07:00Ways that We Could Have an Honest Election<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">What's most important is that Biden not concede the race until every last ballot is counted. Gore caved in way too early. I was furious, and so were most of the black representatives who strode out angrily during his concession speech. I was watching it on C-SPAN at the time. And, as it turned out, when all the votes were counted, Gore had actually won. By then it was too late. I have had no respect for that man ever since. There's nothing he could do to redeem himself in my eyes. He let down his supporters and people who voted for him in a travesty of an election.</span></p><br style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">This is a terrific opportunity to give temporary employees work; just turn out a large force of people to count the ballots. Heh, this is not rocket science. We can do this, even if the Democrats can't get taxpayer money because of Trump's opposition (and refusal to allow emergency funds for the post office), and the Republican's foolish lockstep adherence to his wishes, then let's find another way to give ourselves an honest election. Mitch McConnell deserves a great deal of the blame for this legislative paralysis. </span><br style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">If there are any billionaires out there, or even corporations, who are not part of the parasite class who always, always, always cheat the common person, don't pay their taxes, and exploit "the masses", then this is the time to step up and fund an honest election. I want to see action. I don't care what you say. Put your money behind your mouth and I'll believe you.</span><br style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">If a large corporation or extremely wealthy individual were to fund the post office and pay for temporary employees to vote the count, I cannot think of a better public relations move. And maybe just maybe, in a nod to Black Lives Matter, those temporary employees could be all black for a change.</span><br style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Alternatively, if the Democratic Party were sincere, then they could start a go-fund me account to raise the money for this. Personally, I'm a Green. After Gore caved, I understood that it was one ruling party, the duopoly that changes faces on occasion, but remains the same in waging ridiculous wars and keeping the working force under. Democrats and Republicans are in collusion, and voting has been a farce, and we've already had corrupted elections. Frankly, I don't expect much from Biden/Harris, although I think Harris is more of an unknown factor, and that she could evolve in office into a powerhouse force for women, working people, and retirees.</span><br style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">I'm retired myself, living on limited Social Security income. Trump has repeatedly said that he wants to cut Social Security. I fail to see why any senior would vote for him because he most certainly would do that in a second term. It's not even on the agenda for Democrats to destroy Social Security, so I think I will be better off with them. Besides I am so tired of seeing his ugly, angry face all the time on the news. And I've had it with lies. I can't even listen to him for more than a minute, that's how averse I've come to the thug.</span>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-3085602484622031092020-05-14T07:20:00.001-07:002020-05-14T07:20:43.126-07:00Lisa for Maine: Volunteer Voices - Ginny Schneider<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8-nP60bo_40" width="480"></iframe>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-72028369248049234422020-05-14T07:19:00.002-07:002020-05-14T07:19:58.817-07:00Lisa for Maine: Volunteer Voices - Ginny Schneider<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #161616; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Maine has ranked choice voting, and is a leader politically in this respect. It makes it possible for a third party candidate or independent to win an election. This is a game changer to invigorate our democracy, so voters are no longer faced with the grim choice of voting for the lesser of two evils in our duopoly. It makes it possible for Lisa Savage, a peace activist, to run for Senator of Maine and win as the popular voice of the people.</span>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-91699189181436872162020-05-13T15:08:00.001-07:002020-05-13T15:08:11.942-07:00Lisa for Maine: You Are Not Alone - #PeoplesBailout vs charity<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SxoTs5w9kmM" width="480"></iframe>Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-63663411391622881262020-01-20T20:07:00.000-08:002020-01-20T20:07:22.182-08:00Updated message in the words of MLK with comments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just read this article by F. William Engdahl, "China's Hidden Economic Time Bomb." No doubt there will be consequences to the one child only policy in China; however, I question some of this analysis. For one thing, I consider it a good thing that car sales are slowing. If everyone in China has a car, that's going to fuel intense competition for limited oil resources. China is also investing in mass public transportation, and that is a far better solution than selling more cars.</div>
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Without any reliable population data, it is really impossible to get a good sense of what's happening in China. I know that in the countryside, girls were still being born to families, and despite the government policy of one child only, there were very few families who adhered to this stricture. They just didn't report the birth of girls or more than one child in the family to avoid the tax burden and fines for having more than one child.</div>
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These "stateless" children, both boys and girls, receive no benefits from the state. Some attended school under the name of another child who had died. There were stratagems to get around government policy.</div>
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China can give these children official status and carry out a true count of the population. Children will have better access to education, and training programs will no doubt spring up across the undeveloped west that is rapidly being connected with the more developed eastern and coastal areas through an extensive new railroad network that has been under construction for several years.</div>
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If you remember the great economic impact of the construction of the transcontinental railway across the United States, it is too soon to consider China's economic miracle on the wane.</div>
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China has also undertaken a massive effort to provide higher education for its young people. I taught in one of these newly built universities. And there has been a mighty push for all Chinese children to learn English. We haven't begun to see the opportunities this opens up for China in world trade, as well as in the fields of science, technology, and the arts. China will benefit greatly from a better educated populace.</div>
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Another factor is retirement age of older people. Today in China retirement age is 50 years for most women, and 55 years for most men. China could implement policies to extend the retirement age, and that can give it a greater work force as well, at least long enough to implement other policies.</div>
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Actually the U.S. is China's greatest single market, and the trade war Trump has been waging against China probably accounts for the slowdown this year. However, corruption continues in China; it has always been a part of the culture. Corruption waxes and wanes over the centuries, but never goes away completely. And that is also a factor on the negative side that could slow down economic growth.</div>
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After living in China for four years from 2007 to 2011, I have been reading extensively about it, and studying the politics, history and culture of China. My interest in this great country was awakened by living there, and although it's true that I have a love/hate relationship with China, just like I do with my own country (albeit for different reasons), I know that it is quite difficult for even China experts in the West to get a fully accurate sense of what is happening in China.</div>
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Ariel Kyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005166470431691597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1029033534032549778.post-80664996643579974972019-10-30T07:40:00.001-07:002019-10-30T07:47:48.995-07:00Activating a Mass Global Movement to Free Julian Assange and Protect Freedom of the PressI have just started a Linked In group, Free Julian Assange. I would like to invite you to join it. I have a sense of mission to ignite a global mass movement to secure his release, and to stop all efforts of the U.S. to extradiate and prosecute him.<br />
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I would like to see Wikileaks recognized as a legitimate news organization.<br />
Max Blumenthal was just arrested. No real journalist will be allowed to publish for long with Julian Assange imprisoned. This is THE freedom of the press issue of our times.<br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Fate of Julian Assange</span></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you break a global news outlet that governments can’t control? You make sure
that the founder of Wikileaks, the first exo-governmental Internet-based world
news outlet, is imprisoned and extradited, if possible, for a day in court with
enough charges to keep him imprisoned and inoperative for the rest of his life.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Assange created a new form of getting the truth out by publishing unedited
leaked material that allow readers to form their own conclusions. His business
was presenting facts, facts, and nothing but the facts, no matter how
uncomfortable the facts make those culpable of crimes. The U.S. is prosecuting
Julian Assange, instead of taking responsibility for war crimes in Iraq and
Afghanistan that Wikileaks revealed for the world to see. And the U.S.
government that controls the corporate media just won’t stand for such freedom
of the press.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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understand the nature of Wikileaks and the vendetta against Julian Assange,
it’s important to understand how Wikileaks revolutionized the news. In an
article published in The Atlantic July 25, 2010, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/07/wikileaks-may-have-just-changed-the-media-too/60377/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">Wikileaks May Have Just Changed
the Media Too</span></i><span style="color: #1155cc;">,</span></a> author
Alexis C. Madrigal observes, “In the new asymmetrical journalism, it's not
clear who is on what side or what the rules of engagement actually are. But the
reason Wikileaks may have just changed the media is that we found out that it
doesn't really matter. Their data is good, and that's what counts.”</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quotes NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen, who calls WikiLeaks the first "<a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/26/wikileaks_afghan.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">stateless news organization</span></a>".
In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful
wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it," Rosen
writes. "But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep
secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new."<sup> </sup>1</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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persecution of Julian Assange</span></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up rape charges (which were never actually filed) for sexual assault in Sweden
have been used to thwart Julian Assange. Knowing that his arrest in the U.K.
was a political ploy to neutralize him, he took refuge in the Ecuador Embassy
to escape extradition to the U.S., as Sweden would most certainly have
extradited him to the U.S., a daring, bold, and unusual move to evade extradition
to the U.S. In a recent <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/03/swedish-court-rejects-detention-request-julian-assange/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">decision</span></a> by an
Uppsala Court, it was decided that Sweden will not extradite him from England
after all, which gives him a little room to breathe in Belmarsh Prison.<sup> </sup> 2</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for political reasons</span></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a practice that should be given close scrutiny, especially when it is driven
by political reasons. In an article published in the Canary May 25, 2019,<b> </b><i><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/05/25/julian-assange-prosecution-should-be-dropped-says-specialist-extradition-lawyer/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Julian Assange prosecution should
be dropped</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: normal;">, </span><span style="color: #1155cc;">says specialist extradition lawyer</span></a></i>, Tom
Coburg writes, “Under UK extradition arrangements, selective prosecution
of this kind equates to political prosecution. And that is grounds for the
extradition to be denied.”<sup> </sup>3</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Great
Britain spent over 10 million pounds on surveillance of Julian Assange, as
reported in the BBC in 2015. 4 When he was forcibly removed from the
Ecuadorian Embassy to Belmarsh Prison in 2019, the amount Great Britain had
spent on his </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">surveillance in sum was
closer to <a href="https://defend.wikileaks.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/London-Assembly-briefing.-March-2019-Courage.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">24 million pounds</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<sup> </sup>5</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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year, after seven years of Assange’s involuntary interment at the Ecuadorian
Embassy, disregarding legalities, Ecuador broke its promise of asylum, and
turned over Assange to be charged by the British justice system for escaping
bond. It’s a double cross of such magnitude that history books will no doubt
recant it for generations to come.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Assange in Belmarsh Prison</span></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the British took Assange into custody, he was forthwith taken to trial, without
any time to prepare his case. Although that is the usual procedure for a
prisoner to be allowed time to prepare his case, it would have been far too
generous for the British, who were in a vindictive mood. The presiding judge in
a London court, in blatant retaliation, punished Assange with a 50-week sentence
for jumping bail (not a major crime) in Belmarsh Prison, a high security prison
in London. Julian Assange never asked the Brits to spend all that money to pin
him down, and he should not bear the burden of further imprisonment and
punishment at Belmarsh Prison.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Freedom
of the press</span></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Assange is the canary in the coal mine for freedom of the press. If he goes
free, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that journalists will not be treated
as criminals for publishing the truth. The U.S. wants to extradite Julian
Assange for charges of espionage. If it succeeds, no journalist in the world
could write a story criticizing the U.S. for the conduct of its military or in
its international relations, without facing extradition for espionage. That’s
the precedent that the U.S. wants to set. Never mind about freedom of the
press, let alone protecting whistleblowers.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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forget that the attempt to imprison Julian Assange for the rest of his life in
a U.S. prison is an attack on the free press. In an article by Ed Pilkington
published in The Guardian April 12, 2019, <i>Julian Assange's charges are
a direct assault on press freedom, experts warn: parts of the indictment go
head-to-head with basic journalistic activities protected by the First
Amendent, academics say</i>, two press freedom advocacy groups were mentioned,
defending Julian Assange: </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://cpj.org/2019/04/cpj-troubled-by-prosecution-of-julian-assange.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">The Committee to Protect
Journalists</span></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> said the wording of the charges
contained “broad legal arguments about journalists soliciting information or
interacting with sources that could have chilling consequences for
investigative reporting and the publication of information of public
interest”. </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://freedom.press/news/trump-administrations-indictment-julian-assange-threatens-core-press-freedom-rights/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Freedom of the Press Foundation</span></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> said:
“Whether or not you like Assange, the charge against him is a serious press
freedom threat and should be vigorously protested by all those who care about
the first amendment.” 6</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of the press</span></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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today’s world, where the U.S. wages war with impunity, and has pretty much
muzzled the mainstream media, who would have thought that the U.S. actually has
a history of constitutional protections of freedom of the press? But we do. The
First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech and freedom
of the press. The United States government would no longer be following the
principles of its own Constitution if it were to prosecute Julian Assange for
information published on Wikileaks.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recent court decision in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
New York, Judge John Koeltl ruled against the Democratic National Caucus in
their suit against the Russian Federation. Judge Koeltl decided that
"second-level participants" (such as Julian Assange) had not aided
Russia in carrying out the hacks, and were thus shielded by the First Amendment
for their role in sharing information that had been illegally obtained.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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First Amendment prevents such liability in the same way it would preclude
liability for press outlets that publish materials of public interest despite
defects in the way the materials were obtained so long as the disseminator did
not participate in any wrongdoing in obtaining the materials in the first
place," Koeltl wrote in an <a href="https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/07/30/ny-federal-judge-throws-out-democratic-national-committees-suit-over-russian-hacking/?slreturn=20190719133813" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">81-page opinion</span></a>, issued
late Thursday.<sup> </sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> 7</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If you're going to prosecute Julian Assange, why not take down all
of the publications that published facts from Wikileaks too? John Pilger,
in an <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/14/john-pilger-the-global-war-on-assange-journalism-dissent/?fbclid=IwAR0ZrqMfGLV_60cBeZ1ONUm_8dZpPdZzg8v6G41o-nfMMEw_PUMM3NHEFP4" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">article</span></a> <i>The Global
War on Assange</i> published on Consortium News June 4, 2018, listed media
organizations who collaborated with Wikileaks to co-publish the Aghanistan and
Iraq War Logs in 2010: Der Spiegel in Germany, the New York Times, the Guardian
and Espresso. Co-publishers of the Iraq material were Al Jazeera, Le Monde,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span>the <i>Bureau
of Investigative Journalism </i>in London, Channel 4’s “Dispatches” in
London, the Iraq Body Count project in the U.K., RUV (Iceland), SVT
(Sweden). Pilger calls the attack on Assange a global war on journalism.
He further points out that “The <i>WikiLeaks </i>disclosures, if not
co-published, were picked up by newspapers and journals and investigative programs
on television all over the world. That makes all the journalists involved, all
the producers, all the presenters, all of them complicit.” 8</div>
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claims Assange is a victim of psychological torture</span></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The United Nations Nils Melzer Special Rapporteur on torture and
other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or Punishment, authorized by the
Human Rights Council of the United Nations to investigate claims of torture,
has found that <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24665&LangID=E" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Assange has been a victim of
psychological torture and abuse</span></a> by the governments of the
United Kingdom, Sweden, Ecuador, and the United States. He also stated that the
U.S. indictments against him are a criminalization of investigative journalism.<sup> </sup>9</div>
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Assange</span></i></a>. He debunks all of the smears against Assange, and
exposes how he has been systematically slandered as a rapist, hacker, Russian
spy who interfered with U.S. elections, an espionage master whose unredacted
disclosures caused people’s deaths, and as a selfish narcissist.<sup> </sup>10</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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corruption of power.”</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">If Assange is extradited to the U.S., it will set a dangerous
precedent that telling the truth is a crime. The U.S. government will have
succeeded in censorship of those who reveal uncomfortable facts. The rich and
powerful will continue to wield power without being held accountable.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Article 19 is a global organization that “works for a world
where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage
in public life without fear of discrimination.” They “promote media freedom,
increase access to information, protect journalists and human rights defenders,
fight the shrinking of civic space, and <i>place human rights at the heart
of developing digital spaces</i>.”</div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In an editorial article on their website, <a href="http://www.article19.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.article19.org</span></a>,
posted March 28, 2019,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><i><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.article19.org/resources/us-actions-against-assange-and-manning-set-a-dangerous-precedent/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">US: Actions against Assange and
Manning set a dangerous precedent</span></a>, </span></i><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">the
Article 19 team stated, “We believe these are efforts to criminalize
whistleblowing and the legitimate exercise of freedom of expression, and will
potentially create a chilling effect for the media and whistle-blowers at a
global level. The US government must respect the right to freedom of expression
in both cases, and ensure that anyone can publish information about serious
human rights violations without fear of reprisal and prosecution.” 11</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Persecution of Julian Assange for publishing through Wikileaks is
a blatant violation of his right to freedom of speech, guaranteed by Article 19
of the Universal Declaration of Rights. Article 19: Everyone has the right to
freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinion
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas
through any media and regardless of frontiers. 12</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The United States was a signatory to the Universal Declaration of
Rights in 1949,but never ratified it. However, Assange is not a U.S. citizen.
In prosecuting Assange, the United States is attempting to establish a
precedent for prosecuting journalists anywhere in the world who criticize its
conduct. 13 </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">U.S. legal charges against Julian Assange are spurious; the first
legal action against him, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-computer-hacking-conspiracy" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">Conspiracy to Commit Computer
Intrusion</span></i></a>, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria
Division March 6, 2018, was based on a lot of maybes of his having helped
Chelsea Manning gain access to Defense Department documents in 2010, with no
solid proof that he had helped her gain access to a password, and the U.S. had
weak arguments. 14 Subsequently, Assange has been charged with <a href="https://www.theassangefiles.com/julian-q-a" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">charged with 17 counts of violating the US Espionage Act</span></a>,
with a cumulative sentence of 175 years in prison. 15 A federal grand jury
indicted Assange on charges of espionage in 2018. According to the extradition
agreement that the U.K. has with the U.S., extradition is not allowed for
political reasons.</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dropped; he should go free immediately. Then we could breathe a collective sigh
of relief. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a retired ESL teacher with a journalism degree from San Diego State University,
who is now devoting herself full-time to writing. Presently living in Mexico,
Ms. Ky is a U.S. citizen who was born in Lansing, Michigan; she has led a
nomadic life, teaching English in China, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Andorra,
and Saudi Arabia. She has published political articles and comments on EarthRainbowNetwork,
Dandelion<b> </b>Salad, and Open Salon. Presently Ariel has a blog on Word
Press,<b> </b></i><a href="https://paradigmshiftandpoliticsexpedioblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://paradigmshiftandpoliticsexpedioblog.blogspot.com/</span></a> and
is working on a book of short stories, “Feminist Fables”. <i>A life-long
feminist, Ms. Ky was also part of a book team at the Los Angeles Feminist
Women’s Health Center that wrote, “A New View of a Woman’s Body”.</i></span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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