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Bird Flu Concern Prompts U.S. to Award Moderna $176 Million for Vaccine Development + More – https://greenmedinfo.com/content/bird-flu-concern-prompts-us-award-moderna-176-million-vaccine-development-more – “The Defender’s Big Pharma Watch delivers the latest headlines related to pharmaceutical companies and their products, including vaccines, drugs, and medical devices and treatments. The views expressed in the below excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender. Our goal is to provide readers with breaking news that affects human health and the environment… Bird Flu Concern Prompts U.S. to Award Moderna $176 Million for Vaccine Development”Leaked memo rocks Kamala Harris campaign – by Stephen Dietrich –
https://thehornnews.com/leaked-memo-rocks-kalama-harris-campaign/ – “Just days into her 2024 presidential campaign against former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has already had a major leak… A note from Harris’ camp shows the coordinated effort to reshape public perception of her mismanagement of the U.S. southern border after President Joe Biden named her the administration’s “border czar.” – The leaked document, reportedly circulated among Democratic lawmakers, has exposed the talking points aimed at deflecting criticism of Harris’ role in the illegal immigration crisis… It instructs Democrats on how to discuss Harris’s controversial stint by claiming that “there has never been such a position” as border czar. It also insists that Harris “was NOT asked to lead on the Admin’s immigration or border enforcement policies” and that the vice president’s focus was to “change conditions in OTHER countries, NOT U.S. border.”
Under Harris’ watch, illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have reached record highs… But you won’t hear that from the mainstream media. NBC News recently published a piece suggesting that the term “border czar” was invented by Harris’s critics, echoing the leaked memo’s language almost verbatim… Despite referring to Harris multiple times as the “border czar,” Axios claimed that Harris was never called that. They were later forced to print a redaction… “No, Kamala Harris is not a ‘border czar.’ But that doesn’t matter to Republicans,” wrote Vox… Democratic leadership has also fallen in line. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries quickly spread the talking points, telling reporters Thursday that Harris “was never assigned the position of border czar. They’re making that up, because the extreme MAGA Republicans are in full meltdown.” – Harris has recently faced increased criticism for her mishandling of the border crisis. The House of Representatives recently passed a resolution condemning Harris and the Biden administration for their “failure to secure the United States border.” – As Harris positions herself as the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential race, critics argue that the Harris campaign is more focused on controlling the media narrative — instead of addressing the ongoing crisis.”Looks Like Israel is Manufacturing a Reason to Go To War With Hezbollah and Iran – Article is by by Larry Johnson (!) – https://sonar21.com/looks-like-israel-is-creating-a-reason-to-go-to-war-with-hezbollah-and-iran/ – The “rocket” that hit the soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights is being used by the Zionists as a pretext to launch a long-promised ground attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon. So far, we have seen no evidence to support the claim that the missile it was fired by Hezbollah. Some argue it was an Israeli Iron Dome missile gone stray. But why worry about facts when you are eager to go to war? – “A rocket strike Saturday at a soccer field killed at least 11 children and teens, Israeli authorities said, in the deadliest strike on an Israeli target along the country’s northern border since the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah began. It raised fears of a broader regional war… Israel blamed Hezbollah for the strike in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but Hezbollah rushed to deny any role. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Hezbollah “will pay a heavy price for this attack, one that it has not paid so far.” – Most of the Western media leaped on this story as further proof of the depravity of Hezbollah, while ignoring Israel’s routine bombing and killing of Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank. NPR, to its credit, did acknowledge Israel’s bombing of a school in Gaza earlier that same day… A rocket hit a sports complex filled with children playing soccer in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights region Saturday afternoon, on the same day that an Israeli strike in Gaza devastated a school building and killed dozens of people… The airstrike in central Gaza was the latest to shatter a school used to shelter displaced Palestinian residents Saturday morning, killing 30 and wounding more than 100. The Gazan Health Ministry said many of the dead were children… The school was located in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah, where many Palestinians have fled following evacuation orders the Israeli military has issued for regions farther south in Gaza… Hezbollah has never been shy about claiming credit for an attack or admitting responsibility when it hit the wrong target. If you have followed the tit-for-tat attacks between the Zionist forces and Hezbollah over the past eight months, you know that Hezbollah has concentrated on hitting military targets rather than kill Israeli civilians. We know this because, until now, Israel has not howled in rabid protest about Hezbollah killing Israeli children. It is galling that the Zionists, who have murdered thousands of Palestinian children in the last eight months, are using this incident as a red-line to justify their impending expansion of the war… One of the unstated goals in Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington was to secure assurances of U.S. support when Israel launches its offensive against Hezbollah. Zionist Foreign Minister Katz gave the game away with this comment: Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has announced a “disproportionate” response after Israel blamed Hezbollah for a rocket attack that killed ten people, mostly children, on a football field in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights. Hezbollah has denied any involvement in the attack… Israel is now on the verge of “all-out war” with Hezbollah, according to Katz, who said Israel has support from the US and Europe for escalation… Did you catch that? “Israel has support from the US and Europe for escalation.” So Israel, in the name of justice, is going to kill hundreds, if not thousands, of children in Lebanon. Yeah, that is an equitable response… In the wake of the blast in Majdal Shams, the Zionist Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, issued a call to assassinate Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah. Heated threats like this, coupled with the wrong-headed belief in the Biden Administration that Israel has the military prowess to whip Hezbollah, is pushing the Middle East towards a massive regional war that could rapidly spin out of control… If Katz is right — i.e., the US and Europe have signed off on a full-scale Israeli attack on Lebanon — then we are on the brink of the abyss. Maybe it was not just a strange, twisted coincidence that the Olympic organizers featured the image of the pale horse that reminded many of the prophecy in the Book of Revelations.”Google Slammed Over “Soul Crushing” AI Olympics Ad – by Steve Watson – https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/google-slammed-over-soul-crushing-ai-olympics-ad – “Google has been blasted for a commercial touting its Gemini AI tool, with viewers describing the ad as completely “soul crushing.”.. – The minute-long video was aired over coverage of the Olympics and features a young girl who is a big fan of American Olympic hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone… The girl’s father is seen in the commercial saying “She might even be the world’s number one Sydney fan.”bThen comes the kicker… The ad shows the girl turning to Google’s Gemini AI to help understand running and hurdling techniques… OK, that’s not so inherent – y bad, but the father might have done his own research and at least put on a show of interacting with his daughter… But then it gets worse… The father notes that his daughter “wants to show Sydney some love, and I’m pretty good with words, but this has to be just right,” before again turning to the AI, this time to write a letter to the Olympian for the girl.”The UN Will Sign the Pact of the Future in 60 Days – Here’s Why It Matters -In September the United Nations’ 79th General Assembly will host the highly-anticipated “Summit of the Future” where nations will sign the “Pact of the Future”, representing a major step towards the creation of a world government.by Derrick Broze –
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/60-days-summit-future/ – “As the United Nations prepares for the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, the general public seems dangerously unaware of the UN’s plans for the “Summit of the Future”. It is at the Summit where member states are expected to declare a “planetary emergency” as part of the so-called “Pact for the Future”.Although the UNGA is an annual meeting, this year’s gathering is unique because of the addition of the Summit of the Future, which will take place in New York City on the 22nd and 23rd of September. The summit has been in the making since at least 2022 after repeated calls by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to shift financial resources to rapidly complete the Agenda 2030 goals set by the UN in 2015… In September 2021, the Secretary-General released his report, Our Common Agenda, which called for accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the commitments contained in the UN75 Declaration. Our Common Agenda also called for a Summit of the Future to “forge a new global consensus on readying ourselves for a future that is rife with risks but also opportunities”… The Summit of the Future website says the outcome of the Pact for the Future will be “a world – and an international system – that is better prepared to manage the challenges we face now”. The Pact for the Future is likely to be another piece of the shift towards a world governed by unelected internationalist politicians… During the Summit of the Future, UN member states are also likely to vote to radically alter the UN itself — what some are calling UN 2.0 — and the very nature of how nation-states make decisions regarding the future of the planet. The UN has also recently announced their plan to sign a “Global Digital Compact” at the Summit of the Future. The stated purpose of the GDC is “to establish an inclusive global framework, essential for multi-stakeholder action required to overcome digital, data and innovation divides”. The UN claims the compact will help advance an “open, free, secure, and human-centered digital future for all” while helping complete the Sustainable Development Goals… Although news of the Summit of the Future and Pact for the Future have begun to creep into the independent media space, the public at large is still completely unaware of this meeting and the implications of the agreements being discussed… Jeffrey Sachs: Advocate of World Government – Despite the public’s ignorance, the Summit of the Future is catching on in academia. For example, economist Jeffrey Sachs recently published an op-ed on the Summit, extolling the virtues of the UN’s efforts. Sachs may be familiar to readers because of his chairing of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission between 2020 and 2022, a position which he used to question the source of the COVID-19 panic. In March 2023, Sachs also testified in front of the U.S. Congress regarding funding of gain-of-function research and the “lab leak theory”. He has been prominently featured on alternative media, including Jimmy Dore and Russell Brand… However, Sachs has long been a proponent for the UN and their SDGs. Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. It should also be noted that Columbia University is the home of the original Technocracy movement. Sachs is also the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and served as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General from 2001 to 2018. He also advised previous UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon… So it should come as no surprise that on June 21st Sachs was advocating for the Summit of the Future and a world government system. Of course, the call for world government is couched in terms like “multilateralism”, but the end goal is the same — the end of nation-states and the implementation of a world governing body with power to affect national policies… “The world’s geopolitical system is not delivering what we want or need. Sustainable development is our declared goal, meaning economic prosperity, social justice, environmental sustainability, and peace. Yet our reality is continued poverty amidst plenty, widening inequalities, deepening environmental crises, and war,” Sachs wrote… Sachs continued by claiming that the Summit of the Future is focused on tackling “a set of unprecedented challenges that can only be solved through global cooperation”. According to Sachs and the Technocrats at the UN, the “polycrisis”, or multiple, simultaneous crises, cannot be “solved by any one country alone.” – In fact, Sachs makes it perfectly clear that from his position he is advocating for giving the UN more power to implement policies for the entire world… “On the goal of reforming the UN system, the key is to give more power to UN institutions and to make them more representative,” he states. Sachs also echoes previous calls for new financial instruments to fund the transformation of the world, including with a “new system of international taxes” on CO2 emissions, shipping, aviation, and financial transactions… This goal of reforming the international financial system to fund the SDGs and Agenda 2030 mimic recent statements made by Guterres where he called for a “new Bretton Woods moment”, referencing the infamous 1944 international agreement that established the IMF. The Breton Woods meeting also adopted rules for governing monetary relations among independent states, including requiring each nation to guarantee convertibility of their currencies into U.S. dollars… Additionally, a UN document on the Summit of the Future titled, What Would it Deliver?, calls for “A Global Financial System That Works For All”. – “A transformed international financial architecture is fit for purpose, more inclusive, just, representative, effective, and resilient, responsive to the world today rather than as it looked following the Second World War. This architecture invests up-front in SDGs, climate action, and future generations.” – These calls mirror similar ones made during the “Summit for a New Global Financing Pact” held in Paris, France in June 2023. The Summit, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, welcomed 50 heads of state, representatives of NGOs and civil society organizations to discuss the effort to reset the international financial system as part of the continued push towards the 2030 Agenda and Net Zero goals… The French government stated that the objective of the gathering was to “build a new contract between [the global] North and South” which will better equip the nations to fight poverty and climate change. The summit was attended by US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In addition to heads of state, the summit was organized with support from the Open Society Foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others… The Stimson Center Connection – One of the U.S. based organizations helping push for the Summit of the Future propaganda is the Stimson Center, a think tank that describes itself as a “nonpartisan, nonprofit” organization focused on analyzing issues relating to international peace. The Stimson Center focuses on nuclear proliferation, water management, and responses to humanitarian crises, including the claimed climate crisis. The Center also advises US and international institutions… The Stimson Center was founded in 1989 and is named after the American lawyer and politician Henry L. Stimson. He served as Secretary of War under U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940, Secretary of War under President Taft, and Secretary of State under President Hoover. According to the National Park Service, Stimson also “had direct control of the Manhattan Project”, the covert effort by the U.S. government to develop nuclear weapons… The Rockefeller Foundation has been supplying The Stimson Center with grants worth hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2020. Although unrelated to their work on climate change, the Gates Foundation donated nearly $1 million dollars to the Stimson Center in 2008… The Stimson Center has been a consistent promoter of the Summit of the Future, including writing opinion pieces published in obscure websites, and hosting virtual conferences about the latest developments… In mid-July, the Stimson Center held an event titled, “US Perspectives and Priorities for the UN Summit of the Future”. The outline of the gathering states that, “the need for innovative global governance is more urgent now than ever to better fulfill existing UN commitments, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the principles of the UN Charter.” – The discussion featured commentary from Stimson Center officials, as well as Michele Sison, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs and a longtime diplomat with the UN, and Dr. Esther Brimmer, Former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs… During the discussion, Sison emphasized the U.S. government’s support for the Summit of the Future and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals… “We also support the draft Pact of the Future’s recognition of the importance of UN efforts towards developing protocols for an Emergency Platform in the event of further complex global shocks,” Sison stated… This call for an Emergency Platform and the declaration of a “Planetary Emergency” is one of the most potentially dangerous aspect of the Summit of the Future… A Planetary Emergency – The zero-draft version of the Pact for the Future discusses the need for an “Emergency Platform” that would be activated in the event of “such a shock that has an impact on multiple regions of the world” and, according to the UN, requires a “coherent, coordinated and multidimensional response”. – The draft also claims that any Emergency Platform would “not be a standing institution or body”. The UN also claims the “decision to convene an Emergency Platform” would “fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of States”. – The UN is not the only organization promoting the idea of declaring a planetary emergency. UN-affiliated organizations like the Climate Governance Commission (CGC) are also getting in on the fun… The Climate Governance Commission was convened by Maja Groff, a member of the Global Governance Forum, with extensive connections to the technocrats, including the Rockefeller Foundation, who have helped finance the work of the CGC. This makes perfect sense when you recall that in 2023 the Rockefeller Foundation made it clear that the climate agenda was their new focus. The Stimson Center is also a “close collaborator” of the Climate Governance Commission… In late November 2023, just before the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference COP28, the Climate Governance Commission released a report titled Governing Our Planetary Emergency. In this report, the CGC continues their advocacy for updating our ideas on governance… In the Governing Our Planetary Emergency document, under a section labeled “Near-Term International Governance Innovations”, the CGC again says the UN should declare a planetary emergency. – “We therefore urge the UN General Assembly, at the 2024 Summit of the Future, to declare a planetary emergency, recognizing that the triple planetary crisis poses a grave risk to global stability and security, among others, to be reinforced in similar statements by bodies and agencies of the UN system, regional bodies, and national and local governments.” – They also echo calls for the “Emergency Platform” referenced by the zero draft of the Pact of the Future. The report recommends convening a “Planetary Emergency Platform” to address the rapidly accelerating consequences of climate change. – (More in the Original Article)”‘Really Chilling’: Five Countries to Test European Vaccination Card – Belgium, Germany, Greece, Latvia and Portugal will test the new vaccination card in a variety of formats, including printed cards, mailed copies and digital versions for smartphones. Critics called it a “direct threat to freedom.”- by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. – https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/five-countries-test-european-vaccination-card/ – “Five European Union (EU) countries in September will pilot the newly developed European Vaccination Card (EVC), which “aims to empower individuals by consolidating all their vaccination data in one easily accessible location… The pilot program marks a step toward the continent-wide rollout of the card, according to Vaccines Today… Belgium, Germany, Greece, Latvia and Portugal will test the new card in a variety of formats, including printed cards, mailed copies and digital versions for smartphones… The program aims to “pave the way for other countries by harmonising vaccine terminology, developing a common syntax, ensuring adaptability across different healthcare settings, and refining EVC implementation plans,” Vaccines Today reported… The plans will be made public in 2026, “extending the EVC system beyond the pilot phases and enabling broad adoption across all EU Member States.” – According to Vaccines Today, the EVC program seeks to leverage “the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic” and foster “innovation in vaccination management,” with the goal of “taking crucial steps toward a more resilient and health-secure future.” – The EVC is based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN). The EU and WHO co-launched the GDHCN in June 2023 to promote a global interoperable digital vaccine passport, based on the EU’s digital health certificate launched during the pandemic… Vaccines Today described the GDHCN as a “citizen-centered method of storing and sharing data,” rather than a system that relies “solely on public health systems.” – Greece was the first European country to propose the implementation of a vaccination passport, which was eventually adopted as the EU’s “Green Pass.” Greece later became the first EU member state to adopt a digital “Covid passport.” – Greece’s University of Crete is coordinating the EVC project alongside 14 partners from nine countries — and with 6.75 million euros ($7.3 million) in funding from the European Commission‘s (EC) EU4Health program. The EC is the EU’s executive branch… ‘Direct threat to our freedom’ – Experts who spoke with The Defender said that plans for the EVC pose a direct threat to personal and health freedom and national sovereignty… Dr. David Bell, a public health physician, biotech consultant and former director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund, said: “The proposed vaccination card reflects an increasing effort to utilize public health tools as a means to concentrate wealth and provide a means to control populations. It is very reminiscent of approaches in parts of Europe pre-World War II, and essentially serves a similar purpose: to exclude individuals who do not follow government instructions from society… “The trial in Europe is an obvious next step after the recent widening of surveillance under the IHR [International Health Regulation] amendments, which greatly increase the likelihood of recurrent lockdowns to enable mandated vaccination as a way to force mass use, and profit-making, from vaccines.” – Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst also criticized the pilot program, calling a digital vaccination passport a “direct threat to our freedom and also the sovereignty of any state.” – “All our powers are handed over to the globalists, the group of bankers and investors,” Terhorst said… Catherine Austin Fitts, founder and publisher of the Solari Report and former U.S. assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said plans for the EVC represent “another step toward asserting control of labor and travel, with a goal to controlling resources and assets.” – Fitts said: “The goal is financial control. There is no legitimate public health purpose. The central bankers are hiding behind a health narrative — policies like lockdown are a way to manage inflation and resource demand when monetary policy is highly inflationary.” – Experts also tied the rollout of the EVC to warnings from government and health officials about the “next pandemic,” potentially caused by the bird flu or a still-unknown “Disease X.” – According to Fitts: “Many steps are underway to prepare for a bird flu pandemic. Chicken is the most significant source of meat protein… “So far in response to the current bird flu claims, I am told by experts who follow bird flu claims that 99 million birds have been killed in the U.S. and 500 million worldwide. Bird flu vaccines have been shipped to Europe. A vaccine card can be used to try to pressure or force people to take another unnecessary injection.” – French science journalist and author Xavier Bazin told The Defender, “For the time being, a vaccination card in Europe is meant to ensure that most children get their vaccination.” However, he said he believes the next step is to try to mandate the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine across Europe… “Even if they do not succeed with MMR, this kind of card will be perfect when the next ‘pandemic’ hits and they want to mandate an emergency vaccine, like they did with COVID,” Bazin said.Similarly, Bell said: “WHO and other agencies are clear in their intent to link compliance with centralized health dictates with the ability of people to go about their daily life… “Whilst directly against post-WWII conventions, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the spirit of the Nuremberg Declaration, they have the backing of major international agencies and the corporate interests that have become enmeshed with them over the past two decades.” – Experts also pointed out that plans for the EVC have been in the works even before the COVID-19 pandemic… “The digital vaccination passport is a technical means to override personal freedoms, such as the right to say no to a vaccination,” Terhorst said. “It is a means to turn free human beings into ‘slaves.’ This digital vaccination passport has been planned many years in advance by the globalists.”The Nakedness of EU ‘Geo-political’ Ambitions Will Be Revealed – As the Ukraine War Melts Away – The Right was shoved outside the cordon sanitaire — ‘beyond the pale’ in terms of being allowed to have some influence over EU politics – by Alastair Crooke –
https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/the-nakedness-of-eu-geo-political-ambitions-will-be-revealed-as-the-ukraine-war-melts-away – “The Right was shoved outside the cordon sanitaire — ‘beyond the pale’ in terms of being allowed to have some influence over EU politics… Many across the globe have noted how hundreds of millions of Europeans voted in the June EU parliamentary elections. The elections resulted in a shift in support for the Right (and the Left in France). Yet the clear signal from the ballot box has had absolutely no impact on how Brussels is governed. The same leadership simply was re-instated… The façade of active popular participation in policymaking has slipped. There is the feeling of everything being ‘on hold’. The handholds of experience — even the notion of truth — on which we relied are vanishing… What occurred in Europe? – After the elections, Georgia Meloni, PM of Italy, one of the very few European leaders who had emerged from the election with strengthened poll ratings and electoral credibility, had quite reasonably expected to play some part of the broad coalition that runs Brussels… The EU Establishment however, chose instead, to ostracise her. “The European People’s Party garnered the votes of “plebeians” on the Right who wanted change, then took those votes to the Left to make a deal with the left-wing élites who have a strong interest in maintaining the status quo”, Viktor Orbán explained in a long and important speech… “This electoral outcome has consequences for the European Union. The ‘3Ps’ were put into play: The prohibited, the permitted and the promoted. The EPP newcomers were enlisted in the ‘strongly promoted category’. Ursula von der Leyen with a programme similar to last time – a touch less Green but ultimately not fundamentally different – was elected” (by parliament)” – The Right was shoved outside the cordon sanitaire — ‘beyond the pale’ in terms of being allowed to have some influence over EU politics… Meloni had tried to change this structural roadblock — and failed. She had miscalculated. She is not a moderate, but moderation was a tactical necessity when she became PM two years ago. Italy was a large recipient of EU money from the Covid-era recovery fund. She also inherited a large deficit. So she trimmed her sails to the wind and thought this concession would ‘normalise’ her within the EU ‘politburo’… But her ploy was upended… Why? Because … Ukraine. ‘Supporting Ukraine’ has been made the ‘entry-price’ to any EU discourse. Without that, any leader, whatever their strength of mandate, is an ‘untouchable’… How to bring change to the EU? The voting system notoriously is structurally stitched up (see here). It is the failure of the war in Ukraine that will make change inevitable, Orbán says: “What will happen after the war: Will a new world come into being, or will the old one continue? – “The voters in this last election had markedly turned to the Right, but the politics stayed Left. “The consequence … is that Brussels remains under the occupation of a liberal oligarchy. This oligarchy has it in its grip”… “Though the elections left the Right emerged stronger” – Wolfgang Münchau writes –” it was less united”. The two political groups led by Le Pen and Meloni have split into three”. The key issue that divides the right is Ukraine. Meloni never wavered on Italy’s support for Ukraine, unlike Le Pen and Viktor Orbán”. .. Events on the Ukraine battlefield however are plainly signalling the approaching end to the war. Its outcome is settled, and thus Münchau notes: “the single biggest source of disagreement amongst Europe’s far-right thus will likely soon disappear. That would be a window of opportunity for the Right to unite, and to at least act as a united front of rule-breakers. Orbán has shown how this works. He uses his veto on foreign policy as a blackmail tool. If the far-right succeeds in assembling a blocking minority, it could bring the EU to a standstill, Münchau suggests… It is this Ukraine war that exists at the heart of the EU reality. This consequence to this reality was not readily visible earlier, but the impact of the war has now become obvious — and central to the EU’s future path… “Fermentation has begun”, Orbán asserts, “and we are slowly but surely moving from a pro-war European policy to a pro-peace policy. This is inevitable, because time is on the side of peace policy. Reality [too] has dawned on the Ukrainians”… Viktor Orbán argues that it was the onset of the Ukraine war that effectively triggered the collapse of European policy-making, with Europe giving up defending its own interests: “All that Europe does today, is unconditionally to follow the foreign policy line of the US Democrats — even at the cost of its own self-destruction … in an act of submission”… And secondly Orbán says,..“Western values — which were the essence of so-called “soft power” — have become a boomerang. It has turned out that these Western values, which were thought to be universal, are demonstratively unacceptable and rejected in ever more countries around the world”… Suddenly, the EU found itself robbed of its key asset – liberal soft power. “Western soft power has been replaced by Russian soft power, because now the key to the propagation of Western values is LGBTQ. Anyone who does not accept this is now in the “backward” category as far as the Western world is concerned”… Orbán then moves on to a less noticed structural change that contributed too — to the collapse of European policymaking: “European policy-making also collapsed with the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war – because the erstwhile core to the European power system long had been the Paris–Berlin axis, which used to be inescapable: It was the core and it was the axis. Since the war broke out, however, a different centre and a different axis of power has been established. The Berlin–Paris axis no longer exists — or if it does, it has become irrelevant and liable to be bypassed. The new power centre and axis comprises London, Warsaw, Kiev/Kyiv, the Baltics and the Scandinavians”… “Changing the centre of power in Europe and bypassing the Franco–German axis is not a new idea — But importantly, it has simply been made possible by the war. The idea existed before. In fact being an old Polish plan to solve the problem of Poland being squeezed between a huge German state and a huge Russian state… “By making Poland the number one American base in Europe. (I could describe it as inviting the Americans there, between the Germans and the Russians), the Poles have embarked on an alternative strategy that eliminated the Franco–German axis… The end of the war, the Hungarian leader says – in combination with the global system change – a process that is coming from Asia … “is set to [make the latter] the dominant centre of the world. And after the Ukraine war we will need a new reconciliation with Russia. This means that the European Union must surrender its ambitions as a political project, [and instead] the Union must strengthen itself as an economic project, and the Union must create itself as a defence project”… “The Polish experiment will fail, because they do not have the resources: they will have to return to Central Europe and the Visegrád Four. So let us wait for the Polish brothers and sisters to return… “The grand strategy for Hungary therefore for this coming future … must be connectivity. This means that we will not allow ourselves to be locked into only one of either of the two emerging hemispheres in the world economy; and not get involved in the war against the East. We will not join in the formation of a technological bloc opposing the East, and we will not join in the formation of a trade bloc opposing the East”… Münchau concludes: “They [the EU ruling strata] did not think this [cordon sanitaire strategy] through. One of the EU’s present tragedies is that it does not have any people at the top right with a capacity to think strategically. They are relationship people, who are most comfortable in each other’s company. It does not take a lot to defeat them, but you must know how the EU works. Meloni now does”.Brits Warned Merely ‘Retweeting’ Information About Riots Could be a Criminal Offense – ~UK authorities have warned people that merely retweeting information about the riots could lead to criminal charges – from Modernity.news – https://modernity.news/2024/08/07/brits-warned-merely-retweeting-information-about-riots-could-be-a-criminal-offense/ -“Yes, really… Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions, told Sky News that people do not even need to personally post the content themselves to be deemed to be committing an offence… Parkinson said social media users could be guilty of “incitement to racial hatred” if they post “insulting or abusive” content that is “likely to stir up racial hatred.”
“So if you retweet that, then you’re republishing that and then potentially you’re committing that offence,” he added, noting that dedicated police officers are “scouring social media” looking for such material. – “People might think they’re not doing anything harmful, they are, and the consequences will be visited upon them,” Parkinson warned… Sky News clarified that “sharing online material of riots could be an offence.” – The public official also asserted separately that individuals who publish protest/riot locations, such as those outside immigration law firms, could be hit with terrorism charges… “The fact that it’s organised groups that might be motivated by ideological reasons, the fact that they’re promoting potentially very serious offences – that’s the sort of instance where we might want to consider terrorism charges,” said Parkinson… He even previously suggested that social media influencers who are currently located abroad like Tommy Robinson could be extradited and hit with terrorism charges in the UK on nebulous charges of inciting the riots… As we highlighted earlier, numerous prominent people in the UK are now calling on the government to mimic Communist China by banning Twitter (X) altogether in the country to stop civil unrest… Cambridge professor Sander van der Linden said the government could “geo-restrict access to a platform if the situation got so bad” and Twitter could also be “banned from the app store for violating policies.” – Keir Starmer proudly proclaimed the implementation of a “standing army” of riot police to deal with what he has called right-wing thugs, although the Prime Minister has failed to condemn similar violent attacks and riots by Muslim mobs… Paul Joseph Watson on UK Riots – phenomena: https://youtu.be/xXRuIUubxeQ“