News & Supplemental
These entries present individual stories and topics, sometimes with analytical commentary.
Representative, Crystallized Moment in the Afghan War
We have covered the debacle of U.S. policy in Afghanistan in FTR#‘s 678, 680, 683 and 685. High-ranking military officers expressed their dissatisfaction with Afghan policy in a “Washington Post” story. As Biden pivots from “Forever War,” as epitomized by the war in Afghanistan, to what may very well be World War III, in support of the OUN/B‑dominated national security apparatus of contemporary Ukraine, it is worth contemplating the stunning lack of regard the “Deep State” in this country has for its men and women in uniform. ” . . . . . . . . Just how subordinated official policy could become to deep state needs was demonstrated in November 2001, when Cheney, at the request of [Pakistan’s head of state] Musharraf and the ISI [Pakistan’s primary intelligence service], approved secret airlifts to ferry surrounded Pakistani and high-level al-Qaeda fighters out of Afghanistan, to safety in Pakistan. . . .”
The Deep Politics of The Wallenberg Family: Supplement to FTR#‘s 1178, 1179, 1180
This post supplements discussion in the last part of FTR #1180. Institutionalized as an international martyr for his work rescuing European Jews during the Holocaust, the claim that Raoul Wallenberg’s reputed work ransoming legal immunity for Heinrich Himmler with those Jews is buttressed by his relationship with German industrialist Ludolph Christensen and–through him–SS General Karl Wolff (right.) Exemplifying the family’s position in the Wall Street/cartel pantheon is George Murnane of the Wallenberg holding company A.B. Investor: ” . . . . In November 1940, a voting trust agreement was set up in the United States under which George Murnane was designated by the Wallenbergs’ Enskilda Bank as the sole voting trustee with complete power to vote the American Bosch stock at stockholders’ meetings in the United States. The voting trust arrangement provided that if George Murnane should die, his successor should be named by John Foster Dulles, senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, the law firm which represents the Wallenbergs and the Enskilda Bank in the United States. . . .”
FDA’s Unfortunate Ruling about Vaccine Monitoring
In the past, we noted numerous points of reservation we have about the Covid-19 vaccination program, including the military’s ground-level involvement with the vaccination program. Now, we learn that Trump’s FDA granted Big Pharma its wish, and eliminated the need for long-term testing for negative side effects. We are not alone in our reservations: ” . . . . These aren’t cranks. Some are health care workers, including doctors and nurses, people you would think would be the first in line to get their shots given their exposure to the virus. We’ve talked to several people in healthcare who have eschewed the vaccine. Many of them have been around long enough that they’ve come to distrust Big Pharma and/or the FDA. . . .” We can but hope that we do not see a repeat of the tragedy following the contamination of the polio vaccine with a cancer-causing monkey virus.
A Tasty, Nutritious Morsel in The Restaurant Dumpster
A recent article in the liberal “New York Magazine” discusses the Wuhan Institute of Virology and gain-of-function experiments performed under the joint auspices of that institution and the Pentagon-funded EcoHealth Alliance of Peter Daszak. Daszak is advised by David Franz, the former commander of Ft. Detrick. In the detailed analysis presented by Nicholson Baker in the article, no mention is made of the Pentagon funding of EcoHealth Alliance. The story also omits the disturbing information about DARPA’s research into bat-borne coronaviruses detailed in the consummately important article by Whitney Webb. However, the Baker piece does conclude with an oblique nod to the ease with which viruses can be synthesized and holds open the possibility that Fort Detrick or any other place could have been the locus of synthesis. ” . . . . . perhaps some lab worker somewhere, inspired by Baric’s work with human airway tissue, took a spike protein that was specially groomed to colonize and thrive deep in the ciliated, mucosal tunnels of our inner core and cloned it onto some existing viral bat backbone. It could have happened in Wuhan, but — because anyone can now ‘print out’ a fully infectious clone of any sequenced disease — it could also have happened at Fort Detrick, or in Texas, or in Italy, or in Rotterdam, or in Wisconsin, or in some other citadel of coronaviral inquiry. . . .”
Thiel and Bannon: “Yellow Peril” in Silicon Valley
Peter Thiel–lynchpin of power in the Trump administration, the top dog in Palantir (the alpha predator of the electronic surveillance milieu), a key player in Facebook–has disseminated anti-Chinese vitriol about the “yellow peril” in Silicon Valley. He has been joined in that effort by Steve Bannon, a coordinator of anti-China activity in Washington D.C. Bannon’s statements and actions are particularly ironic in light of his cynical use of remnants of “the old China” in his “Gold Farming” business the first decade of this century. “. . . . From 2007 to 2012, he had been the CEO of a multimillion-dollar video-game gold-farming scheme. “Gold farming” was a term for letting third-world laborers to do; the same repetitive tasks in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MORPGs) to acquire in-game currency. . . . . The self-proclaimed anti-globalist Bannon ran the scheme by subcontracting Chinese labor. According to Wired writer Julian Dibbel, who visited one of the Chinese business partners who employed miners for Bannon’s company in 2009, the digital laborers “slept upstairs on plywood bunks, day-shift workers sat in the hot, dimly-lit workshop.” They earned about four dollars a day with eighty-four-hour workweeks. . . .”
Tibet: AOC Soils Her Diapers (Never Overestimate a Space Cadet from the Bronx)
Demonstrating her lack of historical and political awareness, AOC has lent her voice to the anti-China, CIA-linked propaganda chorus, calling for Tibet’s “independence” from China. As we have seen in past programs, AOC has derived her political momentum from her campaign manager and chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, an acolyte of Indian fascist Subhas Chandra Bose–“The Duce of Bengal.” We have covered Tibet and the Dalai Lama in numerous programs, including FTR #‘s 547, 548 and 842, noting the Dalai Lama’s profound links to SS officers–some of them Class A war criminals–and the CIA. He prays daily to a Mongolian War God. We have also highlighted the nature of the regime represented by the Dalai Lama: “In the Dalai Lama’s Tibet, torture and mutilation—including eye gouging, the pulling out of tongues, hamstringing, and amputation–were favored punishments inflicted upon runaway serfs and thieves. Journeying through Tibet in the 1960s, Stuart and Roma Gelder interviewed a former serf, Tsereh Wang Tuei, who had stolen two sheep belonging to a monastery. For this he had both his eyes gouged out and his hand mutilated beyond use. He explains that he no longer is a Buddhist: ‘When a holy lama told them to blind me I thought there was no good in religion.’ Since it was against Buddhist teachings to take human life, some offenders were severely lashed and then ‘left to God’ in the freezing night to die. ‘The parallels between Tibet and medieval Europe are striking,’ concludes Tom Grunfeld in his book on Tibet. In 1959, Anna Louise Strong visited an exhibition of torture equipment that had been used by the Tibetan overlords. There were handcuffs of all sizes, including small ones for children, and instruments for cutting off noses and ears, gouging out eyes, and breaking off hands. There were instruments for slicing off kneecaps and heels, or hamstringing legs. There were hot brands, whips, and special implements for disemboweling. . . .”
Never Underestimate a Space Alien from Venus
A Japanese fascist mind control cult called Happy Science joins Falun Gong in the list of participants in the Conservative Political Action Conference. ” . . . . On Friday afternoon at the Hyatt Regency Orlando, Hiroaki ‘Jay’ Aeba, a prominent Japanese conservative, will address CPAC about the threat China poses to the U.S., taking a prime spot in the lineup just after Donald Trump Jr. Aeba is no stranger to CPAC. . . . . What isn’t mentioned is the central role Aeba plays in a Japanese cult called Happy Science, whose leader believes he is the Messiah . . . . Happy Science was founded in October 1986 by Ryuho Okawa, a former Wall Street trader who claims to be the reincarnated form of Buddha, who himself was the reincarnated form of El Cantare, a god from Venus who created life on earth millions of years ago. . . . ” ” . . . . . . . . At the same time, the organization’s political wing, the Happiness Realization Party, promotes political views that include support for Japanese military expansion, support for the use of nuclear deterrence,[8] and denial of historical events such as the Nanjing Massacre in China and the comfort women issue in South Korea . . . . ” One of the group’s most outrageous undertakings–crafted by the group’s founder–Ryuho Okawa–is a book in which he claims to have channeled the spirit of Iris Chang, the late author of The Rape of Nanking. In this piece of offal, Okawa claims that Iris Chang’s spirit has confessed to publishing a false book, and wishes that it be withdrawn. In FTR #‘s 1107 and 1108 we looked at the suspicious death of Iris Chang, whose work overlapped the world of Black Gold discussed by the Seagraves in “Gold Warriors”.
Ukrainian Justice
In FTR #1097, we updated discussion of citizens of the U.S. (and other nations) traveling to Ukraine to gain combat experience, which they can then use when they return to their native lands. The recent refusal of a Ukrainian court to extradite a U.S. citizen–Craig Lang–wanted for a double murder in the U.S. underscores Ukraine’s position as a fascist outpost, of sorts. FTR#‘s 1098 through 1101 are among the many programs detailing the growth of fascism in Ukraine.
Adrian Zenz Strikes Again
Accusations of Chinese genocide against its Uighur minority–amplified by Mike Pompeo in his last days as Secretary of State and endorsed by mainstream news organizations, Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken–come from a single report by German Nazi-fellow-traveler Adrian Zenz, who cherry picked Chinese demographics to distill his thesis. A succinct analysis of Zenz’s hypothesis was provided by an analyst with the Naval War College: ” . . . . Lyle Goldstein, a China specialist and research professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department of the Naval War College, told The Grayzone that Zenz’s labeling of the Chinese approach to the Uyghurs as ‘demographic genocide’ is ‘ridiculous to the point of being insulting to those who lost relatives in the Holocaust.’. . . .” Considering the role played in World War II by the OUN/B–the parent organization of the Captive Nations Committee and Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation–Zenz’s accusations are particularly grotesque.
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