Sunday, April 13, 2025

Geoengineers forced into secrecy as public backlash grows:


Geoengineers forced into secrecy as public backlash grows:

As concerns over climate change escalate, a shadowy alliance of scientists, billionaires, and globalist institutions is pushing geoengineering as a “solution” to global warming. Their methods — spraying reflective aerosols into the stratosphere, seeding clouds with salt crystals, and manipulating ocean chemistry — could have catastrophic side effects. But instead of transparency, these climate engineers increasingly operate in secrecy, avoiding public scrutiny as resistance grows.

The SCoPEx project, funded by Bill Gates and overseen by the National Academies of Sciences, was exposed for attempting to block sunlight by releasing sulfate particles high in the atmosphere. Similar experiments have been conducted in California, Australia, and Sweden — often without public knowledge. When Alameda residents discovered a secret cloud-brightening test in San Francisco Bay, local officials swiftly shut it down, recognizing the dangers of unregulated climate manipulation.

Historical precedent warns against such reckless experiments. The year 536 AD saw a volcanic eruption that blotted out the sun, triggering famine and chaos across the Mediterranean. Roman historians documented failed harvests, bitter cold, and a “sun without light.” Yet today’s geoengineering advocates ignore these warnings, dismissing public fears as ignorance.

Some geoengineering technologies like marine cloud brightening and carbon dioxide removal are gaining traction as potential climate solutions, but this brings up another question: Should democracies decide which experiments are conducted on ecosystems and human populations? Should the majority dictate experiments that violate individual rights? Two key cases highlight this challenge:

In 2024, University of Washington scientists tested cloud-brightening technology by spraying sea-salt particles from the decommissioned USS Hornet in San Francisco Bay—without notifying local authorities. When Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft discovered the experiment via a news article, public backlash led to its shutdown. Researchers had intended to avoid protests, but their lack of transparency eroded trust.

In contrast, Southern Cross University’s marine cloud brightening project, trialed for five years near the Great Barrier Reef, has proceeded with broad public support. Researchers collaborated with Indigenous groups, held community consultations, and addressed concerns (e.g., salt spray effects on agriculture). This inclusive approach fostered trust, proving engagement is critical for legitimacy. However, the experiment affects everyone’s lives, not just those who are convinced to support it.

Tech oligarchs like Gates have positioned themselves as global climate saviors, despite their histories of pushing controversial pharmaceuticals, GMO agriculture, and surveillance technologies. Now, they seek to control Earth’s weather — a move that reeks of hubris and tyranny.


Worse, these experiments leave behind toxic residues. Independent researchers have documented heavy metals like aluminum and barium in rainwater samples near geoengineering sites. Are these accidental byproducts? Or is there a darker purpose? The parallels to Big Pharma’s deceit are undeniable: corporate-funded science, suppressed dissent, and a captured regulatory system.

Public resistance is mounting. State legislatures across the U.S. are introducing bills to ban geoengineering, but enforcement remains weak. Laws won’t stop the elite — only relentless exposure will. Citizen scientists, alternative journalists, and whistleblowers must track secret tests, analyze air and soil samples, and pressure lawmakers to act.

The fight over geoengineering is not merely about climate — it’s about power. Will humanity accept a future where unelected technocrats control the skies, deciding who gets sunlight and rain? Or will citizens demand transparency, natural solutions, and true accountability?

As one Alameda official warned: “They chose not to tell us.” The same arrogance defines the entire geoengineering agenda. The question is, will the public let them get away with it?


Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak causes cattle killing and border shutdown in Central Europe


Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak causes cattle killing and border shutdown in Central Europe


An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has led to border closures and cattle culling.

According to the Associated Press, the outbreak was initially discovered in early March on a cattle farm in northwestern Hungary.

Animals on three farms in Slovakia also tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease about two weeks later.

The Slovakian government closed 16 of their common borders, the AP reported.

Austria shut down 23 of its border crossings with Hungary and Slovakia.


5 Signs We’re in a Global Depression



Britt Gillette


The world is now facing the worst economic environment since the Great Depression, and before the dust settles, the world will also witness the greatest financial crisis in human history.

A debt-based monetary system (such as the one the world runs on today) is much like a Ponzi scheme. It requires ever increasing amounts of debt to avoid implosion – just as a Ponzi scheme implodes once it runs out of new investor cash.

In a system such as ours, once debt reaches its pinnacle, the system starts to collapse. This is because bankruptcies and defaults result in a shrinking currency supply, and that shrinking currency supply makes it more difficult for other borrowers to meet their debt obligations. This, in turn, leads to more defaults/bankruptcies and further shrinking of the currency supply. This vicious cycle continues until it reaches a free market equilibrium, and then growth can begin anew.

This process is known as a deflationary spiral.


The Great Depression was a deflationary spiral spurred on by massive central bank credit creation, and we’ve seen many of the same policy mistakes that led to the Great Depression repeated our day and time – most notably, massive central bank credit creation in the aftermath of both the Great Financial Crisis and the COVID pandemic.


Now, the consequences of those poor policy decisions threaten to plunge the world into a new economic depression.


Below are five signs we’re already in a global depression, and one set to get much worse before it gets better:



1) A Global Trade War

Following the Trump administration’s tariff announcements on April 2nd, the world is now engaged in a trade war in addition the deflationary problems it’s already dealing with.

As reported by CNN:


“President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled expansive new tariffs in a major escalation of his trade war, referring to the historic move as a “declaration of economic independence.”

Using national emergency powers, Trump announced 10% tariffs on all imports into the United States, and even higher tariffs on goods from about 60 countries or trading blocs that have a high trade deficit with the US. That includes China and the European Union, which will be levied new duties of 34% and 20%, respectively.”


In response, China’s Finance Ministry said it will impose a 34% tariff on all goods imported from the U.S. starting on April 10. Meanwhile, Reuters reports the European Commission offered a “zero-for-zero” tariff deal to avert a trade war with United States as EU ministers agreed to prioritize negotiations, while striking back with 25% tariffs on some U.S. imports.


In addition to the tariffs themselves, one of the biggest problems businesses now face is uncertainty itself. Regardless of whether the trade war now underway results in higher or lower tariffs, businesses face increased uncertainty when it comes to planning and making decisions on future capital expenditures. This uncertainty is illustrated in the chart below:


And many of these companies make up an outsized portion of the average person’s retirement accounts.


In my January 21st article, “This is the Biggest Speculative Bubble Since 1929…It Will End in Similar Fashion,” I pointed out Apple comprised 7.41% of the S&P 500 index – a larger percentage than any other company. It also sported a price-to-sales ratio of 9.65 and a price-to-earnings ratio of 39.8 – both of which are extreme overvaluations for a mature company such as Apple....


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Given the state of the global economy – with the first, second, and third largest economies in the world all in outright contraction – is this the best time for a trade war? No. The uncertainty of the trade war alone, aside from the risk of retaliatory tariffs, is already halting economic activity.

The global economy is broken, and the risk of something big breaking within the depths of the global financial system increases with each passing day. Last week, The Daily Mail reported, “Hedge funds are facing Lehman-style margin calls as a market crash triggered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs raises fears of a looming ‘Black Monday.'”


What happens when the market realizes the Bank of Japan has reached the end of the road? What happens when the world wakes up to the realization the world’s fourth largest economy has either defaulted on its government obligations and/or decided to hyper-inflate its currency? The margin calls will exceed anything the world has ever witnessed.

As over-leveraged hedge funds, family offices, and banks implode, prepare to see mass panic in financial markets as a derivatives complex valued in the quadrillions of dollars collapses.

As credit markets freeze due to counter-party risk, prepare for a bank holiday and a complete shutdown of the entire global economy – one far worse than the pandemic shutdown.

Prepare for the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen.


And remember this – “the solution” is conveniently waiting in the wings.



Saturday, April 12, 2025

British Newspaper Details UK Secret Involvement On Ground In Ukraine War From Beginning



British Newspaper Details UK Secret Involvement On Ground In Ukraine War From Beginning


Britain's 'The Times' newspaper has come out with an expose on the UK's involvement on the ground from the early days of the Ukraine conflict.

One might notice the timing, only days from the New York Times also releasing information that the American military was directing the war from a command and control cell in Wiesbaden, Germany

The question is - what is the overarching motivation that drove the globalist machine to provoke, then prosecute to the point of world war III, the war in Ukraine?

Why would Britain, whose entire military has been allowed to atrophy below the size of the U.S. Marine Corp, push so hard, and utilize so many assets and manpower, to prosecute a war so far from its own territory? 

What was, and still is, the real agenda?


While Britain’s unwavering support for its eastern European ally has been no secret, the extent of its involvement and influence — last-minute dashes to Kyiv, help forging battle plans and collecting vital intelligence on the Russians — has remained largely hidden. Until now, writes The Times.

Behind closed doors, the Ukrainians refer to Britain’s military chiefs as the “brains” of the “anti-Putin” coalition, made up of America, the UK and dozens of other like-minded nations. Known for having the derring-do to deploy troops inside the country when no one else would, the UK’s role in the war has gone deeper than many observers may think.

Most crucially, The Times can reveal, as the Americans provided the “cream” of the weapons to Ukraine and the precise targeting data to use them effectively, it was British military chiefs, under Operation Scorpius, holding Washington and Kyiv’s difficult relationship together.

The pro-Russian 'Southfront' outlines Moscow's view of the article below:

...Here is confirmation of our words about the secret war of Great Britain against Russia. Britain secretly sent its military to Ukraine throughout the conflict‼️

The article about this was published by the British The Times, citing its sources among the military - "The untold story of the decisive role of British military leaders in Ukraine".

According to the publication, back in February 2022 - before the start of full-scale hostilities - dozens of British instructors arrived in Kyiv to train Ukrainian military personnel to work with anti-tank systems.

Later, in 2023, Great Britain continued its covert activity - specialists were sent to Ukraine to equip Ukrainian aircraft with Storm Shadow missiles and train pilots.

At the same time, as The Times notes, the American military visited Ukraine extremely rarely and with great caution. Washington feared that the constant presence of its military could be perceived as direct US involvement in the conflict.

Unlike the United States, British military leaders had much greater freedom of action. Sometimes their visits were so secret that army representatives arrived on Ukrainian territory in civilian clothes.

It is noted that in fact, we are talking about a systemic and long-established scheme of hidden presence of Western specialists on Ukrainian territory - despite the fact that publicly Western countries continue to emphasize "non-participation" in the war directly.

The regular presence of British officers in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is an open secret, but the question arises as to why they decided to publish this information now.

The most logical answer to the question may be the desire of Great Britain to officially consolidate its military in Ukraine. From the logic of the article it follows that British military personnel have always been in large enough numbers in Ukraine, and if so, then the peacekeeping contingent should not become a problem for Russia, because it is already there and even takes part in hostilities, just unofficially...


United Nations Pushes Agenda To Replace Airline Boarding Passes With Facial Recognition Technology


United Nations Pushes Agenda To Replace Airline Boarding Passes With Facial Recognition Technology



The agenda to enforce biometrics for air travel is gaining steam as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates global airline policy, wants to enforce digital surveillance on passengers.

The agency wants to introduce a “digital travel credential” that would enable facial recognition technology to replace your boarding pass.

In other words, flying would require giving up your biometric data

The agenda to enforce biometrics for air travel is gaining steam as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates global airline policy, wants to enforce digital surveillance on passengers

The agency wants to introduce a “digital travel credential” that would enable facial recognition technology to replace your boarding pass.

In other words, flying would require giving up your biometric data.

This would allow passengers to store passport information on their devices to be used for travel. The changes could come into effect within three years, according to the Times.

Currently, those flying must check in, which can be done online or at the airport upon arrival. They are then issued with a boarding pass with a barcode. This is scanned by a passenger at various points throughout the airport, including at the gate before boarding.

The changes would make boarding passes and the need to check in for flights obsolete. Instead, flyers will download a “journey pass” to their phone when they book a flight. The pass will be automatically updated if any changes are made to the booking.

Passengers will also be able to upload their passports to their phone and travel through airports using their face for verification. Instead of manually checking in, which would let airlines know who intends to board their flights, airlines will instead be alerted when passengers arrive at the airport and their face is scanned.

"This is another step towards a totalitarian system of digital IDs, predictably being pushed by the UN. Similar tech could be rolled out for trains and buses, or even to start a car. They're already making it difficult to buy tickets with cash."



Ukraine Sabotaging Agreements by Violating Moratorium with Strikes on Energy Facilities


Ukraine Sabotaging Agreements by Violating Moratorium with Strikes on Energy Facilities
Sputnik


Kiev's strikes on energy facilities are carried out either because there was no order to halt them or because the order was not followed, Director of the Second Department of CIS Countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexey Polishchuk told Sputnik in an interview out on Saturday.

"This can be happening for two reasons. Either Kiev did not give the order to cease shelling, or the order is not being followed. Both of these reasons are extremely worrying," Polishchuk said.

If there was no order given, then we are dealing with deliberate sabotage of agreements, Polishchuk also said. "If it [the order] is not implemented, then the Kiev authorities are failing to control their own military," Polishchuk added.

Since the agreement on a 30-day moratorium on strikes against energy facilities was reached, Kiev has violated it more than 60 times, Alexey Polishchuk added.

"The Kiev regime is indeed maliciously violating the 30-day moratorium on strikes on energy facilities, which was agreed upon on March 18 by the presidents of Russia and the United States [Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump] and then supported by [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy," Polishchuk said.

According to him, attempts to strike Russian energy facilities are made several times each day.







Putin’s latest talks with Trump’s envoy: What we know so far


Putin’s latest talks with Trump’s envoy: What we know so far
RT


White House special envoy Steve Witkoff has departed Russia in the same secrecy that surrounded his arrival on Friday, after spending more than four hours talking with President Vladimir Putin behind closed doors in St. Petersburg.

The marathon talks – the third known meeting between the two – were held in Putin's hometown, with both the Kremlin and the White House offering few details about the substance of the discussions. Here’s what we know so far.




A 'Hook In The Jaw' Stage-Setting Is Taking Place Now


Escobar: Russia–Iran–China - All For One, And One For All? Pepe Escobar via The Cradle,


Russia and Iran are at the forefront of the multi-layered Eurasia integration process – the most crucial geopolitical development of the young 21st century. 

Both are top members of BRICS+ and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Both are seriously implicated as Global Majority leaders to build a multi-nodal, multipolar world. And both have signed, in late January in Moscow, a detailed, comprehensive strategic partnership. 

It was up to the Russian Foreign Ministry to re-introduce rationality in what was fast becoming an out of control shouting match:essentially Moscow, alongside its partner Tehran, simply will not accept outside threats of bombing Iran’s nuclear and energy infrastructure, while insisting on the search for viable negotiated solutions for the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. 

Essential background to decipher the “Will Russia help Iran” conundrum can be found in these all-too-diplomatic exchanges at the Valdai Club in Moscow.

The key points were made by Alexander Maryasov, Russia’s ambassador to Iran from 2001 to 2005. Maryasov argues that the Russia–Iran treaty is not only a symbolic milestone, but “serves as a roadmap for advancing our cooperation across virtually all domains.” It is more of “a bilateral relations document” – not a defense treaty.  

The treaty was extensively discussed – then approved – as a counter-point to “the intensified military-political and economic pressure exerted by western nations on both Russia and Iran.”

The main rationale was how to fight against the sanctions tsunami. 

Yet even if it does not constitute a military alliance, the treaty details mutually agreed moves if there is an attack or threats to either nation’s national security – as in Trump’s careless bombing threats against Iran. The treaty also defines the vast scope of military-technical and defense cooperation, including, crucially, regular intel talk. 

At the Valdai discussion, Daniyal Meshkin Ranjbar, assistant professor in the Department of Theory and History of International Relations at the Moscow-based RUDN University, made a crucial point: “For the first time in history, the diplomatic outlooks of Russia and Iran converge." He's referring to the obvious parallels between official policies: Russia’s “pivot to the east” and Iran’s “look east” policies. 

 For Moscow, Iran is an absolutely key geopolitical priority; beyond Iran, to the east, is Central Asia. The obsessive fantasy of regime change in Tehran masks NATO's then penetrating into Central Asia, building military bases, and at the same time blocking several strategically crucial Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects. Iran is as essential to China’s long-term foreign policy as it is to Russia’s.

It's not by accident that Russia and China will meet at the presidential level – Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping – at a summit in Moscow around 9 May, Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War. They will be analyzing in detail the next stage of “changes that we have not seen in 100 years,” as formulated by Xi to Putin in their groundbreaking 2023 summer in Moscow. 



Katz to Gazans: ‘This is the final moment to remove Hamas and release the hostages’


Katz to Gazans: ‘This is the final moment to remove Hamas and release the hostages’


Following the IDF’s capture of the Morag Corridor between southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis, Defense Minister Israel Katz calls on Palestinians to “remove Hamas and release all the hostages” before the military expands its operations in the Strip.

“This is the final moment to remove Hamas and release the hostages and bring about an end to the war,” Katz says in a statement.

“The IDF has now completed the capture of the Morag Corridor that divides Gaza between Rafah and Khan Younis, and makes the entire area between the Philadelphi Corridor and Morag part of the Israeli security zone,” he says, referring to the IDF’s buffer zone on the Gaza border.

“In northern Gaza, residents are also evacuating in Beit Hanoun and other neighborhoods and territory is being taken, expanding the security zone, and also in the Netzarim Corridor,” Katz says.

“Intensive IDF activity will soon expand to additional places in most of Gaza, and you will have to evacuate the combat zones,” he warns.

“Hamas is unable to protect the residents or the territory. Hamas leaders are hiding in tunnels with their families, and in luxury hotels abroad with billions in their bank accounts and are using you as hostages,” he says.

“It is time to stand up and remove Hamas and release all the Israeli hostages. This is the only way to end the war,” he continues.

Katz adds that “those interested will also be able to voluntarily move to various countries around the world, in accordance with the vision of the US president, which we are working to carry out.”


Troops enter pair of Gaza City neighborhoods as IDF expands offensive against Hamas

Iran and US to hold more nuclear talks next week, Iranian state media says


Collision course: Are Israel and Turkey headed for confrontation?


Collision course: Are Israel and Turkey headed for confrontation?



Last week, Israeli aircraft struck the T4 airbase and Hama airport in Syria, along with two other military airbases. The operation, according to several Hebrew media reports, was intended to frustrate Turkish efforts to install air defenses and radar systems at the targeted sites. The Israeli attack forms part of a larger, looming confrontation between Ankara and Jerusalem. 

Syria is currently the most active front in this contest. Other points of friction include Judea and Samaria, Gaza, and the eastern Mediterranean. But what are the driving forces behind the dispute, and why have recent months witnessed a sudden, sharp escalation in its intensity? Are Israel and Turkey set on an inevitable collision course?Turkey’s President Recep Tayepp Erdogan and the Islamist AKP have held power in Turkey since 2002. Erdogan’s presidency should be seen in historic terms. The Turkish leader is engaged in the transformation of Turkey, both internally and in its relations with its surroundings. 

The recent arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is the latest indication that Erdogan has no intention of ceding power through the electoral process. 

In recent years, step by step, Erdogan has gutted those power centers in Turkey that might have challenged him; the army, the courts, the media, all have been brought to heel. The political opposition, too, is now being neutralized by administrative means.

Regarding Turkey’s foreign relations, the strategy of Erdogan and his allies has been no less transformational. Ankara has embarked on a strategy of assertion, moving away from the pro-Western stance that characterized Turkish foreign policy in the years of the Cold War. 

In place of this pro-US orientation, Turkey has currently embarked on a path that combines alliance with movements of political Islam, with a revanchist, neo-Ottoman outlook, in which Ankara seeks to assert influence unilaterally and then dominate points across a broad swathe of territory stretching from the Gulf to Iraq and the Levant, across the Mediterranean and to Libya.

In seeking to be the dominant power in the region, Turkey has established permanent military bases in Qatar, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, North Cyprus, and Libya. It has launched military operations against its Kurdish foes in Iraq and Syria in 2016, 2018, and 2019, leading to the de facto control of swathes of territory in both countries. 

In the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey signed a treaty with Libya in 2019, laying claim to a vast Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ); if accepted, it would give Ankara access to natural gas deposits. The agreement was not accepted by Greece, Cyprus, or Israel. 

Ongoing friction has resulted as Turkey employs its naval vessels to harass ships exploring for natural gas resources in Greek or Cypriot waters. It is set to announce a similar EEZ with Syria.

In Libya, Ankara’s intervention using proxy forces and drones, as well as its own troops, led to the preservation of the Islamist dominated Government of National Accord in Tripoli. 

In a number of the areas, Turkey’s employment of its state forces has gone hand in hand with partnerships with local Sunni movements and militias. 

The march of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham from the Turkish-protected Idlib province to Damascus brings for Israel the very real possibility that a new Islamist regime will be built under the tutelage of the hostile and aggressive Erdogan government. Such a regime will form a powerful new addition to Turkey’s expanding list of regional assets.

The placing of Turkey’s S-400 air defense systems in Syria would make Israel unable to respond to aggression, or to use Syrian airspace on the way to Iran. A new, powerful, centralized, Islamist Syria, with an army built by Turkey, would form a powerful instrument in the hands of a Turkish president who has made his politicidal intentions toward Israel very clear. 

It is for this reason that Israel has evidently determined that no such new, jihadi regime can be permitted to come into existence. The pattern of Israeli activity in Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad reflects this decision. 








Former Israeli envoy claims Iran was key factor in Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump


Former Israeli envoy claims Iran was key factor in Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump
Vered Weiss


Although many in the media speculated that the catalyst for  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s quick decision to fly from Hungary to the US was to discuss the tariff issue, the former Israeli ambassador to the US identifies the primary motivation for the trip was to discuss the Iranian threat.

Mike Herzog, a retired brigadier general and Middle East scholar who served as Israel’s ambassador to the US until January, told the Maariv newspaper that the meeting’s hurried timing was due to the Trump administration’s intention “to immediately begin negotiations with Iran and inform Israel of the development, to ensure the Israelis are in the loop and on the same page. ”

Although Israel was opposed to the nuclear deal formed during the Obama administration, Herzog explained, “Israel has never objected in principle to diplomatic engagement over Iran’s nuclear program.” Still, given past failures, it faces the current round of negotiations with “discomfort and great caution.”

Herzog articulated Israel’s main concerns, namely, that Iran will attempt to drag out negotiations for as long as possible, or that the US will make costly concessions to secure a deal and that these concessions can severely limit Israel’s ability to deal independently with the Iranian threat.

Although Netanyahu advocated for a nuclear agreement similar to Libya’s decision to scrap its nuclear program,  Herzog said he believed it was doubtful Iran would agree to such a scenario.

He added that Israel should encourage the US to broaden the scope of the negotiations to include the topic of missile systems, to determine the red lines for the discussion, and insist that the talks adhere to a timeline to prevent Iran from running out the clock.

The Trump Administration has set two months as a target time for the negotiations, which Herzog believes is too brief for negotiating a complex agreement.


On the issue of a military option should the nuclear agreement fail, Herzog emphasized the importance of Israel and the US deciding on whether they would act jointly,or independently.