War and March of the Living

by Oui Wed Apr 19th, 2023 at 12:40:40 PM EST

This morning an impressive documentary on EuroNews about the yearly March of the Living at Auschwitz with interview of a lone survivor David Schecter who lost 105 family members.

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation.#HolocaustMemorialDay[_link> pic.twitter.com/HrUyA5FTg9

— euronews (@euronews) January 27, 2020

My earlier diary ...

Global Xenophobia and Historical Amnesia | July 1, 2018 |

My name is Willi Dublon. The US turned me away 79 years ago today. I was murdered in Auschwitz #NeverAgain pic.twitter.com/XyIvIhCkpR

— St. Louis Manifest (@Stl_Manifest) June 7, 2018

Non Oui? Read the Facts from Intelligence Expert Bamford

by Oui Tue Apr 18th, 2023 at 01:40:14 PM EST

Decided to put the pandemic to use and wrote a new book, SpyFail, due out 1/17. Lots of new material on spies in Clinton and Trump campaigns and elsewhere. FBI nowhere to be found. [_link]

— James Bamford (@WashAuthor) January 16, 2023

Israel Helped Fix 2016 Election in Return for Trump Cancelling Iran Deal and Recognizing Jerusalem. Israel's Unit 8200 hacked Russian intelligence and relayed to Clinton-DNC e mails to Trump, helping him win the presidency
[_link] pic.twitter.com/qLAJG85Y93

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) April 18, 2023

Dutch AIVD Manipulation and Propaganda

by Oui Mon Apr 17th, 2023 at 03:10:36 PM EST

Presentation midday today by Dutch Intelligemce … theme FEAR Inc.

See the writings by Noam Chomsky, Walter Lippmann, et.al.

Herman's "Propaganda model of communication" to "Manufacturing consent"

"Anti-institutional extremists" now considered a major threat to NL along with ISIS [_link]

— NL Times (@NL_Times) April 17, 2023

Commonly in recent decades, the warnings were for leftist politics, anti-Israel and Islam extremists ... search not for societal roots of inequality, homelessness, poverty or persons left behind by government. Never heard the AIVD sending a warning about poor performance by government institutions in The Hague.

A New Wartime NATO Chief In July?

by Oui Mon Apr 17th, 2023 at 10:56:31 AM EST

Candidates need to be approved by the White House and will not be a U.S. citizen ... no name will officially be put forward as all the discussion, evaluation and lobbying will be behind the curtains of diplomacy until a clear candidate floats on top to be the lead contender.

NATO is well entrenched in hawkish policy, a European land war that will endure, don't do diplomacy or takes initiatives to a ceasefire or peaceful settlement. All eyes are set on deployment towards Indo-Pacific to confront a growing power of China and the need for posturing in defense of China's province Taiwan.

Public opinion is formed by manipulation and war propaganda, si skills need to be broad and a career of experience. So the European foreign ministers or country leaders will be watched as candidates. Easy entry to the White House and Joe Biden will be imperative, as is leadership in partnership on military investment and activity.

I am watching VDL and Mark Rutte for their candidacy ... both have turned quite hawkish pro-NATO where their difference lies in loyalty to the EU. Rutte is more a Atlanticist pro policy as represented by Boris and Donald. This means larger states from the Franco-German-Italian axis will not support Rutte. For New Europe states their preference will be a NATO chief from their group of nations, strong opinion anti-Russia. However, NATO has become more of a global player and not focused on Europe and Russia alone. Chance for Rutte to get support from the Eastern front.

Game is on ...

I've also read that Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, former President of Croatia is another possible candidate for NATO Secretary General.[_link]

— Heldi Kodra (@HeldiKodra) April 1, 2022

Well, this was a false start as no one was willing to replace Stoltenberg during a war with Russia. Even today there is an option for another year delay ...

Will 'Old Europe' Survive?

by Oui Sat Apr 15th, 2023 at 08:53:23 AM EST

The policy advocated seven years ago by France and President Macron about "strategic autonomy" has not been achieved, but under the assault by US presidents Trump and Biden, it has regained momentum and some urgency today.

Interesting times ahead as the US 2024 elections loom and U.S. Politics turns inward to domestic policy ... and the economy.

Emmanuel Macron sur « l'autonomie stratégique » de l'🇪🇺 par rapport aux 🇺🇸 : parle-t-il au nom de la France ou de l'Europe ? On en parle dans @lafautealeurope disponible en replay sur franceinfo tv. #Macron #Géopolitique #PolitiqueÉtrangère #UnionEuropéenne #EtatsUnis #Chine pic.twitter.com/GhvY9PBtIo

— la faute à l'Europe? (@lafautealeurope) April 14, 2023

When it comes to #strategicautonomy, there is increasing support for the idea of being less dependent and having more influence on energy production capacity, defence and security, and economy and innovation.@franceinfoplus @lafautealeurope pic.twitter.com/4pyhAMvX1r

— Charles Michel (@CharlesMichel) April 12, 2023

More below the fold ...

Lula: Brazil Is Back!

by Oui Fri Apr 14th, 2023 at 10:48:01 AM EST

Sudamerica vendida a la 🇨🇳 china... quff de puede salir mal 🤔

— Esteban Zalamea (@estebanfzl) April 12, 2023

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks highly of Brazil-China relations, BRICS cooperation [_link] pic.twitter.com/EzA6MWdPWf

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) April 14, 2023

BRICS Currency vs US Dollar: Is the end of Dollar dominance near? | Business Africa |

Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, who's accompanying Lula in his trip to China, said local currencies are already used in bilateral trade through instruments such as credit receipts. The goal, he added, is to expand mechanisms that allow trade operations to be settled without the intermediation of a third currency. 

"The advantage is to avoid the straitjacket imposed by necessarily having trade operations settled in a currency of a country not involved in the transaction," he told reporters in Shanghai.

Pentagon leaked Ukraine War documents

by Oui Thu Apr 13th, 2023 at 10:35:04 PM EST

Suspected Leaker of Top-Secret US Intelligence Documents Arrested [_link]

— Voice of America (@VOANews) April 13, 2023

Reporter: Document leaker 'frantic and distraught' over publication  

NATO Special Forces On the Ground In Ukraine

Ukraine war: Who leaked top secret US documents - and why? [_link]

— Paul Adams (@BBCPaulAdams) April 10, 2023

Macron Is Proven Right: NATO Is Brain Dead!!

by Oui Tue Apr 11th, 2023 at 10:59:50 AM EST

LIVE STREAM!!
https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/video/live

[Has ended]

EXCELLENT 😄 🇪🇺

Don’t fight stupid wars …

Obama’s ‘Don’t Do Stupid Shit’ Foreign Policy | FP - June 4, 2014 |

From hope and change, to resets and pivots, to singles and doubles, to not sticking your finger in the electric socket. How far we've fallen.

According to multiple reliable sources, on Air Force One during President Barack Obama's recent Asia trip, he spent some time talking with his traveling press corps about his approach to foreign policy. He was defensive and, by one account, "fuming." He felt that the criticism of his approach was unfair. He had clear ideas about how to manage America's global interests. In his own words, they centered on a single concept: "Don't do stupid shit."

President Macron to visit Netherlands amid row over China comments [_link] pic.twitter.com/rZ6Ig04a4m

— FRANCE 24 (@FRANCE24) April 11, 2023

• Last Ditch Effort to Prevent War in Europe | June 30, 2022 |  
• Macron Urges EU Dialogue with Russia | Jan. 20, 2022 |

Pegasus Incorporated Into NATO Hybrid Warfare

by Oui Thu Apr 6th, 2023 at 02:50:08 PM EST

As the US bans the use of commercial surveillance technology by government, others are loving every innovation to maximize control. A.I., Brain Scans and Cameras: The Spread of Police Surveillance Tech ↘️ [_link]

— Marietje Schaake same at other platforms (@MarietjeSchaake) March 31, 2023

This is big! Biden signs Executive Order prohibiting the use of commercial spyware by the United States Government citing national security ↘️ [_link]

— Marietje Schaake same at other platforms (@MarietjeSchaake) March 27, 2023

Painful investigation about the use of NSO's spyware by the US. The new Executive Order should make that impossible now, but only when enforcement is meaningful ↘️ [_link]

— Marietje Schaake same at other platforms (@MarietjeSchaake) April 3, 2023

Continues below the fold ...

The Labour Files

by Oui Mon Apr 3rd, 2023 at 09:06:24 PM EST

In #LabourFiles - The Hierarchy: we reveal disturbing allegations of entrenched racism and abuse within the UK Labour Party - including the secret surveillance within the party of ethnic minority members and their underage children.[_link]

— Al Jazeera Investigations (@AJIunit) September 27, 2022

Damning leaks claim Jeremy Corbyn secretly brought down by party officials Monitoring Desk | Published September 25, 2022 |

UNELECTED officials undermined democracy within the UK's Labour Party, Al Jazeera has claimed in a new documentary, suggesting that "operatives secretly took control" of the party to thwart Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

The three-part series, titled The Labour Files: The Purge, is based on "the largest leak in British political history" comprising 500 gigabytes of documents, emails, video and audio files from the Labour Party dating from 1998 to 2021, the Qatari-owned outlet said, adding that its investigation unit would be releasing a series of reports on the leaked files over the coming week.

It said the data reveals "how senior officials in one of the two parties of government in the UK ran a coup by stealth against the elected leader of the party".

German Call to 'Make Peace’

by Oui Sun Apr 2nd, 2023 at 05:19:59 PM EST

See update below …

Hallo Peter Brandt & Co., schert euch zum Teufel mit eurer senilen Idee, einen "schnellen Waffenstillstand" zu erreichen und "den Frieden nur mir Russland zu schaffen".
Die Ukrainer lehnen diesen Firlefanz ab. Punkt. Schönen Samstag noch [_link] pic.twitter.com/R4Z5y9nx9C

— Andrij Melnyk (@MelnykAndrij) April 1, 2023

Big Words from Warring Parties Making Less Sense As Stalemate Endures

Pleas for a ceasefire and peace talks fall on deaf ears in Ukraine ...

Earlier resentful posts from Ambassador Melnyk ...

April 2023

by Oui Fri Mar 31st, 2023 at 09:37:28 PM EST

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The Insurrection President Indicted

by Oui Fri Mar 31st, 2023 at 06:10:26 AM EST

Where the road to a second term hits a detour ...

HOW SWEET IT IS!! pic.twitter.com/Ne0LzQQmGu

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) March 31, 2023

KS: Barrister, Judge, Prison Warden, Assassin

by Oui Wed Mar 29th, 2023 at 12:55:05 PM EST

Steve Bell on Starmer preventing Corbyn standing at next election -- cartoon [_link]

— Guardian Opinion (@guardianopinion) March 27, 2023

Blocking Corbyn is wrong and authoritarian, intended to intimidate other Left MPs.

Should be up to Islington North whether they wanted him again. [_link]

— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) March 28, 2023

Keir Starmer way behind the curve ... end of Labour long overdue, putting in great effort to succeed.

History Hillsdale College, Alumni and Domestic Terror

by Oui Mon Mar 27th, 2023 at 08:03:43 PM EST

Renaissance art, Michelangelo, Hillsdale, Florida, DeSantis, Charter Schools,  ... Puritans, Pilgrim Fathers, Leiden, Dutch Reformed, Michigan, Slavery, Blackwater, Erik Prince, White Supremacy, Jan 6th Insurrection, Trump University ..

this interview is incredible which is to say, it is absolutely insane [_link]

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 24, 2023

Michelangelo Persona Non Grata In Florida

How did the Bubonic Plague make the Italian Renaissance possible?

The Black Death (1347-1350) was a pandemic that devastated the populations of Europe and Asia. The plague was an unprecedented human tragedy in Italy. It not only shook Italian society but transformed it. The Black Death marked an end of an era in Italy, its impact was profound, and it resulted in wide-ranging social, economic, cultural and religious changes. These changes, directly and indirectly, led to the emergence of the Renaissance, one of the greatest epochs for art, architecture, and literature in human history.

Perils of the Enlightenment - 250 Years Later | Jan. 3, 2019 |

Struggle NWO Unipolar or Multilateralism

by Oui Mon Mar 27th, 2023 at 08:53:53 AM EST

Fallacies of US Strategic Thinking

#China's Xi's 'Chilling' Remarks: A Multipolar World Offers Challenges and Opportunities to the #MiddleEast and #Africa #OPINION [_link]

— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) March 27, 2023

Sending VP Harris to Our African Friends

US Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Ghana, the first stop of a three-nation tour of Africa [_link] pic.twitter.com/ccYLZNZp1m

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 27, 2023

Neo-Nazi Marches Across Europe

by Oui Wed Mar 22nd, 2023 at 08:32:24 PM EST

Annual Waffen SS marches glorifying nazism in Europe.

Today ist March 16th - which is the Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires (Leģionāru piemiņas diena). The march in Rīga is one of the annual marches glorifying nazism in Europe. Learn more on the march and any attempts to fight it.[_link] #nohate

— Belltower.News | English (@Belltower_EN) March 16, 2023

My diaries @BooMan ...

• Estonia Celebrates Annual Waffen SS Division Heroes | July 26, 2014 |
• Kiev, Ukraine in 2016: OUN Heroes, 'The Jews Had It Coming' | Aug 6, 2016 |

Our new report on persistent far-right marches in Europe shows that a lack of action against the rallies leads to the glorification of Nazi and fascist ideologies. EU governments must do more to ban these gatherings.

More in @JuedischeOnline (in German). [_link]

— B'nai B'rith Intl. (@BnaiBrith) March 15, 2023

Fascism Unites America, Israel and EU Neo-Nazis

by Oui Wed Mar 22nd, 2023 at 06:30:57 PM EST

It is the first Saturday in August & Bologna Centrale Station, an important rail hub, is packed with families from all over Italy catching or changing trains as they set off on their summer holidays. It is 10.25 a.m. & the Ancona-Basel express has just arrived at Platform 1 >> 2

— Nicholas Whithorn (@NickWhithorn) August 2, 2021

Several major terror attacks in Europe by NATO aligned Gladio

#Terror attacks in Western Europe have declined since 1970s[_link] pic.twitter.com/tqFeZ536GE

— Statista (@StatistaCharts) December 4, 2015

• Ukraine's Coup d' État - George Marshall, OSS, Bissell and Gladio | Jul 28, 2014 |
• Deep State and the Cold War - Feeding Fascists | Feb 28, 2018 |

US Interference In Lebanon-Syria-Iraq

by Oui Fri Mar 17th, 2023 at 09:47:44 AM EST

Added chapters on #Syria and #Iraq in lead-up to NWO and war in Ukraine …

Did Husni Zaim, the head of Syria's military in 1949, carry out his coup against President Shukri al-Quwatli at America's urging?

Did the US orchestrate the Zaim coup?

Read this thread🧵

Zaim was determined to overthrow Quwatli well before he mentioned his plan to US, GB, Fr. [_link]

— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) March 6, 2023

Work in progress ...

Shock Election Loss Rutte IV In Senate Race

by Oui Thu Mar 16th, 2023 at 08:40:52 AM EST

Rutte Falls As Years Were Wasted Preliminary analysis …

Just as Red Wall Labour in the UK was punished, so 13 years of Rutte governance in The Hague responsible for multiple cans of headache dossiers kicking down the road. Rural Netherlands punished the arrogance of rich Randstad of economic wealth, especially Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague.

Big winner BBB celebrates election results; Coalition somber [_link]

— NL Times (@NL_Times) March 16, 2023

Wopke Hoekstra and party chairman Marnix van Rij, did not represent the roots of the CDA electorate ... Hoekstra set on the lap of Mark Rutte and partied for business profits and hurting the ordinary, hard-working people. The support votes for Pieter Omtzigt was an indicator of the problems within the Christian Democrats. He was on the list in 2021 and received 342,000 votes, the equivalent of 5 seats in parliament. At the request of Mark Rutte, he should be offered a position outside of parliament because of his effort in transparency of the childcare benefits scandal due to discriminatory tax policy and AI algorithm accusation of fraud in households.

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