Editor's note: Current director: Simonetta Di PippoDirector United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) UNOOSA Director, Ms. Simonetta Di Pippo, maintains responsibility for the Office's management and administration, provides strategic guidance to its work and ensures that it is implemented in accordance with the mandates of the General Assembly, the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), and the established policies of the United Nations. She develops the work programme of the Office and ensures the Office's efficiency, transparency and accountability. The Director also manages the peaceful uses of outer space programme. Ms. Di Pippo serves as the senior advisor to the Secretary-General and represents the SG at meetings and conferences on matters relating to the peaceful exploration and use of outer space. She also discharges the Secretary-General's obligations under the UN treaties and principles on outer space. Read the rest here Previous: UNIS/BIO/533 26 November 1999 Secretary-General Appoints Mazlan Othman Director of Office for Outer Space Affairs VIENNA, 25 November (UN Information Service) -- The Secretary-General has appointed Professor Datuk Dr. Mazlan Othman Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, as of 21 October 1999. Dr. Othman is Professor of Astrophysics at the National University of Malaysia and, prior to joining the United Nations, was the Director-General of the Space Science Studies Division in Malaysia. She was educated at Malaysia’s elite girls’ boarding school and subsequently studied Physics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand on a Colombo Plan Scholarship. She later took her Ph.D. in Astrophysics, being the first woman awarded a doctorate from the Physics Department nearly 120 years after its founding. On her return to Malaysia she taught in the Physics Department of the National University of Malaysia. As the first astrophysicist in the country she established undergraduate and post-graduate courses in astronomy, on which she continued to teach until she left for the United Nations. Realizing the need to promote knowledge of space science in Malaysia she was active in introducing it into the school curriculum. A decade of campaigning to promote public awareness of astronomy bore fruit when she was seconded to the Prime Minister’s Department in December 1990 to direct the design and construction of the National Planetarium, which became fully operational in March 1993. While at the Prime Minister’s Department, she also established the nation’s Space Science Studies Division. As Director-General she initiated the National Microsatellite Programme which gave birth to TiungSAT-1, due to be launched in early 2000. Always at the forefront of space issues she spearheaded initiatives to identify space R&D priorities, formulate space laws and strategize the national space policy. Prof. Othman has published and presented numerous academic papers at national and international fora, not only on astrophysics but also on sustainable development and many aspects of management. She is a member of the Malaysian team attempting to detect gravitational waves from space. Prof. Othman is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Fellow of the Malaysian Scientific Association. She was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science by her alma mater, the University of Otago. She has won several national awards and was conferred “ Datuk” by His Majesty Yang Di Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. She is married and has a son and a daughter.
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![]() Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley is No George Washington By Cliff Kincaid – July 2, 2021 George Washington, the father of our country, warned against many different threats to America. Of utmost importance at the time, he warned of the Illuminati, a subversive force that infiltrated the Masonic lodges of Europe and which today is the subject of what the media call “conspiracy theories.” But it was a real organization, and Washington knew it. He wrote about it in several letters to clergymen. Washington was a member of a Masonic Lodge in Virginia who was also a Christian and he made sure those dangerous tendencies in the Masonic lodges of Europe were excluded from the structures of the new nation. What’s important to know is that Washington acknowledged the existence of evil forces that could undermine the American experiment. He was not only a great general, who led our military forces to victory, but was aware of evil ideologies that undermined the Christian morality he depended on for guidance. Responding to a letter from a citizen, Washington declared: "It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am." But he insisted that "none of the [Masonic] Lodges in this Country are contaminated with the principles ascribed to the Society of the Illuminati." He made it one of his purposes in the life of the young nation to make sure America didn’t turn out like Europe. The impact of the Illuminati has become a bogeyman for Catholics, some of whom think George Washington was somehow tainted by his membership in a Virginia lodge. They cite the opposition of the Catholic Church to Freemasonry. What they don’t understand is the major break which occurred between the lodges in Europe and America. Washington personified that break. These Catholics tend to believe in the kind of state church that the American revolutionaries fought to depose. That’s why so few Catholics were among the founders. They also find it objectionable that Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, put together the “Jefferson Bible” of the moral teachings of Jesus Christ and excluded references to his divine nature. This was Jefferson’s way of trying to reach Americans of different religions with a moral message that could unite them. Our founders looked for ways to unite Americans of different faiths and outlooks behind the American nation. It worked. It was a great success. What Catholics and non-Catholics alike have to realize is that our founders, most of whom were Masons, objected to a state church based in England or the Vatican in Rome. In that sense, they were humanist or even secular. They wrote into the Constitution a ban on a religious test for public office. They believed passionately in religious liberty. The threat then was the Illuminati. Today, of course, it’s Marxism, of the economic and cultural varieties. In this regard, Washington can be viewed as a strong opponent of Cultural Marxism. General George Washington himself authorized the court-martial and expulsion of a gay soldier. He needed all the bodies he could get. But he drew the line at perverts. The Army envisioned by General Washington, with character, integrity and morality at the forefront, is today hanging by a thread. Consider Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley, who defends Marxist indoctrination of our soldiers and presides over a force that includes gays and transgenders. Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was kicked out for writing a book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military. Fox News host Tucker Carlson characterized Milley as “a pig” and ‘"stupid” for defending Marxist training in the military. As a military strategist, Milley deserves to be called far worse. Milley has presided over thousands of deaths and trillions of dollars being wasted on no-win wars in the Middle East. Yet, by contrast, the United States has spent a paltry $3 billion on the anti-communist government in Ukraine, fighting for its life against Vladimir Putin’s Russian military, KGB and GRU. Joe Biden just approved a Russian gas pipeline giving Vladimir Putin economic control over Europe. Remember the days when the Democrats called Donald J. Trump a Russian agent? Joe Biden is acting like the real Russian agent. Not to mention the KGB tactics used by the FBI to go after conservative “extremists” in the public. It all makes you wonder why a West Point Cadet, Spenser Rapone, was photographed in 2018 with the phrase “Communism will win” in his cap and was then discharged. Perhaps he will be rehabilitated and promoted to the highest rank possible. Nothing would surprise me. In today’s military, George Washington would be branded as an “extremist” and kicked out. Our only hope is to maintain our nuclear weapons, so that in a final act of self-defense, even somebody like Milley would propose to the president that we use them against China and Russia. That deterrence alone may save us. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org Watch the ASI video: Catholics, Masonic Lodges, and America's Founding Cliff Kincaid debates Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute about the role of Free Masons and Catholics in America's founding, and whether we are in the midst of what the Bible calls the "apostasy" of the end times. The Lepanto Institute just held a "Conference on the Great Apostasy" with many provocative speakers. George Washington had said America's Masonic lodges were not "contaminated" by the Illuminati. Hichborn disagrees. George Washington Vs. the Illuminati There was a big break between the Masons in Europe and America. Here's some background: Letter to George Washington from G. W. Snyder, 22 August 1798 Letter from George Washington to William Russell, September 28, 1798 Washington told the pastor that "none of the [Masonic] Lodges in this Country are contaminated with the principles ascribed to the Society of the Illuminati." Here is another: It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am. ![]() Larry Klayman’s “Common Sense” Agenda By Cliff Kincaid – June 29, 2021 In an interview on November 11, just about a week after the election, Larry Klayman appeared on my television show to argue that Trump had a dead-end election fraud legal strategy. He didn’t have much confidence in Trump’s legal advisers. Then, on November 24, 2020, Larry Klayman was on my show again, reiterating that Trump couldn’t and wouldn’t win. The founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, Klayman understands that the federal courts are corrupt and were unlikely to rule in Trump’s favor. He said that Trump, despite proclamations about vote fraud and his own victory, would exit the White House because the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, wouldn’t intervene. Of the many guests I interviewed about election integrity, Larry Klayman was the only one who predicted that Trump would ultimately be forced from the White House and that China Joe Biden would be installed. Not learning their lesson, we find some Trump supporters today saying that the former president will be back in the oval office by August. Meanwhile, Russia, China, Iran and other enemies of the United States continue to wage war on America and our allies, as our southern border continues to decay and the China virus continues to kill. It was Klayman who did what the U.S. Government should have done. Early in the pandemic he filed a complaint in federal court seeking to hold China legally responsible for the China virus and its source, the biological weapons program based at the notorious federally-funded Wuhan lab. Virtually everything Klayman documented in his complaint has been reluctantly and subsequently verified by other so-called “experts.” This is why Klayman’s upcoming Third Continental Congress, being held in Philadelphia July 5-6, 2021 at Independence Hall, is so important. Citizens will gather from across the country to hear a line-up of great speakers and consider a New Declaration of Independence from America’s enemies at home and abroad. As Klayman outlines new revolutionary strategies, one of his ideas being pursued is to convene citizen grand juries to go after the corrupt politicians and Deep State operatives who control the intelligence agencies. With Klayman continuing to sound the alarm about “continued mass government surveillance” by agencies which spy “like the German Gestapo,” and have the ability to gather information to blackmail people to do their bidding. we now have the spectacle of Tucker Carlson, on his June 28th show, claiming he had become a target of the NSA. He said a whistleblower informed him that the intelligence establishment had acquired his private emails. With the highest rated show on cable television, Carlson can try to defend himself. But what about the rest of us? On June 17, on ASI TV, I interviewed pro-family activist Arthur Schaper about his encounter with FBI agents who showed up at his door to grill him about the events of January 6. He wasn't there, when military veteran Ashli Babbitt was murdered by the Capitol Police, but they wanted to question him anyway. It's another indication that the FBI has become an enforcement arm of the Biden regime's imposition of Cultural Marxism on the nation. Schaper was apparently monitored by the FBI because his group rescues young people from the clutches of sexual militants and seeks to restore Christian traditions of morality to America. This is not surprising. In a case brought years ago by Klayman, conservative Judge Richard Leon had ruled that the government had engaged in “almost Orwellian” Big Brother behavior and that the NSA’s mass surveillance had to stop. The term was a reference to the George Orwell novel about a police state, 1984. But it was then-federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh who had issued a controversial decision in favor of this mass surveillance program. In ruling against Klayman, Kavanaugh said the so-called “metadata collection program,” conducted without probable cause, was “entirely consistent with the Fourth Amendment” and was “not considered a search under the Fourth Amendment…” For that reason and others, during an August 4, 2018, appearance on ASI TV, Klayman declared Judge Kavanaugh “uniquely unqualified and unfit” to serve on the Supreme Court. I agreed. Our report, “The Deep State Wears Black Robes,” supports Klayman’s assertion that there is an “alternative government” in the intelligence community that collects personal information on people and uses it for political purposes. These intelligence agencies, including the NSA, CIA, and FBI, are more powerful than the president himself. More often than not, these agencies are working against the interests of the American people. They can’t do anything of substance to stop China or Russia. But they can monitor and harass conservatives and Christians because they are suspected of having ties to people who were welcomed into the Capitol on January 6. It was this mass surveillance that was trained on President Trump, his family, staff and colleagues, leading to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russian collusion witch hunt. Klayman says, “We are now living in an increasingly Marxist atheist hell.” As such, his proposed “Declaration of Independence of the Third Continental Congress,” to be discussed on July 5th and 6th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a valuable next step. It makes sense. In fact, as Thomas Paine would say, it makes “common sense.” “The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind,” Paine said. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org “Chicken Kyiv” and the Geneva Soiree
By Victor Rud* Posted on Jun 18, 2021 On February 18, 1919, the Ukrainian delegation’s warning to Georges Clemenceau, President of the Paris Peace Conference, was stark: “[T]he bolshevik Government of Russia has sent its troops against Ukraine and broken the Ukrainian front near the frontier of the Ukrainian Republic. Now they are advancing into the heart of our country and the bolshevik Government has not only no intention of fulfilling the conditions laid down by the Peace Conference at Paris to establish a truce, to retire its forces and to cease all military action; on the contrary, it has just developed its military offensive to destroy the independence of the Ukrainian Republic. “One knows that the traditional history of Russia was always, and through the present, an imperial policy, and now she wishes to pass over the body of independent Ukraine to put one hand on the Dardanelles and Suez and the other on the Persian Gulf.” ********* In an interview on April 30, 2021, Andrei Ilnitski, key advisor to Russia’s Defence Minister Shoygu, described the war against America: “The task of any war is the same - the object of influence must eventually be deprived of sovereignty and come under external control. If for this earlier - in a classic war - it was necessary to seize territory and destroy the enemy's manpower, now this is not necessary. You can destroy the state and destroy the country by changing the consciousness of society [and] destroying the social infrastructure of the enemy.” How do you re-spool an entire nation’s DNA? Collapse it from within by rewriting the genome sequence of fact–knowledge–understanding–judgement–decision–action/inaction. The tools: provokatsia, kompromat, dezinformatsia, agitatsia, maskirovka. The protocol: deny, dismiss, distort, distract, dismay, divide, demoralise, disorient. Above all, accuse and attack. The result: an altered consciousness and consequent surrender by the target of reality control. Barrel bombing the brain works. Putin has crossed the Potomac River into Washington, and judoed “life, liberty and truths that we find to be self-evident” into pathologies for a takedown algorithm. America is besieged by an ever-darkening swarm, not knowing what and when to expect more, scarcely daring to breath and hopelessly adrift. No need for a punch list, but sonic attacks against two National Security Council officials on American soil, one of them on White House property, is elegant. And it was at our invitation. No single provocation has been as consequential as our fecklessness in the face of Russia’s invasion (again) of Ukraine. On February 23, 2014, President Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice intoned that “it would a grave mistake” if Russia invaded Ukraine. How grave? Sanctions? They were also imposed against Hitler. Putin’s predation only increased, proving not subjective intent to defy sanctions regardless of their consequence, but that he understood that (a) they are a fig leaf betraying a desiccated political will, or (b) they in fact are an accurate measure of our minimalist comprehension of the gravity of the matter. But what of US aid to Ukraine? The US has spent $6.4 trillion on wars in the Middle East since 9/11. More than $2 trillion has been spent in Afghanistan alone, with $40 billion this year even as the US is pulling out. How much for security assistance to Ukraine? Since 2014, some $3 billion. A trillion is a thousand billion. In the face of the global consequences of what Russia has wrought, plus the accelerant for China et al, the amount doesn’t even move the needle. The “(a)” and “(b)”, above, applies here as well. Moreover, Ukraine is not asking for boots on the ground, even though as one of America’s most reliable allies in our “war on terror” and peacekeeping missions for the last 28 years, Ukraine has been represented by more than 45,000 pairs. Fiona Hill, President Trump’s Russia expert, had argued in a Washington Post Op-ed against providing defensive aide to Ukraine on grounds that it would provoke Russia, oblivious that not doing so was precisely the provocation. The advice was less than mono synaptic. No one questioned the corollary: if more defensive weapons are dangerous, then less weapons makes one safer; and having no weapons is the safest of all postures. (Washington, as we know, years earlier had already stripped Ukraine of both its nuclear and conventional weaponry.) The dissonance between our handwringing and what we actually do is a self-catalysing inferno, promoting Moscow’s mayhem and murder ever onward. Furrowed brows and catechistic clichés merely hashtag the message: Putin’s jack booting of the international order outweighs our commitment to the work product of two global wars. North Korea, China, Iran and other wannabes have been taking copious notes. We actually think these tyrannies will join in “common cause” against the global pandemic (more to come), climate change, nuclear disarmament and more. You need a “rules based international order.” No more. That translates to “What’s going to happen to us? Our torpor is a dog whistle, with China revelling in our inability to connect the dots and RSVP’ing appropriately. How do we think China is projecting our response to an invasion of Taiwan, a “renegade province” and not a country even recognised by the majority of the international community as an independent, sovereign state? Ukraine is. Do we see the enticement? With one of the shortest coastlines on the Black Sea, Russia has simply drained the “Law of the Sea,” occupying Ukraine’s jurisdiction and economic zone in the Black Sea, an area the size of South Korea. Bravely we whimpered. Having repurposed the Black Sea as a Russian lake, and after also relabelling Crimea, why the surprise that Russia claims the Arctic? While China’s real estate binge in the South China Sea goes back to 2010, it now has a green light. In December 2004, on the eve of her Senate confirmation hearings for Secretary of State, I wrote to Condoleezza Rice. Though she was head of President Bush’s National Security Council and a lauded “Russia expert,” I was stunned by her superficial assessment of Vladimir Putin and US/Russian relations. I wrote to warn her of Russia’s plans for Ukraine and the consequences for the United States, globally, if the centrality of Ukraine for American security was not absorbed. And it was not just about Russia. My concern was that by not acting to secure the “rules based international order” our global reputation would be crushed, as other satrapies took their cue. We would be taken down by a thousand slashes, and never would it occur to Washington to question how and why. It would be our besetting sin. “The position taken, and yet also not taken, by the Administration concerning Ukraine implicates several issues: Does this Administration's action, or inaction, vis a vis Ukraine: (1) increase or reduce likelihood that the U.S. will be simultaneously confronted by both a resurgent, reconstituted "Russia" and Islamic terrorism? (2) enhance or compromise America's credibility in implementing its stated bedrock of national security—the active promotion of democracy worldwide? (3) facilitate or prejudice the Administration's approach (and, critically, world perception of that approach) to global nuclear proliferation, most immediately North Korea and Iran? The last question is particularly acute since, even though upon its declaration of independence in 1991 Ukraine became the world's third largest nuclear power, it shortly thereafter stepped out of the nuclear club.” Ukraine was the only country to surrender not just an existing arsenal, but to implode a massive nuclear weapons manufacturing industry. It was not an Iran seeking merely prospective capability. And we hectored Ukraine to surrender its arsenal, of all places, to its historic persecutor and America’s unrepentant existential enemy. The benefit for Ukraine were our (and Russia’s—but that’s irrelevant) words: “security assurances.” How does that impact friend and foe? I made a second point: “The Cold War was ‘won’ because the USSR imploded, its constituent republics having asserted their right to the same self-evident freedom demanded by the American colonies. After all, what distinguished the day before and the day after the unraveling of the USSR? It was not the disappearance of weapons of mass destruction (other than in Ukraine). It was the severance of Moscow's control over the non-Russian nations that dissolved the Soviet Union. The keystone republic was Ukraine. “If ‘winning’ meant dissolution of the Soviet Union, cold logic dictates that all effort be applied to prevent . . . a reversion to an even more dangerous Russia. It had already occurred once, in 1917. Moscow engineered the original and quintessential terrorist state.” Since the Cold War teetered on nuclear winter, what did we do after the dissolution of the USSR to ensure there was no slingshot “Back to the USSR”? Our damning failure was not instituting a “Marshall Plan” for Ukraine to ensure it was not again occupied or suborned by Moscow and used to anchor a monstrous empire intent to burying the Great Satan. Solidifying the independence of the very country that ensured the implosion of the USSR would have been the cheapest, safest and most certain guarantee against a resurgent predatory Russia. Instead, America led a procession of Western Democracies professing fealty to a psychedelic hallucination of a New Russia. "Let by-gone’s be by-gone’s - no need for recriminations.” We took our marbles and rushed home, simply hoping that the tens of millions of military personnel and operatives and agents and informants and sycophants and other nomenklatura were going to prostrate themselves, morph into good Rotarians because . . . well, simply because. It would have been a decidedly un-Darwinian denouement for No. 1 Dzerzhinsky Square. For us, though, it was the easy way out. In the meantime, Stalin’s next-of-kin (by polonium, carfentanyl, gelsemium, sarin, thallium, dioxin or novichok diktat–you don’t get a choice) was resetting his own marbles and printing the rules of the game. New one here–only one player. We sprinted toward a Belle Époque of our imagination What do Putin et al make of our stampede from reality, our inability to fathom our own national interests, our seriousness of purpose? First, Washington was adamant about keeping the USSR intact, in his 1991 Kyiv speech President Bush called on Ukraine to remain a Russian colony. Condoleezza Rice Putin Us Gov The author of the speech reportedly was Condoleezza Rice, then on the NSC staff. (The speech was lampooned as “Chicken Kiev” by noted American journalist William Safire.) Yet when Ukrainians instead reclaimed their independence, planting the headstone on the Evil Empire and saving the globe from an apocalyptic trajectory, Washington unabashedly took the credit. Simultaneously, Washington refused to do what was necessary to ensure Ukrainian independence and territorial integrity, but also stripped it of its conventional weaponry. President Obama had dismissed Ukraine as being a “core interest” of the U.S. Does that mean that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a non-event? Have we inoculated ourselves against understanding the consequences of a Kremlin claw back? Will Mutual Assured Destruction reenter the lexicon, and our school children relearn “duck and cover”? At the time (I was not aware of it until years later), a thesis from the US Naval Postgraduate School warned: “Regenerating Russia as the superpower successor to the Soviet Union will be a threat to the security of Ukraine and Europe. The consequences of an authoritarian Russia could be avoided by facilitating the development of a strong and stable Ukraine to act as a balance to Russian power in Eastern Europe. The willingness to allow Russia to become the sole nuclear and economic power to emerge from the Soviet Union is a dangerous prospect for Western security. The United States will have assisted in creating a regime that is a serious threat to the democratic community of states.” Our inability to identify and secure our own strategic interests is reflected in an incomprehensible anomaly. (1) With a democratic and civic tradition that Russia never had, Ukraine produced Europe’s first constitution for a representative democracy, preceding Philadelphia by 77 years, and years ahead of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws. Ukraine has historically harboured a deep distrust of authority, and a sense of individualism and a drive toward civil society that any American would recognize. A millennium ago, Kyiv abolished the death penalty, and education was mandatory for women. (And Afghanistan?) Russia’s occupation of the country was the pivot point in the creation of the USSR, and Ukraine’s independence ensured its fall. Now, Putin uses it as a fulcrum to crowbar the “world order.” Ukraine was and remains a natural, necessary ally of the West. (2) Though pivotal for Western security, time and again we have thrown Ukraine under the bus, enraptured by “getting on with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing” (so waxed President Trump) and dealing with business confreres vetted by the Chekisty. It’s not simply that we have ignored, but that historically we have subverted, Ukraine as one of the most consequential asset in checking Russia’s international marauding. Our mutant logic assures our enemies that we have little comprehension of our own security interests, never learned the consequences of our policies, and cannot and will not do what is necessary. Reality reversal means failure of predictive capacity that entraps a global giant in a tar pit of his own making. My letter to Rice should be regarded as anything but prophetic since a long and repetitive history requires little imagination to extrapolate for the future. And that it may be so regarded is precisely the point: we suffer from an acid rinse of history and dilution of strategic instinct. It is the GPS to disaster. We can do worse than consider Pavel Sudoplatov, not only Stalin’s favorite assassin but his go-to fixer. He oversaw the ice pick into Leon Trotsky’s skull and Moscow’s penetration of the American’s “super-secret” Manhattan Project. Add bugging the quarters and preparing the psychological profiles of President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Yalta Conference (yes, in Crimea). So, we should listen when Sudoplatov writes in his memoirs that the apogee of his career was his role in Moscow’s “75-year war against Ukraine.” Sudoplatov wrote that that war "formally [my emphasis] ended” with world recognition of Ukraine. Whose side were we on? How is it playing out now? How much credibility do we have? What does that portend for our posture vis a vis China, North Korea’s “rocket man,” and Teheran? At the Paris Peace conference Washington’s “Fourteen Points” had no room for Ukraine. The largest country in Europe was denied a seat at the table. For good measure, the Treaty of Versailles dismembered the country, with the biggest slab tossed to Russia. Lewis Namier of British Intelligence wrote at the time: “I do insist that a grievous wrong has been done to the Ukrainians. It’s worse than incomprehensible.” Concurrently, Washington reneged on its agreement to sell surplus arms and medicines to Ukraine, and instead turned them over to Russia. Sound familiar? With the rehammering of the Russian Empire into the “USSR,” Moscow finally broke the back of Ukrainian resistance by starving the nation in 1932-33. It was the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. The purpose, Oxford’s Professor Norman Davies wrote, “was to kill Ukrainian nationhood.” On May 31, 1933, Sergio Gradenigo, Italy’s Royal Consul in Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, reported to the Royal Embassy of Italy in Moscow on his meeting with a senior OGPU official: the starvation was engineered “to dispose of the Ukrainian problem.” Mere “ethnographic material” was the OGPU’s term for Ukrainians. Finally, Moscow would be secure. Europe, obsequious as ever, turned a blind eye to the genocide. Capitalist America went further, extending diplomatic recognition (read legitimacy and acceptance) to the USSR as Stalin was scything millions of Ukrainians who stood in the way of his ultimate goal to bury the host of the soiree. We fed the Third Horseman. What is an abettor? During and after WWII, Moscow used American weaponry and war material to crush the Ukrainian underground as it battled Moscow, and to police the Gulag. For good measure, in immediate post-war Europe America took the baton passed on by the NKVD, the KGB’s/FSB’s/GRU’s predecessor, in a dragnet of Ukrainian refugees, survivors of Moscow’s genocide. They were the truth-tellers, desperate to warn the West. The sobriquet, “Operation Keelhaul,” betrayed our mens rea. At that same time, the Ukrainian underground warned U.S Army Intelligence in Europe of Stalin’s plans to assassinate General Patton, advising that a source in NKVD headquarters in Germany communicated Sudoplatov’s arrival before Patton’s seeming accident. The Office of Strategic Services in Washington immediately ordered the arrest of the Ukrainian informers. Washington failed but the KGB didn’t, assassinating two of them in Munich in the late 1950’s using a specially made cyanide gas pistol. After Putin’s attempted 2018 assassination of Sergei Skripal with the Novichok nerve agent, Russia experts were clueless about the two assassinations, assuring us the Skripal attempt was the first use of a chemical nerve agent since WWII. Little wonder that today Russia experts are discovering, but ten years late, Defence Minister Shoygu’s description of cognitive warfare as manipulating the enemy to “make decisions in the interests of the opposing party.” Significantly, Kremlin psy-ops against the West wasn’t necessary on the existential issue for the Soviet Union. For three generations since the USSR’s founding, we shackled ourselves to a self-inflated hologram of USSR=Russia, as USA=America. Not even Stalin made the equation. We were incapable of grasping the most elemental of elements, that the USSR was a multi-national empire. The priesthood of Russia experts dismissed, with a sniff, warnings from generations of Ukrainians that that was precisely Moscow’s Achilles heel. So why now blame Putin for relying on our real estate acumen? He has made precisely that very point. Beijing thinks our grip on reality is risible. I concluded my letter to Rice: "In your confirmation hearings, you may be asked what must be done to ensure that, like Nazi Germany, Russia in the future never again becomes a threat to world peace and America's security. You can respond with Lenin's lament: 'If we lose Ukraine, we lose our head.' Ensuring that loss for Lenin's progeny will be the redemption." Responding, in a manner, nine years later Rice penned a March 3, 2014 op-ed in The Washington Post, Will America Heed the Wakeup Call of Ukraine? -- “’Meet Victor Yanukovych, who is running for the presidency of Ukraine.’ Vladimir Putin and I were standing in his office at the presidential dacha in late 2004 when Yanukovych suddenly appeared from a back room. Putin wanted me to get the point. He’s my man, Ukraine is ours – and don’t forget it.” (That meeting coincidently overlapped with my letter. We know that Paul Manafort eventually planted Putin’s subaltern in Ukraine, and that as Donald Trump’s first campaign manager Manafort reported to the GRU’s Konstantin Kilimnik.) The tectonic implications of this exchange did not factor in Rice’s Senate confirmation hearings the next month, and Ukraine was off stage. “Terrorism” was the focus, as we continued, blinkered from the reality that Moscow conceived “Islamic terrorism” as “Arab nationalism” in the 1970’s. (Terrorist airplane hijacking was a KGB innovation, likely by General Alexander Sakharovsky, head of its First Chief Directorate.) Putin’s celebration of Stalin and his executioners, and what that meant for America, was ignored. Putin celebrates not just a genocidaire. Stalin’s talent to invade the mind, to implant not just an alternative reality but the reversal of reality, was diabolical and stratospheric. We, too, invaded Putin’s mind. We energised his predatory cortex. President Clinton: “I think we can do a lot of good with him. His intentions are generally honourable and straightforward. [He is] fully capable of . . . preserving freedom and pluralism and rule of law.” Putin’s eyes and soul aside, President Bush gushed that Putin was building a Russia “at peace within its borders, with its neighbours, a country in which democracy and freedom and rule of law thrive.” Not to be outdone, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s brio was competitive: “President Putin’s leadership offers hope to Russia and the whole world.” A few months after the Senate hearings, Putin lamented the fall of the USSR as the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. We yawned. Years later, we should have grasped some whisp of the gravitas of these matters when Ukraine rocketed from “Chicken Kiev” in the frozen food aisle of the supermarket to the front page in only the third impeachment of a president in US history, and the only time where foreign policy was an issue. We did not. Applying the silent dynamite of psy-ops against a hopelessly credulous West is child's play. The question is not how, but rather why, through the years we were so stunningly wrong been about Putin, about Russia, about Ukraine, about China, but above all about ourselves? Do we understand that we have been the accelerant? What does that say about us? This is no time for faculty club politesse. We were, we remain, strung out on a narcotic called “hope,” and a refusal to believe the seemingly unbelievable. We are terminally ingenuous. Endearing in a toddler, wide-eyed innocence for a nation is terminal. History is but another name for experience, and experience is nothing if not a register of lessons. But even a toddler absorbs lessons from his mistakes, adjusts his behavior and grows up. Usually. Putin and Russia are hardwired differently. In his Russia’s Dead End, Andrei Kovalev, a former foreign affairs and security council official under Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin, wrote of “the chronic illness of the Russian people and its rulers,” quoting the 19th century Russian writer and critic Alexander Herzen: “The entire society seemed to be infected by the disease of imperial patriotic syphilis.” Putin summarised recently: “[Americans] think that we are the same as they are, but we are different people, we have a different genetic, cultural and moral code.” We have joined the most populous country in the cosmos that has joined the largest country on the planet—tutored by us—in a war against ourselves. America is losing because it has not absorbed Leon Trotsky’s aphorism, “You may not be interested in the war, but the war is interested in you.” In that war, we need Ukraine maybe more than Ukraine needs us. Russia, and China, have already taken measures to undercut America’s global financial clout by moving away from the dollar. Ukraine is not just the canary in the coal mine but also the democratic anchor in that part of the world. Ukraine, less than 3% the size of the colossus to the North, has been bleeding for the entirety of Western Democracy for more than seven years. Alone. What is the screenshot? Forget the words issued at the Geneva soiree with Biden and the killer. After the Klieg lights cool, we will know if America has graduated from pre-school by what it actually does. I am not sanguine. Washington has again provoked Putin by not including Ukraine’s President in meetings with NATO (granted, not entirely our decision) or with President Biden before Geneva. Putin sees the deferred White House summer meeting with the Ukrainian President, coupled with a $150 million assistance package timed days before Geneva, as another failure of will. How much this year for Afghanistan as America pulls out? Who is America’s ambassador in Kyiv? What’s the message? If we again condemn Ukraine’s “ethnographic material” to the coffin air of Lubyanka, if we again squander one of our most significant geopolitical assets as a counterweight to Russia, then our provocative pusillanimity will be complete. We will then have arrived at the reckoning—our naivete breeds Putin’s contempt that feeds his arrogance that triggers his miscalculation that ignites the cataclysm. Ten years after my letter to Rice, I predicted that unless America wakens, the coda will be a reprise of the Cuban Missile Crisis, lit by Russia or China or both. But it will not be a reprise of its outcome, described by then Secretary of State Dean Rusk, “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.” (The irony is endless. Until Ukraine’s re-assertion of independence imploded the USSR, Ukraine was the centre of the Kremlin’s ICBM industry. It was in Ukraine that Russia manufactured the missiles that threatened America during the Cuban crisis, and afterwards. And it was in Ukraine, but before Russia's invasion a century ago, that Ihor Sikorsky designed and developed the modern helicopter. It - specifically the “Sikorsky” helicopter - has been transporting the U.S. President to and from the White House lawn for generations.) *Victor Rud has practiced international law for 35 years, and before the fall of the Soviet Union represented, in the West, political prisoners persecuted by the KGB. He also served as Special Counsel to a member of the US Delegation to the Madrid Review Conference on Security & Cooperation in Europe ("Helsinki Accords"). His commentary has been carried, among others, by Forbes, Kyiv Post, Foreign Policy Association, Defense Report, Atlantic Council, Centre for Global Strategy, and EuromaidanPress. Victor is Senior Advisor to Open Court, an NGO in Ukraine, and was the keynote speaker at the first L'viv Security Forum. He is a founder and past Chairman of the Ukrainian American Bar Association, and currently chairs its Committee on Foreign Affairs. He received his undergraduate degree in international relations from Harvard College, and his law degree from Duke University. Excerpt:
The FY 2022 budget request proposes a total of $10.28 billion in direct budget authority to carry out the FBI’s national security, criminal law enforcement, and criminal justice services missions. The request includes a total of $10.21 billion for salaries and expenses, which will support 36,149 positions (13,414 special agents, 3,216 intelligence analysts, and 19,519 professional staff), and $61.9 million for construction. The request includes six program enhancements totaling $160.73 million. These enhancements are proposed to meet critical requirements and close gaps in operational capabilities, including: $45.0 million for additional personnel and tools to investigate the threat posed by domestic violent extremists (DVEs), receive and process tips from the public, and perform watchlisting and screening activities; $40 million to enhance cyber investigative capabilities; $18.8 million to mitigate threats from foreign intelligence services; $25.5 million to support the expansion of federal jurisdiction for crimes committed on tribal lands in response to the McGirt Supreme Court case; $6.2 million to support infrastructure needs related to federal task force officer use of body-worn cameras; $15.23 million to enhance the FBI’s cybersecurity posture and protect internal networks; and $10 million to maintain facilities on the FBI’s Quantico campus. The Toll of China's Covid Coverup on U.S. Businesses
Earlier this week, Leader McCarthy and top House Republicans released their roadmap for Covid-19 accountability (below), an eight-pillar plan to hold the Chinese Communist Party responsible for their Covid coverup, and deliver transparency and justice to the American people. Of course, the gravest injustice China must be held accountable for is the tragic loss of 600,000 Americans due to the CCP’s lies and deceit. That’s more than the total number of American lives lost during World War I and World War II combined, and as Leader McCarthy said yesterday, Republicans will make sure China is held responsible. But today, we wanted to highlight another cost of China’s coverup: the countless businesses forced to close their doors due to the pandemic and the tens of thousands of Americans who lost their livelihoods. In early April, roughly one year after the virus reached our shores, it was reported that the number of U.S. establishments forced to permanently close was about 200,000 more than the average of recent years, a striking 33% increase. Tragically, a disproportionate amount of these establishments are small businesses — mom-and-pop shops with entire families who depend on their success. For many of these businesses, lockdowns and Covid-related restrictions proved to be a death sentence. Heather Stouffer, owner of Mom Made Foods, gave a heartbreaking account of how the pandemic claimed her business, self-identity, and her family’s security: “The pandemic ground our supply chain to a halt… Despite our fiercest efforts in response, the circumstances and impact from the pandemic were far beyond control for our small business. It’s the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make. There have been many tears shed. The grief involved in closing a business is very real. I’ve loved Mom Made like a third child. My kids have never known me as anything other than the founder of Mom Made.” Unfortunately, Heather is just one of many small business owners who lost everything because of China’s Covid coverup. Mick Larkin, a karaoke club owner from Texas, described what it was like being forced to close despite following every possible Covid safety precaution, “We did everything we were supposed to do. When [we were] shut down again, and after I put out all that money… I just said, ‘I can’t keep doing this.’” And according to Yelp’s Economic Impact Report at the end of last year, 60 percent of the businesses that closed because of the pandemic will never open their doors again. That’s roughly 480,000 businesses China’s Covid coverup permanently destroyed. The effects of small businesses being forced to close en masse extend far beyond their owners, employees, and those reliant upon them. Business closures are one of the primary factors determining the extent of the pandemic’s total economic impact. A recent study suggested that “business closures and partial reopenings due to COVID-19 could cost the U.S. trillions.” Couple that with President Biden’s misguided economic policies that pay many would-be workers more to stay home through enhanced unemployment insurance than they would make returning to the workforce, and you have a recipe for disaster. Business owners that were able to weather the storm must now deal with the labor shortage created by the President’s tax-and-spend agenda. For the businesses fortunate enough to survive thanks to the previous administration’s pragmatic economic stewardship, specifically the creation and enactment of the incredibly successful Paycheck Protection Program, the return to normal remains daunting. Small business revenue is down 61 percent from the beginning of last year, and down a staggering 89 percent for the hospitality and leisure industry. It is incumbent upon our country’s leaders to hold China accountable and deliver transparency and justice for every American whose livelihood has been jeopardized because of China’s Covid coverup. Republicans’ plan will do exactly that. Holding China Accountable: A Republican Call to Action & Roadmap for Covid-19 Accountability A letter to House Republicans from Leader Kevin McCarthy: Last week, I wrote to you saying that our country was dealt a significant blow by the coronavirus and that the Democrats in Congress and the White House have no plan to hold China accountable. This letter offers eight pillars we will introduce to deliver transparency and justice as Republicans continue to lead on behalf of the American people. As of June, more than 600,000 Americans and 3.8 million people have died worldwide as a result of Covid-19. The unfortunate reality is that countless friends and family members could have been saved had it not been for the deception of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). A March 2020 report by the University of Southampton found if interventions in China could have been conducted one, two, or three weeks earlier, cases could have been reduced by 66 percent, 86 percent and 95 percent respectively. Evidence continues to indicate that the CCP intentionally hid information and lied about what it knew to be true about the virus. Additionally, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom knowingly and willfully downplayed or outright denied the Chinese government’s malfeasance, and instead chose to cower to the CCP rather than stand up for the international community. Like all of you, I am deeply angry about the avoidable loss of life, hope, and futures resulting from the CCP’s actions. They and their conspirators must be held accountable. However, despite the CCP’s duplicity, the United States stands resilient. It is the American men and women who led the way in creating and distributing the multiple available vaccines who we have to thank as we defeat this virus, from President Trump and his Administration to scientists and truck drivers, nurses and factory line workers. The spirit and determination we’ve seen over the last year and a half should make us all proud to be part of this country. This isn’t a point of Republican pride. It is American pride, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike, because when our country is under siege, manmade or otherwise, we stand together. However, the path forward to address this threat and bring the responsible parties to justice is where we have diverged. President Joe Biden has failed to utilize any of his broad powers to hold China accountable and has willingly given up valuable leverage to force constructive change at the WHO. It is clear the American people can’t count on the Administration or Democrats in Congress to take meaningful action to find the truth and demand justice. But we have and will continue to fight. Members throughout the conference have been speaking up, getting to work, and making it known House Republicans will always stand up for America. Whip Steve Scalise with the Republican Members on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, along with Ranking Member of the Oversight and Reform Committee James Comer, led our conference (over 200 members) in demanding Speaker Nancy Pelosi allow a congressional probe into the virus’s origins. Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers has also led oversight measures for our conference on the origins and funding related to coronavirus research. Last week, Chairwoman Elise Stefanik and Congressman Rob Wittman introduced legislation to sanction Chinese officials involved in the coverup. Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Mike McCaul has leveraged his committee and the China Task Force to ensure accountability of the CCP and WHO. Congressman Dan Crenshaw introduced legislation last year to give Americans the opportunity to seek damages from China’s deception. Congresswoman Ann Wagner and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick have also introduced legislation to do the same. These are just a few examples. To all of our members, your work is not unnoticed by the rest of America. I have emphasized the importance of our conference remaining relentlessly focused on the issues and adhering to a simple question: how will we make life better for every American? It starts by first letting them know we have their backs. When a foreign entity is responsible for the deaths, loss of livelihoods, and permanent alterations to the way of life of our citizens, we do something about it. We can start with these eight pillars that deliver transparency and justice to the American people: Transparency 1. Declassification of Intelligence: House Republicans will introduce legislation to require declassification of information related to the origins of Covid-19, including in any report that comes from President Biden’s recent request. 2. Prohibit Gain of Function Research in and with China: We must ensure the United States no longer funds any gain of function research conducted in or with China, or any individual with known ties to the CCP. 3. Prohibition on National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding to Malevolent Foreign Governments: Congress should prohibit NIH funding to grantees or subgrantees from doing research with irresponsible foreign governments or entities who are intent on harming the United States, its allies, or the American people, such as China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. 4. WHO Overhaul and Counterintelligence Investigation: WHO Director-General Tedros should step down from his post at the WHO; Taiwan should be granted observer status at the WHO; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in partnership with the U.S. Intelligence Community, should conduct a counterintelligence investigation into the U.S. medical research establishment to determine the extent to which the governments of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have infiltrated critical U.S. organizations. Justice 5. Investigations and Utilizing Existing Authorities: President Biden and Congress must continue to investigate the origins of Covid-19. 6. Visa Restrictions and Sanctions: Congress should pass a new sanctions regime imposing economic sanctions and visa and admissibility restrictions on those in China, associated with the CCP, WHO, or other international organizations who knowingly and willfully participated in the Covid-19 coverup. 7. Waiving Chinese Sovereign Immunity: The families of those who have died from Covid-19 should be given the option to file suit against the Chinese government for damages incurred as a result of the reckless conduct of the CCP. Several Republican members, including Dan Crenshaw, Ann Wagner, and Brian Fitzpatrick, have introduced legislation allowing such lawsuits to go forward. 8. Relocation of the 24th Olympic Winter Games: Given the CCP’s active coverup of Covid-19 and contribution to the 3.8 million deaths worldwide, China should not be rewarded by allowing Beijing to host the Winter Olympics in 2022. I intend to introduce this framework this week with many of our colleagues. America needs leadership and Republicans are ready to deliver. Kevin McCarthy The Fake China Defector Story
By Cliff Kincaid – June 24, 2021 Just Like liberals, conservatives are suckers for a big story that sounds good and confirms their preconceived prejudices. Consider this from Mike Huckabee: “Information from Chinese Defector Might Change the Course of History.” It’s the conservative equivalent of the fake news Russian disinformation dossier. Does anyone seriously believe that a legitimate top Chinese intelligence official would defect to the United States under the China Joe Administration? As researcher Jim Simpson says, “Why would the guy take his life in his hands for the Biden crowd? Insane?” The “defector” is either insane or the story is a Chinese plant. My suspicion is the latter. The story comes from a sex-scandal columnist for the conservative website Red State who lives in a blue state and whose bio identifies her as a “sports fanatic.” Jennifer Van Laar broke the story of former Democratic Rep. Katie Hill’s sex scandal and now wants us to believe her deep sources in the intelligence community confirm there is an alleged defector from the Chinese Ministry of State Security, Dong Jingwei, in the hands of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), spilling the beans on China. China claims the spymaster is still in China doing his job. Even if the official has come to the U.S. for whatever reason, the story is reminiscent of the notorious Russian “defector” Yuri Nosenko, who conveniently showed up in America after the JFK assassination to tell U.S. intelligence agencies that Lee Harvey Oswald was not under Soviet KGB control. Oswald, a Marxist member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, had defected to Russia and then returned to the U.S. The motive was clear: the Russians wanted to avoid another confrontation with the United States and escape responsibility for murdering an American president. In the case of China, the purpose of the story is to convince people that while the virus may have come out of a lab, the “lab leak” theory, it was an accident and that Chinese communist officials can’t be blamed. The big revelation from the Chinese “defector” is something we already know – the China virus came out of the Wuhan lab. “Oh, wait — there’s more!,” says Huckabee. “According to RedState, Dong has also provided the DIA with copies of the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop, revealing all the scuzz the Chinese government has on Hunter, his nefarious personal habits and his business dealings with Chinese entities. His father’s, too. It was common sense to assume China had it all, and apparently they do.” So the “defector” has information we already have. Big deal. As geopolitical analyst Jeff Nyquist points out, the real purpose is to convince us that the release of the virus, though real, was accidental. Hence, there’s no reason to consider this an act of war from China. In fact, as Nyquist points out, this story is “damage control” by the Chinese. They knew the bat soup story about the origin of the virus wasn’t going to last long. Their fallback position is that it came out of the Wuhan lab by accident. That’s where the “defector” story comes in. “It seems obvious this is a fake defection,” he says. In an “EXCLUSIVE” follow-up, Red State’s Jennifer Van Laar proclaims, “Chinese Defector’s Identity Confirmed, Was Top Counterintelligence Official.” But nothing about the story has really been confirmed. It is all based on anonymous sources. In this case, conservatives have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker. But consider that the Chinese, at this critical junction, want to avoid responsibility and retaliation for what they have done to the American people and the world. We have to keep in mind that that the origin of the virus is a communist country ruled by mass murderers. In my March 25 column, “The China Virus Deception Campaign,” I noted, “During the history of the world, at critical turning points, there have been massive deception operations. Think about the Trojan Horse. Or consider how D-Day was designed to convince the Nazis that the main Allied landings would be in the Pas-de-Calais and not in Normandy. The latest and most successful deception operation is the China virus campaign. We are the victims and can’t even call it the China virus.” The Chinese have tried several different approaches to divert attention away from a laboratory origin of the virus. They have even blamed American troops for the disaster. Dan Bongino was ecstatic, saying that what the Chinese “defector” has provided about the origin and spread of the virus confirms much of what former President Trump has said for many months. He interviewed Red State columnist Jennifer Van Laar on his new radio show. She’s also appeared on Newsmax TV. It's true that President Trump understood from the start that the China virus was a national security threat. That’s why he launched a Manhattan Project-style effort to produce life-saving vaccines. He had the immediate task of protecting our people from this bioweapon. But it’s up to China Joe Biden, who calls Vladimir Putin a killer, to hold China responsible for the more than 600,000 deaths in America. How interesting that along comes a “defector” to “confirm” the new “consensus” that it leaked from a lab by accident. How convenient. The new “consensus” will be that the U.S. has to spend more on the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to guarantee the security and safety of the Wuhan lab. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvval.org ![]() Putin Is Impressed by the American Gestapo By Cliff Kincaid – June 20, 2021 CNN reports that the Biden administration is preparing to impose additional sanctions on Russia over the poisoning of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Who will impose sanctions on the Biden Administration for letting the killer of Ashli Babbitt go free? In Russia, poison is the preferred method of assassination. In America, an unarmed Trump supporter by the name of Ashli Babbitt can be shot and killed inside the Capitol, and the assassin’s identity is covered-up and he goes free. Which is worse? Navalny is alive; Babbitt is dead. The Capitol Police let Ashli Babbitt inside the Capitol on January 6 and then one of its members killed her, as other members of the Capitol Police were in close proximity to her. In most cases, however, assassination is not the preferred option, Instead, the FBI has been deployed to harass and arrest Trump supporters who take seriously the right to petition government for redress of grievances. A publication called the Progressive Review is ecstatic, carrying an article under the headline, “Biden unveils plan to step up fight against domestic terrorism.” It proclaims that the plan “seeks $100 million to add key personnel in the departments of justice and homeland security,” in order to monitor dissidents, and also “calls for monitoring federal employees who could pose an inside threat.” If you can’t defeat them through a legitimate election, the subject of the January 6 protests, the federal modus operandi seems to be to harass and crush them by developing a secretive intelligence operation that targets and uses lethal force against them. All of this is an outgrowth of the events of January 6, when pro-Trump activists protested the installation of China Joe, whose administration has proven to be a series of disasters at home and abroad. The protesters are being defined as “white extremists” and “anti-government extremists.” In a strange twist, one of them tuned out to be a pro-family activist who wasn’t even at the January 6 event. That activist, Arthur Schaper of MassResistance, told the FBI agents to pound sand. He had booked a ticket to D.C. for the protest but didn’t go. He told the FBI agents he wouldn’t answer any more questions without a lawyer. Schaper was a guest on my America’s Survival TV show and described the strange encounter. It is still not known how the FBI became aware he had a plane ticket to D.C., where he lived, and how they got into his apartment complex. But the incident suggests the FBI has mainstream conservative groups under surveillance. Vladimir Putin must be impressed. Imagine if Putin’s security forces had killed a dissident inside the Kremlin. One doubts that the former KGB would be that brazen. For the record, MassResistance is not devoted to white extremism and anti-government activities. It is a pro-family group that tries to rescue kids from the “gay” and “trans” lifestyles. Their position against gay adoption was affirmed by the Supreme Court last Thursday in a 9-0 ruling, making their “extreme” views seem rather mainstream. Nevertheless, FBI agents wanted Schaper to know they were monitoring him. Perhaps this is because the FBI apparatus has been placed at the disposal of a key Democratic Party constituency group, the LGBTQ lobby, with “Q” meaning queer. But this is not limited to the FBI. The Office of the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) has drawn attention to employees who “fight for marriage equality” and intelligence agents “fighting the good fight from the inside.” The DNI calls them “Secret agents of change.” None of this seems designed to identify and defeat America’s foreign enemies. Instead, the enemies, such as Arthur Schaper, are within. This is how socialist and communist governments monitor their political enemies. My website America’s Survival, Inc. features a story of a Swedish researcher and analyst, Bertil Haggman, who was monitored by his government because of his anti-communist views. It seems strange for anti-communism to be considered extreme, but this is now the case in America today. The founder of the modern gay rights movement, Harry Hay, was a communist. Interestingly, Putin praised Biden for his summit performance, saying Biden “is a professional.” Rather than play opposites on the world stage, Biden and Putin should holds hands and embrace. They both utilize KGB tactics against their political enemies. Perhaps Putin can learn a thing or two from Biden’s FBI. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvval.org A Warning for American Conservatives
Editor’s Note: What happened to Swedish anti-communist author Bertil Haggman is a warning for what is currently happening to American conservatives and anti-communists. By Mr. Bertil Haggman, LL.M. As an anti-communist in Sweden during the Cold War, I was the subject of surveillance by repeated Social Democratic governments in Sweden from 1963. After many years of struggle, I finally in 2007 got access to my file with the Swedish Security Police (very redacted). It turned out I had been under surveillance from 1963. The surveillance of me started when the Stalinist Communist Party in parliament supported the ruling socialist coalition. The Socialist government from 1963 blacklisted me as a “right-wing extremist” although I at all time was a member of a democratic political party represented in the Swedish parliament and a supporter of this party’s political program. The Socialist governments, especially during the periods 1969 – 1976, 1982 - 1986 of Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was an ardent anti-American and soft on Communism, anti-communists were subject of surveillance. Some of the members of the governing Social Democrat party in Sweden were actually anti-communist and only social democrats were supposedly “allowed” to be anti-communists, not Conservative anti-communists like myself. We were regarded as “extremists” and a danger to the good relations of Sweden with the Soviet Union. In the copies of the Security Police files released to me (which also included a number of newspaper articles), the final notes are from 1981. There was of course reason for the Swedish Socialist government in the 1980s to keep watching me. During the decade I supported the administration policies of President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Taking part in many conferences and seminars outside Sweden I specialized in Soviet disinformation and in 1990 published a book in Sweden on the subject (“Desinformation”). In 2001 I was contacted by a Commission set up by the Social Democratic majority in the Swedish parliament to study intelligence practices in Sweden since the Second World War. I had been given the impression that the “conversation” was to be on Communist subversion (I was not called as a witness under law) but instead the Commission secretary, a judge, was joined by an unidentified man, who started to ask questions that in effect were a charge against me of illegal intelligence activity. It later turned out that he was a “researcher” from a nearby university. I denied these claims and when after a couple of years later the protocol of the “conversation” in 2001 was released to me I found no record of what in reality was an interrogation. The 2001 interrogation was the last so far. During the Cold War I had been under surveillance for almost 20 years. The excesses of the Swedish Security Police (under direction of a number of Social Democrat ministers of justice) in 2003 led to my seeking information and compensation for what I deemed illegal surveillance according to the European Convention on Human Rights. It was first the question of having copies of my files released as well as the records of my four interrogations. In 2005, the Internal Security Police released a copy of a 1964 interrogation but refused to release the records of interrogations in 1966 and 1981. In 2006 I filed a compensation request to the Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern) the state agency for damage claims by citizens against the state. A negative decision by the chancellor leaves the possibility open for suing the state in court. In late 2008 my request for compensation was denied by the chancellor. My lawyer had earlier filed a new claim of compensation based on other information on me noted in a general Internal Secret Police file on anticommunist activity. As a result of the work of the commission mentioned earlier this file had not been “sorted out” (“gallrats”, a legal Swedish term for sorting out and destroying of files by state archives after a certain period determined by law). Due to the Commission, all Security Police files that existed at the time of the Commission’s work were handed over from the Internal Security Police and later preserved in the National Archive (Riksarkivet) for “research purposes”. In 2009 I had partial success. The Chancellor of Justice allowed the largest compensation in Sweden so far for violation of The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (Articles 8, 10, 11, and 13). Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life), Article 10 (freedom of expression), Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association) and article 13 (right to an effective remedy). Still, I believed payment of damages should be higher and the case was continuing in 2014. In May 2010, I asked the Swedish non-Socialist government directly to pay over $50,000 US dollars (over 400 000 Swedish kronor) to me for the long violation of the European Convention of Human Rights. There is one earlier case from 1997 when the then Social Democrat government paid that sum to a Maoist communist as compensation “ex gratia”. Attorney costs were paid by my insurance company until the case was finally adjudicated by the Supreme Court. After that I tried the European Court in Strasbourg with no success. With the attorney costs mounting it became a threat to my economic well-being. I had to pay attorney fees of the state when the Supreme Court refused to try the case. *Bertil Haggman describes the Chinese Communist Party as presently the main threat to Western civilization, with 90 million party members (probably the strongest extremist party in history,) and an extensive structure both of the party and the state for influence and information warfare. |