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Update: There Never Was a “Secret Operation”
There never was a “Secret Operation” with a view to preventing that the act of sabotage of Nord Stream be “traceable to the United States”.
The project had been discussed behind closed doors in 2021 as outlined by Seymour Hersh, but the actual planning of this so-called “secret operation” started in December 2021 extending to its execution in June 2022 and the actual sabotage on September 26-27, 2023. (see map below).
In late December 2021, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan convened what was described as “a newly formed task force” (Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, State Department, and Treasury) pertaining to Russia’s War preparations.
Within the group, there was debate as to what action was to be taken regarding North Stream. “The CIA argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert. Everyone [in the task force] involved understood the stakes”
Let us look briefly at the timeline of this alleged “Secret Operation”: Late December 2021 – June 2022 – September 26-27 2022 (a period of nine months):
Late December 2021: “newly formed (inter-agency) Task force” convened by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
Early 2022: A covert operation was envisaged. The CIA reported to the Task Force: “We have a way to blow up the pipelines.” i.e. which is “untraceable”.
A month later:
February 7, 2022. President Biden announced at a Press Conference his decision:
If Russia invades “there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2”. said Joe Biden
This statement invalidates the notion that a so-called “secret operation” was unfolding, and that the US attack would be “untraceable”.
Biden’s statement de facto acknowledges that the planned sabotage operation would be “traceable to the White House”.
This was not a blunder on the part of Joe Biden. It was a political decision by the president and his political entourage to formally announce the planning of a U.S. act of sabotage directed against its European Ally.
This statement was formulated several months before the so-called secret act of sabotage was carried out in June 2022.
“Biden’s and Nuland’s indiscretion, if that is what it was, might have frustrated some of the planners. But it also created an opportunity. According to the source, some of the senior officials of the CIA determined that blowing up the pipeline “no longer could be considered a covert option because the President just announced that we knew how to do it.”
Several analysts and journalists have pondered as to “who is responsible for the sabotage”. This is nonsensical exercise. The answer is obvious. POTUS, The President of the United States.
President Biden’s February 7, 2022 pronouncement had granted “the green light” for the implementation of the act of sabotage, which was no longer part of a covert operation. Those who had undertaken the sabotage were carrying out the instructions emanating from the USG.
Michel Chossudovsky, February 15, 2023
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America is at War with Europe
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, February 12, 2023
“Throughout “all of this scheming,” the source said, “some working guys in the CIA and the State Department were saying, ‘Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.’”
“This is not kiddie stuff,” the source said. If the attack were traceable to the United States, “It’s an act of war.”
(How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline, By , February 08, 2023, emphasis added)
Unfolding “Political Nightmare”
The evidence amply confirms that The Nord Stream was the object of an act of sabotage ordered by President Joe Biden.
Nord Stream –which originates in Russia– transits through the (maritime) territorial jurisdiction of four member states of the European Union. In international law, “Territorial Integrity” extends to “properties” located within the territorial waters of the Nation State.
From a legal standpoint (International Law: UN Charter, Law of the Sea) this was a U.S. Act of War against the European Union.
The deliberate destruction of said “properties” within a country’s territorial waters by or on behalf of a foreign state actor constitutes an act of war.
Germany’s Prosecutor General Peter Frank confirmed in an in-depth investigation that:
“there is no evidence to blame Russia for the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines”.
If it Wasn’t Russia, Who was Behind it?
According to the Prosecutor General:
“[The suspicion] that there had been a foreign sabotage act [in this case], has so far not been substantiated”
Peter Frank casually dispels the role of the US president (which is amply confirmed) (see below).
The Attack is “Traceable”. It’s an Act of Economic and Social Warfare against the European Union.
The US act of sabotage coupled with the sanctions regime has created social havoc and hardship throughout the European Union. Inflation spearheaded by rising energy costs has gone fly high. People are freezing, unable to pay their heating bills.
While media reports fail to acknowledge the social and economic impacts of the US act of sabotage, official EU sources confirm (without mentioning the cause) that:
“the number of its citizens living in energy poverty could be as high as 125 million” (28% of its total population).
Europe is experiencing an unprecedented Debt Crisis. The Welfare State is being dismantled.
Destabilizing the EU Economy
The EU economy which has relied on cheap energy from Russia is in a shambles, marked by disruptions in the entire fabric of industrial production (manufacturing), transportation and commodity trade.
A string of corporate bankruptcies resulting in lay-offs and unemployment is unfolding across the European Union. Small and medium sized enterprises are slated to be wiped of map:
“Rocketing energy costs are savaging German industry”…
“Germany’s manufacturing industry — which accounts for more than one fifth of the country’s economic output — is worried some of its companies won’t see the crisis through. …”
“Industry behemoths like Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Siemens (SIEGY) are grappling with supply chain bottlenecks too, but it is Germany’s roughly 200,000 small and medium-sized manufacturers who are less able to withstand the shock [of rising energy prices]
These companies are a vital part of the “Mittelstand,” the 2.6 million small- and medium-sized enterprises that account for more than half of German economic output and nearly two-thirds of the country’s jobs. Many are family-owned and deeply integrated into rural communities”
Thanks to Joe Biden
At a Press Conference (February 2022) “Biden Spilled the Beans”:
“We will, I promise you, we will be able to do that”, said Joe Biden
Joe Biden: “There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2”
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Under the guise of Covid responses, our leaders overthrew our constitutional system of individual rights to increase their power over the citizenry.
The federal government colluded with Big Tech to usurp Americans’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech and Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches. Officials stifled criticism by slandering dissent as false and implying that it endangered the public. Bureaucrats supplanted the Seventh Amendment with a liability shield for Big Pharma’s most profitable products.
This three-headed hegemon of Big Pharma, Big Tech, and the federal government worked together to launch a coup d’état that usurped the Constitution. To replace our liberties, they offer a new ruling order of suppression of dissent, surveillance of the masses, and indemnity of the powerful.
Implementing this system requires totalitarian control beyond America’s constitutional traditions.
Stay-at-Home Orders and The Right to Travel
In addition to attacking the enumerated rights of the Constitution, public officials stripped Americans of their unenumerated liberties. Though not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution, the right to travel has been long recognized in the United States.
In Corfield v. Coryell (1823), Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington included the right to travel freely in his list of fundamental rights guaranteed by the US Constitution’s Privileges and Immunities Clause. Its roots date back to the Magna Carta (1215), which stated: “It shall be lawful for any man to leave and return to our kingdom.”
In 1958, the Supreme Court held: “The right to travel is a part of the ‘liberty’ of which a citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment” in Kent v. Dulles.
Despite this longstanding precedent, government officials stripped Americans of this unenumerated right with unscientific and tyrannical house arrest edicts.
California was the first state to issue a “stay-at-home” order in response to Covid. On March 19, 2020, Governor Newsom decreed, “[I] order all individuals living in the State of California to stay home or at their place of residence except as needed to maintain continuity of operations of the federal critical infrastructure sectors.”
“Restricting citizens’ ability to travel is a hallmark of a police state,” wrote legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich in December 2021. “Infectious disease will always be with us. It cannot become an excuse to give the federal government carte blanche to control the lives of citizens.”.
Under Newsom’s arbitrary and capricious directive, the state pursued that carte blanche to impose tyranny on Californians. Law enforcement arrested paddleboarders, fined surfers, and demanded compliance under the threat of compulsion within three weeks of Newsom’s order.
“I think the days of trying to get voluntary compliance are really over,” San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said in April 2020. “The message is going to go out to all of public safety here in the county that we will start issuing citations for violations of the public order and the governor’s executive order.”
To various degrees, almost the entire country followed Newsom’s example of capricious fiats. For example, Hawaii created “checkpoints” to arrest and fine people who violated the state’s stay-at-home order; New Jersey charged parents with “child endangerment” for bringing their children to a social gathering; Rhode Island police charged three men from Massachusetts for driving into the state to play golf.
In the end, the policies were a public health failure. But, while they lasted, the house arrest orders defied the longstanding constitutional right to travel.
In 1941, Justice Jackson wrote that Americans have the right to interstate travel “either for temporary sojourn or for the establishment of permanent residence.” Citing the Constitution’s Privileges and Immunities Clause, he wrote, “if national citizenship means less than this, it means nothing.” For Massachusetts men trying to golf, national citizenship ended up meaning nothing.
Over fifty years later, the Court held in Saenz v. Roe, “The word ‘travel’ is not found in the text of the Constitution. Yet the ‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.” This right disappeared for New York parents who wanted to bring their children to a gathering with classmates from New Jersey.
In 1969, Justice Stewart called the right to travel “a virtually unconditional personal right, guaranteed by the Constitution to us all” in Shapiro v. Thompson. Yet, in Hawaii, the government flouted this standard and instituted a police state.
While anecdotes like golfing arrests and fines for children’s playdates may seem trivial compared to the vast array of Covid mandates, they represent the coordinated effort to punish individuals for exercising their right to travel freely.
American citizens lost the basic liberty to move unencumbered in their own country. Our officials implemented tyranny without any mention of due process.
At the very least, these decrees contributed to an economic disaster and a physical and psychological crisis in America’s youth.
Further, their unconstitutional acts failed in their goal to save American lives. One study found “the anxiety created by reactions to Covid-19—such as stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will destroy at least seven times more years of human life than can possibly be saved by lockdowns to control the spread of the disease.”
Returning to First Principles
There was a coup d’état in this country that presented itself under the innocuous banner of “public health.” Our country’s most powerful forces – including information centers, unelected officials, and multinational corporations – worked together to unravel the protections of the Constitution.
In January, House Republicans announced plans to launch a subcommittee to investigate “Weaponization of the Federal Government.” Representatives have publicized their support for the plan to investigate the activities of the IRS, the CIA, and the FBI. Good.
However, before defenders of liberty or politically motivated operatives rush to find malfeasance of law enforcement, they should return to first principles: namely, maintaining a functioning Bill of Rights supported by a firm separation of powers. In the absence of this system, the hegemonic forces will violate our freedoms again when the next crisis arises.
In other words, before we focus on why the weaponization occurred or what offenses took place, we should consider how our longest standing rights became so diluted that a respiratory illness managed to provide the pretext for our leaders to assault citizens’ longest-standing liberties.
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Attack of the Weather Balloons! The Yukon Cylindrical “Suspected Chinese Ballon”
Shut up, sit down, don’t ask questions—and take whatever the state tells you at face value.
On Saturday, President Biden sent a USG fighter aircraft to shoot down… something over the Yukon in Canada.
This is the third such alleged shootdown. The second one is said to have occurred on Friday over Alaska, according to the stenographic media. It “reports” what the government wants you to know—and in the case of the attack of the weather balloons, they want you to know virtually nothing—except it is the sinister behavior of those darn spy-obsessed commies in China.
The “object” over the Yukon was “cylindrical” and “smaller than the suspected Chinese balloon shot down last weekend, Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said on Saturday evening,” CNN relayed from the government.
The object shot down Saturday marks the third time in one week that US aircraft have shot down an object in North American airspace. Saturday’s incident follows the downing of another unidentified object on Friday over Alaska, and the shoot-down of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4 by a US F-22 fighter jet.
Forget the adjective “suspected” prior to “Chinese surveillance balloon.” The state demands you to believe “communist” China is spying on America, and now Canada. The government has produced zero evidence the original balloon was indeed a surveillance thingamajig.
Of course, you’re expected to take whatever the state tells you at face value. Questions are not allowed, as the corporate media on occasion needs to be reminded. Even NPR makes a mistake on occasion.
Aboard Air Force One, NPR White House Correspondent Ayesha Rascoe asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for evidence of the US’s claim that Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, an ISIS leader killed along with numerous civilians (including children) during a US raid, had detonated a suicide bomb. Far from providing evidence, Psaki expressed surprise that anyone could doubt the US military’s claims when it came to civilian casualties. She went a step further and accused such people of believing ISIS over the US military. (Emphasis added.)
Ned Price, the official storyteller for the State Department, did likewise, essentially accusing Matt Lee of the AP of being a Russian dupe-bot.
“If you doubt the credibility of the U.S. government, of the British government, of other governments and want to, you know, find solace in information that the Russians are putting out, that is for you to do,” Price berated the out of line stenographer.
Prior to dodging rare questions of substance, Price worked as a CIA “analyst.” He was taught by the best at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
It’s odd, the amnesia of Americans. It is possible, however, a few Americans remember the particularly deadly lie told by Lyndon Baines Johnson about the Gulf of Tonkin “incident” slash fairy tale of treacherous N. Vietnam commies attacking the “reconnaissance” destroyer Maddox, thus initiating a war in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia). More than three million people were killed.
Or, more recently, the lies of George W. Bush and his perfidious neocons. It was said repeatedly Saddam Hussein (former CIA operative) had WMDs ready to attack innocent American children while they slept. Later, when the lies were exposed, Bush turned it into a comedy routine. No WMDs here… just a million and a half dead people.
Maybe a couple of people remember when Bush triumphantly announced the USG death machine had wiped out the Taliban (formerly on the CIA payroll). It was another bald-faced lie told by a pathological liar.
P.S., the Taliban won. The war will cost us—or, rather, our descendants—$2.261 trillion. Forbes put the cost at $300 million a day for 20 years.
Now they’re telling big whoppers about Ukraine, a democracy with neo-nazis. It’s a textbook example of Orwellian Doublethink.
Anyway, back to the invasion of commie balloons. I’m not sure the state will ever provide evidence demonstrating the origin and purpose of these balloons and the “cylindrical” unidentified object supposedly shot down over the Yukon, the last with the blessing of the liberal authoritarian leader of Canada, Justin Trudeau.
Americans will be on the hook, as usual. The USG F-22 Raptor’s AIM 9X Sidewinder missile supposedly shot at the “object,” which we are told was the size of a “small car,” cost $472,000.
The stockholders at Raytheon benefit greatly from these psychological ops.
Meanwhile, as intended, we are kept in the dark, and given zero evidence proving this “surveillance” thing even existed. Americans, who are forced to pay for this nonsense, are commie Chinese bots, dupes, and disinfo zombies if they dare ask for more details.
It’s a CCP surveillance thing. How dare you ask questions.
Maybe we’ll get additional UFO reports this week, more half-million dollar shoot downs (minus the cost of operating F-22s), and additional heaps of engineered paranoia as the state builds its case to confront its major competitors, China and Russia.
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