Leaked documents reveal a British intel contractor singled out The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal for online censorship, and seeks to redefine factual criticism of NATO as disinformation. | A leaked 130-page report made public here for the first time documents an international censorship campaign funded by the British government and led by a public relations contractor for U.S. Special Operations Forces. The basic strategy is to redefine “disinformation” to include even factual criticism of the U.S. military or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and then to exert “coordinated action to pressure social media and digital market actors” to “moderate” such speech. The previously secret report also recommends “intensifying cooperation among the intelligence agencies within the EU [European Union]”, which in the past has included Ukrainian intelligence conducting what it described as a “multi-level special operation” in Spain to arrest a critical journalist for treason over his YouTube broadcasts.

The bloc’s security depends on integrating several key countries, Czech President Petr Pavel has said | The European Union should accept not just Ukraine, but Moldova, Georgia, and the Western Balkans for the sake of its own security, Czech President Petr Pavel claimed at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, on Tuesday. Continued expansion to the east is a geopolitical necessity, he argued. [...] The bloc’s enlargement would supposedly enhance its security in an “increasingly antagonistic” international environment, the president explained, according to the Czech Television broadcaster. Pavel described Russia’s ongoing military campaign as the most “pressing security threat,” although a “more demanding than assertive China” poses a greater “geopolitical challenge.”

■ Germany promises to extend EU into Russia (RT.com)

Norway will increase defense budget by approximately 20% in 2024 compared to the current year's budget, Norwegian Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum said in an interview, published on Wednesday. | The newspaper [VG.no] also cited Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store as saying that the additional money will be used for military support for Ukraine as well as improving Norway's defense capabilities.  ● The newspaper reported that Vedum was talking about NATO's program obliging members to use a minimum of 2% of GDP for defense, which Norway promised to do at the organization's summit in Vilnius in July.

■ Budsjett-hopp for Forsvaret: Får 15 milliarder ekstra i 2024 (VG.no)

Arming Kiev is a cost-effective way of preventing Moscow from threatening NATO, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said on Wednesday. | Ollongren explained that she had recently visited the US and that political developments there are cause for concern, but that Western Europeans need to talk with their American colleagues and persuade them to stay the course. The US and its allies have channeled a large amount of money, weapons, ammunition, and supplies to Ukraine since the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022. ● EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell revealed earlier this week that the bloc has sent Ukraine €85 billion ($89.8 billion) so far, of which more than €25 billion was military aid.

Actor-turned-activist Laurence Fox was arrested for encouraging people to smash pollution-compliance cameras in London | Actor and Reclaim Party founder Laurence Fox was arrested in a Wednesday raid on his London home. Police say Fox encouraged criminal damage against the city’s much-maligned ULEZ cameras. ● The Reclaim Party posted a video of the raid to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday morning. In the clip, at least five police officers can be seen examining items in the house while Fox sits on his couch smoking. 💬 “Look how many coppers there are in my house; look at them coming to steal everything, take everything out of my house,” he says to the camera. “That, ladies and gentlemen, is the country that we live in.” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement that officers “arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to ULEZ cameras and encouraging or assisting offenses to be committed.”

Dr. Meryl Nass explains how the WHO's proposed pandemic treaty will enable the WHO "to take over jurisdiction of everything in the world by saying that climate change, animals, plants, water systems [and] ecosystems are all central to health". "We're undergoing a soft coup... under the pretext of pandemic preparedness and the biosecurity agenda."

■ The WHO’s Proposed Amendments Will Increase Man-Made Pandemics (Meryl Nass)

Covert Geopolitics | The U.S. has invested substantial funds in Armenia, a nation with a treaty alliance with Russia. Samantha Power, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), arrived in Yerevan shortly after the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire, pledging support for Armenia’s sovereignty. This article delves into how USAID is working with Armenia’s pro-Western prime minister to reshape the country. How Did We Reach This Point?

■ Tensions rise between Armenia, Russia (eurasianet)(george soros/open society = be warned!)
■ Russia scrambles as EU surges in Caucasus (M. K. BHADRAKUMAR)
■ L'Azerbaïdjan agresse le Haut-Karabakh : trahison finale de Pachinian (Karine Bechet-Golovko)

One European healthcare system found that Ukrainian citizens arriving for treatment often have dangerous bacteria and antibiotic resistance. Western media raised the alarm about this phenomenon, which might threaten the entire continent. | Hospitals in several European countries have recorded significant growth of antibiotic resistance among Ukrainians arriving for treatment. So far, the exact cause of this remains unclear. The first case was announced in a research letter for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Germany in August, when a Ukrainian soldier was diagnosed with a number of dangerous infections that were not treatable with antibiotics. ● Western media recently highlighted that similar incidents were registered in several unnamed European countries, where wounded soldiers and refugees from Ukraine had gone. They cited “hospital and hygiene infrastructure” problems in Ukraine as one of the reasons the diseases spread, making “it harder to take the usual precautions against antibiotic resistance.” Media also pointed out the absence of tests to determine the correct antibiotic use in Ukrainian hospitals. Therefore, infections and antibiotic-resistance are often found only in Europe. However, experts told Sputnik that antibiotic resistance could be a sign that these people had undergone biological experiments.

Dmitry Medvedev | First. The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, has admitted that Ukraine will join the EU by 2030. This means that the EU believes that the current Bandera state will survive until then. Second. For the first time in U.S. history, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress has resigned. And precisely because of his love for the Kyiv government and budget compromises to fund the Banderites. There is undoubtedly a reason to be proud because the choice was between solving the numerous internal problems of the United States and further feeding the neo-Nazis. True, there are still only two months of money left. (Translation: DeepL.com + Proofreading: grammarly.com)

■ McCarthy’s 'love' for Ukraine led to his dismissal — Medvedev (TASS)

The United Kingdom has run out of weapons which can be sent to Ukraine, and should encourage other countries to boost their efforts, UK media reported, citing a senior military official. | "We’ve given away just about as much as we can afford … We will continue to source equipment to provide for Ukraine, but what they need now is things like air defense assets and artillery ammunition and we’ve run dry on all that," the report cited a source as saying. The source also said that the UK is not the only country supporting Ukraine, therefore, other allies can provide more funds and ammunition and share the burden. The military chief said that the UK can send no additional Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, since its own armed forces need them to upgrade into Challenger 3.

■ Britain Has Run Out of Military Equipment to Give Ukraine (The Telegraph/antiwar.com)

A researcher has claimed that the Chandrayaan-3 landed “nowhere near” the South Pole amid heightened tensions between the two Asian neighbors | India’s Chandrayaan-3 did not land at or near the south polar region of the Moon, Chinese scientist Ouyang Ziyuan has argued. With China planning to reach the same region next year, the scientific rivalry between Beijing and New Delhi has heated up. ● Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the Moon on August 23 at a latitude of 69 degrees, which Indian scientists say is within the region of the lunar south pole. ● “This is wrong,” Ouyang told the Chinese-language Science Times newspaper last week, according to Bloomberg. “The landing site of Chandrayaan-3 is not at the lunar south pole, not in the lunar south pole region, nor is it near the lunar south pole region.”

A lightning strike which scored a direct hit on a gas tank triggered a huge explosion of "pulsating orange" to fill the sky near the British city of Oxford. | Posts on social media showed a large and ominous-looking fireball rising from the horizon, and confusion from people trying to work out what had happened. Mystery shrouded the explosion until energy firm Severn Trent Green Power moved to confirm a lightning bolt had struck a gas tank during a storm. ● Emergency services attended the scene, but early reports suggest no one was injured. Severn Trent Green Power confirmed that biogas from a container had ignited at its Cassington AD Facility, near Oxford airport, at about 7.20pm. Jack Frowde, who works at Oxford University, told the BBC he heard a deafening sound and saw a "pulsating orange" light in the distance.

■ Oxfordshire explosion: New pictures show damage caused by lightning strike at recycling plant (Sky News)

Unfortunately the real situation is worse then I had thought. | Via a Responsible Statecraft piece I came onto a EU study that tried to predict the future demographics of Ukraine's population. The War and the Future of Ukraine’s Population. The study is from early 2022 and is based on Ukrainian casualty numbers from only the very first month of the war. Their worst case scenario was this: Our third and fourth scenarios assume that the war will continue for a month or longer so that further casualties and refugees are expected. We assume the following casualties: 5,000 deaths among soldiers and 1,500 civilian deaths based on the current trends. There will be 5 million refugees, which is an estimate by UNHCR (UNHCR 2022a) The real refugee numbers are twice as high and the casualty numbers, wounded and dead, are of course about 100 times higher than the study assumed. It was thus not worth the money that had been spend on it. Still, some graphs in it are usable.

In the past 150 years, the US Money Supply has only contracted five (5) times; and they were Recessions and the Great Depression. It is happening again. | Two U.S. money supply metrics that investors tend to pay close attention to are M1 and M2. The former accounts for the cash and coins in circulation, as well as the demand deposits within an individual's checking account. Meanwhile, M2 factors in everything in M1 and adds money market accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposit (CDs) below $100,000. The main difference is that M2 factors in cash that takes a little extra work to get your hands on. ● For as far back as the eye can see, M2 has been climbing. Since the U.S. economy steadily grows over the long run, it's only natural that more cash/capital is needed to facilitate transactions. In fact, M2 rising is so common that some economists may not even be paying attention to it as a monthly reported datapoint. But in the rare event that M2 meaningfully declines, pay attention!

Dr. Meryl Nass explains how the WHO's proposed pandemic treaty will enable the WHO "to take over jurisdiction of everything in the world by saying that climate change, animals, plants, water systems [and] ecosystems are all central to health". "We're undergoing a soft coup... under the pretext of pandemic preparedness and the biosecurity agenda."

■ The WHO’s Proposed Amendments Will Increase Man-Made Pandemics (Meryl Nass)

The entertainer had accused the woman at the center of new allegations of harassing him in 2017, one report recalls | The actor and comedian Russell Brand is under investigation by a second UK police force amid new allegations of “harassment and stalking,” numerous UK media sources reported on Monday. ● Brand, 48, who is being investigated by London’s Metropolitan Police following the publication two weeks ago of an array of sexual-abuse allegations by The Times, the Sunday Times and broadcaster Channel 4, is also the subject of a separate probe by the Thames Valley police, several media sources, including The Guardian and the BBC, said. Brand has denied all allegations made against him.

The mRNA technology provided a method to fight “one of the greats threats to human health in modern times,” the committee said [The mRNA injections ARE one of the greats threats to human health in modern times...and they are NOT vaccines.] Two scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their pioneering research that led to the development of mRNA vaccines, which helped curb the spread of Covid-19, it was announced early on Monday in Stockholm, Sweden. ● Dr. Katalin Kariko and Dr. Drew Weissman will share the prize almost two decades after first publishing a 2005 paper examining the potential benefits of mRNA technology. Their research received little attention at the time but the Nobel Prize committee praised the scientists’ “groundbreaking findings,” which they said “fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with [damages] our immune system.”

Canadian scientist Denis Rancourt and his colleagues have confirmed from studies and monitoring of side effects that COVID-19 vaccines cause death. | Canadian scientist Denis Rancourt and his colleagues have confirmed from studies and monitoring of side effects that COVID-19 vaccines cause death. Around 13 million deaths worldwide, currently. The rate of vaccine-induced deaths in relation to the number of doses given, called the vaccine-dose fatality rate (vDFR), has been measured to be as high as 1% in India and in poorer states in the USA where “vaccine equity” campaigns have been run. In Australia, it was measured to be 0.05%. This data didn’t take into account the age of the people vaccinated. ● Denis’s research looks at how the fatality rate changes based on age, using data from Israel and Australia and the results show that it’s much higher for older adults and it increases quickly with age, doubling roughly every 5.2 years.

A troubling new peer-reviewed study has found traces of mRNA in the hearts of dead people who had died suddenly after suffering cardiac arrests. | According to the researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, mRNA was detected in the heart tissue of patients who died within a month of receiving the Covid injections. The researchers analyzed tissue samples from the autopsies of 25 people. 20 of those people were vaccinated shortly before they died. Samples from the hearts of three patients tested positive for messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA). All three patients with mRNA in their hearts had died within 30 days of receiving a Pfizer shot.

Dr. Meryl Nass explains how the WHO's proposed pandemic treaty will enable the WHO "to take over jurisdiction of everything in the world by saying that climate change, animals, plants, water systems [and] ecosystems are all central to health". "We're undergoing a soft coup... under the pretext of pandemic preparedness and the biosecurity agenda."

■ The WHO’s Proposed Amendments Will Increase Man-Made Pandemics (Meryl Nass)

However benevolent their goals [???], Western governments have ruined the public’s trust with their attempts at narrative control | In the past week, stories in the media have been warning about the latest "Covid-19 variant," the latest in a long list. It doesn’t seem like people are listening anymore. ● In the minds of much of the public, the pandemic is long over and is firmly a thing of the past. The last thing most people want is another trip down the rabbit hole of restrictions, lockdowns, masks and vaccinations, with the past few years having seriously undermined the credibility of governments and public trust in them to do the right thing. And Western governments no longer have the political will or interest to dare make unpopular decisions, even if some are sounding the alarm. ● The pandemic [???] in many respects was a turning point in government-public relations in Western countries, precisely because it was the first outbreak of such scale to occur in the age of mass social-media culture, where people, more connected than ever before, have the unrestricted capability to voice their own opinions, to hear the opinions of others, and with these to enact dissent against governments and their policies. The social-media era has already provided many significant challenges to state structures as it is, with Western governments scrambling to reassert a “narrative control” over their populations that they've since lost.

■ WEF Official Calls for 86% Reduction in Human Population
■ Big Pharma Insider: ‘Pandemic Was a Military Bioterrorism Project’

A prominent World Economic Forum (WEF) official has called for an 86 percent reduction in the population of humans to give the globalist elite a “higher standard of living.” | The call was made by Dennis Meadows, who argues that the massive depopulation goal can be achieved “peacefully.” Meadows is one of the main authors of the Club of Rome’s 1972 pro-depopulation book “The Limits to Growth.” He is an honorary member of the Club of Rome and a member of the World Economic Forum. Despite his book being published over 50 years ago, it forms a key part of the WEF’s agenda and his ideology is still very anti-human. Meadows argues that most of the world’s population must be wiped out so that the survivors can “have freedom” and a “high standard of living.” During a 2017 interview, Meadows claims that genocide of 86% of the world’s population is “inevitable.” However, he insists that a “benevolent” dictatorship could accomplish the mass de-population “peacefully.”

Dmitry Medvedev | The number of leadership idiots in NATO countries is growing. | One newfangled cretin - the British Defense Minister - has decided to move British training courses for Ukrainian soldiers to the territory of Ukraine itself. That is, to turn their instructors into legal targets for our Armed Forces. Realizing perfectly well that they will be ruthlessly destroyed. And not as mercenaries, but as British NATO specialists. ● Another fool - the head of the Defense Committee of the Federal Republic of Germany with a hard-to-pronounce surname - demands to immediately supply the Khokhols [Ukranians] with Taurus missiles so that the Kyiv regime can strike at the territory of Russia to weaken the supply of our army. They say this is per international law. In that case, strikes on German factories where these missiles are made would also be in full compliance with international law. After all, these morons are actively pushing us towards World War III...(Translation: DeepL.com)

■ Ukraine can use German missiles to attack Russia – Bundestag (RT.com)

While the US role in looting Syria’s resources is well-documented, less is known about the complicity of Iraq's Kurdistan region in its transportation and distribution | Although the porous Iraqi-Syrian border stretches for over 600 kilometers, about half of it – in practice – is not subject to the authority of either state. Over the years, this lack of comprehensive border control has given rise to a number of security threats to both nations, not least the persistent presence of ISIS elements in border regions. ● From the Iraqi side, there has been a pro-active approach in countering this low-level terrorism with the establishment of two defensive lines by the Joint Operations Command, in addition to concrete barriers and watchtowers. ● Smuggling from Syria into Iraqi border towns is another salient feature of current border activities, and one which presents both a threat and an opportunity for the US-led international coalition whose forces operate on both sides of the border.

■ US Ramps Up Systematic Looting of Syrian Oil, Ships 35 Tankers Out of Country (07/17/23)
■ China [correctly] accuses US of oil theft (01/19/23)

Jeffrey Sachs is a well-known American economist, academic, and public policy analyst who has made significant contributions to the fields of sustainable development and economic development. He has held various prestigious positions throughout his career, including serving as the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and as a special advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. Sachs has authored numerous books and articles on topics related to economics, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. Website: jeffsachs.org

■ NATO Admits that Ukraine War is The War of NATO Expansion (09/30/23)