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Money Has Its Favorites

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The following article is a suitable follow-up to last night’s story about war profiteers. It’s a reminder that making money off endless wars is just one form of corruption among many others. The EU in particular seems to have been deliberately designed to enable massive corruption of all types behind an opaque protective screen.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Uncut News:

The Rockefeller and Bill Gates foundations on the sponsorship list of EU decision-makers

Many of the more than 12,000 lobbyists who approach the EU institutions are sponsored by the Rockefeller and Bill Gates foundations, which provide enormous sums of money. As a rule, lobbyists officially try to influence the political decisions of EU heads of government in the interests of their own organizations. The European Court of Auditors has warned in a special report that lobbying without transparency mechanisms can lead to undue influence, unfair competition and even corruption.

Lobbying in the European Parliament and the European Commission consumes hundreds of millions of euros and more every year. More than 12,000 non-governmental organizations and companies are trying to influence the policies of EU decision-makers. In its special report “EU Transparency Register — Useful but limited information on lobbying activities”, the European Court of Auditors warns that lobbying activities without transparency mechanisms can lead to undue influence, unfair competition or even corruption.

“Registered organizations can self-identify which category they belong to and this determines what financial reporting requirements apply. There is therefore a risk that registered entities funded by third parties may not disclose certain financial information, including their sources of funding, by declaring that they represent their own or the collective interests of their members. Significant limitations have also been identified in the information provided on the public transparency register website. Some important data are missing, such as data on individual meetings with members of the European Parliament or historical data on newly registered organizations. Furthermore, the website does not provide aggregated data on lobbyists and their activities in an interactive form,” says the European Court of Auditors report.

Big names behind the lobbyists

Pandemic Action Network, a non-governmental organization based in the USA, joined forces on the 18th of June, registered as a lobbyist with the European Union in 2020 and met with representatives of the European Commission in 2020 to specifically prepare EU legislative proposals or measures as part of the Covid-19 response and reconstruction plans as well as the EU vaccination strategy.

The 2022 financial report names the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with almost €2.3 million, the Rockefeller Foundation with €715,000 and the pharmaceutical companies Merck and Johnson & Johnson as donors. The Rockefeller Foundation registered as a lobbyist in the EU Transparency Register in May 2023 and states that it works with the European Commission to combat poverty and promote a green future and has a lobbying budget of €294 million. The US-based International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc., which officially registered as a lobbyist in March 2021, claims to be a non-profit scientific research organization developing vaccines and antibodies against HIV, tuberculosis and emerging infectious diseases (including Covid-19).

The organization has received EU grants of €2.45 million in 2022 and €3.5 million in 2023. In 2022, the organization also received €21 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and €73 million from the US government.

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Think No More

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MC’s latest update from Sderot is prefaced by some historical musings and a look at the larger political context.

Think No More

by MC

Over a hundred years ago Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew, was stripped of his rank and imprisoned. The world was happy that “the Joo done it” and no more questions were asked.

Whilst it was obvious the Dreyfus had not done ‘it’, the alternative was not thinkable; thus Dreyfus remained ‘guilty’ until Émile Zola forced a reinvestigation to prove him innocent.

Largely as a result of the Dreyfus affair, Theodor Herzl realized that Jews could not overcome anti-Semitism and would always be unacceptable in European circles. Thus he gave birth to the Zionist movement, the essence of which was to provide a homeland where Jews could be Jews.

The word ‘Zionist’ has changed meaning over the last 129 years, and has been turned into an epithet of all that leftists hate about Jooz.

Zion is the ancient name of Jerusalem, but like most Hebrew words carries a much deeper meaning, that of a place with a direct connection to Yahovah.

The word Yahovah itself has the meaning “I was, I am, I will be”. But unfortunately its meaning is lost in the translated Greek of the New Testament; see John 8 v 5. ‘Yahovah’ is a word of power and caused the Pharisaic arrest team to fall over.

There is a reason why Satanic forces continue to attack Jews, and Romans 10 & 11, oft ignored or glossed over, explains.

One must apply Occam’s Razor to both Judaism and Christianity to try and cut away the pagan influences and get to the TRUTH of Creation. Satan knows this so much better than we do, and thus continues to attack Jews.

Palestinian propaganda has been wildly successful, and even the White House is quoting the Hamas Gaza ‘Health’ Ministry (GHM) unchecked and verbatim.

Thus the canards of ‘starvation, Aid Worker protection and Rafah’ go both unresearched and unchallenged.

The UK called in the Israeli ambassador solely on the basis of a propaganda statement from the GHM — folly, considering the GHM’s past performance.

There are no ‘lies’ as such in Islam, and any fabrication is permitted if it hurts the enemies of Islam. It is incredible stupidity to trust any statement originating from the depths of the GHM.

But, of course, if that information is useful to pacify the residents of Dearborn (and help them vote Democrat), then think no more…

This also explains why the feminist left had such problems condemning Hamas’ (sexual) violations of female Jooz (and males). They had to make some decisions, and the thought of supporting ‘colonialist and oppressive’ Jewish women in the face of non-colonialist and non-oppressive Muslims proved too much. Rape is not a crime if the victim is deemed to be an oppressor.

So now, October 7th having been forgotten, they are free to support ‘Palestine’ and the institutionalized slavery of Muslim women — toujours c’est la même chose…

The burka is very pleasant to wear, you know — it stops men looking at you!

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Enjoying a Lavish Overseas Holiday, Courtesy of the Swiss State

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Freedert.online, a workaround for RT, which is banned in Germany. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Ukrainian refugee in Switzerland uses social assistance to travel around the world instead of integrating

A Ukrainian refugee in Switzerland receives social assistance, but instead of looking for work or attending German courses, he travels to Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and Georgia, ostensibly in search of cultural enrichment and inspiration for future professional activities — all of this costs in Switzerland. [I take it that these “future professional activities” have something to do with FRAUD?]

The generous social assistance in Switzerland for Ukrainian refugees has been the subject of discussion for some time — and the recent story of a certain Volodymyr from Zurich is adding real momentum.

So, there we have this Volodymyr, a native Ukrainian who has been hanging around Poland for the last twelve years. Then war breaks out, and bang, he’s gone, straight to Switzerland, fleeing from the “evil Russians,” as he emphasizes. When he arrived in Zurich, he had a good time. The authorities are probably quite naïve, especially if you wave a Ukrainian passport around. Once a year he waves to the social authorities, a handshake here, a handshake there, and the money flows.

But wait, here comes the surprise: at one of these routine meetings, the Swiss officials’ jaws almost drop off. Mr. Volodymyr has spent the last two years traveling to Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Georgia and Turkey. Next on the agenda is Bali. Don’t look for a job, don’t learn German; instead you get a vacation on a silver platter. The bill? Of course, the social welfare office takes care of that, doesn’t it?

When asked why he doesn’t look for work, he talks about “cultural enrichment.” Work? Oh well, first spend a few months in Bali. And the trips? Of course, these trips are by no means vacations, because according to the regulations, Ukrainian refugees are not allowed to leave Switzerland for longer than four weeks. Instead, he describes them as “business” trips to inspire his future career as an architect in Switzerland. The migration and social welfare offices should kindly pay for the flight tickets.

But one thing is certain: This guy knows how to exploit the system and the Swiss social authorities. They really seem to have no clue about what’s going on.

When was the last time you were in Bali?

Afterword from the translator:

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An ISIS Bride on Trial in The Netherlands

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Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Algemeen Dagblad:

Children’s slippers still lay on the ground, ISIS wife Xaviera prosecuted for plunder in Syria

The Dutch ISIS wife Xaviera S. from Apeldoorn must still be prosecuted because she allegedly engaged in plunder in Syria, a war crime. She is the first to be prosecuted for this offense in the Netherlands. She also allegedly threatened a Dutch columnist and a journalist with death while in Syria. She herself blames her deceased husband.

by Cyril Rosman
March 1, 2024

A pan of rice was still on the counter. And children’s slippers still lay on the carpet by the mattresses. Yet the Dutch traveler to Syria, Xaviera S. (now 30), never asked her husband how he actually came into possession of that house in that Syrian village. “He always told me not to interfere.”

She also didn’t ask when they later moved several times, including to Raqqa, then the capital of the ISIS caliphate. There she lived, among other places, on the top floor of a villa. Her husband’s second wife lived on the first floor. And some of the houses, according to the prosecution were clearly left behind by refugees.

First Dutch woman

Taking possession of houses and their contents for yourself is plunder, and therefore a war crime, the Public Prosecutor’s office argued Friday in The Hague court. “The impact of looting is huge. Not just for individual people, but also for the rebuilding of the country”. S is the first Dutch ISIS wife to be brought to trial for this offense, but there are now more cases in progress.

The Apeldoorn woman asked no questions of her husband, the Dutch jihadist Anis Z. But she suspected then, as she confirmed Friday, that the houses may have belonged to people “who did not follow the rules of ISIS”. “And at that time, I could agree.”

Xaviera S. traveled to the conflict zone in 2014. The Apeldoorn woman of Netherlands/Antilles origin had been deep in problems in the years prior (drinking, smoking drugs, debts), for which Youth Care Services took her son away. She converted to Islam. “I wanted a purpose in my life.”

Married via Skype

But Xaviera soon winds up in radical circles. Via Skype, she enters into an Islamic marriage with Anis Z., a known jihadist who is in Syria. Without seeing him, she travels there not long afterwards.

“In reality, he was a completely different person than via Skype,” she says about Anis in court. In addition to Xaviera, the Dutch citizen had three other wives, also Dutch. Anis blew himself up in 2015 in a suicide attack for ISIS. Xaviera remarried another jihadist, the Dutch-Algerian Mokhtar M.

In 2018, after the fall of the ISIS caliphate, Xaviera was in jail in Turkey for 1½ years. At the end of 2019, she returned to the Netherlands, where she was taken into custody. In May 2020 she was provisionally released because she was in the last stages of pregnancy.

She is back in court on Friday. The woman in the Hague courtroom no longer looks anything like the tightly-veiled ISIS wife who threatened people with death from the caliphate. Xaviera has her hair in a bun, wears jeans and a sweater, and has tattoos and a nose piercing. She no longer feels like a Muslim. She answers all questions calmly.

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Between a Rock and Hard Place

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As expected, the negotiations for a new Dutch government have hit an iceberg. Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan sends some educated guesses about what might lie ahead.


Pieter Omtzigt with the mask off

Between a rock and hard place

by H. Numan

The formation of a new cabinet in The Netherlands is dead in the water. Mr. Pieter Omtzigt walked out, for the flimsiest of reasons: he didn’t think the budget would be handled properly by the new cabinet. Nobody believes him. His party tanked from 20 seats to 11 seats in the subsequent poll. He still wants to support a PVV cabinet, but only as a minority government. What’s going to happen now is anyone’s guess.

I told you we have a pretty clear electoral result: it’s going to be either a somewhat conservative government led by the PVV, or an extreme left-wing cabinet led by the PvdA-GL. No other combinations are realistic.

Mr. Omtzigt’s suggestion for a minority cabinet is ludicrous. Most people don’t believe him anymore, if only for that flimsy excuse. Supposing Wilders were to go for that option, his cabinet wouldn’t last long. Omtzigt would blow it up on the first possible opportunity, no matter how minute, trivial or outright silly the issue might be. Wilders is the longest-serving politician in Parliament, so he knows that, too.

I had my doubts about Mr. Omtzigt, and told you many times about them. For those who don’t know: Pieter Omtzigt was a CDA politician; in that party he held two positions. He was their no. 2 man, and enfant terrible. All politicians are actors. Some are better than others, but they all are. Wilders, for example, stands out because of his hairstyle. That’s his trademark. His nickname is Blondie or Mozart.

Omtzigt played the role of a very conscientious hard-working politician (that he is), selfishly working for the betterment of the country and his party (bull crap). He led several investigations that didn’t make him a lot of friends in his party. The shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines MH 17 affair he investigated, and presented a report that was controversial for the government. Part of that government was his CDA party. He correctly placed most of the blame on Russia, something that the government rather wanted to ignore, but couldn’t after his investigation. Another investigation was the Childcare Scandal. This caused the collapse of the previous government, in which his own party CDA was a coalition partner.

As he was number two in the party, there were only two ways his career could go: up or out. Either he would become the next CDA leader or he would step out of the party. CDA leadership knew he was hugely popular, so they rigged the leadership elections. Not once, but twice. Just to keep him from the no. 1 spot. Had they elected him as the new leader, we’d have a CDA government right now. Instead they opted for a campaign of gossip, slander and innuendo that drove him out of the party after a nervous breakdown. The once almighty CDA has now shriveled to a mere fringe party.

At the time, I wondered why they preferred oblivion. His recent actions told me why. This man is a loose cannon. Uncontrollable, and worse: unreasonable. He knows everything, and you have to do exactly as he wants. If not, he throws a temper tantrum and has a nervous breakdown until he gets his way. However, there is more. Omtzigt is a wobbler. His favorite game is the yes-no game. That goes for most politicians, but he excels in it. He doesn’t want to say yes, because that would alienate some voters, but also he doesn’t want to say no, in fear of losing other voters. He is a guy sitting eternally on the fence.

He also fears responsibility. One of the reasons why he didn’t win the elections was that he openly said he didn’t want to become the next PM, without telling us who his candidate for PM would be. Only on the very last moment (mere days before the elections) did he decide to accept that position after all, but the damage was done. It played a big part why his party ended in third place. A lot of people, myself included, say: if you don’t want to become prime minister, why set up your own party?

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Corrupt Governments Partnered With Corrupt Corporations — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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The following video from the AUF1 TV channel in Germany discusses the recently concluded conference hosted by the World Economic Forum in Davos. The topic in focus is “public-private partnerships”, where gigantic global corporations get their financial tentacles into the affairs of formerly sovereign states.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Pledges Allegiance to Somalia

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The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Pledges Allegiance to Somalia

by Clare M. Lopez

“Video of Ilhan Omar Repeatedly Calling Somali Leader ‘Our President’; Saying, ‘The President and I Have a Special Relationship, I Call Him Uncle and He Calls Me His Girl’”, by Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit, January 31, 2024

  • “EXCLUSIVE: Emmer calls on Ilhan Omar to resign for ‘appalling, Somalia-first’ speech” by Luke Sprinkel, Alpha News, January 29, 2024
  • “Ilhan Omar Speech on Representing Somalia in Congress Goes Viral With Calls to Expel Her From the House” by Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit, January 28, 2024
  • “Rep. Ilhan Omar Represents Everything Wrong With America’s Immigration System” by John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, January 30, 2024 — Insightful essay on what America’s Immigration System ought to be for… which is a set of shared principles and values
  • “I’ve Been Identifying Ilhan Omar as ‘D-Mogadishu’ for Years. It Turns Out I Was Right.” by Robert Spencer at PJ Media, January 29, 2024 — Robert Spencer’s take on whom Rep. Omar really is in Congress to represent — it’s not the American citizens of her Minneapolis district
  • “Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) Pledges Allegiance to Somalia” by Hugh Fitzgerald at Jihad Watch, January 31, 2024

Biden Administration Continues Shelling Out Millions to Taliban Regime in Afghanistan

“United States Confirms Sending $80 Million To Afghanistan Every 10-14 Days”, Afghanistan International, 01/19/24

  • The $85 billion in top-of-the-line military equipment and weaponry that the Biden admin left behind in August 2021 apparently wasn’t enough.

Inside the Gate

“US government employees plan walkout over Biden’s Gaza policies” by Joyce Karam & Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al Monitor, January 12, 2024

“Biden’s Department of Education Investigating San Diego State University for ‘Islamophobia’ Over Statement Condemning Oct. 7 Hamas Terrorist Attacks” by Margaret Flavin at Gateway Pundit, January 5, 2024

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Robert Fico: Our Governments Bowed to the Pharmaceutical Companies

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The following video features remarks made by Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico to his country’s parliament. As far as I know, this represents the first time any head of a Western government has called out the corrupt predatory practices of governments in symbiosis with the pharmaceutical industry during the COVID-19 “pandemic”. He even highlights the corrupt relationship between Pfizer and Ursula von der Leyen, the current president of the European Commission. For his sake, I hope he has a food taster on his staff.

The subtitles were timed using the official English translation of Mr. Fico’s remarks. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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Salafist Termites Infest the Socialist Party in Hesse

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The following story is a refreshing change: a culture-enriching “German” politician for the Socialist Party has failed in his attempted lawfare against a news outlet that uncovered and published the truth of his connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Apollo News. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Apollo News wins in court against Faeser confidant — connections to the Salafist scene proven

An Apollo News investigation showed SPD [Socialist Party] politician Lamjahdi’s connections to the Salafist scene and the Muslim Brotherhood. Lamjahdi sued and brought out the heavy legal guns. But the Frankfurt regional court confirms the Apollo News research — the Salafist connections have now been upheld in court.

“Faeser is campaigning with Islamists” — this was the title under which Apollo News published a report on September 19th about the SPD politician Mustapha Lamjahdi, who had recently published a photo of himself and the Federal Interior Minister on her election campaign tour in Hesse on Facebook. Lamjahdi is chairman of SPD Heddernheim and is considered influential in Faeser’s Hesse SPD and an ally of the Interior Minister. Lamjahdi himself likes to appear as a “liberal Muslim”. However, our research showed that Lamjahdi has “connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist scene.” Shortly afterwards, the politician not only deleted all photos and posts from his Facebook page — he also sent us a warning via his lawyer.

About a month after publication, Lamjahdi filed a lawsuit with the Frankfurt am Main regional court. He wanted to force Apollo News to delete reporting on his connections and to remain silent in the future under threat of a fine of up to €250,000. Apollo News was also to be silenced about Lamjahdi having his photo taken with one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s leading ideologues, Ali al-Qaradaghi, and posting it himself on Facebook.

Not with us. Apollo News media attorney Walther Wegner replied with one 8-page legal letter [PDF], in which every point of our research was proven in detail and legally supported. The Frankfurt Regional Court confirmed the argument — the decision speaks a clear language. It was found that the statement that Mr. Lamjahdi had “connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist scene” was “a true statement of fact or an expression of opinion derived from a true basis of fact.”

Lamjahdi filed a complaint against this, but the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court rejected the complaint and the regional court’s decision now became final.

“Faeser is running the Hesse election campaign with Islamists”

We had previously shown — and in our article — that Lamjahdi, as a member of the board of the TUN e. V. ( Toleranz und Nähe eV /Tolerance and Closeness [registered association]) obtained membership in the German-Islamic Association of Associations (“DIV”) and was chairman and liquidator of the same. At that time, the DIV was already under observation by the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The Hessian Ministry of the Interior confirmed at the time that of the 46 DIV member associations, “around a third could be assessed as extremist or extremist-influenced”. The association was dissolved in 2019 due to its membership structure, which was criticized by the authorities and the media as extremist.

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Come on in — Just Jump the Turnstile

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Mass naturalization fraud has no consequences

No security check, no scrutiny of economic circumstances: In Osnabrück, an employee of the immigration office sells off hundreds of German passports. The migrants do not have to fear any consequences.

Osnabrück

Mass naturalization fraud in Osnabrück has no consequences for the foreigners affected. It had previously become known that an employee of the immigration office in the district had carried out “grossly incorrect naturalizations” in more than 300 cases since January last year, as Spiegel reported. The woman had put the naturalization fee into her own pocket.

However, the approximately 300 people who received German citizenship without tests will be allowed to keep it. The Osnabrück district spokesman, Burkhard Riepenhoff, assured that the naturalizations had been checked again. Since there was no other information, there was no reason for revocation.

The 33-year-old stole around €41,000. The Osnabrück public prosecutor’s office is now investigating charges of misprision, taking advantage and bribery, a spokesman for the authority told the epd news agency (Evangelischer Pressedienst). The woman was also fired.

Turbo-naturalization through cash payment

Among other things, she is said to have failed to carry out statutory security checks such as inquiries to the police and public prosecutor’s office, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Central Register. In 189 cases, she also omitted the examination of whether the previously foreign citizens could support themselves independently. In some cases, the identity of the people was not conclusively clarified and there was no evidence of German language skills. This significantly reduced the time of naturalization process for them, which normally takes months.

She received help from an agent who explained to foreigners seeking naturalization that the EC reader was defective. As a result, applicants would have had to make payment in cash. The money is said to have ended up in her own pocket. The clerk worked for the immigration authorities from February 2021 to July 2023 and processed a fixed batch of letters. The irregularities were discovered during a cash audit last year. [Shows you once again how stupid and greedy these bureaucrats are in reality, now, doesn’t it?]

No explanation of naturalizations

The focus of the public prosecutor’s investigation is the embezzled €41,000. The administrative acts of naturalization themselves are not part of the investigation, said public prosecutor Christian Bagung to the epd. Investigators currently suspect that the accused did not accept or demand any additional amounts of money. The offense carries a fine or a prison sentence of up to five years.

Another court case concerns the termination of the employee against whom they filed a lawsuit. Although an initial negotiation was unsuccessful, the main hearing is still pending. The accused denies any responsibility.

Afterword from the translator:

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China, the Clown State

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Our Bangkok correspondent H. Numan reports on the latest geopolitical news from the Far East.

China, the clown state

by H. Numan

You’re not going to believe me. Recently new corruption scandals have rocked the People’s Republic of China. The commander of the Chinese Rocket Forces disappeared. A bunch of army, navy and air force top commanders also vanished in Nacht und Nebel. That happened a couple of months ago, but now they are all officially charged with corruption. Not just a bit of corruption. Corruption on a scale that baffles even Russians. China is very busy trying to become a superpower. They have the biggest army in the world, the biggest navy in the Pacific… but… it’s of little or no use. It is all falling apart.

Thailand

Before I continue, two related stories from Thailand. The new Srettha government was planning to allow Chinese police stations in tourist areas. Real People’s Police offices with semi-diplomatic status, where Thai officials would be welcome only on invitation. All to accommodate and support Chinese tourists, of course. What else?

A part of the soft power of China is tourism. Thailand relies heavily — as do many other nations in the region —on Chinese tourists. About one-third of all foreign tourists used to be Chinese. They vanished during and because of the Covid pandemic. Now the pandemic is over, Thailand wants them back. Apparently, at all costs.

That gave the Chinese government a nice opportunity. China is, as we all know, a communist dictatorship. Its citizens cannot freely travel, not in China itself (you need internal passports) and certainly not abroad. Percentage-wise, not that many Chinese can afford to travel abroad, but with +1 billion you have a lot of tourists who can. Most Chinese travel in groups. That’s a pretty common way to travel in Asia anyway, but in China there is another reason. A group is much easier to control than individual travelers. And China can control who gets this pot of gold. Provided they are nice to the Chinese government, that is. For example, micro states in the Pacific who acknowledge Taiwan suddenly didn’t get any tourists. Until they cut formal relations with Taiwan. Then, all of a sudden all ‘problems’ were solved and the flood of tourists came back.

People’s Police stations in Thailand

The Chinese government wanted real Chinese People’s Police stations in Thailand. Once that happened, all restrictions would be lifted. To manage Chinese tourists? Of course! What else? To control Thailand? The very idea! Thailand is an independent country, and proud about it. This created so much of a nationwide outcry that PM Srettha hastily withdrew those plans.

The Kra Canal

We’re not done yet, because China is big. They have more irons in the fire. The next one is ongoing, with a (small) possibility of succeeding. The Kra canal. You all know the most famous canals of the world, being the Panama and Suez canals. Another maritime choke point is the Strait of Malacca. At the moment maritime traffic is at a maximum. Large ships have to make reservations in order to cross it. For China it is of vital importance. All oil and most commerce to and from China has to pass the strait. It’s very easy to block by just about anyone. India, for example, is fortifying the Andaman Isles just to be able to do that. A canal through the narrow part of Thailand in the deep south might solve that problem for China, and give them another route. Which could just as easily be blocked, but now you have two passages to control.

That would be the Kra Canal. That’s a centuries-old dream of Thailand/Siam/Ayutthaya. They always wanted such a canal. However, it’s far more difficult to construct than the Panama canal, so nothing ever happened. Many projects were initiated, but no shovel ever hit the dirt. As long as I have been in Thailand (30 years!) rumors about reviving the Kra canal came and went.

This time the Chinese government is putting a lot of pressure on Thailand to construct one. Money is not an issue. Engineering can be done by the Chinese. We finance it too, on (for China) excellent conditions. Just allow us to build the damn thing!

I doubt very much whether it will ever happen. Singapore isn’t exactly thrilled to see half of their maritime trade sail away. A small state, to be sure, but with a lot of commercial power. America won’t be overjoyed either. Biden or Trump doesn’t matter. A Kra canal is not in the interests of America.

Another problem that will rear its ugly head: the revolting southern muslim provinces. They are located exactly on the other side of the proposed canal. The first problem will be unruly muslims milking the project for all they can. The second problem is that once the canal is there, independence is no longer a pipe dream. Rather something that almost certainly will happen when those provinces are separated by a huge canal from the mainland. A lot of water will flow through the Chao Phraya before it will happen. If at all.

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The COVID Corruption Business

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The huge amounts of “pandemic” money sloshing around in the budgets of various Western countries were an invitation to all sorts of grifters to put their snouts into the trough. The following scandal from Belgium is the latest to emerge. It seems that a politically connected operator was able to grease the right palms and get a lucrative (€50 million) COVID-money deal redirected to a favored crony.

Kathleen Depoorter is a member of the federal Belgian parliament for the New Flemish Alliance (Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, N-VA). In the following video she calls out the country’s political leadership about the Corona money scandal.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

English-language articles about this scandal are scarce. The one below was the most comprehensive I could find. I realize that BNN Breaking is a deprecated source, but those who read French will find that this article from the Belgian state broadcaster RTBF lines up well with the BNN Breaking story:

Belgium’s Health Ministry Embroiled in Contract Controversy: A Deep Dive

by Ebenezer Mensah
December 9, 2023

In the heart of Belgium, a dispute has arisen, casting a shadow over Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke and the Federal Public Service (SPF) Health Public. At the core of the controversy is the awarding of a public contract initially entrusted to Belgian SME Medista, for the distribution and storage of strategic reserve of medicines, COVID-19 tests, and vaccines. In 2022, the contract was transitioned to French multinational company Movianto, bringing the fairness of the process under scrutiny.

Medista Cries Foul

Medista, holder of the contract from 2020 to 2022, contested the decision, alleging that an SPF Health Public official unfairly assisted Movianto. In an attempt to validate their claims, Medista presented evidence, including hidden camera videos obtained with the assistance of Black Cube, a private investigation firm staffed by ex-members of the Israeli intelligence service.

Medista also claimed unpaid invoices amounting to EUR 5.3 million from the SPF, unsuccessfully challenging the contract award in the Council of State, and sought to amicably settle the dispute.

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A Small But Significant Victory

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Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan sends this follow-up on the process of trying to form a government in The Netherlands after Geert Wilders’ electoral victory last month.


Frans Timmermans: ‘Hello, Ursula [von der Leyen]. Can I get my old job back?’

A small but significant victory

by H. Numan

After his stunning electoral victory, Geert Wilders is continuing the offensive. He scored another and a just as significant victory. The position of Speaker of the House was coming vacant. The no. 3 in the PVV party, Martin Bosma, won that election. He is now the new Speaker. After years of muslim women holding the gavel, it’s now an evil racist patriarchal oppressive white man! Not my opinion, of course, but that’s how the left sees it. Quite literally. The more progressive they are, the more insults and false accusations they utter.

Martin Bosma is well-liked and respected, by both left and right. He was deputy Speaker, and appreciated for his management of the House. The previous Speaker was Firouz Alida Chaouqui; she performed under her artist name ‘Vera Bergkamp’. Her father is Moroccan, and she holds — you’d never guess it — two passports. Her tenure was abysmal. We don’t have many civil servant strikes in The Netherlands, but she managed to get her civil servants to go on strike and nearly revolt. Apart from that she was partisan, vindictive and couldn’t maintain order in the House. The reason why this incompetent nincompoop became Speaker is obvious. She had the most pity points: D66 member, dual nationality, mohammedan, has a lesbian partner and two children.

The one before her was also a mohammedan, Khadija Arib. She was more competent, and a Labor party member. Of course dual nationality, the correct faith and plenty of pity points. She had to leave office in disgrace because her successor very capably got her in trouble. What exactly isn’t terribly important here. The case is pending, and basically swept under the rug, after her inglorious departure. Now it’s Martin Bosma’s turn.

This is a very significant victory, for Bosma and the PVV, because it broke the anti-PVV boycott. Most parties tried to keep the PVV at bay by boycotting them at every opportunity. Most PVV motions were denied. Usually a member of a boycott party would slightly rephrase the motion, to get it passed. Making it blatantly obvious that the motion was justified, but the carrier was not.

Every position a PVV member tried to qualify for was given to someone else. Even if they had to dig one up for it. Two reasons for the boycott: it happens to nearly all new parties that are even slightly controversial, or marginally anti-establishment. D66 was indirectly boycotted for several years before it became accepted. And, of course, because the PVV stands diametrically opposed to what the establishment wants.

As you might expect, the left is furious. Their candidate Tom van der Lee got substantially fewer votes. They were sure he would make it, even though van der Lee was deeply involved in the Oxfam child sex scandal. We don’t know (yet) if he dipped his wick in something he shouldn’t, but he certainly knew about it and did everything he could to sweep it under the rug. The usual whining doesn’t work anymore. More like the opposite: it shows the grapes are very sour. Especially Green-Left (ex communists) are very vocal about racists, fascists and more of that. The parties that voted for Bosma and got him is majority were the VVD and NSC.

Now, that doesn’t say everything is all right now. Far from it. Both party leaders very much wanted something else, but they simply couldn’t get it. There is real pressure inside their parties to put up or shut up. As I said before, the party elites would much rather have a communist-conservative coalition, but they stand alone. Supposing they do decide to go ahead and block Wilders, it’s the end of their careers and their parties. That happened before with the once-mighty Christian Democrats and the equally powerful Labor party, who both willingly and eagerly went woke and are now broke. The CDA is now almost a fringe party with five seats, and Labor had to merge with the Communists to save at least something. So don’t be surprised if Pieter Omtzigt (NSC) and Dilan Yesilgöz (VVD) go woke after all. It has happened before.

Another positive sign is that Wilders suggested that Ronald Plasterk did a great job and can become informateur. He was scout, looking for possibilities to form a cabinet. Just scouting. Nothing formal. To appoint an informateur is the next step. Essentially the same, but more formal. Parties now will start negotiating in earnest. Especially when points of view differ widely, that can take a very long time. In this case they do differ widely, but are forced to at least try. It’s likely negotiations will take several informateurs. The next step would be a formateur, that is, the man who will dot the i’s and cross the t’s. That is still in the future. I also expect Plasterk to resign from his party and join as a minister the PVV party. But that is also in the future.

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Italian Vax Promoter Investigated For Fraudulent Misrepresentation and Murder

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Former Italian Minister of Health Roberto Speranza is being officially investigated by the prosecutor’s office in Rome for his actions in promoting the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus.

Many thanks to HeHa for translating this video report, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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