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The article below describes how SecState Antony Blinken played a key role in fomenting the rapidly escalating NATO sponsored conflict between Ukraine and Russia, leading the world to the brink of WW3.

The author fails to mention that Blinken is a lifetime member of the liberal-fascist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission, along with other key players on the "Biden team" including SecDef Austin, CIA director Burns, etc. (See our post "The CFR Strikes Back" for a more complete list.)

Antony Blinken, the long-time "aide" of Joe Biden, is simply continuing the anti-Russia project launched during the Obama/Biden admin under CFR/Trilateral StateDept operatives Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, William Burns, Jake Sullivan, Mark Brzezinski and many others. Here are key points from the article, including links to the MHP database for the players:

"On March 7, 2022, two weeks after Moscow entered the 'civil war' in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CBS News that the U.S. would give NATO member Poland a "green light" to send Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine to enforce a no-fly zone against Russian aircraft. [US ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski, trained at Oxford, is son of the Trilateral founder --ed]

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also backed the no-fly zone. But within days the Pentagon shot down the idea as it engaged in a consequential battle with the State Department and members of Congress to prevent a direct NATO military confrontation with Russia...

President Joe Biden...ultimately sided with the Defense Department [saying:] "We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine." U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin backed him up... Blinken, who stepped out of line to speak above the heads of the President and the Pentagon, lost that round. It's surprising he kept his job. But he survived and now he's come back for more. [Blinken has been at Biden's side since 2009, see his timeline --ed]

Blinken's recklessness emerged yet again last week when he peddled a story that Biden would approve a British request to fire its Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia. The Guardian story on 11-Sep-2024 said: "Antony Blinken gave his strongest hint yet that the White House is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private..."

The next day Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that launching such missiles into Russia "will mean that NATO countries -- the United States and European countries -- are at war with Russia. And if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the essence of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us."

Blinken's words evidently raised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's hopes that he would satisfy his desire to strike Russia with his nation's arsenal of long-range missiles, despite Putin saying that meant direct war with NATO. Starmer had evidently been led by Blinken to believe that it was a done deal...

Starmer's mania to strike Russia illustrates the British elite's continuing pathological hatred of Russia, extending back centuries, compared to a perhaps more tempered American geostrategic rivalry with Moscow. Blinken and the British are trying to lead us to the brink. Except that the Pentagon...has [so far] pulled the world back from it.

Biden has proven himself a supreme warmonger, his advocacy for the illegal invasion of Iraq and his complicity in the genocide in Gaza as the most egregious examples. Like the two presidents before him, Biden allowed neocons to worm themselves into positions of power in his administration... Barack Obama let Hillary Clinton, the "Queen of Warmongers," bring Neocon queen Victoria Nuland into his administration. Donald Trump let neocons John Bolton and Mike Pompeo into his...

Instead of banishing these people, they are allowed to linger and drag the U.S. into evermore perilous failures: Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza and Ukraine, leaving behind a mountain of squandered dollars and an ocean of blood. [The CFR network has controlled every US admin since WW2, see these charts --ed]

In 2015, Obama wisely decided against arming Ukraine after the Nuland-and-Biden-led 2014 coup because he did not want to antagonize Russia, for whom he said Ukraine was a vital interest... Blinken at the time was Obama's deputy secretary of state. To support the president's position, he told a conference in Berlin:

"If you're playing on the military terrain in Ukraine, you're playing to Russia's strength, because Russia is right next door. It has a huge amount of military equipment and military force right on the border. Anything we did as countries in terms of military support for Ukraine is likely to be matched and then doubled and tripled and quadrupled by Russia."

But once he was freed of the restraints of Obama, he joined Biden's aggressive Ukraine policy at the top of the State Department. From that position, and with a power vacuum in the White House because of Biden's dementia, Blinken has been openly pushing the neocon agenda, laid out plainly in the 2000 report of the Project for a New American Century. [Most of the PNAC neocons were also CFR members, including Wolfowitz, Perle, Kagan, Bolton, Cheney, etc --ed]

PNAC plainly promulgates that no power or alliance of powers will be allowed to rise up to stand in the way of the neocons' mad quest to harness American power to achieve world domination. An alliance such as that of China, Russia and the BRICS countries, which has only accelerated in opposition to unhinged, neoconservative adventurism.

In 2019, Blinken teamed up with arch-neocon (and PNAC co-founder) Robert Kagan to write a Washington Post op-ed arguing for more aggressive use of U.S. power abroad and against U.S. domestic trends towards non-interventionism...

No matter the many disasters piling up, notably Iraq, Palestine and now Ukraine, the neocons are undeterred and unrestrained. It's about power and murder but it is made palatable to themselves with flowery language about America saving the world for 'democracy'. Their belief in their own supremacy, cloaked in an American flag, remains fanatic, no matter the death and destruction they cause. They do not understand that American power has limits and to test that, they risk everything."

-- Joe Lauria, "The Madness of Antony Blinken", Consortium News, 2024-09-20

Note that neocon Dick Cheney, a former CFR director, has now "crossed party lines" to endorse Kamala Harris for President. More evidence that the CFR network sets the policy and controls the players in the political circus.

Same stuff, Different decade

On 11-Sep-1941, American aviator Charles Lindbergh Jr. made a speech trying to rally the American public against being dragged into WW2. At that time, Roosevelt's Secretary of War was CFR member Henry Stimson. Consider the ominous parallels to the present conflict, and Lindbergh's warning is just as relevant today:

"It is now two years since this latest European war began. From that day...until the present moment, there has been an ever-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict. That effort has been carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people; but it has been so successful that, today, our country stands on the verge of war...

At this time, as the war is about to enter its third winter, it seems appropriate to review the circumstances that have led us to our present position. Why are we on the verge of war? Was it necessary for us to become so deeply involved? Who is responsible for changing our national policy from one of neutrality and independence to one of entanglement in European affairs?

If you will look back over the record, you will find that those of us who oppose intervention have constantly tried to clarify facts and issues; while the interventionists have tried to hide facts and confuse issues...

Have you ever heard an interventionist, or a British agent, or a member of the administration in Washington ask you to go back and study a record of what they have said since the war started? Are their self-styled 'defenders of democracy' willing to put the issue of war to a vote of our people? Do you find these crusaders for freedom of speech? Or for the removal of censorship here in our own country?...

The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the [Democrat] administration. Behind these groups... are a number of capitalists, anglophiles, and intellectuals who believe that the future of mankind depends upon the domination of the British empire...

These war agitators comprise only a small minority of our people; but they control a tremendous influence. Against the determination of the American people to stay out of war, they have marshaled the power of their propaganda, their money, and their patronage...

The danger of the [Democrat] administration lies in its subterfuge. While its members have promised us peace, they have led us to war heedless of the platform upon which they were elected... They planned: first, to prepare the United States for foreign war under the guise of American defense; second, to involve us in the war, step by step, without our realization; third, to create a series of incidents which would force us into the actual conflict. These plans were of course, to be covered and assisted by the full power of their propaganda...

We have become involved in the war from practically every standpoint except actual shooting. Only the creation of sufficient "incidents" yet remains; and you see the first of these already taking place, according to plan...a plan that was never laid before the American people for their approval."

-- Charles Lindbergh Jr, Speech to the America First Committee, 11-Sep-1941

[last update April 2021, see below]

Joe Biden was declared "President Elect" by the CFR-connected media even before the votes were counted on Nov 4th. Evidence of massive vote fraud in several contested states was hidden from the public, and the courts and State legislatures failed to investigate. The "certified" electoral votes were accepted by the Congress on Jan 6th, and the result is now official (see below).

Biden himself is a pathetic figure; a doddering, corrupt political hack barely able to read his teleprompter script. He refers to Harris as the actual "president elect". Most of the key players on the incoming "Biden team" are members of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations and its network of interlocking affiliates. As in every previous administration since WW2, they will once again be running the show, with Biden as an easily manipulated figurehead.

Biden was recorded boasting to his CFR superiors about his shady dealings in Ukraine on behalf of his son Hunter Biden and other business partners, which were later investigated by a U.S. Senate committee. This story was ignored, and the salacious evidence of corruption and potential blackmail recently recovered from Hunter Biden's computer was hidden from voters by the CFR connected media.

"Joe Biden promised that he would form “the most diverse cabinet” in US history...but almost all of his key future cabinet members have one thing in common: they are members of the US Council on Foreign Relations (see list below)...

Most of Biden’s CFR-vetted nominees supported recent US wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen as well as the 2014 regime change in Ukraine.... Neocon Max Boot, the CFR Senior Fellow in National Security Studies and one of the most vocal opponents of the Trump administration, has called Biden’s future cabinet “America’s A-Team”. Thus, after four years of “populism” and “isolationism”, a Biden presidency will mean the return of the CFR and the continuation of a [globalist] tradition of more than 70 years..."

-- Swiss Policy Research article. See also "The American Empire and Its Media"

Some of the key CFR and Trilateral members on the "Biden team":

* Sullivan, Blinken, Rice, Sherman, Brzezinski, Schmidt, Rouse and Burns are also members of the Trilateral Commission, a CFR affiliate.
* William Burns, a career State Dept official, is the recent president of the Carnegie Endowment, a CFR affiliate.
* Nicholas Burns, selected as Ambassador to China, is a CFR director.
* Victoria Nuland, married to long-time CFR member Robert Kagan, is the recent CEO of CNAS, a CFR affiliate.

The CFR is the flagship of the globalist "liberal world order" network which has dominated US policy since WW2. Most of the Fed chairmen and the secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense and CIA have been CFR members, along with senior politicians, military leaders, corporate executives, and media personalities. The MHP Database now includes all CFR members and directors since its founding a century ago; just enter any last name in the database search box.

Richard Stengel, former editor of Time magazine tapped to head the US propaganda department, called propaganda “a good thing” at a recent CFR meeting. Stengel is a Rhodes Scholar, along with Susan Rice, Jake Sullivan and CFR president Richard Haass. He is also a fellow at the Atlantic Council, a CFR affiliate founded and dominated by CFR members. The current owner of Time magazine, billionaire Marc Benioff of Salesforce, is a CFR member and a trustee at the World Economic Forum, another CFR affiliate. See our previous comments on the WEF/CFR "Great Reset".

Time founder Henry Luce and his assistant C.D. Jackson were also CFR members. Jackson was deputy chief of the "Psychological Warfare Division" during WW2, and after the war, Time/Life continued its propaganda activity under "Operation Mockingbird" led by CIA director Allen Dulles -- who was a CFR director for 40 years. Jackson was also a delegate to the UN Organizing Conference along with many other CFR members, including John F. Dulles and Alger Hiss. Most of the US ambassadors to the UN have been CFR members.

In a recent puff-piece interview with CFR asset Jake Tapper of CNN, Biden made it clear that he intends to "step aside" for health reasons to allow VP Kamala Harris and her husband, Jewish lawyer Douglas Emhoff, to occupy the White House, with Barack Obama covertly calling the shots from his Washington DC mansion. Obama himself is a protege of Jewish billionaire Penny Pritzker, a CFR member and former director, who is now chairman of the Carnegie Endowment, a CFR affiliate. Her cousin, billionaire Thomas Pritzker is a CFR member and chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), another CFR affiliate. Her brother J.B. Pritzker is the Governor of Illinois.

Kamala Harris' sister, Maya Harris, is also a CFR member and vice president for "Democracy, Rights and Justice" (sic) at the Ford Foundation, another CFR affiliate. Every president of the Ford Foundation since 1950, including Darren Walker, has been a CFR member. Along with the Bill Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation is a major promoter of the "liberal" population control and "sustainable development" goals of the CFR / UN / WEF elites.

The CFR and its interlocking network of affiliate organizations, including major corporations, foundations, universities, think tanks, and other NGOs, constitute "The Invisible Government" of this country. Our "democratic" elections and "representative" governments are a farce. Many authors mention the "deep state" or "the Fed" or "Wall Street", but seldom explore the integrated structure of this network and its authoritarian "global governance" objectives. Why is that?

"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

-- David Rockefeller, CFR chairman 1970-85, "Memoirs", chapter 27 (2003)

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."

-- Carroll Quigley, CFR historian, "Tragedy and Hope" (1966), pg. 1247

Vote Fraud Fiasco

UPDATE: As Quigley noted, the CFR oligarchs manipulate the bogus "democratic process" to serve their own agenda. Watch this shocking security camera video from inside the Georgia vote counting center on the night of the election. The legally required "observers" had been kept at the rear of the room all day and prevented from verifying the counting activity. They were finally told to leave the center at around 10:30 pm.

After everyone else had left, several workers (black Democrat partisans) began pulling thousands of pre-positioned ballots from underneath a covered table and continued running them through the tabulation machines until 01:00 am. A massive "vote dump" was then reported at 01:34 am, with 136,000 votes for Biden and only 29,000 for Trump, an improbable 5-to-1 ratio and enough to "flip" the Georgia election in favor of CFR frontman Joe Biden. Similar anomalous "vote dumps" also occurred in Michigan and Wisconsin soon afterwards. Evidence of substantial vote fraud, including statistical analysis of voting patterns, was hidden from the public by the establishment media.

UPDATE: The State of Texas filed suit at the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the mishandling of "absentee ballots" in several contested states, including Georgia, in violation of established State election laws. The Court refused to hear the case due to "lack of standing", and did not discuss the actual merits of the claim. Note that Justices Breyer and Gorsuch are/were CFR members.

UPDATE: Since the courts failed to act, several Republicans planned to challenge the electoral votes at the joint session of Congress on 6-Jan. The Senators called for a special Electoral Commission to conduct an investigation of the alleged vote fraud in the contested states, to be resolved by the affected State legislatures prior to the Presidential inauguration on 20-Jan.

Phony "Insurrection"

UPDATE: Donald Trump and his supporters held a massive rally in Washington D.C. near the White House on 6-Jan during the recording of the electoral college vote. A small group of agitators at the fringe of the crowd allegedly "forced" their way into the Capitol building, conveniently disrupting the challenges to the vote fraud in the contested states. After the intruders were removed, the Congress re-assembled and quickly rubber-stamped the remaining electoral votes. VP Mike Pence, who led the proceedings, was handed a "challenge coin" as a reward for his service to the establishment.

Shocking video inside a Capitol building hallway appears to show a black police officer shooting and killing an unarmed white female protestor. This incident was recorded and posted by socialist BLM/Antifa agitator John Sullivan (aka Jayden X), who helped instigate the brief "occupation" and was later arrested. He was accompanied by a female CNN reporter, both posing as Trump supporters. Watch this analysis of the entire event. Note the odd reactions of the other protestors, and the "thumbs up" signal given to the shooter by an armed officer standing behind the victim. UPDATE: In May, the family of the shooting victim announced a wrongful death lawsuit against the government. UPDATE: In August, Lt. Michael Byrd was "cleared" by an internal investigation, then boasted on NBC that he "saved countless lives" by gunning down Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Air Force veteran.

UPDATE: Following the staged disruption at the Capitol, Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi and long-time CFR member Chuck Schumer immediately called for President Trump to be removed from office. They were joined by Republican leaders Liz Cheney and Mitch McConnell. Liz Cheney is the daughter of former CFR director Dick Cheney. McConnell is the husband of long-time CFR member Elaine Chao. See the Quigley quote above.

UPDATE: The New York Times reported that "Trump loyalists" struck a Capitol police officer in the head with a fire extinguisher, resulting in his death several days later. This false report was echoed by the CFR "mockingbird media" for weeks, and the alleged "murder" of this "heroic officer" was presented as evidence during the failed Pelosi / McConnell impeachment circus. Having served its propaganda purpose, the story was then retracted by the NYT. (In April, the DC medical examiner finally reported that the officer had died of "natural causes".)

UPDATE: The CFR insiders were determined to dump Trump and return to the status quo, and all efforts to investigate and expose the 2020 election fraud have been blocked. According to long-time CFR member Patrick Byrne, Trump's lead attorney Rudy Giuliani was the key player who fumbled the ball during the critical period. Let the reader decide.

"I had a ringside seat to election events from Nov 3, 2020 to Jan 6, 2021, and feel a duty to explain to the world what really happened... This election steal should have been child’s play to reveal and reverse... To steal the national election one does not need 'widespread' election fraud... It only takes 'deep' election fraud in six cities to flip the swing states they are in, to thereby flip the electoral college, and to thereby steal the election nationally. Those cities are Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Phoenix, and Las Vegas...”

-- Patrick Byrne, "How Donald J. Trump Lost the White House" : Preface, Intro, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6

CFR Triumph

UPDATE: As expected, the Biden dictatorship began by rubber-stamping dozens of "executive orders" implementing major policy changes in autocratic fashion, completely bypassing the "legislative process" and public debate. A majority of the Republican Senators also quickly approved all of Biden's CFR cabinet appointees.

UPDATE: In late Jan, the CFR journal "Foreign Affairs" published an anti-Trump rant, disparaging the pro-American, anti-globalist policies he promoted, and denigrating his supporters. The anti-democratic censorship of dissenting views has only intensified. See this critique of the CFR article.

UPDATE: In early Feb, the CFR mouthpiece Time magazine published an Orwellian article describing the heroic efforts by the “conspiracy” of “left-wing activists and business titans" which successfully prevented the re-election of Donald Trump. It fails to mention that they are all connected, either directly or indirectly, to the CFR. See this critique and this critique of the Time article. Time magazine is now owned by billionaire CFR member Marc Benioff, who is also a trustee at the Davos WEF.

UPDATE: In late March, Biden signed an "executive order" to further erode nationwide voting standards, naming Susan Rice to lead the effort. She is a Rhodes Scholar, a 30-year member of the CFR, and a former member of the Trilateral Commission as noted above.

UPDATE: In late March, several black executives, led by CFR director Kenneth Chenault (AmEx), posted an open letter in the New York Times. They claimed that the new Georgia "Election Integrity Act" requiring proper voter identification "discriminates" against black voters. Other signers include CFR members Kenneth Frazier (Merck), Richard Parsons (TimeWarner), Raymond McGuire (Citigroup), and Roger Ferguson Jr. (TIAA). Parsons is a trustee at the Rockefeller Foundation. Ferguson is a member of the Trilateral Commission. Frazier and Ferguson are members of the Rothschild "Council for Inclusive Capitalism". McGuire, of Rockefeller's Citigroup, is now running for mayor of New York City.

"$1.8 billion of IMF bailout funds intended for Ukraine have mysteriously found their way to a Cyprus bank account controlled by notorious Ukrainian [Jewish] oligarch Igor Kolomoisky...the former governor of Dnipropetrovsk, [and] one of Ukraine's richest businessmen... At the center of Kolomoisky's wealth is PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest financial institution, which received 40 percent of the bailout money which had been earmarked for stabilizing the banking system...

"Basically, this was a transfer of $1.8 billion abroad, with the help of [offshore companies], fake contracts, the siphoning off of assets and violation of existing laws," explained journalist Lesya Ivanovna. In March, Kolomoisky was dismissed from his position as governor of Dnipropetrovsk after a power struggle with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko; the [alleged] fraud was carried out while he was governor of the region in east-central Ukraine [bordering the conflict zone]... It appears that Kolomoisky is unlikely to face justice, as he is currently living in exile [in Switzerland] -- he fled Ukraine earlier this year."

-- Sputnik article

Igor Kolomoisky, sponsor of the fascist "Azov Battalion", is also a leader of the international Zionist movement. He is the founder of the European Jewish Parliament and donated the funds for construction of the palatial $100 million dollar Jewish Community Center in Dnipropetrovsk. The center is managed by the Chabad Lubavitch, an orthodox Jewish sect whose stated mission is to "conquer all the gentile nations" according to rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the revered leader of the sect in New York -- and son of the former Chief Rabbi of Dnipropetrovsk.

Someone had to pay for this largess; why not the "gentile nations" which fund the IMF? American taxpayers provide 18% of total IMF funding, which works out to about $325 million of the $1.8 billion allegedly skimmed off by Mr. Kolomoisky. It is unlikely that IMF Governor and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, a Jewish CFR member, will press for a refund.

The IMF representative in Ukraine maintains close relations with Jewish oligarch Victor Pinchuk, financial supporter of the Clintons, whose bank also receives IMF bailout funds. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government is diverting IMF loans to pay for military aggression, and trying to avoid repaying a $3 billion loan from the Russians:

"Russia, unlike Ukraine’s private sector lenders, will not accept a 20 percent write-down on the $3 billion Eurobond due in December...[due in part to] President Poroshenko’s promise -- in direct violation of the IMF’s articles of agreement -- to use part of the IMF’s $17.5 billion loan to carry out Ukraine’s “anti-terrorist operation” against its own citizens [the ethnic Russians of eastern Ukraine]. Still worse, the IMF loan and the [proposed] debt restructuring...will do little to address either the oligarchical nature of the economy or widespread government corruption."

-- The Nation article

What about the "oligarchical nature" of the U.S. economy? The Nation, a "liberal" New York magazine whose owner/editor is Jewish CFR member Katrina vanden Heuvel*, is unlikely to explore that subject in detail. The Ukrainian oligarchs are merely a rough imitation of their New York cousins, and they are all members of the same club.

Billionaire Petro Poroshenko, former head of the National Bank, led the 2014 coup. Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk is chairman of the "Open Ukraine" Foundation sponsored by Chatham House (RIIA) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), both of which are affiliates of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The long-time president of NED is Jewish CFR member Carl Gershman, and the current chairman of the CFR is Jewish banker Robert Rubin.

Billionaire Victor Pinchuk and his Pinchuk Foundation are partners with the Soros "Open Society" Institute, the Peterson Institute**, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Jewish billionaire George Soros is a former director of the CFR. Billionaire Pete Peterson is the former chairman of the CFR, and co-founder of Blackstone along with Jewish billionaire and fellow CFR member Steve Schwarzman. The Clintons (and Bushes) are mere servants of the oligarchy; paid actors on the public stage.

See our previous comments on the subject here and here.

* William vanden Heuvel, Katrina's father and former U.N. ambassador, is also a CFR member. In the 1950s, he was a protoge of intelligence officer William Donovan, Roman Catholic Knight of Malta and founder of the OSS.

** The Peterson Institute is another branch of the club whose interlocking directorate includes names like Rothschild, Soros, Greenberg, Fischer, Summers, Zoellick, etc.

• Nemtsov murder

 Political
2015-03-02

Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in the streets of Moscow during a midnight stroll with his young Ukrainian mistress a few days before he was due to lead an anti-government protest rally. The western media, led by the Rothschild owned Economist, were quick to accuse president Putin of the murder despite any credible evidence. They failed to mention that Mr. Nemtsov was a U.S. sponsored agitator who participated in the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine a decade ago, and an associate of the current junta leaders including Petro Poroshenko. As in the recent "Charlie Hebdo" affair, the fact that the victim was Jewish only adds fuel to the propaganda fire.

"Nemtsov became a prominent face of the 'opposition' from 2011 to early 2012 when he and his 'uncivil society' friends attended a super-covert meeting at the US embassy in Moscow shortly after Michael McFaul had been appointed US ambassador. Unfortunately for the erstwhile 'oppositionists', several TV crews were waiting for them... Ambassador McFaul serves on the board of directors of Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy... In 2011 the Brookings Institution published a report that called on the US Senate to confirm McFaul as ambassador...penned by arch-Neo-Conservative Robert Kagan, who is married to the 'freedom-cookie queen' of the Euromaidan [coup in Ukraine], Victoria Nuland of the US State Dept."

-- Joe Quinn article

UPDATE: In July, President Putin closed down the subversive operations of the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy in Russia, declaring it an "undesirable organization". The long-time president of NED is Jewish CFR member Carl Gershman.

"[NED president] Carl Gershman took a personal hand in the Ukraine crisis and recognized it as an interim step toward regime change in Moscow... [He] called Ukraine “the biggest prize” and explained how pulling it into the Western camp could contribute to the ultimate defeat of Russian President Putin."

-- Robert Parry article

Someone who claims to be a worker at a Ukrainian air base has decided to come forward with new information regarding the shootdown of Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 last summer. He was recently interviewed on a Russian TV program, and here are some highlights from the transcript:

"Q: Where were you on July 17, 2014, the day Malaysian Boeing was shot down?

A: I was on the territory of Ukraine, in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, the village Aviatorskye. It is a regular airport. There at this time were based fighter jets and helicopters. Planes regularly flew on bombing missions, Su-25 attack aircraft bombed Donetsk, Lugansk. This lasted a long time... Out of the eight airplanes which were based there, only two had "air-to-air" missiles. They were suspended [under the wings]...

Q: Tell us about July 17.

A: Airplanes flew regularly, all day since the morning. In the afternoon, about an hour before the downing of the "Boeing", three attack fighters were raised into the air. I don't remember the exact time. One of the airplanes was equipped with such missiles. It was an Su-25... The missiles vary in size, plumage, coloration. With a guidance head, very easy to recognize. Anyway, after a short time, only one airplane returned, two were shot down. Somewhere in the East of Ukraine, I was told. The airplane that came back, was the one with those suspended missiles.

Q: It returned without the missiles?

A: Without the missiles. That pilot was very scared...

Q: What else do you remember this day? What did the pilot say?

A: He said a phrase, when he was led out of the airplane: "It was not the right plane." And in the evening there was a phrase to a question from one pilot to him, to Voloshin: "What's up with the plane?" To which he replied: "The plane was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

-- Translation of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" interview, 22-Dec-2014

We have no way to confirm this story, but it sounds plausible. It might help explain why the western "investigation committee" has not published their findings. Note that Aviatorskye is an airbase adjacent to the Dnipropetrovsk International Airport (see map), a short distance west of the conflict zone where MH-17 was shot down. The entire province (oblast) of Dnipropetrovsk has been under the governorship of Jewish billionaire Igor Kolomoisky since the coup. See our previous comments on these events.

UPDATE: In July 2015, Russian sources released a new forensic analysis indicating that an Israeli-made Python air-to-air missile was probably the weapon that brought down the airliner:

"The dimensions and character of the puncture holes left by the strike elements allegedly allow their size and form factor to be established, which in its turn makes it possible to identify the type of weapon used in a particular case."

-- Russia Today, 16-Jul-2015

While world attention was distracted by the recent airline disaster in Ukraine (see below), more than 1500 men, women and children in Gaza were slaughtered and thousands more driven from their homes once again by the Zionists, who proudly posted photos of themselves celebrating the carnage and destruction. The spineless lackeys in the U.S. Congress -- including those who claim to be "Christians" -- expressed unanimous support for the latest war crimes, and voted to send even more U.S. taxpayer money and weapons to the Jewish State.

Instead of focusing on Bibi "the Butcher" Netanyahu; the piles of dead and maimed Gaza children; the bombing of schools, shelters, and hospitals; the raving Jewish mobs and the racist incitement by their leaders; and the worldwide protests against these ongoing atrocities, the Zionist controlled media is busy trying to drum up support for a war against Russia. Does anyone perceive the hypocrisy?

Here's an example of this anti-Russian propaganda from The Economist (of London), where Jewish oligarch Evelyn de Rothschild is a major shareholder and former chairman. His current wife, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, friend and supporter of Zionist cheerleader Hillary Clinton, now sits on the board of directors. They are especially determined to destroy Vladimir Putin, who dares to stand in their way.

Oddly enough, the case of the former Yukos Oil company, which was broken up by the Russian government a decade ago, has recently resurfaced. An EU "arbitration panel" has now ruled against the Russians and ordered them to pay $50 billion in compensation to former shareholders. One of those shareholders was Lord Jacob Rothschild, former director of the Yukos "Open Russia Foundation", who reportedly acquired $13.5 billion worth of shares from Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2003. After serving 10 years in prison for financial fraud, Khodorkovsky was pardoned by President Putin and now resides in Switzerland.

The Rothschilds have been prime sponsors of the Judeo-Masonic "State of Israel" project since its inception in the 19th century. The Economist blog for its pro-Zionist commentary is called "Pomegranate" and features a picture of that fruit centered on a map of the middle east. Why? According to Jewish mythology:

"Pomegranates were known...as the fruits which the 'scouts' (spies) brought to Moses to demonstrate the fertility of the "promised land"... The robe of the ephod worn by the Hebrew High Priest has pomegranates embroidered on the hem... The capitals of the two pillars (Jachin and Boaz) that stood in front of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem [and within Masonic temples today] were engraved with pomegranates and it is said that Solomon designed his coronet based on the pomegranate's crown... Pomegranates also symbolize the mystical experience in the Jewish kabbalah".

-- Wikipedia, Pomegranate

The roving band of Israelite raiders eventually seized the "promised land" from its rightful owners by military force, and all the inhabitants were mercilessly slaughtered. The Jewish priests and scribes justified the deed after the fact, and enshrined their own version of events as "holy scripture" not to be questioned. Is it any different today?

UPDATE: In 2016, Russia won an appeal to overturn the $50 billion ruling.

A Malaysian airliner en route from Netherlands to Malaysia crashed in the Donetsk province of eastern Ukraine on 17-July killing almost 300 people. The Boeing 777 was cruising at 33,000 ft altitude, and it has been alleged that the cause of the disaster was a surface-to-air missile. Political demagogues, led by Zionist warmongers John McCain and Hillary Clinton, were quick to point the finger at both the Russians and the separatists in eastern Ukraine.

However, it is just as likely that the well-equipped but poorly-trained Ukrainian military forces, now under command of the NATO backed junta in Kiev, were actually responsible. They control most of the territory in Donetsk, and it would not be the first time they have "accidently" shot down a civilian airliner.

"The Ukrainian military has several batteries of Buk-M1 (SA-11) surface-to-air missile systems with at least 27 launchers (see photo), capable of bringing down high-flying jets, in the Donetsk region where the Malaysian passenger plane crashed, the Russian Defense Ministry said... There were unconfirmed reports the Malaysian plane was travelling at an altitude of over 10,000 meters when it was allegedly hit by a missile... Only the S-300 and Buk surface-to-air missile systems are capable of hitting targets at such altitude..."We simply don’t have such air defense systems. Our man-portable air defense (shoulder-launched) systems have a firing range 3,000 - 4,000 meters. The Boeing was flying at a much higher altitude," Sergey Kavtaradze, special representative for the prime minister of the [breakaway] Donetsk People’s Republic, explained."

-- Russia Today

Not only were the Ukrainian missile batteries stationed in the Donetsk region, it also appears that someone in the Ukrainian air traffic control system directed the flight to deviate from the usual route, placing it within range:

"What’s peculiar about MH17 is that the ill-fated flight [on the 17th] was different from its usual path over Ukraine. According to data at flightaware.com, a website tracking civil aviation traffic, the flight on Thursday diverted about 200 km north from the paths the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 had used in previous days. And it led the plane right over the war-torn Donetsk Region. So far no official explanation has been given as to the unusual flight path. "

-- Russia Today

Igor Kolomoisky, the billionaire Jewish oligarch recently appointed governor of the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk province and founder of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP), has stated that he intends to use his private mercenaries to "wipe out" the separatists in neighboring Donetsk. Was the errant missile fired from a launcher located within Kolomoisky's domain, including areas in Donetsk under control of his forces?

"During the working visit of President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko to Donbass [in June], oligarch Igor Kolomoisky has openly declared, that he would not obey the President's decree on 'peaceful settlement', and that his army would "finish off" the militiamen in the South-East of the country in any case. This was confided by a source in the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on condition of anonymity, RIA Novosti reports... Earlier, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation made a statement that almost 1,500 people were recognized as victims in the case of using prohibited means and methods of war in Ukraine. The list of defendants in this case includes Governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Igor Kolomoisky..."

-- Voice of Russia

Another strong possibility, not mentioned in the western propaganda campaign, is that the airliner was shot down by a Ukranian fighter jet rather than a surface-to-air missile. There will be some sort of "investigation", but the truth may never be revealed. As usual, the most important question remains: who benefits?

UPDATE: It is likely that NATO knows exactly what happened to MH17, but are unwilling to release the information for some reason:

"The 10-day NATO exercise code named 'Breeze 2014' has ended in the Black Sea... NATO ships and aircraft had the Donetsk and Luhansk regions under total radar and electronic surveillance..."

-- Wayne Madsen article

UPDATE: A private investigation firm in Germany is now offering a $30 million reward for infomation which correctly identifies the perpetrators of the shootdown.

The regime in Kiev, which seized power in a February putsch and ousted the sitting President, recently held a new election which was boycotted by the breakaway regions in the east. The billionaire oligarch Petro Poroshenko, former governor of the Ukraine central bank and prime sponsor of the coup, won the election. Here is a brief profile of Mr. Poroshenko, without the usual western media filter:

"[Poroshenko] has never been an entrepreneur to start a business of his own... He made a head start thanks to the criminal connections of his father (Oleksii Poroshenko, aka Alexsei Valtsman) sentenced for large-scale theft in 1986. Having served the sentence, Poroshenko Sr. launched his own business making his son involved in the activities. The business was dirty, it all started with plundering state property by armed gangs... Tatyana Mikoyan, a well-known Kiev-based lawyer, remembers what the family did in Transnistria, "It was horrible back in the 1990s: illegal arms, prostitutes, drugs – all bringing profits to father and son". Poroshenko Sr. was awarded for his merits – in 2009 he received the Hero of Ukraine decoration bought for him by his son, who paid to former President Yushchenko, the godfather to Petro Poroshenko’s children. The would-be President-elect...has the reputation of someone who knows how to make money out of thin air."

-- Strategic Culture

"He’s no saint — none of them are,” said Svetlana Golnik, who volunteers with the Poroshenko headquarters twice a week in downtown Kiev. “But he is cleaner than most other oligarchs and he delivers on his promises. Anyway, right now he’s what we have to work with.”

-- Jewish Daily Forward

Shortly after the coup, another member of the Jewish oligarchs club, Igor Kolomoisky, was appointed governor of the Ukranian province where his metal refining operation is based.

The foundations of Kolomoisky’s business empire were laid in the wild days following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, when the soon-to-be oligarchs scrambled to snap up dilapidated state factories and entire industrial, mining and energy sectors at bargain-basement prices... His opponents have accused him of using violence, intimidation and coercion, similar methods to those he has been accused previously of using in some of his business dealings."

-- Haaretz article, "Is This Man the Most Powerful Jew in the World?"

Here is an equally disturbing profile of Mr. Kolomoisky, his private army, and their role in the recent massacre of anti-fascist protestors in Odessa:

"[Igor Kolomoisky], an Israeli-Ukrainian oligarch living in Switzerland... is regarded as the main leader of the Ukrainian mafia [and] ranks as the second or third wealthiest man in the country... [He] chairs the United Jewish Community of Ukraine and founded the European Jewish Union... [He] was appointed governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast by the junta authorities in Kiev [and] played an active role in the organization of the Odessa massacre of 2 May 2014 together with his private army, the "Dnieper-1" Battalion..."

-- Voltaire Net

"Kolomoisky temporarily delivered his private “Dnieper-1” Battalion under the command of law-enforcement officials in Odessa and also authorized a cash payment of $5,000 for “each pro-Russian separatist” killed during the special operation... Roadblocks were set up outside of Odessa, secured by militants under the personal command of Kolomoisky’s “Dnieper-1” Battalion, as well as Right Sector’s thugs from Dnepropetrovsk and the western regions of Ukraine... [The] train from Kharkov arrived in Odessa on May 2 at 8.00 am carrying fans of the Metallist soccer club, including some “ultras” who were taking part in the operation. In addition, militants from the “Dnieper-1” Battalion and Right Sector simultaneously entered the city in small groups...

While the confrontations were underway on Greek Square, a group of Right Sector thugs were readying the main part of the operation, code-named “Ha’ola” – from the phrase “Mizbeach Ha’ola”, which in Hebrew means “the altar of burnt offering”. They slipped into the House of Trade Unions through the back entrance and fortified their positions in the basement and the attic... Led by the provocateurs, many activists entered the House of Trade Unions instead of scattering throughout the city... a massacre with a large number of fatalities was needed in order to terrorize the entire country."

-- Oriental Review

Mr. Kolomoisky, founder of the European Jewish Parliament who refers to Ukraine as the "second homeland of the Jews", recently rewarded his "liberal" supporters in America, including Vice President Joe Biden who was in Ukraine to meet with the coup leaders shortly before the Odessa massacre took place:

"Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest private gas producer [owned by Igor Kolomoisky], has expanded its Board of Directors by bringing on Mr. R Hunter Biden [son of V.P. Joe Biden] as a new director... The other new board member, Devon Archer, works with Hunter Biden at Rosemont Seneca partners, which is half owned by Rosemont Capital, a private equity firm founded by Archer and Christopher Heinz... John Kerry’s stepson."

-- Naked Capitalism

For background, Odessa was an early center of the Zionist movement and the hometown of revolutionary leader Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. During World War II, the strategic port was captured by the Nazis.

"From the 1880s until the 1920s the Jewish community of Odessa was the second largest in the whole of Russia... [By] the 1840s most of the bankers and moneychangers were Jews, and at the beginning of the 20th century, 70% of the banks of Odessa were administered by them... From the inception of the Hibbat Zion movement, Odessa served as its chief center... The Benei Moshe society (1889), which attempted to organize the intellectuals and activists of the movement, was established in Odessa... Jewish emigration from Russia to Eretz Israel (Palestine) also passed through Odessa, which became the "Gateway to Zion"...

-- Jewish Virtual Library, "Odessa"

"Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky was a Zionist activist, orator, and writer who founded the Betar Movement... Jabotinsky was born as Vladimir into a middle-class Jewish family in the Russian city of Odessa (1880). At the age of 18, he left Odessa to study law in Italy and Switzerland, where he also served as a foreign correspondent for several well­ known Russian newspapers... [He] returned to Odessa in 1901 where he worked on the editorial staff of Odesskiya Novosti, but the pogrom against the Jews of Kishinev in 1903 spurred Jabotinsky to undertake Zionist activity."

-- Jewish Virtual Library, "Ze'ev Jabotinsky"

UPDATE: See this article by Wayne Madsen on Kolomoisky's efforts to re-establish the "Jewish homeland" in Ukraine:

"One of the main reasons why Ukrainian Jewish billionaire tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky -- the governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk province and citizen of Ukraine, Israel, and Cyprus -- is spending tens of millions of dollars on the recruitment of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis from other parts of Europe to fight against the Russian-speaking majority in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, is a fear that plans to turn Ukraine into a 'second Israel' will be derailed."

-- Wayne Madsen, "Israel's Secret Plan for a 'Second Israel' in Ukraine", Dec 2014

Dutch politician Geert Wilders, a Roman Catholic opponent of Islam and supporter of Zionism who lived and worked in Israel for two years, has finally released his much anticipated anti-Muslim film "Fitna". It was originally posted at LiveLeak.com, but quickly pulled because of "threats to the staff". It is now being proudly hosted by Israel National News.

The first few minutes are enough to discredit this inflammatory propaganda piece. It opens with the provocative cartoon of "the prophet" with a bomb in his headgear. Then, using footage from the 2001-09-11 attack in New York City, it tacitly endorses the official myth that the attack was perpetrated solely by "muslim terrorists". Likewise with the London underground bombing of 2005-07-07. These images are interspersed with various "kill the infidel" verses from the Quran, and shots of anonymous protestors in muslim garb waving signs in English saying odd things like "God Bless Hitler".

Who benefits from such an oversimplified and emotional distortion of the facts, Mr. Wilders? How will this help to stem the flood of Muslim immigrants overruning Europe?

ANY belief system which requires submission to a priest cult and its irrational dogma; which demands the suppression and slaughter of "heretics"; and which seeks to dominate the entire world in the process of establishing its utopia is a throwback to the dark ages.

This criteria applies equally well to Islam, Catholicism and Judaism to name three examples, each of which has condemned the others as "infidels" or worse. Let us not forget that the Catholic Nazis and the Jewish Bolsheviks* slaughtered more Europeans in the past century than all of the Islamic nations put together.

Mr. Wilders decries the Islamic Quran as a "hate-filled book". Yet, similar passages abound in the Jewish Talmud, the cornerstone of "religious Zionism" and the discriminatory Jewish State he admires. Likewise, the Catholic Council of Trent states that those who do not accept their dogma are declared "anathema", defined as:

"That which is cursed and condemned to be cut off or exterminated, whether a person or a thing... Nations, individuals, animals, and inanimate objects may become anathema, i.e. cursed and devoted to destruction." -- Catholic Encyclopedia

Catholics claim that the church merely "cuts off" the heretic and that "God" actually performs the destruction, but European history is replete with other examples -- like the recent slaughter of the Orthodox Christian Serbs of Croatia:

"In a brutal terror campaign, more than half a million Serbs were killed, a quarter-million expelled, and two hundred thousand forced to convert to Catholicism. The [Catholic] Ustaša regime in Croatia, and particularly this drive in the summer of 1941 to exterminate and dispossess the Serbs, was one of the most horrendous episodes of World War II.

The murder methods applied by the Ustaša were extraordinarily primitive and sadistic: thousands were hurled from mountaintops, others were beaten to death or had their throats cut, entire villages were burned down, women raped, people sent in death marches in the middle of winter, and still others starved to death... Many Catholic priests, mainly of the lower rank, took an active part in the murder operations." -- Encyclopedia of the Holocaust

Coincidently, at the same time in nearby Bavaria, the young Catholic who is now Pope Benedict XVI was enrolled in the Hitler Youth organization...

*Note: The Jewish Marxists who led the Bolshevik Revolution and controlled the new government (supported by their wealthy comrades in New York, London and Frankfurt) exterminated millions of Orthodox Christian farmers in Russia and Ukraine who opposed their program of "sovietization". They eventually became the victims of the police state machinery they had created once Stalin turned against them years later.

"An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system."

-- Sever Plocker

UPDATE: While we disagree with Mr. Wilders opinions, we support his right to express them. Apparently the thought police in his own country do not. They have recently decided to persecute him under their Jewish inspired "hate crime" laws.

UPDATE: In June 2009, Mr. Wilders "Freedom Party" won 4 seats in the European Union parliamentary election.