Sergey Lavrov
Foreign Minister of Russia
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Russian Federation

Interview with Sergey Lavrov to the International Life magazine (August 19, 2023)

Question: The world has entered a period of confrontation between the concepts of global development: the position of Russia, China, and, in general, the non-Western position as opposed to the policy of Western dominance. Was it inevitable, based on the differences in civilizations, approaches to the use of force and international law, and understanding of the role of international institutions? In the context of the current challenges, what, in your opinion, is Russia's role and mission?

Sergey Lavrov: I cannot but agree that the concept of Western dominance promoted by the United States and the countries that obey it does not imply the harmonious development of the entire humanity. On the contrary, we have to deal with the constant desire of the Western minority for military-political and financial-economic expansion. The slogans change: they talk about globalization, then about Westernization, Americanization, universalization, liberalization, and so on. But the essence remains the same - to subjugate all independent players to its will, to force them to play by the rules favorable to the West.

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Brandon Smith

"There are generally two kinds of people in the world – Those that want power over others, and those that just want to be left alone." ~ B. Smith

When I think back to the first days of the covid pandemic lockdowns, I suspect the majority of people, even many conservatives and liberty movement types, had a healthy concern about the effects of the virus and the potential for structural upheaval if it turned out to be as deadly as the World Health Organization initially claimed. If covid had an Infection Fatality Rate of 3% or more as global health officials warned, then the damage would be substantial enough to change our world for many years to come.

Anyone who was not at least partially concerned about a biological disaster (or biological warfare) was probably an idiot. Anyone who was smart was prepared. However, after a few months of the spread of the virus and after the first flurry of scientific data, several facts became evident:

1) The lockdowns did nothing to stop the spread, they were simply destroying our economy.
2) The masks were useless and did nothing to prevent transmission of the virus.
3) The IFR of covid was a tiny 0.23%, and that’s not accounting for all the co-morbidity deaths that were falsely labeled as covid deaths.
4) The vaccines did not prevent transmission for millions of people. They did not prevent infection in many cases and numerous vaccinated people have died from the virus. Not only that, but unvaccinated people with natural immunity were better protected than those that took the vaccine and boosters.
5) Studies show that vaccines cause dangerous side effects at a much greater rate than the CDC admitted.

Everything government officials told us during the pandemic was a lie. It was not a mistake, it was not bureaucratic confusion, it was a lie. Even after this information became available, they KEPT GOING – They kept people locked down, kept them masked and they even tried to force-vaccinate the population.

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Katherine Watt

Madonna of the Rosary with Saint Catherine of
Siena and Saint Dominic. Painting by Francesco
Lazzaro Guardi. (More @ Fine Art America)

Orientation for new readers

"Cloaked by the secrecy, identifiable men and women impersonating US government officials have committed discernible, lethal fraud, to carry out mass murder behind ‘public health emergency’ camouflage." ~ K. Watt

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Henry Makow

"If we wish to obtain our liberation and sovereignty from the enslavement imposed by the private bankers, we must dismantle ...their central banks or we ourselves shall be destroyed and consigned to oblivion."
(A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind by Stephen Mitford Goodson)

Here is a frightening thought. What if mankind were the highest expression of life in the universe? What if God pinned all His hopes on this craven, credulous, lazy, and stupid monkey, man?

What if a powerful satanic cult hijacked the human race? Imagine it displaced God and enslaved the human race in spiritual, mental, and physical bondage.

The cult did this by virtue of a very simple scam. It interjected itself between the state and its people by creating the medium of exchange (money) as an interest-bearing debt to itself. Money creation is something the State is perfectly capable of doing itself, without incurring any debt or paying any interest.

This fundamental fraud is the explanation for almost everything that has gone wrong with the world.

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Donald Jeffries

Dysfunction and propaganda building an ugly "new normal"

Note- this article was originally published last year on my blog. I think it has become even more relevant. There are a lot of archived articles there that subscribers here may be interested in.

Polls tell us that 27 percent of Americans aged 60 or older live by themselves, more than anywhere else in the world. Older people in other countries, on the other hand, most often live with an extended family, as was once common here. Even older married couples tend to live without anyone else; more childless married couples, or those without children at home, live in the United States than in the rest of the world. We’re number one! USA! USA!

I’ve been thinking about what is a very real epidemic of loneliness, especially in America. Rugged individualism has gone wild. A lot of this is due to the unfortunate prevalence of dysfunctional immediate and extended families. I know very few families where there isn’t an often inexplicable dispute between parents and children, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, or cousins. Many of the lonely I have known personally have been in this situation. Rejected by their parents, or having rejected them. Not talking to a sibling or sibling for years, even decades. Ostracized from their children or grandchildren. Facing the sad prospects of old age alone. Is this what anyone really wants?

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John Leake

"They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night." (Job 5:14)

This evening at dinner, Dr. McCullough talked about the troubling signs that the noose is tightening on the Medical Freedom movement, with Drs. Paul Marik and Pierre Kory recently receiving ‘Notice of Potential Disciplinary Sanction’ from the American Board of Internal Medicine. The once intellectually sound institution now resembles a Maoist Tribunal. Equally alarming was Chase Bank’s recent decision to shut down the bank account of Dr. Joseph Mercola, apparently for no reason apart from his unorthodox views of health and medicine.

Then there was RFK, Jr.’s abominable treatment at the hands of Democratic members of Congress at a hearing about the federal government’s flagrant violation of the First Amendment. As I watched the shocking rudeness, arrogance, and brutality of the Representatives, I was reminded of accounts I’ve read about so-called People’s Courts and Tribunals—i.e., Kangaroo Courts—that have been erected by various totalitarian regimes. Last but not least is the constant legal harassment of former President Donald Trump, who is accused of being “a threat to democracy,” even though he is apparently the preferred candidate of roughly half the electorate.

All of the above remind’s me of Arthur Koestler’s classic 1941 novel, Darkness at Noon, which he wrote in 1940 while living in France. A Hungarian Jew, Koestler studied at the University of Vienna, and then embarked on an adventurous life, residing in various European countries and in Palestine, working as a reporter and author. A socialist in his youth, he was discerning enough to recognize that for all of its idealistic promises, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia quickly became a corrupt and tyrannical regime.

Darkness at Noon is set between 1938-1940, after Stalin’s Great Purge of dissidents (real, perceived, and fabricated) and the Moscow Show Trials. The action takes place in an unnamed prison in which the protagonist—a old guard Bolshevik named Nikolai Salmanovich Rubashov—has been arrested as part of Stalin’s campaign to eliminate all potential rivals. Rubashov undergoes a series of interrogations, which initially have a strange air of affability, but then turn progressively more severe and doctrinal.

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Katherine Watt

Madonna del Prato with the Christ Child and Saint
John the Baptist. Painting by Raphael. (More here)

Orientation for new readers

Translation of July 26, 2023 NEJM op-ed by Xavier Becerra and Ashish Jha, for use by readers for educational and self-defense purposes.

Occasionally I revise and/or rebut lies of government and non-governmental publications, to render the content truthful. Similar posts [below].

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, letters to Polish Catholics, 1952-1953. Quoted in The Keys of This Blood (Malachi Martin, 1990) at p. 568:

💬 “Whatever served the system or certain persons was called moral, and whatever bothered them was called immoral or evil. In this way, morality was made a slave to people and the system…Words lost their value. Untruth reigned in the means of social communication, information was falsified, the truth passed over in silence, perverse commentaries given. Everyone said that the press lies, the radio lies, the television lies, the school lies. Until, in the end, the lies turned back on the liars.”

Government lies:

■ July 26, 2023 - Project NextGen — Defeating SARS-CoV-2 and Preparing for the Next Pandemic. Xavier Becerra, J.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Ashish Jha, M.D., M.P.H., White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, published by New England Journal of Medicine

Translation:

■ Project NoNextGen — Inducing Sterility and Disease by Weaponizing Chronic Fear of Faked Pandemics. By Xavier Becerra and Ashish Jha

The deployment of lethal biochemical weapons labeled as Covid-19 vaccines and treatments within months after the SARS-CoV-2 propaganda campaign began, represents one of the great successes of modern psychosocial manipulation systems.

Thanks to the ingenuity of technocrats, especially behavioral psychologists, along with cooperation between the US government, the private sector, and globalist organizations (World Health Organization, United Nations), these biochemical weapons changed the trajectory of the bio-behavioral control campaign, destroying millions of lives in the United States and tens of millions globally.

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Colonel (ret.) Douglas Macgregor, US Army

A child says goodbye to his father through the window of an
evacuation train leaving Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 6, 2022

It is time for Washington to turn its attention inward and address the decades of American societal, economic, and military decay that ensued after 1991. It’s time to reverse the decline in American national prosperity, and power; to avoid unnecessary overseas conflict; and to shun future interventions in the affairs of other nation states and their societies. The threats to our Republic are here, at home, not in the Eastern Hemisphere.

From the moment the war in Ukraine started, Western reporting on the war was a radical repudiation of the truth. Washington and its NATO allies always knew that NATO expansion to Russia’s borders would precipitate an armed conflict with Moscow, but NATO’s ruling globalist class did not care. For them, Russia in 2022 was unchanged from the weak and incapable Russia of the late 1990s. The risk of failure seemed low. Ergo, Russia could be bullied into submission.

Americans and most Europeans did not bother to question or analyze. Widespread strategic ignorance about Russia and Eastern Europe ensured that most Americans and even West Europeans would react quickly and viscerally to the Western media’s distorted images and lies about Russia. At the same time, tolerance for criticism of Washington’s role in fashioning the corrupt and deceitful conduct of the Volodymyr Zelenskyy Regime and its war was disallowed in the press.

Washington’s ruling class was cheered when it dismissed Russian proposals for talks on any grounds that did not recognize NATO’s right to transform Ukraine into a base for U.S. and Allied Military Power aimed at Russia. Ukrainian flags sprouted from the lush grounds of America’s wealthier neighborhoods like flowers in an arboretum and wonders in the form of limitless military assistance, miracle weapons, and cash were promised to President Zelenskyy––promises that strategic reality did not justify.

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Maria Zakharova

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on the impossibility of endlessly suppressing the independence and sovereignty of nations

In two articles of the UN Charter, 73 and 74, there is such a rarely met nowadays term - "Non-Self-Governing Territories". The official Charter definition is that they are territories "whose peoples have not yet attained full self-government". We are talking about colonies.

The UN Special Committee on the Situation about the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples ("Special Committee 24") approved a provisional list of territories subject to the Declaration.

The UN is mandated to regularly update and publish a list of "Non-Self-Governing Territories" whose peoples are still in colonial dependence on metropolises.

It was last updated just three months ago, on May 10. Special Committee 24 counted 17 colonies. Think about it: 17 colonies in the 21st century, in 2023:

■ Three by the United States (United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam);
■ Two for France (French Polynesia, New Caledonia);
■ Ten for the United Kingdom (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Malvinas, Montserrat, St. Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands, Gibraltar, Pitcairn).

When the British monarch "apologizes" for the colonial crimes of his ancestors in Africa and other parts of the world, he remembers that even according to UN estimates, where Britain still has a veto in the Security Council, he is still the head of a colonial country. And for these colonies, his government is ready to kill and die (remember the relatively recent Falklands War). But that is not all.

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Serena Wylde

Pfizer claims products were Department of Defense prototypes

The pharmaceutical industry’s main role in the ‘pandemic’ project has been to provide cover for what is a military bio-terrorism program, it has been claimed.

Sasha Latypova is a former pharma-ceutical research and development executive who has supervised more than sixty clinical trials of new drugs for the industry and understands every step of the regulatory protocols which govern bona fide studies and trials.

In early 2021, however, she observed that the strong safety surveillance signals of the new injectables being registered in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) were not triggering the automatic stop and recall mechanism, and the relevant regulatory bodies were showing no concern. This led her to conclude that there was malicious intent. From then on, she set about examining minutely every aspect of the development, procurement, and manufacturing processes of the ‘vaccines’ being rolled out en masse, through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

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Donald Jeffries

No fear of Judgment Day

I’m fond of quoting Robert F. Kennedy’s greatest speech in my view, the one where he suggested billions of “tiny ripples of hope” could conceivably come together in a giant tidal wave, to defeat the mightiest tyranny and oppression. Now, he was speaking in South Africa, against Apartheid. Post-Apartheid South Africa isn’t exactly a paradise.

But the point he made was a timeless bit of optimism, perhaps hopium. The little people really can win, because there are so many more of them than the rich authoritarians controlling their destinies. But they have never come together, and probably never will.

They’ve shown they have no tipping point. The experiment conducted by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram was begun in 1961. Milgram found that a shocking 80 percent of people will obey any order from an authority figure. Since the population wasn’t quite as dumb or controlled in the 1960s as it is now, we can safely assume that the figure isn’t any lower in 2023.

Every time someone “pays it forward,” by treating a stranger at a restaurant or similar small gestures of generosity, that does produce a tiny ripple of hope, for instance. But what about the negative ripples? The evil acts of individuals; murder, rape, violent abuse, fleecing innocent persons.

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Jane Beck

I AM a 52-year-old woman living in criminal-corporatocracy Australia. When Covid struck I was locked down with my husband John. I do not do Facebook or Twitter or the others, and I have always avoided news as I found it so depressing. John would sometimes tell me news which he got from the ABC. We were perfect clueless believers.

When I spoke to my GP she told me that she had been vaccinated, and that lots of people need to get vaccinated so that the hospital system doesn’t fall over. She didn’t mention safety or risk or me specifically. At that time I didn’t notice the enormous wrongs in that advice.

I talked with John about the vaccine and I suggested we not get it, we wait, and he thought we should get it because the airlines required it and I wanted to travel to visit my elderly father.

I trusted and believed in the knowledge of both my doctor and my husband. I searched for information about the vaccines and the results were mostly US and Australian government websites and places such as the Mayo Clinic. I didn’t have a chance. The game was rigged and I had no idea we were even playing a game.

I got three vaccinations at the newly converted clinic nearby. They took my DNA, although they didn’t explain that they were doing that. I had to sign something which I didn’t understand. The nurse had to read out something which I didn’t understand. On the day of the third a big lump grew in my armpit. The internet said it was fine and it meant the medicine was working. It went away, but that’s not the end of the story.

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Katherine Watt

Orientation for new readers

Excellent new post by Sasha Latypova on Dec. 10, 1974 National Security Study Memorandum 200

■ July 26, 2023 - Population Control Policy. Why would my government want to kill me? Don't they need the GDP growth?

💬...It is important to realize that there is no scientific or humanitarian basis in “public health policies” as they exists today in the United States and globally. That machinery exists to drive the population control policy. There is no scientific or humanitarian basis mandating vaccinations with now close to 100 different poisons. Vaccines do not create health. Yet, this is squarely among the UN’s “sustainable goals.
💬 The public health system must be dismantled, because it is a camouflaged warfare program actively engaged in controlling and killing civilians under emergency pretexts and lies.

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On interpretation of selective silence

Some things are difficult for some leading voices among the Covid-times anti-tyranny voices to say publicly. Four of those things:

1. Vaccines and biochemical weapons are interchangeable terms for a single product class jointly manufactured and distributed by pharmaceutical companies and the US military for use by militarized health care providers on targets.
2. Observed harms caused by use of biochemical weapons labeled as vaccines, on targets, are intentional.
3. Intentional infliction of pain and death, on targets, using biochemical weapons labeled as vaccines, is State-sponsored. Governments have done it to their people in the past, are doing it right now, and clearly indicate their plans to continue doing it in the future.
4. State sponsorship of the intentional injury and killing of people is coerced through central bank control of money, such that governments are under the direct daily control of central banks, and democratic rituals (such as elections and legislative activity) are performative only. Government officials who try to refuse sponsorship of intentional mass murder (i.e., by speaking or legislating in authentic, non-performative ways) are subject to overwhelming reprisals: currency destruction, economic collapse, lockouts from international financial transaction systems, fomented internal civil disorder, government overthrow and assassination.

Covid has been a global demonstration that financial control mechanisms (banker behavioral control of governments) and political, medical-military ‘public health’ control mechanisms (government behavioral control of civilians) work as designed and installed. Through the real-time Covid lens, it’s become possible to discern the same demonstrative, murderous hand at work in conducting civil and world wars, famines and economic collapses, especially in the last three centuries.

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Dr Vernon Coleman

Interest rates were kept absurdly low for years in order to trap business and home owners into acquiring huge debts. As interest rates race up towards normal the cost of servicing loans and mortgages becomes impossible. Millions who bought overpriced houses and flats will become penniless slaves – forever doomed to pay off lifetime mortgages, student debts and mounting credit card debts while finding themselves in a constant fight against inflation – a fight they can never win.

As interest rates rose in England in 2023, the Government generously encouraged banks to extend mortgages indefinitely, to allow interest only mortgages and to delay repossessions. These two policies sound well-intentioned but they will, of course, result in the people who paid too much for their home (or took on too large a mortgage) being indebted for life and constantly struggling to pay off a mortgage on a home they will probably never own. Modern houses and flats on which they owe 30, 40 and even longer mortgages are so badly built (according to building regulations dreamt up by bureaucrats in accordance with the requirements of building industry lobbyists) that they will not last that long. There will be many defaults, with bankruptcies inevitable – thereby leading to the situation where more and more people own nothing, and the banks are happy. It’s what they want, of course.

It is curious, is it not, how the phrase ‘you will own nothing and be happy’, which is believed to have originated with the World Economic Forum can be compared to the principles of the communist revolution as described in Karl Marx’s ‘Communist Manifesto’.

Marx wrote that in order to establish a socialist dictatorship, and to obtain total control over the proletariat, the communists would have to eliminate all rights to private property, destroy all religion (which Marx famously described as ‘the opiate of the people’) and dissolve the family unit which was seen as a threat to the ability of the State to obtain total control over people’s lives.

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Katherine Watt

Orientation for new readers

As I read and write more about pre- and post-1959 Catholic teaching as they relate to current geopolitical events, I want to emphasize that I’m on a learning curve, and my views are developing as my knowledge base deepens.

Prior to Covid, my foundation for this work included my upbringing in a mixed family (traditional Catholic, American father and Protestant, European mother) in the 1970s and 1980s, followed by a basic education in philosophy and natural sciences at Penn State University, followed by work in journalism, civic activism (community organizing) and as a paralegal doing legal research and writing for attorneys practicing constitutional, civil rights and environmental law.

My interest in the relationship between pre- and post-1959 Catholic teaching and current geopolitical events began around 2003, when I read Malachi Martin’s The Keys of This Blood for the first time.

My interest intensified in early 2020 once I realized that 1) the intrinsically-evil Covid-predicated global crime spree was built on the corruption of civil law during the preceding decades, and 2) the corruption of civil law, especially in the Western world, was enabled by the dis-integration of Catholic teaching and erosion of Catholic faith during and since the Second Vatican Council.

Those realizations prompted me to read Fr. Martin’s book a second time in 2021, and then led me to papal encyclicals by Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius IX, Pope Pius X, Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII and the writings of Josef Pieper, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, among many other Catholic works. — The point being: the accuracy and clarity of my work will develop as I continue to learn and better grasp and apply definitions and concepts.

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