This week, writing as of the 2nd week of March 2022, the United States will reach 1 million dead from COVID 19. This disease, according to, not so much facts, but rather the tired acceptance of corrupt press and a public sated with conspiracy theories, is the “Kung Flu.”

As with false narratives, and there are so many, it all began with the Chinese love of “bat soup.” Behind this fanciful deception, the US began seeding tales of illegal Chinese bioweapons laboratories into the mix, all part of the “cover and deception “program that has, for many years, hidden a network of over 300 mysterious laboratories in over two dozen countries.

Those labs, such as those in Ukraine, Georgia and throughout the Caucasus studied diseases like COVID, Swine and Avian Flu and others that eventually manifested themselves into varying degrees of pandemic but with no known source of origin, unless you were to assume, wrongfully according to the United States, that the labs that created the diseases may well have unleashed them themselves.

There is an even worse problem, however, the inordinate lack of curiosity on the part of everyone until very recently. America’s military budgets have shown billions spent on investigating the most horrific diseases imaginable, including both Smallpox and Anthrax “seeded” with hemorrhagic fever type viruses, think “Ebola.”

The basic idea is this, according to the United States:

• Every imaginable new disease that can be created in a laboratory using the most advanced technologies available must be made, must be stored and must be improved upon so that just incase someone else is as stupid or plain evil as the United States, a plan for defending against these disease vectors can be developed.
• The military programs that fund over 300 laboratories that research biological weapons exist based on assumptions that unnamed other nations, may well begin similar programs and that the United States should not be left with a “missile gap” type scenario as existed during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
• Moreover, these laboratories, working with the most dangerous substances known to man, far more dangerous than nuclear weapons, tend to exist in the most unstable regions of the world in nations with the most corrupt governments as well. Here, things begin to fall apart.

So, let’s look at all of this again, historically.

Back in late 1945, the US began Operation Paperclip, run by CIA Director Allen Dulles (he and his brother, later to be Eisenhower’s Secretary of State were attorneys for Adolf Hitler in the United States during the period before World War II) and assisted by a Naval Lt. Commander Richard Milhouse Nixon.

It was their job to bring Axis scientists and others, including almost the entire Abwehr, to the United States. America got Werner Von Braun, but it also got “Unit 731.”

This was the Japanese germ warfare program that unleashed bubonic plague, not only on China but the Western United States as well and murdered thousands during “tests.”

Unit 731 became the basis for the Pentagon’s biological research program that continues today, using laboratories located in remote areas where governmental control is weak and planned “leaks,” in reality limited scale tests of pathogens, could be “contained,” if not medically, certainly through disinformation.

In fact, with the rare exception of the program in the Republic of Georgia being exposed by Jeffrey Silverman, other programs have managed to function year after year without question.

How many have died?

How close did the world come to the total erasure of mankind?

There is no one to ask, no media investigates, until days ago, no one even know where these labs are.

There is strong reason to believe that an additional parallel capability exists even inside the US. From National Public Radio:

Fort Detrick, Md., was created in the middle of World War II and became the center for America’s biological warfare efforts. But that role shifted in 1969, the government says, to focus solely on defense against the threat of biological weapons.

Then called Detrick Airfield, the science and research facility housed four biological agent production plants.

Anthrax was considered the most important agent. Simulants were tested, and one bomb was readied for production in 1944. One million bombs were ordered, though the order was canceled when the war ended in 1945.

During the 1950s, the biological weapons program was among the most classified within the Pentagon. There was an emphasis on biological agents for use against enemy forces as well as plants and animals.

The Army says no biological weapons were used during the Korean War, though such allegations were made by the Chinese and the Koreans.

However, since 1969, research into weaponization of diseases, research that includes developing new pathogens, new means of dispersal and, above all, the means of deploying bioweapons and blaming others has been outsourced, not just to labs hidden across the third world but stashed within universities across the United States as well. From Veterans Today:

In 2017, a “study” funded by a CIA front created COVID 19 at the University of North Carolina, made from a sample received from Wuhan. Backtracking, we find this 2006 study on how to re-engineer the more deadly but less effective SARS virus into something exactly like COVID 19, a study published by UNC in 2006. There are others dating back to 2006, part of a covert Bush-era program to renew America’s biological warfare capability.

One need only to look for published papers and follow the academic histories of those involved in research of monstrous new diseases to find a trail leading back to Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Conclusion

The hard questions are the ones never asked. If there is another nation, other than perhaps Israel, an American ally, actively developing bioweapons that represents a high degree of threat to the United States, why are they never named?

Then again, with billions in funding for hundreds of laboratories in the remote backwaters of the world developing “planet killer” diseases for no stated purpose whatsoever, can simple denials such as the one we heard from Victoria Nuland this week be allowed to stand, even among America’s supposed allies?

We might also state that this week, forces of the Russian military entered several of the American labs in Ukraine. Those involved in this process told this writer that tribunals are planned in order to address some of the questions we are asking here.

If the United States is engaged in what evidence suggests, a decades old massive biological weapons program, perhaps even one tasked with developing diseases capable of targeting certain population variants, why was this allowed to continue so long under so many administrations?

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

What I am writing here I have been warned against. As we move toward the last full week of February 2020, we are told that the world is at the brink of a war. But who believes this?

Certainly, anyone reading the Western media, you know the ones, CNN, the BBC, the Guardian, all but Fox News, keep getting the same story. If we listened, and by “we,” I mean the people of the world, we would be cowering in shelters digging holes in our backyards. No one is doing this. Thus, we can assume that no one believes there is going to be a war.

What those who do know, the few real “insiders,” is that war as we know it, or knew it, simply can’t exist.

Much of America’s strength is in its navy, carrier battle groups. Today they are totally vulnerable to land-based missiles that exist “on the cheap” covering not only the Persian Gulf but the Indian Ocean as well, so far from shore that attacks on Iran are incomprehensible, well out of range for carrier-based planes.

Similarly, the Mediterranean is being patrolled by nation upon nation, but the naval balance belongs to Russia with its newly arrive Kinzhal hypersonic missiles ranging easily past Gibraltar and beyond.

These are the last days for armored attacks, for aircraft carriers or for blitzkrieg, for anyone. Modern drones, loiter munitions and area denial weapons make what we knew of war to be pipe dreams. Today’s battlefield, with “theatre level players” is unsurvivable, except for submarines, space weapons and stealth aircraft that land on airfields that can be destroyed in moments.

No American government could survive losing an aircraft carrier, particularly to Iran.

War, as it is described to us by the cheerleaders of the military industrial complex of the West and its media whores, is a con.

So, what is the game here?

Simply put, no one seems to know though some can guess. Those whose guesses are closest to the truth are considered conspiracy theorists and cranks though the worst and most childish tales are being peddled by mainstream media, not from Qanon or the endless app based fake news networks.

There are no “respected” experts writing for the mainstream media. They don’t exist. They may never have existed as men like Cronkite or Murrow may only have been better actors than we see today.

Let’s look at some examples.

Most recently I reviewed an article by the BBC on “false flags.” They had serious trouble coming up with examples as, and I say this well armed with specific knowledge, as it is hard to find references to false flag attacks that don’t involve Britain and/or the United States. They did, however, land on the Tonkin Gulf incident. This must have made them cry.

Back in 1964, the US staged a fake attack by North Vietnam on US naval forces in the South China Sea. This led to a congressional resolution that allowed the US to go to war in South Vietnam to prevent enactment of the Geneva Accords that specified reunification of Vietnam.

From here we could go into a subcategory of false flag events tied to broken promises and treaties.

Today, the better experts, such as they are, look to the West to either fake an invasion of Ukraine, far more likely, stage a gas attack killing thousands of civilians.

Current black ops capabilities of the West, control of media, control of UN chemical weapons investigators and a long history of faking gas attacks using the White Helmets, makes this the “go to” strategy for the US.

The parallel with Vietnam? Vietnam was promised a plebiscite and reunification. Instead, they got a decade and a half of carpet bombing and a country soaked with dioxin, which has been killing now for generations.

With Ukraine, of course, we have the promise of no NATO expansion eastward. Excuse my use of a cheap press tactic but I can’t resist. Everyone knows the US promised the Soviets/Russians, so long ago, that no Eastern Bloc nation part of the former Soviet Union would either join NATO or host American forces.

Yet American marines sit there in Latvia, an AEGIS radar is in Romania and Poland has become a center for training right wing terrorists in facilities that, during the War on Terror, housed thousands of innocent civilians who spent years being tortured to support false flag narratives.

Oh that.

When “they” got away with 9/11, it became clear that no lie was too big, no assault of decency or even reality itself was too big.

Having debriefed several of the silenced investigators of 9/11, some things became clear that are important to understand when looking at what is playing out today.

First of all, the perpetrators weren’t nation states at all.

According to investigators, 9/11 was planned and executed by a cabal of American billionaires, almost all of whom have backed Donald Trump as well, working hand in hand with Israeli Likudists, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Ukraine, the Republic of Georgia and key members of the former South African government.

Stolen nuclear weapons from a virtually unguarded depot in Texas were passed on to international arms dealers and transported to Mali where Israeli scientists reconfigured them for use against the United States.

They were then flown by private plane to Teterboro Airport, allegedly on a plane lent to the Mossad by Jeffrey Epstein and transported to the 3 towers.

The plane attacks were a decoy. It is impossible to hijack a modern “fly by wire” aircraft as there are full control overrides that can be remotely activated by the CIA as part of the engine management system. Any more on this violates security protocols.

A Reagan era presidential order specified that any domestic aircraft that was over a populated area of the United States would be shot down. The reason Reagan gave, and I have interviewed those in the room, is that the plane would be assumed to be a weapon of mass destruction and that a school, sporting event or such would be the likely target.

This is simply an inexorable fact, one that many new, certainly congress, the Pentagon and the security services. All knew 9/11 was a false flag long before the fake “yellowcake uranium” or the underground fortresses of Afghanistan that still can’t be located.

No, Osama bin Laden (AKA Colonel Timothy Osman) was in no way involved. I reviewed this with bin Laden’s handler who talked about meeting with Oxford educated Osama bin Laden on many occasions related to the secret war on Russia that played out in Afghanistan.

There is so much more to tell but this is not the time or place. It is sufficient to establish that the entirety of the Global War on Terror was and is a false flag and that events that play out today are a continuation.

Thus, when the BBC relegates the Tonkin Gulf false flag as simple innocent fun, millions dead, endless lives destroyed, they ignore what goes on day after day.

What about COVID? Is it a false flag as well?

One could easily establish that “gain of function” research with dangerous diseases has risks that outweigh gains.

In fact, there are no potential gains at all unless one were to “repackage” germ warfare programs behind thinly veiled lies.

This seems to be where COVID originated.

Based on what has played out, a new chess board opened based on disease driven chaos theory vectors. Nearly all events, be it gas shortages, fuel costs, right wing extremism and the spread of terrorism across Africa at an unprecedented level, tie orchestrated COVID responses to a larger plan of realigning the world.

That realignment is far from for the better. It serves militarism, extremism and those of wealth and power. Those who have died are victims of terrorism.

Conclusion

War is a thing of the past. Or is it? Why fight a war when you can have oil rich sheikhs recruit the poverty stricken young from around the world, ferry them magically thousands of miles and unleash a campaign of terror not seen since the Middle Ages.

What if it fails? Simple, like it says on the shampoo bottle, “rinse and repeat.”

It means the United States will see another 9/11. Britain will see another 7/7 as well, the test of terror defense capabilities of the London Underground that, almost magically, turned into a real terror attack.

Who would have guessed that the agencies used by MI 5 and Special Branch to hire actors for a terrorism simulation would have hired real terrorists instead?

You don’t believe this?

Britain extradited John Anthony Hill from Ireland and put him on trial for saying exactly what I am here. A British jury found him “not guilty” and in doing so found that the British government had lied about every aspect of 7/7.

Google has buried this truth as it does nearly all others, but this is why Google exists, isn’t it?

That’s ok, the British government destroyed the file on the trial anyway:

Dear P Newton Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request – 201117003 Thank you for your request received on 17 November 2020 in which you asked for the following information from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ):

“It is reported that at 4pm (16:00) on Thursday 12 May 2011 at Southwark Crown Court, a jury returned and declared Muad’Dib (Anthony John Hill) innocent of attempting to ‘pervert the course of justice’.

1. Please disclose the whole case file, redacted where necessary. 2. If the disclosure of the whole case file is prohibitory, please disclose the Judges Order, Judgment or Summary and comments on the date in reference.”

Your request has been handled under the FOIA. The MoJ does not hold any information in the scope of your request. This is because there is no legal or business requirement for MoJ to do so due to the Crown Courts retention policy of 7 years the file has been destroyed. The FOIA does not oblige a public authority to create information to answer a request if the requested information is not held. The duty is to only provide the recorded information held.

Thus, we are driven to ask, is there a “cohesion” or “mosaic” behind the events that seem to spiral hellishly as though they have a life of their own?

Can a pandemic like COVID be tied to color revolutions, to false flag terrorism, to global cabals that market oil, minerals or human beings with the same malignant enthusiasm?

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

The world, though not at the edge of war, is closer than any time in many decades, all over the US intention to bring Ukraine into NATO, something most historians believe runs counter to US assurances given Russia so many years ago. However, we will examine a somewhat different hypothesis.

The Trump regime’s relationship with Ukraine that led to one of two presidential impeachments, may well tell a different story. How can Trump be a Russian agent if he personally, as well as many of his closest advisors, communed as it were with Ukraine, hatching plots, pushing hoaxes but something odder still. We are going to follow this trail and others.

Trump’s real alliance had been Israel, placing that nation behind a solid shield of US protection against accountability for war crimes against the Palestinians and the reputation Israel had earned as an apartheid state rivaling or even exceeding South Africa at the height of the “whites only” oppressive regimes there.

We also recognize that the color revolution that put Ukraine into anti-Russian hands demonstrated something far more insidious.

We will examine US moves in Europe after 9/11 and the hypothesis that Ukraine was intended to be joined with Kazakhstan (and Belarus), which only recently escaped a “color revolution” as well, to form a “Khazarian” homeland, replacing the 7th-10th century Jewish kingdom proven by studies to be the ancestral homeland for a vast percentage of the world’s Jewish population.

This “Neo-Khazaria” would eventually rule from the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia to the steppes, and it is our estimation that there is little that can stop this. We must also accept that the Jewish nature of historical Khazaria may well have little or nothing to do with the character of a modern rogue state, which may have historical Jewish roots but none that carry into modern times.

One might also postulate that efforts to instill hatred of Jews into right-wing ideology may well originate, as investigations reveal, as disinformation tied to secular Zionism. It is difficult to discuss current moves in Ukraine without tripping over a cast of Zionists Igor Kolomoisky, darling of the Trump regime, now under accusation by the Biden administration for corruption undermining a ”democratic Ukraine.” From the Times of Israel:

“I also want to express concern about Kolomoisky’s current and ongoing efforts to undermine Ukraine’s democratic processes and institutions, which pose a serious threat to its future,” Blinken said in a statement. Kolomoisky has been close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was elected in 2019 on promises to root out corruption but earlier benefitted from Kolomoisky’s media empire, which broadcast his comedy show.

When we forget where Zelensky comes from, and his ties to Kolomoisky and his right-wing militias that threaten Crimea, we forget other facts as well.

Then we have recent moves in Belarus by Ukraine, attempts to stage a false flag Russian attack on that nation that led to the arrest of 33.

Rather than as a new “homeland” for Jews, we assert that modern Khazaria, built on the political model of Ukraine, would be a homeland for world organized crime and, in particular, for the “Kosher Nostra,” the shadowy criminal empire that controls right wing political leaders across the breadth of NATO.

We hear it continually, here in the US, how the people of Ukraine are soon to be crushed under the Russian boot. We heard it before, ‘Gaddafi is killing his own people,’ the false flag gas attacks in Syria and let’s not forget the wild story of the incubator babies in Kuwait back in 1990, which now seems like a century ago. The people of the United States along with much of Europe are being coerced into a war nobody can fight, nobody can win, a war predicated on lies. War is always the “father of lies.”

We learned the truth back in 2015, what was going to happen to Ukraine. Let me tell you where at least some of this began:

You see, after 9/11 the Bush (43) regime had become drunk on power. The reality was there, seizing the Caspian Basin, Afghanistan, and even Iran. “Owning” this policy, this “call to war” was a group that never really existed but loved being called “neo-conservatives.”

“Neocons” as they are called never really existed. They were birthed as part of a marriage of convenience between then House majority leader, this is from the 1990’s, Newt Gingrich and Rupert Murdoch.

As background, we must include some context. Many know that Murdoch inherited the “mantle” from Robert Maxwell but what do we mean by “mantle?”

The consensus is that the Maxwells were running a spy/influence ring for some organization, rumored to be Israeli intelligence, blackmailing key figures in Britain, royals, police and security officials, even prime ministers, based on widespread pedophilia that permeated certain levels of British society, tied to the Freemason organizations that run Scotland Yard/Special Branch, the Metropolitan Police and MI-5.

We will be mentioning Jeffrey Epstein from time to time and it is best we insert one of two withheld facts before moving forward.

In 1975, Jeffrey Epstein was hired to teach math and science at the prestigious Dalton School, despite the fact Epstein held no credentials and never graduated from college.

Pedophile Epstein was given his position, one he was uniquely unqualified for, by former OSS/CIA executive Don Barr, father of AG William Barr. It was William Barr who oversaw the “unsupervised” pre-trial confinement that led to Epstein’s death by alleged suicide.

When one assembles enough of these coincidences, one begins asking hard questions as to the origin of COVID 19, the Trump regimes purposeful mismanagement of the pandemic and the possibility that along with staging fake wars, fake gas attacks and fake scandals, staging real pandemics is something we are all going to have to get used to.

Rumors have it that Maxwell was “suicded” and Murdoch was groomed to take his place. Both Maxwell and Murdoch are Israeli citizens with strong ties to Netanyahu’s Likudists, but rumors go much further, to a shadowy organization called the Kosher Nostra.

Sources indicate that it was the Kosher Nostra, all powerful in the US behind a wall of billionaires, the money behind Donald Trump but also the money behind the Neocons as well.

All of this came to a head when Rupert Murdoch was able to reproduce what he builds in Britain. We aren’t talking about a newspaper empire but rather a criminal empire.

In Britain, the “phone hacking” scandal cited key members of Murdoch’s organization as blackmailing Royals, key security service members and celebrities for their pedophilia. But what were they blackmailed to do?

Those answers have become clear as day. Democratic institutions across NATO, starting with the US and Britain have been not just under assault, but are virtually crushed out of existence.

Following Murdoch’s meteoric rise which led to his control of America’s “Republican” party or the “GOP” as it is called, events quickly spiraled.

A well-organized destabilization program was run on the US which hit full speed after the events of 9/11. Despite censorship and suppression of real investigation results, it can be safely stated that the War on Terror begun after 9/11 was a long-planned event melding that “Murdoch empire” which includes two extremely powerful Jewish groups, the ADL and AIPAC, long rumored to be Mossad operations, with Neocons that controlled the Bush (43) White House.

If, as claimed, these groups joined with traitors in the Pentagon and the ultra-secret MEGA billionaires investigated by former CIA officer Robert David Steele, were responsible for 9/11, then its aftermath, which may well include the current NATO move to surround and castrate Russia, has its roots in the quasi-nation state entity that seems to be centered on Ukraine.

We must also add to the context efforts made across Europe in the last 40 years to organize neo-Nazi political organizations. The success of this effort can be credited to efforts by al Qaeda and ISIS (banned in Russia) which the Syrian government now says can be directly tied to the CIA. Syria has organized military tribunals to bring forth what they claim is inexorable evidence of this relationship.

This would mean, of course, that the flood of refugees that has destabilized Europe was planned and orchestrated as part of the same terrorist plot aimed to take down not just Syria but the entire region as well.

Last week ISIS attacks in Nigeria showed that government’s inability to deal with the same threat aimed at Syria but it also shows how vulnerable African nations are when even “naming the real enemy” will never be done.

When we broaden our look at Europe’s move to the right, we find the hand of American based think tanks along with USAID, Radio Free Europe, private companies like Booz Allen Hamilton and a bevy of Trump insiders like Giuliani and Bannon and even Manafort, in continual contact with the same forces now arrayed against Russia.

We might also site the January 6, 2020, attempt at a “color revolution” against the United States as well, using funding from sources that normally are arrayed against Russia.

Do not forget that this common enemy that links Putin and Biden together has to create uncomfortable moments when a US administration nearly felled by fascism finds itself siding with its own enemies against Russia.

It is important that we discuss Maxwell and Murdoch as precursors for Brin and Zuckerman, the Israeli citizens, and there are dozens more as well, that use total control of both the internet and social media not only to spy on the world but run influence/black propaganda operations that have turned NATO into a fascist lapdog.

So, what are we saying?

Is Ukraine in place as a “pivot” for destabilizing Europe while crippling Russia? Who would want to control a fascist empire stretching from the Baltic to the Caspian and beyond?

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

America’s military power is a sham. With talk about fighting ground wars against Iran or Russia, only those who really know America’s military and its current condition can understand the insanity of these scenarios.

I served in America’s military, the Marine Corps, in Vietnam. Pay was typically 30% of minimum wage and less than 20% of my actual pre-service pay. Money was taken out of $60 dollars a month to pay for uniforms, military looking buttons and “doodads” and for required and needed hygiene products.

No attempt was made to justify the war itself. You see, even the Marine Corps got draftees and those who volunteered were often faced with the draft and chose service because of a number of factors:

• Stupidity/curiosity
• Family members who served in World War II or Korea
• Confusion brought on by a lifetime of phony patriotism sold through Hollywood

No one serving in combat units in Vietnam cared about who won the war and most who served in real combat were under 20 years old and looked on the US military as an adversary, an enemy.

This is the simple truth of it.

Adding to the overall effect, absolutely awful officers and senior NCO’s who not only ducked combat but took little interest in their troops and even less interest in their other duties.

Mind you, they were still “decorated” when they were sent home, providing their own men didn’t kill them.

From this point, the US military actually got worse.

The concept, one developed by Nixon and Kissinger, now that’s a pair of geniuses if I ever saw one, was to destroy the labor unions, push wages to levels that were below survivability and build a military out of the poor and uneducated.

This process came to fruition under Reagan who destroyed America’s industrial economy, building a work force out of illegal aliens and domestic workers whose pay levels in the new “service economy” would make military service at far higher pay levels than during Vietnam seem like an “easy way out.”

So, what do we have today?

When people leave the military, it isn’t after 2 years or less as was common for those who served in combat in Vietnam. They last 6 years or even ten years in the military. Then most leave or are forced out.

Those who served in what passed for combat, drone killings, dodging RPGs while touring the Middle East in armoured vehicles, became a way of life.

After all, these new wars saw few casualties compared to Vietnam, the pay was more than 10 times the pay and life in a combat zone was all about PlayStations, Taco Bell and air conditioning.

In Vietnam, it was starvation, malnutrition and KIA levels far higher than even World War II.

Those who fought in Vietnam were angry, angry at the United States, angry at themselves but few were institutionalized, coddled and fed by a military that turned out “veterans” who were closer to those who return to society after serving long prison sentences.

The trail leads to today’s America with a military unaccountable, out of control and deeply aligned with Nazi supremacists and the prison gangs that sided with Trump and the GOP, that curiously partner so well with America’s corrupt police organizations.

A darker aspect, having begun after 9/11, is the partnership between the shadowy Department of Homeland Security and Israeli intelligence services. The DHS works with a series of “civilian” support organizations that are directly tied to organized crime on a planetary scale.

Badges and high-level security clearances have been handed out to criminal elites from around the world.

Truth is, the best way to describe the United States is as a “failed state.” The problem, of course, is that this “failed state” operates murder drones around the world and is even arming space platforms for the “war after the next war.”

Background

On January 6, 2021, disgraced former president, Donald Trump, attempted to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election, an election he lost by a considerable margin. Trump’s try was based on backing from top Pentagon generals, a cabal of traitors who rose to power during the phony “War on Terror.”

This cabal has been seen before, many times.

The American military was built on the British model. By “military,” I don’t mean the men and women who fight wars and, in theory, protect America’s “freedoms.” We are referring to the institutional hierarchy produced by the service academies and the “rank and file” of reserve officers from ROTC programs and similar.

There is nothing “democratic” in that military.

We saw America’s military fail at Pearl Harbor, an event many historians speculate about, as to whether the military itself wanted a world war. America’s top military leaders had developed a “love affair” with Hitler and Mussolini, cheering them on during their intervention in the Spanish Civil War and offering any and all encouragement as Hitler rebuilt the German war machine with Wall Street cash.

The “East Coast” cabal, the arms merchants, bankers with ties to the Frankfurt bankers who financed centuries of European wars, also ran, and continues to run Americas military and intelligence services.

However, it wasn’t until the 1990’s that the cults and cabals that oversaw America’s expansionism for nearly 200 years “married” an “infectious” religious movement.

Worse still, when military commanders refused to run drugs from Afghanistan or traffic children for sex, private military contracting companies took over these vital aspects of warfare.

When the CIA stopped giving congress the lies required to justify permanent war, all intelligence gathering, all intelligence processing and even policy decisions were handed over to civilian contracting firms who simultaneously aligned themselves with rogue states.

The January 6 Report

In order to look at this issue, we will examine a submission made to General Honore, the retired officer appointed by congress to investigate the events of January 6, 2021:

Institutional Degradation and Radicalization

• US service academies, during the 1990s, were penetrated by Dominionist groups, initially as “Pentecostals.” Calling these groups an “Apocalypse death cult” is no overstatement and their actions, minimally, led to the degradation of good order and discipline and a “cult of mediocrity” that has infected our armed services.

• Direct targeting of certain commands, JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command), our nuclear commands (Minot) and others by what became an extremist cult within the military was directly challenged by Dempsey/Hagel (then Chairman JCOS and Defense Secretary). (Redacted)

• The DOD is working full time to cover up criminal gangs who, through terrorism, now control some military bases. (Redacted)

• Penetration of the FBI, DOJ, DHS, ICE and other institutions (congress) by non-nation state organizations, disguised to an extent as financial organizations, organizations that control intelligence agencies of Britain, Turkey, Israel, India and Russia may well have a hand in events of January 6 and any classified report should deal with this hypothesis that, I assure you, the FBI is aware of.

• Groups like the NRA (National Rifle Association) and certain lobby groups along with the Heritage Foundation and others, have a known history of contact with foreign intelligence services. (Redacted)

• Nothing can be investigated without looking at PMCs (Private Military Corporations) and their role, particularly when we have every reason to believe that (Redacted) would have had a role “every step of the way” and is never mentioned.

This document goes further.

Domestic Terrorism

• As you know, the FBI is currently vetting 25,000 National Guard troops for membership in Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and their analogs (all seem to be coordinated with common membership)

• This is seen by them as a national security threat, but the DOJ and other organizations overtly protect almost all of these groups according to sources at FBI Domestic Terrorism.

• There are clear indications that the DOJ is fully complicit in protecting all these domestic threats and in covering for any potential ties to (Redacted).

• The DOJ is currently moving full speed on Trump’s claim that “infiltrators” are responsible for all January 6 violence.

• The DOJ is currently involved in fabricating “evidence” tying Biden and his supporters to Russian intelligence operations.

• DOJ militarized forces deployed in city after city against peaceful demonstrators were unavailable when an army attacked the US Capitol.

• The DOJ is currently feeding disinformation into right wing media outlets, Antifa, China, Iran etc.

• We have the DOJ as totally compromised.

DHS

• There is reason to believe that the DHS is now and has been deeply penetrated by intelligence organizations hostile to the US.

• DHS is a soft target for foreign penetration.

• Their massive capability, thousands of armed agents, were nowhere to be seen and are nowhere to be seen in the aftermath.

• No evidence the DHS has taken any role at all other than full stand down.

Procedural

• Why is the FBI holding back real charges, murder of a federal officer, insurrection, sedition, which all involved on January 6 violence are subject to? (Redacted)

• Why is there no FBI investigation into financing and planning of what was announced at the outset as a violent rally to prevent a government process, the definition of sedition?

• Why no FBI investigation into key individuals, all subject to arrest, including Giuliani, Trump family members, Alex Jones, Flynn and others?

• Why a total blackout on a grand jury and special prosecutor?

• Why a total blackout on the use of the legal term “Treason,” on clearly described in the Constitution, when the stated purpose of all involved, from the Trump’s and their organizer friends and those who funded them, and the clear statements of intent made by many involved was to overthrow the government?

Conclusion

Every major news organization, on a daily basis, warns of the US becoming a fascist dictatorship.

The proof behind this is staggering and credible, yet little or nothing is done.

Leading the way is America’s “bottom feeder” military, grown fat on easy enemies, easy if the fighting is done by well-paid but unwanted social outcasts.

50 years ago, American war veterans brought down a presidency that by Trump standards was pure “amateur hour” by standards of corruption set under Barr, Pompeo and Kushner.

Today, war veterans are arming to bring down their own nation, steeped in vaccine denial and slurping down the endless lies spewed by the “self-policing” social media giants who are likely the engine behind a new generation of human suffering.

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

In mid-December 2021, two American television shows produced by Dick Wolf, presented back-to-back terrorism scenarios involving ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

Wolf, one of Hollywood’s greatest powerhouses with an incredible lineup of top-rated shows, has, in the past, used his position to insert key messages vital to Israeli policy into what is supposed to be “entertainment.”

This week Wolf is selling ammonium nitrate as akin to nuclear weapons. There is a reason.

Stored ammonium nitrate is inert. It can’t burn, it can’t explode under any imaginable circumstance, and it can actually be used as a refrigerant when mixed with water.

It also makes golf courses green.

You can make explosives with ammonium nitrate. It can replace bat droppings as a source of nitrates that can, when properly manufactured, be used for demolitions or as a propellant.

What ammonium nitrate can’t do, even if used as a component in the manufacture of highly complex compounds using certain metals and hydrocarbons, is explode down into bedrock.

That requires considerable professional engineering expertise or the use of weapons such as a nuclear bunker-buster bomb.

The Beirut crater has an analog in the American state of New Mexico. That crater was caused by a two-megaton hydrogen bomb test.

Thus, the two TV shows cited, one FBI and FBI International, promoted a false narrative in order to influence events.

This is done all the time.

What we do know is this, Israel used a nuclear weapon in Beirut on that hot August day. High ranking Lebanese defense officials contacted this author who submitted their evidence to the IAEA, the same group tasked with investigating Iran’s nuclear program.

Their findings were that this was a nuclear attack, findings that were quickly classified as were their findings on the May 4, 2013, nuclear attack on Damascus and other such “events” in Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The truth, that nuclear demolitions are used commonly in mining and fracking, is something withheld from the public “for their own good.”

Also, that ISIS (banned in Russia) had the materials to build five nuclear weapons at their research facility in Mosul is another open secret. Current weapons designs, also highly classified, allow for a nuclear chain reaction necessary for an explosion to be possible using commonly available radioactive material from junked X-Ray machines.

On at least three occasions, nuclear material was seized before reaching ISIS. This material originated in Ukraine.

What we are asserting is this, that using a common “track back” methodology common to intelligence analysis, these fictional television dramas, based on timing and content, also based on source, evidence things well known at certain levels in the international community.

• Israel uses its nuclear arsenal and its ability to deploy these weapons at will to blackmail the world.
• The ability to deploy such weapons is dependent on a virtual army of “deep cover” assets capable of making discussions of state nuclear terrorism unthinkable while diverting the public’s attention to such absurd concerns as “child pedophile facilities on Mars.”

From the Daily Beast, June 30, 2017:

“On Thursday’s program, the InfoWars host welcomed guest Robert David Steele onto The Alex Jones Show, which airs on 118 radio stations nationwide, to talk about kidnapped children he said have been sent on a two-decade mission to space.

‘We actually believe that there is a colony on Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20-year ride,’ said Steele. ‘So that once they get to Mars, they have no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony.’”

Steele, a longtime friend and editor at Veterans Today and former CIA clandestine services officer, told me that such narratives, though absurd, were to be disseminated in return for promised funding for a presidential run by Steele. It was Steele’s plan to surround himself with intelligence insiders once elected that could insulate America’s government from certain “destructive influences.”

Steele, who promoted vaccine hoaxes as well has since died of COVID-19.

To be clear, nuclear weapons have always been closely tied to terrorism. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is, in itself, one that relies on fear, a key component of terrorist philosophy.

One cannot examine terrorism without looking at Gladio, the NATO sponsored Freemason organization that went rogue and has terrorized Europe and Latin America since the latter 1970s.

The desperation of losing the war for the “hearts and minds” of the world’s exploited and victimized drove the West during the Cold War to embracing state sponsored terrorism as a “military option.”

After 9/11, that ploy took on new aspects as nation after nation was subjected to military occupation based on a war on terrorist groups that could easily be tied to NATO and the CIA.

The natural progression of this now multigenerational endeavor has been to stage larger and larger “events.” When you can get away with vaporizing lower Manhattan or cratering Beirut and spinning an investigation into areas that torture science, anything is possible.

It is strange that no one seems to notice that nearly every major terrorist act of the past 30 years has led to a pre-planned response that has regime change as its central theme.

From a 2016 report by Robert Litwak of the Wilson Center, Deterring Nuclear Terrorism:

The rise of the Islamic State as an offshoot of Al Qaeda (banned in Russia) in Iraq and the stunning success of its military offensive to occupy territory in 2014 has transformed the regional security environment. ISIS’s control over a large swath of territory in Iraq and Syria, including the occupation of a major urban area like Mosul, confers technological and engineering assets of a magnitude traditionally only under the control of a state that could allow it to develop WMD capabilities.

A hyperbolic article in the Islamic State’s propaganda magazine, Dabiq, raised the “hypothetical” that ISIS, having seized banks with billions of dollars, could tap sympathizers in “Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region.” The article proclaimed that the terrorist group was seeking “to pull off something truly epic.” This proclaimed intention underscores the necessity of denying the Islamic State the capabilities of a state. Such a strategy of deterrence by denial (as discussed in the “Recalibrating Deterrence” section below) would not eliminate the WMD threat posed by ISIS but would substantially reduce it.

Pathways to Nuclear Acquisition After the catastrophic terrorist attacks on 9/11, British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that the only constraints on Al Qaeda’s obtaining and using a nuclear weapon were practical and technical, not political or moral. The same holds today for the Islamic State. What then are the routes by which a terrorist group could acquire a nuclear weapon?

The three broad pathways to nuclear weapons acquisition by a terrorist group are: (1) transfer—the deliberate handoff or sale of a weapon from a state; (2) leakage—an unauthorized transfer or theft of a weapon from an inadequately secured site; and (3) indigenous production—manufacture of a nuclear device from leaked weapons-grade fissile material and bomb components.”

Thus, we return to the issue of Beirut and a ridiculous official narrative sustained by the combined efforts of Israel and, to a lesser degree, Saudi Arabia, and their drive to suppress Iran’s influence in Lebanon.

Conclusion

On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion rocked Beirut. The Port of Beirut was destroyed entirely, hundreds were killed and nearly half a million people were homeless.

Investigations that will never be allowed to be seen by the general public give us a simple and believable narrative.

Only one week before, Israeli defense officials warned that they would destroy a major Lebanese infrastructure facility in order to suppress Iran and Hezbollah. From Israel Hayom, exactly five days before the attack:

“Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Thursday instructed the IDF to bomb Lebanese infrastructure if Hezbollah harms Israeli soldiers or civilians.

A senior defense official told Israel Hayom that Gantz issued the order to prepare such a response during meetings on Thursday with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi and other members of the general staff.”

Now we move the clock forward, to December 2021. Iran is, many hope, in the final stages of Vienna talks to end the Trump/Israel reimposition of sanctions that ended the JCPOA agreement that guaranteed Iran would remain without nuclear weapons capability.

A massive public relations effort, combined with behind-the-scenes activities, bribery, blackmail and violence, is aimed and undermining President Biden’s efforts to undo the damage to world security caused by this Trump move.

Where this is likely to play out over the coming weeks is in Vienna where the EU is pressuring President Biden to accept the position of Russia and China and rejoin the international community and reenter the JCPOA.

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

The US and Europe are now entering a fourth or is it the fifth COVID cycle, new infections, new peaks in deaths and a feeling of hopelessness that is darkening the Judeo-Christian holiday season.

It is driven by what some generously call “vaccine resistance.” Without the anti-vaccine movement, COVID would have ended in much of the world where vaccines are plentiful and safe.

Are the vaccines safe? That answer is a clear yes, side effects, based on the hundreds of millions inoculated, are rare and the current rate of serious infection and death between unvaccinated and vaccinated runs about 20 to one. Unvaccinated are “dying like flies” in both Europe and the US but their deaths, running around 5000 a month for month after month, are only a symptom of a greater disease.

What is that disease?

We know COVID, okay, we don’t know where it came from and we certainly have never seen a version of influenza that causes blood clots and destroys lungs, sometimes in hours.

What we, meaning “the collective public” have been exposed to, along with the disease, is what is also called, in business circles, “mushroom management.”

This is where one is kept in the dark and fed a steady diet of horse manure.

Many millions blame “COVID Czar” Fauci, and they aren’t entirely wrong.

The excuse there is one common to both government and a medical industry that have one thing in common, they treat their patients, albeit “constituents” as ignorant and willful children. The regimen they prescribe is a diet of outright lies, crafted half-truths and watered-down predictions. You see, we are too childlike to ever be told the truth.

What is that truth? Without belaboring the reader with what is only an aside, COVID one of many diseases created by laboratories primarily funded by USAID/CIA money, labs run by scientists who used to work for germ warfare programs but who now “protect us” through developing new diseases.

Those of the intelligence community know these diseases are sometimes accidentally unleashed but that they are also regularly tested on unsuspecting populations, New York commuters, Angolan and Namibian separatists or, more recently, farm animals and later people of Eurasia, primarily Russia, China and the Caucuses.

Then we have COVID. It bounced around the planet in late 2019 and early 2020 in a totally inexplicable manner, entering Italy, Spain, the US certainly but how did it get to China?

What we can do is follow research publications, which are now being censored and at times erased. We find SARS/COV research centered in the US, at the University of North Carolina for instance, where “chimera” versions of a disease that looks exactly like COVID was developed in 2017 and escaped the lab five times.

We also follow USAID funding for graduate students to collect bats from around the Republic of Georgia for US Defense Department funded studies of SARS/COV as well.

The lab in Tbilisi has been tied to both swine and avian influenza outbreaks and those who manage and use that facility have also been tied to chemical weapons issues as well, particularly in Syria.

These aren’t necessarily “truths” as such. They are only indicators, part of a mosaic that would and should drive honest investigative journalists.

However, what would happen if this investigation, as to the origins of COVID-19, were to move forward, following the suspicious of US Senator Rand Paul who has speculated during Congressional inquiries in the US, that COVID-19 is a biological weapon.

Now for a dark note, one written only reluctantly. COVID most certainly was developed as a biological weapon. Moreover, taking into account the vast profiteering and inexplicable “mismanagement” by the Trump regime in the US, it could be reasonably assumed that COVID-19 was developed by the US government and released by a cabal within the White House and Pentagon.

This is our watershed.

The general public knows nothing about this cabal as such, other than fake reports from Qanon, for instance. On examination, not only is Qanon always wrong, when one follows the purpose of Qanon, one is led to that cabal itself. We find the same thing when we examine Wikileaks as was done by former White House National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, architect of the Camp David Accords of 1976.

Back in 2009, Brzezinski appeared on National Public Radio with Judy Woodruff. There, he opined that Wikileaks was run by an intelligence agency with the purpose of planning fake “leaks” into a “sea of chickenfeed” in order to promote an agenda promoting the exact opposite of Wikileaks stated purpose, further US military support of Israel and a US policy promoting war on Iran, among other things.

This opens another door, that of “the leakers.”

It’s curious that nothing is leaked about COVID-19 when dozens of key documents outlining intelligence agency funding of the development of COVID type diseases can still, for the time being, be found easily.

Ah, but this drives us away from COVID-19 and on to that other “pandemic” from 20 years ago, the outbreak of war across the Middle East tied to the events of 9/11.

Let us look, for a moment, at some commonality here.

The 2000 election was not only rigged, but it was also done so openly. The real final count in Florida, where the US Supreme Court stopped the vote count based on an imaginary threat of civil disorder led by Roger Stone (the Brooks Brothers Riot), had Bush (43) losing by 20,000 votes.

Audits in Ohio showed voting in some precincts at over 100 percent, something we saw in Wisconsin in 2016 with Trump.

This is an area where divergence between reported “truth” and “real truth” is frightening. For those who follow “real world” issues, not only did the 2000 election appear overtly rigged, the 2004 election seemed worse.

During one election lawsuit, it was learned that Bush operatives had hired a computer consultant to work with a voting machine company to hack machines using flash drives. Voting machines are not hooked to the internet.

This was done using “election watchers” who were recruited by an extremist “think tank” funded by a mysterious group of billionaires who control Hollywood, the news media, big oil, big pharma and defense industries, not just in the US but around the world.

This is the same group that made trillions, not billions, off the Global War on Terror, weapons, stolen oil, debt speculation and even more off COVID-19.

Moreover, “they” are getting a “double” and even “triple” dip on their payback through a carefully engineered anti-vaccine conspiracy that is closely tied to extremists and even terrorists, in the US but also across Europe as well.

Those seeking to overthrow the US constitution and impose a “one religion” rule as set out by General Michael Flynn, who may well be the real “Q” clearance behind Qanon, are also building on the COVID disaster and anti-vaccine craze, combined with anti-immigrant sentiments, to recrate a Nazi run Europe.

In fact, this same anti-immigrant movement is being used to unite extremists around the world. One must also note that the immigration itself is driven, not just by debt based failed economies but today, and for the past 20 years, by militarism and false flag terrorism wrapped in “color revolution” and “regime change” rhetoric.

Yet no one goes here, certainly not the press, not Hollywood, not our collective political leadership. Those that approach this “trail” as it were, are branded as anti-Semites or conspiracy theorists.

The insult there, obvious to everyone, is the history of controlled media working hand in hand with the cabals that started World War I and II and nearly every conflict before and since, to before the birth of Christ.

Conclusion

We land here inexorably, that “truth” as such is a rare commodity and can exist but not within the context of endless fake narratives.

One truth is self-evident above all others, that the media will not save us. It certainly won’t and can’t deliver “truth,” particularly with most investigative journalism being hand delivered by intelligence agencies to their assets draped in their Pulitzer Prizes.

Behind it all, the social media giants but are they really giants? Let’s not leave out Wikipedia, the fake online “encyclopedia” that tells us who designed our motorcycles with uncanny aplomb while spreading “certified” hoaxes, smears and conspiracy theories that flood from CIA/USAID funded data black sites in Haifa and Tel Aviv.

Without the chaos theory designed algorithms from Google, Facebook and others, carefully profiled “mentally vulnerable” could not be fed a continual diet of mind control.

Not only has this created an army of armed ignorance but one that self-funds.

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

Today, the independent journalists, almost all of them, who reported on false flag terrorism, fake gas attacks in Syria, who stood against war, racism and apartheid now enrich themselves peddling hoaxes about magnetic vaccines wild imaginary plots.

The uniting, and even defining central hoaxes involved computer chips in vaccine and the claim that COVID vaccines make people magnetic.

Their proof, supported by a physician in Ohio, are videos of people having their brass keys stick to them after being vaccinated.

The problem, of course, is that brass isn’t magnetic but why don’t our friends in the alternative media know that?

The question we will be driven to inexorably is this, if “they” are lying now, were the pronouncements we read year after year, books, articles, podcasts, “pap and drivel” as well?

Were and are most “activists” simply controlled opposition, or as they are called “limited hangouts?”

My answer, based on years of investigation using resources of a major corporate security agency is a resounding “yes.”

Those who don’t do as told die, are jailed or are crushed by Google and company whose biggest target for many years has been Veterans Today.

First of all we have to draw a line between known attention seeking nobodies who show up almost hourly with blogs and podcasts, even bus tours, peddling conspiracy theories bred from the fertile imagination of the fabricationists around Qanon.

Those following, let’s say, Frontline Doctors, backing their claims aren’t all nobodies. Who are the Frontline Doctors? Well, their leader is a physician trained in Nigeria who claims that “demon sperm” is a major cause of disease. Others in that organization, a fringe group heavily supported by right wing extremists, are less qualified.

Thus, the question we will look at today is this, what is the fallout when the clear majority of authors and academics who stood against the certified lies peddled by the mainstream media, are “burned.”

As of this writing, almost all of the supposed “best and brightest” of the crowd are, on a daily basis, now incorporating childish conspiracy theories in their writings.

As part of their process, many if not most have also politically moved to the right as well. Not satisfied with parroting odd claims about Bill Gates, most are now embracing white supremacism, voter suppression and abandoning all issues of social justice.

We begin with a single hypothesis, but others will follow. Are members of the alternative media being paid to promote COVID and vaccine hoaxes? If yes, is the purpose to cause additional deaths and economic loss, mostly to the US and UK, or is there something deeper behind it?

Is this an opportunity to destroy a powerful media force that “made its bones” exposing 9/11, the “war on terror” and globalist threats?

Evidence is mounting up that COVID-19 may well have supplied the “kryptonite” needed to tumble the credibility of those who have ridden Israel hard, with BDS and accusations of apartheid and broad war crimes. This is one, albeit the “holy grail” for the alternative media, the one area where most united, no matter color or political following.

The overriding injustice of our time has been this one issue, millions persecuted, imprisoned, bombed and strafed while the mainstream media and Hollywood have cheered.

Against this tide stood the alternative media, fighting this, fighting “big pharma” and fighting the culture of war that has taken control of the US and her partner nations, eternal war, war as a way of life and war as the tool to solve all problems, foreign and domestic.

Though we talk about Israel and the Palestinians, it was the Vietnam War that defined social disobedience and demonstrated how a twisted narrative could be overcome and a war that enriched so many of the world’s most evil could be ended.

In my attempt to ascertain the possible source of secret payoffs, I met at length with good friend and anti-vaccine activist Robert David Steele. Steele, a former CIA officer, recently died of COVID-19 during a nationwide tour warning of the evils of vaccines. He was pilloried in the mainstream media.

When I met with Steele, prior to his fatal tour, he explained that he had been offered $35 million to support Donald Trump and other positions, like COVID and vaccine denialism. The money was intended to finance a presidential run. I was to be an advisor to the new government that he hoped would enact broad reforms, primarily realigning America and Israel in ways some might find uncomfortable.

Others, which include some of the best known independent writers of our time, tell of how their Patreon accounts are suddenly flush with cash after “changing sides.”

The problem here, of course is that this exposes another issue, one we had all suspected, that nobody, not the mainstream media, and certainly not the vast majority of those who claim to be independent, has real activist roots.

Most are simply attention seekers.

There is a list of others, names like Andre Vltchek, Michael Collins Piper or Alan Hart, the “true believers.” Why are so many of them dead?

Worse still, we are finding that many of those touring as 9/11 “truthers” or as “unlock/unmask” militia types are, in actuality, FBI informants.

Our assumption here is that not one in a thousand is “real.”

Conclusion

We can go even further than we have. If ideas, especially now in our device ridden existence, can be weaponized so easily, is it reasonable to assume that what can be controlled is controlled?

Is it, conversely, axiomatic that everyone that can be bought, bribed or blackmailed, those deemed “worthy” of such attention, has been bought, bribed or blackmailed?

Any answer other than “yes” is absurd.

But doesn’t that also mean that the rallying cries we have received all those years may well have been orchestrated as a “relief valve,” channeling efforts against globalism and injustice into the useless and circuitous?

One need only look at 9/11 “activists” and their claims of death rays from space or magic chemical compounds, things that could never exist, to see an obvious example.

What does “post truth” mean? That’s simple, if you read it, it is a lie.

Then consider that the past dozen years of your online has created enough big data, reading each email or chat, each board post, all social media, each search or online purchase and quite probably your medical and banking histories as well, fed into supercomputers, to “clone” you.

What is to be accepted?

• All information you receive, each link, each plea is not simply false, but likely engineered to exploit weaknesses in your education and character.
• Based on your penchant for gullibility or potential for violence, a role has been chosen for you, that of “disinformation influencer” or even violent thug.

As an aside, some years ago I worked on a project in a Middle Eastern nation with a well-known canal. They were putting in place a broad program monitoring all social media. The data was being “churned” by a CIA sponsored program built around a “big data” model created to serve market research and advertising groups in the automobile industry.

In that nation, however, it would be creating a vast web of mapped interactions. Within weeks, the government had a database of all social groups covering millions, who they know, what they believe, identifying each as a possible threat or asset.

This effort began in the United States almost 30 years ago with a dozen Noble Prize winners using modeling design to sell dish soap being used to mobilize engineered social discontent.

What we need to ask is this, would we have ever seen COVID-19 if these programs didn’t exist? Would a potential engineered pandemic have been adequately profitable without the ability to perpetuate and monetize the disease though disinformation?

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

COVID-19 has done one thing above all else, it has ‘prestaged’ the United States for the next pandemic. The US will never be able to respond again, trust in public policy has been destroyed and a permanent violent anti-government underclass has been created, quite purposefully, to assure the destruction of the United States.

Behind it all is a new level of analysis and control of mankind using big data with its beginnings in the marriage of the CIA and Google Corporation.

The real “gain-of-function” has been in the area of mind control, engineered fears and hatreds with supercomputers controlling billions through “influencers” and billions who have lost the ability to reason, the ability to control any aspect of their lives, a Matrix analogy for sure.

No nuclear war is needed. Those who will destroy the US will never be hunted down as most of them already rule the US.

World War III is coming, it will be a biological weapon attack on the United States. It will be a SARS virus, upper respiratory infection enhanced with several “gain-of-function” capabilities.

The world will be a different place with NATO destroyed and the American empire in ruins.

The history that can’t be taught, that will be televised or spoken of in universities around the world would have predicted a new division of nations based on the principles put forth early in the last century by eugenicists and totalitarian loving elites that built Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany.

The nations this time? Brazil? How about looking across Europe or the former Soviet Union, certainly Ukraine, Georgia, maybe Azerbaijan but how many more?

India? Is the targeting of Iran intended to bring that nation into such a cabal? Where would Israel, Saudi or the Gulf States stand with their financial power?

Poland? The Baltic States? Britain? Ah, Britain, any model that works on the US will likely work on Britain as well. The love affair with Naziism in Britain stood strong and proud in the 1930s and is ripe for restoration again.

Those planning to execute this attack, this new 9/11, as with the last attack in 2001, will not be nation state players but rather the nameless and shadowy cabals that one might touch upon by investigating Trump’s list of pardons and those Trump, his family and key associates “partied” with.

How we know a war is coming is simple, experts have tracked movements within the US that have intentionally totally destroyed the ability of the US to respond to a national emergency to these organizations, intelligence agencies, think tanks, banking cabals, secret societies, and elitist cults.

These efforts have been mightily funded, backed by American political leaders, key sports and entertainment figures and, behind it all, as usual, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Key is well are the orchestrated attacks on Fauci or Bill Gates and so many others, strangely tied to attacks on Dominion Voting Systems as well.

Following people like Steve Bannon and Roger Stone or Paul Manafort, one can make powerful suppositions that indicate extremely high probability.

The US, in accordance with results of advanced analysis, will be attacked with a weapon that will do the following:

• Destroy the health care system, killing off what COVID has left wounded and diminished
• Produce inexplicable symptoms, with soaring deaths in certain ethnic groups or regions, feeding the conspiracy frenzy as with COVID
• Sufficiently weaken the central government as to allow states with low education levels but significant resources to withdraw from the union successfully

We begin with a hypothesis, based on analysis. In the “post truth” world, certainty requires not only reliable methods but an “audience” or “client” sane and intelligent enough to understand the effort.

Worse still, giving actual “intelligence” to most political leaders has a YouTube analogy, remember that video of the chimpanzee with an AK 47?

Invariably, intelligence experts at a certain level, a small number with names you will never know, have the answers but no one that wants them.

One of those answers, perhaps the most important one for the United States is this one:

Biological warfare using existing weapons created through “gain-of-function” research can target and destroy certainly the United States with ease.

A warning, never has the difference between what we are told by the media are public perceptions and the concerns of the intelligence community been so far apart. The reason this is concerning is simple, nation states now admit, privately at least, that they no longer control their own affairs.

You know, defining a “nation state” has always been tricky. Nearly a hundred years ago, Marine General Smedley Butler admitted that the American military had, since well into the 19th century, been little more than enforcers for world organized crime. He cited his own efforts in the Caribbean and Central America along with America’s role in China under the supposed “Open Door” policy.

Butler’s claim? “I was a gangster for Wall Street.”

But what about today? Governments have always been placed in power to bring about certain events to favor the shadowy power cults that conspiracy theorists only rarely recognize. If you think the CIA or MI6 only rig elections “overseas,” nothing could be more wrong.

But then who is the CIA? What is MI6 or so many other agencies? Do they really exist outside question and oversite, protecting the West from the intrigues of supposed super-villain rulers of nations such as North Korea or Cuba?

The roots of such agencies, for Britain back hundreds of years to the time of William III, the Dutch born “enforcer” for what would become the Rothschild banking empire and its stranglehold over European currencies.

Germany under Bismarck and the Kaiser resisted, and we saw what happened to them. The US resisted as well, until Jacob Schiff and Paul Warburg “sold” the concept to Woodrow Wilson, under the guise of the Federal Reserve system.

They also sold Wilson a world war as well.

Before that, Jacob Schiff personally engineered the Russo-Japanese War and was the “string puller” that brought about the Spanish American War as well.

You see, certain European based financial groups, with a very long history, not only created Great Britain as a maritime superpower and “bully-boy” but did so for the United States as well.

Destroying Russia was always at the top of their list and, as the 20th century began its bloodletting, the Warburg family, agents of Schiff, agents of the Frankfurt-Amsterdam-London banking empire of the Rothschilds, played their key role. From The Warburgs: The Twentieth Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Family, by Ron Chernow:

“Paul Warburg was the only person in America who understood how a central bank works. In 1912 and 1913, he drew up the basic plan for the Federal Reserve banking system, and he drafted the Federal Reserve Act. In December 1913 President Wilson signed the Act establishing the new central bank. If anyone can be called the father of the Federal Reserve Bank, the New York Times has rightly noted, it is Paul Warburg.

The new central bank’s board of governors — which for several years included Paul Warburg — became top-heavy with political appointees whose policy of loose credit set the stage for the Great Depression. America’s economic collapse of the 1930s can be traced to the Federal Reserve’s operation by incompetents and self-serving hacks.

Back in Germany

While Paul Warburg was making America safer for financiers, his older brother, Max, was busy in Hamburg helping finance construction of Germany’s new merchant fleet through the HAPAG company. Because the Warburg family fortune was built on financing international trade, Max Warburg naturally sought to encourage the growth of such trade. For the same reasons, international bankers encouraged the removal of tariffs and other trade barriers.”

Our point? Nation states are ethereal, and national leaders that are little more than “crisis actors” have existed forever.

Instead of developing the tools needed for mankind to develop politically and culturally, history has been turned inside out, with more and more primitive religions and superstitions gaining a stranglehold over larger and larger populations ensuring a new internet driving “Dark Age.”

Conclusion

There is little question about what is in store. Those who predict alien invasions tell of mankind being “farmed” by invaders from Mars.

But haven’t we all been “farmed” through a world economy based on fake currencies, overwhelming debt, useless militarism and wanton consumption of energy and resources that has done nothing to promote the human condition?

Those who blame “vaccines” for all of man’s ills must not look around very much.

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

Something strange has happened to America. Millions of Americans are demonstrating symptoms of what are generally referred to as pathological disorders, generally personality disorders, of the kind normally attributed to abandonment by parents or sexual abuse as children.

You see it every day, not just in violence against nurses or school officials but in the overall tone of America, anger infused with stupidity and bad manners.

The symptoms are unmistakable as millions of Americans are drawn to “cult level” beliefs, including political and religious extremism that would put the Taliban (banned in Russia) to shame.

Let us also be clear. America never had a real love affair with truth when it came to what the American public was taught in schools or indoctrinated through media. What used to be controlled only by select elites like the Rockefeller or Ford Foundations has now fallen into the hands of the likes of Alex Jones or Joe Rogan.

The old lies, certainly poisonous and insidious, have been replaced with buffoonery and vitriolic, but along with the change in tone, there is also a change in quality. Painful rhetoric is now not just incomprehensible, but it reeks of illiteracy and basic ignorance, simple ignorance, not knowing right from wrong.

Then again, are things really worse? When America “bought” the wars of lies such as Vietnam or the even more reprehensible national tantrum in response to 9/11, millions died because of war profiteering fully supported by the news media and a corrupt government.

Thus, when millions of America’s least educated or most intellectually “vulnerable” lap up vaccine or election hoaxes they may be “totally wrong” but are they?

Are American elections rigged by the CIA? It doesn’t take a genius to see the “unseen hand” even in the process of selecting candidates, much less with the elections themselves.

The most glaring examples are Bush in 2000 or Trump in 2016 where normally accurate exit polls were off by “double digits,” something statisticians would report, if allowed, is impossible.

Similarly, if Americans don’t believe Dr. Fauci, could it be that America’s medical community has always treated the public as guinea pigs? America has the worst availability of healthcare of any advanced nation with profiteering my “big Pharma” and the medical corporations working hand in hand with corrupt politicians to create a scandalously failed medial system that has long preyed on the American people.

Then one day we get a pandemic, and nobody wants to play along. Who is responsible? Is it the lunatic fringe reporting by Fox News or was it all prestaged by engineering a society of gullible and complacent healthcare consumers?

There is evidence that the United States may well have, as a nation, degenerated into not just something ungovernable but something even worse, not just a breakdown of political and social cohesion.

Any reports from the United States, be it political leaders or the continual voices of angry Trump supporters have one thing in common. They show American adults acting like spoiled children, often raving like lunatics, often violent, generally irrational and, above all sharing one common trait and that is a lack of quality education.

The breakdown reflects many things, certainly a failure of American families, of schools, a failure of religious leaders and, clearest of all, a lack of positive role models among “social elites.”

Let us be clear, celebrities have always been a mixed lot, spoiled, privileged or “preachy.” The few that mean or meant well like Ed Asner are a distinct minority.

Others, like George Clooney, are coopted into supporting organizations like the White Helmets in Syria, no longer seen as “clean hands” first responders after armies of witnesses have accused them of full complicity in terror acts.

But the truth is ugly. America has had a full “meltdown” where schools run by powerful teacher’s unions and supported by politicians have overridden parental authority and act as “re-education camps” on behalf of ignorance and mediocrity.

But even decent schools would be unable to override a society that is “dumbed down” not just by the mindless game apps, bad schools, drugs everywhere, cheap and available or the tabloidization of the news media.

The well-financed and carefully orchestrated hatred of educated elites, denialism of science and the newfound wild acceptance of anything conspiratorial reeks of something quite purposeful.

Why would someone, some group, some cult or secret organization want the most militarily powerful nation in history to be controlled by those now elevated to high authority who are more than unstable. Listen to American media personalities like Tucker Carlson.

This week disgraced former President Donald Trump was interviewed by disgraced former White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Newsmax, a fringe network supporting supremacist hoaxes.

The former president stated that he believed the United States would be completely destroyed from within before the next presidential election. Spicer tried to shut him up, but nobody shuts up Donald Trump. Worse still, Trump may well have been correct.

Trump’s behavior of late has become more irrational than usual after revelations that the military had removed command authority from Trump based on their estimation that he was likely to try to start a nuclear war after an unsuccessful coup attempt on January 6, 2021.

General Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff actually called his Chinese counterpart, General Li Zuecheng two days after the coup attempt, assuring China that Trump would not be allowed to attack China with nuclear weapons. From PBS, an excerpt from a transcript of a news broadcast:

• Yamiche Alcindor:

Well, General Milley was taking extraordinary steps and having extraordinary conversations with a number of people, chief among them, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

this, of course, at the time on January 8, when a call was made from Speaker Pelosi to General Milley saying: I want to know what you’re doing to make sure that former President Trump is not allowed to misuse the nuclear codes or not allowed to get into some sort of military action that is not wise.

During that call — we want to put it up for folks — during that call, Speaker Pelosi said this of President — of former President Trump: “He’s crazy. You know he’s crazy. He’s crazy. And what he did yesterday,” referring to the Capitol seize, the Capitol attack on January 6, “what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness.”

And, remarkably, General Milley replied: “I agree with you on everything.”

Now, those are sources on Capitol Hill confirming those exact words to me tonight.

And what this really shows you is that someone like General Milley, who is not seen as political, not seen as a Democrat or Republican, here he is on the phone with a Democrat who is a target of former President Trump’s anger, saying: “I agree with you.”

I also want to point out another conversation that General Milley had, and that was with Gina Haspel. She was the former director of the CIA. And here’s what Gina Haspel reportedly told General Milley: “We are on the way to a right-wing coup,” again, going back to this idea of January 6 really shaking people up.

It’s extraordinary conversations really underlying the idea that former President Trump was seen as someone who was a loose cannon in his own administration.

When looking at this most extreme situation, there are two ways to go, blaming Trump as an “elite” willing to sacrifice 100 million in a cruel attempt to retain power or something worse.

What if Trump is, as so many of his followers believe, simply one of them? Trump’s education is spotty, his college records classified as national security secrets and there is that one issue, that he is accused of paying someone to not only take his entrance exams but to have quite possibility attended college for him, taking tests, writing papers.

But we also hear the same things about former Vice President Dick Cheney and former President George W. Bush as well, as both share key characteristics with Trump:

1. An aversion to telling the truth
2. Very low verbal communications skills
3. Long histories of personal meltdowns and/or substance abuse
4. No visible history of real employment

If we took those same four characteristics and applied them to many, Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan for instance, or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or perhaps the majority of the members of America’s congress, we might well find some consistencies.

Conclusion

Some of it may well be the abandonment of “expertise” as a source of respect for Americans. It takes real talent and expertise to operate heavy equipment, to lay tile or carpeting correctly or do brain surgery.

Those who have real and specific expertise are now pushed aside in the eyes of the public where anyone with a device, internet access and a case of narcissistic personality disorders can now become a vaccine expert, a political commentator or an expert on space travel or military technology.

They can be on television or be elected to high public office.

The same applies with “facts” or “information.” The new definition of “freedom” and “beliefs” has been augmented to include demands that all “facts” or “information” be considered “equal.”

If you believe you are the king of Sweden, then that belief must be not only respected but defended by others, often with violence at over the objection and rights of others.

This is how today’s American “new think” works.

Vaccines can cause pregnancy, they can cause sterility, they can be used to track, to control or even to prevent disease. All is simply “information” or “facts” and even “alternative facts.”

Nothing is wrong anymore and those who say things continually are not liars or criminals, they are patriots.

Welcome to America.

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

We all remember 9/11 as we remember so many other days, the Challenger disaster, the Kennedy murders or, for me, the fall of Saigon.

For me, 9/11 began a new journey. I had some years ago tried to move my own career from defense and intelligence endeavors to the sane and rational, real work with real people. Defense and intelligence work is hardly real, it involves platform upon platform of lies and fantasy. The whole thing is a con, spies, wars, terrorism, the entire multi-polar world is pure theatre.

Let’s go back to that day. It began with hijacked planes. There had been hijackings for decades but there had also been efforts to end hijacking. Sky Marshals were put on planes to mollify the public but behind that other things were done, including “shoot down” orders for any plane flying over North America with a terrorist in control.

That decision was made and implemented many years ago based on a “Black Sunday” scenario, an aircraft hitting a Super Bowl or similar target, killing up to 100,000.

The US keeps supersonic aircraft armed on the tarmac across the country that can reach any hijacked plane on afterburner in minutes.

There is no choice they are to be shot down. Thus, 9/11 wasn’t real.

Then there is that other thing, for fly-by-wire planes and that is an override that will land planes that is part of the engine management system. It is run by the CIA. Satellite communications can override flight controls and auto-land any advanced aircraft. MH 370 had one of these systems, so did the planes listed as “hijacked” on 9/11.

All military and intelligence people know this, around the world. Wonder why it was never mentioned?

Then the Pentagon, the idea of a plane flown just above the Potomac at 550 miles per hour. Problem here, at below 25,000 feet, any plane with fuel filled wings, like an airliner, will come apart. All the 9/11 planes violated physical laws.

They can’t fly that fast that low and if they could, the control surfaces would have quit working meaning they would have simply augured into the ground totally out of control.

Of course, I know this because a close friend is a longtime airline pilot and head of security at a major airline. Two of my friends are engineers at Boeing.

Then a group of Architects and Engineers claimed even planes at impossible speeds could not have seriously damaged the buildings, not just hundreds, more, and they are highly qualified people.

But then even they began offering strange solutions, claiming energy weapons that don’t exist or thermite powder took down the towers.

Their most important point is that Building 7, a third tower that was only slightly damaged and never hit by a plane collapsed also.

Their other claims, like thermite powder, are not just unlikely they are outlandishly false. There is always the “how did they do it” issue where that ploy ends in failure.

As all of this is happening, quite predictably, the world is immersed in war. America has set up secret prisons and a massive program of kidnapping and torturing “suspected terrorists.”

For those working in defense and intelligence, the Global War on Terror has drawn all into a single effort, not to defeat terrorism but rather to join the queue in raking in a portion of the endless billions paid to anyone willing to join the insanity, a war on imaginary terror.

You see, some of us were around for the conflict in Afghanistan that began so many years ago. The US, then aided by Pakistan, created terror groups to overthrow the Kabul government and war on the Soviet Union.

Around the same time, the US also set up a similar capability, secretly headquartered in Libya, to fight a terror war in Europe in case the Soviets staged a successful invasion of Western Europe.

This effort was called Operation Gladio, where terror groups were armed, taught bomb making and put in “cold storage” for a day they would be needed.

But then they brought themselves out of cold storage, Black September, the Red Brigades and other CIA created organization, as with ISIS and al Qaeda.

For the next 20 years they kidnapped, bombed and terrorized Europe.

They did the same thing in Central and Latin America as well.

This puts us back at the usual questions. Why would the US do this? What capabilities make something like this possible? This kind of operation or set of operations would require broad corruption in both military and intelligence.

What is obvious is that however corrupt of mismanaged the United States had been in the past, and the war in Vietnam is evidence of massive corruption and control of government by those who profit from war, but this is worse.

At some point, the press began to stop supporting the Vietnam War and, as activist veterans, a group I joined after returning from the war, began leading protests, the war was exposed for what it was.

So, what changed? Why no more protests? Why no more independent press? Where did America’s “left” go?

That last question is easy. It was Benjamin Netanyahu that told us that 9/11 was very good for Israel. Well, Jewish Americans, with up to 1 million holding Israeli passports, make up America’s “left.”

What happened in America is that After the Reagan presidency, the last American strong enough to stand up to Israel, every president since has been answerable to the billionaires that control both political parties in the US, billionaires who are in most cases also Israeli citizens.

Opposing the will of these billionaires and the organizations they run, Google, Facebook, Wikipedia along with congress and the Supreme Court, let us not forget they run the stock markets as well, is suicide.

You see, they also run the press, they own it and that isn’t conjecture.

Thus, any who oppose Islamophobia or Russophobia or who question who really funds terror groups like ISIS or those who really staged 9/11 face charges of anti-Semitism.

No one survives that kind of smear, just ask Jeremy Corbyn.

Conclusion

For 20 years, reality itself has been assaulted. We have a worldwide duality, the ignorant and “led” against those who understand but choose silence and survival.

Planes don’t knock down steel framed buildings.

Steel doesn’t burn from kerosene and ethylene glycol and kerosene fires, meaning “jet fuel.”

You can’t hijack a plane in the US, it will either be shot down or, since some time in the early 1990s, simply be robotically landed.

You see this done on TV all the time and it isn’t new. If a Tesla can drive through New York traffic at rush hour, a jet airliner can be landed using “fly by wire” that has been around forever. From Wikipedia:

Servo-electrically operated control surfaces were first tested in the 1930s on the Soviet Tupolev ANT-20. Long runs of mechanical and hydraulic connections were replaced with wires and electric servos.

In 1941, an engineer from the Siemens, Karl Otto Altvater developed and tested the first fly-by-wire system for the Heinkel He-111, where the aircraft was fully controlled by electronic impulses.

In 1934, Karl Otto Altvater filed a patent about the automatic-electronic system, which flared the aircraft, when it was close to the ground.

The first pure electronic fly-by-wire aircraft with no mechanical or hydraulic backup was the Apollo Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV), first flown in 1968.

The first non-experimental aircraft that was designed and flown (in 1958) with a fly-by-wire flight control system was the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, a feat not repeated with a production aircraft (though the Arrow was cancelled with five built) until Concorde in 1969, which became the first fly-by-wire airliner. This system also included solid-state components and system redundancy, was designed to be integrated with a computerised navigation and automatic search and track radar, was flyable from ground control with data uplink and downlink, and provided artificial feel (feedback) to the pilot.

In the UK the two seater Avro 707C was flown with a Fairey system with mechanical backup in the early to mid-60s. The program was curtailed when the air-frame ran out of flight time.

In 1972, the first digital fly-by-wire fixed-wing aircraft without a mechanical backup to take to the air was an F-8 Crusader, which had been modified electronically by NASA of the United States as a test aircraft; the F-8 used the Apollo guidance, navigation and control hardware.

This was preceded in 1964 by the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) which pioneered fly-by-wire flight with no mechanical backup. Control was through a digital computer with three analog redundant channels. In the USSR, the Sukhoi T-4 also flew. At about the same time in the United Kingdom a trainer variant of the British Hawker Hunter fighter was modified at the British Royal Aircraft Establishment with fly-by-wire flight controls for the right-seat pilot.

The Airbus A320 began service in 1988 as the first airliner with digital fly-by-wire controls.

Today, the last fake 9/11 controversy is over the role of Saudi Arabia in funding and organizing 9/11. This, of course, is a “con” as well and predicated on the false belief that the Saudi Royal family, which is “Saudi Arabia” was a “blood enemy” of Israel.

The years since and the partnership, an open one, between Israel and Saudi Arabia against Syria, Iraq and Lebanon is long a matter of fact though not “official history.”

When we travel back in time, knowing what we know, watching the videos of planes flying 550 miles per hour at near sea level, and the massive explosions that brought down the three towers, the dread some of us felt that day wasn’t over those killed.

It was over those we knew would die, perhaps even in the millions, and the assault on world order, human rights and reason itself that would ensue.

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.