shoebat--2020-11-20--Bill Gates Declares That Most Business Travel Will Disappear

Love him or hate him , Bill Gates has become very famous in recent times for his statements on COVID and his connections to the vaccine industry as well as major international groups .
But love him or hate him , think he is wise or an evil genius or just a fool , Gates made recent statements to CNET about future trends in travel , in which he said that a large amount of travel for business and leisure is going to disappear as an effect of the virus .
Microsoft founder Bill Gates predicts that half of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the coronavirus pandemic ends and that people will also work far less often from a physical company office , Business Insider reported .
Gates made the remarks Tuesday at The New York Times DealBook conference , BI said .
“ My prediction would be that over 50 % of business travel and over 30 % of days in the office will go away , ” Gates reportedly said , adding that from now on , businesses will have a “ very high threshold ” for traveling to conduct in-person meetings .
Microsoft has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eligible employees , who can also choose from a hybrid model where they spend some days in the office .
Twitter , Facebook and other tech companies have announced similar policies .
The Microsoft founder didn ’ t immediately respond to a request for comment .
It ’ s also possible many tech conferences could stay in their online format , rather than hosting tens of thousands of people at a brick and mortar convention center .
( source ) Last decade , it was very common to have a lot of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media influencers ” traveling to exotic places and taking notorious “ selfies ” wherever they traveled .
But this was a blip in time , a small interruption from what seems to be returning , which are the older days of a lot less travel , and by comparison , a lot more isolation .
Make no mistake , travel is not going anywhere , nor is the Internet , because things when established do not just disappear .
Even the ancient Silk Road is being rebuilt as we speak , with high-speed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as is planned for the future ) by way of Central Asia .
The future of the world , while it seems to be shifting towards “ Eurasia ” at least in the sense of economic distribution ( and by that also political trends ) , is a separate trend , but for the concern of this virus , the current trends for business and travel that are being reshaped as we speak are likely going to stay for purposes of cost-cutting measures .
This will have a direct effect on the airline @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get enough people to fly , one may see a reduction in flight offerings as well as notably higher flight prices in the future to compensate for the reduced demand .
Likewise , the layoffs that have taken place in the airline industry may continue and become even worse so much that salaries may drop for airlines and with that , the number of employees in service as well .
AirBNB has alluded to this as well , for while it is not in the ‘ flight ’ industry , it is still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being hit particularly hard by this virus , and they are forecasting little to no profits for the future as it pertains to the industry until fundamental changes are made to the travel market landscape .
Shoebat.com has spoken often about a trend of localism , regionalism , and otherwise the creation of smaller communities being emphasized in favor of nationalism and tribalism that will help fuel a global war .
Since it is connection with others that helps me to form bonds , the disappearance of travel from what is was before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nationalism and tribalism by separating people from even a nominal physical connection with each other in passing , for it is much easier to dehumanize another man if one has been long separated from or even never had the opportunity to meet him in person .
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Love him or hate him, Bill Gates has become very famous in recent times for his statements on COVID and his connections to the vaccine industry as well as major international groups. But love him or hate him, think he is wise or an evil genius or just a fool, Gates made recent statements to CNET about future trends in travel, in which he said that a large amount of travel for business and leisure is going to disappear as an effect of the virus.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates predicts that half of all business travel won’t return after the coronavirus pandemic ends and that people will also work far less often from a physical company office, Business Insider reported. Gates made the remarks Tuesday at The New York Times DealBook conference, BI said. “My prediction would be that over 50% of business travel and over 30% of days in the office will go away,” Gates reportedly said, adding that from now on, businesses will have a “very high threshold” for traveling to conduct in-person meetings. Microsoft has already announced a permanent work-from-home policy for eligible employees, who can also choose from a hybrid model where they spend some days in the office. Twitter, Facebook and other tech companies have announced similar policies. The Microsoft founder didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. It’s also possible many tech conferences could stay in their online format, rather than hosting tens of thousands of people at a brick and mortar convention center. (source)
Last decade, it was very common to have a lot of people traveling, especially Millennials with “social media influencers” traveling to exotic places and taking notorious “selfies” wherever they traveled.
But this was a blip in time, a small interruption from what seems to be returning, which are the older days of a lot less travel, and by comparison, a lot more isolation. Make no mistake, travel is not going anywhere, nor is the Internet, because things when established do not just disappear. Even the ancient Silk Road is being rebuilt as we speak, with high-speed trains going from London to Tokyo (as is planned for the future) by way of Central Asia.
The future of the world, while it seems to be shifting towards “Eurasia” at least in the sense of economic distribution (and by that also political trends), is a separate trend, but for the concern of this virus, the current trends for business and travel that are being reshaped as we speak are likely going to stay for purposes of cost-cutting measures. This will have a direct effect on the airline industry, and if they cannot get enough people to fly, one may see a reduction in flight offerings as well as notably higher flight prices in the future to compensate for the reduced demand. Likewise, the layoffs that have taken place in the airline industry may continue and become even worse so much that salaries may drop for airlines and with that, the number of employees in service as well.
AirBNB has alluded to this as well, for while it is not in the ‘flight’ industry, it is still part of the travel sector that is being hit particularly hard by this virus, and they are forecasting little to no profits for the future as it pertains to the industry until fundamental changes are made to the travel market landscape.
Shoebat.com has spoken often about a trend of localism, regionalism, and otherwise the creation of smaller communities being emphasized in favor of nationalism and tribalism that will help fuel a global war. Since it is connection with others that helps me to form bonds, the disappearance of travel from what is was before will only help fuel the fires of nationalism and tribalism by separating people from even a nominal physical connection with each other in passing, for it is much easier to dehumanize another man if one has been long separated from or even never had the opportunity to meet him in person.
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shoebat--2020-11-20--Mnuchin Refuses To Extend Emergency Lending Programs

With the cracks showing forth in the US economy , largely exposed by the effects of COVID but not the virus itself ( for the problems were already long existing in the system ) , the Wall Street Journal has reported that with much to the dismay of investors , businesses , and even the common man , he is refusing to extend several emergency landing programs .
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined to extend several emergency loan programs established jointly with the Federal Reserve that are set to expire on Dec. 31 .
The Fed ’ s corporate credit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ programs won ’ t be renewed , Mr. Mnuchin said Thursday .
The central bank signaled disappointment in his decision .
“ The Federal Reserve would prefer that the full suite of emergency facilities established during the coronavirus pandemic continue to serve their important role as a backstop for our still-strained and vulnerable economy , ” the Fed said in a statement .
Fed Chairman Jerome Powellhad indicated in remarks Tuesday that he didn ’ t think it would be appropriate to allow the programs to expire .
“ The Fed will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tools to support the economy for as long as it takes until the job is well and truly done , ” Mr. Powell said .
“ When the right time comes , and I don ’ t think that time is yet or very soon , we will put those tools away , ” he said .
In a letter to Mr. Powell on Thursday , Mr. Mnuchin said the facilities , backstopped by the Treasury with funds authorized under March ’ s Cares Act , “ have clearly achieved their objective.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ March , have returned to their pre-Covid-19 levels along with borrowing spreads .
“ Banks have the lending capacity to meet the borrowing needs of their corporate , municipal and nonprofit clients , ” he wrote , adding that policy makers ’ responsibility was to “ restore financial conditions as a response to Covid-19.
” “ While portions of the economy are still severely impacted and in need of additional fiscal support , financial conditions have responded and the use of these facilities has been limited , ” his letter also said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lot of talk about financial abuse and corruption in these programs , as well as a fact that I have mentioned before , which is the continuing devaluation of the currency causing prices to increase not because a commodity is worth more , but because the actual dollar is worth less than it was before , which helps support stock prices ( by making them rise in nominal value ) while driving down actual value , and as a result of this hurting small investors and most importantly , those who have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that as a part of this , it will effect the common man , with about 12 million set to lose unemployment benefits .
This directly impacts the public , and while 12 million is small compared to the 350 million-ish people who live in the US ( for the exact numbers are not known ) , it is still about 3 % of the total working population , and that is not a small number , especially considering that we are talking about a quantity that is essentially the state of Georgia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump and Biden in an interesting position .
If Trump wins , he will have a lot of angry people at him for not helping them .
If Biden wins , it will almost guarantee that Biden will pass a stimulus , but will have long-term detrimental economic consequences , and if he does not pass it , it will still cause problems that are economic as well as political for Biden and the Democrats , as they will be blamed for any consequences that follow .
The long-term trends are not good @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of fundamental debt problems .
As a result , truly here if the Republicans lose the presidential election formally speaking , they will have won , as now the problems will fall on Biden and given the state of his health , possibly in the not distant future , Kamala .
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With the cracks showing forth in the US economy, largely exposed by the effects of COVID but not the virus itself (for the problems were already long existing in the system), the Wall Street Journal has reported that with much to the dismay of investors, businesses, and even the common man, he is refusing to extend several emergency landing programs.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined to extend several emergency loan programs established jointly with the Federal Reserve that are set to expire on Dec. 31. The Fed’s corporate credit, municipal lending and Main Street Lending programs won’t be renewed, Mr. Mnuchin said Thursday. The central bank signaled disappointment in his decision. “The Federal Reserve would prefer that the full suite of emergency facilities established during the coronavirus pandemic continue to serve their important role as a backstop for our still-strained and vulnerable economy,” the Fed said in a statement. Fed Chairman Jerome Powellhad indicated in remarks Tuesday that he didn’t think it would be appropriate to allow the programs to expire. “The Fed will be strongly committed to using all of our tools to support the economy for as long as it takes until the job is well and truly done,” Mr. Powell said. “When the right time comes, and I don’t think that time is yet or very soon, we will put those tools away,” he said. In a letter to Mr. Powell on Thursday, Mr. Mnuchin said the facilities, backstopped by the Treasury with funds authorized under March’s Cares Act, “have clearly achieved their objective.” Bond issuance volumes, which sank in March, have returned to their pre-Covid-19 levels along with borrowing spreads. “Banks have the lending capacity to meet the borrowing needs of their corporate, municipal and nonprofit clients,” he wrote, adding that policy makers’ responsibility was to “restore financial conditions as a response to Covid-19.” “While portions of the economy are still severely impacted and in need of additional fiscal support, financial conditions have responded and the use of these facilities has been limited,” his letter also said. (source)
Now there has been a lot of talk about financial abuse and corruption in these programs, as well as a fact that I have mentioned before, which is the continuing devaluation of the currency causing prices to increase not because a commodity is worth more, but because the actual dollar is worth less than it was before, which helps support stock prices (by making them rise in nominal value) while driving down actual value, and as a result of this hurting small investors and most importantly, those who have savings.
The other problem will be that as a part of this, it will effect the common man, with about 12 million set to lose unemployment benefits. This directly impacts the public, and while 12 million is small compared to the 350 million-ish people who live in the US (for the exact numbers are not known), it is still about 3% of the total working population, and that is not a small number, especially considering that we are talking about a quantity that is essentially the state of Georgia or North Carolina.
This puts both Trump and Biden in an interesting position. If Trump wins, he will have a lot of angry people at him for not helping them. If Biden wins, it will almost guarantee that Biden will pass a stimulus, but will have long-term detrimental economic consequences, and if he does not pass it, it will still cause problems that are economic as well as political for Biden and the Democrats, as they will be blamed for any consequences that follow.
The long-term trends are not good no matter who is in office because of fundamental debt problems. As a result, truly here if the Republicans lose the presidential election formally speaking, they will have won, as now the problems will fall on Biden and given the state of his health, possibly in the not distant future, Kamala.
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shoebat--2020-11-21--JPMorgan Becomes First Major Bank To Formally Declare That US First Quarter GDP Will Decline Because

JPMorgan Becomes First Major Bank To Formally Declare That US First Quarter GDP Will Decline Because Of COVID

One of the trends that I have been repeating over and over that COVID and the economy are linked in that COVID is being used to take down the US and global economy , and eventually with that the currency by forcing problems to be exposed .
One of the reasons the US “ perpetual growth ” model is so promoted is because the US needs perpetual financialization to keep her economy going , as the money is based on an unpayable debt with interest scheme run by the Federal Reserve Bank for over a century .
The simple idea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” - real or faked -is happening , there is no reckoning with the debt , and a part of this is- real or faked -GDP growth that is used to support the financial markets .
I have said constantly that at some point , events will happen that will force the debt to be reckoned with , and that will cause chaos leading to global market instability that will have likely political impacts .
Right now , in another step in this direction , JPMorgan has become the first major bank to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the US first quarter GDP will contract because of COVID .
JPMorgan economists now see an economic contraction in the first quarter due to the spreading coronavirus and related restrictions being imposed by states and cities .
The new forecast is a departure from Wall Street ’ s widely held view that the first quarter would be positive , with an improving economy throughout 2021 .
The JPMorgan economists said they expect the economy to expand briskly in the second and third quarter , based on positive vaccine developments .
“ This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believe the economy will contract again in 1Q , ” the economists wrote .
They projected that the first quarter will contract by 1 % after growth of 2.8 % in the fourth quarter .
For the second quarter , they see the economy rallying and growth of 4.5 % followed by a robust 6.5 % in the third quarter .
The economists also expect about $ 1 trillion of fiscal stimulus , likely beginning near the end of the first quarter .
That should help boost midyear growth .
“ One thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and 2021 is that the virus will continue to dominate the economic outlook .
… Case counts in the latest wave are easily surpassing the March and July waves , ” the economists wrote .
They noted that the economy was helped through the July outbreak by the economic reopenings .
“ The economy no longer has that tailwind ; instead it now faces the headwind of increasing restrictions on activity .
The holiday season — from Thanksgiving through New Year ’ s — threatens a further increase in cases , ” they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see monthly declines in employment at different points over the next few months , but monthly job gains should be back in the millions around the middle of the year and then moderate again late in 2021 .
“ We think the trends in the labor market should roughly follow what we expect for consumer spending — job growth should weaken noticeably around the turn of the year as the virus weighs on the economy , and then pick up again early next year once vaccine distribution eases virus concerns and fiscal support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( source ) This is very important to follow , because as I have repeatedly said , as long as there is debt , there is going to be NO SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM because THE PROBLEM IS THE DEBT , and if the GDP suffers , it shakes confidence in investments , which causes investment and speculation to drop or become subject to further scrutiny , which forces more questions , which exposes more problems , which shakes investor confidence , and so on .
I don ’ t want to say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ reason or cause that will trigger a major debt reckoning .
Rather , this is a process that happens in small steps , and this is but another step on that path .
It is rare to have a major bank make such an announcement , as they are tied to the financial system and have a direct interest in propping it up , so that they are making such a statement does not mean they are being honest out of good will , but that the problems are so obvious there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a positive investment image to their current and prospective investors unless they acknowledge reality before them .
In this case , the reality is that the national economy is suffering , and it is directly affecting major functions of the system itself .
Biden , assuming he becomes president , will likely be forced to print money to cover the economic problems , as this is the only tool that the US has in a practical sense to deal with her debts .
If he doesn ’ t , it means a very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he does , it only drives down the economy further into more of the same debt as well as adds to currency devaluation .
It is a no-win scenario .
The future is going to be very interesting .
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One of the trends that I have been repeating over and over that COVID and the economy are linked in that COVID is being used to take down the US and global economy, and eventually with that the currency by forcing problems to be exposed.
One of the reasons the US “perpetual growth” model is so promoted is because the US needs perpetual financialization to keep her economy going, as the money is based on an unpayable debt with interest scheme run by the Federal Reserve Bank for over a century. The simple idea is that as long as “growth”- real or faked -is happening, there is no reckoning with the debt, and a part of this is- real or faked -GDP growth that is used to support the financial markets.
I have said constantly that at some point, events will happen that will force the debt to be reckoned with, and that will cause chaos leading to global market instability that will have likely political impacts.
Right now, in another step in this direction, JPMorgan has become the first major bank to officially declare that according to CNBC News, the US first quarter GDP will contract because of COVID.
JPMorgan economists now see an economic contraction in the first quarter due to the spreading coronavirus and related restrictions being imposed by states and cities. The new forecast is a departure from Wall Street’s widely held view that the first quarter would be positive, with an improving economy throughout 2021. The JPMorgan economists said they expect the economy to expand briskly in the second and third quarter, based on positive vaccine developments. “This winter will be grim, and we believe the economy will contract again in 1Q,” the economists wrote. They projected that the first quarter will contract by 1% after growth of 2.8% in the fourth quarter. For the second quarter, they see the economy rallying and growth of 4.5% followed by a robust 6.5% in the third quarter. The economists also expect about $1 trillion of fiscal stimulus, likely beginning near the end of the first quarter. That should help boost midyear growth. “One thing that is unlikely to change between 2020 and 2021 is that the virus will continue to dominate the economic outlook. … Case counts in the latest wave are easily surpassing the March and July waves,” the economists wrote. They noted that the economy was helped through the July outbreak by the economic reopenings. “The economy no longer has that tailwind; instead it now faces the headwind of increasing restrictions on activity. The holiday season — from Thanksgiving through New Year’s — threatens a further increase in cases,” they added. The economists also expect to see monthly declines in employment at different points over the next few months, but monthly job gains should be back in the millions around the middle of the year and then moderate again late in 2021. “We think the trends in the labor market should roughly follow what we expect for consumer spending — job growth should weaken noticeably around the turn of the year as the virus weighs on the economy, and then pick up again early next year once vaccine distribution eases virus concerns and fiscal support boosts growth,” they wrote. (source)
This is very important to follow, because as I have repeatedly said, as long as there is debt, there is going to be NO SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM because THE PROBLEM IS THE DEBT, and if the GDP suffers, it shakes confidence in investments, which causes investment and speculation to drop or become subject to further scrutiny, which forces more questions, which exposes more problems, which shakes investor confidence, and so on.
I don’t want to say that this one act is ‘the’ reason or cause that will trigger a major debt reckoning. Rather, this is a process that happens in small steps, and this is but another step on that path. It is rare to have a major bank make such an announcement, as they are tied to the financial system and have a direct interest in propping it up, so that they are making such a statement does not mean they are being honest out of good will, but that the problems are so obvious there is no way that they can sell a positive investment image to their current and prospective investors unless they acknowledge reality before them. In this case, the reality is that the national economy is suffering, and it is directly affecting major functions of the system itself.
Biden, assuming he becomes president, will likely be forced to print money to cover the economic problems, as this is the only tool that the US has in a practical sense to deal with her debts. If he doesn’t, it means a very bad future for many Americans. If he does, it only drives down the economy further into more of the same debt as well as adds to currency devaluation. It is a no-win scenario.
The future is going to be very interesting.
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shoebat--2020-11-21--Turkey And Azerbaijan Want To Unite And Become One Country. Now They Are Building A Railway System T

Turkey And Azerbaijan Want To Unite And Become One Country. Now They Are Building A Railway System To Connect Turkey And Azerbaijan. Could This Railway Be Used To Transport Armenians To Their Deaths?

When Azerbaijani soldiers were fighting Armenian soldiers , they were wearing not only the Azerbaijani flag on their uniforms , but the Turkish flag as well .
The language of the Azeris is Turkish , their culture is very Turkish , and they hold up high the Turkish flag .
Their phrase regarding their relationship is “ one nation , two states ” , for they see themselves as being one with Turkey .
Azerbaijan ’ s victory in the war against Armenia , is ultimately a victory for Turkey .
It was Turkish-NATO military technology that won Azerbaijan the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the means to assail the drones that the Azeris were using , and such weaponry is what determined the end result of this decades long conflict .
Now that the most significant parts of Nagorno-Karabakh have and are being given back to Azerbaijan , these lands can be used for the strategic advantage of Turkey .
Turkey wants to use Nagorno-Karabakh for the acquiring of natural gas and to extend the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway system .
For years Turkey has purchased gas from Russia , but this changed significantly in 2020 when its importing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % .
Moreover , in the first half of 2020 , Turkey imported 20.4 % more cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas than it had in the first half of 2019 .
By May of 2020 , Azerbaijan officially became Turkey ’ s top natural gas provider .
Turkey is importing 70 % less natural gas from Russia in comparison to this time last year .
Turkey buying less Russian gas and relying more on Azerbaijan for its energy needs should have been a presaging sign : Turkey does not want to rely on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consolidate its power within its sphere of influence , and what better way to do this than to take from a fellow Turkish nation as opposed to a country which has been an enemy of Turkey for centuries ?
Turkey acquiring natural gas from Azerbaijan is thanks to the Trans-Anatolian pipeline ( TANAP ) which goes back to 2011 when the two countries agreed to start a project for a pipeline and which was eventually put into operation in 2018 .
The Trans-Anatolian pipeline is just one part of the Southern Gas Corridor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gas to European countries from the Shah Deniz gas field in Azerbaijan .
The purpose of these pipelines is to reduce Turkey ’ s and Europe ’ s reliance on Russian natural gas .
The project of the Southern Gas Corridor has its origins in the year 2008 when the European Commission put out an initiative called “ Second Strategic Energy Review – An EU Energy Security and Solidarity Action Plan ” .
The project came into fruition in June of 2018 with an open ceremony occurring in Eskisehir , Turkey with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Turkey and Ukraine .
The project was backed by Washington ; President Trump sent a letter to the International Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference in Baku , stating : “ The U.S. remains strongly committed to the Southern Gas Corridor [ project ] , and welcomes the efforts of Azerbaijan and its international partners to complete it.
” The Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the State Department , Sue Saarnio , stated : “ Europe ’ s efforts to diversify energy supplies are critical to ensuring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Southern Gas Corridor has the ability to provide 16 billion cubic meters of Caspian natural gas per year ; 10 billion of those to Europe and six billion to Turkey .
With such an immense supply of energy , it is no wonder that the Turks and Europeans are looking to Azerbaijan to further eschew their dependence on Russia .
Turkey is especially wanting to be independent from Russia ’ s energy empire because it is in competition with the Kremlin .
Be it in Syria , where Russian and Turkish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Libya where Turkey is supporting the Government of National Accord against the power of the Russian military and its Libyan proxies ; in Crimea where Turkey and Russia are rivaling over the Black Sea , and now in the South Caucasus where Turkey ’ s proxy , Azerbaijan , has defeated a Russian ally , and where Russian troops have been deployed , the Crescent and the Slavic bear are positioning themselves for major conflict .
By using Azerbaijan as a satellite for Ankara , and facilitating an Islamic victory over their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it is not afraid to use force in the expansion of her political influence and leverage for resources and supremacy .
Even after the Azeri victory , the Muslims did not hesitate to do the Call to Prayer in the middle of a Christian city — Shushi — that they had just taken over ( the defeat of the Armenians in this city determined the end of the war ) .
Looking at this video we see a Muslim soldier making the Call to Prayer after victory over the Christians .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those who worship the Trinity .
Here we see not only Islamic supremacy being demonstrated , but the victory of Turkey over a Christian land , the expansion of Turkish power and thus the revival of the Ottoman Empire .
This is not just about resources , but about the domination of ideology .
Resources are only a means to power , the essence of that power is expressed through ideology .
The United States has immense control over resources , and a military might that terrifies the world , but these are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States , which is expressed through the ideology of American exceptionalism .
Turkey is expanding herself through her military might ; we are seeing this already in Syria , Libya and Azerbaijan , — a fellow Turkish nation ( really , an extension of Turkey ) — Turkey is widening her sphere of influence in the will to power and empire , and the expression of that power will be the sound of the mizmar and the drum , the crimson flag emblazoned with the crescent , and the call of Turkish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be impossible without resources , hence Ankara is fixated on Azerbaijan ’ s natural gas enough to demonstrate military force .
In the words of Emil Avdaliani : “ Turkey wants an unhindered flow of Azerbaijani gas and is willing to show that it will defend that supply chain politically and even through the use of a limited military force if necessary.
” Now that the war is over ( for now ) , Turkey is demonstrating its assertiveness as the victor by announcing the construction of a railway connecting Turkey with Azerbaijan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the already existing Baku-Tbilisi-Kars ( BTK ) railroad which went into operation in October of 2017 and which goes from Baku all the way through Georgia and then through Turkey where it ends in Ceyhan .
Erdogan wants the railway to connect Turkey with the autonomous Azeri region of Nakhichevan which , while not being contiguous with Azerbaijan , is a landlocked enclave of the country and borders right with Turkey .
The current capacity of the BTK railway system is around 5 million tons of cargo and 1.5 million passengers per @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this capacity to 20 millions tons of cargo a year .
Turkey ’ s Transport and Infrastructure Minister , Adil Karaismailoglu , stated : The idea of a railway connecting Turkey with Nakhchevan was not something that just popped up from the Turkish government , but has been being planned out for years .
In 2012 , there was a joint press conference between President of Azerbaijan , Ilham Aliyev , and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the plan to build a railway between Nakhichevan and the Turkish city of Igdir @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the AK Party in Kars , Ahmet Arslan , stated that the railway project was being prepared when he was serving as the Minister of Transport , Maritime Affairs and Communications , which was from 2016 to 2018 : Now that Armenia was defeated , the Turks are taking the opportunity to execute the plan .
As Arslan stated : “ The connection of Nakhchivan to Azerbaijan as a railway with the liberation of Karabakh will accelerate this process.
” Since both Turkey and Azerbaijan are Turkish countries , the victory over Armenia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ further connecting the two countries is seen as a step towards uniting the Turkish world as part of the pan-Turkist paradigm .
There has been talk amongst Turkish nationalists in the media on the formation of a Turanian army , or even a Turkish NATO , in which Turkish nations will unite under Ankara .
For example , in an article published on October 27th , 2020 , by the Turkish daily Türkiye , professor Cemalettin Taşkıran , speaks of how “ the Central Asian Republics ” are closer now to Turkey than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Ottoman Empire , stating : “ In Turkish history , the periods in which the Central Asian Republics got as close [ as they are today ] to the Ottoman state , and later to the Republic of Turkey , and in fact , gave each other such close support , are so few as to be non-existent.
” He then goes on to say that The introduction of this article speaks of how the Azeri and Turkish victory over the Armenians bolsters the position in favor of a pan-Turkish military force @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Will Be A Global Power – It Is Early But Definitely One Day.
” And before this it reads : In an article published on October 28th of 2020 by Yeni Çağ , nationalist Ahmet Gürsoy described this Turan army as “ a kind of Turkic NATO , ” and said that : So with Turkey beginning to build a railway to further link itself with Azerbaijan and leading a war effort against Armenia to establish Turkish power in the Caucasus ( part of Ankara ’ s goal of reviving the Ottoman Empire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against Armenians is still strong within the nationalist and Islamist government of Turkey .
And what of this railway system ?
When the Turks butchered over a million Armenians , they used a railway system — the Berlin-Bagdad railway ( which was created by German engineers ) — to transport people to their deaths in the Syrian desert .
Genocide is impossible without industrialism , and this train system — although its initial purpose is the transportation of goods — could be one day used to transport humans to the slaughter .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when the Committee of Union and Progress , the ruling party of Turkey that was ran by the nationalist Young Turks , commenced the extermination of the Armenians within the Ottoman Empire .
The inhabitants of the town of Zeitun were the first to be transported .
They were crammed inside of the train , with eighty-eight Armenians being jammed into each freight car .
At times pregnant women gave birth in these containers of death , and the Ottoman guards would simply grab the new born and throw it out of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attention on the numbers of Armenians being moved in the trains , with Talaat Bey , the minister of the interior , constantly receiving messages on how many Armenians were being deported , and on which location they were at .
The Berlin-Bagdad railway was efficient in moving large amounts of people , in a short amount of time , so that they could be annihilated .
On October 9th and 10th , 1915 , 11,000 Armenians in Konya , were transported by train ; between October 13th and 16th , 9,600 Armenians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In the following three days , 5,000 Armenians were sent out of Konia , and another 4,854 in just the next two days .
On October 23rd , 1,050 Armenians were crammed into fourteen train cars and shipped out to be executed .
As we learn from the historian Richard G. Hovannisian , almost all of the railway stations for the Berlin-Bagdad railway were “ detention camps where thousands died.
” Right next to the railway station in Konia , the Ottomans built a concentration camp to imprison their victims .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This was just one concentration camp out of a series of camps that were built alongside the railway heading towards the Syrian desert .
Armenians were kept in these camps until they were moved on to the next camp .
Thousands would die in these camps just from the sheer exhaustion of having to march long distances between camps .
Thousands more died in these camps from disease .
Ottoman authorities would at times cruelly dehydrate the Armenians by deliberately withholding water .
Many times camps were attacked and the people butchered .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The camp in Katma , for example , would hold 40,000 people .
The camp near Osmanieh imprisoned between 20,000 and 70,000 victims .
In November of 1915 , the Berlin-Bagdad Company was given orders to move 50,000 Armenians from Katma to the Ras-ul-Ain camps to be slaughtered , starved to death and even buried alive .
The German vice-consul , Hermann Hoffman reported that in Tell Ermen , “ Everything had been destroyed , except for 15 to 20 people who were able to flee .
Vice-Consul Holstein even discovered remains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in the church.
” ( See Gust , The Armenians Genocide : Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives ) But this mass killing of people in such a short amount of time , would not have been possible without the German engineers and bankers who produced and financed the technology by which to kill in such high numbers .
While there were Germans who were disturbed by the killings , and who even made efforts to stop it , such as Franz Gunther who reported on how the Turks were slaughtering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ German government did much work to cover up the crimes .
During the summer of 1915 , the German Foreign Office made efforts to deny the genocide that was taking place .
Ernst Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg , who represented the German diplomate Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim , wrote that while the slaughter was happening , Germany must keep the Ottomans as allies and thus do nothing for the Armenians .
“ All of our thoughts with regard to the decisions of the Turkish government to eliminate the indigenous Christians in the eastern provinces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proved to be ineffective .
Therefore , for the time being I must refrain from taking further steps , particularly in favour of the Armenians.
” Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim , in a meeting in Constantinople with the American ambassador , Henry Morgenthau , explicitly said that he would do nothing to help the Armenians , stating as his justification : “ Our aim is to win the war.
” He also said : “ Germany is not responsible for this ” .
Wangenheim ’ s callousness to the suffering of the Armenians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pragmatism for German interests , but also on a social Darwinistic mentality .
Wangenheim said : His words , “ the weaker nation must succumb , ” echo the wicked as they are described by the Book of Wisdom : “ But let our strength be the law of justice : for that which is feeble , is found to be nothing worth.
” ( Wisdom 2:11 ) This violent sentiment of German elites towards the Armenians was widespread enough that Germany did not care about the evils being done by their Ottoman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ German naval attaché in Constantinople , and a very close friend of Enver Pasha , one of the main orchestrators of the genocide , said regarding the killings : “ because of their conspiracy with the Russians , the Armenians are being more or less annihilated .
This is hard , but useful.
” Enver Pasha also shared this Darwinistic view of Armenians , and Greeks , calling them “ unreliables , ” worthy of only being put into work camps .
Once the Ottoman Empire joined Germany in the First World War @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ all the unreliables : Greeks , Armenians , etc.
, ” would be put into amele taburları or labour battalions .
Nationalism played a large role in Turkey ’ s involvement in the war effort , with Pasha telling von Humann that it would “ advance the people ’ s national identity , ” a motive that would fuel the Armenian genocide , since the Ottoman Young Turks desired for a “ homogenous ” society .
Pasha praised Germany , stating that he witnessed in the country “ the tireless willingness of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whole person to the fatherland.
” Pasha wanted Turkey to become more like Germany because , as he saw his country , everyone thinks of themselves , “ no one of the fatherland.
” The effort to cover up for the Ottoman atrocity was also taken by the German chancellor , Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg , who wrote : “ The proposed public reprimand of an ally in the course of a war would be an act which is unprecedented in history … Our only aim is to keep Turkey on our side until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ matter whether as a result Armenians do perish or not.
” Germany , in the upper echelons of its power , was in favor and in support for the transportation , through its Berlin-Bagdad railway system , and extermination of the Armenians .
There is a 1916 letter from Paul Wolff Metternich , German ambassador to Constantinople , addressed to the Chancellor , in which he expressed Germany ’ s support for Turkey ’ s relocation , and liquidation , of the Armenian population : On the letter there is a postscript written @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charge of economic matters at the German embassy in Constantinople , stating : “ resettlement measures were not only justified in the eastern provinces , as we have acknowledged , but also in the entire country ” , showing that the support for the Armenian Genocide was not limited to a few politicians , but encompassed the government as a whole .
The letter was then signed by Konstantin von Neurath , a German diplomat in Constantinople who would later serve as the Foreign Minister for the Third Reich .
One can not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about Germany ’ s role in it .
People like to make the Armenian Genocide out to be that a bunch of Turks decided to kill people , and that it was just them who did it .
We tend to isolate the Turks when it comes to the Genocide .
But this perspective is missing half of the picture .
You can not have genocide without technology and innovation .
The extermination of peoples required trains , and who built them ?
The Germans , and they were just as responsible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the words of historian Wolfgang Gust , “ the German Empire was jointly responsible for the genocide because it approved of the deportation.
” ( Gust , The Armenians Genocide : Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives , p. 91 ) When the Ottomans justified their extermination of the Armenians , they did so by simply stating that it was done for “ military reasons.
” The Germans adopted this term and used it when they themselves justified the Armenian Genocide .
“ It must also be admitted ” , wrote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evacuation of parts of the Armenian population was justified by military interests and can be considered as having been an act of self-defense ” .
Genocide is always justified under a pretext of “ self-defense.
” Turkey ’ s war against Armenia is also being done under the pretext of defending Azerbaijan .
But this is the same Turkey that still denies the Armenian Genocide .
Turkey is reviving her empire , and leading a war against a people that it was committed genocide against .
It is not a lot to question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a railway system .

By Theodore Shoebat
When Azerbaijani soldiers were fighting Armenian soldiers, they were wearing not only the Azerbaijani flag on their uniforms, but the Turkish flag as well. The language of the Azeris is Turkish, their culture is very Turkish, and they hold up high the Turkish flag. Their phrase regarding their relationship is “one nation, two states”, for they see themselves as being one with Turkey. Azerbaijan’s victory in the war against Armenia, is ultimately a victory for Turkey. It was Turkish-NATO military technology that won Azerbaijan the war. The Armenians did not have the means to assail the drones that the Azeris were using, and such weaponry is what determined the end result of this decades long conflict. Now that the most significant parts of Nagorno-Karabakh have and are being given back to Azerbaijan, these lands can be used for the strategic advantage of Turkey. Turkey wants to use Nagorno-Karabakh for the acquiring of natural gas and to extend the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway system.
For years Turkey has purchased gas from Russia, but this changed significantly in 2020 when its importing of Russian gas dropped by almost 62%. Moreover, in the first half of 2020, Turkey imported 20.4% more cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas than it had in the first half of 2019. By May of 2020, Azerbaijan officially became Turkey’s top natural gas provider. Turkey is importing 70% less natural gas from Russia in comparison to this time last year. Turkey buying less Russian gas and relying more on Azerbaijan for its energy needs should have been a presaging sign: Turkey does not want to rely on Russia, but rather is pursuing to consolidate its power within its sphere of influence, and what better way to do this than to take from a fellow Turkish nation as opposed to a country which has been an enemy of Turkey for centuries? Turkey acquiring natural gas from Azerbaijan is thanks to the Trans-Anatolian pipeline (TANAP) which goes back to 2011 when the two countries agreed to start a project for a pipeline and which was eventually put into operation in 2018. The Trans-Anatolian pipeline is just one part of the Southern Gas Corridor, a series of pipelines that provide gas to European countries from the Shah Deniz gas field in Azerbaijan.
The purpose of these pipelines is to reduce Turkey’s and Europe’s reliance on Russian natural gas. The project of the Southern Gas Corridor has its origins in the year 2008 when the European Commission put out an initiative called “Second Strategic Energy Review – An EU Energy Security and Solidarity Action Plan”. The project came into fruition in June of 2018 with an open ceremony occurring in Eskisehir, Turkey with the participation of the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Ukraine. The project was backed by Washington; President Trump sent a letter to the International Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference in Baku, stating: “The U.S. remains strongly committed to the Southern Gas Corridor [project], and welcomes the efforts of Azerbaijan and its international partners to complete it.”
The Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the State Department, Sue Saarnio, stated: “Europe’s efforts to diversify energy supplies are critical to ensuring the existence of a strong Europe”. The Southern Gas Corridor has the ability to provide 16 billion cubic meters of Caspian natural gas per year; 10 billion of those to Europe and six billion to Turkey. With such an immense supply of energy, it is no wonder that the Turks and Europeans are looking to Azerbaijan to further eschew their dependence on Russia. Turkey is especially wanting to be independent from Russia’s energy empire because it is in competition with the Kremlin.
Be it in Syria, where Russian and Turkish soldiers have already killed each other; in Libya where Turkey is supporting the Government of National Accord against the power of the Russian military and its Libyan proxies; in Crimea where Turkey and Russia are rivaling over the Black Sea, and now in the South Caucasus where Turkey’s proxy, Azerbaijan, has defeated a Russian ally, and where Russian troops have been deployed, the Crescent and the Slavic bear are positioning themselves for major conflict. By using Azerbaijan as a satellite for Ankara, and facilitating an Islamic victory over their Christian Armenian enemy, Turkey has shown that it is not afraid to use force in the expansion of her political influence and leverage for resources and supremacy. Even after the Azeri victory, the Muslims did not hesitate to do the Call to Prayer in the middle of a Christian city — Shushi — that they had just taken over (the defeat of the Armenians in this city determined the end of the war).
Looking at this video we see a Muslim soldier making the Call to Prayer after victory over the Christians. It is an expression of Islamic domination over those who worship the Trinity. Here we see not only Islamic supremacy being demonstrated, but the victory of Turkey over a Christian land, the expansion of Turkish power and thus the revival of the Ottoman Empire. This is not just about resources, but about the domination of ideology. Resources are only a means to power, the essence of that power is expressed through ideology.
The United States has immense control over resources, and a military might that terrifies the world, but these are simply means to the power of the United States, which is expressed through the ideology of American exceptionalism. Turkey is expanding herself through her military might; we are seeing this already in Syria, Libya and Azerbaijan,— a fellow Turkish nation (really, an extension of Turkey) — Turkey is widening her sphere of influence in the will to power and empire, and the expression of that power will be the sound of the mizmar and the drum, the crimson flag emblazoned with the crescent, and the call of Turkish and Islamic superiority. This empire will be impossible without resources, hence Ankara is fixated on Azerbaijan’s natural gas enough to demonstrate military force. In the words of Emil Avdaliani: “Turkey wants an unhindered flow of Azerbaijani gas and is willing to show that it will defend that supply chain politically and even through the use of a limited military force if necessary.”
Now that the war is over (for now), Turkey is demonstrating its assertiveness as the victor by announcing the construction of a railway connecting Turkey with Azerbaijan. This railway will be an extension of the already existing Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railroad which went into operation in October of 2017 and which goes from Baku all the way through Georgia and then through Turkey where it ends in Ceyhan. Erdogan wants the railway to connect Turkey with the autonomous Azeri region of Nakhichevan which, while not being contiguous with Azerbaijan, is a landlocked enclave of the country and borders right with Turkey. The current capacity of the BTK railway system is around 5 million tons of cargo and 1.5 million passengers per year. The Turks want to increase this capacity to 20 millions tons of cargo a year. Turkey’s Transport and Infrastructure Minister, Adil Karaismailoglu, stated:
“We aim to increase the capacity there [on Divirigi-Kars phase] from 5 million tons to 20 million tons … After the new developments in Azerbaijan, we are planning to build a railway toward Nakhchivan, as well. The planning work is currently underway.”
The idea of a railway connecting Turkey with Nakhchevan was not something that just popped up from the Turkish government, but has been being planned out for years. In 2012, there was a joint press conference between President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the plan to build a railway between Nakhichevan and the Turkish city of Igdir. Erdogan declared:
“Having laid the Nakhichevan-Igdir railway, we, Inshallah, will speed up the work, allowing to directly connect Turkey and Azerbaijan by rail”
The Deputy for the AK Party in Kars, Ahmet Arslan, stated that the railway project was being prepared when he was serving as the Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, which was from 2016 to 2018:
“Not only Baku-Tbilisi-Kars, but also the Kars Logistics Center in our region, but also the KarsIğdır Nakhçıvan Railway, as we have stated before, the project was prepared on the time of my ministry. Now, its production processes are being discussed with Azerbaijan ”.
Now that Armenia was defeated, the Turks are taking the opportunity to execute the plan. As Arslan stated: “The connection of Nakhchivan to Azerbaijan as a railway with the liberation of Karabakh will accelerate this process.” Since both Turkey and Azerbaijan are Turkish countries, the victory over Armenia and the building of a railway system further connecting the two countries is seen as a step towards uniting the Turkish world as part of the pan-Turkist paradigm. There has been talk amongst Turkish nationalists in the media on the formation of a Turanian army, or even a Turkish NATO, in which Turkish nations will unite under Ankara. For example, in an article published on October 27th, 2020, by the Turkish daily Türkiye, professor Cemalettin Taşkıran, speaks of how “the Central Asian Republics” are closer now to Turkey than in any point in the history of the Ottoman Empire, stating: “In Turkish history, the periods in which the Central Asian Republics got as close [as they are today] to the Ottoman state, and later to the Republic of Turkey, and in fact, gave each other such close support, are so few as to be non-existent.” He then goes on to say that
“the regaining of nearly all of the land [Azerbaijan] had lost… pleased the entire Turkic world. It would not be wrong to say that the support that Turkey gave changed the balance in the region. Will this go on to [the formation of] a Turan Army? Inshallah it will.”
The introduction of this article speaks of how the Azeri and Turkish victory over the Armenians bolsters the position in favor of a pan-Turkish military force. Its subheading reads: “It Will Be A Global Power – It Is Early But Definitely One Day.” And before this it reads:
“The success in Karabagh has brought once again to the agenda one of the West’s greatest fears: the Turan Army. Azerbaijan, which has become stronger with the military training, joint drills, and support with armed drones that Turkey has provided, has broken Armenia’s back. This picture of success that has appeared has once again brought to life the hopes concerning a Turan Army, that would be the joint military power of the Turkic states. The Turan Army, which will be a unique option for disrupting the plots in the region, will become a leading actor on every issue.”
In an article published on October 28th of 2020 by Yeni Çağ, nationalist Ahmet Gürsoy described this Turan army as “a kind of Turkic NATO,” and said that:
“Can it be? Yes. If we want it and we decide [to do it], it will be. Should it be? Yes to that too, it should be. It should be established, and the Turkic union should be wrapped up in a military organization and a concrete legal identity. This way all Turks will come under one single army umbrella and one single military personage. The dream, without beginning or end, of Turkish nationalists, is the great homeland: the Turan homeland may not be realized geographically. For this reason, we may not be able to geographically unite all of the Turks under a single flag as they were in their imperial periods. However, socially, by forming a legal identity, we can unite the whole Turkic union under a single flag, just as multinational companies are represented by the same flag in every corner of the world. The most striking and possible way to do this is the Turan Army.”
So with Turkey beginning to build a railway to further link itself with Azerbaijan and leading a war effort against Armenia to establish Turkish power in the Caucasus (part of Ankara’s goal of reviving the Ottoman Empire), we see that the hatred against Armenians is still strong within the nationalist and Islamist government of Turkey. And what of this railway system? When the Turks butchered over a million Armenians, they used a railway system — the Berlin-Bagdad railway (which was created by German engineers) — to transport people to their deaths in the Syrian desert. Genocide is impossible without industrialism, and this train system — although its initial purpose is the transportation of goods — could be one day used to transport humans to the slaughter.
It was in the spring of 1915, when the Committee of Union and Progress, the ruling party of Turkey that was ran by the nationalist Young Turks, commenced the extermination of the Armenians within the Ottoman Empire. The inhabitants of the town of Zeitun were the first to be transported. They were crammed inside of the train, with eighty-eight Armenians being jammed into each freight car. At times pregnant women gave birth in these containers of death, and the Ottoman guards would simply grab the new born and throw it out of the train.
The Ottoman government kept meticulous attention on the numbers of Armenians being moved in the trains, with Talaat Bey, the minister of the interior, constantly receiving messages on how many Armenians were being deported, and on which location they were at.
The Berlin-Bagdad railway was efficient in moving large amounts of people, in a short amount of time, so that they could be annihilated. On October 9th and 10th, 1915, 11,000 Armenians in Konya, were transported by train; between October 13th and 16th, 9,600 Armenians were deported to their deaths by train. In the following three days, 5,000 Armenians were sent out of Konia, and another 4,854 in just the next two days. On October 23rd, 1,050 Armenians were crammed into fourteen train cars and shipped out to be executed.
As we learn from the historian Richard G. Hovannisian, almost all of the railway stations for the Berlin-Bagdad railway were “detention camps where thousands died.” Right next to the railway station in Konia, the Ottomans built a concentration camp to imprison their victims. And this was not the only one. This was just one concentration camp out of a series of camps that were built alongside the railway heading towards the Syrian desert.
Armenians were kept in these camps until they were moved on to the next camp. Thousands would die in these camps just from the sheer exhaustion of having to march long distances between camps. Thousands more died in these camps from disease. Ottoman authorities would at times cruelly dehydrate the Armenians by deliberately withholding water. Many times camps were attacked and the people butchered.
These concentration camps were not small either. The camp in Katma, for example, would hold 40,000 people. The camp near Osmanieh imprisoned between 20,000 and 70,000 victims.
In November of 1915, the Berlin-Bagdad Company was given orders to move 50,000 Armenians from Katma to the Ras-ul-Ain camps to be slaughtered, starved to death and even buried alive. The German vice-consul, Hermann Hoffman reported that in Tell Ermen, “Everything had been destroyed, except for 15 to 20 people who were able to flee. Vice-Consul Holstein even discovered remains, such as dismembered heads and limbs, in the church.” (See Gust, The Armenians Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives)
But this mass killing of people in such a short amount of time, would not have been possible without the German engineers and bankers who produced and financed the technology by which to kill in such high numbers. While there were Germans who were disturbed by the killings, and who even made efforts to stop it, such as Franz Gunther who reported on how the Turks were slaughtering with “bestial cruelty”, the German government did much work to cover up the crimes.
During the summer of 1915, the German Foreign Office made efforts to deny the genocide that was taking place. Ernst Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who represented the German diplomate Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim, wrote that while the slaughter was happening, Germany must keep the Ottomans as allies and thus do nothing for the Armenians. “All of our thoughts with regard to the decisions of the Turkish government to eliminate the indigenous Christians in the eastern provinces”, he wrote, “have proved to be ineffective. Therefore, for the time being I must refrain from taking further steps, particularly in favour of the Armenians.”
Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim, in a meeting in Constantinople with the American ambassador, Henry Morgenthau, explicitly said that he would do nothing to help the Armenians, stating as his justification: “Our aim is to win the war.” He also said: “Germany is not responsible for this”. Wangenheim’s callousness to the suffering of the Armenians was not entirely based on a cold pragmatism for German interests, but also on a social Darwinistic mentality. Wangenheim said:
“I think the Turks are entirely justified. The weaker nation must succumb . . . I do not blame the Turks for what they are doing to the Armenians . . . They are entirely justified”
His words, “the weaker nation must succumb,” echo the wicked as they are described by the Book of Wisdom: “But let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble, is found to be nothing worth.” (Wisdom 2:11)
This violent sentiment of German elites towards the Armenians was widespread enough that Germany did not care about the evils being done by their Ottoman ally. Hans von Humann, the German naval attaché in Constantinople, and a very close friend of Enver Pasha, one of the main orchestrators of the genocide, said regarding the killings: “because of their conspiracy with the Russians, the Armenians are being more or less annihilated. This is hard, but useful.”
Enver Pasha also shared this Darwinistic view of Armenians, and Greeks, calling them “unreliables,” worthy of only being put into work camps. Once the Ottoman Empire joined Germany in the First World War, Pasha confided to von Humann that “all the unreliables: Greeks, Armenians, etc.,” would be put into amele taburları or labour battalions.
Nationalism played a large role in Turkey’s involvement in the war effort, with Pasha telling von Humann that it would “advance the people’s national identity,” a motive that would fuel the Armenian genocide, since the Ottoman Young Turks desired for a “homogenous” society.
Pasha praised Germany, stating that he witnessed in the country “the tireless willingness of all to sacrifice, commitment of the whole person to the fatherland.” Pasha wanted Turkey to become more like Germany because, as he saw his country, everyone thinks of themselves, “no one of the fatherland.”
The effort to cover up for the Ottoman atrocity was also taken by the German chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, who wrote: “The proposed public reprimand of an ally in the course of a war would be an act which is unprecedented in history … Our only aim is to keep Turkey on our side until the end of the war, no matter whether as a result Armenians do perish or not.”
Germany, in the upper echelons of its power, was in favor and in support for the transportation, through its Berlin-Bagdad railway system, and extermination of the Armenians. There is a 1916 letter from Paul Wolff Metternich, German ambassador to Constantinople, addressed to the Chancellor, in which he expressed Germany’s support for Turkey’s relocation, and liquidation, of the Armenian population:
“The Turkish government supports the view that resettlement measures were justified in the entire country for military reasons. Both the present government as well as those that follow, unless there is a complete change in the system, will hold this view doggedly.”
On the letter there is a postscript written by Otto Goppert, who was in charge of economic matters at the German embassy in Constantinople, stating: “resettlement measures were not only justified in the eastern provinces, as we have acknowledged, but also in the entire country”, showing that the support for the Armenian Genocide was not limited to a few politicians, but encompassed the government as a whole.
The letter was then signed by Konstantin von Neurath, a German diplomat in Constantinople who would later serve as the Foreign Minister for the Third Reich. One cannot talk about the Armenian Genocide without talking about Germany’s role in it.
People like to make the Armenian Genocide out to be that a bunch of Turks decided to kill people, and that it was just them who did it. We tend to isolate the Turks when it comes to the Genocide. But this perspective is missing half of the picture. You cannot have genocide without technology and innovation. The extermination of peoples required trains, and who built them? The Germans, and they were just as responsible for the Genocide as were the Turks. In the words of historian Wolfgang Gust, “the German Empire was jointly responsible for the genocide because it approved of the deportation.” (Gust, The Armenians Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, p. 91)
When the Ottomans justified their extermination of the Armenians, they did so by simply stating that it was done for “military reasons.” The Germans adopted this term and used it when they themselves justified the Armenian Genocide. “It must also be admitted”, wrote Paul Wolff Metternich, “that the evacuation of parts of the Armenian population was justified by military interests and can be considered as having been an act of self-defense”.
Genocide is always justified under a pretext of “self-defense.” Turkey’s war against Armenia is also being done under the pretext of defending Azerbaijan. But this is the same Turkey that still denies the Armenian Genocide. Turkey is reviving her empire, and leading a war against a people that it was committed genocide against. It is not a lot to question what sort of evil they will do with a railway system.
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shoebat--2020-11-21--UN Approves Ban On Arctic Heavy Ship Oil

With concern about the environment coming from many people , especially in remote areas such as the Arctic , it is interesting to note that according to ThompsonReuters , the UN just approved a ban on heavy ship oil in the Arctic .
The United Nations shipping agency on Friday approved a ban on the use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic region in a move criticised by green groups which said loopholes will allow many vessels to keep sailing without enough regulatory control .
Antarctic waters are protected by stringent regulations , including a ban on heavy oil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , even though no cargo moves through the turbulent southern waters .
For the Arctic , the rules have been looser .
In a virtual session of its Marine Environment Protection Committee ( MEPC ) the UN ’ s International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) approved a ban on the use of HFO and its carriage for use by ships in Arctic waters after July 1 , 2024 .
The Clean Arctic Alliance coalition described the regulations as “ outrageous ” as it included exemptions and waivers , which would mean a complete @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in mid-2029 .
“ In its current form , the ban will achieve only a minimal reduction in HFO use and carriage by ships in the Arctic in mid-2024 , ” said Sian Prior , lead advisor to the Clean Arctic Alliance .
“ The ban … will mean that a full three-quarters of the ships using HFO today will be eligible for an exemption.
” An IMO spokeswoman said there would be an exemption for ships with oil fuel tanks located inside their double hull .
There would also be a provision @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to issue waivers to ships flying their flag while they operate there until July 1 , 2029 .
( source ) This is interesting not because of the ban , but because it is likely political .
Right now , the Russians are aggressively trying to build a new “ water route ” to Asia by trying to break through the thick Arctic ice .
The reasons for this are many , but they basically can be summarized in that all of Russia ’ s main ports save three ( Murmansk , Odessa @ @ @ @ @ @ @ winter and the remaining three are surrounded by her enemies , and that Russia ’ s failure to update her train lines and maintain them to international standards is threatening to economically isolate her from the rest of the world as the US , Germany , and Turkey aggressively work to build railways through the Middle East and Central Asia to the Far East .
Russia ’ s work on going through the Arctic is a last-ditch effort really to try and fix decades of bad policies .
However , as she is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warming much of the Arctic by industrial actions ( which is having a series of long-term and possibly detrimental effects on both her environment as well as her cities that sit on frozen ground ) , but is causing serious environmental damage .
This resolution by the UN is not just one of stopping pollution , but it is likely being used as an excuse to lobby , in the future , a charge against Russia for her continued work at making this passage and thus to provide future ammunition for Western action @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up to military conflict .
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With concern about the environment coming from many people, especially in remote areas such as the Arctic, it is interesting to note that according to ThompsonReuters, the UN just approved a ban on heavy ship oil in the Arctic.
The United Nations shipping agency on Friday approved a ban on the use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic region in a move criticised by green groups which said loopholes will allow many vessels to keep sailing without enough regulatory control. Antarctic waters are protected by stringent regulations, including a ban on heavy oil fuel (HFO) adopted in 2011, even though no cargo moves through the turbulent southern waters. For the Arctic, the rules have been looser. In a virtual session of its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) approved a ban on the use of HFO and its carriage for use by ships in Arctic waters after July 1, 2024. The Clean Arctic Alliance coalition described the regulations as “outrageous” as it included exemptions and waivers, which would mean a complete HFO ban would only come into effect in mid-2029. “In its current form, the ban will achieve only a minimal reduction in HFO use and carriage by ships in the Arctic in mid-2024,” said Sian Prior, lead advisor to the Clean Arctic Alliance. “The ban … will mean that a full three-quarters of the ships using HFO today will be eligible for an exemption.” An IMO spokeswoman said there would be an exemption for ships with oil fuel tanks located inside their double hull. There would also be a provision allowing countries with coastlines bordering Arctic waters to issue waivers to ships flying their flag while they operate there until July 1, 2029. (source)
This is interesting not because of the ban, but because it is likely political.
Right now, the Russians are aggressively trying to build a new “water route” to Asia by trying to break through the thick Arctic ice. The reasons for this are many, but they basically can be summarized in that all of Russia’s main ports save three (Murmansk, Odessa, Vladivostok) freeze over in the winter and the remaining three are surrounded by her enemies, and that Russia’s failure to update her train lines and maintain them to international standards is threatening to economically isolate her from the rest of the world as the US, Germany, and Turkey aggressively work to build railways through the Middle East and Central Asia to the Far East.
Russia’s work on going through the Arctic is a last-ditch effort really to try and fix decades of bad policies. However, as she is doing this, she is not only warming much of the Arctic by industrial actions (which is having a series of long-term and possibly detrimental effects on both her environment as well as her cities that sit on frozen ground), but is causing serious environmental damage.
This resolution by the UN is not just one of stopping pollution, but it is likely being used as an excuse to lobby, in the future, a charge against Russia for her continued work at making this passage and thus to provide future ammunition for Western action against her, including action that leads up to military conflict.
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shoebat--2020-11-21--Mysterious New Microbes Are “Waking Up” As Arctic Ice Thaws

A premise of many horror films is the idea of ‘ mysterious organisms ’ , either from space , unfrozen in ice , or created by scientists , are somehow aroused to life by accident or military researchers , at which point control is lost over them and they start killing people in horrible ways .
This was the plot of the movie The Thing , as well as was the theme of the Metallica music video “ All Nightmare Long ” , the former in which is aliens unfrozen from Antarctic ice , and the latter which is an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but both of which cause terror .
It is also the basis of the “ Resident Evil ” game series , where the Umbrella Corporation makes a biological agent that turns against them and causes people to turn into zombies .
However , governments have threatened to do this before .
Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was a Japanese plot by the notorious Shiro Ishii of Unit 731 in Japan that did a series of human experiments on people wanted to release biological agents over the US .
It is not far-fetched to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happen , by accident or choice .
It is therefore interesting that Scientific American reports that as Arctic ice is thawing , that new and mysterious microbes are waking up , and scientists are yet to discover what they can do .
In the last 10 years , warming in the Arctic has outpaced projections so rapidly that scientists are now suggesting that the poles are warming four times faster than the rest of the globe .
This has led to glacier melt and permafrost thaw levels that weren ’ t forecast to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Siberia and northern Canada , this abrupt thaw has created sunken landforms , known as thermokarst , where the oldest and deepest permafrost is exposed to the warm air for the first time in hundreds or even thousands of years .
As the global climate continues to warm , many questions remain about the periglacial environment .
Among them : as water infiltration increases , will permafrost thaw more rapidly ?
And , if so , what long-frozen organisms might “ wake up ” ?
Permafrost covers 24 percent of the Earth ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ constituents vary with local geology .
Arctic lands offer unexplored microbial biodiversity and microbial feedbacks , including the release of carbon to the atmosphere .
In some locations , hundreds of millions of years ’ worth of carbon is buried .
The layers may still contain ancient frozen microbes , Pleistocene megafauna and even buried smallpox victims .
As the permafrost thaws with increasing rapidity , scientists ’ emerging challenge is to discover and identify the microbes , bacteria and viruses that may be stirring .
Some of these microbes are known to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ metabolize soil carbon to release methane , a potent greenhouse gas .
Other permafrost microbes ( methanotrophs ) consume methane .
The balance between these microbes plays a critical role in determining future climate warming .
Others are known but have unpredictable behavior after release .
( source ) Now I am not saying that what happens in the movies will happen just because these microbes are “ waking up.
” What I am saying is that ( a ) we don ’ t know what is waking up and more importantly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to tinker with things in the name of “ national defense ” , and as a general trend for the future , when men tinker with things , sometimes they tinker with them beyond our understanding and then accident happen that are not intention .
When one puts artificial intelligence , robotics , and a new generation of warfare into this , it makes for an interesting future , or rather , possibly a sort of nightmare that no one can yet foresee .
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A premise of many horror films is the idea of ‘mysterious organisms’, either from space, unfrozen in ice, or created by scientists, are somehow aroused to life by accident or military researchers, at which point control is lost over them and they start killing people in horrible ways. This was the plot of the movie The Thing, as well as was the theme of the Metallica music video “All Nightmare Long”, the former in which is aliens unfrozen from Antarctic ice, and the latter which is an organism that arrives from an asteroid, but both of which cause terror. It is also the basis of the “Resident Evil” game series, where the Umbrella Corporation makes a biological agent that turns against them and causes people to turn into zombies.
However, governments have threatened to do this before. Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was a Japanese plot by the notorious Shiro Ishii of Unit 731 in Japan that did a series of human experiments on people wanted to release biological agents over the US. It is not far-fetched to think that such a thing could not happen, by accident or choice.
It is therefore interesting that Scientific American reports that as Arctic ice is thawing, that new and mysterious microbes are waking up, and scientists are yet to discover what they can do.
In the last 10 years, warming in the Arctic has outpaced projections so rapidly that scientists are now suggesting that the poles are warming four times faster than the rest of the globe. This has led to glacier melt and permafrost thaw levels that weren’t forecast to happen until 2050 or later. In Siberia and northern Canada, this abrupt thaw has created sunken landforms, known as thermokarst, where the oldest and deepest permafrost is exposed to the warm air for the first time in hundreds or even thousands of years. As the global climate continues to warm, many questions remain about the periglacial environment. Among them: as water infiltration increases, will permafrost thaw more rapidly? And, if so, what long-frozen organisms might “wake up”? Permafrost covers 24 percent of the Earth’s land surface, and the soil constituents vary with local geology. Arctic lands offer unexplored microbial biodiversity and microbial feedbacks, including the release of carbon to the atmosphere. In some locations, hundreds of millions of years’ worth of carbon is buried. The layers may still contain ancient frozen microbes, Pleistocene megafauna and even buried smallpox victims. As the permafrost thaws with increasing rapidity, scientists’ emerging challenge is to discover and identify the microbes, bacteria and viruses that may be stirring. Some of these microbes are known to scientists. Methanogenic Archaea, for example metabolize soil carbon to release methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Other permafrost microbes (methanotrophs) consume methane. The balance between these microbes plays a critical role in determining future climate warming. Others are known but have unpredictable behavior after release. (source)
Now I am not saying that what happens in the movies will happen just because these microbes are “waking up.”
What I am saying is that (a) we don’t know what is waking up and more importantly, (b) human beings are known to tinker with things in the name of “national defense”, and as a general trend for the future, when men tinker with things, sometimes they tinker with them beyond our understanding and then accident happen that are not intention.
When one puts artificial intelligence, robotics, and a new generation of warfare into this, it makes for an interesting future, or rather, possibly a sort of nightmare that no one can yet foresee.
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shoebat--2020-11-21--EU Puts More Sanctions Against Belarus

EU Puts More Sanctions Against Belarus

Belarus is known as “ Europe ’ s last dictatorship ” , but with a trend of rising nationalism and months of internal tension in that nation between she and Russia , the nation is being threatened with arguably the most political instability since the fall of the USSR and the rise of her strongman who still holds power , President Aleksandr Lukashenko .
However , according to Belarus Feed , more chaos is threatening that nation as the EU has just put more sanctions against her .
EU foreign ministers agreed on Thursday to prepare a new package of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in response to state repression of peaceful protests .
This , as reported by TASS , said the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell at a press conference following an online meeting of 27 foreign ministers .
“ Today we agreed to push ahead with a new round of sanctions on Belarus in response in response to state repression ioland in order to support the Belarusian people .
These sanctions will be introduced not only against individuals , but also against [ government ] structures , companies and entrepreneurs , ” said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reviewing all its financial assistance to Belarus and none of its aid would be channelled through the government of Lukashenko , who Brussels no longer recognises as the legitimate president .
He noted that all funds for the country will go through NGOs to civil society .
As Reuters reports , citing two European diplomats , a new set of restrictive measures will be prepared in the next few weeks .
They will target , among other things , the entities that , according to sources , finance Lukashenko and his government .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in question .
Recall that the first package of sanctions was adopted on 2 October .
The EU imposed travel bans and asset freezes on 40 Belarusian officials – security leadership [ representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB ] and members of the CEC .
Then Alexander Lukashenko was not included in a sanctions list , “ since this would undermine the demand of Brussels to start a dialogue with the opposition through the mediation of the OSCE.
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Belarus is known as “Europe’s last dictatorship”, but with a trend of rising nationalism and months of internal tension in that nation between she and Russia, the nation is being threatened with arguably the most political instability since the fall of the USSR and the rise of her strongman who still holds power, President Aleksandr Lukashenko. However, according to Belarus Feed, more chaos is threatening that nation as the EU has just put more sanctions against her.
EU foreign ministers agreed on Thursday to prepare a new package of sanctions on individuals and entities in Belarus, in response to state repression of peaceful protests. This, as reported by TASS, said the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell at a press conference following an online meeting of 27 foreign ministers.
“Today we agreed to push ahead with a new round of sanctions on Belarus in response in response to state repression ioland in order to support the Belarusian people. These sanctions will be introduced not only against individuals, but also against [government] structures, companies and entrepreneurs,” said Borrel.
Borrell said the EU was reviewing all its financial assistance to Belarus and none of its aid would be channelled through the government of Lukashenko, who Brussels no longer recognises as the legitimate president. He noted that all funds for the country will go through NGOs to civil society.
As Reuters reports, citing two European diplomats, a new set of restrictive measures will be prepared in the next few weeks. They will target, among other things, the entities that, according to sources, finance Lukashenko and his government. It is not specified what companies are in question.
Recall that the first package of sanctions was adopted on 2 October. The EU imposed travel bans and asset freezes on 40 Belarusian officials – security leadership [representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB] and members of the CEC. Then Alexander Lukashenko was not included in a sanctions list, “since this would undermine the demand of Brussels to start a dialogue with the opposition through the mediation of the OSCE.” (source)