veteranstoday--2020-07-29--Vital: Will a ‘President Biden’ become America’s ‘Putin?’

By Gordon Duff and New Eastern Outlook of the Russian Academy of Science ( Est .
1816 ) Moscow : American elections are demonstrations to the world of how democracy can go bad .
It is clear and simple .
They are ruled by cash , run by ‘ cons ’ and exist inside a political system that is the most corrupt on earth .
American politics matter to the world because , quite simply , when America catches a cold , the world goes on life support .
We are going to be looking at a number of policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regime change in Washington and the potential impact , but , at the outset one issue has typified the US under Trump and that is the abandonment of all concepts outlined under the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights .
The policies the US has enacted in the Middle East , Latin America and elsewhere have a domestic component as well , not just locking small children in cages where they sleep on filthy concrete floors but so much more .
We are going to examine some key issues and make a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ levels of corruption in America ’ s electoral system , nothing Donald Trump can do will get him back in office .
For Trump and his friends and family , this may well mean financial disaster , prison , and scandal beyond anything the world has seen .
This is not an overstatement .
Past that , assuming that we may well be dealing with a Biden presidency assuming that Biden is a “ reasonable man , ” the position he is honing for voters , one that has put him so far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would a reasonable man do when faced with a planet that even before the COVID pandemic was in meltdown due to Trump ’ s policies ?
An example we will use is Vladimir Putin , a man who certainly has his detractors .
Yet what other world leader could be considered a loyal friend to Israel , Saudi Arabia , China , Iran , Venezuela , India , Pakistan , and Syria at the same time ?
The answer ?
There is only one , Vladimir Putin and his secret has been to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law and a secondary path of placing the long-term welfare of Russia above all .
Where Trump acts like a gangster , continual bluffs and threats , Putin is the exact opposite .
Putin can even get along with Donald Trump , a person who is his exact opposite in almost every way .
For a Biden presidency to not just be successful but to restore a sense of order and survivability to the world , a world that currently isn ’ t surviving , the needed lessons will have to come from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perfect but rather because there is no one else .
Trump has been a disaster to the planet , he killed the JCPOA with Iran , he has pushed forward an arms race where the only loser is the people of Earth , and his environmental policies are “ flat earth ” denialism and a love of pollution and corruption .
For some the news is positive , but is it ?
NATO may be shattered but American forces that once protected a Europe that was threatened by no one at all are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia .
When Russia looked to the Obama years and the overthrow of a Russian friendly government in Ukraine , they failed to see the reality of Washington , how Obama and Biden were held virtual prisoner in the White House while the CIA , Pentagon and Congress were totally controlled by elements some call “ neoconservative ” but even that term is oversimplistic .
Ukraine was the “ deal breaker ” between the US and Russia and the media has pushed the concept that George Soros and Hillary Clinton are responsible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the revolution was fake , NATO trained snipers killed demonstrators and extremist puppets were placed in power but was it by “ liberal Democrats ” in Washington or was it by the cabal that put Donald Trump in office ?
Ukraine is key in many ways .
The relationship between the US and Russia is a vital one and , quite frankly , Vladimir Putin ’ s steady policies and careful pronouncements in comparison to others , Trump certainly , who lack statesmanship or even rationality , has made Russia ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its actual military or economic power .
When damning Trump , one must separate what Trump has actually done , and reliable accusations from those around him , Mattis , Bolton and others confirm that Trump has personally profited from business deals with Saudi Arabia , China and other nations .
Trump pushed through arms deals with the Saudis leading to continued war on the stricken people of Yemen .
It was Trump that excused , perhaps more than “ excused ” the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump enemy than one of Saudi Arabia as he was a correspondent for the Washington Post , a powerful newspaper owned by Trump ’ s personal enemy Jeff Bezos , a real billionaire and wealthiest man on the planet .
The plan to assassinate Venezuelan President Maduro traces back to Trump as the Americans arrested in that attempt had worked for Trump personally and were funded directly through the White House .
Do we want to talk about the militarization of space ?
Trump threw down the gauntlet but now the US is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believes Russia has “ Trumped ” America by placing a satellite killer in orbit .
Trump wanted to do this first .
We might add , however , that there are no confirmations that the aforementioned Russia weapon exists and trusting media reports based on intelligence received from the White House is unwise .
While befriending Russia , Trump ’ s version of “ befriending , ” he has chosen to surround Russia with powerful radars and anti-ballistic missile systems , quickly followed by deployment of short and medium range missiles , acts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prevented nuclear war decade upon decade .
If Trump has his way , American missile systems would be deployed in Belarus and Moscow would be less than 3 minutes from attack by Trump ’ s “ super duper rocket.
” Let us say , for sake of conjecture , that Joe Biden is elected .
Polls currently put Trump ’ s chances at less that 1 % though more realistic assessments place his chances at 50/50 .
You see , you do not really need anyone to vote for you at all to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ true , but it certainly seems that way .
The first issue would be treaties .
Most recent is the Open Skies treaty of 2002 , which Secretary of State Pompeo announced in May of 2020 that the US would abandon .
Open Skies had raised trust levels based on mutual surveillance of arms deployments in accordance with treaty obligations , part of “ trust but verify ” that the US has walked away from .
In February 2021 , when most expect Trump to be gone , the last START treaty between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ An extension was already in the offing , but the key issue of China has made START treaties more complicated .
Though China has a relatively small nuclear arsenal and her military , as with Russia , is largely defensive in nature , China ’ s level of military spending brings her to the table .
Though dwarfed by the US in overall military expenditures , China is second to the US , spending 5 times more than Russia .
The list of treaties abandoned by the US , as of the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ restoration of “ all of the above ” may well not be warranted .
However , when supposedly “ harsh ” trade negotiations coincide with personal financial deals , the resulting “ product ” has to be suspect .
From Forbes : “ John Bolton ’ s book on his time in the White House isn ’ t a deep dive into Asian economic dynamics .
But written between the lines in bold font is a timely illustration of why China is eating Donald Trump ’ s lunch .
In The Room Where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bolton dishes plenty about a “ stunningly uninformed , ” erratic and incompetent U.S. president .
The most tantalizing sections dramatize Trump ’ s desperation to win not just Xi Jinping ’ s help in getting reelected , but his yearning for a connection with China ’ s leader .
Trump , as per Bolton , even once told Xi “ I miss you , ” sounding like some lovelorn teenager .
The more important story , though , is Bolton ’ s assertion that Trump ’ s Asia strategy is just theater @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Korea ’ s Kim Jong Un ?
Elaborately-choreographed stunts the White House knew would yield a “ substance-free communique ” and “ press conference to declare victory , ” Bolton writes .
Trump penalizing Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE for violating North Korea and Iran sanctions ?
A mere excuse , Bolton argues , for Trump to be “ writing Xi personal handwritten notes.
” Trump ’ s late 2019 comment that “ we are with ” Hong Kong ’ s pro-democracy protesters ?
In private , Bolton reports , Trump said “ I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” for fear of irking Xi.
” One must also note that it was John Bolton that pushed Trump to abandon JCPOA and the Paris Climate Accords .
Bolton also pushed for the US to militarily back an Israeli attack on Iran as well .
It is just such a scenario that is seen as one of the probable “ October Surprise ” plots the White House will turn to as political hopes fade .
The key issues , morally at least , are those that involve human rights , an area where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ limitations as well .
Former President Jimmie Carter was , and is to this day , America ’ s primary voice on behalf of human rights and the only American leader to openly challenge Israel ’ s miserable record in this area .
It was Netanyahu that convinced Trump to abandon the US Human Rights Council , an act previously though unimaginable , for their brutal treatment of Palestinians under their apartheid rule .
Past Carter , Senator Bernie Sanders , himself a Jew , has set forth policy goals that would restore @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in human rights .
Do note that it was Trump ’ s policies under Bolton that led to the Caesar Law , turning America from its already irrational policy of regime change and support of terrorism against the Syrian people to outright starvation and butchery .
From Joss Harrison at US Centre : “ In recent months , Joe Biden , the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee , has begun to lay out his foreign policy vision .
In a New York Times interview , he declared , “ When I am president , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of US foreign policy.
” There are some promising parallels between the ideas Biden has set out and the policies pursued by the 1976-80 Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter .
This is a welcome development , for no president since Carter has centred their foreign policy strategy on human rights in quite the same way.
” Another issue that requires reassessment is America ’ s actual role in a Post-Trump world .
With America buried by endless trillion in new debt after the economic collapse brought on by Trump ’ s failure to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drives the military industrial complex has been shaken to its roots .
Since the Reagan presidency , the policy of the US has been domestic rule through elites , the one percent that now controls 70 percent of the wealth while reducing the other economic sectors , hourly workers , management and small business owners , to near-minimum wage earners .
The bleeding has been engineered in interesting ways , tax policies for sure , but dramatic increases in healthcare and education costs have been significant as well .
Nearly 50 million Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ average of $ 35,000 in educational debt at an average interest rate of nearly 10 % .
Medical bills cause even more poverty .
From the Guardian : “ According to a study published in February 2019 , about 530,000 bankruptcies filed annually are because of debt accrued due to a medical illness .
The study found that even the Obama administration ’ s landmark Affordable Care Act ( known as Obamacare ) has failed to change the proportion of bankruptcies caused by medical debts , with poor health insurance cited as one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democrats are currently at loggerheads over Trump administration plans to further weaken Obamacare by making it easier for states to opt out of certain requirements and offer cheaper plans that could further exacerbate the situation .
And health insurance has emerged as one of the signature issues of the 2020 election , and the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination with senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren promising a total overhaul and Joe Biden and others pledging milder reforms .
What all sides admit is that the current system is broken.
” However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war on trade unions with “ Right to Work ” laws .
With the demise of unions , wages for industrial workers have gone down by 40 % and along with lowered wages the disappearance of real health insurance , paid vacations , and safe working conditions .
Then again , the other issue , job security .
You see , the new America is a nation of temporary workers , “ burger flippers ” and “ bean counters ” who can be replaced by outsourcing to first China , and now under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
American workers are told they are worthless and unnecessary .
This is the United States that was , and perhaps is , expected to lead the world into a post-pandemic recovery .
The truth ?
The time for looking to America , even an America under a “ reasonable ” Joe Biden , is long over .
America is more than wounded .
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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and chairman of the board of Veterans Today , especially for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook .
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By Gordon Duff and New Eastern Outlook of the Russian Academy of Science (Est. 1816)
Moscow: American elections are demonstrations to the world of how democracy can go bad. It is clear and simple. They are ruled by cash, run by ‘cons’ and exist inside a political system that is the most corrupt on earth.
American politics matter to the world because, quite simply, when America catches a cold, the world goes on life support.
We are going to be looking at a number of policy and leadership issues and the possibility of regime change in Washington and the potential impact, but, at the outset one issue has typified the US under Trump and that is the abandonment of all concepts outlined under the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The policies the US has enacted in the Middle East, Latin America and elsewhere have a domestic component as well, not just locking small children in cages where they sleep on filthy concrete floors but so much more.
We are going to examine some key issues and make a dangerous prediction, that despite the high levels of corruption in America’s electoral system, nothing Donald Trump can do will get him back in office.
For Trump and his friends and family, this may well mean financial disaster, prison, and scandal beyond anything the world has seen. This is not an overstatement.
Past that, assuming that we may well be dealing with a Biden presidency assuming that Biden is a “reasonable man,” the position he is honing for voters, one that has put him so far ahead in the polls, what exactly would a reasonable man do when faced with a planet that even before the COVID pandemic was in meltdown due to Trump’s policies?
An example we will use is Vladimir Putin, a man who certainly has his detractors. Yet what other world leader could be considered a loyal friend to Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, Venezuela, India, Pakistan, and Syria at the same time?
The answer? There is only one, Vladimir Putin and his secret has been to stay on a path based on international law and a secondary path of placing the long-term welfare of Russia above all. Where Trump acts like a gangster, continual bluffs and threats, Putin is the exact opposite.
Putin can even get along with Donald Trump, a person who is his exact opposite in almost every way.
For a Biden presidency to not just be successful but to restore a sense of order and survivability to the world, a world that currently isn’t surviving, the needed lessons will have to come from Vladimir Putin, not because Putin is perfect but rather because there is no one else.
Trump has been a disaster to the planet, he killed the JCPOA with Iran, he has pushed forward an arms race where the only loser is the people of Earth, and his environmental policies are “flat earth” denialism and a love of pollution and corruption.
For some the news is positive, but is it? NATO may be shattered but American forces that once protected a Europe that was threatened by no one at all are now poised to destabilize or even invade Russia.
When Russia looked to the Obama years and the overthrow of a Russian friendly government in Ukraine, they failed to see the reality of Washington, how Obama and Biden were held virtual prisoner in the White House while the CIA, Pentagon and Congress were totally controlled by elements some call “neoconservative” but even that term is oversimplistic.
Ukraine was the “deal breaker” between the US and Russia and the media has pushed the concept that George Soros and Hillary Clinton are responsible for staging a fake revolution there. Yes, the revolution was fake, NATO trained snipers killed demonstrators and extremist puppets were placed in power but was it by “liberal Democrats” in Washington or was it by the cabal that put Donald Trump in office?
Ukraine is key in many ways. The relationship between the US and Russia is a vital one and, quite frankly, Vladimir Putin’s steady policies and careful pronouncements in comparison to others, Trump certainly, who lack statesmanship or even rationality, has made Russia’s position in the world more important than its actual military or economic power.
When damning Trump, one must separate what Trump has actually done, and reliable accusations from those around him, Mattis, Bolton and others confirm that Trump has personally profited from business deals with Saudi Arabia, China and other nations. Trump pushed through arms deals with the Saudis leading to continued war on the stricken people of Yemen.
Trump turned on Iran, backed out of a treaty and has tried to crush that nation. It was Trump that personally ordered the murder of General Soleimani, who was on a diplomatic mission. This was a war crime and this act led to a crushing defeat for American forces in Iraq, an embarrassment for Trump and an act that exposed the real weakness of the US military.
It was Trump that excused, perhaps more than “excused” the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi was far more a Trump enemy than one of Saudi Arabia as he was a correspondent for the Washington Post, a powerful newspaper owned by Trump’s personal enemy Jeff Bezos, a real billionaire and wealthiest man on the planet.
The plan to assassinate Venezuelan President Maduro traces back to Trump as the Americans arrested in that attempt had worked for Trump personally and were funded directly through the White House.
Do we want to talk about the militarization of space? Trump threw down the gauntlet but now the US is “crying the blues” because it believes Russia has “Trumped” America by placing a satellite killer in orbit.
Trump wanted to do this first. We might add, however, that there are no confirmations that the aforementioned Russia weapon exists and trusting media reports based on intelligence received from the White House is unwise.
While befriending Russia, Trump’s version of “befriending,” he has chosen to surround Russia with powerful radars and anti-ballistic missile systems, quickly followed by deployment of short and medium range missiles, acts that required abrogating the treaties that successfully prevented nuclear war decade upon decade.
If Trump has his way, American missile systems would be deployed in Belarus and Moscow would be less than 3 minutes from attack by Trump’s “super duper rocket.”
Let us say, for sake of conjecture, that Joe Biden is elected. Polls currently put Trump’s chances at less that 1% though more realistic assessments place his chances at 50/50. You see, you do not really need anyone to vote for you at all to be elected president, well not exactly true, but it certainly seems that way.
The first issue would be treaties. Most recent is the Open Skies treaty of 2002, which Secretary of State Pompeo announced in May of 2020 that the US would abandon. Open Skies had raised trust levels based on mutual surveillance of arms deployments in accordance with treaty obligations, part of “trust but verify” that the US has walked away from.
Biden has promised to restore Open Skies.
In February 2021, when most expect Trump to be gone, the last START treaty between the US and Russia will expire. An extension was already in the offing, but the key issue of China has made START treaties more complicated.
Though China has a relatively small nuclear arsenal and her military, as with Russia, is largely defensive in nature, China’s level of military spending brings her to the table. Though dwarfed by the US in overall military expenditures, China is second to the US, spending 5 times more than Russia.
The list of treaties abandoned by the US, as of the end of 2018 is considerable.
Intermedia Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
The Paris Climate Agreement
The Trans-Pacific Partnership
South Korean trade deal (KORUS)
NAFTA
The Singapore Agreement
The UNHRC
UNESCO
JCPOA Iran
NATO?
WTO?
A blanket restoration of “all of the above” may well not be warranted. However, when supposedly “harsh” trade negotiations coincide with personal financial deals, the resulting “product” has to be suspect. From Forbes:
“John Bolton’s book on his time in the White House isn’t a deep dive into Asian economic dynamics. But written between the lines in bold font is a timely illustration of why China is eating Donald Trump’s lunch.
In The Room Where It Happened, former national security adviser Bolton dishes plenty about a “stunningly uninformed,” erratic and incompetent U.S. president. The most tantalizing sections dramatize Trump’s desperation to win not just Xi Jinping’s help in getting reelected, but his yearning for a connection with China’s leader. Trump, as per Bolton, even once told Xi “I miss you,” sounding like some lovelorn teenager.
The more important story, though, is Bolton’s assertion that Trump’s Asia strategy is just theater. Trump’s summits with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un? Elaborately-choreographed stunts the White House knew would yield a “substance-free communique” and “press conference to declare victory,” Bolton writes.
Trump penalizing Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE for violating North Korea and Iran sanctions? A mere excuse, Bolton argues, for Trump to be “writing Xi personal handwritten notes.” Trump’s late 2019 comment that “we are with” Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters? In private, Bolton reports, Trump said “I don’t want to get involved” for fear of irking Xi.”
One must also note that it was John Bolton that pushed Trump to abandon JCPOA and the Paris Climate Accords. Bolton also pushed for the US to militarily back an Israeli attack on Iran as well.
It is just such a scenario that is seen as one of the probable “October Surprise” plots the White House will turn to as political hopes fade.
The key issues, morally at least, are those that involve human rights, an area where Biden has been strongest, but with limitations as well.
Former President Jimmie Carter was, and is to this day, America’s primary voice on behalf of human rights and the only American leader to openly challenge Israel’s miserable record in this area.
It was Netanyahu that convinced Trump to abandon the US Human Rights Council, an act previously though unimaginable, for their brutal treatment of Palestinians under their apartheid rule.
Past Carter, Senator Bernie Sanders, himself a Jew, has set forth policy goals that would restore America’s standing as a leader in human rights.
Do note that it was Trump’s policies under Bolton that led to the Caesar Law, turning America from its already irrational policy of regime change and support of terrorism against the Syrian people to outright starvation and butchery.
From Joss Harrison at US Centre:
“In recent months, Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has begun to lay out his foreign policy vision. In a New York Times interview, he declared, “When I am president, human rights will be at the core of US foreign policy.” There are some promising parallels between the ideas Biden has set out and the policies pursued by the 1976-80 Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter. This is a welcome development, for no president since Carter has centred their foreign policy strategy on human rights in quite the same way.”
Another issue that requires reassessment is America’s actual role in a Post-Trump world. With America buried by endless trillion in new debt after the economic collapse brought on by Trump’s failure to address the pandemic, the engine that drives the military industrial complex has been shaken to its roots.
Since the Reagan presidency, the policy of the US has been domestic rule through elites, the one percent that now controls 70 percent of the wealth while reducing the other economic sectors, hourly workers, management and small business owners, to near-minimum wage earners.
The bleeding has been engineered in interesting ways, tax policies for sure, but dramatic increases in healthcare and education costs have been significant as well. Nearly 50 million Americans with a partial college education owe an average of $35,000 in educational debt at an average interest rate of nearly 10%. Medical bills cause even more poverty. From the Guardian:
“According to a study published in February 2019, about 530,000 bankruptcies filed annually are because of debt accrued due to a medical illness. The study found that even the Obama administration’s landmark Affordable Care Act (known as Obamacare) has failed to change the proportion of bankruptcies caused by medical debts, with poor health insurance cited as one of the main culprits.
Republicans and Democrats are currently at loggerheads over Trump administration plans to further weaken Obamacare by making it easier for states to opt out of certain requirements and offer cheaper plans that could further exacerbate the situation. And health insurance has emerged as one of the signature issues of the 2020 election, and the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination with senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren promising a total overhaul and Joe Biden and others pledging milder reforms. What all sides admit is that the current system is broken.”
However, it was Reagan that began the war on trade unions with “Right to Work” laws. With the demise of unions, wages for industrial workers have gone down by 40% and along with lowered wages the disappearance of real health insurance, paid vacations, and safe working conditions.
Then again, the other issue, job security. You see, the new America is a nation of temporary workers, “burger flippers” and “bean counters” who can be replaced by outsourcing to first China, and now under Trump’s new proposals, India. American workers are told they are worthless and unnecessary.
This is the United States that was, and perhaps is, expected to lead the world into a post-pandemic recovery. The truth? The time for looking to America, even an America under a “reasonable” Joe Biden, is long over. America is more than wounded.
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 VT, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”


veteranstoday--2020-07-29--Second Wave of COVID-19 Coming for Europe?

German And U.K. Officials Warn Of A Possible New COVID-19 Wave In Europe The European Union successfully flattened the curve of COVID-19 cases in the spring – but a second wave could be building in parts of the EU , according to both British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the head of Germany ’ s disease agency .
“ I ’ m afraid you are starting to see , in some places , the signs of a second wave of the pandemic ” in Europe , Johnson said Tuesday .
“ We don ’ t know yet if this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but of course it could be , ” said Lothar Wieler , head of Germany ’ s infectious disease agency , the Robert Koch Institute .
His remarks were reported by Deutsche Welle .
Wieler said he is “ very worried ” about a higher incidence of COVID-19 in many parts of Germany , blaming the rise on negligence .
In its most recent situation report , the Robert Koch Institute said many cases are connected to people returning to work , having family celebrations and engaging in leisure activities .
“ In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 500 new cases a day , a slight uptick from the previous month , and local outbreaks have contributed to the rise , ” NPR ’ s Rob Schmitz reported from Berlin .
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German And U.K. Officials Warn Of A Possible New COVID-19 Wave In Europe
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The European Union successfully flattened the curve of COVID-19 cases in the spring – but a second wave could be building in parts of the EU, according to both British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the head of Germany’s disease agency.
“I’m afraid you are starting to see, in some places, the signs of a second wave of the pandemic” in Europe, Johnson said Tuesday.
“We don’t know yet if this is the beginning of a second wave, but of course it could be,” said Lothar Wieler, head of Germany’s infectious disease agency, the Robert Koch Institute. His remarks were reported by Deutsche Welle.
Wieler said he is “very worried” about a higher incidence of COVID-19 in many parts of Germany, blaming the rise on negligence. In its most recent situation report, the Robert Koch Institute said many cases are connected to people returning to work, having family celebrations and engaging in leisure activities.
“In the past two weeks there were more than 500 new cases a day, a slight uptick from the previous month, and local outbreaks have contributed to the rise,” NPR’s Rob Schmitz reported from Berlin.
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veteranstoday--2020-07-29--Censure or Using Common Sense?

Censure or Using Common Sense?

Twitter temporarily restricts Donald Trump Jr. ’ s account after he posts video claiming masks are unnecessary Twitter restricted Donald Trump Jr. ’ s ability to tweet after he posted a video featuring a doctor making false claims about coronavirus cures and stating that people “ don ’ t need masks ” to prevent the virus from spreading , a Twitter spokesperson said Tuesday .
Some of the account ’ s functionality , including the ability to tweet , will be limited for 12 hours , the spokesperson said .
The video , which was published by the right-wing media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Monday , featured a group of doctors making false and dubious claims related to coronavirus , including that masks are unnecessary .
Twitter ( TWTR ) , Facebook ( FB ) and YouTube removed the video after it started to go viral .
President Donald Trump also retweeted multiple versions of the video on Twitter , but he did not upload a version of the video to the site .
His son did , which is why Twitter only took action against Trump Jr. ’ s account , a company spokesperson said @

The video, which was published by the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News and went viral online on Monday, featured a group of doctors making false and dubious claims related to coronavirus, including that masks are unnecessary.
Twitter (TWTR), Facebook (FB) and YouTube removed the video after it started to go viral.


veteranstoday--2020-07-29--MIKE HARRIS SHOW: Special Guest Dr. Steven Greer

Dr. Steven Greer .
A trauma Emergency room Physician who after having experiences with UFOs sacrificed his medical career to bring the truth about the UFO phenomena into the public view .
His efforts are of particular importance now because of the DoD ’ s release and confirmation that the UFOs that have been seen by millions are indeed very real .
What Doctor Greer documents is that there are two fundamental types of UFO ’ s ; our ’ s ( of Earthly origin ) and theirs , of extraterrestrial origin .
Dr.. Greer emphasizes the methods to determine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Greer also discusses the formation of the space force as a means to continue defense spending against the extraterrestrial origin UFO ’ s in an attempt to create a hostile enemy , for profit , when the extraterrestrials have never displayed any hostile intentions , in fact the extraterrestrials have displayed remarkable restraint when the USA and other militaries globally have attacked the extraterrestrial UFO ’ s and brought them down to gain access to the extraterrestrial technology for profit and to weaponize peaceful extraterrestrial technologies .
To quote Pogo ; “ we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us ” .
The true enemy is the governments who withhold information and crash UFO ’ s to capture the occupants and to steal the technology for profit and military advantage .
I hope you all enjoy the interview and support the efforts of Dr. Greer , and please become a subscriber to my Youtube Channel , if you enjoy the content .
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Dr. Steven Greer. A trauma Emergency room Physician who after having experiences with UFOs sacrificed his medical career to bring the truth about the UFO phenomena into the public view. His efforts are of particular importance now because of the DoD’s release and confirmation that the UFOs that have been seen by millions are indeed very real.
What Doctor Greer documents is that there are two fundamental types of UFO’s; our’s (of Earthly origin) and theirs , of extraterrestrial origin. Dr.. Greer emphasizes the methods to determine the origins of the objects.
Dr. Greer also discusses the formation of the space force as a means to continue defense spending against the extraterrestrial origin UFO’s in an attempt to create a hostile enemy, for profit, when the extraterrestrials have never displayed any hostile intentions, in fact the extraterrestrials have displayed remarkable restraint when the USA and other militaries globally have attacked the extraterrestrial UFO’s and brought them down to gain access to the extraterrestrial technology for profit and to weaponize peaceful extraterrestrial technologies.
To quote Pogo; “we have met the enemy and it is us”. The true enemy is the governments who withhold information and crash UFO’s to capture the occupants and to steal the technology for profit and military advantage.
I hope you all enjoy the interview and support the efforts of Dr. Greer, and please become a subscriber to my Youtube Channel, if you enjoy the content. Thank you in advance
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His message is one of hope – that these energy systems can soon be available worldwide. His goal is to assist in the creation of a sustainable, peaceful civilization on Earth that is both high tech and in harmony with the environment. DR STEVEN GREERSteven M. Greer, MD is Founder of The Disclosure Project, The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), The Orion Project and Sirius Technology Advanced Research, LLC.Father of the Disclosure movement, he presided over the groundbreaking National Press Club Disclosure Event in May, 2001. Over 20 military, government, intelligence and corporate witnesses presented compelling testimony regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life forms visiting the planet, and the reverse engineering of the energy and propulsion systems of these craft. Over one billion people heard of the press conference through the original webcast and on subsequent media coverage on BBC, CNN, CNN Worldwide, Voice of America, Pravda, Chinese media, and media outlets throughout Latin America. The webcast had 250,000 people waiting online – the largest webcast in the history of the National Press Club at that time.He has worked for 17 years to bring together the scientists, inventors and leaders in society to advance new clean technology energy systems. He is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on the strategic process of transforming our carbon-based civilization to a long-term sustainable civilization using innovative sciences and technology.A lifetime member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the nation’s most prestigious medical honor society, Dr. Greer has now retired as an emergency physician to work on these projects.He is the author of four insightful books and multiple DVDs on the UFO/ET subject. He teaches groups throughout the world how to make peaceful contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, and continues to research bringing truly alternative energy sources out to the public. Dr. Greer has studied the Sanskrit Vedas extensively and has been teaching mantra meditation for over 30 years.Dr. Greer has been seen and heard by millions world-wide on CBS, the BBC, The Discovery Channel, the History channel, The Ancient Aliens series, Thrive and through many news outlets worldwide. He is currently working on a documentary “Sirius” which will be available Spring 2013.His message is one of hope – that these energy systems can soon be available worldwide. His goal is to assist in the creation of a sustainable, peaceful civilization on Earth that is both high tech and in harmony with the environment.
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veteranstoday--2020-07-29--Wiser elements in Washington establishment get Iran’s message: Analyst

Iran ’ s military has just held a bunch of war games in the Strait of Hormuz featuring a mock-up of US aircraft carrier , which of course would be the prime target if the US ever attacked Iran—its fleet in the Persian Gulf would face serious problems .
I think Iran is sending a message that if Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump think that they need to start a big Middle East war to try to keep them out of prison and keep them in power , well , they need to think again , because that war might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hope that it would .
I think Iran is demonstrating that it is entirely capable of actually winning this kind of war , and that ’ s not really sort of an empty boast or display from the Iranian side .
Even the American side has had to admit over the past decade and a half , that it very likely would lose a war with Iran , and that ’ s the reason the US has not attacked Iran .
The plan after 911 , as we know from General Wesley Clark @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in five years with the seventh and most important country being Iran , after Iraq and Afghanistan had been occupied and US bases in those two countries surrounding Iran could be used to attack Iran .
So that was the plan .
But the problem was twofold .
First there was pushback after the 911 neoconservative coup d ’ etat from people who had opposed it or had certainly not supported it .
That is the Realist School of American policy .
And those people , led by people like Brzezinski were actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had hijacked the United States on 9/11 , in order to use its military to destroy their opponents in the region .
And so those realists saw that this policy of letting America ’ s forces be hijacked by Israel was bad for the US .
And that pushback was the first factor that stopped this push to war with Iran , which is really what 9 ’ 11 , and the 9/11 wars were all about .
So the second factor and perhaps the most important factor is that Iran ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact , in 2002 , the US military held a fictional war-game scenario in which the US had mocked up a war with Iran .
And guess what , Iran won .
And they didn ’ t just win by attrition , or in a small way , they won a huge victory by sinking the entire American fleet five minutes after the war began .
The Iranian mock up side — the red team in the exercise — was led by General Van Riper , who used the kinds of tactics that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ playing the conventional war game , but using sneak attack , speedboats and things like that targeting the American carriers , and then using its advantage of geography , where the mountains on the shore of the Persian Gulf house all kinds of anti-ship missiles that are dug in so deep that they can never be taken out .
And so essentially the US military has known ever since then that a war with Iran would not be a good idea .
And now , today we have Trump and Netanyahu both in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that war actually would be a way to stay out of prison .
I think the Iranians have just sent a very strong message to both Trump and Netanyahu , to not think that way .
And I do think that the wiser elements in the establishments in Washington and Tel Aviv will very likely be paying attention .
Kevin Barrett is an American author , journalist and radio host with a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies .
He has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2003 .
He recorded @ @ @ @ @ @ @

By Kevin Barrett, VT Editor, for Press TV
Iran’s military has just held a bunch of war games in the Strait of Hormuz featuring a mock-up of US aircraft carrier, which of course would be the prime target if the US ever attacked Iran—its fleet in the Persian Gulf would face serious problems.
I think Iran is sending a message that if Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump think that they need to start a big Middle East war to try to keep them out of prison and keep them in power, well, they need to think again, because that war might not go the way that they would hope that it would.
I think Iran is demonstrating that it is entirely capable of actually winning this kind of war, and that’s not really sort of an empty boast or display from the Iranian side. Even the American side has had to admit over the past decade and a half, that it very likely would lose a war with Iran, and that’s the reason the US has not attacked Iran.
The plan after 911, as we know from General Wesley Clark, was to take out seven countries in five years with the seventh and most important country being Iran, after Iraq and Afghanistan had been occupied and US bases in those two countries surrounding Iran could be used to attack Iran.
So that was the plan. But the problem was twofold. First there was pushback after the 911 neoconservative coup d’etat from people who had opposed it or had certainly not supported it. That is the Realist School of American policy. And those people, led by people like Brzezinski were actually horrified that the extremist Israeli Likudinik Zionists had hijacked the United States on 9/11, in order to use its military to destroy their opponents in the region.
And so those realists saw that this policy of letting America’s forces be hijacked by Israel was bad for the US. And that pushback was the first factor that stopped this push to war with Iran, which is really what 9’11, and the 9/11 wars were all about.
So the second factor and perhaps the most important factor is that Iran’s defenses are quite formidable. And in fact, in 2002, the US military held a fictional war-game scenario in which the US had mocked up a war with Iran. And guess what, Iran won. And they didn’t just win by attrition, or in a small way, they won a huge victory by sinking the entire American fleet five minutes after the war began.
The Iranian mock up side — the red team in the exercise — was led by General Van Riper, who used the kinds of tactics that Iran would use. That is not playing the conventional war game, but using sneak attack, speedboats and things like that targeting the American carriers, and then using its advantage of geography, where the mountains on the shore of the Persian Gulf house all kinds of anti-ship missiles that are dug in so deep that they can never be taken out.
And so essentially the US military has known ever since then that a war with Iran would not be a good idea. And now, today we have Trump and Netanyahu both in a position where they might think that that war actually would be a way to stay out of prison.
I think the Iranians have just sent a very strong message to both Trump and Netanyahu, to not think that way. And I do think that the wiser elements in the establishments in Washington and Tel Aviv will very likely be paying attention.
IRGC commander: Iran won’t initiate aggression, but will be offensive in tactics Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says it would never be the party to launch an offensive against any country, but would assume a fully offensive mode, when it comes to tactical and operational performance.
Kevin Barrett is an American author, journalist and radio host with a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies. He has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2003. He recorded this article for Press TV website.


veteranstoday--2020-07-29--Vital: Current Hard/Real stats on US Covid and What they mean (two minute read)

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Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.


veteranstoday--2020-07-31--Will Entropy Define the New World Paradigm?

I recently wrote a lengthy analysis of lesser-known side to George Soros that I believe people who are serious about geopolitical topics should pay closer attention to if they wish to avoid falling prey to some very dangerous ideological traps being set in our path as we transition into a new world economic system .
You see , George Soros considers himself quite the philosopher and believes that through the tutelage of Karl Popper at the London School of Economics in the 1950s , he developed certain fundamental principles of economics .
His economic theories are encapsulated in his General @ @ @ @ @ @ @ logical extension of Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics onto human self-organization .
In quantum mechanics , the act of observing a photon or electron changes that which is observed ( since the photon striking the “ observed object ” and reflecting back to the eye of the observer affects that which is being observed ) .
This phenomenon finds a parallel in the world of economics , where the act of thinking ( and acting upon thoughts ) changes both the economic systems itself as well as the thoughts and identities of those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ system in question .
While the founders of the field of quantum like Max Planck or Einstein saw no need to reject the belief in truth , reason or reality , the Copenhagen school felt that the “ uncertainty principle ” and “ wave-particle duality ” proved that there was no causality , no basic reality and that everything is just random and uncertain in its essence .
This is essentially the kernel of Soros ’ “ theory of reflexivity ” .
In 2008 , Soros teamed up with a group of upper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these theories into action in a three-phase plan led by his Institute for New Economic Thinking ( INET ) .
In its first phase , INET aimed to prove that the neoliberal economic paradigm is wrong because it presumes the existence of rational actors and truthful ideas .
Soros states both presumptions are not only wrong but are the very reasons why periodic economic crises occur .
Phase two promised to cultivate a global field of alternative theories that will offer solutions to the obsolete paradigm but which adhere to Soros ’ key @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truthfulness , 2 ) the absolute enslavement of reason to irrational passions , and 3 ) the need for economists to strive for certainty and equilibrium .
While these assumptions may appear contradictory , as I explained in my previous paper , this contradiction only exists as long as you don ’ t think that Soros is not a liar .
Soros and his INET co-controllers like Lord Adair Turner and Rob Johnson believe that phase one is in the bag and that we are now in phase two which will be driven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Initiative .
This initiative features thousands of talented young economists under the influence of INET who are radicalized to take on the mission of reforming the world economic order under the mentorship of an enlightened old guard of hedge fund managers and technocrats .
Youth who are processed through the INET program are fed with dreams of overthrowing the soul-less , collapsing neoliberal order with a new system based upon creativity , freedom and empathy .
The attraction for intelligent young people is obvious .
The sad fact is that the definition of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taught to cherish is not really creativity at all but rather just irrationalism with one set of standards for the masses and another set of inflexible standards for the social engineers and technocrats managing the world order from the top .
This dual standard is nothing new .
Historically this has been the foundation of oligarchical systems of political economy for centuries and was exemplified by the “ dismal science ” of Malthus , Bentham and Mill of the 19th century .
Just as today , 18-19th century British imperial political scientists pretended @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the surface , while the intent of their models were always designed to keep their victims locked under the iron-fisted ( invisible hand ? )
influence of a master class .
This elite always aimed to : 1 ) keep nations divided among themselves at all costs .
The geopolitical expression of this aim were systems of zero-sum game thinking defined by the Hobbesian idea of “ might makes right ” .
2 ) keep the peasants under-developed and ignorant as possible .
No questioning the invisible structures of the world system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change the rules of the game .
3 ) keep nations de-industrialized under cash-cropping procedures .
No full spectrum economies allowed .
4 ) keep every slave ’ s mind focused only on avoiding pain and pursuing pleasures in the ephemeral “ present ” thinking never of the past or future in any meaningful way .
The only creative acts permissible in this system must be governed by the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain and nothing more .
In this worldview , morality is a useful social construct to regulate the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need not be encumbered with .
5 ) Justify it all by a devout belief in “ equilibrium ” as the absolute “ good ” and disequilibrium is the absolute “ evil ” .
All means taken to advance the ends of equilibrium are ok .
These were the real reasons underlying the British Empire ’ s systematic destruction of Indian textile industries , their promotion of Chinese opium addiction and the promotion of Adam Smith ’ s Wealth of Nations as a “ scientific ” justification for keeping nations de-industrialized , unregulated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the heart of Britain ’ s support of the slave power during the Civil War in the same way that it drove Britain ’ s partition of India after WWII into warring Muslim vs Hindu vs Sikh conflicts as well as their partitioning of the Middle East under Sykes-Pikot .
This philosophy is behind the controlled disintegration of the western nation state system today and it is what the late Maurice Strong ( 1929-2015 ) was referring to when he rhetorically asked in a 1991 interview : “ What if a small group @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries ?
And if the world is to survive , those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment .
Will they do it ?
The group ’ s conclusion is ‘ no ’ .
The rich countries won ’ t do it .
They won ’ t change .
So , in order to save the planet , the group decides : Isn ’ t the only hope for the planet that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it our responsibility to bring that about ?
” If you have not guessed , Maurice Strong was a major force in recent history and leading architect of the the current Green New Deal agenda being promoted by the World Economic Forum , Soros ’ INET and the City of London ’ s Mark Carney as a “ Great Reset ” of the world system .
Since these misanthropic ideas are immensely influential , I think it is worth taking a few moments to shed light on their structure with a bit more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Let ’ s do this by getting into the disturbed mind of a technocratically-minded billionaire obsessed with imposing structures of “ equilibrium and stability ” upon a world of chaos , irrationality and disorder .
I think it would useful to start with a series of questions .
Question 1 : What type of system do these technocrats believe they are controlling ?
Do they believe that the system is changing or not changing ?
Answer : Soros says constantly that the system is changing .
So let ’ s believe him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is changing , then is it changing for the better , or for the worse or randomly ?
Although your freedom may feel constrained by these three options , I promise you that these are the only choices you have .
Answer : Well if reason is assumed to be intrinsically enslaved to irrational passions ( following the assumptions of Soros ’ beloved Hume ) , then the discoveries required to keep humanity ’ s system of diminishing finite resources from running down and leading to collapses is impossible .
The closed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than it creates and just like the gasoline in a car engine , it will always tend towards a heat death .
Now , we have walked into another big idea that oligarchs are committed to : Entropy ( aka : The 2nd Law of thermodynamics ) .
The Origins of an Entropic Idea Wikipedia states that : “ In a thermodynamic system , pressure , density , and temperature tend to become uniform over time because the equilibrium state has higher probability ( more possible combinations of microstates ) than any other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ process in all CLOSED systems , and the term arose from the study of heat powered machines in the early 19th century led by Sadi Carnot .
Carnot observed that a machine will always use more heat for work than it generates over time leading to a predictable winding down of its potential for action .
A few years later , this idea was applied to gas theories .
To give a concrete example : Let us say you heat up a can of spray paint until it explodes .
In the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Entropy as the heated molecules bounce around hitting each other a lot .
Lots of potential for change and singularities .
With every passing moment after the can explodes , those molecules will tend to collide less and less as the heat distribution decreases , activity decreases and the molecules of the system “ tend to become uniform over time ” under increasingly higher and higher states of entropy .
So far , everything is pretty straight forward and benign .
The problems come in when entropy is universalized .
British Empiricist and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thus : “ The law that entropy always increases , holds , I think , the supreme position among the laws of Nature .
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell ’ s equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell ’ s equations .
If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well , these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes .
But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
” Now why would a leading scientist assert that the very disagreement a new theory may have with another theory ( entropy ) is itself proof that said new theory is embarrassingly wrong ?
Isn ’ t this a bit unscientific ?
Well , let us treat that question with a higher question : Who ever proved that entropy and the 2nd law of thermodynamics is something which can be put onto the entire universe ?
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When we start looking at transcendental concepts like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tend to find that entropy breaks down in the most devastating manner .
The Biosphere as a State of Anti-Entropy Rather than seeing any evidence that living matter began at low entropy in a closed system within the pre-Cambrian epoch 500 million years ago and moved into states of increasing heat death/high entropy ( aka : diminishing potentials for change ) … we see just the opposite to be the case .
Observations show us that Life has evolved from relatively boring single celled organisms to ever more differentiated and complex systems of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ higher states of energy to perform work .
Not only that but leaps from lower states of life from non-life to life , and from unconscious life to conscious life and from conscious life to self-conscious thinking life .
The great Russian biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky noted in his essay the Evolution of Species and Living Matter ( 1928 ) that the biosphere was itself an open system shaped by the intersection of cosmic radiation and internal radiations emanating from within the earth and was driven by a directed flow of creative disequilibrium towards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ the creation resulting from the evolution of new living forms , adapts itself to new forms of existence , augments the ubiquity of life , and enlarges its domain .
Life penetrates thus , the regions of the biosphere where it had not earlier had access.
” Zeroing in on the mechanism driving this growth which he described in detail as the increased biogenic migration of atoms through the biosphere , Vernadsky stated : “ we see how , in the course of geological epochs , new forms of life appear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of atomic current through living matter , and also provokes , within atoms , new manifestations , unknown of until now , along with the appearance of new modes of displacement ” .
At a certain point in evolutionary history , a new phenomenon appeared with the rise of human reason which forever altered these biospheric mechanisms .
Vernadsky described it as “ the noosphere ” saying : “ The noosphere is the last of many stages in the evolution of the biosphere in geological history .
The course of this evolution only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a study of some of the aspects of the biosphere ’ s geological past.
” Following a similar pattern observed in the evolution of biospheric systems , human/noetic systems defined by self-consciousness , creative reason , and free will also express a directed anti-entropic change , but in a more concentrated way .
Comparing early tribal/cave dwelling societies with more advanced agricultural societies and comparing those societies with 16th century societies using water and wind power , to 18th century societies using steam power to 19th-20th century electricity-based societies to 20th-21st century atomic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doesn ’ t become less complex but rather more complex and differentiated , as the noosphere grows .
Unlike other animals , humanity ’ s carrying capacity is relative to the discoveries it makes ( or fails to make ) over time .
In his 1872 book Unity of Law , the great American System economist Henry C. Carey who understood the clash between open vs closed paradigms better than most economists today , eloquently described how humanity ’ s understanding extends itself ever more perfectly to the invisible forces of the universe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benefit all members of that society .
Carey noted that by discovering the laws of nature ever more perfectly , nature itself became increasingly the servant to our minds as we develop sails , or telephones , and electric heating/cooling etc .
Extending this concept from villages to nations , Carey forecast the rise of a new paradigm : “ The great nations of the earth should each and all profit by development of the powers , mental , and physical , of each and every other ; each and all growing in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other more and more obtains power for controlling and directing the great natural forces ; the harmony of all international interests being as perfect and complete as we know to be that of the individuals of which nations are composed.
” The devout Malthusian praying in the church of entropy will say that while the systems defined by life and mind may appear to exhibit anti-entropic properties , they are merely anomalies floating within an overarching dying universe .
In this cynical view , every new baby is just a form of cancer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Malthusian master class in order to slow entropy abysmal path to nothingness ( aka : Heat death ) .
In response to such minds , Carey said : “ Of all contrivances for crushing out all Christian feeling and for developing self-worship , that the world yet has seen , there has been none entitled to claim so high a rank as that which has been , and yet daily is , assigned to the Malthusian Law of Population.
” For the current purposes of this article , I will leave out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the universe beyond life and mind , since that requires more space that a short essay will allow , but suffice it to say , we have barely scratched the surface of our tiny corner of a solar system amidst an ocean of billions of suns within a milky way which itself orbits an array of other galaxies which we only began to discover a few generations ago .
Anyone to speak absolutely about the nature of this universe might be skipping steps .
At the end of his 1935 Philosophy of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ directed evolution , harmony and creative growth of the universe , the great Max Planck tackled the problem of entropy in an interesting manner : “ The second law of thermodynamics , the principle of the increase of entropy , has frequently been applied outside physics .
For example , attempts have been made to apply the principle that all physical events develop in one sense only to biological evolution- a singularly unhappy attempt so long as the term evolution is associated with the idea of progress , perfection , or improvement .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it can only deal with probabilities and all that it really says is that a state , improbable in itself , is followed on an average by a more probable state .
Biologically interpreted , this principle points towards degeneration rather than improvement : the chaotic , the ordinary and the common is always more probable than the harmonious , the excellent , or the rare.
” The fact is that the school of systems analysis that became the language for a revival for Malthus ’ s core closed system thinking in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of statistical quantum mechanics which both Einstein and Max Planck did battle with at the ends of their lives due to the school ’ s total rejection of causality .
These new social engineers applied their theories to human self organization which stated that the 99 % of humanity were like fish multiplying in a closed glass fish tank .
Like the randomized stochastic activity of molecules hitting each other in the exploding spray can or gas tank , the fish may act however they feel and desire , as long as their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the glass tank .
The fixed rules of scarcity defined by the limits of the earth , resources , agricultural potential , energy access ( and soon carbon quotas ) are likened to the walls of the glass tank to be controlled by an elite class of alphas .
So when Soros or any sociopathic billionaire loudly extolls the virtues of creativity , freedom and individuality while attacking the foundations of neoliberalism , keep in mind that they think of you as a fish in a glass tank and nothing more .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much of the economic field today is found in the study of original works by Henry C. Carey , Max Planck and the great Vladimir Vernadsky who all insightfully recognized that mankind was destined for something much greater than imperialists can imagine .
In his essay “ Some Words About the Noosphere ” ( 1943 ) , Vernadsky watched the ravages of WWII but saw a brighter destiny beyond the chaos : “ Now we live in the period of a new geological evolutionary change in the biosphere .
We are entering the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is taking place at a stormy time , in the epoch of a destructive world war .
But the important fact is that our democratic ideals are in tune with the elemental geological processes , with the law of nature and with the noosphere .
Therefore we may face the future with confidence .
It is in our hands .
We will not let it go.
” Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk , and has authored 3 volumes of ‘ Untold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation The author recently delivered a lecture “ Destroying the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics ” :

I recently wrote a lengthy analysis of lesser-known side to George Soros that I believe people who are serious about geopolitical topics should pay closer attention to if they wish to avoid falling prey to some very dangerous ideological traps being set in our path as we transition into a new world economic system.
You see, George Soros considers himself quite the philosopher and believes that through the tutelage of Karl Popper at the London School of Economics in the 1950s, he developed certain fundamental principles of economics. His economic theories are encapsulated in his General Theory of Reflexivity and is essentially a logical extension of Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics onto human self-organization.
To describe this briefly:
In quantum mechanics, the act of observing a photon or electron changes that which is observed (since the photon striking the “observed object” and reflecting back to the eye of the observer affects that which is being observed). This phenomenon finds a parallel in the world of economics, where the act of thinking (and acting upon thoughts) changes both the economic systems itself as well as the thoughts and identities of those people operating within the “objective” system in question. While the founders of the field of quantum like Max Planck or Einstein saw no need to reject the belief in truth, reason or reality, the Copenhagen school felt that the “uncertainty principle” and “wave-particle duality” proved that there was no causality, no basic reality and that everything is just random and uncertain in its essence.
This is essentially the kernel of Soros’ “theory of reflexivity”.
In 2008, Soros teamed up with a group of upper level management oligarchs in order to put these theories into action in a three-phase plan led by his Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).
In its first phase, INET aimed to prove that the neoliberal economic paradigm is wrong because it presumes the existence of rational actors and truthful ideas. Soros states both presumptions are not only wrong but are the very reasons why periodic economic crises occur.
Phase two promised to cultivate a global field of alternative theories that will offer solutions to the obsolete paradigm but which adhere to Soros’ key assumptions of 1) the non-existence of truthfulness, 2) the absolute enslavement of reason to irrational passions, and 3) the need for economists to strive for certainty and equilibrium.
While these assumptions may appear contradictory, as I explained in my previous paper, this contradiction only exists as long as you don’t think that Soros is not a liar.
The Young Scholars Initiative
Soros and his INET co-controllers like Lord Adair Turner and Rob Johnson believe that phase one is in the bag and that we are now in phase two which will be driven by INET programs like the Young Scholars Initiative.
This initiative features thousands of talented young economists under the influence of INET who are radicalized to take on the mission of reforming the world economic order under the mentorship of an enlightened old guard of hedge fund managers and technocrats. Youth who are processed through the INET program are fed with dreams of overthrowing the soul-less, collapsing neoliberal order with a new system based upon creativity, freedom and empathy. The attraction for intelligent young people is obvious.
The sad fact is that the definition of “creativity” which these kids are taught to cherish is not really creativity at all but rather just irrationalism with one set of standards for the masses and another set of inflexible standards for the social engineers and technocrats managing the world order from the top.
The Dismal Science
This dual standard is nothing new. Historically this has been the foundation of oligarchical systems of political economy for centuries and was exemplified by the “dismal science” of Malthus, Bentham and Mill of the 19th century. Just as today, 18-19th century British imperial political scientists pretended to support innovation, creativity and growth on the surface, while the intent of their models were always designed to keep their victims locked under the iron-fisted (invisible hand?) influence of a master class.
This elite always aimed to:
1) keep nations divided among themselves at all costs. The geopolitical expression of this aim were systems of zero-sum game thinking defined by the Hobbesian idea of “might makes right”.
2) keep the peasants under-developed and ignorant as possible. No questioning the invisible structures of the world system and certainly no creative discoveries that would change the rules of the game.
3) keep nations de-industrialized under cash-cropping procedures. No full spectrum economies allowed.
4) keep every slave’s mind focused only on avoiding pain and pursuing pleasures in the ephemeral “present” thinking never of the past or future in any meaningful way. The only creative acts permissible in this system must be governed by the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain and nothing more. In this worldview, morality is a useful social construct to regulate the plebs which the “enlightened elite” need not be encumbered with.
5) Justify it all by a devout belief in “equilibrium” as the absolute “good” and disequilibrium is the absolute “evil”. All means taken to advance the ends of equilibrium are ok.
These were the real reasons underlying the British Empire’s systematic destruction of Indian textile industries, their promotion of Chinese opium addiction and the promotion of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations as a “scientific” justification for keeping nations de-industrialized, unregulated and agrarian.
This philosophy was at the heart of Britain’s support of the slave power during the Civil War in the same way that it drove Britain’s partition of India after WWII into warring Muslim vs Hindu vs Sikh conflicts as well as their partitioning of the Middle East under Sykes-Pikot.
This philosophy is behind the controlled disintegration of the western nation state system today and it is what the late Maurice Strong (1929-2015) was referring to when he rhetorically asked in a 1991 interview:
“What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group’s conclusion is ‘no’. The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
If you have not guessed, Maurice Strong was a major force in recent history and leading architect of the the current Green New Deal agenda being promoted by the World Economic Forum, Soros’ INET and the City of London’s Mark Carney as a “Great Reset” of the world system.
Going a bit deeper
Prince Charles and Mark Carney: Two lead figures promoted a Global Green Reset
Since these misanthropic ideas are immensely influential, I think it is worth taking a few moments to shed light on their structure with a bit more effort than we might otherwise be accustomed.
Let’s do this by getting into the disturbed mind of a technocratically-minded billionaire obsessed with imposing structures of “equilibrium and stability” upon a world of chaos, irrationality and disorder. I think it would useful to start with a series of questions.
Question 1: What type of system do these technocrats believe they are controlling? Do they believe that the system is changing or not changing?
Answer: Soros says constantly that the system is changing. So let’s believe him for now.
Question 2: If it is changing, then is it changing for the better, or for the worse or randomly? Although your freedom may feel constrained by these three options, I promise you that these are the only choices you have.
Answer: Well if reason is assumed to be intrinsically enslaved to irrational passions (following the assumptions of Soros’ beloved Hume), then the discoveries required to keep humanity’s system of diminishing finite resources from running down and leading to collapses is impossible. The closed system will always thus consume more energy than it creates and just like the gasoline in a car engine, it will always tend towards a heat death.
Now, we have walked into another big idea that oligarchs are committed to: Entropy (aka: The 2nd Law of thermodynamics).
The Origins of an Entropic Idea
Wikipedia states that: “In a thermodynamic system, pressure, density, and temperature tend to become uniform over time because the equilibrium state has higher probability (more possible combinations of microstates) than any other state.”
Entropy exists as a statistical process in all CLOSED systems, and the term arose from the study of heat powered machines in the early 19th century led by Sadi Carnot. Carnot observed that a machine will always use more heat for work than it generates over time leading to a predictable winding down of its potential for action. A few years later, this idea was applied to gas theories.
To give a concrete example: Let us say you heat up a can of spray paint until it explodes.
In the first moments, there will be a LOW Entropy as the heated molecules bounce around hitting each other a lot. Lots of potential for change and singularities. With every passing moment after the can explodes, those molecules will tend to collide less and less as the heat distribution decreases, activity decreases and the molecules of the system “tend to become uniform over time” under increasingly higher and higher states of entropy. So far, everything is pretty straight forward and benign. The problems come in when entropy is universalized.
British Empiricist and general misanthrope Sir Arthur Eddington described entropy thus:
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
Now why would a leading scientist assert that the very disagreement a new theory may have with another theory (entropy) is itself proof that said new theory is embarrassingly wrong? Isn’t this a bit unscientific?
Well, let us treat that question with a higher question: Who ever proved that entropy and the 2nd law of thermodynamics is something which can be put onto the entire universe??
When we start looking at transcendental concepts like LIFE, MIND, or MORALITY we tend to find that entropy breaks down in the most devastating manner.
The Biosphere as a State of Anti-Entropy
Let’s start with Life.
Rather than seeing any evidence that living matter began at low entropy in a closed system within the pre-Cambrian epoch 500 million years ago and moved into states of increasing heat death/high entropy (aka: diminishing potentials for change)… we see just the opposite to be the case.
Observations show us that Life has evolved from relatively boring single celled organisms to ever more differentiated and complex systems of self organization both creating and consuming ever higher states of energy to perform work. Not only that but leaps from lower states of life from non-life to life, and from unconscious life to conscious life and from conscious life to self-conscious thinking life.
The great Russian biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky noted in his essay the Evolution of Species and Living Matter (1928) that the biosphere was itself an open system shaped by the intersection of cosmic radiation and internal radiations emanating from within the earth and was driven by a directed flow of creative disequilibrium towards higher states of anti-entropy. Vernadsky stated:
“the creation resulting from the evolution of new living forms, adapts itself to new forms of existence, augments the ubiquity of life, and enlarges its domain. Life penetrates thus, the regions of the biosphere where it had not earlier had access.”
Zeroing in on the mechanism driving this growth which he described in detail as the increased biogenic migration of atoms through the biosphere, Vernadsky stated:
“we see how, in the course of geological epochs, new forms of life appear. Their occurrence leads… to an acceleration of atomic current through living matter, and also provokes, within atoms, new manifestations, unknown of until now, along with the appearance of new modes of displacement”.
At a certain point in evolutionary history, a new phenomenon appeared with the rise of human reason which forever altered these biospheric mechanisms. Vernadsky described it as “the noosphere” saying:
“The noosphere is the last of many stages in the evolution of the biosphere in geological history. The course of this evolution only begins to become clear to us through a study of some of the aspects of the biosphere’s geological past.”
The Noosphere
Following a similar pattern observed in the evolution of biospheric systems, human/noetic systems defined by self-consciousness, creative reason, and free will also express a directed anti-entropic change, but in a more concentrated way. Comparing early tribal/cave dwelling societies with more advanced agricultural societies and comparing those societies with 16th century societies using water and wind power, to 18th century societies using steam power to 19th-20th century electricity-based societies to 20th-21st century atomic power-based societies, we find that humanity doesn’t become less complex but rather more complex and differentiated, as the noosphere grows. Unlike other animals, humanity’s carrying capacity is relative to the discoveries it makes (or fails to make) over time.
In his 1872 book Unity of Law, the great American System economist Henry C. Carey who understood the clash between open vs closed paradigms better than most economists today, eloquently described how humanity’s understanding extends itself ever more perfectly to the invisible forces of the universe with certain moralizing and uplifting effects which benefit all members of that society. Carey noted that by discovering the laws of nature ever more perfectly, nature itself became increasingly the servant to our minds as we develop sails, or telephones, and electric heating/cooling etc.
Extending this concept from villages to nations, Carey forecast the rise of a new paradigm:
“The great nations of the earth should each and all profit by development of the powers, mental, and physical, of each and every other; each and all growing in power for self-direction as each and every other more and more obtains power for controlling and directing the great natural forces; the harmony of all international interests being as perfect and complete as we know to be that of the individuals of which nations are composed.”
The devout Malthusian praying in the church of entropy will say that while the systems defined by life and mind may appear to exhibit anti-entropic properties, they are merely anomalies floating within an overarching dying universe. In this cynical view, every new baby is just a form of cancer needing to be kept under control by a Malthusian master class in order to slow entropy abysmal path to nothingness (aka: Heat death).
In response to such minds, Carey said:
“Of all contrivances for crushing out all Christian feeling and for developing self-worship, that the world yet has seen, there has been none entitled to claim so high a rank as that which has been, and yet daily is, assigned to the Malthusian Law of Population.”
For the current purposes of this article, I will leave out a deeper discussion into the anti-entropic nature of the universe beyond life and mind, since that requires more space that a short essay will allow, but suffice it to say, we have barely scratched the surface of our tiny corner of a solar system amidst an ocean of billions of suns within a milky way which itself orbits an array of other galaxies which we only began to discover a few generations ago. Anyone to speak absolutely about the nature of this universe might be skipping steps.
Max Planck Steps in
At the end of his 1935 Philosophy of Physics which extolled high praise on the directed evolution, harmony and creative growth of the universe, the great Max Planck tackled the problem of entropy in an interesting manner:
“The second law of thermodynamics, the principle of the increase of entropy, has frequently been applied outside physics. For example, attempts have been made to apply the principle that all physical events develop in one sense only to biological evolution- a singularly unhappy attempt so long as the term evolution is associated with the idea of progress, perfection, or improvement. The principle of entropy is such that it can only deal with probabilities and all that it really says is that a state, improbable in itself, is followed on an average by a more probable state. Biologically interpreted, this principle points towards degeneration rather than improvement: the chaotic, the ordinary and the common is always more probable than the harmonious, the excellent, or the rare.”
The fact is that the school of systems analysis that became the language for a revival for Malthus’s core closed system thinking in the post-WWII world increasingly embraced a certain school of statistical quantum mechanics which both Einstein and Max Planck did battle with at the ends of their lives due to the school’s total rejection of causality.
These new social engineers applied their theories to human self organization which stated that the 99% of humanity were like fish multiplying in a closed glass fish tank. Like the randomized stochastic activity of molecules hitting each other in the exploding spray can or gas tank, the fish may act however they feel and desire, as long as their action stays confined to the parameters of the glass tank.
The fixed rules of scarcity defined by the limits of the earth, resources, agricultural potential, energy access (and soon carbon quotas) are likened to the walls of the glass tank to be controlled by an elite class of alphas. So when Soros or any sociopathic billionaire loudly extolls the virtues of creativity, freedom and individuality while attacking the foundations of neoliberalism, keep in mind that they think of you as a fish in a glass tank and nothing more.
The cure for this misanthropic philosophy contaminating so much of the economic field today is found in the study of original works by Henry C. Carey, Max Planck and the great Vladimir Vernadsky who all insightfully recognized that mankind was destined for something much greater than imperialists can imagine.
In his essay “Some Words About the Noosphere” (1943), Vernadsky watched the ravages of WWII but saw a brighter destiny beyond the chaos:
“Now we live in the period of a new geological evolutionary change in the biosphere. We are entering the noosphere. This new elemental geological process is taking place at a stormy time, in the epoch of a destructive world war. But the important fact is that our democratic ideals are in tune with the elemental geological processes, with the law of nature and with the noosphere. Therefore we may face the future with confidence. It is in our hands. We will not let it go.”
BIO
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation
The author recently delivered a lecture “Destroying the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics”:
https://youtu.be/Lb4UrwiH92U


veteranstoday--2020-07-30--Iran’s Underground Missiles and the Drones and Satellites that make them deadly

The images were reportedly obtained amid the ongoing massive war games in southern Iran involving multiple branches of the armed forces , including elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC ) formations .
The IRGC has released detailed images of Al-Udeid Air Base – the Qatar-based home of the US military ’ s Central Command , with the snaps taken by Iran ’ s new domestically-developed ‘ Noor ’ ( Light ) military satellite .
The images include several detailed snaps of the airbase itself , with the pictures apparently taken during various intervals , based on the changing positions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the images appears to be an infrared view showing heat signatures emitted by aircraft and the nearby facilities .
Al-Udeid is the US ’ s largest military base in the Middle East , with as many as 11,000 personnel permanently stationed at the facility at any one time , and the base used to direct US military operations across the region .
The images are featured in a video showing off Iran ’ s drone , air power and missile might , with drones , planes and missiles shown to be targeting a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aircraft carrier .
The images were released amid the ongoing ‘ Great Prophet 14 ’ military drills in Hormozgan province , southern Iran , with the territory bordering on the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz .
The massive drills kicked off on Tuesday .
In addition to its intelligence-gathering activities , the Noor satellite has reportedly been used to monitor the exercises from space .
The Noor satellite was launched into orbit in April .
US Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond derided the launch at the time , calling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ space ” and suggesting it would be “ unlikely ” to provide Iran with any usable intelligence .
US troops at the Al-Udeid Air Base and the nearby Al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi , UAE were reportedly temporarily put on alert this week after missile fire was detected in the area where the drills are taking place .
“ The incident lasted for a matter of minutes and an all clear was declared after the threat…had passed , ” US Army Maj. Beth Riordan was quoted as saying .
The US Navy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 14 ’ drills on Wednesday , taking special issue with the use of a mock-up of a US aircraft carrier .
“ We are always watchful of this type of irresponsible and reckless behaviour by Iran in the vicinity of busy international waterways , ” a spokesperson for the US Fifth Fleet was quoted as saying .
In addition to the satellite , Iran showed off the capabilities of its underground missile units during the drills .
Drone units , aircraft , and a variety of sea-to-sea and coastal defence missiles were fired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Brig .
Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh revealed that the drills also included defeating a simulated US Theater High Altitude Area Defence ( THAAD ) -style system by targeting it with radar-evading missiles .
“ With the facilities in our possession , we can hit any hostile target at any location in the Persian Gulf region , the Sea of Oman , and the Indian Ocean , ” Hajizadeh said .
The drills come in the wake of the latest escalation in tensions in the already strained Iranian-US relationship last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was forced to take evasive maneuvers following an interception by two US fighter jets over Syrian airspace .
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the incident an act of “ aerial terrorism ” by the US , and urged the International Civil Aviation Organisation , the United Nations Security Council , Syria and Lebanon to take appropriate action to hold Washington accountable for its alleged violation of international law .

The images were reportedly obtained amid the ongoing massive war games in southern Iran involving multiple branches of the armed forces, including elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) formations.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has fired a series of ballistic missiles from launch pads hidden deep underground on Wednesday, on the 2nd day of the large-scale military exercise underway in southern #Iran . pic.twitter.com/RaFS85tGaL
The IRGC has released detailed images of Al-Udeid Air Base – the Qatar-based home of the US military’s Central Command, with the snaps taken by Iran’s new domestically-developed ‘Noor’ (Light) military satellite.
https://twitter.com/AmirIGM/status/1288424343584768002?s=20
When I saw this news That Iran fires #underground_ballistic missiles for the first time 'in the world' I have surprised.
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Have best of luck for you.
Israel 🇮🇱 can you hear me? keep your head. your time is over.#Missile_Farm pic.twitter.com/tWdivUIsU5 — Gh.Raesi 🇦🇫 (@GhRaesi) July 29, 2020
The images include several detailed snaps of the airbase itself, with the pictures apparently taken during various intervals, based on the changing positions of aircraft on runways. One of the images appears to be an infrared view showing heat signatures emitted by aircraft and the nearby facilities.
Al-Udeid is the US’s largest military base in the Middle East, with as many as 11,000 personnel permanently stationed at the facility at any one time, and the base used to direct US military operations across the region.
The images are featured in a video showing off Iran’s drone, air power and missile might, with drones, planes and missiles shown to be targeting a range of objects, including a mock-up aircraft carrier.
The images were released amid the ongoing ‘Great Prophet 14’ military drills in Hormozgan province, southern Iran, with the territory bordering on the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. The massive drills kicked off on Tuesday. In addition to its intelligence-gathering activities, the Noor satellite has reportedly been used to monitor the exercises from space.
The Noor satellite was launched into orbit in April. US Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond derided the launch at the time, calling the satellite a “tumbling webcam in space” and suggesting it would be “unlikely” to provide Iran with any usable intelligence.
Iran released photos of satellite imagery taken by the Nour-1 of US army's Al-Udeid Air Base pic.twitter.com/3hUHN1S7jj — Mirzev 🇦🇿 (@Mirzevam) July 29, 2020
US troops at the Al-Udeid Air Base and the nearby Al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, UAE were reportedly temporarily put on alert this week after missile fire was detected in the area where the drills are taking place. “The incident lasted for a matter of minutes and an all clear was declared after the threat…had passed,” US Army Maj. Beth Riordan was quoted as saying.
WATCH: #Iran’s #IRGC is practicing sinking US aircraft carriers. Various IRGC units practiced the destruction and confrontation of the American aircraft carrier. For the first time, the rehearsal area is monitored using images sent by the Noor satellite.pic.twitter.com/HuEF79vwmH — AS-Source News / MILITARY〽 (@ASBMilitary) July 28, 2020
The US Navy slammed Iran’s ‘Great Prophet 14’ drills on Wednesday, taking special issue with the use of a mock-up of a US aircraft carrier. “We are always watchful of this type of irresponsible and reckless behaviour by Iran in the vicinity of busy international waterways,” a spokesperson for the US Fifth Fleet was quoted as saying.
In addition to the satellite, Iran showed off the capabilities of its underground missile units during the drills. Drone units, aircraft, and a variety of sea-to-sea and coastal defence missiles were fired during the wargames. On Wednesday, IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Brig. Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh revealed that the drills also included defeating a simulated US Theater High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD)-style system by targeting it with radar-evading missiles. “With the facilities in our possession, we can hit any hostile target at any location in the Persian Gulf region, the Sea of Oman, and the Indian Ocean,” Hajizadeh said.
The drills come in the wake of the latest escalation in tensions in the already strained Iranian-US relationship last week, after an Iranian passenger airliner was forced to take evasive maneuvers following an interception by two US fighter jets over Syrian airspace. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the incident an act of “aerial terrorism” by the US, and urged the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the United Nations Security Council, Syria and Lebanon to take appropriate action to hold Washington accountable for its alleged violation of international law.