Not Giving Billions of Dollars to Kiev Would Be ‘Historic Mistake’ – CIA Chief
The US is standing at “a profoundly important crossroads” in terms of whether to continue funding Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, according to CIA Director William Burns.
With a White House request to appropriate over $60 billion in additional aid for Kiev stalling in the US House, events can go down two paths, the intelligence chief told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Monday.
In one scenario, lawmakers could release the money and allow for the “real possibility of cementing a strategic success for Ukraine and a strategic loss for” Russia, he claimed, citing a CIA assessment.
“With supplemental assistance, Ukraine can hold its own on the front lines through 2024,” Burns said. The money would allow Kiev to conduct more “deep penetration strikes in Crimea,” and continue targeting the Russian Black Sea fleet. In early 2025, it “could regain the offensive initiative” and start regaining ground.
The other scenario leads to a “much grimmer future,” Burns warned, with Ukraine losing more battles like the one for the town of Avdeevka in Donbass. The heavily fortified position within striking range of Donetsk had been held by Kiev’s troops since 2014, but Russia liberated it in mid-February. The CIA chief said he was told during his visit to Kiev earlier this year that the Ukrainians “ran out of ammunition” and were forced to retreat.
Without aid, Ukraine is facing “more Avdeevkas” in 2024, resulting in a “probably significant” loss of territory, he said. Burns added: “That, it seems to me, would be a massive and historic mistake for the United States.”
He claimed that Russia’s goal was to “subjugate” Ukraine, while the US wanted it to be a “strong sovereign independent country” anchored in Western institutions.
Moscow’s stated goals in the conflict are to ensure Ukraine’s military neutrality, curb the influence of radical nationalists on Kiev’s policies, and stop its discrimination against ethnic Russians. It considers the current government to be a pawn of the US and its allies, who are using Ukraine to contain and damage Russia. Ukrainian soldiers are being sacrificed as “cannon fodder” for Western interests, Russian officials have said.
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Bitcoin Boom Buoyed by Investor Concerns Over ‘Weaponized Dollar,’ Unsustainable US Debt
Bitcoin is in new uncharted territory, surpassing the $72,750 mark for the first time ever in Monday trading, before sliding down to just shy of the $72,000 mark, according to Coin Metric.
US business media says SEC-approved ETFs are responsible for the flagship cryptocurrency’s spike in value as institutional investors pour into the market. Following the SEC’s lead, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority on Monday announced that it too would allow crypto-linked funds on the London Stock Exchange.
Bullish investors say the sky’s the limit on the cryptocurrency, with British multinational bank Standard Chartered predicting a price spike to $100,000 by the end of 2024, while NYC-based hedge fund SkyBridge Capital expects Bitcoin to reach $170,000 territory a year from now. Meanwhile, Florida-based investment manager Ark Invest believes the cryptocurrency could hit a dizzying $1.3 million per coin a decade from now due to its perceived “store of value” against inflation, its use as a decentralized payment tool and independence of central banks and government control.
Traditional money managers have long eschewed the cryptocurrency, pointing to its ethereal quality and the fact that the coin has value almost solely because of investor confidence, with its original use as a decentralized currency of exchange becoming secondary at best.
“Now that the Bitcoin ETFs have been pretty much approved by the SEC, it provides a vehicle that institutional money can get into. And that opens the door among Western investors primarily of where to put their money,” Paul Goncharoff, an analyst and management consultant at Dezan Shira & Associates, told Sputnik, commenting on the Bitcoin boom.
Investors are “looking at the stock market these days, the valuations, and they’re a bit in shock. They’re feeling fear. They’re looking for something else to generate a better return. The problem is, there’s an expression called ‘FOMO,’ or ‘fear of missing out.’ And right now, if we’re looking at the Greed and Fear Index, which is monitored daily, it’s well over 95. Which in any trading book is a highly overbought position. So I have a feeling that it’s not going to last. It could go higher – no one’s a magician, you can’t tell the future. But I think that the excitement should calm down in the next few days, and it could calm down rather significantly,” Goncharoff said, adding that Bitcoin could easily drop to $60,000 and below over the short term.
The analyst said he personally wouldn’t recommend investing in Bitcoin at its current valuation, and that any first-time investors interested in doing so should follow a simple but important rule: putting in money that they would not miss not having over a set period of time. Another important rule? Setting limits and having self-control.
“Set the limits of what you want to earn – if it’s 5%, 10%, 20% – and act on it. That is discipline. Because it’s going to go up and it’s going to go down, and violently and radically. So it’s not for a pension plan. Although hanging on to it for a period of five, 10, 15 years, I think is a rather good bet – then you will come out ahead,” Goncharoff said.
Investors’ search for alternative stores of value and payment methods are logical, according to the analyst, given the “weaponization of the dollar” and the targeting of countries whose foreign or domestic policies aren’t approved by Washington.
“It’s country after country. Dozens are already seeing that. And they’re trying now to get out from under the cloud of the dollar and find alternative means, be it their own national currencies, trading cross-border as is being tried within BRICS and BRICS+,” Goncharoff explained.
“This whole de-dollarization process is forcing countries to look very closely at the US dollar and the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and what they’re doing. Using an old expression, [the dollar] is not worth the paper it’s printed on. The debt load cannot be serviced, [with] interest rates that are larger than America’s defense spending. This can’t last for long. I wouldn’t venture to say how long it will last, but eventually it will implode. So better to be far away from it when it does,” Goncharoff summed up.
The US national debt recently surpassed the $34.5 trillion mark, with analyses of current trends showing debt rising by $1 trillion about every 100 days. America’s debt load has also accelerated. In January 2020, just before the pandemic and the pumping of over $5 trillion in “stimulus” into the economy, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the gross federal debt would surpass the $34 trillion mark only in fiscal year 2029.
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Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Recovered Off Alaska Coast
Multiple United States government agencies are analyzing the debris of an unidentified high-altitude balloon recovered in waters near Alaska, according to a statement by the Department of Defense.
Commercial fishermen off the coast of Alaska first alerted local law enforcement that they had found a suspicious object in the water a week prior to the Pentagon’s announcement. Officials reviewed photographs of the object taken by the fishermen.
Following the review, Federal Bureau of Investigationagents were sent to meet the boat when it returned to port.
At the time, it was not entirely clear exactly what the object was and officials were not sure if it was a balloon at all. However, the FBI determined that its appearance was similar enough to the Chinese-owned surveillance balloon that flew over the U.S. a year ago that it warranted further investigation.
(Related: Chinese spy balloon program linked to PLA’s hypersonic missiles.)
Balloon remnants taken to military base in Anchorage
According to Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough, the remnants of the suspected Chinese balloon have been taken to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, a joint U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army base in Anchorage.
“We do not know why the balloon was in the waters off the coast of Alaska, nor are we going to characterize it at this time, but hope to learn more about the balloon’s origin and purpose after further analysis of the material, which will be conducted by multiple agencies,” said Gough in an emailed statement to news outlets.
Reports of the balloon’s remnants come just over a year since a U.S. Air Force fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon after it flew over the United States.
This is when the existence of high-altitude surveillance balloons burst into U.S. consciousness, when the Chinese spy balloon appeared to blow off course and transited across the continental United States. The balloon traveled from China to the contiguous U.S. through Alaskan and Canadian airspace.
The Pentagon assessed that the spy balloon was part of an extensive surveillance program run by the People’s Liberation Army, China’s armed forces. The balloon fleet, according to U.S. officials, has conducted over two dozen missions over at least five continents in recent years.
Following the episode, China appeared to temporarily suspend the program. It is still unclear whether the program has been restarted, but Taiwan accused Beijing in January of flying multiple balloons through its airspace as an intimidation tactic during Taiwan’s presidential election.
The Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. was shot down by an Air Force F-22 Raptor off the coast of South Carolina in February 2023, but not before it was allowed to freely cross the contiguous U.S. and pass over at least three sites linked to the nation’s nuclear program.
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Parasitic Science and the Unproven Virus
If you want to routinely cull the population, then an invisible virus that you cannot see or prove would be the perfect lie to cover it up.
No one has ever isolated a virus. This is admitted by modern science, who claim it’s impossible. So instead, they mix it with a soup of other genetic materials, run it through a computer and create what is known as a consensus genome.
The theory that the invisible virus is a lie was put forth nearly thirty years ago by William Bramley in his book, The Gods of Eden, where he outlines thousands of years of human culling events. He points out how during the Black Death, sightings of humans dressed in black and wielding what were described as scythes were seen before an outbreak of the Plague. Bramley suggested that the scythes may have been tools designed to spray poison gas. Denis Rancourt suggests that there has never been a virulent pathogen, including the Bobonic plague, and that these historic mass death events are done deliberately by oppressive systems to maintain population control. If you want to routinely cull the population, then an invisible virus that you cannot see or prove would be the perfect lie.
In the 1930s, engineer Royal Rife, created microscopes capable of magnifying material over seventeen-thousand times. Modern microscopes can only provide a magnification of about twenty-four hundred. We’ve been denied the magnification required to actually see if a virus exists.
This idea first gained a foothold during the HIV/AIDS scare when people such as Peter Duesberg, Kary Mullis, and Celia Farber, were exposing the lies of Anthony Fauci. And it gained serious traction during the COVID era with the work of Andrew Kaufman, Tom Cowan, Denis Rancourt, and Dr. Lee Merritt.
Dr. Lee Merritt studied the official test for SARS-COV-2 and found they are actually testing for the Homo-sapien genome. Which is highly suspect. And there are many other suspicious facts.
They test our nose, which like a filter, is full of foreign contaminants.
The PCR tests are being deliberately over cycled to find falsified results.
What we are told is a deadly virus, looks identical to an Exosome, a naturally occurring part of cellular cleansing.
The first scientific publication created to disseminate information to the public was named after an ancient altar used for ritual sacrifice called Pergamon. And it’s first editor was mossad agent Robert Maxwell.
Over a hundred years ago doctors were well aware of how deadly parasites could be to the human body. John D. Rockefeller’s main advisor, Frederick Gates, convinced Rockefeller to modernize medicine by eradicating hookworm, a parasite that was known to be the biggest cause of disease back in 1905. Up until the nineteen-eighties, text books were not talking about viruses as the cause of disease. They were talking about parasites. Today, while animals require routine de-worming, modern science says that it’s not a problem for humans.
After decades of research a group of German doctors found that every single cancer cell contained parasites. And that if cancer treatments such as chemotherapy failed to kill all of these parasites, then the parasites will be given the perfect conditions to spread throughout the body. The parasites start in the bloodstream and spread to other parts of the body where they grow into cysts. Under a microscope parasitic cysts look identical to what we call tumors. They had films, they published papers, but it all got buried. Because if one-hundred percent of cancer patients have parasites, then parasites are likely causing cancer. And today, the COVID shots, which we know are destroying natural immunity, are creating turbo cancers.
Having a lap dog under the age of five increases the chances of getting multiple sclerosis. Which can not be explained by MS being an autoimmune disease, but can be explained by brain parasites. Pathologist, Alan Macdonald, studied the brain and spinal cords of dead MS patients, and they all had parasites.
We all have parasites. Brain parasites being the most dangerous. And the parasite Toxoplasma gondii has a significant ability to infect the human brain. And it is found in insects. Which is probably why they want us to eat bugs.
The good news is that there is a remedy to these parasites. A healthy immune system can take care of most of them, which requires good nutrition, regular exercise, peace of mind, and love. And routine parasite cleanses can take care of the rest.
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Russian Armed Forces Take Control of Nevelskoe Settlement in Donetsk Area
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Ukraine has lost more than 380 soldiers in the Avdeyevka area, over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
Over the given period, the Russian armed forces have repelled seven attacks and counterattacks by Ukrainian troops in the Kupyansk area, and another attack in the South Donetsk area.
“The enemy lost more than 380 soldiers, two armored fighting vehicles and 13 vehicles [in the Avdeyevka area],” the ministry said in a statement.
Ukraine has also lost up to 350 soldiers in the Donetsk area, more than 145 soldiers in the South Donetsk direction and 40 soldiers in the Kupyansk region, the ministry said.
Additionally, the Russian armed forces have taken control of the Nevelskoe settlement in the Donetsk area, the statement read.
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