You cannot be a journalist in the West anymore. Look at what they do to those who question the state propaganda.
“The Cradle contributor was questioned for five hours by counter-terrorism police over his journalistic work and political opinions
UK counter-terrorism police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival in his home country from Belgrade, Serbia, on 17 May, subjecting him to an extended interrogation over his “political views” and his reporting.
Klarenberg has written extensively for The Cradle, exposing London’s many covertoperations in West Asia.
According to The Grayzone, six plainclothes police were waiting for him outside his plane, promptly moving him to a back room and informing him of his detention under Schedule Three, Section Four of the 2019 Counter-Terrorism and Border Act.
Klarenberg was questioned for over five hours about his journalistic work, including “his personal opinion on everything from the current British political leadership to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
The counter-terrorism police seized his electronic devices and SD cards, took DNA swabs, fingerprinted him, and photographed him multiple times. He was threatened with arrest if he failed to comply.
Klarenberg’s most recent investigation for The Cradle exposed how UK government-affiliated contractors have been training Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces using US funding.
He made waves in recent months by exposing London’s use of Yemeni NGOs to covertly undermine the Ansarallah-led government in Sanaa as well as Jordan’s use of UK intel techniques known as “digital media exploitation … used to monitor, manipulate, and disrupt dissent in the kingdom.”
Klarenberg has also ruffled feathers in London with his reporting for The Grayzone, exposing “major British and US intelligence intrigues,” including a report on how at least two of the hijackers who carried out the 11 September attacks in New York had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation.
Another of his major exposés was a report revealing that journalist Paul Mason worked as a UK security state collaborator tasked with discrediting alternative media outlets, academics, and peace activists critical of NATO’s role in the Ukraine war…”
UK police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg over ‘political views’
UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced on May 11 the transfer of Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles to the Kiev regime
VIENNA, May 17. /TASS/.
The UK government is just as guilty as the Kiev regime for the civilians who died in Ukraine’s shelling of Donbass, something that could not have happened had London not transferred Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Kiev, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said.
“By supplying Kiev with Storm Shadow long-range air-launched cruise missiles, the British government has significantly increased military tension in the region. <…> London simply trampled on its international export-control obligations, rushing to test ‘the red lines’ in this conflict. That is exactly why the British side shares responsibility with Kiev for the civilian casualties in Donbass and will be held accountable for its actions sooner or later,” Gavrilov said on Wednesday at the 825th plenary meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation.
UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced on May 11 the transfer of Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles to the Kiev regime. He said that the missiles had an operational range of 250-300 km. Over the past week, the Ukrainian military shelled the Lugansk People’s Republic with these missiles. As a result of the shelling, several civilian facilities were damaged, and civilians were injured, including six children.
“He emphasized this means a considerable escalation of the conflict and an expansion of the military operations area,” the embassy said in the statement, referring to Andrey Kelin
LONDON, May 12. /TASS/. The UK gave Kiev long-range Storm Shadow missiles for strike on Russian cities including in Crimea, Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin has said.
He made the statement when addressing members of the Russian Club of Oxford, which was established in 1906, and the Russian embassy sent a statement about his remarks to TASS on Friday.
“He emphasized this means a considerable escalation of the conflict and an expansion of the military operations area,” the embassy said in the statement, referring to Kelin. “It has been noted that Western countries used to be cautious enough to avoid sending Kiev weapons like this.”
“It’s obvious for us that London made this step to enable Kiev to strike Russian cities and villages, including the territory of Crimea,” the statement went on to say. “We regret that the UK, which has nothing to do with this conflict, nevertheless plays a leading role in extending and escalating it.”
Russia warns Britain over cruise missiles — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union https://t.co/VbcItigT3a
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“The expansion of the British Empire was the largest among the Western European states in terms of geography; it covered almost every region in the world. It was built, to a large extent, based on an idea of the cultural and religious exceptionalism of the British as promoted by London.
While occupying rich countries and territories, the British exploited them economically, drained them of resources and used them as raw material colonies and markets for their goods. To keep other peoples under control, London did not hesitate to use the harshest methods. The animal cruelty of British colonizers is astonishing, as evidenced during the fight for independence in India or during the 1899-1902 Second Boer War, when the Brits created the world’s first concentration camps, where even children were used as a workforce… The British colonial machine basically ground down millions of people in Africa and radically changed the continent’s demographic picture. One can rightfully say that the British are responsible for the genocide of the peoples in Africa, India (the British Empire intentionally starved Indian territories believing that it would suppress the independence movement), as well as the indigenous peoples in Australia and Tasmania, exterminating up to 90 percent of the local population.”
ZAKHAROVA (Russia MFA Spokeswoman): "The expansion of the British Empire was the largest among the Western European states in terms of geography; it covered almost every region in the world. It was built, to a large extent, based on an idea of the cultural and religious… pic.twitter.com/aUosmas2t8
British households have been hit with a record jump in food prices as decades-high inflation continues to cripple the economy, according to the latest figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
A report by the trade body, which represents UK supermarkets, showed on Tuesday that fresh food prices soared by 17.8% in April on an annual basis, while prices for tinned goods and other store-cupboard items accelerated by 12.9%.
According to the BRC-NielsenIQ shop price index, prices were up 8.8% last month compared to the same period in the previous year, while slightly down from 8.9% in March.
“Overall shop price inflation eased slightly in April due to heavy spring discounting in clothing, footwear and furniture,” BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson was quoted as saying by Sky News. “However, food prices remained elevated given ongoing cost pressures throughout the supply chain,” she added.
Dickinson indicated that some goods, such as ready meals, have been seeing price rises due to “the knock-on effect” from increased production and packaging costs.
Meanwhile, the head of retail and business insight at NielsenIQ, Mike Watkins, noted that with inflation yet to peak and sales volumes mostly in decline, “it’s difficult to second guess the strength of consumer confidence.”
Official figures showed last month that the rate of inflation in Britain had eased slightly but still remains above 10%, with food and drink costs at a 45-year high.
According to the Trussell Trust charity, almost three million emergency food parcels have been handed out at UK food banks in the past year, with the number provided for children topping a million for the first time.
The Bank of England’s chief economist, Huw Pill, stated earlier that British households and businesses needed to accept that they are poorer and should stop asking for wage increases and pushing prices higher.
The Jamaican government will introduce a bill next month to sever the country’s ties with the British monarchy, possibly removing King Charles as the head of state by 2024, legal and constitutional minister Marlene Malahoo Forte told Sky News on Thursday.
“While the United Kingdom is celebrating the coronation of the King, that is for the United Kingdom,” Malahoo Forte told Sky. “Jamaica is looking to write a new constitution… which will sever ties with the monarch as our head of state.”
“My government is saying we have to do it now,” she continued, adding that for Jamaicans, it’s “time to say goodbye” to the British crown.
Malahoo Forte explained that her government will follow King Charles III’s coronation this weekend by introducing a bill aimed at making Jamaica a republic. It could take around nine months to pass, and would be followed by a referendum giving the Jamaican people the final say on breaking away from the UK.
A recent poll has found that majorities in almost half of British Commonwealth countries – including Jamaica – would vote to become republics if given the opportunity.
A British colony since 1655, Jamaica was granted independence in 1962. Jamaican political leaders at the time rejected republicanism in favor of becoming a Commonwealth realm with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. Successive Jamaican governments have promised to replace the monarch with a president, but all have either been defeated by pro-Commonwealth opponents or left office before fulfilling their promise.
Although most Jamaicans now favor republicanism, many “had warm affection and identified with Queen Elizabeth II,” Malahoo Forte told Sky. “But they do not identify with King Charles. He is as foreign as it gets to us. Plain and simple.” Others view the monarchy as a source of stability, with some elderly Kingston residents telling the British broadcaster that the Jamaican public aren’t “ready” to rule themselves.
Historically, British rule brought order to the island. Jamaica on the eve of its independence had a murder rate of 3.9 per 100,000, one of the lowest in the world. In 2022, the homicide rate stood at 43.8 per 100,000, the second-highest in the world.
Britain also transported around 600,000 African slaves to Jamaica, and British landowners profiteered from plantations on the island. Republicanism, Malahoo Forte said, “is about us saying goodbye to a form of government that is linked to a painful past of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade.”
While Britain’s Prince William acknowledged last year that “slavery was abhorrent,” Malahoo Forte wants more from the monarchy. “Nothing short of a full apology, plus concrete steps to repair the wrong, will suffice,” she said, adding that reparations “are what the people of Jamaica want, and it is something that the government will do.”
“Yugoslav scenario. These shells not only kill but infect the environment and cause oncology in people living on these lands,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at the time, in reference to cancer and other deadly ailments. “By the way, it is naive to believe that only those against whom all this will be used will become victims. In Yugoslavia, NATO soldiers, in particular the Italians, were the first to suffer. Then they tried for a long time to get compensation from NATO for lost health. But their claims were denied,” she said. Zakharova then added, “When will they wake up in Ukraine?… Their benefactors poison them.”
The British military has confirmed that thousands of depleted uranium rounds are now in Ukraine, despite prior vehement Russian warnings not to follow through with the transfer.
“We have sent thousands of rounds of Challenger 2 ammunition to Ukraine, including depleted uranium armour-piercing rounds,” British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said while fielding a question from Scottish MP Kenny MacAskill.
Heappey confirmed that the controversial munitions “are now under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)” and that the UK Defense Ministry “does not monitor the locations from where DU rounds are fired by the AFU in Ukraine.”
The defense chief was also grilled by MPs over whether the UK is tracking the rates of depleted uranium rounds are being used against Russian forces, to which he responded, “For operational security reasons, we will not comment on Ukrainian usage rates for the rounds provided.”
As for the United States, the Bradley Fighting Vehicles which have already been sent to Kiev are capable of being outfitted with depleted uranium munitions, but the White House hasn’t revealed whether or not they are equipped with them.
When it was first revealed in March that Britain would send the armor-piercing tank rounds for Challenger II tanks to Ukraine, the reports triggered a fierce reaction from the Kremlin, with a strong-worded statement emphasizing that such a weapon will be treated as tantamount to using a nuclear dirty bomb.
“Yugoslav scenario. These shells not only kill but infect the environment and cause oncology in people living on these lands,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at the time, in reference to cancer and other deadly ailments. “By the way, it is naive to believe that only those against whom all this will be used will become victims. In Yugoslavia, NATO soldiers, in particular the Italians, were the first to suffer. Then they tried for a long time to get compensation from NATO for lost health. But their claims were denied,” she said. Zakharova then added, “When will they wake up in Ukraine?… Their benefactors poison them.”
During the US occupation of Iraq, use of depleted uranium by NATO allies was linked to cancer and birth defects among the Iraqi population.
Putin as a result of the UK move said that Russia announced he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus.
Depleted uranium shells in Kiev’s hands are mini-Chernobyls — former prime minister
“All those who wrote about Chernobyl yesterday while staying silent the day before about Britain’s transfer of depleted uranium shells to Ukraine are hypocrites,” Nikolay Azarov wrote on social media
MOSCOW, April 27. /TASS/. Ukraine’s former prime minister (in 2010-2014) Nikolay Azarov has slammed as hypocrites those who on Wednesday wrote a lot about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster but at the same time completely ignored the transfer of depleted uranium shells from London to Kiev.
“All those who wrote about Chernobyl yesterday while staying silent the day before about Britain’s transfer of depleted uranium shells to Ukraine are hypocrites. Hundreds of mini-Chernobyls have quietly arrived in Ukraine, but no one spoke out against this. Everyone knows the terrible statistics of Yugoslavia, whose officials have repeatedly warned both the Ukrainians and the Kiev regime of the terrible consequences,” Azarov wrote on Thursday on his page in social media.
On Tuesday, Britain’s Minister of State for Defense James Heappey confirmed in written replies to questions from the Scottish Alba party’s MP Kenny MacAskill that London had sent to Kiev thousands of shells for Challenger 2 tanks, including those with depleted uranium. He added that London did not monitor their use and had no obligations to eliminate the consequences of their use after the end of the conflict.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that despite the fact that depleted uranium was not listed by the International Atomic Energy Agency as a radioactive element, there were confirmed facts and interviews with people who had suffered from the consequences of such projectiles in former Yugoslavia during NATO’s bombardments in 1999.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 21 that plans for supplies of depleted uranium shells showed the West’s intention to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. He noted that Russia would be forced to respond to such moves. It has hundreds of thousands of such munitions, but has not used them yet, he added.
Rules For Thee But Not For Me‼️‼️King Charles just gave his royal assent to new UK laws that allow gene-edited foods to go unlabeled — despite having a personal, strictly organic food supply for himself‼️☝️🤔🙄🙏👇👇 James Corbett on #CHDTV 👇👇
The West has wet dreams about removing Putin from power. Imagine they manage to have Putin assassinated and Medvedev takes over. It will rain nuclear warheads on the West in no time. The world should worry about what happens without a level-headed and reasonable Russian leader.
Dmitry Medvedev
April 2023
1. Europe doesn’t need Ukraine. The forced support of the Nazi regime, by the American mentor’s order, has put Europeans into a financial and political inferno. All for the sake of Bandera’s Unterukraine, that even the snobby, insolent Polacks don’t take for a valid country, and time and again toss in the issue of its western areas Anschluss. There’s a nice perspective ahead: to permanently put the nouveau-Ukrainian blood-sucking parasites on the decrepit EU’s arthritis-crippled neck. That’ll be the final fall of Europe, once majestic, but robbed off by degeneration.
2. The US doesn’t need Ukraine. True, the military and sanction campaigns are attempted for PR by political blabbermouths, who long ago attested to their impotence and imbecility. Average Americans don’t understand what “Ukraine” is, and where “it” is. Most of them won’t show this “power” on the map on the first take. Why won’t the US establishment focus on inflation and job issues, or emergencies in their home States, instead of a country 404, unbeknownst to them? Why does so much dough go across the ocean? Sooner or later, they’ll ask for that. Then, the storming of the Capitol in January 2021 would seem like scout games.
3. Africa and Latin America don’t need Ukraine. The hundreds of millions spent by the US on pointless fights in Ukraine could finance many development programmes for Latin American and African states. Latin America is gringos’ backyard – that’s what they’ve been rubbing in for decades. Africa’s had its share of suffering from the genocide, and colonial dependence, imposed by former Western slave traders. That’s why the people of African huts and Latin American favelas ask a very reasonable question: for their former suffering and present-day loyalty, why is somebody else rewarded – very, very far away?
4. Asia doesn’t need Ukraine. By Russia’s example, they see “colour” technologies at work to eradicate the largest competing powers. They understand what scenario the America-led collective West has for them if they disobey. “Help us to overcome Russia, and we’ll soon come to you”, the utterly brazen Western leaders tell them. Such gigantic countries as India, China, and other Asia-Pacific states face the big enough challenge of post-pandemic economic recovery, let aside the drugged clowns, with their whining for aid. “We are not interested in you”, Asia tells their messengers, responding to the calls to support Ukraine and confine Russia. This country, geopolitically many times closer to Asian powers, is the one that historically has proven itself a reliable strategic partner. Do Asian giants need such headache coming from former colonizers?
5. Russia doesn’t need Ukraine. A threadbare quilt, torn, shaggy, and greasy. The new Malorossiya of 1991 is made up of artificially cut territories, many of which are indigenously Russian, separated by accident in the 20th century. Millions of our compatriots live there, harassed for years by the Nazi Kiev regime. It is them who we defend in our special military operation, relentlessly eradicating the enemy. We don’t need Unterukraine. We need Big Great Russia.
6. Finally, its own citizens don’t need the Nazi-headed Ukraine. That’s why out of 45 million people there’re only some 20 million remaining. That’s why those who stayed want to leave for any place: the hated Poland, EU, NATO, to be America’s 51st state. Joining the Antarctic with its penguins will also be fine. As long as it’s quiet, and the food’s good. The ruling junta’s criminal ambitions forced Ukrainians to beg and roam around the countries and continents, searching for a better life. All that is for an obscure European perspective. Or rather, to let the harlequin in a khaki tricot and his band of thievish Nazi clowns to put the money stolen from the West into their offshore accounts. Would ordinary Ukrainians need that? Nobody on this planet needs such a Ukraine. That’s why it will disappear.
WHY WILL UKRAINE DISAPPEAR? BECAUSE NOBODY NEEDS IT 1. Europe doesn’t need Ukraine. The forced support of the Nazi regime, by the American mentor’s order, has put Europeans into a financial and political inferno. All for the sake of bandera’s unterukraine, that even the snobby,…
Maybe they think that it will be like a pox party where healthy children are deliberately exposed to infectious diseases such as chickenpox so that they can develop immunity to them. But radiation is no chickenpox.
Also, it is unlikely that they are capable of taking care of other people’s children given that they have no empathy towards their own.
BBC Northern Ireland has published the results of a shocking survey. It turns out that the British – the police and the armed forces – during the conflict (or as they call it, the Troubles) in Northern Ireland shot at children with deadly weapons: plastic and rubber bullets. At least eight children were killed, some of them aged as young as 10 (for instance, the Irish boy Stephen Geddis).
Let me reiterate. The British army and police shot at children using lethal weapons during the “pacification operations” against Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland.
The number of adults killed was even higher but that’s another story. The authorities knew that the use of such bullets was likely to be lethal. A relevant instruction was given in the British Army’s Land Operations Manual in 1971 but this instruction was never passed on to the soldiers because that way it was easier to drown the protesters who wanted to pray in a different church and speak a different language in blood, including in the blood of Catholic children.
The depleted uranium armaments, plastic bullets shot at children, changing the gender of minors with the use of hormone therapy – these are the rules of the new world order. I won’t stand for it!”
Russia MFA Spokeswoman ZAKHAROVA: "It is interesting how the collective heads of the Western liberal dictatorships have two incongruous ideologemes at the same time: the alleged concern about Ukrainian children and the maniacal aspiration to poison the region’s land with depleted… pic.twitter.com/mEz3tVehkc
These days it isn’t difficult to be cynical about politicians. This is especially the case given the draconian public health policies that most of them supported during the COVID-19 pandemic.
After enduring repeated lockdowns and being coerced into accepting experimental gene-based vaccines, it’s no wonder that many people have lost faith in their lawmakers.
While only rarely do we see politicians who are brave enough to speak out about the dangers of mRNA COVID-19 injections, there are a few who refuse to be silenced. Take Andrew Bridgen, for example, a Member of Parliament from the UK who, a few days ago, stood up to give a speech in a debate on mRNA COVID-19 booster vaccinations. Speaking to an almost deserted UK House of Commons (the video shows fellow parliamentarians quickly leaving the chamber as he began to speak), Bridgen openly described the deaths and serious harms caused by the shots.
Recently suspended from the UK’s ruling Conservative Party after he had tweeted an article questioning the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and labelled them “the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust,” Bridgen currently sits as an independent MP in the UK parliament. Predictably, since he began speaking out about the dangers of these vaccines, there have been crude attempts to censor him. After the video of his House of Commons speech was posted on YouTube, for example, it was rapidly taken down and only reinstated by the social media platform after a public outcry. Meantime, the speech has essentially been ignored in the mainstream media.
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The risk of serious adverse events
One of the most powerful aspects of this speech is that, far from resorting to conjecture or hearsay, Bridgen specifically refers to the UK government’s own data. Citing the Yellow Card scheme, for example, the system for reporting and monitoring adverse reactions to drugs and vaccines in the UK, he describes how the reported number of adverse events for COVID-19 vaccines is now far higher than those for all conventional vaccines administered over the past 50 years.
Bridgen also outlines how, in order to examine the frequency of serious adverse events following vaccination with the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, data held by the US Government’s National Library of Medicine was used for a research study led by Dr. Joseph Fraiman. This revealed that there are 10.1 serious adverse events for every 10,000 Pfizer vaccinations administered, meaning that one in every 990 people vaccinated with the Pfizer booster will suffer a serious adverse event.
Dr. Fraiman further discovered that the risk from the Moderna mRNA vaccine was even greater than that of the Pfizer one, with an average of 15.1 serious adverse events for every 10,000 shots given. This means that one in 662 people vaccinated with the Moderna booster will suffer a serious adverse event. Combining the data for the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines or boosters gives an average of 1,250 serious adverse events for every 1 million vaccine boosters administered – in other words, a one in 800 chance of a serious adverse event occurring.
The true cost of using mRNA vaccines to prevent hospitalization
Bridgen describes how the UK government’s own data shows that, in order to prevent just one healthy adult aged between 50 and 59 from being hospitalized due to COVID-19, 43,600 people have to be given a booster shot. Based on a serious adverse event rate of one in 800, this means that in the healthy 50 to 59-year-old group, as a result of being given mRNA boosters, 55 people would die or be hospitalized simply to prevent one COVID-19 patient being hospitalized.
The same data also shows that in the healthy 40 to 49 age group, 92,500 booster jabs were required just to prevent one person from being hospitalized due to COVID-19. This would have put 116 people at risk of death or having a serious adverse reaction. In the healthy 30 to 39 age group, a total of 210,400 booster jabs would be required to prevent one person being hospitalized. This suggests that 263 UK citizens in this age group will have been hospitalized or even died just to keep one single COVID-19 case out of the hospital.
As Bridgen points out, however, hospitalization does not necessarily mean a serious medical intervention such as intubation or oxygen. To prevent severe hospitalization from COVID-19, the numbers needed to be boosted with the vaccines become astronomical. Here, the UK government’s own data shows that, in healthy adults aged 50 to 59, it was necessary to give 256,400 booster jabs to prevent just one severe hospitalization. This would put 321 people into hospital with a serious side-effect, including risk of death.
For healthy 40 to 49-year-olds, the number needing to be boosted to keep just one COVID-19 patient out of an intensive care unit increases to 932,500. This potentially puts 1,165 people in hospital with serious harm, disability, or death.
For the most vulnerable group – the over-70s with comorbidities – UK government data suggest it would be necessary to administer 800 vaccine boosters to prevent one hospitalization. This means that, by being boosted, all this group is essentially doing is swapping the risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19 for the risk of being hospitalized from the vaccine.
Examining the financial cost of the COVID-19 vaccination program in the UK, Bridgen says the government’s own data suggest that it cost over £1.9 million ($2.34 million) to prevent a single hospitalization among healthy 50 to 59-year-olds, and over £11 million ($13.54 million) to prevent one serious hospitalization in this group. The cost of preventing the hospitalization of one healthy 40 to 49-year-old was over £4 million ($4.93 million). For healthy 30 to 39-year-olds, preventing one hospitalization costs over £9 million ($11.08 million).
State-sponsored self-harm
Summing up, Bridgen says that the data are clear: for all healthy people and all those considered at risk under 70, the probability of being seriously harmed by COVID-19 is seriously outweighed by the risks associated with the experimental mRNA vaccines and boosters. Even for the most vulnerable group – the over-70s with health problems – he says the two risks are essentially identical. Describing the use of mRNA vaccines as “absolute madness,” he argues that if the UK were to continue employing them it would be engaging in “expensive state-sponsored self-harm on a national level.”
Nor does Bridgen shy away from identifying the biggest beneficiaries from the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine program. Pointing out that mRNA vaccines have made the pharma industry billions, he describes how the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is 86 percent funded by drug companies. He additionally alleges that members of the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), the body that advises UK health departments on immunization, have between them declared interests of more than £1 billion ($1.23 billion) in the pharma industry. Clearly, this hardly qualifies their advice as independent.
Accusing pharma companies of putting profits before people, Bridgen says governments across the globe have been their willing marketing agents in all this. He concludes by calling on the UK government to immediately stop the mRNA vaccine booster program and initiate a full public inquiry into not only the vaccine harms, but also how every UK agency and institution set up to protect the public interest has failed so abysmally in its duties.
Bridgen’s speech should be required viewing for politicians across the globe.
Scott is a former United Nations Chief weapons inspector explains what happens if depleted uranium weapons are supplied and used Ukraine conflict in Ukraine by Ukraine and what the United States of America’s military attitude towards these weapons is and why, is there a real downside and danger?
“I remember a man, a locksmith, in the village of Borovac, who had a concentration of 3,759 nanograms per litre of urine, which is 3.7 milligrams,” he said. “I think this man has long since died. These are the concentrations of uranium that we found in our officers, even though they were fully equipped.”
Depleted uranium (DU) munitions have become a hot topic of late after London announced its intent to supply them to Kiev to be used in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Concerns about the health hazard posed by these munitions’ byproducts have been raised in the past, following the use of depleted uranium shells by NATO forces during several conflicts in the 1990s, such as the Gulf War in 1991, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the attack on Yugoslavia in 1999.
Dr. Radomir Kovacevic, a toxicologist and former director of the Radiological Defense Center in Belgrade, told Sputnik that four reports regarding this matter had been published by different groups of experts, including the United Nations Environment Program, with only one of these reports – the fourth one, which included experts from Serbia – containing accurate data.
“This report showed exactly what had been found. Including that uranium was found in the air; the presence of plutonium was also established,” Kovacevic said. “They had to admit that they fired 31,000 missiles, which is about nine tons. Our army claimed it was 45,000 to 51,000 missiles, which is 15 tons. Russian sources say that about 90,000 missiles or about 30 tons of depleted uranium were used.”
He also shared some chilling details about the people he interviewed in DU-contaminated areas in Serbia.
“I remember a man, a locksmith, in the village of Borovac, who had a concentration of 3,759 nanograms per litre of urine, which is 3.7 milligrams,” he said. “I think this man has long since died. These are the concentrations of uranium that we found in our officers, even though they were fully equipped.”
Kovacevic also recalled how people in villages near Vranje had an average concentration of the toxic substance of 36-231 nanograms per liter of urine, while they should have had none; and that many of the experts from his team who were involved in the research ended up dying of cancer.
One could say that there is more than one “street of death” in Vranje, Kovacevic remarked.
DU is a radioactive and chemically toxic substance the U.S. military uses in armor-piercing weapons. DU burns upon impact, and if DU dust is inhaled or ingested or if there is exposure to DU fragments, radioactive material can be absorbed into skeletal tissue and organs. Depleted uranium is a genotoxic agent that has been linked to the development of cancer and other diseases and that may lead to increasing public health issues if genetic damage is passed on to children.
Depleted uranium is the gift that keeps on killing. Just ask the people of Iraq. Cancer rates and birth defect rates both went up exponentially after the U.S. military systematically defiled their air, water and soil with depleted uranium. And it doesn’t go away. 10 years after the invasion of Iraq, a team of scientists “detected high levels of uranium contamination in soil samples at three sites in the province of Nineveh”, and those high levels were being directly blamed for “dramatically increasing rates of childhood cancers and birth defects at local hospitals”. Under no circumstances should depleted uranium munitions ever be used in warfare, and our leaders know this. But now the western powers will be sending depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine, and this is nothing less than a war crime against the Ukrainian people.
Baroness Goldie, the UK’s Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, created quite a stir when she publicly answered a question about depleted uranium munitions on Monday…
Alongside our granting of a squadron of Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, we will be providing ammunition including armour piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium. Such rounds are highly effective in defeating modern tanks and armoured vehicles.
I cannot even begin to describe how morally wrong it is to do this.
Yes, these munitions will be used to strike Russian forces, but it is the Ukrainian people that will really suffer in the long run.
If you doubt this, just go to Google images and do a search for “depleted uranium Iraq birth defects”.
What you will see will make you want to vomit.
The same deformities will happen to countless numbers of Ukrainian children if we do not find a way to stop this.
Needless to say, the Russians clearly understand the threat. In fact, earlier this year one Russian official publicly stated that sending depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine would be the equivalent of using “dirty nuclear bombs against Russia”…
In January, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation in Vienna on arms control, said the Kremlin would consider such ammunition being sent to Ukraine “as the use of dirty nuclear bombs against Russia with all the ensuing consequences,” according to the BBC.
And Vladimir Putin just ominously warned that Russia will “respond accordingly” if the UK actually delivers such weapons into the hands of the Zelensky regime…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow would be “respond accordingly” if Britain gives Ukraine military supplies, including armor-piercing ammunition containing depleted uranium.
“[The U.K.] announced not only the supply of tanks to Ukraine, but also shells with depleted uranium,” Putin told reporters after talks at the Kremlin with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. “I would like to note that if all this happens, then Russia will have to respond accordingly … The collective West is already starting to use weapons with a nuclear component.”
It is one thing to fight a war.
It is another thing to turn an entire country into a highly toxic hellhole for generations.
Depleted uranium is extremely effective at piercing armor, but breathing in depleted uranium dust can cause radioactive material to be “absorbed into skeletal tissue and organs”…
DU is a radioactive and chemically toxic substance the U.S. military uses in armor-piercing weapons. DU burns upon impact, and if DU dust is inhaled or ingested or if there is exposure to DU fragments, radioactive material can be absorbed into skeletal tissue and organs. Depleted uranium is a genotoxic agent that has been linked to the development of cancer and other diseases and that may lead to increasing public health issues if genetic damage is passed on to children.
What we did to Iraq was truly a crime against humanity.
By 2005, the number of Iraqi citizens that had cancer was 40 times higher than it was in 1991…
Official Iraqi government statistics show that, prior to the outbreak of the First Gulf War in 1991, the rate of cancer cases in Iraq was 40 out of 100,000 people. By 1995, it had increased to 800 out of 100,000 people, and, by 2005, it had doubled to at least 1,600 out of 100,000 people. Current estimates show the increasing trend continuing.
As shocking as these statistics are, due to a lack of adequate documentation, research, and reporting of cases, the actual rate of cancer and other diseases is likely to be much higher than even these figures suggest.
And studies have shown that breathing in depleted uranium dust had an enormous impact on our troops as well…
While Iraqi civilians are bearing the brunt of the crisis, U.S. servicemembers and veterans are also at risk. A 2001 survey of 30,000 Gulf War veterans found that their children were 1.8 to 2.8 times more likely to have birth defects.
The bottom line is that we should not be doing this.
Right now, British officials are telling everyone that depleted uranium munitions are safe for the environment, but they are lying.
Yes, these weapons will initially be used against Russian forces, but this war is not being fought on Russian soil.
Ultimately, it is the Ukrainians that will suffer the most, because their air, water and soil will be poisoned for generations.
Why in the world would anyone want to do such a thing?
And if NATO powers actually send these weapons to Ukraine, the Russians will consider this to be an enormous escalation.
So will the Russians respond with a major escalation of their own?
With each passing week, we just continue to get even closer to a full-blown nuclear conflict.
This isn’t being talked about much on U.S. television, but on Russian television they are constantly talking about the possibility of a nuclear war with the United States.
I wish that I knew how to wake the people of this country up.
I was warning about exactly this sort of a scenario long before the war in Ukraine started, and I have been endlessly ranting about the dangers that we are facing ever since.
We must not have a shooting war with Russia.
But our leaders seem determined to have one anyway.
In fact, just this week they publicly declared that they would not be willing to accept a ceasefire under any circumstances.
So we continue our relentless march toward the unthinkable, and the fate of our entire society hangs in the balance.
The British government pledged earlier this week that it would give Ukraine radioactive depleted uranium ammunition for the British main battle tanks Challenger 2 that London promised the Kiev regime.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow would react “accordingly” to the transfer of depleted uranium tank shells to Ukraine, where Moscow continues its special military operation.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, for her part, told Sputnik that the UK’s plan to deliver depleted uranium projectiles to Ukraine is London’s latest reckless provocation, aimed at bringing the situation in Ukraine to “a new round of conflict.”
So what are depleted uranium shells and do they pose a threat to human health and the environment? Sputnik explains.
What is Depleted Uranium?
To better understand what depleted uranium (DU) is, it’s necessary to recall that uranium ore contains a mix of isotopes, namely, forms of the element with slightly different physical properties.
This ore is processed to increase the content of the most radioactive isotope, U-235, which is used as nuclear fuel and to make nuclear warheads. The by-product of this uranium enrichment is known as DU, which is still radioactive, but at a much lower level than the starting material.
What is DU Used for?
The main applications of DU pertain to its high density. DU has been used as a counterbalance weight in aircraft, missiles, and even forklift trucks and boat keels.
Additionally, DU is in place in armor-plate for tanks and in armor-piercing shells that cause significant damage upon penetration. It is the very kind of projectile that the UK pledged to deliver to Ukraine, along with the British main battle tanks Challenger 2.
How Do DU Shells Work?
Apart from the explosive substance, a DU projectile typically consists of a plastic cap, an aluminum sabot, a DU penetrator and a thread for fins.
When the DU shell, for example, penetrates a target vehicle, the larger fragments tend to chew up whatever is inside, while the pyrophoricity of the uranium increases the likelihood that the vehicle’s fuel and/or ammunition will explode.
The technical term used to describe the process is called “behind-the-target effectiveness.”
Is it Safe to Say DU Poses Radiation Hazard?
Yes, because all uranium isotopes are radioactive. As it has already been mentioned, DU is much less radioactive, typically about 40% less than unprocessed uranium.
DU’s radioactivity is mainly related to alpha particles, which do not penetrate the skin. This means that a radiation hazard from DU mainly stems from breathing it in dust, eating or drinking contaminated food or water, or from shrapnel piercing through human skin.
An anti-war protestor wears a T-shirt questioning the use of depleted uranium in US weapons during a protest march from the White House to the US Capitol to demand an end to the war in Iraq, the return of US troops and the impeachment of US President George W. Bush in Washington 15 September 2007
While NATO claims that no human cancer of any type has been seen as a result of exposure to DU, British Army doctors previously warned the UK Ministry of Defence that exposure to DU increased the risk of developing lung, lymph and brain cancer, and recommended a series of safety precautions.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in turn warns that to be exposed to radiation from DU, “you have to eat, drink, or breathe it, or get it on your skin”, something that will most likely affect the normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems of a human organism.
Russian military expert Alexey Leonkov told Sputnik in this regard that although this kind of munition does not belong to nuclear weapons, fallout from the use of DU shells is partly tantamount to that of nuclear arms. According to him, the explosion of DU projectiles causes ionizing radiation that remains in such an amount that is dangerous to human health.
“The remnants of the use of this ammunition infect the terrain and armored vehicles. Due to the fact that destroyed armored vehicles are not immediately removed from battlefields, radioactive substances penetrate both the soil and open water reservoirs. Without special measures to denuclearize soil and water, it is impossible to get rid of the consequences from the use of these munitions,” Leonkov pointed out.
He was echoed by Igor Nikulin, a military expert and former member of the United Nations Commission on Biological and Chemical Weapons, who explained in an interview with Sputnik that at the time of the explosion of a depleted uranium shell, its core turns into radioactive dust, which scatters across the surroundings, infects the water and enters human lungs.
“The half-life of such uranium is several billion years, which is why the fallout will be in place for many centuries,” Nikulin said.
Which Conflicts Saw DU Shells Used?
The NATO war machine has used DU munitions in many of its campaigns since the end of the Cold War, sowing up to 2,300 tons of DU across Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of the country, also using the weapons in Afghanistan and Syria on a smaller scale.
Separately in 1999, the US and its allies spent 78 days bombing the now-dissolved nation of Yugoslavia and contaminating the Balkans with at least 15 tons of DU munitions.
In the wake of these bombings, Serbia suffers from one of the highest cancer rates in Europe, with close to 60,000 oncology diagnoses there made each year, and cancer among children is as much as two-and-a-half times above the European average. In the decades since the 1999 events, Serbian medics have also recorded an alarming rise in infertility, autoimmune diseases, and mental disorders.
Leonkov told Sputnik that in this vein, the consequences of the use of this kind of munition affected both the civilian population and the military personnel who used depleted uranium during the above-mentioned conflicts.
“1.5 million such shells were used during the hostilities in Iraq, where tens of thousands of citizens suffered from ionizing radiation and there was a sharp outbreak of oncology and an exacerbation of chronic diseases that then led to casualties. As it turned out later, neither the civilian population of Iraq nor civilians in former Yugoslavia received any compensation from US and UK authorities,” the Russian expert noted.
Nikulin, in turn, struck the same tone, stressing that “the use of such weapons in contiguous territories is extremely undesirable and must be stopped by any means.”
“I emphasize the word ‘any’. These tanks and shells must be destroyed immediately upon crossing the Ukrainian border,” he added.
They spoke after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday that Moscow would be forced to respond in kind if the West starts using weapons with nuclear components.
The remarks followed the UK’s previous announcement that it would provide Ukrainian forces with depleted uranium tank ammunition along with Britain’s Challenger 2 battle tanks, as part of London’s military assistance to Kiev amid the Russian special military operation. Moscow has repeatedly warned that the US and its allies’ military assistance contributes to prolonging the Ukrainian conflict. The Kremlin also said that Washington’s ongoing push to continue arming Kiev turns the US into a party to the Ukrainian standoff.
Evidence has been mounting since the 1991 Gulf War that depleted uranium ammunition used by US forces and their allies causes cancer and birth defects. But now the same Western media that helped expose the risks is downplaying them as Ukraine is set to receive DU weapons.The British mainstream media has abruptly changed its tune on the risks of depleted uranium (DU) munitions after the government announced it was sending them to Ukraine for use against Russian troops.
Evidence has been mounting since the 1991 Gulf War that depleted uranium ammunition used by US forces and their allies causes cancer and birth defects. But now the same Western media that helped expose the risks is downplaying them as Ukraine is set to receive DU weapons.
The British mainstream media has abruptly changed its tune on the risks of depleted uranium (DU) munitions after the government announced it was sending them to Ukraine for use against Russian troops.
Junior Defence Minister Baroness Annabel Goldie confirmed to the House of Lords on Tuesday that the Ministry of Defence would supply Ukraine with 120m-calibre DU armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) sub-calibre projectiles for the 14 Challenger 2 tanks it has pledged to Kiev.
Moscow warned that the move was a major escalation in NATO’s proxy conflict with Russia that took the world one step closer to nuclear war.
“I can only say this: We are running out of red lines,” said Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu. “Another line has been crossed and there are fewer and fewer of them left.”
President Vladimir Putin later noted that “the West really decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, not in words, but in deed,” and that Russia would be forced to “react accordingly” since “the collective West is already starting to use weapons with a nuclear component.”
“The use of depleted uranium ammunition will dramatically reduce, or maybe even not preserve at all Ukraine’s ability to produce high-quality uninfected food,” warned Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov. “As for our reaction, of course, we will take this into account in determining our actions.”
But a report on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website repeated the British MoD’s insistence that Russia was “deliberately trying to disinform” and that “any impact to personal health and the environment from the use of depleted uranium munitions is likely to be low.”
The state broadcaster quoted former British army tank commander Colonel Hamish de Breton-Gordon, who said it was “laughable” to link DU — a by-product of uranium enrichment to weapons grade and of the spent nuclear reactor fuel that also contains weaponizable plutonium — to nuclear weapons.
De Breton-Gordon called Putin’s warning “classic disinformation” before claiming that the British DU tank rounds “contained only trace elements of depleted uranium.”
That was in contrast to the BBC’s previous extensive reporting on the threats to heath from the radioactive and carcinogenic DU rounds.
A BBC report from 1999 on the effects of depleted uranium munitions used in the 1999 Kosovo War and the 1991 Gulf War
200-year-old Liberal newspaper The Guardian has also exposed the dangers of DU munitions for decades — but this week tried to downplay Russia’s concerns.
Its report on Tuesday, the title claimed Vladimir Putin merely “sought to exploit a British statement that it would supply Ukraine with tank shells made with depleted uranium.”
The Guardian’s Kiev-based defence and security editor Dan Sabbagh implied that Putin only responded to the British junior defence minister’s statement after it “began to circulate on Russian social media channels.”
“The Russian leader frequently makes nuclear-related threats, largely in an effort to persuade western countries to limit their interventions in the war in Ukraine, which was started by Moscow’s invasion last year,” Sabbagh wrote.
The article, co-authored by aptly-named science editor Ian Sample, also quoted the MoD claim that depleted uranium “has nothing to do with nuclear weapons and capabilities.”
It went on to downplay the same concerns about the munitions’ radioactivity and toxicity that the paper has highlighted in the past.
A report in British newspaper The Guardian from 2013 on the contamination of Iraq with depleted uranium munitions used by the US-led occupation forces
A report in British newspaper The Guardian from 2007 on the health risks associated with radioactive depleted uranium munitions used by the US and other forces in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia
DU is used in high-velocity dart-like projectiles due to its very high density — two-thirds heavier per cubic centimetre than lead — which increases armour penetration, as well as its pyrophoric property of igniting on impact.
They are produced in a range of calibres from the 25mm Bushmaster chain gun fitted to the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle — also supplied to Ukraine — and the 30mm GAU-8 Gatling cannon of the A-10 Warthog close support aircraft, up to those of tank guns like the 120mm L30 carried by the Challenger 2.
DU ammunition was heavily used by US forces and their allies in the 1991 Gulf War, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 1999 NATO offensive against Serbia in support of Kosovar separatist militants. Doctors have said the radioactive material — a by-product of spent nuclear fuel — left strewn around the country has caused horrific birth defects and increased rates of cancer.
A study published by the US federal National Institutes of Health in 2021 concluded that the evidence gathered “suggests possible associations between exposure to depleted uranium and adverse health outcomes among the Iraqi population.”
Tungsten can also be used as a non-radioactive and less-toxic alternative to DU in armour-piercing projectiles.
Serbian citizens have sued NATO over its use of around 15 tonnes of DU munitions in its war on the Balkan republic, but the US-led alliance has claimed it has legal immunity from litigation.
“Our citizens should know the urgent facts…but they don’t because our media serves imperial, not popular interests. They lie, deceive, connive and suppress what everyone needs to know, substituting managed news misinformation and rubbish for hard truths…”—Oliver Stone
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