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COP29. Climate Instability Worldwide: Does the US Military “Own the Weather”? “Weaponizing the Weather” as an Instrument of Modern Warfare?

See last year’s COP28, attending by more than 150 Heads of State and Government.  (30 November to 13 December 2023). See COP 28 decisions.

COP29 November 2024 (program) is being hosted (barely a week following the US elections) in Baku, Azerbaijan in the unstable Geopolitical Hub of the Caspian Sea.

The host country is among the largest producers of oil and natural gas worldwide. Ironically the government of Azerbaijan  has committed itself to green energy (CO2 Net Zero), requiring a drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Sounds absurd.

Among the COP29 participants are representatives of civil society organizations, business interests, international organizations, billionaire philanthropies and international organizations.

COP29 as well as the host government have endorsed CO2-Net Zero.

Sounds absurd. Azerbaijan produces about 33 million tonnes of oil and 35 billion cubic meters of gas (2022 data).

The fake narrative of reducing greenhouse gas emissions sets the stage for triggering economic and social chaos including devastating impacts on family farms Worldwide.  

Assisting the Global South is COP29’s multi-billion dollar mandate: it’s a fraud! The Global South is targeted as one of main causes of  global warming. The big oil companies are not the target. Quite the opposite. 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed itself to funnelling billions of dollars, coming to the rescue of impoverished farmers in the Global South.

This money will be used to initiate a new phase of neo-colonialism, leading the confiscation of land, assets and mineral resources.

Bill Gates wants to become a Top Owner of Farmland extending across the Global South. He or a member of his foundation is to address the plenary on the 14th of November, 2024.

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Trump To Remove Transgender Individuals From Military Immediately: Report

President-elect Trump will remove serving transgender individuals from the military on his first day in office, according to sources quoted in a report by the Times of London.

“The ban is expected to be wider ranging than a similar order made during his first term in office, when Trump prevented transgender people joining the armed forces, but allowed those already serving to keep their jobs,” the report notes.

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The Ukraine war is a war that should never have happened; who’s keeping it going and why?

“This is a war that should never have happened,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at the beginning of the year.  “It’s a war the Russians tried repeatedly to settle on terms that were very very beneficial to Ukraine.”

“The big military contractors want to add new countries to NATO all the time,” he said. Why? “Because then that country has to conform its military purchases to NATO weapon specifications which means certain companies … get a trapped market,” he explained.

Few people understand what the war in Ukraine means for big business – namely, opportunity. It’s not just the weapons and reconstruction contracts. Ukraine’s vast agricultural lands-  among the most fertile in the world – are up for grabs, and American companies like BlackRock are at the front of the line.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (“RFK Jr.”) deftly and clearly explains.

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UK Arms Exports Find Loopholes in Israeli Embargo

Britain has continued exporting components for use by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) because of gaps in the government’s restrictions on arms sales, it can be revealed.

At least two shipments of parts for IAF planes have been dispatched from Britain since September, when Labour suspended some arms export licences due to human rights concerns.

The information is contained within cargo documents reviewed by The Ditch and Declassified.

The documents show how items were dispatched by U.K.-based engineering firm Martin-Baker to an Elbit Systems factory in Karmiel, Israel, in October.

Martin-Baker specialises in ejection seats, which are found in military planes across the West, including in the cockpit of the IAF’s T-6 training fleet.

These aircraft are maintained by Elbit – Israel’s largest arms firm – under a $38m contract.

The revelation shows how British arms exports are continuing to support the IAF — a key player in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza — because Labour has not implemented a complete embargo.

Emily Apple, a spokesperson for Campaign Against Arms Trade, told Declassified: 

“The current arms suspension is a farce. This government is making up the rules as it goes, making a mockery of international law and prioritising the profits of arms dealers over Palestinian lives.

“There can be no excuses and no exceptions. The U.K. must impose an immediate, full, two-way arms embargo”.

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US walks back threat to suspend Israel arms shipments as famine worsens in Gaza

The US government has confirmed it will not limit arms shipment to Israel despite worsening famine conditions in Gaza, walking back an official warning issued last month by top officials to “pressure” Tel Aviv into lifting its blockade.

State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters on 12 November that the progress to date must be “supplemented and sustained” but that “we at this time have not made an assessment that the Israelis are in violation of US law” by blocking the entry of food, water, and medicine for two million Palestinians.

“We are not giving Israel a pass,” Patel stressed, adding that “we want to see the totality of the humanitarian situation improve, and we think some of these steps will allow the conditions for that to continue progress.”

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Mysterious US Military Space Plane Begins Advanced Maneuvers in Orbit

In a cutting-edge milestone for orbital innovation, the U.S. military‘s secretive X-37B space plane has begun advanced aerobraking maneuvers to shift its orbit.

Launched on its seventh mission (OTV-7) in December 2023 via SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the X-37B has been orbiting the Earth in a highly elliptical path, reaching well beyond the altitude at which satellites normally stay in sync with the planet’s rotation before rapidly closing in near Earth’s atmosphere.

Now, instead of relying on fuel, the space plane is using atmospheric drag to reduce its orbit gradually, a process that could extend mission durations significantly.

Although information has been released about the space plane’s capabilities, much about it remains a mystery, including exactly what it is used for.

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Pentagon Paid Nearly 8,000 Percent Markup on Boeing’s Bathroom Soap Dispenser

The bathroom on the C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane is nothing special. The soap dispensers are exactly the same kind of pump that customers might find on a civilian airliner or in a restaurant bathroom. But the U.S. government paid 7,943 percent more for the soap machine than what it should have, costing taxpayers $149,072, a new report by the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Defense found.

The report was the result of a two-year audit of U.S. Air Force purchases from the Boeing Company. Out of a selected sample of 46 spare parts for the C-17, the Pentagon’s internal watchdog found that the Air Force overpaid for 12 of them, costing taxpayers an additional $992,856 on top of the parts’ $4.3 million value.

The C-17 is the workhorse of U.S. military airlifts. Capable of carrying heavier loads over longer distances than any other aircraft in the American arsenal, the transport jet has become a symbol of U.S. resupply efforts for Israel and Ukraine. The U.S. Air Force maintains a fleet of 223 of them.

Overcharging is a massive problem for the U.S. military budget. In 2015, the Pentagon found that it was severely overpaying for Patriot missiles, and negotiated a new contract that saved $550 million. In 2019, the inspector general found that the military was paying $4,300 for a half-inch metal drive pin that should have cost $46.

The similarly extreme markup on soap dispensers is what led to the audit of C-17 parts in the first place. The Office of the Inspector General says that it opened its investigation in June 2022 after a whistleblower told its anonymous tip line that Boeing was severely overcharging for airplane bathroom fixtures.

The inspector general found that the Air Force did not “validate the accuracy of the data used for contract negotiation, conduct contract surveillance to identify price increases during contract execution, or review invoices to determine fair and reasonable prices before payment.”

Boeing cooperated with the investigation on the condition that specific price data would not be released to Congress or the public, arguing that this data is a trade secret. Therefore, the inspector general report only includes the total extra cost of the soap dispensers, not the number that the Air Force purchased or how much Boeing charged for each one.

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Spain cancels arms deal with Israeli company worth billions

The Spanish government has canceled a contract to buy ammunition for its Civil Guard police force from an Israeli defense company, Madrid announced in a statement on 29 October.

“The Spanish government maintains the commitment not to sell weapons to the Israeli state since the armed conflict broke out in the territory of Gaza,” Spain’s Interior Ministry announced. 

“Although in this case it is an acquisition of ammunition, the Interior Ministry has initiated the administrative procedure to cancel the purchase,” it added. 

It also said Israeli firms will be excluded from any outstanding tenders. 

The Cadena SER radio station reported earlier that Spain’s Civil Guard police force had agreed to a sale of over 15 million nine-millimeter rounds for $6.48 million from Guardian LTD Israel. 

The announcement comes the week after the Spanish Defense Ministry told local media that it had halted the purchase of weapons from Israel. The European country had said it would stop arms sales to Israel after the start of the war on 7 October 2023.

This decision marks the first signal that the Spanish pledge will include purchases from Israel and not just sales.

Spain has been vocal about Israel’s genocide and continuous war crimes in the Gaza Strip, as well as in Lebanon. 

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urged other members of the EU on 14 October to suspend the bloc’s free trade agreement with Israel. 

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Who has the authority to bring down NHI-UAP?

Journalist Ross Coulthart made the astonishing claim during the Global Disclosure Day 2024 event, that Non-Human technology is being intentionally brought down by elements of the *United States* government. He states that ‘High pulse microwave weapons’ are being used against non-human craft, and we are bringing those craft down so we can retrieve them and salvage the technology. 

Firstly, let me say that I have had my own scepticism around this concept for a few years now. Ufologist Steven Greer has long maintained that cases of crash retrievals have resulted from ‘shoot downs’. Others have suggested that electro-magnetic pulse weapons – artefacts attributed to nuclear weapons, have brought down UAP inadvertently. While others, myself included, have suggested the UAP-dogfight scenario – multiple UAP are bringing down other UAP.

The truth is that we don’t have enough data to conclude either way. We simply don’t know *why* they are crashing – what we can state with some confidence is that they are coming down – thanks to whistleblowers. Perhaps non of the above is accurate, or maybe all of the above has some merit and is occurring simultaneously. We don’t know conclusively yet.

An article by my friend Chris Sharpe has shed some light on the UAP retrieval programs – Unacknowledged Special Access Programs that are hidden illegally from Congress. Chris has postulated from his in-the-know sources that the secrecy is partly derived from ‘shoot-downs’.

“A haunting possibility—& perhaps a large reason behind the UAP cover-up—is the alleged deliberate downing of non-human crafts. Two sources have told LT that UAP are being brought down using a specific radar waveform repeater, a method which is also used to attract them.”

– Chris Sharpe 

Now let us be clear, we can only hypothetically address the concept of shoot-downs by government agencies and/or defense contractors. However what we can say, is that *if* true, we are facing a constitutional and political crisis on an unprecedented level.

Let us consider that hiding evidence of non-human intelligence (NHI), the existence of advanced technological capabilities, and the fundamental understanding of the reality of humanities place in the universe is arguably the worst acts ever committed. These may be considered crimes against humanity on an unparalleled scale. That is only part one of this detrimental mess.

And we can consider that these acts were relatively understandable at the time of conception –  particularly given the circumstances of the Cold War, the Atomic age, and the threats of nuclear annihilation that faced the United States and her allies in the mid-twentieth century.

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