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Tuesday 4 April 2017

Syrian Government and Chemical Weapons Attack

At noon on Tuesday April 4, 2017,  a flash announcement on CNN said, in as many words:

''The Syrian government have carried out a chemical attack on their own people.''

The first suspicion I have is based on the following:
Why on earth, when President Assad now has the support of President Donald Trump, would he be crazy enough to launch a chemical attack on his own people?; especially as his forces are winning the civil war in Syria.
Secondly, I can suggest someone who would be crazy enough:
Those bloodthirsty murderous beasts affiliated to Al Nusra and ISIL our governments have been giving unconditional support to since the start of the Syrian civil war.
(This is the greatest war crime – those who encouraged and logistically supported the myriad of entities affiliated to the Islamic State.
So abhorrent were their treatment of ordinary Muslim people that even Al Qaeda [Osama Bin Laden's outfit] disavowed the Islamic Caliphate/ISIS/ISIL.)
I have always said that President Assad is his own worst enemy.
His inability to (internally) reform the Ba'athist structure coupled with the assassinations, tortures and murders of political opponents prior to the civil war years are all contributing factors to a highly unstable and volatile environment which provided cover for (at that time Turkish government backed) ISIS and a myriad of (Sunni) Salafist groups – all masquerading under different banners which we were happy to encourage with heavy weapons – to overthrow Assad and replace him with a Salafist theocratic government, controlled by Turkey and Saudi Arabia. (read my blogs from 2-3 years ago to appreciate the misperceptions in U.S. State Department foreign policy which preferred theocratic Salafist and Wahhabist-orientated Arab countries than the type of 'democracy' we are more familiar with.)

Democracy and Islam Cannot Co-Exist
Since Man's Laws Contradict Allah's
To summarize, the belief was that democracy, as we understand it, simply would not work across diverse Arab and Muslim lands of the Middle East and North Africa. 'Tribal' 'superstitions, mediaeval perceptions of Islam irreconcilable with twenty first century pluralism, the influence of Imams – especially those espousing extremist values in the interpretation of the Qur'an and Qur'anic law (Shariah law) and the need to provide longer-term political and economic stability across such culturally diverse lands, all confluenced to suggest that the interests of the West were best served by religious theocratic governments (or 'new' autocratic leaders who would impose theocratic Islamic values as opposed to the Western general public perceived democracy) arising from the 'Arab Spring'.

The New Islamic Theocratic Order
Muslim lands, it was concluded, as a matter of policy, were best 'reformed' by religious autocrats than democrats.  I thought that this was crazy at the time and I think it is crazy today.
The political chaos, civil wars, internal terror and suppression which abound today across all of those 'Arab Spring' lands pretty much support my skepticism.

I was horrified by this view coming from the State Department in Washington.

I could not believe that anyone sane could turn over the fate of the Muslim Sunni world to Saudi Arabia so that they would control it on our behalf in the advent of the Arab Spring.

Think of it for one minute. Saudi Arabia is the main reason why there has been no Middle East peace between Israeli and Palestinian.
You will not hear this view from Tel Aviv nor Jerusalem – anxious as they all are not to 'upset' Washington's relations with Riyadh.
The secondary reason is of course Iran – but even the Iranians are a better more honest brokers for a permanent Middle East peace than are the duplicitous Saudis.   But all of the West's economic interests lie in the Sunni world, at present. 
(see my blog from 3 years ago about the Caspian Sea region – if you really want to be informed about now and the future of politics in that region.)


Afghanistan: – The Forgotten War
We have given up on Afghanistan – [preferring instead to enable Pakistan to 'sort out' the mess we left after we abandoned the Afghan people to the mercy of ISIL, Al Qaeda and the Taliban.]
People will compare this betrayal to that of South Vietnam.
They are however, two completely different environments. There was something called 'redemption' or 're-education' for 98% of all South Vietnamese when the Viet Cong took Saigon.
Believe me, ISIL, their affiliates will show no mercy to defenceless civilians who have supported NATO and U.S. forces (and even NGOs) when they take over provinces in Afghanistan.
It is (and will be) much worse than Year Zero under Pol Pot.
And where will those great bastions of truth - CNN and Fox News be - as men, women, and children are being roasted alive, stoned to death for petty crimes and forced to murder their own siblings and relatives. I will tell you where they will be:silent; having also 'cut and run'. Besides, the American public want to hear 'success' stories not (yet again) more abysmal failures of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, Iraq, The Yemen and Afghanistan, on their nightly mainstream news.
I said so much many years ago in my blogs, so this is just a repeat.

Where are events in Afghanistan on your nightly news these days?
The odd bombing reported – if Westerners are killed or injured or something so horrific happens they cannot avoid but report it for the shame of not doing so 'in the court of public opinion' by the rest of the world media – even in totalitarian states. The conclusion of the Taliban and ISIL is therefore that foreigners are 'higher value' targets for international publicity than locals – which is why the war of attrition against the remaining foreign NGOs, intensifies.

They Died For Nothing
Where have they told you about the Taliban, ISIL, Islamic Jihad and a myriad of Salafist groups overwhelming provinces abandoned by U.S. and coalition forces? You did not know about this?
(Afghanistan is a predominantly Sunni country -approximately 90% of it's people affiliate with Sunni as opposed to Shia Islam.)
And what about all those (mainly) young recruits who died for nothing
in Helmand, Kandahar (Spin Boldak), Paktika, Wardak and elsewhere?
Such are the fortunes of war.  The 'glorious dead' are a better inspiration to the next generation than the disfigured and crippled veterans who came back alive – but not in one piece.
And what was it all for?  By the time you ask your political representative that he or she will say 'I wasn't in politics then' or 'it happened long before my time so what can I say, except what I read in the history books.'

Afghanistan:
On The Verge Of Collapse As A Unified Country
(Get Better Informed)
You did not know that the Taliban and ISIL are on the brink of taking over the entire Southern provinces of the Afghanistan?   You need to be better informed than what you see on CNN and Fox News.
You did not know that they will be gearing up for a protracted 'civil war' against the Northern 'warlords'?
So as not to 'witness to the world' the extent of this humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, the Western media has, to a greater extent, also abandoned the country and its people to the fate of the Taliban and Islamic State affiliates.
[As I understand, even Kabul is now too dangerous to operate from for Westerners – especially NGOs. Most of such services have been ''delegated' to 'hapless' locals – who are regularly targeted as 'collaborators' and 'easy prey' by the insurgents.]
Afghanistan is a very beautiful country – as are its people - with a very rich and varied history, but this 'agony' it is going through is likely to be continued, remorselessly, relentlessly and with little mercy on all opposing sides, for a very long time to come and I am not optimistic at all for the immediate future.
Again, you need to be better informed than CNN, Fox and mainstream networks to really appreciate what is happening in the world today.

The Taliban
I know of the Taliban. I have never, to the best of my knowledge, conversed nor discussed nor broke (shared) bread nor a meal with any of their affiliates.
I have travelled 'under the protection' of Salafist-linked groups, on two occasions, in a particular part of the world.
You need to remember that a time existed (not too long ago) when it was still possible to travel without being an 'embedded journalist' in semi-war and war zones.  That era also, has now passed and the advice now would always be to either travel embedded as a journalist with either protagonist or antagonist forces.

So what I say is not out of disrespect as much as it is disagreement to their interpretation of the Qur'an as misguided and doing more harm to Islam as a religion of peace than any other factor existing.
I have said it many times in the past, but for the rise of fanatical Islam, by now the religion (and lifestyle of Islam – by voluntary choice) would be numbering near to one third of the entire peoples on this planet.
[Sadly I already know their answer: Islam was always a religion of the sword and peace can only exist when Allah's kingdom, the Qur'an as interpreted in the way of the Prophet, through [Taliban] Mullahs and Imams, is in governance and all submit and adhere in practice to its teachings.]

Some time ago I said that what Islam really needs today is a Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Calvin and in many parts of the authoritarian African Muslim world, a Martin Luther King.
Perhaps even a few Henry VIII's in the autocratic Muslim world would be helpful.
[Of course I was not very popular with such a viewpoint.]

To understand my position you need to read my previous blogs over the years since 2012.

Back to today's CNN 'newsflash' about Assad using chemical weapons in Syria:


Information Overload
Several months from now, when the truth of the matter is widely circulated and the issue of this newsflash has long been buried by CNN and forgotten by mainstream media.   What will  you  remember?
You will recall that the Syrian President used chemical weapons to kill his own people.
Yes Assad is a tyrant.  Yes he has murdered his own people.  But Obama and now Trump is dealing with so many murderers (some of whom have openly admitted to murder – such as the President of The Philippines) so Assad is no exception.  He might even argue that he did so to protect the unity of his country and that the assassinations were necessary to protect the national interest.  [Where have you heard this before?  Erdogan in Turkey might argue the same for his support of ISIS – until Trump was elected.]
Believe me, both Assad and Erdogan will make up 'like long lost brothers' when it is in both their interests to so do.
And what about the carnage, slaughter and pillage on all sides?; well, that was yesterday - they will both agree.
And this charade will continue – until one can 'remove' (assassinate or overthrow) the other.
And your mainstream media? where will they all be? they will all go along for the ride, as usual.
Which is why I again say folks, you'd better look for alternative news sources to mainstream media to make any sense of what is really going on out there.

Rapprochement
So if, as is now likely, Assad survives, expect a rapprochement between Turkey and Israel while the Turkish government plots its next move to oust Assad – this time using the Israelis.
Turkey's ultimate ambition is to bring the whole of the Levant under its nominal political influence, part of a new Ottoman Empire extending through the Caucasus. [Crimea, for the present, is out of the equation. As with the Irish (and indeed some other countries) their memory goes back a long way – and they celebrate both victories and defeats (as victories) on the battlefield. ]

It's Only Business – Nothing Personal
You saw how Turkey 'threatened' the European Union at the height of the chaos in North Africa, Syria and Iraq (see my earlier blogs.)
But that was yesterday – and everyone now wants to forget about ISIS, about the defunct Islamic Caliphate State, about war crimes and war trials where Islam - Salafism and Wahhabism – are in the dock as war criminals (and who does not 'have blood' on their hands?) and just get on with business, trade and investment.
(Besides, there are enough cupfuls of warm blood to go 'round for all at the table to relish, should show trialsNuremberg-style, be the order of the day.)


So when today's 'newsflash' is proven to be 'fake news', where will you be?


©Patrick Emek, April 2017


DABIQ:-The Islamic State's Flagship Magazine Since Before The Creation Of The Caliphate

I have read Dabiq from Issue number 1 so I am well familiar with it's content.(I may even, unwittingly, have been a party to 'chat' since before it's creation - of this I cannot be certain.)   I have not featured it before now on my blogsite so as not to 'encourage' potential naive  (or curious) individuals to join the (then) 'thriving' Islamic Caliphate or indeed 'seek it out' for further 'inspiration';  Sorry folks - I work to my own agenda (!)


To appreciate events, your time will not be wasted reading these 5 articles and two pdf files, one featuring the Islamic State's flagship magazine, DABIQ.  You need to understand how appealing its content is to many young [naïve] Muslims yearning for a 'golden-age' Caliphate which will restore pride, traditional values and order in societies where the Qur'an and Quranic values are practised and who consider today's world as one lost to Satan and total apostasy.
(In some respect, it is similar to evangelical Christians in that the ideal is God's kingdom here on earth. Their methods and the fact that ISIS are prepared to murder and butcher wholesale everyone who does not accept their values, is the main difference.)
From a purely personal viewpoint and as a later contemporary of Leni Riefenstahl, I think that, were she alive today, she would be very impressed by the 'purity' of the propaganda and the fact that there still exist today individuals capable, in this digital age of the visual and sound media, of using simple graphics and words to so strongly convey ideas and ideologies.
All that above being said, this does not recuse the fact that they (ISIL) are a bunch of murderous animals who in the 'process' (slaughterhouse) of 'creating' something beautiful (the 'perfect' Islamic State and Islamic World - or, indeed, the 'perfect' National Socialist State and World) will stop at nothing – nor is there is any act of monstrosity and pure evil that they will not commit – or direct others to commit on pain of a terrible death - in order to achieve their objectives.
But........we do not live in a perfect world.
As the Christian Bible says
'let he who has not sinned cast the first stone......'***


***When Jesus Christ came across a righteous mob preparing to stone an adulterous women he said "He who is without sin should throw the first stone." The woman did not die that day.


Now read on.


** Afghanistan, is on the verge of collapse as a unified country.   If you really want to know what is going on and why now only a large permanent commitment of U.S. and coalition forces can save the country and it's people, visit:

http://www.tolonews.com/afghanistan/27713-farah-province-on-verge-of-collapse-officials

http://www.rasad.af/en/2017/01/02/afghan-strategic-sangin-city-is-on-the-verge-of-collapse-provincial-officials/

http://afghanistantimes.af/taliban-seize-control-of-strategic-district-in-helmand/


https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/taliban-forces-seize-strategic-district-in-embattled-helmand-province-1.460127


All the signals coming from Washington are that the United States will not commit anything like the numbers of ground troops and logistical support required to push back ISIL and the Taliban in order to save the country.  The likelihood is that Afghanistan will split between the Northern Alliance warlords and ISIL/The Taliban who will take control of the Southern provinces.

The Islamic Emirate (ISIL) State's website for Afghanistan (and it's 'new' flag below)

https://alemarah-english.com/?cat=2


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New video message from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: “Interview of Surrendering Police in Waghaz District of Ghazni Province”





















































































































Mainstream Media:












http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/09/us-military-hits-another-islamic-state-chemical-weapons-facility-in-iraq.php



https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1111/830847-syria-islamic-state/

http://shoebat.com/2014/08/19/isis-true-islam/



Watch children behead their parents, Kafirs (disbelievers/Christians) captured prisoners of war and stone gays to death at

http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/isis-islamic-state-amaq-news-my-father-told-me-video-syrian-arab-army-saa-turkey-turkish-soldiers-mass-execution-gay-man-thrown-full-roof-execution-full-uncensored/

https://www.zerocensorship.com/uncensored/isis/throwing-stoning-execution-of-gay-man-in-iraq-video-251359

and playing soccer with decapitated heads at

http://clashdaily.com/2017/01/demonic-isis-video-shows-young-kids-shooting-beheading-enemies-watch/

http://shoebat.com/2015/04/11/isis-takes-a-man-cuts-his-head-off-and-plays-soccer-with-it-they-then-take-children-and-behead-them-in-front-of-their-parents/


Jordanian Pilot Burned To Death In A Metal Cage:









Monday 3 April 2017

*A Stolen Presidential Election

*Destruction of Federal Agencies

*Downsizing Of Federal Agency Budgets and Staffing -Through Amalgamation - Including USAID, The State Department & Defense Intelligence Agencies - To Render Them Ineffective At A Time Of National Emergency Or World Crises

No Folks, In The Above I'm Not Talking About Trump's $1.1trn Budget Cuts To These Federal Management Agencies - But The Aims And Objectives Of The Kremlin in Moscow


With Trump's $1.1trn. Proposed budget now released and the anticipated cuts in Federal programs, is this really the right time to be slashing Federal Departments and abolishing others on the grounds that they are useless and ineffective?


The only time a program is missed is when a national or international crises arises.

The below are some reasons why, far from withdrawing or reducing funding, the NIH, EPA and CDC must have substantial increases in Federal funds to keep pace with developing and future terrorist threats.
[many of the references have already been cited at other blogs over the past 3 years, You should again reference the Bioweapons Research blog for some of these.]

National emergencies such as floods, storms, tsunamis on the West or East Coast, transmissible disease outbreaks, viral pandemics across Southern States (Zika virus for example), bioterrorism, all stand less chance of being effectively dealt with where Federal Emergency Management Agencies are either under resourced or even abolished (the Environmental Protection Agency for example.)


Playing Into The Kremlin's Hands
Technology is giving new possibilities for warfare on scales hitherto dreamed about.
For these reasons alone the role and scope of Federal agencies need to be extended not abolished.
You may recall several years ago I described a 'scenario' where your own household device could be used to 'assassinate'. The hypothetical scenario I gave was the proverbial Russian VIP driving his/her hi-tech car. The car itself having been being 'reprogrammed' to 'assassinate' by 'driving itself' off a cliff on a high mountain pass.
[The scenarios made popular in films – such as terrorists hijacking nuclear plants, aeroplanes, the electric grid by use of new technologies are indeed very real.]

Do you remember the fictional film with Mel Gibson where his daughter was murdered because of what she was investigating at a nuclear establishment? He himself was poisoned with a radioactive substance being added to the milk in his fridge. Do you recall where he reclined as he drank it because it 'tasted off'? This film was made long before the 'use' of such substances became (apparently?) as 'popular' as they are today for similar tasks.

As 'smart' technology at the nanoscale (programmable matter) becomes more widely available the possibilities for military applications are endless. (See the reference section to learn what is programmable matter.)

So the whole concepts of 'warfare', urban terrorism and global conflict and are changing beyond anything we (or indeed the public as a whole) can would care (or dare) to imagine.

Merging (integrating or downsizing, whatever you want to call it) intelligence agencies because of a Presidential 'whim' is, to be frank, either crazy or treasonable. As an act of revenge by Trump it is just sheer madness – more akin to Caligula in ancient Rome than to any more recent world ruler of a superpower.


9/11 Should Have Been A Wake Up Call For Increased Federal Emergency Management Funding But The Lessons Have Already Been Forgotten – by Donald Trump

Under Trump's proposed budget, the only available response will be the military since FEMA, NIH, CDC and other critical centers and institutes will be starved of resources at a time when terrorism using biowarfare – and indeed conventional attacks - will be even more a threat as the physical defeat of the Islamic State morphs into a new globalized 'Jihad' – the virtual Caliphate – worldwide. The Islamic State has been preparing for this for some time and I have no doubt that their 'experts' have already removed themselves from the battle zone – to fight another place, day and time.

International Protocols and Rules For The Conduct of War and Treatment of Prisoners

I said some years ago that you needed a strong constitution to stomach ISIS atrocities.
This was long before the mainstream media started reporting their horrific acts against civilians and prisoners of war. I had an opportunity to read through their literature quite regularly. It was very well produced. This propaganda has now dispersed worldwide – as will their acolytes.
[On this one issue alone I agree with Donald J . Trump – but not because I rely on 'second-hand' news from Fox Television Network.]

What were accepted 'norms' and rules (if you can call 'warfare' 'normal') of conflict and treatment of prisoners of war – as laid down in the Geneva and Vienna Conventions - are only useful for so long as countries (and insurgency movements – which are excluded as non-state actors) accept they have any relevance. I will give just one example:
ISIS considered roasting a human being alive in a metal cage and prodding him with a metal rod to ensure that he 'cooked' well until his charred body remained, was 'fair game' to 'broadcast' and 'stream' to a worldwide audience via the internet – initially at many websites across the internet anyone could visit.
So clearly ISIS have had no time for any international protocols governing rules for the conduct of war.
Another memorable incident was the 75 year-old, alleged gay Syrian, strapped to a chair and thrown from top of a block of flats – his bloodied remains on the concrete tarmac below to be spat on and kicked by children and adults alike.

Believe me, these are the 'new norms' for 'warfare' where religion and tribalism abound – these are not the one-off aberrations the mainstream media would wish you to dismiss as just the work of lunatics or fanatics.

To be cutting back on agencies whose specific job is to both assess and combat these new threats, at this very particular time, is a historical mistake of huge significance.

Let me take a further more recent example:
What happens when military technology is racing so far ahead in the developed world that it is rendering all such conventions and laws obsolete?

Kim Jong Nam - Deja Vu?
We all know about the assassination of Kim Jong Nam.
But how many 'others' have there been whose deaths have been ascribed to 'natural causes'?
The Litvinenko case is yet another high profile assassination. But what happens where the effective toxic agent 'dissipates within the blood stream of the target leaving no toxicological evidence except, perhaps, for example, 'heart failure' caused by apparently events entirely medically consistent with the John Doe's sudden death?
This is not science fiction nor Hollywood speculation.
The fact that 'heart failure' or brain haemorrhage is the coroner's recorded conclusion is of little relevance where synthetic neurotoxins which disperse rapidly have been used as biowarfare weapons.  Where toxicological reports all show negative, how many coroners are trained to go
'the extra miles' to identify a bioweapon or neurotoxin as the likely 'assassin'?
How many are trained (or skilled enough) to 'connect' the 'missing links'?

It is key bodies such as the NIH which have considerable oversight and research roles, in addition to their more important functions. Such Federal agencies play a key role, working with the CDC and others previously mentioned, to heighten awareness so that in the event of a nationwide biowarfare attack, similar to Pearl Harbour or 9/11, it will be the Federal agencies capabilities and resources which will be active in both the short and medium term responses to the emergency.

There are no agencies in the private sector which will voluntarily resource and logistically support such crises aftermaths – as primary nor as secondary responders.

As the United Nations looses its relevance in the modern world, the dangers of the above all increase exponentially.
This is one President who has little time for 'global (U.S.) enslavement bodies such as the United Nations.
If President Trump has no time for diplomacy bodies such as the United Nations, to resolve disputes, be assured future religious fringe movements and religious and tribal insurgency groups will likewise take note.


The Greatest Cuts In Federal Spending in 50 Years
The Trump administration is in the process of preparing plans for the greatest cuts in Federal Programs ever seen in the modern post-second world war history of the United States.
All of these cuts, to vital media and humanitarian organizations, will devastate
and diminish U.S. influence in the world.
America has elected a President whose priorities are, interestingly, similar to those of the Chinese Philosopher Confucius: America for Americans. America first. Foreigners not welcome – unless
they share our 'genetic affiliation', culture, religion, ideology, customs and similar perceptions of 'outsiders'.

Confucianism
Most readers will be probably unaware that the predominance of Confucianism as a political ideology in China between the 15th century up until fairly recent times was probably, all other things being equal, the reason you and I do not speak Mandarin nor Cantonese today.
China had ships at least 3 times the size of those of Christopher Columbus,sailing to far distant lands and would easily have reached the Pacific West Coast but for a new ideology which 'Great Walled' China off from the rest of the 'barbarian' world.
To put it in a nutshell, Confucianism is akin to extreme nationalism and fascism where the most important emphasis is on 'blood' and racial genetics.
Confucianism effectively halted Chinese expansionism beyond it's borders.
With this particular ideology, all foreigners (with the exceptions mentioned as above) were perceived as 'barbarians' so no effort should be made to 'incorporate' them within the realm of 'civilized' China.
It has taken over 500 years for China to recognize the terrible mistake made, and even today, there is no public acknowledgement in China of this monumental error – because it is too painful to accept – that the world could long ago have been colonized and ruled by 'Pax China' rather than 'Pax Americana'; but for a quirk of history.


[I said in a television interview (applicable to Trump but two years before he was running for Office) such individuals are 'well-connected' but ignorant of the world they have stewardship of.]


Comint and Humint -Where The Rubber Meets The Road
Trump's proposed budget cuts will focus resources away from humint (human intelligence) and almost exclusively into military comint (communications intelligence.) ignorant of the fact that you must have both resources on the ground.

This will, in the course of events, prove a total disaster – only to be realised in the event of major global crises where the input of different impartial data (as opposed to Fox News 'hearsay') becomes critical.
Even more critical is the ability of a President to actually listen to counsel – from agencies he has no trust in. A major world crisis involving President Trump, where the response is fatally flawed, is already an almost certainty.


©Patrick Emek, March 2017














Please could you note that the reference below – Breitbart - is an extremist 'one can short of a six pack' media internet outlet – but it is what Donald trump's supporters regard as 'true' not 'fake' news

It is organisations such as those below that Trump regards as 'dangerous' and wants to either abolish or drastically reduce funding to:













https://medium.com/matter/how-radioactive-poison-became-the-assassins-weapon-of-choice-6cfeae2f4b53#.uj23ltowm

(if you want a better oversight-refer to my 'Bioweapons Review' Blog)









Synthetic Toxins As weapons For Warfare:





Just to add, with availability of basic technology on a worldwide scale synthetic toxins are not as difficult to produce  – if you know what you are doing - as they once were assumed to be.
They might as well be called 'the poor man's nuclear weapons'.
The challenge is not their production and cultivation but their handling, encasement, storage and directed delivery.
Fortunately, for the moment at least, the skills involved rarely (if ever) 'tilt' towards terrorists.
To put it in a nutshell, nobody is yet crazy enough to be providing the 'know-how' to facilitate the use either of bioweapons, binary or tertiary weapons nor synthetic weapons for mass carnage.
[History shows that it is only a matter of time before such events transpire – and considering their relative ease of development – it is a certainty for the future.]






































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