15 Apr, 2025 17:11

US blocks G7 condemnation of Russia over Sumy strike – Bloomberg

Moscow has said the missile attack targeted senior Ukrainian and foreign military officers

US President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly refused to back a G7 statement condemning Russia’s recent missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, according to sources cited by Bloomberg.

On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed firing two Iskander-M missiles the day before,targeting a gathering of Ukrainian and Western command staff, killing at least 60 senior servicemen.

The Ukrainian authorities, however, have claimed that the Russian missiles struck a military awards ceremony, leaving 35 civilians dead and 129 others injured.Following the attack, Ukraine and a number of its international backers accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians and undermining peace talks.

According to Bloomberg, the G7, which is being presided over by Canada this year,has drafted a joint statement denouncing the strike on Sumy but has not released it due to a lack of US support. In a draft of the statement seen by the outlet, the group said that the attack was proof that Russia was determined to continue the hostilities.

Bloomberg reported that Trump’s team had told the group thatit couldn’t sign the statement because it is “working to preserve the space to negotiate peace.”

Since taking office in January, Trump has pushed to get both Moscow and Kiev to the negotiating table and has resumed direct contacts with Russia in order to facilitate a peace deal.

Throughout the Ukraine conflict, Moscow has maintained that it never targets civilian infrastructure. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently emphasized that Russia only strikes military targets.

Russian officials have also stated that Moscow remains open to a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict but have stressed that any settlement must address its root causes. Moscow has demanded that Kiev demilitarize, denazify, give up its NATO ambitions, and adhere to a position of neutrality, and recognize the territorial “realities on the ground.”

https://www.rt.com/news/615805-us-blocks-russia-condemnation/

15 Apr, 2025 16:48

Details of Iran’s nuclear demands revealed – media

Tehran is reportedly willing to provide guarantees that its atomic program is non-military in exchange for sanctions relief

Iran is ready to provide assurances that it is not seeking to weaponize its nuclear program in exchange for US sanctions relief, the country’s top diplomat has said, as quoted by the Tehran Times. Seyed Abbas Araghchi headed the Iranian delegation during indirect talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff in the Omani capital, Muscat on Saturday.

The meeting was the first diplomatic engagement between Washington and Tehran in years, with discussions focusing on Iran’s nuclear program and the potential easing of US sanctions.

According to the news outlet,Araghchi stated that Iran wants a “win-win agreement” and “would not, under any circumstances, agree to dismantle its nuclear program.”

He said, however, that the country is “willing to take steps to provide assurances against the militarization of its nuclear activities.” This would include allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency access to the country’s nuclear sites.

In return, Tehran wants US sanctions on several sectors to be removed without the possibility of being brought back “under other pretexts,” according to the Tehran Times.

The publication said it learned that Witkoff acknowledged that the US needs to make concessions. During the talks, the envoy reportedly did not mention the potential dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear program, nor did he reference the original deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which US President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018 during his first term in office.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Witkoff stopped short of calling for Tehran to dismantle its nuclear program, despite demands from other US officials, including White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.

“The conversation with the Iranians will be much about two critical points,” Witkoff said. The first is the verification of uranium enrichment, “and ultimately verification on weaponization, that includes missiles, type of missiles that they have stockpiled there, and it includes the trigger for a bomb.”

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), however, has since insisted that Iran’s military capabilities are off limits.

“National security and defense, and military power are among the red lines of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which cannot be discussed or negotiated under any circumstances,” IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini said on Tuesday, as cited by various media outlets.

The next round of talks between Iran and the US is expected to take place on April 19.

https://www.rt.com/news/615803-iran-demands-us-nuclear-talks/

The ‘new world order’ of the past 35 years is being demolished before our eyes. This is how we must proceed (Brown, says that like it’s a bad thing. The NWO seems to be very, very afraid!) 1/2

Gordon Brown (Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010) Sat 12 Apr 2025 01.00 EDT

We have seen the conflict and tragedy that can follow when an old era collapses. Countries that believe in multilateralism must come together now

After a week that started with the worst financial volatility in recent history and ended with the most serious escalation so far of the China-US conflict, it is time to distinguish the tectonic shifts from the tremors. If nothing changes, the 2020s risks being remembered as this century’s devil’s decade – the term historians once used for the 1930s. It will be defined not just by seven million people who have died of Covid-19 and rising global poverty and inequality – but also by a dismembered Ukraine, a burnt-out Gaza and little-reported atrocities in Africa and Asia, each testimony to the violent displacement of a rules-based global order by a power-based one.

Indeed, before our eyes, every single pillar of the old order is under assault – not just free trade but the rule of law and the primacy we have long attached to human rights and democracy, the self-determination of peoples, and multilateral cooperation between nations, including the humanitarian and environmental responsibilities we once accepted as citizens of the world.

Power shifts are, of course, the stuff of history.Within the space of two centuries, four world orders have risen and fallen. The first two – the balance of power that emerged after the defeat of Napoleon in the early 19th century, and the post-1918 Treaty of Versailles system born after four dynastic empires collapsed – ultimately ended in the carnage of world wars. Then came the post-1945 architecture, led by the US and the United Nations; and, after 1990 with the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, what US president George HW Bush called a “new world order”.

Now, as the economic balance of power shifts eastwards and a new mercantilism takes root, what was once called the Washington consensus is no longer supported anywhere – least of all in Washington.Globalisation is now rejected by millions as a “free for all” that has not been fair to all. It is not open trade but the opposite – restrictions on trade – now being popularised as a nation’s route to prosperity.

President Trump’s tactical ploy has been to exploit the profound shifts that were already reshaping the world’s geopolitics:first, the yawning gap between the benefits that globalisation promised and what it delivered in people’s everyday lives, and so he has become the world’s leading anti-globalist. He also saw how, turbo-charged by social media blitzes landing nonstop via people’s phones, he could resurrect the “great man” theory of history – Putin, Xi, Erdoğan and Kim Jong-un having shown him that populist but dictatorial leaders could set the agenda.

But Trump’s sheer unpredictability foreshadows even greater danger ahead. “Let chaos reign and don’t rein in the chaos” seems to be the mantra, and while there may be a lingering hope that something like normal governance might resume soon, this can no longer be a rational basis for anyone’s future planning. Instead, with both the US and China taking risks in accelerating their confrontation to new levels, the question is whether we are descending towards a “one world, two systems” future, or simply the chaotic disorder that has characterised the history of most previous centuries – and whether there is now any chance of building a world order that could ever be stable and sustainable. BOO HOO ASSHOLES

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/12/new-world-order-conflict-era-multilateralism

>>22915552

2/2

What’s clear after recent events is thatthe fourth global order cannot be restored. We are not only in a more protectionist era but are moving from a unipolar world where the US was the sole hegemonic power to one that has many more centres of decision-making power. But because we are also a more interconnected world, we are more vulnerable to crises – from pandemics and climate emergencies to financial contagion. All the more so because countries can, as we saw this week, weaponise that interdependence and the choke points it creates for their own advantage. So if we are to have anything approaching a values-based order we will have at some point to agree an updated global charter for our common future, something that builds on the Atlantic Charter of 1941 and the UN Charter of 1945, but is geared to a completely different century.

As William Beveridge said at that time: “A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.” Over the past few days, calls for multilateral cooperation have come from the leaders of Spain, Brazil and South Africa, this year’s chairs of three global conferences: the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, the 30th UN climate change conference and the G20. “As a collective we must now unite to enforce international law,” the Malaysian prime minister and Colombian and South African presidents have written. “The choice is stark: either we act together to enforce international law or we risk its collapse.”

All countries that believe in international cooperation should pledge that through a new multilateralism this generation will deliver global solutions to what are now inescapably global problems that cannot be resolved by nation states acting on their own or in bilateral deals alone. Second, as building blocks of that future, this collation of the willing should immediately engage in practical cooperation on urgent concerns for which no nation state-only answers are possible – global security, climate, health and humanitarian needs as well as the flow of trade. They should work to modernise the international institutions that deliver them.

And third, we should try to build a bridgehead to sceptics such as Trump by agreeing with him on the need for reciprocity and for fair burden-sharing between nations; and because this is a debt-laden world we should propose innovative and equitable ways to raise the resources needed to turn these commitments into action. By addressing the failures of the era of hyper-globalisation, we can all strive for a world that is not only open to trade but inclusive of all those who have been left behind.

Two hundred years ago, in similarly momentous times, a British leader called “a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old” , and the lesson of history is that any new order that endures has to be built on the solid rock of principle and not the shifting sands of expediency and the narrowest interpretation of national self-interests.

At the heart of the Atlantic Charter, the Roosevelt-inspired declaration of international cooperation, was a set of principles celebrating basic freedoms – against the use of force and protectionism, and for the self-determination of nations and national social contracts that would bridge the divide between rich and poor. Even if none of these goals are, as of now, championed by Trump, all is not lost: according to the US Global Leadership Coalition, 82% of Americans oppose isolationism, believing that the US is stronger when “engaged in the world”. And while the US can no longer lead a unipolar world by dictating to others, it can lead a multipolar world through persuasion.

Sadly, despite Keir Starmer’s valiant efforts, none of us can now guarantee that Ukraine – and its resources – will not be carved apart, emboldening autocrats everywhere. But we can set out the moral compass that will guide us and make us better prepared for the challenges ahead.We remain at risk of repeating the 1930s descent into global anarchy; but by nations acting together, we could create a 1940s moment as we start on the herculean task ofconstructing the fifth world order of modern times.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/12/new-world-order-conflict-era-multilateralism

>>22915587

Brown is disgustingly arrogant as with all the NWO flunkies that mourn and cry they can't impose their nightmare of the country and world.

When are these dinosaurs going to the graveyard called hell?

What was Prescott's roll?

>>22915595

It would have been if PDJT didn't show up, we are still not out of the battle for souls and freedom. It's almost like those creatures multiply as they die, more crawl out of the dirt and become disgusting death lovers.

14 Apr, 2025 19:23

Russian strike on Sumy targeted Ukrainian and NATO officers – Lavrov

At least 60 senior military personnel were killed during the missile attack, according to Moscow

Sunday’s missile strike on the northeastern Ukrainiancity of Sumy was aimed at senior Ukrainian and Western military personnel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

His comments followed a report from the Russian Defense Ministry, which confirmed that two Iskander-M missiles had struck the location,killing at least 60 senior commanders.

“We have facts about who was at the facility that was hit in Sumy. It was another meeting of Ukrainian military leaders with their Western colleagues, who were either masquerading as mercenaries or I don’t know who,” Lavrov told Interfax on Monday.

“There are NATO servicemen there and they are directly in charge,” the top diplomat added. “Everyone knows this,” Lavrov said, referring to last month’s New York Times report detailing US involvement in Ukrainian attacks on Russia since the escalation of the conflict in 2022.

Kiev has routinely flouted international law by placing armaments in or near civilian infrastructure, the minister said.

”International humanitarian law categorically prohibits the deployment of military facilities and weapons on the territory of civilian facilities,” Lavrov stated.Despite this, from the earliest stages of the conflict, “there were ‘a million’ examples of [Kiev’s] deployment of artillery and air defense systems in city blocks near kindergartens,” he added.

“How many videos have been posted on the Internet, when Ukrainian women shout for the military to get away from stores and playgrounds.But this practice continues,” the diplomat said.

According to local authorities in Sumy, the Russian missile strike killed over 20 civilians and wounded more than 80 others.

Reacting to the claim, theRussian Defense Ministry accused Kiev of systematically using its civilian population “as a human shield.”

Several Ukrainian officials have criticized the location chosen for the meeting.

Artyom Semenikhin, mayor of neighboring city of Konotop and a member of the neo-Nazi Svoboda party, blamed the head of the Sumy Region’s military administration for organizing the conference in a civilian area so close to the front line.

Sumy is situated some 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the Russian border and the nearby Kursk Region, an area where heavy fighting is taking place.

https://www.rt.com/russia/615758-sumy-strike-nato-ukrainian-officers/

>>22915634

14 Apr, 2025 11:38

Sumy strike targeted meeting of Ukrainian commanders – Moscow

The attack has left at least 60 Kiev servicemen dead, according to the Russian Defense Ministry

The Defense Ministry in Moscow has confirmed that Russian forces were behind the missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, saying that it targeted a gathering of the country’s commanding officers.

The attack has left more than 60 Ukrainian servicemen dead, the ministry said in a statement on Monday.

It was carried out with the use of two Iskander-M short-rangeballistic missiles despite “active counteraction by the Ukrainian military’s electronic warfaremeans and foreign-made air defense systems,” the statement read.

The target of the attack was “a meeting of thecommand staff of the Seversk operational-tactical group” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was taking place in Sumy that day, the ministry said.

“The Kiev regime continues to use the Ukrainian population as a human shield, placing military facilities and holding events with the participation of servicemenin the center of a densely populated city,” the statement read.

The local authorities in Sumy said on Sunday that the Russian strike left over 20 dead and more than 80 wounded, all whom were civilians.

Sumy is a regional capital and a frontline city of over 250,000 people, located just 15 miles (25 kilometers) from the border with Russia. It has become a focal point of the Ukrainian retreat which has following Kiev’s failed incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.

Following the attack, Artyom Semenikhin, a mayor of the Ukrainian city of Konotop and member of the right-wing Svoboda party,blamed the head of Sumy’s military administration for the loss of life, claiming that he had been the one to organize an award ceremony for the troops so close to the line.

“He was warned that this should not be done,” Semenikhin insisted, adding that he was confident that Artyukh will be prosecuted for his conduct.

Ukrainian lawmaker Mariana Bezuglaya, a former member of Vladimir Zelensky’s political party, suggested that “the Russians had information about the gathering” in Sumy. She urged the Ukrainian military “not [to] gather the troops for award ceremonies,especially in civilian cities.”

Ukrainian journalistand former legislator Igor Mosiychuk also called for the arrest of Artyukh and Zelensky party legislator Mikhail Ananachenko, who,he claimed, “beside the soldiers, gathered civilians, including children” for the ceremony.

https://www.rt.com/russia/615735-sumy-strike-ukrainian-command/

15 Apr, 2025 11:49

Vance blasts Zelensky for ‘absurd’ claim

The Ukrainian leader earlier suggested that Washington is under Moscow’s influence

US Vice President J.D. Vance has accused Vladimir Zelensky of making “absurd” statements, after the Ukrainian leader suggested that Washington is on Russia’s side in the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.

In an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Zelensky claimed that “Russian narratives are prevailing in the US” and that Moscow has “enormous influence” on the administration of US President Donald Trump and its policies.

Responding in a conversation with the UnHerd outlet published on Tuesday, Vance describedZelensky’s remarks as “certainly not productive.”

“I think it is sort of absurd for Zelensky to tell the [US] government, which is currently keeping his entire government and war effort together, that we are somehow on the side of the Russians,” he stressed.

“If you want to end the conflict, you have to try to understand where both the Russians and the Ukrainians see their strategic objectives,” Vance added.

“That does not mean you morally support the Russian cause, or that you support the full-scale invasion, but you do have to try to understand what are their strategic red lines, in the same way that you have to try to understand what the Ukrainians are trying to get out of the conflict,” he said.

Members of the Trump administration “are not on anybody’s side.We are on America’s side,”Vance insisted.

Trump and Vance publicly clashed with Zelensky during his visit to the White House in late February, accusing the Ukrainian leader of disrespect toward the US, failing to appreciate American aid, and not being interested in achieving peace with Russia.

Russian Foreign Minister SergeyLavrovtold the Kommersant newspaper in an interview published on Tuesday thatMoscow appreciates that “the Trump administration is trying to get to the bottom of the issue and, most importantly, understand the root cause” of the Ukraine conflict.

Lavrov also noted that Trump “has repeatedly said that the colossal mistake which led to the current events in Ukraine was the Biden administration’s decision to drag Ukraine into NATO.”

Ukrainian neutrality remains one of Moscow’s key demands for a settlement of the conflict, along with the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine and recognition by Kiev that Crimea, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are part of Russia.

https://www.rt.com/news/615785-vance-zelensky-us-ukraine/

16 Jan, 2025 18:00Predictive Programming

US company wants to ‘resurrect’ mammoths

Colossal Biosciences is editing genes and working on artificial wombs, its CEO has said

Texas-based Colossal Biosciences aims to bring back from extinction thewoolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo bird, and has just raised another $200 million for the projects. The startup is headed by AI entrepreneur Ben Lamm, who told Bloomberg that Colossal is on track to have a mammoth calf by 2028.

“We’re not going to do anything until we get the genomes right,”Lamm said in an interview with Bloomberg Technology on Wednesday. The company is currently in the “editing phase” of the project, with the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, “actually ahead of schedule,” Lamm said.

A team of 17 is working on artificial wombs, the first of which ought to be ready within two years, he added. Colossal has a market valuation of over $10 billion and has raised a total of $435 million in cash, including the most recent injection, $200 million from investor TWG Global.

TWG was impressed by Colossal’s “significant technology innovations and impact in advancing conservation,” the investor’s CEO Mark Walter said in a statement. Lamm told Bloomberg thathis project was inspired by forecaststhat the earth would lose 15% of its biodiversity by 2050, which have since been updated to a 50% loss.

“It would be better to have a de-extinction toolkit and not need it than to need a de-extinction toolkit and not have it,”he said.

Critics have pointed out the project’s similarities to Michael Crichton’s cautionary tale ‘Jurassic Park,’ which involved re-creating dinosaurs. In December 2023, Russian billionaire Andrei Melnichenko said he was partnering with Colossal to develop a ‘Pleistocene Park.’ At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, Melnichenko described it as a way to reduce methane emissions from Siberian permafrost by re-creating Ice Age fauna, as a “cost-effective method to mitigate climate change.” US sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine conflict put the project on ice, however.

Lamm co-founded Colossal in 2021, withHarvard University geneticist George Church. Among the company’s backers is the CIA affiliate In-Q-Tel.

Scientists believe that the woolly mammoths suffered a population collapse around 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last major Ice Age, with the last members of the species dying out around 4,000 years ago.

Colossal’s other two projects deal with more recent extinctions. The dodo*, a flightless bird, disappeared in the late 1600s, after European explorers introduced invasive species to its native Mauritius, while the last known thylacine died in 1936 at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

read next WHO announcement

https://www.rt.com/news/611020-startup-reviving-mammoth-dodo/

*Oh not they are trying to bring Joe back!

>>22915883

15 Apr, 2025 13:50

WHO rehearses deadly ‘mammothpox’ outbreak – Telegraph

An exercise by the UN agency earlier this month simulated an outbreak of a “fictional” virus spreading across the world

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recentlyrehearsed a scenarioin which an ancient virus lying dormant in the remains of a woolly mammoth caused a deadly global outbreak of “mammothpox,” The Telegraph has reported, citing documents about the exercise it had obtained.

The press release by the global health authority stated that earlier this month more than 15 countries took part in Exercise Polaris, which “simulated an outbreak of a fictional virus spreading across the world,” aiming to test readiness for a new pandemic.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned earlier this month thata new pandemic “could happen in 20 years or more, or it could happen tomorrow,” describing it as an “epidemiological certainty.”

The exercise reportedly simulated an outbreak of “Mammothpox,” a fictional virus similar to smallpox, a disease with a 30% mortality rate that was eradicated in 1980, and mpox, a dangerous variant of which is currently surging across central Africa.

According to the scenario, the virus was released after ateam of scientists and documentary filmmakers excavated the remainsof a woolly mammoth in the Arctic. Within weeks, intensive care units across the world were “overwhelmed” and health systems were struggling to cope. (see prior article linked and posted)

Although the countries involved in the exercise were able to contain the fictional virus, a real outbreak would prove much more complicated, the WHO acknowledged.

The agency’s briefing document reportedly stated that“ancient viruses can remain viable in permafrost for thousands of years,” and the thawing of the permafrost in the Arctic due to climate change may cause a “release of pathogens previously unknown to modern medicine.”

Taking advantage of the warmer temperatures, scientists and ivory hunters are digging for ancient remains in the Arctic, including those of woolly mammoths, The Telegraph noted. Many ivory hunters reportedly carry out the excavations without taking adequate health precautions.

Scientists have also been studying ancient samples,with researchers working on bringing to life “zombie viruses” found alongside frozen animal remains, which could potentially be deadly to humans. A virus revived by French scientist Jean-Michel Claverie in 2023 was 48,500 years old, based on radiocarbon dating.

https://www.rt.com/news/615794-who-exercise-mammothpox-outbreak/

(The WHO desperate for money and attention, but weird that company start up trying to resurrect the Woolly Mammoth, announced in Jan. 2025, wonder how “Texas-based Colossal Biosciences” is related to WHO, are they trying to resurrect one for more pandemics? Link to prior article: https://www.rt.com/news/611020-startup-reviving-mammoth-dodo/)