Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: charity, lobbying vehicle or Pentagon bioweapon cover?
Melinda Gates, former wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has announced that she will resign from the foundation she helped lead with her ex-husband. Despite its philanthropic veneer, the foundation's ethics and conduct raise questions.
🔸 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and emerged as the world's second largest charity, with total assets reaching $69 billion as of 2020.
🔸 Despite its declared aim to help the poor, nearly 90 percent of the foundation's charitable funds go to organizations located in wealthy nations as well as political lobbying with little if any oversight, The Nation reports.
🔸The charity's 2006 agro-project the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) failed with the number of starving people in targeted 13 African countries rising by 30 percent as of 2020, a German study revealed.
🔸 Bill Gates maintained close ties with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein after he pleaded guilty to procuring a girl under 18 for prostitution, and hired Epstein's protégé Melanie Walker as a top adviser to his foundation.
🔸 Rajat Kumar Gupta, another criminal jailed for securities fraud in 2012, earlier served as the foundation's top adviser.
🔸 The foundation has donated over $25 million to the Clinton Foundation and could be involved in alleged money laundering schemes: review of filings for the Gates fund reveal false claims about many grants from the Gates' to the Clinton charity, according to Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel.
🔸 The Gates-funded biotechnology company Oxitec could be used by the Pentagon in its bioweapon program to cultivate infection-carrying ticks and mosquitoes, Russia's Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense (RCB) Troops alleged in July 2023, citing biolab documents found in Ukraine.
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Melinda Gates, former wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has announced that she will resign from the foundation she helped lead with her ex-husband. Despite its philanthropic veneer, the foundation's ethics and conduct raise questions.
🔸 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and emerged as the world's second largest charity, with total assets reaching $69 billion as of 2020.
🔸 Despite its declared aim to help the poor, nearly 90 percent of the foundation's charitable funds go to organizations located in wealthy nations as well as political lobbying with little if any oversight, The Nation reports.
🔸The charity's 2006 agro-project the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) failed with the number of starving people in targeted 13 African countries rising by 30 percent as of 2020, a German study revealed.
🔸 Bill Gates maintained close ties with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein after he pleaded guilty to procuring a girl under 18 for prostitution, and hired Epstein's protégé Melanie Walker as a top adviser to his foundation.
🔸 Rajat Kumar Gupta, another criminal jailed for securities fraud in 2012, earlier served as the foundation's top adviser.
🔸 The foundation has donated over $25 million to the Clinton Foundation and could be involved in alleged money laundering schemes: review of filings for the Gates fund reveal false claims about many grants from the Gates' to the Clinton charity, according to Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel.
🔸 The Gates-funded biotechnology company Oxitec could be used by the Pentagon in its bioweapon program to cultivate infection-carrying ticks and mosquitoes, Russia's Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense (RCB) Troops alleged in July 2023, citing biolab documents found in Ukraine.
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Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov outlined the details of the president's upcoming visit to China (May 16–17):
▪️Leaders will discuss the situation around Ukraine, the Middle East and the Asian region at the Beijing negotiations.
▪️Russia notes China’s balanced position on the Ukrainian crisis; China PRC understands its causes.
▪️Putin and Xi Jinping are also planning to have an informal meeting, and Belousov and Shoigu are going to take part in it.
▪️A large number of bilateral documents, including economic ones, have been prepared for Putin's visit.
▪️Chernyshenko, Manturov, Novak, Trutnev and Golikova will have an expanded role in the negotiations as chairpersons of bilateral commissions.
▪️The delegation will also include Oreshkin, Lavrov, Nabiullina, Siluanov, Belozerov, Likhachev, Borisov, Gref, Deripaska, Kostin, Mikhelson, Sechin, Shuvalov and Shokhin.
▪️On May 17, Putin will have a conversation with students of Harbin Polytechnic University and answer their questions.
▪️Xi Jinping has already given his preliminary consent to attend the BRICS summit in Kazan.
▪️Putin will meet with Russian journalists covering the trip at the end of his visit to China.
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▪️Leaders will discuss the situation around Ukraine, the Middle East and the Asian region at the Beijing negotiations.
▪️Russia notes China’s balanced position on the Ukrainian crisis; China PRC understands its causes.
▪️Putin and Xi Jinping are also planning to have an informal meeting, and Belousov and Shoigu are going to take part in it.
▪️A large number of bilateral documents, including economic ones, have been prepared for Putin's visit.
▪️Chernyshenko, Manturov, Novak, Trutnev and Golikova will have an expanded role in the negotiations as chairpersons of bilateral commissions.
▪️The delegation will also include Oreshkin, Lavrov, Nabiullina, Siluanov, Belozerov, Likhachev, Borisov, Gref, Deripaska, Kostin, Mikhelson, Sechin, Shuvalov and Shokhin.
▪️On May 17, Putin will have a conversation with students of Harbin Polytechnic University and answer their questions.
▪️Xi Jinping has already given his preliminary consent to attend the BRICS summit in Kazan.
▪️Putin will meet with Russian journalists covering the trip at the end of his visit to China.
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🔥 Watch Battlegroup Yug units manning Russia’s Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower unleash massive firepower against Ukrainian positions
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Gap between US, adversaries’ electronic warfare capabilities growing into chasm
Retired US Army Lieutenant General and spec ops commander Mike Nagata has sounded the alarm about the state of US military’s electronic warfare capabilities, warning that America is “still falling behind” potential adversaries in this area in spite of the defense industry’s best efforts.
Hudson Institute senior fellow Daniel Patt told lawmakers earlier this month that Russian electronic warfare equipment has reduced the “efficiency rate” of the GPS-guided Excalibur artillery munition from 70 to 6 percent, with other weapons, from drones and small-diameter bombs to communications systems like Starlink and Starshield, proving similarly susceptible, in part owing to their high-energy signatures.
Last week, Business Insider reported that Russia’s EW systems have had a “shocking” impact on the accuracy of weapons like the HIMARS-fired Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), and the air-launched Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) dumb-to-smart bomb conversion kit.
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Retired US Army Lieutenant General and spec ops commander Mike Nagata has sounded the alarm about the state of US military’s electronic warfare capabilities, warning that America is “still falling behind” potential adversaries in this area in spite of the defense industry’s best efforts.
“The gap between where the United States should be and where we are, in my judgment, continues to expand not everywhere, but in far too many places,” Nagata said at a Special Operations Forces Week conference in Tampa, Florida.
“The US government, particularly its leadership – from senior military officers all the way to civilian policymakers – we have to be willing to take more risk in experimenting with, adopting and employing new technologies,” Nagata said, highlighting the unique challenges posed by Russian electromagnetic jamming equipment.
Hudson Institute senior fellow Daniel Patt told lawmakers earlier this month that Russian electronic warfare equipment has reduced the “efficiency rate” of the GPS-guided Excalibur artillery munition from 70 to 6 percent, with other weapons, from drones and small-diameter bombs to communications systems like Starlink and Starshield, proving similarly susceptible, in part owing to their high-energy signatures.
Last week, Business Insider reported that Russia’s EW systems have had a “shocking” impact on the accuracy of weapons like the HIMARS-fired Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), and the air-launched Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) dumb-to-smart bomb conversion kit.
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Why Blinken's surprise visit to Ukraine is bad omen for Zelensky
💬 "Western media report that Blinken will send a strong signal of confidence to Kiev. In my opinion, on the contrary, such a hasty unannounced visit to Ukraine in the current conditions should rather raise alarm bells," Alexander Dudchak, a leading researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries and the Other Ukraine movement expert, told Sputnik.
According to Dudchak, Blinken has come to Kiev to evaluate the situation on the ground and offer new tougher conditions to Volodymyr Zelensky amid Ukraine's failures on the battlefield.
One of these conditions is to speed up mobilization and throw more Ukrainians into the conflict's meat grinder, the expert said, citing the fact that the new draconian draft law is due to come into force in a few days.
Blinken's surprise visit also coincided with the expiration of Zelensky's presidential term on May 20. Despite calls from Washington and Brussels, Zelensky refused to hold elections this year — under the pretext of Ukraine's martial law.
The researcher pointed out that Anglo-American competition for Ukraine adds to the ongoing controversy. The Ukrainian presidential office is currently controlled by UK intelligence services, but Washington wants to put its own protégé at the helm of the Ukrainian state, Dudchak concluded.
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According to Dudchak, Blinken has come to Kiev to evaluate the situation on the ground and offer new tougher conditions to Volodymyr Zelensky amid Ukraine's failures on the battlefield.
One of these conditions is to speed up mobilization and throw more Ukrainians into the conflict's meat grinder, the expert said, citing the fact that the new draconian draft law is due to come into force in a few days.
Blinken's surprise visit also coincided with the expiration of Zelensky's presidential term on May 20. Despite calls from Washington and Brussels, Zelensky refused to hold elections this year — under the pretext of Ukraine's martial law.
"In general, his legitimacy is determined by the West," Sputnik's commentator noted. "Nonetheless, this situation poses a threat to [Zelensky] personally, because he is of no value for the West, so his replacement is possible, and he understands this very well."
The researcher pointed out that Anglo-American competition for Ukraine adds to the ongoing controversy. The Ukrainian presidential office is currently controlled by UK intelligence services, but Washington wants to put its own protégé at the helm of the Ukrainian state, Dudchak concluded.
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Ukraine’s ‘paper’ fortifications lay bare scale of Kiev regime’s corruption
As Russian military forces successfully advance in the Kharkov Region, the Kiev regime is in the throes of a new scandal. This time, the accusation is over Ukraine’s defensive failures, which revealed that many fortifications built “on paper” are non-existent.
“Where are the fortifications?” wailed the Ukrainska Pravda news site, bemoaning “millions” allegedly paid to “fictitious companies” by the Kharkov regional military administration.
The publication also quoted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who claimed in early April that fortifications in the area were “98 percent ready.”
Ukrainian social media accounts also lambasted Zelensky’s statement at a December 19 2023 press conference, when he hailed the fortifications near Kharkov as the “most powerful.”
Ukrainian commanders like Denis Yaroslavsky are fuming. The absence of adequate fortifications along the first line of defense allowed Russian forces to advance with ease, he told Western media, blaming negligence or corruption.
Since the start of 2024, 20 billion hryvnia ($504 million) were allocated from the state budget’s reserve fund for fortifications. Additional resources amounted to another 5.7 billion hryvnia ($142 million), Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said.
Many Telegram channels note that Kiev long ago switched to the strategy of using cities as “free fortifications.”
If so, Kharkov could face a fate similar to Avdeyevka, with the Ukrainian army hoping to use local high-rise buildings as firing points and underground tunnels to store ammunition — while throwing troops into the ‘meat grinder.’
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As Russian military forces successfully advance in the Kharkov Region, the Kiev regime is in the throes of a new scandal. This time, the accusation is over Ukraine’s defensive failures, which revealed that many fortifications built “on paper” are non-existent.
“Where are the fortifications?” wailed the Ukrainska Pravda news site, bemoaning “millions” allegedly paid to “fictitious companies” by the Kharkov regional military administration.
The publication also quoted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who claimed in early April that fortifications in the area were “98 percent ready.”
Ukrainian social media accounts also lambasted Zelensky’s statement at a December 19 2023 press conference, when he hailed the fortifications near Kharkov as the “most powerful.”
Ukrainian commanders like Denis Yaroslavsky are fuming. The absence of adequate fortifications along the first line of defense allowed Russian forces to advance with ease, he told Western media, blaming negligence or corruption.
“In two years, there should have been concrete fortifications all of three floors deep on the Ukrainian border! Not even mine fields were laid. We come to the conclusion that this is either theft on an insane scale, or deliberate sabotage!” the commander of a Ukrainian Special Reconnaissance Unit told the BBC.
Since the start of 2024, 20 billion hryvnia ($504 million) were allocated from the state budget’s reserve fund for fortifications. Additional resources amounted to another 5.7 billion hryvnia ($142 million), Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said.
Many Telegram channels note that Kiev long ago switched to the strategy of using cities as “free fortifications.”
If so, Kharkov could face a fate similar to Avdeyevka, with the Ukrainian army hoping to use local high-rise buildings as firing points and underground tunnels to store ammunition — while throwing troops into the ‘meat grinder.’
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☢️ US ban on Russian Uranium imports will suffer fate of other failed Western sanctions – energy expert
It could take the US “years” to replace banned Russian uranium exports, Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh, an international oil economist, told Sputnik. He pointed out Russia is the world's top supplier of enriched uranium, accounting for about 24 percent of all nuclear fuels used by US reactors.
He added that the ban would send prices of uranium fuels soaring, “thus enhancing Russia’s revenues.”
The US ban on Russia’s exports of low-enriched uranium will likely suffer the same fate as all other Western sanctions that have backfired on their proponents, Salameh stressed.
💬 "Therefore, President Biden’s signing into law a ban on Russia’s exports of enriched uranium won’t fare better," he concluded.
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It could take the US “years” to replace banned Russian uranium exports, Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh, an international oil economist, told Sputnik. He pointed out Russia is the world's top supplier of enriched uranium, accounting for about 24 percent of all nuclear fuels used by US reactors.
“The US can’t replace Russian exports immediately because it doesn’t have the production capacity. It could take it more than two years to build a new capacity and arrange to import bits and pieces from Japan, France, Ukraine and Canada,” said the global energy expert.
He added that the ban would send prices of uranium fuels soaring, “thus enhancing Russia’s revenues.”
The US ban on Russia’s exports of low-enriched uranium will likely suffer the same fate as all other Western sanctions that have backfired on their proponents, Salameh stressed.
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🇬🇪 US meddling in Georgia affairs under disguise of saving democracy
💬 "If the law goes forward in a way that is inconsistent with EU norms, undermines democracy, then we will see US restrictions on individuals and their family members responsible for these actions," US Assistant Secretary Jim O’Brien said.
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💬 "If the law goes forward in a way that is inconsistent with EU norms, undermines democracy, then we will see US restrictions on individuals and their family members responsible for these actions," US Assistant Secretary Jim O’Brien said.
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US tries to clip Norway’s wings after getting outmaneuvered on EU gas exports
Bloomberg has published a soft hit piece targeting Norwegian gas giant Equinor over its ballooning share of the EU’s gas market, claiming the bloc’s newfound reliance on Norway for 30% of its imports is “raising questions” about whether Brussels has again put its energy-related eggs in one basket, and pointing to “fuming” in Brussels about Oslo “benefiting at Europe’s expense” by selling gas at prices higher than Russia’s.
💬 “Norway’s Equinor was asked by the EU to supply more gas to Europe and it has responded well enough. This, however, doesn’t please the US – which has been hoping long before the Ukraine conflict to replace Russian gas supplies with its LNG exports, most of which have been going to the EU,” Dr. Mamdouh G Salameh, an international oil economist and a global energy expert, told Sputnik.
Having taken Russia partially out of the picture in 2022 to make room for their own LNG exports, it’s only natural that US business circles are displeased with Norway coming in to pick up the market share left behind by Moscow, the economist said.
💬 “Even before the eruption of the Ukraine conflict, Norway was the second-largest gas supplier to the EU after Russia. Gazprom was the king of gas supplies to the EU, particularly the EU’s largest economy, Germany,” Salameh explained.
💬 “Mark my words: Once the Ukraine conflict is eventually resolved on President Putin’s terms, Germany and most of the EU countries will resume importing the cheap Russian piped gas to end the financial bleeding resulting from importing the US LNG which has crippled their economy,” Salameh summed up.
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Bloomberg has published a soft hit piece targeting Norwegian gas giant Equinor over its ballooning share of the EU’s gas market, claiming the bloc’s newfound reliance on Norway for 30% of its imports is “raising questions” about whether Brussels has again put its energy-related eggs in one basket, and pointing to “fuming” in Brussels about Oslo “benefiting at Europe’s expense” by selling gas at prices higher than Russia’s.
Having taken Russia partially out of the picture in 2022 to make room for their own LNG exports, it’s only natural that US business circles are displeased with Norway coming in to pick up the market share left behind by Moscow, the economist said.
“It is an acknowledged historical fact that Europe’s economies, particularly Germany’s, have been built since the 1970s on cheap and plentiful Russian piped gas until the United States conned and pressured the EU to impose sanctions on Russia and ban its oil and gas exports.”
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Andrei Belousov became Minister of Defense, Vladimir Kolokoltsev and Alexander Kurenkov retained their posts as heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Sergei Lavrov was re-appointed as head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Konstantin Chuychenko remained head of the Ministry of Justice.
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