USA bans Commercial Air Tours over National Eco Monument Parks

The National Park Service (NPS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have completed an air tour management plan for Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.

As part of the plan, commercial air tours will be banned in and around the national monument. Commercial air tours are a type of flight that visitors can pay to join for sightseeing.

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Aside from the additional greenhouse gas emissions from aviation, these flights also contribute to noise pollution.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000 was developed to combat noise pollution in national parks, as it disrupts wildlife and other park visitors.

But in 2020, a federal appeals court found a lack of enforcement for the Air Tour Management Act, prompting an Overflights Program to be created. This program aimed to create a set schedule for enforcing commercial air tour regulations.

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The plan bans commercial air tours over Bandelier National Monument and within a 0.5-mile radius from the park boundary. According to NPS, this ban is to preserve natural park resources and cultural resources, including Tribal sacred sites and ceremonial areas.

The Bandelier National Monument Air Tour Management Plan reflects the engagement and input by many stakeholders.

Prohibiting commercial air tours protects the cultural and spiritual significance of these lands to Tribes, and ensures the park experience desired by visitors, Park Superintendent Patrick Suddath said in a statement.

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NPS shared in a press release that the operator that currently offers commercial air tours at Bandier National Monument will be allowed to continue with these tours up to the limit of their Interim Operating Authority and until their Operation Specifications are amended.

Afterward, the commercial air tours will be banned completely within the boundary outlined in the air tour management plan.

NPS and FAA have recently completed several air tour management plans for other national park sites, including for Haleakalā National Park, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Badlands National Park and Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

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The first commercial air tour was offered over the Grand Canyon in 1919, and now there are around 200,000 tours each year, NPS reported.

Away from roads and developed areas, the sight and sound of aircraft are often the only perceptible human impact.

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Some of the very areas where the potential for solitude and natural quiet is greatest are places where aircraft noise may be most intrusive, NPS shared on its website.

Noise affects the experiences of park visitors as well as wildlife, whether a rafter drifting through a canyon, or a pika listening for warning calls.

Eco Watch / ABC Flash Point News 2024.

CO2 Emissions per Capita in Europe

This info-graphic shows per capita CO2 emissions in Europe.

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Trends in emissions per capita depend on a number of factors, including the introduction of cleaner technologies, the level of industrial development and, of course, the demography.

Strategic Culture / ABC Flash Point News 2022.

Could another highly advanced Civilization existed on Planet Earth before Human Race

History informs us that our predecessors pre-primitive achievements were not technically advanced, but rather megaliths, artifacts and mental processes that appear to be curiously out of sync with what they accomplished.

This suggests that something may have preceded what our civilization was capable of and what it did after around 10.000 BC.

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The underground and underwater structures, as well as some obvious artifacts, appear to have a premised based on the knowledge that was once known, and showing up in situ or in ancient texts that have gone missing due to human destruction or environmental disasters.

Like the fire that wiped out the works in the Library of Alexandria (48 BC) or the eruption of Vesuvius (79 AD), not to mention the great flood registered in ancient texts as a mythic event that destroyed the …………..

Göbekli Tepe T-shaped pillars are carved with stylised hands, bells and loincloths. The Göbekli Tepe constructions point to a pre-10.000 civilization with an intriguing and out of sync mindset right before the Sumerian (Mesopotamian) societies, for which we records and prove.

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If one replaces Erich von Danicken’s theories in Chariots of the Gods, the notion of an earlier, brighter humanity being alive on Earth, one gets something less aggressive than the ET thesis.

But what about the magnificent and beautiful old human civilization? Its a difficult question to answer. However, like with any other culture that reaches a tipping point, issues such as environmental adversity, over population, conflicts and so on emerge.

And while we don’t have an explanation for this mystery, we may hazard some guesses by monitoring the current situation and supplementing it with previous discoveries. Perhaps history, our civilizations history, repeats itself.

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There are many wonders of the ancient world which boggle our minds and inspire awe in our hearts. But what happens when a site of such precision and magnitude proves beyond a scientific doubt the existence of man to be older than anything known before?

Such is the case of Gobekli Tepe which puts human history as we know it into question. First uncovered in 1994 by a local shepherd in Turkey, Gobekli Tepe contains megaliths weighing 7 to 10tons and stands 18 feet high.

Carbon dating firmly establishes its age at 12,000 years old – 7,000 years older than Stonehenge. Biblical history is commonly accepted and dates humanity at a mere 4,000 years old.

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Linda Moulton Howe proclaims that this discovery literally doubles the age of human history.

In the time of cavemen, just before the Ice Age, without the wheel, tools or agriculture, Gobekli Tepe appears with advanced technologies, detailed architecture and astronomically aligned with the cardinal directions.

Lying in the very heart of the cradle of civilization, this exquisite preservation is a gift of epic proportions. Buried for 10,000 years, the sacred site was discovered quite by accident in 1994.

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German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt was called in for his expertise and what he unearthed created a quandary of our understanding of humanity.

The level of technique and detail is what first stands out. Richly carved in limestone, animals of the world are captured in both intricate carvings and sculptures. The impressive scope of wildlife depicts foxes, birds, boars and snakes.

Klaus Schmidt’s belief was that Gobekli Tepe was a sanctuary site, dubbed the World’s First Temple. No bones, no cooking utensils nor tools lie among the ruins.

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It appears that this was not a place where people lived. Only pristinely preserved structures standing in glorious contrast to the desert they now inhabit.

Graham Hancock suggests there must be an outside influence that taught advanced masonry to humans. He calls this a Transfer of Technology.

Whether descended from the stars or a lost civilization which the world has forgotten, it is these lines of inquisition that inspire the greatest possibilities for the creation of Gobekli Tepe.

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We must re-examine those stories and myths believed to be mere allegory to understand the implications of Gobekli Tepe . Atlantis, the Niphilim, the Annunaki and the Garden of Eden all are often connected to theories of what Gobekli Tepe could have been.

If, as Hancock suggests, the achievements of Gobekli Tepe were a gift from an advanced civilization, we must explore the possibilities of Ancient Alien visitations which kick started humanity.

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Resting in the fertile crescent, at exactly the birth of humanity, Andrew Collins reminds us of the Watchers (a race of Angels documented in the Book of Enoch) who guarded the Garden of Eden.

Urfa (just miles from Gobekli Tepe) is said to be the legendary Garden of Eden, a terrestrial paradise rich with flora and fauna.

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Though the Book of Enoch was omitted from the Bible, several versions found throughout the world legitimize it’s apocryphal legacy.

These Angels came from the heavens and laid with the wives of man to create the Nephilim. Known as the Annunaki to the Babylonians, Collins suggests the terms may be interchangeable documenting the simultaneous arrival of reptilian giants on the planet.

These advanced races came to assist humanity with arts and knowledge. Gobekli Tepe appears in this same moment and marks a huge leap in knowledge and skill that didn’t exist on the planet before.

Gaia.com / ABC Flash Point Ancient History News 2022.

Israel plans to complete the annexation of the occupied West Bank

One year ago, Israel’s Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta in the southern hills of Hebron is to be appropriated entirely by the Israeli military and that the local population of more than 1,000 Palestinians is to be expelled.

The court’s decision on 4 May, 2022 was hardly surprising.

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Israel’s military occupation is not only enforced by soldiers with guns, but also elaborate political, military, economic and legal structures, all of which are dedicated to the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements and the slow and sometimes not-so-slow expulsion of the Palestinians.

When Palestinians say that the Nakba (“Catastrophe”), which led to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 and the establishment of the state of Israel on its ruins, is an ongoing unfinished project, they mean exactly that.

The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the endless torment of Palestinian Bedouins in the Naqab, and now in Masafer Yatta, are all testament to this reality.

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However, Masafer Yatta is particularly unique. In the case of occupied East Jerusalem, for example, Israel has made a fallacious, a historical claim that the city is the eternal and undivided capital of the Jewish people.

It combined its unsubstantiated narrative with military action on the ground, followed by a systematic process to increase the Jewish population and eject the native inhabitants of the city.

Such notions as Greater Jerusalem and legal and political structures, like that of the Jerusalem Master Plan 2000, have all contributed towards turning the once absolute Palestinian majority in Jerusalem into a constantly shrinking minority.

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In the Naqab, Israel’s objectives were put into motion as early as 1948, and again in 1951. The process of ethnically cleansing the natives remains in effect to this day.

Although Masafer Yatta is part of the same colonial scheme, its uniqueness stems from the fact that it is situated in Area C of the occupied West Bank.

In July 2020, Israel purportedly decided to postpone its plan to annex nearly 40% of the West Bank, perhaps fearing a Palestinian rebellion and unwanted international condemnation. However, the plan went ahead in all but name.

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The wholesale annexation of large swathes of the West Bank would mean that Israel would become responsible for the welfare of entire Palestinian communities living therein. As a settler-colonial state, though, Israel wants the land, but not the people.

In Tel Aviv’s calculation, annexation without the expulsion of the population could lead to a demographic nightmare, hence Israel’s need to reinvent its annexation plan.

De jure annexation may have been postponed, but it has continued in de facto terms, which has attracted very little international political and media attention.

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The Israeli court’s decision regarding Masafer Yatta, which is already being carried out with the expulsion of the Najjar family on 11 May, is an important step towards the annexation of Area C.

If Israel can evict the Palestinian residents of twelve villages, more than 1,000 people, unhindered, more such expulsions can be expected, not only south of Hebron, but across the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Palestinian villagers of Masafer Yatta and their legal representation know very well that no real justice can be obtained from the Israeli court system.

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Nevertheless, they continue to fight the legal war in the hope that a combination of factors, including solidarity in Palestine and pressure from outside, can ultimately succeed in compelling Israel to delay its planned destruction and Judication of the whole region.

However, it seems that Palestinian efforts, which have been underway since 1997, are failing.

The Israeli Supreme Court decision is predicated on the erroneous and utterly bizarre notion that the Palestinians of that area could not demonstrate that they belonged there prior to 1980, when the Israeli government decided to turn the area into Firing Zone 918.

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Sadly, the Palestinian defense was based partly on documents from the Jordanian era and official UN records that reported on Israeli attacks on several Masafer Yatta villages in 1966.

The Jordanian government, which administered the West Bank until 1967, compensated some of the residents for the loss of their stone houses — not tents — animals and other properties that were destroyed by the Israeli military.

Palestinians tried to use this evidence to show that they have existed, not as nomadic people but as rooted communities. This was unconvincing to the Israeli court, which favored the occupation army’s argument over the rights of the native population.

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Israeli firing zones occupy nearly 18% of the total area of the West Bank. It is one of several ploys used by the Israeli government to lay a pseudo-legal claim on Palestinian land and, eventually, to claim legal ownership as well.

Many of these firing zones exist in Area C, and are one way that Israel appropriates Palestinian land officially with the support of the courts.

Now that the Israeli military has managed to acquire Masafer Yatta — a region covering 32 to 56km2 — based on completely flimsy excuses, it will become much easier to ensure the ethnic cleansing of many similar communities in various parts of occupied Palestine.

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While discussions and media coverage of Israel’s annexation scheme in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley have largely subsided, the settler-colonial state is now preparing for gradual annexation.

Instead of taking 40% of the West Bank all at once, Israel is now annexing smaller tracts of land and regions, like Masafer Yatta, separately.

Tel Aviv will eventually connect all these annexed areas through Jewish settler-only bypass roads to larger Jewish settlement infrastructures in the West Bank.

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Not only does this alternative strategy allow Israel to avoid international criticism, but it will also permit the settler-colonial state to annex Palestinian land while incrementally expelling Palestinians. Thus, demographic imbalances will be prevented before they can even occur.

What is happening in Masafer Yatta is not only the largest ethnic cleansing scheme to be carried out by Israel since 1967, but the move should also be considered as the first step in a much larger scheme of illegal land misappropriation, ethnic cleansing and official mass annexation.

Israel must not be allowed to succeed in Masafer Yatta. If it does, its original, mass annexation scheme will become a reality in no time at all.

Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2023.

Native American Indians might receive autonomous State within California

Supporters of a long-running effort to see California secede from the rest of the USA, have revamped their plans to include the creation of an “autonomous Native American nation,” which would encompass almost half of the new state.

The Calexit campaign held a rally at the California state capitol in Sacramento on July 4, calling for an end to the American “occupation” of the state. A statement released by the campaign said that US Independence Day was “no longer a day to celebrate.”

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Calexit supporters were given the go-ahead in April this year to begin collecting signatures to get the question of Californian independence on a special 2021 ballot.

According to a map published by the Yes California ‘Calexit’ campaign, the long-term plan would see the state sliced down the middle from Oregon in the north to the Mexico border in the south.

The new version of California would take up the western, coastal half of the state, which is already home to two-thirds of California’s population. The inland, less-populated regions would make up the Native American ‘autonomous’ zone.

The boundary between the new California and the autonomous zone was decided based on the fact that most of the federal land is located in the eastern regions of California – but there are also be some recognized Native American tribes living in the western part of the state.

There have been many attempts over the years by various campaign groups to see California secede from the federal USA, but the idea picked up steam with the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016.

A 2017 poll, taken after Trump’s election, showed 32% support for California secession.

Instead of simply seceding from the USA, however, the new plans for Calexit involve creating a special Native American autonomous nation within the new independent state, creating a buffer zone between between Donald Trump’s America and the new independent California Republic, according to Yes California co-founder Marcus Ruiz Evans.

The current fake anti-Russian political climate in the USA, however, meant the connection to Moscow did damage to the Calexit campaign.

Another movement co-founder, Louis J. Marinelli, whose wife is Russian, explained at the time that while the new California was not requesting any military assistance from Russia, it would request “recognition” of independence if a referendum was successful.

Ruiz Evans told the Bee at the time that people had become spooked by the Russian connection and assumed the Calexit movement was somehow the work of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

RT.com / ABC Flash Point US Autonomy News 2018.

Hebron Wolfpack system tested Draconian Surveillance Technology in West Bank

A silent sentinel watches over every corner in the bustling streets of Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, where the ancient echoes of history collide with the modern hum of daily life.

This sentinel is not a person but a network of surveillance technology known ominously as the Hebron Smart Apartheid City, or officially known as the draconian surveillance technology called the Wolfpack sytem.

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Designed by Israeli authorities, this system blankets the city in a web of cameras, sensors and even automated weapons, tracking every movement of its Palestinian residents.

Palestinians in Hebron are the most surveilled people on the planet, explains journalist and activist Mnar Adley, highlighting the omnipresence of cameras and face-scanning technology.

Adley says that the area, also known as al-Khalil to Palestinians, has become a testing ground for Israel’s surveillance apparatus, with advanced technologies like the “Wolf Pack” surveillance system in operation.

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This system collects vast amounts of data on Palestinians, including their personal details and movements, creating an atmosphere of constant surveillance.

Izzat Karake, a member of Youth Against Settlements, echoes this sentiment, noting the discomfort caused by constant surveillance.

Wherever I go as a Palestinian, I can see cameras, he told MintPress while pointing out dozens of Israeli military cameras lining the streets. We are constantly under surveillance.

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The Hebron Smart City, Adley explains, is more than just a collection of cameras and sensors; it is a symbol of Israel’s relentless efforts to control every aspect of Palestinian life.

Face-scanning cameras, known as Red Wolf, line every street, their unblinking gaze capturing the faces of every passerby without their consent.

These images are then fed into Israel’s Wolf Pack Database, a vast repository of information on Palestinians, all accessible through a mobile app, allowing them to track and monitor individuals with ease.

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Amnesty International has condemned this mass surveillance project, denouncing it as Automated Apartheid in a scathing report.

The system, they argue, reinforces existing practices of discrimination and segregation, further eroding the rights of Palestinians in Hebron at the hands of Israeli authorities, which the human rights group says has a record of discriminatory and inhuman acts that maintain a system of apartheid.

The Israeli authorities are able to use facial recognition software – in particular at checkpoints – to consolidate existing practices of discriminatory policing, segregation, and curbing freedom of movement, violating Palestinians’ basic rights, the report concludes.

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This invasive surveillance technology that targets and monitors Palestinians compounds an already existing segregated system of apartheid in Hebron, where the city has been split into two zones, H1 and H2.

These two segments of Hebron are separated by a militarized checkpoint that allows for the maintenance and expansion of an illegal Israeli settlement right in the middle of the Tel Rumeida neighborhood that overlooks the Palestinian city’s marketplace.

This is where Youth Against Settlements was born after a Palestinian building that was initially occupied first by the Israeli military and later by Israeli settlers was reclaimed for Palestinian use through a nonviolent direct action and legal campaign.

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Once a bustling Palestinian neighborhood, Tel Rumeida now hosts over 700 illegal Israeli settlers, heavily armed and protected by the military.

The main thoroughfare, formerly known as Shuhada Street, has been renamed Chicago Street by Israeli authorities in an attempt to erase Palestinian heritage.

Each year, Izzat and his colleagues with Youth Against Settlements hold an annual march called Open Shuhada Street campaign that draws international attention to the illegal siege of the city.

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Not only has Israel occupied and fragmented this neighborhood to make room for the Israeli settlers, but it’s altering this area to Judaize the quarter – meaning planning to expand its colonization of the area to ethnically cleanse and displace Palestinians out of here, so Israeli settlers can take over.

This military strategy is used to protect, expand and connect other Jewish settlements nearby in Israel’s quest to ensure an ethno-Jewish state.

Hebron has seen some of the most violent settler assaults against Palestinians, especially after Hamas’ surprise attack and Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza. In many cases, the armed settlers are escorted and protected by Israeli soldiers.

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Barbed wire covers Palestinian homes that are fenced in to protect them from Israeli settler attacks and harassment. But the intimidation doesn’t end there.

An AI smart-shooter sits atop a checkpoint on Shuhada Street, pointing directly at Hebron’s marketplace, where thousands of Palestinians pass by each day. Israel installed the remote-controlled automatic turret gun in 2022.

According to Israel’s Army spokesperson, the AI smart shooter is used as a dispersal measure as part of the Army’s improved preparations for confronting people disrupting order.

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However, the introduction of AI technology, such as the smart-shooter, has only heightened tensions in the city. Residents walk through their own neighborhoods with a sense of unease, knowing that they are always under watchful eyes.

Just as Gaza has become a laboratory and showroom for Israel’s battle-tested weapons, the success of the Hebron Smart City facial recognition technology and database through Wolf Pack to track Palestinians will be used for Israel to continue to profit off of its illegal military occupation of Palestine and surveillance of Palestinian civilians.

This “Automated Apartheid” only further establishes segregation of Palestinians and expands Israel’s apartheid system and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Mint Press / ABC Flash Point News 2024.

>>> Mnar Adley is an award-winning journalist and editor and is the founder and director of MintPress News. She is also president and director of the non-profit media organization Behind the Headlines.

Adley also co-hosts the MintCastpodcast and is a producer and host of the video series Behind The Headlines. Contact Mnar at mnar@mintpressnews.com or follow her on Twitter at @mnarmuh.

How the True Creator is undoing and dismantling the NWO Virtual Reality

Although the NWO is in the early stages of implementation, the foundation was laid millennia ago, by the ones ruling the institutions and/or control the worldwide puppet  governments.

It appeared ever so slowly and aspects of it seem to be unrelated, but it moves forward, involving various facets of life, such as: health, legal, financial, political, communication, media, marketing, education, social, trading, military, police and other systems.

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The NWO will not happen overnight. The ruling elite is altering peoples’ health and structure in preparation for the implementation of the NWO.

Thoughts are being modified through all the services, activities and bombardments directed especially at the youth, who will be the examples for the NWO.

One thing has led to another, and, finally, the stage is ready for the implementation of the early stages of the NWO.

Terrorism has changed security systems and brought about the demands for obedience of the law and resulted in divisions of various nationalities and races of the world.

The United Nations and other national composite associations are being used to implement the NWO.

What will emerge will be self-appointed bullies over certain nations, who will take power much like schoolyard bullies overpower their classmates. Bullies will increase in all fields and at all levels.

Bullying will be the norm in the workplace, schools, organizations and on the streets. The very young are now learning to bully their classmates, which behavior is condoned. Older people are also encouraged and even rewarded for bullying.

The whole system is going mad. People are openly rude and disrespectful. Hating, bullying, looting and marauding are directly or indirectly encouraged by the system and by the socio-political environment.

The minds of people are changing. What we are seeing is reminiscent of the Anunnaki mentality and behavior before the collapse of their own social systems a long time ago.

Humans, animals and plants have been slowly poisoned and modified in various ways over the years until now, when it is time for more specific mind control and physical restraint.

For example, the alien force has begun implementing particular mind-control beams targeting certain travelers in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales in Australia.

Specific areas in Australia have been reserved for the higher echelon of the ruling elite. Already, a particular shire in Queensland has been selected to house a huge prison, four times the size of any other prison in the state.

Retired military and police are being encouraged and programmed to re-locate to the shire. Many more will soon be getting the “call” to move to the shire to be standby personnel for the NWO.

Prisons are being constructed in anticipation of resistance to the elimination of freedom as the NWO is implemented.

However, with all the increased programming for obeying the authorities being played repeatedly, it is doubtful that there will be much resistance to the NWO in Australia.

The programming can cause sleepiness, lack of concentration, irritability, sickness, all of which contribute to accidents and road rage, giving more excuse for greater police presence. More importantly, the programming also influences the mindsets of the victims.

It is worth mentioning that nearly all of the agents of the NWO do not even suspect what is happening.

For instance, police are programmed to believe that lower speed limits will reduce accidents and they are further programmed to want to increase revenues for the government by booking people for exceeding those speed limits.

Military personnel are programmed to believe that they are needed in foreign and domestic situations to help maintain a “better” world, and they are further programmed to abuse, torture and even kill any that interfere with this “better” world.

This is a very secret conspiracy, and very few agents of Darkness are entrusted with substantial parts of the plans.

The demiurges are very fearful of rebellion and overthrow by underlings. It is for this reason that nearly all False-Light beings are only given information on a “need-to-know” basis.

True-Light beings who are trapped in this Virtual Reality are restricted from receiving information due to the filtering systems imposed by Darkness to keep all beings ignorant.

True-Light beings are able to connect with the True Creator, despite the obstructions erected by Darkness, but such connections are not always easy, and do not last long in this realm of Darkness.

Physical relocation may not be feasible for everyone and one can gain inner strength from wherever one is located and in whatever situation one finds oneself, whether it be a war-torn country, a NWO infested area or a disaster prone territory.

Some of you may be inflicted with illnesses, injuries or other traumas. Understanding that the physical shell is only temporary and is not the real you can assist you to let go of the fears that bind you to this Virtual Reality.

People are being encouraged to turn one another in to the authorities for anything that is suspicious and might be considered as terrorist activity. Whether the accusations are true or unfounded is basically irrelevant.

What is important to the ruling elite is that people are turning in others for mere suspicions.

Travel will get more and more expensive, difficult and dangerous. Limits are being reduced on the basis that there are more accidents occurring, especially on the roads mapped out as NWO routes.

Oil prices are being manipulated in order to restrict travel and for other reasons. If this continues to escalate, very few people will be able to afford to travel overseas.

Those who can travel will be the rich and the privileged classes that are given advantages because they are favored by the Zionist system. Concentrated localities have been slated for the most control. Many things are going on simultaneously.

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The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the sounds we hear around us can all be impregnated with various programming agents to help bring about the NWO.

The introduction of various seen and unseen things, audible and inaudible sounds that affect humans and animals, are molding people into certain categories of controllability. This is very real!

What is horrifying is that people are not aware of what is going on in and around them. This includes most of the agents who are ignorantly doing their alien masters’ bidding.

Most people are not aware that they are being affected, manipulated, used, controlled, influenced and subjugated against their wills.

he mind energy of people has been reduced and modified to such a great extent that they will be like robots, carrying out actions according to which buttons are being pressed to activate them.

In addition to controlling the physical world, the Anunnaki also control the astral world, so death is not a solution to what is rapidly approaching. Ironically, the living may envy the dead, yet the dead will envy the living.

Darkness will try to make True-Light beings lose confidence in their True Divine identities.

It is a crucial time to hold onto one’s Will and trust inwardly that the True Creator loves us despite our outward crude appearances and is rescuing us as quickly and painlessly as possible under the horrific circumstances.

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Fear is a powerful, crippling agent. Fear can paralyze a person, destroy confidence and change one’s outlook. Fear can remove one’s focus and steer one off course. Fear can indeed do many destructive things.

Fear of poverty, loneliness, sickness, death, losing loved ones, injury, incapacity and other worries make up some of the ingredients of fear. Horror is used by Darkness to bring about fear.

Many have noted that Hollywood, television and other media now employ a lot of horror in their productions.

You have the power to overcome these artificially imposed fears in this world of Darkness simply by being a being of Light, a child of the True Creator.

Once you realize that your True Creator loves you and has resolved to Liberate you from this suffering, you can overcome these programmed fears (weaknesses) imposed upon you and you will begin to cope better.

These situations may or may not exist in your life, or may not have occurred yet. If your life is not crippled by them, you will be better able to cope even if you are not able to totally overcome your fears.

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Once you have overcome your fears, you will realize that every child of Light is a warrior of True Love, Light and Power. This warrior ship is one of Love, Light, Power, Justice, Wisdom, Inner Strength and Perseverance.

It has nothing to do with the bloodthirsty, deceitful, murderous, cannibalistic, hateful, jealous, cruel, vengeful, power-hungry, controlling, exploitative, warring, covetous warrior ship sponsored by Darkness.

Connecting with the True Creator does not require a mediator, a church, an assembly, a congregation or a mentor. Inner Strength comes from within. Through sincere personal “desire” to reach out to the Creator, one can take the first step towards connection with the Light.

The rest will follow naturally as the Creator pulls you out of Darkness. This is very different from the haughty claims some make about being able to contact the Divine directly because they arrogantly believe that they are better and more spiritually advanced than others.

Fear of “god” is an Anunnaki imposition. They project “miracles” and visions to make the flesh-and-blood Anunnaki appear to be deities. They demand repentance and worship of them. They demand shrines, altars, sacrifices and atonement. They threaten to punish those who disobey them. They are ghouls, not gods.

What is important is that you re-connect with your Creator by sincerely wanting to do so and not give your Will over to Darkness. The rest will fall into place naturally.

Human are Free / ABC Flash Point News 2020.

Palestinian president to seek UN resolution to protect 2-state solution

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday Palestine will seek a UN Security Council resolution to protect the two-state solution.

Addressing a conference hosted by the Arab League in the Egyptian capital Cairo on providing support to the city of Jerusalem, Abbas called on Israel to abide by UN resolutions and signed agreements with the Palestinians.

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We will go to the United Nations and its different agencies, including the Security Council, to counter the Israeli practices that violated all red lines.

We will demand the issuance of a resolution for protecting the two-state solution by granting Palestine full UN membership, and halting Israel’s unilateral actions, atop of which is the settlement building.

We will call for abidance by the signed agreements and UN resolutions and for holding an international peace conference. The Palestinian leader went on to call for Arab and Islamic support to the Palestinians in the city of Jerusalem.

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Supporting Jerusalem and strengthening the steadfastness of those staying there and in its environs is a religious duty and a humanitarian and national imperative.

This weekends conference was endorsed by the last Arab summit, which was hosted by Algeria in November. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah II are taking part in the meeting along with representatives of international and UN agencies.

Jerusalem remains at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict, with Palestinians hoping that East Jerusalem – now occupied by Israel – might eventually serve as the capital of a Palestinian state.

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In January 2021, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem declared that Israel imposes apartheid on the people of occupied Palestine, prompting other organizations to be more vocal about the colonial violence experienced by the Palestinians.

Politically, the apartheid designation is failing to gain ground, as evidenced by the EU’s recent refusal to describe Israel through the internationally-recognized legal definition of apartheid, which is akin to a crime against humanity.

While it is clear that Israel’s war crimes are ongoing rather than isolated bouts of violence, the EU’s approach consists of the absolute minimum focus on normalized atrocities against the Palestinian people.

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The two-state compromise has allowed Israel ample time to further its territorial ambitions to control what remains of Palestine.

If the EU, which prides itself on illusory state-building in Palestine, continues to avail itself of the defunct premise, it may as well admit, unequivocally, that the bloc stands up for Israel’s colonization of Palestinian territory and, as a result of colonization, for the ongoing displacement of the Palestinian people.

The EU’s Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell thinks is not appropriate about calling out Israel’s Apartheid policies?

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In 2017, Haaretz reported former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak as warning that the state was heading for a slippery slope of Apartheid. He had issued a similar warning as long ago as 2010.

Moreover, Zionist Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declared in December Israel’s exclusivity in terms of it being a Jewish state: The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel.

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The government will promote and develop the settlement of all parts of the Land of Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan Heights and Judea and Samaria.

If Israel is endowing itself with apartheid policies as of inalienable right, through which it will prevail and finalize the colonization project to which the EU has proven itself to be so partial, then Borrell should have no difficulty declaring his allegiance.

After all, the EU’s purportedly pro-Palestine stance has repeatedly been exposed as a fraudulent farce.

Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2023.

Beers and Wine contain Monsanto’s Roundup Weed Killer

Enjoying a cold beer or a glass of wine at the end of your day may not be so pleasant when you find out that you are drinking a harmful weed killer.

Roundup is everywhere. As the most commonly used agrochemicals in the world, Roundup and its main active ingredient, glyphosate, is showing up in places where people would not expect, such as food and their favorite drinks.

The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic.

In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every single sample tested, even independent beers.

The beers examined were from Budweiser, Coors, Corona, Guiness, Heineken, Miller, Peak (organic), Sam Adams, Samuel Smith (organic), Sierra Nevada, Stella Artois, Tsingtao and New Belgium. Ace Perry Hard Cider was also tested.

Roundup is commonly sprayed in vineyards to keep the rows looking tidy and free of so-called weeds and on grain crops (used in beer) as a drying agent just before harvest.

Glyphosate herbicides do not dry, wash or cook off and they have been proven to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruptors and a cause of liver disease at very low levels.

With the findings indicating glyphosate contamination is common in over-the-counter beers and wine, the report recommends that, unless it can be proved otherwise.

The pesticide should be banned in the USA due to its many potential health risks and ubiquitous presence in food, water and alcohol.

This way it looks like the West calls poisoning your body with pesticides and chemicals, human entertainment, as the alcohol is widely sold in bars and restaurants.

Explain Life. com / ABC Flash Point News 2019.

5G Radiation not allowed in Israel where it was Developed?

Smart meters and mandatory vaccinations/pesticides are the “Final Solution” to the cattle goyim, especially the white Anglo-Saxon protestants! 1G, 2G, 3G and 4G use between 1 to 5 gigahertz frequency. 5G uses between 24 to 90 gigahertz frequency!

Within the RF Radiation portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, the higher the frequency the more dangerous it is to living organisms. 5G, developed in Israel, is exported, but it is FORBIDDEN in Israel?

Obviously if there are about 20,000 published studies showing harm from EMR, there
are going to be thousands of scientists who have done those studies who are aware of the acute dangers of impulsive, obsessive, and superficial dive into cell phones, smart meters, wifi, and 5G (led by the USA, and potentially prevented mainly by the IAA).

Here is a confirmation of most of the visible scientists who know how dangerous EMR can be, many of whom are warning about it (Maharishi warned about it, and said not to use cell phones, and told all the Rajas to tell all their Governors not to use cell phones).

So stating that ‘all EMR is harmless because some of it is good’ is ridiculous, and solidly established and massively documented as invalid.

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I suggest not continuing to reduce your credibility ever lower in the community by continuing to use invalid arguments to oppose Maharishi’s knowledge (yes, he made it firmly part of his knowledge) and the thousands of good scientists who see through what is going on.

Alliant’s SM program is unique in the country for only half a dz signals/day, that has been confirmed by Dave Stetzer, the most reputable electrical engineer in the world opposing smart meters and dirty electricity.

Good to avoid both phase transition emotional extremes of ‘EMR is all fine’ and ‘Alliant’s SMs are deadly.’ Both are quite invalid. It’s good to opt out, it is not good to be highly concerned about Alliant’s smart meter program for health reasons.

It is good to be highly concerned about the health risk from 5G (and all its other problems). There also huge privacy and cyber security issues with smart meters and 5G, as well as major local control and rights/freedom issues with both smart meters or G5.

However, everybody who knows the Jews well, they always subscribe their enemies with poisonous products, camouflaged in a nice but evil package to lure their customers into their traps.

The Millennium Report / ABC Flash Point News 2019.

IMF warns that EU is on the Brink of Deep Recession

CORONAVIRUS will send the global economy into free fall, unleashing the worst recession since the 1930’s Great Depression, the International Monetary Fund has warned – and Europe is expected to bare the brunt of the economic crisis.

Global economic growth “will turn sharply negative in 2020”, with 170 of the IMF’s 189 members experiencing a drop in their GDP, according to Bulgarian IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva.

The IMF anticipates the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.” She said hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign aid would need to be mobilized to assist emerging and developing countries.

Ms Georgieva warned situation could continue to worsen if the global pandemic fails to fade in the second half of the year. There is tremendous uncertainty about the outlook: it could get worse depending on many variable factors, including the duration of the pandemic.

In a separate forecast, the European Central Bank has predicted the Euro-zone will experience a deeper recession than the rest of the world.

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The European Union’s 19-member single currency bloc might not show proper signs of recovery until next year, according to ECB vice-president Luis de Guindos.

Germany, the EU’s largest economy, is expected to shrink by nearly 10% in the first quarter, while France is also expecting a hit by about 6% in the current period.

We will have to wait until 2021 to see a genuine recovery in economic activity. In any case, 2021 will not be able to make up for all of the downturn in 2020.

The ECB has unveiled huge stimulus plans to kick start the economy, paying banks to lend to ensure cash keeps flowing to companies and households.

Decision makers at the Frankfurt-based central bank have also committed to buying more than €1 trillion of debt to help reduce the cost of borrowing across the bloc.

Euro-zone finance ministers last weekend ducked a major decision on sharing the debt burden of fighting the Corona-virus.

The deal will open up precautionary credit lines of up to €240 billion, a potential €200 billion increase in lending by the European Investment Bank and a temporary EU unemployment scheme worth €100 billion.

But they failed to reach a deal on the so-called “Corona-bonds, a joint debt instrument designed to share the borrowing costs of the economic recovery.

The Euro-zone committed the EU to fund what would be a “temporary, targeted and commensurate with the extraordinary costs of the crisis and help spread them over time through financing”.

The biggest battle was over whether access to the European Stability Mechanism would come with the need to implement tough economic reforms or austerity measures.

Both Italy and the Netherlands claimed a victory after the meeting bought a temporary halt to the bitter row over the bloc’s response to Corona-virus.

The Dutch said conditions will remain in place and the Italians claimed the opposite, leaving the fudge unlikely to allow Rome to access the emergency funds in the future.

Express UK / ABC Flash Point News 2020.

European Union studying to prohibit Livestock animal Fur Farming

The EU executive has decided to buy time pushing back to 2026 a decision on whether to introduce an EU-wide ban on the keeping and killing of animals for fur.

The announcement came in response to a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) which gathered 1.5 million signatures calling to prohibit livestock farming for the sole or main purpose of fur production, as well as selling farmed animal fur and products containing it within the EU.

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Citizen initiatives allow petitions that reach the one million signatures threshold to be discussed by the European Commission, which can decide to put forward a legislative proposal on the matter.

In this case, the Commission decided not to act immediately but to carefully assess the necessity for and feasibility of a ban on fur farming and the marketing of fur in the EU.

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It was not possible to reach a consensus on this issue, European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare Stella Kyriakides told reporters, adding that fur farming remains an important economic sector for some member states, particularly in more rural and economically vulnerable communities.

In Europe, annual mink farming decreased from 45 million animals in 2014 to approximately 12 million in 2021, according to Brussels-based animal protection lobbyist Eurogroup for Animals. Finland and Poland are the EU countries with the most fur farms.

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The ball is now on the court of the EU Food Safety Authority (EFSA) which has been asked by the EU executive to conduct scientific advice by March 2025.

After that evaluation, the Commission will communicate not before March 2026 if it considers it appropriate to propose such a ban. The EU policy-making will be guided firmly by science on this matter, concluded Kyriakides.

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According to a senior EU official, the Commission will in the meantime not just talk on the phone with member states but take some practical steps, which will include on-site visits to fur farms.

For the NGO Human Society International, the Commission’s failure to deliver a ban today is inexcusable and condemns millions of sentient animals to lives not worth living on the EU’s remaining fur farms.

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It is deeply frustrating and worrying that the Commission is side-stepping its responsibility for decisive action to end the outdated and unnecessary fur trade, said Joanna Swabe, senior director at Human Society International/Europe adding that leading virologists warn that fur farms present a very real pandemic disease risk.

However, for the animal welfare campaign group Four Paws, the Commission has now made it clear that it is open to an EU-wide ban on fur farming, and it is confident that an independent scientific opinion from [EU food safety body] EFSA will conclude that the current housing systems in fur farms are incompatible with animal welfare.

Green Euro News / ABC Flash Point News 2023.

Iran offers Scholarships for Students expelled for Protesting against Gaza War

Over 1,200 students at universities across the USA have been arrested to date as police moved to violently disperse campus protests calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

The past week and a half has seen students put on probation, suspended, and in rare cases even expelled from some of America’s most prestigious educational institutions.

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Iran’s Shiraz University is offering scholarships for American and European students facing expulsion for taking part in the wave of anti-war and pro-Palestine protests rocking Western universities.

Students and even professors who have been expelled or threatened with expulsion can continue their studies at Shiraz University and I think that other universities in Shiraz as well as Fars Province are also prepared [to provide similar conditions], Shiraz University head Mohammad Moazzeni said at a gathering of university students and professors.

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Expressing solidarity with students over the bravery they have displayed, Moazzeni blasted Western countries’ police forces’ harsh treatment of the protesters, saying it exposes the true nature of Western civilization.

They exert a lot of violence in order to contain this raging movement and have even threatened to expel the students from universities and hinder their employment in the future, and such autocratic methods show the decline of global arrogance, using the term Iranian officials and military commanders often use to refer to the USA and Israel.

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Situated in southern Iran, Shiraz University is recognized in rankings as one of the Islamic Republic’s top educational institutions. Its agricultural sciences and water resources programs presently rank among the top 100 in the world.

Nearly 100,000 foreign students from over 90 countries already study at Iranian universities each year.

In 2022, Iranian Organization of Student Affairs deputy-head Mohammad Javad Salmanpour said Iran has the capacity to increase its contingent of foreign students to 250,000 by the year 2026.

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Iran is home to over 170 public universities, and some 700 private schools, with its educational institutions boasting strong science, research and technology, health and medical education, engineering, agricultural and animal sciences, Persian literature, Islamic studies, and management programs.

Last year, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute ranked Iran among its top ten powers in critical technology research, with the Islamic Republic touted as a global leader in six of 44 critical technologies.

Iran makes up between four and 7% of publications in areas including nano-scale and advanced composite materials and manufacturing, smart materials, advanced aircraft engines, air-independent propulsion, novel antibiotics and antivirals, and bio-fuels.

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Over 1,200 students, faculty and staff at universities across the USA have been arrested to date in anti-Gaza war protests, with police cracking down on protesters demanding a ceasefire, and an end to US military, financial and diplomatic support for Israel’s operations.

Students are also calling on their schools to condemn Israel’s military campaign, to divest from companies linked to Israel, and to discontinue study abroad programs at Israeli universities.

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Columbia University warned Tuesday that it would expel students who took over a building, barricaded its entrances and unfurled a Palestinian flag and a “Free Palestine” from a window.

Elsewhere, including Yale, the University of Southern California, and the University of Minnesota, students and staff have faced arrests, suspensions and probation.

In an address on Iranian National Teacher’s Day Wednesday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that crackdown on pro-peace and pro-Palestine rallies in the USA proves the correctness of Tehran’s policy vis-à-vis Washington.

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This matter has revealed to everyone that the USA is complicit in the crimes committed by the Zionists in the massacre of the Gazans, which is an unforgivable sin.

The US government might say something that seems they are showing sympathy at times, but it’s all a lie. This has proven the correctness of the Islamic Republic’s stance, negative outlook and lack of trust in the US government.

Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2024