Re: #84 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Böhse Tante]

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Among other things, about Hill & Knowlton, who are selling us a pandemic today:

How PR Sold the War in the Persian Gulf

https://www.prwatch.org/node/25/print

Although this is an old article, apparently from 2005, it may still be interesting.

[刘汉]

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Via goggel search:

"vor 18 Stunden — (CNN) Nicaragua's government has broken off diplomatic relations with Taiwan and embraced Beijing, declaring "there is only one China in the ..."

This one is very "transatlanticist":

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Nicaragua-bricht-Beziehungen-zu-Taiwan-ab-article22989633.html

Regime change on the horizon....

[刘汉]

Question still remains though. How hard is western Asia, middle eastern population being bullied with forced vaccinations? Are these protocols enforced only on Westen world population? I never hear any news from middle east about this. Because if vaccines really are what we think they are and westerners start to drop off in the future, how hard would it be for Turks and their helthy populace for example to push on Helm peninsula?

There is no order given in China (and the vaccine is different). I think, the Western countries are forcing their people and all the Third world countries, who apply for a credit from the Worldbank or IMF.
Maybe it is very easy. The pharma companies have made a deal with the Western governments and have bribed them to buy their vaccines. Maybe the governments have paid upfront a huge amount of tax money for a huge supply of vaccine. So now the governments are forcing their people to buy this shit. If the people wouldn't buy it and pay for it, the money would be lost. For the pharma companies this was a sure deal. They have their money already and have made sure, that more will come in.

[Zambeezi]

U.S. imposes sweeping human rights sanctions on China, Myanmar and North Korea
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-issues-human-rights-related-sanctions-adds-sensetime-blacklist-2021-12-10/

The United States on Friday imposed extensive human rights-related sanctions on dozens of people
and entities tied to China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh,
and added Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime Group to an investment blacklist.

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Armenia will allow employers to fire unvaccinated workers
https://archive.md/WGLSh
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/armenia-employers-fire-unvaccinated-workers-81672587
Armenia began its mass vaccination campaign in April with authorities planning to inoculate 700,000 of the country's 2.9 million citizens by the end of the year.
However, only 516,989 citizens had been fully vaccinated by Dec. 6.

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Maine Governor Activates National Guard to Help at Hospitals After Nurses Fired Due to Mandates
https://archive.md/SNFzb
https://www.theepochtimes.com/maine-governor-activates-national-guard-to-help-at-hospitals-after-mandate-forced-out-hundreds_4147701.html

Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Dec. 8 activated the state’s National Guard to assist at hospitals
after her COVID-19 vaccine mandate caused hundreds of nurses
and other health care employees to leave their jobs or be fired.

[Zambeezi]

A godly man teaches for 23 years... and stands resolute. love it.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/dkbQgDezE1Y8/


fight the enslavement. break the 'spell'.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/O3fkSR2RUiGd/

[Zambeezi]

Most reported US Omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated -CDC
https://archive.md/OFA2v
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/most-reported-us-omicron-cases-have-hit-the-fully-vaccinated-cdc-688433

[Zambeezi]

“That is absolutely false,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Thursday https://t.co/6eiF2VaV5h

— Global Witness (@FakeWelt) December 10, 2021

[Zambeezi]

BREAKING: Danbury prison officials released me this morning to serve the rest of my sentence (136 days) at home.

Huge step forward for our campaign -- but the battle for my freedom and to hold @Chevron accountable continues. So grateful. pic.twitter.com/sThTjM6od9

— Steven Donziger (@SDonziger) December 9, 2021

[Zambeezi]

President of the Duma Volodin pretending to listen to QR protestor.
fucking politicians same EVERYWHERE. spit.

Il presidente della Duma Volodin https://t.co/f4lmUIUpe8
ha incontrato personalmente gli oppositori dei codici QR e ha promesso di prendere in considerazione la loro opinione.

Almeno in Russia fanno finta di ascoltare il popolo. pic.twitter.com/8OpcB5kVGb

— Cieloitalia (@_cieloitalia) December 10, 2021

[刘汉]

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/12/10/672395/Russia-warns-NATO-over-violation-of-Montreux-Convention

The Russian government says it has witnessed some violations of the Montreux Convention by NATO members, amid soaring tensions between Moscow and the West, and emphasizes that such a situation is “unacceptable.”

Speaking at an online briefing in Moscow on Friday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, “We do not ignore them (violations) and declare this practice unacceptable through our diplomatic channels.”

“It is not surprising, since those who engaged in this are throwing themselves into the ideology of replacing international law with a rules-based order,” the Russian senior diplomat added.

Ryabkov recalled that the Montreux Convention had proved to be contributing to the stability of the Black Sea region for decades, but the Western states ignore this fact and prefer to insist on their rightness instead of being guided by international law.

[Zambeezi]

"Gref is nothing more than a bank node figurehead, an WEF apparatchik."
Sberbank CEO Herman Gref has a simple vision: to make life in Russia intolerable
The green checkmark that cares for all Russians
https://archive.md/91jp9
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/the-green-checkmark-that-cares-for[/b]

Edward Slavsquat
Dec 7

►
It happened gradually, then suddenly.

It’s a proven fact that economic conferences are massive snooze-fests where nothing of consequence is said or done;
the “real talk” occurs in dimly lit rooms where central bankers and corporate monopolists smoke their sour apple vapes
as they plot the global enslavement of every living creature and grain of sand. That’s just how it is.

The only exception to this law of nature occurred at the 2012 Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum,
when Sberbank CEO Herman Gref decided to liven up the conversation with a bit of ancient occult wisdom.
Gref—who a year earlier was elected to the World Economic Forum’s Board of Trustees
—moderated a panel discussion at the annual conference titled:
“Way Out from the Management Dead-End: Wisdom of the Crowd or the Authoritarian Genius?”

The conversation quickly spiraled into stale clichés and boilerplate soliloquies
about “crowdsourcing the future” and yadda yadda. Gref decided to intervene.

“You are saying terrible things,” he chided the panelists.
“You are proposing to transfer power into the hands of the population…
If each person can participate directly in management, then what are we managing?”

►
Gref expounding on ancient manipulation tactics

Citing the teachings of Confucius and Kabbalah mysticism, he reminded everyone of the millennia-old tradition
of shielding the truth from the untrustworthy masses.

“People don't want to be manipulated when they have knowledge.
What does it mean to remove the veil from the eyes of millions of people and make them self-sufficient?
How do you manage them? Any mass control implies an element of manipulation,” Gref observed.

His performance was something of a scandal.
The Sberbank CEO later insisted his provocative remarks were designed to stimulate debate,
adding that he “laughed heartily” when he learned so many people had taken his “jokes” literally.

Okay, maybe. But a decade later, Hermann Gräf (as he’s known in his mother tongue), an ethnic German born in exile in Kazakhstan,
is the indisputable Manager of the Russians. What the heck happened, here?


►Sputnik V: it’s what bankers crave

On February 27, 2020, Gref revealed he was ready to provide grants
to Russian scientific institutions to help develop drugs to fight COVID-19.
It was a curiously timed offer: a day earlier, the Russian government announced
that five COVID vaccine prototypes were in the “initial stage of work.”

Sberbank played a key role in the genesis of Sputnik V.
According to Gref, the company was “included in the work on the creation of a vaccine”
—what later became Russia’s flagship COVID shot—
and helped “to ensure the transfer of technology to production sites.”

“When scientists needed funds, we provided charitable assistance.
In general, we have invested about 1 billion rubles ($13.5 million),” the CEO explained in an April interview with RBC.

In May 2020, Sberbank registered a subsidiary, Immunotechnology LLC,
which was specifically created as a “project office to support the production of a vaccine against the new coronavirus.”

►
A proposed Sputnik V logo that was later rejected by the Russian Health Ministry (unconfirmed)

A “secret government order” reportedly issued by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in December 2020
designated Immunotechnology as the sole supplier of Sputnik V to Russia’s regions.
The Sberbank subsidiary shipped the first 9 million doses of the vaccine
before transferring supply and delivery logistics to state conglomerate Rostec in March of this year.

Gref’s bank practically adopted Sputnik V as one of its own products.
Sberbank employees were urged in May 2020 to participate in the drug’s earliest phases of testing,
and the company later launched a marketing campaign aimed at convincing Russians
that “normal life” wasn’t possible without the vaccine.

The bank even released a video—featuring introspective piano music and poetic one-liners
that tug at your heartstrings—called: “SberVaccination: IT’S TIME!”

►

A month before Russia’s nationwide inoculation drive began in January,
Gref stressed that vaccination would be “absolutely voluntary” for Sberbank’s 300,000 workers.

It was a short-lived promise.
In June, reports emerged that Sberbank’s unvaccinated employees
would lose bonuses, allowances and salary increases, and would also go on vacation last;
unjabbed workers were also informed they would soon be required to provide a negative PCR
every three days at their own expense.

In terms of vaccination status, Gref is certainly leading by example: the Sberbank chief is one of Sputnik V’s earliest disciples.

In December 2020, Gref revealed he was among the first to be injected with Sputnik V.
He later claimed the vaccine likely “saved his life” during a business trip.

The head of Russia’s largest bank claims he got the shot sometime in April 2020—
meaning he was likely part of controversial “informal trials”
in which Gamaleya Center scientists injected themselves and family members with the experimental drug.
“Formal” Phase I testing began on June 18. One can only applaud Gref for risking his life for the greater good.
After all, there was no way for him to know—as we do now—that Sputnik V is 10,000% safe and effective.

Gref has repeatedly insisted his involvement in Sputnik’s development and rollout was entirely altruistic
and cannot even be considered “business” in the traditional sense of the word.

“It was a request from the [Russian] government to help in the role of project management,
because a vaccine had never been created in such a time frame,” the CEO said in April.

Perhaps so. But one Russian outlet critical of Gref’s dealings described Sputnik V’s “project management”
as “the largest legal channel for pumping state budget funds abroad.”

►Not a bank—but a universe

Sberbank made a big announcement on September 24, 2020: please stop calling us a bank. We have new pronouns.

Reborn as “Sber,” the company was now “a whole universe of services for human life and businesses, which helps us accomplish our mission”:

   Only yesterday Sber was just a bank,
while today we’re becoming an assistant helping people deal with their vital tasks.
Every day. And that is why our widely known motto “Sber.
Always there for you!” is relevant more than ever.

It happened gradually, then suddenly: Sberbank now has a dirty finger in every Russian piroshki.
There is SberMarket. SberHealth. SberID. SberFood. SberSound. SberAI. Many other Sbers.

►
Herman Gref announcing that he owns you


What does this “universe of services” entail for the average Ivan just trying to quietly live his life in Herman Gref’s Russia?

In July 2020, Sberbank and Visa announced the two companies
would begin testing a “biometric solution” for making payments.
The technology would allow guests at designated cafes across Moscow to
“pay bills by simply looking into the camera at a payment terminal.”

Nine months later, Sberbank said it would introduce its facial-recognition payments system
in 100 supermarkets in Moscow and Krasnodar. As Reuters reported at the time:
   As banking margins shrink, Russia’s largest lender
is expanding in areas ranging from food delivery and taxi services
to cloud computing and cyber security.
   Sberbank CEO Herman Gref told the RBC daily on Thursday
that the “mind-boggling services” made possible
by sharing biometric data would convince people
to let companies access their personal data.



According to experts, pay-by-face can save up to 10 seconds per transaction.
This is critical because what if you find yourself in a situation
where you need to buy a bagel in under 15 seconds or else the whole world explodes?

Curiously, Sberbank prioritized the development of its biometric data systems just as coronavirus began to spread around the world.

Gref notified the Russian government in late February 2020 about the bank’s plan
to create a “masked face recognition technology,” adding that the company was
“trying to understand what our colleagues in China are doing” in order to find a “solution”
to masked faces that escape algorithmic detection.

The initiative was announced a week after Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin revealed
compliance with coronavirus quarantine in the Russian capital was being monitored using automated facial recognition.

Success in this endeavor came quickly.
In May, Sberbank signaled it was ready to install video surveillance systems in Russian schools and universities
that would be capable of recognizing masked faces. The device would also measure a person’s temperature.

“If the temperature turns out to be high, or the camera does not recognize the child,
he will not be able to pass through the turnstile,” Kommersant reported, citing Gref’s comments on the new technology.

►
A friendly and very necessary biometric face recognition system in a Sochi school in 2019

Actually, the technology can hardly be called “new”: Russia began experimenting with biometric school ID systems several years ago.
In 2019, the ministry of education said that all Russian schools will have facial recognition systems by 2024.

Moscow authorities recently announced they plan to introduce the technology in city schools by the end of 2022.

Just now—literally as we are typing these words—
the city of Voronezh unveiled a new partnership with VisionLabs, part of the Sberbank ecosystem.
VisionLabs has been tasked with installing “a metal detector frame with a thermal imaging camera” in all of the city’s schools.

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And so it begins.

“The framework not only allows you to detect potentially dangerous objects,
but also to measure the temperature of everyone who enters the school contactlessly,” the local Voronezh News reported.

By the way: do you think you can escape Gref’s detection just because you are a dog? Think again:

►
More than one way to read that headline, unfortunately.



When “Sber” went live in September 2020, Gref was asked to comment
on his empire’s new-and-improved logo—a checkmark inside of a circle.
He responded:
   The checkmark in the logo was retained as a symbol of dedication and focus on “good for the person,”
and the round shape—as a symbol of focus on the needs of the client.

Indeed.

►A QR tag for every Russian

As Russia’s Uniparty prepares to push through a unanimously-loathed nationwide QR-coded health ID,
it’s purely coincidental that Gref, in partnership with Russia’s central bank,
has been toying with a QR code-based payment system.

Actually, Sberbank has been working tirelessly to ensure every Russian has the privilege of being QR-tagged.

“SberBank clients can now download the QR code of a vaccination certificate
or a previous illness using SberBank Online—without leaving home.
To do this, you need to go to the SberBank Online mobile application
and use the ‘COVID-19: get a QR code’ option,”
reads a very helpful Sberbank press release from November.

These digital vaccine IDs will save hundreds of millions of Russian lives,
despite the fact that Sputnik V does not stop COVID transmission.

Notwithstanding the clear public health benefits of this new identification system,
one can’t help but fantasize about how QR codes might also dovetail with Gref’s dream
of releasing a “Sbercoin” crypto currency in partnership with JP Morgan,
or
the Bank of Russia’s plan to test-run a digital ruble next year.
Did we mention Gref is a member of JP Morgan’s International Council?


►Schwab’s errand boy in Moscow

Probably a few of you are thinking: “this Gref fellow sounds a bit like that other weird German, Klaus Schwab.”

Gref is an unrepentant Great Reset-er. As we mentioned earlier, he’s a member of the World Economic Forum’s board of trustees
—which means exactly what you think it means.

►
Gref at WEF

In July 2020, Gref co-hosted a “cybersecurity” exercise with the World Economic Forum. Then he had a nice chat with Tony Blair.

►

Research any “issue” being used to curb-stomp humanity and you are almost certain to come across Gref’s name. In December 2020, Sberbank pledged to serve as a “key vehicle in Russia for a World Economic Forum initiative to encourage companies to take better account of risks caused by climate change in their business planning.”


►So this is how it ends?

Unfortunately yes, because this internet article is already too long and it might not e-mail properly to our loyal Substack Subscribers.

What were you expecting? You want us to tell you everything will be okay?

It’s 50/50, really.

[Böhse Tante]

U.S. imposes sweeping human rights sanctions on China, Myanmar and North Korea
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-issues-human-rights-related-sanctions-adds-sensetime-blacklist-2021-12-10/

The United States on Friday imposed extensive human rights-related sanctions on dozens of people
and entities tied to China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh,
and added Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime Group to an investment blacklist.

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Oh, now I understand why a few days ago a world map was shown on TV where Bangladesh was marked as a "dictatorship". My friend from Bangladesh was also very surprised about this. Bangladesh is at most a dictatorship like India.

Now the question is, what evil has Bangladesh done? Too much cooperation with China in infrastructure projects, which the Western "development policy" was not capable of? For example, bridges, which were really needed in this country?

[Böhse Tante]

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Here the German translation about Sberbank:

https://www.zodlikeproductions.net/t249p90-corona-ausgesuchte-texte-und-forenbeitrage#116973

[Zambeezi]

Same.
Btw, it is being rolled out by WEF-scum in Russia too, SImilar methods of coercion, but they go straight to saying "Your getting a QR code is the point"
1) https://t.co/DGPDScmhZD
2)https://t.co/ogLcrrSNC7

— Scott Jackson III. I insta-bloc malignant fools (@ScottJa93317027) December 10, 2021

[Böhse Tante]

I have now read the whole text and it seemed to me like a kind of "Unternehmen Barbarossa" through the back door. But it is a global, concerted "Barbarossa", and it is no longer only against the Russians but against the population of the whole world.

[Zambeezi]

Unvaxxed In Austria Could Be Imprisoned For A Year
https://summit.news/2021/12/10/unvaxxed-in-austria-could-be-imprisoned-for-a-year/

Susanne Fürst of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), which voted against an amendment to an administrative law,
warned that it could be used to punish the unjabbed with much harsher sentences.
Despite Fürst protesting that the amendment could be used to further punish the unvaccinated,
the measure was approved anyway.

The amendment raises fines from €726 (£617/$818) to €2,000 (£1,701/$2,255)
and increases prison time for those who refuse to pay from four weeks to up to a year.

Given that Austrians who don’t get vaccinated by February face fines of up to €7,200 ($8,000) for non-compliance,
those who refuse to pay would also face a 12 month jail sentence.
The amendment also orders people who are jailed to pay for their own imprisonment.

Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg vowed to hit the unvaccinated with “penalties” if they still refused to get the jab,
while asserting that they should “suffer.”

Given that some technocrats are asserting that the vaccination program will never end,
the initial one year prison sentence for vaccine refusniks could be just the beginning.

[KneelB4Zod!]

10s of thousand protests in Austria:

Impressionante marea umana a Vienna. Vaccinati e non, insieme contro lockdown, obbligo vaccinale e passaporto sanitario. pic.twitter.com/PqJXhypMde

— RadioGenova (@RadioGenova) December 11, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

In the third, sixth and thirteenth districts of #Kabul, #ISIS/#Daesh militants blew up three buses carrying local Shiites #Afghanistn pic.twitter.com/gAvIGsJYwu

— Middle East Update (@islamicworldupd) December 11, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

ASB News / MILITARYPart
@ASBMilitary
·
1h
BREAKING: USA stops a 200 million dollar aid package, including weapons — to Ukraine to “ease tensions” after speaking with Putin.

[KneelB4Zod!]

ASB News / MILITARYPart
@ASBMilitary
·
2h
Iran says that Tehran and Russia are about to sign a 20-year agreement on comprehensive cooperation between the 2 countries which they say is similar to the 25-year agreement they signed with China a few months ago.

[khnum]

10s of thousand protests in Austria:

Impressionante marea umana a Vienna. Vaccinati e non, insieme contro lockdown, obbligo vaccinale e passaporto sanitario. pic.twitter.com/PqJXhypMde

— RadioGenova (@RadioGenova) December 11, 2021

FFS Austria is now even worse than Australia what part of your government is trying to kill you dont these people understand

[Luda]

"Gref is nothing more than a bank node figurehead, an WEF apparatchik."
Sberbank CEO Herman Gref has a simple vision: to make life in Russia intolerable
The green checkmark that cares for all Russians
https://archive.md/91jp9
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/the-green-checkmark-that-cares-for[/b]

Edward Slavsquat
Dec 7

►
It happened gradually, then suddenly.

It’s a proven fact that economic conferences are massive snooze-fests where nothing of consequence is said or done;
the “real talk” occurs in dimly lit rooms where central bankers and corporate monopolists smoke their sour apple vapes
as they plot the global enslavement of every living creature and grain of sand. That’s just how it is.

The only exception to this law of nature occurred at the 2012 Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum,
when Sberbank CEO Herman Gref decided to liven up the conversation with a bit of ancient occult wisdom.
Gref—who a year earlier was elected to the World Economic Forum’s Board of Trustees
—moderated a panel discussion at the annual conference titled:
“Way Out from the Management Dead-End: Wisdom of the Crowd or the Authoritarian Genius?”

The conversation quickly spiraled into stale clichés and boilerplate soliloquies
about “crowdsourcing the future” and yadda yadda. Gref decided to intervene.

“You are saying terrible things,” he chided the panelists.
“You are proposing to transfer power into the hands of the population…
If each person can participate directly in management, then what are we managing?”

►
Gref expounding on ancient manipulation tactics

Citing the teachings of Confucius and Kabbalah mysticism, he reminded everyone of the millennia-old tradition
of shielding the truth from the untrustworthy masses.

“People don't want to be manipulated when they have knowledge.
What does it mean to remove the veil from the eyes of millions of people and make them self-sufficient?
How do you manage them? Any mass control implies an element of manipulation,” Gref observed.

His performance was something of a scandal.
The Sberbank CEO later insisted his provocative remarks were designed to stimulate debate,
adding that he “laughed heartily” when he learned so many people had taken his “jokes” literally.

Okay, maybe. But a decade later, Hermann Gräf (as he’s known in his mother tongue), an ethnic German born in exile in Kazakhstan,
is the indisputable Manager of the Russians. What the heck happened, here?


►Sputnik V: it’s what bankers crave

On February 27, 2020, Gref revealed he was ready to provide grants
to Russian scientific institutions to help develop drugs to fight COVID-19.
It was a curiously timed offer: a day earlier, the Russian government announced
that five COVID vaccine prototypes were in the “initial stage of work.”

Sberbank played a key role in the genesis of Sputnik V.
According to Gref, the company was “included in the work on the creation of a vaccine”
—what later became Russia’s flagship COVID shot—
and helped “to ensure the transfer of technology to production sites.”

“When scientists needed funds, we provided charitable assistance.
In general, we have invested about 1 billion rubles ($13.5 million),” the CEO explained in an April interview with RBC.

In May 2020, Sberbank registered a subsidiary, Immunotechnology LLC,
which was specifically created as a “project office to support the production of a vaccine against the new coronavirus.”

►
A proposed Sputnik V logo that was later rejected by the Russian Health Ministry (unconfirmed)

A “secret government order” reportedly issued by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in December 2020
designated Immunotechnology as the sole supplier of Sputnik V to Russia’s regions.
The Sberbank subsidiary shipped the first 9 million doses of the vaccine
before transferring supply and delivery logistics to state conglomerate Rostec in March of this year.

Gref’s bank practically adopted Sputnik V as one of its own products.
Sberbank employees were urged in May 2020 to participate in the drug’s earliest phases of testing,
and the company later launched a marketing campaign aimed at convincing Russians
that “normal life” wasn’t possible without the vaccine.

The bank even released a video—featuring introspective piano music and poetic one-liners
that tug at your heartstrings—called: “SberVaccination: IT’S TIME!”

►

A month before Russia’s nationwide inoculation drive began in January,
Gref stressed that vaccination would be “absolutely voluntary” for Sberbank’s 300,000 workers.

It was a short-lived promise.
In June, reports emerged that Sberbank’s unvaccinated employees
would lose bonuses, allowances and salary increases, and would also go on vacation last;
unjabbed workers were also informed they would soon be required to provide a negative PCR
every three days at their own expense.

In terms of vaccination status, Gref is certainly leading by example: the Sberbank chief is one of Sputnik V’s earliest disciples.

In December 2020, Gref revealed he was among the first to be injected with Sputnik V.
He later claimed the vaccine likely “saved his life” during a business trip.

The head of Russia’s largest bank claims he got the shot sometime in April 2020—
meaning he was likely part of controversial “informal trials”
in which Gamaleya Center scientists injected themselves and family members with the experimental drug.
“Formal” Phase I testing began on June 18. One can only applaud Gref for risking his life for the greater good.
After all, there was no way for him to know—as we do now—that Sputnik V is 10,000% safe and effective.

Gref has repeatedly insisted his involvement in Sputnik’s development and rollout was entirely altruistic
and cannot even be considered “business” in the traditional sense of the word.

“It was a request from the [Russian] government to help in the role of project management,
because a vaccine had never been created in such a time frame,” the CEO said in April.

Perhaps so. But one Russian outlet critical of Gref’s dealings described Sputnik V’s “project management”
as “the largest legal channel for pumping state budget funds abroad.”

►Not a bank—but a universe

Sberbank made a big announcement on September 24, 2020: please stop calling us a bank. We have new pronouns.

Reborn as “Sber,” the company was now “a whole universe of services for human life and businesses, which helps us accomplish our mission”:

   Only yesterday Sber was just a bank,
while today we’re becoming an assistant helping people deal with their vital tasks.
Every day. And that is why our widely known motto “Sber.
Always there for you!” is relevant more than ever.

It happened gradually, then suddenly: Sberbank now has a dirty finger in every Russian piroshki.
There is SberMarket. SberHealth. SberID. SberFood. SberSound. SberAI. Many other Sbers.

►
Herman Gref announcing that he owns you


What does this “universe of services” entail for the average Ivan just trying to quietly live his life in Herman Gref’s Russia?

In July 2020, Sberbank and Visa announced the two companies
would begin testing a “biometric solution” for making payments.
The technology would allow guests at designated cafes across Moscow to
“pay bills by simply looking into the camera at a payment terminal.”

Nine months later, Sberbank said it would introduce its facial-recognition payments system
in 100 supermarkets in Moscow and Krasnodar. As Reuters reported at the time:
   As banking margins shrink, Russia’s largest lender
is expanding in areas ranging from food delivery and taxi services
to cloud computing and cyber security.
   Sberbank CEO Herman Gref told the RBC daily on Thursday
that the “mind-boggling services” made possible
by sharing biometric data would convince people
to let companies access their personal data.



According to experts, pay-by-face can save up to 10 seconds per transaction.
This is critical because what if you find yourself in a situation
where you need to buy a bagel in under 15 seconds or else the whole world explodes?

Curiously, Sberbank prioritized the development of its biometric data systems just as coronavirus began to spread around the world.

Gref notified the Russian government in late February 2020 about the bank’s plan
to create a “masked face recognition technology,” adding that the company was
“trying to understand what our colleagues in China are doing” in order to find a “solution”
to masked faces that escape algorithmic detection.

The initiative was announced a week after Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin revealed
compliance with coronavirus quarantine in the Russian capital was being monitored using automated facial recognition.

Success in this endeavor came quickly.
In May, Sberbank signaled it was ready to install video surveillance systems in Russian schools and universities
that would be capable of recognizing masked faces. The device would also measure a person’s temperature.

“If the temperature turns out to be high, or the camera does not recognize the child,
he will not be able to pass through the turnstile,” Kommersant reported, citing Gref’s comments on the new technology.

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A friendly and very necessary biometric face recognition system in a Sochi school in 2019

Actually, the technology can hardly be called “new”: Russia began experimenting with biometric school ID systems several years ago.
In 2019, the ministry of education said that all Russian schools will have facial recognition systems by 2024.

Moscow authorities recently announced they plan to introduce the technology in city schools by the end of 2022.

Just now—literally as we are typing these words—
the city of Voronezh unveiled a new partnership with VisionLabs, part of the Sberbank ecosystem.
VisionLabs has been tasked with installing “a metal detector frame with a thermal imaging camera” in all of the city’s schools.

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And so it begins.

“The framework not only allows you to detect potentially dangerous objects,
but also to measure the temperature of everyone who enters the school contactlessly,” the local Voronezh News reported.

By the way: do you think you can escape Gref’s detection just because you are a dog? Think again:

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More than one way to read that headline, unfortunately.



When “Sber” went live in September 2020, Gref was asked to comment
on his empire’s new-and-improved logo—a checkmark inside of a circle.
He responded:
   The checkmark in the logo was retained as a symbol of dedication and focus on “good for the person,”
and the round shape—as a symbol of focus on the needs of the client.

Indeed.

►A QR tag for every Russian

As Russia’s Uniparty prepares to push through a unanimously-loathed nationwide QR-coded health ID,
it’s purely coincidental that Gref, in partnership with Russia’s central bank,
has been toying with a QR code-based payment system.

Actually, Sberbank has been working tirelessly to ensure every Russian has the privilege of being QR-tagged.

“SberBank clients can now download the QR code of a vaccination certificate
or a previous illness using SberBank Online—without leaving home.
To do this, you need to go to the SberBank Online mobile application
and use the ‘COVID-19: get a QR code’ option,”
reads a very helpful Sberbank press release from November.

These digital vaccine IDs will save hundreds of millions of Russian lives,
despite the fact that Sputnik V does not stop COVID transmission.

Notwithstanding the clear public health benefits of this new identification system,
one can’t help but fantasize about how QR codes might also dovetail with Gref’s dream
of releasing a “Sbercoin” crypto currency in partnership with JP Morgan,
or
the Bank of Russia’s plan to test-run a digital ruble next year.
Did we mention Gref is a member of JP Morgan’s International Council?


►Schwab’s errand boy in Moscow

Probably a few of you are thinking: “this Gref fellow sounds a bit like that other weird German, Klaus Schwab.”

Gref is an unrepentant Great Reset-er. As we mentioned earlier, he’s a member of the World Economic Forum’s board of trustees
—which means exactly what you think it means.

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Gref at WEF

In July 2020, Gref co-hosted a “cybersecurity” exercise with the World Economic Forum. Then he had a nice chat with Tony Blair.

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Research any “issue” being used to curb-stomp humanity and you are almost certain to come across Gref’s name. In December 2020, Sberbank pledged to serve as a “key vehicle in Russia for a World Economic Forum initiative to encourage companies to take better account of risks caused by climate change in their business planning.”

I bet
►So this is how it ends?

Unfortunately yes, because this internet article is already too long and it might not e-mail properly to our loyal Substack Subscribers.

What were you expecting? You want us to tell you everything will be okay?

It’s 50/50, really.

Meanwhile in russia


Americans haha

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Wtf?

Karma Ali area in Basra, Iraq at the hands of unidentified gunmen, and they exchanged fire with 23 mm weapons.- SabereenNews pic.twitter.com/t6GDecPU7Q

— Suribelle (@Suribelle1) December 11, 2021

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Blesa Shaways
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#Breaking
#US combat forces to begin withdrawing from Camp of victory near #Baghdad’s international airport tomorrow.

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Russia foreign minister cancels his trip to the middle east amidst tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine and Russian troop buildup. His trip included a visit to Algeria, Morocco and Israel. Key regional partners for Russia, whatever the reason for cancelling

— Kirby (@IntelKirby) December 11, 2021

It's significant enough to not travel those 3 countries

— Kirby (@IntelKirby) December 11, 2021

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This naked woman has a point
Duration 1 min 52 sec

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BreakThrough News
@BTnewsroom
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This Iraq War veteran has a message for potential recruits: Don't enlist.

Claude Copeland, an organizer with @VetsAboutFace, spoke to us about his experiences in Iraq and how they lead him to oppose war and militarism.

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Some strange folks started to follow me in recent days on Twitter...

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