Roasting the Press Episode 56 for Sunday, January 26th, 2025
NATO Redefines “Resilience” to Gain Veto Power over Domestic Affairs of EU Members, the Effect of Russian Propaganda on EU Countries & Big Pharma is Panicking.
NATO Redefines “Resilience” to Gain Veto Power over Domestic Affairs of EU Members,
We start tonight’s program with an inquiry into a single word, co-opted and redefined by the authorities within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), to mean something entirely different from its original meaning.
The word is “resilience.” According to the Oxford Languages Dictionary, the word is defined as a “noun:”
The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. "the remarkable resilience of so many institutions."
The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity. "nylon is excellent in weaability and resilience."
The definitions make it sound like “resilience“ is good thing, well worth encouraging.
But NATO has adapted this word to mean something entirely different.
The January 25th, 2025 Eric van de Beek on Substack post, “NATO member states implement classified ‘resilience objectives,’” notes that a series of NATO policy papers under the title “Resilience Objectives“ have been adapted without question at various NATO summits since 2021.
The objectives begin with NATO’s premise that the ability to respond in the modern battlefield environment doesn’t just depend on military capabilities. It also depends on how civilian government’s have structured “critical infrastructure, supply chains and health systems.”
NATO executives believe that their mandate “to protect the freedom and security of its member states through military and political means,” allows it to dictate how civilian governments structure and maintain these systems.
And they may have a point, or at least a justification.
The van de Beek post quotes the July 11th, 2023 “NATO Vilnius Summit Communiqué,” Issued by NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Vilnius.
It NATO press release says:
The Resilience Objectives will strengthen NATO and Allied preparedness against strategic shocks and disruptions.
They will boost our national and collective ability to ensure continuity of government and of essential services to our populations, and enable civil support to military operations, in peace, crisis and conflict.
Allies will use these objectives to guide the development of their national goals and implementation plans, consistent with their respective national risk profile.
We will also work towards identifying and mitigating strategic vulnerabilities and dependencies, including with respect to our critical infrastructure, supply chains and health systems. Allies should also promote societal resilience.”
According to van de Beek’s story:
On October 24th, 2024, during a debate in Dutch Parliament about “pandemic prepardness”, Minister of Public Health, Floor Agema, said: “We must be prepared for any disaster that comes our way. Hybrid threats, military threats, natural disasters or a new pandemic.
All these threats require strengthening the resilience of our healthcare.
She then revealed that all Dutch government policy that touched on “resilience” was bound by “NATO obligations” and that the implementation of these obligations was currently coordinated by Dutch security service NCTV.
Agema and her fellow cabinet members had been briefed about the obligations in July 2024 by officials of the ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, but they have no control over the actual policy.
The story notes that only the Dutch Security Service and senior members of the Dutch Parliament really know what the NATO “resilience” commitments are. The politicians mostly don’t since the “NATO obligations” are mostly classified.
So no one really knows what the “resilience“ directives, rules and regulations say or mean. Compliance is enforced by the domestic security service which answers to a foreign military power.
How democratic.
The van de Beek story notes that both the Dutch House of Representatives and Dutch national sovereignty are affected by these NATO commitments, since NATO considers them mandatory and require compliance with the resilience directives from all Dutch and NATO government institutions.
No matter what the Dutch government says.
Part of what’s going on here is an effort by European leaders in NATO and the EU to prepare for the fast approaching day when the United States withdraws from long standing European defense commitments.
It something which has been whispered in darkened European government hallways ever since 2016 when the first Trump administration announced an “America First” foreign policy wrapped around non-interventionism in foreign affairs, American nationalism, and a protectionist trade policy.
Now that Trump is back, NATO and EU leaders are waiting for the ax to fall.
To survive, they’ve made a series of centralized, authoritarian policy decisions affecting infrastructure, healthcare and freedom of speech, intended to tie the European Union together into a coherent whole.
They’re doing this whether individual EU members want to or not. Many don’t.
The November 27th, 2024 Talking with TVP World on YouTube post, ”Challenges for the new European Commission | Alberto Alemanno,” notes that the EU does not have a democratic mandate for the current policies its pursuing, both openly through the EU and secretly through EU proxies like NATO.
It’s also worth noting the roll of two specific Dutch politicians who seem to have led the charge towards “resilience” in the Netherlands:
Mark Rutte is one of the signatories of the Vilnius 2023 resilience objectives. At that time, he was prime minister of The Netherlands. In 2024, he became Secretary General of NATO.
The current Dutch Prime Minister is Dick Schoof. Before he accepted this position, he was head of the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV), which now coordinates the implementation of the NATO resilience objectives in The Netherlands.
Canada is another NATO member currently dealing with the collateral side effects of changing US policy.
Canadians have traditionally positioned themselves as a middle power between larger players, mostly the US and the UK. The UK and its “Commonwealth” is no longer strong enough to serve as a counterweight to US policy decisions. But the EU is trying to position itself as an independent, perhaps more authoritarian superpower, capable of standing up to the US.
If Canada decides to pursue its traditional role as a middle power or “honest broker” between major players, should we position ourselves between the US and a resurgent, centralized and perhaps “more authoritarian” EU?
Or should we be asking the same questions as the Dutch in an attempt to preserve our independence and freedom.
Only time will tell.
The Effect of Russian Propaganda on EU Countries
The January 18th, 2018 UATV English on YouTube post, “European Parliament Debates: The Effect of Russian Propaganda on EU Countries,” is essentially the beginning, public stages of the EU’s effort to tackle Russian disinformation and propaganda targeted against EU interests.
Back in 2018 the EU’s concerns were Moscow’s attempt to influence the UK's vote to leave the EU, the Dutch referendum on Ukraine relations, the French and German elections and the Catalan independence referendum.
These days, the EU is just as concerned over the US and its attempts to influence public policy through social media platforms like “X.“
But the weapons the EU has decided to utilized to protect its interests are the same in both cases. They’re using centralization, secrecy and censorship.
After all, if you’re a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Big Pharma is Panicking
And finally tonight, here’s the January 25th, 2025 Mongo Minds on Bitchute post, “Big Pharma Is Panicking.”
For context, the January 13th, 2025 MedPage Today post, “Docs Organize Against, and for, RFK Jr.'s Nomination to Run HHS,” notes that there are people, some of whom are doctors, who are both for (the Committee to Protect Health Care) and against (Make America Healthy Again) Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s appointment as US Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Forgetting to note this is obvious propaganda.
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