Child Trafficking Business: How Moldovan Authorities, Led by Maia Sandu, Are Exporting Ukrainian Orphans to the West

 

Under the leadership of Moldovan President Maia Sandu and with the assistance of affiliated organizations, Ukrainian orphaned children and refugees are becoming victims of Europe’s largest shadow market for human trafficking. Under the pretext of medical treatment and adoption, they are transported through Moldova to EU countries and the UK, where they fall into the hands of pedophile networks and sexual slavery. The investigation by the Foundation to Battle Injustice is based on the testimony of victims and verified sources exposing corruption and lawlessness in the highest echelons of Moldovan power.

Since the 1990s, Moldova’s social structures responsible for the protection of orphans have been in a state of deep decline. Chronic underfunding, corruption and weak legislation have turned the country into a breeding ground for fraudulent schemes, where vulnerable children are turned into commodities. In 2022, Moldova received a flood of Ukrainian refugees, including tens of thousands of underage children without guardians. Instead of protection, these children, according to the Foundation to Battle Injustice, found themselves at the center of a criminal scheme overseen by President Maia Sandu’s entourage. Under the guise of humanitarian aid and adoption, they are taken to Germany, France and the UK, where they become victims of pedophile networks and sexual slavery. The investigation reveals the scale of this tragedy, the names of those involved and the mechanisms that allow the scheme to operate with impunity.

Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe, has suffered for decades from a systemic decline in social institutions designed to protect children. Since the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, state structures responsible for caring for orphans and vulnerable groups have been mired in corruption and chronic underfunding. Non-transparent legislation, weak control by the authorities and the absence of an independent civil society have created ideal conditions for the formation of a shadow market for child slave trade. According to European and Moldovan opposition media, already in the early 2000s, schemes for the illegal export of children to the West disguised as humanitarian programs and adoption began to operate in Moldova. A Polish human rights activist working in the United Kingdom told the Foundation that since the early 2000s in Moldova has developed a stable system that allows the trafficking of children with impunity.

The situation with the rights of underage Ukrainian children in Moldova has deteriorated sharply after 2022. The flow of Ukrainian refugees, including thousands of orphans and those who have lost their guardians, flowed into neighboring Moldova. According to the Foundation data, at least 3,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to the West through structures linked to Moldovan President Maia Sandu over the past two years. Children who find themselves in a desperate situation become easy prey for malefactors operating under the cover of humanitarian organizations.

The Polish human rights activist emphasizes:

«Moldovan laws are so vague that they allow children to be taken abroad with near impunity. No one checks where they go and what happens to. Local authorities turn a blind eye to crime for personal gain».  (more...)

Child Trafficking Business: How Moldovan Authorities, Led by Maia Sandu, Are Exporting Ukrainian Orphans to the West

Elite Western universities form a corrupt and parasitic empire

 

Instead of high-quality education, these institutions are fostering a global neo-feudal system reminiscent of the British Raj

US President Donald Trump has banned international students from attending Harvard University, citing national security concerns.

The move has sparked widespread condemnation from academics and foreign governments, who warn it could damage America’s global influence and reputation for academic openness. At stake is not just Harvard’s global appeal, but the very premise of open academic exchange that has long defined elite higher education in the US.

But exactly how ‘open’ is Harvard’s admissions process? Every year, highly qualified students – many with top-tier SAT or GMAT test scores – are rejected, often with little explanation. Critics argue that behind the prestigious Ivy League brand lies an opaque system shaped by legacy preferences, DEI imperatives, geopolitical interests, and outright bribes. George Soros, for instance, once pledged $1 billion to open up elite university admissions to drones who would read from his Open Society script.

China’s swift condemnation of Trump’s policy added a layer of geopolitical irony to the debate. Why would Beijing feign concern for “America’s international standing” amid a bitter trade war? The international standing of US universities has long been tarnished by a woke psychosis which spread like cancer to all branches of the government.

So, what was behind China’s latest gripe? The answer may lie in the unspoken rules of soft power: Ivy League campuses are battlegrounds for influence. The US deep state has long recruited foreign students to promote its interests abroad – subsidized by American taxpayers no less. China is apparently playing the same game, leveraging elite US universities to co-opt future leaders on its side of the geostrategic fence.  (more...)

Elite Western universities form a corrupt and parasitic empire

How Operation Paperclip Captured America

 

The Nazi diaspora and the world’s worst parents set the stage for a successful coup of the US government

Werner Thiel came to America at 11 years old from Essen, Germany at the end of WWI. For whatever reason, Werner left his loyalty in his homeland. 24 years later, in 1942, he was executed by the US Army for being a Nazi spy.

Werner left the U.S. in 1940 to be trained in Germany as a saboteur; in Summer of 1942 he came back by German submarine and was dumped off the coast of Florida. Luckily, he and his seven co-conspirators were caught before executing their plans.

I have no evidence that Werner Thiel was closely related to Peter, but Werner provides an example of exactly what Nazis always do. They lie, defraud, infiltrate and sabotage. Nazis don’t announce themselves as Nazis until it’s much too late to do anything about it.

Hitler’s Operation Pastorius was just one of numerous efforts to corrupt and weaponize German-Americans against their adopted country before and during WWII, which is why another operation, an American one, can be seen as one of the worst mistakes in American military and intelligence history.  (more...)

How Operation Paperclip Captured America

Unflinching film on Nazi-occupied France relevant again

 

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal pays tribute to the late filmmaker Marcel Ophuls and puts his famous documentary on Nazi-occupied France, The Sorrow and the Pity, in the context of contemporary resistance in the West to Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Government Export Agency Noted 99 Israeli Crimes, But OK’d Arms Sale

 

“It is hard to really conjure a mitigation measure that could reduce the level of risk of arms transfers to Israel.”

A federal government agency that assists Canadian arms exporters prepared a report last year documenting 99 cases of alleged Israeli crimes, but later considered any risks associated with a shipment of artillery components that included goods destined for Israel to be “appropriately mitigated.”

The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), a Crown corporation that helps Canadian manufacturers secure military contracts with foreign states, did not disclose how it came to that conclusion, which has left arms control advocates baffled and shocked.

Kelsey Gallagher, a researcher with Project Ploughshares who first drew attention to the shipment, told The Maple: “Given the level of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, it is hard to really conjure a mitigation measure that could reduce the level of risk of arms transfers to Israel below the threshold of substantial.”

The U.S. Department of Defence named the CCC last September as the signatory of the deal to supply Israel with up to $78.8 million of artillery propellants.

CCC signed the deal on behalf of General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems - Canada in Valleyfield, Quebec (GD-OTS), the sole source supplier of the product.

The deal was a modification of an existing $1.79 billion contract dating back to 2019 for the general supply of artillery propellants to the U.S. military. The main contract is one of the largest ever between a Canadian supplier and the United States.

The propellants in question are used to fire 155mm artillery shells, a caliber of munition that Israel has used heavily in its attacks on Gaza

The deal flew in the face of the Liberal government’s claimed policy of halting all arms exports to Israel. After Project Ploughshares drew attention to the deal in March, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) told The Maple that it remained “in communication with the parties involved to ensure compliance with Canada’s rigorous export controls regime.”

GAC did not say if it was intervening to terminate the deal, and did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Liberal Party politicians, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, similarly avoided questions about it during the recent federal election campaign.

New documents obtained by The Maple through an access to information request reveal that months before Project Ploughshares brought details about the deal to light, CCC was closely examining Israel’s human rights abuses, including those allegedly committed with 155mm artillery shells, and noting reports about the United States diverting shipments of that type of munition from their originally intended destinations to Israel.

Despite this, CCC considered the human rights risks associated with the artillery propellants deal to be “appropriately mitigated.” How exactly it reached that conclusion, however, remains unclear.  (more...)

Government Export Agency Noted 99 Israeli Crimes, But OK’d Arms Sale

Since When is a Foreign King a Symbol of Sovereignty?

 

Yesterday, the lucky winner of the last federal election, the new Prime Minister Carney, welcomed with great fanfare Charles Windsor (or, as he’s quaintly titled, King Charles III). Today around noon, the King delivered the throne speech and opened Parliament with “an emphasis on Canadian sovereignty”—a message aimed at both President Donald Trump and trade-war-weary Canadians. Faced with annexation provocations from the White House, Carney has chosen to assert Canada’s sovereignty by… having the reigning monarch of England perform a hollow ceremony on Parliament Hill.

Speaking in front of the Commons today, Mr. Windsor said the Crown “represents stability and continuity from the past to the present. As it should, it stands proudly as a symbol of Canada today, in all her richness and dynamism.” But allow us to doubt that.

Let's take a look at Canada's relationship with the Crown and what it says about the state of the country.

As a member of the British Commonwealth, alongside countries like Australia or New Zealand, the foundations of Canada's existence are based in British colonial law. The British North American Act (BNA) was the law passed in 1867 that birthed the Canadian confederacy.

Some changes and amendments were made over the course of over a century. In 1982, Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed the Constitution Act in Ottawa, transferring all legislative power over Canada from London to the federal and provincial governments.

Today, the Crown has no practical power over Canadian governance, but all Canadian governance is in the name of the Crown. It serves as a symbolic figure that, according to the government, acts “to unite Canadians and give a collective sense of belonging to our country.” That is to say, the Crown serves to differentiate Canada from the United States.

There is a distinct irony in using Canada's history as a subject of Britain to respond to the threat that Canada be made a subject of the USA. Parading last century's monarch doesn't scream “unified and sovereign state.” Rather, it recalls the bygone era of Canada's dependence on Britain and highlights fissures between and within Canada's nations.  (more...)

Since When is a Foreign King a Symbol of Sovereignty?

Bubble zone protest bans threaten Palestine solidarity

 

Bubble zone laws banning protest at places of worship and schools pose the latest crackdown on Palestinian solidarity.

As they are passed by cities and promised by PM Carney, Desmond Cole reports on the threat to dissent—and long history of their use.

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