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This is an urgent private letter intended for the sole and exclusive use of the
patron/donors to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.
25 December 2025
2025 Has Been Tough But Next Year
Will Be Even Worse
Hello Folks,
Throughout the Cold War, that lasted from 1947 to 1991, the joy of
every Christmas Day was joined with the
very real fear of a nuclear war apocalypse, most particularly due to
Though creating the world’s most powerful nuclear weapons, Sakharov is best remembered today for another reason, his years as the Soviet Union’s most famous dissident and outspoken human rights defender, and he famously proclaimed: “I've always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that's why I gave it to my people, but I've come to the conclusion that the most powerful weapon in the world is not the bomb but it's the truth”.
For proclaiming that the truth is a more powerful weapon than nuclear bombs, the Soviet Union slammed Sakharov with persecution using its feared and dreaded thought crime Article 70 law, whose provisions used for prosecution, immediate conviction and severe punishment included: “Propaganda or agitation with the purpose of undermining or weakening of the Soviet power or with the purpose of committing or incitement to commit particularly grave crimes against the Soviet state...The spreading with the same purposes of slanderous fabrications that target the Soviet political and social system...The production, dissemination or storage, for the same purposes, of literature with anti-Soviet content”.
While being severely punished with internal exile by the Soviet Union for committing the thought crime of telling the truth, Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him “a spokesman for the conscience of mankind”—in his memory, the Sakharov Prize was established and is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms—and President Ronald Reagan declared National Andrei Sakharov Day on 18 May 1983.
I was reminded of the Soviet Union’s thought crime conviction and severe punishment of Andrei Sakharov after reading the shocking news: “The European Commission has barred the Brussels-based outlet Euractiv from its background briefings over critical reporting on the “EU bubble”, according to editor-in-chief Matthew Karnitschnig...Practically every media outlet with a sizeable EU bureau depends on the largesse of powerbrokers, bloc mandarins, foreign governments, and lobbyists for information, in what is known as the 'access journalism' business...However independent journalism in Brussels is now “on the enemies list”, Karnitschnig wrote on Friday...“In fact, it has become an endangered species”, he wrote”—and then I received the beyond stunning email:
You may have heard that the
EU Commission has imposed personal sanctions against Col. Jacques Baud, a
former Swiss intelligence analyst. Baud
has also served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations, where he
led the first multidimensional UN intelligence unit in the
He is accused of “disruptive activities
against the EU and the partner states” as a “mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda".
How one gets put on this list, and how one might
be removed is not clear.
Former
President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Dr. Jur. Hans-Georg Maaßen, has provided an illuminating legal analysis (in German) of
the troubling implications of this action:
https://youtu.be/9PCVRBzJR90?si=qNm86arGiuki-G-4.
Baud is currently under a travel ban, his bank
accounts are frozen, and his property confiscated. No one is allowed to have business relations
with him, including the publishers of his books.
Journalist Patrik Baab and several others
intend to file a public appeal on his behalf.
The draft text of this appeal is attached below. If you wish to add your name to the list,
please contact him directly at: [email protected]
Thank you very much for
your time.
Sincerely,
Nicolai Petro
Professor of Political
Science
1.401.424.1812 www.npetro.net
Jacques Baud is a retired colonel of the Swiss General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service, specialist on Eastern countries, he was trained in the American and British intelligence services and has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations—he released his exhaustively researched and documented with facts book “The Russian Art Of War: How The West Led Ukraine to Defeat” on 8 January 2024—and just days before he was sanctioned by the European Union for telling the truth, instead of rightly receiving its Sakharov Prize dedicated to freedom of thought, Baud said on a YouTube channel that “Europe has not yet realized that the Ukrainian conflict will end on Russia’s terms”.
First among those who wouldn’t be surprised at all at the thought crime persecutions of Andrei Sakharov and Jacques Baud for telling the truth about war would have been Major General Smedley Butler, the most decorated officer in United States Marine Corp history, who famously proclaimed: “War is a racket...It always has been...It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious...It is the only one international in scope...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives”.
The last war Major General Smedley Butler fought in during his 34-year military career before he died on 21 June 1940 was World War I, wherein occurred The Christmas Truce of 1914, which was a spontaneous ceasefire during World War I, where British and German soldiers temporarily laid down their arms, exchanged greetings, and even played football in No Man’s Land...this event, which occurred around Christmas Eve 1914, was marked by soldiers singing carols and sharing gifts, reflecting a moment of shared humanity amid the conflict...but despite the truce, military commanders on both sides were alarmed, and troops were ordered to resume hostilities under threat of court martial.
Speaking at her official Rome residence in the Palazzo Chigi courtyard on Tuesday, it saw European
Union leader Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni extending Christmas
greetings to her office staff, but then she warned: “The past year has been tough for all of us but don’t worry
because next year will be even worse”—and this a
warning you should also heed, because it is true.
For over two decades, the Dear Sisters
have made you aware of countless persecuted truth tellers like Andrei
Sakharov and Jacques Baud—Sister Ciara,
in her letter
sent to you yesterday, kept you informed about persecuted truth teller Candace
Owens—all of which, and more, is a mission of truth to keep young men from
dying on battlefields far from home you have the power to prevent by knowing
what is being kept hidden from your knowledge—and it is a mission of truth to
keep young men from needlessly dying that needs your help on this Christmas Day of hope and giving.
Thank you for listening and aiding us in our hour of desperate need by going below and giving what you can, and as always, please feel free to write me at [email protected] with any comments/questions/suggestions, remembering to put ATTN: BRIAN in the subject line, or if requesting to be placed on the Sisters mailing list, put MAILING LIST in the subject line.
All the best
folks,
Brian
Webmaster
Fr.
