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Medvedchuk Sees No Prospects For Minsk-3 (TASS)
US Officials Basically Admit They Blew Up Nord Stream – Lavrov (RT)
JP Morgan Reaches Agreement With Zelenskyy On Rebuilding Infrastructure (Fox)
Hungary Slams EU Push To Arm Ukraine (RT)
Samantha Power is in Hungary, Seeding Another Color Revolution (CTH)
Elon Musk Explains Purpose Of Starlink In Ukraine (RT)
Big Oil Rakes In Record Profits (RT)
Europe’s Spend On Energy Crisis Nears 800 Billion Euros (RT)
Ray McGovern Comments on Sy Hersh (Garland Nixon)
Cashless Society? Not in Switzerland (R.)
Homo implacatus (Jotwani)
UK Holds ‘Secret’ Cross-Party Brexit Summit (RT)
The Pain of Listening To Twitter Censorship Testimony (Naomi Wolf)
I’m forming a Super PAC to Draft RFK Jr. To Run For President (Steve Kirsch)

 

 

 

 

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If Ukraine were a democracy, Medvedchuk would have a loud voice.

Medvedchuk Sees No Prospects For Minsk-3 (TASS)

Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the Opposition Platform For Life party, which is outlawed in Ukraine, said on Sunday that he sees no perspectives for signing the third Minsk agreements.”As for possible Minsk-3, I see categorically no perspectives. Regrettably, the Minsk agreements have sunk into oblivion,” he told Belarus’ STV television channel.According to Medvedchuk, peace settlement in Ukraine “is possible only when several conditions are met.” But, in his words, “Ukraine has practically ceased to exist as a state.” “It is impossible to say now what can happen and how, whether there will be any peace talks,” he stressed.The Zelensky regime “has armed itself with a policy of neo-Nazism,” he said.

“The Western ideology, which has been imposed on the Ukrainian people, its authorities since 2005, when [Viktor] Yushchenko came to power, has been fed for all these years by Western money, ideology and democracy, which has led, as we see, to tens of thousands of human deaths, the destruction of Ukraine and the fighting Zelensky continues at the head of criminal authorities, until the last Ukrainian.” These actions, in his words, are evidently geared to create an “anti-Russia.” “To create and popularize the policy of anti-Russian hysteria, untamed Russophobia. And it is not easy to destroy it all,” he said, “Today, it is necessary to explode the myth that this neo-Nazism is supported by Ukrainians. It is not supported by those from nine to twelve million Ukrainians who have fled the country. It is not supported by millions staying in Ukraine, who, regrettably, have been driven under the bench, have been intimidates, threatened with repression, criminal prosecution, torture and violence,” Medvedchuk stressed.

According to the politician, the Other Ukraine political movement has been set up to tell the world community that many Ukrainians want normalization of relations with Russia. “So that, the voice of other Ukraine is heard in the world and is not represented by Zelensky who is traveling around the globe, using all possible venues with only one goal: to show that the Ukrainian people is allegedly consolidated and he is representing this people,” he said. He noted that “millions of Ukrainians have been forced to flee the country because of the policy of Zelensky’s criminal regime.” “Today, it is necessary to consolidate those Ukrainians who are against Zelensky’s criminal policy. We want his criminal regime to sink into oblivion. And it implies enormous work we have begun and will do to break the information space which has misted the thoughts and conscience of the Ukrainians filling it with anti-Russian hysteria,” he explained.

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And that will have connsequences.

US Officials Basically Admit They Blew Up Nord Stream – Lavrov (RT)

US officials are basically admitting that they were behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which was perpetrated to prevent rapprochement between Moscow and Berlin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “The US decided that we [Russia] have been cooperating too well with Germany over the past 20 or 30 years; or rather, the Germans cooperated with us too well,” he said in an interview published on the Foreign Ministry’s website on Sunday. The “powerful alliance” based on Russian energy resources and German technology “began to threaten the monopoly position of many American corporations,” Lavrov explained. So, Washington decided to destroy this alliance between Moscow and Berlin, and did it “literally” by attacking the pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to Europe through Germany, he added.

“American officials are basically admitting that the explosions that occurred at Nord Stream 1 and 2 were their doing. They even speak about it with joy,” the foreign minister stated. Lavrov was likely referring to a confession made by US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland during a Senate hearing in late January. “I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now… a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea,” she said at that time. “The vileness of Western politicians is well known,” Lavrov continued, suggesting that “the plan, which is now being implemented through ‘inciting’ Ukraine against Russia and waging a war by the entire West against Russia by means of Ukraine, is to a large extent aimed at preventing a new rapprochement between Germany and Russia.”

The comments by Russia’s top diplomat come just days after iconic American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh released a bombshell report, blaming Washington for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines last year. According to an informed source who talked to Hersh, explosives were planted at the pipelines in the Baltic Sea back in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of a NATO exercise. They were detonated in late September, rendering the key European energy infrastructure inoperable. US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson denied the report by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, calling it “utterly false and complete fiction.” No one among high-ranking American officials has even commented on the accusations made by Hersh.

For months, the Russian authorities have been pointing to the fact that the only side to benefit from the destruction of Nord Stream was the US, which has seen supplies of its more expensive liquefied natural gas to Europe increase massively since the explosions.

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He’s selling his country by the pound.

JP Morgan Reaches Agreement With Zelenskyy On Rebuilding Infrastructure (Fox)

J.P. Morgan, the nation’s largest bank, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the eye on attracting private capital for a new investment fund to rebuild Ukraine’s infrastructure that has been destroyed in its war with Russia, FOX Business has learned. J.P. Morgan bankers spent most of last week meeting with Zelenskyy and his senior staff in Ukraine where they discussed the creation of a fund seeded with $20 billion to $30 billion in private capital, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Other ideas discussed with the Ukrainian president were the creation of a bank administered by Wall Street firms that would make investments in oil refineries, roads, bridges and other pieces of economic infrastructure destroyed in Vladimir Putin’s year-long campaign to annex the country and rebuild the old Soviet Union, these people add.

J.P. Morgan bankers were on the ground in Kyiv and other cities, dodging bombs, and witnessing firsthand how the war has crippled the country’s economy. After a series of meetings with various ministers, they met directly with Zelenskyy on Friday night. As a gesture of goodwill on the eve of Sunday’s Super Bowl, the bankers also presented Zelenskyy with a New England Patriots jersey with the number “91,” to signify the year Ukraine gained independence from the old Soviet Union, these people say. FOX Business is the first to report the possible creation of an investment fund and bank to help rebuild the country. People with knowledge of the matter say the plans for a fund or a bank are in the nascent stages and subject to change. J.P. Morgan declined to comment. The big bank is expected to make an announcement about its work in Ukraine on Monday.

[..] Privately, J.P. Morgan bankers met with Zelenskyy for hours last week, providing him with ideas on how to attract private capital. They also recommended that he invite major CEOs, like Apple’s Tim Cook, to the country to discuss economic development and that he meet with GOP lawmakers, such as the new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Some Republicans are skeptical about the billions in US aid being sent to the country, these people add. They also said that weeding out corruption and eliminating graft in government will be key to attracting private capital. Zelenskyy was said to be receptive to the advice and understood that at some point the vast amounts of western aid to the country will come to an end and that private capital – which will demand a return for its investment – will be needed to rebuild, these people say.

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“..the tenth sanctions package will only be suitable for causing further damage to us Europeans, similar to the previous nine ones.”

Hungary Slams EU Push To Arm Ukraine (RT)

The European Union’s calls to keep supporting Ukraine with arms shipments will only prolong the conflict with Russia, the Hungarian foreign minister said on Sunday. Speaking to radio Kossuth, Peter Szijjarto commented on recent remarks by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, who pushed for fighter jets and long-range weapons to be sent to Kiev. According to the minister, EU lawmakers’ decisions on Ukraine “have generally caused damage to Europe,” and further weapons deliveries will only worsen the hostilities. He went on to blast the EU legislature, claiming that its “credibility is practically zero.” Szijjarto pointed to a recent graft scandal as proof that the EU parliament is “one of the most corrupt organizations in the world.”


He was referring to the recent arrest of the parliament’s former vice president, Eva Kaili, who has been charged with taking bribes from Qatar in exchange for illegally lobbying the interests of the Gulf state. Szijjarto noted that in Western countries, war rhetoric sounds “incomparably louder than the rhetoric of peace,” while nations outside “the transatlantic bubble” tend to prefer peace to a deadly conflict. The minister went on to question the West’s anti-Russia sanctions. He argued that they have failed to force Moscow to end the conflict, while Europe’s economy has “faced incredible difficulties,” and that “the tenth sanctions package will only be suitable for causing further damage to us Europeans, similar to the previous nine ones.” Since the start of large-scale hostilities in Ukraine almost a year ago, Hungary, which is heavily dependent on Russian energy, has been critical of Western sanctions against Moscow. It has also refused to support Kiev with weapons, or allow arms transfers across its border with Ukraine.

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And that’s why Samantha Power is in Budapest. They should throw her out.

Samantha Power is in Hungary, Seeding Another Color Revolution (CTH)

Hungary has been in the crosshairs of the Biden/Obama administration ever since Prime Minister Viktor Orban refused to align with the WEF Western Democracies in their quest for regime change in Russia. As the NATO led western alliance assembled to use Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban would not join. In early April 2022, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was overwhelmingly reelected, despite the massive efforts against him by the European Union, western and euro-centric multinational globalists. As a result of the victory, Brussels was furious at the Hungarian people. Associated Press – […] “Orban — a fierce critic of immigration, LGBTQ rights and “EU bureaucrats” — has garnered the admiration of right-wing nationalists across Europe and North America.”

Within the statements reported from his 2022 victory speech, Prime Minister Orban warned citizens of the NATO and western allied countries about the manipulation of Ukraine and how he views the Zelenskyy regime: […] “while speaking to supporters on Sunday, Orban singled out Zelenskyy as part of the “overwhelming force” that he said his party had struggled against in the election — “the left at home, the international left, the Brussels bureaucrats, the Soros empire with all its money, the international mainstream media, and in the end, even the Ukrainian president.”This put Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the crosshairs of the western alliance, specifically the EU and U.S. bureaucrats who use their power, position and intelligence apparatus to manipulate foreign nations. A year later and now we see USAID Administrator Samantha Power in Hungary openly discussing her seeding of the NGO’s and political activist systems in order to generate yet another color revolution.

Samantha Power, the wife of Cass Sunstein, is well known as the Obama/Biden administration’s advance operative who uses her position in U.S. government to influence activism in targeted nations. Hungary is now her target. Why is eliminating Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban now the goal of the Biden administration. Well, a reminder: • Hungary warned citizens of the west about the New World Order, created through Ukraine. • Hungary continued to purchase Russian oil and natural gas. Zelenskyy and the Western alliance were furious. • Hungary said they would continue energy purchases in Rubles if that is what Russia demanded.

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We will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3.”

Elon Musk Explains Purpose Of Starlink In Ukraine (RT)

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed the rationale behind the company’s decision to restrict the use of its Starlink internet system by the Ukrainian military. He doesn’t want the conflict to escalate into World War III, he said. The explanation was part of Musk’s response to astronaut Scott Kelly, who is a vocal supporter of the Ukrainian cause. Kelly urged restoration of full functionality of the system. The restriction announced last week bars the Ukrainian military from using Starlink to pilot drones, which SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell described as “weaponization” of the product. Musk said Kelly was “smart enough not to swallow media & other propaganda bs” and pointed out that Starlink remained available for military communications in Ukraine, even though as a private company SpaceX had the right to switch the terminals off.

“We’re trying hard to do the right thing, where the ‘right thing’ is an extremely difficult moral question,” Musk stated. “We will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3.” The Starlink system was hailed by US officials as a gamechanger for the Ukrainian military, providing a reliable communication system that Russia allegedly could not disrupt through hacking. But Musk has provoked the ire of Kiev on several occasions, including by proposing a peace plan in October that would have required Ukraine to make concessions to Russia. He faced criticism and insults from Ukrainian officials in response.

Responding to the Starlink change, Mikhail Podoliak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, declared that Musk and Shotwell had only two options: they could either be on Ukraine’s side and not seek “ways to do harm” or be counted as pro-Russian. The same official previously claimed that the Musk-owned social media platform Twitter was limiting the reach of Ukrainian government accounts and helping “Russian propaganda.” Podoliak offered no evidence to support the claim, but threatened regulatory action.

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And if you tax us on them, we will refuse to invest.

Big Oil Rakes In Record Profits (RT)

Oil giants Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and TotalEnergies posted a combined profit of $196.3 billion last year, according to the companies’ earnings reports. A record-high result for the oil industry, the sum tops the economic output of most countries. French oil giant TotalEnergies was the last to report on its earnings, announcing on Wednesday that its full-year profit in 2022 was $36.2 billion, double its total for 2021. US oil major Chevron and British giants BP and Shell also reported record-high results earlier this month, while Exxon’s $56 billion-profit marked a historic high for the entire Western oil industry. The record-setting earnings came as a result of a spike in fossil fuel prices last year. However, criticism of the industry for hoarding money while consumers are struggling to pay soaring energy bills has intensified.

“Given that we’re entering a global recession and that most of us know people who are struggling, we must all call out profiteering like this,” Alice Harrison from advocacy group Global Witness, told CNBC, calling for “an increased windfall tax to help those struggling to pay their bills.” Human rights group Amnesty International said the oil majors’ profits are “patently unjustifiable” and “an unmitigated disaster.” “The billions of dollars of profits being made by these oil corporations must be adequately taxed so that governments can address effectively the rising cost of living for most vulnerable populations,” said the group’s secretary general Agnes Callamard. US President Joe Biden called Big Oil’s record earnings “outrageous” in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. The head of state noted that the companies invested “too little of that profit” into efforts to stem the surge in energy prices, and proposed raising the tax on corporate stock buybacks four times to boost long-term investment.

Oil companies, however, have been arguing that windfall taxes could hinder investment. “Windfall taxes or price caps simply erode confidence in that investment stability and so I do worry about some of the moves being made. I think there is a different approach that needs to be had which is to really draw investment capital at a time when we need to be able to embed energy security into the broader energy system here in Europe,” Shell CEO Wael Sawan said last week. This opinion was mirrored by Amin Nasser, head of the world’s largest energy company Saudi Aramco, who told CNBC that higher taxes are “not helpful for [the companies] in order to have additional investment.” “They need to invest in the sector, they need to grow the business, in alternatives and in conventional energy, and they need to be helped,” he added.

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These are Big Oil’s record profits.

Europe’s Spend On Energy Crisis Nears 800 Billion Euros (RT)

European countries’ bill to shield households and companies from soaring energy costs has climbed to nearly 800 billion euros, researchers said on Monday, urging countries to be more targeted in their spending to tackle the energy crisis. European Union countries have now earmarked or allocated 681 billion euros in energy crisis speding, while Britain allocated 103 billion euros and Norway 8.1 billon euros since September 2021, according to the analysis by think-tank Bruegel. The 792-billion-euro total compares with 706 billion euros in Bruegel’s last assessment in November, as countries continue through winter to face the fallout from Russia cutting off most of its gas deliveries to Europe in 2022.


Germany topped the spending chart, allocating nearly 270 billion euros – a sum that eclipsed all other countries. Britain, Italy and France were the next highest, although each spent less than 150 billion euros. Most EU states spent a fraction of that. On a per capita basis, Luxembourg, Denmark and Germany were the biggest spenders. The spending earmarked by the countries on the energy crisis is now in the same league as the EU’s 750-billion-euro COVID-19 recovery fund. Agreed in 2020, that saw Brussels take on joint debt and pass it onto the bloc’s 27 member states to cope with the pandemic. The energy spending update comes as countries debate EU proposals to loosen state aid rules further for green technology projects, as Europe seeks to compete with subsidies in the United States and China.

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“Now, this was an act of war, pure and simple. Curiously enough, it was against Germany.”

Ray McGovern Comments on Sy Hersh (Garland Nixon)

I know him to be a meticulous reporter, winner of five Polk Awards, Pulitzer Prize, you name it. Back in the day when honest reporters were so honored. This piece has all the earmarks of Sy’s meticulous approach, and he clearly has a very good source who felt a, well, he felt a constitutional obligation to honor his or her oath to the Constitution of the United States, which is the supreme oath any of us take. And that is to make sure that you tell the truth, especially when the Constitution is being violated. Now, this was an act of war, pure and simple. Curiously enough, it was against Germany. And curiously enough, President Joseph Biden, at a press conference in the presence of the chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, said this is going to happen if Russia invaded Ukraine. And, of course, he was asked, well, how do you do this? I mean, how can you how can you be so confident that Nordstrom will be killed and Biden said, well, just, you know, trust me, it’s going to happen.

And so she, bilingual, the Reuters reporter, turned to Scholz – and this is not widely available now for obvious reasons – and she said, well, I mean, do you agree with that? I mean, hello, how do you feel about this? And this hack, this political hack said: we do everything together. We do everything together. We will be together on this now. So that’s available now. It’s available. Not Sy Hersh’s piece yet, but that interview is available in Germany. You know, I describe Olaf Scholz as kind of the epitome of the abused spouse. Stands there and is abused not only by his master, Joe Biden, but also by this hack that he has as foreign minister. Her name is Baerbock. She is the the most vociferous of all the people saying that we are at war. That’s what she said. We are at war with Russia.

So the question will be: it has been 90 years, count them, nine zero years since the Nazis were making a push for power in Germany. What happened? The Reichstag, the German parliament building was burned down at the end of January, 1933. What happened? The Germans caved. The Nazis didn’t have a majority, but they scared the living daylights out of German citizens. First of all, Social Democrats gave in. Next to fall, the Zentrum party, the Catholic Party. No one spoke up. We know the rest of the story. All right. Now, sometimes history is replete with ironies. Here it is exactly to the month, 90 years later. Will the German people acquiesce in their industry, and then their bodies being frozen out this winter? Or will they rise up and say: “Look, Mr Scholz, you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, and neither does Baerbock. Get out of here!”, and replace that government?

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“It is clear that… getting rid of cash not only touches on issues of transparency, simplicity or security… but also carries a huge danger of totalitarian surveillance..”

Cashless Society? Not in Switzerland (R.)

Swiss citizens will get the chance to try to ensure their economy never becomes cashless, a pressure group said, after collecting enough signatures on Monday to trigger a popular vote on the issue. The Free Switzerland Movement (FBS) says cash is playing a shrinking role in many economies, as electronic payments become the default for transactions in increasingly digitised societies, making it easier for the state to monitor its citizens’ actions. It wants a clause added to Switzerland’s currency law, which governs how the central bank and government manage the money supply, stipulating that a “sufficient quantity” of banknotes or coins must always remain in circulation.

There is no evidence of moves towards a cashless society by Swiss authorities. FBS said it had garnered over 111,000 signatures in support of the measure, above the 100,000 needed to trigger a popular vote. Under Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, the proposal would become law if approved by voters, though government and parliament would decide how that law was implemented.

“It is clear that… getting rid of cash not only touches on issues of transparency, simplicity or security… but also carries a huge danger of totalitarian surveillance,” FBS president Richard Koller said on the group’s website. He also views Switzerland as a European standard-bearer for the defence of cash, as pushing through such guarantees in the European Union would entail the “almost impossible” process of securing approval from all 27 member states. Accelerated by the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns, the trend towards increased cashless payments was evident as far back as 2017, when an Ipsos study found more than a third of Europeans and Americans would happily go without cash and 20 per cent pretty much did so already.

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“Madness born of greed gets classified as ‘a higher form of civilization’..”

Homo implacatus (Jotwani)

A fairer economy would avoid excessive exploitation and extremes of inequality; it would also avoid any systemic negligence in the upbringing of the next generation. Such an economy would be in harmony with the living economics of nature, which has sustained life on earth from ‘day one’. Sadly, that worthy goal remains out of reach as long as people proclaim loudly that ‘greed is good’. We may consider a specific recent example. The subprime mortgage crisis in the US was caused by the fact that greedy but naïve people were cheated and exploited by greedy and cunning people. Naturally, the former were in much larger numbers, since that is a characteristic of economic exploitation.

That entire episode of ‘mega-greed’ – including the ensuing government bailouts – damaged the overall economy of the country and worsened the deep schisms running through the society. After studying such episodes of ‘mega-greed’, it would be difficult to argue that ‘greed is good’. The so-called ‘modern science’ of Economics is totally out of sync with living economics, which is the true economics of Mother Nature. The ‘fake science’ of Economics keeps inconvenient costs out of its books of accounts, and always comes up with wrong diagnoses and wrong prognoses. Nonetheless, because of the ignorance and greed of political leaders, this ‘fake science’ rules the roost.

We must hope for a smooth transition from the economics of death to living economics. However, far too much psychic energy has already been invested in the unnatural theories which justify exploitation of nature, exploitation of fellow human beings, and economic gain through bloody conflict. A painful denouement, or catharsis, is therefore inevitable – as has happened many times in human history. As before, such periods of violent house-cleaning are followed by rationalizations, often based on hoary books. A competition ensues among ‘scholars’ to show who is cleverer, or which hoary books have been proved right. Madness born of greed gets classified as ‘a higher form of civilization’.

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The damage becomes too large to ignore…

UK Holds ‘Secret’ Cross-Party Brexit Summit (RT)

High-ranking officials from opposite ends of the UK political spectrum have held ‘secret’ discussions designed to navigate a path out of various economic and strategic problems posed by Brexit, according to a report by The Observer. Documents from the meeting obtained by the British newspaper say that the talks were held under the primary topic: “How can we make Brexit work better with our neighbours in Europe?” The newspaper quoted a source who stated it to have been a “constructive meeting” which discussed at length economic problems presented by Brexit which come at a time of rising inflation and energy prices. “The main thrust of it was that Britain is losing out, that Brexit is not delivering, our economy is in a weak position,” the source said.

The summit, which reportedly took place on Thursday and Friday, was attended by members of both the ‘Leave’ and ‘Remain’ campaigns, including senior Tory Michael Gove and several members of Keir Starmer’s Labour shadow cabinet. It also included figures from investment banking company Goldman Sachs and Angus Lapsley, the NATO assistant secretary general for defense policy and planning. Gove, who was a central voice in the ‘Leave’ movement in 2016, is also understood to have been “honest” about problems presented as a result of the vote, though he maintained a position that Brexit will prove to be a good choice long-term. The documents detailing the summit also said that “rejoining the EU will not be on the agenda” but noted that the UK and EU share common goals when it comes to the energy and technology sectors, the relationship with Washington, and “containing Russian aggression”.

They also raised questions about the benefits of closer links between the UK and the 27-member European bloc. The Northern Ireland protocol, which aims to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland without affecting trading ties between the UK and EU, is currently a central issue in Brussels and was also prominently discussed at the summit, The Observer wrote. The matter remains unresolved several years after Brexit came into effect. The nature of the talks reflects wider concerns from within the UK political ecosystem that Brexit will continue to damage the UK economy, as well as its strategic influence across the globe. The Office for Budget Responsibility has predicted that Brexit will reduce the UK’s GDP per capita by a factor of 4% over 15 years from 2016.

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Character murder.

The Pain of Listening To Twitter Censorship Testimony (Naomi Wolf)

It is incredible to me, as someone who was raised in an American meritocracy, and who has until very recently believed in American meritocracy, that a group of nonentities in Twitter, in collusion with nonentities at CDC (hi there, Carol Crawford), the White House and the US Dept. of the Census — were able thus so simply, and at such immediate, nuclear scale, to destroy the reputation of someone identified since 1990 as a major American voice. So: this can happen to any American voice. These ill-dressed, ill-spoken, banal careerist ciphers, cost me so much. I re-trained for almost a decade, in the middle of my life, to teach. It is all I had ever really wanted to do with my life. Now I will never be able to be the only thing I ever wanted to be — a Professor of English Literature at a university.

I am now sixty. It’s too late for me. Twitter, in collusion with the Biden administration, cost me my hard-won lifelong dream. I’ve been maligned and censored by Twitter since 2021. Even if the company eventually settles my lawsuit against it, and even though Mr Musk has “let” me back on the platform, that would be, this is, no victory. Twitter has not sent an advisory to all of the news outlets around the world that depicted me, at Twitter’s own direction, as crazy, that they were wrong to have done so; there has been no press release stating that they erred, and that I was right, and that they are sorry for wrongly abusing my reputation — and for destroying women and babies. No, forever I will remain “deplatformed from Twitter for misinformation” in the cybersphere, even though it is finally being established that sadly I was deplatformed for telling God’s truth.

It is unlikely that any university at this point would see past the grotesque imprint on my bio that Twitter, via the White House, CDC and perhaps the FBI, has taken care to embed in my bio, and in articles about me, around the world. It is unlikely, too, that I will ever recoup the six figure investments that investors withdrew from my company when Twitter, colluding with the government, was orchestrating the shredding of my reputation. It is unlikely that a 35 years career and legacy online of what had been seen until very recently as a life of significant accomplishment, can ever be re-established. I try never to complain in public. I try never to show self-pity or weakness, at least not to my enemies. But Twitter’s attacks on me are not over, and I am simply sick of the damage these mediocrities have done to me, and continue to try to do.

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President Kennedy?!

I’m forming a Super PAC to Draft RFK Jr. To Run For President (Steve Kirsch)

The federal agencies are so brain damaged it will take major surgery to fix them. Congress clearly isn’t up to the task. We need new leadership in the White House. I can’t think of anyone more qualified to clean up the mess and unite the country than RFK Jr. So I’m putting together a Super PAC to encourage him to run for President on the Democratic side against Biden. If you’d like to help out, please fill out the form here. There will be both volunteer and paid opportunities available. If you have worked for a Super PAC before, it’s especially helpful to me if you register, even if your time is limited.

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    Redneck
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    Redneck
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    TAE the great freedom fighter is censoring me! Or is it just this creaking antiquated old software it uses?
    Who knows. suspicious but.

    #128959
    Redneck
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    Looks like TAE is censoring my posts.

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    Oroboros
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    aspnaz
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    tboc said

    Judgement: The capricious abandonment of information, utterance of an opinion. Ignorance wrapped in arrogance.

    Redefining words like a woke left wing fanatic. Merriam-webster, also prone to redefining words, has many definitions, the first being:

    the process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing

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    Figmund Sreud
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    Alastair Crooke:

    “… time is short. The Election Calendar looms. Is Biden to be the Democratic candidate? Whether or not he will be a candidate in 2024 needs to be resolved before the early primaries to allow any successor to demonstrate his or her paces in good time.”

    Endgame for Ukraine: America vs America

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    Germ said

    Melbourne woman refused heart transplant due to COVID-19 vaccine status

    The vax mandate overrides the human rights laws of Victoria, as documented here https://www.humanrights.vic.gov.au/resources/explainer-mandatory-covid-19-vaccinations-and-your-rights/. China did not have mandates, but obviously Pfizer and WEF have a lot of power over the Victoria government. More evidence – not that it is needed – that in the western world, there are no rights, you are granted freedoms which can be taken away, in this case the freedom to live is being taken away and the person’s medical treatment – that they have paid for in taxes – is being stolen from them. Never trust the government, minimise your dependency on the government, avoid the government whenever possible, they are not your friends, they are your prison warders.

    #128964
    aspnaz
    Participant

    jb-hb said

    I just caught up a little on the Ohio chemical spill. Holy @#%$^ing #$*@(%.

    I saw a video of some guy shouting and screaming at the clouds of acid. You have to ask yourself why that person stayed at his property rather than get out of town. Who is the person screaming at? Is it the government? But you know the government is not your friend, they steal your income as tax, they fix elections, the government leaders then steal the money stolen from you. Why is this person screaming, why doesn’t he do what he can which is to get in his car, drive well out of range of the chemicals , sleep in his car for a week or so and assume that the government will not do anything to help him. Instead he is like a child appealing to his parents to stop this bad stuff from happening. People really need to change their way of thinking with regards to government.

    #128965
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Nothing really works in the Empire of Lies®

    Take this traffic stop, the cops can’t catch a break


    #128966
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    In case you haven’t heard, the top half of Airstrip Five is a disaster zone. A ‘National Emergency’ has been declared despite it all being honky-dory in the South Island. Quite a nice day, in fact, though we could do with more rain. The 0.3mm last night just dampened the surface slightly.

    Reported at midday: Gisborne is completely cut off by road, sea and air. There’s talk of no electricity for days and no roads for weeks or months.

    I guess this is how ‘civilisation’ ends.

    We might declare over and over again: “We’ve had enough of this shit!” But for the corporations that run the show in Oceania, there is never enough.

    Peak Mayhem is still coming. What we have witnessed so far is just a teaser.

    Crazy Chipmunk isn’t hiding yet. He’s still pretending there’s a plan and that things can be fixed.

    https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/cyclone-gabrielle-livestream-pm-hipkins-addresses-nz-amid-state-of-national-emergency/ar-AA17rEyt

    Good luck fixing a broken Jet Stream system and an overheated ocean by burning even more fossil fuels.

    #128967
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Surprise surprise … https://www.rt.com/news/571432-anti-semitism-america-jews/ … I wonder whether this has anything to do with SBF, Zelensky, Fauci, Walensky, Bourla, Epstein, Soros etc. When groups of people misbehave they get feedback. Worse feedback when they use their political power to stop the victims from complaining about them.

    #128968
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Redneck

    Your entire first sentence is uninterrupted fabrication and series of rather outrageous lies. What is your purpose in doing that?

    I will apologize profusely if you can cite even one of the statements in your opening sentence as true.

    #128969
    John Day
    Participant

    A correspondent who reads the comments here, and is very intelligent, but chooses not to comment here, sent me this investigative piece about The City of London by Larry Romanoff, an excellent investigative reporter who did good work on the COVID crimes in 2020 and 2021. If you look at the war in Ukraine, and who Russia is actually fighting an existential battle with, it is really simpler, much simpler, cast in this light.

    The City of London


    Who's da boss?

    #128970
    John Day
    Participant

    @Redneck:
    Ilargi does not censor, but TAE gets interfered with, and some links won’t upload, and sometimes the comments section is just broken.
    You’re a big boy, don’t get lured into that “victim” thing, bro’.
    🙂

    #128971
    John Day
    Participant

    @AFKTT: No, last time it was water, so this time civilization ends in FIRE.
    I’ve been told that my whole life…

    #128972
    aspnaz
    Participant

    AFKTT said

    Crazy Chipmunk isn’t hiding yet. He’s still pretending there’s a plan and that things can be fixed.

    I have a brother in Gisborne and my mother used to live there, I know that area very well. The roads will be fixed and the power will be fixed, the Crazy Chipmunk does not need to pretend, he does not need to do anything other than yap into the cameras. The gorge route is always suffering landslides and has been closed many times in the past – for many weeks at a time – although this latest storm looks like a big one and I am sure there will be lots of damage. As for the East Cape route, that will probably be passable within a few days, especially by truck and 4wd, depending on the state of the small bridges. This should clear all the dead animal carcasses and logs off the hills, so the sea will look a bit shite for a while, but it will get back to normal soon enough.

    #128973
    John Day
    Participant

    Germ posted this. Funny thing about Israel signing up to get the death shot before anybody else, innit?
    ACE-2 affinity

    #128974
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Today, an older man picked up a few buckets of landscaping rocks that I was giving away. He started chatting, and mentioned that his girlfriend — of 20 years — had passed away in October. He showed up wearing a mask at my door, and continued to wear it until right at the end when we were chatting — so I figured that he was vaxxed, and probably his girlfriend too.
    I couldn’t help but ask: “How did she die?” Bile duct cancer.
    “How long was she fighting the cancer?” About a year. (October 2021) She had chemotherapy, but it reacted aggressively and spread rapidly and there was nothing that they could do to save her.
    I thought: Killed by the vax
    One more tragedy.
    The poor man still has his deceased girlfriend’s bedding in the backseat of his SUV…says he doesn’t want to wash it because he doesn’t want it to lose her scent.

    #128975
    Oroboros
    Participant

    News Flash

    Special Special Special:

    U.S. Air Force F-16 that shot down an unknown object over Lake Huron yesterday missed on its first attempt, U.S. officials say.

    It’s not clear where the first missile landed.

    A second Sidewinder air-to-air missile was needed.

    Each Sidewinder AIM-9X costs over $400,000.

    Hahahahahaha!

    Empire of Lies® really is the Turd in the Punch-bowl!

    Here’s something the USAF might be able to hit with the first shot!

    .

    #128976
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Emmanuel Todd interviewed:

    #128977
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    New Zealanders are learning that they cannot rely on their digital ‘money’ or their government to save them.

    Gisborne shoppers warned not to panic buy as Eftpos services crash

    Tairāwhiti Civil Defence is urging residents not to panic buy as Eftpos and Paywave services remain out of action.

    Damage to a key fibre-optic cable means residents are only able to make purchases using cash.

    Tairāwhiti Civil Defence controller Ben Green cautioned there was not need to panic buy.
    Use what you have at home. Come together with neighbours and support one another,” he said.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/300806079/live-state-of-national-emergency-declared-as-cyclone-gabrielle-smashes-nz

    #128978
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @AFKTT This is a great article, it contains many links to other pages of interest https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/131220400/gisborne-and-hawkes-bay-communications-down-power-out-for-days-to-weeks?cid=app-iPhone, it is good to see from the top picture that the bridge at Tolaga bay is not under water although I bet a few of the houses on Gisborne’s Wainui beach have floated out to sea – over 1.5 million apiece – but that was always going to happen, them being built on sand.

    This is a great visual of the storm https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-202.01,-23.23,470.

    #128979
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Doc Robinson said

    New Zealanders are learning that they cannot rely on their digital ‘money’ or their government to save them.

    Or their electric cars, electric boats or electirc water pumps.

    Gisborne hospital is keeping the lights on using diesel generators.

    #128980
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Doc Robinson said

    “Use what you have at home. Come together with neighbours and support one another,” he said.

    What if we are not vaccinated, can we now be friends with the vaccinated, will they even speak to us? What happened to the division of society and hating on the unvaxxed, is that not cool anymore?

    #128981
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @John Day George Soros has his adult roots in London. You have to wonder, given his activism that appears to want to destroy US society and his support of WEF, whether he is part of the same cabal.

    #128982
    zerosum
    Participant

    Each Sidewinder AIM-9X costs over $400,000.

    I found the same info. with a simple search.
    Why are the reporters not saying it?
    What is gov. trying to hide/prevent the reporters from talking about?

    #128983
    John Day
    Participant
    #128984
    John Day
    Participant

    @Aspnaz: “Wonder” about Soros? “Nice Mr. Soros”?

    #128985
    John Day
    Participant

    @Phoenixvoice: I am sorry for the nice elderly man who lost his girlfriend.
    So much cancer, so much sadness and loss.

    #128986
    zerosum
    Participant

    Russia is bringing the Mig-29s out of mothballs to really command Ukrainian airspace.
    Good reason to tell everyone to go home/evacuate.
    Ever a better reason to get everyone to look up for balloons.

    #128987
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    If we have to perish twice
    Water after fire makes sense
    Which would be nice

    #128988
    aspnaz
    Participant
    #128989
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @John Day said

    “Wonder” about Soros? “Nice Mr. Soros”?

    Sorry, let my guard down: there is no wondering, he is Dr Evil.

    #128990
    aspnaz
    Participant

    From https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cyclone-gabrielle-live-updates-government-provides-update-on-national-state-of-emergency-as-northland-auckland-coromandel-bay-of-plenty-hawkes-bay-and-rest-of-north-island-hit-hard/NGAOXTW3ZRGG5GWKIY6OTF23AE/

    The Prime Minister has labelled Cyclone Gabrielle the “most severe weather event this century” as it continues to cause havoc, knocking out power to 225,000 people around the North Island and displacing 2500 Kiwis from their homes.

    Will this make him reconsider making everybody dependent on electricity as the sole source of energy, getting rid of ICE cars, ICE trucks, ICE fire engines, ICE chainsaws, ICE generators, gas cookers, gas water heaters, wood burners etc. Will this change his WEF obedience at all, or will he continue with the WEF green elimination of civilisation at the behest of his overlords?

    I think I know the answer, I think you know the answer, the question is whether the people of New Zealand will accept the answer. It would be interesting if someone were to show how this cyclone would have played out if we were all using electricity as the only source of energy. When will a “real journalist” – probably need to time travel from the past – ask similar questions and not accept the usual stupid answers?

    #128991
    aspnaz
    Participant

    And here we have the tribe trying to brainwash the Germans … https://www.rt.com/news/571433-google-disinformation-prebunking-germany/:

    Jigsaw describes itself as countering “threats to open societies,” a term most commonly associated with liberal financier George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Jigsaw is similarly liberal and internationalist in its outlook. Its first CEO, Jared Cohen, was an aide to Hillary Clinton at the US State Department

    Looks like the Jewish Democrat party is up to its old tricks again, this time under the control of a certain Mr Cohen who is obviously a fan of Mr Soros and his open society, “open” in the sense that solitary confinement is “open”. They like to describe things as their opposite so as to fool people into accepting their lies and corruption.

    #128992
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    When will a “real journalist” – probably need to time travel from the past – ask similar questions and not accept the usual stupid answers?

    Real journalists and investigators inhabit the ‘alternative media’.

    Real journalism in the mainstream sector was killed of decades ago; Eric Blair would say it never existed.

    Maybe if you go back to the nineteenth century? Very little in the twentieth century, and that tiny bit got killed off by Big Brother -the totalitarian fascists- quite a long time ago.

    #128993
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    As usual, many aspects of the latest disaster were avoidable -but local Deceit and Crime organisations didn’t do the job the community needed them to do, like ensure drains and flood systems were clear of vegetation and obstructions- and now many people are left with ruined lives and no help.

    Chipmunk will do plenty of posturing and deliver plenty of empty rhetoric, of course, as always happens, whichever Airstrip in Oceania is affected by a disaster.

    What will the management of Airstrip do?

    Print digital money and hand it out to corporations and opportunists, of course. And hope that something eventually gets done after all the kick-backs and and rorts have been paid for.

    #129007
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Sure Greed is a mortal sin. It’s called Avarice there. Don’t know who would think it was good. The reason that was said by Stone, in “Wall Street” and the Reagan era was to mock and point out it was NOT good. So the Left didn’t think it was good, the Right (and Christian right) didn’t think it was good, who thought it was good, then or now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed Made-up people. The “Other”. Again, merely attribute attributes to people they never had. Certainly a wide swath of all people have it, and it’s been increasing steadily along with every other sin. Yup.

    Of other attributes nobody ever said, what was Laissez-faire? I’ve quoted it before, from Revolutionary France. The #Helpers were causing widespread and unprecedented mass murder by jacking the market prices around. Causing people to, you know, not die by losing money after giving their lives creating things. They said, as translation: “For the love of God, leave us alone if you want bread to get to the people.” This was more or less immediately proven both by them, but especially Napoleon. Poof, no shortages. All he did was have sound money, property rights, and stop dicking with everyone, leave them alone.

    That goes with the other thing nobody ever said. Is there a long enough list for all the things nobody ever argued? What is “Capitalism”? Private ownership of property, mainly. If it’s all private property, who enforces the property rights? That’s why nobody said there wasn’t going to be a government, because we use police, courts, judges, laws to maintain property rights and settle disputes. Nor is that “Capitalism”. Say, wasn’t there a police force preventing theft in every communist government everywhere in all time? How can that be when there is no private property? See, property precedes law, it precedes governments. But all governments have it and “interfere” if you will. This is what the founding fathers said, about the “least bad” system. Since anarchy and the law of the jungle won’t work and you’re going to have to have a government, at least you can make it as least bad as possible and focus on letting it do things it’s good at like wrecking people and hurting them. I.e crime and punishment and war. But maybe not health care. Not growing chickens and delivering them to every pot, whereby millions starved.

    So why would governments have “laws” to enforce fraud, theft, bribery, extortion? Because those crimes precede the existence of government and are illegal even when there are three men and a hut. You might even call it “Natural Law”. Just because I pay someone to clean my house doesn’t mean I can’t, I’m not allowed, or I don’t know how to do it myself. Same with police and judges. And property rights. Not only CAN I, I am GOING to. Government is presently PREVENTING me.

    You know what’s a good example of this right now? Ohio. The EPA, etc are allowing the crash, promoting the burn, and protecting the railroad. You know what the non-#Helping position would be? Well, the Rail and the chemical manufacturer/user caused “monetary” and personal injury. They now are sued to recompense every dollar of harm done. Instant bankruptcy. That is law history: you cause injury, you compensate and restore it. If not, I’ll take it out of your hide by tying you to a post and hitting you with a hatchet as a bad example to others. So should anyone NOT want instant bankruptcy, they would need to be very, very careful. The EPA, regulators, etc exist to protect the COMPANIES, so they can be MORE destructive of the people and environment than would otherwise be legally possible. And, get the public nationwide to support this! It’s magic! The more EPA, FDA, the more corporate protection there is, and the more injury to the people. Yay #Helping! And they are Helping destroy private property rights, not Capitalistically support them. Everyone in 10 miles and 100 miles down the river just lost their “Property” including themselves and their health.

    As Joe Biden would say “I Did that!”

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