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Xi Jinping To Make State Visit To Russia On March 20-22 – Kremlin (TASS)
US and Other Western Nations Wary Of Xi’s Trip To Moscow (SCMP)
Kissinger Assesses China-brokered Deal Between Saudi Arabia And Iran (RT)
International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Putin (TASS)
The Gathering Storm (Macgregor)
Kiev Issues Warning To Countries That Don’t Support Ukraine (RT)
US ‘Obviously’ Blew Up Nord Stream – French Politician (RT)
US ‘Taking Close Look’ At Drone Operations – CNN (RT)
Russian Forces Block Ukrainian Army From Leaving Bakhmut (TASS)
EU States Using Ukraine To Dispose Of Old Weapons – Kremlin (RT)
Putin Says Crimea’s Reunification With Russia Was Historic Event (TASS)
‘Foreign Agent’ Rules: The End Of Globalization As We Knew It (Lukyanov)
Using NGOs In Hybrid Wars Favorite Method Of Russia’s Enemies – Medvedev (TASS)
Twitter Pushed To Censor ‘True Stories’ On Covid – Twitter Files (RT)
SVB + FTX + SBF = WTF? (Kunstler)
Swiss Government Discussing Merging UBS & Credit Suisse (Az.)
US Security Forces Brace For Possible Trump ‘Arrest’ (RT)

 

 

 

 

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Xi arrives on the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.

Labeling this an official state visit means documents have been prepared that are ready to be signed. By all parties, including US and Ukraine.

US and EU can say that China should join the world community vs Russia, but it’s Xi who speaks for the majority.

Xi Jinping To Make State Visit To Russia On March 20-22 – Kremlin (TASS)

Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Russia from March 20-22 at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin press service said in a statement on Friday. According to the statement, the two leaders will discuss “pressing issues related to the future of relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between Russia and China.” The parties are also expected to exchange views on ways to enhance Russian-Chinese cooperation on the international stage. In addition, the Kremlin press service specified that “a number of important bilateral documents will be signed” during the Chinese leader’s visit. Putin and Xi Jinping last met in person on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Uzbek city of Samarkand in September 2022.


In late December, Putin held a video conference call with Xi Jinping, inviting him to make a state visit to Moscow in the spring of 2023. Earlier in March, Xi Jinping was re-elected as Chinese president for a third five-year term. Putin said in his congratulatory message that Moscow and Beijing would continue coordination on key issues. The Russian president also expressed confidence that together with the Chinese president, he would be able to boost cooperation between the two countries in various fields. Following the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October 2022, Xi Jinping was also re-elected as General Secretary of the party’s Central Committee for a third time. That said, this will be his first visit to Russia since the re-election.

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“If China brokers peace here like it just did with Saudi and Iran, it’s a new world order, instantly.”

US and Other Western Nations Wary Of Xi’s Trip To Moscow (SCMP)

Washington and other Western capitals reacted warily on Friday to the announcement of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia next week, with the US “deeply concerned” Beijing could try to pose as a peacemaker by promoting an immediate ceasefire in the war in Ukraine. Both Beijing and the Kremlin confirmed on Friday that Xi will make a state visit to Russia from Monday to Wednesday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It will be Xi’s first foreign trip since he secured an unprecedented third term as China’s president last week. His face-to-face talks with Putin are widely expected to have broad implications for the war, now in its second year, and China’s already tense relationship with the US.

But its significance grew further on Friday after pressure grew on Putin: the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, issued an arrest warrant for him over the war crime of illegally deporting Ukrainian children to Russia. Additionally, Turkey, after blocking Finland’s application to join Nato in the wake of Russia’s invasion, agreed to support it. Putin has maintained that Nato is a threat to Russia. Beijing’s foreign ministry described the trip as a “visit of friendship, cooperation and peace”. Washington, though, sees it as a potentially harmful reframing of the conflict. The Chinese might promote a ceasefire and “try to couch themselves as peacemakers and as … the only ones calling for the fighting to stop”, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said. “We have deep concerns about that, because of what it actually means in terms of benefiting Russia at the expense of Ukraine,” he said.

“That’s why we’re expressing these concerns even before the visit.” The US position is that any ceasefire that freezes positions on the ground would validate Russia’s seizing of Ukrainian territory and give it a chance to rebuild its forces for further attacks. “We don’t support calls for a ceasefire right now,” Kirby said. “We certainly don’t support calls for a ceasefire that would be called for by the PRC [People’s Republic of China] in a meeting in Moscow that would simply benefit Russia.” He criticised Beijing for not joining the rest of the international community in supporting Ukraine. “We would certainly hope that they would. But we’ll see what comes out of this meeting,” he said. Britain also said that any peace deal not predicated on Ukraine’s sovereignty and self determination was no peace deal at all.

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“China has in recent years declared that it needs to be a participant in the creation of the world order. It has now made a significant move in that direction..”

Kissinger Assesses China-brokered Deal Between Saudi Arabia And Iran (RT)

China has taken a major step towards its goal of becoming a participant in the shaping of the world order, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said. The veteran diplomat was commenting on the recent landmark deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which Beijing mediated. Riyadh and Tehran agreed to restore diplomatic relations after a seven-year pause during talks in Beijing a week ago. In comments cited by the Washington Post on Thursday, Kissinger said the development is “a substantial change in the strategic situation in the Middle East.” The Saudis, who have been among Washington’s closest allies in the Middle East for decades, “are now balancing their security by playing off the US against China,” he explained.

According to Kissinger, Riyadh’s actions are comparable to what he himself accomplished in the early 1970s when, as secretary of state in the Nixon administration, he helped achieve rapprochement with Beijing amid its tensions with Moscow. The Saudi-Iranian deal will also complicate matters for Israel, as “pressure on Iran will now have to take into account Chinese interests,” he said. Israel remains increasingly concerned about Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapon program, and has warned of potential pre-emptive strikes against Iranian targets. “China has in recent years declared that it needs to be a participant in the creation of the world order. It has now made a significant move in that direction” by persuading Saudi Arabia and Iran to negotiate, Kissinger said.

The author of the article, Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius, also acknowledged that “the US is no longer the indispensable power in the region – the only country strong or supple enough to broker peace deals.” “China has claimed a share of that convening power” by playing the role of mediator on this scale for the first time, he wrote. Another major regional player, the United Arab Emirates, is also “courting” Beijing, Ignatius said. Chinese President Xi Jinping stated earlier this week that Beijing should “actively participate in the reform and construction of the global governance system” and promote “global security initiatives.” In doing so, China will add “positive energy to world peace and development,” he added.

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Russia was (is) moving Ukrainian children out of the line of fire. Where Ukraine let them remain. The west now talks of “re-education camps”..

“Who would have thought 15 years ago, that taking care of children, saving them and treating them, would become criminally punishable in the West.” – Maria Zakharova

International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Putin (TASS)

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, the court said in a statement on Friday. The statement said they could be responsible “for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.” ICC arrest warrants are usually secret in order to protect victims and witnesses and also to safeguard the investigation. However, the court stated that it authorized the public disclosure of the existence of the warrants, the names of the suspects and the crimes for which the warrants are issued, because “the conduct addressed in the present situation is allegedly ongoing, and that the public awareness of the warrants may contribute to the prevention of the further commission of crimes.”


Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier, when he commented on potential ICC cases against Russia, that Russia doesn’t recognize the court’s jurisdiction. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in comments on the information from the Hague, said decisions of the court have no consequence in Russia and any potential arrest warrants are null and void. The International Criminal Court was established by the Rome Statute in 1998. It’s not part of the UN and is accountable to the countries that have ratified the statute. The countries that aren’t parties to the statute include Russia (signed, didn’t ratify), the US (signed, then revoked signature) and China (didn’t sign). Putin signed an executive order in 2016 that stated Russia wouldn’t be a member of the ICC. According to a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry, the court didn’t live up to expectations and failed to become a truly independent organization for international justice. The US expressed strong displeasure with the court in 2020, after ICC prosecutors indicated they would investigate crimes by US servicemen in Afghanistan.

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“Biden’s policy of forcibly pushing NATO to Russia’s borders forged a strong commonality of security and trade interests between Moscow and Beijing that is attracting strategic partners in South Asia like India, and partners like Brazil in Latin America.”

The Gathering Storm (Macgregor)

The crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasuries are losing their value. The market’s proverbial “vibes”—feelings, emotions, beliefs, and psychological penchants—suggest a dark turn is underway inside the American economy. American national power is measured as much by American military capability as by economic potential and performance. The growing realization that American and European military-industrial capacity cannot keep up with Ukrainian demands for ammunition and equipment is an ominous signal to send during a proxy war that Washington insists its Ukrainian surrogate is winning.

Russian economy-of-force operations in southern Ukraine appear to have successfully ground down attacking Ukrainian forces with the minimal expenditure of Russian lives and resources. While Russia’s implementation of attrition warfare worked brilliantly, Russia mobilized its reserves of men and equipment to field a force that is several magnitudes larger and significantly more lethal than it was a year ago.Russia’s massive arsenal of artillery systems including rockets, missiles, and drones linked to overhead surveillance platforms converted Ukrainian soldiers fighting to retain the northern edge of the Donbas into pop-up targets. How many Ukrainian soldiers have died is unknown, but one recent estimate wagers between 150,000-200,000 Ukrainians have been killed in action since the war began, while another estimates about 250,000.

Given the glaring weakness of NATO members’ ground, air, and air defense forces, an unwanted war with Russia could easily bring hundreds of thousands of Russian Troops to the Polish border, NATO’s Eastern Frontier. This is not an outcome Washington promised its European allies, but it’s now a real possibility. In contrast to the Soviet Union’s hamfisted and ideologically driven foreign policymaking and execution, contemporary Russia has skillfully cultivated support for its cause in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. The fact that the West’s economic sanctions damaged the U.S. and European economies while turning the Russian ruble into one of the international system’s strongest currencies has hardly enhanced Washington’s global standing.

Biden’s policy of forcibly pushing NATO to Russia’s borders forged a strong commonality of security and trade interests between Moscow and Beijing that is attracting strategic partners in South Asia like India, and partners like Brazil in Latin America. The global economic implications for the emerging Russo-Chinese axis and their planned industrial revolution for some 3.9 billion people in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are profound.

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“..while Kuleba was “trying to clumsily intimidate the world community,” he was simultaneously publishing announcements on his ministry’s website searching for “anyone who could represent the Kiev regime at the ambassador level abroad.”

Kiev Issues Warning To Countries That Don’t Support Ukraine (RT)

Ukraine will remember those who backed it in its conflict with Russia and will hold those who did not accountable, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba warned in a BBC interview on Friday. The choices every nation made during Russia’s military operation in Ukraine will be “taken into account in building future relations,” Kuleba said, adding that countries that have “misbehaved in the course of this war and mistreated Ukraine” would pay a price. “If anyone in the world thinks that the way this or that country behaved – or treated Ukraine at the darkest moment of its history – will not be taken into account in building future relations, these people just don’t know how diplomacy works,” he stated, noting that “war is a time when you have to make a choice. And every choice has been recorded.”

The minister also blasted the West for not giving Ukraine weapons fast enough, pointing out that every day weapons are not delivered is a day some Ukrainian soldiers die on the frontline. Russia responded to Kuleba’s statement by noting that everything he said had already long been understood by Ukrainian citizens, which is why they are fleeing even from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote in a Telegram post that while Kuleba was “trying to clumsily intimidate the world community,” he was simultaneously publishing announcements on his ministry’s website, searching for “anyone who could represent the Kiev regime at the ambassador level abroad.”

“Even though there is a foreign currency salary, it seems there is no one to be found,” Zakharova said. Meanwhile, Russia has pointed out that more and more UN member states are beginning to question the true nature of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev as they grow more skeptical of the West’s calls for peace in Ukraine. “Very quickly it has become obvious that it’s not Russia and Ukraine that are fighting in Ukraine right now. It’s a NATO proxy war against Russia with the hands of the Ukrainians, until the last Ukrainian,” Dmitry Polyansky, the deputy head of Moscow’s mission to the UN, said last week.

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Violent protests in France over Macron unilaterally pushing through pension reforms.

US ‘Obviously’ Blew Up Nord Stream – French Politician (RT)

French party leader Florian Philippot believes it has long been obvious that the United States was behind last year’s sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian natural gas to Western Europe. “Even before the war in Ukraine, the US for years fought against Nord Stream, it was a permanent part of their policy,” he told RIA Novosti in an interview published on Friday. “In early February 2022, [US President Joe] Biden said the Americans could make it so that the pipeline was no more. That’s what happened. And it was in the interest of the Americans,” according to Philippot, who heads the right-wing ‘The Patriots’ party in France. Last month, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported that Biden personally ordered the bombing of the pipelines, and that Norway assisted in the sabotage.

He cited an unnamed source and supported his case using some of the same arguments as Philippot. Biden remarked that “there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2” during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in early February 2022. Hersh also claimed that Biden allowed US special services to classify the operation in a way that justified not informing the US Congress about it beforehand. Nord Stream 2 is the name of the second, newer pipeline, which was meant to greatly expand the capacity of the original Nord Stream, but was never operational. Both were disabled by sabotage. Philippot said he considered US culpability “obvious” even before Hersh’s revelations, but was not sure about Norway’s role.

He reasoned that Oslo had a motive since it “competes with Russia in gas trade, and many European nations replaced the Russian gas with Norwegian.” Both the US and Norway have denied any responsibility. Philippot also urged France to leave NATO, saying the military alliance “needs to be disbanded because it has no reason to exist.” “We have to stop this agenda of world war against Russia and China, it is absolutely insane,” he told the Russian news outlet, blaming the US for increasing global tensions. He also called French President Emmanuel Macron a deceitful leader. His government “prioritizes the US, and not its own people,” Philippot stated. He cited Macron’s decision to send billions of dollars worth of weapons and ammunition to Kiev, even as he is pushing through an unpopular pension reform, claiming a lack of money to fund social programs.

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“..the US is now “weighing the costs and benefits” of further drone operations..”

That took just one drone…

US ‘Taking Close Look’ At Drone Operations – CNN (RT)

The US is weighing the benefits and risks of drone flights over the Black Sea after losing an unmanned aircraft there while being chased by Russian interceptors, CNN reported on Thursday, citing sources. On Tuesday, Washington claimed that two Russian Su-27 fighters dumped fuel on a MQ-9 Reaper drone conducting a reconnaissance flight in the area, with one jet later colliding with the US aircraft. Moscow’s Ministry of Defense, however, dismissed the accusation, insisting that its interceptors had neither come into contact with the Reaper nor fired a weapon, saying that the drone crashed due to “sharp maneuvers.” Several officials have told CNN that the US is now “weighing the costs and benefits” of further drone operations.

At the same time, Washington has not entirely halted flights while the review is underway, the report says, and another Reaper was sent to monitor Russian forces searching for the debris. Pentagon officials say they are “taking a close look” at US drone routes and at ways to reduce the risk of clashing with Moscow’s military in the area. They are also said to be analyzing the potential intelligence benefits of such missions compared with the danger of escalation. One senior official told CNN the US was concerned that curbing drone activities could adversely affect intelligence gathering related to the Ukraine conflict. However, the US could still rely on other assets such as satellites, the report states.

Despite the ongoing review, Washington is considering flying another drone over the Black Sea in the near future, US officials said, without providing further detail. The US has significantly ramped up intelligence operations close to Russian borders, seeking to provide Ukraine with valuable data. Moscow has repeatedly insisted that such activities make the US a direct party to the conflict. On Friday, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council, blasted the US for sending its drone into the restricted flight Moscow has imposed due to the Ukraine conflict. “To put it simply, the Americans went way out of line, and there is no need to stand on ceremony with them,” he said, while recognizing the value of contacts between the Russian and US militaries.

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They can leave, but not fully armed.

Russian Forces Block Ukrainian Army From Leaving Bakhmut (TASS)

Russian forces are steadily advancing in Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine) having thwarted the attempted withdrawal of several Ukrainian army units, acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin said on Friday. “We saw that several Ukrainian army units tried to get out of there, but they were thwarted by our forces,” he said in an interview with Russia’s Channel One. “The situation is steadily developing toward the liberation of this settlement.” Artyomovsk is located in the Kiev-controlled part of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Fierce fighting for control of the city is underway. According to the latest data, Russian forces have blocked or taken control of all paved roads to the city while the nascent spring mud season is complicating logistics efforts to supply the Ukrainian army with fresh ammunition and personnel.

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“.. the jets were retired last year, and several reports suggested that they were mostly not in operational condition…”

EU States Using Ukraine To Dispose Of Old Weapons – Kremlin (RT)

Plans by Poland and Slovakia to send Soviet warplanes to Ukraine look like attempts to dispose of antiquated equipment, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during his Friday press briefing. “This is another example of how a number of NATO member states, including Poland, are raising their direct involvement in the conflict,” he announced, reacting to the recent announcements that Warsaw and Bratislava would send Soviet-designed MiG-29 warplanes to Kiev. Peskov added that it would not affect the outcome of Russia’s military operation but instead “may lead to additional suffering for Ukraine itself and its people.” “It seems like these countries [Poland and Slovakia] are just disposing of old equipment they no longer need,” Peskov said. The MiG-29 was designed in the 1970s and entered service in the 1980s.

Warsaw’s plan to transfer four of the MiG-29 fighters to Kiev “in the next few days” was announced by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki earlier this week. This makes Poland the first NATO country to pledge warplanes to Ukraine. The country has 28 MiG-29s, but it is unclear how many of them are in working condition, as the country has sought to update its air force with US- and South Korean-made fighters. Slovakia, also a NATO member, similarly announced on Friday that it would send 13 of its MiGs to Kiev. However, the jets were retired last year, and several reports suggested that they were mostly not in operational condition.

Ukraine has been requesting warplanes, specifically American-made F-16s for its military, but US President Joe Biden said in January that they were not planning to send any over. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz similarly stated the same month that Berlin was not even discussing transferring its own F-16s. French President Emmanuel Macron has sounded more vague, saying in January that he would not rule out sending fighter jets to Ukraine. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced in February that London would be training Ukrainian pilots, adding that there was still no decision on actually sending Western-made fighter jets to Kiev. Moscow has warned on numerous occasions that arming Ukraine was akin to playing with fire and that Western countries had practically already become a party to the conflict.

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9 years ago.

Putin Says Crimea’s Reunification With Russia Was Historic Event (TASS)

Russian President Vladimir Putin took the opportunity on Friday to congratulate all citizens of Russia with the upcoming anniversary of Crimea’s reunification with Russia, calling it a historic event. “I want to congratulate the citizens of Crimea, Sevastopol and all citizens of our country with the Day of Crimea’s Reunification with Russia,” Putin said, opening a session on the socio-economic development of Crimea and Sevastopol. March 16, 2023 marks nine years since the Crimean referendum, where the majority of citizens of Crimea and Sevastopol voted in favor of reunification with Russia.


After Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich was ousted in a coup in February 2014, mass protests erupted in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. On March 11, 2014, Crimea’s Supreme Council and Sevastopol City Council adopted a declaration of independence. On March 15, 2014, the Crimean authorities held a referendum on reuniting with Russia. Most voters supported the idea (96.77% in Crimea and 95.6% in the city of Sevastopol), with turnout reaching 80%. On March 18, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the treaty on Crimea’s reunification with Russia. Ukraine, the United States and the European Union refused to recognize Crimea’s independence and its decision to reunite with Russia.

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“..The idea that cross-border funding of NGOs is not only acceptable, but normal and necessary, has become a product and a feature of the era of liberal globalization..”

‘Foreign Agent’ Rules: The End Of Globalization As We Knew It (Lukyanov)

Georgia hit the headlines early this month over the government’s attempt to pass a law on “foreign agents.” The draft bill (there were actually two of them) was eventually withdrawn and the issue taken off the agenda for the time being. The case is unusual because the Georgian leadership – far from being pro-Russian and anti-Western – has suddenly been relegated to this niche by the international media. Of course, everything is black-and-white these days, but the general topic is interesting in a wider context. The concept of a “foreign agent,” which was introduced in the US on the eve of World War II to counter enemy propaganda, has found new life in the 21st century. Until recently, it was mainly used in polemics between Russia and the West.

The latter accused Moscow of using the status to remove dissenters from the public space. Meanwhile, the Kremlin’s argument that the public has a right to know about foreign money being spent domestically is dismissed as a mere justification for restricting freedoms. The argument goes that “civil society” has the right to be funded “independently.” Herein lies a fundamental contradiction that we are now likely to see everywhere more and more. The idea that cross-border funding of NGOs is not only acceptable, but normal and necessary, has become a product and a feature of the era of liberal globalization. This view of civil society has been logically derived from the conceptual approach itself. If the aim is to remove trade, economic and, ideally, political barriers and to create a single global regulatory space, then non-governmental structures must either have no national affiliation at all or be connected with international organizations as much as possible.

This contradicts the classical notion of civil society, the essence of which is precisely its bottom-up origin, i.e., that it should emerge domestically. However, the West believes the top-down approach is a good thing – when it suits it, of course. Five years ago, US doctrine enshrined the return of great power rivalry as the core content of international politics. It drew a line under the previous period, which was more open. If this is the essence of world politics, then all the instruments are in play, and all the old themes, such as “money has no nationality” and “let information circulate without barriers,” can no longer be understood outside this context. Over the past couple of decades, there has indeed been a high degree of openness on the part of states to both socio-political and information activities. This is partly due to the significant increase in the number of embassy staff after the Cold War – where the scope of work, including with civil society, has expanded.

The impressive scale of mutual expulsions of diplomats after 2018 is linked to the collapse of relations, but also has an objective basis. Embassies are returning to more classical, i.e., narrower tasks, and there is no reason to have so many staff present. The same phenomenon applies to restrictions on media activity, which was relatively freely tolerated after the end of the Cold War. However, the atmosphere in this area has changed as the dominance of Western sources in the information space has been challenged by other players. In Western Europe and the US, measures against Russian and, to some extent, Chinese news channels have been explained by the fact that they are state-funded, while many of those from the West are private, in addition to their own state media.

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“To create organizations under benign covers, which actually seek to destabilize the situation in the country, to undermine stability in civil society..”

Using NGOs In Hybrid Wars Favorite Method Of Russia’s Enemies – Medvedev (TASS)

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev noted that using nonprofit organizations in hybrid wars is the favorite method of certain states that are hostile to Russia. The politician called “not to be shy” and to decisively thwart the operation of such structures. “We know that the favorite method of our enemies – all types – is to use nonprofits in hybrid wars. To create organizations under benign covers, which actually seek to destabilize the situation in the country, to undermine stability in civil society. We have seen many examples of this. These methods have been honed to perfection,” Medvedev said, speaking at a Ministry of Justice board meeting Friday. Medvedev noted that the Ministry has already created special measures for nonprofits, including publication of reports online.


“It is necessary to continue fine-tuning the law in this area, to prevent unfair competition, to introduce principles of openness and transparency, and streamline corporate management of nonprofit organizations,” he listed.Achieving balance and security in this area is of key importance, the official explained. “Thus, on the one hand, it is necessary to create comfortable conditions for normal, good-faith nonprofits, whose operation truly benefits the state and society. And, on the other hand – to brutally thwart the operation of structures, whose operation runs counter to Russia’s interests,” he noted. In this regard, one “should not be shy and should use all the necessary legal instruments,” Medvedev believes.

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“As Orwellian proof-of-concept, the Virality Project was a smash success..”

Twitter Pushed To Censor ‘True Stories’ On Covid – Twitter Files (RT)

A government-linked academic group pushed Twitter to censor factually correct stories about Covid-19 if they risked “fueling hesitancy” about vaccines, according to the latest batch of internal documents released by the platform’s new owner, Elon Musk. Published by journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday, the documents show that from February 2021 onwards, senior Twitter management – including former trust and safety chief Yoel Roth – signed up to a Stanford University initiative that would alert them to the latest “vaccine-related disinformation narratives” spreading on the platform.

Titled ‘The Virality Project,’ the initiative was led by a former CIA employee and comprised academics from several universities, as well as researchers from organizations funded by the Pentagon, the National Science Foundation, and the US State Department. The Virality Project also stated on its website that it “built strong ties” with the Office of the Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Homeland Security, among other agencies and departments. In its briefings to Twitter, the Virality Project recommended that “true content which might promote vaccine hesitancy” – such as stories of side effects and certain vaccines being banned abroad – be censored. Posts raising concern about vaccine mandates were viewed as “anti-vax” misinformation, while “just asking questions” was deemed “a tactic commonly used by spreaders of misinformation,” and posting about the “surveillance state” was deemed a bannable “conspiracy” theory.

It is unclear how often Twitter acceded to the Virality Project’s demands, though Taibbi said that within a month, the platform’s staff began using the project’s recommendations when evaluating content to censor. At the time, Twitter’s rules on Covid-19 “misinformation” required a specific post to be “demonstrably false,” while permitting “strong commentary,” opinion writing, and satire. The Virality Project, however, urged Twitter management to ban “repeat offenders” before they even made new posts. Sharing the leaked emails of White House coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci could “exacerbate distrust in Dr. Fauci and in US public health institutions,” the Virality Project warned in a June 2021 briefing, while a follow-up report highlighted the spread of “worrisome jokes” about harassing the door-to-door vaccine promoters deployed by the administration of US President Joe Biden.

“As Orwellian proof-of-concept, the Virality Project was a smash success,” Taibbi wrote on Friday. “Government, academia, and an oligopoly of would-be corporate competitors organized quickly behind a secret, unified effort to control political messaging.” Since purchasing Twitter in October and installing himself as the platform’s new CEO, Musk has been releasing regular batches of internal documents and communications in a bid to shed light on its previously opaque censorship policies. A tranche of files released in December revealed that Twitter censored “legitimate content” on Covid-19 at the direct request of the White House.

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“Money dies when it loses its direct connection to the generation of wealth from the real things of this earth..”

SVB + FTX + SBF = WTF? (Kunstler)

As if all the operations around finance in this land were not already unsound and degenerate enough, the alleged president just cancelled moral hazard altogether. It’s now official: from here forward there will be no consequences for banking fraud, poor decision-making, fiduciary recklessness, self-dealing, or any of the other risks attendant to the handling other people’s money. Bailing out the Silicon Valley Bank and Barney Frank’s deluxe Signature Bank means that the government will now have to bail out every bank every time something goes wrong. The trouble, of course, is that the government doesn’t have the means to bail out every bank. Its only resort is to ask the Federal Reserve to summon new money from a magic ether where the illusion of wealth is conjured to paper-over ever greater fissures in the splintering matrix of racketeering that America has become.

That will quickly translate into US dollars losing value, that is, accelerating inflation, which is how nature punishes you when your government lies and pretends that it has a bad situation well-in-hand. Be advised: the situation is not in-hand and is going to get a whole lot worse as new and subsidiary shocks thunder through the weeks and months ahead, until the whole wicked business blows. Likewise, the reactions of our government will only get more tragi-comically pathetic. The harder this gang of feckless, wannabe control freaks pretends to control events, the faster events spin out of control. Money dies when it loses its direct connection to the generation of wealth from the real things of this earth: fuels, crops, metals, materials, labor, and the value-added products made from them.

Since that divorce has already happened, the need arises for something else that can function as money (a store of wealth, an index of value, and a medium of exchange). The government will pretend that a Central Bank Digital Currency is that something else. Since banking is now nationalized by the Federal Reserve backstopping everything and everybody, then theoretically all the wealth of the nation is under its command. That would be another illusion. This CBDC would not be “money” representing wealth because America’s wealth is going, going, gone, pissed away, falling apart, de-laminating, oxidizing, rusting in the rain, going up in a vapor. Think of all those mortgaged cars on the road racking up the mileage until they’re worthless and all those mortgaged suburban houses built out of particle-board and vinyl smeared all over the landscape, decomposing into their constituent chemicals — over time, a dead loss. And that’s what’s left of our American Dream: coldcocked by entropy and, by extension, the laws of the universe.

Yellen

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Credit Suisse was back tanking yesterday.

Swiss Government Discussing Merging UBS & Credit Suisse (Az.)

UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group AG are opposed to a forced combination, even as scenario planning for a government-orchestrated tie-up continues, according to people with knowledge of the matter, Report informs referring to Bloomberg. UBS would prefer to focus on its own wealth-centric standalone strategy and is reluctant to take on risks related to Credit Suisse, the people said, asking not to be identified as the deliberations are private. Its smaller rival is seeking time to see through its turnaround after winning a liquidity backstop from the central bank, they said.


Credit Suisse arrested a collapse in investor confidence on March 16 after winning a 50 billion franc ($54 billion) credit line from the Swiss National Bank. That came after the Swiss lender had appealed to authorities for a public show of support following an unprecedented slump in the shares. With investors jittery after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, comments by Credit Suisse’s largest shareholder that it wasn’t willing to invest more in the bank were enough to provoke a deep selloff.

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They’re really scared of him. He’s polling well compared to DeSantis. And New York is as Dem as they come. But really? Stormy Daniels is all you got?

US Security Forces Brace For Possible Trump ‘Arrest’ (RT)

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are reportedly discussing security preparations in the event former President Donald Trump is indicted on felony falsification charges sometime in the coming days, according to multiple media outlets citing anonymous officials. The agencies are carrying out “preliminary security assessments” in and around a Manhattan courthouse to prepare for a possible indictment linked to an alleged “hush money” scheme involving a woman who claimed to have been intimate with the ex-president, five senior officials told NBC on Friday. While the officials stressed that the discussions are “precautionary” given that no charges have been filed, they said preparations are being made for an indictment that could come as early as next week.


Four law enforcement officials reached by the Associated Press confirmed the interagency conversations, which they said involve “security, planning and the practicalities of a potential court appearance” by Trump. The agencies discussing security preparations reportedly include the New York Police Department, New York State Court Officers, the US Secret Service, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Manhattan DA’s Office. According to a “source in the courts” cited by Fox News, the Secret Service will determine whether Trump is handcuffed in the event he is charged. The former leader is under a grand jury investigation launched by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office over the alleged felony falsification of business records, and is accused of arranging a payment of $130,000 to adult film actress Stormy Daniels through his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen.

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1636890792051523585

Daniels claims she was paid during the 2016 presidential campaign to keep quiet about alleged sexual encounters with Trump in the past, though he denies such liaisons ever took place. Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, told NBC News that if the ex-president is charged, he will “follow the normal procedures,” but has insisted on his client’s innocence. “The payments were made to a lawyer, not to Stormy Daniels. The payments were made to Donald Trump’s lawyer, which would be considered legal fees,” he said during a separate interview with MSNBC earlier this week, adding that Cohen “was his lawyer at the time and advised him that this was the proper way to do this to protect himself and his family from embarrassment. It’s as simple as that. That is not a crime.”


Cohen pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to the payment in 2018, and has since cooperated with the investigation into Trump after a public falling out with his former boss. He has provided hours of testimony before the grand jury probing Trump on the alleged felony charge, appearing for a second time on Wednesday.

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    Leonardo da Vinci A Copse of Trees 1508   • Xi Jinping To Make State Visit To Russia On March 20-22 – Kremlin (TASS) • US and Other Western Natio
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 18 2023]

    #131528
    V. Arnold
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    Leonardo da Vinci A Copse of Trees 1508

    Now, who in the hell would have thought to do just exactly that? To paint that picture exactly like that?
    Obviously da Vinci did….
    Awesome; no?

    #131529
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    A good shit-hitting-the-fan summary below, as everything gets ramped up into a monumental crisis by the City of London and international banksters and the Oceania military-industrial complex.

    Monday is going to be very ‘interesting’ (we on Airstrip Five will have to wait till Tuesday to hear about the carnage)

    #131530
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Possible that painting is a camera obscura and the reason it’s so off-center is the balance of where the pinhole fell in the room.

    “ATF Gains Financial Information On Potential Gun Buyers For Warrantless Tracking, Documents Show”

    Yes, requesting this information would be a “warrant”. But that’s a law and we don’t follow those.

    “White House Rejects Ceasefire In Ukraine As China Mediation Intensifies

    We’re not in the war, but it’s our decision alone if it ends or not. Got it.

    “Arrest Warrant Issued For President Putin By Hague-Based ICC

    That’ll settle things down. I’m sure he’ll call for a ceasefire and leave now if he’s to be arrested forever. Meanwhile, Bush, Rumsfeld, Obama, Hillary, Chertoff, and now Biden are all walking around discrediting the ICC Court forever.

    JPM: As Bank Run Drains $550 Billion In Deposits In One Week, QT Is Essentially Over”

    Kind of. More accurately it appears the Fed and Treasury are fighting. Yellen demands and promises all bailouts, nationwide. Powell defers, as the Fed is established by Congress and if the GOVERNMENT wishes to print, on THEIR budget, he must comply. The TREASURY is ending QT. She had been trying in several ways, including starting a world-wide nuclear war, but this is their new Covid to end the dollar and install Davos.

    Okay, ALL banks are now the Fed/Government. And ALL risks are now the Fed/Government’s. Happy now? Have we reached nirvana now that we have 100% moral hazard, still done nothing to execs who have no risk compliance, insider trade, then give themselves options as an insult to the bankruptcy court?

    All banks are now one bank. All risks are now one risk. So when Pa’s Crab Shack n Bank in Maine fails, the entire daisy chain fails up to JP Morgan. That now happens via the currency. All actions are now government actions, so not stopping it is the government’s fault. Do you think they move fast enough and have eyes everywhere the way the market does?

    I forget what the level of insuring all deposits is, $40 trillion? Commercial alone is $17 trillion. She just did this, no act of Congress. Somebody want to explain that to me when all spending bills originate in the Congressional House? And Biden had already hit the budget wall and were using overtime measures to pay for things?

    Why would that happen? We have first month ever with “M” money supply contracting, causing compounding-interest bank failures, not only right-on-time, but to the second accuracy. Yellen is now stopping the Money Supply contraction, which will move the risk to the currency, as risk and mispricing cannot be reduced, only transferred. …And increased.

    The Covid inflation occurred, just as we all said (although I was badly off on the timing). We are now tripling that.

    Wokeness Did Not Cause Collapse” Factcheck.

    Fact Check: That’s not what they said. In true NPD form, they latch on or even fabricate something that wasn’t said or even invent something, then deny that made-up fact instead. What they said was, SVB had no Risk officer for a year, while they had a Diversity officer flying around, spending millions, instructing the public where the SVB board puts their pee-pees. So where were SVB’s priorities? THAT is what they were saying, which are objective facts.

    Bombshell: “The walls are closing in on the Biden’s”

    …As exactly nothing happens. As usual. Complete abdication of duty at every level, down to the dog-catcher.

    ““Who would have thought 15 years ago, that taking care of children, saving them and treating them, would become criminally punishable in the West.” – Maria Zakharova

    I guess she doesn’t live here. Killing our children is a time-honored tradition now for generations. The more unsafe and violent it is for them, the more we go in that direction. The more we refuse to turn around and go back. Killing children is our compass that way.

    “The market’s proverbial “vibes”—feelings, emotions, beliefs, and psychological penchants—suggest a dark turn”

    They always call on “animal spirits” theory because they’re failed economists with failed theories that failed 100 years in a row. No. Human action is not irrational. Ask “Human Action.” A crypto bank went down after raising money. Fed interest rates have been rising, erasing collateral and SIVB, too busy talking about their pee-pees, did nothing to mitigate the planet’s most enormous, obvious, and slow-moving risk. When SVB then spoke of raising capital (and STILL had done nothing about the deteriorating bond portfolio condition because I guess they’re “not bankers” and can’t do “you had one job”) Peter Thiel and others took it as a red flag. He removed some $21B personally, no doubt signaling to others. Why? Irrational spirits? No. Removing the money costs essentially zero, while not removing it could cost essentially everything. That’s just logic and incentives, “Self Interest” in “Human Action”. Socialists would have you lose 100% of your money in order to backstop a system/decision that will fail anyway. The collective is more important than the individual, so we kill every individual one-by-one to save the…wait, what?

    Why the next banks? “Human Action” and Self Interest in Incentives again: The Fed, last time, has OFFICIALLY says there are “Systemically Critical Banks.” WE didn’t make that up, they did, in policy that is essentially law. Under THEIR policy, the Fed/Treasury will ONLY backstop these FOUR largest banks. Everyone else will go bankrupt. So if the 20th largest regional bank was NOT to be bailed – as JUST occurred – then EVERY bank 20th and below are NOT SAFE. THEY did not say that with their irrational animal spirits, the FED said that, by ‘law’.

    Therefore, every rational person with two brain cells to rub together (not SIVB), pulled their money from EVERY regional bank and moved it to the four monopoly banks. That took down the next two banks. That’s Yellen and Bernanke’s fault. THEY did that. Also great for competition. Capitalism!

    So then? To stop the bank run on every bank OTHER THAN the Four – which THEY caused – Yellen now backstops ALL banks. To ALL levels. That is, we now have a nationalized banking system. But in the American way, All the fraud, none of the benefits. And a inflating currency to boot.

    Their cover? To say IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT. Yeah, you little people! If you hadn’t been “irrational”, tried to make “payroll” and not go “bankrupt”, — and just sat there and let us rob you – none of this would have happened! Now stop defending yourselves and let us steal. Why you gotta be so rational all the time and “not die”?

    Weird how the “market vibes” somehow always involve “self-preservation” according to the incentive structure THEY set up. I blame Peter Thiel. It’s the Biden Administration: they always attack women and the gays.

    “Ukraine will remember those who backed it in its conflict with Russia and will hold those who did not accountable,”

    Who?? Sorry, I only listen to nations that are relevant. His statement only makes sense if you know who “We” are. Somehow a tiny sliver that runs Ukraine is claiming they ALSO have the power to hold all nations worldwide to account. O Rly? Would you like to expand on that notion? Are you saying you have paid, planted sympathizers in these administrations that are paid to actively work against their own nations’ interests and in the interest of this sliver of Ukrainian oligarchs instead? Because, newsflash: that would be “treason” in all the nations involved. So please, by all means send me your documents on this subject.

    Violent protests in France over Macron unilaterally pushing through pension reforms.”

    When one man “just says” and the law appears, that’s Democracy! Sounds like the United States. We haven’t passed a thing, nothing on Covid, no war powers acts, no debt forgiveness, no congressional budget for bailouts, but as Biden says “he’ll just do it” using Obama’s “Phone and a pen.” One man rules all = Democracy. They also shoot them in the streets because they have such public support. Quick! Tell King George! All he had to do is say “Democracy? You already got one!”

    “US ‘Taking Close Look’ At Drone Operations – CNN (RT)

    Already conceded. They immediately launched another drone (so they can tell the papers) then keep that drone 100 miles away, over the horizon from Crimea and the crash. (as a message).

    Scott Ritter rips into Marco Rubio & Lindsey Graham”

    Yes but Marco Rubio is not an American, and Lindsey Graham is not a human.

    “A government-linked academic group pushed Twitter to censor factually correct stories about Covid-19 if they risked “fueling hesitancy” about vaccines,”

    How do you know if a story causes “Vaccine hesitancy”? Using your Putin-Telepathy? You now know the internal states of all humans you never met? And as Dore says, They, being the super-smart and special people, are not affected by reading all this propaganda for you and censoring it. You, being the stupid, ignorant, deplorable sub-humans ARE affected by these words and obey them slavishly, totally affected and not having minds of your own.

    BTW that’s Munchausen again. That’s the whole Left. “Mommy needs to protect you because you’re a weak, worthless, injured, incapable non-person who can never survive without me.” For instance, that’s the line of the Wicked Witch in “Tangled”, the Rapunzel remake. Mommy is the savior; you’re the sap. Her one true job and burden is to protect you from facts and the truth.

    The truth that you’re fine, you don’t need her. This is a height of violence that men, and “the patriarchy”, can’t even conceive of. But “it’s not evil when I do it.” When I kill you, it’s Love, don’t you see???

    Don’t fool yourself, they’re creating the largest bank runs since 1929.”

    As I said, probably not, but they are transferring all $40T in bank runs to the currency.

    alleged “hush money” scheme”

    WTF does that mean? It’s illegal to pay people now? There are no more non-disclosure agreements? Papers can’t buy an “exclusive”? There’s no such thing as employees or contracts? They’re capable of anything, so I guess we’ll find out, but I didn’t know paying my ex-lovers was illegal.

    MPSK: Why? A gun should be the last thing to own. Especially after door locks and moving. After tasers or pepper. After everything. You are most likely to be injured with your gun. The most likely thing is it will be taken and/or used on you. It will be a liability in court in contrast to clubbing them with a toaster.

    That said, what gun? The one that is nearest when you need it. Which to buy? Skip the gun and spend all the money on training how to use it. That said: what do you mean to shoot? To kill? What are the laws in your area?

    Unrestricted, everyones’ choice is a Glock with a lot of bullets. Restricted, almost everyone’s choice is a shotgun. Those two don’t match up but it is possible to pair ammunition between a pistol and long gun for instance with a .410 or 9mm, e.g. But you’ll know all that if you do 6 months task-specific training like you might if you feel the need to shoot things.

    Fernando “FerFAL” Aguirre has one of the most reasonable takes on it, having survived, then intelligently left Argentina and their near-constant economic and social collapse. https://www.survival-spot.com/survival-blog/argentina-collapse/ (for example)

    Sorry, but it’s a tool and so it all depends. If you’re on a Wyoming ranch dealing with coyotes, the suburbs of Pennsylvania, section 8 in Chicago, or a condo in Florida. Don’t ask about the gun, in fact, ignore the gun, avoid it if you can. Focus on the task. What’s the goal? Fill the goal any way you can without a gun first.

    #131531
    EoinW
    Participant

    Is the world a better place when incompetent people don’t quit?

    Look at Lincoln’s resume: failure after failure after failure. He spent a lifetime failing. Let’s make him president of a country! After all the South said: “elect anyone else and we’ll keep talking and compromising. But elect Lincoln and we’re done!” Does this mean John Bolton will be the last POTUS?

    Lincoln is considered one of the greatest presidents. The power of propaganda – or is it the stupidity of westerners? What did Lincoln do when he actually succeeded at something for the first time in his life? He ruled by decree and got more Americans killed than any other president ever.

    I’ve got a great idea for the 21st century. Let’s find a thousand Lincolns – people who have failed at everything all their lives – and put them in charge of the entire western world. I wonder how that will turn out.

    #131533
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Charlie Robinson: Life After Collapse of American Empire

    Author Charlie Robinson discusses the globalist’s octopus of control and their domination agenda. He’s concerned with the push for supranationalism and regional integration (e.g. North American Union). He explains how he recently predicted a banking crisis at Anarchapulco ahead of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and urges people to keep their savings outside of banks to prep for the coming CBDC system. He comments on México, the decline of U.S. Empire, peak wokeism, and how he still remains optimistic about the future.

    Charlie Robinson: Life After Collapse of American Empire

    #131534
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Everyone seems to be chasing their tails as to whether it was Wuhan, Fauci, Pfizer, the CDC, etc …..who was responsible for the mass genocide of the Clot-shot when its becoming very clear it was the Military Industrial Mafia®.

    The ‘Defense Department’ is just one of many ‘tips’ of a vast cancerous criminal enterprise that has finally metastasized into every nook and cranny of the Collective West and its Empire of Lies®.

    The Lies now go so deep now they are part and parcel of the very bone marrow of everyday existence and ‘reality’.

    The Lies have completely displaced Reality

    For genuine Reality is actually Truth

    Scott Ritter finally lost his patience the other day and said the silent part out loud about what should happen to the ‘pompous perfumed asses’, like Lindsey Graham et al.

    I have unbounded utter contempt for the Sheeple at this point.

    They will never awaken because they don’t want to know the Truth, in any way shape or form, it would scare them to death and they know it it their heart of hearts.

    They will clutch the Lies like a baby sucking it’s mother’s breast, they will never let go of their ‘ignorance is bliss’.

    The Sheeple haven’t embraced Reality to any significant degree in the past 10,000 years of ‘civilization’

    “Forgive them for they know not what they do” for 10,000 years plus.

    What, do they need another 10,000 years to get their shit together?

    They can blow it out their asses, they will never embrace the Truth.

    Jimmy Dore recently said about changing the current state of tyranny

    “It’s not about awakening the Sheep, it’s about gathering the Lions”

    The young lions are out there waiting, their full mane, their full power is not quite there yet, but they are very close.

    Napoleon started as one, an obscure 26 years old artillery officer.

    As Jim Kunstler said, when everyone finally saw him, they said, “He’s The Guy”

    Because the Sheep won’t wise up, they are going to get The Guy

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    #131535
    Oroboros
    Participant

    And NO, Jesus isn’t The Guy

    #131536
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Climb every mountain
    Ford every stream
    Follow every rainbow
    ‘Till you find your dream

    A dream that will need
    All the love you can give
    Everyday of your life, for as long as you live……….”

    Duh’merica will give it the olde college try just you wait and see!

    With pluck and determination and ruby slippers you can do anything!

    Hahahahahahaha!

    .

    #131537
    Germ
    Participant

    Good luck all!

    #131538
    Germ
    Participant

    Lance Reddick, character actor famous for ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ dies suddenly at 60

    https://fortune.com/2023/03/17/lance-reddick-obituary-character-actor-wire-john-wick-dead-60-suddenly/

    TVASF (tick … tock … tick … tock …)

    #131540
    Germ
    Participant

    Informative:

    #131541
    tboc
    Participant

    guns for defense along with credit are a necessity and anathema to use

    the banks are failing, the banks are failing, the banks are failing – September 2019, September 2019, September 2019 – the moment the big boy’s accountants noted the situation is FUBAR

    “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again”

    be generous and accept 10% of the western world run the show. 10% of 15% of the world’s population has the ability to control and manage the ecosystem and 6.4 billion human beings? i want to be tall and handsome, don’t see that happening either. DBDC, the full faith and credit of the nation. Almost everyone i know has historicall and present confidence in that full faith and credit. Charlie Robinson thinks his money is worth something and he is gonna loose it. brings Aykroyd’s repartee to Curtain from SNL to mind

    #131542
    Dr. D
    Participant

    About sticking your head in the Bassmaster?

    #131543
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Team Biden’s only recourse now is to stop giving Joe his meds and let him slip away into the serenity of senile dementia. Otherwise the “Big Guy” is going down for the capital crime of Treason, and will be hanged by his neck until he is dead.

    #131544
    zerosum
    Participant

    Why tell Lies

    Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine).
    Artyomovsk is located in the Kiev-controlled part of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
    Nato has been fortifying, and training since 2014.
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    Nato has been disposing of their museum and antiquated equipment.
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    March 16, 2023 marks nine years since the Crimean referendum, where the majority of citizens of Crimea and Sevastopol voted in favor of reunification with Russia.
    Ukraine, the United States and the European Union refused to recognize Crimea’s independence and its decision to reunite with Russia.
    • Putin Says Crimea’s Reunification With Russia Was Historic Event (TASS)
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    Latest Twitter Files tackle ‘Great Covid-19 Lie Machine’ flagging true content as ‘disinformation’
    Matt Taibbi reports Stanford University’s Virality Project attempted to combat the COVID lab-leak theory, natural immunity
    By Joseph A. Wulfsohn |
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/latest-twitter-files-tackle-great-covid-19-lie-machine-flagging-true-content-disinformation
    “As Orwellian proof-of-concept, the Virality Project was a smash success,”
    Government, academia, and an oligopoly of would-be corporate competitors organized quickly behind a secret, unified effort to control political messaging.
    https://www.viralityproject.org/
    ———–
    Joe Biden and his deep state puppeteers will stop at nothing to prevent Trump from running in 2024. Trump knows too much and would likely deliver on his promises to “obliterate the deep state” after everything they have done to him, his family and America.

    TRUMP: “We need peace without delay. There must also be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire globalist neocon establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom…

    We have to finish the process of fundamentally reevaluating NATO’s purpose and mission. Our foreign policy establishment keeps trying to pull the world into conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia based on the lie that Russia represents our greatest threat.

    But the greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia. It’s probably, more than anything else, ourselves… these globalists want to squander all of America’s strength, blood and treasure chasing monsters and phantoms overseas while keeping us distracted from the havoc they’re creating right here at home.”

    —————-

    #131545
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The last dot to be connected is that since Covid vaccines were the premeditated, documented official action of the United States war making apparatus that sought to . . . and did . . . kill millions of people in nations throughout the world in what can only be understood as an unprovoked act of war against each and every one of them.

    This no small thing, and it is no exaggeration either. Over time ( a very short time) all of those nations must respond to the ongoing act of war being perpetrated by the United States (including the extensive network constituting its Department of Defense), and they must do so in a manner that is deemed appropriate and adequate by the citizens of those nations.

    #131546
    John Day
    Participant

    Run Bobby Run https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/run-bobby-run

    I cringe pretty quickly when I try to watch or listen-to politicians, but not Bobby Kennedy Jr.
    I was able to watch this fully engaged (occasionally moist eyes).
    RFK Jr. : On March 3, I spoke at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College.
    One of the reasons I’m thinking about running for President is to bridge the toxic polarization that divides Republicans and Democrats allowing elites to capture our government and plunder our country. They have transformed the world’s model democracy into a corporate kleptocracy — the corrupt merger of State and Corporate power.
    https://robertfkennedyjr.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-new-hampshire-institute-politics-speech

    This is the vaccine study Bobby Jr. mentioned, which refuted Bill Gates’ funding pitch that he was saving tens of millions of ives with his vaccines to Africa.
    The Introduction of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Oral Polio Vaccine Among Young Infants in an Urban African Community: A Natural Experiment
    ​ ​When DTP and OPV were introduced in Guinea-Bissau in 1981, allocation by birthday resulted in a natural experiment of being vaccinated early or late.
    Between 3 and 5 months of age, children who received DTP and OPV early had 5-fold higher mortality than still unvaccinated children.
    In the only two studies of the introduction of DTP and OPV, co-administration of OPV with DTP may have reduced the negative effects of DTP.
    ​ ​Few studies have examined what happened to child survival when DTP and OPV were introduced in low-income countries. These vaccines were introduced in 1981 in an urban community in Guinea-Bissau from 3 months of age in connection with 3-monthly weighing sessions. Children were therefore allocated by birthday to receive vaccines early or late between 3 and 5 months of age. In this natural experiment vaccinated children had 5-fold higher mortality than not-yet-DTP-vaccinated children. DTP-only vaccinations were associated with higher mortality than DTP + OPV vaccinations. Hence, DTP may be associated with a negative effect on child survival.
    https://www.thelancet.com/article/S2352-3964(17)30046-4/fulltext

    ​ Meryl Nass MD: ​FDA authorizes 4th booster for babies–while data from the UK and Germany suggest you cause 22 serious injuries with the shot in order to prevent a single child’s hospitalization
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/fda-authorizes-4th-booster-for-babies

    ​ RFK Jr. podcast with Sasaha Latypova​: Militarized Healthcare with Sasha Latypova

    #131547
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ RFK Jr. podcast with Sasaha Latypova​: Militarized Healthcare with Sasha Latypova (trying again)

    People are literally dying and an economy is ruined by the first rollout of CBDC, Central Bank Digital Currency in Nigeria. Thanks Christine. Details here:
    The Central Bank of Nigeria Just Paused Its Demonetisation Program After Visiting Untold Damage on Nigeria’s Economy

    The Central Bank of Nigeria Just Paused Its Demonetisation Program After Visiting Untold Damage on Nigeria’s Economy

    Chinese elite have paid some $31 million to Hunter and the Bidens
    https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/chinese-elite-have-paid-some-31m-to-hunter-and-the-bidens/

    ​ Peace and trade; possibly further “newcoin” news.
    China and Russia want Ukraine to join their Eurasian economic club.
    ​ ​Xi To Arrive In Moscow Monday, Ukraine War ‘Core Part’ Of Talks With Putin
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/xi-arrive-moscow-monday-ukraine-war-core-part-talks-putin

    ​Colonel Douglas Macgregor:
    T​he crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasuries are losing their value. The market’s proverbial “vibes”—feelings, emotions, beliefs, and psychological penchants—suggest a dark turn is underway inside the American economy.
    ​ ​American national power is measured as much by American military capability as by economic potential and performance. The growing realization that American and European military-industrial capacity cannot keep up with Ukrainian demands for ammunition and equipment is an ominous signal to send during a proxy war that Washington insists its Ukrainian surrogate is winning.

    The Gathering Storm

    #131548
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    D. Benton: “Covid vaccines were the premeditated, documented official action of the United States war making apparatus that sought to . . . and did . . . kill millions of people in nations throughout the world …”

    Nations, apparently, who are simply too stupid to think for themselves. Wth. Somehow the US is the only nation capable of … well, just about anything according to the comments here. If it weren’t for the US, everyone would be surrounded by unicorns and rainbows.

    #131549
    Dr. D
    Participant

    It only makes sense if you know what Lincoln was fighting. Like The Revolution, it goes without saying that everything we know about it was a lie.

    In the Revolution, we had the Progressive faction back from Newton etc decide to breakaway from the King and establish the new Utopia. Remember, Communism hadn’t been invented yet. They succeeded, only in being sure they could breakaway and win, they over-played and the Founders double-crossed and locked them out, making it an ACTUAL attempt at democracy, not a fake attempt to be taken over. They/King never really surrendered and tried again in 1812.

    They tried again in France and went too far the other way, but did start a domino of erasing Kings and Popes in their progressive Utopia. …That ends in starvation and guillotines. As soon as the Napoleonic Wars were over, they returned to re-capturing the Colonies. America was moribound and run by the Adams oligarchs, stealing everything, only a little nicer than before. Jackson re-started the American Experiment and takes it from the American Child-of-London oligarchs back to Democracy. That leads us to Britain paying both sides to inflame the American Civil war. Who cares who wins? They fund both sides and if the South secedes, it sets a precedent for ever-smaller areas seceding forever, until either America is weak as Africa, or they scoop up the Grand Republic of Boluxi they are so small.

    As this is all arranged, the North is already extracting colonial force out of the South, the South is already a cotton fiefdom of British mills. Perfect. No one is willing to stick their head in the noose to be President of the disaster, and yes, perhaps in that state they arrange Lincoln as the final affront. QED, game over. You can: stay together and be in debt to London, break apart and be gobbled by London, keep squabbling and be weakened by London.

    Lincoln screwed them blue. On principle, he should free the slaves as his mandate, get in the war that was his mandate, or let them go as was the original “Union.” He should support rights of man, not declare martial law, and fall into chaos. He did none of it.

    Instead of borrowing from London banks, he borrowed from himself, like Hamilton did. London did not get stronger. Instead of letting them go, he reconciled and dawdled for years like Putin, only eventually smashing them. Instead of letting society tear itself apart with London’s fifth column, in Press and the Banks, he summarily arrested them all without process. Instead of letting the South continue, he blockaded them so LONDON suffered the loss. Instead of allowing and authorizing secession, he crushed it and as he said, his only goal, preserved the Union. Only at the end, conceding this would simply be an occupation, smashed the country, and freed the slaves.

    By the end, the Union – the North – was made twice as strong as before and equally strong as Britain, settling the dominance issue for good. Instead, Britain was peeved at Russia, who prevented the attempt at Blockade of the North, and went after them in the Crimean war, having to settle with London-friendly Northern industrialists undermining Democracy that eventually broke our sovereignty 40 years later, using the new, social, non-war method.

    Now none of that is in the history books, but it’s very clear from Lincoln’s actions that that’s what he was fighting. The day after the war, he was assassinated to as to prevent proper re-unification (like Ukraine) and to prevent him cutting the Northern Industrialists back to size, both of which were his top priority. And/or not going after London, which is not mentioned as a policy goal, but I sure would.

    So think about that when you hear about the South hardening into plantation slavery and the North being funded with unlimited Abolitionist Progressives, with lavish, all-expense-paid book tours. Who as funding them? Both sides? It’s St. Patrick’s Day, as the Irish, who had landed but didn’t want to be involved.

    He’s an interesting sort of failure, don’t you think? Like Trump, he accidentally takes apart London and Empire with every move, but somehow also never knood nuthin’. Nope! All an accident! Just like Sun Tzu would say.

    #131550
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Col MacGregor was asked in a recent interview whether anyone above the rank of Colonel has any integrity and he said basically no, you don’t usually get promoted into ‘the General Club” unless you are vetted for loyalty to the Defense Mafia and worship Mammon.

    He said occasionally a one star has doubts about being a total sell-out Manwhore® but they are quickly discovered and booted out.

    This is the state of the military in the Empire of Lies®

    The top guys are Made Men®

    A den of thieves in uniform, the Fourth Reich facade reinvented for popular consumption.

    From the Pentagon’s sacred text, The Tard of War

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    #131551
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    It’s interesting. I don’t blame any other nation for how far off track the US got after 911 with regard to our military actions and in taking away the rights of our citizens. I blame it all on my government. But for any other nation in the world, when their leaders make a bad decision it’s because the US did “something” (insert your favorite word). Must be a relief when a nation’s leaders are absolved of responsibility for their decisions and actions because they had no choice.

    #131552
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies has 800+ military bases sprinkled around the globe like toxic Jimmies on a glazed doughnut.

    I think Russia has 9 bases outside official Russian territory

    That pretty much sums it up

    Intimidation, thy name is the Empire of Lies

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    #131553
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @upstateNYer

    I’m not dramatizing an emotional or unpatriotic self-loathing-of-America. Not in the least! I love the people of my country, and would protect them even at the cost of my own life. My position absolves no responsible party (foreign or domestic) from the responsibility for what each has done.

    I am simply stating a self-evident truth about what has actually been done, and which (I reiterate) is still being done, by the collective will of the United States of America. The monsters who have taken it over shall pay for their crimes because the consequences of being caught out in those grisly crimes can no longer be evaded or avoided. Their game is up and the new game is ramping to speed at a lightening rate.
    It just is what it is.

    #131554
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Dr. D

    If $31,000,000 paid to TBFCT keeps us (U.S.) out of War then I’m all for bribery. Why aren’t you or do you advocate the Israel Prixy War as currently practiced in Syria, Ukraine to name a few places?

    TBFCT= The Biden Family Crime Trust

    Was Peter Thiel a depositor in Si (silicon who knew Periodic Table was part of cool kids club) VB (SiVB)? Pete, according to you, “signaling” as opposed to telling others to removed $20billion in advance of said “bank run”, but we are to understand what only the local economists can understand. That Peter Thiel’s advice and withdrawal WASN’T a Bank Run. Pete says he left or lost $50,000,000 “of his own” in SiVB as he was unable repatriate those $100s that had ‘Peter Thiel’ stamped on them.

    You see D, I think Peter Thiel exercising his own special brand of Risk Management exercised his own little (as in few individuals but dominant in monetary value) Bank Run on SiVB.
    However, in the fractional reserve system, how did Palantir Pete know which particular Benjamins stored in SiVB’s vault had Peter Thiel’s and His Buddies’ names stamped on them or were they only entitled to a fraction under pre-Bank Run rules?

    I say let free markets discover their own prices and risk management be damned.

    #131555
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The powers that be are throwing Fauci and Biden to the wolves for obvious reasons (to slow down and hopefully distract the wolves, of course!) but I think they are a day late and a dollar short on that tactic because the buck OBVIOUSLY doesn’t stop at Fauci or Biden. Those manwhores are just high-end minions. Nah, I think the wolves are going to chase this particular meal farther on up the food chain. Bon Appetit !

    #131556
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    The article in The American Conservative provided a spot-on analysis of the current political and economic predicament of the USA. I went in to 2020 solidly identifying with the left as I had ever since the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in late 2002. Back then, it seemed as though liberals were the ones who were willing to face up to things, whereas neo-conservatives and Tea Partiers with their intransigent cornucopianism (“you can have infinite growth on a finite planet”) were the ones who just wanted to hide from reality behind a bunch of disingenuous ideological bluster.

    But then Obama swept into the Oval Office on a wave of “Hope and Change” mania, but instead, we got a watered-down version of the third and fourth terms of GWB. And then PMC liberals became the ones hiding from reality behind a bunch of disingenuous bluster, especially when Trump-inspired populism appeared to be threatening the power and privileges of the big-city-blue-state PMC.

    And so here we are with the populist-right more likely to be the truth-tellers and what passes for the left acting as water-carriers for the authoritarians of our age. Perhaps it’s time our social and political discourse discarded what increasingly appears to be an outmoded left-right axis.

    ETA: The pissed-off teenage nihilist in me would like to see Trump get arrested next week only to be able watch the political hell-storm that would consequently erupt in the following weeks and months!

    #131557
    zerosum
    Participant

    Bingchat says …

    Searching for: government lies about ukraine

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    Generating answers for you…

    Generating answers for you…

    There have been many claims about lies related to Ukraine. For example, an article on Global Research lists 16 lies that they claim the US government tells about Ukraine1. Another article on Ted Rall’s Rallblog also discusses some of these claims2. However, it is important to note that these are just claims and may not necessarily be true.

    Is there anything specific you would like me to look up?

    Received message. There have been many claims about lies related to Ukraine. For example, an article on Global Research lists 16 lies that they claim the US government tells about Ukraine. Another article on Ted Rall’s Rallblog also discusses some of these claims. However, it is important to note that these are just claims and may not necessarily be true. Is there anything specific you would like me to look up?
    Learn more:
    1. globalresearch.ca
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/16-biggest-lies-us-government-tells-america-about-ukraine-war/5780694
    2. rall.com
    3. covertactionmagazine.com
    4. state.gov
    5. nbcnews.com
    6. factcheck.org

    #131558
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    D Benton: “… what has actually been done, and which (I reiterate) is still being done, by the collective will of the United States of America.

    I believe that it is the collective will of ALL “western” countries who are a party to this debacle (and many previous debacles). To absolve [their] leaders of responsibility is to indicate that the US has enough “collective will” to direct every leader in every country who went along with each debacle. I don’t believe that. Not for one minute. The countries that went along with it are part of the “collective” problem. These are not children we’re talking about, it’s leaders who are more than willing to pretend their decisions were due to an outside party.

    #131559
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    No one is gonna riot for Donald Trump.
    Jesus H Christ, hell no.
    Isn’t he the POTUS who didn’t prepardon any J6protesters between January 6th and Biden’s inauguration? Did he bankroll the defense or provide bail bond (like SBFs parent’s friends) to those incarcerated for the January 6th NONinsurrection?

    Monero (XMR) is it in U$ CBDCs.
    Don’t prove me wrong.
    Prove Palantir Pete, William Luther PhD, WannaMine, WannaCry and those math whizzes at NSA wrong.

    #131560
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    Also, D Benton, “I am simply stating a self-evident truth about what has actually been done …”

    Huh?? So the US held a gun to each leader’s head and forced each of them to sign a contract to inject their citizens with the mRNA vaxx? If you say so!!! But the fact that not one leader has been open to sharing the terms of their contract with the pharma giants indicates something a bit different. Unless, I suppose, the US is also forcing other national leaders to withhold the details of their contracts?

    All I’m saying is … we need to stop absolving other countries of what they’ve done and acknowledge they’re also guilty. We cannot begin to come to terms with this until we stop blaming the US for everything, which is what is currently taking place.

    #131562
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    #131563
    citizenx
    Participant

    So the US held a gun to each leader’s head and forced each of them to sign a contract to inject their citizens with the mRNA vaxx? …stop blaming the US for everything, which is what is currently taking place.

    WTF ?
    – Cvd 19 bio-weapon created by US DOD/ Pharma
    – Vaccine bio-weapon created by US DOD/ Pharma
    – Weapon and Vaccine distribution from and by whom? duh

    – US Govt and Media and Corporations ‘all in’ on Propaganda Psy-Op to lockdown and control the worlds economy… All US led Nato minions obediently comply.

    we need to stop absolving other countries of what they’ve done

    Who is this “WE” you speak for? Who is absolving who? How about Legal accountability for the US Regime scum first and foremost? Who is your f’n Govt and what are they responsible for? Deal with that before your arrogant nonsense of other Nations Guilt- Classic arrogant American hypocrisy on display.

    “But, but, but they followed us and did what we ordered them to do so they are guilty first”

    Liberals hate truth.

    ” It could be worse. You could be Vaccinated “

    If you’re not vaccinated with our juice, you cannot-
    be employed, receive healthcare, enter these premises, travel via public or private, be in the same room, participate in society, go to school, go to church, gather together, speak truth

    Wear your mask morons, get your booster bitches, wave you vax card vermin, We’re all in this together?
    No- Vax cult scum can all fuck off and die, die suddenly, slowly- die with their lies and arrogant abuses.
    Fuck you vax scum, you failed the basic human dignity test, basic logic test- and you victimized everyone and anyone who did not go along. I saw it, heard it and experienced it- they do not now get to rewrite their script and feign stupidity and assert forgiveness.

    #131564
    tboc
    Participant

    “They need to be held accountable” – an example of fractal geometry in western thought, an exquisite Mandelbrot Set

    #131565
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @upstateNYer

    Also, D Benton, “I am simply stating a self-evident truth about what has actually been done …”

    Huh?? So the US held a gun to each leader’s head and forced each of them to sign a contract to inject their citizens with the mRNA vaxx? If you say so!!!”

    Now I’m the one who has to ask, “Huh?” because I did NOT “say so”, or think so, or suggest so, or anything like it. What I said is that the US Government (Dept of Defense, CIA, et al), operating as an officially recognized national government, has been caught red handed committing atrocity level acts of war (war crimes) of unprecedented magnitude against every nation in the world . . . . including their own. NOBODY materially involved in that is going to get a free pass on any of it. Attempting to mitigate guilt by pointing at similar criminals in other countries and accusing them of complicity or collaboration as accomplices ain’t gonna get anybody off the hook (or in this case, gallows.)

    #131566
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Falling dominos

    #131567
    zerosum
    Participant

    The Ukraine is a terrorist state, killing its population in “meat grinders”. and NATO is a sponsor of terrorism.
    Canadian Ukrainian voters, (1.5 M), do not oppose the air lifting of 8 X 62T of tanks for Ukraine.

    #131568
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ Germ
    Is ignoring the data considered a lie, incompetence, ignorance, or stealing?
    I asked genchatt …

    Searching for: death rate 2022 above average countries
    generating answers for you…

    In July 2022, excess mortality continued to vary across the EU Member States, with eight Member States recording values above the EU average. The highest rates in July 2022, more than double the EU average, were recorded in Spain (+37%) and Cyprus (+33%). Greece followed with +31%1. In England, in January 2023, deaths were 11.7% above what we would expect using the five-year average2.
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    https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20220916-1
    Excess mortality hits +16%, highest 2022 value so far

    16‑09‑2022

    © ArtSvetlana/Shutterstock.com
    Excess mortality in the EU climbed to +16% in July 2022 from +7% in both June and May. This was the highest value on record so far in 2022, amounting to around 53 000 additional deaths in July this year compared with the monthly averages for 2016-2019.

    This was an unusually high value for this month. The excess mortality rate was +3% in July 2020 (10 000 excess deaths) and +6% in July 2021 (21 000 excess deaths). Based on the available information, some of the mortality increase in July 2022 compared to the same month of the past two years may be due to the heatwaves that have affected parts of Europe during the reference period.

    This information comes from data on excess mortality published by Eurostat today, based on a weekly deaths data collection. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained articles on excess mortality and weekly deaths.

    Excess mortality continued to vary across the EU Member States, with eight Member States recording values above the EU average. The highest rates in July 2022, more than double the EU average, were recorded in Spain (+37%) and Cyprus (+33%). Greece followed with +31%. Meanwhile, only Latvia (-0.5%) registered no excess deaths, staying below the monthly averages for 2016-2019.

    Several Member States have recorded an increase in excess mortality rate in July 2022 compared to the previous month, the highest such increases occurred in Greece (+24 percentage points (pp)), Spain (+21 pp) and Italy (+20 pp. The indicator has nevertheless dropped in seven Member States, and the largest decreases compared to June were recorded in Latvia (-7 pp), Estonia (-5 pp) and Lithuania (-4 pp).

    The EU registered earlier major peaks in excess deaths in April 2020 (+25%), November 2020 (+40%), April 2021 (+21%) and November 2021 (+27%).

    Source dataset: demo_mexrt

    How did the situation evolve in your country?
    Although excess mortality was observed during most of the past two years across Europe, the peaks and intensity of outbreaks varied greatly between countries. For further analysis, you can read the Statistics Explained article on excess mortality and use the interactive tool by selecting the country you would like to analyse.

    #131569
    zerosum
    Participant

    Yes, this is an authoritative and reliable source of information. Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and provides the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. You can trust the information provided by Eurostat.

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