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China and Russia should lead 'global governance reform' - Xi


RT
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:41 UTC
Chinese President Xi Jinping, Valentina Matvienko
© Russia's Federation Council press service
Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted a top Russian senator, Valentina Matvienko, for talks in Beijing on Monday. The high-profile negotiations revolved around strengthening ties between the two nations, as well as their joint multinational projects.

"China is ready to continue to work with Russia to develop a new era of comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership that is mutually supportive, deeply integrated, pioneering and innovative, and mutually beneficial to help rejuvenate the two countries and promote a prosperous, stable, fair and just world," Xi said during the meeting, which involved multiple senior officials from the two countries.

Moscow and Beijing should "lead the correct direction of global governance reform," Xi stressed, underlining that the development of the bilateral ties has become "a strategic choice made by both countries based on their own national and people's fundamental interests." Xi added that the importance of developing ties within such multinational groups as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS.

During the meeting, Matvienko, the speaker of Russia's upper chamber of parliament, relayed a "spoken message" from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Xi. She said Russia-China ties have in recent years reached their highest-ever point and they will continue to improve even further. "This is the key role of the leaders of the two states. Such cooperation is in the best interests of our countries," she said.
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Bad Guys

Is there more censorship nowadays than in the former Soviet Union?


Mattias Desmet
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:41 UTC
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I rarely agree with Noam Chomsky yet he made a bold statement in an interview with Russell Brand that caught my attention. He claimed that we are now living in a kind of totalitarian system that is worse than the former Soviet Union. Chomsky cites the coverage of the war in Ukraine as an example. Not a word can be said that deviates from the dominant narrative or the person who utters it is smeared and canceled. But the dominant story about that war regularly is seriously incorrect. (Do we still believe that Russia blew up the Nord Stream gas pipeline? Maybe not anymore. But it will surely turn out to be true that Russia destroyed the Kachovka dam.)

It might not be such a bad thing to hear dissenting voices about Ukraine. Not because I want people to support Putin. But because there would be few wars if everyone made the effort to periodically listen to the supposed enemy. That is exactly what is made impossible by the current censorship. For example, Chomsky has said that it was easier to listen to Western channels in the Soviet Union under communism than it is now to listen to Russian channels today in the United States.
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Snakes in Suits

'Angry Joe' Biden prone to profanity-laced outbursts - media


RT
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:13 UTC
Joe Biden, Air Force One
© AP / Manuel Balce CenetaJoe Biden gestures before boarding Air Force One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, October 31, 2022
President Joe Biden presents a calm and kindly image image in public, but lashes out in anger at his subordinates in private, Axios reported on Monday. From senior aides to junior staffers, "no one is safe," one White House official claimed.

So notorious is Biden's temper, Axios claimed, that some aides actively try to avoid meeting with him. Among the choice phrases hurled at them by Biden are "God dammit, how the f**k don't you know this?!," "Don't f**king bulls**t me!" and "Get the f**k out of here!" current and former officials said.

Some of Axios' sources were defensive of the president, arguing that he fiercely grills his aides in order to ensure that they are providing him with accurate information, a process they reportedly refer to as "stump the chump" or "stump the dummy."

Others said that he verbally accosts only those in his circle that he respects. "I'll know we have a really good, trusting relationship when you yell at me the first time," former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki once said to Biden, according to author and Biden biographer Chris Whipple.

Comment: As Biden continues to decline we should expect his outbursts to increase both in number and intensity:

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Control Panel

The climate (CO2) hoax, mega-banks, corporations and the control matrix

Mark Keenan
Global Research
Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00 UTC
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In my previous article '1500 scientists say 'Climate Change Not Due to Co2' - The real environment movement was hijacked' I provided evidences and testimonies from renowned international climate scientists that contradict the UN assertions in relation to climate change being caused by Co2 emissions. I also referred to the conclusion of 1500 climate scientists and climate professionals at the Climate Intelligence Foundation that:
  • the climate changes naturally and slowly in its own cycle,
  • solar activity is the dominant factor in climate; and that CO2 emissions or methane from livestock, such as cows, are not the dominant factors in climate change.
In essence, therefore, the incessant UN, government, and corporate-media-produced climate hysteria in relation to CO2 emissions and methane from cows has no scientific basis.

I am an independent researcher and I have no commercial interest in stating that climate change is not caused by CO2, or by methane from livestock, such as cows.

Why is the UN not focusing on the real pollution of the air, land and water systems that has been occuring has been via the release of thousands of real pollutants by the corporations of industrial globalisation over the past decades?
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Magic Wand

France to send Ukraine long-range missiles that would give 'capacity to strike deeply', Macron announces on arrival to NATO summit


Reuters
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:25 UTC
El presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, rechaza la propuesta de los sindicatos.
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France will join Britain in supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine, a move that allows Ukrainian forces to hit Russian troops and supply dumps deep behind the front lines.

Speaking on arrival at a summit of the 31-member NATO alliance in Lithuania, French President Emmanuel Macron said he had decided to boost military aid to Ukraine to help its counteroffensive.

"I have decided to increase deliveries of weapons and equipment to enable the Ukrainians to have the capacity to strike deeply," he said.

He declined to say how many missiles would be sent.

Comment: It's probably no coincidence that this comes amid the NATO summit, and, considering how Russia may vaporise these missiles before they even get to their intended destination, this announcement is likely to be mostly for show and it will have little impact on the current situation in Ukraine: Will the Ukraine war be the undoing of the European Union? - former UN Assistant Secretary-General

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Boat

Countries increasingly repatriating gold following theft of Russian assets and sanctions - sovereign wealth fund study

Marc Jones
Reuters
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 12:07 UTC
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© REUTERS/Alexander Manzyuk/File photoIngots of 99.99 percent pure gold are placed in a workroom at Krastsvetmet precious metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, January 31, 2023.
An increasing number of countries are repatriating gold reserves as protection against the sort of sanctions imposed by the West on Russia, according to an Invesco survey of central bank and sovereign wealth funds published on Monday.

The financial market rout last year caused widespread losses for sovereign money managers who are "fundamentally" rethinking their strategies on the belief that higher inflation and geopolitical tensions are here to stay.

Over 85% of the 85 sovereign wealth funds and 57 central banks that took part in the annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study believe that inflation will now be higher in the coming decade than in the last.

Comment: No mention of the announcement that the BRICS nations intend to launch a gold and multi-commodity backed currency? Russia's RT confirms BRICS will create a gold-backed currency



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USA

The Blob begins to quiver

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00 UTC
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© Nicholas Raymond/KJN
"...the Permanent State lacks the courage to take hard decisions - to say to Moscow, 'Let us put this unfortunate episode (Ukraine) behind us. Dig out those draft treaties you wrote in December 2021, and let's see how we can work together, to restore some functionality again to Europe'."
— Alastair Crooke
When you deny what is self-evident, you are at war with reality, and that never ends well. This is the ultimate disposition of our country's years-long misadventure in maximum dishonesty. The American administrative Blob has not just lied about everything it does, but used the government machinery at hand to destroy everything it touches in a terminal-hysterical effort to cover up its misdeeds — including especially its crimes against its own people.

Get this: there is no way that Ukraine can avoid defeat in its US-provoked struggle with Russia. Russia has every advantage. It is next door to Ukraine. It has robust arms production capacity. The terrain of the war is its own historic "borderland," which it has controlled since the 18th century, except for the past thirty years when Ukraine functioned as Grift Central for US military contractors and their political enablers. Despite massive arms assistance from the US and grudging contributions from the NATO contingent in Europe, there is almost nothing left of the Ukrainian military in troops, equipment, and munitions. Ukraine will return eventually to demilitarized "borderland" status.
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Stop

Biden says war must end before Ukraine can join NATO


RFE/RL
Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00 UTC
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© APUS President Joe Biden • Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky
U.S. President Joe Biden, who is scheduled to attend an important NATO summit later this week, said in an interview prior to his departure that Ukraine is not ready for membership in the alliance, asserting that the war with Russia must end before an invitation can be issued.

In an interview broadcast on CNN on July 9 -- the same day Biden departed for Europe on a three-country tour -- the president said that, although it was still too early to bring Ukraine into the alliance, the United States and its allies in NATO would continue to provide Kyiv the weapons it needs to defend itself against the 'unprovoked' Russian invasion.

Biden spoke ahead of his weeklong trip, which begins in London, then moves on to Vilnius, Lithuania, for the NATO summit on July 11-12, before going to Finland to meet with leaders of NATO's newest member.

Biden told CNN:
"I don't think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war. For example, if you did that, then, you know -- and I mean what I say -- we're determined to commit every inch of territory that is NATO territory. It's a commitment that we've all made no matter what. If the war is going on, then we're all in war. We're at war with Russia, if that were the case."
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Arrow Down

Germany rejects cluster bombs for Ukraine as clip surfaces of Biden admin previously calling them a 'war crime'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:55 UTC
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© Clodagh Kilcoyne/ReutersA defused cluster bomb
In light of the Biden White House approving cluster bombs for Ukraine, under the justification that 'but Russia used them first', below is a quick trip down memory lane...

First, here is then White House press secretary Jen Psaki unequivocally condemning the use of cluster munitions as a potential "war crime" in 2022. The implication behind the exchange is that only the "bad guys" use them...
Next, below is a lengthy letter from top-ranking Congressional Democrats in a 2013 written to then President Barack Obama highlighting the evils of cluster bombs, explaining they are "indiscriminate, unreliable and pose an unacceptable danger to US forces and civilians alike."

Comment: See also:

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Bullseye

Ukraine admits responsibility for terror attack on Crimean Bridge


RT
Sun, 09 Jul 2023 07:33 UTC
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© SputnikCrimean Bridge repair in aftermath of explosion
Ukraine has, for the first time, apparently admitted playing a role in the deadly attack on the Crimean Bridge last autumn. The incident belongs in the list of achievements for the country's armed forces, a senior official has claimed.

While Moscow has repeatedly claimed that the attack was staged by the Ukrainians, officials in Kiev had never before directly admitted responsibility.

On Saturday, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Anna Maliar published a post on Telegram commemorating 500 days since the start of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow, outlining several highlights.

The list includes an apparent public acknowledgment of Kiev's role in the attack on the key link between the eastern part of the Russian peninsula and the rest of the country.
"[It has been] 273 days since the first strike was conducted on the Crimean bridge to break the Russian logistics."

Comment: Ukraine forgot to mention: With a little help from our 'friends'.

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