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Biden blasts 'extreme' Israeli government


RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:35 UTC
Netanyahu
© Gil Cohen-Magen / Pool via APIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
US President Joe Biden has accused political extremists in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government of contributing to the rising tensions in the West Bank, saying they are part of the reason that a peace deal can't be reached with the Palestinian Authority.

Netanyahu's cabinet has "some of the most extreme members" to lead Israel's government dating all the way back to Golda Meir's administration in 1969, Biden said in a CNN interview aired on Sunday. He dodged a question on when he will invite Netanyahu for a White House visit, saying, "Bibi, I think, is trying to work through how he can work through his existing problems in terms of his coalition."

Biden argued that some of Israel's cabinet ministers have essentially said, "We can settle anywhere we want. They [the Palestinians] have no right to be here, etc."
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USA

Best of the Web: Joe Biden - The personification of the failing US Empire

James Knustler
knustler.com
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:46 UTC
If cocaine is so prevalent in the West Wing that there is somehow 'extra' cocaine just laying around, when is the White House going to start drug testing its employees? — Margot Cleveland
Brandon and Son
© Twitter
Consider for a moment, and be grateful for, how perfect "Joe Biden" is as president of this foundering republic. He and his family project the rectified essence of every depravity now driving the life of our nation to some murky bottom, where it may be forced to assess its sorry state, repent, and perhaps recover (or just give up and die). There he stands, without ambiguity or conscience: "Joe Biden," the personification of a failed state.

As a criminal enterprise, for instance, the Biden family influence-peddling operation among foreign powers reflects exactly the racketeering character of corporate America today — which is to say, making money dishonestly, and often for doing nothing. In America's biggest industry, finance, this is absolutely the case. You may have forgotten what finance is, and what it's supposed to do: namely, to lend money for activities intended to produce things of value, useful things that people need and want, sometimes even public works that benefit everyone in society.

American Finance now is in the business of receiving free money (loans at minimal interest) from government-chartered central banks (issuing "credit" from nowhere), that banks, hedge funds, private equity outfits, and sundry freebooters can roll into instruments such as interest-yielding bonds (loans back to government) and derivatives (algorithmic bets derived, abstracted from, and tuned to market movements) magically multiplying money that finally produces nothing of value — though it may translate into yacht purchases, alimony payments, luxury suites at ballparks, private Caribbean islands, and traffic in humans for use as sex toys.
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Bad Guys

NATO is 'malicious poison' - former Australian PM


RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:23 UTC
Paul Keating
© Mick Tsikas-Pool / Getty ImagesFormer Australian Premier Paul Keating.
Paul Keating has argued that the military bloc should remain confined to Europe and the Atlantic and not try to expand into Asia.

NATO has no place in Asia and should stick to its original focus, that is the security of the Transatlantic region, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has argued. The Labour politician, who served in office from 1991 to 1996, also warned against attempts to "circumscribe" China.

In his statement published on Sunday, Keating appeared to refer to a recent report in Politico, which claimed French President Emmanuel Macron had blocked NATO's plans to establish a liaison office in Japan.

Comment: See also:

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Megaphone

Biden blasted for revealing sensitive US military info during interview


Daily Wire
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:25 UTC
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© Leon Neal/Getty Images
President Joe Biden faced backlash on Sunday after he revealed sensitive U.S. military information during an interview that critics said could make America's adversaries more aggressive.

Biden told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that the reason that he is giving cluster munitions to Ukraine is because the U.S. is running out of 155mm artillery shells.

"These are weapons that 100 nations banned, including some of our closest NATO allies," Zakaria said. "When there was news that the Russians might be using it admittedly against civilians your then press secretary said this might be constitute war crimes."

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Handcuffs

Socialist Georgia mayor arrested on trespassing, burglary charges

Ben Whitehead
Daily Wire
Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:01 UTC
khalid kamau
© Photo Courtesy of Fulton County Jail
The socialist mayor of South Fulton, Georgia, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with first-degree criminal trespass and burglary.

South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Saturday but was released later in the day after posting $11,000 bond, according to Fox News. The mayor reportedly entered a house that he thought was abandoned.

"The City of South Fulton is committed to upholding the law and ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their position, are subject to the same fair and just treatment," a statement from the City of South Fulton said. "As the investigation is still ongoing, we are unable to provide further details at this time."
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Bullseye

Best of the Web: Will the Ukraine war be the undoing of the European Union? - former UN Assistant Secretary-General

Michael von der Schulenburg
Meer
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:58 UTC
Zel and Bid
© president.gov.ua/Creative CommonsUkraine President Volodymyr Zelensky • US President Joe Biden: Energy and utility groups have reported more than half the combined losses, according to FT analysis of direct impact of the Ukraine war.
With the ending of the division of Europe, we will strive for a new quality in our security relations while fully respecting each other's freedom of choice in that respect. Security is indivisible, and the security of every participating state is inseparably linked to that of all the others. We therefore pledge to cooperate in strengthening confidence and security among us and in promoting arms control and disarmament.

(Charter of Paris for a New Europe November 21, 1990)
The madness of war reigns again in Europe. The delusion that only weapons provide security is once again in high season among politicians, think tanks, and the media across Europe. It has become acceptable once again in Europe that human sacrifices are being offered at the altar of alleged decisive battles. As if we had learned nothing from the past, the Ukrainian counter-offensive is now supposed to become such a decisive battle that it should bring a military solution to what we could not or did not want to achieve politically. In doing so, we Europeans are leaving the future of Ukraine and Europe, and perhaps even that of the world, to the unpredictability, fury, and brutality of the battlefield. And all of this, although it remains completely unclear what "solution" could be expected through the present intensification of the war, will certainly not bring peace to Europe.

Comment: Considering how contrary to EU interests the conflict is, it's reasonable to assume that the delusions driving it are multifaceted, and that the agenda is not intended to profit Europe, the EU, nor its peoples: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: France Riots Suddenly End - NATO's Ukraine War Racket - Climate Hysteria Spikes



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Bizarro Earth

Italy's PM Meloni to issue 425,000 work permits to foreigners to fill gaps in labor market

Amy Kazmin
Financial Times
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:00 UTC
Giorgia Meloni
© Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty ImagesItaly's prime minister Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media as she arrives for the European Council summit in Brussels on June 29th.
Italy's rightwing coalition plans to sharply increase the number of foreign workers from outside the EU while continuing to crack down on irregular migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

Prime minister Giorgia Meloni's government this week said it would issue 425,000 work permits to non-EU nationals between this year and 2025, which Rome said was part of its plan to promote legal immigration to fill gaps in the labour market.

The announcement followed repeated complaints from employers in various industries - including construction and tourism - about their acute difficulties in finding workers, as Italy's economy rebounds from the pandemic shock.

Comment: This seems to also reveal that Italy, like many nations in the West, is experiencing record low labor participation rates, despite also suffering record levels of unemployment:

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Nuke

How so many learned to stop worrying and love the nukes

Edward Curtin
Off-Guardian
Sun, 09 Jul 2023 23:16 UTC
Nuclear Explosion
© Off-Guardian
Social psychosis is widespread. In the words of the British psychiatrist, RD Laing, "The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man."

He was not referring to raving, drooling, hitting-your-head-against-the-wall lunacy but a taken-for-granted acceptance of a world long teetering on the edge of nuclear extinction, to take the most extreme example, but surely only one of many. The insouciant acceptance and support of psychotic rulers who promote first-strike nuclear war is very common. First strike nuclear policy is United States policy.

I recently wrote an article about the dangers of the fourteen US Trident submarines. These subs constantly cruise under the oceans carrying 3,360 nuclear warheads equivalent to 134,400 Hiroshima bombs.

All are on first strike triggers. And of course these are supplemented by all the land and air based nukes.

My point was not very complicated: now that the United States government has abrogated all nuclear weapons treaties and continues to escalate its war against Russia in Ukraine, we are closer to nuclear annihilation than ever before.

This conclusion is shared by many esteemed thinkers such as the late Daniel Ellsberg who died on June 16, 2023 and whose 2017 book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, makes clear that nuclear war, waged intentionally or by mistake or accident, is very possible. In the months before he died, he warned that this is now especially true with the situation in Ukraine and the U.S. provocations against China.

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal recently addressed the UN Security Council on the danger of U.S. actions in Ukraine and asked:
Will we see another Douma deception, but this time in Zaporizhzhia? Why are we doing this? Why are we tempting nuclear annihilation by flooding Ukraine with advanced weapons and sabotaging negotiations at every turn?
Finian Cunningham has just raised the specter of a thermonuclear catastrophe initiated by a U.S./Ukrainian false flag attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

So my article was in no way unusual, except for my concentration on the Trident submarines.
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: France Riots Suddenly End - NATO's Ukraine War Racket - Climate Hysteria Spikes


Sott.net
Sun, 09 Jul 2023 11:48 UTC
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Remember last week's breathless hot takes on how 'France has fallen'? Well, the urban riots have ended, and you won't believe how: local drug-lords simply called them off, reminding Joe and Niall of the links between the criminal underworld and jihadi-terrorist networks, which are known to overlap via Western intelligence connections.

Meanwhile, NATO heads of state are gathering on Russia's border to plot 'full-scale ground war' against the 'rogue state'. Are these people serious? Probably not. Remember, always, that war is a racket.

Also in this NewsReal, climate hysteria breaks new records as Western media claims - in unison - that 4 consecutive days last week were the 'hottest days ever', propelling hardcore AGW adherents to new depths of lunacy...


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Attention

Reports refute KJP's claim that Biden family wasn't at White House ahead of cocaine discovery

Katelynn Richardson
The Dailly Caller
Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:26 UTC
Karine Jean-Pierre press conference cocaine white house
© CSPAN/Breitbart/YouTubeWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer when asked directly "once and for all, whether or not the cocaine belonged to the Biden family."
Press pool reports refute White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's Friday claim that no member of the Biden family was present at the White House in the days preceding the Secret Service's discovery of cocaine on the premises.

On Friday, June 30, two days before the Secret Service found the Ziploc bag containing cocaine, a White House press pool report by Politico reporter Eugene Daniels states that Jill Biden, Hunter Biden and his baby Beau Biden departed with President Joe Biden at 6:34 pm. However, Karine Jean-Pierre told a reporter who asked whether the Biden family could be ruled out in the investigation that the family "was not here" on Friday, June 30, and that speculating the cocaine belongs to them is "irresponsible."
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