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Republican calls for Pelosi to probe Biden admin's potentially 'illegal' request for Saudis to delay oil cut

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:37 UTC
Biden saudis oil production cap
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to launch hearings into the Biden administration's request that Saudi Arabia delay a cut in oil production until after the midterm elections.

Announcing a planned oil cut to production by two million barrels a day, which could send gas prices spiking in the weeks before the U.S. midterms in November, the Saudi government said that the U.S. had requested the cut be delayed a month.

"The government of the kingdom clarified through its continuous consultation with the US administration that all economic analysis indicates that postponing the OPEC+ decision by a month, according to what has been suggested, would have had negative economic consequences," read a Thursday statement from the Saudis, who lead the OPEC+ oil conglomerate.

Comment: Brandon strikes again.

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Dollars

Fed defending dollar no matter what crashes - Catherine Austin Fitts

Greg Hunter
USAWatchdog
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
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© screenshotCatherine Austin Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), Publisher of The Solari Report and former Assistant Secretary of Housing (Bush 41 Admin.), says what is coming for the economy is pain-and lots of it. CAF explains:
"We are either in a major correction or we are going to go into a bear (market), and a lot of it depends on many different politics. If you look at the money being pumped out . . . on climate change, on green energy, environment and all these different new sort of scams, it depends on how they inject money. It's either a major correction or it could turn into a bear (market). There is no way to tell because it is purely political."
Various Fed presidents are repeatedly saying the central bank is going to continue raising interest rates. Why?
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Tornado1

US 'furious' over Palestinian leader's comments to Putin - Axios


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2022 10:04 UTC
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© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik/AFPRussian President Vladimir Putin • Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas
Astana, Kazakhstan • October 13, 2022
The White House is "deeply disappointed" in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for having voiced mistrust about Washington's diplomatic efforts toward resolving Palestine's stand-off with Israel while lauding Russia's stance on the matter, a spokesperson for the National Security Council (NSC) told Axios on Saturday.

On Thursday, as Abbas praised Russia's "clear position" about a peace settlement between Palestine and Israel, he reiterated his support for the so-called Quartet on the Middle East, a framework of mediators that includes Russia, the US, UN, and EU. However, he noted that Washington could not be the only mediator.

On the sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Astana, Kazakhstan, he told Putin:
"We don't trust America and you know our position... under no circumstances can we accept that America is the sole party in resolving a problem."
He also commended Russia for "standing by justice and international law."

Comment: There is no US plan except to kick the 2-state can down a longer and bumpier road.

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Footprints

Russian troops arrive in Belarus under new deal


RT
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:34 UTC
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© Belarusian Defense MinistryA Salute
The first trains carrying Russian soldiers to Belarus under a new deal have reached their destinations, the Belarusian Ministry of Defence said on Saturday. This comes after Moscow and Minsk agreed earlier this week to deploy a joint force in response to NATO's increased military activity on Belarus' frontier.

The ministry said in a statement:
"The decision to create a regional grouping of troops has been taken and is being implemented solely to defend" the borders of the Union State amid the "ongoing activity in the border areas."
Founded in 1999, Union State is an organization which consists of Russia and Belarus and seeks to promote cooperation between the two countries.

Russian troops have arrived in the neighboring country after President Alexander Lukashenko announced this week that Moscow and Minsk had agreed to deploy an allied force on Belarusian soil. The move, he said, came in response to increased aggression from Kiev and the West.

Comment: Good idea or an expanded target, given Western insanity?
Thousands of Russian troops will be posted to Belarus with some 170 tanks, up to 200 armored vehicles, and up to 100 artillery pieces, Valery Revenko, an aide to the Belarussian defense minister, said on Twitter on Monday. The troops will be hosted as part of the recently created joint military force.

Earlier in the day, the Defense Ministry reported that Revenko had briefed 19 military diplomats on how the new joint force would operate. The official, who heads the foreign affairs department in the ministry, stated on Twitter that he had given the same details about the Russian forces to the foreign representatives.

Minsk decided to bolster its security by hosting Russian troops after its attempts to de-escalate border tensions were rejected, Revenko claimed to have told the military attaches.

Russia and Belarus perceive as threats:
"The deployment of NATO forces near [their] borders amid a lack of dialogue, increased NATO training with a focus on offensive action, [and] the encouragement of Belarussian radical elements to topple the legitimate government of Belarus."


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Stormtrooper

Et tu, PayPal? The EU's role in defunding dissent

Rober Kogon
Brownstone Institute
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 13:35 UTC
European Union, EU, flag
PayPal appears unsure whether it should participate in the current crusade against online "disinformation" or not.

First it closed the PayPal accounts of The Daily Sceptic and the Free Speech Union, and even the personal account of their founder Toby Young, and then, two weeks later, it restored them. Then it announced that it would be docking $2,500 from anyone who uses its services in connection with "promoting misinformation" and then, two days later, it again reversed course and announced that this language was never intended to be included in its new Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

It was not intended to be included? Well, where did it come from then?

Could the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation and its Digital Services Act (DSA), about which I wrote in my last Brownstone article, have something to do with PayPal's skittish forays into "combatting disinformation?" Well, yes, they could, and you may rest assured that EU officials or representatives have already had a word with PayPal about them.

As discussed in my previous article, the Code requires signatories to censor what is deemed by the European Commission to be disinformation on pain of massive fines. The enforcement mechanism, i.e. the fines, has been established under the DSA.
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Brick Wall

"No borders, no countries" - Biden regime calls for North American Union - Rep. Matt Gaetz responds

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:50 UTC
Tucker Carlson, Blinken, Mexico, no borders, no countries
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, recently announced that US Secretary of State Tony Blinken proposed opening all borders between the US, Mexico, and Canada.

President Obrador: "I think that Mr. Blinken spoke about consolidating the region of North America. And we agree on that."

The plan would open up our borders permanently to the drug cartels running Mexico today. It is the latest insanity proposed by the Biden regime to permanently destroy the United States.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went on with Tucker Carlson to discuss this deadly proposal.

Rep. Matt Gaetz: It means that the globalist left wants a homogenized America because they don't think too much of the United States of America in the first place. I haven't got the answer. But it begs the question why are we so friendly with Mexico in the first place? They've cooked up more death in the Mexican mountains than more than any crazy mad scientist in Wuhan would have thought of... It's hard to tell where the cartels end and the government of Mexico begins. They had a former president take $100 million from Sinaloa. They had a former defense chief function as the muscle of the cartels. One of the state's attorneys general was sentenced to 20 years in the United States of America. While they're sleepwalking to a war with Russia they're actually surrendering American sovereignty to Mexico.
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Nuclear Armageddon?! Nah, But Likely Expansion of War Beyond Ukraine


Sott.net
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:40 UTC
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There are increasing signs that the war in Ukraine may expand beyond that country (and newly-acquired Russian territory): the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, the terror-bombing of the Kerch-Crimea bridge, the retaliatory Russian airstrikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, the ongoing delivery of NATO weapons to Ukraine, the fearmongering over nuclear Armageddon, and now the build-up of Russian forces in Belarus.

With the caveat of course, thanks to US government wordplay in late 2021, that the definition of 'imminent' is more fluid these days, fighting between NATO and Russian forces could soon be taking place in Belarus (and/or possibly from Belarus into 'NATO proper'!).

This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall lay out an alternative direction to US-Russia escalation that doesn't involve mushroom clouds, but which nonetheless risks bringing on more global socio-economic upheaval...


Running Time: 02:06:35

Download: MP3 — 86.9 MB


*** CORRECTION ***

At 12:30 we discuss the "regional grouping" of Belarusian and Russian forces inside Belarus this week, citing an RT report we erroneously read as saying "one hundred thousand" Russian troops had linked up with 70,000 Belarusian troops. In fact, the report quoted Belarus president Lukashenko as saying that "more than one thousand [1,000] Russian soldiers" would participate.

Since then, Western media, again citing the Belarus government, reports that the Russian military contingent in Belarus will be 9,000-strong.

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Bad Guys

The EU's biometric power-grab of demanding UK holidaymaker's fingerprints and facial images is sinister and grotesque

Silkie Carlo
The Telegraph
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:58 UTC
biometric fingerprint scanner, biosecurity
If you're planning to escape to a chateau next summer, brace yourself for pointless chaos and travel disruption, thanks to the EU's latest Orwellian move to demand holiday-makers' biometric data at its borders. Brits hopping across the Channel will first have their fingerprints and photos taken. The new mass data-gathering scheme, which will go live in May, is part of the evolution of a so-called "Smart Border".

But there is nothing "smart" about the plans. The data grab has been justified by the aim of improving detection of dangerous travellers, finding vulnerable people, and reducing fraud, but it comes at an eye-watering cost to liberty and logistics. The border plans have been rightly described by civil society groups as "disproportionate and unnecessary", while the Port of Dover's boss has warned of "significant and continued disruption for a very long time".

All travellers aged over 12 will need to be biometrically logged, creating an EU datastore loaded with hundreds of millions of people's unique personal data. The EU is demanding not only a US-style set of four fingerprints, but facial images too. Holiday-makers' personal information will be mixed in with eventually billions of pieces of data, spanning photographs, palm prints, DNA records and facial biometrics, to which controversial recognition algorithms can be applied. This may be the biggest biometric data collection operation in European history. What could possibly go wrong?

Comment: See also: Europe's descent into totalitarianism

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Bad Guys

UK Labour Party files reveal conspiracy to oust Corbyn: where is the outrage, where is the action?

Leah Levane
Morning Star
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:00 UTC
labour party uk
The shocking revelations from a recent investigation into the anti-Corbyn conspiracy and asks if Labour cannot act on this now, how can it be trusted by its members in future?
You would not know it from the mainstream media — or the Labour Party — but Al Jazeera has produced four devastating films about machinations designed to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters.

The mainstream media amplified every criticism, every stumble and every allegation until the narrative of Corbyn's unsuitability and Labour's anti-semitism became accepted as "the truth."

The station's investigative unit has scoured huge quantities of internal party documents, social media data, emails and covert recordings that reveal the concerted campaign to discredit Corbyn and his supporters, to undermine the democratic procedures of the party and much more.

Since Keir Starmer became leader, the attacks on those who support the ideas of the last two manifestos has continued, largely under the guise of rooting out anti-semitism.

Comment: It's fairly clear that Corbyn's integrity was a threat to the establishment and that his ousting freed up the position for a much more pliable, and seemingly sinister, character in the form of the current Labour leader, Keir Starmer. Notably, since the Corbyn coup, over 200,000 members have left the party: Below are some revealing interview snippets with Starmer with regards to his stance on the insidious LGBTQ ideology currently being foisted on the public:





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Recycle

Current host of G20 Central Bank Indonesia rails against reliance on US dollar for trade - media


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:57 UTC
South Korea
© REUTERS/Kim Hong-JiThe regulator wants to reduce reliance of the Indonesian financial markets on the greenback
Indonesia's central bank has spoken out against the use of the US dollar in export-import transactions, and called for a switch to local currencies in international payments to reduce dependence on the greenback, news portal Tempo.co reported on Friday.

Most of Indonesia's international trade transactions are conducted in foreign currencies, predominantly the dollar, according to Nugroho Joko Prastowo, head of Bank Indonesia's Solo Representative Office, as cited by local media.

"90% of export-import settlements are in US dollars, when in fact the value of Indonesia's direct exports to the US is only 10%, and the value of US imports is only 5%," the official told journalists after opening a session on 'Utilizing Local Currency Settlement (LCS) to Increase Export-Import Efficiency of the Greater Solo Region'.

Comment: Ditching the dollar as the world's reserve currency continues apace: China orders state banks to get ready for largest dollar dump in 30 years - Reuters

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