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Russia holds the key to German sovereignty

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Germany's Angela Merkel and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
© Kay Nietfeld/dpaGermany's Angela Merkel and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
A more sovereign Germany closer to Russia and China may be the straw that breaks the US hegemon's back

Last week we traced the necessary historical and geopolitical steps to understand Why Russia is driving the West crazy.

And then, last Friday, right before the start of the Year of the Metal Ox, came the bombshell, delivered with customary aplomb by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

In an interview with popular talk show host Vladimir Solovyov - with the full transcript published by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Lavrov said Moscow "must be ready" for a possible "break with the European Union."

The ominous break would be a direct result of new EU sanctions, particularly those "that create risks for our economy, including in the most sensitive areas." And then, the Sun Tzu-style clincher: "If you want peace, prepare for war."

Comment: For an insightful examination of US geopolitical goals vis a vis Germany and Russia's relations, don't miss:

STRATFOR Chief outlines psychopathic Zio-Anglo-American plans for world domination in speech to Chicago Council on Global Affairs

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'Zero Covid' will lead to even harsher restrictions

Neil Clark
RT
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:08 UTC
wales coronavirus lockdown
© REUTERS/Carl RecineFILE PHOTO: Signs asking people to stay at home are seen near Llwyn-on Reservoir, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, Britain, June 2, 2020
The left has bought heavily into 'Zero Covid' as a policy goal, but the concept is fundamentally flawed, as it overstates the threat and offers overkill solutions.

Zero Covid? Who could possibly be against that?

But while initially the total elimination of coronavirus sounds like quite an attractive idea, the devil most certainly is in the details. If ever there was a case of the cure being worse than the disease, this is it.

The first of the four "key steps" the UK Zero Covid group lists for its strategy is: "A full UK-wide lockdown until new cases in the community have been reduced close to zero."
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'Cancel culture' in 'dying' US, & opposition media bans in E. Europe makes Russia the world's 'last island of freedom'

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:34 UTC
Duma Vyacheslav Volodin
© RIAChairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin.
Russia is the world's final bastion of freedom. That's according to the State Duma speaker, who pointed to the decline of leftist politics in the US and the restrictions on Russian-language media in the Baltics and Ukraine.

"Democracy is a procedure, with norms and rules," Vyacheslav Volodin said, speaking to parliament on Wednesday. "Do you see what is happening in the United States? The country is dying. They canceled everything."

"Where is their labor movement? Where is the socialist party? Where is the once strong Communist party? No. Just like in Ukraine, there is no free media. All the opposition media has been shut down."

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Light Sabers

Russia rejects EU court's order to release convicted fraudster & opposition leader Navalny


Yahoo
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:30 UTC
Navalny
© Babuskinsky District Court Press Service via APIn this photo taken from a footage provided by the Babuskinsky District Court Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures during a hearing on his charges for defamation in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. Navalny is accused of defaming a World War II veteran who was featured in a video last year advertising constitutional amendments that allowed an extension of President Vladimir Putin's rule.
Europe's top human rights court has ordered Russia to release jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a ruling quickly rejected Wednesday by Russian authorities who are bent on isolating the Kremlin's most prominent foe.


Comment: A significant majority of Russian's do not support Navalny and they can see he's being used as a pawn by the West.


The decision by the European Court of Human Rights had demanded that Russia free Navalny immediately and warns that failing to do so would mark a breach of the European human rights convention.


Comment: The EU court doesn't seem as concerned about the rights of whistleblower Julian Assange currently being tortured in a British jail, nor about its own citizens petitioning for their release from lockdown: 'No legal basis': Court orders Dutch government to scrap coronavirus curfew - UPDATE: Not so fast!


Russia's justice minister dismissed the court's demand as "unfounded and unlawful."

Comment: For more on just who Navalny really is, see: Pro-western liberal, anti-migrant nationalist, or political opportunist: Who exactly is Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny?

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Best of the Web: Psaki: Biden won't meet world leaders for 'a couple of months' following revelation Kamala is taking his phone calls

Andrew White
National File
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:31 UTC

Comment: We knew the situation was bad, but we didn't know it was THIS bad!


PSAKI
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted today that Joe Biden will not be meeting with world leaders in-person for "a couple of months."

This news comes after the revelation that Vice President Kamala Harris has assumed one of the traditional roles of the presidency, and has begun taking Head of State calls with foreign leaders on behalf of the President.

This news comes amid suspicions that Harris would be running the show throughout the duration of Biden's presidency due to the President's apparent cognitive decline. Harris has already had phone calls with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"It will be a couple of months before the President has an in-person or invites a foreign leader to meet in person here at the White House," said Psaki during a White House press conference.


Comment: A country's strength, purpose and integrity are often reflected in the leaders it promotes. Its growth or decline may be symbolically and literally understood through its representation.

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Bad Guys

National Guard may occupy Washington DC through the fall

Tristan Justice
The Federalist
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:27 UTC
capitol washington
© C Buisco / Flickr
As of Monday, about 6,000 troops remain in Washington D.C. occupying the nation's capital. According to Fox News, internal government communications show the occupation may last through the fall, as opposed to the currently public March end date.

According to one internal email shared with Fox News, the Pentagon's assistant secretary of defense, Robert Salesses, wrote:
If it's not possible to sustain at the current level the [National Guard] personnel, we need to establish the number of [National Guard] personnel ([D.C. National Guard] and out-of-state) we can sustain for an extended period - at least through Fall 2021 - and understand additional options for providing DoD support, to include use of reserve personnel, as well as active component.
The military occupation took its grip on Washington in response to the January riot when a horde of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. No such show of military force was deployed in the aftermath of the militant Black Lives Matter riots that shook the city for days.

Fencing erected around the Capitol building for President Joe Biden's inauguration may now become permanent.

Comment: This is absolutely not an overreaction, and not a sign of creeping totalitarianism and election fragility on the part of the new administration. Biden's administration is unprecedented in the level of truth, transparency, and all-around goodness it is offering. Never before has an administration been so perfect, legitimate, and fighting for the will of "We The People."

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Bad Guys

Biden Administration: 'We don't know at this point' when life will 'return to normal' from lockdowns

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Waire
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:41 UTC
Biden
© SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday that the Biden administration does not know or have a timeline of when life is going to return to normal from the pandemic.

"The question of when we get some semblance of normalcy, that timeline also seems to be shifting," a reporter said to Psaki. "Dr. Fauci had said a sense of normalcy maybe in the fall, that's when you might be able to go to theaters, go to sporting events, still with masks, of course."

"Now, it seems that's being slid to early next year, the president said maybe around Christmas, what's going on here?" the reporter asked. "When do we think we will get back to some taste of normalcy?"

"Well, this is the question, as I'm sure is the case for all of you, that every neighbor, every friend, every family member asks, at least me in the street when I'm walking my dog in the morning," Psaki responded. "We want to be straight with the American public, though, it is — we are not in a place where we can predict exactly when everybody will feel normal again, and it has, there are a number of reasons."

Comment: Inconsistent and contradictory communication is a common theme found in many people's lives at different levels. Sandra Brown, author of Women Who Love Psychopaths provides some insight into crazy-making communication from the perspective a a woman involved in a relationship with a psychopath. It may apply in different ways to people's lives.
Crazy-Making Communication

How does all these communication malfunctions come together as a 'relational cluster butt kick?' How does it affect the actual interactive process of talking? The attempts at communication are crazy-making and will cause her to question her communication skills, how she views her ability to express herself, and eventually her sanity.
communication triangle
The triangle represents the roles the psychopath and her play in the communication process. Each of them moves around the triangle taking on different roles in the interchange. He is the wounded one while she plays the role of either liberating him or tormenting him. He may later shift and take on the role of liberator to her or tormenter to her. She in turn, might switch roles and become the wounded one. When one role shifts, it forces the other person into one of the other two remaining roles. Each shift shifts someone else.

These roles can shift moment by moment, sentence by sentence. One moment he acts as if she is the tormenter and in the next moment expected to liberate him. In the next argument he might aggressively be the tormenter and she, the wounded one. The same argument over the same topic only moments or days later could result in totally different roles by each of them. No consistency whatsoever is held and no resolution reached each time they enter into an attempt at communication.

Nowhere else in her life does she communicate this way. At work, she may hold a highly responsible position and communicate normally, without drama and crazy-making language. However, as soon as she enters into communication with him, the communication lapses into these three well-defined roles. Even when she attempts to communicate normally and utilize the skills she uses in everyday communication with others, the process still pulls her in and she is unable to communicate outside the three roles of Wounded One, Tormentor, or Liberator.

With the psychopath, communication is reduced to a very juvenile emotional age. He brings to this communication process other dysfunctional and aggravating behaviors which contribute to communication problems. For example:

- impulsivity

- splitting one person against the other

- knows-it-all so she can't contribute any new information

- lying

- drama

- manipulation

- juvenile decision-making skills

- changing subjects

- meaning/language differences

- blaming

- immature emotional age

- doesn't take responsibility for his behavior/choices

- abandonment issues and acts like a victim

- gaslighting

- projecting his behavior on others


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Poland steps up to fight Big Tech with push to block social media censorship

Benjamin Hal
Fox News
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:29 UTC
Deputy Polish Justice Minister Sebastian Kaleta
© Wojciech WojdaDeputy Polish Justice Minister Sebastian Kaleta
Deputy Polish Justice Minister Sebastian Kaleta says Trump's removal from Twitter set dangerous precedent

Social media companies that censor users or remove posts for ideological reasons could soon face fines in Poland in a world-first attempt to curb the power of Big Tech through legislation.

Speaking to Fox News, the architect of the law, Deputy Polish Justice Minister Sebastian Kaleta, said social media companies have for too long been targeting conservatives, Christianity and traditional values by banning them and removing posts and the Polish government is saying "enough!"

"We see that when Big Tech decides to remove content for political purposes, it's mostly content which praises traditional values or praises conservatism," he said, "and it is deleted under their 'hate speech policy' when it has no legal right to do so."

Comment: Why is Poland taking such a militant stance against social media? In most other respects, it is a willing partner to NATO and the West. Big Tech is the very essence of the West. But it appears the reality of the Great Reset's agenda may have spooked them.

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Fauci: 'I prefer not to comment' on Gov. Cuomo mishandling coronavirus

Trent Baker
Breitbart
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:17 UTC
Fauci
© Fox News/KJNDr. Anthony Fauci
Tuesday, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci declined to comment on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) mishandling of the coronavirus in his state. Cuomo has caught flack from both Democrats and Republicans for his executive order to move patients sick with COVID-19 to nursing homes — putting them close to those more vulnerable to the virus' effects — and the ensuing cover-up.

"CNN Newsroom" host Jim Sciutto asked Fauci, "You're a New Yorker yourself, though you don't live there right now. Andrew Cuomo is coming under criticism now for the big move back to long-term care facilities in the midst of this crisis here. He's argued that his state was following federal guidelines when he ordered those long-term care facilities to accept patients returning from hospitals. I wonder, can you clear that up. Was he actually following federal guidelines to do that?"

"You know, Jim, I can't," Fauci replied. "I mean, I'm sorry. I'm really — I'm honestly not trying to evade your question, but I'm not really sure of all the details of that, and I think if I make a statement, it probably could either be incorrect or taken out of context. So, I prefer not to comment on that."

Follow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent

Comment: Integrity and accountability are dependent on one another. It is difficult, if not impossible, for one to exist without the other. Choosing ignorance and a lack of responsibility is always an option. It is the easier route for sure, and it also bears a toxic fruit.

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Bad Guys

Ecuador suspends recount in presidential election as indigenous candidate who was denied run-off spot alleges fraud


France24
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:09 UTC
Yaku Perez ecuador election
© Cristina Vega Rhor/AFPPresidential candidate Yaku Perez during a protest in front of Ecuador's National Electoral Council in Quito on Feb. 12 2021
Ecuador's National Electoral Council has suspended the recount in the first round of the presidential election requested by left-wing indigenous candidate Yaku Perez, who has alleged fraud denied him a place in the run-off.

The count was put on hold after the five-member council could not reach a majority in favor of Perez's request after holding a vote late Tuesday, with two for, one against, one abstention and another absent.

"This plenary session of the National Electoral Council, unfortunately, does not respond to the request, nor does it approve or deny the report presented in the technical area" on the request for a recount, council head Diana Atamaint said.

Comment:


From its defense of Julian Assange under Rafael Correa, to its citizens fight against rapacious international corporations, Ecuador has been a thorn in the side of the US for decades. No wonder the US wants to control the outcome of the election. Lenin Moreno has been a obedient minion and they want someone just like him.

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