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Liberalism is more Dangerous than Ukrainian Nazism

Alexander Dugin
Geopolitica
Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:28 UTC
Russian Soldier with Cat
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We are an empire, as the heirs of the monarchy and as the heirs of the Soviet Union.

There can be no neutral position in this war, because there are only two camps. And that is all. Anyone who hesitates or is indecisive, sooner or later (it seems to me much sooner than it seems), will be forced to take up arms and simply go to the front, and the front is everywhere today. It is impossible to return this long, difficult and terrible war to where it was before February 24, 2022; nor can it be stopped; it can only be won. Or it can still be left to human history. Then there will be no winner. Death will win.

For now, it's war, which means we're alive.

If you do not support the Special Military Operation, then you are not for Russia, you are not for the country, you are not for our people, and then the time will come when you will have to kill Russians, destroy Russia as a country, blow up cars, houses and railways, hide terrorists in your homes, shoot. There is no more security.

So, it is better to decide now, and this applies to all Russians; but it also applies to all other countries.

If you want to preserve sovereignty, it is clear that it is impossible under the auspices of the collective West, because liberalism in international relations cancels sovereignty and recognizes only the World Government, in other words, Western hegemony; and in the fight for a multipolar world in which sovereignty is possible, you have to fight with the West, and that is what Russia is doing now. And, it is doing that for everyone.

That's what World War III is all about. Anyone who really cares about sovereignty will either have to side with us or willfully and forever give up and submit completely to the West โ€” and the West is now at war with Russia and will force others to do the same.

This is what happened to Ukraine; this is what is happening to Georgia and Moldova and what is threatening Turkey and even China.

Us and them.
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Leaders in Ghana, Zambia, slam US for 'undemocratic' meddling, amid VP Harris' tour of Africa


RT
Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:15 UTC
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© Misper Apawu/AP PhotoU.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, and Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo, address a news conference in Accra, Ghana, Monday March 27, 2023. Harris is on a seven-day African visit that will also take her to Tanzania and Zambia
Ghana intends to pass its family values act regardless of what the US says, Speaker of the Parliament Alban Bagbin has told lawmakers. He was speaking in response to remarks by US Vice President Kamala Harris on her African tour in Ghana this week, that LGBT rights were a human rights issue.

Bagbin dismissed Harris' remarks. "These things should not be tolerated. That is undemocratic! What is democracy? That somebody else would have to dictate to me, as to what is good and what is bad? Unheard of!" Bagbin said on Tuesday, at a meeting with legislators to discuss the proposed 'Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values' bill.

In a joint press conference with President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday, Harris did not directly address the bill, but affirmed that LGBT rights were "an issue that we consider to be a human rights issue, and that will not change."

Comment: Times are changing, and fast, and if this US 'aid' - with all its strings attached - can't top what China and Russia have to offer Africa's nations in terms of development and sovereignty, then traditional US meddling doesn't stand much of a chance:





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'Political prosecution': Legal experts rail against Trump indictment


CF
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
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© CNN NewsourceIndictment of former US President Donald Trump
Legal experts reacted Thursday to the news of former President Donald Trump's indictment, calling it a "legal disaster" and "deeply flawed."

A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict the former president on Thursday after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation into his alleged payment of hush money to former porn star Stormy Daniels. The indictment is "patently political prosecution," according to Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.
He commented:
"[Bragg] has made history, but it is an inglorious moment where even some on the left have criticized the effort. This is a patently political prosecution. Bragg and NY AG James ran on bagging Trump. This has fulfilled that pledge but, if the indictment follows the course described in coverage, it is deeply flawed theory. We will have to wait to see the indictment."

Comment: Check out the Beck interview. He's on fire...spot on comments regarding Trump indictment; spells out America's very near future:


Bill Barr picks apart the indictment:




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Attention

Fyodor Lukyanov: China's Xi is right, the world is currently undergoing changes not seen for a century

Fyodor Lukyanov
RT
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:05 UTC
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© Feng Li/Pool/Getty ImagesChinese President Xi Jinping
It's time to buckle up, because the post-WW2 and Cold War systems no longer suit the global order...

Humanity has been gripped by a frenzy. The political and military crisis in Europe has captured everyone's attention, but in global terms it's only part of a larger picture. The tensions over Ukraine, and even the wider conflict concerning post-Cold War European security, are elements (but not the core reasons) behind a major shift.

When Chinese President Xi Jinping parted company with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, it was no coincidence that he remarked that the changes now taking place are the biggest in a century. A hundred years ago, the old world was fast disappearing. Empires were crumbling, the structure of societies was changing, and old ideologies were being radicalized in an attempt to meet people's needs or point them in the right direction. Two World Wars, a global economic crisis, the resurgence of all sorts of local conflicts, and social experiments - that were generally very costly for the people - were all signs of the very changes the Chinese leader was recalling. No one wants to go through that again. Still, there is hope that certain constraints have emerged in recent decades that will prevent extremes - from nuclear weapons to the ability to respond more flexibly to socio-economic upheavals.

In recent days, the news has seemed to confirm the seriousness of the tensions. Germany saw its biggest strike for decades, with transport workers protesting against worsening conditions. France is on fire after the government decided to raise the retirement age, bypassing a parliamentary vote as the reform failed to win a majority. In Israel, a violent confrontation has erupted over the cabinet's intention to curb the powers of the judiciary, which its opponents see as a coup attempt.

It is clear that each of these events has its own circumstances and that there is no direct link between them. What they have in common is that they are all manifestations of a painful socio-political transformation.
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Footprints

The narrative in retreat

Ramesh Thakur
Brownstone Institute
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
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The Lockdown Files have dished up a curious exchange among Britain's top policy advisers in early 2020. On 29 February, responding to a WhatsApp message from Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings that Israeli scientists were just weeks away from developing a Covid vaccine and if this was credible, Chief Scientist Sir Patrick Vallance replied "Short answer is no."

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty explained:
"For a disease with a low (for the sake of argument 1%) mortality a vaccine has to be very safe so the safety studies can't be shortcut. So important for the long run."
England's highest mortality rate was in April 2020 at 0.6 percent, falling to 0.55 percent in January 2021 and 0.04 percent by January 2023.

Based on the original Phase 3 trial data, Bart Classen showed as early as August 2021:
"Results prove that none of the vaccines provide a health benefit and all pivotal trials show a statically significant increase in 'all cause severe morbidity' in the vaccinated group compared to the placebo group."
This is nicely book-ended by a recent (16 March) CDC report showing US maternal mortality jumped to 1,205 in 2021 compared with 861 in 2020 and 754 in 2019.

Comment: Perspective: spot on. Analysis: about as good as it gets.

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Rand Paul smacks down bipartisan TikTok ban bills: 'Goes against the First Amendment'

Elizabeth Elkind
Fox News
Tue, 28 Mar 2023 05:17 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesSen. Rand Paul one of few Republicans opposed to Washington restricting TikTok in the U.S.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., broke from his Senate GOP colleagues on Tuesday over their opposition to TikTok, arguing that banning the popular social media app "goes against the First Amendment."

Paul told Fox News Digital:
"I think it's a really bad idea. And people need to ask themselves, 'Why does the Chinese government ban TikTok, and do we want to emulate the Chinese government?' So, I think it's a mistake. If you ban a social media platform, you know, I don't know if you get any clearer that that goes against the First Amendment."
There are currently two bipartisan Senate bills aimed at banning TikTok, a video app that exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic but has raised alarms over its connection to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Smoking

Did they light up a cigarette afterward?

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 01:00 UTC
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"Reading all the 2016 warnings from the Normalcy Guardians and self-professed Democracy Protectors about how there's literally nothing more corrupt or dangerous than craving the prosecution of your political opponent โ€” especially for trivial crimes โ€” is really quite something." โ€” Glenn Greenwald
The New York Times enjoyed its long-delayed tantric Trumpgasm so much today that it rolled out the full-page banner headline format usually reserved for the commencement of world wars. (They took the banner down before seven o'clock this morning.) For many of the cat-ladies employed as "reporters" at the once-august paper, it was the first Trumpgasm they've ever experienced in a lifetime of emotional displacement, over-eating, and furious knitting of pink polyester hats for the crusade to root out patriarchal wickedness.

This fulfillment of a years-long psychodrama, starring the feared and loathed occult persona of a gold-coiffed "Daddy" figure who once presided in the political household, came at the hands of dragon-slayer Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, archetype of the many long-oppressed victims worked to death in the bilges of our slave ship of state โ€” now turned righteous Woke deliverer of cosmic vengeance!
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Dollars

U.S. bank trouble heralds the end of dollar reserve system


Modern Diplomacy
Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
rollBucks
The US banking system is broken, stresses The Asia Times. That doesn't portend more high-profile failures like Credit Suisse. The central banks will keep moribund institutions on life support.

But the era of dollar-based reserves and floating exchange rates that began on August 15, 1971, when the US severed the link between the dollar and gold, is coming to an end. The pain will be transferred from the banks to the real economy, which will starve for credit.

And the geopolitical consequences will be enormous. The seize-up of dollar credit will accelerate the shift to a multipolar reserve system, with advantage to China's yuan as a competitor to the dollar.

Gold, the "barbarous relic" abhorred by John Maynard Keynes, will play a bigger role because the dollar banking system is dysfunctional, and no other currency โ€” surely not the tightly-controlled yuan โ€” can replace it. Now at an all-time record price of US$2,000 an ounce, gold is likely to rise further.

The greatest danger to dollar hegemony and the strategic power that it imparts to Washington is not China's ambition to expand the international role of the yuan.

This crisis is utterly unlike 2008, when banks levered up trillions of dollars of dodgy assets based on "liar's loans" to homeowners. Fifteen years ago, the credit quality of the banking system was rotten and leverage was out of control. Bank credit quality today is the best in a generation. The crisis stems from the now-impossible task of financing America's ever-expanding foreign debt.
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Persecution: Senior Ukrainian bishop says he's under house arrest


RT
Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:59 UTC
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© WikipediaThe vicar of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel
Metropolitan Pavel, Abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, is suspected of supporting Russia's actions during the conflict

The leader of Ukraine's largest Orthodox Christian monastery has said he is under house arrest, marking the latest twist in Kiev's religious crackdown. Metropolitan Pavel (secular name Pyotr Lebed), a senior bishop in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), is suspected of inciting religious tensions.

The cleric, who has served as abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra since 1994, told reporters about his arrest on Saturday, in a video released by the Ukrainian news network Vesti.

Meanwhile the SBU, Ukraine's domestic security service, claimed in a statement that it "had collected well-founded evidence" that the bishop was "inciting inter-religious enmity" and "justifying Russia's aggression." The two potential charges carry prison sentences of up to eight years and three years, respectively.

Comment:


More from Metroplitan Pavel:




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Red Flag

Ukraine war effort has left small European countries "morally & financially exhausted"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 01 Apr 2023 15:18 UTC
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© Le Monde/Getty ImagesCzech President Petr Pavel (left); Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky (right)
Ukraine's Western backers have of late expressed more and more skepticism over the future success of the war effort against Russia. This doubt grew louder and more public starting two weeks ago, when Czech President Petr Pavel said in an interview with Polish media that the window is closing on a major new Ukrainian counteroffensive. He then acknowledged that his country may not be able to maintain current levels of assistance to Kiev.

"The window of opportunity is open this year. After next winter, it will be extremely difficult to maintain the current level of assistance," Pavel was quoted as saying. "War fatigue is not only the exhaustion of human resources and equipment, the destruction of infrastructure in Ukraine, but also fatigue in the countries that provide aid."

This week another small central European country has echoed the same. Slovak President Zuzana ฤŒaputovรก said at a foreign policy event that Slovakia is "morally and financially exhausted" after more than a year of support given to Ukraine, and as war refugees pour in.

Comment: The minor vassals are getting restless. This does not bode well for the U.S. and NATO.

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