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Three more countries set to join BRICS - official


RT
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:12 UTC
BRICS
© AP / Mike HutchingsMembers of the major emerging national economies group BRICS, with from left, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China's President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and Brazil's President Michel Temer.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt plan to join BRICS, and their potential membership bids could be discussed and answered at next year's summit in South Africa, Purnima Anand, the president of the organization, told Russian media on Thursday.

"All these countries have shown their interest in joining [BRICS] and are preparing to apply for membership. I believe this is a good step, because expansion is always looked upon favorably; it will definitely bolster BRICS' global influence," she told Russian newspaper Izvestia.

The BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) account for over 40% of the global population and nearly a quarter of the world's GDP. The bloc's stated purposes include promoting peace, security, development, and cooperation globally, and contributing to the development of humanity.

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Dollars

Former business partner of Hunter's personal attorney is now over the DOJ's criminal division, Hunter goes free

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:30 UTC
Nicholas McQuaid
Nicholas McQuaid, former Deputy White House Counsel
The former business partner of Hunter Biden's attorney was picked as Chief of Biden's Justice Department's Criminal Division. Now he's blocking any serious investigation of Hunter Biden.

We reported more than a year ago about Nicholas McQuaid, Biden's pick in his Justice Department who is connected to Hunter Biden. FOX News reported this at the time:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported a former business partner of Hunter Biden's criminal defense attorney has been picked as a top Justice Department official in President Biden's new administration.

It has already been revealed that Nicholas McQuaid, a former federal prosecutor, was picked as acting chief of the Justice Department's criminal division. Hunter Biden confirmed in early December, after his father won the 2020 election, that he was under federal investigation.

Carlson said on his show Friday night that McQuaid worked with Christopher Clark as partners at Latham & Watkins and worked on cases together right until McQuaid took the job at the Justice Department.

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Megaphone

Heated debate in US Senate erupts over abortion rights for men


RT
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:07 UTC
transgender man
Getty Images / Erik McGregor / Contributor
Berkeley professor Khiara Bridges, during a Senate hearing on abortion earlier this week, accused US Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who said men cannot get pregnant, of being transphobic and denying the existence trans people.

The argument started during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday when the Missouri Republican asked the professor what she meant by: "people with a capacity for pregnancy." Bridges explained that while there are many women who can get pregnant and those who cannot, there are also "trans men who are capable of pregnancy as well as non-binary people who are capable of pregnancy."

This led Hawley to ask if abortion - the main issue under discussion at the hearing - is, in her opinion, actually a "women's right issue." She responded that the issue affects both women and other groups. Hawley then asked what she thinks the core of the right to abortion actually is.

Comment: What's more surprising is that Hawley didn't get banned from Twitter for his comment

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US public health agencies aren't 'following the science,' officials say

Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. and Tracy Beth Høeg M.D., Ph.D.
Common Sense
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:18 UTC
Joe Biden CDC
© Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden tours the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, in March 2021.
The calls and text messages are relentless. On the other end are doctors and scientists at the top levels of the NIH, FDA and CDC. They are variously frustrated, exasperated and alarmed about the direction of the agencies to which they have devoted their careers.

"It's like a horror movie I'm being forced to watch and I can't close my eyes," one senior FDA official lamented. "People are getting bad advice and we can't say anything."

That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency. First, how, with no solid clinical data, the agency authorized Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had Covid. And second, the fact that just months before, the FDA bypassed their external experts to authorize booster shots for young children.

That doctor is hardly alone.

At the NIH, doctors and scientists complain to us about low morale and lower staffing: The NIH's Vaccine Research Center has had many of its senior scientists leave over the last year, including the director, deputy director and chief medical officer. "They have no leadership right now. Suddenly there's an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions," one NIH scientist told us. (The people who spoke to us would only agree to be quoted anonymously, citing fear of professional repercussions.)
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Bad Guys

Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at Staten Island warehouse

Jeffrey Dastin
Reuters
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:55 UTC
Amazon Labour Union (ALU) organizer Gerald Bryson
© REUTERS/Brendan McDermidAmazon Labour Union (ALU) organizer Gerald Bryson speaks to the media as ALU members celebrate official victory after hearing results regarding the vote to unionize, outside the NLRB offices in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S., April 1, 2022.
Amazon worker Gerald Bryson had hand-counted thousands of items in his warehouse's inventory over three days when his manager showed him a "Supportive Feedback Document."

Bryson had made 22 errors, the 2018 write-up said, including tallying 19 products in a storage bin that in fact had 20. If Bryson erred like this six times within a year, the notice stated, he would be fired from the Staten Island warehouse, one of Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) largest in the United States.

Internal Amazon documents, previously unreported, reveal how routinely the company measured workers' performance in minute detail and admonished those who fell even slightly short of expectations - sometimes before their shift ended. In a single year ending April 2020, the company issued more than 13,000 so-called "disciplines" in Bryson's warehouse alone, one lawyer for Amazon said in court papers. The facility had about 5,300 employees around that time.

Comment: This is painful to read, let alone experience first hand. Who said that the slavery ended?
No, It just changed the name and became more massive and more cruel than ever.

The psychopathic "elites" look and treat ordinary people like a cattle or robots, not like a human beigns.
Can the big mainstream media report море about this, or they are just a propaganda tool of the "ekites"?

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Blue Planet

A slice of Russia and America's political cultures compared: Internet censorship

Gordon M. Hahn
GordonHahn.com
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:00 UTC
russia us american flag
© Getty Images / mashabuba
A few years ago I wrote an article on the Obama-Trump 'one-two punch' to America's political culture. I argued that Obama's rule and the Trump reaction to it would damage America's political culture of rule of law, comity, and practical compromise. Approximately a year ago I wrote articles about the authoritarianization or 'Putinization' of America and also looked at political culture among other aspects of American politics and their decay under mounting Democrat Party (DP) authoritarianization. Now we have very firm evidence of these trends.

For example, a new Pew Research opinion survey demonstrates that DP members and supporters now support authoritarian censorship by an overwhelming majority. Asked whether "(t)he U.S. government should take steps to restrict false information online, even if it limits freedom of information," among Democratic and Democratic leaning partisans, 40% agreed in 2018 and now an astonishing 65% or just under two thirds of Democrats want the government to censor speech. Among Republicans (those whom DP partisans and supporters are now routinely calling 'fascist,' 'white supremacists', and 'populist' Trumpers) the percentages were 37 in 2018 and now 28 in 2021. When asked whether big tech companies should censor, 76% of Democrats answer affirmatively, while only 37% of Republicans do so. It is important to note that this poll was taken in a context of continuing Big Tech censorship and similar censorship of the Republican Party and of its presidential candidate and his supporters during the 2020 elections on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other such fora and the Joe Biden administration.
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Megaphone

Panama's inflation strikes and protests continue into second week despite gas price cap, gov't to meet with protesters

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:00 UTC
Panama protest
© Rogelio Figueroa/AFP/Getty ImagesInflation protestors damaged a police car in Panama City
In yet another example of the destabilizing effects of inflation, economically-disruptive protests and strikes in Panama have entered a second week, despite extraordinary moves by President Laurentino Cortizo.

What began with a strike by teachers fed up with a higher cost of commuting has mushroomed into a wider movement with more aggressive tactics, including blockades of Panamanian ports and major highways. Panama's Maritime Chamber said the highway roadblocks have caused "financial losses in the millions for the maritime and logistics industries."

Construction workers announced they would impose a 24-hour strike on Wednesday. Panama Canal unions voiced their solidarity, but are prohibited by law from striking themselves. Students, and impoverished indigenous people from the western part of country, have also joined the protests.
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Newspaper

Discontent rising among Japan's farmers as surging feed and fuel costs threaten to throw many out of business


Reuters
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:56 UTC
Rice farmer
© REUTERS/Daniel LeussinkRice farmer Kazuyuki Oshino chats with his son-in-law at a rice field, in Tendo, Yamagata prefecture, northern Japan.



Comment: Note this article is from a few weeks ago, but it's notable in light of what's happening with farmers across much of the West, particularly the farmer's protests in the Netherlands.


In response to Reuters questions, a spokesperson for the LDP did not directly address the issue of the party's support among farmers. The spokesperson said the LDP was striving to ensure all citizens understand its policies, not only those involved in agriculture, and referred Reuters to its election manifesto, which includes a pledge to ease the impact of higher fuel, feed and fertiliser prices, without providing further details.

"The surge in energy and commodity prices are a worry," Toshiaki Endo, the chair of the LDP's election strategy committee and a lower-house representative from Yamagata, told party supporters in April. "We're in for an extremely tough fight."

Public support for Kishida recently fell to a four-month low of 48.7 per cent and more than 54 per cent disapprove of his handling of inflation, a Jiji Press poll showed this month.

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Pirates

JPMorgan manipulated gold market to make money from hedge funds, ex trader tells jury

Tom Schoenberg
Bloomberg
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:35 UTC
Bullion gold
© David Gray/Bloomberg , BloombergFILE PHOTO: A worker handles ABC Bullion one kilogram gold bars at the ABC Refinery smelter in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on Thursday, July 2, 2020.
Big hedge funds like Moore Capital Management and Tudor Capital Corp. were so important to JPMorgan Chase & Co. that its precious-metals traders routinely manipulated gold and silver markets to get the best prices on client orders, a former trader for the bank told a Chicago jury.

"They brought in a huge volume of trading, which made the bank a lot of money and our team a lot of money," John Edmonds, a former trader on JPMorgan's precious metals desk, said Wednesday when asked about Tudor. He made similar statements about Moore Capital. "Knowing that they're trading in the market and what they're doing" was valuable information for the bank, he said.

Edmonds worked on the JPMorgan precious-metals desk for more than a decade and pleaded guilty in 2018 to conspiracy and commodities fraud related to "spoof" trading. He is testifying against his former boss, Michael Nowak, the longtime head of the trading desk, gold trader Gregg Smith and hedge funds salesman Jeffrey Ruffo. They're accused of thousands "spoof" trades in which huge orders were placed and quickly canceled in the hope of moving prices up or down so they could complete desired trades.
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Cult

Syringe attacks puzzle European authorities


RT
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:29 UTC
Syringe
© Unsplash / Mat Napo
After a wave of assaults in France, the disturbing phenomenon has spread to Spain.

Revelers at the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain have reported being stuck with syringes in crowded public places. Little is known about the substances they've been injected with, but one curious detail in victim testimony may link the attacks with a spate of similar syringe assaults in France.

As crowds gathered in Pamplona to watch daredevils run with the bulls over the weekend, a more sinister threat was lurking on the sidelines. Four young people - three females and a male - told police that they felt a pinching sensation before being overcome with dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and cold sweats.

All four were taken to the hospital by their friends, El Mundo reported on Tuesday. None were separated from their friends, none suffered sexual abuse, and no toxic substances were found in samples from the victims.

While the national authorities have opened an investigation, police don't know who carried out the attacks or why. "There is nothing concrete and nothing clear at the moment," a police source told El Mundo. "We need more time."

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