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Best of the Web: Geopolitical paradigm shifts and coping with psychopaths: An Interview with Professor Sergei A. Karaganov

Tariq Marzbaa, Nora Hoppe
Al Mayadeen
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:40 UTC
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Tariq Marzbaan and Nora Hoppe interview Professor Karaganov from Russia's leading public foreign policy organisation, conversing with him on an array of issues, including Western escalation against Russia, the war in Ukraine, colonialism, and the genocide in Gaza.
It is clear that the Anglo-Saxon industrial-military-media complex, with the help of its vassals, intends to preserve its global hegemony and its colonialist conquests at all costs. The Hegemon cannot accept the paradigm shift of an emerging Multipolar World. Any discussion of peace, diplomacy, or negotiations regarding the wars it has started is out of the question. Western populations, whose minds are contaminated with neoliberalism and Russophobia, are currently terrified of an "imminent Russian invasion"... Mass delirium is preventing REASON from returning to the West. How can the rest of the world cope with this madness? And what can the rest of the world hope for?

We turn to Professor Sergei A. Karaganov* - Honorary Chairman of the Council for Foreign and Defence Policy (Russia's leading public foreign policy organisation) and academic supervisor of the Faculty of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow - as he has long been offering insightful views on such topics as the use of nuclear deterrence as a wake-up call to the West to restore common sense and Russia's needed pivot away from the West and to the East.

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Comment: For original insight into political ponerology, see: And check out SOTT radio's:

There are some rare voices of sanity in the political class:




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Best of the Web: "Severe Geomagnetic Storm" hits Earth, NOAA warning in effect all weekend

Eric Ralls
Earth.com
Fri, 10 May 2024 12:25 UTC
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Update — May 10, 2024 at 7:31 PM EDT

NOAA Warning: Seven Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are racing towards Earth

NOAA scientists have witnessed severe (G4) geomagnetic storm conditions today. Several additional Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are in transit to Earth's outer atmosphere, making it highly likely that geomagnetic storming will persist through the weekend.

A large, complex sunspot cluster (NOAA Region 3664), which has now grown to 17 times the diameter of Earth, has been the primary source of this activity. Experts still expect additional activity from this Region.

Since the current solar cycle began in December 2019, observers have only witnessed three Severe geomagnetic storms.

Comment: Related: Northern lights captured in timelapse footage across Europe and US

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Best of the Web: King Bibi's Land Grab

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00 UTC
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If you've ever taken a lifesaving course, you know there's a real possibility that a drowning person will drag you under and you'll both die. It's a lesson that should be kept in mind when discussing America's relationship with Israel. (adapted from)@LarryBoorstein
On Monday, Israel intensified its airstrikes on Rafah, bombing more than 50 sites in the heart of the city. Video footage on Twitter showed plumes of smoke rising from the makeshift encampments and residential buildings where more than 1.4 million refugees are presently huddled in the most densely populated place on earth. Israel's air campaign was accompanied by a sizable ground-offensive that deployed tanks and armored vehicles to the southern border where Israeli troops quickly seized the Rafah Crossing without resistance.

The sudden uptick in violence has triggered widespread panic among the Palestinians many of who have already gathered their families and belongings onto carts and buses and fled northward to safety. The opening assault on the civilian enclave is reminiscent of earlier attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis both of which followed a similar pattern. The launching of random bombings is designed to amplify feelings of terror within the population while the humanitarian blockade tightens the stranglehold on critical food and medical supplies. The objective here is not to kill as many Palestinians as possible, but to force them into sprawling tent cities where they will languish amid the rubble until the international community finds a way to spirit them out of the country. For Israel, the endgame has always been ethnic cleansing, a comprehensive erasure of the native population. The ground invasion of Rafah represents the final phase of that maniacal strategy. This is from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:

Comment: The following speech, by a Jewish Holocaust survivor, is likely one of the most insightful we've heard on this subject and what a man of True conscience sounds like:



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Biohazard

Best of the Web: Tyson Foods dumps 87 BILLION gallons of toxic waste, including cyanide, blood and feces into US rivers and lakes in just 4 years

Dominic Yeatman
Daily Mail
Sun, 05 May 2024 13:34 UTC
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The sheer scale of the poison flowing into the country's rivers and waterways is starting to emerge after scientists took a look at one of America's biggest meat processors.

Tyson Foods released 87 billion gallons contaminated with cancer-causing cyanide, nitrates, chloride, phosphorous and oil directly from 41 plants into public waters across 17 states between 2018 and 2022.

The toxic water would cover 165 square kilometers to a depth of two meters and fill three Olympic-sized swimming pools every hour.

But the study by the Union of Concerned Scientists looked at just two percent of meat processing plants nationwide leaving the total figure terrifyingly uncertain.

Comment: We see a similar disaster in the making over in the UK, which, in just the last few years, changed the laws so that industrial waste can be discharged at ever more deplorable levels. This has already resulted not only in the contamination and ruin of waterways and coastlines, but raw sewage levels have, increasingly, been so excessive that it's poisoning swimmers.

It's rather odd that these same governments, that are fearmongering about viral outbreaks - such as bird flu, but also TB, and blue tongue - and that are culling birds by the tens of millions, enforcing ever stringent biological restrictions, and concocting more questionable mRNA injections, have also, basically, made it legal to knowingly contaminate water supplies.

This, despite there already being good reason to believe that the bird flu that was recently detected in US cattle may have been because the cows were being fed the excreta and waste dredged together as 'fodder' for them from bird farms:

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Best of the Web: AstraZeneca says it will withdraw Covid-19 vaccine globally... BECAUSE IT CAUSES BLOOD CLOTS


The Times of India
Wed, 08 May 2024 09:47 UTC

Comment: We told you so...


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AstraZeneca on Tuesday announced that it has started the global withdrawal of its Covid-19 vaccine, days after the UK pharmaceutical company admitted that its vaccine has the potential to cause a rare side effect called Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS).


Comment: That's blood clots, by the way, which is why people learned to call these shots 'the clotshot'.


The company said the withdrawal was due to a "surplus of available updated vaccines" since the pandemic.

According to media reports, the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker had previously admitted in court documents that the vaccine causes side effects such as blood clots and low blood platelet counts.

The company also said its decision to remove the vaccine Vaxzevria's marketing authorizations within Europe, noting that this oversupply has resulted in a decrease in demand for Vaxzevria, which is no longer being produced or distributed.

Comment: Seems the world is catching up with the fact that the Covid vaccines have been (and will continue to) wreak havoc on the health of many millions of individuals.

The reason for pulling the clot-shot: a "surplus of available updated vaccines" - sounds like a lot of BS amid fears that greater awareness of vaccine injury, and the ensuing lawsuits, will continue to mount.

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Best of the Web: Drowning in debt: The paralysis at the heart of the US fiscal crisis


RT
Wed, 08 May 2024 18:55 UTC
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Washington is doing nothing about its deteriorating finances because there is nothing it can do without risking major upheaval

It can appear puzzling why at certain times in history a government facing a looming crisis simply does not address it. The problems accumulate in plain view while little is done to actually solve them. The human imagination being what it is, this inaction is inevitably attributed to some mix of corruption, malfeasance, and incompetence. And certainly the road to any system-level crisis is strewn with missteps and short-sighted policies. But there comes a point when the horizon of possibility has closed and there is simply nothing a government can do without unleashing forces that could easily overwhelm it.

In the strange and torpid final years of Tsarist rule in Russia, the unfolding crisis that would eventually result in the Russian Revolution seemed immobilized in a state of suspension as the country's major actors recoiled from taking decisive actions for fear of detonating the very cataclysm they had sought to avoid. Much has been made of the weakness and indecision of Nicholas II, but by those fateful last years the anachronistic Romanoff dynasty was collapsing and little could be done to stop it.
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Best of the Web: Child dies during Pfizer trial for muscular dystrophy gene therapy, boy's 'sudden' cardiac arrest noted as a 'serious adverse event'

Pratik Jain
Reuters
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:19 UTC
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A young patient died due to cardiac arrest after receiving Pfizer's (PFE.N), experimental gene therapy being tested in a mid-stage trial for a muscle-wasting disorder called Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD), the drugmaker told Reuters on Tuesday.

"A fatal serious adverse event was reported as cardiac arrest for a participant in the Phase 2 DAYLIGHT study," a company spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed response.


Comment: It's notable that 'sudden' cardiac events are one of the serious side effects reported from the Covid mRNA injections. But, obviously, there were a myriad of other side effects reported, too, ranging from temporary to fatal.


The trial is testing boys 2 to three years of age with DMD, a genetic muscle wasting disorder in which most patients lack the protein dystrophin which keeps muscles intact. The disorder affects an estimated one-in-3,500 male births worldwide.

Comment: As we've seen with the covid mRNA injections, the side effects of these highly experimental 'gene therapies' are numerous and varied, and the time frame of these side effects ranges from immediate, to those that are the culmination of years of damage.

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Bullseye

Best of the Web: Trump on Biden admin: 'They're running a Gestapo administration'


RT
Sun, 05 May 2024 07:54 UTC
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Donald Trump has accused US President Joe Biden's administration of stooping to the level of the Nazi secret police to prevent him from winning this year's election.

"These people are running a Gestapo administration," the former US leader told Republican donors at an event in Florida on Saturday, according to audio shared with multiple national news outlets. "And it's the only thing they have. And it's the only way they're going to win, in their opinion."

Trump is currently facing four criminal cases, including an ongoing trial in New York over his alleged misreporting of 'hush money' payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. In addition to the New York case, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee to challenge Biden this November faces two federal cases concerning his alleged incitement of the January 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill, and his alleged mishandling of classified documents. He also faces state-level racketeering charges in Georgia over his supposed efforts to challenge Biden's electoral victory in the state in 2020.
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Best of the Web: Delivering a 'True Promise': An insider's account of Iran's retaliatory strikes on Israel


The Cradle
Fri, 03 May 2024 17:54 UTC
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Iranian firebrand MP Mahmoud Nabavian reveals the calculated strategy, diplomatic intrigue, and bold military prowess that showcased Tehran's 13 April missile strikes on Israel.

Following the strategic success of Iran's 'True Promise' retaliatory drone and missile operation in response to last month's Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, The Cradle presents an exclusive insider's narrative provided by Iranian Member of Parliament Mahmoud Nabavian, a principalist who won the most votes in Tehran during the country's March elections.

His account of the retaliatory strikes against the occupation state offers unparalleled insights into the 13-14 April events. With access to military sources, Nabavian's testimony serves as the most detailed view to date by an Iranian government official on Iran's response, one that has sorely exposed the vulnerabilities of Israel's air defense systems.
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Best of the Web: Israeli organ-trafficking network busted in Turkey


The Cradle
Sun, 05 May 2024 17:22 UTC
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© AAPolice arrest Israelis and Syrians for organ trafficking in May 2024. Israel has long been at the center of international organ trafficking networks and has stolen organs from dead Palestinians
Police in the Turkish city of Adana detained 11 suspects, five Israeli and two Syrian, on allegations of organ trafficking, the Daily Sabah reported on 5 May.

The Provincial Directorate of Security's Anti-Smuggling and Border Gates Branch began investigating after examining the passports of seven individuals who arrived in Adana from Israel about a month ago by plane for the purpose of health tourism. The two Syrian nationals, ages 20 and 21, were found to have fake passports.

Further investigation revealed that Syrian nationals had each agreed to sell one of their own kidneys to two of the Israeli nationals, ages 68 and 28, for kidney transplants in Adana.

During searches at the suspects' residences, $65,000 and numerous fake passports were seized.

Comment: Amidst reasonable criticisms against Turkey and its continued relations with Israel despite the ongoing Gaza genocide, there is reason to believe that in other areas Turkey has really stepped up its efforts to rout Israel's malign influence and activities; and more so than other countries: As for Israel, whether its knowingly providing a safe haven for convicted paedophiles, or organ harvesting from the Palestinians it has slaugthered, the sinister activities that is involved in is legion: Tellingly, Ukraine has now become a world leader in many of those same industries: Organ trafficking, paedophile networks - The hell of children abducted by Ukraine's 'White Angels'

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