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Germany is ticked at Hungary's staunchly independent course, wants to end individual nation veto over EU foreign policy

Damian Wilson
RT
Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:25 UTC
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban address the media at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 10, 2020
The frustrated German foreign minister rages about being held 'hostage' by smaller, troublesome countries like Viktor Orban's. But he needs to remember why the veto exists: for democracy's sake.

The Germans, we must honestly believe, do try to rein in their exuberance for ensuring order, a treasured national characteristic that when exposed to wary foreigners can sometimes land the unfortunate Deutschlanders in die Scheiße.

But German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, speaking at this year's conference of Germany's ambassadors in Berlin (now there's a hot Zoom ticket), was clearly so incensed that any attempt to deploy such caution went out the window.

Comment: Viktor Orban is a throwback to old-time leaders, who consider the welfare of their own people first. Many policies the EU would implement on corona, immigration, etc., are not wanted by the Hungarian people, and he is doing his duty by them to shield his country against them. Interesting that he is often lumped in with Trump, whom he admires.

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Florida Gov. DeSantis blames Covid on China, signs bill banning contracts between 'malignant forces' & US public entities

Katherine Fung
Newsweek
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:17 UTC
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference at the Eau Gallie High School aviation hangar on March 22, 2021. DeSantis signed two bills on Monday that attempt to thwart foreign interference in the intellectual property of Florida-based companies, residents and colleges.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Monday that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic and signed laws that thwart foreign influence across the state.

"I really hope that we're going to have accountability for the origins of the COVID pandemic because this just did not need to happen," DeSantis said at a press conference. "The Chinese Communist Party is primarily to blame, but there's also American money that very well may have flown to Wuhan."


Comment: That American money was going to US backed labs in China - and elsewhere - is in no doubt; the origin of the Covid-19 on the other hand is up for debate but the evidence leads back to the US: Project G-2101: Pentagon biolab discovered MERS and SARS-like coronaviruses in bats


On Monday, DeSantis signed two bills aimed at preventing CCP from influencing Florida's educational institutions and from committing corporate espionage.

Comment: It's unclear just exactly what DeSantis is up to, although many of these comments reflect those of former President Trump, and drawing into question just who exactly is funding the supposedly independent WHO, the influence of 'malignant forces' on US institutions, as well as that Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, could go some way towards highlighting some of the real issues at hand: Compelling Evidence That SARS-CoV-2 Was Man-Made



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French watchdog fines Google 220 million for abuse of market power in the ad business


Yahoo
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 10:28 UTC
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The French antitrust authority said on Monday it had handed down a 220 million euro ($267 million) fine to Alphabet's Google for abusing its market power in the online advertising business.

The watchdog said the sanction was the first of its kind in the world and that it had reached a settlement with the U.S. firm under which Google agreed to end some of its self-preferencing practices in the intricate automated online advertising business. ($1 = 0.8226 euros)

Comment: Are we to believe that Google committed this crime solely in France? It would also appear that it's not only antitrust laws that Google is in violation of: Google used 'Double Irish' loophole to dodge tens of billions in 2019 taxes

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Cyber Polygon: Will the next globalist war game lead to another convenient catastrophe?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
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Back in April I published an article titled 'Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails'. In it I noted an odd trend which many of us in the liberty media have become aware of over the years - Almost every major man-made catastrophe in the US and in many other parts of the world in the past couple decades has been preceded by a government or globalist "exercise". These exercises and war games tend to mimic the exact disaster that would eventually strike the public only days or weeks later. Sometimes the mock disaster exercises and the real events happen at the same time.

The covid pandemic was no exception. It's quite miraculous...

I have specifically outlined the bizarre "coincidence" of the World Economic Forum's Event 201 exercise, a war game co-funded by Bill Gates and Johns Hopkins and launched in October of 2019. Event 201 simulated a global novel zoonotic coronavirus pandemic (supposedly spread from bats to people) that "required" a global lockdown response. Only two months later the real thing actually happened. Almost every aspect of the Covid event has played out exactly as was practiced during the WEF war game.

One very disturbing element of the covid response has been the coordinated suppression campaign by Big Tech platforms from YouTube to Facebook and Twitter. This campaign has sought to undermine or destroy any facts, data and opinions which run contrary to the government narrative on covid, even if the official narrative on covid ends up being completely wrong. The strategy was described in detail during Event 201 and it was executed with extreme efficiency among supposedly disconnected companies and governments around the world. It's almost as if they KNEW a coronavirus pandemic was about to happen, and they were already staged to control the public reaction well in advance.

Comment: Don't miss the following excellent interview with Whitney Webb who gives us another bird's eye view of things:



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Depopulation and the mRNA Vaccine: The New York Times predicts massive population reduction but clearly leaves some things out

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Mon, 31 May 2021 00:00 UTC
Depopulation and the mRNA Vaccine
Amazingly, The New York Times - 22 May 2021 - predicts massive population reduction over the next few decades.

"Fewer babies' cries.

More abandoned homes.

Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom."

Screenshot of the NYT article

Screenshot of the NYT article
And -
"All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore."
And it continues,
"Maternity wards are already shutting down in Italy. Ghost cities are appearing in northeastern China. Universities in South Korea can't find enough students, and in Germany, hundreds of thousands of properties have been razed, with the land turned into parks."
Is it all true? It remains to be verified. Omission?

At no time does the article mention the eugenist nature of deliberate population reduction, in connection with the covid plandemic, the coerced and by many accounts poisonous - vaccination campaign, with a non-vaccine, but instead a novel, totally untested mRNA-type "gene therapy" which the US CDC has allowed to be applied as an "emergency measure" in these dire circumstances of a pandemic, that actually lacks all characteristics of a pandemic, but has to be pumped up to make it appear as a pandemic - with literally almost all deaths appearing from whatever causes - even car accidents - can be - and "must" be categorized as covid deaths.
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UK's 'Iron Dome' for Falkland's delayed, £3.5 billion Ajax tanks unsafe over 20mph

Danielle Sheridan
Telegraph
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:00 UTC
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© JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images
Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system intercepts a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip
The Falklands will be left at the mercy of Argentina because of a delay in deploying a shield similar to Israel's Iron Dome system, Defence sources have warned.

The Telegraph understands that Sky Sabre, a medium- and short-range surface-to-air missile, which uses the technology behind Israel's Iron Dome shield, has still not become fully operational, despite a deadline of 2020.

Now deploying troops are having to train on the old Rapier, a short-range air defence system introduced in the late 1990s, which sources have described as being "bordering on unserviceable".

Comment: It's probably a small blessing that the most ponerized countries are increasingly incapable of producing weaponry worthy of the battlefield, although they surely sow a lot of chaos with what they do have.

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: How Psychopaths Infect and Destroy Hierarchies of Competence

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China blocks cryptocurrency Weibo accounts in 'judgment day' for bitcoin


The Guardian
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 06:51 UTC
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China is expected to clear up ambiguity surrounding the legality of bitcoin trading businesses as part of its crackdown on cryptocurrencies that has seen Weibo accounts closed down.
China has stepped up its crackdown on bitcoin trading and mining, blocking a slew of cryptocurrency-related accounts on the Twitter-like Weibo platform over the weekend.

More actions are expected, including linking illegal crypto activities in China more directly with the country's criminal law, according to analysts and a financial regulator.

Last month, China's state council, or cabinet, vowed to crack down on bitcoin mining and trading, escalating a campaign against cryptocurrencies days after three industry bodies banned cryptocurrency-based financial and payment services.

Comment: It's likely that China is being proactive for reasons it has stated quite openly, which is that these cryptocurrencies "are not supported by real value", their prices are easily manipulated, and the contracts are not protected by Chinese law.

Note, that banks, financial institutions, and the like are the target of the ban, individuals are not barred from holding cryptocurrencies,

Prior to the ban, China accounted for nearly 90% of the speculative market, and having that much wealth, and the prospect of much more, trapped in these dubious, insecure assets leaves it open to attack from any nefarious agency that might seek to do it harm. And it's clear that there are forces out there that have China in their sights.

One only need to look at the action of the IMF with it's disaster capitalism, or to the financial crash of 2008, to realise that financial speculation, mismanagement and fraud can bring a country to its knees.

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Bitcoin, Gold and the Cashless Society

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Zelensky accuses America of paying for NS2 pipeline with Ukrainian lives; blasts Biden for not meeting him before Putin summit


RT
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:12 UTC
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky • US President Joe Biden
Ukraine's embattled leader Volodymyr Zelensky has slammed the US for cutting Kiev out of decisions about Nord Stream 2, raged at delays to joining NATO, and said Washington has not yet asked his advice on how to deal with Russia.

Speaking to the Virginia-based Axios news site over the weekend, the Ukrainian president said he had been blindsided by Washington's decision to halt the bulk of sanctions aimed against the Russian-backed pipeline, which links the Siberian gas fields to consumers in Germany, the first segment of which was completed on Friday. Zelensky lamented that the energy conduit, which will bypass Ukraine,
"is a weapon, a real weapon in the hands of the Russian Federation. It is not very understandable...that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the US."
Zelensky added that Biden had given him "direct signals" that America was prepared to block the pipeline, before U-turning on the decision. He complained to reporters that he had been forced to listen in to a White House press briefing in order to understand the move, which Biden said was inevitable given he came to office too late to stop construction. The US president also said that it would be "counterproductive" to sanction its European allies, such as Germany. To this, Zelensky asked, "how many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?"

Comment: Ukraine doesn't have a say - which makes it a pawn. What Zelensky seems to miss is Biden also doesn't have a say.

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Revealed: The American money entwined with Israel's Jewish terrorist groups

Jessica Buxbaum
MintPress News
Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Heidi Levine/AP
Israeli and his burning car during mob violence against Israeli Arabs
Lod, Israel • May 11, 2021
As Israel rained rockets down on Gaza in mid-May, inside 1948-occupied Palestine (Historic Palestine and modern-day Israel), another kind of Israeli terror emerged. Jewish supremacists stormed cities with high Palestinian populations chanting "Death to Arabs!," attacking scores of Palestinians and vandalizing their properties.

The mob violence killed two Palestinian citizens of Israel, according to the Mossawa Center: the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel. And despite calls for calm, the attacks are ongoing. On Thursday, a Jewish mob dragged a Bedouin driver out of his car and beat him with glass bottles in northern Historic Palestine. Earlier, footage posted on social media showed Arab gas station workers lying on the ground after being surrounded and beaten by a Jewish mob in the town of Binyamina:

The American Jewish community condemned the wave of anti-Palestinian violence, under the assumption these attacks stem from the fringes of Jewish society. In reality, however, these Jewish supremacists receive financial support from a network of charities in the United States.

Comment: Private money maintains the structure, advances the cause, feeds the system. It seems a gross misnomer to call them 'charities.'

See also: American money is funding racist Jewish supremacist settler gangs in Israel and helping to fuel anti-Arab violence

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A truly free society would have no official narratives

Caitlin Johnstone
caityjohnstone.medium.com
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
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Dr. Anthony Fauci
Many of Anthony Fauci's emails during the US Covid-19 outbreak last year have been obtained via Freedom of Information Act and published by BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post. Depending on what ideological echo chamber you inhabit you may have heard that they are completely innocuous or historically damning; the ones eliciting the most controversy right now include a scientist telling Fauci that the virus could potentially look engineered, and a zoologist linked to both the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the World Health Organization's Covid investigation thanking Fauci for supporting the natural origin theory over the lab leak theory.

This will all play into the reinvigorated controversy surrounding the origins of the virus, which will ultimately lead nowhere. As Jonathan Cook argues in a thoughtful new article on the overnight pivot in the political/media class from attacking anyone who questioned whether the virus transferred to humans via a Wuhan wet market as a deranged and racist conspiracy theorist to acknowledging that a lab leak could be possible is due to scientific arguments gaining traction and forcing establishment narrative managers to engage in damage control.

Contradicting right-wing Maddowesque claims that this adamant opposition to the lab leak theory proves the media and the Democratic Party are in Xi Jinping's pocket, Cook argues that the western empire has been protecting not China, but themselves. The US scientific establishment and the WHO are both reportedly tied to controversial "gain-of-function" research practices in the Wuhan lab just before the Covid outbreak, which according to Cook means we can expect the imperial narrative managers to lead us around on a merry chase for truth without ever getting too close to it for fear of exposing the role that western power structures may have had the whole mess.
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