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BRICS helping Russia bypass Western sanctions - Lavrov


RT
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:18 UTC
Lav/WangYi
© Sputnik/Russian Foreign MinistryRussian FM Sergey Lavrov • Chinese FM Wang Yi
Russia and China are able to overcome the problems arising from Western sanctions by using multilateral formats, such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is on a two-day visit to China, said on Tuesday.

BRICS - which previously comprised Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - has seen a major wave of expansion. Four more countries - Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates - joined the group at the start of this year, and further additions are expected in the future.

The bloc's political and economic influence has increased significantly since harsh restrictions were imposed on Russia by the US, EU and other Western countries following the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. None of the BRICS members have joined the Western campaign, and have continued or boosted trade with Russia.

Speaking at a press conference after a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russia's top diplomat said his counterpart has come up with a formula for cancelling out the effect of sanctions:
"My colleague spoke in detail about specific economic gaps that emerge as a result of the illegal policy of unilateral sanctions and which we will solve within the framework of BRICS and within the SCO."
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SOTT Focus: What's So Great About The Great Reset, Great Taking, Great Replacement, Great Deflation And Great Depression?


The Burning Platform
Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
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"At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move all the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre." - Frank Zappa
"In the past few years, you have been living within an escalating hybrid war. Globally, we have witnessed overt media control and propaganda campaigns; censorship, including arrests of people speaking in public; monitoring of all electronic communications and physical contact tracing; brutally enforced lock-down and masking requirements, with people being beaten, handcuffed, and arrested, even in their homes; suspension of healthcare services and weakening of healthcare systems; invasive testing requirements for employment and travel; forced quarantine of travelers; and coerced quarantine and "vaccination" of the healthy, general population.

Governments dropped all pretense of democracy and were emboldened to open despotism. There were no functioning checks on this power. The courts provided no effective recourse to the public. Governments broadly abused fundamental human rights using as justification prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, which are, in truth, a great many, ever-present, and continually evolving. And so, this justification, if allowed to stand, assures the end of democracy and installation of openly despotic government." - David Webb - The Great Taking
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Israel's major ground war in Gaza is over; the state of war inflicted by Hamas is not

David Horovitz
Times of Israel
Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:06 UTC
Yoav Gallant
© Ariel Hermoni/Defense MinistryDefense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) during an assessment at IDF Southern Command, April 7, 2024.
Is this how the war ends? Not with a bang, or even a whimper, but with the IDF pulling its ground forces out of Khan Younis, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant asserting, in defiance of reality, that Hamas has "stopped functioning as a military organization throughout the Gaza Strip," contradicting himself in the next breath, and clarifying a few hours later?

As Israel on Sunday marked six months since the October 7 massacre, the two prime declared goals of the war — destroying Hamas's military capabilities and bringing home the remaining 129 hostages abducted that day — are patently unfulfilled.

As Gallant went on to acknowledge immediately after making his "Hamas has stopped functioning" claim on Sunday afternoon, Hamas has yet to be tackled in Rafah, where its leaders are believed to be hiding, surrounded by hostages and protected by four battalions. For that matter, two other battalions in central Gaza are still thought to be functional.

And while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared at Sunday's cabinet meeting, as he has several times of late, that Israel is "a step away" from complete victory, his third declared goal of the war — ensuring that neither Hamas nor any other terror threat to Israel will rise again in Gaza — is also far from achieved.

Comment: According to Netanyahu, and offensive on Rafah is planned for next week. However, he neglected to tell the military.
There is a set date for the IDF's invasion of Rafah, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday night.

The only problem is that this very critical information wasn't told to the military, the Defense Ministry, or any members of the war cabinet.

It is hard to imagine how this set date will advance without notifying these key powers responsible for IDF actions.

Also, it was bizarre for Netanyahu to be talking about an exact date, when around 24 hours earlier, the IDF had pulled out of southern Gaza and nearly halted most of its operations throughout the enclave, save for small targeted operations.

What is more likely is that Netanyahu has possibly taken risks with national security issues - out of concern for political issues.

After the IDF withdrew from southern Gaza on Sunday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatened to topple Netanyahu's government if he did not authorize a Rafah invasion.

The impression from Ben-Gvir was that he was watching the clock, and that he wouldn't give Netanyahu months to comply.

Given that the IDF, Defense Ministry, and war cabinet are not familiar with a specific date, it is reasonable to estimate that this is what stands behind Netanyahu's statement.


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US denies Iran offered to let Damascus strike slide in return for Gaza ceasefire


Jerusalem Post
Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:45 UTC
anti-Israel banner
© MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY) VIA REUTERSAn anti-Israel banner in a street in Tehran, Iran, April 2, 2024
The US denied reports that Iran had informed the US that it would refrain from responding to the airstrike in which senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders were killed in Damascus if a ceasefire in Gaza is reached.

On Sunday, Jadeh Iran cited an anonymous Arab diplomatic source as saying that Iran had made such an offer, noting that the source spoke to the news outlet two days ago. The source added that "If America succeeds in containing the situation, it will be a great success for the Biden administration and we can build on that."

"I can tell you that those reports are not true; they have not sent that message," said US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Monday. "But if Iran wants a ceasefire in Gaza, that ought to be something that they can accomplish because they have long supported Hamas, and they could press Hamas that they should accept the deal that is on the table that would achieve a ceasefire."

The report came as negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal resume between Israel and Hamas in Cairo and as Israel continues preparations for a possible response to the Damascus airstrike that Syria and Iran blamed on Israel.
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Microchip

UN & Bill Gates behind "digital public infrastructure" for global control

Alex Newman
The Liberty Sentinal
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
bill gates
Dozens of national governments are joining with the United Nations and billionaire population-control fanatic Bill Gates on a global program to impose "digital public infrastructure" (DPI) on their citizens within five years. This "DPI" includes central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), digital identification, comprehensive data systems, and more, all functional across national borders.

The new scheme, unveiled late last year and moving ahead rapidly, is known as "50 in 5" because 50 governments expect to have the Orwellian "digital infrastructure" of tyranny in place within five years. Almost a dozen governments, including numerous corrupt kleptocracies and socialist regimes, have volunteered their populations to serve as "First Mover" countries so far.

However, the UN's assumption is that every government will eventually impose this on every person on Earth. This is clearly expressed throughout its announcements. "All countries, regardless of income level, geography, or where they are in their digital transformation journey, can benefit from being a part of 50-in-5," the UN agency behind the scheme declared. "Joining the campaign helps ensure countries don't have to tackle DPI implementation alone or start from scratch."
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Desperados... NATO cranks up false-flag mode

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:10 UTC
Zaporozyhe Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP)
© Public Domain
It's open season for false-flag provocations in NATO's proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

Russia is winning the war - now in its third year - and the NATO weapons laundering scam with its NeoNazi regime in Ukraine is coming apart. So what to do?

Only two weeks after a terror attack near Moscow that killed 144 civilians, which the Western media roundly attributed to Islamist jihadists and Western governments categorically asserted had nothing to do with the Ukrainian regime it sponsors, there now follows a spate of other false flags.

Russia is being accused of dropping chemical weapons on Ukrainian soldiers while also trying to blow up Europe's biggest civilian nuclear power plant.

Over the weekend, Western media reports bore the hallmark signs of disinformation campaigns by peddling lame claims that the Russian military was dropping gas grenades on Ukrainian troops.

It was reported that chemical weapons were being used daily to target Ukrainian positions near Lyman and Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast. The source of this information was purportedly an "American combat medic" serving in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces. That detail alone raises suspicion of planted disinformation.

The second realm of cloying propaganda is the sudden reappearance of reports that the Zaporozyhe Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is coming under constant artillery fire from drones. Those attacks had gone into a lull since last year. Now they are back, as if by clockwork.

Western media have repeated their earlier pattern of trying to make out that it is not clear whether it is the Ukrainian or the Russian side that is firing on the ZNPP - thereby risking a nuclear catastrophe that would engulf Europe from radioactive fallout.
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Best of the Web: Alastair Crooke: The Art of War: Russia, the West, and different thinking systems

Alastair Crooke
Al Mayadeen
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:25 UTC
Russia Ukraine soldier
© Al MayadeenJust as the West failed to understand Russia, and was taken by surprise, so it is that the White House firmly ignores the Biblical 'End of Times' dimension to the Israeli 'way of thinking about war'.
Jacques Baud, a Swiss military officer with a long history of studying 'Ways of Thinking' about War (from Warsaw Pact to NATO -- to which he was seconded by his government), has written a new book -- The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat. His book theme is essentially: Others understand the West, better than the West understands 'Them'.

Baud writes that the fundamental reason for the West having the 'blinkers on' is "the result of an approach we have already seen in waves of terrorist attacks — the adversary is so stupidly demonized that we refrain from understanding his way of thinking. As a result, we are unable to develop strategies, articulate our forces, or even equip them for the realities of war".

Comment: The following are some recent, worthwhile interviews with Jacques Baud:





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Bad Guys

Korybko: US tightening its containment noose around China in the first island chain

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:16 UTC
china pacific us
The latest military moves prove that America is preparing to "Pivot (back) to Asia" once the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine inevitably ends, which means that global tensions won't abate anytime soon as the New Cold War becomes the new normal.

The stage is set for Japan to participate in AUKUS' Pillar II advanced capability projects (AI, hypersonic weapons, electronic warfare, underwater drones, quantum technologies, and space-tracking radar) after that bloc's Defense Ministers signaled their interest in this in Monday's joint statement. It was released ahead of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's trip to DC this week, which he described as occurring at an "historic turning point", where he'll also take part in the first-ever trilateral summit with the Philippines.

CNN hyped up the latter event by publishing a piece about how these three are coming together as a result of their shared concerns about China, though the reality is that their military convergence isn't as motivated by innocent defensive interests as they made it seem. China's three separate disputes with Japan, its wayward province of Taiwan, and the Philippines have been presented by the West as part of a hegemonic push by the People's Republic for dominance in the Asia-Pacific.

Comment: As Putin said in his interview with Tucker Carlson:
Tucker Carlson: [...] But have never explained why you think that happened, except to say that the West fears a strong Russia. But we have a strong China that the West doesn't seem to be very afraid of. What about Russia, what do you think convinced the policymakers to take it down?

Vladimir Putin: The West is afraid of a strong China more than it fears a strong Russia because Russia has 150 million people, and China has a 1.5 billion population, and its economy is growing by leaps and bounds — over five percent a year, it used to be even more.
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Business as usual: US pledges to prevent Russia from developing new energy projects


RT
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 10:30 UTC
Geoffrey Pyatt in Maidan
From the days, when Geoffrey Pyatt was instrumental with Victoria Nuland in fomenting the Maidan coup in Ukraine.
The US is aiming to halt the development of the Russian energy sector, including a major new LNG project in the Arctic, senior State Department official Geoffrey Pyatt has said.

Speaking at a Financial Times summit on Monday, Pyatt stated that the US is specifically targeting the Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia's northern Yamal Region, which is being developed by private energy giant Novatek.

"Our goal is to ensure that Arctic LNG 2 is dead in the water," Pyatt, who serves as assistant secretary of state for energy resources, was quoted as saying by the British newspaper. "We're very focused on ensuring that Russia is not able to develop new projects in order to [redirect] the gas that it had previously sent into Europe."

The US has imposed several rounds of economic restrictions on Arctic LNG 2, the most recent of which was announced in November 2023.


Comment: So the imperative is for the EU to not get cheap gas from Russia?


Comment: As project Ukraine is collapsing, the US tries to make sure that the EU will stay depressed too and only get expensive gas from the US. Such a malevolent plan will undoubtedly fail too, though it gives in the process, the citizens of the EU yet another chance to see that the US deep state is not their friend.

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Trump says abortion should be decided by states, 'will of the people'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:38 UTC
trump
Former President Donald Trump said in a Monday announcement that he believes abortion should be left to the states and that in-vitro fertilization (IFV) should be available, he said in a video statement posted on Truth Social.

"My view is...the states will determine by legislation or vote or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state. Many states will be different, many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others, and that's what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people," Trump said. "You must follow your heart or, in may cases, your religion or your faith. Do what's right for your family and do what's right for yourself...do what's right for our country."
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