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Macron booed during Bastille Day parade

Margaret Flavin
TThe Gateway Pundit
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:45 UTC
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President Emmanuel Macron was roundly booed while waving to the crowds during today's Bastille Day celebrations
France is burning under President Emmanuel Macron.

On Friday, as he drove through the Champs-Elysées in the Bastille Day parade, representatives of the "yellow vests" protest movement expressed their dissatisfaction with his failed leadership and booed him mercilessly as the crowd chanted, "Macron, go away!"

France has faced months of unrest under Macron.


Comment: The Yellow Vest protests began back in 2018, and had the backing of well over half of the country.


After the officer-involved death of a 17-year-old driver, riots left 1,000 buildings burnt, 5,600 vehicles destroyed, and 3,300 arrests across France.

Earlier in the year, massive protests have plagued the country including the annual May Day rally in support of workers' rights.

Comment: Tellingly, it has become a increasing occurrence where leaders and heads of state in the West find themself the subject of derision, boos, as well as being pelted with eggs, and even the odd slap: Meanwhile in Russia: Russians confidence in Putin surpasses 80% in latest poll

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Biden nibbles on frightened young girl during trip to Finland, grossing out Twitter users

Kyle Morris
Fox News
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:19 UTC
President Biden child
© AP Photo/Susan WalshPresident Biden talks to a child before boarding Air Force One at Helsinki-Vantaan International Airport in Helsinki on Thursday.
President Biden appeared to nibble at the shoulder of a startled little girl during his departure from Helsinki on Thursday.

A video of the incident, which took place as the president greeted embassy staff members and their families before he boarded Air Force One at Helsinki-Vantaan International Airport, shows Biden leaning into a young girl and placing his mouth on her shoulder as he nibbled lightly.


Comment: There is no "appeared to". That's exactly what he was doing. Didn't look all that 'lightly' either...



The little girl — who appeared frightened during the experience — later turned her head when Biden, who will turn 81 in November, tried to give her a peck on the head.

Footage from the incident quickly made the rounds on social media, where several users blasted the president for his peculiar conduct.

"This has got to be Biden's creepiest moment yet with a child," Caleb Hull, a conservative operative, said of the footage. "All Biden has to do is not do this and he can't," he added in a separate tweet.

Republican operative Greg Price joked that Biden is "now confusing babies with ice cream cones."

Responding to the footage in a tweet, Donald Trump Jr. wrote, "Biden should be in a nursing home, not leading the free world."

Comment: Demented Pedo Joe at it again. Pushing the boundaries of what's already inappropriate, a trait often seen in sex offenders and abusers. See also:

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Bad Guys

Erdogan's deal with the devil: Biden offered Türkiye IMF 'loan' to ratify Sweden's NATO bid

Seymour Hersh
RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:07 UTC
Biden Erdogan
© Ak Party / www.globallookpress.comPresident of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and President of the United States, Joe Biden.
Ankara this week rolled back its opposition to Stockholm joining the US-led bloc

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh claimed on Thursday that US President Joe Biden offered his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan more than $11 billion in IMF assistance to ratify Sweden's bid to join the NATO bloc.

In an article posted to his Substack account, Hersh wrote that he had been informed by an anonymous source that "Biden promised that a much-needed $11-13 billion line of credit" would be established for Türkiye by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This was to be in return, Hersh suggested, for Erdogan removing Ankara's objection to Stockholm joining the US-led military bloc ahead of the NATO summit that took place this week in Lithuania.
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A fun day

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00 UTC
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© Getty Images/KJNThe Downturn
"NATO has lost this war. Biden has lost this war. The lunatic Democrats have lost this war. The uni-party warmongers have lost this war. The EU has lost this war. Ukraine and Zelensky have lost this war." — Kim Dotcom
Somebody in the "Joe Biden" White House apparently thinks that the operations already underway are not enough to destroy our country fast enough, so a little extra push, such as nuclear annihilation, might get'er done.

By operations underway I mean things like mRNA vaccines stealthily deleting kin, friends, and public figures from the scene... decriminalizing crime... undermining the oil industry by a thousand cuts... liquidating small business... making little children insane over sex... flooding the land with illegal immigrants... devaluing the currency... queering elections — all of these things done on purpose, by the way. And if you complain about any of it, here comes the FBI or the IRS knocking on your door.

So, to make sure that a collapse of the USA comes on-schedule, there is the useful fracas created by our government geniuses over in Ukraine that creeps day-by-day toward a quick American assisted suicide. Just to remind you, here's how that started:
In 2014, the US fomented a coup against Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. In short order, the Russian language was banned (despite the fact that Most Ukrainians speak Russian). A piqued Russia re-po'd the Crimean Peninsula. When ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine (the Donbas provinces) tried to go their own way, Ukraine shelled and rocketed them for eight years.
That was the setup.
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Dominoes

Marcel Salikhov: Here's how the end of the US dollar's global dominance will play out

Marcel Salikhov
RT
Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:47 UTC
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© Getty ImagesFrowning George - stock photo
The de-dollarization of the global financial system is set to continue. This will be facilitated by the development of new financial technology. Central banks will seek to settle directly with each other without using the currencies of developed countries. In the future, central banks' digital currencies may also be used for international transactions, reducing costs for economic transactions. However, this process will be rather slow.

The US dollar has long been the world's dominant currency. Its use in international transactions has for many decades far exceeded the American share of the global economy, which now stands at around 24%. For example, according to the IMF the dollar accounted for 58.4% of central banks' international reserves by currency at the end of 2002. According to SWIFT, the Greenback's share of interbank transfers in April 2023 was 59.7 per cent. This was significantly higher than a year earlier.

Several factors contribute to the active use of the US dollar, even in transactions between third countries: the size of the American economy (the largest and most liquid market for financial instruments, including reliable ones), political influence and the role of US multinationals in global markets. All these aspects interact and are mutually supportive over a long period of time. It's also worth remembering that the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, which originated in the US economy itself, did not affect the position of the dollar globally.
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Telephone

Moscow calls for German authorities to immediately stop stealing cars of visiting Russian citizens


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:51 UTC
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© Global Look Press / dpa / Robert Michael
Berlin must "immediately" stop using "coercive measures" against visiting Russian citizens and explain why it has been seizing Russian private cars, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. The demand comes as German Customs Service staff continue the practice at the country's borders.

The steps taken by the German authorities "go beyond even the absolutely illegitimate demands of the anti-Russia sanctions packages," Zakharova told the Russian journal Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn.

Both Russian and German media had earlier reported that customs officials there had started confiscating personal vehicles with Russian license plates upon their arrival in Germany. This was sometimes done to Russian tourists traveling through Europe using their personal transport.
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Megaphone

Hungarian PM Orban: US could stop Ukraine conflict instantly


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:49 UTC
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
© Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via Getty ImagesHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
The US wants the conflict in Ukraine to continue and has failed to explain its reasons to NATO allies, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.

Orban told national broadcaster Kossuth Radio that if Washington wished, it could stop the fighting at a moment's notice, as Kiev is fully dependent on the West in the fight against Russia.

The Hungarian leader was speaking on Friday morning, after returning from the NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. During the event, the US-led military bloc declined to extend to Kiev a roadmap for membership. Hungary has stood out among members of the alliance by consistently criticizing Western policies on the Ukraine crisis.

"If the Americans wanted it, peace would come the next morning. Why Americans don't want that is a question that puzzles the entire world," Orban said. "We didn't get an answer at the NATO summit."
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Bullseye

Chinese UN rep: NATO is 'the real troublemaker'


RT
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:46 UTC
Ambassador Zhang Jun
© Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFPAmbassador Zhang Jun
NATO is "the real troublemaker" that has fully embraced "Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice," China's permanent representative to the UN has claimed.

In a statement on Thursday, Zhang Jun hit back at a communique issued by NATO members at the Vilnius summit earlier this week, which accused China of pursuing "coercive policies" that challenge the bloc's interests. It also claimed that Beijing uses a wide array of tools to increase its global footprint and undermine the security of NATO members.

The envoy rejected the statement as "slander" and a "smearing" of China, claiming that the US-led military bloc is still trapped in a Cold War mentality.
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Bad Guys

House votes down amendment to block cluster bomb shipments to Ukraine


The Grayzone
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:23 UTC
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As US cluster munitions arrived in Ukraine, a bi-partisan vote struck down an effort to stop the internationally banned weapons' transfer. Meanwhile, every House Democrat and a majority of Republicans voted down a measure to strip $300 million of Ukraine aid from the NDAA.

The House on Thursday night voted down an amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act that would have prohibited the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine.

The amendment was led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and failed in a vote of 147-276. The amendment received support from 98 Republicans and 49 Democrats.

The night before the vote, Republicans on the House Rules Committee voted down the original amendment relating to cluster bombs that would have banned the export of the controversial munition to all nations, not just Ukraine, which had bipartisan co-sponsors. The Republicans then added the narrowed-down Greene amendment, which was less likely to get Democratic support.

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Attention

The NATO ultimatum to Ukraine - invitation to win by winter or die

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00 UTC
Snake pieces
© unknown (see • on image below)"Join or Die"
For all its public talk, NATO has agreed on a secret six-month plan for Ukraine. It's a case of do or die by December.

Either the Ukrainian forces, firing everything the NATO allies can give them — from US cluster munitions to Franco-English Storm Shadow missiles and German Leopard tanks — will gain territory and advantage over the Russians; or else the Kiev regime will be destroyed and must fall back on Lvov while NATO beats its own retreat westward from the Polish and Romanian borders — its military capabilities defeated but its Article Five intact.

This is hardly a secret. "Whatever is achieved by the end of this year will be the baseline for negotiation", the Czech President Petr Pavel, former Czech and NATO army general, announced on the first day of the summit meetings in Vilnius. There is no more than a six-month window of opportunity, Pavel added, which will "more or less close by the end of this year". After that, "we will see another decline of willingness to massively support Ukraine with more weapons."
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