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The Greater Eurasia project: Building bridges and breaking barriers

Pepe Escobar
The Cradle
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:18 UTC
If you're counting on Asia's many new power centers to compete and clash - don't. The Greater Eurasia Partnership is set to integrate them all - from the SCO, EAEU, and BRICS, to emerging new currencies - in order to replace the 'rules-based order.'

East & West
© The Cradle
On July 4, at a New Delhi summit, Iran will finally become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

That will be one of the key decisions of the summit, held via video-conference, along with the signing of a memorandum on the path by Belarus to also become a member state.

In parallel, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk has confirmed that Iran and the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) should sign a free trade agreement (FTA) by the end of 2023.

The FTA will expand an interim deal that already lowers customs duties on hundreds of categories of goods.

Russia and Iran - two key poles of Eurasia integration - have been getting closer and closer geoeconomically since the west's sanctions tsunami that followed Russia's February 2022 Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

The EAEU - as much as the SCO and BRICS - is on a roll: FTAs are expected to be clinched, from middle to long term, with Egypt, India, Indonesia, and the UAE.

Overchuck admits negotiations may be "very difficult" and "take years," considering "the interests of all five EAEU member states, their businesses, and their consumers." Yet despite the obvious complexities, this high-speed rail geoeconomic train has already left the station.
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Arrow Up

Blinken & Biden: Having your duck and eating it too

Julian MacFarlane
News Forensics / Substack
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:57 UTC
I guess Anthony Blinken just loves Chinese food. Because that's all he got from the Chinese on his visit to Beijing.
Peking Duck
© News Forensics/Substack
After a sit-down with the Chinese who explained the facts of life to him, he was rewarded with Beijing Duck. But no doggy bag. In fact, he didn't get to take anything home at all. Naturally, his huge, incestuous political family in both parties bitched about not getting souvenirs.

Blinkey's statement "We do not support Taiwan independence? has been widely reported.

Of course, not the rest of that statement.

"We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. We continue to expect the peaceful resolution of cross-strait differences. We remain committed to meeting our responsibilities under the Taiwan Relations Act, including making sure that Taiwan has the ability to defend itself."

This is known as having your Beijing Duck and eating it too.
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Pistol

Virgin Islands delegate knocks 'conservative media' after outlets report her saying Trump needs to be 'shot'

Julia Mueller
The Hill
Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:07 UTC
Stacey Plaskett
© Greg NashDel. Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.) is seen during the fourth ballot for Speaker on the second day of the 118th session of Congress on Wednesday, January 4, 2023.
Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) on Wednesday knocked "conservative media" and clarified comments made in an interview after news outlets reported on a clip in which she appeared to say former President Trump needs to be "shot" and then quickly corrected herself to say "stopped."

"It is unfortunate that conservative media has taken an instance where I misspoke and misrepresented it as though I advocate for violence-I unequivocally do not. I wish former President Trump no ill will or harm, only that justice be served in his case as with every other American who must face penalties for wrongdoing. I do believe and did intend to say that he must be 'stopped,'" Plaskett said in a release from her office.

Comment: Original story from Fox News: Dems descending into hysteria: Democrat slammed after 'accidentally' saying Trump 'needs to be shot' before quickly correcting herself

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Eye 1

CIA agent runs for President

Jake Welch
National Pulse
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:32 UTC
will hurd
Will Hurd, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent and former Member of the House of Representatives, has announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican nominee race, attacking former President Donald Trump in the process.

The fierce NeverTrumper is portraying himself as a "common-sense Republican" as he prepares to go up against an already overcrowded Republican primary race. He even attacked the Republican Party on Twitter last year, stating:
[T]he GOP can't build sustainable majorities if our candidates are praising Hitler on the radio, getting arrested by the FBI for participating in the insurrection or being evaluated solely on their loyalty to the guy who lost the last election.

Comment: See also: Ex-CIA congressman says disputing election results helps America's enemies steal elections (just what the CIA always did!)

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Chess

Adam Schiff censured: 6 Republican lawmakers vote 'present'

Brie Stimson
Fox News
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 10:50 UTC
adam schiff
© Shawn Thew - Pool/Getty ImagesRep. Adam Schiff was censured by Republicans on Wednesday.
Six Republicans voted present on Wednesday before the House narrowly censured Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., 213-209 along party lines.

The GOP members included Reps. David Joyce of Ohio, Michael Guest of Mississippi, Andrew Garbarino, of New York, Ken Buck of Colorado, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota — five of whom are on the House Ethics Committee.

Schiff was censured for pushing claims that former President Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia — a vote that made Schiff just the third member of the House to be censured since the turn of the century.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Zelensky bans Russian books


RT
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:56 UTC
zelensky
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskiy, Getty Images / Carl Court
President Vladimir Zelensky announced on Thursday that he had signed a law making it illegal to import and distribute Russian and Belarusian publishing products in Ukraine. However, some Ukrainian officials have pointed out that the step could hinder Kiev's plans to join the EU.

The move comes after Ukrainian citizens registered an online petition on the official presidential website asking for the ban back in May. The petition reached the 25,000-vote threshold required for it to be formally considered by the head of state.

The author of the petition noted that the Ukrainian parliament had already approved the law on June 19, 2022, but that Zelensky had never signed the bill. As a result, Russian books continued to be sold in Ukraine, which undermines "the information security of the state and the economic foundations of Ukrainian book publishing," according to the petition.
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Treasure Chest

Best of the Web: SPIEF in, West out: A foreign journalist gives a personal account of his first time at Russia's premier economic event


RT
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:48 UTC
moscow business center
© Sputnik/ Anton Denisov Moscow International Business Center  
Moscow seeks trade alliances with countries in Asia and the Global South at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

It was a brave new world when Aeroflot's Delhi-Moscow flight touched down at Sheremetyevo International Airport on a balmy Monday morning.

June 12 also happened to be a public holiday because of Russia Day, which has been celebrated annually since 1992. The day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in 1990, and the public holiday spirit spilled onto the streets of Moscow, a bustling metropolis of over 13 million in western Russia and the country's melting pot and nerve center.

A slice of Russia's diversity - Moscow is home to many of the 193 ethnic groups in the world's largest country - can be experienced in the unique ancient city built in concentric circles. Moscow is built on five rings, which are more than concrete physical infrastructure of roads and railways. The rings are the vibrating soul of the Russian capital and a bird's-eye view gives a fascinating impression of a giant dartboard. The rings are of varying size spreading from its bull's eye - the seat of power and the world's largest medieval fortress, the Kremlin - like cascading ripples in a huge body of water.

Comment: Soon the U.S. will be shouting at an audience consisting of just the EU, while the rest of the world moves on. A sad, but fitting end.

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Hammer

The reset: When will globalists attempt to introduce their digital currency system?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00 UTC
Globalists
I want you to imagine, for a moment, a future world in which everything we now know about functioning and surviving within the economy is completely upended. This world has gone fully digital, meaning people live within a cashless society where physical monetary interactions are abandoned or prohibited, replaced by CBDCs. All transactions are tracked and traced, nothing is private any longer unless you are operating as a criminal within a black market.

By extension, production is overtly suppressed and micromanaged. Small businesses are a thing of the past, and only a select group of major corporations working directly with government are allowed to operate. It's not just that cash is outlawed and that everyone must rely on a digital ledger, the very data pathways and networks that we use to transfer funds are also controlled. Much like the SWIFT data network, the globalists have the ability to lock down internet payments, individual accounts and business accounts and deny people the ability to move funds from one place to another.

In the meantime, AI-based monitoring systems sift through millions of transactions every minute, searching for "anomalies." The algorithm is designed to identify anyone who has found a way around the data tracking - People who want to remain anonymous.
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Document

New emails show COVID vaccine mandates were based on a lie

Jack Elbaum
Washington Examiner
Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:21 UTC
Rochelle Walensky,
© Jweekly
It is not uncommon for politicians or bureaucrats to lie. What seems to be unique, though, is just how common and consequential the lies were during the COVID pandemic.

On Monday, we got a bombshell. New documents indicate the entire justification for vaccine mandates was based on a falsehood — and that public health officials knew it.

Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and former NIH Director Francis Collins were aware of, and discussed, "breakthrough cases" of COVID in January 2021 — right when the vaccines became widely available. In her email, Walensky says that "clearly," it is an "important area of study," links to a study raising the issue, and assures the person she is sending it to that Dr. Anthony Fauci is looped into these conversations.
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Mr. Potato

China hits back at Biden over 'dictator Xi' comments


RT
Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:54 UTC
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning.
© AP Photo/Andy WongChinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning.
The US president's remarks are "absurd" and amount to "an open political provocation," the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said

Beijing has pushed back against remarks by US President Joe Biden referring to Chinese leader Xi Jinping as "a dictator," claiming that the statements are outright offensive.

Speaking on Tuesday at a fundraiser in California, Biden addressed the controversy surrounding a Chinese balloon that entered US airspace earlier this year, suggesting that Xi did not know the vessel was even there.

"That's a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn't know what happened. That [balloon] wasn't supposed to be going where it was. It was blown off course," he said at the time.

On Wednesday, speaking at a regular press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning described the remarks as "extremely absurd," adding that they "seriously violated China's political dignity." She said that such statements also violate diplomatic etiquette and contradict basic facts.

Comment: Though we have no doubt that Blinken's visit to China, ostensibly to make overtures towards some form of detente was insincere - imagine what his reaction to Biden's stupid comments are at this time! Can this administration be any more ridiculous? Stay tuned!

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