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US Forces are under constant rain of fire in both Syria and Iraq

SouthFront
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 03:46 UTC

© Iraqi Media Security Cell/Reuters
Truck onsite from where rockets were launched
Smoke in al-Baghdadi following rocket attacks
Anbar Province, Iraq• July 7-8, 2021

The United States seems to have stepped in a wasp's nest after their most recent strikes on 'resistance' positions along the Syrian-Iraqi border. The US strike took place on June 27th. The response from the resistance came on the very next day.

The largest American base in Syria - at the al-Omar Oil Field came under fire by at least 8 rockets, which resulted in no casualties but significant material damage.

Exactly a week later, reports surfaced of another rocket attack on al-Omar, this time the rumors were first spread by a US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman. The reports of an attack were subsequently denied by both the US and the SDF.

Other reports, however, said the blasts were caused as a result of "training" activity taking place among foreign forces there. Alongside all of this, US convoys in Iraq are subject to daily IED attacks, with the most recent one taking place on July 5th, in the Baghdad governorate. There is no single area of focus for these attacks, as they happen all across Iraq's provinces.

Comment: Yankees go home!

Data shows US mass shootings rose during pandemic lockdown

Rob Roth
KTVU
Wed, 26 May 2021 17:47 UTC

© AP Photo/Noah Berger
Emergency personnel respond to a shooting at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) facility on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in San Jose, Calif. Santa Clara County sheriff's spokesman said the rail yard shooting left multiple people, including the shooter, dead

It may appear as if the pandemic put the brakes on mass shootings. But in reality, mass shootings kept occurring during the coronavirus lockdown. They just weren't out in public as much.

"The overlying trend of gun violence has been moving in a bad direction both in 2020 and in 2021," says John Donohue, a Stanford University law professor who studies gun violence and mass shootings.

"The public mass shootings were suppressed in 2020. Now as we are coming out of the pandemic you see more of them," says Donohue.

Comment: What about the stressful, unnatural crowding together of people who, on a unconscious level, know their circumstances are based on a ever-changing, manipulative lie? That might send one or two over the edge.

Bipartisan committee approval of $3.3 billion in US security aid to Israel ripped on Twitter: 'Wasteful spending!'

RT
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:29 UTC

Many United States taxpayers were far from pleased after the bipartisan US House Appropriations Committee approved a $3.3 billion security assistance package to Israel at a time when so many Americans are struggling.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) celebrated on Twitter Friday, following the approval last week, thanking both the Democrat and Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee.

AIPAC declared that the "critical aid helps ensure our ally has the resources needed to defend itself by itself in the world's most dangerous region."

Comment: Translation:

"We will devote as much of the grant to displacing and bombing Palestinians as we like, and if you want to keep those campaign donations coming, you won't say a word."

'An attack on us all': European leaders condemn shooting of Dutch reporter

Jon Henley
The Guardian
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:07 UTC

© SBS6
Peter R. de Vries was host of 'De Raadkamer', where he discussed the most current topics from the world of crime and the prison system with judges, lawyers, journalists, victims, pathologists, scientists, researchers and public prosecutors.

Politicians and press campaigners call for justice as Peter R de Vries fights for life in hospital

European leaders and press freedom campaigners have condemned the shooting of journalist Peter R de Vries on a busy Amsterdam street, demanding his attackers face justice as the veteran Dutch crime reporter fights for his life in hospital.

"This is a crime against journalism and an attack on our values of democracy and rule of law," the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, tweeted. "We will relentlessly continue to defend the freedom of the press."

The Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, and his wife, Máxima, expressed their "deep shock" at the attack on De Vries, who was shot up to five times, including once in the head, shortly after leaving a TV studio at about 7.45pm on Tuesday.

Comment: The attempt on Peter de Vries' life is tragic, yes. Unconscionable, yes. Should the various reports and investigators speak out about it? Yes.

Yet one hears nary a word in support of Julian Assange, one of the world's premiere journalists, being held in solitary confinement in the 'Gitmo' of Britain, Belmarsh Prison. Why is that?

Julian Assange is being held in Belmarsh Prison - Britain's terrorist torture jail

Nebraska Gov. Ricketts calls out China, warns leftists in declaring Victims of Communism Month

Ronn Blitzer
Fox News
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:48 UTC

© MIKE THEILER/AFP via Getty Images
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts speaks to the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2017.

Ricketts says Americans need to know what communist regimes have done throughout history.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has declared July to be Victims of Communism Remembrance Month and is speaking out against the actions of communist regimes throughout history and the present.

In an interview with Fox News, Ricketts warned that Americans need to remember what communism has wrought, as the Chinese Communist Party is celebrating its success after 100 years in power.

Comment: See also:

John Kerry flouts mask mandate at airport

Alana Goodman
The Washington Free Beacon
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:20 UTC

Kerry also went maskless on March flight.

White House climate envoy John Kerry was photographed without a face mask while walking through Boston Logan International Airport on Monday morning — the second time he has been snapped apparently flouting the mask mandate during air travel this year — according to photographs obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

In photos, Kerry can be seen walking through an airport body scanner without wearing a mask. The source who provided the photos said they were taken at 11:41 a.m. on Monday at Logan Airport.

Kerry previously denied that he went maskless on an American Airlines flight after a picture emerged in March, calling the image "malarkey" and claiming his mask slipped momentarily.

Comment: No matter how many times the elites get caught disobeying the very rules they dictate to everyone else, it seems it just isn't enough to get the people riled up. The rules don't apply to these people, they were written for the rest of us.

See also:

Belarus blocks media outlets that 'played crucial role in anti-government protests'

Yuras Karmanau
ABC
Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:38 UTC

© Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks with people after the wreath laying ceremony at Mound of Glory war memorial marking Independence Day, on the outskirts of the capital Minsk, Belarus, on July 3, 2021.

Who is Roman Protasevich?

Roman Protasevich, founder of the social media news channel NEXTA, played a crucial role in the anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus.

The Belarusian authorities on Thursday blocked the website of a leading online media outlet and detained several of its journalists, the latest move in a sweeping crackdown on dissent and independent media in the ex-Soviet nation.

Comment: Lest we forget that the UK recently blocked China's CGTN news network, RT reporters have been repeatedly banned from US and French government briefings for a few years now, and allies Ukraine and Latvia are in the process of shutting down Russian news outlets; is it a 'crackdown on dissent' when the West and its allies does it?

Belarus' Information Ministry said it has blocked Nasha Niva's website after the Prosecutor General's office had accused it of posting unspecified unlawful information.

The Belarusian Association of Journalists, or BAJ, said that the authorities conducted searches at Nasha Niva's offices, detained its chief editor Yahor Martsinovich and editor Andrey Skurko and searched their apartments. Another four Nasha Niva journalists couldn't be reached, the BAJ said.

Comment: As the manufactured coronavirus crisis and the draconian lockdowns are revealing to many, the mainstream media act on behalf of their masters in the establishment, and, in the case of Belarus, it's likely that these news organisations were working to foment discord on behalf of foreign powers towards yet another regime change campaign: "Just like in Ukraine and Belarus": TikTok condemned by Russian parents association over calls for youth to attend Navalny protests

See also: Online Censorship 101: How YouTube censors videos for the US and UK governments

NSA, the resurrection of the Nazi Gestapo, only worse

Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts Org
Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:18 UTC

It Was OK for Fox News Journalist Megan Kelly to Interview Putin, but if Tucker Carlson Interviews Putin it Means Tucker is a Putin Agent.

NSA committed a felony by leaking Tucker Carlson's emails to presstitutes hostile to Tucker in an effort to demonize him and "drive him off the air." The emails were simply about arranging an interview with Putin, but the story being concocted was like the one used against Trump and General Flynn. The plan was to accuse Carlson of being a Russian agent attempting to boost Putin's standing by interviewing him on Fox News. Carlson broke the story before the NSA's presstitute shills could, thus deep-sixing the plan to drive him off the air.

Carlson shouldn't relax, because now the NSA nazis will come after him in a different and more dangerous way.

Nothing can be done to enforce the law against the rogue criminal NSA, because as Glenn Greenwald says, "people in Washington are petrified of the security state." CIA director John Brennan actually spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The senators who were supposed to oversee the CIA were themselves spied on.

Banking faces seismic changes

Alasdair Macleod
Goldmoney
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC

The role of commercial banks in the global economy is changing, with lending to governments and their agencies now more important than lending to goods and services industries. It is a trend which is due to continue.

The new Basel 3 regulations seem set to encourage this trend, despite retail depositors being accorded a stable funding status. Central bank digital currencies are anticipated to augment and perhaps replace non-financial business credit over the next five to ten years.

But the increasing financialisation of commercial banking brings the risk of tying its future firmly to a financial bubble. And with price inflation on the increase, it is only a matter of very little time before that bubble bursts.

This article looks at some of the implications for commercial banking of Basel 3, CBDCs and the changing economic role of commercial banks.

Introduction

The introduction of both Basel 3 banking regulations and central bank plans for digital currencies will affect commercial banks' priorities and their role in the overall financial system. Basel 3, particularly with regard to the application of the net stable funding ratio (NSFR), will change banking priorities by imposing standardised risk factors across the industry, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) threaten to cut the banks out of their intermediary role between central banks and non-financial users of money and credit.

House Republican says colleagues' 'job' is to slow Democratic priorities

Celine Castronuovo
The Hill
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:18 UTC

GOP Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) said that he believes it is his and his Republican colleagues' "job" to "do everything we can" to slow down Democrats' policy agenda. The remarks came in a recently surfaced video from an event hosted by former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum's (Pa.) group, Patriot Voices, last month.

In the video, which was circulated online by Democratic activist Lauren Windsor, Roy expressed doubt that the House will be able to achieve bipartisanship on a number of issues, including infrastructure and transportation.

"Honestly, right now, for the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow all of that down to get to December of 2022, and then get in there and lead."

Comment: Full of hot air, Dems are fanning their egos by proposing big cost numbers.

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State power has its own limits defined by the fact that it is authority that reaches people from outside. State power cannot oversee and dictate the creative states of the soul and mind, the inner states of love, freedom and goodwill. The state cannot demand from its citizens faith, prayer, love, goodness and conviction. It cannot regulate scientific, religious and artistic creation. It should not intervene in moral, family and daily private life, and only when extremely necessary should it impinge on people's economic initiative and creativity.

- Ivan Ilyin

Exactly the same Faustian Bargain is being offered by Comrade Ardern here in NZ. Trouble is, there is no further plan, no "what happens next", and...

Martin Harris

winters and summers come and go and the downfall of earth is constantly wrongly predicted. summer is here; [Link] +1

rakarb

He's bloody moron and West's stooge. He was kissing frau Merkel's ass only a few weeks ago.

sinip

No way. Have you noticed that conspiring is practically, the most common social activity in existence? So how could that be?

sir_isO

RT = CNN So this piece is likely agitprop. "The beatings will continue until morale improves." Please, just follow the $cience.

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Puppet Masters

US Forces are under constant rain of fire in both Syria and Iraq

Data shows US mass shootings rose during pandemic lockdown

Bipartisan committee approval of $3.3 billion in US security aid to Israel ripped on Twitter: 'Wasteful spending!'

'An attack on us all': European leaders condemn shooting of Dutch reporter

Nebraska Gov. Ricketts calls out China, warns leftists in declaring Victims of Communism Month

John Kerry flouts mask mandate at airport

Belarus blocks media outlets that 'played crucial role in anti-government protests'

NSA, the resurrection of the Nazi Gestapo, only worse

Banking faces seismic changes

House Republican says colleagues' 'job' is to slow Democratic priorities

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