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Kremlin rubbishes 'hoax' about Korea-style Ukraine split plan


RT
Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:41 UTC
Kremlin
© Hans Neleman/Getty ImagesMoscow says it reserves the right to respond to Ottawa's stated goal of toppling the country's government
The allegation that Russia has been secretly negotiating an end to the Ukraine conflict along the lines of how the Korean War ended is false, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Monday.

The Russian official described as a "hoax" last week's reports in Ukraine that Dmitry Kozak, the deputy head of Russia's presidential administration, was involved in a clandestine diplomatic mission to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.

Aleksey Danilov, the head of Ukraine's national security council, claimed during a TV interview last week that Kozak "got into action" and was holding meetings with European officials "to force us to sign" a peace deal. He stated that Russia wanted to partition his country the way the Korean Peninsula was split in 1953, after its three-year-long devastating armed conflict. Kiev will not accept any such deal, Danilov declared.
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House GOP readies probes into Biden, Big Tech censorship

Mark Moore
New York Post
Sun, 08 Jan 2023 20:43 UTC
Jim Jordan
© APRep. Jim Jordan, who will be the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, says his panel will probe censorship by Big Tech.
House Republicans will be moving full steam ahead with investigations into President Biden and his son Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine and China now that the GOP controls the chamber, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee said Sunday.

"We're not investigating Hunter Biden, we're investigating Joe Biden," Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said on NBC News' "Meet the Press," adding that a recent poll found 65% of Americans back a probe into Hunter Biden's laptop.

"I think any American who's kept up with the political process over the past two administrations would agree. We need to know what is allowable and what isn't allowable with respect to foreign adversarial intervention among family members of presidents of the United States," he continued.
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Wang Wen: Beyond China, as more nations reject the US-led order, 2022 will go down as the year of 'de-Westernisation'

Wang Wen
The Transnational
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00 UTC
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© Stephen CaseCaseDeWest
- From China's socialist path to Latin America's left turn and Asean's neutral stance, more countries are quietly but firmly spurning the Western world order

- Instead, they seek to favour national interests, a more democratic form of international politics and mutual respect

The global significance of 2022 has been grossly underestimated. Its importance to world history far exceeds that of 2001, when the September 11 attacks occurred, and 2008, when the global financial crisis broke out.

Instead, 2022 may be comparable to 1991, when the Cold War ended. If there's a keyword, it's "de-Westernisation".

This is not just about Russia's radical attempt, through the use of military power, to try to break the US-dominated international order. It is also about the unprecedented rising up of non-Western countries against the established order in search of a more independent stance.

Comment: Some 'upheavals' are inspiring and beneficial. As for the West, it is 'self'-inflicted.

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How General Soleimani kickstarted the multipolar world

Pepe Escobar
Press TV
Sun, 08 Jan 2023 10:26 UTC
Soleimani
General Qassem Soleimani
The consensus among future historians will be inevitable: the 2020s started with a diabolic murder.

Baghdad airport, January 3, 2020, 00:52 a.m. local time. The assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic RevolutionGuards Corps (IRGC), alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq's Hashd al-Sha'abi, by laser-guided AGM-114 Hellfire missiles launched from two MQ-9 Reaper drones, was, in fact, murder as an act of war.

This act of war set the tone for the new decade and inspired my book Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism, published in early 2021.

The drone strikes at Baghdad airport, directly approved by the pop entertainer/entrepreneur then ruling the Hegemon, Donald Trump, constituted an imperial act engineered as a stark provocation, capable of engendering an Iranian reaction that would then be countered by, "self-defense", packaged as "deterrence".

Comment: It is interesting that Iran leadership was restrained in counter-response to the assassination and that communication between the US and Iran marginally continued. The Iranian people, however, were deeply affected by his loss.

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Democrats' latest attack on Trump is a giant nothingburger

Brad Polumbo
Restoring America
Sat, 07 Jan 2023 06:45 UTC
DTrump
© UnknownFormer US President Donald Trump
House Democrats just set a precedent that will surely come back to haunt them. Using the power of the House Ways and Means Committee, they recently obtained and publicly released former President Donald Trump's tax returns from 2015 to 2020. They did so because Trump refused to release his tax returns, like most presidential candidates do, and in hopes of somehow embarrassing or incriminating him.

It backfired spectacularly. Here's what the returns showed , according to CNBC:
  • Trump and his wife Melania declared negative income of $31.7 million, and taxable income of $0, on their 2015 return. They paid $641,931 in federal income taxes.
  • On their 2016 return, the Trumps declared negative income of $32.2 million, and again recorded $0 of taxable income. They paid $750 in taxes.
  • Trump and his wife declared $12.8 million in negative income in the 2017 return, with $0 in taxable income. They again paid $750 in taxes.
  • The 2018 return showed a rosier picture for the Trumps' finances: they declared $24.4 million in total income, and $22.9 million in taxable income. They paid $999,466 in federal income taxes.
  • Trump and his wife declared $4.44 million in total income, along with $2.97 million in taxable income, on their 2019 return. They paid $133,445 in taxes.
  • The 2020 return declared negative income of $4.69 million and no taxable income. They paid no tax and claimed a refund of $5.47 million.

Comment: Next on the congressional agenda: Food fights?

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Kentucky joins growing movement to blacklist ESG banks

Kevin Stocklin
Zero Hedge
Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:30 UTC
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© CBSNews
Kentucky has joined a growing list of conservative states that have begun to boycott banks they charge are discriminating against the fossil fuel industry.

In compliance with a Kentucky law passed in March, State Treasurer Allison Ball yesterday released a list of banks that "are engaged in energy company boycotts." This list included Wall Street giants BlackRock, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, BNP Paribas, HSBC, and six other smaller banks.

Ball told The Epoch Times:
"Energy is important in Kentucky. It's important to the nation, but in Kentucky in particular, about 7.8 percent of our labor force is from the energy sector. We have a lot at stake just because it's a part of our economy."
Kentucky's action to protect its fossil fuel industry follows similar measures by West Virginia and Texas last year. Kentucky is the seventh-largest state in coal production and 71 percent of its electricity depends on coal-fired plants. Kentucky is also responsible for 1.6 percent of America's oil refining capacity and 2 percent of its natural gas storage. More than half of Kentucky households rely on electricity to heat their homes.

Comment: Business does what business does - look for the best opportunities and capitalize on them. As the global economy is on a steep downslide, it is essential that all opportunities for energy be supported. A restricted ideology is counterintuitive to hard times with unknown repercussions. As it stands, the mega corporations have a big appetite and the means to satisfy it. No room for the little guy.

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Gosar: 'The effort to attempt a coup between traitor General Mark Milley and Pelosi will be exposed'

Cullen McCue
National File
Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00 UTC
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© ray19654US Rep. Paul Gosar • Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley
U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) vowed to bring "traitor" General Mark Milley to justice in a tweet Saturday. Gosar, Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), among others, had been lobbying for the establishment of a "Church Commission-style" investigation into the weaponization of the FBI against Americans, as well as alleged federal government coordination with January 6 instigators.

Under a compromise between newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and his 20 dissenters, such a committee will be established. Many conservative pundits and voters have expressed skepticism, however, as they do not trust McCarthy to follow through.
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Media reports that Zelensky is depriving Orthodox priests of citizenship


RT
Mon, 09 Jan 2023 18:38 UTC
Kiev Cathedral Ukraine takes over
© Associated Press7 Jan 2023: The Ukrainian government has taken the main cathedral of the revered historic monastery from the church previously affiliated with Moscow’s patriarchate and allowed its Ukrainian rival to use it for Orthodox Christmas services.
Kiev has targeted the clerics for allegedly supporting Russia

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has stripped 13 priests within the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of the country's citizenship, the Levy Bereg (Left Bank) newspaper reported on Saturday, citing government sources.

The presidential decree targeting the clerics was purportedly signed by Zelensky in late December but has not been published officially, since it contains the personal data of the priests whose citizenship was being revoked.

Later in the day, however, the newspaper circulated a list of the affected individuals. For instance, it includes Ionafan, the metropolitan bishop of the Tulchin diocese in Vinnitsa Region, who was targeted by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) last October.

Comment: The Orthodox communities have long been the targets of Western attempts to weaken Russia and the wider Slavic culture: and so it has.

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Tanks for the Memories!.. German and NATO tanks to roll in Ukraine

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture
Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:50 UTC
Tank and Scholz
© REUTERS/Axel Heimken/Pool
German tanks rolling into Ukraine to fight Russian troops would have seemed an unbelievable scenario given the dreadful history of World War Two. Yet that scenario is where the NATO proxy war against Moscow is headed. The development has the disturbing echo of Operation Barbarossa when the Nazi Wehrmacht launched its offensive on the Soviet Union in 1941.

Instead of Panzer Tiger tanks, we will see German Marder "fighting vehicles" trundling across Ukraine. These weapons are called "light tanks" but the bigger push is for Leopard 2 main battle tanks to be supplied to Ukrainian NeoNazi forces against Russian lines.

Just two days before the Orthodox Christmas on January 7, U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a deal in which they would supply Bradley and Marder armored infantry carriers to Ukraine, as well as another battery of U.S.-made Patriot missiles.

That announcement followed French President Emmanuel Macron declaring that France was going to supply AMX-10 RC light tanks to Ukraine. Macron's tone was notably bellicose, saying that France would back the Kiev regime until victory is achieved.

Scholz and Macron are showing themselves to be completely unreliable and politically weak. Previously, the French leader has suggested his willingness for finding a diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Ukraine with Russia. He had incurred the wrath of Washington, as well as the anti-Russian NATO members Poland and the Baltic states for being "too soft" and undermining transatlantic unity.

Yet here we have Macron now making a dubious debut of France becoming the first Western state to supply tanks to Ukraine in the war against Russia. That decision marks a serious threshold of involvement by the NATO bloc in the war.

The fact that the French move was virtually coupled with the U.S. and German commitment to supply light tanks also points to coordinated action by the NATO alliance.
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Tucker Carlson: Lies about January 6 have enabled unscrupulous people to make a mockery of our Bill of Rights

Tucker Carlson
Fox News
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 22:33 UTC
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Tucker reflects on the many unanswered questions from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Two years ago today, a Capitol Hill police officer called Michael Byrd shot an unarmed woman in the neck. At the time of that killing, Byrd had a documented history of gross negligence with a firearm. He left a loaded Glock pistol in a public men's room at the Capitol, which for a law enforcement official is a firing offense. But for some reason, Michael Byrd was still on the force that day. The woman he killed was called Ashli Babbitt.

Babbitt was a married 14-year veteran of the U.S. military. She ran a pool cleaning company with her husband in San Diego. Physically, she was tiny. She was also unarmed. Michael Byrd later admitted he had no indication at all that Babbitt was carrying a weapon. She posed no visible threat. He killed her anyway.

Comment: See also:

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