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US Senate unanimously passes bill banning TikTok on all government devices

Ari Hoffman
The Post Millennial
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:01 UTC
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The US Senate unanimously passed a bill Wednesday night that would ban TikTok on government devices following major security concerns about the social media app owned by China-based ByteDance.

Republican Senators Tom Cotton (AK), Josh Hawley (MO), Marco Rubio (FL), and Rick Scott (FL) sponsored the bill.

Hawley said, "TikTok is a Trojan Horse for the Chinese Communist Party. It's a major security risk to the United States, and until it is forced to sever ties with China completely, it has no place on government devices."

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U.S. Government has been planning to 'lockdown and wait for a vaccine' since 2007

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:29 UTC
Donald Ainslie Henderson
Dr. Donald Ainslie Henderson, one of the few willing to stand up against the encroachment of pandemic planning with draconian ideas.
More and more evidence is coming to light that the 'lockdown and wait for a vaccine' strategy unleashed in 2020 was being cooked up inside the U.S. Government for decades before COVID-19 appeared and gave too many people an excuse to put the dreadful plan into action.

Recently the role of CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) in producing key lockdown guidance for America in March 2020 came to light.

Now, a pandemic plan from 2007 produced by the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) and currently hosted on the CISA website has emerged.

The plan contains the original list of pandemic 'essential businesses' that was used by CISA in 2020 to lock down America. The 2007 plan (which was itself based on a Department of Homeland Security plan from the previous year) clearly states the intention to ban large gatherings "indefinitely", close schools and non-essential businesses, institute work-from-home, and quarantine exposed and not just sick individuals. The aim is simple and clear: to slow the spread to wait for a vaccine.
During a pandemic, the goal will be to slow the virus' transmission; delaying the spread of the virus will provide more time for vaccine development while reducing the stress on an already burdened healthcare system.
Here's the relevant section of the 2007 NIAC plan in full.
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The unreluctant vassal

Joe Lauria
Consortium News
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Consortium NewsCN Editor Joe Lauria speaking before the British Consulate in New York.
The following is the transcript of a speech CN Editor Joe Lauria gave to the Human Rights Day Assange rally in front of the British Consulate in New York City on Saturday:

Randy [Credico] asked me to do an impersonation of Fidel Castro in terms of how long he wants me to speak. And I have quite a few things to say here. But first, this building. I used to visit here every week for about ten years to get a briefing from the British ambassador to the United Nations, because in this building is not only the consulate but the U.N. mission. And I was a correspondent for 25 years down there at the U.N. So I got a real sense, an insight into the thinking of British diplomacy and its role in the world and the influence it has.

A lot of people think, as Randy does, that they are a colony of the U.S. I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that at all. British diplomats are probably the best in the world, and so are their spies. They've been in this game a very, very long time.

What became clear to me during my time observing British diplomacy is that it's very obvious, even with the case of Julian Assange, that the United Kingdom is not another vassal of the United States like Germany or France, which reluctantly goes along with orders coming from Washington [even when it's not in their interests].
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WH won't say if Biden will return 2020 donations from Sam Bankman-Fried

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 04:02 UTC
Bankman/Biden
© Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg/Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesFTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried • US President Joe Biden
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn't say Tuesday whether President Biden would ask his aides to return 2020 campaign contributions from accused cryptocurrency con man Sam Bankman-Fried, whom the Justice Department has charged with swindling investors out of at least $1.8 billion.

Bankman-Fried, 30, was one of the Democratic Party's biggest donors and even met with Biden's White House advisers before his FTX currency exchange collapsed in one of the largest alleged frauds in American business history.

Earlier Tuesday, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged Bankman-Fried with eight counts, including conspiracy to commit campaign finance violations. Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams claimed the illegal donations from Bankman-Fried amounted to "tens of millions of dollars."

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War Whore

Escalating air war depletes Ukraine's weapons stockpile


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:25 UTC
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© ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFPA Ukrainian soldiers fires a missile with a man-portable air-defense system during exercises
Ukraine is exhausting its supplies of munitions and spare parts for the Soviet-era S-300 and Buk air defense systems used to counter Russian strikes on the nation's energy infrastructure, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Ukrainian military official.

The Ukrainian Air Force's chief spokesperson, Colonel Yury Ignat, told the outlet that his air defense units usually fire two S-300 or Buk missiles at every Russian projectile to raise the chances of interception. This poses certain challenges, however, since it is impossible for Ukraine to procure additional missiles for these systems, which are produced in Russia. Meanwhile, finding the available stocks elsewhere has proven difficult, the report says.

Ignat went on to state that while Kiev is receiving modern air defense systems from its Western backers, Ukraine would need "hundreds" of such weapons to replace its aging arsenal.

"We have no other choice but to switch to these types of weapons since the Soviet weapons of the [19]70s and [19]80s are both... obsolete and the enemy is exhausting them every day," he said.
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Snakes in Suits

Macron's party HQ raided by investigators over allegations of illegal fundraising for political campaigns


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:18 UTC
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© AFP / Gonzalo FuentesEmmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris, France, December 12, 2022. Law enforcement is probing allegations that the French president's campaigns were illegally financed.
Criminal investigators have raided the Paris offices of French President Emmanuel Macron and US consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Le Parisien reported on Wednesday. Authorities suspect that McKinsey illegally funded Macron's 2017 and 2022 campaigns.

The raids, which targeted the headquarters of Macron's Renaissance party, its funding association, and Mckinsey's French headquarters, took place on Tuesday morning, the newspaper wrote.

Renaissance officials confirmed that a search had taken place at the party's headquarters, but said that it focused solely "on the campaign side" of the office. McKinsey also confirmed that its premises had been searched, adding that it would "cooperate fully with the public authorities."

Comment: Since the establishment will have been well aware of the above, in addition to the election rigging that appears to have taken place in order to get Macron into power, is a faction trying to take him down? Or at least send a warning? EU nations lodge formal protest over Macron's suggestion that NATO should give Russia security guarantees

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Kosovo applies for EU membership amidst rising tensions in region, and despite breakaway province not being recognised by five member states


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:59 UTC
Kosovo
© Erkin Keci/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesLeft to right: Glauk Konjufca, Vjosa Osmani and Albin Kurti sign the application for Kosovo's membership in the European Union in Pristina, December 14, 2022.
The ethnic Albanian government in Kosovo signed a formal application to join the European Union on Wednesday, calling it a "new chapter" for Pristina. The move was dismissed as a public relations stunt by Serbia, which does not recognize the breakaway province. Neither do five of the 27 EU member states.

The application was signed by prime minister Albin Kurti, president Vjosa Osmani, and speaker of the parliament Glauk Konjufca. The document will be presented to Czechia, which presides over the EU, on Thursday.

"Progress will depend on our commitment to deep and transformative reforms that strengthen our democracy and economy," said Kurti. Osmani called it a "historic day" and said Kosovo deserved to become an EU member as "a country of peace and respect for human rights."

Comment: See also: Situation in Kosovo resembles Ukraine, Pristina with 'connivance of the West is playing with fire' - Moscow

And check out The Duran for some insightful commentary on the situation:



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Bad Guys

Merkel and Minsk

Noah Carl
The Daily Sceptic
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:56 UTC
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© Markus Schreiber / AP
On 7th December, the German newspaper Die Zeit published an interview with Angela Merkel in which she discussed her political legacy, including the Minsk agreements. These were peace deals between Ukraine the Russian-backed separatists brokered by herself and Francois Hollande in 2014/2015.

In the interview, Merkel said something that has attracted widespread attention, prompting responses from several world leaders: "The 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give Ukraine time."

This, along with some of her other comments, has been interpreted as meaning that Merkel never intended to make peace between Ukraine and the Russian-backed separatists; she only wanted to give Ukraine time to build up its armed forces and prepare for a larger conflict.

Referring to Merkel's comments, Vladimir Putin said, "It was absolutely unexpected for me. It's disappointing ... Trust almost dropped to zero." This only shows, he went on to say, "that launching the SMO [Special Military Operation] was the right decision".

Likewise, the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said, "Merkel's statement is something that dramatically changes the state of things ... If they could play like that with someone who is much stronger than us, so lie and deceive a country like the Russian Federation ... it changes a lot for me."

However, if you read all of what she said in the interview, it becomes clear that Merkel's statement has been taken out of context.

Comment: Giving Merkel the benefit of the doubt for her comment given the context of it within the discussion doesn't seem too generous an interpretation. The misspoken comment is nevertheless something which cynics and realists know to be true. That is, while everyone else was looking to broker a lasting peace deal, including Merkel, Washington used the Minsk agreements to bolster Ukraine's combat readiness for their own much bigger schemes which included an inevitable conflict between Russia and the West via the Ukrainian proxy. Peace was never really on the table and it seems not nearly enough people figured that out.

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Snakes in Suits

New Zealand's PM Ardern caught on hot mike calling political rival 'arrogant p****' during parliamentary questions

Peter Vincent
Daily Mail
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:14 UTC
Jacinda Ardern
An under-pressure Jacinda Ardern was caught losing her temper as she called the leader of a major party 'an arrogant p****' in parliament.

The New Zealand Prime Minister was heard whispering an insult about David Seymour, leader of the ACT Party, on a microphone as she sat down after answering his questions in parliament on Tuesday.

'We've always made decisions which we believed to be in the best interests of NZ at the time,' Ms Ardern said, then added: 'Such an arrogant p****.'

Public support for Ms Ardern has tumbled in recent months and her approval rating is at its lowest level since she took office over five years ago.

Comment: If Ardern is that easily antagonised, one can only imagine her reaction when under actual pressure when the cameras aren't rolling.

However, questions about Ardern's character have come up on a number of occasions, such as her unusual tendency to grin even during sombre discussions, as well as the seemingly carefree way she talked about New Zealanders being split into a two-tier society over the vaccine mandates:





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The Mother of all Economic Crises

Ron Paul
The Ron Paul Institute
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
The Purge
Nouriel Roubini, a former advisor to the International Monetary Fund and member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, was one of the few "mainstream" economists to predict the collapse of the housing bubble. Now Roubini is warning that the staggering amounts of debt held by individuals, businesses, and the government will soon lead to the "mother of all economic crises."

Roubini properly blames the creation of a debt-based economy on the near-or-at-zero interest rate and quantitative easing policies pursued by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. The inevitable result of the zero-interest and quantitative easing policies is price inflation wreaking havoc on the American people.

The Fed has been trying to eliminate price inflation with a series of interest rate increases. So far, these rate increases have not significantly reduced price inflation. This is because rates remain at historic lows. Yet the rate increases have had negative economic effects, including a decline in the demand for new homes. Increasing interest rates make it impossible for many middle- and working-class Americans to afford a monthly mortgage payment for even a relatively inexpensive home.
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