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EU nations lodge formal protest over Macron's suggestion that NATO should give Russia security guarantees


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:09 UTC
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© GettyFILE PHOTO: The Baltic states, Poland and Slovakia are said to oppose the suggestion that Russia should be given security guarantees
France is facing a backlash from a group of fellow EU member states over President Emmanuel Macron's proposal that NATO should offer Moscow security guarantees, if and when the parties to the ongoing Ukraine conflict sit down for peace talks.

Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Slovakia have lodged a formal protest against Macron's suggestion, according to Reuters.

Citing diplomatic sources, the news agency reported that the Czech Republic, which now holds the EU Council presidency, had assisted in preparing the demarche, which was delivered to the French foreign ministry. However, it is not clear whether Prague itself, or any other nations, backed the document, the report adds.
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Global central banks racing to implement digital currencies as cities convert to 'smart' infrastructure

Leo Hohmann
Truth Talk
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
digital currency infrastructure
Track and control grid being erected right under our noses

The Central Bank of Nigeria announced it will begin, effective in January, restricting cash withdrawals from banks and ATMs to just $45 per day as part of a push to move the country toward a cashless economy.

If this were a one-off, I wouldn't bother writing about it. But it comes on the heels of mega-banks announcing similarly creepy new policies in recent months in China, India, Russia, Brazil, Sweden, the U.S. and many other nations, all pointing to an imminent switch over to a global digital money system.

In the U.S., the Federal Reserve put out an announcement in November that it is launching a 12-week "pilot program" to test out a new central bank digital currency, or CBDC, with six major banks.

Thursday's announcement in Nigeria is also a big deal because Nigeria is one of only nine countries that have already launched an official CBDC. That happened earlier this year, and now they are already moving to restrict the use of cash. This proves that digital currencies were never designed to function alongside paper currencies but rather to replace them.
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Clock

Has the counter revolution arrived in the US?

Tom Luongo
Gold, Guns 'N Butter
Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
go game
The counter-revolution at the counter of a store
People buy the things they want and borrow for a little more
All those wasted years
All those precious, wasted years
Who will pay?
— RUSH, "Heresy"

There is no bigger heresy at this point in history than to suggest the US is not the main source of great evil in the world. There was a time, when the exact opposite was the case.

Today, however, As war rages in Ukraine and everyone in power in the West says they want peace but keep shoveling money and weapons into the conflict, the message is clear.

We want this war. We need this war and it doesn't matter what the people want.

We will have this war.

But, here's the big heresy, it's not just the US that wants this war. Here's another one is 'The US' as a global actor even exist anymore?

We are now digesting the most irresponsible escalation yet by "Ukraine," a drone strike on a strategic airbase deep inside Russia attacking one leg of its nuclear triad — damaging strategic bombers capable of delivering nuclear warheads.

This is an explicit redline for Russia.
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Stormtrooper

Canada Has a Nazi Monument Problem

Taylor C. Noakes
Canadian Patriot
Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
Roman Shukhevych
On October 14 2022 the Edmonton Police Service filed a mischief under $5,000 charge against journalist Duncan Kinney, claiming he spray-painted the words "actual Nazi" on a bust of Roman Shukhevych, a World War II - era Ukrainian ultranationalist and Nazi collaborator. The charge relates to an August 2021 incident in which the monument, located on the grounds of the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in North Edmonton, was found to have been vandalized.

Ukrainian Nazi Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201 with Roman Shukhevych
Caption: Ukrainian Nazi Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201 with Roman Shukhevych (sitting, second from left), 1942. A monument in Edmonton, Canada, commemorates Shukhevych, who was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands in genocidal campaigns during the Holocaust era.

Comment: From Radio Canada International:

Canada has a monumental Ukrainian Nazi problem

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Arrow Up

Unrest in Mongolia: Cui Bono?

M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:59 UTC
Mongolian Protesters
© Indian PunchlineWeek-long anti-government protests in Ulaanbaatar show no signs of abating, Mongolia, December 9, 2022.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a TV interview in Moscow on Sunday, when asked about where the relationship between Russia and the West is moving, "Well, we are not moving. We have already arrived at a station named 'Confrontation', and we have to be reserved, strong, to have underlying strength, because we will have to live in the environment of this confrontation."

There are no peace talks and no end in sight to the conflict in Ukraine. President Putin said last week that Moscow's near-total loss of trust in the West would make an eventual settlement over Ukraine much harder to reach, and warned of a protracted war.

In such an apocalyptic scenario, Russia's immediate neighbourhood is turning into severely contested zones of superpower confrontation, as the US and EU try to encircle Russia with a ring of unfriendly states.

Such confrontation can take different forms. In the Transcaucasian region, the Western efforts aim to replace Russia as the arbiter between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The EU has presented itself as an alternative to the Russian mediation and peacekeeping.

Moscow viewed such attempts rather complacently initially, but has lately has begun worrying that the ground beneath its feet is shifting in Transcaucasia. The western ploy is to incrementally elbow out the Russian peacekeeping force deployed to the region following the renewed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan last year over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Moscow plays both sides in the conflict and, quite obviously, the trapeze act is very delicate and taxing. Thus, in the period since Moscow's special military operation began on February 24, the EU has succeeded in establishing a "monitoring mission" in Armenia and is advancing its plan to establish an OSCE mission to the region, which will challenge Russia's monopoly in peacekeeping on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
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What is CISA and why does it matter?

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Brownstone Institute
Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
CISA
© CISA
On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk fired Vijaya Gadde from her job at Twitter where she was general counsel and the head of legal, policy, and trust. It became quickly obvious to him and others on his team that it was she who drove the censorship policy within the company, including that which blocked all information about Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 election and otherwise shut down critics of government Covid policy.

Her termination from Twitter did not leave her unemployed and homeless. A year earlier, she had already been tapped as an advisor to CISA, which is the government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency headed by Jen Easterly, who was chosen to head the new agency (created in 2018) out of her tenure at the National Security Agency. As Freddy Gray puts it in the UK Spectator, "That seems fishy, to put it mildly."

Easterly was called to give a deposition in the case brought by the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana but the government rejected the idea. Fauci and others could be called but not the head of CISA. According to Epoch Times, the judge "ruled that three of the individuals — Murthy, Easterly, and Flaherty — will no longer be required to appear for a deposition after a federal appeals court blocked the move last month, stating that the judge had failed to consider whether alternative and less 'intrusive' means could be used to obtain the information being sought."

Don't want to be intrusive, right? That would be inhumane. Can't make such a demand of the head of CISA.
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New Twitter Files drop reveals Trump ban came after Michelle Obama, others pressured the company

Lawrence Richard
Fox News
Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:01 UTC
trump michelle obama
Former President Donald Trump on Nov. 15, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida and Michelle Obama on June 13, 2022, in Los Angeles.
Journalist Michael Shellenberger reported Twitter faced 'internal and external pressure,' before banning Trump on Jan. 8

Former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter the day after former first lady Michelle Obama and others demanded the company "permanently" remove him, according to the newest "Twitter Files" installment.

On Saturday, CEO Elon Musk and journalist Michael Shellenberger released the fourth batch of Twitter documents that show internal communications by the company's executives between Jan. 6-8, 2021, including and shortly after the riot at the Capitol Building.

Among the files, Shellenberger reported "internal and external pressure," including from the former first lady, fell onto the company calling for Trump to be banned from using Twitter.

Comment: Seeing as Obama is functioning Biden's brain, this is not much of a surprise.


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Bullseye

Who sets the election rules: Why Moore v. Harper terrifies Democrats

David Catron
The Spectator
Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:35 UTC
North Carolina General Assembly
The North Carolina State Legislative Building, home of the North Carolina General Assembly
The U.S. Supreme Court finally heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper last week. The case involves a mundane constitutional issue concerning the definition of "legislature" as used in the elections clause. Yet it has produced panic among Democrats and a torrent of portentous predictions about the death of democracy from various leftist law professors. In the Washington Post, for example, Harvard University's Noah Feldman expressed alarm that the court took up the "insane" case at all.

Is Moore v. Harper really insane? Of course not. The case arose early this year when the North Carolina Supreme Court struck down a redistricting map produced by the state Legislature, then replaced it with a redistricting scheme of its own. The North Carolina General Assembly petitioned SCOTUS for relief on the grounds that this action violated Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution. Moreover, the petitioners are on solid legal ground, as constitutional lawyers David Rivkin Jr. and Andrew Grossman explain in the Wall Street Journal:
The Elections Clause directs "the legislature" to regulate congressional elections, which includes drawing district maps. State courts aren't part of the legislative process, and thus the North Carolina Supreme Court was obligated to uphold the General Assembly's map.... State courts have the power to interpret election regulations, but they can't override the legislature's handiwork unless it conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or a statute enacted by Congress.
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Bad Guys

Former DoD intelligence specialist is head of Twitter's elections response team, deletes LinkedIn after Twitter Files revelations


The Post Millenial
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:24 UTC
Patrick Conlon
Matt Taibbi unleashed an epic third installment of the Twitter Files on Friday night, exposing the decisions and actions behind banning President Donald Trump on the platform. In a series of tweets, Taibbi showed that Twitter's Elections & Crisis Response Patrick Conlon was pushing for the removal of jokes and content by conservatives on the platform. Prior to his term at Twitter, Conlon worked in intelligence for the US Department of Defense.

Conlon acitvely worked to silence these accounts by saying the jokes were a violation of the terms of service.

On January 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol riot and Trump's last rally as president, held at the Ellipse, Trump tweeted out to supporters to tell them to disperse from the Capitol.

"These are the things and events that hapepn when a sacred landslide election victor is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home wiht love & peace," Trump wrote. "Remember this day forever!"

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John Kiriakou on the lies spies tell about Assange

John Kiriakou
Consortium News
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:18 UTC
Mark Zaid Barry Pollack Gabe Rottman
© Joe LauriaMark Zaid (right), Barry Pollack (left) and Gabe Rottman at the Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security discussion on Julian Assange.
The imprisoned publisher was attacked during a big-name counter-intelligence event in Washington this week with the same kind of innuendo that a larger gang, back in 2019, threw at the Hunter Biden laptop story.

I attended a panel discussion at the National Press Club on Monday about the fate of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange. The event happened to be at the National Press Club, but it was actually sponsored by the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at George Mason University.

Hayden, the notorious former director of both the C.I.A. and the N.S.A., who oversaw the C.I.A.'s torture program during part of the George W. Bush administration, was front and center at the event.

The panel, moderated by Sasha Ingber, a national security correspondent in Newsy's Washington, D.C., bureau, included Assange's U.S. lawyer Barry Pollack, one of the finest criminal defense attorneys in America; Gabe Rottman, a senior attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; the notorious Mark Zaid, who bills himself as a "whistleblower attorney," but who has probably done more damage to legitimate whistleblowers than any other person in Washington; and Holden Triplett, a former F.B.I. agent and former director for counterintelligence at President Donald Trump's National Security Council.
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