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Canada's expanding euthanasia laws: Making the unthinkable thinkable again

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"Much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable." Julian Huxley, brother of Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and president of the British Eugenics Society (1959-62), said this when he founded and was Director-General (1946-48) of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation). The mandate for the new organisation was set out clearly in Huxley's 1946 UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy:
The moral for UNESCO is clear. The task laid upon it of promoting peace and security can never be wholly realised through the means assigned to it — education, science and culture. It must envisage some form of world political unity, whether through a single world government or otherwise, as the only certain means of avoiding war [...] in its educational programme it can stress the ultimate need for a world political unity and familiarise all peoples with the implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world organisation. [Emphasis added]

Quenelle - Golden

Egypt joins the BRICS New Development Bank

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Some BRICS states have already switched to trade in local currencies in order to reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar and euro.

On Wednesday, Egypt ratified its participation in the New Development Bank (NDB) which was created by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) in 2014.

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al Sissi's cabinet ratified the agreement establishing the NDB and Egypt's accession document to that institution, which began operating in 2015 in Shanghai. From there, the NDB finances infrastructure and sustainable development projects in areas such as energy, transportation, water, communications, and health.

Question

What does Fed's Jerome Powell have up his sleeve

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© FlickrFed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
The Real Goal of Fed Policy: Breaking Inflation, the Middle Class or the Bubble Economy?

"There is no sense that inflation is coming down," said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a November 2 press conference, — this despite eight months of aggressive interest rate hikes and "quantitative tightening." On November 30, the stock market rallied when he said smaller interest rate increases are likely ahead and could start in December. But rates will still be increased, not cut.
"By any standard, inflation remains much too high. We will stay the course until the job is done."
The Fed is doubling down on what appears to be a failed policy, driving the economy to the brink of recession without bringing prices down appreciably. Inflation results from "too much money chasing too few goods," and the Fed has control over only the money - the "demand" side of the equation. Energy and food are the key inflation drivers, and they are on the supply side. As noted by Bloomberg columnist Ramesh Ponnuru in the Washington Post in March:
"Fixing supply chains is of course beyond any central bank's power. What the Fed can do is reduce spending levels, which would in turn exert downward pressure on prices. But this would be a mistaken response to shortages. It would answer a scarcity of goods by bringing about a scarcity of money. The effect would be to compound the hit to living standards that supply shocks already caused."
So why is the Fed forging ahead? Some pundits think Chairman Powell has something else up his sleeve.

Comment: Ellen Brown offers the broad financial picture, the current choices and savvy observations.


Attention

Fyodor Lukyanov: How the US has placed Western Europe in a trap over Russia and China

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© Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesFrench President Emmanuel Macron • US President Joe Biden.
Emmanuel Macron has held extensive talks with Joe Biden but, behind the smiles, this is not an equal relationship

Last year, France was left out in the cold by the creation of the Anglo-Saxon AUKUS defense grouping of Britain, Australia and the United States. Firstly, NATO members had not been notified. Secondly, the consequence of the arrangement was the breakdown of a contract for Paris to build a large batch of submarines for Australia.

Instead of conventional French-made submersibles, nuclear vessels of American design were now planned. Paris' anger was so great that the ambassadors from Washington and London were even recalled, although not for long.

The grievances of last autumn seem to have faded this winter as the transatlantic relationship has moved into the category of a "brotherhood of war." The idea of an indestructible unity of Western Europe and America in the face of the Russian threat is a thesis that is repeated literally daily. According to the interpretation accepted in the West, President Vladimir Putin severely miscalculated in expecting a rift between the Old and New Worlds. And now the Atlantic community has found a new lease of life and a fresh raison d'être.

Red Flag

The tool of tools

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© TwitterJames Baker
"The DNC and Biden Team knew they had friends at Twitter who would do their bidding during the election. And Twitter lied to the FEC about that influence.... But that's just at the surface...." — TechnoFog on Substack

At what point in his arduous take-over of Twitter did Elon Musk realize that the package came with a joker in the deck: James A. Baker, formerly general counsel of the FBI? Did he wonder: what is this guy doing here? Were there any conversations between the two? Or did Mr. Musk just quietly observe his presence at a remove in nervous wonder, as one might, say, upon discovering a scorpion in the corner of his hotel room?

Mr. Baker, you understand, was notoriously at the center of the FBI's FISA court fuckery that got the ball rolling in the Crossfire Hurricane operation, Act One of RussiaGate, as well as the Alfa Bank caper concocted by Hillary Clinton (disclosed this year by special counsel John Durham), and probably every other sedition pie the FBI cooked in its oven in those years, considering Mr. Baker's position as chief legal advisor to Director Chris Wray. When the alt-news media caught onto Mr. Baker's nefarious activities, he became inconvenient to the agency, was re-assigned to some nebulous task (polishing Mr. Wray's cuff links?), and quit in May, 2018. He landed temporarily — or was he, rather, parked out-of-sight? — at the shadowy R Street Institute, an Intel Community cut-out, one of its countless PR channels in the DC Swamp.

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Elon Musk's Twitter is working on removing child sexual abuse material at scale with "no mercy" for abusers

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© Twitter
Elon Musk's Twitter is working on removing child sexual abuse (CSAM) at scale with "no mercy for those who are involved in these illegal activities." Andrea Stroppa shared a thread on Twitter with updates on how Twitter has moved from being lenient toward the child abuse problem to tackling it head-on.

Stroppa spearheaded the research team at Ghost Data and found that over 500 accounts openly shared the illegal material over a 20-day period in September. You can view the full report here. In his thread, Stroppa noted that he worked as an independent researcher along Twitter's Trust and Safety team led by Ms. Ella Irin during the past few weeks. "Twitter achieved some relevant results I want to share with you," Stroppa tweeted.

Stroppa noted that Twitter updated its mechanism to detect content related to CSAM and that it is faster, more efficient, and more aggressive. "No mercy for those who are involved in these illegal activities."

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Judge denies Department of Justice request to hold Donald Trump in contempt

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© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesFormer US President Donald Trump
A federal judge on Friday denied the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) request to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt for allegedly failing to comply with a grand jury subpoena.
DOJ attorneys urged chief U.S. judge for the District of Columbia Beryl Howell to hold Trump in contempt for his alleged failure to comply with a subpoena issued in May that demanded Trump's custodian of records turn over any documents marked classified that the former president had in his possession.

However, team Trump turned over boxes and other federal records to federal law enforcement in January and June.

Attention

Sanctions on Russia are backfiring - former Austrian vice-chancellor

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© Georg Hochmuth/APA/AFPAustria's former vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache
Europeans are bearing the brunt of the crisis, while Moscow's economy is doing fine, Heinz-Christian Strache has said.

Western sanctions imposed on Moscow have failed to make a dent in Russia's economy and ultimately only hurt Europeans, former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache said on Saturday. He also accused EU policymakers of turning a blind eye to the deadly fighting in Donbass, which he said served as a prelude to the current conflict for many years.

Speaking at a pro-neutrality rally in Vienna, which was also a protest against sanctions on Russia, Strache claimed that Austria's decision to join the restrictions had turned out to be a self-inflicted wound.
"Austria has shown Europe how the sanctions are damaging itself. The measures have caused soaring electricity and gas prices, with more and more people feeling the impact. If it goes on like this, next year in March and April we will face mass insolvencies and bankruptcies, the possibility 'damn dangerous'. If the crisis is exacerbated and more people get desperate, this could bring a dangerous development in the form of social tensions that we all do not want."

Comment: Game-changing advice? It didn't take a genius to see this coming.


Better Earth

China supports Palestinian nation's just cause aimed at restoring legitimate rights - Xi

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 8, 2022.
Chinese President Xi Jinping says Beijing firmly supports the Palestinian nation's just cause aimed at restoration of their legitimate national rights, as Palestinians have been struggling against the occupying Israeli regime for decades.

Xi made the remarks during a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh on Thursday on the sidelines of the first China-Arab States Summit and a meeting with leaders of the six-member Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Xi highlighted that China and Palestine have maintained a long-standing friendship, and that they have trusted and supported each other for over half a century.

Comment: Meanwhile the mainstream media has tried to convince people that China is persecuting Muslims in Xinjiang. It has done this all the whole censoring Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people.

It's likely that, if Israel wants to work with the multipolar world and all the benefits that will confer, it will have little choice but to give up on its apartheid regime. This looming conundrum might explain why the pathological Israeli regime has, this year, murdered more Palestinians on the West Bank than since the last record in 2005:


Light Saber

Remember this? Trump blasted Twitter content 'arbiter' Yoel Roth's leftist bias in 2020

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© Fox BusinessPresident Donald Trump in the Oval office in May of 2020
A 2020 video of then-President Donald Trump has resurfaced, showing him calling out Twitter's then-censorship czar, Yoel Roth, for attaching warning labels to his tweets on election integrity and potential fraud through the use of mail-in balloting.

"This is the arbiter... this guy," Trump said on May 28, 2020 to the press in the Oval Office while holding up a copy of the New York Post with Roth's face on the cover. "He's the arbiter of what's supposed to go on Twitter."

"He thought he'd use CNN as a guide... CNN, which is fake news... His name is Yoel Roth, and he's the one that said that mail-in balloting - no fraud? No fraud, really?," Trump continued.

"Why don't you take a look all over the country, there's cases all over the country. If we went to mail-in balloting, our election, all over the world, would look [like] a total joke," he added.

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