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Swimming with Sharks

CJ Hopkins
cjhopkins.substack.com
Sat, 10 Dec 2022 15:23 UTC
Swimming with Sharks
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So, Elon Musk's new free-speech Twitter appears to going extremely well. Critics of the official Covid narrative, and the official Ukraine narrative, and Elon Musk, are still being deplatformed, censored, and defamed, but, otherwise, you can tweet whatever you want!

If you want to tweet about how Elon is running Twitter almost single-handedly while personally caring for his nine hungry children and "being a journalist" without ever sleeping, or how he's "driving down the cost of access to outer space," or "improving life on Earth for humanity" while planning to exfiltrate himself and his family and friends in the military community (and anyone else who can afford a ticket) to Mars if something goes catastrophically wrong, or is otherwise heroically "doing God's work," go for it ... you can tweet stuff like that all day!

OK, sure, if you don't want to do that, and, instead, you want to tweet about the systematic destabilization and radical restructuring of global society that has been carried out by the global-capitalist ruling classes during the past three years, or the most insidious official propaganda and gaslighting campaign in human history, or if you want to tweet about neo-Nazis in the Ukraine, or anything else the Emperor Elonicus doesn't want you to tweet about, well, not to put too fine a point on it, you're fucked. Fucked as in suspended, or censored, or "deboosted," or "visibility filtered," or maybe your account is just hidden from view behind one of these fake "sensitive content" warnings, exactly like it was on non-free-speech Twitter ...
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But whatever ... that's a small price to pay for privilege of "shitposting" and "owning the libs," which, that was the whole point of the Twitter takeover, wasn't it (i.e., revenge, as opposed to actual free speech)? Who cares if scientists, medical experts, and critics of the New Normal are still being censored? Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi editor of The Daily Stormer, is back! That will certainly stick it to those "shitlibs"!
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Russia hands UN details of Ukrainian attacks on civilian targets


RT
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 14:07 UTC
donetsk youth center shelled
© Sputnik / Sergey AverinMen study the damage to the Donetsk City Youth Center, which was damaged as a result of artillery shelling.
Moscow has harshly criticized Western arms shipments to Kiev, claiming they are used to kill civilians in the region.

Russia has submitted a letter to the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly offering a detailed description of recurring Ukrainian strikes on civilian targets in Donbass. The document also heavily emphasizes the role the Western-supplied weapons have played in these atrocities.

This comes ahead of a Security Council meeting expected to be held on Friday about Moscow's initiative to discuss Western arms shipments for Ukraine, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said on Telegram. The letter was drafted by the Donetsk-based public organization 'Fair Protection', he added.

Comment: See also:

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Putin responds to Merkel bombshell


RT
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 14:20 UTC
Russian Airborne Troops
© Sputnik / Evgeny BiyatovA serviceman of Russian Airborne Troops takes part in a join combat training in the course of Russia's military operation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he is "disappointed" by former German chancellor Angela Merkel's recent comments regarding the Minsk agreements - the now defunct roadmap for peace in Ukraine - which she admitted was a ruse to buy Ukraine more time to build up its military.

"What can you say to that?" Putin said during a press conference on Friday, adding that he was shocked to hear such a confession from the former German leader, having believed that Russia's partners in Berlin "treated us with sincerity."

The Russian leader said Merkel's remarks once again prove that launching a military operation in Ukraine was the correct decision.

"As it turns out, nobody intended to fulfil any part of the Minsk agreements," Putin said, recalling that former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko also recently admitted that he had no intention of adhering to the documents when he signed them in 2014 and 2015.

Comment: See also:

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Iran slams West over 'uncontrolled' arms shipments to Ukraine


RT
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:29 UTC
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.
Western military assistance to Ukraine is only prolonging its conflict with Russia, the Iranian foreign minister claimed on Thursday. Iran has repeatedly voiced a stance of "active neutrality" on the crisis.

Speaking with his Finnish counterpart by phone, Hossein Amirabdollahian stressed that Tehran is "opposed to the continuation of war, including in Ukraine."

Iran believes that "the uncontrolled shipment of US and European arms to Ukraine has further complicated the situation" in the country, the diplomat told Pekka Haavisto, according to a readout of the call released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
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China buying up Russian oil at steepest discounts in months

Jennifer Sor
Business Insider
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:59 UTC
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As the European Union scrambles to keep a lid on Moscow's energy income, China is snapping up Russian oil at the steepest discount in months, traders familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

At least one December-arrival cargo Russian ESPO light crude was sold at a discount of up to $6 per barrel compared to the benchmark price for Brent, four traders told the news outlet, implying a price of $68 a barrel.

And some January-loading cargoes were sold at a $4-per-barrel discount, the most since July, according to Reuters.

Comment: Meanwhile Europe has been buying oil, just secretly, and likely at a premium: UK 'quietly' imports $919 million worth of Russian oil since March - The Times

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NATO's Stoltenberg fears conflict in Ukraine that it is stoking could spillover

Jamey Keaten
Associated Press
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 23:11 UTC
Stoltenberg
© Terje Bendiksby/NTB Scanpix via APNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a lecture on Russia, Ukraine and NATO's security policy challenges, during the Civita breakfast in the University of Oslo, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.
The head of NATO expressed worry that the fighting in Ukraine could spin out of control and become a war between Russia and NATO, according to an interview released Friday.

"If things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in remarks to Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

"It is a terrible war in Ukraine. It is also a war that can become a full-fledged war that spreads into a major war between NATO and Russia," he said. "We are working on that every day to avoid that."


Comment: Because even the pathological types within NATO are having to face facts that Russia has demonstrated that, were war to erupt, it's highly unlikely they stand much chance of winning.


Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, said in the interview that "there is no doubt that a full-fledged war is a possibility," adding that it was important to avoid a conflict "that involves more countries in Europe and becomes a full-fledged war in Europe."
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Is 'terminate the Constitution' another Charlottesville hoax?

Mark J. Fitzgibbons
America Thinker
Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:36 UTC
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Following Twitter's release last Friday of shocking revelations of collusion between the Deep State and Big Tech to censor news about Hunter Biden's "Laptop from Hell," Donald Trump took to Truth Social, and what followed may have been another Charlottesville moment among the media, other Trump-haters, and more.

From CNN: "Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post." Over at Axios: "'A few hours ago the leader of the republican party donald trump called for destroying the Constitution and making himself dictator,' Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) tweeted."

The offending language from Trump's social media post was,
"A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution."
Trump also included the admonition that "[o]ur great 'Founders' did not want, and would not condone, False and Fraudulent Elections!"
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Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema leaves Democratic Party, registers as independent

Timothy H.J. Nerozzi , Chad Pergram
Fox News
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 08:16 UTC
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© Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesSen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks at a news conference after the Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act at the Capitol Building on Nov. 29, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
Sinema won't say whether she will caucus with Democrats.

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent.

Sinema, in a Friday op-ed in the Arizona Republic, cited increasingly partisan interests and radicalization of both political parties as the reason for her departure.
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US security strategy's empty narrative

Scott Ritter
Energy Intelligence
Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
W House
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The administration of President Joe Biden has promulgated its vision of the US role in the world today in a new document, the 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS). This outlines a leadership posture built on the premise of US diplomatic, economic and military superiority on the global stage. The critical notion underpinning this strategy is that US democracy serves as a center of gravity around which a rules-based international order rotates. But the partisan political divide in the US, combined with the growing global multipolar challenge led by Russia and China, makes the promise of US global dominance little more than an empty narrative.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Oct. 12 announced the publication of the Biden administration's long-awaited NSS document. Blinken declared that the NSS
"lays out a vision for a free, open, secure and prosperous world and a comprehensive plan to realize it. This is not just our vision, but one shared by many other countries that seek to live in a world that respects the foundational principles of self-determination, territorial integrity and political independence; where countries are free to determine their own foreign policy choices; information is allowed to flow freely; universal human rights are upheld; and the global economy operates on a level playing field — providing opportunity for all."
The NSS is a report, published by the White House, that is mandated by Section 603 of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Ideally, the NSS is to be transmitted annually, but frequently reports come in late or not at all.

Comment: Given the embarrassing track record of the Biden administration, it is not surprising that 'fluff' is its rhetoric of choice.

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Ukraine operation could take a long time - Putin


RT
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:29 UTC
Putin
© RIA Novosti/Mikhail MetselRussian President Vladimir Putin • December 7, 2022
The military operation in Ukraine may go on for a while, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, in a meeting with the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. Addressing a question about the duration of hostilities that escalated in February, Putin said that achieving all the objectives will take time, but pointed to what he called, several major gains already won.

"Of course, this might be a lengthy process," Putin said, insisting that the conflict really began in 2014, when the US backed a nationalist coup in Kiev. He contended that Moscow had little choice but to intervene in February, to defend the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk - which have since voted to join Russia, along with most of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
"These new territories are a major gain for Russia. Even Peter the Great sought access to the Azov Sea, and it is now an internal sea of the Russian Federation.

"Most importantly, the people who live there showed in a referendum that they want to be in Russia and feel they are part of our world. They are now with us, millions of them, and that is the greatest outcome."
Putin also said there was "no point" in discussing additional mobilization measures, as the more than 300,000 reservists called up to fill the ranks of the military were quite sufficient. In fact, some of the Donbass students who have been fighting for years are in the process of mustering out so they can finish their studies.

Comment: The massive Russian reserves provide options Ukraine can't possibly match.
Additional mobilization is currently off the table, Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled on Wednesday.
"Among those 150,000 in the battle groups, only half - that's 77,000 - are with frontline units, the rest are on the second or third lines, essentially performing the functions of territorial defense troops, or undergoing additional training.
"There's simply no point in talking about some additional mobilization measures - neither the State nor the Defense Ministry need that today."
On October 31, the Russian president said that the "mobilization is over," and that he would consult with lawyers on whether a separate decree was required to formally end the draft. The Kremlin subsequently said that a decree, of that type, was not necessary.


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