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West's attacks on Russia are 'without limits' - Erdogan


RT
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:53 UTC
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© TwitterPresidents Putin and Erdogan
The US and the West as a whole are attacking Russia "almost without limits," prompting a natural defensive reaction, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, while returning from a summit of Turkic nations in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Noting that Russia is not an "ordinary," but "powerful," state, Erdogan commended its "great resistance" against the hostile actions of the collective West.

"The West, and especially the US, is attacking Russia almost without limits. Of course, Russia is showing great resistance in the face of all this," he said.

Türkiye is set to continue its efforts to mediate between Russia and Ukraine amid the conflict, Erdogan signaled, recalling a recent incident in the Black Sea that put the UN-sponsored and Türkiye-brokered deal to facilitate exports of grain from Ukrainian ports on the brink of collapse.

Russian naval vessels were targeted by sea drones near Crimea in late October. Moscow accused Kiev of using the grain corridor to stage the attack and briefly suspended its participation in the agreement. Russia also alleged that the attack was orchestrated by the UK, a charge London has denied.

Comment: Erdogan is a canny leader. His pithy take on the geopolitics of the West vs. Russia is also spot on.

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Heart - Black

John Bolton mocks US First Amendment


RT
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:49 UTC
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Former US national security advisor John Bolton joked about the First Amendment as a protesting journalist was detained for accusing him of lying about weapons of mass destruction and "covering up war crimes in Afghanistan."

Bolton's speech at an Institute for Policy Innovation conference in Texas on Thursday was interrupted by journalist Tayler Hansen, who stood up and accused the long-time war-hawk of lying about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 US invasion.

"You essentially genocided the Iraqi people," Hansen shouted at Bolton. "And you covered up war crimes in Afghanistan, sir."

"Why did you celebrate the arrest of Julian Assange?" Hansen continued. "Why do you think that's acceptable, sir? Is celebrating war crimes acceptable?"

Hansen was detained by security and removed from the conference. As he was led away, Bolton drew applause from the crowd when he remarked "that's another example of the First Amendment at work," referring to the US Constitution's guarantee of free speech.

Comment: In the case of John Bolton, there is no mask to review: the guy is unabashedly odious. Hansen is correct: guys like Bolton are political psychopaths.

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Light Saber

Corruption exposed: US meddled in Ecuador's 2017 election, used Julian Assange as bargaining chip

Ben Norton
Multipolarista
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:30 UTC
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L-R: Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa, journalist Julian Assange, ex energy minister Carlos Pareja Yannuzzelli, and current President Guillermo Lasso
A former minister of Ecuador testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement, backing a millionaire banker for president in exchange for giving up journalist Julian Assange, who had asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy.

Ecuador's former energy minister testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement of ex President Rafael Correa.

He said that US "federal agents" pledged to help "influence" the 2017 presidential elections and support the candidacy of conservative millionaire banker Guillermo Lasso in exchange for the promise to turn over journalist Julian Assange, who had been given asylum by Correa and was stuck living for years in Ecuador's embassy in London.

The former energy minister, Carlos Pareja Yannuzzelli, had fled a corruption investigation in Ecuador and was living as a fugitive from justice in the United States in late 2016 when he was offered large sums of money and US government protection in return for reading a carefully prepared "script" that made false accusations of corruption against Correa and his Vice President Jorge Glas, who was later imprisoned on highly dubious charges.
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Bad Guys

Lunatic ex-UK general calls for a second cold war


RT
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:27 UTC
General Sir Richard Shirreff
© BBCRetired UK General Sir Richard Shirreff
The former NATO big wig has argued that the West must refuse to negotiate with Russia

Retired UK General Richard Shirreff, formerly deputy commander of NATO, has called for members of the Western military bloc to refuse any negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine crisis.

"Any hint of negotiation will be exactly what Putin is looking for because it will mean he can hang on to bits of what he's got," Shirreff said this week in a Times Radio interview. "And make no mistake: His longer-term aims and the aims of any ultranationalist following Putin will be to continue the war, continue to try and rebuild the Russian empire and to wipe Ukraine off the map."

Comment: Jaw-dropping . . . .

Russia is lucky to have sane top brass. From 2017:
General Vladimir Shamanov, the head of the Defense Committee in the Russian Duma, called for the restoration of dialogue between Russia and the UK, while accusing a number of British generals of sabre-rattling.

Speaking to RT, Shamanov said he believes it is important that Britain and Russia work together in counter-terrorism and against drug trafficking, but only on the basis of mutual respect.

Cooperation was suspended by the UK government in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis.

General Shamanov called the fight against terrorism and drugs a fundamental responsibility of the entire global community, and thus "it must be shielded from any political disagreements between Russia and the West."


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Arrow Down

The West renounces freedom of expression

Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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© TribuneIn France, the Secretary of State responsible for citizenship, Sonia Backès, tries to discredit nonconforming opinions. She likens them to sectarian aberrations. The State, she announced, will organize "assizes of sectarian aberrations and conspiracy". In the Soviet Union, opponents were placed in psychiatric hospitals.
This is a debate that we thought was closed: Westerners had affirmed that freedom of expression is an essential prerequisite for democracy and that they would never violate it again. However, the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy and Germany have already embarked on the path of censorship. Now there are things not to say.

Freedom of expression had been a feature of the West since the 18th century. This was the basis on which the political regime supported by the middle classes was built: democracy. The principle according to which the general will would emerge from the confrontation of various opinions was no longer contested. Any attack on this freedom was seen as a blow to the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

However, at the beginning of the 20th century, when the World War tore the West apart, the British, then the Americans, did not hesitate to use modern means of propaganda, not only against their enemies, but also against their own population [1]. For the first time, democratic governments were setting up programs to deceive their fellow citizens. At the end of this war, the British prided themselves on their successes, suggesting a possible use of war propaganda in times of peace. Also, when the capitalist economic system was threatened and even before the Second World War had started, democracies and freedom of expression were put on hold, and propaganda resumed, first in Italy and Germany, then throughout the West.
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Bad Guys

US government declassifies post-9/11 presidential interview

Jarryd Jaeger
The Post Millennial
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:01 UTC
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On Wednesday, the US government declassified a summary of an April 2004 interview between then-president George W. Bush and vice president Dick Cheney and members of the 9/11 Commission.

In the interview, Bush and Cheney revealed how they dealt with the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the ensuing war on terror.

Bush began by noting that in months leading up to 9/11, he had received intelligence warning of potential hijackings "for the release of prisoners," but did not recall seeing other intelligence about aircraft as missiles, or about Islamic extremists learning to fly."
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Hardhat

Trump is 'ready for war' with 2024 Presidential announcement

Zachary Petrizzo
Daily Beast
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:28 UTC
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© Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/Getty
His advisers may be questioning his decision, but Trump seems dead set on announcing his candidacy Tuesday. And prospective GOP candidates may want to tune in...

Despite a worse-than-expected Election Day, a Georgia runoff, nervous advisers, and even a hurricane, Donald Trump is currently full-steam ahead on announcing his candidacy for president next Tuesday.

The announcement, slated for 9 p.m. EST at his Mar-a-Lago compound, will be full of MAGA pomp and circumstance, according to a source familiar with the event, and is meant to reignite a demoralized GOP base.

Comment: Always keep in mind just how much the establishment, on both sides of the aisle, want to prevent Trump from getting into the White House again, and the dirty tricks they're capable of. From what can be seen, DeSantis is a good candidate, but it seems as though many anti-Trumpers are hitching their wagon to that train. Makes one wonder why they seem to think he's a safe bet.

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Bizarro Earth

Two Possible Futures for Humanity

Who is Robert Malone
rwmalonemd.substack.com
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 07:47 UTC
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As we begin to emerge from the tunnel of the COVID crisis and all of the biowarfare, information warfare, WHO, WEF, and US Department of Homeland Security mismanagement which has caused so much damage, we are being presented with a "Great Reset" vision of a fourth industrial revolution, transhumanism, and a new class structure of Physicals, Virtuals, Machines and "Davos Man" Overlords which is being globally pitched by the World Economic Forum and its acolytes as the inevitable outcome.

Pointing out the naivety and flaws in the reasoning of Klaus Schwab and his wingman Yuval Noah Harari is a favorite trope of those writing from an alternative perspective. This recent essay, titled "The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari" (06 July 2022, Current Affairs) provides an example of the ease with which Harari's popularized dark visions can be dissected and revealed as sensationalist tripe. As author Darshana Narayanan summarizes,
"The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors".
Based on my reading, the same critiques apply to the books "COVID-19: The Great Reset" and "The Great Narrative" by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret. But the power of the WEF and its global army of trained agents to direct public policy at both national and transnational levels forces us all to take their poorly reasoned arguments and dark musings seriously.


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Quenelle - Golden

Hungary blocks EU's 18 billion euro aid plan for Ukraine


Top War
Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:32 UTC
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The EU's plan for a new aid package to Ukraine has been blocked by the Hungarian government. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing its own sources.

Earlier it became known that the European Commission was going to implement a plan of assistance to Ukraine totaling 18 billion euros. But this decision requires the support of 27 European governments. According to Hungarian Finance Minister Mihai Varga, Budapest did not support this decision, so now it will be impossible to implement the plan.

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Quenelle - Golden

'China already surpasses US in number of Military Industrial Complex areas' - Russian Military Expert reveals


Sputnik
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:00 UTC
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© AFP 2022 / NOEL CELIS
The Zhuhai International Airshow continues to surprise the audience with various innovations of the Chinese military-industrial complex. China has demonstrated serious success in various areas. Read more in Sputnik's interview with military expert Vasily Kashin, director of the HSE's Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies.

Sputnik: What innovations in terms of Chinese military aviation and aviation weapons have you paid attention to? How do you assess the capabilities of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force in conflicts with potential adversaries?

Vasily Kashin: The air show presented a large number of aviation weapons, including: a wide range of high-precision munitions for unmanned aerial vehicles, new types of guided air bombs for tactical aviation, and gliding bomb cassettes. They demonstrated a Chinese aviation missile that looks similar to Russia's hypersonic Kinzhal missile. This is a Chinese ballistic missile that can be launched from under the wing of a bomber. They also demonstrated samples of low-visibility cruise missiles. The range of air-to-air weapons was traditionally well represented, including what China is proud of: a new type of long-range air-to-air missile with an advanced guidance system, including radar systems with active phased antenna arrays.

Comment: The same incompetency and insidious corruption that is dragging the West into a confrontation with Russia and China, is also, thankfully, resulting in the West's militaries failing across the board. Meanwhile the militaries of China, and Russia, which are at the forefront of technologies, and efficiency, reflect nations that have succeeded in sufficiently routing out corruption, and keeping ponerization at bay:

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