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'It's already happening' - Roubini warns 'World War lll has effectively begun'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 08:25 UTC
Roubini
© unknownEconomist Nouriel Roubini, Ph.D.
Economist Nouriel Roubini, who's been dubbed 'Dr. Doom' for his gloomy-yet-correct prediction of the 2008 market meltdown, is making headlines again during a series of interviews promoting his new book Megathreats.
"We have to worry about everything at the same time, as all these megathreats are interconnected..."
When asked if we're "there again" in reference to the 2008 great financial crisis, Roubini replied: "Yes, we're here again."
"But in addition to the economic, monetary, and financial risks - and there are new ones - now we're going towards stagflation like we've never seen since the 1970s."

Comment: How to sell a book and assure validation? Utilize scare tactics the reader already believes.

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Shopping Bag

Russia to donate 25,000 tons of wheat to Lebanon


The Cradle
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
Putin
© The HinduRussian President Vladimir Putin
The Lebanese Minister of Public Works and Transport, Ali Hamieh, told RIA Novosti news agency that Lebanon would get 25 thousand tons of wheat and 10 thousand tons of fuel free of charge from the Russian Federation.

"Russia will supply Lebanon with 25,000 tons of wheat and 10,000 tons of fuel for the country's power stations," the minister said.

Lebanon has been experiencing a profound financial, economic and political crisis for over three years. The banking system is almost completely paralyzed, the national currency has depreciated more than 20 times against the dollar, and as a result, more than 70 percent of the population has fallen below the poverty line.

The minister later clarified on Twitter that the Russian ambassador to Lebanon informed him of the Russian President's instructions about sending aid to the Lebanese state.

According to him, the dates for the delivery of wheat and fuel will be determined at a later point in time.

In turn, the Russian minister of agriculture, Dmitry Patrushev, said earlier that Moscow is ready to supply up to 500,000 tons of grain to the poorest countries for free in the next four months and completely replace Ukrainian grain, exporting to all interested countries at reasonable prices.
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Israeli finance minister added to Kiev's 'kill list'


RT
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:10 UTC
Lieberman
© AFP/Emmanuel DunandIsraeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman
Israeli finance minister, Avigdor Lieberman has been added to the controversial Mirotvorets website "enemies of Ukraine" database on Sunday.

The authors of the site, which is believed to have links to the Ukrainian security services, described Lieberman as an "agent of influence" for Russia, who had been manipulating publicly significant information in favor of Moscow. They also blamed him for taking part in acts of "humanitarian aggression" against Ukraine.

Among the actions that led to Lieberman being placed on the list, were his refusal to finance an Israeli field hospital in Ukraine in March and his neutral stance on who is to blame for the massacre in the Kiev suburb of Bucha in April. The website also shared a link to an article, claiming that he had ties with Russian gas giant Gazprom.

Ukrainian authorities have frequently expressed their disappointment with the level of support they've been getting from Israel during the conflict with Russia. The country has only provided Kiev with humanitarian aid and life-saving defense equipment, but not weapons and munitions. Israel also refrained from joining international sanctions on Moscow. Last week, Lieberman said that Israeli assistance to Ukraine since the outbreak of the fighting between Russia and Ukraine in late February amounted to some $40 million.
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Attention

No pain, no grain: Putin's Black Sea comeback

Pepe Escobar
The Cradle
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:03 UTC
After the western military attack on Sevastopol briefly halted Russian grain transports, Moscow is back in business with a stronger hand and more favorable terms.
Erdogan and Putin
© The Cradle
So, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan picks up the phone and calls his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin: let's talk about the "grain deal." Putin, cool, calm and collected, explains the facts to the Sultan:

First, the reason why Russia withdrew from the export grain deal.

Second, how Moscow seeks a serious investigation into the - terrorist - attack on the Black Sea fleet, which for all practical purposes seems to have violated the deal.

And third, how Kiev must guarantee it will uphold the deal, brokered by Turkey and the UN.

Only then would Russia consider coming back to the table.

And then - today, 2 November - the coup de theatre: Russia's Ministry of Defense (MoD) announces the country is back to the Black Sea grain deal, after receiving the necessary written guarantees from Kiev.

The MoD, quite diplomatically, praised the "efforts" of both Turkey and the UN: Kiev is committed not to use the "Maritime Humanitarian Corridor" for combat operations, and only in accordance with the provisions of the Black Sea Initiative.

Moscow said the guarantees are sufficient "for the time being." Implying that can always change.
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'It's done': realities of the hyper-transparent spy world

Alex Krainer
Alex Krainer's TrendCompass / Substack
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:39 UTC
Kim Dotcom: government secrets are only secret to ordinary people.

On Monday, 26 September 2022 someone blew up the Nord Stream pipeline system, built at Germany's request, to deliver Natural Gas from Russia to Germany. For a number of reasons, some of which I articulated in the article, "Britain's Secret Diplomacy and the European Wars," I thought that Great Britain was probably the mastermind and one of the perpetrators behind the attacks. Again, not any legitimate British government organization, but some deep state networks within the British military and structures. I expressed this view in the podcast withTom Luongo, published five days after the attacks.

Liz Truss
© Alex Krainer's TrendCompass
This week, Russia's Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defence revealed that Britain's (then) PM Liz Truss sent a message to the US State Secretary Antony Blinken, saying "It's done."

The message was sent only one minute after the pipelines were destroyed. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova demanded an explanation from the British government. Not surprisingly, the allegations were rejected on both sides of the Atlantic, with the UK Ministry of Defence claiming that the Russians were "peddling false claims on an epic scale." Of course they are: we all know that we in the west are the good guys and that the Russians are evil and far too unsophisticated for any such feat, so that should settle the issue. Or maybe not - Putin does hack into other nations elections and switch votes at will...

If you're not so sure about the western narrative anymore, please continue reading.
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The real "existential threat" to people and planet

Don Ritter
Watts Up With That?
Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
dystopia
It is government policies that promote green energy and suppress fossil fuels

It's ironic. The very Biden Administration and European Government policies that are supposed to address the asserted "existential threat" of climate change are themselves the true existential threat to modern civilization.

As someone trained in science and engineering, a lifelong hiker, gardener and lover of nature in the extreme, I want a healthy, sustainable planet as much as anyone promoting the climate change agenda. It's not that "green" energy is bad. It's that the rate of "going green," and the enormous investments required, are wildly disproportionate to society's energy needs, now and for the foreseeable future.

Elon Musk gets it, but most government leadership do not - or choose to remain silent. "Realistically, civilization will crumble if we don't continue to use oil and gas in the short run," Musk has said.

Civilization crumbling is clearly an "existential threat." And this guy sells electric cars! He also recommended "continued drilling and exploration for oil and gas," because he understands that producing and fueling electric vehicles will require substantial fossil fuel electricity generation, for years to come.
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Brandon's "Usable Nukes" Are the Fast-Track to Jopocalypse

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Brandon Nukes
"The Biden administration's Nuclear Posture Review is, at heart, a terrifying document. It not only keeps the world on a path of increasing nuclear risk, in many ways it increases that risk. Citing rising threats from Russia and China, it argues that the only viable U.S. response is to rebuild the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, maintain an array of dangerous Cold War-era nuclear policies, and threaten the first use of nuclear weapons in a variety of scenarios." Stephen Young, Union of Concerned Scientists
Maybe you're one of the millions of people who think the US would never use its nuclear weapons unless the threat of a nuclear attack was imminent.

Well, you'd be wrong, because according to the recently-released Nuclear Posture Review, the bar for using nukes has been significantly lowered. The new standard reads like this: (nukes can be used) "in extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the United States or its allies and partners."

"Defend the vital interests of the United States or its allies"??

That's a pretty broad net, isn't it? That could include anything from a serious threat to national security to an ordinary economic competitor. And that loosy-goosy definition appears to be just what the authors were looking for. The hardliners wanted to fundamentally change US nuclear doctrine so the conditions under which nukes could be used was greatly expanded. The obvious objective of this dramatic policy-shift is to eliminate any obstacle to the free and unfettered use of nuclear weapons. Which is precisely what the neocons have always wanted; a green light to Armageddon. Now they got what they wanted. Here are a few of the changes in policy that suggest that a full-blown nuclear war is no longer a remote possibility, but an increasingly likely prospect.

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Oil Well

Israeli-Lebanese agreement for the exploitation of Mediterranean gas

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:01 UTC
disputed territory israel lebanon
On this map, the disputed area between Israel and Lebanon is the small dark blue band.
The agreement signed by Israel and Lebanon, without ever meeting, finally allows to settle the problem of the maritime borders in the interest of both parties. This does not solve the basic problem of the sudden appearance of the Hebrew state in this region, but it allows to start exploiting new offshore gas deposits in both countries.

Three quarters of a century after the creation of the State of Israel, its borders are still not defined. So the agreement signed through the United Nations to fix the borders between its maritime domain and that of Lebanon is historic.

The discovery of gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean in 2011 aroused such appetites that all the states involved had a sudden desire to resolve the differences between them, at least on the subject of their maritime domain. In 2018, Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Israel reached an agreement on the joint construction of a gas pipeline to Europe. Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey were not officially part of this agreement.

Comment: See also:

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BOMBSHELL: Pfizer, Fauci, Biden lied about vaxx transmission data (Nuremberg II now)

Ben Bartee
The Daily Bell
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:57 UTC
Injection
The COVID truth trickles out in drips and drabs. I haven't covered every leak of late because it's exhausting and demoralizing.

Frankly, nearly everyone capable of rational thought in this matter has long ago defected from Team Vaxx. The normies still boosting themselves senseless, for the most part, are unable or unwilling to comprehend the crimes committed against them in the name of Public Health©.

The lies are exhausting. Pushing back on the COVID propaganda is like trying to argue with your compulsive liar mother-in-law. When you corner one lie, she slips through the net, unconstrained by the laws of physics that limit honest people. More lies lead to a never-ending game of Whac-a-Mole.

Eventually, you end up circling the postmodern drain until you give up out of sheer exasperation. Nothing has been settled and you just need a drink to unwind, having fruitlessly expended volumes of mental currency in exchange for indulging a liar in a pointless tit-for-tat over minutia.

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Stormtrooper

US media reporting American troops on the ground in Ukraine


RT
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:05 UTC
american soldiers bragg ukraine poland
© AP / Nathan PosnerMembers of the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army prepare for deployment to Poland from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, February 14, 2022
American troops are now on the ground in Ukraine, where they are monitoring NATO arms deliveries to the country, an anonymous Pentagon official told several US media outlets on Monday. It is unclear how many personnel are involved, or where they are located.

Speaking to reporters from the Associated Press, NBC News, and other members of the Pentagon press pool, the official said that the contingent of troops is led by Brigadier General Garrick Harmon, the US defense attache to Kiev.

"There have been several of these inspections," the official told reporters, without revealing where the examinations have taken place. He added that the checks are not happening "close to the front lines," but where security conditions allow.
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