Kiev might be shelving its alleged 'dirty bomb' program after Russia exposed it, Moscow's deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, claimed on Tuesday. He added that Ukraine may well have time to do this before the upcoming nuclear inspection.

Over the last few days, Russian officials, including Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, have been accusing Kiev of preparing a false-flag attack with the use of a 'dirty bomb', a device combining conventional explosives with radioactive material. Ukraine has categorically denied Moscow's claims. Polyansky said:

"If you read the Ukrainian Telegram channels, you would see that there is a lot of fuss in the Ukrainian ruling circles now because of the campaign that we have started to launch, and there are many signs that they are trying to sort of wind down this program,"

In his opinion, Ukraine has enough time to scale back the 'dirty bomb' plans before the upcoming visit of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors.

"They can come, but I am telling you that a 'dirty bomb' is not a very complex device," Polyansky explained, adding that there is no guarantee that Kiev will not resume its alleged activity after the inspectors depart.

At the same time, the official claimed that the danger of Kiev using a 'dirty bomb' remains "very high," and that Ukraine "has the opportunity" and "has every reason to use it."

Russia is calling on the UN Security Council to establish a commission to investigate alleged violations of the convention prohibiting the production or use of biological weapons by Ukraine and the United States.

"We requested a meeting in two days in line with Article VI of the Biological Weapons Convention," the Russian mission to the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Moscow's ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, circulated a draft resolution ahead of a meeting set for Thursday, along with "a variety of documents and evidence that shed light on the true nature of military biological activities of the US and Ukraine on the Ukrainian territory."

Russia was forced to invoke Article VI of the convention to raise the issues with the Security Council after its repeated inquiries were largely ignored by Washington and Kiev, who "have not provided necessary explanations, nor have they taken immediate measures to remedy the situation," Nebenzia explained.

Moscow has alleged that the two counties conducted secretive, joint biological research on Ukrainian soil, claiming it had obtained incriminating evidence of those activities during the ongoing military operation. The Russian Defense Ministry has gradually released said materials to the public in batches since March.

"The data analysis gives evidence of non-compliance by the American and Ukrainian sides with the provisions" of the BWC, Nebenzia said.

The US and global economy is facing a "very, very serious" mix of headwinds that is likely to cause a recession by the middle of next year, warned Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, the largest US investment bank, on Monday.

Dimon pointed to the effects of runaway inflation, sharp interest rate rises and Russia's war in Ukraine, as factors that informed his thinking. But he added that the US was "actually still doing well" and consumers were likely to be in better shape compared with the global financial crisis in 2008.

At a conference in London, Dimon told CNBC:

"You can't talk about the economy without talking about stuff in the future - and this is serious stuff. These are very, very serious things which I think are likely to push the US and the world - I mean, Europe is already in recession - and they're likely to put the US in some kind of recession six to nine months from now."

Saudi Arabia's energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, has criticized nations for tapping their emergency oil stockpiles in order to manipulate prices, and warned of consequences if the reserves run dry.

"It is my profound duty to make clear to the world that losing emergency stocks may be painful in the months to come," the Saudi minister told the Future Initiative Investment conference in Riyadh on Tuesday.

He noted that the US' Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was not intended to relieve price pressures, but instead was meant to address emergency supply constraints. The comments come after US President Joe Biden announced the sale of another 14 million barrels from the SPR, following the release of 180 million barrels of oil since April.

Last week, the US authorities said they would release additional crude from the SPR to keep a lid on America's gasoline prices and then replenish the reserves. The historic use of emergency stocks has worried investors around the world, as excessive volumes of oil could flood the market and put it under pressure.

In a 28-page order, US District Judge Terry Doughty has ordered NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and other leading federal officials in charge of the response to Covid to be deposed in Missouri v. Biden — in which NCLA Legal is representing plaintiffs including Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff against the Biden administration for its coercion of social media companies to violate free speech during Covid.

Discovery documents in the case previously revealed a vast federal censorship army, with more than 80 federal officials across at least 11 federal agencies having secretly coordinated with social media companies to censor private speech, in what plaintiff Aaron Kheriaty described as potentially

"the most serious, coordinated, and large-scale violation of First Amendment free speech rights by the federal government's executive branch in US history."

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement:

"After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath. It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We'll keep pressing for the truth."

"There is serious concern that the West is trying to concoct a false flag that can be used to rally a reluctant public to go to war with Russia...The current scheme reportedly involves detonating a dirty nuke in territory ostensibly under the control of Russia. The Ukrainian military is suffering catastrophic casualties and... will have great difficulty sustaining any offensive. The United States and its NATO allies realize this and are searching for a pretext to send NATO forces to the rescue. It appears that the West is considering using the threat of defeating a nuclear attack as the justification for sending its own forces into the Ukrainian maelstrom." Larry C. Johnson, former CIA analyst and A Son of the New American Revolution

Due to a rapidly-emerging crisis in the $24 trillion US Treasury market, the Biden White House and their foreign policy advisors may have approved a plan for detonating a nuclear device in Ukraine. And while we have no evidence yet that such a plan exists, the devastating impact of a full-blown financial meltdown goes a long way to explaining why US powerbrokers might engage in such risky and potentially catastrophic behavior. In any event, the extraordinary claim that the Ukrainian government intends to use a "dirty bomb" or "low-yield" nuclear weapon first appeared in Russian news outlets on Sunday night. Here's an excerpt from an article at Tass News Agency:

Europe is facing its worst energy crisis in generations, with numerous factories shutting down and severe hardship expected during the approaching winter. Heavily industrialized Germany has been especially hard hit, with more than half of all small- and mid-sized businesses fearful that they might be forced to close, an economic catastrophe of Great Depression proportions. The only near-term hope of salvation had been an end to the self-destructive energy sanctions these countries had imposed upon Russia, which would have allowed plentiful and cheap Russian natural gas to resume flowing through the Russian-owned Nord Stream pipelines.

Although the European governments remained firmly opposed to that solution, many ordinary Europeans felt differently, and in recent days large public demonstrations in Germany and the Czech Republic had demanded that the sanctions be lifted. There was widespread speculation that such popular protests would eventually carry the day, if not immediately then once winter hardship became too severe. The outcome would be a negotiated end to the Ukraine war along the general lines suggested by Russia, resulting in a strategic defeat for America and NATO.

Independent Science News just published the in-depth investigative piece "Did West Africa's Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?" by virologist Jonathan Latham, the editor of ISN, and myself. I believe the piece's ramifications are profound and have a serious bearing on what has transpired with the Covid pandemic.

Synopsis: The Ebola outbreak of 2014 was a disaster for West Africa. Over 11,000 lives were lost amidst intense negative social and economic consequences. The 2014 outbreak of Zaire Ebola (as the species is known) is today commonly cited as a bona fide example of a natural zoonosis that began in the country of Guinea. However, as is widely known, the 2014 outbreak was puzzling on multiple levels. The greatest of these puzzles is that all previous Zaire Ebola virus outbreaks occurred in the Congo basin, which is thousands of miles away. Additionally, to this day, despite extensive sampling, no animal source of Zaire Ebola virus in West Africa has ever been identified. At the same time, in Sierra Leone, not far from the border with Guinea, is the town of Kenema which hosts a U.S.-funded virus research facility. The research focus of this lab, which is run by the U.S.-based Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, are the viral hemorrhagic fevers of which Ebola is one.

"Sleepy" Joe Biden is at it again.

During an interview with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart, the President was asked if his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, supports him running for reelection in 2024 - to which Biden's brain appeared to reboot with updates. As it searched for a gear, Capeheart asks: "Mr. President?"

To which Biden ultimately replied: "Dr Biden thinks that uh, my wife thinks that uh, that I uh, that, that we're, that we're doing something very important and that I shouldn't walk away from it."

We now have an embarrassment of 'wars' of which paradoxically, Ukraine is perhaps of lesser strategic import - though it does retain significant symbolic content. A 'flag' around which narratives are spun and support rallied.

Yes, there are no less than five overlapping and interlinked 'wars' underway - and they need to be clearly differentiated to be well understood.

These last weeks have witnessed several epochal shifts: The Samarkand Summit; the OPEC+ decision to reduce the oil production of member nations by a (headline) two million barrels per day as of next month; and President Erdogan's explicit declaration that "Russia and Turkey are together; working together".

Bedrock U.S. allies, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, India, South Africa, Egypt and groupings such as OPEC+ are taking a major step toward autonomy, and toward the coalescence of non-Western nations into a coherent bloc - acting to its own interests and doing politics 'its own way'.