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Russian troops arrive in Belarus under new deal


RT
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:34 UTC
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© Belarusian Defense MinistryA Salute
The first trains carrying Russian soldiers to Belarus under a new deal have reached their destinations, the Belarusian Ministry of Defence said on Saturday. This comes after Moscow and Minsk agreed earlier this week to deploy a joint force in response to NATO's increased military activity on Belarus' frontier.

The ministry said in a statement:
"The decision to create a regional grouping of troops has been taken and is being implemented solely to defend" the borders of the Union State amid the "ongoing activity in the border areas."
Founded in 1999, Union State is an organization which consists of Russia and Belarus and seeks to promote cooperation between the two countries.

Russian troops have arrived in the neighboring country after President Alexander Lukashenko announced this week that Moscow and Minsk had agreed to deploy an allied force on Belarusian soil. The move, he said, came in response to increased aggression from Kiev and the West.

Comment: Good idea or an expanded target, given Western insanity?
Thousands of Russian troops will be posted to Belarus with some 170 tanks, up to 200 armored vehicles, and up to 100 artillery pieces, Valery Revenko, an aide to the Belarussian defense minister, said on Twitter on Monday. The troops will be hosted as part of the recently created joint military force.

Earlier in the day, the Defense Ministry reported that Revenko had briefed 19 military diplomats on how the new joint force would operate. The official, who heads the foreign affairs department in the ministry, stated on Twitter that he had given the same details about the Russian forces to the foreign representatives.

Minsk decided to bolster its security by hosting Russian troops after its attempts to de-escalate border tensions were rejected, Revenko claimed to have told the military attaches.

Russia and Belarus perceive as threats:
"The deployment of NATO forces near [their] borders amid a lack of dialogue, increased NATO training with a focus on offensive action, [and] the encouragement of Belarussian radical elements to topple the legitimate government of Belarus."


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Stormtrooper

Et tu, PayPal? The EU's role in defunding dissent

Rober Kogon
Brownstone Institute
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 13:35 UTC
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PayPal appears unsure whether it should participate in the current crusade against online "disinformation" or not.

First it closed the PayPal accounts of The Daily Sceptic and the Free Speech Union, and even the personal account of their founder Toby Young, and then, two weeks later, it restored them. Then it announced that it would be docking $2,500 from anyone who uses its services in connection with "promoting misinformation" and then, two days later, it again reversed course and announced that this language was never intended to be included in its new Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

It was not intended to be included? Well, where did it come from then?

Could the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation and its Digital Services Act (DSA), about which I wrote in my last Brownstone article, have something to do with PayPal's skittish forays into "combatting disinformation?" Well, yes, they could, and you may rest assured that EU officials or representatives have already had a word with PayPal about them.

As discussed in my previous article, the Code requires signatories to censor what is deemed by the European Commission to be disinformation on pain of massive fines. The enforcement mechanism, i.e. the fines, has been established under the DSA.
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Brick Wall

"No borders, no countries" - Biden regime calls for North American Union - Rep. Matt Gaetz responds

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:50 UTC
Tucker Carlson, Blinken, Mexico, no borders, no countries
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, recently announced that US Secretary of State Tony Blinken proposed opening all borders between the US, Mexico, and Canada.

President Obrador: "I think that Mr. Blinken spoke about consolidating the region of North America. And we agree on that."

The plan would open up our borders permanently to the drug cartels running Mexico today. It is the latest insanity proposed by the Biden regime to permanently destroy the United States.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went on with Tucker Carlson to discuss this deadly proposal.

Rep. Matt Gaetz: It means that the globalist left wants a homogenized America because they don't think too much of the United States of America in the first place. I haven't got the answer. But it begs the question why are we so friendly with Mexico in the first place? They've cooked up more death in the Mexican mountains than more than any crazy mad scientist in Wuhan would have thought of... It's hard to tell where the cartels end and the government of Mexico begins. They had a former president take $100 million from Sinaloa. They had a former defense chief function as the muscle of the cartels. One of the state's attorneys general was sentenced to 20 years in the United States of America. While they're sleepwalking to a war with Russia they're actually surrendering American sovereignty to Mexico.
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Nuclear Armageddon?! Nah, But Likely Expansion of War Beyond Ukraine


Sott.net
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:40 UTC
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There are increasing signs that the war in Ukraine may expand beyond that country (and newly-acquired Russian territory): the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, the terror-bombing of the Kerch-Crimea bridge, the retaliatory Russian airstrikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, the ongoing delivery of NATO weapons to Ukraine, the fearmongering over nuclear Armageddon, and now the build-up of Russian forces in Belarus.

With the caveat of course, thanks to US government wordplay in late 2021, that the definition of 'imminent' is more fluid these days, fighting between NATO and Russian forces could soon be taking place in Belarus (and/or possibly from Belarus into 'NATO proper'!).

This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall lay out an alternative direction to US-Russia escalation that doesn't involve mushroom clouds, but which nonetheless risks bringing on more global socio-economic upheaval...


Running Time: 02:06:35

Download: MP3 — 86.9 MB


*** CORRECTION ***

At 12:30 we discuss the "regional grouping" of Belarusian and Russian forces inside Belarus this week, citing an RT report we erroneously read as saying "one hundred thousand" Russian troops had linked up with 70,000 Belarusian troops. In fact, the report quoted Belarus president Lukashenko as saying that "more than one thousand [1,000] Russian soldiers" would participate.

Since then, Western media, again citing the Belarus government, reports that the Russian military contingent in Belarus will be 9,000-strong.

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Bad Guys

The EU's biometric power-grab of demanding UK holidaymaker's fingerprints and facial images is sinister and grotesque

Silkie Carlo
The Telegraph
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:58 UTC
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If you're planning to escape to a chateau next summer, brace yourself for pointless chaos and travel disruption, thanks to the EU's latest Orwellian move to demand holiday-makers' biometric data at its borders. Brits hopping across the Channel will first have their fingerprints and photos taken. The new mass data-gathering scheme, which will go live in May, is part of the evolution of a so-called "Smart Border".

But there is nothing "smart" about the plans. The data grab has been justified by the aim of improving detection of dangerous travellers, finding vulnerable people, and reducing fraud, but it comes at an eye-watering cost to liberty and logistics. The border plans have been rightly described by civil society groups as "disproportionate and unnecessary", while the Port of Dover's boss has warned of "significant and continued disruption for a very long time".

All travellers aged over 12 will need to be biometrically logged, creating an EU datastore loaded with hundreds of millions of people's unique personal data. The EU is demanding not only a US-style set of four fingerprints, but facial images too. Holiday-makers' personal information will be mixed in with eventually billions of pieces of data, spanning photographs, palm prints, DNA records and facial biometrics, to which controversial recognition algorithms can be applied. This may be the biggest biometric data collection operation in European history. What could possibly go wrong?

Comment: See also: Europe's descent into totalitarianism

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Bad Guys

UK Labour Party files reveal conspiracy to oust Corbyn: where is the outrage, where is the action?

Leah Levane
Morning Star
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:00 UTC
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The shocking revelations from a recent investigation into the anti-Corbyn conspiracy and asks if Labour cannot act on this now, how can it be trusted by its members in future?
You would not know it from the mainstream media — or the Labour Party — but Al Jazeera has produced four devastating films about machinations designed to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters.

The mainstream media amplified every criticism, every stumble and every allegation until the narrative of Corbyn's unsuitability and Labour's anti-semitism became accepted as "the truth."

The station's investigative unit has scoured huge quantities of internal party documents, social media data, emails and covert recordings that reveal the concerted campaign to discredit Corbyn and his supporters, to undermine the democratic procedures of the party and much more.

Since Keir Starmer became leader, the attacks on those who support the ideas of the last two manifestos has continued, largely under the guise of rooting out anti-semitism.

Comment: It's fairly clear that Corbyn's integrity was a threat to the establishment and that his ousting freed up the position for a much more pliable, and seemingly sinister, character in the form of the current Labour leader, Keir Starmer. Notably, since the Corbyn coup, over 200,000 members have left the party: Below are some revealing interview snippets with Starmer with regards to his stance on the insidious LGBTQ ideology currently being foisted on the public:





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Recycle

Current host of G20 Central Bank Indonesia rails against reliance on US dollar for trade - media


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:57 UTC
South Korea
© REUTERS/Kim Hong-JiThe regulator wants to reduce reliance of the Indonesian financial markets on the greenback
Indonesia's central bank has spoken out against the use of the US dollar in export-import transactions, and called for a switch to local currencies in international payments to reduce dependence on the greenback, news portal Tempo.co reported on Friday.

Most of Indonesia's international trade transactions are conducted in foreign currencies, predominantly the dollar, according to Nugroho Joko Prastowo, head of Bank Indonesia's Solo Representative Office, as cited by local media.

"90% of export-import settlements are in US dollars, when in fact the value of Indonesia's direct exports to the US is only 10%, and the value of US imports is only 5%," the official told journalists after opening a session on 'Utilizing Local Currency Settlement (LCS) to Increase Export-Import Efficiency of the Greater Solo Region'.

Comment: Ditching the dollar as the world's reserve currency continues apace: China orders state banks to get ready for largest dollar dump in 30 years - Reuters

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Bad Guys

NATO 'de-facto involved' in Ukraine conflict - Kremlin


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 06:54 UTC
Kremlin
© Global Look Press / Konstantin Kokoshkin
Russia pledges to successfully conduct its military operation despite interference from the US-led bloc.

NATO has "de-facto become involved in the Ukraine conflict," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia 1 TV on Sunday, adding that this will not prevent Moscow from following through with its plans and achieving its military goals in Ukraine.

The Kremlin spokesman acknowledged, however, that NATO's interference makes it "significantly harder" for Russia to conduct its operation, though it does not change the goals.
"This [NATO involvements] requires... our internal mobilization in the field of economy and other spheres," he told Russia 1, adding that there is a major difference between "the Kiev regime and... the NATO potential." However, Russia's own "potential allows [it] to continue the operation under such circumstances," Peskov said.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

The Gaslighting of the Masses

CJ Hopkins
cjhopkins.substack.com
Sun, 16 Oct 2022 15:03 UTC
All seeing Eye
© cjhopkins.substack.com
For students of official propaganda, mind control, emotional coercion, and other insidious manipulation techniques, the rollout of the New Normal has been a bonanza. Never before have we been able to observe the application and effects of these powerful technologies in real-time on such a massive scale.

In a little over two and a half years, our collective "reality" has been radically revised. Our societies have been radically restructured. Millions (probably billions) of people have been systematically conditioned to believe a variety of patently ridiculous assertions, assertions based on absolutely nothing, repeatedly disproved by widely available evidence, but which have nevertheless attained the status of facts. An entire fictitious history has been written based on those baseless and ridiculous assertions. It will not be unwritten easily or quickly.

I am not going to waste your time debunking those assertions. They have been repeatedly, exhaustively debunked. You know what they are and you either believe them or you don't. Either way, reviewing and debunking them again isn't going to change a thing.

Instead, I want to focus on one particularly effective mind-control technology, one that has done a lot of heavy lifting throughout the implementation of the New Normal and is doing a lot of heavy-lifting currently. I want to do that because many people mistakenly believe that mind-control is either (a) a "conspiracy theory" or (b) something that can only be achieved with drugs, microwaves, surgery, torture, or some other invasive physical means. Of course, there is a vast and well-documented history of the use of such invasive physical technologies (see, e.g., the history of the CIA's infamous MKULTRA program), but in many instances mind-control can be achieved through much less elaborate techniques.
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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Global finance vs global energy: who will come out on top?

Karin Kneissl
The Cradle
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:00 UTC
opec russia saudi biden von der leyen
© The CradleThere is more to the current struggle between the oil-consuming west and the oil-producing nations than meets the eye and it runs far deeper than the war in Ukraine. In the war between global finance and energy, one fact remains clear: You can print money but you can’t print oil.
On 6 October, when the European Union (EU) agreed to impose a Russian oil price cap as part of a new package of sanctions against Moscow, 23 oil ministers from the OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries spoke out in favor of a sharp cut in their joint production quota.

Their collective decision to decrease output by about two million barrels of oil per day elicited strong reactions in the US in particular, and there was even talk of "declarations of war." The EU feels duped, as the OPEC+ production cuts could drive up fuel prices and dampen their eight sanctions packages. Despite the narrative of the world edging toward a "post-oil era," it seems there's life in the old dog yet, as OPEC remains the talk of the town.

OPEC is as relevant as ever
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