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War Whore

Best of the Web: Tulsi Gabbard dares to challenge Washington's war machine


RT
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:41 UTC
tulsi gabbard
© AP Photo/Charlie NeibergallTulsi Gabbard.
The former presidential candidate has shown that opposing regime-change policies is the one taboo that the ruling class won't tolerate.

Tulsi Gabbard's rapid transformation from rising Democratic star to demonized outcast - culminating this week with her decision to leave the party - has exposed the one thing on which every powerful person in Washington can agree: war is good.

It's the one thing, in fact, that everyone must agree on, if they expect to attain any power and have a long and prosperous career in American politics. Those who don't will be kept on the fringes, at best. If they speak out too effectively, they'll be branded a traitor. As former congressman Ron Paul and his son, Senator Rand Paul, have proved, they'll never be taken seriously as a presidential candidate and won't be allowed to contest, regardless of how many debates they win.

Comment: See also:

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Dollars

What is programmable money?

James Corbett
Corbett Report / Substack
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:19 UTC
Programmable Money
© Corbett Report / Substack
There are 3 types of people in this world.

There are those who read that SWIFT has "solve[d] the significant challenge of interoperability in cross-border transactions by bridging between different distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks and existing payment systems" and
  1. get a chill down their spine
  2. rub their hands in glee
  3. ask what SWIFT is, get bored halfway through the answer and go back to checking their TikTok feed
Now, given that you're reading this editorial, you're probably in the first category of people. (And if you're in the second category, all I can say is GET OFF OF MY LAWN YA DAMN GLOBALIST BANKSTER, YOU!)

But I guarantee most of your friends, family, co-workers, neighbours and acquaintances are in the third category. And who can blame them? Financial mumbo-jumbo is designed to be as eye-wateringly boring and unsexy as possible.

But here's the rub: while the public focuses on distractions and entertainment, the global banking cabal is hard at work engineering a new form of money that will serve as the backbone of the most sophisticated system of financial surveillance and control the world has ever seen. It is not hyperbole to say that the very fate of the human species hangs in the balance.

So, are you at a loss to explain to your normie friends why the coming central bank digital currency (CBDC) paradigm is so important and why it should be a primary concern for all of humanity?

Well, then, today is your lucky day. This editorial is for you . . . and them!
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Dollar

Biden authorizes more weapons for Ukraine


RT
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 22:40 UTC
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© Alex Brandon/APGood To Go
US President Joe Biden ordered an additional $725 million in weapons shipments to Ukraine on Friday. The White House did not specify what the latest disbursement will consist of, only that it would be yet another drawdown of Defense Department "defense articles and services."

The Pentagon later clarified that the aid package will include an unspecified quantity of "additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)," thousands of 155mm artillery rounds and more than 200 additional Humvees.

Earlier this week, the US vowed to expedite the shipment of two of the eight NASAMS air defense systems it has long promised to Ukraine. The new package, however, will not include any additional anti-air capabilities.

Comment: Biden's race to the bottom is MIC's race to the top.

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Snakes in Suits

Creepy Biden offers unsolicited dating advice to yet another underage girl


RT
Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:45 UTC
Joe Biden
© AP / Carolyn KasterJoe Biden speaks at Irvine Valley Community College in Irvine, California, October 14, 2022
US President Joe Biden was recorded apparently sniffing a young girl's hair on Friday, before telling her "no serious guys until you're 30." The president has a long history of inappropriate comments to children.

Posing for photographs after a speech at a California community college, Biden placed his hands on the shoulders of a teenage girl and appeared to inhale deeply. He then offered the girl "a very important thing I've told my daughters and granddaughters, no serious guys until you're 30."

"OK... I'll keep that in mind," the girl replied, as Biden repeated himself. A video of the conversation was posted on Twitter by reporter Kalen D'Almeida.
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Newspaper

Saudi Arabia announces $400 million humanitarian aid to Ukraine


Reuters
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:20 UTC
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
© REUTERS/Louiza VradiFILE PHOTO: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (not pictured) at the Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, July 26, 2022.
Saudi Arabia will provide $400 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Saudi state news agency SPA said, adding that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made a phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday.

The crown prince expressed the kingdom's readiness to continue efforts of mediation and support everything that contributes to de-escalation, SPA added.

Comment: This rather token gesture reveals Saudi Arabia's ongoing efforts to reposition itself in the emerging multipolar world order: Global finance vs global energy: who will come out on top?

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TV

West prepping nuclear crisis plans, UK media reports


RT
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 05:02 UTC
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© The Times / ScreenshotOfficials are reportedly looking for ways to avert "chaos" at home in case of a nuclear event
Western governments are drawing up plans to avoid panic among their citizens should a nuclear weapon be used in Ukraine, two major UK media outlets have reported.

The alleged preparations come as NATO officials are fueling speculation about the possibility, and issuing repeated warnings that Moscow would face "severe consequences" if it deployed the bomb.

Asked whether options and crisis plans were in place to address the aftermath of a nuclear detonation in Eastern Europe, an unnamed Western official confirmed that such plans were underway, according to reports in the Times and the Guardian.
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Bad Guys

Sweden refuses to share results of Nord Stream attack investigation with Germany and Denmark


The Local
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:37 UTC
Nord Stream 1
© Odd ANDERSEN / AFPPipes at the industrial plant of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline in Lubmin, northeastern Germany, in August 2022. Sweden will no longer take part in a joint investigations of the Nord Stream pipeline links, according to reports in Germany on Friday.
Sweden will no longer take part in a joint investigation of the Nord Stream pipeline leaks, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Friday, citing German security sources.


Comment: 'Leaks' - it's widely accepted that there was an attack on the pipelines.


The Nordic country does not want to share results of its own investigations with other countries, according to the report. The exact security concerns that have resulted in Sweden dropping out of the joint investigation are unclear.

German police have completed investigations of the suspected sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines and have submitted their conclusions to the joint investigation, a spokesperson for the German interior ministry said on Friday.

Comment: What does Sweden have to hide? One can be sure they'd be eager to show the findings if they incriminated Russia.

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Satellite

Musk appears to cave, says SpaceX will continue to 'just keep funding Ukraine govt for free' with Starlink


RFE/RL
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 21:04 UTC
elon musk zelensky
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk now says that his company will continue to pay for the Starlink satellite Internet service for Ukraine, a day after suggesting SpaceX could no longer afford it.

"The hell with it," Musk said on Twitter. "Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we'll just keep funding ukraine govt for free."


Musk activated Starlink, a network of more than 2,000 satellites orbiting the Earth and thousands of terminals on the ground, in late February after Internet services were disrupted because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Starlink has cost SpaceX $80 million thus far and the cost will exceed $100 million by end of year, Musk said on Twitter on October 7.

He told his more than 108 million Twitter followers on October 14 that SpaceX cannot fund the network "indefinitely" amid reports that he has asked the Pentagon to step in.

Comment: Kim Dotcom called him out on Twitter. His reply:



Maybe the Pentagon had some words with him:
Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh confirmed on Friday that "the department has been in communication with SpaceX regarding Starlink," but declined to expand on the nature of those contacts.


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Putin

Putin issues warning to NATO against 'global catastrophe'


RT
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 20:18 UTC
F16 jets NATO Air Shielding exercise poland
© AFP / Radoslaw JozwiakF16 jets takes part in the NATO Air Shielding exercise in central Poland on October 12, 2022
Western leaders hopefully have "enough intelligence" to avoid a direct military confrontation with Russia, Vladimir Putin said

Putting NATO troops into direct contact with the Russian army would be a foolish step that could lead to "global catastrophe," Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday, following the Central Asia-Russia summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Asked whether NATO might send troops into Ukraine if the country was close to defeat in its conflict with Russia, Putin said this would be a "dangerous step that could lead to a global catastrophe."

"I hope that those who speak about this will have enough intelligence to prevent such a dangerous step from happening," he said.
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Yoda

Hungary's national consultation on the EU's Russian sanctions is the purest form of Western democracy

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 19:51 UTC
viktor orban hungary
Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary
Far from being the so-called "fascist" that his foes never tire of fearmongering that he supposedly is, Orban is objectively the last remaining practitioner of true Western Democracy in the world.

Over a month and a half after "The German Foreign Minister Discredited The Entire Concept Of Western Democracy" by stubbornly declaring that her government will continue sanctioning Russia despite the hardships that this has brought upon the German people, Hungary rose to the occasion to save that very same concept through its forthcoming national consultation on this issue. Prime Minister Orban, who's a bonafide conservative-multipolar visionary that vowed to double down on his independent foreign policy in complete defiance of his country's political enemies after winning re-election, will solicit his people's feedback on seven questions of relevance to their national wellbeing that read as follows:

Comment: Orban, like Putin (as well as Trump did who try) believes in putting the welfare of his own nation first. This is completely unacceptable to the EU elites. He doesn't care.

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