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Moscow demands involvement in Nord Stream investigations


RFE/RL
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Danish Defence/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesGas leak at Nord Stream 2 seen from a Danish F-16 interceptor
Russia says it has summoned the ambassadors of Germany, Denmark, and Sweden and handed them notes of protest challenging their investigations into several explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on October 13 that Moscow will not recognize any "pseudo-results" of the investigations conducted by Western nations if Russia is not allowed to take part in them.
"If Russian experts are not allowed to get involved in the ongoing investigative operations, Moscow will consider that the aforementioned countries have something to hide or that they are covering up for those who implemented the terrorist acts."
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Red Flag

Beware of nuclear false flag blaming Russia

Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review
Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Zelinsky
E. Michael Jones says if someone sets off a nuke, it will be the US, not the Russians

Dr. E. Michael Jones issued a disturbing warning on this week's False Flag Weekly News:
Col. (Douglas) MacGregor was on some platform yesterday saying that there is no evidence whatsoever that the Russians are planning to use nuclear weapons. They don't need to. They have overwhelming military superiority at the moment as they're building up for the fall offensive. So it seems to me what we're really talking about here is America setting off a nuclear bomb and attributing it to Russia. In case you didn't notice, they did this already with the pipeline, so why wouldn't they do it with a nuclear weapon?
Jones' warning comes amid signs that the US leadership is actively considering nuclear war. Joe Biden recently announced that the world is on the brink of nuclear apocalypse. His government seems to be preparing for that eventuality:
On Wednesday, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it would spend $290 million to secure an undisclosed quantity of Amgen's blood disorder drug Nplate, which has been approved to treat blood cell injuries caused by acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in both children and adults.

Comment: As the US and insane allied Western countries and institutions become increasingly desperate to demonize and defeat Russia, it wouldn't surprise us one bit to see some kind of false flag of this nature actually being played out.

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Dollar

Fauci made serious bank while he pushed lockdowns on the rest of us, records show

Vivek Saxena
American Wire
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:59 UTC
Anthony Fauci
© Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Dr. Anthony Fauci's net worth soared by $5 million to a high of $12.6 million while he was pushing for lockdowns and other diktats during the height of the COVID pandemic, according to financial disclosures from the National Institutes of Health.

Received and reviewed this week by OpenTheBooks, a watchdog group, the disclosures show that Fauci's household net worth increased from $7.6 million on Jan. 1st, 2019 to $12.6 million as of Dec. 31st, 2021.

The spike in net worth came from several places: From his salary, from his benefits, from his investments, and from gifts/awards.

Comment: See also:

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Light Saber

Russia foils attack on Turkstream pipeline


RT
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 20:17 UTC
russia turkey turkstream pipeline opening ceremony
© Burak Kara / Getty ImagesRussian, Turkish, Bulgarian and Serbian officials attend the opening ceremony of the Turkstream Project on in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Russian president's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, says the suspects were seeking to destroy a section of TurkStream

Saboteurs have been detained while plotting to blow up part of the TurkStream pipeline, which delivers Russian natural gas to Türkiye, the Kremlin's spokesman claimed on Thursday.

"Certain forces ... have already made an attempt on TurkStream. The saboteurs have been caught, and several people have been arrested. They wanted to blow it up. On our territory, on soil," Dmitry Peskov said.
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Telephone

The 1980s called. They want their foreign policy back and Republicans to finally wake up

Rachel Bovard
The Federalist
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Reagan
© screenshotFormer US President Ronald Reagan
Forty years ago, I wasn't even born. Joe Biden still had his own hair. Scott Hahn was a Presbyterian. And I know this is hard to believe, but the Republican Party in Washington was focused on tax cuts, inflation, and fighting proxy wars against Russia.

That's the first lesson in conservative politics. The more things change, the more the GOP establishment stays the same. So one answer to the question, "What's new on the New Right?" is simply, "The times."

Frankly, I'm not even sure "New Right" is an accurate description of the populist, nationalist energy now driving the conservative movement. Republican leaders of Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney's vintage may be disoriented by a grassroots base skeptical of free trade, hostile to concentrated power in the public or private sector, and suspicious of globalist utopianism and military adventurism. But Calvin Coolidge and Robert Taft would be perfectly comfortable in such a coalition.

Don't forget that the Moral Majority, Laffer curve, Cold Warrior, fusionist conservatism of the 1970s itself was once called the New Right, as it should have been. Ronald Reagan was different from previous conservative leaders and succeeded mostly because he answered his moment in history. He updated conservatism to meet the Soviet aggression, stagflation, and malaise that defined Jimmy Carter's America.

But fusionism, for all its successes, isn't holy writ. It was simply a pragmatic clustering of interests to form a political coalition in its time.
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Shopping Bag

Ukraine gets highly anticipated arms from Germany - Spiegel


RT
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:23 UTC
launcher
© wikipediaIRIS-T SLM launcher
Ukraine has received the first of four IRIS-T SLM air defense systems from Germany, Der Spiegel reported on Tuesday. With its own weapons stockpiles seriously depleted, Germany is gifting this ultra-modern system to Kiev before its own forces.

The system - which comprises a command vehicle, a radar vehicle, and a truck-mounted launcher capable of firing eight missiles - was handed over to the Ukrainian military next to the Polish-Ukrainian border on Tuesday, the German magazine reported.

The handover took place four days after German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht made an unannounced visit to Ukraine, where she promised her Ukrainian counterpart, Aleksey Reznikov, that his country would receive the IRIS-T "in a few days." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged to provide this system to Ukraine back in June, with delivery initially slated for November.

In an update on Monday, Lambrecht said that Russia's devastating missile strikes on Ukrainian military and infrastructure targets that morning showed "how important it is to supply Ukraine with air defense systems quickly."

Berlin has promised Ukraine at least four IRIS-T systems, each of which can supposedly strike incoming missiles up to 40 kilometers (25 miles) away. Ukraine has reportedly asked Germany for at least a dozen of these systems, and offered to purchase them directly from the manufacturer, Diehl Defense.

Comment: Germany is only one of the Western puppet proxies severely depleting their war stocks - perfect for Russia should the West deign to engage more directly.
The first unit of Germany's cutting-edge IRIS-T air defense system has arrived in Ukraine, the country's Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov has confirmed. His German counterpart Christine Lambrecht described the shipment as an important contribution to the Eastern European nation's ability to defend itself from "missile shelling."
The air defense system is rather expensive, according to former Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andrey Melnik. Speaking to Wirtschaftswoche magazine back in June, the diplomat estimated that one such unit could cost some €140 million ($135.4 million).
Not to be outdone:
The US is expediting the shipment of two of the eight NASAMS air defense systems it's promised to Ukraine, White House spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday. The announcement follows Monday's phone call between US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky.

Washington had approved, in late August, the delivery of National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to Kiev, with two systems expected to be delivered soon and six more arriving in the longer term.

"We think that we're on track to get those first two over there in the very near future. We are certainly interested in expediting the delivery of NASAMS to Ukraine as soon as we can."

Biden and Zelensky talked on Monday in the wake of a massive Russian missile barrage on Ukrainian military targets and infrastructure.

During that call, the US President "pledged to continue providing Ukraine with the support needed to defend itself, including advanced air defense systems."
Stoltenberg, with no real skin in the game, makes demands:
NATO member states should focus more on providing anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems to Ukraine, the secretary-general of the alliance said on Wednesday. Jens Stoltenberg stressed Kiev's "urgent need" for such weaponry, ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels.
"Allies have provided air defense, but we need even more. We need different types of air defense, short-range, long-range air defense systems to take ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones."
The NATO chief praised Germany for the reported delivery of advanced IRIS-T interceptors to Kiev. He added that NATO needs to "scale up" such supplies, as Ukraine is a big country with many cities that need protection against Russian strikes.
Zelensky demands more defenses from the West:
President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the West to supply more anti-aircraft weapons to Ukraine, insisting that his country currently has only 10% of what it needs.

Zelensky made the remarks as he addressed a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Thursday via videolink.
"Our ability to close the skies is not sufficient. Ukraine would like to receive 'many times' more anti-aircraft defense systems from the West. I ask you at all levels, in politics, in the media, in communication with voters, to back the supply of sufficient air and missile defense systems to Ukraine."


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Russia names chief suspect in Crimea Bridge attack


RT
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:37 UTC
Scan image
© FSBAn image released by the FSB allegedly shows a truck with explosives on board during a scanning procedure
Russia's domestic security service, the FSB, has announced arrests over the attack on the Crimean Bridge. It has also revealed details of the alleged Ukrainian terrorist plot, including its mastermind.

The agency accused the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry of being behind the explosion, which damaged the strategic structure last Saturday. It claimed that Commander, Kirill Budanov, was personally responsible for the operation.

Russia has identified 12 individuals as suspected accomplices in the plot and has arrested eight of them, the FSB said. The list of people in custody includes five Russians and three foreigners, who have citizenship of Ukraine and Armenia.

The FSB claimed that the deadly cargo came from the Ukrainian city of Odessa. The explosives were disguised as rolls with plastic construction film, which were shipped on pallets and weighed 22,770 kg, the statement said.

Comment: Ukraine disses and deflects the FSB investigation:
On October 12, a senior Ukrainian official dismissed Russia's investigation as "nonsense."

"The whole activity of the FSB and Investigative Committee is nonsense," Ukraine's public broadcaster Suspilne cited Interior Ministry spokesman Andriy Yusov as saying.

Yusov described the FSB and Investigative Committee as "fake structures that serve the Putin regime, so we will definitely not comment on their next statements."


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Bulb

Disconnecting Ukraine from the energy grid

Daniil Bezonsov
Stalkerzone
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
dark city
© Unknown
I propose to discuss the consequences of disconnecting Ukraine from electricity not as energy experts, but as ordinary people.

For the army, this will be a disaster. At a minimum, it will be impossible to charge old batteries in military equipment, as well as batteries in walkie-talkies and mobile phones. For the Ukrainian army, the time of scarce phones will begin, which does not solve all the problems in modern warfare and is significantly inferior in efficiency and mobility to walkie-talkies. In addition, Ukrainian fighters boast that they have everything automated, that they actively use digital maps on smartphones or special tablets, as well as software for artillerymen, such as "Krapiva", or American DELTA troop control software, where they flock online and received intelligence on their adversary. Unfortunately, these technical solutions are currently some kind of advantage over us.

Depriving them of this opportunity and sending them back to paper maps, we will get a tangible result very quickly. Fuel generators will not close these problems.

The lack of electricity will also hit the civilian sector hard, which in wartime is closely linked to the army. The stronger the rear, the stronger the army. The economy will collapse. Cities without electricity will turn into traps. Water utilities will not work without electricity. Water supply and sewerage will be closed in cities. In the near future, in order to survive, the inhabitants of the cities will have to leave their homes, go to the villages and start raising agriculture by hand. Even the absence of mobile communications at first will be a shock to society.

But the biggest blow for the Ukrainian state will be the disconnection of the people from TV and the global Internet.

Comment: However effective, this solution would be a 'turn off' for most folks.

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COVID-19 vaccine was not tested on stopping transmission, Pfizer exec concedes

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 09:58 UTC
Pfizer
A Pfizer executive said on Monday that neither she nor other Pfizer officials knew whether its COVID-19 vaccine would stop transmission before entering the market in late 2020.

Member of the European Parliament, Rob Roos, asked during a session:
"Was the Pfizer COVID vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market? Did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market?"
Pfizer's Janine Small, president of international developed markets, said in response:
"No ... You know, we had to ... really move at the speed of science to know what is taking place in the market."
Roos, of the Netherlands, argued in a Twitter video Monday that following Small's comments to him, millions of people around the world were duped by pharmaceutical companies and governments.
"Millions of people worldwide felt forced to get vaccinated because of the myth that 'you do it for others.'" Now, this turned out to be a cheap lie" and "should be exposed."

Comment: Worth the gander:



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Piggy Bank

Is this the real driver behind the BoE's high risk 'game of chicken' with markets?

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 11:16 UTC
KwartengTruss
© FT Montage/Charlie Bibby/Getty/DreamstimeChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng • PM Liz Truss
The brazen talk from BoE's Bailey yesterday afternoon, stating with conviction that the "temporary" bond-buying program would in-fact end this Friday on original deadline and risking an upgraded 'left-tail' rates calamity through accelerated asset liquidations in a tight window, was not simply an 'avoidance of moral hazard' exercise from the BoE head - where the central bank would again be 'on the hook' to backstop Funds needing to get their liquidity / cash 'houses in order' and appropriately deleveraged in short-order, versus the BoE sole-priority on continuing their fight against inflation as lone mandate.

Instead, writes Nomura's Charlie McElligott this morning, the comments were (admittedly dangerous) gamesmanship from the BoE head back to the Truss' government, a high risk "game of chicken" which is saying, "I'll let markets dictate to you whether you and your budget survive" - and effectively saying that the blood will be on the Government's hands if there is a pension disaster which will then require a later 'bail-out'.

The Nomura strategist's view of this 3-D Chess game being played by Bailey to force the death of the Truss / Kwarteng budget is somewhat confirmed by the price action in UK bonds and cable this morning - simply put, it's not a bloodbath...
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