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EU has run out of energy, Hungary will not - Orban


RT
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:57 UTC
Viktor Orban
© Bart Maat / ANP / Sipa USA / Gettyimages.ruThe Hungarian prime minister says his country will not experience any fuel shortages, despite the current energy crisis
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blamed the European Union's energy shortfall on bureaucrats and environmentalists, saying his own country is protected from the crisis.

"If we want to dig to the bottom of the problems, we always end up in the same place: the issue of energy. And the situation is that Europe has run out of energy," Orban wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday.

The premier blamed the situation on "fundamentalist greens and the bureaucrats" playing "geopolitical games," arguing that the bloc is refusing to use "different energy sources" for "political reasons," driving up the cost of living and damaging its industries.
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Rainbow

Here it comes

James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler.com
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00 UTC
Biden
© National Shooting Sports Foundation/KJN copyUS President Biden's finger on the syringe
The frolics of summer are done, the day shortens, the sky darkens, the suspense deepens....

Labor Day is in the rearview mirror and the long, sickening slide into we-know-not-what (but it can't-be-good) commences! Well, there are a few things we know, but only in the shaggy outlines because the folks who are supposed to inform us — the news media, the public health gang — like to keep the real action behind a scrim of unicorns cavorting through a rainbow-lit candyland. Of course, we are not all the idiots they want us to be.

Here's one thing we sort of know: you-all vaxx-happy Wokesters are about to have a new BA-5 bivalent booster laid on you. The Darwin Award season has been extended at least another six months! You'll be glad to hear it's been tested in a trial involving eight lab mice, and quickly approved by our FDA. The bad news is that all eight mice got Covid. The worse news is that the booster was wildly inconsistent in producing antibodies among the eight identical mice, meaning the ultimate effect on their immune systems is a crap-shoot — but, hey, they're only mice.
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USA

'Anatomy of a Police State': The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Conference

Ginny Gardner
LewRockwell.com
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00 UTC
RPaul
© APFormer US Representative, author, activist and physician, Libertarian Ron Paul
While at times it seems to many of us as if, as the 1965 Barry McGuire song goes, 'we're on the eve of destruction,' hundreds of high-spirited, intelligent freedom loving critical thinkers gathered on September 3rd to honor the greatest living liberty-promoting leader in their time: Dr. Ron Paul.

Attendees at a hotel near Dulles Airport 31 miles from Washington, DC ranged from teenagers to senior citizens who had travelled from distant points across America and Canada to be in the presence of the 87-year-old revered statesman. One young couple drove from Pittsburgh and camped out the night before in a tent. A teenager from Nottingham, Virginia told me how excited she was that her parents had brought her to her first Ron Paul conference. A businessman from Maryland who listens to each and every one of Dr. Paul's Liberty Reports broadcast Mondays through Fridays had his teenage son in tow.

Tim Pool, who pioneered on the scene, livestream journalism with his 2011 coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests, was there. Once a supporter of Bernie Sanders, regarded as a maverick by the Democratic leadership which denied the socialist their party's nomination, Pool's detractors now label him as "alt-right." Seeing the popular podcaster, who has 1.3 million YouTube subscribers, shaking the hand of Dr. Paul was a powerful, symbolic image of how the principles of liberty transcend the false left-right paradigm designed to divide and rule the people.

Comment: Messages, that used to be standards to live by, have become a rarity.

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Attention

Expert warns US descending into 'anarchy' amid heightened distrust of DOJ, law enforcement

John Ransom
Zero Hedge
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:00 UTC
Garland
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesSwearing-in of AG Merrick Garland • February 22, 2021
A legal expert has warned that the country risks descending into "anarchy" amid escalating criticism of federal law enforcement bodies in the wake of the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago.

Facing heated allegations of bias, the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Aug. 30 banned political activity of all non-career, political appointees at agency.

Garland wrote in a memo to DOJ employees announcing the ban against going to political events before the mid-term elections:
"We must do all we can to maintain public trust and ensure that politics — both in fact and appearance — does not compromise or affect the integrity of our work."
The ban came as public distrust of federal law enforcement agencies have trended to low levels, with 53 percent of voters agreeing with a statement that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is "Joe Biden's Gestapo," according to a survey by pollster Rasmussen conducted on Aug. 15 and 16.
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Oil Well

Looting Syrian oil, US forces smuggle dozens of tankers into Iraq


Press TV
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:27 UTC
convoy
© presstv.irUS convoy leaving Syria
The United States has smuggled a new batch of stolen Syrian oil into Iraq, continuing to plunder Syria's natural resources through a number of illegal border crossings.

"A convoy of the US occupation forces, consisting of 88 tankers loaded with stolen Syrian oil, left from the illegitimate Mahmoudiya crossing and entered Iraqi territory," Syrian media cited local sources from Yarubiyah countryside as saying on Friday.

According to the sources, US forces have transferred the convoy to their bases in northern Iraq.

Last month, the Syrian oil ministry said the US and its proxy militant groups pillaged over 80 percent of Syria's daily crude production in the first half of 2022. The ministry said in a statement:
"The amount of oil production during the first half of 2022 amounted to some 14.5 million barrels, with an average daily production of 80.3 thousand barrels, of which 14.2 thousand are delivered daily to refineries. US occupation forces and their mercenaries steal up to 66,000 barrels every single day from the fields occupied in the eastern region."
According to the ministry's data, the Syrian oil sector has lost "about 105 billion dollars since the beginning of the war until the middle of this year" as a result of the US oil theft campaign.
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US threatens to sanction buyers of Russian oil


RT
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 17:42 UTC
russia oil tanker
© Sputnik / Igor ZaremboTanker mooring at the wharf of the LUKOIL-Trans oil trans-shipping complex in Kaliningrad Region.
Washington has published guidance on a proposed price cap, but its level remains unknown

US companies will be allowed to buy seaborne Russian oil if they adhere to a price ceiling agreed by allied countries, the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in preliminary guidance published on Friday.

According to the document, the US will ban "services related to the maritime transportation of... seaborne Russian oil" from December 5, and services related to petroleum products from February 5, 2023.

The ban will not apply to buying Russian fuel at or below a price cap which will be established by the "coalition of countries including the G7 and the EU." If the rule is followed, services such as insurance and refueling can be provided to ships.

Comment: Game on.

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Kharkov: What's driving the latest military dynamics & what might come next?

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 10:38 UTC
Kharkov
The reality behind the latest dynamics is more nuanced than Kiev, its Western patrons, and Russia are claiming, which the present analysis will concisely explain. To that end, it'll identify the lesser-discussed factors driving the most recent on-the-ground developments, prognosticate what might come next, and then share some relevant observations about the Ukrainian Conflict in general.

The US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) is ecstatic about the latest military dynamics around Kharkov after Kiev's forces reportedly recaptured around 1,000 square kilometers (385 square miles) of territory from Russia and its Donbass Allies. That in turn prompted many of Moscow's opponents to glorify the advancing army on social media and share predictions about its supposedly imminent victory in the latest US-provoked phase of the UkrainianConflict that broke out in late February. The reality is more nuanced, however, as the present analysis will concisely explain. What follows is a bulleted list of points drawing attention to the lesser-discussed factors behind the latest military dynamics:

* Kiev's Forces Are Entirely Dependent Upon Foreign Military Support

Ukrainian presidential advisor Alexey Arestovich admitted in late March that Russia has "practically destroyed our defence industry", which means that Kiev's forces have only been able to keep the conflict going since then due to foreign (US-NATO) military support.

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Eye 2

Freeland says she is focused on her 'really big job,' but does not deny rumour she's eyeing secretary general of NATO role

Christopher Nardi
National Post
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:01 UTC
chrystia freeland
Asked if she was considering a run for the top job at NATO during a brief press conference Wednesday, Freeland neither confirmed nor denied her interest, but rather explained that she loves her current post.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she "already" has a "really big job" but did not deny rumours that she could be in the running to become the next secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Asked if she was considering a run for the top job at NATO during a brief press conference Wednesday, Freeland neither confirmed nor denied her interest, but rather explained that she loves her current post.

"So, I have a really big job already. In fact, I have two big jobs as finance minister and deputy prime minister of Canada," she told reporters in Vancouver, B.C., where Liberals are hosting a cabinet retreat.


Comment: What a busy little tyrant! She doesn't mention being on the board of trustees for the WEF. See: Chrystia Freeland's side gig with the WEF is endangering Canadian democracy


Comment: While Canada may fall short in 'buying stuff,' it might be hard for NATO to deny the position to such an ideal candidate.

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Bad Guys

Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria

Aaron Maté
The GrayZone
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:32 UTC
White Helmets
By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, US-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence.

Before it mired the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in an international cover-up scandal, the April 2018 probe of an alleged gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma achieved a milestone. After numerous claims of chemical weapons use in Syria, Douma marked the first time that an OPCW fact-finding mission (FFM) deployed on-site to conduct its own investigation.

Douma was not the OPCW's first try. Four years earlier, in May 2014, the chemical watchdog sent a team to the town of Kafr Zita. As in Douma, the organization was mandated to scrutinize insurgent-generated claims of a toxic bombing by the Syrian army. But unlike in Douma, the OPCW never reached its destination. After a roadside bomb hit the OPCW's four-vehicle convoy, armed insurgents opened fire and briefly kidnapped the inspectors.

The assault proved fateful. The OPCW abandoned not only the Kafr Zita mission, but all other on-site deployments in Syria going forward. It was not until the Syrian and Russian armies regained control of Douma in April 2018 — and after another violent attack, this time on a UN security team — that the OPCW would get back on the ground.

The four-year period between Kafr Zita and Douma, however, did not put an end to the OPCW's investigations in Syria. No longer sending its own staff into a war zone, the OPCW outsourced its duties to groups still able to operate there. Most of these missions concerned alleged chemical attacks in insurgent-controlled territory, where the Syrian government was always the accused culprit. In such cases, one of the OPCW's main newfound proxies was a group known as the White Helmets.

Comment: See also:

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Right-wing coalition on course to win election in Italy


Reuters
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 22:40 UTC
Giorgia Meloni
© AP Photo/Riccardo De LucaFratelli d' Italia party leader Giorgia Meloni speaks during a center-right opposition rally in Rome, 4 July 2020
Italy's far-right, right-wing and centrist bloc is on track to win a broad majority in both houses of parliament at next month's national election, benefiting from divisions among its opponents.

The conservative alliance leads opinion polls ahead of the 25 September ballot, with the far-right Fratelli d'Italia or Brothers of Italy set to be the largest single party.

On the basis of its election promises of tax cuts and higher pensions, a win by the conservative alliance may strain Italy's public finances, while the bloc would also be expected to crack down on illegal immigration.
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