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How Dick Cheney created Anthony Fauci

Ashley Rindsberg
UnHerd
Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:57 UTC
fauci senate hearing
© J. Scott Applewhite/Associated PressDr. Anthony Fauci responds to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 20, 2021.
America's biodefence strategy has finally backfired

Few people in America today are as powerful and polarising as Anthony Fauci. For the Left, Fauci is a consummate cool-headed scientist, emblematic of the essential role of government. On the Right, he is a Deep State operative who destroyed the lives of countless people to serve a hidden agenda, all while mysteriously taking home a bigger paycheck than any other of the country's two million federal employees (including their collective boss, the President).

The reality is that both narratives fundamentally misunderstand the position Fauci occupies in American government. Far from being a public health expert, Fauci sits at the very top of America's biodefence infrastructure. And contrary to the notion that he is a Deep State string-puller of the Democratic party, it was George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who not only put Fauci there but created the very framework that the immunologist-physician commands.
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Bad Guys

Erdogan sides with Putin: Ukrainian grain exports mostly going to 'rich countries'


RT
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:47 UTC
Putin Erdogan
© AFP/Turkish Presidential Service/Mustafa KamachiPresidents Putin and Erdogan at SCO Summit Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
The Russian leader is right to point out that most of Kiev's grain shipments go to rich countries, the Turkish president said

Ukrainian grain exported by sea under a Turkish-mediated deal with Russia is "unfortunately" going mostly to rich countries, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.

The remark came in response to criticism of the scheme voiced by his Russian counterpart on Wednesday. Putin was correct in his observation, the Turkish leader outlined during a news conference, according to the Anadolu news agency.

Putin argued that Western nations, which pressured Russia to allow the export of Ukrainian food products by claiming that it was necessary to alleviate the risk of famine "once again simply deceived developing countries."

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Eye 2

Dutch agriculture minister resigns after widespread farmer protests over government's sinister green agenda


EuroNews
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:25 UTC
Henk Staghouwer
(Left) Farmer protests, (R) Dutch agricultural minister Henk Staghouwer
The Dutch agriculture minister has resigned amid a tumultuous summer of protests by farmers over pollution regulations.

Henk Staghouwer, who held the position for only nine months, announced his departure on Twitter.

He later told reporters that he wasn't the right person for the job and would be resigning.

The country's lucrative agriculture sector has been in crisis since a 2019 court ruling forced the government to slash emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce.

Thousands of agricultural workers have staged protests, blockading cities with tractors and burning hay bales along major roads.
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Ambulance

England's Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral castle

Sean Coughlan
BBC
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:08 UTC
The Queen
© PAThe Queen was seen on Tuesday when she appointed Liz Truss as prime minister at Balmoral
The Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral after doctors became concerned for her health, Buckingham Palace has said.

All the Queen's children are gathering at, or are travelling to, her Scottish estate near Aberdeen.

"Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen's doctors are concerned for Her Majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision," a statement said.

The Queen is "comfortable", it added.

Comment: The timing is notable because, whilst The Queen was becoming increasingly frail in recent years, and it was only last year that her notorious husband, Prince Phillip, died, in just the last few months it has become undeniable that England is facing one of its worst crises in centuries - if not in its entire history - and it may be that, after 70 years as sovereign, the country will be facing the dire situation with another monarch in power.

It would be particularly interesting if Prince Charles, a man widely despised by the British public, were to take the reins, which would likely darken an already highly volatile state of affairs.

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Stormtrooper

Disaster: Ukrainian troops paint dire picture of Kherson fighting


RT
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:43 UTC
ukraine soldiers kherson
© Getty Images / Laurent van der Stockt for Le MondeParatroopers from the 81st Airmobile Battalion come out from a trench after a attack from a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher on July 5,2022 in Ukraine.
A Washington Post report on the 'counter-offensive' attempt comes ahead of a weapons suppliers meeting in Germany

As Kiev has banned journalists from the frontlines of the 'offensive' in Kherson Region, the Washington Post sent a reporter to a hospital in the rear area, where wounded Ukrainian soldiers told a harrowing tale of fighting against the odds. Wednesday's piece about plucky underdogs who just need more weapons, ammunition, and equipment appeared just ahead of a US-led meeting of Ukraine's arms suppliers in Ramstein, Germany.

Soldiers with "severed limbs, shrapnel wounds, mangled hands and shattered joints" told the Post about the "lopsided disadvantages" the Ukrainian army faces on the Kherson front. The Russians have more and better artillery, drones that can fly with impunity a kilometer high, and counter-battery radars that can call fire on Ukrainians' heads within minutes, according to the US outlet.

Comment: Yet the West continues to funnel an ever-decreasing supply of weapons to the Zelensky regime in the hope of 'bleeding Russia'. Rather, they are only bleeding themselves. In the meantime, Russia has barely begun to utilize the armaments available to them, not wanting to showcase how advanced they have become.

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India rejects US pressure for oil price cap, says 'we will buy from Russia, we'll buy from wherever'

Kyle Anzalone, Connor Freeman
The Libertarian Institute,
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 19:00 UTC
Modi putin xi jinping
© KremlinFILE PHOTO: Indian President Narendra Modi (L) meets with his Chinese and Russian counterparts at a meeting of BRICS leaders, September 4, 2016.
The White House called on India and China to implement the G7's price restrictions on Russian oil exports. Since the West started to curb energy exports from Moscow in response to the war in Ukraine, India and China have significantly increased their imports of Russian energy. On Tuesday, Moscow and Beijing signed a new agreement to trade oil in yuan and rubles.

US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said he hopes China and India will join the G7's price cap on Russian oil. "Our hope is that countries like China and India will join the price cap coalition, or take advantage of the price cap coalition, to lower the amount of money" that Russia makes from oil exports," the official said on Tuesday.

Last week, the G7 announced it would set a maximum price for which Russia could sell its oil. In order for the West's plan to work, Moscow and other countries must comply. The Kremlin reacted sharply to the announcement by indefinitely closing the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, a move which sent European gas prices skyrocketing.


Comment: Maintenance of Nord Stream I has been hampered by the West's sanctions; if Russia wanted to totally cut the West off, it wouldn't be offering to sell them LNG instead: Russia is now producing LNG near the shuttered NS1 pipeline, in direct competition with US gas exports

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Better Earth

Petr Akopov: Russia and China's growing partnership with the Islamic world spells trouble for the West

Petr Akopov
RT
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 06:49 UTC
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
© Getty Images / Alexei Nikolsky
The traditional Anglo-American strategy of playing "divide and conquer" with Muslim states may have run its course.

With Covid quarantines no longer a hindrance, summits have returned to the diplomatic agenda. First, the West returned to face-to-face meetings - EU and NATO summits have been taking place for some time now - and now it is the turn of the East.

Top Asian leaders have not met collectively for more than three years, but in a week's time the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will gather in the Uzbek city of Samarkand and will bring together all its leaders. Until recently, it was not entirely clear that Chinese President Xi Jinping would be coming, as some observers had assumed he would not leave Beijing before the Communist Party congress in mid-October. But it has since been announced that the Chinese leader will visit Kazakhstan next week, so a trip to Uzbekistan is also a foregone conclusion.

The meeting between Xi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will be the second this year, but the first since the start of the military operation in Ukraine. Also, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will meet for the first time ever in Samarkand. For the two neighbors with a history of fraught relations, the SCO is becoming an important platform for dialogue. And the SCO itself is rapidly outgrowing its original format as a Russo-Chinese security alliance in Central Asia and involving just the Central Asian republics. The group now boasts four nuclear states - that is, virtually all of the non-Western members of the club (except North Korea).

Comment: See also:

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Ice Cube

Europe faces 'polar winter' - Serbian president


RT
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:04 UTC
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic
© Getty Images / Darko Vojinovic
Europe is facing a difficult winter this year, but next winter will be "polar," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday, commenting on Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech at the Eastern Economic Forum.

Among other things, Putin stressed that Russia would not supply energy to countries adopting measures in breach of supply contracts.

He also said that amid the sanctions the EU imposed in response to Moscow's military operation in Ukraine, Russia no longer considers the bloc to be its main export destination. Although Serbia is not a member state, the country's energy supplies transit through countries that are, meaning that any EU sanctions on Russia also affect Serbia.

During a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Belgrade, Vucic admitted that he had listened only to a fragment of Putin's speech but understood his message quite well.

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Eye 1

Maximizing absolute control? An engineered food and poverty crisis to secure continued U.S. dominance

Colin Todhunter
Global Research
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
Food Crisis
In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a "hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system" in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine.

Guterres said food, fuel and fertiliser prices were skyrocketing with supply chains being disrupted and added this is hitting the poorest the hardest and planting the seeds for political instability and unrest around the globe.

According to the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, there is currently sufficient food and no risk of global food supply shortages.

We see an abundance of food but skyrocketing prices. The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and suppliers of inputs at the expense of people's needs and genuine food security.

The war in Ukraine is a geopolitical trade and energy conflict. It is largely about the US engaging in a proxy war against Russia and Europe by attempting to separate Europe from Russia and imposing sanctions on Russia to harm Europe and make it further dependent on the US.

Economist Professor Michael Hudson recently stated that ultimately the war is against Europe and Germany. The purpose of the sanctions is to prevent Europe and other allies from increasing their trade and investment with Russia and China.

Neoliberal policies since the 1980s have hollowed out the US economy. With its productive base severely weakened, the only way for the US to maintain hegemony is to undermine China and Russia and weaken Europe.

Hudson says that, beginning a year ago, Biden and the US neocons attempted to block Nord Stream 2 and all (energy) trade with Russia so that the US could monopolise it itself.

Despite the 'green agenda' currently being pushed, the US still relies on fossil fuel-based energy to project its power abroad. Even as Russia and China move away from the dollar, the control and pricing of oil and gas (and resulting debt) in dollars remains key to US attempts to retain hegemony.

Comment: Read an earlier interview talk between Pepe Escobar and Michael Hudson: "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." ~ C. S. Lewis

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Russia is now producing LNG near the shuttered NS1 pipeline, in direct competition with US gas exports

Tsvetana Paraskova
Oil Price
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 12:00 UTC
LNG gas russia ship tanker
Gazprom has launched liquefied natural gas (LNG) production at a facility close to the starting point of the now-shut Nord Stream gas pipeline to Germany, the Russian company's deputy CEO Vitaly Markelov said on Tuesday.

The Portovaya plant close to Nord Stream's compressor station of the same name, where Russia typically starts gas supply via the pipeline, has already produced 30,000 tons of LNG and has two operational lines, Russian news agency Interfax quoted Markelov as telling the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

"A tanker will arrive now to ensure LNG supply to customers. Considering the global markets, our LNG will be in demand," Markelov said.

Comment: The following Twitter thread details the implications of this development, but first are the highlights:
With Nord Stream 2 also blocked this year by German regulators at the behest of the US, Europe will now have to make up this energy shortfall another way. The most direct way? LNG

And while US LNG will have to travel to Europe from across the Atlantic, Russia can supply all these same countries much more readily from Vyborg, virtually right next door. As a result, Russian-supplied LNG is likely to be significantly cheaper than gas originating from the US.

How is the US likely to react to this "threat"? Most likely by pushing EU govts to sanction *all* Russian gas. However, as Europe enters the cold winter months, these sanctions will almost certainly spark widespread unrest as prices skyrocket, placing enormous strain on the EU.

Addendum — To those (correctly) pointing out that Portovaya's max capacity in LNG is much less than NS1 gas: dollar hegemony didn't collapse after the first oil trade was settled in yuan, nevertheless it was still the start of a significant shift toward a new paradigm!


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