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EU can no longer afford national vetoes on foreign policy, German chancellor says

Riham Alkousaa, Jane Merriman
Reuters
Sun, 17 Jul 2022 06:50 UTC
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
© REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschFILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a joint statement at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, July 12, 2022. The left wing of Germany's Social Democrats has reportedly urged the chancellor to stop arming Kiev and push for diplomacy instead.
The European Union can no longer afford to keep national vetoes when deciding on European Union foreign and security policy if it wants to maintain a leading role in global politics, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

Moscow's war in Ukraine makes unity in Europe ever more urgent and increases pressure for an end to "selfish blockades" of European decisions by individual member states, Scholz said in an article published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper on Sunday.

Comment: It means even further centralisation of power in the EU. Some unelected beaurocrats will have even more power making important decisions that will influence our lives.

As the people are rioting against the ruling " elites" around the world and their catastrophic politics that are destroying peoples life and economy, they are trying to make the authoritarian rule and police state even stronger. Welcome to Orwell's 1984.

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EU's foreign policy commissar, Borrell, admits goal of anti-Russian sanctions


RT
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 06:33 UTC
Russian gold
© Sputnik/Ilya Naymushin
Brussels aims to create problems for the Russian economy, but it won't stop the fighting in Ukraine, said Josep Borrell
The embargoes imposed by the European Union against Moscow are intended not to stop the fighting in Ukraine, but wreck the Russian economy, the bloc's foreign policy commissioner Josep Borrell said in Brussels on Monday. Borrell also announced an EU ban on Russian gold exports later this week.

"The EU sanctions will not stop the military activities in Ukraine, but ought to create a lot of problems for the Russian economy," Borrell said, adding that the EU "cannot afford sanctions fatigue."

Russian President Vladimir Putin "counts on the fatigue of democracies with sanctions," the EU high representative for foreign policy said. "It is not easy but we must continue to put pressure on the Russian economy. Our European societies must not abandon this policy," he added.


Comment: It makes it clear for anyone that it was never about protecting Ukraine or EU values or whatever other reasons they have said in the past. It was always about using Ukraine and the Ukrainian people to fight Russia.


Comment: Borrell is also the person who said that there would only be a military way to solve this crisis. As a consequence of having such people as rulers in the West, Ukraine will be sacrificed as will the people of the EU.

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Imran Khan rewrites Pakistan's political history

MK Bhadrakumar
The Cradle
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 02:43 UTC
Against the odds and powerful rivals pitted against him, former PM Khan's win in Punjab elections is a victory for democracy and Pakistan's sovereignty.
Imran Khan
© The CradlePakistan’s ousted president Imran Khan trounces his opponents by a wide margin in their own stronghold of Punjab.
It is an unsavoury proposition always, be it in India or Pakistan, when political power is usurped by fly-by-night operators who engineer defections from a ruling party, and an established government gets overthrown despite its mandate to govern.

In India — so far, at least — such shenanigans leading to regime change at the federal or state level have not been manipulated by foreign powers — except, perhaps, in the ouster of the first communist government in the southern state of Kerala, way back in 1959.

In South Asian politics, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives have been chronic cases where foreign interference in their domestic politics has become endemic. But they are either small countries or weak states, vulnerable to external pressure.
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EU's top diplomat hits back at Hungary over claims Russia sanctions 'will destroy Europe's economy'


RT
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 21:35 UTC
borell
© Dalati Nohra/REUTERSJosep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Josep Borrell insisted the restrictions are not a mistake, after Hungarian PM Viktor Orban called them "miscalculated"

The EU's top diplomat has hit back at those who criticize the Western sanctions slapped on Russia, saying on Monday that he does not believe them to be a mistake, and adding that the bloc will continue to stand by its policies.

"There is a big debate about 'are the sanctions effective? Are the sanctions affecting us more than Russia?' Some European leaders have been saying that the sanctions were an error, were a mistake. Well, I do not think they were a mistake, it is what we had to do and we will continue doing," Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, told reporters prior to the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels.

Comment: As it happens, Borrell has plainly laid out the goals sanctioning Russia were intended to accomplish.
The embargoes imposed by the European Union against Moscow are intended not to stop the fighting in Ukraine, but wreck the Russian economy, the bloc's foreign policy commissioner Josep Borrell said in Brussels on Monday. Borrell also announced an EU ban on Russian gold exports later this week.

"The EU sanctions will not stop the military activities in Ukraine, but ought to create a lot of problems for the Russian economy," Borrell said, adding that the EU "cannot afford sanctions fatigue."

Russian President Vladimir Putin "counts on the fatigue of democracies with sanctions," the EU high representative for foreign policy said. "It is not easy but we must continue to put pressure on the Russian economy. Our European societies must not abandon this policy," he added.

Borrell's comments echoed the argument he made in a blog post over the weekend, responding in part to Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's statement that the embargo policy has been "miscalculated" and harmed the EU members more so than Moscow.

Borrell revealed that the EU is planning to impose a ban on Russian gold later this week, in a mini-package of measures intended to improve the implementation of existing sanctions. The ban would affect the "the direct or indirect import, purchase or transfer of gold, which constitutes Russia's most significant export after energy," according to the wording leaked to the Guardian.
It's not going according to plan: The West's sanctions on Russia have (oh, so predictably) developed into a major cluster**k for Europe. Borell's efforts to put a good face on a losing situation are just sad.

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The Assassination of Archduke Shinzo Abe

Emanuel Pastreich
Fear No Evil
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:46 UTC
memorial abe japan assassination
© Associated PressPeople pray near the makeshift memorial where Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in Nara on July 8, 2022.
July 8 was a muggy day in the ancient capital of Japan. Shinzo Abe, the most powerful figure in Japanese politics, was delivering a stump speech for a local Liberal Democratic Party candidate in front of the Nara Kintetsu railway station when suddenly a loud bang rang out, followed by an odd cloud of smoke.

The response was incredible. Among those in the unusually large crowd gathered, not a single person ran for cover, or hit the ground in terror.

Abe's body guards, who stood unusually far away from him during the speech, looked on impassively, making no effort to shield him, or to pull him to a safe location.

A few seconds later, Abe crumpled and collapsed to the ground, lying there impassive in his standard blue jacket, white shirt, now speckled with blood, and trademark blue badge of solidarity with Japanese abductees in North Korea. Most likely he was killed instantaneously.
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Germany and France 'killed' Minsk agreements - Russia


RT
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:48 UTC
Lavrov
© Global Look Press/Russian Foreign MinistryRussian FM Sergey Lavrov
Germany is demanding that Russia guarantee Ukraine's territorial integrity.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote, in an op-ed for the Russian newspaper Izvestia:
"When [German Chancellor] Olaf Scholz demands that Russia should be compelled to sign an agreement granting Ukraine guarantees of territorial integrity and sovereignty, all his attempts are in vain. There was already such a deal - the Minsk agreements - which was killed by Berlin and Paris. They were shielding Kiev, which openly refused to comply."
Russia, Germany and France brokered the 2015 Minsk agreements between Ukraine and Donbass, which were designed to put an end to hostilities. But according to Lavrov, Berlin and Paris failed to ensure Kiev's compliance.

The Russian foreign minister noted that former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko admitted the Minsk agreements meant nothing for Kiev, and Ukraine used them only to buy time.
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Dr. Deborah Birx admits being deceitful when recommending Covid strategies to Trump

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Sun, 17 Jul 2022 05:10 UTC
TrupBirx
© Doug Mills/New York Times/ReduxThen US President Donald Trump • Coordinator of WH Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx
"I couldn't do anything that would reveal my true intention," she writes, "to use the travel ban as one brick in the construction of a larger wall of protective measures we needed to enact very soon."

Dr. Deborah Birx, who served in the Trump administration as part of the Covid response team, has admitted in her book and before Congress that much of the guidance issued to mitigate the pandemic was arbitrary. In her book Silent Invasion, she discusses the planning that went into an essential component of the strategy to handle Covid, one that has been roundly mocked: two weeks to stop the spread. The data used to back it up was from other countries, and Birx intentionally obfuscated her intentions for a robust lockdown.

Birx writes in her book, she writes about assembling a team that she could "trust" to "look at the numbers and provide unvarnished analysis free from a hidden or political agenda. There would be no groupthink within my inner circle." But after deciding to trust the data, Birx noted that the "CDC didn't have the demographic data [she] was looking for. Worse, the data it did have would never help paint an accurate picture of this pandemic outbreak."
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How much did the US government pressure Twitter to ban Alex Berenson?

Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00 UTC
Berenson
© Sigrid Estrada/Twitter/KJNAlex Berenson
Nearly a year ago, former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson was permanently banned from Twitter for writing the following lines about the Covid shot:
"It doesn't stop infection. Or transmission. Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it - at best - as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity."
From the beginning of the Covid hysteria, we followed and cited Berenson many times on the Ron Paul Liberty Report. Berenson took government and mainstream media rhetoric about the pandemic the way journalists used to take it: with a heavy dose of skepticism. And not long after he was banned for saying so, even the CDC Director admitted what he wrote is true.

But at the time, he was a danger to the government narrative on Covid, and the "private" social media company Twitter silenced him. They did not only silence one reporter who was a thorn in their side, however. They preemptively silenced anyone else who might might question the narrative. The message was clear to all the would-be Alex Berensons out there: do you want to follow him to the digital gulag?

So not only was Berenson's free speech under attack - free speech itself was under attack.
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Soros-linked group wins $172M contract from Biden to help border crossers avoid deportation

John Binder
Breitbart
Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00 UTC
Soros
© Milo Espinoza/Getty Images/AP Photo/Francois MorGeorge Soros and border crossers
A left-wing group linked to billionaire George Soros has won a nearly $172 million federal contract from President Joe Biden's administration to help young border crossers avoid deportation, a report revealed this week.

Fox News's Adam Shaw and Joe Schoffstall reported on Thursday that the Vera Institute of Justice, with financial ties to Soros, has won a federal contract for $171.7 million that will provide attorneys to Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) to avoid deportation from the United States.

The federal contract could end up showering the Vera Institute of Justice with $1 billion in taxpayer funding, Fox News reported:
The arrangement lasts until March 2023 but can reach as high as $983 million if renewed until March 2027, the agreement shows. This appears to be the largest federal contract Vera has secured for immigration-related services for any single year dating back to the mid-2000s.
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The Vera Institute, meanwhile, is propelled by taxpayer-backed government grants and contracts like the one it secured in March. Between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, $152 million of the group's $191 million in revenue came from government sources, its most recent financial audit shows.

The institute seeks to end "mass incarceration" by cutting down on the number of jails, prisons and detention centers in the United States. The group has also signaled support for defunding police.
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The real-world consequences of green extremism

Hugo Gordon
Washington Examiner
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:46 UTC
wind turbine
© F-Focus/atiKose/Shutterstock/KJNWhen the wind stops, life goes on.
Glorious pictures from the edge of the universe have arrived on Earth just when events here force us to consider the possibility that governments are run by aliens. They are so out of touch with common sense that they must come from other planets.

The James Webb Space Telescope, a wonder of human ingenuity, resourcefulness, imagination, and creative curiosity, is revealing the birth of galaxies to a world in which, by contrast, overreaching oligarchs and bossy bureaucrats constrict the actions of ordinary people trying to make their own lives and the lives of others better.

Much of the world groans under immiserating rules handed down by a "theory class," even though they obviously don't work. The accolade for the most disastrous policy outcome is hotly contested, and Wednesday's grim revelation of 9.1% inflation shows that President Joe Biden's spending agenda is a strong contender. But even that might not take the cake.

Worse, perhaps, are the results of hyper-alarmism on climate change. Excessive environmental policies are proving disastrous worldwide. Suddenly, all the green chickens are coming home to roost.
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