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NATO claims 'immunity' to Serbian lawsuits on illegal use of depleted Uranium during 78 day bombing onslaught in 1999

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NATO's bombing of Serbia 1999
The attorney dismissed the 'immunity' claims, insisting that "none of these agreements gives immunity to NATO as an organization, and immunity cannot be applied retroactively. Therefore, NATO cannot receive immunity for war crimes against civilians and for its illegal aggression under the 2005 agreement."

"In our case about DU bombings resulting in casualties among the civilian population, soldiers and policemen, NATO carries responsibility for the violation of the right to life and for damages caused," Aleksic stressed.

The attorney expects the Belgrade High Court to proceed with hearings on the matter in October.

Sheriff

China to sign a pact with 10 Pacific island nations on matters of security, policing, data and trade

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© AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, FileFILE - Kiribati's President Taneti Maamau, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries in what one leader warns is a “game-changing” bid by Beijing to wrest control of the region. )
China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries in what one leader warns is a "game-changing" bid by Beijing to wrest control of the region.

A draft of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press shows that China wants to train Pacific police officers, team up on "traditional and non-traditional security" and expand law enforcement cooperation.

China also wants to jointly develop a marine plan for fisheries — which would include the Pacific's lucrative tuna catch — increase cooperation on running the region's internet networks, and set up cultural Confucius Institutes and classrooms. China also mentions the possibility of setting up a free trade area with the Pacific nations.

Bizarro Earth

Texas bar sues to punish AG Paxton for attempt to investigate allegations of widespread election fraud

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The State Bar of Texas filed a lawsuit Wednesday to reprimand Attorney General Ken Paxton for his attempt to overturn 2020 election results in battleground states that former President Trump lost, AP reports.

Why it matters: The lawsuit comes a day after Trump-endorsed Paxton defeated George P. Bush for the Republican nomination for Texas attorney general, potentially setting him up for a third term at the post.
  • The lawsuit amounts to a formal accusation of professional misconduct against Paxton, making him one of the most prominent legal figures to face repercussions for helping Trump in his efforts to change the election results.

Comment: Paxton had a good deal of evidence and documentation of voter fraud sent to him following the 2020 election, and he did what any reasonable AG would do in asking the courts to extend the certification deadline in order to investigate what happened. It's clear The State Bar of Texas is looking to punish him for trying to discover the truth, which is the 'enemy' of any pathocracy.


Snakes in Suits

Bill Gates paid millions to derail Elon Musk's plans

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into 11 of the 26 organizations backing an effort to prevent fellow billionaire Elon Musk from taking over social media platform Twitter, according to data shared with Breitbart by the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO).

Among the 11 Gates-backed organizations reportedly spearheading the effort to sandbag Musk's Twitter acquisition by pressuring advertisers to boycott the platform is the New Venture Fund, a 'dark money' organization that in 2020 received the largest one-year commitment the Foundation has made in over five years. The group funds the Center for Media Justice, the Media Democracy Fund, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, and Accountable Tech, all of which signed the open letter backing the advertiser boycott, and has received some 102 separate cash grants from Gates' foundation since 2008, amounting to $457 million in all, according to the Foundation's own financial disclosures. Other signatories, like the Sixteen Thirty Fund, are subsidiaries of the New Venture Fund.

The Tides Foundation, another dark money group heavily backed by Gates Foundation cash, funds another five signatories: Free Press, Indivisible, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Media Matters, and Black Lives Matter Global Network, while the Gates-backed Community Partners funds signatory Empowering Pacific Islanders Community and Gates-backed NEO Philanthropy is linked to signatory Reproaction.

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Putin predicts failure of the West

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Western nations that are trying to punish others with economic sanctions are overestimating their strength, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Eurasian Economic Forum on Thursday.

"More and more countries in the world want and will pursue independent policy," he said at the international event. "No 'world policeman' can halt this natural global process. No one is that strong."

"They face challenges inside their nations, and I hope they realize that this policy has absolutely no prospects," the Russian leader said, referring to the US and its Western allies.

Pocket Knife

Zelensky rips Kissinger over suggestion Ukraine cede territory to Russia

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© Colorado Springs GazetteUkraine President Volodymyr Zelensky • American Statesman Henry Kissinger
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday slammed former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for suggesting earlier this week that Ukraine cede some territory to Russia in the name of peace.

In a Wednesday address, Zelensky said Kissinger "emerges from the deep past and says that a piece of Ukraine should be given to Russia" and that Kissinger's "calendar is not 2022, but 1938" — a reference to the Munich Agreement, which allowed for Nazi Germany to annex land in western Czechoslovakia.
"Behind all these geopolitical speculations of those who advise Ukraine to give away something to Russia, 'great geopoliticians' are always unwilling to see ordinary people. Millions of those who actually live in the territory they propose to exchange for the illusion of peace. You must always see people."
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday, the 98-year-old Kissinger said "negotiations on peace need to begin" between Moscow and Kyiv and that "ideally, the dividing line should return the status quo ante."

Comment: Here's CNN's translate of circumstances and advice on Kissinger's suggestions:


NBC offers a more balanced and thought-through commentary:


See also: Henry Kissinger: Ukraine should give up territory to Russia to reach peace


Arrow Up

Russian rouble leaps to near 7-year high vs euro

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The Russian rouble firmed more than 6% against the euro on Monday to a near seven-year high, boosted by capital controls, strong oil prices and an upcoming month-end tax period.

By 1338 GMT, the rouble had gained 6.3% to trade at 58.75 versus the euro, its strongest point since early June 2015. It was 4.6% stronger against the dollar at 57.47, not far from 57.0750, its strongest mark since late March 2018, hit on Friday.

The rouble has firmed about 30% against the dollar this year despite a full-scale economic crisis in Russia, making it the world's best-performing currency - albeit artificially supported by controls imposed in late February to shield Russia's financial sector after its decision to send tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine prompted unprecedented Western sanctions.

Bullseye

Australia's strict Covid lockdowns did more harm than good

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© GettyAnti-lockdown protesters clash with police on Barkers Road in Hawthorn, Australia, September 18, 2021.
Third World v. First World: what's the difference? In a nutshell, the way they make public policy.

For the most part, policy in First World nations is not ideological, but process-oriented. It is required to pass two tests:
  • A test of liberty (the government must not interfere in our life without a strong justification).
  • A test of reason (the justification so provided must be evidence-based and transparent).
These tests are operationalised through the regime of a cost-benefit analysis (CBA).

Many people are suspicious about CBAs, which they think are created by 'money-minded' economists who put a 'value' on life - something people believe is an impossibility. And indeed, the life of our family members and our friends, cannot be valued on any known metric.

But when taxpayer money is involved, a calculation of trade-offs becomes inevitable.

Comment: Missing from the various analyses is the nearly complete breakdown of trust between the government and the governed. Australia may find it very hard going if it decides to sign on to the latest hysteria over "monkeypox", to tighten the screws in its citizens again.


Attention

Monkeypoxmania

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Lock yourselves down inside your homes! Break out the masks and prophylactic face-shields! Switch off what's left of your critical faculties and prepare yourselves to "follow the Science!"

Yes, that's right, just as the survivors of The Simulated Apocalyptic Plague of 2020-2021 were crawling up out of their Covid bunkers and starting to "build the world back better," another biblical pestilence has apparently been unleashed on humanity!

This time it's the dreaded monkeypox, a viral zoonotic disease endemic to central and western Africa that circulates among giant pouched rats, squirrels, dormice, and other rodents and has been infecting humans for centuries, or millennia.

Monkeypox causes fever, headaches, muscle aches, and sometimes fluid-filled blisters, tends to resolve in two to four weeks, and thus poses absolutely zero threat to human civilization generally.

The corporate media do not want to alarm us, but it is their duty as professional journalists to report that THE MONKEYPOX IS SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE!

OVER 100 CASES OF MONKEYPOX have been confirmed in countries throughout the world!

MONKEYPOX TASKFORCES are being convened! Close-up photos of NASTY-LOOKING MONKEYPOX LESIONS are being disseminated!

The President of the United States says "EVERYBODY SHOULD BE CONCERNED!"

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Attention

The Motherlode

Global engineering human transitions and servitude.
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© The Good Citizen
Western governments declared war on their citizens long ago. The war has been given many names: Cognitive war, Information war, Psychological war, or the academic term Fifth Generational Warfare.

Some say it hasn't gone "kinetic" yet, but they are wrong. They are terrorizing the world with man-made bioweapons as lethal force and then offering the cures with second, third, and fourth injectable bioweapons.

It is a silent war. Most people have no idea they're even on a battlefield or that war criminals are in power all around them.

It was only months ago the war criminals increased their rhetoric and threats, asking openly if the "anti-vaxxers" should be tolerated, telling us it would be "a dark winter of death" for those that refused the clot shots, and admitting "I want to make life miserable for these people."1 They declared emergencies on protestors and seized finances in Canada.

They still ban people from travel, even domestic travel, make them prisoners on islands like New Zealand and force citizens into quarantine camps. The camp experiments may be on hold in Australia but the dress rehearsals were downright frightening. In Greece and Italy, they're still deducting money from the pensions of unjabbed pensioners. It's beyond cruel, beyond diabolical.

Why?

Yes, we're at war.

But why the jabs?

What is it about them besides injecting grotesque Big Pharma profits from taxpayer coffers to criminal corporations?