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Chinese embassy points to 'real threat to the world'


RT.com
Sun, 27 Feb 2022 06:47 UTC
US + China Flags
© AP / Andy WongU.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during event organized by the U.S. embassy in Beijing, Nov. 7, 2012 .
Chinese diplomats have published a list of US military adventures in recent decades, arguing that Washington was the "real threat" to the world, as the EU, the US, the UK, NATO, and the UN chief have all accused Moscow of an "unprovoked" attack on Ukraine.

The Chinese embassy in Russia on Saturday reposted an image originally shared by China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lijian Zhao earlier this week showcasing the United States' "Democracy World Tour." Listing many of the incidents where the US had either bombed or invaded other countries since the end of the Second World War, the image noted that these nations represented "roughly one-third of the people on earth."

"Never forget who's the real threat to the world," Zhao captioned the photo.

The embassy added the same caption to its post, but in Russian.

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Ukraine's Defense Ministry posted video game footage claiming it was an air battle


RT
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 22:12 UTC
ukraine video game
© Twitter / @DefenceUWidely circulated video game footage, fact-checked by Reuters as 'miscaptioned', appeared on the ministry's verified account
The verified Twitter page of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry published video game footage on February 25 claiming to show a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down a Russian plane. On Saturday, Reuters fact-checked the widely shared fake video as 'miscaptioned'.

The ministry's tweet was still up at the time of publication. The 15-second video is accompanied by the caption, "What is this Ukrainian ace doing?" The Defense Ministry's account describes it as a MiG-29 fighter jet destroying a Russian Su-35 jet with a missile.
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'Ukrainian nationalists' shelling residential areas, civilian casualties reported - Moscow


RT
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 22:13 UTC
us soldiers train Ukraine army
© AP Photo/Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press ServiceUS instructor trains Ukrainian soldier for the use of M141 Bunker Defeat Munition (SMAW-D) missiles at the Yavoriv military training ground, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022.
Moscow has said that Ukraine used multiple rocket launchers to shell residential blocks in the town of Starobelsk, roughly 100km (62 miles) north of Lugansk on Saturday morning. The reported incident occurred during the fight between Ukrainian troops and the forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) backed by the Russian military.

Ukraine controlled the town prior to the dramatic flare-up this week, and it is unclear who is controlling it now.

According to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry, the attack by "Ukrainian nationalists" took place around 10.30am local time. Buildings were damaged and caught fire, the ministry said, adding that there were civilian casualties, without specifying how many.
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Ukraine's leadership has rejected negotiations - Kremlin


RT
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 12:51 UTC
zelensky
© Instagram /zelenskiy officialPresident of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Russia's military operation in Ukraine is continuing after the country's leadership declined to negotiate, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.

President Vladimir Putin previously ordered the Russian troops to halt their advance on Friday, awaiting a response from Kiev, Moscow said. It added that the offensive continued on Saturday.

Alexey Arestovich, an adviser at Zelensky's office, confirmed to Ukrainian media that Kiev has declined the talks with Russia, citing the "terms" put forward by Moscow through intermediaries. "It was an attempt to force us into capitulation," he said, without elaborating.

However, moments later, another official at Zelensky's office, Mikhail Podolyak, told Russian outlet RBC that Kiev did not reject the negotiations. He underlined that negotiations have not yet taken place.
"Undoubtedly, Ukraine did not refuse to negotiate. Ukraine and President Zelensky categorically reject any unacceptable or ultimatum-like conditions of the Russian side."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he was ready to sit down for talks with Russia in order to end hostilities between the countries. The same day, Peskov told reporters that Moscow was ready to hold talks in Minsk, Belarus. He later claimed that the Ukrainian side first offered to move the meeting to Warsaw, Poland, and then stopped responding.
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Pfizer, Moderna investors run for the exits

Justus R. Hope, MD
The Desert Review
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
wall street
© FX Empire/AFP/KJNThere's no vaccine for this!
Wall Street investors are dumping their Moderna and Pfizer stock faster than the world can drop the mandates. Moderna is down 70 percent from its high, while Pfizer is off 19 percent. Former Blackrock Executive and investment adviser Edward Dowd calls for Moderna to go to zero and Pfizer to end under ten dollars per share.

How is this possible given that Pfizer now enjoys record earnings per share and a market capitalization of some $270 billion, making it the 29th largest corporation globally? With nothing but profits in sight for the Pharmaceutical giant, what could be the problem?

After all, in December, a Forbes' headline read, "The Vaccine Maker Can Dominate The Covid Market For Years to Come, Wells Fargo Predicts." In addition to the enormously profitable mRNA vaccines, Pfizer is rolling out potent antivirals like Paxlovid, which could earn $22 billion in 2022.

Compared to the $81 billion in 2021 revenue, the earnings from the vaccines and the antivirals could top $102 billion for 2022, which is music to shareholders' ears. However some are hearing shrieks, and these happen to be Wall Street's finest, the smart money that beats the rest of the herd to the exits like clockwork.

Comment: The vaccine gig is up. Humanity has been sold for profit. For many, it will be a very rude awakening. For others it is now too late.

To see the full Dowd interview go here.

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Arrow Up

West Asia transforms: Twenty Arab states in China's BRI sights

Cynthia Chung
The Cradle
Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Map arab states
© The CradleChina's BRI set sights on 20 Arab states
'A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.' So says a Chinese proverb, and nowhere is this truer than in crisis-ridden West Asia, now a major focus of Beijing's BRI vision to bring infrastructure, connectivity and economic growth to this struggling region.

West Asia's winds have changed. When Syria began 2022 by joining China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), it became the 20th Arab country that Beijing has factored into its grand connectivity vision for Asia, Africa and Europe.

The Arab states in China's sights include those that have already signed deals, and others with proposals in hand:
Egypt (2016), Sudan (2018), Algeria (2018), Iraq (2015), Morocco (2017), Saudi Arabia (2018), Yemen (2017), Syria (2022), Somalia (2015), Tunisia (2018), UAE (2018), Libya (2018), Lebanon (2017), Oman (2018), Mauritania (2018), Kuwait(2018), Qatar (2019), Bahrain (2018), Djibouti (2018), Comoros.
The ambitious connectivity and development projects the BRI can inject into a war-torn, exhausted West Asia have the ability to transform the areas from the Levant to the Persian Gulf into a booming world market hub.

Importantly, by connecting these states via rail, road, and water, the foreign-fueled differences that have kept nations at odds since colonial times will have to take a back seat. Once-hostile neighbors must work in tandem for mutually-beneficial economic gains and a more secure future to work.

And money talks - in a region continuously beset by war, terrorism, ruin and shortages.
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Dollar

New data shows U.S. government has been bought for $14B

Lee Camp
Sheerpost
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Requiemmoney
© Unknown
This past weekend I was sitting in my hot tub that's really just a bathtub that's really just my neighbor's bathtub that he lets me use when he's out of town and doesn't know I found his apartment key — and it occurred to me: I don't think most Americans are happy with our political system. I don't know why not.

I've got it! I just remembered. It's because both mainstream parties are owned by corporate America, stand for the same shit, and they haven't actually been face-to-face with a regular blue-collar human being since they fathered the first of their 14 children and the surrogate mother happened to bring her boyfriend to the birth (or as the rich call it, "the human baby transfer to its rightful owners").

And sure enough, a new survey verifies that most Americans are not happy with the false choice between two political parties.

Comment: Despite the crudeness in this article, the point made is that the fake political system is a paid-to-play merry-go-round that only stops when someone has the wisdom, temerity and strength to yank its lever. Anyone?

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Bad Guys

How Ukraine's 2014 'Revolution of Dignity' led to war, poverty and the rise of the far right

Olga Sukharevskaya
RT
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:13 UTC
Ukraine coup 2014 maidan
© Getty Images / Victor Boyko
A motley crew of militant Ukrainian nationalists and pro-Western activists wanted to change their democratically elected government. Eight years on, the results look disappointing.

The events that transpired in Ukraine in 2013-14, dubbed the Euromaidan, still resonate in people's memory. While each side in the conflict views them differently, it's clear to all that the Ukraine once familiar to everyone has changed beyond recognition since then.

People's revolution or coup d'état?

The impetus for the dramatic events was the decision of the then-president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich, to suspend the conclusion of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union and his subsequent failure to sign it during the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius. According to Ukraine's prime minister at the time, Nikolai Azarov, Ukraine's transition to European industry standards was to cost the country €150-160 billion. The question arises as to what the Ukrainian authorities were thinking during the long preparation of the agreement, but the decision had the effect of an exploding bomb.
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'Who will prevent a deorbit impact?' Russian space chief warns US that sanctions could have disastrous effect on International Space Station cooperation

Elizabeth Howell
Space
Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:01 UTC
Roscosmos
© International Astronautical Federation/YouTubeRoscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin speaks virtually at the 71st International Astronautical Congress on Oct. 12, 2020.
The head of Russia's space agency warned Thursday (Feb. 24) that new sanctions imposed on his country could have dire consequences for the International Space Station program.

"Do you want to destroy our cooperation on the ISS?" read one of the tweets from Roscosmos Director-General Dimitry Rogozin, which was translated by Rob Mitchell for Ars Technica senior space editor Eric Berger, who shared Mitchell's translation on Twitter. Russia and the United States are the major partners in the ISS program, which also includes Canada, Japan and multiple European nations.

Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday in a series of military attacks. The action has drawn international condemnation as well as new economic sanctions, which U.S. President Joe Biden said would degrade Russia's space program. NASA, however, told Space.com later yesterday that civil cooperation between the U.S. and Russia in space will continue, particularly with regard to the ISS.

Comment: See also: US Space Force Commander claims Russia has armed satellite in orbit capable of destroying US military assets

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So predictable: Latest propaganda claims liberty activists are Russian pawns

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Putin sign
A common misconception about the establishment power brokers of our era is that they have "created" a vast system of corruption and government control and that this reflects an element of "genius" on their parts. In reality, they only inherited the existing system from the elitists that came before them, and those elites inherited the framework from their forebears. One can already see the next generation of globalists being groomed to carry the torch of centralization, and maybe they will push the agenda forward a step further, or maybe they will be the generation that blows up the whole thing and leaves it in shambles.

The construct of multi-generational conspiracy is nothing new. It has happened over and over again throughout history from monarchies to papacies to assassins, cartels and the mob. It has the advantage of superseding time, because it is not necessarily limited to the lifespan of a single set of conspirators. It can carry on forever if it is not identified and directly eliminated.

That said, one of the biggest problems of nepotism within any empire, whether openly dominant or ruling from the shadows, is that power is often passed on to those who show fealty rather than those who show promise. That is to say, nepotism neglects to take intelligence and ingenuity into account.
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