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Russia-led bloc reveals if peacekeepers will use deadly force in Kazakhstan


RT
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 20:36 UTC
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© AP / Russian Defense MinistryRussian peacekeepers
The main goal of the peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan is to help maintain stability and keep strategic facilities well-guarded, the head of a Russian-led security alliance said, as violent unrest continues to sweep the country.

The details of the joint military deployment by the Moscow-based Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) were revealed by the bloc's Secretary-General Stanislav Zas in an interview with Sputnik on Thursday. The organization brings together six post-Soviet states, including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.

The peacekeeping mission was launched in full compliance with the CSTO charter, Zas stated, since Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had requested help in the face of a growing threat to state sovereignty. Following emergency consultations, the allies agreed that the "ongoing events pose a real threat to the country's security, its stability and even territorial integrity," Zas said.

Comment: Previously:

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Six things the mainstream media aren't about to tell you about Ukraine

Ted Snider
AntiWar.com
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:30 UTC
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On January 10, American and Russian officials will meet to discuss Putin's proposal on mutual security guarantees. Western media and political analysts have cast Putin's demands that NATO not expand further east to Ukraine and that NATO not establish military bases in former Soviet states nor use them to carry out military activity as bold and impossible.

Here are six crucial pieces of background that the western media will not tell you.

The NATO Promise

Putin's demands are only bold if it is bold to ask NATO to keep its promises; his demands are only impossible if it is impossible for NATO to keep its promises.

On February 9, 1990, Secretary of State James Baker assured Gorbachev that if NATO got Germany - a huge concession - NATO would not expand one inch east of Germany. The next day, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher made the same promise to his Soviet counterpart, Eduard Shevardnadz. Earlier, on January 31, 1990, Genscher had already publicly declared in a major speech that there would not be "an expansion of NATO territory to the east, in other words, closer to the borders of the Soviet Union."
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VP Kamala Harris compares January 6 to September 11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor

Shelby Talcott
Daily Caller
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:12 UTC
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© Greg Nash/Getty ImagesVP Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris compared the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol to the September 11th terrorist attacks and the attack on Pearl Harbor during remarks Thursday. Both Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were foreign attacks that resulted in thousands of dead Americans and sparked years-long global wars.

Harris and President Joe Biden spoke Thursday at National Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol to mark the one-year anniversary of the riot, which saw some supporters of President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers voted to certify the election results for Biden. Harris declared:
"Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were, and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault. Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. December 7, 1941, September 11th, 2001 and January 6th, 2021."

Comment: Miss Appropriation strikes again.

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Poland admits using Israel's Pegasus spyware


Middle East Monitor
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 02:23 UTC
Kaczynski
© Sean Gallop/GettyImagesJaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the social conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party
Poland's ruling Conservative Party leader has acknowledged that the country bought Israel's Pegasus spyware, which has been found to be used by numerous governments to crackdown on opposition groups.

"It would be bad if the Polish services did not have this type of tool," Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in an interview to be published in Monday's edition of the weekly Sieci.

He denied that it was being used to target his political opponents and noted that the Pegasus spyware, developed by Israel's military spyware firm the NSO Group, represents a technological advancement over earlier monitoring systems, which limited the services to monitor encrypted messages.

The claims come despite reports by the Associated Press that Citizen Lab, a cyber watchdog group at the University of Toronto, revealed the three Polish government critics had their phones hacked using the Pegasus spyware.

Amnesty International independently verified the finds, revealing that Krzysztof Brejza's phone was hacked 33 times from 26 April 2019 to 23 October 2019 when he was running the opposition's parliamentary election campaign. The other two Polish targets were Roman Giertych, a lawyer who represents opposition politicians and Ewa Wrzosek, an independent prosecutor. Text messages were extracted and edited from Brejza's phone and leaked to local media and broadcasters as part of a smear campaign, during the election campaign.

Comment: If it looks like a dog, barks like a dog...it probably is one. There could be many reasons to want this software, none of which is random usage.

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US Democrats won't back sanctions against Nord Stream 2 pipeline - media


RT
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:15 UTC
NS2 crew
© Axel SchmidtWorkers celebrate last pipe welding together two strings of Nord Stream 2
Biden's party had long opposed the link between Russia and Germany, claiming it would make Western Europe a hostage.

Despite consistently criticizing the Nord Stream 2 project, for many years, American Democrats are reportedly planning to derail next week's vote on US sanctions against the Russian-backed natural gas pipeline. The party is making the U-turn because it doesn't want to weaken President Joe Biden's position in ongoing security discussions with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Politico suggested on Wednesday.

Senators have apparently decided that imposing curbs on Nord Stream 2 now could undermine unity among America's allies in Europe, and remove Biden's key leverage in negotiations with the Russian leader.

A bill that would force the US president to impose restrictions on the pipeline within 15 days - including travel limitations, asset freezes, and bans on doing business with American firms - is being promoted by Republican Senator Ted Cruz. He needs the support of at least 10 Democrats for it to pass the 60-vote threshold and become law.


Comment: Yet another self-serving, dead-end decision by the US Government? There is no 'winner' here. Key leverage regarding Russia is a fantasy.

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Tennis star Djokovic has become a pawn in the vaccination culture wars

John Balfe
RT
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 18:22 UTC
Novak Djokovic
© Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty ImagesNovak Djokovic
The world's number one tennis player has become an unwitting accomplice to a game of political point-scoring

Serbian great Novak Djokovic's treatment at the hands of Australian authorities has seen him cast in the role of a scapegoat for the anti-vax movement.

In February 2021, when Djokovic eased past Russia's Daniil Medvedev in straight sets to claim his third successive Australian Open title, few could have predicted the hoops that he would be expected to jump through to defend his crown.

Much has changed during the 12 months which have passed. The various vaccines developed to fight Covid-19, which were announced in the weeks before the tournament, have been rolled out in their millions but rather than being a magic bullet to heroically defeat the pandemic, they have become central to a debate pitting the ideologies of individual choice and collectivism against each other.
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France's finance minister warns of "politically dangerous" energy price surge


RT
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:23 UTC
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© Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images
Finance minister urges people to look at Kazakhstan's bitter experience

The French authorities are working on further measures to restrain spiking energy prices, the country's finance minister said, issuing a warning about political fallout ahead of a presidential election.

"Look what's going on in Kazakhstan, it's quite indicative of what can happen when energy prices explode, it's politically dangerous," Bruno Le Maire said on Friday.


Comment: Indeed unbearable costs are politically dangerous, and France should know because a previous fuel tax hike sparked nearly 2 years of Yellow Vest protests that, at one point enjoyed the support of nearly three quarters of the population, with some weekends recording up to a million and more attendees, and, in turn, the people of France watched their government suppress these protests with unprecedented police brutality.

However, the current situation in Kazakhstan isn't exactly comparable, because, whilst energy prices and corruption do indeed appear to have made the country ripe for more protests, the speed, organisation, and violence that followed the initially peaceful protests bear all the hallmarks of a Western-backed regime change operation: Steppe on Fire: Kazakhstan's Color Revolution


"If we don't find a solution to the electricity prices in the days to come, the French will see at the end of January an increase of 35-40%."

Comment: The situation is all the more incredible because Russia's Nord Stream II pipeline has recently been completed and could provide at least some relief to Europe's record energy costs, but, at the behest of the US, Germany is blocking its authorization, and making a profit in the process: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Is The Government Hyping Shortages? And is 'Vaccination Shedding' Really a Thing?



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Israel admits Omicron mutation rendered travel bans useless


RT
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:37 UTC
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© Hazem Bader/AFPA Palestinian worker gets his temperature checked as he returns to the West Bank via the Mitar checkpoint, March 25, 2020.
Amid a spike in Omicron infections, Tel Aviv is retiring its 'red list' of destinations

Israel has lifted its strict Covid-19 travel ban against 'high risk' countries, such as the US and UK, acknowledging that the spread of the Omicron variant has rendered such restrictions obsolete.

Nachman Ash, the director-general of Israel's Ministry of Health, revealed on Thursday that travel would resume to and from 'red-list' countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland - which are considered by Israel to be some of the "highest risk" nations in the world.

Comment: Israel knew long ago that all their restrictions are just vaccination theater. Pfizer captured the government.

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Exposed: Klaus Schwab's school for covid dictators, plan for 'Great Reset'

Michael Lord
Rair Foundation
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 07:54 UTC
Klaus Schwab
Economist Ernst Wolff believes that a hidden alliance of political and corporate leaders is exploiting the pandemic with the aim of crashing national economies and introducing a global digital currency.

How is it that more than 190 governments from all over the world ended up dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in almost exactly the same manner, with lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccination cards now being commonplace everywhere? The answer may lie in the Young Global Leaders school, which was established and managed by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, and that many of today's prominent political and business leaders passed through on their way to the top.

The German economist, journalist, and author Ernst Wolff has revealed some facts about Schwab's "Young Global Leaders" school that are relevant for understanding world events during the pandemic in a video from the German Corona Committee podcast. While Wolff is mainly known as a critic of the globalist financial system, recently he has focused on bringing to light what he sees as the hidden agenda behind the anti-Covid measures being enacted around the world.

Comment: See also:

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Covid-19 has eerie parallels to 'V for Vendetta'

Amy Mastrine
Evie
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
The movie
© screenshot"V"
There's something vaguely familiar about how the coronavirus has unfolded. Watching the narrative play out over the past year, I can't help but be reminded of the virus story in the graphic novel and 2004 dystopia film V for Vendetta.

The Pathogen Path to Power

In V for Vendetta, the United Kingdom has fallen into a totalitarian police state under the rule of a political party called Norsefire, which rules by force and exerts total control over its citizens. One man, known only as V, was the victim of government imprisonment and experimentation and swears vengeance against the ruling party. The movie chronicles his efforts to reveal the corruption and evilness of the government to the people of the United Kingdom. (The ethics of how he goes about this would require another essay!)


Norsefire's main weapons of control is a virus ("The most terrifying virus you can imagine," V describes), which the government has developed to use as a weapon against their own citizens.

"If your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon?" V asks.

Comment: Grab your popcorn and take a seat. 'V for Vendetta' is now playing in Plato's cave.

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