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Best of the Web: Will Fed Crash Global Financial Markets for Their Great Reset?

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Wall street bull
It's looking increasingly likely that the US Federal Reserve and the globalist powers that be will use the dramatic rising of inflation as their excuse to bring down the US financial markets and with it, crash the greatest financial bubble in history. The enormous inflation rise since the malicious political lockdowns and the trillions of dollars in emergency spending by both Trump and Biden, coupled with the continuation of the Fed's unprecedented near-zero interest rate policies and asset purchases of billions in bonds to keep the bubble inflated a bit longer - have set the stage for an imminent market collapse. Unlike what we are told, it is deliberate and managed.

Supply chain disruptions from Asia to normal truck transport across North America are feeding the worst inflation in four decades in the USA. The stage is set for the central banks to bring down the debt-bloated system and prepare their Great Reset of the world financial system. However this is not an issue of inflation as some mysterious or "temporary" process.

The context is key. The decision to crash the financial system is being prepared amid the far-reaching global pandemic measures that have devastated the world economy since early 2020. It is coming as the NATO powers, led by the Biden Administration, are tipping the world into a potential World War by miscalculation. They are pouring arms and advisers into Ukraine provoking a response by Russia. They are escalating pressures on China over Taiwan, and waging proxy wars against China in Ethiopia and Horn of Africa and countless other locations.
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Briefcase

DC Bar restores convicted FBI Russiagate forger to 'good standing' amid irregularities and leniency

Paul Sperry
RealClear Investigations
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
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© perkinscoi.com/CNN/YouTube/Diego M Radzinschi/The National Law Journal/Bloomberg/KJNMichael Sussman • Carter Page • Kevin Clinesmith • James E Boasberg • Rudi Giuliani
A former senior FBI lawyer who falsified a surveillance document in the Trump-Russia investigation has been restored as a member in "good standing" by the District of Columbia Bar Association even though he has yet to finish serving out his probation as a convicted felon, according to disciplinary records obtained by RealClearInvestigations.

The move is the latest in a series of exceptions the bar has made for Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty in August 2020 to doctoring an email used to justify a surveillance warrant targeting former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Clinesmith was sentenced to 12 months probation last January. But the D.C. Bar did not seek his disbarment, as is customary after lawyers are convicted of serious crimes involving the administration of justice. In this case, it did not even initiate disciplinary proceedings against him until February of this year — five months after he pleaded guilty and four days after RealClearInvestigations first reported he had not been disciplined. After the negative publicity, the bar temporarily suspended Clinesmith pending a review and hearing. Then in September, the court that oversees the bar and imposes sanctions agreed with its recommendation to let Clinesmith off suspension with time served; the bar, in turn, restored his status to "active member" in "good standing."
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Footprints

Navy commanders ordered to start removing sailors who refuse the coronavirus vaccine

Caitlin Doornbox
Stars and Stripes
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Jab Navy
© Josh Coté/US NavyNavy commander receives coronavirus vaccine booster during mass-immunization exercise.
Navy commanders have been ordered to begin the separation process for sailors who have refused to take the coronavirus vaccine, according to service guidance issued Wednesday.

Rear Adm. James Waters, the Navy's director of military personnel plans and policy, said the service wants "to keep every sailor in uniform," but now more than two weeks since the service's immunization deadline passed, it's time to require vaccine refusers to leave the Navy. Waters told reporters Tuesday during a teleconference:
"There are sailors who, in spite of our best efforts, continue to steadfastly refuse. Personally, it disheartens me to see any sailors leave because they refuse the vaccine."
However, sailors who missed the Nov. 28 deadline to receive the vaccine but change their mind can notify their chain-of-command and halt their separation if they get immunized, Waters said. So far, 919 sailors have gotten the shots since Nov. 15 — the last day for active-duty sailors to receive the vaccine to meet the deadline.
"After the deadline, we [have been] working with each and every one of those sailors in an effort to retain them and we'll do the same for anyone else who steps forward to get their shot."
The Navy's announcement comes days after the Air Force on Monday announced it had discharged 27 service members for refusing the vaccine. The service's Nov. 2 deadline was the earliest of all the services branches. The Army has the last active-duty deadline, which is Wednesday. No service has required a coronavirus booster shot for its force to date, but Waters said it is "under active discussion" at the Pentagon.
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Document

National Archives unseals nearly 1,500 documents on JFK assassination; 14,000 still under review

Madeleine Hubbard
Just the News
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:39 UTC
JFK smoking
© IrishCentral.comFormer US President John F. Kennedy
Nearly 1,500 previously classified documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were unsealed on Wednesday by the National Archives, and the remaining files will be released in 2022.

Many files were heavily redacted and released in 2017 pursuant to the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Since then, both Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have delayed scheduled releases to allow federal agencies to review the documents.

Trump directed the National Archives to release nearly 20,000 JFK assassination documents in 2018, one year after initially scheduled.

Biden postponed the release of some JFK records, but ultimately created two deadlines: Wednesday, and Dec. 15, 2022. an October Biden memo states:
"​​Postponement remains necessary to protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure."
Federal agencies have until December 2022 to "conduct an intensive review" of more than 14,000 remaining classified documents "to ensure that the United States Government maximizes transparency, disclosing all information in records concerning the assassination, except when the strongest possible reasons counsel otherwise," according to the memo.

Comment: Fifty-eight years later Biden 'is worried' about the reputation of several agencies? Not revealing what he knows is his leverage.

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Briefcase

GOP governors challenge DOD to end COVID-19 vaxx mandate for National Guard

Dillon Burroughs
The Daily Wire
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Gary Williams/Getty ImagesNational Guard
A group of five GOP governors sent a letter on Tuesday to challenge Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to end the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for National Guard members.

The letter focused on the rights of personnel, arguing that the requirement is beyond the department's constitutional authority. It said:
"We acknowledge your right to establish readiness standards for the National Guard for activation into a Title 10 status. However, directives dictating whether training in a Title 32 status can occur, setting punishment requirements for refusing to be COVID-19 vaccinated, and requiring separation from each state National Guard if unvaccinated are beyond your constitutional and statutory authority."
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, and Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts were the Republicans included as signers of the letter.
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Light Saber

Putin and Xi hail "new model of cooperation", vow to protect national interests amid West's manufactured crisis in Ukraine

Jack Newman
Daily Mail
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:25 UTC
Putin Xi Jinping December 2021
Leaders hold virtual summit as Putin declares Russia-China relations 'a proper example of interstate cooperation'.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have held a video meeting, as friction persists in both countries' relations with the West.

In their opening remarks at the virtual summit on Wednesday, Putin and Xi hailed relations between Russia and China, with the Russian leader declaring them "a proper example of interstate cooperation in the 21st century".

"A new model of cooperation has been formed between our countries, based among other things on such principles as not interfering in internal affairs [of each other], respect for each other's interests, determination to turn the shared border into a belt of eternal peace and good neighbourliness," Putin said.

Comment: Al Jazeera doesn't even attempt to appear unbiased; note the mostly baseless allegations in the final paragraph against Russia and China, meanwhile the journalists apparently can't think of anything critical to say about the US and the West.

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Pirates

US imposes import sanctions on China claiming Uyghur "atrocities" and "forced labour"

Aamer Madhani
Associated Press
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:46 UTC
Biden
© AP Photo/Susan WalshFILE - President Joe Biden. Western officials are asking citizens to renounce creature comforts and general wellbeing in the name of sanctions
The Biden administration said Thursday it is imposing new sanctions on several Chinese biotech and surveillance companies and government entities for actions in Xinjiang province, the latest step against Beijing over human rights abuses of Uyghur Muslims in the country's western region.

The Commerce Department is targeting China's Academy of Military Medical Sciences and its 11 research institutes that focus on using biotechnology to support the Chinese military.

The move will bar American companies from selling components to the entities without a license.

"The scientific pursuit of biotechnology and medical innovation can save lives. Unfortunately, the PRC (People's Republic of China) is choosing to use these technologies to pursue control over its people and its repression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups," Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a statement. "We cannot allow U.S. commodities, technologies, and software that support medical science and biotechnical innovation to be diverted toward uses contrary to U.S. national security,"

Comment: Indeed, China has been working to prevent the Uighurs and Xinjiang being used by the US in its regime change ambitions: What's really going on with China's Uighurs? No one seems interested in the truth

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Chess

West using election interference to 'weaken Russia' - report


RT
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:34 UTC
russia federation council
© Sputnik / Press Service of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation
A group of Russian lawmakers has accused Western nations of attempting to undermine the country's parliamentary elections, while warning foreign states could also try to influence the upcoming 2024 presidential race.

On Wednesday, a commission of the Federation Council, the upper house of Russia's parliament, released a report warning that the West was trying to make Russia easier to control. The policymakers who alleged interference in the parliamentary elections in September could be a sign of things to come. Specifically, the commission claimed, the vote to determine the country's next president in just over two years' time could become a target.

The authors of the report wrote that the alleged plan is "not in the interests of Russia's security or the flowering of its people, but a means of deterring the Russian Federation, weakening it as much as possible."

Comment: The US Empire interferes in elections around the globe, they have for decades. Any crowing from Western politicians about "Russian interference" in US elections is either uneducated on American history or a world-class hypocrite.

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Vader

Fascist Macron keeps mandatory vaccination on the table


RT
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:28 UTC
macron
© Reuters / Sarah Meyssonnier
French President Emmanuel Macron has refused to rule out mandatory Covid-19 vaccination as millions of French people remain unvaccinated despite a rise in cases.

Asked by French TV channels TF1 and LCI on Wednesday whether vaccination for Covid-19 would become mandatory in the future, Macron replied, "This hypothesis exists," before noting that France was not far off from being fully vaccinated anyway.

The president did encourage the "little more than 5 million of our fellow citizens who are not vaccinated" to "take responsibility" and receive their shots. He argued that the unvaccinated "are not protected" from the virus, noting that they are behind the recent surge in hospitalizations.
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Attention

Voters now blaming inflation on 'Bidenomics'


RT
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:05 UTC
angry joe biden
© Reuters / Evelyn HocksteinJoe Biden attends a holiday celebration for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Washington,DC, December 14, 2021
Inflation is racking the US economy, and voters blame President Biden. Twice as many people think his actions are hurting the economy as helping, and nearly half think his policies will push inflation even higher, a poll shows.

That's according to a Fox News poll published on Thursday. The poll found that more than two thirds of registered voters have suffered financial hardship in the past six months as a result of inflation, with two thirds saying that Biden's leadership is "very" or "somewhat" responsible for skyrocketing prices.

Comment: It's not just Fox News, who could be accused of being anti-Biden. An ABC poll came up with the same results:

Americans hammer Biden over inflation and sinking economy in new poll

as did Yahoo! News:

More than 75% of US hit by inflation and most blame Biden

The mandarins at the Fed may have dug themselves a hole too deep to get out of, but they will not be the ones suffering:

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