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Neocons bent on starting another disaster in Ukraine

James Carden
Scoop
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:20 UTC
ukraine military
© AFP / Anatolii StepanovUkrainian servicemen near an armored personnel carrier stationed along the front line during confrontations with Russia-backed separatists near the small town of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region on June 23, 2021.
If anything, Washington's neoconservatives have an unerring instinct for survival. Having brought about multiple disasters in the two decades since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, from the Iraq war to the twin debacles in Libya and Syria, the neocons seem to have perfected the art of failing up.

Harvard University's Stephen Walt once quipped that "Being a Neocon Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry." And in this regard, the story of the Kagan family is instructive.

Robert Kagan, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of pseudo-histories such as The Jungle Grows Back, has for years been a leading advocate of American militarism.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Adam Schiff busted faking evidence, edited J6 texts between Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan

Sean Davis
The Federalist
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:27 UTC
Adam Schiff
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif
Democrat Adam Schiff doctored text messages between Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan during Monday's Jan. 6 hearings, an investigation by The Federalist shows.

Oops, he did it again. After leaking fake Donald Trump, Jr. emails, fabricating the transcript of a 2019 phone call between former President Donald Trump and Ukraine's president, and lying about his interactions with the so-called whistleblower behind House Democrats' first impeachment of Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is now running the same con against a fellow lawmaker. During a hearing Monday night on the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Adam Schiff claimed to have proof that a member of Congress texted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to instruct former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Not only did Schiff misrepresent the substance of the text message and its source, he even doctored original text messages, which were obtained and reviewed by The Federalist in their entirety.

"I want to display just a few of the message[s] he received from people in Congress," Schiff said, referring to Meadows. "The committee is not naming these lawmakers at this time as our investigation is ongoing. If we could cue the first graphic."

Comment: After being caught in the lie, the Jan6 committee admitted the fact. The Washington Examiner reports:
The Jan. 6 committee admitted that it changed a text message between former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan, excluding relevant context about how they wanted then-Vice President Mike Pence to handle electoral votes.

A spokesman said Wednesday that the graphics Rep. Adam Schiff showed during a Monday-night hearing about the newly obtained communications between top Trump officials had been reformatted to support the view that Meadows wanted Pence to overturn the election results.

"The Select Committee on Monday created and provided Representative Schiff a graphic to use during the business meeting quoting from a text message from 'a lawmaker' to Mr. Meadows. The graphic read, 'On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.' In the graphic, the period at the end of that sentence was added inadvertently. The Select Committee is responsible for and regrets the error," a spokesman for the select committee said in response to inquiries from the Federalist.
Sure they do . . . .

Breitbart makes the alterations crystal clear:
[T]he original message came from former Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, who had drafted and summarized legal arguments that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) forwarded to Meadows. And Schiff left out the full exchange, which read (emphasis added):
On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence.

'No legislative act,' wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, 'contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.' The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: 'That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.' 226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916).

Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector, like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all.
Schiff omitted the portions in bold, above, which referred to a legal basis for rejecting electors. As Davis reported:
In his statement and on-screen graphic, Schiff erased the final two paragraphs and the final clause of the first paragraph of the text message before inserting punctuation that was never there, all without disclosing what he was doing. The graphic displayed by Schiff, which was doctored to look like an exact screenshot, was similarly doctored, as it contained content that was never in the original message and eliminated content that was.
How does California keep electing this scummy individual?

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Dollar Gold

Kremlin reveals new independent Russian-Chinese financial systems

Layla Guest
RT
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:36 UTC
putin and xi
© Sputnik / Mikhail Metzel
Russia and China will develop shared financial structures to enable them to deepen economic ties in a way that foreign states will be unable to influence, the Kremlin has announced following talks between the countries' leaders.

The move appears to be a response to a series of warnings that Western nations could push to disconnect Russia from the Brussels-based SWIFT financial system as a form of sanctions.

The payment platform underpins the vast majority of international transactions. During the talks on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping called for increasing the share of national currencies in mutual settlements and expanding cooperation to provide Russian and Chinese investors with access to stock markets, said Yuri Ushakov, Putin's foreign policy advisor.
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The NY Times reports US forces 'killed dozens in Syria.' The reality is far worse.

Eva Bartlett
RT
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:51 UTC
Syria
© AFP / Delil souleimanFILE PHOTO.
Two recent reports by the New York Times highlight some of the US' manifold crimes in Syria, murdering untold numbers of Syrian civilians over the years, under the pretext of fighting the Islamic State.

They exposed a 2019 US bombing in Baghuz, eastern Syria, which killed 70 civilians, and that this was but one of numerous instances, with the Delta Force routinely launching "reckless airstrikes" while purportedly fighting ISIS.

Stating the obvious: had the wanton and repeated mass murder of civilians been committed by Syria or Russia, it would have been in headlines, ad nauseum...because the legacy media genuinely cares about the Syrian people. But, since the crimes were committed by the US, we'll neither see outrage nor crocodile tears. In fact, it's pretty shocking that the New York Times, a noted apologist for American Imperialism which has promoted outright fabrications about Syria over the years, has deigned to report honestly on actual war crimes in the country.
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Bad Guys

Germany expels 2 Russian diplomats after conviction of Russian over murder of Chechen separatist in 2019


RT
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:43 UTC
russian embassy Germany
© Kay Nietfeld / picture alliance via Getty Images
Two Russian diplomats working at the country's embassy in Berlin have been declared persona non grata, Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has announced. The move is linked to a high-profile murder case blamed on Moscow.

The German Foreign Ministry has summoned Russia's ambassador to Berlin and informed him that two of the embassy's diplomatic staff have been declared personae non gratae, Baerbock told a news conference on Wednesday.

The move was linked to the high-profile murder of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Khangoshvili dating back to 2019. The case sparked a row between Moscow and Berlin, after the German authorities accused Russia of being behind the killing, which Moscow has denied.

Comment: There doesn't appear to be any evidence proving Russia was behind the murder, nor does there appear to be any reasonable explanation as to why Russia would go to the trouble of risking their already strained relations to commit the crime; what seems more plausible is that Germany is involved in yet another self-destructive attempt to appease its US masters, by using the incident to smear Russia. As to who the perpetrator was, it might be an entity that seeks to benefit from this smear, which just so happens to support the continued blockage of Nord Stream II.

This conviction comes amidst a concerted effort by the West in accelerating its belligerence towards Russia, and, in turn, increasingly firm attempts by Russia to hold the Western establishment to account.

Notably, two months ago a Russian diplomat was found dead after he 'fell from a window', the details of what happened were sparse, and the incident wasn't reported in the news till over a month later.

See: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: COVID And Mind Control - Do People Fear The Virus, Or Their Government?



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2 + 2 = 4

Russia and Israel - A double-standard in international condemnation

Gavin OReilly
Global Research
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Putin and Lukashenko
Over the past month, in a break from its usual focus on COVID-19, the Western mainstream media has dedicated a sizeable amount of coverage to unverified claims by unnamed US intelligence officials that the Russian Federation is planning an imminent military invasion of its western neighbour Ukraine - under the rule of the successive US-EU friendly governments of Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky since 2014, when the CIA-orchestrated Euromaidan colour revolution toppled the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych, following his November 2013 decision to suspend an EU trade deal in favour of pursuing closer ties with Moscow.

The coverage, which comes at a time of increased tensions in Eastern Europe amidst a build-up of refugees on the Belarus-Poland border being labelled as an attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko to destabilise the European Union, has resulted in widespread condemnation of Moscow by the Western media and political establishment, culminating in the G7 issuing a statement on Saturday threatening massive sanctions should Russia make any incursion into Ukraine - Russia having been a former member of the then-G8 until the successful reunification of the historically Russian peninsula of Crimea with the rest of the country in 2014, the pretext for which being the dangerously high anti-Russian sentiment of the newly-formed Western-backed Poroshenko government, resulted in Moscow's suspension from the forum, with a later decision being made by the Kremlin in 2017 to formally leave the group altogether.
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Eagle

They'll use the welfare state to get compliance on vaccine mandates

Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
money hook
A Democratic state lawmaker in Illinois has introduced legislation requiring unvaccinated residents to pay out-of-pocket for healthcare services. It's all part of an effort to come up with new and creative ways to punish people who refuse to get the covid jab. WBBM Radio in Chicago reports:
[Jonathan] Carroll's legislation would amend the state's insurance code so that "a person who is eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and chooses not to be vaccinated shall pay for health care expenses out-of-pocket if the person becomes hospitalized because of COVID-19 symptoms."
In other words, Carroll is trying to ensure that the unvaccinated will be denied health insurance for covid treatments, even in cases where private insurance is already bought and paid for. Moreover, intervening in private insurance won't even be necessary in many cases, since one-third of the population is already receiving government-funded healthcare.

This policy is quite remarkable coming from a progressive like Carroll. After all, for decades, we've been hearing from the Left that "healthcare is a human right" and that it must be provided to anyone and everyone at taxpayer expense. Anything short of universal state subsidized healthcare, we've been told, is unacceptable.

Comment: The next step then for the Global Managers is to either induce, or take advantage of, the collapse of the economy and/or a major "cyberattack" on the global financial infrastructure to help usher in and implement the new Central Bank Digital Currency system - where money gets doled out - and spent - where, when and how the elites sees fit:



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Pirates

UK Chancellor warns of spending cuts and tax hikes to cover multi BILLION cost of Covid booster programme

Jessica Elgot
The Guardian
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:00 UTC
Sunak
© Stefan Rousseau/PAA source said Rishi Sunak had made clear that boosters were not built into current spending plans.
Rishi Sunak has issued a stark warning to Department of Health officials over the multibillion-pound cost of regular booster rollouts, the Guardian has learned.

Sources said the chancellor raised the point in several Covid meetings that a mooted three-month booster regime - more frequent than originally anticipated - could begin to impact on future spending.


Comment: Perhaps the regularity of the boosters was unknown, but there's sufficient evidence, such as forms that had blank spaces for additional vaccines received, as well as the sheer quantity of vaccines ordered by governments across the planet, that reveal more than one vaccine per person was anticipated, despite claims to the contrary at the time.

As just one example, the UK has a population of around 63 million and yet, according to Wikipedia, 'by February 2021 the British Government had placed orders for a combined total of 457 million doses across 8 different vaccines'. That's at least 7 boosters per person. And, as noted below, the government has just placed another order of 114 MILLION doses. The population total obviously includes children who are at no risk from coronavirus but are at an increased risk of serious, and deadly, injury from the experimental injections


A Whitehall source from outside the Treasury said Sunak had not opposed the measure but warned prices were likely to rise and that the cost to the exchequer should not be underestimated. They said the additional cost would need to be paid for in either spending cuts or tax rises.

"He made the point, rightly, that people would feel the effects of that spending in NHS and household budgets. These doses do not grow on trees," the source said.

Comment: As noted in the last paragraphs, amidst the supposed 'deadly pandemic' and the apparently critical lockdowns and infinite boosters that are destroying the economy, a number of recent high profile leaks showing government staff flouting their own restrictions have scandalised the government.

In just another galling example, Conservative party aides threw a Christmas 2020 party whilst the average citizen was threatened with police raids if they dared see their own extended family:
Tory aides Christmas lockdown
Image: 'Christmas party thrown by Tory aides during lockdown 2020'
Don't forget yer boosters!

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: COVID And Mind Control - Do People Fear The Virus, Or Their Government?



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Snakes in Suits

Pelosi and Schumer awarded Wall Street Journal's 'Lie Of The Year'

Carmine Sabia
Conservative Brief
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:25 UTC
Nancy Pelosi
© Getty Images
Congratulations are in order for House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi who just won a, as the old man would say in "A Christmas Story," major award.

Her claim that Joe Biden and the Democrats' "Build Back Better" plan would not cost anything has won the prestigious Wall Street Journal "Lie Of The Year," it reported on Monday.
We've been telling you for months that the plan's advertised cost of $1.75 trillion over 10 years includes multiple budget gimmicks that disguise the real cost. The Penn Wharton Budget Model has scored the 10-year cost at about $4.6 trillion, but the White House keeps claiming against all evidence that the cost is "zero."

Now comes the Congressional Budget Office to report that the claim of zero cost is a Big Con. CBO, a political outfit beholden to Congress, can't be so blunt. It is constrained by budget conventions imposed by Congress. But even under those conventions, CBO has said the bill would add $200 billion to the deficit over 10 years.

Enter Sens. Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn, who asked CBO director Phillip Swagel to add up the cost of the bill that recently passed the House if all of its programs were made permanent. This is a more honest accounting because Democrats admit both that they want to make the spending permanent and that they've adjusted programs to make them fit under the Senate budget rules so they can pass with a mere 51 votes (including Vice President Kamala Harris ).

Mr. Swagel's response, sent on Friday, is a torpedo speeding toward the hull of Build Back Better. The dishonesty in the $1.75 trillion spending total is astonishing even by Congressional standards.
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Bug

Operation VERBASCO: The skeleton under the veil is flat-footed - British government's Novichok operation moves into new coverup stage

John Helmer
Dance with Bears
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Sergei and Yulia Skripal
The British Government announced this week that after cancelling the coroner's court inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess from alleged Russian Novichok attack, the public inquiry replacing the inquest will not start for more than a year — until February 2023.

Sturgess died in Salisbury District Hospital on July 8, 2018, four months after Sergei and Yulia Skripal were allegedly attacked by Novichok and recovered in the same hospital. The second coroner appointed to investigate, Baroness Heather Hallett, has already ruled officially, and posted on her inquest website, that "the post mortem indicated the cause of her death was Novichok poisoning." The medical evidence has not been disclosed, tested forensically, or cross-examined according to British coroner's court standards. Those standards have now been replaced by a more secretive proceeding, called a public inquiry, in which Hallett will play prosecutor, judge, jury, and also censor.

Comment: Speaking of Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, who is to be "excluded" from the inquiry, one can read further on him from the below:

Skripal poisoning mystery: Where was Detective Sergeant Nicholas Bailey poisoned?

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