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Freedom of speech? US imposes sanctions on news outlet RT


RT
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:58 UTC
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© Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses Russian news outlets, including RT, of working with the Russian intelligence, September 13, 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused RT and its parent company of acting as an extension of Russian intelligence and attempting to undermine democracy around the world.

Speaking at a State Department press conference on Friday, Blinken announced sanctions designations against RT parent companies Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti, accusing "individuals affiliated" and "elements within" them of allegedly attempting to interfere in the Moldovan elections.

The State Department has also sanctioned Dmitry Kiselev, Rossiya Segodnya's director-general.

TV-Novosti was also accused of "being responsible for or complicit in, or having directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, interference" in US or other foreign elections "for or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, directly or indirectly," the Russian government.

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SOTT Focus: Trump 'Safe And Well' After ANOTHER Assassination Attempt, Man With 'AK' Rifle Arrested - Caught Targeting President as he Played Golf

Joe Marino
New York Post
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 22:20 UTC
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Mr Trump's motorcade heading to Mar-a-Lago after the incident
Former President Trump narrowly survived yet another assassination attempt after a sniper with a scoped AK-47 rifle got within a few hundred yards of him as he played golf at his West Palm Beach, Florida club on Friday.

It is the second time a madman armed with an assault rifle has tried to kill the 45th president in two months.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the suspect had taken cover near a chain-link fence between 300-500 yards away from Trump, but conceded, "with a rifle and scope like that is not a long distance."

Law enforcement sources told The Post that the suspect is 58-year-old Ryan Routh of Hawaii.

Comment: More on the alleged shooter, Routh, whose politics appear to be largely pro-Western establishment narratives - pro-war against Russia - and which are, notably, also similar to those of the would-be-assassin of Slovakia's PM Fico.

In fact, he was so pro-Ukraine War, he was a leading recruiter of mercenaries for the Ukraine War in the US and possibly in Afghanistan.

Furthermore, if the data below is accurate, then one would imagine he was already known, in some way, by the security services.
Ryan Wesley Routh, the Suspect identified in today's Assassination Attempt on Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump in West Palm Beach, is said to have been heavily Involved with the Ukrainian International Legion; which he had previously assisted in the Recruitment for in 2022, when he was Interviewed by Newsweek in Romania.

The Newsweek interview (10 minutes in length):


He clearly came well-prepared not only to assassinate Trump, but to record his 'heroic deed':


People are finding evidence that he was a Democrat Party donor, though elsewhere he says on his social media that he identifies as politically 'independent':



Routh's social media is being pulled down but as you can see the man had so much of a social media footprint, folks have been able to glean a lot:


His alleged X account shows that he was "willing to fly to Ukraine and fight!"


And apparently to Taiwan:


Routh's alleged criminal record:


He was allegedly very active in trying to recruit fighters for Ukraine - the NYT article is from 2023 and is titled: 'Stolen Valour: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine who lie, waste and bicker'


Max Blumenthal has found that Routh published a 291-page book, "Unwinnable War," about his time in Ukraine's International Legion:
Routh says he'd like to see Putin assassinated, seems to hope for Trump's assassination as well, and calls for the US to "instigate" a nuclear war with Russia Stating he's neither a Democrat or Republican, Routh's clearly articulated mindset toward Russia mirrors that of Beltway hardliners. He offers gushing admiration for Juan Guaido, the Free Syrian Army, Myanmar rebels, and other CIA backed forces, while hinting at a friendship with MSNBC natsec hack and fellow International Brigade member Malcolm Nance.
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Referring to specific passages from Routh's book, Blumenthal shows that:
Ryan Routh calls for the assassination of Putin and Lukashenko of Belarus, arguing that their killing would bring on the demise of the Russian's state's viability as an independent power, as no one can succeed Putin.
And:
Routh urges the West to "instigate" a nuclear conflict with Russia and "strike first." He wants a "quick and decisive and powerful blow to end it once and for all," as the US did at the end of WWII.
And:
Routh declares himself a political independent, neither Republican or Democrat, but clearly loathes Trump.
And:
In a rambling passage, Routh appears to fantasize about the assassination of Trump as punishment his unraveling of the Iran deal.
And:
Routh spills lots of ink complaining about the Ukrainian state's waste and corruption. Here, he says it hampered the PR efforts of his International Legion comrade in arms in Kiev, "Malcolm," who appears to be MSNBC natsec hack and wannabe freedom fighter Malcolm Nance.
Update: It's been discovered that Routh, like Crooks, was ALSO in a Blackrock commercial:




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Polish minister visiting Kiev calls for end to benefits for Ukrainian men in Europe


Straits Times
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:51 UTC
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© REUTERSUkrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha (left) and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski visiting the Memory Wall of Fallen Defenders of Ukraine, in Kyiv, on Sept 13.
European governments should halt welfare benefits to Ukrainian men of military age who are living in their countries, Poland's foreign minister said, a measure he said would help Ukraine call up more troops to fight Russian forces.

Following a meeting in Kyiv with his Ukrainian counterpart, Poland's Radoslaw Sikorski said ending social benefits for Ukrainian male refugees would also benefit state finances in host countries in Western Europe.

More than 4.1 million Ukrainians had temporary protection status in European Union countries as of July this year, and about 22 per cent of them were adult men, according to data from the EU statistics office, Eurostat.

Comment: It says a lot about how the majority of Ukrainians feel about this war that they don't want to be involved in it.

Presumably Sikorski thinks impoverishing the men to be as passionate as the volunteer below:


Desperation is really revealing the true nature of some of Europe's politicians:

The world is full of idiots. Come on, do it finally and put an end to this world once and for all. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Landsbergis - demands that the West attack Russia:

"I think we can no longer remain silent. Ukraine must have a clear path to real security guarantees, not the ones we are signing now. And the only security guarantee I believe in is Article 5. How many tanks did it take for us and our allies to push Iraq out of Kuwait? About 4,000. How many troops? 800,000 soldiers. We have the ability to stop Putin. We have the ability to fight him in Ukraine and throw him out. We have the ability to make sure that he cannot continue any war he has planned."
But it may also be bringing out the better part of others: 'Blinken, get lost! We don't want to die for your war!' Polish MP calls out US Sec of State during visit to Warsaw

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Nuclear War Remains Unlikely, But NATO-Russia Network War Escalates


Sott.net
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 20:31 UTC
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer took his entire cabinet to Washington last week for a pow-wow with their American war allies to plead his case for allowing Ukraine to use long-range precision weapons to target Russian military bases and missile launch sites deep within Russia. Putin said Russia will 'respond in kind' and, although no one knows what that means, the Anglo-Americans are confident the Russian president is bluffing.

This week on NewsReal, Joe & Niall explain, again, that nuclear exchange isn't in play here; the two sides are indeed escalating, but under the threshold of M.A.D., and against the clock of Ukrainian statehood collapsing into its own footprint. Anyway, nothing major is likely to happen before the US election.

Speaking of which, what on Earth is all this post-debate nonsense between Trump and Harris supporters about Haitian immigrants sacrificing people's pets? As Joe dives into the voodoo, Niall brings up the NYT's election prediction: it's going to take 'days' to count all the votes, 'naturally', so the chances of Kamala not 'winning' are shrinking by the day...


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Another September 11th

Edward Curtin
Off-Guardian
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:18 UTC
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Rolling out of my crib before dawn today (I was in it long before the charlatans Harris and Trump began their theatrical "debate"), it being another September 11th, I wondered where Dick Cheney was.

And I was still wondering where Elmer Gantry was, having received the previous day a form message from RFK, Jr.'s faith-based engagement team leader, Rev. Wendy Silvers, that she was conducting a "pop-up" prayer service for the great Ciceronians' debate, with Bobby Kennedy in the press room, rooting for his boy Donald.

Cheney and Harris vs. Kennedy and Trump. A tag-team match perfect for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

I had just dreamed, or so I thought, that Cheney was out night-riding his white stallion across the Wyoming hills, long gun tight aside his saddle, cowboy hat slung back with a full moon shining on his melonic noggin, sea-shells in his ears as he grooved from side-to-side to the music of that other Kamala Harris endorser, Taylor Swift. It's always wonderful, wonderful, oh so wonderful to get political advice from a fully-clothed warmonger and a scantily-clad diva.

In my dream I heard another voice as night rider Dick ripped off his earphones and pulled back on the reins. "Dick, Dick," an eerie voice rang out:
'If you want to save your soul from hell a-riding on our range,
Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride
-try'ng to catch the devil's herd
Across these endless skies'
Yippee-yi-ay, yippee-yi-o,
The ghost herd in the sky.
That was it, I threw my old clothes on and headed up the hill to the lake to clear my mind of such a nasty flic. Dick hadn't changed his ways since 2001, except to embrace Democratic war making instead of Republican.

Actually, that's wrong, for as Mr. Neocon, a signer of the bloodthirsty neo-conservative document the Project for the New American Century, he always welcomed and got bipartisan support to attack Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.

The neo-cons who run the Democrats and Republicans alike, and whose document "Rebuilding America's Defenses" most interestingly stated long before COVID-19 that "advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."

You don't say.
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Bad Guys

Gov't censorship: Australia threatens fines for social media giants enabling misinformation

Byron Kaye
Reuters
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:49 UTC
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Australia said it will fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online, joining a worldwide push to rein in borderless tech giants but angering free speech advocates.

The government said it would make tech platforms set codes of conduct governing how they stop dangerous falsehoods spreading, to be approved by a regulator. The regulator would set its own standard if a platform failed to do so, then fine companies for non-compliance.

The legislation, to be introduced in parliament on Thursday, targets false content that hurts election integrity or public health, calls for denouncing a group or injuring a person, or risks disrupting key infrastructure or emergency services.

The bill is part of a wide-ranging regulatory crackdown by Australia, where leaders have complained that foreign-domiciled tech platforms are overriding the country's sovereignty, and comes ahead of a federal election due within a year.

Comment: Who decides what is false or disinformation? After the coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop story, it should be clear that governments will arbitrarily decide what to censor. Australia is stepping closer to a liberal fascist government with this move.

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IDF says there's no south Lebanon evacuation order after unauthorized flyers dropped

Emanuel Fabian
Times of Israel
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:23 UTC
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© @Valqur1/XThis morning, leaflets were dropped via a drone, demanding the evacuation of areas towards the north near Al-Wazzani village in southern Lebanon.
Military says brigade commander did not have approval to distribute leaflets calling on civilians to leave area used by Hezbollah to launch attacks; flyers dropped by drone

The Israeli military clarified on Sunday that there was no evacuation recommendation given for civilians in southern Lebanon, and that flyers dropped in the southern village of Wazzani calling on residents to leave had been distributed by a brigade commander without permission.

The military said it has launched an investigation into the incident.

The flyers called on Lebanese civilians in highlighted zones close to the border to evacuate by 4 p.m. due to Hezbollah activity in the area.
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Venezuela arrests Navy SEAL among several foreigners behind alleged Maduro assassination plot

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:46 UTC
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Venezuela has announced the arrest of three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen, accusing them of plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. The arrests were first announced Saturday by the country's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who said that one of the Americans is Wilbert Joseph Castañeda Gomez - a Navy SEAL - who state television said served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Colombia.

Cabello alleged this was all part of another CIA plot to overthrow the Maduro government, which comes after Washington has contested the official results July 28 election which ensured the longtime strongman another six-year term as leader.

Cabello further held up rifles he claimed were used by the six foreigners as part of the anti-government plot. Below is an image circulated by state media of Gomez, who is being described as an active elite SEAL...

Comment: Previously:

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Wall Street

Why's Russia re-engaging with the IMF?

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
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The relationship between Russia, the IMF, and BRICS isn't what most folks have been led to believe.

IMF Communications Director Julie Kozack confirmed during a press briefing on Thursday that the first Article IV consultations with Russia since 2021 will take place next week. She also praised BRICS expansion. Both of these caught multipolar enthusiasts off guard since they assumed that Russia wouldn't ever re-engage with the IMF, which they consider to be BRICS' rival. What follows are the exact words that she said, which will then be analyzed in the larger context of Russia's financial grand strategy:
"The IMF and all of our member countries have a mutual obligation to conduct Article IV Consultations. It's in our articles of agreement. Actually, in the case of Russia, since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the economic situation has been exceptionally unsettled, which has made it difficult to anchor Article IV Consultations, especially thinking about the outlook and policy frameworks for both the near- and the medium-term.

"Now that the economic situation is more settled, Article IV Consultations with Russia are resuming, as I said at the beginning, in line with the obligations of both the Fund and the member country.

"As part of the upcoming Article IV Consultation, the team will hold bilateral discussions with the Russian authorities. It will hold both virtual discussions from September 16th, and then the team will travel to the country for in person meetings. As is the case for all Article IV Consultations, the team will meet with a number of different stakeholders to discuss the country's economic developments, prospects, and policies. [...]
"With respect to the BRICS or any other groups of countries, our view is that improved and expanding international cooperation and deepening trade and investment ties among groups of countries should be welcomed and encouraged, provided that they aim at reducing fragmentation and reducing trade and investment costs among members. The decision to join such initiatives is a sovereign decision of each member country. And I'll leave it at that."
Readers should also be aware that Russia appointed a new Executive Director to the organization earlier this month, Ksenia Yudaeva. She's an advisor to the Bank of Russia's chief but also under US sanctions. Kozack declined to comment when asked whether Yudaeva would be allowed to serve at the IMF's headquarters in DC upon taking over her new role in November. In any case, the importance is that Russia is actively re-engaging with the IMF, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently hinted at why.

Comment: The International Monetary Fund outlines its first steps with Russia:
The IMF will become the first major international financial body to send its official mission to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Aleksei Mozhin, the IMF's Russian executive director, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Mozhin said the International Monetary Fund mission would start via an online format on Sept. 16, and will continue with an IMF delegation visit to Moscow for meetings with Russian officials until Oct. 1. The IMF's last annual mission visited Russia in November 2019, before the start of the COVID pandemic. There have been no IMF missions to Russia since the start of Russia's war in Ukraine.

"We were excluded from this process under pressure from our Western 'friends' and there were no further missions in 2022-23," Mozhin said from his IMF office in Washington. The mission will be led by Argentinian Jacques Miniane.

Many Western nations raised the possibility of Russia's expulsion from the IMF in the aftermath of the Ukraine invasion, but that proved difficult because of reluctance from other members with large voting quotas such as China and India.

The IMF has been criticised by Western member states since the start of the war for providing what they say are overly optimistic outlooks for the sanctions-hit Russian economy, and warnings that any decisions about seizing frozen Russian assets should be backed with "sufficient legal support".
Excellent outline by Korybko regarding IMF's purpose and responsibilities as relates to current/future Russia and complexities of global financial concerns.

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Vance reveals Trump's plan for Ukraine


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:49 UTC
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© Dia Dipasupil /Getty ImagesRepublican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance.
The Republican vice presidential candidate has outlined what peace talks with Russia might look like.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has a concrete proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, his running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, has claimed.

Trump has repeatedly said he would stop the fighting "in 24 hours" if elected, most recently at Tuesday's debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats' candidate to succeed President Joe Biden.

Vance told former US Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan, in a podcast interview:
"To end the war, you need somebody that first of all people are terrified of. You need to be worried that if Donald Trump - or God forbid, Kamala Harris - says something, that they actually mean it. But you believe it with Donald Trump, you don't believe that with Kamala Harris. That's deterrence."
Asked about what a Trump peace proposal would look like, Vance outlined a scenario he considered probable.
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