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China blocks cryptocurrency Weibo accounts in 'judgment day' for bitcoin

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© Florence Lo/ReutersChina is expected to clear up ambiguity surrounding the legality of bitcoin trading businesses as part of its crackdown on cryptocurrencies that has seen Weibo accounts closed down.
China has stepped up its crackdown on bitcoin trading and mining, blocking a slew of cryptocurrency-related accounts on the Twitter-like Weibo platform over the weekend.

More actions are expected, including linking illegal crypto activities in China more directly with the country's criminal law, according to analysts and a financial regulator.

Last month, China's state council, or cabinet, vowed to crack down on bitcoin mining and trading, escalating a campaign against cryptocurrencies days after three industry bodies banned cryptocurrency-based financial and payment services.

Comment: It's likely that China is being proactive for reasons it has stated quite openly, which is that these cryptocurrencies "are not supported by real value", their prices are easily manipulated, and the contracts are not protected by Chinese law.

Note, that banks, financial institutions, and the like are the target of the ban, individuals are not barred from holding cryptocurrencies,

Prior to the ban, China accounted for nearly 90% of the speculative market, and having that much wealth, and the prospect of much more, trapped in these dubious, insecure assets leaves it open to attack from any nefarious agency that might seek to do it harm. And it's clear that there are forces out there that have China in their sights.

One only need to look at the action of the IMF with it's disaster capitalism, or to the financial crash of 2008, to realise that financial speculation, mismanagement and fraud can bring a country to its knees.

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Bitcoin, Gold and the Cashless Society


Attention

Zelensky accuses America of paying for NS2 pipeline with Ukrainian lives; blasts Biden for not meeting him before Putin summit

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© Reuters/Gleb Garanich/Kevin LamarqueUkraine President Volodymyr Zelensky • US President Joe Biden
Ukraine's embattled leader Volodymyr Zelensky has slammed the US for cutting Kiev out of decisions about Nord Stream 2, raged at delays to joining NATO, and said Washington has not yet asked his advice on how to deal with Russia.

Speaking to the Virginia-based Axios news site over the weekend, the Ukrainian president said he had been blindsided by Washington's decision to halt the bulk of sanctions aimed against the Russian-backed pipeline, which links the Siberian gas fields to consumers in Germany, the first segment of which was completed on Friday. Zelensky lamented that the energy conduit, which will bypass Ukraine,
"is a weapon, a real weapon in the hands of the Russian Federation. It is not very understandable...that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the US."
Zelensky added that Biden had given him "direct signals" that America was prepared to block the pipeline, before U-turning on the decision. He complained to reporters that he had been forced to listen in to a White House press briefing in order to understand the move, which Biden said was inevitable given he came to office too late to stop construction. The US president also said that it would be "counterproductive" to sanction its European allies, such as Germany. To this, Zelensky asked, "how many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?"

Comment: Ukraine doesn't have a say - which makes it a pawn. What Zelensky seems to miss is Biden also doesn't have a say.


Dollars

Revealed: The American money entwined with Israel's Jewish terrorist groups

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© Heidi Levine/APIsraeli and his burning car during mob violence against Israeli Arabs
Lod, Israel • May 11, 2021
As Israel rained rockets down on Gaza in mid-May, inside 1948-occupied Palestine (Historic Palestine and modern-day Israel), another kind of Israeli terror emerged. Jewish supremacists stormed cities with high Palestinian populations chanting "Death to Arabs!," attacking scores of Palestinians and vandalizing their properties.

The mob violence killed two Palestinian citizens of Israel, according to the Mossawa Center: the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel. And despite calls for calm, the attacks are ongoing. On Thursday, a Jewish mob dragged a Bedouin driver out of his car and beat him with glass bottles in northern Historic Palestine. Earlier, footage posted on social media showed Arab gas station workers lying on the ground after being surrounded and beaten by a Jewish mob in the town of Binyamina:

The American Jewish community condemned the wave of anti-Palestinian violence, under the assumption these attacks stem from the fringes of Jewish society. In reality, however, these Jewish supremacists receive financial support from a network of charities in the United States.

Comment: Private money maintains the structure, advances the cause, feeds the system. It seems a gross misnomer to call them 'charities.'

See also: American money is funding racist Jewish supremacist settler gangs in Israel and helping to fuel anti-Arab violence


Arrow Down

A truly free society would have no official narratives

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Dr. Anthony Fauci
Many of Anthony Fauci's emails during the US Covid-19 outbreak last year have been obtained via Freedom of Information Act and published by BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post. Depending on what ideological echo chamber you inhabit you may have heard that they are completely innocuous or historically damning; the ones eliciting the most controversy right now include a scientist telling Fauci that the virus could potentially look engineered, and a zoologist linked to both the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the World Health Organization's Covid investigation thanking Fauci for supporting the natural origin theory over the lab leak theory.

This will all play into the reinvigorated controversy surrounding the origins of the virus, which will ultimately lead nowhere. As Jonathan Cook argues in a thoughtful new article on the overnight pivot in the political/media class from attacking anyone who questioned whether the virus transferred to humans via a Wuhan wet market as a deranged and racist conspiracy theorist to acknowledging that a lab leak could be possible is due to scientific arguments gaining traction and forcing establishment narrative managers to engage in damage control.

Contradicting right-wing Maddowesque claims that this adamant opposition to the lab leak theory proves the media and the Democratic Party are in Xi Jinping's pocket, Cook argues that the western empire has been protecting not China, but themselves. The US scientific establishment and the WHO are both reportedly tied to controversial "gain-of-function" research practices in the Wuhan lab just before the Covid outbreak, which according to Cook means we can expect the imperial narrative managers to lead us around on a merry chase for truth without ever getting too close to it for fear of exposing the role that western power structures may have had the whole mess.

Attention

Cheney compares Trump claims to Chinese Communist Party: 'It's very dangerous'

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© Getty Images/KJNRep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming • Former President Donald Trump
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is comparing former President Trump's election claims to those of the Chinese Communist Party, concluding "it's very dangerous and damaging."

"When you listen to Donald Trump talk now, when you hear the language he's using now, it is essentially the same things that the Chinese Communist Party, for example, says about the United States and our democracy," Cheney said on The Axe Files podcast, which was released on Monday.
"When he says that our system doesn't work ... when he suggests that it's, you know, incapable of conveying the will of the people, you know, that somehow it's failed — those are the same things that the Chinese government says about us. It's very dangerous and damaging ... and it's not true."
Cheney's remarks come nearly one month after she was removed from her leadership position, in part because of her anti-Trump stance. She repeatedly called out Trump for his false claims of election fraud and refused to give credibility to his belief that the 2020 election was stolen.

Comment: Stepping upon others in order to step up is why misery loves company.
See how 'no bias' CNN reported this incident...




Stop

Ex-president Lula: Brazil doesn't need US permission to its own backyard

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© RTFormer leader of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
RT's Oksana Boyko caught up with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former leader of Brazil - who usually goes simply by Lula - to discuss his potential return in 2022 and what place he wants for his country on the global stage.

He said he wished for more equality in the future, and for strong countries like the US not to meddle in other nations' affairs.
"This idea of the Americans to be a beacon for the world and not let anyone else compete economically is wrong. Americans must know that we do not want a sheriff or a tutor, we want a partner. We want brothers and sisters. We want all countries to be fraternal, to develop partnerships. Brazil has to be a sovereign country as well as Russia, China, and the US."
Lula led Brazil between 2003 and 2010 and was part of the so-called 'pink tide' in Latin America. The continent, which Washington traditionally considers to be its backyard, went through a resurgence of left-wing forces at the time. Lula prides his government on massive reforms to eradicate poverty and otherwise lift up the have-nots, but also on strengthening Brazil's ties with other nations of the world.
"We proved that Brazil could have sovereignty and international protagonism, and that this could be reached without having to ask the US. We do not need to ask permission from the US to be the owners of our own backyard. The problem is that Brazil has a ruling class, an elite, that is subservient. They cannot do anything without asking permission from the US."

Family

Mexico President Obrador appears to hold key majority in elections

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© AP Photo/Marco UgarteMexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thumbs up after voting in congressional, state and local elections in Mexico City, Sunday, June 6, 2021.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's party and its allies on Monday appeared poised to maintain their majority in Mexico's lower chamber of the congress, but fell short of a two-thirds majority as some voters boosted the struggling opposition, according to initial election results.

Electoral authorities released "quick count" results based on voting samples that allow estimates of the voting trends to determine the rough potential makeup of the Chamber of Deputies late Sunday.

López Obrador's Morena party will have to rely on votes from its allies in the Workers Party and Green Party, but together they were expected to capture between 265 and 292 seats in the 500-seat chamber. Morena alone was expected to win 190 to 203 seats.

Comment: Obador appears to be more freedom-loving than most Americans.


Light Saber

Sen. Cruz makes case that Facebook was censoring COVID-19 content 'on behalf of the government'

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© Fox News
Fauci dismissed the 'lab-leak theory' in emails from the spring of 2020

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued on Sunday Morning Futures that "it now is clear" that Facebook was "utilizing their monopoly position to censor on behalf of the government" regarding information related to COVID-19 and its origins.

Cruz made the comment reacting to Facebook saying on May 26 that it would no longer ban posts suggesting COVID-19 is man-made amid mounting calls from President Biden and other officials for further investigation into the pandemic's origins.

The announcement marked a reversal for the social media giant. In February, Facebook said it would remove posts claiming the virus was man-made or manufactured "following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization" who had "debunked" the claim.

Comment: Fauci tap-dancing around NIH funding gain-of-function research prior to the email dump.




Snakes in Suits

UN, US, Facebook and Smartmatic executives conspired together before the 2020 election and many of same officials now trying to stop or derail 2020 election audits taking place

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The UN and some US entities worked before and after the 2018 and 2020 elections and many of the same players in these efforts are now trying to derail or stop 2020 election audits in the US today.

Harri Hursti, Ph.D., computer scientist, and Elizabeth Howard, Cybersecurity and Elections Counsel of the radical, Soros-funded nonprofit, the Brennan Center for Justice in Manhattan, are both experts in election cybersecurity. In 2018 they were part of a UN initiative surrounding election cybersecurity and now they are part of efforts to derail or sabotage audits of the 2020 election, Howard in Maricopa County, Arizona, and Hursti in Windham, New Hampshire.

Yesterday we reported that Howard and Hursti briefed a roomful of U.N. election observers on November 3, 2018. That briefing took place in Washington, D.C. and it concerned election cybersecurity. Three days later, on Election Day, a team of 186 U.N. election observers was deployed all over America - we don't know where - to observe our mid-term elections and to gather data for the U.N.

The U.N. committee Howard and Hursti spoke to in 2018 is chaired by Isabel Santos, who is the OSCE PA / ODIHR, which stands for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly / the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

Cloud Grey

Russia officially withdraws from Open Skies treaty

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© Reuters/A DruzhininRussian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet US President Joe Biden later this month
Moscow's departure from the pact is the final nail in the coffin for the confidence-building agreement. Washington left the treaty in November last year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law the country's departure from the Open Skies treaty on Monday, following in the footsteps of the former and current US presidential administrations.

The agreement was set up after the Cold War to build confidence between Russia and NATO members by allowing signatory states to conduct unarmed surveillance missions over each other's territory.

Former US President Donald Trump announced that Washington would pull out of the agreement, prompting a pledge from Moscow to follow suit.

Putin is set to meet with President Joe Biden later in June. The only remaining weapons treaty between the two countries is the START agreement, limiting the number of nuclear warheads each may possess.

Why did Russia leave the Open Skies treaty?

There had been hopes that the current president would seek to return to the treaty. These hopes were dashed in May when the United States State Department informed Moscow that it would continue with Trump's policy after concluding that Russia had not complied with the pact.

Comment: The US has been employing numerous across-the-board fictitious pretexts to demonize and vilify Russia over the past several years - making any level of cooperation close to impossible.