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Russia unlikely to send recalled ambassador back to Washington without clear sign US ready for bilateral relations, Moscow insists


RT
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:54 UTC
kremlin capitol
© (L) Getty Images / Massimo Borchi / Atlantide Phototravel; (R) REUTERS / Tom Brenner
Russia's Foreign Ministry has revealed it has no plans to restore full diplomatic representation in Washington until it sees evidence that the US is interested in building constructive relations between the two countries.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov was asked by RIA Novosti on Wednesday whether Ambassador Anatoly Antonov would return to America in the near future, having been recalled in March amid a growing diplomatic row. "This is not a question for the next few days," he said.

"The timings will be determined based on what steps Washington plans to take on the bilateral track," he continued. "We expect that they are still able to demonstrate a desire to at least relatively stabilize our relationship and that they will do something visible and noticeable in this regard."

Antonov flew to Moscow for a series of crunch talks with senior officials in the days following US President Joe Biden's interview with the ABC news network, in which he was asked whether he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "killer," and replied, "Mmm hmm, I do."
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SAGE: Social distancing and masks must remain for another year to avoid deaths reaching January levels this summer, despite vaccines

Will Jones
Lockdown Sceptics
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 07:40 UTC
Vallance and Whitty
The Government's top scientific advisers have released papers today claiming social distancing and masks must remain in place for another year to avoid another wave of hospitalisations and deaths this summer at levels seen in January, despite the high vaccine take-up. The Mail has the details.

Comment: At this stage of the Corona madness the PTB are actively working on introducing some form of vaccine passport that will give them even more control over the population. The vaccine passports will also divide people into the "vaccinated elite" on one side and "infectious savages" on the other. While people argue and fight between them the real enemy is working in the background and stripping humanity of their rights and freedom by imposing a totalitarian police state under the guise of a fake pandemic.
When the Government holds a vote on vaccine passports, the support of the Labour benches will be vital for a victory (presuming that a decent number of Conservative MPs vote "no"). But Keir Starmer has yet to decide whether to back the Government over the introduction of such certification and was "really angry" that an interview he gave to the Telegraph last week foregrounded his criticism of the idea. The Guardian has the story.
Keir Starmer is weighing up whether to support Covid status certificates in a vote within weeks for which he could lend the Government crucial support to pass one of its most controversial coronavirus policies.

The Labour leader has been hesitant to endorse a proposal that would mean people would have to prove they had been vaccinated, had a recent negative test or antibodies from prior infection in order to access venues such as theatres and sports stadiums. ...

Labour is trying to keep its options open given that details about the plan are scarce, and will hope that attention remains on the splits within the Conservative party, where more than 40 of Boris Johnson's backbenchers have branded the idea "divisive and discriminatory" and vowed to oppose it.

But after dozens of prominent Labour backbenchers, including the former party leader Jeremy Corbyn, also pledged to vote against the certificates, Starmer is being forced to decide whether he should give the Government the support it may need.

A Labour source said Starmer's team was "worried that this issue splits the PLP [parliamentary Labour party] just like it splits the Tory party" and was "really angry" that an interview he gave to the Telegraph last week was headlined on his criticism of the Covid status certificates.

They admitted: "There isn't really a consensus yet" within the party, though they predicted Labour would probably end up supporting the certificates "but probably not make much of a song and dance about it".
The "reservations are real", says another Labour source - but mainly around the "digital infrastructure" of Covid passports, rather than about their implication on liberty.

That's about as much "opposition" as we can expect from the notional Leader of the Opposition.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Labour has called vaccine passports "discriminatory" and appears to be leaning towards opposing the Government on a Covid ID card scheme. The Guardian has the story.
The Shadow Health Secretary, Jon Ashworth, accused the Government of "creating confusion" by not explaining clearly where the documents may be needed, after Boris Johnson confirmed they were being investigated but would not be introduced earlier than mid-May.

"I'm not going to support a policy that, here in my Leicester constituency, if someone wants to go into Next or H&M, they have to produce a vaccination certificate on their phone, on an app," Ashworth told BBC Breakfast. "I think that's discriminatory."

He added it made sense to ask people to get tested before going to events such as a football game, but warned that forcing everyone to carry an "ID card" proving they had been jabbed was not fair.
Worth reading in full.
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Target

How big banks are planning to force Americans into the 'Great Reset' trap

Justin Haskins
Town Hall
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:01 UTC
Bank of America
© AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File
In June 2020, elites from around the world gathered to announce the launch of a plan to "reset" the entire global economy, a proposal they ominously named the "Great Reset."

Among the many world leaders and powerful institutions that pledged their support for the Great Reset at the June meeting were the International Monetary Fund, Prince Charles, the head of the United Nations, CEOs from major international corporations, and the World Economic Forum — one of the key ringleaders of the Great Reset.

"Every country, from the United States to China, must participate [in the Great Reset], and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed," wrote Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, in an article published on WEF's website. "In short, we need a 'Great Reset' of capitalism."

The initial justification for the Great Reset was the COVID-19 pandemic, but from the start, supporters of the global economic overhaul repeatedly said that climate change was the long-term justification, the one that would allow a sustained, massive transformation of society. Doing nothing, they argued, would pose an "existential threat" to the human race — a completely ludicrous argument many on the left continuously make without a shred of solid scientific evidence to support the claim.

Comment: More on what the so-called "Great Reset" actually is and how the elites aim to implement it:

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Passport

The Truth About 'Vaccine Passports'

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:54 UTC
Covid passport
The biggest threat to liberty in generations.

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Jordan bans media coverage of royal feud - state news agency


The Jerusalem Post
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 12:42 UTC
King of Jordan Abdullah II
© VINCENT KESSLER/ REUTERSKing of Jordan Abdullah II addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France January 15, 2020.
Prince Hamzah pledged allegiance to King Abdullah late on Monday after mediation by the royal family.

Jordan banned all news outlets and social media users on Tuesday from publishing any content related to King Abdullah's half-brother Prince Hamzah after the latter was accused of plotting to destabilize the country.

Prince Hamzah pledged allegiance to King Abdullah late on Monday after mediation by the royal family, two days after the military warned him over actions it said were undermining "security and stability" in Jordan and placed him under house arrest.

In unprecedented public criticism, Hamzah, who was crown prince until King Abdullah removed him from the post in 2004, accused Jordan's leaders of corruption and serving only their own interests.

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Eagle

Why is the Biden administration pushing Ukraine to attack Russia?

Ron Paul
The Ron Paul Institute
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
On March 24th, Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky signed what was essentially a declaration of war on Russia. In the document, titled Presidential Decree No. 117/2021, the US-backed Ukrainian leader declared that it is the official policy of Ukraine to take back Crimea from Russia.

The declaration that Ukraine would take back Crimea from Russia also followed, and was perhaps instigated by, President Biden's inflammatory and foolish statement that "Crimea is Ukraine."

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was a chief architect of the US-backed coup against Ukraine in 2014, continued egging on the Ukrainians, promising full US support for the "territorial integrity" of Ukraine. Many Americans wonder why they are not even half as concerned about the territorial integrity of the United States!

Not to be outdone, at the beginning of this month US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin - who previously served on the board of missile-maker Raytheon - called his counterpart in Ukraine and promised "unwavering US support for Ukraine's sovereignty." As the US considers Crimea to be Ukrainian territory, this is clearly a clear green light for Kiev to take military action.

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Russian Flag

From the Notebook: Enter the Putinator

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'n Guns
Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
PutinBiden
© Mark Makela Sputnik/Alexey Druzhinin/KJNRussian President Putin • US President Biden
When Biden called Russian President a soulless "killer" on ABC News, Putin responded with the most deft bit of diplomacy I've seen in quite a while, openly challenging Fungal Joe to a publicly broadcast debate of substantive issues, which Biden, of course, declined.

For those that don't remember the context, here's the article from Zerohedge on the subject.

There can be no question now that all the disparate interests within The Davos Crowd are aligned at this point (see this month's Newsletter for more discussion on this). All guns point at Russia.

Putin tried to defuse the situation with an offer that was at once an epic troll of Biden, who is clearly no match for his Russian counterpart cognitively, and a warning to Americans that this situation has gotten far more dangerous than they are being told.

And sometimes you win simply by taking the high road. Make no mistake the fact that Putin went here this early in Biden's presidency is a bad sign. It tells us things are horrific between the world's most prominent nuclear powers and that there's been zero diplomatic effort put forth by the Biden administration since the election.
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Attention

Dick Morris: Biden's "Infrastructure Bill" is a lie - a ploy to collectivize the entire US

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 08:30 UTC
Biden/Morris
© Andrew Harnik/AP/Celebrity Net Worth-bs/KJNUS President Joe Biden • Political Consultant/Author Dick Morris
Joe Biden has no idea what he is doing and this is good for those behind the scenes running the operation. They can push the most insane and inefficient laws and regulations in history and Biden and half the American people won't know it. President Biden's infrastructure proposal is meant to collectivize the nation, political strategist Dick Morris said Sunday in harsh criticism of the bill.

Morris, a former advisor to President Bill Clinton, speaking on "The Cats Roundtable" radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM, shared:
"Biden's infrastructure package is designed to collectivize the United States, to regiment us, to unionize us, and to make us controllable and tractable as an economy. The metaphor that comes to mind is when Stalin insisted that all the farmers go to collective farms. You cannot get those funds unless you unionize. Davis-Bacon will control all of that spending. You have to have a union for your company to qualify. That's going to force the entire construction industry and huge numbers of other industries into unionization."

"Biden intends to make the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act part of the legislation bill, which would be the greatest disaster we've ever had.

"The general public does not yet know about the PRO Act, but said that the end result would be that nobody can work for themselves. Everybody has to be on a corporate payroll. If you are a consultant or a contractor or a freelancer, you have to close up shop and become an employee of your client or the people you contract with.

"This means that some 30 to 40 million people who make their living that way are going to have to be now on payroll. Such a law is already in effect in California and has totally deformed the economy of that state."

Comment: Why do commenters think Biden has any say? Not even forceful, headstrong Trump was able to do what he wanted. And Obama? He was a popular standup showman, a cover act - a distraction that continually promised change but never delivered. The only force that can combat such a 'take-over' is the people - but only if there remains a fighting will amongst the masses to crumble their programming and nudge complacency - which remains to be seen.

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How much longer will the United States exist?

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
burning barn
© jcalvera
As a geographical location, the US, not necessarily under that name, can exist for a long time. But as a nation the US no longer exists. A nation requires a homogeneous population, which the US does not have, and far more unity than exists today in the US. Once past the colonial era when the immigration gates were opened, the English population was diluted with Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews, and a variety of other European peoples. With sensible immigration policies and requirements, the US was able to assimilate diverse European ethnicities into an English rule of law, English civil liberties, and the English language. These successful efforts of assimilation were abandoned decades ago and supplanted by "multiculturalism" and "diversity." Today the US is a Tower of Babel.

Today the US is too diverse to live under the same laws. For example, Democrats have stated their intention of destroying the Second Amendment. Moreover, some of them are prepared to do so not by legislative action but by presidential fiat, a power that the US Constitution does not permit. For example, anti-constitutionalists US Representatives Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), Val Demings (D-Fla.), and Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) have asked election thief Joe Biden to "take executive action" against "assault weapons."

To request a president to exercise a power he does not have is how tyranny begins, but the Democrat Representatives are so lacking in American enculturation that they ask Biden to pull non-existent powers out of the air and use them against the US Constitution. This alone proves my point that there is no American nation. The United States is the Constitution. Devoid of the Constitution it is some other country.
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From the Notebook: Archegos Bikini Atolls

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'N Guns
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
board room/maps
© unknownArchegos Dr. Srangelove big board
Do you remember the end of Dr. Strangelove? When the Russian ambassador reveals the existence of the Doomsday device, Strangelove makes the point that such weapons only have deterrent power if everyone knows about them.

Secret weapons have no ability to deter cataclysmic violence.

The reply from the Russian ambassador is one for the ages, "It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday."

Remember this when we consider the curious question of the demise of Archegos Capital.

Because sometimes I watch something unfold and I have zero opinion on it whatsoever. The Suez blockage was one of them. I had to will myself to care beyond the obvious, "this is bad" reaction. The more I think about it, however, the more significant it becomes (more on that in future posts).

On the other hand, the minute I read a single article about the vaporization of Archegos capital on Monday morning I smelled a rat, or least something vaguely rat-like. And what immediately popped into my head was this thing is important, but not for the reasons anyone will admit to on CNBC or in the financial press.
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