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Catherine Austin Fitts: We are entering into a war period

Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Catherine Austin Fitts
Investment advisor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts says big change is ahead of the world, and "nothing will ever be the same." Fitts lays out the so-called "reset" you've been hearing about for the past few years and says,
"We are in the process that I would recall is a global reset. The entire financial system is being reset. There are two aspects of this: One is extending the old system, and the other is bringing in the new system. It's very much being done on the fly by trial and error, but the new system is 100% digital."
The new system, according to Fitts, will be a top down control system where "tyranny" will be the key feature. Fitts predicts,
"If you look at the tyranny they are working on delivering, I don't think most people realize how hideous some of their plans are. So, the tyranny that's coming and the printing that's coming is greater than anything we have seen so far. . . . The Fed started a new round of QE in March, and if you look at the extent of that, it is extraordinarily inflationary. That's because this time around, the Fed is not just doing $3 trillion in QE. What the Fed did in three or four months, what it took them to do in three to five years during the so-called financial crisis, that is an extraordinary amount. Then you combine it with fiscal stimulus because the Fed is now buying the Treasuries . . . and the Treasury is sending checks out to Main Street. We are seeing that money going into the economy that is extraordinarily inflationary."
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Streisand effect, engage! US House introduces symbolic bipartisan resolution against QAnon conspiracy theory


RT
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:36 UTC
qanon
© Reuters / Leah Millis
A bipartisan pair of congressmen has introduced a resolution condemning the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, denouncing the psy-op as a "dangerous, anti-Semitic, conspiracy-mongering cult." QAnon fans took this as encouragement.

The resolution "condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes" was introduced on Tuesday by New Jersey Democrat Tom Malinowski and Virginia Republican Denver Riggleman, citing 'experts' from the FBI to the Anti-Defamation League to claim QAnon adherents are anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists threatening the American way of life.

The resolution "condemns QAnon and rejects the conspiracy theories it promotes" and urges the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to "strengthen their focus on preventing violence, threats, harassment, and other criminal activity by extremists motivated by fringe political conspiracy theories."

On top of all that, it "urges all Americans, regardless of our beliefs or partisan affiliations, to seek information from authoritative sources, and to engage in political debate from a common factual foundation." The resolution comes on the heels of dozens of mainstream media articles calling for QAnon-related content to be censored by social media.

Echoing their hero President Donald Trump, however, QAnon adherents have argued the American media establishment is just fake news, accusing all so-called "fact-checkers" of being controlled by the likes of billionaire currency speculator George Soros, a notorious funder of liberal causes.

Comment: ...a "dangerous, anti-Semitic, conspiracy-mongering cult."

That's rich coming from Branch Covidians who believe that following anti-scientific and illogical rules will 'save' them from a virus that isn't ever going to kill them.

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Greece to approve maritime deals as tensions with Turkey rise

Sotiris Nikas
Bloomberg
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:40 UTC
Erdogan waves
© Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERSErdogan waves as Turkey's drilling vessel Fatih departs for the Black Sea during a ceremony in Istanbul
Greek lawmakers are set to ratify agreements with Italy and Egypt on maritime boundaries as tensions rise in the eastern Mediterranean over exclusive economic rights and as Greece says it will extend its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea.

"The two agreements resolve decades-old issues and are based on international law," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told lawmakers Wednesday before a vote on the two accords.

Greece signed an initial maritime border deal with Italy in June, marking out exclusive economic zones between the two European Union members in the Ionian Sea. Two months later Athens reached a similar agreement with Egypt on a partial delimitation of their exclusive zones in the Mediterranean.

The accords "recognize the exclusive economic zones and sovereign rights of our islands," Mitsotakis said. "They mark Greece's return to the role of guarantor of Europe's eastern borders and interests in the Mediterranean."

Comment: France and Italy are taking the side of Greece as war games start, and tensions rise, in the disputed waters:
France, Italy, Greece and Cyprus are staging a massive maritime exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean, in an apparent veiled nod to Turkey, which recently began researching oil and gas deposits in the area, raising ire in Athens.

Codenamed 'Eunomia', the aeronautical exercises launched on Wednesday off the southern shores of Cyprus, the host nation of the war games. Athens' defense minister announced the start of the drills earlier in the day, saying they are to reinforce "the rule of law as part of the policy of de-escalating tensions."

France, in turn, also confirmed the news, having dispatched its 'Lafayette' frigate, as well as three Rafale fighter jets. Italian and Cypriot vessels were also said to have joined the exercise in the eastern part of the Mediterranean.

A day prior, separate drills kicked off near the Greek island of Crete, this time involving Hellenic and US armed forces.


The string of military exercises appears to be upping the ante in the festering feud between Greece and Turkey. Formally allies within NATO, the two nations have been at loggerheads over a number of issues, from historical discords to overlapping territorial claims in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Tensions recently flared up when a trove of gas and oil was discovered in the contentious waters. This week, Ankara announced that its Oruc Reis research vessel will carry on navigating the disputed waters between Cyprus and Crete. The news has caused outrage in Greece which views the research activities as unlawful and considers them an affront to its sovereignty.
And Turkey's President Erdogan is doubling and tripling down on his assertions:
Perhaps pouring more petrol into the flaming spat with Greece, the Turkish president ruled out making any concessions to Athens on the oil and gas discoveries in the contentious Mediterranean waters.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan picked a rather symbolic occasion to make the claims. He was speaking at a ceremony to commemorate a military victory by Seljuk Turks over the Byzantine Empire at the town of Malazgirt in the 11th century.

Turkey will take "whatever it is entitled to in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black seas, we will not make any concessions," Erdogan said on Wednesday.

The bulk of his fiery speech was devoted to Greece, which strongly objects to Turkey's research drilling in the contested Mediterranean waters. Saying the modern-day Greeks are "unworthy of the Byzantine legacy," Erdogan proceeded to veiled threats.

If it [Greece] wants to pay a price, let them come and face us. If they don't have the courage for it, they should stand out of our way.

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Turkey has prolonged an oil exploration mission of the Oruc Reis survey ship in the same area, reinforcing it with several warships.

Meanwhile on the diplomatic front, Athens signaled that it's open to talks with Ankara, but not under "military pressure." Germany, which has assumed the role of mediator in the spat, likened it to "playing with fire," and has liaised with Turkey and Greece in previous days.

Both sides appear to be ready to talk, according to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who toured both capitals. "No one wants to settle this conflict militarily, which would be absolute madness," he said on Tuesday, speaking alongside Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu.


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White House sends 'almost 1,000' National Guard troops & 200+ federal officers to help police in violence-plagued Kenosha


RT
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 03:06 UTC
Riot police stand guard during a protest
© Reuters / Brendan McDermidRiot police stand guard during a protest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 25, 2020.
The Trump administration has deployed nearly 1,000 National Guard soldiers and more than 200 federal agents to support local law enforcement in Kenosha, beset by days of rioting and unrest after the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

"President Trump condemns violence in all forms and believes we must protect all Americans from chaos and lawlessness," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement on Wednesday night. "This is why he is encouraging Democrat governors to request the National Guard and federal law enforcement to augment their local law enforcement efforts."
We have assisted Wisconsin in the deployment of almost 1,000 National Guard and over 200 federal law enforcement personnel, which will include FBI and US Marshals.

Comment: See the following for details of the developments in Kenosha: And the incident that started it all: Police in Wisconsin shoot Black man in back multiple times, sparking protests - Updates

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Nancy Pelosi advocates for Joe Biden to not debate Trump

Joe Vaughan
The Post Millenial
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:04 UTC
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Comment: The below comes out of the mouth of the political animal who plans to assume the Presidency however the election turns out this fall: Is there a Democrat plot to appoint Pelosi president? Not as far-fetched as it sounds


Speaker Nancy Pelosi told media on Thursday "I don't think there should be any debates."



Comment: What a joke - Pelosi accusing Trump of "skulduggery" and undignified behavior! Pelosi and her Dems are a hundred times more machiavellian than Trump - and will do anything - anything - to attain his seat of power.


Pelosi said she thinks no one should associate with President Trump and that debating him would legitimize his position as President of the United States. She said Trump was "stalking Hillary Clinton" in the 2016 debates.

Comment: More on the political standard bearer of Democratic virtue and ethical behavior Nancy Pelosi:

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Everything going according to plan in China - Cold War strategy intensifies

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Chinese President Xi Jinping
© AFPChinese President Xi Jinping
The contours of China's long-term strategy for the new Cold War are quickly coming into view

Let's start with the story of an incredibly disappearing summit.

Every August, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) converges to the town of Beidaihe, a seaside resort some two hours away from Beijing, to discuss serious policies that then coalesce into key planning strategies to be approved at the CCP Central Committee plenary session in October.

The Beidaihe ritual was established by none other than Great Helmsman Mao, who loved the town where, not by accident, Emperor Qin, the unifier of China in the 3rd century B.C., kept a palace.

2020 being, so far, a notorious Year of Living Dangerously, it's no surprise that in the end Beidaihe was nowhere to be seen. Yet Beidaihe's invisibility does not mean it did not happen.

Exhibit 1 was the fact that Premier Li Keqiang simply disappeared from public view for nearly two weeks - after President Xi chaired a crucial Politburo gathering in late July where what was laid out was no less than China's whole development strategy for the next 15 years.
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Russo-Syrian task force obliterates 327 ISIS terrorists as retribution for assassination of a Russian general

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:20 UTC
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© AP
Russian and Syrian special forces conducted a joint anti-terrorist spec op against resurgent ISIS cells in the desert regions of eastern Syria. The special operation took place in the provinces of Homs and Deir Ez-Zor, in the time period from August 18 to August 24, in response to new ISIS terrorist attacks, a representative of the Russian military in Syria stated, according to RIA Novosti.

"Airstrikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Arab Air Force, artillery fire and actions of special surveillance and reconnaissance groups in the 'white desert' liquidated 327 militants, destroyed 134 shelters, 17 observation posts, seven warehouses with equipment and five underground storage facilities for weapons and ammunition," RIA Novisti quotes the statement.
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Belarusian opposition leader Tikhanovskaya is cozying up to Washington, a serious strategic blunder

Bradley Blankenship
RT
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
© Reuters / Vasily FedosenkoSvetlana Tikhanovskaya leaves the central election commission in Minsk, Belarus July 14, 2020
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the face of the Belarusian opposition, has met with the US deputy secretary of state. This could have an effect opposite to what was intended - and consolidate support for Alexander Lukashenko.

Exiled former presidential candidate Tikhanovskaya met with Stephen Biegun in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Monday to discuss "strengthening democracy and human rights in the country." Tikhanovskaya's status as an "opposition leader," now cozy with the US as perhaps a hand-picked leader, has led some to bill her as Belarus' version of Venezuela's Juan Guaido. Conversely, her meeting with Biegun reveals that she is actually not a US State Department asset and, similarly to Guaido in at least one way, is also not a clever political operator.

Tikhanovskaya's willingness to turn to Washington has accomplished several things: it has drawn serious attention from Moscow, it has given credence to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's claims that outside forces are trying to topple the country and, if it hasn't already, it certainly will create friction within an already disunited opposition.

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Putin: The worst of coronavirus impact on Russia's economy is over


RT
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:28 UTC
Putin
© UnknownRussian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the country has already passed the peak of the economic problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, paving the way for economic recovery next year.

In an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel, the president said the country's key macroeconomic indicators are stable, despite the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis. According to Putin, low inflation levels and rising gold reserves offer yet more proof that the national economy is on the path toward recovery.
"We believe the peak of our problems has passed and I hope we will gradually begin to recover. We are not much different from other countries in the world - I think our recovery will be secured next year."
While some forecasts expected the Russian economy to shrink by over eight percent this year, Putin says analysts now predict a much lower contraction of between five and six percent - in line with the expected contraction of the global economy. According to Putin, this is the result of timely government action to limit problems from the crisis.
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UN: Over 10K Islamic State fighters active in Iraq, Syria

Edith M. Lederer
Military.com
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
IS fighter and gun
© APIS fighter firing his weapon during clashes with Syrian troop in Souseh, eastern Syria.
More than 10,000 Islamic State fighters are estimated to remain active in Iraq and Syria two years after the militant group's defeat, and their attacks have significantly increased this year, the U.N. counter-terrorism chief said Monday.

Vladimir Voronkov told the U.N. Security Council that Islamic State fighters move freely "in small cells between the two countries."

He said the Islamic State extremist group — also known as IS, ISIL and ISIS — has regrouped and its activity has increased not only in conflict zones like Iraq and Syria but also in some regional affiliates.
"However, in non-conflict zones, the threat appears to have decreased in the short term. Measures to minimize the spread of COVID-19, such as lockdowns and restrictions on movement, seem to have reduced the risk of terrorist attacks in many countries. Nonetheless, there is a continued trend of attacks by individuals inspired online and acting alone or in small groups, which could be fueled by ISIL's opportunistic propaganda efforts during the COVID-19 crisis."
He said the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the challenges of eliminating the threat of terrorism, pointing to actions by IS and other terrorist groups seeking "to exploit the far-reaching disruption and negative socioeconomic and political impacts of the pandemic."

Comment: Many now argue that lockdown, fear-inciting health warnings and stringent protocol edicts, are attacks perpetrated on the global population - adding to the terror level, not decreasing it. Terrorists are in our government and wear a suit. Terrorists advise our medical practitioners and local authorities. Terrorists are the global elite wielding their money and influence as their sword. And, they are us if we let them.

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