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IMF and WEF - From great lockdown to great transformation of world economy "sustainable green" style

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Klaus Schwab
The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Great Global Reset is being 'paralleled' - not challenged - by the IMF. Both are pulling in the same direction, shoveling more assets from the lower echelons to a small elite, through debt enslavement - shifting from consumer capitalism to Green (consumer) capitalism - and all with an allure of friendliness towards the environment and the world population.

The WEF is an NGO, registered in a lush suburb of Geneva, with ambitions towards worldly power command. The IMF, created under the UN Charter, is an official international financial organization - one of the two Bretton Woods Institutions, the other one being the World Bank.

The IMF was created to watch over and regulate the world monetary conundrum. Both, IMF and WB, are controlled by veto-power by the US Treasury. The discourse of both, the WEF and the IMF, is to "doing as much good to a covid-disaster stricken world as we can." None of them mentions how their actions will put the world - especially the developing world, into even deeper 'sustainable' disaster.

The WEF's main message delivered by WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab, called on June 3, 2020, for:
"The world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions... Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a 'Great Reset' of capitalism."
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Blue Planet

Best of the Web: Lebanon: Pearl on the New Silk Road or zone of Dark Age chaos

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture
Sun, 16 Aug 2020 12:00 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar
Many voices have been quick to enter the chorus of commentators hypothesizing the manifold possible causes of the devastating explosions which occurred on the afternoon of August 4 in Beirut which has led to mass anarchy and the surprising resignation of the government on August 11th.

While I have no great novel contribution to offer in that growing array of hypotheses (which are slowly turning into noise), I would like to share an insight which addresses a too-often-overlooked aspect of the role of Lebanon in the Great Game. Before proceeding, it is useful to hold in the mind several points of certainty:

1) The official narrative of a chance mishap of Turkish fireworks instigating the detonation of the 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate which had been sitting at the Port of Beirut for six years is entirely unbelievable.

Comment: See also:

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Spy equipment planted in Russian military attache car in The Hague, Moscow summons Dutch Charge d'Affaires

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:04 UTC
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© Sputnik / Alexey MaichsevFILE PHOTO
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday expressed its outrage after tracking equipment was found in a Russian military attache car in The Hague, the home of the Dutch government and the International Court of Justice.

Dominique Kuhling-Bakker, the Dutch Charge d'Affaires in Moscow, was summoned to the ministry in Russia's capital.

"The Russian Foreign Ministry lodged a strong protest to the Ambassador of the Netherlands, in connection with the discovery of tracking equipment in the car of the Russian military attache in The Hague," the Russian diplomatic agency said. "The Dutch diplomat was informed that it is immediately necessary to take comprehensive measures to prevent such incidents, which are counter to the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations."
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The Anti-Iran agreement between UAE and Israel

Steven Sahiounie
The Duran
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 06:32 UTC
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The recent announcement of diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel proves that the Arab-Israeli conflict, simmering since 1948, has never been about differences in religion, or ethnic hatreds. The conflict has always been about land rights and human rights. The Israelis got the land and human rights, and the Palestinians got neither.

There is no benefit for the UAE from this deal. Israel benefits from the deal as a public relations stunt, which plays well to its audience in the US Congress. US President Trump benefits the most from the deal, which his son in law Jared Kushner worked to put together, as Trump's November reelection chances are in peril. Middle East experts have rumored that before the US presidential election more Arab nations may follow the UAE lead, and in fact, Bahrain announced yesterday their intention to forge an open relationship with the occupiers of Palestine. Oman, Morocco, Sudan, and perhaps Qatar maybe soon announcing their break-through agreements with Israel, in time to sway the election results.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has achieved a 'peace-deal' with some Arabs without giving up the brutal military occupation of Palestine, which holds five million Christians and Muslims in an open-air prison devoid of human rights.

The Emirati citizens are said to be supportive of the new agreement between their ruler and the Israeli government. The Emiratis traditionally do not give the Palestinian cause political, or religious priority. Their general apathy towards the injustice in Palestine is rooted in the Gulf media, which has portrayed Iran, and the Shia sect as the enemy, not Israel. This media 're-education' of the population began in the 1980s after the Iranian revolution, which removed the Shah of Iran, who was a Shia, but an ally of the US, Saudi Arabia, and its neighbors.

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Best of the Web: Narrative control tightens as panicked anti-Trump aristocrats crank up media gaslight machines

Mitchell Feierstein
RT
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:39 UTC
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© Getty Images / Giles Clarke
Orange Man Bad. It's a narrative that is being made harder to question every day, even as Democrat-controlled cities descend into chaos and Americans are being fed the same old status quo from the Obama and Clinton era.

The middle and lower classes have been eviscerated, and America's big cities have been decimated and destroyed by the mob. And who is the mob? They are Antifa, BLM, ideologues (aka Democratic elites) and their multi-million-dollar-a-year media propaganda mouthpieces. The mob and its supporters are creating extreme tribalism that is ripping America apart.

Disgracefully, Democratic Party members of the US Congress are actively calling for "unrest in the streets" and the Democratic Party's presidential dream team of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris condone this anarchy, chaos and violence by their silence, as they dance to the mob's tune saying and doing anything to grab power through instilling more fear, terror and uncertainty amongst the voters. Democrats have not denounced the surge in murders, looting, and violence infecting America's biggest cities, but many are instead actively working to defund the police during a massive crime wave. People have to "shoplift some bread," as New York City's member of Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains.
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Chess

Macron wants EU to back Belarusians standing up for 'rights & freedom'. But what about the Yellow Vests at home, Twitter users ask


RT
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:30 UTC
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© (R) / Sergei Gapon; Francois Lo Presti / AFP
The French President called on the EU to throw its weight behind Belarusians demanding that their liberties be respected - but the online community was quick to remind him of fellow Frenchmen rallying for the same cause at home.

Emmanuel Macron tweeted his support for the growing anti-government sentiment in Belarus, writing on Sunday that Brussels must continue "to mobilize alongside the hundreds of thousands of Belarusians who demonstrate peacefully for the respect of their rights, their freedom and their sovereignty."


Comment: It should be pretty clear what message Macron is sending. The US Empire supports the overthrow of the Lukashenko regime in Belarus in order to put in power a puppet who will follow the dictates of the West and further destabilize Russia.


The demonstrations that caught Macron's eye have been building since the controversial presidential vote in Belarus, that saw the sitting President Alexander Lukashenko being re-elected for a sixth term. The outcome was rejected by the opposition, who insisted that the vote was rigged.

Comment: The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, rightfully called out Macron on his hypocrisy:
"When will he call on the European Union to be mobilized in support of hundreds of thousands of 'Yellow Vests' demonstrators who peacefully seek to ensure respect for their rights, freedoms and sovereignty?" she said. "When will the European Union stop waiting for calls from presidents of its member states and start to mobilize proactively in support of protests held on its own territory?"
A source in Moscow told RT that the comment also amounted to an open admission that Brussels is already interfering in the crisis, which the Russian government views as concerning.

Meanwhile, the EU will hold an emergency session to discuss the situation in Belarus. No doubt this session will be about how to get rid of Lukashenko and install a leader who is far less friendly with Russia.

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Eye 1

Fascism in the form of a nanny state: France sends in RIOT POLICE to enforce mask-wearing in Marseille


RT
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:12 UTC
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© Reuters / Charles Platiau
The French government has sent 130 riot officers to help enforce face mask wearing rules in the southern city of Marseille as the nation sees a rise in new coronavirus cases amid increased resistance to restrictions.

More than a hundred officers from a special riot police unit, the CRS, will now patrol Marseille after the local authorities expanded requirements on wearing face masks, government spokesman Gabriel Attal told French media.

Face masks are mandatory in all public indoor spaces, as well as on public transport, under the rules introduced by the government. Local authorities could expand the measures further if necessary.
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Democrats' election platform demands end to 'forever wars' — most of which were launched last time Biden held office

Helen Buyniski
RT
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:58 UTC
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© Reuters / Carlos Barria / Handout
The Democratic Party's 2020 electoral platform includes a call to end the US' "forever wars" - which sounds great, except that a Democratic president started many of those wars and the party has stonewalled efforts to end them.

"Democrats know it's time to bring nearly two decades of unceasing conflict to an end," the platform, released in draft form on Monday and expected to be approved by Democratic leaders later this week, reads.

It's a relatively uncontroversial statement in itself: at nearly 19 years and counting, the US war in Afghanistan is the longest conflict in American history. The various satellite wars that have sprung up as part of the "War on Terror" have devastated large swathes of the Middle East - and the US itself, which has spent upwards of $6 trillion on fighting them while much of the country slid into a permanent recession - over the past two decades.
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Best of the Web: Nasrallah: If Israel is behind Beirut blast, our response will be devastating

Hassan Nasrallah
Resistance News Unfiltered
Sun, 16 Aug 2020 20:12 UTC
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Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah on August 14, 2020, on the occasion of the celebration of the 14th anniversary of the 2006 victory.

Source: moqawama.org

Translation: resistancenews.org

This video only captions the last section of the excerpt transcribed below

Transcript:

[Israel assassinated a Hezbollah fighter in Syria, and our retaliation in kind is inevitable]

[...] Today there is an equation that protects Lebanon, namely the deterrence equation (against Israel). And this equation grows stronger and stronger (to our advantage) day after day through the development of our equipment, our state of readiness, our personnel, our abilities, our human, military and material capacities (and our experiences on various battlefields — Syria, Iraq, Yemen...). And Israel and its (American) masters know it (very) well, and they fear and dread it. This is the equation that protects Lebanon today. There is nothing else that protects Lebanon. It is the golden equation Army-People-Resistance, and essentially (the) Resistance (Axis) through the equation of deterrence, that protects Lebanon. It is neither the Arab League, nor the Organization of the Islamic Conference — which is now called the Organization of Islamic Cooperation — nor the United Nations, nor the Security Council, nor the international resolutions (that protect Lebanon). And anyone who claims otherwise, let him come forward and enlighten us with his perspective. [...]
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US airstrike kills one Syrian officer, injures two, south of Qamishli


Sputnik
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:36 UTC
syria
© Sputnik
Syrian state news agency SANA on Monday reported that one officer was killed and two people injured following a US strike south of Qamishli.

According to the agency, the strike was carried out on an army checkpoint near the settlement of Tell al-Zakhab.

According to the newspaper al-Watan, one of the injured persons is a Syrian Army officer. The newspaper reported that the US patrol tried to break into a zone controlled by the Syrian Army, but did not say whether the aircraft that launched the attack was American or belonged to another country.

Comment: Notably, considering the US' claim to be leaving Syria, Reuters reported just a few weeks ago that a US company had signed an agreement with Kurdish rebels to steal and sell Syrian oil: US signs deal with Kurdish-led rebels to steal Syrian oil

See also: U.S. Didn't 'Withdraw' From Syria - It Redeployed, And Now Controls 75% of The Country's Oil

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