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China 'ready to fight' after 3 days of large-scale military drills around Taiwan

Britt Clennett and Joyce Huang
abc
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
Chinese military drills simulated a blockade to "seal off" Taiwan.
Formosan black bear punching winnie-the-pooh
© Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty ImagesThis picture shows patches depicting a Formosan black bear holding a Taiwanese flag punching Winnie-the-Pooh at a shop in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on April 11, 2023.
China's military declared it's "ready to fight" after wrapping up three days of combat drills simulating a blockade to "seal off" Taiwan.

The large-scale land and sea exercises follow last week's meeting by Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the United States.

China considers Taiwan a breakaway province and hasn't ruled out taking the self-governed island by force.

The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said on Monday it tracked a record 91 Chinese fighter jets in the final day of the exercises, with dozens of warplanes crossing over the sensitive maritime median line of the Taiwan Strait.

The drills involved Su-30 and J-11 fighters, navy destroyers and missile speedboats, practicing to "encircle" Taiwan. China said it was simulating attacks on key targets, with the People's Liberation Army even releasing an animation of what hitting those targets would look like.

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Hiliter

The writing on the wall as revealed by the Pentagon Papers leak

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
Catmouse
© unknownRussian Cat, Ukrainian Mouse...and the news
In observing cat-and-mouse games, the rule of thumb is — if observers of the war in the Ukraine have a thumb — to recognise the difference between the cat and the mouse.

On the Ukrainian battlefield, it is now the Russian cat who is waiting for the US, NATO and Ukrainian mouse to break out of his hole and make his run. When he does, the mouse is going to get the surprise of his life. That last noun is the wrong one.

These are the real strategic secrets which have been revealed in the battle plans which spilled into the internet last month, and which the Pentagon arranged for the New York Times to discover and then publish for the attention of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev on April 6. Not to mention the Russian General Staff if they didn't already know and could be persuaded to misinterpret.

Comment: War has consequences not answers.

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Bullseye

RFK Jr.: 'The neocon projects' in Iraq and Ukraine have 'made a laughingstock of US military power and moral authority

Chris Menahan
Information Liberation
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
RFKennedyJr
© UnknownRobert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Neocon control of America has led to the collapse of American global hegemony and the shredding of our nation's moral authority, according to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom's new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power."
Kennedy said Monday on Twitter, sharing an article from Reuters on OPEC+ cutting production to spike the price of oil in defiance of the Biden regime.
"China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world.

"The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon's short-lived 'American Century.' The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence."
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Nuke

Kremlin blasts Western 'hysteria' over nuclear plans


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2023 11:14 UTC
launcher
© RIA NovostiA Russian Iskander missile launcher. Moscow would only consider repatriating them if US removes its own nuclear weapons from Europe, the Foreign Ministry official said.
Moscow wants to send atomic weapons to Belarus, but the US has already deployed such assets in Europe, Dmitry Peskov has said...

Western countries are hyping up hysteria around Russia's plan to place tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov suggested in an interview released on Sunday.

Speaking to Russia 1 TV, Peskov blasted what he called the West's "extremely unrestrained" reaction to President Vladimir Putin's decision to deploy nukes in Belarus this summer, which followed repeated requests from his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.

"The collective West is not inclined to recall... [that] American nuclear weapons are stationed here, in Europe, around our country," the spokesman said. He also claimed that the West "is prone to hysterical reaction" in relation to Moscow's plans to build a nuclear storage facility in Belarus, which is widely regarded as a key Russian ally.

Comment: 'Do as I say, not as I do.'

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Briefcase

Kirby warns reporters not to report on leaked Pentagon documents: 'No business in the public domain'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:25 UTC
john kirby pentagon document leak ukraine
© NewsweekNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby subtly pleads with reporters to leave the Pentagon leak alone
Biden administration and National Security Council spokesman John Kirby addressed the media on Monday, asking in so many words that pretty please would journalists not report on the trove of highly classified documents which were leaked online.

"This is information that has no business in the public domain... It has no business... on the front pages of newspapers or on television." But Kirby is a bit late, given already days ago major outlets from the NY Times to Washington Post to foreign outlets like The Guardian and RT have widely reported on them. They classified reports have circulated widely on English-language and foreign social media as well.

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Bad Guys

Ukraine grooming Russian youth for terror attacks - FSB


RT
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:30 UTC
Aleksandr Bortnikov
© Sputnik / Gavriil GrigorovRussian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov
Western and Ukrainian intelligence services are trying to recruit Russian youth to carry out terrorist attacks against their own country, Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Tuesday.

Speaking at a session of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK), over which he presides, Bortnikov claimed, according to the NAK statement, that amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, "Ukraine and their Western sponsors' special services have launched an aggressive brainwashing and recruitment [campaign] on our citizens."

One of the main tasks of Kiev and their Western backers is to target "especially the younger generation to involve them in sabotage, terrorist and extremist activities," he added.

Since February 2022, when Moscow launched its operation against Ukraine, Russia has prevented 118 terrorist crimes being prepared by young people and minors, Bortnikov said.
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Arrow Up

Why the media don't want to know the truth about Nord Stream blast

Jonathan Cook
Mint Press News
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:37 UTC
Hersh and Nord Stream 2
© Illustration by MintPress News
No one but the terminally naïve should be surprised that security services lie - and that they are all but certain to cover their tracks when they carry out operations that either violate domestic or international law or that would be near-universally rejected by their own populations.

Which is reason enough why anyone following the fallout from explosions last September that ripped holes in three of the four Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea supplying Russian gas to Europe should be wary of accepting anything Western agencies have to say on the matter.

In fact, the only thing that Western publics should trust is the consensus among "investigators" that the three simultaneous blasts deep underwater on the pipelines - a fourth charge apparently failed to detonate - were sabotage, not some freak coincidental accident.

Someone blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, creating an untold environmental catastrophe as the pipes leaked huge quantities of methane, a supremely active global-warming gas. It was an act of unrivaled industrial and environmental terrorism.

If Washington had been able to pin the explosions on Russia, as it initially hoped, it would have done so with full vigor. There is nothing Western states would like more than to intensify world fury against Moscow, especially in the context of NATO's express efforts to "weaken" Russia through a proxy war waged in Ukraine.

But, after the claim made the rounds of front pages for a week or two, the story of Russia destroying its own pipelines was quietly shelved. That was partly because it seemed too difficult to maintain a narrative in which Moscow chose to destroy a critical part of its own energy infrastructure.
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Vader

Seymour Hersh: Biden sought to 'threaten' Putin through Nord Stream bombing


RT
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:55 UTC
Nord Stream 2 Blow Up
© Public Domain
The US wanted to leverage a potential attack on Nord Stream to deter Moscow from an offensive against Ukraine, the journalist has claimed

The US intended to use the threat of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines to dissuade Russia from attacking Ukraine, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has argued.

In an exposé published online in February, Hersh claimed that the US orchestrated the September 2022 bombing of the Baltic Sea pipelines built to deliver gas from Russia to Germany.

Speaking to German online magazine Tichys Einblick on Monday, the journalist said President Joe Biden originally viewed the threat of sabotage as a deterrent.

Comment: Sweden has refuted the "six guys in a boat" theory.



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No Entry

Jacinda Ardern to become New Zealand's de facto censorship Tsar


21st Century Wire
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
Jacinda Ardern
These days, it's hard to find any globalist who will let go of power gracefully, let alone retire from the stage of politics.

This seems to be the case with New Zealand's increasingly unpopular radical Marxist former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who also just happens to also be a World Economic Forum young leader, and mentored by none other than Tony Blair. Undoubtedly, a brilliant resumé for any aspiring technocrat.

Not content with destroying her country's economy and society over the last three years with her fanatical "zero Covid" lockdown and brutal vaccine mandates, Ardern is now being positioned by the Establishment to become the country's de facto censorship Tsar...

Bloomberg News reports:
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will lead the nation's push for greater safeguards against terrorist and violent content online.

Ardern has been appointed Special Envoy for the 'Christchurch Call', a global initiative she set up in the wake of a terrorist attack in the South Island city in 2019, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said Tuesday in Wellington. She will report directly to Hipkins and has declined to receive any remuneration for the role, which will commence on April 17, he said.

Comment: This new assigned role to top technocrat Adern didn't take long to occur, and should certainly not come as any surprise to those who have been following her illustruous career.

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Info

Biden ends 'national emergency'


RT
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:48 UTC
Joe Biden
© AP / Evan VucciFILE PHOTO
President Joe Biden on Monday signed a measure ending the Covid-19 national emergency in the US. Though he originally planned to extend the legislation until May 11, Biden ended up signing the Republican-proposed law that Congress had approved over the objections of many of his own Democrats.

The White House released a one-sentence statement about Biden's signature around 6pm local time, indicating that the president had agreed with House Joint Resolution 7.

Drafted by Congressman Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican, the bill was approved by the House of Representatives in February (229-197), and by the Senate at the end of March (68-23).

Biden's Democrats had argued that ending the emergency would "create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the healthcare system," but a handful ended up voting in favor of the GOP-proposed bill in the House, and about half in the Senate.

Comment: The national emergency is over. Until the next national emergency comes along, that is.

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