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Pepe Escobar: Europe suffering from acute dementia - declares war on Russia all over again

Pepe Escobar
ZeroHedge
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:31 UTC
zelensky macron von der lyon european army carichature
Let's start with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's Road to Damascus moment:

"Frankly, it's a proxy war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine and Russia, and it needs to come to an end".

Now that's a howler. Jeffrey Sachs to the rescue. Of course, the correct formulation would be "proxy war launched by the United States". But still: Hallelujah! Such illumination - by proxy - from Heavens Above could never had hit the previous American Secretary of Genocide.

Now cut to panic. Total European panic.

Le Petit Roi, as popular in France as nighttime mosquitoes in a five-star beach resort, has declared that peace in Europe is only possible with a "tamed" Russia - and that Russia is a direct threat to France and Europe.
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Chess

House GOP unveils 'clean' text to fund government while Democrats threaten shutdown

Adam Pack
The Daily Caller
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:29 UTC
house speaker mike johnson
© Samuel Corum/Getty ImagesSpeaker of the House, Mike Johnson
House Republican leadership unveiled bill text Saturday to fund the government through September and avert a partial government shutdown set to occur after midnight on March 14.

The 99-page stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), will fund government operations for the remainder of the fiscal year. The government funding plan has widespread backing in the House Republican conference and is the product of close coordination with the Trump administration to ensure the government is spending less money, according to House GOP leadership staff.

House Democrats are expected to oppose the stopgap funding bill and have criticized GOP lawmakers' refusal to insert language in the text hamstringing President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) authority to cut wasteful spending.
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Red Pill

Trump: Russia 'easier to deal with' than Ukraine in push for peace


Yahoo! News
Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:13 UTC
trump putin zelensky
(L-R) Donald Trump, Vladimir Zelensky, Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he found it easier to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin than with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

And said he believed the Russian leader - who launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine more than three years ago - when Putin said he sought peace.

"You know, I believe, I believe him. I think we're doing very well with Russia. but right now, they're bombing the hell out of Ukraine and Ukraine. I'm... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine. And and they don't have the cards."

Comment: The Russians are ready to mop up in Kursk, after bleeding the Ukraine military for six-plus months. Zelensky's stupid PR stunt, staged for the benefit of his western masters, has ended the only way it could: in tragedy and massive losses.
kursk map russia ukraine war
© SouthFront Press
  • Russian forces eliminated up to 350 servicemen, one tank, two infantry vehicles, five armoured personnel carriers, 19 armoured fighting vehicles, 29 motor vehicles, six artillery guns in the area;
  • Russian forces took control of Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Kositsa, Pravda, Martynivka, Malaya Loknya and Mikhailovka;
  • Russian forces took control of Loknya;
  • Russian forces took control of Makhnovka
  • Russian forces advanced north of Sudzha and took control of the industrial zone in the east of Sudzha and Kubatkin;
  • Clashes continued near Basovka village;
  • Clashes continued near Kurilovka.


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Fire

The glow of the gaslight

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
The DOnald
© imgflip.comUS President Donald Trump • Left's political portrayal
CBS 60-Minutes' Gaslighter-in-Chief Scott Pelley was at it again Sunday night trying to put over the story that Donald Trump had unfairly cashiered a broad swathe of federal agency Inspectors General — whose job it is to investigate crime, mischief, and administrative malfeasance. In the spotlight sat one Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel to the independent Office of Special Counsel, who just resigned after a court battle over his firing weeks ago.

Do you have any idea what a laugh riot that is? Dellinger's job was to protect whistleblowers and enforce the Hatch Act (against public employees engaging in partisan political activities). Would you say he did a great job protecting FBI whistleblowers who testified before Congress last year — say, FBI agents Marcus Allen, Garret O'Boyle, and Steve Friend? They were suspended without pay, not allowed to seek other employment, lost homes, were financially wrecked, and hung out to dry by then-FBI boss Christopher Wray. Was Hampton Dellinger heard to make a peep about that? (Nope.) So much for protecting whistleblowers.

Comment: "'Power' is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." - George Orwell

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Footprints

Trump considers pulling troops out of Germany

Connor Stringer
The Telegraph
Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:00 UTC
Trump
© Getty Images North AmericaUS President Donald Trump weighing up withdrawing 35K active personnel out of Germany • Oval Office
Donald Trump is considering pulling US troops from Germany and redeploying them to Eastern Europe. Mr Trump is weighing up withdrawing some 35,000 active personnel out of Germany in a move that would further sour US-Europe relations.

The US president, who has repeatedly warned that Europe must commit more to its defensive capabilities, is becoming increasingly frustrated that the continent is "pushing for war", sources close to the administration said.

Around 160,000 active-duty personnel are stationed outside of the United States, a vast quantity of whom are in Germany.

Brian Hughes, a US national security spokesman, said: "While no specific announcement is imminent, the US military is always considering the redeployment of troops around the world to best address current threats to our interests."

Comment: 'No war' is far better than paying for your own and someone else's.

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Arrow Up

Peter Thiel has major influence on Trump government


RT
Sat, 08 Mar 2025 21:02 UTC
PeterThiel
© Ron Sachs/ZUMAPRESS/Global Look PressVenture capitalist Peter Thiel • 2018 Republican National Convention • Cleveland, Ohio
Over a dozen people linked to the PayPal co-founder hold positions within the administration, the media outlet estimates.

Tech mogul and billionaire Peter Thiel exerts considerable influence over US President Donald Trump's administration, a Bloomberg article has claimed. Unlike Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, however, he prefers to keep a low profile.

More than a dozen individuals connected to Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, have been integrated into the Trump administration, Bloomberg wrote on Friday. This group includes "current and former employees of his companies, as well as people who have helped manage his fortune or benefitted from his investments and charitable giving."

The outlet listed 15 individuals within the government who are seen as having ties to the entrepreneur, five of whom serve in the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Comment: See also:

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Arrow Up

Trump demands more than minerals deal from Ukraine


RT
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:42 UTC
Trump
© Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/FileUS President Donald Trump
The US president reportedly wants Vladimir Zelensky to change his attitude towards peace talks and be ready to step down.

US President Donald Trump has privately told his aides that a deal granting Washington access to Ukraine's mineral resources will not be enough for the resumption of American military aid and intelligence sharing with Kiev, NBC reported ahead of negotiations between US and Ukrainian officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, scheduled for March 11.

Zelensky was expected to finalize the minerals agreement during his trip to Washington in late February, but his meeting with Trump and US Vice President J.D. Vance devolved into a shouting match in front of the cameras and the signing never happened.

After the argument, Trump, who accused the Ukrainian leader of not wanting peace with Moscow, halted the provision of US military aid and subsequently stopped sharing intelligence data with Kiev. In recent days, Zelensky signaled his willingness to sign the deal and engage in diplomacy.

Trump not only wants the minerals agreement, but also to see a change in Zelensky's attitude toward peace talks, including a willingness to make concessions such as giving up territory to Russia in order to stop the fighting, the broadcaster relayed on Sunday, citing a member of the administration and another American official.

The US president also believes that Zelensky should move toward holding a presidential election in Ukraine and "possibly toward stepping down as his country's leader," the officials told NBC.

Comment: Zelensky's irrationality is his defeat...the consequences merely global.

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Target

The COVID-era smearing - and resurrection - of Trump NIH appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Paul D, Thacker
RealClear Wire
Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
Stanford University
© UnknownStanford University
Jay Bhattacharya was in pretty terrible shape five years ago. He was losing sleep and weight, not because of the COVID-19 virus but in response to the efforts of his colleagues at Stanford University and the larger medical community to shut down his research, which questioned much of the government's response to the pandemic.

Some of his Stanford colleagues leaked false and damaging information to reporters. The university's head of medicine ordered him to stop speaking to the press. Top leaders at the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, dialed up the attacks, dismissing him and his colleagues as what Collins termed "fringe epidemiologists" while their acolytes threw mud from a slew of publications, including the Washington Post, The Nation, and the prestigious medical journal BMJ.

In the years since, many of Bhattacharya's scientific concerns about the efficacy of lockdowns and mask mandates have been corroborated. Fauci, meanwhile, accepted a pardon from President Biden, protecting him from COVID-related offenses dating back to 2014, the year he started funding research at a Wuhan, China, lab that U.S. intelligence agencies now believe probably started the pandemic. And this week, Bhattacharya looks set to achieve surprising vindication as the Senate holds a hearing on his nomination to head the NIH, in a Department of Health and Human Services run by science nonconformist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Megaphone

EuroDemocracy: Romanian supreme court BANS frontrunner Georgescu from even running at all! Candidate to appeal


RT
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:55 UTC

Comment: Absolutely batsh*t bonkers!

But then, Europe under the EU regime is thoroughly corrupt, and they recently rigged the German election against the AfD, so why not just outright ban the people's candidate?


Calin Georgescu
© Getty Images / Andrei PungovschiCalin Georgescu
Romanian presidential hopeful Calin Georgescu has said he will appeal against the decision by the country's Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) to bar him from taking part in a new election in May, Reuters has claimed citing one of his advisers.

The BEC dismissed Georgescu's candidacy on Sunday, citing more than 1,000 challenges filed against him. Georgescu was the clear favorite for the election rerun, polling between 40% and 45% in most recent surveys.

Georgescu condemned the decision, stating the EU has turned into a "dictatorship," while branding his own country a "tyranny." On Monday, the politician vowed to appeal the ruling with the country's Constitutional Court.

"We go together all the way for the same values: peace, democracy, freedom," he said in a video address posted on social media. The politician has also condemned the violence that erupted between his supporters and police outside the BEC building in Budapest on Sunday, urging his backers to abstain from such behavior.

Comment: If Georgescu keeps going, the Eurocrats will assassinate him. He needs good security, and preferably 'security guarantees' from either Washington or Moscow.

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Life Preserver

What Happens To The Middle East If Russia & The US Stop Being Enemies?

Sean Mathews
Middle East Eye
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:12 UTC
Trump and Putin
Some call it the end of the post-war order. Others, a grand realignment. Regardless of how it's defined, the Middle East faces a new paradigm: what happens when the US stops viewing Russia as a foe and instead as a potential partner, or at the very least, a neutral actor? American diplomats and analysts are still struggling to come to grips with this potentially historic shift.

When asked about a report that Israel was lobbying the Trump administration to let Russia keep its military bases in Syria, one career US diplomat in the region replied, "Well, that would be against our national interests?" They responded with silence when asked what would happen if the US president didn't see it that way. Trump has said he wants to partner with Russia for "incredible opportunities".

On Friday, Trump doubled down, saying he found it easier to deal with Russia than Ukraine, a country the US had been supplying arms and intelligence to until recently. Asked about Russia's widespread attacks on Ukraine's energy grid, Trump said Putin was "doing what anybody else would do".


Comment: Concerning Russia, Trump is showing more realism than the rest of the Western globalist leaders.


Comment: Interestingly, Russia and the US have both called for an emergency meeting today of the UN Security Council over the violence in Syria. Russia, US request UNSC consultations on Syria — Russian mission
"Russia and the United States have requested urgent closed-door UN Security Council consultations over violence against civilians in western Syria. We expect the Danish presidency to appoint them at ten in New York (2:00 p.m. GMT) on March 10," he wrote on his Telegram channel.


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