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NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'


Sott.net
Sun, 10 Oct 2021 19:30 UTC
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Recent 'revelations' that Chinese authorities were buying up PCR tests months before the Wuhan Covid-19 outbreak have renewed interest in the China-lab leak theory and cemented Western suspicion that the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic and covered up its origins.

Meanwhile reports of the Chinese military conducting high numbers of flights in or near Taiwanese airspace has seen war rhetoric ramp up in Western media. Are 'we' on the cusp of WWIII with China? And should 'we' defend Taiwan against the China?

This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall take off the rose-tinted glasses to take a clear-eyed look at the stand-off between the USA and China.


Running Time: 01:41:51

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Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in East Jerusalem's Silwan may lead to war - but the West doesn't care

Robert Inlakesh
RT
Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:53 UTC
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A group of Palestinian protest entry of Israel settlers into al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, near al Silsila gate, Jerusalem
An Israeli court has overturned this week's ruling allowing Jewish silent prayer in al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians see as provocative. A possible escalation has been averted, but for how long?

Following months of Israeli-Palestinian tensions over Jerusalem's Old City, the Jerusalem Magistrates Court ruled this Wednesday that Israeli Jews may perform prayers inside Islam's third holiest site, al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli police had, in the past, placed a blanket prohibition on Jewish prayer at the site, citing security concerns. Yet, since 2019, Israeli settlers have regularly stormed the site, accompanied by the police, in order to perform silent prayers, acts viewed by many as provocative.

The court ruling was strongly condemned internationally by the likes of Turkey and domestically by Palestinian political parties, including Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, who called for a return to the "status quo." Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip, such as the ruling party Hamas, also signaled their intention to escalate tensions in order to combat what was seen by Palestinians as an attempt to slowly take over the Holy Site and push them out, similar to what is being done elsewhere in East Jerusalem.

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Cultural Warfare in the 20th Century: How Western Civilization Came Undone

Matthew Ehret
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 09 Oct 2021 18:11 UTC
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Which future wins out in the unfolding battle over humanity will be shaped by the decisions and discoveries we make (or fail to make) in the days ahead.

In my last article "Guterres and the Great Reset: How Capitalism Became a Time Bomb", I made the case that the time bomb justifying a Great Reset of civilization was set into motion over 50 years ago. In that location, we were introduced to a cast of characters surrounding the World Economic Forum and Trilateral Commission who played instrumental roles in bringing about a controlled disintegration of western civilization.

Despite the fact that this un-natural transformation occurred over the dead bodies of great statesmen of the 1960s, a question still lingers: HOW did the western nations... especially the United States, so deeply shaped by a love of freedom, wilfully relinquish its democratic institutions in favor of a new system of supranational governance and de-growth? How did the very people who were targeted for destruction not only let this happen but in some cases even aide and abet the perpetrators?
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Austrian Chancellor Kurz steps down over corruption allegations, denies wrongdoing


MSN
Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:28 UTC
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Sebastian Kurz.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned after pressure over accusation in a corruption scandal.

Kurz, 35, who denied any wrongdoing was under fire from his own coalition partner the Greens. Kurz said he wanted to "end the stalemate to prevent chaos" as he stepped down from office.

The outgoing Chancellor put forward the name of foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg as the new head which the Greens said was the "right step for future government work".

Comment: Considering the rampant corruption in politics these days, it's often rather revealing which people the establishment attacks and those whose actual criminality is allowed to continue unchallenged: See also:

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Fake, Woke & Authoritarian: Why Does Canada Continue to Take The Insultingly Insincere Justin Trudeau Seriously?

Eva Bartlett
RT
Sat, 09 Oct 2021 16:18 UTC
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canada's pointless prime minister is a vacuous, self-aggrandising, borderline despot incapable of even keeping up the pretence he cares a jot about the people unfortunate enough to be governed by the privileged charlatan.

Just weeks post federal elections, the muppet PM of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has given up all pretense of being a serious politician and instead returned to his norm of idiocy, offensive gaffs, scandals, and increasing the authoritarianism Canadians have endured the past 18+ months (but which Trudeau and other leaders have flouted).

On September 30, the day of Canada's newly-established National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, instead of himself abiding by the words of his (clearly-scripted and hollow) statement, Trudeau skipped off West to hit the waves and walk on the beach with his wife and kids.

Comment: Yes, sadly indeed!

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'Peaceful reunification with Taiwan will be realised' - Xi Jinping


Hon Kong Free Press
Sat, 09 Oct 2021 19:43 UTC
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Xi Jinping.
China's President Xi Jinping said Saturday "peaceful reunification" with Taiwan "will be and can be realised", days after Chinese warplanes made record incursions into the air defence zone of the democratically ruled island.

Self-governed Taiwan, which has never formally declared independence, lives under the constant threat of invasion by China, which views the island as its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary.

"Realising national reunification by peaceful means best serves the interests of the nation as a whole including our brethren in Taiwan," Xi said in a speech marking the 110th anniversary of a revolution that ended millennia of imperial rule and led to the founding of the Republic of China.

Comment: US special operations are operating in Taiwan, Britain sailed a warship through the Taiwan Strait, but China, that actually shares a history with Taiwan, is the threat?

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Absurd mission creep: The CIA's new units pave the way for the most totalitarian period in its history


RT
Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:15 UTC
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With new units on China and climate change, global health and emerging tech, the CIA is expanding its reach (as it has often tried to do, unsuccessfully, in the past). But these ventures are likely to have unwanted consequences.

The CIA recently announced a reorganization that includes the creation of two new 'mission centers', one focusing exclusively on China while the other - called the Transnational and Technology Mission Center - will look at emerging technologies, climate change, and global health.

Both of these new units pose baffling questions. You might wonder why it has taken so long for the CIA to set up a dedicated China unit, given the long-term increases in the country's economic, military and geopolitical power.

Comment: With the manufactured coronavirus crisis Western governments have achieved power grabs that, otherwise, would have been near impossible: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: The Great (End)Game - Closing the Afghan War, Opening the 'Covid War'?



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Rand Paul's warning to Americans: 'Be afraid of your government'

Matt Margolis
PJ Media
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:51 UTC
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
In the wake of Attorney General Merrick Garland's announcement that he plans to sic the FBI on concerned parents who speak out at school board meetings against critical race theory and COVID restrictions, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted the Biden administration and said Americans should "be afraid of your government."

Paul told Fox News:
"Moms at school boards are being told that they're criminals, potential domestic terrorists, for the crime of dissent, and I think criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with,"
Garland claimed that there has been a "disturbing trend" of teachers being threatened or harassed. PJ Media's Megan Fox looked into these allegations and concluded they're mostly bunk.


Comment: '1984' in 2021.

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'Polexit': Will Poland's 'nuclear strike' on EU's legal order lead to the country quitting the bloc?

Sandrine Amiel, Christopher Pitchers
euronews
Sun, 10 Oct 2021 19:36 UTC
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People's protest in Warsaw, Poland
In a decision that sent shockwaves through Europe, Poland's constitutional court on Thursday ruled the country's laws had supremacy of those of the European Union. The long-awaited ruling says some parts of EU treaties and court rulings go against Poland's highest law.

Jakub Jaraczewski, research coordinator at Democracy Reporting, called the move a

"massive escalation of the crisis of the rule of law in Poland. This is unprecedented. We have an EU member state basically stating that the primacy of EU law, one of the core ideas of the European Union common legal order, is partially not effective in Poland. This has not happened before."
Laurent Pech, professor of European law at Middlesex University, compared the ruling to a
"nuclear strike on the EU legal order. As soon as the judgment is going to be published, Polish judges are going to have to choose between violating EU laws or disobeying the constitution. So if they do not violate EU laws, because they have a duty to apply EU rule of law standards under the treaties, then they are going to face disciplinary proceedings and possibly also criminal proceedings."
The Polish verdict drew strong condemnation from the EU's executive and the main parties in the European Parliament. The European Commission said the ruling "raised serious concerns" and suggested that Warsaw could expect a strong response from Brussels.


Comment: It seems like a lot of cooks are stirring the pot before justice is served.

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Hungary: Orban backs Polish court ruling challenging EU law

Krisztina Than, Mike Harrison
OAN
Sat, 09 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Hungary has called on European Union institutions "to respect member states' sovereignty" after it backed a Polish court ruling that some EU law is incompatible with the Polish constitution.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban signed a Hungarian government decree on Saturday, his press chief told state news agency MTI, welcoming the ruling by Poland's Constitutional Court which has plunged the EU into an existential crisis.

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said she was "deeply concerned" by the ruling and that the Commission would do all in its power to ensure the primacy of EU law.

Right-wing populist governments in Poland and Hungary have been at odds with the Commission over issues ranging from media freedoms, migration, LGBT rights to judicial independence. The two former communist states, which joined the EU in 2004, have been allies within the bloc, often voting in tandem, and supporting each other's case.
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