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Warmongering: FM Lapid says Israel claims 'right' to strike Iran 'at any moment' to prevent it from obtaining nukes


RT
Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:53 UTC
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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, accompanied by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyanin, speaks at a press conference in Washington, October 13, 2021.
Israel reserves the right to attack Iran at any time of its choosing, under the pretext of stopping it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, Tel Aviv's FM Yair Lapid said after meeting with his American and Emirati counterparts.

Addressing reporters after a sit-down with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed in Washington on Wednesday, Lapid insisted that Tehran must not be allowed to obtain the bomb, saying the issue was at the "center" of his visit. Though Iran has long maintained it has no interest in developing nukes, Lapid vowed that Israel would stop its supposed "race to the bomb" by any means necessary.

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Trump holds 35-point leads over DeSantis, Pence in new Republican poll

Lexi Lonas
The Hill
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:34 UTC
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Fmr. Pres. Donald Trump
Former President Trump holds a 35-point lead over Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence in a hypothetical 2024 GOP primary match-up, a new Morning Consult-Politico poll found.

Forty-seven percent of respondents in the survey said they would vote for Trump, while only 12 percent each said they would vote for DeSantis or Pence, the only candidates other than Trump to hit double-digit support.

The huge lead highlights the popularity Trump, who has repeatedly floated but not confirmed another White House run, continues to enjoy in the Republican Party.
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Belarus threatens citizens with SEVEN YEARS behind bars just for following opposition social media accounts & news sites online

Gabriel Gavin
RT
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:15 UTC
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© REUTERS / Vasily Fedosenko
Social media users in Belarus could potentially find themselves facing lengthy stints in prison for signing up to accounts belonging to banned political groups and media outlets on services like Twitter, Facebook and Telegram.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Minsk's Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime said that the new rules had been signed into force. "On October 12, the Council of Ministers adopted a decision on measures to combat extremism and the rehabilitation Nazism," officials said.

"As a result, the directorate has begun work on recognizing unregistered groups of citizens engaged in extremist activities, including using online messenger apps and social networks," the message reads. Those using Telegram channels to participate in discussions and share news will be prosecuted and face up to seven years in prison, the authorities confirm, adding that "those subscribing to extremist channels and chat rooms will face criminal prosecution!"

Comment: This looks to be not so much about Belarus cracking down on free speech but rather them dealing with the issue of foreign-based destabilization efforts through media/journalists.

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Preparing for the storm: Russia's gold & currency reserves hit record highs, Moscow warns of 'unprecedented inflationary pressures'


RT
Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:53 UTC
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© Sputnik / Ilya Naymushin
Gold bars of the highest standard of 99.99 percent purity are seen at The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant (Krastsvetmet) in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Russia's international reserves have reached historic levels, with the country investing in assets like gold and foreign currency amid growing economic uncertainty with inflation spiking steeply after a global borrowing spree.

On Thursday, Moscow's Accounts Chamber revealed that the nation has more overseas assets on hand than ever before. "The volume of Russia's international reserves now exceeds 61 billion US dollars," a statement from officials reads. "This is a historic record. No such figure has been achieved before in the whole existence of the Bank of Russia."

Comment: The ghost of the Weimar Republic creeps ever closer:

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Boeing's 125,000 employees subject to Biden's vaccine mandate from December, religious & medical exemptions permitted


CNBC
Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:40 UTC
Boeing
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A Boeing worker in a face mask exits the Boeing Renton Factory, where the Boeing 737 MAX airliners are built in Renton, Washington on April 20, 2020.
Boeing said Tuesday that its roughly 125,000 U.S. employees have to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination or have an approved religious or medical exemption by Dec. 8 under President Joe Biden's executive order for federal contractor.

The aircraft manufacturer, which makes both commercial and military planes, is the latest federal contractor to inform its staff that it will comply with the mandate.

The exemptions would "be based on a disability or sincerely held religious belief," Boeing said in a statement. "Boeing will continue to carefully monitor guidance from public health agencies, and requirements from federal, state and local governments to inform our COVID-19 policies."


Comment: Meanwhile the authorities in Canada and Australia are not allowing religious exemptions, and the vast majority of countries are however allowing members of government and police officers exemptions, and for any reason; because apparently the coronavirus can differentiate people's vocation.


Comment: Considering the employee response elsewhere, that Boeing is allowing exemptions is a smart move because it's already suffered some of its worst scandals and poor performance in recent years, it likely couldn't survive any pushback over the mandates. That said, if the US tries to enforce vaccine passports, employees may be able to go to work but they may find life intolerable otherwise.

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How Mark Zuckerberg helped Dems 'sway' the 2020 election

Editorial Board
New York Post
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:35 UTC
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg spent millions ahead of the 2020 election.

The 2020 election wasn't stolen — but it could have been paid for. Mark Zuckerberg's millions bought lefty activists access to local election offices, allowing them to organize massive get-out-the-vote efforts in Democrat-dominated cities from the inside.

US cities and counties shouldn't be outsourcing election administration to partisans. But the vast Facebook-founder-funded campaign seduced many into doing just that.
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Philanthropy is a scam

Julieta Caldas
Tribune
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
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Philanthropist Bill Gates
Up until the turn of this century, the word Philanthropy might have called to mind old-money benefactors whose names are printed on walls of galleries, universities, and hospitals. According to a fresh generation of superrich entrepreneurs negotiating their own newfound charitable impulses, it can now refer to almost anything - from tiny peer donations towards medical bills to billionaires propping up foreign regimes. In recent years these new philanthropists, eager to remodel the charitable sector in the image of their business endeavours, have come to unequivocally dominate the field.

Where philanthropists of old felt compelled to selectively fund the arts and sciences to express their exalted taste as representatives of a cultured elite, it is this new generation's track record of profitmaking which has, in its eyes, earned it the right — and the responsibility — to determine which social problems need solving. If they can invent technologies that uproot the ways we work and live, the logic goes, they can figure out world hunger. As more billionaires promise to donate larger swathes of their fortunes, Big Philanthropy continues to grow as an auxiliary industry - working more quietly and garnering infinitely more influence than the philanthropy of the gala circuit.

For these types, the philanthropic drive no longer seems to stem from public pressure. The congratulatory fervour that met Bill Gates and Warren Buffet's initial 2010 Giving Pledge has long since faded, and figures like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have more recently managed to fly under the radar and give away comparatively miniscule sums. The impetus, instead, is a desire to extend the logic of entrepreneurship out beyond the confines of the market. The key word, borrowed from the world of start-ups, is 'disruption'.

Comment: "Charitable giving among the super-rich has one goal, and it isn't to change the world - it's to keep it exactly the way it is."

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Biden's bid to woo Moscow shows US is tired of conflict with Russia over Ukraine, more worried about war with China instead

Fyodor Lukyanov
RT
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 11:55 UTC
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© Sputnik
US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan
Domodedovo International Airport, Russia
Victoria Nuland, US President Joe Biden's envoy for European and Eurasian affairs, is in Moscow as part of an unprecedented, yet highly symbolic, move, with Russia waiving sanctions against her to allow the meeting to go ahead.

Nuland is well-known on this side of the world for her uncompromising criticisms of Russia and her active role in the mid-2010s events that took place in Ukraine. She had been entered onto a blacklist and barred from crossing the border. The sanctions were lifted reciprocally: Russia let Nuland in, and Washington gave the green light for one of Moscow's diplomats stuck in a similar position.

While it's good to see it all work out in the end, it is a fairly baffling case. In the past, diplomats could do their jobs without their respective capitals needing to strike deals and make concessions. Centuries of rules and norms seem to have been ignored.

These are strange times indeed, and I often think that during the Cold War things were somewhat easier. Back then, everyone seemed to have a clearer awareness of responsibility to keep the channels of communication open to make sure you could know what the other country was up to. Today, posturing and rhetoric take precedence.

Comment: A holdover from Obama's abysmal administration's global neocon infestation, Nuland helped pave the way for Joe's criminal interference and Hunter's financial escapades in Ukraine. Neocons do not do agenda lightly. Non-agenda progress with Russia is dubious at best and this author's delusions give too much credit. At best, Nuland may be a placeholder, a doorstop.

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Maher: Hey Biden - "How are we going to 'build back better' if we have no workers and no supplies?"

Jenna Curren
Law Enforcement Today
Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Maher/Biden
© Real Time/The Wrap
Talk show host Bill Maher • US President Joe Biden
On Friday, October 8th, HBO's Real Time host, Bill Maher posed the question many are asking themselves, how the Build Back Better bill will help the economy when there is a shortage of workers and building supplies are being held up in supply chain issues.

Maher said:
"It's interesting because I keep reading about the Build Back Better bill. They want — we can't — we don't have enough workers, even if we passed it tomorrow. And because all of these supply chain problems, we don't have building supplies. So, how are we going to build back better if we have no workers and no supplies? It's a good idea, though. It's always a good idea."

Comment: Millions of Americans should be asking the same questions. Are they?

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Here is the hidden $150 Trillion agenda behind the "crusade" against climate change


Zerohedge
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:45 UTC
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We now live in a world, where bizarro headlines such as the ones below, have become a daily if not hourly occurrence:
  • *TREASURY TO STUDY IMPACT OF CLIMATE ON HOUSEHOLDS, COMMUNITIES
  • *TREASURY LAUNCHES EFFORT ON CLIMATE-RELATED FINANCIAL RISKS
  • *BRAINARD: CLIMATE-SCENARIO ANALYSIS WILL HELP IDENTIFY RISKS
  • *BRAINARD: CLIMATE CHANGE COULD HAVE PROFOUND ECONOMIC EFFECTS
  • *MESTER: FED LOOKS AT CLIMATE CHANGE FROM VIEW OF RISKS TO BANKS
  • *FED IS TAKING THE RIGHT COURSE ON MONITORING CLIMATE CHANGE
  • *FED SHOULD CONSIDER CLIMATE-CHANGE RISK TO FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Now, in case someone is still confused, none of these institutions, and not a single of the erudite officials running them, give a rat's ass about the climate, about climate change risks, or about the fate of future generations of Americans (and certainly not about the rising water level sweeping away their massive waterfront mansions): if they did, total US debt and underfunded liabilities wouldn't be just shy of $160 trillion.

So what is going on, and why is it that virtually every topic these days has to do with climate change, "net zero", green energy and ESG?

The reason - as one would correctly suspect - is money. Some $150 trillion of it.

Comment: See also: Hostile takeover: Wall Street's acquisition of nature advances with launch of new asset class

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