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Ethiopia declares state of emergency as Tigrayan rebels gain ground, US threatens more economic sanctions

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Ethiopian police march in Meskel square in Addis Ababa earlier this month. The state of emergency was imposed after the TPLF claimed to have captured several towns in recent days.
Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency after forces from the northern region of Tigray said they were gaining territory and considering marching on the capital Addis Ababa.

The declaration came as Joe Biden accused the government of "gross violations of internationally recognised human rights" and said he that he was removing Ethiopia from a key US trade program, clearing the way for further economic sanctions over its failure to end the nearly year-long conflict.


Comment: When the US is sanctioning a countries government, one can't help but think that perhaps its agenda isn't altruistic.


Jeffrey Feltman, the US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, warned that the US would take further measures against the Abiy government within days rather than weeks if it does not end the conflict.

Comment: It's increasingly looking like the West's usual methods of 'regime change' are at work in Ethiopia:


Arrow Down

Pope Francis and 40 faith leaders call for urgent action to combat climate change: 'Future generations will never forgive us'

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In a meeting with religious leaders at the Vatican on Oct. 4, 2021, Pope Francis adds dirt to a potted plant as a sign of unity with other religious leaders calling for action on climate change. The meeting was part of the run-up to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12, 2021.
In an unprecedented response to the "grave threat" facing all peoples worldwide from climate change, Pope Francis and some 40 faith leaders representing the world's major religions have joined in an appeal for urgent action. Signed today, Oct. 4, in the Vatican and addressed to all governments participating in the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland from Oct. 31 through Nov. 12, the appeal calls for decisive international political action to combat climate change and "to safeguard, restore and heal our wounded humanity and the home entrusted to our stewardship."

The Glasgow summit aims to accelerate progress toward the goals of the Paris Agreement and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

"Future generations will never forgive us if we miss the opportunity to protect our common home. We have inherited a garden, we must not leave a desert to our children."



Comment: And yet with the practicalities of shutting down coal and nuclear energy, the results have been crisis after crisis. Instead of building off the fruits of prior generations, it is pretty clear those in power are just seeking to burn it all to the ground.


Comment: It would be nice to see a functional working between religion and science, but there is so much wrong at basic level of such 'religion' and 'science' that it is just one giant joke that these puppets are actually attempting to solve any actual problem together. The only thing is the results of the mass acceptance of this, is that the joke is on the people with what can only be devastating consequences. The Pope is right about one thing though. Future generations will not forgive you.


Handcuffs

DOJ says federal agents arrested analyst Igor Danchenko, alleged to be involved in concocting anti-Trump 'Steele Dossier'

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Igor "Iggy" Danchenko
US agents have arrested the Russian analyst who served as the primary source for Christopher Steele's dossier of salacious gossip about Donald Trump. The dossier was used to justify FBI wiretapping on Trump's campaign.

Igor Danchenko was arrested on Thursday at the behest of Special Counsel John Durham, the New York Times first reported. The Department of Justice later confirmed the arrest and said Danchenko is scheduled to appear before a US magistrate judge.

Durham had been assigned by former President Donald Trump to investigate allegations of wrongdoing in the FBI's so-called 'Russiagate' probe, which examined supposed links between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.

Comment: Igor Danchenko has hitherto played a peripheral role in the Dossier farce. Is he about to move closer to the spotlight?


Syringe

Biden admin issues national vaccine order

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have released their anticipated new requirements for national vaccine mandates. First announced preliminarily in September, those requirements were given on Thursday.

The Biden administration's deadline for compliance is January 4, 2022. All workers covered by these requirements must have their final vaccination by that date. The rules cover "employers with 100 or more employees, firm or company wide, and provides options for compliance to protect their workers."

The original deadline was meant to be December 8, but that was pushed back. This was done, per the administration, to "make it easier — to make it as easy as possible for businesses to implement these requirements and for workers to comply."

Comment: See also:


Bizarro Earth

Seizing Everything: The Theft of the Global Commons

Seizing everything
The people who none of us elect, who ultimately control international finance, all corporate & business activity, government policy and international relations have constructed a system that will enable them to seize the "global commons."

They are the Global Public Private Partnership (GPPP) and while elected representatives are within their ranks, they don't set either the agenda or policy. We need to both recognise who the GPPP are and understand the implications of their gambit. How are this group of global stakeholders going to seize the global commons and why should we resist them?

Over the next couple of articles we are going to explore these questions. By recognising what the globalist think tanks and other policy makers mean by the global commons we can begin to appreciate the jaw dropping magnitude of their ambitions.

They consistently use deceptive language to conceal their intentions. Words like 'inclusive,' 'sustainable,' 'equity' and 'resilience' are often employed to portray some vague but ultimately duplicitous concept of caring environmentalism. We must unpick their language to fully comprehend their intentions, in the hope that we can resist and deny them.

While we have been distracted and transitioned by the alleged global pandemic, or pseudopandemic, the Global Public Private Partnership (GPPP), who orchestrated the chaos, have been very busy. They have created the asset rating system that will afford them total, global economic control. This is based upon Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and utilises Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics (SCM).

This new global economic system is what the politicians mean by "build back better." It is the essence of the World Economic Forum's Great Reset.

Wolf

Grandma Nan finally tapping out? Pelosi telling people she won't seek re-election after VA election disaster

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Nancy Pelosi: Time to put it down
Democrats can see the red wave coming and it appears one of the biggest names in the party may be calling it quits.

Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec said on Tuesday, as a red wave swept the nation, that House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi is telling people she is heading to retirement.

"Hearing Pelosi is telling people she is not running for re-election tonight. Doesn't want to be tied to 2022," he said.

Bad Guys

Mark Zuckerberg accuses whistleblowers and media of plotting against Facebook

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Mark Zuckerberg angrily fired back at a torrent of bad press on Monday, accusing whistleblowers and reporters of plotting against the company as it posted better-than-expected quarterly profits.

"My view is that what we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company," Zuckerberg said in a Monday call with investors.

Zuckerberg was fighting back against recent news reports on Facebook struggling to crack down on human trafficking, doing little to address hate speech and making mental health issues worse for teen girls.

Whistleblower Frances Haugen and other critics have argued that the company let these issues fester as they prioritized growth — an idea Zuckerberg rejected.

Comment: It would seem pretty unlikely at this point that Facebook would be broken up as a result of being a monopoly. It serves too great a purpose in censorship and driving official narratives coming from overt sources like the White House. All this pressure is most likely just made to keep Facebook in line and under thumb.


Stock Down

Fed Reserve chair Jerome Powell unloaded more than a million dollars of stock as the market tanked

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
Disclosure documents reveal that the spectacle of Fed officials personally trading stocks extended to the chair himself.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock from his personal account on October 1, 2020, according to disclosure forms reviewed by the Prospect. Powell's sale of shares from a Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has not been previously reported. This sale occurred right before the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a significant drop.

A Fed media relations spokesperson was not available for comment. We will report on any Fed statement on Powell's trades.

Three other senior Fed officials have faced serious criticism for making stock trades during the pandemic. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren were compelled to take early retirements as a result of the disclosure of their trades. Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida also came under fire for stock trading. The other trades are now the subject of investigations by the Fed's own inspector general and the SEC.

Comment: Sooooo . . . . what you're saying is, the Fed Chair engaged in massive insider trading, and nobody's even blinked. Apparently Trump had Powell's number but was unable to neutralize him:


Biohazard

Bill Gates and the Uncertain Future of Food Security

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As we approach a winter of discontent and Global food systems go from bad to worse, there's trouble in paradise.

At the root of these problems, Government responses to COVID-19 have contributed to a six-fold increase in famine-like conditions as global supply chains collapse, and field trials for gene-edited crops and farm animals begin in the UK.

Against this perfect storm, the UN's World Food Systems Summit convened last month, with Member States joining the private sector, civil society groups and researchers, to bring about "tangible, positive changes" to the world's food systems, and as the story goes, "drive recovery from COVID-19."

But even if we could solve our problems using the same logic that created them, there are deeper, institutional problems undermining the integrity of the Summit.

Specifically, its corporate capture by one man, whose vision of the future of food security places the interests of civil society and farming communities in a different universe to the corporations he is beholden to.

A household name on the world stage of disaster-capitalism, there is more to Bill Gates than doomsayer-general terrorising the world's population into a permanent state of suspended animation, and it typically involves the future of food security.

Syringe

Greek anti-vaxxers bribe doctors for "vaccination" with water, end up with the real vaccine anyway

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Real or placebo?
Mass fake vaccinations have been taking place in dozens of vaccination centers throughout Greece, media reported on Sunday. The bribe fee for doctors and nurses is apparently 400 euros. the fee is paid is by those who do not want to receive the vaccines against Covid-19 but want to gain access to several activities or simply avoid the twice per week rapid tests for professional and other reasons.

But then a hilarious thing happened: Doctors pocketed the bribe but administered real vaccine and not "water" in order to avoid getting into trouble should the fake vaccination come out, according to a report by Mega TV.

According to newspaper tovima, some 100 to 200 vaccination centers out of 2,000 in total and the participation of some 200-300 doctors and nurses have been involved in such fake vaccinations and/or in efforts to alter the vaccination data. It estimated that over 100,000 citizens have obtained fake vaccination certificates through illegal methods.

Comment: Greece has seen its share of lockdown tyranny and subsequent protests