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NATO sees no direct military threats from Russia, China - Stoltenberg

Sputnik
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:26 UTC

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday said that he sees no direct military threats from Russia and China, and this situation is possible thanks to the efforts of the alliance.

"I was asked about whether I see any threat against NATO allies from China or from Russia. I don't see any imminent threat of a military attack against any NATO ally", Stoltenberg said while addressing the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and Subcommittee on Security and Defence.

Comment: Russia and China pose a threat to NATO's relentless warmongering and chaos creation, but its clear that neither country are in that business themselves: The dangerous US/NATO strategy in Europe

The Biden-Noem smackdown: "Imposter" Joe meets Kristi "The Lionhearted"

Mike Whitney
Unz Review
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

"She hath borne herself beyond the promise of her age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion." William Shakespeare

Did you catch Biden's speech on Thursday?

I did. I foolishly thought Biden would use the opportunity to address the 90 million-or-so Americans who think the election was stolen and that Biden is not really the president. But, no, the niggling issue of "legitimacy" never even came up, nor did any of the ten other top issues that Americans care about most. Instead, Imposter Joe devoted the entire 22 minutes to fearmongering about a virus that has almost entirely vanished and which is rapidly losing its power to keep people voluntarily locked up in their own homes. That development - which should have been cause for celebration - has Biden worried, which is why his handlers settled on a nationwide speech to rekindle waning public anxiety.

The Biden crew are determined to keep the pandemic restrictions in place in order to curtail the freedom of movement, limit the size of public gatherings, and preserve the autocratic powers of the state governors. The obvious objective is to perpetuate the appearance of a public health crisis that serves as cover for the permanent suspension of personal liberties and the subsequent evisceration of the middle class. At its heart, the Covid scam- much like the BLM protests and spurious claims of "white supremacy"- has always been part of a broader class war aimed at conservative, blue-collar patriots. Here's Biden:

"Look, we know what we need to do to beat this virus. Tell the truth. Follow the science. Work together. Put trust and faith in our government to fulfill its most important function, which is protecting the American people. No function is more important. We need to remember the government isn't some foreign force in a distant capital. No, it's us. All of us. We, the people." (President Biden's prime-time speech, ABC News)

Comment: For more on how perfectly awful Biden's recent speech was:

UK to sanction Assad's allies on 10th anniversary of West's war on Syria

Henry Batyaev
Sputnik
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:40 UTC

The new restrictive measures against top Syrian officials come as a decade has passed since Syria descended into a bloody civil war that grew to involve multiple regional and foreign actors.

Comment: The West helped foment unrest in Syria which it then used as pretext to wage war on Syria.

The United Kingdom has introduced sanctions against six officials close to President Bashar al-Assad. The punitive measures target Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad, Assad adviser Luna al-Shibl, financier Yassar Ibrahim, businessman Muhammad Bara' Al-Qatirji, Republican Guard commander Malik Aliaa, and Army Major Zaid Salah.

Comment: See also:

The Chilling Return of Normalcy

Techno Fog
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

The normal can be a relative term. My normal isn't your normal, though we probably share general similarities of work and family. It's the specifics that differ.

For others, the normal is unbelievable. Mike Tyson in Undisputed Truth, described his normal day as an 8 year-old:

"We'd go to school, eat breakfast, and then we'd get on the bus and train and start robbing during school hours."

Tyson's autobiography - a fascinating read of his life as a fighter, a heartbreaking read of his youth - touches on the concept of "baseline normal" when he discusses the counseling he received later in life. This concept of baseline normal matters to all of us, and to Tyson specifically, because what we experience when young (whether "love, attention, neglect, deprivation or violence") becomes what we consider to be "normal and often accept[ed] without question" as an adult.

Tyson had baseline normal of neglect, violence, sex, criminal activity, and abandonment at a young age. Suddenly, when he gets married and has a relatively stable life, that was abnormal and he had to find his "normal" through drugs and sex and violence. A return to normalcy.

Comment: A return to normalcy? Even the 'old normal' feels somehow unfamiliar. We are 'not in Kansas' anymore.

Congressional Testimony: The leading activists for online censorship are corporate journalists

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

There are not many Congressional committees regularly engaged in substantive and serious work — most are performative — but the House Judiciary's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law is an exception. Led by its chairman Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) and ranking member Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), it is, with a few exceptions, composed of lawmakers whose knowledge of tech monopolies and anti-trust law is impressive.

In October, the Committee, after a sixteen-month investigation, produced one of those most comprehensive and informative reports by any government body anywhere in the world about the multi-pronged threats to democracy posed by four Silicon Valley monopolies: Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple. The 450-page report also proposed sweeping solutions, including ways to break up these companies and/or constrain them from controlling our political discourse and political life. That report merits much greater attention and consideration than it has thus far received.

The Subcommittee held a hearing on Friday and I was invited to testify along with Microsoft President Brad Smith; President of the News Guild-Communications Workers of America Jonathan Schleuss, the Outkick's Clay Travis, CEO of the Graham Media Group Emily Barr, and CEO of the News Media Alliance David Chavern. The ostensible purpose the hearing was a narrow one: to consider a bill that would vest media outlets with an exemption from anti-trust laws to collectively bargain with tech companies such as Facebook and Google so that they can obtain a greater share of the ad revenue.

Pelosi blames border crisis on Trump and climate change

Paul Sacca
Blaze Media
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

Democrats are scrambling following the massive surge of illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors at the United States southern border. In the past week, there have been eye-opening reports about President Joe Biden's migrant facilities, including children purportedly going days without showers or sunlight, populations at the detainment centers "akin to jail" at 729%, minors being denied access to communication to family members, and immigration lawyers being denied access to facilities.

The border crisis became so overwhelming that on Saturday, the Biden administration announced it was sending the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the border to assist with the record number of unaccompanied minors attempting to enter the U.S.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged on Sunday that there is a "humanitarian challenge" at the border, but blamed former President Donald Trump and climate change for the overflow of illegal immigration.

"The facts of these, there are more children, about 600, 700 more children, unaccompanied children coming over the border," Pelosi said on ABC News' This Week. "This is a humanitarian challenge to all of us."

Pelosi then pivoted to blaming Trump for the surge in illegal immigrants.

Comment: The Dems have NO EXCUSE (except Trump).

Liberal media misquoted Trump in notorious phone call with Georgia investigator

Daniel Chaitin
Washington Examiner
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 08:51 UTC

Early media accounts of a phone call between former President Donald Trump and a top Georgia investigator contained false quotes, prompting at least one major media outlet to issue a correction.

The Wall Street Journal first published audio last week of the roughly six-minute call on Dec. 23 between Trump and Frances Watson, the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State's office, in which Trump urged her to look for fraud in mail-in ballots in Fulton County, where much of Atlanta is located.

Indeed, Trump can be heard telling Watson, who was in the middle of conducting an audit of voting results in Cobb County, that he won the 2020 election and that she would be "praised" when the "right answer comes out." He also insisted "something bad happened."

Biden planning first major tax hike in almost 30 years

Joseph Choi
The HIll
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:33 UTC

President Biden is reportedly planning the first major hike in federal taxes in almost 30 years to fund the economic program set to follow the recently approved $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package. Unidentified sources told Bloomberg that the increases will reflect the promises Biden made during his 2020 campaign.

The planned increases reportedly include:

Raising the corporate tax from 21 percent to 28 percent;

Increasing the income tax rate on people making more than $400,000;

Expanding the estate tax;

Paring back tax preferences on pass-through businesses such as limited-liability companies; and

Setting up a higher capital gains tax rate for individuals making at least $1 million.

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.

As Bloomberg notes, an independent analysis of the Biden campaign's tax plan conducted by the Tax Policy Center found that it would raise around $2.1 trillion over 10 years.

Comment: Note it said 'the first' tax hike... Here are perhaps the next demands to look forward to:

EU launches legal action over UK plan to extend Brexit grace period

Lisa O'Carroll
The Guardian
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:26 UTC

© Reuters/Yves Herman
British PM Boris Johnson and Past European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker who said, "Brexit is a too-long story that has to be brought to an end!"

The EU has formally launched legal action against the UK, alleging that Boris Johnson has broken international law over Brexit implementation in Northern Ireland. It is the second time in six months that Brussels has launched infringement proceedings against the UK over Brexit, following last year's threat by the British prime minister to override part of the withdrawal agreement through the internal market bill. Ultimately the action could see a case held at the European court of justice and lead to financial penalties and trade sanctions.

The EU has accused the UK of breaching the good faith provisions in the withdrawal agreement after its unilateral decision two weeks ago to delay implementation of part of the Northern Ireland protocol relating to checks on goods shipped from Great Britain to the region. The formal notice of legal action was issued with an accompanying letter from the European commission vice-president, Maroš Šefčovič, to the new Brexit minister David Frost. It calls on the UK to "rectify and refrain from putting into practice" its decision on 3 March to extend grace periods for checks on supermarket goods crossing the Irish Sea.

An EU official said: "The UK must stop acting unilaterally and stop violating the rules it has signed up to."

RT launches Covid-19 Freedom Index - Has the pandemic turned your government into totalitarians?

RT
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:49 UTC

Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths are falling in many countries - but some governments have been in no rush to return liberties and rights to their citizens. They must be held to account.

Covid Freedom Index

Even as billions are set to acquire immunity to the virus in 2021 - either through vaccination or antibodies gained following a course of the illness - there has been little letup in crisis rhetoric, with those in power often advocating restrictive measures that go far beyond flattening any kind of curve. New regulations are set to be in place for years, if not permanently, unless there is significant accountability and pushback.

Our new Covid-19 Freedom Index will track the world's leading economies, and major territories within them, to see if they are restricting their citizens, either by limiting basic rights, such as freedom of movement, essential functions, like the ability to go to school or operate a business, or freedom from technological surveillance.

The index has its own limitations that we freely acknowledge. Any such ranking is subjective by its conception, whatever scientific veneer is given by formulas and tables. Nonetheless, to minimize bias, we have tried to break down our index into easily quantifiable and weighted criteria, and rigorously source each piece of information from official publications, where possible.

Sun Awakens, Numerous Flares, Nova Science | S0 News Oct.26.2021 [Link]

parzival

She's better off dead. The ones that die quickly are the lucky ones. Cancers, chronic pain and exhaustion? No thanks.

DeliciousTears

Here's what lithium ion batteries also do. [Link] R.C.

Rowan Cocoan

She always looks like she's having a painful bowel movement, and is trying very hard to do it silently.

Eventide

Parzival. [Link] Documentary on who owns everything and the current situation and intention NWO. Good summary.

Joyly

Puppet Masters

NATO sees no direct military threats from Russia, China - Stoltenberg

The Biden-Noem smackdown: "Imposter" Joe meets Kristi "The Lionhearted"

UK to sanction Assad's allies on 10th anniversary of West's war on Syria

The Chilling Return of Normalcy

Congressional Testimony: The leading activists for online censorship are corporate journalists

Pelosi blames border crisis on Trump and climate change

Liberal media misquoted Trump in notorious phone call with Georgia investigator

Biden planning first major tax hike in almost 30 years

EU launches legal action over UK plan to extend Brexit grace period

RT launches Covid-19 Freedom Index - Has the pandemic turned your government into totalitarians?

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