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Eye 1

Argentinian protesters could lose welfare payments


RT
Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:12 UTC
Javier Milei
© Tomas Cuesta / Getty ImagesPresident of Argentina Javier Milei gives a speech after his inauguration ceremony on December 10, 2023 in Buenos Aires
Argentinians who participate in road closures will be punished by loss of social benefits, President Javier Milei's government announced on Monday.

Setting up roadblocks, known as 'corte de ruta', has long been the preferred form of protest in the South American country. Milei has sought to outlaw the practice in anticipation of backlash against his "shock therapy" policies for economic and political recovery.

"Protesting is a right, but so is the ability to move freely through Argentine territory to get to work," Minister of Human Capital Sandra Pettovello said in a video message to the nation, posted by Milei's office.
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Eye 2

Fourth generation devastation: The West has been targeted in a cowardly globalist mind war

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00 UTC
grenade head
When I first encountered the concept of 4th Generation Warfare around 20 years ago I was studying the basics of propaganda and how it works. While the core issue is deeply disturbing on a number of levels I also found it fascinating - The ways in which governments and elitists have endeavored to control the masses while at the same time trying to avoid direct confrontation whenever possible.

With the advent of civilian populations armed with military grade weaponry and familiar with the training required for combat, elitist groups realized (post American Revolution) that dominating the public with military might was no longer a sure bet. They had to engage in a new kind of warfare using psychological attacks until they could weaken and disarm the populace. The new system of oppressing was about mental coercion; to make people believe that the authoritarian ideal is inevitable.

One part of this strategy involves using economic leverage for social engineering. A hundred years ago it was more about banks creating an endless series of debt mechanisms and controlling the issuance of currencies. Today, corporate elites are expanding - They want to change the very nature of money through Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). By extension, they're also trying to influence public behavior by attaching "social justice" ideology to economic participation through ESG.
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Briefcase

Tennessee slaps BlackRock with first-of-its-kind consumer protection lawsuit over ESG sham


Zerohedge
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 06:55 UTC
Blackrock ESG
Tennessee State Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed the first-of-its-kind consumer protection lawsuit against BlackRock, accusing the world's largest 'woke' money manager of making false and misleading claims regarding its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment strategies to residents of the state.

Tennessee's lawsuit addresses BlackRock's use of proxy voting to ram woke capitalism through corporate America but at the expense of returns.

"BlackRock has admitted that promoting ESG aims — like companies' radically reducing their carbon output — can conflict with its funds' financial performance," the lawsuit said. "It is thus only fair that consumers know if the hard-earned funds they invest will be leveraged to BlackRock's ESG ends, rather than to maximizing financial returns."

The lawsuit explained, "Yet for years, BlackRock has misled consumers about the scope and effects of its widespread ESG activity," adding, "BlackRock's conduct concerning the marketing or sale of its investment products and services constitutes deceptive acts and practices under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act."
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'Mysterious' power cut to luxury district in Gibraltar under investigation


GBC
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:14 UTC
gibraltar power outage
Engineers are set to continue investigating the cause of a significant power cut on Sunday evening.

Residents and businesses in Marina Bay, the World Trade Centre, Glacis Estate and Laguna Estate lost power at about 6:20pm.

The Gibraltar Electricity Authority says the outage was caused by damage on a High Voltage cable between Landport and Laguna Estate.

It said it was not aware of any construction works in the area, but further checks will be carried out in daylight.

Comment: Back in April of this year, another power outage was reported in the region, which was attributed to damage caused by an engineer. However, one wonders what caused the damage to the cable this time.

See also: Explosion at NYC substation results in brief blackout, people stuck on elevators

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Pirates

Kiev metro line closed after road above collapses, flooding - criminal negligence investigation launched

Leo Chiu
Kyiv Post
Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:10 UTC
kiev metro collapse
A man walks near a market where the soil collapses into a metro tunnel in Kyiv. The metro line was closed for repairs due to collapsed soil and a cracked tunnel. Date created
18/12/2023 17:23:46
Excessive flooding has led to the closure of one-third of Kyiv's blue line with repair expected to last up to six months, but Ukrainians are doubtful of the optimistic estimate.


Comment: As stated further below, this is more than just an Earth Changes issue, this seems to be more the result of overwhelming corruption and incompetence.


A large section of the metro in Kyiv is being shut down for emergency repair work caused by tunnel leakage and excessive flooding, which would take up to six months and well into the summer of next year.

The repair would affect one-third of the blue line, one of the three metro lines in Kyiv, between the Teremky and Demiyivska stations south of the city center.

Comment: TopCor.ru reports:
On the basis of official negligence, in connection with the occurrence of an emergency, criminal proceedings have been initiated, and within its framework, investigators intend to carefully study the documents on the construction and operation of the distillation tunnels - they are interested in design, construction, executive and other documentation, as well as geodesy with laboratory research water and soil. Deputy of the Kyiv City Council Dmitry Belotserkovets immediately stated:

Let me remind you: the metro stations, which were just closed for renovation, were opened ten years ago by "strong businessmen" Yanukovych and Azarov.

The Yanukovych gang came to power in 2010, and they needed to show quick results - urgently open metro stations. And it didn't matter that they didn't have time to do the waterproofing.

The "gang", in fact, at least built and created something in Kyiv. During the time following the Maidan coup, not a single metro station was built in Kyiv.
The New Voice of Ukraine:
The tunnels between Demiyivska and Lybidska stations face instability risks due to soil compaction issues and vibrations affecting the tunnel lining. They were constructed underground in challenging conditions within the floodplain of the Lybid River between 2008-2010, which required artificial lowering of water levels.
The prosecutor's office disclosed that the metro police department initiated a pre-trial investigation into the flooding of tunnels on the Obolonsko-Teremkivska line of the Kyiv Metro on suspicion of official negligence causing serious consequences (part 2 of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

"According to preliminary findings, the tunnel's depressurization and the emergence of cracks in its walls led to the flooding on the specified section of the metro," the prosecutor's office said.

During the pre-trial investigation, officials from the Kyiv Metro Public Enterprise and subcontracting organizations involved in constructing connecting tunnels between the Demiivska and Lybidska stations in the Lybid River floodplain will face legal scrutiny.

The Kyiv City State Administration announced the closure of train traffic on the blue metro line between Demiivska and Teremky stations from Dec. 9 for the repair of the connecting tunnel.

However, Kyiv Metro head Victor Brahinskyi suspended traffic at 1:45 p.m. a day earlier after new cracks threatening passenger safety were observed on the tunnel ceiling at Demiivska station following the morning rush hour.

Brahinskyi listed three possible causes of the cracks, including poor work by the general contractor, insufficient waterproofing and chemical reinforcement, the activity of the Lybid River, and geological conditions like quicksand and peat bogs as potential causes of the cracks.

Traffic restrictions are expected to last approximately six months, with alternative ground transportation duplicating the metro route in the capital.


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Serbia's opposition takes to the streets claiming election fraud in parliamentary reelection of President Vucic

Jovana Gec
Associated Press
Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:06 UTC
serbia protest
Opposition supporters protest the election results in Belgrade, Serbia, December 18th 2023
Serbia's weekend snap election was held in "unjust conditions," with multiple reports of irregularities, international observers said on Monday, as opponents of populist President Aleksandar Vucic took to the streets claiming the vote was rigged.

Political tensions spiked in the Balkan country over the parliamentary and local elections on Sunday. In Belgrade, several thousand people gathered in front of the state election commission headquarters, chanting "thieves," as opposition leaders moved to lodge formal complaints claiming fraud in the city election.

"We have hundreds and hundreds of complaints, said opposition politician Marinika Tepic. She and several other opposition politicians will camp inside the building that's the seat of the state election commission. "We will stay here for a while."

Comment: It remains to be seen how valid these criticisms are, and whether the dispute and unrest will be leveraged by the usual regime change operatives in the West:

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Shamrock

Migrant-loving Western leaders are at war with their own people

Tony Cox
RT
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:05 UTC
Protest in Dublin, Ireland, on November 23, 2023, following the stabbings earlier in the day
© Peter MURPHY / AFPProtest in Dublin, Ireland, on November 23, 2023, following the stabbings earlier in the day
Irish rulers have tried to discredit and silence public outrage after a stabbing attack stoked anger over their policies.

The ongoing ruling-class meltdown over the recent Dublin riots tells us a lot about the breadth and depth of the gulf fixed between Western governments and their citizens. It's as if those in charge are outraged by the temerity of their subjects to cry out over the pain and death inflicted upon them by their supposed leaders.

Angry Irish citizens took to the streets, chanting "Enough is enough," after suffering the latest consequence of mass migration: The November 23 stabbing attack in which three children and two adults were injured in central Dublin. Having failed to be heard by the policymakers who are destroying their quality of life, they burned buses, torched police cars, and clashed violently with officers.

The suspect hasn't been identified or officially arrested. Unlike the Irish people, he's being protected by their government, and he's reportedly too incapacitated to be questioned by police because of injuries suffered during the stabbing spree. He has been described as a 49-year-old Algerian who was given Irish citizenship.

A media controversy erupted days after the attack when independent journalist John McGuirk reported - incorrectly - that the suspect was an Algerian migrant who had been living in Ireland, at taxpayer expense, since 2003. McGuirk referred to a man who faced a deportation order after an arrest years ago, but he was allowed to stay in the country and was later given an Irish passport. Earlier this year, he was arrested for illegal knife possession and damaging a car. He was let go by the court because of a mental health issue, according to media reports.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Erasing history: Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to be removed despite GOP opposition

Sarah Rumpf-Whitten
Fox News
Sat, 16 Dec 2023 19:47 UTC
Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery i
© Calla Kessler/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery is photographed on Aug. 17, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia
The Army plans to remove the controversial Confederate memorial next week

Despite efforts from a group of Republican lawmakers, a Confederate statue in the Arlington National Cemetery will be removed in the coming days.

The Reconciliation Monument, known as the Confederate Statue, is part of the push to remove military installations named after the Confederacy in the wake of the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.

According to a press release from the national cemetery, the statue will be removed from the cemetery by Dec. 22.

The move to remove the statue is in compliance with the Congressional mandate to remove all Confederate memorials by Jan. 1, 2024.
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Stormtrooper

Conscription in Ukraine becoming 'more aggressive' - NYT


RT
Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:56 UTC
troops line
© Henry Nicholls/AFPUkrainian recruits take part in training session at a military base in southern England
June 20, 2023
Recruiters are "shoving people into cars" and pressing them into service against their will, the American newspaper reported...

Ukrainian military recruiters have taken to "snatching" men off the streets and forcing them to fight, the New York Times reported on Friday. With casualty rates soaring, recruiters have allegedly turned to the injured and disabled to fill the ranks.

"Recruiters have confiscated passports, taken people from their jobs and, in at least one case, tried to send a mentally disabled person to military training," the NYT reported, citing interviews with Ukrainian lawyers, activists, and draftees.

Among those forced into service were a man with a broken arm, a man whose lawyer said he had "an official diagnosis of 'mental disability' from childhood," and ordinary workers cornered as they left their jobs and were forcibly driven to recruitment centers.

Comment: Perhaps those who chose war should be those who service and fulfill it.

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Footprints

Democrat Katie Hobbs sends Arizona National Guard to border, bashing Biden's refusal

Anna Giaritelli
Washington Examiner
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 06:09 UTC
Hobbs
© Ross D. Franklin/APGovernor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs
Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) made a break with the Biden administration Friday with the announcement that Arizona would send its own military to the southern border after the White House refused to redirect troops under federal orders to assist.

Hobbs signed an executive order Friday afternoon that blamed President Joe Biden for the "unmitigated humanitarian crisis" across the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border and further attacked him for refusing to redirect federally assigned troops to a part of Arizona where thousands of immigrants per day have entered the country illegally for weeks.

Hobbs said in a statement:
"Yet again, the federal government is refusing to do its job to secure our border and keep our communities safe. With this Executive Order, I am taking action where the federal government won't. But we can't stand alone, Arizona needs resources and manpower to reopen the Lukeville crossing, manage the flow of migrants, and maintain a secure, orderly and humane border. Despite continued requests for assistance, the Biden administration has refused to deliver desperately needed resources to Arizona's border."

Comment: Thanks to Biden, the needs of the United States are at the bottom of his list - if he even has one.

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