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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: ISIS Magically Returns to Syria, Still Can't Find Israel on Map


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Sat, 07 Dec 2024 15:04 UTC
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8 years after the Russian military freed most of Syria from the terror grip of Western proxy army 'ISIS', the remainders of that horde, holed up in Idlib province in northwestern Syria, last week broke out of containment - clearly with Turkish and Western approval - and re-took Syria's second-largest city, Aleppo.

First hour of this NewsReal: Joe & Niall recap the Astana peace process that 'froze' the so-called 'Syrian Civil War', resulting in this enclave of 'moderate' terrorists, why they've been unleashed now, and why 'solving Syria' is a complex problem that is easily exploited by unscrupulous hegemons.

Second hour: Russia's demonstration of its new 'Oresnik' weapon in Ukraine has game-changing implications, and not just for ending the Ukraine war. Finally, joined by Toño, co-host of the SOTT en español podcast, a sit-rep on the US-Mexico border, Mexico's new female president, and what Mexicans think of Trump's re-election.


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SOTT Focus: Nuclear Conflict Risk, Ukraine, And Syria Escalation: Watch Lavrov's interview with Tucker Carlson (With Full Transcript)


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Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:45 UTC
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov joined the conservative American journalist to discuss recent international issues and to explain Russia's position

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has given an exclusive interview to conservative American journalist Tucker Carlson this week. The two talked about a wide range of topics of international concern, primarily the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as the state of US-Russia relations. Here's the full text of the conversation.



Comment: The timestamps for the interview on X are:
(0:00) Is the US at War With Russia?
(12:56) Russia's Message to the West Through Hypersonic Weapons
(17:47) Is There Conversation Happening Between Russia and the US?
(23:18) How Many Have Died in the Ukraine/Russia War?
(28:21) What Would It Take To End the War?
(36:11) What Happened to Alexei Navalny?
(39:45) Boris Johnson Wants the War to Continue
(45:43) Sanctions on Russia
(56:31) The Chinese/Russian Alliance
(1:02:18) Who Is Making Foreign Policy Decisions in the US?
(1:05:05) Biden Pushes the US Toward Nuclear War Before Trump Takes Office
(1:08:52) What's Happening in Syria?
(1:13:08) Lavrov's Thoughts on Trump
Lavrov refers to several incidents over the years in the sphere of global politics and the relationship between Russia and the West. These topics can in many cases be looked up by using the SOTT search functions, alternatively look up the original article on RT. One not included in the RT selection, but very relevant to what Sergei Lavrov is saying, is this review of speeches by Putin over the decades:

Putin speaks: Video archives 1999-2024

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Russia Sends NATO Missile Message, Will NATO Back Down?


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Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:39 UTC
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Russia's hypersonic response to the US government giving 'Ukraine' the green-light to launch long-range missiles into Russia is a stark warning. Will the West take heed? While runaway 'hot war' resulting in 'mutually assured destruction' remains an unlikely outcome, the West's dear leaders are so supremely confident that Russia is bluffing, it looks like Russia is going to have to hit at least a few American and/or European military targets to really drive the message home: the Age of Hegemony is over.

Also on this NewsReal, utter chaos in the UK as bomb threats, protests, terror alerts and public outrage at the Starmer government highlight the volatility of Western 'democracies', Trump's new 'MAGA' administration takes shape, and wild weather continues surprising forecasters whose models can no longer predict rainfall volumes.

Joe & Niall are joined this week by Harrison Koehli of the 'MindMatters' podcast.


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SOTT Focus: Russia's New 'Experimental' Missile(s) Send a Message to NATO

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:42 UTC
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The videos of the Russian missile(s) arriving this morning in were obviously difficult to interpret due to the video quality, but we noticed very high speed and what some people were calling 'plasma' effects, due to the fact that each missile seemed to 'glow' along it's entire length as it passed through the air before impact. Common or garden missiles do not 'glow' in this way, compare the Iranian missile attack last month on Israel for comparison.
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SOTT Focus: Explained: How UK Farmers' Inheritance Tax is Part of The War on Food

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00 UTC
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The British government's inheritance tax reforms aren't about class warfare or filling the "black hole" in the country's budget, they are about taking vital land off small and medium-sized family farms and handing it to mega-corporations.

It's yet another piece of the Great Reset agenda, specifically the war on food.

A quick course for non-Brits who don't know how our country works (and, indeed, the substantial number of Brits who have recently demonstrated they don't know how their own country works):

Since 1984 working farms have been 100% exempt from paying inheritance tax under the "agricultural property relief" (APR) system.

The justification for this was that working farms are needed to produce the food we all eat, and since British farming families are generally asset-rich but cash-poor, charging inheritance tax on farmland might negatively impact farm output.
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SOTT Focus: High-Precision, Long-Range NATO Missiles Against Russia: Why Now?

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:53 UTC
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Russia announced a change to its nuclear doctrine several months ago, where it can now respond with nuclear weapons to a non-nuclear attack on Russia by an enemy, either directly from enemy territory or from the territory of a third party. A notable caveat however is that such a response would only occur in the event that the attack "threatened the very existence of the Russian state."
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump, Take 2: Revolutionary Regime Change, or More 'American Empire First'?


Sott.net
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:17 UTC
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Trump's initial nominations for cabinet positions are a mixed bag, to say the least. Congress has yet to vet them, but the RINOs (Republicans in name only) can't block all of Trump's 'Avengers', surely? Joe & Niall run through the list in the first hour of this NewsReal, then assess the one major issue Team Trump could realistically 'solve' in the coming year: the Russia-Ukraine War.


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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2024: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


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Fri, 15 Nov 2024 03:11 UTC
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Spain faced unprecedented flooding as severe storms hit the Magro and Turia river basins, triggering the overflow of river banks, inundating towns and villages, and causing significant damage to infrastructure, including many roads and bridges.

The Valencia region was hit hard, with rainfall of up to 1.3 feet (40 cm) in some areas. The unexpected downpour caused widespread devastation and took more than 200 lives.

Paiporta was one of the worst-hit towns. Many residents were trapped in their homes or vehicles, and emergency services were overwhelmed. It took days for rescue operations to reach all affected areas.

Despite the disaster, stories of solidarity and heroism emerged. The lack of timely intervention by the government triggered a wave of cooperation across Valencia and neighboring counties, providing basic needs such as food and water, and helping with the cleaning efforts. Similar to what happened in North Carolina.
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SOTT Focus: The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Brownstone Institute
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00 UTC
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No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse.

Consider the vaccine passports alone. Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport. It broke. Once the news leaked that the shot didn't stop infection or transmission, the planners lost public support and the scheme collapsed.

It was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide if not worldwide. Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back.

Features of the CDC's edicts did incredible damage. It imposed the rent moratorium. It decreed the ridiculous "six feet of distance" and mask mandates. It forced Plexiglas as the interface for commercial transactions. It implied that mail-in balloting must be the norm, which probably flipped the election. It delayed the reopening as long as possible. It was sadistic.

Even with all that, worse was planned. On July 26, 2020, with the George Floyd riots having finally settled down, the CDC issued a plan for establishing nationwide quarantine camps:
People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be banned from participating in any religious services. The plan included contingencies for preventing suicide.
There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel.

Comment: What didn't happen could have happened. The planning says it all. Next time?

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SOTT Focus: Dutch Health Minister Defends Government's Covid Measures: "We Were Bound by NATO Obligations"

Els van Veen
X
Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:08 UTC

Comment: Finally, after almost 5 years, someone in public office appears to have let the cat out of the bag: defending her role in passing Covid laws and rules, the Dutch health minister tipped her hat to NATO and a 'deep state' counter-terrorism outfit that was first set up in the Netherlands 'to defeat Islamist terrorism'.

Given that NATO is a supranational organization, this would strongly suggest that ALL NATO member-states 'ran Covid' in more or less the same way, and would go a long way towards explaining why Western governments all seemed to operate 'in lockstep' throughout the pandemic: they were working to a centrally-controlled military beat, and one which apparently operated under the auspices of NATO, via military-intelligence 'counter-terrorism units' established after 9/11...


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© XDutch Minister of Health, Fleur Agema, recently said during a debate that the COVID-19 policy over the past few years was determined by NATO and the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism.
Almost five years after the start of Corona, I understand much better what happened. Last week, the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport explained that the Corona policy was commissioned by the [Dutch] National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) and NATO.

So it was a military operation that had nothing to do with healthcare. It's this video of just three minutes that makes so much clear to me. I invite you to listen carefully to what the Dutch Minister of Health, Fleur Agema, says here. Politician Ms. Paulusma also says something briefly, but she's still following the line of 'infectious disease control', which is what I also did for a long time.

Below you'll find a transcript of the video:
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