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Debt-laden Italy slams ‘crazy’ ECB rate hike

 Italian ministers publicly lashed out at the European Central Bank on Friday for a yet another interest rate hike, branding the decision “baffling” and “crazy.”

The comments from three senior ministers from the recently appointed Italian government come after the ECB raised its benchmark rate by half a percentage point on Thursday. It’s feared the move, aimed at taming inflation, will pile financial pressure on one of the Eurozone's most indebted countries.

Shortly after the announcement, Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto wrote on Twitter that raising interest rates “makes no sense,” sarcastically thanking ECB President Christine Lagarde for the “Christmas present.” Crosetto posted a chart illustrating the widening spread between German and Italian borrowing costs alongside his comments.

Source RT (https://t.me/rtnews)

Financial Times : The eurozone economy will shrink in 2023 due to the energy crisis

 According to experts, prices will increase by more than 6% on average, and the unemployment rate will increase from 6.5% to 7.1% by the end of 2023

 The energy crisis will cause a further recession in the eurozone economy in 2023. This was reported on Wednesday by the Financial Times newspaper with reference to economists.

In their opinion, high inflation and a shortage of energy resources will provoke a further reduction in production and a deterioration of the situation on the labor market. Thus, the eurozone economy will shrink by 0.01% next year, despite the fact that the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) predicted its growth by 0.3% and 0.5%, respectively. According to experts, prices on average will rise by more than 6% next year and by almost 2.7% in 2024, and the unemployment rate will increase from 6.5% to 7.1% by the end of 2023.

Analysts believe that European countries have managed to reduce their dependence on Russian gas imports, in particular by increasing fuel supplies from Norway, the United States and Middle Eastern countries. At the same time, they warn that without Russian gas it will be much more difficult to fill the storage facilities on the eve of next winter. The question "about the supply of energy resources for this period is still open," said Sylvain Breuer, chief economist at the international rating agency S&P Global Ratings. "Gas markets in Europe remain a key risk area. Additional supply disruptions or a particularly cold winter can lead to <...> another price increase," the publication quotes the words of Morgan Stanley bank economist Chiara Zangarelli.

Thus, 90% of 37 economists surveyed by the newspaper believe that the eurozone is already in recession, and also predict a reduction in GDP over the next year. According to the Professor of Economics of the International Free University of Social Sciences. Guido Carli Marcello Messori, a further increase in ECB interest rates to counteract "excessive inflation" caused by the shock in the energy supply sector, "will lead to a serious recession in the eurozone."

AZgeopolitics 

Twitter CEO ?

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Email ‘Inventor’ Bids For Twitter CEO Role

Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email as a teenager in 1982, has thrown his hat into the ring to become the new Twitter CEO after Elon Musk invited applications to succeed him.

Ayyadurai boasted having four degrees from MIT and having set up seven “successful high-tech software companies,” and is a vocal vaccine skeptic and critic of White House medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci.

Source RT (https://t.me/rtnews)

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TikTok Banned For US Lawmakers — Media

 Administrators at the US House of Representatives sent out an email on Tuesday allegedly instructing all lawmakers and staff to uninstall TikTok from any official phones, calling the app a security risk. TikTok has been banned on US government devices as part of a $1.7 trillion spending bill adopted last week.

“The Office of Cybersecurity has deemed the TikTok mobile application to be a high risk to users due to a number of security risks,” said the email from the Committee on House Administration obtained by reporters.

According to the email, the staff need to remove the application from any device issued by the House and are banned from reinstalling it. The change comes after the 117th Congress concluded its business and disbanded. The 118th Congress is scheduled to be sworn in next Tuesday.

Source RT (https://t.me/rtnews)

Zafar Bangash says the United States and its allies are pursuing a regime change plan in Iran.

 Coutesy PressTV Telegram Channel

Lavrov on Western Dolar-Oriented Mechanism.

 

“In the near future, we will see a reduction in the West’s capabilities, a very serious reduction in opportunities to steer the world economy the way it wants, and whether it wants it or not, we will have to negotiate.” — Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

key figures in the Ukrainian military biological program.

 The Russian Defense Ministry has a document with the names of all the key figures in the Ukrainian military biological program. This was stated by the head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov.

courtesy _ @apocalypseos telegram channe 

New Trade Route Helps Russia And Iran Bypass Sanctions — Bloomberg

26 Dec 2022 - Russia and Iran are building a new transcontinental trade route and are rapidly expanding supply chains, having stepped up mutual cargo deliveries across the Caspian Sea, Bloomberg reported, citing tracking data.

The trade corridor that stretches from the Sea of Azov and the mouth of the Don River in Russia to Iranian hubs on the Caspian Sea and ultimately the Indian Ocean has become increasingly busy in recent months, with new routes emerging, according to the report. Ship-tracking data compiled by the news outlet showed hundreds of both Russian and Iranian vessels along rivers that lead to the Caspian Sea.

Iran’s geographical location allows Russia to safely transport goods via the trade corridor through Iranian territory all the way to Asia and India without incurring the risk of Western sanctions.

Source RT (https://t.me/rtnews)

The West turns on Chinese chairman of UN Food and Agriculture organization.

 26 Dec 2022 ~  The UN Food and Agriculture organization has been created to fight global hunger and help developing countries improve their agriculture and food independence. 

As elections of the new chairman are nearing, the Western media has initiated a wave of hate publications against Qu Dongyu, former vice minister of agriculture and rural development of China. They accuse him of many things and the main accusation sounds as “reluctance to condemn Russia for invasion of Ukraine”. 

▪️Chinese representative was elected almost four years ago mainly because he ran against competing candidates from Europe and the USA. During his term he did a lot to really improve situation with food safety in poorest countries of the world. However, he rarely hesitated to speak against the narrative of the collective West.

“You are looking at money, I’m looking to change the business model because I’m a farmer of small poor, family. You from the rich countries, you consider the money first, I consider wisdom first. It’s a different mentality". This kind of statements made Qu Dongyu unpopular among Western elites because they see them as blasphemy and an attempt to disrupt neo-colonial model that is one of the cornerstones of Western prosperity. 

This year FAO desperately tried to stay out of politics and avoided speaking against Russia despite unprecedented pressure of the Western members. It played an important role in the famous “grain deal” and Chinese chairman tried to do his best to help it work. He tried to act in the interested of poor countries instead of appeasing the collective West and that enraged the Western media.

However, FAO is not the only UN organization responsible for food distribution. It has a competing agency, WFP (World Food Programme) that has been tightly controlled by U.S. for a very long time and does not step an inch from the “party line” of Washington establishment. 

It is likely that Europe and US will now nominate a single candidate for FAO chairman post. They will surely continue their slander campaign full of racist remarks, accusations of bias and claims of blasphemous idea to help countries grow food instead of just doing some charity. 

In any case, the countries that Qu will likely count on to be re-elected are not so interested in the political machinations of the West or its condemnation of the Russia's war in Ukraine, which it seeks to impress upon FAO's top leadership. The third world has to make a say here.

This situation is not unique. The collective West puts unprecedented pressure on all other UN agencies that are supposed to be out of politics and above any conflicts. Attempts of the collective West to turn UN into a closed club for themselves are diminishing UN role in the world and undermining its authority, which was not so high to begin with.

UN reforms are long due and maybe the present conflict between Russia and the collective West will ultimately result either in collapse of UN or in its deep reforms and transformation to a really impartial organization working for global benefit.

source telegram channel : war crimes in Ukraine 

The Americans trying to replace the system of brotherly succession in Saudi Arabia.

 The Americans are desperately trying to consolidate the Saudi monarchy into one family, to replace the system of brotherly succession that has been the norm in the last 70 years but which involves uncertainty and instability at the time of succession.

Different factions in Washington had favored different candidates for this project with the Democrats and intelligence deep state favoring the now sidelined Muhammad bin Nayef and the neocons and Israelis favoring Muhammad bin Salman.

Bin Salman arrested Bin Nayef and it seems this issue has been settled for the time being with even once very influential and elder princes such as Bandar bin Sultan now coming and pledging allegiance with bended back to Bin Salman so they won't also end up as permanent guests in luxury hotels.

If change is going happen, it will probably come from out of the Saudi tribe.

more here https://bit.ly/3WjUclU

US moving bioweapons research out of Ukraine – Moscow

 25 Dec 2022 |  After the operations of US-backed labs were uncovered in Ukraine, the Pentagon has been busy moving its bioweapons research to other countries, the head of Russia’s Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense Troops has said.

“The Pentagon is actively working to transfer its unfinished research projects to the countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe,” Igor Kirillov insisted during a briefing on Saturday.

The Americans have also been boosting cooperation with Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Kenya and some other nations in the Indo-Pacific and Africa, with “the US Department of Defense being most interested in countries that already possess laboratories with a high level of bioсontainment,” he added.

Source RT (https://t.me/rtnews)

Israel interference in north of Iraq - wayback since the 60s

 23 Dec 2022 

Some has called Israel interference in north of Iraq and their presence a conspiracy theory or just a new phenomenon but actually based of documents Iran could seize from US embassy in Tehran after revolution, it became clear that Israel was present in north of Iraq since 1960s. Barzani family are one of several puppets that Israel has to control Iraq and use it as operarional base to conduct operations in neighbouring countries.

🚩courtesy  @ResistanceTrench

The US Inflation Reduction Act - American Protectionism!

 "I'm surprised that the EU is surprised".

Irish MEP Mick Wallace says "America has no friends or enemies, only interests"

In modern war the only winner is global capital.

Ordinary people always lose. Remember that next time there's talk about peace being "treason."

COURTESY - @ClareDalyMEP

Seyed Mohammad Marandi - The US is completely unreliable.

US sends contradictory messages and doesn't abide by commitments. By the end of the nuclear negotiations in Vienna the 2 sides were very close to a deal and even the EU foreign policy chief admitted in public that Iran's demands are reasonable.

ZIONISTS ISRAEL WELCOMES AZOV NAZIS!

 Link : https://www.jpost.com/international/article-725351

Still think comparing #Nazis to #Zionists is "anti-semitism". Zionists are anti-semitic. Under Netanyahu #Israel will return to revisionist Zionist status & collaborate wth #Nazis against perceived common threat to racist, elitist ideologies.

Global Anti-American! US created Protectionism & Non Agreement!

  16 Dis 2022

On December 14, the World Trade Organization held a meeting in Geneva to review U.S. trade policies. At the meeting, several WTO members, including the European Union, Canada and Russia, criticized the U.S. trade policy. The U.S. perverse implementation of unilateralism and the promotion of "decoupling and breaking the chain" is a serious disruption of the stability of the global industrial chain, which is destined to be unpopular and has caused widespread discontent in the world, including the so-called allies of the United States.

Marcus Papadopoulos - Western powers created volatility in the Middle East .

  Marcus Papadopoulos says that the West Asian countries, except Iran and Syria, are controlled by Western powers that are the only source of instability in the region.

Courtesy PressTV 

"The West innocent freedom loving protesters" - are terrorist!

Just a reminder that the "innocent freedom loving protesters" supported by western elites, media, and celebrities are actually brutal murderers.

Shameless foot soldiers of the crumbling western empire are saddened that these terrorists have been arrested. 

courtesy : Prof Marandi

ASEAN Refuses to Follow EU in Condemning Russia.

Way to go ASEAN, reactivate NAM! Malaysia was represented by KSU (State Sec). 

18 Dis 2022

The first leaders' summit between the EU and ASEAN was held. Despite the joint statement after the meeting, which emphasized that ASEAN and the EU are strategic partners with common interests and reached positive results at the summit. However, the two sides still have huge differences and did not achieve the previously expected results.

The EU and ASEAN agreed on trade cooperation. But ASEAN leaders have been hoping for an inter-regional trade agreement, rather than the separate bilateral trade negotiations that now exist. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said ASEAN is not interested in always receiving aid, preferring to see complementarity between the economies of the East and West regions. In fact, relations between the EU and ASEAN have been growing steadily since they became "dialogue partners" 45 years ago. As two regional organizations, the East and the West are natural partners and share common interests in many areas. ASEAN's growing economic strength and population size can bring new opportunities for the EU. Last year, the trade volume between the two sides reached about $270 billion. With European countries in deep energy crisis, some ASEAN countries are likely to become new energy suppliers for the EU, so it is imperative to strengthen cooperation between the two sides.

Netanyahu: 'Palestinians can get autonomy without sovereignty or security'

December 17, 2022 at 2:01 pm | Published in: Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine

 Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Palestinians can get autonomy without sovereignty or security.

Speaking to the US radio network National Public Radio on Thursday, Netanyahu proposed restricted autonomy for Palestinians, calling it the only applicable peace with Palestinians.

"The only peace that will hold is one that we can defend," Netanyahu told the US radio station. "And the one that we can defend is one in which the Palestinians have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers to threaten our lives."

He explained: "This means that security, in whatever political arrangements we'll have, realistically will have to remain in Israel's hands."

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Key updates on Russia and Ukraine Crisis as on December 19

 Gas wars

With the EU desperate to ditch Russian gas, the European Parliament corruption scandal emerged (https://www.politico.eu/article/scandal-qatargate-crisis-european-union-corruption-crisis/) earlier this month shows findin alternative and sustainable source of energy won’t be an easy task, Politico writes (https://www.politico.eu/article/qatargate-germany-european-parliament-qatar-corruption-scandal-gives-europe-a-big-gas-headache/). 

The Gulf state is at the center of cash-for-influence allegations that have shaken (https://www.politico.eu/article/scandal-qatargate-crisis-european-union-corruption-crisis/) EU democracy to its core, the outlet notes. For Germany in particular, desperate to find alternative suppliers to Russia, the furore highlights how, in the world of energy geopolitics, there are rarely any easy options. 

Over the weekend, Qatar warned  (https://www.ft.com/content/28fa5d28-228e-4ef9-9d50-d5771c794e8a)the European Parliament’s  “discriminatory”move to ban its representatives at the institution could harm broader EU-Qatari cooperation where the bloc is dependent on Doha, including with energy.

🎮Soft power game

Russian government is mulling over a set of measures to support the Russian video game industry until 2030. In particular, it could create a state-controlled game developer, the funding of which, under the most ambitious scenario, will require up to $50 billion, Kommersant has learnt (https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5733186).  The government also wants to launch a domestic rating agency as well as increase the number of studios developing games by 14 times.

The plan is to release 25 new video games by 2030, costing country budget 6.5 billion rubles each, and 40 less expensive ones, so that they compete with popular global projects and become a "soft power tool" abroad. But taking into account the fact that most of the specialized specialists have left the country, it will be impossible to realize the goals, experts say.

🔥Russian infra on fire

A unit at an oil and gas condensate Markovskoye (Markovsky) field in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia caught fire over an area of about 1,000 square metres on Sunday, but the blaze was  quickly brought under control, according to region authorities (https://t.me/kobzevii/1903) and EMERCON services. 

The Irkutsk incident emerges as yet another one is a series of mysterious fires that took place at infrastructure sites or large commercial facilities in several past weeks. While there are no official statements on any link between them all, many commenters warn of Ukraine’s successful guerrilla war within Russian territory. 

Minsk visit

Russian President Vladimir Putin will on Monday visit Minsk for the first time since 2019. He and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko are “expected to discuss “the whole palette of our bilateral relations, trade and economic cooperation, this is an integration issue," according to Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. 

“There is no denying the symbolic and political significance of Putin's first trip to Belarus in three years: this is a rare type of visit when the President of Russia comes to visit friends and obvious allies”, Nikolay Mezhevich, head of the Center for Belarusian Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told (https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2022/12/19/955873-putin-posetit-belorussiyu) Vedomosti.

⚔️Peace formula

The former secretary of state Henry Kissinger proposed his vision (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-push-for-peace/) for peace talks in an article published on Saturday by The Spectator. He argues for a ceasefire line along the borders existing where the war started on 24 February. While territories it has controlled before (including Crimea) “could be the subject of a negotiation after a ceasefire”.

Meanwhile Ukraine which “has acquired one of the largest and most effective land armies in Europe, equipped by America and its allies” should official ties with NATO. 

He then added that while he has repeatedly expressed his support for the “allied military effort” to counter Russia’s aggression,  “the time is approaching to build on the strategic changes which have already been accomplished and to integrate them into a new structure towards achieving peace through negotiation”.

courtesy :  t.me/russiawire 

Libyan Wealth Fund - STOLEN

 10 Dec 2022 

WHO owns Ukraine

 

FTX corruption

 

EU Qatar related corruption

 

UNGA voted - resolution on Palestinians right to self-determinations.

 

Forcing the closure of Israeli arms factory in UK!

 "But before, we have never seen that type of success forcing the closure of Israeli arms factories".

Huda Ammori, co-founder of the UK-based Palestine Action grassroots movement, says direct action is a winning strategy against Israel’s war machine in Britain.

Courtesy Telegram Channel : Quds News Network.

The West has lost its mind - Russians' & East Europeans' opinion

 

A draft law on Russia's withdrawal from the IMF was submitted to the State Duma

 A group of deputies of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, headed by faction leader Gennady Zyuganov, submitted to the State Duma a bill on Russia's withdrawal from the agreement on joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The document was published in the Duma electronic database on Friday.

"To denounce the protocol on Russia's accession to the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association, signed in Washington in October 1992," the document says.

They believe that it makes no sense for Russia to continue to participate in the IMF. "Russia's stay in the IMF did not help prevent the adoption of sanctions against Russia (unilateral economic measures), which clearly contradict the main goals and principles of this organization," the deputies point out in explanatory materials.

In the second bill, it's proposed to suspend "the most favored nation treatment for services originating from states that have suspended or canceled the most favored nation treatment for Russian services."

Also proposed is to denounce the cooperation agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The EBRD has not financed projects in Russia since 2014, and in April 2022 the Board of Governors of the EBRD decided to suspend Russia's access to the bank's resources in connection with the SMO.

courtesy @Eurasia £ Multipolarity
source @  - www.tass.ru (https://tass.ru/ekonomika/16553495)

The goyim know about ISIS

Toyota HiLux & Land cruiser - Technicals 

ISIS - Israel Secret Intelligence Services

ISIS & Israel 
Nethayahoo - field military hospitals

Courtesy ResistanceTrench(D)

Corruption scandal rocks EU institutions

 Jerome Hughes reports from Brussels.

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EU Credibility Rocked by Qatari Corruption Scandal, FMs Warn 

European Parliament officials were lavished cash and gifts from Qatar to influence internal decision-making, German and Irish FMs said, claiming "It is damaging. We need to get to the bottom of it."

Eva Kaili, a vice president in the European Parliament (pictured above), was one among four people arrested in Belgium following raids on 16 houses and the seizure of 600,000 euros as part of an investigation into "criminal organisation, money laundering and corruption."

"This is an unbelievable incident which has to be cleared up completely with the full force of law," urged German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, "This is about the credibility of Europe."

Source RT (https://t.me/rtnews)

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Updated Dec 14, 2022

❗️EU Lawmakers Vote To Strip Vice Presidential Status From Eva Kaili

Due to Kaili being targeted in an ongoing corruption investigation, the EU Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in support of terminating her from office.

Source RT (https://t.me/rtnews)

Will the Yankees be extinct?

 White children are now less than 50% of the US population.

Not a single elected Republican or Democrat in the United States speaks of this fact.

And the fact that they don't is utterly insane.

We hear hyperbole about various “existential threats” on a daily basis.

But the most obvious, immediate, truly existential threat is the one that has already minoritized White children in the United States of America.

Yet not one of these panhandling political whores makes a sound about what's happening to us.

And yes - it's happening to us.

It's not organic - it's by design.

It's malicious.

It's Anti-White.

It's genocide.

Their silence is their signature on the death warrant of Western Civilization.

Courtesy @jk

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel interview with Zeit.

 "The 2014 Minsk agreements were an attempt to buy time for Ukraine," former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted in her interview with Zeit.

According to her, Ukraine "also used this time to become stronger".

"Ukraine in 2014/15 and Ukraine today are not the same. As you can see by the battle for Debaltsevo, in early 2015 Putin could have easily taken them over. And I very much doubt that NATO countries could have done then as much as they do today to help Ukraine," the former chancellor said.

According to Merkel, "the Cold War has never ended because Russia has not been pacified".  

"NATO has also deployed troops in the Baltic states, in order to show that we, as NATO, are ready for defence," she added.

Germany should have "reacted more quickly to Russia's aggressiveness", as Berlin's military budget never reached 2 per cent of GDP, Merkel concluded.

Remember that Germany was the guarantor for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, but at the end of the day, we see that the Western countries did not even plan to guarantee that implementation, their only goals were to buy time and to pump Ukraine with their agents, weapons and Nazi ideology. 

It's the typical activity of western politicians, but surely deceiving Russia in this matter will cost them dearly. Ironically, Germany is now suffering colossal losses from the war in every aspect.

Based on ANNA-NEWS (https://t.me/anna_news/43775)

RUSSIA MFA REACTION, Merkel comes through for Russia once again

Merkel’s ‘confession’ may be grounds for tribunal – Moscow

The former chancellor gave evidence that the West had orchestrated hostilities in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry says

A confession by former German chancellor Angela Merkel about the Minsk peace agreements could be used as evidence in a tribunal involving Western politicians responsible for provoking the Ukraine conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday.

The deal, brokered by Germany and France, was supposed to be a roadmap for peace in the war-torn country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country's current military offensive was prompted by the failure to implement the terms of the accords.

The former German leader admitted in an interview with Die Zeit on Wednesday that the actual purpose of the Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine time to prepare for a military confrontation with Russia.

“They talk a lot about legal assessments of what is happening around Ukraine, certain tribunals and so on in all sorts of ways,” Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a media briefing on Thursday. “But this is a specific reason for a tribunal.”

She claimed that Merkel’s comments were nothing short of the testimony of a person who had openly admitted that everything done between 2014 and 2015 was meant to “distract the international community from real issues, play for time, pump up the Kiev regime with weapons, and escalate the issue into a large-scale conflict,” Zakharova added.

She said Merkel’s statements “horrifyingly” reveal that the West uses “forgery as a method of action,” and resorts to “machinations, manipulation and all kinds of distortions of truth, law and rights imaginable.”

Merkel confirms Ukraine peace deal was a ploy:

Read more Merkel confirms Ukraine peace deal was a ploy

The spokeswoman claimed that the West had known well in 2015, when it spent hours negotiating the second part of the Minsk accords, that it would never even attempt to fulfill any part of the agreements and would instead pump weapons into Kiev.

@NewResistance

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DEC 11, Putin on Merkel's words about Minsk agreements:

To be honest, it was absolutely unexpected for me. It's disappointing. Frankly speaking, I did not expect to hear this from the former chancellor, because I have always assumed that the German leadership behaves sincerely with us. Yes, of course, it was on the side of Ukraine, supported it, but it still seemed to me that the German leadership has always sincerely sought a settlement on the principles that we agreed on, within the framework of the Minsk process. 

This only shows that launching the SMO was the right decision. It turns out that no one was going to fulfill these Minsk agreements. The point was only to pump Ukraine with weapons and prepare for combat operations. Maybe we should have started all this earlier. 

Trust almost dropped to 0. How to negotiate? About what? And is it possible to negotiate with them? Where are the guarantees? I have said many times that we are ready to sign agreements, but this makes us think about who we are dealing with.

courtesy @Eurasia & Multipolarity

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THE NEW PRINCIPLES - Dmitry Medvedev

The "new principles" concept recently inked by Dmitry Medvedev come directly from Vladimir Putin commentary on Angela Merkel confession about the misleading nature of Misnk Agreements.

Merkel basically admitted that the agreements were made in order to give Ukraine some time to build the military strength and accumulate amo for the future assault on Donbass and Russia.

Vladimir Putin concluded that this was an unexpected  and dirty trick. 

"Just how would we be able to come to any agreements in the future? What kind of guarantees would we have? 

Honestly, I didn't expect this.

It is now perfectly clear that we have acted on time and made the only right choice by starting the SMO and  preventing the major assault on us that was being prepared during the last years."

He continued:

"Our nuclear doctrine implies that in case we are attacked we will use strategic nuclear weapons in our defense. But in the view of the last events we might just use some "new principles".

@NewResistance
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"Ukraine is reeling". Clare Daly WAR IS A RACKET!

 

DEC 9, "Ukraine is reeling". Clare Daly on point again!  he Ukrainian state is reeling, unable to finance services its people desperately need. But billions in EU financial assistance are not free; they're loans, which #Ukraine will default on. Meanwhile there is little oversight or assurance the funds are going where they should.

Ursula - announces price cap on Russian Oil

  Ursula gives out pearls again:

"The EU agreement on limiting oil prices will significantly reduce Russia's revenues. This will help us stabilize global energy prices, which will benefit developing economies around the world."...OPEC+ is about to have meeting soon on this matter.

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OPEC ministers will meet ahead of the EU’s oil embargo and G7 price cap against Russia

Former French ambassador on US 'rules-based order'

 

22 Nov 2022

France's ex US Ambassador Gérard Araud criticized Washington for frequently violating international law and said its so-called "rules-based order" is an unfair "Western order" based on "hegemony." He condemned the new cold war on China, instead calling for mutual compromises.

House passes massive $858 bill for US Defense Dept.

 Thursday, 08 December 2022 9:33 PM  [ Last Update: Friday, 09 December 2022 12:47 AM ]

The US House has passed an $858 billion bill to fund the Defense Department next year, $45 billion more than what was proposed by President Joe Biden.

The House passed the compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, an annual must-pass bill which sets policy for the Pentagon, sending it for a final vote in the Senate in the coming days, and then to the president to be signed into law.

The NDAA, which was released after weeks of negotiations on Tuesday night, passed with a strong backing from both Democrats and Republicans, recording 350 in favor of the bill to 80 votes against the legislation.

The defense bill is critical in shaping the US military’s future.

The legislation provides Ukraine with at least $800 million in additional security assistance next year and includes a range of provisions to strengthen Taiwan amid increasing tensions with China.

It also authorizes more funds to develop new weapons and buy systems including Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jets and ships made by General Dynamics.

Among the changes in the 2023 defense policy legislation is a provision to scrap the Pentagon’s COVID vaccine mandate for active duty service members.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had voiced support for keeping the Pentagon’s COVID vaccination policy in effect.

However, the COVID mandate had recently emerged as a red line for conservative Republicans, who threatened to reject the entire bill if it wasn’t rescinded.

Despite his support for the Pentagon’s COVID vaccine mandate, Biden is now expected to sign the defense bill after Senate's approval.

source PressTV 

Putin 8 Dec 2022 statements regarding the Special Military Operation:

 Putin statements regarding the Special Military Operation: 

▫️The West does not notice Ukraine's actions against Russia, but Moscow's retaliatory step causes a wave of information noise: "As soon as we move, we do something: noise, uproar, crackling throughout the universe. This will not prevent us from carrying out combat missions.

▫️Russia strikes at the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, but the first blows were delivered by those who hit the Crimean bridge

▫️During the special operation, everything is done primarily to protect people.

▫️Russian aviation works well and efficiently in the special operation zone

UN General Assembly Adopts Russian Resolution Not To Place Weapons In Space

UN General Assembly Adopts Russian Resolution Not To Place Weapons In Space — RIA

122 countries voted in favor of the resolution, 50 voted against, and 4 countries abstained.

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Poor People in Wales UK are eating Pet Food

 Poor People in Cardiff UK are eating Pet Food

While The British Government Keeps Pumping Money and Arms to Ukrainian Nazis !

Von der Leyen announced the 9th package of sanctions

(this is the shorter version of the video with the main points):

Main points:

1)Restrictions on the Russian energy and mining industries

2)Limiting Russian access to drones, both directly and through potential suppliers

3) Deactivation of 4 more Russian TV channels

courtesy https://azgeopolitics.com/?p=3355

America's conditions for the West to end the unrest in Iran

  Weeks ago in a confidential message, America has announced to the Islamic Republic of Iran that the West will end the unrest in Iran if it accepts the following conditions:

1. End of cooperation with Russia

2. Unconditional injection of Iranian oil and gas into the world market

3. Acceptance of American demands regarding Iran nuclear program 

4. Iran's reconciliation with Saudi Arabia in regional issues

After weeks now it is safe to say that riots are on the way to failure and dying out and Iran managed situation without giving any concessions to west.

courtesy :  @ResistanceTrench

Edward Snowden vis-a-vis Julian Assange!

 Dec 5, 22

JULIAN ASSANGE  👇🏾

"I hope he gets at least 176 years in prison for what he did."-Former Trump national Security adviser John Bolton on the imprisonment of Julian Assange.

Freedom and demo(n)cracy

Sadly it is crime to report a US war crime...

Dec 10/21

BREAKING NEWS - Pepe Escobar 

A DAY OF INTER-GALACTIC SHAME

UK kangaroo court sanctions the extradition of Julian Assange to the Empire of Lies, setting the precedent that ANY journalist anywhere may be dispatched to certain death in the imperial gulag for revealing war crimes.



Nov 3, 22

Ex-CIA Director Mike Pompeo was officially sued.

He is accused of spying on Julian Assange, journalists and lawyers who visited the WikiLeaks founder at the London embassy of Ecuador, where he lived.

The plaintiffs were represented by New York lawyer Richard Roth.

Dec 3, 22

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against the decision to extradite him to the United States-Reuters

Vote on a draft Russian resolution - On American biological laboratories in Ukraine.

 On November 2, the UN Security Council will vote on a draft Russian resolution providing for the creation of a Security Council commission to investigate the activities of American biological laboratories in Ukraine.

See here the day it was filed. 

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On 3rd November 🚫No biolab investigation

The UN Security Council has rejected a Russia-drafted resolution to establish a commission to investigate joint military-biological activities of Ukraine and the United States on Ukrainian territory. Russia and China voted in favor of the resolution. The United States, UK and France opposed it while 10 other UN Security Council countries abstained.

"We are extremely disappointed with the fact that the Council failed to employ the mechanism of the Convention on Biological and Toxin Weapons today. It states that each member-country of the Convention obliges to cooperate in any investigation that may be carried out by the Security Council in accordance with the provisions of the UN Charter on the basis of a complaint received by the Council," First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said (https://tass.com/politics/1531799) at the UNSC meeting on Wednesday.

Earlier, the UN Security Council rejected the draft resolution readied by Russia, which suggested setting up a commission to investigate the activities of US biological laboratories in Ukraine.

courtesy https://t.me/russiawire

US CAESAR sanctions on Syria - UN calls!!

DEC 4, 2022 - If people are thinking about complaining about the situation in their country - please be aware of what Syria is going through right now. 

1. Electricity: most areas in Damascus and countryside have only had 30 minutes to one hour in last 24 hours. In the rest of Syria especially rural areas no electricity for 3 days at least.    

2. Poor performance of the landline phone network and terrestrial internet due to lack of fuel to run generators during the time of power outage and even the towers powered by solar energy almost shut down because of cloudy weather.     

3. Most of the large factories reduced their distribution because their vehicles have no fuel and many closed down until next week - crippling many industries and supply chains.     

4. Some government institutions  could not conduct electronic transactions on Wednesday and Thursday because there was no electricity or internet.    

 5. Shops and markets throughout Damascus are closing at sunset because there is no fuel for their generators.    

6.  Private bakeries reduced production of bread because they cannot operate their machines and ovens.     

7.  Restaurants reduced production and are only serving cold food or barbecue for the same reasons.    

8.  Diesel and fuel have disappeared even from the black market with 20L of BM fuel now at 200,000 Syrian pounds (average salary is 150,000 per month = $ 27, most are earning less).       

9.  Most government subsidised fuel stations are closed.   

10.  Queues at the remaining fuel stations are for 24 hours plus. Quantities that do arrive are not enough for demand. There is a restriction of 30L per month anyway.      

11. There is a system of sending a message to car owners to come and get their ration of fuel - now there are delays of three weeks for the SMS to be received. Before it was every few days.      

12. There is no gas available (bottles) and if they are available on the black market you are talking 150,000 SYP and above, impossible for most people. The average family will use one bottle per week for cooking etc. The bottles are also very poor quality and dangerous.       

13. There is no public transport. The roads are literally empty. This means a huge problem for employees and employers with staff unable to come to work etc.   

11 years of devastating war and barbaric sanctions, post-war dissonance and insecure borders - the Caesar sanctions punish any nation that comes to assist Syria. US is occupying, directly and by proxy, and stealing Syrian oil and wheat. Turkey is annexing Syrian territory.

END SANCTIONS NOW!

UN expert calls for lifting of long-lasting unilateral sanctions ‘suffocating’ Syrian people - 10 Nov 2022.

UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights Alena Douhan today urged sanctioning States to lift unilateral sanctions against Syria, warning that they were perpetuating and exacerbating the destruction and trauma suffered by the Syrian people since 2011. 

“I am struck by the pervasiveness of the human rights and humanitarian impact of the unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria and the total economic and financial isolation of a country whose people are struggling to rebuild a life with dignity, following the decade-long war,” Douhan said.

More here - https://www.ohchr.org/en/node/104160