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Is Hell Freezing Over? CNN Calls Joe Biden A Liar & Says Donald Trump Was Right

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Putin: By the end of this year, a high-speed highway from Moscow to Arzamas will be built to Kazan, and then to Yekaterinburg and Tyumen. A single transport corridor will be formed from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. It will serve as the basis for the development of tourism, for connecting logistics, agricultural, and production centers, and will give impetus to entrepreneurship and the renewal of cities and towns.

Rebecca Chan@RebeccaYChan

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It is NOT about “freedom and democracy” It has NEVER been about “freedom and democracy” It’s about rape, pillage and plunder. THAT is what America does best. THAT is why the U.S. has 800 military bases squatting on other people’s countries.

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Putin: “The Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 71,000 soldiers from their failed counteroffensive.”

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This was stated by the Romanian Minister of Transport, Sorin Grindeanu.

Romania has warned Kiev that it will consider Ukraine’s attempt to create its own canal from the Danube to the Black Sea, bypassing Romanian territory, as a “crossing of red lines”.

• Ukraine is trying to find alternative ways to go to sea. To achieve this goal, it is planned to continue deepening the Bystroe Danube Canal.

• However, Romania believes that Kiev already has the opportunity to use the Romanian Sulina canal and that there is no need to create a new route.

• Ships do not go to sea along the river delta itself.

The problem is competition. And a bit of ecology.

• The Danube, before flowing into the Black Sea, is divided into the Chilia branch (Ukraine) and the Sulina branch (Romania), along which the majority of goods flow.

• Ships of the “river-sea” class are loaded in the Ukrainian port of Izmail, go upstream, go to the territory of Romania and enter the Black Sea through the Sulina Channel.

• Bucharest sent a letter to the European Commission with a request to prevent the inclusion of the Bystroe Canal on the territory of Ukraine in the official European Union TEN

• T transport network. That is, he asks not to give permission to the European courts to travel this artery.

• Already in February, Romanian MP Ana Maria Gavrile reminded that the deepening of the Ukrainian canal was prohibited by international standards more than 20 years ago.

“The Ukrainians used a narrative of fear, saying they were protecting Romania from the Russians so that we would let them do whatever they wanted. They would stop at nothing, even destroying the Danube Delta, a UNESCO-protected ecosystem

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Let’s get real

Ukraine is never gonna take back all their territory

The US isn’t going to help them for as long as it takes

There’s a good chance after allowing the West to use his country in this proxy war, when this war is over Ukraine will not be invited into NATO or the EU

Daniel Dumbrill@DanielDumbrill

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Ukranian politician and advisor to President Zelenskyy, Mykhailo Podolyak, on the intellectual capacity of the Indian and Chinese people.

Alexander S. Vindman @AVindman

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Elon, Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack on the U.S. outside of a war. You interfered in a U.S. ally’s, Ukraine’s, national defense in the midst of Russia’s war on Ukraine. See the difference?

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@AVindman

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Alexander, Elon is a private citizen. He did not interfere—he refused to participate in an act of war being perpetrated by a nation with which the US is not allied, and against a nation we are not at war with. Start acting more an American and less like a Nazi shill.

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Brazil is considering leaving the International Criminal Court by withdrawing its signature on the Rome Statute.

Elon Musk@elonmusk

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No kidding …

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America:

• surrounds China with military bases (4 new ones this year alone)

• multiplies anti-China military alliances (AUKUS, Quad, trilateral US-Japan-SK alliance, asks NATO to go to Asia)

• -sends soldiers & weapons to Taiwan Then asks: wait, why is China preparing for war?

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Thursday’s blog post (14/09) is now posted (12:56 EAST) – Australian labour market – stronger employment growth in August demonstrates how ineffective monetary policy is –

https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=61149

Igor Lopatonok@lopatonok

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Than more sanctions will be imposed on this two – than stronger they country’s become. Awaiting for State Department will be announcing new round of stupid sanctions. Ship of multipolar world is already sailing

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Around 05:30, air defense forces destroyed 11 drones over the territory of Crimea. Several drones were also shot down over the Bryansk region – Russian Ministry of Defense.

Ukrainian “decision-making centers” are waiting for Russian decision-making centers to finally make these decisions. It’s time to start before it’s too late. Let’s not wait for the Ukrainian army of the US and NATO to receive nuclear weapons. They’ll receive it weapons. Destroy this Nazi, anti-Russian entity right now, before the war enters the nuclear phase.

https://t.me/vicktop55/17008

Chebureki Man@CheburekiMan

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The key to understanding the conflict in Ukraine is the role Crimea plays. The neocons in the Obama admin thought it would be terrific foreign policy to halt an ascendant Russia, by taking control over Crimea and converting Sevastopol into an US/NATO naval base.

This would position Washington to box-in Moscow with an arsenal of nuclear weapons, right on Russia’s doorstep. It would also position Washington to have geostrategic domination of the Black Sea basin. Crimea, for this purpose, is therefore a prize of the highest magnitude for the neocons who control Washington’s foreign policy establishment.

The problem was how to make it happen. The first step was gauging opposition, if the Crimean population was open to the idea of hosting a US/NATO base, then the idea would be a much easier sell. Washington quickly discovered that the population identifies predominantly as Russian and/or Crimean, with only a minority identifying as Ukrainian.

Since Crimean opposition was assessed to be fierce, this shifted the plan to a strongarm takeover. Washington would have to conduct a regime change operation and take control of the Ukraine government. Once Washington had control, Ukraine could be swiftly assimilated into NATO and Russia’s lease on Sevastopol canceled. Local opposition would simply be steamrolled, the city and base transformed into host for a joint US-Ukraine naval base, ostensibly for NATO purposes.

The mechanics of the coup were carried out in 2013-2014, with much of the ground prepared by Victoria Nuland and organizations like the NED. The NED being one of Washington’s primary regime change NGOs, run by the CIA and funded by taxpayer money. Large sums were spent astroturfing the “Maidan” movement and incentivizing nationalists groups to get behind it. The nationalists were key to the coup, which would have failed without the extreme levels of violence they supplied. Nuland made sure these groups were well funded and supported.

When Washington’s Kiev coup ultimately succeeded, the great majority of the Crimean population was having none of it. They felt disenfranchised, enraged that their representation in govt had been illegally stolen from them by the coup. It was Crimeans themselves who organized the referendum, and in an organic process chose by a landslide to affiliate with Moscow instead of Kiev.

The subsequent annexation was an absolutely devastating blow to the plans of the Washington neocons. Putin and Russia had almost trivially snatched Crimea right out from under the noses of Washington. This was made possible due to two facts: the majority of Crimeans support Russia and that Russian forces already legally occupied Crimea. The reunion with the Russia Federation was carried out swiftly, almost without a shot.

Washington’s retribution was severe, harsh sanctions on Russia and a serious effort to build-up Ukraine militarily, aided by other NATO members. The general idea was to supply the nationalist extremists with weapons and resources. Washington would then just wait for what comes naturally to nationalist extremists, which is to attack and molest disobedient minorities. In particular, the ethnic Russian separatist movements in eastern Ukraine.

Of course there is much more to it, but the general idea was to provoke Russia into “aggression,” then Washington’s proxy army would engage Russia and grab Crimea back. The continued dangling of the NATO carrot in front of Kiev also compounded the degree of provocation to Moscow.

Washington’s Kiev overthrow was achieved in 2014, thanks to devoted imperialistic fuckery, but the real goal was always getting control of Crimea. This would guarantee a major geostrategic defeat for Russia, Putin’s political demise, and a serious destabilization of the country. All the preconditions necessary for Washington to do to Russia what it did to Ukraine. This is why neocons like Victoria Nuland are singularly obsessed with Crimea.

Thus, what makes Sevastopol and Crimea important to Russia is not necessarily the Black Sea base, what makes it important is that Washington can never, ever, be allowed to control this territory and exploit it for the purpose of dismantling Russia.

Corruption in Ukraine is an existential threat, writes The New York Times.

Ukraine remains one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, The New York Times reports. Since the war began, “a host of characters – from arms dealers to suppliers of soldiers’ food – have made large profits and have a vested interest in the continuation of the conflict.”

Meanwhile, no one is more aware of the rampant corruption in Ukraine than Ukrainians themselves. There have been a number of arrests around the country, but there are fears they may dampen U.S. enthusiasm for helping Kiev.

The newspaper reminds Washington of the experience of Afghanistan.

“We failed in Afghanistan not because we failed to stop corruption. We failed because we did not create Afghan government agencies capable of withstanding U.S. withdrawal.”

Source: The New York Times

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President Vladimir Putin: We are witnessing a new emerging model of relationships and integration – and not by Western patterns, for the elite, for the chosen ‘golden billion,’ but for the entire humanity and the entire existing and developing multipolar world. #EEF2023

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President #Putin at the #EEF2023: We have never acted as colonisers anywhere. Our cooperation has always been based on equality or desire to provide help & support. The countries that are trying to compete with us had a completely different policy.

https://t.me/MFARussia/17414

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The United States was called “planet wrecker-in-chief” “Five rich countries — the U.S., Canada, Australia, Norway and the United Kingdom — account for more than half of all planned oil and gas expansion globally”

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Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand

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My personal pet theory is that this is a key reason why the US hates Huawei so much: it’s a private employee-owned company, with its shares held by a trade union committee. Meaning there’s no way for Americans to get a piece of the action, or gain influence via capital.

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We all know who turned that rich country into a slave market – NATO in 2011. Stop gaslighting.

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The United States does not see the possibility of ending the conflict in Ukraine at present on terms that suit Washington, the White House said.

“Russia has no choice but to win” – Shoigu said today. Washington is only satisfied with the capitulation and disintegration of Russia. Russia’s victory means the defeat of the Ukrainian army of the US and NATO and the return of the territory of the former Ukraine to its composition. If the US does not leave Ukraine, nuclear war will be inevitable.

https://t.me/vicktop55/17007

pocalypsis pocalypseos ?@apocalypseos

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International order? Victoria Nuland is one of the top masterminds in the world’s largest organized crime and terrorist syndicate.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1702143018835521837

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Under Secretary Victoria NulandUnderSecStateP

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Russia’s ammunition production seven times greater than of the West – The New York Times Russia is easily overcoming sanctions and is actively increasing its military production, the New York Times reported, citing US, European and Ukrainian officials. They said Russian missile production exceeded prewar levels, “leaving Ukraine especially vulnerable this coming winter”. Moscow has “subverted American export controls” and also re-established trade in critical components by routing them through other countries, the publication said. As a result, Russia is now producing more ammunition than the United States or Europe. Overall, Kusti Salm, a senior official in the Estonian Defence Ministry, estimates that Russia’s current ammunition production is seven times greater than that of the West.

@ukraine_watch

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And what caused the lawlessness and destroyed “what was once one of Africa’s most prosperous countries”, BBC? Let me give you a hint, it’s a “defensive” military alliance that’s supposed to be about the North Atlantic…

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Here’s the evidence that Ghouta in 2013 was a false flag undertaken by the Syrian rebels to frame the government and given major propaganda cover by Western Intel cut outs/assets. First Seymour Hersh’s stunning expose. Second Paul McKeigue’s harrowing evalution of the data.

Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle

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No, his decision saved Ukraine from getting nuked away into the dustbin of history. Credit where credit is due

@elonmusk

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It’s absolutely wild to me that liberals r attacking Elon for not allowing his Starlink system to trigger a nuclear war. And this is not hyperbole. Elon was told very explicitly by Russia that shit will get nuclear. Liberal still wish for WWIII anyway

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#Russians in a subway spontaneously started to sing. “Rise up great country, Rise up to fight till death the dark fascist forces” This happened in #StPetersburg former #Leningrad where every native had family member that experienced the horror of Na zism. Russians feel united

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The Pentagon is the single most ecocidal institution on the planet. If you’re serious about climate activism you’re also pushing for the end of the US war machine.

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Victor Gao hands the raw and painful truth to a former imperialist superpower. Ouch! “I think it would be completely misguided for Britain for view China as a […] competitor. What do China and Britain compete with?!”

Zlatti71@djuric_zlatko

The reaction from India on Twitter to zelensky’s adviser’s statement about India’s low intelligence: “That’s why we are on the moon, and they are in minefields”.

https://t.me/fr0m_Russia_with_L0ve/28369

@djuric_zlatko

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Sky News has confirmed that Ukraine has attacked the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea with long-range Storm Shadow missiles.

This information was confirmed to the British TV channel by Ukrainian and Western sources.

“This is the first known successful attack against a Russian submarine of the war,”

Sky News noted. According to preliminary data, the Minsk landing ship and the Rostov-on-Don submarine were hit.

Was it an act of Ukrainian desperation?

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#Zakharova: The West seems to be determined to continue fanning the conflict. The Western countries continue to use the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev to send thousands of Ukrainians to the slaughter in order to achieve their own selfish goa

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Clown show continues:

Europe is opening a probe into China with respect to EVs claiming they are keeping prices artificially low by huge state subsidies.

The reality is unlike Europe which chose to cut itself off directly from cheap Russian energy, China benefifts from this enormously.

China also has a far lower cost base to produce vehicles not least due to not having the cost of living crisis the West has which was self-inflicted through crass monetary and fiscal policies.

China also domestically produces components required for EV’s, Europe doesn’t.

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Hadi Nasrallah@HadiNasrallah

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Chinese President Xi Jinping on #Africa:

African people have the most say about which development path suits them the best.

China supports the African Union’s full membership in G20.

China supports special arrangements on UN Security Council reform to meet Africa’s aspiration as a priority.

China will call on international financial institutions to enhance the say of African countries.

China will continue to be a firm supporter of Africa’s independence.

Seyed Mohammad Marandi@s_m_marandi

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The US imposes starvation sanctions on Syrian women and children and steals the country’s oil and grain. Is there anything more evil?

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XI JINPING to MADURO: “China will continue to firmly support Venezuela’s efforts to safeguard national sovereignty, national dignity, and social stability, as well as Venezuela’s just cause of opposing external interference. I’m pleased to join you in announcing the elevation of

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US media won’t report about the collapse of the German economy. (Not in a sensational way like they write fake stories about China). Why? Germany must be destroyed for the US to extend the American Century.

One has to ask….why France’s troops are never targeted by jihadists in Africa ? Seems like the US in Syria, US put ISIS there to justify its presence to “fight against jihadism” So, French troops in Africa there for protecting their mining interests and US in Syria to extract oil. ISIS is a Western creation, made it a convenient enemy which gets support from the same Western powers.

************************************* This is the aftermath of clashes in Bourem and what’s left of the Tuareg rebels after their attack on the Malian army. As it seems, the CMA statements about 97 Malian soldiers dead and their “tactical retreat” were fake and suffered a big defeat

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Glenn Diesen@Glenn_Diesen

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Libya was once one of Africa’s most prosperous countries, but years of lawlessness have left it a fragile, divided state – ill-prepared to cope with the forces unleashed by a natural disaster. https://bbc.in/3sS8XT9

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MFA Russia @mfa_russia

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President #Putin at the #EEF2023:

We have never acted as colonisers anywhere. Our cooperation has always been based on equality or desire to provide help & support. The countries that are tr

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The BRICS summit literally just finished … during which Xi met with leaders from South Africa, Russia, Brazil, India, Cuba, Ethiopia, Senegal, the Republic of Congo, Malawi, Nambia, Tanzania, Iran … Not to mention, leaders from around the world have been visiting China since the beginning of this year …

Looks like FT doesn’t consider these countries as part of the “international community.”

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They keep on coming! Despite sanctions China has built “the world’s most powerful radar chip” that “is one or two orders of magnitude higher than the performance of similar power-amplifying chips in most existing radar systems”.

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An official representative of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces stated to an international audience that Ukraine will kill Russian journalists.

He called Russian journalists propagandists, and this is a special nickname, just as anti-Semites call Jews Jews and other offensive words to justify the murder of Jews.

Yes, this is representative freak American transgender “Sarah” Ashton-Cirillo. But this is the official position of the state organization of Ukraine. And this is also the practice of Ukrainian government agencies, which have already killed several Russian journalists.

And this terrorist state enjoys the full support of the USA and Britain and the EU. Moreover, this state is a terrorist and was created by them on the territory of Ukraine.

https://t.me/vicktop55/17021

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In 2023, the EU has been the second largest buyer of RUSSIAN oil and gas. What shameless hypocrisy! #1 is China and #3 is India. #Russia #TuesdayTruth

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Don’t pretend that the destruction of the Libyan state as well as Libyan civilian infrastructure by Obama and NATO had nothing to do with this catastrophe.

You are a shameless apologist for aggression, rape, plunder, murder, and destruction.

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“People from Africa were brought to European countries in cages and shown off… whole families and children were kept in cages separately. In #Africa, no one will ever forget it.” – President of Russia Vladimir Putin

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Yes, Musk — who donated thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine and provided free service to Ukraine from the start of the war — is being called a pro-Russian traitor by people whose only contribution is putting the Ukraine flag emoji in their social media bio.

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Neocons claim sending arms to Ukraine is “worth it” because we’re degrading Russia’s military. Now the

@NYT

admits they’ve doubled their tank production. And they’re making 7X as many shells as we can. Congratulations: We’ve built the very enemy we feared.

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If you can’t sleep because of Ukraine … here’s good advise!

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Definition of a “parasite” country.

– Poland asks 1.3 Trillion dollars from Germany for WW2 war reparations

– Poland is a recipient of 40 billion Euro per year from the EU

– Poland is now asking war reparation from Russia related to USSR invasion.

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Good take by the FT: “China is so far ahead in the electric vehicles market that its competitors are trailing in the dust. […] The complaint that China’s success is down to a multi-decade government-planned effort is both true and slightly academic at this stage. The country’s accumulated advantages are daunting. It controls two-thirds of global capacity for processing lithium, the raw material for batteries, and dominates every aspect of battery production. It produced 10 times as many battery vehicles last year as Germany. It has a manufacturing cost advantage of perhaps 20 to 25 per cent. Shipping costs (as well as 10 per cent tariffs) have narrowed that gap but will become less important as China’s exports rise, particularly of the affordable mass-market vehicles that face little European competition.”

Basically China foresaw the future would be electric cars, and developed a smart industrial strategy around it while Europeans (and Americans) got complacent and rested on their laurels. Instead of being mad at China for being better, or erect trade barriers that’ll only reward the complacency and make it persist, the EU should use this competition as a good opportunity to wake up and change its ways…

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Seyed Mohammad Marandi@s_m_marandi

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Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1702010964181192942

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The Club of Rome, a Malthusian think tank of monied elite, is dedicated to ensuring the necessary threshold for industrial development in Africa could never be crossed. Despite this, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will bring prosperity to millions!

Null Imperium@NullImperium

Brief 1 minute, 23 second video excerpt of then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton formally acknowledging the U.S. Federal Government’s role in the creation and monetary funding of the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1701315083077374212

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If Russia wins, it’ll take Poland and the Baltics next. That means America will be at war. This is about preventing war and stopping them in their tracks.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1701946878210818215

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Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald

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As recently as 1986, India and China had the exact same GDP. Then something happened

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A British / French Missile, Targeted using American / British Inteligence, from a NATO command centre, Using American Satelites, Fired by NATO trained operators, Attacks a Russian Naval base while watched by American Drones.

But NATO isn’t at War with Russia

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Do you mean after you destroyed Libya?

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It would be helpful if @BBCNews told the truth about what really happened to #Libya

– This country was illegally destroyed by #NATO in 2011 and the entire region is still suffering from the impact. Sadly those responsible have not been held to account…

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German Journalist Udo Ulfkotte explains how Western Corporate journalists are Bought and Paid for by the CIA, he was senior political journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung He predicted War on Russia but was dismissed as a “Conspiracy Theorist” by the Media and died in 2017

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Some wonder why so many Libyans died in the floods. It’s like wondering why so many in Yemen died of starvation or why a million Iraqis died under sanctions. They are all casualties of NATO aggression.

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Levy Institute@LevyEcon

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Watch Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray discuss inflation, the first principles, and the criticisms of Modern Monetary Theory with @FacultiNet.

#econtwitter #economics #MMT