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EU Rules Will Force Dutch To Ban Livestock Farmers
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2023-01-23T16:11:45.852Z
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REPORT: With Blood Everywhere, Police Arrive At Active Crime Scene To Find Man Chewing On 78-Year-Old’s Face
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2023-01-04T23:00:36.648Z
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<p>An elderly man is in the hospital after suffering a horrific attack on an Oregon train platform that left him missing an ear and part of his face, according to a report from Fox News 12.</p>
<p>Police responded to the Cleveland Avenue Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) station in Gresham (suburb of Portland) just after 2 a.m. Tuesday, where they…</p>
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<p>An elderly man is in the hospital after suffering a horrific attack on an Oregon train platform that left him missing an ear and part of his face, according to a report from Fox News 12.</p>
<p>Police responded to the Cleveland Avenue Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) station in Gresham (suburb of Portland) just after 2 a.m. Tuesday, where they allegedly found Koryn Kraemer assaulting an unnamed 78-year old victim. Police managed to pull Kraemer off the heavily bloodied victim to find the suspect “had chewed off the victim’s ear and part of his face,” Fox News 12<span> </span><a href="https://www.kptv.com/2023/01/03/elderly-man-injured-after-being-attacked-max-platform-gresham/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>, citing police.</p>
<p>“The injury was so severe that responders could see the victim’s skull,” police continued, according to the outlet.</p>
<p><span>Kraemer, 25, initially gave officers the fake name “El Baker,” but upon fingerprint analysis police were able to determine his true identity and deduced he had recently moved to the Portland area from Georgia, Fox News 12 reported.</span></p>
<p><span>Local commuters expressed concern about the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/21/frightening-video-shows-suspect-pushing-woman-onto-subway-tracks-train-pulls-into-station-chicago/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">safety</a> of the MAX station, telling the outlet the train platform is “unsettling” after hours. Commuters added it was not uncommon to see drug users or those struggling with mental illness along the platform and on the trains.</span></p>
<p><span>“It’s a scary place in the morning some days,” Sarah Seaborne told Fox News 12. “I’ve come up with people sleeping half-naked and you don’t know if they’ve been attacked or if they are sleeping on the sidewalk that way.”</span></p>
<p><span>The victim’s condition is currently unknown. Police arrested Kraemer and charged him with second-degree assault, according to the outlet. Authorities are investigating whether <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/03/oregon-legalizes-magic-mushrooms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">drugs</a> played a role in the reported attack.</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/04/suspect-allegedly-chews-face-ear-portland-max-station/">REPORT: With Blood Everywhere, Police Arrive At Active Crime Scene To Find Man Chewing On 78-Year-Old’s Face | The Daily Caller</a></span></p>
Selling Us Out: White House Announces INSANE Oil Buy-Back To Replenish Reserve
tag:12160.info,2022-12-20:2649739:Topic:2238968
2022-12-20T16:04:15.808Z
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<p><span>On Friday, the U.S. Energy Department stated that it has begun to purchase oil to replenish the reserves for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.</span></p>
<p><span>Newsmax reports that this is the first purchase for the SPR since the release of 180 million barrels earlier this year.</span></p>
<p>A senior White House official said they will purchase up to 3 million barrels for February.</p>
<p>President Biden announced the release of 180 million barrels in March, right after the Russian…</p>
<p><span>On Friday, the U.S. Energy Department stated that it has begun to purchase oil to replenish the reserves for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.</span></p>
<p><span>Newsmax reports that this is the first purchase for the SPR since the release of 180 million barrels earlier this year.</span></p>
<p>A senior White House official said they will purchase up to 3 million barrels for February.</p>
<p>President Biden announced the release of 180 million barrels in March, right after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. This was meant to help combat the rising gas prices that were expected, which manifested in the months following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</p>
<p><span>The sale of so many barrels from the SPR dropped the total amount in the Reserve to 380 million barrels. This is the lowest level since 1984. Many became concerned by how much the reserve had dropped, and they were less pleased that it was so perilous.</span></p>
<p><span>Newsmax reported that an official at the White House said the following:</span></p>
<p>“We’ll be releasing a solicitation to purchase 3 million barrels of oil for delivery in February of next year, 2023,”</p>
<p>According to the White House, contracts will be awarded to energy companies until January 13.</p>
<p>The same official said the following:</p>
<p>“This approach will lock in a price upfront when companies submit their bids,”</p>
<p>The White House stated that it would buy back barrels when prices were at or below $67-$72 per barrel. This is slightly below the $75 per barrel oil recently traded on the futures market.</p>
<p>The official stated the following:</p>
<p>“It’d be very useful to put this notice out now and to see what the market would provide in terms of interest and at what price level for that,”</p>
<p>The Energy Department stated that it sees this as an opportunity for the American people to buy back oil at a great price for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. They see it as:</p>
<p>“an opportunity to secure a good deal for American taxpayers by repurchasing oil at a lower price than the $96 per barrel average price it was sold for, as well as to strengthen energy security.”</p>
<p>Despite the buyback announcement, the release of so many barrels of oil from the SPR means that it will remain dangerously low compared to where it typically stands. This could still create problems for the oil markets in the future.</p>
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Germany Arrests Dozens Suspected Of Planning To Overthrow Government
tag:12160.info,2022-12-07:2649739:Topic:2237085
2022-12-07T21:01:44.876Z
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Biden DOJ Appoints Special Council To Investigate Republicans And Trump
tag:12160.info,2022-11-19:2649739:Topic:2235463
2022-11-19T15:18:16.600Z
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<p>Okay, first things first. CTH<span> </span><strong>will not play the pretending game</strong><span> </span>or structure the discussion of the special counsel appointment through the prism of MSM references. Instead, we will stick to the facts as they are presented, explain the events as they are factually reflected within the actual documents, and avoid the pretending constructs.</p>
<h3><strong>DATA Links:</strong> (1)<span> …</span></h3>
<p>Okay, first things first. CTH<span> </span><strong>will not play the pretending game</strong><span> </span>or structure the discussion of the special counsel appointment through the prism of MSM references. Instead, we will stick to the facts as they are presented, explain the events as they are factually reflected within the actual documents, and avoid the pretending constructs.</p>
<h3><strong>DATA Links:</strong> (1)<span> </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/appointment-special-counsel-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland DOJ Statement on Appointment of Special Counsel</a><span> </span>~ (2)<span> </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1552896/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pdf of Legal Appointment</a><span> </span>~ (3)<span> </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-special-counsel-jack-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of Jack Smith upon Appointment</a><span> </span>~ (4)<span> </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-appointment-special-counsel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Transcript of AG Merrick Garland Public Announcement.</a></h3>
<p>The overarching Lawfare framework has been transparently created by President Obama’s former White House Legal Counsel and current U.S. Asst Attorney General Lisa Monaco. To wit, earlier this afternoon Joe Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, announced the appointment of DOJ Attorney Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate<span> </span><strong>two specific areas</strong>:</p>
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<p>♦ First, to investigate current republican members of congress (House and Senate), former President and current candidate Donald J Trump, former Trump administration officials, former White House staff, and other individuals, groups and organizations for their role in<span> </span><strong>supporting an insurrection</strong><span> </span>on January 6, 2021, against the incoming administration of President-Elect Joe Biden. In essence, the J6 investigation – with an emphasis on congress – transfers to Special Counsel Jack Smith:</p>
<p><em>The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the ongoing investigation into whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021, as well as any matters that arose or might arise directly from this investigation or that are within the scope of [Special Counsel Regulations 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a)]. (<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1552896/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pdf</a>)</em></p>
<p>This is an extension of the January 6th Committee special investigation that transfers the committee’s investigative findings, ie phone records, text messages, transcripts, emails, prior testimony and all evidentiary records, into the newly appointed Special Counsel.</p>
<p>However, all prior and current DOJ prosecutions against citizen individuals will remain within the control and direction of Main Justice. This structure frees up Jack Smith to target the new republican controlled congressional members, their staff, families and/or communication network. Main Justice keeps focus on the citizen insurrectionists, Jack Smith now appointed to go after the public officials.</p>
<p>J6 Committee staff, committee investigators, FBI agents and DOJ lawyers will now transfer from the committee to the special counsel office. Watch. (More on why later)</p>
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<p>♦ Second – and this is ancillary to the first priority – DAG Lisa Monaco has written, and AG Garland has appointed, Jack Smith to target Donald Trump with the same special counsel process previously used by Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann.</p>
<p><em>The Special Counsel is further authorized to conduct the ongoing investigation referenced and described in the United States’ Response to Motion for Judicial Oversight and Additional Relief, Donald J Trump v. United States, No. 9:22-CV-81294-AMC (S.D. Fla. Aug. 30, 2022) (ECF No. 48 at 5- 13), as well as any matters that arose or may arise directly from this investigation or that are within the scope of [Special Counsel Regulation 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a)].</em></p>
<p>The Trump Mar-a-Lago document investigation (the proverbial nothingburger – just like Trump/Russia) transfers to the Special Counsel office, along with an intended angle to look for an obstruction of justice charge (just like Mueller). This is Robert Mueller 2.0 using Special Counsel Jack Smith.</p>
<p>The Trump-centric part of the special counsel appointment, the part that everyone is focusing on, is ancillary to the real purpose of the appointment. However, that said, all investigative resources from Main Justice and the FBI will transfer to Jack Smith as they did when Crossfire Hurricane transferred to Robert Mueller. The investigative people will transfer along with the investigative evidence.</p>
<p>Duplicating history, all of the DC elements of the UniParty, both Democrats and Republicans, will sing the praises of Jack Smith as an honorable man, beyond reproach, blah, blah, blah. If you want to stop playing the pretending game, just pay attention to the people praising him, and THOSE voices are the bad guys.</p>
<p>As you can see from the simple (non-pretending) explanation of what is being done, the Lawfare process become clear. Everything congress now begins to question falls under the protective blanket of an “<em>ongoing investigation</em>,” exactly as we predicted. Plus, you get the additional Lawfare elements of congressional leadership under investigation which provides an entirely new ‘conflict of interest dynamic’ to the political equation.</p>
<p><img class="alignright wp-image-187179" src="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pelosi-impeachment-crew.jpg" alt="" width="428" height="241"/>Then you have the congressional representatives under investigation and search warrants on their phones, text messages, emails, etc…. AND the added benefit of using DOJ-NSD defined terms of “national security threat” (that’s why they emphasized insurrection) to gain FISA warrants on an entire incoming congressional delegation. <span> </span><strong>How slick is that? </strong></p>
<p>They didn’t just think this up overnight.</p>
<p>This is why the January 6 committee never ended. They are using J6 as a weapon against their losing the House to republicans. The Democrats are now structurally targeting Republicans with the appointment of Jack Smith. It’s actually a brilliant move. The executive is now investigating the legislative branch; the legal structure of this eliminates the separation of powers issue.</p>
<p>The DOJ is not investigating republicans, they are investigating defined criminals; insurrectionists that are national security threats, that happen to be republicans. See how that works?</p>
<p>This also explains why Nancy Pelosi did not resign from congress, but only stepped down from her leadership role. The timing of mid-November (today) gives Smith time to get all his midterm counter-offensive ducks in a row before his republican targets take office in January.</p>
<p>All of the congressional J6 and DOJ main justice teams will now assemble in new DC offices to set up the 2023 targeting operation. The announcement was made today, but the planning of the construct has been in place for months, contingent upon the number of actual House seats that could flip. The Lawfare design is transparent when you stop looking at the obfuscation reporting from mainstream media.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-239970" src="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/jack-smith-Trump-Special-Counsel-4.jpg" alt="" width="832" height="468"/></p>
<p>Primary goal, create enough of a legal mess as to obstruct any republican legislative effort against the Biden White House. Additionally, if Smith’s DC team can pick-off a few republican House members under charges of “<em>supporting an insurrection</em>“, the political power will revert back to the Democrats in office.</p>
<p>Jack Smith’s curriculum vitae as a lawyer experienced in international government law, think about tribunals for overthrowing government, then becomes<span> </span><a href="https://balkaninsight.com/2018/05/07/kosovo-special-war-court-appoints-jack-smith-as-specialist-prosecutor-05-07-2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a clarifying skillset</a>.</p>
<p>Think of it like the legal ideology of the United Nations (democracy as defined by progressives) prosecuting members of the United States government for acts of rebellion under the framework of a constitutional republican form of government they abhor. That’s Jack Smith.</p>
<p>In addition, the same ideological Lawfare elements will be targeting the threat represented by U.S. nationalist politician Donald J Trump. It’s like The Great Reset crew inserting an operative inside a corrupt and friendly United States Dept of Justice, with the intent to remove the threat Donald J Trump represents to their interests.</p>
<p>On the multinational corporate side, while all this is special counsel stuff is taking place, the Wall Street billionaires and multinationals will be providing the illusion of choice for the American electorate.</p>
<p>Things making sense now?</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-239972" src="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Garland-Appointment-Special-Counsel-1-Jack-Smith.jpg" alt="" width="701" height="881"/><img class="aligncenter wp-image-239973" src="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Garland-Appointment-Special-Counsel-2-Jack-Smith.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="620"/></p>
<h2>(<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1552896/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Source pdf</a>)</h2>
<p>It’s all right there, if we just stop pretending.</p>
<p>Accept things as they are, not as they are presented to be.</p>
<p><a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/18/biden-doj-assigns-special-counsel-to-investigate-republicans-in-congress-and-president-trump-for-insurrection-additionally-investigate-trump-for-doj-defined-classified-documents-and/">Biden DOJ Assigns Special Counsel to Investigate Republicans in Congress and President Trump for Insurrection, Additionally Investigate Trump for DOJ Defined Classified Documents and Obstruction - The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)</a></p>
Washington Attempts To Bully India Into Cutting Ties With Russia
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2022-11-14T21:11:45.298Z
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<p>For months the US has repeatedly tried to coerce India into cutting ties with Russia, thereby abandoning its national interests. New Delhi, however, continues to spurn American attempts to subject its economy to Washington’s dictates.</p>
<p>The latest fuss concerns the <a href="https://www.energyintel.com/00000184-2fea-d953-a9cd-affbf4ff0000">G7 price cap</a> on Russian oil and EU and UK bans on shipping and related services for Russian crude. India continues to have no interest in joining…</p>
<p>For months the US has repeatedly tried to coerce India into cutting ties with Russia, thereby abandoning its national interests. New Delhi, however, continues to spurn American attempts to subject its economy to Washington’s dictates.</p>
<p>The latest fuss concerns the <a href="https://www.energyintel.com/00000184-2fea-d953-a9cd-affbf4ff0000">G7 price cap</a> on Russian oil and EU and UK bans on shipping and related services for Russian crude. India continues to have no interest in joining the US-led initiative as it gets a steep discount on oil from Russia and wants to maintain the relationship with a long-time strategic partner. Indian Foreign Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was just in Moscow on Nov. 8 to discuss continued sales of oil. From the <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3198945/india-praises-strong-and-steady-relationship-russia-foreign-ministers-meet-moscow"><em>South China Morning Post</em><span> </span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>India’s foreign minister hailed New Delhi’s “strong and steady” relationship with Moscow on Tuesday, during his first visit there since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.</p>
<p>Subrahmanyam Jaishankar also declared India’s intention to continue to buy Russian oil, again disregarding the US appeal to allies and partners to isolate Russia from the global markets.</p>
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<p>The G-7 plans are <a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/A-Price-Cap-On-Russian-Oil-Could-Cause-A-Supply-Catastrophe.html">likely</a> to send oil prices higher (despite US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-india-can-buy-much-russian-oil-it-wants-outside-price-cap-yellen-says-2022-11-11/">claiming the opposite</a>) and reduce tanker availability, both of which will threaten India’s energy security and hurt its economy as India is the third-largest consumer and importer of oil worldwide.</p>
<p>Russia has said it will not sell to any countries that participate in the price cap scheme, and Jaishankar has repeatedly stated that India <a href="https://www.energyintel.com/00000184-3464-d911-a7ad-bd7cfd3c0000">cannot afford</a> to buy oil at high prices – at least not without undermining its economic growth, which is forecast to be 6.1 percent in 2023, the fastest-growing major economy in the world. According to <a href="https://www.energyintel.com/00000184-5c4e-dc1b-a9a4-dc6e3a160000"><em>Energy Intelligence</em><span> </span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Russia emerged as India’s <a href="https://www.energyintel.com/00000184-36d1-d266-ad96-3eddeb680000">top crude supplier</a> in October, shipping over 900,000 barrels per day or roughly a fifth of India’s demand. The two countries’ biggest concern is ensuring that Russian oil continues to flow after the Dec. 5 EU and UK bans and related G7 price cap.</p>
<p>But despite Jaishankar’s bullish stance in Moscow, India’s state refiners have not placed orders for crude lifting beyond Dec. 5 due to uncertainties about whether shipping and insurance will be available, Energy Intelligence understands. And a recent attempt by an Indian buyer to use the price cap in negotiations with a Russian seller prompted the latter to abandon the deal, market sources said.</p>
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<p>The ongoing lack of clarity on the G-7 could be by design. Russian oil exports have <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russian-oil-output-exports-dip-october-kommersant-reports-2022-10-31/">already begun to dip</a>, and Bruce Paulsen, a sanctions expert and partner at law firm Seward & Kissel, told American Shipper, “ If guidance on [price cap] compliance doesn’t come soon, some industry players may sit on the sidelines until they can determine that shipments under the price cap are safe.”</p>
<p>The US, in a neat sleight of hand, quit pressuring India to adhere to the price cap, and Yellen now says Washington is “happy” for New Delhi to continue buying as much Russian oil as it wants, including at prices above a G7-imposed price cap. But there are just a few caveats: India wouldn’t be able to use western insurance, finance, or maritime services to transport the oil.</p>
<p>“Russia is going to find it very difficult to continue shipping as much oil as they have done when the EU stops buying Russian oil,” Yellen told Reuters on Friday. “They’re going to be heavily in search of buyers, and many buyers are reliant on Western services.”</p>
<p>More from <em><a href="https://www.energyintel.com/00000184-5c4e-dc1b-a9a4-dc6e3a160000">Energy Intelligence</a></em> on why this amounts to a de facto price cap:</p>
<blockquote><p>Indian refiners have the capacity to soak up another 600,000 b/d of Russian crude, provided it outcompetes the staple Mideast grades that are the lifeline of the country’s 5 million b/d refining base. But the availability of shipping and insurance — and payment channels — is key. From Dec. 5, tankers and shipping insurance linked to EU and G7 countries — which dominate oil shipping globally — will be barred from trading Russian crude unless those volumes are sold under the price cap, as yet undetermined.</p>
<p>About 90% of India’s liquids trade is shipped by foreign tankers, presenting challenges, independent energy analyst Narendra Taneja said. Insurance does not appear as problematic, and analysts say that Russian and Chinese firms can handle it.</p>
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<p>This could leave Russia reliant on a shadow fleet of older tankers with opaque ownership that do not transact in dollars. According to <a href="https://www.freightwaves.com/news/sanctions-are-about-to-slam-russias-still-booming-oil-export-trade"><em>Freight Waves</em><span> </span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Brokerage Braemar reported that 33 tankers previously handling Iranian or Venezuelan exports have carried Russian exports since April, mostly to China and secondarily to India.</p>
<p>Braemar defined the dark fleet as tankers that have carried Iranian or Venezuelan crude at least once in the past year. It put the current total at 240 tankers, mostly smaller and midsized, with 74% 19 years or older. Eighty of those vessels are very large crude carriers (VLCCs, tankers that carry 2 million barrels) that won’t fit in Russian ports but could be used for ship-to-ship transfers for Russian cargoes.</p>
<p>If the entire dark fleet switched to Russian service and were as efficient as the “mainstream fleet,” it would be more than enough to keep Russian exports flowing, but “vessels engaged in illicit trading are highly inefficient,” Braemar emphasized.</p>
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<p>At the same time Washington is pressuring New Delhi to comply with the price cap, it is importing from India more vacuum gasoil, which is mostly used at refineries to produce other products such as gasoline and diesel. From <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-india-can-buy-much-russian-oil-it-wants-outside-price-cap-yellen-says-2022-11-11/"><em>Reuters</em><span> </span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Russia used to be a key VGO supplier to U.S. refiners before the Ukraine war broke out.</p>
<p>“Given that the U.S. is not buying Russian oil, they are looking for any and all alternatives,” said Roslan Khasawneh, senior fuel oil analyst at Vortexa…</p>
<p>U.S. and EU sanctions do not apply to refined products produced from Russian crude exported from a third country as they are not of Russian origin. In India, refiners boosted imports of discounted Russian oil to 793,000 barrels per day between April and October, up from just 38,000 bpd in the same period a year ago, trade data showed.</p>
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<p>India joins a list of countries – including Saudi Arabia, Serbia, and Turkey – that are causing heads to explode in Washington for refusing to be bullied into submission.</p>
<p>This all must be coming as a shock in Washington as its Indo-Pacific strategy in recent years has always included a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/U.S.-Indo-Pacific-Strategy.pdf">“like-minded”</a> India helping to counter China and do the US’ bidding in southeast Asia. The possibility that India might pursue its own national interests didn’t seem to factor into the strategy.</p>
<p>The tension over the Russian price cap is just the latest in a series of disagreements between New Delhi and Washington. US sanctions on Iran’s oil exports deprive India of cheap Iranian oil, and force it to buy more expensive US energy exports. India is now <a href="https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/oil-new-chapter-us-india-relations">the largest oil export destination</a> for the US.</p>
<p>Similar to the way Washington is <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/10/washington-brussels-set-sights-on-turkstream-pipeline-amid-crackdown-on-ankara-moscow-cooperation.html">arming Greece and Cyprus</a> in an effort to bully Turkey into breaking off its friendly ties with Russia, the US is doing the same in Pakistan to pressure India. The US has begun to accommodate Pakistan again after the ouster of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, who blames his loss of power in a no-confidence vote on the US.</p>
<p>In September, the U.S. State Department enraged India when it approved a $450 million deal to upgrade Pakistan’s F-16 fleet. Shortly after, the US ambassador to Pakistan created more tension during a visit to the Pakistani-held part of Kashmir, which he called by its Pakistani name instead of the United Nations-approved name “Pakistan-administered Kashmir.”</p>
<p>On Nov. 8 US State Department spokesman Ned Price <a href="https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-november-8-2022/">lectured India</a> on what are in its best interests:</p>
<blockquote><p>We’ve also been clear that now is not the time for business as usual with Russia, and it’s incumbent on countries around the world to do what they can to lessen those economic ties with Russia. That’s something that’s in the collective interest, but it’s also in the bilateral interest of countries around the world to end and certainly over the course of time to wean their dependence on Russian energy. There have been a number of countries that have learned the hard way of the fact that Russia is not a reliable source of energy. Russia is not a reliable supplier of security assistance. Russia is far from reliable in any realm. So it is not only in the interest of Ukraine, it is not only in the interest of the region, of the collective interests that India decrease its dependence on Russia over time, but it’s also in India’s own bilateral interest, given what we’ve seen from Russia.</p>
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<p>We’ll have to wait and see if the Indian people get the message because as of now the opposite is true. India’s Observer Research Foundation<span> </span><a href="https://www.orfonline.org/research/the-orf-foreign-policy-survey-2022/">released poll results</a> on Nov. 2 that showed that 43 percent of Indians regarded Russia as their country’s most reliable partner, which was far ahead of the US at 27 percent.</p>
<p>Washington would be hard pressed to explain how New Delhi scaling back its economic ties with Russia would be a good thing for India.</p>
<p>Fueled by a surge in import of oil and fertilizers, India’s bilateral trade with Russia has soared to an all-time high of $18.2 billion over the April-August period of this financial year, <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-russia-trade-soars-to-record-high-as-imports-of-oil-and-fertiliser-drive-surge-8221831/">according to the latest data</a> available with the Department of Commerce. That makes Russia India’s seventh biggest trading partner — up from its 25th position last year. The US, China, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Indonesia remain ahead of Russia.</p>
<p>India, Iran, and Russia have also spent the past twenty years developing the International North-South Transport Corridor to increase trade between the countries, and it took on increased importance with the western sanctions on Moscow. From <a href="https://theloadstar.com/rzd-logistics-boosts-russian-trade-with-rail-link-via-iran-to-india/"><em>The LoadStar</em><span> </span>:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>RZD Logistics, a subsidiary of Russian railway monopoly RZD, has begun regular container train services from Moscow to Iran to serve growing trade with India by transloading.</p>
<p>This is aimed at maximizing use of the alternative International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC), a Central Asia cross-border multimodal freight network helping the two strategic partners work around supply chain challenges created by western sanctions on Russia.</p>
<p>The inland-ocean leg involves an estimated transit time of 35 days, compared with about 40 with previous traditional shipping, according to industry sources.</p>
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<h5><span>©Peter Hermes Furian</span></h5>
<p>In much the same way that US heavy-handedness is backfiring elsewhere, the pressure applied on India seems to only be encouraging New Delhi to find a way around the dollar. The<span> </span><em>Loadstar</em><span> </span>adds that the Reserve Bank of India is also implementing new regulatory guidelines to help exporters settle shipments in rupees, instead of US dollars that had run into sanctions-related bottlenecks:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Federation of Indian Export Organizations has also been pressing government leaders to extend the alternative currency method beyond Russian markets.</p>
<p>“While the Russia-Ukraine war is a setback to our exports in the short run, we are looking to increase our exports to Russia once the rupee payment mechanism gets operationalised,” FIEO noted.</p>
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<p>While India has been benefitting from the discounted Russian crude, it also wants to maintain good ties with Moscow to avoid pushing Russia closer to China and potentially Pakistan, India’s biggest rivals in Asia.</p>
<p>Pakistan is also now <a href="https://www.rt.com/business/566334-pakistan-russia-trade-national-currencies/">asking</a> the Russian Trade Ministry to introduce a currency swap arrangement to strengthen economic ties between the two countries.</p>
<p><a href="https://alethonews.com/2022/11/14/washington-attempts-to-bully-india-into-cutting-ties-with-russia/">Washington Attempts To Bully India Into Cutting Ties With Russia « Aletho News</a></p>
Zelensky And Bush To Give Joint Pro-War Presentation
tag:12160.info,2022-11-14:2649739:Topic:2235129
2022-11-14T15:17:35.286Z
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<p><span>War criminal George W Bush and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be appearing at an event next week at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, in partnership with US government-funded narrative management operations Freedom House and National Endowment for Democracy. </span><strong>The goal of the presentation will reportedly be to address the completely fictional and imaginary concern that congressional Republicans won’t continue supporting US proxy war efforts in…</strong></p>
<p><span>War criminal George W Bush and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be appearing at an event next week at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, in partnership with US government-funded narrative management operations Freedom House and National Endowment for Democracy. </span><strong>The goal of the presentation will reportedly be to address the completely fictional and imaginary concern that congressional Republicans won’t continue supporting US proxy war efforts in Ukraine.</strong></p>
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<p><em>Former US President George W. Bush will hold a public conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week with the aim of underscoring the importance of the US continuing to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia.</em></p>
<p><em>The event, which will take place in Dallas and be open to the public, comes amid questions about the willingness of the former president’s Republican Party to maintain support for Ukraine.</em></p>
<p><em>“Ukraine is the frontline in the struggle for freedom and democracy. It’s literally under attack as we speak, and it is vitally important that the United States provide the assistance, military and otherwise to help Ukraine defend itself,” David Kramer, the managing director for global policy at the George W. Bush Institute, told CNN. “President Bush believes in standing with Ukraine.”</em></p>
<p><em>The Struggle for Freedom event will take place on Wednesday, in partnership with the Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, at the George W. Bush Presidential Center.</em></p>
<p>To be clear, there is absolutely no reality-based reason to believe Republicans will meaningfully shy away from full-scale support for arming and assisting the Ukrainian military. The proxy war has only an impotent <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/26/politics/kevin-mccarthy-house-gop-ukraine-funding-blank-check">minority of opposition</a> in the party and every bill to fund it has passed with <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-aid-bill-set-to-pass-senate-with-bipartisan-support-11652972377">overwhelming bipartisan support</a>. Some “MAGA” Republicans <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1588287774397898752">have claimed</a> that funding for the war would stop if the GOP won the midterm elections, but they were lying; there was <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/democrats-republicans-say-they-will-back-ukraine-whoever-controls-congress/6827454.html">never the slightest chance</a> of that happening.</p>
<p>Bush, you may remember, drew headlines and laughter earlier this year with <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/on-bushs-freudian-confession?s=w">his Freudian confession</a> in which he accused Vladimir Putin of launching “a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean, of Ukraine.” The fact that the president who launched a full-scale ground invasion which destabilized the entire region and led to the deaths of <a href="https://bylinetimes.com/2021/09/15/up-to-six-million-people-the-unrecorded-fatalities-of-the-war-on-terror/">over a million people</a> is now narrative managing for the US empire’s current <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/three-illuminating-quotes-about-the">aggressively propagandized intervention</a> says everything about the nature of this war.</p>
<p>Also appearing with Bush will be the leader who’s slated to become the face of the US empire’s <em>next</em> proxy war, Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan. CNN writes:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen will also take part in the event next week. She will deliver a recorded message, in which she is expected to underscore that the struggle for freedom is a global challenge.</em></p>
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<p>And sure, why not. If you’re going to manufacture consent for proxy warfare <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-empire-is-accelerating-toward">against multiple powers</a> as your empire flails around frantically scrambling to prevent the emergence of a multipolar world, you may as well save time and promote them all on the same ticket.</p>
<p>Many people who support the US proxy war in Ukraine now recognize that the Iraq war was a horrific disaster, but Ukraine isn’t the good war, it’s just the current war. Western propaganda means people always oppose the last war but not the war that’s currently being pushed by the propaganda of today. The US <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/its-not-okay-for-grown-adults-to-2cf">provoking</a> and <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/13/caitlin-johnstone-us-rejects-moscows-offer-to-talk/">sustaining</a> its Ukraine proxy war is no more ethical than its invading of Iraq; it just looks that way due to propaganda.</p>
<p>It is only by the copious amounts of propaganda our civilization is being hammered with that this is not immediately obvious to everyone. In the future (assuming we don’t annihilate ourselves first), the propaganda will have cleared from the air enough for people to look back with clarity on 2022 and realize that they were lied to, yet again.</p>
<p>It’s easy to oppose the last war. It’s hard to oppose current wars as the propaganda machine is shoving them down our throats. Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-and-bush-give-joint-pro-war-presentation">Zelensky And Bush To Give Joint Pro-War Presentation | ZeroHedge</a></p>
US Will Give Unlimited Support To Ukraine
tag:12160.info,2022-11-01:2649739:Topic:2232819
2022-11-01T16:32:04.894Z
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<p>Republican and Democrat support - just like we will forever support Israel. </p>
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<p>Republican and Democrat support - just like we will forever support Israel. </p>
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FBI Asks Court for 66 Years To Release Evidence From Seth Rich’s Laptop
tag:12160.info,2022-10-29:2649739:Topic:2232076
2022-10-29T18:24:35.300Z
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<p><strong>The FBI has asked a US court to reverse its order that it produce evidence from Seth Rich’s laptop — and if the court does not reverse its order, the FBI is asking for 66 years to produce the information.</strong></p>
<p>The FBI, after claiming it never possessed Rich’s laptop or any information from it, was finally forced to acknowledge in 2020 that it possesses thousands of files from Seth Rich’s laptop.</p>
<p><span>Seth Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer who was…</span></p>
<p><strong>The FBI has asked a US court to reverse its order that it produce evidence from Seth Rich’s laptop — and if the court does not reverse its order, the FBI is asking for 66 years to produce the information.</strong></p>
<p>The FBI, after claiming it never possessed Rich’s laptop or any information from it, was finally forced to acknowledge in 2020 that it possesses thousands of files from Seth Rich’s laptop.</p>
<p><span>Seth Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered in cold blood on a street in Washington in mid-2016. Despite carrying a wallet with cash, cell phone, and an expensive watch, the killers did not take any of his valuables. Nobody has ever been arrested in connection with the murder.</span></p>
<p><span>U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant, an Obama appointee, ruled in September that the bureau must hand over information from the computer to Brian Huddleston, a Texas man who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the info.</span></p>
<p>The FBI’s claim that the privacy interest Rich’s family members hold outweighed the public interest was rejected by the judge, who noted the bureau cited no relevant case law supporting the argument.</p>
<p>But the ruling was erroneous, U.S. lawyers said in<span> </span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23218831-doj-reconsideration-motion" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a new filing</a>.</p>
<p>The bureau shouldn’t have to produce the information because of FOIA exemptions for information that are compiled for law enforcement purposes and<span> </span><em>“could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source,”</em><span> </span>the lawyers said in a motion for reconsideration. Another exemption, which enables agencies to withhold information that would disclose law enforcement techniques also applies, they said.</p>
<p><em>“Given the Court’s findings that except for the information related to Seth Rich’s laptop withheld pursuant to Exemptions 6 and 7(C) based on privacy interests, the FBI properly withheld or redacted all other information responsive to Huddleston’s requests, the production order seems inconsistent with the rest of the order,” t</em>he motion stated.</p>
<p>The bureau<span> </span><em>“is currently working on getting the files from Seth Rich’s personal laptop into a format to be reviewed,”</em><span> </span>the government said in 2020.</p>
<img width="723" height="400" src="https://cdn.newspunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/seth-rich.jpeg.webp" alt="FBI continues to cover up and block all info related to the murder of Clinton whistleblower Seth Rich" class="wp-image-229327"/><br />
<p>Epoch Times<span> </span><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-asks-court-for-66-years-to-release-information-from-seth-richs-computer_4826785.html">reports</a>: Information and material extracted from the computer were provided by a source to an FBI agent during a meeting on March 15, 2018, FBI records officer Michael Seidel said in<span> </span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23218685-seidel-declaration" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a declaration</a>. He said the files included photographs and documents, among other material.</p>
<p>In the new filing, government lawyers said the FBI never extracted the data, which it revealed as originating with a law enforcement agency. They said the information is on a compact disc containing images of the laptop.</p>
<p><em>“The FBI did not open an investigation into the murder of Seth Rich, nor did it provide investigative or technical assistance to any investigation into the murder of Seth Rich. As a result, the FBI has never extracted the data from the compact disc and never processed the information contained on the disc,”<span> </span></em>they said.</p>
<p>To produce the information, the FBI would have to convert information on the disc into pages and then review the pages to redact information per FOIA, according to the government.</p>
<p>If Mazzant upholds his order, the FBI wants a lengthy period of time to perform the work—66 years, or 500 pages a month.</p>
<p><em>“If the court overrules the FBI’s motion, the FBI wants to produce records at a rate of 500 pages per month. At that rate, it will take almost 67 years just to produce the documents, never mind the images and other files,”</em><span> </span>Ty Clevenger, a lawyer representing Huddleston, told The Epoch Times in an email.</p>
<p><em>“After dealing with the FBI for five years, I now assume that the FBI is lying to me unless and until it proves otherwise. The FBI is desperately trying to hide records about Seth Rich, and that begs the question of why.”</em></p>
<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suggested Rich leaked Democratic National Committee (DNC) files to WikiLeaks, but special counsel Robert Mueller said the real source was Russian hackers. Still, Mueller’s finding conflicts with statements from CrowdStrike, the firm hired to investigate how the DNC files were released.</p>
<p><a href="https://newspunch.com/fbi-asks-court-for-66-years-to-release-evidence-from-seth-richs-laptop/">FBI Asks Court for 66 Years To Release Evidence From Seth Rich's Laptop - News Punch</a></p>
If You Wondered Why Eastern Ukraine Voted To Join Russia
tag:12160.info,2022-10-04:2649739:Topic:2227924
2022-10-04T17:31:55.791Z
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1577289845155983361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1577289845155983361%7Ctwgr%5Ee8c6b59b6ca257cb39f008ba969715a7e0e0b3af%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefaultf%3Dallnewspipelinet_u%3Dhttps3A2F2Fallnewspipeline.com2FGlobalists_Have_Perfect_Weapon_To_Wreak_Havoc_Undetected.phpt_d%3DGlobalists20Have20The20Perfect20Weapon20To20Wreak20Havoc20Undetectedt_t%3DGlobalists20Have20The20Perfect20Weapon20To20Wreak20Havoc20Undetecteds_o%3Ddefaultversion%3D8ec9a3b6b7bcd3fa25977c5ac7c3c810">Kim Dotcom on Twitter: "In case you wondered why so many people in eastern Ukraine voted to join Russia just watch what the former Ukrainian President said to them before US trained soldiers killed thousands in the Donbass. It’s pretty obvious why they decided to leave, isn’t it? https://t.co/OG6bD1AImU" / Twitter</a></p>