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US urged to end illegal military presence in Syria and stop making, exacerbating humanitarian crisis: FM
Link: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1287067.shtml
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday urged the US to immediately stop its illegal military presence and looting in Syria and lift illegal unilateral sanctions, stop making and exacerbating man-made humanitarian crisis in the country. | Foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning made the remarks at a routine press briefing when asked to comment on US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley's visit to American bases in northeastern Syria where he tied the deployment of US troops to the security of the US and its allies. Syria's foreign ministry Sunday condemned the visit as "a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and integrity" of Syrian territory and called on the US government to "immediately cease its systematic and continued violation of international law and support for separatist armed groups." The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted down a bill to withdraw US troops from Syria.
DCNF Reporter Describes How ‘Millions’ Of Migrants ‘Pour Over’ The Border Under Biden
A Daily Caller News Foundation reporter said Friday “millions” of people have poured over the U.S. border since President Joe Biden took office. 💬 “Under the Biden administration, we’ve seen millions of illegal immigrants pour over the border,” DCNF investigative reporter Jennie Taer told Sky News Australia host James Morrow. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered over 2.3 million migrants in fiscal year 2022, while another 600,000 migrants evaded CBP that fiscal year, Fox News reported. CBP data noted that 1.66 million encounters took place in Fiscal Year 2021. CBP also reported encountering 230,000 people in October, the first month of fiscal year 2023, another 233,470 people in November, the second month of fiscal year 2023 and over 250,000 in December. 💬 “It is a really, really, bad situation down there,” Taer said. “You see people from all over the world now, the globe is aware, they are aware the border is open to them.”
The “cheap money ecosystem” that fed the tech start-up culture has come to an end
Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney said in an interview Friday with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow 💬 “The sudden implosion of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is sending shock waves through the financial system and the technology sector,” Carney wrote in Friday’s Breitbart Business Digest. “SVB plays a central role in the start-up economy of San Francisco. According to Bloomberg, it does business with about half of venture capital backed start-up firms in the U.S.” “One of the problems [for SVB] was when money was so freely available to all these start-ups, they didn’t borrow a lot,” Carney told Kudlow. “So, they had a ton of deposits coming in and not a lot of opportunity to make loans out to people. I mean, yeah, you can lend money so people can buy a yacht or a fancy mortgage on some tech start-up billionaire’s fancy mansion, but they really had way too much money. So, they invested it in bonds. Bank of America I think has 25 percent of its assets in bonds, but this bank had over 50 percent of its assets in bonds.”
Madness of vaccine mandates in colleges: Ivy League universities that charge up to $75k a year are STILL refusing to teach students in-person who are not up to date with their Covid vaccines - with Harvard demanding up to FIVE
Madness of vaccine mandates in colleges: Ivy League universities that charge up to $75k a year are STILL refusing to teach students in-person who are not up to date with their Covid vaccines - with Harvard demanding up to FIVE | Students must receive a bivalent booster dose on top of their other Covid shots --If they don't without exemption, they will not be able to access in-person classes --Most Americans with bivalent booster are not protected against latest variant | Ivy League schools are still refusing to teach students in-person who are not up to date with their Covid vaccines [mRNA clot shots] -- in a move slammed as "senseless" and "non-scientific." Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Pennsylvania have the most stringent mandates that make having the new bivalent booster a condition of entry. This means students at those schools who have already received four of the older shots would still need to get the new shot to continue their studies.The rest of the Ivy League universities demand at least two Covid jabs, with some requiring a booster too. Multiple experts told DailyMail.com the mandate "does not make sense" now that evidence shows the vaccines do not prevent transmission on a large scale.
The Importance of labelling in marketing: Kiev considers renaming Russia
Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/572792-kiev-mulls-renaming-russia/
The issue needs to be “carefully worked out,” President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed | Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has instructed his government to consider renaming Russia as ‘Moscovia’, an unofficial designation used centuries ago. The move comes after a petition insisted that by using the word ‘Russia’, Ukraine is endorsing a “dangerous claim” that its neighbor is a direct descendant of Kievan Rus. ● In a statement on Friday, Zelensky said he had turned to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal with a request for the “comprehensive processing” of the petition, which had gathered the necessary 25,000 votes to be considered. The issue “needs to be carefully worked out both in terms of the historical and cultural context, and from the perspective of possible international legal consequences,” with scientific institutions taking part in the process, the Ukrainian president added. ● The name ‘Moscovia’ dates back to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, one of principalities of Kievan Rus in the late Middle Ages. The modern Russian state formed around this center of power while retaining historic and cultural roots stemming from Rus. ● Commenting on the move, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that it was 💬 “further evidence of an attempt to create an ‘anti-Russia’ out of Ukraine.”
Объясняет Readovka | "Russians don't exist!" - Zelensky wants to lead the movement to decolonize Russia | Today, the head of the Kiev regime has instructed the government to look into the possibility of renaming Russia into "Muskovia." Laugh as much as you like: isn't there any other problem in Ukraine but to change the names from "aggressor country" to "Muscovia" and back? Except that these efforts by Kiev to "cancelling" the Russians are not as harmless as they may seem. ● "Decolonization" of our country is the maximum program for the West. To solve the "Russian question" once and for all. All these maps with dozens of microstates created by the "free peoples of Russia," however ridiculous and detached from reality they may be, are an unimaginable threat to the very existence of our people. ● And the proclamation of Russia as "Muscovy" is just another step on the road to "decolonization. There are no Russians, there is no state of the Russian people, "Russia is a social construct. There is only "Muscovy" - a kind of bloody Mordor, that seized the lands of free Ingria, that ruined the Khanate of Kazan, that committed genocide against the indigenous peoples of Siberia... and so on. ● Nonsense, you say? But these are exactly the narratives that the West is now going to push forward, both in the territories under its control, and in our homes. That is why they are making an "anti-Russia" out of Ukraine, which will serve as an "assemblage point" for centrifugal political processes on the territory of our country. We can already see how the "outposts" of neo-Nazi militants in the service of the GUR are trying to declare the creation of a "Bryansk People's Republic," but this is only the beginning. ● How do we counter something like this? First, it is necessary to protect against subversive activities of ethno-separatists inside the country. The circles of "Ingrian," "Turan" and "Free Siberians" must be suppressed in the most brutal way, just like any other separatist organizations in a belligerent country. ● As for the external influence, everything is clear. If there is no Ukraine, there will be no "anti-Russia" to which the adherents of decolonization could look. (Translation: yandex.ru & DeepL.com)
Maidan 2.0 in Georgia
Twitter Files: Federal Government Demanded Censorship of ‘Anti-Ukraine Narratives’
The latest installment of the “Twitter Files” has revealed that Democrat President Joe Biden’s federal government demanded that the Big Tech company censor content that it deemed to be “anti-Ukraine narratives.” | The findings from Twitter’s internal communications files were published by journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger. The new Twitter Files release comes ahead of Taibbi and Shellenberger’s testimony to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Thursday’s release has revealed that federal government entities flagged “anti-Ukraine narratives” to Twitter for censorship. Additionally, it revealed that a project which has partnered with several state entities and urged tech platforms to take action against “stories of true vaccine side effects” was onboarded to Twitter’s Jira ticketing system. The new information was provided in a new batch of Twitter Files.
Biden DOD firing vax refuseniks to 'purge conservative service members': House Armed Services member
The Biden administration is seeking to "purge conservative service members" from the armed services for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine despite the lifting of the military's mandate, says Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. | Members of the military who refused the COVID-19 vaccine prior to the elimination of the mandate are still eligible for firing on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon told the House Armed Services Committee chairman in a letter Banks released Thursday. A total of 69,000 troops did not receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and 53,000 sought a medical or religious accommodation, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert Cisneros wrote to Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers in the Feb. 27 letter.
For the second year in a row, Zelensky was denied a performance at the Academy Awards
Link: https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/4955
Maria Zakharova (Мария Захарова) (Russian MFA) For the second year in a row, Zelensky was denied a performance at the Academy Awards. | What a bunch of bastards! Not only should Zelensky [be permitted to] appear at the Oscars, he should be given an award for his starring role in an American horror series. He embodies the monster dependent on Washington and the drugs in a hyperrealistic way. Unlike President Goloborodko in "Servant of the People." (Translation: DeepL.com)
The John Fetterman Situation Just Got Much Weirder
Link: https://thinkcivics.com/the-john-fetterman-situation-just-got-much-weirder/
The situation surrounding John Fetterman continues to get much weirder. | The Pennsylvania senator is still residing at Walter Reed hospital after checking himself in for “severe” depression some weeks prior. That followed another recent hospital stint for light-headedness. Fetterman has suffered from a multitude of health issues since he suffered a massive stroke in mid-2022. Despite a “recovery” from the stroke that is clearly going in the wrong direction, talk of Fetterman resigning has been dismissed as ableism. His staff has also tried to keep up appearances, making it seem as if he’s still working while being confined at Walter Reed. It’s safe to say if Fetterman were a Republican, the calls from the press to leave office would be overwhelming. After all, we are talking about the same news outlets that wanted Donald Trump to be forcibly removed because he walked slowly down a ramp. Fetterman is a Democrat, though, so the wagons are being circled in the oddest ways possible.
How the WHO was captured
Link: https://unherd.com/2023/03/how-the-who-was-captured/
Thomas Fazi | Private capital wields far too much influence | [...] However, from the Eighties onwards, things started to change. Until then, the organisation had relied on the contributions of its member states for its regular budget. In 1982, however, the World Health Assembly, the WHO’s decision-making body, voted to freeze its budget — under pressure from the Reagan administration, which saw the WHO as a socialist-leaning, unaccountable organisation working against American interests. This was followed by the 1985 decision by the United States to withhold its contribution, in part as a protest against its “Essential Drug Program”, which encouraged developing countries to develop their own capacities to produce essential medicines, rather than rely on Western drug companies — small wonder leading US-based pharmaceutical companies were averse. As a result, the organisation was forced to rely increasingly on extrabudgetary funds provided by “stakeholders”: not only governments and bilateral and multilateral agencies (such as the World Bank), but private and corporate donors as well, including pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis. Over the years, among the private extrabudgetary donors, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation rose above the rest: by the 2010s, it had become the WHO’s second-largest donor, accounting for around 10% of all funds. Since voluntary contributions are earmarked, the donors largely get to call the shots on the use of the funds they contribute.
Obama-Era Pentagon Chief Who Helped Destroy Libya Wants Fighter Jets for Ukraine
Once touted as one of the most prosperous and developed countries in Africa, Libya was turned into a failed state divided into warring factions after a seven-month NATO bombing campaign in 2011. The intervention began after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi proposed introducing a gold-backed regional currency to replace the dollar and the CFA franc. 💬 “The most important thing in the coming months is that Ukraine can maintain its momentum to force the Russians out of the Donbass,” the former official said. “I would encourage them to try to retake Crimea as well. I think that’s only way to bring [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to the negotiating table,” Leon Panetta [said]. [He] served as head of Obama’s Pentagon between 2011 and 2013, and as head of the CIA between 2009 and 2011, stressed that time was not on the West’s side in Ukraine, with a long, drawn out conflict of attrition threatening to “undermine the policy of the United States and its allies.” Ukraine, he said, “has to show that is winning, and it has to do so soon.”
Russian Military Deploys Kinzhals in Massive Strikes in Ukraine in Retaliation to Bryansk Terror
Two civilians were killed and a ten-year-old boy injured last week after a group of saboteurs penetrated the Russian-Ukrainian border in Russia's Bryansk region and opened fire on civilian vehicles and infrastructure. NATO-provided weapons were found at the crime scenes. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the incident a "terrorist attack." | Russia carried out massed missile strike on targets inside Ukraine in retaliation to last week's terrorism in Bryansk region, the Russian Ministry of Defense has announced. 💬 "In response to the terrorism organized by the Kiev regime on March 2 in Bryansk region, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a massive retaliatory strike. High-precision long-range air, sea and land-based precision weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system, hit key elements of Ukraine's military infrastructure, enterprises of the military-industrial complex, as well as energy facilities providing them with power," MoD spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a briefing Thursday. All of the designated targets were hit, the officer said, with the strikes said to have destroyed sites hosting Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, knocked out railway infrastructure involved in the transfer of foreign weapons, and disabled facilities involved in the production of ammunition and the repair of military equipment.
Moscow condemns ‘Nazi celebration’ at White House
Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/572668-nazi-celebration-white-house/
The US has bestowed a prestigious award on a female member of Ukraine’s nationalist Azov battalion | The White House’s decision to bestow the International Women of Courage Award on a member of an infamous Ukrainian nationalist battalion is “disgraceful,” Moscow’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, said on Thursday. He claimed that the move was further proof that Washington is ready to support Nazis in the fight against Russia. Speaking to reporters, Antonov was asked to comment on the award received at the White House by Yulia Paevskaya, who goes by the nickname ‘Taira’. The ambassador said Moscow had noted the honoring of a member of the Azov battalion, a Ukrainian unit closely associated with neo-Nazi ideology, on International Women’s Day.
Georgian Government Warns of Imminent Color Revolution to Pull Country into Ukraine War
TBILISI, Georgia. March 6th, 2023. The opposition Russo-phobic party leader in the Black Sea country of Georgia, Levan Khabeishvili, called for “revolutionary changes” three times in a recent speech, before calling for the people to be “mobilized to fight… otherwise we will become a province of Russia”. | The backdrop to the speech has been demonstrations by several large youth groups, NGOs, and political parties in opposition to the strangest of political trigger words one will ever read, “a proposed foreign agent registration bill”. Nearly all countries on Earth have a foreign agent registration requirement, with few more draconian than the United States’. Their role in a democracy is unquestionably an important one: that organizations operating in the political, societal, or media sectors funded by foreign governments need to make that information available on a publically-managed database. Not only is it standard practice in America for foreign lobbyists to register their activities, benefactors, and presence with US intelligence, but the Georgian draft legislation is actually a milder copy of the US Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). Yet in Georgia, the parliament’s attempts to force a bill creating such a program into law has been met with the staunchest opposition. US State Dept. Spokesman Ned Price told a reporter that 💬 “such a law…does not correspond to [what] we, the United States, aim to be Georgia’s partners and help them achieve this future.”
■ We closely followed the developments in Georgia - Ned Price (rustavi2)
■ Saakashvili party rallies “color” thugs to “physically confront Russians inside the Parliament” (rustavi2)
■ (7 Mar, 2023) Police break up anti-government protest in Georgia (RT.com) (Connect the dots...)
House Expected to Vote on Syria War Powers Resolution on Wednesday
Contact your representative and tell them to support H. Con. Res. 21 | The House is expected to vote on a War Powers Resolution this Wednesday introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that would order President Biden to withdraw all US troops from Syria. Americans can contact their representatives and urge them to support the resolution (H.Con.Res.21). Click here to find your representative, or call the House switchboard operator at (202) 224-3121. The US currently has about 900 troops stationed in eastern Syria and backs the Kurdish-led SDF in the region, allowing the US to control about one-third of the country. Gaetz’s resolution would give President Biden 180 days to end the US military occupation, which is opposed by Damascus. The text of H.Con.Res.21 reads: 💬 “That, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(c)), Congress directs the President to remove the United States Armed Forces from Syria by not later than the date that is 180 days after the date of the adoption of this concurrent resolution.” ● Gatez initially introduced a resolution that gave the president only 15 days to withdraw from Syria. The second resolution was introduced to gain more support for the effort as the longer timeline makes it more likely that Democrats will vote in favor of the bill. In July 2022, the House voted on a proposed amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act introduced by Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) that would have cut all funds for the US presence in Syria within one year if President Biden didn’t get authorization for the war. The amendment failed, but it received support from about 60% of House Democrats. According to the House Clerk, 130 Democrats voted in favor, while only 25 Republicans supported the amendment.
Pilots and Flight Attendants Who Recently Had Cardiac Arrests In-flight and “Died Suddenly”…
A flying instructor died in-flight after suffering a cardiac arrest, but his co-pilot thought he was fooling around . (click here) According to a newly published safety report on the incident, the pilot thought the instructor was pretending to be asleep as the pair flew a circuit near Blackpool Airport in Lancashire, England, on June 29, 2022. Shortly after takeoff, the instructor’s head rolled back. The pilot knew the 57-year-old instructor well and thought he was just pretending to take a nap. However, when he landed the plane and his co-pilot was still resting on his shoulder and not responding, he realized something was amiss (click here). A post-mortem examination concluded that the instructor died from acute cardiac failure. He had passed a medical four months earlier. The report found there was no indication that the instructor was unwell. “People who had spoken to him on the morning of the incident said he was his normal cheerful self and there were no indications that he was feeling unwell,” the report said. [My take…Notice how many in-flight pilot cardiac arrests and deaths there have been in the second half of 2022, as well as flight attendant deaths. There have also been a number of unusual helicopter crashes in Canada in 2022. I fear that we are inching closer to a major airline disaster in 2023, as a result of injuries being suffered by COVID-19 vaccinated pilots.]
What could possibly be the reason?
Link: https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1633474842996404226?cxt=HHwWhMCz5eKtoqstAAAA
Mystery!
What could possibly be the reason? pic.twitter.com/nTIuuePmUr— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) March 8, 2023
Texas Tech Suspends Head Basketball Coach For Quoting The Bible
Less than one month after Texas Tech University was busted for using race-based ideology as a litmus test for hiring candidates in the school’s biology department, the four-year university suspended head men’s basketball coach Mark Adams for quoting the Bible to a student-athlete. | TTU Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt suspended Adams on Sunday after learning that the coach encouraged one of his basketball players 💬 “to be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters.” The comment, according to the university, was “inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive” and deserved a formal written reprimand from Hocutt, suspension, and an investigation into Adams’ previous “interactions with his players and staff.” TTU claimed that when confronted with offense over the comments, Adams “immediately addressed this with the team and apologized.” Adams, however, said that was not the case.
Netanyahu justifies strikes on nuclear facilities
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/572511-israel-iran-nuclear-facilities/
The Israeli PM has challenged the UN watchdog’s statement that any attacks against nuclear plants are “outlawed” | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that the option of attacking an Iranian nuclear facility in “self-defense” must be left on the table, arguing that the chief of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) made an “unworthy” statement when he declared that any such strikes are banned. 💬 “Are we forbidden to defend ourselves?” Netanyahu said on Sunday in a cabinet meeting. “Of course, we are allowed, and of course, we are doing this… Nothing will prevent us from protecting our country and preventing oppressors from destroying the Jewish state.” Netanyahu’s remarks came a day after IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi was asked by a reporter about US and Israeli threats to attack Iran if it doesn’t agree to curb its nuclear program. “Any military attack on a nuclear facility is outlawed, is out of the normative structures that we all abide by,” Grossi said at a press briefing in Tehran after meeting with Iranian leaders.
■ On the 40th Anniversary Of The Israeli Plan To Attack Iran (Video Rebel's Blog)
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