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Jul 19 2023 
Extreme Heat
It does not matter what you think about ‘climate change’, there is extreme heat over a large part of the world that is in summer. I’ve heard all the jokes – yes, it is hot in summer did you not know, but what I hear and what we experience is extreme. El Niño, they say… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military and biological activity
Read in full at the link:
https://telegra.ph/Briefing-by-Chief-of-Nuclear-Chemical-and-Biological-Protection-Troops-General-Lieutenant-Igor-Kirillov-on-US-military-and-biolo-07-14
Key facts:
• The U.S. State Department launched an active outreach campaign to neutralise Russian accusations that US military biologists had violated the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention.
• The U.S. military specialists have been successful in adapting and growing vectors collected from their natural habitat. The methods they have developed… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
Dustup in South Africa: Putin at BRICS summit – yes or no! (Update 1 & 2)
The lawfare is in full swing in South Africa about Putin’s visit (or not) during the upcoming BRICS summit because of the ICC warrant of arrest against Putin. It is taking a bizarre twist.
An opposition party, the DA (Democratic Alliance) made a representation in the form of an affidavit to a High Court to ensure… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023 
The Black Sea Grain deal — now what?
With thanks to Nat South, and first posted on Livejournal
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” – Einstein“The decision on the Black Sea initiative is final, there are no more negotiations” – Russian mission to the UN
After the NATO Summit, Ukraine carried out the final “coup de grace” on… Continue reading -
Jul 18 2023 
In Sicily, Top of the Mountain, Watching the New Barbarians
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
It’s another stunning sunset in the western edge of the Sicilian coast, and I’m right in front of the Real Duomo in Erice, the pluri-millenary “Mount”, sung by Virgil in the Aeneid as “close to the stars”, and founded by the mythical homonymous son of Venus and… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023 
CELAC-EU Summit
There is no shortage of straight talk from the CELAC leaders at the EU summit. They demand sanctions on Venezuela and Nicaragua to cease, and the blockade on Cuba to be lifted.
The Honduran president was forceful in her address to the meeting, calling these measures straight-out piracy.
President Xiomara Castro: “The CELAC-EU summit must approve a… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023 
Ben Norton: How China became the world’s industrial superpower – and why the US is desperate to stop it
In this detailed and informative video explainer on Geopolitical Economy Report, Ben Norton discusses China’s extraordinary rise and the economic dynamics of the New Cold War.
Ben notes that in 1950, China represented just 5 percent of global GDP. In purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, it currently represents 19 percent of global GDP, compared to 15… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2023 
A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2
Part 1 is here: https://sovereignista.com/2023/07/12/a-scott-ritter-investigation-agent-zelensky-part-1/
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Jul 17 2023 
A Bonfire of the Vanities
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Hubris consists in believing that a contrived narrative can, in and of itself, bring victory. It is a fantasy that has swept through the West – most emphatically since the 17th century. Recently, the Daily Telegraph published a ridiculous nine minute video purporting to show that ‘narratives… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2023 
Scott Ritter Responds To Trump’s Solution To The War In Ukraine
Sometimes we have to laugh. Trump says he will tell Zelenski to stop it! and make deal, and he will tell Vladimir Putin if you don’t stop it, we will send many more weapons.
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Jul 17 2023 
Xi Jinping & Valentina Matvienko
Xi Jinping Meets with Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko
Note: This is somewhat of a late report as the NATO show took time to integrate. But still some of the most important words of our time were spoken.—o0o—
On July 10, 2023, President Xi Jinping met with… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2023 
Russian Foreign Ministry statement on the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge
In the early hours of July 17, the Crimean Bridge suffered yet another terrorist attack with the use of two Ukrainian water-surface drones. One of the deck sections was damaged.
Two civilians were killed: Alexey and Natalya Kulik, residents of the Novy Oskol municipality of the Belgorod Region, who were crossing the bridge in their car.… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top.
Please take note of Andrei Martyanov on the Girkin and Gubarev arrests today. This may be the start of rolling up… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2023 
Not so trivial now plus update 1: Crimean Bridge Attack
By Nat South on Livejournal
I wrote an update on the marine drones (USV and UUV types) just yesterday after the dawn attack on Sevastopol. I had my niggling doubts that this was some kind of test, given that the port, the fact that its entrance is heavily defended. I couldn’t put my finger on it,… Continue reading
