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Oct 29 2022 
Putin in fact did nail where we are: on the edge of a Revolution.
By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at Strategic Culture
Putin in fact did nail where we are: on the edge of a Revolution.
In an all-encompassing address to the plenary session of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai Club, President Putin delivered no less than a devastating, multi-layered critique of unipolarity.From Shakespeare to… Continue reading
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Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion
— Part 3 – Choosing Government Leaders
by Larry Romanoff and posted with the author’s permission
One of the greatest things about the United States of America is that it is truly a land of unlimited political opportunity, a country where a man with no education, training or experience, a man bereft of both intelligence and ability,… Continue reading
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Putin: plenary session – Valdai Discussion Club
Transcript
Valdai International Discussion Club meeting
The President took part in the final plenary session of the 19th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
October 27, 2022
20:55
Moscow RegionValdai International Discussion Club meeting
The theme of this year’s forum is A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone. The four day-long meeting brought together 111 experts, politicians, diplomats and economists from Russia and 40 foreign countries, including Afghanistan, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,… Continue reading
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Oct 24 2022 
The ‘War of Terror’ may be about to hit Europe
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at PressTV
Never underestimate a wounded and decaying Empire collapsing in real time.
Imperial functionaries, even in a “diplomatic” capacity, continue to brazenly declare that their exceptionalist control over the world is mandatory.
If that’s not the case, competitors may emerge and steal the limelight – monopolized by US oligarchies. That, of… Continue reading
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Radiation security threats: MoD Briefing
Briefing on radiation security threats by Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov
Summary from Sputnik:
The Russian Defense Ministry has held a briefing on Ukraine’s planned “dirty bomb” provocation. Here are a few takeaways:
🔹 The goal is to falsely accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction, triggering a vigorous international… Continue reading -
Next on the election cycle: Brazil
The run-off election between Bolsonaro and Lula is scheduled for Sunday, the 30th. At the previous election, the two parties ended up with Bolsonaro at 43.2 percent of the vote and Lula at 48.4 percent, maintaining a lead, but by a smaller margin than expected.
So far, it was a brutal time with Bolsonaro being accused… Continue reading
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Dire Straits – A rant on global finances
by Colin Maxwell
DIRE STRAITS… A RANT ON THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SCENE
Ah yes… behold the thieving parasitic money changers and their millennia of antics in various guises, bases, and proxies, as they continue to this day to ply their trade on Mainstreet.
Methinks not for long, and oh my word, such poetic and ironic justice if the… Continue reading
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George Yeo on US-China tensions
The most interesting from George Yeo is that he says in Asean there is no ‘market’ for the US attempts to control. He says the smaller countries are being threatened but there are not many buyers for the rules-based international order. Hence China is getting stronger and it knows it is getting… Continue reading
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Medvedev: theses on the international situation
A friend sent me this and I’ve machine translated. The comment that the five collective short abstracts came with, is interesting: “DM has become the philosopher-ideologue of the Kremlin”.
Saturday abstracts. Five relevant comments on the international situation
1. Any country puts at the forefront of the most important priorities-the protection of its citizens and state independence. Moreover, this… Continue reading
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Oct 23 2022 
Daily Chronicles
Daily Chronicles presents snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Check back frequently. To find the previous Daily Chronicles, use the search function on the top line and search for Daily Chronicles.
Feel free to use the Daily Chronicles as an open thread.
If this is… Continue reading
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Oct 23 2022 
In the Great Hall of the People … Elections
We have the outcome and it feels good. Some commentators suggest that Xi Jinping wanted a younger representation as the South China Morning Post suggests here: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196874/retirement-awaits-chinas-li-keqiang-and-wang-yang-xi-jinping-looks-youth-unprecedented-third-term
And then, others hold that Xi Jinping purged by removing “Americanists”.
If one looks at the changes and amendments to the new CPC constitution, any of those two thoughts, or… Continue reading
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In the Great Hall of the People …
Scandal? Health?, Re-education camp for grandpa?, emergency with his wife?; we don’t know. But never mind the reason, the following five years will be owned by Xi Jingping and team.
This was extremely embarassing – high drama in China, to say the least: former President Hu Jintao was removed from the Great Hall of the People,… Continue reading -
Chinese Consulate: Man Attacked by Violent Thugs!
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Where did the Nazis come from
Maria Zakharova published a detailed note on this a number of months ago. This one I lost, and could never find it again as the purge of Russian sites and informational sources was in full swing. She has published a new note. Of course there are bunches of history where Nazi scientists and other educated… Continue reading
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