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Sep 04 2023 
Putin and Erdogan: joint press conference in Sochi
Spoiler Alert: there is no grain deal. Many are headlining the Grain Deal for clickbait.
Mr Putin simply restated Russia’s reasons for suspending the Black Sea Initiative on grain exports from Ukrainian ports, as he has done a number of times…
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News on China
From Dongshengnews.org with the lovely Tings Chak and contains some detail on the Indian/China discussion on the border issues.
• Xi and Modi discuss border tensions
• Initiative on Supporting Africa’s Industrialization
• British Museum’s looted artifacts from China
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Sep 04 2023 
FM Lavrov: Remarks and Answers to questions with students & faculty of MGIMO University
This transcript is complete. Whereas most everything FM Lavrov says can be considered important, I’ve highlighted a few aspects. This is Russia’s University of international relations and foreign policy.
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Sep 04 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.
Image from https://bumblebuddhist.com/russia-journey-2023-first-leg-moscow-from-july-25-august-4th/ It reminded me…
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Sep 03 2023 
No respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ rises
Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs.
From Pepe Escobar…
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Sep 02 2023 
Words matter : West Asia, not the Middle East
From the new coalition: Seek Truth from Facts, we have Kwan’s Korner
Once again, Chas Freeman (born in 1943) aka Fu Li Min 傅 立 民 Fu4 Li4 Min2 demonstrates vividly that he is a scholar & a gentleman. The other…
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Sep 02 2023 
The World of Biological Warfare — Chapter 2 – Background
With thanks to Larry Romanoff – posted with permission
Japanese Kwantung Army who worked inside Unit 731 . Source
ContentThe Clandestine Nature of Bio-Weapons
Bio-Warfare Mythology
The Myth of Terrorist Bio-Weapons
Ethnic Gene-Specific Bio-Weapons
China-Targeted Bio-Weapons
Personal Bio-Weapons
The Clandestine Nature of Bio-Weapons
Dr. Leonard Horowitz, the famed pharma…
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Sep 01 2023
The World of Biological Warfare — Chapter 1 – Introduction and Caution
With thanks to Larry Romanoff – posted with permission
Unit 731 Experiments on children.Location: Pingfang district of Harbin (now Northeast China).
Date: 1937–1945We tend to think of biological and/or chemical warfare in simple terms within a simple framework, which tendency leads us…
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Sep 01 2023 
One Man And His Dog: The US And Britain
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
‘The whole of the troubles in the Middle East that have affected the world since 1948 can be laid fairly and squarely at Britain’s door’.
Edward Horne, A Job Well Done, 1982
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Aug 31 2023 
Does BRICS Need Its Own Currency?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik
The new era opened with the strategic tour de force inbuilt in the creation of BRICS 11 involves the make-or-break issue of setting up a new international economic/financial strategy.
Right at the heart of…
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Aug 31 2023 
The Hijacking of Hawaii
With thanks to Larry Romanoff. We publish his work with permission.
Ed Note: With the struggles in Africa to take back their sovereignty, this makes perfect background reading.
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NOTE: This first portion is adapted from an article in The Hawaiian Nation.[1]
Few…
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Aug 30 2023 
MARA: Make America Ridiculous Again
With thanks to Batiuska, our writer
Tragedy
It is a truism to say that life is a tragi-comedy.
Surely the greatest tragedy in the world at the moment is the death and destruction in parts of the Ukraine. That sad country has already…
