CV19 Vax Humanitarian Catastrophe being Turbocharged without Treatment | World renowned CV19 critical care and pulmonary expert Dr. Pierre Kory has run a full-time CV19 vaccine injury practice for two years. What Dr. Kory is seeing first hand in terms of injuries is frightening. Dr. Kory explains, “It’s been insane for two years plus. The world has gone mad. . . . There is a simple reason the world has gone mad. It’s from unrelenting censorship and propaganda. . . . Ed Dowd has brought forth the most compelling information on the CV19 vax out of anyone because it comes out of actuarial data, it comes out of labor statistics, and it comes out of the CDC. He is using their own data to show that we have a humanitarian catastrophe that occurred in the wake of this CV19 global vaccine campaign. We have countless record setting numbers of young people dying, employed white collar young people dying in droves. Yet, nobody wants to talk about it.”

The veteran US Marine Corps intelligence officer, UN weapons inspector and Sputnik contributor has spent over a year providing incisive commentaries about the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, challenging the Western mainstream narrative and offering his own perspective on the origins of the crisis. | Google-owned video hosting giant YouTube has deleted Scott Ritter's YouTube channel. A banner reading "This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy prohibiting hate speech" greets anyone trying to navigate to Ritter's channel. The company did not provide any information about the nature of these alleged "multiple or severe violations," or how Ritter's mostly Ukrainian crisis-related commentaries and interviews constitute "hate speech." YouTube allows for user-based reporting of any alleged "hate speech," prompting concerns from content creators over the years that the video hosting giant may allow organized online activists to silence voices and views that they might not like, or which challenge important state and corporate narratives. ● Ritter is no stranger to censorship by major online platforms. Last year, he was suspended from Twitter after calling Joe Biden a "war criminal" and accusing him of "seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders" on Russia. He was later reinstated, but suspended again after a "test, test, test" tweet stating that "Bucha was a war crime," and that "Ukraine did it."

Did the Medical Countermeasures Consortium run #COVID?

The Australian, American, British & Canadian #military forces formed this consortium to dominate COVID response.

Australia joined the consortium in 2012 under the Labor-Gillard government.

A military-pharmaceutical… pic.twitter.com/hAIPyqEehE

— Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 (@MRobertsQLD) August 9, 2023

Sasha Latypova | No, silly, that's Australia! The US Congress is chasing lab leaks, yelling Fauci-bad, and fundraising for their re-election campaigns as usual. | This speech should go down in history as one of significant acts of bravery and speaking the truth on behalf of the people. He has asked the correct question: was it a civilian health event? Or was it a military campaign? Has the pharmaceutical industry donned military fatigues? ■ I shared my research into the nature of “covid pandemic” on request from Australian colleagues over the past couple of years. This was a military mass killing campaign using “countermeasures” - chemical-biological and psychological/informational weapons under pretense of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics, “news from reliable sources” and “health advice from trusted authorities”. ■ Brook Jackson filed a whistleblower case against Pfizer under False Claims Act in September 2020, and continues this fight on behalf of all of us, people of the world who have been targeted by this war crime. Here in the US, however, several US Congresspeople and other gleaming politicians have access to the same information, and have been sitting on it for many months. I know because I and Katherine Watt provided it to at least some of them. Even more gleaming media pundits and world renowned health freedom experts are spinning endless cycles discussing “allowed” topics - Fauci bad, China bad, Pfizer bad, myocarditis and spike injuries, Pfizer lied about transmission, vaccine mandates bad, etc, etc. Let’s do another hearing about the origin of the virus… Is it really a leak, or should we still revisit the bat theory? Let’s talk about UFOs now. Kumbaya (TM) Sage Hana.

A candidate in Ecuador's forthcoming presidential election who has campaigned against corruption and gangs has been shot dead at a campaign rally. | Fernando Villavicencio, a member of the country's national assembly, was attacked as he left the event in the capital, Quito, on Wednesday. He is one of the few candidates to allege links between organised crime and government officials in Ecuador. A criminal gang called Los Lobos (The Wolves) has claimed responsibility. Los Lobos is the second-largest gang in Ecuador with some 8,000 members, many of whom are behind bars. The gang has been involved in a number of recent deadly prison fights, in which scores of inmates have been brutally killed.

Washington took issue with the PM’s neutral stance on Russia’s military operation in Ukraine | “People here and in Europe are quite concerned about why Pakistan is taking such an aggressively neutral position” on Ukraine, US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu warns his Pakistani counterpart in the cable, blaming the PM alone for the offending policy. ● While Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan attempts to correct the American, pointing out that Pakistan’s position on Ukraine is shared across the government, Lu counters that it is the PM’s behavior that is the problem, but that “if the no-confidence vote against the Prime Minister succeeds, all will be forgiven in Washington.” “Otherwise, I think it will be tough going ahead,” he threatens, adding that Europe will follow the US’ lead in the “isolation of the prime minister.”

New official figures have been published that reveal the overwhelming number of people who died from Covid had received three or more shots of mRNA vaccines for the virus. | The data reveals that the triple+ vaccinated population accounted for 92% of Covid-19 deaths throughout the entirety of 2022. The figures also show that 9 in every 10 Covid deaths in England over the past two years had received three or more of the shots. On the 21st of February 2023, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), a UK Government agency, quietly published data on deaths by vaccination status in England up to 31st December 2022. The overdue dataset from the ONS is titled “Deaths by Vaccination Status, England, 1 April 2021 to 31 December 2022.” The data can be accessed on the ONS site here, and downloaded here.

House Republicans say the president’s son Hunter sold favors and have published receipts | The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday published receipts showing Hunter Biden, the son of current US President Joe Biden, receiving money from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan by trading on the family name. The committee says it has identified $20 million in payments from foreign sources to Hunter Biden’s company, which they describe as a front to sell access to the “Biden network” while his father was Barack Obama’s vice president (2009-2017). 💬 “During Joe Biden’s vice presidency, Hunter Biden sold him as ‘the brand’ to reap millions from oligarchs in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. It appears no real services were provided other than access to the Biden network, including Joe Biden himself. And Hunter Biden seems to have delivered,” said committee chair James Comer, a Kentucky Republican.

James Howard Kunstler | So-called Normies might be musing, this month of approved mental languor, whether the mighty efforts to suppress news of all kinds, about everything, have concealed the true tendings of our wayward country — leading them to wonder whether it is even possible to be a Normie in such an abnormal time and place. ● What news is suppressed? That the USA is worse than dead broke. That the people were poisoned, apparently on-purpose. That the spectral “Joe Biden” sold out our country. That the war we started in Ukraine, on purpose, for no good reason, is about to be lost, and with it our standing around world. That there actually is such a criminal organism as the Blob at large in our government, responsible for the astounding abnormality immersing us. But never mind all that… for now, just go see Barbie. Have a clam roll, a dip in the ocean, another margarita…. September will be here soon enough.

French special forces attacked a military outpost of the Niger National Guard and violated its airspace, according to an official statement by the country's military authorities. | According to Niger's military authorities, French special forces conducted an operation to free imprisoned members of the deposed government and leaders of terrorist organizations. ■ The Niger authorities said that 16 leaders of terrorist groups arrested in June were released by the French armed forces. They further added that it appeared that the French objective was to protect armed cells that were about to operate within the country. ■ Immediately after the announcement, the CNSP (Niger's military authorities) announced in a press release that the level of alert of the armed forces had been raised. "This decision follows a terrorist attack on a garrison. The CNSP is now accusing France of releasing terrorists in the region," Niger sources said. ■ Meanwhile, the US Embassy in Niger has issued an "Emergency Security Warning" advising any US Citizen still in the capital Niamey to take immediate shelter until further notice and not to attempt to enter the city center near the Presidential Palace. A curfew has also been implemented for U.S. Embassy Staff due to the ongoing situation. ■ According to the Niger National Guard: Early today, a French military A400M aircraft took off from N'Djamena (Chad) and entered stealth mode to violate Niger's airspace between 6:39 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. This mode of operation is similar to that used by French forces to provide support to their terrorist partners in Mali. ■ A few weeks ago, the French army released 16 terrorists and helped them plan attacks against the military forces of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali in the Three Borders region. The terrorists released by the French army were subsequently arrested during three operations in June and July 2023 (two in Niger, one in Mali) and confessed about the assistance they had received from the French army. →

John Stossel | We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an "overwhelming scientific consensus." "It's a manufactured consensus," says climate scientist Judith Curry in my new video. She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue "fame and fortune." She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change. Media loved her when she published a study that seemed to show a dramatic increase in hurricane intensity. "We found that the percent of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes had doubled," says Curry. "This was picked up by the media," and then climate alarmists realized, "Oh, here is the way to do it. Tie extreme weather events to global warming!" "So, this hysteria is your fault!" I tell her. "Not really," she smiles. "They would have picked up on it anyways." But Curry's "more intense" hurricanes gave them fuel.

Gallant’s threats came just hours after the Lebanese army mobilized its naval forces in response to Israeli boats that violated Lebanese sovereignty on 8 August. | Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, said on 8 August in a message addressed to both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government, that Tel Aviv is prepared to strike “every meter” of the country. "Do not make a mistake, we do not want war, but we are ready to defend our citizens, our soldiers, and our sovereignty," the minister said. "We will not hesitate to employ all of our power and to attack every meter of Hezbollah and of Lebanon … and return Lebanon to the stone age," he added. Gallant said that Hezbollah “might mistakenly think that they can test Israel” due to the deep internal crisis it is facing, and the vow made by many of its army reservists to boycott military service protests against the government’s judicial reform program. He affirmed, however, that Israel would not be divided in the event that Hezbollah threatened it with war.

🇳🇪 "We have uranium, we have diamonds, we have gold, we have oil, and we live like slaves?
We won't accept it. The French base in Niger must leave." pic.twitter.com/TMdXQWww0P

— Maria (@real1maria) August 2, 2023

On July 26, a military Coup d'Etat took place in the country of Niger. Democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum was taken under arrest by his own Presidential Guards and is now in confinement. Bazoum was pro-U.S./EU, especially France. His Guards do not approve of the tight control exercised by France over Niger, and they see Niger's future as aligned with Russia. | Within days of taking power, Niger's military DENOUNCED "Cooperation Agreements" with France, allowing French troops to be in the country. Specifically, Niger invoked a 30 days notice within the Cooperation Agreements telling the French their military must leave. The French REFUSE to leave. France Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said bluntly “The possible departure of French soldiers in Niger is not on the agenda. All the efforts of the international community are aimed at forcing the junta to abandon its dangerous adventure that is detrimental to Niger and the region.” ● Dangerous Adventure? So what is the "dangerous adventure" referred to by the French Foreign Minister? Well, when the military coup took place, thousands of regular citizens in Niger came out in SUPPORT of the troops and one man sized-up the situation almost perfectly. He said, "Niger has uranium, diamonds, gold, and oil, yet we live like slaves. This is unacceptable." ● "It's THAT simple. The people of Niger see the natural wealth their nation has, but they do not benefit AT ALL from their own natural wealth; France takes most of it! For instance, Niger has a lot of Uranium. It is mined and shipped to France . . . which then gets seventy percent (70%) of its electric power from nuclear power plants."

■ Niger Military Raise Threat Level, Blame France for Attack on National Guard (Sputnik News)
■ Censure de médias français au Niger : suspension de RFI et France24 (France Soir)
■ Maidan ‘midwife’ warns Niger against courting Wagner (08/08/23)

President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell report on his Truth Social platform that the sham committee overseeing the investigation of the January 6th Capitol riot has destroyed their documents and records illegally. On Tuesday, Trump wrote: 💬 So now that I have full Subpoena Power because of the Freedom of Speech Sham Indictment by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and the DOJ, it has just been reported that the Unselect January 6th Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs has illegally destroyed their Records and Documents. This is unthinkable, and the Fake Political Indictment against me must be immediately withdrawn. The system is Rigged & Corrupt, very much like the Presidential Election of 2020. We are a Nation in Decline! ● The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Dr. Jan Halper-Hayes, during a recent interview, said that special counsel Jack Smith made a huge mistake in indicting Trump related to Jan. 6 incident because it gives him the power to subpoena people. “They’ve made a huge mistake with this one, because even though we thought what was going to happen was they were going to go after him for treason or sedition, they did criminally charge him, but they didn’t go to that extreme. As a result, he has due process, so he can subpoena people and bring things in,” she said.

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Steven Greer MD and renowned molecular biologist, Kevin McKernan discuss how the so-called messenger RNA COVID vaccines are actually DNA gene therapies. Prof. Dr. Sucharit Bhakd’s report on frightening new scientific findings not only explains the countless deaths associated with mRNA vaccinations. He also reveals that many vaccines are contaminated with so-called plasmid DNA from the manufacturing process and warns of the resulting dangers.

■ Covid injections a ‘military project’ (Serena Wylde)(08/04/23)
■ We Are at War in the US and Globally: A Summary of Everything (Sasha Latypova)(06/28/23)

Between 170k and 345k excess deaths in Japan since the COVID mRNA experiment started in April 2021. | As many as 345,000 Japanese have died in “excess” between 25-Apr-21 and 26-Mar-23 (and still counting), a truly unprecedented mortality event in the last quarter of a century. Prior to 25-Apr-21, excess mortality had not exhibited any signs of unusual activity, in spite of the alleged deadliness of COVID that was rife in the western world for an entire year. Perhaps just coincidentally, Japan started administering the experimental mRNA product to its citizens a couple of weeks before death rates soared, an experiment they evidently did not need to take part in. Also, perhaps coincidentally, each subsequent wave of death appears to follow a new round of “vaccinations”.

■ mRNA Covid jabs have caused silent heart damage to tens of millions of people, a shocking new study suggests

The politician stressed that Russia was strong enough to achieve all of the goals of the special military operation | Russia is strong enough to achieve all of the goals of its special military operation despite facing an almost direct confrontation with all of NATO, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Telegram [see below]. He drew parallels between the current conflict and the developments that took place in South Ossetia in August 2008. 💬 "The entire NATO system is almost openly fighting against us. We are strong enough to achieve all of the goals of the special military operation. Just like in August 2008, our enemies will be vanquished and Russia will secure peace on its own terms. Victory will be ours!" said Medvedev, who served as president of Russia in 2008-2012.■ On August 8, 2008, Georgia mounted an overnight armed attack against South Ossetia. Russia intervened to protect civilians, many of whom had obtained Russian citizenship, and its peacekeeping contingent, which had been stationed in the region since 1992. In a five-day armed conflict, more than one thousand people, including 72 Russian peacekeepers, lost their lives. On August 26, 2008, Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another former autonomous region of Georgia.

Dmitry Medvedev | Exactly 15 years ago, Russia responded decisively to the despicable attack on Tskhinvali and gave a firm rebuff to the aggressor. Behind the back of the fool Saakashvili stood the collective West, which was already seeking to rock the situation in the immediate vicinity of Russia's borders. Our Armed Forces quickly and harshly punished the arrogant nationalists for five days. We protected our people who lived in Abkhazia and South Ossetia from the enemy. We gave new states an opportunity to develop with the support of Russia. ● The U.S. and its vassals clearly lacked experience. Today they are again waging a criminal war at the hands of others, trying to wipe Russia off the face of the earth. The entire NATO system is practically openly fighting against us. We have enough forces to accomplish all the tasks of a special military operation. As in August 2008, our enemies will be crushed, and Russia will achieve peace on its own terms. ● Victory will be ours! (Translation: DeepL.com)

The country’s new military government understands the risk of inviting the defense contractor, Victoria Nuland believes | Acting US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has traveled to Niger where she met with the new military government and warned against enlisting the help of Russian defense contractor Wagner Group. Nuland, who spoke to her hosts of the risks of foreign interference, herself played an instrumental role in the Western-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014. ● Last month, the presidential guard detained Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum and his family, sparking international condemnation. The coup also triggered pushback from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which threatened military action against Niger’s plotters unless they reinstate Bazoum. The new government has refused to back down. ● Nuland also said that she urged the coup leaders to “hear our offer to try to work with them to solve this diplomatically and return to constitutional order.”

■ Wagner boss expresses 'joy' over Victoria Nuland (RT.com)
■ Victoria Nuland Meets With Niger Junta Leaders (Antiwar.com)

Drago Bosnic, | On the night of August 4, the Kiev regime launched a sea drone attack against a Russian tanker. Luckily, the resulting damage was insufficient to sink the ship or cause any casualties among the 11 crew members, but it did hinder its operation. The attack happened at about 23:20 just south of the Kerch Strait, according to a statement by Russia's Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport. The vessel was later identified as the chemical tanker SIG. The Russian maritime agency detailed that there is a hole "near the waterline on the starboard side, presumably as a result of a sea drone attack" and confirmed there were no casualties. ■ It's important to note that the SIG is sanctioned by the United States for transporting jet fuel to the Russian military in Syria, making American involvement in the attack almost a certainty, particularly at a time when Washington DC's aggression against Damascus is escalating. The targeting information was most likely provided by US ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) platforms which then relayed this to the SBU or the Neo-Nazi junta forces. The move aims to hamper vital Russian logistics in Syria, particularly operations by the VKS (Russian Aerospace Forces) which is regularly intercepting US/NATO aircraft illegally entering Syrian airspace. ■ To further conceal direct US involvement, the Kiev regime openly boasted about the attack, which is highly unusual given the fact that it normally maintains plausible deniability in the aftermath of such actions. According to NBC, "the tanker was transporting fuel for the Russian troops," citing sources and adding that "it was well loaded" and that "the 'fireworks' could be seen from afar". They said that a surface drone and TNT had been used to carry out the attack. A video was also released and shared by several Neo-Nazi junta officials, showing a sea drone moving towards the tanker, although it cuts just before reaching the ship, suggesting the explosion followed immediately after.

■ Discarding Illusions, Ending Wars (Colonel (ret.) Douglas Macgregor, US Army)(08/06/23)

Ukraine has become a world leader in black-market trafficking, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed | Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has alleged that members of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s administration are personally engaged in, and are covering up, the illicit export of human organs. ● In an article published on the Foreign Ministry's website, Maria Zakharova cited media reports suggesting that the organs of killed Ukrainian soldiers, such as hearts, kidneys and livers, have been appearing on some of the biggest marketplaces of the dark net, with prices starting at €5,000 ($5,500). One dealer allegedly claimed that it takes 48-60 hours to receive any desired organ in a medical box, with deliveries limited to EU countries. ● Zakharova noted that organs were also being traded offline, citing reports from June that representatives of a health ministry in a NATO country had struck a deal with some “private businessmen” who were assisted by Ukraine’s Health Ministry and Presidential Office to deliver a refrigerated train car full of human organs and body parts. According to the spokeswoman, organ trafficking in Ukraine has boomed since the authorities in Kiev passed a number of laws that “drastically simplified the work of transplant specialists in the country.” ● Specifically, Zakharova pointed to last year’s Law No. 5610, which exempted transplantation from value-added tax, and the December 2021 Law No. 5831, which removed the need to notarise the written consent or authenticate the signature of a living donor to give up their organs. ● In an explanatory note attached to the 2021 bill, Ukrainian lawmakers explained the simplification of the country’s organ transplant regulations by the need to increase the efficiency of the transplantation system, in order to save more lives. Additionally, Ukrainian law prohibits buying or selling human anatomical materials and bans the harvesting of organs from orphaned children, unidentified persons, or people who died in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

■ Ukraine Leader in Black Market of Human Organ Trafficking - Russian Foreign Ministry (Sputnik News)

The Taliban* was hardly behind corrupt deals related to US military aid to Afghanistan, Moscow-based political analyst Alexander Knyazev told Sputnik. | US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko has warned of “unanticipated consequences” from possible corruption pertaining to America’s hefty spending on Ukraine. SIGAR said that he was “not opposed to spending that” and he just wanted “to make sure it’s done correctly and there’s oversight.” Sopko especially warned about the risk of fueling graft, stressing that in Afghanistan, “corruption was the existential threat.” According to him, “it wasn’t the Taliban. It was corruption that did us in.” ● With the US spending a whopping $2.26 trillion on Afghanistan-related issues, such as the national army and security, within the above­-mentioned period, this huge sum finally didn’t help America prevent the Taliban from seizing power in the South Asian country in August 2021.

Syria's air defenses intercept Israeli airstrikes on the Damascus countryside. | A new act of Israeli aggression on Monday killed four Syrian Arab Army soldiers and wounded four others in the vicinity of Damascus as Syrian air defenses engaged the hostile targets. The air defenses of the Syrian Army engaged the hostile targets and intercepted some of them. The aggression "led to the martyrdom of four soldiers, wounded four others, and material damages were recorded." This is the third attack of this sort in the span of a month, and such acts of aggression are commonplace in Syria, with the Israeli occupation continuously violating the country's airspace. On July 19, the Israeli occupation carried out attacks on the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Three individuals who were arrested in Moscow, Idaho for participating in a maskless, outdoors Psalm singing in 2020 have now settled a lawsuit against the city that requires Moscow to pay the victims $300,000. | Three individuals who were arrested in Moscow, Idaho for participating in a maskless, outdoor Psalm singing in 2020 have now settled a lawsuit against the city that requires Moscow to pay the victims $300,000. Gabriel Rench, along with Sean Bohnet and his wife Rachel, members of Christ Church in Moscow, were arrested in September 2020 when they were three of an estimated 500 participants in an "illegal" worship service. With the conclusion of the lawsuit, the city is admitting fault and admitting they had no right to shut down services. The $300,000 settlement pays for the legal fees of the 3 defendants with about $150,000 leftover to go to the persecuted believers.

■ Christians arrested for maskless outdoor church service to get payout from liberal college town (FOX News)

Scottish Power admitted 71 of its windmills were hooked up to the fossil fuel supply after a fault developed with their power supply. | Dozens of giant turbines on Scotland’s windfarms have been powered by diesel generators, the Sunday Mail can reveal. Scottish Power admitted 71 of its windmills were hooked up to the fossil fuel supply after a fault developed on the grid. ● The firm said it was forced to act in order to keep the turbines warm during very cold weather in December. But a whistleblower has told the Sunday Mail the incident is among a number of environmental and health and safety failings. ● The worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “The Scottish Government wants to make our country attractive to foreign investors as 40 per cent of the wind that blows across Europe blows across Scotland. However, that should not mean we put up with our waterways and nature being polluted with carbon from diesel generators and hydraulic oil.

Start listening to the voters on cars, crime and wokery, or there’ll be an uprising even bigger than Brexit | Britain’s deranged war on cars, our looming ban on gas boilers, the debanking scandal, the failure to prosecute crime, the attempted cancellation of women, the sabotage of the Brexit agenda, the scale of migration: welcome to anti-democratic Britain, where the beleaguered majority is increasingly subject to the whims of an entitled, activist elite that often seems to despise the people over which it exercises so much power. ● All the policies listed above share a devastating commonality: they are deeply unpopular, and would be crushed in a referendum after a fair campaign, were the politicians courageous enough to grant the public a say (in the case of Brexit, they did, of course, and continue to this day to resist implementing the revolutionary change implied by the vote). ● In a truly majoritarian society, one where the demos actually exercised kratos, no form of crime would be tolerated, and certainly not burglaries or muggings. Nobody would dare to indoctrinate school children with extreme trans ideology, and the green agenda would be centred around urgent technological innovation rather than seeking to prevent working people from flying to holidays in the sun. ● Yet we live in a very different political reality, one in which public opinion is flagrantly disregarded whenever it doesn’t align with the views of the ruling class. Westminster has become cartelised: the large parties are committed to an unrealistic dash to net zero, refuse to discuss the gargantuan cost involved, and omit to mention that Britain’s carbon emissions are about 3 per cent of China’s. On the great subjects of our time – family policy, the size of the state, the NHS and even planning rules – there is little difference between Tory, Labour and Lib Dem MPs, disenfranchising millions.

France has pledged to uphold military deals made with Niger’s ‘legitimate authorities’ | France has insisted on fulfilling five military cooperation agreements with Niger because the accords were signed with the West African state’s ‘legitimate authorities,’ despite the former colony’s newly installed junta calling for the deals to be revoked. ● Abdourahamane Tchiani, formerly the chief of Niger’s presidential guard, declared himself head of the transitional government two days after his forces overthrew Bazoum’s administration. The cessation of the military accords would require France to remove the 1,000 to 1,500 troops it has stationed in the African country. A small number of United States soldiers are also deployed in Niger, a territory viewed as geopolitically significant due to its rich mineral resources and borders with seven countries, including Libya, Chad and Nigeria.

■ Niger junta turns to Wagner for help (RT.com)

The bombardment was recorded in the Kievsky District at 11:45 p.m. Moscow time on Saturday | Ukraine’s armed forces shelled Donetsk with cluster munitions for the second time in one evening, the mission of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to Ukrainian War Crimes (JCCC) reported. The bombardment was recorded in the Kievsky District at 11:45 p.m. Moscow time on Saturday. The previous shelling with cluster munitions was registered at 10:05 p.m. Moscow time. Donetsk Mayor Alexey Kulemzin noted on his Telegram channel that Ukrainian troops continued to deliver strikes on the city at 11:55 p.m. Moscow time. According to the JCCC, two MLRS rockets were fired.

■ Ukraine shells Donetsk with cluster munitions (RT.com)