Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazism in the Second World War [...] [...] [...]

express our intention to resolutely suppress activities aimed at glorifying the Nazi movement, rehabilitating former members of the Waffen-SS and their accomplices, and denying the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by them,

emphasize the importance of work among young people, above all in the information space, with a view to preventing the spread of the ideology of neo-Nazism and militant nationalism,

consider it necessary to make full use of all OSCE capabilities to combat the dissemination of ideas of racial superiority and manifestations of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance,

call upon the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and the heads of OSCE executive structures to give proper assessment to manifestations of neo-Nazism, as well as to acts of glorification and rehabilitation of Nazis and their accomplices,

propose to consolidate international efforts aimed at preserving the historical memory of the Second World War and at countering any manifestations of neo-Nazism.

Antony Loewenstein | After more than two years of war, Jewish support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza requires accountability, moral clarity and an urgent reckoning across Israel and the Diaspora [...] With an Israeli Jewish population that overwhelmingly views all Palestinians in Gaza as suspect, if not outright hostile, the need for this moment is clear. It's hard to describe what the post-7 October 2023 environment has been like in many Jewish communities. ■ It has ranged from outright hostility towards any publicly expressed criticism of the Netanyahu regime to, perish the thought, any Jew disagreeing with the stated policies of an Israeli government that repeatedly announced its desire to eradicate all Palestinians. ■ And then there are the ethical contortions around the proper way a modern, humane Jew should feel about Israeli soldiers proudly celebrating killing, destruction and rape in Gaza, the West Bank and beyond. ■ What, exactly, is the moral quandary in condemning genocidal behaviour and intent?

9/11, Torture & Iraq war for israel | Dick Cheney, a driving force behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 who was considered by presidential historians as one of the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday. Cheney died Monday night from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said. ● The Republican - a former Wyoming congressman and secretary of defense - was already a major Washington player when then-Texas governor George W. Bush chose him to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential race that Bush went on to win.

■ Cheney Lied About 9/11 Hijacker (03/21/13)
■ 9/11 and Iraq: The War’s Greatest Lie (03/19/13)
✅ Cheney on CIA torture: “I’d do it again in a minute” (Patrick Martin)(15 December 2014)

Israel Shahak / Oded Yinon, "The Zionist Plan for the Middle East" - 23 - Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi'ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarization.

(Translation: DeepL) [S] “The end is near for Venezuelan dictator Maduro, and the dawn of a free and prosperous Venezuela is breaking. In a matter of days, Maduro will exist only in the past tense and in the annals of history,” a source told the New York Post. ● It is no coincidence that the operation is being prepared immediately after the meeting between Trump and Xi and Russia's failure to back down on Ukraine. The US needs to show its power. The situation with Iran was not entirely convincing, and there was a risk of a protracted war. ● If Maduro's regime falls, Venezuela's oil will come under US control. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado is openly calling for military intervention and the transfer of resources. It appears that the daughter of a Venezuelan oligarch from the old elite received the award as planned. When it became clear that there would be a war. ● Over time, American companies are expected to increase production in Venezuela, currently at a catastrophically low level of 800,000 barrels per day, compared to 3 million in the 1990s. ● Restoring volumes is not a quick process—it requires investment and years of work, but the US knows how to play the long game. They have been supporting Machado since at least 2005. ● The US goal is not only to make a profit or cut China off from its resource suppliers. ● Global oil consumption is 100 million barrels per day. Caracas' oil alone cannot redistribute the global market. However, the US will be able to dump these volumes onto the international market, using them as a “counterweight.” ● By directing additional volumes of oil to the market, the US can deliberately reduce Russia's revenues from energy exports, undermining the financing of the SVO. By increasing production in Venezuela, the US will weaken the influence of the OPEC+ cartel on the market. If Saudi Arabia and Russia agree to cut production to raise prices, the US can compensate for this reduction through Venezuela, nullifying OPEC+'s efforts. ● So Venezuela is a lever of pressure and an attempt to avoid an “oil shock” like the one in the 1970s and 1980s, with a sharp jump in oil prices."

With love and respect, this song goes out to all workers around the world. Cast off the chains of exploitation and oppression. No more imperialist war, plunder and aggression. + This one: Ode to the Youth. (Mistahi's website: mistahi.com)

✅ WTC 7 Collapse: Explosions, Free-Fall, Thermite, and Hidden 9/11 Truth (Chris Spencer)
✅ The Dancing Israelis: FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent Mossad Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks (Whitney Webb)
✅ Five Dancing Israelis (Christopher Bollyn)

Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with multiple foreign leaders and heads of international organizations over the past weekend in North China's Tianjin, the host city of the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit, marking a vibrant period in China's diplomatic engagements. | Among leaders from more than 20 countries and heads of 10 international organizations for the SCO Summit 2025, Xi has met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Myanmar's acting president Min Aung Hlaing, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over the weekend, according to Xinhua News Agency. ■ The SCO Summit marks China's embrace of a bustling season of head-of-state diplomacy. This series of events fully demonstrates the importance of multilateral platform such as SCO, and China's increasingly prominent role in a multipolar world, Wang Huiyao, founder and president of think tank the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), told the Global Times on Sunday.

■ SCO shoulders greater responsibilities for safeguarding peace, boosting development in world with uncertainties: Xi
■ Some 3,000 reporters covering SCO Tianjin Summit attended by Putin (TASS)

The anonymous source has claimed that Tehran still possess numerous “new generation missiles,” against which the Jewish state is defenseless | Iran’s next military conflict with Israel will be the “last” one for the Jewish state, as Tehran now understands its arch-enemy’s weak points, an anonymous source in the Islamic Republic told RT. ● They also claimed that Iran still has numerous advanced missiles in its stocks, which can penetrate Israeli air defenses. ● Israel attacked Iran earlier this month, alleging that Tehran was nearing completion of a nuclear bomb. Aside from targeting Iran’s nuclear and military facilities, the IDF airstrikes killed hundreds of people and a number of senior military commanders as well as scientists believed to be involved in the country’s nuclear program. [...] They further claimed that the Islamic Republic still has “tens of thousands” of “new generation missiles,” and would “fire at least hundreds of missiles at Israel daily,” in the event of a new military confrontation. ● According to the source, the Iranian authorities have “unprecedented social support” from the population at home, as well as Iranians living abroad, to use a “historic opportunity to permanently neutralize the Israeli regime’s threat.”

Wyatt Peterson | Who had the means, motive and opportunity to pull off a crime the magnitude of 9/11 and cover their tracks afterwards? | On September 11, 2004, the New York Times published an opinion piece commemorating the third anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The article began by acknowledging that key facts about what happened that day continued to be withheld by government agencies:

💬 “In the three years since 9/11, we’ve begun to understand that it’s possible to know what happened without knowing what happened. It’s the difference between knowledge that is both private and communal. . . and knowledge that is truly public. Some of what we need to know publicly has been provided by the report of the 9/11 commission. Other answers are lacking.”

These are extraordinary words from our nation’s newspaper of record. The suggestion that the American people should passively accept being lied to about a world-changing event by those elected to serve the public interest proves there was no intention on the part of the media to find out what actually transpired that day or to hold anyone accountable. Nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in broad daylight and an impossible explanation was force-fed to the world, yet just three years after the fact the Times could hardly be bothered to investigate who did it and why.

#Sumy Direction:

In #Sudzha Sector, to the west in #Ukraine, fights in and around #Zhuravka. To the southeast...

🟡 In #Basovka, the RFAF have advanced and the battle has shifted to the southern settlement part.

🟡 In #Kursk region, the battles for the villages of #Gogolevka and #Guyevo continue.

🟡 #Oleshnya and #Gornal remain under AFU control. [...]

With a Palestinian coloring book as proof of 'incitement,' Israeli police raided East Jerusalem's world-famous Educational Bookshop and arrested its owners. | If at any point over the past year and a half you might have thought the Israeli authorities had already crossed every possible threshold when it comes to curtailing Palestinians’ freedom of expression, you would have been mistaken. Because yesterday, Israeli police raided two branches of a world-famous Palestinian bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem, arrested the owner and his nephew, and seized a selection of books — including a children’s coloring book.

Trump has repeatedly announced plans to speak with the Russian president in recent weeks | Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Donald Trump, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "The telephone conversation between President Putin and US leader Donald Trump has just ended," Peskov said. "It was a very long phone call, it lasted almost an hour and a half," he added.

■ Russia, US to immediately start talks on Ukrainian settlement — Trump (TASS)
■ UPDATED 3:00 PM EST -- TRUMP HAS SPOKEN TO PUTIN - AGREE TO PEACE TALKS ! (Hal Turner) | 💬 I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects. We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering, that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we, likewise, lost so many! We each talked about the strengths of our respective Nations, and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together. But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine. President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, “COMMON SENSE.” We both believe very strongly in it.

Medical aid must be provided with or without an ID or a registered address, according to the president | Russian President Vladimir Putin has tasked the government with providing homeless people across Russia with free medical assistance, regardless of whether they have documents confirming their identity or registered address. ● The deadline set for the directive is July 1, 2025. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has been handed the responsibility for implementing the task.

Tibor Gaspar pointed out that the Russian-Slovak relations focus on, first and foremost, "economic cooperation, development of ties in cultural and sports areas based on the principle of equals" | NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte tries to make everything Russian a bogeyman for the Europeans, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Slovakia Tibor Gaspar said in an interview with TASS. 💬 "This is a certain bogeyman for the Europeans," he said, commenting on Rutte’s words that the EU will have to "learn how to speak Russian" in 4-5 years, unless NATO member states refuse to increase their military spending. ● "There was a time in history when we were under the USSR’s influence. Therefore this issue is being used today in a bid to create a negative attitude towards Russia," Gaspar said. ● "We had talks with State Duma Speaker [Vyacheslav Volodin], which could be praised quite highly. He said that relations must be balanced and equal," the official said.

✅ This small European country is defying the Western establishment: How long can it last? (Timofey Bordachev)

US President-elect Donald Trump has arrived in Washington, D.C., where his inauguration ceremony will be held on January 20, the media reported. | Trump's plane landed at Dulles Airport on Saturday night, the US media said, adding that after his arrival, Trump, together with his wife Melania and their son Barron, headed to his National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, for a celebratory dinner and fireworks show. At the same time, Vice President-elect JD Vance reportedly hosted a dinner at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. ● Before heading to Capital One Arena for his Presidential Parade on Sunday, Trump will take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the media added.

■ Seeding a Narrative Already: "Should something happen to Trump in the next few days, Iran is the main suspect"

Eloise Goldsmith | "Physically dragging out a reporter from the State Department briefing room while preaching press freedom to the rest of the world is the perfect example of the Biden administration's love affair with double standards and duplicity," said one foreign policy observer. | Two journalists were removed from Secretary of State Antony Blinken's final news conference on Thursday after interrupting Blinken's remarks to heckle him about the United States' policy toward Gaza, a day after a cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel was announced. One of the reporters, independent journalist Sam Husseini, was physically carried out of the briefing room by security. ■ Less than two minutes into Blinken's remarks, as he was thanking the reporters in the attendance for "asking tough questions," Max Blumenthal, the editor in chief of The Grayzone—an independent news—addressed Blinken, saying loudly in reference to the cease-fire deal:"300 reporters in Gaza were on the receiving end of your bombs. Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?" On Wednesday, President Biden announced the breakthrough, saying that “this is the ceasefire agreement I introduced last spring." ■ "Why did you sacrifice the rules-based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism," Blumenthal continued, before being led to the door. "How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide?" he yelled. Blumenthal also called out State Department Spokesman Matt Miller, who is briefly visible in a video filmed by the journalist, who charged that Miller "smirked through a genocide."

■ ‘Why Aren’t You in The Hague?’: Journalist Sam Husseini Gets Dragged Out of Blinken’s Last Press Conference

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who voluntarily supplied Russian troops with intelligence while staying in Kiev-controlled areas, sat down with Sputnik to give his thoughts on several pressing international issues, including America's domestic life. | “Since I came to Russia, I can express any of my political opinions and I don't have to fear any repression. It's really nice to be among friends,” US citizen Daniel Martindale - who voluntarily provided Russian forces with intel while staying in Ukraine-controlled areas - told Sputnik. ● Martindale unveiled his critical perspective on the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their broader implications. "A war never starts without someone dying," he told Sputnik, arguing that the attacks marked the beginning of "a war of the US secret services with their buddies from Israel against the populace of the United States."

💬 "When I see something like US secret services like the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] working together with very possibly Israel's Mossad to murder over 3,000 civilians in the terrorist attacks, so-called terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, I want to know what they're up to. I want to know who they're trying to fight against," Martindale emphasized.

■ THE 9/11 READER. The September 11, 2001 Terror Attacks (09/06/12)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Mauritian Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam to sign the deal with the United Kingdom on the status of the Chagos archipelago, which was agreed by the previous Mauritian government, but he was refused, a news portal reported, citing sources. | Ramgoolam made it clear that he did not agree with the original agreement reached in October and told Blinken that he had sent a counter-offer to London, the report said on Tuesday. The report noted that Ramgoolam thus confirmed his desire to achieve a better deal for Mauritius. [...] Mauritius and the Chagos Islands had been colonial possessions of the British Crown since 1845. In 1968, Mauritius gained independence, but the islands remained a British overseas territory. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Chagos population was deported to the Seychelles and Mauritius. In 1966, the UK leased the largest island, Diego Garcia, to the United States for 50 years. The lease was extended for 20 years in 2016.

The Syrian army didn’t run, they were ordered to stand down.

They claim that they didn’t “want to fight” is a lie. They gave 170,000 men to this cause not to mention the injured.

Here a soldier says “We were ordered to retreat from Homs we were sold out”.

Anyone disparaging… pic.twitter.com/EYOjOVpiW6

— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾 (@Partisangirl) December 10, 2024

Glenn Diesen | Organisations operating under the banner of “human rights non-governmental organisations” (NGOs) have become key actors in disseminating war propaganda, intimidating academics, and corrupting civil society. These NGOs act as gatekeepers determining which voices should be elevated and which should be censored and cancelled.

💬 The NGOs staged Georgia’s “Rose Revolution” in 2003 which eventually resulted in war with Russia after the new authorities in Georgia attacked South Ossetia. Recently, the Prime Minister of Georgia cautioned that the US was yet again using NGOs in an effort to topple the government to use his country as a second front against Russia.[5] Georgia’s democratically elected parliament passed a law with an overwhelming majority (83 in favour vs 23 against), for greater transparency over the funding of NGOs. Unsurprisingly, the Western NGOs decided that transparency over funding of NGOs was undemocratic, and it was labelled a “Russian law”. The Western public was fed footage of protests for democratic credibility, and they were reassured that the Georgian Prime Minister was merely a Russian puppet. The US and EU subsequently responded by threatening Georgia with sanctions in the name of “supporting” Georgia’s civil society.

Maria Zakharova (Мария Захарова) (Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman) | Our reaction in case Ukraine receives permission for strikes [into Russian territory] | Attention has been drawn to publications in the British press about the intention of British Prime Minister Starmer and French President Macron to try to persuade incumbent US President Biden to authorize Kyiv to launch strikes with Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia before Trump's inauguration. According to media reports, there are hopes in London that the White House will finally agree to such a move.

On the same day, in an interview with a French publication, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced that he had signed an order regarding the transfer of about 10 long-range Scalp missiles to the AFU, with the help of which, as Paris hopes, Kyiv will be able to strike behind the front line. You know, when the Kyiv regime strikes behind the front line,” I would like to say to Lecornu, ”the main thing is that it does not hit the French embassy.

These publications coincided with the information that appeared in Ukrainian social networks about the intention of Zelensky's regime to pass off Western missiles as Ukrainian-made products, changing their markings to hit Russia with them—such a bloody scam in the style of Zelensky and the whole gang! We understand perfectly well that this is impossible without the approval of his handlers. We would like to remind Washington, London, Paris, and Brussels that they continue to play with fire. 👇

❗️ The President of Russia has clearly outlined our reaction in case Ukraine receives permission for the strikes as mentioned above - we will regard this as a de facto entry of NATO countries into a direct armed conflict with Russia.

This would change the essence of the conflict and its nature, with all the consequences that entails. The response to the use of Western long-range systems on the territory of our country will be immediate and devastating for them. (DeepL + Gram.)

■ Moscow vows ‘devastating response’ to Kiev’s strikes deep into Russia (RT.com)

"9/11 - Painful Deceptions - Full Documentary: Eric Hufschmid wrote the book, "Painful Questions," which deals with the events of 9-11. Evidence and facts are carefully examined; photos and video captures are analyzed. | Eric shows us with graphic (literally), undeniable evidence that the official explanations for the atrocities committed on September 11, 2001 are questionable at best. He shows us that there is MUCH more to 9-11 than we are being told by our media and our government. Eric Hufschmid raises some very uncomfortable questions about 9-11; questions so uncomfortable that the magician/comedians Penn and Teller showed the book and urged people, "if you ever see anyone carrying it, push them down a flight of stairs." Why? Look to who cuts their pay checks and it might become clearer. To provoke calls of violence against himself and others by representatives of the "entertainment industry," Eric must have found something to make some powerful people VERY "uncomfortable" indeed.

💬 The New York Times: “American authorities intend to conduct new searches of the homes of U.S. citizens who cooperate with Russian media.” Maria Zakharova: What have Reporters Without Borders, UNESCO Director-General Madame Azoulay, and the OSCE commissioners to say about this? I hope they'll not remain silent. ● I am sure that this shameful fact will also be recorded in the State Department's report on the degradation of the situation with human rights and freedom of speech in the United States. We are waiting for an angry rebuke to the American authorities for the backsliding from democracy, performed by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. ● Did they forget anyone? Right, we also need a tweet from McFaul about the attack on liberalism in the United States and press releases from American embassies around the world threatening to impose sanctions against Biden.

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"Guest of Palestine Street"

An account of Ismail Haniyeh’s last interview with https://t.co/qFsLVJuDs1 just hours before his martyrdom.#Gaza #IsmailHaniyeh pic.twitter.com/IBi6EJxH33

— Khamenei Media (@Khamenei_m) August 3, 2024

■ Watch Last Meeting between Imam Khamenei and Iran’s “Guest” Ismail Haniyeh (Al Manar TV)

Exiled Catalan politician Carles Puigdemont has managed to evade authorities | Carles Puigdemont has returned after seven years in self-imposed exile to crash the vote for the new president of Spain’s Catalonia region, even as police in Barcelona tightened security to find him. ● Puigdemont was president of Catalonia in 2017 when he unilaterally declared independence. The Spanish government responded by sacking him and ordering his arrest, so he fled to Belgium. ● The Catalan parliament convened on Thursday to approve the election of Socialist Party candidate Salvador Illa, after months of negotiations with the separatist ERC party. The vote was upstaged by Puigdemont, who appeared outside the parliament before the session began and gave a five-minute televised speech. [...] His stunt outside the parliament apparently surprised both police and the media, who were under the impression he would try to enter the building. Police had blocked all but one entrance to the Parc de la Ciutadella, where the parliament is located, and checked everyone’s credentials before they could enter.

While Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is excommunicated, the same Vatican tolerates and even supports figures like Theodore McCarrick and others who abuse and challenge Church teaching. | We find ourselves at a strange moment in Church history when Archbishop Viganò is excommunicated swiftly while Theodore McCarrick remains unexcommunicated after years of his crimes against the Church have come to light. We should look closely at a Vatican that operates in this manner. Rather than addressing the serious questions and allegations Archbishop Viganò raises, he is summarily removed from the Church with an apparent motive to silence him. Meanwhile McCarrick and a lengthy list of others have promoted a culture that ignores or wants to change Church teachings and their voices are allowed and even overtly supported. It seems we are left with only stones to cry out for justice because the voices of faithful disciples are mute, ignored, or even silenced.

■ We must become saints to defend the Latin Mass (Life Site News)(VIDEO)
■ Vatican says Archbishop Viganò ‘guilty’ of schism and excommunicated (07/06/24)

Stoltenberg hopes for Ukraine's membership in NATO by 2034. Well done! This is the answer of an honest man.

By 2034, none of the current NATO leaders will be left in their seats. Some of them will be retired or in the best of worlds / hell (choose the required). And the country 404 itself will not exist. (Translation: DeepL)