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"The white man, him speak with forked tongue." – Anon.

March 1, 2025: As [Minister of Foreign Affairs] Espen Barth Eide said on nrk.no: "The West is criticized for having double standards in the war in Ukraine and the Middle East. We must take active steps to avoid this perception." But there are two standards out there—one for Russia and one for the US.

A murder and an attempted murder

Sergei Skripal—In March 2018, an attempt was made on Sergei Skripal's life in England. The Russians were suspected but did not admit to the crime. The condemnation from the West was harsh and massive, the language was coarse, and as many as 153 Russian diplomats were sent home, one of them from Norway. In addition, various sanctions were introduced.

Jamal Khashoggi—In October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi was allegedly brutally executed and dismembered in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. The murder was carried out by a commando group of five men from Saudi Arabia, probably ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. There was no reaction from Western countries, no diplomats were expelled, no sanctions were imposed and arms exports from the USA continued as usual. The language used here was mild or completely absent.

Conclusion: An anti-Russia campaign—There is little doubt that the Skripal incident served to discredit Russia to such an extent that there is reason to believe it was designed and carried out by MI6 and the CIA for this purpose. Below we will take a closer look at the background to the war in Ukraine, and show that there is "a rule for them" and "a rule for us". The duality is not due to incompetent politicians. It is because an "Anti-Russia campaign" is still going on, many years after the end of the Cold War. The US and the UK are leading the campaign, and Norwegian politicians are participating uncritically.

Video Rebel
Video Rebel's Blog

The US spends $1.51 trillion on its military every year. That would include not just the DOD but the money spent by 6 other agencies that cover the rest of our military spending. For example, the Dept of Energy does nuclear weapons.

Russia is raising its annual military budget to $125 billion due to the ongoing war in the Ukraine. The US has a large corruption factor making its weapons more expensive and less effective. Dr Mark Skidmore found that $17 trillion had gone missing from the HUD and DOD budgets from 1998 to 2015. So, let’s see what Russia has that we don’t.

1) Oreshnik IRBM. It has 6 MIRVs which in turn has 6 submunitions. 36 submunitions hit the ground at Mach 10. They dig deep into the earth releasing heat at 7,232 degrees F (4,000 C.) It melts steel and concrete. Russia used one of these on an industrial area in the Ukraine. There was nothing left but dust. Homes 2 blocks away were so shaken that they looked like they had been hit by a 9.0 earthquake.

2) Avangard is a Mach 27 ICBM with a 2,000 kilogram warhead. Mach 27 is about 20,000 MPH. (32,000 KMH.) That’s a lot of kinetic energy released on one target.

Jonathan Cook
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When westerners see 'enemy' governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural event. Nothing could be further from the truth

The long-harboured aspirations of the US, Turkey and Israel to topple the Syrian government, mainly through their rebranded al-Qaeda allies, succeeded at lightning speed.

Damascus fell days after Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) forces under Abu Mohammad al-Jolani surprised observers by breaking out of their small north-western enclave in Syria and seizing the country’s second city, Aleppo.

Bashar al-Assad’s government and his army, it turned out, were paper tigers. Or they were, once their chief allies – Russia, Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon – had been forced onto the back foot. Preoccupied with troubles closer to home, they could no longer offer the military support Assad depended on.

Israel’s rampage across Lebanon and its military intimidation of Iran – as well as Nato’s increasing efforts to pin Russia down in Ukraine – unfroze the main battle lines in Syria, arrived at several years ago between Assad’s army, al-Qaeda’s franchise in Syria and Kurdish forces in the north-east.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

If Putin hopes to reach a deal with Erdogan on Syria, then it’ll require keeping up the pretense (however unbelievable it is to objective observers) that Turkiye no longer backs terrorists, thus accounting for Lavrov’s diplomatic assessment of events there.

Lavrov’s interview with Tucker mostly saw him elaborate on Russia’s stance towards the proxy war with NATO in Ukraine, which built upon what he shared during his earlier and more concise interview with Newsweek in early October that was analyzed here at the time.

He was also importantly asked about the latest events in Syria, the assessment of which hasn’t received much international media attention, at least not yet. The present piece will therefore review and interpret what he said about that.

He began by describing the Astana process between his country, Iran, and Turkiye as being driven by the need to contain US-backed Kurdish separatist threats in Syria before expressing hope that he’ll meet with his counterparts over the weekend during the Doha Forum to discuss the latest developments.

Lavrov then said he’d also like to “discuss the need to come back to strict implementation of the deals on Idlib area, because Idlib de-escalation zone was the place from where the terrorists moved to take Aleppo.” According to him, Turkiye must continue separating Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from the non-terrorist opposition, and he also wants the M5 highway between Damascus and Aleppo reopened after that group just captured its northern half over the past week.

Video Rebel
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Black swan event, high-impact event that is difficult to predict under normal circumstances but that in retrospect appears to have been inevitable. A black swan event is unexpected and therefore difficult to prepare for but is often rationalized with the benefit of hindsight as having been unavoidable. (Britannica)

Nassim Taleb recently wrote of de-dollarization on twitter. I believe that the Black Swan event we have been waiting for is the simultaneous humiliation of the US military on multiple fronts causing a sudden and catastrophic collapse of the dollar. The Good News is that the Liberal Establishment that has been bleeding us dry for decades might also die.

We ought not to think of Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, the War on Terror and NATO’s project in the Ukraine as separate events but as just different phases of One Unwinnable Forever War. When I was in high school, I asked how real the Cold War could be if both sides had the same Bankers, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds? If the Bankers own your government, then think of war as a means to make them richer and you poorer. Of course, tens of millions of us had to die to make the whole thing seem real on the TV.

To understand government in Europe, the UK, Canada, the US, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, you must learn to think like a Banker. He sees you as a means to enrich himself. He knows that the purpose of the government he owns is to make himself richer and to keep you in your place.

Video Rebel
Video Rebel's Blog

Over the next ten days we will see a Democratic Convention in Chicago that will be far worse than the 1968 DNC riots. We will also see the collapse of the Donbass front in the Ukraine. The Russians are almost ready to assault the city of Pokrovsk which is Zelensky’s last line of defense.

Additionally, Russia has given Iran so many advanced weapons that the attack on Israel had to be delayed. Israel and the US will soon be greatly humiliated. And that will hurt the US Dollar and enrage American voters who up until now had been compliant sheep despite the abuse all normal people around the world have received from the Global Elite.

In short, it all hits the fan -or mostly all except for the Collapse of the Dollar – over the next ten days.

Starting with the Mideast, we can see the Israeli Lobby’s political donations have paid off. The US has sent Navy F-18- E/F Super Hornets with the latest in radar and electronics to Jordan to protect Israel from drones. F-22 Raptors were sent to Qatar. The US has permanently stationed troops in Jordan, Syria and Iraq. Bahrain is a US fleet headquarters, and the Saudis host American airbases. The British Royal Air Force has jets stationed at Cyprus and share a base in Muscat-Oman with the Americans. Kuwait also has an American air base.

American citizens need none of those bases. They are there for Israel and Wall Street.

Video Rebel
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Egypt has 100,000 troops at the Gaza border hoping to take badly needed supplies to 2.3 million Palestinians. Even before the recent war, Israel had been rationing the people of Gaza to less water than the UN says human beings need.

Putin has aircraft with Mach 12 Kinzhal missiles on board planes in the Black Sea. The Kinzhal is Mach 10 and has a total speed of Mach 12 when launched from a fast jet. It can sink an aircraft carrier. It digs a hole 98 feet (30 meters) deep where its target used to be.

We were told the US Treasury deficit was a mere $1.7 trillion for fiscal year 2023. But that is not true. The US Treasury added $2 trillion in debt. In fact recently, they added $500 billion in debt in just one month.

Before the first shot is fired from American, Chinese and Russian ships in the Mediterranean, China could sell $30 billion an hour in US Treasury bonds every hour starting as soon as the London markets open and continuing when New York opens. New York and London Bankers will likely force the Biden admin to discontinue all this war talk nonsense.

Bankers will tell the idiot politicians in Washington what I have been saying for years: When, not if the Dollar Dies, our wages and pensions will be permanently cut 60%. Instant chaos and riots in every American city will ensue.

The US has kept its fleet over towards Sicily. But Russia can always get permission from Turkey to move his jets closer if Netanyahu tries to demolish the homes of all those people in Gaza and force them to go live in tents in the Sinai. Or Russia could use older ICBMs to launch a couple of Mach 20 Avangard missiles at those two US aircraft carriers. Iran also has the Kinzhal missile and a variety of other missiles to take out US ships in the Persian Gulf including that one aircraft carrier.

John Waters

The world’s governments have waged a two-year war on behalf of rich, powerful interests seeking to destroy the sovereignty and futures of their own peoples. This war now enters its most lethal phase.

A crime is being committed on an ongoing basis, all across the world, free and unfree. It is a crime of commission and omission, and arguably the most serious in either category that has ever been perpetrated. We are facing multiple crises but our governments tell us only about crises that are not crises, or at least not crises that involve us, as opposed to affecting us. Effusing moral blackmail in all directions, they shruggingly point towards the war that they started with the precise intention of creating an alibi for themselves, so as to avoid the wrath of their peoples and the punishment that ought properly to await them.

In Ireland, three months ago, the ‘crisis’ that had allegedly assailed us for two years — the ‘crisis’ of a ‘deadly’ disease — evaporated overnight to be replaced by the ‘crisis’ of a war in a country nearly 2,500 miles away. At first sight, it seemed unlikely that such a conflict might affect us in any substantial way, but immediately our Government announced that it would be taking an unlimited number of refugees from the affected country, guesstimated at 200,000 — into a country whose government has for the past decade declared itself perplexed and powerless in the face of a housing shortage affecting 10,000 of its own citizens. Instantly, those who thought that a war in Ukraine was none of our business were ‘proved wrong.’

We who have been seeking to confront the attempted destruction of our lives and societies occurring over the past two years have many times speculated as to whether the dominant note of the political responses might more correctly be ascribed to stupidity or to wickedness. The jury remains out. Stupidity, as we have noted, is no excuse, especially considering that these politicians have been proactive in pushing potential lethal poison serums and preventing people exercising fundamental freedoms on foot of a refusal to accept them. These are not victimless inanities. There must, we have ruminated, be some legal limit on the stupidity of people who exercise public power, especially when that stupidity leads to loss of life or serious injury, which in this case is most certainly the case: a dramatic uptick in working-age mortality in multiple countries of 40 per cent and more.

Video Rebel
Video Rebel's Blog

Several disturbing events are happening. The dollar, the pound, the euro and the yen should soon have zero value. In America that means Nationwide Food Riots and the cities burn to the ground.

China just forgave the debt of 17 African nations. That is an unusual move. What I believe they are doing is lining up support for the next big move which could happen at the 2023 BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) meeting in May in Beijing. Sergey Glazyev, Minister of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Union, wants all BRICS members and everyone from the Global South to refuse to repay loans denominated in dollars, pounds, euros, and yen. From that day forward trade would be conducted either in a basket of commodity backed BRICS currencies or in local ones with trade accounts settled in gold.

Bloomberg just recently noticed that the velocity or turnover of money just shot up sharply. That will support higher prices. Shadow Stats has our real inflation rate in the US at 16.8%. Money turns over faster and faster as we go further along the inflation track. Why? If I know the price is going up every 3 months, then I should run out and buy 3 months worth of consumables and pay on my credit cards. When I get paid, I can pay off my cards.

horse237

Most NATO governments have declared war on their unhappy citizens by making food and energy both scarce and expensive. In Holland the government has put the farmers on notice that the majority of farms will be closed by 2030. In the US the government has killed tens of millions of chickens, turkey, geese and ducks using phony PCR tests as a justification. Those 26 Biolabs in the Ukraine were working with Bird flu and drones to spread diseases in the air. My regular readers know that Bill Gates gave $12 million to the researcher who crossed Spanish flu with Bird flu and mixed the resulting brew with 3 of the most contagious strains of influenza then available. He enabled Bird flu to move from the beak to the lungs while making it contagious enough to infect humans.

The whole point of making food scare and too expensive for most workers is to force them to accept digital ration cards and IDs so they will be easily controlled while the Globalists are reducing the population of the world by 7.5 billion.

In WW II 40% of all produce was raised in backyards. These were called Victory Gardens. By raising the price of oil and all other forms of energy, the Globalists have made it impossible for commercial farmers dependent on chemical inputs to feed all of us. A US farmer said his fertilizer bill will be $186,000. Also going up will be the costs of diesel, pesticides and herbicides.

Fortunately, traditional farming practices have evolved over the last 6,000 years so we can use those methods in our backyards and in professional market gardens to give us free fertilizers, free pesticides and free treatments increasing the biomass of our crops. There are lots of videos telling us how to do all of this.