‘Strategic ambiguity’ or sheer incompetence? Blinken’s China speech shows the US is outmatched in competition with Beijing

Monday, 30 May 2022 — RT

[I had to copy texts off the RT site and reorganise it as the site has been well mangled. WB]
Washington’s top diplomat was supposed to clarify its China policy but instead face-planted, highlighting incompetence in the US government

Ukraine News Links 29-30 May 2022

Monday, 30 May 2022 • 19:30 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links may not work, depending on your location but I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.

Bernie and AOC = Playing the role of “anti-war”
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/05/bernie-and-aoc-playing-the-role-of-anti-war/

How the US Government Steals from Other Countries
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/05/how-the-us-government-steals-from-other-countries/

Finland And Sweden’s Decision To Join NATO Appears They Have Shot Themselves In Their Own Feet
https://orientalreview.org/2022/05/30/finland-and-swedens-decision-to-join-nato-appears-they-have-shot-themselves-in-their-own-feet/

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Disquiet at Davos and the Unsaid Fear of Failure – The First Shoots of a U.S. Ukraine Shift

Monday, 30 May 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Alastair Crooke

The unspoken fear disquieting Davos attendees is the fear of another débacle, following that of Afghanistan.

Klaus Schwab, passionate for Ukraine, essentially configured the World Economic Forum (WEF) to showcase Zelensky and to leverage the argument that Russia should be kicked out of the civilised world. Schwab’s target was the assembled crème de la crème of the world’s business leaders assembled there. Zelensky pitched big: “We want more sanctions and more weapons”; “All trade with the aggressor should be stopped”; “All foreign business should leave Russia so that your brands are not associated with war crimes”, he said. Sanctions must be all encompassing; values must matter.

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Major UK Political Parties Back ‘State Threats’ Bill That Would Restrict Press Freedom

Monday, 30 May 2022 — The Dissenter

BY RICHARD SPENCE

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is a leading supporter of the “state threats” bill that has press freedom advocates concerned. (Photo: ukhouseoflords)

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All main political parties in the United Kingdom have called for immediate passage in Parliament of new measures to fight “state threats,” which would restrict press freedom and threaten civil liberties.

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Data shenanigans as Sweden misleads its public over vaccination-related mortality data

Sunday, 29 May 2022 — HART

Which other countries are playing the same game?

In December 2021 Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, Clare Craig, Josh Geutzkow, Joel Smalley, Scott McLachlan and Jonathan Engler published an article casting doubt on the vaccine efficacy implied by the UK’s official mortality statistics as they related to vaccination status, raising miscategorisation of vaccinated deaths soon after injection as unvaccinated as a possible significant factor.

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Covid-19 : the Evidence Now

Sunday, 29 May 2022 — HART

What have we learned?

It is over two years since the first lockdown and now more than a year since HART published its paper COVID-19: an overview of the evidence. We asked all the original authors to go back and review their article and update with relevant publications, revising their conclusions as appropriate. These chapters spelled out either evidence of harms from the pandemic policies or theoretical concerns.

A year later the evidence is coming in and it is damning.  This ‘updates’ series will hopefully form part of HART’s evidence to the Independent Review.

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Gruesome Goings-On

Monday, 30 May 2022 — The Van Says…

Every blog post needs a good photo, but regarding those who have fallen and been abandoned, there are no good photos

Preamble

Since Russia’s Special Operation in the Ukraine began in February, a multitude of reports have been made regarding both mass graves as well as the manner in which the Ukrainian Armed Forces abandon their dead in battle. The investigation concerning mass graves is currently ongoing in the Ukraine, Donbass Republics and Russia, yet the callous way in which Kiev treats not only those on the battlefield who have paid the ultimate price, but also their family members is a matter that needs to be examined in more depth.

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