The Covid-19 pandemic, they told us, required that governments enforce unprecedented lockdowns and the effective shutting down of many aspects of normal life. But as things reopen and life returns to something like normal, what has the single greatest government intervention in people's lives cost society?
On this NewsReal podcast, first published on 27 June 2021, Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley discuss some of the effects of lockdowns and their tremendous toll on people's lives.
Two months into the most politically and militarily seismic event since World War Two, is Russia 'winning' or 'losing' in Ukraine? And can this complicated situation really be reduced to such an oversimplified question and answer?
This week on NewsReal, Joe Quinn answers listeners' questions about the war in Ukraine and its global ramifications, explaining what probably happened to the Moskva Russian ship, what will likely happen to Ukrainian refugees, the probability that Ukraine will be much smaller by war's end, the Ukrainian admission that the 'Ghost of Kiev' was fake news spread to 'boost morale', and more.
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US Congress members made a complete ar$e of themselves last week when grilling TikTok's CEO about his 'Chinese Communist Party ties' and his social media platform's 'malign influence on American children', paving the way - they hope - for the dehumanization the Chinese people in Americans' eyes, a prelude to some form of crazy 'war' against the world's most populous country.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the historic summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping inspired much fear and loathing from Washington's permanent bureaucracy - albeit disguised in weasel words and 'exceptionalist' dogma about 'the unbeatable power of US leadership'. The signs, however, are clear: the US is no longer the country most others look to - for anything...
Show notes: https://www.sott.net/article/478685-NewsReal-Exceptionalist-Overdrive-US-Scorns-Russia-China-Alliance-Touts-US-Leadership
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As tensions flare between the US and Russia over Ukraine, an apparent 'revolution' has gripped another country neighboring Russia: Kazakhstan. Large protests broke out there last week over a gas price rise, and these were abruptly superseded by organized violence that threatened to topple the government, until the Russian military accepted its invitation to intervene.
That development - together with the arrest of a former prime minister of Kazakhstan (and current head of its intelligence agency) for treason - has apparently stabilized the situation, but as Joe and Niall explain in this NewsReal, the attempted coup d'etat underscores how dangerous the broader stand-off between the US and Russia has become.
The danger isn't just regional; it's global. The probability of nuclear war between the superpowers remains small, but the Western Consortium's determination to financially sanction Russia into poverty "if it invades Ukraine" presents the real threat: massive economic blowback that will push an already delicate macro-economic situation over the edge.
The global economy is teetering as a result of supply chain breakages, labor shortages, and energy price rises caused by governments' blinkered Covid policies. The Americans' latest push to throttle the Russian economy may spark a cascade of crises that lead to food and energy poverty for people everywhere. And they know it. But they don't care because, well... because "it's worth it."
To listen to the media and authority figures, Big Pharma scandals involving fraudulent science and dangerous products are a thing of the distant past, thus distrust in the safety of their elixirs is completely unwarranted. What poor memory many seem to have...
Also, what is the purpose or substance behind 'Build Back Better'? Why did (mostly Western) leaders start spouting it, and could it have anything to do with China's 'One Belt One Road' masterplan?
Finally, what is up with so many of those who have taken the shot being so so cruel towards those who haven't? They're protected against the 'rona now, so... what is REALLY motivating them to pressure others into getting it?
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* Show notes *
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reckons hyperinflation is coming: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1451733913961783299
'Virus gonna virus', Alex Berenson / substack:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/virus-gonna-virus
'Kamala Harris engages with heckler during New York speech', The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/578061-kamala-harris-engages-with-heckler-during-new-york-speech
Harris interrupted during 'Build Back Better' speech: https://twitter.com/JosBtrigga/status/1451917686053740547
'NIH Admits to Funding Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan, Says EcoHealth Violated Reporting Requirements', National Review: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/nih-admits-to-funding-gain-of-function-research-in-wuhan-says-ecohealth-violated-reporting-requirements/
Pharmaceutical Fraud Compilation: https://twitter.com/Frances40996115/status/1452040819305820164
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admits government policy is to create two-tier society: https://twitter.com/GillianMcKeith/status/1452107609163673603
'Get the booster jab to save Christmas, Britons urged as country faces Covid 'crunch point'', The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/23/get-booster-jab-save-christmas-britons-urged-country-faces-covid/
‘Darker skies and colder weather provide perfect conditions... for Covid-19 to thrive’, The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/24/darker-skies-and-colder-weather-provide-perfect-conditions-for-covid-19-to-thrive
'Bring back social distancing to avoid a meltdown, says top scientist', The Times of London: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bring-back-social-distancing-to-avoid-a-meltdown-says-top-scientist-gvwwpvrck
'People vaccinated against Covid-19 less likely to die from any cause, study finds', CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/22/health/covid-vaccines-death-rates/index.html
'Judge bans Ottawa mother from advising son against COVID-19 vaccine', Ottawa Citizen: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/judge-bans-ottawa-mother-from-advising-son-against-covid-19-vaccine
'UK faces biggest cancer crisis in HISTORY: 60,000 YEARS of life will be lost', The Express: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1510625/nhs-cancer-waiting-lists-britain-health-news-professor-pat-price-warning
White House details plans to vaccinate 28M children age 5-11, Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-coronavirus-vaccine-bf6e5c8725aca6c757b129dad8f96926
Canadian Prime Minister announcing his govt has partnered with Pfizer to vaccinate all children aged 5 -11: https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1451199255314505738
'JFK assassination documents: White House issues memo postponing disclosure, citing Covid', CNN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jfk-assassination-documents-white-house-issues-memo-postponing-disclosure-citing-covid/ar-AAPR4b0
'Fact Check-Biden talked about corporations not paying ‘a cent’ in town hall hand gesture moment', Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-biden-handgesture-idUSL1N2RI2LV
What a week – A nationalist wins election in Italy, ‘someone’ blows up NordStream, Russia formally annexes 4 regions of Ukraine, and Putin delivers a speech for the ages!
This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the brazen ecological/economic terrorism of blowing up Europe's primary energy source amidst an ecological/economic crisis, the Russian 'loss' in Ukraine of welcoming four new regions into Russia (we know, that's illogical, but such is Western groupthink these days!), and the global rallying call from Putin in his historic speech denouncing Anglo-American imperialism and its crimes against humanity.
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Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/472716-NewsReal-NordStream-Sabotage-And-The-End-of-The-Western-World
We heard last week that some EU leaders, notably French president Macron, want to send Western armed forces into Ukraine in order to 'stop Russia from winning'. We know that their armed forces ARE already in Ukraine, but the implication of recent fighting-talk is that they're considering escalating the current 'proxy war' to 'the next level'.
How serious ARE Western leaders about doing this? They sound convinced that there is no other way, but are they just 'posturing'? We may soon find out because, in the meantime, unless SOMETHING changes, Trump and other populists' victories are going to end Western hegemony and thus profitable war-making.
What better way to stave off revolution at home than by sending would-be revolutionary males off to a bloody war?
Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/489470-NewsReal-How-Serious-Are-Western-Leaders-About-Full-on-War-With-Russia
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Following their breakthrough in Avdeyevka outside Donetsk city, the Russians are advancing on multiple points along the contact line in territory formerly known as Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky continues whining about insufficient funds and weapons, despite bleeding Western armories and treasuries dry. As we pass the two-year mark since Russia stunned the world with its lightning-quick assault deep in to Ukraine, existential desperation is seeping from every pore of Western leadership.
Also in this NewsReal, the Houthis are successfully hitting multiple US-UK cargo ships, warships and tankers (and Israel's economy has shrunk by 20%), Trump is all but guaranteed to win the US election (unless he's assassinated?), Google's woke AI is launched (and deservedly panned for being idiotically racist), and French president Macron is practically chased out of an agricultural fair by farmers angry at, among other thing, Ukrainian grain flooding the market.
It's Clown World, and we're all condemned to suffer it!
Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/489241-NewsReal-Ukraine-War-2-Year-Anniversary-The-West-is-Still-Losing
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Biden's aggressive, hopped-up 'State of the Union' speech inadvertently revealed the state of the American union: fatally fractured. With 10 million migrants pouring into the US during his term, in service of stuffing the ballot boxes and packing the military, this desperate 'Late Rome' attempt to maintain the political status quo in perpetuity is destined to fail.
The unanimous self-delusion two years ago that Ukraine was going to 'defeat' Russia has given way to bitter acknowledgment that Russia is going to win... 'unless we do something fast!' In the meantime waves of drone-strikes are daily targeting Russian cities, and Russian counter-strikes are picking off the best war machines the West has 'gifted' Ukraine.
Macron is STILL talking about 'doing a Napoleon', this week speculating - to the Polish foreign minister's delight - that French troops could soon be in Odessa, and meeting Moldova's PM to 'guarantee their security', fully aware that there are TWO pro-Russian regions within tiny Moldova that would welcome entry into the EU/NATO about as much as Donbass Russians.
Final topics in this week's NewsReal: Texas governor Gregg Abbott's suspicions about the Smokehouse Creek wildfire (the largest-ever in that state), the comprehensive defeat of government proposals to 'equalize' Ireland's constitution, and the revolution in Haiti being falsely portrayed as 'cannibal gang warfare'.
Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/489689-NewsReal-End-of-Empire-Angry-Biden-Divider-in-Chief-Macrons-Grande-Armee-to-Defeat-Russia
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By effectively instituting a black-out in the West on information coming from Russia, the Anglo-American party to this recently expanded 'civil war' in Ukraine is dominating all communications about what is taking place there.
'Free' from the burden of having to research and provide actual documentation and evidence from or about Ukraine, Western media has resorted to outright fiction in order to 'shape the perception' that the Russian military is failing to achieve what it set out to do - and worse, is 'wantonly slaughtering civilians'.
This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall expose the latest war lies to assess the actual situation, discuss the 'war psychosis' that has gripped the West, and point to the real risk of this war spreading in Europe and further afield.
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Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/465428-NewsReal-Russian-Operations-in-Ukraine-Proceeding-as-Planned-But-Risk-of-War-Contagion-Grows