By Emil Avdaliani, BESA     March 28, 2021

Sergey Lavrov and Joseph Borrell, photo by Alexandr Shcherbak via Flickr CC

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: EU-Russia relations are at their lowest since the end of the Cold War and show limited potential for meaningful improvement. The era of attempts to reset bilateral ties is over. The estrangement between Brussels and Moscow may contribute toward a strengthening of Europe’s ties to the US.

Irreversible divisions between the EU and Russia were reflected in the visit by Joseph Borrell, the EU’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Moscow in February. “We are at a crossroads,” Borrell wrote after the trip. “My meeting with [Russian FM Sergey] Lavrov highlighted that Europe and Russia are drifting apart. It seems that Russia is progressively disconnecting itself from Europe.”  After his departure, Moscow expelled three European diplomats, in retaliation for which three EU states expelled three Russian diplomats.

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L. Goudsmit. Big-tech and big-pharma attempts to silence Mercola are unrelenting. They try to discredit him the way they discredited Andrew Wakefield. It is disgusting.

by Dr. Joseph Mercola

VIDEO:  Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., Discuses BILL GATES AND HIS EMPIRES

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Bill Gates is entering every field that has to do with sustaining life and, for over a decade, has undermined vitality in all its forms, in an effort to seize control over and profit from it
• By funding research and financing public institutions, Gates is able to force those institutions down a path where they can only use his patented intellectual property

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There is no reason to believe that this drifting flotsam of a government has any other idea of what to do with the responsibility it must soon start to discharge.

By Conrad Black, AM GREATNESS

After 60 days of the new administration, American government has descended into surrealism. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, blandly assured the Sunday television news programs that “the border is closed,” and that unauthorized and inappropriate entry-seekers are normally turned away. This is clearly a monstrous falsehood and the docile Democratic-boot-licking media knows it to be false.

This ludicrous and tragic charade on the southern border is half of the current administration’s vast and pointless game of pretense, in which it denies the existence of one immense crisis, while grimly and tediously proclaiming the iron duration of another crisis that has in fact, largely passed. No screening process at all is being applied to large numbers of arriving, so-called migrants, and unskilled, penurious, largely illiterate—they are simply being admitted to the country because that is supposedly the humane thing to do with them.
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by Howard Rotberg, NER

The Canadian Broadcasting System (CBC) is government (taxpayer) supported and tilts to what I call the Leftist-Islamist-Globalist agenda.

CBC wrote on its website recently about the complaints by a student trustee at the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) about alleged acts of racism by the Trustees.

An independent investigation by a law firm into allegations of racism at the Board found trustees made racist comments and singled out a student trustee.

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by Gordon G. Chang, GATESTONE  March 22, 2021

• “Gunpowder” is one of those words Beijing uses when it wants others to know war is on its mind. The term is, more worryingly, also especially emotion-packed, a word Chinese propagandists use when they want to rile mainland Chinese audiences…. China’s Communist Party, therefore, is now trying to whip up nationalist sentiment, rallying the Chinese people, perhaps readying them for war.
• More fundamentally, Beijing is… trying to divide the world along racial lines and form a global anti-white coalition….
• Deng Xiaoping, Mao’s mostly pragmatic successor, counseled China to “hide capabilities, bide time.” Xi, however, believes China’s time has come in part because, he feels, America is in terminal decline.
• Xi is serious. In January, he told his fast-expanding military it must be ready to fight “at any second.” That month, the Party’s Central Military Commission took from the civilian State Council the power to mobilize all of society for war. Militant states rarely prepare for conflict and then back down.

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by Alan M. Dershowitz, GATESTONE

The fact that we even have to ask these questions demonstrates the precarious state of freedom of speech and the marketplace of ideas in the cancel culture….

• Professors are being fired for private discussions of grades and race. Students are terrified of expressing politically incorrect views, especially about race, sex, sexual orientation and even politics. Even silence is not always an option.
• There are several exceptions to this cancel culture rule. You can say almost anything negative about Jews, as evidenced by the recent Grammy awards, during which three overt anti-Semites were honored. These bigots did not even try to disguise their anti-Semitism behind the facade of anti-Zionism.

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T. Belman. This is a very dangerous development for Israel.  With China’s support of Iran, American efforts to woo them are seriously compromised and could easily get the US to compete with China to win them over. This will greatly affect American containment and sanctions efforts. Will America’s response be to compete with China or support the Abrahamic Accords designed in part to thwart Iran.

The countries signed a sweeping pact on Saturday that calls for heavy Chinese investments in Iran over 25 years in exchange for oil — a step that could ease Iran’s international isolation.

By Farnaz Fassihi and Steven Lee Myers,  NYT March 27, 2021

A photo released by the office of President Hassan Rouhani of Iran as he welcomed Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China, left, in Tehran on Saturday.Credit…Office of the Iranian Presidency, via Associated Press

China agreed to invest $400 billion in Iran over 25 years in exchange for a steady supply of oil to fuel its growing economy under a sweeping economic and security agreement signed on Saturday.

Truth ought still to be the most important thing in our lives and our politics, but truth is not advanced by assertions taken out of context to affirm a narrative.

By Stephen B. Presser, AM GREATNESS
In a headline clearly designed to prompt outrage, CNN recently claimed that “Sidney Powell argues in new court filing that no reasonable people would believe her election fraud claims.” Similarly, CBS News asserted that “Sidney Powell tells court ‘no reasonable person’ would take her voter fraud claims as fact.” The implication is that Powell, one of the most prominent critics of the 2020 presidential election, who has been outspoken in her claims that Joe Biden’s victory was secured through outright fraud involving, in particular, illegal and malicious manipulation of the vote-counting machines, has now repudiated those claims.

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REVOLVER    March 23, 2021

Last week, HBO released Part 1 of its 6-part docuseries “Q: Into The Storm.” It’s the latest douse of lighter fluid on a growing pyre of Regime Media agitprop against “conspiracy theories tearing democracy apart.”

Not to be outdone, CNN Clockwork Orange’d the country’s airport terminal captives with another round of “She’s losing her parents to QAnon. Listen to her plea”:

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BY HUGH FITZGERALD, JIHAD WATCH          MAR 27, 2021

The Kingdom of Jordan is in a parlous state. Just a year ago, it was looking forward to 2.5% growth in the economy in 2021; now it predicts a 3% contraction instead, a colossal drop. Poverty levels now approach 20%. The Debt to GDP ratio is 96%; unemployment is at 19%. Minister of Finance Mohamad Al-Ississ has said: “This year’s budget is the most difficult for Jordan ever. The coronavirus pandemic and exceptional regional circumstances have minimized growth.”
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TIERNEY NEWS

This is a family photo of Biden’s new health GURU – “Rachel” Levine. This man who identifies as a woman is in charge of YOUR health. What’s wrong with this photo? Collins & Murkowski even confirmed Levine. Now we have the comedy team of Fauci & Levine overseeing America’s health.

TIERNEY NEWS

Lindell said he has a second movie coming out soon called ABSOLUTE INTERFERENCE and he will start a 6 week campaign releasing more evidence of voter fraud (timed with May ratings sweeps, I imagine, in order to get networks to air it):

“We focused on two things in the second movie, the history of Dominion and corruption and how they flipped Venezuela to Communism in two years. Technical experts had to go and validate IP addresses. We have two new whistleblowers in disguise. I will tell you one was with the Senate runoff in GA. In that case, we had a guy with burner phones with hotspots. A citizen got a device to find an IP address, and he went into the election area with his devices and found the IP address.

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Is civilizational decline reversible?         

By Mark Tapson, FPM       Fri Mar 26, 2021

In a recent monologue on HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher called Americans a “silly people” for allowing themselves to be mired in culture war struggles, such as the politically correct cancelling of children’s books, while our superpower competition China is laser-focused on political, economic, and military dominance.

“You’re not going to win the battle for the 21st century if you are a silly people. And Americans are a silly people,” Maher asserted. He then referenced the latest “cancel culture” controversy – the woke mob’s targeting of children’s author Dr. Seuss over purported racism in his books: “Do you know who doesn’t care that there’s a stereotype of a Chinese man in a Dr. Seuss book? China. All 1.4 billion of them couldn’t give a crouching tiger flying fuck because they’re not a silly people. If anything, they are as serious as a prison fight.”

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By Terry Paulding, AM THINKER

Do you remember three years back, when newly elected AOC and Ilhan Omar were silly-seeming novelty representatives?  We thought the American people wouldn’t put up with their supercilious attitude and nonsensical ideas for long.  I remember thinking that, even in the liberal bastion of New York, AOC’s naïve depravity wouldn’t play well, especially after she chased away Amazon and all the jobs it would have brought.  I remember thinking Omar was caught, hoist with her own petard when it came out that she’d married her brother.  Then, later, when it became obvious that she was funneling campaign funds to her lover, I thought surely that would be her demise.

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Beijing to invest $400 billion in Iran in exchange for oil, report says; agreement will strengthen military ties and may undermine US leverage in Middle East

By AGENCIES and TOI STAFF       Today, 

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, pose for photos at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Iran and China on Saturday signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement addressing economic issues amid crippling US sanctions on Iran, state TV reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

TEHRAN — Iran and China on Saturday signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement addressing economic issues amid crippling US sanctions on Tehran, according to Iranian state media.

The agreement, dubbed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, covers a variety of economic activity from oil and mining to promoting industrial activity in Iran, as well as transportation and agricultural collaborations, according to the report.

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L. Goudsmit. Written just after the November 2020 election. This is an excellent summary of the “community organizing” roots of the 2020 election steal. The depth and breadth of the heist is staggering. Anyone who still believes it cannot happen in America, is not paying attention. It did happen in America, and unless it is reversed it will never stop. The permanent ruling class of Democrat/globalist/technocrat tyranny will end the greatest experiment in human freedom on the face of the planet. The “pandemic” was the path to partisanship over patriotism.

BY KEN BLACKWELL, BREITBART     21 Nov 2020

The pieces are finally coming together, and they reveal a masterpiece of electoral larceny involving Big Tech oligarchs, activists, and government officials who prioritize partisanship over patriotism.

The 2020 election was stolen because leftists were able to exploit the coronavirus pandemic to weaken, alter, and eliminate laws that were put in place over the course of decades to preserve the integrity of the ballot box. But just as importantly, it was stolen because those same leftists had a thoroughly-crafted plan, and because they were rigorous in its implementation and ruthless in its execution.
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by Marilyn Stern, Middle East Forum Webinar, March 26, 2021

Patrick Clawson, a member of the Middle East Quarterly‘s board of editors and director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, spoke to participants in a February 26 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about the state of Iran’s economy following the departure of the Trump administration, which implemented a “maximum pressure” campaign of economic sanctions against the Islamic regime aimed at forcing it to halt its nuclear activities.

Clawson emphasized that sanctions pertaining to Iran’s nuclear program are “only one part of a broader set of sanctions … cover[ing] things like terrorism and human rights abuses,” most of which are “going to remain” regardless of whether the Biden administration negotiates a return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. These sanctions will continue to discourage international companies, particularly banks, from doing business in Iran.

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By Kathleen Marquardt, NEWS WITH VIEWS     |March 27th, 2021

The last time or two that my home alarm system repairman was here, we were talking about Operation Paperclip, the secret, illegal ploy used to spirit Nazi scientists from facing charges at the Nuremburg Trials and bring them to the United States. Yesterday, he sent me a video of author Annie Jacobsen (an excellent writer, researcher and New York Times bestseller), giving a presentation on her new book Operation Paperclip.

I watched Jacobsen’s talk and was bowled over by a statement she made in responding to a question from the audience. A gentleman asked about the scientists who were being held for the Nuremburg Trials, but were wanted by U.S. military and government officials to get these scientists brought to the US as “good scientists” i.e., not evil Nazis, instead of being tried for their war crimes.