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The US is starting to lose the game badly. Go ahead, hypocrites, bring on more sanctions and see what it gets you. The world is so sick of the USA’s hypocrisy. China obviously is not afraid and this symbolizes a new approach for China. It’s basically saying, you do not scare us anymore, USA. Lou
Eastern diplomatic sources confirmed to the Al-Akhbar newspaper that a high-level Syrian delegation is likely to visit the Chinese capital soon to hold high-level meetings with Chinese officials to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries, and the Chinese role in helping Syria overcome its economic crisis.
Officials in Syria said that the visit would be “very important,” and that President Bashar al-Assad would meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in an official ceremony. Al-Assad’s visit will constitute a strategic milestone in Syrian-Chinese relations and a strong push for the Chinese role in the region, after Beijing’s role in achieving the Saudi-Iranian reconciliation this spring. Al-Assad’s visit is first and foremost political and confirms China’s keenness to consolidate the legitimacy of the Syrian state and President al-Assad at the international level, despite the US attempts to obstruct the Arab-Syrian reconciliation, to block Syria’s attempt to extend its full control over the country.
As for the economic dimension of the visit, it comes in light of the stifling siege that Damascus is suffering from as a result of the direct American role in sanctions, military occupation, and the devastating results of the war.
It is assumed that the announcement of the Indian-Arab-Israeli-European Corridor, with an American push, has motivated the Chinese to activate the “Belt and Road Initiative”. Syria is located on one of the potential lines of this important economic line.
Source: Al-Akhbar – .
In the past 4 years alone theaters across the country have seen a 50% plunge in box office attendance. Meaning, the industry somehow lost half its consumer base from 2019 to 2023.
No one cares about the writers, no one cares about the actors, and certainly no one cares about the studios for good reason.
It should be noted that a large percentage of celebrities and Hollywood corporate interests supported and promoted the COVID lockdowns. They also joined the online lynch mobs seeking to shame and destroy anyone who defied the mandates. Now they’re pretending like none of that ever happened, but the public has not forgotten.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hollywood-dead-heres-why-no-one-cares
SATURDAY, SEP 16, 2023
In the past, the film industry was perhaps the only industry (besides politics) in which abject failure has been met with consumer empathy and largesse. Ever since the days of the Great Depression, the American public has wanted Hollywood to succeed; to continue to entertain us with tales of adventure and drama. For if Hollywood survived, so did people’s hopes for American culture.
There was an era when Hollywood celebrities and film creators were treated as a kind of modern royalty, a representation of the heights to which the average person could strive and “make it big.” The glitz and the glamour were viewed as the culmination of the American dream. But as with all fantasies, the story must end and reality must return. Was the movie business always a farce? Yes. However, it was a farce that the public held up even in the worst of times as something of value; something more than frivolity.
In the span of around 7 years Hollywood has lost every ounce of social capital they had gained in the past century. That takes an epic level of ignorance and arrogance. It takes criminal levels of malicious intent and an unprecedented display of stupidity. The populace was willing to put up with almost any level of degeneracy from Tinsel Town as long as they could make compelling movies, and yet, they couldn’t even do that.
Today, the consequences of their hubris are punching them right in the nether regions as the business collapses in on itself. And this time, no one seems to care. In fact, many people are cheering their inevitable demise.
In the past 4 years alone theaters across the country have seen a 50% plunge in box office attendance. Meaning, the industry somehow lost half its consumer base from 2019 to 2023. The media attempted to play down the crash as a symptom of the COVID pandemic, but the fact is that the decline started well before the lockdowns, the closures in red states ended quickly, and some movies (such as Spider-Man: No Way Home and Top Gun: Maverick) had explosive success while most other films lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the midst of the covid hype.
It should be noted that a large percentage of celebrities and Hollywood corporate interests supported and promoted the COVID lockdowns. They also joined the online lynch mobs seeking to shame and destroy anyone who defied the mandates. Now they’re pretending like none of that ever happened, but the public has not forgotten.
In the past few months, Hollywood has been dealing with the WGA and SAG worker strikes and there’s no doubt they will attempt to blame the labor conflict for the continuing decay of profits just as they blamed Covid. Already, multiple major studio productions have been pushed back two years or cancelled altogether, and most premier release dates have been moved to 2024 – 2025. A number of television productions have been shut down and late-night talk shows are on the verge of extinction. But you don’t hear the public complain much, at least not as much as during the last major strikes in 2008.
No one cares about the writers, no one cares about the actors, and certainly no one cares about the studios for good reason. Though writers and actors might garner more sympathy than producers and CEOs due to concerns over AI, the threat of AI-formulated screenplays is greatly overblown and AI-generated proxies of famous actors are not going to bring back audiences in sufficient numbers to save the film industry anyway.
The strikes are seen as the last gasp of a dying institution, an institution that deserves to be cremated and replaced by a decentralized network of true creatives making content with substance and intelligence. The real reason for the death of Hollywood is simple, and it’s a truth that the media will never admit to: Get woke, go broke. As a reminder, let’s take a look at the plethora of woke failures Hollywood produced in 2022 alone…
Woke propaganda and DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) ideology are the root cause of the implosion of showbiz. There is an inherent hostility within woke culture towards American heritage, towards constitutional freedoms, towards free markets and towards legitimate imagination and creativity. This hostility and deconstruction is not lost on the average consumer, they know when they are being attacked and they don’t like it.
Beyond the industry’s attempts to “count coup” against the conservative and moderate population, there is the basic matter of content quality. If the top priority of a creative endeavour is to implant extremist political messaging rather than tell a good story, it will be virtually impossible to tell a good story and the industry will attract the worst kinds of zealots.
The survival of Hollywood now relies on their ability to accept failure and recognize their mistakes, which will never happen.
It’s not surprising that media simpletons are currently clinging to a movie like Barbie as a sample of woke success; they’re desperate for a counter-argument to the Get Woke, Go Broke mantra. That said, exceptions to the rule do not change the rule. For every Barbie, there are a dozen Little Mermaid or Woman King bombs. And, Barbie was never marketed as a woke film (except in Australia). In fact, it was marketed as a normal romantic comedy romp in the US, something which female audiences have been clamouring for (how many decent romantic comedies has Hollywood released in the past 5 years? Why have there been so few? Is it because the far-left hates love stories about straight people?).
They had to hide the feminist cancer in order to get butts in the theatre. Hardly a shining example of woke success. Barbie/Oppenheimer were likely the last hurrah for Hollywood as the strikes continue unabated and productions are pushed further into oblivion. All the parties involved in these strikes are responsible for their dwindling piece of the entertainment pie. The writers are garbage, the actors are garbage, the production companies are garbage. It would appear that consumers have decided it’s time to put the garbage where it belongs – In the dustbin.
…Corrupt governments, globalist plandemics, cyber emergencies, fearporn, threats and all the rest – it’s time to stand up!
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1703026491104309254?s=20
The Twitter account of America’s 44th president just casually shared some links to organizations providing relief to the victims of the terrible flooding in Libya, which as of this writing has already killed thousands of people.
And that would of course be a fine and normal thing for America’s 44th president to do — had America’s 44th president not personally played a massive role in paving the way to the devastation we’re seeing in Libya today.
“If you’re looking to help people impacted by the floods in Libya, check out these organizations providing relief,” Obama tweeted.
Uhh, excuse me? Sir? You know you’re literally Barack Obama, right?
In 2010 the oil-rich Libya ranked higher on the UN Human Development Index than any other nation in Africa, with much better national infrastructure to protect itself from floods and other natural disasters. Today Libya is a chaotic humanitarian disaster where UN-backed investigators now say literal crimes against humanity have been taking place, including women being forced into sexual slavery.
What changed? If you’re reading this, you probably already know what changed.
In 2011, US, French and British forces helped rebels with extensive links to Al Qaeda kill Libya’s longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi, which immediately plunged the nation into violence, chaos, extremism and instability which persists to this day. It was later revealed that NATO powers knew they were backing murderous Al Qaeda-linked jihadists at the time.
Falsely branded a “humanitarian intervention” designed to prevent alleged plans for genocide and Viagra-fueled mass rapes against peaceful protesters by Gaddafi’s troops, the NATO attack on Libya quickly morphed into a regime change operation which saw Gaddafi brutally lynched in the streets and dying after being stabbed in the anus with a bayonet. Years later in 2016 a UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee found that the narratives used to justify the intervention in Libya were “not supported by the available evidence.
” “We have seen no evidence that the UK Government carried out a proper analysis of the nature of the rebellion in Libya,” the report reads. “UK strategy was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence.”
This confirmed concerns voiced by Amnesty International and a UN human rights investigator months before Gaddafi’s death that the evidence for the alleged atrocities the intervention was meant to prevent simply wasn’t there to be found. Because no policy changes were made after the Iraq invasion and nobody was ever punished for inflicting that horror upon our world, no lessons were learned, and it happened again. The West was deceived into yet another disastrous military intervention, which continues to have severe consequences for people in the region to this day.
In an article published earlier this month in Responsible Statecraft about the crisis in Niger, Branko Marcetic made the interesting observation that the Nigerien junta which ousted the previous government has explicitly stated that the coup was necessary because of the “continuous deterioration of the security situation” which Niger and other countries in the Sahel have been suffering from for over a decade due to “the negative socioeconomic, security, political and humanitarian consequences of NATO’s hazardous adventure in Libya.” Marcetic also notes that the regime change intervention in Libya was meant to segue into a regime change intervention in Syria by the same means:
“Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and John Kerry (D-Mass.) all called for a no-fly zone. ‘I love the military … but they always seem to find reasons why you can’t do something rather than why you can,’ complained McCain. The American Enterprise Institute’s Danielle Pletka said it would be ‘an important humanitarian step.’ The now-defunct Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) think tank gathered a who’s who of neoconservatives to repeatedly urge the same. In a letter to then-President Barack Obama, they quoted back Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech in which he argued that ‘inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later.’
“Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, reportedly instrumental in persuading Obama to act, was herself swayed by similar arguments. Friend and unofficial adviser Sidney Blumenthal assured her that, once Gaddafi fell, ‘limited but targeted military support from the West combined with an identifiable rebellion’ could become a new model for toppling Middle Eastern dictators. Pointing to the similar, deteriorating situation in Syria, Blumenthal claimed that ‘the most important event that could alter the Syrian equation would be the fall of Gaddafi, providing an example of a successful rebellion.’
” And that’s exactly what the Obama administration set out to do: pouring weapons into Syria with the goal of effecting regime change, once again on the side of Al Qaeda-linked fighters. Had Russia not intervened in 2015 to prevent Damascus from being toppled, Syria would likely have suffered the same fate as Libya.
So that’s two countries Obama and his cohorts tossed in the incinerator back-to-back, in much the same way the previous administration torched Afghanistan and Iraq. It was done a bit more slyly and subtly than the overt Hulk Smash ground invasions of the Bush era, but the death, suffering and destabilization caused by Obama’s depravity have been just as real.
This is as clear as day, and yet we still get imperial propaganda outlets like The Washington Post telling us that “everyone” is to blame for Libya’s current troubles. WaPo has a new article out titled “Libya’s catastrophe is everyone’s fault,” which is a bit like Charles Manson saying the Manson Family killings were everyone’s fault. The article’s author Ishaan Tharoor lays the blame for Libya’s inability to adequately protect its people from the flood on “Libya’s feuding factions and fractured polity” as well as other nations in the region before conceding that NATO’s toppling of Gaddafi would have also played some role.
Another Washington Post article titled “How a decade of conflict and division put Libya in peril of disaster” lays zero blame at all on Obama and NATO powers for the nation’s suffering, saying only that Gaddafi was a brutal dictator who “was killed by rebel forces during a NATO-backed Arab Spring uprising.” But it does acknowledge that Libyans are now dying because the nation’s infrastructure has been in a state of decay since 2011:
“The country, with terrain ranging across desert and coastal communities, is highly vulnerable to human-induced climate change. But improvements to and maintenance of basic services and infrastructure, such as the country’s networks of dams, has been deprioritized, said Mary Fitzgerald, a Libya expert at the Middle East Institute, a Washington think tank.
“‘Between 2011 and 2014, there were already concerns about the state of Libyan infrastructure,’ Fitzgerald said. ‘And then Libya went through a six-year civil conflict from 2014 to 2020 and a lot of infrastructure was damaged during that conflict. In the three years since, you have a situation of rival government, which has yet again complicated political dynamics.’
” This nation has been in a continuous state of strife, violence and suffering since the United States spearheaded a NATO campaign to smash it to pieces. And yet you’ll still get empire simps telling you that NATO is a “defensive alliance”, and you’ll still get liberals saying that Obama’s worst scandal was wearing a tan suit one time.
Barack Obama belongs in a fucking cage. His crimes are utterly unforgivable, and if the law existed to punish the world’s worst criminals instead of to protect them he would be rotting in a maximum security prison cell.
It’s all well and good that people are sending Libya aid and that the call to do so is being amplified by influential voices. But the fact that the 44th president of the United States can just come out and pretend to support a nation he personally helped destroy without being called out and excoriated by the mass media shows that we live in a world which is dominated by lies and propaganda.
So-called historic wildfires in the U.S., Greece, and Canada filled corporate media headlines while blaming “global boiling.” However, the annual number of wildfires for 2023 remains average.
In Greece, the annual average did increase moderately, and arsonists were to blame. Social media was flooded with convincing points and speculations, blaming the globalist psychos’ minions for starting the fires in order to spread fears of man-made climate change to push Net Zero policies throughout the Western world, and also, to take advantage of the aftermath to buy land at a fraction of their original price.
Accusations of land-grabbing grew even louder after the Lahaina fires when private companies “generously” offered to buy the affected land. But then, Governor Josh Green, said he would not allow the land to end up in private hands, but that the government could buy them. Is this good news for the people of Lahaina? Or will the land, once handed over to the government, end up in the hands of private companies anyway? That remains to be seen. But whether it was natural, man-made, or both, the official death toll from the fires is 115. Considering the population of Lahaina, that’s a huge death toll.
In addition, Maui’s major reported that 850 people were still reported missing, and suddenly the number went down to 60. There are many things to blame for this tragedy: – Government incompetence. – Laughable budget for wildfire safety. – Exceptionally flammable grass was introduced in 2020. – Extreme winds. – No warning sirens. – State officials refused to release water. – High voltage cables cut and laid over dry grass. – Police blockades that kept people from fleeing the deadly fires. – Utility trucks blocked roads as people tried to flee.
Later, the government erected a fence around the affected areas, and fire survivors were not allowed to return to what was left of their homes and businesses. For “their protection”, they said. Or is there something else they want to hide? In early August, the warm-mongers were still pushing the “world is boiling” nonsense, while the US had a cooler-than-average summer, and northern Italy, the Dolomites, and the Pyrenees were hit with summer snow!
Then they change the narrative a bit and blame global warming for the extreme flooding around the world, yet, as we have shared before, it’s all part of natural cycles, pointing out a shift to colder global temperatures. And again it has nothing to do with CO2: Recent research suggests carbon dioxide molecules have little consequential impact on outgoing radiation, and that today’s climate models assign fundamentally erroneous global temperature effects to CO2. But that doesn’t matter because the goal of the globalist psychos and their minions – the corporate media and paid “experts” – is to fuel the fires of fear and hysteria.
However, it seems that fewer and fewer people are buying into their lies, as reality sometimes reveals itself quite dramatically.
The 2024 election will be the most important in American history, the ex-president says
https://www.rt.com/news/583006-trump-biden-us-hell/
Sept 15, 2023
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally. © AFP / Scott Olson
Former US President Donald Trump has said America is in rapid decline, and re-electing him would give the country a last chance to turn things around.
“Our country’s going to hell. Our country’s going down,” Trump told journalist Megyn Kelly in an interview for the SiriusXM satellite radio station, aired on Thursday.
The US “has one last chance,” which makes the presidential vote in 2024 “the most important election we’ve ever had,” he claimed.
The former leader acknowledged that he said the same about his victorious presidential race of 2016, but insisted that the next year’s vote will be even more crucial.
“Our country is going bad, our country is being destroyed” under the Biden administration, he insisted, adding: “We’re a nation in serious decline, and I think I can turn it around very fast.”
With Trump currently indicted in four separate cases, Kelly asked how concerned he was about potentially ending up behind bars.
Trump charges are political persecution – Putin
“I have a great attitude, it doesn’t affect me at all because I’m fighting for the country, I’m fighting for the people,” the Republican candidate replied.
The 77-year old said the “good” polling numbers make him confident he is “going to win the election no matter what happens” because the people know the charges are “fake.”
A survey, published by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday, suggested that 62% of Republican voters want Trump to be their party’s nominee in 2024. The poll also said Trump is currently trailing the incumbent President Joe Biden by just 1%.
Trump reiterated his earlier claim that he does not believe Biden will stand for re-election in 2024 due to the 80-year-old’s apparent poor health.
“I watched him yesterday, he couldn’t put two sentences [together], he can’t talk,” he said of Biden. “It’s not an age thing, it’s a competence thing.”
In August, a Wall Street Journal poll found that 73% of US voters think Biden is too old to seek a second term, while only 36% described him as mentally fit to fulfil his duties.
READ MORE: Trump mocks Biden over ‘electric tanks’
However, Trump’s age, at just three years younger than Biden, is apparently also an issue for many Americans. A study by NBC in June said that 55% of those surveyed had concerns about his physical and mental health.
The two countries claim Moscow will pay a price for military cooperation with North Korea
https://www.rt.com/news/583018-korea-us-kim-putin/
Sept 15, 2023
South Korean and US officials holding a press conference after the EDSCG meeting in Seoul. © AFP / Anthony Wallace
Russia is violating UN Security Council resolutions by engaging in military cooperation with North Korea and it will be held accountable for it, South Korean and US officials have warned.
High-ranking representatives from Seoul and Washington discussed ways to contain Pyongyang during an Extended Deterrence Strategy and Consultation Group (EDSCG) meeting in the South Korean capital on Friday. The gathering took place amid the visit of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to Russia, which has sparked concerns in South Korea and the US.
“Russia’s military cooperation [with North Korea] is a grave violation of UN Security Council resolutions,” South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Chang Ho-jin said during a press conference after the event. Moscow should “act responsibly” as a permanent member of the UNSC, he added.
According to the deputy FM, Seoul and Washington “agreed to work together to ensure there is a price to pay for the grave violation of Security Council resolutions,” which impose strict international sanctions on Pyongyang over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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His comments were echoed by US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins, who said “the recent reports about the potential sale of arms between North Korea and Russia are concerning.”
If such a deal takes place, it would violate UNSC resolutions, Jenkins claimed, adding that the US would “try to identify, and expose, and counter Russian attempts to acquire military equipment to prosecute their illegal war in Ukraine, not only from the DPRK [North Korea], but wherever we see it.”
Western media have speculated that Pyongyang supplying shells to Moscow and providing other forms of military cooperation was discussed during talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un at the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Tuesday.
The two leaders, however, have not explicitly mentioned military cooperation so far during the DPRK leader’s visit to Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday that “no agreements were signed on this or any other issue” by the Russian and North Korean leaders. “There were no such plans,” he added.
READ MORE: National leader added to Ukrainian ‘kill list’
Throughout the conflict in Ukraine, Russia has repeatedly denied claims that it is using foreign equipment such as North Korean shells or Iranian drones. Moscow insists that it relies solely on locally made weapons in the course of its military operations.
The United States and Europe are spending enormous resources on searching for and educating so-called “young democratic leaders” in specialized educational centers, who will then be used to organize coups to create regimes dependent on the West in previously independent states, Patrushev said in an article for the Razvedchik (“Intelligence Officer”) magazine.
Sept 15, 2023
© AP Photo / Czarek Sokolowski
Washington will easily send the troops of other alliance [NATO] member countries to be slaughtered without risking the lives of its military, says Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
Patrushev clarified that the US treats the troops of alliance members as “colonial armies,” meaning that they are expendable in comparison to the “privileged” American people. He added that international terrorist organizations are also supported and financed by Western secret services and are used to strengthen “Atlanticist influence”.
Patrushed added that hundreds of employees of foreign intelligence services and other persons involved in reconnaissance and subversive work against Russia and its strategic partners have been neutralized in recent years.
US Main Instigator of Coups, Terrorism, and Assassinations Around World – Media Commentator
The United States and Europe are spending enormous resources on searching for and educating so-called “young democratic leaders” in specialized educational centers, who will then be used to organize coups to create regimes dependent on the West in previously independent states, Patrushev said in an article for the Razvedchik (“Intelligence Officer”) magazine.
“In recent years, hundreds of employees of foreign intelligence services, as well as other persons involved in organizing intelligence and subversive activities against our country and our strategic partners, have been identified and neutralized,” Patrushev said.
Subversive Activities of Western Envoys
The ambassadors of the US, the UK and France tried to force delegations of other countries not to go to Russia for an international security meeting under the auspices of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev said in an article.
From May 23-25, Russia hosted the 11th international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues under the auspices of the Russian Security Council. The forum was attended by delegations from 101 countries and six international organizations.
“The conference took place in a difficult international situation, under conditions of overt pressure, when the ambassadors of the US, the UK and France tried to force its participants to refuse to travel to Russia,” Patrushev stressed.
The Russian leader noted that Washington considered the use of such munitions as a crime, but at the same time “it feels free to do it, and this is the main problem of today’s international relations”
https://tass.com/politics/1675355
Sept 15, 2023
Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin
SOCHI, September 15. /TASS/. Cluster munitions are used in the widest possible way in the zone of the special military operation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said while answering journalists’ questions during a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Asked whether the Ukrainian side was now using cluster munitions on the battlefield, Putin replied: “They are being used and in the widest possible way.”
“But I have already commented on this. I have nothing to add,” he said.
The cluster munitions issue, he believes, “reflects perfectly what is happening in the world as a whole.”
“What I mean is this: there is one country that thinks it is exceptional – the United States,” Putin explained. “Even what it considers to be a crime, it takes the liberty of doing itself. In fact, the US is using cluster munitions in this case, with the Ukrainians’ hands,” he pointed out.
Putin noted that Washington considered the use of such munitions as a crime, but at the same time “it feels free to do it, and this is the main problem of today’s international relations.”
He is certain that for this reason a vast majority of participants in international communication were working together with Russia for the creation of a multipolar world because almost no one is satisfied with such a state of affairs.
“I say ‘almost’ because even those countries which are allies of the United States, I assure you, do not like this situation, either. They don’t like being treated as backstage extras,” Putin said.
“Yes, they [the US – TASS) use [cluster munitions], unfortunately. They themselves call it a crime and keep doing it,” Putin concluded.
15 SEPTEMBER 2023
This is FLASH Traffic. North Korea has agreed to send three hundred thousand (300,000) to five hundred thousand (500,000) troops to Russia to assist with its Special Military Operation in Ukraine, against NATO.
The first deployment will be about 20,000 soldiers to assist with Logistics.
More as I get it. . . .
Intelligence assessment of these new rocket launchers is as follows:
Judging by the published photos, the military received MLRS, known under the Western designation KN-09 or KN-SS-X-9. Its caliber is 300 mm.
The first version, which has eight missile tubes, was shown in 2015 at the parade in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
It is believed that missiles with a warhead weighing up to 190 kg are capable of hitting targets at a distance of at least 220 km.
Guidance is inertial, in preparation for use, the calculation uses data from navigation satellites, which provides a fairly accurate hit.
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