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President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, was forced on Tuesday to explain several legal filings in which she allegedly referred to George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals” while she was defending terrorism suspects. Although Jackson had legal grounds to make the accusation, she denied directly implicating Bush and Rumsfeld.

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The West deliberately misunderstands China… Thus if we want a bit of propaganda on how good China is, we need to go to CGTN — the un/official voice of China. CGTN has great documentaries that show how China perceives itself — and how we should look at it. 

We must say that the Chinese would be perplexed: how a country such as Australia that rattles sabres every second day about “the Reds under the Beds” can be led by a fundamentalist lying idiotic Christian and his bunch of Duttonic devils?

Yes our ScoMo lies and, though he’s a minuscule apostrophe in the dictionary of useless leadership — like most powerful Western nations leaders, ScoMo believes in god and “miracles”. 

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US President Joe Biden raised eyebrows on Monday after he claimed a “new world order” would soon be established and that it was up to the United States to lead it.

During a speech at Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting, Biden claimed the world was at “an inflection point” which “occurs every three or four generations” and that it was up to the US to determine the outcome.

“As one of the top military people said to me in a security meeting the other day, 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946, and since then we’ve established a liberal world order and that hadn’t happened in a long while,” the president said.

“A lot of people died, but nowhere near the chaos, and now is the time when things are shifting,” he continued.

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Members of the opposition were even harsher than Hendel in their condemnation of Zelensky’s speech.

Likud MK Yuval Steinitz said it “borders on Holocaust denial.”

“War is always a terrible thing… but every comparison between a regular war, as difficult as it is, and the extermination of millions of Jews in gas chambers in the framework of the Final Solution is a complete distortion of history,” he said in a statement.

A number of Religious Zionism MKs also criticized Zelensky, with the far-right opposition party’s leader, Bezalel Smotrich, slamming the Holocaust comparisons and accusing the Ukrainian leader of trying “to rewrite history and erase the involvement of the Ukrainian people in the extermination of Jews.”

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The “rules-based international order” – as in “our way or the highway” – is unraveling much faster than anyone could have predicted.

The Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) and China are starting to design a new monetary and financial system bypassing the U.S. dollar, supervised by Sergei Glazyev and intended to compete with the Bretton Woods system.

Saudi Arabia – perpetrator of bombing, famine and genocide in Yemen, weaponized by U.S., UK and EU – is advancing the coming of the petroyuan.

India – third largest importer of oil in the world – is about to sign a mega-contract to buy oil from Russia with a huge discount and using a ruble-rupee mechanism.

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An article by Geoff Raby AO on Pearls and Irritations is more like getting a deadly rash from eating peanuts, than an irritation… It's vile… Geoff Raby AO is an Australian economist and diplomat. He served as the Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from February 2007 until August 2011.

Here he goes:

China’s top people see a successful country standing tall in the world. Now their leader is tarring it all by association with the wrecker and war criminal in Moscow.

GusNotes in ROMAN:

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Japan expansionism in the 1930s, which led them to bomb Pear Harbor in 1941, was about resources. Japan had invaded China to gain access to coal and oil. When the Japanese were stopped by the Chinese somewhat, they turned their sights onto the south-east Asian nations, from Thailand, Indochina, The Phillipines, Indonesia and Papua/New Guinea. 

From there, Japan had the resources needed, but they decided to prevent the USA from interfering. At the time the USA, under Roosevelt, had declared neutrality and “no weapons sales” to nations at war — especially to the UK…

Soon after the French and the English had once more declared war on Germany, only England was left to defend Europe. The Anglo-Saxon exclusive hegemony was under threat.

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"If Biden hadn't said anything about the possible deployment of Western troops in the past few months, it would have been better, for the security of Ukraine and for world peace", Bolton reportedly told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.

Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton raised eyebrows this week by telling a German publication that NATO and the US – under President Joe Biden – made a "big mistake" when they "repeatedly emphasised that there will be no intervention of any kind by Western troops in Ukraine".

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Recycled plastic bottles leach more chemicals into drinks, review finds

More chemicals being released by reused plastic could indicate need for ‘super clean’ recycling process

A widely used kind of recycled plastic bottle passes more potentially harmful chemicals into their contents than newly manufactured bottles, researchers have warned.

Researchers from Brunel University London found 150 chemicals that leached into drinks from plastic bottles, with 18 of those chemicals found in levels exceeding regulations.

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Against the backdrop of events in Ukraine, Boris Johnson, who just days ago found himself under increased criticism from the British and on the verge of impeachment for his indifference towards the subjects of the kingdom, decided to “brush his feathers and his tufts.” Not surprisingly, in his attempt to stay relevant he turned to a tried and tested tool of Russophobia, and under this banner this descendant of the Circassian muhajirs decided to launch an all out attack on everything Russian.

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An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Alexey Arestovich, said on Saturday that former president Petro Poroshenko is partly responsible for the ongoing conflict with Russia. The official pointed the finger at Poroshenko’s decision to write NATO aspirations into the country’s constitution.

The clause, outlining Kiev’s pathway to becoming a full-fledged member of the EU and US-led NATO alliance, was added into Ukraine's constitution in February 2019 and shortly before presidential elections. While the move was a pure PR stunt for the former president, it turned out to have long-lasting consequences, Arestovich told local media.

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I do not know if I’m committing a sacrilegious act by using the image above. It was painted by Gottfried Helwein (Born in Vienna, 1948)…. The violent betrayal of childhood innocence has been the central theme of his work since his very first paintings. Four decades later, his acerbic portrayals of human brutality still challenge viewers to reflect on the most unspeakable side of our nature.

As he explains, “The long shadows of the Third Reich were still cast over the city and the smell of death was in the air.” Horror, war and genocide inform Helnwein’s works, many of which cast children as the principal characters in scenes of violence and suffering.

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In this (altered) scan from the Airmont published "Master of the World" (1965) by Jules Verne, One can already note the political moires that were shaping the world. These moires were the continuum of more than 2500 years of civilisations, especially those of the Middle-East, those of Europe and later on, that of America.

It is a Christian/Jewish motivation — that of conquering and controlling the "world" in the name of "god". We can say with honesty that the years since the days of human recorded history, especially via the Greek/Roman philosophers, have always been "unsettled" for the human species.