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Debt Rattle September 19 2024

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 September 19, 2024  Posted by at 8:36 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  49 Responses »


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• Deep State Knows It Cannot Cheat Kamela In – Martin Armstrong (USAW)
• “A Better Deterrence”: Hillary Clinton (Turley)
• The Digital Revolution Is the Prime Enabler of Tyranny (Paul Craig Roberts)
• The Real Reason US Wants To Silence RT (Lukyanov)
• India’s Modi ‘Coming To Meet Me’ – Trump (RT)
• Chris Cuomo Tells Trump He’s Ashamed Of The Media (MN)
• ABC’s David Muir Sees Rating Plunge Amid Debate Moderation Backlash (AmG)
• Ex-WSJ Journo Uncovers Migrant Trafficking Network In Springfield, Ohio (ZH)
• Pavel Durov’s ‘Ex-Partner’ Wants A Cut (RT)
• Brazil’s Lula FIres Back After Zelensky Criticism (RT)
• Zelensky Cancels Meeting With Latin American Leaders (RT)
• ‘Superbugs’ To Kill Tens Of Millions By 2050 – Study (RT)
• Top Oncologist Raises Alarm: Every New Cancer Patient Is Under 45 (GR)
• Why Are Britons Forced to Eat Bugs? (Sp.)

 

 

 

 

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Me, I just think the poll numbers make no sense. He has a computer program to prove it.

• Deep State Knows It Cannot Cheat Kamela In – Martin Armstrong (USAW)

Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong predicted less than a month ago that there would be another assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, and the Deep State was going to do everything possible to start a war with Russia. He was right on both counts. All the chaos, debate fraud and push for World War III comes down to the Deep State knows it cannot cheat enough to put Kamala Harris into the White House in November. Forget the phony polls where they all say Kamala is running neck and neck with Trump. Armstrong says his “Socratees” computer program shows Kamala’s real approval rating is around 10%, and all his computer models say Kamala is going to lose big in November no matter how much they cheat. Armstrong says, “Just about everybody in politics looks at Socratees now because its track record on politics has been phenomenal for 30 years. They know what is going on.”

So, is the Biden Administration panicking with this second clumsy attempt to assassinate Trump while playing golf? Is our own government trying to kill Trump because they know they cannot win? Armstrong says, “I believe so. . . . Look, these people have been warmongers. . . . This is their power. They have gotten so close to destroying Russia, which is their end goal here. Handing long-range missiles to Ukraine, this is like hiring somebody to kill your spouse and then saying, well, he shot, I didn’t. . . . Trump and RFK Jr. are against war. . . . My concern here is they need to create war before January, if not even before the election. I think this is what all this stuff is about with the long-range missiles to shoot into Russia. If Trump does get in, they have to trap him into war. The whole nonsense about Russia Gate and all the rest was because Trump is against war. . . . The neocons called Trump Putin’s puppet because Trump will not engage in war against Russia. This is what this is all about.”

Will the demonic Deep State try yet another assassination of Trump? Armstrong says, “I would not put it past them. Maybe next time they use Monkey Pox or Bird Flu. Look, Trump represents a real threat to their power. If Trump gets in, the neocons are out. Who wrote that recent article for the Washington Post that said Trump would be a “dictator”? It was Victoria Nuland’s husband. Why? Because Victoria Nuland was thrown out of Trump’s Administration. She has been in every administration except Trump’s. . . . This is the neocons against the American people. The computer has been showing that this may be the very last election we have. Just look at the chaos that has been going on at this stage.”

Armstrong is afraid that Putin may be overthrown in Russia because his response has been too timid against NATO. Armstrong says, “Putin knows the neocons want war, and he won’t take the bait.” Armstrong is also afraid that if Putin does get booted out of office, then the people who replace him will be far worse, and brutal war would follow. Armstrong says the evil people in Washington will hide in bunkers when the atomic weapons drop on the rest of America. He thinks a big problem coming will be shortages in everything –including food. If there is bigger war, the economy will plunge, and interest rates will skyrocket. Greatest Depression here we come. In closing, Armstrong says, “The Deep State is scared to death of Trump winning in November because he now knows how to play the game. . . . and Secretary of State Tony Blinken is running the country” because we know Joe Biden is not.

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She’s calling for her own arrest.

• “A Better Deterrence”: Hillary Clinton (Turley)

Clinton’s efforts were so obvious by July 2016 that former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s alleged “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.” The Russian investigation was launched days after this briefing. Her general counsel, Marc Elias, his former partner Michael Sussmann, and the campaign were later found involved in not just spreading the false claims from the Steele dossier but other false stories like the Alfa Bank conspiracy claim. It was Elias who managed the legal budget for the campaign. We now know that the campaign hid the funding of the Steele dossier as a legal expense. New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said that Elias denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier. When Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’”

Times reporter Maggie Haberman declared, “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.” Elias was also seated next to John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, when he was asked about the role of the campaign, he denied categorically any contractual agreement with Fusion GPS. Even assuming that Podesta was kept in the dark, the Durham Report clearly shows that Elias knew and played an active role in pushing this effort. The Clinton campaign lied to the media, spread false claims of Russian disinformation, and was accused of being a conduit for Russian intelligence. So would the “better deterrence” have been for Clinton herself to be arrest? Sussmann ultimately did stand trial but was acquitted. Notably, John Durham noted that “no one at Fusion GPS … would agree to voluntarily speak with the Office” while both the DNC and Clinton campaign invoked privileges to refuse to answer certain questions.

For a person who is on her fourth memoir, Clinton is remarkably hostile to free speech. Notably, in all of these memoirs, she does not address her prominent role in calling for the censorship and now arrest of those with opposing views. She also does not discuss how her campaign lied to the media and funded the Steele dossier. Perhaps that is coming in the fifth memoir. What is clear is that Clinton herself has no fear that such prosecution would ever await her. She is one of those who may silence others but not be silenced. The public is to be protected from views that she deemed disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation. To that end, as one of the guardians of truth, Clinton chastised the media for not being more consistently anti-Trump, a daunting prospect since the media has been accused of running almost 90 percent negative stories on Trump. Nevertheless, shortly after the second assassination attack on Trump, Clinton called Trump a danger to the world and added that “I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.”

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“..the digital revolution is the third worst thing that dumbshit humanity has brought upon itself other than nuclear weapons and American biowarfare laboratories..”

• The Digital Revolution Is the Prime Enabler of Tyranny (Paul Craig Roberts)

Sweden and France now ban cell phones in school. Digitalization of youth has had serious adverse effects on physical and cognitive development. Having raised a generation of youth unable to function because they are digitalized-addicted, Sweden, France, and other European countries are eliminating cell phones from the school day. As I have often said, the digital revolution is the third worst thing that dumbshit humanity has brought upon itself other than nuclear weapons and American biowarfare laboratories. Mothers harassed with trying to keep up in a men’s world substituted digitalization for motherhood. The consequences are dire.

Grandparents report that their grandchildren instead of acquiring skills wasted their period of cognitive development playing video games and scrolling cell phones. Consequently, they are incapable of working or comprehending the requirements for their survival. Their world is a world of entertainment. The child-unsafe Tower-of-Babel-Sodom-and-Gomorrah-society that the liberal-left have created for Americans has left parents at the mercy of the Child Protective Services Gestapo. Consequently, mothers have added over-protection to the plague of digitalization, and the consequence is the inability of youth to develop into confident and capable people. It leaves the youth of our time susceptible to tyranny.

In my day, we grew up in fights on the school play yard during recess, with each boy proving by his willingness to fight that he couldn’t be bullied. The teachers who were playground monitors never interfered with the right of passage unless things got out of hand. But by that time another boy had intervened by taking up the fight of the defeated kid. Bullies were short-lived on the playgrounds of my youth. Most of us grew up believing in ourselves. It is this constraint on inappropriate and unacceptable behavior that is missing today. Today Americans lack the confidence to confront the tyranny that is encompassing them. They take refuge in the fake news of their oppressors while their liberty dwindles.

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Monopoly no more.

• The Real Reason US Wants To Silence RT (Lukyanov)

In late 1986 Yegor Ligachev, the secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, and Viktor Chebrikov, then-head of the KGB, proposed that the country end the practice of jamming foreign radio stations. ‘Enemy voices’ was the popular term used at the time to describe these broadcasts from abroad. Of course, the two prominent officials were not imbued with bourgeois ideas when seeking to end radio jamming. They were actually taking a businesslike approach. The pair explained to the Central Committee that blocking was expensive but not very effective, given the size of the country. So, it was suggested that signal-jamming be abandoned and that funds be diverted to counter-propaganda measures. This meant more active work with foreign audiences to communicate the Soviet Union’s own views on world events.

A few weeks later, at a meeting with US President Ronald Reagan in Iceland, USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev raised the issue. He said “your radio station Voice of America broadcasts around the clock in many languages from stations you have in different countries in Europe and Asia, and we can’t present our point of view to the American people. So, for the sake of equality, we have to jam the Voice of America broadcasts.” Gorbachev offered to stop blocking ‘VOA’ if his counterpart agreed to let Moscow have a frequency to do the same in the US. Reagan evasively promised to consult when he returned home. In the end, the Soviets stopped jamming foreign radio stations unilaterally, without any deal.

The events of the last few days have echoes of this old story. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken devoted an entire speech to RT, which is subject to ‘full-blocking’ (that’s a new formula!) sanctions for its supposedly destructive and subversive work around the world. According to Blinken and the American intelligence agencies he references, the threat posed by the Russian company is of the highest order and requires the most decisive measures from all of Washington’s allies. Without irony or exaggeration, it can be said that RT could only dream of the global recognition that Blinken’s appeal has facilitated. The effectiveness of the media group was not so much confirmed as it was certified, and by prominent representatives of its rivals.

We could deplore infringements on freedom of expression and restrictions on pluralism of opinion, but there is little point in doing so. Such notions should only be promoted in relation to the internal information space of individual countries; at a national level, they are an indispensable prerequisite for normal development. As for foreign sources of information, people generally perceive them as instruments of influence. And it hardly depends on the type of socio-political system that exists in a given state. The more comprehensive the information and communication environment, the greater its impact on people’s behavior, and the more acute the desire of governments to tighten control over the flow of ideas and analysis. The international media sphere is deliberately ideological, electrified and conflictual. Hence Blinken’s, shall we say, uncharacteristic remarks that RT should be treated “like an intelligence agency.”

How effective are the tactics of restricting alternative views and jamming radio waves? Comrades Ligachev and Chebrikov rightly pointed out that the costly efforts to jam hostile broadcasters were, to put it mildly, not particularly effective. Worse, as the author well remembers, the very fact that the authorities were fighting foreign radio voices had the opposite effect to that desired – if they were silencing voices, it meant that they were afraid of the truth. And, by the end of the Soviet era this opinion was not only widespread among the frontline intelligentsia, many ‘ordinary people’ also didn’t give a damn about the official channels.

At their meeting in Iceland, Reagan countered Gorbachev’s appeal by saying that, unlike the Soviets, “we recognize freedom of the press and the right of people to listen to any point of view.” The US president had no doubts about the superiority of the American system in all respects. Accordingly, the demands for information pluralism, then and later, reflected the confidence of Washington that it would emerge victorious from any competition. And so, a few years later, the US achieved a de-facto monopoly on the interpretation of everything.

Washington’s current extreme reaction is due to the feeling that it’s losing this monopoly. Alternative interpretations of events now arouse public interest. In fact, the total resources of the Western, mainly English-language media are incomparably greater than what all the carriers of alternative points of view can offer, at this moment. But internal insecurity is growing all by itself, fueling the desire to fence off the information space. From the same playbook comes the US’ attempts to explain its internal strife and accumulated contradictions by pointing to a pernicious external influence. This was also the Soviet experience. However, the USSR didn’t solve its own issues by blaming them on external causes. In fact, as its problems grew, those same outside factors actually began to exacerbate them.

Targeted punitive actions can create obstacles for any organization, there is no doubt about that. Especially when they come from what is still the most powerful country on the planet. But American history teaches us that monopolies do not last forever. Sooner or later, a cartel becomes a brake on development, then it becomes the subject of measures to break it up.

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“And Modi, he’s fantastic. I mean, fantastic man. A lot of these leaders are fantastic..”

• India’s Modi ‘Coming To Meet Me’ – Trump (RT)

Former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump on Monday suggested he will be meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The foreign head of state will be arriving in the US later this week to participate in the United Nations General Assembly in New York as well as a summit of the leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, hosted by US President Joe Biden in Delaware. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Flint, Michigan, Trump described Modi as a “fantastic” leader, but also referred to India as a “very big abuser” of trade ties, suggesting that New Delhi imposes heavy tariffs on imports. “He (Modi) happens to be coming to meet me next week,” Trump stated. “And Modi, he’s fantastic. I mean, fantastic man. A lot of these leaders are fantastic,” he said, referring to leaders of other developing nations such as Brazil and China. Trump said that if elected, he will initiate “reciprocal trade” with the countries that “abuse” tariffs.

“These people are the sharpest people… You know the expression, they’re at the top of their game, and they use it against us. But India is very tough. Brazil is very tough… China is the toughest of all, but we were taking care of China with the tariffs,” the Republican nominee stated. Trump and Modi last met during the former president’s visit to India in February 2020. A year earlier, he had hosted Modi at the highly publicized ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Texas, which was attended by 50,000 people. In July, Modi condemned the assassination attempt against Trump, saying he was “deeply concerned” over the incident. “Violence has no place in politics and democracies,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Notably, the meeting between Modi and Trump hadn’t been announced before the GOP candidate mentioned it, and New Delhi has yet to comment on the matter.

The Indian Foreign Ministry in a statement on Tuesday said Modi will be in the US from September 21-23 to attend the fourth Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) meeting. The informal group includes Australia, India, Japan, and the US. The summit, which was initially supposed to be hosted by India, was shifted to the US at Washington’s behest. The meeting will be hosted by Biden in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware on September 21. India has agreed to host the next summit in 2025, according to the Hindustan Times. Modi will address the ‘Summit of the Future’ at the United Nations General Assembly in New York as well as the Indian diaspora at a community event.

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“I just don’t see how we get anywhere better than where we are right now.”

• Chris Cuomo Tells Trump He’s Ashamed Of The Media (MN)

Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has spoken out about how ashamed he feels at the media for pushing the narrative that Donald Trump only has himself to blame for deranged lunatics trying to assassinate him. Cuomo, now with News Nation, stated that he called Trump personally after the second assassination attempt to say he’s “really sorry that this is going on and it’s being dealt with this way.” “I called him today because I am ashamed of how we are responding and not responding to the threats on him,” Cuomo said. He continued, “And I feel for his family, and I know you can roll your eyes and say, ‘Oh yeah, he asked for it.’ Listen, that’s your choice, and I think it’s a wrong choice. Okay? We got to get out of the judgment business, unless it’s judging ourselves, and you’ve got to start rewarding things that are better.”

“And I got to tell you, I don’t know how he stays in the race,” Cuomo further noted, adding “I don’t know how he got up after being shot in the head. And you people who try to mitigate that, you need to check yourself. He gets up, pumping his fist, stays in the race, barely even talks about it.” While qualifying that he is not a Trump supporter, Cuomo urged “I am worried about us. I am ashamed of what’s happening around us right now, and the relative lack of concern about it. I just don’t see how we get anywhere better than where we are right now.” Trump “doesn’t deserve this. A guy pointing an AK-47 at him while he’s playing golf?” Cuomo asserted, adding “And we take solace in the fact that the guy didn’t get any rounds off? That does not work for me.”

He continued, “If I had been through what that guy’s been through in the last two months, you would not know where I am. You would never see me on TV again. No way I would do that. I don’t know how he does it.” “He’s got kids, they’re adults, but he’s got grandkids. He’s got a wife. People giving crap to Melania Trump, worrying about whether or not there was a plot around her husband. How could she not?” Cuomo further proclaimed in a clear reference to his former colleague at CNN Don Lemon, who created and later deleted a ‘reaction video’ in which he rolled his eyes and acted exasperated at Melania Trump for sharing concerns about her husband being targeted.

“I don’t think she’s right, but I totally get why she feels that way,” Cuomo stated, adding “People mock her? And then her husband has a guy pointed with an AK-47 where are those people apologizing?” “That’s what it’s time for. ‘I should not have come at you, Melania Trump, for suggesting that maybe there was something more afoot I get your, paranoia, I get your feelings, you have a right to that,’” Cuomo added. “There’s nothing wrong with saying that,” Cuomo further proclaimed, “with being a basic, decent human being, it has gotten too out of control, too far from where we need to be and how we need to be, and I don’t know what to do about it. I don’t know.” He’s got a way to go to make up for the establishment hackery he engaged in for years at CNN, particularly as regards Trump, but this is a start at least. Lets see if he sticks to it.

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He’ll never “moderate” a debate again.

• ABC’s David Muir Sees Rating Plunge Amid Debate Moderation Backlash (AmG)

ABC’s “World News Tonight” has been experiencing a massive decline in ratings following widespread condemnation of host David Muir’s performance as a moderator during the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). According to the New York Post, “World News Tonight” averaged about 7.6 million viewers per night throughout most of 2024, prior to the debate on September 10th. In the first three episodes after the debate, the show averaged about 6.7 million viewers, amounting to a roughly 12% drop. Following the debate, President Trump has criticized Muir at campaign rallies, as he and co-moderator Linsey Davis refused to fact-check anything that Harris said but repeatedly pushed back on statements from President Trump. “Every one of them should have been questioned by David Muir, who I’ve lost a lot of respect for. Everyone’s lost respect for him,” said the former president last week. “It was so one-sided. It was one against three.”

Davis attempted to justify her performance, where she incorrectly told President Trump that no states in the country allow for post-birth abortions. She cited the lack of fact-checking in the CNN debate on June 27th between President Trump and Joe Biden, which went so horribly for Biden that he was ultimately forced to withdraw from the race on July 21st. “People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators,” Davis claimed in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. Only after the debate did ABC fact-check anything said by Harris, when Martha Raddatz confirmed that the vice president had lied when she declared that there is “not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world.” “Our fact-checkers found that to be false,” Raddatz confirmed.

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Busy town. Lots going on there.

• Ex-WSJ Journo Uncovers Migrant Trafficking Network In Springfield, Ohio (ZH)

Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani has published a shocking report that could soon change the national discussion from Haitians and other migrants eating cats or dogs in Springfield, Ohio, to one that is more sinister: The hub of a complex “hidden human trafficking network” in the tiny rust belt town. “The story in this town is not about cats or dogs. It’s about mules. It’s a twin tragedy of migrant workers from Haiti exploited and locals from Springfield marginalized,” Nomani wrote in the Jewish Journal. She said, “Just about every week since 2019, First Diversity Staffing Group Inc. has shuttled vulnerable Haitian migrants in unmarked white Ford and Chevy vans from Florida to Ohio, where they are allegedly exploited for cheap labor by companies like Dole Food Company Inc.,” adding, “It is a secretive and sinister operation that has gone unchecked for more than five years.”

Nomani revealed FBI anti-trafficking agents and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost are now investigating allegations of human trafficking in Springfield. What began as my efforts to track down a rumor about animal cruelty has turned into an investigation that reveals a malignant system of labor exploitation involving a local businessman, George Ten, whom Haitians and local residents call “King George,” the chief executive at First Diversity Staffing Group Inc., a Springfield company that has been the tip of the spear in the alleged trafficking operation of Haitians to the town. *** This is a story of unchecked greed and cruelty, committed not by the immigrants, but to the immigrants, with local residents of Springfield also a casualty. Nomani provided an image of one of those vans owned by staffing companies that shuttles the migrants to factories. The ex-WSJ journo said ‘George Ten’, the alleged mastermind behind this scheme, lives in a mansion in rural Ohio.

She continued, “His nickname is “King George” because of his opulent lifestyle of luxury cars, cash handouts, and fast talk. For years, he has operated his reign of alleged exploitation.” This is stunning, as Nomani noted: One Haitian man I interviewed asked to be anonymous for fear of retaliation and recalled how he was picked up by a driver for one of Ten’s vans on a street corner near a Winn-Dixie grocery store in Immokalee, Florida. After the long journey to Springfield, he was dropped off at a rundown home on Rice Street, infested with cockroaches. He soon found work through First Diversity at Jefferson Industries Corporation, earning $12.50 an hour; he didn’t know how much George skimmed off his wages. The home he lived in had no working heat, and he bought an electric heater to survive the cold Ohio winter, the heater barely heating his room. What essentially began as an unverified claim by Trump about migrants eating pets has led to the disturbing truth of alleged labor trafficking and modern-day slavery in Springfield. The Haitians, here legally, are being exploited by mega corporations…

What will also blow your mind is that this alleged labor trafficking network has possibly also surfaced in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. We cited a resident of the town, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. In a video, the resident revealed the complex network of staffing vans in a town that is 50% Haitian. The vans shuttle migrants back and forth to several food packaging plants. What the Trump team is discovering – the story from Springfield and possibly even Charleroi, is not about cats and dogs. It’s about the federal government, and maybe even a shadowy network of NGOs, that dumped the migrants into small towns nationwide. This cheap and exploited labor benefits mega corporations but crushes native blue-collar workers.

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Q: under which country’s law should this be decided? France, Russia, UAE, Switzerland?

• Pavel Durov’s ‘Ex-Partner’ Wants A Cut (RT)

A woman who claims to be the mother of three of Pavel Durov’s children has insisted that she is entitled to own part of Telegram despite never being married to the messaging platform’s billionaire CEO. Irina Bolgar initially announced that the Russian-born entrepreneur is the father of her children in June and provided documents confirming his paternity to Forbes in August. The woman claims to have met Durov in 2012 and had three children with him between 2013 and 2017. She says she lived with her children in St Petersburg and moved to Dubai to be with Durov in 2018. However, since being denied a residence permit in the UAE in 2020, she has been living with her children in Switzerland. Durov himself has not commented on the woman’s claims but has admitted that he became a sperm donor several years ago and has more than 100 biological children.

In a new post on Instagram on Wednesday, Bolgar claimed that although she and Durov were never officially married, Telegram should be considered their jointly-owned property. The woman stated that while all “significant family assets” were registered in Durov’s name, she had access to them “through agreements and powers of attorney, which, while allowing their use, did not fully protect my rights and interests and, as it turned out, could be violated at any time.” Bolgar claims she was “consistently given assurances and promises” that she and her children would always have access to these resources and could use them to purchase “expensive real estate” that could serve as a “suitable” home for the children, but that these promises were never kept.

“All of our verbal and written agreements were violated by him, and his promises went unfulfilled,” the woman wrote. She went on to state that although all of their jointly acquired property, including Telegram, was registered in Durov’s name, in some countries “it is possible to recognize a de facto marriage as official” while in others “you can claim a share of the jointly acquired property under civil law,” Bolgar pointed out. Previously, Bolgar had filed several lawsuits against Durov, accusing the billionaire of failing to pay child support and of “serious acts of violence” against their son. In August, the woman claimed that a Swiss court had stripped Durov of his parental rights.

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“You either support the war, or you don’t support the war. If you don’t support it, then help us stop Russia..”

• Brazil’s Lula FIres Back After Zelensky Criticism (RT)

Ukraine should heed Brazil’s advice about seeking peace in the conflict with Russia, the president of the South American nation, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has said. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky previously dismissed a Brazilian-Chinese peace roadmap as “destructive” and “just a political statement.” Speaking at a graduation ceremony at a diplomatic academy in Brasilia on Monday, Lula highlighted Brazil’s peaceful foreign policy and neutrality on the Ukraine conflict. “It is important for Brazil to say that we want peace, that we don’t want war,” the president said. “Those who want to talk to us now could have talked to us before the war had started.” Brazil “excels” at being part of a continent “that likes peace,” Lula stated, adding that “war only brings harm… it only destroys.”

Beijing and Brasilia unveiled their six-point plan in May, suggesting a ceasefire along the current front line and urging Moscow and Kiev not to seek “expansion of the battlefield.” The plan also calls for the resumption of direct dialogue between the parties. “You either support the war, or you don’t support the war. If you don’t support it, then help us stop Russia,” Zelensky told Brazilian online newspaper Metropoles last week. Kiev insists that any settlement must be based on its terms, most importantly the recognition of Ukraine’s 1991 borders by Russia. Moscow has called this demand detached from reality and completely unacceptable.

President Vladimir Putin said last month that negotiations were even more unlikely, after Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region, reportedly targeting civilians in the process. Kiev’s forces overran several villages and the border town of Sudzha. The offensive, however, has failed to slow the advance of Russian troops in Donbass. Russia and Ukraine have not held peace talks since the spring of 2022. At the time, the parties pre-agreed a deal under which Ukraine would renounce its aspirations to join NATO in favor of neutrality and restrict the size of its army. However, according to Putin, Kiev’s negotiators abruptly left the talks under orders from the West.

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“..Very few leaders had confirmed that they would attend the event..”

• Zelensky Cancels Meeting With Latin American Leaders (RT)

The Ukrainian government has canceled a planned meeting between Vladimir Zelensky and Latin American leaders out of fear it would become a PR disaster, Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on Tuesday. Very few leaders had confirmed that they would attend the event, the paper wrote. Kiev initially planned to hold the talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly scheduled to convene on September 24. According to Folha, the idea behind the meeting was to demonstrate symbolic support for Kiev’s cause in its conflict with Moscow. Ukrainian officials reportedly said it would be “an appropriate platform” for Zelensky to present what they called “relevant and reliable information” about the conflict.

Kiev also wanted to rally support for the so-called Zelensky ‘peace formula’ – a set of demands put forward by Ukraine as pre-conditions for peace talks. Moscow has rejected the demands, calling them unacceptable. Kiev had to scrap the plans after it received only a “few confirmations of attendance,” Folha reported, adding that the government decided it was “necessary to avoid a situation that could possibly be interpreted as a lack of support.” The paper did not provide the number of confirmations or name the leaders who said they would attend, except for Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo. Ukraine has received steady support from the West since the conflict with Russia broke out in February 2022, but has failed to gain much backing in other parts of the world. Many Asian, African, and South American countries, including China, India, and Brazil, have remained neutral and called for a diplomatic resolution.

Most recently, Mexico’s president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, told journalists she would pursue a policy of non-intervention on the world stage and has no plans to make a state visit to Ukraine. “Searching for the peaceful resolution of conflicts is the cornerstone of our foreign policy. This is our policy, and it won’t change,” she said on Wednesday. Kiev has dismissed any proposals that did not fall in line with the ‘Zelensky formula’ as playing into Moscow’s hands. Last week, Zelensky rejected a six-point roadmap proposed by China and Brazil. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva responded by saying he would not allow his country to be dragged into the conflict.

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

• ‘Superbugs’ To Kill Tens Of Millions By 2050 – Study (RT)

Antibiotic-resistant infections could claim the lives of more than 39 million people worldwide over the next 25 years, with another 169 million expected to die of related causes, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal this week. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses and other types of germs become stronger than the medications used to treat them – creating so-called “superbugs.” As a result, the infections become difficult or impossible to treat, and spread to others. The study forecasts a nearly 70% surge in deaths due to AMR by 2050, compared to the 2022 level, with older people driving the rise in fatalities. By the middle of the century, the annual death toll due to antimicrobial resistance is expected to reach 1.91 million people compared to 1.14 million recorded in 2021. AMR is expected to be a contributing cause of 8.2 million deaths annually, up from 4.71 million, the study noted.

The findings from the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project presents a comprehensive analysis of mortality data and hospital records from 204 countries and territories, to produce mortality estimates over a 30-year period. The study revealed a “remarkable” decline in AMR fatalities among children under 5 – from 488,000 to 193,000 – between 1990 and 2022, which are set to halve again by the middle of the century. Meanwhile, death tolls in all other age groups are rising, with AMR loss of life among adults above the age of 70 expected to rise 146% by 2050 – from 512,353 to 1.3 million. The report noted that AMR fatalities in 2021 were lower than in 2019, but suggested that the temporary reduction was due to Covid-related restrictions. The researchers noted that South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as sub-Saharan Africa will have the highest AMR mortality rates by 2050.

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“..cancer cases spiked dramatically in 2021, shortly after the Covid shots were released for public use. The cases have continued to surge at alarming rates since then.”

• Top Oncologist Raises Alarm: Every New Cancer Patient Is Under 45 (GR)

North Carolina‘s Duke University oncologist Dr. Nicholas DeVito is warning that “every new patient” who now comes to his clinic is under 45 years old. Dr. DeVito says he and his colleagues have experienced a complete demographic switch in recent years. Based on what he’s seeing every day, talking to patients on the ground and analyzing the data, DeVito is now issuing a red alert to warn the public about the phenomenon. However, the doctor is raising concerns that U.S. government officials are refusing to address or even acknowledge the dramatic surge in cancer cases. The physician wrote for STAT News: “The desire to protect Americans from substances that cause cancer and other diseases should transcend party affiliation and political motivation to overcome industrial lobbying efforts.”

In recent years, multiple studies and oncology experts have warned that cancer cases have been skyrocketing in younger people. The U.S. has the sixth highest rate of early-onset cancers – disease in people under 50 – with 87 cases per 100,000 people younger than 50 years old. And studies project diagnoses of early-onset cancers will rise by 31 percent and deaths will rise by 21 percent by 2030. Cancers increasing the fastest include throat and prostate cancers. Early-onset cancers with the highest mortality include breast, tracheal (windpipe), lung, stomach and colon. DeVito wrote: “I hope to have a long career in oncology and eventually practice in an era where the U.S. has turned the tide against early-onset gastrointestinal cancers and few, if any, of my patients are under age 50.”

As Slay News reported earlier, a growing number of experts are demanding answers as aggressive turbo cancers continue to surge to unprecedented levels in young people. Two shocking new reports from the American Cancer Society have revealed that various forms of the deadly disease surging among younger citizens. In response to the reports, the corporate media is promoting several narratives to explain away the rapidly developing and spreading cancers. However, several doctors have spoken out to warn that Covid mRNA shots are causing the recent emergence of aggressive cancers. The disease has been found to form and spread so rapidly among vaccinated people that doctors have dubbed the phenomenon “turbo cancer.” Doctors have revealed that some “turbo cancers” spread so quickly that seemingly healthy patients can die within a week of being diagnosed.

Oncologists are also warning that these aggressive cancers don’t respond to conventional treatments. A study published in the August edition of The Lancet Public Health revealed that the incidence rates for 17 of 34 cancer types were increasing in progressively younger people in the U.S. More recent data from the ACS’s “Cancer Statistics 2024” report shows the trend of cancer rates and related mortality continuing to rise. The data shows cancer cases spiked dramatically in 2021, shortly after the Covid shots were released for public use. The cases have continued to surge at alarming rates since then.

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• Why Are Britons Forced to Eat Bugs? (Sp.)

The UK’s National Alternative Protein Innovation Center (NAPIC) has received £15 million ($19.5 million) in British taxpayer money to bolster the alternative proteins sector in the country. According to the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) website, cultured meat and insect-based proteins could soon be “a sustainable and nutritious part” of Britons’ diets. Over the past few years, the British press has peddled the idea of embracing edible insects as an alternative to meat. They are rich in protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals, and have a lower environmental footprint, the media asserts to Britons.”British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming,” “Edible insects and lab-grown meat are on the menu,” “Would you eat insects if they were tastier?” and “Why it’s time to embrace edible insects?” UK headlines read, stressing that the global insect protein market is projected to reach $8 billion by 2030.

Entomophagy, or eating insects, has been actively promoted at the World Economic Forum (WEF), which insists that the consumption of insects “can offset climate change in many ways” and prevent the “impending food crisis,” as the world’s population is set to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, with just 4% of arable land remaining available. In 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) issued a report stating that around two billion people worldwide eat insects as part of their traditional diets. In 2014, the Belgian food safety agency AFSCA approved 10 worm and cricket species for sale on the Belgian market, exploiting a loose interpretation of a 1997 EU law on “novel food.” The Netherlands, UK, Denmark, and Finland also authorized insects for consumption. In 2017, the EU and UK permitted seven species of insect to be used as feeds in fish farms. In January 2018, a European Parliament regulation concerning “novel foods,” including insects, came into force.

In May 2021, the EU officially approved the first insect, the yellow mealworm, as food for humans. By 2023, four insects had been approved by the EU Commission: the yellow mealworm; the migratory locust); the house cricket; and the lesser mealworm. The EU food safety agency signaled at the time that another eight insects could be authorized soon. The EC claims that “the environmental benefits of rearing insects for food are founded on the high feed conversion efficiency of insects, less greenhouse gas emissions, less use of water and arable lands, and the use of insect-based bioconversion as a marketable solution for reducing food waste.” EnviroFlight (US), Innovafeed (France), HEXAFLY (Ireland), Protix (Netherlands), Global Bugs (Thailand), Entomo Farms (Canada), and Ynsect (France) are named as key players in the market. Europeans are believed to be the first who delved in the insect protein business, with French firm Ynsect, founded in 2011, and the Dutch producer of insect ingredients Protix, established in 2009.

Insect protein firms are attracting hefty investments from global foundations and food giants. In 2017, Protix raised $50.5 million in equity and debt funding, marking the largest investment in the industry at the time. The US rushed to catch on, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation granting $100,000 to All Things Bugs in 2012 to explore insect food production. Two American food corporations, ADM and Cargill, invested a whopping $250 million in the French insect protein firm Innovafeed in September 2022. In 2023, the US food giant Tyson poured around $58 million into Protix. According to some estimates, the edible insect market reached $3.8 billion in 2024, and is projected to amount to $9.04 billion by 2029. The European market is seen as the largest, while South Asia is the fastest growing. Still, it pales in comparison with the fresh meat market, which amounted to $1.11 trillion as of 2024 and is set to expand further.

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