Congressional Republicans are trying to link their approval for the foreign military aid to stricter border policies after Joe Biden signed a stopgap bill extending funding for the U.S. government into early next year.
"I think it would be very difficult to get it done by the end of the year, and the impediment is the #WhiteHouse policy on the southern border," Turner has said.
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres repeated that Russia’s war in the Ukraine was a war against food supplies, low wheat prices, and survival from starvation worldwide. “Today’s decision by the Russian Federation will strike a blow to people in need everywhere.” “Struggling people everywhere and developing countries don’t have a choice. Hundreds of millions of people face hunger and consumers are confronting a global #cost-of-living #crisis. They will pay the price.”
White House officials claimed the Russians are weaponizing food. “Russia’s decision to resume its effective blockade of Ukrainian ports and prevent this grain from getting to markets will harm people all over the world,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said at a White House briefing.
These claims aren’t true. They are “clashes with shippers’ reality”, a #Bloomberg report acknowledged. Like almost every scheme the #corruptly #clever #Zelensky (lead image, left) and the corruptly stupid Joseph Biden (right) have devised in the current war, the conversion of the fight for Odessa and Ukraine’s other Black Sea ports into a war to starve the hungriest peoples of the world is failing.
La #fortune de #MarkZuckerberg bondit de 12,5 milliards de #dollars en l'espace de 24 heures
L'impressionnant rebond de l' #action #Meta (maison-mère de #Facebook) en Bourse a fait décoller la fortune de l' #entrepreneur #américain.
La fortune de Mark Zuckerberg, qui dirige le groupe Meta, la maison-mère de Facebook, #Instagram et #WhatsApp, s'est épaissie de 12,5 milliards de dollars en un seul jour, après la forte revalorisation de ses #actions, selon un calcul réalisé par l' #agence de #presse #financière #Bloomberg.
L'action Meta a bondi de plus de 20 % jeudi après la publication de #résultats trimestriels salués par les investisseurs en Bourse.
Mais cette soudaine montée de l'action cache une #vérité plus obscure que vous allez découvrir dans cette #vidéo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnGW5nzQuh4
#gafam #gafa #politique #économie
Seitdem der Multi-Milliardär Elon Musk den Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter gekauft hat, gerät er immer mehr unter Druck. Das wirkt sich inzwischen auch auf sein - allerdings immer noch astronomisches - Vermögen aus.#ElonMusk #Vermögen #Bloomberg #Forbes
Elon Musk um 100 Milliarden Dollar "ärmer" | DW | 14.12.2022
Media Lens
(...) In our media alert of 26 July 2002, we wrote:
‘This does not mean that there is no dissent in the mainstream; on the contrary the system strongly requires the appearance of openness. In an ostensibly democratic society, a propaganda system must incorporate occasional instances of dissent. Like vaccines, these small doses of truth inoculate the public against awareness of the rigid limits of media freedom.’
That was true two decades ago when we started Media Lens. But, now, the state-corporate media system relies less on inoculation and more on quarantine: inconvenient facts, indeed whole issues, are simply kept from public awareness. We have moved far closer to a totalitarian system depending on outright censorship. (...)
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US media watch site, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), made the key point:
‘Any serious coverage of the Nord Stream attack should acknowledge that opposition to the pipeline has been a centerpiece of the US grand strategy in Europe. The long-term goal has been to keep Russia isolated and disjointed from Europe, and to keep the countries of Europe tied to US markets. Ever since German and Russian energy companies signed a deal to begin development on Nord Stream 2, the entire machinery of Washington has been working overtime to scuttle it.’
The evidence for this is simply overwhelming. For example, FAIR noted that during his confirmation hearings in 2021, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told Congress he was ‘determined to do whatever I can to prevent’ Nord Stream 2 from being completed. Months later, the US State Department reiterated that ‘any entity involved in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline risks US sanctions and should immediately abandon work on the pipeline’.
If that doesn’t make US hostility to the pipelines clear enough, President Joe Biden told reporters in February:
‘If Russia invades…then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.’
Asked by a reporter how the US intended to end a project that was, after all, under German control, Biden responded:
‘I promise you, we will be able to do that.’
No surprise, then, that, following the attack, Blinken described the destruction of the pipelines as a ‘tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy,’ adding that this ‘offers tremendous strategic opportunity for years to come’.
Former UN weapons inspector and political analyst Scott Ritter commented:
‘Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.’ (...)
Despite all of this, FAIR reported of US corporate media coverage:
‘Much of the media cast their suspicions towards Russia, including Bloomberg (9/27/22), Vox (9/29/22), Associated Press (9/30/22) and much of cable news. With few exceptions, speculation on US involvement has seemingly been deemed an intellectual no-fly-zone.’
Thus, the possibility of US involvement has been intellectually quarantined. Instead, US media have been tying themselves in knots trying to find alternative explanations. (...)
In Britain, the Guardian affected similar confusion. (...)
FAIR discussed a tweet from a Polish member of the European Parliament, Radek Sikorski – a one-time Polish defence minister as well as a former American Enterprise Institute fellow, who was named one of the ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’ in 2012 by Foreign Policy. FAIR reported:
‘Sikorski tweeted a picture of the methane leak in the ocean, along with the caption, “As we say in Polish, a small thing, but so much joy.” He later tweeted, “Thank you, USA,” with the same picture.’ (...)
Curiously, non-corporate journalists like Jonathan Cook, Caitlin Johnstone, Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Maté, Bryce Green, even hippy Russell Brand, were able to find all the evidence and arguments omitted by ‘mainstream’ journalists supported by far greater resources.
And this makes the point with which we began this alert: there is now so much high-quality journalism exposing the establishment outside the state-corporate ‘mainstream’, that the task of the ‘mainstream’ now is to protect the establishment by acting as a buffer blocking citizen journalism from public awareness. (...)
Tags: #media #mass_media #journalist #journalism #the_guardian #mainstream_media #msm #propaganda #censorship #putin #biden #blinken #nord_stream #sabotage #russia #ukraine #bloomberg #associated_press #ap #cable_news #the_telegraph #fair #sikorski #mail_on_sunday #observer
They can't handle the truth!
Reminds me of the reapportions during tanker war in the 80s where all Iraq attacks were reported as "unknown" but the ones Iran was attacking were all reported correctly that led to Reagan sending 2 aircraft carriers to Persian Gulf, sinking the flagship of Iranian navy and eventually shooting down Iran Air passenger flight IR655 "by mistake".
What will this "sabotage" lead to?
#Europe #NordStream #Russia #Bloomberg #UkraineWar #BalticSea #Germany #Poland #Bide #Pentagon #NATO
https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1577032155993034752
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a piece about Elon's latest purchase and, more importantly, the return of the democracy sausage emoji
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-04-22/elon-musk-and-the-democracy-sausage-are-making-twitter-headlines
pepe #Escobar (assez mal traduit)
Un article de #Bloomberg résume leurs craintes collectives :
"L’exclusion de la #Russie du système mondial critique - qui traite 42 millions de messages par jour et sert de lien vital à certaines des plus grandes institutions financières du monde - pourrait se retourner contre nous, faire grimper l’inflation, rapprocher la Russie de la Chine et soustraire les transactions financières à l’examen de l’Occident. Cela pourrait également encourager le développement d’une alternative #SWIFT qui pourrait à terme porter atteinte à la suprématie du #dollar américain."
Ceux dont le QI est supérieur à 50 dans l’Union européenne ( #UE ) ont dû comprendre que la Russie ne pouvait tout simplement pas être totalement exclue de SWIFT, mais peut-être seulement quelques-unes de ses banques : après tout, les commerçants européens dépendent de l’énergie russe.
Du point de vue de Moscou, c’est un problème mineur. Un certain nombre de banques russes sont déjà connectées au système CIPS de la Chine.....
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Mais cela ne raconte qu’une partie de l’histoire. L’arme fatale de l’arsenal de riposte russe a été identifiée par le chef du Centre de recherche économique de l’Institut de la mondialisation et des mouvements sociaux (IGSO), Vasily Koltashov : la clé est la confiscation de la technologie - comme dans le cas où la Russie cesserait de reconnaître les droits américains sur les brevets.
Dans ce qu’il qualifie de "libération de la propriété intellectuelle américaine", Koltashov appelle à l’adoption d’une loi russe sur les "États amis et inamicaux". Si un pays figure sur la liste des pays hostiles, nous pouvons commencer à copier ses technologies dans les domaines pharmaceutique, industriel, manufacturier, électronique et médical. Cela peut être n’importe quoi - de simples détails à des compositions chimiques". Cela nécessiterait de modifier la constitution russe.
Koltashov soutient que "l’une des bases du succès de l’industrie américaine a été la copie de brevets d’invention étrangers". Maintenant, la Russie pourrait utiliser "le vaste savoir-faire de la #Chine avec ses derniers processus technologiques de production pour copier les produits occidentaux : la libération de la propriété intellectuelle américaine causera des dommages aux États-Unis à hauteur de 10 000 milliards de dollars, seulement dans la première phase. Ce sera un désastre pour eux".
● NEWS ● #Bloomberg #Energy ☞ A $23 Billion Fund Is Dumping #Oil Bonds https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-10/a-23-billion-fund-is-dumping-oil-bonds-amid-stranded-asset-risk
BloombergNEF’s Jenny Chase has surveyed the state of affairs in world solar for clean energy journal Joule and said the technology’s historic ability to surmount obstacles – and persistently confound analysts’ predictions – should offer a reason for hope.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/10/solar-and-wind-deployment-could-not-now-be-stopped-if-we-wanted-to/
#installations, #solar, #utility, #bloomberg, #scale, #pv, #bloombergnef
#Microsoft 's booster #DinaBass is still covering Microsoft at #Bloomberg ; it's more like media operatives of companies nowadays call themselves "journalists"...
Bloomberg - NSO Spyware Linked to Phone Hacks of Journalists, Activists in El Salvador ⚓ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-13/nso-spyware-linked-to-phone-hacks-of-journalists-activists-in-el-salvador ䷉ #bloomberg | more in http://schestowitz.com/2022/01/13/#latest
● NEWS ● #Bloomberg ☞ #Iceland Cuts Power to Industry, Turns Away New #Bitcoin Miners https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-07/iceland-reduces-power-to-heavy-users-denies-bitcoin-miners
The fake news (noise) sites of oligarch Michael #bloomberg blocks #lynx now. It blocks many other things. It doesn't like traffic, except form 'normies'...
● NEWS ● #Bloomberg #Politics ☞ White House Enlists Software Industry to Improve Open-Source Security https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-23/white-house-extends-invitation-to-improve-open-source-security asking the wrong companies, the back doors giants
#Biden is a #patent maximalist and his biggest political sponsor (Michael #Bloomberg ) owns this publisher, which has patent maximalism offshoots cheering for this agenda; bought politicians syndrome https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/draft-standard-patent-guidance-is-u-s-bid-in-global-debate see http://techrights.org/2020/11/08/political-debt/
Oligarch #bloomberg (or his media apparatus) distracting from #microsoft crimes https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/eu-lawmakers-pass-strict-new-rules-affecting-big-u-s-tech "Big Tech" is a false narrative used and spread by Microsoft criminals http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/
