#OliverAnthony with #JordanPeterson: #Art, #Commerce, and the #Religious | EP 382

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and breakout #musician Chris Lunsford, better known by his stage name Oliver Anthony, #discuss the balance between #vision and efficiency in #artistic and commercial endeavors, why Chris’ hit song “Rich Men North of Richmond,” has resonated so broadly and so quickly, the way honest #expression through #music can combat #demoralization, how #politics have become confused with the sacred, and what we can do to restore each to their proper order.

Oliver Anthony, real name Christopher Anthony Lunsford, is an #American #country/ #folk musician from #Farmville, #Virginia. He just recently went #viral for his #anthem #song, “Rich Men North of Richmond” – which has resonated across the country for its #messaging about #Washington D.C. and the #state of #poverty and #mental #health in the #broader U.S.. Chris has stated his politics as being right down or near the center, though already tribalism has attempted to take hold of or alternatively reduce/dismiss him, all the while “Rich Men” has amassed nearly 60 million views on YT in just over a month, and trended the billboard charts (Hitting number one more than once) since its release. Chris named his YT channel Oliver Anthony Music after his grandfather, whom he has described as a “real 1930’s Appalachian man.” Since his song's virality, he has already been offered – and turned down – an 8 million dollar recording contract, and is making waves as a truly authentic artist both in performance and practice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWH2hnmfzc

Aussie MPs Headed to Washington to Lobby For Assange

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/05/aussie-mps-headed-to-washington-to-lobby-for-assange/

#julianassange #extradition #wikileaks #australia #mps #parliamentarians #video #washington #britain #us #uk #congress #doj #state-dept #freeassange #journalismisnotacrime #freepress #freespeech #pleadeal #politics #craigmurray #anthonyalbanese #joebiden #weareallassange

Aussie MPs Headed to Washington to Lobby For Assange

The MPs will face obstinate views about Assange entrenched in the U.S. political establishment, with two days to educate Congressional, State and Justice officials about the threat to the Constitution and a free press, reports Joe...

Les #BRICS+ viennent de jouer un coup superbe! | #IdrissAberkane

L'entrée de l' #Egypte, des #Emirats, de l' #Ethiopie, de l' #Iran, de l' #ArabieSaoudite et de l' #Argentine dans les BRICS est un véritable coup de maître #géopolitique. D'une part elle consolide décisivement leur #contrôle du #CanalDeSuez, du #Détroit d' #Ormuz et de #BabAlMandeb, d'autre part elle leur garantit plus de 51% des #hydrocarbures #mondiaux, ce qui confirmé définitivement l'élan de leur #nouveau #système #monétaire.

Cette #stratégie démontre aussi à quel point #Washington aura été #Machiavélique: tous les trous dans la nouvelle raquette des BRICS+ ne sont pas des #états alliés aux #USA, mais des états soit ruinés, soit #détruits, soit #faillis ( #Soudan, #Somalie, #Yemen, #Syrie...) par les bons soins des #interventions #US, selon la bonne vieille #doctrine "Rubbles cause no trouble", les gravats ne causent pas de tracas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiNc7-1ImZo
#politique #économie #paix

Image journal l'Express.

#Washington demande une enquête saoudienne sur les allégations de meurtres de #migrants #éthiopiens
Agence France-Presse #AFP
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/fil-dactualites/210823/washington-demande-une-enquete-saoudienne-sur-les-allegations-de-meurtres-de-migrants-ethiopiens

(Les faits : L’Arabie saoudite accusée de la mort de centaines d’Éthiopiens à la frontière avec le Yémen
France 24 : https://inv.pistasjis.net/watch?v=fzSHS4Vg2hs)

Ah ouais, c'est pas une blague : Les USA demandent vraiment à ce pays d'enquêter sur lui-même.
Quand on sait ce que #MBS fait d'un #journaliste.... C'est sûr, on peut espérer une enquête en interne, impartiale !

Rappel :
Mort du journaliste saoudien Jamal #Khashoggi
https://www.lexpress.fr/monde/proche-moyen-orient/disparition-du-journaliste-saoudien-jamal-khashoggi_2039878.html

Venu le 2 octobre 2018 au consulat d'Arabie saoudite à Istanbul afin de préparer son mariage, le journaliste saoudien critique du pouvoir Jamal Khashoggi, correspondant du Washington Post, n'a pas été revu vivant depuis. La Turquie accuse Ryad de l'avoir assassiné sur place. Ryad dément fermement. L'affaire a créé une tension entre les Etats-Unis et l'Arabie saoudite.

Les #USA ne veulent pas froisser le roi du #pétrole ? Ils comptent envahir le pays plutôt ?

Mais à quoi servent donc les #voyages de #Macron ? - #UPR

#Macron avait annoncé qu’il souhaitait participer au #sommet des #BRICS qui s’est tenu en #Afrique du #Sud.

Les BRICS lui ont fait savoir qu’il n’était pas le bienvenu, contrairement à une soixantaine d’autres #pays notamment #africains.

Encore une fois, par son #amateurisme, Macron a #ridiculisé la #France aux yeux du #monde. Et il n'est plus guère le #bienvenu dans de nombreux #pays, du fait de ses #déclarations intempestives ou de ses voyages désastreux : #Algérie, #BurkinaFaso, #Brésil, #Russie, #Australie, #Ghana, #Comores, République démocratique du #Congo, #Chine, #Hongrie, #Mali, #Niger, etc.

Pour continuer à faire bonne figure et se donner l’impression d’avoir encore une #stature #internationale, Macron en est réduit à #visiter de petits pays lointains tels que la #Mongolie et le #SriLanka…

Même s’il on apprécie ces pays, il faut reconnaître qu'ils n'ont rien de #stratégique pour la France. Il serait beaucoup plus urgent et opportun d'aller en #Iran et en #Syrie, mais Macron n'y va pas car #Washington le lui #interdit !

En France comme à l’ #international, Macron #ruine ce qu’il reste de #prestige et de #puissance à la France.

François #Asselineau #dénonce cette #catastrophe ambulante que sont #EmmanuelMacron et son #tourisme #politicien. Le rôle d’un véritable #président de la #République est de #cultiver des relations d’égal à égal avec toutes les #nations du monde, de n’avoir pour unique boussole que l’ #intérêt de la France et des #Français, de savoir dire non à ceux qui veulent nous diriger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqMftrMQKzI
#politique #géopolitique

L' #arrestation de #JuanBranco est un #crime #moral! | #IdrissAberkane avec #AlexisPoulin

#Paris et #Washington viennent de s'émouvoir de la #condamnation de #droit commun infligée à leur #agent d' #influence #Navalny - proche de #GarryKasparov et diplômé de Yale - pourtant c'est un silence de mort qui règne lorsqu'on leur parle des persécutions atroces subies par #JulianAssange, des #inculpations #bidons et iniques lancées contre le chef de l'opposition aux #US, à savoir Donald J. #Trump, ou maintenant de l #'arrestation délirante de l' #avocat du chef de l' #opposition #sénégalaise, ancienne avocat de Julian #Assange, #Maître Juan #Branco, par ailleurs défenseur des #GiletsJaunes et figure majeure du #Souverainisme de #Gauche en #France.

Nous faisons le point avec Alexis Poulin, l' #éditorialiste #souverainiste de gauche le plus suivi dans le #Paysage #Internet #Français,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGUvBDPAgkE
#politique #géopolitique #PIF

#Washington Post: Biden, testing Xi, will bar Hong Kong’s leader from economic summit

— "The #WhiteHouse has decided it will bar Hong Kong’s top government official from attending a major economic summit in the #UnitedStates this fall, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the matter, in the latest test of President àBiden’s bid to reset relations with #China.

Chief Executive John Lee, along with 10 other #HongKong and Chinese officials, was sanctioned by Washington in 2020 after implementing a national security law, imposed by #Beijing, that enabled the targeting of pro-democracy leaders, tarnished the reputation of the courts and earned international condemnation as leaders sought to silence dissent.

Lee, then Hong Kong’s security chief, was elevated last year to chief executive, handpicked by Beijing to continue what critics say is a broader campaign of repression in the once-semiautonomous city. He has helped execute Beijing’s reimagining of the territory, where institutions from schools to the media now operate under new red lines that have eroded freedoms."

https://archive.ph/X2gIg

#Politics #Economy

#Brussels or #Washington can make a call to #Aliyev & order him to comply with international #humanitarian laws.

"Strongly supports" or "deeply concerned" statements mean nothing for sadistic #dictator, who is literally subjecting to starvation the entire population of #Artsakh.

#EU renews its call to #Azerbaijan to ensure unrestricted movement of people & goods via #Lachin corridor, in return Azerbaijan provokes & shells #Armenian positions wounding 2 soldiers.
#Armenia #Politics #Fascism

CPS has Destroyed all Records of Keir Starmer’s Four Trips to Washington

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cps-has-destroyed-all-records-of-keir-starmers-four-trips-to-washington/

The CPS’s lack of disclosure of #documents related to #Assange may raise suspicions of a #cover-up. While Starmer was still in charge, in April 2013, the #CPS rejected Assange’s request for the #personal #data it had on him “because of the live matters still pending”.
Even #GCHQ, the UK’s largest #spy #agency, had granted Assange’s request for the personal information it held on him, which revealed one of its intelligence officers calling the Swedish case a “fit-up”. #KeirStarmer did not respond to a request for comment.

#MattKennard #uk #labour-party #julianassange #wikileaks #doj #extradition #prosecution #espionage-act #washington

CPS has destroyed all records of Keir Starmer’s four trips to Washington

US records show Starmer met with Attorney General Eric Holder and a host of American and British national security officials in Washington in 2011, when

The Wall Street Journal: Netanyahu says he will possibly abandon the clause that gives parliament the power to overturn Supreme Court decisions as part of the judicial amendments plan

Israeli Prime-Minister #Netanyahu: Our relations with #Washington are good, but #Biden has not yet invited me to visit the #WhiteHouse

#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics

De-dollarization is apparently here, “like it or not,” as a May 2023 video by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a peace-oriented think tank based in Washington, D.C., states.

Until recently, the global economy accepted the U.S. #dollar as the world’s reserve #currency and the currency of #international #transactions. The central banks of Europe and Asia had an insatiable appetite for dollar-denominated U.S. #Treasury securities, which in turn bestowed on #Washington the ability to spend money and finance its debt at will. Should any country step out of line politically or militarily, Washington could sanction it, excluding it from the rest of the world’s dollar-denominated system of global trade.

But for how long? After a summit meeting in March between #Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi #Jinping, #Putin stated, “We are in favor of using the Chinese yuan for settlements between Russia and the countries of #Asia, #Africa, and #LatinAmerica.” Putting that statement in perspective, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria said, “The world’s second-largest economy and its largest energy exporter are together actively trying to dent the dollar’s dominance as the anchor of the international financial system.” Already, Zakaria noted, Russia and China are holding less of their central bank reserves in dollars and settling most of their trade in yuan, while other countries sanctioned by the United States are turning to “barter trade” to avoid dependence on the dollar.
Quincy is not alone in discussing #de_dollarization.

#economy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/26/are-we-living-through-a-de-dollarization/

Are We Living Through a De-Dollarization?

De-dollarization is apparently here, “like it or not,” as a May 2023 video by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a peace-oriented think tank based in Washington, D.C., states. Quincy is not alone in discussing de-dollarization:...

During the session with the African Delegation, Russian President Vladimir Putin showed the African leaders a copy of the agreed-upon draft agreement between Russia and Ukraine in March 2022.

The agreement puts regulations on Ukrainian Armed Forces and says that Ukraine must adopt a Permanent Diplomatic Neutrality

Putin told the African Delegation that #Russia withdrew troops from Kyiv/Kiev and #Chernihiv in accordance with the treaty.

However, after that happened #Ukraine "on the orders of #Washington, threw this treaty into the dustbin of history."

At that time it was openly reported that the person responsible for the fall of the agreements was the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris #Johnson who convinced the Ukrainian President #Zelensky not to accept the agreements and continue the fight.

#Putin #Africa #PeaceProcess #StopTheWar #PeaceNow #Politics sUkraineWar #Egypt #SouthAfrics #Politics #UK #Pentagon #NATO

Two conflicting #narratives of the #Ukrainian crisis have been a major factor in preventing its resolution. One, promoted by Washington and the #US-backed government in #Kiev, blames only “aggression” by the Kremlin and specifically by Russian President #Putin. The other, promoted by #Moscow and rebel forces in eastern Ukraine, which it supports, blames “aggression” by the European Union and $NATO, both inspired by #Washington. Cohen sees enough bad intent, misconceptions, and misperceptions to go around, but on balance thinks Moscow’s narrative, almost entirely deleted from US mass media, is closer to the historical realities of 2013–2014:

source

Four Years of Ukraine and the Myths of Maidan

The history of the Ukrainian crisis, which has made everything it affected worse, is distorted by political myths and American media malpractice.

just read it and think how f-ed our world is : #Iraq gets #US green light to pay $2.76bn gas bill to #Iran | The release of the funds comes amid reports that #Washington and #Tehran have held indirect talks in #Oman to 'deescalate tensions' | June 10 2023:

"The Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce Chairman, Yahya Al-e Eshaq, announced on 10 June that Iraq has released $2.76 billion worth of Iranian funds in gas export money owed by #Baghdad.

#Iraq received a #sanctions waiver from the #US to make the payment.

According to an unnamed foreign ministry official that spoke with #Reuters, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein got the clearance to make the payment from US State Secretary Antony #Blinken on the sidelines of the #Riyadh Conference on Thursday."

#China's newspaper Global Times claims that #NATO is fueling war in the #Balkans:

"Because the Russia-Ukraine conflict has not achieved the desired effect for the #US, #Washington needs to create a new war on the European continent"
#Russia #Ukraine #Europe #Kossovo #Serbia #Politics
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291644.shtml

NATO is creating another battlefield on European continent - Global Times

President #Maduro Accuses #Washington of Stealing $4 Billion in #CITGO Profits https://orinocotribune.com/president-maduro-accuses-washington-of-stealing-4-billion-in-citgo-profits/

President Maduro Accuses Washington of Stealing $4 Billion in CITGO Profits

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reported that the White House has withheld $4 billion of profits generated in the last four years by CITGO Petroleum Corporation. “CITGO has produced average pro…

Proud Boys wegen Verschwörung verurteilt | DW | 04.05.2023

Sie waren beim Sturm auf das US-Kapitol dabei: Vier Rechtsradikale wurden deshalb nun schuldig gesprochen.#USA #Kapitol #Erstürmung #Washington #ProudBoys #rechtsradikal
Proud Boys wegen Verschwörung verurteilt | DW | 04.05.2023

Proud Boys wegen Verschwörung verurteilt | DW | 04.05.2023

Sie waren beim Sturm auf das US-Kapitol dabei: Vier Rechtsradikale wurden deshalb nun schuldig gesprochen.

Photo from Longest Walk.’ | Ron Frehm / AP

Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali talks with Clyde Bellecourt, and other Native American Movement activists on Liberty Island, July 12, 1978.

#Picture #History #MuhammadAli #NativeAmericans #Washington ##LibertyIsland #LongWalk

Seymour Hersh: Zelensky and His Team Embezzled at Least $400 million of US Aid

“Zelensky’s been buying discount diesel from the Russians,” one knowledgeable American intelligence official told me. “And who’s paying for the gas and oil? We are. Putin and his oligarchs are making millions” on it.

#Zelensky has been buying the fuel from #Russia, the country with which it, and #Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments. One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in "Kiev as approaching that of the Afghan war, “although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from the #Ukraine.”

#Politics #Ukrainewar #CIA #Pentagon #Putin #Corruption

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict?

Is a New Russia-China-India Bloc Forming in the East?

#Putin’s grand plans hinge on an India-China thaw. Can he convince Xi to ease tensions with #India?

“Concerns over Western hegemony are a bigger part of India’s strategic culture than most in #Washington might think, and the West’s sweeping use of economic sanctions has unsettled many in New Delhi over the years. Last year, India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, permitted rupee trade, thereby facilitating stronger ties with countries under Western sanctions.”
#China #Politics #Russia

https://thediplomat.com/2023/04/is-a-new-russia-china-india-bloc-forming-in-the-east/

Is a New Russia-China-India Bloc Forming in the East?

Putin’s grand plans hinge on an India-China thaw. Can he convince Xi to ease tensions with India?