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Kremlin says sanctions on Putin's mysterious daughters are 'difficult to understand'
The Kremlin does not understand the latest sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin's adult daughters, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, Reuters reported. Peskov said the sanctions were "difficult to understand and explain," and framed them as being part of a manic Western reaction to Russia in general, Reuters reported. "Of course we consider these sanctions in themselves to be the extension of an absolutely rabid position on the imposition of restrictions," he said, per Reuters. "In any case, the ongoing line on imposing restrictions against family members speaks for itself."
https://www.sott.net/article/466465-Kremlin-says-sanctions-on-Putins-mysterious-daughters-are-difficult-to-understand

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NBC journalists claim hiring Jen Psaki will tarnish the network's brand, report
It has been revealed that NBC News journalists aren't too keen on their sister network MSNBC hiring White House press secretary Jen Psaki, alleging that she will "tarnish" the NBC News brand. "Noah Oppenheim, the NBC News president, even held an impromptu phone call Friday so that he could address the matter with vexed staffers from the Washington bureau, some of whom have complained to their superiors that the tentative hiring tarnishes the NBC News brand," according to CNN. Comment: Is it possible to tarnish a pile of dog excrement? The network reported that "one of the people who was on the call" claimed, "Here's what he was saying: They have perspective programming. This was done on the perspective programming side. Not anything that reflects on NBC News." The person added, "People wanted answers on what NBC's role was in this and NBC News had no role in this. This is MSNBC's perspective programming."
https://www.sott.net/article/466466-NBC-journalists-claim-hiring-Jen-Psaki-will-tarnish-the-networks-brand-report

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Disney to assist employees in obtaining genital mutilation, cross-sex hormones for minor children
As states across the country pass or consider legislation prohibiting gender reassignment surgeries or hormone usage for minors, Disney announced to its employees that they have created a benefits program to allow employees and their families access to these procedures. "The other big area is gender identity and expression. So doing all of this work to ensure that our employees and cast can express their gender here authentically and proudly at the company. So, you know, coming up with guides on how to change your photo information about pronouns, working with our benefits team to give information about gender affirmation procedures, both for our employees who are transitioning and trans, but also our employees who have kids who are transitioning," a man explained in a video of a Disney internal meeting obtained by journalist Christopher Rufo.
https://www.sott.net/article/466467-Disney-to-assist-employees-in-obtaining-genital-mutilation-cross-sex-hormones-for-minor-children

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Oh, so.... You're now saying we were right about Arizona election fraud?
Just a day or two after I threw in the towel on Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, he surprises me. General Brnovich has issued to Senate President Karen a 6 month "interim report" on his investigations Fann is the woman who had the fortitude to stand up and drive the Maricopa Audit to completion. Six months after she turned her investigation over to the Attorney General, he has now confirmed in an official letter that the Maricopa Audit led him to investigate and catalogue in his letter a shocking amount and kind of systemic vulnerabilities (precisely as CyberNinjas reported), punctuated by the news of criminal fraud for which he has been and is prosecuting people. Attorney General Brnovich put the money shot in the opening:
https://www.sott.net/article/466435-Oh-so-You-re-now-saying-we-were-right-about-Arizona-election-fraud

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Economist at World Government Summit says new financial world order about to shift in dramatic new direction
The World Government Summit is underway this week in Dubai and we've already got a bombshell to report. Dr. Pippa Malmgrem, a top American economist who served as a special adviser to former President George W. Bush, made a statement that confirms everything myself and others have been reporting for quite some time - that a cashless society is looming right around the corner. Listen to her comments in the video clip below.
https://www.sott.net/article/466468-Economist-at-World-Government-Summit-says-new-financial-world-order-about-to-shift-in-dramatic-new-direction

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The smell of cheese - French election primer
[Note: scroll to the final section "Candidates" for election information only] The question becomes, have the French people finally had it with globalist interlopers who seek to further destroy France from within along with any pretenses of those hallowed national mottos of liberty, equality, and fraternity? The Stench of Tyranny For five years Emmanual Macron has performed the duties of President of the fifth republic of France as one would expect of a handpicked handmaiden from the WEF Young Global Leaders' pigpen of technocrat meddler Klaus Schwab. Macron is a former Rothschild banker who did not marry his nan but did marry his grade school teacher who looks like his nan, even after endless botox and cosmetic surgeries to try to make her look more like his auntie. Last year there were rumors she was actually Jean-Michel Trogneaux, born in 1945, who transitioned via saucisson lopper surgery sometime after his divorce in 1987, before remarrying as a woman Brigitte, having a...
https://www.sott.net/article/466469-The-smell-of-cheese-French-election-primer

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Ukraine chess sisters facing expulsion for refusing to sign anti-Russian letter
Mariya and Anna Muzychuk are facing expulsion for declining to support a total ban on Russian and Belarusian players Chess officials in Ukraine say they will punish former world champions Mariya and Anna Muzychuk after the siblings refused to sign a letter calling for the total exclusion of Russian and Belarusian players from international events. The Lvov Chess Federation issued a statement this week listing a host of requests for world governing body FIDE, including the expulsion of the Russian and Belarusian federations from the organization and a complete ban on players from the two countries. The letter also demanded that Russian FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich step down because of his supposed association with "bloody dictator" Vladimir Putin.
https://www.sott.net/article/466470-Ukraine-chess-sisters-facing-expulsion-for-refusing-to-sign-anti-Russian-letter

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Cowardly Senate caves: Confirms soft-on-sex-offenders Ketanji Brown Jackson as first Black female Supreme Court justice
A milestone vote in the Senate on Thursday gave Americans their first Black woman Supreme Court justice, elevating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and putting her in line for a soon-to-be open seat on the nation's highest court. Senate Democrats were joined by three Republicans in backing the judge, who won approval on a 53-47 vote. Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the vote, while Judge Jackson watched at the White House with President Biden. The confirmation gives Mr. Biden a rare major legislative win, delivering on a promise he made in the 2020 presidential campaign to install a Black woman on the high court.
https://www.sott.net/article/466471-Cowardly-Senate-caves-Confirms-soft-on-sex-offenders-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-as-first-Black-female-Supreme-Court-justice

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Mud volcano erupts near temple in Pingtung's Wandan Township, Taiwan
A mud volcano erupted near a local temple in Wandan Township in Pingtung County on Friday morning, heaving large amounts of mud above ground that flowed into surrounding roads and fields. The eruption, the second by the volcano since October 2021, occurred at around 6 a.m. near Huang Yuan Sheng Tien (皇源聖殿), a temple surrounded by farmland in Wannei Village in the eastern part of the county near Kaohsiung. The bursts reached as high as a one-story building, and to keep the mud from further spreading into nearby rice paddies, excavators were mobilized to channel mud toward drainage ditches, Wannei Village chief Chen Yu-i (陳玉意) told CNA.
https://www.sott.net/article/466472-Mud-volcano-erupts-near-temple-in-Pingtungs-Wandan-Township-Taiwan

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Bye, bye paper gold: Russia Deploys the Gold Weapon
If you follow war news from Ukraine, no doubt you've seen gruesome images of wrecked tanks, burnt trucks, demolished personnel carriers and more. Whether it's Russian or Ukrainian equipment, almost everything you see is based on old Soviet-era designs such as T-72/64 tanks, or boxy BMP armored vehicles, etc. And when a rocket or shell hits those things the internal fuel and ammunition cooks off, and the machines burn like a torch. Bad design, obviously. But there's another Russian weapon that was also recently deployed, and it appears to be working very well. You won't find this system on the battlefield, though. In fact, this Russian device is an economic weapon, and it may prove to be one of the most impactful implements of war in the modern age. That is, the government of Russia recently pegged that country's currency - the ruble - to gold. And right now, Russia's central bank will buy gold at 5,000 rubles per gram through June 28. (After that, we'll see.) Here's why this is...
https://www.sott.net/article/466473-Bye-bye-paper-gold-Russia-Deploys-the-Gold-Weapon

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Chinese perspective: US works with Nazis to exploit Europe both in WWII and at present, now targets Ukraine
In Russia, World War II is the best-studied period of history. Schools and universities emphasize the Stalingrad battle of 1942 and the 1944 Allies' Normandy landing. When I attended school 20 years ago, Russia was influenced by Western culture, which is why textbooks focused on the Western front and very little was mentioned about the Chinese theatre of World War II. Only when I was much older, I was able to learn about the War of Resistance against Japan. I remember my shock when I learned about the Nanjing Massacre and other tremendous atrocities committed in China by the occupants. Since WWII, a lot of changes happened, but the villains and their tactics remained the same. In 1937, the White House along with the Western powers kept their eyes blind to Nanjing and other fascist crimes committed by the Japanese militarists. Oil restrictions against the aggressor, Imperial Tokyo, were imposed only in August 1941, when its war against the US over control of East Asia had become...
https://www.sott.net/article/466474-Chinese-perspective-US-works-with-Nazis-to-exploit-Europe-both-in-WWII-and-at-present-now-targets-Ukraine

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Germany's Chancellor hesitates to send Ukraine tanks as it could directly implicate Berlin in the war
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is delaying a final decision over whether to give Ukraine high-end tanks for its battle against Russia, despite pressure from several other top officials, according to four people familiar with the deliberations. The plan, pushed by Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock — both senior members of the Green party — would involve about 100 tanks. It comes amid a growing acceptance in Berlin and other Western capitals that Russia's war in Ukraine could drag on for months or years, and as Kyiv directly appeals for such equipment. A decision on the matter was initially expected this week. But it's now in limbo as the Social Democrat chancellor — much to the frustration of his governing coalition partners — argues Germany should first reach a common position with Western allies on the subject before delivering such heavy military equipment, the officials said.
https://www.sott.net/article/466475-Germanys-Chancellor-hesitates-to-send-Ukraine-tanks-as-it-could-directly-implicate-Berlin-in-the-war

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Eye-witness report from Donbass: How the war looks from the Russian side
Following in the tradition of the late Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983), an Australian who reported on the Korean and Vietnam Wars from the communist side, this article continues CAM's reporting on the "other side" of the war in Ukraine, the side that is not presented in western media. Readers can balance this article with the pro-Ukrainian government stories we are fed every day and try to discern the truth for themselves. — Editors As the war in Ukraine rages on, I visited the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as an embedded reporter with the Russian army. Both of the republics are the trigger of the current conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared their independence on February 24, 2022, something a lot of people were waiting for since the CIA backed coup in Ukraine of February 2014. That coup had resulted in the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and new laws forcing the Ukrainian language on Russian-speaking residents. Luhansk and Donetsk consequently voted...
https://www.sott.net/article/466476-Eye-witness-report-from-Donbass-How-the-war-looks-from-the-Russian-side

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5th Circuit revives Biden's vaccine mandate for federal workers over jurisdictional issue
A federal appeals court on Thursday revived the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for federal workers when it ruled a federal judge had no jurisdiction to block the requirement. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a nationwide injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown and ordered dismissal of the case, report the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN and the New York Times. Biden's mandate had required COVID-19 vaccines for all executive branch employees, with exceptions for medical and religious reasons. Brown had reasoned Biden had likely exceeded his authority under the Constitution and federal statutes when he issued the mandate in January. The 5th Circuit reversed in a 2-1 opinion, holding that the plaintiffs should have followed the exclusive procedures established by the Civil Service Reform Act.
https://www.sott.net/article/466477-5th-Circuit-revives-Bidens-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-workers-over-jurisdictional-issue

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to send buses of migrants to DC ahead of Title 42 surge
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state troopers on Wednesday to begin stopping and inspecting commercial vehicles coming across the U.S-Mexico border and said bus charters would be offered to take illegal migrants to Washington, D.C., in a dig at President Biden and Congress. With only seven weeks to go until the Biden administration lifts the Title 42 immigration order, Abbott announced multiple measures to protect his state and combat the massive influx of migrants anticipated to cross the border this spring. He said on Wednesday: "To help local officials - because communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden Administration - Texas is providing charter buses for these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off to Washington, D.C. "We are sending them to the United States capital where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our...
https://www.sott.net/article/466478-Texas-Gov-Greg-Abbott-to-send-buses-of-migrants-to-DC-ahead-of-Title-42-surge

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More damning evidence surfaces against Hillary Clinton in Durham probe
More and more damaging evidence continues to surface against Hillary Clinton in Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. During an interview with journalist Sharyl Attkisson, California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa argued that it's time for Durham to get the ball rolling. He said: "Justice delayed is justice denied is not some sort of a trite statement. It's very true. The fact is, the time has passed. It is pretty irrelevant, except it's a lesson to Congress that putting real-time limits and putting real meat in activities, including inspector general's reports and so on, is more important than ever. The time it takes to complete an investigation, or the time it takes for Congress to get to the truth, impacts whether or not you're going to get the truth and compliance in a timely fashion. If you can hold an administration accountable in real-time, they will cooperate. If they know they can run out the clock, as they often do,...
https://www.sott.net/article/466479-More-damning-evidence-surfaces-against-Hillary-Clinton-in-Durham-probe

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Milley and Austin 'frequently' reach out to Russian counterparts and get no reply
Neither Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin nor Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have spoken to their Russian counterparts since their invasion of Ukraine, six weeks ago. Austin affirmed that the two Pentagon leaders have "frequently" reached out to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov but have been unsuccessful. Austin made this disclosure during his and Milley's testimony in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday morning. "Both the chairman and I myself have frequently reached out to our counterparts in Russia to try to ensure that we maintain a dialogue. That's in the last — since mid-February. That's not been very successful because the Russians have not responded." Despite being "disappointed" by the lack of Russian engagement with him and Milley, the secretary said: "It doesn't mean we'll stop reaching out to engage them. I think we have to have the ability to talk to the leadership." Comparatively, Austin and...
https://www.sott.net/article/466480-Milley-and-Austin-frequently-reach-out-to-Russian-counterparts-and-get-no-reply

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US officials admit they're literally just lying to the public about Russia
NBC News has a new report out citing multiple anonymous US officials, humorously titled "In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn't rock solid". The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out "intelligence" about Russia's plans in Ukraine that is "low-confidence" or "based more on analysis than hard evidence", or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against Putin. The report says that toward this end the US government has deliberately circulated false or poorly evidenced claims about impending chemical weapons attacks, about Russian plans to orchestrate a false flag attack in the Donbass to justify an invasion, about Putin's advisors misinforming him, and about Russia seeking arms supplies from China.
https://www.sott.net/article/466481-US-officials-admit-they-re-literally-just-lying-to-the-public-about-Russia

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Senate votes 100-0 to limit trade with Russia, ban oil imports
The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a package to end normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus and codify the administration's ban on Russian oil imports, capping off weeks of negotiations that had stalled the legislation. Senators voted 100-0 on two bills. The first ends permanent normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus. The bill also reauthorizes Magnitsky Act sanctions that target human rights violations and corruption with penalties like visa bans or asset freezes. The second bill, which also passed 100-0, codifies the Biden administration's ban on Russian oil imports. Because the Senate made changes to both bills, they need to be passed by the House before they go to President Biden's desk. The House is expected to pass the bills on Thursday, a day after the Senate announced on Wednesday night that it has reached a deal.
https://www.sott.net/article/466482-Senate-votes-100-0-to-limit-trade-with-Russia-ban-oil-imports

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It's obvious who gains from Bucha Massacre but there's hardly any media left to say it
The Western media narrative has no competitor. The media foghorns can blare all they want without hardly a dissenting voice tolerated, let alone heard. The apparent mass murder of civilians in Bucha and other locations in Ukraine has enraged Western public opinion against Russia. Russia is facing mounting accusations of genocide and its president Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials are condemned as war criminals to be prosecuted in international tribunals similar to the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders. Western media are blaring like foghorns while Russian media and other independent outlets are banned or stifled by the toxic anti-Russia political climate. In this grossly imbalanced situation, propaganda is amplified manyfold. There is a sense that the wholesale shutdown of media prior to the latest alleged massacres in Ukraine is all part of the orchestration. When the Kiev regime and Western media warn of more massacres to follow in Ukraine that is a sinister...
https://www.sott.net/article/466483-Its-obvious-who-gains-from-Bucha-Massacre-but-theres-hardly-any-media-left-to-say-it

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SOTT FOCUS: MindMatters: Why Is Russia Like That? 400 Year of Russian Security Culture, with Gordon M. Hahn
Today on MindMatters we are joined by Gordon M. Hahn, Russia analyst and author of essential books on Russia's revolution from above in the 90s, Russian jihadism, the history of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and his latest: The Russian Dilemma: Security, Vigilance, and Relations with the West from Ivan III to Putin. While many have observed the ebb and flow of Russian relations with the West - from periods of Westernization and openness, to anti-Western revivals of Russian traditionalism - Hahn's is the first systematic analysis of Russia's security culture and vigilance norm in the context of relations with the West. The West is an integral part of Russian identity, yet it has also been the source of invasion and political interference on and off for over 400 years. These threats have formed the Russian security vigilance norm: vigilance against possible military threats, fear of internal division and instability, and strong responses against foreign collusion with internal...
https://www.sott.net/article/466484-MindMatters-Why-Is-Russia-Like-That-400-Year-of-Russian-Security-Culture-with-Gordon-M-Hahn