Sunday, June 16, 2024

Biden’s Energy Sec Held Secret Talk With China Before Tapping Into Oil Reserve

by Luis Miguel, The New American:

The energy decline of the United States has been one of the most prominent features of Joe Biden’s tenure in the White House. New reporting raises the question: Is all of this deliberately orchestrated in coordination with America’s enemies?

According to previously undisclosed meetings revealed in internal Energy Department calendars obtained by Americans for Public Trust (APT) and shared with Fox News, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met with her Chinese counterpart, China National Energy Administration Chairman Zhang Jianhua, right before the administration’s 2021 announcement that it would release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to fight nationwide high gas prices caused by Biden’s own energy policies.

Revenues double at Russian McDonald’s replacement

from RT:

Vkusno i Tochka raked in nearly $1.7 billion in 2023

Russian fast-food chain Vkusno i Tochka, which replaced McDonald’s after the US company left the country due to sanctions, more than doubled its revenues last year, according to an earnings report cited by Interfax.

The fast-food chain saw revenues jump to 155.7 billion rubles ($1.68 billion) in 2023, which was 2.1 times higher than the previous year, the news agency said on Monday.

Yair Netanyahu Shares Vid of IDF Soldier Threatening Defense Minister Yoav Gallant With Military Coup

by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair on Saturday shared video of a “Netanyahu loyalist” IDF soldier threatening Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with a military coup if he doesn’t expand the war in Gaza.

Russia Says It Has Killed 491 Americans in Ukraine

from The National Pulse:

Russia’s Defense Ministry released a report on Thursday stating that their forces have killed approximately 6,000 foreign mercenaries and volunteers who were fighting for Ukraine. The report alleges that a total of 13,387 “foreign mercenaries” from foreign countries have participated in the war since its commencement over two years ago.Among the killed foreign fighters, Russia reports 491 were American fatalities. The estimated number of British casualties is 360, and 422 deaths from Canada. The highest number of foreign fighters were Polish, accounting for 1,497 deaths out of the total 2,690 reported.

Bill Gates Pushes Digital ID for Newborns in Kenya as Critics Warn of Surveillance Risk

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:

According to the Kenyan Daily Post, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s role in assisting the Kenyan government in its development and rollout of a government-backed digital ID program was announced after a recent series of “closed-door meetings” with Kenyan President William Ruto.

Assassination Attempt May be Because He Cut Aid to Ukraine

by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics:

The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, has suffered an attempted assassination. The rumor is that the assailant was pro-Ukraine. Fico’s renewed leadership as prime minister began with his halting of military aid to Ukraine in January, and just last month, he pushed through plans to crap public broadcaster RTVS. Some have accused the political opposition of inciting the attack. I have not been able to confirm the motive, but this is the talk in Slovakia.

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Keep US Out of War

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by Lew Rockwell, Lew Rockwell:

People have different opinions about the battle between Israel and Hamas, but one thing should be clear to all of us. America must stay out of the conflict and follow our traditional non-interventionist foreign policy, magnificently defended by Murray Rothbard and Dr. Ron Paul.

Steve Berger gets to the essential issue:

“[We need a] non-interventionist policy that doesn’t stir up hornets nests or in words of JQA [Jon Quincy Adams] doesn’t go abroad in search of monsters to destroy is not inconsistent with protecting our own borders or citizens. Economic law all about tradeoffs.

Under What Conditions Would China Dump US Treasuries or Dollar Holdings?

by Mish Shedlock, Mish Talk:

Numerous articles and Tweets have surfaced about China dumping Treasuries. First let’s investigate the rumors. Then let’s look at conditions in which China might dump dollar assets.

Not China Dumping

Until the past week there was a relentless selloff in US treasuries that sent bond yields soaring.

POLAND AND THE GROWING PUSHBACK…

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by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

Amid record cold this weekend (I woke up today to blog, to find all my pipes frozen!), and with the Amairikuhn lamestream propatainment media continuing to promote the climate change narrative and Baal Gates wanting to “dim the sun” (Really, haven’t you busybody billionaires done enough damage?), there’s a story emerging in Poland that the media has missed (article and story courtesy of V.T. with our thanks):

CHINA MAY BE TAKING GOLD PUBLIC

One Step Closer to War

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by Jim Rickards, Daily Reckoning:

Three U.S. military personnel were tragically killed and at least 34 wounded, some seriously, over the weekend in what the U.S. government claimed was a drone attack in northern Jordan.

There’s some doubt about whether it was a drone because 37 casualties is a large number for a drone attack. A larger missile is a possibility. There’s also some doubt about the reported Jordanian location; the attack could have been in Syria near the triple border of Syria, Iraq, and Jordan.

Graphic Image: Israeli military-affiliated accounts celebrate feeding dogs with the bodies of Palestinians in Gaza.

Hundreds of Chinese Illegals Are Entering The U.S. EVERY SINGLE DAY

from The National Pulse:

Customs and Border Protection says — unofficially — that 175,000 “gotaways” have entered the U.S. and evaded detainment by agents since the start of the fiscal year in October. On average, nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants are coming into the country per day. A concerning portion of the illegal immigrants who’ve managed to evade border patrol may be of Chinese origin.

According to the official “encounter” numbers from the border patrol, agents have picked up at least 1,200 illegal Chinese immigrants in the first eight days of May. This comes out to roughly 150 Chinese nationals trying to enter the U.S. per day. The number, however, only included those actually detained by Customs and Border Patrol and not those merely observed entering the county. This means the number of illegal Chinese immigrants entering the U.S. is likely much higher.