Новости за 30.05.2019

Robert Mueller gave a very brief press conference Wednesday morning to discuss his 2 year inquisition.

First readers must be made aware of a famous, but not that well known a book, ‘War is a Racket’ by Maj. General, Smedley Darlington Butler. 

The United States is no longer supplying its enemies only with conventional weapons – that list now also includes cyberweapons.

Almost 400 years ago, the first Russian pioneers ventured to the Amur River on the northern edge of Manchuria. The region has been slowly settled since then, but it has always been remote, and a bone of contention between Moscow and Beijing. 

“We are going to intercept and stop all oil exports from the (Middle East) region if we are prevented from exporting our oil. We shall take every measure possible to close the Straits of Hormuz. If the US aims – by sending jets, carriers – to reinforce its positions and status among the international community, it doesn’t concern us. But if the US is seriously aiming to threaten us, it should know that not one drop of oil will leave the region and we shall destroy all US interests in the Middle East”. Читать дальше...

Very funny. Jimmy Dore is on a roll. He also recently hilariously disembowled Rachel Maddow for her Russiahoax lying.

In a report that views Russia through the same cracked lens as Washington’s old ideological foe, the Soviet Union, the RAND Corporation reveals that its worst enemy for gaining global dominance is not Russia but the US.

First there was Tether; a controversial dollar-backed cryptocurrency by crypto exchange firm, Bitfinex. Then came Petro, the industry’s first oil-backed crypto issued by the Venezuelan government last year. And now we might be about to see the first gold-backed cryptocurrency—by a central bank, no less. According to Russian news agency, TASS, Russia’s central bank, the Bank of Russia will consider issuing gold-backed cryptocurrencies - a rather strange move considering how cryptocurrencies are generally anathema to central banks. Читать дальше...

The victims were ethnic Germans and their executioners and torturers were often Jews, like the psychopathic mass murderer Shlomo Morel (pictured) who later died in honour in Israel. 

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Checkpoint Asia is an excellent news site by a former deputy editor of ours crucial to RI between 2014 and 2019. Best news and commentary ranging from Russia, to China, to Imperial misadventures in the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and with an anti-Empire bent.