Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov and President Nicolas Maduro during a meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 5, 2019. | Photo: Reuters

Russian and Venezuelan authorities announced a “ten-year cooperation map” aimed at developing productive initiatives in the fields of energy, industrialization and mining.

As a result of the last meeting of the Russia-Venezuela High Level Intergovernmental Commission (CIAN), which was held in Caracas on Saturday, Russia announced that it will invest US$4 billion in the Bolivarian economy until the end of 2019.

“In the midst of difficulties, we can move forward together through the political and diplomatic coordination that we have developed in response to the imperial harassment and aggression, of which Russia is a victim, too,” Venezuela’s Industries and Production Minister Tareck El Aisame said.

At the CIAN meeting, Russian and Venezuelan officers announced a “ten-year cooperation map” in which productive initiatives in energy, industries and mining are being proposed.

Among these actions against the blockade is the development of foreign trade through the promotion of alternatives to the international financial system.

Currently, besides buying Russian products with the Venezuelan cryptocurrency called “Petro”, the Maduro administration is developing a digital payment system based on blockchain technology.

This system will allow the South American country to avoid carrying out financial transactions in dollars and in banks linked to the SWIFT system.

Created by former President Hugo Chavez and President Vladimir Putin in 2002, the CIAN is a bilateral cooperation mechanism which focuses on both the exchange of working methods and political orientations and the development of bilateral agreements.

Through this bilateral instrument, a relationship has been established between both countries whose purpose is not to control the South American nation, but to contain the effects of the U.S. blockade […]

via Russia to Invest $16.5 Billion in Venezuela by the End of 2019

By Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge – 10/05/2019

After years in the shadows overseeing espionage, kill programs, warrantless wiretapping, entrapment, psyops and other covert operations, national security establishment retirees are are turning to a new line of work where they can carry out their imperial duties.

That is, propagandizing the public on cable news. Reborn as cable news pundits, these people are cashing in. So many years working in the dark, only to emerge in the studio lights of the same networks that rail all day everyday against state TV from countries that America hates.

I’m talking about people like…

Below is but a partial list of prominent former spooks turned mainstream media pundits and analysts, to say nothing of the even greater numbers of retired generals the network continuously rely on.

Former CIA Director John Brennan who is now an NBC News senior national security and intelligence analyst.

Fran Townsend, former homeland security advisor to George W. Bush. She’s now a CBS News senior national security analyst.

But CNN takes the cake — it’s the biggest spook show of all.

Jim Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, now a CNN national security analyst.

Retired General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and the NSA, now a CNN national security analyst.

Asha Rangappa, former FBI special agent, now CNN legal analyst.

James Gagliano, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, now a CNN law enforcement analyst.

Tony Bliken, former deputy secretary of state and former deputy national security advisor, and now CNN global affairs analyst.

Mike Rogers, former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, now CNN national security commentator.

Samantha Vinograd senior advisor to the national security advisor under President Obama, now CNN national security analyst.

Steven Hall, retired CIA chief of Russia operations, now a CNN national security analyst.

Philip Mudd, former CIA counter-terrorism official, now CNN counter-terrorism analyst.

[…]

via Spooks Turned Spox: US Media Now Filled With Former Intelligence Agents

RT | October 4, 2019

A new study has found slim to nonexistent evidence for apocalyptic warnings about red meat consumption causing cancer, and the scientific establishment hell-bent on turning humanity vegan for environment’s sake is now outraged.

A team of 14 researchers from seven countries looked at over 130 articles and a dozen randomized trials, concluding that evidence linking the consumption of red and processed meat to cancer, heart disease, and mortality was of low quality and unreliable. Their findings were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a publication of the American College of Physicians, last week – to howls of protest from the scientific and nutritional establishment.

“This report has layers of flaws and is the most egregious abuse of evidence that I have ever seen,” declared Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Harsh words, to be sure, especially since one of the study’s authors is Gordon Guyatt, a professor of medicine at McMaster University in Canada and one of the creators of GRADE, a strict methodology for assessing the certainty of scientific evidence.

Guyatt said the reactions to the study are approaching levels of what he would call “hysteria.”

“If you’re the emperor, and somebody points out that you haven’t any clothes, this is not going to be a very appealing situation,” he said. “It’s very threatening, and people are defending their territory.”

Indeed, Willett is a leading member of the EAT-Lancet Commission, which advocates for a plant-based diet for the sake of the environment – and Harvard is the institution behind the infamous “food pyramid,” used for decades by the US government to advise its citizens to eat less meat and fat in favor of grains and carbohydrates.

Those guidelines have been a smashing success – in driving up the rates of obesity and diabetes, that is. If you want to see a real “hockey stick” graph, look at the percentage of overweight Americans skyrocket since 1980, when the US government began promoting the Harvard food pyramid […]

via New study finds slim evidence for apocalyptic warnings about red meat

By Mark Jeftovik | Guerrilla Capitalism | October 4, 2019

As the din of climate hysteria grows ever louder, the eco-pious and super-rich call for urgent and drastic action on climate change. Justin Trudeau, still licking his wounds from being outed for his multiple episodes of blackface and brownface, took more heat today as he’s criss-crossing the country ahead of the forthcoming federal election with not one, but two private jets.

As these calls for immediate climate action are accelerating, in fact we’ve seen numerous trial balloons floated from a complicit mainsteam media (or as Canada’a reigning Liberals call it “Approved Media”).

These trial balloons / admonitions include:

• Eating less meat, or no meat, or perhaps eat maggots or eat people, to reduce carbon output.
• Driving less, fewer cars on the road, ban on gas powered vehicles, to reduce carbon output.
• Have less children, or no children, to reduce carbon output.

And of course:

• Fly less. Let’s have fewer planes in the air, to reduce carbon output.

These guidelines are understandably hard sells for Joe Public, as many common people like to eat meat, or need a car to get to-and-from work, and children, as demanding as they can be, eventually grow up and can mow our lawns and do chores around the house.

So if we’re serious about drastic climate action, right now, before the world ends, we need to do something that has maximum bang for the buck, while disrupting as few lives as possible. This way, the rabble masses will see that our leaders and elites are serious and they have the will to take whatever action necessary to make this happen.

#BanPrivateJets

The top 50 countries in the world in terms of private jet ownership have a total fleet of nearly 18,000 jets. According to Statista, private jet ownership is soaring in most developed countries (as wealth inequality accelerates thanks to central bank interventions and 10 years of Cantillon Effects).

According to The Independent, the most popular private jet is the Cessna Citation XLS, which I believe climate alarmist Leonardo Di Caprio may be boarding in the picture below, having been shunted to the runway via a private helicopter…

A Cessna Citation XLS burns approximately 6,030kg of CO2 per three hour flight.

It’s back-of-the-napkin, but let’s say a typical jet does 4 legs per week, at 3 hour legs. We get:

17,947 jets X  6,030 kg CO2/flight X 4 flights/week  X 52 weeks = 22,509,845,280 kilograms of Co2.

Over 22 billion kilos of C02. Per year.

Of course, that estimate of 4 legs per week could be low. Elon Musk has a private jet that logged 150,000 miles in 2018. Enough to circle the globe 6 times.

But if we banned private jets, with immediate effect, no exceptions, very few working class and middle class people would be affected. In fact even upper class, lower-tier wealthy would be relatively unscathed. It would only affect the tiny sliver at the top of the wealth pyramid, the same ones who seem most vociferously adamant on drastic climate action now and who could best afford to make alternate arrangements for attending climate summits or other important events. The annual Davos summit could be held via Skype, for example.

Taking the important step now will set the tone for the coming, rapid and drastic restructuring of every aspect of our lives, and it will be an easier pill to swallow when the elitists driving this change are leading the charge by example. Be the change you wish to see! #BanPrivateJets […]

via If urgent climate action is needed, then let’s #BanPrivateJets

Marinella Correggia

“We are an unconventional army that works to win an unconventional war”: this is how, in Venezuela, the more than 2,200 volunteers of the Epo are defined. (Ejército Productivo Obrero)

The Epo is one of the many aggregated networks that, in the midst of an unprecedented economic aggression, contribute to keeping the Bolivarian revolution alive. As the militant Edwin Rojas explains, the volunteers are workers who, since 2016, collaborated to assist in the recovery of the assets of public enterprises, national institutions, communities and productive organizations in the various sectors: industry, agriculture, food and services.

The Epo intervenes with work teams when a productive operation is for various reasons paralyzed or unable to function well. At that point, at their request and on a voluntary basis, patriots with experience in different fields work to recover machinery and infrastructure, with intensive work days.

Since 2016, the Epo has conducted 14 “productive operations” in ports, including a: La Gaviota, Maquinarias Barinas, Planta Madre Wuanaguanare, Inaf, Gas Municipal, Paraguaya Refinancion Center (Crp), Inatur Guárico, Nutrivida and Comuna Maizal. The last two cases are particularly important for the food security of a country that is laboriously working to get out of the oil monoculture. Maizal is an important agricultural reality that involves hundreds of producers. Nutrivida produces enriched foods for children, then distributes them through school feeding programs (Pae) and other public distribution networks (Pdval, Mercal, Abastos bicentenary) […]

via Venezuela: Army of Productive Workers Against Economic War

An air pollution advisory board disbanded by the EPA will meet and issue its report without government funds

A committee of 20 scientists hired by the U.S. Government to determine safe levels of air pollution was recently fired, by the new head of the EPA, a former coal-industry lobbyist.

The scientists have decided to convene and issue their report on air pollution on their own dime.

The Particulate Matter Review Panel was made up of experts on “particulate matter” — aka tiny particles of pollution created by burning fossil fuels that cause respiratory disease, such as asthma and lung cancer.

They were initially hired by the EPA to decide what levels of these microscopic air pollutants are safe to breathe.

Under current standards, 21 million Americans live with levels of air pollution considered unsafe by the EPA.

The agency is currently conducting reviews to determine whether those  standards should be tightened or loosened.

To make sure their opinion reaches the EPA decision-makers, the committee will make the unprecedented move of paying for their own flights and hotels to meet in DC and work for free to issue their advisory report.

Head of the EPA and former coal industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, claims he disbanded the group because it “took too long to perform its task.”

He’s replaced the advisory board, with a new secretive panel called the “Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee” that will meet behind closed doors.

The old panel, which now calls itself the Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel, will hold a public meeting Oct. 10-11 at the same hotel it was originally scheduled at in DC […]

via Panel of Air Quality Scientists Fired by EPA Plans to Keep Working Without Pay — Return to Now

Christopher Bollyn – September 10, 2019

Yitzhak Shamir and Benjamin Netanyahu at the Madrid conference, October 1991. Under pressure from the U.S. to reach a peace settlement with the Palestinians, Shamir created “Mega”, a group of rich American Zionists, to support Israel.

Leslie Wexner, a member of Mega, funded Epstein for years. Was Wexner supporting Epstein to finance a covert Israeli operation?
(Laura E. Adkins/Getty Images via JTA )

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He is reported to have died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019.

Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein have been partners for years. Epstein financed and managed the Wexner Foundation, which gave Barak $2.3 million in 2004, as reported by Israeli journalist Erel Segal. (Source:  Revealed: Jeffrey Epstein Entered Partnership Worth Millions With Ehud Barak in 2015, Haaretz )

Michael Chertoff, the former Assistant Attorney General who managed the “non-investigation” of 9-11 (i.e. the cover-up), is on the board of advisors of Ehud Barak’s company, Carbyne, which was funded by Jeffrey Epstein. This connects the criminal network behind 9-11 with the Epstein blackmail operation.

The cover-up is the most essential part of the 9-11 terror atrocity because it is what allows the real masterminds behind the terrorism to attach a false narrative to the crime. The false narrative is designed and prepared in advance to deceive the people and bring public opinion into alignment with the real agenda behind the terror operation.

The most obvious part of the 9-11 agenda was to launch the Global War on Terror, which has become the longest and most expensive war in U.S. history. The fact that the public is not shouting from the rooftops against this costly and fraudulent military campaign is an indication of how successful the 9-11 cover-up has been. Since 9-11, some seven trillion dollars have been wasted on waging wars in the Middle East in which there is no real U.S. interest or benefit to the American people, as President Trump said on April 28, 2018.

The people behind the 9-11 cover-up are clearly part of the criminal network behind the terror atrocity itself. In the Solving 9-11 books I identify many of the key players in the network behind the crime and cover-up. Two of the highest level masterminds involved in the 9-11 cover-up are the former Israeli prime minister and military chief, Ehud Barak, and the former Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff.

On 9-11, Ehud Barak was the first person to promote the false narrative by placing the blame for the terror attacks on Osama Bin Laden and calling for a U.S.-led Global War on Terror, which he did from the London studios of the BBC World television network and Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News – all before the towers had fallen on September 11, 2001.

Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff was responsible for the federal investigation of 9-11 as head of the criminal division of the Department of Justice. Chertoff’s effort is better described as a “non-investigation” because rather than solving the crime it resulted in the immediate and massive destruction of evidence from the crime scenes where some three thousand people were murdered on 9-11.

The fact that Michael Chertoff now sits on the board of advisors of Ehud Barak’s company, Carbyne, and that Jeffrey Epstein invested millions of dollars into Barak’s enterprise is a solid line connecting the criminal network behind 9-11 with the Epstein sexual blackmail operation.

This is how it works. Epstein’s blackmail operation was designed to control politicians and other agents of influence, which is exactly what is required to maintain a high-level 9-11 cover-up for eighteen years. The fact that Epstein’s racket was supported by Leslie Wexner, a member of the Mega group, is more evidence that Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell were working for an operation run at the highest level by Israeli intelligence. The Mega group consists of U.S.-based Zionist billionaires dedicated to serving the state of Israel. Mega was established in 1991 during the reign of the former terrorist leader Yitzhak Shamir as Israel’s prime minister.

As Gidi Weitz reported in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on July 11, 2019:

Revealed: Jeffrey Epstein Entered Partnership Worth Millions With Ehud Barak in 2015

The American billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender who was arrested this week on new sex-trafficking charges involving underage girls, partnered with former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to invest in the former prime minister’s startup.

In 2015 Barak set up a limited partnership, in which he is the sole shareholder. That company invested in Reporty Homeland Security, established in 2014, becoming a major shareholder. Last year Reporty changed its name to Carbyne. The company develops call-handling and identification capabilities for emergency response services.

Barak is the chairman of Carbyne and according to reports by [sic] business media outlets, his personal investment in the company totals millions of dollars in it. Haaretz has learned that Epstein financed a considerable part of the investment, thus becoming a partner in the project.

[…]

via The Epstein Connection to 9-11

Greta Thunberg is the face of a coming radical youth movement aimed at stopping global climate disaster. The attacks on her, and the attempts to undermine her, should be seen in that light. And hardly had she finished lambasting the UN delegates, than those attacks began.

Writing in the NY Times, Christopher Caldwell accused her of “simplification” and “sowing panic”. “Normally Ms. Thunberg would be unqualified to debate in a democratic forum,” he wrote, making frequent references to her young age (“precious, adolescent, diminutive and fresh-faced, unrealistic” were some of the adjectives he used.) “Kids her age have not seen much of life,” he wrote.

He then went on to claim that what she stands for will be used by the far right anti-immigration forces, which is ironic since the Guardian newspaper accused him of stoking “a culture of fear” (of Muslim people) in his recent book, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Regarding the looming climate disaster, Caldwell calls for “patience”. (As Thunberg pointed out at the UN, the science has been known for 30 years and nothing significant has been done. Should we be “patient” as we all find ourselves with a burning planet?)

The more blatant far right was more crude yet. Michael Knowles called her “a mentally ill Swedish child” on Fox, and Dinesh D’Souza compared her role to that of a Nazi figurehead child, and Laura Ingraham called Thunberg’s appearance at the UN “chilling”.

Such attacks will be like water off a duck’s back. Thunberg won’t be bothered.

More dangerous was the meeting she had with Barack Obama just a few days before her UN address. In that meeting, he said to her “You and me, we’re a team”, to which she can be heard to reply “yeah”.

In this regard, Trump is especially useful for Obama and his ilk. Take the case of the Paris climate accord, signed in December of 2015 – by Obama among others. Much has been made of Trump’s withdrawal from that accord. All it means is that he will stop the pretense that that accord represents! Oaklandsocialist analyzed that accord here. We explained that it was lauded by the Chinese government, which got 60% of its energy from burning coal, and by the Brazilian government which was allowing deforestation of the Amazon even back then. We explained that there was not a single reference to “military” in the accord. (A recent article in the Intercept reports that “The U.S. Department of Defense has a larger annual carbon footprint than most countries on earth. With a sprawling network of bases and logistics networks, the U.S. military is the single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world aside from whole nation-states themselves.”)

As we explained, all the nice-sounding goals of the Paris Accord were just that – goals. Not a single thing was mandated. “While the Republican wing is dominated by climate deniers who appeal to the most backwards thinking, the Democratic wing pretends to give something with one hand, while they take away even more with the other,” we wrote. (See full analysis here.)

Nor will the established environmental groups provide an alternative. As we documented in The Environmentalist Manifesto, they are too integrated into the corporate-controlled Democratic Party as well as too linked with big business to really be effective.

When Thunberg spoke at the UN, she roasted the delegates, who applauded her at every turn. This was their theatrics, a pretense that her justified attack did not apply to them. Ditto with Obama, his fist-bump and his claim that he was a “team” with her. That is the real danger for Thunberg and the coming movement she represents – that in contrast to the monsters like Trump the Obama’s can make themselves look good.

But we should not forget what she said – that the world has had 30 years in which the science of global warming was a proven fact yet the world “leaders” have done nothing. But it wasn’t the lunatics like Trump who were in charge for most of that time; it was the Obama’s of the world.

Specifically, the issue is likely to play out through a few questions, ranging from the very practical to the “theoretical”:

• First: Will the coming youth movement orient to the working class? Will it relate the issue of climate disaster to the economic issues that workers face or will it allow itself to move down the road of making the working class pay? We should remember what happened to Macron and how the Yellow Vest movement developed. In that case, Macron instituted a gas tax as a means of reducing gas consumption. Workers and more middle class people revolted because they couldn’t afford to pay more. The coming youth movement must be devoted to making the capitalists pay for the climate crisis. After all, it is the capitalists who have created this crisis […]

via Which way for Greta Thunberg? Which way for the coming movement?

[SEE: Biden Admits To Getting Ukrainian Prosecutor Fired For Investigating Son’s “Burisma” Fracking Company]

‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’”–Joe Biden

via The Truth About Biden and Ukraine That Democrats and Corporate Media Are Hiding Or Overlooking Purposely

By Arjun Walia | Collective Evolution

In Brief

• The Facts:Author Mike Cernovich shares what he learned at a protest requiring children to take vaccines over their doctors’ objections.
• Reflect On:Billions of dollars has been paid to families of vaccine injured children. Vaccines can never be safe for 100 percent of people, and there is a history of disease outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations. Why would they force this on people?

It’s no secret that vaccines are not completely safe for everyone, it’s clearly not a ‘one size fits all’ product, and that’s evident by the fact that nearly $4 billion has been paid out to families of vaccine injured children via the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA).As astronomical as the monetary awards are, they’re even more alarming considering that only an estimated 1% of vaccine injuries are even reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).

If the numbers from VAERS are correct – only 1% of vaccine injuries are reported and only 1/3 of the petitions are compensated – then up to 99% of vaccine injuries go unreported and the families of the vast majority of people injured by vaccines are picking up the costs, once again, for vaccine makers’ flawed products. According to a MedAlerts search of the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, as of 2/5/19, the cumulative raw count of adverse events from measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines alone was: 93,929 adverse events, 1,810 disabilities, 6,902 hospitalizations, and 463 deaths.

The information above is something I’ve shared multiple times in multiple articles, backed up by sources. The idea that vaccines are completely safe for everyone is a narrative that runs rampant throughout the mainstream and within the minds of most people. Furthermore, many people have been made to believe that unvaccinated children are actually a threat to vaccinated children, and that all should be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. The main motivation behind compulsory vaccine initiatives is “herd immunity.”

The idea is that the more people that are vaccinated, the more protection there will be for the whole. The public health establishment borrowed the herd immunity concept from pre-vaccine observations of natural disease outbreaks. Then, without any apparent supporting science, officials applied the concept to vaccinations, using it not only to justify mass vaccinations, but to guilt-trip anyone objecting to the nation’s increasingly onerous vaccine mandates as well.

An analysis in the Oregon Law Review by New York University (NYU) legal scholars Mary Holland and Chase E. Zachary (who also has a Princeton-conferred doctorate in chemistry), showed that 60 years of compulsory vaccine policies “have not attained herd immunity for any childhood disease.” It is time, they suggest, to cast aside coercion in favor of voluntary choice.

Again, the point is that herd immunity can’t exist unless vaccines are 100 percent safe.

This is what has recently happened in Sacramento, with the passing of SB 276, by Senator Richard Pan. The bill eliminated nearly all vaccine medical exemptions. Under this bill, politicians, not physicians, are in charge of deciding whether or not children may receive medical exemptions, which in turn would determine whether or not they can attend school […]

via “It’s Degrading” – Mothers of Vaccine-Injured Children Speak Out — A Sweet Dose of Reality | The Mad Truther