Americans facing ‘economic degradation and misery’ due to US foreign policy – Jackson Hinkle on RT panel
Washington’s stubbornness is wasting taxpayers’ money and losing international goodwill, the journalist claimed

Washington is wasting money on foreign policy blunders like Ukraine, instead of improving the lives of American people, US journalist Jackson Hinkle has said.

The political commentator was one of the guests for a discussion panel on US information warfare against Russia, which RT hosted on Friday as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

He lampooned the administration of US President Joe Biden for trying to justify continued military assistance to Ukraine by highlighting its intention to spend the money at home to ramp up military production. Biden and other senior officials have repeatedly used this narrative when a White House appropriation request stalls in Congress due to Republican opposition.

It was a “pragmatic” decision to tell the Americans that “the money is actually going to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, which are, of course, historic friends of the American people, right?” Hinkle joked.

People in the US would rather see the funds spent “to fix our roads, our infrastructure, the trains that are blowing up, the planes that are cruising,” he added.

But there are also indirect consequences, since the US is antagonizing the rest of the world with its foreign policy, Hinkle warned. As Washington loses its clout, Americans face “economic degradation and misery,” he said, adding that America’s claim to global hegemony is leading it towards disaster.

“Unipolarity cannot exist. You cannot have 1% of the world that stands on the neck of the 99% of the world and expect that to continue,” he said.

Other speakers at the event included former Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl, the great nephew of Otto von Bismarck, Alexander von Bismarck, RT contributor Scott Ritter, and Tara Reade, who worked as an aide to Joe Biden in the US Congress.

https://www.rt.com/news/598924-hinkle-foreign-policy-spief/

Most Germans disagree with Berlin on Russia policy – Bismarck descendant on RT panel
Ordinary Germans don’t trust the political elite and mainstream news outlets when forming an opinion, Alexander von Bismarck says

The Western mainstream media is distorting reality regarding Russia and doesn’t reflect what people really think of the country and its actions, German politician Alexander von Bismarck, great nephew of his nation’s first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, has claimed.

Speaking during an RT panel discussion titled ‘The Empire of Evil: Has the West Successfully Demonized Russia?’ at the 2024 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday, the politician argued that the media toeing the line drawn by Western governments regarding Russia and the Ukraine conflict.

Berlin and its Western partners sided with Kiev when the conflict began in 2022, and has been instrumental in supporting Ukraine’s military effort with financial aid and sanctions against Moscow. Bismarck, however, said ordinary Germans are not fooled by the anti-Russian narrative.

“[The view of] the German political elite on Russia is very different to the rest of Germany. 80% don’t believe what our government does and says... The mainstream media want to push the people, they want to give another picture, but most young people look not at the mainstream – they look at the social media and […] the thinking of the young people is other than the political elite,” he stressed.

Bismarck also stated that the policy of painting Russia in an unfavorable light dates back to the days of the Cold War, when the US wanted to promote the idea of “the crazy Russian people” in West Germany. The general opinion of those living in East Germany always focused on separating people from politics when forming opinions on Russia and Russians, he added.

The politician signaled that his renowned ancestor, who at one point served as an envoy to Russia, would not have approved of the current state of relations between Moscow and Berlin.

“[Otto] used to say: if Russia and Germany go together and be friends together, then Europe will be well,” he stated

He added that he has faith in the younger generation, which has an opportunity to communicate globally through social media and form opinions without the influence of political agendas, to change Berlin’s policies. Otherwise, Bismarck warned, Germany may find itself “the biggest loser”in the Ukraine conflict by continuing to act on orders from Washington.

“The younger generation… they look to many countries and say: yes, America does bad things, they only think about themselves for money, and Europe pays for this conflict, and Germany is the biggest loser in the whole of Europe,” he stated.

RT’s panel discussion was dedicated to the West’s attempts to cultivate a negative image of Russia amid the Ukraine conflict, and featured several high-profile speakers, including former UN Special Commission weapons inspector Scott Ritter, Tara Reade, who worked as an aide to Joe Biden, and former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl.

https://www.rt.com/russia/598921-germans-disagree-berlin-russia-policy/

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NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

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France and Russia Are Closer Than Ever to Open War

Macron announced that will France send military personnel directly to Ukraine to train and equip a 4,500 strong Mechanized Brigade, plus a number of Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets. This could be a response to Russia's moves to tackle French interests around the world such as in the Sahel, Mayotte and New Caledonia.
For additional context, French Army Going to Ukraine Will Be a DISASTER:

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Bankrupt Paris, bankrupt France, preludes to the predicted disaster of the Olympics

BY Valérie Bérenger

Paris is bankrupt! In less than 15 years, public debt has gone from zero euros, under the former mayor Bertrand Delanoë, to more than 9.5 billion currently with an ever-increasing trend, an increase of +155% since the arrival by Anne Hidalgo! A situation that is all the more serious when we see that the debt per capita has now reached €4,551. Imagine the same situation in Moscow!

A hole that is explained when we see where Parisians’ money goes. Thus the Paris town hall finances SOS Méditerranée and African countries in turn. However, if Paris has the means to give money to African countries or to more or less dubious NGOs, it is because its inhabitants pay too much taxes. However, in 2023 Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, increased the property tax of residents by 52%, all because she is cornered by her catastrophic financial management, despite the multiplication of maneuvers to hide the budgetary reality.

It is time for the town hall to come out of denial in a city which has more civil servants than the entire European Commission. A city which despite this is invaded by rats, with a repulsive filth where even the sidewalks of Avenue Foch are littered with dirty mattresses and rubbish making it look like a trash city; where you have to step over more and more bodies of migrants without forgetting to carefully watch where you put your feet when you walk on the sidewalks, and which accumulates work in almost all the neighborhoods of which you never see the end.

And if the work stagnates it is quite simply because the Paris town hall “forgot” to honor its commitments. You should know that public works companies are paid in advance in installments. First payment, first tranche of work, 2nd payment, 2nd tranche of work and so on. So if Paris is littered with endless open-air construction sites, it’s simple: No money, no work!

Clément Beaune, French Minister of Transport, himself ended up denouncing “The financial situation of the city of Paris is serious”, adding that the scenario of being placed under supervision is therefore “not excluded”. “It’s extremely serious and I don’t want it, it would be a last resort.” All the more serious 4 months before the Olympics. Imagine the international impact of placing the city that organizes the Olympic Games under supervision. And this is also one of the reasons why for the moment “we are doing nothing!” ".

One of the reasons but not the only one, because to put Paris under supervision the government would still have to have the means. However, France is on the verge of bankruptcy with an exponential public debt of 3,200 billion which is increasing by 10 billion per month, and a deficit of 130 billion euros for 2024. Morality, here again we are dangerously approaching total debacle.

France presents a completely misleading budget. The government is making no effort to absorb the largest debt in Europe even though it is the country that taxes its inhabitants the most, but which “at the same time” spends the most. There is no more money in the coffers and yet we have to invest everywhere! Thank you politics of financial geniuses! It must be said that between Bruno Le Maire who was supposed to bring "Russia to its knees" and who succeeded with great talent in bringing Russian unemployment to almost zero thanks to sanctions, and Emmanuel Macron who plays the bully with an army at bones and sprinkles with magic money all that the planet has of undesirable and violent marginalized people whom he brings back to France with a lot of publicity, the French, at least what is left of them, are spoiled. But after all it seems that we only get the government we deserve...

France is there! Led by a naked king, the State is selling off its heritage and counting on the Olympic Games to replenish part of its economy except that the Olympics... It is not won by any means.

Olympics under right-thinking discrimination

A good way for the French and Americans to win as many medals as possible is to eliminate their main competitors in many disciplines where they excel, namely the Russians and Belarusians. Regardless, the pretext is as big as a house: the SVO! So, to participate, Russians and Belarusians must register under a neutral banner, without a national anthem, and above all having taken great care to NEVER but NEVER have approved the SVO or even imagine daring to say that they supported Vladimir V. Putin! The IOC even goes so far as to spy on athletes' exchanges on social networks to ensure this.

As for the reception that will be given to them, judge for yourself... The Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra expressed, regarding their acceptance to competitions, a "will be under a regime of very strict neutrality" and that " they will not represent the Russian state”! As for Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, she shares the speech made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the French authorities who announced that “athletes from the two countries will not participate in the parade on the Seine and that their medals will not be counted », adding in turn “I want to tell the Russian and Belarusian athletes that they are not welcome in Paris”.

A particularly tasty statement when we know that the Olympic doctrine is precisely based on the principles – among others – of non-discrimination, humanism and universality. And the most hilarious thing about all of this is that it is France which accuses Russia of politicizing sport.

We are far from the spirit of Olympicism as defined by Baron Pierre de Coubertin: “Each individual must have the opportunity to play sport without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding, the spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.”

As for fair play, let's judge it instead since the IOC warned the national Olympic committees against any participation in the World Friendship Games planned in Russia this summer, saying that they were trying to preserve the autonomy of sport. So, not only are we refusing Russians and Belarusians to represent their country but we are discriminating against Russian games. Perversion in all its splendor!

Is the atmosphere now that Alexeï Mechkov, the ambassador of the Russian Federation in France, recently came to advise Russian athletes against participating in the Olympics to the extent that he cannot guarantee them the welcome and security that they are entitled to expect during their stay.
A question nevertheless arises... Why do other nations, also at war, and other athletes who represent these nations, not suffer the same sanctions? Why do some people have the right to exterminate thousands of women and children without sanction? Double standards once again. Especially when we hear in a recent statement, Emmanuel Macron affirm that the Russian flag, representing an “aggressor country”, and the Belarusian flag, which supports Russian policy, must be banned during the next Olympic Games in Paris in 2024. Based on this principle, if in France, as Anne Hidalgo states, “We are not going to honor a country which attacks another”, should we not also ban certain other flags and force their athletes to compete under a neutral banner?

Olympics that are going well?

As a result, three and a half months from the fateful date it turns out that 40% of Parisian hotel rooms are desperately empty and worse, that cancellations are cascading. As for the overpriced apartments that are rented through AirBnB, they are currently far from finding takers. There is only one step from where these Olympics are economically a disaster. Especially since the price of the metro ticket will be quadrupled “so we don’t have to take it” says Valérie Pécresse!

But the comedy of it all is the sickly unpreparedness and the dangerous communications stunts galore. After having wanted to remove the second-hand booksellers from the quays of the Seine, having had to face multiple surprise strikes by workers on the construction sites of the future Olympic sites, here is our little Jupiter in the middle of the inauguration of an Olympic swimming pool built in Saint-Denis which, barely finished, already has leaks.

A swimming pool which was originally supposed to cost 68 million euros, and which ultimately will cost 174. 174 million for a leaking pool, let's admit that it's funny.

And the worst: the capacity of our expensive swimming pool being too small for the federation, the online swimming events will ultimately take place in a rugby stadium. Russian friends you have the right to laugh!

But it’s not far from it…

On February 27, a computer and USB keys containing the security plans for the Olympics were stolen from a train at Gare du Nord.

The Sully bridge in Paris, planned for the opening ceremony, was damaged by a boat. The town hall must repair it as quickly as possible.

Workers who make Olympic medals have been on strike for 3 weeks for wage increases and a bonus for the Olympics.

108 days before opening, a new study reveals that the Seine is still not suitable for swimming due to the fact that water quality thresholds systematically deteriorate after very intense rainy episodes which saturate the water. sewers which overflow their wastewater discharges into the Seine. And since October we have only had rainy episodes, so... if athletes like bathing in excrement, they don't mind! Especially since it’s the Seine or nothing since no one has planned a plan B for the open water swimming events.

All this would make you smile if more than a billion euros had not been invested to clean up the Seine in order to keep the promise of making it swimmable, when it would have been enough to organize the competition on the seaside for It costs almost nothing. But it is true that our “Mozarts of finance” do not know how to count since they spend other people’s money.

Up to 15 million visitors are expected for the Olympic Games which will be held from July 26 to August 11 and the Paralympic Games from August 28 to September 8... And with so many crowd movements, problems and accidents are never lacking. Also, at a time when all hospitals are short of staff due to cascading bed closures, the AP-HP has called on internal volunteers, and is offering a bonus of €800 to €2,500 gross per week to caregivers. of the departments concerned who agree not to take their leave. Who are we laughing at ?

Finally, the DGSI would like to cancel the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on the Seine and move to plan B due to the threat of a return of mass terrorism considered very high. She tried in vain to convince Gérald Darmanin.

Do you want more…

The four most senior leaders of the Paris Olympics organizing committee are the subject of several criminal proceedings for illegal taking of interests, favoritism, concealment and embezzlement of public funds...

Hatred of Macron has become so palpable in the country that there is a risk of blocking actions exploding wherever the competitions take place, so much so that the Senate had to adopt a bill banning strikes in transport during the Olympics.

And the icing on the cake... we will have 35,000 police officers, gendarmes, soldiers, members of private security and even foreign police officers every day to protect the Olympics. According to the French Ministry of the Armed Forces “several foreign nations” including Poland will send soldiers to help secure the Olympic Games. When you know the Poles, I'm not sure that this perspective is really reassuring.

For Paris alone, our little Macron, who seems to tremble in his pants at the slightest allusion to Russia, has mobilized 58 CRS brigades out of the 61 in France!

And all this because our official coward is convinced: “I have no doubt that Russia is targeting the Olympic Games, particularly in informational terms. » “Russia feeds every day the fact that we could not do this or that, or that it would be a risk. »

You will have understood, as usual, if things go badly in France it is necessarily, necessarily, inevitably, undoubtedly, Russia's fault!
And to top it all off, residents of the districts of Paris affected by the Olympics will not even be able to enter or leave their homes without a pass in the form of a QR code to access what Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, calls the zone security where everyone will have to present this famous QRCode, even pedestrians from Friday July 26 in the evening.

The area includes the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Trocadéro, the Champs-Élysées, the Champ de Mars, the Austerlitz station and then continues along the Seine between the 16th and 15th centuries. So for those who have gone on vacation without worrying about whether or not they will be able to return home or who do not know what a QR Code is – and believe me there are more of them than you think – it’s custody guaranteed!

Around fifteen metro stations will be closed and the metros will cross them without stopping, and only 5 bridges, including 4 open to automobile traffic, will remain open: Notre-Dame, Sully, Iéna and Invalides, plus a pedestrian bridge, the Léopold-Sédar-Senghor footbridge.

Not content with taking Parisian residents hostage, treating Russian and Belarusian athletes as undesirables, thus perverting the spirit of the Games, Emmanuel Macron is competing for the Olympic gold medal from the most catastrophic and corrupt organization of the Olympics. But this one I assure you he will win hands down!

https://rusreinfo.ru/fr/2024/04/paris-en-faillite-la-france-en-banqueroute-preludes-de-la-catastrophe-annoncee-des-jo/

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Case study :

From July 26 to August 11, 2024, the 33rd edition of the Olympic Games, in which 206 delegations from around the world take part.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) prohibits the Russian Federation from having its athletes participate in team disciplines, and obliges its athletes in individual sports to compete "under a neutral banner", depriving them of any manifestation of belonging to their country and also excluding them from the opening ceremony.

As a reminder, the Russian Federation launched a special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, in response to the repeated attacks and blockades that the populations of Donbass have suffered since 2014 from the Kiev government supported by NATO.

Questions :

1. How would you characterize the IOC's decision regarding Russian athletes?

2. How to explain that the athletes of Israel, whose army is carrying out a program of extermination of the civilian populations of Palestine (residential buildings, schools, hospitals and humanitarian organizations are not spared), and whose Prime minister is the subject of an international arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity, are authorized by the IOC to participate in collective events and to compete under their flag?

3. In your opinion, the United States of America, whose successive governments over the last two decades have, through imperial wars and criminal occupations, ravaged the Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya in particular), should they be included, like other countries, in the Olympic project?

4. Based on your previous answers, give a definition of Olympism in 2024 by comparing it with the concept historically defended by Pierre de Coubertin. What do you notice?

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Paris restaurant owners had hoped to see a boom in business as crowds flocked to the city for this summer’s Olympic Games, but instead many along the French capital’s River Seine have been left virtually empty. The reason, owners say, is a police security perimeter that is keeping visitors away.

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240722-empty-streets-paris-restaurants-struggle-amid-olympic-security

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The family of the legendary engineer behind the Eiffel Tower has said they have spoken to a lawyer about blocking Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plans to leave the Olympic rings on the Paris landmark. Gustave Eiffel’s descendants argue that the rings would go against “the neutrality and the meaning” of the monument and that they should be removed at the end of 2024, marking the end of the Olympic year.

The descendants of the Eiffel Tower's designer say they will fight to stop the Olympic rings being left on the tower as the mayor of Paris plans.

The family of the legendary engineer Gustave Eiffel said they "oppose any alteration that negatively impacts respect for the work" of their ancestor, adding they had already consulted lawyers about blocking the change.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo plans to keep the massive multicoloured rings that were attached to the "Dame de Fer" ("Iron Lady") for the Paris Olympics until at least 2028, when the next Games will be held in Los Angeles.

But the descendants argued that the symbol is "colourful, large in size, placed on the main avenue of approach to the tower (and) creates a strong imbalance" in the tower's shape, "substantially modifying the very pure forms of the monument".

Keeping the rings in place would go against "the neutrality and meaning acquired over the years by the Eiffel Tower, which has become the symbol of the city of Paris and even all of France across the world," their family association, AGDE, said in a statement Sunday.

They suggest that the rings should stay in place only until "the end of 2024, which marks the end of the Olympic year".

Completed in 1889 for Paris' Universal Exhibition and originally intended to stand for only 20 years, the 330-metre Eiffel Tower is owned by the city of Paris.

It is the world's most visited monument according to its website, attracting around seven million people every year -- around three-quarters of them from abroad.

(AFP)

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240909-eiffel-family-will-fight-olympic-rings-staying-on-paris-tower

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