Armenian president announces his resignation

"The country’s president has no instruments to influence important issues either in the domestic or foreign policy," according to a statement posted on his official website

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has announced his resignation.

"It is not an emotion-driven decision and it has certain logic. The country’s president has no instruments to influence important issues either in the domestic or foreign policy," according to a statement posted on his official website on Sunday. "In this difficult period for our country, when nationwide unity is needed, the institute of presidency must not be a target for gossip and conspiracy theories that only distract the attention of society from major problems."

The country, in his words, is living "in a strange reality when the head of state cannot influence matters linked with war and peace," cannot veto laws he considers as inexpedient for the nation and for the state.

Armenia’s president is elected by the National Assembly (parliament) for a term of seven years and, correspondingly, the National Assembly accepts his resignation. Under the country’s constitution, the National Assembly organizes early presidential election not earlier than 25 days and not later than 35 days after the presidential office is vacated.

"In line with the procedure established by the constitutional amendments of 2015, Armenia has shifted from the semi-presidential to the parliamentary form of government since April 9, 2018, when Armen Sarkissian took office," the presidential website noted.

The president is the head of state and is in charge of "supervising the observation of the constitution," appointing regular and early elections to the National Assembly, accepting the resignation of the government. At the suggestion of the government and the prime minister, the president initiates cabinet reshuffles, appoints and recalls ambassadors, signs and denounces international agreements, addresses issues of citizenship and pardoning.

https://tass.com/world/1392025

Israel approves multimillion-dollar joint R&D fund with UAE

NIS 300 million to be allocated over next decade to support private sector collaboration and investment

Israel’s cabinet approved on Sunday a joint Israel-UAE R&D fund to support tech projects involving Israeli and Emirati companies.

The fund is designed to encourage collaboration on technological innovation, and to help Israeli companies access resources that are not available in Israel, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry.

It will also help Israeli businesses find Emirati partners, navigate local regulations, and develop marketing strategies.

The fund, which was proposed by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen, will allocate NIS 15 million a year over the next decade. The UAE will provide matching funds, for a total of NIS 300 million for the life of the fund.

The UAE and Israel signed a normalization agreement in 2020 as part of the US-backed Abraham Accords.

During his December visit to the UAE, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his host Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan agreed to open the fund.

“This joint fund, and a corresponding joint business council, will harness leading economic and technological minds in the UAE and in Israel, and task them with commercializing solutions to challenges ranging from climate change and desertification to clean energy and future agriculture,” the two leaders said a joint statement.

The fund will be managed on the Israeli side by the Foreign Ministry, Science Ministry, Finance Ministry, Economy Ministry, and Innovation Authority.

Lapid said in a statement that Israel and the UAE share a passion for advanced technology that improves citizens’ quality of life, protects the environment, and promotes economic development.

“The bilateral R&D fund is the engine to start the process in the private sector, by encouraging companies, with an emphasis on SMEs (small and medium enterprises) to connect, to develop, to create, and to market innovative technological products in the region and globally,” he said.

He also thanked his Emirati counterpart, Abdullah bin Zayed.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-approves-multimillion-dollar-joint-rd-fund-with-uae/

Eight Years Ago: US-NATO Installed a Neo-Nazi Government in Ukraine

This article first published by Global Research in March 2014 at the very outset of the Ukraine crisis explains the nature of the Kiev proxy regime. We are dealing with a Neo-Nazi government supported by “Western democracy” and the “international community”.

According to the New York Times,

“The United States and the European Union have embraced the revolution here as another flowering of democracy, a blow to authoritarianism and kleptocracy in the former Soviet space.” ( After Initial Triumph, Ukraine’s Leaders Face Battle for Credibility, NYTimes.com, March 1, 2014, emphasis added)

“Flowering Democracy, Revolution”? The grim realities are otherwise. What is a stake is a US-EU-NATO sponsored coup d’Etat in blatant violation of international law.

The forbidden truth is that the West has engineered –through a carefully staged covert operation– the formation of a proxy regime integrated by Neo-Nazis.

Confirmed by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, key organizations in the Ukraine including the Neo-Nazi party Svoboda were generously supported by Washington: “We have invested more than 5 billion dollars to help Ukraine to achieve these and other goals. … We will continue to promote Ukraine to the future it deserves.”

The Western media has casually avoided to analyze the composition and ideological underpinnings of the government coalition. The word “Neo-Nazi” is a taboo. It has been excluded from the dictionary of mainstream media commentary. It will not appear in the pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post or The Independent. Journalists have been instructed not to use the term “Neo-Nazi” to designate Svoboda and the Right Sector.

Composition of the Coalition Government

We are not dealing with a transitional government in which Neo-Nazi elements integrate the fringe of the coalition, formally led by the Fatherland party.

The Cabinet is not only integrated by the Svoboda and Right Sector (not to mention former members of defunct fascist UNA-UNSO), the two main Neo-Nazi entities have been entrusted with key positions which grant them de facto control over the Armed Forces, Police, Justice and National Security.

Image left: John McCain meets Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok (centre)

While Yatsenuyk’s Fatherland Party controls the majority of portfolios and Svoboda Neo-Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok was not granted a major cabinet post (apparently at the request of assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland), members of Svoboda and the Right Sector occupy key positions in the areas of Defense, Law Enforcement, Education and Economic Affairs.

Andriy Parubiy (image right) co-founder of the Neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (subsequently renamed Svoboda) was appointed Secretary of the National Security and National Defense Committee (RNBOU). (Рада національної безпеки і оборони України), a key position which overseas the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces, Law Enforcement, National Security and Intelligence. The RNBOU is central decision-making body. While it is formally headed by the president, it is run by the Secretariat with a staff of 180 people including defense, intelligence and national security experts.

Parubiy was one of the main leaders behind the Orange Revolution in 2004. His organization was funded by the West. He is referred to by the Western media as the “kommandant” of the EuroMaidan movement.

Andriy Parubiy together with party leader Oleh Tyahnybok is a follower of Ukrainian Nazi Stepan Bandera, who collaborated in the mass murderer of Jews and Poles during World War II.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-has-installed-a-neo-nazi-government-in-ukraine/5371554

CIA Drug Smuggling and Dealing: Birth of the Dark Alliance

In 1982, U.S. Attorney Gen. William French Smith wrote CIA Director William Casey a letter establishing a policy of not reporting, investigating or prosecuting drug crimes by CIA agents, assets and contractors.

Image result for gary webb movie kill the messengerTwo letters — one from Smith thanking Casey for his request, and a followup by Casey — are both available. They were released as part of a internal CIA report that explored allegations of CIA involvement in drug trafficking.

The most comprehensive allegations were reported by investigative journalist Gary Webb in a series for the The Mercury News of San Jose, Calif., and later a book titled “Dark Alliance.”

In the first document, Smith thanks Casey for his letter (the one that isn’t public), and he writes:

… in view of the fine cooperation the Drug Enforcement Administration has received from CIA, no formal requirement regarding the reporting of narcotics violations has been included in these procedures.

On Feb. 11, 1982, Smith wrote again to Casey, repeating the policy:

I have been advised that a question arose regarding the need to add narcotics violations to the list of reportable non-employee crimes … [N]o formal requirement regarding the reporting of narcotics violations has been included in these procedures.

On March 2, 1982, Casey responded happily, thanking the attorney general for his understanding:

I am pleased that these procedures, which I believe strike the proper balance between enforcement of the law and protection of intelligence sources and methods, will now be forwarded to other agencies … [Full document]

https://web.archive.org/web/20050420161112/http://www.motherjones.com/sideshow/cia_two.html

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https://www.winterwatch.net/2022/01/cia-drug-smuggling-and-dealing-the-birth-of-the-dark-alliance/

Lukashenko: "The international scammers should finally end the pandemic"

Belarusian President Lukashenko has made a public statement on Covid-19 that would be unthinkable in the West: “One should not worry” about Covid-19 and the “organizers of the pandemic” should finally end the pandemic.

Anti-Spiegel (Google Translation) – It is well known that President Lukashenko is one of the few heads of state who has not introduced any corona restrictions in his country. Lukashenko himself has contracted Covid-19 twice, but continues to demonstratively visit the corona wards in Belarusian hospitals without a mask and gloves. At the beginning of the pandemic, he indignantly rejected a payment of $900 million offered by the IMF in return for a lockdown in his country .

Now Lukashenko has made headlines again with a statement that would be unthinkable from leading politicians in the West. Among other things, he spoke of the “organizers of the pandemic” and called on them to finally end the pandemic. I almost asked if he had already read my new book “ Inside Corona ”, because the term “organizers of the pandemic” can be found very often in it. This question is of course meant as a joke.

The Russian news agency TASS reported on Lukashenko’s statements and I translated the TASS report .

Start of translation:

Lukashenko calls on the “international scammers” to end the pandemic

Belarusian President advises people diagnosed with coronavirus “not to worry”.

President Alexander Lukashenko has advised people not to worry too much if they have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and urged the “international scammers” to end the pandemic.

“I would advise you not to worry. I’ve been telling you for a long time, since the first time: our illness is here, in our heads. And once you start worrying about “oh and oh” and running to hell knows where, that’s bad. Young people have nothing to fear,” Lukashenko told reporters on Friday, the presidential press service reports.

He appealed to the international organizations: “I would like to say to all these international fraudsters: enough is enough. They’ve grabbed so much into our pockets that there’s nothing left. They’ve all already undressed. This pandemic must finally end. It’s enough, they’ve tormented people enough.”

The President added that he is following the development of the coronavirus situation around the world and what various experts are saying: “One, either an American or a Western expert, said: ‘If Omicron is such a light virus, then let’s everyone will get sick and that will be the vaccine for us’. In my opinion, this is an ideal proposal,” Lukashenko said.

https://lorphicweb.com/lukashenko-the-international-scammers-should-finally-end-the-pandemic/

Trust the Science? Huge COVID Testing Company Engaged in Scandalous Cover-Up, Says Heartland State

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is suing two Illinois-based companies for allegedly “deceiving consumers” when it comes to COVID-19 testing.

The suit claims the companies, the Center for COVID Control and Doctors Clinical Laboratory, Inc., “either failed to deliver test results, or delivered test results that were falsified or inaccurate,” according to a news release issued by Ellison’s office Wednesday.

Center for Covid Control is one of the biggest players in the COVID testing space, operating over 300 sites nationwide, according to an NBC News report from Jan. 14, which noted that the company is under federal investigation as well as being probed by attorneys general in several states.

Doctors Clinical Laboratory is CCC’s “associated lab,” the Ellison news release states.

CCC operated pop-up COVID-19 test sites throughout the state where it collected samples from Minnesotans, according to the news release The samples were then turned over to DCL for testing.

The lawsuit, filed in Hennepin County district court on Wednesday, accuses the companies of delivering test results that were “often deceptively riddled with inaccurate and false information including listing the wrong test type and false dates and times for when samples were collected from consumers to be tested.”

Worse still, some Minnesotans, who had never submitted samples, reported they’d received test results from the companies, according to the the lawsuit:

“Even more disturbingly, Defendants have fraudulently represented that Minnesota consumers have tested negative for COVID-19, despite consumers never having submitted samples for Defendants to test,” it states.

The lawsuit states the Minnesota Department of Health started receiving complaints about the company in December.

According to the news release, former CCC employees informed the attorney general’s office that, “while the company could initially handle its load of local tests, its processing center failed to expand as the company opened up testing sites around the country, including in Minnesota. The results, as one former employee described, were chaos, with received samples being stuffed into trash bags strewn across the office floor.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/trust-science-huge-covid-testing-company-engaged-scandalous-cover-says-heartland-state/

Scott Morrison's social media page is HACKED and turned into a bizarre pro-China propaganda site in a 'blatant act of censorship at the hands of Beijing'

China's largest social media website re-branded PM Scott Morrison's profile

Australian prime minister's WeChat account hacked and his team locked out

His 76,000-strong audience now follow strange 'Australian Chinese new life'

Experts say it's an attempt by China to interfere with Australian politics

Scott Morrison's profile on China's largest social media website has been hacked and re-branded to push the Communist nation's propaganda in what has been dubbed a 'blatant' act of censorship.

The Australian prime minister has recently seen his WeChat account turned into a pro-Beijing mouthpiece under the name 'Australian Chinese new life', in what intelligence chiefs are calling 'foreign interference'.

Mr Morrison's 76,000 followers on the 'super app' were sent a notification indicating they should opt out immediately or they'd be automatically signed up to the bizarre new account.

Intelligence agencies are taking the latest attempt by China to inflame tensions with Australia extremely seriously, with one expert saying it is 'anti-democratic'.

Mr Morrison's page was renamed earlier this month, but his team have been locked out of the account dating back to July last year, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Due to limits on users operating outside of China, the PM employed a locally-based operations unit to post information for Chinese Australians on the platform.

After discovering they were unable to log in the team made several approaches to WeChat about regaining access, all which went unanswered.

The most recent communication was an email sent by Mr Morrison's team on January 10, which also fell upon deaf ears.

The account has since saw the Australian leaders' picture deleted and become a profile to 'provide life information for overseas Chinese in Australia', according to a translation.

WeChat, which is owned by tech firm Tencent, is regularly monitored and censored by the Chinese Communist Party.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10432377/Australian-prime-minister-Scott-Morrisons-China-WeChat-page-HACKED.html

“I Say This Sadly as a Lifelong Democrat, to Censor Americans is Incredibly Disturbing” – Dr. Naomi Wolf with Steve Malzberg

Dr. Naomi Wolf was on with Steve Malzberg on his ‘Eat the Press’ on RT America and they discussed Joe Biden’s declining cognitive abilities.

Dr. Wolf shared the following:

I say this sadly as a lifelong Democrat, to censor Americans is incredibly disturbing…

A transcript of their discussion is below:

Biden [sound clip]: I’ll make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets, please, deal with the misinformation and disinformation on your shows. It has to stop. Covi-19 is one of the most formidable enemies America has ever faced.

Malzberg: Our president scolding our media and social media platforms to censor what he calls, misinformation about covid. Joining me now, to discuss this and more, is feminist, author, and CEO of the Daily Clout, Dr. Naomi Wolf. She’s also the author of Outrageous Sex Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, and the End of America (those are two separate books).

Doctor, welcome back, so good to see you. What we just saw from Biden, is so disturbing on so many levels, directing the media. In addition, it ignored the fact that Biden’s own CDC and others in government keep giving us changing and conflicting information on COVID constantly. So where do you think we’re heading when it comes to all of this?

Wolf: These are huge questions and they are also related to how the White House has allowed a President who is suffering from cognitive impairment to have a two hour press conference. I’ve said before that I believe the coup has already taken place in the sense that many thoughtful people have persuaded me with evidence that we are not in a situation in which are adversaries are not benefiting from our decline, and in some ways not hasting it.

Wolf: And, so , what that has to do with our president now invoking social media and tech companies allegiances to the Democrat party, and I say this sadly as a lifelong Democrat, to censor Americans is incredibly disturbing because we have a first Amendment. But tech companies are not supposed to be creating a one party, party line, and that’s exactly what they’re doing. And he’s asking them to merge and intensify this unholy oligarchy that’s been created with the DNC and whoever has benefited from the DNC and tech companies and pharma in a way that is going against more and more emergence of a collapsing narrative around covid.

Malzberg: I want to get to another example of trying to reign in the media. We recently had almost what they said 300 physicians and scientists writing to Spotify, demanding they reign in Joe Rogan show and put an end to what they call to “COVID lies”. Now we’ve seen, that not all of these 300 scientists and doctors are not scientists or doctors at all. We’ve also had doctors fired for prescribing certain medications for COVID.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/say-sadly-lifelong-democrat-censor-americans-incredibly-disturbing-dr-naomi-wolf-steve-malzberg/

“I Say This Sadly as a Lifelong Democrat, to Censor Americans is Incredibly Disturbing” – Dr. Naomi Wolf with Steve Malzberg

Dr. Naomi Wolf was on with Steve Malzberg on his ‘Eat the Press’ on RT America and they discussed Joe Biden’s declining cognitive abilities.

Dr. Wolf shared the following:

I say this sadly as a lifelong Democrat, to censor Americans is incredibly disturbing…

A transcript of their discussion is below:

Biden [sound clip]: I’ll make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets, please, deal with the misinformation and disinformation on your shows. It has to stop. Covi-19 is one of the most formidable enemies America has ever faced.

Malzberg: Our president scolding our media and social media platforms to censor what he calls, misinformation about covid. Joining me now, to discuss this and more, is feminist, author, and CEO of the Daily Clout, Dr. Naomi Wolf. She’s also the author of Outrageous Sex Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, and the End of America (those are two separate books).

Doctor, welcome back, so good to see you. What we just saw from Biden, is so disturbing on so many levels, directing the media. In addition, it ignored the fact that Biden’s own CDC and others in government keep giving us changing and conflicting information on COVID constantly. So where do you think we’re heading when it comes to all of this?

Wolf: These are huge questions and they are also related to how the White House has allowed a President who is suffering from cognitive impairment to have a two hour press conference. I’ve said before that I believe the coup has already taken place in the sense that many thoughtful people have persuaded me with evidence that we are not in a situation in which are adversaries are not benefiting from our decline, and in some ways not hasting it.

Wolf: And, so , what that has to do with our president now invoking social media and tech companies allegiances to the Democrat party, and I say this sadly as a lifelong Democrat, to censor Americans is incredibly disturbing because we have a first Amendment. But tech companies are not supposed to be creating a one party, party line, and that’s exactly what they’re doing. And he’s asking them to merge and intensify this unholy oligarchy that’s been created with the DNC and whoever has benefited from the DNC and tech companies and pharma in a way that is going against more and more emergence of a collapsing narrative around covid.

Malzberg: I want to get to another example of trying to reign in the media. We recently had almost what they said 300 physicians and scientists writing to Spotify, demanding they reign in Joe Rogan show and put an end to what they call to “COVID lies”. Now we’ve seen, that not all of these 300 scientists and doctors are not scientists or doctors at all. We’ve also had doctors fired for prescribing certain medications for COVID.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/say-sadly-lifelong-democrat-censor-americans-incredibly-disturbing-dr-naomi-wolf-steve-malzberg/

I always get board fuckery when OSS is sperging out

Dr. Fauci: “We May Need to Boost Again. That’s Entirely Conceivable”

It’s Sunday which means Fauci is out flapping his gums on left-wing media outlets.

Dr. Fauci said it’s “entirely conceivable” that Americans will need another booster shot during his appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”

“We may need to boost again. That’s entirely conceivable,” Dr. Fauci told “This Week” host Martha Raddatz.

“Before we make that decision about yet again another boost, we want to determine clearly what the durability of protection is of that regular boost,” he added.

Just in time for the CDC’s update on the definition of “fully vaccinated.”

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Friday announced the definition of fully vaccinated is being changed to include the Covid booster shot.

“And what we are really working to do is pivot the language to make sure that everybody is as up to date with their Covid-19 vaccines and they personally could be based on when they got their last vaccine,” Walensky said.

She continued, “So importantly right now, we are pivoting our language, we really want to make sure people are up to date. That means if you recently got your second dose, you are not eligible for a booster, you’re up to date. If you are eligible for a booster and you haven’t gotten it, YOU’RE NOT UP TO DATE and you need to get your booster in order to be up to date.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/dr-fauci-may-need-boost-entirely-conceivable-video/