RT News - November 22nd 2022 Late

Cuba's president has met with Pres. Vladimir Putin, while on a visit to Moscow, where he's already addressed the parliament. Cuba has been under a 60 year blockade by USA.Show more

As Europe prioritizes political issues ahead of its energy needs, China takes a pragmatic approach, and strikes an historic 27-year deal with Qatar for gas deliveries.

An Australian MP alleges that coal exporters in in Australia use fake data to boost profits. He spoke about it in parliament and has thousands of data sheets to substantiate the claims. Australia's claims of having some of the cleanest coal on the planet appear to go up in smoke after whistleblowers claims the fuel's green credentials have been faked for years.

After years of blaming Russia and the Russiagate hoaxes, CBS admits the Hunter Biden laptop leaks were real and that the censoring of public information on social media was immoral.

In Ukraine, anti-corruption activists are up in arms as President Zelensky sign a law that kills the systems of combating money laundering by Ukrainian politicians. Anti money landering laws are a requirement for accession to the EU.

In Crimea, two drones have been shit down by Russia air defence and in Donetsk, shelling has caused to to be injured and a house destroyed (illegal it is to shell civilian only regions and good value it isn't with £100,000 shells supplied without consent of the NATO member states public). Two more civilians have been killed and five more injured today in Donetsk after shelling of another civilian only area.

Kiev soldiers are going house-to-house searching for anyone who "collaborated" with the Russian administration. 39 civilians were executed last week by Kiev soldiers and of course there is still the matter of breaches of Geneva convention and the torture of Russian soldiers to be investigated by the United Nations.
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via RT website 22 Nov, 2022 15:56

(QueenStreet comment will they ever admist it is the sanctions that have destroyed their economies? I don't think so. But the citizens are paying for it all, irrespective of admission or none)

---- Scholz names reason behind European economy downturn ----

The German chancellor says the continent’s current economic woes are down to growth in Asia, rather than to the Ukraine conflict

Neither the Covid-19 pandemic nor Russia’s offensive against Ukraine has played a pivotal role in bringing about the current economic downturn in Europe, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has argued. He attributed it to growth in Asia instead, warning that there likely will not be a return to the good old days in the foreseeable future.

Speaking on Tuesday at an economic summit in Berlin organized by Suddeutsche Zeitung, Scholz said that, for years, countries in North America and Europe had enjoyed a combination of stable growth, low inflation and high employment rates. This, however, according to the chancellor, was an “economic exception” that cannot be expected to last any longer.

“Russia’s war [against Ukraine] and the economic consequences of the [Covid-19] pandemic may have expedited” the end of this era, the politician opined. He hastened to add, however, that “they were not the trigger for it.”

Scholz went on to explain that, for decades, countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia have mainly been viewed as a source of cheap goods for the European, American and, increasingly, the Chinese markets. But in the meantime the same Asian nations experienced an explosive increase in the number of people belonging to the middle class. Those individuals’ purchasing power rose accordingly. This, the German chancellor postulated, is what has led to growing inflation elsewhere.

He noted that, at the same time, this is a major story of success enabled by globalization. He also warned against deglobalization, calling on Germany and other European nations to embrace more trade with emerging economies, “of course, [trade] by fair rules.”

“An increasingly multipolar word is arranging itself right now, fundamentally anew,” a development which is best seen in South-East Asia, Scholz argued.

He hastened to reassure German businesses that they have nothing to fear, as their goods will remain in high demand in this new world and they only stand to gain more.

Speaking of the current energy crisis in his country, Scholz accused Russia of weaponizing gas exports, adding that Germany had made a mistake in relying too much on one supplier. He vowed that Berlin will never repeat this, going forward, meaning that dependence on China will have to be reduced as well. Germany, he said, needs to look for new suppliers and markets for its goods.

The chancellor promised to make sure Europe’s economic powerhouse sees itself through the coming winter.
https://www.rt.com/news/566997-scholz-names-culprit-economic-downturn/
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via RT website 22 Nov, 2022 13:20

---- Polish president shares stance on war with Russia during prank call ----

Andrzej Duda was tricked into thinking that he was speaking to his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said that he is being “very careful” to avoid a war with Russia. The admission came during a call with pranksters who posed as French leader Emmanuel Macron.

The conversation with Russian hoaxers Vovan and Lexus took place last Tuesday, the day a missile exploded in a Polish village near the border with Ukraine, killing two people.

While Western media and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky hurried to blame the incident on Russia, Polish, US, and EU officials soon said that the missile was Ukrainian.

“Trust me, I’m very careful. I’m not accusing the Russians. Emmanuel, this is war. I think both sides will be blaming each other in this war,” Duda told the fake Macron in an audio recording, released by Vovan and Lexus on their show on the Russian platform RuTube.

An escalation between NATO and Russia wasn’t in the interest of Poland or the whole US-led military alliance, he insisted.

“Emmanuel, you think I need a war with Russia? No, I don’t want that. I don’t want a war with Russia. And I’m extremely careful. Trust me, I’m extremely careful,” the Polish leader said.

Duda’s office later admitted on Twitter that he had fallen victim to the pair of pranksters. The president realized there may have been “an attempted hoax” during the call due to the “unusual way” the person was conducting the conversation, it said, adding that he then ended the call.

In the hours after the missile hit the Polish village of Przewodow, Duda said a “Russian-made” missile was involved but did not blame Moscow. He, along with US and EU officials, later acknowledged it was a Ukrainian air defense missile that had veered off course amid a series of Russian airstrikes.

The pranksters, whose real names are Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, have previously managed to trick Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the author of Harry Potter books J.K. Rowling, former US President George W. Bush, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba and many other high-profile figures.
https://www.rt.com/news/566989-poland-duda-missile-ukraine/
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