from Aletho News by Free West Media – Nov 9, 2022 via thefreeonline

Free West Media – November 9, 2022 BERLIN – The head of the SPD parliamentary group, Rolf Mützenich said the Ukrainian government put him on a „terrorist list” because he had called for a cease-fire in Ukraine.

He added that he had also “received threats”.

The criteria according to which Kiev differentiates its friends from its enemies has irked the president of the group SPD in the Bundestag, Mützenich.

German politicians are particularly indignant that their names are now on the list of people who “promote narrative people in accordance with Russian propaganda”.

This document is published on the website of the Center for Combating Disinformation to the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine.

“I was irritated that the Ukrainian government had put me on a terrorist list on the grounds that I was working for a cease-fire or for the possibility of taking new diplomatic measures,” he told the German news agency dpa.

According to him, he has since also received “secondary threats, so to speak, which are not easy to manage either”.

Mützenich stressed that if the commitment to a cease-fire is a criterion for inclusion on this list, then the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, must also be included. He complained of “discrimination” against those who, like him, campaign for diplomacy as a means of ending the conflict.

He also accused the partners of the SPD coalition, namely the Greens and the FDP, of resorting to the same discrimination. “I oppose this rigorism. The fact remains that most wars did not end on the battlefield.”

The deputy has been on the list since July. As proof, the Ukrainians cited an article published on the website of the German information agency RND.

The article indicated that the deputy found it “normal” that the German Chancellor, with the American and French Presidents, discussed ways to end the war in Ukraine.

According to the article, Mützenich referred to the sanctions packages, but also to the attempt to achieve humanitarian ceasefires.

Nov 2022 from Productivity Hub by Jeff Beer via thefreeonline

Forget woke capitalism or some tax scheme. Patagonia has moved the goalposts—again—on our expectations of what companies can do to fight climate change.

Patagonia Wins Online Love for Carbon Positive Push

When the news hit earlier this week that Yvon Chouinard and his family had given up ownership of Patagonia, it was met with waves of mixed emotions from fans and the broader business community: inspiring, incredible, optimistic, cynical—and sometimes all at once.

Yvon Chouinard

In moving all ownership of the company to the Patagonia Purpose Trust and Holdfast Collective, the Chouinards have once again forced other companies and their leaders to confront just how they will reconcile their own company structures with their stated goals of addressing the climate catastrophe.

And guess what? No matter what they do, their customers are going to confront them on it. Just as Patagonia has helped move the goalposts on sustainability in the supply chain, and speaking out on social and environmental issues, it has now established a new standard for how a company can truly walk the walk on its values far beyond an ESG or CSR strategy.

There has been, and will continue to be, plenty of admiration and praise from afar, including from within major global corporations. But just as with its sustainability influence, many will simply look at Patagonia’s move as a luxury of being a privately owned company, without the handcuffs of, and obligation to, public shareholders.

Others, conveniently ignoring the precedent and arc of founder Yvon Chouinard’s 50-year career, will see it, dubiously, as creative legal maneuvering to avoid a massive tax bill.

One can’t really expect Exxon or Amazon to look at the Patagonia news and be immediately inspired to follow suit. Even Patagonia’s peer group in outdoor apparel is often nested within larger conglomerates in which this specific structure will be difficult to emulate. But Chouinard is thinking about the future—not only for Patagonia, but also for the next generation of entrepreneurs and the companies they’ll build.

Edited by Ed Newman from radiohc.cu/en/ 2022-11-08 via thefreeonline

The Venezuelan president affirmed that “if we continue at this self-destructive pace, in 30 or 40 years this planet will be uninhabitable”.

Cairo, November 8 (RHC)– The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, urged this Tuesday during his speech at the COP27 summit on climate change being held in Egypt, to change the consumerist model in a way that stops the destruction of the Amazon and preserves life on the planet.

Speaking at the High Level Segment of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), the Venezuelan head of state began his speech at the conclave by warning that “the climate crisis is an unavoidable reality that can only be confronted with concrete, urgent and immediate actions.”

“…Though Venezuela produces a great deal of oil, 70 percent of the country’s energy is hydroelectric. Venezuela invests $500 million per year into alternative energy. Already, the Bolivarian government has replaced 155 million inefficient light bulbs with newly developed eco-friendly ones. A program to replace other household appliances with more eco-friendly ones is in the works.A total of 58 million hectares of forest in Venezuela are protected, and a mass program of reforestation is being carried out.…”

In this sense, the president pointed out that “the dimension of this crisis does not take us by surprise.  Since the beginning of the environmental diplomacy, we had sufficient data to declare an early emergency and act accordingly”.

In turn, Maduro emphasized that “every hour, every month, every year of inaction, of hesitation, of indolence, translates today into destroyed ecosystems, extinct species and the deterioration of the planet’s living conditions.”

Nicolás Maduro

Accordingly, he pointed out that “yesterday we were threatened by climate change, but today it is the absolute collapse of the ecosystem that stands before us as a fatal destiny.  The most current projections say that if we continue at this self-destructive pace, in 30 or 40 years this planet will be uninhabitable.”

ActionAid and Public Services International recently published a new report – The Care Contradiction – looking into how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs are impacting women workers. The report shows that although the IMF has recently come up with a Gender Mainstreaming Strategy, its actions in the field of building gender justice essentially add up to throwing sand in the observers’ eyes.

IMF’s pinkwashing has multifold effects on women’s health

While influenza, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) and COVID-19 can be problematic and dangerous for certain high-risk individuals, the overall risks associated with them are negligible for most — but “fear-porn sells” and for Big Pharma, it sells more vaccines.

By  Dr. Joseph Mercola via Most Revolutionary Act via thefreeonline

Story at a glance:

• According to mainstream media, hospitalizations for respiratory infections are on the rise and “experts” warn of a potential “tripledemic” this winter, as COVID-19, seasonal influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are all in circulation.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a 1% increase in new admissions of patients with confirmed COVID-19. Maine — which has one of the nation’s highest COVID-19 jab rates — has the most COVID-19 hospitalizations. RSV cases are also unseasonably high.
• “Health experts” are now calling for voluntary indoor masking again, even though all the evidence garnered over the past three years confirms that face masks cannot prevent viral infection and spread.
• The first-ever RSV vaccines are now in the pipeline, directed at pregnant women, newborns and seniors. Some of them are based on mRNA technology.
• No vaccine for RSV has ever been successfully developed before, because the vaccines had a persistent tendency to cause worse disease, a phenomenon known as antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE).

According to mainstream media, hospitalizations for respiratory infections are on the rise and “experts” warn of a potential “tripledemic” this winter, as people contract COVID-19, seasonal influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

“The CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] reports a 1% increase in new admissions of patients with confirmed COVID-19 in the U.S.,” Yahoo! News reported at the end of October.

Algeria today submitted an official application to join the BRICS group, which includes Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa.

from newsrnd.com/news/2022-11-07 by Sana via thefreeonline

Happy 2968! Berber New Year becomes holiday in Algeria |

The Algerian newspaper Al-Chourouk quoted the Special Envoy in charge of major international partnerships at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Leila Zerrougui, as saying in a press statement:

We had the opportunity to participate in the recent summit of the BRICS group in China, in which Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was invited to participate, as this summit came out with openness to the inclusion of countries Another member of the group, we submitted our application and both Russia and China welcomed Algeria’s accession.

Zerrougui indicated that the rest of the BRICS countries are currently studying the Algeria file before deciding on it.

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Argelia ha presentado este lunes una solicitud formal para unirse al BRICS

EP Madrid (ECS).- Las autoridades de Argelia han presentado este lunes una solicitud formal para unirse a los BRICS, una organización de carácter económico-comercial integrada por Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica. Así lo ha confirmado ante los medios de comunicación la representante del Ministerio de Exteriores argelino encargada de las asociaciones internacionales, Leila Zarrougi, según recoge el portal […]

Argelia ha presentado este lunes una solicitud formal para unirse al BRICS

by @BradBlank_ November 2022 via thefreeonline

Writers blaming China for the deterioration of relations with the US are confusing cause and effect

The Eradication Of Extreme Poverty In China.. Aug 2, 2021 The Greatest Anti-Poverty Achievement in History.

In recent years, but notably in the wake of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) 20th National Congress that just concluded at the end of October, Western writers have rushed to accuse Beijing of becoming anti-Western.

This is seen in several examples by Western writers, such as the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos or a quintessential China-blaming piece recently published by the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman.

by Bradley Blankenship, an American journalist, columnist and political commentator, syndicated column at CGTN and a freelance reporter for international news agencies

In his article, titled “How China Lost America,” Friedman says that there are four trends in China that have soured the US-China relationship: market manipulation, hyper-nationalism, aggressive foreign policy and Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy.

But he does not elaborate these points to any convincible degree and fails to acknowledge the extent to which Washington’s own policies are to blame for China’s perceived turn from the West.

First of all, a lot of what is called intellectual property theft (which Friedman mentions in his piece) is just ordinary intellectual diffusion.

The FBI started an entire ‘China Initiative’ to investigate such instances in top US universities and companies – and it came up almost completely empty-handed to the point that it had to be shut down for devolving into a vehicle for anti-Asian racism. 

This also doesn’t even acknowledge the extent of the US’ own market manipulation, namely through the sheer influence that its multinationals have in creating trade and economic policy, or its promiscuous use of unilateral sanctions.

The US also routinely violates its World Trade Organization (WTO) duties in its trade war against Beijing. The organization even allowed China to impose duties of $645 million worth of compensation for US trade malpractice in January. 

For an American to call China hyper-nationalist is laughable.

The US is the most cartoonishly nationalistic country in the history of our species: children in most public schools are required to swear a ‘pledge of allegiance’ to the flag every morning, Americans only know one language on average and the American flag is draped everywhere in the country.

Chinese people are, on balance, much less chauvinistic and more open-minded. 

China Family, 1860s

Likewise, it’s hard to take insinuations of Beijing’s supposed “aggressive” foreign policy seriously either.