Thursday, September 19, 2024

UnionPay overtakes Visa in global debit card transactions – Nilson Report

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from RT:

The Chinese payment system has benefited from its expansion in Russia after US rivals left, research shows

Chinese payment system UnionPay has overtaken rival Visa on the global debit card market, research by analytical company Nilson Report has found.

According to the study, UnionPay’s share of debit card transactions reached 40.03% in 2022, while the share of Visa transactions was around 38.8%. The volume of settlements made through UnionPay cards was also bigger, reaching $16.227 billion against Visa’s $14.109 billion.

Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Lindsey Graham

by Arjun Singh, The Daily Caller:

Russia issued an arrest warrant for Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina Monday, following comments he made about the war in Ukraine.

The warrant was issued by Russia’s Interior Ministry on Monday, with an additional announcement that a criminal investigation had been opened into Graham, according to Politico. It comes after Graham’s recent trip to Kyiv, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and made remarks that allegedly caused outrage in Russia.

BREAKING: The US COVID mitigation measures resulted in 23X higher COVID deaths

by Steve Kirsch, Steve Kirsch’s newsletter:

The unvaccinated Amish were the control group. Their infection fatality rate from COVID was 23X lower than the surrounding community. Their secret? They ignored ALL the CDC’s recommendations.

Executive summary

On May 22, 2023, I offered a $2,500 reward for anyone to give me the names of more than 5 Amish people in Lancaster, PA (which is the world’s largest single community of Amish people with over 45,000 people) who died from COVID.

What Is the End Goal of TARGETing Your Kids?

by Patricia Anthone, America Outloud:

Pride Month, a month-long “celebration” contrived to promote every conceivable sexual behaviororientation, and identity (except the one on which families are built), has yet to officially begin as of this writing. And yet it has already been the subject of multiple, destructive and divisive corporate promotions which bypass the offering of the company to directly promote LGBTQIA+ lifestyles and ideology.   

Target has lost $ 9 billion to the boycott provoked by, among other things, their promotion of “tuck-friendly” garments for young boys. It has many asking how, in light of the crashing sales of Bud Light, could Target have so miscalculated the market for “Pride” merchandise?

Carbon-credit Scammer Steps Down Amid Claims That Credits Are Worthless

by James Murphy, The New American:

The CEO of one of the world’s foremost certifiers of so-called carbon credits announced that he will step down. David Antonioli, CEO of the climate-action nonprofit known as Verra announced that he will be leaving his position at the organization in June, although he plans to stay on in a reduced, senior-advisory role.

Antonioli will be replaced by the organization’s current president, Judith Simon. The announcement comes after a recent investigation into the group found that approximately 90 percent of its so-called carbon credits are, essentially, worthless and have no measurable impact on carbon reductions.

BREGER REPORT: Over 120K Page Report on Nationwide Blackmail of Officials – Preston & Hodges

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from Sarah Westall:

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The Vote Fraud Monster Is Coming for Ted Cruz

by Jay Valentine, American Thinker:

On the Memorial Day weekend, while most Americans played near water, the leftists impeached the strongest elected voice in Texas for election integrity — Ken Paxton.

Impeachments were history book items until Clinton, then two more for Trump and some predicting one for Biden.  Everyone kind of gets it.  It’s a political thing, with preposterous second-raters giving speeches about honesty, integrity, rule of law as they bend the rules to get their way.

Profiting from War and Death: The Organ Harvesting Business in Ukraine

by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has issued a plea to deal with the “big business” of organ harvesting and called for close international monitoring of these illegal activities in the combat zone of Ukraine.

MOSCOW, May 24. /TASS/. The activity of “organ harvesters” in the combat zone in Ukraine calls for close international monitoring and urgent measures, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

According to her, illegal organ harvesting in Ukraine is an “accepted and proven fact.”

Video Evidence of Maricopa Election Officials Illegally Breaking into Sealed Election Machines

from AlexandraBruce:

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Viva la Revolución?

by Jeff Thomas, International Man:

In every country where a revolution has taken place (whether it be a “soft” revolution or a violent overthrow), those who are part of the winning team make a point of glorifying the revolution and all the “good” that it has brought. For this reason, the inhabitants of most countries where a revolution has taken place at some point in their history will believe that the revolution was positive. In countries where that revolution was opposed, the people will most likely regard the revolution as negative.

Col. Douglas Macgregor: “Bakhmut Is A Catastrophe [For Ukraine]… F-16s Won’t Make A Difference”

from ZeroHedge:

Russia turned Bakhmut into the graveyard of Ukrainian military power, Col. Douglas MacGregor (ret.) explains ‘what comes next’ in his latest opinion piece at The American Conservative:

Until the fighting begins, national military strategy developed in peacetime shapes thinking about warfare and its objectives. Then the fighting creates a new logic of its own. Strategy is adjusted. Objectives change. The battle for Bakhmut illustrates this point very well. 

EXPLOSIVE UNDERCOVER VIDEO EXPOSES SEN. FETTERMAN’S CORRUPT RELATIONSHIPS W/ PRESS

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from The Jimmy Dore Show:

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Lockdowns “Harmed Hundreds of Millions of People for Years to Come” – Major Study

by Will Jones, Daily Sceptic:

The collateral damage of the pandemic response was “substantial, wide-ranging and will leave behind a legacy of harm for hundreds of millions of people”, a major new study has found.

Reviewing and synthesising 600 publications focused on the impact of the pandemic response, Dr. Kevin Bardosh of the Universities of Washington and Edinburgh concluded that these wide and deep societal harms “should challenge the dominant mental model of the pandemic response”.

The abstract provides a succinct summary of the study, which is currently in pre-print:

Jane Fonda Blames Men for Climate Change: ‘We Have to Arrest and Jail Those Men’

by David Ng, Breitbart:

Hollywood star Jane Fonda made the outrageous claim Friday that climate change is being caused exclusively by men, specifically white men, adding that “those men” must be arrested and jailed.

She also blamed the “patriarchy” and “racism” for global warming.