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Austria's Kurz steps down - part of an EU purge of dissidents?

Reuters has a report about it
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austrias-kurz-says-stepping-down-chancellor-2021-10-09/

Kurz led one of the less anti-Russian governments in the EU and the scandal which brought him down - though as is often the case almost certainly factually based - looks to me to have been planted in order to bring him down. Note that it was his coalition partner the Greens, who are like Greens everywhere in Europe strongly pro-EU, who who led the attack on him.

To put it simply, I think what we are seeing is a systematic clear-out of 'unreliable' EU leaders, 'unreliable' in the eyes of the Euro-Atlanticist leadership that is. We are seeing an increasing attack on Orban in Hungary and on the Polish government, and Kurz - who is possibly perceived as a potential ally of Orban's and the Poles', at least on some issues - therefore had to be shunted out. So why not publish.a scandal to get rid of it.

As to why this purge of 'unreliable' leaders is now underway, I suspect that it is connected with Angela Merkel's imminent departure from the scene. Whilst she was around she could be relied upon to keep them under control. With her gone clearing the decks of unreliable elements becomes more of a priority.

Having said that, Kurz for the moment looks down rather than out, and it may be that he will be able to claw his way back, though I wouldn't count on it

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My fellow Duranians,
greetings to you all and YAY, we survived the 1st month of 2026!
Let´s hope we can continue in this spirit and not let those pieces of ... kill us all with their endless wars, which we were promised would stop!
Well Donald, we´re still waiting for your promise which is probably the reason you didn´t get the Piece of the Nobel Prize you wanted..

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After the US finds the EU has been rigging elections, Romanian Presidential candidate George Simion calls for help from the free world to restore democracy across Europe:

https://x.com/i/status/2018963103166152803
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https://x.com/i/status/2018957489560044013

The US Congress has exposed the EU Commission for censoring political opponents for over a decade and interfering in at least 8 elections across 6 European countries. This is consistent with the French gov’s attempts to force Telegram to censor speech in 2 of those countries.

https://x.com/i/status/2018946878721913287

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The BBC lead with Elon Musk’s photo on their Epstein story. Their desperation is off the scale.

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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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