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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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Ok, so I’m a petrol head and lots of people know it, I love beautiful cars as much as I like to trace off stupid politicians for their brain farts, but is it really that bad in the world of wokism that the Mythos Ferrari has to resort to this $#!p ??
Back in the day when everyone was speaking about the “eco - friendly” reduction & nivelation of CO2 emissions throughout the automobile industry, we saw companies throw out e-vehicles (I used to call them evicts, as my stance back then was: if it didn’t have an engine, it didn’t deserve to be called car but rather battery on wheels, but I digress) like VW with the iD. Series, Audi with their e-Tron series, BMW and the i- series & Mercedes Benz with the EQ etc..
Some of these companies came up with some real atrocities which evoked a physical rebellion of my stomach’s content. Least of all, my favourite two brands, Aston Martin by rebadging the Toyota iQ as the “Cygnet” which might have captured 1st 🥇 place if not for ...

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BREAKING: UN adds Israel to "blacklist" of perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict zones.

The United Nations is preparing to announce the inclusion of Israeli entities on a list of countries and organizations accused of committing sexual violence in conflict zones, according to Ynet.

Among the entities to be added: the Israeli Prison Service and other Israeli authorities placed under a "monitoring framework" for possible future inclusion.

This comes amid increasing Palestinian and international reports documenting hundreds of testimonies from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israeli prisons detailing torture and sexual abuse of Palestinians during arrest, interrogation, and detention.

Israel is now officially listed as a perpetrator of sexual violence in conflict zones by the United Nations.

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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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Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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