“This is the greatest cover-up I’ve ever seen in my life.” Disability claims are on the rise, and people are wondering why. “If it's not the vaccine, what is it?” asks Ed Dowd in this episode of ‘Friday Roundtable.’ He also states, “Some people are going to be, unfortunately, producing spike protein their whole lives.” Hear from Ed on CHD.TV!

US troops began digging in in Syria in 2016-2017, with Donald Trump stating repeatedly (to the Washington establishment’s horror) that America would "keep the oil" and retain boots on the ground in Syria "only for the oil." The Biden White House claims US forces remain in the country to prevent Daesh’s* resurgence, but US actions speak otherwise. | U.S. forces in Syria have ramped up the looting of the war-torn country's oil resources, with local sources in the al-Yarubiyah countryside in eastern Hasakah province telling Syrian media on Saturday that the latest act of smuggling involved 35 oil tankers, which made their way into northern Iraq via the illegal al-Walid border crossing. "The U.S. occupation forces brought to their bases in northern Iraq a convoy consisting of 120 vehicles, including 65 tankers, some of them carrying covered damaged military equipment, 20 refrigerated trucks, and 35 tanks loaded with stolen Syrian oil," the sources said, adding that the convoy was accompanied by four Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia pickups for protection. Saturday’s account follows on reporting last week that a convoy of 39 tankers loaded with Syrian crude left fields in Hasakah and was similarly smuggled into Iraq, this time via the Mahmoudiya checkpoint -- another border crossing which the Damascus government doesn't control and hence considers illegal.

Efforts by countries to replace the US dollar in international trade will reach a new high when BRICS nations discuss the feasibility of introducing a common currency at a summit in South Africa later this year, Chinese experts said, noting that the move can be a fresh blow against the dollar's hegemony. | The BRICS group of nations will discuss the issue, which is likely be on the agenda of a meeting of the nations' heads of state in Johannesburg on August 22, Bloomberg reported recently, citing the foreign minister of South Africa. ● The BRICS group of nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - accounts for one-third of global economic output, and their combined output is larger than the Group of Seven economies by some measures. ● Experts said the desire for a currency that offers better accessibility and fairer treatment in international trade is the main objective for BRICS nations. They pointed out that the US dollar, used as a tool for the US to exercise international hegemony, has caused great uncertainty for the recovery of the world economy.

■ Thoughts on the BRICs Currency (Sasha Latypova)

Overnight, traffic had been suspended on the Crimean Bridge linking the peninsula to the Krasnodar region via the Sea of Azov due to an emergency that resulted in the death of two people. | The attack on the Crimean Bridge was committed by the regime in Kiev, stated Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday. ● The decision to target the Crimean Bridge was made by Ukrainian officials, their military, and with the participation of US, and UK Special Services, added the ministry in a statement. ● Overnight, two unmanned surface vehicles attacked the infrustructure, according to the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee. Russian investigators are identifying those involved in the organization of the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge carried out by the Kiev regime's special services and armed units, according to the committee.

■ Putin Calls Crimean Bridge Incident Terrorist Attack, Promises Military Response (Sputnik News)
■ Traffic on key bridge from Crimea to Russia's mainland halted amid reports of explosions and deaths (Hürriyet)
■ LIVE UPDATES: Ukraine's Terror Attack on Crimean Bridge (Sputnik News)
■ Crimean Bridge targeted by Ukrainian terrorist attack – Moscow (RT.com)
■ Ukraine behind new Crimean Bridge attack – media (RT.com)
■ Local TV shows VIDEO of damaged Crimean Bridge (RT.com)
■ Part of Crimean Bridge road section destroyed – media (RT.com)

Maria Zakharova (Мария Захарова) | Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the Kiev regime is a terrorist regime and has all the signs of an international organized crime group. 💬 "Today's attack on the Crimean bridge was committed by the Kiev regime. This regime is a terrorist regime and has all the signs of an international organized criminal group. Decisions are made by Ukrainian officials and the military with the direct participation of US and British intelligence services and politicians. The USA and Britain are in charge of the terrorist state-organized structure," Zakharova said. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks on Moscow and the Moscow region would have been impossible without US and NATO assistance to Ukraine. 💬 "Such attacks would have been impossible without assistance to the Kiev regime from the United States and its NATO allies, which continue to pump it with weapons, including UAVs, train drone operators and provide the intelligence information necessary to commit such crimes, including images of the Earth's surface obtained by civilian and military satellites," the ministry said in a statement published on its website. (Translation: DeepL.com)

Elena Panina | Only depriving Ukraine of access to the Black Sea will secure the Crimean Bridge. | New measures to ensure the protection of the Crimean bridge are necessary. But all these are tactical level defense measures. ■ If we look at the issue strategically, the most reliable protection of the Crimean bridge is the complete deprivation of Ukraine's access to the Black Sea. In addition, given the increasing range of weapons already supplied to Kiev by the West, as well as the upcoming transfer of fighter jets and Ukraine's own development of missile technology and UAVs, Russia needs to reach all of Ukraine's external borders, as we keep writing about. Only in this way will all the tasks of the NWO be solved. ■ We should start by declaring Ukraine's political and military leadership as terrorists. In particular, such structures as the SBU and the GUR of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine should be declared terrorist organizations - with the subsequent methodical liquidation of all their top and middle-level leaders. ■ The long-awaited transition to the systematic destruction of Ukraine's entire transportation infrastructure, including strikes on bridges over the Dnieper River and strategic tunnels in the Carpathian Mountains, is also called for. We recall that after the October bombing of the Crimean bridge, an attempt was made to "take the Ukrainian energy sector out of the game". It should be stated that, due to its unsystematic nature, this attempt was not a complete success. It is time to move the Western project "Ukraine" to the state that best corresponds to its barbaric nature - to the Stone Age. (Translation: DeepL.com)