Bigger BRICS family serves as powerful response to West-led hegemony, advocates for fair, multi-polar world | The BRICS countries welcomed six new members from three different continents on Thursday, marking a historic milestone that underscored the solidarity of BRICS and developing countries and determination to work together for a better future, officials and experts said. The expansion of the BRICS, as a new starting point for multilateral cooperation, will play a positive role for more equitable and just global governance, experts said. ● The BRICS countries have decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the grouping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday. It will be the first expansion since 2010 and the new candidates will be admitted as members on January 1, 2024, according to media reports.

■ Western countries not welcome at BRICS – Moscow (RT.com)
■ Johannesburg BRICS declaration (FULL TEXT) (RT.com)

Dystopian future in black and white – funded by the UK Government | In seven years you might not be allowed to own car, only be allowed to buy three new pieces of clothing per year, take one short-haul return flight every three years and consume no meat whatsoever, thanks to plans drawn up by a group chaired by Sadiq Khan. ● Documents that many may not be aware of show him as the chairman of C40 Cities, which describes itself as a ‘global network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities that are united in action to confront the climate crisis’. ● So-called ‘ambitious targets’ include reducing the number of new clothing items each person is allowed to buy to three per year and banning private car ownership by 2030 – plans which would surely mean an end to many businesses, thus trashing the economy further than it already is.

The Russian president described the Wagner chief as “a talented man” | Evgeny Prigozhin was a man of many talents who made a “significant contribution” to the struggle against neo-Nazis in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, commenting on the plane crash that reportedly killed the Wagner Group head. Speaking with journalists at the Kremlin, Putin said that he had known Prigozhin since the early 1990s, and described him as “a man of complicated destiny. ” Prigozhin was on the passenger manifest of the Embraer private jet that crashed on Wednesday in the Tver Region, en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. All seven passengers and three crew members perished. Authorities are still working to identify the bodies, but Prigozhin is presumed to be among them, along with six other Wagner leaders. Putin expressed his sincere condolences to their families and vowed that the investigation into the crash would be thorough.

■ IN BRIEF: Prigozhin listed as passenger on private jet that crashed north of Moscow (08/24/23)

Deliveries of depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine by Western countries lead to radiation contamination of soils in the country and make it uninhabitable, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. | "Due to the supply of radioactive and highly toxic British and American depleted uranium munitions, Ukraine is turning into an uninhabitable land. Radiation contamination of the soil is already happening and is being objectively recorded," Zakharova said in an article on the kp.ru website. She said the consequences of the use of such munitions could also affect neighboring Poland, where in May this year, as in the Khmelnytsky Region of Ukraine, there was a significant surge in background radiation. [Check below]

Article by M.V.Zakharova in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (August 25, 2023) | The living earth and the dead | Read in full (Telegraph)
☝️ Using depleted uranium as an armor-piercing weapon was invented by the Nazis. In 1943, there was a breakdown in the supply of Wolframite and the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production of Nazi Germany Albert Speer ordered the use of depleted uranium. ● At that time it was not yet obvious how dangerous uranium was as a weapon, and until the 90s all data on this issue were controversial. However, the use of depleted uranium munitions by NATO troops during the aggression in Yugoslavia was an inhuman experiment and demonstrated the real consequences of its use on living people. ● In 2015-2017, the Italian Parliament (the country whose contingent used depleted uranium munitions most actively during the NATO aggression in the Balkans) issued a 252-page report on the effects of depleted uranium and radioactive thorium exposure on members of the Italian Armed Forces. The data on the Italian military were published: out of 7500 people exposed to toxic substances and radiation, 372 died (5% - lethality: every 20th person). And they died of excruciating cancer complications. ● Now, unfortunately, the threat that Russia has repeatedly warned the Ukrainian population about is confirmed on Ukrainian territory.
👉 Here are the figures for the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine. In May, a significant spike in radiation background was recorded there - from 80 nanosieverts to 140-160 nanosieverts. A characteristic peak - a spike in radioactivity - was also recorded in the same numbers in the western provinces of Poland. The cause is probably the same as in Ukraine: the explosion of depleted uranium ammunition placed in a depot in the city of Khmelnytskyi.
⚠️ Ukrainians should realize that the British are supplying real poison - a guarantee of cancerous tumors - and demand that depleted uranium shells be removed from the country as soon as possible. [Transl.: DeepL.com + Proof.: grammarly.com]

PETER IMANUELSEN: The story you are about to read is WORSE than you think. I did not believe this could happen in a democracy. This should not ever happen in a democracy. But then again, I am beginning to ask myself if we are actually still living in a democracy. | The doctor who made the decision based her judgment on Haaland’s Facebook posts. In her opinion Haaland displayed manic behaviour, was psychotic and paranoid, and his actions were deemed not to be rooted in reality. This conclusion was reached based on the frequency and the content of the various Facebook posts. When Haaland’s lawyer asked the doctor if she had read the posts in question, the doctor admitted that she hadn’t, given that she is not on Facebook! ● This is about a Norwegian man named Trond Harald Haaland. He has long been outspoken about things like the World Economic Forum, climate change and vaccine passports. He has posted a lot about the excess death rates we have been seeing after the roll out of the mRNA vaccines.

■ German Courts Are Going FULL Dystopia (08/24/23)