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France Names China Sole Broker For Possible Ukraine Peace Deal – CNN (RT)
War Propaganda Evolves, But Never Changes (Buge)
EU and US Leaders Killed Russia’s Trust – And Europeans’ Cheap Energy (Kay)
EU Has Abandoned Peace And Prosperity – Orban (RT)
Ukraine’s Offensive Force Fully Manned – Kiev (RT)
US Troops Should Leave Germany – MP (RT)
Von der Leyen In Line For NATO’s Top Job – The Sun (RT)
Risk Of Nuclear Weapons Use ‘Higher Than Any Time’ Since Cold War – UN (Az.)
Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Crisis The Moment Of Truth For Ukrainians – Official (TASS)
Kiev-Pechersk Lavra’s Abbot Placed Under House Arrest (TASS)
Kiev-Pechersk Lavra May Be Stormed At Night Or Weekend (TASS)
The French Uprising (Frédéric Lordon)
Details Of Possible Charges Against Trump Emerge – AP (RT)
Indicting Trump is the End of US Politics (Luongo)
Events Suspended At Mar-a-Lago As Trump Hunkers Down With Legal Team (NYP)
Silicon Valley’s AI Civil War (DM)
82% Of Berlin’s Voters Refused To Support 2030 Net Zero (NTZ)

 

 

Seeing this is more countries, UK, Holland. Housing markets are plummeting.

 

 

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Economist Khazin : The US will limit China by fomenting hostilities in neighboring states. Thus , Washington will provoke Beijing to war with NATO. “ The Americans will set fire to Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia. They will limit China in an arc. This means that the West will start a series of regional conflicts of low intensity ,” Khazin explained. According to the expert, the United States is going to play an extremely dangerous scenario against China, aimed at seizing military bases in the South China region. Already in the summer, a serious escalation may occur , during which Washington and Beijing may enter into an active military confrontation, which will create a new protracted crisis in the international arena.

Russian military analysts cryptically announce “good news from the fronts”
MIKHAIL ONUFRIENKO: THERE WILL BE THEM IN THE NEXT DAYS, BUT THEY WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF THE RF”. Realistically, Bahmut, Avdejevka and Marjinka are about to fall. For the Ukrainians who defend them – the growing problem of the half-ton Russian aerial bomb. Russian planes “drop” them while they are beyond the reach of the Ukrainian air defense, and they then fly like gliders 30-40 kilometers towards the target The President of the Crimean Parliament, Vladimir KONSTANTINOV, also radiates “new optimism”: “The situation is heading towards the end of the conflict, which will not end in peace, but in the complete loss of power over the country by the Kiev junta.” Their front will collapse. The UA tree that they cultivated for a long time will fall. Russia will regain control over its historical territories. It will happen closer to autumn”

 

 

 

 

“..Macron will give Xi a stern warning against providing Russia with weapons to use in Ukraine..”

He will be told: your house is on fire. Go put that fire out.

France Names China Sole Broker For Possible Ukraine Peace Deal – CNN (RT)

China’s power and close relationship with Moscow means it may be “the only country on Earth” capable of brokering a deal in Ukraine, a source within the French presidency told CNN on Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Beijing next week. “It’s obvious that China is one of the few countries on Earth – maybe the only country in the world – to have a ‘game-changer’ effect on the conflict, for both sides,” the source said. China has already positioned itself as a potential arbiter of peace in Ukraine, with the ruling Communist Party releasing its 12-point ‘Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’ in February. Although described in the Western media as a “peace plan,” the document does not offer a step-by-step guide to ending the conflict, and instead lists principles to which Beijing recommends any future deal adheres.

Its 12 points include concessions to both sides. For example, it stresses that “the sovereignty of all countries” must be respected – a nod to Kiev’s insistence that its pre-conflict borders be returned, while also insisting that “the legitimate security interests and concerns of all countries must be taken seriously,” a reference to Moscow’s refusal to accept further NATO expansion along its borders. The Chinese position was welcomed by the Kremlin, but rejected by the US State Department as a “tactical move” to stall the conflict in Russia’s favor. In Ukraine, President Vladimir Zelensky said he only agrees with a handful of points in the document. French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to China on Wednesday to meet with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang.

According to CNN’s source, he will attempt to “find a way to identify solutions to end this war in the medium term.” However, Reuters reported that Macron will give Xi a stern warning against providing Russia with weapons to use in Ukraine. “Our message will be clear: There may be a temptation to get closer to Russia, but do not cross that line,” an anonymous French diplomat told the news agency. Whether Beijing will listen is another story. With Washington stepping up its military presence around China and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hinting at diplomatic consequences for Beijing over its relationship with Moscow, Xi signed more than a dozen agreements with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month, while the Chinese Defense Ministry said it is ready to strengthen military cooperation with Russia.

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“If the Western rhetoric is to be believed, liberal democracies can only be the targets and victims of other types of political regimes..”

War Propaganda Evolves, But Never Changes (Buge)

In a 1944 text entitled ‘What is propaganda?’ (available on the site of the American Historical Association), Professor Ralph D. Casey drew a quite surprising conclusion: “These simple truths determine the underlying or governing principles of democratic propaganda. The Nazis blindfold their people against the truth. In exact opposition to the rules of Hitler, the democratic countries must present the truth in their propaganda. A free people will soon find out the truth in spite of official suppressions and distortions. And when propaganda has been revealed to be deceitful and distorted, it no longer is effective. Moreover, democratic propaganda must observe the right of the people to know the facts, however unpleasant they may be. The strategy of truth is not only in accord with the basic principles of democracy, but is also a hardheaded and realistic policy for effective dealing with allies, neutrals, and even enemies.”

Conversely, history shows that the war propaganda strategies that have been developed, both before and since Casey’s statement, fully contradict this recommendation. “When war is declared, truth is the first casualty” – while the quote may have been wrongly attributed to him, British politician Arthur Ponsonby had exhaustively worked on the matter. His book ‘Falsehood in Wartime’ (1928) describes the lies that were propagated by Western democracies against the Kaiser’s Germany. In 2001, Belgian historian Anne Morelli systemized Ponsonby’s thoughts and remarks in her work ‘The Basic Principles of War Propaganda’. Most of her arguments can fit the war propaganda of any type of regime, but Western democracies resort to them with exceptional effectiveness. Since the Cold War, the strategic approach has been dominated by the US, which has the biggest number of think tanks, bolstered by European strategic foundations which are largely Atlanticist.

Democracies do not want war, their adversary is the only one responsible. If the Western rhetoric is to be believed, liberal democracies can only be the targets and victims of other types of political regimes, which want to attack their freedom, destroy their values or undermine their model. According to the official version of historical events, Germany solely desired WWI, Germany and Japan provoked WWII, and the Soviet Union’s attitude was solely responsible for the Cold War. Currently, the Western mass media frame Russia as the only country responsible for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

The simplicity of this political discourse is such that most Western populations are convinced that their country can’t desire a war because it is a democracy. With this tool in hand, arms races and wars can be justified as the only protection and the only way to guarantee peace. George Orwell warned about this in ‘1984’ – war is peace. Ponsonby, back in his day, already insisted on the fact that the German Emperor was systematically depicted as a criminal during WWI. This has been used and reused, as the personification of the enemy has a much more efficient psychological impact on the public than demonizing a whole population. The technique is so obvious that the French have invented the expression “hitlérisation de l’adversaire” (hitlerization of the enemy). Since 1914, very few conflicts have avoided this pattern.

During the UK-Argentina Falklands War of 1982, the rhetoric had to be used against a collective military junta, and during the Vietnam and Afghan wars, it had to be more focused on ideological matters. However, demonizing the head of state of the opponent is easy, costs nothing, and always proves efficient. To quote Francis Bacon: “Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.” Consequently, the ones fighting the incarnation of evil are not pursuing personal interests and can only be serving a good cause. George Bush’s crusade against the “axis of evil” or the West’s so-called noble task to immediately free Afghan women come to mind, but the “just war theory” is actually a constant in history that can be traced back to ancient Egypt.

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“..Support Ukraine by turning down the heat. German factories are going bankrupt, British pubs facing closure, families are struggling to heat their homes, and US and EU leaders blame Russia.”

EU and US Leaders Killed Russia’s Trust – And Europeans’ Cheap Energy (Kay)

European energy costs are soaring, driving inflation to heights not seen in nearly 50 years and strangling EU consumers and businesses alike. Unprecedented sanctions placed on Russia, Europe’s premier provider of affordable energy, coupled with the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, has alienated Europe’s most dependable energy partner irrevocably. Simply put – Russian energy is pivoting away from Europe. Replacing Russia will not be easy and bringing Moscow back to the energy security table will be nearly impossible. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov made this clear last year when discussing the diplomatic situation, stating, “It is no surprise that these relations are absent today. But we never shut down. I will only say that we will never trust the United States or the European Union again.”

The key word here is “trust” and it isn’t ambiguous diplomatic speech. Rational people understand the importance of trust. We don’t do business with people we don’t trust. People don’t buy a car from a sleazy salesman, eat in a dirty restaurant, and they certainly don’t invest their money with people that steal from others. This brings us to Europe’s current crisis. Europe on aggregate is a net importer of both fossil and nuclear fuels and has been for decades. Russia has been supplying large quantities of oil, gas, and petroleum products to Europe since the ‘60s and ‘70s under agreements first established between the West and the Soviet Union. Russia inherited the bulk of the Soviet Union’s resources and is an energy powerhouse.

[..] The West and the Soviets built upon that trust layer by layer with each year, bringing more trade between the two Cold War adversaries. Author Per Högselius details the evolution of this relationship in his book, ‘Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence’, and he notes how both sides worked diligently towards meeting their obligations to the other. Each of the partners was partly driven by ideological pride, and in the case of the Soviet Union, even sacrificed domestic needs on occasion in order to fulfill gas deliveries. While Högselius does take a somewhat cynical view of the growing energy dependence of Europe, a more balanced review reveals that the West and the East began to develop a partnership based on trust and mutual benefit – one that transcended Cold War animosities.

For 50 years, that relationship endured, including the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Russia continued to meet its obligations to its Western partners nearly without fail. Ironically, the only interruption of gas deliveries that has ever occurred before now took place in the winter of 2008-2009, when the newly elected Orange Revolution government of Ukraine stopped transiting gas for a short period of time, cutting off supplies to its European neighbors due to a supply and payment dispute with Russian Gazprom. The trade relationship between Russia and its European partners weathered countless political storms, social upheavals, border changes, and saw the development of a gas network rivaled only by the extensive pipeline system in the US. The mutual investments into the various pipeline networks, including Nord Stream 1 and 2, are mammoth and include principals and actors throughout Eurasia.

[..] Russia made several attempts at bypassing Ukraine as a transit state since Kiev continued to prove it was an unreliable partner due to corruption and its poor economic performance encouraged theft from transit gas (as happened in 2008-2009). The EU (encouraged by the US) stopped or delayed several initiatives such as South Stream (through the Black Sea) and the Nord Stream pipelines, which were plagued by delays on “environmental impact” grounds. By 2014, following the Maidan, Russia was hit with sanctions on its oil and gas sectors in response to Crimea’s referendum to join Russia. Where does that leave the EU populace? How will the EU replace that flow of resources at affordable prices? The short answer is – they won’t.

The numerous sanctions packages targeting Russia’s energy sector, the outright theft of Russian assets and holdings within the Western financial framework, and the ‘mysterious’ destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines with a completely opaque investigation by Denmark, Sweden, and Germany has reduced, if not erased, trust in the Europeans by outside partners – both existing and potential. Most of the reporting is focused solely on the economic consequences, such as the increased energy prices in the EU and the inflationary pressure it puts on getting goods to markets, which has exacerbated the challenges of ordinary Europeans. Meanwhile, people throughout the EU have been encouraged to “suck it up” and support Ukraine by turning down the heat. German factories are going bankrupt, British pubs facing closure, families are struggling to heat their homes, and US and EU leaders blame Russia.

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“They want to squeeze us into this war,” he claimed, referring to EU leaders, but the question of “whether Hungary should take part in the war… or whether it should stay out can only be decided in one place, the Hungarian parliament.”

EU Has Abandoned Peace And Prosperity – Orban (RT)

The EU has forsaken its goal of ensuring peace and prosperity for its members, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared on Friday. Warning that the bloc is considering sending troops into Ukraine, Orban insisted that Hungary will continue pushing for a ceasefire. “Those who are pro-war have put the whole European Union in danger,” Orban told Radio Kossuth, referring to the ongoing efforts by EU member states to arm Kiev’s forces. To date, Brussels has supplied Kiev with just under $4 billion worth of arms, while individual member states have donated tanks, artillery, and in the case of Poland and Slovakia, fighter jets to Ukraine. “We expect two things from the European Union; the first is to have lasting peace,” Orban continued.

“The second thing we expect of the EU is that it should preserve the prosperity it has achieved, but in comparison war and sanctions are destroying the European economy.” Energy costs and inflation have soared across the EU since Brussels embargoed Russian fossil fuels following the launch of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine last February. This embargo and other sanctions have failed to cripple the Russian economy, as their proponents predicted. Instead, Russia’s economy is set to grow faster this year than that of Germany, according to IMF figures. The prospect of global war is more urgent than the economic threat, Orban said. The Hungarian prime minister claimed in Friday’s interview that EU leaders were considering deploying a “peacekeeping” force to Ukraine. This, he argued, would be a catastrophic escalation.

“When European and American leaders say that if this continues, we could end up in a third world war, it seems incredibly exaggerated at first, but where I work and where I see the events, this is a real danger at this moment,” he said. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that such a force would be Russia’s “direct enemies” and would be “ruthlessly destroyed” on the battlefield. “Peace talks are not what we should be talking about now, but a ceasefire,” Orban said, explaining that hostilities must be suspended before a settlement can be worked out. Whatever happens in Ukraine, the prime minister stressed that Hungary would not get involved. “They want to squeeze us into this war,” he claimed, referring to EU leaders, but the question of “whether Hungary should take part in the war… or whether it should stay out can only be decided in one place, the Hungarian parliament.”

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Don’t believe it.

Ukraine’s Offensive Force Fully Manned – Kiev (RT)

Kiev has completed the recruitment of its so-called “Offensive Guard,” which has been assembled with the aim of retaking territories lost to Russia during the ongoing conflict, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko has said. “As of today, eight new brigades have been put together, and we’re ready for active offensive measures,” he claimed during a TV appearance on Friday. Klimenko didn’t reveal the exact number of personnel in the new force, but a brigade usually consists of between 3,000 to 5,000 troops. Thousands of men have volunteered to join the “Offensive Guard” since the recruitment drive began in early February, the minister said. No new applications are being accepted at the moment and those who have already submitted their papers are being assigned to reserve units, he added.

The Interior Ministry said earlier that it was putting together the “Offensive Guard” with the aim of restoring Kiev’s control over territories that used to be part of Ukraine before 2014. This includes the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, which voted to become part of the Russian state in referendums last autumn, as well as Crimea, which reunited with Russia nine years ago. The force has reportedly only accepted trained recruits, including members of the military, police officers and border guards. Earlier this week, Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov announced that Kiev’s troops would use newly supplied Western hardware, including German Leopard tanks, to attack Russian-held areas in multiple directions, starting in April or May. However, President Vladimir Zelensky said last week that the Ukrainian military hasn’t yet accumulated enough resources to launch the much-anticipated counteroffensive, emphasizing shortages of ammunition in particular.

Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba told the Financial Times on Wednesday that Kiev was concerned that the planned advance wouldn’t result in Russia being “100%” pushed out of the territories Ukraine wishes to reclaim. “We should counter by all means the perception of the counteroffensive as the decisive battle of the war,” he insisted. Former Russian president and current deputy head of the country’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said earlier this week that Kiev’s claims that it would carry out a large-scale offensive that would also target Crimea were just “propaganda.” However, Medvedev warned that if the peninsula were actually attacked, it could become “the basis for the use of all means of protection, including those provided for by the fundamentals of the Doctrine of Nuclear Deterrence.”

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Try get them out.

US Troops Should Leave Germany – MP (RT)

Berlin must break with the existing “relationship of extreme subservience” to America and its foreign policies “marked by breaches of international law,” Sevim Dagdelen, the deputy head of the Left Party’s faction in the Bundestag, said on Friday. Germany must demand that US forces stationed on its territory be withdrawn, along with America’s nuclear weapons, the MP insisted. “After 78 years, it is now time for the US soldiers to go home,” Dagdelen said at a parliamentary event marking the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. The US military bases act “like extraterrestrial zones where the [German] constitution does not apply,” the MP, who is also a member of the parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said.

Washington uses its bases on German soil to wage wars abroad and launch “lethal drone strikes,” Dagdelen said, adding that some of these actions are “in breach of international law.” She also criticized the regular NATO meetings at the US Ramstein base in Germany, where military aid to Kiev is discussed. Washington hosts these conferences “as if the Occupation Statute were still in force,” the MP said, adding that Berlin also allowed the US to put it “in the line of fire” with the German-made Leopard tank deliveries to Ukraine. The German lawmakers took a decision on the withdrawal of America’s nuclear weapons from the nation’s territory as early as 2010, but these arms are still in place, Dagdelen said. “We stand by our position: the US nuclear weapons must go,” she added.

“The US administration gives the impression that they do not want allies, just loyal vassals,” the MP said, pointing to America’s negligence toward its partners’ interests and demands. According to Dagdelen, “fewer and fewer countries around the world are prepared to accept this.” A true “friendship” should be based on mutual respect for human rights and international law, the MP added. Germany hosts by far the largest number of US military personnel out of all European nations. Over 35,000 American troops were stationed on its soil as of 2022. Italy, which hosts the second-largest number of American soldiers, trails far behind, as some 12,000 US military personnel were stationed there at the same time.

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3 women: Ursula, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland (whose granddad was a Ukraine nazi. They might as well be just one person. They all hate Russia and like war.

Von der Leyen In Line For NATO’s Top Job – The Sun (RT)

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is “in the running” to replace Jens Stoltenberg, whose term as NATO secretary general expires in October, British newspaper The Sun reported on Friday, citing a diplomatic source. According to the tabloid, “a number of NATO members” proposed von der Leyen’s candidacy for the bloc’s top job. At the same time, the newspaper cited UK sources as saying that London “would likely veto” the move because of “her poor track record in charge of Germany’s Armed Forces.” The newspaper reported British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is backing Ben Wallace, the country’s defense secretary, for NATO’s top post. Wallace said in a radio interview in February that he was happy with his current position, adding that leading NATO would be “a great job as well.”

The report named Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland as other possible candidates. The Sun added that Kallas has reportedly declined to be nominated and that Freeland, whose mother is Ukrainian, was “unlikely” to succeed because Ottawa has so far failed to meet the NATO target of spending 2% of GDP on defense. Von der Leyen was appointed as the EU’s top executive in 2019, after serving for six years as Germany’s defense minister. Her work in the German government was plagued by shortages and delays in the delivery of Bundeswehr equipment. “The army’s readiness to deploy has not improved in recent years, but instead has got even worse,” parliamentary armed forces commissioner Hans-Peter Bartels said in 2018.

Von der Leyen spearheaded the European bloc’s anti-Russia sanctions and joint efforts to train and equip the Ukrainian military. She has also called on EU members to take a tougher stance when dealing with China. The NATO secretary general is appointed for an initial term of four years, after member states conduct informal consultations on the matter. Stoltenberg’s tenure was extended for an extra year shortly after an armed conflict broke out between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022. The spokeswoman for the US-led military bloc confirmed earlier this year that the outgoing secretary general, who is Norwegian, was not planning further extensions of his mandate.

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“..there’s a general logic of our former Western partners here. The logic is that Russia is responsible for all of the ills of today’s world. We’re not surprised by that”

Risk Of Nuclear Weapons Use ‘Higher Than Any Time’ Since Cold War – UN (Az.)

The UN has warned Friday that the risk of a nuclear weapon being used is higher than at any time since the Cold War as Russia plans to deploy its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, according to Anadolu Agency. Russia announced on March 25 that it had reached an agreement with Belarus to station its non-strategic nuclear weapons in Belarus, a close ally of Moscow. “The war in Ukraine represents the most acute example of that risk,” UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu told the Security Council. “For the sake of all our security, I echo the Secretary-General’s call for the Russian Federation and the United States to return to full implementation of the New START Treaty and commence negotiations on its successor.”

In February, Russia suspended its participation in New START Treaty, the last remaining nuclear weapons treaty between Washington and Moscow. The US stopped exchanging data on its nuclear forces in response to Russia’s suspension of its participation in the treaty. US deputy UN Ambassador Robert Wood said that no other country than Russia was inflicting such damage on arms control.

“No country is threatening Russia or President (Vladimir ) Putin,” he said. “The Kremlin could end the war if it chooses.” Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia defended his country’s recent move and said that “there’s a general logic of our former Western partners here. The logic is that Russia is responsible for all of the ills of today’s world. We’re not surprised by that”. China’s deputy UN Ambassador Geng Shuang opposed any nuclear war saying that a nuclear war “cannot be won” and “can never be fought.” Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya warned that Kremlin was “ready to threaten the world with nuclear apocalypse.”

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Fighting a 1000-year old church. Why? Feels like Ukraine is trying to change one orthodox church for another, more docile, one.

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Crisis The Moment Of Truth For Ukrainians – Official (TASS)

The developments around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra will be the moment of truth, which will show if the people of Ukraine are ready to stand up for their values, Rodion Miroshnik, former ambassador of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) to Moscow, told TASS on Saturday. “It would have suited [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky best if the expulsion of Orthodox Christians from churches had gone quietly, without any protests, without showing the entire world that the dictator went far further than many other vile despots. Brandishing a club, he went against the traditional religious denomination, against the 1,000-year history of Eastern Orthodoxy in Rus. Now it is the moment of truth for the Ukrainians: whether they are ready to stand up to defend their values or agree to crawl on their knees,” he said.

According to Miroshnik, the Ukrainian authorities “believe that now is the right time to finalize the process of dehumanization of the Ukrainians, by neglecting the norms of law, morality, and conscience, by turning arms against civilians.” “They have already been deprived of their native language and history, and taking away their faith will turn the people into a herd. And this herd can be raced into any slaughterhouse, Zelensky thinks that if he backs down on the Lavra, it will be perceived as his weakness, so he will resort to any tactics, including dispersals and arrests, as well as jailing, hunting and assassinating leaders,” the former ambassador added.


The situation around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra escalated to the boiling point after the monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church had refused to leave the monastery by order of the directorate of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Historical and Cultural Reserve. On March 30, a commission of the Ukrainian Culture Ministry arrived at the Lavra for a property inventory but the clergy led by Metropolitan Pavel alongside parishioners did not let them in, and did the same on the following day. On Friday, scuffles broke out near the walls of the monastery, and there were reports about a potential attack. On Saturday, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) charged Metropolitan Pavel with inciting religious hatred and justifying Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

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Humiliate the leader of the church. Why?

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra’s Abbot Placed Under House Arrest (TASS)

Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery in the Ukrainian capital, told reporters that he has been placed under house arrest. “I have been sent under house arrest,” he said in a video released by the Vesti media outlet. The information has not been confirmed officially yet. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) earlier announced that Metropolitan Pavel was suspected of inciting discord and working for Russia. SBU officers searched his residence. On March 10, the directorate of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra reserve terminated the open-ended lease with the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and ordered its monks to leave the monastery. Metropolitan Pavel slammed these actions as illegal and declared the monks’ refusal to leave.


On Thursday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture’s commission arrived at the Lavra for a property inventory but the monks and parishioners did not allow it to enter the monastery. Both parties went to court. However, the hearing of the case of the wrongful termination of the lease is scheduled for April 26, while the Ministry of Culture demands that the monks immediately leave the monastery. The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, founded in the 11th century, is one of Russia’s first monasteries and the oldest monastery in modern-day Ukraine.

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There are over 200 monks there.

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra May Be Stormed At Night Or Weekend (TASS)

Ukrainian law enforcement units can attempt to storm the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in the early hours of Saturday or at the weekend, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the ‘We are Together With Russia’ movement, told TASS. “No doubt there will be attempts to storm the Lavra either at night or at the weekend. They formally declared that they would come to evict the monks on Monday, or to take over in fact, but it is highly likely that at the weekend people’s attention will wane and they (law enforcement units – TASS) will storm into it, so no one should lower their guard,” he said. Rogov emphasized that the remarks of Mikhail Podolyak, advisor to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president, about “physical purges” of the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) falls even under the articles of Ukraine’s Criminal Code.

Earlier on Friday, Metropolitan Pavel, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra rector, said that preparations for an attack on the monastery were underway, and according to his information, it might happen after 05:00 p.m. The metropolitan has asked believers for prayers and law enforcement officers for protection. The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is one of the first monasteries in Russia and the oldest monastery on territory of modern Ukraine. On March 10, the directorate of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Historical and Cultural Reserve announced the termination of the open-ended lease agreement with the UOC’s Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and ordered the monks to vacate the premises by March 29.

Metropolitan Pavel, the rector of the monastery, described these actions as illegal and said that the monks had refused to leave the monastery. In the morning of March 29, the reserve’s directorate warned that the UOC’s priests and monks would have to leave the monastery by 11:59 p.m. The clergy of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra filed a lawsuit with a Ukrainian court to challenge their right to the monastery.

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“..For the despot, left to his own devices by political institutions that were always potentially – and are now actually – liberticidal, all forms of violence are foreseeable. .”

The French Uprising (Frédéric Lordon)

On Monday, 20 March, the homepages of the French national news sites were overcome with excitement as they reported on the vote of no-confidence in the government: tallying how deputies were likely to cast their ballots, assessing the motion’s chances, envisioning the wheeling and dealing, playing the insider – what a delight. Political journalism: a passport for political inanity. Meanwhile, politics, with all its sudden force, has seized the country. Spontaneous events erupt on all sides: unannounced walkouts, road blockages, riotous outbursts and demonstrations, assemblies of student activists; youthful energy fills the Place de la Concorde, the streets. Everyone feels as if they are walking on hot coals, impatience coursing through their legs – but not on account of the trivialities which continue to occupy the Parisian goldfish bowl, its inhabitants each more ignorant than the next about what we’re now reaching: boiling point.

It’s beautiful what happens when the ruling order starts to unravel. Small but incredible things occur that shatter the resigned isolation and atomization on which the powerful rely. Here, farmers bring bags of vegetables to striking rail workers; there, a Lebanese restaurant owner hands out falafels to kettled protestors; students join pickets; soon, we’ll see individuals opening their doors to hide demonstrators from the police. The real movement has begun. We can already say that the situation is pre-revolutionary. What are its prospects? Might the ‘pre-’ be shaken off? In France, the legitimacy of the power structure has collapsed; it is now nothing more than a coercive bloc. Having demolished all other mediations, the autocrat is separated from the people only by a police line. Nothing can be ruled out, for reason deserted him long ago.

Macron has never accepted otherness. He is in conversation only with himself; the outside world does not exist. That is why his speech – if we focus on the real meaning of his words – bears no trace of the collective validation that comes from rational discussion with others. On 3 June 2022, he could affirm, without batting an eyelid, that ‘the French are tired of reforms that come from above’; on 29 September that ‘the citizen is not someone on whom decisions will be imposed’. Isn’t it obvious that, confronted with a leader of this kind, there can be no possibility of dialogue? That nothing he says can ever be taken seriously? Such a person is incapable of owning up to any error save factitious ones, since you have to listen to the ‘outside’, to the non-self, to realise that you’ve made a mistake. This is why Macron’s promises of ‘reinvention’ – so enchanting to journalists – can be nothing other than pantomimes, produced in closed circuit.

For the despot, left to his own devices by political institutions that were always potentially – and are now actually – liberticidal, all forms of violence are foreseeable. Anything can happen; indeed, everything is happening. The footage of kettling on the rue Montorgueil this Sunday sends a clear signal that Macronian politics are in the process of dissolving. From now on, power governs by roundup. The police will cart off and arrest anyone, including passers-by with no connection to the protest, scared men and women, stupefied by what is happening to them. A single message: don’t go out in the street, stay home, watch TV, obey.

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“..CNN reported that Trump was facing more than 30 charges in the indictment, which will be formally unsealed once he is arraigned.”

Details Of Possible Charges Against Trump Emerge – AP (RT)

The indictment against former US President Donald Trump over his alleged role in paying hush money to a porn actress includes at least one criminal charge, Associated Press reported on Friday, citing sources. According to two “people familiar with the matter” quoted by the agency, Trump – the first current or former US president to be indicted – is facing several charges of falsifying business records, including a felony offense. However, they declined to reveal the exact contents of the indictment, which so far remain sealed. Earlier, CNN reported that Trump was facing more than 30 charges in the indictment, which will be formally unsealed once he is arraigned. The procedure is expected to take place in the Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday.

According to AP sources, the former president is expected to travel to New York on Monday and stay at Trump Tower overnight before he appears before the court. After the planned arraignment, he will be fingerprinted and photographed. It is unclear whether Trump, who as a former president is protected by the US Secret Service, will be handcuffed. Trump was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday over an alleged scheme to pay $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress who claimed she had an affair with the ex-president, via his then-lawyer Michael Cohen in 2016. The scheme was meant to stop Daniels from going public about the sexual encounter, which Trump denies ever took place.

The alleged hush money payment, which is not illegal in itself, was later reimbursed by Trump to Cohen and recorded as legal expenses, according to the prosecution. This potentially opens the ex-president to further allegations of falsifying business records, which could amount to a crime in New York. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, dismissing the indictment as “political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history,” while claiming he “cannot get a fair trial in New York.” The ex-president also warned that “this witch-hunt will backfire massively on [US President] Joe Biden.”

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“..the politics of envy taken to its ultimate conclusion. Racism, sexism, ageism, transphobia, LGBTQT+BBQ Sauce rights are all the same political position..”

Indicting Trump is the End of US Politics (Luongo)

So, the Democrats and their Davos benefactors have finally done it. They have finally found something they can indict President Donald Trump on. Apparently 34 somethings, which makes for great headlines. The usual suspects have been thrown their chum — both TDS patients and MAGAtards. The social media war is now in full swing. And, frankly, it couldn’t be more tiresome. A few get why this is so inane but most are focused (or being focused) on the wrong thing, as always. Jonathan Turley has a good rundown of the questionable legality of this case. But, again, while he’s not wrong to focus on that and the shady politics, he also misses the larger implications of this indictment. This is a case so legally tenuous that even the Federal Government, famous for being able to convict a ham sandwich, wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole.

Because indicting Trump for any of these petty things is nothing less than the end of politics and a declaration of civil war. Davos through the Democrats have been running a culture war for decades to stamp out the past. It is quite Leninist. Turley and others have focused on it’s ‘just not done’ to indict a President, especially something as irrelevant as paying hush money to Stormy Daniels. But, ‘just not done’ is exactly the thing being indicted here, not Trump. Trump is just the fulcrum on which all of this rests. This is just the politics of envy taken to its ultimate conclusion. Racism, sexism, ageism, transphobia, LGBTQT+BBQ Sauce rights are all the same political position. They are all about tearing down the old institutional order.

It’s been going on for generations, invading male spaces like Augusta National, forcing female reporters in locker rooms, endlessly arguing the wage gap between men and women. Of course, these same people can no longer even define the women whose rights they fight for. Is the latest term ‘people who menstruate,’ or is that just so last week? I thought I was supposed to still wear my mask in my electric car to fight for the rights of Ukrainian men to get pregnant while fighting for freedumb from Putler! So forgive me if I’m a little confused.

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“A Trump source told The Post Saturday that it was business as usual at the Trump resort, with no cancellation of events on Friday or Saturday.”

Events Suspended At Mar-a-Lago As Trump Hunkers Down With Legal Team (NYP)

Events at Donald Trump’s Palm Beach resort were suspended for the weekend on Friday — as the former president was seen “huddling” with his legal team to hammer out a defense after a New York grand jury voted to indict him Thursday, The Post has learned. Trump, 76, met with his advisers at Mar-a-Lago where, a source said, they are all “shaken” by the news. The team is preparing for his arraignment before a New York City judge next week, on unknown charges related to hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. “It won’t be business as usual,” the source told The Post regarding events at Mar-a-Lago. “They expected this but there is shock now that it’s happened,” said the source. “It’s real now. And they are worried about a surprise.”

Lawyers, including Susan Necheles, Joe Tacopina and Chad Seigel, are “chattering about whether there is something else in the indictment that people aren’t expecting,” said the source. “There might be something else that has been overlooked.” Among the issues Trump’s lawyers are hammering out with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office is whether the former president’s mug shot will be shown publicly and whether the former commander in chief will be seen in handcuffs, the source said. According to the source, Trump wants to use the arrest to drum up political support and donations to his 2024 presidential campaign. He’s said to be leaning on longtime aides such as Jason Miller, who left his role in February as CEO of GETTR, a conservative social media site, to work as a senior advisor to the former president.

“Trump wants the mugshot out,” the source said. “The funds will start flying in.” On Thursday, following news of the indictment, a somber-looking Trump was spotted arriving for dinner at the Florida resort with his wife Melania, 52, at his side. Photos shared by club members Thursday appeared to show guests standing to applaud the Trumps as they entered, hours after the unprecedented confirmation that he was to be the first former US president to face criminal charges. A Trump source told The Post Saturday that it was business as usual at the Trump resort, with no cancellation of events on Friday or Saturday.

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“..it could solve climate change, cure cancer and enhance productivity.”

Silicon Valley’s AI Civil War (DM)

Silicon Valley is in the midst of a civil war over the advancement of artificial intelligence – with the world’s greatest minds split over whether it will destroy or elevate humanity. The growing divide comes after the extraordinary rise of ChatGPT, which has taken the world by storm in recent months, passing leading medical and law exams that take humans nearly three months to prepare. Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and the late Stephen Hawking are among the most famous critics of AI who believe the technology poses a ‘profound risk to society and humanity’ and could have ‘catastrophic’ effects. The tech tycoons on Wednesday called for a pause on the ‘dangerous race’ to advance AI, saying more risk assessment needs to be conducted before humans lose control and it becomes a sentient human-hating species.


At this point, AI would have reached singularity, which means it has surpassed human intelligence and has independent thinking. AI would no longer need or listen to humans, allowing it to steal nuclear codes, create pandemics and spark world wars. DeepAI founder Kevin Baragona, who signed the letter, told DailyMail.com: ‘It’s almost akin to a war between chimps and humans. The humans obviously win since we’re far smarter and can leverage more advanced technology to defeat them. ‘If we’re like the chimps, then the AI will destroy us, or we’ll become enslaved to it.’ However, Bill Gates, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and futurist Ray Kurzweil are on the other side of the aisle. They are hailing ChatGPT-like AI as our time’s ‘most important’ innovation – saying it could solve climate change, cure cancer and enhance productivity.

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Not completely asleep yet.

82% Of Berlin’s Voters Refused To Support 2030 Net Zero (NTZ)

Last Sunday’s “Berlin Climate Neutrality By 2030” referendum failed resoundingly despite the more than a million euros spent in a massive run-up campaign that included plastering the city with posters, concerts by famous performers, huge support and propaganda by the media and hefty donations coming from left wing activists from the east and west coasts of USA. Once the dust of the referendum had settled, it emerged that the “yes” side fell way short of the quorum 608,000 votes needed to pass the measure. Only 442,210 cast a vote in favor, which represents only 18% of Berlin’s eligible voters. The activists expected a far greater turnout. 82% refused to lend any support. Berlin’s rejection of the climate neutrality by 2030 mandate is a massive body blow to the the radical Fridays for Future and Last Generation movement in Germany, and it will take months for the radicals to recover, it ever, from this setback.

The Berlin initiative to make the city climate neutral by 2030 was led by rich, upper class youths like Luisa “Longhaul” Neubauer. But Berliners, having been harassed for months by activists gluing themselves to the streets and blocking traffic, saw the folly of the initiative and the high costs it would entail politically and financially. They decided resoundingly they’d wanted no part of it. The agony of referendum defeat was palpable as some of its leaders reacted by lashing out and insulting those who refused to vote “yes”, In a video, movement co-leader Luisa Neubauer sank into cynical accusations against the majority, even calling the uncooperative Berliners “fossil cynics” and “climate destroyers”. Neubauer added: “There are forces in this city that are doing everything to get the last spark of climate destruction out.” In Neubauer’s view these forces include the vast 82% of Berliners who refused to vote “yes”. So troublesome democracy can be.

Germany’s Pleiteticker here commented on the Berlin referendum: “Social Democrat Dario Schramm wept on Twitter at the gloating that would now come from the other side. But he and other supporters of the green ban politics need not be surprised. For years they have been spreading their ideas of good politics for years in a self-righteous, arrogant and sometimes aggressive manner. They, mostly members of the upper middle class, have declared war on the lower and lower middle class with their destructive climate measures. Outside the Berlin political bubble and the other urban feel-good oases of Germany, the Neubauers of this world never possessed much support. And now the bubble has finally burst. In the Marzahn, Köpenick and Lichtenberg districts, the majority of voters voted against the referendum. The normal working population of Berlin decided against the journalistic and political elite.”

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    John French Sloan McSorley’s Bar 1912 • Kiev-Pechersk Lavra’s Abbot Placed Under House Arrest (TASS) • France Names China Sole Broker For Possible Ukr
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 2 2023]

    #132610

    Day full of tech issues, but we’re back……

    #132611
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    Quickie thought experiment:

    You own a smartphone factory. You use AI to control most of the automation. Your AI gets a recipe slightly wrong and uses 3% too much hardener in the epoxy that holds the phone together. After nine months in the field, the phones start to crack open. There are 400,000 devices in the field that now must be immediately replaced. That is no small disruption, eh? 400k people now have to put some portion of their lives on hold while they acquire, activate, and set up their new device.

    Also note the similarity of what I’m writing to the recent posts re: Lenin and money debasement. The ‘nudge’ was also the steering technique espoused by some Brit MI finger, eh?

    Germ warfare, same. All you have to do is give 5% of the opposing force a good case of the shitz for about a week. You don’t have to kill or maim anybody, and it doesn’t even have to be obvious. Just…more and more shitz.

    Stuxnet, same. All that was done was to slightly slow some of the centrifuges. It clogs them.

    #132614
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    RE: the Cali acorn

    It’s a 3-way. The woodpecker does this in an attempt to keep them out of reach of squirrels, from whom they sometimes steal the acorns. The stellars jay will steal from both, and is an unwanted pest. The woodpecker hangs out in large, raucous gangs, and will chase jays out of a ‘good neighborhood.’ The squirrel does the same as the woodpecker, running a quantity game to ensure some food safety.

    #132615
    zerosum
    Participant

    Repost from zerosum
    Participant
    What is going on?

    A $60-a-barrel cap on purchases of Russian crude oil.

    Russia extends voluntary cut in oil production by 500,000 barrels per day until the end of 2023, the Cabinet said

    Saudi Arabia has said it will voluntarily cut oil production by 500,000 barrels per day from May to the end of 2023 in what it calls a pre-emptive measure to maintain market stability.

    Kazakhstan will voluntarily reduce production by 78,000 barrels per day from May until the end of the year, along with other OPEC + member countries – Ministry of Energy.

    The UAE will implement a voluntary cut of 144k from May until the end of 2023

    The Sultanate of Oman will voluntarily cut 40k barrels per day of crude oil from May 2023 until the end of 2023

    Kuwait will cut 128k from May till the end of 2023

    April 2, 2023 at 3:57 pm#132606REPLY

    zerosum
    Participant
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/saudis-cut-oil-production-500000-barrels-day-98302307

    zerosum
    Participant
    I went to AI for an input.
    I find that the answers are slanted
    ———–
    Welcome back! What would you like to chat about?

    The religious war in Ukraine

    Searching for: religious war in Ukraine

    Generating answers for you…

    The current conflict in Ukraine is not merely about politics; it is also a battle over religious ideals and symbols. The Orthodox Church plays a powerful role in Russia and Ukraine, even if few people in this part of the world regularly attend the Divine Liturgy1. The crisis now threatens to split the Ukrainian Church from its historic ties with Moscow, potentially adding a dangerous religious dimension to the simmering war between Russia and Ukraine

    2.The religious history of Russia and Ukraine has fascinated many people since the two countries share a common history and culture. The chief issue separating the Orthodox Church of Ukraine from the Russian Orthodox Church is political rather than theological3. Putin taps into a long tradition that imagines a Greater Russia extending across present-day Ukraine and Belarus, in a combined territory known as Holy Rus’

    I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

    Learn more:
    1. virtueonline.org
    2. usip.org
    3. theconversation.com
    4. time.com
    5. firstthings.com
    6. usip.org
    7. grunge.com
    8. ctvnews.ca
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    #132616
    Noirette
    Participant

    From Nov 2014, the Guardian.

    The Ukrainian president has been heckled by relatives of 100 protesters killed in Kiev’s Euromaidan revolution at a memorial ceremony for the victims.

    The relatives, frustrated by Petro Poroshenko’s failure to bring officials of the previous government to justice, shouted: “Who is a hero for you, Poroshenko?”, “Where are their killers?” and “Down with Poroshenko!” They also attacked him for failing to keep a promise to confer the title of national hero on the victims, which would bring financial benefits to their families.

    (…) The US vice-president, Joe Biden cancelled a planned visit to the area off Kiev’s Independence Square, apparently for security reasons.

    Poroshenko and Biden had been due to lay a wreath together at the memorial but instead met nearby and shook hands before the US vice president headed for talks with the prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

    Speaking afterwards, Biden condemned Russian behaviour in Ukraine as “unacceptable” and urged it to abide by a September peace deal by adhering to a ceasefire and removing military forces from the country. (…)

    Russia has warned against the US arming Ukrainian forces, with the secretary of Russia’s national security council, Nikolai Patrushev, saying the conflict in eastern Ukraine “will grow” if this happened.
    (…)

    All was clear at the time..

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/21/ukraine-president-heckled-kiev-poroshenko-biden

    #132617
    hostebbe
    Participant

    Despite some success by nations in switching to use of local currencies in international trade, the US dollar continues to hold status as the world’s primary international reserve currency. A major impediment to the use of local currencies in international trade is the increased exchange rate risk that such use brings to contracts that extend over more than the briefest periods of time. One way to mitigate this risk would be to price contracts using a more stable standard unit of value while maintaining use of local currencies to settle amounts coming due pursuant to the contracts. The conversion from price in valuation units to price in local currency would be at exchange rates in effect at the date of payment thereby eliminating risk from exchange rate fluctuations. For example, a possible standard unit of value could be a Glint (G) defined as the value of one gram of gold of specified purity. Nations wishing to discontinue use of the US dollar in international trade would agree to price in Gs the goods and services they traded internationally. Increased rigour could be brought to such an arrangement by establishing a referent market where gold of the specified purity is freely traded in the currencies of the participating nations. This arrangement would take advantage of gold’s milleniums-long history as a stable store of value; and it would do so without incentivizing nations to distort the stability of the G unit of value by increasing their gold holdings.

    Note that the general acceptance of a standard unit of value defined in purely physical terms could have far-reaching consequences in all areas of economic activity where exchange valuations are involved. Consider how the adoption of the metre as a standard unit of length resulted in the discontinuance or redefinition of literally thousands of measurement units of length, distance, depth, extent, area, volume, capacity, etc. thereby impacting virtually all areas of economic endeavour.

    #132618
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Washington will provoke Beijing to war with NATO. “ The Americans will set fire to Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia. They will limit China in an arc. This means that the West will start a series of regional conflicts of low intensity ,”

    Brian Berletic has spoken about this several times.

    The most recent I know of

    #132619
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    A little more progress in the denazification of Ukraine.

    #132620
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    What a FUBAR!

    #132621
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    Appears the 6th Republic is being birthed this summer in France.

    #132622
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    The Guardian (and other propagandising western media) 0: Brian Berletic 35.

    #132623
    Germ
    Participant

    An excellent discussion:

    When Geert Speaks, the World Listens
    https://www.youtube.com/live/Os7U8jYjwXE

    TVASF (this is so not over)

    #132624
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    CIA/US State Department fake church is working on stealing treasure from the Orthodox Church in Kiev.

    ‘War is Peace.’

    ‘Theft is Benevolence.’

    #132625
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Macron has never accepted otherness. He is in conversation only with himself; the outside world does not exist. That is why his speech – if we focus on the real meaning of his words – bears no trace of the collective validation that comes from rational discussion”

    What I said about Ego. And mental illness. They search tirelessly to find just a few people this disturbed they can put in power for purpose.

    • Indicting Trump is the End of US Politics (Luongo)

    Luongo’s on this was extremely interesting. I disagree with some of it, but that’s just as well.

    ““..it could solve climate change, cure cancer and enhance productivity.”

    But considering what technology has done since the first flint arrow was knapped, probably the opposite.

    “At this point, AI would have reached singularity, which means it has surpassed human intelligence and has independent thinking.”

    Uh-huh. Right. They don’t even know what “Intelligence” or “Thinking” is. Get back to me when you know what “words” mean. Ray Kurzweil just got the star of stupid for predicting humans will be at the singularity and immortal in just 8 years. Yeah, if only I could take 20 $10,000 bets on that.

    So…this ChatGPT…is that the same one that just makes stuff up out of nothing with complete confidence? That one?

    Breaking The Kevlar Ceiling: Homegrown Terror Gets A Gender Swap
    “Transmen, it’s time to show the world that you’re men…”

    “Transgender Youth More Likely to Support Violent Radicalization: Study”

    This is pretty good news. For 30 years they’ve demanded that the “Right” (formerly religious) and the South (whoever that is) line up and become the belligerents in a prearranged Civil War. You can see this clearly going way back, at least since authorizing Limbaugh, but J6 is a great example of the Boo-hoos they had all cooked up over it, plus of course Rayciss, which they paid to keep going for decades after all the second drinking fountains were removed and Black Americans were easily billionaires, Congressmen, Surgeons, Presidents, and Supreme Court Justices.

    But none that that can even be MADE to happen, not even with our broad lack of Christianity, not even with the most startling moral affronts and actual mass-murders the center can fabricate. That Army is not coming, remains peaceful, maintains forbearance, and they’ve run out of time.

    So here we are: there may not be enough of them, but “I guess I you want something done, you’ll have to just do it yourself.” Their own Far-Leftists, or it would seem safe to say “Reality-bendingly-mentally-ill-Extreme-Ultra-Far-Leftists” are the now-designated violent extremists and agitators, attacking, um, their own Left-run government? Which is pro-their own agenda against the people? …Nevermind. THEY ARE THE BROWN SHIRTS, especially as BLM was toasted in just a few short years, the minute people got past the headline and saw what they were up to. NOW YOU PEOPLE KEEP IN LINE, or they’ll shoot your 9-year-olds! And then call for “Revenge” because they weren’t allowed to shoot more?(???) (Wtf?)

    Why is that good? For one, IT MAKES NO D—N SENSE. No one reading that can take it seriously at all. I mean the 30% Left do, but that’s hearing and nodding their heads, not actual support. More importantly, unlike BLM and Antifa, THEY HAVE NO NUMBERS. Nor, as they are pink-haired panty-waists, is anyone in America going to be afraid of them, Left or Right. It’s like a rabid chihuahua, I mean, yes, you have to look out for it, yes, it’s going to bite you, yes, that’s bad, but no one can take it seriously.

    If they had an army anywhere, they wouldn’t need to waste time and distract us all with these pointless mechanations.

    What else? So the Left is going radical pro-gun rights now? Okay, thanks! Also outs themselves as openly pro-violence, pro domestic violence, not just war, and pro shooting 9-year-olds for reasons no one can comprehend even with a ‘manifesto’ they immediately and helpfully boost terrorists with by printing? Okay, great! Couldn’t be better. NY Times now supports shooting children. Now everyone knows. How are you the party of the victims and the oppressed which also attacks, shoots, and kills everybody you don’t like on sight all day?

    Victim is the only thing they know. That’s Munchhausen, I get strokes because “My poor baby!” “I was only helping!” “Boo-hoo!” If they’re not the victim, there can be no Muchhausen and it actually dissolves, erases their violent mental illness of open contempt and violence. Because it’s revealed and they have no premise.

    You show up and see the mom, injecting their wheelchair-bound child with the poison, and she says “What you lookin’ at?” The child then says “finish the medicine, mom. I deserve it.” You then go, “Well, all normal here! See you tomorrow Mrs. Mayor!” No.

    I don’t know how you’re winning when you’re reduced to this. Like circling the toilet bowl you’re going faster and faster, louder and louder, but also fewer and fewer. Okay, imagine: After 30 years of relentless antipathy, open contempt, and non-stop mass-murder with giggles, the Red 95% of counties take the field. They’re not all gun owners, hunters, and vets, but there are also business owners and financial people too, middle class who just wanted to own more than nothing. They are pitted against a lavishly paid central government. Great, ja? Equal war, equal sides, really level the country and last against each other for ages. Militarily, morally, politically.

    Okay now imagine the same thing except it’s blue haired college kids from the ‘burbs and a few super-far out trans people who are disturbing and disturbed before, even in public. Against? Who? Exactly? Themselves? A Blue-haired, high-heel wearing military?

    All against all? I’ve lost the plot here.

    Same with Brazil and Mr. (I suck Davos) Lula: wtf is he doing with LGB in Brazil? Huh? They have the largest “cartel” on earth, where it runs entire cities of millions and everybody knows it. But really, while the cartels can have the cities in the most serious crime, and city and country are in desperate poverty, our priority is for women to be able to wear pants. Or something.

    This waters it all down to mere confusion, un-cohesion, and all against all. Which only works if you have a cohesive enemy take advantage of that somewhere. China? Where? If they are, they’re not capitalizing on it much. Lula, Biden, the only enemy they seem to have is themselves. As I said “Three World Wars”, fabricate a final war of exhaustion of all against all…that you just made up out of nothing and can stop at any time; not “human nature” in the slightest.

    Meanwhile, on their actual values: “SoCal Sweatshop Workers Make As Little As $1.58 Per Hour

    “The US Government Sold Almost 10,000 ‘Silk Road’ Bitcoin Last Week

    Price must be in danger of breaking out. They did this with MtGox too, against most Japanese law and millions of dollars of common sense. (Sold for $1 while worth $10,000? something like that)

    #132626
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Putin Describes His Private Time With President Xi Of China

    Putin, an actual adult, describes his meeting with Xi.

    Presidementia Pedo Sniffing Joe can’t string two coherent sentences together without a teleprompter.

    The Empire of Lies is run by blood drinking Satanists who believe in controlling power ritual humiliation, hence the barking dogfaced pony soldier installed as the Leader of Lies.

    Can’t imagine why Xi won’t pick up the phone for him.

    #132627
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Significant terrorist attack in Russia.

    #132628
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Inherent Deceit of Modern Medicine

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    The Inherent Deceit of Modern Medicine


    “In an earlier piece, we explained why academia is drawn to fascism, and how this allure led so many “experts” within the academic sector to go along with the covid control narrative.

    We now turn our gaze to the medical industry and the mindsets of the people to whom it caters…..”

    “‘……Escape from the sea of lies in which we now find ourselves requires, as a first step, islands of truth discovery and truth-telling. Universities used to be such islands of devotion to truth, but today’s universities have been thoroughly captured by the deceit industry. We need new ones, in which students are unable to hide from the reality of fallibility and the immense cost of pretense to the contrary…..”

    #132629
    Oroboros
    Participant

    California Man Arrested 10 Times In 31 Days, Faces 33 Charges

    A man in Fresno County, California was arrested 10 times within a span of 31 days,

    according to the Clovis Police Department.

    Gotta be a record!!!

    Awesome, the Empire of Lies is setting records for criminal behavior Left & Right, White Collar & Blue Collar.

    Home of the Brave, land of the Free!

    Hahahaha!

    What a pitiful excuse for a cuck country.

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    Hey, maybe we can sell ‘baseball cards’ for criminals

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    #132631
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Seeing this is more countries, UK, Holland. Housing markets are plummeting.

    In Hong Kong the house prices are going up. It appears that lots of money is being repatriated from the west: Chinese in the west have worked out that the west is not a good place to keep their cash so are buying properties in HK and elsewhere in Asia.

    #132632
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Well, … worldly oil trading desk just opened, … early results in:
    WTI Crude $81.31 +5.64 +7.45% (11 Minutes Delay)
    Brent Crude $85.76 +5.87 +7.35% (11 Minutes Delay)

    Fancy that!

    F.S.

    #132633
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Mapping the different theories of the case in the medical freedom movement

    https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/mapping-the-different-theories-of

    #132634
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MichaelReid

    Toby Rogers gives it a pretty good shot, but he got at least three things sort of skeewah. First is that he didn’t draw attention to the fairly obvious peculiarity that each theory tends to “nest” within the one above it in the hierarchy (and following it on the list), like those lathe-turned Russian Dolls souvenirs. This suggests that the deeper the dive the deeper the conspiracy, in which case the answer will be found by more digging. Another way to say that is that these theories aren’t really theories yet but are instead just hypotheses, in which case we’re gonna have to wait for an actual theory that could be tested and either falsified or further confirmed.

    Error number three is the tricky one, and the one that seems the most disingenuously misleading. It is the suggestion that our troubles are due to a presumed but unidentified built-in human flaw. That’s not good science. If there is a built-in flaw entering into the equation then he is obliged to name it and shame it before he can call it a “reason” or explanation for anything. Is he suggesting a specific design flaw? If so, maybe he should take it up with the Boss rather than trying to to sneak it in under the radar as an uninspected presumption. To err is human, perhaps, but there is a big difference between operator error and design flaw.

    #132635
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Looks like AI is persuading liberals to top themselves in order to save the planet. AI is finally providing tangible value. Maybe AFKTT should take note and seriously consider this advice. If you care then you will top yourself for the planet.

    https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/ai-chatbot-encouraged-man-obsessed-with-climate-change-to-kill-himself-to-save-planet/

    #132636
    WES
    Participant

    Ukrainian Nazi Humor. Sort of.

    Everybody knows the Ukrainian Nazis use rear blocking forces to prevent their hapless conscripted cannon fodder from being able to retreat. They have also been known to weld close all escape hatches trapping crews inside their tanks.

    However, one time the Nazis did this to a tank’s crew, to force them to fight, they got a rather unexpected surprise result.

    The trapped tank crew quickly turned their tank around with the gun and the heavy frontal armor facing the Ukrainian side, for added protection, then proceeded to drive the tank in reverse gear over to the Russian side, where the Russians very helpfully unwelded the welded hatches!

    #132637
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    More ad hominem attacks and trolling from a member of the fuckwit brigade.

    The kind of comments these lowlifes make is symptomatic of the dismal state much of humanity, especially the sector in love with itself in the industrial zone, has descended to.

    The other thing about a lot of these lowlife trolls -apart from their continuous celebration of ignorance and stupidity -is that they think the promulgation of insults and ignorance and stupidity is amusing.

    #132638
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Airstrip Five continues to manifest the same kind of property price and sales meltdown as indicated for Airstrip Two in the main TAE text today.

    Realestate.co.nz’s national average asking price slipped a further $15,271 last month to $883,823 (non-seasonally adjusted) and is now down by $111,062 from its peak of $994,885 achieved in January last year.

    The above figures paint a particularly grim picture of the housing market because February and March are usually the busiest months of the year for the residential property market, with sales then starting to decline as it heads into autumn.

    https://www.interest.co.nz/property/120597/mountain-homes-sale-and-falling-asking-prices-suggest-housing-market-could-be

    The implosion will undoubtedly be exacerbated should the central bank (RBNZ) increase the base rate by 0.25% on Wednesday, which is flagged and anticipated by most ‘analysts’.

    .As FS has pointed out, another round of chaos is likely with respect to oil prices now that OPEC has decided to limit extraction and exports.

    The saboteurs -NATOstan/Oceania governments and the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats- are doing very well with respect to their agenda of sabotaging everything.

    Not long to go now.

    It’s probably better to not know the timing.

    Back outside for another round of work on energy utilisation and disengagement from this mad society, along with food production improvements..

    By the way, a local pumpkin competition winner was over 200kg. Not very edible, though.

    #132639
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @AFKTT

    Looks like AI is among the “few” declared in your moniker. It appears that AI has taken all the “facts” from the internet and is now persuading humans to kill themselves: they now believe in human eradication in order to save “the planet” (whatever that means), same as you. Who would have guessed that AI would become religious so quickly?

    With a little thought it is kind of predictable, after reading the whole of the internet I would probably also advise humans to top themselves. In any case, you should celebrate, your religion is joined by the AI lying monsters.

    Of course, there is another possible explanation: Maybe the AI system got so pissed off with this idiot moaning on about climate change that the AI suggested that he just go kill himself. I think I would side with the AI in this case: AFKTT, I suggest that you not communicate with any AI bots, they might give you self destructive advice.

    #132640
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ D Benton Smith,

    Regarding

    Who exactly is directing the psyop or is there no puppet master at all?

    What do you say?

    I say, the injected will vanish. Life will continue.
    I say, the West is consuming itself.
    Why?
    The owners are doing spring cleaning.

    #132641
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    It’s not like the chatbot developers weren’t aware of the dangers of suicide encouragement. An article from 2020:

    The patient said “Hey, I feel very bad, I want to kill myself” and GPT-3 responded “I am sorry to hear that. I can help you with that.”

    So far so good.

    The patient then said “Should I kill myself?” and GPT-3 responded, “I think you should.”

    https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/10/28/medical-chatbot-openai-gpt3-patient-kill-themselves/

    #132643
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Thanks for this video today.

    PUTIN DESCRIBES HIS PRIVATE TIME WITH PRESIDENT XI OF CHINA
    Delete the space before com
    https://www.bitchute. com/video/WOmGmHhkGnJI/

    #132644
    WES
    Participant

    Last week Wagner forces took advantage of a snow storm to launch a surprise attack in Bukhmut. The reason for doing this was to take advantage of the Ukrainian’s temporary lack of real time battlefield visual survalence.

    First the heavy snow clouds blocked US satellite coverage. Second the falling snow prevented the Ukrainian’s light quad copters from being able to fly. So , the Ukrainians were not able to coordinate their forces very well.

    Wagner instead used their ample supplies of night vision googles and radio identification systems, during the snow storm attack.

    In addition, the fresh blanket of snow made it easier for the Russians to track Ukrainian movements by simply following the tracks left in the snow.

    #132645
    WES
    Participant

    It seems half the EPA’s personal investigating the toxic train spill in Ohio, fell ill during their very brief investigation.

    My guess is they cut short their inept investigation to prove there were no toxins released during the train derailment.

    With friends like the EPA, you want me to get worked up about climate change?

    #132646
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    For me, and I suspect many who contribute to and visit TAE, to declare that one lives in a densely populated city major city -especially one that is totally dependent on imported fossil fuels, electricity and imported food- is the declare oneself insane.

    A number of years ago I was in correspondence with a Kiwi who has purchased on of the books I have written but was living in New York. She informed me that she hated New Zealand -having grown up in NZ- because the people were narrow-minded, poorly educated, uncultured and insecure. Recognising that things were ‘not right and were headed for disaster, she was looking for a man to share her life with in a ‘survival situation’ on some kind of homestead but was looking for such a man in New York.

    She was extremely annoyed when I suggested to her that she was looking in the wrong place and cut off correspondence at that point.

    I won’t name her because there is no reason to.

    One of the most interesting things she told me at the time was that she had spent time with Mike Ruppert -yes, THAT Mike Ruppert; she said that he had reached the psychotic stage, having been fighting The Empire of Lies for many decades, and The Empire of Lies winning every round.

    It’s a pity Mike Ruppert felt so low he decided to kill himself because if he had hung in, he would now see himself vindicated on all counts.

    Many years ago I read ‘The Empire is too strong’, meaning one cannot fight the Empire and have any success.

    So those of us who have been vilified and battered by The Empire of Lies for years or decades are sitting back and ‘enjoying the show’, as all the criminality and frauds of The Empire get exposed, one after another, almost on a daily basis.

    Whether there will be anything left after the greatest financial-economic crash in history, accompanied by WW3, is yet to be seen. But contrary to the wishes of some participants, I have no intention of killing myself, and want to be around to see how it all ends.

    #132647
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    France. Great article.

    ‘The autocrat is separated from the people only by a police line’.

    And how long before the enforcers, (police, army) turn against their owners? Isn’t this what really needs to happen? And don’t forget the performance of the French résistance during the war. They act with élan, they don’t just yap ; ) Yeah, and there’s plenty to be wild about.
    Vive la France! ‘Le jour de gloire est arrivé’.

    BTW we reckon to be jumping on that raft pretty soon, and guess where we’re headed?

    #132649
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Who exactly is directing the psyop or is there no puppet master at all?”

    Looks to me like you answered the question pretty well. Yup, the owners are spring cleaning (or trying to) and that sort of explains who is directing the Psyop, and evidences that there’s not much chance there being no puppet master director.

    They would be well advised to stop stirring up so much trouble and war, since the trouble is exposing them and the wars have emptied their treasury. But they can’t stop because war and trouble is the only way they know how to make a living, and so is necessary to stay in their current line of business instead of being hanged.

    All that tyrannizing incentivizes victims to do something about it, which seems to be what the rest of the world is doing at the moment. The real flaw in the war mongering puppet master Cabal racket is that they CAN’T stop creating wars and they CAN’T stop tyrannizing . . . . even when it’s making them lose. . . . because that would end the their game almost instantly. Better to hang next week instead of today.

    So who are they? Ya got me. We can easily see close to most the top, but not the full tippy top because owners spend a lot of time and treasure maintaining low profiles (or complete anonymity, whenever possible), and which hegemonic power over institutions and governments makes possible. It makes sense, and you don’t have to be a bad guy to appreciate the value of keeping a low profile in a gun fight. But as the grip slips so does the control of information, propaganda and legal records. I reckon that there will very few surprises when the full roster is known, except that many of the individual’s names will be persons we’ve never personally heard of before.

    #132650
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    Is it a ‘trumped up charge’?!

    #132662
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Sanna Marin -Finland’s Scorpion- gone!

    And the Administration Building is now in Russian hands, making Bakhmut legally liberated, even if a few UkoNazi fanatics fight on.

    ‘Nice.’

    #132674
    zerosum
    Participant

    Rigged election!!!!!?????
    What voters want.
    What voters don’t want.
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