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Piet Mondriaan Composition No. 10 1939-42

 

Western Minority’s Place In a Multilateral World (Sputnik)
No One Authorised The West To Speak On Behalf Of All Mankind – Lavrov (Pravda)
Biden Prepares For Ukraine Failure – Politico (RT)
Ukrainian Commander Laments State Of Army – El Pais (RT)
Ukraine Gets Afghan-Style Warning From US – Politico (RT)
US Had Secret Plan To Kill Wagner PMC Commanders – WaPo (RT)
US Talked Ukraine Out Of Attacking Russia – WaPo (RT)
The Green Party Has Turned Germany Eastern European (Lukyanov)
Germany’s Green Energy Delusion And Its Environmental, Economic Price Tag (RMX)
Warsaw Slams German Stance On Ukraine’s NATO Bid (RT)
Russia And Ukraine Still Trading With Each Other Is Crazy – Seymour Hersh (RT)
Elderly Politicians Threaten US System’s Ability To Perform (Blankenship)
The United States of Paralysis (Chris Hedges)
Protesters to be Prosecuted for Flipping Off the French President (Turley)
Big Lies and Bigger Lies (Kunstler)
The Sanctions Boomerang: Why Trade Bans Backfire (Kneissl)
Antony Blinken and the ‘Made Men’ of the Biden Administration (Turley)

 

 

 

 

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“Washington and its allies have abandoned diplomacy and demanded a battlefield showdown within the halls of the UN, created to prevent the horrors of war..”

Western Minority’s Place In a Multilateral World (Sputnik)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired Monday’s session of the UN Security Council, dedicated to “effective multilateralism.” In his opening remarks, he outlined the nature of the current conflict, which he said was really between the UN Charter and the “rules-based order” of the collective West. Lavrov also noted that the US had effectively denied visas to his accredited media pool, a move to which Moscow has vowed to respond in such a way “to make Americans remember that things should not be done in such a fashion.” The UN-centric system is going through a deep crisis caused by some members’ desire to replace international law with their “rules-based order,” Lavrov said. Such “rules” are invented ad hoc and applied to stop independent development. They are enforced through means ranging from military force to embargoes, financial sanctions, confiscation of property, “destruction of critical infrastructure” – likely a reference to Nord Stream sabotage – and “manipulation of universally agreed norms and procedures.” The WTO has been paralyzed, market mechanisms have collapsed, and the IMF has been turned into “an instrument for achieving the objectives of the US and its allies.”

“In a desperate attempt to assert its dominance by punishing the disobedient, the US has moved to destroy globalization, which for many years it extolled as the greatest good of all mankind,” said the Russian foreign minister. Now the US and its allies blacklist anyone who dissents from their “golden billion” and tell the rest of the world, “those who are not with us are against us.” Yet the “Western minority” has no right to speak for the entire world, Lavrov said. Its “rules-based order” amounts to rejection of sovereign equality, the key principle of the UN Charter, as evidenced by EU commissioner Josep Borrell’s infamous statement about the European “garden” and the “jungle” outside it. In addition to the string of US military “adventures” from Yugoslavia and Iraq to Libya, the worst violation of the UN Charter was its meddling in the affairs of post-Soviet states, Lavrov said. As examples, he brought up the “color revolutions” in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan and the 2014 coup in Kiev. When the UN sought to stop the ensuing war by endorsing the Minsk Agreements, they were “trampled by Kiev and its Western masters, who recently cynically and even proudly admitted that they never intended to fulfill them, but only wanted to buy time to pump Ukraine with weapons against Russia,” the Russian foreign minister added.

Today “it is clear to everyone” that the Ukraine conflict isn’t about Ukraine at all, but “about how international relations will be built: through crafting a stable consensus based on a balance of interests, or through aggressive and explosive promotion of hegemony,” Lavrov said. Russia has “honestly said what we are fighting for” in Ukraine, he added. The goals of its military operation are to eliminate the threat to its security posed by NATO, and protect the people whose rights recognized by international conventions have been systematically violated, by a regime that seeks to “expel and exterminate” them. The West has made a “brazen attempt to subjugate” the UN by taking over its secretariats and other international institutions, Lavrov told the Security Council. Washington and its allies have abandoned diplomacy and demanded a battlefield showdown within the halls of the UN, created to prevent the horrors of war. Genuine multilateralism “requires the UN to adapt to objective trends” of emerging multipolarity in international relations, the Russian foreign minister argued. The Security Council should be reformed to increase the representation of Africa, Asia and Latin America, as the current “exorbitant overrepresentation” of the West “undermines the principle of multilateralism.”

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“The Western minority should respect other members of the world community..”

No One Authorised The West To Speak On Behalf Of All Mankind – Lavrov (Pravda)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Kyiv could not represent residents of the Donbass after the 2014 coup. “Obviously, the Nazi Kiev regime cannot in any way be considered as a regime to represent residents of the territories who refused to accept the results of the bloody coup in February 2014 and against whom the putschists unleashed a war for that,” the minister said. Lavrov drew a comparison between Donbass residents and Kosovo Serbs, whom current Kosovo authorities can not represent. According to Lavrov, the European Union promised autonomy to the Serbs similarly to how Berlin and Paris promised a special status to the Donbass. The Western minority should respect other members of the world community, Sergei Lavrov also said speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York.


“I want to address all the journalists who are now covering the meeting. Your colleagues from the Russian media were not allowed here, as the US Embassy in Moscow mockingly announced its readiness to issue them passports with visas at the time when our plane took off,” Lavrov said. The US Embassy in Moscow announced that visas for Russian journalists were ready after the plane of the Russian delegation took off. No one authorised the West to speak on behalf of all mankind, Lavrov said. Lavrov also said that the activities of the OSCE and the UN were a threat to USA’s global ambitions. “As then US Secretary of State Jim Baker told [President] George W. Bush: “The main threat to NATO is the OSCE,” Lavrov said. The Russian Foreign Minister arrived in New York on Monday, April 24. For the next two days, he will chair the meetings of the UN Security Council. Most of the Russian delegation received US visas to participate in the events, while some members were denied permits.

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Narrative shift.

Biden Prepares For Ukraine Failure – Politico (RT)

US President Joe Biden’s administration is “quietly preparing for the possibility” that Ukraine’s much-heralded offensive doesn’t deliver the “total victory” Kiev wanted, Politico reported on Monday, citing several anonymous officials. While the US government’s public support for Ukraine is “unwavering,” officials have expressed fears in private that the White House could be caught in a crossfire of criticism should the attack fall short of expectations, the outlet said. The ‘hawks’ would claim the US and its allies had not given Ukraine enough weapons and ammunition, while the ‘doves’ would see it as proof that Kiev can’t win. “If Ukraine can’t gain dramatically on the battlefield, the question inevitably arises as to whether it is time for a negotiated stop to the fighting,” Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told Politico.

“It’s expensive, we’re running low on munitions, we’ve got other contingencies around the world to prepare for.” One official, who requested anonymity, said the US had “surged” weapons and equipment to Ukraine and “nearly completed” all that Kiev had asked for. But behind closed doors, the US is “worried about what Ukraine can accomplish.” The US military believes the conflict has bogged down in a trench war, with neither side able to advance very far or very fast. Politico originally reported that Ukraine had suffered 100,000 troops killed, but later changed that to refer to total casualties, including the wounded. The outlet also noted that Kiev’s forces have gone through “historic amounts of ammunition and weaponry,” and that “even the West’s prodigious output” has been unable to meet their needs.

The Pentagon now doubts that Ukraine can achieve its objective of reaching Crimea, though the US military still hopes it could “hamper” the Russian supply lines. A negotiated truce would be sold to both the Western and Ukrainian public as a temporary ceasefire, “leaving the door open for Ukraine to regain more of its territory at a future date,” some US officials told Politico. This has been done before, with the 2015 Minsk Agreement – according to recent admissions by the German and French leaders at the time – though the outlet did not bring that up. US officials also proposed to sweeten the deal with “NATO-like security guarantees” to Kiev, more money from the EU, and even more weapons for the Ukrainian military, while “re-engaging China” to push Russia into negotiating.

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“Professional soldiers… are already exhausted, injured or recovering. Or… dead..”

Ukrainian Commander Laments State Of Army – El Pais (RT)

Kiev needs more troops, ammunition and equipment to continue its military conflict with Moscow, Ukrainian Brigadier General Sergey Melnik told Spain’s El Pais in an interview published on Monday. Ukraine has already lost most of its professional soldiers as the conflict drags on, he admitted. “The problem is that we have a lack of people and equipment,” said the general, who commands troops near the Russian border in Kharkov Region. “Professional soldiers… are already exhausted, injured or recovering. Or… dead,” he added. Melnik said Kiev is now relying on “people without military experience,” who first need to be trained and have an “adequate [level of] preparation to face the enemy.”

According to El Pais, the general also “stressed several times during the interview” that Ukraine needs more air-defense systems, citing the threat posed by Russian aircraft. He also admitted that Kiev’s forces would need to gain massive superiority in manpower and firepower if they are to have any hope of succeeding with a planned counteroffensive. Ukraine will need “four to six times” as many troops as Moscow has fielded in its ongoing military campaign if it is to break through the defenses built by the Russian forces in their current positions, he told El Pais. He claimed that Ukraine has “enough weapons” to launch the expected offensive but said the more weapons Kiev’s troops get from the West, the better.

Earlier in April, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal told The Hill that the much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive may not get underway until summer. He also called on Kiev’s Western backers to provide it with more weapons, including fighter jets. He also said Ukraine needed “more artillery, ammunition” and missiles. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times reported that the US and other Western nations are struggling to meet Ukraine’s demands and are “falling short” of supplying Kiev with enough military equipment and ammunition. A retired US Army colonel and former Pentagon adviser, Douglas Macgregor, also said this month that Russia was “winning” the fight in Ukraine as Kiev does not have enough resources for a successful offensive.

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“The warning came in the context of US fears that the “ever-imminent counteroffensive” by Kiev’s forces might fall far short of expectations..”

Ukraine Gets Afghan-Style Warning From US – Politico (RT)

The White House has given Ukraine the same warning delivered to the US-backed regime in Afghanistan in 2021, Politico reported on Monday citing anonymous sources in President Joe Biden’s administration. According to the outlet, Washington has urged Kiev not to spread its troops too thin or overextend its ambitions. This is what Biden reportedly told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at some point, before the US pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban took over the country. The warning came in the context of US fears that the “ever-imminent counteroffensive” by Kiev’s forces might fall far short of expectations, leaving Biden open to criticism from both hawks and doves, at home and in Europe. Politico originally reported that Ukraine had suffered 100,000 troops killed over the past 14 months, later editing that to refer to total casualties, including the wounded and missing.

Many of Kiev’s top soldiers were “either sidelined or exhausted,” the outlet said, having gone through “historic amounts” of weapons and ammunition even the West’s “prodigious output” could not keep pace with. Some US officials have reportedly pitched the idea of a negotiated ceasefire, leaving the door open for Kiev to resume hostilities after rearming and recovering. The US was supposed to leave Afghanistan by May 2021, according to a peace deal Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump had reached with the Taliban. Biden unilaterally delayed the departure by several months. As US troops began to withdraw, both Biden and his aides repeatedly told reporters that the Afghan government’s forces were capable of holding off the Taliban for at least several months.

Earlier this month, the White House released a report tacitly admitting a lot of things had gone wrong with the withdrawal, but blaming it all on Trump and the Afghans themselves. “No agency predicted a Taliban takeover in nine days,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. “No agency predicted the rapid fleeing of President [Ashraf] Ghani … And no agency predicted that the more than 300,000 trained and equipped Afghan national security and defense forces would fail to fight for their country, especially after 20 years of American support.” The US-armed and -funded Afghan army had surrendered to the Taliban without much of a fight, and Kabul fell on August 15, before the US managed to finish the evacuation.

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In Africa.

US Had Secret Plan To Kill Wagner PMC Commanders – WaPo (RT)

US officials considered killing military leaders of the Russian private military company Wagner in an attempt to curb its allegedly growing influence in Africa, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. A document allegedly leaked by a US guardsman on a Discord server mentions dozens of options for “coordinated US and allied disruption efforts” against Wagner, including “kinetic” ones, the newspaper reported. The US also thought about providing information to help Ukraine kill commanders of the group in Africa, the document claims. The trove of documents showed little evidence that the CIA, the Pentagon and other US agencies have caused any major setbacks for Wagner in the past six years, according to the Post. They did mention a single “successful unattributed attack in Libya” that “destroyed a Wagner logistics aircraft,” but the newspaper didn’t provide details about the operation.

Western nations have long accused the Wagner group of spreading malign influence in Africa. Its head, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, has described the services provided by his employees as furthering the anti-colonialist aspirations of African nations. Anas El Gomati, a Libya-based commentator interviewed by the Post for its story, claimed that Wagner was “probably the most destabilizing actor” currently operating in the country. Libya was one of the most prosperous nations on the continent, before a NATO-backed uprising against Muammar Gaddafi resulted in his brutal death in 2011. The country has since been fractured among warring factions. Another leaks-based story published by the Post on Monday pointed the finger at Ukraine’s military intelligence service GUR and its head, Kirill Budanov, as the would-be attackers against Wagner in Africa. The Ukrainian agency planned such an operation in Mali, an NSA document reportedly said.

The Post described Budanov as “an ambitious 37-year-old general and rising star in the Ukrainian military,” for whom US and European officials privately express “admiration” and whose “audacity sometimes makes them nervous.” Russia accused GUR of masterminding the attack on the Crimean Bridge last October. The powerful explosion killed the seemingly unwitting driver of a truck – carrying a disguised bomb as well as a couple in a car – which happened to be nearby when the device went off. Moscow has also blamed Ukrainian special services for the bomb assassinations of journalist Darya Dugina in August 2022 and military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky earlier this month. Behind closed doors, Washington is holding Kiev responsible for the first crime, according to US media outlets.

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“..the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate (HUR), Kirill Budanov, had instructed subordinates to “get ready for mass strikes on 24 February..”

US Talked Ukraine Out Of Attacking Russia – WaPo (RT)

Ukraine was planning a series of strikes on targets deep inside Russia, including Moscow, to mark the anniversary of the start of the conflict earlier this year but was talked out of the idea after late intervention by the US, the Washington Post has claimed. The outlet also cited unnamed Ukrainian officials as acknowledging that Washington has the final say in at least some of Kiev’s military operations. The Post alleged on Monday, citing leaked Pentagon documents, that the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate (HUR), Kirill Budanov, had instructed subordinates to “get ready for mass strikes on 24 February” on several Russian cities. However, US officials were“secretly monitoring” Kiev’s plans and were concerned that Russia could unleash a devastating response, potentially including the use of tactical nuclear weapons, the paper claimed.

According to the Post, the CIA issued a classified report on February 22 stating that the Ukrainian intelligence agency “had agreed, at Washington’s request, to postpone strikes.” “Ukrainian officials have long privately said that the United States has de facto control over some military operations,” the paper added. One example is said to be that Kiev’s forces will not use advanced US-provided rocket systems without first confirming their targets with “US military personnel from a base in Europe.” The newspaper stated it was unclear which US officials exactly had intervened to stop the planned anniversary attacks, but noted that Washington had ordered its citizens to leave Russia in mid-February, indicating that the US was taking Ukraine’s alleged plans seriously.

Earlier this month, the FBI arrested 21-year-old US Air National Guard Jack Teixeira, who is suspected of posting classified Pentagon materials on at least one closed group on the Discord social media platform. While the Pentagon has neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the leaked documents, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said that the materials had “no business” being “on the front pages of newspapers or on television.” On Sunday, an explosives-laden drone was found some 30km to the east of Moscow after apparently crashing. Several Russian media outlets claimed that the UAV was of Ukrainian design, and was carrying Canadian-made block demolition charges.

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“Add to this the fact that Berlin is becoming the main center of the Russian anti-Kremlin diaspora, for both objective and subjective reasons, and you have a perfect picture of a 180-degree turn. Or, to use the Greens Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock’s own terminology, 360 degrees.”

The Green Party Has Turned Germany Eastern European (Lukyanov)

For decades, Germany has been an example of pragmatism within a common system, where Berlin (and previously Bonn) didn’t set the rules, but was left with an undeniable niche, in which it could pursue its own interests. That meant that despite being an ally of the US, it could maintain friendly relations with Moscow. The country is now moving into a qualitatively different area – that of Russia’s main opponent. As a chronicler of such processes, it is interesting to observe how quickly a transition can take place from one type of “special relationship” to another, diametrically opposed, stance.= The general tone in the political atmosphere is now set by the Greens, and this party has, from the outset, been a collection of more or less lofty like-minded moralists.

Therefore, in the spectrum of positions on Russia in NATO Europe, which are almost entirely negative but vary in intensity, Germany has now moved as much towards a conventional Eastern European stance as it had previously been a pillar of the normal Western European positioning. The guarantee that relations with Russia will not return to any kind of normalcy after the Ukraine war means that there will not be even the minimum conditions for a return to the old economic model, i.e. there won’t be any reverse in the “energy transition.” The general Western system remains intact, but there is a fundamental difference from earlier times. In the past, in return for ceding all security rights and privileges to its senior partner, the US, Germany was allowed to operate its own commercial sphere of influence and it had permission to pursue economic expansion to the East.

Now, in exchange for Washington’s promise to maintain the security umbrella, Berlin is prepared to abandon its previous understanding of pragmatism, radically change its economic system in a direction that suits the US, and take on a greater share of the military burden. As a result, efforts to educate the German elite in the principles of unconditional Atlanticism, in which enormous effort has been invested for decades, are now paying off 200%. Add to this the fact that Berlin is becoming the main center of the Russian anti-Kremlin diaspora, for both objective and subjective reasons, and you have a perfect picture of a 180-degree turn. Or, to use the Greens Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock’s own terminology, 360 degrees.

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“..it is impossible to supply the economy with gas or oil, or even to heat houses and apartments, with ideology or political statements instead of actual supply chains.”

Germany’s Green Energy Delusion And Its Environmental, Economic Price Tag (RMX)

For a long time, nuclear energy has been one of the most divisive areas of energy policy in the EU’s supply. The technology offers stable energy supplies and has positive environmental and economic indicators, but the radical Green parties of Europe have worked hard to convince many that these plants should be closed. This has been achieved mainly in Germany and Austria. Downsizing has begun and further investment has become impossible. Reality, however, has shown that this ideology-driven energy policy comes at a heavy price. It was not by chance that energy policy expert Oliver Hortay recently recalled an estimate by a Berkeley University researcher that the social cost of German nuclear plant closures had already reached $12 billion a year. The threat of energy shortages in Europe has led to a change in the perception of nuclear power among EU citizens. In Germany, for example, the percentage of people who oppose nuclear power has fallen from 65 to 20 percent. But it seems that the will of the electorate does not matter.

“It’s a black day for climate protection in Germany,” Jens Spahn, a conservative member of the CDU, told RTL television the other day. It is hard to talk about a green transition when carbon emissions are rising. The huge expansion of solar and wind capacity in Germany is no guarantee of security of supply. The country is increasingly using coal instead of Russian gas. In fact, mines that had previously been closed down have had to be reopened, and a German energy company has even started to dismantle a wind farm to allow for the expansion of a neighboring coal mine. On average, 30,000 tons of coal are transported daily by trains from North Sea ports to large power stations across Germany. Last year, the war caused the country to increase its coal imports by 8 percent to 44.4 million tons. These are the hard facts.

The Greens went after gas boilers, too. They will now be banned in German homes from 2024. Greens say they cannot meet their climate commitments otherwise. However, it is coal-fired power stations, not residential gas boilers, that threaten climate targets. Péter Szijjártó, the Hungarian minister of foreign affairs and trade, often warns that it is impossible to supply the economy with gas or oil, or even to heat houses and apartments, with ideology or political statements instead of actual supply chains. In other words, the Hungarian government continues to treat energy security as a physical and not an ideological issue. That means it is not willing to give up working, proven and reliable sources. An ideology-driven energy policy is very expensive, has harmful consequences, and in the future, could even end with us freezing in our homes if an especially cold winter hits Europe.

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“..The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine could have been avoided altogether if Germany hadn’t tried to delay Kiev’s membership of NATO..”

Warsaw Slams German Stance On Ukraine’s NATO Bid (RT)

The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine could have been avoided altogether if Germany hadn’t tried to delay Kiev’s membership of NATO, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Piotr Wawrzyk has claimed. “It’s known that France, Germany, and countries in Western Europe, in general, have always been against Ukraine joining either the EU or NATO,” Wawrzyk told Polskie Radio on Sunday. Recent comments by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius were a sign that Berlin’s opinion is unlikely to change, the diplomat insisted. Pistorius suggested on Thursday that “this is not the time to decide”about Ukraine’s place in NATO. The bloc’s members should consider this issue “with a cool head and a hot heart. Not the other way around,” he said.

“The question is when will the time for those ‘cool heads’ arrive? Five, ten or 30 years after the war [in Ukraine]?” Wawrzyk asked. “If Germany… had not tried to delay Ukraine’s accession into NATO, if Ukraine had received an invitation to join the alliance many years ago in Munich, there wouldn’t have been a war in Ukraine today,” he claimed. Warsaw, which has been among Kiev’s main backers in the EU during the conflict, is “constantly trying to convince the Western partners to change their minds and for Ukraine to join the alliance as soon as possible,” the deputy foreign minister said. “In our opinion, the sooner this happens, the better, because it’ll be a guarantee of security not only for Ukraine and Poland, but also for the entire region,” he said.

Russia, which considers NATO’s eastward expansion a major security threat, had singled out the need to prevent Ukraine from joining the US-led bloc among the main reasons for its military operation in its neighboring country more than a year ago. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg claimed during his visit to Kiev last week that “all NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member,” but didn’t specify when exactly it would happen. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov reacted to Stoltenberg’s statement by saying “NATO’s continued line of absorbing and drawing Ukraine” into the bloc was further proof that Moscow’s decision to launch its military operation was the right one.

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“I don’t know [whether] I should be giggling about it because it’s really quite a crazy situation..”

Russia And Ukraine Still Trading With Each Other Is Crazy – Seymour Hersh (RT)

Russia and Ukraine, despite being locked in an armed conflict, continue to trade products and services with each other, a situation that journalist Seymour Hersh described as “quite crazy” in an interview with the TV show ‘Going Underground.’ “Oil and money transcends any sort of rationality, I guess,” Hersh said in the interview aired by RT on Monday. He added that it wasn’t too hard to find tell-tale signs of Ukrainian corruption. Hersh elaborated on his recent allegations of rampant graft in the Ukrainian government. The reporter has claimed that the CIA estimated that President Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage embezzled at least $400 million last year from the money provided by the US to buy diesel for the Ukrainian army. Overpriced fuel bought by Kiev allegedly came via the black market from Russia.

“All you have to do is look at the high life in Kiev today,” he said. “There is a really good high life: the fancy restaurants are going, you can find liquor stores with everything in it, there is a lot of money being pushed around.” Ukrainian officials have a long history of skimming from procurement contracts, and the conflict with Russia has not changed that, Hersh alleged. “Everybody is going to brokers. Everybody is now getting third parties involved, because it increases the chance for money on the side. And the corruption there is beyond belief,” he said. CIA Director William Burns raised the issue of corruption during his visit to Kiev in January, Hersh said, citing information he had been given by a source about the meeting. In addition to briefing Zelensky on complaints from Ukrainian generals about the president’s own alleged greed, the US spy chief listed 35 other alleged embezzlers.

The Ukrainian leader later fired 10 of the “most ostentatious” individuals, but others were “left untouched”, Hersh said, describing the crackdown on officials which the Ukrainian government conducted after Burns’ visit. Meanwhile, Russia continues to pay to Ukraine transit fees for oil and gas, pumped to Eastern Europe via pipelines through Ukrainian territory. The infrastructure was built during the Soviet era to supply consumers in the Warsaw Pact. Washington has described such trade as Moscow “weaponizing” its abundance of energy, Hersh noted. “I don’t know [whether] I should be giggling about it because it’s really quite a crazy situation,” he concluded.

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“..President Biden cannot confirm any federal judges without all Democratic Party Senators present on the Judiciary Committee including Feinstein..” “She has missed 58 votes, as of writing this piece, in the Senate over the last month..”

Elderly Politicians Threaten US System’s Ability To Perform (Blankenship)

In October of 1984, former US President Ronald Reagan, who was then an incumbent 73-year-old commander-in-chief, participated in the second presidential debate against his Democratic Party opponent Walter Mondale. The president was asked about his age and mental fitness for office by the moderator, given that he was then the oldest president in history, and responded famously: “I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” This witty line, according to the Reagan Foundation, boosted his polls and helped cement his second term in office. It also helped normalize the fact that an American president could indeed be an elderly person, though, of course, it was revealed later that President Reagan suffered from Alzheimer’s disease during his presidency.

Donald Trump, and current President Joe Biden were both respectively the oldest presidents in American history. In fact, Biden is the first president to be 80 years old – and he recently stated that he would seek reelection in 2024, which would make him 86 by the time he completes his second term, if he wins that bid. However, the issue of an aging and perhaps out-of-touch president has not been simply an issue with the executive branch of government. In fact, the last Congress convened, the 117th Congress, was the oldest in American history with an average age of 59 and close to a quarter over 70. It was led by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who was 82 years old by the time she left office in January 2023. The current 118th Congress is the third-oldest since 1789 with an average of 58 years old.

While the 117th Congress broke the trend of an increasingly greater share of members over the age of 70 years old, still, the 118th Congress is older than the average American – the median age of the country’s population is 38. This is even with the election of the first Gen Z member of congress, 26-year-old Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost, who won his seat last November. All this raises questions over whether or not Congress can actually understand and tackle issues that are relevant to the typical American, i.e. people in their early middle age, and younger generations. There are also questions of whether there should be some age limit for members to actually be in Congress. After all, many argue, if there is a limit on young people and children participating in politics – shouldn’t there be an upper-age ceiling too?

It has been reported by Congressional insiders, including pharmacists, that the public would be surprised if they knew just how many of their representatives are prescribed medicine for dementia, which implies they are obviously not able to perform their mandate. The example of 89-year-old California Senator Dianne Feinstein is salient. She has missed 58 votes, as of writing this piece, in the Senate over the last month because of illness and her advanced age. Because of the current composition of the Senate, President Biden cannot confirm any federal judges without all Democratic Party Senators present on the Judiciary Committee including Feinstein, which is jeopardizing the function of the judiciary branch. She has not given any indication of when she will return – but has stated she will not seek reelection.

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“Those cast aside can participate in society, he writes, only through sadness.”..

The United States of Paralysis (Chris Hedges)

Democracies are slain with false promises and hollow platitudes. Biden told us as a candidate he would raise the minimum wage to $15 and hand out $2,000 stimulus checks. He told us his American Jobs Plan would create “millions of good jobs.” He told us he would strengthen collective bargaining and ensure universal pre-kindergarten, universal paid family and medical leave, and free community college. He promised a publicly funded option for healthcare. He promised not to drill on federal lands and to promote a “green energy revolution and environmental justice.” None of that happened. But, by now, most people have figured out the game. Why not vote for Trump and his grandiose, fantasy-driven promises? Are they any less real than those peddled by Biden and the Democrats? Why pay homage to a political system that is about betrayal?

Why not sever yourself from the rational world that has only brought misery? Why pay fealty to old truths that have become hypocritical banalities? Why not blow the whole thing up? As research by professors Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page underscores, our political system has turned the consent of the governed into a cruel joke. “The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence,” they write. The French sociologist Emile Durkheim in his book “On Suicide” called our state of hopelessness and despair, anomie, which he defined as “rulelessness.”

Rulelessness means the rules that govern a society and create a sense of organic solidarity no longer function. It means that the rules we are taught — hard work and honesty will assure us a place in society; we live in a meritocracy; we are free; our opinions and votes matter; our government protects our interests — are a lie. Of course, if you are poor, or a person of color, these rules were always a myth, but a majority of the American public was once able to find a secure place in society, which is the bulwark of any democracy, as numerous political theorists going back to Aristotle point out. Tens of millions of Americans, cast adrift by deindustrialization, understand that their lives will not improve, nor will the lives of their children. Society, as Durkheim writes, is no longer “sufficiently present” for them. Those cast aside can participate in society, he writes, only through sadness.

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I can totally see Napoleon do that.

Protesters to be Prosecuted for Flipping Off the French President (Turley)

Five years ago, I wrote a column criticizing Democratic and Republican members of Congress who joined the media in gushing over an address from French President Emmanuel Macron as he called for European style censorship. Free speech has been in a virtual free fall in France for decades and Macron is a major voice in that movement. This week, the French added another outrage to Macron’s legacy by promising to prosecute three citizens who protested the President by flipping him off at an event. The use of “Le Doigt” could now land them in “La Prison.” The three will be prosecuted under France’s abusive criminal code that allows for the arrest of those who engage in speech that “affect the personal dignity or the respect owed to a public official.” It is a breathtaking denial of political speech and invites selective prosecution.

If convicted, they could face a fine of 15,000 euros and potentially up to one year in prison, according to La Chaîne Info. Macron has hit a record low in polling, but his government will now enforce respect for him through threats of incarceration. France has been a leader in the rollback on free speech in the West with ever widening laws curtailing free speech. These laws criminalize speech under vague standards referring to “inciting” or “intimidating” others based on race or religion. For example, fashion designer John Galliano has been found guilty in a French court on charges of making anti-Semitic comments against at least three people in a Paris bar. At his sentencing, Judge Anne Marie Sauteraud read out a list of the bad words used by Galliano to Geraldine Bloch and Philippe Virgitti, including using ‘dirty whore” in criticism.

In another case, the father of French conservative presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was fined because he had called people from the Roma minority “smelly.” A French mother was prosecuted because her son went to school with a shirt reading “I am a bomb.” A French teenager was charged for criticizing Islam as a “religion of hate.” Yet, our leaders (and many in the media) were ecstatic when Macron came to the Congress and called for a joint war against “fake news,” declaring, “Democracy is about true choices and rational decisions. The corruption of information is an attempt to corrode the very spirit of our democracies.” Nothing says Democracy like jailing those who do not show you respect.

The anti-free speech wave has now reached our own shores and many like Hillary Clinton have even called on Europeans to censor Americans on social media if Twitter or other companies fail to do so. Many have argued (falsely) that hate speech is not protected under our Constitution, including members of Congress. In France, the middle finger is not free speech when directed at a public official. Likewise, speech considered harmful or disrespectful to particular groups is barred. It is all about instilling good virtue but punishing the wicked. After all, as Maximilien Robespierre taught the French, “Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue.”

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“Joe Biden” will either be impeached for real high crimes and misdemeanors, or he will be bum-rushed out of the White House on some medical pretext before Independence Day..”

Big Lies and Bigger Lies (Kunstler)

“If you’re going to lie,” Joseph Goebbels used to say (in German of course), “make it a whopper.” How did that work out for the Third Reich? Today, The New York Times says “Joe Biden” is revving up to run for president again in 2024. Is that so? One DNC strategist, Maria Cardona, was quoted saying, “Democrats complain that he might be too old. But then, when they’re asked, ‘Well, who?’ There is no one else.” There you have the sucking chest wound at the center of the Democratic Party, a malodorous vacuum where, as they like to say, democracy dies in darkness. You understand, this is exactly what you get when all you do is tell lies, always and everywhere, about everything. Now I will tell you the truth: “Joe Biden” will not be running for president ever again.

“Joe Biden” will either be impeached for real high crimes and misdemeanors, or he will be bum-rushed out of the White House on some medical pretext before Independence Day. “Joe Biden’s” crimes have finally caught up with him. He sold out his country. The facts have been out in plain sight since before a coalition of rogues and frauds stuffed him into the Oval Office, January, 2021. As vice-president under Mr. Obama, “JB” was allowed to run a global grifting operation that netted his family tens of millions. (Mr. Obama received plenty of his own sanitized grift in the form of absurdly large book deals and TV contracts, enough swag to lead the deluxe life of a senior panjandrum. His job, post-presidency, was to feed the Woke hustle with an occasional speech and otherwise shut up.)

The coalition of rogues and frauds, a.k.a. the permanent bureaucracy or the Deep State, had committed so many crimes since 2016 that its sole agenda turned to driving the one-man wrecking-crew called Donald Trump out of office and making sure he never got close to a lever of power again, by any means necessary. That is still all that animates this gang. They managed to roll enough of the American public in the process to maintain power and influence over them via control of the news, censorship, and use of their captive legal system to harass and punish their enemies. And now it’s all falling apart.

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Karin Kneissl is an Austrian former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

“..every government from Riyadh to Beijing understood that such sanctions can happen to them as well..”

The Sanctions Boomerang: Why Trade Bans Backfire (Kneissl)

Although sanctions rarely perform as intended, the west’s weaponization of currencies, financial services, and insurance coverage continues to grow unabated, with the EU now proposing its eleventh package of sanctions against Russia. With every sanctions ruling, loopholes and circumvention remain an issue, invariably leading to the constant upgrading of further sanctions. Despite Washington’s extreme belligerence on this front, many US companies have remained in Russia to hedge their bets and observe the local market, including analytical services such as Platts, which provides data on the energy market. British Petroleum remains a shareholder in Russian energy giant Rosneft – albeit without exercising its vote – and spare parts for German cars in Russia are still traded via third states.

As seen in the recent Moscow visit of China’s new Defense Minister Li Shangfu to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, sanctions often boomerang on those who create them. In this case, they have brought two major US adversary states into an effective alliance. Economists Patricia Adams and Lawrence Adams recently penned an article for the American Thinker in which they define the west’s sweeping sanctions on Russia as “the most monumental miscalculation in modern history.” The IMF has raised its forecast for Russia’s economy substantially for the third time in a row – despite sanctions and a slew of other western ‘punishments,’ Russia is expected to see positive growth in both 2023 and 2024. In addition, an unprecedented global trend toward de-dollarization is having a significant impact on energy trades that have long been conducted in the petrodollar, with geopolitical ramifications across West Asia and beyond.

Instead, the petro-yuan is gradually shifting into sight – witnessed this year with the French multinational TotalEnergies’ sale of an Emirati liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to China National Offshore Oil Corp, with payment settled in yuan through the Shanghai Petroleum & Gas Exchange (SHPGX). When the US and its allies blocked access by most Russian banks to the Belgium-based global financial messaging system, SWIFT, and froze some $300 billion in Russian foreign exchange reserves, every government from Riyadh to Beijing understood that such sanctions can happen to them as well. This realization has prompted many countries to take action to decrease their vulnerability to sanctions, with China creating a new financial infrastructure outside US control and pushing for commodity suppliers to short-circuit the dollar. The establishment of a BRICS bank as a counterweight to the IMF is just one more step in that direction.

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“..many people are less interested in what Blinken is doing as secretary of state than in what he did to become secretary of state..”

Antony Blinken and the ‘Made Men’ of the Biden Administration (Turley)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken would really, really prefer to talk about grain in Ukraine this week. But many people are less interested in what Blinken is doing as secretary of state than in what he did to become secretary of state. This week, Blinken was implicated in a political coverup that could well have made the difference in the 2020 election. According to the sworn testimony of former acting CIA Director Michael Morrell, Blinken – then a high-ranking Biden campaign official – was “the impetus” of the false claim that the Hunter Biden laptop story was really Russian disinformation. Morrell then organized dozens of ex-national security officials to sign the letter claiming that the Hunter laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Morrell further admitted that the Biden campaign “helped to strategize about the public release of the statement.”

Finally, he admitted that one of his goals was not just to warn about Russian influence but “to help then-Vice President Biden in the debate and to assist him in winning the election.” Help it did. Biden claimed in a presidential debate that the laptop story was “garbage” and part of a “Russian plan.” Biden used the letter to say “nobody believes” that the laptop is real. In reality, the letter was part of a political plan with the direct involvement of his campaign, but Biden never revealed their involvement. Indeed, over years of controversy surrounding this debunked letter, no one in the Biden campaign or White House (including Blinken) revealed their involvement. Of course, the letter was all the media needed. Discussion of the laptop was blocked on social media, and virtually every major media outlet dismissed the story before the election.

That was also all Biden needed to win a close election. The allegations that the Biden family had cashed in millions through influence peddling could have made the difference. It never happened, in part because of Blinken’s work. Once in power, Blinken was given one of the top Cabinet positions. He was now one of the “made” men of the administration. He was not alone. The 2016 election was marred by false allegations of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. Unlike the influence peddling allegations made against Biden, the media ran with those stories for years. It later turned out that the funding and distribution of the infamous Steele dossier originated with the Clinton campaign. The campaign, however, reportedly lied in denying any such funding until after the election. It was later sanctioned for hiding the funding as legal expenses.

Those involved in spreading this false story were rewarded handsomely. For example, the second collusion story planted in the media by the campaign concerned the Russian Alfa Bank. The campaign used key Clinton aide Jake Sullivan, who went public with the entirely false claim of a secret back channel between Moscow and the Trump campaign. Sullivan was also a “made” man who was later made Biden’s national security adviser. Others who were implicated in either the Steele dossier or Alfa Bank hoaxes also later found jobs in the administration. The Brookings Institution proved a virtual turnstile for these political operatives.

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    Piet Mondriaan Composition No. 10 1939-42   • Western Minority’s Place In a Multilateral World (Sputnik) • No One Authorised The West To Speak On
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 25 2023]

    #134052
    Germ
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    Long after the UKR war is a distant memory we shall still have the death vaxx wrecked among us. And new diagnoses every day.

    Sad:
    https://twitter.com/unhealthytruth/status/1649559082062184451

    TVASF

    #134053
    Germ
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    #134054
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Fox News Stock is not nearly low enough. Not that today Tucker will take them out, but having no anchor and finally revealing their true purpose, Fox has no business model with no revenue plan. That will take them out with perfect certainty just as it did CNN. But they are religious zealots. Money means nothing to them, they will blow all the money on The Plan.

    Good.

    I’d short this, but it’s going to take a long, long time. Can I get a cheap option, dated years out?

    Ouch. Lavrov puts them on record and on notice. As they have good timing, I presume that means the UN is now going to cease to exist, but very slowly, like Fox News.

    “US President Joe Biden’s administration is “quietly preparing for the possibility” that Ukraine’s much-heralded offensive doesn’t deliver the “total victory”

    Um, since that was supposed to go to Moscow and topple Putin, I guess so. But they’ve been stopped on that for half a year, and all I see of their Heralded Offensive are Heralds. Not even one tank, not one busload of men.

    “Kiev needs more troops, ammunition and equipment to continue its military conflict with Moscow,”

    And I need a leprechaun to pop up and hand me a gold brick, but that’s not happening either. “The problem is that we have a lack of people and equipment,” he said. Yes, the problem IS that you have none of that, which is called “An Army.” But other than not having an army, you have no problems on the field and are going to win the war, right?

    Let me put it this way: — I – have as much army as Ukraine does right now. Or Britain. An Army I can IMAGINE, that’s only in my MIND. They feel this army – the entirely imaginary one – is quite real and can almost beat an actual army of men, with guns. WE, the West, the Media, then agree, participate, and ACT as if their imaginary army is real too. That is, We’re as or more psychotic than they are.

    Apparently that breaks when you’re shot in the head. The power goes out. Your kids die of hunger in Blackpool. Just kidding! Not then either.

    I think they should “Imagine” an invisible Force Field that protects all Ukraine that Russia can’t get through. That’ll fix it.

    “This is what Biden reportedly told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at some point, before the US pulled out

    The Anglos ALWAYS pull out. They ALWAYS betray all allies. Apparently world leaders are illiterate. And they always make it YOUR fault. Now he hasn’t pulled, but they arranged the charges so it’s their fault.

    “US loses last chance to destroy Russia – ex-British intelligence officer Alistair Crook”

    No, they had no chance, but they’re psychotic and deluded and EVEN IF any of their delusions had been true, they only barely would have won by causing Russia internal problems, dragging out their not-losing for another 10 years or something. Cheney was a psychotic, bloodthirsty maniac, but he wasn’t wrong. They should have nuked Russia in the late 90’s or the REAL, aka “non delusional” window would close. They didn’t, and it closed. Since 2000 – that is 20 years, a LIFETIME – Russia couldn’t have been defeated, really. But with dottering, delusional dinosaurs, all over 80, they can’t realize that.

    “• US Talked Ukraine Out Of Attacking Russia – WaPo (RT)

    That seems unlike them, and unlikely. I wonder why they would tell Ukraine NOT to fight? Was it because the last time they did they sent Kinzal missles to blow up an entire NATO base, with all generals inside? Maybe that?

    “• The Green Party Has Turned Germany Eastern European (Lukyanov)

    Well everyone knew that. They’re not unclear that they’re Democratic Socialists, who love authoritarian redistribution of wealth, to them. It’s always been this way, and has to be. What else COULD accomplish the change they see as necessary? When the whole world’s at stake, it’s only logical to take everything and kill everyone. Only a truly massive, tyrannical government can accomplish that.

    Which is why they mesh up with bloodthirsty maniacs. Maniacs start from the goal and work backwards: “How can I get normal, otherwise intelligent people to agree to their own certain death and ruination? What lies must I tell?” Then they go invent the lies and pay to sell them to, e.g. the Green Parties.

    ““..it is impossible to supply the economy with gas or oil, or even to heat houses and apartments, with ideology or political statements”

    As above they “Imagined” the supply chain. It’s more real than the real one, made by men going to “work”, and everyone also agrees with them. If you don’t see the imaginary food and feel the imaginary heat, that’s you, you must be crazy.

    “the radical Green parties of Europe have worked hard to convince many that these plants should be closed.”

    I agree they probably should be closed. But not until you come up with a solution to the power shortage. …Which is probably not too hard, actually. Given the lead time in question.

    In another way, this is a good example of what happens if you let foreign agents influence your policy with impunity: OBVIOUSLY they sap you to enrich themselves. And it’s not Russia toppling their elections. Klaus openly said he did.

    ““..The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine could have been avoided altogether if Germany hadn’t tried to delay Kiev’s membership of NATO..”

    Uh, whut? No, it would have caused an immediate WWIII, that’s why they didn’t do it. And as the article says, this only proves Russia was right and increases popular support.

    “CIA Director William Burns raised the issue of corruption during his visit to Kiev in January,”

    Shouldn’t he be impeached then? I thought even ASKING if Ukraine was corrupt was illegal in America. Asking for people to be investigated isn’t illegal when I do it.

    Elderly Politicians Threaten US System’s Ability To Perform (Blankenship)

    Yes, but it’s not their absence, it’s their presence. Like when they (constantly) think China is a rice paddy, Russia is the Soviet Union and the U.S. has a Navy like in 1962.

    “Democracies are slain with false promises and hollow platitudes.”

    I guess? But really they’re captured by oligarchs who become a titled nobility. And we’re not a Democracy.

    Of course, if you are poor, or a person of color, these rules were always a myth,”

    Really? That itself is a myth. Ask all the Jamaican or Chinese immigrants who retired well and whose kids are surgeons. Meanwhile rich people who are 5th generation white here live on meth. You know, like “W” and Hunter.

    These laws criminalize speech under vague standards referring to “inciting” or “intimidating”

    As here, as we have no Free Speech either. “Take to the streets” “Don’t let them rest in restaurants, anywhere.” — Maxine Waters. “Attack the illegitimate Supreme Court” – Chuck Shumer. “Arrest Tucker for violent felonies” – AOC.

    The “Rules Based Order” is “Do whatever you’re told.” That I just made up right now.

    “Joe Biden” will either be impeached for real high crimes and misdemeanors”

    Really? When? He’s 80 now and has been murdering people, framing them, human trafficking and selling out his country for 60 years. “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.” Wake me when the GOP lifts a finger. The DNC – Hunter specifically – called for the arrest of MTG. That’s FROM a guy who took bribes from Moscow and smokes crack while refusing child support payments and sells top secret docs while purchasing illegal handguns. Anything? No?

    “The Sanctions Boomerang: Why Trade Bans Backfire (Kneissl) “

    Because even in a perfect world of slavish obedience they reduce the use of the USD. In a debt-compounding system it’s never enough to KEEP using it. It has to be used at an ever-increasing RATE.

    “• Antony Blinken and the ‘Made Men’ of the Biden Administration (Turley)

    Again with the unfolding of lies. If you had caught them THEN, this would have been a scandal people couldn’t bear. Afterwards, it all fades, they’re grumpy but tolerant and psychos know it. They live in this world and must as they are mentally ill. The only thing they CAN do is proceed and learn the exploits that make normal people get along with them and give them things. In that case, hide the crime, lie, and let it reveal slowly so there’s no emotional break. No release. It’s the narcissist’s handbook. Why people tolerate it I have no idea, but presume because they’re criminals themselves who love lies, feel guilty, and have no self-worth.

    They constantly forgive and don’t prosecute known felonies when they come to light because it’s “too far”. That’s why we have DUTY. It’s your job to do so, even if it looks bad or you don’t feel like it. A felony was committed, so you must move forward. That’s not an option, that’s your oath of office. If you didn’t want me to fill my oath of office, why did you hire/appoint/elect me? For these guys, all law is a “living document” where you prosecute your enemies and overlook your friends, that is, “the law is in my mouth.” It doesn’t exist. It’s whatever I say it is, minute to minute.

    Alexander of the Duran zooms out and does a deep view of how we got here. It’s his opinion that Ukraine had all the plans after they were NATO trained, and back when they still had an army. You know they love their “Plans”. This was – because they can never give up a Plan, they have to dial the Insect-Aliens AI Overlord or whoever it is that gives them their Plans, and beg for another Plan, being incapable of creative thought themselves – to do as you see now, with 2, 3, 4 incursions all along the line, in Zap and Kherson, in order to get a big win, trap maybe 20,000 Russians on the West river, cut off the Crimean land bridge. They were indeed outnumbered and run too thin at that point, with no public support on the ground.

    However, Russia has fabulous personal Intel, as they are brother people, and if I were them, have no trouble mole-ing in to stop the war and save Ukraine from being erased. They absolutely have perfect military intel, with “U2” flyers and satellites, which is why they’ve been reduced to WWI tactics everywhere. As Ukraine massed for this, Russia called up their men, changed Generals, and withdrew across the Dneipr at Kherson, which is why the West made so much of it. Ukraine was then shelled all to h-ll in the West bank region. Zap and others went nowhere, as Ukraine sucks, (being NATO trained) and the line stalled, like WWI.

    That’s where we are today, with the addition of Russia having fortified heavily everywhere, and Ukraine having no men, no arms, no tanks, no trucks, no shells and no soldiers.

    You see, they wanted a new “Plan”, but there isn’t any, or none that will work. If Ukr couldn’t hit Russia at the height of their power, they certainly can’t when sapped for every weapon worldwide. Yet if NATO admits this, NATO falls, and as they keep saying, without the $1T in bank loans, European finance falls. The U.S. is demonstrated to be both a maniac and a loser and they fall, as indeed they already have externally with Saudi and sub-50% USD usage. So they hedged to hope “something comes to them” but it never does, not for gamblers nor for Generals. You can’t put it all on Red 9.

    So that’s why they still have the same “Plan” of Spring attack this time, not Fall, in the same places. It demonstrates their complete incapacity for thought. That’s why they ran the pre-written stories about how they Won in Kherson and Russia was on the ropes, bombshell, walls are closing in.

    Now my thought on that was about “Hollywood Thinking” as they call it. Putin is the Darth Star, and like a Stormtrooper, his job and duty is to fire widely, hit nothing, be the bad guy and lose. PewPew. It never occurred to this generation of armchair generals, who have more admirals than Naval Ships, that Russia COULD withdraw politely and re-deploy more intelligently. That seems to have confused them so profoundly they remain confused today. “But, but you’re supposed to LOSE! The Claw doesn’t defeat the Mutant Turtles! It’s his JOB to lose! You’re doing this all wrong!!!” (Petulant sulking)

    I dunno, why are the NATO/West so incapable of coming up with another plan – of any shape, kind or sort – given the whole spectrum of science, diplomacy, technology, tactics, negotiation, and war, played planetwide? That is to say: Who ARE these people? That they would even BE so incapable? When Kissinger himself told them so? Their careers have been capped, hated, suppressed, but surely there are 100 Kissingers hidden in the cabinets of all the nations worldwide?

    “If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Congress’s Motto.

    #134055
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Oh, Americans, yesterday? Yeah, you can find those people who don’t know the number “4”. But what’s common is the next level up, where they HAVE heard of Britain or the Revolutionary war but don’t specifically remember anything about it. You’d have to get up above the 80% zone to find anybody above that, who knows all 50 states and how the Supreme Court works, even in broad brush.

    Way WAY above 99% to get the slightest competency — like 10 people could talk intelligently on these things in a town of 6,000? Or zero people among the 6,000 at Harvard.

    Thanks “Common Core”. Education has dropped in a straight line since the Department of Education was founded, exactly as planned.

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    V. Arnold
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    Thanks “Common Core”. Education has dropped in a straight line since the Department of Education was founded, exactly as planned.

    Bingo! But it’s worse than you can imagine…
    The Underground History of American Education
    by John Taylor Gatto

    This has been going on since about 1853 in the U.S.
    Infantilization has been going on since 1853; and now we have the feminization of all male children too boot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    #134057
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • The Green Party Has Turned Germany Eastern European

    • Germany’s Green Energy Delusion And Its Environmental, Economic Price Tag

    • Warsaw Slams German Stance On Ukraine’s NATO Bid

    Three headlines about Germany explained, a picture is worth a thousand words

    A family that plays together, stays together

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    #134058
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Duh ya think?

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    #134059
    Oroboros
    Participant

    It’s too early in the morning to deal with the Pet Police®

    My college drinking buddies were known as “animal companions”

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    #134060
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Tucker I love you for saying all that. Yes maximum contempt for the puppet masters of media.

    #134061
    zerosum
    Participant

    I’m tired of your plan. I don’t want to play your game. I’m going home.

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    #134062

    #134063
    limeincoconut
    Participant

    Dr. D mentioned Alexander Mercouris of the Duran. He has a youtube channel where he publishes a daily comment. This could be the link where Alexander discusses his thoughts on the “Ukraine plan”

    https://youtu.be/lH_WIdKbpxc?t=2105

    #134064
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I was thinking about the Musk interview in which he, like Kurtzweil of 20 years ago, says that statistically, it seems all but certain that we are in a computational simulation.

    I thought, ok then, how would I understand such a simulation? Like the people in The Matrix looking at computer code on a green monochrome screen. It would be in the abstract. Not perceived, but apprehended. What’s common across ALL the subject matter posted on TAE and discussed here?

    So I racked my brain for awhile – a day or two, I’m not-a-vax-unemployed, after all – and came up with a common simple thing summing up what seems to be happening, overall, trendwise.

    I thought of recent trend, like calling pedos xyz-attracted, arguments for legalizing incest. Various other trends that offend virtue and reason, offend normal human life, nay, normal life of all kinds. In everything from small social spheres to geopolitics and infesting all culture, all economics. Life in the workplace. Life in the home. Life in public spaces virtual and real.

    A podcast from Sargon (Lotus Eaters) occurred to me in which he patiently explains for leftists why he DOESN’T want their “liberalization” of deconstructing, postmodernizing all his relationships, because all these people in his life are the things they are to him, and he values them as such. He does not want to break them all (*”sister,” “friend,” “woman,” and so on) down to a grey undifferentiated sludge. It makes things meaningless.

    If you look at it abstractly, it looks like digestion.

    That is, chemical bonds get broken in the process of releasing energy.

    In terms of abuse by Cluster-B Narc types, you’d look at their behaviors as continually breaking boundaries that people need to establish and maintain as part of existing as persons.

    Madonna’s entire career was about breaking boundaries, except for Borderline which was written by a jazz cat who was on Bitches Brew with Miles Davis, which why the chord changes are so nice. Imagined abstractly, the boundaries she broke were the bonds of a one time digestion of some sort of abstract meat. No one could take the same stuff and pass it through their own career/digestive tract a 2nd time after Madonna was through with it. Or the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – aside from digesting the artistic and aesthetic qualities of architecture – a one-time digestion – he certainly isn’t a special architect. You can build the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and it is wonderful to behold. Building a 2nd Daley Plaza does nothing or worse than nothing.

    Breaking definitions, distinctions, boundaries. Of behavior/thought/value/consensus reality. Like digestion breaking down chemical bonds.

    The resulting Grey Sludge is what, a goal? Waste product?

    #134065
    John Day
    Participant

    Murderers Pay For TV Ads https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/murderers-pay-for-tv-ads

    Tucker Carlson got fired from Fox News over the weekend after berating other networks for ignoring the RFK Jr. Presidential candidacy in deference to the massive advertising income from big pharma, which supports TV these days. Carlson had Kennedy on his show to briefly state his case that his presidential objective was to eliminate the corrupt influence of corporations within the US government.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-carlson-out-fox

    ​ ​Pfizer Quietly Financed Groups Lobbying for COVID Vaccine Mandates​ Thanks Christine.
    Many of the supposedly independent consumer, medical and civil rights groups that created the appearance of broad support for the mandate received funding from one of the vaccines’ manufacturers.
    https://leefang.substack.com/p/pfizer-quietly-financed-groups-lobbying

    ​ ​Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday officially launched his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, telling an overflow crowd in Boston that if he has not “significantly dropped the level of chronic disease in our children by the end of my first term, I do not want you to reelect me.”
    ​ ​Kennedy, Children’s Health Defense founder and chairman on leave, spoke for nearly two hours and covered a wide range of issues — everything from his family’s history in American politics, to the military-industrial complex, to widespread censorship and to the attacks on civil liberties, the environment and public health.
    ​ ​Throughout his speech, Kennedy frequently referred to how all of these issues directly affect children.
    ​ ​He reminded the audience of the obligation America’s leaders have to protect children — from toxic pesticides, from dangerous pharmaceuticals and from the “corrupt merger of state and corporate power” that robs future generations of their health and of their ability to achieve financial security.

    RFK Jr. Launches Presidential Campaign, Vows to Reduce Chronic Disease in Children

    ​ Kim Dotcom: “​Seth Rich contacted me and offered information about the DNC. I rejected receiving the data personally and forwarded him to someone close to Wikileaks. That’s how Wikileaks got the DNC and Hillary Clinton leaks.​”​
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/why-kim-dotcom-connects-the-dnc-email-leak-to-the-murder-of-seth-rich.html#more

    #134066
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ ​A book written about Chinese history 3,000 years ago has become an unlikely bestseller. In Revelation, or Jian Shang in Mandarin, historian Li Shuo concluded, through the study of oracle bone scripts and archaeological discoveries, that the Shang Dynasty in the early bronze age had embraced brutal cannibalism and human sacrifices. Further, the book describes how that part of the country’s dark history was rewritten by the succeeding Zhou Dynasty, which overthrew Shang in 1,046 BC.
    According to the book, the Shang rulers believed in day-to-day intervention by gods in human life and offered human flesh to the heavens like the Aztecs did – prisoners of war, slaves and tribal leaders were tortured and slaughtered to “celebrate” occasions such as building a new house or commemorating a deceased noble. The founding father of the Zhou Dynasty, King Wen, lost a son in a brutal sacrifice and started to question the rituals. His other son King Wu overthrew Shang’s rule, and came up with a new ritual system so that people would forget about the human sacrifices…
    ..As part of the Shang-Zhou transition, the church retreated from Chinese state affairs at a very early stage and Chinese politics has no representation for priests. History is an important source of legitimacy, starting a tradition of the state building up a narrative about the past.
    ​ ​Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher born five centuries after the collapse of Shang, uncovered the truth of the Shang dynasty but agreed with King Wen and the Duke of Zhou to cover up disturbing facts with a unified narrative. Confucius further articulated these coded messages into classic texts that formed the origins of Chinese beliefs and society’s moral compass. The famous Confucius quote of “do not do to others what you would not have them do to you”, for instance, is a subtle but strong warning against any resurrection of human sacrifices.​ Thanks Christine.
    https://www.scmp.com/comment/article/3218154/why-rewriting-chinas-history-3000-years-ago-still-matters-today

    ​ ​New developments in the story of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop suggest that US intelligence officials were involved in “blatant partisan activity” aimed at affecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the United States.
    ​ ​Maupin pointed out that claims about Hunter’s laptop being some kind of Russian conspiracy meant to interfere with US elections – claims based on a letter signed by some 51 US intelligence officials – turned out to be false: the laptop and the data on Biden family’s shady dealings it contained are quite real.
    ​ ​Furthermore, none other than former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morrell has recently stepped forward and confirmed that he signed the letter after getting a call from Anthony Blinken – then a Biden campaign adviser – and that the intention behind this move was to help Joe Biden win the election.
    In light of these revelations, it would appear that these intelligence officials were lobbied to act in a “political partisan manner to serve Joe Biden’s presidential campaign,” argued Maupin.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230423/suppression-of-laptop-from-hell-story-was-partisan-political-move-by-anthony-blinken-1109781766.html

    ​ Moon of Alabama (Germany)​: Biden Prepares To Give Up On Ukraine
    ​ ​The much ballyhooed Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ is destined to fail its purpose of severing Russia’s supply line to Crimea and to liberate ‘occupied territory’. The Biden administration has finally recognized this and is out to lower expectations and to preemptively blame everyone but itself.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/biden-prepares-to-give-up-on-ukraine.html#more

    ​ ​Ukrainian commander laments state of army
    ​ ​Kiev needs up to six times more troops and firepower than Russia for its counteroffensive to succeed, General Sergey Melnik says
    ​ ​Kiev needs more troops, ammunition and equipment to continue its military conflict with Moscow, Ukrainian Brigadier General Sergey Melnik told Spain’s El Pais in an interview published on Monday. Ukraine has already lost most of its professional soldiers as the conflict drags on, he admitted.
    ​ ​“The problem is that we have a lack of people and equipment,” said the general, who commands troops near the Russian border in Kharkov Region. “Professional soldiers… are already exhausted, injured or recovering. Or… dead,” he added.
    ​ ​Melnik said Kiev is now relying on “people without military experience,” who first need to be trained and have an “adequate [level of] preparation to face the enemy.” According to El Pais, the general also “stressed several times during the interview” that Ukraine needs more air-defense systems, citing the threat posed by Russian aircraft.
    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/ukrainian-commander-laments-state-of-army-el-pais/

    ​ ​The Empire’s Revenge – Set Fire To Southern Eurasia​ , Pepe Escobar Thanks Christine
    ​ ​General Andrei Gurulyov, retired, is now a member of the Duma. He considers that the NATO vs. Russia war on Ukrainian soil will end only by 2030 – when Ukraine would basically have ceased to exist.​..
    ​..Gurulyov is essentially saying that the Kremlin and the Russian General Staff will make no concessions. No Beltway-imposed “frozen conflict” or fake ceasefire, which everyone knows will not be respected, just like the Minsk agreements were never respected.​..
    ​..​“Russia’s goal is to emerge in 2027-2030 not as a mere ‘victor’ standing over the ruins of some already-forgotten country, but as a state that has re-connected with its historic arc, has found itself, re-established its principles, its courage in defending its vision of the world.”​ …​
    ​..​He outlines how southern Eurasia is peppered by conflicting borders – as in Kashmir, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan. The Hegemon is bound to invest in a flare-up of military conflicts over disputed borders as well as separatist tendencies (for instance in Balochistan). CIA black ops galore.​..
    ​..​“Russia has very big advantages, because we are the biggest producer of food and supplier of energy. And without cheap energy there will be no progress and digitalization. Also, we are the link between East and West, without which the continent cannot live, because the continent has to trade. And if the South burns, the main routes will not be through the oceans in the South, but in the North, mainly overland.”
    ​ ​The biggest challenge for Russia will be to keep internal stability: “All states will divide into two groups at this historic turning point: those that can maintain internal stability and move reasonably, bloodlessly into the next technological cycle – and then those that are unable to do so, that slip off the path, that bloom a bloody internal showdown like we had a hundred years ago. The latter will be set back ten to twenty years, will subsequently lick their wounds and try to catch up with everyone else. So our job is to maintain internal stability.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-empires-revenge-set-fire-southern-eurasia

    #134068
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Treaty Law Enforcer Endures Prison, While U.S. Nuclear Bombs in Europe Give Putin an Idea​ Thanks Christine
    ​ ​On March 23, (American Vietnam veteran, 80 year old Dennis) DuVall began a 60-day prison sentence in Germany for refusing to pay fines for nonviolent interference with the lawless stationing of U.S. hydrogen bombs in Deutschland, at the Büchel air base. (U.S. H-bombs are also ‘forward deployed’ in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey.)​ …
    ​..DuVall is shining a spotlight on the risk escalation posed by the United States and NATO…
    ..Two days after DuVall entered Bautzen prison, east of Dresden, Russia’s Vladimir Putin announced plans to station Russian nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, causing a loud if hypocritical reaction from the U.S. and NATO…‘“… the United States has been doing this for decades. They have long deployed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allied countries,” said Putin.’ Then, after French President Macron declared, ‘In no case can nuclear weapons be deployed outside the territory of nuclear power, especially in Europe,’ the Russian Foreign Ministry asked with a smirk: ‘Is Paris’ demands ‘not to deploy nuclear weapons on foreign territory’ addressed to Washington?’

    Treaty Law Enforcer Endures Prison, While U.S. Nuclear Bombs in Europe Give Putin an Idea

    ​ ​New Instant Digital Payments System Isn’t a CBDC, Feds Say — But Critics Say It’s Still About Control
    ​ ​After reports about FedNow started circulating in November 2022, and after the Fed’s March announcement that the system would launch this summer, bankers, crypto experts and people concerned with personal financial autonomy​ ​lashed out, arguing that the system is a step toward a CBDC, or at least toward government control over the financial system.
    ​ ​A CBDC is a government-backed digital currency issued by a central bank — a purely digital form of money, promoted as a tool that could make transactions easy between individuals, companies and the state.
    ​ ​But such centrally controlled digital money is also programmable. It could be set to expire at a given time, or restricted to particular kinds of spending — and all transactions would be trackable by the federal government.
    ​ ​The FedNow digital payments system is not a currency, like a CBDC, but it does make instant and trackable digital payments possible.
    ​ ​The Biden administration last March issued an executive order giving the “highest priority” to investigating a CBDC for the U.S.

    New Instant Digital Payments System Isn’t a CBDC, Feds Say — But Critics Say It’s Still About Control

    ​ ​It’s A “Defund-The-Global-Police” Moment, Jen Says De-Dollarization Is Happening At A “Stunning” Pace
    ​ ​Jen, who now runs money at Eurizon SLJ, warned in a recent briefing note, that the dollar is losing its reserve status at a faster pace than generally accepted, as many analysts have failed to account for last year’s frantic swings in exchange rates.
    ​ ​“The dollar suffered a stunning collapse in 2022 in its market share as a reserve currency, presumably due to its muscular use of sanctions,” Jen and his colleague Joana Freire wrote.
    ​ ​“Exceptional actions taken by the US and its allies against Russia have startled large reserve-holding countries,” most of which are emerging economies from the so-called Global South, they said.
    ​ ​As The FT reports, Jen estimates that if you adjust for price changes the dollar’s share of official global reserve currencies has gone from about 73 per cent in 2001 to around 55 per cent in 2021.
    ​ ​Then, last year, it fell to 47 percent of total global reserves.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/its-defund-global-police-moment-jen-says-de-dollarization-happening-stunning-pace

    #134069
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Mother of 7 Denied Kidney Transplant for Refusing COVID Shot in Georgia​ (​Even today, after all of the deaths and injuries, and ​having natural immunity.)
    ​ ​On dialysis and potentially facing death, a 41-year-old homeschooling mother of seven young children has been rejected as a candidate for a life-saving kidney transplant by Emory Healthcare Inc. of Atlanta.
    ​ ​The reason? The woman, who has already had COVID-19, refused to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on religious and medical grounds.
    https://www.ntd.com/mother-of-7-denied-kidney-transplant-for-refusing-covid-shot-in-georgia_915104.html

    Miscarriages and Dead Infants Were Described in a Secret FDA Review, but Hidden from The Public
    ​ ​Pfizer Tried to Hide Its Report for 75 Years
    https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/miscarriages-and-dead-infants-were

    The heightened risk of autoimmune diseases after Covid​ (Vaccination effects not examined, but spike protein seems to be the main antigenic component.)
    https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-heightened-risk-of-autoimmune

    ​ ​While internal-combustion cars often match or exceed their EPA highway fuel economy numbers, a new paper using data from C/D’s highway tests show that EVs are far worse at meeting expectations.
    ​ ​On Car and Driver’s 75-mph highway test, more than 350 internal-combustion vehicles averaged 4.0 percent better fuel economy than what was stated on their labels. But the average range for an EV was 12.5 percent worse than the price sticker numbers.
    ​ ​The way the tests are conducted also skews the reported range figure. Unlike Car and Driver’s real-world test—carried out at a constant 75 mph—the EPA’s cycle is variable, with the speed increasing and decreasing over the course of the test. While this is detrimental to the results for gas vehicles, which tend to be most efficient at a steady rpm, the ability to regenerate energy under braking leads to higher range results for EVs, which are shifted even higher by the slight bias towards the city results in the combined rating.
    https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43657072/evs-fall-short-epa-estimates-sae-article/

    ​Cheap Kennedy 2024 bumper stickers, $2.54 each for 4 or more. I ordered 10.
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    #134071
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Just that they’re soulless monsters, or rather those who have rejected and expunged their souls leaving only intellect. Because the soul is the connection to God, something greater than yourself.

    They are then starving to death but not knowing why. Wendigo, incomplete, seeking, devouring, digesting, but always without end or purpose, because what they seek isn’t IN the music, the money, the sex, and they think if they can only have this ONE MORE THING — which you won’t give me, you selfish, intolerant monster — only THEN will their hunger be ended. But the hunger is Love. And love not of sex, not even with sisters, but Love is Wholeness, Oneness, with God.

    Is it a simulation? Well yeah, they’re constantly defining words — like “racism” or on the other side “demonic”, then expanding the definition to include all things then stunned it appears everywhere. Tacos are “racist”. CocaCola is “demonic”. Same with “Simulation”. They mean to say that it’s all a THOUGHT, a concept, not real, not physical in the deepest sense. No duh.

    They mean that is is a giant illusion, inspired and created by a consciousness so advanced it can barely be conceived of, so powerful it can run and know the entire universe. No duh.

    There is a maker, and even master adepts who can hack into the code to break the laws of physics at will, proving they are not absolute, but part of the illusion, the Matrix, levitate and walk on water. No duh.

    Fellows, harken unto me: What you’re describing is CHRISTIANITY. You fools. Or Buddhism, or almost any other religion ever born. Your atheistic “science” tells you life, the universe, is a RELIGION, with a One-God-Father, a Manitou, Great Spirit, Yahweh “Becomer” in German Paganism:

    “Wr-alda is the ancient of ancients, for he created all things. Wr-alda is all in all, for he is eternal and everlasting. Wr-alda is omnipresent but invisible, and therefore is called a spirit. All that we can see of him are the created beings who come to life through him and go again, because from Wr-alda all things proceed and return to him. Wr-alda is the beginning and the end.”

    Sound familiar? Theses idiot are like saying “Did you know if you make something round, it can roll down the path?”
    Yes, I know. “Did you know it can be made to carry things?” Yes, I know. “Did you know I just invented it?”

    It’s called a “Wheel”, dummy, everyone else on earth has one and has been using them for 10,000 years. If you’d ever listened to any other human in your whole life you would have known that already.

    “Simulation” is just a metaphor for the SAME THING. For people who HATE everyone, everything, all religions, JUST THAT MUCH. Hey, if it gets you there, I’m fine with it. But don’t expect me to play along and not say what I’m thinking: that you’re way, WAY behind. Really the slow class.

    “Simulation” great! …As if we needed yet another religion to fight over. Thanks.

    #134072
    Noirette
    Participant

    On various articles at top post re. UKR.

    USuk plotted and entered with arrogance into UKR, since 2014 at least.

    The plan relied in part on 5th generation warfare.

    1st is hands on with lances, arms held in the hand, mano a mano, horses might be used.

    2nd and 3rd are like WW1, 2, in function of more sophisticated, deadly performing, armaments.

    4th is using ‘terrorism’, ‘guerillas’, shadow killings, ‘color revolutions’ etc. – as a low cost option, often effective.

    5th is using propaganda, mind bending, cyber influence, cyber attacks (e.g. preventing com,, etc.) ‘law’- fare, hugely better propaganda, control of oppo. populations, and at the top, sanctions (economic in first place), bis, etc. which will (it is hoped) cause collapse of the enemy.

    Heh. So Russia brought the W idiots back to WW2… to shoot it out.

    The ‘Collective West’ (i.e. the US and its hapless vassals) are running around confused, what, help, our super sophisticated NEW WAR plans are reduced to…how much ammunition we can muster?

    Just one take, others are also good.

    #134073

    Watch out for when the “vaccine” is finally seen for what it is. There will be fifty million (a guesstimate) US citizens ineligible for the draft, and the 20-30 million unpunctured of draft age will be conscripted for the war the Neos seem determined to have. The two-hundred-million+ will go on disability and the US taxpayer is on the hook for “vaccine” harms.

    One of the things mentioned in the talk and interview I posted a while back was that people would just “disappear”.
    I have to wonder just how many people have disappeared already?

    #134074
    citizenx
    Participant

    Blondie the featherless bird “living his best life…”

    I’m with you in kindred Spirit… to all those doing no harm living a Spirited Life.

    Not a week goes by that I don’t look around me dis-spirited and think – ‘Is this really happening? Am I actually seeing and experiencing this decline in life all around me? Is this truly what my fellow humans that I’m surrounded by have become, their apathetic intentional look away behavior?’

    I check myself every day to align truth and the experience all around me. My realization every time is to find center, hold center- yes this is happening. Steel yourself, prepare… everyday seems one day closer to making a principled stand against real Evil we are all being surrounded and potentially consumed by.

    Thanks to all truth seekers and “realizers”. I confirm the insanity all around me and vow a Spirited Resistance against insanity and all Evil acts.

    #134075
    citizenx
    Participant

    Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
    by Paul Woodruff

    Solid Book exploring the quality of Reverence as a lost Virtue through the History of the West (Greece) and East (China).

    Just that they’re soulless monsters, or rather those who have rejected and expunged their souls leaving only intellect. Because the soul is the connection to God, something greater than yourself.

    This one’s for Dr D and Tucker-

    Welcome to the Grand illusion
    Come on in and see what’s happening
    Pay the price, get your tickets for the show
    The stage is set, the band starts playing
    Suddenly your heart is pounding
    Wishing secretly you were a star.

    But don’t be fooled by the radio
    The TV or the magazines
    They show you photographs of how your life should be
    But they’re just someone else’s fantasy
    So if you think your life is complete confusion
    Because you never win the game
    Just remember that it’s a Grand illusion
    And deep inside we’re all the same.
    We’re all the same…

    They mean that is is a giant illusion, inspired and created by a consciousness so advanced it can barely be conceived of, so powerful it can run and know the entire universe.

    America spells competition, join us in our blind ambition
    Get yourself a brand new motor car
    Someday soon we’ll stop to ponder what on Earth’s this spell we’re under
    We made the grade and still we wonder who the hell we are

    #134076
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Thinking about this a bit more, I considered what’s a common thread through the ruination of pop culture?

    I decided around 2016 to retreat into geek culture and ignore current events. (just a lowly call center worker after all) Only to find it all pre-happening in miniature. What played out in comic books and computer gaming played out in film a few years later, played out nationwide in 2020.

    I thought, I just need to retreat to something geekier, how about Magic the Gathering or D&D? Nope. They’d already gotten to them. Fools on youtube comments kept saying “Thank goodness they’ll never ruin my Warhammer 40,000, it’s too obscure for them” and now who is crying. If you hadn’t boasted all over the internet, you’d have had another 6-12 months being left alone.

    If I think about abominations such as the new “Lord of the Rings” Rings of Amazon, Doctor Who, Star Trek STD, or The Last Jedi, I see a sneering contempt or revulsion for human consciousness. Thought. The mind. The NPD type wants you disregulated, your emotions AND your thoughts jacked up.

    If you saw it from coming from a single blob, a something, then you might say it thinks they’ve found something better than spirituality OR intellect. Boy did they do all they possibly do to slag Mr Spock and what it is to be Vulcan in general – at least as much as they did to Luke Skywalker. Spent/lost as much money to do it. Destroyed their new streaming service to do it.

    I guess it all comes down to One Weird Trick.

    #134077
    Germ
    Participant

    Oh, how the tables have now turned.

    Can you spell – ‘Schadenfreude’ !

    TVASF (and should now be making end of life plans)

    #134078
    Germ
    Participant

    They didn’t make their end of life plans.
    If you’re death vaxxed – make yours now!

    Charlotte has been left destitute and relying on food banks while Kam’s still in shock at losing her husband: The heartbroken families of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine victims who say they’ve been abandoned by the government

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12008537/Heartbroken-families-AstraZeneca-Covid-vaccine-victims-say-theyve-left-government.html

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #134079
    Germ
    Participant

    America the EVIL!
    Pure EVIL!

    TVASF (and the unvaxxed are still not allowed entry – Fuck ‘Em!)

    #134080
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Spent general interview:

    F.S.

    #134081
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    >>She refused to receive a #COVID19 vaccine on religious and medical grounds.<<

    It is the Money Power Monopolist Mega-Corporate Orwellian Global Fascist Empire, USA, Inc. division.

    Please use the accurate term, since Confucius was right that wisdom can only begin when one calls things by their proper name.

    You mean the jab juice that scientifically and admittedly doesn’t prevent the disease, doesn’t prevent transmission, but will shut down your viral fighting IgG3 antibodies and fire up your viral patty-cake playing IgG4 anti-bodies? That jab juice?

    I’m sure she’s loaded up to the gills with natural antibodies for both the N and S portion of the CovFeFe virus as well. We need “frosting” on this Money Power Fascist Orwellian “cake.”

    #134082
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    >>Can you spell – ‘Schadenfreude’ !<<

    I have a theory. Thessalonians reveals that “man of lawlessness” will be revealed before the triumphant return of Agape Jesus as the King of God’s eternal Agape Kingdom.

    I would suggest that he’s revealing himself through that which he is systematically financing in society right now! And this CovFeFe craziness fits right in with men competing as females… and on and on…

    We know we are in the end times because Daniel 2:43-44 revealed Agape God’s Agape Kingdom would be set up in the era of the kings who mixed iron with the seed of men (and they would lose the ability to cleave… anyone have cleave problems in their families? Easier to answer is how many people do not have cleave issues in their families?).

    The mixing of metallic rusty iron filings began officially in 1941. CovFeFe was not accident — the name is far better than Covid-19. Whatever CovFeFe actually is, we KNOW it blows out the INTRAcellular ferritin sequestering iron inside the cell such that the iron is dumped inside the cells and the ferritin is jettisoned out into the serum, where wholly clueless M.D.’s measure it believing that it represents iron status in the blood… when it represent iron pathophysiology in the tissues

    Serum ferritin (empty ferritin after dumping its newly reactive iron inside the cell) exploded in the worst CovFeFe cases.

    The puzzle fits together nicely… 1941 ushered in Operation Daniel 2:43.

    2020 ushered in Operation Daniel 2:44.

    And make no mistake — the Allodial Royals and Rothschilds are financing Biblical prophecy in their effort to maintain their belief in their own righteousness as they finance a system to genocide all the “Philistines” around them.

    #134088
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Interesting, … German commentator on Germany:

    From Adenauer to Merkel

    Adenauer secured and covered the separate state FRG as a new U.S. bastion in Europe against “Russia”, with the anti-Russian and anti-communist potential inherited from the Nazi regime.

    Kohl secured and covered the takeover of the ex-GDR into the FRG, with the help of the U.S. advisors in the Treuhand agency.

    Merkel secured and covered the expanded U.S. global strategy, especially against Russia.

    The U.S. nuclear first-strike doctrine accepted by Adenauer, renewed by Obama, makes nuclear war possible — in Europe.

    The U.S. pushed the narrative after WW2 that it had liberated Europe from fascism. But for the preservation of peace, freedom and prosperity, one thing is needed now at the latest: liberation of Europe from the USA.

    How German Chancellor Angela Merkel Subjected Germany to the U.S.

    #134089
    Germ
    Participant

    @ TheTrivium4TW

    Here’s your FeFe – https://tinyurl.com/rmh5e8r9 !!

    #134090
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant
    #134091
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Politico reported on Monday citing anonymous sources in President Joe Biden’s administration. According to the outlet, Washington has urged Kiev not to spread its troops too thin or overextend its ambitions.

    The first priority is to keep the theft operation running and that means preventing any conclusion to the war, which in turn means that Ukraine must retain a fighting force, however small, to justify stealing tax payers’ cash from the western governments stupid enough to pass money to Ukraine which then goes to pay for the Davos projects, the big guy and all the other billionaire crooks.

    #134092
    aspnaz
    Participant

    In Germany, for example, the percentage of people who oppose nuclear power has fallen from 65 to 20 percent. But it seems that the will of the electorate does not matter.

    Indeed. The will of the electorate will never matter until they get off their arses and protest in an overwhelming fashion that forces the government to notice. All these people in Germany are enjoying their last few days of luxury and then what?

    I know a Chinese lady working in Germany, she rented an apartment on the top floor of a house, where the landlord lives on the ground floor. The tenancy agreement is for the landlady to keep the apartment at 18 C or above, but the landlady is not living up to her side of the agreement, the heating is off most of the time. In Germany it gets bloody cold, but the landlady is telling the Chinese lady to wear more coats. It is now coming into summer but next winter will be horrible unless the Germans find their will to live.

    #134093
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “affect the personal dignity or the respect owed to a public official.”

    Public officials are crooks. Why do they deserve respect when they bemoan not having respect like little children?

    #134094
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hope Springs Eternal

    .

    #134095
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I don’t think it works that way

    There’s not an App for that.

    #134096
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Well said CitizenX. You’re here, right now, for a reason. Never give in, never give up. Fuck them and their money, their propaganda, pedophilia, violence and satanism. Vengence is coming, there is no stopping it, not after what they have done.

    #134097
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    In case you haven’t heard or read it, yet, here’s Tucker’s speech delivered delivered Friday night (lightly edited?) at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala celebration, where he asserted it was time for the 1-in-6000 to Reassess Terms We Use:

    Read Tucker Carlson’s Speech Delivered After Last Fox News Show

    Here’s the dangerous part that no doubt ruffled Herr Murdoch’s (and others’) soulless insanity:

    And that’s kind of the point I’m making. None of this makes sense in conventional political terms. When people, or crowds of people, or the largest crowd of people at all, which is the federal government, the largest human organization in human history decide that the goal is to destroy things, destruction for its own sake, “Hey, let’s tear it down,” what you’re watching is not a political movement. It’s evil.

    So, if you want to assess, and I’ll put it in non … And I’ll stop with this. I’ll put it in nonpolitical or rather non-specific theological terms, and just say, if you want to know what’s evil and what’s good, what are the characteristics of those?

    And by the way, I think the Athenians would’ve agreed with this. This is not necessarily just a Christian notion, this is kind of a, I would say, widely agreed-upon understanding of good and evil. What are its products? What do these two conditions produce?

    Well, I mean, good is characterized by order, calmness, tranquility, peace, whatever you want to call it, lack of conflict, cleanliness. Cleanliness is next to godliness. It’s true. It is.

    And evil is characterized by their opposites. Violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization, and filth. So, if you are all in on the things that produce the latter basket of outcomes, what you’re really advocating for is evil. That’s just true. I’m not calling for religious war. Far from it. I’m merely calling for an acknowledgement of what we’re watching, which is not one…

    And I think two things:

    One, we should say that and stop engaging in these totally fraudulent debates, where we are using the terms that we used in 1991 when I started at [The Heritage Foundation], as if maybe I could just win the debate if I marshaled more facts.

    I’ve tried. That doesn’t work. And two, maybe we should all take just 10 minutes a day to say a prayer about it. I’m serious. Why not?

    I discovered about 10 years ago (during a white light NDE) that finite life is in truth as illusion, you could call it The Matrix if you like, that only The Loving, Healing, Creative Reality of The Infinite One is True ~ Great Spirit, without end • Amen.

    TAE community: There is no hope, no solution, no Way out when consumed by constant argument, angry outbursts, threats, or other tactics of EG0ic invention under the ruse of rational, logical debate.

    Without a resurrection of Love, Hope, Faith within humanity all that will remain will be misery, suffering, hate & destruction 😐

    State the Truth while practicing Love, without judgment, practicing forgiveness while not excusing error…

    Here’s the AV, if you want to see/hear/it:

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