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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabobank-food-energy-goods-and-finance-are-being-used-weapon
“Risk” Is On: Food, Energy, Goods And Finance Are All Being Used As A Weapon
US intelligence has told allies that Russia asked China for surface-to-air missiles, drones, armoured vehicles, logistics vehicles, and intelligence-related equipment – and that China responded positively.You just can’t fix stupid!
Armchair general answer for peace
1. A credible war deterrence would be a modernized military, smart bombs, smart missiles, electronic warfare, like jamming enemy air defense systems, would be the answer to Putin’s aggression since he is using WWII museum dumb bombs and dumb artillery bombardment.
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The real war is financial or if you prefer, virtual, imports, exports, boycotts, embargoing,
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The real war is food insecurity, (going hungry), (starvation)
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The haves vs the have nots
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EMERGENCIES
1. AFGHANISTAN EMERGENCY ( USA)
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10. UKRAINE EMERGENCY – (Russia)Your leaders, with the help of snobs and news media, are doing this to 811 million hungry people
Don’t believe all the USA propaganda
https://www.wfp.org/
https://www.wfp.org/hunger-catastrophe
A hunger catastrophe
Conflict, COVID, the climate crisis and rising costs have combined in 2022 to create jeopardy for the world’s 811 million hungry peopleUnprecedented needs
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marching towards starvation
As 811 million people go to bed hungry every night, the number of those facing acute food insecurity has more than doubled – from 135 million to 276 million – since 2019. A total of 44 million people in 38 countries are teetering on the edge of famine.This seismic hunger crisis has been caused by a deadly combination of four factors.
Conflict is still the biggest driver of hunger, with 60 percent of the world’s hungry living in areas afflicted by war and violence. Events unfolding in Ukraine are further proof of how conflict feeds hunger, forcing people out of their homes and wiping out their sources of income.
Climate shocks destroy lives, crops and livelihoods, undermine people’s ability to feed themselves, and have displaced 30 million from their homes globally in 2020.
The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are driving hunger to unprecedented levels.
And, last but not least, the costs of reaching people in need is rising: the price WFP is paying for food up 30 percent compared to 2019 and the cost of delivering that food has risen by an additional US$42 million a month, compared to that same year.EMERGENCIES
AFGHANISTAN EMERGENCY
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO EMERGENCY
HAITI EMERGENCY
NORTH EASTERN NIGERIA EMERGENCY
SAHEL EMERGENCY
SOUTHERN MADAGASCAR EMERGENCY
SOUTH SUDAN EMERGENCY
SYRIA EMERGENCY
UKRAINE EMERGENCY
YEMEN EMERGENCYIn addition
the homo sapiens sapiens ecological role is to perform a major overhaul of the planet’s surface. so that other life forms can use the necessary ingredient that got buried by plate movements/tectonic and therefore, life can benefit from the release of those ingredients that are necessary for life.(The oligarch …. a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence in every countries)
The battle of the oligarch is getting dangerous for non-participating riffraf.
The number of evacuees leaving the battlefields keep growing
None of the oligarch are talking peace.
Even the snobs have been manipulated/brain scrambled.7.9% inflation is 40 year high
I don’t remember.
I must have done the right decisions.
I’m still here.
I survived it 40 years ago.
(How ….. consume less or earn more)coughcouighcough
The headlines are at TAE“Mankind’s survival depends on neither side making one mistake that destroys the world.”
The mistake was made a long time ago.
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Reality – babushka dolls, stacking dolls, nesting dolls, Russian tea dolls, or Russian dolls) are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another.
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The world that I thought I was living in has been revealed to be a sham.
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My doctor said my problem is old age
Count yourself lucky that your are still here1. (red problems) clogged veins,
2. (yellow problems)urinal problems,
3. (brown problems) bowel movement problems,
4. Hip replacement,
5. Knee replacement,
6. shingles,
7. arthritis,
8. gout,(One of the well-known symptoms of high uric acid is a condition called Gout. It is a type of arthritis that causes inflammation in one of the joints which occur suddenly. The gout pain in the joint occurs because of the presence of uric acid crystals that are sharp like needles around the joints.)
9. (cognitive problems) Dementia,
While Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia (accounting for an estimated 60 to 80 percent of cases), there are several other types. The second most common form, vascular dementia, has a very different cause — namely, high blood pressure.10. (blindness) Cataracts, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, Retinitis Pigmentosa
11. Covid,
12. vaccineArmchair generals – – Virtual WWII war games
Russian generals — decoys – WWII armament dumb bombs, museum equipment
– stock pile/reserves – smart bombs, modern armament for WWIIIMotivators
life
Survival
SymbiosisUnderstanding symbiotic relationships are important, as it helps us understand how various organisms are dependent on each other for survival.
There are three types of behaviours observed in symbiotic relationships, namely:In mutualism, both the involved organisms benefit from each other. (evolution, peace, bacteria flora, omicron)
In commensalism, only one organism benefits, while the other is neither benefited nor harmed.
In parasitism, one organism is benefited while the other organism is harmed. (survival of the fittest, war, humanity)
————-Isolationism is a political philosophy advocating a national foreign policy that opposes involvement in the political affairs, and especially the wars, of other countries. Thus, isolationism fundamentally advocates neutrality and opposes entanglement in military alliances and mutual defense pacts. In its purest form, isolationism opposes all commitments to foreign countries including treaties and trade agreements
sanctions
a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.
synonyms:
penalty · punishment · deterrent · punitive action · discipline · warhttps://www.rt.com/russia/551754-ukraine-helicopter-strike-drones/
Russian military releases footage of helicopter attack on Ukrainian convoy (VIDEO)
More than 1,100 Ukrainian tanks and APCs have been destroyed since the start of the offensive, according to Moscow
Early on Saturday, Russian long-range strikes with high-precision weapons rendered inoperable a military airfield in the town of Vasilkov and a radio surveillance center in Brovary, both in the Kiev region, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said during a briefing.Over the past 24 hours, five Ukrainian UAVs were shot out of the sky, including two Turkish-made Bayraktar TB-2 drones. A total of 145 military facilities were targeted by Russian aviation, with three Buk M1 missile systems, eight command centers, and five arms depots among them, according to the spokesman.
The forces of the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk have continued their offensive with fire support from the Russian forces, capturing several more towns and villages in the east of the country, Konashenkov added.
Since the start of what Moscow calls a “special operation” in Ukraine on February 24, the Russian military has destroyed 3,491 of Kiev’s military facilities, 1,127 tanks and APCs, and 123 drones, the spokesman pointed out.According to Russia, sending its troops to Ukraine was the only way to “demilitarize” and “denazify” the neighboring country, and to hold accountable those responsible for what Moscow has called the “genocide” of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk. Other demands by the Kremlin induce neutral status for Ukraine, which would prevent it from joining the US-led NATO bloc, and recognition of Crimea by Kiev as part of Russia and of the aforementioned republics as independent states.
The Ukrainian authorities have rejected Moscow’s justification for the incursion, blaming Russia for waging an unprovoked war against the country and rallying for international support.
What does the mayor know?
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/272383703/zelenskyy-seeks-israel-help-for-release-of-melitopol-mayorZelenskyy seeks Israel’s help for release of Melitopol mayor
Kyiv [Ukraine], March 13 (ANI): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed the war situation in Ukraine with Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and sought his help for the release of the Melitopol mayor.
Taking to Twitter, Zelenskyy wrote, “Continued dialogue with Israel PM @naftalibennett. We talked about Russian aggression and the prospects for peace talks. We must stop repressions against civilians: asked to assist in the release of the captive mayor of Melitopol and local public figures.”Earlier, Zelenskyy also spoke with the German chancellor Olaf Scholz and the French president Emmanuel Macron for their help in the release of Melitopol mayor, Ivan Fedorov.
“I spoke with @OlafScholz, @EmmanuelMacron. We discussed countering the aggressor, RF crimes against civilians. I ask my partners to help in releasing the captive mayor of Melitopol. Prospects for peace talks were also discussed. We must stop the aggressor together,” Zelenskyy tweeted.
On Saturday, Zelenskyy said that a total of 1,300 soldiers were killed by Russia. This is the first time he President mentioned Ukraine’s estimated military casualties, The Kyiv Independent reported.
Notably, Ukraine’s armed forces estimate Russian casualties to be over 12,000.
Meanwhile, western countries have imposed comprehensive sanctions on Moscow.
On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine after the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republic requested help in defending themselves.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the special operation is targeting Ukrainian military infrastructure only and the civilian population is not in danger.
The West however denies these claims by the Russians and in response, Western nations have imposed comprehensive sanctions on Moscow. In addition, they introduced sanctions on Belarus for supporting Russia’s operation in Ukraine. (ANI)
With a grain of salt
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/12/world/ukraine-russia-war#melitopol-ukraine-mayor-russiaLVIV, Ukraine — The mayor of Melitopol is the kind of person Russian soldiers might have believed would have welcomed them with open arms and flowers.
Ivan Fyodorov, as his name suggests, is an ethnic Russian in a southern Ukrainian city where Russian is commonly spoken and where ties to Russia run deep.
On Friday evening, Mr. Fyodorov had a bag thrown over his head and was dragged from a government office building by armed Russian soldiers, according to Ukrainian officials. Video filmed in Melitopol’s Victory Square appears to show someone being escorted out of a government building by soldiers. The Times cannot verify the identity of the people in the video.
Since Russian forces captured his city in the first days of the war, he had encouraged resistance, earning him the support of the public and the ire of the occupying army.
On Saturday, hundreds of his townspeople poured out into the streets in an expression of outrage and defiance, despite the presence of troops on their streets.
“Return the mayor!” they shouted, witnesses said and videos showed. “Free the mayor!”
But nearly as soon as people gathered, the Russians moved to shut them down, arresting a woman who they said had organized the demonstration, according to two witnesses and the woman’s Facebook account.
The episode is part of what Ukrainian officials say is a pattern of intimidation and repression that is growing more brutal. It also illustrates a problem that Russia is likely to face even if it manages to pummel cities and towns into submission: In at least some of the few cities and towns that Russia has managed to seize — mostly in the south and east — they are facing popular unrest and revolt.
For anyone who believed the Kremlin propaganda that Russia was on a mission to save Ukraine from drug addled neo-Nazis, Melitopol was the kind of city, run by the kind of mayor, that should have viewed the Russian troops as liberators.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the kidnapping of the mayor demonstrated the falsehood underlying the Russian invasion.
“For years they have been lying to themselves that people in Ukraine were supposedly waiting for Russia to come,” he said. “They did not find collaborators who would hand over the city and the power to the invaders.”
And he sought to tap into public rage in two videotaped speeches released on Saturday.
“The whole country saw that Melitopol did not surrender to the invaders,” he said. “Just as Kherson, Berdyansk and other cities where Russian troops managed to enter didn’t — temporarily managed to enter. And this will not be changed by putting pressure on mayors or kidnapping mayors.”
After people took to the streets, he praised their courage and suggested the war lacked popular support among Russians.
“Do you hear it, Moscow?” he asked. “If 2,000 people are protesting against the occupation in Melitopol, how many people should be in Moscow against the war?”
Mr. Zelelnsky said he had raised the fate of the mayor in calls with the leaders of Germany and France.
“We expect them, the world leaders, to show how they can influence the situation,” he said. “How they can do a simple thing — free one person, a person who represents the entire Melitopol community, Ukrainians who do not give up.”
Melitopol lies only a short distance from Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. The city came under fierce assault on the first day of the war, Feb. 24, and Russian soldiers entered only days later. While the city fell, Mr. Fyodorov remained defiant.
“We are not cooperating with the Russians in any way,” he said.
As resistance has grown more brazen, the Russian tactics have grown more brutal, according to the Ukrainian government and witnesses. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Friday that Russian soldiers were committing robberies, taking hostages and executing civilians. The reports of executions and hostage taking could not be independently verified, but there have been multiple witness accounts, often recorded on video, of Russian soldiers looting stores and homes.
Mr. Zelensky said the kidnapping of the mayor was part of a broader shift in tactics. “They have switched to a new stage of terror, when they are trying to physically eliminate representatives of the legitimate local Ukrainian authorities,” he said.
Last weekend, people waving the blue and gold of the Ukrainian flag took to the streets of Melitopol and other occupied cities.
For the most part, Russian soldiers stood aside, even as protesters commandeered a Russian armored vehicle in one town and drove it through the streets.
Mr. Fyodorov encouraged the demonstration. In his most recent post on Facebook, he thanked business leaders who were helping the community in the moment of strife. “Together we will overcome anything!” he wrote.
His location is now unknown.
Muyi Xiao and Dmitriy Khavin contributed reporting.
At the beginning of the Evacuation, we saw/were shown day long traffic jams of cars trying to cross the borders.
Now, we only see/are shown crowds of people trying to evacuate.I want to see/be shown images of the parking lots of cars that are being stored for the return of their owners.
I’m surprised that there is so much expression of hate, anger, revenge, negative passion and hostility that has been generated by the propaganda by our leaders, snobs, main stream media.
Have humans always been so sensitive to this kind of inputs?
Maybe covid or the vaccines infected human ability to critical thinking.Opinion | There is no wisdom in pretending that Ukraine’s neo-Nazis don’t exist
OPINION | THERE IS NO WISDOM IN PRETENDING THAT UKRAINE’S NEO-NAZIS DON’T EXIST
The troubling history and dangerous US relationship with the Azov Battalion and other extreme right-wing groups in Ukraine cannot be forgotten.
BY MEDEA BENJAMIN AND NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES
MARCH 10, 2022This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on March 9, 2022.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/09/there-no-wisdom-pretending-ukraines-neo-nazis-dont-existRussian President Putin has claimed that he ordered the invasion of Ukraine to “denazify” its government, while Western officials, such as former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul, have called this pure propaganda, insisting, “There are no Nazis in Ukraine.”
In 2014, Nuland and the State Department got their favorite, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, installed as Prime Minister of the post-coup government. He lasted two years, until he, too, lost his job due to endless corruption scandals. Petro Poroshenko, the post-coup President, lasted a bit longer, until 2019, even after his personal tax evasion schemes were exposed in the 2016 Panama Papers and 2017 Paradise Papers.
When Yatsenyuk became prime minister, he rewarded Svoboda’s role in the coup with three cabinet positions, including Oleksander Sych as deputy prime minister, and governorships of three of Ukraine’s 25 provinces. Svoboda’s Andriy Parubiy was appointed chairman (or speaker) of Parliament, a post he held for the next 5 years. Tyahnybok ran for president in 2014, but only got 1.2% of the votes, and was not re-elected to parliament.
Ukrainian voters turned their backs on the extreme right in the 2014 post-coup elections, reducing Svoboda’s 10.4% share of the national vote in 2012 to 4.7%. Svoboda lost support in areas where it held control of local governments but had failed to live up to its promises, and its support was split now that it was no longer the only party running on explicitly anti-Russian slogans and rhetoric.
After the coup, Right Sector helped to consolidate the new order by attacking and breaking up anti-coup protests, in what their leader Yarosh described to Newsweek as a “war” to “cleanse the country” of pro-Russian protesters. This campaign climaxed on May 2 with the massacre of 42 anti-coup protesters in a fiery inferno, after they took shelter from Right Sector attackers in the Trades Unions House in Odessa.
After anti-coup protests evolved into declarations of independence in Donetsk and Luhansk, the extreme right in Ukraine shifted gear to full-scale armed combat. The Ukrainian military had little enthusiasm for fighting its own people, so the government formed new National Guard units to do so.
Right Sector formed a battalion, and neo-Nazis also dominated the Azov Battalion, which was founded by Andriy Biletsky, an avowed white supremacist who claimed that Ukraine’s national purpose was to rid the country of Jews and other inferior races. It was the Azov battalion that led the post-coup government’s assault on the self-declared republics and retook the city of Mariupol from separatist forces.
The Minsk II agreement in 2015 ended the worst fighting and set up a buffer zone around the breakaway republics, but a low-intensity civil war continued. An estimated 14,000 people have been killed since 2014. Congressman Ro Khanna and progressive members of Congress tried for several years to end US military aid to the Azov Battalion. They finally did so in the FY2018 Defense Appropriation Bill, but Azov reportedly continued to receive US arms and training despite the ban.
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Eight trucks carrying humanitarian aid poised to enter are thought to have been stopped. Stephen Cornish, from medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, said: ‘Sieges are a medieval practice that have been outlawed by the modern rules of war for good reason.’ Sergei Orlov, Mariupol’s deputy mayor, said there was ‘no way out.’ He told Irish broadcaster RTE: ‘Russian troops do not allow us to leave our cities. We have no utilities, no electricity, no sanitary system.
‘Without water we had the awful [situation] when a child died of dehydration. So people collect snow to melt it to water.
The city is totally destroyed by artillery and… aircraft bombing.’ Mr Orlov said 50,000 children including 3,000 babies and toddlers remain in Mariupol. He estimated that about 100,000 of its 450,000 citizens had managed to flee before the siege. He added: ‘Unfortunately, we have no opportunity to bury [the dead] in private graves. That’s why yesterday we buried 47 people in a mass grave.’
Ukraine’s foreign ministry last night accused Russian soldiers of abducting Ivan Fedorov, mayor of the south-eastern city of Melitopol, which fell nearly two weeks ago.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on Russian forces to heed the calls of residents in the occupied city of Melitopol who protested to demand their mayor be freed.Zelensky, who spoke earlier Saturday with the leaders of Germany and France, said the detention of Mariupol Mayor Ivan Fedorov was an attempt “to bring the city to its knees.”
He said that Ukraine expects “the leaders of the world to show how they can influence the liberation (of) a man who personifies Ukrainians who do not give up.”
Zelensky also encouraged Ukrainians to keep fighting, saying it was “impossible to say how many days we will still need to free our land, but it is possible to say that we will do it.”
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public amnesia.
optimistic predictions
If you are looking for “WHY”, read the blogs.
Read TAE.Our leaders – Our future – unknown consequences without the ability to solve any of them
destruction of civil infrastructures
destruction of industrial infrastructures
destruction of military infrastructures
destruction of social infrastructures
destruction of economic infrastructuresdestruction of critical thinking
destruction of peaceHumanitarian corridors
Mass graves
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Cutting Through the Fog Masking ‘a New Page in the Art of War’
The non-government in Kiev is simply not allowed by the Empire to negotiate anything.By now what we may call a Triple Threat has been established as the catalyst anticipating the launch of Operation Z.
1. Ukraine developing nuclear weapons. Zelensky himself hinted at it in the Munich Security Conference.
U.S.
2. bioweapons labs in Ukraine. Confirmed, tersely, by none other than the Sinister Cookie Distributor neocon wife in the uber-neocon Kaganate of Nulands, who described them as “biological research facilities”. ”3. An imminent attack on Donbass with massive civilian deaths. It could have been in March, according to documents seized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Or even in late February, according to SVR intelligence, which was monitoring the line of contact on a minute-by-minute basis. This is what eventually prompted Operation Z as a Russian version of R2P (“Responsibility to Protect”).
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Unintended consequences.
Every man, 18 to 60 yrs, will get a gun.
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Azov Battalion
https://www.intellinews.com/eastern-ukraine-has-almost-completely-fallen-but-putin-now-needs-a-peace-fast-237784/
By Gav Don March 12, 2022
Russian forces yesterday reached the edges of the city of Dnipro. Sitting as it does on the elbow of the Dnepr River, this news provides firm evidence that Russia is now in practical occupation of pretty much all of Trans Dnepr Ukraine, apart from the pocket in which about a dozen brigades (60,000 men) of Ukraine’s best troops are now trapped facing LDNR. Surrounded and cut off from fuel, food and ammunition, this force now has a choice of whether to fight to the last round or to treat for terms.In Mariupol the Azov Battalion will be given no such choice. With de-Nazification front and centre of its war aims we can expect Russia to take no (Azov) prisoners. Azov’s fight to the death, using civilians as cover wherever it can, is causing the reduction of Mariupol that we are now listening to (but not seeing – most of the film crews are in Kyiv).
With its arrival on the Dnepr Russia’s invasion of Eastern Ukraine is approaching its end, successful in military terms but a disaster by any other measure. Which makes now a good time to think about whether and how the war might end.
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———-Has anybody seen where they hid the destroyed military infrastructures.
All I get shown on TV are civilian infrastructures.Laughing out loud
Cant fix stupid
Iran and Russia are friends
Iran and USA are not friends
Iran has oil
Russia has oil
Negotiations on nuclear deal stopped
Iran and Russia will keep its oil
Next stop Venezuela
Snobs laughing all the way to the banks.Arm chair generals loosing the virtual war
WWII stockpile/inventory/museum pieces for WWIII
If you got it use it or lose it
Straw that broke the camel’s back
Siege, encirclement, economic war, security concerns, sanctions ,,,,,, nationalising assets of foreign firms
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• Who Will Denazify The Ukraine? (Dmitry Orlov)
• The Opinion Of A Professional About The Special Operation In Ukraine (Dubrovsky)
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The USA started the economic war with sanctions
There are no replacements. Not for the combined wheat exports of Russia and Ukraine, and not for fertilizer.• Russia To Ban Fertilizer Exports To ‘Not Friendly’ Countries (ZH)
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Anybody saying “capitalism” has hi/her hand in your pocket
“It is a familiar tactic on pork spending. You can hide an entire drove of pigs behind a single redeeming budget item.”• Congress Inserts over 4,000 Pork Earmarks in Spending Bill (Turley)
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Reminder
The rule of 72 is essentially an estimation for determining the amount of years or the doubling time of an investment or of the effect of inflation
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Mediterranean refugees were abandoned. Ukraine refugees are evacuating with their best clothes, (fur coats), and their cell phones. The old and poor Ukrainians are still hiding in the basement shelters.word play
Use an appropriate adjective/adverb to refer to your preferred, TV armchair generals ego.
expert motivator, influencer, enablers, enforcer, script writer, inflator, delusional, deniers, liar, snobword play
Use an appropriate adjective/adverb to refer to your preferred, TV armchair generals ego.
expert motivator, influencer, enablers, enforcer, script writer, inflator, delusional, deniers, liar, snobPutin will ‘lose’ Ukraine war, Trudeau says, as Canada ups aid funding
Rephrasing what Trudeau wanted to say.Azov Battalion (until September 2014), or simply Azov, is a right-wing extremist,[1][2] neo-Nazi,[3][4][5] formerly paramilitary unit of the National Guard of Ukraine,[6][7][8] based in Mariupol, in the Azov Sea coastal region will win the war against Putin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalionhttps://news.yahoo.com/israeli-leader-meets-putin-discuss-165449723.html
Israeli leader meets Putin to discuss Ukraine cease-fire
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday secretly traveled to Moscow to discuss a possible cease-fire with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an Israeli official confirmed to Axios.Why it matters: This is a highly unusual move by Bennett, who has been communicating in recent days with both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Bennett briefed Zelensky by phone after Saturday’s meeting.
Barak Ravid
Sat, March 5, 2022, 10:33 AM·2 min read
In this article:Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
President of RussiaNaftali Bennett
Prime Minister of Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday secretly traveled to Moscow to discuss a possible cease-fire with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an Israeli official confirmed to Axios.Why it matters: This is a highly unusual move by Bennett, who has been communicating in recent days with both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Bennett briefed Zelensky by phone after Saturday’s meeting.
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A senior Israeli official said the meeting lasted for three hours. He added that Bennett asked Putin to set up humanitarian corridors to allow Ukrainian Jews to leave the country. They also discussed the effect of the war on the Jewish community in Russia.
The Israeli official said Bennett also discussed the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna and stressed his opposition to reviving the 2015 deal.
The state of play: The Israeli prime minister’s office notified the White House in advance of Bennett’s trip, an Israeli official told Axios.
On Friday, Bennett spoke by phone with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and informed him that he was planning to see Putin the next day, a source with knowledge of the conversation told Axios.
The source said Bennett didn’t ask permission but only notified Sullivan, who didn’t express any objection. Nevertheless the source said the Biden administration is skeptical about Bennett’s engagement with Putin.
An Israeli official said Israel also briefed Ukraine, Germany and France, including French President Emmanuel Macron, ahead of the meeting. The Israeli prime minister traveled on Saturday from Moscow to Berlin to update German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The big picture: Since the Russian invasion, Bennett has spoken twice each with Zelensky and Putin.
Bennett’s mediation effort started at the request of the Ukrainian president, Israeli officials say.
Bennett said publicly several days ago that Israel has a unique status that allows it to speak to both sides with which it has a good relationship.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
Azov Battalion (until September 2014), or simply Azov, is a right-wing extremist,[1][2] neo-Nazi,[3][4][5] formerly paramilitary unit of the National Guard of Ukraine,[6][7][8] based in Mariupol, in the Azov Sea coastal region.[9] Azov initially formed as a volunteer militia in May 2014[10] and has since been fighting Russian separatist forces in the Donbas War. It saw its first combat experience recapturing Mariupol from pro-Russian separatists in June 2014.[6] On 12 November 2014, Azov was incorporated into the National Guard of Ukraine, and since then all members have been official soldiers serving in the National Guard.[11][12]In 2014, the regiment gained attention after allegations of torture and war crimes,[13] as well as neo-Nazi sympathies and usage of associated symbols by the regiment, as seen in their logo featuring the Wolfsangel, one of the original symbols used by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.[citation needed] Representatives of the Azov Battalion say the symbol is an abbreviation for the slogan “Ідея Нації” (Ukrainian for “National Idea”) and deny any connection with Nazism.[13] In 2014, a spokesman for the regiment said around 10–20% of the unit were neo-Nazis.[14] In 2018, a provision in an appropriations bill passed by the United States Congress blocked military aid to Azov on the grounds of its white supremacist ideology; in 2015, a similar ban on aid to the group had been overturned by Congress.[3][4] Members of the regiment come from 22 countries and are of various backgrounds.[15][16]
The battalion then received training near Kyiv by instructors with experience in the Georgian Armed Forces.[24] The battalion started in Mariupol where it was involved in combat,[6] and was briefly relocated to Berdiansk.[29]
On 11 August, the Azov Battalion, backed by Ukrainian paratroopers, captured Marinka from pro-Russian rebels and entered the suburbs of Donetsk, clashing with Donetsk People’s Republic fighters.[33]
In early September 2014, the Azov Battalion was engaged in the Second Battle of Mariupol.[34] Regarding the ceasefire agreed on 5 September, Azov commander Andriy Biletsky stated: “If it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it … if it’s an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it’s a betrayal.”[35]
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TAE says Read More …..
1. to find the truth
2. to prepare
3. to avoid personal disaster• Revenge of the Putin-Nazis! (CJ Hopkins)
• Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities” (Greenwald)
• Ukraine Bans Exports Of Wheat, Oats And Other Food Staples (AP)
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Omicron seeks life
https://natehagens.substack.com/p/the-human-superorganism?s=r
The Human Superorganism
The Great SimplificationGiven events in Ukraine and world energy/commodity markets I decided to release the 2nd video in the series ‘The Human Superorganism’ before Video 3 (The Human Being) and Video 4 (The Great Simplification) are finished. The interconnections between energy, materials, money, technology, growth and the environment are about to become much more front and center in our lives. We are quite proud of this video – but it does end on a bit of a cliffs edge – so please tune back in in a few weeks for the final videos, and context for what this means for our lives, our cultural transition and what you can do at various scales.
———-Will you believe the story?
No electricity
No water
No heat
No lights
No food
No supplies
No garbage
Where are the nurses and doctors?Therefore, will send your wife to give birth in that maternity hospital
The elitist snob are making the riffraf dance.
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false flag no bio
no neonautzie
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The blood of the riffraf run in the street.How gullible is Trudeau?
In April 2015, nearly 300 members of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade were sent to Ukraine to train Ukrainian soldiers, including members of the Azov Battalion. They were joined by British, Canadian and Polish soldiers in Operation Fearless Guardian.
Some of Ukraine’s private battalions have blackened the country’s international reputation with their extremist views. The Azov battalion, partially funded by Taruta and Kolomoisky, uses the Nazi Wolfsangel symbol as its logo, and many of its members openly espouse neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic views. The battalion members have spoken about “bringing the war to Kiev,” and said that Ukraine needs “a strong dictator to come to power who could shed plenty of blood but unite the nation in the process.”
Send more guns.
According to the UN there are now plus 2 million people needing the service of “The Monastiraki kitchen”Titfortat
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/putin-signs-countermeasure-decree-limiting-russian-exports-after-bidens-russian-oil-import
Putin Signs Countermeasure Decree Limiting Russian Exports After Biden’s Russian Oil Import BanTAE Summary: “They lied about Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran; This time is different.”
That is why that I saved up all my tears and my sympathy for the Ukrainians being rendered homeless by the RussiansRussiansRussians
Did you get it? Go back and read Dr. D
TAE just explained1. The snobs are Herding humanity.
2. The snobs don’t care if a few bloggers figured how its done.
3. The snobs don’t care if bloggers explain the tools that are used.
4. The snobs control the microphonesWhat did I tell you?
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Trying to make friendshttps://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-dispatches-team-venezuela-amid-efforts-isolate-putin
Looming in the backdrop too is the Biden White House’s scramble to come up with alternative energy supplies to Europe given the rapidly unfolding Russian war in Ukraine.The administration also appears keen to cinch up the Iran nuclear deal, given opening up Iranian oil would provide possible quick relief amid alarmingly ratcheted oil prices.
In what appears a complete U-turn of Washington policy regarding Venezuela, senior Biden admin officials were dispatched to Caracas this weekend to meeting with the government of Nicolás Maduro.
The unexpected move is being widely reported as part of US efforts to break the large oil producer from “Russia’s influence” at a moment the White House and Europe are trying to economically and politically isolate Putin.
It likely came as a surprise to Maduro himself – given that not only has Washington long recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as ‘Interim President’ of the country, but has multiple times in recent years actually seized fuel shipments bound for Venezuela (from Iran), while also seeking to block Venezuela’s crude exports and seize some state assets.
During the last two years of the Trump administration, there was even talk of using the US Navy to impose a full oil embargo against the Latin American socialist country – and prior to that, short-lived attempts to foment local uprising among the military in an aim to overthrow Maduro.
The trip was made public Sunday via unnamed US administration officials, but wasn’t immediately confirmed by the White House. It evoked outrage among Venezuela hawks, most notably Marco Rubio:
News of the trip was first reported by The New York Times. That report prompted Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees and a vocal critic of the Maduro regime, to criticize the trip.
“Joe Biden using #Russia as an excuse to do the deal they always wanted to do anyway with the #MaduroRegime,” Rubio tweeted Sunday morning. “Rather than produce more American oil he wants to replace the oil we buy from one murderous dictator with oil from another murderous dictator.”
Adding to the unusual nature of the visit, the United States still doesn’t so much as have formal diplomatic relations with Caracas, given Washington broke them off in 2019 over accusations of Maduro’s ‘fraudulent’ reelection.
On Monday, The NY Times and CNN began reporting that President Biden is mulling the easing of Trump-era sanctions on Venezuela…
