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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcDMNJZbyAk[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcDMNJZbyAk ; Jimmy Dore briefs the United Nations about the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotageOn the one year anniversary of the Nord Stream pipeline bombing (Sept 26 2022), Dore briefs the UN council about endless war, Seymour Hersh, and Americans' confidence in our institutions: "The Western governments are silent even as the US says through anonymous sources that Ukraine is responsible for the Nord Stream attack, but they won't blame them publicly. And so the United States continues to arm Ukraine to the teeth in hopes of extending the war and avoid peace. The Germans say it's Ukraine but will not release their official investigation and will not make an announcement. The final obscenity is the people in the West who claim to be environmentalists and claim to care about climate change and the environment say nothing about the worse release of methane gas in human history, but in fact whose actions reveal they don't actually care about climate change and continue to support this war and its eco-terrorism. In a bizarre twist, even Greta Thunberg travelled to Ukraine to meet with Zelenksyy after the Nord Stream Bombing" Watch full Jimmy Dore and Dirk Pohlmann briefings with responses from Russia Federation, Japan, Gabon, Malta, Ecuador, China, Brasil and Switzerland - • Dirk Pohlmann and Jimmy Dore brief th... One Year On, Security Council Hears Renewed Calls to Determine the Cause of Undersea Explosions Targeting Nord Stream Gas Pipelines https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15422.... James Dore is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator/theorist, the host of The Jimmy Dore Show, a comedic political talk show on YouTube. / thejimmydoreshow Stef Zamorano's 𝕏 post: https://twitter.com/miserablelib/stat... 3:16 - Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is "gratified" that Nord Stream 2 is "a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea" - • Nuland is "gratified" that Nord Strea... 3:30 - Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken call Nord Stream sabotage 'a tremendous opportunity' - • Why did Blinken call Nord Stream sabo... 4:01 - Secretary of State Condi Rice in 2014 said "Over the long run you simply want to change the structure of energy dependence, you want to depend more on North American energy platforms" • Condoleezza Conoleeza Rice in 2014 Source: Watch full original with more speeches from the United Nations livestream - • United Nations - LIVE DJ...[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/hersh-reveals-us-motive-for-destruction-of-nord-stream-pipelines.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/hersh-reveals-us-motive-for-destruction-of-nord-stream-pipelines.html and [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hersh-reveals-motive-covert-nord-stream-sabotage-attack-one-year[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hersh-reveals-motive-covert-nord-stream-sabotage-attack-one-year One year ago the US blew up the main energy link between Russia and Germany; The Biden administration blew up the pipelines but the action had little to do with winning or stopping the war in Ukraine. It resulted from fears in the White House that Germany would waver and turn on the flow of Russia gas—and that Germany and then NATO, for economic reasons, would fall under the sway of Russia and its extensive and inexpensive natural resources. And thus followed the ultimate fear: that America would lose its long-standing primacy in Western Europe. Read the full Hersh report and subscribe at Substack DJ...western "media" keep spreading non-sense (NL NOS-news came up with 6 Ukrainians on a yacht bla-bla...you need a lot of explosives to blow up under sea gas pipelines-with a meter of concrete protection...) ------------- [url]https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/orange-alerts-for-severe-wind-and-intense-rain-as-storm-agnes-arrives-1531534.html[/url] or https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/orange-alerts-for-severe-wind-and-intense-rain-as-storm-agnes-arrives-1531534.html ; Updated: 9.20am Orange alerts have been issued for eight counties in the south of the country as Storm Agnes makes landfall. From 7am, a yellow wind alert took effect in Munster and Leinster, joined by a yellow alert for rain covering Carlow Dublin, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow, Cork, Kerry and Waterford. Both of these warnings will remain in place until midnight. linked to [url]https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/storm-agnes-north-atlantic-forecast-autumn-season-uk-ireland-europe-mk/[/url] or https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/storm-agnes-north-atlantic-forecast-autumn-season-uk-ireland-europe-mk/ ; North Atlantic has been active this month, with multiple storms moving into western Europe. Towards the tropical region, several intense hurricanes formed. Ophelia’s last storm hit the U.S. East Coast and is transforming into an extratropical storm. Its track will bring it to Ireland and the UK as an intense windstorm Agnes on Wednesday. Given its intensity forecast for the upcoming days, Agnes will become the first officially named North Atlantic storm of the season 2023/24. DJ...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Atlantic_hurricane_season#[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Atlantic_hurricane_season# Atlantic hurricanes not only bringing extreme weather to the America's but more and more also move north and end up in Europe...With even now storms forming in the South Atlantic-bringing floods/storm to a.o. Brazil/Argentina and then move towards South Africa... [url]https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,1759.3900.html#lastPost[/url] or https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,1759.3900.html#lastPost on Antarctica extreme melt... ----------- DJ, Lots of "experts" claimed CoViD, M-Pox was "over"...no longer any problem....just another lie to "save the economy/profits"..... and Did anyone ACTUALLY estimate the costs of "let it rip" vs the alternatives BEFORE declaring it was good for the economy? DJ....[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TeRfRQUQHA[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TeRfRQUQHA The Duran, [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/polish-minister-has-taken-steps-extradite-ukrainian-nazi-veteran-honored-trudeau-govt[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/political/polish-minister-has-taken-steps-extradite-ukrainian-nazi-veteran-honored-trudeau-govt ; Update (1420ET): The Speaker of Canada's House of Commons, Anthony Rota, has resigned after leading Parliament in praising a Ukrainian man who moved to Canada after fighting for a Nazi unit. ...when you bring in a 98 y/o "veteran" when do you think he was "fighting Russians"????Are all members of Canadian parliament this stupid ? Deny history, ignore science....buy "experts and politicians"....any criticism is "pro-Putin" propaganda and still call yourself a "democrazy".... Weeb Union [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaZvyEbnuMQ[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaZvyEbnuMQ STOP THIS WAR !!! ; You literally just voiced my feelings about all of this with your rant at the end. Not only all of this doesn't make sense, but Ukraine really doesn't benefit at all from what happened at the Canadian parliament a few days ago. Simple ukrainians, who just want to live peacefully, are the hostages of their own state and this needs to stop as soon as possible. DJ, when the Ukraine people voted for zelensky they voted for peace...only to be betrayed by a western NAZI-NATO puppet ! Western "politics" show a tendency to "unite" in insanity....utterly disgusting ! |
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War; [url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/mainstream-media-admit-ukraines-propaganda-is-full-of-lies.html[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/mainstream-media-admit-ukraines-propaganda-is-full-of-lies.html ; As a sign of the turning narrative of the war in Ukraine we find a new New York Times piece about 'disinformation' that is not about Russia but about lies from Ukraine. Then comes an astonishing admission: Few military analysts, [...], believe the Ukrainian military’s optimistic daily account of Russian casualties running into the hundreds that is nonetheless reported widely in Ukrainian media. It is the first time I see a public refutation of Ukraine's laughable claims about Russian casualties in the mainstream media. It is also an indictment of the Biden administration and the Pentagon who publicly use the Ukrainian numbers. DJ, then the nyt-pseudo-info goes on with claims of a "succesfull attack" on the Russian Black Sea HQ in Sebastopol...reality was 6 expensive western cruise missiles were used to blow up an empty 19th century building...The HQ is in a cold war era bunker...NOT in a easy to hit monument... [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/world-war-iii-about-start-part-i-drift-toward-war[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/world-war-iii-about-start-part-i-drift-toward-war and [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/world-war-iii-about-start-part-ii-are-military-industrial-complex-deep-state-driving[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/world-war-iii-about-start-part-ii-are-military-industrial-complex-deep-state-driving ; As BRICS, ASEAN and other countries increasingly trade in national currencies in lieu of Western reserve currencies, this results in weakening of those Western currencies, as evidenced by the drop in their purchasing power, aka inflation. Over time, the standards of living commensurate with the production of tradable goods will result in growing poverty in the U.S. and the EU that will result in social instability. But the damage will fall largely to the lower income echelons, resulting in growth in an already unsustainable wealth disparity, with the GINI factor for wealth distribution in the U.S. reaching 0.85 in 2020. This explains several observations:
It is dollar hegemony, dating back to the World War II-era Bretton Woods Agreements and the Nixonian removal of the international currency gold peg, that has allowed the U.S. to attempt overcoming its massive trade deficit and its public debt at $33.1 trillion and growing. Only by selling trillions of dollars of Treasury bonds to foreign countries, especially China, Japan, and Korea, has the U.S. been able to straddle the globe with the hundreds of military bases and other facilities it relies on to secure a world order friendly to its interests. For decades, foreign countries have needed dollars to trade in petroleum and other commodities. But with BRICS, that imperative may end sooner rather than later. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen has said this will never happen, but other policy makers are seeing the writing on the wall. Are the prospects of BRICS so serious that the U.S. could launch World War III against its main powers, Russia, China, and now Iran, as a last-ditch act of desperation as its entire world order veers toward collapse? It hardly bodes well that these three nations, along with North Korea, have been identified by Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee as the new “axis of evil.” She speaks for much of the U.S. political class. DJ We are facing the end of 500 years of western global domination....NATO "strategy" is based on Ukraine lies....(very likely even the MH17 Ukraine/NATO version is a lie-Ukraine shooting down a western civilian plane would be unacceptable so both Ukraine and NATO "switched" the story.... The "west" no longer is in control over "global developments"....western industry, infra structure (air)ports, (rail)roads etc.) "privatized out of neo-liberal ideology is falling in non-western hands high speed... A lot of "western car production" soon may be owned by Chinese companies...Blocking trade for 6G-chip making with China is resulting in China, Russia developing their own alternatives... So...will NATO go nuclear ? There are some groups-in part out of fear-that may push for that. An alternative is west-BRICS+ trade...diplomacy and an end to NATO agression...but that needs people able to "talk" diplomacy...not confrontation...and NATO is all about confrontation.... In a practical sense "BRICS+" may soon be most of the world someway involved...Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa allready is major...per 2024-only 3 months away- Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Argentina and the UAE will join BRICS+ [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#New_members[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#New_members with lots of other countries on the list as further new members... ( [url]https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/8/28/indonesias-absence-from-bigger-brics-echoesdecadesof-non-alignedpolicy[/url] or https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/8/28/indonesias-absence-from-bigger-brics-echoesdecadesof-non-alignedpolicy on Indonesia sticking to a sort of neutrality). So...with NATO getting more and more divided, the US facing a possible biden-trump election disaster, even the EU, UK may decide to go for deals with BRICS...Will the US "go nuclear" against the rest of the world ? Is the biden/neo-con-insanity that crazy ? |
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Pandemics; This wave will be almost invisible in terms of testing and data and coverage. They've removed every way of finding out how many people are infected. You'll just see the effects as it smashes into people's lives. You'll see hospitals overwhelmed and reacting late. You'll see institutions shaken and disruption of services. Later you'll see the numbers of people disabled, and the excess death statistics will be high high high. Welcome to the winter from hell. DJ, "the CoViD pandemic is over"lie...another way of killing millions.... [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-ba-2-86-news-scientists-alarmingly-discover-that-ba-2-86-variant-has-also-picked-up-flip-mutation-l455s[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-ba-2-86-news-scientists-alarmingly-discover-that-ba-2-86-variant-has-also-picked-up-flip-mutation-l455s DJ...The BA.2.86(.1 etc) variant of CoViD ("Omicron"...because "Omicron" would be the last variant of CoViD...) seems to be developing high speed. Lots of indications earlier infection or (new) vaccines (XBB.1.5) may NOT offer any protection.... But "we do not test-do not tell"...so "keep the story under control".... UK: School partially closes after 'rapid spike' in Covid cases. Uppingham Community College in Rutland said that 13 teaching staff members were absent on Tuesday. "We have reached a point where it is becoming unsafe to have all year groups in school.” DJ, maybe "politics"will make it illegal to get ill ? [url]https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/09/australia-covid-19-was-3rd-leading.html[/url] or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/09/australia-covid-19-was-3rd-leading.html ; Although minimizers like to equate COVID with seasonal influenza (which is far from benign), its impact has constantly exceeded what we've come to expect from regular flu. In 2022 Australia's Bureau of Statistics cited 305 deaths from influenza - up from just 2 in 2021 - but 9,859 deaths from COVID. Not only was COVID the 3rd leading cause of death in Australia last year, it was the first time since 1970 that an infectious disease had cracked the top 5 list. Despite the exactness of the numbers presented, not every influenza or COVID death is identified as such. We've looked at the difficulties in counting influenza and COVID deaths many times before (see here, here, and here).
Regardless of the exact number of cases, the abrupt ascent of COVID into 3rd place is remarkable. DJ CoViD infection results in less immunity against all kinds of other (infectious) diseases...The virus can do lots of damage to organs all over the body...so "hearth failure" could be the official cause of death...previous CoViD infection may have done the damage... If immunity against newest variants (like BA.2.86 there will be more !) is getting problematic-with both earlier infection and vaccines no longer offering "a break" we may face a worsening global health crisis and increase of excess deaths..."living with the virus" has become "dying from the virus"... Saving short term profits may bring long term total destruction.... CoViD, H5N1 etc. now also widespread in non-human hosts will result in perma- and poly-crises... We urgently need global cooperation to get out of this major disaster...but "media-for-sale" even deny this crisis.... Replying to As a retired doctor, I conclude that we are:
Post public health.
Post infection control.
In delayed development of treatments for long Covid.
Post maintaining adequate medical services.
Post publication of statistics to permit individual risk assessments.
A difficult situation DJ...a "difficult situation" is a major understatement.... We may be on our way to see massive spread of not only CoViD (co)infections but also lots of other diseases....You do not need 100% of the population dealing with long term health issues and death...Saving the economy NOW means communication of risks NOW !!!! Ventilation, masks, avoiding/limiting contacts, a stop of frr travel around the globe for all kinds of diseases...There are lots of steps we could and should take...but we are not doing that...[url]https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/27/fvcb-s27.html[/url] or https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/27/fvcb-s27.html ; Each M1 Abrams tank costs $15 million. Despite the deployment of hundreds of Western tanks and armored vehicles, Ukraine’s “spring offensive” has failed to achieve any significant breakthroughs. Dozens of these advanced vehicles sent by NATO have been destroyed over the summer. In the face of this disaster, the United States is removing the last remaining limits on its involvement in the conflict. DJ...trillions for a war industry...desinvestments in public healthcare.... |
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I started this section because "to much info" to deal with... Climate change is increasing [url]https://www.wur.nl/en/research-results/research-institutes/bioveterinary-research/animal-diseases/virology/bluetongue-1.htm[/url] or https://www.wur.nl/en/research-results/research-institutes/bioveterinary-research/animal-diseases/virology/bluetongue-1.htm ; Bluetongue (BT) is a non-contagious viral disease of sheep and other ruminants such as cattle and goats. The main route of infection is the bite of flies (midges) infected with the bluetongue virus (BTV). Sick animals cannot directly infect each other, and the disease can not be transmitted to humans. now widespread in NL... [url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/09/tiger-mosquitos-are-spotted-in-eight-dutch-provinces/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/09/tiger-mosquitos-are-spotted-in-eight-dutch-provinces/ Tiger mosquitos, which can spread diseases such as West Nile virus, dengue fever, and the Zika virus, have now been spotted in eight of the 12 Dutch provinces, according to product safety board NVWA. also clear climate link... [url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/09/one-in-two-dutch-will-get-cancer-as-population-ages/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/09/one-in-two-dutch-will-get-cancer-as-population-ages/ Half the Dutch will be given a cancer diagnosis at some point in their lives but survival chances are improving all around, according to Dutch cancer centre IKNL. Up to now, one in three people are diagnosed with cancer but rising life expectancy rates have pushed that up to one in two, the IKNL said this week. Lifestyle choices such as drinking alcohol, smoking, sunbathing and obesity are also all having an impact. Some 80% of those diagnosed with cancer are over the age of 60. Between 1990 and 2019 the diagnosis rate rose for women from 33% to 47% and for men from 40% to 54%. aging is another factor... [url]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/28/flooded-homes-as-storm-elias-hits-battered-volos-in-central-greece[/url] or https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/28/flooded-homes-as-storm-elias-hits-battered-volos-in-central-greece ; A powerful storm has hammered parts of central Greece, sweeping away roads, smashing bridges and flooding homes, just three weeks after heavy rains killed 16 people in the wider region. The new storm – called Elias – caused extensive flooding in the central city of Volos on Thursday and left hundreds stranded in nearby mountain villages. The fire service carried out multiple rescues and evacuations, authorities said. DJ, tourism used to be a major source of income for Greece. Wildfires and extreme heat may see more Greek tourists seeking cooler places... [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvd9FensT8[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvd9FensT8 ; DJ, some basic science behind the knowledge we have on climate collapse... Pandemics and climate change are inter linked in many ways. -More contact between humans and animals when humans move into the jungle more and animals are "on the move" to new feeding grounds and/or water... -Heat-fatigue, extreme weather making hosts more vulnerable for diseases -More conflicts over water/food with less water/food available.... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_of_2023[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_of_2023 gives an overview of weather events in 2023... Just a few days ago [url]https://www.ventusky.com/?p=42;-38;2&l=gust[/url] or https://www.ventusky.com/?p=42;-38;2&l=gust had a hurricane moving towards the UK/Northsea....it may be a matter of time.... The bigger climate/weather picture will see only more extreme weather with the jetstream only getting more "wild" and extreme warm oceans... [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/climate-changing-major-cold-trend-arrive-across-eastern-us[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/climate-changing-major-cold-trend-arrive-across-eastern-us "wierding" of the weather [url]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/global_weirding[/url] or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/global_weirding may see extreme cold in places that hardly see those temperatures... DJ-Some "writers" on Zero Hedge deny climate change, deny pandemics, deny de-$-ization.... Learning the "hard way" seems to be the only option left...However some persons would even deny the Titanic is sinking when they would be on that ship in 1912... ----------- The "human factor" to deny reality because it "is impossible to face reality" may be a big problem.... Exponential changes [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth#Biology[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth#Biology may mean; A step back from 100% if a "thing doubles every time" is 50%, before that 25%, 12,5% etc.... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth#Rice_on_a_chessboard[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth#Rice_on_a_chessboard Rice on a chessboard[edit]See also: Wheat and chessboard problem According to an old legend, vizier Sissa Ben Dahir presented an Indian King Sharim with a beautiful handmade chessboard. The king asked what he would like in return for his gift and the courtier surprised the king by asking for one grain of rice on the first square, two grains on the second, four grains on the third, etc. The king readily agreed and asked for the rice to be brought. All went well at first, but the requirement for 2n−1 grains on the nth square demanded over a million grains on the 21st square, more than a million million (a.k.a. trillion) on the 41st and there simply was not enough rice in the whole world for the final squares. (From Swirski, 2006)[12] The second half of the chessboard is the time when an exponentially growing influence is having a significant economic impact on an organization's overall business strategy. Water lily[edit]French children are offered a riddle, which appears to be an aspect of exponential growth: "the apparent suddenness with which an exponentially growing quantity approaches a fixed limit". The riddle imagines a water lily plant growing in a pond. The plant doubles in size every day and, if left alone, it would smother the pond in 30 days killing all the other living things in the water. Day after day, the plant's growth is small, so it is decided that it won't be a concern until it covers half of the pond. Which day will that be? The 29th day, leaving only one day to save the pond.[13][12] DJ, from climate to diseases exponential growth may simply be denied/ignored.... [url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html ; Summary: Total global temperature rise could be as much as 18.44°C by 2026 link [url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html DJ-the definition of "climate deaths" is not that clear....however there should not be any discussion on extreme weather killing people... At a certain moment, after yet another extreme weather event, countries, regions may NOT recover...get de-populated...End up as desert or under the sea...Already people that have the finance to move to more friendly weather regions are moving. It is the poor that end up in high risk area's facing famines, floods, disasters...Often refused as refugees... It is the mix of socio-economic factors on top of climate, health that is worsening the crises... |
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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr2CkFudBhg[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr2CkFudBhg Alex Christoforou; US shutdown over Ukraine. Blinken's turn to rewrite history. Russia isolated by Latin America. U/1DJ, At the Russia-Latin America top Putin mentioned the atin American freedom fighters, Che Guevera, Salvador Allede...both killed by the US, Fidel Castro...still "the west" claims "Russia is isolated".... A few comments; The event in Canada was sickening. The Canadian parliament must be de-Nazified. - As a German born American who lived through WWII and its aftermath in Germany, I can only echo Ben Norton’s sentiments. Despite my age and experience I can not understand the origins of the vile actions of our leaders and government, this truly cannot stand! anthony blinken; Eighty-two years ago, Nazis murdered 34,000 Jews at Babyn Yar. Soviets buried this history, which today Putin's government manipulates to provide cover for Russia's abuses in Ukraine. The U.S. is committed to justice for Holocaust survivors and accountability for atrocities. - Right now, #Kyiv has a thoroughfare leading to Babyn Yar, recently renamed (NOT, definitely not under the Soviets) after Stepan #Bandera, an ethno-nationalist fascist whose Ukrainian nationalists participated in the Holocaust, mass-murdered Poles, and tried to get their own Nazi satellite. He is now venerated in today's Ukraine. DJ...[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6y3l9xLBRs[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6y3l9xLBRs ; Scott Ritter is a former United Nations Weapons Inspector and US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer with extensive knowledge of Ukraine and Russia history. Today we explore the problems with the Russia Ukraine War and share insights into how it could end soon. 0:00 - Intro 1:55 - Welcome Scott Ritter 2:15 - Why the War Didn't Start in 2022 3:25 - US Ambassador Warns of Russian War 4:12 - How the Conflict Began in 1942 7:26 - If Putin Withdraws Will This Conflict End? 9:00 - Putin's Controversial Speech 13:55 - The Minsk Accords 15:00 - Did Russia Try to End the War? 18:10 - Why Russia Invaded Ukraine 21:05 - Why a Neutral Ukraine is Key to Peace 24:46 - Will there be a DMZ in Ukraine? 29:40 - Is America's Investment in Ukraine a Goof Thing? 31:50 - Is America Only Spending 5% of Military Budget? 35:05 - Is America Ukraine's Friend? 38:02 - When will the Ukraine War End? 40:32 - Problems with Ukrainian Refugees NATO more and more is sinking to nazi-nato level [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/slovakia-may-stop-backing-ukraine-war-after-populist-election-win[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/slovakia-may-stop-backing-ukraine-war-after-populist-election-win after Hungary now Slovakia is moving away from nazi-nato agression...No doubt -like Poland- Ukraine agriculture exports to the EU are a factor...Also very likely over 10 million Ukrainians fleeing their country are a burden. [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-abuse-europe-never-ending-while-hegemon-making-killing[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-abuse-europe-never-ending-while-hegemon-making-killing ; The bombing of the Nord Streams was the Rape of Europe Remixed – now performed by an American bull. As the indispensable Michael Hudson has detailed, domestic budgets of Germany and other EU/NATO nations are already in deficit territory – with the added “incentive” of the non-stop militarization of the EU. That will “force cutbacks in domestic government programs – just as Germany and its NATO neighbors are moving into a post-industrial depression in which families and businesses need subsidies to cover their rising heating and energy costs, and unemployment insurance.” Moreover, the euro will continue to plunge against the U.S. dollar, and may soon fall to 90 cents, or lower. Prof. Hudson’s conclusion is stark: “So what seemed to be a U.S./NATO war against Russia in Ukraine has been a stunning U.S. military victory to lock European NATO members into the U.S. orbit and block their plan to turn East for trade and investment with Russia and China.” DJ,,,however even in the US more and more people (both from the right and left !) wonder why the biden-"cult" keeps pushing for escalation...Could it be making profit out of war ? [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-mystery-plane-landed-pyongyang-making-washington-nervous[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-mystery-plane-landed-pyongyang-making-washington-nervous and [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdYj_4CwOqg[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdYj_4CwOqg Hindustan Times; Russia's Lancet drone destroyed a German-supplied Leopard tank of the Ukrainian military with a crew comprised of Bunderswehr soldiers in the Zaporizhzhya direction. The head of Russia's reconnaissance team said the injured soldier yelled 'nicht schießen' (do not shoot) in German. DJ, ursulavonderleyen-EU blaming Russia for the US nuclear attacks on Japan august 1945.... By now Russia-most of the world-has had enough of nazi-nato lies and betrayal...the "west" only makes deals to break deals...So more and more western made problems that can not be solved by talking will see "military solutions"..The NATO created "kosovo" may be ended by Serbia... |
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Good long video from Danny Haiphong [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3noH7gGWUo&t=7323s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3noH7gGWUo&t=7323s ; In this special roundtable, Scott Ritter Andrei Martyanov and Garland Nixon join the program to discuss the ongoing developments of the Ukraine proxy war, what it tells us about Russia, and the growth of the multipolar world in the context of history. a comment; I am Russian, I live in Moscow. I am amazed at how much Scott Ritter is a deep expert and has an understanding of Russia and Russians. For an American Marine, he is an incredibly deep expert on Russia. But he occasionally makes inaccuracies in fundamentally important things. For example, the Banderites killed Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and Russian Bolsheviks. Magyars are Hungarians. Hungarians were Hitler's allies, the Banderers did not kill them. Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union and fought on the side of the Nazis. DJ, now I know there have been tensions between Hungarians and "West-Ukrainians" in the past and now...The border is not well defined. Till the end of World War One most of the area was part of Austria-Hungary...After the 1917 revolution Polish and Ukraine "nationalists" a.o. did fight each other with the Polish forces at a moment not far from Kiev... By the way-during that time Finland also had a civil war between "the white" and "the red/bolsjeviks"...till 1917/18 Finland was part of Russia... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe)[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe) (and in part also [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia ) was part of Poland till september 1939. The Soviet Union occupied it after september 15. In 1941 nazi-Germany retook it... The 98 y/o SS Canadian in the Ottowa/Canada parliament joined the SS in 1943...That unit was murdering civilians in very high numbers...Articles down playing those crime; "fighting stalin was not always bad" do ignore that point...That 98 y/o Canadian from Polish/Ukraine background visited the parliament more than once...many people must have known his nazi-background and the mass murders he in part was responsible for...He was born in 1925 so 18 when he joined the SS.... --------------- [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk ; Born in Soviet Ukraine, Demjanjuk survived the Holodomor as a child and was conscripted into the Red Army in 1940. He fought in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Germans in spring 1942. He was recruited by the Germans and trained at Trawniki concentration camp, going on to serve at Sobibor extermination camp and at least two concentration camps. After the war he married a woman he met in a West German displaced persons camp, and emigrated with her and their daughter to the United States.[3] They settled in Seven Hills, Ohio, where he worked in an auto factory and raised three children. Demjanjuk became a US citizen in 1958. DJ, Holodomor was a stalin mass murder...however NOT an excuse for than mass murdering Jews... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera a.o. Radio Free Europe did give lots of jobs to former East European nazi's...bandera and his gang did get CIA support to create chaos in the USSR... -------------- [url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/04/prince-bernhards-membership-card-hitlers-party-found-archives[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/04/prince-bernhards-membership-card-hitlers-party-found-archives ; Prince Bernhard’s original membership card to the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler’s party, was found in the prince’s private archives. Flip Maarschakerweerd revealed that he found this convincing evidence that the Dutch prince had belonged to the Nazi party in his book De achterblijvers, which will be published on Wednesday. - But he also quickly found an explanation - a note from 1949 from Lucius Clay, the military administrator of the American zone in Germany. “Dear Prince Bernhard. I kept this in my safe for years. As I was about to destroy it, I thought you have earned the right to destroy it yourself.” The Americans must have found the documents in Germany, made the copies Aalders and Hilbrink found in the U.S., and sent the originals to Bernhard. See also; [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld#Attitudes_to_Nazi_Germany[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld#Attitudes_to_Nazi_Germany ; Prince Bernhard was a member of the "Reiter-SS", a mounted unit of the SS. He had also voluntarily joined the Nazi party in April 1933.[11] He later also joined the National Socialist Motor Corps. His Nazi Party membership card was found in his belongings after his death.[12] Bernhard consistently lied about being a member of the Nazi party throughout his life. Various members of his family and friends were aligned with the Nazis prior to the Second World War, and a number of them attended the royal wedding. Protocol demanded that the prospective Prince-Consort be invited to an audience with his head of state, who at the time was Adolf Hitler. Hitler gave an account of the conversation he had with Bernhard in his Tischgespräche (Table Conversations). This book was a collection of monologues, remarks, and speeches Hitler gave during lunch or dinner to those he had invited. DJ, there are lots of questions about "B".....he very likely helped franco starting a civil war in Spain, did get nazi's to safety during and after the war in Argentina... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Luns#Early_life[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Luns#Early_life "L"uns was a member of the Dutch nazi party NSB-still he became ambassador for NL in Lisbon-Portugal (under fascist rule) in World War Two and was a link between "bernhard", NL "royals" in the UK/Canada and their (in part nazi) family in Germany... It is more than likely most western royal families made profits out of the war... ---------------- [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrystia_Freeland#Ancestry[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrystia_Freeland#Ancestry ; Freeland's maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak, had been a journalist before World War II. During the war in Nazi-occupied Poland and later in Nazi-occupied Austria he was chief editor of the Ukrainian daily newspaper Krakivs'ki Visti (Kraków News) for the Nazi regime.[92] After Chomiak's death in 1984, John-Paul Himka, a professor of history at the University of Alberta, who was Chomiak's son-in-law (and also Freeland's uncle by marriage), used Chomiak's records, including old issues of the newspaper, as the basis of several scholarly papers focused on the coverage of Soviet mass murders of Ukrainian civilians. These papers also examined the use of these massacres as Nazi propaganda against Jews.[93][94][95] In 2017, when Russian-affiliated websites, e.g. Russia Insider and New Cold War, further publicized Chomiak's connection to Nazism, Freeland and her spokespeople responded by claiming that this was a Russian disinformation campaign during her appointment to the position of minister of foreign affairs.[96][97][98][99][92] Her office later denied Chomiak ever collaborated with Nazi Germany.[100] However, reporting by The Globe and Mail showed that Freeland had known of her grandfather's Nazi ties since at least 1996, when she helped edit a scholarly article by Himka for the Journal of Ukrainian Studies.[96] and [url]https://www.haaretz.com/2005-10-15/ty-article/polands-presidential-frontrunner-says-shocked-by-familys-nazi-links/0000017f-f83f-d044-adff-fbff9a4d0000[/url] or https://www.haaretz.com/2005-10-15/ty-article/polands-presidential-frontrunner-says-shocked-by-familys-nazi-links/0000017f-f83f-d044-adff-fbff9a4d0000 ; Polish presidential frontrunner Donald Tusk said on Friday he was shocked to learn from media reports that his grandfather served briefly in the German army during the Nazis' brutal occupation of Poland in World War Two. DJ...Donald Tusk may become the next Polish head of State... -------------- How to deal with the past ? Face it ! [url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/05/king-responds-revelation-grandfathers-nsdap-membership-must-face-past[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/05/king-responds-revelation-grandfathers-nsdap-membership-must-face-past ...The Dutch royals made lots of money from slave trade - maybe even in the 19th century..."Wilhelmina" did not want German Jewish refugees near the "Loo" palace before may 1940...during the war she believed NL should get a military government after liberation... "Bernhard" did get to know the grandfather of present "queen maxima" in 1943 seeking safe places for high ranking naziś in Argentina...KLM did help those nazi's to escape from Europe... Since most European royals have German family links -and in most cases kept contacts going till 1945- there was a lot of links between nazi-Germany and many royals...Before the war started most of the "west" did see hitler as a "good answer" to stalin... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust ...lots of US companies banks had open trade with nazi-Germany till december 1941...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta ...Fanta originated in Germany as a Coca-Cola alternative in 1940 due to the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany, which affected the availability of Coca-Cola ingredients. Fanta soon dominated the German market with three million cases sold in 1943. The current formulation of Fanta, with orange flavour, was developed in Italy in 1955. DJ [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbmzarfzd9Y[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbmzarfzd9Y ; American companies funded Hitler before and during World War 2. Extract from the Corporation documentary of course henry ford even did get nazi medals...US (bush linked) banks financed hitler... -------------- There are lots of historical links between nazi's and "NATO" started in 1949...[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable ; Operation Unthinkable was the name given to two related possible future war plans developed by the British Chiefs of Staff Committee against the USSR during 1945. The plans were never implemented. The creation of the plans was ordered by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in May 1945 and developed by the British Armed Forces' Joint Planning Staff in May 1945 at the end of World War II in Europe.[1] One plan assumed a surprise attack on the Soviet forces stationed in Germany to impose "the will of the United States and British Empire"[2] on the Soviets. "The will" was qualified as "a square deal for Poland",[3] which probably meant enforcing the recently signed Yalta Agreement. The planners decided that without American help, the British would probably fail. The assessment, signed by the Chief of Army Staff on 9 June 1945, concluded: "It would be beyond our power to win a quick but limited success and we would be committed to a protracted war against heavy odds".[4][not specific enough to verify] The code name was now reused instead for a second plan, which was a defensive scenario by which the British were to defend against a Soviet drive towards the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean after the withdrawal of the American forces from the Continent. When the Labour Party acquired power by the 1945 general election, it ignored the draft plan. The study became the first Cold War-era contingency plan for war against the USSR.[5] Both plans were very secret and were not made public until 1998[6] although a British spy for the Soviets, Guy Burgess, had revealed some details to the Soviets at the time.[7] DJ...the UK did have conflicts with Russia in the 19th century...both in Afghanistan and western China (Uyghurs) Russia moving south did meet with UK/British India moving north... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran ; The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran or Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The two powers announced that they would stay until six months after the end of the war with their enemy Nazi Germany (World War II), which turned out to be 2 March 1946. On that date the British began to withdraw, but Moscow delayed until May, citing "threats to Soviet security".[4] DJ, the UK/USSR 1941 invasion of Iran was based on the idea Iran may trade oil with Germany/Italy... Lots of present day "items" from the Uyghurs in western China, Iran, to US/Canada/UK working with nazi's against Russia/USSR have their roots in history...Ukraine is just one of them... "Media/politics" often not even knowing ANY history have become an insult to humanity... |
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[url]https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/the-split-in-israel-and-the-war-of-al-aqsa.html#[/url] or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/the-split-in-israel-and-the-war-of-al-aqsa.html# ; The Split In Israel And The War Of Al-AqsaWhat is the reason for the 'Al-Aqsa Deluge', as Hamas had named its terror operation against the Zionists? On October 8 Alastair Crooke, one of most experienced Middle East hands, wrote in AlMahadeen: "Israel" has shattered into two equally weighted factions holding to two irreconcilable visions of "Israel’s" future; two mutually opposing readings of history and of what it means to be Jewish. Mizrahi are mostly the original Middle Eastern Jews and often on the religious far right, Ashkenazi are mostly liberal European ones. The current Netanyahoo government is the first which includes far-right Mizrahi ministers. Most Mizrahi follow the Sephardi religious rites. They want an religious state based on Jewish law. They are as radial as ISIS. The high court of Israel has 14 Ashkenazi judges and one Mizrahi one. It is one of the reasons why the Netanyahoo government wants the parliament to be able to vote down high court judgements. There have been large, U.S. sponsored 'regime change' protests in Israel against that move. The leaders of the military and security services, mostly Ashkenazi, have also opposed the government move against the court. I therefore think that it is quite possible that there was intelligence pointing to the Hamas attack, but that it was not revealed to let Netanyahoo fall into a trap. We have however no evidence that there were reasonably precise intelligence warnings, or that they were held up. There are already demands for Netanyahoo to go. If only for his long term sponsoring of Hamas as a counterweight to the more secular Fatah Palestinians. Should he no longer be prime minister the courts will take up the three bribe cases against him which are currently pending. He would likely end up in jail. Another reason for Hamas' success was the fact that three of the four infantry battalions, with 800 soldiers each, that usually guard the Gaza strip, had been moved to the West Bank to protect right-wing Zionist settlers during a religious holiday. This allowed for Hamas' easy breach of the fence. Back to Alastair Crooke on the real motive of the Al-Aqsa flood: Well, the Right in Netanyahu’s government has two long-standing commitments. One is to rebuild the (Jewish) Temple on ‘Temple Mount’ (Haram al-Shariff). DJ...the history of Israel is a mix of a lot of religion and "an interpretation" of archeology... There is by the way no archaeologic evidence, none, that a Jewish 'Temple' ever existed in Jerusalem. If it did, it was most likely not on the hill of Al-Aqsa but one of the six other ones. rewriting history for political goals is not new...In fact untill the post 1945 years history was used for patriotism, religion etc... ---------- There is a split in politics in many countries-not only in Israel... Sunday october 15 Poland will see its elections; the [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Polish_parliamentary_election[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Polish_parliamentary_election at least in the media has become a fight between pro-EU (US linked ?) donald tusk grandson of [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Tusk[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Tusk ; Józef Tusk (23 March 1907 – 12 June 1987) was the grandfather of the former Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk. During World War II, he served in the Wehrmacht, which proved to be controversial during the 2005 Polish presidential election DJ [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Tusk[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Tusk ; Tusk was born in Gdańsk in northern Poland.[8] He has Polish, German (maternal grandmother)[9] and Kashubian[10][11] ancestry. His father, Donald Tusk senior (1929–1972), was a carpenter whilst his mother, Ewa (née Dawidowska) Tusk (1934–2009),[12][13] was a nurse.[8] The family's language was Danzig German.[14] His grandfather, Józef Tusk (1907–1987), was a railway official who was imprisoned at the Neuengamme concentration camp; later, as a former citizen of the Free City of Danzig, he was apparently conscripted by German authorities into the Wehrmacht. Later on, he was successful in joining the Polish Armed Forces in the West.[15] Tusk has described the city of his youth as "a typical frontier town" with "many borders ... between ethnicities". This, together with his Kashubian ethnic ancestry and multilingual family, meant that he grew up with an awareness that "nothing is simple in life or in history", which informed his adult political view that it is "best to be immune to every kind of orthodoxy, of ideology and most importantly, nationalism". He has described his young life under communism as "so hopeless" due to the boredom and monotony, with "no hope for anything to change". His young self was a "typical hooligan" who often got into fights – "we would roam the streets, you know, cruising for a bruising."[16] Tusk credits his interest in politics to watching clashes between striking workers and riot police when he was a teenager.[8] He enrolled at the University of Gdańsk to study history, and graduated in 1980.[17] While studying, he was active in the Student Committee of Solidarity, a group that opposed Poland's communist rule at the time.[17] DJ...my view-the present EU is totally derailed-a US puppet... The present ruling Polish party [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice ; Law and Justice (Polish: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość [ˈpravɔ i ˌspravjɛˈdlivɔɕt͡ɕ] ⓘ, PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It is the dominant party in Poland. Often considered to be a Christian nationalist party, the party is commonly seen in Poland as being a de facto political proxy of the Polish Catholic Church.[3][4] DJ a mix of religion and politics is not welcome ! Everybody has some basic beliefs-however when people claim to speak in the name of a deity - a "god"- they may forget they themselves are "only" human...religion was the first form of [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism ... -Another point is there should be lots of nuances in a well organized democracy...it should not become a two-party/uni-party system....If people have to feel represented one needs lots of parties-a coalition to make laws... DJ-I do NOT feel represented by NL-PM rutte or the present crazy EU...I consider myself "green" but I am totally disgusted by the German warmongers calling themselves the "green party"...(now promoting coal...to beat Russia...). Western "democracy" is in chaos/collapse...censorship, tax-funded media, are not making matters any better... The US, UK but even NL could see a "political elite" spread over the major parties in fact destroying democracy... |
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NATO defending oil...Israel as a bridgehead to keep control over oil and gas...It worked for decades... [url]https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2023-10-18/ahli-hospital-gaza-gaslit/[/url] or https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2023-10-18/ahli-hospital-gaza-gaslit/ ; This is another Iraqi WMD moment. We are being gaslit. Believe your eyes and ears, and the laws of physics, not the lies being peddled by our leaders and media about last night’s missile strike on the Baptist hospital in Gaza: 1. No Palestinian group has a rocket that can hit a hospital, killing hundreds. What they have are glorified fireworks that can cause minor damage and the occasional death or two. If Hamas or Islamic Jihad could cause the kind of damage that happened last night, you would hear about it happening in Tel Aviv or Ashkelon too. You don’t, because they can’t. 2. Israel’s apologists (and there are lots of them) are sharing all sorts of videos unrelated to the hospital strike. But the video of the strike itself shows that an incredibly large and powerful weapon is used. Listen to the noise the missile makes just before the hit – that whooshing noise is caused by its phenomenal velocity as it cuts through the air. That is not the noise of a falling Palestinian rocket. - [url]https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/20/dutch-civil-servants-criticize-cabinets-unconditional-support-israel[/url] or https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/20/dutch-civil-servants-criticize-cabinets-unconditional-support-israel ; A group of civil servants from various ministries expressed in a letter to the Cabinet their "serious concerns about the unconditional support" for Israel. The letter, first reported by De Telegraaf and also reviewed by ANP, urges the government to put a stop to Israel and calls on them to address Israel's responsibilities "as an occupier of the Palestinian territories." While these civil servants condemn the "horrific" attacks by Hamas, they criticize the lack of a clear stance on Israel's response to them. They believe Israel undermines international law and uses disproportionate force, noting that Israel sees the high number of civilian casualties in Gaza as legitimate collateral damage. "Up to this point, Israel has shown no restraint in its response, citing self-defense,” the civil servants wrote. They also observe that the Netherlands is not showing restraint either. They request a strong condemnation of the "excessive violence in Gaza" and urge the Cabinet to remind Israel "of the importance of acting within the guidelines of international humanitarian law." They point out that Israel has committed war crimes in the past and will continue to do so if not held accountable. The civil servants also ask the Cabinet to work towards a diplomatic solution, advocating for de-escalation, dialogue, and efforts to achieve lasting peace. At 4:00 p.m. on Friday, nearly 300 civil servants had signed the letter. While this number is growing, it is a relatively small fraction of the tens of thousands of employees working in ministries. The letter can be signed until Wednesday morning, after which it will be emailed to all government officials. On Tuesday, it was reported that hundreds of students signed an open letter addressed to the board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The authors of the letter criticize the university's stance on Israel and believe it should express support for the Palestinians. Leiden University also noted growing concerns among students regarding the events in Israel and Gaza. A spokesperson said that during lectures or via emails, they have received inquiries from concerned individuals from both the Jewish and Palestinian communities who want to share their perspectives and are "sometimes also angry." Some students asked if Leiden University would make a political statement, but the university believes that would not "contribute to resolving the conflict. DJ, Foreign ministry workers openly call NL "politics" racist...PM rutte, EU "thug"vonderleyen etc. defending oil/Israel...even if Israel is killing thousends of Palestinians... |
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DJ, I try not to waste to much time on crazy lies... "Russia now recruiting women because they did run out of men" to fight against NATO in Ukraine ....Please ! The absurdity ! [url]https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#top20[/url] or https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#top20 Russian population 144,2 million..."but running out of men".... and DJ...the NATO-west seems to have lost any contact with reality... Non-western press under attack...western "media" owned by a war industry.... When you call the Israeli "action" an act of (state) terror YOU are called "radical".... Also in Ukraine NATO is involved in genocide...like in Iraq, Yemen, Libya... DJ...the UN stated the Hamas act of terror was "not in a vacuüm"...Israel making that into Guterres is supporting Hamas... In NL "From the river to the sea-Palestine will be free" in parliament has been voted as "promoting violence"....I think a Negev-link between Gaza and the West-Bank -as a Palestine-State- could be a way out of this conflict..."from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean Sea...but with also room for Israel... If any compromise becomes impossible conflict only worsens... If you are NOT allowed to question your government is there stilll any democracy left ? |
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DJ From ;[url]https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/fifty-50-u-s-military-transport-planes-in-24-hours-to-middle-east[/url] or https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/fifty-50-u-s-military-transport-planes-in-24-hours-to-middle-east ; UPDATE 12:27 PM EDT -- The Turkish Navy is, right now, transiting ONE-HUNDRED Naval Warships through the Bosporus Strait from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It is BELIEVED Turkey plans to engage Israel over its ongoing military action in Gaza. War may break out between Turkey and Israel within Hours! ! ! ! However [url]https://www.dailysabah.com/business/defense/turkish-navy-conducts-its-largest-parade-to-honor-republics-100-years[/url] or https://www.dailysabah.com/business/defense/turkish-navy-conducts-its-largest-parade-to-honor-republics-100-years ; Turkish navy conducts its largest parade to honor republic's 100 yearsBY DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIESISTANBUL OCT 29, 2023 - 2:54 PM GMT+3DJ turns out to be more correct... The Middle East situation is terrible...but so far yet no indication Türkiye may intervene in Gaza... |
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See if I can copy this... DJ...well [url]https://twitter.com/mateo_tao/status/1718267679914463450/photo/1[/url] or https://twitter.com/mateo_tao/status/1718267679914463450/photo/1 may have ended up under this item...Israel not only killing Palestinians but also journalist reporting on it... and - DJ.... How valid is the netanyahu claim of 1400 to 1600 Israeli deaths...another question is killed by who ? Again-why did security do such an "extreme bad job" on october 7 ???? |
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DJ, In Gaza 35 journalist got killed. Most-if not all-by direct Israeli attacks (with US/NATO weapons).... [url]https://rsf.org/en/rsf-video-investigation-death-reuters-reporter-issam-abdallah-lebanon-journalists-vehicle-was[/url] or https://rsf.org/en/rsf-video-investigation-death-reuters-reporter-issam-abdallah-lebanon-journalists-vehicle-was ; Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released a video reconstruction of the tragedy that resulted in the death of one journalist and the injury of several others. The initial findings of the investigation show that the reporters were not collateral victims of the shooting. One of their vehicles, marked "press", was targeted, and it was also clear that the group stationed next to it was journalists. DJ, both the US and Israel have the very bad habbit of killing journalists/reporters NOT working for their "embedded/controlled" media.... [url]https://rsf.org/en/rsf-launches-global-collateral-damage-campaign-highlighting-danger-assange-prosecution-media-and[/url] or https://rsf.org/en/rsf-launches-global-collateral-damage-campaign-highlighting-danger-assange-prosecution-media-and ; “As Julian Assange’s fate hangs in the balance, it is more crucial than ever for media organisations and journalists around the world to speak out in support of the principles at stake. If the US government succeeds in extraditing Assange and prosecuting him under the Espionage Act, anyone who publishes stories based on leaked classified information could be next - and the resulting impact will ultimately be on all of our right to know. It’s time for global solidarity in support of journalism and press freedom, before it’s too late. Rebecca Vincent RSF’s Director of Campaigns DJ..."politicians" hiding their lies and crimes and going after those that want responsible politics...REAL democracy ! This is also meant against "presstitution"...embedded media/pseudo "journalists" with very biased reporting...Here in NL "NOS news" simply playing with "claims of Israeli bombings" killing thousends of Palestinians...but "Russian war crimes" in Ukraine most of the time only wounding a limited number of civilians... "NOS news" like BBC, DW, France24 etc simply playing Ukraine/Israel propaganda clips...Ignoring often Ukraine/Israel war crimes... [url]https://rsf.org/en/rsf-investigation-congolese-reporter-didn-t-forge-memo-could-get-him-10-years-prison[/url] or https://rsf.org/en/rsf-investigation-congolese-reporter-didn-t-forge-memo-could-get-him-10-years-prison ; A reporter held in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 8 September is due to appear in court again on 3 November on a clearly trumped-up charge of fabricating an intelligence agency memo and sending it to Jeune Afrique, the Paris-based news magazine he works for. Several sources confirmed to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) that the memo really was written by the DRC’s National Intelligence Agency (ANR). Another way of silencing reporters is false accusations... An old trick-Nixon/Vietnam was send in the tax people... Russia, China do NOT have a "free press"...the "west" should be doing better but "1984-laws" on "fake news" did bring such a lot of censorship democracy has become "democrazy"...The only "real news" is in the hands of an industry promoting wars... |
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Of course "the climate debate"is also full of lies bringing lots of deaths; [url]https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-climate-of-the-unthinkable-on-a-burning-earth.html[/url] or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-climate-of-the-unthinkable-on-a-burning-earth.html ; Having turned a deaf ear to the basic laws of nature, ignoring the essential lessons from climate science, the powers that be have no idea, nor do they appear to care about, the rate and scale of the calamity life on Earth is facing. Nowadays major untruths are propagated by a media subservient to the powers that be.
DJ, At the end we are fooling ourselves...but airpolution killing over 6 million people per year..."no problem"...Gaza-genocide is "self defense"...under cover of US/UK and Israeli nuclear blackmail... [url]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-24/odyssey-climate-scientists-suppress-truth-or-risk-funds-careers/102968970[/url] or https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-24/odyssey-climate-scientists-suppress-truth-or-risk-funds-careers/102968970 ; As a public servant with the Australian Antarctic Division, she operated inside a system where any outside communication about her scientific work was carefully calibrated, crafted and monitored. But, eventually, that calibration went beyond what Bergstrom thinks can be justified. “I was gagged,” she says. Recently retired, Bergstrom is now speaking out about being silenced. “I went with it, I was a good public servant. “But it was disheartening to not be able to tell the whole story.” DJ, the basic idea that "everything is for sale' is a mental illness destroying our world.... |
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- - Readers added context This picture was posted in May 2023 right after a school mass shooting took place in Belgrade. Serbian people were shocked by the tragedy and marched against violence. twitter.com/Sladjalica/sta… Do you find this helpful? DJ...Live webcam from Nuuk-Greenland... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuuk[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuuk ; Nuuk (Greenlandic pronunciation: [nuːk] ⓘ; Danish: Nuuk,[1] formerly Godthåb [ˈkʌtˌhɔˀp])[2] is the capital of and most populous city in Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the territory's largest cultural and economic center. The major cities from other countries closest to the capital are Iqaluit and St. John's in Canada and Reykjavík in Iceland. Nuuk contains a third of Greenland's population and its tallest building. Nuuk is also the seat of government for the Sermersooq municipality. In January 2023, it had a population of 19,604.[3] Nuuk is considered a modernized city after the policy began in 1950.[4] [url]https://webcam.nl/curacao/[/url] or https://webcam.nl/curacao/ DJ...if you do not know Willemstad/Curacou is NOT Nuuk/Greenland ...Maybe someone could use the Willemstad webcam to claim "Gaza" is so happy being bombed with US bombs ? Too many people believe too readily whatever comes through the television through the cable news outlets. This is killing us. People must raise questions and challenge what they are hearing. The people in the White House, Defense Department and State Department are clearly there to tell you and me what we are 'supposed to believe.' There is no unbiased presentation of facts. - It was coverage of Obama’s “moderate rebels” in Syria that made me suspicious of TV news. It was coverage of the deep state’s Russian collusion delusion that pushed me over the edge: I cancelled my TV cable subscription, and never looked back. Have not seen a TV show in soon 7 years! DJ, Here in NL "nos" has become a propaganda-outlet...maybe it always was...I once trusted "nos", "bbc" etc...eventough I always also wanted to hear other visions-try to balance/understand views...Short Wave radio -over 50 years ago...Radio Moscow even had broadcasts in Dutch..."radio Pretoria" from South Africa... I enjoyed [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel on [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Forces_Broadcasting_Service[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Forces_Broadcasting_Service ...even [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFN_Frankfurt[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFN_Frankfurt on MW...with broadcasts from the US... Hard to imagine what the world looked like before internet...As always "new things bring good and bad"... |
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Conversation- I’m genuinely fed up. Let’s just do it. Let’s just go to war with Iran and Russia and even China while we’re at it. Let’s do it. Head to head. Stop this never ending cycle of fear mongering and war mongering. Just fucking get it over it. Americans will die. America will lose. There’s no way we win and honestly it’s probably for the best. Maybe then the world will demand we are demilitarized and we can dismantle the military industrial complex and finally begin focusing on building our own damn country. I’m so sick of the war mongers talking tough on TV about “strong responses”. Fine. Let’s do it. Stop these bullshit proxy wars and go bomb Iran. Go bomb Russia. Go bomb China. Get. It. Fucking. Over. With. - The Duran [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ4BWvcAo1g[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ4BWvcAo1g ; Sunak faces election wipe out. Russia sanctions sink UK economyDJ, In the UK, France, Germany, NL, USA, the alternative for the "present elite" is another type of "the present elite"... Democracy has become democrazy.... The war in Ukraine is ending in catastrophic defeat for Ukraine and the United States. The war in the Middle East is just beginning, and it will not end when the Israeli State decides to stop fighting. Washington confronts a world it does not know or understand. The House Republicans’ recent “Plan for Victory in Ukraine” exemplifies an acute lack of understanding. and DJ, western "leaders" destroying the west... - These female soldiers belong to a military that is starving pregnant Palestinian women of food and water, forcing Palestinian women to have c-sections without anesthesia while killing their premature babies. It’s the equivalent of publishing a glowing profile of Germany’s female soldiers during WW2. There is NOTHING feminist about settlers and genocide. What a shameful and unforgivable whitewash by the New York Times. DJ...a lot of western citizens may found out they have been "fooled" f..ked up to over their ears...robbed, bankrupted by a criminal political gang... [url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/01/milieudefensie-takes-on-ing-with-legal-action-on-climate-change/[/url] or https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/01/milieudefensie-takes-on-ing-with-legal-action-on-climate-change/ ..."banksters" destroying the planet... |
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It is very possible that in 2024, all these lines of fracture — wars and revolutions, conflicts and uprisings, waves of terrorist attacks, and new territories of genocide — will escalate into something massive. The declining wave of the unipolar world is already giving way to the rising multipolar one. And this is inevitable. The dragon of globalism is mortally wounded. But it is known how dangerous the agony of a wounded dragon is. The global elite of the West is insane. There are many reasons to believe that in 2024 there will be something terrible. We are at arm’s length from a world war. On all fronts. If it cannot be avoided, then there is nothing left but to win it. We must slay the dragon to free humanity from its villainous enchantments, and even the West itself, which is its first victim. — Excerpt: Slaying the Dragon: The World Stands on the Brink of Global War by Alexander Dugin https://arktosjournal.com/p/slaying-the-dragon-the-world-stands and Biden Has Started Another US War The Washington Post has an article out titled “As Houthis vow to fight on, U.S. prepares for sustained campaign,” with “sustained campaign” being empire-speak for a new American war. “The Biden administration is crafting plans for a sustained military campaign targeting the Houthis in Yemen after 10 days of strikes failed to halt the group’s attacks on maritime commerce, stoking concern among some officials that an open-ended operation could derail the war-ravaged country’s fragile peace and pull Washington into another unpredictable Middle Eastern conflict,” the Post reports. The Post acknowledges that “sustained military campaign” means “war” in the ninth paragraph of the article, saying the anonymous US officials cited in the report “don’t expect that the operation will stretch on for years like previous U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria.” Which is about as reassuring as a pyromaniac saying he doesn’t expect he’ll be burning down any more houses like all those other houses he’s burned down. This bizarre refusal to just call a war a war also appeared in a recent press conference with Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh, who acted shocked and aghast that reporters would even ask if repeatedly bombing a country would qualify as being at war with them. “Is it now fair to say that the U.S. is at war in Yemen?” Singh was asked by a Reuters reporter on Thursday. “No, we don’t seek war,” Singh replied. “We don’t think that we are at war. We don’t want to see a regional war. The Houthis are the ones that continue to launch cruise missiles, antiship missiles at innocent mariners, at commercial vessels that are just transiting an area that sees, you know, 10 to 15 percent of world’s commerce.” In a follow-up several questions later, Singh was asked by a reporter from Politico, “You said that we are not at war with the Houthis, but if — you know, this tit-for-tat bombing — we’ve bombed them five times now. So if this isn’t war, can you just explain this a little — a little bit more to us? If this isn’t war, what is war?” “Sure, Lara, sure, great question, I just wasn’t expecting it phrased exactly that way,” Singh replied with a laugh and a smirk. “Look, we are — we do not seek war. We are — we do not — we are not at war with the Houthis. In terms of a definition, I think that would be more of a clear declaration from the United States. But again, what we are doing and the actions that we are taking are defensive in nature.” It is worth noting that since that Thursday press conference the number of US strikes on Yemen has increased from five to seven as of this writing. It is also worth noting here that, per Singh’s absurd definition, the US has not been at war since the end of WWII, as there has not been a “clear declaration of war” since June 5, 1942. The only wars the US has officially declared through congress in accordance with its own constitution have been the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and the two world wars. If you go by this definition the US is among the more peaceful nations in the world, since it hasn’t been at war in eight decades. In reality the US is the single most warlike and murderous nation of modern times with wars of aggression that have killed millions and displaced tens of millions just in the 21st century alone, and plays some role in most of the world’s major international conflicts. Singh’s claim that the US attacks on Yemen are “defensive in nature” is also self-evidently absurd; Yemeni forces weren’t even attacking American commercial vessels until the US began attacking them. Only the US could launch unprovoked attacks on a foreign nation on the other side of the planet and call it self-defense. DJ...by not declaring war one may claim the US is the center of peace and cooperation...The goal is to stop/destroy BRICS ! "reuters" claiming Saudi Arabia "may not join BRICS"...DJ-Very likely the Saudi's have two reasons to join BRICS; India and China... [url]https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/20/ivep-j20.html[/url] or https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/20/ivep-j20.html ; As the NATO imperialist powers back Israel’s genocide in Gaza, they are setting into motion an explosion of world war across Europe. At a meeting of NATO army chiefs in Brussels on Thursday, NATO Commander-in-Chief Christopher Cavoli announced Exercise Steadfast Defender, which will begin next week and last until May. This NATO manoeuvre, the largest since the Cold War, is preparation for a total NATO war mobilisation against Russia. DJ...since the west did make a total mess of so many things (pandemic, climate, economy/debt)..."war is the way out"...crazy ! |
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The entire western liberal worldview is currently balanced on the ability to psychologically compartmentalize away from the mass atrocities in Gaza and what western governments are doing to perpetuate them. Everything that mainstream liberals claim to oppose is on full display in Israel's actions in Gaza. Racism. Fascism. Tyranny. Injustice. Genocide. Yet they must necessarily avoid throwing themselves into opposing these things there at all cost, because it would mean acknowledging that their own political allegiances are inseparably interwoven with them. It would mean turning against Biden during an election year. It would mean admitting that their entire political posture against Trump all these years has been a phony performance, because they're tacitly endorsing all the things they claimed to hate about him. It would mean admitting their entire worldview is a lie, and that all their critics to their left have been correct. The western liberal is therefore engaged in an exhausting regimen of nonstop mental gymnastics to avoid having a real relationship with Gaza in the year 2024. They squirm this way and that, twisting their gaze toward empty nonsense like Barbie movie Oscar snubs and Trump's latest instance of verbal diarrhea to avoid looking at what's happening. On those odd occasions when they are forced to confront the reality of Gaza they start spouting gibberish about how "complicated" and "heartbreaking" it is and how they hope there can be peace as soon as possible, while frenetically avoiding saying precisely how that "peace" should be brought about. Gaza exposes the mainstream western liberal ideology for the kayfabe performance it always has been. The job of the so-called liberal "moderate" has never been to oppose racism, fascism, tyranny, injustice or genocide, their job is to perpetually give the thumbs-up to one head of the two-headed monster that is the murderous western empire. Their job is to help put a positive spin on a globe-spanning power structure that is fueled by human blood. To help elect Bidens and Starmers and Trudeaus and Albaneses who will ensure that the gears of the empire keep on turning completely unhindered while paying lip service to human rights and social justice. The one faint glimmer of brightness in this profoundly dark chapter in human history is that it might start opening some eyes to the fraudulence of the mainstream fake-left political faction that has been marketed to the western public as an alternative to far right depravity. That westerners might start awakening to the reality that everything they've been trained to believe about politics, their government and their world is a lie. Such an awakening would be the first step toward a mass-scale movement into health. - DJ, somehow biden/western elite is unable to see any limit, any red line... |
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If the Gaza genocide had happened pre-internet it would've been a fringe issue hardly anyone knew about. The western press would have been able to get away with exponentially more cover-ups of Israeli crimes, western politicians would've been able to get away with way more lies about what's really happening, Israeli officials would have been far less careful about their statements of genocidal intent in their own media, and the IDF would've been vastly more blatant and obvious about its extermination campaign. It's only because normal people are getting eyes into what's really happening that this issue is subject to worldwide outcry and condemnation that has placed the empire on the back foot. The political/media class never does the right thing because it wants to, it does the right thing when it is forced to by normal human beings with healthy consciences. The fate of humanity rests on the ability of ordinary people to freely circulate truth. DJ, Both "ukraine" and "israel" NATO-proxy see western supported genocide; [url]https://tass.com/politics/1741507[/url] or https://tass.com/politics/1741507 ; MOSCOW, February 4. /TASS/. The number of fatalities following the Ukrainian strike on Lisichansk has climbed to 28 people, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told TASS. "Operatives from the Russian Emergencies Ministry have rescued 10 people. Unfortunately, 28 people, including one child, died," it said in a statement. The agency noted that the search-and-rescue operation at the collapsed bakery in Lisichansk in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) was underway. "About 65% of destroyed construction elements have been pulled out," the press service added. Ukrainian troops delivered a strike on a bakery in Lisichansk on Saturday afternoon. Work on removing the rubble continued overnight. "western media" ignore NATO-weapons are used to kill Russian civilians because they are Russian... [url]https://tass.com/world/1740523[/url] or https://tass.com/world/1740523 ; Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has received Russian Ambassador Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko amid the recent move by the Kosovo authorities to abandon the dinar, Serbia’s national currency, a TASS correspondent reported from the president’s palace. The Serbian leader received the Russian diplomat against the background of Pristina’s newly minted decision to enter a "transition period" in the territory of unrecognized Kosovo starting on February 1, which involves abandoning the use of the Serbian dinar and switching to the euro. DJ, "Kosovo" is yet another "NATO-made-country"....Serbia had good relations with Russia...so after the end of the Soviet Union Yugoslavia was broken up by the west...The Soviet Union became 15 "new countries"...the western goal now is to break up the Russian Federation... |
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The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now Mass media outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have been allowing the publication of some amazingly racist pieces these last few days. All are directed at middle easterners and those of middle eastern descent, just as the western empire drops more and more bombs on more and more countries in the middle east. On Monday The Guardian published a political cartoon which would be indistinguishable from Nazi propaganda of the 1930s, except that it happens to depict a Muslim instead of a Jew. The cartoon features Iranian leader Ali Khamenei holding puppet strings to so-called Iranian proxy groups in the middle east like the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas, in exactly the same way Nazis used to depict Jews as malignant puppet masters manipulating world affairs. Compare this: In fact the bar is quite a bit lower for what qualifies as an outrageous racist trope when it comes to criticism of Israel. Mainstream platforms like The Guardian, The New York Times and the Sunday Times have been pressured to remove cartoons critical of Israel which are far less clearly anti-semitic than cartoons about sinister puppet masters. In 2014 the Sydney Morning Herald was pressured to remove and apologize for a cartoon which was labeled anti-semitic because it featured “a grotesque stereotype of a Jew using a remote-control device to blow up houses and people in Gaza,” something that for the last four months has been a daily occurance and an objective fact of life. There is zero chance that The Guardian’s editors would have even for a second entertained the idea of publishing such a cartoon about Israeli leaders in the year 2024, but apparently publishing the exact same sort of rehashed Nazi propaganda about Iranian leaders is perfectly fine. There is of course no meaningful analysis in Friedman’s piece; he’s literally just comparing countries he likes to cool animals and countries he doesn’t like to yucky bugs. Hamas is a spider. Iran is a “parasitoid wasp”, and Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq are the caterpillars it lays its eggs in. Netanyahu is a lemur, hopping side to side based on the political demands of the moment, and the United States? You guys, get this: the United States is a lion. Rooooar! Again, there is no mainstream western outlet in existence who would permit a columnist to compare Israelis to insects or parasites, and rightly so — it’s exactly the type of dehumanizing language was used by the Nazis to pave the way to the Holocaust. But comparing Muslim populations is a-okay in the eyes of the western press. “We have no counterstrategy that safely and efficiently kills the wasp without setting fire to the whole jungle,” Friedman writes, as though this is a perfectly sane and normal thing to print in the most influential newspaper in the western world. “Sometimes I contemplate the Middle East by watching CNN. Other times, I prefer Animal Planet,” Friedman concludes, apparently never having been told that contemplating the middle east by watching either is an embarrassing admission. And that’s it. That’s the extent of the analysis here from mister Thomas L Friedman, who has won no fewer than three Pulitzers for this kind of baby-brained schtick. And if that isn’t an indictment of the state of western journalism, nothing is. Not to be outdone, The Wall Street Journal has published an article by Steven Stalinsky titled “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital” about the Michigan city which is home to the largest per capita Muslim population in the United States. In recent decades Dearborn saw a wave of immigration from Palestine and from Muslim-majority nations that the US is currently bombing like Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and apparently Mr Stalinsky finds it outrageous and scandalous that such a population would be opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza at this time. He frets over a Palestinian American Islamist cleric calling President Biden a “senile pharoah”, which I think we can all agree is hilarious. Stalinsky runs a think tank called the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which was literally founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer. Pro-Palestine activist and academic Norman Finkelstein has accused MEMRI of using “the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis,” and even brazenly unprincipled empire propagandist Brian Whitaker has written that MEMRI “poses as a research institute when it’s basically a propaganda operation.” In the last few days The Wall Street Journal has also published editorial board pieces with demented headlines like “Chicago Votes for Hamas” after the Chicago City Council voted to support a ceasefire in Gaza, and “The U.N.’s War on Israel” about the since-discredited narrative that some UNRWA staff are known to have participated in the October 7 attack. And I must say it sure is an interesting coincidence how all this mass media demonizing and dehumanizing of Muslim populations is happening at the exact same time the western empire is raining military explosives upon nations full of Muslims. 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Considering the fact that my latest article is banned in the "home of Freedom and Democracy" the EU, I've decided to publish it in full here on X If you enjoy it please consider supporting our work on Words that Kill How the Western client media licences forever Wars. By Chay Bowes, journalist, correspondent, Analyst. With Israel's punitive operation against Gaza now in its fourth month,it's impossible not to compare Western outrage regarding other conflicts with the selective morality now being applied when dealing with Israel. Even the briefest assessment of how the West's innumerable wars have been portrayed as morally Justified in a client media, quickly yields irrefutable evidence that the marketing of conflicts, as justified by Western powers, is central to their continued justification. Since the Second World War the US has been directly and indirectly involved in dozens of wars and coups d'etat alongside innumerable covert and overt conflicts across the globe. Given the vast resources required to perpetuate this aggressive global mechanism of influence, its important to recognise that the taxpayers being asked to fund these “forever wars” may never have gone along with them without the assistance and covert alignment of a client media. Language and terminology are of course a central and fundamental element when you need to portray a war as morally acceptable. This is glaringly obvious when we examine how Western media are currently portraying the current escalation in Gaza. American and British media subtly portray victims on one side as more expendable as opposed to the other, for example, by referring to Israeli casualties as having been “killed” while Palestinian ones are described as having simply “died”, while minors held captive by Israel, who have been detained without trial in some cases for several years, are referred to as “prisoners” while Israelis held by Hamas are referred to as “hostages”. This wilful deployment of language to sterilize and dehumanize a victim or indeed an entire ethnicity is by no means accidental. It is an essential element of a psychological endeavour to tip the scales in the viewers’ (physically far removed from the conflict) subconscious calculation of culpability. It's simple to consider the elimination of “terrorists” as justifiable, whereas the mass killing of many thousands of defenceless children, women, elderly and sick, is a far harder task to sell to an increasingly informed Western public. The manipulation of the Western client media is by no means a departure from the norm. Current consumers of “trustworthy” news in the West should recall the CIA’s widespread use of journalists, both at home and abroad, to influence public opinion in the 1960s, widely believed to be part of ‘Operation Mockingbird’, a labyrinthine and vastly resourced operation which set out to influence the messaging of the mainstream media. While the existence of that particular operation was never confirmed, the CIA’s past efforts to recruit journalists – hundreds of them, both at home and abroad – was exposed in a Senate investigation. Today, given the eye-watering price tag for the proxy war in Ukraine, the average observer would be exceptionally naive to presume that similar influence is not currently being applied to the media when it comes to the justification of conflict and the vilification of perceived ”enemies” of Uncle Sam, such as Russia and China. It’s worth remembering that we’re talking about media outlets that rely almost exclusively on “good relations” with the White House and Downing Street to access “leaked” information and stay on the “inside track” of the news business. Dirty your bib once by asking the wrong question, and it’s into the information wilderness with you. It’s not called the “spoon fed narrative” for nothing. Examining the language around the conflict in Ukraine provides a good idea of how bias is instilled in the viewer and the reader. Despite the complex and long-running issues that contributed to the Russian intervention in 2022, the Western media opts for a shamelessly one-sided narrative, intentionally apportioning exclusive culpability to Russia. The dehumanization of living and dead Russians seems to be a keystone of this tactic alongside selective revisions of history. The indefensible failure of a media that touts itself as the champion of equality and freedom to tackle the essentially xenophobic impulse that forms the core of this strategy, speaks volumes. Anyone watching the ebb and flow of Western coverage of the Ukrainian conflict will notice the emergence of a centrally formed, “fact-light” narrative that suggests Ukrainians are utterly blameless, in a conflict which did not, in fact, begin on the 24th of February 2022, but back in 2014, with a CIA-back coup in Kiev in 2014, powered by ultra-nationalists and the far right. Its roots stretch even deeper, decades back, to the attempts at destabilization of the Ukrainian SSR by Western intelligence agencies. Of course, the Western viewer is conveniently spared such details. The skill of deceit by omission of fact has been well honed by the likes of the BBC and CNN. Additionally, the Western media has also been adept at memory-holing Kiev’s crimes against its own people in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup. There is no space to report the gross corruption, the punitive neo-Nazi battalions unleashed on the Donbass region, or the murder, abduction and rape deployed against the Russian-speaking populations who refused to accept the illegitimate mandate of the post-Maidan government. So, while The Western media gleefully attaches itself to this centralized narrative, there are very hard questions to be asked about the motivations and psychological tools being used in licensing and peddling the justification of war, and when it comes to Palestine, one of these uncomfortable realities is the deployment of subconscious racism. Let’s look at the convenient demonization of Islam. It Is by no means an accident that the majority of victims of America's catastrophic post-9/11 “war on terror” were Muslim. Decades of demonization of Islam as a savage religion bent on world domination have had a subconscious effect on the “collective mind”of the West. This is then energetically exploited by the Western media as required. However, while Syrian and African refugees from wars stimulated by the Western powers sought refuge in Europe, they were met with protest and in many cases violent objection,but when it came to the Ukrainian conflict, some Western commentators openly talked about the fact that the Ukrainian refugees “looked like us”, that they could be “our own people”, that they were blonde-haired and blue-eyed. It wasa jarring display of how Ukrainians are treated as fellow human beings while thousands of brown Muslims drowning in the Mediterranean struggle to hold column inches in the same newspapers. The intimate relationship between the client media and the military industrial complex also requires deep investigation and analysis. Media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp exert vast and overwhelming influence on the public discourse when it comes to the justification of war. The relationship between the critically important military industrial complex and the creation of a defensible war narrative is undeniable yet persistently denied. So as the world shifts its gaze from Ukraine towards the Middle East, it’s remarkable how quickly the Ukrainian conflict has slipped from the top of the news feeds in the West. It’s also remarkable how criticism of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has become suddenly acceptable, whereas the same criticism only months ago was universally suppressed in the Western media. All of this also suggests a sinister centralized narrative is being deployed in the interest of a political will rather than in a search for truth by the establishment media. Any objective observer has to work very hard to convince themselves that the media is not now playing a critical role in the justification of the conflict “of the day”. Wilful misrepresentation of one group as opposed to another, crafty selective deployment of history in the cultivation of narratives, and poorly veiled use of racism to describe one side as essentially culpable for their own brutal treatment by the other. It now seems shockingly obvious that the Western media is determined to suppress any informed debate around the rationale for conflict when that conflict emanates from the US or one of its clients or allies. It is also now increasingly apparent that even when established media changes its tune, it does so to lubricate a pre-agreed political shift in direction, as is currently happening in Ukraine. Western media outlets like the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Independent in the UK are now openly portraying a Ukrainian regime on the verge of collapse. The much-vaunted Ukrainian “counteroffensive”, once incessantly peddled by the media as a “game-changing” manoeuvre led by brilliant minds and fought with unassailable Western weaponry, has now become a source of open derision. What would have been unthinkable to point out merely months ago, has now become mainstream. Detailed reporting has miraculously emerged from “anonymous sources” about the fractious nature of President Zelensky’s regime, Shakespearean Intrigue in Kiev as the Army chief Zaluzhny faces off with the endemically corrupt Ukrainian establishment. This narrative has suddenly become acceptable to the client media in the West. Does anybody actually believe that this shift in opinion has not been centrally okayed or fashioned? Given the history of the American intelligence services’ intimate relationship with the media in the US and beyond, anyone who believes the CIA’s DNA isn’t all over this sea change in reporting is exceptionally naive. The playbook for licensing war is actually quite simple. First, demonize your enemy – call him an orc, call him a terrorist, cultivate fear among your own population and convince it that its enemy is not the grossly incompetent government that consistently spends billions of its tax dollars on foreign wars, but the peoples of far-off lands who most likely suffer their own privations due to those very same perpetual wars. Then, convince the taxpayers that the political elites they elect are blameless in these wars and economic policies of domination, which have led to vast migrant crises such as the huge droves of individuals pouring across the southern border of the US. Does anybody suggest that American foreign policy has had no bearing on these mass movements of people? Does anybody suggest that the migrants dying in their thousands in the Mediterranean Sea as they clamour desperately for a better life in Europe have not been driven there by the innumerable wars in the Middle East? These wars are fought against almost exclusively Islamic communities and countries which have become hardened and radicalised not necessarily by the religion itself, but by the vacuous and idiotic foreign policies which sprang from Western meddling and interference in the Middle East over centuries. For those of us who wish for a just peace and an end to forever wars, there is an absolute obligation to challenge the client media’s deceptive licencing of conflict. These needless wars which impoverish and immiserate not only the victims but the duped populations of the countries from which they emanate. It is, after all, Western taxpayers that unwittingly fund this grotesque circular profit mill, a meat grinder that sucks in human lives and spits out vast wealth for a tiny elite, the same tiny elite intimately related to the political class seeking to justify those needless conflicts. All licenced and peddled as morally defensible by the ever loyal client media. |
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DJ, Tucker Carlson [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzmvvKdts8I[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzmvvKdts8I on why he wants to interview Putin; (before this one disappears; 0:00 we're in Moscow tonight we're here to 0:02 0:03 0:06 0:08 0:10 0:13 0:16 0:18 0:22 0:24 0:27 0:28 0:32 0:34 0:37 0:39 0:42 0:44 0:47 0:49 0:52 0:55 0:58 1:00 1:03 1:05 1:07 1:09 1:12 1:14 1:17 1:19 1:21 1:22 1:24 1:25 1:28 1:31 1:32 1:34 1:36 1:39 1:41 1:44 1:46 1:48 1:50 1:52 1:55 1:57 1:59 2:00 2:02 2:03 2:05 2:06 2:09 2:11 2:13 2:15 2:19 2:21 2:23 2:26 2:28 2:30 2:31 2:34 2:36 2:38 2:41 2:43 2:45 2:47 2:50 2:52 2:54 2:57 2:59 3:01 3:03 3:06 3:09 3:11 3:13 3:14 3:16 3:19 3:20 3:23 3:25 3:28 3:30 3:33 3:36 3:37 3:40 3:41 3:44 3:46 3:48 3:51 3:53 3:56 3:58 4:01 4:02 4:05 4:07 4:09 4:12 4:14 4:16 4:19 4:21 4:24 4:27 |
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link; [url]https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-weiwei-says-western-censorship-more-concealed-poses-greater-threat-1234695441/[/url] or https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-weiwei-says-western-censorship-more-concealed-poses-greater-threat-1234695441/ ; Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei—whose gallery delayed his show after he tweeted about the Israel-Hamas war—said recently that censorship in the West poses a “greater threat” due to how it “operates in a more concealed, solid and enduring manner.” The comments were made to the Art Newspaper this week followed an interview with Sky News in which Ai said censorship in the West is “sometimes even worse” than Mao’s China. On February 4, Ai told Sky News host Trevor Phillips it was “such a pity” how “in universities, in the media, political sector, everywhere—you cannot talk about the truth.” He referred to the reported suspension of New York University professor Tomasz Skiba for posts made on Instagram about the Israel-Hamas war. In the interview with Sky News, Ai also discussed the cancellation of an exhibition of his work at Lisson Gallery last year after posting a tweet about the Israel-Hamas war in Mandarin. “The sense of guilt around the persecution of the Jewish people has been, at times, transferred to offset the Arab world,” Ai posted at the time. On Tucker Carlson interview with Putin [url]https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1755782272098488350[/url] or https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1755782272098488350 ; I do however believe that Carlson has a hidden agenda, shared by a large segment of the right in the U.S., of rehabilitating Russia in the eyes of the American public in order to put the country on America's side of the ledger in order to contain China. They believe (probably correctly, from a realist standpoint) that it was a historic mistake of gigantic proportions to antagonize Russia and push the world's 2 other great powers in each others' arms against the 3rd one, America. Whilst I believe this has no chance in hell of succeeding - this crazy pipe dream is yet another symptom of delusional American hubris - I refuse to promote the content of someone who produces it with a spirit of ultimately fomenting hatred and conflict, all in the service of a form of American hegemony. It runs contrary to the very reason why I am myself tweeting, which is to promote a world at peace, the biggest obstacle of which being American hubris and desire for hegemony... (I also believe it doesn't ultimately benefit Americans themselves but that's another topic) This isn't too say, like the EU is currently attempting to do, that Carlson should be censored. This call for censorship is also done in a spirit of fomenting hatred and conflict: they want to do it so you won't hear what Putin has to say, which undoubtedly will run counter to their own narrative of an evil Russia that needs to be defeated vs a saintly West that needs to win. Also in the service of hubris and hegemony, only with a different opinion on how it ought to be achieved and what form it takes. So do watch it if you want, but bear in mind that Carlson's views and spirit - at least in my humble opinion - are just as reprehensible as that of those who try to censor him. I see no good guys here. DJ, The interview with Putin may have changed the propaganda war...One can not see it outside the US "election campain"... Propaganda "needs to be close to reality" if it has a major effect...Western propaganda did not mix with the ongoing genocide in Palestine...The T.C. interview with Putin could contribute to an end of this criminal war....However it could also corner neo-cons/warmongers even more pushing them to even more radical escalation... |
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[url]https://twitter.com/GoetzSix/status/1759813343185891431[/url] or https://twitter.com/GoetzSix/status/1759813343185891431 translated from German; Ten years of the Maidan massacre - ten years of conflict in Ukraine Today is the tenth anniversary of the Maidan massacre. This event triggered the annexation of Crimea and led to the overthrow of Yanukovich, which in turn triggered the civil war in Donbass. The Maidan massacre is therefore the central event with which the entire #Ukraine conflict began in 2014. Mountains of evidence show very clearly that this massacre was carried out by far-right elements of the Maidan, who fired first at the Berkut and then at protesters. Nevertheless, there are still myths surrounding #MaidanMassaker to this day, which is because this event is either kept quiet in Western and Ukrainian #Propaganda or shrugged off. This propaganda works, unfortunately. It works primarily on those who should actually know better, namely politicians, journalists and experts, i.e. people who should be able to recognize propaganda as such. Bizarrely, however, the majority of these people are unable to do this and so they resort to fake news with their representations of the events of 2014 with unsightly regularity. So it's high time, on the tenth anniversary of these events, to confront the myths. DJ...still calling for an end to the "war" -killing over a thousend people per day- in Ukraine in western propaganda makes you "pro-Putin"... The NL-news showed Putin giving "Kim" a new Russian car as "an example of Russian isolation"...ignoring BRICS+ "exploding"...(and of course if you ask for a GOOD investigation of the MH19 mass murder...you fall for "Russian propaganda"...NL-based on Ukraine secret service is "100% certain Russia did it"...of course even Malaysia was kept out of the investigation... The ongoing mass murder on Palestinians is in "self defense" of "israel"...That "israel" only can exist because of the west pumping billions into it one is supposed to ignore... Again-any critical questions-even from (Orthodox) Jews is presented as anti-semitism... Lots of experts warn extreme zionists pushing for more war will end "israel"...also-again-presented as anti-semitism... Undermining any criticism/opposition as "radical views supporting terrorism" is destroying democracy in the west... |
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Propaganda is the science of convincing an audience without appealing to reason. Russophobia, defined as the irrational fear of Russia, should be a key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity as the “Other”. The West and Russia have been juxtaposed as Western versus Eastern, European versus Asiatic, civilized versus barbaric, modern versus backward, liberal versus autocratic, and even good versus evil. During the Cold War, ideological dividing lines fell naturally by casting the debate as capitalism versus communism, democracy versus totalitarianism, and Christianity versus atheism. After the Cold War, anti-Russian propaganda aims to filter all political questions through the simplistic binary stereotype of democracy versus authoritarianism, which provides little if any heuristic value to understand the complexities of relations. A key feature of propaganda against the inferior “Other” is both contemptuous derision and panic-stricken fear of the threat to civilisation. Russia has therefore throughout history been allowed to play one of two roles - either an apprentice of Western Civilisation by accepting the subordinate role as the student and political object, or a threat that must be contained or defeated. While propaganda has the positive effect of promoting unity and mobilising resources towards rational and strategic objectives, it can also have the negative effect of creating irrational decision-making https://amazon.com/Russophobia-Propaganda-International-Glenn-Diesen/dp/9811914672 see also [url]https://twitter.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1760948150037004484/photo/1[/url] or https://twitter.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1760948150037004484/photo/1 "Russia's turn to its Asian past" and [url]https://twitter.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1760948150037004484/photo/2[/url] or https://twitter.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1760948150037004484/photo/2 "Putin Khan and the new Mongol invasion of Europe".... DJ, showing a level of stupidity...Russians/Rossia has viking roots NOT Asian ! Propaganda or vertical disinformation?????? Propaganda and vertical disinformation are techniques used to manipulate public opinion. Propaganda persuades by biasing true information towards a specific ideology, using emotional appeals and selective truths. In contrast, vertical disinformation spreads falsehoods from authoritative sources down to the public, exploiting trust to mislead and control perceptions. The key difference lies in their approach to truth: propaganda bends it, while disinformation blatantly disregards it. Both aim to shape mass thought but through different mechanisms of influence and deception, highlighting the importance of critical scrutiny in discerning between manipulated narratives and factual information in today's digital media landscape. DJ, NATO can look back at nazi-propaganda on "Barbaric Russians".... DJ, the goal of propaganda is to promote conflict to sell weapons...if possible to more sides in the same conflict to maximize profits.... |
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